[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 7 (Wednesday, January 11, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D37-D39]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                        House of Representatives

Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced:30 public bills, H.R. 431-460; 1 
private bill, H.R. 461; and 2 resolutions, H. Res. 44-45, were introduced. 
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Additional Cosponsors:                                             
  Page H392
Reports Filed: There were no reports filed today.
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he appointed Representative 
Fleischmann to act as Speaker pro tempore for today.               
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Recess: The House recessed at 11:29 a.m. and reconvened at 12 noon. 
                                                                   Page H312
Securities and Exchange Commission Regulatory Accountability Act and 
Commodity End-User Relief Act--Rule for consideration: The House agreed to 
H. Res. 40, providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 78) to improve the 
consideration by the Securities and Exchange Commission of the costs and 
benefits of its regulations and orders; and providing for consideration of 
the bill (H.R. 238) 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, 
and to help keep consumer costs low, by a recorded vote of 233 ayes to 170 
noes, Roll No. 33, after the previous question was ordered by a yea-and-nay 
vote of 232 yeas to 168 nays, Roll No. 32.                     
  Pages H316-22
Suspension--Proceedings Resumed: The House agreed to suspend the rules and 
pass the following measure which was debated on Tuesday, January 10th:
  Tested Ability to Leverage Exceptional National Talent Act of 2017: H.R. 
39, to amend title 5, United States Code, to codify the Presidential 
Innovation Fellows Program, by a \2/3\ yea-and-nay vote of 386 yeas to 17 
nays, Roll No. 34.                                             
  Pages H322-23
Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017: The House passed H.R. 5, to reform 
the process by which Federal agencies analyze and formulate new regulations 
and guidance documents, to clarify the nature of judicial review of agency 
interpretations, and to ensure complete analysis of potential impacts on 
small entities of rules, by a yea-and-nay vote of 238 yeas to 183 nays, Roll 
No. 45.                                                        
  Pages H323-72
  Rejected the Demings motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on the 
Judiciary with instructions to report the same back to the House forthwith 
with an amendment, by a recorded vote of 190 ayes to 233 noes, Roll No. 44. 
                                                               Pages H370-71
Agreed to:
  Chaffetz amendment (No. 2 printed in part A of H. Rept. 115-2) that 
establishes a timeline by which the Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs must issue guidelines under title I of the bill;       
Pages H347-48
  Chabot amendment (No. 3 printed in part A of H. Rept. 115-2) that requires 
an agency to include an economic assessment or a summary of it when an 
agency certifies that a proposed rule will not have a ``significant economic 
impact on a substantial number of small entities'' under the Regulatory 
Flexibility Act; this will ensure an agency's decision to certify a rule and 
not conduct a full regulatory flexibility analysis is supported by data; 
                                                               Pages H348-49
  Graves (LA) amendment (No. 6 printed in part A of H. Rept. 115-2) that 
provides agency accountability of major rules by requiring retrospective 
review and report;                                             
Pages H352-54
  Young (IA) amendment (No. 7 printed in part A of H. Rept. 115-2) that 
allows for sufficient time (at least 90 days) for affected entities to take 
steps to comply with issued guidance;                          
Pages H354-55
  Posey amendment (No. 16 printed in part A of H. Rept. 115-2) that requires 
federal agencies to report on influential scientific information and 
associated peer reviews disseminated or to be disseminated in a rulemaking 
proceeding;                                                    
Pages H362-64
  Goodlatte amendment (No. 1 printed in part A of H. Rept. 115-2) that 
revises section 2 of title II of the bill to restrain unwarranted 
interpretation of ambiguous statutes to find implied delegations of 
legislative rulemaking authority, and of ambiguous statutes and regulations 
to expansively extend agency authority (by a recorded vote of 237 ayes to 
185 noes, Roll No. 35); and                              
Pages H344-47, H364
  Peterson amendment (No. 5 printed in part A of H. Rept. 115-2) that 
prohibits agencies from impartially communicating with the public in order 
to generate support or opposition to a proposed rule (by a recorded vote of 
260 ayes to 161 noes, Roll No. 36).                   
