[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 103 (Wednesday, June 19, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D707-D713]
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                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 41 public bills, H.R. 3332-
3372; and 6 resolutions, H.J. Res. 66 and 67; and H. Res. 448-451 were 
introduced.                                              
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Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows:
  H.R. 2500, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense and for military 
construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal 
year, and for other purposes, with amendments (H. Rept. 116-120);
  H.R. 2397, to amend the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology Act to make changes to the implementation of the network for 
manufacturing innovation, and for other purposes, with an amendment (H. 
Rept. 116-121);
  H.R. 3351, making appropriations for financial services and general 
government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other 
purposes (H. Rept. 116-122)                                  
Page H4916
Recess: The House recessed at 10:28 a.m. and reconvened at 12 noon. 
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Guest Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the Guest Chaplain, Pastor 
Ryan Hodges, Rocky Face Baptist Church, Hiddenite, North Carolina. 
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Unanimous Consent Agreement--Consideration of H.R. 3055: Agreed by 
unanimous consent that the amendment placed at the desk be considered 
as though printed as amendment No. 123 in Part B of House Report 116-
119, if offered by Mrs. Lee (NV) or her designee, be debatable for 10 
minutes equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an 
opponent.                                                    
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Recess: The House recessed at 1:21 p.m. and reconvened at 1:30 p.m. 
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Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020: The House passed H.R. 2740, 
making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2020, by a yea-and-nay vote of 226 yeas to 203 
nays, Roll No. 367. Consideration began Wednesday, June 12th. 
                                                         Pages H4789-97
  Rejected the Womack motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on 
Appropriations, by a recorded vote of 196 ayes to 231 noes, Roll No. 
366.                                                     
Pages H4795-96
  Pursuant to sec. 7(a) of H. Res. 445, the amendment printed in part C 
of H. Rept. 116-119 shall be considered as adopted in the House and in 
the Committee of the Whole.                                  
Page H4789
Agreed to:
  Kaptur en bloc amendment No. 3 that was debated on June 18th 
consisting of the following amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 
116-111: Wasserman Schultz (No. 65) that states that none of the funds 
made available by this Act may be used to issue a permit under section 
404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act for the discharge of 
dredged or fill material from a project within Water Conservation Areas 
in the Everglades; Langevin (No. 71) that plus and minus of $5 million 
within the Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation account in support of low-
enriched uranium (LEU) research for naval reactors at the NNSA; 
Grijalva (No. 73) that increases Office of Indian Energy Policy and 
Program by 2 million and decreases Fossil Fuel Research and Development 
by 2.4 million; Castor (FL) (No. 83) that none of the funds made 
available in this Act may be used to finalize the Department of 
Energy's proposed

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rule to rollback efficiency standards for certain light bulbs; Bera 
(No. 88) that increases and decreases Reclamation's Water and Related 
Resources Account by $2 million to support the WaterSmart Program; 
Brendan F. Boyle (PA) (No. 94) that prevents funds from being used to 
reject any application for a grant due to the use of the term ``global 
warming'' or the term ``climate change'' in the application; Omar (No. 
105) that clarifies that the Department of Energy's Section 1703 Loan 
Program is providing loans only to clean energy projects that avoid, 
reduce, or sequester air pollutants or human-caused emissions of 
greenhouse gases; Lee (NV) (No. 106) that increases funding for ARPA-E 
by $3 million and decreases funding for Department of Energy 
Departmental Funds $3 million; and Garcia (No. 108) that increases 
funding for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) by $5 million 
and reduces funding for Fossil Fuel Research and Development by $5 
million (by a recorded vote of 233 ayes to 200 noes, Roll No. 360); 
                                                         Pages H4790-91
  Kaptur en bloc amendment No. 4 that was debated on June 18th 
consisting of the following amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 
116-111: Fleischmann (No. 66) that increases and decreases the Weapons 
Activities account by $123 million for construction of critical 
infrastructure in NNSA; Norton (No. 67) that increases and decreases $5 
million from the Investigations fund to instruct USACE to prioritize 
funding for the Anacostia Watershed Restoration Program; Wilson (SC) 
(No. 68) that increases and decreases by $6.5 million from the Defense 
Environmental Cleanup account to highlight the Savannah River Community 
and Regulatory Support under the Savannah River Site; Velazquez (No. 
