[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 102 (Monday, July 19, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D826]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
TEACHER EMPOWERMENT ACT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a structured rule providing 
one hour of general debate on H.R. 1995, Teacher Empowerment Act, 
equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority 
member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce. The rule makes 
in order the Committee on Education and the Workforce amendment in the 
nature of a substitute now printed in the bill as an original bill for 
the purpose of amendment, which shall be considered as read. The rule 
makes in order only those amendments printed in the Rules Committee 
report, which may be offered only in the order printed in the report, 
may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be 
considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the 
report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, 
shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand 
for division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the 
Whole. The rule waives all points of order against the amendments 
printed in the report. 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. Finally, the rule provides 
one motion to recommit with or without instructions. Testimony was 
heard from Chairman Goodling and Representatives McKeon, Fletcher, 
Wilson, Clay, Kildee, Martinez, Mink of Hawaii, Fattah, Kucinich and 
Davis of Florida.