[House Report 108-500]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



108th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2d Session                                                     108-500

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 PROVIDING FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF THE CONFERENCE REPORT TO ACCOMPANY 
   SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 95, THE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE 
                      BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2005

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May 19 (legislative day, May 18), 2004.--Referred to the House Calendar 
                       and ordered to be printed

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Mr. Hastings of Washington, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the 
                               following

                              R E P O R T

                       [To accompany H. Res. 649]

    The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration 
House Resolution 649, by a record vote of 7 to 4, report the 
same to the House with the recommendation that the resolution 
be adopted.

                SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS OF THE RESOLUTION

    The resolution waives all points of order against the 
conference report to accompany House Concurrent Resolution 95, 
the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2004. 
The rule provides that the conference report shall be 
considered as read. The rule provides one hour of debate in the 
House equally divided and controlled by the chairman and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on the Budget.
    Section 2 of the rule provides that upon adoption in the 
House of the conference report, and until a concurrent 
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2005 has been adopted 
by the Congress, the provisions of the conference report and 
its joint explanatory statement shall have force and effect in 
the House. The rule provides that for the purposes of title III 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, governing the 
Congressional budget process, the conference report shall be 
considered for the purposes of the House to have been adopted 
by the Congress. The rule provides that nothing in section 2 
may be construed to engage rule XXVII.
    Finally, Section 3 of the rule provides that the conferees 
of the House on H.R. 2660, the Departments of Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2004, shall be, and they are hereby 
discharged and that H.R. 2660 and its accompanying papers, be, 
and they are hereby, laid on the table.
    The conference appointed for H.R. 2660 is dormant due to 
the fact that the subject matter of H.R. 2660 was incorporated 
into H.R. 2673, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004, 
which was signed into law January 23, 2004 (P.L. 108-199). H.R. 
2660 has thereby been superceded by the enactment of H.R. 2673.

                            COMMITTEE VOTES

    Pursuant to clause 3(b) of House rule XIII the results of 
each record vote on an amendment or motion to report, together 
with the names of those voting for and against, are printed 
below:

Rules Committee record vote No. 267

    Date: May 19, 2004 (legislative day, May 18, 2004).
    Measure: Senate Concurrent Resolution 95, Concurrent 
Resolution on the Budget, Fiscal Year 2005.
    Motion by: Mr. Goss.
    Summary of motion: To report the resolution.
    Results: Agreed to 7 to 4.
    Vote by Members: Goss--Yea; Pryce--Yea; Hastings (WA)--Yea; 
Myrick--Yea; Sessions--Yea; Reynolds--Yea; Frost--Nay; 
Slaughter--Nay; McGovern--Nay; Hastings (FL)--Nay; Dreier--Yea.

                                  
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