[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 20 (Monday, February 5, 2024)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D111]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
PROTECTING HEALTH CARE FOR ALL PATIENTS ACT OF 2023; IMPEACHING 
ALEJANDRO NICHOLAS MAYORKAS, SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY, FOR HIGH 
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS
Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on H.R. 485, the 
``Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act of 2023''; and H. Res. 
863, impeaching Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland 
Security, for high crimes and misdemeanors. The Committee granted, by a 
record vote of 8-4, a rule providing for consideration of H. Res. 863, 
Impeaching Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, 
for high crimes and misdemeanors, and H.R. 485, the ``Protecting Health 
Care for All Patients Act of 2023''. The rule provides for 
consideration of H. Res. 863, Impeaching Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, 
Secretary of Homeland Security, for high crimes and misdemeanors, under 
a closed rule. The rule provides that upon adoption of this resolution, 
it shall be in order without intervention of any point of order, to 
consider H. Res. 863. The rule provides that the amendment in the 
nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Homeland 
Security now printed in the resolution shall be considered as adopted. 
The rule provides two hours of general debate equally divided and 
controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
Homeland Security or their respective designees. The rule provides that 
upon adoption of H. Res. 863, H. Res. 995 is hereby adopted; and 
further, that no other resolution incidental to impeachment relating to 
H. Res. 863 shall be privileged during the remainder of the 118th 
Congress. The rule further provides for consideration of H.R. 485, the 
``Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act of 2023'', under a 
structured rule. The rule waives all points of order against 
consideration of the bill. The rule provides one hour of general debate 
equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member 
of the Committee on Energy and Commerce or their respective designees. 
The rule provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
recommended by the Committee on Energy and Commerce 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 makes in 
order only those amendments printed in part B of the Rules Committee 
report. Each amendment 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, 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. Finally, the rule provides for one motion to recommit. 
Testimony was heard from Chairman Rodgers of Washington, Chairman Green 
of Tennessee, and Representatives Thompson of Mississippi, Pallone, and 
Goldman of New York.

Joint Meetings
  No joint committee meetings were held.