[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 92 (Wednesday, June 10, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D680-D684]
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. 2709-
2727; and 4 resolutions, H. Con. Res. 56; and H. Res. 306-308 were 
introduced.                                              
  Pages H4135-36
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages H4137-38
Report Filed: A report was filed today as follows:
  H. Res. 305, providing for consideration of the Senate amendment to 
the bill (H.R. 1314) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to 
provide for a right to an administrative appeal relating to adverse 
determinations of tax-exempt status of certain organizations, and 
providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 
644) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend 
and expand the charitable deduction for contributions of food inventory 
(H. Rept. 114-146).                                          
Page H4135
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he appointed 
Representative Jolly to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. 
                                                             Page H4007
Recess: The House recessed at 11:11 a.m. and reconvened at 12 noon. 
                                                             Page H4015
Guest Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the Guest Chaplain, Rabbi 
Claudio Kogan, Temple Emanuel, McAllen, Texas.               
  Page H4015
Journal: The House agreed to the Speaker's approval of the Journal by a 
yea-and-nay vote of 256 yeas to 168 nays with two answering 
``present'', Roll No. 332.                        
  Pages H4015, H4031-32
Committee Resignation: Read a letter from Representative Palazzo 
wherein he resigned from the Committee on Science, Space, and 
Technology.                                                  
  Page H4015
Committee Elections:  The House agreed to H. Res. 304, electing Members 
to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives. 
                                                             Page H4015
Suspension--Proceedings Resumed: The House agreed to suspend the rules 
and agree to the following measure which was debated on Tuesday, June 
9th:
  Supporting local law enforcement agencies in their continued work to 
serve our communities, and supporting their use of body worn cameras to 
promote transparency to protect both citizens and officers alike: H. 
Res. 295, supporting local law enforcement agencies in their continued 
work to serve our communities, and supporting their use of body worn 
cameras to promote transparency to protect both citizens and officers 
alike, by a 2/3 yea-and-nay vote of 421 yeas to 6 nays with one 
answering ``present'', Roll No. 331.                     
  Pages H4030-31
Authorizing the reprinting of the 25th edition of the pocket version of 
the United States Constitution: The House agreed to discharge from 
committee and agree to H. Con. Res. 54, authorizing the reprinting of 
the 25th edition of the pocket version of the United States 
Constitution.                                                
  Page H4032
Permitting official photographs of the House of Representatives to be 
taken while the House is in actual session on a date designated by the 
Speaker: The House agreed to discharge from committee and agree to H. 
Res. 292, permitting official photographs of the House of 
Representatives to be taken while the House is in actual session on a 
date designated by the Speaker.                              
  Page H4032
Country of Origin Labeling Amendments Act of 2015: The House passed 
H.R. 2393, to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to repeal 
country of origin labeling requirements with respect to beef, pork, and 
chicken, by a yea-and-nay vote of 300 yeas to 131 nays, Roll No. 333. 
                                                  Pages H4032-39, H4105
  Pursuant to the Rule, the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
recommended by the Committee on Agriculture now printed in the bill 
shall be considered as adopted.                              
Page H4032
  H. Res. 303, the rule providing for consideration of the bills (H.R. 
2685) and (H.R. 2393), was agreed to by a yea-and-nay vote of 244 yeas 
to 187 nays, Roll No. 330, after the previous question was ordered. 
                                                         Pages H4020-30
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2016: The House began 
consideration of H.R. 2685, making appropriations for the Department of 
Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016. Consideration is 
expected to resume tomorrow, June 11th.    
  Pages H4020-30, H4040, H4105
Agreed to:
  Gosar amendment that reduces funding for Operation and Maintenance, 
Defense-Wide, by $3,200,000 and increases funding for Operation and 
Maintenance, Army National Guard, by $2,000,000;             
Page H4060
  Pascrell amendment that redirects $5,500,000 in funding within 
Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide;                 
Pages H4060-61
  Delaney amendment that reduces funding for Operation and Maintenance, 
Defense-Wide, by $7,463,000 and increases funding for Fisher House 
Foundation, Inc. by $5,000,000;                          
Pages H4061-62

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  Franks (AZ) amendment that redirects $2,000,000 in funding within 
Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide;                     
Page H4062
  Nolan amendment that increases funding, by offset, for the research, 
development, test and evaluation activities of the Defense Health 
Program, by $1,000,000;                                  
Pages H4062-63
  McKinley amendment that redirects $5,000,000 in funding within 
Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide;                     
Page H4063
  Grayson amendment that increases funding, by offset, for the 
research, development, test and evaluation activities of the Defense 
Health Program related to Gulf War Illness, by $10,000,000; 
                                                             Page H4064
  Grayson amendment that increases funding, by offset, for prostate 
cancer research, by $10,000,000;                         
Pages H4064-65
  Speier amendment that increases funding, by offset, for the research, 
development, test and evaluation activities of the Defense Health 
Program, by $5,000,000;                                      
Page H4065
  Takai amendment that redirects $25,000,000 in funding within 
Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide;                     
Page H4065
  Conyers amendment that reduces funding for Operation and Maintenance, 
Defense-Wide, by $15,000,000 and increases funding for United Service 
Organizations by $10,000,000;                            
Pages H4065-66
  Keating amendment that increases funding, by offset, for research, 
development, test and evaluation activities of the Defense Health 
Program, by $1,000,000;                                  
Pages H4066-67
  Jackson Lee amendment that increases funding, by offset, for 
research, development, test and evaluation activities of the Defense 
Health Program related to PTSD, by $1,000,000;           
Pages H4067-68
  Jackson Lee amendment that increases funding, by offset, for breast 
cancer research, by $10,000,000;                         
Pages H4073-75
  Pascrell amendment that increases funding, by offset, for research, 
development, test and evaluation activities of the Defense Health 
Program, by $25,000,000;                                 
Pages H4075-76
  Aguilar amendment that redirects $1,000,000 in funding within 
research, development, test and evaluation activities of the Defense 
Health Program for suicide prevention;                   
Pages H4076-81
  McCollum amendment that redirects $80,000,000 in funding within 
Operation and Maintenance, Army;                         
Pages H4094-95
  Huffman amendment (No. 4 printed in the Congressional Record of June 
9, 2015) that strikes section 8053, relating to cost-effective 
agreements for required heating facility modernization in the 
Kaiserslautern Military Community (by a recorded vote of 252 ayes to 
179 noes, Roll No. 335);                       
Pages H4081-86, H4106-07
  Forbes amendment that strikes section 8122, which prohibits the 
transfer of funds to the National Sea Based Deterrent Fund (by a 
recorded vote of 321 ayes to 111 noes, Roll No. 339); 
                                               Pages H4092-94, H4109-10
  Walberg amendment that prohibits funds from being used for the 
``Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund'' (by a recorded vote of 233 ayes to 
199 noes, Roll No. 341);                       
Pages H4097-98, H4110-11
  MacArthur amendment (No. 5 printed in the Congressional Record of 
June 9, 2015) that prohibits the use of funds to divest or retire, or 
to prepare to divest or retire, KC-10 aircraft;              
Page H4113
  Walberg amendment that prohibits the use of funds to promulgate 
Directive 293, issued December 16, 2010, by the Office of Federal 
Contract Compliance Programs;                            
Pages H4114-15
  McSally amendment that prohibits the use of funds to divest, retire, 
transfer, or place in storage or on backup aircraft inventory status, 
or prepare to divest, retire, transfer, or place in storage or on 
backup aircraft inventory status, any EC-130H aircraft; 
                                                         Pages H4117-18
  Hunter amendment that prohibits the use of funds in contravention of 
section 2483(b)(5) of title 10, United States Code;          
Page H4119
  Yoho amendment that prohibits the use of funds under the heading 
``Iraq Train and Equip Fund'' to procure or transfer man-portable air 
defense systems;                                             
Page H4120
  Yoho amendment that prohibits the use of funds under section 9014 for 
``Assistance and Sustainment to the Military and National Security 
Forces of Ukraine to procure or transfer man-portable air defense 
systems;                                                     
Page H4120
  Conyers amendment that prohibits the use of funds to provide arms, 
training, or other assistance to the Azov Battalion;         
Page H4123
  Cole amendment that prohibits the use of funds to carry out furloughs 
of Working Capital Fund civilian employees;                  
Page H4124
  Grayson amendment that prohibits the use of funds to enter into 
contracts with entities who are convicted of fraud;      
Pages H4124-25
  Gosar amendment that prohibits the use of funds for Government Travel 
Charge Card expenses by military or civilian personnel of the 
Department of Defense for gaming, or entertainment that includes 
topless or nude entertainers or participants;                
Page H4125

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  McClintock amendment that prohibits funds from being used to carry 
out specified sections of Executive Order 13423, Executive Order 13514, 
and Executive Order 13963; specified subsections of section 2911 of 
title 10, U.S.C.; sections 400AA or 400FF of the Energy Policy and 
Conservation Act; section 303 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992; and 
section 203 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005;            
Pages H4126-27
  Jackson Lee amendment that prohibits the use of funds in 
contravention of the authority of the President pursuant to Article II, 
section 2 of the Constitution;                               
Page H4129
  Guinta amendment that prohibits the use of funds to propose, plan 
for, or execute a new or additional Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) 
round;                                                   
Pages H4129-30
  Nugent amendment that prohibits the use of funds to retire 
conventionally armed air launch cruise missles (AGM-86 C/D); and 
                                                         Pages H4132-33
  Forbes amendment that provides that notwithstanding section 8005 and 
9003, of the unobligated funds authorized to be appropriated in FY 2016 
and made available in this Act, $3,500,000,000 is available to transfer 
to the National Sea-Based Deterrence Fund.                   
