    [United States Senate Manual, 117th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 117-1]
    [Cleaves Manual of Conferences and Conference Reports]
    [Pages 335-337]
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                                   TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES

                 Chapter 159--REAL PROPERTY; RELATED PERSONAL PROPERTY; AND
                                LEASE OF NON-EXCESS PROPERTY

           337  Sec. 2687 note. Defense Base Closure and Realignment
                    Commission

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                Sec. 2904. Closure and Realignment of Military Installations
                    ``(a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b), the
                Secretary shall--
                                ``(1) close all military installations
                            recommended for closure by the Commission in
                            each report transmitted to the Congress by the
                            President pursuant to section 2903(e);
                                ``(2) realign all military installations
                            recommended for realignment by such Commission
                            in each such report;
                                ``(3) carry out the privatization in place
                            of a military installation recommended for
                            closure or realignment by the Commission in the
                            2005 report only if privatization in place is a
                            method of closure or realignment of the military
                            installation specified in the recommendations of
                            the Commission in such report and is determined
                            by the Commission to be the most cost-effective
                            method of implementation of the recommendation;
                                ``(4) initiate all such closures and
                            realignments no later than two years after the
                            date on which the President transmits a report
                            to the Congress pursuant to section 2903(e)
                            containing the recommendations for such closures
                            or realignments; and
                                ``(5) complete all such closures and
                            realignments no later than the end of the six-
                            year period beginning on the date on which the
                            President transmits the report pursuant to
                            section 2903(e) containing the recommendations
                            for such closures or realignments.
                    ``(b) Congressional Disapproval.--(1) The Secretary may
                not carry out any closure or realignment recommended by the
                Commission in a report transmitted from the President
                pursuant to section 2903(e) if a joint resolution is
                enacted, in accordance with the provisions of section 2908,
                disapproving such recommendations of the Commission before
                the earlier of--
                                ``(A) the end of the 45-day period beginning
                            on the date on which the President transmits
                            such report; or
                                ``(B) the adjournment of Congress sine die
                            for the session during which such report is
                            transmitted.
                    ``(2) For purposes of paragraph (1) of this subsection
                and subsections (a) and (c) of section 2908, the days on
                which either House of Congress is not in session because of
                an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain
                shall be excluded in the computation of a period. (Pub. L.
                101-510, div. B, Title XXIX, part A, Sec. 2904, Nov. 5,
                1990, 104 Stat. 1812, 1813.)

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                Sec. 2908. Congressional Consideration of Commission Report
                    ``(a) Terms of the Resolution.--For purposes of section
                2904(b), the term `joint resolution' means only a joint
                resolution which is introduced within the 10-day period
                beginning on the date on which the President transmits the
                report to the Congress under section 2903(e), and--
                                ``(1) which does not have a preamble;
                                ``(2) the matter after the resolving clause
                            of which is as follows: `That Congress
                            disapproves the recommendations of the Defense
                            Base Closure and Realignment Commission as
                            submitted by the President on________', the
                            blank space being filled in with the appropriate
                            date; and
                                ``(3) the title of which is as follows:
                            `Joint resolution disapproving the
                            recommendations of the Defense Base Closure and
                            Realignment Commission.'.
                    ``(b) Referral.--A resolution described in subsection
                (a) that is introduced in the House of Representatives shall
                be referred to the Committee on Armed Services of the House
                of Representatives. A resolution described in subsection (a)
                introduced in the Senate shall be referred to the Committee
                on Armed Services of the Senate.
                    ``(c) Discharge.--If the committee to which a resolution
                described in subsection (a) is referred has not reported
                such resolution (or an identical resolution) by the end of
                the 20-day period beginning on the date on which the
                President transmits the report to the Congress under section
                2903(e), such committee shall be, at the end of such period,
                discharged from further consideration of such resolution,
                and such resolution shall be placed on the appropriate
                calendar of the House involved.
                    ``(d) Consideration.--(1) On or after the third day
                after the date on which the committee to which such a
                resolution is referred has reported, or has been discharged
                (under subsection (c)) from further consideration of, such a
                resolution, it is 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. A Member may make the motion only on the day
                after the calendar day on which the Member announces to the
                House concerned the Member's intention to make the motion,
                except that, in the case of the House of Representatives,
                the motion may be made without such prior announcement if
                the motion is made by direction of the committee to which
                the resolution was referred. 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 respective House shall
                immediately proceed to consideration of the joint resolution
                without intervening motion, order, or other business, and
                the resolution shall remain the unfinished business of the
                respective House until disposed of.
                                ``(2) Debate on the resolution, and on all
                            debatable motions and appeals in connection
                            therewith, shall be limited to not more than 2
                            hours, which shall be divided equally between
                            those favoring and those opposing the
                            resolution. An amendment to the resolution is

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                            not in order. A motion further to limit debate
                            is in order and not debatable. 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.
                                ``(3) Immediately following the conclusion
                            of the debate on a resolution described in
                            subsection (a) 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.
                                ``(4) 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 described in subsection (a) shall
                            be decided without debate.
                    ``(e) Consideration by Other House.--(1) If, before the
                passage by one House of a resolution of that House described
                in subsection (a), that House receives from the other House
                a resolution described in subsection (a), then the following
                procedures shall apply:
                                ``(A) The resolution of the other House
                            shall not be referred to a committee and may not
                            be considered in the House receiving it except
                            in the case of final passage as provided in
                            subparagraph (B)(ii).
                                ``(B) With respect to a resolution described
                            in subsection (a) of the House receiving the
                            resolution--

                                    ``(i) the procedure in that House shall
                                be the same as if no resolution had been
                                received from the other House; but

                                    ``(ii) the vote on final passage shall
                                be on the resolution of the other House.

                                ``(2) Upon disposition of the resolution
                            received from the other House, it shall no
                            longer be in order to consider the resolution
                            that originated in the receiving House.
                    ``(f) Rules of the Senate and House.--This section is
                enacted by Congress--
                                ``(1) 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 subsection (a), and it
                            supersedes other rules only to the extent that
                            it is inconsistent with such rules; and
                                ``(2) 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
                            other rule of that House. (Pub. L. 101-510, div.
                            B, Title XXIX, part A, Sec. 2908, Nov. 5, 1990,
                            104 Stat. 1816, 1818.)
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