2016-07-12

Castor (D-FL) – Amendment No. 1 – Matches the budget request for Law Enforcement of the National Wildlife Refuge System (10 minutes)

Y    197

N    225

Cicilline (D-RI) – Amendment No. 2 – 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 (10 minutes)

Adopted Voice

Y     ✓

N

Himes (D-CT) – Amendment No. 3 – Funds the New England National Scenic Trail at $300,000 within the Operation of the National Park System (10 minutes)

Y   183

N    241

Griffith (R-VA) – Amendment No. 4 – 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 (10 minutes)

Adopted Voice

Y     ✓

N

Lujan (D-NM) – Amendment No. 5 – 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 (10 minutes)

Withdrawn

Y

N

Lujan (D-NM) – Amendment No. 6 – 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 (10 minutes)

Withdrawn

Y

N

Cleaver (D-MO) – Amendment No. 7 – 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) (10 minutes)

Y

N

Ellison (D-MN)– Amendment No. 8 – Reprograms already appropriated funds to create an Office of Good Jobs for the Department of Interior (10 minutes)

Y   173

N    251

Norcross (D-NJ) – Amendment No. 9 – 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 (10 minutes)

Y   143

N   282

Beyer (D-VA)– Amendment No. 10 – Strikes lines 4 through 19 on page 67 (10 minutes)

Y   190

N    235

Huffman (D-CA) – Amendment No. 11 – Strikes Section 122 (10 minutes)

Y   184

N   240

Castor (D-FL) – Amendment No. 12 – Strikes section 124 (10 minutes)

Y   186

N   237

Huffman (D-CA) – Amendment No. 13 – 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 (10 minutes)

Y    181

N   244

Smith (R-MO) – Amendment No. 14 – Eliminates funding for the Air, Climate and Energy Research Program under EPA (10 minutes)

Y   208

N    217

Lummis (R-WY) [on behalf of Chaffetz (R-UT)] – Amendment No. 15 – 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 (10 minutes)

Adopted Voice

Y     ✓

N

Gosar (R-AZ) – Amendment No. 16 – Redirects funds from EPA bureaucracy to the Forest Service Hazardous Fuels account in order to prevent dangerous wildfires (10 minutes)

Adopted Voice

Y     ✓

N

Westerman (R-AR) – Amendment No. 17 – 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 (10 minutes)

Adopted Voice

Y     ✓

N

Johnson (D-GA) – Amendment No. 18 – Ensures implementation of the EPA’s Final Rule on the Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals from Electric Utilities is consistent with Executive Order 12898 (10 minutes)

Adopted Voice

Y     ✓

N

Esty (D-CT)– Amendment No. 19 – 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 (10 minutes)

Rejected Voice

Y

N     ✓

Palmer (R-AL) – Amendment No. 20 – Eliminates funding for Diesel Emission Reduction Grants and sends the savings to the spending reduction account (10 minutes)

Y    175

N   250

Lujan (D-NM) – Amendment No. 21 – 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 (10 minutes)

Y   219

N    207

Dingell (D-MI) – Amendment No. 22 – 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 (10 minutes)

Y    170

N    256

Sanford (R-SC) – Amendment No. 23 – 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 (10 minutes)

Not Offered

Y

N

Blumenauer (D-OR) – Amendment No. 24 – Strikes Section 418, which would prevent EPA from monitoring greenhouse gas emissions from manure management systems (10 minutes)

Not Offered

Y

N

Cartwright (D-PA) – Amendment No. 25 – 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 (10 minutes)

Rejected Voice

Y

N

Lawrence (D-MI) – Amendment No. 26 – Strikes Section 427 (10 minutes)

Withdrawn

Y

N

Cartwright (D-PA) – Amendment No. 27 – Strikes language that would delay implementation of the EPA Lead Renovation, Repair, and Painting Rule (10 minutes)

Y    195

N   231

Becerra (D-CA) – Amendment No. 28 – Strikes section 430 of Interior Appropriations bill for FY 17 (10 minutes)

