[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12727]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



  AMENDMENT PROCESS FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 2360, CAMPAIGN FINANCE 
REFORM AND CITIZEN PARTICIPATION ACT OF 2001, AND H.R. 2356, BIPARTISAN 
                      CAMPAIGN REFORM ACT OF 2001

  (Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, the Committee on Rules is planning to meet 
this week to grant a rule which may limit the amendment process on 
campaign finance reform legislation. Let me say that I and Members of 
the Committee on Rules and our staff have been working very closely 
with the key authors of this very important legislation, the gentleman 
from Connecticut (Mr. Shays) and the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. 
Meehan). And we have the distinguished chairman of the House Committee 
on House Administration, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ney), here, and 
we have been working with him on that.
  I would like to say that the Committee on House Administration, as we 
all know, reported H.R. 2360, the Campaign Finance Reform Citizen 
Participation Act of 2001, as well as H.R. 2356, the Bipartisan 
Campaign Reform Act of 2001 on June 28; and the reports are expected to 
be filed later this afternoon.
  While we have made no final decision on which version will actually 
end up being the base text for further amendment, I would like to ask 
Members to draft their amendments to both bills, both the Shays-Meehan 
bill and the Ney legislation as they were introduced in the House.
  Members must submit 55 copies of each amendment and one copy of a 
very brief explanation of each amendment to the Committee on Rules in 
room H-313 no later than 8 p.m. today. So they have until this evening, 
Tuesday, June 10.
  Members should use the Office of Legislative Counsel to ensure that 
their amendments are properly drafted and should check with the Office 
of the Parliamentarian to be certain that their amendments comply with 
the Rules of the House.
  Mr. Speaker, I am going to run upstairs to see if there are any 
amendments that have been filed.

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