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Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 35 public bills, H.R. 8807- 8841; and 11 resolutions, H.J. Res. 186; H. Con. Res. 101; and H. Res. 1284-1292 were introduced.
McDowell to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. Page H3457 Recess: The House recessed at 11:29 a.m. and reconvened at 12 p.m.
Advisory Board for the House of Representatives Child Care Center— Appointment: The Chair announced the Speaker's appointment of the following individuals on the part of the House to the Advisory Board for the House of Representatives Child Care Center: Mr. Matthew Schlesinger of Mount Rainier, Maryland; Ms. Claudia Urrabazo-Beckelman of Washington, DC; Ms. Jo Stiles of Washington, DC; and Ms. Emily Noriega-May of Washington, DC.
Commission on International Religious Freedom—Appointment: The Chair announced the Speaker's appointment of the following individual on the part of the House to the Commission on International Religious Freedom for a term ending May 14, 2028: Mr. Asif Mahmood of Bradbury, California.
Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act: The House passed H.R. 6260, to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit fraud in connection with posting bail, by a recorded vote of 243 ayes to 179 noes, Roll No. 169.
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the Judiciary by a yea-and-nay vote of 210 yeas to 213 nays, Roll No. 168. Pages H3478-80, H3505-06
recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill shall be considered as adopted. Page H3474
H. Res. 1275, the rule providing for consideration was agreed to yesterday, May 13th.
Resolution, to remove the United States Armed Forces from hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran: The House failed to agree to H. Con. Res. 75, directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove the United States Armed Forces from hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran, by a yea-and-nay vote of 212 yeas to 212 nays, Roll No. 170. Consideration began yesterday, May 13th. Pages H3506-07 Cashless Bail Reporting Act: The House passed H.R. 5625, to direct the Attorney General to make publicly available a list of each State and unit of local government that permits cashless bail, by a yea-and-nay vote of 308 yeas to 116 nays, Roll No. 171.
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recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill shall be considered as adopted. Page H3471
H. Res. 1275, the rule providing for consideration was agreed to yesterday, May 13th. Monitor Accountability Act: The House H.R. 8365, to provide for conditions on the appointment of monitors by courts, by a recorded vote of 219 ayes to 204 noes, Roll No. 173.
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the Judiciary by a yea-and-nay vote of 210 yeas to 213 nays, Roll No. 172. Pages H3486, H3507-08
recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill, modified by the amendment printed in part A of H. Rept. 119-648, shall be considered as adopted. Page H3480
H. Res. 1275, the rule providing for consideration was agreed to yesterday, May 13th. Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2027: The House considered H.R. 8469, making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027. Consideration is expected to resume tomorrow, May 15th.
Carter (TX) en bloc No. 1 consisting of the following amendments printed in part B of H. Rept. 119-648: Alford (No. 1) that increases and decreases funding by $5 million for readjustment and rehabilitation benefits to or on behalf of veterans and to emphasize the importance of creating a pilot program under The Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA) program to such educational assistance to no less than 1,000 students who are a dependent of a veteran and prepare them to be successful in college or some other post-high school educational program; Bean (FL) (No. 2) that increases and decreases funding by $5 million to expand the use of data analytics and program integrity tools used to detect improper payments, duplicate claims, and organized fraud schemes within VA benefits and community care programs; Bean (FL) (No. 3) that increases and decreases funding by $5 million for the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General to conduct a comprehensive audit of improper payments, unused or duplicative software contracts, redundant consulting agreements, and stale unliquidated obligations across VA administrative offices, and to provide Congress with recommendations to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse within 180 days; Boebert (No. 4) that redirects $2 million to the Board of Veterans Appeals to help reduce its backlog so that veteran claims can be adjudicated in a timely manner; Boebert (No. 5) that redirects $2 million to provide additional resources for medical and prosthetic research to ensure our veterans receive cutting edge medical care from the VA; Boebert (No. 6) that redirects $2 million to provide additional funding for the construction of new state-extended care facilities; Boebert (No. 7) that redirects $2 million to fund grants for the construction of veteran's cemetery programs to assist state and tribal governments in providing burial benefits for veterans in rural areas lacking a VA national cemetery; Boebert (No. 8) that redirects $2 million to the Office of the Inspector General to combat waste, fraud, and abuse; Carson (No. 9) that increases funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical and Prosthetic Research account for veteran- focused medical, prosthetic, toxic exposure, and rehabilitation research; Crow (No. 11) that increases funding for the Medical Services account by $500,000 to establish a working group focused on improving the collection and analysis of data regarding veteran on-campus suicides and attempted suicides, and reduces funding for the General Administration account by $500,000; Elfreth (No. 12) that increases and decreases funding by $86 million for the US Naval Academy's Stormwater Management System; Gonzalez (TX) (No. 13) that increases and decreases funding by $1 million for the Veterans Health Administration Medical Services to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide a report to Congress on: (1) which VA hospitals and clinics have had dentist positions open for more than 60 days; (2) vacancy rates for dental positions in VA medical centers and clinics which provide dental services; (3) average wait times to receive a dental appointment across VA medical centers and clinics which provide dental services; Gonzalez (TX) (No. 14) that increases and decreases funds to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to study the feasibility and potential benefits of establishing financial literacy centers at VA medical centers and other appropriate facilities; Gonzalez (TX) (No. 15) that increases and decreases funding by $1 million for the Grants for Construction of Veterans Cemeteries for the purposes of emphasizing the need for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to allow internment of Military Working Dogs in veteran cemeteries; Gonzalez (TX) (No. 16) that increases and decreases funding by $1 million for the Veterans Health Administration Medical Services to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide a report to Congress on: (1) the number of unfilled positions for home health aides in Texas and New Mexico; (2) which communities in the states of Texas and New Mexico have the highest concentrations of unfilled home care positions; Gottheimer (No. 17) that increases
and decreases funding by $285 million for the Veterans Health
Administration Medical Services account to support Staff Sergeant
Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grants; Graves (No. 18) that
increases and decreases funding by $63 million military
construction for the Air National Guard with the intent to
construct a new aircraft apron at Rosecrans Air National Guard
Base, in St. Joseph, Missouri; Kiggans (VA) (No. 19) that increases
and decreases funding by $1 million for Navy Military Construction
for the purposes of ensuring that facilities at Naval Air Stations
have adequately maintained Intelligence Community Directive (ICD)
705 facilities that support naval aviation, such as hangers and
Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facilities, are in working
order and in adequate quantity for mission readiness; Kiggans (VA)
(No. 20) that increases and decreases funding by $1 million for
Navy Military Construction for the purposes of ensuring that
facilities supporting Amphibious capabilities, including, but not
limited to, piers, and dry docks are in adequate repair; Kiggans
(VA) (No. 21) that increases and decreases funding by $1 million
for Navy Military Construction for the purposes of ensuring Quality
of Life-related facilities at Naval Aviation Training Areas,
including, but not limited to, bathrooms, waiting areas, and ready
rooms, are in working order; Kiggans (VA) (No. 22) that increases
and decreases funding by $1 million for Navy Military Construction
for the purposes of ensuring that working spaces, such as office
buildings, bathrooms, and other similar facilities, used by Navy
civilian employees at Public Shipyards are in working order; Ogles
(No. 24) that increases and decreases funding for host nation
support by $1,000,000 to direct the Secretary of the Army to submit
to the Committees on Appropriations of both Chambers of Congress a
report detailing, for each overseas installation at which host
nation support funds were obligated or expended during fiscal years
2025 and 2026: (1) the total U.S. contribution to military
construction costs; (2) the total host nation financial
contribution to the same projects; and (3) the ratio of U.S.-to-
host nation expenditure expressed as a percentage of total project
cost; Ogles (No. 25) that prohibits funds made available by this
Act from being used to prepare more than one environmental impact
statement for the same military construction project identified by
the same Department of Defense Form 1391 project number, unless
required by court order; Ogles (No. 26) that prohibits funds made
available under the “Medical Community Care” account from being
used in a manner inconsistent with the existing specialty care
access standards; Ogles (No. 27) that prohibits funds made
available under the “Military Construction, Navy and Marine
Corps” account from being used for architectural and engineering
services or construction design for administrative facilities
unless such activities support operational, training, maintenance,
housing, or infrastructure-related facility categories recognized
under the Department of Defense Real Property Categorization
System; Pappas (No. 28) that increases and decreases construction,
major projects funding by $1 million for the purpose of adding
report language supporting robust funding for improvements to VA
direct care for New Hampshire veterans, including funding for
upgrades to the VA Medical Center in Manchester, New Hampshire—to
include a replacement facility; Pettersen (No. 30) that increases
and decreases the Major Construction account by $5 million to
construct a new VA clinic, with primary care and mental healthcare
services, in Fremont County, Colorado, where there are 5,000
veterans, but no VA clinic; Randall (No. 31) that increases/
decreases funding by $12 million for GAO to assess transportation
barriers facing veterans in rural and highly rural communities
traveling long distances for specialty care appointments, including
travel times, transportation availability, and impacts on access to
timely care; Randall (No. 32) that increases and decreases funding
by $5 million for refrigeration, food storage, food preparation,
and sanitation equipment upgrades at Naval shore installation
dining facilities with limited kitchen infrastructure; Randall (No.
