Summary of Amendments Submitted to the Rules Committee for Division G of H.R. 3354 - Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2018

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Listed in Alphabetical Order

September 5, 2017 5:30 PM

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Amash (MI)

#49

Eliminates exemptions to the ban on the funding, export, sale, or transfer of cluster munitions or cluster munitions technology (other than for demilitarizing or disposing of such munitions).

Amash (MI), Jordan (OH)

#50

Strikes section 7080, which waives the quorum requirement for the Export-Import Bank.

Babin (TX)

#79

Prohibits financial aid to countries that refuse to cooperate with the United States government in repatriating criminal aliens.

Biggs (AZ)

#32

Restricts all aid funds from the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and any related entities should any portion of such funds be determined to be contributing to terrorist activity or other wrongdoing.

Bilirakis (FL)

#33

Expresses the sense of Congress for a five-year or long-term mutual defense cooperation agreement at Souda Bay.

Brady, Kevin (TX)

#22

Requires funds made available under titles III and IV to be used by the Government of Colombia to report to the Secretary of State on allegations by US citizens on procedural or substantive due process of law violations in commercial criminal proceedings in Colombia.

Brat (VA)

#85

LATE Eliminates the Office of Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources at the U.S. Department of State.

Buck (CO)

#43

Defunds the United States Institute of Peace and transfers funds to the spending reduction account.

Budd (NC)

#61

REVISED Prevents funds from being used to honor the families of those engaged or connected to terrorist activity.

Cicilline (RI)

#34

Strikes language that restricts funding for the Green Climate Fund.

Cicilline (RI), Schiff (CA)

#38

Ensures that no U.S. assistance under Division G of this act can go to support the security detail of the President of Turkey.

Cicilline (RI)

#66

Enhances funding for refugee assistance, emergency humanitarian assistance, and resettlement efforts within the Migration and Refugee Assistance Account.

Cohen (TN)

#7

Restricts appropriated funds in Division G from being made available to enter into any new contract, grant, or cooperative agreement with any Trump-owned business listed in Donald John Trump’s financial disclosure form (entities listed in amendment text).

Cohen (TN)

#8

Restricts appropriated funds in Division G from being made available to enter into any new contract, grant, or cooperative agreement with any Trump hotels or resorts (as listed in the amendment text).

Connolly (VA), Moulton (MA)

#75

Prohibits the use of funds to transfer or eliminate the functions, missions, or activities of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration.

Connolly (VA)

#76

Ensures sufficient resources for data collection on displaced persons due to climate change.

DeSantis (FL)

#53

None of the funds made available by this Act may be awarded to Islamic Relief Worldwide.

DeSantis (FL)

#54

None of the funds made available under titles III through VI of this Act for assistance under the West Bank and Gaza Program may be made available for the purpose of recognizing or otherwise honoring terrorists or their families.

Dingell (MI), Schiff (CA), Thompson, Bennie (MS), Lieu (CA), Rosen (NV), Rice, Kathleen (NY)

#1

Prohibits the use of funds made available to the Department of State from being used to close or merge the Office of the Coordinator for Cyber Issues.

Donovan (NY), Engel (NY)

#21

Increases funding for the U.S. African Development Foundation by $15 million and the Inter-American Foundation by $11.5 million.

Donovan (NY)

#89

LATE Increases funding for the US African Development Foundation by $15 million.

Engel (NY), Young, Don (AK), Green, Gene (TX)

#28

Increases funding for USAID’s global health programs by $209 million in order to increase funding for bilateral tuberculosis (TB) assistance to $450 million.

Engel (NY)

#29

Prohibits the expenditure of funds to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement.

Engel (NY)

#30

Prohibits funds under the 150 account to be made available to continue to implement a hiring freeze.

Engel (NY)

#31

Requires that the Sri Lankan government begin a plan to normalize its military presence throughout the country, following the end of the country's 20+ year civil war, in 2009, before receiving any security assistance funding. It also adds the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to reporting requirements on certification before funding is obligated.

Engel (NY)

#67

Provides $1.5 million in funding for the Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission to evaluate U.S. drug policy in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Foster (IL)

#39

Reduces the NADR account by $10,000,000 and increases the account by the same amount, to be used for the Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications project in order to promote scientific diplomacy and peace in the Middle East.

Foster (IL)

#86

LATE Prohibits funds to be used to violate the Iran Nuclear Agreement.

Foster (IL)

#87

LATE Reduces the State Department's Diplomatic and Consular Programs account by $500,000 and increases the account by the same amount, to be used for bilateral and multilateral diplomatic activities designed to promote the termination of the North Korean ballistic missile program.

Frankel (FL)

#60

Increases funding for the Economic Support Fund by $8.5 million.

Frelinghuysen (NJ)

#40

Prohibits the Department of State from implementing, administering or enforcing the hiring freeze guidance from April 12, 2017 with respect to hiring under a Family Member Appointment.

Gaetz (FL)

#41

REVISED Prevents funds from being given to a list of Palestinian schools named after terrorists.

Gaetz (FL)

#42

REVISED Prevents funds from being used to implement, administer, or enforce any project labor agreement.

