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COMMITTEE ACTION:
REPORTED BY RECORD VOTE of 7-2 on Monday, July 11, 2016.
FLOOR ACTION ON H. RES. 820:
Agreed to by record vote of 237 - 179, after agreeing to the previous question by record vote of 236 - 174, on Tuesday, July 12, 2016.
MANAGERS:Newhouse/Slaughters
1. Structured rule.
2. Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations.
3. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
4. Provides that the bill shall be considered as read through page 184, line 21.
5. Waives points of order against provisions in the bill for failure to comply with clause 2 of rule XXI, except on page 71, line 19, through page 71, line 25.
6. Makes in order only those amendments printed in the Rules Committee report, amendments en bloc described in section 3 of the rule, and pro forma amendments described in section 4 of the rule. Each amendment printed in the report may be offered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question.
7. Waives all points of order against the amendments printed in the report or against amendments en bloc described in section 3 of the rule.
8. Section 3 provides that it shall be in order at any time for the chair of the Committee on Appropriations or his designee to offer amendments en bloc consisting of amendments printed in the report not earlier disposed of. Amendments en bloc shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations or their designees, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question.
9. Section 4 provides that the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations or their respective designees may offer up to 10 pro forma amendments each at any point for the purpose of debate.
10. Provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
11. Section 6 provides that section 454 of H.R. 5538 shall be considered to be a spending reduction account for purposes of section 3(d) of House Resolution 5.
12. Section 7 provides that during consideration of H.R. 5538, section 3304 of Senate Concurrent Resolution 11 shall not apply.
13. Section 8 provides that on any legislative day during the period from July 15, 2016, through September 5, 2016: the Journal of the proceedings of the previous day shall be considered as approved; and the Chair may at any time declare the House adjourned to meet at a date and time to be announced by the Chair in declaring the adjournment.
14. Section 9 provides that the Speaker may appoint Members to perform the duties of the Chair for the duration of the period addressed by section 8.
15. Section 10 provides that each day during the period addressed by sections 8 of the resolution shall not constitute calendar days for the purposes of section 7 of the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1546).
16. Section 11 provides that each day during the period addressed by section 8 of the resolution shall not constitute a legislative day for purposes of clause 7 of rule XIII (resolutions of inquiry).
17. Section 12 provides that for each day during the period addressed by section 8 shall not constitute a calendar or legislative day for purposes of clause 7(c)(1) of rule XXII (motions to instruct conferees).
18. Section 13 provides that it shall be in order at any time on the legislative day of July 14, 2016 or July 15, 2016, for the Speaker to entertain motions that the House suspend the rules and that the Speaker or his designee shall consult with the Minority Leader or her designee on the designation of any matter for consideration pursuant to this section.
19. Section 14 provides that the Committee on Appropriations may, at any time before 5 p.m. on Friday, July 29, 2016, file privileged reports to accompany measures making appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017.
# | Version # | Sponsor(s) | Party | Summary | Status |
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137 | Version 1 | Becerra (CA), Pallone (NJ), Lowenthal (CA), Roybal-Allard (CA) | Democrat | Late Strikes section 430 of Interior Appropriations bill for FY 17. | Made In Order |
71 | Version 1 | Beyer (VA), DeFazio (OR) | Democrat | Prevents funds from being used to block science-based protections for imperiled wildlife that has or may need Endangered Species Act protections. | Made In Order |
122 | Version 1 | Beyer (VA), Cartwright (PA), Lawrence (MI) | Democrat | Strikes lines 4 through 19 on page 67. | Made In Order |
123 | Version 1 | Beyer (VA), Welch (VT) | Democrat | Requires that no funds made available by this Act be used in contravention of Executive Order 13653 or Executive Order 13693. | Made In Order |
138 | Version 1 | Beyer (VA), LoBiondo (NJ), Price, David (NC), Van Hollen (MD), Pallone (NJ), Langevin (RI), Sanford (SC) | Bi-Partisan | Late Requires that no funds made available by this Act be used authorize, permit, or conduct geological or geophysical activities in support of oil, gas, or methane hydrate exploration and development in the Atlantic. | Made In Order |
146 | Version 1 | Beyer (VA), Cartwright (PA), Lawrence (MI) | Democrat | Late States none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement or enforce section 120, 425, 426, or 427. | Made In Order |
31 | Version 1 | Black (TN) | Republican | Prohibits the EPA from using funds to implement, administer, or enforce the agency’s “Phase 2” fuel-efficiency and emissions standards, or any rule with respect to glider kits and glider vehicles. | Made In Order |
18 | Version 1 | Blackburn (TN) | Republican | Imposes a 1 percent across-the-board spending cut to the bill. | Made In Order |
89 | Version 1 | Blumenauer (OR) | Democrat | Withdrawn Increases funding for the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds by $84,653,000 and increases funding for the Clean Water State Revolving Funds by $84,653,000 and reduces funding for Bureau of Ocean Energy Management by $169,306,000. | Withdrawn |
