On the recordMarch 21, 2012
By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 591 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 591 Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5) to improve patient access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system. The first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. General debate shall be confined to the bill and amendments specified in this resolution and shall not exceed six hours equally divided among and controlled by the respective chairs and ranking minority members of the Committees on Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Ways and Means. After general debate the bill shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. In lieu of the amendments recommended by the Committees on Energy and Commerce and the Judiciary now printed in the bill, an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 112 18 shall be considered as adopted in the House and in the Committee of the Whole.…
