[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 120 (Wednesday, July 24, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H4867-H4877]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES 
                        APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2025

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Obernolte). Pursuant to House Resolution 
1370 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. 8998.
  Will the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Self) 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. 8998) making appropriations for the Department of the 
Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2025, and for other purposes, with Mr. Self (Acting 
Chair) in the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The Acting CHAIR. When the Committee of the Whole rose on Tuesday,

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July 23, 2024, amendment No. 48, printed in part B of House Report 118-
602, offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Jackson) had been 
disposed of.


               Amendment No. 56 Offered by Mr. McCormick

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 56 
printed in part B of House Report 118-602.
  Mr. McCORMICK. 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 89, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $7,000,000)''.
       Page 90, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 1370, the gentleman 
from Georgia (Mr. McCormick) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Georgia.
  Mr. McCORMICK. Mr. Chair, I rise to offer my amendment No. 56 to H.R. 
8998, the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2025.
  Amendment No. 56 will reduce funding for the Environmental Protection 
Agency by reducing the Environmental Programs and Management account by 
$7 million.
  My amendment will then reallocate $5 million in funding to the EPA's 
Office of Inspector General for increased oversight of the EPA.
  The EPA's role is to protect human health and the environment through 
research and development. Yet, it seems the EPA is more often focused 
on creating burdensome bureaucratic red tape than serving the American 
people and businesses.
  Stringent EPA regulations burden businesses with compliance costs 
leading to job losses, higher consumer prices, and reduced economic 
competitiveness, particularly in industries such as manufacturing, 
energy, and agriculture. Tragically, these regulations often have 
nothing to do with protecting the environment.
  For example, in my district, the repaving of a key road has been 
delayed for 18 months. This heavily trafficked road is in desperate 
need of repair.
  These delays are due to the EPA's requirement for an extensive 
environmental impact study, even though the road is already paved, has 
been around for over a decade, and it is a simple repaving project to 
revitalize the community. It is going to cost $700,000 and a delay of 
18 months to repave 1.5 miles of road. This is a ridiculous delay of 
the inevitable.
  The EPA needs to begin prioritizing our communities over bureaucratic 
overreach and overbearing regulations with no benefit. That is why 
proper oversight is critical to holding the EPA in check.
  The EPA's Office of Inspector General has done incredible work with 
the funding it receives. Their work proves additional funding is a 
sound investment.
  In May, it published its semiannual report to Congress which 
summarized its work and accomplishments from October 1, 2023, through 
March 31, 2024. During that 6-month reporting period, they identified 
$120.1 million in total monetary benefits and provided the EPA and U.S. 
Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board with 55 recommendations 
for improvement.
  To further prove their worth, the EPA OIG is performing a critical 
role in investigating and tracking the ridiculous spending from the 
Inflation Reduction Act. That is important oversight work to prevent 
fraud of Federal dollars.
  I urge my colleagues to support amendment No. 56 which will decrease 
the EPA's overall funding account and reallocate a portion of those 
funds to increase oversight, transparency, and accountability.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to this 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Maine is recognized for 5 
minutes.

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  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, to be clear, I fully support all oversight 
efforts and believe the mission of the inspectors general across 
government is vital, but I disagree with the offset and the treatment 
of the EPA in this bill generally.
  In the base bill, the EPA is cut by nearly 20 percent. Almost every 
single account is cut except for the Office of the Inspector General. 
Quite frankly, the Inspector General's Office does pretty well under 
this bill.
  Cutting every single program at the EPA and seeking to increase 
funding for only one office, which happens to be the oversight office, 
is a clear attempt by the majority to politicize the Inspector General. 
That is unacceptable.
  Mr. Chair, I oppose this amendment, and I reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. McCORMICK. Mr. Chair, I love the environment. My favorite 
President is Teddy Roosevelt, a great environmentalist, and my dad was 
a forest ranger. I grew up with Woodsy Owl and Smokey the Bear. I 
truly, truly, have a great love for the environment, and I want to make 
sure we use our funds appropriately.
  I just reiterate that my amendment reduces funding for the 
overbearing EPA portion and really increases accountability, which I 
think is the more important part at this point when we see the abuses 
of the system. I think it is time for a more efficient and more 
accountable government. That is what this bill is about.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McCORMICK. In closing, Mr. Chairman, I am grateful for this time 
to talk about accountability and efficiency of government. I hope and 
humbly request support for my amendment No. 56, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chairman, I certainly hope that the gentleman from 
Georgia is able to get his road paved. This is the wrong way to go 
about doing it. I oppose this amendment, and I yield back the balance 
of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Georgia (Mr. McCormick).
  The amendment was agreed to.


          Amendment No. 57 Offered by Mrs. Miller of Illinois

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 57 
printed in part B of House Report 118-602.
  Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. 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:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  The salary of Ya-Wei (Jake) Li, Deputy Assistant 
     Administrator for Pesticide Programs, shall be reduced to $1.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 1370, the gentlewoman 
from Illinois (Mrs. Miller) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Illinois.
  Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of my 
amendment that would reduce Deputy Secretary Jake Li's salary to $1.
  Prior to joining the EPA under the Biden administration, Jake Li 
spent over a decade of his career working for liberal nongovernmental 
organizations who remain solvent by litigating entities, including the 
EPA, for agricultural practices they disagree with, regardless of the 
utility to America's farm families and consumers.
  Despite Congress passing language requiring EPA to take USDA feedback 
into account when developing mitigation measures, these proposals were 
developed without EPA input, leading USDA to express substantial 
concerns about the severe economic consequences for some farmers.
  According to USDA estimates, the cost for all corn acres in Illinois, 
Iowa, and Nebraska to comply with the herbicide strategy could be 
upwards of $5.5 billion, and that estimate is for just one commodity 
across three States.
  This regulatory overreach is just another example of the burdensome 
regulations EPA forces on our farm families and those living in rural 
America just to cater to the demands of environmental extremists like 
those Jake Li used to work with.
  Frankly, even $1 is too much for the chief architect of these 
wrongheaded and callous strategies that seek to put American farmers 
and ranchers out of business.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.

