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“On agreeing to the Rules amendment (A001) Agreed to without objection.”
This amendment replaces the original version of the bill with a revised version written by the House Committee on Natural Resources. It is a common procedural step to ensure the House is voting on the most up-to-date and thoroughly reviewed version of a proposal.
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“On agreeing to the Rules amendment (A001) Agreed to without objection.”
This amendment replaces the original version of the bill with a revised version written by the House Committee on Natural Resources. It is a common procedural step to ensure the House is voting on the most up-to-date and thoroughly reviewed version of a proposal.
In the legislative process, committees often 'clean up' or modify bills after they are first introduced. This amendment ensures those committee-level improvements are actually included in the bill that the full House of Representatives considers.
This is a procedural change affecting how the bill is drafted; it does not change who is affected by the underlying proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico.