[House Report 104-688]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



104th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 2d Session                                                     104-688
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                PROVIDING FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF 
 
 H.R. 3816, ENERGY AND WATER APPROPRIATIONS BILL FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997

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   July 18, 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. 483]

    The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration 
House Resolution 483, 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. 3816, 
the Energy and Water Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 1997 
under an open rule. The rule provides 1 hour of general debate 
equally divided between the chairman and ranking minority 
member of the Committee on Appropriations.
    The rule waives clause 2 (prohibiting unauthorized 
appropriations and legislation on general appropriations) and 
clause 6 (prohibiting reappropriations) of rule XXI against 
provisions in the bill. The rule provides for priority in 
recognition of 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 voting time to 5 minutes on a 
postponed question if the vote follows a 15 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 one motion to recommit 
with or without instructions.

                                
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