90 | Version 2 | Blumenauer (OR) | Democrat | Revised Increases funding for the Historic Preservation Fund by $1,000,000 to be directed to the State historic preservation offices. Reduces funding for the Department of Interior Departmental Operations by $1,000,000. | Made In Order |
124 | Version 1 | Blumenauer (OR) | Democrat | Strikes Section 418, which would prevent EPA from monitoring greenhouse gas emissions from manure management systems. | Made In Order |
3 | Version 1 | Boustany (LA) | Republican | Prohibits any funds from being made available for any proposed rule that does not also include the cost benefit analysis data and formula. | Submitted |
4 | Version 3 | Boustany (LA) | Republican | Revised Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior to implement, administer, or enforce any rule or guidance substantially similar to the proposed guidance that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management made available for public comment on September 22, 2015, regarding financial assurances for oil and gas operations on the Outer Continental Shelf. | Made In Order |
5 | Version 2 | Boustany (LA), Scalise (LA), Abraham (LA), Walters, Mimi (CA), Rouzer (NC), Gohmert (TX), Duncan (SC), Zinke (MT), Farenthold (TX), Byrne (AL), Lamborn (CO), Westerman (AR), Fleming (LA), Cramer, Kevin (ND), Hensarling (TX) | Republican | Revised Ensures that no money is permitted for the implementation of the Well Control Rule. | Made In Order |
14 | Version 1 | Boustany (LA) | Republican | Withdrawn Prohibits any funds being used to implement, administer, or enforce any rule or guidance substantially similar to the proposed guidance that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management made available for public comment on September 22, 2015, regarding financial assurances for oil and gas operations on the Outer Continental Shelf. | Withdrawn |
136 | Version 1 | Boustany (LA) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Strikes Section 128 of the bill. | Withdrawn |
179 | Version 1 | Boyle (PA) | Democrat | Late Prohibits the practice at FWS in which agency employees are granting Endangered Species Act permits in exchange for applicants making financial contributions to foreign and domestic charities. | Submitted |
157 | Version 1 | Brat (VA) | Republican | Late Sunsets Land and Water Conservation Fund grants with states or local government units after 20 years. | Made In Order |
51 | Version 3 | Buck (CO) | Republican | Revised Prevents the Department of Interior from partnering with private organizations to create or expand national heritage areas in southeast Colorado. | Made In Order |
39 | Version 1 | Burgess (TX) | Republican | Restricts funds from being used by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to hire new employees under the Title 42 Special Pay Program or transfer existing employees into the Title 42 Special Pay Program authorized for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). | Made In Order |
43 | Version 1 | Byrne (AL), Boustany (LA), Graves, Garret (LA) | Republican | Prohibits any funds from being used to develop or propose legislation to redirect funds allocated from the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA) | Made In Order |
44 | Version 1 | Byrne (AL), Flores (TX), Fleming (LA) | Republican | Prohibits funding from being used to implement, administer, or enforce the Obama administration’s National Ocean Policy. | Made In Order |
94 | Version 1 | Capps (CA) | Democrat | Prohibits funds to be used to process any application for a permit to drill or a permit to modify that would authorize use of hydraulic fracturing or acid well stimulation treatment in the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf. | Made In Order |
96 | Version 2 | Cartwright (PA), Lawrence (MI), Beyer (VA) | Democrat | Revised Strikes section 425, which prohibits the EPA from acting on changes to the definition of "fill material" and "discharge of fill material" under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. | Made In Order |
172 | Version 1 | Cartwright (PA), Beyer (VA), Lawrence (MI) | Democrat | Late Strikes section 426, which prohibits Federal Water Pollution Control Act funds from being used to require permits for certain discharge of dredged or fill material activities. | Made In Order |
104 | Version 1 | Castor (FL), Buchanan (FL) | Bi-Partisan | Prohibits the Fish and Wildlife Service from finalizing a proposed rule to downlist the West Indian manatee from endangered to threatened until the Service considers several factors in its decision. | Submitted |
105 | Version 1 | Castor (FL) | Democrat | Prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency from issuing a permit for Class II oil and gas related injection wells in areas where the local government has passed an ordinance prohibiting hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, acidization, or any related activity. | Submitted |
106 | Version 1 | Castor (FL) | Democrat | Matches the budget request for Law Enforcement of the National Wildlife Refuge System. | Made In Order |
143 | Version 1 | Castor (FL) | Democrat | Late Strikes section 124. | Made In Order |
62 | Version 2 | Chaffetz (UT) | Republican | Revised Increases the EPA's Inspector General fund by $10,038,000 to bring up to President's request and decreases the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Environmental Programs and Management fund by $14,000,000. | Made In Order |
63 | Version 3 | Chaffetz (UT) | Republican | Withdrawn Defunds law enforcement functions of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service. | Withdrawn |
64 | Version 3 | Chaffetz (UT) | Republican | Revised Increases BIA funding for dirt school bus routes by $1.5M. The cost is offset by decreasing EPA's Environment Programs & Management fund by $1.75M. | Made In Order |
