[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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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; 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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. 
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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 
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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;                                           
Pages H4150-70
  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; 
                                                         Pages H4170-71
  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;                           
Pages H4171-72
  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;                                 
Pages H4172-73
  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                
Pages H4140-41, H4175-76
  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).      
Pages H4141-43, H4176
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 
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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   
Pages H4134-39
  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).                    
Pages H4139-40, H4174-75
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.                                         
  Page H4176
  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.                  
  Pages H4177-78
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''.                   
  Page H4178
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. 
                                                             Page H4178
Senate Referrals: S. 2381 was held at the desk. S. 2638 was held at the 
desk. S. 4346 was held at the desk.                          
  Page H4174
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.