[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 70 (Tuesday, April 25, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D448]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
Committee on Rules: Full Committee began a hearing on H.R. 1694, the 
``Fannie and Freddie Open Records Act of 2017''; and held a hearing on 
H.R. 1695, the ``Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability 
Act of 2017''. The Committee granted, by record vote of 8-3, a 
structured rule for H.R. 1695. 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 waives all points of 
order against consideration of the bill. The rule makes in order an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules 
Committee Print 115-13 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. Additionally, section 2 of the rule provides that 
H. Res. 254 shall be laid on the table. Testimony was heard from 
Chairman Chaffetz, Chairman Goodlatte, and Representatives Clay and 
Conyers.

Joint Meetings
  No joint committee meetings were held.