[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 133 (Tuesday, September 6, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D875]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
ACCELERATING ACCESS TO CAPITAL ACT OF 2015; INVESTMENT ADVISERS 
MODERNIZATION ACT OF 2016; STOP SETTLEMENT SLUSH FUNDS ACT OF 2016
Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on H.R. 2357, the 
``Accelerating Access to Capital Act of 2015''; H.R. 5424, the 
``Investment Advisers Modernization Act of 2016''; and H.R. 5063, the 
``Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2016''. The committee granted, by 
record vote of 9-2, a structured rule for H.R. 2357. The rule provides 
one hour of general 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 makes in order as original text for the purpose of amendment an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules 
Committee Print 114-62 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 part A of 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 part A of the report. The rule 
provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions. The 
Committee also granted a structured rule for H.R. 5424. 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 amendment in the nature of a substitute 
recommended by the Committee on Financial Services 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 makes in order only the 
further amendment printed in part B of 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 part B of the report. The rule 
provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions. The 
Committee granted, by record vote of 9-2, a structured rule for H.R. 
5063. The rule waives all points of order against consideration of the 
bill. The rule provides one hour of general debate equally divided and 
controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
the Judiciary. The rule makes in order as original text for the purpose 
of amendment the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by 
the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill 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 the 
report. The rule provides one motion to recommit with or without 
instructions. Testimony was heard from Chairman Goodlatte, Chairman 
Price of Georgia, and Representatives Hurt, Maxine Waters of 
California, Johnson of Georgia, Rice of South Carolina, and Jackson 
Lee.

Joint Meetings
  No joint committee meetings were held.