[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 175 (Monday, November 14, 2022)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1103]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
SPEAK OUT ACT; REPORT ON ENDING HUNGER IN AMERICA
Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on S. 4524, the 
``Speak Out Act''; and a draft report on Ending Hunger in America: 
Challenges, Opportunities and the Political Will to Succeed. The 
Committee granted, by record vote of 7-3, a closed rule providing for 
consideration of S. 4524, the ``Speak Out Act''. The rule provides one 
hour of debate 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 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 commit. The rule provides that at any time 
through the legislative day of November 18, 2022, 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 day of 
November 14, 15, 16, 17, or 18, 2022, 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 November 18, 2022, on measures 
that were the object of motions to suspend the rules on the legislative 
days of November 14 or November 15, 2022, and on which the yeas and 
nays were ordered. Section 4 of the rule provides that on any 
legislative day during the period from November 21, 2022, through 
November 28, 2022, the Journal of the proceedings of the previous day 
shall be considered as approved. The rule provides that for the 
duration of the period addressed by Section 4: the Speaker may appoint 
Members to perform the duties of the Chair; and that each day shall not 
constitute a calendar day for the purposes of section 7 of the War 
Powers Resolution, a legislative day for purposes of clause 7 of rule 
XIII, or a calendar or legislative day for purposes of clause 7(c)(1) 
of rule XXII. The rule provides that House Resolution 1463 is hereby 
adopted. Testimony was heard from Representatives Cicilline and Massie.

Joint Meetings
RUSSIA'S GENOCIDAL INTENT IN UKRAINE
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Commission received a 
briefing on Russia's genocidal intent and actions in Ukraine, the 
evidence, and the case for a congressional declaration from Timothy 
Snyder, Yale University; Maria Kurinna, Ukrainian human rights 
activist; Eugene Finkel, Johns Hopkins University; and Erin Rosenberg, 
Mukwege Foundation and Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights.