[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 95 (Wednesday, June 18, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D665-D668]
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                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 14 public bills, H.R. 4885-
4898; and 1 resolution, H. Res. 630 were introduced.     
  Pages H5493-94
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages H5494-95
Report Filed: A report was filed today as follows:
  H. Res. 629, providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4413) to 
reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to better protect 
futures customers, to provide end users with market certainty, to make 
basic reforms to ensure transparency and accountability at the 
Commission, to help farmers, ranchers, and end users manage risks to 
help keep consumer costs low, and for other purposes (H. Rept. 113-
476).                                                        
Page H5493
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he appointed 
Representative LaMalfa to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. 
                                                             Page H5401
Recess: The House recessed at 10:30 a.m. and reconvened at 12 noon. 
                                                             Page H5404
Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the guest chaplain, Rabbi Michael 
Lotker, Temple Ner Ami, Camarillo, CA.                       
  Page H5404
Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and 
Transparency Act of 2014--Motion to go to Conference: The House agreed 
by voice vote to the Miller (FL) motion to concur in the Senate 
amendment to the title of H.R. 3230, to improve the access of veterans 
to medical services from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and concur 
in the Senate amendment to the text of H.R. 3230 with the amendment 
printed in H. Rept. 113-475. Subsequently, the House agreed by voice 
vote to the Miller (FL) motion that the House insist upon its amendment 
to the Senate amendment, and request a conference with the Senate 
thereon.                                                 
  Pages H5413-15
  Rejected the Sinema motion to instruct conferees by a yea-and-nay 
vote of 198 yeas to 220 nays, Roll No. 316.              
Pages H5425-29
  Subsequently, the Chair appointed the following conferees on H.R. 
3230: For consideration of the House amendment and the Senate 
amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Representatives 
Miller (FL), Lamborn, Roe (TN), Flores,

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Benishek, Coffman, Wenstrup, Walorski, Michaud, Brown (FL), Takano, 
Brownley (CA), Kirkpatrick, and Walz.                        
Page H5425
  H. Res. 628, the rule providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 
4870) and providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the 
bill (H.R. 3230), was agreed to by a yea-and-nay vote of 244 yeas to 
163 nays, Roll No. 315, after the previous question was ordered without 
objection.                                               
Pages H5407-13
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2015: The House began 
consideration of H.R. 4870, making appropriations for the Department of 
Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015. Consideration of 
the measure is expected to resume tomorrow, June 19th. 
                                               Pages H5407-25, H5429-87
Agreed to:
  Lee amendment that increases funding, by offset, for the Defense 
Health Program by $5,000,000 for multiple sclerosis research; 
                                                         Pages H5446-47
  Jackson Lee amendment that increases funding, by offset, for the 
Defense Health Program by $500,000 for post-traumatic stress disorder 
research;                                                
Pages H5448-50
  Lamborn amendment that increases funding, by offset, for Operation 
and Maintenance, Army National Guard by $5,000,000;          
Page H5450
  Jeffries amendment that increases funding, by offset, for the Defense 
Health Program by $10,000,000 for post-traumatic stress disorder 
research;                                                    
Page H5450
  McKinley amendment that redirects $21,000,000 in funding within 
Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide for the National Guard Youth 
Challenge Program;                                       
Pages H5450-51
  McGovern amendment that increases funding, by offset, for the Defense 
Health Program by $3,000,000 for therapeutic service dogs; 
                                                         Pages H5451-52
  Benishek amendment that increases funding, by offset, for the Defense 
Health Program by $2,000,000 for Alzheimer's disease research; 
                                                             Page H5452
  Ellison amendment that redirects $10,000,000 in funding within 
Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide;                 
Pages H5454-55
  Runyan amendment that increases funding, by offset, for Other 
Procurement, Air Force by $6,000,000;                        
Page H5455
  Delaney amendment that reduces funding for Operation and Maintenance, 
Defense-Wide by $24,000,000 and increases funding for the Fisher House 
Foundation, Inc. for the construction and furnishing of additional 
Fisher Houses;                                           
Pages H5455-56
  Lowenthal amendment that redirects $5,000,000 in funding within 
Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide;                     
Page H5456
  Grayson amendment that increases funding, by offset, for the Defense 
Health Program by $10,000,000 for Gulf War Illness research; 
                                                         Pages H5456-57
  Murphy (PA) amendment that reduces funding for Environmental 
Restoration, Air Force by $37,000,000 and increases funding for the 
Defense Health Program by $10,000,000 for mental health treatment; 
                                                         Pages H5457-58
  Jackson Lee amendment that increases funding, by offset, for the 
Defense Health Program by $5,000,000 for breast cancer research; 
                                                         Pages H5461-62
  Nugent amendment that redirects $10,000,000 in funding within 
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force;   
Pages H5463-64
  Grayson amendment that increases funding, by offset, for the Defense 
Health Program by $10,000,000 for prostate cancer research; 
                                                         Pages H5464-65
  Holt amendment that redirects $1,000,000 in funding within the 
Defense Health Program for research on financial stress and its 
relation to suicide;                                         
Page H5465
  Langevin amendment that redirects $30,000,000 in funding within the 
Defense Health Program for spinal cord injury research; 
                                                         Pages H5465-66
  7Holt amendment that redirects $2,000,000 in funding within the 
Intelligence Community Management Account for the Intelligence 
Community Whistleblowing & Source Protection Directorate; 
                                                         Pages H5466-77
  Daines amendment that strikes the portion of section 8132 which 
requires the provisions of the section to continue in effect through 
the date of enactment of an Act authorizing appropriations for fiscal 
year 2015 for military activities of the Department of Defense; 
                                                             Page H5477
  Grayson amendment that prohibits funds from being used to enter into 
a contract with any offeror or any of its principals if that offeror 
has (1) 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 (2) are presently indicted for, or otherwise criminally or 
civilly charged by a governmental entity with, commission of any of the 
offenses enumerated in paragraph (1); or (3) within a three-year period 
preceding this offer, has been notified of any delinquent Federal taxes 
in an amount

