[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 195 (Tuesday, November 17, 2020)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D994]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
OCEAN CLIMATE ACTION: SOLUTIONS TO THE CLIMATE CRISIS
Committee on Natural Resources: Full Committee held a hearing entitled 
``Ocean Climate Action: Solutions to the Climate Crisis''. Testimony 
was heard from public witnesses.
NATIONAL APPRENTICESHIP ACT OF 2020
Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on H.R. 8294, the 
``National Apprenticeship Act of 2020''. The Committee granted, by 
record vote of 8-3, a structured rule providing for consideration of 
H.R. 8294, the ``National Apprenticeship Act of 2020''. The rule 
provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by 
the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Education and 
Labor. 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 Education and Labor now 
printed in the bill, modified by the amendment printed in part A 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 
that following debate, each further amendment printed in part B of the 
Rules Committee report not earlier considered as part of amendments en 
bloc pursuant to section 3 shall be considered 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proponent and an opponent, may be withdrawn by the proponent at any 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 the question is put thereon, shall not be subject to 
amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the 
question. Section 3 of the rule provides that at any time after debate 
the chair of the Committee on Education and Labor or his designee may 
offer amendments en bloc consisting of further amendments printed in 
part B of the Rules Committee report not earlier disposed of. 
Amendments en bloc shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for 
20 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on Education and Labor or their 
designees, 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 B of the Rules Committee 
report and amendments en bloc described in section 3. The rule provides 
one motion to recommit with or without instructions. The rule amends 
House Resolution 967, as amended by House Resolution 1107: first, in 
section 4, by striking ``November 20, 2020'' and inserting ``the 
remainder of the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress''; and second, in 
sections 11 and 12, by striking ``legislative day of November 20, 
2020'' and inserting ``remainder of the One Hundred Sixteenth 
Congress''. Testimony was heard from Representatives Davis of 
California, Foxx, and Titus.

Joint Meetings
  No joint committee meetings were held.