[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 77 (Wednesday, May 21, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D541-D548]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 19 public bills, H.R. 4694-
4713; and 4 resolutions, H.J. Res. 115; H. Con. Res. 99; and H. Res. 
591-592 were introduced.                                 
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Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows:
  H.R. 4121, to amend the Small Business Act to provide for 
improvements to small business development centers, with an amendment 
(H. Rept. 113-461);
  H.R. 776, to amend title 31, United States Code, to revise 
requirements related to assets pledged by a surety, and for other 
purposes, with an amendment (H. Rept. 113-462, Pt. 1); and
  H.R. 776, to amend title 31, United States Code, to revise 
requirements related to assets pledged by a surety, and for other 
purposes, with an amendment (H. Rept. 113-462, Pt. 2).       
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Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he appointed 
Representative Jolly to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. 
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Recess: The House recessed at 10:18 a.m. and reconvened at 12 noon. 
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Motion to Adjourn: Rejected the McGovern motion to adjourn by a yea-
and-nay vote of 7 yeas to 381 nays, Roll No. 223.            
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Suspension: The House agreed to suspend the rules and pass the 
following measures:
  Department of Veterans Affairs Management Accountability Act of 2014: 
H.R. 4031, to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the 
removal of Senior Executive Service employees of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs for performance, by a \2/3\ yea-and-nay vote of 390 
yeas to 33 nays, Roll No. 229.                 
  Pages H4694-99, H4715-16
Motion to Adjourn: Rejected the McGovern motion to adjourn by a yea-
and-nay vote of 23 yeas to 361 nays, Roll No. 224.       
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Select Committee on the Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in 
Benghazi--Appointment: The Chair announced the Speaker's appointment of 
the following Members to the Select Committee on the Events Surrounding 
the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi: Representatives Cummings, Smith 
(WA), Schiff, Linda T. Saanchez (CA), and Duckworth.         
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Recess: The House recessed at 3:56 p.m. and reconvened at 5:01 p.m. 
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Moment of Silence: The House observed a moment of silence in honor of 
our brave men and women in uniform who have given their lives in the 
service of our country in Iraq and Afghanistan, their families, and all 
who serve in our armed forces and their families.            
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National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015: The House 
resumed consideration of H.R. 4435, to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 2015 for military activities of the Department of Defense 
and for military construction and to prescribe military personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year. Consideration is expected to continue 
tomorrow, May 22nd.                         
  Pages H4699-H4706, H4707-82
Agreed to:
  Daines amendment (No. 6 printed in H. Rept. 113-455) that was debated 
on May 20th that strikes subsection (c) of Section 1634 of the reported 
NDAA, which terminates in 2021 the requirement that ICBM silos remain 
in at least warm status (by a recorded vote of 222 ayes to 196 noes, 
Roll No. 227);                                               
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  McKeon en bloc amendment No. 1 that consists of the following 
amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 113-460: Gosar amendment (No. 
2) that requires the Department to comply with Integrated Natural 
Resource Management Plans for ``off-installation'' natural resources 
projects to ensure state involvement and consultation; Welch amendment 
(No. 3) that encourages the Air Force to consider identified energy 
efficiency improvements in a timely and comprehensive manner; Lamborn 
amendment (No. 5) that requires the Department of Defense and the U.S. 
