[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 86 (Wednesday, June 15, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D642-D645]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 22 public bills, H.R. 2182-
2203; and 3 resolutions, H. Res. 306-308 were introduced. 
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Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages H4278-79
Reports Filed: There were no reports filed today.
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he appointed 
Representative Nugent to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. 
                                                             Page H4189
Recess: The House recessed at 11:23 a.m. and reconvened at 12 noon. 
                                                             Page H4198
Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the guest chaplain, Reverend Dr. 
Phil Hoskins, Higher Ground Baptist Church, Kingsport, Tennessee. 
                                                             Page H4198
Recess: The House recessed at 12:34 p.m. and reconvened at 1:03 p.m. 
                                                             Page H4202
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012: The House resumed 
consideration of H.R. 2112, making appropriations for Agriculture, 
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012. Consideration 
of the measure began yesterday, June 14th.               
  Pages H4202-74
  Agreed to:
  Sessions amendment that was debated on June 14th that strikes the 
proviso on page 3, beginning on line 22, relating to FAIR Act or 
Circular A-76 activities (by a recorded vote of 226 ayes to 199 noes, 
Roll No. 421);                                           
Pages H4225-26
  Farr amendment that was debated on June 14th that increases funding, 
by offset, for the Agricultural Marketing Service by $300,000 (by a 
recorded vote of 352 ayes to 70 noes, Roll No. 422);     
Pages H4226-27
  Kingston amendment that reduces each amount made available by titles 
I through VI (other than an amount required to be made available by a 
provision of law) by 0.78 percent;                           
Page H4240
  Young (AK) amendment that prohibits funds from being used to approve 
any application submitted under section 512 of the Federal Food, Drug, 
and Cosmetic Act for approval of genetically engineered salmon; 
                                                             Page H4240
  Royce amendment (No. 24 printed in the Congressional Record of June 
14, 2011) that prohibits funds from being used to provide assistance 
under title II of the Food for Peace Act to the Democratic People's 
Republic of Korea (North Korea);                         
Pages H4245-46
  Chaffetz amendment (No. 13 printed in the Congressional Record of 
June 13, 2011) that prohibits funds from being used to pay the salaries 
and expenses of personnel who provide nonrecourse marketing assistance 
loans for mohair under section 1201 for the Food, Conservation, and 
Energy Act of 2008; and                                      
Page H4256

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  Engel amendment that prohibits funds from being used under this Act 
to lease or purchase new light duty vehicles, for any executive fleet, 
or for an agency's fleet inventory, except in accordance with 
Presidential Memorandum--Federal Fleet Performance, dated May 24, 2011.
                                                             Page H4268
  Rejected:
  Broun (GA) amendment (No. 10 printed in the Congressional Record of 
June 13, 2011) that sought to reduce funding for the Watershed 
Rehabilitation Program by $15 million and apply the savings to the 
spending reduction account;                              
Pages H4202-04
  Broun (GA) amendment (No. 11 printed in the Congressional Record of 
June 13, 2011) that sought to reduce funding for Rural Housing 
Assistance Grants by $20,480,000 and apply the savings to the spending 
reduction account;                                       
Pages H4205-07
  Broun (GA) amendment (No. 7 printed in the Congressional Record of 
June 13, 2011) that sought to reduce by half the number of passenger 
motor vehicles purchased by the Department of Agriculture; 
                                                         Pages H4219-22
  DeLauro amendment that was debated on June 14th that sought to 
increase funding, by offset, for the Center for Food Safety and Applied 
Nutrition by $1 million (by a recorded vote of 193 ayes to 226 noes, 
Roll No. 420);                                               
Page H4225
  Broun (GA) amendment (No. 8 printed in the Congressional Record of 
June 13, 2011) that was debated on June 14th that sought to reduce 
funding for Agricultural Buildings and Facilities and Rental Payments 
by $20,900,000 and apply the savings to the spending reduction account 
(by a recorded vote of 120 ayes to 304 noes, Roll No. 423); 
                                                             Page H4227
  Chaffetz amendment that was debated on June 14th that sought to 
reduce funding for the Economic Research Service by $43 million; reduce 
funding for the National Agricultural Statistics Service by $85 
million; reduce funding for the Agricultural Research Service by $650 
million; reduce funding for Food for Peace Title II Grants by 
$1,040,198,000 and to apply $1,818,198,000 to the spending reduction 
account (by a recorded vote of 83 ayes to 338 noes, Roll No. 424); 
                                                         Pages H4227-28
