[House Report 114-611]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


114th Congress   }                                      {       Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2d Session      }                                      {      114-611

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      PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL (H.R. 5325) MAKING 
 APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING 
               SEPTEMBER 30, 2017, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

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June 8, 2016.--Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed

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               Mr. Woodall, from the Committee on Rules, 
                        submitted the following

                              R E P O R T

                       [To accompany H. Res. 771]

    The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration 
House Resolution 771, by a record vote of 9 to 2, report the 
same to the House with the recommendation that the resolution 
be adopted.

                SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS OF THE RESOLUTION

    The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 5325, the 
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2017, under a structured 
rule. The resolution provides one hour of general debate 
equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on Appropriations. The 
resolution waives all points of order against consideration of 
the bill and provides that it shall be considered as read. The 
resolution waives all points of order against provisions in the 
bill for failure to comply with clause 2 of rule XXI. The 
resolution makes in order only those amendments printed in this 
report. Each such amendment may be offered only in the order 
printed in this report, may be offered only by a Member 
designated in this report, shall be considered as read, shall 
be debatable for the time specified in this report equally 
divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall 
not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a 
demand for division of the question in the House or in the 
Committee of the Whole. The resolution waives all points of 
order against the amendments printed in this report. The 
resolution provides one motion to recommit with or without 
instructions.
    Section 2 of the resolution provides that during 
consideration of H.R. 5325, section 3304 of Senate Concurrent 
Resolution 11 shall not apply.

                         EXPLANATION OF WAIVERS

    The waiver of all points of order against consideration of 
the bill includes a waiver of the following:
           Clause 3(e)(1) of rule XIII (``Ramseyer''), 
        requiring a committee report accompanying a bill 
        amending or repealing statutes to show, by 
        typographical device, parts of statute affected. The 
        waiver is provided because the submission provided by 
        the Committee on Appropriations was insufficient to 
        meet the standards established by the rule in its 
        current form. The Committee on Rules continues to work 
        with the House Office of Legislative Counsel and 
        committees to determine the steps necessary to comply 
        with the updated rule;
           Section 3(d)(5) of H. Res. 5, which 
        prohibits the consideration of a general appropriation 
        bill, unless it includes a spending reduction account; 
        and
           Section 306 of the Congressional Budget Act, 
        which prohibits consideration of legislation within the 
        jurisdiction of the Committee on the Budget unless 
        referred to or reported by the Budget Committee.
    The resolution includes a waiver of points of order against 
provisions in the bill for failure to comply with clause 2 of 
rule XXI, which prohibits unauthorized appropriations or 
legislative provisions in an appropriations bill. This waiver 
is necessary because the bill contains unauthorized 
appropriations and legislative provisions.
    Although the resolution waives all points of order against 
the amendments printed in this report, the Committee is not 
aware of any points of order. The waiver is prophylactic in 
nature.

                            COMMITTEE VOTES

    The results of each record vote on an amendment or motion 
to report, together with the names of those voting for and 
against, are printed below:

Rules Committee record vote No. 183

    Motion by Mr. McGovern to make in order and provide the 
appropriate waivers for amendment #12, offered by Rep. 
Wasserman Schultz (FL), which provides for the restatement of 
the Library of Congress' existing policy regarding certain 
Subject Headings and amendment #24, offered by Rep. Maloney 
(NY); Rep. Peters (CA) and Rep. Hanna (NY), which prohibits 
funds from being used to contravene the President's Executive 
Order pertaining to equal employment in Federal government 
contracting. Defeated: 2-8

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                Majority Members                      Vote               Minority Members               Vote
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Ms. Foxx........................................          Nay   Ms. Slaughter.....................  ............
Mr. Cole........................................          Nay   Mr. McGovern......................          Yea
Mr. Woodall.....................................  ............  Mr. Hastings of Florida...........  ............
Mr. Burgess.....................................          Nay   Mr. Polis.........................          Yea
Mr. Stivers.....................................          Nay
Mr. Collins.....................................          Nay
Mr. Byrne.......................................          Nay
Mr. Newhouse....................................          Nay
Mr. Sessions, Chairman..........................          Nay
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Rules Committee record vote No. 184

