[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 125 (Thursday, July 20, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H3863-H3874]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     SECURING GROWTH AND ROBUST LEADERSHIP IN AMERICAN AVIATION ACT

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Collins). Pursuant to House Resolution 
597 and rule XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of 
the Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration 
of the bill, H.R. 3935.
  Will the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Carl) kindly take the chair.

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                     In the Committee of the Whole

  Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of 
the bill (H.R. 3935) to amend title 49, United States Code, to 
reauthorize and improve the Federal Aviation Administration and other 
civil aviation programs, and for other purposes, with Mr. Carl (Acting 
Chair) in the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The Acting CHAIR. When the Committee of the Whole rose on Wednesday, 
July 19, 2023, amendment No. 75 printed in part A of House Report 118-
147 offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry) had been 
disposed of.


       Amendments En Bloc No. 4 Offered by Mr. Graves of Missouri

  Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Chair, pursuant to House Resolution 597, 
I offer amendments en bloc.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendments en bloc.
  Amendments en bloc No. 4 consisting of amendment Nos. 60, 61, 85, 87, 
88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, and 104 printed in 
part A of House Report 118-147, offered by Mr. Graves of Missouri:

       Amendment No. 60 Offered by Ms. Manning of North Carolina

       At the end of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. 844. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON FAA ENGAGEMENT AND 
                   COLLABORATION WITH HBCUS AND MSIS.

       It is the sense of Congress that the Federal Aviation 
     Administration should continue to partner with historically 
     Black colleges and universities and minority-serving 
     institutions to promote awareness of career opportunities and 
     develop curriculum related to aerospace, aviation and air 
     traffic control.


       Amendment No. 61 Offered by Ms. MANNING of North Carolina

       At the end of title VIII, insert the following:

     SEC. 8__. REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS OF 
                   FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION YOUTH ACCESS TO 
                   AMERICAN JOBS IN AVIATION TASK FORCE.

       Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary of Transportation, acting through the 
     Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, shall 
     submit to Congress a report on the implementation of the 
     following recommendations of the Federal Aviation 
     Administration Youth Access to American Jobs in Aviation Task 
     Force established under section 602 of the FAA 
     Reauthorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-254):
       (1) The recommendation to improve information access about 
     careers in aviation and aerospace.
       (2) The recommendation to collaboration across regions of 
     the Federal Aviation Administration on outreach and workforce 
     development programs.
       (3) The recommendation to increase opportunities for 
     mentoring, pre-apprenticeships, and apprenticeships in 
     aviation.


          Amendment No. 85 Offered by Mr. QUIGLEY of Illinois

       At the end of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. __. IMPLEMENTATION OF DYNAMIC SCHEDULING AND MANAGEMENT 
                   OF CERTAIN AIRSPACE.

       (a) In General.--In carrying out the pilot program 
     established under section 1093 of Public Law 117-263 (49 
     U.S.C. 40103 note), the Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
     Administration, in coordination with the Secretary of 
     Defense, shall--
       (1) evaluate the impact on the operation of the national 
     airspace system of process improvements in how the Department 
     of Defense shares real-time updates on the status of special 
     activity airspace and special use airspace for activities 
     described in paragraph (1) of section 1093 of Public Law 117-
     263 (49 U.S.C. 40103, note); and
       (2) ensure that such improvements make the Federal Aviation 
     Administration able to use such status changes to effectively 
     grant

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     access to special activity airspace and special use airspace 
     to civil operators in the national airspace system.
       (b) Development, Test and Assessment of Dynamic Airspace 
     Tools and Systems.--
       (1) Tests.--Under the pilot program referred to in 
     subsection (a), and to complete the evaluations prescribed 
     above, the Administrator and Secretary shall jointly test 
     software and services that automate the means by which the 
     Department of Defense shares changes in the status of special 
     activity airspace and special use airspace established by the 
     Federal Aviation Administration for use by civil operators in 
     the national airspace system.
       (2) Automation.--The Secretary and the Administrator shall 
     ensure that the processes referred to in paragraph (1)(B) of 
     section 1093 of Public Law 117-263 (49 U.S.C. 40103, note) 
     are automated, adhere to advanced data protection protocols, 
     and use tools and systems developed for this purpose that are 
     in use by the Federal Aviation Administration and by civil 
     operators in the national airspace system.
       (c) Report.--Not more than 365 days following the date of 
     enactment of this section, the Secretary and the 
     Administrator shall jointly submit a report to Congress on 
     the impact of dynamic scheduling and management of special 
     activity airspace and special use airspace, with specific 
     information on--
       (1) impact on military training and readiness;
       (2) impact on workload and accuracy of sharing status 
     changes on airspace with the Federal Aviation Administration; 
     and
       (3) impact on the operation of the national airspace system 
     including reductions in miles flown.
       (d) Requirements.--The capabilities referred to in 
     subsection (a) shall not interfere with--
       (1) the public's right of transit consistent with national 
     security;
       (2) the use of airspace necessary to ensure the safety of 
     aircraft within the national airspace system; or
       (3) the use of airspace necessary to ensure the efficient 
     use of the national airspace system.


        Amendment No. 87 Offered by Mr. ROUZER of North Carolina

       Page 250, strike lines 10 through 12, and insert the 
     following:
       (f) Implementation.--Not later than 1 year after receiving 
     recommendations outlined in the report under subsection (b), 
     the Administrator shall take such action, as appropriate, to 
     implement those recommendations.
       At the end of subtitle C of title III, add the following:

     SEC. __. MEDICAL PORTAL MODERNIZATION TASK GROUP.

       (a) Establishment.--Not later than 120 days after the 
     working group pursuant to section 328 of this Act is 
     established, the co-chairs of such working group shall 
     establish a medical portal modernization task group (referred 
     to in this subsection as the ``task group'') to evaluate the 
     user interface and information sharing capabilities of an 
     online medical portal administered by the Federal Aviation 
     Administration.
       (b) Composition.--The co-chairs of the working group 
     provided for in section 328 shall appoint--
       (1) a Chair of the task group; and
       (2) members of the task group from among the members of the 
     working group appointed by the Administrator under section 
     328(b)
       (c) Assessment; Recommendations.--The task group shall, at 
     a minimum, assess and evaluate the capabilities of any such 
     medical portal and provide recommendations to improve the 
     following:
       (1) The cyber security protections and protocols of any 
     such medical portal, including the secure exchange of health 
     information and records between Aviation Medical Examiners 
     and pilots, or their designee, including the ability for an 
     airman to submit additional information requested by the 
     Administrator.
       (2) The status of an airman's medical application and the 
     disclosure of how long an airman can expect to wait for a 
     final determination to be issued by the Administrator.
       (3) The disclosure of the name and contact information of 
     the Administrator's representative managing an airman's case 
     so that an Aviation Medical Examiner has a point of contact 
     within the Administration who is familiar with an airman's 
     application.
       (d) Consultation.--In carrying out the duties described in 
     subsection (c), the task group may consult cybersecurity 
     experts and individuals with a knowledge of securing 
     electronic health care transactions.
       (e) Report.--Not later than 1 years after the date of the 
     establishment of the task group, the task group shall submit 
     to the Administrator, the Committee on Transportation and 
     Infrastructure of the House of Representatives, and the 
     Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the 
     Senate a report detailing activities and recommendations of 
     the task group.
       (f) Implementation.--Not later than 1 year after receiving 
     the report described in subsection (e), the Administrator 
     shall take such action as may be necessary to implement 
     recommendations of the task group to improve any such medical 
     portal.


