DAILY FLOOR WRAP UP
June 14, 2013
SUMMARY OF LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS
Walz (D–MN): Amendment No. 53 – Requires the Government Accountability office to submit a report to Congress regarding the Department of Defense's use of Personality/Adjustment disorders as a basis to separate members from the Armed Forces. –ADOPTED BY VOICE
En Bloc 8: Nos. 73,146,149,150,152,153,156,157,158,161,163,166,170,171,172 – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Radel (R-FL), Amash (R-MI), Massie (R-KY), Salmon (R-AZ): Amendment No. 18 - Prohibits the use of lethal military force, including the use of unmanned aircrafts, against U.S. citizens on U.S. soil, absent narrow exceptions for imminent and significant national security threats. – WITHDRAWN
Turner (R–OH): Amendment No. 21 – Requires the President of the United States to convey to Congress the details of any proposed deals with the Russian Federation concerning the missile defense or nuclear arms of the United States. –ADOPTED 239 – 182
Holt (D–NJ): Amendment No. 22 – Strikes all of subtitle C (Missile Defense Programs) of Title II except section 237 (Iron Dome program). – REJECTED 61 – 362
McCollum (D–MN): Amendment No. 25 – Prohibits any funds authorized in the bill from being used to sponsor Army National Guard professional wrestling sports sponsorships or motor sports sponsorships. The amendment does not prohibit recruiters from making direct, personal contact with secondary school students and other prospective recruits. – REJECTED 134 – 289
Nolan (D–MN): Amendment No. 32 – Reduces total funds authorized in this Act by $60 Billion. – REJECTED 71 – 353
Cooper (D–TN): Amendment No. 33 – Reinstates the New START funding. – REJECTED 195 – 229
Gibson (R–NY), Garamendi (D–CA): Amendment No. 36 – Strikes section 1251, Sense of Congress on the Conflict in Syria. – REJECTED 123 – 301
Coffman (R–CO), Griffith (R–VA), Polis (D–CO), Blumenauer (D–OR): Amendment No.37 – Directs the President of the United States to end the permanent basing of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment (2CR) in Vilseck, Germany and return the Brigade Combat Team currently stationed in Europe to the United States, without permanent replacement, leaving one Brigade Combat Team and one Combat Aviation Brigade––nothing in this amendment should be construed as directing the removal of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, nor certain quick–reaction forces. – REJECTED 110 – 313
Walorski (R-IN): Amendment No. 19 - Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from using any funds authorized to the department for the transfer or release of Guantanamo detainees to Yemen. – ADOPTED 236 – 188
Smith (D-WA), Moran (D-VA), Nadler (D-NY): Amendment No. 20 - Mandates closure of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba by December 1, 2014 and strikes all prohibitions on transfers of detainees to the U.S. and overseas. – REJECTED 174 – 249
Polis (D-CO): Amendment No. 14 - Allows those certified by recognized nontheistic organizations to be appointed as officers in the chaplain core in order to fully serve nontheistic or nonreligious service members. – REJECTED 150 – 274
Polis (D–CO): Amendment No. 23 – Limits funding for advanced procurement of inefficient ground–based interceptor rocket motor sets, and the costly refurbishment of Missile Field 1 at Fort Greely, Alaska, until the Secretary of Defense makes certain certifications to Congress, including that the Commander of the United States Northern Command has full confidence in the homeland missile defense system. – REJECTED 146 – 278
Van Hollen (D–MD) , Moran (D–VA), Mulvaney (R–SC), Woodall (R–GA): Amendment No. 39 – Cuts OCO funding by $5.04 billion from the Ryan Budget level down to the President's Budget Request. – REJECTED 191 – 232
Blumenauer (D–OR), Kinzinger (R–IL), Gabbard (D–HI), and Stivers (R–OH): Amendment No. 123 – Strengthens and reform the Iraq and Afghanistan Special Immigration Visa programs, and expressing the sense of the House that these programs are of significant importance to the US mission, and should be extended and reformed before their expiration. – ADOPTED 420 – 3
DeLauro (D–CT), Granger (R–TX), Moran (D–VA), Kingston (R–GA), Ellison (D–MN), Wolf (R–VA), and Connolly (D–VA): Amendment No. 137 – Prohibits the Defense Department from continuing to purchase equipment from the Russian arms dealer Rosoboronexport unless the Secretary of Defense certifies that the firm is cooperating with a Defense Contract Audit Agency audit, not delivering S–300 missile defense batteries to Syria, and that no new contracts have been signed by the firm with Syria since January 1, 2013. Provides a national security waiver with a requirement that the Secretary justify the waiver in a report to Congress 30 days prior to the purchase of any equipment from Rosoboronexport. – ADOPTED 423 – 0
Democrat Motion to Recommit – FAILED 194 – 225, 1
Final Passage of H.R. 1960 — "To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2014 for military activities of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes." – PASSED 315 – 108
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