[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 116th Congress]
[116th Congress]
[House Document 115-177]
[Legislate Procedures Enacted in Law]
[Pages 1309-1315]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]
emergency supplemental act, 2000 Sec. 3204 [p.l. 106-246, 114 stat. 511,
576, as amended by p.l. 107-115, 115 stat. 2131 and p.l. 108-199, 118 stat. 210]
Sec. 3204. limitations on support for plan colombia and on the
assignment of united states personnel in colombia.
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30. Andean Counterdrug Initiative
(a) limitation on support for plan colombia.--
(1) limitation.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), none of
the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by any Act
shall be available for support of Plan Colombia unless and
until--
(A) the President submits a report to Congress
requesting the availability of such funds; and
(B) Congress enacts a joint resolution approving the
request of the President under subparagraph (A).
(2) exceptions.--The limitation in paragraph (1) does not
apply to--
(A) appropriations made by this Act, the Foreign
Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs
Appropriations Act, 2001, the Military Construction
Appropriations Act, 2001, the Commerce, Justice, State
and the Judiciary Appropriations Act, 2001, the Treasury
and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001, or the
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2001, for the
purpose of support of Plan Colombia; or
(B) the unobligated balances from any other program
used for their originally appropriated purpose to combat
drug production and trafficking, foster peace, increase
the rule of law, improve human rights, expand economic
development, and institute justice reform in the
countries covered by Plan Colombia.
(3) waiver.--The limitations in subsection (a) may be waived
by an Act of Congress.
(b) limitation on assignment of united states personnel in colombia.--
(1) limitation.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), none of
the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this or
any other Act (including funds described in subsection (c)) may
be available for--
(A) the assignment of any United States military
personnel for temporary or permanent duty in Colombia in
connection with support of Plan Colombia if that
assignment would cause the number of United States
military personnel so assigned in Colombia to exceed
400, or
(B) the employment of any United States individual
civilian retained as a contractor in Colombia if that
employment would cause the total number of United States
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individual civilian con
tractors employed in Colombia in support of Plan
Colombia who are funded by Federal funds to exceed 400.
(2) exception.--The limitation contained in paragraph (1)
shall not apply if--
(A) the President submits a report to Congress
requesting that the limitation not apply; and
(B) Congress enacts a joint resolution approving the
request of the President under subparagraph (A).
(c) waiver.--The President may waive the limitation in subsection
(b)(1) for a single period of up to 90 days in the event that the Armed
Forces of the United States are involved in hostilities or that imminent
involvement by the Armed Forces of the United States in hostilities is
clearly indicated by the circumstances.
(d) statutory construction.--Nothing in this section may be construed
to affect the authority of the President to carry out any emergency
evacuation of United States citizens or any search or rescue operation
for United States military personnel or other United States citizens.
(e) report on support for plan colombia.--Not later than June 1, 2001,
and not later than June 1 and December 1 of each of the succeeding 4
fiscal years, the President shall submit a report to the appropriate
congressional committees setting forth any costs (including incremental
costs incurred by the Department of Defense) incurred by any department,
agency, or other entity of the executive branch of Government during the
two previous fiscal quarters in support of Plan Colombia. Each such
report shall provide an itemization of expenditures by each such
department, agency or entity.
(f) quarterly reports.--Beginning within 90 days of the date of the
enactment of this Act, and every 90 days thereafter, the President shall
submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees that shall
include the aggregate number, locations, activities, and lengths of
assignment for all temporary and permanent United States military
personnel and United States individual civilians retained as contractors
involved in the antinarcotics campaign in Colombia.
(g) congressional priority procedures.--
(1) joint resolutions defined.--
(A) For purposes of subsection (a)(1)(B), the term
``joint resolution'' means only a joint resolution
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introduced not later than 10 days of the date
on which the report of the President under subsection
(a)(1)(A) is received by Congress, the matter after the
resolving clause of which is as follows: ``That Congress
approves the request of the President for additional
funds for Plan Colombia contained in the report
submitted by the President under section 3204(a)(1) of
the 2000 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act.''.
(B) For purposes of subsection (b)(2)(B), the term
``joint resolution'' means only a joint resolution
introduced not later than 10 days of the date on which
the report of the President under subsection (a)(1)(A)
is received by Congress, the matter after the resolving
clause of which is as follows: ``That Congress approves
the request of the President for exemption from the
limitation applicable to the assignment of personnel in
Colombia contained in the report submitted by the
President under section 3204(b)(2)(B) of the 2000
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act.''.
