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House of Representatives

Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 41 public bills, H.R. 3332-
3372; and 6 resolutions, H.J. Res. 66 and 67; and H. Res. 448-451 were
introduced.
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Additional Cosponsors:
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Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows:
H.R. 2500, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 for
military activities of the Department of Defense and for military
construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal
year, and for other purposes, with amendments (H. Rept. 116-120);
H.R. 2397, to amend the National Institute of Standards and
Technology Act to make changes to the implementation of the network for
manufacturing innovation, and for other purposes, with an amendment (H.
Rept. 116-121);
H.R. 3351, making appropriations for financial services and general
government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other
purposes (H. Rept. 116-122)
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Recess: The House recessed at 10:28 a.m. and reconvened at 12 noon.
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Guest Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the Guest Chaplain, Pastor
Ryan Hodges, Rocky Face Baptist Church, Hiddenite, North Carolina.
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Unanimous Consent Agreement--Consideration of H.R. 3055: Agreed by
unanimous consent that the amendment placed at the desk be considered
as though printed as amendment No. 123 in Part B of House Report 116-
119, if offered by Mrs. Lee (NV) or her designee, be debatable for 10
minutes equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an
opponent.
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Recess: The House recessed at 1:21 p.m. and reconvened at 1:30 p.m.
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Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020: The House passed H.R. 2740,
making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2020, by a yea-and-nay vote of 226 yeas to 203
nays, Roll No. 367. Consideration began Wednesday, June 12th.
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Rejected the Womack motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on
Appropriations, by a recorded vote of 196 ayes to 231 noes, Roll No.
366.
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Pursuant to sec. 7(a) of H. Res. 445, the amendment printed in part C
of H. Rept. 116-119 shall be considered as adopted in the House and in
the Committee of the Whole.
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Agreed to:
Kaptur en bloc amendment No. 3 that was debated on June 18th
consisting of the following amendments printed in part A of H. Rept.
116-111: Wasserman Schultz (No. 65) that states that none of the funds
made available by this Act may be used to issue a permit under section
404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act for the discharge of
dredged or fill material from a project within Water Conservation Areas
in the Everglades; Langevin (No. 71) that plus and minus of $5 million
within the Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation account in support of low-
enriched uranium (LEU) research for naval reactors at the NNSA;
Grijalva (No. 73) that increases Office of Indian Energy Policy and
Program by 2 million and decreases Fossil Fuel Research and Development
by 2.4 million; Castor (FL) (No. 83) that none of the funds made
available in this Act may be used to finalize the Department of
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rule to rollback efficiency standards for certain light bulbs; Bera
(No. 88) that increases and decreases Reclamation's Water and Related
Resources Account by $2 million to support the WaterSmart Program;
Brendan F. Boyle (PA) (No. 94) that prevents funds from being used to
reject any application for a grant due to the use of the term ``global
warming'' or the term ``climate change'' in the application; Omar (No.
105) that clarifies that the Department of Energy's Section 1703 Loan
Program is providing loans only to clean energy projects that avoid,
reduce, or sequester air pollutants or human-caused emissions of
greenhouse gases; Lee (NV) (No. 106) that increases funding for ARPA-E
by $3 million and decreases funding for Department of Energy
Departmental Funds $3 million; and Garcia (No. 108) that increases
funding for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) by $5 million
and reduces funding for Fossil Fuel Research and Development by $5
million (by a recorded vote of 233 ayes to 200 noes, Roll No. 360);
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Kaptur en bloc amendment No. 4 that was debated on June 18th
consisting of the following amendments printed in part A of H. Rept.
116-111: Fleischmann (No. 66) that increases and decreases the Weapons
Activities account by $123 million for construction of critical
infrastructure in NNSA; Norton (No. 67) that increases and decreases $5
million from the Investigations fund to instruct USACE to prioritize
funding for the Anacostia Watershed Restoration Program; Wilson (SC)
(No. 68) that increases and decreases by $6.5 million from the Defense
Environmental Cleanup account to highlight the Savannah River Community
and Regulatory Support under the Savannah River Site; Velazquez (No.
