[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 130 (Thursday, July 23, 2020)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D644-D650]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
 Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 35 public bills, H.R. 7733-
7767; and 4 resolutions, H. Con. Res. 104; and H. Res. 1062-1064, were 
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Reports Filed: There were no reports filed today.
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 9:45 a.m. and reconvened at 10 a.m. 
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Privileged Resolution--Intent to Offer: Representative Gohmert 
announced his intent to offer a privileged resolution.   
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Point of Personal Privilege: Representative Ocasio-Cortez rose to a 
point of personal privilege and was recognized to proceed for one hour.
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Recess: The House recessed at 1:50 p.m. and reconvened at 2:04 p.m. 
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Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs 
Appropriations Act, 2021: The House considered H.R. 7608, making 
appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and 
related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021. 
Consideration is expected to resume tomorrow, July 24th. 
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  Pursuant to the Rule, an amendment in the nature of a substitute 
consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 116-59 shall be 
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Agreed to:
  Lowey en bloc amendment No. 1 consisting of the following amendments 
printed in H. Rept. 116-459: Barr (No. 2) that increases and decreases 
by $25 million the United States International Development Finance 
Corporation to counter China's Belt and Road Initiative; Jackson Lee 
(No. 11) that increases by $1,000,000 and decreases by $1,000,000 to 
combat the trafficking of endangered species; Jackson Lee (No. 12) that 
increases by $1,000,000 and decreases by $1,000,000 to combat the 
practice of Female Genital Mutilation; Levin (MI) (No. 14) that 
prohibits the use of funds to support the forced relocation of refugees 
to the remote island of Bhasan Char, where more than 300 Rohingya 
refugees have been held; Lynch (No. 16) that provides for an increase 
of $1.5 M to Non-proliferation, Antiterrorism, Demining And Related 
Programs for increased Counterterrorism financing activities; McCaul 
(No. 19) that decreases the Capital Investment Fund and increases the 
Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining and Related Programs Account 
by $25,000,000; Murphy (FL) (No. 20) that provides that, of the $3.34 
billion appropriated for the Department of State's Economic Support 
Fund, funding made available for programs to promote democracy and the 
rule of law in Venezuela shall be increased by $3 million, from $30 
million to $33 million; Perry (No. 26) that reduces and increases the 
budgetary authority for the Global Health Programs Account by the same 
amount for the purpose of combatting the prevalence of Female Genital 
Mutilation around the world; Rose (NY) (No. 30) that decreases the 
Overseas Program account by $500,000 and increases the Diplomatic 
Policy and Support account by $500,000 for the purpose of increasing 
the budget for the Office of the Special Envoy To Monitor and Combat 
Anti-Semitism; Schweikert (No. 32) that increases and decreases 
Development Assistance by $1,000,000 to highlight the importance of 
mitigating aquatic plastic pollution; Titus (No. 34) that increases and 
decreases by $1 million the Diplomatic Programs Office of International 
Religious Freedom account for the purpose of encouraging the State 
Department to denounce Turkey for taking formal action to change the 
status of Hagia Sophia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site spiritually 
significant to people of many faiths and backgrounds, from a museum to 
a mosque; and to engage with Turkey for the purpose of returning its 
status to a museum so as to welcome people of all faiths and those who 
have marveled at its architectural and artistic splendor; Wagner (No. 
