[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 108 (Thursday, June 27, 2024)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D673-D683]
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                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 24 public bills, H.R. 8854-
8877; and 6 resolutions, H.J. Res. 170-171; and H. Res. 1325-1328, were 
introduced.                                              
  Pages H4409-10
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  Pages H4411-12
Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows:
  H.R. 897, to provide for the establishment of the Alabama Underwater 
Forest National Marine Sanctuary, and for other purposes, with an 
amendment (H. Rept. 118-560);
  H.R. 7370, to amend the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to establish a 
deadline for processing applications related to geothermal leasing, 
with an amendment (H. Rept. 118-561);
  H.R. 7377, to amend the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 
1982 to improve the management of royalties from oil and gas leases, 
and for other purposes, with an amendment (H. Rept. 118-562);
  H.R. 6368, to assist Tribal governments in the management of buffalo 
and buffalo habitat and the reestablishment of buffalo on Indian land, 
with an amendment (H. Rept. 118-563);
  H.R. 6062, to restore the ability of the people of American Samoa to 
approve amendments to the territorial constitution based on majority 
rule in a democratic act of self-determination, as authorized pursuant 
to an Act of Congress delegating administration of Federal territorial 
law in the territory to the President, and to the Secretary of the 
Interior under Executive Order 10264, dated June 29, 1951, under which 
the Constitution of American Samoa was approved and may be amended 
without requirement for further congressional action, subject to the 
authority of Congress under the Territorial Clause in Article IV, 
Section 3, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution (H. Rept. 118-
564);
  H.R. 5443, to establish a policy regarding appraisal and valuation 
services for real property for a transaction over which the Secretary 
of the Interior has jurisdiction, and for other purposes, with an 
amendment (H. Rept. 118-565);
  H.R. 5770, to reauthorize certain United States Geological Survey 
water data enhancement programs, with an amendment (H. Rept. 118-566);
  H.R. 5441, to reauthorize Long Island Sound programs, and for other 
purposes (H. Rept. 118-567, Part 1); and
  H. Con. Res. 117, establishing the congressional budget for the 
United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the 
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034 (H. 
Rept. 118-568).                                          
Pages H4408-09
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he appointed 
Representative Miller (IL) to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. 
                                                             Page H4323
Recess: The House recessed at 3:10 p.m. and reconvened at 3:30 p.m. 
                                                             Page H4389
  Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs 
Appropriations Act, 2025: The House considered H.R. 8771, making 
appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and 
related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025. 
Consideration is expected to resume tomorrow, June 28th. 
                                               Pages H4326-54, H4389-93

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Agreed to:
  Ogles amendment (No. 48 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
prohibits the use of funds to delist the People's Republic of China 
from the ``Majors List'';                                
Pages H4326-27
  Ogles amendment (No. 49 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
prohibits the use of funds from being made available to pay the salary 
and expenses of Antony Blinken;                          
Pages H4327-28
  Burchett amendment (No. 9 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
was debated on June 26th that prohibits funds from being used to 
finalize any rule or regulation that has resulted in or is likely to 
result in an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more (by a 
recorded vote of 210 ayes to 204 noes, Roll No. 302);        
Page H4337
  Mace amendment (No. 36 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
was debated on June 26th that reduces Migration and Refugee Assistance 
funding by $500 million and increases International Narcotics Control 
and Law Enforcement funding by $500 million (by a recorded vote of 213 
ayes to 199 noes, Roll No. 313);                         
Pages H4344-45
  Moskowitz amendment (No. 45 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) 
that was debated on June 26th that prohibits funds appropriated by this 
act to be made available for the State Department to cite statistics 
obtained from the Gaza Health Ministry (by a recorded vote of 269 ayes 
to 144 noes, Roll No. 314);                                  
Page H4345
  Ogles amendment (No. 50 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
prohibits the use of funds from being used to administer or enforce 
National Security Memorandum 20 (National Security Memorandum on 
Safeguards and Accountability With Respect to Transferred Defense 
Articles and Defense Services) (by a recorded vote of 216 ayes to 197 
noes, Roll No. 315);                           
Pages H4328-29, H4345-46
  Steube amendment (No. 62 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
prohibits funds from being delivered to the government of Iraq; 
                                                         Pages H4348-50
  Tiffany amendment (No. 67 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
prohibits funds from this Act from being used to enforce arbitrary 
restrictions on executive branch officials regarding travel to Taiwan 
and normal communication with Taiwanese officials imposed by the State 
Department through the ``Memorandum for All Department and Agency 
Executive Secretaries'' entitled ``Revised Guidelines on Interaction 
with Taiwan'' dated June 29, 2021;                       
Pages H4350-51
  Tenney amendment (No. 63 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
prohibits funding for Executive Order 14019, relating to Promoting 
Access to Voting (by a recorded vote of 208 ayes to 202 noes, Roll No. 
319);                                                    
Pages H4389-90
  Tenney amendment (No. 64 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
prohibits federal funds to pay the salary of, reinstate, or reemploy 
Robert Malley (by a recorded vote of 218 ayes to 188 noes, Roll No. 
320);                                                
Pages H4350, H4390
  Waltz amendment (No. 72 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
prohibits funds from this Act from being used to support the Gaza pier 
(by a recorded vote of 209 ayes to 200 noes, Roll No. 322); and 
                                               Pages H4352-53, H4391-92
  Wilson (SC) amendment (No. 75 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) 
that clarifies the funding prohibition of taxpayer dollars going to the 
Assad regime in the bill encompasses taxpayer dollars that are provided 
both directly and indirectly to the regime (by a recorded vote of 257 
ayes to 154 noes, Roll No. 323).                  
Pages H4353-54, H4392
Rejected:
  Ramirez amendment (No. 57 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
sought to strike paragraph prohibiting support of Migration Management;
                                                         Pages H4330-31
  Brecheen amendment (No. 1 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
was debated on June 26th that sought to reduce funding for educational 
and cultural exchange programs to FY2019 levels (by a recorded vote of 
164 ayes to 246 noes, Roll No. 298);                     
Pages H4334-35
  Brecheen amendment (No. 2 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
was debated on June 26th that sought to reduce funding for the Global 
Environment Facility by $139,575,000 (by a recorded vote of 180 ayes to 
227 noes, Roll No. 299);                                     
Page H4335
  Brecheen amendment (No. 3 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
was debated on June 26th that sought to reduce funding for the U.S. 
