DeFazio
DeLauro
Derrick
Deutsch
Dicks
Dingell
Dixon
Dooley
Durbin
Edwards (CA)
Edwards (TX)
Engel
English (AZ)
EngHsh (OK)
Eshoo
Evans
Fazio
Fields (LA)
Filner
Fingerhut
Flake
Foley
Ford (MI)
Ford (TN)
Frank (MA)
Frost
Fvirse
Gejdenson
Gephardt
Glickman
Gonzalez
Gordon
Green
Gutierrez
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Hall (OH)
McCurdy
Sangineister
Hamburg
McDermott
Sarpalius
Hamilton
McHale
Sawyer
Harinan
McKinney
Schenk
Hastings
McNulty
Schroeder
Hefner
Meehan
Schumer
Hilliard
Meek
Scott
Hinchey
Menendez
Sharp
Hoagland
Mfume
Shepherd
Hochbrueckner
Miller (CA)
Sisisky
Holden
Mineta
Skaggs
Hoyer
Mink
Skelton
Hughes
Moakley
Slattery
Hutto
MoUohan
Slaughter
Inslee
Montgomery
Smith ilA)
Jacobs
Moran
Spratt
Jefferson
Murphy
Stark
Johnson (GA)
Murtha
Stenholm
Johnson (SD)
Nadler
Stokes
Johnson, E. B.
Natcher
Strickland
Johnston
Neal (MA)
Studds
Kanjorski
Neal (NO
Stupak
Kaptur
Oberstar
Swett
Kennelly
Obey
Swift
Kildee
Olver
Synar
Kleczka
Orton
Tanner
Klein
Owens
Taylor (MS)
Klink
Pallone
Tejeda
Kopetski
Pastor
Thompson
Kreidler
Payne (NJ)
Thornton
LaFalce
Payne (VA)
Thurman
Lambert
Pelosi
Torricelli
Lancaster
Penny
Traficant
Lantos
Peterson (FL)
Tucker
LaRocco
Peterson (MN)
Unsoeld
Laughlin
Pickett
Valentine
Lehman
Pickle
Velazquez
Levin
Pomeroy
Vento
Lewis (GA)
Poshard
Visclosky
Lipinski
Price (NO
Volkmer
Lloyd
Rahall
Waters
Long
Rangel
Watt
Lowey
Reed
Waxman
Maloney
Reynolds
Whitten
Mann
Richardson
Williams
Manton
Roemer
Wilson
Margolies-Mezvinsky
Rose
Wise
Markey
Rostenkowski
Woolsey
Martinez
Rowland
Wyden
Matsui
Rush
Wynn
Mazzoli
Sabo
Yates
McCloskey
Sanders
NOT VOTING— 17
Barton
Foglietta
Serrano
Becerra
Henry
Torres
Berman
Kennedy
Towns
Calvert
Ortiz
Washington
Dellums
Quillen
Wheat
Fields (TX)
Roybal-Allard
The Clerk announced the following pair:
On this vote:
Mr. Calvert for with Mr. Dellums against.
So the motion to recommit was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
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The SPEAKER. The question is on the passage of the bill.
The question was taken; and the Speaker announced that
ayes appeared to have it.
the
RECORDED VOTE
Mr. WALKER. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were — ayes
258, noes 157, not voting 17, as follows:
[RoU No. 150]
Ackerman
AUard
Andrews (ME)
Andrews (NJ)
Andrews (TX)
Bacchus (FL)
Bachus (AL)
Baesler
Baker (LA)
Barcia
Barlow
Barrett (NE)
Barrett (WI)
Bateman
Beilenson
Bereuter
Bevill
Bilbray
Bishop
Blute
Boehlert
Bonilla
Boucher
Brewster
Browder
Brown (CA)
Brown (OH)
Bryant
Buyer
Byrne
Canady
Cantwell
Cardin
Castle
Chapman
Clement
Collins (GA)
Condit
Conyers
Cooper
Coppersmith
Costello
Cox
Cramer
Crapo
Banner
Darden
de la Garza
Deal
DeFazio
DeLauro
AYES— 258
Derrick
Hinchey
Deutsch
Hoagland
Dickey
Hochbrueckner
Dicks
Hoekstra
DingeU
Hoke
Dooley
Holden
Duncan
Horn
Dunn
Houghton
Durbin
Hoyer
Edwards (TX)
Huffington
Emerson
Hughes
EngUsh (AZ)
Hutchinson
EngUsh (OK)
Hutto
Eshoo
Inglis
Ewing
Inhofe
Fawell
Inslee
Fazio
Jacobs
Fingerhut
Johnson (CT)
Fish
Johnson (GA)
Foley
Johnson (SD)
Fowler
Johnson, E.B.
