[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 9027-9028]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               AMENDMENTS

  Under clause 8 of rule XVIII, proposed amendments were submitted as 
follows:

                               H.R. 2577

                         Offered By: Mr. Denham

       Amendment No. 32: 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 high-speed rail in the State of California or for 
     the California High-Speed Rail Authority, nor may any be used 
     by the Federal Railroad Administration to administer a grant 
     agreement with the California High-Speed Rail Authority that 
     contains a tapered matching requirement.

                               H.R. 2577

                         Offered By: Mr. Denham

       Amendment No. 33: 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 high-speed rail in the State of California or for 
     the California High-Speed Rail Authority.

                               H.R. 2577

                   Offered By: Mr. Emmer of Minnesota

       Amendment No. 34: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     used to carry out any enrichment as defined in Appendix A to 
     Part 611 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, for any 
     New Start grant request.

                               H.R. 2577

                        Offered By: Mr. Grothman

       Amendment No. 35: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       Sec.  __. None of the funds made available by this Act 
     under the heading ``Department of Housing and Urban 
     Development--Housing Programs--Project-Based Rental 
     Assistance'' may be used for any family who is not an elderly 
     family or a disabled family (as such terms are defined in 
     section 3(b) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
     U.S.C. 1437a(b)) and who was not receiving project-based 
     rental assistance under section 8 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
     1437f) as of October 1, 2015, and the amount otherwise 
     provided under such heading is reduced by $300,000,000.

                               H.R. 2577

                        Offered By: Mr. Grothman

       Amendment No. 36: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       Sec.  __. None of the funds made available by this Act 
     under the heading ``Department of Housing and Urban 
     Development--Public and Indian Housing Programs--Tenant-Based 
     Rental Assistance'' may be used for any family who is not an 
     elderly family or a disabled family (as such terms are 
     defined in section 3(b) of the United States Housing Act of 
     1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)) and who was not receiving tenant-
     based rental assistance under section 8 of such Act (42 
     U.S.C. 1437f) as of October 1, 2015, and the amount otherwise 
     provided under such heading is reduced, the amount specified 
     under such heading for renewals of expiring section 8 tenant-
     based annual contributions contracts is reduced, and the 
     amount specified under such heading for administrative and 
     other expenses of public housing agencies in administering 
     the section 8 tenant-based rental assistance program) is 
     reduced, by $300,000,000, $210,000,000, and $90,000,000, 
     respectively.

                               H.R. 2577

              Offered By: Ms. Maxine Waters of California

       Amendment No. 37: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       Sec. 4__. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to establish any asset management position (including 
     any account executive, senior account executive, and troubled 
     asset specialist position, as such positions are described in 
     the Field Resource Manual (Wave 1) entitled ``Transformation: 
     Multifamily for Tomorrow'' of the Department of Housing and 
     Urban Development) of the Office of Multifamily Housing of 
     the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or newly 
     hire an employee for any asset management position, that is 
     located at a Core office (as such term is used in such Field 
     Resource Manual) before filling each such asset management 
     position that is located at a Non-Core office (as such term 
     is used in such Field Resource Manual) and has been vacated 
     since October 1, 2015.

                               H.R. 2577

                         Offered By: Mr. Lewis

       Amendment No. 38: Page 156, after line 15, insert the 
     following new section:
       Sec. 416. Notwithstanding Mortgagee Letter 2015-12 of the 
     Department of Housing and Urban Development (dated April 30, 
     2015) or any other provision of law, the Secretary of Housing 
     and Urban Development shall--
       (1) implement the Mortgagee Optional Election (MOE) 
     Assignment for home equity conversion mortgages (as set forth 
     in Mortgagee Letter 2015-03, dated January 29, 2015), 
     allowing additional flexibility for non-borrowing spouses to 
     meet its requirements; and
       (2) provide for a 5-year delay in foreclosure in the case 
     of any other home equity conversion mortgage that--
       (A) has an FHA Case Number assigned before August, 4, 2014; 
     and
       (B) has a last surviving borrower who has died and who has 
     a non-borrowing surviving spouse who does not qualify for the 
     Mortgagee Optional Election and who, but for the death of 
     such borrowing spouse, would be able to remain in the 
     dwelling subject to the mortgage.

                               H.R. 2577

                         Offered By: Mr. Zeldin

       Amendment No. 39: 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 Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
     Administration to institute an administrative or civil action 
     (as defined in section 47107 of title 49, United States Code) 
     against the sponsor of the East Hampton Airport in East 
     Hampton, NY.

                               H.R. 2577

                         Offered By: Mr. Peters

       Amendment No. 40: 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 in contravention of Executive Order 11246 (relating 
     to Equal Employment Opportunity).

                               H.R. 2577

                        Offered By: Mr. Hultgren

       Amendment No. 41: None of the funds made available by this 
     Act may be used by the Federal Aviation Administration for 
     the bio-data assessment in the hiring of Air Traffic Control 
     Specialists.

                               H.R. 2577

                         Offered By: Mr. Meehan

       Amendment No. 42: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       Sec. 416. None of the funds made available by this Act for 
     Amtrak capital grants may be used for projects off the 
     Northeast Corridor until the level of capital spending by 
     Amtrak for capital projects on the Northeast Corridor during 
     fiscal year 2016 equals the amount of Amtrak's profits from 
     Northeast Corridor operations during fiscal year 2015.

                               H.R. 2685

                      Offered By: Mr. King of Iowa

       Amendment No. 1: At the end of the bill, before the short 
     title, add the following new section:
       Sec. __. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available in this Act shall be used by the Department of 
     Defense to process pursuant to the memorandum of the 
     Secretary of Defense entitled ``Military Accessions Vital to 
     National Interest (MAVNI) Program Eligibility'' and dated 
     November 2014 any application wherein an individual relies on 
     a granted deferred action by the Department of Homeland 
     Security pursuant to the Deferred Action for Childhood 
     Arrivals (DACA) process established pursuant to the 
     memorandum of the Secretary of Homeland Security entitled 
     ``Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to 
     Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children'' and 
     dated June 15, 2012.

                               H.R. 2685

                  Offered By: Mr. Huizenga of Michigan

       Amendment No. 2: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       Sec. 10003. None of the funds made available by this Act 
     may be used by the Defense Logistics Agency to implement the 
     Small

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     Business Administration interim final rule titled ``Small 
     Business Size Standards; Adoption of 2012 North American 
     Industry Classification System'' (published August 20, 2012, 
     in the Federal Register) with respect to the procurement of 
     footwear.

                               H.R. 2685

                       Offered By: Mr. McClintock

       Amendment No. 3:
       Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to carry out any of the following:
       (1) Sections 2(b), 2(d), 2(g), 3(c), 3(e), 3(f), or 3(g) of 
     Executive Order 13423.
       (2) Sections 2(a), 2(b), 2(c), 2(f)(iii-iv), 2(h), 7, 9, 
     12, 13, or 16 of Executive Order 13514.
       (3) Subsection (e) and paragraphs (4), (9), (10), and (12) 
     of subsection (c) of section 2911 of title 10, United States 
     Code.
       (4) Sections 400AA or 400 FF of the Energy Policy and 
     Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6374, 6374e).
       (5) Section 303 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 
     13212).
       (6) Section 203 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 
     15852).

                               H.R. 2685

                        Offered By: Mr. Huffman

       Amendment No. 4: Strike section 8053.

                               H.R. 2685

                       Offered By: Mr. MacArthur

       Amendment No. 5: 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 divest or retire, or to prepare to divest or 
     retire, KC-10 aircraft.