Institute of Peace to FY2019 enacted levels (by a recorded vote of 164 
ayes to 244 noes, Roll No. 300);                         
Pages H4335-36
  Burchett amendment (No. 4 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
was debated on June 26th that sought to reduce the salary of the 
Special Assistant to the Director of Programming at Voice of America to 
$1 (by a recorded vote of 166 ayes to 244 noes with two answering 
``present'', Roll No. 301);                              
Pages H4336-37
  Gosar amendment (No. 13 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
was debated on June 26th that sought to prohibit funds for the TechCamp 
public diplomacy program of the Bureau of Educational & Cultural 
Affairs (by a recorded vote of 156 ayes to 254 noes, Roll No. 303); 
                                                         Pages H4337-38
  Gosar amendment (No. 14 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
was debated on June 26th that sought to prohibit funds to approve of 
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Military Sales to Ukraine (by a recorded vote of 61 ayes to 350 noes, 
Roll No. 304);                                           
Pages H4338-39
  Gosar amendment (No. 15 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
was debated on June 26th that sought to prohibit funds for the 
Bilateral Security Agreement Between the United States of America and 
Ukraine (by a recorded vote of 76 ayes to 334 noes, Roll No. 305); 
                                                             Page H4339
  Gosar amendment (No. 16 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
was debated on June 26th that sought to prohibit funds for the Special 
Representative for Ukraine's Economic Recovery (by a recorded vote of 
109 ayes to 303 noes, Roll No. 306);                     
Pages H4339-40
  Greene (GA) amendment (No. 18 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) 
that was debated on June 26th that sought to reduce the salary of, 
Samantha Power, Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development, to $1 (by a recorded vote of 133 ayes to 277 
noes with one answering ``present'', Roll No. 307);      
Pages H4340-41
  Greene (GA) amendment (No. 19 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) 
that was debated on June 26th that sought to prohibit funding for 
Ukraine (by a recorded vote of 70 ayes to 342 noes, Roll No. 308); 
                                                             Page H4341
  Greene (GA) amendment (No. 20 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) 
that was debated on June 26th that sought to prohibit funding for USAID 
(by a recorded vote of 81 ayes to 331 noes, Roll No. 309); 
                                                         Pages H4341-42
  Hageman amendment (No. 21 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
was debated on June 26th that sought to prohibit funds for the Food and 
Agriculture Organization (by a recorded vote of 175 ayes to 236 noes, 
Roll No. 310);                                           
Pages H4342-43
  Hageman amendment (No. 22 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
was debated on June 26th that sought to prohibit funding for the 
International Organization for Migration's activities in the Western 
Hemisphere (by a recorded vote of 187 ayes to 225 noes, Roll No. 311); 
                                                             Page H4343
  Mace amendment (No. 35 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
was debated on June 26th that sought to prohibit funds made available 
by this Act from being obligated, expended, or otherwise made available 
to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (by a recorded 
vote of 163 ayes to 249 noes, Roll No. 312);             
Pages H4343-44
  Perry amendment (No. 54 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
sought to strike International Disaster Assistance funding (by a 
recorded vote of 101 ayes to 312 noes, Roll No. 316); 
                                               Pages H4329-30, H4346-47
  Spartz amendment (No. 59 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
sought to prohibit funding for the UN unless specifically authorized by 
Congress (by a recorded vote of 182 ayes to 230 noes, Roll No. 317); 
                                                  Pages H4331-33, H4347
  Steube amendment (No. 61 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
sought to prohibit funds from being provided to the Lebanese Armed 
Forces (by a recorded vote of 103 ayes to 308 noes, Roll No. 318); and 
                                               Pages H4333-34, H4347-48
  Tiffany amendment (No. 68 printed in part B of H. Rept. 118-551) that 
sought to prohibit funds from being used to pay any United States 
contribution to the United Nations or any affiliated agency of the 
United Nations (by a recorded vote of 149 ayes to 259 noes, Roll No. 
321).                                          
Pages H4351-52, H4390-91
  H. Res. 1316, the rule providing for consideration of the bills (H.R. 
8774), (H.R. 8771), and (H.R. 8752) was agreed to yesterday, June 26th.
  Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2025: The House considered 
H.R. 8774, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2025. Consideration is expected to 
resume tomorrow, June 28th.                    
  Pages H4354-89, H4393-96
  Pursuant to the Rule, an amendment in the nature of a substitute 
consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 118-40 shall be 
considered as adopted in the House and in the Committee of the Whole. 
                                                         Pages H4359-75
Agreed to:
  Calvert en bloc amendment No. 1 consisting of the following 
amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 118 559: Amo (No.3) that 
increases and decreases by $8 million Navy RDTE, Force Protection 
Advanced Technology, for Deployable Additive Manufacturing of Composite 
Unmanned Undersea Vehicles; Bacon (No.6) that increases and decreases 
Air Force O&M by $5,000,000 to implement the Air Force Rapid Response 
Language Training Pilot Program; Bilirakis (No. 14) that increases 
funding by $4,500,000 for RDT&E, Air Force for the Advanced Coating 
Program (ACP) and decreases by $4,500,000 for RDT&E, Air Force general 
account; Buchanan (No. 18) that Increase and decrease Operation and 
Maintenance, Army by $2 million to ensure the continuation of the Army 
Body Composition Program; Castor (No. 28) that increases and decreases 
funding for Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide, to support a study 
to determine if bases in the ``rest of the country'' locality pay 
category are having recruitment and retention issues, how that impacts 
readiness, and our National Security, particularly in bases that host 
military commands like MacDill AFB; Cohen (No. 31) that increases 
RDT&E, Defense-Wide by $8 million to support the Rapid Advanced 
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program to develop the next generation of advanced manufacturing 
technologies and to provide the Navy with new manufacturing 
capabilities that will reduce costs and manufacturing/repair times. 