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  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition to this 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Maine is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chairman, I oppose this amendment, and I yield back 
the balance of my time.
  Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. I urge support of my amendment, Mr. 
Chairman, and I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Illinois (Mrs. Miller).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. PINGREE. 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 gentlewoman from Illinois 
will be postponed.


          Amendment No. 72 Offered by Mrs. Miller of Illinois

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 72 
printed in part B of House Report 118-602.
  Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Chairman, I rise as the designee for the 
gentleman from South Carolina, and I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be made available to the Environmental Protection Agency's 
     Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Workgroup.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 1370, the gentlewoman 
from Illinois (Mrs. Miller) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Illinois.
  Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Chairman, this amendment would prohibit 
funding for the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Workgroup 
that advances the Biden administration's radical DEI agenda.
  This workgroup's website links to a page of resources with hundreds 
of woke documents.
  From the military to corporations to Federal agencies, we have seen 
time and time again that the DEI mission fosters division in the 
workplace.
  DEI undermines our shared American identity and distracts from the 
missions of our Federal agencies. DEI hurts recruiting efforts and 
erodes trust between all Federal employees and the government they 
serve.
  At a time when our growing national debt has surpassed $34 trillion, 
we cannot continue to use taxpayer dollars to fund wasteful and 
unnecessary woke programs.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to support this amendment and 
prohibit funding for policies that advance the Biden administration's 
radical diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda, and I reserve the 
balance of my time.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to this 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Maine is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, one of our greatest strengths as a Nation is 
our diversity. The American experience is not a singular experience, 
and diversity programs exist to recognize this.
  The fact is, and business leaders agree, that having a diverse and 
inclusive culture in the workplace is critical to performance. 
Attempting to defund or block the implementation of these efforts only 
takes us back to a time when our Nation's diversity was not seen as an 
asset.
  This working group specifically looks for ways to foster an inclusive 
and respectful culture as it relates to water quality monitoring and 
assessment. Our success in achieving water quality goals depends on 
learning from people of all backgrounds.
  I oppose this amendment and encourage my colleagues to do the same, 
Mr. Chairman, and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Our Nation was made great because we have 
rewarded merit.
  Mr. Chair, I urge support of this amendment, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Illinois (Mrs. Miller).
  The amendment was agreed to.


          Amendment No. 73 Offered by Mrs. Miller of Illinois

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 73 
printed in part B of House Report 118-602.
  Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. 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:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to implement or enforce the final rule titled 
     ``Control of Air Pollution From New Motor Vehicles: Heavy-
     Duty Engine and Vehicle Standards'' published in the Federal 
     Register by the Environmental Protection Agency on January 
     24, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 4296).

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 1370, the gentlewoman 
from Illinois (Mrs. Miller) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Illinois.
  Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Chairman, this amendment defunds a 
costly and misguided EPA agency rule that requires heavy-duty vehicles 
to comply with reduced emissions limits of nitrogen oxides and other 
pollutants.
  This rule applies to vehicles, including certain long- and short-haul 
trucks, motor homes, school and transit buses, and commercial pickup 
trucks and vans.
  The EPA, the very agency that created this rule, estimates the 
technology required to meet the new rule's standards will cost around 
$8,000 per vehicle. This cost will be borne by consumers and the supply 
chain.
  The American people cannot afford the financial burdens of this 
aggressive regulation that would further raise costs of any product 
transported by trucks, including food, clothing, and building 
materials.
  This regulation's cost of compliance is so high, operators and owners 
of trucks will be forced to leave the market.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to support this amendment and defund 
a rule that places costly and burdensome emissions standards on 
vehicles, and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition to this 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Maine is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chairman, this amendment would block an EPA rule 
that implements a program to further reduce air pollution, including 
ozone and particulate matter from heavy-duty engines and vehicles 
across the United States. Both of these pollutants have significant 
negative impacts on human health.
  Ozone is the main component in smog, and it has been scientifically 
proven to aggravate lung diseases, increase the frequency and severity 
of asthma attacks, and reduce lung function.
  We have a responsibility to protect the millions of Americans 
affected by ozone and particulate matter pollution. For that reason, 
Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment, and I reserve 
the balance of my time.
  Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Chairman, I urge the Democrats to quit 
complaining about inflation while they are fanning the flame through 
excessive regulation.
  Mr. Chair, I urge the support of this amendment, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Illinois (Mrs. Miller).
  The amendment was agreed to.


               Amendment No. 75 Offered by Mr. Obernolte

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 75 
printed in part B of House Report 118-602.
  Mr. OBERNOLTE. 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:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to approve a waiver,

