[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 97 (Monday, July 12, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D784]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense met in executive 
session and approved for full Committee action the Defense 
appropriations for fiscal year 2000.
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, an open rule providing 1 
hour of debate on H.R. 2465, making appropriations for military 
construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the 
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000. 
The rule waives clause 2 of rule XXI (prohibiting unauthorized or 
legislative provisions in a general appropriations bill) against 
provisions in the bill. The rule authorizes the Chair to accord 
priority in recognition to Members who have pre-printed their 
amendments in the Congressional Record. The rule allows the Chairman of 
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. Finally, the rule provides 
one motion to recommit with or without instructions. Testimony was 
heard from Representatives Hobson and Olver.
INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, an open rule on H.R. 2466, 
making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, providing one 
hour of general debate equally divided between the chairman and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on Appropriations. The rule waives 
clause 2 of rule XXI (prohibiting unauthorized or legislative 
provisions in an appropriations bill against provisions in the bill), 
except as otherwise specified in the rule. The rule makes in order the 
amendment printed in the Rules Committee report, which may be offered 
only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, 
shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand 
for a division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the 
Whole. The rule waives all points of order against the amendment 
printed in the Rules Committee report. The rule waives clause 2(e) of 
rule XXI (prohibiting non-emergency designated amendments to be offered 
to an appropriations bill containing an emergency designation) against 
amendments offered during consideration of the bill. The rule 
authorizes the Chair to accord priority in recognition to Members who 
have pre-printed their amendments in the Congressional Record. The rule 
allows 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. Finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit with or without 
instructions. Testimony was heard from Representatives Regula, Dicks 
and Farr.