[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 82 (Monday, June 26, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D663-D664]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, an open rule providing one 
hour of general debate on H.R. 4733, making appropriations for energy 
and water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, to 
be equally divided between the chairman and ranking minority member of 
the Committee on Appropriations. The rule waives clause 4 of rule XIII 
(requiring a three day layover of the committee report and requiring a 
three day availability of printed hearings on a general appropriations 
bill) 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). 
The rule provides that the amendment printed in the Rules Committee 
report 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 
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 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 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

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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, 
Boehlert, Sherwood, Saxton, and Visclosky.
MEDICARE RX 2000 ACT
Committee on Rules: No action was taken on H.R. 4680, Medicare RX 2000 
Act. Testimony was heard from Chairman Archer and Representatives 
Thomas, Burr, Ganske, Wilson, Emerson, Gutknecht, Chenoweth-Hage, 
Stark, Cardin, Tanner, Pallone, Brown of Ohio, Capuano, Allen, Baldwin, 
Berry, and Weygand.