Page H4133
Rejected:
  Bridenstine amendment that sought to increase funding, by offset, for 
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide, by 
$25,000,000;                                                 
Page H4072
  Rothfus amendment that sought to prohibit the use of funds to 
transfer or divest AH-64 Apache helicopters from the Army National 
Guard to the active Army prior to June 30, 2016 and to prohibit the 
allocation of funds for operation and maintenance and personnel 
connected with such aircraft (agreed by unanimous consent to withdraw 
the earlier request for a recorded vote to the end that the amendment 
stand disposed of in accordance with the previous voice vote thereon); 
                                               Pages H4089-92, H4104-05
  Lowenthal amendment that sought to redirect $5,000,000 in funding 
within Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide (by a recorded vote of 
195 ayes to 237 noes, Roll No. 334);                         
Page H4106
  Visclosky amendment that sought to strike section 8100, which 
prohibited the use of funds to transfer, release, or assist in the 
transfer or release to or within the United States, its territories, or 
possessions Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or other detainee (by a recorded 
vote of 174 ayes to 257 noes, Roll No. 336);      
Pages H4086, H4107-08
  Nadler amendment that sought to strike section 8101, which prohibited 
the use of funds on any modification of facilities at the United States 
Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (by a recorded vote of 173 ayes to 
259 noes, Roll No. 337);                          
Pages H4086-88, H4108
  Nadler amendment that sought to strike section 8102, which prohibited 
the use of funds to transfer any individual detained at the United 
States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the custody or control 
of the individual's country of origin, any other foreign country (by a 
recorded vote of 181 ayes to 251 noes, Roll No. 338); 
                                                Pages H408889, H4108-09
  Poe (TX) amendment that sought to reduce funding for Operation and 
Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $430,000,000 (by a recorded vote of 117 
ayes to 315 noes, Roll No. 340);                    
Pages H4095-97,4110
  Nolan amendment that sought to eliminate funding for the Iraq Train 
and Equip fund and apply the $715,000,000 in savings to the spending 
reduction account (by a recorded vote of 56 ayes to 375 noes, Roll No. 
342);                                       
Pages H4098-H4100, H4111-12
  Clawson amendment that sought to eliminate funding for the Syria 
Train and Equip fund and apply the $600,000,000 in savings to the 
spending reduction account (by a recorded vote of 107 ayes to 323 noes, 
Roll No. 343);                                    
Pages H4100-04, H4112
  Poe (TX) amendment that sought to strike subsection (b) of section 
9015, relating to the waiver used by the Secretary of Defense with 
respect to the Government of Pakistan (by a recorded vote of 114 ayes 
to 318 noes, Roll No. 344);                       
Pages H4104, H4112-13
  Huizenga (MI) (No. 2 printed in the Congressional Record of June 9, 
2015) amendment that sought to prohibit the use of funds by the Defense 
Logistics Agency to implement the Small Business Administration interim 
final rule titled ``Small Business Size Standards; Adoption of 2012 
North American Industry Classification System'' with respect to the 
procurement of footwear (agreed by unanimous consent to withdraw the 
earlier voice vote in which the amendment stand adopted be vacated to 
the end that the amendment stand disposed of); 
                                               Pages H4115-16, H4118-19
  Grayson amendment that sought to prohibit the use of funds to 
consult, as the term is used in reference to the Department of Defense 
and the National Security Agency, in contravention of the assurance 
provided under the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act; 
and                                                      
Pages H4126-26
  Rohrabacher amendment that sought to prohibit the use of funds to 
provide assistance to Pakistan.                              
Page H4132
Withdrawn:
  Jackson Lee amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn 
that would have increased funding, by offset, for Military Personnel, 
Navy, by $2,000,000;                                     
Pages H4057-59

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  Sablan amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
would have increased funding, by offset, for Environmental Restoration, 
Formerly Used Defense Sites, by $21,300,000;             
Pages H4063-64
  Lamborn amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
would have increased funding, by offset, for Research, Development, 
Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide, by $10,290,000;       
Pages H4068-70
  Heck (NV) amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
would have redirected $100,000,000 in funding within Procurement of 
Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army;               
Pages H4070-72
  Latta amendment that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that 
would have increased funding for Other Procurement, Air Force by 
$35,000,000 and reduces funding for Research, Development, Test and 
Evaluation, Defense-Wide, facilities and equipment by $49,000,000; and 
                                                             Page H4072
  Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM) amendment that was offered and 
subsequently withdrawn that would have redirected $3,543,000 in funding 
within Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide. 