35) that increases by $5 million funding for child protection compacts, 
raising the overall funding level for the International Narcotics and 
Law Enforcement account to $50 million and for programs to combat 
trafficking in persons to $72 million; decreases by the same amount 
funds for necessary expenses of the Department of State and Foreign 
Service not otherwise provided for, Overseas Programs; Adams (No. 37) 
that increases funding by $3,000,000 for the Office of Urban 
Agriculture; Cohen (No. 38) that provides $750,000 in funding for the 
USDA's Office of Inspector General to complete an audit report of the 
USDA's Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service's Administration of 
the Horse Protection Program, Enforcement of the Horse Protection Act, 
and the Slaughter Horse Transport Program no later than July 31st, 
2021; Courtney (No. 40) that provides

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$750,000 for the National Institute of Food and Agriculture's 
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative to research innovative 
practices to increase carbon storage in agricultural land, including 
Enhanced Rock Weathering; research priority areas should include: 
carbon sequestration, practices for practical application, air quality 
impacts on surrounding communities, impact on soil health, and health 
impacts on workers and consumers; Rodney Davis (IL) (No. 41) that 
increases and de-creases funds by $10,000,000 for the National 
Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research 
Initiative; Gonzalez-Colon (PR) (No. 42) that increases the amount for 
the Nutrition Assistance Program in Puerto Rico by $528,585,000 for 
Fiscal Year 2021; Gottheimer (No. 43) that increases and decreases the 
Agriculture Processing, Research, and Marketing Programs account by 
$5.7 billion to highlight the losses American dairy farmers have faced 
during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to call for additional resources to 
help dairy farmers; Graves (LA) (No. 44) that increases and decreases 
the USDA-ARS buildings and facilities account by $1 million; Jackson 
Lee (No. 45) that clarifies that nothing in the bill restricts the 
authority of the Secretary of Agriculture or any federal agency head 
from providing assistance and benefits to victims of trafficking as 
permitted by 22 U.S.C. Sec. 7105(b) of the Victims of Trafficking and 
Violence Protection Act of 2000; Jackson Lee (No. 46) 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; LaMalfa (No. 47) that 
increases funding for the distance learning, telemedicine, and 
broadband program by $25,000,000, offset by a decrease in the Office of 
the Chief Information Officer fund by $5,000,000 and a decrease in the 
Agriculture Buildings and Facilities by $20,000,000; LaMalfa (No. 48) 
that increases and decreases $50,000,000 for Rural Utilities Service's 
Distance Learning, Telemedicine, and Broadband Program for the purpose 
of expanding broadband in areas that do not currently have broadband; 
Sean Patrick Maloney (NY) (No. 49) that increases funding for the Crop 
Protection and Pest Management Program under the National Institute of 
Food and Agriculture by $1 million; Neguse (No. 50) that transfers $1 
million in funding to the USDA Office of the Inspector General for 
expenses necessary for the enforcement of anti-animal cruelty statutes; 
Panetta (No. 51) that removes and adds $5,000,000 from the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture's Office of the Undersecretary for Research, 
Education, and Economics for the purpose of instructing the Office of 
the Chief Scientist to complete a strategic plan for the Agriculture 
Advanced Research and Development Authority (AGARDA) not later than 180 
days after the enactment of this Act; Panetta (No. 52) that increases 
and decreases funding within the USDA's Office of the Secretary by 
$500,000,000 to elevate the need for an emergency program through 
USDA's Farm Service Agency focused on reimbursing producers, 
processors, and other agricultural employers for personal protective 
equipment and other safety measures for their employees; Plaskett (No. 
53) that provides for funding of the micro-grants for food security 
program at the authorized level of $10 million; Scalise (No. 54) that 
decreases by $6,000,000 the USDA Office of the General Counsel account 
and increases by $6,000,000 the amount for the Center for Food Safety 
and Applied Nutrition account; this increase is to carry out the 
activities in Section 778 of this Title to implement options for 
regulating the export of shrimp to the United States from other 
countries; Sherrill (No. 55) that provides $10 million for the FDA's 
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research; Soto (No. 56) that increases 
funding by $1 million for High-Priority Research And Extension 
Initiatives--Fertilizer Management Initiative at the Department of 
Agriculture--National Institute of Food and Agriculture authorized in 
Sec. 7209 in the 2018 Farm Bill; Soto (No. 57) that increases and 
decreases funding by $2,276,000 for the collaborative effort of the 
Office of Regulatory Affairs and other offices within the FDA to 
provide further re-sources and further implementation of the Food and 
Veterinary Medicine Program Strategic Plan to enhance the security and 
reliability of U.S. supply chains during COVID-19 for food, 
