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House Calendar No. 38
118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. RES. 723
[Report No. 118–216]
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4365) making appropriations
for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September
30, 2024, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the
bill (H.R. 4367) making appropriations for the Department of Homeland
Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other
purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4665) making
appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and
related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and
for other purposes; and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R.
4368) making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food
and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEPTEMBER26, 2023
Mr. R
OY, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following resolution;
which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
RESOLUTION
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4365) making
appropriations for the Department of Defense for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other
purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R.
4367) making appropriations for the Department of
Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September
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30, 2024, and for other purposes; providing for consider-
ation of the bill (H.R. 4665) making appropriations for
the Department of State, foreign operations, and related
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024,
and for other purposes; and providing for consideration
of the bill (H.R. 4368) making appropriations for Agri-
culture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administra-
tion, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.
Resolved, That at any time after adoption of this reso-1
lution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule 2
XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee of 3
the Whole House on the state of the Union for consider-4
ation of the bill (H.R. 4365) making appropriations for 5
the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending Sep-6
tember 30, 2024, and for other purposes. The first reading 7
of the bill shall be dispensed with. All points of order 8
against consideration of the bill are waived. General de-9
bate shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed one 10
hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and rank-11
ing minority member of the Committee on Appropriations 12
or their respective designees. After general debate the bill 13
shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute 14
rule. The bill shall be considered as read. All points of 15
order against provisions in the bill are waived. 16
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EC. 2. (a) No amendment to H.R. 4365 shall be in 17
order except those printed in part A of the report of the 18
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Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution, amend-1
ments en bloc described in section 3 of this resolution, and 2
pro forma amendments described in section 13 of this res-3
olution. 4
(b) Each amendment printed in part A of the report 5
of the Committee on Rules shall be considered only in the 6
order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Mem-7
ber designated in the report, shall be considered as read, 8
shall be debatable for the time specified in the report 9
equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an 10
opponent, shall not be subject to amendment except as 11
provided by section 13 of this resolution, and shall not 12
be subject to a demand for division of the question in the 13
House or in the Committee of the Whole. 14
(c) All points of order against amendments printed 15
in part A of the report of the Committee on Rules or 16
against amendments en bloc described in section 3 of this 17
resolution are waived. 18
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EC. 3. It shall be in order at any time for the chair 19
of the Committee on Appropriations or her designee to 20
offer amendments en bloc consisting of amendments print-21
ed in part A of the report of the Committee on Rules ac-22
companying this resolution not earlier disposed of. Amend-23
ments en bloc offered pursuant to this section shall be con-24
sidered as read, shall be debatable for 20 minutes equally 25
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divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority 1
member of the Committee on Appropriations or their re-2
spective designees, shall not be subject to amendment ex-3
cept as provided by section 13 of this resolution, and shall 4
not be subject to a demand for division of the question 5
in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. 6
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EC. 4. At any time after adoption of this resolution 7
the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XVIII, 8
declare the House resolved into the Committee of the 9
Whole House on the state of the Union for consideration 10
of the bill (H.R. 4367) making appropriations for the De-11
partment of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending 12
September 30, 2024, and for other purposes. The first 13
reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. All points of 14
order against consideration of the bill are waived. General 15
debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed 16
one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and 17
ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropria-18
tions or their respective designees. After general debate 19
the bill shall be considered for amendment under the five- 20
minute rule. The bill shall be considered as read. All points 21
of order against provisions in the bill are waived. 22
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EC. 5. (a) No amendment to H.R. 4367 shall be in 23
order except those printed in part B of the report of the 24
Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution, amend-25
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ments en bloc described in section 6 of this resolution, and 1
pro forma amendments described in section 13 of this res-2
olution. 3
(b) Each amendment printed in part B of the report 4
of the Committee on Rules shall be considered only in the 5
order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Mem-6
ber designated in the report, shall be considered as read, 7
shall be debatable for the time specified in the report 8
equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an 9
opponent, shall not be subject to amendment except as 10
provided by section 13 of this resolution, and shall not 11
be subject to a demand for division of the question in the 12
House or in the Committee of the Whole. 13
(c) All points of order against amendments printed 14
in part B of the report of the Committee on Rules or 15
against amendments en bloc described in section 6 of this 16
resolution are waived. 17
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EC. 6. It shall be in order at any time for the chair 18
of the Committee on Appropriations or her designee to 19
offer amendments en bloc consisting of amendments print-20
ed in part B of the report of the Committee on Rules ac-21
companying this resolution not earlier disposed of. Amend-22
ments en bloc offered pursuant to this section shall be con-23
sidered as read, shall be debatable for 20 minutes equally 24
divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority 25
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member of the Committee on Appropriations or their re-1
spective designees, shall not be subject to amendment ex-2
cept as provided by section 13 of this resolution, and shall 3
not be subject to a demand for division of the question 4
in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. 5
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EC. 7. At any time after adoption of this resolution 6
the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XVIII, 7
declare the House resolved into the Committee of the 8
Whole House on the state of the Union for consideration 9
of the bill (H.R. 4665) making appropriations for the De-10
partment of State, foreign operations, and related pro-11
grams for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and 12
for other purposes. The first reading of the bill shall be 13
dispensed with. All points of order against consideration 14
