[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 86 (Wednesday, June 10, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D671-D674]
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                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 33 public bills, H.R. 2784-
2816; and 4 resolutions, H. Res. 525-528 were introduced. 
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Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages H6538-39
Report Filed: A report was filed on June 9, 2009 as follows:
  H. Res. 484, expressing support for designation of June 10th as 
``National Pipeline Safety Day'' (H. Rept. 111-144, Pt. 1). 
                                                             Page H6537
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein she appointed 
Representative Jackson (IL) to act as Speaker Pro Tempore for today. 
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Suspensions--Proceedings Resumed: The House agreed to suspend the rules 
and agree to the following measures which were debated on Tuesday, June 
9th:
  Recognizing the significant accomplishments of the AmeriCorps: H. 
Res. 453, to recognize the significant accomplishments of the 
AmeriCorps and to encourage all citizens to join in a national effort 
to salute AmeriCorps members and alumni, and raise awareness about the 
importance of national and community service, by a \2/3\ yea-and-nay 
vote of 359 yeas to 60 nays, Roll No. 318 and                
  Page H6429
  Recognizing the 25th anniversary of the National Center for Missing 
and Exploited Children: H. Res. 454, to recognize the 25th anniversary 
of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, by a \2/3\ 
yea-and-nay vote of 419 yeas with none voting ``nay'', Roll No. 319 . 
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Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011: The 
House passed H.R. 2410, to authorize appropriations for the Department 
of State and the Peace Corps for fiscal years 2010 and 2011 and to 
modernize the Foreign Service, by a recorded vote of 235 ayes to 187 
noes, Roll No. 328.                         
  Pages H6421-29, H6430-H6518
  Rejected the Burton motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs with instructions to report the same back to the House 
forthwith with an amendment, by a recorded vote of 174 ayes to 250 
noes, Roll No. 327.                                      
Pages H6514-17
  Pursuant to the rule, the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
recommended by the Committee on Foreign Affairs now printed in the bill 
shall be considered as an original bill for the purpose of amendment 
under the 5-minute rule.                                     
Page H6442
  Agreed by unanimous consent that the Chair may reduce to two minutes 
the minimum time for electronic voting under clause 8 or 9 of rule 
twenty or under clause 6 of rule eighteen.                   
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Agreed to:
  Polis amendment (No. 3 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-143) that 
broadens the experience within the Foreign Service and encourages 
Foreign Service officers to pursue a functional specialty by making it 
mandatory to develop a functional focus during an officer's first two 
years as well as creating a more diverse promotions panel where 
functional and regional specialists are evenly distributed. It requires 
the State Department to make materials from libraries and resource 
centers, including U.S. films available over the Internet when possible 
and for the advisory commission on public diplomacy to gauge the 
effectiveness of online outreach authorized under section 214; 
                                                         Pages H6484-85
  Hunter amendment (No. 4 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-143) that 
includes the Secretary of Defense as a member of the Task Force on the 
Prevention of Illicit Small Arms Trafficking in the Western Hemisphere;
                                                         Pages H6485-86
  Nadler amendment (No. 5 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-143) that 
expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should continue 
working with the states of the former Soviet Union to see that 
immigrants from these states who now live in the United States are paid 
the pensions they are owed by these states;              
Pages H6486-87
  Sessions amendment (No. 8 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-143) that 
expresses the sense of Congress that Israel has the right to defend 
itself from an imminent nuclear or military threat from Iran and other 
countries and organizations;                             
Pages H6490-92
  Davis (CA) amendment (No. 9 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-143) 
that requires the Inspectors General of the Department of State, the 
Department of Defense, the United States Agency for International 
Development, and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan 
Reconstruction to modify their auditing and assessment protocols for 
Afghanistan to include the impact U.S. development assistance has on 
the social, economic, and political empowerment of Afghan women as part 
of their auditing and reporting requirements;            
Pages H6492-93
  Holt amendment (No. 11 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-143) that 
directs the Secretary of State to report within 60 days of enactment on 
changes in treaty and U.S. laws that could help improve compliance with 
the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child 
Abduction;                                               
Pages H6494-95
  Bishop (NY) amendment (No. 13 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-143) 
that requires a GAO study of the effects of USAID's use of waivers 
under the Buy America Act for HIV test kits on 1) United States-based 
manufacturers and 2) availability of and access to HIV testing for at-
risk populations in low-income countries;                
Pages H6496-97
  Moore (WI) amendment (No. 14 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-143) 
that makes clear that passage of laws in Afghanistan that restrict or 
repress human rights, including the rights of women, undermines the 
support and goodwill shown by the international community and the U.S. 
