[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 6 (Tuesday, January 27, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D28]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
BUDGET AND ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Committee on the Budget: Held a hearing on the Budget and Economic 
Outlook--Fiscal Years 2005-2014. Testimony was heard from Douglas 
Holtz-Eakin, Director, CBO.
NASA WORKFORCE FLEXIBILITY ACT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, an open rule providing one 
hour of general debate on S. 610, NASA Workforce Flexibility Act of 
2003, with 40 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chairman 
and ranking minority member of the Committee on Science and 20 minutes 
equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority 
member of the Committee on Government Reform. The rule provides that 
the bill shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule 
and that it shall be considered as read. The rule authorizes the Chair 
to accord priority in recognition to Members who have pre-printed their 
amendments in the Congressional Record. Finally, the rule provides one 
motion to recommit with or without instructions. Testimony was heard 
from Chairman Boehlert.
FAMILY FARMER BANKRUPTCY RELIEF EXTENSION
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a modified closed rule 
providing one hour of general debate on the bill S. 1920, to extend for 
6 months the period for which chapter 12 of title 11 of the United 
States code is reenacted, and amendments made in order equally divided 
and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the 
Committee on the Judiciary. The rule provides that it shall be in order 
to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the 
five-minute rule an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting 
of H.R. 975 as passed by the House, and that it shall be considered as 
read. The rule waives all points of order against the amendment in the 
nature of a substitute. The rule makes in order only those amendments 
to that amendment in the nature of a substitute which are printed in 
the Rules Committee report accompanying the resolution. The rule 
provides that the amendments made in order 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 a 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 provides one 
motion to recommit with or without instructions. Section 2 of the 
resolution provides that if the Senate bill, as amended, is passed then 
it shall be in order to move that the House insist on its amendment to 
S. 1920 and request a conference thereof. Testimony was heard from 
Chairman Sensenbrenner and Representative Baldwin.