  Broun (GA) amendment (No. 4 printed in the Congressional Record of 
June 13, 2011) that was debated on June 14th that sought to reduce 
funding for the Economic Research Service by $7 million and apply the 
savings to the spending reduction account (by a recorded vote of 125 
ayes to 298 noes, Roll No. 425);                         
Pages H4228-29
  Clarke (MI) amendment that was debated on June 14th that sought to 
increase funding, by offset, for the Agricultural Marketing Service by 
$1 million (by a recorded vote of 142 ayes to 282 noes, Roll No. 426); 
                                                             Page H4229
  Broun (GA) amendment (No. 9 printed in the Congressional Record of 
June 13, 2011) that was debated on June 14th that sought to reduce 
funding for the Agricultural Marketing Service by $7,750,000 and apply 
the savings to the spending reduction account (by a recorded vote of 
107 ayes to 318 noes, Roll No. 427);                     
Pages H4229-30
  Richardson amendment that was debated on June 14th that sought to 
increase funding, by offset, for the Commodity Assistance Program by 
$10 million (by a recorded vote of 200 ayes to 224 noes, Roll No. 428);
                                                         Pages H4230-31
  Gosar amendment that sought to increase funding, by offset, for the 
Multi-Family Housing Revitalization Program and the Rural Business 
Program by $100 million each (by a recorded vote of 139 ayes to 285 
noes, Roll No. 429);                                         
Page H4231
  Broun (GA) amendment that sought to reduce the Special Supplemental 
Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children by $604 million and 
apply the savings to the spending reduction account (by a recorded vote 
of 64 ayes to 360 noes, Roll No. 430);         
Pages H4207-08, H4231-32
  Foxx amendment that sought to reduce funding for the Special 
Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children by 
$82,500,000 million and apply the savings to the spending reduction 
account (by a recorded vote of 119 ayes to 306 noes, Roll No. 431); 
                                                         Pages H4232-33
  Broun (GA) amendment (No. 12 printed in the Congressional Record of 
June 13, 2011) that sought to reduce funding for the Foreign 
Agricultural Service by $175 million and apply the savings to the 
spending reduction account (by a recorded vote of 99 ayes to 324 noes, 
Roll No. 432);                                    
Pages H4210-13, H4233
  Gosar amendment that sought to reduce Food for Peace Title II Grants 
by $100 million and apply the savings to the spending reduction account 
(by a recorded vote of 124 ayes to 300 noes, Roll No. 433); 
                                               Pages H4204-05, H4233-34
  Broun (GA) amendment that sought to reduce Food for Peace Title II 
Grants by $940,198,000 and apply the savings to the Spending Reduction 
Account (by a recorded vote of 108 ayes to 316 noes, Roll No. 434); 
                                               Pages H4213-15, H4234-35
  Broun (GA) amendment (No. 6 printed in the Congressional Record of 
June 13, 2011) that sought to eliminate the McGovern-Dole International 
Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program Grants and apply the 
savings of $180 million to the Spending Reduction Account (by a 
recorded vote of 120 ayes to 303 noes, Roll No. 435); 
                                                  Pages H4215-17, H4235
  Stearns amendment that sought to reduce funding for the Center for 
Tobacco Products by $392 million

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and apply the savings to the Spending Reduction Account (by a recorded 
vote of 164 ayes to 257 noes, Roll No. 436); and 
                                               Pages H4217-19, H4235-36
  Chaffetz amendment (No. 14 printed in the Congressional Record of 
June 13, 2011) that sought to prohibit funds from being used to make 
payments for the storage of cotton under section 1204(g) of the Food, 
Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 or for the storage of peanuts 
under section 1307(a) of such Act.                       
Pages H4256-57
  Withdrawn:
  Foxx amendment (No. 2 printed in the Congressional Record of June 13, 
2011) that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that would have 
reduced the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, 
and Children by $82,500,000 and applied the savings to the spending 
reduction account;                                       
Pages H4208-10
  Lummis amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
would have amended section 739 of the bill;              
Pages H4222-24
  Woolsey amendment (No. 20 printed in the Congressional Record of June 
13, 2011) that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that would have 
prohibited funds from being used to carry out the directive in the 
committee report instructing the Food and Nutrition Service to issue a 
new proposed rule on implementing new national nutrition standards for 
the school breakfast and school lunch programs in the report of the 
Committee on Appropriations to accompany H.R. 2112 of the 112th 
Congress; and                                                
Page H4245
  Clarke (MI) amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn 
that would have transferred $7,700,000 for assistance for Afghanistan 
to H.R. 2112 under the heading ``Agricultural Marketing Services, 
Marketing Services.''                                    
