[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9366]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2016

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania). Pursuant to 
House Resolution 303 and rule XVIII, the Chair declares the House in 
the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for the 
further consideration of the bill, H.R. 2685.
  Will the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Curbelo) kindly take the chair.

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                     In the Committee of the Whole

  Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of 
the bill (H.R. 2685) making appropriations for the Department of 
Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other 
purposes, with Mr. Curbelo of Florida (Acting Chair) in the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The Acting CHAIR. When the Committee of the Whole rose earlier today, 
an amendment offered by the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Forbes) had 
been disposed of, and the bill had been read through page 162, line 25.
  The Clerk will read the last two lines of the bill.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       This Act may be cited as the ``Department of Defense 
     Appropriations Act, 2016''.

  Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Chair, I move that the Committee do now rise.
  The motion was agreed to.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
Thompson of Pennsylvania) having assumed the chair, Mr. Curbelo of 
Florida, Acting Chair of the Committee of the Whole House on the state 
of the Union, reported that that Committee, having had under 
consideration the bill (H.R. 2685) making appropriations for the 
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, 
and for other purposes, had come to no resolution thereon.

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