[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 95 (Wednesday, June 15, 2016)] [Daily Digest] [Pages D663-D667] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] House of Representatives Chamber Action Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 10 public bills, H.R. 5483, 5484, 5486-5493; and 5 resolutions, H. Con. Res. 137; and H. Res. 785- 788 were introduced. Pages H3913-14 Additional Cosponsors: Pages H3914-15 Report Filed: A report was filed today as follows: H.R. 5485, making appropriations for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and for other purposes (H. Rept. 114-624). Page H3913 Recess: The House recessed at 11 a.m. and reconvened at 12 noon. Pages H3825, H3833 Guest Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the Guest Chaplain, Father Mina D. Essak, St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church, Troy, Michigan. Page H3833 Reception in the House Chamber of Former Members of Congress: Agreed by unanimous consent that the proceedings during the former Members program be printed in the Congressional Record and that all Members and former Members who spoke during the proceedings have the privilege of revising and extending their remarks. Page H3837 Recess: The House recessed at 1:13 p.m. and reconvened at 2 p.m. Page H3842 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2017: The House considered H.R. 5293, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017. Consideration is expected to resume tomorrow, June 16th. Pages H3837-H3904 Agreed to: Jackson Lee amendment (No. 1 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that increases funding for Military Personnel, Navy by $2 million and reduces the amount made available for the same account, by $2 million; Pages H3864-65 Hartzler amendment (No. 4 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that increases funding for Army Ammunition Procurement by $20,000,000; Page H3866 Frelinghuysen en bloc amendment No. 1 consisting of the following amendments printed in H. Rept. 114-571: Rooney (FL) (No. 7) that restores TRICARE reimbursement rates for Applied Behavior Analysis under the Comprehensive Autism Demonstration; McSally (No. 47) that appropriates wing upgrades authorized for the A-10 and moves money from within the Air Force Aircraft Procurement OCO account to the A-10 wing upgrade; Jackson Lee (No. 49) that reduces funding for Environmental Restoration Army, by $1 million and increases funding for Defense Health Care for PTSD by a similar amount; Lowenthal (No. 50) that increases the STARBASE fifth grade youth STEM education program found in Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide, Civil Military Programs by $5 million, [[Page D664]] and to reduce Operations and Maintenance, Army, Other Servicewide Activities by the offsetting amount; Coffman (No. 51) that requests a transfer of $6.086 million from within the Navy's fiscal year 2017 Operations & Maintenance (O&M) account, to increase funding for the Weapons Support, Fleet Ballistic Missiles, Project 934, Engineering and Technical Services sub-account managed by the Navy's Strategic Systems Program office; Duffy (No. 52) that reduces and then increases the amount in the Operations and Maintenance Defense-Wide fund by $1,000,000; this is the account that pays for the Student Transportation Security Services Program; McKinley (No. 53) that increases funding for the National Guard Youth Challenge Program (NGYCP) under Civil Military Programs by $5 million and decrease by the same amount Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide; Aguilar (No. 54) that appropriates $5 million for the Information Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP); a DoD program designed to address our cyber personnel demands through the recruitment and retention of top IT/Cybersecurity talent; Nadler (No. 55) that increases funding by $10 million for Israeli Cooperative Programs (procurement of the Iron Dome defense system) and offsets by reducing by $10 million the Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide account; Noem (No. 56) that increases Aircraft Procurement, Air Force by $7 million intended for B-1 Bomber modifications and decreases Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $7 million; Aderholt (No. 57) that reduces Defense Wide Operation and Maintenance funding by $17,000,000, and increases Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army funding by $17,000,000; Grayson (No. 58) that increases the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army account by $5 million and offsets it by reducing $5 million from Operation and Maintenance, Defense-wide account; Bera (No. 59) that increases funding for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency by $5 million, offset with a reduction from Operation and Maintenance; Grayson (No. 60) that increases funding for prostate cancer research under the Defense Health Program by $5 million; Grayson (No. 61) that increases funding for Gulf War illness research under the Defense Health Program by $1 million; Hartzler (No. 62) that increases Defense Health Program Funding by $5,000,000; Meng (No. 63) that moves $8 million from the Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide account to the Peer-Reviewed Cancer Research Program in order to make funding for brain cancer, colorectal cancer, listeria-based regimens for cancer, liver cancer, melanoma, mesothelioma, pancreatic cancer, and stomach cancer consistent with the funding levels in the FY17 Senate DOD appropriations bill; Nolan (No. 64) that provides an additional $2 million for the Department of Defense's Lung Cancer Research Program and decreases the Operation and Maintenance, Defense-wide account by the same amount; Delaney (No. 65) that provides for an additional $5 million for the Fisher House Foundation which is offset by an outlay neutral reduction in the Operation and Maintenance, Defense-wide account; Fitzpatrick (No. 66) that increases funding for the Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research Program (TSCRP) at the Department of Defense (DoD) in the fiscal year 2017 Defense Appropriations Act by $2 million; Jackson Lee (No. 67) that reduces funding for Procurement, Defense- Wide, by $10 million and increases funding for Defense Health Programs by a similar amount in order to address breast cancer research; MacArthur (No. 68) that funds U.S.