Air Force to revise their current regulations on religious freedom; 
Cleaver amendment (No. 12) that redesignates Pershing Park in 
Washington, DC as the ``National World War I Memorial'' and will 
designate the Liberty Memorial at America's National World War I Museum 
in Kansas City, Missouri, as the ``National World War I Museum and 
Memorial''; Runyan amendment (No. 16) that states that whenever two or 
more bases are formed into a DOD Joint Installation, if there are 
different locality pay areas, then all installation wage grade 
employees will be paid at the higher locality pay area rate; Turner 
amendment (No. 18) that expresses a Sense of Congress recognizing the 
importance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as well as 
ongoing enlargement initiatives; Hunter amendment (No. 19) that 
expresses the sense of Congress that the persons and organizations who 
carried out the attacks on the United States personnel in Benghazi, 
Libya on Sept 11 and 12, 2012 continue to pose a security

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threat to the United States; Rigell amendment (No. 20) that reaffirms 
Congress' constitutional war powers by clearly stating that nothing in 
this Act shall be construed to authorize any use of military force; 
Jackson Lee amendment (No. 22) that requires a report to Congress on 
crimes against humanity in Nigeria committed by Boko Haram; Daines 
amendment (No. 23) that contains findings of the importance of the 
nuclear triad and a statement of policy reaffirming the value of 
nuclear capabilities in maintaining a strong national defense; Rigell 
amendment (No. 32) that authorizes the DOD and NASA to execute an 
agreement for environmental cleanup attributable to the activities of 
DOD at the time the property was utilized by the Navy in the area 
constituting the former Naval Air Station Chincoteague, Virginia; 
Kilmer amendment (No. 33) that prohibits non-disciplinary furloughs of 
a DOD civilian employee whose performance is charged to a working 
capital fund; Smith (WA) amendment (No. 60) that provides the Secretary 
of the Army the authority to move the remains of member of the armed 
forces who has no known next of kin and is buried in an Army National 
Military Cemetery to another Army National Cemetery; Speier amendment 
(No. 72) that directs the Secretary of Defense to implement the 
recommendations of the Interagency Breast Cancer and Environmental 
Research Coordinating Committee to prioritize prevention and increase 
the study of chemical and physical factors in breast cancer; Speier 
amendment (No. 82) that allows women-owned small businesses to receive 
sole-source contracts under the same terms as other small business 
contracting programs and accelerates the disparity study to assess 
industries in the women-owned small business procurement program; 
Speier amendment (No. 86) that requires the public release of any IG 
reports that find misconduct for senior executive service (SES) 
officials, political appointees, and general and flag officers that 
rank O-6 or higher level; Turner amendment (No. 100) that clarifies 
that the memorandum of understanding extends to those additional test 
ranges not initially selected by the Administration if such range 
enters into a partnership or agreement with a selected test range; 
Kilmer amendment (No. 113) that reauthorizes overtime for navy civilian 
employees who perform nuclear maintenance for the forward deployed 
aircraft carrier in Japan for one year; and Polis amendment (No. 147) 
that urges the Secretary of Defense to conduct successful operationally 
realistic tests before purchasing additional ground-based missile 
defense interceptors;                                    
Pages H4718-25
  McKeon en bloc amendment No. 2 that consists of the following 
amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 113-460: Kildee amendment (No. 
14) that allocates $10 million to develop additional financial literacy 
training programs for incoming and transitioning service members; 
Rogers (AL) amendment (No. 25) that provides the Secretary of the Air 
Force the authority to enter into contracts for life-of-type 
procurements for commercial off-the-shelf parts for the 
intercontinental ballistic missile fuze; Linda T. Saanchez (CA) 
amendment (No. 29) facilitates the transfer of a portion of the U.S. 
Air Force Norwalk Defense Fuel Supply Point, also known as the Norwalk 
Tank Farm, to the City of Norwalk; Young (AK) amendment (No. 30) that 
expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Air Force 
should place emphasis on strategically significant criteria when basing 
the OCONUS F-35A, which includes access to sufficient range 
capabilities and space for training, the ability to robustly train with 
our international partners, the presence of existing facilities to 
support operations, limited encroachment, and the minimization of 
costs; McKinley amendment (No. 31) that increases the National Guard 
Youth Challenge Program under Civil Military Programs by $55 million; 
Bishop (UT) amendment (No. 34) that provides authority to the military 
services in working with civic organizations to charge the public a 
nominal fee to attend a military-sponsored Air Show or Open House on 
military bases; Swalwell amendment (No. 35) that requires the 
Department of Defense to allow military musical units to accept 
assistance from private entities for the benefit of said units; Conaway 
amendment (No. 36) that allows general and flag officer chaplains to be 
eligible for retirement deferment; Griffith (VA) amendment (No. 37) 
that requires DOD to fulfill former Sec. Gates' Efficiency Initiative 
relating to the number of general and flag officers by reducing 
approximately 33 positions through attrition by the end of 2015; 
McKinley amendment (No. 38) that requires the Secretary of Defense to 
establish an electronic tour calculator so that reservists could keep 
track of aggregated active duty tours of 90 days or more served within 
a fiscal year; Israel amendment (No. 39) that requires a report on the 
progress made to establish Army National Guard Cyber Protection Teams; 
Grayson amendment (No. 43) that reinserts section 1032 of the 
introduced version, which states: ``personal property retained as 
evidence in connection with an incident of sexual assault involving a 
member of the Armed Forces may be returned to the rightful owner of 
such property after the conclusion of all legal, adverse action, and 
administrative proceedings related to such incident''; Israel amendment 
(No. 68) that expresses the sense of Congress in support of public-
private partnerships to enhance DOD efforts on mental health care for 
servicemembers; Grayson amendment (No. 81) that prohibits DOD

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from contracting with persons convicted of fraudulent use of ``Made in 
America'' labels; Young (AK) amendment (No. 97) that requires the U.S. 
