[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 135 (Thursday, July 30, 2020)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D683-D698]
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: 37 public bills, H.R. 7856-
7892; and 4 resolutions, H. Con. Res. 109; and H. Res. 1071-1073, were
introduced.
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Additional Cosponsors:
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Report Filed: A report was filed today as follows:
Committee on Ethics. In the Matter of Allegations Relating to
Representative David Schweikert (H. Rept. 116-465).
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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 9:50 and reconvened at 10 a.m.
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Recess: The House recessed at 3:07 p.m. and reconvened at 6:30 p.m.
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Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2021: The House considered
H.R. 7617, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2021. Consideration is expected to
resume tomorrow, July 31st.
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Pursuant to the Rule, an amendment in the nature of a substitute
consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 116-60, modified by the
amendment printed in part A of H. Rept. 116-461, shall be considered as
adopted.
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Agreed to:
Lowey en bloc amendment No. 1 consisting of the following amendments
printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-461: Allred (No. 1) that increases
Research, Test, Development, & Evaluation, Navy by $7.7 million for the
intent that $7.7 million will be used for the Tactical Air Directional
Infrared Countermeasures in order to match appropriation with
authorization; Blunt Rochester (No. 4) that increases Air Force RDT&E
by $5,000,000 for facility security design and construction to meet
classified project requirements and decreases O&M, Space Force by
$5,000,000; Brown (MD) (No. 6) that reduces Research and Development,
Army by $5,000,000 and increases the Defense Wide Research,
Development, Test, and Evaluation account by $5,000,000 in Basic
Research Initiatives, Line 3,PE 0601110D8Z for the START research
consortium of excellence for irregular warfare and advanced analytics;
Brown (MD) (No. 7) that reduces Research and Development, Army by
$5,000,000 and increases the Defense Wide Research, Development, Test,
and Evaluation account by $5,000,000 for cyber resiliency efforts in
the Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program (CTEIP); Carbajal
(No. 9) that increases RDTE, Army by $4 million to fund university and
industry research centers to pursue biotechnology advancements in
materials, synthetic biology, and cognitive neuroscience; Cooper (No.
13) that increases and decreases O&M Defense-Wide by $3 million to
indicate support for JASON scientific advisory group within the Office
of Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment; Escobar
(No. 18) that ensures the U.S. military is not used in violation of 1st
Amendment rights; Malinowski (No. 36) that prohibits the use of DOD
funds to require software & hardware companies to include backdoors &
vulnerabilities or to scrap key privacy and safety features in their
consumer goods; Matsui (No. 37) that increases by $4,500,000 the funds
provided under the Defense Health Program made available to the United
States Army Medical Research and Development Command to carry out the
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program; it would transfer
DHP funds from operation and maintenance to research, development,
test, and evaluation; McBath (No. 38) that increases and decreases by
$250,000 for research, development, test, and evaluation for the Air
Force, to indicate support for a study on how to best leverage ongoing
commercial investments in high-speed aircraft to support Air Force
Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) modernization,
including consideration of operations in contested environments;
Moulton (No. 44) that increases and decreases by $5,000,000 funding for
Department of Defense security cooperation programs in order to
establish a pilot program to demonstrate regional cyber cooperation in
Southeast Asia; Norton (No. 48) that increases and decreases by $2.5
million for research, development, test, and evaluation for the Air
Force, with the intent that the $2.5 million will be used for the Small
Business Innovation Research topic SB152-008; Peters (No. 53) that
increase Navy RDT&E by $2,500,000 and decrease O&M by the same amount;
Scanlon (No. 57) that increases and decreases by $5 million funding for
Air Force Research, Development, Test and Evaluation for purposes of
supporting Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System modular VTOLUAS;
Sherrill (No. 60) that increases and decreases the Research,
Development, Test, and Evaluation, Defense-Wide account by $5 million,
directed to the Chemical and Biological Defense Program, to
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support military-civilian partnerships on the development of
decontamination technologies for pandemic preparedness and response;
Sherrill (No. 61) that increases funding for Munition Standardization,
Effectiveness, and Safety to support research into foamable celluloid
materials for enhanced munitions performance and cost reduction;
Sherrill (No. 62) that increases funding for Joint Munition Technology
for research into advanced energetic materials for long-range
munitions, increasing their range and lethality; Speier (No. 66) that
prevents DoD from spending funds to implement a ban on military service
of transgender Americans; Torres Small (NM) (No. 75) that increases and
decreases by $5 million for research, development, test, and
evaluation, Defense-wide, with the intent that the $5 million will be
used for Missile Defense Agency's Advanced Research Program related to
high-speed flight experiment testing; Adams (No. 84) that prohibits the
use of Department of Justice funds to acquire chemical agents, such as
tear gas; Cohen (No. 93) 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. 94) that prohibits funds from being used to
enforce the zero-tolerance prosecution policy at the Department of
Justice; Escobar (No. 95) that ensures that federal law enforcement is
not used in violation of 1st Amendment rights; Horsford (No. 100) that
nullifies the effect of the recent executive order that requires
Federal agencies to share citizenship data; Jayapal; (No. 103) that
transfers $2 million from Department of Justice general administration
account to a National Center for Restorative Justice; Ted Lieu (CA)
(No. 106) that prohibits funds from being used for DOJ's Operation
Legend and Operation Relentless Pursuit, which are being used to send
federal law enforcement officers into various cities across the U.S.;
Malinowski (No. 109) that increases and decreases by $1,000,000 the
Department of Justice's National Security Division to emphasize the
need for more resources into domestic terrorism investigation and
prosecution such as the Counsel for Domestic Terrorism; McNerney (No.
115) that increases and decreases by $5,000,000 the National Science
Foundation's Research and Related Activities budget to support a
National Academy of Sciences study on the optimal approaches and
procedures for implementing partisan symmetry and compactness criteria
for congressional district selection; Meng (No. 117) that prohibits use
of funds made available by this Act to implement, administer, or
enforce the Presidential Memorandum on Excluding Illegal Aliens From
the Apportionment Base Following the 2020 Census, issued on July 21,
2020; Norton (No. 124) that prohibits the Federal Bureau of Prisons
from using funds to impose subsistence fees on individuals in halfway
houses or on home confinement; Ocasio-Cortez (No. 125) that prohibits
any funds under Division B to be used to purchase chemical weapons for
law enforcement purposes; Omar (No. 126) that increases funding for
Bureau of Economic Analysis for the purpose of studying the economic
impacts of a universal basic income program on the national economic
recovery effort; Omar (No. 127) that transfers $500,000 to the Federal
Prison System to highlight the importance of providing cost-free
reading and learning materials in detention facilities; Scanlon (No.
136) that increases and decreases funds in the Department of Justice
Salaries and Expenses account in order to give funds to the Office of
Access to Justice, which provides access to legal aid for individuals
in need; Scott (VA) (No. 139) that prohibits the use of funds made
available by this Act for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
(EEOC) to finalize, issue or enforce the proposed rule entitled
``Official Time in Federal Sector Cases Before the Commission''
published in the Federal Register on December 11, 2019; Speier (No.
141) that increases funding for DOJ's Community Relations Service by
$2.7 million in order to support hiring of regional directors and
mediation specialists to work within communities to facilitate dialogue
and provide mediation, training, and consultation when conflicts arise
based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion, or disability;
and Tlaib (No. 146) that prohibits funds from being used by the
Department of Justice (DOJ) to implement, administer, or enforce the
DOJ rule requiring DNA collection from immigration detainees;
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Lowey en bloc amendment No. 2 consisting of the following amendments
printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-461: Bacon (No. 2) that increases and
Decreases Defense Health Program funding by $5,000,000 for the purpose
of developing a digital solution prototype to improve total force and
military family wellness, readiness and resiliency; Beyer (No. 3) that
matches appropriation to authorization for the Direct Air Capture and
Blue Carbon Removal Technology Program; Brindisi (No. 5) that increases
Air Force RDT&E by $5 million for B-2 bomber maintenance training
system modernization. Offset is Defense-Wide O&M; Carbajal (No. 8) that
increases Army RDTE by $4 million for the completion of an
anthropomorphic study for body armor modernization; Carson (IN) (No.
