[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 108 (Wednesday, June 26, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D762-D765]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 31 public bills, H.R. 3493-
3523; and 5 resolutions, H.J. Res. 69-71; and H. Res. 464 and 465 were 
introduced.                                           
  Pages H5199-H5201
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  Pages H5202-03
Report Filed: A report was filed today as follows:
  H.R. 2722, to protect elections for public office by providing 
financial support and enhanced security for the infrastructure used to 
carry out such elections, and for other purposes, with an amendment (H. 
Rept. 116-129, Part 1).                                      
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Recess: The House recessed at 10:30 a.m. and reconvened at 12 noon. 
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Board of Visitors to the United States Merchant Marine Academy--
Appointment: The Chair announced the Speaker's appointment of the 
following Member on the part of the House to the Board of Visitors to 
the United States Merchant Marine Academy: Representative King (NY). 
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Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2020: The 
House passed H.R. 3351, making appropriations for financial services 
and general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, 
by a yea-and-nay vote of 224 yeas to 196 nays, Roll No. 424. 
Consideration began yesterday, June 25th.                
  Pages H5177-97
  Agreed to the Graves (GA) motion to recommit the bill to the 
Committee on Appropriations with instructions to report the same back 
to the House forthwith with an amendment, by a recorded vote of 226 
ayes to 195 noes, Roll No. 423.Subsequently, Representative Quigley 
reported the bill back to the House with the amendment and the 
amendment was agreed to.                                 
Pages H5194-96
Agreed to:
  Quigley en bloc amendment No. 1 consisting of the following 
amendments printed in part B of H. Rept. 116--126: Graves (LA) (No. 11) 
that increases and decreases funding to the SBA Disaster Loan Program 
by $1 million in order to urge the SBA Administrator to consider a SBA 
Disaster Loan recipient's duplication of benefits relief eligibility, 
under Section 312 of the Stafford Act, before pursuing enforcement 
actions; Clay (No. 12) that transfers $250,000 from the General 
Services Administration rental of space account to increase funding 
from $1.25 million to $1.5 million for the Model Acts Program at the 
Office of National Drug Control Policy, which provides guidance for 
State plans to address the various substance use disorders that harm 
families and communities; Castor (FL) (No. 14) that reduces and 
increases funding of the FTC account by $3 million to encourage the FTC 
to take enforcement action against companies that fail to protect 
children's privacy; Kustoff (TN) (No. 15) that increases and decreases 
funding to the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas program by $1 
million; Dunn (No. 17) that increases and decreases by $1,000,000 the 
Internal Revenue Service Taxpayer Services account to prioritize tax 
counseling services for victims of recent natural disasters; Foster 
(No. 20) that adds and removes a dollar from the Financial Crimes 
Enforcement Network Salaries and Expenses Account to encourage the 
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and its partners to take 
proactive efforts to identify and bring into compliance unregistered 
money transmitters, particularly virtual currency exchangers, 
administrators, and crypto-mixers that seek to conceal the source of 
the transmission of virtual currency to combat the threat of money 
laundering and other forms of illicit financing; Cheney (No. 21) that 
increases and decreases funding by $1,000,000 to prioritize funding for 
the FCC to combat unwanted robocalls intended to scam seniors; Beatty 
(No. 22) that increases and decreases $20 from the Department of 
Treasury to instruct the printing of $20 Federal Notes which 
prominently feature the abolitionist, Harriet Tubman, and a public 
release of its draft; Guest (No. 23) that increases the Bank Enterprise 
Award Program by $1,000,000 which is offset by decreasing the General 
Services Administration's rent account by the same amount; Steil (No. 
25) that increases and decreases funds for the Department of the 
Treasury by $500,000 to convey the sense of Congress that Treasury 
should continue to support the Financial Literacy and Education 
Commission's (FLEC) work to serve historically disadvantaged 
individuals; Panetta (No. 29) that increases/decreases appropriations 
for the Internal Revenue Service Office Taxpayer Services account by 
$1,000,000 to support marketing activities promoting free federal tax 
filing programs and free federal tax services for military 
servicemembers; Trahan (No. 31) that decreases and increases funding by 
$1 for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to highlight the 
importance of completing its investigation into the sale of geolocation 
data by wireless carriers to third party location aggregators; Neguse 
(No. 37) that increases and decreases funding for the Postal Service 
Fund by $1 million to express the importance of improving delivery 
services and shortening post office wait times in rural areas; McBath 
(No. 38) that increases by $1.5 million funding for Alcohol and Tobacco 
Tax and Trade Bureau; and McBath (No. 39) that increases by $2 million 
funding for Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) 
Financial and Technical Assistance;                      
Pages H5177-79
  Connolly amendment (No. 18 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-126) 
that prohibits the Office of Personnel Management from carrying out any 
furloughs or reductions in force of its employees;       
Pages H5184-85
  Quigley en bloc amendment No. 2 consisting of the following 
amendments printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-126: Cohen (No. 16) that 
prohibits the use of funds to enter into any new contract, grant, or 
cooperative agreement with any Trump related business listed in 
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

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website (the specific properties are listed in the amendment); Plaskett 
(No. 24) that provides for inclusion of the island territories of the 
United States within the meaning of the terms ``high-poverty area'' and 
```persistent poverty counties''; Jayapal (No. 28) that increases and 
decreases funding for the Federal Election Commission by $1,000,000 to 
support enforcement of prohibitions against the solicitation, 
acceptance, or receipt of anything of value from a foreign national in 
connection with a U.S. election pursuant to 52 USC 30121); Omar (No. 