        Amendment No. 88 Offered by Mr. ROUZER of North Carolina

       At the end of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. __. PROHIBITION ON PROCUREMENT OF FOREIGN-MADE UNMANNED 
                   AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Transportation is 
     prohibited from entering into a contract or awarding a grant 
     for the procurement of a small unmanned aircraft system 
     manufactured or assembled by a covered foreign entity.
       (b) Exemption.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary is exempt from any 
     restrictions under subsection (a) if the procurement is for 
     the purposes of testing, evaluation, analysis, or training 
     related to--
       (A) counter-unmanned aircraft systems, including activities 
     conducted under the Federal Aviation Administration's 
     Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence 
     Center of Excellence or by the UAS test sites under section 
     44803 of title 49, United States Code; or
       (B) the safe, secure, or efficient operation of the 
     National Airspace System or maintenance of public safety.
       (2) National transportation safety board exemption.--The 
     National Transportation Safety Board, in consultation with 
     the Secretary of Homeland Security, is exempt from any 
     restrictions under subsection (a) if the procurement is 
     necessary for the sole purpose of conducting safety 
     investigations.
       (c) Waiver.--The Secretary of Transportation (or the 
     Secretary's designee) may waive any restrictions under 
     subsection (a) on a case by case basis by certifying in 
     writing not later than 15 days after exercising such waiver 
     to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of 
     the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and 
     Infrastructure of the House of Representatives that the 
     procurement is required in the national interest of the 
     United States.
       (d) Effective Dates.--
       (1) In general.--Beginning on the date of enactment of this 
     Act, the Secretary may not award a new grant for the 
     procurement of an unmanned aircraft system manufactured by a 
     covered foreign entity.
       (2) Existing grant.--This section shall not apply to grants 
     awarded before the date of enactment of this Act.
       (e) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Covered foreign entity.--The term ``covered foreign 
     entity'' means an entity--
       (A) included on the Consolidated Screening List or Entity 
     List as designated by the Secretary of Commerce;
       (B) domiciled in the People's Republic of China or the 
     Russian Federation;
       (C) subject to influence or control by the government of 
     the People's Republic of China or by the Russian Federation; 
     or
       (D) that is a subsidiary or affiliate of an entity 
     described in subparagraphs (A) through (C).
       (2) Small unmanned aircraft; unmanned aircraft; unmanned 
     aircraft system.--The terms ``small unmanned aircraft'', 
     ``unmanned aircraft'', and ``unmanned aircraft system'' have 
     the meanings given such terms in section 44801 of title 49, 
     United States Code.


           Amendment No. 89 Offered by Mr. RUIZ of California

       At the end of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. __. BANNING MUNICIPAL AIRPORT.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United 
     States shall initiate a study on the Banning Municipal 
     Airport to identify--
       (1) aviation traffic at the Airport in each of the last 10 
     years, and estimated future traffic each year in the next 10 
     years;
       (2) associated annual revenues and costs in each year to 
     service aviation traffic during the last 10 years, and to 
     continue to service it for another 10 years;
       (3) use of the facility for fighting wildfires and the 
     degree of its utility to the local County fire department or 
     other emergency first responders;
       (4) status of the Airport's current infrastructure and 
     planned improvements, if any, and during the next 5 years and 
     their associated costs;
       (5) perspectives of and impact on the Morongo Band of 
     Indians resulting from operation of the airport near tribal 
     lands; and
       (6) Federal funds that would be required to modernize the 
     Airport's infrastructure to assure no annual operating 
     financial losses for the next 10 years.
       (b) Report to Congress.--Not later than 1 year after the 
     date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall 
     submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on 
     the results of the study.


         Amendment No. 90 Offered by Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia

       Page 375; line 24, strike ``1 annual event'' and insert ``2 
     annual events''.


             Amendment No. 91 Offered by Mr. SELF of Texas

       Add at the end of title VIII the following:

     SEC. 844. FEASIBILITY STUDY OF HARDENING SATELLITES THAT 
                   CONTRIBUTE TO UNITED STATES AEROSPACE 
                   NAVIGATION.

       The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration 
     shall conduct a feasibility study to determine the cost to 
     harden satellites that contribute to United States aerospace 
     navigation.


         Amendment No. 92 Offered by Ms. SHERRILL of New Jersey

       At the end of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. __. STUDY AND REPORT ON EFFECTS OF UNMANNED FREE 
                   BALLOONS ON AVIATION SAFETY.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the

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     Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, in 
     coordination with the heads of other relevant Federal 
     agencies, shall submit a report to the appropriate committees 
     of Congress on the effects unmanned free balloon operations, 
     that do not emit electronic or radio signals for 
     identification purposes, launched within the United States 
     and its territories may have on aviation safety.
       (b) Considerations.--In carrying out this section, the 
     Administrator shall consider--
       (1) current technology available and employed to track 
     unmanned free balloon operations described under subsection 
     (a);
       (2) how the flights of such operations have affected, or 
     could affect, aviation safety;
       (3) how such operations have contributed, or could 
     contribute, to misidentified threats to civil or military 
     aviation operations or infrastructure; and
       (4) how such operations have impacted, or could impact, 
     national security and air traffic control operations.
       (c) Recommendations.--The report specified under subsection 
     (a) shall contain recommendations on the following:
       (1) The need for unmanned free balloons launched within the 
     United States and its territories to be equipped with 
     technology that may increase the near real-time trackability 
     of such balloons to deconflict airspace and maintain aviation 
     safety of the national airspace system in support of 
     Administration and Department of Defense aviation operations.
       (2) The feasibility and efficacy in requiring the equipage 
     and usage of such technology.
       (d) Appropriate.--In this section, the term ``appropriate 
     congressional committees'' means--
       (1) the Committee on Armed Services of the House of 
     Representatives;
       (2) the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of 
     the House of Representatives;
       (3) the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate; and
       (4) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 
     of the Senate.


           Amendment No. 93 Offered by Mr. STEIL of Wisconsin

       At the end of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. __. UPDATE TO FAA ORDER ON AIRWAY PLANNING STANDARD.

       Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this 
     Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration 
     shall take such actions as may be necessary to update FAA 
     Order 7031.2c, titled ``Airway Planning Standard Number One-
     Terminal Air Navigation Facilities and Air Traffic Control 
     Services'', to lower the remote radar bright display scope 
     installation requirement from 30,000 annual itinerant 
     operations to 15,000 annual itinerant operations


        Amendment No. 94 Offered by Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania

       At the end of subtitle C of title VII, add the following:

     SEC. __. REPORT ON RESTORATION OF SMALL COMMUNITY AIR 
                   SERVICE.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Department of 
     Transportation shall enter into the appropriate arrangements 
     with the National Academies to conduct a study on the loss of 
     commercial air service in small communities in the United 
     States and options to restore such service.
       (b) Contents.--In conducting the study required under 
     subsection (a), that National Academies shall--
       (1) assess the reduction of scheduled commercial air 
     service to small communities over a 5-year period ending on 
     the date of enactment of this Act, to include small 
     communities that have lost all scheduled commercial air 
     service;
       (2) review economic trends that have resulted in reduction 
     or loss of scheduled commercial air service to such 
     communities;
       (3) review the economic losses of such communities who have 
     suffered a reduction or loss of scheduled commercial air 
     service;
       (4) identify the causes that prompted air carriers to 
     reduce or eliminate scheduled commercial air service to such 
     communities;
       (5) assess the impact of changing aircraft economics; and
       (6) identify recommendations that can be implemented by 
     such communities or Federal, State, or local agencies to aid 
     in the restoration or replacement of scheduled commercial air 
     service.
       (c) Case Studies.--In conducting the study required under 
     subsection (a), the National Academies shall assess not fewer 
     than 7 communities that have lost commercial air service or 
     have had commercial air service significantly reduced in the 
     past 15 years, including--
       (1) Williamsport Regional Airport;
       (2) Alamogordo-White Sands Regional Airport; and
       (3) Chautauqua County Jamestown Airport.
       (d) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the National Academies shall submit to 
     the Secretary, the Committee on Transportation and 
     Infrastructure of the House of Representatives, and the 
     Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation of the 
     Senate a report containing--
       (1) the results of the study described in subsection (a); 
     and
       (2) recommendations to Congress and communities on action 
     that can be taken to improve or restore scheduled commercial 
     service to small communities.


          Amendment No. 99 Offered by Mr. Williams of New York

       At the appropriate place in the bill, insert the following:

     SEC. __. SURFACE SURVEILLANCE.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after enactment of 
     this Act, the Administrator shall conduct a study of surface 
     surveillance systems that are operational as of the date of 
     enactment of this Act.
       (b) Contents.--In carrying out the study required under 
     subsection (a), the Administrator shall--
       (1) demonstrate that any change to the configuration of 
     such systems or decommissioning of a sensor from such systems 
     provides an equivalent level of safety as the current system;
       (2) determine how a technology refresh of legacy sensor 
     equipment can reduce operational and maintenance costs 
     compared to current costs and extend the useful life and 
     affordability of such systems; and,
       (3) consider how to enhance such systems through new 
     capabilities and software tools that improve the safety of 
     terminal airspace and the airport surface.
       (c) Consultation.--In carrying out the study under 
     subsection (a), the Administrator shall consult with 
     representatives of--
       (1) National Transportation Safety Board;
       (2) aviation safety experts with specific knowledge of 
     surface surveillance technology, including multilateration 
     and ADS-B; and,
       (3) representatives with expertise in surface safety of the 
     exclusive bargaining representative of the air traffic 
     controllers certified under section 7111 of title 5, United 
     24 States Code; and
       (4) representatives of the certified bargaining 
     representative of airway transportation systems specialists 
     for the Federal Aviation Administration.
       (d) Report.--Upon completion of the review initiated under 
     subsection (a), the Administrator shall submit to the 
     Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House 
     of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
     and Transportation of the Senate a report describing the 
     findings of such review and shall make all data related to 
     the safety analysis and conclusions developed under 
     subsection (b) available to the public on the website of the 
     Administration in a downloadable format.
       (e) Implementation.--Upon submission of the report required 
     by subsection (d), the Administrator may implement changes to 
     surface surveillance systems based on the outcome of the 
     review in subsection (b).


