[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 104 (Thursday, June 20, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D722-D728]
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                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 25 public bills, H.R. 3373-
3397; and 5 resolutions, H.J. Res. 68; and H. Res. 452-455 were 
introduced.                                              
  Pages H5005-06
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages H5007-08
Report Filed: A report was filed today as follows:
  H.R. 1815, to require the Securities and Exchange Commission, when 
developing rules and regulations about disclosures to retail investors, 
to conduct investor testing, including a survey and interviews of 
retail investors, and for other purposes, with an amendment (H. Rept. 
116-123).                                                    
Page H5005
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein she appointed 
Representative Watson Coleman to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. 
                                                             Page H4921
Recess: The House recessed at 9:50 a.m. and reconvened at 10 a.m. 
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Guest Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the Guest Chaplain, Very Rev. 
Canon Martini Shaw, Historic African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.                              
  Pages H4926-27
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2020: The House considered 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 21st.                    
  Pages H4929-78, H4978-97
Agreed to:
  Crow amendment (No. 65 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
ensures that the U.S. Census Bureau follow existing law and not share 
data or information gathered, especially through data sharing 
agreements, with any department, bureau, or agency and penalizes 
disclosure of information by Census employees;           
Pages H4930-31
  Dean amendment (No. 66 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
increases funding for the John R. Justice Program by $2,000,000, to 
provide student loan repayment assistance for public defenders and 
prosecutors; this program is intended to serve as an incentive for 
qualified individuals to enter and continue employment as public 
defenders or prosecutors--without this vital funding, the program will 
continue to fall short of its mission;                       
Page H4931
  Escobar amendment (No. 68 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
prohibits funds from being used to enforce the zero-tolerance 
prosecution policy at the Department of Justice;         
Pages H4931-32
  Horn amendment (No. 71 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
decreases and increases funding by $2.5 million for Byrne Justice 
Assistance Grants Memorial funding dedicated to training to improve 
police responses to people with developmental disabilities or mental 
illnesses;                                               
Pages H4933-34
  Golden amendment (No. 72 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
increases funding for the veterans treatment courts program by 
$1,000,000;                                                  
Page H4934
  Malinowski amendment (No. 73 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that increases funding for the National Security Division by $1,000,000 
to be directed towards the Domestic Terrorism Counsel;   
Pages H4934-35
  Neguse amendment (No. 75 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
increases funding by $1

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million for the NASA Office of Science, Technology, Engineering and 
Mathematics Engagement, for the purposes of supporting the NASA Space 
Grant College and Fellowship Program;                        
Page H4935
  Neguse amendment (No. 76 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
increases and decreases funding for the National Instant Criminal 
Background Check System (NICS) by $5 million in order to encourage 
states to continue to improve their criminal and mental records for the 
National Instant Criminal Background Check System;       
Pages H4935-36
  Ocasio-Cortez amendment (No. 78 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-
119) that moves $5 million from the DEA (enforcement) to the 
Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program (treatment) in keeping with the 
growing consensus to treat drug addiction as a public health issue; 
                                                             Page H4936
  Omar amendment (No. 79 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
increases and decreases funding for the Federal Prison System by $1 
million to express concern with the use of solitary confinement within 
the Federal Bureau of Prisons or the United States Marshals Service; 
                                                         Pages H4936-37
  Porter amendment (No. 81 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
increases funding for the court-appointed special advocate and guardian 
ad litem program to $12,500,000;                             
Page H4937
  Porter amendment (No. 82 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
increases funding to reduce the sexual assault kit backlog to 
$50,000,000;                                             
Pages H4937-38
  Pressley amendment (No. 83 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that directs an additional $3,000,000 to DOJ's Children of Incarcerated 
Parents program to support reentry services and family reunification 
