[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 130 (Monday, July 26, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D821-D822]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND 
RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2022
Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on H.R. 4502, the 
``Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022'' [Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water 
Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, 
Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, 
and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2022]. The 
Committee granted, by record vote of 9-4, a structured rule providing 
for consideration of H.R. 4502, the ``Labor, Health and Human Services, 
Education, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water 
Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, 
Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, 
and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2022''. The rule 
provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by 
the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
Appropriations or their designees. 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 117-12, 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proponent and an opponent, may be withdrawn by the proponent at any 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 Appropriations or her designee may offer 
amendments en bloc consisting of further

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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 30 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair 
and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations 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 or amendments en bloc described in section 3 of the resolution. 
The rule provides one motion to recommit. The rule provides that House 
Resolution 188, agreed to March 8, 2021 is amended by striking ``July 
30, 2021'' each place it appears and inserting ``September 22, 2021''. 
The rule provides that at any time through the legislative day of 
Friday, July 30, 2021, the Speaker may entertain motions offered by the 
Majority Leader or a designee that the House suspend the rules with 
respect to multiple measures that were the object of motions to suspend 
the rules on the legislative days of July 26 or 27, 2021, and on which 
the yeas and nays were ordered and further proceedings postponed. The 
Chair shall put the question on any such motion without debate or 
intervening motion, and the ordering of the yeas and nays on postponed 
motions to suspend the rules with respect to such measures is vacated. 
The rule provides that proceedings may be postponed through September 
22, 2021, on measures that were the object of motions to suspend the 
rules on the legislative days of July 26 or 27, 2021, and on which the 
yeas and nays were ordered. Testimony was heard from Chairman DeLauro, 
Chairman Waters, and Representatives Granger, Cole, Bishop of Georgia, 
Fortenberry, Kaptur, Simpson, Quigley, Womack, Pingree, Joyce of Ohio, 
Wasserman Schultz, Carter of Texas, Price of North Carolina, Diaz-
Balart, Casten, Hinson, Burgess, Jackson Lee, Cammack, Carter of 
Georgia, Garamendi, Clyde, Davidson, Estes, Good of Virginia, Graves of 
Louisiana, Grothman, Owens, Stauber, Smith of New Jersey, Valadao, and 
Wilson of South Carolina.

Joint Meetings
  No joint committee meetings were held.