Air Force to conduct a business case analysis for the creation of a 
personnel-only active-association for the 168th Air Refueling Wing; 
Rogers (AL) amendment (No. 105) that requires the Secretary of Defense 
and the Director of National Intelligence to provide a notification if 
telecommunications companies with close ties to foreign governments are 
determined to have access to (or attempting to have access to) critical 
infrastructure of U.S. military or intelligence facilities; Rogers (AL) 
amendment (No. 122) that establishes the sense of Congress that Ukraine 
should close off its defense industries that currently provide critical 
capability to Russia for its nuclear forces; Grayson amendment (No. 
140) that updates the Space Protection Strategy required by the 2008 
NDAA, to include the period of 2026 through 2030; Rogers (AL) amendment 
(No. 143) that modifies an existing statutory reporting requirement to 
require certain officials to report on their ability to meet 
operational availability requirements for delivery platforms for 
nuclear weapons; Rogers (AL) amendment (No. 144) that requires the 
Commander of U.S. Strategic Command to provide copies of the prior 
year's Strategic Advisory Group reports to the congressional defense 
committees 30 days after the budget has been submitted; Israel 
amendment (No. 146) that expresses the sense of Congress in support of 
the National Guard's role in defending the U.S. from cyber attacks; 
Brooks (AL) amendment (No. 148) that requires a Plan to Counter Certain 
Ground-launched Ballistic Missiles and Cruise Missiles; and Kildee 
amendment (No. 161) that allocates $20 million for a private study to 
identify challenges confronting the DOD's care of wounded warriors and 
offer recommendations to improve it;                     
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  Hastings (WA) amendment (No. 28 printed in part A of H. Rept. 113-
460) that restores $20 million of the proposed cut to defense 
environmental cleanup;                                   
Pages H4746-47
  McKeon en bloc amendment No. 3 that consists of the following 
amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 113-460: Coffman amendment 
(No. 40) that enhances the participation of mental health professionals 
in boards for the correction of military records and boards for the 
review of the discharge or dismissal of members of the Armed Forces; 
Thompson (PA) amendment (No. 42) that requires a baseline mental health 
assessment before any individual joins the military, in order to bring 
mental health to parity with physical health during recruitment 
screenings; Velaazquez amendment (No. 44) that requires each branch of 
the military to develop an anonymous phone tip-line for reporting 
incidents of hazing; McMorris Rodgers amendment (No. 45) that directs 
the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to Congress evaluating the 
progress of the Military Spouse Employment Program in reducing military 
spouse unemployment, reducing the wage gap between military spouses and 
their civilian counterparts, and addressing the underemployment of 
military spouses; McNerney amendment (No. 46) that directs the DOD 
Secretary to consider how employment agencies will work with state and 
county VA offices and state National Guard offices when establishing 
requirements for a new employment pilot program for recently separated 
servicemembers; Cook amendment (No. 47) that creates a blueprint for a 
direct hire jobs placement program benefitting the National Guard and 
Reserves; Lamborn amendment (No. 48) that modifies some authorities for 
the Air Force Academy Athletic Corporation to bring them in line with 
similar authorities previously provided to the Naval Academy Athletic 
Association; Bonamici amendment (No. 49) that requires the Secretary of 
the Army to evaluate potential cost savings and potential effects on 
the National Guard's recruitment efforts of the requirement, effective 
January 1, 2014, that all service members wait one year after training 
before becoming eligible for the Army's tuition assistance program; 
Sean Maloney (NY) amendment (No. 50) that increases the authorization 
for Impact Aid by one additional year; Gerlach amendment (No. 51) that 
recognizes the Wereth massacre of 11 African-American soldiers of the 
U.S. Army during the Battle of the Bulge, December 17, 1944; Bustos 
amendment (No. 52) that asks the Secretary of the Army to review and 
provide a report on the Medal of Honor nomination of Captain William L. 
