[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 27, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D666-D669]
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                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 18 public bills, H.R. 6029-
6046; and 2 resolutions, H. Res. 709-710 were introduced. 
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Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages H4157-58
Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows:
  Legislative Review and Oversight Activities of the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs During the 112th Congress (H. Rept. 112-552) and
  H. Res. 708, relating to the consideration of House Report 112-546 
and an accompanying resolution, and providing for consideration of the 
resolution (H. Res. 706) authorizing the Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform to initiate or intervene in judicial proceedings to 
enforce certain subpoenas.                                   
Page H4155
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he appointed 
Representative Nugent to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. 
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Recess: The House recessed at 11:21 a.m. and reconvened at 12 noon. 
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Suspension--Proceedings Resumed: The House agreed to suspend the rules 
and pass the following measure which was debated yesterday, June 26th:
  Public Safety Officers' Benefits Improvements Act of 2012: H.R. 4018, 
amended, to improve the Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program. 
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  Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2013: The House resumed consideration of H.R. 5972, 
making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and 
Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2013. Further proceedings were postponed. 
                                            Pages H4079-H4135, H4135-51
Agreed to:
  Clarke (MI) amendment that increases funding, by offset, for Homeless 
Assistance Grants by $5,000,000;                             
Page H4112
  Cravaack amendment that prohibits funds from being used by the 
Secretary of Transportation to research or implement a distance-based 
fee system, commonly referred to as Vehicle Miles Traveled, that would 
levy a fee on a vehicle user based on the distance traveled; 
                                                         Pages H4137-39
  Cravaack amendment that prohibits funds from being used in 
furtherance of the implementation of the European Union greenhouse gas 
emissions trading scheme for aviation activities established by 
European Union Directive 2008/101/EC;                    
Pages H4139-40
  Posey amendment (No. 8 printed in the Congressional Record of June 
26, 2012) that prohibits funds from being used for the International 
Highway Technology Scanning Program;                         
Page H4141
  Griffith (VA) amendment that prohibits funds from being used for any 
new grant under the livable communities program of the Department of 
Transportation or the sustainable communities program of the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development or to implement any transfer of funds 
for any such new grant;                                  
Pages H4141-42
  Flores amendment that prohibits funds from being used to enforce 
section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007; 
                                                         Pages H4142-43
  Turner (OH) amendment (No. 7 printed in the Congressional Record of 
June 26, 2012) that prohibits funds from being used to establish, 
issue, implement, administer, or enforce any prohibition or restriction 
on the establishment or effectiveness of any occupancy preference for 
veterans in supportive housing for the elderly that (1) is provided 
assistance by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and 
(2)(A) is or would be located on property of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs, or (B) is subject to an enhanced use lease with the Department 
of Veterans Affairs;                                         
Page H4144
  Garrett amendment that prohibits funds from being used to promulgate, 
issue, establish, implement, administer, finalize, or enforce the 
proposed rule issued by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
and published in the Federal Register on September 16, 2011 (relating 
to Implementation of the Fair Housing Act's Discriminatory Effects 
Standard);                                               
Pages H4144-46
  Cassidy amendment that prohibits funds from being used by the 
Secretary of Transportation to make any transfer under the last proviso 
under the heading ``Department of Transportation--Office of the 
Secretary--Payments to Air Carriers'';                       
Page H4146
  Chabot amendment that prohibits funds from being used to design, 
construct, or operate a fixed guideway project located in Cincinnati, 
Ohio; and                                                
Pages H4146-47
  Scalise amendment that prohibits funds from being used to implement 
any rule or regulation that expressly prohibits an owner or landlord of 
housing from using a criminal conviction to deny housing to an 
applicant for such housing.                              
