[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 140 (Monday, November 17, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1028-D1029]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
EPA SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD REFORM ACT OF 2013; SECRET SCIENCE REFORM 
ACT OF 2014; PROMOTING NEW MANUFACTURING ACT
Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on H.R. 1422, the 
``EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act of 2013''; H.R. 4012, the 
``Secret Science Reform Act of 2014''; and H.R. 4795, ``Promoting New 
Manufacturing Act''. The committee granted, by record vote of 7-2, a 
structured rule for H.R. 1422. The rule provides one hour of debate 
equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member 
of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. The rule waives all 
points of order against consideration of the bill. The rule provides 
that the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the 
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology now printed in the bill 
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 makes in order only the 
further amendment printed in part A of the Rules Committee report, if 
offered by Representative Stewart of Utah or his designee. That 
amendment shall be considered as read, shall be separately debatable 
for 10 minutes 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 amendment printed in part A of the report. The rule 
provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions. 
Additionally, the rule granted a structured rule for H.R. 4012. The 
rule provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled 
by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Science, 
Space, and Technology. 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 113-57 and provides 
that it shall be considered as read. The rule waives all points of 
order against that amendment in the nature of a substitute. The rule 
makes in order only those further amendments printed in part B 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 B of 
the report. The rule provides one motion to recommit with or without 
instructions. Additionally, the rule granted a structured rule for H.R. 
4795. 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 waives all points of order

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against provisions in the bill. The rule makes in order only those 
further amendments printed in part C 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 C of the report. The rule 
provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions. In 
section 4, the rule provides that on any legislative day during the 
period from November 21, 2014, through November 28, 2014: the Journal 
of the proceedings of the previous day shall be considered as approved; 
and the Chair may at any time declare the House adjourned to meet at a 
date and time to be announced by the Chair in declaring the 
adjournment. In section 5, the rule provides that the Speaker may 
appoint Members to perform the duties of the Chair for the duration of 
the period addressed by section 4. Testimony was heard from the 
following Representatives: Whitfield, McNerney, Schweikert, Bonamici, 
and Stewart.


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  November 17, 2014, on page D1029, the following appeared: 
ONGOING INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence: Full Committee held a hearing entitled ``Ongoing 
Intelligence Activities''. This was a closed meeting.
  
  The online version should be corrected to omit this language.


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Joint Meetings
  No joint committee meetings were held.