upon release;                                                
Page H4938
  Pressley amendment (No. 84 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that increases and decreases funding by $2,000,000 for Byrne Justice 
Assistance Grants Memorial funding to support community-based violence 
prevention programs;                                     
Pages H4938-39
  Bishop (GA) en bloc amendment No. 3 consisting of the following 
amendments printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119: Jackson Lee (No. 91) 
that increases funding by $2,000,000 for the USDA agency that provides 
grant research funding for ``1890s Land Grant Universities,'' which are 
28 Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Yoho (No. 92) that 
decreases and increases funds by $5,000,000 to support the research and 
development of an African Swine Fever vaccine at the Agricultural 
Research Service; McNerney (No. 93) that increases and decreases by 
$100,000 for FDA to undertake a process to make lawful a safe level for 
conventional foods and dietary supplements containing Cannabidiol (CBD) 
so long as the products are compliant with all other FDA rules and 
regulations; Rodney Davis (IL) (No. 94) that increases and decreases 
funds by $5,000,000 for the National Institute of Food and 
Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative; Welch (No. 95) 
that increases funding for Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives by $10 
million; reduces funding for USDA Office of the Chief Information 
Officer by a corresponding amount; Welch (No. 96) that increases 
funding for the Acer Access Program by $1 million; reduces funding from 
USDA Agriculture Marketing Services by a corresponding amount; Sablan 
(No. 98) that increases and decreases reserve funding in the 
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program by $10,000,000 to allow the 
Food and Nutrition Service to maintain the Commonwealth of the Northern 
Mariana Islands Nutritional Assistance Program at FY19 eligibility and 
benefit standards; Sewell (AL) (No. 100) that adds and removes funding 
from the Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program Account within USDA's 
Rural Utilities Service to prioritize the ongoing efforts to address 
inadequate wastewater infrastructure in rural and unincorporated 
communities, specifically those where families or individuals have 
straight-pipe septic systems or failing decentralized sewage treatment 
systems; Bera (No. 102) that increases and decreases the Child 
Nutrition Programs account by $2,000,000 to support funding for School 
Breakfast Expansion Grants that help increase participation through 
programs such as Breakfast after the Bell; Gonzalez-Colon (No. 103) 
that provides $1.996 million to carry out the Reimbursement 
Transportation Cost Payment Program (RTCP) for Geographically 
Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers, which reimburses producers in the 
non-contiguous states and territories for a portion of the cost to 
transport agricultural commodities or inputs used to produce an 
agricultural commodity that is offset by a corresponding reduction in 
the Office of Communications; Sean Patrick Maloney (NY) (No. 104) that 
decreases funding for the National Institute of Food and Agriculture by 
$5 million and increases the funding for the National Institute of Food 
and Agriculture to increase funding for the Sustainable Agriculture 
Research and Education program; Veasey (No. 106) that increases and 
decreases funding by $12,000,000 for Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
Service (APHIS) distributed to states for the purposes of combating 
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD); Steil (No. 107) that increases and 
decreased by $1,500,000 to express the Congressional intent that the 
Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives should be funded at that level; 
Plaskett (No. 108) that provides for funding of the micro-grants for 
food security program at the authorized level of $10 million; Plaskett 
(No. 109) that provides for inclusion of the insular territories

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of the United States within the meaning of the term ``persistent 
poverty counties''; Joyce (No. 110) that increases and decreases 
account by $15,000,000 to support a study on preventing the spread of 
Chronic Wasting Disease; Lamb (No. 111) that provides an additional 
$200,000 for school nutrition programs and directs those resources to 
Technical Assistance for the Farm-to-School program; Panetta (No. 112) 
that adds and removes $1 from the Office of the Under Secretary for 
Research, Education, and Economics for the purpose of instructing the 
REE Office to finalize a review, as required by the FY19 Farm Bill 
(Public Law 115-334), of the programs of the Department of Agriculture 
that may be more effectively used to accelerate the development and use 
of automation or mechanization in the production or processing of 
specialty crops; Cox (No. 113) that strikes ``1980, 1990'', and insert 
``1990'' to expand the time range for 102030 funding, a formula to 
fight persistent poverty; Neguse (No. 116) that transfers $1 million in 
funding to the USDA Office of the Inspector General for expenses 
necessary for the enforcement of anti-animal fighting statutes; Craig 
(No. 117) that increases by $353,000 the Rural Energy for American 
Program to spur rural renewable energy investment; Craig (No. 118) that 
strikes and adds $1,000,000 to express the importance of broadband 
access to rural communities, schools, and small businesses; Trone (No. 