Albracht; Chu amendment (No. 53) that requests updated reporting 
information from each branch of the military regarding their methods 
for tracking, reporting, and preventing hazing, as well as a detailed 
military hazing report from GAO; Langevin amendment (No. 54) that 
requires National Institute of Mental Health to study of risk and 
resiliency of United States Special Operations Forces and effectiveness 
of Preservation of the Force and Families Program; LaMalfa amendment 
(No. 55) that clarifies jurisdictional confusion between VA field 
offices when cases are brokered out from the office of origination, 
ensuring that VA offices may continue to update congressional staff on 
constituents' cases; Walberg amendment (No. 56) that requires the 
Department to implement a pilot program to provide certain contact 
information for separating service members to state veterans affairs 
departments; Bishop (NY) amendment (No. 58) that expresses the Sense of 
Congress that the remains of three crewmen of the Martin Mariner PBM-5 
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should be recovered from Thurston Island, Antarctica; Farr amendment 
(No. 59) that designates the Department of Veterans Affairs and 
Department of Defense joint outpatient clinic to be constructed in 
Marina, California, as the ``Major General William H. Gourley VA-DOD 
Outpatient Clinic''; Kelly (PA) amendment (No. 130) that prohibits 
funds from being used to implement the UN Arms Trade Treaty unless the 
treaty has received the advice and consent of the Senate and has been 
the subject of implementing legislation by the Congress; Kelly (PA) 
amendment (No. 133) that expresses the Sense of Congress in opposition 
to France's impending sale of two Mistral class warships to Russia; 
Walberg amendment (No. 139) that prohibits any new funds for the 
Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund until previously appropriated funds 
have been fully expended; Lamborn amendment (No. 141) that limits 
funding for certain exchanges with Russia until the President certifies 
that all appropriate individuals have been listed under the Magnitsky 
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Pages H4747-53
  McKeon en bloc amendment No. 4 that consists of the following 
amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 113-460: Duckworth amendment 
(No. 41) that expands maternity leave for the active duty Service 
Members by an unpaid 6 weeks to be in line with the Family Medical 
Leave Act; Bilirakis amendment (No. 61) that allows for the 
transportation on military aircraft on a space-available basis for 
disabled veterans with a service-connected permanent disability rated 
as total; Ross amendment (No. 62) that prohibits the DOD from using 
funds to close commissary stores; Hanna amendment (No. 63) that allows 
memorial headstone or grave markers to be made available for purchase 
by Guard or Reserve members who served for at least six years, at no 
cost to the government; Capps amendment (No. 64) that makes available 
breastfeeding support, supplies, and counseling under the TRICARE 
program; Ellmers amendment (No. 66) that corrects the lack of timely 
and efficient notification of changes to TRICARE coverage by requiring 
the Secretary of Defense to notify all affected providers and 
beneficiaries of any significant change made by TRICARE via electronic 
means no less than 90 days before the change is to take place; Murphy 
(FL) amendment (No. 69) that improves DOD mental health and suicide 
prevention programs by coordination with VA and integration of care 
through an annual evaluation by an independent third party; Pascrell 
amendment (No. 70) that directs the peer-reviewed Psychological Health 
and Traumatic Brain Injury Research Program to conduct a study on blast 
injury and its correlation to traumatic brain injury; Loretta Sanchez 
amendment (No. 71) that requires a report on what steps the Department 
is taking to ensure military personnel and their families have access 
to reproductive counseling and treatments for infertility, including in 
vitro fertilization; Mulvaney amendment (No. 73) that maximizes 
competition in design-build contracts; Connolly amendment (No. 74) that 
amends section 4202 of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 to make the 
authority to use simplified acquisition procedures for certain 
commercial items permanent; Meng amendment (No. 75) that requires GAO 
to conduct a study on the effects of the Federal Strategic Sourcing 
Initiative on small businesses; Hanna amendment (No. 76) that requires 
non-corporate sureties to pledge specific and secure assets as required 
from others providing collateral to the Federal Government, and 
requires those assets be held by a government entity to ensure payments 
can be made in the event they are needed; Meng amendment (No. 110) that 
requires a regional office to carry out certain steps if it doesn't 
meet the 125 day goal of backlog claims; Connolly amendment (No. 112) 
that extends part-time reemployment authority under both CSRS and FERS 
by 5 years; Connolly amendment (No. 125) that directs the President to 
sell F-16 C/D aircraft to Taiwan to modernize its air fleet, 70 percent 
of which is scheduled to be retired within the next decade; Mulvaney 
amendment (No. 138) that codifies criteria developed by OMB in 2010 to 
clarify when military spending should be designated as contingency 
operations and properly be part of the Overseas Contingency Operation 
budget; Pierluisi amendment (No. 156) that modifies a statutory 
prohibition on Federally-funded environmental cleanup of certain 
property on the island of Culebra, Puerto Rico to enable DOD to remove 
unexploded ordnance resulting from former DOD training activities and 
posing a public safety risk; Connolly amendment (No. 157) that amends 
titles 40, 41, and 44, United States Code, to eliminate duplication and 
waste in Federal information technology acquisition and management; and 
Connolly amendment (No. 160) that prohibits funds from being used to 
integrate missile defense systems of the Russian Federation into the 
missile defense systems of the U.S. if such integration undermines the 
security of the U.S. or NATO;                            
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  McKeon en bloc amendment No. 5 that consists of the following 
amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 113-460: Graves (MO) amendment 
(No. 77) that encourages Federal contracts be structured in a manner 
that permits small businesses to compete; Caardenas amendment (No. 78) 
that establishes an outreach and education program to educate small 
businesses contracted by the Department of Defense on cyber threats and 
develop plans to protect intellectual property and their networks; 
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amendment (No. 79) that accelerates the commercialization of Federally-
funded research and technologies by establishing a grant program for 
participating STTR agencies to support proof-of-concept research and 
other innovative technology transfer activities at universities, 
research institutes, and federal laboratories; Poe (TX) amendment (No. 