162 | Version 1 | Cicilline (RI) | Democrat | Late Increases funding for the Operation of the National Park System (ONPS) account by $2,500,000, and decreases funding for the Departmental Operations Account for the Department of Interior by $2,500,000. | Made In Order |
77 | Version 2 | Cleaver (MO) | Democrat | Revised Reduces the amount appropriated to the Department of the Interior—Office of the Secretary—Departmental Operations by $6,000,000 in order to fund the World War I Centennial Commission authorized by the World War I Centennial Commission Act (36 U.S.C. 1 note). | Made In Order |
97 | Version 1 | Clyburn (SC) | Democrat | Increases funds for historic preservation grants to Historically Black Colleges and Universities by $2 million and reduces Office of the Secretary by the same amount. | Made In Order |
8 | Version 2 | Cohen (TN), Byrne (AL) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Increases the Department of the Interior’s Historic Preservation Fund account by $2M, specifically for use in awarding competitive grants to preserve the sites and stories of the Civil Rights movement. | Made In Order |
99 | Version 1 | Conyers (MI) | Democrat | Clarifies that nothing in this Act will prohibit EPA from promulgating and enforcing rules that save more than 5,000 lives over a two year period. | Submitted |
100 | Version 1 | Conyers (MI) | Democrat | Clarifies that nothing in this Act will prohibit EPA from promulgating and enforcing rules that save more than 2,500 lives over a two year period. | Submitted |
101 | Version 1 | Conyers (MI) | Democrat | Clarifies that nothing in this Act will prohibit EPA from promulgating and enforcing rules that save more than 1,000 lives over a two year period. | Submitted |
141 | Version 2 | Costa (CA), LaMalfa (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Late Revised Prohibits the development, adoption, or implementation of changes to the delta smelt biological opinion that would result in a reduction of water supplies for water contractors in California. | Submitted |
78 | Version 1 | Courtney (CT), McGovern (MA), DeLauro (CT), Larson, John (CT), Himes (CT), Esty (CT), Neal (MA) | Democrat | Funds the New England National Scenic Trail at $300,000 within the Operation of the National Park System. | Made In Order |
93 | Version 2 | Cramer, Kevin (ND) | Republican | Revised Ensures no funds are provided to finalize or implement the Fish and Wildlife Service rule entitled “Management of Non-Federal Oil and Gas Rights.” | Made In Order |
70 | Version 1 | Crawford (AR) | Republican | Prohibits the EPA from enforcing or implementing the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule on farming and ranching operations. | Made In Order |
135 | Version 2 | Crawford (AR), Newhouse (WA) | Republican | Late Revised Prohibits the use of funds in support of grassroots advocacy campaigns intended to persuade the outcome of legislation pending in Congress or state legislatures. | Made In Order |
42 | Version 1 | Cuellar (TX) | Democrat | Clarifies that nothing in this Act affects the ability of a state, through state law or regulation, to permit an agricultural worker access to records by means of a designated representative, as defined by the state. | Submitted |
160 | Version 1 | Davis, Rodney (IL) | Republican | Late Prevents any funds from being used for the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations at the EPA and reduces the Environmental Programs and Management account by $4,235,000. | Made In Order |
21 | Version 1 | Delaney (MD), Quigley (IL) | Democrat | Blocks funds from this Act from being used to prevent the development, proposal, finalization, implementation, or enforcement of any regulation or guidance, if such regulation or guidance would result in a net decrease in greenhouse gas emissions. | Submitted |
163 | Version 1 | DesJarlais (TN), Blackburn (TN) | Republican | Late Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the site of the James K. Polk Presidential Home in Columbia, TN. | Submitted |
76 | Version 1 | Dingell (MI) | Democrat | Removes language that would exempt a number of potentially damaging activities in National Forests from consideration, including public notice and comment and alternatives analysis, under the National Environmental Policy Act. | Made In Order |
9 | Version 1 | Duffy (WI) | Republican | Prohibits funds from being used to implement, administer, or enforce a new regulatory action of $100 million or more. | Made In Order |
10 | Version 1 | Duffy (WI) | Republican | Requires the EPA to satisfy regulatory planning and review requirements established by the Clinton and Obama Administrations. | Made In Order |
92 | Version 1 | Duncan (TN) | Republican | Provides that none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to destroy any buildings or structures on Midway Island. | Made In Order |
46 | Version 1 | Ellison (MN), Grijalva (AZ) | Democrat | Reprograms already appropriated funds to create an Office of Good Jobs for the Department of Interior. | Made In Order |
29 | Version 1 | Engel (NY) | Democrat | Prohibits funds made available by this Act from being used to lease or purchase new light duty vehicles unless those vehicles meet the requirements of President Obama’s May 24, 2011 Executive Order on Federal Fleet Performance. | Made In Order |
102 | Version 1 | Esty (CT), Courtney (CT) | Democrat | Directs $10,000,000 to Brownfields projects within State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG) from Superfund cleanup to help states leverage $18 for $1 expended for the purpose of cleaning up brownfield properties, such as abandoned factories or former dry cleaning establishments, in their communities. | Made In Order |
103 | Version 1 | Esty (CT) | Democrat | Increases funding to the Public Water System Supervision grants within State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG) by $100,000,000. | Submitted |