of the bill are waived. General debate shall be confined 15
to the bill and shall not exceed one hour equally divided 16
and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member 17
of the Committee on Appropriations or their respective 18
designees. After general debate the bill shall be considered 19
for amendment under the five-minute rule. The amend-20
ment printed in part C of the report of the Committee 21
on Rules accompanying this resolution shall be considered 22
as adopted in the House and in the Committee of the 23
Whole. The bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. 24
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All points of order against provisions in the bill, as amend-1
ed, are waived. 2
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EC. 8. (a) No further amendment to H.R. 4665, as 3
amended, shall be in order except those printed in part 4
D of the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying 5
this resolution, amendments en bloc described in section 6
9 of this resolution, and pro forma amendments described 7
in section 13 of this resolution. 8
(b) Each further amendment printed in part D of the 9
report of the Committee on Rules shall be considered only 10
in the order printed in the report, may be offered only 11
by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered 12
as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the 13
report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and 14
an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment except 15
as provided by section 13 of this resolution, and shall not 16
be subject to a demand for division of the question in the 17
House or in the Committee of the Whole. 18
(c) All points of order against further amendments 19
printed in part D of the report of the Committee on Rules 20
or against amendments en bloc described in section 9 of 21
this resolution are waived. 22
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EC. 9. It shall be in order at any time for the chair 23
of the Committee on Appropriations or her designee to 24
offer amendments en bloc consisting of amendments print-25
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ed in part D of the report of the Committee on Rules ac-1
companying this resolution not earlier disposed of. Amend-2
ments en bloc offered pursuant to this section shall be con-3
sidered as read, shall be debatable for 20 minutes equally 4
divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority 5
member of the Committee on Appropriations or their re-6
spective designees, shall not be subject to amendment ex-7
cept as provided by section 13 of this resolution, and shall 8
not be subject to a demand for division of the question 9
in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. 10
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EC. 10. At any time after adoption of this resolution 11
the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XVIII, 12
declare the House resolved into the Committee of the 13
Whole House on the state of the Union for consideration 14
of the bill (H.R. 4368) making appropriations for Agri-15
culture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administra-16
tion, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year 17
ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes. The 18
first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. All points 19
of order against consideration of the bill are waived. Gen-20
eral debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not ex-21
ceed one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair 22
and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appro-23
priations or their respective designees. After general de-24
bate the bill shall be considered for amendment under the 25
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five-minute rule. The amendment printed in part E of the 1
report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this reso-2
lution shall be considered as adopted in the House and 3
in the Committee of the Whole. The bill, as amended, shall 4
be considered as read. All points of order against provi-5
sions in the bill, as amended, are waived. 6
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EC. 11. (a) No further amendment to H.R. 4368 7
shall be in order except those printed in part F of the 8
report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this reso-9
lution, amendments en bloc described in section 12 of this 10
resolution, and pro forma amendments described in sec-11
tion 13 of this resolution. 12
(b) Each further amendment printed in part F of the 13
report of the Committee on Rules shall be considered only 14
in the order printed in the report, may be offered only 15
by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered 16
as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the 17
report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and 18
an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment except 19
as provided by section 13 of this resolution, and shall not 20
be subject to a demand for division of the question in the 21
House or in the Committee of the Whole. 22
(c) All points of order against amendments printed 23
in part F of the report of the Committee on Rules or 24
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against amendments en bloc described in section 12 of this 1
resolution are waived. 2
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EC. 12. It shall be in order at any time for the chair 3
of the Committee on Appropriations or her designee to 4
offer amendments en bloc consisting of amendments print-5
ed in part F of the report of the Committee on Rules ac-6
companying this resolution not earlier disposed of. Amend-7
ments en bloc offered pursuant to this section shall be con-8
sidered as read, shall be debatable for 20 minutes equally 9
divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority 10
member of the Committee on Appropriations or their re-11
spective designees, shall not be subject to amendment ex-12
cept as provided by section 13 of this resolution, and shall 13
not be subject to a demand for division of the question 14
in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. 15
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EC. 13. During consideration of each bill – H.R. 16
4365, H.R. 4367, H.R. 4665, and H.R. 4368 – for 17
amendment, the chair and ranking minority member of 18
the Committee on Appropriations or their respective des-19
ignees may offer up to 10 pro forma amendments each 20
at any point for the purpose of debate. 21
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EC. 14. At the conclusion of consideration of each 22
bill – H.R. 4365, H.R. 4367, H.R. 4665, and H.R. 4368 23
– for amendment the Committee shall rise and report such 24
bill to the House with such amendments as may have been 25
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adopted. The previous question shall be considered as or-1
dered on such bill and amendments thereto to final pas-2
sage without intervening motion except one motion to re-3
commit. 4
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EC. 15. The Clerk shall not transmit to the Senate 5
a message that the House has passed H.R. 4367 until no-6
tified by the Speaker that H.R. 2, as passed by the House 7
on May 11, 2023, has been enacted into law. 8
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118
TH
CONGRESS
1
ST
S
ESSION
H. RES.
723
[Report No. 118–216] RESOLUTION
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4365)
making appropriations for the Department of
Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30,
2024, and for other purposes; providing for con-
sideration of the bill (H.R. 4367) making appro-
priations for the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity for the fiscal year ending September 30,
2024, and for other purposes; providing for con-
sideration of the bill (H.R. 4665) making appro-
priations for the Department of State, foreign
operations, and related programs for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2024, and for other
purposes; and providing for consideration of the
bill (H.R. 4368) making appropriations for Agri-
culture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Ad-
ministration, and Related Agencies programs for
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and
for other purposes.
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EPTEMBER
26, 2023
Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be
printed
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