[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 92 (Monday, June 18, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D613]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on H.R. 2578 to amend 
the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act related to a segment of the Lower Merced 
River in California, and for other purposes. The Committee granted, by 
a record vote, a structured rule providing 90 minutes of general debate 
equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member 
of the Committee on Natural Resources. The rule waives all points of 
order against consideration of the bill. The rule makes in order as 
original text for purpose of amendment the amendment in the nature of a 
substitute consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 112-25 and 
provides that it shall be considered as read. The rule waives all 
points of order against the amendment in the nature of a substitute. 
The rule makes in order only those amendments printed in the Rules 
Committee report. Each such amendment 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 division of the question. The rule 
waives all points of order against the amendments printed in the 
report. Finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit with or 
without instructions. Testimony was heard from Chairman Hastings (WA), 
Representatives Markey, Bishop (UT), Grijalva, and King (IA).

Joint Meetings
  No joint committee meetings were held.