Yes it does. You can (and should) do this by a single regex. Like this:

if ($html =~ /Rapporteur: (\S+ \S+)/) {
   $reporters_name = $1;
}
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The regexp searches for "Rapporteur:" followed by a single space, then some non-space characters, a single space and again some nonspace chars. And it captures those two groups of nonspace characters.