10) that provides $5,000,000 in additional funding for pancreatic
cancer research,
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including early detection, at the Department of Defense (DoD); Chabot
(No. 11) that increases and decreases by $5M for Army, RDT&E; the
intent of the amendment is to provide $5.0M for demonstration of the
AH-64 dual-piloted portion of the CROSSBOW System; Cicilline (No. 12)
that increases funding for the Defense Established Program to Stimulate
Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) program by $2 million; Crawford (No. 14)
that moves $500,000 from Defense-wide O&M to Army O&M to fund a history
of Explosive Ordnance Disposal project at the Army War College; Crow
(No. 15) that increases funding for the purposes of cUAS technology
integration with robotic combat vehicles; Cunningham (No. 16) that
increases funding for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy
by $5 million to be used for the Navy's Network and Data Center
Intelligent Agent program, which will help facilitate the application
of novel technologies to improve troubleshooting of onboard ship data
centers; Dingell (No. 17) that provides for an additional $5 million
for the Fisher House Foundation which is offset by an outlay neutral
reduction in the Operation and Maintenance, Defense-wide account;
Graves (LA) (No. 20) that increases and decreases the Army RDTE budget
by $3 million develop and test biomedical approaches to nutrition,
metabolism, and human psychology to enhance warfighter capabilities and
reduce health risks; Grothman (No. 21) that provides an increase of
$31.306 million in Procurement, Marine Corps account to restore
necessary funding for Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) production;
decreases Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide by the same amount to
meet required budgetary offsets; Guest (No. 22) that prohibits funds
from being used to implement the Air Force's proposed conversion of 11
Air National Guard KC-135 Aircraft from Primary Aerospace Vehicle
Inventory (PAI) to Backup Aerospace Vehicle Inventory (BAI) until KC-46
deliveries meet the readiness goals of Air Force and Air National
Guard; Hartzler (No. 23) that increases and decreases by $5 million the
Defense Health Program's operations and maintenance account in order to
direct that $5 million be used to provide funding for DoD medical
providers to utilize non-profit, community-based, post traumatic growth
organizations as a treatment option for PTSD, Suicide Prevention and
for promoting service member resilience; Hartzler (No. 24) that
provides $5 million to support safety ejection seat upgrades for the T-
38; Hern (OK) (No. 25) that increases and decreases by $3 million for
research, development, test, and evaluation for the Army, with the
intent that the $3 million will be used for cyber initiatives; Horn
(OK) (No. 26) that increases funding to Army Aircraft Procurement for
the procurement of additional litter attached load stability systems to
be deployed at the bottom of the helicopter hoist; Horn (OK) (No. 27)
that decreases the Defense Wide Operations and Maintenance Account by
$4,000,000 and increases the Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation, Army Account by $4,000,000 for Long Range Precision Fires
Technology in order to fulfill the Army's urgent need for the
development and integration of precision strike munitions capabilities
in Global Position System (GPS) contested environments; Hudson (No. 28)
that decreases and increases by $382,084,000 for the Defense Logistics
Agency to underscore the need to improve efforts to address bribery,
fraud, and corruption within DLA; Jackson Lee (No. 29) that increases
and decreases the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund by $2
million to provide the Secretary of Defense the flexibility needed for
technical assistance for U.S. military women to military women in other
countries combating violence targeting women and children as a weapon
of war, terrorism, human trafficking, and narcotics trafficking;
Jackson Lee (No. 30) that reduces funding for Operations and
Maintenance-Defense Wide, by $5 million and increases funding for
Defense HealthCare for PTSD by $5 million; Jackson Lee (No. 31) that
reduces funding for Operations and Maintenance-Defense Wide, by $10
million and increases funding for Defense HealthCare for Triple
Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) by $10 million; Lamb (No. 32) that
provides an additional $4,000,000 for Navy Research, Development,
Testing, and Evaluation and directs those resources to novel
therapeutic interventions research under the Warfighter Protection
Advance Technology program to improve warfighter resilience and
readiness; Levin (CA) (No. 33) that provides $4 million for the Link-16
Space Experiment to demonstrate the ability to add real-time sensor-to-
shooter integration to Link-16 on satellites that would help increase
mission speed and safety; Loebsack (No. 34) that increases funding
available by $2 million for the United States Army Medical Research and
Development Command to carry research for Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
Research Program (TSCRP) in Defense Health Program; Lynch (No. 35) that
increases and decreases the Operation and Maintenance, Defense-wide
account by $5 Million to provide funding for the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency; Mitchell (No. 40) that increases and decreases
Research, Development, Technology and Evaluation, Defense-Wide to
increase funding for weldable ultra hard armor; Mitchell (No. 41) that
increases and decreases Other Procurement, Army account to restore the
Army's investments in HMMWV anti-lock brake system and electronic
stability control retrofit kits to prevent rollover accidents;
Moolenaar (No. 42) that
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provides $10,000,000 in National Guard Personnel, Army funding for
Operation Northern Strike, equal to FY20 enacted level; Moulton (No.
43) that increases Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Defense-
Wide by $20,000,000 and decreases Operation & Maintenance, Defense-Wide
by the same amount; Moulton (No. 45) that increases and decreases the
Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, Defense account by $4
million funding in order to restore funding for the Young Marines to
historic levels; Murphy (FL) (No. 46) that increases and decreases the
Army's Research, Development, Test and Evaluation budget activity by $5
million, to indicate support for the Synthetic Training Environment
Refinement and Prototyping program element, funded in the bill at
$129,547,000; Panetta (No. 50) that resources the Army's Future
Vertical Lift Advanced Technology program to support an upgraded head
mounted display and enhance flight safety in degraded visual
environments (snow, dust, rain, night); Panetta (No. 51) that increases
and decreases the operation and maintenance, defense wide account by $2
million in order to Resource the USSOCOM Preservation of the Force and
Family program to provide support services specifically designed to
build resilience, improve operational performance, and ensure force
readiness; Pappas (No. 52) that increases and decreases the Defense
Health Program account by $4,000,000 in order to provide funding for
the Defense Health Agency's Armed Forces Medical Examiner System's DoD
DNA Operations Section to perform DNA testing for DPAA in support of
its efforts to identify POW/MIAs; Porter (No. 54) that increases and
decreases funding for the Defense Health Program by approximately
0.001% of total Department of Defense funding to highlight the
inadequate resources dedicated to suicide prevention program; Posey
(No. 55) that provides for an increase to Army OPA for the Joint
Effects Targeting System (JETS) by $5M; reduces funding from O&M, Army-
Servicewide Communications account by $5M; Reschenthaler (No. 56) that
increases defense-wide RDTE by $5 million to establish and scale a
domestic supply for strategic metals, specifically titanium, by
converting military and industrial scrap materials into aerospace grade
powders, which will reduce costs, improve readiness, and reduce
dependence on imported strategic metals for use in defense and
commercial aerospace systems; Shalala (No. 59) that increases the
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide program to
ensure contract requirements between American universities and
Confucius Institutes comply with provisions to protect academic freedom
at the institution and prohibits the application of any foreign law on
any campus affiliated with the institution, and for other purposes;
Slotkin (No. 63) that increases funding for DoD investment in dual-use
hardware technologies critical to national security and manufactured in
the United States by supporting the National Security Innovation
Capital program; Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Defense-Wide
is increased by $15,000,000, and Operations & Maintenance, Defense Wide
is decreased by the same amount; Smith (WA) (No. 64) that increases LPD
Class Support Equipment by $5 million for alternative actuator
competition for amphibious ships, and decreases LCS MCM Mission Modules
by $5 million; Speier (No. 67) that increases funding for DoD's Sexual
Assault Special Victims' Counsel Program by $6 million to accommodate
increased overall caseloads due to expansion of the program to serve
survivors of Domestic Violence and to support compliance with the new
NDAA statutory requirement to reduce the caseload per SVC from 50 to
25; Speier (No. 68) that increases funding to support the expansion in
the NDAA of DoD's Exceptional Family Member Program by $6 million,
including supporting the hiring of attorneys to advocate for the
individualized educational needs of military children served by EFMP;
Speier (No. 69) that increases and decreases funding by $1 million to
ensure surveillance systems are operational at key Army facilities,
such as the Fort Hood armory where SPC Vanessa Guillen was murdered,
which had video surveillance equipment that was not maintained or
functioning; Stauber (No. 70) that increases and decreases the
Operation and Maintenance, Navy account by $1,000,000 with the intent
of giving the Secretary of the Navy the authority to direct naval ship
maintenance at non-homeport shipyards to meet surge capacity should the
shipyards meet the requirements of the Navy for ship repair work;
Stefanik (No. 71) that increases and decreases funding for the
Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide account by $2,500,000 to
emphasize the need to fund the National Security Commission on
Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI); Stevens (No. 72) that increases and
decreases by $5,000,000 to support research and development in
hypersonics and thermal management in the Manufacturing USA Institutes;
Suozzi (No. 73) that resources the Navy's Aviation Life Support Mods
(#52) to maintain minimum production of the Enhanced Emergency Oxygen
System (EEOS) to addresses safety issues for navy aircrews experiencing
hypoxia during flight; Thornberry (No. 74) that increases and decreases
by $3.0 million for research, development, test, and evaluation
defense-wide, with the intent that the $3.0 million will be used for
Defense Innovation Unit pilot program on talent optimization; Veasey
(No. 78) that takes $5 million in funding away from
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the Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide Account and gives that $5
million in funding to the Procurement of Ammunition, Navy and Marine
Corps Account; Wilson (No. 80) that prohibits US funding from going to
the Badr Organization a militia whose leader participated in the attack
on the US Embassy in Baghdad in December 2019; Wilson (No. 81) that
prohibits taxpayer funding from going to the Iraqi Popular Mobilization
Forces which are largely made up of Iranian backed militias; Young (No.