Frank (MA)
Johnston
Franks (NJ)
Kanjorski
Frost
Kaptiu-
Fxirse
Kennelly
GaUo
Kildee
Gejdenson
Kim
Gekas
Kingston
Gephardt
Kleczka
Geren
Klein
Gibbons
Klink
GUckman
Klug
Gonzalez
Kopetski
Goodlatte
Kreidler
Goodling
LaFalce
Gordon
Lambert
Goss
Lancaster
Grams
Lantos
Grandy
LaRocco
Green
Laughlin
Greenwood
Lazio
Gunderson
Leach
Gutierrez
Lehman
Hall (OH)
Levin
Hall (TX)
Levy
Hamilton
Lipinski
Harman
Lloyd
Hastert
Long
Hayes
Machtley
Hefley
Maloney
Heftier
Mann
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Manton
Peterson (FL)
ManzuUo
Peterson (MN)
Margolies-Mezvinsky
Petri
Markey
Pickett
Mazzoli
Pickle
McCloskey
Pombo
McCrery
Pomeroy
McCurdy
Porter
McDeriiiott
Poshard
McHale
Price (NO
Mclnnis
Quinn
McKeon
Ramstad
McMillan
Regula
McNulty
Richardson
Meehan
Roberts
Meyers
Roemer
Mica
Rose
Miller (CA)
Roth
Miller (FL)
Roukema
Mineta
Rowland
Minge
Sangmeister
Moakley
Sawyer
Montgomery
Saxton
Moran
Schaefer
Morella
Schenk
Murphy
Schumer
Natcher
Sensenbrenner
Neal (MA)
Sharp
Neal (NO
Shaw
Obey
Shays
Olver
Shepherd
Orton
Sisisky
Pallone
Skaggs
Parker
Skelton
Payne (VA)
Slattery
Penny
Slaughter
NOES— 157
Abercrombie
CoUins (MI)
Applegate
Combest
Archer
Coyne
Armey
Crane
Baker (CA)
Cunningham
Ballenger
DeLay
Bartlett
Diaz-Balart
Bentley
Dixon
Bilirakis
Doolittle
Blackwell
Doman
Bliley
Dreier
Boehner
Edwards (CA)
Bonior
Engel
Borski
Evans
Brooks
Everett
Brown (FL)
Fields (LA)
Bunning
Filner
Burton
Flake
Callahan
Ford (MI)
Camp
Ford (TN)
Can-
Franks (CT)
Clay
Gallegly
Clayton
Gilchrest
Clinger
Gillmor
Clybum
Oilman
Coble
Gingrich
Coleman
Hamburg
Collins (XL)
Hancock
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (OR)
Snowe
Spratt
Stark
Stenholm
Strickland
Studds
Stupak
Sundquist
Swett
Tanner
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Thornton
Thurman
Torkildsen
Torricelli
Upton
Valentine
Vento
Visclosky
Volkmer
Waters
Weldon
Williams
Wilson
Wise
Wyden
W3nnn
ZeUff
Zimmer
Hansen
Hastings
Herger
Hilliard
Hobson
Hunter
Hyde
Istook
Jefferson
Johnson, Sam
Kasich
King
KnoUenberg
Kolbe
Kyi
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (FL)
Lewis (GA)
Lightfoot
Linder
Livingston
Lowey
Martinez
Matsui
McCandless
McCollum
McDade
McHugh
I
669
McKinney
Meek
Menendez
Mfume
Michel
Mink
Molinari
Mollohan
Moorhead
Murtha
Myers
Nadler
Nussle
Oberstar
Owens
Oxley
Packard
Pastor
Paxon
Payne (NJ)
Pelosi
Pryce (OH)
Rahall
Rangel
Ravenel
Barton
Becerra
Berman
Calvert
Dellums
Fields (TX)
Reed
Swift
Reynolds
Synar
Ridge
Talent
Rogers
Taylor (NC)
Rohrabacher
Tejeda
Ros-Lehtinen
Thomas (CA)
Rostenkowski
Thomas (WY)
Royce
Rush
Sabo
Sanders
Santorum
Thompson
Traficant
Tucker
Unsoeld
Velazquez
Vucanovich
Sarpalius
Walker
Schiff
Walsh
Schroeder
Watt
Scott
Waxman
Shuster
Whitten
Skeen
Wolf
Smith (lA)
Woolsey
Smith (TX)
Yates
Solomon
Young (AK)
Spence
Young (FL)
Steams
Stokes '
Stump
NOT VOTING— 17
Foglietta
Serrano
Henry
Torres
Kennedy
Towns
Ortiz
Washington
Quillen
Wheat
Roybal-Allard
The Clerk announced the following pairs:
On this vote:
Mr, Kennedy for, with Mr. Torres against.