-Israel Cooperative Directed Energy missile defense research, development, testing, evaluation, and procurement at $25 million and reduces Missile Defense Agency Headquarters by $25 million; Larsen (WA) (No. 69) that reduces and then increases Navy RDT&E by $2 million to support F/A-18 squadron noise reduction programs; Gabbard (No. 70) that increases the Ballistic Missile Defense Sensors RDT&E Defense-Wide account by $5 million, with offset, to fund missile defense requirement for the Asia Pacific; Walberg (No. 71) that prohibits funds to be used for implementing the Department of Labor Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program's Directive 293; Grayson (No. 72) that prohibits DOD from entering into a contract with an entity that discloses, as it is required to by the Federal Acquisition Regulation, that it has been convicted of fraud or another criminal offense in the last three years in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing a public contract or sub-contract; prohibits DOD from contracting with entities that have been notified of any delinquent Federal taxes for which the liability remains unsatisfied; and Yoho (No. 73) that blocks funds from being used to provide weapons or training to neo-Nazi Azov Battalion in Ukraine; Pages H3868-70 Paulsen amendment (No. 6 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that increases funding for Defense Production Act purchases by $25 million for Strategic Radiation Hardened Microelectronics Trusted Foundry Sustainment; Pages H3870-71 Zinke amendment (No. 8 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that appropriates $80,000,000 for the UH 1N Replacement Program, offset with $50,000,000 from the Office of the Secretary of Defense and $30,000,000 from the Washington Headquarters' Services accounts; Page H3871 [[Page D665]] Gibson amendment (No. 10 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that reduces the Aerostat Joint Project Office funding by $1 million and increases the Weapons and Munitions Advanced Technology funding for extended range cannon artillery by $1 million; Pages H3872-73 Langevin amendment (No. 11 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that appropriates $29,800,000 to Navy programs for the development and demonstration of advanced technologies, including high energy lasers and the Electromagnetic Railgun for naval weapon systems; Pages H3873-74 Wittman amendment (No. 14 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that strikes Sec. 8055, which prohibits the Department from modifying the command and control relationships between U.S. Fleet Forces Command and the U.S. Pacific Fleet; Page H3877 Buck amendment (No. 23 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that prevents DOD from partnering with private organizations to create or expand national heritage asset areas in southeast Colorado; Pages H3885-86 Hudson amendment (No. 28 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that states no funds in this act may be used to transfer a detainee at Guantanamo Bay to any other location; Pages H3890-91 Reichert amendment (No. 35 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that ensures no funds shall be used to implement President Obama's Executive Order 13688 limiting the donation of surplus federal equipment to state and local law enforcement as part of the DOD's Excess Property Program (1033 program); and Pages H3899-H3900 Cartwright amendment (No. 39 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that requires that no funds be used to plan for, begin, continue, complete, process, or approve a public-private competition under the Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76. Pages H3902-03 Rejected: Peters amendment (No. 18 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that sought to strike the prohibition of funds to enforce section 526 that restricts Federal Agencies from entering into contracts to buy alternative fuels that are more polluting than conventional fuels (agreed by unanimous consent to withdraw the earlier request for a recorded vote). Pages H3880-81 Withdrawn: Lujan Grisham (NM) amendment (No. 3 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that would have increased funding for Air Force Research, Development, Test and Evaluation by $7 million to support the development of beam directors and adaptive optics, including deformable mirrors and high efficiency and high temperature diodes, that provide enabling technology for the development of high energy laser weapon systems; decreased funding in the Operations and Maintenance for the Army by $1 million, decreased funding in the Operations and Maintenance for the Navy by $3 million, and decreased funding in the Operations and Maintenance for the Air Force by $3 million; Page H3866 Meehan amendment (No. 5 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that would have reduced and then increased, the amount in the Operations and Maintenance Defense-Wide fund by $7,000,000 to offer health screenings in communities near formerly used defense sites with contaminated groundwater; and Pages H3866-68 Duncan (TN) amendment (No. 20 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that would have reduced the funding level for the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund of $3,448,715,000 by $448,715,000 to $3,000,000,000 and transfers that money for deficit reduction. Page H3883 Proceedings Postponed: Shuster amendment (No. 2 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that seeks to restore $170 million to Army Operations & Maintenance (O&M) for the purpose of preventing a cut to depots and the Organic Industrial Base (OIB), offset with funds from Operations & Maintenance Defense-Wide and non-critical environmental restoration accounts; Pages H3865-66 Ellison amendment (No. 9 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that seeks to reprogram already appropriated funds to create an Office of Good Jobs for the Department of Defense; Pages H3871-72 Rogers (AL) amendment (No. 12 