82) that reduces the Air Force Operations and Maintenance account by
$20 million and increases the Air Force Research, Development, Test,
and evaluation by the same amount, for an initial Arctic communications
capability; Young (No. 83) that decreases the Defense Wide Operations
and Maintenance account by $10 million and increases the Air Force
Operations and Maintenance account by the same amount, for the ISR
Operations Office to support the Cyber Operations for Base Resilient
Architecture Pilot Program; Bera (No. 86) that increases VAWA grant
program accounts by $1 million to support increased funding for grants
enhancing culturally specific services for domestic violence survivors;
Bost (No. 89) that increases and decreases International Trade
Administration (ITA) Operations and Administration to prioritize ITA
Enforcement and Compliance anti-dumping (AD) and countervailing duty
(CVD) activities and to direct ITA to report to the Committee on its
plans to increase staffing for personnel involved in AD/CVD activities
in order to address substantial increases in AD/CVD petitions, orders
and reviews; Burgess (No. 90) that increases funding for the Keep Young
Athletes Safe Act grant program by $2.5 million and reduces funding for
salaries and expenses at the Department of Commerce by $2.5 million;
Cardenas (No. 91) that increases funds focusing on girls in the
juvenile justice system within the existing Title V program by $1
million; Cardenas (No. 92) that increases collaborative mental health
and anti-recidivism initiative by $1 million; Espaillat (No. 96) that
increases and decreases the National Science Foundation account by
$10,000,000 to highlight and encourage continued support of
undergraduate STEM education at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs);
as authorized by the America COMPETES Act; Gomez (No. 97) that
increases funding for the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) by $5 million to promote the participation of women
and people of color in research areas supported by NIST, and reduces
funding from Commerce's Departmental Management, Salaries and Expenses
account by $5 million; Gottheimer (No. 99) that increases and decreases
the Manufacturing Extension Partnership account by $1 million to
address the supply chain challenges caused by COVID-19 and the need for
additional investment in domestic manufacturing supply lines; Hudson
(No. 101) that increases by $1 million the amount available for
research to study the root causes of school violence; Jackson Lee (No.
102) that increases and decreases by $2,000,000 funding for the Office
of Justice Programs grant in order to support programs to engage adult
men and young persons to reduce and prevent domestic violence against
children; Johnson (TX) (No. 104) that increases and decreases Research
and Related Activities by $1,500,000 to fund a National Academies study
on racism in STEM studies and careers; Kuster (No. 105) that increases
funding by $1 million for programs that address violence and abuse in
later life; Lipinski (No. 107) that increases and decreases the
National Science Foundation Research and Related Activities by
$1,000,000 to highlight the importance of programs that facilitate
university research tech transfer, including Innovation Corps;
Lowenthal (No. 108) that increases and decreases NASA's Science
Missions Directorate by $30 million to compliment the report language
enhancing the small satellite mission launch services; McAdams (No.
110) that increases funding for Internet Crimes Against Children Task
Force grants under the DOJ missing and exploited children programs by
$1 million with offsets; McAdams (No. 111) that increases funding to
Victims of Child Abuse Act programs to support Child Advocacy Centers
that provide services to child survivors of abuse by $2 million with
offsets; McKinley (No. 112) that increases and decreases the Salaries
and Expenses account within the Federal Prison System budget by $2
million in order to direct that $2 million within the account to be
used for recruitment and retention incentive programs at short-staffed
facilities; McKinley (No. 114) that increases and decreases NOAA's
Procurement, Acquisition, and Construction account by $2.3 million, in
order to direct that $2.3 million to be used to create a test bed for
advanced propulsion and mechanical subsystems that could be utilized in
a new green boat design; McNerney (No. 116) that increases and
decreases funding for NSF by $1.5 million in order for NSF to examine,
including through workshops, and publish findings on: (1) Which
universities are putting out significant peer-reviewed AI research,
including based on quantity and number of citations; (2) For each of
the universities listed in (1), what specific factors enable their AI
research, including computing power, data sets and availability,
specialized curriculum, and industry and other partnerships; and (3)
How universities not included in (1) could implement the factors in (2)
to produce AI research, as well as case studies that universities can
look to as examples and potential pilot programs
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that the federal government could develop or support to help
universities produce AI research; Moore (No. 118) that increases VAWA's
Transitional Housing Program by $2.5 million; Moore (No. 119) that
increases VAWA's Sexual Assault Special Program Formula Grant by $2.5
million; Moulton (No. 120) that provides an additional $1.5 million in
funding for the research and monitoring of North Atlantic Right Whales;
Neguse (No. 121) that increases funding for the NASA National Space
Grant College and Fellowship Program by $1 million; Neguse (No. 122)
that increases by $1 million grants to States to upgrade criminal and
mental health records for the National Instant Criminal Background
Check System; reduces by $1 million the DOJ General Administration
Salaries and Expenses; Neguse (No. 123) that increases and decreases $1
million to the General Legal Activities account at the Department of
Justice to allocate more resources for the enforcement of anti-animal
cruelty laws at the DOJ Environment and Natural Resources Division;
Omar (No. 128) that provides a $1 million increase to grants to state
and local law enforcement agencies for the expenses associated with the
investigation and prosecution of criminal offenses, involving civil
rights, authorized by the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes
Reauthorization Act of 2016; Pappas (No. 129) that increases and
decreases State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance by $10,000,000 to
support $10,000,000 in grant money for local law enforcement agencies
with fewer than 350 employees to pay for accreditation or re-
certification by a national, state, regional, or Tribal professional
law enforcement organization; Perry (No. 130) that increases and
decreases by $100,000 for the purpose of developing, enlarging, or
strengthening victim services and legal assistance programs for victims
of Female Genital Mutilation; Porter (No. 131) that increases funding
by $1 million to investigate and prosecute hate crimes, and to support
education and outreach under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.
Hate Crimes Prevention Act; Porter (No. 132) that increases funding by
$1 million to address the sexual assault kit backlog; Ruiz (No. 134)
that increases funding for Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness
Act program grants by $2.5 million; Rush (No. 135) that increases
funding for community-based violence prevention initiatives; Schneider
(No. 137) that increases and decreases FBI Salaries and Expenses by $1
million to direct the FBI to develop and implement a process to track
and report to Congress on an annual basis on extremist activity in law
enforcement, including Federal law enforcement agencies; Schneider (No.
138) that increases and decreases FBI Salaries and Expenses by $10
million to direct the FBI to assign a special agent or hate crimes
liaison to each field office of the FBI to investigate hate crimes
incidents with a nexus to domestic terrorism; Soto (No. 140) that
increases and decreases funding for NASA's Planetary Science budget to
reaffirm the importance of the Near Earth Object Surveillance Mission
(NEOSM) in identifying potentially hazardous near Earth objects and
ensures that at least $40 million of NASA's Planetary Science budget is
used to fund NEOSM; Speier (No. 142) that increases funding for the
Debbie Smith program by $4 million to help close the rape kit backlog;
Stevens (No. 143) that increases and decreases the NASA Aeronautics
account by $15 million to support the domestic development of lower
cost, higher rate production advanced carbon fiber composite structures
to meet the multi-functional requirements of subsonic and hypersonic
flight, including thermal management, damping, shielding, shock and
light-weighting; Stevens (No. 144) that increases and decreases the
National Science Foundation's research and related activities account
by $200 million to highlight the work of the NSF on COVID-related
research and encourage continued support; Stevens (No. 145) that
increases and decreases the National Science Foundation's Education &
Human Resources account by $350 million to highlight NSF's work with K-
12 STEM education programs and encourage continued support; and Tonko
(No. 147) that increases and decreases the NOAA operations, research,
and facilities account by $2,000,000 in order to reserve the $2,000,000
to establish the Boundary Layer Observations and Wind Profiler Research
Program;
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Walberg amendment (No. 149 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-461)
that prohibits use of funds for ``adoptive seizures,'' wherein law
enforcement evades stricter state laws governing civil asset forfeiture
by seizing property and referring it to federal authorities;
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Visclosky en bloc amendment No. 4 consisting of the following
amendments printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-461: Waters (No. 150) that
states that no funds in this act may be used to interfere with the
duties and responsibilities of United States Attorneys; Bergman (No.
