For what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i move to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 2316. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk Union Calendar bill 207, h. R. 2316, a to amend the mineral leasing act and the Energy Policy act of 1992 to repeal provisions relating only to the allegheny. Ational forest the speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Thompson, and the gentleman from virginia, mr. Mceachin, each will control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania. Mr. Thompson well, thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the bill under consideration. The speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. Mr. Thompson i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recogni
Committee vote. This is about two and a half hours. Well, this Fun Committee is going to come to order. As announce in the markup, im sorry, we have a quorum here and were going to have an exciting and fun day. I havent had this much fun since we went over red snapper. Lets just do red snapper and puerto rico all of the time. Ive never seen so much so much frivolity coming in here. As announced in the markup notice ill give priority to those who filed bipartisan and amendments by the amendment deadline of yesterday at 4 00 p. M. Thank you for doing that on time. Please go back and tell your staff, get at mendments in by 4 00. All right. You have received kind of an order i think that was sent out to you of which well take the amendments in here. There are only 32 of them that have been filed. It is going to be a piece of cake. There are going to be some of those im going to make some changes on the fly in the order in which we deal with these. Some amendments will be bipartisan and som
One second here. This is the easy stuff. And allows them to go into other areas. That is why i really to accept this, because it doesnt mandate anything, it is a study. If you want to keep talking on this we can keep talking on this. Anyone else . Any amendments . All those in favor say aye. Opposed say nay. O rollcall. Mr. Bishop. Yes. No. No. No. No. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. No. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. No. No. Clerk report. Mr. Chairman, yeas are 19 and nays are 18. Ok. Motion accepted. Amendment passes. Number 22. Thank you. Im offering an amendment that i believe will address an issue within this whole debate about puerto rico that has long been overlooked, and that is the influence of private Market Competition. Unfortunately, for far too long there has been way too much reliance on the Public Sector within puerto rico. In the energy and Mineral Resources subcommittee hearing, this past january, that w
Adopted. The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 230, the nays are 16, the resolution is adopted. The yeas and nays are ordersed. The clerk will report the title of the resolution. The clerk house calendar number 127, House Resolution 793, resolution providing for consideration of the bill, h. R. 1270, to amend the Internal Revenue code of 19860repeal the amendments made by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act, which disqualified expenses for over the counter d drugs over the counter overthecounter drugs under Health Flexible spending arrangements. The question on ordering the previous question. The speaker pro tempore the question is on ordering the previous question. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This will be a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or