[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 137 (Monday, September 17, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1207-D1208]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
EXPANDING HOMEOWNERSHIP ACT OF 2007
Committee on Rules: Granted, by a non-record vote, a structured rule. 
The rule provides 1 hour of general debate on H.R. 1852, Expanding 
Homeownership Act of 2007, 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 
except for clauses 9 and 10 of rule XXI. The rule provides that the 
amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on 
Financial Services, modified by the amendment printed in Part A of the 
Rules Committee report, shall be considered as adopted. The bill as 
amended 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 provisions in the bill as amended.
  The rule makes in order only those further amendments printed in Part 
B of the Rules Committee report. The further amendments made in order 
in Part B 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 subjected to amendment, and shall not be subject to a 
demand for division of the question in the House or in the Committee of 
the Whole. All points of order against the amendments except for 
clauses 9 and 10 of rule

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XXI are waived. The rule provides one motion to recommit with or 
without instruction. The rules provides that the Chair may postpone 
further consideration of the bill to a time designated by the Speaker. 
Testimony was heard from Chairman Frank, Representatives Waters and 
Biggert.
TERRORISM RISK INSURANCE REVISION AND EXTENSION ACT OF 2007
Committee on Rules: Heard testimony from Chairman Frank and 
Representatives Brown-Waite and Buchanan, but action was deferred on 
H.R. 2761, The Terrorism Risk Insurance Revision and Extension Act of 
1007.