Bishop, for allowing me this time. Part of my amendment is in the en bloc and it deals with wastewater treatment. No person in america living in this country should be allowed to not have adequate plumbing. This is why ive introduced an amendment asking the usda to pry or oties our ongoing efforts to address failing septic systems in Rural Communities. Approximately 20 of americans are responsible for the installation and maintenance of their own sewage disposal systems, which isnt provided by their municipalities or their county government. At least 200,000 families live in homes that have a lack of sewage system altogether. We offer little assistance to people who live in unincorporated areas to have basic water and sewer. Rural communities across this country struggle with this issue. Just this week, i read lots and lots of articles that dealt with failure of those folks in Rural Communities to have adequate sewage systems. This amendment is a part of a multiyear effort to address this once and for all for all americans. The rural septic tank access act was included in the farm bill and id like to thank chairman bishop and his staff and the underlying for allowing me to speak on this underlying en bloc bill today. In f. Y. 2018 we secured the chair the gentleladys time has expired. Ms. Sewell again, i ask my colleagues, urge them to vote yes for this en bloc balanced budget amendment. Thank you and i yield back. The chair the gentleman reserves. For what purpose does the gentleman from nebraska is recognized. Mr. Smith i ask unanimous consent to reclaim my time then yield one minute to the gentleman from illinois. The chair without objection, the gentleman is recognized. Thank you, madam chair. Thank you to my colleague and Ranking Member, mr. Foreen berry, thank to you chairman bishop for including this in the en bloc amendment, my amendment. Agriculture research plays a Critical Role in the future of our food supply. In our last spending bill we helped secure 5 increase in funding for the Usdas National institute of food and agriculture. Seen increased funding because of bipartisan support on the House Ag Committee for many of the members, including my good friend and fellow cochair of the ag research caucus, Jimmy Panetta of california, who finally likes to remind us all that he represents the salad bowl of america. Mr. Davis this year i led a bipartisan letter signed by 111 of my colleagues advocating for robust funding for usdas agriculture food and Research Initiative in the 2020 appropriations. Im extremely excited that the house appropriators increased funding by 45 million over f. Y. 2019 levels to 460 million. Im proud to see such bipartisan support for ag research because ensuring research necessary is vital. I thank you. I yield back the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman from nebraska is recognized. Mr. Fortenberry i reserve, madam chair. The chair the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from georgia is recognized. I thank the chairwoman. At this time id like to yield one minute to the gentleman from maryland, mr. Trone. The chair the gentleman from maryland is recognized. Mr. Trone thank you, madam chair. Im pleased that the four amendments i proposed to this bill have been made in order. These amendments reflect some of the most important priorities in my district. First i offered an amendment to increase funding for Mental Health courts which lowerer the recidivism rate for justice impacted individuals with mental illness. My Second Amendment underlines the importance of modernizing the National Institute of standards and technology infrastructure. This funding will help misremain a leader and driving Economic Growth in marylands sixth district and across the country. The last two amendments put additional funding toward expanding rural product band, and combating Opioid Crisis in Rural Communities, two critical priorities in western maryland. I thank representative riggleman of virginia and neguse of colorado for working with me on these amendments. I yield back the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman from georgia is recognized. The gentleman reserves. Mr. Bishop i reserve. The chair gentleman from nebraska is recognized. Mr. For then berry id like to thank the gentleman from wisconsin a. Member of the Financial Services committee, for one minute. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Thank you. I thank my colleague from nebraska and mr. Bishop for including this amendment in the en bloc. I rise to support my amendment to support ourer dairy industry. I visited farms across southeast wisconsin and time and time again farmers have explained to me the challenges they have with consistently low milk prices. Thats why we need this amendment so we can continue to invest in Business Development within the dairy industry and encourage new markets for our farmers. Mr. Steil this amendment provides 1. 5 million to support our nations dairy industry in a budget neutral way. I urge my colleagues to support our dairy industry, to support our farmers, and to support this amendment. I yield back the balance of my time. The chair mr. Fortenberry i reserve. The chair the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from georgia is recognized. R. Bishop i reserve also. The chair the gentleman from nebraska is recognized. Mr. Fortenberry id like to yield one minute to the gentleman from virginia, mr. Riggleman. