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Debate.

Appeals.

PUBLIC LAW 97-86—DEC. 1, 1981

charge the committee from further consideration of any other resolution which has been referred to the committee. (fl A motion to discharge may be made only by a Senator favoring the resolution, is highly privileged (except that it may not be made after the committee has reported a resolution), and debate thereon shall be limited to not more than one 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. (g) If the motion to discharge is agreed to or disagreed to, the motion may not be renewed, nor may another motion to discharge the committee be made with respect to any other resolution. (h) When the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate has reported, or has been discharged from further consideration of, a resolution, it is at any time thereafter in order (even though a previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) to move to proceed to the consideration of the resolution. The motion is highly privileged and is not debatable. The motion is not subject to amendment, or to a motion to postpone, or a motion to proceed to the consideration of other business. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the motion is a^eed to or disagreed to shall not be in order. (i)(l) Debate in the Senate on the resolution shall be limited to not more than ten hours, which shall be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the resolution. A motion further to limit debate is not debatable. An amendment to, or 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. (2) Motions in the Senate to postpone, made with respect to the discharge from committee or the consideration of a resolution, and motions to proceed to the consideration of other business, shall be decided without debate. (3) Appeals in the Senate from the decisions of the Chair relating to the application of the rules of the Senate to the procedure relating to a resolution shall be decided without debate. MX MISSILE AND BASING MODE

'Resolution."

SEC. 203. (a)(1) None of the funds appropriated pursuant to an authorization of appropriations in this Act may be obligated or expended for development of an operational basing mode for the MX missile before November 18, 1981, and none of such funds may be obligated or expended for such purpose on or after such date if, before such date, the Senate and the House of Representatives have agreed to resolutions of their respective Houses expressing disapproval of the President's decision announced on October 2, 1981, regarding the basing mode for the MX missile. (2) Development of the MX missile system shall continue so as to achieve an initial operational capability (IOC) for the MX missile system not later than December 31, 1986. (b) For the purposes of this section, the term "resolution" means only a resolution of either House of Congress, the matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows: "That the does not favor the decision of the President announced on October 2, 1981, regarding the basing mode for the MX missile", the blank space therein being filled with the name of the resolving House. (c) Subsections (d) through (i) are enacted by the Congress— (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and as such they are deemed a part of the rules of the Senate, but

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