[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 87 (Tuesday, June 2, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D628-D632]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 21 public bills, H.R. 2602-
2622; and 3 resolutions, H. Res. 289-291 were introduced. 
                                                         Pages H3756-58
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages H3758-59
Report Filed: A report was filed today as follows:
  H. Res. 288, providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2289) 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. 114-
136).                                                        
Page H3756
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he appointed 
Representative Hultgren to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. 
                                                             Page H3645
Recess: The House recessed at 10:40 a.m. and reconvened at 12 noon. 
                                                             Page H3649
Journal: The House agreed to the Speaker's approval of the Journal by a 
yea-and-nay vote of 240 yeas to 170 nays with two answering 
``present'', Roll No. 269.                                   
  Page H3659
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2016: The House began consideration of H.R. 2578, making appropriations 
for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016. Consideration 
is expected to resume tomorrow, June 3.               
  Pages H3652-H3755
Agreed to:
  Guinta amendment that increases funding, by offset, for Drug Courts 
by $5,000,000;                                           
Pages H3675-76
  Reichert amendment that increases funding, by offset, for the Edward 
Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program by $1,000,000; 
                                                         Pages H3675-77
  Nugent amendment that increases funding, by offset, for Justice 
Programs State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance by $4,000,000; 
                                                         Pages H3679-81
  Poe (TX) amendment that increases funding, by offset, for victim 
services programs for victims of trafficking by $17,300,000; 
                                                         Pages H3681-82
  Smith (TX) amendment that redirects $21,000,000 in funding within 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration corporate services 
administrative support costs;                            
Pages H3687-88
  Clawson amendment that increases funding, by offset, for operations, 
research and facilities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration by $2,000,000;                                
Page H3689
  McKinley amendment that increases funding, by offset, for salaries 
and expenses of the International Trade Commission by $2,000,000; 
                                                         Pages H3692-93
  Gosar amendment that reduces the general administration account of 
the Department of Justice by $2,209,500 and increases the general 
administration account of the Office of Inspector General by 
$1,709,000;                                              
Pages H3694-95
  Brownley (CA) amendment, as modified, that increases funding, by 
offset, for a veterans treatment courts program by $2,500,000; 
                                                         Pages H3695-96
  MacArthur amendment that increases funding, by offset, for enhanced 
training and services to end violence against and abuse of women in 
later life by $750,000;                                      
Page H3696
  Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM) that increases funding, by offset, for 
the Office of Justice state and local law enforcement assistance 
program by $2,000,000 (by a recorded vote of 417 ayes to 10 noes, Roll 
No. 272);                                      
Pages H3693-94, H3698-99
  Gosar amendment that reduces funding for the salaries, expenses, and 
general legal activities of the Department of Justice by $1,000,000 and 
applies the savings to the spending reduction account (by a recorded 
vote of 228 ayes to 198 noes, Roll No. 273); 
                                            Pages H3696-97, H3699-H3700

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  Cohen amendment that increases funding, by offset, for a grant 
program for community-based sexual assault response reform by 
$4,000,000;                                              
                                                         Pages H3702-03
  Ted Lieu (CA) amendment that reduces funding for the Drug Enforcement 
Administration by $9,000,000, increases funding for the Office on 
Violence Against Women by $4,000,000; and increases funding for 
programs authorized by the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 by 
$3,000,000;                                                  
                                                             Page H3703
  Castro (TX) amendment that increases funding, by offset, to improve 
community-police relations by $10,000,000;               
                                                         Pages H3703-04
  Gosar amendment that increases funding, by offset, for veterans 
treatment courts by $5,000,000;                          
                                                         Pages H3705-06
  Gosar amendment that increases funding, by offset, for a program to 
monitor prescription drugs and scheduled limited chemical products by 
$5,000,000;                                              
                                                         Pages H3706-07
  Buck amendment that appropriates funds to investigate or act upon 
applications for relief from Federal firearms disabilities under 
