[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 82 (Thursday, May 29, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D574-D578]
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                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 20 public bills, H.R. 4755-
4774; and 4 resolutions, H. Res. 603, 605-607, were introduced. 
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Additional Cosponsors:                                    
  Pages H502324
Report Filed: A report was filed today as follows:
  H. Res. 604, providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4745) 
making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and 
Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2015, and for other purposes; providing for 
consideration of the bill (H.R. 4681) to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal years 2014 and 2015 for intelligence and intelligence-related 
activities of the United States Government, the Community Management 
Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability 
System, and for other purposes; and for other purposes (H. Rept. 113-
465).                                                        
Page H5022
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he appointed 
Representative Bentivolio to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. 
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Recess: The House recessed at 11:20 a.m. and reconvened at 12 noon. 
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Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the guest chaplain, Rabbi Stephen 
Roth, Congregation Etiz Chaim, Passaic, New Jersey.          
  Page H4923
Committee Resignation: Read a letter from Representative Gowdy wherein 
he resigned from the Committee on Education and the Workforce. 
                                                             Page H4927
Committee Election: The House agreed to H. Res. 603, electing certain 
Members to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives.
                                                             Page H4927
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2015: The House passed H.R. 4660, making appropriations for the 
Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, by a yea-and-nay vote of 321 
yeas to 87 nays, Roll No. 269. Consideration of the measure began 
yesterday, May 28th.                                  
  Pages H4927-H5016
  Rejected the Moore motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on 
Appropriations with instructions to report the same back to the House 
forthwith with amendments, by a recorded vote of 185 ayes to 220 noes 
with 2 answering ``present'', Roll No. 268.              
Pages H5014-16
  Agreed by unanimous consent that, during further consideration of 
H.R. 4660 in the Committee of the Whole: 1) each amendment (other than 
pro forma amendments addressed in this order) shall be debatable for 10 
minutes equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an 
opponent; 2) each amendment shall not be subject to amendment except 
that

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the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
Appropriations (or a respective designee) each may offer one pro forma 
amendment to an amendment for the purpose of debate; and 3) the chair 
and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations and the 
subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies 
thereof may offer pro forma amendments to the bill at any point for the 
purpose of debate but that no other pro forma amendment to the bill be 
in order.                                                    
Page H4955
Agreed to:
  Gosar amendment that increases funding, by offset, for State and 
local law enforcement assistance by $8,000,000 for a program to monitor 
prescription drugs;                                      
Pages H4927-29
  Cohen amendment that increases funding, by offset, for State and 
local law enforcement assistance by $5,000,000 for grants to address 
backlogs of sexual assault kits;                             
Page H4929
  McNerney amendment that was debated on May 29th that increases 
funding, by offset, for Community Oriented Policing Services by 
$3,000,000 for improvements in technology (by a recorded vote of 306 
ayes to 106 noes, Roll No. 244);                         
Pages H4932-33
  Bridenstine amendment that was debated on May 29th that increases 
funding, by offset, for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration by $12,000,000 for weather research (by a recorded vote 
of 340 ayes to 71 noes, Roll No. 245);                   
Pages H4933-34
  King (IA) amendment that was debated on May 29th that redirects 
$5,000,000 in funding within Salaries and Expenses, General 
Administration, Department of Justice (by a recorded vote of 218 ayes 
to 193 noes, Roll No. 246);                                  
Page H4934
  Gosar amendment that increases funding, by offset, for State and 
local law enforcement assistance by $6,000,000 for a veterans treatment 
courts program;                                          
Pages H4941-42
  Jackson Lee amendment (No. 8 printed in the Congressional Record of 
May 28, 2014) that increases funding, by offset, for Violence Against 
Women Prevention and Prosecution Programs by $500,000;   
Pages H4942-43
  Delaney amendment that increases funding, by offset, for State and 
local law enforcement assistance by $1,000,000 for existing evidence-
based criminal justice programs;                         
Pages H4943-44
  Connolly amendment that increases funding, by offset, for State and 
local law enforcement assistance by $1,000,000 for a veterans treatment 
courts program;                                          
Pages H4944-45
  Gallego amendment that increases funding, by offset, for the Office 
of Violence Against Women by $2,500,000 for rural domestic violence and 
child abuse enforcement assistance grants;               
Pages H4945-46
  Gosar amendment that increases funding, by offset, for State and 
