This minibus combines six appreciate appropriation bills, defense, commerce, justice, science, energy, Water Development, Financial Services and general government, labor, hhs, and education, transportation, housing and urban development. Than 200s more billion in emergency funding to rebuild our nations transportation, housing, and energy infrastructure, to expand broadband to unserved and underserved areas and to rebuild age, Public Health, and support state and local Health Agencies and Global Health activities. The bill prioritizes public 47 and safety with billion for lifesaving medical research at the National Institutes of health, and 50 million, an increase of 25 million above f. Y. 2020, for firearm injury and Mortality Prevention Research at the n. I. H. And c. D. C. , and it includes strong funding for Numerous Public Health efforts, including initiatives to reduce h. I. V. Infections, address tobacco and ecigarette use, and ensure food safety. As we confront the twin crises of covid19 and systemic racism, the bill takes bold steps to build safer and stronger communities for all people. It provides strong funding to support Law Enforcement reform at the state and local level while catalyzing Economic Development in disadvantaged communities that is fundamental to a more just and equitable society. Among other priorities the bill invests in education and job training, expands access to safe, affordable, and fair housing. Supports Service Members and military families. And combats Climate Change and embraces a clean energy future. This package prioritizes the lives and lively hoods of the American People livelihoods of the American People and makes the strong investments needed to build a stronger future for every person. It is the product of months of thoughtful deliberation and input from members on both sides of the aisle. I am proud of the work we have completed under the incredibly difficult sirkstabses of the covid19 circumstances of the covid19 pandemic. Our incredibly talented appropriations subcommittee chairs will discuss more about what this package does for the people. I urge support for the bill. And i reserve the balance of my ime. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman reserves. The gentleman is recognized. Mr. Cole thank you very much, mr. Speaker. I yield myself such time as i may consume. As the vice Ranking Member of the House Appropriations committee, mr. Speaker, i stand today in opposition to h. R. 76 17, the second set of fiscal year 2021 Appropriations Bills to be considered by the house. This mini bus of six bills includes the two largest, defense and laborhealth and Human Services and education, as well as the titles covering commerce, justice, science, energy and Water Development, Financial Services and general government, finally transportation, housing, and urban development. While i am always encouraged to see the process of funding government under way in congress, democrats, unfortunately, chose a deeply flawed approach in exercising this function for fiscal year 2021. Remember, nearly a year ago, mr. Speaker, Congress Passed and President Trump signed into law the bipartisan budget act of 2019, which set budgetary levels for fiscal years 2020 and 2021. This bipartisan and bicameral compromise was a result of a good faith negotiation between the president and congressional leaderships. Last year my friends on their side of the aisle actually kept that agreement and we had an orderly appropriations process, successful outcome. We had no government shutdowns, no longterm continuing resolutions. This year, however, despite this existing agreement, democrats on the House Appropriations committee chose to write bills that greatly exceed the spending limits allowed for fiscal year 2021. In fact, they did so through extensive use of a budget gimmick that designates certain funds as emergency. Without question, there are many worthwhile items and priorities in these six bills before us, mr. Speaker, but i remain concerned about the use of emergency designated funds as a work around and schemed to break the budget agreement between the two parties and the president. In fact, in this bill alone there is well over 200 billion of this socalled emergency spending. Clearly in violation of the budget agreement. 186 billion is included in infrastructure title without any bipartisan discussion or agreement. Another 24 billion is included to address the coronavirus, even though discussions and negotiations were under way on another supplemental, specifically for that purpose. These funds were added without any consultation with house republicans, with the senate, or with the president. And without that consultation, they have no chance of becoming law. Lets remember, mr. Speaker, some of the critical things these six appropriations titles are supposed to support each year. Our dedicated Service Members who put their lives on the line every day to defend and preserve our precious freedom. Our courageous Law Enforcement officers who keep our communities safe. Our hardworking Small Business owners and their workers who are seeking to achieve the american dream. Our vital researchers who are looking for lifesaving treatments and cures. Our ports and waterway that is are so critical to commerce. And finally, they support our Transit System upon which Many Americans depend daily. All these things are put at risk, mr. Speaker, unless democrats and republicans Work Together. Unfortunately, along with the unworkable approach taken in writing this package of bills, there are many partisan policy provision that is must come out before it can become provisions that must come out before it can become law. Many are similar to the policies pushed through the house in recent months. Considering the committee has had more than 100 hearings and briefings to make important funding decisions, its disappointing that many of 2450es provisions these provisions seem to have been dictated from the top. A few examples, the bill jeopardizes our safety and security by allowing terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay to be brought to u. S. Soil. It also includes language that would prevent the United States from exercising the right to defend ourselves and our allies, such as israel. In a time when china is seeking to dominate the world order, this bill would undermine americas preeminence in Space Exploration and crede the opportunity to china to dominate the next frontier. This whinny bus plays into the dangerous narrative of defunding the police for failure to provide Adequate Funding for our federal Law Enforcement agencies. Moreover state and local Law Enforcement agencies are barred from receiving excess equipment from the department of defense. As the Ranking Member on the laborhhs Education Committee i am most familiar with the partisan provisions contained there. Indeed, the text of that bill includes a wide variety of harmful riders. First includes a partisan policy prescription that will tie the hands of the administration with respect to title x Family Planning programs. Most notably the riders would force the administration to resume grants awarded to controversial groups that provide abortions such as planned parenthood and it would prevent the administration from granting waivers to protect deeply held religious beliefs of institutions, organizations, and individuals that provide Vital Services to the funded in the bill. The laborhhs tight also includes riders that would under do the department of labors rule clarifying the joint employer standard. If this policy rider were enacted, it would cause chaos for thousands of businesses and millions of employees. Leaving them uncertain about nature of the employment relationship. Not to be outdone, this bill also includes riders, micromanaging, and secondguessing how hhs administers the daily and Children Program which will ensure individuals devogt their energies assisting such unaccompanied minors, will find themselves devoting their energy to becoming wrapped up in congressly mandated. The same can be said for the other five divisions of this package. Throughout this mini bus the democratic majority has inserted policy ride thats tight hands of the administration. They have limited the ability of the administration to reprogram funds even when necessary. They have inserted rider after rider aimed at preventing the president from spending money on barriers and security measures at the southern border. And they have removed countless bipartisan policy provision that is have been carried in previous years bills. When it comes to congress fundamental function of keeping the government opened and operating, good faith negotiation must be present at every stage. In this era of divided government that might be challenging, but we have proven time and time again that its certainly not impossible. We did it when we negotiated the 2019 budget agreement. We did it again when we moved through an orderly process for the 2020 fiscal year Appropriations Bills. And finally, we did it most recently on four separate occasions in dealing with the coronavirus. All this success was the product of bipartisan negotiation in divided government. In those negotiations neither side can dictate to the other or jam the other or failure will result. In the days ahead, mr. Speaker, we must Work Together on Appropriations Bills that reflect the bipartisan budget agreement and leave out controversial policy language. Until we do that, no appropriations bill bill will make it to the president s desk and we will run the risk later this year of either a longterm continuing resolution or even a government shutdown. For those reasons, mr. Speaker, i stand in opposition to the second mini bus package and i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves. The lady is recognized. The gentlelady from new york is recognized. Mrs. Lowey mr. Speaker, i am pleased to yield five minutes to the distinguished gentlewoman from ohio, the chairwoman of the subcommittee on energy and Water Development, ms. Kaptur. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from ohio is recognized for five minutes. Ms. Kaptur thank you, chairwoman lowey and Ranking Member granger and vice Ranking Member cole. Please let me add my thanks to you, chair lowey, for your years of honorable, dedicated, and affable service to this committee and to our nation. And for your recognition of the full potential of the energy and Water Division. Truly you will be missed. And without question you have made your mark. Across our nation and the world. You can draw great satisfaction from that. I also want to thank my brother, stephen, watching from a distance, without your strength and courage i would not be here today. This bill represents an overwhelming majority of our total discretionary appropriations and with its passage the houses completion of 10 Appropriations Bills. I extend congratulations to chairwoman lowey and of course Ranking Member kay granger for this fete in the middle of a feat in the middle of a global pandemic. I also have to thank the marvelous Committee Staff who made this possible. I wish to say that the energy and Water Division captures the american spirit of ingenuity and independence in our enterprising nation. Our bill lays the foundation for critical investments to combat Climate Change. It is poised to pass today as the most important funded Climate Change bill the 116th congress will pass. Truly this bill will sustain life in america and address global imperatives. Our bill upgrades and strengthens our Nations Energy and water infrastructure. It responsibly funds our Nations Nuclear deter rent deterrent. It rejects the administrations dangerous plan to restart Nuclear Explosive testing. The bill rejects the president s drastic and shortsighted proposed cuts that would harm americas leadership at home and abroad. Instead, it invests in important programs that keep our nation at the forefront of Global Energy innovation. It provides water, irrigation, and electricity for millions millions of americans. And these programs propel real Economic Growth and the jobs it. Go with let me briefly walk through the bill. Engineers rps of received 7. 6 billion, the funding, r of record increase of 1. 7 billion above the budget request. Bureau of reclamation eceives 1. 6 billion, an increase of 508 million above the request. The department of energy eceives 41 billion, an increase of 5. 1 billion above the request. And within the department of bill contains historic funding levels for key to our , critical future. First, Energy Efficiency and Energy Receives 2. 85 billion, 2. 1 billion above the request. Rpae, receives 45 million, a record 445 million, a record amount that the president blunting o eliminate, americas future. Nd the office of science receives 1. 2 billion above the request. This bill also provides an the home or weatherization assistance program. T helps ensure that additional lowincome households have energyefficient and more livable and affordable futures communities across our nation. He National NuclearSecurity Administration receives 18 billion, 1. 3 billion above nuclear within the Security Administration, the bill responsibly funds americas deterrent. And Nuclear Nonproliferation an ives 2. 24 billion, increase of 209 million above the request. Prohibits thebill diversion of essential army corps funds to be used for a wall. In addition to regular cues upations, the bill additional investment that will pur a jobrich robust economic recovery by modernizing our energy and water infrastructure, chair annot thank our more for her efforts to ensure this occurs. To uding 17 billion accelerate backlogged army corps of engineer projects across this nation. 3 billion to accelerate work on projects reclamation and 23. 5 billion for department f energy to modernize infrastructure and deploy technologies for our Nations Energy. Lean in sum, the energy and Water Division will help put america work. O it makes desperately needed investments in crumbling water across the re nation. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewomans time has expired. 30 seconds. Kams. Kaptur it supports a robt nation program. Nonproliferation program. Thank mr. Sensenbrenner for his jamie, hip and thank marcel, my brain, mark, and ngie giancarlo on the other side. I want to thank all of our committee members, especially like chairman visclosky, chairman serrano, chairwoman lowey. The republican side, mr. Graves, all of whom are retiring, and theyll take with century of cumulative legislative knowledge that simply cannot be replaced. Contribution but also a great loss to our nation as you depart. May god bless you all. To support lleagues this bill and yield back. The speaker pro tempore the entlelady from new york reserves. The gentleman is recognized. Mr. Cole thank you very much, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i yield six minutes friend, the distinguished gentleman from alabama, mr. Aderholt, the anking member of the commerce, justice, and science subcommittee on appropriations. Aderholt thank you. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from alabama is recognized. You, mr. Olt thank speaker. I rise this morning in opposition to h. R. 7617. Appreciate the efforts of the majority and producing the appropriations package that were considering on the floor today. His bill addresses many of the parties and concerns that members on both sides of the aisle have. There are a lot of things in we all agree on. Particularly in division b of he commerce, justice, science, and related agencies appropriations act. Nd i do want to thank chairman serrano for including the resources necessary to work oward completion of the space launch system. Or as its commonly called, the s. L. S. Less than 400 million for the block 1b space launch system. With its powerful exploration and the payload, it has strategic capability for the nited states and deep Space Exploration. Nasa must increase the pace of s. L. S. Production to ensure that system is nch europa e for the mission, in addition to meeting needs. An exploration i also want to thank chairman course, as has been said, he will be retiring after this term. Him rtainly will miss around here in the House Chamber and the capitol complex. Him, also, o thank for including 110 million for the nuclear thermal propulsion. Necessary to work toward the design of a flight demonstration by 2024. Addition to some key space priorities, the bill also ddresses issues impacting all of our communities. It increases funding for corps programs, others to deal with the opioid epidemic, as well as cases and ve cold eliminate the backlog of Sexual Assault cases. The bill also rightly directs justice to nt of undertake novel approaches to ddressing online child exploitation. Exploitation, obscenity and human trafficking. Includes n, the bill strong funding for the agencies to ensure compliance with the agreements. Nd i am especially pleased it funds illum numb aluminum imports. Of upports the industries the future initiative with the new investments in quantityive science. On artificial intelligence. 5g research. Manufacturing. And finally, i want to thank hairman serrano and his staff for including 10 million for vortex southeast program. Tornados inf killer the southeastern part of the United States is really overall tionate to the number of tornadoes across the number. Vortex southeast is doing better work to understand environmental factors and improve Weather Forecast home regionns in my of the south and southeast. Owever, with all of this being said, the strong funding that is in some areas of this bill, makes the ly, it deficiencies in this bill even more glaring. We all saw for ourselves several weeks ago that witnessed the on u. S. Base launched of astronauts had been the first time in 10 years. The passion for the american renewed that time for era of Space Exploration, and there was a recognition of value of u. S. Space supremacy. This bill that were debating today, rejects the moon mars art miss artimis mission. This bill caters to the radical demands of defunding so many of Law Enforcement agencies across the board. None of the federal law this ement agencies in bill, including the f. B. I. , the u. S. , the d. E. A. , the marshal service, are fully funded in this legislation. Attorney general has made fighting gun crime one of his top priorities, and yet, none of initiatives received the requested increases. Even bipartisan requests to crime, alongnt gun with the request to increase the investigation and prosecution of human trafficking, child exploitation, crime at the federal level have been marginalized in this bill. He bill includes so many new nauthorized conditions on byrnej. A. G. And cops programs. These grants will be halted indefinitely. Have no doubt that our side of the aisle could have supported training tisan Police Reforms and other policy initiatives had the majority not owed to the pressure of defunding some much so many of these programs. Terrible lso sets a precedent by proposing to use hardearned taxpayer dollars to people caught crossing the border illegally. Serve to, it will only urlt en further