Vote History

June 2019 Vote History

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Washington D.C., June 30, 2019 | Whitley Alexander (202-225-6356) | comments

(232) –H.R. 2157: Fiscal 2019 Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations –Motion to Concur

June 03, 2019 –Lowey, D–N.Y., motion to suspend the rules and concur in the Senate amendment to the Fiscal 2019 Disaster Supplemental Appropriations Act that would that would provide $19.1 billion in supplemental disaster funds for response efforts to damage caused by hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, and other natural disasters that occurred in 2017, 2018, and 2019. It would provide $648 million in disaster nutrition assistance for individuals impacted by natural disasters in Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. It would extend the National Flood Insurance Program, which will expire on May 31, through September 30, 2019. It would also provide funds for areas impacted by natural disasters for economic development, training and employment services, and behavioral and social health services. The bill includes a total of $4.7 billion for Agriculture Department disaster–related activities, including $3 billion for crop, tree, bush, vine, and livestock losses from hurricanes, wildfires and other declared disasters that occurred in 2018 and 2019. The bill would provide $2.4 billion for a Housing and Urban Development Department community development block grant program, and $1.7 billion for Transportation Department programs and activities, including $1.6 billion for the cost of federal highway and bridge repairs. It would provide $1.5 billion to the Defense Department to repair military facilities damaged by hurricanes Florence and Michael, $3.3 billion to the Army Corps of Engineers for civil construction projects. It would also state that military construction funds provided by the bill may only be used for purposes specified in the bill.

Vote: Yea

(233) –H.R. 2940: Family Assistance Programs –Passage

June 03, 2019 –Davis, D–Ill., motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill that would extend authorization and funding through September 30, 2019 for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program and related Health and Human Services Department programs, including family assistance and child care grants, to states and territories.

Vote: Yea

(234): Procedural Motion –Journal

June 03, 2019 –Approval of the House journal of May 30, 2019.

Vote:
Yea

(235) –H.R. 6: Residency Status for Undocumented Immigrants –Previous Question

June 04, 2019 –Shalala, D–Fla., motion to order the previous question (thus ending debate and possibility of amendment) on the rule (H Res 415) that would provide for House floor consideration of the American Dream and Promise Act bill (H.R. 6).

Vote: Nay

(236) – H.R. 6: Residency Status for Undocumented Immigrants –Rule

June 04, 2019 –Adoption of the rule (H Res 415) that would provide for floor consideration of the American Dream and Promise Act (H.R. 6).

Vote: Nay

(237): Procedural Motion –Journal

June 04, 2019 –Approval of the House journal of June 4, 2019.

Vote: Nay

(238) –H.Res 393: Recognizing Tiananmen Square Protests –Passage

June 04, 2019 –Malinowski, D–N.J., motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, as amended, that would express the support of the House of Representatives for the leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen demonstrations who advocated for "political reforms" and "protections for universally recognized human rights in China." It would call on the Chinese government to support a "full, transparent, and independent accounting" of the government's role in violence during the demonstrations and to end any censorship of information related to the Tiananmen Square massacre. It would also condemn certain ongoing policies and actions of the Chinese government, including those related to internet censorship, human rights, treatment of minority groups, and "efforts to quell peaceful political dissent."

Vote: Yea

(239) –H.R. 6: Residency Status for Undocumented Immigrants –Recommit

June 04, 2019 –Cline, R–Va., motion to recommit the bill to the House Judiciary Committee with instructions to report it back immediately with an amendment that would disqualify an individual from legal residency status under the bill’s provisions if the Homeland Security Department "knows or has reason to believe" they are or have been a member of a "criminal street gang" or participated in gang activity. It would also require DHS to make a determination on whether an undocumented immigrant whose application for residency is denied on criminal, national security, gang, or public safety grounds should be placed in removal proceedings.

Vote: Yea

(240) –H.R. 6: Residency Status for Undocumented Immigrants –Passage

June 04, 2019 –Passage of the bill that would provide legal residency status for certain undocumented immigrants who entered the United States as children or from nations with Temporary Protected Status designation and would prohibit the Homeland Security and Justice Departments from initiating or continuing the removal of such individuals. Title I of the bill would require DHS and DOJ to grant applications for ten–year conditional permanent residency status to undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. as minors at least four years prior to enactment, have lived continuously in the U.S. since that time, and have earned or are enrolled in a program to earn a technical, high school, or postsecondary degree. It would disqualify certain individuals from receiving such a status based on factors including criminal record, gang participation, or other threats to public safety. It would direct DHS to grant permanent resident status to conditional residents if they maintain eligibility for conditional residency and meet certain qualifications related to postsecondary education, military service, or employment. It would also require DHS to establish a streamlined residency application process for individuals enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Title II of the bill would require DHS and DOJ to grant applications for permanent residency status to foreign nationals from countries designated for Temporary Protected Status or Deferred Enforced Departure who have lived continuously in the U.S. for at least tH.R.ee years prior to enactment and are not ineligible for admission to the U.S. under current immigration law. Among other provisions related to residency status under the bill's provisions, the bill would prohibit DHS from removing eligible individuals before providing them an opportunity to apply for residency, would provide for judicial and appellate administrative review for individuals whose residency status is denied or revoked, and would require DHS to establish a grant program for nonprofit organizations to assist eligible individuals in the application process.

Vote: Nay

(241) – H.R. 1921: Ocean Acidification Grant Program –Passage

June 05, 2019 –Johnson, D–Texas, motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended, that would authorize the establishment of a program awarding competitive prizes for the development of monitoring, management, and adaptation options in response to ocean acidification, particularly for programs to address communities, environments, or industries "in distress" due to ocean acidification. The program could be carried out by any federal agency represented on an interagency working group on ocean acidification, in coordination with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Vote: Yea

(242) – H.R. 542: DHS Emergency Response Research –Passage

June 10, 2019 –Rice, D–N.Y., motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill that would statutorily authorize a national urban security technology laboratory within the Homeland Security Department to conduct research to help emergency responders prepare for and protect against terrorist threats, including by evaluating emerging technologies, assessing the cybersecurity of such technologies, researching radiological and nuclear response and recovery, and providing technical advice to emergency responders.

Vote: Yea

(243) –H.R. 2539: Surface Transportation Security –Passage

June 10, 2019 –Rice, D–N.Y., motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill that includes a number of provisions related to surface transportation security. Specifically, it would require the Homeland Security Department to prioritize the assignment of Transportation Security Administration officers and intelligence analysts to locations containing high–risk surface transportation assets, such as bus terminals or rail carriers. It would require such officers and analysts to generate and disseminate intelligence products to assist state, local, and tribal law enforcement in identifying, investigating, and responding to terrorist and other security threats. It would also allow owners and operators of surface transportation assets to apply for security clearances to facilitate information sharing with DHS related to security threats and would authorize DHS to develop a training program to strengthen local law enforcement response capabilities related to surface transportation threats.

Vote: Yea

(244) –H.R. 2590: DHS International Programs and Personnel –Passage

June 10, 2019 –Correa, D–Calif., motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended, that would require the Homeland Security Department to provide briefings to Congress every 180 days including status updates on a three–year DHS strategy for its international programs and on DHS personnel whose primary duties take place outside of the U.S., including deployment schedule and costs, relation of placements to counterterrorism strategy, and risk mitigation plans related to counterintelligence threats. It would also require DHS to create a plan to improve effectiveness, capacity, and collaboration of deployed personnel, including with regard to counterterrorism and counterespionage strategy.

Vote: Yea

(245) –H.R. 2740, H.R.ES430: Fiscal 2020 Appropriations Package, Congressional Subpoenas –Previous Question

June 11, 2019 –Raskin, D–Md., motion to order the previous question (thus ending debate and possibility of amendment) on the rule (H Res 431) that would provide for House floor consideration of the fiscal 2020 Labor–HHS–Education, Defense, Energy–Water, and State–Foreign Operations appropriations package (H.R. 2740), and a resolution (H Res 430) that would authorize the House Judiciary Committee to take civil legal actions in federal court to enforce congressional subpoenas issued to Attorney General William P. Barr and former White House Counsel Donald F. McGahn, II.

Vote: Nay

(246) –H.R. 2740, H.R.ES430: Fiscal 2020 Appropriations Package, Congressional Subpoenas –Rule

June 11, 2019 –Adoption of the rule that would provide for floor consideration of the fiscal 2020 Labor–HHS–Education, Defense, Energy–Water, and State–Foreign Operations appropriations package (H.R. 2740), and a resolution (H Res 430) that would authorize the House Judiciary Committee to take civil legal actions in federal court to enforce congressional subpoenas issued to Attorney General William P. Barr and former White House Counsel Donald F. McGahn, II. The rule would also provide for automatic adoption of a Lowey, D–N.Y., manager's amendment to H.R. 2740 that would remove from the bill a section making fiscal 2020 appropriations for the legislative branch. The amendment would also rescind $11.8 million in unobligated balances available for certain foreign aid grants issued by the State Department and related agencies; and it would make a technical correction to specify that previously–appropriated funds for the Defense Department shall not be used to construct physical barriers or border security infrastructure along the U.S. southern land border.

