FLOOR UPDATE – 23 VOTES – LAST VOTES

At approximately 9:15 – 9:25 p.m., the House will take the following vote:

1. H.R. 3253 – Empowering Beneficiaries, Ensuring Access, and Strengthening Accountability Act of 2019, as amended (Rep. Dingell – Energy and Commerce) Suspension bill – 15 minutes
   
   The House will then take the following votes on amendments to Division D (State, Foreign Operations) to H.R. 2740 – Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020:
    
2. Grothman Amendment #87 – Reduces the amount of funding provided by Division D by 2.1 percent across-the-board – 2 minutes
3. Walker Amendment – Eliminates $23,989,000,000 in funding for humanitarian, bilateral health and economic assistance, and independent agencies such as the Peace Corps and the Millennium Challenge Corporation – 2 minutes
4. Palmer Amendment – Strikes the paragraph that prevents the U.S.' withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and strikes the paragraph that provides permissive authority for the Administration to use funds in this and prior Acts to uphold the goals of the Paris Agreement – 2 minutes
5. Arrington Amendment – Prevents funds from being used to contribute to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – 2 minutes
6. Banks Amendment – Reduces spending for each amount in Division D, except those amounts made available to the Department of Defense, by 14 percent – 2 minutes
7. En Bloc #1 offered by Ms. Lowey (Sherman Amendment, Kildee Amendment) – 2 minutes 
8. Allen Amendment #2 – Reduces spending in Division D by 1 percent across-the-board – 2 minutes
   
   The House will then take the following votes on amendments to Division C (Defense) to H.R. 2740 – Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020:
    
9. En Bloc #1 offered by Mr. Visclosky (Stewart Amendment, Young Amendment, Smith (NJ) Amendment, Eshoo Amendment #10, Eshoo Amendment #11, Jackson Lee Amendment, Langevin Amendment #14, Graves (MO) Amendment #16, Moore Amendment, Wilson (SC) Amendment, Walberg Amendment, Schweikert Amendment, Carson Amendment, Barr Amendment, Cicilline Amendment, Dingell Amendment #28, Bera Amendment, Moulton Amendment #31, Moulton Amendment #32, Emmer Amendment, Allen Amendment #37, Kildee Amendment, Panetta Amendment, Carbajal Amendment #48, Carbajal Amendment #49, O'Halleran Amendment, Brown Amendment, Brindisi Amendment, Pappas Amendment #55, Pappas Amendment #56, Sherrill Amendment #57, Sherrill Amendment #58, Torres Small Amendment) – 2 minutes
10. Langevin Amendment#13 – Increases Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Navy by $10 million for common mount development of the Naval Railgun. Decreases Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Defense-Wide by $10 million from the Strategic Capabilities Office – 2 minutes
11. Langevin Amendment#15 – Increases Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Defense-Wide by $2 million for civics education grants under the National Defense Education Program. Grants will fund the development and evaluation of civics education programs at Department of Defense domestic schools. Decreases Other Procurement, Air Force by $2 million – 2 minutes
12. Brown/Speier Amendment – Prevents Department of Defense from spending funds to implement ban on open transgender service – 2 minutes
13. Amash/Lofgren Amendment – Makes significant policy changes to collection activities under section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) meant to make it more difficult for the National Security Agency (NSA) to acquire internet communications of a foreign intelligence target in communication with someone in the United States. Although the NSA already does not reverse target U.S. persons, the amendment includes a new test for the certification of acquisition that may make FISA collection impracticable – 2 minutes
14. Kuster Amendment #34 – Increases and decreases the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide account by $5 million in order to support funding to develop lead-free defense electronics to ensure the defense industry can integrate cutting edge civilian technology to meet military requirements – 2 minutes
15. Visclosky/Veasey Amendment #38 – Increases Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Army by $9 million to increase funding for the Future Vertical Lift Advanced Technologies program from $16 million to $25 million above the budget request. Decreases Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $9 million – 2 minutes
16. Visclosky/Jeffries Amendment #40 – Increases and decreases the Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide account by $500,000 to provide funding for additional reporting on the immediate risks to U.S. national security posed by climate change and its impacts to the Department and its ability to defend the nation – 2 minutes
17. Lieu Amendment – Prohibits funds from being used to issue export licenses for any defense article or service as described in 22 enumerated certification transmittal documents designated by the Department of State – 2 minutes
18. Gallagher Amendment #45 – Increases Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Army by $20 million and Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Defense-Wide by $76 million to restore $96 million for missile systems that risk an escalating arms race by violating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty between the U.S. and Russia, a treaty signed by President Reagan in 1987 from which the Trump Administration is in the process of withdrawing in response to Russian violations. Decreases Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $96 million – 2 minutes
19. Gallagher/Cheney Amendment #47 – Increases the Weapons Procurement, Navy account by $19.6 million to restore funding within the DoD bill for deployment of the W76-2 warhead, a low-yield nuclear weapon that risks lowering the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons and increasing the chance of nuclear escalation. Decreases Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $19.6 million – 2 minutes
20. Blunt Rochester Amendment – Increases and decreases the Operations & Maintenance, Defense-Wide account by $1 million to provide additional funds for the Space-Available flights program and for the purpose of instructing the Department to provide Congress with an assessment of possible concerns or issues in expanding eligibility for the Space-Available program to include caregivers and spouses when accompanying 100% disabled veterans – 2 minutes
21. Jayapal Amendment – Specifies that none of the funds made available by this act may be used for research on the Long Range Stand Off Weapon (LRSO) – 2 minutes
22. Crow Amendment #59 – Increases and decreases the Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide account by $13 million in order to support the Department of Defense's Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration program – 2 minutes
23. Cox Amendment – Increases the Department of Defense’s Defense Health Program account by $10 million for medical research concerning traumatic brain injury, posttraumatic stress disorder, and psychological health. Decreases Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $10 million – 2 minutes

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