Y   190

N   236

Peters (D-CA) [on behalf of Pallone (D-NJ)] – Amendment No. 29 – Strikes section 431 (10 minutes)

Y   182

N    244

Peters (D-CA) – Amendment No. 30 – 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 (10 minutes)

Rejected Voice

Y

N     ✓

Peters (D-CA) – Amendment No. 31 – Strikes Section 436 to allow federal agencies to use the social cost of carbon in rule makings and guidance documents (10 minutes)

Y   185

N   241

Grijalva (D-AZ)– Amendment No. 32 – Strikes Section 437 entitled “Limitation of the Use of Funds for Designated Representatives” (10 minutes)

Vote Requested

Y

N

Polis (D-CO) – Amendment No. 33– Strikes section 439, regarding methane emissions

Vote Requested

Y

N

Lowenthal (D-CA) – Amendment No. 34 – Allows the Interior Department to proceed with updating royalty rates and valuation for federal coal, oil, and gas by striking Section 440 (10 minutes)

Vote Requested

Y

N

McNerney En Bloc #1
McNerney (CA) – Amendment No. 35 – Strikes section 447 (10 minutes)

McNerney (D-CA) – Amendment No. 36 – Strikes section 448 (10 minutes)

McNerney (D-CA) – Amendment No. 37 – Strikes section 449 (10 minutes)

McNerney (D-CA) – Amendment No. 38 – Strikes section 450 (10 minutes)

McNerney (D-CA) – Amendment No. 39 – Strikes section 451 (10 minutes)

McNerney (D-CA) – Amendment No. 40 – Strikes section 452 (10 minutes)

Vote Requested

Y

N

Grijalva (D-AZ) – Amendment No. 41 – Strikes section 453, regarding Presidential declarations by public proclamation of a national monument  (10 minutes)

Vote Requested

Y

N

Black (R-TN) – Amendment No. 42 – 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

Adopted Voice

Y     ✓

N

Blackburn (R-TN) – Amendment No. 43 – Imposes a 1 percent across-the-board spending cut to the bill (10 minutes)

Vote Requested

Y

N

Boustany (R-LA) – Amendment No. 44 – 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 (10 minutes)

Adopted Voice

Y     ✓

N

Boustany (R-LA) – Amendment No. 45 – Ensures that no money is permitted for the implementation of the Well Control Rule (10 minutes)

Vote Requested

Y

N

Brat (R-VA) – Amendment No. 46 – Sunsets Land and Water Conservation Fund grants with states or local government units after 20 years (10 minutes)

Rejected Voice

Y

N     ✓

Buck (R-CO) – Amendment No. 47 – Prevents the Department of Interior from partnering with private organizations to create or expand national heritage areas in southeast Colorado (10 minutes)

Adopted Voice

Y     ✓

N

Burgess (R-TX) – Amendment No. 48 – 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) (10 minutes)

Adopted Voice

Y     ✓

N

Byrne (R-AL), Boustany (R-LA), Graves, Garret (R-LA) – Amendment No. 49 – Prohibits any funds from being used to develop or propose legislation to redirect funds allocated from the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA) (10 minutes)

Adopted Voice

Y     ✓

N

Byrne (R-AL), Flores (R-TX), Fleming (R-LA) – Amendment No. 50 – Prohibits funding from being used to implement, administer, or enforce the Obama administration’s National Ocean Policy (10 minutes)

Vote Requested

Y

N

Cramer (R-ND) – Amendment No. 51 – Ensures no funds are provided to finalize or implement the Fish and Wildlife Service rule entitled “Management of Non-Federal Oil and Gas Rights” (10 minutes)

Adopted Voice

Y     ✓

N

Crawford (R-AR) – Amendment No. 52 – Prohibits the EPA from enforcing or implementing the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule on farming and ranching operations (10 minutes)