           Amendment No. 100 Offered by Mr. Yakym of Indiana

       Page 223, line 9, strike ``2027'' and insert ``2028''.


          Amendment No. 101 Offered by Mr. Smith of New Jersey

       At the end of title VIII, insert the following:

     SEC. 8__. CERTIFICATION AND REPORT BY INSPECTOR GENERAL 
                   RELATING TO RADAR IMPACTS AND OFFSHORE WIND 
                   DEVELOPMENT APPROVAL PROCESS.

       (a) Certification.--Not later than 90 days after the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, the President (or a designee) 
     shall certify in writing that--
       (1) offshore wind projects in the North Atlantic and Mid-
     Atlantic Planning Areas will not weaken, degrade, interfere 
     with, or nullify the performance and capabilities of radar 
     relied upon by commercial aviation, military aviation, space 
     launch vehicles, or other commercial space launch activities; 
     and
       (2) the development of offshore wind projects in the North 
     Atlantic and Mid-Atlantic Planning Areas will not degrade the 
     capabilities of the Federal Aviation Administration to 
     monitor United States airspace, or hinder commercial, 
     private, or military aviation activities.
       (b) Audit and Report by Inspector General.--
       (1) Audit and report.--The Inspector General of the 
     Department of Transportation shall audit and report to 
     Congress on the effects of offshore wind industrialization 
     related to radar, impacts to commercial air and military 
     traffic, and the sufficiency of the review and approval 
     process for offshore wind projects in the North Atlantic and 
     Mid-Atlantic Planning Areas. Such report shall also include 
     the following:
       (A) An investigation of the sufficiency of the process for 
     approving offshore wind projects, and these projects impact 
     on radar, including the consultation process between the 
     Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the Federal Aviation 
     Administration, and the Military Aviation and Installation 
     Assurance Siting Clearinghouse, and whether concerns voiced 
     by the Federal Aviation Administration, the United States 
     Armed Forces were sufficiently considered in the approval 
     process.
       (B) A specific study on the impact of such projects on 
     shore based radar capabilities.
       (C) A determination whether offshore wind projects will 
     weaken, compromise, or interfere with, or nullify the usage 
     of radar utilized by the Federal Aviation Administration, the 
     United States Armed Forces, and the National Aeronautics and 
     Space Administration, as well as commercial space launch 
     activities.
       (D) An audit of the approval applications by the Military 
     Aviation and Installation

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     Assurance Siting Clearinghouse regarding concerns voiced over 
     the impact to radar and ability to identify airborne threats, 
     freedom to navigate United States airspace, and ability to 
     train within United States airspace.
       (E) A determination whether any offshore wind projects will 
     impact, alter, or disrupt commercial, private, or military 
     aviation flight paths.
       (F) A determination whether any offshore wind projects will 
     impact, compromise, inhibit, or nullify the usage of radar 
     and sonar technologies utilized by the armed forces and any 
     agencies carrying out space launch programs.
       (G) A determination whether any offshore wind projects will 
     impact, compromise, or inhibit the ability of the United 
     States Coast Guard to conduct maritime safety and lifesaving 
     operations.
       (H) An assessment of how offshore wind energy projects 
     impact low-level military airspace off the Atlantic Coast.
       (I) A determination whether the mitigation strategies laid 
     out in the 2016 Report on the Impact of Wind Energy 
     Developments on Military Installations are sufficient, 
     achievable and, realistic.
       (2) Survey required.--
       (A) In general.--The Inspector General of the Department of 
     Transportation shall conduct a survey of individuals directly 
     responsible for installations and units effected by offshore 
     wind development projects, including those currently underway 
     and those proposed, with respect to--
       (i) mission critical capabilities related to radar 
     interference, sonar interference, lifesaving operations, and 
     training missions; and
       (ii) the sufficiency of local military installation 
     commander input in the approval process.
       (B) Report.--The Inspector General of the Department of 
     Transportation shall submit to Congress a report containing 
     the results of the survey required by subparagraph (A) not 
     later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act.
       (c) Classified Annex.--The reports required under 
     subsection(b)(1) and (b)(2)(B) shall be submitted in 
     unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.


         Amendment No. 102 Offered by Mrs. Boebert of Colorado

       Page 821, line 15, insert ``, and make publicly available 
     on a website of the Administration,''.


         Amendment No. 103 Offered by Mrs. Boebert of Colorado

       Page 780, line 2, insert ``, and make publicly available on 
     a website of the Administration,'' after ``House of 
     Representatives''.


           Amendment No. 104 Offered by Mr. Beyer of Virginia

       Add at the end of subtitle C of title XI the following:

     SEC. 1151. STUDY ON AERONAUTICAL STANDARDS.

       (a) Study Required.--The Administrator of the National 
     Aeronautics and Space Administration, in consultation with 
     the Secretary of Defense, the Administrator of the Federal 
     Aviation Administration, and the Administrator of the 
     National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shall 
     conduct a study on the modernization of aeronautical 
     standards.
       (b) Designation.--The study conducted under subsection (a) 
     shall be known as the ``Modernization of Aeronautical 
     Standards and Aircraft Performance Study''.
       (c) Elements.--The study conducted under subsection (a) 
     shall include the following:
       (1) An assessment of differences between current 
     atmospheric conditions and baseline atmospheric conditions, 
     including both mean and extreme values.
       (2) An analysis of the impacts to operation, maintenance, 
     and sustainment costs of covered commercial aircraft due to 
     the differences identified under paragraph (1).
       (3) An estimation of the number of weight restriction hours 
     for covered commercial aircraft at covered commercial 
     airports under baseline, current, and projected atmospheric 
     conditions.
       (4) An assessment of required infrastructure investment at 
     covered commercial airports such that the number of weight 
     restriction hours under projected atmospheric conditions is 
     equivalent to the number of weight restriction hours with 
     current infrastructure and route structure under baseline and 
     current atmospheric conditions.
       (5) Recommendations for atmospheric and climatic design 
     requirements for future commercial aircraft to account for 
     projected atmospheric conditions.
       (6) An analysis of impacts to operation, maintenance, and 
     sustainment costs and aircraft performance of military 
     aircraft due to the differences identified under paragraph 
     (1).
       (7) Atmospheric and climatic design requirements for 
     military aircraft, or other equipment, which should be 
     updated to account for current and projected atmospheric 
     conditions.
       (8) Recommended updates or supplements to atmospheric 
     standards due to current atmospheric conditions.
       (9) Criteria under which future updates or supplements to 
     atmospheric standards should be made.
       (d) Transmittal.--The Administrator of the National 
     Aeronautics and Space Administration shall transmit the 
     results of the study to the Committee on Science, Space, and 
     Technology and the Committee on Transportation and 
     Infrastructure of the House of Representatives, the Committee 
     on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, and 
     the congressional defense committees not later than 18 months 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act.
       (e) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Aircraft performance.--The term ``aircraft 
     performance'' includes the following:
       (A) Range.
       (B) Payload capacity.
       (C) Runway length requirement.
       (D) Climb rate.
       (E) Turn rate.
       (F) Operating altitude.
       (G) Acceleration.
       (2) Atmospheric standards.--The term ``atmospheric 
     standards'' means the following:
       (A) The United States Standard Atmosphere of 1976.
       (B) MIL-HDBK-310, Climatic Information to Determine Design 
     and Test Requirements for Military Systems and Equipment.
       (C) Any other standard as determined by the Administrator 
     of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
       (3) Baseline atmospheric conditions.--The term ``baseline 
     atmospheric conditions'' means the atmospheric conditions 
     referred to in the most recent release of an atmospheric 
     standard.
       (4) Covered commercial airports.--The term ``covered 
     commercial airports'' means the following:
       (A) The 30 commercial service airports (as such term is 
     defined in section 47102(7) of title 49, United States Code) 
     with the most passenger boardings in the most recent calendar 
     year ending before the date of the enactment of this Act.
       (B) The five public airports (as such term is defined in 
     section 47102(21) of title 49, United States Code) not 
     described in clause (i) with the highest all-cargo landed 
     weight in the most recent calendar year ending before the 
     date of the enactment of this Act.
       (5) Covered commercial aircraft.--The term ``covered 
     commercial aircraft'' means the ten aircraft types still in 
     production with the highest number of operations at covered 
     commercial airports in the most recent calendar year ending 
     before the date of the enactment of this Act.
       (6) Commercial aircraft.--The term ``commercial aircraft'' 
     means an air carrier operating under part 121 of title 14, 
     Code of Federal Regulations.
       (7) Congressional defense committees.--The term 
     ``congressional defense committees'' has the meaning given 
     that term in section 101(a)(16) of title 10, United States 
     Code.
       (8) Current atmospheric conditions.--The term ``current 
     atmospheric conditions'' means the atmospheric conditions 
     observed in the five most recent calendar years ending before 
     the date of the enactment of this Act.
       (9) Projected atmospheric conditions.--The term ``projected 
     atmospheric conditions'' means the mean atmospheric 
     conditions projected by the International Panel on Climate 
     Change under the Sixth Assessment Report in scenarios--
       (A) SSP1-1.9;
       (B) SSP1-2.6;
       (C) SSP2-4.5;
       (D) SSP3-7.0; and
       (E) SSP5-8.5.
       (10) Military aircraft.--The term ``military aircraft'' 
     means an aircraft that--
       (A) is currently being developed, procured, or operated by 
     the Department of Defense; and
       (B) is a bomber, fighter, attack helicopter, transport 
     helicopter, strategic transport, tactical transport, or 
     surveillance aircraft.
       (11) Passenger boardings.--The term ``passenger boardings'' 
     has the meaning given such term in section 47102(15) of title 
     49, United States Code.
       (12) Weight restriction hour.--The term ``weight 
     restriction hour'' means an hour when the maximum temperature 
     for that hour matches or exceeds the weight-restriction 
     temperature threshold for a specific aircraft.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 597, the gentleman 
from Missouri (Mr. Graves) and the gentleman from Washington (Mr. 
Larsen) each will control 10 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Missouri.
  Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  I rise in support of the bipartisan en bloc. This en bloc contains 17 
amendments offered by my colleagues on both sides of the aisle.
  The en bloc includes amendments that look to increase access to 
airspace for its users. It reinforces staffing levels and availability 
of advanced technology for air traffic controllers and further enhances 
runway safety at airports, along with a whole lot of other things that 
are in the en bloc.
  Mr. Chair, I thank my colleagues for their work on these amendments. 
I am proud to support this en bloc and encourage all Members to support 
it.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LARSEN of Washington. Mr. Chair, I rise in support of this en 
bloc.