Graves, Garret (LA)

#82

Restricts Foreign Military Sales to UAE under the Armed Export Control Act until the country has taken steps to provide due process and proper human rights to American citizens accused of violating financial insolvency laws. This includes requiring Secretary of State to develop a report to account for all U.S. citizens detained in the country.

Grothman (WI)

#72

Reduces the amount appropriated for the Economic Support Fund by $12,000,000.

Hanabusa (HI), Gabbard (HI)

#73

Provides $16.7 million to the East-West Center.

Hastings, Alcee (FL)

#57

Designates $20 million for psychosocial support programs for religious and ethnic minorities persecuted by ISIS.

Hastings, Alcee (FL)

#58

Designates $12 million for programs benefiting the Ethiopian-Israeli community.

Higgins, Clay (LA)

#11

WITHDRAWN Restricts funds from being made available by this Act to be used to carry out any program or activity that is not authorized by law to be carried out during fiscal year 2018.

Higgins, Clay (LA)

#44

WITHDRAWN Reduces in full the amount of appropriations assigned to the Peace Corps.

Huffman (CA), Panetta (CA), Curbelo (FL), Carbajal (CA), Scott, Bobby (VA)

#74

REVISED Maintains existing requirements that federal infrastructure projects account for the impacts of sea-level rise and other extreme weather events.

Jayapal (WA)

#51

Strikes the prohibition for the Department of State to make contributions to the Green Climate Fund.

Kelly (PA)

#80

Prohibits funds from being used to make payments to a Secretariat, a Conference of States Parties, a subsidiary body, or any other international organization established to support the implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty.

Khanna (CA)

#45

REVISED Reduces funds for the International Military Education & Training (IMET) program for Saudi Arabia and increases the State Department’s international disaster assistance program for Yemen.

Kildee (MI)

#35

WITHDRAWN Provides an additional $5 million for the National Guard State Partnership Program.

Kildee (MI)

#37

Provides an additional $20 million for Syrian relief efforts via the International Disaster Assistance Fund.

Kildee (MI)

#69

Increases funding for the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission by $2 million to fight invasive species and decreases Foreign Military Financing Program by the same amount.

Kildee (MI)

#71

Prohibits the State Department from using funds to build a permanent nuclear waste repository in the Great Lakes Basin.

King, Steve (IA), Perry (PA), Gaetz (FL)

#9

Ensures that no funds are used to implement, administer, or enforce the Davis-Bacon Act.

King, Steve (IA)

#13

REVISED Defunds the Iran Deal.

King, Steve (IA)

#84

LATE REVISED Ensures that no funds may be used on new hires who have not been verified through the E-Verify program, except for an employee compensated under a local compensation plan established under section 408 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980.

Latta (OH)

#20

Prohibits federal funds to international organizations that promote of perform abortions for the sole reason of a Down Syndrome diagnosis of an unborn child.

Lee, Barbara (CA), Slaughter (NY), Bera (CA), Jayapal (WA), Crowley (NY), Engel (NY), Quigley (IL), Maloney, Carolyn (NY)

#77

Strikes SEC. 7056, part (a) which prohibits funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The amendment also allows funding for UNFPA.

Lee, Barbara (CA), Slaughter (NY), Bera (CA), Jayapal (WA), Crowley (NY), Engel (NY), Quigley (IL), Maloney, Carolyn (NY)

#78

Strikes SEC. 7056, part (a) which prohibits funding for the United Nations Population Fund.

Lieu (CA)

#63

Prohibits the use of funds made available to the Department of State from being used to close or merge the Office of Global Criminal Justice.

Lieu (CA)

#64

Prohibits the use of funds in this Act for the reimbursement of costs incurred by the Federal Government in relation to commercial properties in which the President of the United States has a financial stake or that bear the Trump name.

Lowenthal (CA), Beyer (VA), Huffman (CA), DeSaulnier (CA), Blumenauer (OR), Rush (IL), Carbajal (CA)

#46

Strikes the prohibition on payment to the Green Climate Fund.

Lowey (NY)

#18

Increases funding following accounts: Contributions to International Organizations, Contributions for International Peacekeeping Activities, Development Assistance, Economic Support Fund, Millennium Challenge Corporation and the contribution to the International Development Association. Modifies the funding level for bilateral family planning and adds the International Organizations & Programs account to mirror the FY 2017 Act. Strikes the prohibition on UNFPA and expansion of Mexico City policy; replacing with the Global HER Act and funding authority for UNFPA. Strikes Green Climate Fund prohibition and Cuba diplomatic facilities language. Provides a rescission of prior year ERMA and MCC funding.

Lowey (NY)

#19

Strikes the expansion of the Mexico City Policy to all of global health as well as the prohibition on funding to the UN Population Fund.

Lowey (NY), Crowley (NY)

#23

Decreases funding for Diplomatic Policy and Support from the Diplomatic and Consular Programs account and increase of Worldwide Security Upgrades within the Embassy Security, Construction, and Maintenance account regarding the deportation status of Mr. Jakiw Palij.