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     pursuant to section 209(e) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
     7543(e)), for the In-Use Locomotive Regulation adopted by the 
     California Air Resources Board on April 27, 2023.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 1370, the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Obernolte) and a Member opposed each will control 
5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California.
  Mr. OBERNOLTE. Mr. Chair, last year the California Air Resources 
Board proposed a new regulation that would have disastrous consequences 
for my constituents, for the people of California, and for the people 
of the United States.
  This so-called in-use locomotive rule would phase out the use of 
diesel-electric locomotives and require all locomotives entering the 
State of California to do so in a zero-emission configuration within 
just a few short years.
  Mr. Chairman, there are several problems with this regulation. The 
first and most obvious is that there are currently no electric 
locomotives that can take the place of a diesel-electric freight 
locomotive. In fact, the best electric locomotives that exist currently 
are those so-called switch locomotives that are used to move cars back 
and forth between trains within freight switchyards. There are no 
locomotives that can take the place of a diesel-electric locomotive and 
haul millions of pounds of freight from place to place over hundreds of 
miles.
  Mr. Chairman, the physics suggest there will be no locomotives that 
can accomplish this any time in the near future.
  Requiring this regulation would raise prices for every consumer in 
California, a State, Mr. Chairman, which already suffers the worst 
poverty of any State in the country.
  Mr. Chairman, this would also have a disastrous effect on my 
constituents. BNS Railways is currently constructing a $1.5 billion 
project in the city of Barstow within my district, an intermodal 
transfer facility that will allow freight from the Ports of Los Angeles 
and Long Beach to be shipped by rail to Barstow and then transshipped 
by rail or by truck to other places in the country. Currently, Mr. 
Chairman, that freight leaves those ports on trucks.

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  BNSF has said, quite reasonably, that if California will not let 
their locomotives enter the State, they will abandon their plans for 
that intermodal transfer facility.
  Mr. Chairman, that will result in the loss of not just $1.5 billion 
of investment in my community but over 20,000 jobs in the region of 
California that I represent.
  Mr. Chairman, the most nonsensical part of this legislation is that 
it actually will be much worse for the environment. It is three times 
more efficient to transfer freight by rail than it is by truck. That is 
one-third the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere.
  If we force freight to be shipped by truck instead of by rail out of 
the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, that will be far worse for the 
environment than allowing it to be transported on the efficient diesel-
electric locomotives that we currently have.
  That is why this amendment would deny the EPA the funding that they 
need to grant a waiver to the State of California to implement this 
nonsensical rule.
  Mr. Chair, I urge adoption of this amendment, and I reserve the 
balance of my time.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Maine is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment, which 
would effectively bar the EPA from approving a waiver of Federal 
preemption for California's in-use locomotive rule.
  Congress carefully crafted the Clean Air Act to recognize the diverse 
air pollution challenges facing each State. Due to a history of severe 
air quality problems, the EPA can grant California waivers to set 
vehicle emissions standards that are more protective than those at the 
Federal level, including for locomotives.
  While the EPA retains the authority to promulgate emission standards 
for new locomotives and locomotive engines, California is well within 
its rights to request a waiver of Federal preemption for regulations 
having to do with existing, or in-use, locomotives and locomotive 
engines.
  Legal technicalities aside, this rule is critical to the public 
health and welfare of Californians and for residents of the States that 
may choose to adopt these stronger standards in the future, thanks to 
the flexibilities embedded in the Clean Air Act.
  Diesel-powered locomotives emit dangerous air pollutants, including 
particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, and greenhouse gases. Exposure to 
this toxic and harmful pollution has been linked to cancer, asthma, 
cardiopulmonary illnesses, reproductive health harm, and premature 
mortality. California's rule is expected to prevent 3,200 premature 
deaths, 1,100 hospital admissions, and 1,500 emergency room visits and 
deliver $32 billion in health savings. For California communities near 
rail yards, this rule is projected to decrease cancer risk by over 90 
percent.
  This amendment is yet another Republican attack on EPA's authority to 
protect public health from sources of dangerous pollution and simply 
another item on their polluters over people agenda.
  A ``no'' vote on this amendment is a vote for protecting public 
health and preserving States' rights under the Clean Air Act. Mr. 
Chair, I urge my colleagues to side with the law and with science.
  Mr. Chair, I oppose this amendment, and I yield back the balance of 
my time.
  Mr. OBERNOLTE. Mr. Chair, I am very glad my colleague from Maine 
brought up the Clean Air Act because the Clean Air Act explicitly says 
that the right to set emissions requirements for locomotives is 
preempted from the States.
  Mr. Chairman, that makes complete sense because how on Earth can we 
operate a national railway system if we allow each of the 50 States to 
come up with their own rules about what locomotives can cross their 
State lines? Mr. Chairman, that is a complete impossibility.
  Mr. Chairman, to remind my colleague from Maine, the most nonsensical 
part of this rule is that these replacement electric locomotives do not 
exist, and they are not likely to exist anytime in the near future.
  The current best battery technology that we possess can store about 5 
megawatts of energy in the form factor of a locomotive. Mr. Chairman, 
to replace an existing freight locomotive would require about 20 times 
that amount of energy, about 100 megawatts of energy.
  Mr. Chairman, this is a nonsensical rule. It is bad for the people of 
California. It is bad for consumers in California. It is bad for the 
people of the United States because this rule would result in more 
greenhouse gas emissions, not less.
  Mr. Chair, I urge adoption of this commonsense amendment, and I yield 
back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Obernolte).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                 Amendment No. 76 Offered by Mr. Ogles

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 76 
printed in part B of House Report 118-602.
  Mr. OGLES. 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:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:


                   mineral leasing act modernization

       Sec. ___. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to implement, administer, or enforce section 50262 of 
     Public Law 117-169 (commonly known as the ``Inflation 
     Reduction Act'').