69) that increases and decreases the Army Corps of Engineers
construction projects account by $45,000,000 to support Cano Martin
Pena environmental restoration project in San Juan, Puerto Rico and
combat the environmental degradation and persistent flooding that
disadvantages communities abutting the channel, as evidenced by
Hurricanes Irma and Maria; Graves (MO) (No. 70) that moves $4 million
from the Bureau of Reclamation and adds $4 million to the Army Corps
funding for investigations; the intent of this amendment is for the $4
million added to conduct investigations be used to study natural
disasters that occurred in 2019, such as flooding in the Midwest;
Walberg (No. 72) that increases funding for the office of
Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) at the
Department of Energy by $3 million to improve cybersecurity and
emergency response for the bulk power system; Richmond (No. 74) that
increases the Army Corps of Engineers Operations and Maintenance
accounts by $4,000,000 and decreases the Administration Expenses
account by the same amount; Richmond (No. 75) that increases and
decreases funding to the Army Corps of Engineers Operation and
Maintenance Accounts by $75,000,000 for dredging activities; Richmond
(No. 76) that provides $5 million for construction projects under the
Army Corps of Engineers for the construction of Louisiana Coastal Area
Beneficial Use of Dredged Material restoration projects with an offset
from Corps of Engineers expenses; Lipinski (No. 77) that redirects
$15,000,000 within the Department of Energy Office of Science account
towards the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility; McKinley (No. 78)
that transfers $3 million from the Departmental Administration account
to the Fossil Energy Research and Development account; Loebsack (No.
79) that increases and then reduces the Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy account by $5,000,000 with the intent of supporting the
advancement of distributed wind technologies and research; Welch (No.
81) that increases and decreases by $40 million funding within the Army
Corps Construction account (Division E) to fund dam rehabilitation work
authorized by Section 3202 of the 2018 America's Water Infrastructure
Act; Kuster (NH) (No. 82) that increases funding to the Northern Border
Regional Commission, a rural economic development agency that supports
job creation efforts and infrastructure projects in economically
distressed rural communities; Perry (No. 84) that decreases funding for
departmental administration by $2 million and increase money for the
Water Power Technologies Office within the Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy Program by the same amount; Foster (No. 85) that adds
and removes a dollar from this account for the purpose of instructing
the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to
include a review of accelerator driven systems in its evaluation of the
merits and viability of different nuclear fuel cycles and technology
options, including both existing and future technologies; Hudson (No.
86) that increases and decreases $1,317,808,000 from the Department of
Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy for the purpose of creating a pilot
program to provide energy resilience to Department of Defense and
Department of Energy facilities by contracting with a commercial entity
to site, construct, and operate a micro-reactor; Bera (No. 87) that
increases funding for the National Levee Safety Inventory; Ruiz (No.
