[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 119 (Monday, July 16, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D815-D816]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on H.R. 6147, the 
``Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2019'' [Interior, Environment, Financial Services, 
and General Government Appropriations Act, 2019]. The Committee 
granted, by record vote of 8-2, a rule providing for the consideration 
of H.R. 6147 under a structured rule. 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 an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text 
of Rules Committee Print 115-81 shall be considered as adopted and the 
bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. The rule waives points 
of order against provisions in the bill, as amended for failure to 
comply with clause 2 or clause 5(a) of rule XXI, except beginning with 
the colon on page 251, line 5, through ``2012'' on page 251, line 8. 
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 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, 
may be withdrawn by the proponent at any time before action thereon, 
shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand 
for division of the question. The

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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 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. Testimony was heard from Chairman 
Goodlatte, and Representatives Calvert, Graves of Georgia, McCollum, 
Quigley, Wasserman Schultz, Price of North Carolina, Polis, Torres, 
Grothman, Gianforte, Rothfus, Perry, Gaetz, Sanford, Graves of 
Louisiana, Francis Rooney of Florida, Griffith, Cicilline, Garamendi, 
Heck of Washington, Norton, and Welch.

Joint Meetings
  No joint committee meetings were held.