Pages H4150-51
Rejected:
  Broun (GA) amendment that sought to reduce funding for the Office of 
Public and Indian Housing salaries and expenses by $6,500,000 and apply 
the savings to the spending reduction account (by a recorded vote of 
168 ayes to 256 noes, Roll No. 424);              
Pages H4096, H4126-27
  Broun (GA) amendment that sought to reduce funding for the Office of 
Community Planning and Development salaries and expenses by $3,500,000 
and apply the savings to the spending reduction account (by a recorded 
vote of 178 ayes to 240 noes, Roll No. 425);      
Pages H4096-97, H4127
  Broun (GA) amendment that sought to reduce funding for the Office of 
Housing salaries and expenses by $5,000,000 and apply the savings to 
the spending reduction account (by a recorded vote of 174 ayes to 248 
noes, Roll No. 426);                                 
Pages H4097, H4128
  Broun (GA) amendment that sought to reduce funding for the Office of 
Policy Development and Research salaries and expenses by $115,000 and 
apply the savings to the spending reduction account (by a recorded vote 
of 193 ayes to 229 noes, Roll No. 427);        
Pages H4097-99, H4128-29
  Broun (GA) amendment that sought to reduce funding for the Office of 
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity salaries and expenses by $304,000 
and apply the savings to the spending reduction account (by a recorded 
vote of 178 ayes to 247 noes, Roll No. 428);         
Pages H4099, H4129
  Broun (GA) amendment that sought to reduce funding for the Public 
Housing Capital Fund by $110,000,000 and apply the savings to the 
spending reduction account (by a recorded vote of 169 ayes to 250 noes, 
Roll No. 429);                                 
Pages H4101-02, H4129-30
  Broun (GA) amendment that sought to reduce funding for the Public 
Housing Operating Fund by $562,150,000 and apply the savings to the 
spending

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reduction account (by a recorded vote of 160 ayes to 264 noes, Roll No. 
430);                                          
Pages H4102-03, H4130-31
  Broun (GA) amendment that sought to reduce funding for the Federal 
Maritime Commission salaries and expenses by $900,000 and apply the 
savings to the spending reduction account (by a recorded vote of 172 
ayes to 249 noes, Roll No. 431);                     
Pages H4121, H4131
  Broun (GA) amendment that sought to reduce funding for the 
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation by $12,300,000 and apply the 
savings to the spending reduction account (by a recorded vote of 172 
ayes to 250 noes, Roll No. 432);               
Pages H4122-23, H4131-32
  Chaffetz amendment that sought to reduce funding for the Community 
Development Fund by $396,000,000 and apply the savings to the spending 
reduction account (by a recorded vote of 157 ayes to 267 noes, Roll No. 
433);                                          
Pages H4104-05, H4132-33
  McClintock amendment that sought to eliminate funding for the 
Community Development Fund and apply the savings, $3,404,000,000, to 
the spending reduction account (by a recorded vote of 80 ayes to 342 
noes, Roll No. 434);                              
Pages H4105-06, H4133
  McClintock amendment (No. 11 printed in the Congressional Record of 
June 26, 2012) that sought to eliminate funding for the Community 
Development Loan Guarantees Program and apply the savings, $6,000,000, 
to the spending reduction account (by a recorded vote of 123 ayes to 
300 noes, Roll No. 435); and                   
Pages H4108-09, H4133-34
  Flake amendment that sought to reduce funding for the HOME investment 
partnerships program by $200,000,000 and apply the savings to the 
spending reduction account (by a recorded vote of 178 ayes to 242 noes, 
Roll No. 436).                                 