92) that increases and decreases by $2 million within the Water and
Related Resources Account in order to support projects with a public
health benefit; Rouzer (No. 93) that decreases funding for the Office
of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works by $2,000,000
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Corps of Engineers Operations and Maintenance account by the same
amount to carry out Section 1149 of the WIIN Act (Public Law 114-322);
Estes (No. 95) that adds and removes five million to highlight the
importance of properly funding Bureau of Reclamation ground water
restoration projects; Plaskett (No. 98) that increases and decreases
the Army Corps of Engineers construction projects account by $100
million to support projects related to flood and storm damage
reduction; Cloud (No. 99) that transfers $3 million from the DOE
Departmental Administration account to Nuclear Energy Research and
Development account; Cloud (No. 100) that transfers $3 million from DOE
Departmental Administration account to Fossil Energy Research and
Development account; Blunt Rochester (No. 101) that adds and removes $1
million from the Army Corps of Engineers Investigations account for the
purpose of instructing the Army Corps of Engineers to review all
existing projects for which they are in arrears with project partners
across the country, such as the Indian River Inlet project in Delaware;
Lamb (No. 102) that reduces and increases funding to the Office of
Nuclear Energy by $1 million to emphasize the importance of research
into increasing the cost effectiveness and efficiency of the domestic
commercial nuclear fleet; O'Halleran (No. 104) that increases the
Department of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Account by $1
million to support the Solar Ready Vets Program; Rouda (No. 107) that
adds and removes $5 million from the Corps of Engineers construction
account for the purpose of highlighting the need to reauthorize Section
1043 of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 and to
include necessary changes to the pilot program in its reauthorization;
Levin (CA) (No. 109) that provides funding for the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission to finalize its rulemaking on aggregated
distributed energy resource participation in wholesale energy markets;
Craig (No. 110) that increases by $1 million the funding for the Army
Corps of Engineers Investigations Account intended to be directed
towards the National Flood Risk Management and Flood Damage data
Programs to address flood planning for disaster prone regions;
increases by $1 million the funding for the Army Corps of Engineers
Operations and Maintenance account intended to be directed towards the
Corps Water Management System (CWMS) to assist river flow tracking
during flooding; Craig (No. 111) that increases and decreases by $7.5
million for the Beneficial Use of Dredged Material Pilot Program for
the Army Corps of Engineers; McAdams (No. 112) that increases funds by
$5 million to the Central Utah Project Completion Act account for the
purposes of completing water project development and decrease funding
by $4 million from the Bureau of Reclamation administrative account and
decreases funding by $2 million from the Policy and Administration
account; and Levin (MI) (No. 113) that increases and decreases funding
for construction of certain river, harbor, flood and storm damage and
related projects by $30 million in order to prioritize $30 million in
funding for ongoing efforts to improve water quality in Lake St. Clair,
Michigan, including by improving the Chapaton Retention Basin, a Macomb
County Combined Sewer Overflow System (by a recorded vote of 382 ayes
to 52 noes, Roll No. 361); and
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Huffman amendment (No. 90 printed in part A of H. Rept. 116-111) that
was debated on June 18th that states that none of the funds in this act
can be used for the Army Corps of Engineers to finalize the
environmental impact statement for the proposed Pebble Mine project (by
a recorded vote of 233 ayes to 201 noes, Roll No. 363).
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Rejected:
Burgess amendment (No. 63 printed in part A of H. Rept. 116-111) that
was debated on June 18th that sought to reduce spending in Division E
by 5 percent (by a recorded vote of 146 ayes to 288 noes, Roll No.
358);
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Burgess amendment (No. 64 printed in part A of H. Rept. 116-111) that
was debated on June 18th that sought to strike Section 108 in Division
E that prohibits any funding being used for border security
infrastructure along the southern border (by a recorded vote of 197
ayes to 237 noes, Roll No. 359);
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Mullin amendment (No. 89 printed in part A of H. Rept. 116-111) that
was debated on June 18th that sought to prohibit the use of funds to
prepare, propose, or promulgate any regulation or guidance that
references or relies on analysis of the cost of social carbon under
certain Technical Support Documents published by the Interagency
Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon (by a recorded vote of 186 ayes
to 248 noes, Roll No. 362);
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Graves (LA) amendment (No. 91 printed in part A of H. Rept. 116-111)
that was debated on June 18th that sought to strike section 106 of
division E, which states that none of the funds made available by this
Act may be used to reorganize or to transfer the Civil Works functions
or authority of the Corps of Engineers or the Secretary of the Army to
another department or agency (by a recorded vote of 162 ayes to 269
noes with one answering ``present'', Roll No. 364); and
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Banks amendment (No. 97 printed in part A of H. Rept. 116-111) that
was debated on June 18th that sought to reduce spending for each amount
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the Department of Defense, by 14 percent (by a recorded vote of 132
ayes to 302 noes, Roll No. 365).
