[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 97 (Monday, July 18, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D770]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
FOREIGN RELATIONS AUTHORIZATION ACT, FISCAL YEARS 2006 AND 2007
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a structured rule providing 
one hour of general debate on H.R. 2601, to authorize appropriations 
for the Department of State for fiscal years 2006 and 2007, and of 
other purposes, equally divided and controlled by the chairman and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on International Relations. 
The rule waives all points of order against consideration of the bill. 
The rule provide that the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
recommended by the Committee on International Relations now printed in 
the bill modified by the amendment printed in Part A of the Rules 
Committee report 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 amendment in the nature of a substitute 
recommended by the Committee on International Relations. 
Notwithstanding clause 11 of rule XVIII, no amendment to that amendment 
in the nature of a substitute shall be in order except those printed in 
part B of the report of the Committee on Rules.
  The rule provides that amendments shall be considered only in the 
order specified in the report, may be offered only by a Member 
designated in the report, 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 except as specified in the 
report, shall be considered as read, 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 amendments 
printed in the report. Finally, the rule provides one motion to 
recommit with or without instructions. Testimony was heard from 
Representatives Hyde, Smith of New Jersey, Burton, Mack, Foley, Kennedy 
of Minnesota, Lantos, Markey, Spratt and McGovern.