[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 64 (Friday, May 20, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D]
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Committee Meetings
NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT
Committee on Rules: Granted a rule providing 1 hour of further general 
debate on H.R. 4301, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
1995. The rule makes in order only those amendments printed in the 
report to accompany the rule or in part 1 of House Report 103-509, 
certain amendments en bloc described in section 4, and pro forma 
amendments if offered by the Chairman or ranking minority member of the 
Armed Services Committee. Except as specified in sections 3, 4, or 5 of 
the rule, the amendments shall be considered in the order and manner 
specified in the report. The rule provides that unless otherwise 
specified in the report, each amendment is debatable for 10 minutes 
equally divided and controlled. The amendments shall be considered as 
read and are not subject to amendment nor a demand for a division of 
the question. All points of order are waived against the amendments in 
the report.
  The rule provides for an additional period of 30 minutes of general 
debate on the subject of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an additional period 
of 30 minutes of general debate on the subject of Haiti, and an 
additional period of 60 minutes of general debate on the subject of the 
C-17 Strategic Airlift. The rule provides that the amendments printed 
in part 3 of the report (relating to Bosnia and Herzegovina) will be 
considered under the king-of-the-hill procedures.
  The Chairman of the Armed Services Committee or his designee is 
authorized to offer amendments en bloc consisting of the amendments 
printed in part 1 of the report or part 1 of House Report 103-509 or 
germane modifications thereto. The amendments en block shall be 
considered as read except that modifications will be reported. The 
amendments en bloc are debatable for 20 minutes equally divided and 
controlled and are not subject to amendment nor a demand for a division 
of the question. the original proponents are permitted to insert 
statements in the Record. All points of order are waived against the 
amendments en bloc.
  The Chairman of the Committee of the Whole is permitted to postpone 
consideration of a request for a recorded vote on any amendment and to 
reduce to 5 minutes the time for voting after the first of a series of 
votes. The Chairman of the Committee of the Whole is permitted to 
recognize for consideration of any amendment printed in the report out 
of the order in which they are printed, but not sooner that 1 hour 
after the Chairman of the Armed Services Committee or a designee 
announces from the floor a request to that effect. Finally, the rule 
provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
DISCRIMINATION IN THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY
Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Minority Enterprise, 
Finance and Urban Development held a hearing on Discrimination in the 
Telecommunications Industry. Testimony was heard from Reed Hundt, 
Chairman, FCC; John Spotila, General Counsel, SBA; Larry Irving, 
Assistant Secretary, Communications and Information, Department of 
Commerce; and public witnesses.