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PUBLIC LAW 99-177—DEC. 12, 1985 designees. Debate on any debatable motion or appeal related to the conference report shall be limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the mover and the manager of the conference report. "(3) Should the conference report be defeated, debate on any request for a new conference and the appointment of conferees shall be limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the manager of the conference report and the minority leader or his designee, and should any motion be made to instruct the conferees before the conferees are named, debate on such motion shall be limited to one-half hour, to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the mover and the manager of the conference report. Debate on any amendment to any such instructions shall be limited to 20 minutes, to be equally divided between and controlled by the mover and the manager of the conference report. In all cases when the manager of the conference report is in favor of any motion, appeal, or amendment, the time in opposition shall be under the control of the minority leader or his designee. "(4) In any case in which there are amendments in disagreement, time on each amendment shall be limited to 30 minutes, to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the manager of the conference report and the minority leader or his designee. No amendment that is not germane to the provisions of such amendments shall be received. "(d) REQUIRED ACTION BY CONFERENCE COMMITTEE.—If at the end

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of 7 days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays) after the conferees of both Houses have been appointed to a committee of conference on a concurrent resolution on the budget, the conferees are unable to reach agreement with respect to all matters in disagreement between the two Houses, then the conferees shall submit to their respective Houses, on the first day thereafter on which their House is in session— "(1) a conference report recommending those matters on which they have agreed and reporting in disagreement those matters on which they have not agreed; or "(2) a conference report in disagreement, if the matter in disagieement is an amendment which strikes out the entire text of the concurrent resolution and inserts a substitute text. "(e) CONCURRENT

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SENATE.—It shall not be in order in the Senate to vote on the question of agreeing to— "(1) a concurrent resolution on the budget unless the figures then contained in such resolution are mathematically consistent; or "(2) a conference report on a concurrent resolution on the budget unless the figures contained in such resolution, as recommended in such conference report, are mathematically consistent. "LEGISLATION DEAUNG WITH CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET MUST BE HANDLED BY BUDGET COMMITTEES

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"SEC. 306. No bill or resolution, and no amendment to any bill or resolution, dealing with any matter which is within the jurisdiction of the Committee on the Budget of either House shall be considered in that House unless it is a bill or resolution which has been

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