pharmaceuticals, and other essential medical equipment and supplies 
through technologies such as blockchain; Welch (No. 59) that increases 
funding for Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives by $5 million; 
reduces funding for USDA Office of the General Counsel by a 
corresponding amount; Welch (No. 60) that increases and decreases 
funding for FDA Salaries and Expenses by $5 million for the purpose of 
enforcing dairy standards of identity; Barragan (No. 63) that transfers 
$1 million in funding from the Department of Interior Operations to the 
Environmental Protection Agency's Targeted Airshed Grant Program; Cohen 
(No. 69) that increases and decreases funds to require the Bureau of 
Land Management to utilize $11,000,000 of its Wild Horse and Burro 
Program budget to implement PZP humane, reversible fertility control to 
manage wild horse populations; Courtney (No. 71) that increases and 
decreases funds by $300,000 to highlight the New England Scenic 
National Trail (NET); Dingell (No. 73) that prohibits funds from being 
used to (1) withdraw the Environmental Protection Agency's Notice of 
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designate PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances under section 102 of 
CERCLA; and (2) to withdraw EPA's preliminary regulatory determination 
to regulate PFOA and PFOS as drinking water contaminants under the Safe 
Drinking Water Act; Escobar (No. 75) that increases and decreases 
funding by $1 million for the construction of water and wastewater 
projects along the United States-Mexico Border under the State and 
Tribal Assistance Grants account, to highlight the continued lack of 
high quality colonia water infrastructure and encourage the EPA to 
prioritize projects benefiting colonias; Gottheimer (No. 79) that 
increases funding for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by $1 
million to expand outreach initiatives to educate more Americans about 
the history of the Holocaust and antisemitism and other forms of 
hatred, bigotry, and intolerance; Hudson (No. 80) that increases the 
EPA Science and Technology account by $2 million to study the 
relationship between PFAS exposure and susceptibility to COVID-19; 
Hudson (No. 81) that increases and decreases by $2,487,000 funds 
appropriated for the development of Effluent Limit Guidelines as part 
of the EPA's PFAS Action Plan to emphasize the need to include the 
chemical GenX; Hudson (No. 82) that increases and decreases funding by 
$466,173,000 to the Capital Improvement and Maintenance Account to 
highlight the need for Forest Service road construction; Schweikert 
(No. 99) that decreases Departmental Operations by $500,000 and 
increases Environmental Programs and Management by $500,000, to 
highlight the need for the Environmental Protection Agency to focus on 
implementing new technologies for mobile air quality monitoring; 
Sherrill (No. 100) that provides an additional $2,000,000 for the 
United States Geological Survey to be used to perform surveys, 
investigations, and research for harmful algal blooms; Speier (No. 104) 
that increases and decreases funding to clarify that pending Water 
Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act Program applicants should not 
be required to restart the application process in order for the agency 
to assess applications against project eligibility criteria; Barr (No. 
106) that transfers $5,000,000 from the VHA's Medical Community of Care 
Account to the VHA's Medical Services account for the explicit use for 
equine assisted therapy within the VA's Adaptive Sports Grant (ASG) 
Program, given the promising results reported using equine assisted 
therapy for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder; Bergman (No. 
107) that increases and decreases funding in the Veterans Health 
Administration Medical Services' account by $300,000,000 to focus 
additional efforts within the Office of Rural Health on solutions that 
will bring more connectivity to Veterans living in rural and remote 
areas; Carbajal (No. 108) that increases and decreases funding by 
$5,000,000 to direct the Secretary to change the phone system to have 
local Community Based Outpatient Center answer calls rather than having 
all calls routed to the major VA Medical Centers in an effort to reduce 
wait times for veterans on the phone and to provide more timely health 
services; Carbajal (No. 109) that provides $3 million for the Veterans 
Transportation Program to assist veterans in attending all their 
medical appointments in a timely manner; Craig (No. 111) that increases 
the Veterans Health Administration Medical Services' account by $1.5M 
to expand the Rural Health Resource Centers program; Golden (No. 113) 
that increases and decreases funding in the Veterans Minor Construction 
account to focus additional efforts to provide better access to long-
term beds for veterans suffering from substance use disorder; 
Gottheimer (No. 114) that increases funding for the VA Office of the 
Inspector General by $1.3 million to expand oversight of state-run 
veterans' homes supported and monitored by the VA, many of which have 
been afflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic; Gottheimer (No. 115) that 
increases funding for VA medical community care by $1 million to expand 
access for veterans who are unable to visit a VA Medical Center; 