32 | Version 3 | Fleming (LA) | Republican | Revised Prohibits the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management from revising financial assurance requirements for offshore drilling unless BOEM uses formal rulemaking with notice and public comment. | Submitted |
118 | Version 1 | Gallego (AZ) | Democrat | Prohibits funds from being used to issue grazing permits or leases in contravention of BLM regulations. | Made In Order |
148 | Version 1 | Gallego (AZ), Gosar (AZ), Kirkpatrick (AZ) | Bi-Partisan | Late States none of the funds made available by this Act shall be used to rehire any employee who has previously received a written reprimand, suspension, or removal for sexual harassment as defined by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. | Submitted |
144 | Version 1 | Garamendi (CA) | Democrat | Late Withdrawn Strikes the California drought provisions and inserts the text of HR 5247. | Withdrawn |
79 | Version 1 | Gibbs (OH) | Republican | Prohibits funds from being used by the Environmental Protection Agency to retroactively veto a permit issued by the Secretary of the Army acting through the Chief of Engineers under Section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act permanently. | Submitted |
85 | Version 1 | Gibbs (OH), McKinley (WV) | Republican | Prohibits funds from being used by the Environmental Protection Agency to retroactively veto a permit issued by the Secretary of the Army acting through the Chief of Engineers under Section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act for one year. | Submitted |
56 | Version 1 | Gohmert (TX) | Republican | Prohibits the use of funds for the purpose of printing signs, manuals, policies, directives, instructions or guidance of any kind that encourages or accommodates in any way the use of any gender-specific facility by a person whose birth certificate identifies such person as being from a different gender. | Submitted |
20 | Version 1 | Goodlatte (VA), Thompson, Glenn (PA) | Republican | Prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency from using any funds to take retaliatory, or EPA described “backstop” actions, against any of the six states in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed in the event that a state does not meet the goals mandated by the EPA’s Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load. | Made In Order |
1 | Version 1 | Gosar (AZ), LaMalfa (CA), Zinke (MT), Franks (AZ), McClintock (CA) | Republican | Redirects funds from EPA bureaucracy to the Forest Service Hazardous Fuels account in order to prevent dangerous wildfires. | Made In Order |
2 | Version 2 | Gosar (AZ), Amodei (NV), Buck (CO), Cook (CA), Cramer, Kevin (ND), Duncan (SC), Franks (AZ), Kirkpatrick (AZ), Jones (NC), McClintock (CA), Schweikert (AZ), Sinema (AZ), Zinke (MT), Salmon, (AZ), Heck (NV) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Prohibits funds for the Fish and Wildlife Service to continue to prohibit tubing, waterskiing and wake boarding in an area on Lake Havasu. | Made In Order |
7 | Version 2 | Gosar (AZ), Zinke (MT), Franks (AZ) | Republican | Revised Prohibits the use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce the draft EPA-USGS Technical Report entitled "Protecting Aquatic Life from Effects of Hydrologic Alteration." | Made In Order |
68 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Increases funding for the National Estuary Program by $468,000. | Made In Order |
69 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Prohibits the government from entering into a contract with an entity that discloses, as it is required to by the Federal Acquisition Regulation, that it has been convicted of fraud or another criminal offense in the last three years in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing a public contract or subcontract. Prohibits the government from contracting with entities that have been notified of any delinquent Federal taxes for which the liability remains unsatisfied. | Made In Order |
117 | Version 1 | Griffith (VA) | Republican | Provides a distribution of funds among Appalachian states for reclamation of abandoned mine lands in conjunction with economic and community development, offset by funds from the Environmental Programs and Management account. | Made In Order |
72 | Version 1 | Grijalva (AZ), Huffman (CA) | Democrat | Prevents funds in the bill from being used to abolish law enforcement offices at the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service. | Made In Order |
75 | Version 1 | Grijalva (AZ), Tsongas (MA), O'Rourke (TX), Polis (CO) | Democrat | Strikes section 453. | Made In Order |
80 | Version 1 | Grijalva (AZ), S?nchez, Linda (CA) | Democrat | Strikes Section 437 of the Act. | Made In Order |
147 | Version 1 | Grothman (WI) | Republican | Late Prohibits funds from being used to designate or treat any area designated in nonattainment by the Clean Air Act. | Submitted |
149 | Version 1 | Grothman (WI) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Reduces funds being appropriated to the Wilson Center to zero. | Withdrawn |
150 | Version 1 | Grothman (WI) | Republican | Late Eliminates Federal financial assistance to any sanctuary city. | Submitted |
151 | Version 2 | Grothman (WI) | Republican | Late Revised Eliminates $100 million in funding for the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) Grants. | Made In Order |
158 | Version 1 | Grothman (WI) | Republican | Late Bars any funds in the bill being used to implement or enforce any vehicle emissions testing required by the Clean Air Act on a car 12 years or older. | Submitted |
171 | Version 3 | Hartzler (MO) | Republican | Late Revised Prohibits the installation of new ozone monitors by the Environmental Protection Agency. | Made In Order |
65 | Version 2 | Higgins (NY) | Democrat | Revised Prohibits the use of funds by a State in contravention of the Great Lakes Compact, an interstate compact ratified by Congress detailing how the States will work together to manage and protect the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin. | Made In Order |