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 1370, the gentleman 
from Tennessee (Mr. Ogles) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Tennessee.
  Mr. OGLES. Mr. Chairman, my amendment pertains to the Inflation 
Reduction Act. In order to pay for what ended up being approximately 
$1.2 trillion in green subsidies, the Biden-Harris administration chose 
to raise the

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royalty rate on onshore oil and gas leases from 12.5 to 16.66 percent 
through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
  Progressive Democrats also voted in unison to quintuple the minimum 
bid amount from $2 an acre to $10 an acre. The minority voted to 
increase the rental rate by a factor of 9 from $1.50 to eventually $15 
an acre. At the time of the bill passage, estimates indicated that the 
bill would impose a $6.5 billion hike on oil and gas development.
  At a time when we need to get back to energy independence, when we 
need to fight inflation by lowering the price of fuel, we have to peel 
back these failed policies that hurt the economy and hurt the consumer.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Maine is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chairman, we are here to protect the welfare of the 
American public, and this provision prevents a fair return to the 
American taxpayer from oil and gas leasing conducted on public lands.
  By prohibiting the modernization of the Mineral Leasing Act, we are 
catering to the oil and gas interests and enabling them to continue to 
operate at rates that do not benefit the American people.
  Fossil fuels accelerate the impacts of climate change, and this 
amendment demonstrates my Republican colleagues would rather pay 
billions for disaster relief than focus on clean energy. Our economy, 
health, livelihoods, food security, and quality of life all depend on 
healthy ecosystems.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to reject this amendment and focus 
instead on addressing climate change and making our Nation stronger.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. OGLES. Mr. Chairman, what I find to be one of the more remarkable 
things about the so-called Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is nowhere 
in that bill do progressive Democrats identify any government program 
worth cutting, not $1 of the $80 billion appropriated to the IRS to 
audit middle-income Americans, not $1 of spending in Ukraine, and not 
$1 of the billions given to advance tree equity.
  This is absurd. We are spending ourselves into oblivion. We have to 
give relief to the American consumer, and a $6.5 billion hike in the 
cost of oil and gas to the consumer is real. The cost of groceries is 
up 30 to 40 percent. Rents are up. It is impossible for some to buy a 
home.
  We have to recognize that the Biden-Harris administration is a 
failure. People were better off under Donald Trump than they are under 
Biden-Harris.
  This is obvious. This isn't about pandering to oil and gas. This is 
about working-class Americans seeing increased prices at the fuel pump. 
Everything at the grocery store, everything at the big-box store, and 
everything at the mall is touched by oil and gas. If the price of that 
underlying commodity is increased, the price of everything else goes 
up. This is simple math.
  We have to get back to common sense. Quite frankly, our enemies 
laugh. America produces the cleanest energy in the world. If we were 
really serious about climate change, we would export our natural gas to 
Europe because ours is better and cleaner than Russia's.
  That is not my colleagues' objective. The minority's objective is 
about control, wealth distribution, and hurting the middle class. I, 
for one, stand for the middle class. I, for one, want to give relief to 
the middle class and quit pandering.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge adoption of this bill. We have the opportunity 
to get back to energy independence, and we have the opportunity to give 
relief to the middle-class consumer.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chairman, my colleague on the other side of the 
aisle says this is a measure to give relief to the American consumer 
and is pro-middle class.
  First off, I don't know how anyone with a straight face has a 
giveaway to the oil and gas industry and says it is a relief to the 
American consumer or a benefit to the middle class. There is nothing in 
here that does anything good for the middle class, and there is nobody 
in America who thinks that if the oil and gas industry is helped, 
somehow consumers have gotten a personal benefit from that.
  Mr. Chair, we all know climate change is real. We are very actively 
engaged in trying to produce more renewable energy and reduce our 
fossil fuel dependence. That is number one. That has to be our number 
one goal as Members of Congress.

  Second, this simply says that when we use public land for accessing 
oil and gas, we ask those companies, which make billions in profits, 
which everybody in America knows--they actually think that they should 
get a break?
  This actual fee has not changed since the 1920s. It is going from 
12.5 percent to 16 percent when it has not changed since the 1920s. 
Does anybody think we should continue to give the same incredible break 
to the oil and gas industry that they have had since the 1920s?
  It is a small modernization. It is money in the pocket of American 
taxpayers for using American land to derive this resource.
  Mr. Chair, I think it is ludicrous that anyone should block this 
provision in law. It is about time we modernize the Mineral Leasing 
Act, and this is a simple provision that just says to make the oil and 
gas industry pay its fair share.
  When my colleague on the other side of the aisle says that countries 
around the world are laughing at us because we are not producing more 
oil and gas, they might be laughing at us for giving away money to the 
oil and gas industry.
  As I said, no one thinks that they are hurting. No one thinks that if 
we gave them a savings on this, they would somehow miraculously pass it 
on to the consumer, and because they are such a benevolent industry, 
the first thing that they want to do is take this little break that we 
are giving them and say to give the consumers a break.
  No one thinks that the price at the pumps or the price they are 
paying goes down because we give them 12.5 percent instead of 16 
percent. This is a ludicrous amendment. I can't believe that anyone 
would propose this with a straight face.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment, and I yield 
back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Ogles).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                 Amendment No. 77 Offered by Mr. Ogles

  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Palmer). It is now in order to consider 
amendment No. 77 printed in part B of House Report 118-602.
  Mr. OGLES. 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:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used for the Environmental Financial Advisory Board of the 
     Environmental Protection Agency.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 1370, the gentleman 
from Tennessee (Mr. Ogles) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Tennessee.
  Mr. OGLES. Mr. Chairman, the Environmental Financial Advisory Board, 
or EFAB, was chartered under the 1972 Federal Advisory Committee Act.
  The EFAB boasts of making recommendations that would supposedly lower 
the cost of environmental protection. Unfortunately, they are entirely 
beholden to the left's climate alarmism agenda.
  In a 2022 meeting, the EFAB spent taxpayer resources gloating about 
the establishment of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund created from the 
so-called Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, a bill whose subsidies will 
cost the American taxpayer $1.2 trillion. The de facto slush fund 
provides $27 billion to the EPA through September 2024.
  If the argument here is that we need the EFAB to expedite the rate at 
which we can give out green subsidies to his donor base, I admit to my 
colleagues that perhaps the EFAB has grown to be successful in that 
endeavor. Let's take a look at eligible recipients for this boondoggle: 
State-sponsored green