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Agreed that in the engrossment of the bill, the Clerk be authorized
to make technical corrections and conforming changes to reflect the
actions of the House.
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H. Res. 431, the rule providing for consideration of the bill (H.R.
2740) and the resolution (H. Res. 430) was agreed to Tuesday, June
11th.
H. Res. 436, the rule providing for further consideration of the bill
(H.R. 2740) was agreed to Wednesday, June 12th.
H. Res. 445, the rule providing for consideration of the bill (H.R.
3055) and relating to consideration of the bill (H.R. 2740) was agreed
to by a yea-and-nay vote of 231 yeas to 195 nays, Roll No. 357, after
the previous question was ordered by a yea-and-nay vote of 232 yeas to
193 nays, Roll No. 356.
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Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
2020: The House began consideration of H.R. 3055, making appropriations
for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related
Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020. Consideration
is expected to resume tomorrow, June 20th.
Pages H4797-H4896
Pursuant to the Rule, an amendment in the nature of a substitute
consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 116-18, modified by the
amendment printed in part A of H. Rept. 116-119, shall be considered as
adopted in the House and in the Committee of the Whole.
Pages H4804-77
Agreed to:
Burgess amendment (No. 1 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that
increases funding for the Keep Young Athletes Safe Act grant program by
$2.5 million and reduces funding for salaries and expenses at the
Department of Commerce by $2.5 million;
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Scanlon amendment (No. 2 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that
increases the funding for Title II and Title V of Juvenile Justice
Programs by $2 million and offsets with decreases to the general
administration fund;
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Scalise amendment (No. 4 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that
increases and decreases by $1 million from the NASA Exploration account
to highlight the importance of addressing the facilities and
maintenance backlog on NASA facilities that have a direct manufacturing
responsibility related to the SLS/Orion mission;
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Serrano en bloc amendment No. 1 consisting of the following
amendments printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119: Norton (No. 5) that
prohibits the Federal Bureau of Prisons from using funds to impose
subsistence fees on individuals in halfway houses or on home
confinement; Waters (No. 8) that transfers $1 million from the
Department of Justice general administration account towards the grants
to prevent trafficking of girls; Velazquez (No. 14) that decreases and
increases funding by $1 for Federal Prison System Salaries and Expenses
to oppose the use of contracted private prison facilities for BOP
detention purposes, including the use of such facilities for
immigration enforcement; Pascrell (No. 21) that increases funding for
the Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) Grant Program by $5,000,000, to
bring funding for the program to its fully authorized level; offsets
this increase by decreasing funding for the Department of Justice,
General Administration, Salaries and Expenses account by $5,000,000;
Moore (No. 29) that increases funding for tribal governments to
exercise jurisdiction over domestic violence by $5 million; Cohen (No.
33) that prohibits the use of funds to enter into any new contract,
grant, or cooperative agreement with any Trump related business listed
in the President Trump's Annual Financial Disclosure Report submitted
to the Office of Government Ethics as well as certain Trump related
properties listed on the Trump Organization's website; McNerney (No.
