[House Report 104-662]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



104th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 2d Session                                                     104-662
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  PROVIDING FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 3755, THE FISCAL YEAR 1997 
    DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION 
                          APPROPRIATIONS BILL

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July 9, 1996.--Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed

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

                              R E P O R T

                       [To accompany H. Res. 472]

    The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration 
House Resolution 472, 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. 3755, 
the ``Fiscal Year 1997 Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education Appropriations Bill'' under an open 
rule. The rule provides two hours of general debate divided 
equally between the chairman and ranking minority member of the 
Committee on Appropriations.
    The rule waives clause 2(l)(6) of rule XI (three-day 
availability of reports), clause 7 of rule XXI (three-day 
availability of printed hearings), and sections 302 
(prohibiting consideration of legislation providing new 
entitlement authority in excess of a committee's allocation) 
and 308 (requiring a CBO cost estimate in the committee report 
on legislation containing new entitlement spending, or budget 
authority, or a change in revenues) of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974 against the consideration of the bill.
    The rule also waives clause 2 of rule XXI (prohibiting 
unauthorized and legislative provisions) and clause 6 of rule 
XXI (prohibiting reappropriations) against provisions in the 
bill.
    The rule allows for the Chairman of the Committee of the 
Whole to postpone votes during consideration of the bill, and 
to reduce voting time to five minutes on a postponed question 
if the vote follows a fifteen minute vote.
    The resolution 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.
    Members who have pre-printed their amendments in the Record 
prior to their consideration will be given priority in 
recognition to offer their amendments if otherwise consistent 
with House rules. Finally, the rule provides for one motion to 
recommit, with or without instructions.