[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 84 (Monday, June 26, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D702]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
FLOOD INSURANCE REFORM AND MODERNIZATION ACT OF 2006
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a structured rule providing 
1 hour of general debate on H.R. 4973, Floor Insurance Reform and 
Modernization Act of 2006, equally divided and controlled by the 
chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Financial 
Services. The rule waives all points of order against consideration of 
the bill. The rule makes in order only those amendments printed in the 
Rules Committee report accompanying the resolution. The rules provides 
that the amendments printed in the report 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 amendments printed in the report. Finally, the rule provides 
one motion to recommit with or without instructions. Testimony was 
heard from Representatives Baker, Pearce, Burton of Indiana, 
Rohrabacher, Wasserman Schultz, Pomeroy, and Matsui.
SCIENCE, THE DEPARTMENTS OF STATE, JUSTICE, AND COMMERCE, AND RELATED 
AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, an open rule providing 1 
hour of general debate on H.R. 5672, making appropriations for Science, 
the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, and related agencies 
for fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other purposes, 
equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority 
member of the Committee on Appropriations. The rule waives all points 
of order against consideration of the bill. Under the rules of the 
House the bill shall be read for amendment by paragraph. The rule 
waives points of order against provisions in the bill for failure to 
comply with clause 2 of rule XXI (prohibiting unauthorized 
appropriations or legislative provisions in an appropriations bill), 
except as specified in the resolution. The rule authorizes the Chair to 
accord priority in recognition to members who have pre-printed their 
amendments in the Congressional Record. The rule provides one motion to 
recommit with or without instructions. The rule provides that it shall 
be in order, any rule of the House to the contrary notwithstanding, to 
consider concurrent resolutions providing for adjournment of the House 
and Senate during the month of July. Finally, the rule provides that H. 
Res. 878 is laid on the table. Testimony was heard from Representatives 
Wolf, Obey, Hoyer, George Miller of California, McDermott, Woolsey, and 
Corrine Brown of Florida.