Vote: Nay

(247) – H Res 430: Enforcing Congressional Subpoenas –Passage

June 11, 2019 –Agreeing to a resolution that would authorize the House Judiciary Committee to take civil legal actions in federal court to enforce congressional subpoenas issued to Attorney General William P. Barr and former White House Counsel Donald F. McGahn, II, and to petition a federal court for the disclosure of certain redacted information regarding grand jury proceedings, as identified in the subpoenas and accompanying reports. It would affirm that other House committees may similarly pursue legal action to enforce subpoenas in federal court, with approval of the House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group, which is composed of the speaker of the House and majority and minority leadership. It would also affirm that the Office of General Counsel of the House would represent any House committee in judicial proceedings related to the enforcement of subpoenas and would authorize the OGC to retain private counsel to assist in such proceedings.

Vote: Nay

(248) –H.R. 2609: DHS Acquisition Board –Passage

June 11, 2019 –Correa, D–Calif., motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, that would require the Homeland Security Department to establish an acquisition review board chaired by the undersecretary for management to oversee, authorize, and review the progress of any DHS acquisition programs expected to cost at least $300 million at each phase of the program. It would require the undersecretary to create and approve a baseline program report for any project authorized to begin a planning phase and submit such reports to Congress.

Vote: Yea

(249): Procedural Motion –Motion to Adjourn

June 12, 2019 –Roy, R–Texas, motion to adjourn.

Vote: Yea

(250): Procedural Motion –Motion to Adjourn

June 12, 2019 –Biggs, R–Ariz., motion to adjourn.

Vote: Yea

(251) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Senior Nutrition

June 12, 2019 –McGovern, D–Mass., amendment that would include "medically–tailored meals" among practices to enhance senior nutrition under certain HHS programs funded by the bill.

Vote: Yea

(252) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Immigrant Advocacy and Entrance Services

June 12, 2019 –Shalala, D–Fla., amendment that would increase by $10 million the minimum amount to be used for legal services, child advocates, and post–release services within total funds authorized by the bill for Health and Human Services Department immigrant and refugee assistance activities.

Vote: Nay

(253) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Bureau of Labor Statistics

June 12, 2019 –DeSaulnier, D–Calif., amendment that would increase then decrease by $1 million funding for salaries and expenses of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Vote: Nay

(254) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –National Cancer Institute

June 12, 2019 –DeSaulnier, D–Calif., amendment that would increase then decrease by $1 million funding for the National Cancer Institute.

Vote: Yea

(255) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Family Engagement Programs

June 12, 2019 –DeSaulnier, D–Calif., amendment no. 7 that would increase then decrease by $1 million funding for certain Education Department programs related to charter and magnet schools, family engagement, and academic enrichment.

Vote: Yea

(256) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Substance Abuse and Mental Health Programs

June 12, 2019 –DeSaulnier, D–Calif., amendment no. 8 that would increase then decrease by $5 million funding for Health and Human Services programs and activities related to substance abuse and mental health.

Vote: Yea

(257) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –CDC Prevention Activities

June 12, 2019 –Smith, R–N.J., amendment that would increase by $1 million funding for Center for Disease Control and Prevention activities related to emerging and zoonotic infectious diseases and decrease by the same amount administrative funding for the Health and Human Services Department.

Vote: Yea

(258) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Beryllium Exposure Standards

June 12, 2019 –Scott, D–Va., amendment that would prohibit the Occupational Safety and Health Administration from using any funds authorized in the bill to finalize or implement a proposed rule that would change the permissible exposure standards for construction and maritime workers occupationally exposed to beryllium.

Vote: Nay

(259) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Job Corps Conservation Centers

June 12, 2019 –DeFazio, D–Ore., amendment that would prohibit the use of any funds authorized by the bill to close Job Corps civilian conservation centers or to alter or terminate the interagency agreement between the Labor and Agriculture Departments governing funding and operation of such centers.

Vote: Yea

(260) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Diabetes and Digestive Aid Research

June 12, 2019 –Jackson Lee, D–Texas, amendment that would increase then decrease by $10 million funding for research by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Aid.

Vote: Yea

(261) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Higher Education Programs

June 12, 2019 –Jackson Lee, D–Texas, amendment that would increase then decrease by $10 million funding for Education Department programs related to higher education.

Vote: Nay

(262) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Occupational Safety and Health Research

June 12, 2019 –Pascrell, D–N.J., amendment that would increase by $900,000 funding for National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health research and decrease by the same amount administrative funding for the Health and Human Services Department.

Vote: Yea

(263) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Research

June 12, 2019 –Davis, D–Ill., amendment that would increase by $2 million funding for Health and Human Services Department research related to birth defects and developmental disabilities and decrease by the same amount HHS administrative funding. 

Vote: Yea

(264) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Previous Question

June 12, 2019 –Torres, D–Calif., motion to order the previous question (thus ending debate and possibility of amendment) on the rule (H Res 436) that would provide for further House floor consideration of the fiscal 2020 Labor–HHS–Education, Defense, Energy–Water, and State–Foreign Operations appropriations package (H.R. 2740).

Vote: Nay

(265) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Rule

June 12, 2019 –Adoption of the rule that would provide for further House floor consideration of the fiscal 2020 Labor–HHS–Education, Defense, Energy–Water, and State–Foreign Operations appropriations package (H.R. 2740). The rule would make in order 115 additional amendments, including 57 and 51 amendments to the Defense and Energy–Water sections of the bill, respectively.

Vote: Nay

(266) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Conscientious Objection Rule

June 12, 2019 –Cole, R–Okla., amendment that would strike from the bill a provision prohibiting funds authorized by the bill to be used to enforce a May 2019 Health and Human Services Department rule regarding enforcement of conscientious objection protections related to abortion and other health provisions under HHS programs.

Vote: Yea

(267) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Family Planning Grant Rule

June 12, 2019 –Roby, R–Ala., amendment that would strike from the bill a provision requiring the Health and Human Services Department to administer certain family planning program grants under statutory frameworks in effect as of January 18, 2017. The provision that would be struck would effectively block implementation of a March 2019 HHS rule related to grants for facilities providing abortions.

Vote: Yea

(268) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Environmental Health Sciences Research

June 12, 2019 –Buchanan, R–Fla., amendment that would increase then decrease by $6.3 million funding for National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences research.

Vote: Yea

(269) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Aging and Disability Services Programs

June 12, 2019 –Langevin, D–R.I., amendment that would increase by $4.5 million funding for Health and Human Services aging and disability services programs and decrease by $5 million HHS administrative funding.

Vote: Yea

(270) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Unique Health Identifier Standards

June 12, 2019 –Foster, D–Ill., amendment that would strike from the bill a provision prohibiting the Health and Human Services Department from using of funds authorized by the bill to promulgate or adopt standards providing for individual unique health identifiers.

Vote: Nay

(271) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Substance Abuse Programs

June 12, 2019 –Foster, D–Ill., amendment that would increase then decrease by $1 funding for Health and Human Services Department substance abuse treatment and prevention programs.

Vote: Yea

(272) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Bureau of Labor Statistics

June 12, 2019 –Foster, D–Ill., amendment that would increase then decrease by $1 funding for salaries and expenses of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Vote: Nay

(273) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Public Health Emergencies

June 12, 2019 –Foster, D–Ill., amendment that would decrease by $1 million administrative funding for the Health and Human Services Department and increase by the same amount funding for HHS activities related to countering public health emergencies, including biological, nuclear, radiological, chemical, and cybersecurity threats.

Vote: Yea

(274) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –HHS Administrative Funding

June 12, 2019 –Schiff, D–Calif., amendment that would increase then decrease by $5 million administrative funding for the Health and Human Services Department.

Vote: Yea

(275) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Substance Abuse Prevention Programs

June 12, 2019 –McKinley, R–W.Va., amendment that would increase by $10 million funding for substance abuse prevention programs within the Department of Health and Human Services and decrease by the same amount funding for program support and cross–cutting supplemental activities including national surveys on drug abuse and mental health.

Vote: Yea

(276) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Programs Assisting Children and Families

June 12, 2019 –Butterfield, D–N.C. amendment that would increase by $2 million funding for various Health and Human Services Department programs and services aimed at protecting and assisting children and families and decrease by the same amount HHS administrative funding.

