[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 131 (Tuesday, July 27, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D833-D843]
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: 36 public bills, H.R. 4698-
4733; and 4 resolutions, H. Res. 563-566 were introduced. 
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Reports Filed: There were no reports filed today.
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein she appointed 
Representative Cuellar to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. 
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Recess: The House recessed at 11:01 a.m. and reconvened at 12 noon. 
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Suspensions--Proceedings Resumed: The House agreed to suspend the rules 
and pass the following measure. Consideration began Monday, July 26th.
  Dispose Unused Medications and Prescription Opioids Act: S. 957, to 
direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure that certain medical 
facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs have physical 
locations for the disposal of controlled substances medications, by a 
\2/3\ yea-and-nay vote of 424 yeas with none voting ``nay'', Roll No. 
224; and                                                 
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  Major Medical Facility Authorization Act of 2021: S. 1910, to 
authorize major medical facility projects of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs for fiscal year 2021, by a \2/3\ yea-and-nay vote of 413 yeas 
to 7 nays, Roll No. 225.                                     
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Recess: The House recessed at 7:42 p.m. and reconvened at 8 p.m. 
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Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022: The House considered H.R. 
4502, making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2022. Consideration is expected to resume 
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  Pursuant to the Rule, an amendment in the nature of a substitute 
consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 117-12, modified by the 
amendment printed in part A of the report of the Committee on Rules 
accompanying this resolution, shall be considered as adopted. 
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Agreed to:
  DeLauro en bloc amendment No. 3 consisting of the following 
amendments printed in part B of H. Rept. 117-109: Spanberger (No. 2) 
that increases and decreases HRSA's Office of Pharmacy Affairs by 
$1,000,000 to highlight the need to protect the integrity of the 340B 
program by halting pharmaceutical manufacturers' unlawful actions that 
have resulted in overcharges to 340B covered entities; Buchanan (No. 6) 
that transfers $2,000,000 from Office of the Secretary -General 
Departmental Management to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health 
Administration to increase available grants to prevent prescription 
drug/opioid overdoses; Burgess (No. 7) that increases and decreases by 
$10,000,000 for the Director of the National Institutes of Health 
Office for Acute Flaccid Myelitis Research; Burgess (No. 8) that 
transfers $5 million from the Health Resources and Services 
Administration, Program Support to fund the Rural Health, Project ECHO 
telehealth mentoring model, to improve health workforce capacity in 
underserved areas; Gottheimer (No. 20) 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. 21) that increases and decreases 
funds by $1,000,000 in the National Institutes of Health's Substance 
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration account to emphasize 
the importance of SAMHSA focusing efforts to address COVID-linked 
substance abuse and mental health issues among children and young 
adults; Langevin (No. 27) that increases the Children and Families 
Services Programs account by $3,900,000 and decrease the HHS General 
Departmental Management account by $3,900,000; Lynch (No. 32) that 
provides an increase of $2 Million to Community Health Centers and 
decreases funding for Office of the Secretary-General Departmental 
Management by the same amount McKinley (No. 33) that increases funds in 
the Substance Abuse Prevention program by $2,500,000 with the intent of 
supporting prescription drug monitoring programs pilot program to test 
the feasibility and outcomes of integrating a substance use disorder 
and behavioral health treatment locator tool into the prescription drug 
monitoring programs of 5 eligible States; Miller (No. 34) that 
increases funding for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome research by 
$1,000,000 offset by spending from the Office of the Secretary; Rice 
(No. 39) that increases and decreases funding for CDC's Emerging 
Zoonotic and Infectious Disease account with the intent of preventing 
the reintroduction of canine rabies virus variant into the United 
States and supporting CDC modernizing and fully operating its dog 
import program; Schweikert (No. 41) that increases funding for

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the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases by 
$1 million with the intent these funds be used to fund a multicenter 
research consortium on Type II diabetes cures; offsets the increase 
with a decrease in funding of $1 million from the General Departmental 
Management account under the Office of the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services; Schweikert (No. 42) that increases funding by $2 
million for the CDC's Emerging Zoonotic and Infectious Disease account 
with the intention that these funds be used for Coccidioidomycosis and 
other fungal diseases; offsets the increase with a decrease in funding 
of $2 million from the General Departmental Management account under 
the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services; Schweikert 
(No. 43) that increases and decreases funding in Health Surveillance 
and Program Support by $1,000,000 to express the intent that additional 
funding for the Mental Health Administration be used for research on 
medication adherence technology; Schweikert (No. 44) that increases and 
decreases funding for the Department of Health and Human Services 
Office of Inspector General under the Center for Medicare and Medicaid 
Services program by $1,000,000 to express the intent that Medicare 
focus on using artificial intelligence and other technology to promote 
cleans claims creation and processing to combat improper payments, 
fraud, waste, and abuse; Sherrill (No. 46) that increases and decreases 
the National Institute of Mental health budget by $5,000,000 with the 
intent to address youth mental health disparities; Slotkin (No. 47) 
that increases the DOL Registered Apprenticeship budget by $1 million 
for the purpose of improving coordination between DOL and VA to ensure 
that registered apprenticeships are approved by VA for GI Bill 
benefits; offsets the amendment with a $1 million decrease in funds 
from the Program Administration account; Slotkin (No. 48) that 
increases and decreases the funding for Strategic National Stockpile by 
$10 million to emphasize the importance of working with the commercial 
sector to enhance medical supply chain flexibility and maintain 
domestic reserves of critical medical supplies; Smith (NJ) (No. 50) 
that redirects $3 million from CDC-Wide Activities and Program Support 
to CDC's Emerging Zoonotic and Infectious Diseases account for Lyme 
disease research and surveillance; Smith (NJ) (No. 51) that decreases 
and then increases funding for the HHS Office of the Secretary by $5 
million to express the intent that HHS use the $5 million for their 
recently announced LymeX Innovation Accelerator; Smith, Christopher 
(NJ) (No. 52) that redirects $10 million from HHS Office of the 