119) that increases funding for Community Connect Grants by $5 million 
to expand broadband deployment into rural communities that are 
underserved by private sector investment; Trone (No. 120) that 
increases funding for Rural Health and Safety Education Program by $1 
million to combat the opioid epidemic in rural communities; Axne (No. 
122) that increases and decreases by $1 funds to support the Economic 
Research Service submit a report to Congress on the impacts of tariffs 
on U.S. soybean farmers in light of Russian efforts to expand 
agricultural exports to China; Lee (NV) (No. 123) that provides an 
additional $500,000 to Team Nutrition of the Child Nutrition Programs 
Account to encourage peer to peer learning among school nutrition staff 
to create healthy school environments; makes a corresponding reduction 
in the Departmental Administration sub-account of the Office of the 
Secretary; Pressley (No. 124) that increases by $1,000,000 funding for 
the Farm-to-School Grant Program; and Slotkin (No. 125) that increases 
and decreases the Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (FRSAN) 
program by $10 million to fund this critically important program that 
provides vital mental health resources for farmers and ranchers; 
                                                         Pages H4940-43
  Underwood amendment (No. 115 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that prevents funds from being used to remove existing information 
about climate change from official publications;         
Pages H4945-48
  McCollum en bloc amendment No. 4 consisting of the following 
amendments printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119: Scanlon (No. 126) 
that decreases and increases funding by $2 million from the 
Environmental Programs and Management fund for purposes of EPA 
enforcement authority over Clean Air Act regulations related to waste-
to-energy incinerators; DeGette (No. 138) that removes and adds 
$3,000,000 from the Environmental Programs and Management fund to 
instruct EPA to advance environmental justice by implementing 
environmental enforcement strategies in 100 communities overburdened by 
serious environmental non-compliance problems and instruct EPA to 
research the cumulative risks posed by multiple sources of pollution, 
and to incorporate this information into EPA health assessments; 
Grijalva (No. 141) that prohibits the Department of the Interior from 
transferring jurisdictions of National Parks, Wildlife Refuges, and 
other public lands along the border pursuant to President Trump's 
declaration of a national emergency to build a wall along the southern 
border in contravention of Congress; Grijalva (No. 142) that states 
that none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to 
implement Executive Order 13817, which treats uranium as a critical 
mineral for the purposes of expedited permitting under the 
administration's critical mineral strategy; Lujan (NM) (No. 152) that 
prevents any of the funds made available by this act to be used for 
further mineral development around the Chaco Culture National 
Historical Park on federal lands; does not affect the mineral rights of 
an Indian Tribe or member of an Indian Tribe to trust land or allotment 
land; Lujan (NM) (No. 153) that increases and decreases $1,500,000 for 
the Rio Puerco Watershed Management Program, as authorized in S. 47, 
the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act; 
Bonamici (No. 155) that increases funding for the EPA Science Advisory 
Board by $500,000, and decreases funding for the EPA Executive 
Management and Operations program by $500,000 to support the SAB review 
of the Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science proposed rule; 
Jeffries (No. 159) that states that none of the funds made available by 
this Act to the National Park Service may be used to increase the sales 
of plastic bottles; Jeffries (No. 160) that prohibits funds made 
available to the National Park Service to be used for the purchase or 
display of a confederate flag with the exception of specific 
circumstances where the flags provide historical context; Lowenthal 
(No. 164) that states that none of the funds made available by this Act 
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be used to issue a proposed or final rule to replace the Consolidated 
Federal Oil & Gas and Federal & Indian Coal Valuation Reform final 
rule; Vargas (No. 169) that increases and decreases by $10,000,000 in 
order to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to prioritize 
projects that will drastically reduce pollution flowing across the 
U.S.-Mexico border; Beyer (No. 170) that prohibits funds to eliminate 
the requirement that newly built coal power plants capture carbon 
dioxide emissions; Beyer (No. 171) that increases and decreases 
$5,000,000 from the Office of the Secretary account for the purpose of 
maintaining the Interior Department's body camera pilot program; 
Dingell (No. 172) that prohibits the use of funds in this bill to close 
or relocate any EPA office that houses emergency responders or a 
criminal investigation unit; Schneider (No. 175) that increases and 
decreases $25,000 in funding for the EPA's Environmental Programs and 
Management account to support EPA public forums and outreach on 
ethylene oxide to communities identified in the National Air Toxic 
Assessment to face dangerous emissions levels of this known carcinogen; 
Horsford (No. 177) that increases and decreases the National Park 
Service Construction account by $1,000,000 in order to fund the 
construction of a Visitor's Center at Tule Springs National Monument in 
Nevada; McEachin (No. 178) that withholds funds for the Department of 
the Interior's Executive Resources Board unless it is comprised of 
fifty percent career Senior Executive Service members; O'Halleran (No. 
