Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 94 Part 1.djvu/703

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PUBLIC LAW 96-000—MMMM. DD, 1980

PUBLIC LAW 96-294—JUNE 30, 1980 (b) Upon introduction, the concurrent resolution shall be referred immediately to the Committee on E n e r ^ and Natural Resources of the Senate and the appropriate committee or committees of the House of Representatives. (c) For the purpose of subsection (a)(1) of this section— (1) continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment of Congress sine die at the end of the second session of a Congress; and (2) the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than 3 days to a day certain are excluded in the computation of the calendar day period involved. (d) This subsection is enacted by Congress— (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively, and as such it is deemed a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followea in that House in the case of resolutions described by subsection (e) of this section; and it supersedes other rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent therewith; and (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change the rules (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 the respective House. (e) The concurrent resolution approving the amendment under this part shall read as follows after the resolving clause: "That the Congress of the United States approves the amendment to the comprehensive strategy submitted to the Congress by the United States Synthetic Fuels Corporation on ", the blank space therein beingfilledwith the date and the year. (f)(1) If any committee to which such concurrent resolution with respect to the amendment to the comprehensive strategy has been referred has not reported it at the end of 60 calendar days after its referral, it shall be in order to move either to discharge any such committee from further consideration of such concurrent resolution or to discharge any such committee from further consideration of any other concurrent resolution with respect to such amendment to the comprehensive strategy which has been referred to such committee. (2) A motion to discharge may be made only by an individual favoring such concurrent resolution, shall be highly privileged (except that it may not be made after all committees to which such joint resolution has been referred have reported a concurrent resolution with respect to the request), and debate thereon shall be limited to not more than 1 hour, to be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the concurrent resolution. An amendment to the motion shall not be in order, and it shall not be in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion was agreed to or disagreed to. (3) 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 concurrent resolution with respect to the same amendment to the comprehensive strategy. (g)(1) When all such committees have reported (or have been discharged from further consideration of) a concurrent resolution, it shall be 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 such a concurrent resolution. The motion shall be highly privileged and shall not be debatable. An amendment to the

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