[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 153 (Monday, September 25, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1001-D1002]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
INCREASING OPPORTUNITY THROUGH EVIDENCE-BASED HOME VISITING ACT; 
CONTROL UNLAWFUL FUGITIVE FELONS ACT OF 2017
Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on H.R. 2824, the 
``Increasing Opportunity through Evidence-Based Home Visiting Act''; 
and H.R. 2792, the ``Control Unlawful Fugitive Felons Act of 2017''. 
The Committee granted, by record vote of 9-2, a structured rule for 
H.R. 2824. The rule provides one hour of general debate equally divided 
and

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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 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 115-33 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 the 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. In section 2, the rule grants a closed rule for H.R. 
2792. 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 the amendment in the 
nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Ways and Means 
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 provides one 
motion to recommit with or without instructions. In section 3, the rule 
directs the Clerk to, in the engrossment of H.R. 2824, add the text of 
H.R. 2792 as passed by the House, as a new matter at the end of H.R. 
2824 and make conforming modifications in the engrossment. Testimony 
was heard from Representatives Smith of Nebraska, Danny K. Davis of 
Illinois, Noem, and Pascrell.

Joint Meetings
  No joint committee meetings were held.