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H.R. 2397 - Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2014
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COMMITTEE ACTION:
REPORTED BY RECORD VOTE of 8-4 on Monday, July 22, 2013.
FLOOR ACTION ON H. RES. 312:
ADOPTED by record vote of 226-194, after agreeing to the previous question by record vote of 229-190, on Tuesday, July 23, 2013.
MANAGERS: Nugent/McGovern
1. Structured rule for H.R. 2397.
2. Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations.
3. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
4. Provides that the bill shall be considered as read through page 157, line 2.
5. Waives points of order against provisions in the bill for failure to comply with clause 2 of rule XXI.
6. Makes in order only those amendments printed in the Rules Committee report, the amendment described in section 2 of the resolution, and amendments en bloc described in section 3 of the resolution.
7. Waives all points of order against amendments printed in the Rules Committee report and against amendments en bloc described in section 3 of the resolution.
8. Each amendment printed in the Rules Committee report shall be considered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, may be withdrawn by the proponent at any time before action thereon, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for divisions of the question.
9. Section 2 provides that after disposition of amendments printed in the report and amendments en bloc described in section 3 of the resolution, it shall be in order for the chair of the Committee on Appropriations or his designee to offer an amendment reducing funding levels in the bill.
10. Section 3 provides that it shall be in order at any time for the chair of the Committee on Appropriations or his designee to offer amendments en bloc consisting of amendments printed in the report not earlier disposed of. Amendments en bloc shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations or their designees, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question. The original proponent of an amendment included in such amendments en bloc may insert a statement in the Congressional Record.
11. Section 4 provides that after the conclusion of consideration of the bill for amendment, there shall be in order a final period of general debate, which shall not exceed 10 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations.
12. Section 5 provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
13. Section 6 provides an open rule for H.R. 2610.
14. Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations.
15. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
16. Waives points of order against provisions in the bill for failure to comply with clause 2 of rule XXI.
17. Provides that the bill shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule.
18. Authorizes the Chair to accord priority in recognition to Members who have pre-printed their amendments in the Congressional Record.
19. Provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
Amendments
| # | Version # | Sponsor(s) | Party | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | Version 1 | Amash (MI), Conyers (MI), Mulvaney (SC), Polis (CO), Massie (KY) | Bi-Partisan | Ends authority for the blanket collection of records under the Patriot Act. Bars the NSA and other agencies from using Section 215 of the Patriot Act to collect records, including telephone call records, that pertain to persons who are not subject to an investigation under Section 215. | Submitted |
| 101 | Version 2 | Amash (MI), Conyers (MI), Mulvaney (SC), Polis (CO), Massie (KY) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Ends authority for the blanket collection of records under the Patriot Act. Bars the NSA and other agencies from using Section 215 of the Patriot Act to collect records, including telephone call records, that pertain to persons who are not subject to an investigation under Section 215. | Made In Order |
| 137 | Version 1 | Barr, (KY), Huizenga (MI) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Provides that none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to purchase goods or services offered by the Federal Prison Industries, Inc. | Withdrawn |
| 60 | Version 1 | Barrow (GA) | Democrat | Limits funds to implement a furlough pursuant to sequestration. | Submitted |
| 126 | Version 1 | Bass (CA) | Democrat | Reduces the department-wide Operations & Maintenance account by $3 million, then increases it by the same amount with the intent to combat illicit poaching and trafficking of animal products commonly linked to terrorism and armed conflict. | Made In Order |
| 50 | Version 1 | Blumenauer (OR) | Democrat | Prevents any funds in this Act to be used for the purposes out carrying out section 5062(b) of title 10, United States Code. | Made In Order |
| 51 | Version 1 | Blumenauer (OR), Gabbard (HI) | Democrat | Restores funding for Environmental Restoration, Formerly Used Defense Sites to FY 2013 levels so that DoD can clean up and remediate UXO in a timely and safe fashion. | Made In Order |
| 52 | Version 1 | Blumenauer (OR) | Democrat | Prevents any funds in this Act from being used to carry out or implement any furlough of National Guard military technicians. | Made In Order |
