MAKING IN ORDER AT ANY TIME CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 3439, RADIO
BROADCASTING PRESERVATION ACT OF 2000 -- (House of Representatives - April 13,
2000)
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Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that it be
in order at any time for the Speaker, as though pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule
XVIII, to declare the House resolved into the Committee of the Whole House on
the State of the Union for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3439) to prohibit the
Federal Communications Commission from establishing rules authorizing the
operation of new, low power FM radio stations and that consideration of the bill
proceed according to the following order: (1) the first reading of the bill
shall be dispensed with; (2) general debate shall be confined to the bill and
shall not exceed 1 hour equally divided and controlled by the chairman and
ranking minority member of the Committee on Commerce; (3) the amendment in the
nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Commerce now printed in
the bill shall be
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considered as an original bill for the purpose
of amendment under the 5-minute rule and shall be considered as read; (4) points
of order against the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute for
failure to comply with clause 7 of rule XVI are waived; (5) during consideration
of the bill for amendment, the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may accord
priority in recognition on the basis of whether the Member offering an amendment
has caused it to be printed in the portion of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
designated for that purpose in clause 8 of rule XVIII. Amendments so printed
shall be considered as read; (6) the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may:
(1) postpone until a time during further consideration in the Committee of the
Whole a request for a recorded vote on any amendment, and (2) reduce to 5
minutes the minimum time for electronic voting on any postponed question that
follows another electronic vote without intervening business, provided that the
minimum time for electronic voting on the first in any series of questions shall
be 15 minutes; (7) at the conclusion of consideration of the bill for amendment
the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the House with such amendments
as may have been adopted. Any Member may demand a separate vote in the House on
any amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole to the bill or to the
committee amendment in the nature of a substitute; (8) the previous question
shall be considered as ordered on the bill and amendments thereto to final
passage without intervening motion except one motion to recommit with or without
instructions; and that House Resolution 472 be laid on the table.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request
of the gentleman from California?
There was no objection.
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