[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 62 (Tuesday, April 28, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D455-D456]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Energy and Commerce: Full Committee began a markup on the 
``Ratepayer Protection Act''; and the ``Targeting Rogue and Opaque 
Letters (TROL) Act''.
ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 
2016; MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND VETERANS AFFAIRS AND RELATED AGENCIES 
APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2016
Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on H.R. 2028, the 
``Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2016''; and H.R. 2029, the ``Military Construction and Veterans Affairs 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016''. The committee granted, 
by record vote of 8-2, modified-open rules for H.R. 2028 and H.R. 2029. 
The rule provides one hour of general debate on each bill 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 each bill. The rule waives points of order 
against provisions in each bill for failure to comply with clause 2 of 
rule XXI. The rule provides that after general debate each bill shall 
be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule except that: 1) 
amendments shall be debatable for 10 minutes equally divided and 
controlled by the proponent and an opponent and shall not be subject to 
amendment; and 2) no pro forma amendments shall be in order except that 
the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
Appropriations or their respective designees may offer up to 10 pro 
forma amendments each at any point for the purpose of debate. The rule 
authorizes the Chair to accord priority in recognition to Members who 
have pre-printed their amendments in the Congressional Record. The rule 
provides one motion to recommit each bill with or without instructions. 
In section 3, the rule provides that during consideration of H.R. 2028 
and H.R. 2029, the provisions of House Concurrent Resolution 27, as 
adopted by the House, shall have force and effect in the House as 
though Congress has adopted such concurrent resolution; and the 
allocations printed in the Rules Committee report shall be considered 
for all purposes in the House to be allocations under section 302(a) of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. In section 4, the rule provides 
that on any legislative day during the period from May 4, 2015, through 
May 11, 2015:

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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 Chairman 
Dent and Representatives Bishop of Georgia, Simpson, and Kaptur.

Joint Meetings
  No joint committee meetings were held.