On the recordJanuary 23, 2019
I am, in its current form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Ms. Granger moves to recommit the bill H.R. 648 to the Committee on Appropriations with instructions to report the same back to the House forthwith with the following amendment: Strike section 1 and all that follows and insert the following: ``There are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary for the pay of any employee furloughed or excepted during the lapse in appropriations beginning on December 22, 2018, as authorized by subsection (c) of section 1341 of title 31, United States Code (as added by the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019).''. Ms. GRANGER (during the reading). Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to dispense with the reading. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman from Texas? There was no objection. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from Texas is recognized for 5 minutes in support of her motion.