69) that increases and decreases the Army Corps of Engineers 
construction projects account by $45,000,000 to support Cano Martin 
Pena environmental restoration project in San Juan, Puerto Rico and 
combat the environmental degradation and persistent flooding that 
disadvantages communities abutting the channel, as evidenced by 
Hurricanes Irma and Maria; Graves (MO) (No. 70) that moves $4 million 
from the Bureau of Reclamation and adds $4 million to the Army Corps 
funding for investigations; the intent of this amendment is for the $4 
million added to conduct investigations be used to study natural 
disasters that occurred in 2019, such as flooding in the Midwest; 
Walberg (No. 72) that increases funding for the office of 
Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) at the 
Department of Energy by $3 million to improve cybersecurity and 
emergency response for the bulk power system; Richmond (No. 74) that 
increases the Army Corps of Engineers Operations and Maintenance 
accounts by $4,000,000 and decreases the Administration Expenses 
account by the same amount; Richmond (No. 75) that increases and 
decreases funding to the Army Corps of Engineers Operation and 
Maintenance Accounts by $75,000,000 for dredging activities; Richmond 
(No. 76) that provides $5 million for construction projects under the 
Army Corps of Engineers for the construction of Louisiana Coastal Area 
Beneficial Use of Dredged Material restoration projects with an offset 
from Corps of Engineers expenses; Lipinski (No. 77) that redirects 
$15,000,000 within the Department of Energy Office of Science account 
towards the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility; McKinley (No. 78) 
that transfers $3 million from the Departmental Administration account 
to the Fossil Energy Research and Development account; Loebsack (No. 
79) that increases and then reduces the Energy Efficiency and Renewable 
Energy account by $5,000,000 with the intent of supporting the 
advancement of distributed wind technologies and research; Welch (No. 
81) that increases and decreases by $40 million funding within the Army 
Corps Construction account (Division E) to fund dam rehabilitation work 
authorized by Section 3202 of the 2018 America's Water Infrastructure 
Act; Kuster (NH) (No. 82) that increases funding to the Northern Border 
Regional Commission, a rural economic development agency that supports 
job creation efforts and infrastructure projects in economically 
distressed rural communities; Perry (No. 84) that decreases funding for 
departmental administration by $2 million and increase money for the 
Water Power Technologies Office within the Energy Efficiency and 
Renewable Energy Program by the same amount; Foster (No. 85) that adds 
and removes a dollar from this account for the purpose of instructing 
the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to 
include a review of accelerator driven systems in its evaluation of the 
merits and viability of different nuclear fuel cycles and technology 
options, including both existing and future technologies; Hudson (No. 
86) that increases and decreases $1,317,808,000 from the Department of 
Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy for the purpose of creating a pilot 
program to provide energy resilience to Department of Defense and 
Department of Energy facilities by contracting with a commercial entity 
to site, construct, and operate a micro-reactor; Bera (No. 87) that 
increases funding for the National Levee Safety Inventory; Ruiz (No. 