130 | Version 1 | Hudson (NC) | Republican | Late Prohibits officers and employees of the EPA from official travel by airplane. | Made In Order |
131 | Version 1 | Hudson (NC) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Prohibits the EPA from carrying, possessing, using, maintaining, or purchasing a firearm or ammunition. | Withdrawn |
132 | Version 1 | Hudson (NC) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Strikes and replaces funding for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management by $1,000,000. | Withdrawn |
22 | Version 1 | Huffman (CA) | Democrat | Strikes Section 127 of the Act, which would delay the finalization and implementation of the proposed rule for air quality control, reporting, and compliance in specific offshore areas of the Gulf of Mexico and the Arctic Ocean. | Made In Order |
23 | Version 1 | Huffman (CA) | Democrat | Ensures that none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement National Park Service Director's Order 61 as it pertains to allowing a grave in any Federal cemetery to be decorated with a Confederate flag. | Submitted |
24 | Version 1 | Huffman (CA) | Democrat | Ensures that none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to enter into a new contract or agreement or to administer a portion of an existing contract or agreement with a concessioner, a cooperating association, or any other entity that provides for the sale in any facility within a unit of the National Park System of an item with a Confederate flag as a stand-alone feature. | Submitted |
52 | Version 2 | Huizenga (MI), LaMalfa (CA), Yoho (FL) | Republican | Revised Prohibits the use of funds to pay attorney fees in a civil suit under the Endangered Species Act pursuant to a court order that states such fees were calculated at an hourly rate in excess of $125 per hour. | Made In Order |
84 | Version 1 | Hunter (CA), Shuster (PA), Rothfus (PA), MacArthur (NJ), Perry (PA), Barletta (PA) | Republican | Prohibits funds from being used to enforce compliance with the fuel standards set for the North American Emission Control Area for certain vessels operating more than 50 miles from shore. | Submitted |
153 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Late Amendment expresses support for National Historic Areas and for continuation of national policy of preserving for public use historic sites, buildings, and objects of national significance. | Made In Order |
154 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Late Prohibits the use of funds to be used to eliminate the Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnership. | Made In Order |
155 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Late Prohibits funds to be used to limit outreach programs administered by the Smithsonian Institution. | Made In Order |
49 | Version 2 | Jeffries (NY) | Democrat | Revised Provides that none of the funds made available to the National Park Service by this Act may be used for entry into a new contract or agreement or to administer a portion of an existing contract or agreement with a concessioner, a cooperating association, or any other entity that provides for the sale in any facility within a unit of the National Park System of an item with a Confederate flag as a stand-alone feature or for the flying of a confederate flag with the exception of specific circumstances where the flags provide historical context as described in the National Park Service memorandum entitled ‘‘Immediate Action Required, No Reply Needed: Confederate Flags’’ and dated June 24, 2015. | Submitted |
95 | Version 2 | Jenkins, Evan (WV) | Republican | Revised Prohibits funding for the EPA to develop, finalize, promulgate, implement, administer, or enforce any rule under section 112 of the Clean Air Act that applies to glass manufacturers that do not use continuous furnaces. | Made In Order |
54 | Version 1 | Johnson, Hank (GA), Conyers (MI), Hastings, Alcee (FL) | Democrat | Revised Ensures implementation of the EPA’s Final Rule on the Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals from Electric Utilities is consistent with Executive Order 12898. | Made In Order |
17 | Version 2 | Jolly (FL), Clawson (FL), Graham (FL) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Ensures none of the funds made available by the Act may be used to research, investigate, or study offshore drilling in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. | Made In Order |
114 | Version 1 | Kildee (MI) | Democrat | Allows states with communities that have declared an emergency related to lead in drinking water to use more of their Drinking Water State Revolving Funds to address lead in drinking water public health issues. | Made In Order |
115 | Version 1 | Kildee (MI) | Democrat | Provides funding to help provide fresh drinking water to communities that have been impacted by lead in their drinking water. | Made In Order |
156 | Version 1 | King, Steve (IA) | Republican | Late Ensures that no funds appropriated by this Act can be used to implement, administer, or enforce Davis-Bacon prevailing rate wage requirements. | Made In Order |
129 | Version 2 | LaMalfa (CA) | Republican | Late Revised Ensures that all tribal gaming proposals in California operate on a level playing field by prohibiting unilateral approval of projects by the Secretary of the Interior. Respects the will of voters by reinforcing a referendum in which 62% of California voters, including 52 of the state's 53 Congressional districts, rejected an off-reservation gaming proposal which would negatively impact other tribes' economic development. | Submitted |
140 | Version 2 | LaMalfa (CA) | Republican | Late Revised Prohibits the use of federal funds to remove four privately-owned dams on the Klamath River in California and Oregon. | Made In Order |
