Providing 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.

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

On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to by recorded vote: 233 - 182, 1 Present (Roll no. 119). (text: CR H1443-1444)

Passed/agreed to in House: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to by recorded vote: 233 - 182, 1 Present (Roll no. 119).(text: CR H1443-1444)

On ordering the previous question Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 231 - 179, 1 Present (Roll no. 118). (consideration: CR H1449-1450, H1450-1451; text: CR H1449-1450)

Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H1450-1452)

POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on H. Res. 591, the Chair put the question on ordering the previoius question and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Hastings (FL) demanded the yeas and nays, and the Chair postponed further proceedings on ordering the previous question until later in the legislative day.

DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H. Res. 591.

Considered as privileged matter. (consideration: CR H1443-1450)

Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 119.

The resolution provides that an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 112-18 shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as original text for the purpose of amendment. The resolution waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended.

The House Committee on Rules reported an original measure, H. Rept. 112-416, by Mr. Nugent.

Introduced in House