Vote: Yea

(277) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Substance Abuse Prevention Programs

June 12, 2019 –Johnson, R–Ohio, amendment that would increase by $2 million funding for substance abuse prevention programs within the Health and Human Services Department and decrease by the same amount HHS administrative funding.

Vote: Yea

(278) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Programs

June 12, 2019 –Moore, D–Wis., amendment that would increase by $500,000 funding for chronic disease prevention and health promotion programs within the Health and Human Services Department and reduce by the same amount funding for program support and cross–cutting supplemental activities within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Vote: Yea

(279) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Injury Prevention and Control Programs

June 13, 2019 –Moore, D–Wis., amendment that would increase by $4.5 million funding for injury prevention and control programs within the Health and Human Services Department, and reduce by the same amount funding for various program management activities within the department.

Vote: Yea

(280) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Disability and Aging Assistance Programs

June 13, 2019 –Matsui, D–Calif., amendment that would increase by $2 million funding for Health and Human Services Department–wide disability assistance, community living, aging and disability services programs, and decrease by the same amount HHS administrative funding. 

Vote: Yea

(281) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Substance Abuse Prevention Programs

June 13, 2019 –Barr, R–Ky., amendment that would increase by $1 million funding for substance abuse prevention programs within the Health and Human Services Department and decrease by the same amount funding for program support and cross–cutting supplemental activities including national surveys on drug abuse and mental health.

Vote: Yea

(282) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Substance Abuse and Mental Health Programs

June 13, 2019 –Cleaver, D–Mo., amendment that would increase by $6.5 million funding for mental health programs within the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and decrease by the same amount funding for program support and cross–cutting supplemental activities including national surveys on drug abuse and mental health.

Vote: Yea

(283) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Limited–Duration Insurance Plans Rule

June 13, 2019 –Castor, D–Fla., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available under the bill for the implementation, administration or enforcement of an August 2018 rule issued by the Departments of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services related to short–term limited–duration insurance plans.

Vote: Nay

(284) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Health Insurance Navigator Program

June 13, 2019 –Hill, R–Ark., amendment that would strike from the bill the requirement that the Health and Human Services secretary obligate $100 million in fiscal 2020 for a health insurance marketplace navigator program, including specified obligations for advertising.

Vote: Yea

(285) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Apprenticeship Programs

June 13, 2019 –Hill, R–Ark., amendment no. 38 that would allow Labor Department program funding made available by the bill to be used for grants to apprenticeship programs not registered with the department under the National Apprenticeship Act.

Vote: Yea

(286) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Injury Prevention and Control Programs

June 13, 2019 –Pressley, D–Mass., for Speier, D–Calif., amendment no. 39 that would increase by $5.6 million funding for injury prevention and control programs within the Health and Human Services Department and decrease by the same amount HHS administrative funding.

Vote: Yea

(287) –H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

June 13, 2019 –Khanna, D–Calif., amendment that would increase by $3 million funding for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and decrease by the same amount funding for the Office of the Director of the National Institute of Health.

Vote: Yea

(288) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Maternal and Child Health Programs

June 13, 2019 – Richmond, D–La., amendment that would increase by $7 million funding for Health and Human Services Department maternal and child health programs and decrease by the same amount funding for Health Resources and Services Administration program support.

Vote: Yea

(289) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Reduce Labor–HHS–Education Funding

June 13, 2019 – Banks, R–Ind., amendment that would decrease by 14 percent all discretionary funding made available under the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education title of the bill (Divison A).

Vote: Yea

(290) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Health Resources and Services Administration

June 13, 2019 – Keating, D–Mass., amendment that would increase then decrease by $1 million funding for Health Resources and Services Administration program support.

Vote: Yea

(291) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Disability and Birth Defect Programs

June 13, 2019 – Miller, R–W.Va., amendment no. 44 that would increase by $2 million funding for Health and Human Services Department programs targeting individuals affected by disabilities, birth defects or developmental disabilities and decrease by the same amount HHS administrative funding.

Vote: Yea

(292) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Education Department Programs

June 13, 2019 – Cicilline, D–R.I. amendment that would increase by $500,000 funding for a number of programs and initiatives under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act related to national research and education enrichment programs, charter school development, assistance to magnet schools and family engagement in education programs and would decrease by the same amount funding for Washington, D.C.–specific logistics and operations within the Department of Education.

Vote: Yea

(293) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Mental Health Programs

June 13, 2019 – Bera, D–Calif., amendment that would increase then decrease by $1 funding for Health and Human Services Department programs addressing mental health.

Vote: Yea

(294) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Refugee Resettlement Death Records

June 13, 2019 – Castro, D–Texas, amendment that would require the Office of Refugee Resettlement to report and record the death of unaccompanied children under its care.

Vote: Yea

(295) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Education Department Office of Civil Rights

June 13, 2019 – Jeffries, D–N.Y., amendment that would prohibit use of funds made available by the bill in contravention of any statutorily established authorities and functions of the Office of Civil Rights within the Department of Education.

Vote: Yea

(296) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Injury Prevention and Control Programs

June 13, 2019 – Maloney, D–N.Y., amendment that would increase then decrease by $5 million funding for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention programs related to injury prevention and control.

Vote: Nay

(297) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Higher Education Programs

June 13, 2019 – Adams, D–N.C., amendment that would increase by $500,000 funding for Education Department programs related to higher education and decrease by the same amount administrative funding for department.

Vote: Yea

(298) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Children and Families Services Programs

June 13, 2019 – Adams, D–N.C., amendment that would increase by $3 million funding for Health and Human Services Department children and families services programs and decrease by the same amount HHS administrative funding.

Vote: Yea

(299) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Mental Health Programs

June 13, 2019 – Beyer, D–Va., amendment that would decrease then increase by $500,000 funding for Health and Human Services Department programs addressing mental health.

Vote: Yea

(300) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Refugee and Immigrant Assistance Programs

June 13, 2019 – Beyer, D–Va., amendment no. 53 that would decrease then increase by $500,000 funding for Health and Human Services Department refugee and immigrant assistance programs.

Vote: Nay

(301) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Health Workforce Programs

June 13, 2019 – Blunt Rochester, D–Del., amendment that would decrease then increase by $1 funding for Health and Human Services Department programs related to the health workforce, including doctors, nurses, and other health care service providers.

Vote: Yea

(302) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Mental Health and Substance Abuse Programs

June 13, 2019 – Murphy, D–Fla., amendment that would increase by $2 million funding for Health and Human Services Department programs addressing mental health and decrease by the same amount funding for program support and supplemental activities, including surveys and data analysis, related to HHS mental health and substance abuse programs funded by the bill.

Vote: Yea

(303) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Disease Prevention Programs

June 13, 2019 – Ocasio–Cortez, D–N.Y., amendment that would increase by $15 million funding for Health and Human Services Department programs to prevent HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis and decrease by the same amount HHS administrative funding.

Vote: Nay

(304) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Schedule I Substance Legalization

June 13, 2019 – Ocasio–Cortez, D–N.Y., amendment that would strike from the bill provisions prohibiting use of any funds made available in the bill for activities to promote the legalization of any Schedule I drug or substance, such as marijuana.

Vote: Nay

(305) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Injury Prevention and Control Programs

June 13, 2019 – McAdams, D–Utah, amendment that would increase by $2 million funding for Health and Human Services programs related to injury prevention and control and decrease by the same amount HHS administrative funding.

Vote: Yea

(306) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Early Childhood Developmental Screenings

June 13, 2019 – Schrier, D–Wash., amendment that would include early childhood developmental screenings among medical goods and services the Health and Human Services Department may accept as donations for unaccompanied children under the care of the Office of Refugee Settlement.

Vote: Yea

(307) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Health Workforce Initiatives

June 13, 2019 – Lee, D–Nev., amendment that would increase by $5 million funding for health workforce initiatives under the Department of Health and Human Services, including those related to medical education and student loans. It would decrease by the same amount administrative funding for the Education Department.

Vote: Yea

(308) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Rural Health Programs

June 13, 2019 – Craig, D–Minn., amendment that would increase funding by $1 million for Health and Human Services Department rural health programs and decrease funding by the same amount HHS administrative funding.

Vote: Yea

(309) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Special Education Program Grants

June 13, 2019 – Craig, D–Minn., amendment that would decrease then increase by $1 million funding for Education Department state grants for special education programs.

Vote: Yea

(310) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Career, Technical, and Adult Education Programs.

June 13, 2019 – Craig, D–Minn., amendment that would decrease, then increase by $1 million funding for career, technical, and adult education programs.

Vote: Yea

(311) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Medicare Fraud and Abuse Prevention

June 13, 2019 – Porter, D–Calif., amendment that would increase by $2 million funding allocated for a Health and Human Services program to combat fraud and abuse in the Medicare system, from funds authorized by the bill to combat health care fraud and abuse.