Reduces RDT&E, Defense-Wide by $8 million; Davis (NC) (No. 34) that 
increases by $8,000,000 Defense-Wide RDT&E, Line 284-PE 1160431BB-
Warrior Systems Support--``Small Unmanned Systems (SUMS)--Quadruped 
Unmanned Ground Systems'' and decreases by $8,000,000--Defense-Wide 
RDT&E, Line 214, Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Support; 
Fallon (No. 42) that increases Other Procurement, Army by $25,000,000 
to support HMMWV Anti-Rollover Safety Upgrades; Fallon (No.43) that 
increases Defense-Wide RDT&E by $26,000,000 to support Multi-Mission 
Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems; Feenstra (No. 44) that increases and 
decreases by $10 million Army RDTE, Next Generation Combat Vehicle 
Advance Technology, for Discontinuous Thermoplastics Demonstration to 
modernize combat vehicles for multi-domain operations; Hern (No. 59) 
that increases and decreases by $10 million Army RDT&E for the Army 
Pathfinder program (Army, RDT&E, Line 11, 0602143A, Soldier Lethality 
Technology) for Human-Machine Teaming; Keating (No. 75) that increases 
and decreases funding of RDT&E, Navy by $10 million to support undersea 
autonomy research facilities and to expand their capabilities to 
fulfill current and future ONR requirements; Kelly (MS) (No. 76) that 
increases and decreases page 39, line 19 by $5,000,000 for the 
Department of Defense Chief Information Officer's Information Systems 
Security Program; Kiggans (VA) (No. 80) that increases Air Force O&M, 
Line 11V, `Cyberspace Sustainment' by $10 million for Cyber Operations 
for Base Resilient Architecture. Decreases Air Force O&M, Line 42A, 
`Administration' by $10 million; LaLota (No. 88) that increases and 
decreases funding by $10 million to support developing & implementing a 
program to promote military recruitment and education at the National 
September 11 Memorial and Museum; LaLota (No. 89) that increases and 
decreases funding for the Department of Defense Chief Information 
Officer to submit a report to Congress on the DoD Manual 8140.03 
implementation status for each of the components and recommendations 
for how to facilitate sharing effective best practices among 
components; Lamborn (No. 93) that increases funding for the Multi-
Service Advanced Capability Hypersonics Test Bed (MACH-TB) Acceleration 
by 20 million; Landsman (No. 95) that increases and decreases funding 
for RDTE, Space Force by $10,000,000 for development of technology for 
super and hypersonic airbreathing propulsion for use inattritable/
reusable aircraft under Space Advanced Technology Development/Demo; 
Lawler (No. 98) that increases and decreases funding for the Defense-
wide O&M account to allow the Secretary of Defense to provide women who 
were members of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps with honorary 
veterans status; Letlow (No. 99) that increases and decreases by 
$5,000,000 to provide funding for Intelligent Data Management for 
Distributed Naval Platforms within Research, Development, Test and 
Evaluation, Navy Force Protection Applied Research; Letlow (No. 102) 
that increases and decreases by $12,000,000 to provide funding for the 
Emergence Readiness Initiative within Research, Development, Test and 
Evaluation, Army Soldier Lethality Technology; Luttrell (No. 104) that 
increases and decreases by $5 million for research, development, test 
and evaluation for the Army with the intent that the $5 million will be 
used for Magnetic Gear Research; McGovern (No. 117) that increases and 
decreases by $8.5 million Army RDTE, Line 57, to support Micro-LED 
Soldier Systems Display Prototype for night vision system advanced 
development; Miller (OH) (No. 119) that increases and decreases 
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army by $10,000,000 to 
develop multi-layered, multi-functional elastomeric systems for next 
generation protective equipment and deployable sensors; Mills (No. 124) 
that test and evaluate NDAA-compliant tethered small unmanned aerial 
systems (tethered-sUAS) capabilities in collaboration with the Army's 
Small Multipurpose Equipment Transport (S-MET; Molinaro (No. 125) that 
increases and decreases $5 million in funding for the research, 
development, test and evaluation of the Army for Advanced Air Mobility; 
Moylan (No. 131) that offsets $800,000 for the Guam Missile Defense 
System; Norton (No. 134) that increases and decreases by $4.5 million 
for research, development, test and evaluation for the Space Force with 
the intent it be used for High Energy Resilient Stage; Ogles (No. 141) 
that recommends that the U.S. Army should not participate in the 
Eurosatory exhibition or any international defense exposition that 
restricts or threatens to restrict the full participation of Israeli-
owned companies; Pence (No. 143) that provides an additional $10 
million to Defense-Wide, Operational Energy Capability Improvement for 
PELE Power Conversion Module Operational Enhancement and Risk-
Reduction, fully offset by a decrease to Defense-Wide, Industrial Base 
Analysis and Sustainment Support Research Development and Test; Peters 
(No. 144) that increases Army Aircraft Procurement account by 
$5,800,000 to fund the procurement of Long-Range Precision Aerial 
Delivery Systems (LRPADS). Offset is in the same account line; Pfluger 
(No. 146) that reduces Space Force RDT&E Narrowband Satellite 
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allow the Space Force to accelerate the Mobile User Objective System 
(MUOS) augmentation to add 5G low earth orbit capability to the exiting 
program; Austin Scott (GA) (No. 149) that increases by $10 Million a 
novel economic analysis capability for USINDOPACOM to systematically 
track and analyze adversary military-industrial complex companies; 
Steil (No. 155) that increases and decreases by $10 million Navy RDTE, 
Warfighter Sustainment Applied Research, for Advanced Missile Castings 
Demonstration; Strong (No. 160) that increases Army RDT&E by $5,000,000 
for Rapid Assurance Modernization Program--Test (RAMP-T); Strong (No. 