180) that increases by $1 million and decreases by $1 million funding 
for CFLRP, to highlight the importance of CFLRP to forest restoration, 
wildfire risk reduction, and rural economic development; O'Halleran 
(No. 181) that increases and decreases funding by $1 million in the 
EPA's Superfund Account to highlight the need to increase EPA staffing 
to meaningfully address over 500 abandoned uranium mines on and near 
the Navajo Nation; Casten (IL) (No. 182) that prohibits the United 
States Geological Survey from using funds to limit the use of climate 
modeling tools; Stevens (No. 192) that adds and removes $2,000,000 from 
the Environmental Programs and Management account for the purpose of 
instructing the Environmental Protection Agency to prioritize funding 
to develop a national recycling strategy to ensure the long-term 
economic and environmental viability of local recycling programs; and 
Tlaib (No. 193) that states that none of the funds made available by 
this Act may be used for the closure of EPA offices in regions that 
have designated Sulfur Dioxide (2010) Nonattainment Areas; 
                                                         Pages H4948-51
  Gosar amendment (No. 140 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
increases and decreases by $1,720,000 for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) 
research in wild and captive populations of cervids;         
Page H4963
  Smith (MO) amendment (No. 151 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that increases and decreases the Environmental Program and Management 
account by $500,000 in order to direct EPA to produce reports on how 
much environmental measures have improved preceding enactment of USMCA;
                                                             Page H4967
  McCollum en bloc amendment No. 5 consisting of the following 
amendments printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119: Scott (VA) (No. 134) 
that increases funding for the 400 Years of African-American History 
Commission in order for them to carry out their mandate; Schweikert 
(No. 137) that increases funding in the Environmental Programs and 
Management account by $1 million for Air Quality Management and 
decreases funding in the Department of Interior Office of the Secretary 
account by $1 million; Hudson (No. 145) that increases and decreases 
the Capital Maintenance and Improvement account to highlight the need 
for improvements to roads within the Uwharrie National Forest; Matsui 
(No. 146) that increases and decreases the Diesel Emissions Reduction 
Act program by $5 million; Moore (No. 149) that increases and decreases 
funding by $5 million to express support for increased funding for the 
lead reduction projects grant program which helps low-income homeowners 
replace lead pipes; Moore (No. 150) that increases funding by $1 
million for the Indian Health Services Domestic Violence Prevention 
Program to allow for additional grants and decreases $1 million from 
the Office of the Secretary Departmental Operations account; LaMalfa 
(No. 154) that increases and decreases $10,000,000 from the Forest 
Service Recreation, Heritage and Wilderness account to the Forest 
Service Forest Products account to increase timber production on 
federal land; Brownley (CA) (No. 157) that increases funding for the 
Wildland fire management account by $1 million, with the intent it be 
spent on the Joint Fire Science program, offset with a reduction of $1 
million from the Office of the Secretary of Interior's administrative 
account; Kuster (NH) (No. 162) that increases and decreases $1 million 
in the National Forest System account to highlight the National 
Avalanche Center which provides training and support to prevent snow 
avalanche casualties; Ruiz (No. 166) that increases and decreases 
funding by $2 million from the State and Private Forestry account for 
the purposes of highlighting Volunteer Fire Assistance Grants; Ted Lieu 
(CA) (No. 173) that increases and decreases $200,000 to support the 
Wildlife Detector Dog Program in the Office of Law Enforcement at the 
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Wildlife Service; Plaskett (No. 174) that provides for inclusion of the 
insular territories of the United States within the meaning of the term 
``persistent poverty counties''; O'Halleran (No. 179) that increases by 
$7 million and decreases by $7 million funding for Indian Health 
Service Facilities, to highlight the importance of completing the Hopi 
Arsenic Mitigation Project, to provide safe drinking water to the Hopi; 
Casten (No. 183) that increases and decreases funding for Geographic 
Programs by $1 for the purposes of maintaining the Great Lakes Advisory 
Board within the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative; Craig (No. 184) 
that increases and decreases funding by $1,000,000 for the Clean Water 
Act Section 319 Non-Point Source Pollution Program that is designed to 
give local and state governments the flexibility to decrease water 
pollutants through community-based conservation projects; Haaland (No. 