Vote: Yea

(312) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Health Resources and Services Administration

June 13, 2019 – Porter, D–Calif., amendment that would increase by $1 million funding for Health Resources and Services Administration program management and decrease by the same amount HHS administrative funding.

Vote: Yea

(313) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – ACA Enrollment Data

June 13, 2019 – Porter, D–Calif., amendment that would require the Health and Human Services Department, in its report to Congress on enrollment figures for Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplaces, to detail enrollments by state, disaggregated by race, ethnicity, preferred language, age, and sex.

Vote: Nay

(314) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Minority Population HIV/AIDS Initiatives

June 13, 2019 – Mucarsel–Powell, D–Fla., amendment that would increase by $5 million funding allocated for initiatives to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS in minority populations, from Health and Human Services Department administrative funding authorized by the bill.

Vote: Yea

(315) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Education Department Inspector General Office

June 13, 2019 – Levin, D–Mich., amendment that would increase by $4 million funding for the Education Department Office of the Inspector General and decrease by the same amount funding for the Labor Department Office of Labor–Management Standards salaries and expenses.

Vote: Nay

(316) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Primary Health Care Programs

June 13, 2019 – Pressley, D–Mass., amendment that would increase by $5 million funding for Health and Human Services Department primary health care programs and decrease by the same amount administrative funding for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Vote: Yea

(317) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

June 13, 2019 – Spanberger, D–Va., amendment that would increase by $3 million funding for chronic disease prevention and health promotion, and would decrease by the same amount, funding for general department management for the Health and Human Service Department.

Vote: Yea

(318) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

June 13, 2019 – Delgado, D–N.Y., amendment that would increase by $1 million funding for Center for Disease Control and Prevention activities related to emerging and zoonotic infectious diseases and decrease by the same amount administrative funding for the Health and Human Services Department.

Vote: Yea

(319) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Community School and School Safety Programs

June 13, 2019 – Crow, D–Colo., amendment that would increase then decrease by $5 million funding for community school and school safety programs.

Vote: Yea

(320) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Literacy and Education Programs for Disadvantaged Populations

June 13, 2019 – Houlahan, D–Pa., amendment that would increase then decrease by $1 million funding for certain literacy programs and education programs for disadvantaged populations.

Vote: Yea

(321) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Ethics Review for Human Fetal Tissue Research

June 13, 2019 – Pocan, D–Wis., amendment that would prohibit use of funds made available by the bill to convene an ethics advisory board on research grants and projects that propose the use of human fetal tissue.

Vote: Nay

(322) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Opioid Alternative Programs

June 13, 2019 – Pascrell, D–N.J., amendment hat would allocate $10 million for programs to implement or study opioid alternatives in emergency departments, from funds authorized by the bill for the Health and Human Services Department.

Vote: Yea

(323) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Motion to Rise

June 18, 2019 – Visclosky, D–Ind., motion to rise from the Committee of the Whole.

Vote: Yea

(324) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Foreign Aid for Reproductive Health Programs

June 18, 2019 – Lesko, R–Ariz., amendment that would strike from the bill a provision allocating $750 million for family planning and reproductive health programs, including in areas where population growth threatens biodiversity, from funding provided by the bill for U.S. Agency for International Development global health programs.

Vote: Yea

(325) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – USAID Global Health Programs

June 18, 2019 – Jackson Lee, D–Texas, amendment that would increase then decrease by $1 million funding for U.S. Agency for International Development global health programs.

Vote: Yea

(326) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Wildlife Poaching and Trafficking

June 18, 2019 – Jackson Lee, D–Texas, amendment 80 that would increase then decrease by $1 million funding allocated for State Department programs to combat wildlife poaching and trafficking.

Vote: Yea

(327) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – International Climate Change Funds

June 18, 2019 – Gosar, R–Ariz., for Luetkemeyer, R–Mo., amendment that would clarify that no funds made available by the bill may be used for contributions on behalf of the U.S. to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or the Green Climate Fund.

Vote: Yea

(328) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – U.S.–Mexico Boundary and Water Projects

June 18, 2019 – Grijalva, D–Ariz., amendment that would decrease then increase by $4 million funding for planning and construction of authorized projects of the U.S.–Mexico International Boundary and Water Commission.

Vote: Nay

(329) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change

June 18, 2019 – Gosar, R–Ariz., amendment that would clarify that no funds made available by the bill may be used for the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Vote: Yea

(330) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Eurasia Economic Assistance

June 18, 2019 – Speier, D–Calif., amendment that would increase then decrease by $40 million funding for State Department economic assistance programs focused on Europe, Eurasia, and Central Asia.

Vote: Nay

(331) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Withholding Foreign Assistance to Pakistan

June 18, 2019 – Meadows, R–N.C., amendment that would increase by $33 million funds withheld from foreign assistance to Pakistan until Dr. Shakil Afridi is released from prison and acquitted from "charges relating to the assistance provided to the United States in locating Osama Bin Laden."

Vote: Yea

(332) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – En Bloc Amendments

June 18, 2019 – Lowey, D–N.Y., en bloc amendments to the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and related programs title of the bill (Division D) that would, among other provisions, prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill for a number of purposes, including to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty, to enter into contracts and agreements with business entities connected to President Donald Trump, or to provide military education and training to the government of Saudi Arabia. It would also make adjustments to a number of funds related to nonproliferation and anti–terrorism, international economic assistance, and foreign development.

Vote: Nay

(333) – H.R. 3253: Extension of Medicaid Programs –Passage

June 18, 2019 – Dingell, D–Mich., motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill that would extend through fiscal 2024 a Health and Human Services Department state grant program to help Medicaid–eligible individuals with chronic conditions transitioning out of health care institutions. It would authorize for the program $417 million for fiscal 2020, $450 million annually from fiscal 2021 through fiscal 2023, and $225 million for fiscal 2024. It would also shorten from 90 to 60 days institutional residency requirements for program eligibility and expand application requirements, requiring states to detail proposed use of funds, objectives, evaluation and sustainability. Among other Medicaid–related provisions, the bill would also extend through 2021 a demonstration program related to community mental health clinics, extend through 2024 rules protecting the financial resources of individuals with spouses in nursing homes, and increase from $6 million to $45.5 million annual funds available for the HHS Medicaid Improvement Fund. Finally, it would modify certain requirements of the Medicaid drug rebate program for prescription drug manufacturers, including to require manufacturers to pay rebates based on brand name drug prices as opposed to averaged prices including generic drugs.

Vote: Yea

(334) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Reduce State–Foreign Funding

June 18, 2019 – Grothman, R–Wis., amendment that would reduce by 2.1 percent all discretionary funding made available by the bill for the State Department and related agencies.

Vote: Yea

(335) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Foreign Assistance and Economic Development

June 18, 2019 – Walker, R–N.C., amendment that would decrease by a total of $24 billion funding for a number of State Department economic development and foreign assistance programs, including programs to assist migrants and refugees, fund HIV/AIDS research and prevention, and provide international disaster rehabilitation and reconstruction assistance.

Vote: Yea

(336) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Paris Climate Agreement Withdrawal

June 18, 2019 – Palmer, R–Ala., amendment that would strike from the bill provisions allowing funds provided by the bill to be used for payments under the Paris Climate Agreement and prohibiting such funds to be used for U.S. withdrawal from the agreement.

Vote: Yea

(337) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – U.N. Climate Change Convention

June 18, 2019 – Arrington, R–Texas, amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill for the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Vote: Yea

(338) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Reduce State–Foreign Funding

June 18, 2019 – Banks, R–Ind., amendment that would reduce by 14 percent all funding made available by the bill for the State Department and related agencies (Division D), not including amounts made available for the Defense Department.

Vote: Yea

(339) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – En Bloc Amendments

June 18, 2019 – Lowey, D–N.Y., en bloc amendments to the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and related programs title of the bill (Division D) that would increase by $500,000 funding for international broadcasting activities under the U.S. Agency for Global Media and decrease by the same amount funding for the Office of Inspector General within the Administration of Foreign Affairs; and that would increase by $500,000 funding for the International Fisheries Commission and decrease by the same amount of administrative funding for certain diplomatic and other State Department programs.

Vote: Yea

(340) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Reduce State–Foreign Funding

June 18, 2019 – Allen, R–Ga., amendment no. 2A that would reduce by one percent all discretionary funding made available under the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and related programs title of the bill (Division D).

Vote: Yea

(341) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – En Bloc Amendments

June 18, 2019 – Visclosky, D–Ind., en bloc amendments to the Defense Department title of the bill (Division C) that would, among other provisions, increase by $14 million in total funding for research, development, and evaluation for various Defense Department health programs; increase by $20 million funding for a Defense Department cooperative threat reduction program related to nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons; and increase by $5 million funding for environmental restoration activities of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, respectively. It would also reduce and redistribute a number of funds related to research and evaluation or operations and maintenance of various branches and agencies of the Defense Department.

