[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 4 (Wednesday, January 8, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D22-D23]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
REDUCING EXCESSIVE DEADLINE OBLIGATIONS ACT OF 2013; EXCHANGE 
INFORMATION DISCLOSURE ACT; AND HEALTH EXCHANGE SECURITY AND 
TRANSPARENCY ACT OF 2014
Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on H.R. 2279, the 
``Reducing Excessive Deadline Obligations Act of 2013''; H.R. 3362, the 
``Exchange Information Disclosure Act''; and H.R. 3811, the ``Health 
Exchange Security and Transparency Act of 2014''. The Committee granted 
a structured rule for H.R. 2279. The rule provides one hour of general 
debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority 
member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. The rule waives all 
points of order against consideration of the bill. The rule makes in 
order as original text for the purpose of amendment an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 
113-30 and provides that it shall be considered as read. The rule 
waives all points of order against that amendment in that nature of a 
substitute. The rule makes in order only those further amendments to 
H.R. 2279 printed in part A of 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 part A of the report. The rule 
provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions. 
Additionally, the rule granted a closed rule for H.R. 3362. The rule 
provides one hour of debate with 40 minutes equally divided and 
controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
Energy and Commerce and 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by 
the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Ways and 
Means. The rule waives all points of order against consideration of the 
bill. The rule provides that the amendment to H.R. 3362 printed in part 
B of the Rules Committee report shall be considered as adopted and the 
bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. The rule waives all 
points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended. The rule 
provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions. Lastly, 
the rule granted a closed rule for H.R. 3811. The rule provides one 
hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. The rule 
waives all points of order against consideration of the bill. The rule 
provides that the bill shall be considered as read. The rule waives all 
points of order against provisions in the bill. The rule provides one 
motion to recommit. Testimony was heard from Representatives Terry, 
Pallone, Johnson (OH), and Tonko.

Joint Meetings
  No joint committee meetings were held.

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