[House Report 113-426]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


113th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2d Session                                                     113-426

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      PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL (H.R. 4486) MAKING 
 APPROPRIATIONS FOR MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 
AFFAIRS, AND RELATED AGENCIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 
 2015, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES; AND PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE 
 BILL (H.R. 4487) MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH FOR 
   THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2015, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

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   April 29, 2014.--Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 
                                printed

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

                              R E P O R T

                       [To accompany H. Res. 557]

    The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration 
House Resolution 557, 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 consideration of H.R. 4486, the 
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015, under an open rule. The 
resolution provides one hour of general debate equally divided 
and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the 
Committee on Appropriations. The resolution waives all points 
of order against consideration of the bill. The resolution 
waives points of order against provisions in the bill for 
failure to comply with clause 2 of rule XXI. The resolution 
provides that the bill shall be considered for amendment under 
the five-minute rule. The resolution authorizes the Chair to 
accord priority in recognition to Members who have pre-printed 
their amendments in the Congressional Record. The resolution 
provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
    The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 4487, the 
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2015, under a structured 
rule. The resolution provides one hour of general debate 
equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on Appropriations. The 
resolution waives all points of order against consideration of 
the bill and provides that the bill shall be considered as 
read. The resolution waives all points of order against 
provisions in the bill for failure to comply with clause 2 of 
rule XXI. The resolution makes in order only those amendments 
to H.R. 4487 printed in this report. Each such amendment may be 
offered only in the order printed in this report, may be 
offered only by a Member designated in this report, shall be 
considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified 
in this report equally divided and controlled by the proponent 
and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall 
not be subject to a demand for division of the question in the 
House or in the Committee of the Whole. The resolution waives 
all points of order against the amendments printed in this 
report. The resolution provides one motion to recommit with or 
without instructions.
    Section 3 of the resolution provides that pending the 
adoption of a concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal 
year 2015, the amounts provided for current law mandatory 
budget authority and outlays contained in the statement of the 
Chair of the Committee on the Budget of the House of 
Representatives in the Congressional Record dated April 29, 
2014, shall be considered for all purposes in the House to be 
allocations to the Committee on Appropriations under section 
302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
    Section 4 of the resolution provides that during 
consideration of H.R. 4486 and H.R. 4487 pursuant to this 
resolution, the suballocations printed in House Report 113-425 
shall be considered for all purposes in the House to be 
suballocations under section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974.

                         EXPLANATION OF WAIVERS

    The waiver of all points of order against consideration of 
H.R. 4486 includes a waiver of clause 4(c) of rule XIII, which 
prohibits consideration of a general appropriations bill 
reported by the Committee on Appropriations from being 
considered in the House until the third calendar day on which 
printed hearings of the Committee on Appropriations thereon 
have been available to Members.
    The resolution includes a waiver of points of order against 
provisions in H.R. 4486 for failure to comply with clause 2 of 
rule XXI, which prohibits unauthorized appropriations or 
legislative provisions in an appropriations bill. This waiver 
is necessary because the bill contains unauthorized 
appropriations and legislative provisions.
    The waiver of all points of order against consideration of 
H.R. 4487 includes a waiver of section 3(d)(5) of H. Res. 5 of 
the 113th Congress, which prohibits the consideration of a 
general appropriations bill unless it includes a spending 
reduction account. While the bill includes an account with the 
appropriate caption, the account fails to comply with the 
definition of a spending reduction account because the bill and 
the account specifically exclude Senate items as is customary 
to preserve comity between the Houses.
    The resolution includes a waiver of points of order against 
provisions in H.R. 4487 for failure to comply with clause 2 of 
rule XXI, which prohibits unauthorized appropriations or 
legislative provisions in an appropriations bill. This waiver 
is necessary because the bill contains unauthorized 
appropriations and legislative provisions.
    Although the resolution waives all points of order against 
the amendments to H.R. 4487 printed in this report, the 
Committee is not aware of any points of order. The waiver is 
prophylactic in nature.