section 925 (c) of title 18, United States Code;         
                                                         Pages H3708-09
  Moore amendment that increases funding, by offset, for mental health 
courts and adult and juvenile collaboration grants by $2,000,000; 
                                                             Page H3709
  Connolly amendment that increases funding, by offset, for veterans 
treatment court programs by $1,000,000;                  
                                                         Pages H3709-16
  Engel amendment that prohibits funds from being used by the 
Department of Commerce, the Department of Justice, or any other Federal 
agency 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 H3724-25
  Poe (TX) amendment that prohibits the use of funds made available for 
the Department of Justice or the FBI to mandate or request that a 
person alter the product or service of the person to permit the 
electronic surveillance of any user of such product or service except 
in the case of mandates or requests authorized under the Communications 
Assistance for Law Enforcement Act;                      
                                                         Pages H3725-27
  Polis amendment that prohibits the use of funds to execute a subpoena 
of tangible things pursuant to the Controlled Substances Act that does 
not include the following sentence: ``This subpoena limits the 
collection of any tangible things (including phone numbers dialed, 
telephone numbers of incoming calls, and the duration of calls) to 
those tangible things identified by a term that specifically identifies 
an individual, account, address, or personal device, and that limits, 
to the greatest extent reasonably practicable, the scope of the 
tangible things sought.'';                                   
                                                             Page H3727
  Poe (TX) amendment that prohibits the use of funds to enforce section 
221 of title 13, United States Code, with respect to the survey, 
conducted by the Secretary of Commerce, commonly referred to as the 
``American Community Survey'';                           
                                                         Pages H3730-32
  Goodlatte amendment that prohibits the use of funds to pay the 
salaries and expenses of personnel of the Department of Justice to 
negotiate or conclude a settlement with the Federal Government that 
includes terms requiring the defendant to donate or contribute funds to 
an organization or individual;                           
                                                         Pages H3733-34
  Carter (TX) amendment that prohibits the use of funds to propose or 
to issue a rule that would change the Chief Law Enforcement Officer 
certificate requirement in a manner that has the same substance as the 
proposed rule published on Sept. 9, 2013                 
                                                         Pages H3735-36
  Ellison amendment that prohibits the use of funds by the Department 
of Justice in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the 
United States Constitution; or to repeal the guidance provided in the 
memorandum issued by the Attorney General on March 31, 2015; 
                                                         Pages H3737-38
  Black amendment that prohibits the use of funds to require, pursuant 
to section 478.124 to title 27, or section 25.7 of title 28, Code of 
Federal Regulations, or the Office of Management and Budget Statistical 
Policy Directive No. 15, Race and Ethnic Standards for Federal 
Statistics and Administrative Reporting;                 
                                                         Pages H3739-40
  Meadows amendment that prohibits the use of funds to negotiate or 
enter into a trade agreement that establishes a limit on greenhouse gas 
emissions for the United States;                             
                                                             Page H3741
  Grayson amendment that prohibits the use of funds to enter into a 
contract with any offeror or any of its principals if the offeror 
certifies, as required by Federal Acquisition Regulation; 
                                                         Pages H3741-42
  Hudson amendment that prohibits the use of funds to treat any M855 or 
SS. 109 type ammunition as armor piercing ammunition for purposes of 
chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code;              
                                                         Pages H3742-43
  Perry amendment that prohibits the use of funds to implement the 
United States Global Climate Research Program's National Climate 
Assessment, the Intergovernmental 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;                                                 
                                                             Page H3752

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  Marino amendment that prohibits the use of funds for the Department 
of Justice's clemency initiative announced on April 23, 2014, or for 
Clemency Project 2014, or to transfer or temporarily assign employees 
to the Office of the Pardon Attorney for the purpose of screening 
clemency applications; and                               
                                                         Pages H3753-54
  Austin Scott (GA) amendment that prohibits the use of funds by the 
NOAA to enforce:
  1) Amendment 40 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Reef Fish 
Resources of the Gulf of Mexico published in the Federal Register on 
April 22, 2015 or 2) Red Snapper in federal waters of the Gulf of 
Mexico lasting longer than 5 times the number of days recreational 
fishers are allowed to catch and retain at least two such fish each day 
in such federal waters.                                  
