[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 97 (Monday, July 20, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D795]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

 Committee Meetings
 STATE OF CANCER RESEARCH
 Committee on Commerce:  Subcommittee on Health and Environment held a 
hearing on The State of Cancer Research. Testimony was heard from the 
following officials of the National Cancer Institute, NIH, Department 
of Health and Human Services: Edison Liu, M.D., Director, Division of 
Clinical Sciences; and Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Chief of Surgery; and 
public witnesses.
 INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS
 Committee on Rules:  The Committee granted, by voice vote, an open 
rule on H.R. 4193, making appropriations for the Department of the 
Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
1999, providing one hour of general debate equally divided between the 
chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
Appropriations. The rule waives section 306 (prohibiting matters within 
the jurisdiction of the Budget Committee in a measure not reported by 
it) or 401 (prohibiting consideration of budget-related legislation, as 
reported, that is not subject to appropriations) of the Budget Act 
against consideration of the bill. The rule provides that the 
amendments printed in the Rules Committee report accompanying the 
resolution shall be considered as adopted.
   The rule waives clause 2 (prohibiting unauthorized appropriations 
and legislative provisions) and clause 6 (prohibiting reappropriations 
in an appropriations bill) of rule XXI against the bill except as 
follows: page 88, line 10, through page 89, line 6 (NEA). The rule 
makes in order those amendments printed in the Rules Committee report, 
which shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time 
specified in the report equally divided between a proponent and an 
opponent, and shall not be subject to amendment. The rule waives all 
points of order against the amendments printed in the Rules Committee 
report. The rule authorizes the Chair to accord priority in recognition 
to Members who have preprinted their amendments in the Congressional 
Record. The rule allows for the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole 
to postpone votes during consideration of the bill, and to reduce 
voting time to five minutes on a postponed question if the vote follows 
a fifteen minute vote. The rule waives clause 2(e) of rule XXI 
prohibiting non-emergency amendments to be offered to a bill containing 
an emergency designation under the Budget Act) against amendment to the 
bill. Finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit, with or 
without instructions.