Secretary to CDC's Birth Defects, Developmental Disabilities, 
Disabilities and Health account; Spanberger (No. 53) that increases and 
decreases funds by $5 million to highlight the need for additional 
funding for the Telehealth Resource Center program; Wild (No. 56) that 
invests $2 million in additional funding for the National Cancer 
Institute, for the purposes of enhancing pediatric cancer research; 
Adams (No. 57) that increases the funding for the Urban Agriculture & 
Innovative Production Program by $542,000; decreases Agriculture 
Buildings and Facilities by $2.5 million; Baird (No. 58) that increases 
funding by $5 million to FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine to 
improve the review and approval of animal food ingredients, and to 
develop solutions on how ingredient claims benefiting animal 
production, animal wellbeing, food safety, and the environment can be 
regulated as animal food; decreases Office of the Secretary by $5 
million; Bost (No. 59) that revises a National Institute of Food and 
Agriculture pilot program to increase funding for grant programs and 
services to establish and enhance farming and ranching opportunities 
for military veterans; Danny K. Davis (IL) (No. 61) that increases 
funding to the National Institute of Food and Agriculture Research and 
Education Activities account by $2,000,000 and decreases the 
Agriculture Buildings and Facilities account by $3,000,000; Rodney 
Davis (IL) (No. 62) that expands ReConnect eligibility by defining a 
rural area without sufficient access to broadband speeds of twenty-five 
megabytes per second downstream and three megabytes per second 
upstream, consistent with 2018 Farm Bill speed thresholds and current 
FCC minimum standards; Jackson Lee (No. 68) that states that nothing in 
the bill restricts the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture or any 
federal agency head from providing assistance and benefits to victims 
of trafficking; Kind (No. 69) that increases funding for the Water & 
Waste Disposal Loan & Grant Program at USDA by $5 million and decreases 
the Agriculture Building and Facilities account by $5 million; Kuster 
(No. 70) that increases funding for the Appropriate Technology Transfer 
for Rural Areas Program (ATTRA) by $500,000; Moore (No. 71) that 
increases funding by $2,000,000 for school breakfast program; decreases 
Agriculture Buildings and Facilities by the same amount; Panetta (No. 
72) that highlights the importance of agriculture research funding 
administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of the 
Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics and the National 
Institute of Food and Agriculture; Schrader (No. 73) that increases and 
decreases by $5 million, funding for the Center for Food Safety and 
Applied Nutrition at the FDA, to highlight the need for the Agency to 
proceed with rulemaking on cannabidiol (or CBD) by no later than 180 
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enactment, out of concern that the FDA has not initiated rulemaking to 
establish a regulatory pathway for CBD as a dietary supplement and food 
ingredient; Sherrill (No. 74) that increases and decreases FDA by $10 
million intended for the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research; 
Smith (MO) (No. 75) that decreases the Office of the Secretary by 
$1,000,000 and increases Agricultural Marketing Services (AMS) by 
$1,000,000 for the purpose of directing AMS to conduct a study and 
produce findings on market barriers for small and mid-sized meat 
processing facilities; Spanberger (No. 76) that increases funding for 
The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) Administrative Funds by 
$5,000,000; decreases Agriculture Buildings and Facilities by $8 
million; Spanberger (No. 77) that increases funding for USDA's Natural 
Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) field staff through the 
Conservation Operations and Conservation Technical Assistance programs 
by $5,257,000; decreases Agriculture Buildings and Facilities by $10 
million; Spanberger (No. 78) that increases funding by $2 million for 
staffing at the USDA's Office of Rural Development; decreases 
Agriculture Buildings and Facilities by $4.25 million; Stauber (No. 79) 
that increases Circuit Rider program by $605,000 to ensure rural water 
operators have the resources needed offset by a reduction to 
Agriculture Buildings and Facilities; Valadao (No. 81) that increases 
and decreases funding by $8 billion with intent to replenish USDA's 
WHIP+ agriculture disaster assistance account to cover agricultural 
producers' losses in 2020 and 2021 due to derechos, droughts, floods, 
freezes, high winds, hurricanes, snowstorms, tornadoes, typhoons, 
volcanic activity, and wildfires; Welch (No. 82) that increases and 
decreases funding for FDA Salaries and Expenses by $1 million for the 
purpose of completing and issuing pending FDA guidance on Labeling of 
Plant-based Milk Alternatives and consistently enforcing against any 
violations of the existing dairy standards of identity; Burchett (No. 
84) that increases and decreases funding by $25,000,000 to highlight 
the Asian Carp Prevention and Control Pilot Program; Carter (LA) (No. 
87) that increases and decreases funding for the Corps Construction 
account by $6 million for projects that rebuild coastlines through 
beneficial use of material dredged from Federally maintained waterways; 
Foster (No. 92) that adds and subtracts $380 million from the DOE 
Office of Science, in support of more robust funding for the Office 
which has been integral to the development of groundbreaking 
technologies that affect our daily life, health, security, and the way 
we use energy; Garcia (TX) (No. 93) that increases and decreases funds 
by $50 million to highlight the need to prioritize carbon capture 
utilization program activities consistent with section 969 of the 
Energy Policy Act of 2005; Kuster (No. 96) that increases funding for 
the Northern Border Regional Commission by $2 million; decreases 
Departmental Administration by $2 million; McMorris Rodgers (No. 97) 
that increases and decreases funds by $150,000 to highlight the need 
for the Army Corps to utilize allocated operations and maintenance 
funding to acquire and deploy non-lethal deterrence technology for 
pinniped management at dams and locks on river systems that contain 
endangered salmon species and where there has been a documented 
increase in salmon predation by pinnipeds over the last 20 years; 
Perlmutter (No. 101) that increases and decreases the Energy Efficiency 
and Renewable Energy account by $15 million to increase funding for the 
Facilities and Infrastructure account to match the President's Budget 
Request; Perry (No. 102) that increases funding for the Water Power 
Technologies Office by $5,000,000; offset by a reduction to 
departmental administration; Plaskett (No. 103) that increases the Army 
Corps of Engineers Investigations account by $4 million (offset by 
equal reductions to Corps of Engineers expenses and Department of 
Energy administration) for the completion of post-authorization change 
reports required for resumption of projects for navigation reauthorized 
in the Water Resources Development Act of 2020; Scott (VA) (No. 104) 
that increases and decreases funding for the Office of Science by 
$720,000,000 to express support for the Office's Nuclear Physics and 
Medium Energy programs; Scott (VA) (No. 105) that increases and 
decreases funding for the Office of Science by $2,177,000 to draw 
attention to the need to move forward with the design of a High-
Performance Data Facility on the East Coast, as called for in the 
President's Budget Request; Scott (VA) (No. 106) that increases and 
decreases funding for the Office of Science by $15,000,000 to match the 
President's Budget Request for the Electron Ion Collider; Slotkin (No. 