Mr. Calvert for, with Mr. Dellums against.
So the bill was passed.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
May 4, 1993
[From the Congressional Record page S5393]
MEASURE REFERRED
The following bill was read the first and second times by unani-
mous consent, and referred as indicated:
"H.R. 1578. An act to amend the Congressional Budget and Im-
poundment Control Act of 1974 to provide for the expedited consid-
eration of certain proposed rescissions of budget authority; referred
jointly, pursuant to the order of August 4, 1977, to the Committee
on the Budget and to the Committee on Governmental Affairs."
670
June 17, 1993
[From the Congressional Record page H4721]
PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS
Under clause 5 of rule X and clause 4 of rule XXII, public bills
and resolutions were introduced and severally referred as follows:
By Mr. SPRATT:
H.R. 4600. A bill to amend the Congressional Budget and Im-
poundment Control Act of 1974 to provide for the expedited consid-
eration of certain proposed rescissions of budget authority; jointly,
to the Committees on Government Operations and Rules.
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lU
103d congress
2d Session
H. R. 4600
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
July 15 (legislath-e day, July 11). 1994
Received; read t\\-ice and referred jointly pursuant to the order of August 4,
1977, to the Committees on the Budget and Go\-emmentaI Affairs, with
instructions that if one committee rciwrts, the other committee ha\'e thir-
ty daj-s to report or be discharged
AN ACT
To amend the Con^-essional Budget and Impoundment Con-
trol Act of 1974 to provide for the expedited consider-
ation of certain proposed rescissions of budget authority.
1 Be it enacted by tlie Senate and House of Representa-
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN PRO-
4 POSED RESCISSIONS AND TARGETED TAX
5 BENEFITS.
6 (a) Ik Gen:eral.— Section 1012 of the Congressional
7 Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C.
8 683) is amended to read as folIo^^'S:
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2
1 "EXPEDITED CONSroERATION OF CERTAIN PROPOSED
2 RESaSSIONS
3 "Sec. 1012. (a) Proposed REsassioN op Budget
4 Authority or Repeal op Targeted Tax BErTEPrrs. —
5 The President may propose, at the time and in the manner
6 provided in subsection (b), the rescission of any budget
7 authority provided in an appropriation Act or repeal of
8 any targeted tax benefit provided in any revenue Act.
9 Funds made available for obligation under this procedure
10 may not be proposed for rescission again under this sec-
1 1 tion.
12 "(b) Transmittal of Special Message. —
13 "(1) The President may transmit to Congress a
14 special message proposing to rescind amounts of
15 budget authority or to repeal any targeted tax bene-
16 fit and include Arith with that special message a
17 draft bill that, if enacted, would only rescind that
18 budget authority or repeal that targeted tax benefit.