80) that establishes the sense of Congress urging the Secretary of 
Defense to make a reasonable effort to make certain military equipment 
returning from abroad available to State, Federal, and local law 
enforcement agencies for the purpose of strengthening border security 
along the international border between the United States and Mexico; 
Thompson (CA) amendment (No. 83) that adds American Flags to the list 
of items covered by the Berry Amendment; Fortenberry amendment (No. 84) 
that requires report as to how the Department will manage its mission 
related to nuclear forces, deterrence, nonproliferation, and terrorism; 
Nugent amendment (No. 85) that provides statutory authority to 
implement the Secretary of Defense's recommendations to reorganize the 
personnel accounting community of the department; Burgess amendment 
(No. 87) that requires a report ranking all military departments and 
Defense Agencies in order of how advanced they are in achieving 
auditable financial statements as required by law; Takano amendment 
(No. 88) that requires the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress, 
no later than 30 days after enactment of this law, on the barriers to 
implementing audit reporting requirements and recommendations to ensure 
reporting deadlines are met; Miller (FL) amendment (No. 89) that 
prohibits the use of funds for the Navy's permitting activities under 
the Sunken Military Craft Act for one year; Ross amendment (No. 90) 
that prohibits the Department of Defense from using taxpayer funds to 
provide additional or upgraded recreational facilities for detainees at 
U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Bridenstine amendment (No. 
91) that amends Section 1045 to provide the Secretary of Defense more 
flexibility to meet the Aviation Foreign Internal Defense certification 
requirement; Braley (IA) amendment (No. 98) that directs the President 
to submit to Congress a report on the long-term costs of Operation 
Iraqi Freedom, Operation New Dawn, and Operation Enduring Freedom in 
Iraq and Afghanistan; Butterfield amendment (No. 107) that expands the 
types of documentation accepted by the federal government when a very 
small group of mariners that operated tugboats and barges domestically 
during World War II apply for veterans' status; Lewis amendment (No. 
108) that Requires the Secretary of Defense to post to cost of the wars 
in Afghanistan and Iraq to each American taxpayer on the Department of 
Defense's website; Lynch amendment (No. 109) that calls for the 
observation of two minutes of silence on Veterans Day in honor of the 
service and sacrifice of veterans throughout the history of the United 
States; Schiff amendment (No. 111) that establishes the Sense of 
Congress amendment endorsing the inclusion on the Vietnam Veterans 
Memorial of the 74 sailors lost aboard the USS Frank E. Evans in 1969; 
Poe (TX) amendment (No. 116) that requires the Secretary of Defense to 
provide for the conduct of an independent assessment of U.S. efforts to 
disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-Qaeda, including its affiliates 
groups, associated groups, and adherents since May 2, 2011; and 
Bridenstine amendment (No. 135) that requires Secretary of Defense to 
report on implications of Caspian Sea-based energy resources and 
distribution networks for U.S. and NATO energy security strategies; 
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  McKeon en bloc amendment No. 6 that consists of the following 
amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 113-460: Nunes amendment (No. 
92) that continues the use of Lajes Field (Air Force Base) in the 
Azores, Portugal until the completion of the European Infrastructure 
Consolidation Assessment; Sessions amendment (No. 93) that allows the 
Secretary of the Army to implement previously approved engineering 
change proposals on OH-58D Kiowa Helicopters in a manner that ensures 
the safety and survivability of the crews; Broun (GA) amendment (No. 
