[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 36 (Tuesday, March 4, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D223-D224]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
IMPROVING SCHOOL NUTRITION
Committee on Education and Labor: Held a hearing on Challenges and 
Opportunities for Improving School Nutrition. Testimony was heard from 
Kate Houston, Deputy Under Secretary, Food, Nutrition and Consumer 
Services, USDA; and public witnesses.
FUTURE U.S. COMMITMENTS TO IRAQ
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on the Middle East and 
South Asia and the Subcommittee on International Organizations, 
Human Rights and Oversight held a joint hearing on Declaration and 
Principles: Future U.S. Commitments to Iraq. Testimony was heard 
from David Satterfield, Senior Adviser, Coordinator for Iraq; and 
Mary Beth Long, Assistant Secretary, International Security Affairs, 
Department of Defense.
PAUL WELLSTONE MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION EQUITY ACT OF 2007
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a closed rule providing for 
consideration of H.R. 1424, the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and 
Addiction Equity Act of 2007. The rule provides two hours of general 
debate in the House with 40 minutes equally divided and controlled by 
the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce, 40 minutes equally divided and controlled by the Chairman and 
Ranking Minority Member of the Committee on Ways and Means, and 40 
minutes equally divided and controlled by the Chairman and Ranking 
Minority Member of the Committee on Education and Labor. 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 bill shall be 
considered as read. The rule provides that in lieu of the amendments 
recommended by the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, 
and Education and Labor, the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
printed in this report shall be considered as adopted. The rule waives 
all points of order against the bill as amended. The rule provides one 
motion to recommit with or without instructions. The rule provides that 
in the engrossment of H.R. 1424, the text of H.R. 493, as passed the 
House, shall be added at the end of H.R. 1424. Finally, the rule 
provides that the Chair may postpone further consideration ofthe bill 
to a time designated by the Speaker. Testimony was heard from 
Representatives Pallone, George Miller of California, Hinojosa, Stark, 
Kennedy of Rhode Island, Wilson of New Mexico, Ramstad, Hastings of 
Washington and Broun of Georgia.
GENERATIONS INVIGORATING VOLUNTEERISM AND EDUCATION ACT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a structured rule providing 
one hour of general debate on H.R. 2857, to reauthorize and reform the 
national service laws, equally divided and controlled by the chairman 
and ranking minority member of the Committee on Education and Labor. 
The rule waives all points of order against consideration of the bill 
except clauses 9 and 10 of rule XXI. The rule provides that the 
amendment in the nature of a substitute

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recommended by the Committee on Education and Labor 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 amendment in the nature of a substitute except for 
clause 10 of rule XXI. The rule makes in order only those amendments 
printed in this report. The amendments made in order may be offered 
only in the order printed in this report, may be offered only by a 
Member designated in this report, shall be considered as read, shall be 
debatable for the time specified in this 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. All points of 
order against the amendments except for clauses 9 and 10 of rule XXI 
are waived. The rule provides one motion to recommit with or without 
instructions. The rule provides that, notwithstanding the operation of 
the previous question, the Chair may postpone further consideration of 
the bill to a time designated by the Speaker. Testimony was heard from 
Representatives McCarthy of New York, Matsui, Sutton, Platts, and 
English.

Joint Meetings
NATO ENLARGEMENT
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Commission concluded 
a hearing to examine enlargement issues facing the North Atlantic 
Treaty Organization (NATO) prior to the summit in Bucharest, Romania, 
focusing on democratic development, after receiving testimony from 
Michael Haltzel, Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of 
Advanced International Studies Center for Transatlantic Relations, and 
Steven Pifer, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, and Janusz Bugajski, 
both of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, all of 
Washington, D.C.