| 53 | Version 1 | Blumenauer (OR), Conyers (MI) | Democrat | Reduces funding for the Ohio-class submarines by 10 percent to help prepare the Department of Defense for the sequestration. | Made In Order |
| 97 | Version 1 | Bonamici (OR) | Democrat | Provides $30 million for the purchase of emergency response medical equipment sets for National Guard M997A3 HMMWV ambulances to ensure they carry adequate life-saving equipment. | Made In Order |
| 98 | Version 1 | Bonamici (OR) | Democrat | Prevents the retirement, divestment, transfer, or preparation to do so of C-23 aircraft used by the National Guard and to designate $34 million for the sustainment and operation of the C-23 aircraft in a viable state. | Made In Order |
| 127 | Version 1 | Bridenstine (OK), Wilson, Joe (SC), Bordallo (GU) | Bi-Partisan | Increases funding by $10 million for the National Guard State Partnership Program, split evenly between the Army National Guard (Operations & Maintenance, Army National Guard) and Air Force National Guard (Operations & Maintenance, Air Force National Guard), which is offset by $11m reduction to Defense Media Activity (Operations & Maintenance, Defense-wide) account. | Made In Order |
| 5 | Version 2 | Brooks (AL) | Republican | Revised Prohibits funds from this Act to be used to implement or execute any agreement with the Russian Federation concerning the missile defenses of the United States. | Made In Order |
| 87 | Version 2 | Broun (GA) | Republican | Revised Prohibits the Department of Defense from using any funds to operate an unmanned aerial system in contravention of the fourth amendment to the Constitution. | Made In Order |
| 90 | Version 1 | Broun (GA) | Republican | Prohibits the Department of Defense from using any funds to propose, plan for, or execute an additional Base Realignment and Closure round involving military installations located within the United States. | Made In Order |
| 169 | Version 1 | Buchanan (FL) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Provides that none of the funds in this act may be used to provide military assistance to Egypt. | Withdrawn |
| 170 | Version 1 | Buchanan (FL) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Provides that none of the funds in this act may be used to provide assistance to Egypt. | Withdrawn |
| 171 | Version 1 | Buchanan (FL) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Provides that none of the funds in this act may be used for the sale, lease, transfer, retransfer, or delivery of F-16 aircraft, M1 tanks, or certain other defense articles to Egypt. | Withdrawn |
| 40 | Version 1 | Bustos (IL) | Democrat | Prohibits the Department of Defense from purchasing American flags that aren’t made in the United States. | Made In Order |
| 42 | Version 1 | Castor (FL) | Democrat | Requires the Department of Defense to conduct a review, within 90 days of enactment, of the adequacy of facilities (such as medical, education and recreational) located on a military base that contains on-base military housing and have service members returning from OEF/OIF. | Submitted |
| 63 | Version 3 | Cicilline (RI) | Democrat | Revised Reduces appropriations for the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund by $60 million and increase appropriations for the Defense Health Program by $14 million. Within this increase, $13 million in additional funds would be provided to fund peer-reviewed traumatic brain injury and psychological health research and $1 million in additional funds would be provided to fund peer-reviewed alcohol and substance abuse disorders research in order to ensure the Department meets the health needs of American military personnel. | Made In Order |
| 64 | Version 1 | Cicilline (RI) | Democrat | Reduces appropriations for the Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund by $279,000,000 and apply the savings to the spending reduction account. | Made In Order |
| 43 | Version 1 | Coffman (CO), Garamendi (CA), Murphy, Patrick (FL), Cohen (TN) | Bi-Partisan | Decreases the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund by $553.8M (contract to Rosoboronexport for 30 Mi-17 helicopters) and increases the Spending Reduction Account by the same amount. | Made In Order |
| 66 | Version 1 | Cohen (TN) | Democrat | Reduces the Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund from $279 million to $140 million and transfers the savings to deficit reduction. | Made In Order |
| 37 | Version 2 | Cole (OK), Kilmer (WA), McCarthy, Kevin (CA), Bishop, Rob (UT), Jones (NC), Loebsack (IA), McCollum (MN), Scott, Austin (GA) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Provides that none of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be available to implement a furlough of Department of Defense federal employees who are paid from the Working Capital Fund (WCF) Account, which is a revolving fund and does not receive direct funding from Congressional appropriations to finance its operations. | Made In Order |