Vote: Yea

(342) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Navy Research and Evaluation

June 18, 2019 – Langevin, D–R.I., amendment that would increase by $10 million funding for Navy research– and evaluation–related expenses and decrease by the same amount funding for such expenses Defense–wide.

Vote: Yea

(343) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – U.S. Army Medical Research

June 18, 2019 – Langevin, D–R.I., amendment that would increase by $10 million funding for research, development, and evaluation for U.S. Army medical research activities under Defense Department health programs and decrease by the same amount funding for expenses related to operational testing and evaluation of weapons systems by the Defense Department.

Vote: Nay

(344) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Military Service of Transgender Individuals

June 18, 2019 – Brown, D–Md., for Speier, D–Calif., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available under the Defense Department title of the bill (Division C) to implement a March 2019 department memorandum related to military service by transgender individuals and individuals with gender dysphoria.

Vote: Nay

(345) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Foreign Intelligence Searches

June 18, 2019 – Amash, R–Mich., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available by the Defense Department title of the bill (Division C) for searches under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act without explicit language in the search certification clarifying that it does not authorize the targeting of individuals outside the U.S. so as to acquire communications of an individual inside the U.S.

Vote: Yea

(346) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Defense Department Research and Evaluation

June 18, 2019 – Kuster, D–N.H., amendment, as modified, that would increase then decrease by $5 million funding for Defense–wide research– and evaluation–related expenses.

Vote: Yea

(347) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Army Research and Evaluation

June 18, 2019 – Visclosky, D–Ind., for Veasey, D–Texas, amendment that would increase by $9 million funding for Army research– and evaluation–related expenses and decrease by the same amount funding for Defense–wide operations and maintenance.

Vote: Yea

(348) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Defense Department Operations

June 18, 2019 – Visclosky, D–Ind., for Jeffries, D–N.Y., amendment no. 40A that would decrease then increase by $500,000 funding for Defense–wide operations and maintenance.

Vote: Nay

(349) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Defense Export Licenses

June 18, 2019 – Lieu, D–Calif., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill to issue export licenses for certain defense articles and items as described in a number of State Department certification transmittal documents.

Vote: Nay

(350) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Defense and Army Research and Evaluation

June 18, 2019 – Gallagher, R–Wis., amendment that would increase by $76 million funding for Defense–wide research– and evaluation–related expenses, increase by $20 million funding for Army research– and evaluation–related expenses, decrease by $96 million funding for Defense–wide operations and maintenance.

Vote: Yea

(351) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Navy Weapon Procurement

June 18, 2019 – Gallagher, R–Wis., for Cheney, R–Wyo., amendment no. 47A that would increase by $19.6 million funding for Navy procurement, production, and modification of missiles, torpedoes, and other weapons, including to acquire land for production plants, and decrease by the same amount funding for Defense–wide operations and maintenance.

Vote: Yea

(352) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Defense Department Operations

June 18, 2019 – Blunt Rochester, D–Del., amendment that would increase then decrease by $1 million funding for Defense–wide operations and maintenance.

Vote: Yea

(353) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – "Standoff" Missile Research

June 18, 2019 – Jayapal, D–Wash., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available by the Defense Department title of the bill (Division C) for continued research on the "long–range standoff" air–launched missile.

Vote: Nay

(354) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Defense Department Operations

June 18, 2019 – Crow, D–Colo., amendment that would decrease then increase by $13 million funding for Defense–wide operations and maintenance.

Vote: Nay

(355) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Defense Health Program Research

June 18, 2019 – Cox, D–Calif., amendment that would increase by $10 million funding for research, development, and evaluation for Defense Department health programs, and decrease by the same amount funding for Defense–wide operations and maintenance.

Vote: Yea

(356) – H.R. 2740, H.R.3055: Fiscal 2020 Appropriations Packages – Previous Question

June 19, 2019 – McGovern, D–Mass., motion to order the previous question (thus ending debate and possibility of amendment) on the rule (H Res 445) that would provide for House floor consideration of the fiscal 2020 Commerce–Justice–Science, Agriculture, Interior–Environment, Military Construction–VA, and Transportation–HUD appropriations package and provide for further House floor consideration of the fiscal 2020 Labor–HHS–Education, Defense, Energy–Water, and State–Foreign Operations appropriations package (H.R. 2740).

Vote: Yea

(357) – H.R. 3055, H.R.2740: Fiscal 2020 Appropriations Packages –Rule

June 19, 2019 – Adoption of the rule (H Res 445) that would provide for House floor consideration of the fiscal 2020 Commerce–Justice–Science, Agriculture, Interior–Environment, Military Construction–VA, and Transportation–HUD appropriations package and provide for further House floor consideration of the fiscal 2020 Labor–HHS–Education, Defense, Energy–Water, and State–Foreign Operations appropriations package (H.R. 2740). It would make in order consideration of 290 amendments to H.R. 3055 and provide for automatic adoption of a Lowey, D–N.Y., manager's amendment to the bill that would authorize federal employment of individuals authorized to work in the U.S. pursuant to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The rule would also provide for automatic adoption of a DeLauro, D–Conn., manager's amendment to H.R. 2740 that would increase by a total of $289.5 million funding for a number of programs under the Labor–HHS–Education title of the bill (Division A), including HHS refugee and entrant assistance activities, HHS substance abuse and mental health programs, and Education Department programs related to school safety, including emergency response to violence.

Vote: Nay

(358) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Reduce Energy–Water Funding

June 19, 2019 – Burgess, R–Texas, amendment that would reduce by 5 percent all funding made available by the Energy and Water Development and related agencies title of the bill (Division E).

Vote: Yea

(359) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Army Corps of Engineers Border Infrastructure

June 19, 2019 – Burgess, R–Texas, amendment that would strike from the bill a provision prohibiting the use of funds made available by the bill for the Army Corps of Engineers to design or construct physical barriers or border security infrastructure along the U.S. southern land border.

Vote: Yea

(360) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – En Bloc Amendments

June 19, 2019 – Kaptur, D–Ohio, en bloc package of amendments to the Energy–Water title (Division E) of the bill that would, among other provisions, increase by $5 million funding for plants and capital equipment for Energy Department energy efficiency and renewable energy activities; increase by $3 million funding for the an Energy Department agency for research and development of advanced energy technologies; and increase by$2 million funding for the Office of Indian Energy programs.

Vote: Nay

(361) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – En Bloc Amendments

June 19, 2019 – Kaptur, D–Ohio, en bloc package of amendments to the Energy–Water title (Division E) of the Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package. Among others, it includes several provisions to increase funding for Army Corps of Engineers projects related to harbor, flood, and storm damage, shore protection, and aquatic ecosystem restoration; and it includes several provisions to increase or redistribute funding for Energy Department activities related to nuclear energy, fossil energy research, and energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Vote: Yea

(362) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Greenhouse Gas Regulations

June 19, 2019 – Mullin, R–Okla., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill to prepare, propose, or promulgate any regulation or guidance referencing analysis contained in certain documents published by the White House council on environmental quality and by the interagency working groups on the social cost of carbon and greenhouse gases.

Vote: Yea

(363) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Alaska Infrastructure Impact Statement

June 19, 2019 – Huffman, D–Calif., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill to finalize the environmental impact statement for a proposed Army Corps of Engineers infrastructure project in southwest Alaska, including a mine site, port, transportation corridor, and natural gas pipeline.

Vote: Nay

(364) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Army Corps of Engineers Authority

June 19, 2019 – Graves, R–La., amendment that would strike from the bill a section prohibiting the use of funds made available by the bill to reorganize or transfer civil works functions or authority of the Army Corps of Engineers or Army to another department or agency.

Vote: Nay

(365) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package – Reduce Energy–Water Funding

June 19, 2019 – Banks, R–Ind., amendment that would reduce by 14 percent all funding made available by the Energy and Water Development and related agencies title of the bill (Division E), not including amounts made available for the Defense Department.

Vote: Yea

(366) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Recommit

June 19, 2019 – Womack, R–Ark., motion to recommit the fiscal 2020 Labor–HHS–Education, Defense, Energy–Water, and State–Foreign Operations appropriations package to the House Appropriations Committee.