37) that increases and decreases by $5,000,000 the National Science
Foundation's Research and Related Activities budget to support a
research program to study optimal approaches and procedures for
implementing partisan symmetry and compactness criteria for
congressional district selection; Adams (No. 42) that increases funding
for Byrne-JAG by $1 million; increases prosecutorial decision-making
line-item by $1 million; Bera (No. 45) that increases VAWA funding by
$2 million to support grants enhancing culturally specific services for
domestic violence survivors; Castro (TX) (No. 47) that increases the
Department of Justice body-worn camera partnership initiative by $2.5
million (from $25 million to $27.5 million), with a corresponding
reduction to the Department of Justice Salaries and Expenses account;
Plaskett (No. 59) that includes the Virgin Islands as a jurisdiction
where federal interference with local law allowing the use,
distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana is
prohibited; Plaskett (No. 60) that provides for inclusion of the
insular territories of the United States within the meaning of the term
``persistent poverty counties''; Gottheimer (No. 62) that increases
funding by $1 million for the National Sex Offender Public Website, the
only government website that links public state, territorial, and
tribal sex offender registries into one national search site; Jayapal
(No. 63) that transfers $2 million in

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funding from the Department of Justice general administration account
to a national center for restorative justice; Jayapal (No. 64) that
increases and decreases funding by $4,000,000 in support of the
creation and funding of programs utilizing the Permanent Supportive
Housing model; Neguse (No. 77) that increases funding for Juvenile
Justice Programs by $1,000,000; Pappas (No. 80) that provides an
additional $2,000,000 for the comprehensive opioid abuse program and
reduces $2,000,000 from general administration funds for the Department
of Justice; and Trone (No. 87) that increases funding by $1,500,000 for
mental health courts and adult and juvenile collaboration program
grants that improve mental health services and provide diversion for
justice-impacted individuals;
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Serrano en bloc amendment No. 2 consisting of the following
amendments printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119: Waters (No. 6) that
adds $2 million to the legal assistance for victims fund, which
increases the availability of legal assistance for victims of domestic
violence, stalking, or sexual assault; Rush (No. 10) that transfers
$2,000,000 from the Department of Justice general operating account to
the Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grant Program; McKinley (No. 18) that
increases and decreases the Salaries and Expenses account within the
Federal Prison System budget by $2 million in order to direct that $2
million within the account to be used for recruitment and retention
incentive programs at short-staffed facilities; Jackson Lee (No. 19)
that increases and decreases by $2,000,000 funding for the Office of
Justice Programs grant in order to support programs to engage adult men
and young persons to reduce and prevent domestic violence against
children; Hudson (No. 20) that increases funding for research to study
the root causes of school violence by $1 million; Langevin (No. 23)
that increases funding for Regional Information Sharing Systems, part
of the Community Oriented Policing (COPS) Program, by $2.7 million;
Yoho (No. 24) that decreases and increases funds by $2,000,000 for the
International Trade Administration to support trade promotion programs
in Taiwan; Yoho (No. 25) that increases and decreases the NASA science
and research fund by $1,000,000 with the intention of funding
embryology experiments to further understanding of development in space
in regards to sending people to Mars; Lipinski (No. 26) that increases
and decreases by $1,200,000 funding within the National Science
Foundation Research and Related Activities account to support a
National Academy of Sciences study on Revitalizing the Historical
University-Government-Industry Partnership; Babin (No. 27) that
increases and decreases by $5,000,000 to the State and Local Law
Enforcement Assistance section for targeted violence prevention
training and support programs; Babin (No. 28) that transfers $3.6
million to the Department of Commerce Management account from NOAA's
Operations, Research, and Facilities account to facilitate the transfer
of the Office of Space Commerce and the Office of Commercial Remote
Sensing Regulatory Affairs back to where they are authorized by
statute, thereby advancing U.S. leadership in space commerce and
commercial remote sensing; Graves (LA) (No. 32) that states that none
of the funds made available in this act may be used in contravention of
the national standards for fishery conservation and management as set
out in section 301 of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act; Courtney (No. 35) that increases and decreases $4
million from the National Institute of Standards and Technology's
general operations fund to support research on the effects of the
mineral pyrrhotite on concrete aggregate; NIST is the leading federal
expert in cement and concrete standards; Estes (No. 38) that increases
and decreases by $1 million funding for the U.S. Trade Representative
to establish that funds are not to be expended to enact future 301
tariffs in a manner that is not consistent with the currently
established exclusion process for articles subject to such tariffs;
Foster (No. 39) that increases and decreases the Nuclear Thermal
Propulsion account by $1 in order to direct that NASA work towards the
development of a low enriched uranium (LEU) space power reactor; Foster
(No. 40) that increases and decreases the Space Technology account by
$6.5 million in order to direct that $6.5 million within the account be
used for NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program; Spano (No.
