Amendment sought to appropriate $17.1 million for salaries and expenses of the U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration and would have prohibited the use of any funds for the Cooperative Marketing Program. \ A point of order was sustained against the amendment on the grounds that it constituted legislation in an appropriations bill in violation of clause 2 of rule XXI.

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Amendment Number
193
Description
Amendment sought to appropriate $17.1 million for salaries and expenses of the U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration and would have prohibited the use of any funds for the Cooperative Marketing Program. \ A point of order was sustained against the amendment on the grounds that it constituted legislation in an appropriations bill in violation of clause 2 of rule XXI.
Purpose
Amendment to appropriate $17.1 million for salaries and expenses of the U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration. The amendment would prohibit the use of any funds for the Cooperative Marketing Program.
Congress
103
Type
HAMDT
Latest Action Date
Jul 1, 1993
Latest Action Text
Mr. Dingell raised a point of order against the Smith (IA) amendment (A003). Mr. Dingell stated that the amendment, which places a prohibition on the funds appropriated in the bill to be used to carry out provisions of the International Travel Act, was a limitation on an appropriation and was not in order to be considered at the present point in the bill. The Chair sustained the point of order.
Latest Action Time
13:38:08
Submitted Date
Jul 1, 1993
Chamber
House of Representatives
Update Date
Aug 15, 2021
Amendment 193 — Informed