[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 105 (Wednesday, June 16, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D656-D657]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 37 public bills, H.R. 3923-
3959; and 4 resolutions, H.J. Res. 52; and H. Res. 480-482 were 
introduced.                                              
  Pages H2890-92
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages H2893-95
Report Filed: A report was filed today as follows:
  H. Res. 479, providing for consideration of the bill (S. 475) to 
amend title 5, United States Code, to designate Juneteenth National 
Independence Day as a legal public holiday (H. Rept. 117-62). 
                                                             Page H2890
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein she appointed 
Representative Dean to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. 
                                                             Page H2821
Recess: The House recessed at 10:46 a.m. and reconvened at 12 noon. 
                                                             Page H2826
ESG Disclosure Simplification Act of 2021: The House passed H.R. 1187, 
to provide for disclosure of additional material information about 
public companies and establish a Sustainable Finance Advisory 
Committee, by a yea-and-nay vote of 215 yeas to 214 nays, Roll No. 169.
                                               Pages H2830-55, H2859-63
  Rejected the Barr motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on 
Financial Services by a yea-and-nay vote of 207 yeas to 218 nays, Roll 
No. 168.                                                 
Pages H2862-63
  Pursuant to the Rule, an amendment in the nature of a substitute 
consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 117-5 shall be 
considered as adopted, in lieu of the amendment in the nature of a 
substitute recommended by the Committee on Financial Services now 
printed in the bill.                                         
Page H2830
Agreed to:
  Waters en bloc amendment No. 1 consisting of the following amendments 
printed in H. Rept. 117-59: Axne (No. 2) that increases disclosures 
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public companies about their workforce, including information about 
workforce health and safety, pay, diversity, turnover and promotion 
rates, and training, as well as companies' use of contractors and 
outsourcing; Frankel (No. 3) that requires publicly-traded companies to 
disclose the number of settlements, judgments, and aggregate settlement 
amounts in connection with workplace harassment in their annual SEC 
filings; Himes (No. 5) that requires publicly traded companies to 
report annually on whether members of their governing bodies (such as 
general partners or members of a board of directors) have cybersecurity 
expertise and the nature of that experience; Meeks (No. 6) that (1) 
requires public companies to annually disclose the racial, ethnic, 
gender identity, sexual orientation, and veteran status of their board 
directors, nominees, and senior executive officers; (2) empowers the 
SEC's Office of Minority and Women Inclusion to publish best diversity 
disclosure practices; and (3) creates an advisory group that would 
study and report on increasing corporate diversity; Phillips (No. 7) 
that requires the SEC to study the emergence and viability of 
coalitions among shareholders who wish to preserve and promote critical 
employment, environmental, social, and governance standards (EESG) and 
the significance of shareholder networks with the SEC issuing a report 
to Congress with its findings, guidance on shareholder engagement 
activities that are not considered to involve questions of corporate 
control, and provide recommendations on regulatory safe harbors for 
engagement with respect to sustainability guardrails; and Wexton (No. 
9) that directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to issue 
rules requiring U.S. publicly traded companies to disclose annually 
imports of manufactured goods and materials that originate in or are 
sourced in part from Xinjiang Province (by a yea-and-nay vote of 215 
yeas to 211 nays, Roll No. 165); and              
Pages H2847-52, H2860
  Schrier amendment (No. 8 printed in H. Rept. 117-59) that requires 
the Commission, in conjunction with the Office of the Advocate for 
Small Business Capital Formation and the Office of the Investor 
Advocate, to conduct a study and issue a report on the issues small 
businesses face in reporting ESG disclosures with the report including 
recommendations for the Commission to consider, and should be completed 
within 1 year of the enactment of the bill (by a yea-and-nay vote of 
380 yeas to 47 nays, Roll No. 167).            
Pages H2853-54, H2861-62
Rejected:
  Burgess amendment (No. 1 printed in H. Rept. 117-59) that sought to 
require publicly traded companies to disclose the negative impacts of 
federal corporate tax increases (by a yea-and-nay vote of 209 yeas to 
218 nays, Roll No. 164); and                   
Pages H2845-47, H2859-60
  Hill amendment (No. 4 printed in H. Rept. 117-59) that sought to 
strike the underlying legislation with a study that must be conducted 
by the SEC to summarize and describe any inconsistencies by the 
different ESG and climate disclosure frameworks before requiring any 
type of disclosure from public companies (by a yea-and-nay vote of 204 
yeas to 225 nays, Roll No. 166).               
Pages H2852-53, H2860-61
Withdrawn:
  Plaskett amendment (No. 10 printed in H. Rept. 117-59) that was 
offered and subsequently withdrawn that sought to clarify that a `tax 
jurisdiction' includes a country or a jurisdiction that is not a 
country but that has fiscal autonomy.                    
Pages H2854-55
  H. Res. 473, the rule providing for consideration of the bills (H.R. 
256) (H.R. 1187) was agreed to Monday, June 14th.
  Juneteenth National Independence Day Act: The House passed S. 475, to 
amend title 5, United States Code, to designate Juneteenth National 
Independence Day as a legal public holiday, by a yea-and-nay vote of 
415 yeas to 14 nays, Roll No. 170.                       
Pages H2863-72
  H. Res. 479, the rule providing for consideration of the bill (S. 
475) was agreed to by a yea-and-nay vote of 214 yeas to 208 nays, Roll 
No. 163, after the previous question was ordered without objection. 
                                                         Pages H2855-59
Senate Message: Message received from the Senate by the Clerk and 
subsequently presented to the House today appears on page H2827.
Quorum Calls--Votes: Eight yea-and-nay votes developed during the 
proceedings of today and appear on pages H2858-59, H2859, H2860, H2860-
61, H2861-62, H2862-63, H2863, and H2872.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 10 p.m.