[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 37 (Friday, February 26, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D168-D170]
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                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 54 public bills, H.R. 1391-
1444; and 12 resolutions, H.J. Res. 28; H. Con. Res. 20-21; and H. Res. 
167-175 were introduced.                                  
  Pages H855-59
Additional Cosponsors:                                    
  Pages H860-61
Report Filed: A report was filed today as follows:
  H. Res. 166, providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1319) to 
provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 5 (H. 
Rept. 117-8).                                                 
Page H855
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein she appointed 
Representative Cuellar to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. 
                                                              Page H735
Recess: The House recessed at 10:23 a.m. and reconvened at 10:33 a.m. 
                                                              Page H757
  Colorado Wilderness Act of 2021: The House passed H.R. 803, to 
designate certain lands in the State of Colorado as components of the 
National Wilderness Preservation System, by a yea-and-nay vote of 227 
yeas to 200 nays, Roll No. 45. Consideration began yesterday, February 
25th.                                            
  Pages H737-57, H757-61
  Rejected the Westerman motion to recommit the bill to the Committee 
on Natural Resources by a yea-and-nay vote of 204 yeas to 221 nays, 
Roll No. 44.                                              
Pages H760-61
Agreed to:
  Neguse en bloc amendment No. 1 consisting of the following amendments 
printed in part B of H. Rept. 117-6: Barragan (No. 1) that adds the 
Outdoors for All Act to the bill, which codifies the Outdoor Recreation 
Legacy Partnership (ORLP) program; the ORLP program provides grants for 
outdoor recreational opportunities in urban and low-income cities 
across the nation; Brown (No. 2) that encourages the Secretary of the 
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to ensure servicemembers and 
veterans have access to these public lands for outdoor recreation and 
wellness programs; DeFazio (No. 4) that adds the Southwestern Oregon 
Watershed and Salmon Protection Act of 2021 to the bill, which 
withdraws certain land located in Curry County and Josephine County, 
Oregon, from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the 
public land laws, location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, 
and operation under the mineral leasing and geo-thermal leasing laws; 
DeSaulnier (No. 5) that adds the Rosie the Riveter National Historic 
Site Expansion Act to the bill, which marks a local historic site at 
the Nystrom Elementary School, as part of the Rosie the Riveter/ World 
War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California; 
Garamendi (No. 6) that makes a minor boundary adjustment of the 
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta National Heritage Area to include 
approximately 62 acres of adjacent publicly owned land encompassing: 
the decommissioned United States Army Reserve Center (now owned by the 
City of Rio Vista, CA); U.S. Coast Guard Station Rio Vista; Beach Drive 
Wastewater Treatment Plant (City of Rio Vista); and Sandy Beach County 
Park (Solano County, CA); Keating (No. 10) that extends the life of the 
Cape Cod National Sea-shore Advisory Commission, which Advises the 
Superintendent of the Seashore about the communities needs, until 2028; 
Lieu (No. 12) that

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adds the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Boundary 
Adjustment Study Act to the bill, which directs the Department of the 
Interior to conduct a special resource study of the coastline and 
adjacent areas to the Santa Monica Bay from Will Rogers State Beach to 
Torrance Beach, including the areas in and around Ballona Creek and 
Baldwin Hills and the San Pedro section of Los Angeles, excluding the 
Port of Los Angeles north of Crescent Avenue; McEachin (No. 13) that 
adds the Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area Act to the bill, 
which requires a study to assess the suitability and feasibility of 
designating areas within Virginia and North Carolina as a National 
Heritage Area; McKinley (No. 14) that adds the National Heritage Area 
Act of 2021 to the bill, which establishes a system of national 
heritage areas (NHAs) and brings uniformity to the way NHAs are 
designated, managed, and assessed and provides Congress the ability to 
conduct oversight of the program; O'Halleran (No. 18) that adds the 
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument Boundary Modification Act of 2021, 
which modifies the boundary of the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument 
by transferring approximately 11.21 acres to the Park Service and 
approximately 3.5 acres to the Bureau of Indian Affairs; allows the 
Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain lands from willing 
sellers, donors, or through exchange and enter into cooperative 
agreements with the State of Arizona for the cooperative management of 
certain lands; O'Halleran (No. 19) that adds the Sunset Crater Volcano 
National Monument Boundary Adjustment Act to the bill, which transfers 
approximately 97.7 acres from the Forest Service to the Sunset Crater 
National Monument; these lands include an NPS visitor, an NPS 
administrative facility, and a portion of the key access road to the 
Monument; Panetta (No. 20) that stipulates that nothing in this Act may 
be construed to limit the authority of the Secretary of the Interior or 
the Secretary of Agriculture under section 4(d)(1) of the Wilderness 
Act to manage for fire, insects, and diseases in wilderness areas 
designated; Pingree (No. 21) that includes the York River in Maine in 
the National Park Service's Wild and Scenic River System; Plaskett (No. 
22) that adds the St. Croix National Heritage Area Act to the bill, 
which designates a National Heritage Area for the island of St. Croix, 
U.S. Virgin Islands, pursuant to a congressionally-directed feasibility 
study completed by the National Park Service in September, 2010, and 
consistent with the procedures traditionally laid out for such heritage 
area site designations as last enacted in the John D. Dingell, Jr. 
Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act; Pocan (No. 23) that makes 
Wisconsin's Ice Age National Scenic Trail a unit of the National Park 
System administered by the Secretary of the Interior; Spanberger (No. 
