[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 106 (Monday, July 26, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D866-D867]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
VA, HUD, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies approved for full committee action, the VA, HUD, and 
Independent Agencies appropriations for fiscal year 2000.
ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, an open rule providing 1 
hour of debate on H.R. 2605, making appropriations for energy and water 
development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000. The rule 
waives clause 4(a) of rule XIII (requiring a 3 day layover of the 
committee report) against consideration of the bill. The rule waives 
clause 2 of rule XXI (prohibiting unauthorized or legislative 
provisions in an appropriations bill) and clause 5(a) of rule XXI 
(prohibiting a tax or tariff provision in a bill not reported by a 
committee with jurisdiction over revenue measures) against provisions 
in the bill, except as otherwise specified in the rule. 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 Packard 
and Visclosky.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Rules: The Committee granted, by voice vote, an open rule 
providing 1 hour of debate on H.R. 2587, making appropriations for the 
government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable 
in whole or in part against revenues of said District for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2000. The rule waives clause 4(c) of rule 
XIII (requiring a three-day availability of printed hearings on a 
general appropriations bill), section 306 (prohibiting consideration of 
legislation within the Budget Committee's jurisdiction, unless reported 
by the Budget Committee, and section 401 (prohibiting consideration of 
legislation providing new entitlement authority which becomes effective 
during the current fiscal year) of the Congressional Budget Act against 
consideration of the bill. The rule waives clause 2 of rule XXI 
(prohibiting unauthorized or legislative provisions in an 
appropriations bill) against provisions in the bill. The rule makes in 
order the amendments printed in the Rules Committee report which may be 
offered only by a Member designated in the report and only at the 
appropriate point in the reading of the bill, shall be debatable for 
the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled between 
the 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 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

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heard from Representatives Istook, Tiahrt, Barr of Georgia, Bilbray, 
Moran of Virginia and Norton.