through the considerable financial aid that has been provided to help 
rebuild Afghanistan and may make it harder to generate public support 
for those seeking to provide such support in the future; 
                                                         Pages H6497-98
  Meeks (NY) amendment (No. 16 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-143) 
that requires the Secretary of State to report to Congress on bilateral 
efforts to promote equality and eliminate racial discrimination in the 
Western Hemisphere;                                      
Pages H6500-01
  Kirkpatrick (AZ) amendment (No. 18 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-
143) that adds to the monitoring and evaluation system established in 
the bill a requirement to look at the illegal southbound flow of cash; 
                                                         Pages H6501-02
  Lynch amendment (No. 20 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-143) that 
directs the State Department to submit to Congress a report on the 1059 
and 1244 Special Immigrant Visa Programs for certain Iraqis and 
Afghanis who work for, or on behalf of, the U.S. Government; 
                                                         Pages H6502-03
  Berman amendment (No. 21 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-143) that 
requires the Department of State to conduct a cost-benefit analysis in 
conjunction with all appropriate Federal departments and agencies on 
how to best use American funds to reduce smuggling and trafficking in 
persons;                                                 
Pages H6503-04
  Peters amendment (No. 22 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-143) that 
provides that the Secretary of State shall report to Congress on the 
flow of people, goods, and services across the international borders 
shared by the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, and the Caribbean region; 
                                                         Pages H6504-05
  Berman amendment (No. 23 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-143) that 
creates the Global Clean Energy Exchange Program, a program to 
strengthen research, educational exchange, and international 
cooperation with the aim of promoting the development and deployment of 
clean and efficient energy technologies;                 
Pages H6505-06
  Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX) amendment (No. 24 printed in part C of H. 
Rept. 111-143) that establishes and provides financial assistance for 
exchange programs between Afghanistan and the United States for women 
legislators;                                                 
Page H6506
  Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX) amendment (No. 25 printed in part C of H. 
Rept. 111-143) that expresses the sense of Congress that the use of 
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soldiers is unacceptable and is a violation of human rights and the 
prevention and elimination of child soldiers should be a foreign policy 
goal of the United States;                               
Pages H6506-07
  Poe (TX) amendment (No. 26 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-143) 
that makes it a two year requirement for the President to report total 
U.S. cash and in-kind contributions to the entire United Nations system 
each fiscal year by every U.S. agency or department;     
Pages H6507-08
  Castle amendment (No. 27 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-143) that 
requires reports to Congress every 90 days listing the countries that 
refuse or unreasonably delay accepting nationals of such countries who 
are under final orders of removal from the United States. Empowers the 
Secretary of State to suspend diplomatic visa issuances to any country 
that continues to deny or unreasonably delay repatriation; 
                                                         Pages H6508-09
  Matheson amendment (No. 17 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-143) 
that provides that the Secretary of State, in consultation with the 
Attorney General and the Director of the Census Bureau, will conduct a 
feasibility study and issue a report to Congress on whether there can 
be implemented a method for using the passports of U.S. citizens living 
overseas to facilitate voting in U.S. elections and for being counted 
in the U.S. Census;                                          
Page H6509
  Berman manager's amendment (No. 1 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-
143) that (1) makes a number of minor, technical and conforming 
changes, including changes to address concerns of other Committees that 
have jurisdiction over certain provisions of H.R. 2410 and making 
changes to certain authorizations; (2) adds the relevant text from H.R. 
