House Daily Digest — Wednesday, 7/19/2023
The House met at 9 a.m., adjourned at 11 p.m.
Wednesday, 7/19/2023 — Activities: 139 – On the Floor: 2 – Votes: 22
House and Senate met in a Joint Meeting to receive His Excellency Isaac Herzog, President of the State of Israel.
Committee — Meetings: 13 (House.gov) • Legislation: Action: 27, Hearing: 2, Markup: 23, Reported: 3
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HIGHLIGHTS
House and Senate met in a Joint Meeting to receive His Excellency
Isaac Herzog, President of the State of Israel.
House of Representatives
Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 37 public bills, H.R. 4725-
4761; and 3 resolutions, H. Res. 601-603 were introduced.
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Additional Cosponsors:
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Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows:
H.R. 1501, to prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from
operating or procuring certain foreign-made unmanned aircraft systems,
and for other purposes, with an amendment (H. Rept. 118-151);
H.R. 3254, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish a
process to review applications for certain grants to purchase equipment
or systems that do not meet or exceed any applicable national voluntary
consensus standards, and for other purposes (H. Rept. 118-152); and
H.R. 4470, to extend the authorization of the Chemical Facility Anti-
Terrorism Standards Program
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of the Department of Homeland Security, with an amendment (H. Rept.
118-153, Part 1).
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Recess: The House recessed at 9:03 a.m. for the purpose of receiving
His Excellency Isaac Herzog, President of the State of Israel.
The House reconvened at 12:37 p.m., and agreed that the proceedings had
during the Joint Meeting be printed in the Record.
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Recess: The House recessed at 5:23 p.m. and reconvened at 9 p.m.
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Schools Not Shelters Act: The House passed H.R. to prohibit the use of
the facilities of a public elementary school, a public secondary
school, or an institution of higher education to provide shelter for
aliens who have not been admitted into the United States, by a yea-and-
nay vote of 222 yeas to 201 nays, Roll No. 340. Consideration began
yesterday, July 18th.
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Rejected the Vasquez motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on
Education and the Workforce, by a yea-and-nay vote of 200 yeas to 212
nays, Roll No. 339.
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H. Res. 597, the rule providing for consideration of the bills (H.R.
3935) and (H.R. 3941) was agreed to yesterday, July 18th.
Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act: The
House considered H.R. 3935, to amend title 49, United States Code, to
reauthorize and improve the Federal Aviation Administration and other
civil aviation programs. Consideration is expected to resume tomorrow,
July 20th.
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Agreed to:
Graves (MO) amendment (No. 1 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147)
that makes technical, conforming, and clarifying changes throughout the
bill;
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Graves (MO) en bloc amendment No. 1 consisting of the following
amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147: Bean (FL) (No. 2)
that would expand eligibility to include connecting taxiways under Sec.
685. AIP Eligibility For Certain Spaceport Infrastructure; Brown (No.
5) that requires air carriers and foreign air carriers to provide
complementary drinking water to all passengers on all domestic and
international flights over 1 hour; Cammack (No. 8) that makes catchment
area analyses eligible for Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funds;
Carbajal (No. 9) that directs the FAA to start a pilot program for
mobile clearance for general aviation and Part 135 air carriers; Case
(No. 11) that directs the Federal Aviation Administration, in
consultation with the Department of State, to submit a report to
Congress on airports of strategic importance in the Indo-Pacific
region; Case (No. 12) that directs GAO to conduct a study on grant
implementation at airports in the Freely Associated States; Castro (TX)
(No. 13) that requires the Department of Transportation to make
publicly available the Uniform report of DBE awards commitments and
payment for each airport sponsor beginning with fiscal year 2024;
Ciscomani (No. 14) that directs the FAA to prioritize funding for
certain projects and details how they should go about dispensing funds;
Ciscomani (No. 15) that creates new priority criteria for the secretary
to consider regarding air traffic controllers; Cloud (No. 16) that
requires energy project applicants submitted to the FAA to submit a
foreign agent and principal disclosure; Davids (KS) (No. 17) that
revises language in Section 507 to change the deadline in Section
507(2)(b) from 30 days to 60 days; DelBene (No. 18) that expands the
Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment (ASCENT)
to conduct research on hydrogen to increase aviation decarbonization,
in addition to other research authorized to be carried out by ASCENT;
Deluzio (No. 19) that directs GAO to conduct a report on the effect of
airline mergers for consumers; DeSaulnier (No. 20) that creates a Task
Force on Human Factors in Aviation Safety to analyze current risks
related to human factors and identify recommendations to decrease the
risks; Donalds (No. 21) that expresses the Sense of Congress that
Congress encourages the FAA to welcome the use of drones to bolster and
augment traditional manual inspection, survey, and maintenance
operations (e.g. operations relating to electric transmission
infrastructure, water quality and detecting harmful algal blooms,
transportation infrastructure, telecommunications infrastructure,
