[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 20 (Tuesday, February 1, 2022)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D91-D93]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
ENDING FORCED ARBITRATION OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT ACT 
OF 2021; GLOBAL RESPECT ACT; BIOECONOMY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 
2021
Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on H.R. 4445, the 
``Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act 
of 2021''; H.R. 3485, the ``Global Respect Act''; and H.R. 4521, the 
``Bioeconomy Research and Development Act of 2021'' [America COMPETES 
Act of 2022]. The Committee granted, by record vote of 8-4, a rule 
providing for consideration of H.R. 3485, the ``Global Respect Act'', 
H.R. 4445, the ``Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual 
Harassment Act of 2021'', and H.R. 4521, the ``America COMPETES Act of 
2022''. The rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3485, the ``Global 
Respect Act'', under a structured rule. The rule provides one hour of 
general debate on the bill equally divided and controlled by the chair 
and ranking minority member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs or 
their respective 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 
117-30 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 A 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

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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opponent, may be withdrawn by the proponent at any time before the 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 Foreign Affairs or his designee may offer amendments en 
bloc consisting of further amendments printed in part A 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 Foreign Affairs 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 A of the report and amendments en bloc described in 
section 3 of the resolution. The rule provides one motion to recommit. 
The rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4445, the ``Ending Forced 
Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021'', 
under a structured rule. The rule provides one hour of general debate 
on the bill equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary 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 117-29 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 makes in order the further amendment printed 
in Part B of the report, if offered by the member designated in the 
report, which 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, and shall not be subject to a demand for 
division of the question. The rule waives all points of order against 
the amendment printed in part B of the report. The rule provides one 
motion to recommit. The rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4521, 
the ``America COMPETES Act of 2022'', under a structured rule. The rule 
provides two hours of general debate equally divided and controlled by 
the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Science, 
Space, and Technology 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 117-31, modified by the amendment printed in part C 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 
D of the Rules Committee report not earlier considered as part of 
amendments en bloc pursuant to section 8 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 8 of the rule provides that at any time after 
debate the chair of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology or 
her designee may offer amendments en bloc consisting of further 
amendments printed in part D 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 Science, Space and 
Technology 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 D of 
the report and amendments en bloc described in section 8 of the 
resolution. The rule provides one motion to recommit. The rule provides 
that House Resolution 188 is amended by striking ``February 4, 2022'' 
and inserting ``April 1, 2022''. The rule provides that proceedings may 
be postponed through March 3, 2022, on measures that were the object of 
motions to suspend the rules on the legislative day of February 1, 
2022, and on which the yeas and nays were ordered.
  Testimony was heard from Chairman Meeks, Chairman Johnson of Texas, 
Chairman Pallone, and Representatives Cicilline, Fischbach, Tenney, 
Weber of Texas, Blumenauer, Smith of Nebraska, Chabot, Case, Westerman, 
Rodgers of Washington, Buck, Foster, Calvert, Green of Texas, Carter of 
Georgia, Johnson of Georgia, Gonzalez-Colon, Morelle, Hill, Moore of 
Utah, Stauber, and Wilson of South Carolina.

Joint Meetings
  No joint committee meetings were held.

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