[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 64 (Tuesday, April 26, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D431-D432]
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 H.R. 
4978, the ``Nurturing and Supporting Healthy Babies Act''; H.R. 4641, 
to provide for the establishment of an inter-agency task force to 
review, modify, and update best practices for pain management and 
prescribing pain medication, and for other purposes; H.R. 3680, the 
``Co-Prescribing to Reduce Overdoses Act of 2015''; H.R. 3691, the 
``Improving Treatment for Pregnant and Postpartum Women Act''; H.R. 
1818, the ``Veteran Emergency Medical Technician Support Act of 2015''; 
H.R. 4981, the ``Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Expansion and 
Modernization Act''; H.R. 3250, the ``DXM Abuse Prevention Act of 
2015''; H.R. 4969, the ``John Thomas Decker Act of 2016''; H.R. 4586, 
the ``Lali's Law''; H.R. 4599, the ``Reducing Unused Medications Act of 
2016''; H.R. 4976, the ``Opioid Review Modernization Act of 2016''; 
H.R. 4982, the ``Examining Opioid Treatment Infrastructure Act of 
2016''; H.R. 4889, the ``Kelsey Smith Act of 2016''; H.R. 4167, the 
``Kari's Law Act of 2015''; H.R. 4111, the ``Rural Health Care 
Connectivity Act of 2015''; H.R. 4190, the ``Spectrum Challenge Prize 
Act of 2015''; H.R. 3998, the ``Securing Access to Networks in 
Disasters Act''; H.R. 2031, the ``Anti-Swatting Act of 2015''; H.R. 
2589, to amend the Communications Act of 1943 to require the Federal 
Communications Commission to publish on its Internet website changes to 
the rules of the Commission not later than 24 hours after adoption; 
H.R. 2592, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require the 
Federal Communications Commission to publish on the website of the 
Commission documents to be voted on by the Commission; H.R. 2593, to 
amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require identification and 
description on the website of the Federal Communications Commission of 
items to be decided on authority delegated by the Commission; and the 
``Pipeline Safety Act of 2016''.
HALOS ACT
Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on H.R. 4498, the 
``HALOS Act''. The committee

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granted, by voice vote, a structured rule. The rule provides one hour 
of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on Financial Services. 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 makes in order 
only the amendment printed in the Rules Committee report, if offered by 
the Member designated in the report, which 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 amendment 
printed in the report. The rule provides one motion to recommit with or 
without instructions. Testimony was heard from Representatives Hurt and 
Maxine Waters of California.

Joint Meetings
  No joint committee meetings were held.