Those are 2 520 for the home that is venting. This is one of those regulations that is too expensive to afford. The cost is as trom call and d. O. E. Seas the cogs to the American Consumer is 12 billion to install these furnarnses. You are going to save. An amendment. I think this is one of those areas where you look at how much it is going to cost. It is why this amendment is so widely supported and i encourage support for the blackburn amendment. I yield back. Opinion of the chair mblingt of. The amendment is agreed to. For twap of frappe. Mrs. Blackburn i have an amendment. The clerk amendment number 12 offered by mrs. Blackburn of tennessee. The chair the gentlelady from tennessee and member of will trl. Mrs. Blackburn this is and amendment i bring every year and i told the chairman that he was delighted to see me back on the floor again on theier with the one . And this is important to not that the proposed funding amendment is 3. Billion be low. But i got to say with the situation in our nation with our debt, i think our 1 one percent reduction reduction is something that is necessary and it is a step that we need to take. Im fully awear that some of the appropriators arent standing in favor of the 1 across the board cut. I was told that cuts go far too deep. When you look at the fact we need to be cutting a penny out of the dollar, that is not too deep because our debt is damaging our nations security. And admiral said it is our growing nabble debt, we need to do a little bit more to get this 18. 2 trillion debt under control. As i said, across the debt and they give flex built but knee dont knicks winners and losers, many of our our governors support them. When i was in the state senate of tep see, we cannot aeuropean that. Our state, our controlling their debt and we kicked ever cat fer can the down. It is time to get it under control. Safe a penny is a necessary step. The chair the gentleman from idaho. Mr. Simpson i appreciate the gentlelady from tennessee consistency. The problem is with the delate. You would think we wont thinking we were cutting spending. The committee who is not cutting and we have been cutting spendic. This bill we have before us today falls within the budget resshution and we should have adopted a different dugget resolution. We cant do. We have teab it and we have cut it more and more. So its not we want to reduce spending. We want to cut spending. And we will have a new baseline. And we ought to cut one peppy out of wunl baseline. And then we will have a baseline and cut pun penny. We are trying to do it smarter and the increase is paid for. And this bill makes tough choice es within an allocation that add heers to current law. Acknowledge there are accounts in this bill that i think we ought to be spending more money and there are accounts in this bill that we ought to be spending less murn on. Thats kind of the nature of how the appropriations process works. Nobody gets everything we want but one thing we have been knt on we have been reducing spending. We prioritize spending on our nations defense. And it went to the national defense. The na smp sa. We prioritize funding for critical fwrarbg. The president cut 7500 million out of the Harbor Maintenance trust fund and trying to secure our waterways where our economy fleeds we replace that. And we need to make cuts. Impacts on their impoonts. The gentleladys would propose a cut on every one of these programs. A no one way to promote our needs and limit spending. I would urge my colleagues to vote against this amendment and let me say again i appreciate the gentleladys consistent effort in making sure we keep focused on what is the number one focus and i reserve. The chair the gentlelady reserves. Ms. Kaptur i move to strike the last word. Ms. Kaptur im opposeed to this amendment. Everybody us helping to pull. That isnt the case right now. The largest rescission. America eye chief am vulnerability for over a quantity consentry and economic law is energy. It rests in energy. Since 2003. Or country has spent imported importing petroleum. That is not a country that is skelfreal linet. But depp lie needs help at home. It will be less nefment in helping us to right this hole. Can you imagine if that had been spent. The greater almt of income flowing into peoples pockets. And moving us babwartsdz, this will be let in Water Resources and have 62 billion. We have no new stars on this bill. Thats a country in retrempment. This amendment, it isnt a 56 cut. I say to the gentlelady as i said to the chairman who walked to the back of the chamber, the wages have been cut and you dont put receive news on the table. Some of those blukecrative operations transnational national corporations. They are holding it over there. Receive news need to be on the table. He walked away from me. Appropriations committee captain do this alone and cant do it where america is hurting when americans are losing americans are struggling, we should be securing the american dream. This bill underfunds that. The chairman has spoken to that and and Energy Growth and Energy Security and damages those portions of our budget that are critical to our National Security. Our naval research. We believe our built builds america ca forward and not re trenchment. I apossess the gentleladys amendment but they is looking in the wrong place. I oppose her amendment. The chair the gentlelady yields back. Mrs. Blackburn we need a robust economy. It has been abysmal and has been terrible for our count stwri. Wages have been cut all that has happened and the American People are sick and tired of it. And the obama economy has caused much of the problems that are in front of us. The. Trillion that we have spent importing oil. Who has been importing a lot of that oil opec. It is within of the stop and our National Security challenges. It is time to drill here and grill now. It is another way to engage rank and file employees. I know other states that have used that. Both democrat and republic can governors. We reduced the size and growth by the budget. We were the test case for hoipt Hillary Clinton health care plan. So yes, we found ourselves cutting nine cents across the board. Do they send the right message . Are they a step twarled getting out of control spending out of control, yes think were. Wyatt now that is over 56,000 worth of the debt that he they would be response i will for for our 18. 