107) that increases and decreases the Energy Efficiency and Renewable 
Energy account by $25 million, to express support for the Department of 
Energy's work to increase the resilience of and expand the domestic 
electric vehicle supply chain--including advanced battery technology, 
battery manufacturing, and automotive semiconductors; Slotkin (No. 108) 
that increases and decreases funding for the U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers by $5 million, to highlight the need for the Corps to help 
assess and identify the drivers of persistent, severe flooding (and 
expected future trends); mitigate future flood disasters; and work with 
affected communities to build local resilience; and Weber (No. 109) 
that increases and decreases funding for DOE's Office of Nuclear

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Energy by $348,000,000 to emphasize the importance of completing the 
Versatile Test Reactor Project; and                      
Pages H4064-71
  DeLauro en bloc amendment No. 2 consisting of the following 
amendments printed in part B of H. Rept. 117-109: Scott (GA) (No. 1) 
that increases and decreases funds in the Workforce Innovation and 
Opportunity Act (WIOA) program by $1,000,000 with the intent of 
supporting the Secretary in carrying out activities that expand the 
national apprenticeship system for recruitment, employment, and on-the-
job earn-as-you-learn training of young African Americans; Speier (No. 
3) that prohibits the use of funds to implement or enforce sections of 
former Secretary DeVos' Title IX rule; Welch (No. 4) that increases 
funding for the Low Income Housing Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) 
by $10,000,000 offset by a reduction to Office of the Secretary-General 
Departmental Management; Axne (No. 5) that provides $5 million for 
community colleges who provide training programs to dislocated workers, 
including those who lost work due to COVID-19; Bush (No. 9) that 
increases and decreases funding by $1 million in the SAMHSA account to 
highlight the need for a GAO study on alternative and non-punitive 
behavioral health crisis response programs to determine the 
effectiveness of such programs in improving public health and public 
safety; Bush (No. 10) that increases funding by $5 million for Health 
Centers account to provide health care services, including COVID-19 
testing and vaccine outreach, to the unhoused community; reduces 
funding for the Office of the Secretary, General Departmental 
Management by the same amount; Castor (FL) (No. 11) that increases and 
decreases funding in the Innovation and Improvement account by $1 
million to encourage the Department of Education to conduct proper 
oversight of for-profit charter schools to ensure they are supporting 
students adhering to federal civil rights laws; DeSaulnier (No. 12) 
that increases funding for Statewide Family Engagement Centers at the 
Department of Education by $1 million offset by a reduction to 
Departmental Management-Program Administration; Escobar (No. 13) that 
increases and decreases funding for the U.S. Mexico Border Health 
Commission to emphasize the need for a binational COVID-19 vaccination 
plan for border communities; Escobar (No. 14) that increases funding 
for the Department of Civil Rights at the Department of Education to 
support economically disadvantaged communities; decreases funding for 
Departmental Management-Program Administration; Escobar (No. 15) that 
increases and decreases the Department of Education's Education for the 
Disadvantaged account by $1 million to make clear that States must 
disburse all funds under this division in accordance with Congressional 
intent and not for purposes not otherwise outlined in the corresponding 
report and bill text; Gomez (No. 17) that increases and decreases by $5 
million in order to highlight the need to improve access to life-saving 
cancer screenings in primary health centers to address disproportionate 
cancer outcomes in underserved communities, particularly communities of 
color; Gomez (No. 18) that increases and decreases by $1 million to 
improve awareness and implementation of language access services 
consistent with standards set by the Office of Minority Health's 
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care 
program so that patients with limited English-language proficiency have 
access to equitable healthcare services; Gomez (No. 19) that increases 
and decreases funding in the Strengthening Asian American Native 
American Pacific Islander Serving-Institutions (AANAPISI) program by 
$10,000,000 to highlight this Minority-Serving Institution program that 
provides competitive grants to eligible colleges and universities that 
serve a considerable number of Asian American and Pacific Islander 
students; Jackson Lee (No. 25) that increases and decreases funds by 
$10,000,000 to support greater diversity in the pool of diabetes 
research professionals and patients participating in clinical trials; 
Jackson Lee (No. 26) 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; Levin 
(MI) (No. 30) that increases and decreases by $1 million for BLS 
funding with the intent that the funds go towards the agency 
reevaluating its unemployment survey methods, particularly in how it 
measures unemployment in historically marginalized and discriminated 
populations; Levin (MI) (No. 31) 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; 
Neguse (No. 35) that increases funding for the School-Based Mental 
Health Services Grant Program by $2 million; decreases Departmental 
Management-Program Administration by $2 million; Pressley (No. 38) that 
increases and decreases $500,000 from the Safe Schools and Citizenship 
Education account to direct the GAO to study the impacts of 
exclusionary discipline practices in K-12 remote education settings 
over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic including the ways in which 
these practices contributed to learning loss, negative mental health 
outcomes, and student involvement in criminal and child welfare 
systems, among other impacts; Ross (No. 40) that increases and 
decreases funding for the Institute of Education Sciences (IES)

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by $1 million to instruct IES to conduct a study on obstacles pregnant 
and parenting students face in the pursuit of education and 
recommendations for improving educational outcomes, including 
graduation rates, for these students; Sherrill (No. 45) 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. 49) that increases and 
decreases by $10,000,000 the Child Care and Development Block Grant 
(CCDBG) account to ensure that we still have accessible, quality child 
care for working families; Stevens (No. 54) that increases and 
decreases funding for injury prevention and control at the Department 
of Health and Human Services by $25 million to emphasize the intent 
that additional funding be used for research on federal firearm injury 
and mortality prevention research; Escobar (No. 63) that Increases 
funding to the Civilian Climate Corps Program by $1 million to address 
climate change; decreases Agriculture Buildings and Facilities by $3 
million; Escobar (No. 64) that increases and decreases funding to make 
clear that States must disburse all funds under this division in 
accordance with Congressional intent and not for purposes not otherwise 
outlined in the corresponding report and bill text; Barragan (No. 83) 
that decreases and increases Salaries and Expenses funding at the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission by $1,000,000 to highlight how 
important it is for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to fully 
consider the climate change and environmental justice impacts of 
proposed energy and pipeline projects; Bush (No. 86) that increases the 
Department of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy by $3 million by 
reducing the Department of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management by $4 
million; Casten (No. 88) that adds and subtracts $150 million from the 
Title 17 Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program, in support of 
robust funding for credit subsidies for loan guarantee recipients 
consistent with the President's budget request; Escobar (No. 90) that 
transfers $1.5 million in funding to the Water and Related Resources 
account from the Policy and Administration account for the WaterSMART 
Title XVI Water Reclamation & Reuse Program in order to assist 
communities experiencing drought conditions; Escobar (No. 91) that 
increases and decreases funding to make clear that States must disburse 
all funds under this division in accordance with Congressional intent 
and not for purposes not otherwise outlined in the corresponding report 
and bill text; McNerney (No. 98) 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; 
McNerney (No. 99) that increases and decreases by $5,000,000 the 
Department of Interior's Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) policy and 
administration budget for the purposes of emphasizing the need to 
assess the energy consumption from BOR pumping stations and understand 
the opportunity for energy efficiency and reduction measures; and 
Ocasio-Cortez (No. 100) that states that none of the funds made 
available by this Act may be used under the Fossil Energy and Carbon 
Management program for any research and development activity unless the 
financed activities significantly reduce carbon emissions pursuant to 
section 961(a)(3) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (by a yea-and-nay 
vote of 220 yeas to 203 nays, Roll No. 227).      