    Motion by Mr. Cole to report the rule. Adopted: 9-2

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                Majority Members                      Vote               Minority Members               Vote
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Ms. Foxx........................................          Yea   Ms. Slaughter.....................  ............
Mr. Cole........................................          Yea   Mr. McGovern......................          Nay
Mr. Woodall.....................................          Yea   Mr. Hastings of Florida...........  ............
Mr. Burgess.....................................          Yea   Mr. Polis.........................          Nay
Mr. Stivers.....................................          Yea
Mr. Collins.....................................          Yea
Mr. Byrne.......................................          Yea
Mr. Newhouse....................................          Yea
Mr. Sessions, Chairman..........................          Yea
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                SUMMARY OF THE AMENDMENTS MADE IN ORDER

    1. Speier (CA): Increases funding for the Sergeant at Arms 
by $100,000 for additional clearance investigations, and 
decreases the Office of the Clerk by the same amount. (10 
minutes)
    2. Ellison (MN), Grijalva (AZ): Reprograms funds to create 
an Office of Good Jobs for the House of Representatives. (10 
minutes)
    3. Blumenauer (OR): Requires the Architect of the Capitol 
to conduct a feasibility study regarding the installation and 
operation of Capital Bikeshare stations on Capitol Grounds. (10 
minutes)
    4. Welch (VT), Matsui (CA): Transfers $500,000 from the 
Capital Construction and Operations account to the Capitol 
Building and House Office Buildings accounts, appropriating 
$250,000 to each. This amendment would bring the Capitol and 
House office buildings into compliance with General Services 
Administration requirements for federal buildings regarding 
lactation stations for breastfeeding mothers. (10 minutes)
    5. Sanford (SC): Transfers $430,000 from the John C. 
Stennis Center for Public Service Training and Development to 
the spending reduction account. (10 minutes)
    6. Blackburn (TN): Provides for a one percent across the 
board cut to the bill's spending levels. Accounts for the 
Capitol Police, Architect of the Capitol-Capitol Police 
Buildings, Grounds and Security, and Office of the Sergeant At 
Arms shall not be reduced. (10 minutes)
    7. Flores (TX), Blackburn (TN), Walker (NC): Prohibits 
funds from being used for the manufacturing of government 
security credentials by the Government Publishing Office (GPO) 
for any agency other than Capitol Police and the Sergeant at 
Arms of the House of Representatives. (10 minutes)
    8. Gosar (AZ): Prohibits any funds for delivering printed 
copies of the United States House of Representatives Telephone 
Directory to the office of any Member of the House of 
Representatives. (10 minutes)
    9. Gosar (AZ): Prohibits any funds for delivering printed 
copies of the President's Budget to the office of any Member of 
the House of Representatives. (10 minutes)
    10. Grayson (FL): Expands the list of parties with whom the 
federal government is prohibited from contracting due to 
serious misconduct on the part of the contractors. (10 minutes)
    11. Takano (CA), Esty (CT), Foster (IL), Lujan (NM): 
Appropriates $2.5 million to re-institute the Office of 
Technology Assessment (OTA), offset from funds from the 
Architect of the Capitol's Capital Construction and Operations 
Account. (10 minutes)
    12. Russell (OK): Prohibits use of funds under this Act to 
be used to deliver a printed copy of the Federal Register to a 
Member of the House of Representatives. (10 minutes)
    13. Pearce (NM): Reduces the Office of Congressional Ethics 
budget to FY16 levels and transfers remaining funds to the 
deficit reduction account. (10 minutes)