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Riggleman thank you to my dear friend from maryland, representative trone, with whom i have developed a bipartisan partnership as a result in these two amendments. The first increases funding to expand broadband deployment into Rural Communities underserved by private sector investment. Our Rural Communities, including some in my district, need access to broadband to keep up with the demands of the modern economy. This amendment will help communities close the Digital Divide which is critical to enhancing our economic opportunity, job creation, access to health care, and education in Rural America. The next amendment dear to my heart increases funding for rural health and Safety Education program to combat the Opioid Epidemic in Rural Communities. Representative trone and myself and too many others in this body and our country at large have seen friends and family members suffer and even pass away from the Opioid Crisis that has ravaged our country. Just last week i lost my cousin to a heroin overdose. This funding is an essential step to turn the crisis around. I urge my colleagues to support these two amendments and i yield my time. The chair the gentleman from nebraska is recognized. R. Fortenberry i reserve. The chair the gentleman from nebraska is recognized. Mr. Fortenberry id like to yield two minutes to the gentlelady from puerto rico, miss gonzalezcolon. The chair the gentlelady is recognized. Miss gonzalezcolon thank you, madam chair, and Ranking Member, and chairman bishop for including in this en bloc group amendment my bipartisan amendment, number 103. To provide funding for the reimbursement of transportation cost Payment Program for geotraffical disadvantaged farmers and ranchers. This program in usda will reimburse farmers and ranchers in puerto rico as well as in other u. S. Territories, hawaii, and alaska a portion of the cost they may incur when transporting their Agricultural Products or equipment. Our farmers and ranchers outside of the continental u. S. Operate at a competitive disadvantage relative to producers in the 48 contiguous states. Partly due to geographical barriers and high transportation costs. This program will help us out address these realities by providing payment to help ranchers and farmers in the noncontiguous states and territories offset some of this cost. This program a has been funded at 1. 9 million over the last fiscal years and my amendment will seek to provide the same amount of funding for fiscal year 2020 with the corresponding offset. I want to thank representative gabbard from hawaii, and radewagen from American Samoa for cosponsoring my amendment. I urge my colleagues to endorse it. The chair the gentleman from nebraska is recognized. Mr. Fortenberry i reserve. The chair the gentleman from georgia is recognized. Mr. Bishop i reserve. The gentleman from nebraska is recognized. Mr. Fortenberry madam chair, there is no further speakers, i yield back the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman from georgia is recognized. Madam hop at this time, chairwoman, i ask my colleagues to join me in support of this amendment. We have no more speakers. I yield back the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The question is on the amendment en bloc offered by the gentleman from georgia. So many as are in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The en bloc amendments are agreed to. It is now in order to consider amendment number 97 printed in art b of house report 116119. It is now in order to consider amendment number 99 printed in art b of house report 116119. For what purpose does the gentleman from indiana seek recognition . Mr. Banks i have an amendment at the desk. The chair the clerk will designate the amendment. The clerk amendment number 99, printed in part b of house report number 116119, offered by mr. Banks of indiana. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 445, the gentleman from indiana, mr. Banks, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from indiana. Mr. Banks thank you, madam chair. My amendment is simple. It would reduce spending in this division by 14 . E amount that is needed to avoid the budgets budgetsing caps and avoid sequestration and compromise our National Security. This division would spend 1. 3 billion more than the 2019 enacted level. In their quest to spend every taxpayer dollar from this generation and our future generations, my friends on the other side of the aisle have proposed spending packages that in total will bust the budget caps by nearly 90 billion. While my colleagues may be willing to put National Security at risk to fulfill budget busting policy promises, i will not. I urge my colleagues to support my commonsense amendment. With that, thank you. I reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman reserves. For what purpose does the gentleman from georgia rise . Mr. Bishop thank you, madam chair. I rise in strong opposition to this amendment. I understand the gentlemans intention, but i could not disagree more. The agriculture bill funds a variety of National Priorities from food safety to agriculture research, to drug approval, to Rural Development torques nutrition programs for our children. Reducing spending by 14 would hurt our farmers who are already suffering terribly from retaliatory tariffs and hurt small communities still in need of adequate broadband. It would hurt those waiting for cures to rare cancer. It would jeopardize americas status as a leader of Global Agriculture science. It would slow our response to food borne illness outbreaks, and harm children and families who rely on these programs to put food on their tables. The bill already rejected the administrations draconian cuts to programs that will assist our Rural Communities and vulnerable populations. I urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment. I reserve. The chair the gentleman from indiana is recognized. Mr. Banks thank you, madam chair. Think about the awe castity of these claims. Im not