Pages H4109-10, H4134-35
Withdrawn:
  Diaz-Balart amendment (No. 4 printed in the Congressional Record of 
June 26, 2012) that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that would 
have provided that unless explicitly provided, not to exceed 25 percent 
of any grant made with funds appropriated for the Community Development 
Fund may be expended for public services as defined by law; 
                                                         Pages H4106-07
  Price (GA) amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
would have prohibited the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 
Administration from requiring the placement of line markers under 
section 195.410(a)(1) of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, other 
than at public road crossings and railroad crossings; and 
                                                         Pages H4140-41
  Herrera Beutler amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn 
that would have prohibited funds from being used to build flood 
protection walls for Interstate 5 between mile posts 72-82 in Lewis 
County, Washington.                                          
Page H4151
  Point of Order sustained against:
  Nadler amendment (No. 3 printed in the Congressional Record of June 
26, 2012) that would have increased funding for Tenant-Based Rental 
Assistance by $460,000,000;                              
Pages H4100-01
  Hanabusa amendment that would have provided funding, by offset, for 
the Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant in the amount of $13,000,000; 
                                                         Pages H4103-04
  Bachus amendment (No. 5 printed in the Congressional Record of June 
26, 2012) that would have provided that with respect to the HOME 
Investment Partnership programs, up to $200,000,000 shall be for 
disaster relief, long-term recovery, restoration of housing and 
infrastructure, and economic revitalization in the most impacted and 
distressed areas resulting from a major disaster;        
Pages H4110-11
  LaTourette amendment that would have expanded the percentage of 
Neighborhood Stabilization Program 2 and Neighborhood Stabilization 
Program 3 funds that can be used for demolition projects to 75%; 
                                                         Pages H4117-18
  Price (NC) amendment that would have allowed public housing agencies 
to merge operating and capital funds;                    
Pages H4118-19
  Garamendi amendment that would have changed section 412 of the bill 
regarding the Buy American Act to ensure that domestic content makes up 
85% of all steel, iron, and manufactured goods, including rolling 
stock; and                                               
Pages H4124-25
  Burgess amendment that would have prohibited funds from being used by 
the Secretary of Transportation to authorize a person (1) to operate an 
unmanned aircraft system in the national airspace for the purpose, in 
whole or in part, of using the unmanned aircraft system as a weapon or 
to deliver a weapon against a person or property or (2) to manufacture, 
sell, or distribute an unmanned aircraft system, or a component 
thereof, for use in the national airspace system as a weapon or to 
deliver a weapon against a person or property.           
Pages H4143-44
Proceedings Postponed:
  Blackburn amendment that seeks to reduce each amount made available 
by this Act by 1%;                                       
Pages H4135-36
  McClintock amendment (No. 13 printed in the Congressional Record of 
June 26, 2012) that seeks to prohibit funds from being used for the 
Third Street Light Rail Phase 2 Central Subway project in San 
Francisco, California;                                   
Pages H4136-37
  Lankford amendment that prohibits funds from being used to pay the 
salary of any officer or employee of the Federal Highway Administration 
to implement, administer, or enforce the Migratory

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Bird Treaty Act with respect to the cliff swallow or barn swallow; 
                                                         Pages H4147-48
  Denham amendment (No. 9 printed in the Congressional Record of June 
26, 2012) that seeks to prohibit funds from being used for high-speed 
rail in the State of California or for the California High-Speed Rail 
Authority; and                                           
Pages H4148-49
  Landry amendment that seeks to prohibit funds from being used to 
promulgate or implement any regulations that would mandate global 
positioning system tracking, electronic on-board recording devices, or 
event data recorders in passenger or commercial motor vehicles. 
                                                         Pages H4149-50
  H. Res. 697, the rule providing for consideration of the bill, was 
agreed to yesterday, June 26th.
Recess: The House recessed at 5:24 p.m. and reconvened at 8:15 p.m. 
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Motion to Instruct Conferees: The House debated the Hahn motion to 
instruct conferees on H.R. 4348. Further proceedings were postponed. 
                                                         Pages H4151-53
Quorum Calls--Votes:  Thirteen recorded votes developed during the 
proceedings of today and appear on pages H4126-27, H4127, H4128, H4128-
29, H4129, H4130, H4130-31, H4131, H4131-32, H4132-33, H4133, H4133-34, 
H4134-35. There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 11:12 p.m.