This means that any member can contribute to the debate, and not just members of the public bill committee.
In the Commons, a public bill committee is usually set up to examine the bill, with the power to make amendments provided they are relevant to the bill's subject matter.
It's also worth keeping an eye on the Public Bill Committee dealing with the detailed scrutiny of the Children and Families Bill Committee (at 8.55am and 2pm and also on Thursday).
As Andrew Lansley sends sections of his Health and Social Care Bill back to a Commons public bill committee, to be re-written according to the dictates of the NHS Future Forum, can this be considered a triumph for Parliament, as opposed to the Government?
She has emerged as a trenchant critic of the Government's Health and Social Care Bill, asked, rather innocently, asked if she could be put on the Public Bill Committee considering it, because she had a couple of amendments in mind, and complained when she was kept off.
The Public Bill Committee will convene under the chairmanship of the Conservative Gary Streeter, and includes some of the prominent combatants from last Tuesday's second reading debate, David Burrows the Conservative backbencher who organised the vote against on the Tory benches, and former minister turned awkward squaddie Tim Loughton will be ranged against prominent supporters of the bill, like Labour's Chris Bryant.
The Business Committee will be continuing its scrutiny of the Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill and the Public Administration Committee continues its investigation into the meaning of David Cameron's "Big Society".
The HELP Committee's bill includes a public option, while the Finance Committee's does not.
The Health Committee included a form of the public option in its bill, while the Finance Committee did not.
After question time, peers polish off the third reading of the Lib Dem Lady Thomas of Winchester's Disabled Persons' Parking Badges Bill, and then they move onto the second committee stage day on the Public Service Pensions Bill - a huge change to the pensions system in the public sector, which has so far not provoked major clashes in the Chamber.
Ms Spelman said the public consultation would be scrapped and the relevant forestry clauses in the Public Bodies Bill, which is currently in committee stage in the Lords, removed.
She voted against including a public option in the Finance Committee's bill.
"It didn't work the way we thought, " says Bill Davis, Republican chairman of the public-policy committee in the Indiana House of Representatives.
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The Senate finance committee bill is not expected to include a "public option", but would instead set up non-profit medical co-operatives to compete with private insurers.
Olympia Snowe -- the lone Republican to vote for the Finance Committee bill -- has expressed strong opposition to a public option.
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Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, chairman of the Committee of Public Health and Safety, which is looking into the ethics of cloning.
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Barbara Boxer, D-California, chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, indicated in recent media reports that she would likely introduce the bill in late September.
Max Baucus, the Democrat who chairs the Finance Committee, also voted against putting a public option in his panel's bill.
The other bill, from the Senate Finance Committee, includes nonprofit cooperatives instead of a public option and is the proposal supported by Snowe.
Membership of most Public Bill Committees and ad hoc committees of this kind is normally decided by an outfit called the Committee of Selection, which is essentially a clearing house for lists drawn up by the various whips offices.
Mr McIntosh's amendments to the bill, which still has to be passed by parliament, were backed by public health minister Shona Robison in the committee.
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