reduces VA Departmental Administration, General Administration by $1 
million; Graves (LA) (No. 116) that increases and decreases the VA's 
Medical Facilities account to highlight the urgent need to streamline 
the VA lease process to meet the critical care needs of America's 
veterans; Hartzler (No. 117) that amends Division D to increase and 
decrease by $5 million the VA's medical services account in order to 
direct that $5 million be used to provide funding for the VA to utilize 
non-profit post traumatic growth organizations as a treatment for PTSD; 
Hill (AR) (No. 118) that increases by $1 million the Office of General 
Counsel for the purposes of training state-level veteran service 
officers; Kim (No. 119) that increases funding by $1,000,000 for VA 
medical services to expand access to ride share programs for veterans 
going to community-based outpatient clinics in urban and suburban areas 
with parking and transportation limitations that are also facing 
ongoing delays in acquiring replacement facilities; LaMalfa (No. 121) 
that increases and decreases by $1 million the VA Departmental 
Administration, General Administration account, to highlight the need 
for veterans to receive legal assistance from State VA-approved lawyers 
willing to provide pro-bono services, and to coordinate with State VAs 
to ensure veterans are made aware of such assistance;

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Lipinski (No. 122) that increases funding for construction grants of 
veterans state extended care facilities by $3 million, with the 
additional funding intended to provide support to assist states 
acquire, construct, alter and remodel nursing home, hospital, and 
domiciliary care facilities to help adapt to needs associated with 
stopping the spread of COVID-19 and meet other needs; reduces funding 
for Departmental Administration, General Administration by the 
corresponding amount; Lynch (No. 123) that provides for an increase of 
$1.5 million for suicide prevention efforts through the PREVENTS 
Initiative offset by a reduction from the General Administration 
account; Murphy (FL) (No. 125) that increases funding for Veterans 
Health Administration, Medical Services by $1.5 million, with the 
additional funding intended for the Telehealth and Connected Care 
account, which supports home telehealth, home telehealth prosthetics, 
and clinic-based telehealth; reduces funding for Departmental 
Administration, General Administration by the corresponding amount; 
Norton (No. 126) that increases and decreases funding by $1 million for 
the Veterans Benefits Administration to provide support to law school 
clinical programs that assist veterans with legal matters; Pappas (No. 
127) that ensures that $5 million of the funds appropriated to the 
Office of Resolution Management is spent on completing VA's EEO Program 
Manager realignment initiative at VBA and VHA in accordance with VA 
policy; Porter (No. 128) that increases the Veterans Health 
Administration Medical Services' account by $2 million for the purpose 
of increasing gender-specific care for women; Ruiz (No. 129) that 
increases and decreases funding to VA Medical Services account to 
conduct educational outreach to veterans to enroll in the burn pits 
registry, additional research using the registry, and other activities 
concerning the maintenance of the registry; Sherrill (No. 130) that 
increases funding for the Burn Pits Center of Excellence by $1,000,000; 
Waters (No. 131) that authorizes an additional $2,000,000 for the 
purpose of expenses in the administration of veterans' medical, 
hospital, nursing home, domiciliary, construction, supply, and research 
activities; and Welch (No. 132) that increases and decreases the 
Medical Research and Prosthetics Account for the purpose to encourage 
the VA to study the impact of COVID-19 on veterans who have been 
exposed to burn pits and other airborne hazards during their service; 
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  Lowey en bloc amendment No. 2 consisting of the following amendments 
printed in H. Rept. 116-459: Bera (No. 3) that prohibits funds from 
being used to withdraw from the U.S.-South Korea Mutual Defense Treaty, 
in light of recent reporting that the administration is considering 
withdrawing U.S. forces from the Korean peninsula; Cicilline (No. 4) 
that increases and decreases by $1 million the Diplomatic Programs 
account for the purpose of discouraging the State Department from using 
the final report of the Commission on Unalienable Rights as a framework 
for addressing human rights inside the United States Government, or 
abroad; to discourage publishing or translating the final report; and 
to discourage the State Department from pushing aside the modern human 
rights that the United States helped establish in favor of narrower 
protections for women, including reproductive rights; for members of 
the LGBTQI community; and for other minorities; Cohen (No. 5) 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; Escobar (No. 6) that 
increases and decreases funding for USAID by $1 million to emphasize 
the need for a binational COVID-19 testing strategy between the United 
States and Mexico and encourage the agency to include recommendations 
for such a strategy in its review of the international response to the 
COVID-19 pandemic; Foster (No. 7) that increases and decreases by 