24) that adds specified additional lands in the George Washington 
National Forest (a part of the George Washington and Jefferson National 
Forests in Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky) to the Rough Mountain 
Wilderness and the Rich Hole Wilderness; and Tlaib (No. 28) that 
incorporates the Environmental Justice in Recreational Permitting Act 
into the bill, which requires the Department of the Interior and the 
Department of Agriculture to complete an interagency report on the use 
of special recreation permits by recreation service providers serving 
environmental justice communities (by a yea-and-nay vote of 229 yeas to 
198 nays, Roll No. 41); and                      
Pages H737-48, H757-58
  Curtis amendment (No. 3 printed in part B of H. Rept. 117-6) that 
requires a study to determine if any land withdrawn by this legislation 
contains geothermal resources, or minerals needed for battery storage, 
renewable energy technology, or electric vehicles (by a yea-and-nay 
vote of 221 yeas to 205 nays, Roll No. 42).      
Pages H748-50, H758-59
Rejected:
  Neguse en bloc amendment No. 2 consisting of the following amendments 
printed in part B of H. Rept. 117-6: Gosar (No. 7) that sought to 
exclude lands in the 4th Congressional District of Arizona from the 
permanent mineral withdrawal under this Act; Gosar (No. 8) that sought 
to delay the permanent mineral withdrawal under the Act until the 
Secretary of the Interior completes a mineral survey of proposed 
withdrawal area (including uranium, rare earth elements, geothermal 
resources and oil and natural gas) and determines there are no mineral 
resources, geo-thermal resources, or critical minerals present other 
than uranium; Herrell (No. 9) that sought to strike all ``Potential 
Wilderness'' designations in the bill; Lamborn (No. 11) that sought to 
ensure that nothing in the bill would affect the establishment, access, 
operation, or maintenance of transmission right-of-ways; Moore (UT) 
(No. 15) that sought to state that no wilderness or potential 
wilderness designation under this Act shall be effective in any county 
where the county has not formally approved such designation; Newhouse 
(No. 16) that sought to state that this Act shall not take effect until 
the Secretary of the Interior certifies that no renewable energy jobs 
have been loss as a result of this Act; Newhouse (No. 17) that sought 
to state that nothing in this Act shall prohibit development of new 
renewable hydro-electric energy and associated transmission lines and 
rights of way within the wild and scenic designations, wilderness 
designations, or wilderness study area designations under this Act; 
Stauber (No. 25) that sought to require approval of

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local counties before mineral withdrawal can take place; Stauber (No. 
26) that sought to state that this Act shall not apply to any lands or 
waters in Colorado's Third and Fifth Congressional Districts or any 
lands, waters, or minerals in Arizona's Fourth Congressional District; 
Stauber (No. 27) that sought to state that this Act shall not apply to 
any lands or waters in Colorado's Third Congressional District; and 
Westerman (No. 29) that sought to allow the Secretary of Agriculture or 
the Secretary of the Interior to exempt any wilderness or potential 
wilderness designated under this Act that does not meet the definition 
of wilderness under the Wilderness Act (by a yea-and-nay vote of 197 
yeas to 226 nays, Roll No. 43).                  
Pages H750-57, H759-60
  H. Res. 147, the rule providing for consideration of the bills (H.R. 
803) and (H.R. 5) was agreed to Wednesday, February 24th.
Recess: The House recessed at 2:47 p.m. and reconvened at 8:35 p.m. 
                                                          Pages H761-62
  American Rescue Plan Act of 2021: The House passed H.R. 1319, to 
provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 5, by a 
yea-and-nay vote of 219 yeas to 212 nays, Roll No. 49. 
                                                        Pages H773-H853
  Rejected the Hinson motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on 
the Budget by a yea-and-nay vote of 205 yeas to 218 nays, Roll No. 48. 
                                                          Pages H852-53
  Pursuant to the Rule, the amendment printed in H. Rept. 117-8 shall 
be considered as adopted.                                     
Page H773
  H. Res. 166, the rule providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 
1319) was agreed to by a yea-and-nay vote of 219 yeas to 210 nays, Roll 
No. 47, after the previous question was ordered by a yea-and-nay vote 
of 217 yeas to 205 nays, Roll No. 46.                     
Pages H762-73
  Agreed that in the engrossment of the bill, the clerk be authorized 
to make technical corrections and conforming changes.         
Page H853
United States Group of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly--Appointment: 
The Chair announced the Speaker's appointment of the following Members 
on the part of the House to the United States Group of the NATO 
Parliamentary Assembly: Representatives Connolly, Sanchez, Larsen (WA), 
Meeks, Brendan F. Boyle (PA), Vela, Titus, and Turner.        
  Page H853
Migratory Bird Conservation Commission--Appointment: The Chair 
announced the Speaker's appointment of the following Members on the 
part of the House to the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission: 
Representatives Thompson (CA) and Wittman.                    
  Page H854
Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China--
Appointment: The Chair announced the Speaker's appointment of the 
following Members on the part of the House to the Congressional-
Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China: Representatives 
Suozzi, Malinowski, Wexton, Tlaib, Mast, Hartzler, and Steel. 
                                                              Page H854
United States Holocaust Memorial Council--Appointment: The Chair 
announced the Speaker's appointment of the following Members on the 
part of the House to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council: 
Representatives Deutch, Schneider, Lawrence, Zeldin, and Kustoff. 
                                                              Page H854
Quorum Calls--Votes: Nine yea-and-nay votes developed during the 
proceedings of today and appear on pages H757-58, H758-59, H759-60, 
H760-61, H761, H772-73, H773, H852-53, and H853.
Adjournment: The House met at 9 a.m. and adjourned at 2:07 a.m.