185) that increases and decreases funding by $35,000,000 in the Indian 
Health Service account to support urban Indian health; Haaland (No. 
186) that increases and decreases funding by $176,000,000 in the 
Operation of Indian Programs account to support tribal courts and law 
enforcement; Levin (MI) (No. 188) that increases and decreases funding 
by $10 million to support Sewer Overflow Control Grants and prioritize 
improvements to the Chapaton Retention Basin, a Macomb County, Michigan 
combined sewer overflow facility, and other projects that protect the 
Great Lakes and freshwater sources; McAdams (No. 189) that increases 
and decreases the Wildland Fire Management account by $1 for the 
purposes of recognizing the important needs of rural counties to be 
able to properly rehabilitate and remediate burned areas after severe 
wildfire burn, to ensure our rural communities are prepared for 
wildfires; and Sherrill (No. 191) that increases and decreases 
$8,000,000 funding from the Science and Technology Account with the 
purpose of instructing the EPA to fund the Children's Environmental 
Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers (agreed by unanimous 
consent to withdraw the earlier request for a recorded vote to the end 
that the Chair put the question de novo);         
Pages H4956-59, H4977
  Blumenauer amendment (No. 17 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that was debated on June 19th that prohibits the Department of Justice 
from interfering with state cannabis programs (by a recorded vote of 
267 ayes to 165 noes, Roll No. 370);                         
Page H4980
  Stevens amendment (No. 85 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
removes and adds $2,000,000 from the Legal Activities account at the 
Department of Justice for the purpose of instructing the Environment 
and Natural Resources Division to allocate more resources to the 
enforcement of animal cruelty laws (by a recorded vote of 381 ayes to 
50 noes, Roll No. 373);                              
Pages H4939, H4982
  Underwood amendment (No. 89 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that prevents the Department of Justice from using federal funds for 
litigation that undermines the Affordable Care Act (by a recorded vote 
of 238 ayes to 194 noes, Roll No. 374);        
Pages H4939-40, H4982-83
  Pence amendment (No. 105 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
increases funding for the rural broadband Distance Learning and 
Telemedicine Grant Program by $25,000,000, offset by an equal decrease 
in the Department of Agriculture's Buildings and Facilities funding (by 
a recorded vote of 425 ayes to 6 noes, Roll No. 376); 
                                                  Pages H4944-45, H4984
  Spanberger amendment (No. 114 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that increases funding for USDA's Rural E-Connectivity (ReCon-nect) 
program, which makes loans and grants for broadband deployment in rural 
communities by $55 million; (by a recorded vote of 408 ayes to 22 noes, 
Roll No. 377);                                    
Pages H4945, H4984-85
  Wasserman Schultz amendment (No. 128 printed in part B of H. Rept. 
116-119) that prohibits any funds from being expended by the Department 
of the Interior to conduct oil and gas pre-leasing, leasing, and 
related activities in outer continental shelf planning areas around 
Florida (by a recorded vote of 252 ayes to 178 noes, Roll No. 378); 
                                               Pages H4951-52, H4985-86
  Pallone amendment (No. 132 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that establishes a Department of Interior moratorium on oil and gas 
drilling and related activities in the Atlantic, including the North 
Atlantic, Mid-Atlantic, and the South Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf 
Planning Areas (by a recorded vote of 247 ayes to 185 noes, Roll No. 