41) that increases funding for the International Trade Administration
by $2 million with the intent to provide additional funding for
enforcement and compliance; reduces funding by $2 million for
Department of Commerce Salaries and Expenses account; Adams (No. 43)
that increases funding for the transitional housing program for
domestic violence victims by $1 million; Gonzalez (No. 46) that
increases and decreases by one $1 the Executive Office for Immigration
Review Account in order to direct the Executive Office of Immigration
Reform to prioritize the efficient hiring of judges, without reducing
the quality of the hires; Murphy (No. 48) that increases National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (NOAA); Operations, Research, and
Facilities by $2,000,000, with the additional funding intended for
Coastal Science Assessment; Competitive External Research, for research
on Harmful Algal Blooms. Reduces Department of Commerce; Departmental
Management; Salaries and Expenses by $2,000,000; Panetta (No. 50) that
increases and decreases the State and Local Law Enforcement account

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by $15 million to support, deploy, and implement gun and gunshot
detection and mitigation technologies; Panetta (No. 51) that increases
and decreases NOAA Procurement, Acquisition, and Construction account
by $9 million to support collocation of NOAA facilities and public
institutions of higher education for the purposes of collaborative
research, education, workforce development, and diversity; Ruiz (No.
52) that provides an additional $2 million for training, peer
mentoring, and mental health programs for law enforcement officers;
Takano (No. 55) that decreases and increases funding by $1 million for
the Office of Civil Rights to oppose any efforts to limit or eliminate
protections under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act through rulemaking;
Beyer (No. 56) that increases and decreases funds by $1,000,000 from
the National Science Foundation research and related activities account
to direct the National Science Foundation to provide Congress with a
report on its efforts to incorporate social impact assessments into the
artificial intelligence research it funds; Beyer (No. 57) that
increases and decreases by $20 million funding for Aeronautics Research
Mission Directorate 3 into ultra efficient flight, including electric
flight; Blunt Rochester (No. 61) that increases and decreases by
$1,000,000 on for the Office on Violence Against Women Violence Against
Women Prevention and Prosecution Programs to prioritize the importance
of these funds for victims of domestic violence, dating violence,
stalking, or sexual assault; Delgado (No. 67) that states that none of
the funds appropriated in this Act may be used by the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration to update a broadband
availability map using only Form 477 data from the Federal
Communications Commission; Fletcher (No. 69) that increases and
decreases by $1,500,000 funding for the NOAA operations, research and
facilities fund in order to have the Administrator of NOAA to charge
and contract with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and
Medicine to undertake the inaugural decadal survey of the US weather
enterprise, to be completed not later than December 15, 2020; McAdams
(No. 74) that provides additional funding to Victims of Child Abuse Act
programs to support Child Advocacy Centers that provide services to
child survivors of abuse; Torres Small (NM) (No. 86) that increases and
decreases the National Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA) by $1 million in order to direct that $1 million
within the account be used for improving broadband mapping; Trone (No.
