[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 101 (Tuesday, June 23, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D750-D751]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
RATEPAYER PROTECTION ACT OF 2015; DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 
ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2016
Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on H.R. 2042, the 
``Ratepayer Protection Act of 2015''; and H.R. 2822, the ``Department 
of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2016''. The committee granted, by record vote of 9-4, a modified-open 
rule for H.R. 2822. 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 structured rule for H.R. 2042. 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 purpose of amendment an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules 
Committee Print 114-20 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 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

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the report. The rule provides one motion to recommit with or without 
instructions. In section 3, the rule provides for consideration of 
concurrent resolutions providing for adjournment during the month of 
July, 2015. In section 4, the rule provides that on any legislative day 
during the period from June 26, 2015, through July 6, 2015: 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. Lastly, 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 
Representatives Whitfield, Yarmuth, Griffith of Virginia, Calvert, and 
McCollum.
MANIPULATION AND FRAUD IN REPORTING OF VA SMALL BUSINESS GOALS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations; and the Subcommittee on Investigations, Oversight and 
Regulations of the House Committee on Small Business, held a joint 
hearing entitled ``Manipulation and Fraud in Reporting of VA Small 
Business Goals''. Testimony was heard from Jan Frye, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary and Senior Procurement, Executive Office of Acquisition and 
Logistics, Department of Veterans Affairs; Thomas J. Leney, Executive 
Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, 
Department of Veterans Affairs; John Shoraka, Associate Administrator, 
Office of Government Contracting and Business Development, Small 
Business Administration; and Kevin Youel Page, Deputy Commissioner, 
Federal Acquisition Service, General Services Administration.

Joint Meetings
  No joint committee meetings were held.