          SUMMARY OF THE AMENDMENTS TO H.R. 4487 MADE IN ORDER

    1. Nugent (FL): Prohibits CAO of the House of 
Representatives from making any payments from any Members' 
representational allowance for the leasing of a vehicle, 
excluding mobile district offices and short-term vehicle 
rentals. (10 minutes)
    2. Speier (CA): Appropriates $500,000 to provide for sexual 
harassment training for all House offices which will be carried 
out by the Congressional Office of Compliance. These funds are 
offset from the AOC General Administration fund. (10 minutes)
    3. Gosar (AZ): Reduces the amount provided for the Botanic 
Garden to the fiscal year 2014 level and transfers the funds to 
the spending reduction account. (10 minutes)
    4. Broun (GA): Reduces the funding for the Capitol Visitor 
Center by $243,000, returning it to FY14 levels. (10 minutes)
    5. Duffy (WI): Defunds the Open World Leadership Center 
Trust Fund. (10 minutes)
    6. Hall (TX), McCaul (TX): Prohibits funds from being used 
to deliver a printed copy of the CAO's Statement of 
Disbursements of the House to any Member of the House of 
Representatives. (10 minutes)
    7. Wenstrup (OH): Prohibits funding for the delivery of 
printed copies of the Daily Calendar of the United States House 
of Representatives to member offices, as this document is 
accessible online. (10 minutes)
    8. Holt (NJ): Appropriates $2.5 million to re-institute the 
Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), offset from funds in the 
House Historic Buildings Revitalization Trust Fund. (10 
minutes)

             TEXT OF AMENDMENTS TO H.R. 4487 MADE IN ORDER

 1. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Nugent of Florida or 
                 His Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  Page 7, beginning line 23, strike ``in an aggregate amount 
that exceeds $1,000 for the vehicle in any month'' and insert 
``and excluding short-term vehicle rentals in an aggregate 
amount that does not exceed $1,000 for the vehicle in any 
month''.
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2. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Speier of California or 
                 Her Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  Page 11, line 10, after the dollar amount insert ``(increased 
by $500,000)''.
  Page 12, line 16, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced 
by $500,000)''.
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3. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Gosar of Arizona or His 
                   Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  Page 15, line 2, after the first dollar amount insert 
``(reduced by $3,166,946)''.
  Page 32, line 21, after the dollar amount insert ``(increased 
by $3,166,946)''.
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4. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Broun of Georgia or His 
                   Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  Page 15, line 13, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced 
by $243,000)''.
  Page 32, line 21, after the dollar amount insert ``(increased 
by $243,000)''.
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 5. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Duffy of Wisconsin or 
                 His Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  Page 29, line 7, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced by 
$3,420,000)''.
  Page 32, line 21, after the dollar amount insert ``(increased 
by $3,420,000)''.
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 6. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Hall of Texas or His 
                   Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
following:
  Sec. 211.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to deliver a printed copy of the report of 
disbursements for the operations of the House of 
Representatives under section 106 of the House of 
Representatives Administrative Reform Technical Corrections Act 
(2 U.S.C. 5535) to the office of a Member of the House of 
Representatives (including a Delegate or Resident Commissioner 
to the Congress).
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7. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Wenstrup of Ohio or His 
                   Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
following:
  Sec. 211.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to deliver to the office of a Member of the House of 
Representatives (including a Delegate or Resident Commissioner 
to the Congress) a printed copy of the Daily Calendar of the 
House of Representatives which is prepared by the Clerk of the 
House of Representatives.
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 8. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Holt of New Jersey or 
                 His Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
following:
  Sec. 211.  There is appropriated, for salaries and expenses 
of the Office of Technology Assessment as authorized by the 
Technology Assessment Act of 1972 (2 U.S.C. 471 et seq.), 
hereby derived from the amount provided in this Act for the 
payment to the House Historic Buildings Revitalization Trust 
Fund, $2,500,000.

                                  
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