92) that increases and decreases by $2 million within the Water and 
Related Resources Account in order to support projects with a public 
health benefit; Rouzer (No. 93) that decreases funding for the Office 
of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works by $2,000,000 
and increases funding for the Army

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Corps of Engineers Operations and Maintenance account by the same 
amount to carry out Section 1149 of the WIIN Act (Public Law 114-322); 
Estes (No. 95) that adds and removes five million to highlight the 
importance of properly funding Bureau of Reclamation ground water 
restoration projects; Plaskett (No. 98) that increases and decreases 
the Army Corps of Engineers construction projects account by $100 
million to support projects related to flood and storm damage 
reduction; Cloud (No. 99) that transfers $3 million from the DOE 
Departmental Administration account to Nuclear Energy Research and 
Development account; Cloud (No. 100) that transfers $3 million from DOE 
Departmental Administration account to Fossil Energy Research and 
Development account; Blunt Rochester (No. 101) that adds and removes $1 
million from the Army Corps of Engineers Investigations account for the 
purpose of instructing the Army Corps of Engineers to review all 
existing projects for which they are in arrears with project partners 
across the country, such as the Indian River Inlet project in Delaware; 
Lamb (No. 102) that reduces and increases funding to the Office of 
Nuclear Energy by $1 million to emphasize the importance of research 
into increasing the cost effectiveness and efficiency of the domestic 
commercial nuclear fleet; O'Halleran (No. 104) that increases the 
Department of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Account by $1 
million to support the Solar Ready Vets Program; Rouda (No. 107) that 
adds and removes $5 million from the Corps of Engineers construction 
account for the purpose of highlighting the need to reauthorize Section 
1043 of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 and to 
include necessary changes to the pilot program in its reauthorization; 
Levin (CA) (No. 109) that provides funding for the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission to finalize its rulemaking on aggregated 
distributed energy resource participation in wholesale energy markets; 
Craig (No. 110) that increases by $1 million the funding for the Army 
Corps of Engineers Investigations Account intended to be directed 
towards the National Flood Risk Management and Flood Damage data 
Programs to address flood planning for disaster prone regions; 
increases by $1 million the funding for the Army Corps of Engineers 
Operations and Maintenance account intended to be directed towards the 
Corps Water Management System (CWMS) to assist river flow tracking 
during flooding; Craig (No. 111) that increases and decreases by $7.5 
million for the Beneficial Use of Dredged Material Pilot Program for 
the Army Corps of Engineers; McAdams (No. 112) that increases funds by 
$5 million to the Central Utah Project Completion Act account for the 
purposes of completing water project development and decrease funding 
by $4 million from the Bureau of Reclamation administrative account and 
decreases funding by $2 million from the Policy and Administration 
account; and Levin (MI) (No. 113) that increases and decreases funding 
for construction of certain river, harbor, flood and storm damage and 
related projects by $30 million in order to prioritize $30 million in 
funding for ongoing efforts to improve water quality in Lake St. Clair, 
Michigan, including by improving the Chapaton Retention Basin, a Macomb 
County Combined Sewer Overflow System (by a recorded vote of 382 ayes 
to 52 noes, Roll No. 361); and                           
Pages H4791-92
  Huffman amendment (No. 90 printed in part A of H. Rept. 116-111) that 
was debated on June 18th that states that none of the funds in this act 
can be used for the Army Corps of Engineers to finalize the 
environmental impact statement for the proposed Pebble Mine project (by 
a recorded vote of 233 ayes to 201 noes, Roll No. 363). 
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Rejected:
  Burgess amendment (No. 63 printed in part A of H. Rept. 116-111) that 
was debated on June 18th that sought to reduce spending in Division E 
by 5 percent (by a recorded vote of 146 ayes to 288 noes, Roll No. 
358);                                                    
Pages H4789-90
  Burgess amendment (No. 64 printed in part A of H. Rept. 116-111) that 
was debated on June 18th that sought to strike Section 108 in Division 
E that prohibits any funding being used for border security 
infrastructure along the southern border (by a recorded vote of 197 
ayes to 237 noes, Roll No. 359);                             
Page H4790
  Mullin amendment (No. 89 printed in part A of H. Rept. 116-111) that 
was debated on June 18th that sought to prohibit the use of funds to 
prepare, propose, or promulgate any regulation or guidance that 
references or relies on analysis of the cost of social carbon under 
certain Technical Support Documents published by the Interagency 
Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon (by a recorded vote of 186 ayes 
to 248 noes, Roll No. 362);                                  
Page H4792
  Graves (LA) amendment (No. 91 printed in part A of H. Rept. 116-111) 
that was debated on June 18th that sought to strike section 106 of 
division E, which states that none of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to reorganize or to transfer the Civil Works functions 
or authority of the Corps of Engineers or the Secretary of the Army to 
another department or agency (by a recorded vote of 162 ayes to 269 
noes with one answering ``present'', Roll No. 364); and 
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  Banks amendment (No. 97 printed in part A of H. Rept. 116-111) that 
was debated on June 18th that sought to reduce spending for each amount 
in Division E, except those amounts made available to

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the Department of Defense, by 14 percent (by a recorded vote of 132 
ayes to 302 noes, Roll No. 365).                             
