House Daily Digest — Monday, 9/23/2024
The House met at 12 noon, adjourned at 8:39 p.m.
Monday, 9/23/2024 — Activities: 203 – On the Floor: 36 – Votes: 3
Legislation: New: 29, Action: 36, Voted, Passed: 33
Committee — Meetings: 1 (House.gov) • Legislation: Reported: 5
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House of Representatives
Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 21 public bills, H.R. 9747-
9767; and 7 resolutions, H. Con. Res. 129; and H. Res. 1485, 1487-1491,
were introduced.
Pages H5645-47
Additional Cosponsors:
Pages H5648-49
Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows:
H.R. 8958, to reauthorize the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, and for other purposes, with an amendment (H. Rept.
118-701);
S. 612, to reauthorize the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act, and for other
purposes (H. Rept. 118-702, Part 1);
H.R. 5794, to amend title 38, United States Code, to eliminate
conflicts of interest in conduct of quality management and
administrative investigations by the Veterans Health Administration,
and for other purposes (H. Rept. 118-703);
H.R. 8205, to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of
1968 to provide that Byrne grant funds may be used for public safety
report systems, and for other purposes, with an amendment (H. Rept.
118-704); and
H. Res. 1486, providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3334) to
provide for the imposition of sanctions on members of the National
Communist Party Congress of the People's Republic of China, and for
other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8205) to
amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide
that Byrne grant funds may be used for public safety report systems,
and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R.
8790) to expedite under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
and improve forest management activities on National Forest System
lands, on public lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land
Management, and on Tribal lands to return resilience to overgrown,
fire-prone forested lands, and for other purposes; providing for
consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 1469) ensuring accountability
for key officials in the Biden-Harris administration responsible for
decisionmaking and execution failures throughout the withdrawal from
Afghanistan; and for other purposes (H. Rept. 118-705).
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Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he appointed
Representative Lesko to act as Speaker pro tempore for today.
Page H5565
Recess: The House recessed at 12:16 p.m. and reconvened at 2 p.m.
Pages H5566-67
Guest Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the Guest Chaplain, Dr. Ralph B. Lassiter, St. Mark Baptist Church, Omaha, NE.
Page H5567
Suspensions: The House agreed to suspend the rules and pass the
following measures:
Mobility Aids On Board Improve Lives and Empower All Act: S. 1549, to
require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to
issue regulations concerning accommodations for powered wheelchairs;
Pages H5567-68
Reuse Excess Property Act: S. 2685, to make data and internal
guidance on excess personal property publicly available;
Pages H5568-69
Designating the facility of the United States Postal Service located
at 2075 West Stadium Boulevard in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as the “Robert
Hayden Post Office”: S. 3639, to designate the facility of the United
States Postal Service located at 2075 West Stadium Boulevard in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, as the “Robert Hayden Post Office”;
Pages H5569-70
Designating the facility of the United States Postal Service located
at 155 South Main Street in Mount Clemens, Michigan, as the
“Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Jefferson Post Office”: S. 3640, to
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at
155 South Main Street in Mount Clemens, Michigan, as the “Lieutenant
Colonel Alexander Jefferson Post Office”;
Page H5570
Designating the facility of the United States Postal Service located
at 90 McCamly Street South in Battle Creek, Michigan, as the
“Sojourner Truth Post Office”: S. 3851, to designate the facility of
the United States Postal Service located at 90 McCamly Street South in
Battle Creek, Michigan, as the “Sojourner Truth Post Office”;
Pages H5570-71
Designating the facility of the United States Postal Service located
at 9355 113th Street in Seminole, Florida, as the “Army SSG Ryan
Christian Knauss Memorial Post Office Building”: H.R. 6633, to
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at
9355 113th Street in Seminole, Florida, as the “Army SSG Ryan
Christian Knauss Memorial Post Office Building”;
Pages H5571-72
Designating the facility of the United States Postal Service located
at 109 Live Oaks Boulevard in Casselberry, Florida, as the “Colonel
Joseph William Kittinger II Post Office Building”: H.R. 5867, to
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at
109 Live Oaks Boulevard in Casselberry, Florida, as the “Colonel
Joseph William Kittinger II Post Office Building”;
Pages H5572-73
Cardiomyopathy Health Education, Awareness, and Research, and AED
Training in the Schools Act of 2024: H.R. 6829, amended, to amend the
Public Health Service Act to authorize and support the creation and
dissemination of cardiomyopathy education, awareness, and risk
assessment materials and resources to identify more at-risk families,
to authorize research and surveillance activities relating to
cardiomyopathy;
Pages H5573-75
Amending title XIX of the Social Security Act to add a Medicaid State
plan requirement with respect to the determination of residency of
certain individuals serving in the Armed Forces: H.R. 8108, amended, to
amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to add a Medicaid State plan
requirement with respect to the determination of residency of certain
individuals serving in the Armed Forces;
Pages H5575-76
NAPA Reauthorization Act: S. 133, to extend the National Alzheimer's
Project;
Pages H5576-77
Alzheimer's Accountability and Investment Act: S. 134, to require an
annual budget estimate for the initiatives of the National Institutes
of Health pursuant to reports and recommendations made under the