2 trillion worth of debt. Weve got 18. 2 trillion worth of debt and we cant cut another penny out of the dollar . The chairman has done a great job. They have the right focus. I think that what we do is give them another little push engage the bureaucracy, which by the way, they are not having to make the cuts that men and women in Small Businesses are having to make. Its the fair thing to do. And i yield back my time. The chair the gentleladys time has expired. The gentleman from idaho yields back. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlelady from tennessee. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair the noes have it. Mrs. Blackburn i commnd a demand a recorded vote. The chair pursuant to clause of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment will be postponed. For what purpose does the gentleman from missouri sec reek in addition . I have an amendment at the desk. The chair the clerk will report the amendment. The clerk amendment number 16, offered by mr. Luetkemeyer of missouri. The chair the gentleman from tennessee and a member opposed each will control five minutes. Mr. Luetkemeyer from extreme flooding to extreme drought, the Missouri River basin has been hit hard over the last few year. The families who live and work along the Missouri River have endured great hardships and these have served to highlight maintaining effective Flood Control infrastructure. Though one of our greatest resources, the Missouri River would po deuce extreme flooding and be mostly unfit for navigation if not for aggressive Longterm Management by the corps of engineers. Congress First Authorized the Missouri River project in 1912 with intention of mitigating flood risk and maintaining a navigable channel from sioux city iowa, to the mouth of the river in st. Louis. The construction was completed in the 1980s, the corps ability to make adjustments as needed remain crucial to this day. President obama in his fiscal year 2016 budget requested 2. 6 million for the project which would go for. Its preposterous to think that environmental projects are more important than protection of human life. I do not take for franted the importance of river ecosystems. I grew up near the Missouri River as did many of the people we represent. Yet we have reached a point in our nation where we value the fish and birds more than the welfare of our fellow human beings. Our priorities are backwards. My amendment will limit the ecosystem Recovery Program a study thats become little more than a tool of environmentalists for the purpose of returning the river to its most natural state with little regard for Flood Control, navigation, trade, Power Generation or the people who depend on the Missouri River for those in favor say aye livelihood. The end of the story will in way jeopardize the corps ability to meet the requirements of the endangered species act. Its one of no fewer than 0 environmental studies focused on the Missouri River. The people who have had to foot the bill for these studies many of which that take years to complete and are inconclusive are the people who have lost farm, businesses and homes. Our vote today will show that we are aware of the gross disparity between the funding for environmental questions and for safety. This has passed in the last three appropriations bills. It is supported by groups like the missouri farm growers and missouri farm bureau. It is time to look at this bill it is time to send a message to the federal entities that manage our waterways. I urge my colleagues to support this amendment and encourage more balance in federal funding for infrastructure management. I reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. Any member claim time in opposition . The gentleman from missouri. Mr. Luetkemeyer i yield back. The chair the gentleman yields back. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The amendment is agreed to. For what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . Mr. Chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. The chair the clerk will report the amendment. The clerk amendment offered by mr. Mcclintock of california. Page 57, after line 1, insert the following. Section 507, none of the funds made available by this act may be used to purchase water to supplement or enhance the instream flow requirements in the state of california that are mandated under the endangered species act of 1973 the value Valley Project improvement act or the National Environmental policy act of 1969. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 223 the gentleman from california and a member opposed each will troll five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california. Mr. Mcclintock thank you mr. Chairman. High rolingses tell us california hydrologyists tell us california is facing the worst drought in years. Our snow pack is 3 of normal and californians are threatened with draconian fines if they take too long in the shower. This amendment forebids the bureau of reclamation from purr chatsing scare water in california in the midst of this catastrophic drought for the purpose of cumping it into rivers to ad just water temperatures to nudge by by fish to swim to the ocean. As ridiculous as this sounds, thats exactly what the bureau of reclamation has been doing throughout this drought. It is using money taken from families taxes in order to purchase water thats desperately needed by these same families and then literally dumping it dun the drain in front of them. This exacerbates an already perilous scarcity of water while forcing the price of our remaining supplies even higher. It also makes a mockery of the sacrifices that every