[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 152 (Wednesday, September 20, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4633-S4634]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           TEXT OF AMENDMENTS

  SA 1269. Mr. MANCHIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 1092 proposed by Mrs. Murray (for herself and Ms. 
Collins) to the bill H.R. 4366, making appropriations for military 
construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes; 
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in title VII of division B, insert 
     the following:
       Sec. 7__. (a) No funds made available under this Act shall 
     be used to assess or collect user fees under section 919 of 
     the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 387) with 
     respect to premium cigars.
       (b) In this section, the term ``premium cigar'' means a 
     cigar that--
       (1) is wrapped in whole tobacco leaf;
       (2) contains a 100 percent leaf tobacco binder;
       (3) contains at least 50 percent (of the filler by weight) 
     long filler tobacco (such as whole tobacco leaves that run 
     the length of the cigar);
       (4) is handmade or hand rolled, without the use of 
     machinery other than simple tools, such as scissors to cut 
     the tobacco prior to rolling;
       (5) has no filter, non-tobacco tip, or non-tobacco 
     mouthpiece;
       (6) does not have a characterizing flavor other than 
     tobacco;
       (7) contains only tobacco, water, and vegetable gum with no 
     other ingredients or additives; and
       (8) weighs more than 6 pounds per 1,000 units.
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  SA 1270. Mrs. BRITT submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1092 proposed by Mrs. Murray (for herself and Ms. Collins) 
to the bill H.R. 4366, making appropriations for military construction, 
the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place in division B, insert the 
     following:
       Sec. ____. (a) For an additional amount for ``Agricultural 
     Programs--Agricultural Research Service--Salaries and 
     Expenses'', there is appropriated $1,000,000, to remain 
     available until expended, for cooperative agreements with 
     qualified nonprofit organizations to expedite research using 
     plant genomics to develop drought- and disease-resistant 
     peanut varieties and other crops.
       (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the 
     amount appropriated by this Act under the heading 
     ``Agricultural Programs--Processing, Research, and 
     Marketing--Office of the Secretary'' in title I for the 
     Office of Communications shall be reduced by $1,000,000.
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  SA 1271. Ms. SINEMA submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1092 proposed by Mrs. Murray (for herself and Ms. Collins) 
to the bill H.R. 4366, making appropriations for military construction, 
the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in division A, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. ___. REPORT ON FEASIBILITY OF STUDY BY DEPARTMENT OF 
                   VETERANS AFFAIRS ON PATIENT RESPONSES TO 
                   PHARMACEUTICALS BASED ON THEIR GENETIC PROFILE.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
     shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a 
     report on the feasibility, advisability, and cost estimate of 
     undertaking a study to record patient responses to 
     pharmaceuticals based on their genetic profile, which shall 
     include the elements specified under subsection (b).
       (b) Elements of Study.--The elements specified under this 
     subsection are--
       (1) providing a patient with a pharmacogenomics test;
       (2) using the results of that test, through an integrated 
     application programming interface platform, and mapping those 
     results against--
       (A) the medical condition or conditions of the patient;
       (B) the medications currently prescribed to the patient; 
     and
       (C) different therapeutics or medications that are widely 
     prescribed to treat such condition or conditions;
       (3) providing the treating physician of the patient with 
     easily understood, actionable, digitized information to 
     utilize in making a decision about the course of medication 
     or medications that would yield the greatest benefit to the 
     patient and limit the risk of potential harm or adverse 
     events based upon identified drug-to-gene and drug-to-drug 
     interactions; and
       (4) including an analysis on cost saving to the Department 
     of Veterans Affairs and the patient.
       (c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on 
     Veterans' Affairs of the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on 
     Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives.
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  SA 1272. Mr. MORAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1092 proposed by Mrs. Murray (for herself and Ms. Collins) 
to the bill H.R. 4366, making appropriations for military construction, 
the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2024, and for other

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purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place in division A, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. ___. STUDY ON MODIFICATION OF PAYMENTS TO STATE HOMES.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall 
     conduct a study on--
       (1) the feasibility of adjusting criteria for priority for 
     payments for State homes in a manner that would--
       (A) eliminate priority of payments for limited or high-need 
     States; and
       (B) prioritize payments for limited or high-need regions;
       (2) the feasibility of increasing the State cost-sharing 
     requirement for each State home project that is a new 
     construction project that seeks to receive higher priority to 
     receive payment from the Department; and
       (3) the relevance of the allocation criteria of the 
     Department of Veterans Affairs in place as of the date of the 
     enactment of this Act for payments to State homes and the 
     feasibility of updating such criteria based on the findings 
     of such study.
       (b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to Congress 
     a report on the study conducted under subsection (a).
       (c) State Home Defined.--In this section, the term ``State 
     home'' has the meaning given that term in section 101(19) of 
     title 38, United States Code.
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  SA 1273. Mr. LANKFORD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill H.R. 4366, making appropriations for military 
construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes; 
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       In title I of division C, insert the following after 
     section 119G:
       Sec. 119H.  The Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
     Administration (FAA) shall ensure that any amounts made 
     available under this Act for providing matching funds to 
     commercial entities that contract with FAA-designated 
     unmanned aircraft system (UAS) test sites to demonstrate or 
     validate technologies that the FAA considers essential to the 
     safe integration of UAS into the national airspace system 
     (NAS) are also available to test sites that are not 
     designated by the FAA, including tribal test sites.
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  SA 1274. Mr. VAN HOLLEN (for himself, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Warner, and Mr. 
Cardin) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 
1092 proposed by Mrs. Murray (for herself and Ms. Collins) to the bill 
H.R. 4366, making appropriations for military construction, the 
Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        On page 287, line 19, strike the period at the end and 
     insert ``: Provided further, That the Secretary may retain up 
     to an additional $5,000,000 of the amounts made available 
     under this heading in this Act to fund expenses associated 
     with the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation under 
     chapter 69 of title 40, United States Code, pursuant to 
     authorization under section 6910 of title 40, United States 
     Code.''.
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  SA 1275. Mr. VAN HOLLEN (for himself, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Warner, and Mr. 
Cardin) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 
1092 proposed by Mrs. Murray (for herself and Ms. Collins) to the bill 
H.R. 4366, making appropriations for military construction, the 
Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        On page 283, line 24, strike the period at the end and 
     insert ``: Provided further, That of the amounts made 
     available under this heading in this Act not less than 
     $15,000,000 shall be for a grant to Union Station 
     Redevelopment Corporation to rehabilitate and repair the 
     Washington Union Station complex.''.
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  SA 1276. Mrs. SHAHEEN (for herself and Mr. Peters) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1092 proposed by Mrs. 
Murray (for herself and Ms. Collins) to the bill H.R. 4366, making 
appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans 
Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2024, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       In paragraph (3) of the matter under the heading 
     ``community development fund'' under the heading ``Community 
     Planning and Development'' under the heading ``DEPARTMENT OF 
     HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT'' in title II of division C, 
     strike ``except that the formula shall use age-adjusted rates 
     of drug overdose deaths for 2021'' and insert ``except that 
     the Secretary shall use the average of age-adjusted rates of 
     drug overdose deaths and the average of national overdose 
     mortality rates for 2019, 2020, and 2021''.

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  SA 1277. Mr. CARDIN (for himself and Mr. Van Hollen) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1092 proposed by Mrs. 
Murray (for herself and Ms. Collins) to the bill H.R. 4366, making 
appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans 
Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2024, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

        On page 104 of the amendment, line 11, insert ``, and of 
     which $750,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 
     for invasive catfish control'' before the semicolon.

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