Pages H3754-55
Rejected:
  McClintock amendment that sought to reduce funding for the 
International Trade Administration by $311,788,000 and apply the 
savings to the spending reduction account (by a recorded vote of 154 
ayes to 263 noes, Roll No. 270);               
Pages H3678-79, H3697-98
  Esty amendment that sought to increase funding for the Hollings 
Manufacturing Extension Partnership of the National Institute of 
Standards of Technology by $11,000,000 and reduce funding for buildings 
and facilities of the National Prison System by $31,000,000 (by a 
recorded vote of 213 ayes to 214 noes, Roll No. 271); 
                                                  Pages H3683-84, H3698
  Cohen amendment that sought to increase funding, by offset, for the 
Legal Services Corporation by $10,000,000 (agreed by unanimous consent 
to withdraw the earlier request for a recorded vote to the end that the 
amendment stand adopted in accordance with the previous voice vote 
thereon);                                                
Pages H3704-05
  Byrne amendment that sought to reduce funding for the Bureau of 
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms salaries and expenses by $250,000,000; 
                                                         Pages H3707-08
  Nadler amendment that sought to strike section 528 of the bill, which 
prohibits use of funds to construct, acquire, or modify any facility in 
the U.S., its territories, or possessions to house any individual who 
as of June 24, 2009, is located at U.S. Naval Air Station, Guantanamo 
Bay, Cuba; and                                           
Pages H3716-21
  Blumenauer amendment that sought to prohibit the use of funds for any 
inspection under the Controlled Substances Act with respect to narcotic 
drugs or combinations of such drugs, being dispensed for maintenance or 
detoxification treatment.                                
Pages H3734-35
Withdrawn:
  Goodlatte amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
would have increased funding, by offset, for Federal Prisoner Detention 
by $293,000,000;                                         
Pages H3674-75
  Poliquin amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
would have increased funding, by offset, for the International Trade 
Administration by $44,000,000;                           
Pages H3677-78
  Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX) amendment that was offered and 
subsequently withdrawn that would have redirected $3,000,000 in funding 
within the NIST Scientific and Technical Research and Services; 
                                                         Pages H3682-83
  Austin Scott (GA) amendment that was offered and subsequently 
withdrawn that would have reduced funding for the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration's relocation of facilities account by 
$3,200,000 and applied the savings to the spending reduction account; 
                                                             Page H3684
  Blumenauer amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
would have redirected $60,760,000 in funding within the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's operations, research, and 
facilities;                                              
Pages H3684-85
  Guinta amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
would have redirected $70,000,000 in funding within the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's operations, research, and 
facilities;                                              
Pages H3685-86
  Polis amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
would have redirected $30,000,000 in funding within the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's operations, research, and 
facilities;                                              
Pages H3686-87
  Keating amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
would have redirected $1,750,000 in funding within the National Oceanic 
and Atmospheric Administration's operations, research, and facilities; 
                                                         Pages H3688-89
  Bonamici amendment (No. 4 printed in the Congressional Record of June 
1, 2015) that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that would have 
redirected $21,559,000 in funding within the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration's operations, research, and facilities; 
                                                         Pages H3689-91
  Bridenstine amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn 
that would have redirected $9,000,000 in funding within the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's procurement, acquisition and 
construction;                                                
Page H3691
  Bonamici amendment (No. 5 printed in the Congressional Record of June 
1, 2015) that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that would have 
increased funding for Procurement, Acquisition, and

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Construction for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by 
$380,000,000;                                            
Pages H3691-92
  Esty amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that would 
have struck section 532 from the bill, which prohibits use of funds to 
pay the salaries or expenses of personnel to deny, or fail to act on, 
an application for the importation of any model of shotgun if all other 
requirements of law with respect to the proposed importation are met 
and no application for the importation of such model of shotgun, in the 
same configuration, had been denied by the Attorney General prior to 
January 1, 2011, on the basis that the shotgun was not particularly 
suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes; and strikes 
section 537 from the bill, which prohibits the use of funds 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 H3721-22
  Schweikert amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
would have prohibited the use of funds be used to transfer cell site 
simulators, or IMSI Catcher, or similar cell phone tower mimicking 
technology to state and local law enforcement that haven't adopted 
procedures for the use of such technology that protects the 
constitutional rights of citizens;                           
Page H3724
  Scott (VA) amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
would have revised amounts in the bill by reducing the amount made 
available for the Federal Prison Systems salaries and expenses, and 
increasing the amount made available for Office of Justice Programs, 
Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention by $69,515,000; 
                                                             Page H3729
  Lee amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that would 
have provided for States to require all individuals enrolled in an 
academy of a law enforcement agency of the State and all law 
enforcement officers of the State fulfill a training session on 
sensitivity each fiscal year, including training on ethnic and racial 
bias, cultural diversity, and police interaction with the disabled, 
mentally ill, and new immigrants;                        
Pages H3729-30
  Poe (TX) amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
would have prohibited the use of funds for DNA analysis and capacity 
enhancement program and for other local, State, and Federal forensic 
activities for which funds are made available under this Act as part of 
the $125 million for DNA-related forensic programs and activities; and 
                                                             Page H3737
  Richmond amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
would have reduced the aggregate amount made available for Federal 
Prison System salaries and expenses, and by increasing the amount made 
available for the Office of Justice Programs, Juvenile Justice Programs 
for youth mentoring grants, by $155,900,000.             