| 159 | Version 2 | Cole (OK), Kilmer (WA), McCarthy, Kevin (CA), Bishop, Rob (UT), Jones (NC), Loebsack (IA), McCollum (MN), Scott, Austin (GA) | Bi-Partisan | Late Revised Provides that none of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be available to implement a furlough of Department of Defense federal employees who are paid from the Working Capital Fund (WCF) Account, which is a revolving fund and does not receive direct funding from Congressional appropriations to finance its operations. | Made In Order |
| 95 | Version 1 | Connolly (VA) | Democrat | Strengthens the DoD acquisition workforce by restoring the appropriation for the Defense Acquisition Workforce Development Fund to FY14 budget request; decreases seven accounts where HAC-D increased above FY14 budget request, yet maintains significant plus up for 6 out of 7 accounts. | Submitted |
| 96 | Version 1 | Connolly (VA) | Democrat | Strengthens the Department of Defense acquisition workforce by restoring the appropriation for the Defense Acquisition Workforce Development Fund (DAWDF) to the Fiscal Year 2014 budget request; decreases the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund by an amount equal to the DAWDF increase. | Submitted |
| 25 | Version 1 | Conyers (MI), Jones (NC), Welch (VT), Cohen (TN), Lee, Barbara (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Prevents funds authorized in the Act from being used to deploy, establish, or maintain the presence of Members of the Armed Forces or private security contractors on the ground in Syria unless the purpose of the presence is to rescue a Member of the Armed Forces from imminent danger. | Submitted |
| 24 | Version 1 | Cuellar (TX) | Democrat | Directs the Secretary of Defense to work with the Government Accountability Office to determine performance metrics. | Submitted |
| 177 | Version 2 | Delaney (MD) | Democrat | Late Revised Increases Fisher House Account by $16 million. Decreases Operation and Maintenance Account Defense-Wide by $25 million. Difference in values maintains outlay neutrality. | Made In Order |
| 65 | Version 1 | DeLauro (CT), Moran, James (VA), Wolf (VA), McGovern (MA), Bridenstine (OK), Connolly (VA), Garamendi (CA), Cohen (TN) | Bi-Partisan | Prohibits funds to train the Afghan Special Mission Wing (SMW) to operate or maintain Mi-17 helicopters manufactured by Russia’s state arms dealer that the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction reports the SMW does not have the capacity to use. | Made In Order |
| 88 | Version 1 | Denham (CA) | Republican | Prohibits funds from being used to implement the Trans Regional Web Initiative. | Made In Order |
| 4 | Version 1 | Engel (NY) | Democrat | Mandates that all vehicles purchased by DOD and related agencies must conform to the Presidential Memorandum dated, May 24, 2011. | Made In Order |
| 67 | Version 1 | Esty (CT) | Democrat | Adds $5 million to the Operations & Maintenance – Defense Wide account for overseas contingency operations to strengthen support services like the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program for members of the National Guard and Reserve. | Made In Order |
| 68 | Version 1 | Esty (CT) | Democrat | Adds $10 million to the Defense Health Program for suicide prevention awareness and outreach in the Overseas Contingency Operations account, which is offset by reductions to the Afghan Security Forces Fund. | Made In Order |
| 69 | Version 1 | Esty (CT) | Democrat | Reduces funding for the Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund for overseas contingency operations by $25,000,000 and redirect those funds to the Spending Reduction Account. | Made In Order |
| 151 | Version 1 | Fitzpatrick (PA) | Republican | Late Provides that if any business is afforded a preference in contracting, that same preference must be given to a veteran owned small business. Allows service disabled veteran owned small business to be given a contracting preference above all other groups. | Submitted |
| 56 | Version 1 | Fleming (LA) | Republican | Withdrawn Prevents funds from being used to reduce the number of nuclear-capable bombers beyond New Start Treaty limitations. | Withdrawn |
| 160 | Version 2 | Fleming (LA), Bridenstine (OK), Forbes (VA), Jordan (OH), Pitts (PA), Lankford (OK) | Republican | Late Revised Prevents funds from being used to appoint chaplains without an endorsing agency. | Made In Order |
| 129 | Version 1 | Flores (TX), Gingrey (GA), Conaway (TX), Hensarling (TX) | Republican | Prohibits any funds from being used to enforce the selective fuel bans set forth in Sec. 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which expands options for the federal government to purchase fuels by from unconventional sources like California heavy oil resources or Canadian oil sands. | Made In Order |
| 140 | Version 1 | Flores (TX) | Republican | Late Prohibits the use of any funds made available by this act to be used to take any adverse personnel action against any member of the Armed Forces on account of the faith, religious beliefs, actions, or speech of the member reflecting the conscience, moral principles, or religious beliefs of the member. | Submitted |
| 155 | Version 2 | Gabbard (HI) | Democrat | Revised Increases funding for the Navy Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare weapon and Air-Launched Long Range Anti-Ship Missile program by $104,000,000, and reduces Operations and Maintenance, Defense-wide by the same. | Made In Order |
