[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 91 (Tuesday, June 9, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D671-D672]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN LABELING AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2015; DEPARTMENT OF 
DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2016
Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on H.R. 2393, the 
``Country of Origin Labeling Amendments Act of 2015''; and H.R. 2685, 
the ``Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2016''. The committee 
granted, by record vote of 8-4, a modified-open rule for H.R. 2685. 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 waives points of order against 
provisions in the bill for failure to comply with clause 2 of rule XXI. 
The rule provides that after general debate the 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 with or without instructions. The rule 
also grants a closed rule for H.R. 2393. The rule provides one hour of 
debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority 
member of the Committee on Agriculture. 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 
Agriculture 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 
provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions. Testimony 
was heard from Chairman Conaway, and Representatives Frelinghuysen, 
Visclosky, Massie, and DeLauro.

Joint Meetings
  No joint committee meetings were held.

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