[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 154 (Tuesday, September 26, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1010-D1011]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
 Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 16 public bills, H.R. 3829-
3844; and 4 resolutions, H. Con. Res. 80; and H. Res. 537 and 539-540 
were introduced.                                         
  Pages H7532-33
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages H7533-35
Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows:
  H.R. 3229, to protect the safety of judges by extending the authority 
of the Judicial Conference to redact sensitive information contained in 
their financial disclosure reports, and for other purposes (H. Rept. 
115-332); and
  H. Res. 538, providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3823) to 
amend title 49, United States Code, to extend authorizations for the 
airport improvement program, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
to extend the funding and expenditure authority of the Airport and 
Airway Trust Fund, to provide disaster tax relief, and for other 
purposes, and providing for consideration of motions to suspend the 
rules (H. Rept. 115-333).                                    
Page H7532
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he appointed 
Representative Brat to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. 
                                                             Page H7489
Recess: The House recessed at 11:08 a.m. and reconvened at 12 noon. 
                                                             Page H7496
 Guest Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the Guest Chaplain, Rev. 
William Lynn Nash, Glad Tidings Pentecostal Church, Mangham, Louisiana.
                                                         Pages H7496-97
Journal: The House agreed to the Speaker's approval of the Journal by a 
yea-and-nay vote of 214 yeas to 199 nays with one answering 
``present'', Roll No. 534.                        
  Pages H7497, H7505-06
 Motion to Fix Next Convening Time: Agreed by voice vote to the Burgess 
motion that when the House adjourns today, it adjourn to meet at 3 p.m. 
tomorrow, September 27.                                  
  Pages H7503-04
Recess: The House recessed at 2:51 p.m. and reconvened at 3:14 p.m. 
                                                             Page H7514
Increasing Opportunity through Evidence-Based Home Visiting Act: The 
House passed H.R. 2824, to amend title V of the Social Security Act to 
extend the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, 
by a recorded vote of 214 ayes to 209 noes, Roll No. 537. 
                                               Pages H7506-14, H7514-17
   Rejected the DelBene motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on 
Ways and Means with instructions to report the same back to the House 
forthwith with an amendment, by a recorded vote of 191 ayes to 232 
noes, Roll No. 536.                                      
Pages H7515-17
   Pursuant to the Rule, an amendment in the nature of a substitute 
consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 115-33 shall be 
considered as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the

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five-minute rule, in lieu of the amendment in the nature of a 
substitute recommended by the Committee on Ways and Means now printed 
in the bill.                                                 
Page H7510
 Agreed to:
  Smith (NE) amendment (No. 1 printed in H. Rept. 115-331) that allows 
states to take into account staffing, community resource, and other 
requirements when determining how to operate at least one home visiting 
model in communities in need of services;                
Pages H7511-12
   DelBene amendment (No. 3 printed in H. Rept. 115-331) that 
eliminates the bill's matching requirement for tribal home visiting 
programs; and                                                
Page H7513
   Murphy (FL) amendment (No. 4 printed in H. Rept. 115-331) that 
requires HRSA, to the extent it continues to allocate Home Visiting 
funding to states and territories based in whole or in part on the 
relative share of families with young children living at or below the 
federal poverty line in each state and territory, to utilize the most 
accurate federal data available for each jurisdiction.   
Pages H7513-14
Rejected:
   Pascrell amendment (No. 2 printed in H. Rept. 115-331) that sought 
to maintain MIECHV's current focus of funding evidence-based home 
visiting programs that strengthen families to make kids healthier, 
safer, and more ready to learn when they start school by striking the 
provision in the bill that would add ``increasing employment and 
earnings'' to the program's measured outcomes (by a recorded vote of 
191 ayes to 231 noes, Roll No. 535).           
Pages H7512-13, H7514-15
  H. Res. 533, the rule providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 
2824) was agreed to by a recorded vote of 230 ayes to 190 noes, Roll 
No. 533, after the previous question was ordered by a yea-and-nay vote 
of 230 yeas to 189 nays, Roll No. 532.      
Pages H7499-H7503, H7504-05
 Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission--Appointment: The Chair 
announced the Speaker's appointment of the following individual on the 
part of the House to the Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission: Mr. 
Matt Salmon of Mesa, Arizona.                                
  Page H7517
Senate Message: Message received from the Senate by the Clerk and 
subsequently presented to the House today appears on page H7499.
Quorum Calls--Votes: Two yea-and-nay votes and four recorded votes 
developed during the proceedings of today and appear on pages H7504, 
H7504-05. H7505-06, H7515, H7516-17, and H7517. There were no quorum 
calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 6:01 p.m.