                    TEXT OF AMENDMENTS MADE IN ORDER

1. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Speier of California or 
                 Her Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  Page 4, line 13, after the second dollar amount, insert 
``(reduced by $100,000)''.
  Page 4, line 18, after the first dollar amount, insert 
``(increased by $100,000)''.
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2. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Ellison of Minnesota or 
                 His Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  Page 4, line 22, after the first dollar amount, insert 
``(reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000)''.
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3. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Blumenauer of Oregon or 
                 His Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  Page 17, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
by $100,000) (increased by $100,000)''.
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4. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Welch of Vermont or His 
                   Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  Page 17, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
by $500,000)''.
  Page 17, line 11, after the dollar amount, insert 
``(increased by $250,000)''.
  Page 17, line 23, after the first dollar amount, insert 
``(increased by $250,000)''.
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   5. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Sanford of South 
           Carolina or His Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  Page 39, line 2, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
by $430,000)''.
  Page 42, line 17, after the dollar amount, insert 
``(increased by $430,000)''.
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6. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Blackburn of Tennessee 
               or Her Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
following:
  Sec. __. (a) Each amount made available by this Act is hereby 
reduced by 1 percent.
  (b) The reduction in subsection (a) shall not apply with 
respect to--
          (1) accounts under the heading ``Capitol Police'';
          (2) ``Architect of the Capitol--Capitol Police 
        Buildings, Grounds and Security''; or
          (3) the amount provided for salaries and expenses of 
        the Office of the Sergeant at Arms under the heading 
        ``House of Representatives--Salaries, Officers and 
        Employees''.
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7. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Flores of Texas or His 
                   Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  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 Government Publishing Office for the manufacture of 
secure credentials for any agency other than the United States 
Capitol Police and the Sergeant at Arms of the House of 
Representatives.
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8. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Gosar of Arizona or His 
                   Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  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 deliver a printed copy of the United States House of 
Representatives Telephone Directory to the office of any Member 
of the House of Representatives (including a Delegate or 
Resident Commissioner to the Congress).
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9. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Gosar of Arizona or His 
                   Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  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 deliver a printed copy of the Budget of the United 
States Government; Analytical Perspectives, Budget of the 
United States Government; or the Appendix, Budget of the United 
States Government, to the office of any Member of the House of 
Representatives (including a Delegate or Resident Commissioner 
to the Congress).
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10. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Grayson of Florida or 
                 His Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  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 enter into a contract with any offeror or any of its 
principals if the offeror certifies, as required by Federal 
Acquisition Regulation, that the offeror or any of its 
principals--
          (1) within a three-year period preceding the offer, 
        has been convicted of or had a civil judgment rendered 
        against it for commission of fraud or a criminal 
        offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to 
        obtain, or performing a public (Federal, State, or 
        local) contract or subcontract; violation of Federal or 
        State antitrust statutes relating to the submission of 
        offers; or commission of embezzlement, theft, forgery, 
        bribery, falsification or destruction of records, 
        making false statements, tax evasion, violating Federal 
        criminal tax laws, or receiving stolen property;
          (2) are presently indicted for, or otherwise 
        criminally or civilly charged by a governmental entity 
        with, commission of any of the offenses enumerated 
        above in paragraph (1); or
          (3) within a three-year period preceding the offer, 
        has been notified of any delinquent Federal taxes in an 
        amount that exceeds $3,000 for which the liability 
        remains unsatisfied.
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 11. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Takano of California 
               or His Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
following:
  Sec. __.  There is appropriated, for salaries and expenses of 
the Office of Technology Assessment as authorized by the 
Technology Assessment Act of 1972 (2 U.S.C. 471 et seq.) 
$2,500,000, to be derived from a reduction of $2,500,000 in the 
amount provided in this Act for the item for ``Architect of the 
Capitol, Capital Construction and Operations''.
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12. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Russell of Oklahoma or 
                 His Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  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 deliver a printed copy of the Federal Register to a 
Member of the House of Representatives (including a Delegate or 
Resident Commissioner to the Congress) unless the Member 
requests a copy.
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 13. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Pearce of New Mexico 
               or His Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  Page 2, line 12, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
by $190,970)''.
  Page 5, line 14, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
by $190,970)''.
  Page 6, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by 
$190,970)''.
  Page 42, line 17, after the dollar amount, insert 
``(increased by $190,970)''.

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