Pages H3740-41
Point of Order sustained against:
  Collins (GA) amendment that sought to prohibit the use of funds 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 H3743-44
  Proceedings Postponed:
  Pittenger amendment that seeks to increase funding, by offset, for 
salaries and expenses of the FBI by $25,000,000;         
Pages H3701-02
  Nadler amendment that seeks to strike section 527 of the bill, which 
prohibits use of funds to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer 
or release to or within the U.S., its territories, or possessions 
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who is not a U.S. citizen 
or a member of the Armed Forces of the U.S. and is or was held on or 
after June 24, 2009, at the U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 
by the Department of Defense;                            
Pages H3716-21
  Farr amendment that seeks to strike section 540 from the bill, which 
prohibits use of funds to facilitate, permit, license, or promote 
exports to the Cuban military or intelligence service or to any officer 
of the Cuban military or intelligence service, or an immediate family 
member thereof;                                          
Pages H3722-24
  Blackburn amendment (No. 1 printed in the Congressional Record of 
June 1, 2015) that seeks to reduce amounts made available by 1 percent, 
except those amounts made available to the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation and certain accounts of the Department of Justice; 
                                                         Pages H3727-29
  Foster amendment that seeks to prohibit the use of funds to fund any 
Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) 
program;                                                 
Pages H3732-33
  Bonamici amendment (No. 9 printed in the Congressional Record of June 
1, 2015) that seeks to prohibit funds from being used by the Department 
of Justice 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;                                                    
Pages H3736-37
  Ellison amendment that seeks to prohibit the use of funds to enter 
into a contract with any person whose disclosures of a proceeding with 
a disposition listed in section 2313(c)(1) of title 41, United States 
Code, in the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information 
System include the term ``Fair Labor Standards Act'';    
Pages H3738-39

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  Grayson amendment that seeks to prohibit the use of funds to 
negotiate or enter into a trade agreement whose negotiating texts are 
confidential;                                            
Pages H3744-45
  Rohrabacher amendment that seeks to prohibit the use of funds by 
various states to prevent any of them from implementing their own laws 
that authorize the use, distribution, possessions, or cultivation of 
medical marijuana;                                       
Pages H3745-47
  Grayson amendment that seeks to prohibit the use of funds to compel a 
person to testify about information or sources that the person states 
in a motion to quash the subpoena that he has obtained as a journalist 
or reporter and that he regards as confidential;             
Page H3747
  McClintock amendment that seeks to prohibit the use of funds by 
various states to prevent any of them from implementing their own laws 
that authorize the use, distribution, possessions, or cultivation of 
marijuana on non-Federal lands within their respective jurisdictions; 
                                                         Pages H3748-50
  Perry amendment that seeks to prohibit the use of funds to take any 
action to prevent a State from implementing any law that makes it 
lawful to possess, distribute, or use cannabidiol oil; and 
                                                         Pages H3750-52
  Garrett amendment that seeks to prohibit the use of funds to enforce 
the Fair Housing Act in a manner that relies upon an allegation of 
liability under section 100.500 of title 24, Code of Federal 
Regulations.                                             
Pages H3752-53
  H. Res. 287, the rule providing for consideration of the bills (H.R. 
2577) and (H.R. 2578) was agreed to by a yea-and-nay vote of 242 yeas 
to 180 nays, Roll No. 268, after the previous question was ordered. 
                                                         Pages H3658-59
Senate Message: Message received from the Senate today appears on page 
H3694.
Quorum Calls--Votes: Two yea-and-nay votes and four recorded votes 
developed during the proceedings of today and appear on pages H3658-59, 
H3659, H3697-98, H3698-99 and H3699-H3700. There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 2:05 a.m. on 
Wednesday, June 3, 2015.