FLOOR UPDATE – 14 VOTES

LEADER'S FLOOR UPDATE

The House is now taking the following votes on H.R. 7900 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023:

1. Bipartisan En Bloc #2 Offered by Mr. Smith (WA) – 5 minutes
2. Bipartisan En Bloc #3 Offered by Mr. Smith (WA) – 5 minutes
3. Bipartisan En Bloc #4 Offered by Mr. Smith (WA) – 5 minutes
4. Bowman Amendment #384 – Prohibits U.S. military presence in Syria without Congressional approval within one year of enactment – 5 minutes
5. Keating Amendment #391 – Requires the State Department to establish and staff Climate Change Officer positions to be posted at U.S. embassies, consulates, or diplomatic missions to provide climate change mitigation expertise, engage with international entities on climate change, and facilitate bilateral and multilateral cooperation on climate change, taking specific actions to develop a strategy to improve and increase the study of, mitigation of, and adaptation to climate change and certify that considerations related to the climate are incorporated at U.S. embassies or other diplomatic posts, while also establishing a curriculum at the Foreign Service Institute to provide employees with specialized climate change training – 5 minutes
6. Jayapal Amendment #392 – Establishes an Office of Climate Resilience – 5 minutes
7. Speier Amendment #395 – Incentivize states to enact, at a minimum, the rights afforded to victims in the Survivors Bill of Rights Act – 5 minutes
8. Pallone/Pappas Amendment #399 – Prohibits the President from selling or exporting new F-16s or F-16 upgrade technology or modernization kits to Turkey unless the President provides a certification to Congraess that such a transfer is in the national interest of the United States and includes a detailed description of concrete steps taken to ensure that such F-16s are not used by Turkey for repeated unauthorized territorial overflights of Greece – 5 minutes
9. Garamendi Amendment #410 – Waives current law’s requirement that FEMA or federal land management agencies reimburse DOD, with civilian funds, for cost of military support for disaster response to major wildfires that have been declared federal disasters/emergencies – 5 minutes
10. Langevin Amendment #426 – Allows for admission of essential scientists and technical experts to promote and protect the national security innovation base – 5 minutes
11. Schiff Amendment #447 – Prohibits the use of evidence obtained by or with the assistance of a member of the Armed Forces in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act in a court or other legal proceeding – 5 minutes
12. Green (TX) Amendment #448 – Provides statutory authority for certain procedures related to the Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Program and adds new program requirements – 5 minutes
13. Connolly Amendment #454 – Prevents any position in the competitive service from being reclassified to an excepted service schedule that was created after September 30, 2020 and limits federal employee reclassifications to the five excepted service schedules in use prior to fiscal year 2021 – 5 minutes
14. Neguse Amendment #455 – Adds the text of the Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy Act and the Grand Canyon Protection Act to the bill – 5 minutes

Following these votes, the House will recess subject to the call of the Chair.

At approximately 4:30 p.m., the House will reconvene and take votes.  These are the last votes of the day.

Next/Last votes predicted: from approximately 4:30 – 8:00 p.m., on remaining pending amendments, motion to recommit, and final passage of H.R. 7900 and postponed Suspensions. 

**Members are advised that each vote subsequent to the first 15-minute vote will be open for a total of 5 minutes. Members, especially Members casting proxy votes on behalf of other Members, are expected to vote in a timely manner.

**Members may track consideration of amendments HERE.
 

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