local law enforcement assistance by $4,250,000 for the Edward Byrne 
Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program;               
Pages H4946-47
  Grayson amendment (No. 18 printed in the Congressional Record of May 
28, 2014) that increases funding by $3,000,000 under the Edward Byrne 
Memorial Justice Memorial Assistance Grant program for competitive 
grants to distribute firearm safety materials and gun locks; 
                                                         Pages H4949-50
  Kaptur amendment that increases funding, by offset, for Space 
Technology by $7,000,000;                                
Pages H4955-57
  Thompson (CA) amendment that was debated on May 28th that increases 
funding, by offset, for the National Instant Criminal Background Check 
System by $19,500,000 (by a recorded vote of 260 ayes to 145 noes with 
1 answering ``present'', Roll No. 249);                  
Pages H4964-65
  Smith (TX) amendment that redirects $15,350,000 in funding within the 
National Science Foundation (by a recorded vote of 208 ayes to 201 
noes, Roll No. 252);                           
Pages H4957-59, H4966-67
  Hastings (WA) amendment that prohibits funds under the heading 
``Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery'' from being used for grant 
guidelines or requirements to establish minimum riparian buffers; 
                                                         Pages H4974-75
  Engel amendment that prohibits funds from being used 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; 
                                                         Pages H4976-77
  Grayson amendment (No. 21 printed in the Congressional Record of May 
28, 2014) that prohibits funds from being used to enter into a contract 
with any offeror or any of its principals if that offeror has (A) 
within a three-year period preceding this offer, been convicted of or 
had a civil judgment rendered against it for commission of a fraud or a 
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or 
performing a public contract or subcontract; violation of Federal or 
State antitrust statutes relating to the submission of offers; or 
commission of embezzlement, theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or 
destruction of records, making false statements, tax evasion, violating 
Federal criminal tax laws, or receiving stolen property; or (B) are 
presently indicted for, or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a 
governmental entity with, commission of any of the offenses enumerated 
above in subsection (A); or (C) within a three-year period preceding 
this offer, has been notified of any delinquent

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Federal taxes in an amount that exceeds $3,000 for which the liability 
remains unsatisfied;                                         
Page H4982
  Flores amendment that prohibits funds from being used to implement 
Executive Order 13547 (75 Fed. Reg. 43023, relating to the stewardship 
of oceans, coasts, and the Great Lakes), including the National Ocean 
Policy developed under such Executive Order;             
Pages H4987-88
  Poe (TX) amendment that prohibits funds from being used to enforce 
section 221 of title 13, United States Code, with respect to the 
American Community Survey;                                   
Page H4988
  Jackson Lee amendment (No. 10 printed in the Congressional Record of 
May 28, 2014) that prohibits funds for Department of Justice--
Administrative Review and Appeals from being used in contravention of 
sections 509 and 510 of title 28, United States Code;    
Pages H4988-90
  Huffman amendment that prohibits funds from being used to assess or 
collect the fee established by section 660.115 of title 50, Code of 
Federal Regulations;                                     
Pages H4991-92
  Ellison amendment that prohibits funds from being used in 
contravention of (1) the Fifth and 14th Amendments to the Constitution; 
(2) Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; (3) Section 809(c)(1) of 
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968; or (4) Section 
210401(a) of the Violent Crime and Law Enforcement Act of 1994; 
                                                             Page H4993
  Perry amendment that prohibits funds from being used for the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration's Advanced Food Technology 
Project;                                                     
Page H4993
  Broun (GA) amendment that prohibits funds from being used under the 
heading ``Economic Development Administration, Economic Development 
Assistance Programs'' for a loan guarantee for Innovative Technologies 
in Manufacturing;                                        
Pages H4994-95
  Grayson amendment that prohibits funds from being used to negotiate 
an agreement that includes a waiver of the ``Buy American Act''; 
                                                             Page H4995
  Salmon amendment that prohibits funds made available to the National 
Science Foundation from being used to examine climate effects on tea 
quality and socioeconomic responses;                     
Pages H4995-96
  Perry amendment that prohibits funds from being used to design, 
implement, administer, or carry out the U.S. Global Climate Research 
Program National Climate Assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on 
Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report, the United Nation's Agenda 21 
sustainable development plan, or the May 2013 Technical Update of the 
Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Executive 
Order 12866;                                             
Pages H4998-99
  Luetkemeyer amendment that prohibits funds from being used to carry 
out Operation Choke Point;                               
Pages H5001-02
  Collins (GA) amendment (No. 16 printed in the Congressional Record of 
May 28, 2014) that prohibits funds from being used to provide 
assistance to a State, or political subdivision of a State, that has in 
effect any law, policy, or procedure in contravention of immigration 