Page H4794
  Agreed that in the engrossment of the bill, the Clerk be authorized 
to make technical corrections and conforming changes to reflect the 
actions of the House.                                        
Page H4797
  H. Res. 431, the rule providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 
2740) and the resolution (H. Res. 430) was agreed to Tuesday, June 
11th.
  H. Res. 436, the rule providing for further consideration of the bill 
(H.R. 2740) was agreed to Wednesday, June 12th.
  H. Res. 445, the rule providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 
3055) and relating to consideration of the bill (H.R. 2740) was agreed 
to by a yea-and-nay vote of 231 yeas to 195 nays, Roll No. 357, after 
the previous question was ordered by a yea-and-nay vote of 232 yeas to 
193 nays, Roll No. 356.                        
Pages H4779-87, H4787-89
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2020: The House began consideration of H.R. 3055, making appropriations 
for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020. Consideration 
is expected to resume tomorrow, June 20th.            
  Pages H4797-H4896
  Pursuant to the Rule, an amendment in the nature of a substitute 
consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 116-18, modified by the 
amendment printed in part A of H. Rept. 116-119, shall be considered as 
adopted in the House and in the Committee of the Whole. 
                                                         Pages H4804-77
Agreed to:
  Burgess amendment (No. 1 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
increases funding for the Keep Young Athletes Safe Act grant program by 
$2.5 million and reduces funding for salaries and expenses at the 
Department of Commerce by $2.5 million;                      
Page H4877
  Scanlon amendment (No. 2 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
increases the funding for Title II and Title V of Juvenile Justice 
Programs by $2 million and offsets with decreases to the general 
administration fund;                                     
Pages H4877-78
  Scalise amendment (No. 4 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
increases and decreases by $1 million from the NASA Exploration account 
to highlight the importance of addressing the facilities and 
maintenance backlog on NASA facilities that have a direct manufacturing 
responsibility related to the SLS/Orion mission;             
Page H4879
  Serrano en bloc amendment No. 1 consisting of the following 
amendments printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119: Norton (No. 5) that 
prohibits the Federal Bureau of Prisons from using funds to impose 
subsistence fees on individuals in halfway houses or on home 
confinement; Waters (No. 8) that transfers $1 million from the 
Department of Justice general administration account towards the grants 
to prevent trafficking of girls; Velazquez (No. 14) that decreases and 
increases funding by $1 for Federal Prison System Salaries and Expenses 
to oppose the use of contracted private prison facilities for BOP 
detention purposes, including the use of such facilities for 
immigration enforcement; Pascrell (No. 21) that increases funding for 
the Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) Grant Program by $5,000,000, to 
bring funding for the program to its fully authorized level; offsets 
this increase by decreasing funding for the Department of Justice, 
General Administration, Salaries and Expenses account by $5,000,000; 
Moore (No. 29) that increases funding for tribal governments to 
exercise jurisdiction over domestic violence by $5 million; Cohen (No. 
33) that prohibits the use of funds to enter into any new contract, 
grant, or cooperative agreement with any Trump related business listed 
in the President Trump's Annual Financial Disclosure Report submitted 
to the Office of Government Ethics as well as certain Trump related 
properties listed on the Trump Organization's website; McNerney (No. 