etc.); Donalds (No. 22) that directs the Comptroller General to consult
with FAA-certified airports and industry stakeholders to evaluate the
airports' emergency response plans and determine whether such plans
appropriately assess electricity-related considerations relating to
primary power source disruption events stemming from natural disasters;
Eshoo (No. 24) that requires the FAA to solicit feedback from
communities impacted by aircraft noise as part of the Community
Collaboration Program; and Espaillat (No. 25) that requires the FAA to
consider vulnerabilities of in-flight wifi that may lead to the
exposure of passenger data;
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Graves (MO) en bloc amendment No. 2 consisting of the following
amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147: Feenstra (No. 26)
that directs the Secretary of Transportation to take such actions as
are necessary to respond with an approval or denial of any application
for the provision of essential air service to the greatest extent
practicable no later than 6 months after receiving such application;
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Fitzpatrick (No. 28) that makes alterations to the structure and
timeframe of the aviation rulemaking committee established by Sec. 522;
Robert Garcia (CA) (No. 30) that modifies cockpit voice recording
preservation requirements to include real-world nearly catastrophic
closecall incidents (for example, almost landing on another plane when
lined up on a
taxiway rather than a runway at SFO in 2017; Gonzalez-Colon (No. 31)
that authorizes a GAO study on air cargo operations in Puerto Rico;
Gooden (TX) (No. 32) that applies equal NOTAM prohibitions to air
carriers and foreign air carriers landing in or taking off from a
U.S. airport from overflying Russian airspace; Gottheimer (No. 34)
that requires a GAO study on flight delays at airports in New York,
New Jersey, and Connecticut and possible causes; Hageman (No. 37)
that includes language that requires the Administrator, when
implementing and updating the acquisition management system, to
take into account the life cycle, reliability, performance, service
support, and costs to guarantee the acquisition of equipment that
is of high quality and reliability resulting in greater performance
and cost-related benefits for airports; Hageman (No. 38) that
requires the FAA to take necessary actions to provide easily
accessible and streamlined non-federal weather observer training to
airport personnel in that such personnel can manually provide
weather observations when automated surface observing systems and
automated weather observing systems experience outages and errors;
Hageman (No. 39) that requires the Comptroller General of the
United States to conduct a study on methods related to the
recruitment, retention, employment, education, training, and well-
being of the aviation workforce specifically within rural
communities, and report the findings to Congress; Higgins (LA) (No.
40) that directs the Inspector General of the Department of
Transportation to conduct and submit an assessment on the
mitigation of unmanned aircraft systems at the border; Hill (No.
41) that requires the FAA to brief the Senate and House Committees
of jurisdiction on the status of the Little Rock VORTAC relocation
project; Houlahan (No. 42) that requires FAA to provide
notification and financial reimbursement to specified aviation
entities for financial losses incurred because of closures due to
Presidential Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs) related to any
residence of the President which is secured by the U.S. Secret
Service, subject to an audit of the financial losses incurred;
Hoyle (No. 43) that requires the FAA to develop and publish safety
training materials for airport ground crew workers (including
supervisory employees) to help prevent accidents involving aircraft
engine ingestion and jet blast hazards; Huizenga (No. 45) that
prevents Secretary of Transportation from requiring that an airport
shorten or narrow their runway, apron, or taxiway as a condition
for funding if the airport supports an Air Force or Air National
Guard base at the airport, regardless of stationing of military
aircraft; Johnson (SD) (No. 49) that encourages the FAA to utilize
cloud-based, interactive digital platforms to meet community
engagement and agency coordination requirements in the
environmental review process; Kean (NJ) (No. 51) that directs the
FAA to consult the DOD regarding powered-lift aircraft operating
regulations; Kilmer (No. 52) that revises the expansion of AIP for
resiliency improvements to include Incident Support Bases, defines
natural disasters, and clarifies the full scope of AIP improvement
projects for eligible airports; Lee (No. 55) (NV) that adds
research to sections on use of UAS in wildfire prevention, response
and mitigation, as well as agricultural uses, to make clear that
processes to allow for research into wildfires and agriculture must
be considered in any federal rulemaking process related to UAS;
Lynch (No. 57) that revises the representative in the task force on
Aviation and Airport Community Engagement to ensure that multiple
airport communities and communities around airports are included;
and Lynch (No. 58) that ensures deliberate engagement with local
community groups for the Community Collaboration Program;
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Graves (MO) en bloc amendment No. 3 consisting of the following
amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147: Lawler (No. 54) that
directs the GAO to conduct a study on the shortage of pilots faced by
air carriers; Lucas (No. 56) that ensures FAA's future plans to expand
air traffic controller training facilities focuses on improving staff
training without duplicating existing federal investments; Magaziner
(No. 59) that allows Airport Improvement Program funds to be used for
projects to comply with cybersecurity standards and recommendations
from the Civil Aviation Cybersecurity Rulemaking Committee; Meng (No.