talking my amendment about cutting any specific program. Im proposing an amendment to cut 14 across the board to prevent the excessive spending that we are seeing come interesting proposed from across the aisle that would spend substantially more than what the federal government spent in the year before. Madam chair, we simply cannot afford this reckless proposal from my friends on the other side of the aisle. My amendment offers members a clear choice. If you vote no, you support busting the budget caps and putting our National Security at risk due to interering into sequestration, which is inevitable if we pass the spending measures being proposed from across the aisle. However, by supporting my amendment you can show that you support fiscal sanity by honoring the budget caps and protecting our National Security. Madam chair, i will continue to come back to this microphone over and over and over again and propose this same amendment to each nondefense spending division because i promised my constituents in northeast indiana that thats exactly what i would do if they elected me to congress. That would fight to reduce spending, to rebuild our military, and to support fiscal sanity in our nation once again by fighting for balanced budgets and fiscally conservative spending measures. This amendment fulfills all of those promises to my constituents and families in northeast indiana. And i urge my colleagues to support it. With that, i yield back the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The gentleman from georgia is recognized. Mr. Bishop i urge that this amendment be rejected. I yield back the balance of my time. The chair the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from indiana. So many as are in favor say aye. Those opposed say no. In the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. Mr. Banks madam chair, i request a recorded vote. The chair pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from indiana will be postponed. Its now in order to consider amendment number 101 printed in art b of house report 116119. For what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition . Mr. Biggs i have an amendment at the desk. The chair the clerk will designate the amendment. The clerk amendment number 101 printed in part b of house report 116119 offered by mr. Biggs of arizona. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 445, the gentleman from arizona, mr. Biggs, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from arizona. Mr. Biggs i yield myself as much time as i may consume. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Biggs thank you. I rise in support of my amendment that prevents funds from being used to finalize, implement or enforce the draft guidance issued by the food and Drug Administration in december of 2017 titled drug products labeled as home yo pathic, guide pomeopathic, guidance. It upends settled enforcement practice without a compelling reason or with no directive from congress. My amendment would prevent that overreach and maintain the safe and effective guidance that has been in place since 1987. Omeopathy has thrived as an alternative to pharmaceuticals. More than three million americans use it. The products can be a natural alternative to addictive opioids in the manage. Pain and other conditions management of pain and other conditions. The guidance provides a definition of a product and clear manufacturing standards. Violations of these standards are already subject to f. D. A. Enforcement. The proposed change in guidance goes too far by restricting access to safe homeopathic medicines while being less effective at regulating the safety and quality of homeopathic products. The new with past practice and existing law. The guidance purports to address improperly manufactured products and i support that. But it drops the explicit manufacturing guidelines already contained in the existing guidance, under the draft guidance, americans would have less fewer assurances that their medicines are pure and properly manufactured. The problems that f. D. A. States as reasons for introducing the draft guidance falsely labeled products and improperly manufactured products are actually better addressed under the current guidance. And the f. D. A. Has been effectively addressing these issues for the last 30 years. An draft guidance is unnecessary Regulatory Overreach and i urge all members to support this amendment and i reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. Does any member claim time in pposition . I rise to claim time in opposition to have a discussion with the gentleman from arizona. First, let me say, madam chair, i do understand the concerns of the gentleman from arizona. Here is the issue. The food and Drug Administration is charged with the responsibility to ensure that persons seeking to be healed healed have both, both the right to try innovative products, as well as the right to be protected from harm or any false claims. Mr. Fortenberry so let me say to my friend, mr. Biggs, we would like to offer this. Chairman bishop and i would seek the opportunity to have the f. D. A. , the food and Drug Administration, meet with us to dialogue on the very issues that important issues that you are raising. And to relay your concerns. And i will commit to you that your objections will be conveyed to their leadership before they move forward on this guidance. So in light of that consideration, i kindly request, respectfully request that you consider withdrawing the amendment. And i reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. The gentleman from arizona is recognized. Mr. Biggs thank you. I thank the gentleman for his commentcomments and Ranking Member fortenberrys assurances that we can get togeth