37) that increases and decreases by $5,000,000 the National Science 
Foundation's Research and Related Activities budget to support a 
research program to study optimal approaches and procedures for 
implementing partisan symmetry and compactness criteria for 
congressional district selection; Adams (No. 42) that increases funding 
for Byrne-JAG by $1 million; increases prosecutorial decision-making 
line-item by $1 million; Bera (No. 45) that increases VAWA funding by 
$2 million to support grants enhancing culturally specific services for 
domestic violence survivors; Castro (TX) (No. 47) that increases the 
Department of Justice body-worn camera partnership initiative by $2.5 
million (from $25 million to $27.5 million), with a corresponding 
reduction to the Department of Justice Salaries and Expenses account; 
Plaskett (No. 59) that includes the Virgin Islands as a jurisdiction 
where federal interference with local law allowing the use, 
distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana is 
prohibited; Plaskett (No. 60) that provides for inclusion of the 
insular territories of the United States within the meaning of the term 
``persistent poverty counties''; Gottheimer (No. 62) that increases 
funding by $1 million for the National Sex Offender Public Website, the 
only government website that links public state, territorial, and 
tribal sex offender registries into one national search site; Jayapal 
(No. 63) that transfers $2 million in

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funding from the Department of Justice general administration account 
to a national center for restorative justice; Jayapal (No. 64) that 
increases and decreases funding by $4,000,000 in support of the 
creation and funding of programs utilizing the Permanent Supportive 
Housing model; Neguse (No. 77) that increases funding for Juvenile 
Justice Programs by $1,000,000; Pappas (No. 80) that provides an 
additional $2,000,000 for the comprehensive opioid abuse program and 
reduces $2,000,000 from general administration funds for the Department 
of Justice; and Trone (No. 87) that increases funding by $1,500,000 for 
mental health courts and adult and juvenile collaboration program 
grants that improve mental health services and provide diversion for 
justice-impacted individuals;                            
Pages H4879-84
  Serrano en bloc amendment No. 2 consisting of the following 
amendments printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119: Waters (No. 6) that 
adds $2 million to the legal assistance for victims fund, which 
increases the availability of legal assistance for victims of domestic 
violence, stalking, or sexual assault; Rush (No. 10) that transfers 
$2,000,000 from the Department of Justice general operating account to 
the Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grant Program; McKinley (No. 18) that 
increases and decreases the Salaries and Expenses account within the 
Federal Prison System budget by $2 million in order to direct that $2 
million within the account to be used for recruitment and retention 
incentive programs at short-staffed facilities; Jackson Lee (No. 19) 
that increases and decreases by $2,000,000 funding for the Office of 
Justice Programs grant in order to support programs to engage adult men 
and young persons to reduce and prevent domestic violence against 
children; Hudson (No. 20) that increases funding for research to study 
the root causes of school violence by $1 million; Langevin (No. 23) 
that increases funding for Regional Information Sharing Systems, part 
of the Community Oriented Policing (COPS) Program, by $2.7 million; 
Yoho (No. 24) that decreases and increases funds by $2,000,000 for the 
International Trade Administration to support trade promotion programs 
in Taiwan; Yoho (No. 25) that increases and decreases the NASA science 
and research fund by $1,000,000 with the intention of funding 
embryology experiments to further understanding of development in space 
in regards to sending people to Mars; Lipinski (No. 26) that increases 
and decreases by $1,200,000 funding within the National Science 
Foundation Research and Related Activities account to support a 
National Academy of Sciences study on Revitalizing the Historical 
University-Government-Industry Partnership; Babin (No. 27) that 
increases and decreases by $5,000,000 to the State and Local Law 
Enforcement Assistance section for targeted violence prevention 
training and support programs; Babin (No. 28) that transfers $3.6 
million to the Department of Commerce Management account from NOAA's 
Operations, Research, and Facilities account to facilitate the transfer 
of the Office of Space Commerce and the Office of Commercial Remote 
Sensing Regulatory Affairs back to where they are authorized by 
statute, thereby advancing U.S. leadership in space commerce and 
commercial remote sensing; Graves (LA) (No. 32) that states that none 
of the funds made available in this act may be used in contravention of 
the national standards for fishery conservation and management as set 
out in section 301 of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act; Courtney (No. 35) that increases and decreases $4 
million from the National Institute of Standards and Technology's 
general operations fund to support research on the effects of the 
mineral pyrrhotite on concrete aggregate; NIST is the leading federal 
expert in cement and concrete standards; Estes (No. 38) that increases 
and decreases by $1 million funding for the U.S. Trade Representative 
to establish that funds are not to be expended to enact future 301 
tariffs in a manner that is not consistent with the currently 
established exclusion process for articles subject to such tariffs; 
Foster (No. 39) that increases and decreases the Nuclear Thermal 
Propulsion account by $1 in order to direct that NASA work towards the 
development of a low enriched uranium (LEU) space power reactor; Foster 
(No. 40) that increases and decreases the Space Technology account by 
$6.5 million in order to direct that $6.5 million within the account be 
used for NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program; Spano (No. 