                                                             Page H4075
Point of Order sustained against:
  Gosar amendment that sought to increase funding, by offset, for 
operation and maintenance of the Defense Health Program, by $1,500,000; 
and                                                          
Page H4061
  Ellmers amendment that sought to prohibit the use of funds to 
deactivate the 440th airlift wing, or to move the personnel or aircraft 
of the 440th airlift wing, or to otherwise degrade the capabilities of 
the 440th airlift wing.                                  
Pages H4131-32
Proceedings Postponed:
  Schiff amendment that seeks to prohibit the use of funds after March 
31, 2016, for Operation Inherent Resolve in the absence of a law 
enacted by Congress before such date that specifically authorizes the 
use of military force against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant;
                                                         Pages H4113-14
  Lee amendment that seeks to prohibit the use of funds pursuant to the 
Authorization for Use of Military Force after December 31, 2015; 
                                                         Pages H4116-17
  Lee amendment that seeks to prohibit the use of funds pursuant to the 
Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 
2002;                                                    
Pages H4118-19
  Sablan amendment that seeks to prohibit the use of funds to establish 
any live-fire range, training course, or maneuver area within the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands;            
Pages H4119-20
  Gosar amendment that seeks to prohibit the use of funds by the 
Department of the Navy to divest or transfer, or prepare to divest or 
transfer, any search and rescue units from the Marine Corps; 
                                                         Pages H4120-21
  Johnson (GA) amendment that seeks to prohibit the use of funds to 
transfer a flash-bang grenade;                           
Pages H4121-22
  Gosar amendment that seeks to prohibit the use of funds to procure 
any Army Aircrew Combat Uniforms;                        
Pages H4122-23
  Johnson (GA) amendment that seeks to prohibit the use of funds to 
transfer a mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle;      
Pages H4123-24
  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 in the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity 
Information System include the term ``Fair Labor Standards Act'' and 
such disposition is listed as ``willful'' or ``repeated''; 
                                                         Pages H4127-28
  Smith (MO) amendment that seeks to prohibit the use of funds to 
provide for defense counsel for any individual described in section 
8101(c); and                                             
Pages H4128-29
  Massie amendment that seeks to prohibit the use of funds for Section 
702 programs of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. 
                                                         Pages H4130-31
  H. Res. 303, the rule providing for consideration of the bills (H.R. 
2685) and (H.R. 2393), was agreed to by a yea-and-nay vote of 244 yeas 
to 187 nays, Roll No. 330, after the previous question was ordered. 
                                                         Pages H4020-30
Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015--Order of Business: Agreed by 
unanimous consent that it be in order at any time to take from the 
Speaker's table H.R. 1295, with the Senate amendments thereto, and to 
consider in the House, without intervention of any point of order, a 
single motion offered by the chair of the Committee on Ways and Means 
or his designee that the House 1) concur in the Senate amendment to the 
title and 2) concur in the Senate amendment to the text with the 
amendment printed in the portion of the Congressional Record designated 
for that purpose in clause 8 of rule 18 and numbered 1; that the Senate 
amendments and the motion be considered as read; that the motion be 
debatable for one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on Ways and Means; and that 
the previous question be considered as ordered on the motion to its 
adoption without intervening motion or demand for division of the 
question.                                                    
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United States Group of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly--Appointment: 
The Chair announced the Speaker's appointment of the following Members 
on the part of the House to the United States Group of the NATO 
Parliamentary Assembly: Representatives Larson (CT), David Scott (GA), 
Frankel (FL), and Connolly.                                  
  Page H4133
Presidential Message: Read a message from the President wherein he 
notified Congress that the national emergency declared with respect to 
the actions and policies of certain members of the Government of 
Belarus and other persons to undermine Belarus's democratic processes 
or institutions is to continue in effect beyond June 16, 2015--referred 
to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed (H. Doc. 
114-42).                                                 
  Pages H4039-40
Senate Messages: Messages received from the Senate by the Clerk and 
subsequently presented to the House today and messages received from 
the Senate today appear on pages H4032.
Senate Referrals: S. 653 was referred to the Committee on Natural 
Resources and S. 611 was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce.                                                    
  Page H4133
Quorum Calls--Votes: Four yea-and-nay votes and eleven recorded votes 
developed during the proceedings of today and appear on pages H4030, 
H4030-31, H4031, H4105, H4106, H4106-07, H4107-08, H4108, H4108-09, 
H4109-10, H4110, H4110-11, H4111-12, H4112, H4112-13. There were no 
quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 1:48 a.m. on 
Thursday, June 11, 2015.