entice people to journey north. Econd amendment protections enjoyed historical bipartisan support will be hurt. Not limination of freedoms associated with criminal misuse of firearms is an unfortunate gun control of the gun control agenda with no criminalthe science of justice. In closing, i want to thank chairwoman lowey and chairman all their staff and all their hard work. Great have had great careers and well certainly miss them. Just in closing, i do want to minority to the taff, stephanie, darren, kristen, along with the majority staff, who they work very close bill, bob can i have 30 seconds . Mr. Cole i yield the gentleman additional 30 seconds. Mr. Aderholt also, the majority bob, jeff, trisha, fay, shannon, and b. J. I continue to be committed to working with the majority in as we proceed through the legislative process. I look forward to the debate today. ll have thank you, mr. Speaker, and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from oklahoma reserves. The gentlelady from new york is recognized. Rs. Lowey mr. Speaker, it is such an honor for me to yield to the gentleman from indiana, who is the hairman of the subcommittee on defense, mr. Visclosky. Thatisclosky has announced he s going to retire, but has committed so much of his his energy to a bill knowledgeres a lot of of detail. Its a very, very difficult but mr. Visclosky has mastered it. Hes the same time that focused on this very important of his remembers all constituents back home. Visclosky was. Riting notes and participating in the hearing, but it was clear every one he served of his constituents with being tion as well as chairman of this committee. Friend. Luck, my good health, my friend. Best you everything the on your retirement and more time friends. Ly and we will now hear from the tanding chair of the subcommittee of defense, mr. Visclosky. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from indiana is minutes. D for five mr. Visclosky i want to thank kindhairwoman for her very remarks. Also want to thank you, for your friendship over the years. Will mngs in my mention in my prepared remarks, your life of service to not only to your to this ncy, not only great nation, but to the people of the world given all of your foreign operations and, gain, having that broad, longterm view, dedicating your life to make sure that the world we leave is going to be better for our children and prosperity. Appreciate that as well, and as i have quipped, if youre not going to be back next year, im not going to be back next year. Unanimous consent to have my full remarks be entered into the record. All do want to thank my Ranking Member and my friend, mr. Calvert, for his continued to being collegial, transparent, and bipartisan. Overstate the value of his friendship and the we have enjoyed over the years. He is a gentleman. Again, i would, appreciate and acknowledge of the work of the chairwoman, mrs. Lowey, who is also departing the house at the end of this year. You, nita, for dedicated your dedication to your life of service. The subCommittee Staff. Articularly our clerks, becky and johnny, as well as walter, yawna ariana, kia, bill, david, matt, hayden, paul, shannon, and y, kyle, jamie, brian, nick. Hose in Ranking Member calverts office as well, rebecca and william. Staff, joe and of the ow Friend Department of defense, major. Their dedicated service, for their acumen and generosity of spirit. The bill continues to focus on the wellbeing and morale of in uniform as well as their families and d. O. D. Communities. Their the bill provides an additional 16 million for up 116 upgrades to childcare facilities and the report contains language irecting the military services to present innovative ideas to address the serious backlog of childcare. Provides 1. 49 billion for Environmental Restoration which is 415 million above the request. We provide 327 million to address the ongoing epidemic of Sexual Assault in the military and at the service academies, which is 49 million more than requested. Despite dire warnings, the departments budget for Sexual Assault prevention and response remains stagnant. The department has got to do a much better job. Another area of deep concern for me is the departments lack of compliance with many congressionally directed reporting requirements. For example, last year the committee directed the department to submit a report on its contracts for Advertising Services was socially and economically disadvantaged Small Businesses. The report was supposed to accompany the departments fiscal year 2021 budget submission in february. But it was transmitted to the committee on july 14, five months late, and the same day we marked up the bill. Regrettably, reporting deadlines are often missed, making it much more difficult for the committee to make timely decisions. The bill again contains several provisions to rein in the departments now habitual redirection of funding and contravention of congressional intent. One d. O. D. Official in a meeting earlier this year referred to these transfers of 10 billion as anomalies. I refer to them as habitual abuses. The sense of entitlement in these actions is galling and i hope that at some point the department will have the leadership in place who recognizes Congress Constitution prerogative and restore trust to the appropriations process. With that, madam chairwoman, i yield back my time. And again profoundly thank you. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady reserves. The gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. Mr. Cole thank you very much, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i yield seven minutes to my very good friend, mr. Simpson from idaho, the Ranking Member on energy and water subcommittee on appropriations. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from idaho is recognized for seven minutes. Mr. Simpson i thank my good friend from oklahoma for yielding. Mr. Speaker, i rise today in reluctant opposition to h. R. 7617, the six bill fiscal year 2021 appropriations package that includes the energy and Water Development appropriations bill. I had hoped to be able to support the appropriations bill this year. Unfortunately, while the bill includes some bipartisan priorities, excessive spending and partisan riders mean i am unable to support the bill at this time. I am pleased that the bill continues the significant investments in our nations Water Resources infrastructure, including Harbor Maintenance activities. Unfortunately, the majority is choosing to ignore several opportunities to enhance water security in the droughtprone west. The bill cuts funding for water storage projects, blocks a critical water storage project in california, and unnecessarily delays the use of previously appropriated funds for other water storage projects. Republicans, in fact i think every republican from the california delegation, filed multiple amendments to correct these problems. But none of them were made in order. Even a simple amendment to highlight the importance of funding for water storage projects was left out of the rule. In fact, every other energy and water amendment that followed the same format was made in order and will be an en bloc amendments expected to be adopted. Yet the majority refused to allow the full house to even consider, to even debate these critical Western Water storage issues. One bipartisan priority of great importance to me is the department of energys Nuclear Energy program. While the bill addresses several priority activities within the program, overall funding for the program is not reflective of its importance to the nation and Global Energy future. The Committee Report repeatedly expresses the majoritys intent to address Climate Change. We have heard that today several times. Yet Nuclear Energy, a carbon free baseload source of power suffers one of the largest cuts from enacted levels in the entire bill. I am pleased to support mr. Webers amendment highlighting the importance of the versatile test reactor. This project will provide the capabilities that will help with the development of the next generation fast neutron reactors as we as well as benefit Materials Development for todays reactors. Im hopeful moving forward we can Work Together towards a stronger funding for the entire Nuclear Energy program, including the v. T. R. Reactor. One of my concerns with the bill is the significant amount of emergency spending. Mandatory spending and other gimmicks that effectively undermine the defense and nondefense levels agreed to in last years bipartisan budget deal. The emergency spending provisions alone almost double the size of the energy and water bill. All without discussion, let alone buyin from house republicans. That is why i support mr. Perrys amendment to strike the emergency spending in the energy and water bill. If there is a demonstrated need for spending above and beyond the bipartisan caps, it should only occur as a result of bipartisan discussions on that issue, not as a partisan title to an annual appropriations bill. Even with all the additional spending, the bill shortchanges funding for the Nuclear Weapons program by almost 2 billion. Currently much of our Nuclear Weapons complex infrastructure is old, outdated, and some of it is literally falling apart. We must uphold our nations Strong Nuclear deterrence posture, to do that we must adequately fund the activities necessary to maintain a safe, reliable, and effective Nuclear Weapons stockpile. The bill includes numerous policy riders and authorizing provisions, most of which we know will be unacceptable to the administration and need