Lowey (NY), Crowley (NY)

#24

Withholds of funding for office of Secretary of State until Secretary reports to the Committees on Appropriations on the status of diplomatic negotiations regarding the deportation of Mr. Jakiw Palij from the United States to his country of origin.

Lowey (NY), Crowley (NY)

#25

States a decrease/increase of funding for Diplomatic Policy and Support from the Diplomatic and Consular Programs account regarding deportation status of Mr. Jakiw Palij.

Lowey (NY)

#52

Strikes the inclusion of the Mexico City Policy and the expansion of the policy to all global health programs.

Lynch (MA)

#2

Increases funding for the Department of the Treasury International Affairs Technical Assistance by $4,545,000.

Maloney, Sean (NY)

#14

Prohibits funds from being used to contravene the President’s Executive Order pertaining to equal employment in Federal government contracting.

Meeks (NY), Castro (TX)

#62

REVISED Ensures none of the funds made available in this Act may be used to reduce the number of fellows in the Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Program, the Thomas Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program, or the Donald M. Payne International Development Fellowship Program below current levels.

Mitchell (MI)

#10

REVISED Prohibits the use of funds to attend a Canadian water resources conference in opposition to the construction of a deep geological repository for nuclear waste on the Canadian shore of Lake Huron.

Moore, Gwen (WI)

#59

Prohibits any reorganization of the State Department or USAID unless the information of any employee survey or related information used to justify that reorganization is made publicly available.

Moulton (MA)

#88

LATE Adds language supporting continued efforts at Iraqi higher education programs within stated goals for U.S. assistance to Iraq.

Norman (SC)

#27

Prohibits the use of funds for the operation of the Global Environment Facility.

Perry (PA)

#65

Reduces funding for the United States Institute of Peace by $35,300,000, and transfers the savings to the Spending Reduction Account.

Rooney, Francis (FL)

#47

WITHDRAWN Reduces funding for the United States Institute of Peace by $35,300,000 and increases the spending reduction account by the corresponding amount.

Rooney, Francis (FL)

#48

Prohibits USAID funds from being awarded to the World Economic Forum.

Rooney, Francis (FL)

#56

Prohibits any funds in Division G to a country that has refused a deportation or repatriation of their citizens from the United States.

Ros-Lehtinen (FL)

#83

LATE Prohibits funds from being used to make any U.S. contributions to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the United Nations Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).

Rosen (NV)

#90

LATE Prohibits the use of funds made available to the Department of State from being used to close or merge the Office of the U.S. Special Envoy for Syria.

Rosen (NV)

#91

LATE Prohibits the use of funds made available to the Department of State from being used to close or merge the Office of the Senior Coordinator for International Information Technology Diplomacy.

Rosen (NV)

#92

LATE Prohibits the use of funds made available to the Department of State from being used to close or merge the Office of the Special Envoy for Climate Change.

Rosen (NV)

#93

LATE Prohibits the use of funds made available to the Department of State from being used to close or merge the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Roskam (IL)

#6

Prohibits funds from being used to make any U.S. contributions to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) until the President certifies OHCHR has refrained from producing a "blacklist" or database of companies that operate in Israel or in Israeli-controlled territories.

Rothfus (PA)

#81

Transfers $30 million to the International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement account from the Fulbright Program.

Schneider (IL), Rosen (NV)

#15

Prohibits the use of funds made available to the Department of State from being used to close or merge the Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.

Schneider (IL)

#16

Strikes section 7034 (j), which prohibits funds from being made available to the Green Climate Fund.

Schneider (IL)

#17

Prohibits the use of funds made available to the Department of State from being used to close, merge, or to transfer the functions or activities of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) to any other Federal department or agency.

Scott, Austin (GA)

#68

Increases the appropriation for Western Hemisphere Regional Cooperation by $10 million dollars and reduces the appropriation for contributions to International Organizations by $10 million.

Torres (CA)

#12

REVISED Provides an exemption from the withholding requirements that are set forth in Sections 7045 (a)(3) of Division G, which apply to all assistance for each of the central governments of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

Trott (MI)

#3

Prohibits the use of funds made available by the Department of State to close or merge the Office of International Religious Freedom.

Trott (MI)

#4

Prohibits the use of funds made available by the Department of State to close or merge the Office of the Special Envoy to Promote Religious Freedom in the Near East and South Central Asia.

Trott (MI)

#5

Prohibits the use of funds made available by the Department of State to close or merge the Office of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Trott (MI)

#36

States none of the funds made available by this act may be used to provide defense articles to the Government of Pakistan.

Valadao (CA), Schiff (CA), Royce (CA), Pallone (NJ), Speier (CA)

#55

Ensures continued funding for de-mining projects in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan.

Wasserman Schultz (FL)

#70

Makes available $146.6 million for payment to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development as trustee for the Global Environment Facility.

Yoho (FL)

#26

Prohibits funds made available in this Act from being used to admit to the United States an alien who is not the spouse, parent, child or sibling under the age of 18 of an alien admitted to the United States for lawful permanent residence or a national of the United States, if the alien is seeking admission based on a "close familial relationship".