[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 123 (Monday, October 4, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1000-D1001]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
BANKRUPTCY JUDGESHIP ACT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a structured rule providing one 
hour of general debate on S. 878, Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2003, equally 
divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the 
Committee on the Judiciary. The rule waives all points of order against 
consideration of the bill. The rule provides that the amendment in the 
nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now 
printed in the bill shall be considered as an original bill for the purpose 
of amendment and shall be considered as read. The rule waives all points of 
order against the committee amendment in the nature of

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a substitute. The rule makes in order only those amendments printed in the 
Rules Committee report accompanying the resolution. The rule provides that 
the amendments printed in the report may be offered only in the order 
designated 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. Finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit 
with or without instructions. Testimony was heard from Chairman 
Sensenbrenner and Representatives Simpson and Berman.
Joint Meetings
AMERICAN JOBS CREATION ACT
Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate and House passed 
versions of H.R. 4520, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove 
impediments in such Code and make our manufacturing, service, and high-
technology businesses and workers more competitive and productive both at 
home and abroad, but did not complete action thereon.
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