379);                                             
Pages H4953-54, H4986
  Buchanan amendment (No. 133 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that prevents funds from being used by USFWS to issue permits for the 
importation of elephant or lion trophies from Zimbabwe, Zambia or 
Tanzania (by a recorded vote of 239 ayes to 192 noes, Roll No. 380); 
                                               Pages H4954-56, H4986-87
  Blumenauer amendment (No. 136 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that prevents any funds in this bill from being used to plan, design, 
study, or construct, for the purpose of harvesting timber by private 
entities or individuals, a forest development road in the Tongass 
National Forest (by a recorded vote of 243 ayes to 188 noes, Roll No. 
382);                                             
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  Cunningham amendment (No. 167 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that states that none of the funds in this Act can be used by BOEM to 
issue permits for oil and gas exploration, including for seismic airgun 
blasting, in the Atlantic (by a recorded vote of 245 ayes to 187 noes, 
Roll No. 391);                                    
Pages H4973-74, H4994
  Cunningham amendment (No. 168 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that increases and decreases funding by $5,000,000 to prioritize the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund (by a recorded vote of 325 ayes to 107 
noes, Roll No. 392);                           
Pages H4974-75, H4994-95
  Carbajal amendment (No. 176 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that states that none of the funds made available by this Act may be 
used on offshore oil and gas leasing off the Washington/Oregon, 
Northern California, Central California, and Southern California Outer 
Continental Shelf (OCS) Planning Areas for FY2020 (by a recorded vote 
of 238 ayes to 192 noes, Roll No. 393);        
Pages H4975-76, H4995-96
  Hill (CA) amendment (No. 187 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that increases DOI and Forest Service accounts for wildfire 
preparedness, wildfire suppression operations, emergency 
rehabilitation, and hazardous fuels management by $7 million, offset 
with a reduction in the increase to the Working Capital Fund (by a 
recorded vote of 377 ayes to 55 noes, Roll No. 394); and 
                                                  Pages H4976-77, H4996
  Schrier amendment (No. 190 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that prohibits funds to be used for undermining the EPA Mercury and Air 
Toxics Standard (MATS) (by a recorded vote of 253 ayes to 177 noes, 
Roll No. 395).                                    
Pages H4977, H4996-97
Rejected:
  Young amendment (No. 129 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
sought to prohibit the use of funds made available to be used for the 
EPA's rule on emissions from small remote incinerators in Alaska; 
                                                         Pages H4952-53
  Rutherford amendment (No. 3 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that was debated on June 19th that sought 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 (by 
a recorded vote of 186 ayes to 245 noes with one answering ``present'', 
Roll No. 368);                                           
Pages H4978-79
  King (IA) amendment (No. 9 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that was debated on June 19th that sought 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 (by a recorded vote of 192 ayes to 240 noes, Roll 
No. 369);                                                
Pages H4979-80
  Banks amendment (No. 36 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
was debated on June 19th that sought to reduce amounts made available 
in Division A, other than amounts made available to the Department of 
Defense, by 14 percent (by a recorded vote of 135 ayes to 296 noes, 
Roll No. 371);                                           
Pages H4980-81
  Golden amendment (No. 70 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
sought to state that none of the funds may be used for NOAA to utilize 
a North Atlantic right whale Risk Reduction Decision Support Tool (by a 
recorded vote of 84 ayes to 345 noes, Roll No. 372); 
                                               Pages H4932-33, H4981-82
  Banks amendment (No. 99 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
sought to reduce spending for each amount in Division B by 14 percent 
(by a recorded vote of 113 ayes to 318 noes, Roll No. 375); 
                                                  Pages H4943, H4983-84
  Duncan amendment (No. 135 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
sought to prohibit the use of funds made available by this Act may be 
used to enforce the final Clean Power Plan rules (by a recorded vote of 
192 ayes to 240 noes, Roll No. 381);           
Pages H4959-60, H4987-88
  Gosar amendment (No. 139 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
sought to prohibit funds for carrying out EPA's Endangerment Finding 
(by a recorded vote of 178 ayes to 254 noes, Roll No. 383); 
                                               Pages H4962-63, H4988-89
  Duncan amendment (No. 143 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
sought to strike section 118 from the bill that prevents energy leases 
in ANWR (by a recorded vote of 198 ayes to 233 noes, Roll No. 384); 
                                               Pages H4963-65, H4989-90
  Mullin amendment (No. 147 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
sought to prohibit funds from being used to enforce the Obama 
Administration-s Methane Rule, entitled ``Oil and Natural Gas Sector: 
Emission Standards for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources'' (by a 
recorded vote of 191 ayes to 241 noes, Roll No. 385); 
                                                  Pages H4965-66, H4990
  Mullin amendment (No. 148 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 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

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a recorded vote of 189 ayes to 243 noes, Roll No. 386); 
                                               Pages H4966-67, H4990-91
  Graves (LA) amendment (No. 158 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that sought to strike section 117 of division C which prohibits funds 
for a new Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program 
and Notice of Intent to Prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact 
Statement Plan (by a recorded vote of 193 ayes to 239 noes, Roll No. 