41) that increases funding for the International Trade Administration 
by $2 million with the intent to provide additional funding for 
enforcement and compliance; reduces funding by $2 million for 
Department of Commerce Salaries and Expenses account; Adams (No. 43) 
that increases funding for the transitional housing program for 
domestic violence victims by $1 million; Gonzalez (No. 46) that 
increases and decreases by one $1 the Executive Office for Immigration 
Review Account in order to direct the Executive Office of Immigration 
Reform to prioritize the efficient hiring of judges, without reducing 
the quality of the hires; Murphy (No. 48) that increases National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (NOAA); Operations, Research, and 
Facilities by $2,000,000, with the additional funding intended for 
Coastal Science Assessment; Competitive External Research, for research 
on Harmful Algal Blooms. Reduces Department of Commerce; Departmental 
Management; Salaries and Expenses by $2,000,000; Panetta (No. 50) that 
increases and decreases the State and Local Law Enforcement account

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by $15 million to support, deploy, and implement gun and gunshot 
detection and mitigation technologies; Panetta (No. 51) that increases 
and decreases NOAA Procurement, Acquisition, and Construction account 
by $9 million to support collocation of NOAA facilities and public 
institutions of higher education for the purposes of collaborative 
research, education, workforce development, and diversity; Ruiz (No. 
52) that provides an additional $2 million for training, peer 
mentoring, and mental health programs for law enforcement officers; 
Takano (No. 55) that decreases and increases funding by $1 million for 
the Office of Civil Rights to oppose any efforts to limit or eliminate 
protections under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act through rulemaking; 
Beyer (No. 56) that increases and decreases funds by $1,000,000 from 
the National Science Foundation research and related activities account 
to direct the National Science Foundation to provide Congress with a 
report on its efforts to incorporate social impact assessments into the 
artificial intelligence research it funds; Beyer (No. 57) that 
increases and decreases by $20 million funding for Aeronautics Research 
Mission Directorate 3 into ultra efficient flight, including electric 
flight; Blunt Rochester (No. 61) that increases and decreases by 
$1,000,000 on for the Office on Violence Against Women Violence Against 
Women Prevention and Prosecution Programs to prioritize the importance 
of these funds for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, 
stalking, or sexual assault; Delgado (No. 67) that states that none of 
the funds appropriated in this Act may be used by the National 
Telecommunications and Information Administration to update a broadband 
availability map using only Form 477 data from the Federal 
Communications Commission; Fletcher (No. 69) that increases and 
decreases by $1,500,000 funding for the NOAA operations, research and 
facilities fund in order to have the Administrator of NOAA to charge 
and contract with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and 
Medicine to undertake the inaugural decadal survey of the US weather 
enterprise, to be completed not later than December 15, 2020; McAdams 
(No. 74) that provides additional funding to Victims of Child Abuse Act 
programs to support Child Advocacy Centers that provide services to 
child survivors of abuse; Torres Small (NM) (No. 86) that increases and 
decreases the National Telecommunications and Information 
Administration (NTIA) by $1 million in order to direct that $1 million 
within the account be used for improving broadband mapping; Trone (No. 