161) that increases Army RDT&E by $5,000,000 for Advanced Sensing 
Expanded Range Operations (ASERO); Strong (No. 162) that increases 
Defense-Wide RDT&E by $5,000,000 for Nuclear Modernization 
Survivability Testing and Workforce Development and Training Program; 
Wenstrup (No. 182) that increases funding in the Research, Development, 
Test and Evaluation, Army account by $63,000,000 for the Improved 
Turbine Engine Program; Williams (No. 184) that increases and decreases 
$4.5 million in funding for Air Force RDT&E for Electronic Warfare 
Development for tactical data analysis capabilities in support of 
cognitive electronic warfare (EW) to make real-time decisions and 
operate safely against emerging threats; Wilson (SC) (No. 185) that 
increases and decreases RDT&E, defense-wide by $5,000,000 for 
Hypersonic Advanced Composites Manufacturing; Wilson (SC) (No. 186) 
that increases and decreases Navy RDT&E by $5,000,000 for Talent and 
Technology for Navy Power and Energy Systems; and Wilson (SC) (No. 189) 
that increases and decreases RDT&E, Army by $15,000,000 for testing and 
development of Quadruped Unmanned Ground Systems;        
Pages H4375-76
  Calvert en bloc amendment No. 2 consisting of the following 
amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-559: Amo (No. 2) that 
increases and decreases by $3 million Defense-Wide RDTE, to develop and 
enhance the cost and payload capabilities of affordable attritable 
autonomous underwater vehicles; Bacon (No. 7) that increases and 
decreases Air Force Procurement by $2,000,000 to integrate the RC-135 
digital fleet maintenance management capability; Banks (No. 10) that 
increases and decreases by $10M Navy RDT&E Future Naval Capabilities 
Applied Research to develop a quantum communications corridor 
connecting certain Department of Defense installations, national 
laboratories, and universities conducting Department of Defense 
research; Carey (No. 23) that increases and decreases Air Force 
procurement by $2,300,000 for modern surveying equipment; Carter (GA) 
(No. 26) that increases funding for the ``Digital Persona Protection 
Program (DP3)'' by $4.5 million and decreases funding by $4.5 million 
of the Office of the Secretary of Defense; Castor (No. 27) that 
increases and decreases funding for Operation and Maintenance, Army 
National Guard to provide support for DoD to study if Reserve Forces 
are receiving adequate screening for Operator Syndrome and Clinical 
Burnout, and are adequately having their injuries documented in their 
military heath records; Cohen (No. 30) that increases RDT&E, Navy by $8 
million to support the Fight Facility to expand current congressionally 
supported work for the Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Degraded 
Environment Facility (UxSDEF) and Reduces RDT&E, Navy by $8 million; 
Finstad (No. 45) that increases by $2 million RDT&E, Defense-Wide, 
Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Support for a feasibility 
study on domestic refining of polymetallic nodules as a resource for 
critical mineral intermediates and Decreases the Defense Science Board 
in RDT&E, Defense-Wide by $2 million; Finstad (No. 48) that increases 
by $5 million for Manufacturing Technology in RDT&E, Air Force for the 
additive manufacturing of Super Niobium Refractory Metal and Decreases 
the Technology Transition Program in RDT&E, Air Force by $5 million; 
Gimenez (No. 54) that increases and decreases by $10 million Navy RDTE, 
Joint Tactical Radio Systems, for MEO Resilient Network Integration; 
Higgins (LA) (No. 60) that specifies $19,440,000 to be used by the U.S. 
Navy for the procurement of 40-foot patrol boats; Jackson (No. 67) that 
increases and decreases funding for Navy RDT&E to provide $5 million 
for continued HeVTOL development and engine development, building on 
funding provided in FY24 for Line 19, USMC Advanced Technology 
Demonstration (ATD); Kelly (No. 77) that increases and decreases Page 
38, line 9 by $2,500,000 for Geophysical Littoral Autonomous Detection 
and Exploitation (GLADE); Kiggans (VA) (No. 81) that increases Navy 
RDT&E, Line 24, ``Navy Warfighting Experiments & Demonstration'' by $5 
million for testing and evaluation of uncrewed technologies with 
counterthreat capabilities to detect, identify, and counter uncrewed 
aerial system threats. Decreases Navy RDT&E, Line 15, `Science and 
Technology Management' by $5 million for general information 
technology-related cost increases; Kiggans (VA) (No. 82) that increases 
Army RDT&E, Line 45, `Long Range Precision Fires Advanced' by $9 
million for low-cost rocket propulsion for affordable mass on target 
and decreases Army RDT&E, Line 78, `Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense 
(M-SHORAD)' by $9 million for excessive contractor logistics support 
growth; Kiggans (VA) (No. 86) that increases Navy O&M, Line BSIT, 
`Enterprise Information Technology' by $10 million to establish 
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virtual network operator telecom network in INDOPACOM AOR utilizing 
commercial infrastructure and decreases Navy O&M, Line BSIT, 
`Enterprise Information Technology' by $10 million; LaLota (No. 90) 
that increases and decreases funding for the Department of Defense to 
submit a report to Congress on the percentage and number of contracts 
awarded to small business that are counted toward multiple agency small 
business contracting goals; LaLota (No. 91) that increases and 
decreases funding to emphasize that submarine industrial base money 
should go to workforce development programs; Letlow (No. 100) that 
increases and decreases by $19,000,000 to provide funding for Bomber 
Aircrew Supplemental Training within Research, Development, Test and 
Evaluation, Air Force B-1B Squadrons; Letlow (No. 101) that increases 
and decreases by $5,000,000 for Nuclear Transition within Research, 
Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force Requirements Analysis and 
Maturation; McCormick (No. 110) that increases and decreases RDT&E, 
Navy by $5,000,000 to support integration of aligned Carbon Nanotube 
Technology for mission critical Navy systems under RDT&E, Navy, Line 
021, PE 0603673N; McGovern (No. 118) that increases and decreases by 
$11 million for Army RDTE, Line 43, to support the Autonomous Vehicle 
Mobility Institute (AVMI); Miller (WV) (No. 120) that increases and 
decreases by $25 million for research, development, test and evaluation 
for the Army with the intent that the $25 million will be used for 
funding for applied research into source characterization and recovery 
of Rare Earth Element domestic reserves; Mills (FL) (No. 122) that 
increases funding in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, 
Navy account by $10,000,000 for Icing Prediction and Wind Optimization 
for Marine Corps MQ-9s in Line 9, Ocean Warfighting Environment Applied 
Research. Offset is undistributed within the same account; Napolitano 
(No. 132) that increases and decreases funding for the Operation and 
Maintenance, Defense-Wide account by $37,411,000 to be used in support 
of the National Guard Youth Challenge Program; Norton (No. 135) that 
increases and decreases by $8 million for research, development, test 
and evaluation for the Navy with the intent it be used for QuickStrike 
Kinetic Improvements; Ogles (No. 142) that recommends that the Defense 
Security Cooperation Agency should not participate in the Eurosatory 
exhibition or any international defense exposition that restricts or 
threatens to restrict the full participation of Israeli-owned 
companies; Pettersen (No. 145) that increases and decreases funding for 
the Air Force Research, Development, Test and Evaluation account in 
support of completing the delivery and deployment of Mobile Autonomous 
Robotic Swarms (MARS) that support lunar telecommunications and Space 
Situational Awareness (SSA); Sewell (No. 151) that increases funding 
for Department of Defense Software Factories by $5 million; Soto (No. 
