[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 3 (Monday, January 14, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D18-D19]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

 Committee Meetings
DISASTER RELIEF APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2013
Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on H.R. 152, the 
``Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013.'' The Committee granted, by 
voice vote, a structured rule for H.R. 152. The rule provides one hour 
of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations. The rule 
waives all points of order against consideration of the bill. The rule 
provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in 
part A of the Rules Committee report 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. The rule makes in order only the amendment printed in 
part B of the report to the amendment in the nature of a substitute. 
The rule waives all points of order against the amendment printed in 
part B. The rule provides that after the disposition of the amendment 
printed in part B, the Chair shall put the question on the amendment in 
the nature of a substitute in part A.
  The rule provides that if the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
printed in part A is not adopted, the Committee of the Whole shall rise 
and report that it has come to no resolution on the bill. If the 
amendment in the nature of a substitute is adopted, the amendment in 
the nature of a substitute shall be considered as the original bill for 
the purpose of further amendment.
  The rule makes in order only those further amendments printed in part 
C of the report. The rule provides that at the conclusion of 
consideration of the amendments printed in part C, the Committee shall 
rise and report the bill to the House with such amendments as may have 
been adopted. Any Member may demand a separate vote in the House on any 
amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole to the bill, to the 
amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in part A, or to 
amendment number 1 printed in part C. The rule provides that each such 
amendment printed in part B and part C of 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

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the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment 
(except as specified in the report), and shall not be subject to a 
demand for division of the question. The rule provides one motion to 
recommit with or without instructions.
  Finally, the rule directs the Clerk to, in the engrossment of H.R. 
152, add the text of H.R. 219 as passed by the House as a new matter at 
the end of H.R. 152; conform the title of H.R. 152 to reflect the 
addition of the text of H.R. 219, as passed by the House, to the 
engrossment; assign appropriate designations to provisions within the 
engrossment; and conform cross-references and provisions for short 
titles within the engrossment.
  Testimony was heard from Chairman Rogers (KY), and Representatives 
Lowey, Frelinghuysen, Smith (NJ), Pascrell, Langevin, McClintock, 
Bishop (UT), Cassidy, Blumenauer, Fleming, Posey, Brooks (AL), Gardner, 
Gosar, Huelskamp, and Mulvaney.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Ways and Means: Full Committee organizational meeting for 
the 113th Congress. The Committee rules were approved.


                             Joint Meetings

  No joint committee meetings were held.