to be addressed before a final bill is enacted. I believe one of the riders is intended to reaffirm current law with respect to the authority of the secretary of energy and i strongly support that intent. The house will consider an amendment to strike this language due to concerns that the text goes beyond the intent and would unintentionally disrupt the important work of the Nuclear Weapons council. While i certainly understand the concerns, i am also concerned about recent efforts in the senate to undermine the authority of the secretary of energy. The secretary must continue to have full authority for appropriately balancing priorities across the entire department, including Nuclear Weapons programs. Unless or until these Senate Efforts are defeated, once and for all, i believe it would be better to improve the bill text to avoid unintended consequences rather than strike the language entirely. Finally, im disappointed the bill does not include any funding to advance Yucca Mountain license application process and instead offers a false promise of interim storage as a solution to the Nuclear Waste issue. Continuing the license process how we ensure authoritative scientific decision not a political decision on safety of the Yucca Mountain. Over the past decades electric electricity customers across the country have paid roughly 43 billion, thats 43 billion, with incurred interest into the Nuclear Waste fund for permanent disposal of Nuclear Waste. Due to the political decision to halt advancement of a permanent repository, however, it is the taxpayers, not the ratepayers, but the taxpayers in all 435 congressional districts who currently are paying approximately 2. 2 million per day or more than 800 million per year to cover the cost of temporary onsite storage. It has been a long road with bipartisan support for continuing the Yucca Mountain licensing process, and the energy and water bill should reflect that reality. Despite our disagreements over the issues, i have mentioned, i want to close by thanking chairwoman kaptur and the majority staff for their dedication and hard work in this bill. Ms. Kaptur has continued to cooperate cooperative tradition of this subcommittee even during this years unusual circumstances and i appreciate that development id also like to thank chairwoman lowey and Ranking Member granger for their support. Lastly i would like to thank the staff on both sides of the aisle, particularly my staff in my office, sarah, who is on kind of semileave about ready to deliver another child. She does a great job. I look forward to working together as this bill moves forward in the legislative process to develop a final energy and water bill that reflects a balanced set of priorities. I thank you. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from oklahoma reserves. The gentlelady from new york is recognized. Mrs. Lowey mr. Speaker, i am delighted to yield five minutes to the gentlewoman from connecticut, the outstanding, passionate chair of the subcommittee on labor, health, and Human Services and education, ms. Delauro. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from connecticut is recognized for five minutes. Delauro mr. Chair, i rise to speak on a portion of the bill for labor, health and Human Services, and education. And to start let me commend my dear friend, the chair of the full Appropriations Committee, congresswoman nita lowey. A path breaker and change maker. Nita lowey has made this nation and the world a far better place because of the commitments that she has to the issues that come before this subcommittee. Quality education, after school programs, protections for working men and women, and under her leadership, appropriations preceded despite and in response to this virus, and the disparities that it has exposed. She is a force. She leaves a legacy of excellence, and innovation, and as i have said before, on a number of occasions, i will miss you my friend. Miss you in the halls. Miss you in committee, but our friendship carries on. I also want to say a thank you to Ranking Member cole for his friendship, for his collaborative, gracious collaborative spirit in which we Work Together on the laborhhs bill. Which we have for the last several years in producing a bill. And while we have differences of opinion on issues, there is no difference of opinion on the shared values that we have. In providing opportunity and creating opportunity for the people of this country. So i thank you very, very much. For 2021 the laborhhs bill includes 196. 5 billion in overall funding. Its an increase of 2. 4 billion above the 2020 enacted level. 20. 8 billion above the president s 2021 budget request. The bill supports some of our nations most critical programs from early head start, social security, c. D. C. , n. I. H. They touch individuals and families throughout their lives. And have to create help to create that opportunity to allow america to realize its values and promise. The laborh Committee Also continues to be essential to our response to covid19. We are the center of this health and economic crisis. And to the serious racial and economic disparities that it has exposed. Since march we have appropriated 280 billion in emergency funding for education, for health, for working people throughout the pandemic. We add 300 billion more in the heroes bill, 197 billion in health. 100 billion in education. And 3. 1 billion in labor. And today we seek to build on those emergency and supplemental packages so that we can be making it safe for our economy to reopen. Our members recognize the importance of this bill. The subcommittee received more than 15,000 requests for todays bill and im proud to say that we were able to fill so many of them, either in total or in part. And that is from both sides of the aisle. Let me provide a brief overview. Together we are making investments for the nation for health, education, goodpaying safe and secure jobs, and to address the disparities that have been exposed by this virus. For health, 96 billion for programs at the u. S. Department of health and Human Services. An increase of 1. 5 billion above 2020. Thats a 500 million increase for the n. I. H. , and 230 million in increase for the c. D. C. For families, children, and seniors we provide 150 million more for head start. 100 million more for childcare. 25 million more for preschool development grants. And 2525 million more for the lowincome Home Energy Assistance program. For education, 716 million increase from 2020. That includes 254 million for title 1 education for the disadvantaged. 194 million more for idea state grants. Special education. 150 more for maximum pell grant. And 50 million pore for minority serving Higher Education institutions. As the school year approaches, while the white house chooses to make that a political battle to threaten schools and teachers instead of beating them down, we are lifting them up to invest in them so they can meet the education and life challenges that face them. For working americans, this bill provides an increase for the department of labor, 254 million. 12. 7 billion in total. When unemployment remains at alarming high levels, we are investing in job opportunity and in Worker Protection with 50 million more for Work Force Innovation and opportunity grants. Job corps, 15 million for the increase in Worker Protection programs. These are future planned future investments for our public Health Agencies and emergency 24. 4 billion. For the c. D. C. 9 billion. N. I. H. 5 billion. For barter 4. 5 billion. For barreda, 4. 5 million. We are going to look at ensuring oversight on these dollars so that the scientists are in charge and not the politicians. We need to move boldly, swiftly to defeat the virus. The speaker pro tempore another minute. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognize is recognized for another minute. Ms. Delauro thank you. Thank you. Time for us to move boldly, swiftly. Lets defeat the virus and the Racial Disparities it has exposed in health, education and the economy. He can and must do so we can and must do so by passing the bill before us and i urge my colleagues to invest in our constituents, invest in beating this virus and closing those gaps it has exposed. We need to vote yes on this bill. Let me just say, i will miss my colleagues, mr. Visclosky, mr. Serrano, its been an who an honor to serve with you. Nd to our staff in the majority, robin, jackie kilroy, lori, steven, phillip and my leddy, liz and kaitlin. And i want to say thank you to Ranking Member granger and to Sholanda Young and chris for all the help that you provided during this period of time much time. Thank you. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewomans time has expired. The gentlelady from new york reserves. The gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. Thank you very much, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i yield five minutes to my very good friend, the distinguished gentleman from corona, california, the Ranking Member on the defense appropriations subcommittee, mr. Calvert. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from california is recognized for five minutes. You may begin. Mr. Calvert mr. Speaker, i rise in reluctant opposition to the defense Appropriation Division of the h. R. 7617. However, first i would like to thank the full committee chairwoman, nita lowey, for her dedicated leadership and years of service to the Appropriations Committee and to this institution. I would also like to extend my deep gratitude to chairman visclosky, who has been a great partner on the committee and friend these many years. You will both be very much missed and i wish you all the happiness in your next chapter. Id also like to thank our full committee Ranking Member, kay granger, for her leadership on this bill. Shes been a tireless advocate for our men and women in uniform. The bill before us today provides funding for many key programs consistent with the National Defense strategy, and is focused on Great Power Competition with china and russia. The bill makes critical investments in fifth generation combat aircraft, ships, and additional virginia class submarine, while also providing the Combatant Commanders the resources necessary to carry out their missions. The bill also continues to invest in research and development of new technologies essential to maintaining u. S. Military superiority. Im also pleased at the focus on providing for the health and welfare of our men and women in uniform. It reflects the longstanding concerns that so many of our members have had with Defense Health programs. Sexual assault prevention, suicide prevention, and the longawaited Electronic Health record. These are all examples of critical investments in this bill that i strongly support. That is why its so unfortunate that important initiatives that have broad support are overshadowed by political issues. While this is a very strong bill, there are numerous provisions like the prohibition on funding for the southwest border wall, limitations on d. O. D. s general and special transfer authorities, that will draw a veto threat from the administration. Its important that the bill becomes law as soon as possible. While i cannot support it in its current form, im committed to working with the majority to produce a bill that can be signed by the president. The importance of getting a bill done on time cannot be overstated. According to a d. O. D. Comptroller, a continuing is roughly 1. 7 billion a month. 1. 7 billion a month wasted. This would halt many of the modernization priorities that are vital to maintaining our military superiority over peer threats such as china and russia. This is no way to run the most sophisticated and professional fighting force in the world. There are currently over 200,000 u. S. Service members deployed around the world, ensuring the threats never meet our shores. They do their job every day, theres no allowance for pause or break. They do what we ask and as time its Time Congress do what is necessary and required in the u. S. Constitution and provide for the common defense of our nation in a timely and consistent manner. In closing, id like to thank the staff, both minority and majority staff, for their hard work during some very challenging times. With that, i will yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The gentleman from oklahoma reserves. The gentlelady from new york is recognized. Mrs. Lowey mr. Speaker, i am delighted to yield three minutes to the hardworking, distinguished gentlewoman from california, the chairwoman of the subcommittee on homeland woman with endless patience and expertise who has worked with dozens of groups who have such definite ideas on this bill, thank you, ms. Roybalallard. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from california is recognized for three minutes. Ms. Roybalallard mr. Speaker, i rise in support of h. R. 7617. And i commend the chairs of the subcommittees who worked so hard to produce funding bills that reflect our for the people vision for america. The appropriation bills in this minibus provide Critical Resources for our wide range of vital domestic and defense priorities. As vice chair of the laborhhs subcommittee, i will focus on that title of the bill which, thanks to the efforts of chairwoman rosa delauro and Ranking Member cole, upholds our promise to americans by investing in our workers needs, supporting the education of our children, and ensuring all our families and communities have access to Quality Health programs during this pandemic and beyond. For example, the bill makes strong investments to strengthen the ability of our Public Health system, to overcome the current covid crisis, and equally important, to have the resources to build the infrastructure critical to our ability to successfully address Public Health challenges in the future. Robust investments are also made to address the Health Disparities covid19 has intensified, and the bill commissions a National Academy of science study on the most Promising Solutions to advance Health Equity in the years ahead. Im pleased the laborhhs bill contains substantial funding for many of my requests to support mothers and babies during this pandemic and the months to follow. This includes large increases to the Maternal Child Health block grant, and the healthy start program, as well as strong investments in breastfeeding support and in maternal mental and a Maternal Mental Health hotline. Today our children and families are suffering from the prolonged isolation of School Closures and the challenges of learning remotely while parents try to work. As we fight the pandemic, this bill makes critical investments to ensure our children safely receive a highquality education. During a time when so Many Americans have lost jobs due to the Economic Impact of this pandemic, the strong outlays in job training and apprenticeships will help American Workers gain the skills needed to get wellpaying jobs. Mr. Speaker, Vice President biden has said, dont tell me what you value, show me your budget and ill tell you what you value. I thank chairman visclosky, serrano, quigley and price, and chairwoman capter and delauro for outlining those values so clearly in their appropriation bills and i urge passage of this minibus. I yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from new york reserves. The gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. Mr. Cole thank you very much, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i yield four minutes to my very good friend and classmate, the distinguished gentleman from miami, florida, mr. Diazbalart. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from florida is recognized for four minutes. Mr. Diazbalart thank you very much. Let me start by thanking chairwoman lowey and Ranking Member granger for their leadership. A lot has been said about chairwoman lowey and i dont want to repeat myself, but i just bottom line is, you are one class act. And you will be missed by this institution, sorely missed. I also want to thank chairman price for his friendship, his transparency and openness. This process. I strongly in this process. I strongly support many aspects of this bill. Im pleased with the inclusion of funding and language requests from members on both sides of the aisle. I appreciate the 300 million for Port Infrastructure grants. Its important obviously for coastal states like florida, but also for our entire countrys Freight Network and our economy. Its clear that ports are crucial for our economy. The bill also includes 389 million for Maritime Academy training ship programs. Something that had been ignored for too many years. This bill supports the training ship in texas, which will double as a Disaster Response asset for the region. The bill continues investments in our nations highways and rail and transit and airPort Infrastructure. It builds on progress weve made in recent years through, again, this bill, creating jobs, improving the quality of life and spurring innovation. This bill makes important progress to enhance safety on our road and railways. These are programs championed for years by chairwoman lowey, and obviously chairman price and i share her support in these areas. But this has been her driving driving force. Funding for f. A. A. Will modernize air traffic technologies, improve the safety of our skies and address noise concerns from our colleagues and our communities. The bill renews Housing Assistance for millions of americans in need. Its our duty to meet this commitment, especially for our elderly, for our disabled, for our heroes and veterans. This housing these Housing Assistance programs are not just, again, safety net for millions of americans, but theyre a path for opportunity and selfsufficiency to so many. Chairman price has included new innovative programs to support our efforts to end homelessness in america. Including a focus on families at risk of becoming homeless, victims of Domestic Violence in veterans. Chairman price has made so many smart and tough decisions, but smart, good, policy decisions that i unfortunately, like my colleagues, find it unfortunate that i cannot support this bill in its current form right now. A major portion of this bill division is based on a funding gimmick. 75 billion in new Infrastructure Spending is designated as an emergency. This violates last years bipartisan agreement. It puts our entire appropriations process at risk. The bill also includes controversial d. O. T. And h. U. D. Policy riders. Some of these were dropped last year. Again, consistent with the budget agreement that we all most of us voted for. And they have to be dropped again. Despite these concerns, and obviously despite the fact that at this moment i cant support the bill, i need to thank chairman price for making, again, as i mentioned, some really, really good, important decisions. He had to make some tough decisions, thats what this job entails when youre an proprietor and youre a cardinal. But hes done so. And im an proprietor and youre a cardinal. But hes done so. And im confident hell be able to address these concerns as the process moves forward. Chairman price knows how to reach across the aisle and strike a deal, as does our committee leadership, chairwoman lowey and our Ranking Member as well. So the question is not if, but when we will be able to get a bill that can be sent to the president and will be able to get his signature. Again, this bill isnt that right now. But im confident that well be able to move forward and with that, i yield back. Thank you very much. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The gentleman from oklahoma reserves. And the gentlelady from new york is recognized. Mrs. Lowey mr. Speaker, im delighted to yield five minutes to the distinguished gentleman from North Carolina, the chairman of the subcommittee on transportation, housing, urban development, mr. Price. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from North Carolina is recognized for five minutes. Mr. Price thank you, mr. Speaker. And thank you, my colleague and friend, chairwoman lowey. I rise in strong support of this bill and particularly the division involving the transportationh. U. D. Appropriations. Of course for fiscal year 2021. I want to thank my friend and colleague, our former chairman of our subcommittee, mario diazbalart, for his kind words this morning. And for his cooperation throughout this process. We do work well together and we share many, many goals for this legislation. And we have a bill that shows the sign of that collaborative work. My heartfelt best wishes to chairwoman lowey. Your leadership has been exceptional, as many have said. Your friendship even more so. So were going to miss you and we are happy to see this these tributes today and also to other retiring members. Mr. Visclosky, mr. Serrano, mr. Graves, all colleagues who have contributed greatly and whom we will miss. This years thud appropriations bill represents a renewed commitment to address our Nations Housing crisis, and to modernize our aging transportation infrastructure. Throughout the bill, we focus on improved safety, on the needs of underserved people and communities, and on resiliency. Resiliency in the face of a changing climate. Overall, the bill includes 75. 9 billion in discretionary funding, thats an increase of 1. 6 billion over the fiscal 2020 level. And its 16. 7 billion above the president s budget request. It includes major increases for highway and transit formula funding, consistent with chairman defazios invest act which passed the house on jewel 1. On the housing side of the ledger we provide increases of 100 million for the Community DevelopmentBlock Grant Program and 350 million for home, to help spur the construction creation of new Affordable Housing. We fully renew all housing choice vouchers. We provide 250 million for new vouchers. Targeting homeless families and those at risk of homelessness. And we increase homeless assistance grants by approximately 23 over last years level. Thats the largest increase in over a decade. Our bill includes an 11 increase in the Public Housing capital fund. And new set asides within that fund to address Urgent Health and safety issues. And we continue to provide new resources to create more housing for the elderly and disabled and choice neighborhoods program, formerly known as hope 6. The bill also does right by transportation. All modes receive robust funding, including highways, transit, rail, aviation, pedestrian projects, and ports. This includes 1 billion for the popular build program. More than 2 billion for amtrak. A very deliberate 50 increase for inner city passenger and freight rail improvements. And funding boosts for highways, bus fleet replacement, and the federal transit administrations Capital Investment grants or new starts transit program. This division of the bill also includes emergency funds that provides an additional 75 billion for Infrastructure Investments to revitalize transportation networks, jumpstart Affordable Housing production, further reduce the disgraceful Public Housing capital backlog. Some may object to this use of emergency spending, but to them i ask, whats the cost of continued inaction for our economy, for our communities . Infrastructure week shouldnt be a punch line. We need to mean it. This funding is necessary. For our future prosperity, especially as we transition from this pandemic to recovery. I want to underscore that the funding in the bill deliberately promotes equity and resiliency in our communities. We setaside funding for areas of persistent poverty, provide dedicated funding for d. O. T. And h. U. D. To offer technical assistance, especially to rural and lowincome areas. And to Fund Programs that promote opportunity. The bill seeks to protect taxpayer dollars by incorporating resiliency principles into d. O. T. And h. U. D. Programs. That means building smarter. Requiring all hazards mitigation and the use of updated building codes. Importantly the bill prevents h. U. D. From implementing meanspirited and harmful rules that would split up immigrant families in federally assisted housing and allow homeless shelters to discriminate against lgbtq individuals. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for another minute. Mr. Price the bill importantly provides increased funding for fair housing enforcement, which is all the more important given h. U. D. s open hostility to bedrock fair housing laws and the president s racist tweet just yesterday about how lowincome housing about lowincome housing and suburban communities. Pending amendments will go one step further in preventing donald trump from repealing our fair housing rules. So, mr. Speaker, the years incorporates ud many priorities. Makes forwardlooking investments in our housing and transportation infrastructure. And projects vulnerable populations and promotes fair nevments i want to thank our excellent professional staff, joe, our majority clerk, his teammates, gladys, whinny, joe, sarah, angela, and becky. Minority clerk, his colleague melissa. Sean from my personal staff. And chris from mr. Diazs personal staff. They work hard and we appreciate that hard work. I urge my colleagues to support this legislation and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady reserves. Quick reminder, members are reminded to refrain from engaging in personalities towards the president. The member from oklahoma is recognized. Mr. Cole thank you very much, mr. Speaker. Let me quickly yield myself such time as i may consume to respond to my friend. I have no problems whatsoever with emergency spending. Thats why we passed four bills. We worked with our friends on the other side of the aisle to do that. I think where the mistake was made was the heroes act where you decided you werent going to work with anybody on this side of the aisle. Just jammed it through. Its gotten nowhere in the United States senate. The same thing is happening here. This emergency spending of enormous proportions has been placed in this bill was done without any consultation with republicans in the house, let alone with agreements with the senate and the president who would have to sign off on it. Dont think thats a productive way to proceed. I think negotiating together with one another we showed we can Work Together. With that, mr. Speaker, id like to yield two minutes to my good friend, distinguished lady from washington, spokane washington, i should be precise about that, the distinguished member of the energy and Commerce Committee, miss madam peaker miss commrgs miss mcmorris rodgers. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from spokane, washington. Miss Mcmorris Roger it is an important distinction. Thank you to a great leader on the Appropriations Committee. I appreciate you yielding. I rise in opposition to the bill. While it contains many partisan poison bills and reckless levels of spending, there is a glaring omission. Funding for the longterm storage of Nuclear Waste. Safely storing our nations existing and future Nuclear Waste in Yucca Mountain is of paramount importance. Eastern washington pioneered some of the most important breakthroughs in Nuclear Technology of the last century at the hanford site near tricities, washington. Their efforts are critical to continuing the development and the expansion of Nuclear Power in the next century. However, this important work came at a cost. Today more than 2,000 tons of spent Nuclear Waste and millions of gallons of high level waste await disposal at the hanford site, which is why it is so necessary that we move forward with Yucca Mountain site and properly dispose of the Nuclear Waste in eastern washington. And from the sites in 38 other states across the country. The United States has led the world in Nuclear Energy innovation and continue advancements in this important technology. Will be essential to meet our clean energy needs and maintain our Global Leadership in the 21st century. Failure to move forward with the Yucca Mountain site jeopardizes our ability to continue to innovate in the future and is unfair to the communities who have dealt with the cost of housing Nuclear Waste for the past 50 years. Id like to end by thanking congressman shimkus for his years of tireless leadership on this important issue. Whether shepherding legislation through the energy and Commerce Committee and through the house, prodding the Appropriations Committee to act, or leading delegations to see yucca first hand, no one has been more dedicated to solving the Nuclear Waste issue for our nations communities. Lets help him finish that fight by working on a bipartisan, longterm solution to our countrys Nuclear Waste. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady yields back. The gentleman from oklahoma reserves. The gentlelady from new york investigated. Is recognized. Mrs. Lowey mr. Speaker, im delighted to yield five minutes to the distinguished gentleman from illinois, the chairman of the subcommittee on Financial Services and general government , mr. Quigley. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from illinois is recognized for five minutes. Mr. Quigley thank you, mr. Speaker. Thank you so much. I want to thank chairwoman lowey for her service. And for allowing me to speak today. I also want to thank my friend, Ranking Member tom graves, who i now have had the privilege of working with for a fourth year managing this bill. He was previously chairman. He was always helpful, cooperative, and gracious. I thank him for his partnership throughout this process. We will miss him next year. I also like to thank the staff on both sides for the hard work that goes on behind the scenes in developing this legislation. My personal office includes one in bridget and Committee Staff on the majority side, laura, mary beth, elliott, parker, and matt. And the minority staff john. For Committee Staff particularly i it has not been easy as you have been working remotely. The bill before us today provides 24. 64 billion in total discretionary funding. This is an increase of 808 million above 2020. We also include 67 billion in emergency funding for broadband, federal buildings, and land ports of entry across the nation. The f. S. G. G. Bill encompass as wide range of programs. Everything from the i. R. S. To the federal court to the District Of Columbia to the General Services administration. A longstanding priority of mine has been to help states and local governments meet the challenge of restoring the security and integrity of our elections. To this end the bill includes 500 million for Election Security grants to help states acquire resources and equipment to conduct safe and secure and ontime elections. This issue is especially relevant now. As states are currently facing the need to adjust their processes to accommodate conducting an election in the middle of a pandemic. Also of importance the fsgg bill includes 12. 1 billion for the i. R. S. , an increase of more than 606 million above fiscal year 2020. This is a good first step toward restoring the draconian cuts this agency has suffered for almost a decade. The i. R. S. Has played a Critical Role in the disbursement of spluss checks during the height of the tax filing season. And while its role has not without its challenges, it has highlighted out important it is for the i. R. S. To have proper funding. Notably the makes significant investments in taxpayer services, helping to provide better resources for taxpayers, especially for lowincome individuals and the elderly. And investment to support more efficient and effective enforcement activities to address all taxpayers, including those in the higher tax brackets. As well as an investment in business systems, modernization, and to help improve their outdated i. T. And operating systems. The bill also ensures capital and other assistance gets to Small Businesses and those who are underbanked in lowincome communities. For instance, we rejected the president s proposal to essentially eliminate the Community DevelopmentFinancial Institution fund. And include 273. 5 million for cdfis. The bill also provides 277 million for the Small Business administrations Entrepreneurial Development programs to help Small Businesses expand and grow. We also reject the administrations efforts to sideline funds to combat the opioid epidemic. We include 290 million for high intensity Drug Trafficking areas and 102 million for the drug free communities program. The bill includes 7. 8 billion in discretionary appropriations for the judicial branch. An increase of 287 million, to fund protective services and physical security needs in courthouses and to ensure the continued operations of the federal judiciary. We also increase funding for agencies to protect everyday consumers and retail investors. The Consumer Product safety commission, the federal trade commission, and the security and exchange commission. Finally, the bill takes steps toward reducing undue congressional interference in local d. C. Affairs and eliminates restrictions on the district that do not apply to other parts of the nation. Importantly it ends the uniquely restrictive prohibition on the use of locally raised funds for abortions. In closing, id like to reiterate how grateful i am to alt staff that helped put this product together. Its a bill we can all be proud of. I urge my colleagues to join me in support of this legislation. Thank you. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields. The gentlelady from new york reserves. The gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. Mr. Cole thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i yield two minutes to my very good friend, distinguished member from South Carolina, leader on the energy and Commerce Committee, mr. Duncan. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from South Carolina is recognized for two minutes. Mr. Duncan thank you. Here we go again. An appropriations package without funding Yucca Mountain because the federal government will not follow the law passed by congress. Its the law of the land. To store the Nations Nuclear waste in a longterm repository and Yucca Mountain is the site chosen by the federal government to store that. Now, government wants American People to follow the mandates recommended by the c. D. C. , but they wont follow a duly passed law. Lets be clear. It doesnt matter whether the republicans or the sems democrats control the house of representatives or democrats control the house of representatives or the white house. The law is ignored because of the politics. Of nevada. Terminology on the other side uses, the science is settled. Well, the science is settled with regard to Yucca Mountain. Settled a long time ago. It settled with reprocessing, too. Short of that we need to do something with the waste that sits beside the Pristine Waters of lake erie, the savannah river, a lake in my district. And waterways all across this great land. I have a question. How much have the utility ratepayers in your state forked out for nothing . Nothing. I can tell you, in South Carolina, its over 3 billion. I can tell you that nationwide its about 40 billion. And, folks, were not just talking about spent fuel. Which sits at 121 site its in 39 states sites in 19 states. Theres also stuff sitting in idaho flats and oak ridge and washington thats been turned to glass. Lets put that glass and the spent fuel where the nation decided by law that we should put that. And thats Yucca Mountain. And with that, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields. The gentleman from oklahoma reserves. The gentleman from the gentleman from the gentlelady from new york is recognized. Mr. Owey mr. Speaker, speaker, i am very pleased to yield five minutes to the gentleman from pennsylvania, the vice chair of the commerce, justice, science committee, mr. Cartwright. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for five minutes. Mr. Cartwright i thank the chair for yielding me the time. I rise in strong support of this combination of Appropriations Bills, this minibus, and i would like to take a few minutes to discuss the c. J. S. Component of the bill. First, id like to thank again our overall chairlady of appropriations for her amazing dignified service in the congress, and to the Appropriations Committee. I also want to express my appreciation to chairman jose serrano, whose leadership of c. J. S. Has been unmatched. Thank you to the staff, bob, faye,t. J. , shannon, b. J. , trisha, and also acknowledge the good faith and the assistance of Ranking Member aderholt and the minority staff as well. The fiscal year 2021 commerce, justice and science appropriations bill includes a total of 71. 473 billion in discretionary budget authority, which is actually a 1. 7 billion decrease below last years level. This reflects the natural decline in the funding requirement due to the decreased needs xoched with the completion of the completion of the needs with the completion of the census. This reduces gun violence, addresses Climate Change, sustain scientific leadership in the world, and implement Police Accountability and Police Reform. On this last score, this bill takes immediate steps to start the process of Police Reform and accountability, and better to protect civil rights. To do that, the bill increases funding for the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, as well as for u. S. Attorneys and the f. B. I. To conduct pattern and practice reviews of Law Enforcement agencies. We include language to roll back Justice Department policies that have hindered this oversight. The bill provides funding for National Task force on Law Enforcement oversight, and National Police misconduct database. In addition, the bill funds nearly 500 million in new Grant Programs authorized in the George Floyd Justice in policing act. These grants will help improve Law Enforcement practices and accountability by funding statelevel pattern and practice reviews and independent reviews of Law Enforcement, as well as funding better training for police, Community Organization efforts, and more. Finally, we include sensible requirements for cops in burn jag grants to implement numerous Reform Efforts at the local level. These changes show that the federal government is deeply serious about ensuring Police Accountability and protecting american