[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 58 (Wednesday, April 3, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D347-D350]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 36 public bills, H.R. 2043-
2078; and 7 resolutions, H. Con. Res. 31-32; and H. Res. 285-289 were 
introduced.                                              
  Pages H3066-68
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages H3069-70
Reports Filed: There were no reports filed today.
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein she appointed 
Representative Kim to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. 
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Recess: The House recessed at 9:03 a.m. for the purpose of receiving 
His Excellency Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of the North 
Atlantic Treaty Organization. The House reconvened at 12:26 p.m., and 
agreed that the proceedings had during the Joint Meeting be printed in 
the Record.                                                  
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Condemning the Trump Administration's Legal Campaign to Take Away 
Americans' Health Care: The House agreed to H. Res. 271, condemning the 
Trump Administration's Legal Campaign to Take Away Americans' Health 
Care, by a yea-and-nay vote of 240 yeas to 186 nays, with one answering 
``present'', Roll No. 146. Consideration began yesterday, April 2nd. 
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  H. Res. 274, the rule providing for consideration of the joint 
resolution (S.J. Res. 7) and the resolution (H. Res. 271) was agreed to 
yesterday, April 2nd.
Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019: The House 
considered H.R. 1585, to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 
1994. Consideration is expected to resume tomorrow, April 3rd. 
                                                         Pages H3003-61
  Pursuant to the Rule, it shall be in order to consider as an original 
bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules 
Committee Print 116-9, modified by the amendment printed in part A of 
H. Rept. 116-32, in lieu of the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill. 
                                                             Page H3012
Agreed to:
  Escobar amendment (No. 3 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
requires a report on the status of women in federal incarceration and 
collaboration on reentry planning and services for incarcerated women, 
including development of a national standard on prevention with respect 
to domestic and sexual violence;                         
Pages H3030-31
  Dean amendment (No. 4 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
allows for cross agency coordination and collaboration; 
                                                         Pages H3031-32
  Torres amendment (No. 5 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
requires the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to provide a 
report to Congress on the activities of grant awardees funded through 
the Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) grant program, as well as on 
emerging best practices relating to rape prevention and education; 
                                                             Page H3032
  Burgess amendment (No. 6 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
requires state and local governments that are recipients of the Debbie 
Smith DNA Backlog Grant Program to include information on best 
practices regarding reducing the backlog of DNA evidence in those 
government's annual reports to the Attorney General;     
Pages H3032-33
  Young (AK) amendment (No. 8 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) 
that changes the definition of land eligible for a tribe's jurisdiction 
to include all land within any Alaska Native village, for the Alaska 
tribal jurisdiction pilot project;                           
Page H3034
  Johnson (TX) amendment (No. 9 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) 
that clarifies in law the difference between internal and external 
transfers when applying for an emergency transfer;           
Page H3035
  Wagner amendment (No. 11 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
enhances VAWA's transparency and accountability measures by making 
entities found by the Attorney General to have intentionally misused 
VAWA grant funds ineligible to apply for future grants for up to 5 
years, after reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing; 
                                                             Page H3037
  Grijalva amendment (No. 12 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
expands the definition of domestic violence in the Indian Civil Rights 
Act of 1968, as amended by the bill, to include violence against or 
witnessed by a child under the age of 18, or an elder (as defined by 
tribal law);                                             
Pages H3037-38
  Grijalva amendment (No. 13 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32), as 
modified, that alleviates the costs tribes incur due to the expansion 
of criminal jurisdiction; provides language allowing the Attorney 
General to award grants to tribes to improve law enforcement, tribal 
court personnel and criminal codes;                      
Pages H3038-39
  Emmer amendment (No. 14 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
authorizes the Office on Violence Against Women to improve the handling 
of crimes of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and 
stalking by incorporating a trauma-informed approach into the initial 
response to and investigation of such crimes;            
Pages H3039-41
  Quigley amendment (No. 15 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
requires the Secretary of HHS to review and submit a report on whether 
being a victim of domestic violence increases the likelihood of having 
a substance use disorder;                                
Pages H3041-42
  Meng amendment (No. 16 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
directs the Department of Justice to establish an interagency working 
group to study existing Federal surveys and reporting programs on 
sexual violence, and to make recommendations on how to harmonize such 
efforts for improved coordination and data collection;   
Pages H3042-43
  Jeffries amendment (No. 1 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
requires that the materials distributed by various federal agencies as 
set out by the bill are made available in commonly encountered 
languages; such materials include information about resources for and 
rights of survivors (by a recorded vote of 363 ayes to 67 noes, Roll 
No. 147);                                         
Pages H3029, H3043-44
  Scanlon amendment (No. 2 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
requires the Comptroller General of the United States to submit to 
Congress a report on the return on investment for legal assistance 
grants awarded pursuant to section 1201 of division B of the Victims of 
Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (by a recorded vote of 
394 ayes to 36 noes, Roll No. 148);               
Pages H3029-30, H3044
  Waters amendment (No. 7 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
creates a new purpose area to the grants to combat violent crimes on 
campuses,

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which allows grant funds to be used for the training of campus 
personnel in how to use victim-centered, trauma-informed interview 
techniques, informed by evidence based research on the neurobiology of 
trauma, when asking questions of a student or employee who reports to 
be a victim of sexual harassment, sexual assault, domestic violence, 
dating violence or stalking (by a recorded vote of 258 ayes to 173 
noes, Roll No. 149);                           
Pages H3033-34, H3044-45
  Wagner amendment (No. 10 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
ensures that the Creating Hope through Outreach, Options, Service, and 
Education for Children and Youth (CHOOSE Children and Youth) Program 