Adopted Voice

Y     ✓

N

Crawford (R-AR), Newhouse (R-WA) – Amendment No. 53 – Prohibits the use of funds in support of grassroots advocacy campaigns intended to persuade the outcome of legislation pending in Congress or state legislatures (10 minutes)

Adopted Voice

Y     ✓

N

Davis, Rodney (R-IL) – Amendment No. 54 – 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 (10 minutes)

Adopted Voice

Y      ✓

N

Duffy (R-WI) – Amendment No. 55 – Prohibits funds from being used to implement, administer, or enforce a new regulatory action of $100 million or more (10 minutes)

Not Offered

Y

N

Duffy (R-WI) – Amendment No. 56 – Requires the EPA to satisfy regulatory planning and review requirements established by the Clinton and Obama Administrations (10 minutes)

Not Offered

Y

N

Goodlatte (R-VA), Thompson (R-PA) – Amendment No. 57 – 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 (10 minutes)

Vote Requested

Y

N

Gosar (R-AZ), Zinke (R-MT), Franks (R-AZ) – Amendment No. 58 – 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” (10 minutes)

Adopted Voice

Y     ✓

N

Hartzler (R-MO) – Amendment No. 59 – Prohibits the installation of new ozone monitors by the Environmental Protection Agency (10 minutes)

Not Offered

Y

N

Hudson (R-NC) – Amendment No. 60 – Prohibits officers and employees of the EPA from official travel by airplane (10 minutes)

Not Offered

Y

N

Huizenga (R-MI), LaMalfa (R-CA), Yoho (R-FL) – Amendment No. 61 – 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 (10 minutes)

Not Offered

Y

N

Jenkins (R-WV) – Amendment No. 62 – 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 (10 minutes)

Adopted Voice

Y     ✓

N

Graham (D-FL) – Amendment No. 63 – 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 (10 minutes)

Vote Requested

Y

N

King (R-IA) – Amendment No. 64 – Ensures that no funds appropriated by this Act can be used to implement, administer, or enforce Davis-Bacon prevailing rate wage requirements (10 minutes)

Vote Requested

Y

N

LaMalfa (R-CA) – Amendment No. 65 – Prohibits the use of federal funds to remove four privately-owned dams on the Klamath River in California and Oregon (10 minutes)

Not Offered

Y

N

Lamborn (R-CO) – Amendment No. 66 – Prohibits the use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule entitled "Hydraulic Fracturing on Federal and Indian Lands" (10 minutes)

Adopted Voice

Y     ✓

N

Lamborn (R-CO) – Amendment No. 67 – 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 (10 minutes)

Vote Requested

Y

N

Lamborn (R-CO) – Amendment No. 68 – Prohibits the use of funds to implement or enforce the threatened species listing of the Preble's meadow jumping mouse (10 minutes)

Vote Requested

Y

N

Loudermilk (R-GA) – Amendment No. 69 – Prohibits funds from being used to regulate trailers under the Clean Air Act (10 minutes)

Adopted Voice

Y     ✓

N

Lummis (R-WY) – Amendment No. 70 – Prohibits funding to finalize, implement, or enforce EPA proposed rulemaking regarding in situ uranium production (10 minutes)

Adopted Voice

Y     ✓

N

Westerman (R-AR) [on behalf of MacArthur (R-NJ), LoBiondo (R-NJ)] – Amendment No. 71 – Limits permit inspection regulations with respect to the export of squid, octopus, and cuttlefish products (10 minutes)

Adopted Voice

Y     ✓

N

Murphy, Patrick (D-FL) – Amendment No. 72 – 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 (10 minutes)

Vote Requested

Y

N

Newhouse (R-WA) – Amendment No. 73 – 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 (10 minutes)

Vote Requested

Y

N

Newhouse (R-WA) – Amendment No. 74 – 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 (10 minutes)

Adopted Voice

Y      ✓

N

Newhouse (R-WA) – Amendment No. 75 – 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 (10 minutes)