33) that increases and decreases funding by $12 million for
upgrades to aging water and wastewater infrastructure serving Naval
shore installations; Randall (No. 34) that increases and decreases
funding by $5 million for construction and modernization of career
resource, workforce development, and employment support facilities
serving military spouses on Naval installations; Randall (No. 35)
that increases and decreases funding by $15 million for Child
Development Center expansion projects at Naval installations
experiencing childcare waitlists for servicemembers and civilian
personnel; Randall (No. 36) that increases and decreases funding by
$12 million for repairs and modernization of water, utility,
roadway, and community infrastructure serving military family
housing areas at Naval installations; Randall (No. 37) that
increases/decreases funding by $1 million to expresses the sense of
Congress that access to affordable and reliable childcare is
critical to military family readiness, retention, and quality of
life for service members and civilian personnel; Randall (No. 38)
that increases and decreases funding by $20 million for electrical
grid modernization, backup power generation, microgrid
capabilities, and energy resilience infrastructure upgrades at the
Navy's four public shipyards to support continuous maintenance,
repair,
and industrial operations; Randall (No. 39) that increases and
decreases funding by $10 million for roadway, parking, traffic
flow, and multimodal transportation improvements on and surrounding
Navy public shipyards to reduce congestion and improve workforce
access during peak shift changes; Randall (No. 40) that increases
and decreases funding by $8 million for modernization of locker
rooms, break facilities, restrooms, and workforce support spaces
used by civilian shipyard workers and apprentices at Navy public
shipyards; Randall (No. 41) that increases and decreases funding by
$10 million for ventilation, lighting, fire suppression, and
emergency response infrastructure upgrades in industrial and
maintenance facilities at Navy public shipyards; Sewell (No. 46)
that increases and decreases the Air National Guard Military
Construction account by $15 million to demolish World War II-era
facilities and construct a services training facility at Sumpter
Smith Air National Guard Base in Birmingham, Alabama; Stanton (No.
47) that increases and decreases funding by $5 million for the
Office of the Secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs to
emphasize the importance of the service of Tribal veterans and to
encourage the Secretary to consult with Tribal partners on adapting
culturally significant insignia at facilities that serve Tribal
veterans and to expand the hiring of culturally competent clinical
staff; Stanton (No. 48) that redirects $5 million to the Office of
Rural Health to fund the use of mobile clinics and targeted
clinical staffing to improve access to care for Tribal veterans;
and Walkinshaw (No. 51) that increases and decreases funding for
Department of Veterans Affairs General Administration by $1 million
to emphasize the importance of ensuring that MilConVA facilities
meet indoor air quality (IAQ), ventilation, and HVAC performance
standards and the need for strengthened oversight and GAO review of
IAQ conditions in MilCon funded buildings; Pages H3501-03
Correa (No. 10 printed in part B of H. Rept. 119-648) that increases and decreases funding by $45 million for the Medical and Prosthetic Research account at the Department of Veterans Affairs to emphasize the importance of the Department's research on areas benefiting veterans such as oncology, traumatic brain injury care, psychedelic therapies, and assistive devices; and Page H3503
Mast (No. 23 printed in part B of H. Rept. 119-648) that prohibits funds appropriated to the Department of Veterans Affairs from being used to enforce provisions of VHA Directive 1315 that restrict VA providers from assisting veterans with participation in State-approved marijuana programs. Pages H3503-05
H. Res. 1275, the rule providing for consideration was agreed to yesterday, May 13th. Senate Message: Message received from the Senate appears on page H3468. Quorum Calls Votes: Four yea-and-nay votes and two recorded votes developed during the proceedings of today and appear on pages H3505, H3505-06, H3506-07, H3507, H3507-08, and H3508-09. Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 8:09 p.m.