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Rejected:
  DeLauro en bloc amendment No. 1 consisting of the following 
amendments printed in part B of H. Rept. 117-109: Hern (No. 23) that 
sought to reduce spending in this division by 20 percent, exempts 
security funding; Hern (No. 67) that sought to reduce spending in this 
division by 20 percent with an exemption for security funding; Hern 
(No. 95) that sought to reduce spending in this division by 20 percent, 
exempts security funding; Hern (No. 123) that sought to reduce spending 
in this division by 20 percent, exempts security spending; Hern (No. 
154) that sought to reduce spending in this division by 20 percent, 
exempts security funding; and Hern (No. 215) that sought to reduce 
spending in this division by 20 percent with an exemption for security 
funding (by a yea-and-nay vote of 154 yeas to 264 nays, Roll No. 226); 
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  DeLauro en bloc amendment No. 4 consisting of the following 
amendments printed in part B of H. Rept. 117-109: Foxx (No. 16) that 
sought to prohibit funds from being used to rescind the Department of 
Labor's December 9, 2020, final rule titled ``Implementing Legal 
Requirements Regarding the Equal Opportunity Clause's Religious 
Exemption'' relating to federal contractors; Grothman (No. 22) that 
sought to reduce the Higher Education funding by $122,000,000 to meet 
the President's budget request; Issa (No. 24) that sought to strike the 
language prohibiting the implementation of the Industry Recognized 
Apprenticeship Program (IRAP) final rule; Lesko (No. 28) that sought to 
strike section 241 which prohibits funding to any organization, 
including under the Child Welfare or Federal Foster Care programs under 
parts B or E of title IV of the

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Social Security Act, that does not comply with paragraphs (c) and (d) 
of section 75.300 of title 45, Code of Federal Regulations prohibiting 
discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, color, 
national origin, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation; 
Perry (No. 37) that sought to strike funding for electric vehicles and 
a provision on electric vehicle chargers; Walberg (No. 55) that sought 
to bring the Office of Labor-Management Standards funding in line with 
the President's request; would increase the funding by $7,117,000 and 
decrease funding for Wage and Hour Division by the same amount; Cammack 
(No. 60) that sought to strike contingency program funding for SNAP; 
Good (No. 65) that sought to strike $3,000,000,000 from the bills 
allocation to the SNAP contingency fund; Good (No. 66) that sought to 
rescind reserve funding for the SNAP Contingency Fund; Tenney (No. 80) 
that sought to prohibit the Civilian Climate Corps from receiving 
federal funds; Burgess (No. 85) that sought to state that none of the 
funds made available by this Act may be used to repeal, revise, or 
replace the Department of Energy's standards pertaining to incandescent 
lightbulbs published on December 27, 2019; Cheney (No. 89) that sought 
to increase and decrease the Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation fund by 
$75,000,000 with the intent of supporting funding for the uranium 
reserve program included in FY21 appropriations and to highlight the 
risk posed to national security assets that are largely dependent on 
foreign produced uranium that is subject to the restriction and 
regulation of those nations; Grothman (No. 94) that sought to prohibit 
funds from going to the Department of Energy's Office of Economic 
Impact and Diversity; Good (No. 117) that sought to strike provision 
that prohibits the ability to prevent union activity on official time 
and teleworking; Gooden (No. 118) that sought to remove a provision 
that allowed federal employees to use official time for union 
activities; using space in Federal buildings for union activities; 
teleworking for telework deemed positions; Gooden (No. 119) that sought 
to decrease $37.7 million for Treasury's Departmental Offices Salaries 
and Expenses; Grothman (No. 121) that sought to strike the provision 
related to the Commission on Federal Naming and Displays; Hagedorn (No. 
