[House Report 104-630]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



104th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 2d Session                                                     104-630
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         PROVIDING FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 3666, THE 
 
VA, HUD AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS BILL FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997

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   June 19, 1996.--Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 
                                printed

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   Mr. Quillen, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the following

                              R E P O R T

                       [To accompany H. Res. 456]

    The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration 
House Resolution 456, by a nonrecord vote, report the same to 
the House with the recommendation that the resolution be 
adopted.

               brief summary of provisions of resolution

    The resolution provides for the consideration of H.R. 3666, 
the ``VA, HUD and Independent Agencies Appropriations bill for 
fiscal year 1997'' under an open rule.
    The rule waives points of order against consideration of 
the bill for failure to comply with clause 2(l)(6) of rule XI 
(the three day availability of the report), clause 7 of rule 
XXI (the three-day requirement for availability of printed 
hearings and reports on appropriation bills) and section 302(f) 
of the Budget Act (prohibiting consideration of legislation 
providing budget authority, new entitlement authority, or new 
credit authority in excess of subcommittee's 302(b) allocation 
of such authority).
    The rule provides one hour of general debate equally 
divided and controlled by the Chairman and ranking Minority 
Member of the Committee on Appropriations. The rule further 
waives points of order against provisions in the bill (other 
than sections 204 and 205) for failure to comply with clause 2 
of rule XXI (prohibiting unauthorized appropriations and 
legislation on general appropriations bills) or clause 6 of 
rule XXI (prohibiting transfers of unobligated balances).
    The rule also provides for the adoption of the amendment 
printed in section 2 of the resolution (to remedy the Budget 
Act violation). 
The rule accords priority in recognition to those amendments 
that are preprinted in the Congressional Record.
    The rule allows the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole 
to postpone votes during consideration of the bill, and to 
reduce to five minutes on a postponed question if the vote 
follows a fifteen minute vote.
    The rule provides that a motion to rise and report the bill 
to the House with such amendments as may have been adopted 
shall have precedence over a motion to amend, if offered by the 
Majority Leader or a designee after the reading of the final 
lines of the bill.
    Finally, the rule provides for one motion to recommit, with 
or without instructions.

                                
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