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It includes a number of provisions that will improve the bill, 
including:
  A proposal from Representative Manning to advance the recommendations 
of the Youth Access to the American Jobs in Aviation Task Force, 
particularly on increasing access to information and enhancing 
collaboration;
  A proposal led by Representative Rouzer with bipartisan support to 
prohibit the Department of Transportation from purchasing drones from 
foreign adversaries, including Russia and China;
  A proposal led by Representative   David Scott to increase the FAA's 
community outreach to aviation-impacted communities;
  A proposal by Representative Sherrill with bipartisan support for the 
FAA to study national security implications of unmanned free balloons 
and the technical feasibility of having an electronic emitter on board;
  A proposal from Representatives Thompson and Vasquez requiring the 
DOT to study the loss of commercial air service in small communities 
and providing recommendations for restoring that service; and
  A critically important proposal from Representatives Yakym and Titus 
to ensure maximum air traffic controller hiring for the next 5 years.
  Mr. Chair, I urge all Members to support this en bloc amendment, and 
I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Chair, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman 
from Indiana (Mr. Yakym).
  Mr. YAKYM. Mr. Chair, I thank the chairman for yielding and for his 
incredible work on this FAA reauthorization bill. It has been a 
bipartisan experience working with Ranking Member Larsen, and I thank 
him, as well, for his work on my amendments.
  I thank them both for including Yakym amendment 100 in this en bloc. 
This amendment which was developed in a bipartisan manner and 
partnership with my colleague, Representative Titus from Nevada, 
extends the requirement that the FAA take a maximal approach to hiring 
and training air traffic controllers through the full life of the 
reauthorization.
  This summer, we have seen headlines, heard from constituents, and 
maybe some of you have even experienced delayed flights and the chaos 
that that can bring--one big reason is that we have 1,200 fewer fully 
certified controllers than we did just 10 years ago. Hiring isn't 
keeping up with the attrition, and short-staffed facilities impose 
mandatory overtime and 6-day workweeks, which isn't sustainable for the 
controllers we have.
  An Inspector General report recently found that the FAA ``lacks a 
plan to address'' the controller shortage.
  The American traveling public needs the FAA to pursue a sustained, 
long-term commitment to maximum hiring of air traffic controllers, and 
Congress should require it.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support my amendment.
  Mr. LARSEN of Washington. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Chair, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman 
from New Jersey (Mr. Smith).
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Chair, I thank my good friend and 
colleague for writing such an important bill, and I thank Chairman 
Graves and Mr. Larsen for the great cooperation between both sides of 
the aisle.
  Mr. Chair, my amendment, cosponsored by Jeff Van Drew and Dr.   Andy 
Harris, requires the President or his designee to certify that offshore 
wind turbine projects in the North Atlantic and Mid-Atlantic Planning 
Areas will not ``weaken, degrade, interfere with, or nullify the 
capability of radar relied upon by the FAA or the Armed Forces.''
  It would also require the DOT IG to conduct a comprehensive review of 
the sufficiency of the process used to approve offshore wind projects 
in areas critical to air travel and national security.
  Many of us, Mr. Chair, are deeply concerned over the safety, 
efficacy, and likely deleterious environmental impact of embedding some 
3,400 ocean wind turbines, each the size of the Chrysler Building in 
New York City, off our coast.
  We have serious, well-founded concerns that offshore wind turbines 
will interfere with radar capabilities and, as a direct consequence, 
create a dangerous and potentially catastrophic impact on both military 
and commercial aviation activities, as well as helicopters used by the 
Coast Guard to save lives.

  Offshore wind development will affect some of the busiest airspace in 
the country, including the areas surrounding New York, Boston, 
Philadelphia, and Washington, which contain major international 
airports, dozens of smaller airports, and several military and Coast 
Guard aviation facilities.
  Mr. Chair, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's radar interference 
analysis from August of 2020 stated: ``The research team found that the 
proposed and hypothetical wind farms are within the line of sight of 36 
radar systems, indicating that they will generate interference to these 
radars under normal atmospheric conditions'' and ``future offshore wind 
energy installations off the Atlantic Coast may impact land-based radar 
systems.''
  Additionally, in 2017, the interagency Ground-Based Coastal Air 
Surveillance Wind Turbine-Radar Interference Vulnerability Study found 
that: ``Offshore wind turbines may pose unique impacts to coastal radar 
systems given the differences in propagation of radar signals over the 
ocean versus land, as well as the larger size of offshore wind turbines 
compared to land-based wind turbines.''
  This particular analysis, I would point out, relied on the Block 
Island Wind Farm off the coast of Rhode Island whose turbines are 589 
feet tall. The turbines slated for installation off the New Jersey and 
New York coast are significantly higher, approximately 1,000 feet. They 
are huge, and they will affect radar.
  The DOD has expressed serious concerns over offshore wind development 
off the Virginia coast. How does that apply to us and to commercial 
aviation, which is, again, the gist of this amendment?
  I have personally, Mr. Chair, read several of the major impact 
studies for these projects, and they confidently, almost arrogantly, 
suggest and assert that problems that might arise can be ``mitigated.''
  Really? Then support my amendment and ensure that that's the case and 
that we do our due diligence.
  A 2022 comprehensive study by the National Academy of Sciences found 
that: ``Wind turbine generator mitigation techniques have not been''--I 
emphasize ``have not been''--``substantially investigated, implemented, 
matured, or deployed.''
  Additionally, the NAS found that wind turbine generator returns 
obfuscate even marine vessel radar. That is not the subject here, but 
it is radar. Therefore, it leads to false images when vessels are 
traversing our oceans.
  Mr. Chair, allies, including Taiwan, Japan, Finland, and Sweden, have 
halted certain offshore wind turbine projects due to objections from 
their armed services. An article last year in the Taiwan News said: 
``The military has confirmed wind turbines could interfere with the 
surface-to-air missile systems deployed in the northwestern coast of 
Taiwan. The low-frequency noise generated by the turbines is likely to 
affect the reflected radio waves that phased array radars need to 
detect signals of missiles or aircraft.''