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that seeks to add additional funding for directed energy and other research and development at the Missile Defense Agency; Pages H3874-75 Quigley amendment (No. 13 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that seeks to decrease funding for the Long Range Standoff Weapon by $75,802,000 and increase the spending reduction account by the same amount; Pages H3875-77 O'Rourke amendment (No. 16 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that seeks to strike Section 8121, which prevents the use of funds for proposing, planning, or executing a new Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) round; Pages H3877-78 Huffman amendment (No. 17 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that seeks to strike a provision of the bill requiring the Air Force to utilize specific energy sourced domestically within the United States as the base load energy for heating at U.S. defense installations in Kaiserslautern, Germany; Pages H3878-80 [[Page D666]] Poe (TX) amendment (No. 19 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that seeks to cut funding to Pakistan from $900 million to $700 million; Pages H3881-82 Sanford amendment (No. 21 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that seeks to ensure that the Department of Defense retains its statutory authority to provide new military recruits a small cash voucher that they can use to purchase running shoes for training; Pages H3883-85 Buck amendment (No. 22 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that seeks to prohibit funds to implement Department of Defense (DOD) Directive 4715.21 on Climate Change Adaption and Resilience, requiring the Pentagon to prioritize climate change over national security; Page H3885 Byrne amendment (No. 24 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that seeks to prohibit funds to be used to modify a military installation in the United States, including construction or modification of a facility on a military installation, to provide temporary housing for unaccompanied alien children; Pages H3886-87 King (IA) amendment (No. 25 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that seeks to ensure no funds are used by the Department of Defense to carry out or in response to the memorandum of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense Integration and Defense Support of Civil Authorities titled ``Memorandum for Secretaries of the Military Departments Director, Joint Staff'' and dated November 25, 2015; Pages H3887-88 Gosar amendment (No. 26 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that seeks to prohibit funds from being used by this Act to enlist DACA aliens in the military, who are currently only considered eligible through the MAVNI program as a result of a September 2014 memo from the administration; Pages H3888-89 King (IA) amendment (No. 27 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that seeks to ensure no funds are used by the Department of Defense to enlist DACA youth in the United States military; Pages H3889-90 Lamborn amendment (No. 29 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that seeks to prohibit the use of funds to survey, assess, or review potential detention locations in the United States to detain any individual presently detained at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Pages H3891-92 Massie amendment (No. 30 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that seeks to block funding for DOD drug interdiction and counter-drug activities in Afghanistan; Pages H3892-93 Massie amendment (No. 31 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that seeks to prohibit warrantless searches of government databases for the communications of U.S. persons and prohibits government agencies from mandating data security vulnerabilities in products or services for surveillance purposes; Pages H3893-95 McClintock amendment (No. 32 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that seeks to prohibit the Department of Defense from obligating or expending funds on certain green energy mandates found in various provisions of US Code and two Executive Orders; Pages H3895-96 Mulvaney amendment (No. 33 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that seeks to prohibit Overseas Contingency Operation funds found in Title IX from being used for anything other than a Contingency Operation as defined by United States Code; Pages H3896-98 DeSantis amendment (No. 34 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that seeks to prohibit funds for any salaries or expenses for the offices of the Special Envoy for Guantanamo Detention Closure or the Principal Director, Detainee Policy; Pages H3898-99 Rohrabacher amendment (No. 36 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that seeks to prohibit funds in the bill from being used to provide assistance to Pakistan; Pages H3900-01 Walberg amendment (No. 37 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that seeks to prohibit funds from being used by the Secretary of Defense to obligate or expend funds on Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund projects; and Pages H3901-02 Conyers amendment (No. 40 printed in H. Rept. 114-623) that seeks to block funds from being used to transfer or authorize the transfer of cluster munitions to Saudi Arabia. Pages H3903-04 H. Res. 783, the rule providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 5293) was agreed to by a yea-and-nay vote of 240 yeas to 185 nays, Roll No. 305, after the previous question was ordered by a yea- and-nay vote of 239 yeas to 183 nays, Roll No. 304. Pages H3842-43 Meeting Hour: Agreed by unanimous consent that when the House adjourns today, it adjourn to meet at 9 a.m. tomorrow, June 16th. Page H3904 Discharge Petition: Representative Aguilar presented to the clerk a motion to discharge the Committee on the Judiciary from the consideration of H.R. 2867, a bill to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes (Discharge Petition No. 4). Quorum Calls--Votes: Two yea-and-nay votes developed during the proceedings of today and appear on pages H3842 and H3843. There were no quorum calls. Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 9:16 p.m. [[Page D667]]