$10,000,000 the Non-proliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining, and 
Related Programs (NADR) account to emphasize the need to fund the 
Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications project in 
order to promote scientific diplomacy and peace in the Middle East; 
Gottheimer (No. 8) that prohibits funds from being used to promote the 
sale or export of electronic nicotine delivery systems, or ``e-
cigarettes,'' in addition to tobacco products; Grijalva (No. 9) that 
increases and decreases by $4,000,000 the International Border and 
Water Commission, United States and Mexico, Construction account, to 
emphasize the responsibility for the maintenance of the International 
Outfall Interceptor (IOI); Hastings (No. 10) that increases and 
decreases $10 million in Economic Support Fund funding for programs 
benefiting the Ethiopian-Israeli community; Jayapal (No. 13) that 
increases set-aside for Global Internet Freedom account by $2.5 
million, which prioritizes countries whose governments restrict freedom 
of expression on the Internet, and that are important to the national 
interest of the United States; Lynch (No. 17) that provides for an 
increase of $5 million to Non-proliferation, Antiterrorism, Demining 
And Related Programs for increased demining activities to be offset 
with a reduction to Human Resources; Malinowski (No. 18) that prohibits 
use of DOS funds to facilitate the transfer or sale of air-to-ground 
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the UAE in recognition of the continuing devastation to civilians 
caused by US-provided weapons in the Yemen conflict; Ocasio-Cortez (No. 
21) that increases funding for the Economic Support Fund by $5,000,000 
and decreases funding for the International Narcotics Control and Law 
Enforcement account by the same amount; Ocasio-Cortez (No. 22) that 
prevents the use of funds to transfer lethal military equipment or 
crowd control equipment to Bolivia given the recent human rights abuses 
there; Panetta (No. 23) that prohibits the use of funds to withdraw the 
United States from NATO; Panetta (No. 24) that prohibits use of funds 
to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization; 
Phillips (No. 27) that provides that, of the $3.34 billion appropriated 
for the Economic Support Fund and the $900 million appropriated for 
Development Assistance, funding made available for the Local Works 
program shall be increased by $5 million, from $50 million to $55 
million; Porter (No. 28) that increases and decreases the Democracy 
Fund account by $2 million to highlight the importance of protecting 
journalists and civil society activists around the world; Porter (No. 
29) that increases and decreases the Economic Support Fund account by 
$1 million to highlight the importance of programs that help foreign 
governments and civil society in such countries improve budget 
transparency; Rouda (No. 31) that increases and decreases the Migration 
and Refugee Assistance account by $2 million to highlight the 
contributions of Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian immigrants and to 
discourage attempts to increase repatriations to those countries; 
Speier (No. 33) that increases the Economic Support Fund (ESF) by 
$1,400,000 to fund USAID's demining program in Nagorno-Karabakh and 
decreases the Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs (ECE) account 
by $1,400,000; Cohen (No. 39) 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; Waters (No. 58) that prohibits the use of funds to implement 
Executive Order 13917, which authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to 
use the authorities contained in the Defense Production Act to keep 
meat and poultry processing facilities operational during the COVID-19 
emergency; Adams (No. 61) that increases funding by $2,000,000 for the 
Environmental Justice program area within the EPA Environmental 
Programs and Management account; Beyer (No. 64) that increases and 
decreases funding by $5,000,000 with the intent to ensure US Park 
Police match other Interior law enforcement and adopt body cameras; 
Beyer (No. 65) that increases and decreases funds by $500,000 to 
highlight the need for a GAO study of the civil rights of protesters 
and the effects of the use of non-lethal tactics during protests on the 
protesters; Cohen (No. 70) 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; Dingell (No. 72) that prohibits funds from being used to 
implement, administer, or enforce the final rule entitled ``Update to 
the Regulations Implementing the Procedural Provisions of the National 
Environmental Policy Act'' published by the Council on Environmental 
Quality in the Federal Register on July 16, 2020; Gottheimer (No. 78) 
that increases and decreases the U.S. Geological Survey account by $5 
million to underscore the need to fight the scourge of Harmful Algal 
Blooms (HABs) in bodies of water in New Jersey and across the country; 
Huffman (No. 83) that prohibits funds from being used to offer any 
tracts available for oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National 
Wildlife Refuge; Jackson Lee (No. 84) that increases and decreases 
funding by $5 million to highlight the need to support culturally 
competent federal, state, and local public health and environmental 
protection efforts to address cancer clusters impacting overburdened 
