[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 197 (Tuesday, December 10, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1348-D1351]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
 Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 15 public bills, H.R. 5374-
5388; and 4 resolutions, H. Res. 755-757, 759 were introduced. 
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Report Filed: A report was filed today as follows:
  H. Res. 758, providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3) to 
establish a fair price negotiation program, protect the Medicare 
program from excessive price increases, and establish an out-of-pocket 
maximum for Medicare part D enrollees, and for other

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purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5038) to amend 
the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for terms and conditions 
for nonimmigrant workers performing agricultural labor or services, and 
for other purposes; and providing for consideration of the conference 
report to accompany the bill (S. 1790) to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 2020 for military activities of the Department of Defense, 
for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department 
of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal 
year, and for other purposes (H. Rept. 116-334).            
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Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein she appointed 
Representative Cuellar to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. 
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Recess: The House recessed at 10:15 a.m. and reconvened at 12 noon. 
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Suspensions: The House agreed to suspend the rules and pass the 
following measures:
  Television Viewer Protection Act of 2019: H.R. 5035, amended, to 
amend the Communications Act of 1934 to extend expiring provisions 
relating to the retransmission of signals of television broadcast 
stations; and                                            
  Pages H9960-61
   Fostering Undergraduate Talent by Unlocking Resources for Education 
Act: H.R. 5363, amended, to reauthorize mandatory funding programs for 
historically Black colleges and universities and other minority-serving 
institutions, by a 2/3 yea-and-nay vote of 319 yeas to 96 nays, Roll 
No. 659.                                          
  Pages H9961-67, H9969
Recess: The House recessed at 12:51 p.m. and reconvened at 12:59 p.m. 
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Tribal Coastal Resiliency Act: The House passed H.R. 729, to amend the 
Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to authorize grants to Indian 
Tribes to further achievement of Tribal coastal zone objectives, by a 
yea-and-nay vote of 262 yeas to 151 nays, Roll No. 667. 
                                           Pages H9956-60, H9969-H10005
  Pursuant to the Rule, an amendment in the nature of a substitute 
consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 116-40 shall be 
considered as adopted in the House and in the Committee of the Whole. 
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 Agreed to:
  Huizenga amendment (No. 6 printed in H. Rept. 116-330) that requires 
no less than 10 percent of the funds awarded under the Living Shoreline 
grant program be available to projects located within the Great Lakes; 
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   Katko amendment (No. 8 printed in H. Rept. 116-330) that adds 
research on harmful algal bloom development to U.S. Geological Survey 
research conducted under H.R. 729;                           
Page H9994
   Katko amendment (No. 9 printed in H. Rept. 116-330) that provides 
grant eligibility under H.R. 729 to projects that assess the impact of 
water level regulating practices on the Great Lakes on coastal 
resiliency;                                              
Pages H9994-95
   Case en bloc amendment No. 1 consisting of the following amendments 
printed in H. Rept. 116-330: Hastings (No. 1) that expands the list of 
eligible activities for the award of Coastal Climate Change Adaptation 
Project Implementation Grants to include projects to address the 
immediate and long-term degradation or loss of coral and coral reefs; 
Hastings (No. 2) that includes coral reefs as eligible under the 
National Fish Habitat Conservation Through Partnerships program; 
Morelle (No. 3) that ensure that up to 5 percent of the funds 
appropriated under this section will be used by the Secretary to 
provide technical assistance, which will help accelerate early-stage 
resources and planning assistance for communities; McEachin (No. 5) 
that includes communities that may not have the resources necessary to 
prepare for or respond to coastal hazards to the list of priority areas 
the NOAA Administrator shall consider when determining living shoreline 
projects to receive federal grants; these communities include low-
income communities, communities of color, Tribal communities, and rural 
communities; Lipinski (No. 7) that requires that climate change 
adaptation plans for Great Lakes coastal states shall include adaptive 
management strategies for Great Lakes ecosystems and resources; Moore 
(No. 10) that amends the Climate Change Adaption program to add 
invasive species as a target of the adaptive management strategies to 
be included in the plans and to require such proposals to describe how 
they will involve and address concerns regarding the impact of climate 
change in coastal communities on nearby tribes and low-income and low-
resource communities; Moore (No. 11) that amends the Living Shoreline 
Grant Program to require plans to include an education and outreach 
component for the community stakeholders most affected by the proposal 
and to add tribes and tribal organizations to the list that the 
Administrator may consult with in developing program standards; Higgins 
(NY) (No. 13) that directs USGS research to include the impacts of 
harmful algal blooms, nutrient pollution, and dead zones on Great Lakes 
fisheries; Speier (No. 15) that specifies that ``built and natural 
environments'' in terms of infrastructure would include sea walls and 
living shorelines; Bonamici (No. 16) that adds studying coastal 
acidification and hypoxia as allowable activities through the Coastal 
Climate Change Adaptation Project Implementation Grant program;