153) that decreases and then increases RDTE, DW by $10.8 million for 
the Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Program (program element 
0607210D8Z) for Advanced Packaging Infrastructure Enablement 
Standardized Assembly Design Kits; Steil (No. 156) that increases and 
decreases the Defense-Wide RDTE account by $10 million for Fusion 
Linear Accelerator for Radiation Hardening of Microelectronics in Line 
102, Trusted and Assured Microelectronics; Steil (No. 157) increase 
decrease amendment to the Navy RDTE account to support $12 million for 
Neutron Radiography Technologies for Energetic Devices in Line 91, 
Precision Strike Weapons Development Program; Strong (No. 158) that 
increases Army RDT&E by $5,000,000 for Automated Software Weakness and 
Vulnerability Discovery for Binary Code; Strong (No. 159) that 
increases Army RDT&E by $5,000,000 for Threat Counter Artificial 
Intelligence (TCAI); Timmons (No. 169) that increases and decreases 
funding for Operations and Maintenance, Defense Wide by $10 million to 
provide support for the Vendor Threat Mitigation Pilot Project, which 
ensures the compliance and security standards of vendors engaging with 
federal agencies are continuously monitored and re-assessed; Waltz (No. 
180) that $10 million to Air Force RDTE Hypersonic Prototyping program 
(HACM), for Hypersonic Propulsion Additive Manufacturing; Williams (No. 
183) that increases and decreases $3 million in funding for Air Force 
RDT&E specifically to support enhanced capabilities integrating 
Advanced Air Mobility and Un-crewed Aircraft Systems, including C-UAS 
efforts, with broader air traffic management in partnership with AFWERX 
to enhance military operations; Wilson (SC) (No. 187) that increases 
and decreases Army RDT&E by $5,000,000 for Standardized Army Battery 
for Enhanced Performance and Safety; Wilson (SC) (No. 188) that 
increases and decreases Army RDT&E by $5,000,000 for High Performance 
Glass Fiber Melter; and Wilson (SC) (No. 190) that increases and 
decreases Navy RDT&E by $5,000,000 for Unmanned Logistics for USMC; 
                                                         Pages H4376-78
  Calvert en bloc amendment No. 3 consisting of the following 
amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-559: Alford (No. 1) that 
increases funding for Man-Portable Doppler Radar by $5,000,000 in the 
Research, Development, Evaluation, and Test Army account and decreases 
funding for The Office of the Secretary of Defense by $5,000,000 in 
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Armstrong (No. 4) that increases Defense-wide RDT&E, IBAS, by 
$7,500,000 for corrosion resistant magnesium coating for aircraft and 
Reduces Defense-wide RDT&E, Space Programs and Technology by 
$7,500,000; Bacon (No. 5) that increases AF RDTE Line 137 by 
$16,000,000 to support USSTRATCOM nuclear command, control and 
communications (NC3) enterprise modernization programs allocating 
$15,000,000 for the NC3 Research Engineering Architecture and 
Collaboration Hub (REACH) and $1,000,000 for USSTRATCOM UARC priority 
research; Bergman (No. 12) that provides $5 million for Small Unmanned 
Systems Hive Swarm for Special Operations Forces; Bost (No. 16) that 
reduces Army Operations and Maintenance by $9,500,000 and increases Air 
Force RDT&E by $9,500,000 for mission critical secure collaboration 
solution; Buchanan (No. 17) that provides $1 million to Operation and 
Maintenance, Navy to ensure the continuation of the Future Sailor 
Preparatory Course; Cammack (No. 21) that directs $8 million from 
Defense-Wide Operations and Maintenance to Air Force RDTE for the 
purpose of accelerating the development and use of Software-Enabled 
Weapons Systems; Carbajal (No. 22) that decreases O&M, DW by $2.5 
million and increases RDTE, DW by $2.5 million to support research for 
integrated silicon-based lasers through the Defense-Wide Manufacturing 
Science and Technology Program; Carl (No. 24) that increases funding by 
$10m to the Army RDT&E account to fund the development of a high energy 
laser maturation system, offset by a decrease to defense wide 
operations and maintenance by the same amount; Dunn (No. 35) that 
redirects funding to RDTE, Army to be offset with a decrease to the 
topline O&M, Defense-wide; Dunn (No. 37) that increases funding by $6M 
to the Air Force RDT&E account to fund the Development of a University-
led Hypervelocity Test Capability, offset by a decrease to defense-wide 
operations and maintenance by the same amount; Ezell (No. 41) that 
increases funding for Navy, Research Development Test and Engineering 
by $10,000,000 to support improved geophysical sensing and 
characterization of the mine hunting environment, while decreasing 
funding for Defense-Wide Operations & Maintenance by $10,000,000; 
Fitzgerald (No. 49) that increases RDT&E, Army, Line 230 by $10 million 
to support Advanced Manufacturing and Inspection Techniques for 
Structural Missile Components. Decreases Defense-Wide O&M by $10 
million to offset; Fong (No. 51) that increases funding by $4,000,000 
for RDT&E Air Force for layered tanks for the Air Force Research 
Laboratory Rocket Propulsion Division and decreases Operations and 
Maintenance Defense-Wide by $4,000,000; Hudson (No. 65) that Increases 
funding by $5M to the Marine Corps Procurement account to fund Mobile 
Ad-Hoc Network Technologies, offset by a decrease to defense wide 
operations and maintenance by the same amount; James (No. 69) that 
offsets $10 million from Defense-Wide Operations and Management for 
Army RDTE, End Item Industrial Preparedness Activities for the Advanced 
Combat Transmission for combat vehicles including the M1 Abrams, the M2 
Bradley Fighting vehicle and the upcoming XM-30 platform; James (No. 
