[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 102 (Wednesday, June 15, 2022)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D662-D664]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 27 public bills, H.R. 8068-
8094; and 7 resolutions, H.J. Res. 88; and H. Res. 1176-1181, were 
introduced.                                              
  Pages H5609-10
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages H5611-12
Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows:
  H.R. 3009, to amend the Truth in Lending Act and the Real Estate 
Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 to establish language access 
requirements for creditors and servicers, and for other purposes, with 
an amendment (H. Rept. 117-370, Part 1);
  H.R. 7180, to authorize the Director of the National Science 
Foundation to award grants to support research on the disruption of 
regular cognitive processes associated with COVID-19 infection, and for 
other purposes (H. Rept. 117-371); and
  H.R. 7675, to amend the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act 
of 1994 to establish an Agricultural and Food System Supply Chain 
Resilience and Crisis Response Task Force, and for other purposes, with 
an amendment (H. Rept. 117-372).                             
Page H5609
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein she appointed 
Representative Torres (CA) to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. 
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Recess: The House recessed at 10:47 a.m. and reconvened at 12 noon. 
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  Federal Reserve Racial and Economic Equity Act: The House passed H.R. 
2543, to amend the Federal Reserve Act to add additional demographic 
reporting requirements, to modify the goals of the Federal Reserve 
System, by a yea-and-nay vote of 215 yeas to 207 nays, Roll No. 275. 
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  Rejected the Hill motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on 
Financial Services by a yea-and-nay vote of 202 yeas to 219 nays, Roll 
No. 274.                                                 
Pages H5589-90
  Pursuant to the Rule, an amendment in the nature of a substitute 
consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 117-49, modified by the 
amendment printed in part A of H. Rept. 117-366, shall be considered as 
adopted, in lieu of the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
recommended by the Committee on Natural Resources now printed in the 
bill.                                                    
Pages H5556-67
Agreed to:
Green (TX) en bloc amendment No. 1 consisting of the following 
amendments printed in part B of H. Rept. 117-366: Bowman (No. 1) that 
requires Treasury and HUD to issue a report that examines how community 
development financial institutions can affirmatively further fair 
housing and expand wealth building opportunities in low-income and 
minority communities through collective ownership models; Beatty (No. 
2) that requires that diverse candidates be considered when there is a 
vacancy among the Federal Reserve Bank presidents; Brown (OH) (No. 3) 
that revises the Board's report on labor trends to include individuals 
with dependent children under the age of 18; Bush (No. 4) that includes 
age as demographic to be included in the study of labor trends; 
Cicilline (No. 5) that adds additional definitions to the Equal Credit 
Opportunity Act and rules of construction; DeSaulnier (No. 7) that 
requires mortgage data collection on veteran status and disability 
status; DeSaulnier (No. 8) that includes reducing the unbanked and 
underbanked population in the allowable uses of funds for the MDI and 
CDFI technology grant program; Garcia (TX) (No. 9) that requires the 
Government Accountability Office to conduct a study to identify 
barriers to reducing homelessness by providing housing assistance under 
the Public Housing and Housing Choice Voucher programs; Houlahan (No. 
11) that mends the Young Entrepreneurs Program to give focus to young 
women entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs who are Black, Hispanic, Asian/
Pacific Islander and Native American/Native Alaskan and other 
historically underrepresented groups or first time business owners; 
Houlahan (No. 12) that requires a description of financial education 
and awareness programs offered to the community in the Credit Union 
mandatory report; Jackson Lee (No. 13) that requires a report to 
Congress containing the plans, activities, and actions of the Board of 
Governors of the Federal Reserve System to minimize and eliminate 
disparities across racial and ethnic groups with respect to access to 
financial products for the purpose of restoration, renovations, or 
repair following a federally-declared disaster; Jayapal (No. 14) that 
revises the Board's report to include economic data disaggregated by 
ethnic subgroup, to the extent available; Johnson (TX) (No. 15) that 
amends Section 102 to ensure individuals with disabilities are included 
In reports to Congress made by the Federal Reserve; Kuster (No. 16) 
that requires a study to be done on the implementation of the program 
in community banks with less than 10 billion dollars in assets 
associated with abiding by mortgage services required by the Act; 
Lawrence (No. 17) that inserts language requiring various reports to 
include breakdowns by State (including DC and U.S. territories), Tribal 
areas, and, for some reports, by congressional district; Lee (NV) (No. 