122) that sought to prohibit any funds in Division D from being used to 
implement Executive Order #13985; ``Advancing Racial Equity and Support 
for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government''; Perry 
(PA) (No. 136) that sought to strike the Electric Vehicles Fund from 
the GSA; Perry (PA) (No. 137) that sought to strike the clean vehicle 
exceptions for the maximum amount allowable for the purchase of any 
passenger motor vehicle by the GSA; Pfluger (No. 138) that strikes 
funding for electric vehicle purchases by the United States Postal 
Service; Scalise (No. 139) that sought to prohibit the IRS from 
carrying out randomized and burdensome National Research Program 
audits; Arrington (No. 141) that sought to prohibit funds from this 
division from being used to enforce or implement Executive Order 14008: 
``Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad''; 
Budd (No. 145) that sought to reduce EPA grants for environmental 
justice training and implementation by $100 million; Burgess (No. 146) 
that sought to prohibit funds made available by this Act from being 
used by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to higher or pay the 
salary of any officer or employee of the EPA to utilize the Title 42 
special pay authority; Cole (No. 147) that sought to increase BIA funds 
by $154,163,000 for tribal justice needs related to the McGirt 
decision, offset by a decrease in Environmental Programs Management and 
State and Tribal Assistance Grants; Duncan (No. 148) that sought to 
strike provision which bans the use of this funding to issue sport-
hunted permits for lions and elephants from Tanzania, Zambia and 
Zimbabwe; Fallon (No. 150) that strikes the funding creating a new 
program for Environmental Justice; Gooden (No. 152) that sought to 
strike the prohibition on preleasing, leasing, and related activities 
within National Monuments; Graves (LA) (No. 153) that sought to strike 
``may'' and replaces it with ``shall'' to ensure the protection of an 
operator's proprietary information when the Bureau of Safety and 
Environmental Enforcement discloses an application to utilize an 
alternative compliance measure which is as safe or safer than those 
prescribed by regulation; Hudson (No. 156) that sought to transfer $5 
million from the National Forest System account to the Capital 
Improvement and Maintenance account; LaMalfa (No. 159) that sought to 
transfer $25 million from the Environmental Programs and Management 
enforcement activities account to the National Forest System account 
for enforcement and remediation of illegal marijuana trespass grow 
sites on federal lands and for the clean-up of toxic waste and 
chemicals at these sites; McKinley (No. 161) that sought to restrict 
funds in Division E from being used to repeal, revise, or replace the 
rule ``Clean Water Act Section 401 Certification Rule''; Newhouse (No. 
167) that sought to allow BOEM to move forfeited bonds and other 
securities into a designated Decommissioning Account instead of keeping 
that money in a general operating account; Newhouse (No. 168) that 
sought to require DOI's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and 
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) to publish online 
alternative compliance approvals; Palmer (No. 171) that sought to state 
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none of the funds made available by this Act may be used for the 
Environmental Protection Agency's Criminal Enforcement Division; Palmer 
(No. 172) that sought to eliminate funding for Diesel Emission 
Reduction Grants; Pfluger (No. 173) that sought to prohibit any of the 
funds made available by this Act from being used to implement, 
administer, or enforce the rule entitled ''Oil and Natural Gas Sector: 
Emission Standards for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources''; 
Rosendale (No. 185) that sought to provide that none of the funds may 
be used to pay any fees or other expenses under section 2412 of title 
28, United States Code, to any plaintiff related to an action against 
the U.S. Forest Service; Grothman (No. 191) that sought to decrease 
funding by $86,000,000 for the design, planning, and construction of 
climate change and resiliency projects on military installations; and 
Taylor (No. 229) that sought to direct the Department of Transportation 
to conduct a study on the effectiveness of transportation projects (by 
a yea-and-nay vote of 182 yeas to 232 nays, Roll No. 228); 
                                               Pages H4071-73, H4084-85
  Lesko amendment (No. 29 printed in part B of H. Rept. 117-109) that 
sought to strike language that allows federal funding to go to 
institutions of higher education that are conducting research on 
marijuana (by a yea-and-nay vote of 147 yeas to 216 nays, Roll No. 
229); and                                      
Pages H4073-74, H4085-86
  Ocasio-Cortez amendment (No. 36 printed in part B of H. Rept. 117-
109) that sought to allow United States researchers to study and 
examine the potential impacts of several schedule I drugs, such as 
MDMA, psilocybin, and or ibogaine, that have been shown to be effective 
in treating critical diseases (by a yea-and-nay vote of 140 yeas to 285 
nays, Roll No. 230).                              
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Proceedings Postponed:
  DeLauro en bloc amendment No. 5 consisting of the following 
amendments printed in part B of H. Rept. 117-109: Beatty (No. 110) that 
seeks to increase and decrease $20 from the Department of Treasury with 
the intent to instruct the printing of $20 Federal Notes which 
prominently feature the abolitionist, Harriet Tubman, and a public 
release of its draft; Cawthorn (No. 111) that seeks to increase FCC 
funding by $1 million for mapping; Crow (No. 112) that seeks to 
increase SBA Entrepreneurial Development Programs (specifically for 
SCORE) by $8.2 million, decreases GSA rental of space by the same 
amount; Dean (No. 113) that seeks to increase CDFI Program Integration 
for Individuals with Disabilities dedicated funding by $2,000,000, to 
increase financial and technical assistance; Gomez (No. 116) that seeks 
to increase by $5,000,000 funding for Small Business Development 
Centers to provide robust support for small businesses during their 
recovery from the pandemic; decreases GSA building operations by the 
same amount; Graves (LA) (No. 120) that seeks to increase and decrease 
the funds made available to ODA under this act by $1 million to urge 
the SBA Administrator to consider a disaster loan recipient's 
eligibility for duplication of benefits relief under section 312(b)(4) 
of the Stafford Act before pursuing enforcement actions; Huizenga (No. 
125) that seeks to prohibit funds to nominate or approve PCAOB board 
members until the Commission issues rules for the Holding Foreign 
Companies Accountable Act; Jackson (No. 126) that seeks to prohibit the 
IRS from targeting people or groups for regulatory scrutiny based on 
their political beliefs; Keller (No. 128) that seeks to increase and 
decrease by $5 million the operating expenses for the NPRC; Langevin 
(No. 129), as modified, that seeks to increase funding for the Office 
of the National Cyber Director by $6.25 million in line with the 
recommendation of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission offset by a 
reduction to GSA--rental of space; Sean Patrick Maloney (NY) (No. 131) 
that seeks to increase and decrease the Financial Services and General 
Government Division by $1,000,000 to highlight the need to improve 
information technology systems to provide real-time status updates for 
SBA loan applicants and recipients; Velazquez (No. 140) that seeks to 
increase the program level for SBA's 504/CDC loan program by $750 
million; Barragan (No. 142) that seeks to transfer $1,000,000 from the 
Department of Interior Departmental Operations to the Environmental 
Protection Agency's Targeted Airshed Grant Program; also reflected in 
the topline for State and Tribal Assistance Grants Program, which 
increases by $1,000,000; Buchanan (No. 144) that seeks to transfer 
$2,000,000 to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to study and 
submit to Congress a report on the current causes of and measures to 
prevent future deaths of the West Indian manatee in Florida, offset 
with a reduction to DOI Office of the Secretary; Gonzalez-Colon (No. 