70) that offsets $12 million from Defense-Wide Operations and 
Management for Defense-Wide RDTE, Cyber Security Research for 
establishing a Connected Vehicle Cybersecurity Center; Keating (No. 74) 
that increases funding of RDT&E, Navy by $5 million to support existing 
research efforts in a number of key areas including sensing, 
communications, situational awareness and unmanned systems and autonomy 
and reduces Defense-Wide Operation and Maintenance by $5 million; Kelly 
(No. 78) that increases Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, 
Defense Wide by $5 million for the Defense Critical Alloy Production 
Capacity Expansion program. Offset by a $5 million reduction to 
Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide; Kiggans (VA) (No. 83) that 
increases Navy RDT&E, Line 48, `Advanced Surface Machinery Systems' by 
$2 million for Integration of Insulated Bus Pipe (IBP) into Warship 
Designs to support shipboard distribution of high-power energy and 
decreases Navy O&M, Line 4A1M, `Administration' by $2 million; 
Langworthy (No. 97) that increases Navy's Science and Technology for 
Nuclear Re-entry line by $5,000,000 and decreases Defense OPM Account 
by $5,000,000; Luttrell (No. 106) that provides for an additional $21 
million Hypersonic Test Infrastructure; McCormick (No. 112) that 
increases RDT&E Air Force by $8,000,000 to support equipping two KC-46A 
Air Refueling Tankers with a Hybrid Broadband Satcom Solution. Reduces 
O&M, Air Force by $8,000,000; McCormick (No. 114) that increases RDT&E, 
Army by $7,700,000 to support accelerated development of a ruggedized 
Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) architecture that 
will provide high-performance computation and latency performance to 
enable simultaneous AI/ML instances in C5ISR platforms operating in 
contested environments and reduces RDT&E, Defense-Wide by $7,700,000; 
Mills (No. 123) that increases and decreases by $6M for Ground Vehicle 
Robotics for new technology to retrofit existing military vehicles with 
COTS autonomous solutions; Obernolte (No. 137) that decreases funding 
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RDT&E, Navy for Innovative Naval Prototypes Advanced Technology 
Development, and increases Procurement, Defense-Wide, by $5,000,000 for 
the procurement of Ground Mobility Vehicle (GMV) 1.1 vehicle; Obernolte 
(No. 138) that provides $4,000,000 to Navy's Research, Development, 
Test and Evaluation account for the deployment of Kubernetes-based 
geospatial infrastructure to give commanders the ability to make 
faster, more precise decisions Austin Scott (Ga) (No. 148) that 
increases $2.5M in Air Force RDT&E appropriations to 0605828F 
(Line#125)--Acquisition Workforce--Global Reach for the Digital 
Transformation of Aircraft Gun Systems for the F-15, F-16, and F-22 M61 
gun systems; Sessions (No. 150) that increases funding by $5,000,000 
for RDTE, Army (Army RDTE Page 38, line 9) for spectrum sharing and 
management with adaptable and reconfigurable technology research and 
decreases Defense-Wide Operations & Maintenance by $5,000,000; Sorenson 
(No. 152) that increases the Air Force RDT&E account by $5 million 
offset by a $5 million reduction to the Defense-Wide Operation and 
Maintenance account to support development, test and evaluation of 
rapidly additively manufactured skins for the CCA program; Steel (No. 
154) that increases the STARBASE fifth grade youth STEM education 
program found in Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide, Civil 
Military Programs by $7 million, and to reduce Operations and 
Maintenance, Army, Other Servicewide Activities by the offsetting 
amount; Tenney (No. 166) that moves $15,000,000 from Defense-Wide O&M 
to the Army RDT&E, PE 0602141A, Line 8 for the model and development of 
passive C-UAS technologies to detect unidentified and potentially 
adversarial UAS threats; Thompson (PA) (No. 168) that increases funding 
for APEX Accelerators, formerly known as Procurement Technical 
Assistance Centers, to match the FY24 enacted level; Trahan (No. 172) 
that increases funding for Soldier Lethality Technology Army RDT&E by 
$5 million for the Harnessing Emerging Research Opportunities to 
Empower Soldiers (HEROES) program; Trahan (No. 173) that increases 
Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Army by $5.0 million to 
provide for the Army's operational evaluation of tactical throwable 
camera systems; Turner (No. 174) that increases the Air Force's Human 
Effectiveness Advanced Technology Development line by $5 million while 
reducing the Operations and Maintenance, Air Force account by an 
additional $5 million; Turner (No. 175) that assists the Air Force's 
Digital Transformation Office mission to coordinate digital efforts and 
fully exploit data across the domains of space readiness, intelligence 
surveillance & readiness, logistics, and data analysis through 
development of tools to accelerate data access, data analysis and data 
driven insights; preserve proprietary innovations; and increase 
interoperability and knowledge sharing to enhance the effectiveness of 
the warfighter; Van Drew (No. 177) that provides $1 million to RDT&E, 
Defense-Wide for the purposes of directing the Secretary of Defense to 
conduct a comprehensive investigation into instances of equipment loss 
due to improper storage practices. Reduces funding for Operations and 
Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $1 million; Van Duyne (No. 178) that 
increases funding in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, 
Army account by $7,500,000 for Pilot Production Line for Next 
Generation Battery Anode Materials in Line 10, Soldier Lethality 
Technology. Offset is undistributed within the same account; Wagner 
(No. 179) that increases Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, 
Army (RDTE, A) by $6 million for the Isostatic Advanced Armor 
Production program, which supports domestic development and production 
of stronger, lighter, and more flexible body armor, offset by a $6 
million reduction to Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide; and 
Yakym (No. 193) that transfers $90 million from defense wide O&M to 
Army procurement for the purchase of High Mobility Multi-Wheeled 
Vehicles (HMMWV) so the National Guard can begin replacing its aging 
fleet;                                                   
Pages H4378-79
  Calvert en bloc amendment No. 4 consisting of the following 
amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 118 559: Banks (No. 9) that 
provides $10M in Navy O&M funding to accelerate the expansion of the 
Marine Corps' current Nucleated Foam Engine Performance and Restoration 
Program to additional aircraft across the Marine Aircraft Wing fleets; 
Banks (No. 11) that provides $2M for Army RDT&E for a federated data 
framework for Open Systems Multi-Intelligence Fusion to improve the 
speed at which U.S. Army forces can identify and neutralize threats in 
combat; Bergman (No. 13) that funds Virtual Engineering for Army 
Readiness and Sustainment (VEARS) at $7 million for FY25; Buchanan (No. 