Vote: Yea

(367) – H.R. 2740: Fiscal 2020 Four–Bill Appropriations Package –Passage

June 19, 2019 – Passage of the fiscal 2020 Labor–HHS–Education, Defense, Energy–Water and State–Foreign Operations appropriations package, as amended, that would provide $984.7 billion in discretionary spending for four of the twelve fiscal 2020 appropriations bills, including $690.2 billion for the Defense Department, $191.7 billion for the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Departments, $56.4 billion for the State Department and related agencies, and $46.4 billion for the Energy Department and federal water projects. Within total funding, the bill provides $76.1 billion in overseas contingency operations funding not subject to discretionary spending caps. Among other provisions, the bill would phase out within 240 days of enactment the 2001 authorization for use of military force, which has been used to authorize military operations Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. It would provide $2.4 billion for HHS refugee and entrant assistance programs and establish housing requirements for unaccompanied minors in HHS custody; $11.8 billion for Energy Department weapons–related activities; and $750 million for U.S. Agency for International Development family planning and reproductive health programs abroad. It would also prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill to facilitate U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement or to construct physical barriers or border security infrastructure along the U.S. southern land border. As amended, the bill would provide an additional $289.5 million funding for a number of HHS and Education Department programs, including programs related to refugee and entrant assistance, substance abuse and mental health, and school safety.

Vote: Nay

(368) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – NOAA Operations and Research

June 20, 2019 – Rutherford, R–Fla., amendment that would increase by $3.5 million funding for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration operations, research, and facilities and decrease by the same amount administrative funding for the Commerce Department Telecommunications and Information Administration.

Vote: Yea

(369) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Census Questions

June 20, 2019 – King, R–Iowa, amendment that would strike from the bill a provision prohibiting the use of funds made available by the bill for the Commerce Department to incorporate any questions not included in a 2018 census test in the 2020 decennial census.

Vote: Yea

(370) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Federal Marijuana Regulations

June 20, 2019 – Blumenauer, D–Ore., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available for the Justice Department under the bill for the purpose of preventing 46 of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands, from implementing laws relating to the authorized use, distribution, possession or cultivation of marijuana.

Vote: Nay

(371) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Reduce Commerce–Justice–Science Funding

June 20, 2019 – Banks, R–Ind., amendment that would reduce by 14 percent all discretionary funding made available under the Commerce–Justice–Science title of the bill (Division A).

Vote: Yea

(372) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Right Whale Protection Status

June 20, 2019 – Golden, D–Maine, amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill for the use of a certain risk reduction support tool to evaluate the protected status of right whales.

Vote: Nay

(373) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Justice Department Expenses

June 20, 2019 – Stevens, D–Mich., amendment that would increase then decrease by $2 million funding for Justice Department expenses for legal activities, administration of pardon and clemency petitions, and space rental in the District of Columbia.

Vote: Yea

(374) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

June 20, 2019 – Underwood, D–Ill., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds provided by the bill for the Justice Department to argue that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional or invalid in any litigation to which the U.S. is a party.

Vote: Nay

(375) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Reduce Agriculture Funding

June 20, 2019 – Banks, R–Ind., amendment that would reduce by 14 percent all discretionary funding made available under the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and related agencies title of the bill (Division B).

Vote: Nay

(376) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Rural Services

June 20, 2019 – Pence, R–Ind., amendment that would increase by $25 million funding for grants for telemedicine and distance learning services in rural areas and decrease by the same amount administrative funding for the Agriculture Department Office of the Chief Information Officer.

Vote: Yea

(377) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Rural Utilities Grants

June 20, 2019 – Spanberger, D–Va., amendment that would increase by $55 million funding for rural utilities service grant programs, including distance learning, telemedicine, and broadband programs. It would decrease by $30 million funding for the Office of the Agriculture Department General Counsel, decrease by $12.5 million funding for the department Office of the Chief Information Officer, and decrease by $12.5 million administrative funding for the department.

Vote: Yea

(378) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Southern Offshore Drilling

June 20, 2019 – Wasserman Schultz, D–Fla., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available under the bill for the purpose of conducting Interior Department offshore oil and gas leasing, preleasing or related activities in the Outer Continental Shelf Planning Areas for the South Atlantic, the Straits of Florida, and the central and eastern Gulf of Mexico.

Vote: Nay

(379) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Atlantic Offshore Drilling

June 20, 2019 – Pallone, D–N.J., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill for the purpose of conducting Interior Department offshore oil and gas leasing, preleasing or related activities in the Outer Continental Shelf Planning Areas for the North Atlantic, Mid–Atlantic, and South Atlantic.

Vote: Nay

(380) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Hunting Trophy Imports

June 20, 2019 – Buchanan, R–Fla., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill to issue permits for the importation of sport–hunted elephant or lion trophies from Zimbabwe, Zambia, or Tanzania.

Vote: Nay

(381) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – EPA Pollution Rules

June 20, 2019 – Duncan, R–S.C., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill to implement two October 2015 Environmental Protection Agency rules regarding regulation of carbon pollution and greenhouse gas emission.

Vote: Yea

(382) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Alaska Timber Harvesting

June 20, 2019 – Blumenauer, D–Ore., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill to plan or construct, for the purpose of timber harvesting by private entities, a forest development road in the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska.

Vote: Nay

(383) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – EPA Greenhouse Gas Rule

June 20, 2019 – Gosar, R–Ariz., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill to implement a December 2009 Environmental Protection Agency rule making findings on greenhouse gas emissions.

Vote: Yea

(384) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Prohibit Oil and Gas Lease Sales

June 20, 2019 – Duncan, R–S.C., amendment that would strike from the bill a prohibition on the use of funds made available under the bill for the purpose of conducting an oil or gas lease sale as required under the 2017 tax overhaul law.

Vote: Yea

(385) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – EPA Emission Standards Rule

June 20, 2019 – Mullin, R–Okla., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill to enforce a June 2016 Environmental Protection Agency rule regarding emission standards for the oil and natural gas sector.

Vote: Yea

(386) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – EPA Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Regulations

June 20, 2019 – Mullin, R–Okla., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill for the Environmental Protection Agency to prepare or promulgate any regulation or guidance referencing analysis contained in certain documents published by the White House council on environmental quality and by interagency working groups on the social cost of carbon and greenhouse gases.

Vote: Yea

(387) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing

June 20, 2019 – Graves, R–La., amendment that would strike from the bill a provision that would prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill for certain activities under the Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program, as proposed in a January 2018 Bureau of Ocean Energy Management notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement for the program.

Vote: Yea

(388) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Reduce Interior–Environment Funding

June 20, 2019 – Hice, R–Ga., amendment that would reduce by 23.6 percent all discretionary funding made available under the Interior, Environment, and related agencies title of the bill (Division C).

Vote: Yea

(389) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Reduce Interior–Environment Funding

June 20, 2019 – Banks, R–Ind., amendment that would reduce by 14 percent all discretionary funding made available under the Interior, Environment, and related agencies title of the bill (Division C).

Vote: Yea

(390) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Integrated Risk Information System

June 20, 2019 – Biggs, R–Ariz., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill for the Environmental Protection Agency integrated risk information system, a database containing information on chemical hazards in the environment and their effects on human health.

Vote: Yea

(391) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Prohibit Oil and Gas Exploration

June 20, 2019 – Cunningham, D–S.C., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill to conduct or authorize any geological or geophysical oil or gas exploration in areas located in Outer Continental Shelf Planning Areas for the Atlantic Region or to prepare environmental impact statements or assessments for such explorations.

Vote: Nay

(392) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Land and Water Conservation Fund

June 20, 2019 – Cunningham, D–S.C., amendment that would increase then decrease by $5 million funding for operations of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, including for land and water acquisition and administrative expenses.

Vote: Yea

(393) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Prohibit Oil and Gas Leasing

June 20, 2019 – Carbajal, D–Calif., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill for the purpose of conducting Interior Department offshore oil and gas leasing, preleasing or related activities in the Outer Continental Shelf Planning Areas for Washington/Oregon, Northern California, Central California, and Southern California.

Vote: Nay

(394) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Fire Preparedness and Response

June 20, 2019 – Hill, D–Calif., amendment that would increase by a total of $7 million funding for Interior Department and National Forest System fire preparedness, response, and research programs and hazardous fuel management activities; it would decrease by the same amount funding for financial management systems, information technology improvements, and other operational funds for the Interior Department.

Vote: Yea

(395) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – EPA Emission Standards Rule

June 20, 2019 – Schrier, D–Wash., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds provided by the bill to finalize certain findings in a proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule regarding national emission standards for air pollutants from coal– and oil–fired steam–generating units.

Vote: Nay

(396) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – American Made Products

June 21, 2019 – Bost, R–Ill., amendment that would prohibit funds made available in the bill to be used in contravention of a January 2019 executive order related to the use of American made products for infrastructure projects. 

Vote: Yea

(397) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – VA Medical Facilities

June 21, 2019 – Golden, D–Maine, amendment that would increase by $5 million funding for maintenance and operation of Veterans Health Administration medical facilities and would decrease by $5.2 million funding for VA information technology systems and telecommunications support.