19 That bill shall clearly identify the amount of budget
20 authority that is proposed to be rescinded for each
21 program, project, or activity to which that budget
22 authority relates or the targeted tax benefit pro-
23 posed to be repealed, as the case may be. It shall in-
24 elude a Deficit Reduction Account. The President
25 may place in the Deficit Reduction Account an
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1 amount not to exceed the total rescissions in that
2 bill. A targeted tax benefit may only be proposed to
3 be repealed under tliis section during the 20-cal-
4 endar-day period (excluding Saturdays, Sundays,
5 and legal holidays) commencing on the day after the
6 date of enactment of the provision proposed to be re-
7 pealed.
8 "(2) In the case of an appropriation Act that
9 includes accounts within the jurisdiction of more
10 than one subcommittee of the Committee on Appro-
11 priations, the President in proposing to rescind
12 budget authority under this section shall send a sep-
13 arate Sf)ecial message and accompanying draft bill
14 for accounts Avithin the jurisdiction of each such sub-
15 committee.
16 "(3) Each special message shall specify, with
17 respect to the budget authority proposed to be re-
18 scinded, the following —
19 "(A) the amount of budget authority which
20 he proposes to be rescinded;
21 "(B) any account, department, or estab-
22 lishment of the Government to which such
23 budget authority is available for obligation, and
24 the specific project or governmental functions
25 involved;
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1 "(C) the reasons why the budget authority
2 should be rescinded;
3 "(D) to the maximum extent practicable,
4 the estimated fiscal, economic, and budgetary
5 effect (including the effect on outlays and re-
6 ceipts in each fiscal year) of the proposed re-
7 scission; and
8 "(E) all facts, circumstances, and consider-
9 ations relating to or bearing upon the proposed
10 rescission and the decision to effect the pro-
11 posed rescission, and to the maximum extent
12 practicable, the estimated effect of the proposed
13 rescission upon the objects, purposes, and pro-
14 grams for which the budget authority is pro-
15 vided.
16 Each sj)ecial message shall specify, with respect to
17 the proposed repeal of targeted tax benefits, the in-
18 formation required by subparagraphs (C), (D), and
19 (E), as it relates to the proposed repeal.
20 "(c) Procedures for Expedited CoNsroER-
21 ATION. —
22 "(1)(A) Before the close of the second legisla-
23 tive day of the House of Representatives after tlie
24 date of receipt of a special message transmitted to
25 Congress under subsection (b), the majority leader
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5
1 or minority leader of the House of Representatives
2 shall introduce (by request) the draft bill accom-
3 panying that special message. If the bill is not intro-
4 duced as provided in the preceding sentence, then,
5 on the third legislative day of the House of Rep-
6 resentatives after the date of receipt of that special
7 message, any Member of that House may introduce
8 the bill.
9 "(B) The bill shall be ^ferred to the Commit-
10 tee on Appropriations or the Committee on Waj'S
11 and Means of the House of Representatives, as ap-
12 plicable. The committee shall report the bill without
13 substantive revision and ^rith or Arithout rec-
14 ommendation. The bill shall be reported not later
15 than the seventh legislative day of that House after
16 the date of receipt of that special message. If that
17 committee fails to report the bill within that period,
18 that committee shall be automatically discharged
19 from consideration of the bill, and the bill shall be
20 placed on the appropriate calendar.
21 "(C)(i) During consideration under this para-
22 graph, any Member of the House of Representatives
23 may move to strike any proposed rescission or re-
24 ^scissions of budget authority or any proposed repeal
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6
1 of a target tax benefit, as applicable, if supported by
2 49 other Members.
3 "(ii) It shall not be in order for a Member of
4 the House of Representatives to move to strike any
5 proposed rescission under clause (i) unless the
6 amendment reduces the appropriate Deficit Reduc-
7 tion Account if the program, project, or account to
8 which the proposed rescission applies was identified
9 in the Deficit Reduction Account in the special mes-
10 sage under subsection (b).