387);                                          
Pages H4968-69, H4991-92
  Hice (GA) amendment (No. 161 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that sought to decrease each amount made available by this Act (other 
than an amount required to be made available by a provision of law) by 
23.6 percent to match the President's budget request (by a recorded 
vote of 128 ayes to 304 noes, Roll No. 388);      
Pages H4970-71, H4992
  Banks amendment (No. 163 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
sought to reduce spending for each amount available in Division C by 14 
percent (by a recorded vote of 132 ayes to 299 noes, Roll No. 389); and
                                               Pages H4971-72, H4992-93
  Biggs amendment (No. 165 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
sought to state that none of the funds made available by this Act can 
be used for the Integrated Risk Information System of the Environmental 
Protection Agency (by a recorded vote of 157 ayes to 275 noes, Roll No. 
390).                                          
Pages H4972-73, H4993-94
Withdrawn:
  Biggs amendment (No. 101 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that 
was offered and subsequently withdrawn that would have prevented funds 
from being used to finalize, implement, or enforce the draft guidance 
issued by the Food and Drug Administration in December of 2017 titled 
``Drug Products Labeled as Homeopathic: Guidance for FDA Staff and 
Industry''; and                                          
Pages H4943-44
  Newhouse amendment (No. 156 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) 
that was offered and subsequently withdrawn that would have prohibited 
any funds in the bill from being used to either alter or terminate the 
Interagency Agreement between the U.S. Departments of Labor and 
Agriculture that governs the Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center 
(CCC) program, and prohibited any funds in the bill from being used to 
close any of the 25 CCCs that are currently operating.   
Pages H4967-68
  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 yesterday, June 19th.
Recess: The House recessed at 4:37 p.m. and reconvened at 4:49 p.m. 
                                                             Page H4978
Senate Referrals: S.J. Res. 39 was held at the desk. S.J. Res. 40 was 
held at the desk. S.J. Res. 41 was held at the desk. S.J. Res. 42 was 
held at the desk. S.J. Res. 43 was held at the desk. S.J. Res. 44 was 
held at the desk. S.J. Res. 45 was held at the desk. S.J. Res. 46 was 
held at the desk. S.J. Res. 47 was held at the desk. S.J. Res. 48 was 
held at the desk.                                        
  Pages H4969-70
Senate Message: Message received from the Senate today appears on pages 
H4969-70.
Quorum Calls--Votes: Twenty-eight recorded votes developed during the 
proceedings of today and appear on pages H4978-79, H4979-80, H4980, 
H4980-81, H4981-82, H4982, H4982-83, H4983-84, H4984, H4984-85, H4985-
86, H4986, H4986-87, H4987-88, H4988, H4988-89, H4989-90, H4990, H4990-
91, H4991-92, H4992, H4992-93, H4993-94, H4994, H4994-95, H4995-96, 
H4996, and H4996-97. There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 9 a.m. and adjourned at 8:26 p.m.