At the desk. The chair the clerk will report the amendment. The clerk amendment number 98, printed in house report 114683, offered by mr. Beyer of virginia. The chair the chair would ask all members to please take their onversations from the floor. Pursuant to House Resolution 820, the gentleman from virginia, mr. Beyer, and a member opposed will each control five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia. Mr. Beyer thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, this amendment simply strips the dirty water riders in this bill. These four poison pill riders do not need to be in the bill. Each in its own right is a good example of a bad rider and together they represent an assault on clean water, an attempt to forcibly supplant Agency Expertise with ideology. The first dirty water rider, section 120, undermines the interior departments stream protection rule which updates regulations which would allow Coal Mining Companies to pollute and often extinguish altogether our mountain s
The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 426, the nays are zero. 2 3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The chair will receive a message. The messenger the messenger mr. Speaker. He secretary mr. Sec the speaker pro tempore mr. Secretary. The secretary im instructed by the president to deliver a message in writing. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to clause 4 of rule 18, the chair declare the declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for further consideration of h. R. 4745. Will the gentleman from texas, mr. Marchant, please take the chair. The chair the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for further consideration of h. R. 4745 which the clerk will report by title. The clerk a bill making appropriationers in departments of transportation and housing and urban development and related agencies for the f