[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 96 (Tuesday, July 13, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D754-D756]
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                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Measures Introduced: 10 public bills, H.R. 4819-4828; and 2 
resolutions, H. Res. 713-714 were introduced.
  Pages H5653-54
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages H5654-55
Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows:
  H.R. 4418, to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2005 and 2006 
for the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection and the Bureau of 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the Department of Homeland 
Security, for the Office of the United States Trade Representative, for 
the United States International Trade Commission, amended (H. Rept. 
108-598, Pt. 1);
  H.R. 4818, making appropriations for foreign operations, export 
financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2005 (H. Rept. 108-599);
  H.R. 3632, to prevent and punish counterfeiting of copyrighted copies 
and phonorecords, amended (H. Rept. 108-600);
  S. 2363, to revise and extend the Boys and Girls Clubs of America (H. 
Rept. 108-601); and
  H. Res. 712, providing for consideration of H.R. 4759, to implement 
the United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement (H. Rept. 108-602). 
                                                             Page H5653
Speaker Pro Tempore: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he 
appointed Representative Bradley to act as Speaker Pro Tempore for 
today.
  Page H5539
Recess: The House recessed at 9:33 a.m. and reconvened at 10 a.m. 
                                                             Page H5542
Chaplain: The prayer was offered today by Rev. Dr. Joseph W. Collins, 
Pastor, Mount Carmel United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem, North 
Carolina.
  Page H5543
Discharge Petition: Representative Frost moved to discharge the 
Committee on Rules from the consideration of H. Res. 696, providing for 
consideration of H.R. 3767, to amend title XVIII of the Social Security 
Act to deliver a meaningful benefit and lower prescription drug prices 
under the Medicare Program (Discharge Petition no. 9).
  Pages H5541-42
Department of Defense Appropriations Act for FY 2005--Motion to go to 
Conference: The House disagreed to the Senate amendments to H.R. 4613, 
making appropriations for the Department of

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Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and agreed to a 
conference.
  Pages H5546-52
  Agreed to the Jackson (IL) motion to instruct conferees on the bill 
by a voice vote.
Page H5552
  Appointed as conferees: Representatives Lewis (CA), Young (FL), 
Hobson, Bonilla, Nethercutt, Cunningham, Frelinghuysen, Tiahrt, Wicker, 
Murtha, Dicks, Sabo, Visclosky, Moran (VA), and Obey.
Page H5552
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act for FY 2005: The House passed H.R. 
4766, making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food 
and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2005, by a yea and nay vote of 389 yeas to 31 
nays, Roll No. 370. The bill was also debated on Monday, July 12. 
                                             Pages H5552-81, H5581-5615
  Agreed to limit the number of and time limit for debate on further 
amendments to the bill.
Page H5573
Agreed to:
  Hyde amendment (printed in H. Rept 108-591, modified by unanimous 
consent) that changes the title of the ``John Ogonowski Farmer-to-
Farmer Program'' to the ``Doug Bereuter and John Ogonowski Farmer-to-
Farmer Program'';
Pages H5552-54
  Bonilla amendment that increases funding for the Farm Service Agency, 
the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Rural Development; 
                                                         Pages H5554-59
  Kaptur amendment (no. 3 printed in the Congressional Record of July 
9) that increases the funding for direct and guaranteed renewable 
energy loans and grants;
Pages H5560-62
  Blumenauer amendment (no. 13 printed in the Congressional Record of 
July 12) that reduces funding for the Office of the Inspector General, 
and increases it by the same amount, resulting in no change in funding; 
(agreed to limit time for debate on the amendment);
Pages H5567-73
  Hooley en bloc amendment that increases funding for the Animal and 
Plant Health Inspection Service (by a recorded vote of 260 ayes to 160 
noes, Roll No. 363);
Pages H5562-64, H5579-80
  Weiner amendment that increases funding for the Animal and Plant 
Health Inspection Services (by a recorded vote of 223 ayes to 197 noes, 
Roll No. 364);
Pages H5564-67, H5580
  Lucas amendment (no. 5 printed in the Congressional Record of July 9) 
that prohibits the use of funds for any of the Environmental Quality 
Incentives, Wildlife Habitat Incentive, Grassland Reserve or Farmland 
Protection programs from being used for technical assistance under the 
Conservation Reserve or Wetland Reserve programs;
Pages H5583-85
  Sanders amendment that increases funding for the Rural Community 
Advancement Program;
Page H5589
  Flake amendment that prohibits the use of funds to pay the salaries 
and expenses of employees of the Department of Agriculture who make 
payments from any appropriated funds to tobacco quota holders or 
producers of quota tobacco pursuant to any law enacted after July 1, 
2004;
Pages H5589-95
  Kaptur amendment (no. 10 printed in the Congressional Record of July 
12) that prohibits the use of funds to provide credits or credit 
guarantees for agricultural commodities provided for use in Iraq in 
violation of provisions of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978; 
                                                         Pages H5595-98
  Hinchey amendment that increases funding for the Center for Drug 
Evaluation and Research;
Pages H5598-99
  Kaptur amendment that prohibits the use of funds to pay the federal 
share of the administrative costs of any state's operation of the food 
stamp program that are performed outside the U.S.;
Page H5599
  Maloney amendment (no. 11 printed in the Congressional Record of July 
12) that prohibits the Food and Drug Administration from using funds in 
the bill to restrict the prescription use of any contraceptive that is 
determined to be safe and effective; and
Pages H5602-06
  Obey amendment that reinstates section 717 of the bill regarding the 
acquisition of new information technology systems by the Department of 
Agriculture.
