[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 99 (Tuesday, June 21, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D694-D695]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
RESTORING ACCESS TO MEDICATION ACT OF 2015; FINANCIAL SERVICES AND 
GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2017
Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on H.R. 1270, the 
``Restoring Access to Medication Act of 2015''; and H.R. 5485, the 
``Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2017''. 
The committee granted, by record vote of 8-1, a closed rule for H.R. 
1270. The rule provides one hour of debate equally divided and 
controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
Ways and Means. The rule waives all points of order against 
consideration of the bill. The rule provides that an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 
114-60 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. The Committee granted, by record 
vote of 8-1, a structured rule for H.R. 5485. 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 
provides that the bill shall be considered as read through page 265, 
line 9. The rule waives points of order against provisions in the bill 
for failure to comply with clause 2 or clause 5(a) of rule XXI, except 
beginning with ``: Provided further'' on page 122, line 19, through 
``2012'' on page 122, line 22. The rule provides that where points of 
order are waived against part of a paragraph, a point of order may only 
be raised against the exposed provision and not the entire paragraph. 
The rule makes in order only those amendments printed in the Rules 
Committee report, amendments en bloc described in section 3 of the 
rule, and pro forma amendments described in section 4 of the rule. Each 
amendment printed in the report 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 the report 
or against amendments en bloc described in section 3 of the rule. The 
rule provides that it shall be in order at any time for the chair of 
the Committee on Appropriations or his designee to offer amendments en 
bloc consisting of amendments printed in the report not earlier 
disposed of. Amendments en bloc shall be considered as read, shall be 
debatable for 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair 
and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations or their 
designees, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject 
to a demand for division of the question. The rule provides 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 provides one motion to 
recommit with or without instructions. In section 6, the rule provides 
that section 1201 of H.R. 5485 shall be considered to be a spending 
reduction account for purposes of section 3(d) of House Resolution 5. 
Finally, in section 7 the rule provides that during consideration of 
H.R. 5485, section 3304 of Senate Concurrent Resolution 11 shall not 
apply. Testimony was heard from Representatives Jenkins of Kansas, 
Crenshaw, Serrano, Davidson, Norton, Emmer of Minnesota, Mulvaney, and 
Sanford.

Joint Meetings
  No joint committee meetings were held.

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