laws;                                                    
Pages H5003-05
  Walberg amendment that prohibits funds from being used for the 
Investigative and Public Affairs Unit of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation except for the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, the Most Wanted 
Terrorists, and missing children programs (agreed by unanimous consent 
to withdraw the request for a recorded vote to the end that the 
amendment stand adopted pursuant to the earlier voice vote thereon); 
                                                         Pages H4981-82
  Bonamici amendment that prohibits funds from being used to prevent a 
State from implementing its own State laws that authorize the use, 
distribution, possession, or cultivation of industrial hemp, as defined 
in section 7606 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (by a recorded vote of 
237 ayes to 170 noes, Roll No. 257);           
Pages H4979-81, H5007-08
  Rohrabacher amendment (No. 25 printed in the Congressional Record of 
May 28, 2014) that prohibits funds from being used to prevent certain 
States from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, 
distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana (by a 
recorded vote of 219 ayes to 189 noes, Roll No. 258); 
                                                  Pages H4982-85, H5008
  Holding amendment that prohibits funds from being used to transfer or 
temporarily assign employees to the Office of the Pardon Attorney for 
the purpose of screening clemency applications (by a recorded vote of 
219 ayes to 189 noes, Roll No. 259);           
Pages H4986-87, H5008-09
  Massie amendment that prohibits funds from being used in 
contravention of section 7606 (``Legitimacy of Industrial Hemp 
Research'') of the Agricultural Act of 2014 by the Department of 
Justice or the Drug Enforcement Administration (by a recorded vote of 
246 ayes to 162 noes, Roll No. 260);           
Pages H4990-01, H5009-10
  Grayson amendment that prohibits funds from being used to compel a 
journalist or a reporter to testify about information or sources that 
the journalist or reporter states in a motion to quash the subpoena 
that he has obtained as a journalist or reporter and that he regards as 
confidential (by a recorded vote of 225 ayes to 183 noes, Roll No. 
263);                                          
Pages H4996-97, H5011-12
  Duffy amendment that prohibits funds from being used to relinquish 
the responsibility of the NTIA

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with respect to Internet domain name system functions, including 
responsibility with respect to the authoritative root zone file and the 
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority functions (by a recorded vote of 
229 ayes to 178 noes, Roll No. 264);                 
Pages H4999, H5012
  Garrett amendment that prohibits funds from being used by the 
Department of Justice to enforce the Fair Housing Act in a manner that 
relies upon an allegation of liability under 24 C.F.R. 100.500 (by a 
recorded vote of 216 ayes to 190 noes, Roll No. 265); 
                                            Pages H4999-H5001, H5012-13
  King (IA) amendment that prohibits funds from being used in 
contravention of section 642(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and 
Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (by a recorded vote of 214 ayes to 
194 noes, Roll No. 266); and                      
Pages H5002-03, H5013
  Meadows amendment that prohibits funds from being used to negotiate 
or enter into a trade agreement that establishes a limit on greenhouse 
gas emissions (by a recorded vote of 226 ayes to 179 noes, Roll No. 
267).                                             
Pages H5003, H5013-14
Rejected:
  Pompeo amendment that was debated on May 28th that sought to 
eliminate funding for the Economic Development Administration and apply 
the $247,500,000 in savings to the spending reduction account (by a 
recorded vote of 129 ayes to 280 noes, Roll No. 243);    
Pages H4931-32
  Cohen amendment that was debated on May 28th that sought to increase 
funding, by offset, for Administrative Review and Appeals by $2,000,000 
(by a recorded vote of 127 ayes to 282 noes, Roll No. 247); 
                                                         Pages H4934-35
  Cohen amendment that sought to increase funding, by offset, for the 
Legal Services Corporation by $15,000,000 (by a recorded vote of 173 
ayes to 238 noes, Roll No. 248);               
Pages H4929-31, H4935-40
  Kildee amendment that sought to increase funding, by offset, for the 
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives by $15,000,000; 
                                                         Pages H4940-41
  Kilmer amendment that sought to increase funding, by offset, for 
State and local law enforcement assistance by $2,000,000 for economic, 
high technology, and Internet crime prevention grants;   
Pages H4948-49
  Broun (GA) amendment that sought to reduce funding for the Office of 
Science and Technology Policy by $1,000,000 and apply the savings to 
the spending reduction account;                          
Pages H4953-55
  Broun (GA) amendment that sought to reduce funding for the National 
Science Foundation by $67,330,000 and apply the savings to the spending 
reduction account;                                       
Pages H4959-61
  Polis amendment that sought to reduce funding for the Drug 
Enforcement Administration by $35,000,000 (by a recorded vote of 66 
ayes to 339 noes, Roll No. 250);                         
Pages H4965-66
  Cicilline amendment that sought to increase funding, by offset, for 
State and local law enforcement assistance by $8,500,000 for Project 
Safe Neighborhoods (by a recorded vote of 196 ayes to 212 noes, Roll 
No. 251);                                         
Pages H4947-48, H4966
  Austin Scott (GA) amendment that sought to eliminate funding for the 
Legal Services Corporation and apply the $350,000,000 in savings to the 
spending reduction account (by a recorded vote of 116 ayes to 290 noes, 