Pages H4269-70
  Point of Order sustained against:
  Section 740 of the bill;                                   
Page H4238
  Section 741 of the bill;                                   
Page H4238
  Section 743 of the bill; and                               
Page H4239
  Section 744 of the bill.                                   
Page H4239
  Proceedings Postponed:
  Pingree amendment that seeks to prohibit funds from being used (1) to 
provide electronic notifications to the Committee on Agriculture on 
travel relating to any ``know your farmer, know your food'' initiatives 
or (2) in contravention of the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative 
priority research area specified in subsection (b)(2)(F) of the 
Competitive, Special, and Facilities Research Grant Act; 
                                                         Pages H4241-42
  Foxx amendment (No. 1 printed in the Congressional Record of June 13, 
2011) that seeks to prohibit funds from being used to support any Know 
Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative of the Department of 
Agriculture;                                             
Pages H4242-45
  Kind amendment (No. 25 printed in the Congressional Record of June 
14, 2011) that seeks to prohibit funds from being used to provide 
payments to the Brazil Cotton Institute;                 
Pages H4246-53
  Dingell amendment that seeks to increase funding, by offset, for the 
Food and Drug Administration by $49 million;             
Pages H4253-56
  Jackson Lee amendment that seeks to increase, by offset, funding for 
the Office of the Secretary by $5 million;               
Pages H4257-59
  Gibson amendment (No. 23 printed in the Congressional Record of June 
14, 2011) that seeks to increase funding, by offset, for broadband 
loans by $6 million;                                     
Pages H4259-63
  Blumenauer amendment (No. 3 printed in the Congressional Record of 
June 13, 2011) that seeks to prohibit funds from being used to pay the 
salaries and expenses of personnel of the Department of Agriculture to 
provide benefits described in the Food Security Act of 1985 to a person 
or legal entity in excess of $125,000;                   
Pages H4263-67
  King (IA) amendment that seeks to prohibit funds from being used to 
make payments under section 201 of the Claims Resolution Act of 2010 or 
section 14012 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008; 
                                                         Pages H4267-68
  King (IA) amendment that seeks to prohibit funds from being used for 
mifepristone, commonly known as RU-486, for any purpose; 
                                                         Pages H4268-69
  Garrett amendment that seeks to prohibit funds from being used by the 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission to promulgate any final rules 
under paragraphs (13) or (14) of section 2(a) of the Commodity Exchange 
Act, as added by section 727 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and 
Consumer Protection Act;                                 
Pages H4270-71
  Jackson Lee amendment (No. 29 printed in the Congressional Record of 
June 14, 2011) that seeks to prohibit funds from being used in 
contravention of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008;     
Pages H4271-72
  Scalise amendment that seeks to prohibit funds from being used to 
implement the Departmental Regulation of the Department of Agriculture 
entitled ``Policy Statement on Climate Change Adaptation''; 
                                                             Page H4272
  Jackson Lee amendment (No. 28 printed in the Congressional Record of 
June 14, 2011) that seeks to prohibit funds from being used in 
contravention of section 310B(e) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
Development Act; and                                     
Pages H4272-73
  Hirono amendment that seeks to increase funding, by offset, for 
preventive measures authorized under the Watershed Protection and Flood 
Prevention Act

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and the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act by $3 million. 
                                                             Page H4274
  H. Res. 300, the rule providing for consideration of the bill, was 
agreed to yesterday, June 14th.
Moment of Silence: The House observed a moment of silence in honor of 
the victims of the tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri on May 22, 
2011.                                                        
  Page H4225
Committee Resignation: Read a letter from Representative Fleischmann, 
wherein he resigned from the Committee on Small Business.    
  Page H4239
Recess: The House recessed at 5:25 p.m. and reconvened at 8:05 p.m. 
                                                             Page H4239
Meeting Hour: Agreed that when the House adjourns today, it adjourn to 
meet at 9 a.m. tomorrow.                                     
  Page H4274
Amendments: Amendments ordered printed pursuant to the rule appear on 
page H4279.
Quorum Calls--Votes: Seventeen recorded votes developed during the 
proceedings of today and appear on pages H4225, H4226, H4226-27, H4227, 
H4228, H4228-29, H4229, H4230, H4230-31, H4231, H4231-32, H4232-33, 
H4233, H4233-34, H4234-35, H4235, and H4235-36. There were no quorum 
calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 12:28 a.m. on 
Thursday, June 16th.