153) that increases funding for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
(USACE) Regulatory Program by $5,000,000 for the purpose of ensuring
timely processing of permits related to Great Lakes flooding and rising
water levels, including through the promotion and appropriate
application of After the Fact Permits described in 33 CFR 326.3(e)
which may help USACE process many small-scale requests in a swift
manner and avoid backlogs; Cooper (No. 156) that increases and
decreases the Corps of Engineers investigations account
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by $1.3 million to highlight the need to study adding flood risk
management as an authorized purpose for the Old Hickory Lock and Dam
and the Cordell Hull Dam and Reservoir; Dingell (No. 157) that
increases and decreases FERC's budget by $3 million for the purpose of
emphasizing continued improvements in dam safety, including conducting
a technical conference with States to improve safety oversight of
hydropower projects; Fletcher (No. 159) that increases and decreases
funding for the DOE's Fossil Energy Research and Development account by
$10 million to emphasize support for the testing and evaluation of
using deep well injection and geothermal biodegradation to divert and
sequester biosolids and other complex waste streams away from land-
based disposal options, while reducing carbon emissions; Gianforte (No.
160) that increases and decreases the Water and Related Resources
account by $25 million to underscore that funds should be used for the
St. Mary's Rehabilitation Phase One; Gosar (No. 161) that increases
funding for critical minerals in Office of Fossil Energy by $2.5
million and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy by
$600,000 to match the President's FY 21 Budget Request; these increases
are offset by a decrease of $3.1 million from the DOE Departmental
General Administration account; Gosar (No. 163) that transfers $5
million from the Department of Energy's Departmental Administration
account to the Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response
account; Gosar (No. 164) that transfers $5 million from the Department
of Energy's Departmental Administration account to the Office of
Science to highlight the importance of R&D for quantum computing;
Lipinski (No. 169) that increases and decreases the Department of
Energy Office of Science by $25,000,000 for the purpose of highlighting
support for the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility; Loebsack (No.
170) that increases and decreases the Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy account by $5,000,000 with the intent of supporting the
advancement of distributed wind technologies and research; Lujan (No.
171) that increases and decreases the Departmental Administration
account by $1,000,000 to emphasize greater flexibility to DOE's
research and development offices in administering the Small Business
Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer
(STTR) programs; Lynch (No. 172) that increases and decreases the USACE
Construction Account by $10 million; McAdams (No. 174) that provides
additional funding for the Central Utah Project Completion Act program;
McAdams (No. 175) that provides additional funding for the Clean Cities
program in the Energy Efficiency Program within DOE; McKinley (No. 176)
that transfers $5 million from the Department of Energy's
``Departmental Administration'' account to the ``Fossil Energy Research
and Development'' account; Morelle (No. 178) that decreases and
increases funding by $1,000,000 for the Inertial Confinement Fusion
program within Weapons Activities to emphasize the need to increase
funding for cyber infrastructure and remote user access to laser
facilities; Perry (No. 180) that increases by $1,000,000 funding for
the EERE's Water Power Technologies Office, offset by a decrease in
Departmental Administration; Scalise (No. 182) that increases and
decreases funds within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy by $1 million to emphasize the need to prevent the purchasing of
rare earth minerals from Chinese owned mines that employ child labor;
Scott (VA) (No. 183) that increases and decreases by $7 million to
highlight the need to support the work of the Office of Science and the
timely expansion and renovation of the Continuous Electron Beam
Accelerator Facility at Jefferson Lab; Scott (VA) (No. 184) that
increases and decreases the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Construction
account by $78.3 million to underscore the need for increased funding
for coastal construction projects; Swalwell (CA) (No. 187) that
increases and decreases by $10 million to emphasize support for the
Department of Energy's Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency
Response (HAZWOPER) worker training program, which provides site-
specific, quality training for workers to identify hazardous situations
and to take appropriate actions to protect themselves and their
colleagues, the public, and the environment; Wagner (No. 190) that
increases and decreases the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction
account by $20,000,000 to underscore the need to restore funding to the
FY20 level ($30,000,000) for authorized reimbursements for projects
with executed project partnership agreements that have completed
construction or where non-federal sponsors intend to use the funds for
additional water resource development activities; Weber (No. 191) that
increases and decreases the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear
Energy by $235,000,000 to highlight the importance of the Versatile
Test Reactor Project; Welch (No. 192) that increases and decreases by
$7 million the Army Corps of Engineers general construction account to
emphasize the need for the Army Corps to designate funding to the 542
Program in their 2021 workplan; Young (No. 193) that increases and
decreases $150 million to the Water Power Technologies Office for
grants to deploy hydropower, pumped storage and marine energy projects
and related transmission infrastructure in low-income, economically
distressed, underserved, or rural communities, for which no cost share
is required; Cisneros (No. 195) that increases
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funding for Small Business Development Centers by $5 million;
Fitzpatrick (No. 197) that increases funding for the ``National
Archives and Records Administration--Repairs and Restoration'' account
by $8,025,000; Graves (LA) (No. 199) 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; Guest (No. 200) that
increases the Bank Enterprise Award Program by $1,000,000 and would be
offset by decreasing the General Services Administration's rent account
by the same amount; Krishnamoorthi (No. 202) that prohibition of GSA
selling cars that may have a recall on them; Lesko (No. 204) that
increases and decreases the Federal Buildings Fund by $90,000,000 to be
directed to the San Luis I Port of Entry in Arizona; Carolyn B. Maloney
(NY) (No. 206) that prohibits the Postal Service from using funds
appropriated by this Act to implement any changes to standards and
operations that will delay mail delivery; Spanberger (No. 212) that
directs the Internal Revenue Service to prioritize the reduction of the
backlog of taxpayer correspondence that has resulted from COVID-19;
Zeldin (No. 217) that prohibits the use of funds for the GSA to market
or sell the National Bio and Agro-defense Facility at Plum Island, New
York; Bera (No. 220) that increases and decreases the School
Improvement Account by $500,000 with the intent of directing the
Department of Education to collect and share best practices for
offering online classroom instruction with local education agencies,
including resources from the What Works Clearinghouse and lessons
learned by schools from the transition to online learning this past
school year as a result of COVID-19; Beyer (No. 223) that increases and
decreases funds by $500,000 to highlight the need for a GAO study on
standardized tests for college admissions, the accountability and
oversight of the organizations managing such tests, efficacy of such
tests, impact in admissions decisions, and economic impact on college
applicants; Burgess (No. 226) that increases and decreases funds by
$100 million in the Public Health and Social Services Emergency fund to
highlight the need for manufacturing process improvements to increase
yields of Immunoglobulin G in plasma manufacturing in the United
States; Cardenas (No. 227) that increases funding for the National
Child Traumatic Stress Initiative by $1 million and decreases funding
for HHS's General Departmental Management account by $1 million; Crow
(No. 229) that increases the carve-out for Project SERV from $5 million
to $6 million, which funds grants to local education agencies for
mental health, counseling, and technical assistance in the wake of
traumatic events at schools that are disruptive to learning--such as
natural disasters, violence at school, or pandemics; Danny K. Davis
(IL) (No. 230) that increases funding to the account of Birth Defects,
Development Disabilities, Disabilities and Health by $2,000,000, and
decreases the administration account in the Office of the Secretary of
Health and Human Services by $2,000,000; DeSaulnier (No. 231) that
increases and decreases the Department of Labor budget by $2 million
with the intention of funding a study that examines the cost savings of
teleworking/telecommuting, specifically as it relates to worker
productivity, cost savings to the employer, transportation emission
reductions, child care costs, etc; DeSaulnier (No. 232) that increases
funding for Statewide Family Engagement Centers at the Department of
Education by $1 million; Escobar (No. 233) that increases and decreases
funding by $1 million in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Administration (SAMHSA) account to encourage the agency to streamline
the application process for SAMHSA grants; Espaillat (No. 236) that
increases and decreases by $10,000,000 to support greater minority
patient outreach and minority candidate inclusion by the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in clinical trial
participation for any vaccine or therapeutics to treat the novel
Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19); Espaillat (No. 238) that increases and
decreases funds by $10 million in Part A of Title III of the ESEA to
highlight the need for English Language Acquisition (ELA) grants and
technical assistance to local education agencies supporting the
education of English learners (ELs); Finkenauer (No. 240) that
increases funding by $5 million for Certified Community Behavioral
Health Clinics, decreases $5 million from the Office of the Secretary
account; Gomez (No. 243) that provides an additional $5 million for the
NIH's National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
(NIMHD), decreases $5 million from the Office of the Secretary account;
Gomez (No. 244) that provides an additional $5 million for the Health
Centers program, decreases $5 million from the Office of the Secretary
account; Gottheimer (No. 245) that increases and decreases funds by
$1,000,000 in the Centers For Disease Control And Prevention
Environmental Health account to emphasize the importance of every child
having access to drinking water at school that's free of lead and
dangerous materials; Gottheimer (No. 246) that increases and decreases
the Public Health Emergency Fund by $1 million to highlight the need
for all Members of Congress to have access to the weekly updates on the
Strategic
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National Stockpile from the Secretary of HHS provided to House and
Senate Appropriations Committees; Hastings (No. 247) that provides an
additional $500,000 for civics education, split equally between
American History and Civics Academies, and American History and Civics
National Activities; Hudson (No. 250) that increases Impact Aid 7003(b)
by $1,000,000 and decreases Department of Education Departmental
Management Program Administration fund by $1,000,000; Jackson Lee (No.
