[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 148 (Monday, September 23, 2024)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D929-D930]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
SANCTIONING TYRANNICAL AND OPPRESSIVE PEOPLE WITHIN THE CHINESE 
COMMUNIST PARTY ACT; KEEPING VIOLENT OFFENDERS OFF OUR STREETS ACT; FIX 
OUR FORESTS ACT; ENSURING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR KEY OFFICIALS IN THE 
BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION RESPONSIBLE FOR DECISIONMAKING AND 
EXECUTION FAILURES THROUGHOUT THE WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN; 
CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS AND EXTENSIONS ACT, 2025
Committee on Rules:  Full Committee held a hearing on H.R. 3334, the 
``Sanctioning Tyrannical and Oppressive People within the Chinese 
Communist Party Act''; H.R. 8205, the ``Keeping Violent Offenders Off 
Our Streets Act''; H.R. 8790, the ``Fix Our Forests Act''; H. Res. 
1469, ensuring accountability for key officials in the Biden-Harris 
administration responsible for decisionmaking and execution failures 
throughout the withdrawal from Afghanistan; and H.R. 9747, the 
``Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025''. The Committee 
granted, by a record vote of 9-4, a rule providing for consideration of 
H.R. 3334, the ``Sanctioning Tyrannical and Oppressive People within 
the Chinese Communist Party Act'', H.R. 8205, the ``Keeping Violent 
Offenders Off Our Streets Act'', H.R. 8790, the ``Fix Our Forests 
Act'', and H. Res. 1469, Ensuring accountability for key officials in 
the Biden-Harris administration responsible for decisionmaking and 
execution failures throughout the withdrawal from Afghanistan. The rule 
provides for consideration of H.R. 3334, the ``Sanctioning Tyrannical 
and Oppressive People within the Chinese Communist Party Act'', 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 Foreign Affairs or their respective designees. The 
rule provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
recommended by the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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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 the 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. All points of 
order against the amendments printed in part B of the Rules Committee 
report are waived. The rule provides one motion to recommit. The rule 
further provides for consideration of H.R. 8205, the ``Keeping Violent 
Offenders Off Our Streets Act'', under a closed rule. The rule waives 
all points of order against consideration of the bill. The rule 
provides that, in lieu of the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill, 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of 
Rules Committee Print 118-51 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 one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by 
the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary 
or their respective designees. The rule provides one motion to 
recommit. The rule further provides for consideration of H.R. 8790, the 
``Fix Our Forests Act'', 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 Natural Resources or 
their respective designees. The rule provides that the amendment in the 
nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Natural 
Resources now printed in the bill, 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 further makes in order only the amendments printed in part D 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. All points of order against the amendments printed in part D 
of the report are waived. The rule provides one motion to recommit. The 
rule further provides for consideration of H. Res. 1469, Ensuring 
accountability for key officials in the Biden-Harris administration 
responsible for decisionmaking and execution failures throughout the 
withdrawal from Afghanistan, under a closed rule. The rule provides 
that upon adoption of the resolution it shall be in order without 
intervention of any point of order to consider H. Res. 1469. The rule 
provides that the resolution shall be considered as read. The rule 
provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by 
the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs or their respective designees. Finally, the rule provides that 
Section 3(j) of House Resolution 5 is amended by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph: ``(3) DEFINITION.--For purposes of this 
subsection, `non-governmental capacity' shall mean any capacity except 
representing the executive branch of the United States government''. 
Testimony was heard from Chairman Westerman, Chairman McCaul, Chairman 
Cole, and Representatives Crow, Self, Amo, Fitzgerald, Nadler, and 
DeLauro.

Joint Meetings
  No joint committee meetings were held.