(2) procedures.--Except as provided in subparagraph (B), a
joint resolution described in paragraph (1)(A) or (1)(B) shall
be considered in a House of Congress in accordance with the
procedures applicable to joint resolutions under paragraphs (3)
through (8) of section 8066(c) of the Department of Defense
Appropriations Act, 1985 (as contained in Public Law 98-473; 98
Stat. 1936).
(h) plan colombia defined.--In this section, the term ``Plan
Colombia'' means the plan of the Government of Colombia instituted by
the administration of President Pastrana to combat drug production and
trafficking, foster peace, increase the rule of law, improve human
rights, expand economic development, and institute justice reform.
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department of defense appropriations act, 1985 Sec. 8066(c) [p.l. 98-
473; 98 stat. 1904, 1936-37]
Sec. 8066 * * * (c)
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propriations of the Senate. Such a resolution may not be reported before
the eighth day after its introduction.
(c)(3) A resolution described in paragraph (1) introduced in the House
of Representatives shall be referred to the Committee on Appropriations
of the House of Representatives. A resolution described in paragraph (1)
introduced in the Senate shall be referred to the Committee on Ap
(4) If the committee to which is referred a resolution described in
paragraph (1) has not reported such resolution (or an identical
resolution) at the end of fifteen calendar days after its introduction,
such committee shall be discharged from further consideration of such
resolution and such resolution shall be placed on the appropriate
calendar of the House involved.
(5)(A) When the committee to which a resolution is referred has
reported, or has been deemed to be discharged (under paragraph (4)) from
further consideration of, a resolution described in paragraph (1)
notwithstanding any rule or precedent of the Senate, including Rule 22,
it is at any time thereafter in order (even though a previous motion to
the same effect has been disagreed to) for any Member of the respective
House to move to proceed to the consideration of the resolution, and all
points of order against the resolution (and against consideration of the
resolution) are waived. The motion is highly privileged in the House of
Representatives and is privileged in the Senate and is not debatable.
The motion is not subject to amendment, or to a motion to postpone, or
to a motion to proceed to the consideration of other business. A motion
to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to
shall not be in order. If a motion to proceed to the consideration of
the resolution is agreed to, the resolution shall remain the unfinished
business of the respective House until disposed of.
(B) Debate on the resolution, and all debatable motions and appeals in
connection therewith, shall be limited to not more than ten hours, which
shall be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the
resolution. A motion further to limit debate is in order and not
debatable. An amendment to, or a motion to postpone, or a motion to
proceed to the consideration of other business, or a motion to recommit
the resolution is not in order. A motion to reconsider the vote by which
the resolution is agreed to or disagreed to is not in order.
(C) Immediately following the conclusion of the debate on a resolution
described in paragraph (1), and a single quorum call at the conclusion
of the debate if requested in accordance with the rules of the
appropriate House, the vote on final passage of the resolution shall
occur.
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Representatives, as the case may be, to the procedure relating to a
resolution described in paragraph (1) shall be decided without debate.
(D) Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the
application of the rules of the Senate or the House of
(6) If, before the passage by the Senate of a resolution described in
paragraph (1), the Senate receives from the House of Representatives a
resolution described in paragraph (1), then the following procedures
shall apply:
(A) The resolution of the House of Representatives shall not
be referred to a committee.
(B) With respect to a resolution described in paragraph (1) of
the Senate--
(i) the procedure in the Senate shall be the same as
if no resolution had been received from the House; but
(ii) the vote on final passage shall be on the
resolution of the House.
(C) Upon disposition of the resolution received from the
House, it shall no longer be in order to consider the resolution
originated in the Senate.
(7) If the Senate receives from the House of Representatives a
resolution described in paragraph (1) after the Senate has disposed of a
Senate originated resolution, the action of the Senate with regard to
the disposition of the Senate originated resolution shall be deemed to
be the action of the Senate with regard to the House originated
resolution.
(8) This subsection is enacted by Congress--
(A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and
House of Representatives, respectively, and as such it is 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 a resolution described in paragraph (1), and it
supercedes other rules only to the extent that it is
inconsistent with such rules; and
(B) 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
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the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that House.
Sec. 1130(31)