Debt Man Walking: Translating the Debt Bill's Second Title

Title II (p. 27)- Vote on the Balanced Budget Amendment
Section 201- Vote on the Balanced Budget Amendment
Congress is required to vote on a Balanced Budget Amendment between September 30 and December 31, 2011.

Section 202- Consideration by the Other House
If the House receives the joint resolution to amend the Constitution from the house, they have to send it to their Committee on the Judiciary. They have five business days to "report the joint resolution" (make a decision on it?) to the House; if they don't, the House will bar them from further deliberation on it.

• ...Unless the House votes to not bar them from further deliberation. I think.
• Regardless, it looks like if it passes the Committee on the Judiciary, the House will get 20 minutes of further debate on the floor per side; so, 20 minutes of "Balanced Budget is the best!" and 20 minutes of "Are you fucking crazy?!"

So, this part is kind of dense, but it looks like the House can begin the preparation to vote on this Amendment after the Committee has signed off on it (unless they were told to GTFO) and the 20 minutes per side of debate have gone down. ...I think.

• If it makes it this far, there's more debate on the floor of the House; looks like one hour of debate per side, and there's one Motion to Limit Debate up for grabs.

It doesn't look like anyone can call for a re-vote on the passage of the joint resolution... so, does that mean they can't vote to send it back to the Committee?

If the Senate receives the joint resolution to amend the Constitution from the house, they too send it to the "appropriate committee" for five days' consideration. If they don't come to an agreement before that, they get the boot and the measure gets put on the calendar.

• The Senate gets 20 hours (10 per side) to debate the issue, but they cannot change the Amendment as it stands.
• It looks like they're required to vote on the Amendment by the end of the seventh business day since they received the Amendment from their committee, but they can obviously do it before that deadline.