[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 62 (Thursday, May 18, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D511-D513]
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                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 10 public bills, H.R. 5416-
5425; and 3 resolutions, H. Res. 820-822 were introduced. 
                                                         Pages H2832-33
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages H2833-34, H2890-91
Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows:
  Report on the Suballocation of Budget Allocations for Fiscal Year 
2007 (H. Rept. 109-471); and
  H. Res. 821, providing for consideration H.R. 5385, making 
appropriations for the military quality of life functions of the 
Department of Defense, military construction, the Department of 
Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2007 (H. Rept. 109-472).
Pages H2832, H2889
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he appointed 
Representative Bonner to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. 
                                                             Page H2761
Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the guest Chaplain, Chaplain Blan 
Maurice Stout, Jr., Office of the Army Chief of Chaplains, Arlington, 
Virginia.
  Page H2761
Suspensions--Proceedings Resumed: The House agreed to suspend the rules 
and pass the following measure which was debated on Tuesday, May 16th:
  Condemning in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks in Dahab and 
Northern Sinai, Egypt, on April 24 and 26, 2006: H. Res. 795, to 
condemn in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks in Dahab and 
Northern Sinai, Egypt, on April 24 and 26, 2006, by a yea-and-nay vote 
of 409 yeas with none voting ``nay'', Roll No. 162.
  Pages H2773-74
Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2007: The House passed H.R. 5386, to make 
appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and 
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September

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30, 2007, by a yea-and-nay vote of 293 yeas to 128 nays, Roll No. 172. 
                                  Pages H2765-73, H2774-H2831, H2835-73
  Agreed to limit the number of amendments made in order for debate and 
the time limit for debate on each amendment.
Page H2817
Agreed to:
  Slaughter amendment that increases funding (by transfer) for the 
National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the 
Humanities by $5 million each;
Pages H2792-96
  Maloney amendment (No. 11 printed in the Congressional Record of May 
17th) to increase funding (by transfer) for royalty and offshore 
minerals management in order to facilitate audits;
Pages H2805-08
  Cannon amendment (No. 10 printed in the Congressional Record of May 
17th) adds $16 million to Payment-in-Lieu-of-Taxes (PILT) by 
redirecting funds from Interior Department overhead (agreed to extend 
and limit the time for debate on the amendment);
Pages H2808-09
  Sanders amendment that redirects $1.8 million in funding to the EPA's 
Energy Star Programs;
Pages H2809-11
  Taylor of North Carolina amendment increases environmental programs 
and infrastructure assistance, including capitalization grants for 
State revolving funds and performance partnership grants by $2 million;
                                                         Pages H2815-16
  Rahall amendment (No. 6 printed in the Congressional Record of May 
17th) prohibits any funds made available by this Act to be used for the 
sale or slaughter of wild free-roaming horses or burros; 
                                                         Pages H2837-39
  Gordon amendment to prohibit any of the funds made available by this 
Act from being used in contravention of the Federal buildings 
performance and reporting requirements of Executive Order 13123, part 3 
of title V of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 
8251 et seq.), or subtitle A of title I of the Energy Policy Act of 
2005 (including the amendments made thereby);
Pages H2817, H2839
  Weiner amendment to increase funding (by transfer) by $1 million for 
the National Park Service in order to address the continued closure of 
the Statue of Liberty (by a recorded vote of 266 ayes to 152 noes, Roll 
No. 163);
Pages H2798, H2802, H2843
  Pallone amendment to insert provisions prohibiting use of funds for 
enforcement of EPA's Toxics Release Inventory Burden Reduction Proposed 
Rule published in the Federal Register, or to follow the Toxics Release 
Inventory 2006 Burden Reduction Proposed Rule also published in the 
Federal Register (by a recorded vote of 231 ayes to 187 noes, Roll No. 
165);
Pages H2816-17, H2844-45
  Hinchey amendment to limit funds for suspension of royalty relief (by 
a recorded vote of 252 ayes to 165 noes, Roll No. 167); 
                                           Pages H2817, H2830, H2845-46
  Chabot amendment that prohibits the Forest Service from spending 
taxpayer dollars to build logging roads for private interests in the 
Tongass National Forest;
Pages H2817 H2839-42
  Garrett amendment to prohibit any of the funds made available in the 
Act from being used to send or otherwise pay for the attendance of more 
than 50 employees from a Federal department or agency at any single 
conference occurring outside the United States;
Pages H2817, H2848-49
  Miller of California amendment to prohibit any funds made available 
in the Act from being obligated or expended to conduct the San Gabriel 
Watershed and Mountains Special Resource Study;
Pages H2817, H2849-50
  Jackson-Lee of Texas amendment to prohibit any funds made available 
in the Act from being used to eliminate or restrict programs that are 
for the reforestation of urban areas;
Pages H2817, H2866
  Jackson-Lee of Texas amendment to prohibit any funds made available 
in the Act from being used to limit outreach programs administered by 
the Smithsonian Institution;
Pages H2817, H2866-68
  Oberstar amendment to prohibit funds in the Act from being used by 
the administrator of the EPA to implement or enforce the Joint 
Memorandum published in the Federal Register on January 15, 2003 (68 
Fed. Reg. 1995) (by a recorded vote of 222 ayes to 198 noes, Roll No. 