30) that increase funding by $1,000,000 for the Healthy Food Financing 
Initiative within the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund 
Program Account, offset by decreasing $1,000,000 from the General 
Services Administration; Porter (No. 36) that prohibits the Federal 
Communications Committee from finalizing a draft declaratory ruling 
that would overturn local ordinances that promote broadband 
competition; Ocasio-Cortez (No. 41) that transfers $3 million from the 
White House Office of Administration account to the Office of the 
Inspector General account; Waters (No. 43) that prohibits the 
Securities and Exchange Commission from proposing, implementing, 
administering, or enforcing any rule that would revise the reliance of 
certain advisors on the proxy solicitation exemption under 240.14a-2(b) 
of Title 17, Code of Federal Regulations; Waters (No. 44) that 
prohibits the Securities and Exchange Commission from using funds to 
propose, implement, administer, or enforce any rule that would revise 
the threshold for shareholder proposals or resubmissions under 240.14a-
8 of title 17, Code of Federal Regulations; Waters (No. 45) that 
prohibits the Securities and Exchange Commission from implementing, 
administering, enforcing, or publicizing the final rules and 
interpretations of the Securities and Exchange Commission rule entitled 
``Regulation Best Interest: The Broker-Dealer Standard of Conduct''; 
and Waters (No. 46) that increases funding for the Small Business 
Administration's Office of Entrepreneurial Development by $5,000,000 in 
order to further support the training and counseling needs of small 
businesses through the national network of development centers and 
women's business centers; reduces GSA Real Property Activities Account 
by $5,000,000 (by a recorded vote of 227 ayes to 200 noes, Roll No. 
416);                                          
Pages H5180-84, H5189-90
  Suozzi amendment (No. 26 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-126) that 
increases by $1 million funding for the Small Business Administration's 
Entrepreneurial Development Programs, for the SBA's Veterans Business 
Outreach Centers (by a recorded vote of 406 ayes to 19 noes, Roll No. 
418);                                                
Pages H5186, H5191
  Lee (NV) amendment (No. 27 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-126) 
that provides an additional $1,000,000 to the Drug-Free Communities 
Program account to support local governments' critical opioid response 
efforts in communities hit hardest by the opioid crisis and makes a 
corresponding reduction in the General Services Administration sub-
account for the ``rental of space'' (by a recorded vote of 400 ayes to 
27 noes, Roll No. 419);                        
Pages H5186-87, H5191-92
  Dean amendment (No. 32 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-126) that 
increases CDFI Program Integration for Individuals with Disabilities 
dedicated funding by $2,000,000, to increase financial and technical 
assistance, and allow more CDFIs to respond to the housing, 
transportation, education, and employment needs of underserved, low-
income individuals with disabilities (by a recorded vote of 373 ayes to 
51 noes, Roll No. 420);                        
Pages H5187-88, H5192-93
  Kim amendment (No. 35 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-126) that 
increases funding for the Small Business Administration's 
entrepreneurial development programs by $1,000,000 to be directed 
towards Small Business Development Centers and Veterans Business 
Outreach Centers (by a recorded vote of 408 ayes to 17 noes, Roll No. 
421); and                                            
Pages H5188, H5193
  Malinowski amendment (No. 40 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-126) 
that increases by $1,000,000 the minimum amount to be directed toward 
IRS' Tax Counseling for the Elderly Program (by a recorded vote of 362 
ayes to 65 noes, Roll No. 422).                   
Pages H5188, H5193-94
Rejected:
  Grothman amendment (No. 13 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-126) 
that sought to reduce each amount appropriated or made available in 
this Act by 3.1 percent (by a recorded vote of 151 ayes to 274 noes, 
Roll No. 415); and                                
Pages H5179-80, H5189
  Banks amendment (No. 19 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-126) that 
sought to reduce spending for each amount made available by this act, 
except amounts made available to the Department of Defense, by 14 
percent (by a recorded vote of 141 ayes to 285 noes, Roll No. 417). 
                                               Pages H5185-86, H5190-91
  H. Res. 460, the rule providing for consideration of the bills (H.R. 
2722) and (H.R. 3351) was agreed to yesterday, June 25th.
Recess: The House recessed at 3:18 p.m. and reconvened at 5:59 p.m. 
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Meeting Hour: Agreed by unanimous consent that when the House adjourns 
today, it adjourn to meet at 9 a.m. tomorrow, June 27th.     
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Senate Message: Message received from the Senate by the Clerk and 
subsequently presented to the House today appears on page H5198.
Quorum Calls Votes: One yea-and-nay vote and nine recorded votes 
developed during the proceedings of today and appear on pages H5189, 
H5189-90, H5190-91, H5191, H5191-92, H5192-93, H5193, H5193-94, H5195-
96, and H5196. There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 6 p.m.