19) that provides $3 million in funding to the Research, Development, 
Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide to combat future military training 
accidents and research ways to prevent them; Cammack (No. 20) that 
increases the RDT&E, Air Force account by $8 million and decreases the 
Defense-Wide Operations and Maintenance account by $8 million to 
address an urgent need to develop novel materials and wearable devices 
to assess and augment Airman performance in aerospace environments such 
as global multi-day logistic flights as well as long duration remotely 
piloted aircraft missions; Costa (No. 32) that increases the Navy 
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$5 million offset by a $5 million reduction to the Defense-Wide 
Operation and Maintenance account to support research, development, 
test and evaluation to enhance battlespace awareness and support 
military aviation capabilities especially during Atmospheric River 
storm events; Curtis (No. 33) that increases the Space Force's Space 
Technology line by $5 million for Advanced Analog Microelectronics, 
offset from Defense-wide, O&M Dunn (No. 36) that redirects $5,000,000 
of funding to RDT&E, ``Force Protection Advanced Technology'' for the 
adaptation, development, and testing of modern ``Zero Trust 
Architectures for Naval Power Systems'', to be offset with ``O&M 
Defense-Wide, ES18 Defense Media Activity''; Dunn (No. 38) that 
Provides an additional $10m for Facilities Restoration and 
Modernization--Test and Eval Support for Advanced Swarm Oversight 
Technology for Autonomous Airfield Operations; Ezell (No. 39) that 
increases funding for Navy, Research Development Test and Engineering 
by $10,000,00 to support intelligent autonomous systems for seabed 
warfare, while decreasing funding for Defense-Wide Operations and 
Maintenance by $10,000,000; Ezell (No. 40) that increases funding for 
Navy RDT&E by $10,000,000 to support completing the development of 
Autonomous Surface & Underwater Dual-Modality Vehicles, while 
decreasing funding for Defense-Wide Operations & Maintenance by 
$10,000,000; Finstad (No. 46) that increases by $10 million RDT&E, 
Defense-Wide, Industrial Base and Sustainment for Ablative Material 
Sustainment. Decreases Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $10 
million; Fitzgerald (No. 50) that increases RDT&E, Defense-Wide, Line 
214 by $5 million to support Advanced Electrification Demonstration 
under IBAS. Decreases O&M, Defense-Wide by $5 million to offset; Fong 
(No. 52) that increases funding by $4,000,000 for Operations and 
Maintenance Navy for the Naval Air Warfare Rapid Capabilities Office 
and decreases the Operations and Maintenance Defense-Wide by 
$4,000,000; Garbarino (No. 53) that provides an additional $5 million 
to Navy RDT&E to address the corrosion of aircraft airframe structures; 
Graves (LA) (No. 55) that increases funding by $9m to the Navy RDT&E 
account to fund a transportable non-geostationary satellite terminal 
for the Global Broadcast Service, offset by a decrease to defense wide 
operations and maintenance by the same amount; Himes (No. 61) that 
increases Space Technology for Lunar Surface Based Space Domain 
Awareness by $5m and decreases the Operations and Maintenance, Defense 
Wide by $5m; Hinson (No. 62) that increases funding by $12,500,000 for 
RDTE, Navy for the Marine Corps to expedite the development of an 
advanced intelligent gateway (AIG) capability, and decreases Defense-
Wide Operations & Maintenance by $12,500,000 Hudson (No. 64) that 
decreases Army Operations and Maintenance account by $10 million and 
increases Army RDTE, by same amount, UH-60 Product Improvement program, 
for Blade Improvement Erosion Protection systems development; Hudson 
(No. 66) that increases funding by $10M to the R,D,T&E defense-wide for 
intel systems development, to fund systems operator workload for SOCOM, 
offset by a decrease to operation and maintenance, defense-wide by the 
same amount; James (No. 68) that offsets $15 million from Army 
Operations and Management for Army RDTE, Ground Advanced Technology for 
Extreme Metallic Alloys (Hypersonic Testing); Joyce (No. 73) that 
increases and decreases funding by $5,000,000 to support additional GMV 
1.1 vehicles to address the ground mobility capabilities gap; Kiggans 
(VA) (No. 79) that increases Army RDT&E, Line 11, `Ground Technology' 
by $5 million for funding for scaling lightweight metallurgical 
development to re-shore titanium metal production to the U.S. and 
decreases Army O&M, Line 411, `Other Programs' by $5 million; LaLota 
(No. 87) that increases funding for Network Tactical Common Data Link--
Phased Array Antenna Qualification by $10,000,000 and offsets by 
decreases funding for Office of Secretary of Defense by $10,000,000; 
Lamborn (No. 92) that increases and decreases by $2,500,000 the 
``Program Increase: Commercial Physics-Based Digital Mission 
operations'' is for funding to allow the Space Force to meet growing 
and urgent needs with capable software tools; Lamborn (No. 94) that 
provides $10 million to Space Force's Research, Development, Test, Test 
and Evaluation account for Space Situational Awareness Operations to 
provide updated technology to support the Space Weather Analysis and 
Forecast System's (SWAFS) and Unified Data Library (UDL); Lieu (No. 
103) that increases Space Force RDT&E funding by $10 million for the 
new start Point to Point Delivery (P2PD) program for Space Assets for 
Rapid Materiel Delivery in Contested Logistics; Luttrell (No. 105) that 
provides $9.5 million to SOF cold weather clothing; Mace (No. 107) that 
increases funding by $20 million to the Army RDT&E account to fund a 
Department of Defense Quantum Computing Center of Excellence, offset by 
a decrease to Defense-Wide Operations and Maintenance; McClellan (No. 
108) that increases funding to Army RTDE for development of ultra-high 
molecular weight polyethylene fiber (UHMWPE) and decreases funding for 
Other Army Procurement for Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV); 
McCormick (No. 109) that increases RDT&E, Army by $4,000,000 to

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support development by Combat Capability Development Command, Soldier 
Center of the Air-deployed Long-range Autonomous Resupply Aircraft 
(ALARA) to support sustainment in contested environments and reduces 
RDT&E, Air Force by $4,000,000; McCormick (No. 111) that increases 
RDT&E, Defense-wide by $10,000,000 to support domestic scale-up of 
novel high-char polymer composites for hypersonics applications 
conducted under RDT&E, D Wide, Line 213, PE 0607210D8Z, Industrial Base 
and Sustainment and reduces RDT&E Air Force by $10,000,000; Mills (No. 