88) that increases and decreases funding for the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology (NIST) by $120,000,000 to encourage 
modernization of NIST's aging infrastructure; and Collins (GA) (No. 90) 
that provides $20 million to restore funding for the Project Safe 
Neighborhoods program, the cornerstone of DOJ's anti-gun violence and 
anti-gang efforts;                                       
Pages H4884-86
  Posey amendment (No. 11 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
adds and removes $1,969 from NASA's Exploration account to highlight 
the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon and back, 
which launched from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida; 
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  Scott (VA) amendment (No. 12 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that transfers $13 million from federal prisoner detention to Youth 
PROMISE local delinquency prevention grants;             
Pages H4888-89
  Walberg amendment (No. 13 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
prohibits use of funds for ``adoptive seizures,'' wherein law 
enforcement evades stricter state laws governing civil asset forfeiture 
by seizing property and referring it to federal authorities; 
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  Blumenauer amendment (No. 16 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that prohibits the Department of Justice from interfering with tribal 
cannabis programs;                                           
Page H4890
  Sewell (AL) amendment (No. 22 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that increases and decreases funding for the Bureau of Industry and 
Security (BIS) by $1,000,000 to encourage transparency in the Section 
232 investigation into imports of automobiles and automobile parts by 
releasing the report to the public;                      
Pages H4891-92
  Bost amendment (No. 30 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
increases and decreases by $3 million funding for International Trade 
Administration Enforcement and Compliance to promote Anti-Dumping and 
Countervailing Duty Trade Remedy Investigations and provide resources 
for the agency to self-initiate investigations against illegal trade 
practices;                                                   
Page H4892
  Clarke (NY) amendment (No. 31 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that states that no Census Bureau funds may be used in violation of the 
Bureau's confidentiality policies;                       
Pages H4892-93
  Huffman amendment (No. 44 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
states that none of the funds can be used by NOAA to implement any 
changes to the regulations that govern the federal consistency and 
appeals process under the Coastal Zone Management Act;       
Page H4894
  Jeffries amendment (No. 49 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that transfers $914,000 from the Department of Commerce's Departmental 
Management, Salaries and Expenses account to the Office of the 
Inspector General's account;                             
Pages H4894-95
  Cunningham amendment (No. 53 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that transfers $2 million

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from the Department of Justice general administration account towards 
Veterans Treatment Courts;                                   
Page H4895
  Cunningham amendment (No. 54 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that blocks funding for NOAA to approve oil and gas exploration, 
including seismic airgun blasting, in the Atlantic; and 
                                                         Pages H4895-96
  Cunningham amendment (No. 58 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that increases National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
Operations, Research, and Facilities funding by $1,500,000, with the 
additional funding intended for North Atlantic Right Whale research and 
monitoring; reduces funding for Department of Justice General 
Administration by $1,500,000.                                
Page H4896
Proceedings Postponed:
  Rutherford amendment (No. 3 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that seeks to increase the NOAA Operations, Research, and Facilities 
account by $3.5 million for third party data collection of reef fish in 
the South Atlantic; offset by decreasing the National 
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), Salaries and 
Expenses account to FY19 levels;                         
Pages H4878-79
  King (IA) amendment (No. 9 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that seeks to strike lines 14-18 (Section 534, pg. 107), which states 
that none of the funds made available in this Act or any other Act may 
be used by the Department of Commerce to incorporate into the 2020 
Decennial Census any question that was not included in the 2018 End-to-
End Census Test in Providence County, Rhode Island;      
Pages H4886-88
  Blumenauer amendment (No. 17 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that seeks to prohibit the Department of Justice from interfering with 
state cannabis programs; and                             
Pages H4890-91
  Banks amendment (No. 36 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
seeks to reduce amounts made available in Division A, other than 
amounts made available to the Department of Defense, by 14 percent. 
                                                         Pages H4893-94
  H. Res. 445, the rule providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 
3055) and relating to consideration of the bill (H.R. 2740) was agreed 
to by a yea-and-nay vote of 231 yeas to 195 nays, Roll No. 357, after 
the previous question was ordered by a yea-and-nay vote of 232 yeas to 
193 nays, Roll No. 356.                        
Pages H4779-87, H4787-89
Meeting Hour: Agreed by unanimous consent that when the House adjourns 
today, it adjourn to meet at 9 a.m. tomorrow, June 20th for Morning 
Hour debate.                                                 
  Page H4896
Senate Message: Message received from the Senate today appears on page 
H4778.
Quorum Calls--Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes and nine recorded votes 
developed during the proceedings of today and appear on pages H4787-88, 
H4788-89, H4789-90, H4790, H4790-91, H4791-92, H4792, H4792-93, H4793-
94, H4794, H4796, and H4796-97. There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 6:50 p.m.