[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 47 (Wednesday, April 10, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D290-D291]
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                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 29 public bills, H.R. 1454-
1482; and 7 resolutions, H. Con. Res. 29-30; and H.Res. 145, 147-150 
were introduced.                                         
  Pages H1908-09
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages H1910-12
Report Filed: A report was filed today as follows:
  H. Res. 146, providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1120) to 
prohibit the National Labor Relations Board from taking any action that 
requires a quorum of the members of the Board until such time as Board 
constituting a quorum shall have been confirmed by the Senate, the 
Supreme Court issues

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a decision on the constitutionality of the appointments to the Board 
made in January 2012, or the adjournment sine die of the first session 
of the 113th Congress (H. Rept. 113-32).       
Pages H1899-H1900, H1908
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he appointed 
Representative Ribble to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. 
                                                             Page H1863
Recess: The House recessed at 10:56 a.m. and reconvened at 12 noon. 
                                                             Page H1869
Electing Members to the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library and 
the Joint Committee on Printing: The House agreed to discharge from 
committee and agree to H. Res. 142, to elect Members to the Joint 
Committee of Congress on the Library and the Joint Committee on 
Printing.                                                    
  Page H1878
Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural 
Jobs Act: The House passed H.R. 678, to authorize all Bureau of 
Reclamation conduit facilities for hydropower development under Federal 
Reclamation law, by a yea-and-nay vote of 416 yeas to 7 nays, Roll No. 
96.                                            
  Pages H1874-78, H1878-90
  Rejected the Garamendi motion to recommit the bill to the Committee 
on Natural Resources with instructions to report the same back to the 
House forthwith with an amendment, by a yea-and-nay vote of 194 yeas to 
226 nays, Roll No. 95.                                   
Pages H1888-89
Agreed to:
  Tipton amendment (No. 3 printed in the Congressional Record of April 
9, 2013) that requires the Bureau of Reclamation to apply its 
categorical exclusion process under the National Environmental Policy 
Act of 1969 to small conduit hydropower development, excluding siting 
of associated transmission facilities on Federal lands and 
                                                         Pages H1884-85
  Tipton amendment (No. 2 printed in the Congressional Record of April 
9, 2013) that makes technical changes relating to policy and procedure-
setting with respect to irrigation districts or water users 
associations.                                            
Pages H1886-87
Rejected:
  Napolitano amendment (No. 1 printed in the Congressional Record of 
April 9, 2013) that sought to strike the paragraph in the bill 
containing requirements regarding the application of the National 
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to small conduit hydropower 
development and to change the definition of small conduit hydropower to 
mean a facility capable of producing 15 megawatts or less of electric 
capacity (by a recorded vote of 189 ayes to 232 noes, Roll No. 94). 
                                               Pages H1885-86, H1887-88
  H. Res. 140, the rule providing for consideration of the bill, was 
agreed to by voice vote after the previous question was ordered by a 
yea-and-nay vote of 236 yeas to 190 nays, Roll No. 93.   
Pages H1874-78
Presidential Message: Read a message from the President wherein he 
transmitted to Congress his Budget of the United States Government for 
Fiscal Year 2014--referred to the Committee on Appropriations and 
ordered to be printed (H. Doc. 113-3).                   
  Pages H1890-92
Quorum Calls--Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes and one recorded vote 
developed during the proceedings of today and appear on pages H1877-78, 
H1887-88, H1889, H1889-90. There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 6:42 p.m.