88) that increases and decreases funding for the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) by $120,000,000 to encourage
modernization of NIST's aging infrastructure; and Collins (GA) (No. 90)
that provides $20 million to restore funding for the Project Safe
Neighborhoods program, the cornerstone of DOJ's anti-gun violence and
anti-gang efforts;
Pages H4884-86
Posey amendment (No. 11 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that
adds and removes $1,969 from NASA's Exploration account to highlight
the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon and back,
which launched from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida;
Page H4888
Scott (VA) amendment (No. 12 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119)
that transfers $13 million from federal prisoner detention to Youth
PROMISE local delinquency prevention grants;
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Walberg amendment (No. 13 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that
prohibits use of funds for ``adoptive seizures,'' wherein law
enforcement evades stricter state laws governing civil asset forfeiture
by seizing property and referring it to federal authorities;
Pages H4889-90
Blumenauer amendment (No. 16 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119)
that prohibits the Department of Justice from interfering with tribal
cannabis programs;
Page H4890
Sewell (AL) amendment (No. 22 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119)
that increases and decreases funding for the Bureau of Industry and
Security (BIS) by $1,000,000 to encourage transparency in the Section
232 investigation into imports of automobiles and automobile parts by
releasing the report to the public;
Pages H4891-92
Bost amendment (No. 30 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that
increases and decreases by $3 million funding for International Trade
Administration Enforcement and Compliance to promote Anti-Dumping and
Countervailing Duty Trade Remedy Investigations and provide resources
for the agency to self-initiate investigations against illegal trade
practices;
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Clarke (NY) amendment (No. 31 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119)
that states that no Census Bureau funds may be used in violation of the
Bureau's confidentiality policies;
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Huffman amendment (No. 44 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that
states that none of the funds can be used by NOAA to implement any
changes to the regulations that govern the federal consistency and
appeals process under the Coastal Zone Management Act;
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Jeffries amendment (No. 49 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119)
that transfers $914,000 from the Department of Commerce's Departmental
Management, Salaries and Expenses account to the Office of the
Inspector General's account;
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Cunningham amendment (No. 53 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119)
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from the Department of Justice general administration account towards
Veterans Treatment Courts;
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Cunningham amendment (No. 54 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119)
that blocks funding for NOAA to approve oil and gas exploration,
including seismic airgun blasting, in the Atlantic; and
Pages H4895-96
Cunningham amendment (No. 58 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119)
that increases National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Operations, Research, and Facilities funding by $1,500,000, with the
additional funding intended for North Atlantic Right Whale research and
monitoring; reduces funding for Department of Justice General
Administration by $1,500,000.
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Proceedings Postponed:
Rutherford amendment (No. 3 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119)
that seeks to increase the NOAA Operations, Research, and Facilities
account by $3.5 million for third party data collection of reef fish in
the South Atlantic; offset by decreasing the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), Salaries and
Expenses account to FY19 levels;
Pages H4878-79
King (IA) amendment (No. 9 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119)
that seeks to strike lines 14-18 (Section 534, pg. 107), which states
that none of the funds made available in this Act or any other Act may
be used by the Department of Commerce to incorporate into the 2020
Decennial Census any question that was not included in the 2018 End-to-
End Census Test in Providence County, Rhode Island;
Pages H4886-88
Blumenauer amendment (No. 17 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119)
that seeks to prohibit the Department of Justice from interfering with
state cannabis programs; and
Pages H4890-91
Banks amendment (No. 36 printed in part B of H. Rept. 116-119) that
seeks to reduce amounts made available in Division A, other than
amounts made available to the Department of Defense, by 14 percent.
Pages H4893-94
H. Res. 445, the rule providing for consideration of the bill (H.R.
3055) and relating to consideration of the bill (H.R. 2740) was agreed
to by a yea-and-nay vote of 231 yeas to 195 nays, Roll No. 357, after
the previous question was ordered by a yea-and-nay vote of 232 yeas to
193 nays, Roll No. 356.
Pages H4779-87, H4787-89
Meeting Hour: Agreed by unanimous consent that when the House adjourns
today, it adjourn to meet at 9 a.m. tomorrow, June 20th for Morning
Hour debate.
Page H4896
Senate Message: Message received from the Senate today appears on page
H4778.
Quorum Calls--Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes and nine recorded votes
developed during the proceedings of today and appear on pages H4787-88,
H4788-89, H4789-90, H4790, H4790-91, H4791-92, H4792, H4792-93, H4793-
94, H4794, H4796, and H4796-97. There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 6:50 p.m.