26 | Version 1 | Lamborn (CO) | Republican | Prohibits the use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule entitled "Hydraulic Fracturing on Federal and Indian Lands". | Made In Order |
27 | Version 1 | Lamborn (CO) | Republican | Prohibits the use of funds to implement or enforce the threatened species or endangered species listing of any plant or wildlife that has not undergone a periodic 5 year review as required by section 4(c)(2) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973. | Made In Order |
28 | Version 1 | Lamborn (CO) | Republican | Prohibits the use of funds to implement or enforce the threatened species listing of the Preble's meadow jumping mouse. | Made In Order |
107 | Version 2 | Langevin (RI), Keating (MA), Cicilline (RI) | Democrat | Revised Reduces funding for Diesel Emissions Reductions Grants (DERA) by $1,650,000, and increases funding for Environmental Programs and Management (Southern New England Estuaries geographic program) by $1 million. | Submitted |
40 | Version 1 | Lawrence (MI), Beyer (VA), Cartwright (PA) | Democrat | Strikes Section 427. | Made In Order |
166 | Version 2 | Loudermilk (GA) | Republican | Late Revised Prohibits funds from being used to regulate trailers under the Clean Air Act. | Made In Order |
16 | Version 1 | Lowenthal (CA) | Democrat | Allows the Interior Department to proceed with updating royalty rates and valuation for federal coal, oil, and gas by striking Section 440. | Made In Order |
73 | Version 1 | Lowenthal (CA) | Democrat | Prevents funds from being used in contravention to a 2009 Interior Department Secretarial Order on climate change. | Made In Order |
50 | Version 1 | Lowey (NY), Cartwright (PA), Quigley (IL), Ellison (MN) | Democrat | Strikes language that would delay implementation of the EPA Lead Renovation, Repair, and Painting Rule. | Made In Order |
45 | Version 1 | Lujan (NM) | Democrat | Decreases and increases funding to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) by $1 million to require that the BIA to report, identify and adjudicate to landowners egress and ingress easements where they do not exist for landowners on land parcels adjudicated under the Pueblo Lands Act of 1924. | Made In Order |
47 | Version 1 | Lujan (NM) | Democrat | Decreases and increases funding to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) by $1 million to require the BIA to update and digitize its inventory of rights-of-way records and to make them publicly available in a commonly used mapping format. | Made In Order |
48 | Version 1 | Lujan (NM) | Democrat | Decreases and increases State and Tribal Assistance Grants by $6 million to direct the EPA to work with the affected States and Indian tribes to implement a long-term monitoring program for water quality of the Animas and San Juan Rivers in response to the Gold King Mine spill. | Made In Order |
113 | Version 1 | Lujan Grisham (NM), Polis (CO), DeGette (CO), Cartwright (PA), Lowenthal (CA), Sarbanes (MD), Huffman (CA) | Democrat | Strikes Section 122. | Made In Order |
58 | Version 1 | Lummis (WY) | Republican | Prohibits funding to finalize, implement, or enforce EPA proposed rulemaking regarding in situ uranium production | Made In Order |
98 | Version 2 | MacArthur (NJ), LoBiondo (NJ) | Republican | Revised Limits permit inspection regulations with respect to the export of squid, octopus, and cuttlefish products. | Made In Order |
36 | Version 1 | Maloney, Sean (NY), Hanna (NY), Peters, Scott (CA), Ros-Lehtinen (FL) | Bi-Partisan | Prohibits funds from being used to contravene the President’s Executive Order pertaining to equal employment in Federal government contracting. | Submitted |
111 | Version 1 | McHenry (NC), Ashford (NE), Cuellar (TX), Peterson (MN), Loudermilk (GA), Posey (FL) | Bi-Partisan | Withdrawn Prevents funds be made available to the EPA for the purpose of being used to enforce certain provisions of the Clean Air Act on vehicles modified for sole use in competitions or regulate parts used to make modifications to vehicles used solely for competition. | Withdrawn |
12 | Version 1 | McNerney (CA) | Democrat | Strikes section 447 through 452. | Submitted |
173 | Version 1 | McNerney (CA) | Democrat | Late Strikes section 447. | Made In Order |
174 | Version 1 | McNerney (CA) | Democrat | Late Strikes section 448. | Made In Order |
175 | Version 1 | McNerney (CA) | Democrat | Late Strikes section 449. | Made In Order |
176 | Version 1 | McNerney (CA) | Democrat | Late Strikes section 450. | Made In Order |
177 | Version 1 | McNerney (CA) | Democrat | Late Strikes section 451. | Made In Order |
178 | Version 1 | McNerney (CA) | Democrat | Late Strikes section 452. | Made In Order |
15 | Version 1 | Meng (NY) | Democrat | can Center receives the $300,000 increase requested in the President’s FY17 Budget. | Made In Order |
134 | Version 3 | Murphy, Patrick (FL), Jolly (FL), Clawson (FL), Hastings, Alcee (FL), Posey (FL), Ros-Lehtinen (FL), Deutch (FL), Graham (FL) | Bi-Partisan | Late Revised Provides that none of the funds from this act shall be used to carry out seismic airgun testing or seismic airgun surveys in the OCS Planning Areas located within the EEZ bordering the State of Florida. | Made In Order |
169 | Version 1 | Murphy, Patrick (FL), Clawson (FL) | Bi-Partisan | Late Decreases by $1 million dollars the Office of the Secretary's Leadership and Administration account and increase by $1 million the USGS Surveys, Investigations, and Research account. | Submitted |
145 | Version 2 | Newhouse (WA), Walden (OR), McMorris Rodgers (WA) | Republican | Late Revised Prohibits the use of funds by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the Department of Interior to treat any Gray Wolf in the 48 contiguous states as an endangered or threatened species under the Endangered Species Act after June 13, 2017. | Made In Order |
152 | Version 1 | Newhouse (WA) | Republican | Late Prohibits the use of funds by EPA to issue and expand new regulations under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) that would apply to Animal Feeding Operations. | Made In Order |