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banks, nonprofit or quasi-government green banks, nonprofit energy 
conservation funds, and nonprofit social impact funds.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

                              {time}  1015

  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Maine is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, the Financial Advisory Board supports the 
EPA's mission to lower the cost and increase investment in 
environmental and public health protection.
  Just to be clear about its role, here are some of the activities the 
board pursues: ways to lower the cost of environmental protection; 
removes financial and programmatic barriers that raise costs; increases 
public and private contribution in environmental facilities and 
services; and builds State and local financial ability to meet 
environmental laws.
  This mission is critical if we want to ensure that the investments we 
need to make to protect our country from climate change are sound and 
achievable.
  Mr. Chair, I oppose this amendment, and I yield back the balance of 
my time.
  Mr. OGLES. Mr. Chair, if we look at the EFAB's charter, you will find 
they provide recommendations on ways the EPA can implement funding from 
the infrastructure law and Inflation Reduction Act to support 
environmental justice and to tackle the climate crisis. The charter 
goes on to say that the EFAB is focused on decarbonizing our Nation's 
schoolbuses.
  Let's put aside whether it is even the role and scope of the Federal 
Government to address environmental justice or to work to decarbonize 
schoolbuses.
  The EFAB is singularly focused on weaponizing the power of the 
Federal Government to distort market incentives and transform the 
economy, all in the name of promoting what has been rightly 
characterized as climate alarmism.
  Mr. Chair, I urge adoption of my amendment, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Ogles).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                 Amendment No. 78 Offered by Mr. Ogles

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 78 
printed in part B of House Report 118-602.
  Mr. OGLES. 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:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used by the Environmental Protection Agency for the U.S. 
     Global Change Research Program (USGCRP).

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 1370, the gentleman 
from Tennessee (Mr. Ogles) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Tennessee.
  Mr. OGLES. Mr. Chair, my amendment prohibits funds to be used by the 
Environmental Protection Agency for the U.S. Global Change Research 
Program. I know that is a mouthful, but this program coordinates with 
13 different Federal departments and agencies. Its focus, as it relates 
to the areas within the EPA's jurisdiction, is to conduct research on 
climate change.
  I think it is fair to say that the climate is changing, and perhaps 
we have a role to play in it. However, there is a degree of climate 
alarmism in this country that has compelled smooth-talking bureaucrats 
and their grant-seeking associates in the private sector to grovel for 
more and more and more funding, lest the world end in 8 years is kind 
of the mantra.
  Mr. Chair, we have got to stop giving these handouts for alarmism. We 
have got to get back to simple metrics. We have got to have things that 
are truly measurable and not subjective. I do believe Al Gore predicted 
the end of the world by now. Guess what? We are humming along just 
fine.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Maine is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, we are here to protect the welfare of the 
American public, and we cannot close our eyes to the impacts of climate 
change, such as the drought, flooding, severe storm, and wildfire 
events we are experiencing.
  As of July 9 of this year, the United States has experienced 15 
confirmed weather-climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 
billion each. As we all know, Hurricane Beryl made landfall in Texas on 
July 8, and we know more storms will follow this year. This amendment 
seeks to prohibit funding for the EPA's Global Change Research Program, 
which will result in more resilient communities, mitigate the impacts 
of climate change, and protect our world for future generations.
  Not investing in strategies that minimize and prevent the 
acceleration of climate change and instead paying billions in disaster 
relief shows my Republican colleagues are not thinking about what is 
best for the American taxpayer.
  Our economy, health, livelihoods, food security, and quality of life 
all depend on healthy ecosystems.
  I urge my colleagues to reject this amendment and focus instead on 
addressing climate change and making our Nation stronger.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. OGLES. Mr. Chair, the alarmism that is coming from the 
progressive Democrats ignores the fact that you have more and more 
individuals moving into coastal areas where hurricanes have an impact. 
You have more and more people and individuals moving into tornado alley 
or into Nashville where we have tornadic activity on a regular basis.
  Some of this is common sense. It is not that the climate is somehow 
attacking us, maybe we are just moving in the way of the climate 
because you have denser populations in areas that are affected by 
weather.
  Michael Shellenberger, a leading environmentalist, points out that 
economic development and technological advances are important factors 
that the left tends to exclude in its analysis on climate change.
  Mr. Chairman, we have to get back to the metrics, get back to common 
sense, and recognize that if we get out of the way of industry, they 
want to advance. They want to be more efficient. They want to produce a 
profit margin, but also a savings for their consumer.
  There is competition between industry to be more green, to be more 
environmentally friendly, and you see that playing out all over our 
Nation. You don't have to have the Federal Government putting industry 
in a choke hold and strangling innovation, and ultimately at a time 
when the middle class is struggling, strangling the middle class.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. OGLES. Mr. Chairman, this is, again, a commonsense policy at a 
time where the Biden-Harris administration has failed our country. Our 
southern border is wide open. We have little girls being raped by 
illegals. I have a family in critical condition because a drunk illegal 
hit them head-on. Fentanyl is killing 300,000 people. We have a crisis, 
and they want to talk about the climate.
  Our inner cities are desperate. Mayors in Dallas, Chicago, and New 
York are crying for help, and the Biden-Harris administration is 
silent. They are too busy pushing their alarmist, progressive, woke 
agenda on the middle class.
  The Biden-Harris policies have failed our country, they failed 
hardworking Americans, and this is a commonsense policy to inject 
common sense into the Federal Government.
  Mr. Chair, I urge adoption, and I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, this is yet again another one of those 
amendments proposed by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle 
that seeks to deny climate change and actively proposes that we do 
nothing.
  Once again, they use all kinds of terminology. They call this 
alarmist. They call it a progressive, woke, democratic agenda. I don't 
even know what all these words mean. What is a woke agenda on climate 
change?