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that exceeds $3,000 for which the liability remains unsatisfied; and 
                                                             Page H5483
  Nolan amendment that prohibits funds from being used for the 
``Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund''.                         
Page H5485
Rejected:
  Lamborn amendment that sought to redirect $5,000,000 in funding 
within Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide;          
Pages H5447-48
  Kildee amendment that sought to increase funding, by offset, for the 
Defense Health Program by $20,000,000; and               
Pages H5459-61
  Coffman amendment (No. 5 printed in the Congressional Record of June 
17, 2014) that sought to reduce funding for Research, Development, Test 
and Evaluation, Air Force by $15,722,000 and apply the savings to the 
spending reduction account.                                  
Page H5463
Withdrawn:
  Kildee amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
would have increased funding for Operation and Maintenance, Defense-
Wide by $10,000,000 and reduced funding for Aircraft Procurement, Navy 
by $50,000,000;                                          
Pages H5452-53
  Garamendi amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
would have reduced funding for Research, Development, Test and 
Evaluation, Air Force by $15,600,000 and applied the savings to the 
spending reduction account; and                          
Pages H5462-63
  Cole amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that would 
have prohibited funds from being used to provide housing on a military 
installation to an alien (as defined in the Immigration and Nationality 
Act) who is an unaccompanied minor and is not a dependent of a member 
of the Armed Forces.                                     
Pages H5482-83
Point of Order sustained against:
  Gohmert amendment that sought to increase, by offset, funding for 
National Guard Personnel, Army by $41,492,000;               
Page H5445
  Gohmert amendment that sought to increase funding for National Guard 
Personnel, Army by $41,492,000 and reduce funding for operation and 
maintenance of activities and agencies of the Department of Defense 
(other than the military departments) by $57,000,000;    
Pages H5445-46
  Garamendi amendment that sought to prohibit funds from being used for 
research, development, test, or evaluation for the F-35 Joint Strike 
Fighter to modify the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in a manner that 
provides B-61 delivery capability until the date that a report has been 
delivered to the Congressional defense committees outlining costs and 
capabilities;                                            
Pages H5481-82
  Grayson amendment that sought to prohibit funds from being used by an 
officer, employee, or contractor of the intelligence community to 
subvert or interfere with the integrity of any cryptographic standard 
that is proposed, developed, or adopted by the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology; and                            
Pages H5483-84
  Grayson amendment that sought to prohibit funds from being used to 
make aircraft, armored vehicles, grenade launchers, silencers, 
toxicological agents, launch vehicles, guided missiles, ballistic 
missiles, rockets, torpedos, bombs, mines, or nuclear weapons available 
to local law enforcement agencies through the Department of Defense 
Excess Personal Property Program.                        
Pages H5486-87
Proceedings Postponed:
  Gohmert amendment that seeks to increase funding, by offset, for Drug 
Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, Defense by $35,956,000 for 
the National Guard counter-drug program;                 
Pages H5453-54
  Blumenauer amendment (No. 4 printed in the Congressional Record of 
June 17, 2014) that seeks to increase funding, by offset, for 
Environmental Restoration, Formerly Used Defense Sites by $3,400,000; 
                                                         Pages H5458-59
  Nadler amendment that seeks to strike section 8132, which prohibits 
funds from being used to reduce, convert, decommission, or otherwise 
move to nondeployed status any Minuteman III ballistic missile silo 
that contains a deployed missile as of the date of the enactment of 
this Act;                                                
Pages H5477-81
  Walorski amendment that seeks to prohibit funds from being used to 
transfer or release to the Republic of Yemen (or any entity within 
Yemen) a detainee who is or was held, detained, or otherwise in the 
custody of DoD on or after June 24, 2009, at the United States Naval 
Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; and                       
Pages H5484-85
  Miller (MI) amendment that seeks to prohibit funds from being used to 
divest, retire, transfer, or place in storage, or prepare to divest, 
retire, transfer, or place in storage, any A-10 aircraft, or to 
disestablish any units of the active or reserve component associated 
with such aircraft.                                      
Pages H5485-86
  H. Res. 628, the rule providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 
4870) and providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the 
bill (H.R. 3230), was agreed to by a yea-and-nay vote of 244 yeas to 
163 nays, Roll No. 315, after the previous question was ordered without 
objection.                                               
Pages H5407-13
Senate Message: Message received from the Senate by the Clerk and 
subsequently presented to the House today appears on page H5406.
Quorum Calls--Votes: Two yea-and-nay votes developed during the 
proceedings of today and appear

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on pages H5412-13, H5429. There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 9:15 p.m.