civil rights. The bill does these things without neglecting important priorities elsewhere. We reject the administrations proposed cuts to Climate ChangeResearch Programs at nasa and noaa, and instead provide responsible funding increases to that. We promote jobs and better wages by supporting significant investments at the Economic Development administration, through the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program, and the Minority Business Development agency. We help policing against gun violence by increasing a. T. F. s budget by 150 million. By sustaining funding for the nics program and grants and by increasing funding for the stop School Violence act. We promote criminal justice reform, with large increases for both the First Step Act and the Second Chance act. And we increase funding to address the ongoing opioid epidemic. This bill also ensures that our nations scientific leadership in the world can continue, by increasing funding by 270 million for the National Science foundation, by 35 million for and bye nisht activities 101 million for noaa. We also include significant funding for the educational components of nasa, National Science foundation, and noaa, to ensure that we are training the next generation of scientists in america to continue this important work. For all these reasons and more, i urge the adoption of this minibus. I thank you very much, and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The gentlelady from new york reserves. The gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. Mr. Cole thank you very much, mr. Speaker. Id inquire from my friend, are you prepared to close . If so, ill close. Mrs. Lowey yes. Mr. Cole thank you very much. In that case, mr. Speaker, i yield myself the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Cole thank you very much, mr. Speaker. I want to begin where every other speaker has started. And thats to thank our distinguished chairman for her 30 years of unparalleled service to the congress and to the country. And of course her many years on appropriations. Ive had the good fortune, since i arrived on that committee, to serve with my friend and watch her steady rise to the chairmanship. And i think my friend, mr. Diazbalart, summed it up if you want to be short, what a class act. What an extraordinary appropriator. We all on both sides of the aisle respect her professionalism and her deep knowledge of the appropriations process. But i think even more than that, we just appreciate her personal qualities as a friend, as a mentor, as a colleague, and as someone who is an outstanding credit to her district, to her state and to the congress of the United States. So we will all miss you, my friend, on both sides of the aisle. Having said that, im going to be Less Charitable toward the bill itself. Look, as i mentioned several times from our colleagues, i love the Appropriations Committee because i think its a naturally Collaborative Committee and when its left to do its work, it does a really good job. Last year we had a negotiated settlement between the president and congressional leadership on both sides of the aisle in both chambers, in the 2019 budget act, and that led to a very orderly appropriations process under the leadership of my friend, the chairman. We got all those bills done. We didnt have a longterm c. R. , and weve not been at risk in this fiscal year of a government shutdown. And thats something you cant always say around here. And my friend had a great deal to do with that, along with our Ranking Member, ms. Granger, that legendary partnership between the two. If you let them do their work, theyll get the job done. Whats in front of us now, though, is not what we saw last year. My friends, for whatever reason, decided they would ignore the 2019 budget act, which has the force of law, and embark on an unprecedented amount of emergency spending. Almost a quarter of a trillion dollars. And again, none of that was agreed to last year. In addition, last year the agreement was we would not put extraneous matters in the bill. We would not put legislative riders, as theyre known. We didnt do it last year. And we moved through. This year, these bills are absolutely full of them. And the consequence, these bills may pass this floor, theyre certainly not going to be taken up asis by the United States senate, nor would they ever be signed by the president. I think we have another model. We have the model of last year, we also have the model of the first four supplementals this year, mr. Speaker. The four supplementals dealing with coronavirus were brought to the floor after collaborative discussion and negotiation and passed here with almost universal bipartisan support in each occasion. Then for whatever reason, rather than continuing that productive dialogue, our friend decided they would bring the heroes act, thats certainly their right to do that. But, again, if youre not involving republicans in this chamber in that discussion, then i can assure you, youre not going to be in very good shape when you go to a chamber where republicans are actually the majority. Nor will you get the support of the president. And were seeing how thats working out right now. With respect to the next supplemental. The same thing could happen here. I dont worry about that in the short term, mr. Speaker. Because, again, there are times in this process where it is partisan. And when we get to conference, quite often it becomes bipartisan. But i do worry these departures are so large that we could find ourselves in september, kicking into a c. R. , and frankly then we could do another one well into next year. That would be a mistake. That would be a mistake in my opinion. The day to day funding of government ought to go on regardless of the politics of the moment. The emergencies need to be dealt with. And i think weve shown we can Work Together on emergency supplementals. Weve done them so quickly and so easily in an unprecedented way just in the spring of this year. So i would think we could return to that and if we do return to that, i suspect that our friends and i on our side can come to Common Ground and we can bring bills to the floor that command substantial bipartisan majorities. Just as my friend, the chairwoman, did last year when she brought appropriations bill after bill after bill to the floor and they were passed with substantial bipartisan majorities because shed engaged, as is always her habit in collaborative negotiation with friends on all sides of the chamber. So with that, mr. Speaker, i reluctantly urge the rejection of this particular minibus, of six Appropriations Bills. I hope that my friends, as we go forward, will return to their habits in terms of appropriations of last year, and return to the style of negotiation that they exhibited all through the spring in dealing with this awful Coronavirus Crisis that has caused such turmoil and damage in our country. In closing, the last thing i a ld say is, again, it was privilege for me to get to share the floor with my friend, the chairman. Normally my Ranking Member would be here, but ms. Granger, of course, is in selfquarantine because of coronavirus. Otherwise i know she would prefer to be here and but her misfortune at least gave me the opportunity to share the floor with my very good friend, our distinguished chairman. So, with that, mr. Speaker, i yield back my time. But i do urge the rejection of the legislation. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from oklahoma yields his time. The gentlelady from new york is recognized. You have 5 1 2 minutes left. Mrs. Lowey i do want to say to my dear friend, mr. Cole, that i will truly miss you. We have worked together on so many issues and not only are you thoughtful, intelligent, enthusiastic, but youre a real partner. And im not sure what the future brings for any of us. But lets hope that this coronavirus disappears somehow soon. I hope my friend, ms. Granger, does not, frankly, suffer from it. And im glad that she is going through a period of isolation. Lets hope there is good news. But for me, its really been a pleasure not only to work with you, but to be your friend. So i thank you for your very, very kind remarks. Mr. Speaker, i am very proud of the work we have completed under the incredibly difficult circumstances. And id like to thank our wonderful subcommittee chairs, particularly Pete Visclosky and jose serrano, who are also retiring. I thank them both for their outstanding service. This is an excellent package of appropriation bills that lives up to the principle that has guided our Work Together. Do the best we can to make life better for the most people we can. Heres a look at our live coverage for friday. On cspan, the houses back to finish work on a 2021 spending package that covers several departments, including defense, commerce, health and Human Services, transportation, and housing. On cspan2, dr. Anthony fauci, cdc director dr. Robert redfield, and hhs assistant secretary Admiral Brett Giroir testify on the National Strategy against covid19. That gets underway at 9 00 a. M. Eastern in front of the house select subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis. And on cspan3 at 10 p. M. Eastern, House Speaker nancy pelosi talks with reporters at her weekly news conference. Next, a house panel hears from manufacturing and supply sector officials about the effect of the coronavirus on critical supply chains. Several members also pay tribute to representative john lewis, who sat on the house ways and means committee. We appreciate everybody joining us today. This is really a terrific