Joe Wilson was mentioned in House Committee Meetings….. on pages D91-D93 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th Congress published on Feb. 1 in the Congressional Record.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
ENDING FORCED ARBITRATION OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT ACT OF 2021; GLOBAL RESPECT ACT; BIOECONOMY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 2021
Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on H.R. 4445, the
“Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021”; H.R. 3485, the “Global Respect Act”; and H.R. 4521, the
“Bioeconomy Research and Development Act of 2021” [America COMPETES Act of 2022]. The Committee granted, by record vote of 8-4, a rule providing for consideration of H.R. 3485, the “Global Respect Act”, H.R. 4445, the “Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021”, and H.R. 4521, the “America COMPETES Act of 2022”. The rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3485, the “Global Respect Act”, under a structured rule. The rule provides one hour of general debate on the bill equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs or their respective designees. 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 117-30 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 that following debate, each further amendment printed in part A of the Rules Committee report not earlier considered as part of amendments en bloc pursuant to section 3 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debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, may be withdrawn by the proponent at any time before the question is put thereon, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question. Section 3 of the rule provides that at any time after debate the chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs or his designee may offer amendments en bloc consisting of further amendments printed in part A of the Rules Committee report not earlier disposed of. Amendments en bloc shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs or their designees, 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 A of the report and amendments en bloc described in section 3 of the resolution. The rule provides one motion to recommit. The rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4445, the “Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021”, under a structured rule. The rule provides one hour of general debate on the bill equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary or their designees. 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 117-29 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 the further amendment printed in Part B of the report, if offered by the member designated in the report, which 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, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question. The rule waives all points of order against the amendment printed in part B of the report. The rule provides one motion to recommit. The rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4521, the “America COMPETES Act of 2022”, under a structured rule. The rule provides two hours of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology or their designees. 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 117-31, 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 provides that following debate, each further amendment printed in part D of the Rules Committee report not earlier considered as part of amendments en bloc pursuant to section 8 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, may be withdrawn by the proponent at any time before the question is put thereon, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question. Section 8 of the rule provides that at any time after debate the chair of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology or her designee may offer amendments en bloc consisting of further amendments printed in part D of the Rules Committee report not earlier disposed of. Amendments en bloc shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology or their designees, 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 D of the report and amendments en bloc described in section 8 of the resolution. The rule provides one motion to recommit. The rule provides that House Resolution 188 is amended by striking “February 4, 2022” and inserting “April 1, 2022”. The rule provides that proceedings may be postponed through March 3, 2022, on measures that were the object of motions to suspend the rules on the legislative day of February 1, 2022, and on which the yeas and nays were ordered.
Testimony was heard from Chairman Meeks, Chairman Johnson of Texas, Chairman Pallone, and Representatives Cicilline, Fischbach, Tenney, Weber of Texas, Blumenauer, Smith of Nebraska, Chabot, Case, Westerman, Rodgers of Washington, Buck, Foster, Calvert, Green of Texas, Carter of Georgia, Johnson of Georgia, Gonzalez-Colon, Morelle, Hill, Moore of Utah, Stauber, and Wilson of South Carolina.
Joint Meetings
No joint committee meetings were held.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 20
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