[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 95 (Wednesday, June 15, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D663-D667]
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                        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.                                     
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Additional Cosponsors:                                   
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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. 
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Guest Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the Guest Chaplain, Father 
Mina D. Essak, St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church, Troy, Michigan. 
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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.                        
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Recess: The House recessed at 1:13 p.m. and reconvened at 2 p.m. 
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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,

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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;                  
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  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;                                 
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  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.

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