94) that prohibits any officer, employee, detailee, or contractor of 
the Department of Defense from using a drone to kill a citizen of the 
United States, with the exception of an individual who is actively 
engaged in combat against the United States; Palazzo amendment (No. 95) 
that expresses the concerns of Congress as it relates to tactical 
airlift following the withdrawal of combat forces from Afghanistan and 
requires a report on the 5-year plan for tactical airlift laydown prior 
to any permanent force structure changes of tactical airlift; 
Schweikert amendment (No. 96) that directs the Director of TARDEC to 
provide a report back to the Congressional Defense Committees 
addressing thermal injury prevention needs to improve occupant centric 
survivability systems for combat and tactical vehicles against over 
matching ballistic threats; Cole amendment (No. 99) that includes the 
DHS Robotic Aircraft for Public Safety (RAPS) program, or other 
activities of similar nature conducted by the Department of Homeland 
Security, as user of DOD airspace (in addition to MOU's the HASC has 
included for the 6 selected FAA sites); Gibson amendment (No. 101) that 
directs the Secretary of Defense to do a comprehensive search to 
determine which ships operated near Vietnam in the Vietnam Era; Latta 
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Day landings on the beaches of Normandy, France; Posey amendment (No. 
103) that allows the DOD, at the discretion of the Secretary, to 
transport goods supplied by nonprofit organizations to members of the 
Armed Forces serving overseas; Posey amendment (No. 104) that 
establishes the Sense of Congress that the Air Force should assess 
feasibility, costs, savings, and readiness implications of utilizing 
contractor-owned and operated very light jet aircraft for interim 
flight instruction until permanent replacement enters service; 
Cicilline amendment (No. 115) that asks that the ``Plan for Sustaining 
the Afghanistan National Security Forces'' through FY18 also include a 
description of efforts to engage United States manufacturers in 
procurement opportunities related to equipping the ANSF; Davis (CA) 
amendment (No. 118) that establishes the Sense of Congress on the 
importance of women in ensuring the future success of nation of 
Afghanistan; Johnson (GA) amendment (No. 119) that prevents the 
establishment of permanent U.S. Military bases in Afghanistan; Nolan 
amendment (No. 120) that provides auditing and inspecting guidelines 
for new construction projects in Afghanistan in excess of $500,000 that 
cannot be physically inspected by authorized civilian personnel; 
Tsongas amendment (No. 121) that establishes the Sense of Congress that 
women should be included in conflict resolution and a statement of 
United States policy that the United States supports efforts promoting 
the security of Afghan women and girls during the transition process 
and requires a DOD report on efforts to support the security of Afghan 
women and girls; DeLauro amendment (No. 123) that prohibits the 
Department of Defense from entering into a contract or subcontract with 
Russia's state-arms dealer Rosoboronexport unless the Secretary of 
Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of State and Director of 
National Intelligence, certifies that the firm ceased transferring 
weapons to Syria, Russia pulled out of Crimea, Russian forces have 
withdrawn from the eastern boarder of Ukraine, and that Russia is not 
otherwise actively destabilizing Ukraine; Engel amendment (No. 124) 
that establishes a U.S. policy of opposing transfers of ``defense 
articles and services'' to Russia by any NATO member country, during 
any period when Russia occupies the territory of Ukraine or a NATO 
member country; Gibson amendment (No. 128) that states that nothing in 
the FY15 NDAA shall be construed as authorizing the use of force 
against Syria or Iran; Engel amendment (No. 136) that requires the 
Secretary of Defense to report on activities of the Department of 
Defense in regards to protecting cultural property abroad; Turner 
amendment (No. 145) that limits availability of funds for removal or 
consolidation of dual-capable aircraft from Europe; and Larsen (WA) 
amendment (No. 155) that requires the creation of an interagency plan 
for verification and monitoring relating to the potential proliferation 
of nuclear weapons and fissile material; and             
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  McKeon en bloc amendment No. 7 that consists of the following 
amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 113-460: Gingrey amendment 
(No. 57) that expresses the Sense of Congress that active military 
personnel that are either live in or are stationed in Washington, DC 
would be exempt from existing District of Columbia firearms 
restrictions; Larson (CT) amendment (No. 65) that ensures access to 
behavioral health treatment, including applied behavior analysis, under 
TRICARE for children with developmental disabilities, when prescribed 
by a physician or psychologist; Jones amendment (No. 67) that Expresses 
a Sense of Congress on the use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy to treat 
traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder; Whitfield 
amendment (No. 106) that establishes the Sense of Congress that the 
President should establish and appoint an advisory board on toxic 
substances and worker health responsible for overseeing a portion of 
the original EEOICPA legislation known as ``Part E''; Rohrabacher 
amendment (No. 114) that expands the certification requirement on 
