    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 112th Congress]
    [112nd Congress]
    [House Document 111-157]
    [Legislate Procedures Enacted in Law]
    [Pages 1137-1139]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

             8. Pension Reform Act, Sec. 4006(b) [29 U.S.C. 1306(b)]

      Sec. 4006. revised schedule; congressional procedures applicable-- * *
    * (b)(1) In order to place a revised schedule (other than a schedule
    described in subsection (a)(2) (C), (D), or (E) of this section) in
    effect, the corporation shall transmit the proposed schedule, its
    proposed effective date, and the reasons for its proposal to the
    Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Education and Labor of
    the House of Representatives, and to the Committee on Finance and the
    Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate.

      (2) The succeeding paragraphs of this subsection are enacted by
    Congress as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and the
    House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they shall be deemed
    a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only
    with respect to the procedure to be followed in that House in the case
    of resolutions described in paragraph (3). They shall supersede other
    rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith. They are
    enacted with full recognition of the constitutional right of either
    House to change the rules (so far as relating to the procedure of that
    House) at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the
    case of any rule of that House.

      (3) For the purpose of the succeeding paragraphs of this subsection,
    ``resolution'' means only a joint resolution, the matter after the
    resolving clause of which is as follows: ``The proposed revised schedule
    transmitted to Congress by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation on
    ___ is hereby approved.'', the blank space therein being filled with the
    date on which the corporation's message proposing the rate was
    delivered.

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      (4) A resolution shall be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
    and the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives
    and to the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Labor and Human
    Resources of the Senate.

      (5) If a committee to which has been referred a resolution has not
    reported it before the expiration of 10 calendar days after its
    introduction, it shall then (but not before) be in order to move to
    discharge the committee from further consideration of that resolution,
    or to discharge the committee from further consideration of any other
    resolution with respect to the proposed adjustment which has been
    referred to the committee. The motion to discharge may be made only by a
    person favoring the resolution, shall be highly privileged (except that
    it may not be made after the committee has reported a resolution with
    respect to the same proposed rate), and debate thereon shall be limited
    to not more than 1 hour, to be divided equally between those favoring
    and those opposing the resolution. An amendment to the motion is not in
    order, and it is not in order to move to reconsider the vote by which
    the motion is agreed to or disagreed to. If the motion to discharge is
    agreed to or disagreed to, the motion may not be renewed, nor may
    another motion to discharge the committee be made with respect to any
    other resolution with respect to the same proposed rate.

      (6) When a committee has reported, or has been discharged from further
    consideration of a resolution, it is at any time thereafter in order
    (even though a previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to)
    to move to proceed to the consideration of the resolution. The motion is
    highly privileged and is not debatable. An amendment to the motion is
    not in order, and it is not in order to move to reconsider the vote by
    which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to. Debate on the resolution
    shall be limited to not more than 10 hours, which shall be divided
    equally between those favoring and those opposing the resolution. A
    motion further to limit debate is not debatable. An amendment to, or
    motion to recommit, the resolution is not in order, and it is not in
    order to move to reconsider the vote by which the resolution is agreed
    to or disagreed to.

      (7) Motions to postpone, made with respect to the discharge from
    committee, or the consideration of, a resolution and motions to proceed
    to the consideration of other business shall be decided without debate.
    Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the application of
    the rules of the Senate or the House of Representatives, as the case may
    be, to the procedure relating to a resolution shall be decided without
    debate.

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    considered ``in the House as in Committee of the Whole'' (Nov.
    2, 1977, pp. 36644-46).
      By unanimous consent a concurrent resolution approving a revised
    coverage schedule proposed by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
    was

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