[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 156 (Thursday, September 28, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1025-D1026]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 34 public bills, H.R. 3860-
3893; and 6 resolutions, H. Con. Res. 82-83; and H. Res. 544-547 were 
introduced.                                              
  Pages H7634-36
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages H7636-37
Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows:
  H. Res. 488, resolution of inquiry requesting the President and 
directing the Attorney General to transmit, respectively, certain 
documents to the House of Representatives relating to the removal of 
former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, with an 
amendment (H. Rept. 115-335); adversely; and
  H.R. 1107, to promote conservation, improve public land management, 
and provide for sensible development in Pershing County, Nevada, and 
for other purposes (H. Rept. 115-336).                       
Page H7634
Guest Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the Guest Chaplain, Dr. J. 
Todd Mullins, Christ Fellowship Church, Palm Beach Gardens, FL. 
                                                             Page H7591
Journal: The House agreed to the Speaker's approval of the Journal by 
voice vote.                                          
  Pages H7591, H7615
Suspension: The House agreed to suspend the rules and pass the 
following measure:
  Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria Education Relief Act of 2017: S. 
1866, to provide the Secretary of Education with waiver authority for 
the reallocation rules and authority to extend the deadline by which 
funds have to be reallocated in the campus-based aid programs under the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 due to Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, 
and Hurricane Maria, and to provide equitable services to children and 
teachers in private schools.                             
  Pages H7593-95
Disaster Tax Relief and Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2017: The 
House passed 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, and to provide disaster 
tax relief, by a yea-and-nay vote of 264 yeas to 155 nays, Roll No. 
542. Consideration began yesterday, September 27th.      
  Pages H7602-14
  Rejected the Nadler 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 yea-and-nay vote of 188 yeas to 227 
nays, Roll No. 541.                                      
Pages H7603-12
  H. Res. 538, the rule providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 
3823) was agreed to yesterday, September 27th.
Control Unlawful Fugitive Felons Act of 2017: The House passed H.R. 
2792, to amend the Social Security Act to make certain revisions to 
provisions limiting payment of benefits to fugitive felons under titles 
II, VIII, and XVI of the Social Security Act, by a yea-and-nay vote of 
244 yeas to 171 nays, Roll No. 543.         
  Pages H7595-H7602, H7614-15
  Pursuant to the Rule, the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
recommended by the Committee on Ways and Means now printed in the bill 
shall be considered as adopted.                              
Page H7595
  H. Res. 533, the rule providing for consideration of the bills (H.R. 
2824) and (H.R. 2792) was agreed to Tuesday, September 26th.
Meeting Hour: Agreed by unanimous consent that when the House adjourns 
today, it adjourn to meet

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at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow, September 29th and further, when the House 
adjourns on that day, it adjourn to meet at 12 noon on Monday, October 
2nd for Morning Hour debate.                                 
  Page H7619
Recess: The House recessed at 2:42 p.m. and reconvened at 4 p.m. 
                                                         Pages H7632-33
Disaster Tax Relief and Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2017: The 
House agreed to take from the Speaker's table and concur in the Senate 
amendment to 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, and to provide disaster 
tax relief.                                                  
  Page H7633
Meeting Hour: Agreed by unanimous consent that when the House adjourns 
today, it adjourn to meet at 12 noon on Monday, October 2nd for Morning 
Hour debate.                                                 
  Page H7633
Senate Messages: Message received from the Senate by the Clerk and 
subsequently presented to the House today and message received from the 
Senate appear on pages H7619 and H7633.
Quorum Calls--Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes developed during the 
proceedings of today and appear on pages H7611-12, H7613-14 and H7614-
15. There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 9 a.m. and adjourned at 4:02 p.m.