63) that clarifies that as part of the Part 150 Noise Standard Update,
feedback should be solicited from individuals living in overflight
communities; Neguse (No. 66) that requires the Community Collaboration
Program to directly interview impacted residents; Peltola (No. 72) that
adds extensions needed for fuel/firefighting operations/etc. that are
often pushed out as ineligible, yet very much needed to allow Alaska's
aviation system to function more smoothly and allow for heavier
payloads to remote locations; Pettersen (No. 78) that strikes “in
decision-making processes” in Sec. 135 to allow more avenues for the
public to have their concerns relayed to the Aviation Noise Officer to
provide to the Administrator; Pettersen (No. 79) that
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requires the FAA, within 1 year of enactment, to develop guidance on
what medications should be readily available without additional
approval on the in-flight medical kits; Pettersen (No. 80) that
requires the Pilot Mental Health Task Group to review protocols of
allowable antidepressants for a pilot's medical certification;
Pettersen (No. 81) that directs the Pilot Mental Health Task Force to
consider implementing the recommendations from the Department of
Transportation Inspector General's report on Comprehensive Evaluations
of Pilots with Mental Health Challenges; Pfluger (No. 82) that provides
a sense of Congress that route structures to rural airports serve a
critical function to our Nation by connecting many of our military
installations to major regional airline hubs; Porter (No. 83) that
requires the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a
study on the response time of the FAA Administrator in regard to
congressional inquiries and requests, in addition to requiring the FAA
Administrator to annually testify before Congress on the agency's
efforts, activities, objectives, plans, and efforts to engage with
Congress and the public; Pressley (No. 84) that requires GAO study on
transit access to airports; Rose (No. 86) that requires a GAO to issue
a report to Congress on the recent mass flight cancellations that
occurred over the Fourth of July holiday; Van Drew (No. 95) that adds
large UAS operators as a member of the Unmanned and Autonomous Flight
Advisory Committee; Westerman (No. 96) that makes technical corrections
to Section 204 to ensure data privacy and enhance the safety of general
aviation aircraft personnel and passengers; Westerman (No. 97) that
clarifies that BVLOS rulemaking should ensure the safety of manned
aircraft in the national airspace;
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Donalds amendment (No. 23 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147) that
directs the FAA Secretary to consult with Part 141 flight schools and
industry stakeholders to establish an apprenticeship program
to bolster the qualified pilot pipeline;
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LaMalfa amendment (No. 53 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147) that
requires the FAA to promulgate a rule which will allow for restricted
category aircraft performing a wildfire suppression operation to
transport firefighters to and from the site of a wildfire if those
firefighters are performing ground wildfire suppression;
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Obernolte amendment (No. 67 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147)
that requires the FAA to implement an accountability system that
ensures students can schedule an airman practical test in no more than
fourteen (14) calendar days after the test is requested;
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Langworthy amendment (No. 10 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147)
that strikes Sec. 546 to maintain current training requirements for a
person who is applying for an airline transport certificate with an
airplane category and class rating (by a recorded vote of 243 ayes to
139 noes, Roll No. 341);
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Fitzpatrick amendment (No. 29 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147)
that requires the FAA to implement as a rule the recommendations issued
by the aviation rulemaking committee for commercial passenger aircraft
established by Sec. 522 (by a recorded vote of 392 ayes to 41 noes,
Roll No. 343);
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Huizenga amendment (No. 44 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147)
that requires the Secretary of Transportation--in the process for
prioritizing awarding grants under the Advanced Air Mobility
Infrastructure Pilot Program established and described in P.L. 119-
328--to also prioritize eligible entities that collaborate with the DOD
or National Guard (by a recorded vote of 220 ayes to 215 noes, Roll No.
347);
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Kean (NJ) amendment (No. 50 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147)
that requires the Secretary of Transportation to refine the reporting
directives to provide more detailed information about the cause of a
commercial passenger flight cancellation or delay, allowing greater
transparency to the traveling public regarding the cause of a canceled
or delayed flight (by a recorded vote of ayes to noes, Roll No. 350);
and
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Obernolte amendment (No. 68 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147)
that allows FAA approved high-octane unleaded aviation gasoline to be
sold at airports in lieu of 100 octane low-lead aviation gasoline (by a
recorded vote of 229 ayes to 205 noes, Roll No. 354).