can continue to include programs that address sex trafficking (by a 
recorded vote of 429 ayes with none voting ``no'', Roll No. 150); 
                                               Pages H3035-37, H3045-46
  Meng amendment (No. 17 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
ensures that parenting classes are made available to prisoners with 
limited English proficiency;                                 
Page H3046
  Meng amendment (No. 18 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
directs the Director of BOP to develop tools to communicate parenting 
program availability and eligibility criteria to each BOP employee and 
each pregnant inmate to ensure that each pregnant inmate understands 
the resources available to them;                         
Pages H3046-47
  Meng amendment (No. 19 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
ensures that cultural competency training is included in trauma 
screening trainings provided to correctional officers, and each BOP 
employee, including instructors and health care professionals; 
                                                         Pages H3047-48
  Plaskett amendment (No. 20 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
increases the minimum amount made available to territories of the 
United States under the Sexual Assault Services Program and the 
Transitional Housing Assistance Program;                 
Pages H3048-49
  Bera amendment (No. 21 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
increases funding for grants to enhance culturally specific services 
for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and 
stalking;                                                    
Page H3049
  Gallego amendment (No. 22 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
directs the GAO to submit a report on the response of law enforcement 
agencies to reports of missing or murdered Indians, including 
recommendations for legislative solutions;               
Pages H3049-50
  Clark (MA) amendment (No. 23 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) 
that establishes a grant program to train state and local law 
enforcement to prevent, enforce, and prosecute domestic violence-
related crimes carried out online and establishes a national resource 
center to study these crimes; requires the FBI to update the Uniform 
Crime Reports and the National Incident-Based Reporting System to 
include cybercrimes committed against individuals;       
Pages H3050-52
  Krishnamoorthi amendment (No. 24 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-
32) that specifies, but does not limit, components of economic security 
that Americans face when striving for economic stability including: 
financial empowerment, affordable housing, transportation, healthcare 
access, and quality education and training opportunities; 
                                                         Pages H3052-53
  Krishnamoorthi amendment (No. 25 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-
32) that ensures the inclusion of guidelines and best practices for the 
creation of employee assistance programs;                    
Page H3053
  Brown (MD) amendment (No. 26 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) 
that creates a grant program for States, local governments, Indian 
tribes, and domestic violence victim service providers and coalitions 
for technical assistance and training in the operation or establishment 
of a lethality assessment program (LAP);                 
Pages H3053-54
  Haaland amendment (No. 27 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
provides for the inclusion of victim advocates/resources in state 
courts for urban American Indians/Alaskan Natives (AI/ANs) where 71 
percent of the Native American population resides due to federal 
relocation and termination policies;                         
Page H3054
  Haaland amendment (No. 28 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
clarifies that federal criminal information database sharing extends to 
entities designated by a tribe as maintaining public safety within a 
tribe's territorial jurisdiction that have no federal or state arrest 
authority;                                               
Pages H3054-55
  Rouda amendment (No. 29 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
adds language that recognizes the ongoing epidemic of violence against 
transgender and gender non-conforming people;            
Pages H3055-56
  Rouda amendment (No. 30 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
gives college campuses the opportunity to offer primary prevention 
training, in addition to survivor support services;          
Page H3056
  Rouda amendment (No. 31 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
gives college campuses the opportunity to offer alternative justice 
response programs;                                       
Pages H3056-57
  Rouda amendment (No. 32 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
gives college campuses the opportunity to include all participants 
involved with the resolution process in training which identifies and 
responds to crimes of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual 
assault, and stalking; resolution

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process members include the Title IX coordinator's office as well as 
the office of student conduct;                           
Pages H3057-58
  Craig amendment (No. 33 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
directs the Secretary of Education to submit a report to Congress 
regarding an evaluation of programs, events, and educational materials 
related to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and 
stalking and an assessment of best practices and guidance; this report 
shall be made publicly available online to universities and college 
campuses to use as a resource;                               
Page H3058
  Schrier amendment (No. 34 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
specifies that trauma and behavioral health specialists are included in 
the term ``health care professionals''; would also increase the number 
of health care professionals that specialize in child exposure to 
violence;                                                
Pages H3058-59
  Underwood amendment (No. 35 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) 
that requires DOJ to report to Congress the effects of the recent 
federal government shutdown on DOJ's efforts to disperse funding and 
services to victims to domestic violence;                    
Page H3059
  Casten (IL) amendment (No. 36 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) 
that ensures that campus faculty is trained to recognize victims of 
sexual or domestic violence;                             
Pages H3059-60
  Porter amendment (No. 37 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) that 
integrates the term ``economic abuse'' throughout the legislation, 
wherever ``domestic violence'' occurs; and               
Pages H3060-61
  Rose (NY) amendment (No. 38 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-32) 
that expands the National Domestic Violence Hotline to include texting 
features via telephone.                                      
Page H3061
  H. Res. 281, the rule providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 
1585) was agreed to by a yea-and-nay vote of 231 yeas to 194 nays, Roll 
No. 145, after the previous question was ordered by a yea-and-nay vote 
of 231 yeas to 193 nays, Roll No. 144.                
Pages H2993-H3002
Meeting Hour: Agreed by unanimous consent that when the House adjourns 
today, it adjourn to meet at 9 a.m. tomorrow, April 4th.     
  Page H3061
Senate Message: Message received from the Senate by the Clerk and 
subsequently presented to the House today appears on page H2993.
Quorum Calls--Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes and four recorded votes 
developed during the proceedings of today and appear on pages H3001-02, 
H3002, H3002-03, H3043-44, H3044, H3045, and H3045-46. There were no 
quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 9 a.m. and adjourned at 8:26 p.m.