Pages H351-52, H364-65
Rejected:
  Velazquez amendment (No. 4 printed in part A of H. Rept. 115-2) that 
sought to strike Title III of the bill and replaces it with alternative 
language that reforms the Regulatory Flexibility Act to reduce the burden of 
regulations on small businesses;                               
Pages H349-51
  Castor (FL) amendment (No. 8 printed in part A of H. Rept. 115-2) that 
sought to ensure that any rule intended to protect public health and welfare 
is exempted from the requirements of this act (by a recorded vote of 189 
ayes to 231 noes, Roll No. 37);                       
Pages H355-56, H365-66
  Cicilline amendment (No. 9 printed in part A of H. Rept. 115-2) that 
sought to provide for the prevention of the transmission of foodborne 
illness or to meet preventive-control requirements for food safety (by a 
recorded vote of 190 ayes to 232 noes, Roll No. 38);     
Pages H356-57, H366
  Johnson (GA) amendment (No. 10 printed in part A of H. Rept. 115-2) that 
sought to exempt rules that significantly improve the employment, retention, 
and wages of workforce participants, especially those with significant 
barriers to employment, such as persons with disabilities or limited English 
proficiency (by a recorded vote of 188 ayes to 234 noes, Roll No. 39); 
                                                      Pages H357-58, H366-67
  Ruiz amendment (No. 11 printed in part A of H. Rept. 115-2) that sought to 
exempt rules pertaining to the safety of children's products or toys (by a 
recorded vote of 190 ayes to 233 noes, Roll No. 40); 
                                                      Pages H358-59, H367-68
  Scott (VA) amendment (No. 12 printed in part A of H. Rept. 115-2) that 
sought to exempt from this bill a rule which pertains to workplace health 
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safety and that is necessary to prevent or reduce the incidence of traumatic 
injury, cancer or irreversible lung disease at mining facilities which are 
subject to the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (30 USC 801, et 
seq.) or workplaces which are subject to the Occupational Safety and Health 
Act (29 USC 651 et seq.) (by a recorded vote of 195 ayes to 227 noes, Roll 
No. 41);                                                 
Pages H359-60, H368
  Tonko amendment (No. 13 printed in part A of H. Rept. 115-2) that sought 
to ensure that any rules made under the ``Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical 
Safety for the 21st Century Act,'' are exempted from this act (by a recorded 
vote of 188 ayes to 235 noes, Roll No. 42); and       
Pages H360-61, H368-69
  Grijalva amendment (No. 14 printed in part A of H. Rept. 115-2) that 
sought to strike language that would require the Forest Service and the 
Bureau of Land Management to perform regulatory flexibility analyses for 
forest and land management plans (by a recorded vote of 185 ayes to 236 
noes, Roll No. 43).                                   
Pages H361-62, H369-70
  H. Res. 33, the rule providing for consideration of the bills (H.R. 5) and 
(H.R. 79) was agreed to yesterday, January 10th.
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence--Appointment: The Chair announced 
that the Speaker's appointment of members of the Permanent Select Committee 
on Intelligence on January 6, 2017, without objection, is made 
notwithstanding the requirement of clause 11(a)(4)(A) of rule X.   
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Committee Elections: The House agreed to H. Res. 45, electing Members to 
certain standing committees of the House of Representatives.    
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Presidential Message: Read a message from the President wherein he 
transmitted the 2016 National Drug Control Strategy--referred to the 
Committees on the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, Foreign Affairs, Education 
and the Workforce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Armed Services, Ways 
and Means, Oversight and Government Reform, Veterans' Affairs, Natural 
Resources, Agriculture, Financial Services, Homeland Security, and the 
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and ordered to be printed (H. 
Doc. 115-5).                                                       
  Page H374
Quorum Calls--Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes and eleven recorded votes 
developed during the proceedings of today and appear on pages H321-22, H322, 
H322-23, H364, H365, H365-66, H366, H367, H367-68, H368, H369, H369-70, 
H371, and H371-72. There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 8:19 p.m.