| 57 | Version 1 | Garamendi (CA) | Democrat | Cuts $2,615,000,000 from the Afghan Security Forces Fund. | Made In Order |
| 94 | Version 1 | Garamendi (CA), Langevin (RI) | Democrat | Increases funding for high energy laser research by $40,217,000; decreases funding for the development of an East Coast missile site by the same amount. | Submitted |
| 114 | Version 1 | Garcia (FL) | Democrat | Prevents any funds from the Act to be used by the Secretary of Defense to enter any ground lease agreement, negotiated under the Military Housing Privatization Initiative with any private company that has outstanding tax obligations to a State or political subdivision of a State dating back over 12 months, as determined by a final judgment by a tax authority. | Submitted |
| 115 | Version 1 | Garcia (FL) | Democrat | Prevents any funds from the Act to be used by the Secretary of Defense to enter any agreement, negotiated under the Military Housing Privatization Initiative, to assure rental income with any private company that has outstanding tax obligations to a State or political subdivision of a State dating back over 12 months, as determined by a final judgment by a tax authority. | Submitted |
| 116 | Version 1 | Garcia (FL) | Democrat | Prevents any funds from the Act to be used by the Secretary of Defense to enter any agreement, negotiated under the Military Housing Privatization Initiative to assure occupancy levels or rental income with any private company that has outstanding tax obligations to a State or political subdivision of a State dating back over 12 months, as determined by a final judgment by a tax authority. | Submitted |
| 117 | Version 1 | Garcia (FL) | Democrat | Prevents any funds from the Act to be used by the Secretary of Defense to enter any agreement, negotiated under the Military Housing Privatization Initiative, to assure occupancy levels with any private company that has outstanding tax obligations to a State or political subdivision of a State dating back over 12 months, as determined by a final judgment by a tax authority. | Submitted |
| 1 | Version 2 | Gibson (NY), Welch (VT) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Prohibits the use of funds for arming Syrian rebel groups and United States military operations in Syria. | Submitted |
| 32 | Version 1 | Gohmert (TX) | Republican | Provides appropriation of funds to continue military pay and allowances without interruption in the event that funding would cease for any reason. | Submitted |
| 70 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Prohibits funding from being obligated or expended by the United States Government to exercise United States control over any oil resource of Afghanistan, in keeping with a similar prohibition in Iraq located in Section 9007 of the bill (p. 150). | Submitted |
| 71 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Prohibits funds appropriated in this bill from being obligated or expended for assistance to Iran or Syria unless specifically appropriated for that purpose. | Submitted |
| 72 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Prohibits funds appropriated in this bill from being obligated or expended for assistance to Zimbabwe, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Maldives, or Myanmar unless specifically appropriated for that purpose. | Submitted |
| 73 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Prevents contracts from being awarded to contractors who have been convicted within the last three years for crimes against the federal government such as fraud, theft, bribery, making false statements, and tax evasion. | Made In Order |
| 74 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Withdrawn Reduces funding for the Afghan Security Forces by $10 million and increases funding for suicide prevention outreach in the Defense Health Program by $10 million. | Withdrawn |
| 75 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Prohibits any foreign person from directly and personally benefiting from funds appropriated by this bill, unless the funds are awarded by full and open competition. | Submitted |
| 76 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Prohibits contracting with any person who has been convicted of intentionally affixing a “Made in America” label to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that is not made in America. | Submitted |
| 77 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Prohibits funds made available by this Act from being used to obtain or seek to obtain information relating to an individual or group of individuals held by a third-party in a system of records unless the individual whose name or identification information the Federal Government is using to access the information provides express and informed consent to the specific search, directly to the Government and not as a term of service, or the Federal Government obtains a warrant, upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. | Submitted |
| 78 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Withdrawn Prohibits funds from being used to implement an enrollment fee for the TRICARE for LIFE program. | Withdrawn |