reimbursements to Pakistan to include human rights concerns; 
Rohrabacher amendment (No. 117) that expresses a sense of the Congress 
that Dr. Shakil Afridi is an international hero and is owed a debt of 
gratitude for helping to find Osama bin Laden; Ros-Lehtinen amendment 
(No. 126) that authorizes the Secretary of Defense to deploy assets, 
personnel and resources to the Joint Interagency Task Force South, in 
coordination with SOUTHCOM, to combat transnational criminal 
organization and drug trafficking; Ros-Lehtinen amendment (No. 127) 
that establishes that it shall be the policy of the United States to 
undertake a whole-of-government approach to bolster regional 
cooperation with countries throughout the Western Hemisphere to counter 
narcotics trafficking and illicit activities; Gosar amendment (No. 129) 
that expresses Congress' support for Israel's right to self-defense 
against regional threats; Roskam amendment (No. 131) that requires the 
President to submit to the appropriate committees every 180 days a 
report that identifies that the United States has taken all necessary 
steps to ensure that Israel possesses and maintains an independent 
capability to remove existential threats to its security and defend its 
vital national interests; Franks (AZ) amendment (No. 132) that 
establishes the Sense of Congress that the United States work with 
regional partners and allies to develop an interagency strategy counter 
the vicious terror attacks perpetrated by Boko Haram;

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Shimkus amendment (No. 134), as modified, that honors the victims of 
the Russian Soviet and Nazi regimes and supports the designation of a 
``Black Ribbon Day''; Kelly (IL) amendment (No. 137) that requires a 
report, not later than 90 days of the enactment, by the Secretary of 
Defense in consultation with Secretary of State shall submit a report 
to Congress on the efforts to assist in the search and rescue of the 
young women who were abducted from the Government Secondary School in 
Chibok, Nigeria by Boko Haram; Pompeo amendment (No. 142) that requires 
the Director of National Intelligence to certify that the 
recommendations of the report required under Section 933 of the FY 2014 
NDAA are consistent with the cyber operations capability needs of the 
United States before implementing any changes recommended by the study; 
Foster amendment (No. 149) that requires the Institute for Defense 
Analyses to study the testing program of the ground based midcourse 
missile defense system; Sablan amendment (No. 150) that broadens the 
geographical scope of the existing authorization relating to Saipan for 
the construction of a maintenance facility, a hazardous cargo pad, or 
an airport storage facility so that funding would be immediately 
available for either of the alternative locations now under 
consideration; Castor amendment (No. 151) that directs the Secretary of 
Defense to conduct a report for Congress on the prevalence of black 
mold in buildings located on military bases; Bordallo amendment (No. 
152) that allows the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of the 
Interior to enter into a cooperative agreement for the purposes of 
establishing a surface danger zone over the Ritidian Unit of the Guam 
National Wildlife Refuge to support training, operations and readiness 
needs for ground forces on Guam; Hastings (WA) amendment (No. 153) that 
ensures public access at Rattlesnake Mountain in the Hanford Reach 
National Monument; Hastings (WA) amendment (No. 154) that prevents 
further studies that involve bringing plutonium into the State of 
Washington at a time when the Federal Government is not meeting its 
existing legally enforceable defense nuclear waste cleanup commitments 
to the State; Graves (MO) amendment (No. 158) that establishes the 
National Commission on the Future of the Army; Franks (AZ) amendment 
(No. 159), as modified, that increases the amount authorized for Aegis 
Ballistic Missile Defense, line 30, by $99,000,000 and decreases two 
other lines equaling $99,000,000; and Young (IN) amendment (No. 162) 
that provides Section 330 indemnification to military installations, 
still under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense, to 
facilities closed other than pursuant to base closure law. 
                                                         Pages H4774-82
Rejected:
  Garamendi amendment (No. 5 printed in H. Rept. 113-455), as modified, 
that was debated on May 20th that sought to direct the President, DOD, 
and AFRICOM to expand various programs to include combating wildlife 
trafficking and poaching (agreed by unanimous consent to withdraw the 
request for a recorded vote to the end that the amendment stand 
rejected pursuant to the voice vote taken on May 20th);      
Page H4712
  Blumenauer amendment (No. 1 printed in H. Rept. 113-455) that was 
debated on May 20th that sought to authorize the Secretary of the Air 
Force to procure not more than 10 AESA radar upgrades for the Air 
National Guard F-15C/D aircraft, which is offset by cuts to levels 
authorized beyond the President's Budget Request, spread across 9 
accounts (by a recorded vote of 192 ayes to 229 noes, Roll No. 225); 
and                                                      
Pages H4712-13
  Loretta Sanchez (CA) amendment (No. 3 printed in H. Rept. 113-455) 
that was debated on May 20th that sought to allow the transfer of funds 
to nuclear nonproliferation, not just to weapons activities and naval 
reactors as is currently allowed for in the bill (by a recorded vote of 
194 ayes to 227 noes, Roll No. 226).                     