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  This is the majority of scientists in this world who tell us that we 
have a crisis, not only a crisis coming, but a crisis that is already 
upon us: flooding, extreme weather, extreme heat.
  We are in the hottest summer on record. We are in the hottest month 
on record. What does it take to convince people that it is our 
responsibility to protect the American public, to protect American 
industry and economy, and to protect the planet instead of 
paying billions?

  Did anyone hear that statistic I had before? As of July 9, the United 
States has experienced 15 confirmed weather-climate disaster events 
with losses exceeding $1 billion each.
  It means we have already had 15 events totaling more than $1 billion, 
and we are only in July. I do not understand the economics, the math of 
my colleagues on the other side of the aisle who say, oh, no, we will 
just think about this some other day. This is just a climate woke 
agenda and we don't care if we pour out billions of dollars.
  Has the gentleman had a climate disaster in his district? I had two 
extreme storms in January that wiped away fishing wharves, wiped away 
commercial businesses. He talks about getting out of the way of 
businesses and how we have to be pro-business.
  How would he feel if he was the owner of a small fishing pier, and it 
was wiped away, and the climate disaster money wasn't there for him? 
What if there wasn't some kind of fund that immediately rebuilt his 
fishing pier? What is he doing this summer? Where would he put his 
lobster traps? Where would he dock his boat?
  How would he deal with this?
  What about the small restaurant that was flooded twice in one month 
by extreme storms, tides, tidal surge like we have never seen before?
  We have had two 100-year storms in one month. We used to call them 
100-year storms because they are only supposed to happen once in 100 
years. Now they have some other category because we don't even know 
what to call them anymore.
  These are climate disasters that are real, yet my colleagues on the 
other side of the aisle consistently keep making these amendments that 
just deny the climate change, which say we shouldn't even spend any 
money on it and say somehow this is pro-middle class.
  My colleagues say: We are helping the American consumer. We are 
helping the American taxpayer.
  Are they really?
  How does it help the taxpayer to spend billions in relief because 
they won't even admit to the facts that we have to reduce our 
dependence on foreign oil, American oil, and fossil fuels. We have to 
reduce that dependence.
  We have to invest and continue to invest in renewable energy, which 
actually has produced hundreds of thousands of green jobs. They talk 
about innovation, getting out of the way of industry, yet they 
consistently get in the way of renewable energy innovation because they 
don't want to admit that this is real because they are all somehow 
continuing to support the oil and gas, the fossil fuel industry.
  This progressive, woke, democratic agenda, whatever they want to call 
it, is just the facts. The fact is that climate change is upon us. This 
extreme weather is here today, and somehow my colleagues on the other 
side of the aisle want to waste American taxpayer dollars, want to not 
make the investments that we need to make, want to continue to cut in 
bills like this, and it is not helping the American public. It is not 
good for the future of Americans. It is not good for our health.
  I don't know if the gentleman has children or grandchildren, but I 
worry about what the future will be for my children and my seven 
grandchildren. I don't want them to come to me some day and say, hey, 
grandma, what were you doing when we needed to do something about this? 
What were you doing when we needed to prevent the climate change that 
is upon us today?
  Were you just sitting there with your eyes closed and pretending it 
didn't exist? Were you using a bunch of jargon, quoting social media, 
and some memes that you saw somewhere, or were you talking about 
scientific facts and really doing things to invest in your children and 
grandchildren's future because it is upon us.
  Mr. Chair, I encourage everyone to oppose this, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Ogles).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                 Amendment No. 79 Offered by Mr. Palmer

  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Ogles). It is now in order to consider 
amendment No. 79 printed in part B of House Report 118-602.
  Mr. PALMER. 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:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used by the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out 
     the powers granted under section 3063 of title 18, United 
     States Code.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 1370, the gentleman 
from Alabama (Mr. Palmer) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Alabama.
  Mr. PALMER. Mr. Chairman, each year the Environmental Protection 
Agency spends as much as $50 million a year to employ nearly 200 armed 
agents at an average cost of $216,000 per year per agent. The American 
people would likely be surprised to hear that.
  According to the nonprofit group OpenTheBooks, the EPA has spent 
millions of dollars over the years on things like antitank ammunition, 
amphibious assault craft, night-vision equipment, unmanned aircraft, 
and other military equipment. It is difficult for me to imagine that 
the EPA has a legitimate use for antitank ammunition. To me, this 
sounds like we are arming Delta Force. The difference is, Delta Force 
can explain why they need these things, the EPA cannot.
  These agents have been involved in raids in Alaska, Idaho, Wyoming, 
Montana, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and my own State of Alabama. In 
Alaska, EPA agents wearing flak jackets and carrying semiautomatic 
rifles, shotguns, and sidearms showed up to review paperwork at a 
family-owned mining operation.
  In my own State of Alabama, armed EPA agents took over two waste 
treatment facilities in Dothan, Alabama. These agents were posted at 
each entrance to the plant and recorded identification information of 
all those going in and going out.
  The EPA is just one of more than 70 Federal agencies that employ 
armed personnel, many of which most Americans would never associate 
with law enforcement. These include the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Association, the Federal Reserve Board, the National 
Institutes of Health, among others.