18) that directs the heads of Treasury and HUD to create an interagency 
working group focused on the housing crisis in America to report to the 
Committee on Financial Services on the state of housing in the United 
States and make recommendations on housing affordability and supply; 
Pressley (No. 20) that requires certain issuers of securities to 
disclose the disability status, based on voluntary self-identification, 
of any of their board of directors or executive officers; Pressley (No. 
21) that requires creditors to provide American Sign Language 
interpretation services to consumers who have indicated that language 
as a preference; Pressley (No. 22) that prohibits creditors from 
discriminating against credit applicants on the basis of disability 
status; Scott (VA) (No. 23) that includes LGBTQ as a designation in 
Diversity and Advisory Group study that will identify strategies to 
increase gender, racial, and ethnic diversity among members of boards 
of directors of issuers; Tlaib (No. 25) that includes LGBTQ as a 
designation in Diversity and Advisory Group study that will identify 
strategies to increase gender, racial, and ethnic diversity among 
members of boards of directors of issuers; Torres (NY) (No. 26) that 
directs HUD to produce a report to Congress describing all efforts they 
have been or are going to do regarding access to affordable permanent 
and temporary housing for LGBTQ+ youth, elderly, and the homeless; and 
Williams (GA) (No. 27) that codifies a provision of Regulation B that 
tasks lenders with considering additional data not found on a credit 
report in the underwriting of a mortgage at the request of a consumer, 
increasing mortgage access for individuals with little or no credit 
history (by a yea-and-nay vote of 217 yeas to 192 nays, Roll No. 270); 
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  Vicente Gonzalez (TX) amendment (No. 10 printed in part B of H. Rept. 
117-366) that ensures nothing prevents community banks from opening in 
underserved areas in relation to this Title (by a yea-and-nay vote of 
297 yeas to 123 nays, Roll No. 272); and          
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  Payne amendment (No. 19 printed in part B of H. Rept. 117-366) that 
adds the text of the bipartisan Payment Choice Act, which protects the 
right to pay in cash at all retail establishments for transactions 
under $2,000 (by a yea-and-nay vote of 224 yeas to 198 nays, Roll No. 
273).                                          
Pages H5584-86, H5588-89
Rejected:
Green (TX) en bloc amendment No. 2 consisting of the following 
amendments printed in part B of H. Rept. 117-366: Rodney Davis (IL) 
(No. 6) that sought to repeal the Small Business Loan Data Collection 
requirement under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act which will require 
effectively all Financial Institutions (FI) to collect and report 
demographic data to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on 
applications for credit for small businesses which would require a FI 
to report ethnicity and race based on visual observation and/or surname 
if an applicant refuses to self-report demographic data; and Timmons 
(No. 24) that sought to strike all of titles I, II, and III, subtitle B 
in title IV and subtitle B in title V (by a yea-and-nay vote of 202 
yeas to 217 nays, Roll No. 271).                  
  Pages H5583, H5587-88
  H. Res. 1170, the rule providing for consideration of the bills (H.R. 
2543), (H.R. 2773), and (H.R. 7606) was agreed to yesterday, June 14th.
Senate Referrals: S. 407 was held at the desk. S. 1787 was held at the 
desk.                                                        
  Page H5554
Senate Message: Message received from the Senate today appears on pages 
H5554-55.
Quorum Calls--Votes: Six yea-and-nay votes developed during the 
proceedings of today and appear on pages H5586-87, H5587-88, H5588, 
H5588-89, H5589-90, and H5590-91.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 6:47 p.m.