169); and
Pages H2817, H2850-55, H2870-71
  Putnam amendment prohibits use of funds in the Act to conduct 
activities in violation of the moratorium on drilling in the Outer 
Continental Shelf (by a recorded vote of 217 ayes to 203 noes, Roll No. 
170).
Pages H2817, H2871
Rejected:
  Obey amendment that sought to address global climate change by 
modifying the amount provided for EPA Programs and Management; 
                                                             Page H2817
  Poe en bloc amendments that sought to strike sections 104, 105, and 
106 from the bill. Sections 104, 105, and 106 provide that no funds 
provided in this title may be expended by the Department of the 
Interior for the conduct of offshore oil preleasing, leasing and 
related activities placed under restriction in the President's 
moratorium statement of June 12, 1998, in the areas of northern, 
central, and southern California; the North Atlantic; Washington and 
Oregon; and the eastern Gulf of Mexico south of 26 degrees north 
latitude and east of 86 degrees west longitude; no funds provided in 
this title may be expended by the Department of the Interior to conduct 
offshore oil preleasing, leasing and related activities

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in the eastern Gulf of Mexico planning area for any lands located 
outside Sale 181, as identified in the final Outer Continental Shelf 5-
Year Oil and Gas Leasing Program, 1997-2002; and, no funds provided in 
this title may be expended by the Department of the Interior to conduct 
oil preleasing, leasing and related activities in the Mid-Atlantic and 
South Atlantic planning areas (by a recorded vote of 141 ayes to 279 
noes, Roll No. 164);
Pages H2812-15, H2843-44
  Beauprez amendment that sought to reduce the budget for the National 
Endowment for the Arts by $30 million, and redirects the money to the 
Wildland Fire Management budget of the U.S. Forest Service (by a 
recorded vote of 112 ayes to 306 noes, Roll No. 166); and 
                                                     Pages H2818, H2845
  Hefley amendment (No. 1 printed in the Congressional Record of May 
17th) that sought to reduce funding by 1% across-the-board (by a 
recorded vote of 109 ayes to 312 noes, Roll No. 171). 
                                               Pages H2868-69, H2871-72
Withdrawn:
  Putnam amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
sought to increase funding (by transfer) by $500,000 for State and 
Tribal Wildlife grants in order to direct attention to alligator 
control programs in Florida;
Pages H2796-98, H2855
  Tancredo amendment (No. 8 printed in the Congressional Record of May 
17th) that was offered and subsequently withdrawn which sought to 
strike language added in committee that would prevent the U.S. 
Geological Survey from consolidating four mapping centers into one 
central operations center;
Pages H2802-05
  Conaway amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn which 
sought to strike section 104 from the bill. Section 104 prohibits use 
of funds for the conduct of offshore oil preleasing, leasing and 
related activities placed under restriction in the President's 
moratorium statement of June 12, 1998 in specified areas; 
                                               Pages H2811-12, H2855-66
  Tiahrt amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn which 
sought to prohibit any of the funds made available in the Act from 
being used to promulgate regulations without consideration of the 
effect of such regulations on the competitiveness of American 
businesses;
Page H2817
  Conaway amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn which 
sought to direct attention to EPA drinking water regulations for 
arsenic; and
Page H2817
  Dent amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn which 
sought to prohibit any funds made available in the Act from being used 
to implement, administer, or enforce section 20(b)(1) of the Indian 
Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2719(b)(1)).
Pages H2817, H2869-70
Point of Order sustained against:
  The Chair sustained the point of order raised against the content of 
the measure beginning on page 73, line 3 and ending on page 73, line 8 
that constituted legislation in an appropriations bill;
Page H2816
  The Chair sustained the point of order raised against section 425, 
page 125, lines 3-25 stating that it constituted legislation in an 
appropriations bill in violation of clause 2 of rule XXI; 
                                                         Pages H2826-29
  The Chair sustained the point of order raised against section 501 
stating that it violated clause 2b of rule XXI; and
Pages H2829-30
  Obey amendment that sought to increase funding for various accounts 
with a tax offset.
Pages H2817, H2869
  H. Res. 818, the rule providing for consideration of the bill was 
agreed to by a recorded vote of 218 ayes to 192 noes, Roll No. 161, 
after agreeing to order the previous question by a yea-and-nay vote of 
218 yeas to 191 nays, Roll No. 160.
Pages H2765-73
Presidential Messages: Read a message from the President wherein he 
notified the Congress of the continuation of the National Emergency 
with respect to Burma--referred to the Committee on International 
Relations and ordered printed (H. Doc. 109-110); and
  Page H2873
  Read a message from the President wherein he notified Congress of the 
continuation of the national emergency with respect to the Development 
Fund for Iraq, certain other property in which Iraq has an interest, 
and the Central Bank of Iraq--referred to the Committee on 
International Relations and ordered printed (H. Doc. 109-112). 
                                                         Pages H2873-74
Amendments: Amendments ordered printed pursuant to the rule appear on 
page H2834, H2891.
Quorum Calls--Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes and ten recorded votes 
developed during the proceedings of today and appear on pages H2772-73, 
H2773, H2774, H2843, H2843-44, H2844, H2845, H2845-46, H2846, H2870-71, 
H2871, H2871-72, H2872-73. There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at midnight.