[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 110 (Monday, July 23, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D755-D757]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 4 public bills, H.R. 6164-6167 
were introduced.                                             
  Page H5130
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages H5130-31
Reports Filed: A report was filed on July 20, 2012 as follows:
  H.R. 6082, to officially replace, within the 60-day Congressional 
review period under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, President 
Obama's Proposed Final Outer Continental Shelf Oil & Gas Leasing 
Program (2012-2017) with a congressional plan that will conduct 
additional oil and natural gas lease sales to promote offshore energy 
development, job creation, and increased domestic energy production to 
ensure a more secure energy future in the United States, and for other 
purposes, with an amendment (H. Rept. 112-615).
  A report was filed today as follows:
  H. Res. 748, providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4078) to 
provide that no agency may take any significant regulatory action until 
the unemployment rate is equal to or less than 6.0 percent, and 
providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 6082) to officially 
replace, within the 60-day Congressional review period under the Outer 
Continental Shelf Lands Act, President Obama's Proposed Final Outer 
Continental Shelf Oil & Gas Leasing Program (2012-2017) with a 
congressional plan that will conduct additional oil and natural gas 
lease sales to promote offshore energy development, job creation, and 
increased domestic energy production to ensure a more secure energy 
future in the United States, and for other purposes (H. Rept. 112-616).
                                                         Pages H5129-30
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he appointed 
Representative Harris to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. 
                                                             Page H5081
Recess: The House recessed at 12:06 p.m. and reconvened at 2 p.m. 
                                                             Page H5082
Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the guest chaplain, Reverend Andrew 
Walton, Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, Washington, DC.    
  Page H5082
Recess: The House recessed at 2:13 p.m. and reconvened at 3:31 p.m. 
                                                             Page H5083
Suspensions: The House agreed to suspend the rules and pass the 
following measures:
  Providing for a land exchange with the Trinity Public Utilities 
District of Trinity County, California: H.R. 1237, amended, to provide 
for a land exchange with the Trinity Public Utilities District of 
Trinity County, California, involving the transfer of land to the 
Bureau of Land Management and the Six Rivers National Forest in 
exchange for National Forest System land in the Shasta-Trinity National 
Forest;                                                  
  Pages H5083-85
  Y Mountain Access Enhancement Act: H.R. 4484, amended, to provide for 
the conveyance of a small parcel of National Forest System land in the 
Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Utah to Brigham Young 
University;                                              
  Pages H5085-86
  Naming the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Visitor Contact Station of the 
Jamaica Bay Wildlife

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Refuge unit of Gateway National Recreation Area in honor of James L. 
Buckley: H.R. 5958, to name the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Visitor 
Contact Station of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge unit of Gateway 
National Recreation Area in honor of James L. Buckley;   
  Pages H5086-87
  Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Protection Act: H.R. 3388, amended, to amend 
the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of the Beaver, 
Chipuxet, Queen, Wood, and Pawcatuck Rivers in the States of 
Connecticut and Rhode Island for study for potential addition to the 
National Wild and Scenic Rivers System;                  
  Pages H5087-88
  Bridgeport Indian Colony Land Trust, Health, and Economic Development 
Act: H.R. 2467, amended, to take certain Federal lands in Mono County, 
California, into trust for the benefit of the Bridgeport Indian Colony;
                                                         Pages H5096-98
  Repealing an obsolete provision in title 49, United States Code, 
requiring motor vehicle insurance cost reporting: H.R. 5859, amended, 
to repeal an obsolete provision in title 49, United States Code, 
requiring motor vehicle insurance cost reporting;     
  Pages H5098-H5100
  Pilot's Bill of Rights: S. 1335, to amend title 49, United States 
Code, to provide rights for pilots;                      
  Pages H5100-02
  Edwin L. Mechem United States Courthouse Designation Act: H.R. 3742, 
to designate the United States courthouse located at 100 North Church 
Street in Las Cruces, New Mexico, as the ``Edwin L. Mechem United 
States Courthouse'';                                     
  Pages H5102-03
  Robert H. Jackson United States Courthouse Designation Act: H.R. 
3556, to designate the new United States courthouse in Buffalo, New 
York, as the ``Robert H. Jackson United States Courthouse''; 
                                                         Pages H5103-04
  Robert Boochever United States Courthouse Designation Act: H.R. 4347, 
to designate the United States courthouse located at 709 West 9th 
Street in Juneau, Alaska, as the ``Robert Boochever United States 
Courthouse'';                                            
  Pages H5104-05
  Nicky ``Nick'' Daniel Bacon Post Office Designation Act: H.R. 3870, 
to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 6083 Highway 36 West in Rose Bud, Arkansas, as the ``Nicky `Nick' 
Daniel Bacon Post Office'';                              
  Pages H5110-11
  Corporal Kyle Schneider Post Office Building Designation Act: H.R. 
5837, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 26 East Genesee Street in Baldwinsville, New York, as the 
``Corporal Kyle Schneider Post Office Building'';        
  Pages H5111-12
  National Clandestine Service of the Central Intelligence Agency NCS 
Officer Gregg David Wenzel Memorial Post Office Designation Act: H.R. 
3593, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 787 State Route 17M in Monroe, New York, as the ``National 
Clandestine Service of the Central Intelligence Agency NCS Officer 
Gregg David Wenzel Memorial Post Office'';                   
  Page H5112
  Army First Sergeant David McNerney Post Office Building Designation 
Act: H.R. 3477, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 133 Hare Road in Crosby, Texas, as the Army First 
Sergeant David McNerney Post Office Building, by a \2/3\ yea-and-nay 
vote of 379 yeas with none voting ``nay'', Roll No. 501; 
                                               Pages H5112-13, H5116-17
  Judge Shirley A. Tolentino Post Office Building Designation Act: H.R. 
2896, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 369 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Jersey City, New Jersey, 
as the ``Judge Shirley A. Tolentino Post Office Building''; and 
                                                         Pages H5113-14
  Warren Lindley Post Office Designation Act: H.R. 1369, to designate 
the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1021 
Pennsylvania Avenue in Hartshorne, Oklahoma, as the ``Warren Lindley 
Post Office''.                                               
  Page H5114
Suspensions--Failed: The House failed to agreed to suspend the rules 
and pass the following measures:
  Indian Tribal Trade and Investment Demonstration Project Act: H.R. 
2362, amended, to facilitate economic development by Indian tribes and 
encourage investment by Turkish enterprises, by a \2/3\ yea-and-nay 
vote of 222 yeas to 160 nays, Roll No. 499 and    
  Pages H5088-96, H5115
  Allowing a State or local government to construct levees on certain 
properties otherwise designated as open space lands: S. 2039, to allow 
a State or local government to construct levees on certain properties 
otherwise designated as open space lands, by a \2/3\ yea-and-nay vote 
of 126 yeas to 254 nays, Roll No. 500.         
  Pages H5105-10, H5115-16
Presidential Message: Read a message from the President wherein he 
reported to Congress that he has issued an Executive Order taking 
additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in 
Executive Order 13536 of April 12, 2010 relating to Somalia--referred 
to the Committee on

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Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed (H. Doc. 112-126). 
                                                         Pages H5082-83
Quorum Calls--Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes developed during the 
proceedings of today and appear on pages H5115, H5115-16 and H5116-17. 
There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 12 noon and adjourned at 8:57 p.m.