Roll No. 253);                                  
Pages H4961-63,H4967-68
  Moran amendment (No. 13 printed in the Congressional Record of May 
28, 2014) that sought to strike sections 528 and 529, which prohibit 
funds from being used to transfer or release any detainee who is or was 
held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba or construct, acquire, or modify any 
facility in the U.S. to house any detainee held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba 
(by a recorded vote of 169 ayes to 230 noes, Roll No. 254); 
                                               Pages H4970-72, H5005-06
  Blackburn amendment (No. 14 printed in the Congressional Record of 
May 28, 2014) that sought to reduce the funds made available by this 
Act by 1%, with the exception of certain funds of the FBI (by a 
recorded vote of 148 ayes to 253 noes, Roll No. 255); 
                                                     Pages H4976, H5006
  Blackburn amendment (No. 15 printed in the Congressional Record of 
May 28, 2014) that sought to prohibit funds from being used for 
operation, renovation, or construction at Thomson Correctional Facility 
in Illinois (by a recorded vote of 198 ayes to 208 noes, Roll No. 256);
                                               Pages H4977-79, H5006-07
  Southerland amendment (No. 24 printed in the Congressional Record of 
May 28, 2014) that sought to prohibit funds from being used to develop, 
approve, or implement a new limited access privilege program that is 
not already developed, approved, or implemented for any fishery under 
the jurisdiction of the South Atlantic, Mid-Atlantic, New England, or 
Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (by a recorded vote of 185 
ayes to 223 noes, Roll No. 261); and              
Pages H4992-93, H5010
  Ellison amendment that sought to prohibit funds from being used to 
enter into a contract with any person whose disclosures of a proceeding 
with a disposition outlined in the Federal Awardee Performance and 
Integrity Information System include the term ``Fair Labor Standards 
Act'' (by a recorded vote of 196 ayes to 211 noes, Roll No. 262). 
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Withdrawn:
  Costa amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
would have increased by $230,000,000 the amount available to pay the 
salaries and expenses of personnel of the Department of Justice during 
fiscal year 2015 from the fund established by section 1402 of Public 
Law 98-473;                                              
Pages H4963-64
  Esty amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that would 
have struck section 539, which prohibits funds from being used to 
require a person licensed under section 923 of title 18, United States 
Code, to report information to the Department of Justice regarding the 
sale of multiple rifles or shotguns to the same person; 
                                                         Pages H4972-74
  Doyle amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
would have required the Secretary of Commerce, the United States Trade 
Representative, and United States International Trade Commission to 
jointly submit a report to Congress on their respective authorities to 
impose sanctions against corporations or other legal entities that 
benefit from utilizing trade secrets or other information; 
                                                         Pages H4975-76
  Grayson amendment (No. 20 printed in the Congressional Record of May 
28, 2014) that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that would have 
prohibited funds from being used by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to 
solicit, offer, or award a contract in which the Federal government is 
required to provide a minimum number of inmates to a private 
correctional institution or a private detention center; 
                                                         Pages H4985-86
  Gosar amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
would have prohibited funds from being used to obtain the contents of 
wire or electronic communications in a remote computing service as 
described in section 2703(b)(1)(B) of title 18, United States Code; and
                                                             Page H4998
  Hudson amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
would have prohibited funds from being used for any program not 
authorized by law as of the date of the enactment of this Act. 
                                                             Page H5003
Point of Order sustained against:
  Jeffries amendment that sought to allocate no less than $5,000,000 
under Community Oriented Policing Services for programs to increase and 
enhance proactive crime control and prevention programs involving law 
enforcement officers and young persons in the community; 
                                                         Pages H4950-51
  Grayson amendment (No. 19 printed in the Congressional Record of May 
28, 2014) that sought to include incest as an exception under the 
provisions of Sec. 202; and                              
Pages H4951-53
  Gosar amendment that prohibits funds from being used to conduct 
various studies listed in the amendment.                 
Pages H4997-98
  H. Res. 585, the rule providing for consideration of the bills (H.R. 
4660) and (H.R. 4435), was agreed to on Tuesday, May 20th.
Moment of Silence: The House observed a moment of silence in honor of 
the brave Americans who lost their lives on the beach of Normandy, 
France on June 6, 1944.                                      
  Page H4932
Quorum Calls--Votes: One yea-and-nay vote and 26 recorded votes 
developed during the proceedings of today and appear on pages H4932, 
H4932-33, H4933, H4934, H4934-35, H4935, H4964-65, H4965, H4966, H4966-
67, H4967, H5005-06, H5006, H5006-07, H5007-08, H5008, H5008-09, H5009-
10, H5010, H5010-11, H5011, H5012, H5012-13, H5013, H5014, H5015-16, 
and H5016. There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 1:17 a.m. on 
Friday, May 30th.