2828, 110th Congress, as passed by the House, relating to compensation 
of Foreign Service victims of terrorism; (3) adds a provision relating 
to streamlining export controls to better serve the scientific and 
research community, consistent with the protection of U.S. national 
security interests; (4) adds a provision on monitoring and evaluating 
certain provision U.S. overseas activities; (5) adds a provision to 
improve the stabilization and reconstruction activities of the 
Department of State; (6) adds a provision on implementation of an 
international nuclear fuel bank; (7) adds a provision relating to the 
development of a food security strategy; (8) adds certain other sense 
of Congress provisions; and (9) adds a new subsection to section 334 
providing that nothing in that section shall be construed as affecting 
existing statutory prohibitions relating to abortion (by a recorded 
vote of 257 ayes to 171 noes, Roll No. 320);   
Pages H6477-83, H6509-10
  McCaul amendment (No. 6 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-143) that 
directs the President to develop and transmit to the appropriate 
congressional committees a comprehensive interagency strategy and 
implementation plan to address the ongoing crisis in Sudan. This 
includes a description of how the United States assistance will be used 
to achieve a U.S. policy towards Sudan, financial plan, management of 
U.S. foreign assistance, and criteria used to determine their 
prioritization (by a recorded vote of 429 ayes with none voting ``no'', 
Roll No. 322);                                    
Pages H6487-89, H6511
  Larsen (WA) amendment (No. 7 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-143) 
that provides that the policy of the United States, with respect to the 
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, shall be to prevent any 
weakening of, and ensure robust compliance with and enforcement of, 
existing international legal requirements for the protection of 
intellectual property rights, related to energy or environmental 
technologies (by a recorded vote of 432 ayes with none voting ``no'', 
Roll No. 323); and                             
Pages H6489-90, H6511-12
  Kirk amendment (No. 19 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-143) that 
allows the Secretary of State, at her discretion, to make payments from 
the Rewards for Justice program to officers or employees of foreign 
governments who provide information leading to the capture of 
exceptional and high-profile terrorists (by a recorded vote of 428 ayes 
to 3 noes, Roll No. 326).                         
Pages H6502, H6513-14
Rejected:
  Brown-Waite (FL) amendment (No. 12 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-
143) that sought to strike section 303, establishment of the Lessons 
Learned Center;                                          
Pages H6495-96
  Ros-Lehtinen amendment (No. 2 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-143) 
that requires the Secretary of State to withhold from the U.S. 
contribution to the International Atomic Energy Agency an amount equal 
to nuclear technical cooperation provided by the IAEA in 2007 to Iran, 
Syria, Sudan and Cuba (by a recorded vote of 205 ayes to 224 noes, Roll 
No. 321);                                      
Pages H6483-84, H6510-11
  Brown-Waite (FL) amendment (No. 10 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-
143) that sought to strike Sec. 505, domestic release of the Voice of 
America film entitled ``A Fateful Harvest'' (by a recorded vote of 178 
ayes to 254 noes, Roll No. 324); and           
Pages H6493-94, H6512-13
  Royce amendment (No. 15 printed in part C of H. Rept. 111-143) that 
sought to express the sense of Congress that Eritrea's support for 
armed insurgents in Somalia poses a direct threat to the national 
security interests of the United States, that the Secretary of State 
should designate Eritrea a State Sponsor of Terrorism, and that the 
United Nations Security Council should impose sanctions against Eritrea

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(by a recorded vote of 183 ayes to 245 noes, Roll No. 325). 
                                               Pages H6498-H6500, H6513
  Agreed that the Clerk be authorized to make technical and conforming 
changes to reflect the actions of the House.                 
Page H6518
  H. Res. 522, the rule providing for consideration of the bills (H.R. 
1886 and H.R. 2410), was agreed to by a yea-and-nay vote of 238 yeas to 
183 nays, Roll No. 317, after it was agreed to order the previous 
question without objection.                              
Pages H6428-29
Moment of Silence: The House observed a moment of silence in honor of 
the victims of the explosion at the ConAgra plant in Garner, North 
Carolina on June 9, 2009.                                    
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Moment of Silence: The House observed a moment of silence in honor of 
the victim of the shooting at the United States Holocaust Memorial 
Museum on June 10, 2009.                                 
  Pages H6518-19
Senate Message: Message received from the Senate today appears on page 
H6429.
  Quorum Calls--Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes and nine recorded votes 
developed during the proceedings of today and appear on pages H6428-29, 
H6429, H6430, H6509-10, H6510-11, H6511, H6511-12, H6512-13, H6513, 
H6513-14, H6517 and H6517-18. There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 9:35 p.m.