Pages H4713-14
Withdrawn:
  Westmoreland amendment (No. 4 printed in part A of H. Rept. 113-460) 
that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that would have struck 
section 341, which requires the disclosure of proprietary information; 
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Pages H4725-26
  Heck (WA) amendment (No. 13 printed in part A of H. Rept. 113-460) 
that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that would have created a 
program to give military communities that suffer from significant 
traffic problems caused by base population increases the opportunity to 
compete for $200 million in grants to improve transportation 
infrastructure, from building new roads to upgrading public 
transportation systems.                                  
Pages H4732-33
Proceedings Postponed:
  McKinley amendment (No. 1 printed in part A of H. Rept. 113-460) that 
seeks to prohibit funds for the Administration to conduct any anti-
fossil fuel climate change agenda, which includes the National Climate 
Assessment, the IPCC report, the UN's Agenda 21, and the Social Cost of 
Carbon;                                                  
Pages H4716-18
  Shimkus amendment (No. 6 printed in part A of H. Rept. 113-460) that 
seeks to delay relinquishment or agreeing to any proposal relating to 
the relinquishment of the responsibility of NTIA over Internet domain 
name system functions by the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for 
Communications and Information until GAO submits a report to

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Congress on the role of the NTIA with respect to the Internet domain 
name system;                                             
Pages H4726-28
  Smith (WA) amendment (No. 10 printed in part A of H. Rept. 113-460) 
that seeks to provide a framework for closure of the detention facility 
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by December 31, 2016;           
Pages H4728-30
  Smith (WA) amendment (No. 11 printed in part A of H. Rept. 113-460) 
that seeks to eliminate indefinite military detention of any person 
detained under AUMF authority in the United States, its territories, or 
possessions, by providing for immediate transfer to trial and 
proceedings by a court established under the Constitution or any 
appropriate State court;                                 
Pages H4730-32
  Jenkins amendment (No. 15 printed in part A of H. Rept. 113-460) that 
seeks to create a moratorium on the insourcing of previously contracted 
activities within DOD. Exceptions would be made (1) if the activity was 
``inherently governmental'', and thereby should never have been 
contracted out in the first place; and (2) if DOD would employ a 
``reverse A-76'' to itemize specific costs saved to the taxpayer should 
the DOD be able to perform the commercial activity more efficiently for 
the taxpayer;                                            
Pages H4733-35
  Lamborn amendment (No. 17 printed in part A of H. Rept. 113-460) that 
seeks to limit the use of funds for implementing the New START treaty 
until certification that the Russian Federation is respecting Ukrainian 
sovereignty and is no longer violating the INF or CFE treaties; 
                                                         Pages H4735-38
  Schiff amendment (No. 21 printed in part A of H. Rept. 113-460) that 
seeks to sunset the 2001 AUMF effective 12 months from date of 
enactment of the bill; and                               
Pages H4738-39
  Blumenauer amendment (No. 24 printed in part A of H. Rept. 113-460) 
that seeks to require CBO to update, on an annual basis, their report 
on the projected costs of U.S. nuclear forces.           
Pages H4739-40
  H. Res. 590, the rule providing for further consideration of the bill 
(H.R. 4435) and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3361), 
was agreed to by a yea-and-nay vote of 231 yeas to 190 nays, Roll No. 
228, after the previous question was ordered without objection. 
                                                         Pages H4714-15
  A point of order was raised against the consideration of H. Res. 590 
and it was agreed to proceed with consideration of the resolution by 
voice vote.                                           
Pages H4699-H4701
  A second point of order was raised against the consideration of H. 
Res. 590 and it was agreed to proceed with consideration of the 
resolution by voice vote.                                
Pages H4701-03
Meeting Hour: Agreed that when the House adjourns today, it adjourn to 
meet at 9 a.m. tomorrow, May 22nd.                           
  Page H4782
Quorum Calls--Votes: Four yea-and-nay votes and three recorded votes 
developed during the proceedings of today and appear on pages H4693, 
H4706, H4712-13, H4713, H4714, H4714-15 and H4715-16. There were no 
quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 9:44 p.m.