National Alzheimer's Project Act;
Pages H5577-78
Sickle Cell Disease and Other Heritable Blood Disorders Research,
Surveillance, Prevention, and Treatment Act: H.R. 3884, amended, to
amend title XI of the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the
program providing for sickle cell disease and other heritable blood
disorders research, surveillance, prevention, and treatment;
Pages H5578-80
Charlotte Woodward Organ Transplant Discrimination Prevention Act:
H.R. 2706, amended, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of mental
or physical disability in cases of organ transplants;
Pages H5580-82
Give Kids a Chance Act: H.R. 3433, amended, to amend the Federal
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to molecularly targeted
pediatric cancer investigations;
Pages H5582-87
Seniors' Access to Critical Medications Act: H.R. 5526, amended, to
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to clarify the application
of the in-office ancillary services exception to the physician self-
referral prohibition for drugs furnished under the Medicare program;
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Agreed to amend the title so as to read: “To amend title XVIII of the
Social Security Act to clarify the application of the in-office
ancillary services exception to the physician self-referral prohibition
for covered outpatient drugs furnished under the Medicare program, and
to provide coverage of external infusion pumps and non-self-
administrable home infusion drugs under such program”;
Pages H5587-88
Congenital Heart Futures Reauthorization Act: H.R. 7189, amended, to
amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize a national
congenital heart disease research, surveillance, and awareness program;
Pages H5588-89
Online Dating Safety Act: H.R. 6125, amended, to require online
dating service providers to provide fraud ban notifications to online
dating service members;
Pages H5589-91
Department of Homeland Security Policy Issuance Review Act: H.R.
6231, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require a
prioritized policy issuance review process for the Department of
Homeland Security;
Pages H5591-92
Emerging Innovative Border Technologies Act: H.R. 7832, to require
the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a plan to identify,
integrate, and deploy new, innovative, disruptive, or other emerging or
advanced technologies to enhance, or address capability gaps in, border
security operations;
Pages H5592-94
Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism Pilot Program Act: S.
794, to require a pilot program on the participation of non-asset-based
third-party logistics providers in the Customs-Trade Partnership
Against Terrorism;
Pages H5594-95
Producing Advanced Technologies for Homeland Security Act: H.R. 9459,
to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to enable secure and
trustworthy technology through other transaction contracting authority;
Pages H5595-96
DHS Joint Task Forces Reauthorization Act of 2024: S. 4698, to
authorize the Joint Task Forces of the Department of Homeland Security;
Pages H5597-98
United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
Reauthorization Act of 2024: S. 3764, to extend and authorize annual
appropriations for the United States Commission on International
Religious Freedom through fiscal year 2026, by a 2/3 yea-and-nay vote
of 365 yeas to 20 nays, Roll No. 442;
Pages H5598-H5600, H5628
GAO Database Modernization Act: S. 679, to amend chapter 8 of title
5, United States Code, to require Federal agencies to submit to the
Comptroller General of the United States a report on rules that are
revoked, suspended, replaced, amended, or otherwise made ineffective;
Pages H5600-01
IMPACTT Human Trafficking Act: S. 670, to improve services for
trafficking victims by establishing, in Homeland Security
Investigations, the Investigators Maintain Purposeful Awareness to
Combat Trafficking Trauma Program and the Victim Assistance Program;
Pages H5601-03
Building Chips in America Act: S. 2228, to amend the William M. (Mac)
Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 to
clarify the scope of a major Federal action under the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 with respect to certain projects
relating to the production of semiconductors, by a 2/3 yea-and-nay
vote of 257 yeas to 125 nays, Roll No. 440;
Pages H5603-06, H5625-26
NASA Reauthorization Act of 2024: H.R. 8958, amended, to reauthorize
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, by a 2/3 yea-and-
nay vote of 366 yeas to 21 nays with one answering “present”, Roll
No. 441;
Pages H5606-23, H5627-28
Accessing Satellite Data to Enable New Discoveries Act: H.R. 6219,
amended, to require the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration to establish a program to identify, evaluate,
acquire, and disseminate commercial Earth remote sensing data and
imagery in order to satisfy the scientific, operational, and
educational requirements of the Administration;
Pages H5623-25
Accelerating Networking, Cyberinfrastructure, and Hardware for
Oceanic Research Act: H.R. 7630, amended, to require a plan to improve
the cybersecurity and telecommunications of the U.S. Academic Research
Fleet;
Pages H5629-31
Innovative Mitigation Partnerships for Asphalt and Concrete
Technologies Act: H.R. 7685, amended, to strengthen and enhance the
competitiveness of American industry through the research and
development of advanced technologies to improve the efficiency of
cement, concrete, and asphalt production;
Pages H5635-38
Mathematical and Statistical Modeling Education Act: H.R. 1735,
amended, to coordinate Federal research and development efforts focused
on modernizing mathematics in STEM education through mathematical and
statistical modeling, including data-driven and computational thinking,
problem, project, and performance-based learning and assessment,
interdisciplinary exploration, and career connections; and
Pages H5638-41
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Commission to Study the Potential Transfer of the Weitzman National
Museum of American Jewish History to the Smithsonian Institution Act:
H.R. 7764, amended, to establish a commission to study the potential
transfer of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History to
the Smithsonian Institution.
