[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 118 (Monday, July 23, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1030]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
COMMERCE AND JUSTICE, AND SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS 
FISCAL YEAR 2008
Committee on Rules: Granted, by a vote of 9 to 0, an open rule. The 
rule provides 1 hour of general debate on H.R. 3093, Making 
appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, and 
Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2008, equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on Appropriations.
  The rule provides that the bill shall be considered as read. The rule 
waives all points of order against consideration of the bill except 
those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI. The rule waives points 
of order against provisions in the bill for failure to comply with 
clause 2 of rule XXI. During consideration of the bill for amendment, 
the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may accord priority in 
recognition on the basis of whether the Member offering an amendment 
has caused it to be printed in the Congressional Record. Amendments so 
printed shall be considered as read. The rule provides one motion to 
recommit with or without instructions. The rule permits the Chair, 
during consideration of the bill in the House, to postpone further 
consideration of it to a time designated by the Speaker. Finally, the 
rule permits the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations to file, 
on behalf of the Committee, a supplemental report to accompany H.R. 
3093. Testimony was heard from Representatives Mollohan and 
Frelinghuysen.

Joint Meetings
ENERGY SECURITY
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Commission concluded 
a hearing to examine energy and democracy, focusing on whether the 
development of democracy is incompatible with the development of a 
country's energy resources, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Cardin; Representative Hastings (FL); Simon Taylor, Global Witness, 
Washington, DC; and Roman Kupchinsky, Radio Free Europe and Radio 
Liberty, London, United Kingdom.