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[captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the chair on this vote, the yeas are 89 and the nays are 341, the amendment is not adopted. The the Unfinished Business is request for recorded vote on number 45 printed in part f house report 118216 and proceedings were postponed and the clerk will redesignate the amendment. The clerk amendment number 45 printed in house report 118216 offered by mr. Perry of pennsylvania. The chair a reported a recorded vote has been ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a twominute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the chair the amendment 68 yeas, 362 nays. The amendment is not adopted. The the Unfinished Business is request for a recorded vote on amendment number 54 printed on part f, house report 118216 on which further proceedings were postponed. The clerk will redesignate the amendment. The clerk amendment number 54 printed in house report 118216 offered by mr. Biggs of arizona. The chair those in request of a recorded vote will rise. Northward. This is a twominute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the chair on this vote the yeas are 83 and the nays are 348. The amendment is not adopted. The the Unfinished Business is request for a recorded vote on amendment number 57 printed in part f house report 118216 on which further proceedings were postponed and the yeas were postponed. The clerk amendment number 57 printed in part f of house report 118216 offered by mr. Biggs of arizona. The chair a recorded vote has been requested. A sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. Another twominute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the chair on this vote the yeas are 81 and the nays are 350. The amendment is not adopted. The the Unfinished Business is request for a recorded vote on amendment number 61 printed in part f in house report 118216 by mr. Biggs on which further proceedings were postponed. The clerk will redesignate the amendment. The clerk amendment number 61 offered by mr. Biggs of arizona. The chair a recorded vote has been requested. A recorded vote is ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a twominute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the chair on this vote the yeas are 105, nays 325. The amendment is not adopted. Yall can go home. The chair the house will be in order, please. The chair understands that amendment number 70 will not be offered. Its now in order to consider amendment 71 printed in part f of house report 118216. For what purpose does the gentleman from yank seek recognition . Mr. Chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. The chair the clerk will designate the amendment. The clerk amendment 71 printed in part f of 116216 offered by ms. Hageman of wyoming. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 273, ms. Hageman and a member opposed will control five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from wyoming. Mr. Hagueman thank you, i rise in amendment to 71 to h. R. 4368 which prevents american tax dollars from being used to fund the World Health Organization. In the bill currently before us, the f. D. A. Is seeking to provide funding to the w. H. O. To advance and expand tobacco product regulation under the Building Research capacity in Global Tobacco product regulation grant program. The United States has consistently been the largest contributor to the w. H. O. In the world, topping the charts in 2020 at over 116 million dollars, nearly twice as much as china who contributed about 12 of the organizations total that same year. This is the same w. H. O. Who refused to act on or publicize warnings from taiwan that the new respiratory infection now known as covid19 was a threat to humans. They instead chose to echo the lies coming out of china there was no evidence of humantohuman transmission. Mr. Chairman, my constituents sent me to washington, d. C. With the mandate to stop sending taxpayer dollars to the w. H. O. , an entity which covers for the c. C. P. , helped cover up the covid outbreak and routinely attempts infringe on the sovereignty of americans in furtherance of its globalist agenda. I say this to repeat that the American People rightly know the w. H. O. Is a corrupt organization which bends to the Chinese Communist party and does not deserve a cent of the american tax dollars no matter through which account this money is distributed and i reserve. The chair the gentlelady reserves. For what purpose does the gentleman from georgia rise . Mr. Bishop i rise to claim time in opposition to this amendment. The chair the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. Mr. Bishop this amendment is misplaced in the agriculture appropriations bill. This amendment is simply bad policy. Were still fighting the lingering effects of a once in a lifetime pandemic and attempts to cut funding to the World Health Organization would hamper work to monitor any new variants of covid19. Moreover, the World Health Organizations work extend far beyond just responding to covid. Cutting funds for the World Health Organization will affect efforts on other diseases and illnesses including polio or the flu. Efforts to disengage with the w. H. O. Through our bill are misguided and do nothing to address any concerns about accountability, transparency, or efficiency. Its not a good amendment and urge its defeat and reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman reserves. The gentlewoman from wyoming is recognized. Ms. Hageman i yield two minutes to the gentlelady from indiana. The chair the gentlelady is recognized. Thank you, mr. Chairman, i rise in support of the amendment and thank the gentlelady for yielding and for her leadership on this issue. I share the concerns of many of my constituents with respect to the World Health Organization or the w. H. O. , particularly with respect to the recent track record related to the covid19 pandemic. In fact, i supported president trumps efforts to remove the United States from the w. H. O. , our tax dollars are precious. Tax dollars should only be spent on necessary programs and necessary programs only. We should be prioritizing our limited resources within organizations that have a track record of delivering for the American People. Frankly, based on the w. H. O. s own record, i struggle to say the w. H. O. Fits into that category. Weve had to make a lot of tough decisions about what to spend taxpayer dollars on, about what to cut and whatnot to cut. An International Organization with a dangerous record of protecting the world from the spread of diseases just does not meet the simple threshold. Our american taxpayers getting what theyre paying for . Again, i thank the gentlelady from wyoming for her efforts to bring this to the floor and urge my colleagues to support this amendment and yield back the balance of my time. The chair the gentlelady yields. Ms. Hageman i reserve. The chair the gentlelady from wyoming is recognized. Ms. Hageman i reserve my time. The chair the gentleman from georgia is recognized. Mr. Bishop i yield back. The chair the gentleman yields back. The gentlelady from wyoming is recognized. Ms. Hageman im ready to close. Its not in the interest of the americans to have their tax dollars going towards a program that studies the Health Burden of tobacco in other countries. This is simply an attempt to export the federal nanny state through other countries through one of the most corrupt International Organizations ever known. What we should be focusing on is domestic deregulation not global governance. After everything weve been through the last few years, after witnessing the w. H. O. s complete and uterine competence during the spread of covid19, after witnessing them turn a blind eye time and time again to the c. C. P. s culpability you think we would have learned the american tax dollars should go to the american priorities and not the priorities of our adversaries. Having any funding for the w. H. O. To any appropriations bill is inconsistent with the stated goal of the 118th congress to defund the w. H. O. Completely. They are a failed puppet organization of communist china. I urge my colleagues on both side of the aisles to support my amendment and thank you, mr. Chairman, i reserve. The chair the gentlelady has the only time remaining. Ms. Hageman again, i urge my colleagues to support this amendment. Thank you. And i yield. The chair the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from wyoming. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it, the amendment is agreed to. Now printed in order amendment 72 printed in part f of house report 118216. For what purpose does the gentleman from arkansas seek recognition . Mr. Chair i have an amendment at the desk. The chair the clerk will designate the amendment. The clerk amendment 72 printed in part f of house report 118216, offered by mr. Crawford of arkansas. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman from arkansas, mr. Crawford, and a member opposed will control five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from arkansas. Mr. Crawford im offering this amendment because we need a conversation about the usda Staffing Levels that resulted as a result of covid19. It offers 2,000 offices around the country and the mission is to serve all farmers and ag partners through the delivery of efficient agricultural programs such as commodity support programs, farm ownership and operating emergency loans, Disaster Assistance and other adhoc Disaster Assistance programs. One of the f. S. A. s greatest strengths is the grassroots Delivery System of farm programs to the agencys customerses meaning f. S. A. s customers are delivered through a Extensive Network of local f. S. A. Employees. County committees comprised of farmers in the local area are in charge of delivering services to the farming community. This local oversight of farm programs enables f. S. A. To obtain close relationship with farmers and address their needs in a timely manner and improve the integrity of farm programs and provide agriculture with the tools they need to produce the worlds best ag products. Unfortunately f. S. A. County Office Footprint have been impacted by requirements and unable to attract talent and the f. S. A. Staff is one of the main reason for delays. Sadly the covid19 pandemic made a bad situation worse at f. S. A. But the pandemic is over and we must continue bringing our federal, state and local work forces back in the office and and refill positions lost during the pandemic and also means putting an effective end to any offices that may still be operating on a closed or hybrid schedule related to covid19. We cannot afford to have f. S. A. Understaffed or teleworking and expected to provide the service needed on the farm and is a disservice to farmers everywhere and long pastime we had a conversation why we cant get farmers and ranchers the basic help we need and i hear from farmers and ranchers how they have problems contacting their local f. S. A. Offices and how they never receive a response after multiple inquiries. The chair house will be in order, please. Please carry your conversations outside. You may continue. Mr. Crawford thats not farm service. This amendment finally ends the covid19 pandemic and f. S. A. Offices but highlights the need for the department of agriculture to focus on maintaining f. S. A. s county Office Footprint and delivering farm programs. I call on my colleagues to support my amendment in returning our f. S. A. County agents to work and urge the secretary of agriculture to take action by adequately staffing f. S. A. County offices. I thank the chairman and reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman from reserves. For what purpose does mr. Bishop from georgia rise. Mr. Bishop i rise to claim op position. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Bishop this amendment would prevent the closing of the Farm Services agency for any reason, although it mentions covid19, the prohibition amendment would not be limited to closings related to covid. It is of the clear proviso lines 810 of the bill being considered where it says provided further that none of the Funds Available to the Farm Service Agency shall be used to close Farm Service Agency county offices. Therefore, this amendment is unnecessary because it would create a restriction that the legislation already contains. We dont know what the future of covid or any future pandemic or disaster may hold so we shouldnt impose such a broad restriction and this is i urge s reserve. The chair the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from arkansas. Mr. Crawford we can say this is a good amendment because it contains language that sounds like he actually supports. So with that, i reserve. The chair the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. The gentleman from georgia. Mr. Bishop i yield back. The chair the gentleman yields back the balance of his time the gentleman from arkansas. I urge adoption. The chair the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from arkansas. Those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, no. In the pip of the chair, the ayes have it and the amendment is agreed to. The chair for what purpose does the gentleman from. Comer the gentlewoman from florida seek recognition initiation . Mrs. Cammack i have an amendment at the desk. The clerk amendment number 73 printed in part f printed in house report 118216. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentlewoman from florida, mrs. Cammack, each will control five minutes. Mrs. Cammack i rise in support of my amendment which would restrict taxpayer funds to finalized any rule or regulation that will result an effect on the economy of 100 million at the department ofagriculture. The president added more than 300 billion in new regulatory costs. The new rules in his first two years required 193 million hours of compliance to comply with new regular you layings. This proposal would restrict any regulatory actions from usda without going into effect. Our farmers and ranchers have enough to deal with market disasters, trade issues, the list goes on. The ranchers and producers shouldnt have to worry about the environment. These costly regular you layings harm consumers who pay higher prices. These major rules and regulations are a ways to circumvent congress on policy decisions to implement the political will. We must reassert our constitutional role. It doesnt matter if it is a democrat or republican in the white house, the American People shouldnt be burdened by and forced to pay by the oversummer burdensome regulations. And we certainly can cut spending. But until we change the way we do business and this amendment does this, we will not change a thing. I urge passage. Mr. Bishop i rise in opposition to this amendment. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Bishop it prohibits the administration from finalizing any rule for significant impact. The amendment aimed at tying the administrations hands when it comes to carrying out the laws passed by congress. It will stop f. D. A. From final liesing regulations to keep the environment healthy and markets stable. This amendment has little to do with the appropriations bill and less to do with supporting farmers. While i can understand the gentleladys intentions, i must oppose the amendment and urge my colleagues to do the same. I reserve. The chair the gentleman reserves. The chair recognizes the gentlelady from florida. Mrs. Cammack i disagree with my colleague. I cant think of a Single Member who would give up their constitutional oversight responsibilities that their constituents sent them up here. We need to reassert Article One Authority and be mindful of the costs thatrd burdening our constituents. I reserve. The chair the gentleman from georgia. Mr. Bishop i yield back. The chair the gentleman yields. The gentlewoman from florida. Mrs. Cammack i urge adoption of this amendment. The chair the question is on the amendment offered by gentlelady from florida. Those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it and the amendment is agreed to. It is now in order to consider amendment number 74 printed in part f of house report 118216, for what purpose does the gentleman from wisconsin seek recognition . Mr. Steil i rise to amendment number 74 as the designee of mr. Steil. The clerk amendment number 74 printed in part f118216. The chair the gentleman from wisconsin and a member opposed each will control five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin. This funds the dairy initiatives which supports our Dairy Farmers in the distribution of the products. Wisconsin is americas dairy land and this Important Program is why i introduced with my great colleague the dairy Business Innovation act and 55 increase. Wisconsin is the home of nearly 6,000 dairy hearsed and our district and our cows outnumber people by a ratio of 41. Costs have risen by 15 and our agriculture industry is paying the price and making more expensive to run their businesses. This amendment will ease the burden and ensure they will continue the know vagues. We must ensure that wirvegs Dairy Farmers continue to feed the world. I came to this body to legislate and i encourage my colleague from the great state of wisconsin who spoke earlier on this initiative to read legislation because if he had, you would realize this amendment was proposed in july. I encourage my colleagues especially in the wisconsin delegation to cosponsor my bill. To not do so is putting politics over our farmers. I reserve the balance. The chair the gentleman reserves. Mr. Bishop i rise in opposition. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Bishop im a supporter of our nations Dairy Farmers in the southeast and in georgia. Pa but i must decline to support this amendment. The Ag Marketing Service which the funds will be taken is equally as important and it supports farmers in all segments of agriculture. The initiative, which owe goes to only and it is in four states, 80 million just 14 months ago. This is one that is certainly deeply value. It does great work for our specialty and underfunded due to the managers amendment. I urge a no vote and i ask my colleagues to vote no also. I yield back. The chair the gentleman yields. The chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin. He isnt almonds and cheese curds. This is to make sure our dairy industry a and support family farms. Money talks and i will not finish the rest of that. With that, i reserve. The chair the gentleman has the only type left. I yield back. The chair the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from wisconsin. Those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it and the amendment is agreed to. Number 75 printed in part f havent house report 118216, for what purpose does the gentlewoman from illinois seek recognition snr. The clerk amendment number 75 printed in part f of house report 118216 offered by mrs. Miller of illinois. The chair the gentlewoman from illinois mrs. Miller and a member opposed each will control five minutes. Usda is no place for the left to push their radical agenda and rising costs, the left wants to make sure the bad green deal infiltrates every aspect of our lives. The usda came out with climate resilience. Usda should promote policies. My amendment makes sure no federal funds go towards the us dmp a climate hubs. Vote yes on the amendment and i reserve. The chair the gentlewoman reserves. For what purpose does jam georgia seek recognition . Mr. Bishop usda climate hubs were created to promote healthy and Natural Resources under increases ing climate availability. Climate hubs deliver sciencebassed technologies and usda agencies and its partners and extensions and tribes to make our communities and our nation more resilient to Climate Change. They provide outreach and education to farmers and ranchers on the effects of Climate Change on their lands. We are all witnessing extreme weather events and changing growing seasons, so why do we want to prohibit them and help them understand the response to Climate Change. Why would we want to prohibit these 10 regional climate hubs from using data to underserved communities and tribes that can help them . This does not save the american taxpayer money but jeopardizees our economy and lives and livelihoods. I urge my colleagues to reject this amendment and i reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman reserves. The farmers in my district recognize as summer, winter, spring and fall and we would like the us dmp a to focus on policies to help producers and Rural Communities and i yield back. The chair the gentlelady yields. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlelady from illinois. Those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the eyes have it and the amendment is agreed the chair it is now in order to consider amendment 76 printed in part f of the house report 118216. For what purpose does the gentleman from indiana seek recognition . Madam chair, i have an amendment at the desk. The chair the clerk will designate the amendment. The clerk amendment 76 printed in part f of house report 118216 offered by mrs. Spartz of indiana. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 273, each side will control five minutes. The chair yields to the gentleman from indiana. Mrs. Spartz accountability is a foreign concept in washington, d. C. And theres no lobby for the people but id like to be a lobby for real farmers and consumers. As a farmer myself. And also i have a cosponsor of my amendment who is actually a real farmer, too. I would like to stand with the farmers. My amendment is very simple. Farmers used to pay voluntary checkoff fee when they do a checkoff to promote the commodities to nonprofit boards. Congress decided to make it mandatory and no transparency. So if you go into the farm to pay money the farmers need to know where the money goes, do they promote commodities are wealthy job for people in fancy suits and farmers are working hard. My amendment has two parts to have more transparency to try and do the farm bill but no money should be used unless we know what is happening with this checkoff dollars to be used to promote them and i believe no one argues this money is not used for checkoff fees. So this all says they cannot be used for checkoff fees. Unfortunately, a lot of special Interest Groups that arent supposed to even lobby with this money decided to go and attack, how can congress ask accountability and how can congress ask us what we do with the money and now it becomes imperative since theyre lobbying with this money against this amendment, against transparency, its imperative that taxpayer dollars are not given to this board until we figure out whats going on with the money. Its a very simple amendment and they say theyre not using this money so just clarifies the intent of the congress that no taxpayers dollars are going to be used to give to the board who knows where they spend money. I reserve. The chair the gentlelady reserves. For what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition. Mr. Thompson i rise in opposition. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Thompson research and premotion programs commonly referred to as checkoffs are timetested programs that expand markets, increase consumer demand, develop new uses for those covered commodities and quite frankly perform he helps complete the research that is needed to be able to deal with issues related to those crops or commodities. These programs are voluntarily created by producers for producers and receive no taxpayer dollars for activities or usda oversight. Im a strong supporter of those programs and will wholeheartedly advocate for their continued existence. Any debate surrounding the integrity of their programs should be delivered for farm bill deliberations due to the fact no dollars from the bill that is up for consideration that we are talking about funds these programs. I look forward to engaging my colleagues to explain the merits of checkoffs and encourage anyone who has questions with these programs to engage with their producers to hear firsthand about the benefits of these programs. Irspecifically look forward to continuing conversations about those programs with the gentlelady from indiana and urge my colleagues to stand with producers and join me in voting against this amendment. And i reserve. The chair the gentleman reserves. The gentlelady from indiana is recognized. Mrs. Spartz madam chair i yield two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from kentucky, mr. Matthew. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Matthew i rise in support of this amendment sponsored by my colleague and fellow farmer mrs. Spartz. The amendment states none of the funds made available by this bill may be used to carry out commodity checker programs and may have started out well intentioned but its pretty well known in washington, d. C. That this program has gone rotten and it no longer serves farmers. In fact, weve just sent a bipartisan letter from senators and members of this house to secretary vilsack rimming him the usda is required to report annually to Congress Describing activities conducted, accounting for the receipt and disbursement of all funds and including a independent analysis of the effectiveness of the program. Yet the usda hasnt submitted this report since 2019 since that time american Dairy Farmers have paid nearly 1 billion into this promotional program. At the same time weve witnessed the loss of more than 6,000 dairy operations across our communities. Let me talk about the Beef Checkoff Program. In 2010 an independent audit examining the equivalent of nine days of the Beef Checkoff Program spending found that the primary beef checkoff contractor, the national cattlemans beef association, thats right, im calling out names, had improperly spent more than 200,000 in checkoff dollars on lobbying and overseas vacations despite a freedom of information complaint and act, a full audit has not within released to the public. Additionally this organization, ncba gets 70 of their revenue from the checkoff program. They are prohibited from lobbying but theyre one of the biggest lobbyers up here in washington, d. C. They lobby against things that are antithetical to cattlemen. They were up here lobbying with the money paid to them by the cattlemen against cub of origin labeling and represent less than 5 of the industry. Its time to put them back to work for farmers. Its time to adopt mrs. Spartzs amendment. I yield back. The chair the gentlelady reserves p. The gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. Mr. Thompson im pleased to recognize agriculture subcommittee chairman from the state of indiana, dr. Baird. The chair for how much time. Mr. Thompson as much American Samoa he would consume. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Baird thank you, mr. Chairman and madam speaker. Today i rise in opposition to the sparks amendment number 76. This amendment states none of the funds made available by this appropriations bill may be used to carry out commodity checkoff programs. Checkoff programs function as a research and promotion boards that help different commodities achieve industry success through market development, heightened demand, and expanded consumer awareness. This amendment proves factually unnecessary and inaccurate since no tax dollars are used to implement the checkoffs and no appropriated dollars are used to oversee them pursuant to the statute. These programs benefit our nations agriculture industry and bolster the work thats being done by our farmers and ranchers who put food on the table across the country. The continued success of these programs must not be interrupted and misguided by the lack of understanding and nongermane amendments. I urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment and yield back the balance of my time. The chair the gentlelady yields . Ms. Starts my colleagues are saying no taxpayer funds are used, i dont think there should be a debate to clarify no taxpayers funds are used. If theyre so beneficial, im looking forward to bring transparency and they shouldnt be afraid to say theyre doing great things for farmers but so far ive seen them serve large monopolies and farmers are becoming more and more consolidated because the little guy cannot survive. This is ultimately the decision to go to congress to send out for the little guy the consumer for farmer or well continue to get a life special Interest Group making big salaries and secretary vilsack making millions while farmers are going bankrupt. Congress needs to stop the insanity and not be afraid to challenge them and say we do stand for the people and lobby for the people and shouldnt be afraid. I urge my colleagues to support this amendment and look forward to bringing more transparency and this is the clarity and dont see opposition that everyone believes exists and i yield back. The chair the gentlelady yields. The gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. Mr. Thompson madam chair, these checker programs are Commodity Group driven. There are no taxpayer dollars for any of the activities or for usda oversight of these activities. I look forward to the farm bill process where we can continue discussions ive had with the gentlelady from indiana with her staff to be able to look at how do we improve transparency and how do we refine these programs to provide her and others confidence in these. You know, the attack on the checkoff programs were really rooted by Animal Rights organizations who see this and have one goal and thats to eliminate livestock, the Livestock Agriculture industry. Obviously thats unacceptable. But increasing transparency is not acceptable. I see the farm bill process as the appropriate path forward for that and with that i yield back. The chair the gentleman yields. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlelady from illinois. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The amendment is agreed to. Mr. Thompson madam chair, i ask for a recorded vote. The chair pursuant to clause 16, further proceedings will be postponed. From indiana will be postponed. The chair in order to consider amendment 77 printed in part f of house report 118216. For what purpose does the gentlewoman from colorado seek recognition . Mrs. Boebert madam chair, i have an amendment at the desk. The chair the clerk will designate the amendment. The clerk amendment 77 printed in part f of house report number 118216 offered by mrs. Boebert of colorado. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentlewoman from colorado, mrs. Boebert, and member opposed will control five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from colorado. Mrs. Boebert thank you, madam chair. This amendment decreases the salary of the deputy undersecretary of the food and Nutrition Services and madam chair, id like to reserve for the time being. The chair the gentlewoman reserves. Does any member seek opposition . For what purpose does the the gentleman seek . Mr. Bishop in opposition. It targets the deputy and shes doing her job. We should not obstruct the Agency Charged with carrying out our nutrition policies. This house should hold its actions to the highest standards and not engage in the attacks on individual officials in the executive branch. With that, i urge the defeat of this amendment and i reserve the balance 6 my time. The chair the gentleman reserves. The chair recognizes the gentlelady from colorado. Mrs. Boebert madam chair, one moment. My apologies, i do not have amendment 77 in front of me, but madam chair, i do urge adoption of amendment 77 to be considered to decrease the salary of the deputy secretary. I reserve. The chair the gentlelady reserves. Mr. Thompson yield back. The chair yields back. The chair recognizes the gentlelady from colorado. Mrs. Boebert madam chair, i yield the gentleman one minute. Mr. Harris madam chair, the thrifty food plan, this is the political appointee who decided that the snap benefits werent enough, that they deviced a new food plan used as a vehicle to just increase the snap benefits. The bottom line is were spending over 100 billion a year and have a 2 trillion deficit. We should reevaluate that increase in the thrifty food plan that resulted in a doubledigit increase in snap benefits, and what this amendment does is sends a clear signal to the administration this probably wasnt a well thought out idea. I yield back. The chair the gentleman yields back the balance of his time the chair recognizes the gentlelady from colorado. Mrs. Boebert i offer my amendment that utilizing the rule to reduce the salary of the food and Nutrition Services of the department ofagriculture to 1 dollar. As the deputy for food nutrition and Consumer Services at usda, mrs. Dean has spent her career helping bureaucrats to gut requirements for aibledbodied adults and bypass eligibility requirements even going as far as to help states make millionaires qualify for the program. The last things americans need are higher prices and fewer jobs and the hugest expansion of our welfare state. The Bidenharris Administration apoll bottleishes work ethics and promotes government dependency. I loved under government dependency and i have broke free of that cycle given my Life Experiences and developing work ethic and one of the few to break fee. She increased title 4 of future farm bills by no less than 256 billion. Dean has spent her lifes work coinciding concocting ways to expand the welfare state and given latitude to do so under the Biden Administration with no oversight and no boundaries. No checks can underlie the checks that families face. The best way to help American Families is with goodpaying jobs not endless government checks. 25 years ago in the face of rising welfare and durations in poverty and no work for millions, republicans and democrats came to go to reform the nations welfare system. These reforms are based on one idea, the best way out of poverty is a job. If you dont work, you dont eat. Ms. Dean has allowed 25 to food stamp benefits which was not only unprecedented but abandoned with costneutral policies that the department followed for 45 years. 25 years ago, Long Duration in poverty and no work for millions, we said this was enough. That cannot be reiterated. Enough. This move displays her disregard for Program Policy by failing to consult f. D. A. And this went beyond Congressional Authority in the 2018 farm bill, all thanks to ms. Dean. Ms. Dean expanded the lgbtqplus free school absent approval. I urge my colleagues to support my amendment and hold merchandise dean and ignored the direction of congress. The chair the question is on the amendment offered by gentlelady from colorado. Those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the amendment is agreed to. Now in order to consider amendment number 78 in house report 118216. For what purpose does the gentlewoman from illinois seek recognition . I have an amendment at the desk. The chair the clerk will designate the amendment. The clerk amendment number 78 printed in house report 118216. The chair the gentlewoman from illinois mrs. Miller and person opposed each will control five minutes. President bidens mandate for covid but his administration tried to force it through any way. We will never forget that President Biden used the federal government to fire millions from their jobs. Congress must pass this amendment to ensure that the federal government cannot implement its radical covid. I urge my colleagues to vote yes on this amendment and i research. The chair the the gentlelady reserves. Mr. Bishop i raise time to claim opposition. Mr. Bishop this Workplace Safety plan was developed and decisions regarding the safety of federal workers and returning to work should be driven to science and the recommendations of experts not by broad congressional mandates. I urge my colleagues to reject this amendment and i reserve the balance of my time. The chair the chair recognizes the gentlelady from illinois. We need to approve this amendment so this can never happen again and i yield back. The chair the gentlelady yields. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlelady from illinois, those opposed, no. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the amendment is agreed to. It is now in order to consider amendment number printed in house report f of house report 118216. Mrs. Boebert i have an amendment at the desk. Kerk decker amendment number 79 printed in part f of house report 118216 offered by boebert of colorado. The chair the gentlewoman from colorado and a member opposed each will control five minutes. Mrs. Boebert i offered my amendment to prohibit funding for usdas equity commission. We are fed up with a government and fed up paying for commissions that should not exist. The Usda Equity Commission was borne calling for federal departments to address quote Racial Equity because they believe even agriculture this commission made over 30 recommendations to make the usda more woke and includes diversity training and expanding Language Access and removes restrictions on food stamps eligibility based on immigration status or even criminal records. This Commission Also opened up the door for joe bidens racist 4 billion plan for ranchers and farmers to pay their loans because they are racist and holding school lunch money hostage to force air curriculum that sexualizees our children. This administration is saying you are not going to do what i want or im going to take your lunch money quite literally. They are holding School Districts hostage in order to shove their red call agenda to ensure biological men are allowed to use the same rest room as fiveyearold girls. This is madness. This administration is so distracted by pandering to their own leftist agenda to prioritize equity gender and inclusion that they cannot manage their policies that have driven the price of milk, eggs and up over 50 for the average American Families for those items. Lets return our focus to usda to what it should be, providing leadership on food, agriculture, Natural Resources, rule development, nutrition and related issues based on public policy, the best available science, real science, please, and effective management, not pandering to the woke mob. I urge passage of my amendment. And madam chair, i yield back. The chair the members are refrained to refrain from engaging in permits towards the president. Mr. Bishop i claim time to rise in opposition to the gentleladys amendment. It was addressed toll dress the historic inequities in the programs of the department ofagriculture. The department has a long and storied history of discrimination as evidenced by the billions of dollars it had to pay out as a result of discriminatory policies over the years. To quote directly from the usda website, quote, at usda we acknowledge we have not done enough to provide all farmers and ranchers an equal chance of success and prosperity. We are committed to changing that, actively working to build an usd arch that ensures that none of our customers are ignored or left behind. What is so thrit i dont knowing about that. And restricting the efforts related to diversity, equity and inclusion. The assault at usda is not helping our farmers. This is a distraction and it does nothing to move us closer to a bipartisan conference agreement and agreement we must reach to pass these appropriation bills. I urge my colleagues to reject this amendment and i reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentlemans time is reserved. Mrs. Boebert i yield to the gentleman from maryland, 30 seconds. Mr. Harris i thank the gentlelady from colorado for offering this. And has a 2 trillion and due to duplicative. There is an office of civil rights in the u. S. Department ofagriculture. There is no need for but we have to get the word equity somewhere. And rename the office of civil rights and cheaper and probably what we ought to do. I yield back. The chair the gentlelady reserves. The gentleman from georgia. Mr. Bishop i yield back. The chair the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlelady from colorado. Those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the amendment is agreed to. Mr. Bishop i demand a recorded vote. The chair pursuant to clause 6 and rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlelady from colorado will be postponed. It is now in order tore consider number 80 printed in part f of house report 118216, for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition snr. The chair the gentleman from texas, mr. Self and a member opposed each will control five minutes. The chair mr. Self i rise to support my simple amendment to appropriate any funds on this bill to being used towards the civilian climate corps. The Biden Administration continues to prioritize programs like the civilian climate corps which pushes Green New Deal policies that have proved to be costly and ineffective. Instead of pushing their Green New Deal agenda, this administration should instead focus on cutting wasteful spending and securing our southern border rather than wasting taxpayer dollars on indoctrination on a leftist ideology that provides nothing of value to the economy. With that i reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman reserves. For what purpose does the gentleman rise . Mr. Bishop i claim time in opposition to the amendment. The chair the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. Mr. Bishop first, im perplexed no one would want to offer good paying jobs to help the Climate Crisis and build a strong country. The goal of the civilian climate corps is put young people on Career Pathways in the growing form of climate conservation and resilience. In launching this effort President Biden is calling on travel, state and local governments, labor unions, Nonprofit Service allies, the private sector, and philanthropy to collaborate with the federal government to build on current relationships and expand skills based training partnerships to ensure that our work force is ready to meet the Climate Crisis. Weve seen the devastation to coastal communities impacted by our hurricanes and tropical storms, why do we not want to train our coast to control wetlands to control storm surges. We know the loss of wildfires across our nation so why would we not want to train youth to manage forest, improve health and prevent catastrophic wildfires. We know the power of skills based training as a tool to expand pathways to good paying jobs. Lets not deny our youth this opportunity and lets not deny our country the resources to our future. I urge our colleagues to reject this amendment and reserve the balance of my time. The chair the chair reserves. The chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. Mr. Self i yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from maryland. Mr. Harris i want to thank the gentleman from texas for offering their amendment. In the wisdom of the committee weve already defunded the civilian climate corps but belts and suspenders is fine and i have no problem with that because good paying jobs shouldnt come from the government. They should come from the private sector and they have the word climate and you must create something with the word climate and equity and we dont need it. Madam chair, i yield back. Mr. Self madam chair, we borrow 6 billion a day and throw the 2 trillion around all the time but frankly, most of us dont understand a trillion. So we borrow 6 billion a day towards that hads 2 trillion. We discuss a lot of inputs on the floor of the house which means government spending, federal spending but we rarely discuss outputs and in this case there is very little output. Were talking about some inputs, federal spending, but no outputs. Its simply an Indoctrination Program to the Green New Deal. We also have a lot of noble sounding ideas come across this floor but in this case there is nothing positive. There is only spending. With that i yield back. The chair the chair recognizes the gentleman from georgia. Mr. Bishop yield back. The chair the gentleman yields. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from texas. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The amendment is agreed to. It is now in order to consider amendment 81 printed in part f of the house report 118216. For what purpose does the gentleman from missouri seek recognition . Mr. Burlison madam chair, i have an amendment at the desk. The chair the clerk will designate the amendment. The clerk amendment 81 printed in part f of house report 118216 offered by mr. Burlison of missouri. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman from missouri, mr. Burlison i and member opposed will control five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from missouri. Mr. Burlison thank you, madam chair. Everyone understands if you add recipients to a program that has limited resources, then the benefits of that program get diluted among those still receiving it. In essence, the safety net becomes stretched and sometimes may even break, which is why i rise in support of my amendment to eliminate funding, or eliminate a loophole in the snap program that is called the geographic work requirements waivers. These waivers have been abused for years by state bureaucracies to wave work requirements in areas with record low unemployment and particularly waive them for ablebodied individuals, the very people who should be working. You see, current law allows for states to waive work requirements for those individuals in certain limited circumstances but states have used this loophole to waive work requirements completely. In fact, 18 states have completely waived these work requirements. And my amendment prevents this from happening. You know, having work requirements for food stamps and snap is not a new or radical idea but been around since the 1990s and was a bipartisan agreement that occurred and is a common sense approach to ensure that those who can work should be working. Thereby promoting selfsufficiency while reducing the burden on taxpayers. Congress intended for these to be limited but obviously just like anything else the federal government touches, its intent has been distorted to ensure as many as possible are dependent on the government put the usda in the late days of the Clinton Administration issued these loopholes but now have exploded to the point where 70 of ablebodied adults do not have to be required to do any work requirements. With that i reserve my time. The chair the gentleman reserves. For what purpose does the gentleman east coast recognition . Mr. Bishop to claim opposition. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Bishop i rise in opposition to this amendment and would take away all state waivers for ablebodied adults without dependents, the socalled wawds. If the unemployment is over 10 of their not sufficient jobs of people in the state, again, who are we to take that states judgment away . If you think well never experience these conditions again, think again. Neither you nor i can see the future and if these conditions do occur, what are the chances these folks will find jobs . I cannot and will not support this amendment nor will any of my democratic colleagues. If its included in a final conference report, i doubt my democratic colleagues will provide the necessary votes for final passage nor will President Biden sign it into law. Its a bad amendment. Lets vote it down. I yield back. The chair the gentleman yields. The chair recognizes the gentleman from missouri. Mr. Burlison i want to yield one minute to my colleague from maryland. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Harris thanks very much, madam chair. I want to thank the gentleman for putting forth this amendment. Ablebodied people ought to work, thats the bottom line. Theres two things about this program. One is that my colleague on the other side of the aisle says well, you never know, the economy could get bad. This is only a oneyear amendment and were discussing this only this fiscal year and the president said this is a great economy. I dont know what were worried about. The president said the economy is great and dont worry about this amendment. This is one of the greatest state scams in the country right now. States vie with each other to who can get this waiver because you know what, madam have a chair, theres no cost to the state. We can solve this problem by asking the states to have a 20 copay. You think food stamps and snap is a great deal . Great. Federal government pays 80 and you pay 20 just like medicaid and that means states will have skin in the game and wont go for these scams. I yield back. The chair does the gentleman reserve . Mr. Burlison yes, i reserve. The chair the gentleman has the only time remaining. The gentleman from missouri is recognized. Mr. Burlison thank you, madam chair. This program has blown up and expanded nearly 60 increase since 2020 alone. This addition of individuals who are ablebodied is jeopardizing the program that we should make sure is available for individuals who truly need it. Those individuals who are disabled. Parents with children and anyone who is a student. Those are the individuals that we all see and want to provide a safety net to. Lets not let these programs which are so valuable to them be diluted by individuals who should be working. And i yield my time. The chair the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from missouri. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The amendment is agreed to. It is now in order to consider amendment number 82 printed in part f of house report 118216. For what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition . I rise to offer amendment number 82 as the designee of mr. The chair the clerk will designate the amendment. The clerk amendment 82 printed in part f of house report number 118216 offered by mrs. Cammack of florida. The chair pursuant to resolution 273, a member from florida and a member opposed will control five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida. Ms. Cammack i rise to support a amendment offered by mr. Roy and mites. It would restrict funds for being used to implement President Bidens radical climate agenda. Since taking office the Biden Administration has spent billions of dollars implementing leftist climate initiatives at the expense of the american taxpayer. In may of 2023, the usda announced 11 billion in grants and loans for, quote, zero emission energy, otherwise known as unreliable energy. In addition, a recent report found that bidens usda, tom vilsack, coordinated with advisers, a George Soros Funded group on, quote, transforming the u. S. Food system. We simply cannot produce and process the food necessary to satisfy the massive demand in this country and abroad if we cannot depend on energy and food systems being hijacked into an extremist climate agenda. Furthermore, bidens Climate Policies have detrimental effects on our economy and threaten the livelihood of americans in our Agricultural Sector. In many cases these radical biden initiatives do more harm than good to our environment. Our farmers already face enormous challenges including market fluctuations, rising input costs, the list goes on and on and by squeezing out clean and economical food sources and demanding a hasty shift to socalled clean energy, green energy, as they call it, our farmers and ranchers are struggling with rising costs of fuel they need to keep their operations going. Agriculture is the backbone of our nation and we must ensure that that sector, the Agricultural Sector, has the resources it needs to keep providing for American Families. Our farmers and ranchers are some of the best conservationists in the world. Our amendment would prevent President Bidens extreme anticlimate initiatives that would undoubtedly raise costs for our nations agricultural businesses, a threat to our nations ag produce serious a threat to our national security. I encourage my colleagues to support this common sense amendment and safeguard our farmers and ranchers from the Biden Administration misguided Climate Policies. I reserve. The chair the gentlelady reserves. For what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition . Mr. Bishop i claim time in opposition to the gentleladys amendment. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Ms. Beneficiary mr. Bishop this prohibits funds to carry out Biden Administrations claims executive order, specifically executive order 13990 relating to protecting Public Health and allowing science to tackle the Climate Crisis. Executive order 14008 related to tackling the Climate Crisis at home and abroad, section 16 of executive order 14013 relating to rebuilding and enhancing programs to resettle refugees and planning for the impact of Climate Change on migration. Executive order 14030 relating to climate related financial risk. Executive order 14057 relating to catalyzing clean Energy Energy and jobs through federal sustainability. Executive order 14082 relating to implementation to energy and infrastructure provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Executive order 14096 relating to revitalizing our nations commitment to Environmental Justice for all. Who can be against that . Oh, well. The scientific consistency is clear, however, we need to take significant steps while working to mitigate the damage from Climate Change that we are already experiencing. Extreme weather events and weather patterns are extremely relevant to americas farmland. The department ofagriculture should be at the forefront of ensuring that our farmers remain productive and successful in the Global Market tackling the Climate Crisis is an essential part of that work. Our farmers are on the front line of dealing with the effects of Climate Change and taking steps to promote sustainability. This amendment being on Appropriations Bills brought to the floor this week would hamstring our governments response. This amendment is short sighted and does nothing to help our farmers and hurts our farmers. I urge defeat of this amendment and i reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman reserves. The chair recognizes the gentlelady from florida. Mrs. Cammack im glad he mentioned carbon emissions. The best conservationists and the harmful policies of the administration make their job. I yield 30 seconds to my colleague. Mr. Harris i want to thank the gentlelady from florida offering this amendment. My colleague across the aisle read veer bait imfrom one of them to analyze the effect of climate on migration. We need an executive order to examine the effect of an op border of migration into the United States, the effect in the large cities, new york and chicago bankrupting this country. Thats the executive order we need from the president. Not these. I yield back. Mrs. Cammack we are closing on 2 00 a. M. And i want to encourage my colleagues to support this and give thanks to the clerks, the parliamentarian at 2 00 a. M. Doing the important work of the American People, with that, i yield back. Mr. Bishop i yield. The chair the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlelady from florida. Those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it and the amendment is agreed to. It is now in order to consider amendment number 83 printed in part f of house report 118216, for what purpose does the gentlewoman from wyoming seek recognition . Mr. Hagedorn i have an at the. The clerk offered by mishager man of wyoming. The chair recognizes the the gentlewoman from wyoming. I rise in favor of my amendment number 83. This amendment would prevent the animal and Plant Health Inspection service from implementing its proposed rule mandating ear tags for cattle and bison transported in interstate commerce. The United States has the highest quality and safest meat in the world. We have a robust, effective and animal identification and traceability system in place that works. Our high standards of disease prevention makes us the leader in world food quality. This rule is problematic and sets a dangerous precedent to dictate how our ranchers run their operations. They dont need to tell them how to identify their livestock but that is what this rule allows. This will create a nightmare to hire a slew of compliance officers to meet the new requirement. The creation of this system will require you reporting obligations. Ireland mandated ear tags. Today, they are untold number of reports they must file with the government. Ireland is now considering killing off 1. 3 million head of cattle to reach their climate targets. Their mandate will help them carry out this slaughter. This will increase Food Production and hurt the consumer and cost our ranchers millions of dollars in Compliance Costs and it will thus result in integration of the Food Supply Chain and nothing but source to the big ranchers and meat packers. The supporters are the four big packers which are owned by brazil and one owned by china. This rule raises serious privacy concerns. It is estimated cost of this rule is indefensible and the amount in this is inadequate. The real cost of ear tags is higher than what they claims and this is an unfunded mandate. We cant allow bureaucrats who never handled livestock to tell our ranchers how to operate and i reserve. The chair the gentlelady reserves. I claim time in opposition. Mr. Thompson thank you so much. American agriculture can be defined by three words, science, technology and innovation. And we should utilize that to our advantage obviously going forward. There has been a defining nature of american agriculture. And quite frankly, traceability resources are paramount when dealing with an animal disease outbreak. We have seen it this year with poultry and threats on swine and we have invested as of the last farm bill a significant amount of money to have a vaccine for foot and mouth should that ever impact our livestock industry here and it would be. The proposed rule on electronic identification would reduce the overall quarantine times and allow farmers and ranchers to resume normal operations in a timely manner. Animal disease traceability is an essential component of protecting it during an animal outbreak and the size of herds in wyoming or kentucky or pennsylvania where they are much smaller, Animal Health is important and the ability to recognize it as well. We should not allow ourselves for efforts to improve where it is hampered and i will oppose her amendment and i reserve. The chair the gentleman reserves. I yield one minute to the gentleman from kentucky. Mr. Massie i support in support of this very important amendment which prevents funds from being used to mandate electronic ear tags for cattle and bison. This isnt just another extra expense for them but the beginning of the end of the american rancher and American Cattle man and multi generational farms bus this is a switch from preventing their cattle and never ending list of rules and so this is why we should oppose it. We should quick listening and we have all been lobbied on this one. Quick listening to the lobbyists and start listening to their farmers back home. I yield backt. The chair the gentlelady reserves. Mr. Thompson once again, traceability resources are important when dealing with an animal disease outbreak. We need to do our best to be prepared to deal with these, otherwise, compromise our ability to export overseas, our trade partners could shut off markets to the United States and have a decimating impact on the life stroke industry in the United States, i would just encourage i actually there is monies in the underlying bill in order to do this. A more appropriate amendment would make sure that the money lines up with the need. I would agree with what is in the bill is not for the implementation. So with that, i would remain in opposition to the amendment and i yield back. The chair the gentleman yields. We have an identification and traceability system that is effective, robust and a forwardable. Some operations have implemented the i. Z. Because they have the manpower and if they are forced into this same power and without the proper capital they will be locked out and my colleague that the funding in the rule doesnt provide Adequate Funding to implement the rule and cost our ranchers millions upon millions of dollars to comply. This proposed rule is based on dubious. It is a solution in search of a prosh, it is dangerous and should be stopped. My amendment does not touch the cost offset but touches the flawed process by usda and doesnt prevent any ranch every to use the i. D. Technology but that doesnt allow the them to mandate. The chair the question is on the amendment offered by gentlelady from wyoming. Those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair the amendment is agreed to. Pursuant to clause 6, rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlelady from wyoming will be postponed. The chair now in order to consider amendment number 84 printed in part f of house report 118216. It is now in order to consider amendment number 85 printed in part f of house report 118216. For what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition . I have an amendment at the desk. The clerk amendment number 85 plinted in part f of house report 118216 offered by mr. Good of virginia. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman from virginia, mr. Good, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia. Mr. Good i yield myself such time as i may consume and i rise today in support of my amendment to reduce to one dollar the salary of the center of the as part of the Republican House majority. Conservatives secured reforms including the rule dates back to the 1800 to reduce spending and a measure of accountability to exercise oversight by reducing the salaries of federal employees. I have concerns that the director of drug evaluation and research has been politicized because of the decisions. In january, the risk evaluation and Mitigation Strategy for the drug was updated and Multi Disciplinary Team approved changes that eliminated the requirement of mifepristone and allowed them to dispense. A risk evaluation is required by the f. D. A. For certain drugs with serious safety its baffling these bureaucrats would acknowledge mifepristone is dangerous and discourage a woman from having to show up at a drops office. This office was complicit in these dangerous updates that hurt Womens Health and my amendment would like to offer scrutiny to the democrats that carry the power of life or death. Whatever the offices provide to drug safety has been clouded by political judgment and congress should take a serious look at these offices and we can start by holding pro abortion officials accountable for such a destructive decision. I urge my colleagues to stand for life and support this amendment and i reserve. The chair for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition . Mr. Bishop claim time in opposition. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Bishop i rise in strong opposition to this amendment. It targets a career Civil Servant for apparently doing their job as the law requires. This house should hold its actions to the highest standards and attacks on the Civil Service have no place in this house. This is a bad amendment. It sets a bad precedent. It is beyond our duties and i urge the defeat of this amendment. I reserve thebalance of my time. The chair the chair recognizes the reservation of the gentleman from georgia. The gentleman from virginia is recognized. Mr. Good i yield one minute to my friend, mr. Harris. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Harris thank you very much, mr. Chair. I want to thank the gentleman from virginia to bring it forth. I urge you to read the fifth Circuit Court of opinion. They said the f. D. A. Way overstepped their congressional fencing in on how they have to approve drugs. The bottom line is its not us saying this, its the fifth circuit. So maybe one way to send a message that you actually ought to listen to the way the congress set up the safety and efficacy approval process, maybe we need Something Like this so the f. D. A. Actually pays attention to how Congress Told them they have to operate. I yield back. The chair the gentleman from virginia is recognized. Mr. Good mr. Chairman, f. D. A. Administrators who approved the drug knew it had risks attached to to it and the following years it has been confirmed and proven time and again to the mother and ultimately to the child. Between 2002 and 2015 the rate of chemical abortion emergency room visits increased by more than 500 . And i reserve. The chair the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from georgia is recognized. Mr. Bishop i yield. The chair the gentleman yields back. The gentleman from virginia is recognized. Mr. Good mr. Chair, at least seven offices with f. D. A. Are responsible for administering the decision that made the chemical abortion drug easier to access. My amendment reduces to 1 the salary of the director of the center of drug evaluation research. Congress has the responsibility to not just appropriate money but conduct oversight through the use of taxpayer dollars and my amendment does both and i urge my colleagues to stand up for life and approve my amendment and i yield back my time. The chair the gentleman from virginia yields back. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from virginia. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The amendment is agreed to. Mr. Bishop mr. Chair, i demand a recorded vote on this. The chair pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from virginia will be postponed. It is now in order to consider amendment 86 printed in part f of house report 118216. For what purpose does the gentleman from kentucky seek recognition . Mr. Massie mr. Chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. The chair the clerk will designate the amendment. The clerk amendment 86 printed in house report 118216 offered by mr. Massie of kentucky. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 723, mr. Massie and a member opposed will control five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from kentucky. Mr. Massie i rise in support of my amendment which states none of the funds made available by this act may be used to fund any grant related to any transgenic edible rack seen. Does the term transgenic edible vaccine sound farfetched . Its not. Were funding it. Scientists from the university of californiariverside funded with your taxpayer dollars have been studying whether they can turn edible plants such as lettuce and span itch into mnra vaccine factories thereby creating a transgenic edible vaccine. One associate professor at u. C. R. Explained ideally a single plant would produce enough mnra for a sing isle person and were testing this with lettuce and spinach and have people growing in their own gardens and farmers could grow eventually entire fields of it. I dont think this is a good idea. I dont think the American People should be funding this and i think and i would hope that weve learned something from the covid experience with sars cov2 that some of our science projects arent the best ideas and with that i reserve. The chair for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition . Mr. Bishop i claim time in opposition. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Bishop i do rise in opposition to this misguided amendment. The amendment would eliminate Research Funding into novel approaches to keeping live stock healthy. Livestock disease causes hundreds of millions per year and consumers pay high prices as a result. An ongoing avian influence outbreak devastated poultry producers across the country, devastating that industry in many areas. Innovative research on methods to costeffectively protect livestock benefits both producers and consumers. I urge my colleagues to defeat this misguided amendment and let usda work to keep livestock healthy for producers and prices low for consumers. Thank you and i yield back the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Massie the gentleman on the other side of the aisle talks about keeping prices low. Theres more to it than that for the American People. He talks as if these transgenic edible vaccines are only used for live stock. They have been used for livestock and ill get to that in a second but theyre also being used for people. That is the intended outcome of many of these programs that we are funding, funding with money from the usda. What could possibly go wrong with this research . Well, we found out a few years ago when a Biotech Company was experimenting growing in corn a vaccine to keep pigs from getting diarrhea. What happened . Well, the next year where the corn was grown, the prior year, the corn came up and it got commingled with soy beans grown there and contaminated 500 bushels of soybeans which were commingled with 500,000 bushels of soybeans and they had to be recalled and destroyed. Luckily they caught it. Do we want humans eating vaccines grown in corn meant to stop pigs from getting diarrhea . I dont think we want that to happen. Yet it almost happened and could happen. Theres another case where the pollen cross contaminated another crop of corn in 155 acres of corn had to be burned. What are the cases where were not discovering this . I think its dangerous to play god with our food. I think we need a safe food supply. And this is about food safety. Ultimately the people in this country need to know whats in their food. And if we start contaminating the d. N. A. Of our food with d. N. A. From other animals or viruses, the pollen could spread and we dont know what could happen. And i would hope weve learned a lesson from the wuhan lab that sometimes things escape and sometimes things dont go as planned. So thats why i think its a bad idea to fund transgenic edible Vaccine Research from the usda. I urge adoption of my amendment and i yield back the balance of my time. The chair the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from kentucky. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The amendment is agreed to. It is now in order to consider amendment 87 printed in part f of house report 118216. For what purpose does the gentleman from kentucky seek recognition . Mr. Massie mr. Chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. The chair the clerk will designate the amendment. The clerk amendment 87 printed in part f of house report 118216 offered by mr. Massie of kentucky. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman from kentucky, mr. Massie, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from kentucky. Mr. Massie mr. Chairman, i rise in support of my amendment which states in parthenon of the funds made available by this act may be used to issue any new rule related to, one, regarding the number of owners of an animal for custom slaughter exemption of the food safety and inspection services, two, limiting the persons that may own an animal or three, requiring Custom Operators to keep records. My amendment states no funds in the bill could be used to create new rules related to custom slaughter exemption, limiting the number of people who may own a animal or placing additional Record Keeping burdens on custom slaughter prevention and i reserve thebalance of my time. The chair the gentleman reserves. For what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition . Mr. Bishop claim the time in opposition. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Bishop i appreciate and share the gentlemans support for meat and poultry producers. However, this is an amendment to permanent law that with very rare exceptions should not be in an appropriations bill. This issue should be considered in the context of the next farm bill. For that reason, i urge a no vote. I yield back. The chair the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. Mr. Massie mr. Chairman, i respectfully disagree with my colleagues characterization of this amendment that it changes permanent law. In fact, all it does is it limits the spending that can be used to promulgate any new rules. And its only period is for the extent of a year, the next year, the next fiscal year. In fact, were it changing permanent law, we would not have allowed it to as an amendment on this bill. I serve on the rules committee and we vet hundreds of amendments for this very constraint, and this is not one of the amendments that changes permanent law. If i could change permanent law, would i change permanent law . Youre sure right i would. And well try that in the farm bill but we cant change permanent law on an appropriations bill. The reason ive introduced this amendment is i found on the usda website they havent done the rule yet but theyre thinking about doing a rule to limit how many families could share an animal. Listen, there are four meatpackers that control over 80 of the meat thats processed in the United States. Our president himself said it from that very podium during his state of the union speech, and its a problem, we all know it. Theres one exemption that allows people to get out from under the thumb of the multinational corporations that process most of the meat in this country, and that is the custom slaughter exemption that allows somebody who owns an animal to have it processed for themselves. It seems somewhat ridiculous the usda thinks it has the power to say two families cant share that animal, yet thats what theyre proposing in a power point slide on their website. My amendment is simple and says were not going to allow the usda to promulgate a rule that keeps families from getting healthy meat from their local farmer and with that i urge adoption of my amendment and i yield back. The chair the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from kentucky. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The amendment is agreed to. It is now in order to consider amendment number 88 printed in part f of house report 118216. For what purpose does it is now in order to consider amendment number 89 printed in part f of house report 118216, for what purpose does the gentlewoman from colorado seek recognition . Mrs. Boebert i have an amendment at the desk. The clerk amendment number 89 printed in part f of house report 118216 offered by mrs. Boebert of colorado. The chair the gentlewoman from from colorado and a member opposed each will control five minutes. Mrs. Boebert i rise today to offer my amendment that prevents usda for woke extreme leftist courses books and study guides as part of this administrations woke lgbtq whatever letter you would like to add for the flavor of the day, bidens woke courses, books and study guides for Department Employees training that defile congressional intent and mandate leftist indoctrination. Courses and for the federal employees included topics like pride leadership strategies for lgbtqplus leaders to be the queen or king of their jungle, the queer advantage plus leaders on the power of identity out and proud, approaching lgbtq issues in the workplace, gender ambiguity, transgender and and lesbian and transgender and queer lgbtq queer plus program. There were more than 208 lgbtq plus add your letter training sessions and courses required by usda that car to the left policies that defile congressional intent and contradict the agencys mission. Federal employees devoted to Public Service shouldnt be forced to participate in extreme training sessions that con trag difficult their own values. I urge my colleagues to support my amendment and prevent federal employees from being forced to participate in extreme training sessions for the purpose of pandering to a woke agenda. And with that, i reserve. The chair for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition . Mr. Bishop claim time in opposition. Who in the world knows what woke means. All of us should be awake to the dangers of overreach in this appropriations bill. This amendment would prohibit funds for courses, books and study guides on 17 topics relating to inclusion, diversity and prompting lgbtq employees and includes issues fostering and woke play and becoming an ally to all. I dont believe we should be pending our time on the floor today debating ways on teaching. It would serve our constituents the most of how we can better help American Farmers remain competitive and put food on the table of those in need and foster an inclusive and welcoming workplace for all at the department ofagriculture. I urge opposition to this amendment and i reserve. The chair the gentlewoman from colorado is recognized. Mrs. Boebert maybe the usda should recognize between a heaver and a bull and i would like to note my colleague on the other side of the aisle, the gentleman fails to mention some letters when referencing lgbtq which is not very inclusive for their partys agenda. I wanted them to reflect there were letters missing from that description which is extremely offensive. Mr. Chair, i yield. The chair the gentleman from georgia. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from colorado. Those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, no. The amendment is agreed to. Mr. Bishop i demand a recorded vote. The chair pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from colorado will be postponed. It is now in order to consider amendment number 90 printed in part f of house report 118216, for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition . Mr. Good i have eanl amendment at the desk. The clerk amendment number 90 offered by mr. Good of virginia. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 723, the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia. Mr. Good i yield myself and i rise to reduce to 1 the office of surveillance and epidemiology. And conservatives reinstating the rule and created to reduce spending and use as a measure of accountability as oversight and reducing salaries. I invite my colleagues as a form of oversight and accountability. What value does this Office Provide using the position for political purposes. The f. D. A. Updated the strategy for the main chemical drug. It chacked the policy making it easier to access and more dangerous for women. Many reviews showing many who are at risk and hemorrhaging the need for followup surgery and even death. It would eliminate the distribution requirement. My amendment provides scrutiny over documents that carry the power of life or death. It has been clouded by political judgment and congress should look at these offices and start by holding proabortion officials. I urge to stand for life and support this amendment and i reserve. Mr. Bishop i claim time in opposition. I yield back. The chair the gentleman from virginia is recognized. Mr. Good i yield. The chair the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from virginia. Those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The amendment is agreed to. Mr. Bishop request a recorded vote. The chair pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18 offered by the gentleman from virginia will be postponed. It is now in order to consider amendment number 91 printed in part f. For what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition . The clerk amendment number 91 printed in part f of house report 118216 offered by mr. Good of virginia. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 723, mr. Good and member opposed each will control five minutes. Mr. Good reduce do 1 of Risk Management within the f. D. A. This amendment asks the question is this person who oversees the Office Protect women and children if risk. The office is win 7 to help develop a strategy for the chemical drug miff price toin. And there are to help ensure the benefits. And baffleling they would say they are dangerous and advance policies for a woman to show up. The f. D. A. Updated the Mitigation Strategy for mifepristone and this changed the policy. Chemical abortion has the four times the rate and would increase with advanced pregnancy. Mifepristone doesnt factor into the process of the drug and the life of the precious innocent life in the womb. Mifepristone did he prieives the child from hormones and paired with another drug to expel the child from the womb. Democrats issue documents that carry the power of life or death. Stand for live. The chair for what purpose does the gentlemanfrom georgia seek recognition . Mr. Bishop i yield back. The chair the gentleman from virginia is recognized. Mr. Good i urge my colleagues to support the amendment and i yield. The chair the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from virginia. Those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it and the amendment is agreed to. Mr. Bishop mr. Chair, i ask for a recorded vote. The chair pursuant to clause 6, rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from virginia will be offered. It is now in order to consider amendment number 92. For what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition . The clerk amendment printed in part f of house report 118216 offered by mr. Good of virginia. The chair the gentleman from virginia, mr. Good and a member opposed each will troim five minutes. Mr. Good reduce to one dollar the salary of the director of new drugs within the f. D. A. This provides accountability on behalf of the 63 million children bos to abortion since 1972. If our federal agencies are not protecting the most vulnerable, we shouldnt give them our taxpayer dollars. The alliance brought a lawsuit with the organization f. D. A. And argues that f. D. A. Wrongfully fast tracked and neglected the requirement. The details show a pattern of the f. D. A. Removing any meaningful safeguards of the drug. I urge my colleagues to stand for life and support this amendment and i reserve. Mr. Bishop claim time in opposition. I yield back. The chair the gentleman from virginia is recognized. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from virginia. Those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it and the amendment is agreed to. Mr. Bishop i demand a recorded vote. The chair pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from virginia will be postponed. It is in order to consider amendment number 93. For what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition. The clerk will designate the amendment. The clerk amendment number 93 printed in house report 118216 offered by mr. Good of virginia. The chair the gentleman from virginia and gentleman opposed each will control five minutes. Mr. Good i rise in to reduce the salary of the director of the office of compliance. Americans dont want money funding bureaucrats and in this case this director was compliesity in harming women on the chemical abortion drug and permitted drugs via male which violates the federal law outlined in the comstock act. They expect regulators to value childrens lives more than profits for i urge my colleagues toe stand for life and reserve. The chair for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition . Mr. Bishop i yield back. The chair the gentleman from virginia is recognized. Mr. Good thank you, mr. Chairman, i urge my colleagues to support the amendment and yield back. The chair the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlelady from. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The amendment is agreed to. Mr. Bishop mr. Chair, i request a recorded vote. The chair pursuant to clause 6, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from virginia will be postponed. Its now in order to consider amendment 94 printed in part f of house report 118216. For what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition . Mr. Good i have an amendment at the desk. The chair the clerk will designate the amendment. The clerk the amendment 94 offered by mr. Good of virginia. The chair pursuant to house rule 273, the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Good i rise in support of my amendment to reduce to 1 the salary of the director of the office of medical policy within the f. D. A. In 2020, chemical abortions became the number one abortion method of ending a unborn childs life and in that year we lost 492, 210 children. Instead of making it easier for women to get access to an Abortion Pill, the f. D. A. Should be banning it. We should work to make every pregnancy a happy one and support the fantastic Resource Centers and churches and families that help women in difficult situations choose life for their children. And i reserve. The chair for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition . Mr. Bishop claim time in opposition. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Bishop i yield. The chair the gentleman from virginia is recognized. Mr. Good thank you. I urge my colleagues to support the amendment and i yield. The chair the question on the amendment offered by the gentleman from virginia. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it and the amendment is agreed to. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from virginia will be postponed. It is now in order to consider amendment 95 printed in part f of house report 118216. For what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition . Mr. Good i have an amendment at the desk. The chair the clerk will designate the amendment. The clerk amendment 95 printed in house report f of 118216 offered by mr. Good of virginia. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 273, mr. Good and a member opposed will control five minutes. The gentleman is recognized. Mr. Good i yield as much time as i may consume and i would like to reduce 1 the salary of the director of the office of regulatory policy of the f. D. A. The total employment of the f. D. A. Increased to 18,000 employees and the f. D. A. Makes it difficult to discern the exact number of 1,000 employees responsible for the updates of the Abortion Pill risk and evaluation policy. We can glean from documents that Multidisciplinary Team including these seven offices i mention another cross my debate time played a role in approving the changes that eliminated the inperson requirement of mifepristone and allowed of Retail Stores to give the drug. And we can reasonably conclude the directors were directly or indirectly responsible. Congress should take a serious look and start by holding these prohibition counselors and i reserve. The chair for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek opposition. Mr. Bishop i rise to claim time in opposition. And i yield back. The chair the gentleman from virginia is recognized. Mr. Good i urge my colleagues to support the amendment. The chair those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The amendment is agreed to. Mr. Bishop mr. Chair, i ask for a recorded vote. The chair pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings offered by the gentleman from virginia will be postponed. The chair the chair understands amendment number 96 through 98 will not be offered. It is now in order to consider amendment 99 printed in part f of the house report 118216. For what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota seek recognition . Mr. Stauber mr. Chair, i have an amendment at the desk. The chair the clerk will designate the amendment. The clerk amendment 99 printed in part f of house report 118216 offered by mr. Stauber of minnesota. The chair pursuant to the House Resolution 723, the gentleman from minnesota, mr. Stauber, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from minnesota. Mr. Stauber mr. Speaker, i rise in support of my amendment. I believe in promoting equal opportunities for all irrespective of race, color, or creed. However, the National Farm to School Network racial he can bitty learning lab equity learning lab contradicts our nation. The farmtoschool movement was started to help give farms and students access to locally produced Farm Fresh Foods and provide a new market for our local farmers. It is unfortunate the National FarmtoSchool Network decided to force radical ideology into these programs. The proposed Racial Equity learning labs stated goal is to teach participants to apply a, quote, Racial Equity equity lands and seeks to insert policies into our institutions perpetuating an agenda that emphasizes differences rather than uniting us as americans. This follows a dangerous and growing trend in america to view everything through the lens of race. While the farmtoSchool Network itself has laudable goals of encouraging healthier eating habits among students and supporting local agriculture, it should do so without embracing divisive ideologies. We should be fostering an environment with children from all backgrounds come together to learn and grow and understand the value of hard work and personal responsibility and the importance of community. Mr. Speaker, my amendment will ensure that no taxpayer money is used to further steer the farmtoSchool Network in the wrong direction. I ask that my colleagues join me in keeping Critical Race Theory out of our food systems and out of our schools and i reserve. The chair the gentleman reserves. For what purpose does the gentleman from georgia rise . Mr. Bishop claim time in opposition to the amendment. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Bishop i rise in opposition to this amendment. The farmtoSchool Network supports the work of farmers, teachers, and community leaders. The Racial Equity learning lab is a learning program regarding racial inequities in our food system. Usda support for the Program Seeks to address Racial Equity in our farmtoschool system. I would think that making sure all School Children have access to adequate meals would be an easy bipartisan priority. Im disappointed by this amendment and urge all members to oppose it. I reserve thebalance of my time. The chair the gentleman reserves. For what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota rise . Mr. Stauber mr. Chair, i rise in support of my amendment and ask my colleagues to do the same and yield back. The chair the gentleman yields back. The gentleman is recognized. The question on the amendment offered by the gentleman from minnesota. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The amendment is agreed to. Mr. Bishop i demand a recorded vote. The chair pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings offered by the gentleman from minnesota will be postponed. Its now in order to consider amendment 100 printed in part f of house report 118216. For what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition . Mr. Good i have an amendment at the desk. The chair the clerk will designate the amendment. The clerk amendment 100 printed in part f of house report 118216 offered by mr. Good of virginia. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman from virginia, mr. Good, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia. Mr. Good mr. Chairman, i yield as much time as i may consume. My amendment will defund three executive orders issued by President Biden. These executive orders are intended to combat socalled discrimination on the basis of gender identity or Sexual Orientation. The weaponized bureaucratic machine wants to promote everything regular americans stand for, freedom of speech, marriage as being between one man and one woman for life, and other values that so many other people outside of washington hold dear. The Biden Administration wants to instill fear in the hearts of regular americans. My amendment would block any taxpayer dollars that would be used for the implementation of these woke executive orders and any agency. And i reserve, mr. Chairman. The chair the gentleman from reserves. For what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek is recognition . Mr. Bishop i offer to oppose this amendment. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Bishop members of the lbgtq face higher rates of food insecurity. The usda has taken steps to clarify the discrimination on the basis of Sexual Orientation and gender identity and are prohibited in programs administered by usda such as snap. It is concerning to me that the democratic amendment striking harmful policy riders not to put forward by the rules committee for the debate, while a large number of republican amendments adding further policy riders were allowed to be considered. These amendments have no chance of becoming law and only move us further from bipartisan conference agreements which can pass both chambers of congress and urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment and i reserve thebalance of my time. The chair the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from virginia is recognized. Mr. Good the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which saw significant democrat opposition clearly outlines who is protected from discrimination and how the left wants to impose extra requirements on Business Owners and American People and force them either having to walk on eggshells or face being sued for a supposed incorrect statement. This amendment will defund President Bidens directives to promulgate woke ideology throughout the entire government instead of serving the American People. This culture of fear is not what made america the nation it is and i reserve. The chair the gentleman is recognized reserves. The gentleman from georgia is recognized. The gentleman yields. The gentleman from virginia is recognized. Mr. Good i urge support of my amendment to the values that made america what it is today. The democrats oppose the ideas of america so much they oppose the values americans know and love and my amendment would preserve that america and fight back against the lefts woke agenda and urge my colleagues to support this effort and vote in favor this amendment and yield back. The chair the gentleman yields back. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from virginia. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The amendment is agreed to. It is now in order to consider number 101 precipitationed in part f of how the report 118216. For what purpose does the gentlewoman from illinois seek recognition . Mrs. Miller i have an amendment at the desk. The chair the clerk will designate the amendment. The clerk amendment 101 printed in part f of house report number 118216 offered by mrs. Miller of illinois. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentlewoman from illinois, mrs. Miller, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from illinois. Mrs. Miller the American People do not want their tax dollars going to the creation of the obama communist climate corps which is a left wing Indoctrination Program for young people that advances communist chinas attack on American Energy and promotes chinas solar panels, lithium batteries and windmills. Congress must prohibit funding and reverse the america last agenda. Barack obamas revolution to transform america kills our Domestic Energy production. Obama flies on private jets and has a beachfront mansion and doesnt care about climate and taxpayers dont want to fund obamas foot soldiers revolution. I urge the adomtion of my amendment and i yield back. The chair for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition . Mr. Bishop i claim time in opposition to this amendment. This amendment would prohibit usda for tackling the Climate Crisis. This year, our country has experienced climate disasters than ever before in our history and first eight months of the year, 23 weather disasters devastated and the Agricultural Sector was harmed. We witnessed floods in the northeast and extreme drought in the west continues to impact ranchers ability to maintain their livestock and we watched as the maui wildfires took nearly 100 human lives. This amendment would block federal efforts to help farmers to develop forestry practices that are critical to combatting the Climate Crisis. Help farmers and strengthen our economy, we cannot be hamstrung by funding limitations that denny Climate Change is real. I urge my colleagues to oppose. The chair the gentlewoman has yielded back. Mr. Bishop i yield back. The chair the gentleman yields. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from illinois, those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it and the amendment is agreed to. Mr. Bishop i demand a recorded vote. The chair pursuant to clause 6 rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from illinois will be postponed. It is now in order to consider amendment number 102 printed in part fmp of house report 118216. For what purpose does the gentleman from montana seek recognition . Mr. Rose i have an amendment at the desk. The chair the clerk will designate the amendment. The clerk amendment number 102 printed in part f of house report 118216 offered by mr. Rosendale of montana. The chair the gentleman from montana, mr. Rosendale and a member opposed will each control five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from montana. Mr. Rose i rise to support my amendment. My amendment would reduce the Agricultural Rural Development and food and Drug Administration appropriation act by 717 million in order to get the total ■spendingofall bills back to the fiscal 2022 levels. In fiscal year 2022, the fiscal year appropriations were about 24 billion. I believe that the agencies and programs includeed in this bill were able to operate effectively enough at those levels. In order to get the spending under control, federal agencies must operate at the same levels or at the very left receive modest increases. On april 26, 2023, House Republicans passed the limit, save and grow act and took the first step forward to financial stability. And Speaker Mccarthy passed a debt ceiling bill eliminating the work done and passed under the limit, save and grow act. The American People are tired of the d. C. Cartel and running our tab while our constituents are struggling. From 1981 until 2008 congress added 10 trillion to the national debt. In the past four years we have added as much as they did during that 27year period. This is not sustainable and we need to find an offram am. Limiting spending willing help our farmers as they are struggling with high input costs as a result of joe bidens reckless spending which has led to high inflation rates. We can no longer to fund the democrats and radical agenda a insult to the American People the spending spree that has been spread by the previous speaker of the house. With that, i reserve. The chair the gentleman reserves. Mr. Bishop claim time in opposition. I rise in opposition to this amendment. The amendment would attempt to cut overall funding in the bill by additional 717 million. Not only that, but it would do so without specifying where the cuts would come from. This would effectively turn the decision for where the cuts would come from over to the executive branch, to the administration that the other side is so critical of, robbing congress of its constitutionally mandated power of the purse. A violation of separation of powers. This is something that we should not include in any appropriations bill. The bill already guts funding for u smp da and any further cuts would make a bad bill worse. We should enact a reasonable, responsible appropriations bill so we can take care of the needs of the American People and the department ofagriculture is funded to serve the needs of the American People. Thank you. And i yield back the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman yields back the balance of his time the gentleman from montana. Mr. Rose there is a proposed 1. 3 billion increase in this appropriation. This reduction, it would still be a 600 million increase in the appropriation. That is a reasonable increase based upon the inflation rates that has been caused by the reckless spending by the Biden Administration. The farmers across the state of montana understand everyone has to conserve. A 600 million increase in the agricultural bill is certainly doing their part. That is a tremendous increase and willing to take that 700 million reduction and i yield back. The chair the gentleman yields. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from montana. Those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The amendment is agreed to. Mr. Bishop i demand a recorded vote. The chair pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from montana will be postponed. For what purpose does the gentleman from maryland rise . Mr. Harris i move that the committee do now rise. The chair the question is on the motion that the committee rise. Those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. The motion is adopted. Accordingly, the committee ri rises. The speaker pro tempore madam care. The chair the committee of the sta state of the union having had under consideration directs me to report that it has come to no resolution thereon. The speaker pro tempore the chair of the committee of the whole house state reports it has has come to no resolution thereon. For what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition . Mr. Harris i ask unanimous consent when the house adjourn today it meets 9 00 a. M. Today. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Will will will. Will. Mr. Harris i move that the house do now adjourn. The speaker pro tempore the question is on the motion to adjourn. Those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. The motion is adopted. Accordingly the house stands adjourned until 9 00 a negotiations on a temporary spending bill to fund the entire government to continue off the floor. 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