Vote: Yea

(398) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Veterans Benefits Administration

June 21, 2019 – McAdams, D–Utah, amendment that would increase then decrease by $1 administrative funding for the Veterans Benefits Administration.

Vote: Yea

(399) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Natural Gas Transportation

June 24, 2019 – DeFazio, D–Ore., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill to carry out an executive order allowing for the transportation of liquefied natural gas by rail tank car or to issue special permits for such transportation.

Vote: Nay

(400) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Equal Access to HUD Programs

June 24, 2019 – Duncan, R–S.C., amendment that would that would strike from the bill a provision that would prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill to change or replace two Housing and Urban Development Department rules related to equal access based on gender identity and sexual orientation for HUD community planning and development programs.

Vote: Yea

(401) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Transgender HUD Facility Access

June 24, 2019 – Duncan, R–S.C., amendment that would strike from the bill a provision that would codify a February 2015 Housing and Urban Development rule regarding the placement of transgender persons in single–sex emergency shelters and other facilities.

Vote: Yea

(402) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Reduce Transportation–HUD Funding

June 24, 2019 – Grothman, R–Wis., amendment that would reduce by 4.6 percent all discretionary funding made available under the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies title of the bill (Division E).

Vote: Yea

(403) – H.R. 2722, H.R.3351: Financial Service Appropriations, Election Security – Previous Question

June 25, 2019 – McGovern, D–Mass., motion to order the previous question (thus limiting debate and possibility of amendment) on the rule (H Res 460) that would provide for House floor consideration of the Fiscal 2020 Financial Services Appropriations bill (H.R. 3351), and the Securing America's Federal Elections (SAFE) Act (H.R. 2722), which includes a number of provisions related to election infrastructure improvements and cybersecurity. The rule would provide for automatic adoption of a Lofgren, D–Calif., manager's amendment to H.R. 2722 that would make technical corrections to the bill and add or modify provisions related to voter accessibility for individuals with disabilities, requirements for paper ballots, and voting technology. The rule would also provide for same–day floor consideration of any resolution reported from the House Rules Committee related to a measure making appropriations, through Thursday, June 27.

Vote: Nay

(404) – H.R. 2722, H.R.3351: Financial Service Appropriations and Election Security –Rule

June 25, 2019 – Adoption of the rule (H Res 460) that would provide for House floor consideration of the Fiscal 2020 Financial Services Appropriations bill (H.R. 3351), and the Securing America's Federal Elections (SAFE) Act (H.R. 2722), which includes a number of provisions related to election infrastructure improvements and cybersecurity. The rule would provide for automatic adoption of a Lofgren, D–Calif., manager's amendment to H.R. 2722 that would make technical corrections to the bill and add or modify provisions related to voter accessibility for individuals with disabilities, requirements for paper ballots, and voting technology. The rule would also provide for same–day floor consideration of any resolution reported from the House Rules Committee related to a measure making appropriations, through Thursday, June 27.

Vote: Nay

(405) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Reduce Transportation–HUD Funding

June 25, 2019 – Banks, R–Ind., amendment that would reduce by 14 percent all discretionary funding made available under the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies title of the bill (Division E).

Vote: Yea

(406) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package – Homeless Assistance Grants

June 25, 2019 – Jayapal, D–Wash., amendment that would increase by $1 million funding for Housing and Urban Development homeless assistance grant programs and decrease by the same amount administrative funding for Housing and Urban Development Department executive offices.

Vote: Yea

(407) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package –Recommit

June 25, 2019 – Hurd, R–Texas, motion to recommit the bill to the House Appropriations Committee with instructions to report it back immediately with an amendment that would increase by $75 million funding for the Justice Department immigration review office and decrease by the same amount funding for Census Bureau expenses related to collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistics for periodic censuses and programs.

Vote: Yea

(408) – H.R. 3055: Fiscal 2020 Five–Bill Appropriations Package –Passage

June 25, 2019 – Passage of the bill, as amended, that would provide $321.9 billion in discretionary spending for five of the 12 fiscal 2020 appropriations bills, including $73.9 billion for the Commerce and Justice departments and science and related agencies, $24.3 billion for the Agriculture Department and related agencies, $39.5 billion for the Interior Department, Environmental Protection Agency, and related agencies, $108.4 billion for the Veterans Affairs Department, military construction, and related agencies, and $75.8 billion for the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development departments and related agencies. It would also provide $61 billion in obligations from highway and aviation trust funds for associated Transportation Department programs. Among other provisions, the bill would provide $673 million to the Justice Department immigration review office, including to hire additional immigration judges and to provide legal resources for individuals facing deportation proceedings. It would provide $5.2 billion for Interior Department and the U.S. Forest Service wildfire preparedness and response activities and $9.5 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency, including increased funding for enforcement and compliance activities, clean air activities, and environmental restoration initiatives. It would provide $81.2 billion for VA health care programs and $2.3 billion in emergency military construction funding for bases damaged by natural disasters. It would prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill for the Census Bureau to include a question regarding citizenship on the 2020 census or for the construction of physical barriers or border security infrastructure along the U.S. southern land border.

Vote: Nay

(409) – H.R. 3401: Supplemental Border Appropriations – Previous Question

June 25, 2019 – McGovern, D–Mass., motion to order the previous question (thus ending debate and possibility of amendment) on the rule that would provide for House floor consideration of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act (H.R. 3401), which would provide $4.5 billion in supplemental fiscal 2019 appropriations to address humanitarian concerns at the U.S.–Mexico border. The rule would provide for automatic adoption of a Lowey, D–N.Y., manager's amendment to H.R. 3401 that would increase from $15 million to $17 million funding provided by the bill for the Justice Department immigration review office and specify that at least $2 million would be used for operation of the immigration court helpdesk program. It would require the Homeland Security Department to establish final plans, standards, and protocols regarding individuals in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody, including medical, nutrition, and sanitation standards for temporary holding facilities. It would also make a number of requirements related to standards for grantees and contractors providing services to individuals in HHS custody, translation services for DHS customs, immigration, and other services, and the maximum time an unaccompanied minor may be held at a facility not licensed by HHS.

Vote: Nay

(410) – H.R. 3401: Supplemental Border Appropriations –Rule

June 25, 2019 – Adoption of the rule (H Res 462) that would provide for House floor consideration of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act (H.R. 3401), which would provide $4.5 billion in supplemental fiscal 2019 appropriations to address humanitarian concerns at the U.S.–Mexico border. The rule would provide for automatic adoption of a Lowey, D–N.Y., manager's amendment to H.R. 3401 that would increase from $15 million to $17 million funding provided by the bill for the Justice Department immigration review office and specify that at least $2 million would be used for operation of the immigration court help desk program. It would require the Homeland Security Department to establish final plans, standards, and protocols regarding individuals in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody, including medical, nutrition, and sanitation standards for temporary holding facilities. It would also make a number of requirements related to standards for grantees and contractors providing services to individuals in HHS custody, translation services for DHS customs, immigration, and other services, and the maximum time an unaccompanied minor may be held at a facility not licensed by HHS.

Vote: Nay

(411) – H.R. 3351: Fiscal 2020 Financial Services Appropriations – Border Barrier Construction

June 25, 2019 – King, R–Iowa, amendment that would strike from the bill a provision that would prohibit the use of funds from a Treasury Department forfeiture fund to plan or construct a wall, barrier, fence, or road along the U.S. southern border. The fund is sourced from Treasury and Homeland Security Department forfeitures and seizures and used for related law enforcement activities.

Vote: Yea

(412) – H.R. 3351: Fiscal 2020 Financial Services Appropriations – Research Agency Relocation

June 25, 2019 – Norton, D–D.C., amendment that would prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill to relocate the National Institute of Food and Agriculture or the Economic Research Service outside of the national capital region.

Vote: Nay

(413) – H.R. 3401: Supplemental Border Appropriations –Recommit

June 25, 2019 – Rutherford, R–Fla., motion to recommit the bill to the House Appropriations Committee with instructions to report it back immediately with an amendment that would increase by $64.6 million funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement expenses related to increased immigration at the U.S. southwest border.