11 "(D) A vote on final passage of the bill shall be
12 taken in the House of Representatives on or before
13 the close of the 10th legislative day of that House
14 after the date of the introduction of the bill in that
15 House. If the bill is passed, the Clerk of the House
16 of Representatives shall cause the bill to be en-
17 grossed, certified, and transmitted to the Senate
18 within one calendar day of the day on which the bill
19 is passed.
20 **(2)(A) A motion in the House of Representa-
21 tives to proceed to the consideration of a bill under
22 tliis section shall be highly privileged and not debat-
23 able. An amendment to the motion shall not be in
24 order, nor shall it be in order to move to reconsider
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677
7
1 the vote by which the motion is agreed to or dis-
2 agreed to.
3 "(B) Debate in the House of Representatives
4 on a bill under this section shall not exceed 4 hours,
5 which shall be divided equally between those favoring
6 and those opposing the bill. A motion further to
7 limit debate shall not be debatable. It shall not be
8 in order to move to recommit a bill under this sec-
9 tion or to move to reconsider the vote by which the
10 bill is agreed to or disagreed to.
11 "(C) Appeals from decisions of the Chair relat-
12 ing to the application of the Rules of the House of
13 Representatives to the procedure relating to a bill
14 under this section shall be decided without debate.
15 "(D) Except to the extent specifically provided
16 in the preceding provisions of this subsection, con-
17 sideration of a bill under this section shall be gov-
18 emed by the Rules of the House of Representatives.
19 It shall not be in order in the House of Representa-
20 tives to consider any rescission bill introduced pursu-
21 ant to the provisions of tliis section under a suspen-
22 sion of the rules or under a special rule.
23 "(3) (A) A bill transmitted to the Senate pursu-
24 ant to paragraph (1)(D) shall be referred to its
25 Committee on Appropriations or Committee on Fi-
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8
1 nance, as applicable. That committee shall report
2 the bill without substantive revision and with or
3 without recommendation. The bill shall be reported
4 not later than the seventh legislative day of the Sen-
5 ate after it receives the bill. A committee failing to
6 report the bill within such period shall be automati-
7 cally discharged from consideration of the bill, and
8 the bill shall be placed upon the appropriate cal-
9 endar.
10 "(B)(i) During consideration under this para-
11 graph, any Member of the Senate may move to
12 strike any pi-oposed rescission or rescissions of budg-
13 et authority or any proposed repeal of a targeted tax
14 benefit, as applicable, if supported by 14 other Mem-
15 bers.
16 "(ii) It shall not be in order for a Member of
17 the House or Senate to move to stinke any proposed
18 rescission under clause (i) unless the amendment re-
19 duces the appropriate Deficit Reduction Account
20 (pursuant to section 314) if the program, project, or
21 account to which the proposed rescission applies was
22 identified in the Deficit Reduction Account in the
23 special message under subsection (b).
24 "(4)(A) A motion in the Senate to proceed to
25 the consideration of a bill under this section shall be
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9
1 privileged and not debatable. An amendment to the
2 motion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in order
3 to move to reconsider the vote by wliich the motion
4 is agreed to or disagreed to.
5 "(B) Debate in the Senate on a bill under this
6 section, and all debatable motions and appeals in
7 connection therewith, (including debate pursuant to
8 subparagraph (C)), shall not exceed 10 hours. The
9 time shall be equally divided bet^veen, and controlled
10 by, the majority leader and the minority leader or
1 1 their designees.
12 "(C) Debate in the Senate on any debatable
13 motion or appeal in connection ^\^th a bill under this
14 section shall be limited to not more than 1 hour, to
15 be equally divided between, and controlled by, the
16 mover and the manager of the bill, except that in
17 the event the manager of the bill is in favor of any
18 such motion or appeal, the time in opposition there-
19 to, shall be controlled by the minority leader or his
20 designee. Such leaders, or either of tliem, may, from
21 time under their control on the passage of a bill,
22 allot additional time to any Senator during the con-
23 sideration of any debatable motion or appeal.
24 "(D) A motion in the Senate to further limit
25 debate on a bill under this section is not debatable.
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10
1 A motion to recommit a bill under this section is not
2 in order.