| 79 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Reduces the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide account by $10 million and increases the Defense Health Program account by $10 million in order to bolster prostate cancer research efforts. | Made In Order |
| 80 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Prohibits funds in this act from being used to fund a brewery. | Submitted |
| 81 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Prohibits funds from being used to produce any document that categorizes an individual killed in a strike by an unmanned aerial system as anything but ‘unknown’ unless the person 1) can be named, or 2) was wearing a recognizable enemy uniform. | Submitted |
| 82 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Prohibits funds from being used to plan, develop, release or make available to the general public DOD-created video games. | Submitted |
| 83 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Increases the Defense Health Program Account by $10 million to specifically target finding a cure for Gulf War Illness which directly affects over one-fourth of veterans from the first Gulf War. | Made In Order |
| 84 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Provides that none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to engage in an act covered by or described in 18 USC 2340A (torture or conspiracy to commit torture). | Made In Order |
| 85 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Prohibits funds made available by this bill from being used to pay more than $1 million to a subcontractor under a non-fixed-price prime contract of the Department of Defense unless such payment is reported to the Defense Contract Audit Agency. | Submitted |
| 86 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Withdrawn Prohibits funds in this bill from being used to fund a domestic elementary or secondary school that is located within two miles of a public school. | Withdrawn |
| 111 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Prohibits the use of funds to have a net increase of additional flag or general officers above current levels. | Made In Order |
| 112 | Version 2 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Revised Prohibits the use of funds to block access to online news media to members of the Armed Services during morale, welfare, and recreation periods. | Submitted |
| 113 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Prohibits the use of funds to award contracts to entities that hire, at the date of enactment of this act, former general and flag officers who have retired within the last five years at a compensation rate of at least twice what these officers made at their last highest government rate, if the entities receive more than 50% of their revenues from the Department of Defense. | Submitted |
| 6 | Version 1 | Griffin (AR) | Republican | Provides that none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to cancel or modify the avionics modernization program of record for C–130 aircraft. | Made In Order |
| 39 | Version 1 | Hanabusa (HI) | Democrat | Prohibits funds from being used to implement an enrollment fee in the TRICARE for Life program. | Made In Order |
| 138 | Version 1 | Heck (NV) | Republican | Late Transfers $15,000,000 to Defense-Wide RDTE for producing the Iron Dome short-range rocket defense program in the United States, including for infrastructure, tooling, transferring data, special test equipment, and related components. | Made In Order |
| 139 | Version 1 | Heck (NV) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Transfers $14,000, 000 to Defense RDTE to produce the Iron Dome short-range rocket defense program in the United States, including for infrastructure, tooling, transferring data, special test equipment, and related components. | Withdrawn |
| 29 | Version 1 | Hunter (CA) | Republican | Prohibits the use of funds from this Act to plan for, consider, or carry out any action to remove any portion of the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial in San Diego, California. | Made In Order |
| 45 | Version 1 | Israel (NY), King, Peter (NY) | Bi-Partisan | Increases by $10 million the Defense Human Resources Activity account for the purpose of enhancing DOD efforts in mental health research, treatment, education, and outreach and reduces the same amount from the Office of the Secretary of Defense account | Made In Order |
| 46 | Version 1 | Israel (NY) | Democrat | Prohibits the use of funds for the purchase of USB devices that lack cryptographic protection and specifies that procured products must be designed, manufactured, and embedded in the U.S. | Submitted |
| 134 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Prohibits the DoD from using funds appropriated by the Act to entering into a new contract or renewing the contract of any civilian contractor performing defense intelligence activities (including intelligence analysis) to support Federal Government activities if such contract would cause the number of civilian contractors for FY2014 to exceed 90 percent of the number of such civilian contractors for FY2013. | