Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 96 Part 2.djvu/485

 PUBLIC LAW 97-377—DEC. 21, 1982

96 STAT. 1847

(3) If the committee to which is referred the first resolution introduced in the Senate or the House, as the case may be, expressing approval of the obligation and expenditure of funds referred to in this subsection has not reported the resolution at the end of 45 calendar days after the introduction of a resolution pursuant to subsection (1) hereof, such committee shall be automatically discharged from further consideration of the resolution and the resolution shall be placed on the calendar of the Senate, in the case of a resolution of the Senate, or the Union calendar, in the case of a resolution of the House of Representatives. (4) When the committee has reported a resolution or been discharged under subsection (3) hereof 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 in the House and is privileged in the Senate and is not debatable. The motion is not subject to amendment, or to a motion to postpone, or to a motion to proceed to the consideration of other business. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to shall not be in order. (5)(A) Debate on the resolution shall be limited to not more than fifty 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. (B) Motions to postpone and motions to proceed to the consideration of other business shall be decided without debate. (C) Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the application of the rules of the Senate or the House of Representatives, as the case may be, to the procedure relating to a resolution shall be decided without debate. (6) Subsections (1) through (5) are enacted by the Congress— (A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they are deemed a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in that House in the case of resolutions described in subsection (1), and they supercede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and (B) with full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change the rules (so far as relating to the procedures 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. (7KA) The President shall submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations and Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives, not earlier than March 1, 1983, containing: (i) a detailed technical assessment of the closely spaced basing system transmitted by the President to Congress on November 22, 1982 or such modifications thereto as the President determines to be advisable; (ii) a detailed technical assessment of other MX basing systems that might serve as alternatives to the closely spaced basing system transmitted by the President to Congress on November 22, 1982;

Debate limitation.

Presidential report to congressional committees.

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