                              {time}  1030

  At this time, we need to take a step back and reevaluate whether 
arming the bureaucracy is the best way to ensure that our laws are 
enforced.
  Federal agencies should be able to demonstrate their need for armed 
personnel, and absent such a demonstration, should rely on and partner 
with local, State, or Federal law enforcement when there is a need for 
armed protection.
  Critics may claim my amendment would put the EPA personnel at risk of 
harm. They would be wrong. My amendment does not prohibit the EPA from 
using funds to provide security for its personnel or property. It does 
not prohibit training of EPA security or law enforcement personnel 
either.
  My amendment would prohibit funding for the EPA's armed and 
militarized agents who have a history of intimidating Americans by 
conducting aggressive raids and begin to address the troubling trend of 
militarization in our Federal agencies.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to support my amendment, and I 
reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Maine is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, I strongly oppose this amendment that would 
cripple the EPA's ability to exercise its criminal enforcement function 
by preventing EPA criminal enforcement from being able to issue 
warrants, make arrests, or carry firearms.

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  I am truly befuddled by this attack on law enforcement. The 
majority's disdain for the EPA has been evident throughout the debate 
of this bill, but this amendment is beyond the pale.
  I cannot understand how anyone would think it is a good idea to give 
a pass to criminals who deliberately break the law.
  EPA's criminal enforcement function is a vital part of our efforts to 
help protect the environment and safeguard the public health, but it is 
important to recognize that it is only one part of these efforts.
  The fact is the EPA's compliance and enforcement process is a 
multistep process that uses criminal law enforcement only as a last 
resort. EPA initially provides compliance assistance to help the 
regulated community understand and comply with the regulations.
  EPA compliance monitoring then subsequently assesses compliance 
through inspections and other activities. Enforcement actions are 
initiated only when the regulated community does not comply or when 
cleanup is required. Criminal actions are usually reserved for the most 
serious violations, those that are willful or knowingly committed.
  The mere threat of a criminal action can and does help ensure 
compliance. If this irresponsible amendment passes, and we remove the 
threat of criminal action, we will inevitably see a decline in willful 
compliance of our environmental laws. That would be bad news for all of 
us, as the quality of our air and water and the public health will 
inevitably suffer.
  As to the issue of EPA personnel carrying firearms, I would point out 
that more than 70 Federal agencies employ law enforcement officers who 
are authorized to carry firearms and make arrests from the United 
States, including the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the Food and 
Drug Administration, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. The EPA is 
hardly unique in this regard.
  Make no mistake. This amendment is clearly anti-law enforcement. It 
cripples the ability of the EPA to ensure enforcement of our 
environmental laws and will inevitably lead to more harm to the public 
health.
  I urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. PALMER. Mr. Chairman, I think it is interesting that my colleague 
believes the EPA is now a law enforcement agency and wants them fully 
funded, particularly in light of the fact that so many of my colleagues 
on the other side of the aisle were for defunding the local police, 
disarming the local police.
  Yet, they want the EPA to be able to have anti-tank weapons. They 
want them to have unmanned aerial assets. This is like a military 
operation, not a law enforcement operation.
  Mr. Chairman, if someone is violating a regulation that the EPA has 
imposed upon them, they can use Federal marshals if they need that, and 
there is no prohibition against EPA agents being able to carry sidearms 
or even rifles, if it is necessary.
  I would like for someone to explain to me why the EPA needs anti-tank 
weapons. Who do they think they are protecting the environment from?
  I really appreciate the concerns of my colleague, and I wish they had 
the same concerns about local law enforcement that they do about 
militarizing Federal agencies.
  I urge my colleagues to think long and hard about what is going on 
with the Federal agencies, and I urge each one of them to support this 
amendment. It is a sensible amendment, and it puts things in the right 
priority.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to vote in support of this 
amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Palmer).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                    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 B of House Report 
118-602 on which further proceedings were postponed, in the following 
order:
  Amendment No. 24 by Mr. Brecheen of Oklahoma.
  Amendment No. 25 by Mr. Brecheen of Oklahoma.
  Amendment No. 45 by Mrs. Harshbarger of Tennessee.
  Amendment No. 57 by Mrs. Miller of Illinois.
  The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the minimum time for any 
electronic vote after the first vote in this series.


                Amendment No. 24 Offered by Mr. Brecheen

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 24, printed in part B of House Report 
118-602, offered by the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Brecheen), 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 vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 156, 
noes 236, not voting 46, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 387]

                               AYES--156

     Alford
     Allen
     Armstrong
     Babin
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (TX)
     Cline
     Clyde
     Collins
     Crane
     Crawford
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Flood
     Fong
     Foxx
     Franklin, Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Lopez
     Loudermilk
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moran
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Norman
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Perez
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Steil
     Steube
     Strong
     Tenney
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--236

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Amo
     Amodei
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Calvert
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crenshaw
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallego
     Garbarino
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Issa
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Joyce (OH)
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy
     Khanna
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kildee
     Kiley
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     LaLota
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lucas
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Maloy
     Manning
     Mast
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     McHenry
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Miller (OH)
     Miller-Meeks
     Moore (UT)
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Nunn (IA)
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pelosi

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     Peltola
     Pence
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Rulli
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stefanik
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Velazquez
     Wagner
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Williams (NY)
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack

                             NOT VOTING--46

     Aderholt
     Arrington
     Blumenauer
     Bowman
     Bush
     Castro (TX)
     Cleaver
     Cloud
     Cole
     Comer
     Curtis
     DeLauro
     Diaz-Balart
     Duarte
     Evans
     Foster
     Garamendi
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Grijalva
     Higgins (LA)
     Hudson
     Jackson (TX)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kim (CA)
     Kuster
     Larson (CT)
     LaTurner
     McCaul
     Meeks
     Molinaro
     Moylan
     Mrvan
     Omar
     Pascrell
     Porter
     Radewagen
     Rodgers (WA)
     Ruppersberger
     Salazar
     Sewell
     Suozzi
     Titus
     Turner
     Valadao
     Veasey
     Watson Coleman

                              {time}  1058

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Mr. FOSTER. Mr. Chair, I missed a recorded vote. Had I been present, 
on Roll Call No. 387, Brecheen Amendment No. 24 to H.R. 8998, the 
Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, I would have voted No.


