[House Report 112-741]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


112th Congress }                                            {    Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2d Session    }                                            {   112-741

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PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE SENATE AMENDMENTS TO THE BILL (H.R. 
 8) TO EXTEND CERTAIN TAX RELIEF PROVISIONS ENACTED IN 2001 AND 2003, 
  AND TO PROVIDE FOR EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF A BILL PROVIDING FOR 
            COMPREHENSIVE TAX REFORM, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

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  January 1, 2013.--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. 844]

    The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration 
House Resolution 844, by a nonrecord vote, report the same to 
the House with the recommendation that the resolution be 
adopted.

                SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS OF THE RESOLUTION

    The resolution provides for the consideration of the Senate 
amendments to H.R. 8, the Jobs Protection and Recession 
Prevention Act of 2012 (the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 
2012). The resolution makes in order a motion offered by the 
chair of the Committee on Ways and Means or his designee that 
the House concur in the Senate amendments to H.R. 8. The 
resolution waives all points of order against consideration of 
the motion and the Senate amendments. The resolution provides 
that the Senate amendments and the motion shall be considered 
as read. The resolution provides one hour of debate on the 
motion equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on Ways and Means. Finally, 
the resolution provides that the previous question shall be 
considered as ordered on the motion to its adoption without 
intervening motion or demand for division of the question.

                         EXPLANATION OF WAIVERS

    The waiver of all points of order against consideration of 
the motion and the Senate amendments to H.R. 8 includes the 
following:
     Clause 10 of rule XXI, prohibiting the 
consideration of a bill if it has the net effect of increasing 
mandatory spending over the five or ten-year period.
     Section 302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974, prohibiting consideration of legislation providing new 
budget authority in excess of a committee's 302(a) allocation 
for such authority.
     Section 311(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974, prohibiting consideration of legislation that would cause 
the level of total new budget authority for the first fiscal 
year to be exceeded, or would cause revenues to be less than 
the level of total revenues for the first fiscal year or for 
the total of the first fiscal year and the ensuing fiscal years 
for which allocations are provided.

                                  
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