121) that increases funding by $10M to the Air Force RDT&E account to 
fund the development of Quantum Communications and Sensing Test 
Infrastructure, offset by a decrease to defense wide operations and 
maintenance by the same amount; Nunn (No. 136) that increases Research, 
Development, Test & Evaluation, Defense-Wide by $10.0 million and 
reduces Operation & Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $10.0 million; Tenney 
(No. 165) that moves $15,000,000 from Defense-Wide O&M to the Army 
RDT&E, PE 0603464A, Line 45 for the design and testing of advanced 
manufacturing of propellants needed for 155mm and other munitions; 
Timmons (No. 170) that increases RDTE, Army by $6 million for the 
Airless Tire Demonstration for Infantry Squad Vehicles and reduces 
funding for Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $6 million; 
Turner (No. 176) that provides additional funding for the Metals 
Affordability Initiative, a collaborative effort managed by the Air 
Force Research Laboratory to ensure the continued advancement of metals 
technologies for the betterment of the warfighter, industry, and the 
public consumer; Wasserman Schultz (No. 181) that increases RDTE, 
Defense-Wide, by $10 million within Manufacturing Technology Program 
for Rapid Additive Manufacturing Critical Hardware and decreases O&M, 
Defense-Wide; Wilson (SC) (No. 191) that increases and decreases 
defense-wide RDT&E by $6,000,000 for Cyber Talent & Curriculum 
Development/Platform & Critical Infrastructure Defense Cybersecurity 
Research; and Yakym (No. 192) that allocates $8,000,000 to the Airforce 
research, development, test, and evaluation account for rotary machines 
with advanced magnetic materials to secure U.S. critical mineral supply 
chains from China and other foreign adversaries;         
Pages H4379-81
  Calvert en bloc amendment No. 5 consisting of the following 
amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 118 559: Banks (No. 8) that 
provides $5M for a peer-reviewed dystonia research program; Blunt 
Rochester (No. 15) that Increases funding in the Defense Health Agency 
account by $1 million to support a report to Congress on the impact of 
menopausal symptoms on the working life of women in the military; 
Finstad (No. 47) that increases by $3 million the Medical Technology 
Development program in Defense Health Program, Defense-Wide for the 
development of Ionizing Radiation Therapy and decreases Operation and 
Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $3 million; Hudson (No. 63) that increases 
and decreases Army RDT&E by $3,000,000 to support Intraosseous 
Antibiotics for Osseointegration in order to offer increased function 
to servicemembers with major limb amputations; Kiggans (VA) (No. 84) 
that increases and decreases funding for Tricare by $1,000,000 to 
express the intent that the Tricare reimbursement rate should be 
increased for mental health providers; Kiggans (VA) (No. 85) that 
increases and decreases funding for medical and health programs at the 
Department of Defense by $1,000,000 to express the intent that the 
TRICARE reimbursement rate for pharmacies should be increased; 
Langworthy (No. 96) that increases and decreases funding for the 
Defense Health Program to ensure development and procurement of medical 
devices for Osseointegrated Prosthetic Infection Treatments and 
Prevention in order to improve the quality of life of those in the 
military who have lost their limbs while serving our country; McCormick 
(No. 113) that increases RDT&E, Army by $5 million to support the 
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) Mitochondria Traumatic 
Brain Injury (TBI) program to enable continued research of mitochondria 
organelle transplantation as a treatment for TBI symptoms and reduces 
RDT&E, Air Force by $5 million; McGovern (No. 115) that increases and 
decreases funding for Army RDTE, Line 26, by $8 million to support 
Female Warfighter TBI Research; McGovern (No. 116) that increases and 
decreases by $9.5 million Defense-Wide RDTE, Line 189, to support the 
development of a Novel PTS Biomarker Panel; Molinaro (No. 126) that 
increases and decreases $4 million in funding for the Defense Health 
Programs to reinforce the importance of its work to ensure 
servicemembers and other eligible beneficiaries have access to 
comprehensive health services, especially those with disabilities; 
Molinaro (No. 127) that increases and decreases $9 million in funding 
for the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs to emphasize 
the need to strengthen its innovative research that advances the 
understanding of autism and leads to improved outcomes for the autistic 
community; Molinaro (No. 128) that increases and decreases $5 million 
in funding for the Congressional Directed Medical Research Programs to 
expand the Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders program and support its 
ongoing work to reduce the number of opioid-related deaths; Moore (UT) 
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million for research, development, test, and evaluation for Army RDT&E, 
Medical Technology, with the intent that the $9.85 million will be used 
for development and transition of a rapid deployable synthetic peptide 
vaccine; Ogles (No. 140) that prohibits the use of funds from being 
used to enforce subsection (b) of Section 1259 of the John S. McCain 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (defunds a 
waiver that could otherwise allow the PRC to participate in Rim of the 
Pacific naval exercises); and Thompson (PA) (No.167) that increases 
Army RDT&E funding by $5,000,000 to support research for military 
optimization of warfighters' musculoskeletal health & performance 
during deployment preparation and actual deployment;         
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  Ogles amendment (No. 139 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118 551) that 
prohibits the removal of companies from the Section 1260H List of 
Chinese Civil-Military Fusion companies;                 
Pages H4387-88
  Ogles amendment (No. 140 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118 551) that 
prohibits the use of funds from being used to enforce subsection (b) of 
Section 1259 of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2019 (defunds a waiver that could otherwise allow the 
PRC to participate in Rim of the Pacific naval exercises); and 
                                                         Pages H4388-89
  Moore (AL) amendment (No. 129 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118 551) 
that reduces funding for Defense-Wide RDTE by $4,910,000 to defund DOD 
climate-change research and increases funding by $4,910,000 for Army 
RDTE to fund enhancements for Unmanned Ground Vehicles (by a recorded 
vote of 210 ayes to 201 noes, Roll No. 327).      
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Rejected:
  Hageman amendment (No. 58 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118 551) that 
sought to prohibit classified telework and remote work for DoD 
employees;                                               
Pages H4384-85
  Greene (GA) amendment (No. 56 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118 551) 
that sought to require the salary of Lloyd Austin, Secretary of 
Defense, to be reduced to $1 (by a recorded vote of 103 ayes to 308 
noes with one answering ``present'', Roll No. 324); 
                                                  Pages H4381-82, H4393
  Greene (GA) amendment (No. 57 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118 551) 
that sought to prohibit funding for Ukraine (by a recorded vote of 76 
ayes to 335 noes, Roll No. 325); and           
Pages H4382-84, H4393-94
  Jayapal amendment (No. 72 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118 551) that 
sought to prohibit funds from being used to carry out the unfunded 
priorities list (by a recorded vote of 161 ayes to 251 noes, Roll No. 
326).                                          
Pages H4385-86, H4394-95
  H. Res. 1316, the rule providing for consideration of the bills (H.R. 
8774), (H.R. 8771), and (H.R. 8752) was agreed to yesterday, June 26th.
Quorum Calls--Votes: Thirty recorded votes developed during the 
proceedings of today and appear on pages H4334-35, H4335, H4335-36, 
H4336-37, H4337, H4337-38, H4338-39, H4339, H4339-40, H4340-41, H4341, 
H4341-42, H4342-43, H4343, H4343-44, H4344-45, H4345, H4345-46, H4346-
47, H4347, H4347-48, H4389-90, H4390, H4390-91, H4391-92, H4392, H4393, 
H4394, H4394-95, and H4395.
Adjournment: The House met at 9 a.m. and adjourned at 6:31 p.m.