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Rejected:
Feenstra amendment (No. 27 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147)
that sought to exempt nonhub airports from the requirement to have at
least one individual who maintains certification as an emergency
medical technician during air carrier operations (by a recorded vote of
203 ayes to 231 noes, Roll No. 342);
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Gosar amendment (No. 33 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147) that
sought to prohibit changes to existing National Park air tour
management plans (by a recorded vote of 193 ayes to 236 noes, Roll No.
344);
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Miller (IL) amendment (No. 35 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147)
that sought to require the Inspector General to investigate the FAA's
decision to broaden the acceptable EKG range for pilots to fly (by a
recorded vote of 177 ayes to 258 noes, Roll No. 345);
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Miller (IL) amendment (No. 36 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147)
that sought to require airlines to reinstate pilots who were fired or
forced to resign because of vaccine mandates (by a recorded vote of 141
ayes to 294 noes, Roll No. 346);
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Issa amendment (No. 47 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147) that
sought to require the FAA Administrator to make an objective,
independent assessment of a NOTAM request when the request comes from
outside the FAA (by a recorded vote of ayes to noes, Roll No. 348);
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Jackson (TX) amendment (No. 48 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147)
that sought to revise Section 608 to add concentrated animal feeding
operations and eligible meat and food processing facilities to the list
of Applications for Designation (by a recorded vote of 211 ayes to 224
noes, Roll No. 349);
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McClintock amendment (No. 62 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147)
that sought to strike authorization for the Essential Air Service (by a
recorded vote of 49 ayes to 386 noes, Roll No. 351);
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Miller (IL) amendment (No. 64 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147)
that sought to require a report on the Secretary of Transportation
flight records (by a recorded vote of 216 ayes to 219 noes, Roll No.
352);
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Miller (IL) amendment (No. 65 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147)
that sought to restrict funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion
officials or training (by a recorded vote 181 ayes to 254 noes, Roll
No. 353);
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Ogles amendment (No. 69 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147) that
sought to strike “social” from the scope of factors examined under
the FAA Beyond Program (by a recorded vote of 191 ayes to 244 noes,
Roll No. 355);
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Ogles amendment (No. 70 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147) that
sought to clarify that a study of turbulence should include a focus on
weather conditions rather than climate change since weather is the
proximate cause (by a recorded vote of 206 ayes to 227 noes, Roll No.
356);
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Owens amendment (No. 71 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147) that
sought to protect all existing flights at Ronald Reagan National
Airport (DCA) (by a recorded vote of 205 ayes to 229 noes, Roll No.
357);
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Perry amendment (No. 73 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147) that
sought to strike sec. 1132 (CLEEN) (by a recorded vote of 127 ayes to
308 noes, Roll No. 358);
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Perry amendment (No. 74 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147) that
sought to reduce the authorization levels in sections 101, 103, and
1111 (by a recorded vote of 52 ayes to 381 noes, Roll No. 359); and
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Perry amendment (No. 75 printed in part A of H. Rept. 118-147) that
sought to strike vertiport from the AIP definitions section (by a
recorded vote of 45 ayes to 387 noes, Roll No. 360).
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H. Res. 597, the rule providing for consideration of the bills (H.R.
3935) and (H.R. 3941) was agreed to yesterday, July 18th.
Meeting Hour: Agreed by unanimous consent that when the House adjourns
today, it adjourn to meet at 9 a.m. tomorrow, July 20th.
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Presidential Message: Read a message from the President wherein he
notified Congress that the national emergency declared in Executive
Order 13581 with respect to significant transnational criminal
organizations is to continue in effect beyond July 24, 2023--referred
to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed (H. Doc.
118-56).
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Quorum Calls--Votes: Two yea-and-nay votes and twenty recorded votes
developed during the proceedings of today and appear on pages H3839-40,
H3840, H3841, H3841-42, H3842-43, H3843, H3843-44,H3844-45, H3845,
H3845-46, H3846-47, H3847, H3847-48, H3848-49, H3849, H3849-50, H3850-
51, H3851, H3851-52, H3852-53, H3853, and H3853-54.
Adjournment: The House met at 9 a.m. and adjourned at 11 p.m. Extensions of Remarks, as inserted in this issue
HOUSE
Cartwright, Matt, Pa., E697
Crockett, Jasmine, Tex., E696
Deluzio, Christopher R., Pa., E695
Foster, Bill, Ill., E696
Horsford, Steven, Nev., E696
Huffman, Jared, Calif., E695
Lamborn, Doug, Colo., E695
Landsman, Greg, Ohio, E697
Langworthy, Nicholas A., N.Y, E695
Panetta, Jimmy, Calif., E697
Peters, Scott H., Calif., E697
Reschenthaler, Guy, Pa., E695
Smucker, Lloyd, Pa., E696