251) that increases and decreases funds by $10,000,000 increase in
funding to support greater diversity in the pool of diabetes research
professionals and patients participating in clinical trials; Jackson
Lee (No. 252) that increases and decreases funds by $10,000,000 with
the intent of supporting programs that provide outreach and support
services targeting program participants at greatest risk of not
completing a college degree due to COVID-19 education disruption;
Keating (No. 254) that increases the Bureau of Health Workforce account
by $5 million to go toward the Nurse Corps Loan Repayment Program,
decreases the Office of the Secretary account by $5 million; Keating
(No. 255) that increases the NIH budget by $2 million to go towards a
study and a report to Congress reviewing the increased use of opioids
during the COVID-19 pandemic; Lee (NV) (No. 257) that increases funding
for the Full-Service Community Schools Program (FSCS) by $1 million;
Lee (NV) (No. 258) that provides an additional $1,000,000 to Area
Health Education Centers (AHEC) within HRSA's Bureau of Health
Workforce account to address shortages and increase diversity in
communities', health workforce pipelines by developing education and
training networks among local academic institutions and community-based
organizations; makes corresponding reduction in the General
Departmental Management sub-account of HHS's Office of the Secretary;
Lujan (No. 261) that increases funding for Comprehensive Opioid
Recovery Centers (CORCs) under the SAMHSA Mental Health account by $8
million, bringing total funding for CORCs to the full $10 million
authorized by the SUPPORT Act; offset by a corresponding reduction to
HHS Office of the Secretary; Sean Patrick Maloney (NY) (No. 262) that
increases and decreases funding by $10 million in the Institute of
Museum and Library Services account to highlight the need for
technological advancements, like Wi-Fi and computers, in Libraries,
especially those in communities that are economically distressed;
McAdams (No. 263) that increases funding for the Suicide Lifeline
program under the SAMHSA Mental Health account by $4 million with
offsets; McBath (No. 265) that increases overall budget for Children
and Family Services by $5,000,000, thereby increasing the budget for
FVPSA by $5,000,000; decrease the General Departmental Management fund
under the Office of the HHS Secretary by $5,000,000; McKinley (No. 266)
that provides an additional $1 million to the Alternatives to Opioids
in the Emergency Department which is authorized in Section 7091 of the
SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act; McKinley (No. 267) that funds
Sec. 7081 of the SUPPORT Act, preventing overdoses while in emergency
rooms by creating a coordinated care model; Norcross (No. 271) that
appropriates $11.5 million for military and civilian partnership for
trauma readiness grants as authorized by section 204 of the Pandemic
and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of 2019; Omar
(No. 272) that transfers $1 million to the CDC with the intention that
the agency use the funds to conduct a study on the health impacts of
mercury exposure caused by the use of commercial skin lightening
products; Panetta (No. 273) that increases and decreases School
Improvement Programs funding by $1million to emphasize the need for
additional funding for the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act's
Education for Homeless Children and Youth program (EHCY); Pappas (No.
274) that increases and decreases by $4,000,000 funding for NIH Office
of the Director in order to establish a pilot program to support
research and development jointly with Israel for effective responses to
COVID-19; Pascrell (No. 275) that decreases the General Departmental
Management funding by $1 million and provides funding $1 million for
the National Concussion Surveillance System within the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention; Perlmutter (No. 276) that increases the
Energy Employees Occupational Illness Program by $2 million in order to
fund the Department of Labor Office of the Ombudsman through Fiscal
Year 2021; Perlmutter (No. 277) that increases the Energy Employees
Occupational Illness Program by $300,000 to fund a support contractor
for the Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Worker Health and help
the Board fulfill its legislative mandate; Porter (No. 279) that
increases funding to provide $500,000 for the Maternal Mental Health
Hotline; Porter (No. 280) that increases funding to provide $55,500,000
for the Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program (CCAMPIS);
Pressley (No. 281) that increases funding by $5 million for the
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases,
which conducts research for alopecia areata, by decreasing the General
Departmental Management budget for the Department of Health and Human
Services' Office of the Secretary; Richmond (No. 282) that increases
and decreases Student Support and Academic Enrichment State Grants by
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$1 million to focus additional efforts on comprehensive dropout
prevention programs including those with experiential learning
components; Schrier (No. 285) that increases then decreases by $200
million funding to promote innovation in antibacterial research and
development by funding the CARB-X program that develops products
directly supporting the government-wide National Action Plan for
Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria; Sherrill (No. 287) that
increases the National Institute of Mental health budget by $5,000,000
to address youth mental health disparities; Smith (NJ) (No. 289) that
redirects $4 million from General Departmental Management at the
Department of Health and Human Services to Emerging Zoonotic and
Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control, for Lyme
Disease and other Vector-Borne Diseases; Smith (MO) (No. 290) that
increases and decreases funds by $1 million to highlight the need for
the Secretary of HHS, in collaboration with the HHS Assistant Secretary
for Preparedness and Response, the FDA Commissioner, the CDC Director,
and the Secretary for Homeland Security, to determine, and annually
update, a list of 300-400 medications for which it is critical that the
Federal government ensure availability in the event of a public health
emergency; Speier (No. 291) that increases funding for the Rape,
Prevention and Education program by $5.25 million to ensure that
diverse stakeholders, including educational institutions, rape crisis
centers, community organizations and state agency partners have
sufficient resources to implement their programming to prevent sexual
violence; Stauber (No. 293) that increases SAMHSA for American Indian
and Alaska Native Suicide Prevention by $2,869,000 to combat the
rampant suicide of Native Americans; Stevens (No. 294) that reduces and
increases funds by $5 million in the CDC's Injury Prevention and
Control account to highlight the need to fund the CDC's work on
drowning prevention; Taylor (No. 295) that requires the Secretary of
the Department of Health and Human Services to enter into an agreement
with the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine to
commission a report on the differences between state, local, and
federal vital statistics and death reporting standards; to provide
recommendations on how to harmonize these standards; and provide
information on the feasibility of establishing and implementing
national standards for vital statistics and death reporting; Trone (No.