3 "(d) A^IENDMENTS AND DIVISIONS PROfflBITED. —
4 Except as otherwise provided by this section, no amend-
5 ment to a bill considered under this section shall be in
6 order in either the House of Representatives or the Sen-
7 ate. It shall not be in order to demand a division of the
8 question in the House of Representatives (or in a Commit-
9 tee of the Whole) or in the Senate. No motion to suspend
10 the application of this subsection shall be in order in either
1 1 House, nor shall it be in order in either House to suspend
12 the application of this subsection by unanimous consent.
13 "(e) REQUiRE:\rENT To Maice Available for Obli-
14 GATION. — (1) Any amount of budget authority proposed
15 to be rescinded in a special message transmitted to Con-
16 gress under subsection (b) shall be made available for obli-
17 gation on the day after the date on which either House
18 rejects the bill transmitted with that special message.
19 "(2) Any targeted tax benefit proposed to be repealed
20 under this section as set forth in a special message trans-
21 mitted to Congress under subsection (b) shall be deemed
22 repealed unless, during the period described in that sub-
23 section, either House rejects the bill transmitted mth that
24 special message.
25 "(f) Definitions. — For purposes of this section —
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1 "(1) the term 'appropriation Act' means any
2 general or special appropriation Act, and any Act or
3 joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or
4 continuing appropriations;
5 "(2) the term 'legislative day* means, with re-
6 spect to either House of Congress, any day of ses-
7 sion; and
8 "(3) the term "targeted tax benefit" means any
9 provision which has the practical effect of providing
10 a benefit in the form of a different treatment to a
11 particular taxpa3'er or a limited class of taxpayers,
12 whether or not such provision is limited by its terms
13 to a particular taxpayer or a class of taxpayers.
14 Such term does not include any benefit provided to
15 a class of taxpayers distinguished on the basis of
16 general demographic conditions such as income,
17 number of dependents, or marital status.".
18 (b) ExERaSE OP RULEMAIQNG POWERS. — Section
19 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C.
20 621 note) is amended —
21 (1) in subsection (a), by strildng "and 1017"
22 and inserting "1012, and 1017"; and
23 (2) in subsection (d), by striking "section
24 1017" and inserting "sections 1012 and 1017".
25 (c) CONTORMIKG A-MENT>MENTS. —
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12
1 (1) Section 1011 of the Congressional Budget
2 Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 682(5)) is amended by re-
3 pealing paragraphs (3) and (5) and by redesignating
4 paragraph (4) as paragraph (3).
5 (2) Section 1014 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 685) is
6 amended —
7 (A) in subsection (b)(1), by striking "or
8 the reservation"; and
9 (B) in subsection (e)(1), by striking "or a
10 reservation" and by strilcing "or each such res-
1 1 ervation".
12 (3) Section 1015(a) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 686)
13 is amended by strilcing "is to establish a reserve or",
14 by striking "the establishment of such a reserve or",
15 and by striking "reserve or" each other place it ap-
16 pears.
17 (4) Section 1017 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 687) is
18 amended —
19 (A) in subsection (a), by striking "rescis-
20 sion bill introduced ^vith respect to a special
21 message or"; >-
22 (B) in subsection (b)(1), by striking "re-
23 scission bill or", by striking "bill or" the second
24 place it appears, by strilring "rescission bill with
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13
1 respect to the same special message or", and by
2 striking ", and the case may be,";
3 (C) in subsection (b)(2), by striking "bill
4 or" each place it appears;
5 (D) in subsection (c), by striking "rescis-
6 sion" each place it appears and by striking "bill
7 or" each place it appears;
8 (E) in subsection (d)(1), by striking "re-
9 scission bill or" and by striking ", and all
10 amendments thereto (in the case of a rescission
11 bill)",
12 (F) in subsection (d)(2)—
13 (i) by striking the first sentence;
14 (ii) by amendiHg the second sentence
15 to read as follows: "Debate on any debat-
16 able motion or appeal in connection with
17 an impoundment resolution shall be limited
18 to 1 hour, to be equally divided between,
19 and controlled, by, the mover and the man-