communities in the gulf coast region, which is home to a refinery row 
that runs from Mobile to Houston, Texas; Jayapal (No. 85) that 
prohibits use of funds for enforcement of the National Park Service's 
final rule that will allow trophy hunting practices to kill hibernating 
bears and wolf pups on Alaska's federal lands; Lowenthal (No. 87) that 
limits funds toward oil and gas leasing in the NPRA to protect the 
Special Areas designated in the 2013 Integrated Activity Plan of the 
National Petroleum Reserve--Alaska (NPRA); Neguse (No. 91) that 
increases funding for the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration 
Program (CFLRP) by $5 million; Ocasio-Cortez (No. 92) that increases 
and decreases funds by $2 million in section 104(k) of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 
of 1980 (CERCLA) account by $2 million for Brownfields grants with the 
intent of directing at least 10 percent of such grants be provided to 
areas in which at least 20 percent of the population has lived under 
the poverty level over the past 30 years as determined by censuses and 
the most recent Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, and that not 
less than an additional 20 percent of funds be used for projects in 
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community census tracts as defined in 26 U.S.C. Sec. 45D(e)(1); 
O'Halleran (No. 93) that reduces funding of the Office of the Secretary 
of the Interior by $15 million to preserve funding for relocated Native 
Americans; Panetta (No. 94) that prohibits funds from being used to 
nominate or accept a nomination or an expression of interest for any 
Federal lands for oil and gas leasing within the areas covered by the 
Bureau of Land Management's Final Central Coast Resource Management 
Plan Amendment, the Resource Management Plan for the Bakersfield Field 
Office, or the Carrizo Plain National Monument Resource Management 
Plan; Porter (No. 97) 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; Porter (No. 98) that 
prevents funds from being used for the centralization process 
established in the EPA's FOIA Regulations Update published on June 26, 
2019; Tlaib (No. 105) that doubles the funding level for lead pipe 
replacement, raising the amount appropriated for reducing lead in 
drinking water to $1 billion; and Cohen (No. 110) 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 (by a yea-and-nay vote of 223 yeas to 
194 nays, Roll No. 160); and                      
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  Kennedy (amendment No. 86 printed in H. Rept. 116-459) that prohibits 
funds from being used by the Department of the Interior to rescind the 
decision to take the lands of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe into federal 
trust or revoke other associated actions related to the Tribe. 
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Rejected:
  Allen (amendment No. 1 printed in H. Rept. 116-459) that sought to 
reduce spending in Division A by 5% (by a yea-and-nay vote of 88 yeas 
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  Lowey en bloc amendment No. 3 consisting of the following amendments 
printed in H. Rept. 116-459: Leutkemeyer (No. 15) that sought to 
prohibit federal contributions to the Intergovernmental Panel on 
Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations Framework Convention on 
Climate Change (UNFCC), and the Green Climate Fund (GCF), which advise 
governments around the world on climate change; Perry (No. 25) that 
sought to state that none of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency; Wilson (No. 36) 
that sought to require LAF to directly confront terrorism and 
Hezbollah's influence; Burgess (No. 68) that sought to prohibit funds 
made available by this Act from being used by the Environmental 
Protection Agency (EPA) to higher or pay the salary of any officer or 
employee of the EPA to utilize the Title 42 special pay authority; 
Duncan (No. 74) that sought to strike Section 436 which prohibits funds 
made available by this act to be used to issue a permit for the import 
of a sport-hunted trophy of an elephant or lion taken in Tanzania, 
Zibabwe, or Zambia; Gosar (No. 76) that sought to prevent funds from 
being used in contravention of President Trump's Executive Order 13807 
(Establishing Discipline and Accountability in the Environmental Review 
and Permitting Process for Infrastructure Projects); Gosar (No. 77) 
that sought to prevent funds from being used in contravention of 
President Trump's Executive Order 13817 (Federal Strategy to Ensure 
Secure and Reliable Supplies of Critical Minerals); McKinley (No. 88) 
that sought to prevent funds from being used in contravention of 
Executive Order 13868, ``Promoting Energy Infrastructure and Economic 
Growth''; Miller (No. 89) that sought to strike the provision that 
reduces funding to the United States Park Police by $50,000 per day if 
the Secretary of the Interior fails to provide Congress information 
requested in the report within 10 days of enactment of this Act; Miller 
(No. 90) that sought to strike the provision that blocks funding for 
finalizing the proposed rule entitled ``Oil and Natural Gas Sector: 
Emission Standards for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources 
Review'' published by the Environmental Protection Agency; Perry (No. 