300) that increases funding by $1 million for SAMHSA's mental health
programs to implement an Interagency Task Force on Trauma-Informed Care
to identify and disseminate evidence-based approaches on prevention and
identification of trauma, community-based practices to support children
and their families, and opportunities for state- and local-level
partnerships, as authorized by the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities
Act. Decreases by $1 million the Office of the Secretary--General
Departmental Management; Waters (No. 304) that increases funds for the
Minority AIDS Initiative by $5 million and reduces remaining funds for
the Office of the Secretary, HHS, General Departmental Management, by
the same amount; Waters (No. 305) that increases funds for the BOLD
Infrastructure for Alzheimer's Act, within the CDC's ``Chronic Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion'' account, by $5 million and reduces
funds for the Office of the Secretary, HHS, General Departmental
Management, by the same amount; Waters (No. 306) that increases funds
for the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) within HRSA's
Maternal and Child Health account by $5 million and reduces funds for
the Office of the Secretary, HHS, General Departmental Management, by
the same amount; Adams (No. 310) that transfers $2,000,000 to the
Capital Investment Grant program from the Office of the Secretary of
Transportation's Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration;
Bera (No. 311) that increases and decreases the Housing Counseling
Assistance program by $1 million to encourage counselors to provide
information to clients on federal, state, and local eviction
moratoriums, mortgage forbearance, and financial assistance programs in
response to the COVID-19 pandemic; Escobar (No. 314) that increases and
decreases funding for the Federal-Aid Highways account by $1 million to
highlight the need for collaboration between state and local
governments when determining what projects along the U.S.-Mexico border
will receive federal funds set aside for border state infrastructure;
Gabbard (No. 315) that strikes a provision requiring certain
communities to enter into a cost share agreement with the Department of
Transportation for a new essential air service contract; Gosar (No.
316) that increases and decreases by $5 million the FAA's Grant's-In-
Aid for Airports account to highlight the need for continued small
airport development via the Airport Improvement Program; Graves (LA)
(No. 317) that prohibits the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
from using funds in contravention of Section 1210 of the FAA
Reauthorization Act of 2018; Heck (No. 318) that increases funding for
the Indian Community Development Block Grant Program; Jackson Lee (No.
319) that increases and decreases the National Infrastructure
Investments account by $2,000,000 to emphasize support for urban
bicycle and pedestrian safety programs; Jackson Lee (No. 321) that
increases and decreases by $1 million the Federal Rail Administration
Safety and Operation's account to emphasize the need to provide
dedicated funding to address
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community engagement on safety issues related railroad crossings in
urban areas; Lamb (No. 324) that increases funding by $1 million for
the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) for administrative contract
expenses, to support better lender and borrower knowledge of mortgage
forbearance options for federally backed mortgages in light of COVID-
19's impact on mortgage payments, and subtract $1 million from HUD's
Office of Housing; Malinowski (No. 328) that increases funding for the
Low or No Emission Grant Program by $1,500,000 for the purchase of zero
and low emission buses; McGovern (No. 329) that increases funding for a
radon testing and mitigation resident safety demonstration program by
$3 million; Neguse (No. 330) that increases and decreases by $1 million
the Federal Aviation Administration's Research, Engineering, and
Development Program to highlight the importance of investments in noise
mitigation research and technologies; Spano (No. 336) that increases
funding for the commercial space transportation activities account by
$5.48 million to the fiscal year 2019 authorized level; reduces funding
by $5.48 million for the finance and management activities account;
Stanton (No. 337) that clarifies that tribal areas are included when
determining the equitable distribution of BUILD grants; Stauber (No.
338) that increases and decreases the PHMSA authorization by $1,000,000
to highlight the need to conduct a study of corrosion control
techniques for leak prevention of regulated above ground storage tanks;
and Wexton (No. 340) that increases and decreases the Federal Aviation
Administration's Facilities and Equipment account by $9 million to
instruct the FAA to continue the Remote Tower Pilot Program;
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Visclosky en bloc amendment No. 5 consisting of the following
amendments printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-461: Barragan (No. 151)
that adds $25 million for grants to deploy solar and distributed energy
systems in low-income and underserved communities, raising the existing
amount from $200 million to $225 million; Barragan (No. 152) that
increases and decreases funding by $1 million for the SPR Petroleum
Account to highlight that none of the funds made available by this Act
should be used to store any petroleum products that are not owned by
the United States in a storage or related facility of the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve that is owned by, or leased to, the United States;
Boyle (No. 154) that prevents funds from this act from being used to
reject grant applications due to the use of the term ``global warming''
or the term ``climate change''; Cohen (No. 155) 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. 158) that prohibits
funds for FERC to grant a hydropower license in contravention of the
requirement for a licensee to conform to the rules and regulations of
FERC's dam safety requirements under the Federal Power Act; Huffman
(No. 165) that states that none of the funds can be used for the Army
Corps of Engineers to issue the Record of Decision for the proposed
Pebble Mine project; Jayapal (No. 166) that increases and decreases by
$52.5 million the Army Corps Construction account to highlight the need
to fully fund the Army Corps Section 206 program at the authorized
amount of $62.5 million in order to provide critical support for fish
passage and other aquatic ecosystem restoration projects; Jayapal (No.
167) that increases funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program
(WAP) by $250 million to ensure that funding is sufficient to meet the
increased need for assistance in reducing household energy costs and
supporting the creation of green jobs as a result of the COVID-19
crisis; also increases funding for WAP training and technical
assistance by $3 million; Levin (CA) (No. 168) that prohibits the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission from using funds to remove inspectors
from licensed reactors undergoing spent fuel loading campaigns;
Malinowski (No. 173) that increases funding for the Vehicle
Technologies Office by $25 million to advance the development and use
of plug-in electric vehicles charging infrastructure; McNerney (No.
177) that increases and decreases by $15,000,000 the Department of
Energy's Energy Information Administration (EIA) budget for the
purposes of emphasizing more robust analysis and data collection from
EIA's commercial and residential surveys, specifically with regards to
water consumption, as well as to make publicly available water
consumption data for commercial buildings, broken out by principal
building activity and region; Omar (No. 179) that clarifies that the
Department of Energy's Section 1703 Loan Program is providing loans
only to clean energy projects that avoid, reduce, or sequester air
pollutants or human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases; Slotkin (No.
185) that decreases and increases by $205,000,000 to emphasize that a
sufficient amount of this funding be used to conduct a complete and
thorough Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Assessment on
Enbridge's proposed tunnel to encase the Line 5 pipeline in the Straits
of Mackinaw; Stanton (No. 186) that provides an additional $250 million
for Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants; Velazquez (No.
189) that prevents funds from this act from being used to reject grant
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applications due to the use of the term ``sea level rise; Castro (TX)
(No. 194) that requires that when developing its list of
recommendations for removal to the President, in addition to federal
assets that honor the Confederacy and other historical figures that are
not consistent with values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, the
Commission must consider and evaluate federal assets that do not
represent the demographic diversity and history of the community where
the asset is located; Cohen (No. 196) 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; Gottheimer (No. 198) that increases the Federal
Communications Commission Broadband Infrastructure Grants account by
$1,000,000; this increase is to help address the challenges unserved
and underserved areas face, especially as we increasingly work, learn,
and socialize online; Krishnamoorthi (No. 203) that prohibits funds
from executive branch employees from promoting private companies;
Lipinski (No. 205) that increases and decreases by $1 million the
funding for the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General in
order to encourage USPS to investigate and take corrective action
regarding widespread mail delivery issues in the City of Chicago;
Neguse (No. 208) that strikes the 5 percent state matching requirement
for election security grants; Pascrell (No. 209) that increases funding
by $2,000,000 for the United States Postal Service (USPS) for USPS to
carry out pilot programs to expand its current postal banking services
to surcharge free automated teller machines, wire transfers, check
cashing, and bill payment; Pressley (No. 210) that increases funding to
the Election Assistance Commission to fund voter education campaigns to
combat disinformation and to encourage political participation among
youth; Rice (NY) (No. 211) that increases funding for the Office of
Special Counsel to match the agency's FY 2021 budget request so that
that agency can carry out critical Hatch Act investigations and to
address its whistleblower case backlog; Speier (No. 213) that increases
funding for the Internal Revenue Service's Operations Support by $10
million in order to improve the Service's capacity to address
outstanding Economic Impact Payments and respond to congressional
inquiries about casework; Waters (No. 215) that states that none of the
funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer,
or enforce the amendments to sections 240.14a-1(l), 240.14a-2, or
240.14a-9 of title 17, Code of Federal Regulations, that were adopted
by the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 22, 2020; Waters (No.
216) that increases and decreases the CDFI Program's financial
assistance and technical assistance awards by $68,400,000 to support
allocating 40% of the total amount to minority community development
financial institutions, including minority depository institutions, and
a report to Congress on the implementation of such allocation; Adams
(No. 218) that prohibits the use of funds for the enforcement of WHD
Field Bulletin No. 2020-2, which attempts to limit liquidated damages
for violations of minimum wage and overtime protections; Bera (No. 221)
that decreases and increases funds by $1 million in the CDC Public
Health Preparedness and Response account to urge CDC to integrate early
warning surveillance data, such as network-connected devices like smart
thermometers and pulse oximeters or symptom surveys, into its COVID-19
syndromic surveillance to help identify potential hotspots even before
individuals present to a health care facility; Bera (No. 222) that
decreases and increases funds by $1 million in the CDC Immunization and
Respiratory Diseases account to urge CDC to prioritize assistance to
State, local, tribal, and territorial health departments regarding
Immunization Information Systems to best prepare for management and
distribution of seasonal influenza and COVID-19 vaccines and to support
mass vaccination efforts; Beyer (No. 224) that requires the National
Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine do to a holistic review
of the U.S. coronavirus response and offer recommendations, including
but not limited to how to build public health security and pandemic
preparedness; Cohen (No. 228) 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. 234) that increases and decreases funding by $1
million in the Office of the Secretary account to urge the U.S.-Mexico
Border Health Commission to develop and implement a bi-national
strategy to address COVID-19 in the border region; Escobar (No. 235)
that prohibits funds from being used to implement or enforce the
restrictions under the rule entitled, ``Order Under Sections 362 and
365 of the Public Health Service Act; Order Suspending Introduction of
Certain Persons From Countries Where a Communicable Disease Exists'' at
the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico; Espaillat (No. 237) that
prohibits the Office of Refugee Resettlement and the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services from contracting with any for-profit
contractor for the purposes of housing
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unaccompanied children (UAC); Jayapal (No. 253) that prohibits use of
funds to implement or enforce Secretary DeVos' Interim Final Rule
entitled ``CARES Act Programs; Equitable Services to Students and
Teachers in Non-Public Schools,'' an unlawful interpretation of the
CARES Act to divert federal emergency aid dollars intended for public
schools to private school students; Kelly (IL) (No. 256) that increases
CDC firearm injury and mortality prevention research by $5,000,000;
Levin (MI) (No. 259) that increases and decreases by $1 million for
ILAB funding with the intent that the funds support workers' rights and
capacity to organize independent unions in Mexico; Levin (MI) (No. 260)
that prohibits any of the funds made available by this Act to be used
by the Department of Education for Education Freedom Scholarship
private school vouchers; McBath (No. 264) that increases funding for
CDC Injury Prevention and Control fund by $5,000,000, decreases the
General Departmental Management fund under the office of the HHS
Secretary by $5,000,000; Norcross (No. 269) that increases and
decreases OSHA by $5 million with the intent of directing them to issue
a comprehensive emergency temporary standard to protect workers,
employers, and customers from the COVID-19 pandemic; Norcross (No. 270)
that increases and decreases the Public Health and Social Services
Emergency Fund by $5 million with the intention of directing the
Department to establish a nationwide standard for diagnostic testing
and contact tracing related to COVID-19; Porter (No. 278) that ensures
that ACA open enrollment data is disaggregated by race, ethnicity,
preferred language, age, and sex to support better understanding of
enrollment information; Schakowsky (No. 283) that providing $1,000,000
in funding for an interagency College Campus Task Force on mental and
behavioral health and $1,000,000 for efforts aimed at reducing the
stigma associated with mental health services to ensure that students
at institutions of higher education have the support they need to
successfully complete their education, as authorized in the 21st
Century Cures Act; Schrier (No. 284) that increases funding for
vaccines by $2 million and reduce by $2 million the Office of the
Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure that the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has the resources to disaggregate,
detailed vaccination acceptance data by race and ethnicity; Sherrill
(No. 286) that increases and decreases funds by $20,000,000 to
highlight the need for the Mental and Substance Use Disorder Workforce
Training Demonstration Program under HRSA Health Workforce; Slotkin
(No. 288) that increases and decreases the Institute of Education
Sciences by $1,000,000 to highlight the need for academic research on
issues of racial inequality; Speier (No. 292) that increases funding
for OSHA's Whistleblower Protection Program by $1,436,000 in order to
ensure the office that enforces over 20 whistleblower laws has the
funding needed to respond to the increase in complaints related to the
COVID-19 pandemic; decreases funding for the Office of the Secretary by
$2,436,000; Trahan (No. 297) that increases and decreases funding under
Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (referred
to in this Act as ``ESEA'') to underscore congressional intent that
funding designated as emergency aid during the COVID-19 pandemic not be
redirected by the Secretary of Education away from public elementary
and secondary schools to private schools unless specifically authorized
under such Acts, the ESEA, IDEA, or other law in effect prior to the
enactment of this Act; Trahan (No. 298) that increases and decreases
the Program Administration account at the Department of Education to
illustrate the serious consequences of using federal funding to coerce
schools into resuming in-person instruction as they reopen during the
COVID-19 pandemic; Trahan (No. 299) that increases and decreases
funding at the HHS Office of the Secretary General Management account
for the intention of directing the Secretary to engage the National
Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Mathematics to study the health
effects and injury impacts caused by the use of kinetic impact
projectiles; Velazquez (No. 301) that prevents funds from this act from
being used to reject grant applications due to the use of the term
``vulnerable,'' ``entitlement,'' ``diversity,'' ``transgender,''
``fetus,'' ``evidence-based'', or ``science-based''; Waters (No. 302)
that prohibits the use of funds to implement the Administration's July
2019 proposed rule, ``Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Requirements for
Long-Term Care Facilities: Regulatory 5 Provisions To Promote
Efficiency, and Transparency'' which deregulates nursing homes and
weakens infection prevention standards in nursing homes; Waters (No.
303) that prohibits the use of funds to require hospitals, hospital
laboratories, and acute care facilities to report COVID-19 data using
the ``teletracking.protect.hhs.gov'' website that was announced by the
Department of Health and Human Services in the document entitled
``COVID-19 Guidance for Hospital Reporting and FAQs for Hospitals,
Hospital Laboratory, and Acute Care Facility Data Reporting Updated
July 10, 2020'', instead of the CDC; Watson Coleman (No. 307) that
Increases and decreases funds by $500,000 to highlight the need for a
GAO study examining: 1) whether public health entities are including
racial and ethnic demographic data when reporting COVID-19 cases &
deaths, identifying challenges, and recommendations
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for improvement; and 2) whether changes after July 10 to HHS reporting
requirements make it more difficult to report demographic data; Watson
Coleman (No. 308) that increases and decreases funds by $5,000,000 to
highlight the need for a GAO study auditing hiring, retention, and
promotion practices at CDC to evaluate whether current policies
equitably support staff of color, and identifying recommendations to
remedy disparities; Cohen (No. 312) 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; Cohen (No. 313) that prohibits funds from being used to
eliminate dining car service on Amtrak's long-distance route; Jackson
Lee (No. 320) that prohibits the Department of Transportation from
using funds for Section 106 Transportation construction projects in
urban areas that have not been determined to meet the statutory and
fiduciary obligations of the National Historic Preservation Act;
Jackson Lee (No. 322) that provides $1,000,000 in assistance to address
challenges faced by communities impacted by persistent poverty and are
not included in decision making when major highway construction
threatens their homes, businesses, and culturally significant
structures; Jackson Lee (No. 323) that increases by $1,000,000 the
Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity to address the fairness in
the use of Community Development Block Grant Disaster funding to repair
or replace single family homes damaged during Hurricane Harvey to
ensure that multi-generational homes can house the family at documented
pre-disaster capacity; Levin (MI) (No. 327) that increases and
decreases funding for BUILD grants by $1 million to emphasize the
prioritization of grant funding towards green infrastructure projects
that will decarbonize and electrify the U.S. ground transportation
sector while improving local roads, bridges and rail; Ocasio-Cortez
(No. 331) that stipulates that none of the funds made available through
the Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce HUD's latest
disparate impact rule; Ocasio-Cortez (No. 332) that prohibits the use
of funds for HUD's implementation, enforcement, or administration of
the ``Preserving Community and Neighborhood Choice''; and Waters (No.