Pages H5641-44
Oath of Office--Tenth Congressional District of New Jersey:
Representative-elect LaMonica McIver presented herself in the well of
the House and was administered the Oath of Office by the Speaker.
Earlier, the Clerk of the House transmitted a copy of a letter received
from Ms. Donna Barber, Acting Director of the New Jersey Division of
Elections, indicating that, according to the unofficial results for the
Special Election held September 18, 2024, the Honorable LaMonica McIver
was elected for Representative to Congress for the Tenth Congressional
District of New Jersey.
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Whole Number of the House: The Speaker announced to the House that, in
light of the administration of the oath to the gentlewoman from New
Jersey, the whole number of the House is 432.
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Authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center
for the unveiling of a statue of Martha Hughes Cannon: The House agreed
to discharge from committee and agree to H. Con. Res. 127, authorizing
the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center for the
unveiling of a statue of Martha Hughes Cannon.
Page H5628
Suspensions--Proceedings Postponed: The House debated the following
measures under suspension of the rules. Further proceedings were
postponed.
DHS Cybersecurity On-the-Job Training Program Act: H.R. 3208, to
amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish a DHS
Cybersecurity On-the-Job Training Program;
Pages H5596-97
Designating the facility of the United States Postal Service located
at 9317 Bolsa Avenue in Westminster, California, as the “Little Saigon
Vietnam War Veterans Memorial Post Office”: H.R. 8057, to designate
the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 9317 Bolsa
Avenue in Westminster, California, as the “Little Saigon Vietnam War
Veterans Memorial Post Office”; and
Page H5629
Next Generation Pipelines Research and Development Act: H.R. 7073,
amended, to improve public-private partnerships and increase Federal
research, development, and demonstration related to the evolution of
next generation pipeline systems.
Pages H5631-35
Senate Referrals: S. 288 was held at the desk. S. 4698 was held at the
desk.
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Senate Message: Message received from the Senate today appears on page
H5592.
Quorum Calls--Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes developed during the
proceedings of today and appear on pages H5625-26, H5627-28, and H5628.
Adjournment: The House met at 12 p.m. and adjourned at 8:39 p.m.Extensions of Remarks, as inserted in this issue
HOUSE
Babin, Brian, Tex., E943
Bentz, Cliff, Ore., E942, E943
Calvert, Ken, Calif., E945
Castor, Kathy, Fla., E948
Costa, Jim, Calif., E944
Davids, Sharice, Kans., E946
Dunn, Neal P., Fla., E941
Edwards, Chuck, N.C., E946
Eshoo, Anna G., Calif., E942
Granger, Kay, Tex., E944
Graves, Garret, La., E944
Harris, Andy, Md., E946
Kean, Thomas H., Jr., N.J., E942
Krishnamoorthi, Raja, Ill., E948
LaHood, Darin, Ill., E947
Lesko, Debbie, Ariz., E941, E942, E943, E944, E945, E946, E947, E948, E949
Omar, Ilhan, Minn., E941, E943
Phillips, Dean, Minn., E947
Pocan, Mark, Wisc., E941
Sanchez, Linda T., Calif., E949
Smith, Adam, Wash., E948
Steil, Bryan, Wisc., E946
Strickland, Marilyn, Wash., E945
Torres, Ritchie, N.Y., E941, E942, E943
Wilson, Joe, S.C., E949