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Bonamici (No. 17) that directs NOAA to enter into an agreement with the 
National Academy of Sciences to assess the need for and feasibility of 
establishing an Advanced Research Projects Agency-Oceans (ARPA-O); 
Kildee (No. 18) that requires NOAA to update the Environmental 
Sensitivity Index for the Great Lakes every seven years; Plaskett (No. 
19) that permits a waiver of certain non-Federal contribution 
requirements for a fish habitat conservation project at the discretion 
of the Secretary; Jayapal (No. 20) that amends the legislation to 
increase the membership of the Fish Habitat Board by one seat to 
provide an additional seat for tribal representation; Jayapal (No. 21) 
that amends the legislation to ensure that grant funds awarded through 
the Living Shoreline Grant Program may be used to incentivize 
landowners to engage in living shoreline projects; Jayapal (No. 22) 
that amends the legislation to ensure that in developing minimum 
standards to be used in selecting eligible entities to receive grants 
under the Living Shoreline Grant Program, the Administrator considers 
entities with systems to disburse funding from a single grant to 
support multiple small-scale projects; Levin (MI) (No. 24) that 
specifies avian habitat protection and restoration projects as eligible 
activities to be considered for the Coastal Climate Change Adaptation 
Project Implementation grants in this bill; Rouda (No. 27) that adds a 
new section to the bill for a prize competition to stimulate innovation 
to advance coastal risk and resilience measures; and Rouda (No. 28) 
that adds a new section to the bill that would require the development 
of a catalog of research on applicable coastal risk reduction and 
resilience measures (by a recorded vote of 249 ayes to 166 noes, Roll 
No. 660);                                        
Pages H9989-92, H10000
   Brown (MD) amendment (No. 4 printed in H. Rept. 116-330) that 
authorizes the NOAA Administrator to award grants to eligible entities 
for collaborative research projects on the conservation, restoration, 
or management of oysters in the Chesapeake Bay (by a recorded vote of 
235 ayes to 179 noes, Roll No. 661);          
Pages H9992-93, H10000-01
   Crist amendment (No. 12 printed in H. Rept. 116-330) that clarifies 
that Section 323, the Climate Change Adaptation Preparedness and 
Response Program, includes projects to address harmful algal blooms (by 
a recorded vote of 297 ayes to 121 noes, Roll No. 662); 
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   Panetta amendment (No. 14 printed in H. Rept. 116-330) that adds a 
finding that collaborations and partnerships between institutions of 
higher education and Federal agencies help ensure digital data focused 
on coastal management issues are communicated effectively between such 
entities (by a recorded vote of 389 ayes to 29 noes, Roll No. 663); 
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   Mucarsel-Powell amendment (No. 23 printed in H. Rept. 116-330) that 
ensures that corals are included as a natural element eligible for 
grants provided for by the Living Shoreline Grant Program (by a 
recorded vote of 285 ayes to 134 noes, Roll No. 664); and 
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   Luria amendment (No. 26 printed in H. Rept. 116-330) that directs 
NOAA to consider the potential of a living shoreline project to support 
the resiliency of military communities when developing criteria for 
grant applications (by a recorded vote of 368 ayes to 51 noes, Roll No. 
665).                                               
Pages H9997, H10003
Rejected:
  Johnson (LA) amendment (No. 29 printed in H. Rept. 116-330) that 
sought to amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to limit the 
scope of the moratorium on taking and importing marine mammals and 
marine mammal products, and revises the requirements for obtaining an 
authorization for incidentally taking by harassment marine mammals (by 
a recorded vote of 160 ayes to 259 noes, Roll No. 666). 
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  H. Res. 748, the rule providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 
729) was agreed to by a yea-and-nay vote of 226 yeas to 189 nays, Roll 
No. 658, after the previous question was ordered by a yea-and-nay vote 
of 226 yeas to 188 nays, Roll No. 657.                   
Pages H9968-69
Tribal Coastal Resiliency Act--Motion to Reconsider: Representative 
Himes moved to reconsider the vote on passage of H.R. 729, to amend the 
Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to authorize grants to Indian 
Tribes to further achievement of Tribal coastal zone objectives. 
Representative McCollum moved to table the motion to reconsider. 
Further proceedings were postponed.                         
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Recess: The House recessed at 7:16 p.m. and reconvened at 9:04 p.m. 
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Quorum Calls--Votes: Four yea-and-nay votes and seven recorded votes 
developed during the proceedings of today and appear on pages H9968, 
H9968-69, H9969, H10000, H10000-01, H10001-02, H10002, H10002-03, 
H10003, H10004, and H10004-05. There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 9:05 p.m.

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