165 | Version 1 | Newhouse (WA) | Republican | Late Restores $1,000,000 for the Wolf Livestock Loss Demonstration Program and is offset by reducing funds for EPA Environmental Programs & management by $1,000,000. | Made In Order |
33 | Version 3 | Norcross (NJ) | Democrat | Revised Adds $13,060,000 to the Hazardous Substance Superfund (equal to President's Budget request) and reduces Payments In Lieu of Taxes by the same amount. | Made In Order |
34 | Version 1 | Norcross (NJ) | Democrat | Adds $15,282,000 to the Hazardous Substance Superfund. | Made In Order |
88 | Version 1 | Pallone (NJ), Esty (CT) | Democrat | Strikes section 431. | Made In Order |
53 | Version 1 | Palmer (AL) | Republican | Eliminates funding for Diesel Emission Reduction Grants and sends the savings to the spending reduction account. | Made In Order |
55 | Version 1 | Palmer (AL) | Republican | Ensures that none of the funds made available by this Act may be used for the Environmental Protection Agency's Criminal Enforcement Division. | Made In Order |
59 | Version 1 | Pearce (NM) | Republican | Removes federal protections for the New Mexico Meadow Jumping Mouse under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). | Made In Order |
60 | Version 1 | Pearce (NM) | Republican | Prevents the Forest Service from denying, reducing, or limiting access to water rights held by private citizens. | Submitted |
61 | Version 2 | Pearce (NM), Gosar (AZ) | Republican | Revised Removes federal protections for the Mexican Wolf under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and would prevent the expansion of the species habitat outside of its historic range. | Made In Order |
125 | Version 1 | Perry (PA), Brat (VA) | Republican | Ensures none of the funds made available by this Act shall be used to give formal notification under, or prepare, propose, implement, administer, or enforce any rule or recommendation pursuant to, section 115 of the Clean Air Act. | Made In Order |
126 | Version 1 | Perry (PA) | Republican | Ensures none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to develop, administer, purchase, acquire, or operate an unmanned aircraft system owned by the Department of Interior or the Environmental Protection Agency to perform surveying, mapping, or collecting remote sensing data. | Made In Order |
127 | Version 1 | Perry (PA) | Republican | Reduces Appropriations made in this Act for the Environmental Protection Agency by 17 percent. | Made In Order |
109 | Version 1 | Peters, Scott (CA), Esty (CT) | Democrat | Strikes Section 434 to allow the EPA to regulate ozone-depleting substances under the Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) program to improve public health and fight the root causes of climate change | Made In Order |
110 | Version 1 | Peters, Scott (CA), Lowenthal (CA), Beyer (VA), Polis (CO), Esty (CT), Welch (VT) | Democrat | Strikes Section 436 to allow federal agencies to use the social cost of carbon in rule makings and guidance documents | Made In Order |
35 | Version 1 | Peterson (MN), Cramer, Kevin (ND) | Bi-Partisan | Prohibits funds made available by the Land and Water Conservation Fund from being used in wetland restoration or preservation projects in the Red River of the North watershed area unless they include a water control structure that allows for the management of water levels for flood control and wetland functions and values. | Submitted |
6 | Version 1 | Pittenger (NC), Walker (NC) | Republican | Ensures none of the funds made available by this act may be used to revoke funding previously awarded to or within the State of North Carolina. | Submitted |
128 | Version 1 | Pocan (WI), Welch (VT) | Democrat | Late Protects the Administration's climate change and environmental sustainability executive order to ensure that no funds be used to weaken the executive order within this Act. | Made In Order |
81 | Version 1 | Polis (CO), DeGette (CO), Cartwright (PA), Lowenthal (CA), Sarbanes (MD), Huffman (CA), Lujan Grisham (NM) | Democrat | Strikes section 439, regarding methane emissions. | Made In Order |
82 | Version 1 | Polis (CO), King, Peter (NY), Ruiz (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Increases and then decreases the amount provided for Wildland Fire Management by $2 million in order to apply additional funds to the Volunteer Fire Assistance grant program. | Made In Order |
83 | Version 1 | Polis (CO), Grijalva (AZ) | Democrat | Prohibits use of funds to pursue any additional legal ways to transfer Federal lands to private owners in contravention of existing law. | Made In Order |
91 | Version 1 | Polis (CO), Tsongas (MA) | Democrat | Provides for the Permanent Reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund. | Submitted |
112 | Version 2 | Polis (CO) | Democrat | Revised Prevents funds from being used for Surgical Sterilization of Wild Horses. | Made In Order |
170 | Version 1 | Pompeo (KS) | Republican | Late Prohibits funds from being used to finalize, implement, administer or enforce EPA’s proposed rule on Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Rink Management Program Under the Clean Air Act. | Made In Order |
161 | Version 2 | Price, Tom (GA) | Republican | Late Revised Ensures none of the funds in the underlying bill will be made available to carry out any new major rule as described in subparagraph (A) of section 804(2) of title 5, United States Code. | Made In Order |
57 | Version 1 | Ratcliffe (TX) | Republican | Prohibits funds from being used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule entitled “Clean Energy Incentive Program Design Details.” | Made In Order |
30 | Version 2 | Rohrabacher (CA) | Republican | Revised Prevents funds in the underlying bill from being used to take steps to significantly change operations at the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. | Made In Order |