                              {time}  0930

  That is very serious. This wall will make us blind potentially. It 
will inhibit our ability to see what is going on. Again, there is so 
much commercial aircraft, and they need to have unfettered ability to 
traverse the skies.
  Finally, no matter where any of my colleagues stand on offshore wind, 
a certification by the President or his designee--and the due diligence 
that that will require--that offshore wind turbines do not weaken, 
degrade, interfere with, or nullify the capability of radar relied on 
by the FAA is both prudent and it is absolutely necessary.
  Mr. Chair, I thank the distinguished chairman for including this in 
his en bloc amendment.
  Mr. LARSEN of Washington. Mr. Chair, I recommend that folks vote for 
this en bloc, and I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Chair, before I close, I will take a 
moment to thank Ranking Member Larsen. He has been a great partner to 
work with in this process. I also thank the Aviation Subcommittee 
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Graves and Ranking Member   Steve Cohen for their hard work on this, 
too.
  The FAA's reauthorization expires at the end of September, and this 
is truly a bipartisan product. This en bloc reflects that. The 
underlying bill is supported by over a thousand stakeholders, including 
national organizations, companies, pilot groups, airlines, airports, 
individual leaders in the aviation community, and so many more.
  Mr. Chair, I appreciate the work that has gone into this product, and 
once again, I thank the staff on both sides of the aisle.
  This bill is vital to America's airport infrastructure, to our 
economy, and to the future of American leadership in aviation.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to support the en bloc amendment and 
the bill on final passage a little bit later this morning.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendments en bloc offered 
by the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Graves).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. LARSEN of Washington. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendments en bloc offered by the gentleman from 
Missouri will be postponed.


                 Amendment No. 76 Offered by Mr. Perry

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 76 
printed in part A of House Report 118-147.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Page 94, beginning on line 23, strike section 206.
       Page 96, beginning on line 1, strike section 207.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 597, the gentleman 
from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Pennsylvania.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chair, this amendment strikes sections 206 and 207 of 
the underlying bill that restricts the sale of reserved N-Numbers for 
profit, or as the underlying bill calls it, N-Number profiteering.
  Instead of addressing the real pressures and pressing issues facing 
the aviation industry, such as serious staffing shortages--pilots, 
controllers, employees of the FAA, mechanics, et cetera--that are 
causing massive delays and cancellations all around the country, 
Congress feels the need to interfere with small businesses transferring 
and selling N-Numbers. What an egregious crime.
  For those who don't know, N-Numbers are the clearly marked 
registration numbers for civil aircraft within the United States. They 
are transferable and reusable. When you see an airplane go by that says 
N123456 on the tail, that is the N-Number. When the aircraft identifies 
itself to air traffic control, it says, ``Air traffic control, this is 
November 12345 inbound,'' or whatever.
  Currently, small businesses have sprung up that reserve and sell 
these N-Numbers, providing aircraft owners with the ability to obtain 
their desired N-Number, much like a vanity plate on a car, while 
allowing these businessowners to make a living.
  These private transactions between consenting parties provide value 
to both the buyer and the seller. Otherwise, these transactions just 
wouldn't happen.
  Unless the plane owner seeks a specific N-Number, they are able to 
get one of the 454,910 N-Numbers currently available for reservation 
directly from the FAA for $10 apiece. They can get them right now for 
$10. None of that has changed. In other words, no one is forcing anyone 
to do business with the N-Number brokers unless they want to.
  The practice of reserving and selling these N-Numbers is not harming 
anyone. Instead, it is an innovative commercial venture providing value 
to all parties. It certainly is not something for Congress to be 
interfering with and bothering itself with over the behest of private 
plane owners.
  This amendment removes this gross government overreach and allows 
freedom of enterprise in America to continue.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to stand up for the market, protect 
contractual freedom, and support this amendment.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LARSEN of Washington. Mr. Chair, I claim time in opposition to 
the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. LARSEN of Washington. Mr. Chair, I yield such time as he may 
consume to the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Graves), the chairman of 
the full committee.
  Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to amendment 
No. 76 that is offered by Mr. Perry. This amendment proposes to strike 
two provisions in the bill that seek to make fairer the process of 
reserving aircraft registration numbers, also known as N-Numbers.
  The bill also prevents individuals from profiting from the sale or 
transfer of an N-Number that is otherwise sold, as was pointed out, by 
the FAA for $10.
  What do I mean by that? There are people out there who scoop up N-
Numbers from the FAA for $10 using automated software. What that does 
is if you are making a transfer and buy a different airplane, and you 
want to keep the same N-Number, you will be blocked in many cases 
because of the automated software. They hold hostage that particular N-
Number and offer it for sale for thousands or tens of thousands of 
dollars in some cases, depending on what the N-Number is.
  As was pointed out, we are interrupting freedom of enterprise. 
Pirating is also an enterprise. We make it illegal. Why do we make it 
illegal? Because it should be illegal.
  If you use the logic of this amendment, why are we interfering? Why 
would the government interfere if somebody is just trying to have 
freedom of enterprise when it comes to pirating or anything else, for 
that matter, that is illegal? It is just individuals trying to make a 
living.
  The logic is flawed, and we need to keep this provision in the bill.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chair, I appreciate the chairman of the full committee 
and his perspective on this. Nobody likes the pirating or the abuse, so 
to speak, of the system, but to disallow it altogether is not the 
answer.
  To me, this is Congress, and if this is such an egregious problem, 
then we can handle the software issue directly without destroying an 
industry that is obviously good for the buyer and the seller.
  Quite honestly, I don't know how many of us who have bought and sold 
a car and transferred the license number said: ``Oh, my goodness, if I 
don't have the same license number, well, I can't sell the car.'' I am 
not really worried about the license number. I just need to be able to 
drive the car.
  If it is such a problem, why don't we address that portion of the 
problem and not cut everybody out of the deal?
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LARSEN of Washington. Mr. Chair, I don't know that I could add 
much to Chairman Graves' comments. He clearly is a leader--if not the 
leader--on aviation in this Congress. He has more expertise on the 
vagaries of the general aviation airplane market, and I stand behind 
his comments.
  Mr. Chair, I will address a comment made earlier by the proponent of 
the amendment, and that was the implication that this bill seems to be 
only about this issue when we should be dealing with air traffic 
controller staffing, pilot staffing, or manufacturing.
  I have said that this bill is not about issue A, issue B, or issue C. 
This bill is a whole alphabet of issues that we have to deal with with 
the FAA.

  In fact, this bill does address air traffic controller staffing by 
requiring the FAA to staff up to the maximum number, according to the 
staffing model that the FAA has.
  It makes investments in the aviation workforce with aviation 
workforce development programs to increase the amount of talent in the 
pipeline for pilots, maintenance workers, and manufacturing workers in 
aviation.
  It makes critical changes and improvements to accessibility for 
people who are wheelchair-bound or need to use mobility aids when they 
travel.

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  To imply this bill is only about one issue, and this particular 
issue, is not an accurate description at all of this legislation nor of 
the work of the full Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to 
bring this bill to the floor to get the FAA reauthorized.
  Mr. Chair, I wanted to make sure that goes on record as part of this 
debate, and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chair, I acknowledge that the bill is not only about 
this issue, but the pressing issues that we have, the ones that you 
already talked about, I would say that the bill could do a lot more on 
those issues. Those are the things that concern the American people: 
safety, access, and canceled flights.
  I will tell you that it is great that we are mandating the FAA to do 
something. We are mandating that the American people have to do 
something. We are mandating that the FAA fully complement controllers.
  That doesn't mean controllers are coming out of school. That doesn't 
mean controllers want to take the job. You can mandate it all you want, 
but if the people aren't willing to do the job or are not available to 
do the job, they are not going to be there to do the job. I see that as 
a wholly inadequate response and solution to a pressing problem that I 
predict is going to get worse between now and the next 5-year 
reauthorization.
  Mr. Chair, I urge adoption of this amendment. I think it is a good 
amendment. If we have to deal with the other problem directly, then 
let's deal directly with the other problem of the software and not 
punish everybody.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. LARSEN of Washington. Mr. Chair, may I inquire as to how much 
time I have remaining.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.
  Mr. LARSEN of Washington. Mr. Chair, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the 
gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Graves).
  Mr. GRAVES of Louisiana. Mr. Chair, I thank my friend, Congressman 
Rick Larsen, for yielding.
  Mr. Chair, yesterday, I had a chance to talk about this legislation 
and talk about the fact that there has been an input process that has 
gone on for well over a year. This legislation is in excess of 840 
pages and has achieved numerous bipartisan wins on things that are 
advancing aviation safety and the aviation industry in the United 
States.
  There are a number of people behind the scenes who have put 
tremendous hours of blood, sweat, and tears into this bill. I will take 
a minute to thank the following folks: Hunter Presti, Laney Copeland, 
Julie Devine, Chris Senn, Andrew Giacini, Will Moore, Jack Ruddy, Corey 
Cooke, Abby Wenk, Leslie Parker, Brian Bell, Alex Menardy, Liz Forro, 
Adam Weiss, Kathy Dedrick, and Stanton Johnson, as well as our own 
deputy chief of staff, Maggie Ayrea, for all the work that they did to 
put this legislation together.