Vote: Yea

(414) – H.R. 3401: Supplemental Border Appropriations –Passage

June 25, 2019 – Passage of the bill, as amended, that would provide $4.5 billion in supplemental fiscal 2019 appropriations to address humanitarian concerns for migrants at the U.S.–Mexico border. Specifically, it would provide $2.9 billion for the Health and Human Services Department office of refugee resettlement, including $866 million for the provision of care in state–licensed shelters and expansion of the number of licensed shelters and $100 million for post–release, legal, and child advocacy services. It would provide $1.2 billion for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, including $787.5 million for acquisition, construction, and operation of migrant processing facilities, $92 million for food, water, sanitary items, and other supplies for migrants, and $20 million for medical support. It would provide $128.2 million for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including $45 million for detainee medical care and $35.9 million for the transportation of unaccompanied minors to HHS custody. It would also provide $60 million for Federal Emergency Management Agency emergency food and shelter programs providing assistance to migrants released from DHS custody, $17 million for the Justice Department immigration review office legal orientation program, and $155 million to the U.S. Marshals Service for federal prisoner detention. Among other requirements related to facilities, resources, and services provided by DHS and HHS, the bill would require DHS to establish standards and protocols related to medical, nutrition, and sanitation needs of migrants in CBP temporary holding facilities. It would establish contracting standards for unlicensed facilities used as "influx shelters" by HHS, limit the period unaccompanied minors may be held at such facilities, and require HHS to ensure that certain minors are not held at such facilities, including those with special medical needs.

Vote: Nay

(415) – H.R. 3351: Fiscal 2020 Financial Services Appropriations – Reduce Financial Services Funding

June 26, 2019 – Grothman, R–Wis., amendment that would reduce by 3.1 percent all discretionary funding made available by bill. 

Vote: Yea

(416) – H.R. 3351: Fiscal 2020 Financial Services Appropriations – En Bloc Amendments

June 26, 2019 – Quigley, D–Ill. en bloc amendments to the Fiscal 2020 Financial Services Appropriations bill that would, among other provisions, increase by $1 million funding for a Treasury Department program providing financial assistance and training to community development financial institutions; increase by $3 million funding for the Treasury Department office of the inspector general and decrease by the same amount funding for the office of administration within the executive office of the president; and prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill to amend or revise existing laws related to Securities and Exchange Commission regulation of certain securities transactions or for the Federal Communications Commission to finalize or implement a proposed rule regarding state and local policies promoting broadband access for individuals in multiple–tenant environments, such as apartments or office buildings.

Vote: Nay

(417) – H.R. 3351: Fiscal 2020 Financial Services Appropriations – Reduce Financial Services Funding

June 26, 2019 – Banks, R–Ind., amendment that would reduce by 14 percent all discretionary funding made available by the bill, except for amounts made available to the Defense Department.

Vote: Yea

(418) – H.R. 3351: Fiscal 2020 Financial Services Appropriations – Small Business Entrepreneurship

June 26, 2019 – Suozzi, D–N.Y., amendment that would increase funding by $1 million for Small Business entrepreneurial development programs and would decrease by the same amount administrative funding for Treasury Department offices.

Vote: Yea

(419) – H.R. 3351: Fiscal 2020 Financial Services Appropriations – Youth Substance Abuse Prevention

June 26, 2019 – Lee, D–Nev., amendment that would increase by $1 million funding for an Office of National Drug Control Policy community–based youth substance abuse prevention program and decrease by the same amount funding for General Service Administration facility rental.

Vote: Yea

(420) – H.R. 3351: Fiscal 2020 Financial Services Appropriations – Community Investment Programs

June 26, 2019 – Dean, D–Pa., amendment that would increase by $2 million funding allocated for Treasury Department programs that provide financial assistance and training to community development financial institutions to incentivize investments that benefit with individuals with disabilities, from funding provided by the bill for department programs supporting such institutions.

Vote: Yea

(421) – H.R. 3351: Fiscal 2020 Financial Services Appropriations – Small Business Entrepreneurship

June 26, 2019 – Kim, D–N.J., amendment that would increase by $1 million funding for Small Business Administration entrepreneurial development programs and decrease by the same amount funding for salaries and expenses of the administration.

Vote: Yea

(422) – H.R. 3351: Fiscal 2020 Financial Services Appropriations – Tax Counseling Program

June 26, 2019 – Malinowski, D–N.J., amendment that would increase by $1 million funding allocated for an IRS program providing tax counseling for elderly individuals, from funding provided by the bill for IRS taxpayer services.

Vote: Yea

(423) – H.R. 3351: Fiscal 2020 Financial Services Appropriations –Recommit

June 26, 2019 – Graves, R–Ga., motion to recommit the bill to the House Appropriations Committee with instructions to report it back immediately with an amendment that would increase by $10 million funding for activities by the Treasury Department office on terrorism and financial intelligence to safeguard the U.S. financial system against national security threats and decrease by the same amount funding for General Services Administration facility rental.

Vote: Yea

(424) – H.R. 3351: Fiscal 2020 Financial Services Appropriations –Passage

June 26, 2019 – Passage of the bill, as amended, that would provide $24.95 billion in discretionary funding for the Treasury Department, the federal judiciary, the office of the president, a number of executive agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission, and other government operations. Among other provisions, the bill would provide $12 billion for the Internal Revenue Service, including $5.2 billion for enforcement activities and $2.6 billion for IRS taxpayer services. It would provide $7.9 billion for the federal judiciary, $1.9 billion for the Securities and Exchange Commission, $996 million for the Small Business Administration, $741 million in federal payments to the District of Columbia, and $178 million for the White House executive office of the president. It would prohibit the use of funds made available by the bill for the IRS to "target" any group for regulatory scrutiny based on ideological beliefs or for the reorganization or transfer of any function or authority of the Office of Personnel Management to another federal agency.

Vote: Nay

(425) – H.R. 3401: Supplemental Border Appropriations – Question of Consideration

June 27, 2019 – On the question of consideration of the resolution (H Res 466) that would provide for floor consideration of the Senate amendment to the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act (H.R. 3401).

Vote: Nay

(426) – H.R. 3401: Supplemental Border Appropriations –Rule

June 27, 2019 – Adoption of the rule (H Res 466), as amended, that would provide for House floor consideration of the Senate amendment to the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act (H.R. 3401). As amended, the rule would make in order a motion to concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 3401.

Vote: Yea

(427) – H.R. 2722: Election Security and Accessibility –Recommit

June 27, 2019 – Davis, R–Ill., motion to recommit the bill to the House Administration Committee with instructions to report it back immediately with an amendment that would require state election officials to disclose to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission within 30 days the identity of any foreign national known to have handled voting equipment or have had unmonitored access to certain election–related facilities or communications technology, including voter registration databases.

Vote: Yea

(428) – H.R. 2722: Election Security and Accessibility –Passage

June 27, 2019 – Passage of the bill, as amended, that would authorize funding for and establish a number of requirements related to voting system infrastructure, security, and audits for federal elections. Specifically, it would require each jurisdiction administering voting for a federal election to conduct votes with paper ballots that can be counted either by hand or optical scanner and to conduct manual audits for all federal elections before an election is certified. It would authorize $1.3 billion through fiscal 2026 for U.S. Election Assistance Commission grants for states to update voting systems in accordance with the bill’s provisions, including for cybersecurity risk mitigation and to conduct post–election audits. Among other provisions, it would require states to use voting system hardware and software manufactured in the U.S., require that such systems are tested by the Commission at least nine months before a general federal election, and establish certain disclosure and cybersecurity incident reporting requirements for vendors of voting system equipment. It would also prohibit states from using voting systems connected to the internet or containing wireless capabilities and would require jurisdictions to ensure that each polling station has voting systems equipped for individuals with disabilities, including visual and mobility disabilities.

Vote: Nay

(429) – H.R. 3401: Supplemental Border Appropriations – Motion to Concur

June 27, 2019 – Lowey, D–N.Y., motion to concur in the Senate amendment to the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act that would authorize a total of $4.6 billion in supplemental fiscal 2019 appropriations to address humanitarian concerns for migrants at the U.S.–Mexico border. Specifically, It would provide $2.9 billion for the Health and Human Services Department office of refugee resettlement, including $866 million for the provision of care in state–licensed shelters and expansion of the number of licensed shelters and $100 million for post–release, legal, and child advocacy services. It would provide $1.1 billion for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, including $793 million for acquisition, construction, and operation of migrant processing facilities, $112 million for medical care, food, water, sanitary items, and other supplies for migrants. It would provide $209 million for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including $45 million for detainee medical care and $35.9 million for the transportation of unaccompanied minors to HHS custody. It would provide $144.8 million to the Department of Defense for operating expenses of the Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and National Guard for activities in response to migration at the U.S. southwest border, including medical assistance and mobile surveillance. It would also provide $30 million for Federal Emergency Management Agency emergency food and shelter programs providing assistance to migrants released from DHS custody, $15 million for the Justice Department immigration review office legal orientation program, and $155 million to the U.S. Marshals Service for federal prisoner detention. It would also establish contracting standards for unlicensed facilities used as "influx shelters" by HHS, limit the period unaccompanied minors may be held at such facilities, and require HHS to ensure that certain minors are not held at such facilities, including those with special medical needs. The measure is now cleared for the president.

Vote: Yea

(430): Procedural Motion –Journal

June 27, 2019 – Approval of the House Journal of June 27, 2019.

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