95) that sought to prohibit the use of funds for the EPA to take any 
``backstop'' actions in response to the Watershed Implementation Plan 
submitted by any jurisdiction pursuant to the Chesapeake Bay TMDL; 
Perry (No. 96) that sought to prohibit the use of funds to give formal 
notification under, or prepare, propose, implement, administer, or 
enforce any rule or recommendation pursuant to section 115 of the Clean 
Air Act; Smith (MO) (No. 101) that sought to prevent funds from being 
used to regulate lead in ammunition and fishing tackle under the Toxic 
Substances Control Act; Gianforte (No. 112) that sought to restore 
funding to replace aging weapons storage facilities to improve security 
and safety around our nation's nuclear warheads; King (IA) (No. 120) 
that sought to strike language that impedes the President's border wall 
construction, under Division D, Title I; and Miller (No. 124) that 
sought to strike a provision that would prohibit construction at the 
southern border, including roads, the border wall, fence, or barrier 
(by a yea-and-nay vote of 187 yeas to 230 nays, Roll No. 161); and 
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  Smith (MO) (amendment No. 103 printed in H. Rept. 116-459) that 
sought to reduce funding for EPA Science and Technology to match the 
President's FY21 Budget request.                         
                                                         Pages H3828-29
Proceedings Postponed:
  Allen (amendment No. 62 printed in H. Rept. 116-459) that seeks to 
reduce spending in Division C by 5%;                     
                                                         Pages H3823-26
  Tonko (amendment No. 67 printed in H. Rept. 116-459) that seeks to 
prohibit funds from being used by the EPA to finalize, implement, or 
enforce the proposed rule, ``Review of the National Ambient Air Quality 
Standards for Particulate Matter'' published in the Federal Register by 
the Environmental Protection Agency on April 30, 2020, which fails to 
protect, within an adequate margin of safety, communities of color from 
harmful air pollution during a global public health pandemic, where 
those communities are experiencing a disproportionately high death rate 
made worse by decades of exposure to toxic pollution; and 
                                                         Pages H3824-26
  Smith (MO) (amendment No. 102 printed in H. Rept. 116-459) that seeks 
to reduce funding for the EPA Environmental programs and management to 
match the President's FY 21 budget request.              
                                                         Pages H3827-29
  H. Res. 1060, the rule providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 
7608) was agreed to by a yea-and-nay vote of 230 yeas to 188 nays, Roll 
No. 158, after the previous question was ordered by a yea-and-nay vote 
of 230 yeas to 189 nays, Roll No. 157.                   
                                                         Pages H3708-15
Presidential Message: Read a message from the President wherein he 
notified Congress that the national emergency declared in Executive 
Order 13882 with respect to the situation in Mali is to continue in 
effect beyond July 26, 2020--referred to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs and ordered to be printed (H. Doc. 116-138).         
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Senate Referrals: S. 906 was held at the desk. S. 4065 was held at the 
desk.                                                        
  Page H3829
Senate Message: Message received from the Senate by the Clerk and 
subsequently presented to the House today appears on page H3829.
Quorum Calls--Votes: Five yea-and-nay votes developed during the 
proceedings of today and appear on pages H3713-14, H3714-15, H3821-22, 
H3822, and H3822-23.
Adjournment: The House met at 9 a.m. and adjourned at 8:41 p.m.