151) that seeks to increase and decrease by $650,000 funding for the 
U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Surveys, Investigations, and Research 
account to highlight the need to accelerate updating the seismic hazard 
model for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in an effort to save 
lives; Hudson (No. 155) that seeks to increase and decreases funding by 
$153,302,000 to highlight public safety concerns of roads within the 
Uwharrie National Forest and the need to pave the roads; Johnson (No. 
158) that seeks to increase U.S. Forest Service hazardous fuels 
management funding by $2,000,000; reduces funding to capital 
improvements and maintenance by $3,000,000; McCarthy (No. 160) that 
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National Forest System account to support recovery and mitigation work 
following the SQF Complex Fire in the Sequoia National Forest; McKinley 
(No. 162) that seeks to increase and decrease funding for 
capitalization grants under Drinking Water State Revolving Funds by 
$8,804,000 to emphasize an amount to be used; Nadler (No. 164) that 
seeks to decrease and increase funds by $3,000,000 with the intent to 
support the 9/11 Memorial Act Grant Program; Napolitano (No. 165) that 
seeks to increase and decrease funds by $2 million for EPA 
Environmental Programs and Management to support water quality 
protection integrated planning activities under Section 402(s) of the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act; Neguse (No. 166) that seeks to 
increase funding for Wildland Fire Management accounts at DOI and USDA 
by $2 million and decreases funding for the DOI Office of the Secretary 
Departmental Operations by the same amount, to support fire 
preparedness and suppression, fire science and research, emergency 
rehabilitation, fuels management activities, and rural fire assistance; 
O'Halleran (No. 169) that seeks to increase and decrease funding for 
the Bureau of Indian Education--Education Construction account by 
$5,000,000 to highlight the importance of funding to build and improve 
schools on tribal lands; Raskin (No. 174) that seeks to increase 
funding for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by $2,000,000 
and decreases the Working Capital Fund by the same amount; Salazar (No. 
176) that seeks to increase and decrease funds by $5 million to 
highlight the U.S. Geological Survey's National Land Level Change 
(NLLC) Map to allow USGS to move forward with a ground subsidence 
program which will leverage satellite imagery and the related data, 
services, and expertise from surveying, mapping, and geospatial 
professions; Schrier (No. 177) that seeks to increase funding by 
$2,000,000 for the Office of Wildland Fire for the specific purpose of 
the Wildland Fire Leadership Council providing recommendations on 
addressing interjurisdictional fire reimbursement challenges, including 
the barriers small municipalities face in receiving funds; decreases 
funding for the Secretary of the Interior, Departmental Operations, by 
the same amount; Schweikert (No. 178) that seeks to increase and 
decrease funding by $1 million to highlight advances in sensor 
technology for mobile air quality monitoring and to encourage EPA to 
focus on continuing to integrate this technology into their data 
quality information; Sherrill (No. 179) that seeks to provide an 
additional $2,000,000 for the United States Geological Survey to be 
used to perform surveys, investigations, and research for harmful algal 
blooms, offset with a reduction to DOI Office of the Secretary; Slotkin 
(No. 180) that seeks to increase and decrease funding for the United 
States Holocaust Memorial Museum by $1,000,000 to ensure that the 
Museum can continue to support Holocaust education and understanding in 
state and local communities by developing and disseminating curricula, 
lesson plans, workshops, and other educational resources to other 
Holocaust organizations, teachers, and other educational centers; 
Swalwell (No. 183) that seeks to increases funding for the U.S. 
Geological Survey (USGS) by $2,000,000 and decreases funding for the 
Secretary of the Interior, Departmental Operations, by the same amount; 
Walberg (No. 184) that seeks to increase funding for EPA's Science and 
Technology program by $2 million for research on Polyfluoroalkyl 
substances (PFAS) and toxins resulting from harmful algal blooms and 
decreases funding for the Office of the Secretary by $2 million; Barr 
(No. 186) that seeks to transfer $5,000,000 from the VHA's Medical 
Community of Care Account to the VHA's Medical Services account for the 
explicit use of equine assisted therapy within the VA's Adaptive Sports 
Grant (ASG) Program; Buchanan (No. 187) that seeks to transfer 
$2,000,000 to Medical and Prosthetic Research for the Department of 
Veterans Affairs to study and report to Congress on the deaths of 
veterans who died by suicide during the last five years; offset by a 
reduction to Veterans Benefits Administration General Operating 
Expenses; Carbajal (No. 188) that seeks to increase and decrease 
funding by $5,000,000 with the intent to direct the Secretary to change 
the phone system to have local Community Based Outpatient Centers 
answer calls rather than routing calls to the major VA Medical Centers 
in an effort to reduce wait times for veterans on the phone and to 
provide more timely health services; Escobar (No. 189) that seeks to 
increase and decrease funding to make clear that States must disburse 
all funds under this division in accordance with Congressional intent 
and not for purposes not otherwise outlined in the corresponding report 
and bill text; Green (TN) (No. 190) that seeks to increase and decrease 
funding for Army barracks by $90,200,000 to stress that improving 
housing for our military servicemembers must be a top priority for the 
Department of Defense; Hartzler (No. 192) that seeks to increase and 
decrease by $5 million the Veterans Health Administration Medical 
Services account with the intent to support non-profit post traumatic 
growth organizations as a treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 
(PTSD); Hill (No. 193) that seeks to increase the VA's Office of 
General Counsel by $1 million to support training for state-level 
Veteran Service Officers, offset by a decrease to Information 
Technology Systems pay and associated costs; Horsford (No. 194) that 
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$2,000,000 for Military Construction, Air Force with the intent to 
support the study, planning, design, and architect and engineer 
services for the construction of Child Development Centers at Air Force 
installations without an existing dedicated, on-installation facility; 
Horsford (No. 195) that seeks to increase and decrease funding by 
$5,000,000 for Military Construction, Army National Guard with the 
intent to support the construction of automated multipurpose machine 
gun ranges for Army National Guard use on Active-Duty Air Force 
installations; Latta (No. 196) that seeks to increase and decrease 
funding by $1,000,000 with the intent to urge the Department of 
Veterans Affairs to consult with the Department of Defense to identify, 
and refer for recruitment, separating Members of the Armed Forces who 
occupy a health care position; McCarthy (No. 197) that seeks to 
increase and decrease funding by $45 million in the Readjustment 
Benefits account (Division F) to support full funding at the current 
authorized level for the Veteran Employment Through Technology 
Education Courses (VET TEC) program; Panetta (No. 198) that seeks to 
increase and decrease funding by $4,000,000 for Military Construction, 
Army National Guard with the intent to support barrack improvement 
construction projects on Training Installation and Contingency 
Mobilization Force Generation Installations; Panetta (No. 199) that 
increases and decreases funding by $1,000,000 for Military 
Construction, Army National Guard with the intent to support projects 
on military installations to improve and modernize wastewater treatment 
facilities; Pfluger (No. 200) that seeks to decrease and increase 
funding for Air Force MILCON account by $45,000,000 to support for 
dormitory projects at Air Force training installations; Sherrill (No. 
