[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 52 (Wednesday, March 22, 2023)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D253]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
THE ORTEGA-MURILLO REGIME'S WAR AGAINST THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND CIVIL 
SOCIETY IN NICARAGUA: BISHOP ALVAREZ, POLITICAL PRISONERS, AND 
PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE
Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Global Health, Global 
Human Rights, and International Organizations; and Subcommittee on the 
Western Hemisphere held a joint hearing entitled ``The Ortega-Murillo 
Regime's War Against the Catholic Church and Civil Society in 
Nicaragua: Bishop Alvarez, Political Prisoners, and Prisoners of 
Conscience''. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.
PARENTS BILL OF RIGHTS ACT
Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on H.R. 5, the 
``Parents Bill of Rights Act''. The Committee granted, by record vote 
of 9-3, a rule providing for consideration of H.R. 5, the Parents Bill 
of Rights Act under a structured rule. 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 118-2 shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as 
amended, shall be considered as read. The rule waives all points of 
order against the amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 5 
made in order as original text. The rule further makes in order only 
those 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, 
shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand 
for division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the 
Whole. All points of order against the amendments are waived. The rule 
provides one motion to recommit. Testimony was heard from Chairman 
Foxx, and Representatives Scott of Virginia, McCormick, Self, Frost, 
and Landsman.

Joint Meetings
  No joint committee meetings were held.