Moment of Silence in Memory of Officer Jacob J. Chestnut and Detective 
                             John M. Gibson

  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Johnson of Louisiana). The Chair asks that the 
body now observe a moment of silence in memory of Officer Jacob J. 
Chestnut and Detective John M. Gibson of the United States Capitol 
Police, who were killed in the line of duty defending the Capitol on 
July 24, 1998.


                Amendment No. 25 Offered by Mr. Brecheen

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 25, printed in part B of House Report 
118-602, offered by the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Brecheen), 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 211, 
noes 202, not voting 25, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 388]

                               AYES--211

     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
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Fong
     Foxx
     Franklin, Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Lopez
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Maloy
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Murphy
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rulli
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--202

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

                             NOT VOTING--25

     Bush
     Castro (TX)
     Cleaver
     Comer
     Evans
     Garamendi
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Grijalva
     Higgins (LA)
     Hudson
     Kamlager-Dove
     Larson (CT)
     Lynch
     Moylan
     Nehls
     Pascrell
     Peters
     Porter
     Radewagen
     Ruppersberger
     Schiff
     Suozzi
     Turner
     Watson Coleman
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1103

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


              Amendment No. 45 Offered by Mrs. Harshbarger

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 45, printed in part B of House Report 
118-602, offered by the gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Harshbarger), 
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 174, 
noes 239, not voting 24, as follows:

[[Page H4876]]

  


                             [Roll No. 389]

                               AYES--174

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Arrington
     Babin
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Cline
     Clyde
     Collins
     Crane
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Fong
     Foxx
     Franklin, Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Houchin
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Lopez
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Malliotakis
     Maloy
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moran
     Nehls
     Norman
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rulli
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (NY)
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Yakym

                               NOES--239

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Amo
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bice
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Calvert
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crawford
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Ellzey
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Feenstra
     Fitzpatrick
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallego
     Garbarino
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Mike
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Granger
     Green, Al (TX)
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Huizenga
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Joyce (OH)
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kiley
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     LaLota
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Mace
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (UT)
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Murphy
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Nunn (IA)
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pelosi
     Peltola
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Valadao
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wagner
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Womack
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--24

     Bush
     Castro (TX)
     Cleaver
     Cloud
     Comer
     Duarte
     Evans
     Garamendi
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Grijalva
     Higgins (LA)
     Hudson
     Kamlager-Dove
     Larson (CT)
     Moylan
     Omar
     Pascrell
     Porter
     Radewagen
     Ruppersberger
     Schiff
     Suozzi
     Turner
     Watson Coleman


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1108

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


          Amendment No. 57 Offered by Mrs. Miller of Illinois

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 57, printed in part B of House Report 
118-602, offered by the gentlewoman from Illinois (Mrs. Miller), 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 is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 148, 
noes 267, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 21, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 390]

                               AYES--148

     Alford
     Allen
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Cammack
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Collins
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fong
     Foxx
     Franklin, Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Hill
     Houchin
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Jackson (TX)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Malliotakis
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Perry
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rulli
     Rutherford
     Scalise
     Self
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--267

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Amo
     Amodei
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bice
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Calvert
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carey
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flood
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallego
     Garbarino
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Mike
     Garcia, Robert
     Gimenez
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Green, Al (TX)
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Himes
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Issa
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
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                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1

       
     Griffith
       

                             NOT VOTING--21

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     Castro (TX)
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     Comer
     Evans
     Garamendi
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Grijalva
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     Moylan
     Pascrell
     Porter
     Radewagen
     Ruppersberger
     Schiff
     Suozzi
     Turner
     Watson Coleman

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


                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. PASCRELL. Mr. Chair, I regrettably missed the following roll call 
votes. Had I been present I would have voted: No on Roll Call Vote 387, 
Brecheen Amendment No. 24; No on Roll Call Vote 388, Brecheen Amendment 
No. 25; No on Roll Call Vote 389, Harshbarger Amendment No. 45; and No 
on Roll Call Vote 390, Miller (IL) Amendment No. 57.


                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. SCHIFF. Mr. Chair, due to unforeseen events, I was unfortunately 
unable to cast my vote for legislation considered on the House floor 
today. Had I been able to be present, I would have voted according to 
the following: NO, Roll Call 388, on Amendment No. 25; NO, Roll Call 
389, on Amendment No. 45; and NO, Roll Call 390, on Amendment No. 57.


                          personal explanation

  Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. Chair, had I been present for Roll 
Call Vote 387, Brecheen Amendment 24, I would have voted No. Had I been 
present for Roll Call Vote 388, Brecheen Amendment 25, I would have 
voted No. Had I been present for Roll Call Vote 389, Harshbarger 
Amendment 45, I would have voted No. Had I been present for Roll Call 
Vote 390, Miller Amendment 57, I would have voted No.


                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Ms. PORTER. Mr. Chair, I was unable to be present to cast my vote on 
Roll Call Nos. 387, 388, 389, and 390. Had I been present, I would have 
voted NO on Roll Call Nos. 387, 388, 389, and 390.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Chair, I move that the Committee do now rise.
  The motion was agreed to.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. Van 
Drew) having assumed the chair, Mr. LaLota, 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. 8998) 
making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, 
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, and 
for other purposes, had come to no resolution thereon.

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