[House Report 105-507]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



105th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 2d Session                                                     105-507
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PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 1872, THE COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE 
               COMPETITION AND PRIVATIZATION ACT OF 1998

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 May 5, 1998.--Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed

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

                              R E P O R T

                       [To accompany H. Res. 419]

    The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration 
House Resolution 419, 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 consideration of H.R. 1872, the 
Communications Satellite Competition and Privatization Act of 
1998 under a modified open rule providing one hour of general 
debate equally divided and controlled by the chairman and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on Commerce.
    The rule makes in order as an original bill for the purpose 
of amendment the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
recommended by the Committee on Commerce now printed in the 
bill, which shall be considered as read. The rule further 
provides for consideration of only those amendments that have 
been 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 five minutes on a postponed question if 
the vote follows a fifteen minute vote. Finally, the rule 
provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions.

                                
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