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On the recordDecember 4, 2014
I offer an amendment to the resolution. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 2, line 14, insert before the period ``and the amendment specified in section 5 of this resolution''. At the end of the resolution, add the following: Sec. 5. The amendment referred to in the first section of this resolution is as follows: Strike section 3096 and insert the following: ``SEC. 3096. PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES. ``For payments in lieu of taxes under chapter 69 of title 31, United States Code, which shall be available without further appropriation to the Secretary of the Interior-- ``(1) $33,000,000 for fiscal year 2015; and ``(2) $37,000,000 to be available for obligation and payment beginning on October 1, 2015. Funds available for obligation and payment under paragraph (2) shall be paid in October 2015.''. The material previously referred to by Mr. McGovern is as follows: An Amendment to H. Res. 770 Offered By Mr. McGovern From Massachusetts At the end of the resolution, add the following new sections: Sec. 5. Immediately upon adoption of this resolution the Speaker shall, pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for consideration of the bill (H.R. 15) to provide for comprehensive immigration reform and for other purposes. The first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with.…
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Richard B. Nugent
Florida

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