                              {time}  0945

  I remind this body, Mr. Chairman, that this bill passed out of the 
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on a unanimous vote. 
I will be the first to admit that, certainly, there are some 
imperfections--and my friend from Pennsylvania believes he has 
identified one--but this legislation is really just a tremendous step 
forward for the aviation industry in the United States.
  I, again, thank Mr. Larsen. Sam Graves did an amazing job, as well as 
Congressman Cohen for their partnership on this bill.
  Mr. LARSEN of Washington. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of 
my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania 
will be postponed.


                 Amendment No. 77 Offered by Mr. Perry

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 77 
printed in part A of House Report 118-147.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Strike section 802 and insert the following:

     SEC. 802. REINSTATEMENT OF PRE-PANDEMIC TELEWORK POLICIES, 
                   PRACTICES, AND LEVELS FOR EXECUTIVE AGENCIES.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal 
     Aviation Administration shall reinstate and apply the 
     telework policies, practices, and levels of the agency as in 
     effect on December 31, 2019, and may not expand any such 
     policy, practices, or levels until the date on which the 
     Administration plan is submitted to Congress with a 
     certification by the Director of the Office of Personnel 
     Management under subsection (b).
       (b) Study, Plan, and Certification Regarding Executive 
     Agency Telework Policies, Practices, and Levels for Executive 
     Agencies.--Not later than 6 months after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Administrator, in consultation 
     with the Director, shall submit to Congress--
       (1) a study on the impacts on the agency and its mission of 
     expanding telework by its employees during the SARS-CoV-2 
     pandemic that commenced in 2019, including an analysis of--
       (A) any adverse impacts of that expansion on the agency's 
     performance of its mission, including the performance of 
     customer service by the agency;
       (B) any costs to the agency during that expansion 
     attributable to--
       (i) owning, leasing, or maintaining under-utilized real 
     property; or
       (ii) paying higher rates of locality pay to teleworking 
     employees as a result of incorrectly classifying such 
     employees as teleworkers rather than remote workers;
       (C) any degree to which the agency failed during that 
     expansion to provide teleworking employees with secure 
     network capacity, communications tools, necessary and secure 
     access to appropriate agency data assets and Federal records, 
     and equipment sufficient to enable each such employee to be 
     fully productive;
       (D) any degree to which that expansion facilitated 
     dispersal of the agency workforce around the Nation; and
       (E) any other impacts of that expansion that the agency or 
     the Director considers appropriate;
       (2) the Administration plan to expand telework policies, 
     practices, or levels beyond those in place as a result of 
     subsection (a); and
       (3) a certification by the Director that such plan will--
       (A) have a substantial positive effect on--
       (i) the performance of the agency's mission, including the 
     performance of customer service;
       (ii) increasing the level of dispersal of agency personnel 
     throughout the Nation; and
       (iii) the reversal of any adverse impact set forth pursuant 
     to paragraph (1)(D);
       (B) substantially lower the agency's costs of owning, 
     leasing, or maintaining real property;
       (C) substantially lower the agency's costs attributable to 
     paying locality pay to agency personnel working from 
     locations outside the pay locality of their position's 
     official worksite; and
       (D) ensure that teleworking employees will be provided with 
     secure network capacity, communications tools, necessary and 
     secure access to appropriate agency data assets and Federal 
     records, and equipment sufficient to enable each such 
     employee to be fully productive, without substantially 
     increasing the agency's overall costs for secure network 
     capacity, communications tools, and equipment.
       (4) Limitation.--
       (A) In general.--The Administrator may not implement the 
     plan submitted under paragraph (2) unless a certification by 
     the Director was issued under paragraph (3).
       (B) Subsequent plans.--In the event an initial agency plan 
     submitted under paragraph (2) fails to receive such 
     certification, the agency may submit to the Director 
     subsequent plans until such certification is received, and 
     submit such plan and certification to Congress.
       (c) Definitions.--In this section--
       (1) the term ``agency'' has the meaning given the term 
     ``Executive agency'' in section 105 of title 5, United States 
     Code;
       (2) the term ``Director'' means the Director of the Office 
     of Personnel Management;
       (3) the term ``locality pay'' means locality pay provided 
     for under section 5304 or 5304a of such title; and
       (4) the terms ``telework'' and ``teleworking'' have the 
     meaning given those terms in section 6501 of such title, and 
     include remote work.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 597, the gentleman 
from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Pennsylvania.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chairman, I don't think many of our constituents have 
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high opinion of Washington, D.C., bureaucrats. Congressional staff 
spend hours helping constituents just get a human being on the 
telephone to get answers from agencies like Social Security or the IRS.
  A recently released GAO report showed that 17 of the 24 Federal 
agencies in GAO's review used an estimated average of 25 percent or 
less of their headquarters buildings' capacity in a 3-week sample 
period, which means 75 percent of the building is empty.
  These are headquarters, to be clear, not field offices in the middle 
of nowhere. This is where the people are, generally speaking, in 
Washington, D.C., actually.
  The Republican Conference has undergone a concerted effort to ensure 
that these bureaucrats actually do their work in the office.
  In the first few weeks of this Congress, we passed the SHOW UP Act--
which passed the House on a bipartisan basis with all but one member of 
the Republican Conference and three Democrats--that would simply 
require agencies to reinstate the telework policies in effect on 
December 31, 2019, and require approval of OMB for further expansion of 
telework policies.
  This bill, as written, allows the FAA to implement out-of-control 
telework policies for FAA employees during a time when workforce 
issues--both at the FAA and in the aviation industry broadly--are 
hindering the efficient movement of the flying public.
  In my view, this is unwise and is the exact opposite direction that 
we should be going.
  This amendment applies the policies of the SHOW UP Act to only the 
FAA. This is a commonsense policy upon which the House has already 
voted and voted in an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge support, and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LARSEN of Washington. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the 
amendment offered by Representative Perry.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. LARSEN of Washington. As Representative Perry knows, he is 
showing great leadership on the T&I subcommittee that oversees public 
building use, economic development, and emergency management. In fact, 
we had a hearing last week with a couple of witnesses to discuss the 
very issue of office use space with the General Services 
Administration.
  There is quite a bit of agreement on the committee right now about 
the fact that we have a problem of empty office space and there is not 
a good alignment between the use of the space and telework policies. We 
are trying to get the GSA, the General Services Administration, to take 
a look at that hard and come up with a better balance.
  Representative Perry is leading that effort, and I congratulate him 
for that. It is because of his leadership on that that we have some 
bipartisan agreement approaching that issue.
  That said, the FAA telework policies that are under fire from this 
amendment existed prior to COVID-19, and they exist today. The FAA 
itself--as many agencies are--is trying to find that new balance post-
COVID. I continue to support the agency's ability to establish and 
revise, as needed, their commonsense telework policies.
  We have achieved a bipartisan, commonsense approach to dealing with 
and overseeing FAA telework coming out of this pandemic, and I urge 
Members to reject this amendment, which will take us backward.
  Section 802 of the underlying bill addresses the core concern that 
Representative Perry has presented in this amendment, that the FAA 
should review the agency's telework policies. The underlying bill 
ensures FAA considers in its review aviation safety, employee training, 
the global leadership of U.S. aviation and performing oversight 
responsibilities.
  Creating additional burdensome requirements on the FAA, as 
contemplated in the amendment, to get OMB approval for any telework 
policy changes will hinder FAA's ability to adapt to changing 
conditions.
  This bill has already given the FAA a lot of things to do, and it 
doesn't seem to make sense to give them more to do when they are 
already, essentially, trying to get done what the spirit of the 
underlying bill is asking it to do.
  This amendment would also undercut the FAA's existing collective 
bargaining agreements and force it to take up valuable time 
renegotiating these agreements when it should be focusing on its 
critical safety work.
  Additionally, this amendment upgrades the FAA's ability to create a 
competitive workplace so we can attract people into the FAA and attract 
new talent.
  For these reasons, Mr. Chair, I am opposing the amendment, and I 
encourage my colleagues to do the same. I retain my commitment to 
working with Representative Perry in his role as the chair of the 
subcommittee to continue looking at how we can get the GSA to best 
balance the use of federally owned office space and leased space with 
the Federal employee workforce.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chairman, I thank my friend for his comments regarding 
our work in the subcommittee.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to my good friend from Virginia (Mr. 
Good).
  Mr. GOOD of Virginia. Mr. Chairman, I am proud to rise in support of 
the amendment offered by my friend from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry) that 
is appropriately titled the SHOW UP amendment.
  Isn't that the minimum standard--to show up--to come to work, 
especially when you are on the Federal dole paid by the taxpayer?
  This amendment would ensure that the staff of the FAA do what most 
Americans probably assume that they are already doing and actually go 
back to work.

