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 105 STAT. 2200 PUBLIC LAW 102-240—DEC. 18, 1991 (e) CONGRESSIONAL DISAPPROVAL PROCEDURE.— Section 6007(f) of 49 USC app. such Act is amended by redesignating paragraphs (5), (6), (7), and (8) '*^°- as paragraphs (6), (7), (8), and (9), respectively, and by inserting after paragraph (4) the following new paragraph: "(5) CONGRESSIONAL DISAPPROVAL PROCEDURE. — " (A) IN GENERAL.—T his paragraph is enacted by Congress— "(i) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such these provisions are deemed a part of the rule of each House, respectively, but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in that House in the case of resolutions described by this paragraph; and they supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and "(ii) with full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change the rule (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. "(B) RESOLUTION DEFINED.—For the purpose of this paragraph, the term 'resolution' means only a joint resolution, relating to an action of the board of directors transmitted to Congress in accordance with paragraph (4)(D)(ii), the matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows: 'That the Congress disapproves of the action of the board of directors of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority described as follows: . ', the blank space therein being appropriately filled. Such term does not include a resolution which specifies more than one action. "(C) REFERRAL. — A resolution with respect to a board of director's action shall be referred to the Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House of Representatives, or the Committee on Commerce, Science and Technology of the Senate, by the Speaker of the House of Representatives or the President of the Senate, as the case may be. "(D) MOTION TO DISCHARGE.— I f the committee to which a resolution has been referred has not reported it at the end of 20 calendar days after its introduction, it is in order to move to discharge the committee from further consideration of that joint resolution or any other resolution with respect to the board of directors action which has been referred to the committee. "(E) RULES WITH RESPECT TO MOTION. —A motion to discharge may be made only by an individual favoring the resolution, is highly privileged (except that it may not be made after the committee has reported a resolution with respect to the same action), and debate thereon shall be limited to not more than 1 hour, to be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the resolution. An amendment to the motion is not in order, and it is not in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to. Motions to postpone shall be decided without debate. "(F) EFFECT OF MOTION.— If the motion to discharge is agreed to or disagreed to, the motion may not be renewed.

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