Page H5606
Rejected:
  Baca amendment that sought to increase funding for the Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (by a recorded vote of 205 ayes to 
209 noes, Roll No. 366);
Page H5608
  Tancredo amendment that sought to prohibit the use of funds for the 
Food Stamp Program in contravention of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (by a recorded vote of 156 ayes to 262 noes, Roll No. 367); 
                                               Pages H5585-87, H5608-09
  Chabot amendment (no. 7 printed in the Congressional Record of July 
12) that sought to prohibit the use of funds from being used to carry 
out activities in the Market Access Program (by a recorded vote of 72 
ayes to 347 noes, Roll No. 368); and
Pages H5587-89, H5609-10
  Kaptur amendment that sought to increase funding for the Farmers 
Market Promotion Program (by a recorded vote of 206 ayes to 213 noes, 
Roll No. 369).
Pages H5600-02, H5610
Withdrawn:
  Brown of Ohio amendment, that was offered and subsequently withdrawn 
that sought to prohibit the use of funds for school lunch or breakfast 
programs

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to purchase chickens or chicken products from companies that do not 
have a stated policy that such companies do not use fluoroquinolone in 
their chickens.
Pages H5582-83
  Point of Order sustained against:
  Baca amendment (no. 9 printed in the Congressional Record of July 12) 
that would have increased funding for the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary of Civil Rights, for activities under the Cooperative State 
Research, Education, and Extension Service;
Pages H5559-60
  Weiner amendment that would have increased funding for the Animal and 
Plant Health Inspection Service;
Page H5567
  Section 717 regarding the acquisition of new information technology 
systems by the Department of Agriculture;
Pages H5578-79
  Section 751 regarding unobligated balances in the Local Television 
Loan Guarantee Program;
Page H5579
  Lucas amendment (no. 4 printed in the Congressional Record of July 9) 
that would have added language to the bill's provisions that changes 
the Food Security Act of 1985 to prohibit the use of funds provided for 
Commodity Credit Corporation, starting in FY05 and for each fiscal year 
thereafter, for technical assistance for the Farmland Protection, 
Grassland Reserve, Environmental Quality Incentives, and Wildlife 
Habitat Incentives programs; and
Page H5582
  Tiahrt amendment (no. 12 printed in the Congressional Record of July 
12) that would have prohibited the use of funds for official travel of 
Agriculture Department employees in Washington DC, until the 
Agriculture Secretary implements a voluntary program for beef 
slaughtering establishments to test for bovine spongiform 
encephalopathy.
Page H5602
  H. Res. 710, the rule providing for consideration of the bill was 
agreed to on Monday, July 12.
Department of Defense Appropriations Act for FY05--Conference 
Committee: Agreed to close portions of the conference to the public 
when classified information is discussed, by a yea and nay vote of 411 
yeas to 6 nays, Roll No. 365.
  Page H5581
Project BioShield Act of 2003--Order of Business: Agreed that it be in 
order at any time without intervention of any point of order to 
consider S. 15, to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide 
protections and countermeasures against chemical, radiological, or 
nuclear agents that may be used in a terrorist attack against the 
United States by giving the National Institutes of Health contracting 
flexibility, infrastructure improvements, and expediting the scientific 
peer review process, and streamlining the Food and Drug Administration 
approval process of countermeasures; that the bill be considered as 
read for amendment; and that the previous question be considered as 
ordered on the bill to final passage without intervening motion except 
(1) 90 minutes of debate equally divided and controlled, and (2) one 
motion to recommit.
  Page H5581
Amendments: Amendments ordered printed pursuant to the rule appear on 
pages H5655-56.
Quorum Calls--Votes: Two yea and nay votes and six recorded votes 
developed during the proceedings of today and appear on pages H5579-80, 
H5580, H5581, H5608, H5608-09, H5609-10, H5610, H5614-15. There were no 
quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 9 a.m. and adjourned at 11:33 p.m.