Adopted Voice

Y     ✓

N

The House has had H.R. 5538 under consideration and come to no resolution thereon

Palmer (R-AL) – Amendment No. 76 – Ensures that none of the funds made available by this Act may be used for the Environmental Protection Agency's Criminal Enforcement Division (10 minutes)

Pearce (R-NM) – Amendment No. 77 – Removes federal protections for the New Mexico Meadow Jumping Mouse under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) (10 minutes)

Pearce (R-NM), Gosar (R-AZ) – Amendment No. 78 – 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 (10 minutes)

Perry (R-PA) – Amendment No. 79 – 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 (10 minutes)

Perry (R-PA) – Amendment No. 80 – Reduces Appropriations made in this Act for the Environmental Protection Agency by 17 percent (10 minutes)

Perry (R-PA), Brat (R-VA) – Amendment No. 81 – 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 (10 minutes)

Pompeo (R-KS) – Amendment No. 82 – 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 (10 minutes)

Price (R-GA) – Amendment No. 83 – 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 (10 minutes)

Ratcliffe (R-TX) – Amendment No. 84 – Prohibits funds from being used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule entitled “Clean Energy Incentive Program Design Details” (10 minutes)

Smith (R-MO) – Amendment No. 85 – Blocks the use of funds to carry out the third sentence of section 107(f)(1) (CERCLA) (10 minutes)

Smith (R-MO) – Amendment No. 86 – Blocks funding from going towards environmental education grants under section 6 of the the national environmental education act (10 minutes)

Westerman (R-AR) – Amendment No. 87 – 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 (10 minutes)

Westmoreland (R-GA), Collins (R-GA), Smith (R-MO) – Amendment No. 88 – 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 (10 minutes)

Young (R-AK) – Amendment No. 89 – Prohibits funds to be used to finalize, implement, or enforce new regulations on offshore Arctic energy exploration and development (10 minutes)

Young (R-AK) – Amendment No. 90 – Prohibits funds to be used to implement a final plan to designate areas of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska as wilderness (10 minutes)

Young (R-AK) – Amendment No. 91– 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 (10 minutes)

Young (R-AK) – Amendment No. 92 – Prohibits funds to be used to remove 3 Arctic Sales from the 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Program (10 minutes)

Young (R-AK) – Amendment No. 93 – 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 (10 minutes)

Zeldin (R-NY) – Amendment No. 94 –Prohibits funds from being used to designate a National Marine Monument in the EEZ via presidential proclamation (10 minutes)

Beyer (D-VA), DeFazio (D-OR) – Amendment No. 95 – Prevents funds from being used to block science-based protections for imperiled wildlife that has or may need Endangered Species Act protections (10 minutes)

Beyer (D-VA), Welch (D-VT) – Amendment No. 96 – Requires that no funds made available by this Act be used in contravention of Executive Order 13653 or Executive Order 13693 (10 minutes)

Beyer (D-VA), LoBiondo (R-NJ), Price (D-NC), Van Hollen (D-MD), Pallone (D-NJ), Langevin (D-RI), Sanford (R-SC) – Amendment No. 97 – 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 (10 minutes)

Beyer (D-VA), Cartwright (D-PA), Lawrence (D-MI) – Amendment No. 98 – States none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement or enforce section 120, 425, 426, or 427 (10 minutes)

Capps (D-CA) – Amendment No. 99 – 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 (10 minutes)

Grijalva (D-AZ), Huffman (D-CA) – Amendment No. 100 – 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 (10 minutes)

Higgins (D-NY) – Amendment No. 101 – 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 (10 minutes)

Lowenthal (D-CA) – Amendment No. 102 – Prevents funds from being used in contravention to a 2009 Interior Department Secretarial Order on climate change (10 minutes)

Pocan (D-WI), Welch (D-VT) – Amendment No. 103 – 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 (10 minutes)