californian is making to stretch every drop of water in their homes and it undermines the moral authority of the government to demand fult conservation from the people when when it is squandering watt sore outrageously itself. We dont know exactly how much the bureau is spending for this purpose because they dont account for how their purchased water is used. This measure would forbid them from wasting any of our water on such frivolities as adjusting watt etemperatures this sounds harsh for the fesh. Lets remember that in a drought like this one, there would be no water in our rivers, there would be no fish. The dams make it possible to save the water from wet years so we can get through the dry years. That doesnt work if we open flood gates in an extreme drought like this to make the fish happy. This month, the bureau of reclamation released nearly 30,000 acrefeet of water from the new milonas dam in my district for that purpose. Thats enough water to meet the annual residential needs of a population of nearly 300,000 human beings. For the express purpose of encouraging the offspring of some 29 steelhead trout to swim toward the ocean which, by the way, they tend to do anyway. And to add insult to injury almost all of them will be eaten by predators before they reach the ocean. In order to benefit a handful of steelhead trout, the bureau sacrificed enough water to meet the human a human pop lakes of 00,000. The cost of this exercise amounted to 21 million. This is the lunacy of the environmental left and the policies theyve imposed on our state and our country. It needs to stop now. And to the extent we can do so through the power of the purts, we must. I reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman reserves. For what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio. Ms. Kaptur i claim time in opposition. The chair the gentlelady is recognized for five minutes in opposition. Ms. Kaptur i oppose this amendment because it sounds like a solution in search of a problem. This amendment seeks to undermine the endangered species act by restricting the bureau of reclamation from expending funds on water for the purpose of managing endangered fish populations. While i oppose the spirit of the amendment i must also object to it because it does absolutely nothing. The bureau of reclamation does not purchase water. For the purpose of temperature management. The bureau of reclamation does not purchase water and they have no plans to do it in fiscal year 2016. In fact, due to water scarcity, the price of water is too high. The extreme drought in the west presents Significant Management challenges and the bureau of reclamation biologists should have every tool possible to make decisions and provide a safety net for species nearing extinction. Instead of attempting to undermine the jum of those professionals, we should be working on solutions to grow the water supply in california. That involves water reuse increased efficiencies, which are very which have rr started, conservation, storm water capture agricultural practices, the dry west faces very difficult choices and we want to walk alongside them. But with solutions that make sense. And that are capable of being implemented. I oppose the gentlemans amendment and i yield back my time. The chair the gentlelady yields back. The gentleman from california. Mr. Mcclintock perhaps from the damp state of ohio, this might look like a solution in search of a problem. I would invite the gentlelady from the gentlelady to come to california in the midst of this drought and see the devastation its causing. The bureau just released 10 billion gallons for this stated purpose, to adjust river water temperatures and to nudge steelhead trout to the ocean. They werent coy about it. They were very, very clear. Theyve been very clear in their budget requests. For this practice. But let me just for the sake of argument accept the gentleladys point that they have no plans to to so. Well if thats the case, she should have no objections to this measure. The fact is, they not only have plans to do so theyve been doing so and it is devastating what little precious water is remaining behind our reservoirs. We will run out before the end of the sum fer these practices continue and if they continue and if we do, i think that the gentlelady will have a an apology she needs to make to the 38 million suffering people of california. With that, i yield back. The chair the gentleman yields back. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from california. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The amendment for what purpose does the gentlelady seek recognition . Ms. Kaptur p. C. I ask for a recorded vote. The chair further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from california will be postponed. For what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . Mr. Chairman i have an amendment at the desk. The chair the clerk will report the amendment. Will the gentleman specify which one hes asking for . Amendment one. The chair amendment one. Need more specificity, please. Pertaining to army corps of engineers and farming practices in california. The chair the 404 permitting . Mr. Lamalfa correct. The chair the clerk will report the amendment. The clerk amendment offered by mr. Lamalfa of california. At the end of the bill insert the following. None of the funds in this act may be used to enforce the requirement in section 234. 12 of tite 383 of title code of regulations or title 40 code regulations that activities identified in paragraph 1a of subsection f of section 404 of the federal Water Pollution control act 33 United States code 1344 f. 1a must best tablied or ongoing in order to receive an exemption under such subsection. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 223, the gentleman from california and a member opposed each will control five minutes. Mr. Lamalfa thank you, mr. Chairman. The house has previously passed language to require the army corps of engineers to apply the clean water act as cong