  It requires the FAA to comply with the SHOW UP Act.
  The problem, as Mr. Perry has already mentioned, with these Federal 
agencies--have you ever tried to get a passport recently or a visa 
recently and need help with a Federal agency?
  The employees are not at work.
  The SHOW UP Act was already passed with bipartisan support earlier 
this Congress, and this commonsense amendment requires agencies to 
return to the policies that were in place as of December of 2019, just 
3\1/2\ years ago.
  It also stipulates that agencies may not arbitrarily expand telework 
policies unless the Office of Personnel Management deems that it would 
have a significant, positive impact on the agency's mission. It is hard 
to imagine how that would truly be the case.
  Removing the FAA's ability to perpetuate its current relaxed telework 
policy simply puts the FAA on the same footing as its counterparts in 
the private sector and requires these Federal employees to do what the 
civilians they are purportedly there to serve are required to do: show 
up to work every day.
  The China virus has long dissipated, and it is time for the FAA 
employees to resume their normal day-to-day duties in the office, and 
it is ridiculous that we have to try to force this to happen.
  Mr. Chairman, I will give you some stats.
  An October 2022 survey by the OPM of 558,000 Federal employees 
revealed that 20 percent never report to a physical office, while 46 
percent come to the office some of the time.
  Unfortunately, unions like the American Federation of Government 
Employees--a government union should be illegal, by the way--are 
fighting to keep America's Federal employees at home permanently.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chair, I yield such time as he may consume to the 
gentleman.
  Mr. GOOD of Virginia. Mr. Chairman, another survey from the OPM found 
that 80 percent of managers in Federal agencies report they are 
managing a poorly performing staff and it is nearly impossible to take 
actions like demoting or firing them, thanks to the government unions.
  The problem is even worse when you consider a May Federal News 
Network Survey showed that only 8 percent of Federal employees are 
coming in to work--8 percent every day.
  Mr. Chairman, when there is an unfortunate incident that happens at 
the FAA, we need these FAA employees onsite and ready to respond to do 
everything they can to remediate the situation.

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  My constituents go to work every day, and, Mr. Chairman, your 
constituents go to work every day. They don't want to pay the salaries 
of Federal employees who don't have to show up to work.
  Again, it is hard to believe we have to have an amendment to require 
this, but this amendment should pass, and I hope all my colleagues will 
support it.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. LARSEN of Washington. Mr. Chair, may I inquire as to the time 
remaining.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman has 1\3/4\ minutes remaining.
  Mr. LARSEN of Washington. Mr. Chair, first off, I want to be clear. I 
think government unions should be legal. They are legal in the United 
States, and I am very pleased they are legal so those unions can 
represent the women and men who go to work every day on behalf of the 
taxpaying public to do their job in service.
  In that vein, too, there is no indication that FAA employees are en 
bloc not showing up to go to work. They may not be going to the 
workplace because we have telework policies in place. That does not 
equate--it does not equate to people not doing the work that we ask of 
them. In fact, this bill, the FAA reauthorization bill, the Securing 
Growth and Robust Leadership in the American Aviation Act, asks the FAA 
to do even more to improve the already gold standard that we have in 
U.S. aviation in the United States.
  We are giving the FAA employees plenty to do, and our committee will 
commit to ensuring that the FAA does just that through our oversight 
responsibilities.
  Mr. Chair, with my remaining time I do want to thank the chair of the 
full committee, Sam Graves, for his leadership to get us to this point. 
We are on the verge of passing a comprehensive, bipartisan, negotiated-
in-good-faith, important, policy-based bill, I presume in a bipartisan 
manner, which may not make the news because it wasn't exciting enough 
for the news. We pride ourselves on being a boring committee and a 
workhorse committee, just trying to get our work done, and Sam Graves, 
in my view, deserves all the credit for that work and the great work of 
his team to make that happen.
  I thank the team standing behind me on the committee staff, as well 
for their work to help make this happen. They are a critical part of 
ensuring that we got to this point today.
  Should we pass this bill, we have some work to do with the other body 
and White House, but I expect that we will do that.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. LARSEN of Washington. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania 
will be postponed.
  The Chair understands that amendment No. 98 will not be offered.


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings 
will now resume on those amendments printed in part A of House Report 
118-147 on which further proceedings were postponed, in the follow 
order:
  Amendments en bloc No. 4 by Mr. Graves of Missouri.
  Amendment No. 76 by Mr. Perry of Pennsylvania.
  Amendment No. 77 by Mr. Perry of Pennsylvania.
  The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the minimum time for any 
electronic vote after the first vote in this series.


       Amendments En Bloc No. 4 Offered by Mr. Graves of Missouri

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendments en bloc printed in part A of House Report 
118-147 offered by the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Graves) on which 
further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by 
voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendments en bloc.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendments en bloc.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 348, 
noes 57, not voting 34, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 361]

                               AYES--348

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Alford
     Allen
     Allred
     Amodei
     Arrington
     Auchincloss
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Balint
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Beatty
     Bentz
     Bera
     Bergman
     Bice
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NC)
     Blumenauer
     Boebert
     Bonamici
     Bost
     Brown
     Brownley
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carey
     Carl
     Carson
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     Clark (MA)
     Cleaver
     Cline
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Craig
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Crockett
     Crow
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davidson
     Davis (NC)
     De La Cruz
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Estes
     Evans
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flood
     Foster
     Foushee
     Foxx
     Frankel, Lois
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gallagher
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Golden (ME)
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gooden (TX)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Green, Al (TX)
     Greene (GA)
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harder (CA)
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hayes
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houchin
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     James
     Jeffries
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Khanna
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kildee
     Kiley
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Landsman
     Langworthy
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Leger Fernandez
     Letlow
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luttrell
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Manning
     Mast
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClellan
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McCormick
     McGarvey
     Meeks
     Meng
     Meuser
     Mfume
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Murphy
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Norton
     Nunn (IA)
     Palmer
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pelosi
     Peltola
     Pence
     Perez
     Perry
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Pfluger
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Posey
     Quigley
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Ross
     Rouzer
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salazar
     Salinas
     Santos
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Self
     Sessions
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Spartz
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Stevens
     Stewart
     Strickland
     Strong
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Tenney
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Timmons
     Titus
     Tokuda
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trone
     Turner
     Underwood
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Williams (NY)
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                                NOES--57

     Barragan
     Beyer
     Biggs
     Blunt Rochester
     Bowman
     Brecheen
     Buck
     Burchett
     Bush
     Casar
     Clarke (NY)
     Clyde
     Crane
     Davis (IL)
     Espaillat
     Frost
     Gaetz
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia, Robert
     Gomez
     Good (VA)
     Gosar
     Gottheimer
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Grothman
     Higgins (NY)
     Jackson (TX)
     Jayapal
     Kim (NJ)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (PA)
     Luna
     McGovern
     Menendez
     Nadler
     Norman
     Obernolte
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Ogles
     Omar
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pressley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Rosendale
     Sanchez

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     Schakowsky
     Smith (WA)
     Steube
     Tiffany
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Trahan
     Waters
     Watson Coleman

                             NOT VOTING--34

     Armstrong
     Boyle (PA)
     Cammack
     Carter (TX)
     Cloud
     Courtney
     Cuellar
     Dean (PA)
     Gallego
     Garcia (TX)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Granger
     Houlahan
     Huffman
     Hunt
     Issa
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (LA)
     Jordan
     Lesko
     Mace
     Massie
     McHenry
     Moylan
     Norcross
     Owens
     Payne
     Plaskett
     Radewagen
     Roy
     Scanlon
     Wasserman Schultz
     Wexton

                              {time}  1020

  Messrs. GOSAR, ESPAILLAT, GOTTHEIMER, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Mr. RASKIN, Mses. 
BLUNT ROCHESTER, CLARKE of New York, Messrs. GROTHMAN, and TONKO 
changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  Messrs. HORSFORD, LAWLER, Ms. WILSON of Florida, and Mr. MEUSER 
changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the en bloc amendments were agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                 Amendment No. 76 Offered by Mr. Perry

  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Fry). The unfinished business is the demand for 
a recorded vote on amendment No. 76, printed in part A of House Report 
118-147 offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry), on 
which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes 
prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 64, 
noes 329, not voting 46, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 362]

                                AYES--64

     Aderholt
     Allen
     Babin
     Banks
     Biggs
     Bishop (NC)
     Brecheen
     Buck
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Carl
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Comer
     Crane
     Davidson
     Duncan
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Good (VA)
     Gosar
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Jackson (TX)
     LaMalfa
     Lesko
     Luna
     Luttrell
     McClintock
     McCormick
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Perry
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rosendale
     Santos
     Self
     Sessions
     Spartz
     Steube
     Strong
     Tiffany
     Van Drew
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Williams (TX)
     Zinke

                               NOES--329

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Alford
     Allred
     Amodei
     Arrington
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Balint
     Barr
     Barragan
     Bean (FL)
     Beatty
     Bentz
     Bera
     Bergman
     Beyer
     Bice
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bost
     Bowman
     Brown
     Brownley
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Calvert
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carey
     Carson
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Collins
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Craig
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Crockett
     Crow
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     De La Cruz
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Duarte
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Estes
     Evans
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flood
     Foster
     Foushee
     Foxx
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallagher
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia, Mike
     Garcia, Robert
     Gimenez
     Golden (ME)
     Gomez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gooden (TX)
     Gottheimer
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Khanna
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kildee
     Kiley
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     Lamborn
     Landsman
     Langworthy
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Letlow
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Mann
     Manning
     Mast
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClain
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     McHenry
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Meuser
     Mfume
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Moore (UT)
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Murphy
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Norton
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Pelosi
     Peltola
     Pence
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Pfluger
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Rogers (AL)
     Rose
     Ross
     Rouzer
     Ruppersberger
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salazar
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Smucker
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Stevens
     Stewart
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Tenney
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Timmons
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Turner
     Underwood
     Valadao
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Williams (NY)
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym

                             NOT VOTING--46

     Armstrong
     Boebert
     Boyle (PA)
     Cammack
     Carter (TX)
     Casar
     Courtney
     Cuellar
     Dean (PA)
     Donalds
     Fitzgerald
     Gallego
     Garcia (TX)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Granger
     Grijalva
     Houlahan
     Issa
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (LA)
     Jordan
     Kim (CA)
     Loudermilk
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Massie
     McCaul
     Miller (IL)
     Miller-Meeks
     Moran
     Moylan
     Norcross
     Norman
     Payne
     Plaskett
     Radewagen
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (KY)
     Roy
     Ruiz
     Scanlon
     Thompson (PA)
     Torres (CA)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Wexton


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1023

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. ROY. Mr. Chair, had I been present, I would have voted ``no'' on 
rollcall No. 361 and ``aye'' on rollcall No. 362.


                 Amendment No. 77 Offered by Mr. Perry

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 77, printed in part A of House Report 
118-147 offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry), on 
which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes 
prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 195, 
noes 226, not voting 18, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 363]

                               AYES--195

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith

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     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rogers (AL)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (NY)
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--226

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carey
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fitzpatrick
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lucas
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     McHenry
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Molinaro
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norton
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Pelosi
     Peltola
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Rogers (KY)
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Smucker
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--18

     Boyle (PA)
     Courtney
     Cuellar
     Dean (PA)
     Diaz-Balart
     Gallego
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Granger
     Houlahan
     Issa
     Mace
     Moylan
     Norcross
     Payne
     Radewagen
     Rodgers (WA)
     Scanlon
     Wexton


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1030

  Ms. PLASKETT and Mr. LAWLER changed their vote from ``aye'' to 
``no.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mrs. RODGERS of Washington. Mr. Chair, I was not present in the 
Chamber during part of the vote series today. Had I been present, I 
would have voted ``no'' on rollcall No. 362 and ``aye'' on rollcall No. 
363.
  The Acting CHAIR. There being no further amendments, under the rule, 
the committee rises.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
DesJarlais) having assumed the chair, Mr. Fry, Acting Chair of the 
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, reported that 
that Committee, having had under consideration the bill (H.R. 3935) to 
amend title 49, United States Code, to reauthorize and improve the 
Federal Aviation Administration and other civil aviation programs, and 
for other purposes, and, pursuant to House Resolution 597, I report the 
bill back to the House with sundry amendments adopted in the Committee 
of the Whole.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the rule, the previous question is 
ordered.
  Is a separate vote demanded on any amendment reported from the 
Committee of the Whole? If not, the Chair will put them en gros.
  The amendments were agreed to.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the engrossment and third 
reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was 
read the third time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on passage of the bill.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and 
nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 351, 
nays 69, not voting 13, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 364]

                               YEAS--351

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Alford
     Allen
     Allred
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Auchincloss
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Balint
     Banks
     Barr
     Barragan
     Bean (FL)
     Beatty
     Bentz
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bice
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Boebert
     Bonamici
     Bost
     Brown
     Brownley
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Carey
     Carl
     Carson
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (LA)
     Carter (TX)
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Ciscomani
     Clark (MA)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Connolly
     Costa
     Craig
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Crockett
     Crow
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davidson
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     De La Cruz
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Escobar
     Espaillat
     Estes
     Evans
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flood
     Foster
     Foushee
     Foxx
     Frankel, Lois
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Gallagher
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia, Mike
     Garcia, Robert
     Gimenez
     Goldman (NY)
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Gottheimer
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Green, Al (TX)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harder (CA)
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hayes
     Hern
     Higgins (NY)
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houchin
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Hudson
     Huffman
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Khanna
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Landsman
     Langworthy
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Leger Fernandez
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Lofgren
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luttrell
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Manning
     Mast
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McCormick
     McGarvey
     McHenry
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meuser
     Mfume
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Murphy
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pappas
     Pelosi
     Peltola
     Pence
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Pfluger
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Posey
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)

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     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Ross
     Rouzer
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Salazar
     Salinas
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Self
     Sessions
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Smucker
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Stevens
     Stewart
     Strickland
     Strong
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Tenney
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Timmons
     Titus
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Turner
     Underwood
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Williams (NY)
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                                NAYS--69

     Bergman
     Biggs
     Bishop (NC)
     Bowman
     Brecheen
     Buck
     Burchett
     Bush
     Cardenas
     Cartwright
     Chu
     Clarke (NY)
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Correa
     Crane
     Donalds
     Eshoo
     Frost
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Garcia (TX)
     Golden (ME)
     Gomez
     Good (VA)
     Greene (GA)
     Grijalva
     Higgins (LA)
     Jackson (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kildee
     Kim (NJ)
     Lee (PA)
     Levin
     Lieu
     Luna
     Massie
     McClintock
     McGovern
     Meng
     Miller (IL)
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (WI)
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Norman
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Ogles
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pascrell
     Perry
     Porter
     Pressley
     Ramirez
     Rosendale
     Roy
     Sanchez
     Santos
     Spartz
     Steube
     Tiffany
     Tlaib
     Velazquez
     Waters
     Watson Coleman

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Boyle (PA)
     Courtney
     Cuellar
     Dean (PA)
     Gallego
     Granger
     Houlahan
     Issa
     Mace
     Norcross
     Payne
     Scanlon
     Wexton


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Fry) (during the vote). There is 1 
minute remaining.

                              {time}  1038

  So the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  Stated for:
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Speaker, due to a family obligation, I was unable to 
vote today. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall 
No. 364.


                          personal explanation

  Ms. GRANGER. Mr. Speaker, I was unable to attend votes due to 
circumstances beyond my control. Had I been present, I would have voted 
``yea'' on rollcall No. 361, ``nay'' on rollcall No. 362, ``yea'' on 
rollcall No. 363, and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 364.


                          personal explanation

  Mrs. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, I was unable to cast my votes today due to 
an unforeseen circumstance. Had I been present, I would have voted 
``no'' on rollcall No. 361, ``no'' on rollcall No. 362, ``no'' on 
rollcall No. 363, and ``aye'' on rollcall No. 364.


                          personal explanation

  Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, I was unable to attend votes today due to 
an immovable scheduling conflict. Had I been present, I would have 
voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 361, ``nay'' on rollcall No. 362, ``nay'' 
on rollcall No. 363, and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 364.


                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Ms. WEXTON. Mr. Speaker, I regret that I was not able to be present 
to vote today. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on 
rollcall No. 361, ``nay'' on rollcall No. 362, ``nay'' on rollcall No. 
363, and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 364.

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