Foreign Service Modernization Act

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5913-5922)

Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.

DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 9086.

Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5913-5924)

Mr. Lawler moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Introduced in House