108 | Version 1 | Rush (IL) | Democrat | Establishes a grant program to provide assistance to local educational agencies with schools that have lead levels in the drinking water exceeding 15 parts per billion for the replacement of drinking water coolers manufactured prior to 1988. | Submitted |
159 | Version 1 | Sanford (SC) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Limits the law enforcement powers of the Environmental Protection Agency. | Withdrawn |
164 | Version 1 | Sanford (SC) | Republican | Late Transfers $4,762,000 from the Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs grant program to the bill's Spending Reduction Account. | Made In Order |
119 | Version 1 | Smith, Jason (MO) | Republican | Blocks the use of funds to carry out the third sentence of section 107(f)(1) (CERCLA). | Made In Order |
120 | Version 1 | Smith, Jason (MO) | Republican | Eliminates funding for the Air, Climate and Energy Research Program under EPA. | Made In Order |
121 | Version 1 | Smith, Jason (MO) | Republican | Blocks funding from going towards environmental education grants under section 6 of the the national environmental education act. | Made In Order |
19 | Version 2 | Speier (CA) | Democrat | Revised Increases funding for the National Parks Service to conduct a study of the design and cost of a National Monument for victims of gun violence, and reduces Bureau of Land Management Rangeland Management by the same amount. | Submitted |
67 | Version 1 | Speier (CA), Denham (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Prohibits any funds from being made available to implement the proposed rule for dog management in the Golden Gate National Recreational Area. | Made In Order |
74 | Version 1 | Tsongas (MA) | Democrat | Prevents a provision of the bill that would block BLM resource management plans from going into effect if failing to implement the plans would limit BLM’s ability to meet its multiple use obligations, including providing opportunities for hunting, fishing, and outdoor recreation. | Made In Order |
66 | Version 1 | Weber (TX) | Republican | Prohibits the use of funds by EPA in contravention of the Clean Air Act provision requiring EPA to evaluate the impact of its actions with respect to jobs in America. | Made In Order |
25 | Version 1 | Westerman (AR) | Republican | Removes funds from the EPA bureaucracy, and places them into the US Forest Service’s Forest and Rangeland Research Account, which funds the Forest Products Laboratory and Forest Inventory and Analysis, among other programs. | Made In Order |
167 | Version 1 | Westerman (AR) | Republican | Late Prevents funds from being used to enforce a federal court decision that stopped implementation of the 2014 EA and take permit plan for double-crested cormorants. | Made In Order |
168 | Version 2 | Westerman (AR) | Republican | Late Revised Prevents funds from being used to destroy records regarding, related to, or generated by the recently closed Inorganic Section of the USGS Energy Geochemistry Lab in Lakewood, CO, which has a 20-year track record of data manipulation. | Made In Order |
139 | Version 1 | Westmoreland (GA), Collins (GA), Smith, Jason (MO) | Republican | Late Restricts federal agencies from using funds to pay legal fees under any lawsuit settlement regarding a case that arises under the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act. | Made In Order |
116 | Version 1 | Yoho (FL) | Republican | Requires the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to conduct a study on the recovery of the Gulf sturgeon and report to Congress a recommendation on whether or not the population has recovered enough to warrant reclassification under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. | Submitted |
133 | Version 2 | Yoho (FL) | Republican | Late Revised Appropriates funds to conduct a study with existing funds on how Coastal Barrier Resource Area zones affect the value of private property. | Made In Order |
11 | Version 2 | Young, Don (AK) | Republican | Revised Prohibits funds to be used to implement a final rule by the Fish and Wildlife Service and a proposed rule from the National Park Service. | Made In Order |
13 | Version 2 | Young, Don (AK) | Republican | Revised Prohibits funds to be used to remove 3 Arctic Sales from the 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Program. | Made In Order |
37 | Version 1 | Young, Don (AK) | Republican | Prohibits funds to be used to finalize, implement, or enforce new regulations on offshore Arctic energy exploration and development. | Made In Order |
38 | Version 1 | Young, Don (AK) | Republican | Prohibits funds to be used to implement a final plan to designate areas of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska as wilderness. | Made In Order |
86 | Version 3 | Young, Don (AK) | Republican | Revised Prohibits funds from this Act to be used by the Department of Interior to change existing placer mining plans of operations in regard to re-vegetation. | Made In Order |
87 | Version 1 | Young, Don (AK) | Republican | Prohibits funds to used to prevent the building of a 11-mile, non-commercial use, gravel, life-saving road through a small sliver of the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge | Submitted |
41 | Version 2 | Zeldin (NY) | Republican | Revised Prohibits funds from being used to designate a National Marine Monument in the EEZ via presidential proclamation. | Made In Order |
Motion by Ms. Slaughter to report an open rule. Defeated: 2–7
Motion by Mr. McGovern to make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for amendment #36, offered by Rep. Maloney (NY) and Rep. Ros-Lehtinen (FL) and Rep. Peters (CA) and Rep. Hanna (NY), which would prohibit funds from being used to contravene the President’s Executive Order pertaining to equal employment in Federal government contracting. Defeated: 2–7
Motion by Mr. Cole to report the rule. Adopted: 7-2