[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7954]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  MAKING IN ORDER AT ANY TIME CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 735, POSTAL CIVIL 
          SERVICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM FUNDING REFORM ACT OF 2003

  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that it be in order 
at any time for the Speaker, as though pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule 
XVIII, to declare the House resolved into the Committee of the Whole 
House on the state of the Union for consideration of H.R. 735, and that 
consideration of the bill proceed according to the following order:
  The first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with.
  All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived.
  General debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed 1 
hour equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on Government Reform.
  After general debate, the bill shall be considered for amendment 
under the 5-minute rule.
  It shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose 
of amendment under the 5-minute rule the amendment in the nature of a 
substitute recommended by the Committee on Government Reform now 
printed in the bill.
  The committee amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be 
considered as read.
  All points of order against the committee amendment in the nature of 
a substitute are waived.
  No amendment to the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute 
shall be in order except the following amendments, which may be offered 
only in the order specified, may be offered only by the Member 
designated or his designee, shall be considered as read, shall be 
debatable for 10 minutes equally divided and controlled by the 
proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall 
not be subject to a demand for division of the question in the House or 
in the Committee of the Whole: (1) the amendment numbered 1 in the 
Congressional Record by Representative Waxman of California; and, (2) 
the amendment numbered 2 in the Congressional Record by Representative 
Tom Davis of Virginia.
  All points of order against such amendments are waived.
  At the conclusion of consideration of the bill for amendment, the 
Committee shall rise and report the bill to the House with such 
amendments as may have been adopted. Any Member may demand a separate 
vote in the House on any amendment adopted in the Committee of the 
Whole to the bill or to the committee amendment in the nature of a 
substitute. The previous question shall be ordered as ordered on the 
bill and amendments thereto to final passage without intervening motion 
except one motion to recommit, with or without instructions.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from California?
  There was no objection.

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