201) that seeks to increase and decrease funding for Medical Services 
within the Department of Veterans Affairs by $10,000,000 to support the 
construction of nine additional Vet Centers, which provide much-needed 
mental health care for veterans; Sherrill (No. 202) that seeks to 
increase funding for the Burn Pits Center of Excellence, which does 
critical research into toxic exposure, by $1,000,000, offset by a 
decrease to VA General Administration; Speier (No. 203) that seeks to 
increase and decrease funding in Army Military Construction by $15 
billion with the intent to express great displeasure with the Defense 
Department's failure to prioritize fixing poor and failing military 
child development center facilities projects in its budget request and 
its failure to request sufficient funds to be on track to modernize all 
substandard barracks within 10 years; Steil (No. 204) that seeks to 
decrease and increase the Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General 
account by $1 million to express Congressional intent that at least $1 
million be provided for the oversight of veteran long term care 
facilities; Adams (No. 205), as modified, that seeks to decrease by $2 
million the HUD Administrative Support Offices (Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Administration) and increase by $2 million Self-
Sufficiency Programs ($1 million to JobsPlus and Resident Opportunity 
Self-Sufficiency [ROSS] respectively); Allred (No. 206) that seeks to 
increase and decrease funds by $1,000,000 to express the intent that 
the Secretary of Transportation shall waive repayment of any Federal-
aid highway funds expended on the construction of high occupancy 
vehicle lanes constructed on US 75 in Dallas County and Collin County; 
Cicilline (No. 209) that seeks to increase and decrease by $55 million 
the Highway Infrastructure Programs account for the purpose of 
encouraging the Secretary of Transportation to issue a request for 
nominations under the National Scenic Byways Program; Kahele (No. 223) 
that seeks to prohibit funding for the new foreign air carrier permits 
that are not in compliance with public interest standards; Sean Patrick 
Maloney (NY) (No. 224) that seeks to increase and decrease funds by 
$2,000,000 with the intent of reserving funds in the HUD SHOP account 
specifically for providing grants to facilitate the abatement and 
removal of environmental hazards in homes being rehabilitated to 
national and regional organizations and consortia that have experience 
in providing for or facilitating the abatement of environmental hazards 
from homes; Norton (No. 225) that seeks to increase and decrease by $1 
the FAA Operations budget with the intent to urge the FAA to prioritize 
efforts to combat airplane and helicopter noise; Schrier (No. 227) that 
seeks to increase and decrease by $1 the Salaries and Expenses budget 
of the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) with the intent to urge FMC to 
enhance assistance provided to U.S. exporters and importers and other 
domestic supply chain participants; and Sherrill (No. 228) that seeks 
to increase and decrease funding for Amtrak's Northeast Corridor by $5 
million, in order to highlight the critical need for rail project 
financing; and                                           
Pages H4075-79
  DeLauro en bloc amendment No. 6 consisting of the following 
amendments printed in part B of H. Rept. 117-109: Escobar (No. 114) 
that seeks to increase and decrease funding to make clear that States 
must disburse all funds under this division in accordance with 
Congressional intent and not for purposes not otherwise outlined in the 
corresponding report and bill text; Gomez (No. 115) that seeks to 
increase and decrease by $1,000,000 funding for the Community Volunteer 
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greater support is available to help people in underserved communities 
claim the enhanced Child Tax Credit, Earned Income Tax Credit, and 
other tax relief provided by the American Rescue Plan Act; Hoyer (No. 