Polis (D-CO), Grijalva (D-AZ) – Amendment No. 104 – Prohibits use of funds to pursue any additional legal ways to transfer Federal lands to private owners in contravention of existing law (10 minutes)

Speier (D-CA), Denham (R-CA) – Amendment No. 105 – Prohibits any funds from being made available to implement the proposed rule for dog management in the Golden Gate National Recreational Area (10 minutes)

Tsongas (D-MA) – Amendment No. 106 – 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 (10 minutes)

Yoho (R-FL) – Amendment No. 107 – Appropriates funds to conduct a study with existing funds on how Coastal Barrier Resource Area zones affect the value of private property (10 minutes)

Blumenauer (D-OR) – Amendment No. 108 – 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 (10 minutes)

Clyburn (D-SC) – Amendment No. 109 – 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 (10 minutes)

Cohen (D-TN), Byrne (R-AL) – Amendment No. 110 – 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 (10 minutes)

Chaffetz (R-UT) – Amendment No. 111 – 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 (10 minutes)

Kildee (D-MI) – Amendment No. 112 – Provides funding to help provide fresh drinking water to communities that have been impacted by lead in their drinking water (10 minutes)

Grayson (D-FL) – Amendment No. 113 – Increases funding for the National Estuary Program by $468,000 (10 minutes)

Norcross (D-NJ) – Amendment No. 114 – Adds $15,282,000 to the Hazardous Substance Superfund (10 minutes)

Kildee (D-MI) – Amendment No. 115 – 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 (10 minutes)

Polis (D-CO), King, Peter (R-NY), Ruiz (D-CA) – Amendment No. 116 – 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 (10 minutes)

Meng (D-NY) – Amendment No. 117 – Reduces funding for the Smithsonian Institution by $300,000 then increases funding by the same amount to ensure that the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center receives the $300,000 increase requested in the President’s FY17 Budget (10 minutes)

Duncan (R-TN) – Amendment No. 118 – Provides that none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to destroy any buildings or structures on Midway Island (10 minutes)

Gosar (R-AZ), Amodei (R-NV), Buck (R-CO), Cook (R-CA), Cramer (R-ND), Duncan (R-SC), Franks (R-AZ), Kirkpatrick (R-AZ), Jones (R-NC), McClintock (R-CA), Schweikert (R-AZ), Sinema (D-AZ), Zinke (R-MT), Salmon, (R-AZ), Heck (R-NV) – Amendment No. 119 – Prohibits funds for the Fish and Wildlife Service to continue to prohibit tubing, waterskiing and wake boarding in an area on Lake Havasu (10 minutes)

Weber (R-TX) – Amendment No. 120 – 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 (10 minutes)

Engel (D-NY) – Amendment No. 121 – 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 (10 minutes)

Gallego (D-AZ) – Amendment No. 122 – Prohibits funds from being used to issue grazing permits or leases in contravention of BLM regulations (10 minutes)

Grayson (D-FL) – Amendment No. 123 – 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 (10 minutes)

Jackson Lee (D-TX) – Amendment No. 124 – 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 (10 minutes)

Jackson Lee (D-TX) – Amendment No. 125 – Prohibits the use of funds to be used to eliminate the Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnership (10 minutes)

Jackson Lee (D-TX) – Amendment No. 126 – Prohibits funds to be used to limit outreach programs administered by the Smithsonian Institution (10 minutes)

Westerman (R-AR) – Amendment No. 127 – 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 (10 minutes)

Grothman (R-WI) – Amendment No. 128 – Eliminates $100 million in funding for the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) Grants (10 minutes)

Rohrabacher (R-CA) – Amendment No. 129 – Prevents funds in the underlying bill from being used to take steps to significantly change operations at the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico (10 minutes)

Polis (D-CO) – Amendment No. 130 – Prevents funds from being used for Surgical Sterilization of Wild Horses (10 minutes)

Cartwright (D-PA), Beyer (D-VA), Lawrence (D-MI) – Amendment No. 131 – 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 (10 minutes)

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