339) that allows housing counselors to continue assisting homeowners
and renters throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and FY2021 without
certification;
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Finkenauer amendment (No. 239 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-461)
that increases funding for endometriosis research at the National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development to $26 million,
doubling funding for endometriosis research over FY 19 level;
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Foster amendment (No. 241 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-461) that
strikes Section 510, thereby removing a ban on HHS promulgating rules
on unique patient identifiers;
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Posey amendment (No. 334 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-461) that
increases and decreases by $2 million the Federal Railroad
Administration Safety and Operations account to highlight the need to
conduct a joint FRA-FHWA pedestrian/motorist/student safety study on
the high speed rail corridor running from Miami to Orlando through
Indian River County, FL;
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Sherrill amendment (No. 335 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-461)
that increases and decreases funding for the Federal-State Partnership
for State of Good Repair program by $5 million, in order to highlight
the critical need for rail project capital financing;
Pages H4173-74
Blumenauer amendment (No. 87 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-461)
that prohibits the Department of Justice from interfering with state
and tribal cannabis programs; the term ``state'' includes the District
of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam,
the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico (by a yea-and-nay vote of 254 yeas
to 163 nays, Roll No. 174); and
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Underwood amendment (No. 148 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-461)
that prevents the Department of Justice from using federal funds for
litigation that undermines the Affordable Care Act (by a yea-and-nay
vote of 234 yeas to 181 nays, Roll No. 175).
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Rejected:
Lowey en bloc amendment No. 3 consisting of the following amendments
printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-461: Gosar (No. 19) that sought
strike a provision prohibiting funds appropriated to the Department of
Defense from being used to construct a wall, fence, border barriers, or
border security infrastructure along the southern border; Miller (No.
39) that sought to strike a provision that would prohibit construction
at the southern border, including roads, the border wall, fence, or
barrier; Norman (No. 47) that sought to prohibit the use of funds by
the Navy for a test or pilot program that utilizes the current Mk 38
25mm remote gun system, scheduled to be replaced by FY2021, to avoid
wasteful spending and moot results; Schweikert (No. 58) that sought to
increase the Family of Non-Lethal Equipment program in Other
Procurement, Army to include an upgrade of the current Army conducted
electrical weapon inventory to replace non-working and obsolete systems
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with the unit most recently qualified for use by the service, and to
reduce Operations and Maintenance Army, Servicewide Communications by
the corresponding amount; Smith (MO) (No. 65) that sought to increase
funding for Army procurement of the Joint Assault Bridge; offset is
Defense-Wide; Turner (No. 76) that sought to increase funding for Air
Force basic and applied scientific research, development, test and
evaluation by $6 million for Autonomous Air Combat Operations (AACO)
programs; Upton (No. 77) that sought to transfer $3 million to
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation for the Army with the
intent it be used to accelerate aircraft cleaning and deicing system
(ACDS) capability to help prevent and control corrosion of aviation
assets through development and testing of an aircraft washing system;
Waltz (No. 79) that sought to increase funding for Special Operations
Command Armed Overwatch by $32 million to match funding level in the
FY21 Defense Authorization Act, and decreases Chemical Agents and
Munitions Destruction RDTE; Babin (No. 85) that sought to restore the
Office of Space Commerce and the Office of Commercial Remote Sensing
Regulatory Affairs back to where they are authorized by statute,
thereby advancing U.S. leadership in space commerce and commercial
remote sensing; Bost (No. 88) that sought to increase the Community
Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grants authorized by the STOP School
Violence Act by $1 million; Gosar (No. 98) that sought to strike a
provision which prohibits the Bureau of the Census from using funds to
produce any data product or tabulation based on data not collected in
the census; McKinley (No. 113) that sought to increase NOAA's
Procurement, Acquisition, and Construction account by $15 million, with
the additional funding intended for the expansion of the Weather and
Climate Operational Supercomputing System; reduces NOAA's Operations,
Research, and Facilities account by $15 million with the intent of
repurposing research funding for the supercomputing system; Gosar (No.
162) that sought to strike a provision which prohibits funds for the
Civil Works Program of the United States Army Corps of Engineers from
being used to design or construct a wall, fence, border barriers, or
border security infrastructure along the southern border; Perry (No.
181) that sought to strike Title VI of Division C, Additional
Infrastructure Investments; Huizenga (No. 201) that sought to strike
Section 540, which prohibits expenditures for the SEC's proposed
private offerings rulemaking until a separate rulemaking is done for
the SEC to obtain information better informing the SEC's ability to
evaluate market practices for private offerings and the effects of
general solicitation; McKinley (No. 207) that sought to transfer $2
million from the General Services Administration's ``Real Property
Activities--Federal Building Fund'' account, which provides for GSA
rental expenses, to the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council
``Environmental Review Improvement Fund'' account; Steil (No. 214) that
sought to strike Section 541 from the underlying bill; Bishop (NC) (No.
225) that sought to restrict any of the funds in the Act from being
used to withdraw the rule allowing Health Reimbursement Arrangements to
be used to purchase individual market coverage; Foxx (NC) (No. 242)
that sought to prohibit the delay or weakening of the November 27, 2019
rule relating to price transparency requirements for hospitals; Hill
(AR) (No. 248) that sought to strike guidance requiring $100 million to
be obligated to carry out the ACA navigator program; Hill (AR) (No.
249) that sought to transfer $2.6 million from the National Labor
Relations Board (NLRB) account to the Office of Labor Management
Standards (OLMS) account; Newhouse (No. 268) that sought to strike
Section 247 of Title II, which prohibits the use of funds to implement,
enforce, or otherwise give effect to the revision to section 447.10 of
title 42, Code of Federal Regulations, contained in the final rule
entitled ``Medicaid Program; Reassignment of Medicaid Provider
Claims''; Taylor (No. 296) that sought to increase and decrease funds
by $1 million with the intention of requiring the Inspector General of
the Department of Labor to report on the Bureau of Labor Statistics
(BLS) media lock-ups, including a comparison to the Federal Reserve's
media lock-up and best practices for market moving information from the
Federal Reserve and BLS, examine the ability of the Federal Reserve to
release more market moving information such as the BLS economic data,
if discontinuing media lock-ups pose a single point of failure security
risk, determine best practices to ensure equal access by traders,
determine best practices to enable media access to examine data prior
to releases, and determine if lock-ups pose a cybersecurity concern;
Wright (No. 309) that sought to strike Sec. 114 in division F, removing
the prohibition against DOL OFCCP's rule Implementing Legal
Requirements Regarding the Equal Opportunity Clause's Religious
Exemption from taking effect; Lesko (No. 325) that sought to strike
language in section 235, which would prohibit funds from being used to
implement the proposed rule entitled ``Making Admission or Placement
Determinations Based on Sex in Facilities Under Community Planning and
Development Housing Programs''; Lesko (No. 326) that sought to strike
language in section 236, which would codify a 2015 Department of
Housing and Urban Development notice entitled, ``Appropriate Placement
for
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Transgender Persons in Single-Sex Emergency Shelters and Other
Facilities''; and Perry (No. 333) that sought to strike Title V of
Division G, Additional Infrastructure Investments; and
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Ocasio-Cortez amendment (No. 49 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-
461) that sought to prohibit the use of funds for military recruitment
via Twitch and e-sports activities (by a yea-and-nay vote of 126 yeas
to 292 nays, Roll No. 173).
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Proceedings Postponed: Allen amendment (No. 219 printed in part B of H.
Rept. 116-461) that seeks to reduce funds made available in Division F
(LHHS) by 5 percent.
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H. Res. 1067, the rule providing for consideration of the bill (H.R.
7617) was agreed to yesterday, July 29th.
Committee Elections: The House agreed to H. Res. 1072, electing certain
Members to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives.
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Communications Outreach Media and Mail Standards Act: The House agreed
to discharge from committee and pass H.R. 7512, to rename the House
Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards as the House
Communications Standards Commission, to extend the authority of the
Commission to regulate mass mailings of Members and Member-elect of the
House of Representatives to all unsolicited mass communications of
Members and Members-elect of the House.
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Authorizing the printing of a revised and updated version of the House
document entitled ``Women in Congress, 1917-2006'': The House agreed to
discharge from committee and agree to H. Con. Res. 92, authorizing the
printing of a revised and updated version of the House document
entitled ``Women in Congress, 1917-2006''.
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Providing for the reappointment of Michael M. Lynton as a citizen
regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: The
House agreed to discharge from committee and pass H.J. Res. 87,
providing for the reappointment of Michael M. Lynton as a citizen
regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Senate Referrals: S. 2381 was held at the desk. S. 2638 was held at the
desk. S. 4346 was held at the desk.
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Senate Message: Message received from the Senate by the Clerk and
subsequently presented to the House today appears on page H4174.
Quorum Calls--Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes developed during the
proceedings of today and appear on pages H4174-75, H4175-76, and H4176.
Adjournment: The House met at 9 a.m. and adjourned at 10 p.m.