124) that seeks to increase and decrease the Election Security Grants 
account by $4,000,000 with the intent to support the Help America Vote 
College Poll Worker Program; Jayapal (No. 127) that seeks to increase 
and decrease funding for the IRS by $1,000,000,000 with the intent to 
ensure the agency reviews that flagged suspicious activity for credit 
mailings like economic impact payments or the child tax credit are not 
flagged due to the volume of mailings being sent to a homeless service 
providers, like shelters, receiving mail for unhoused individuals; 
Levin (MI) (No. 130) that seeks to increase and decrease by $1 million 
funding for the United States Postal Service to highlight that a 
mailbox should not be installed within the premises of or in close 
proximity to a facility, factory, warehouse, or other work location 
during, or within 30 days, of a union representation election conducted 
under section 9 of the National Labor Relation Act; McGovern (No. 132) 
that seeks to transfer $2,500,000 to OMB for the purpose of convening a 
White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, Hunger and Health, and for 
the purpose of conducting a government-wide review and report in 
preparation for the Conference; Norton (No. 133) that seeks to prohibit 
the Securities and Exchange Commission from using funds to enter 
directly into leases for a headquarters; Omar (No. 134) that seeks to 
increase and decrease funds at the Office of Macroeconomic Analysis 
(under the Office of Economic Policy) by $1 million with the intent of 
studying the Genuine Progress Indicator and other alternative economic 
measures that could help supplement GDP calculations on the federal 
level; Omar (No. 135) that seeks to increase and decrease funds at 
FinCEN by $1,000,000 to support studying access to remittances to 
fragile countries and how shifts in remittance flows to non-banking 
channels is affecting Treasury's ability to monitor financial crimes 
and money transmitters' and charities' abilities to remit or transfer 
funds from the United States to such countries; Blumenauer (No. 143) 
that seeks to increase Bureau of Indian Affairs' Operation of Indian 
Programs account by $1,200,000 to fully fund the operations and 
maintenance needs of the Columbia River In-Lieu and Treaty Fishing 
Access Sites offset with a decrease to DOI Office of the Secretary--
Departmental Operations; Escobar (No. 149) that seeks to increase and 
decrease funding to make clear that States must disburse all funds 
under this division in accordance with Congressional intent and not for 
purposes not otherwise outlined in the corresponding report and bill 
text; Jackson Lee (No. 157) that seeks to increase and decrease funding 
for Environmental Programs and Management by $5 million to highlight 
the need to support culturally competent federal, state, and local 
public health and environmental protection efforts to address cancer 
clusters impacting overburdened communities in the gulf coast region; 
McNerney (No. 163) that seeks to increase and decrease by $15,000,000 
the Department of Interior's United States Geological Survey (USGS) 
budget for the purposes of emphasizing the role of USGS in providing 
technical assistance in the development and implementation of science-
based, sustainable groundwater management plans, especially in drought-
afflicted areas; Omar (No. 170) that seeks to increase and decrease 
funds by $1,000,000 to ensure the NEA reserves grant funding for the 
preservation of public art related to civil rights protests; Ross (No. 
175) that seeks to prohibit the use of funds to implement the 
withdrawal of certain areas of the outer continental shelf from 
offshore wind leasing activities off the coasts of Florida, Georgia, 
South Carolina, and North Carolina; Speier (No. 181) that seeks to 
increase funding for EPA Geographic Programs by $5 million with the 
intent of increasing funding for the San Francisco Bay estuary from $25 
million to $30 million; Strickland (No. 182) that seeks to decrease and 
increase funding in the Environmental Protection Agency Science and 
Technology Account by $1 million to fund research into 6PPD-quinone,the 
toxic chemical in tires and recycled rubber causing ongoing harm to 
coho salmon in the Pacific Northwest, and to study its effects on other 
fish species; Bush (No. 207) that seeks to transfer $2.4 million from 
the Office of the Secretary at the Department of Transportation to the 
Zero Emissions Bus program; Bush (No. 208) that seeks to provide an 
additional $5 million in funding for the HUD incremental voucher 
program to support survivors of domestic violence and unhoused 
individuals and families; reduces administrative and other expenses of 
public housing agencies in administrating section 8 by $5 million; 
Escobar (No. 210) that seeks to increase and decrease the grants-in-aid 
for airports program to emphasize the need for funding to projects 
addressing climate change and airports across the country; Escobar (No. 
211) that seeks to increase funding for the Low-No Emission Bus Grant 
account to ensure economically disadvantaged communities benefit from 
this program; Escobar (No. 212) that seeks to increase funding for the 
Climate Resilience and Adaptation Competitive Grants account to ensure 
economically disadvantaged communities will benefit from this program; 
Escobar (No. 213) that seeks to increase and decrease funding to make 
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under this division in accordance with Congressional intent and not for 
purposes not otherwise outlined in the corresponding report and bill 
text; Gottheimer (No. 214) that seeks to increase and decrease by 
$1,000,000 the Federal Highway Administration obligation limitation 
account to emphasize the importance of federal money not being used for 
the construction of a nartificial wall between mile posts 1.04 and 1.45 
along Interstate 80 in Knowlton and Hardwick Townships, New Jersey; 
Jackson Lee (No. 216) that seeks to prohibit 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 obligations of the National Historic Preservation 
Act; Jackson Lee (No. 217) that seeks to increase 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 multigenerational homes can house the family at documented 
pre-disaster capacity, offset by a decrease to the Office of Community 
Planning and Development; Jackson Lee (No. 218) that seeks to provide 
$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. 219) that seeks to 
increase and decrease by $1 million the Federal Rail Administration 
Safety and Operation's account to emphasize the need to provide 
dedicated funding to address community engagement on safety issues 
related railroad crossings in urban areas; Jackson Lee (No. 220) that 
seeks to increase and decrease the National Infrastructure Investments 
account by $1,000,000 to emphasize support for urban bicycle and 
pedestrian safety programs; Jayapal (No. 221) that seeks to increase 
and decrease Homeless Assistance Grants account by $3,420,000,000 with 
the intent to clarify that funds provided under the division can be 
used to safeguard or protect the life-sustaining activities of 
sleeping, resting, and eating among persons experiencing unsheltered 
homelessness; Jones (No. 222) that seeks to increase and decrease 
funding by $1,000,000 for the Thriving Communities program to emphasize 
the need to eliminate persistent transportation barriers in 
historically underserved and under-resourced communities and support 
prioritizing projects that enhance connections to places of employment 
and economic activity; and Omar (No. 226) that seeks to increase and 
decrease funds at the Office of Manufactured Housing Programs for the 
purposes of studying the COVID-related economic barriers faced by 
manufactured homeowners and how federal housing assistance could better 
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  H. Res. 555, the rule providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 
4502) was agreed to by a yea-and-nay vote of 218 yeas to 207 nays, Roll 
No. 223, after the previous question was ordered by a yea-and-nay vote 
of 217 yeas to 201 nays, Roll No. 222.                   
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Medal of Valor Review Board--Appointment: The Chair announced the 
Speaker's appointment of the following individuals on the part of the 
House to the Medal of Valor Review Board for a term of 4 years: Mr. 
Shon Buford of San Francisco, California, and Mr. Brandon Clabes of 
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Medal of Valor Review Board--Appointment: Read a letter from 
Representative McCarthy, Minority Leader, in which he appointed the 
following member to the Medal of Valor Review Board: Mr. Anthony 
Galagaza of Bakersfield, California.                         
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Quorum Calls--Votes: Nine yea-and-nay votes developed during the 
proceedings of today and appear on pages H3930, H3930-31, H3931-32, 
H3932, H4083, H4084, H4084-85, H4085-86, and H4086.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 10:18 p.m.