[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 9 (Tuesday, January 16, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D39-D40]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
HOME MORTGAGE DISCLOSURE ADJUSTMENT ACT; WORLD BANK ACCOUNTABILITY ACT 
OF 2017; BORN-ALIVE ABORTION SURVIVORS PROTECTION ACT
Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on H.R. 2954, the 
``Home Mortgage Disclosure Adjustment Act''; H.R. 3326, the ``World 
Bank Accountability Act of 2017''; and H.R. 4712, the ``Born-Alive 
Abortion Survivors Protection Act''. The Committee granted, by record 
vote of 8-4, a structured rule for H.R. 3326. 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 the 
amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on 
Financial Services now printed in the bill and provides that it shall 
be considered as read. The rule waives all points of order against the 
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 the report. The rule provides 
one motion to recommit with or without instructions. In section 2, the 
rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2954 under a closed rule. The 
rule provides one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the 
chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on

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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, modified by the amendment printed in 
part B of the Rules Committee report, 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 8-4, a closed rule for H.R. 4712. 
The rule provides one hour of 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 provides that the bill shall be considered as read. 
The rule waives all points of order against provisions in the bill. The 
rule provides one motion to recommit. In section 2, the rule provides 
that on any legislative day during the period from January 22, 2018, 
through January 26, 2018: the Journal of the proceedings of the 
previous day shall be considered as approved; and the Chair may at any 
time declare the House adjourned to meet at a date and time to be 
announced by the Chair in declaring the adjournment. In section 3, the 
rule provides that the Speaker may appoint Members to perform the 
duties of the Chair for the duration of the period addressed by section 
2. Testimony was heard from Chairman Goodlatte, and Representatives 
Nadler, Barr, and Moore.

Joint Meetings
  No joint committee meetings were held.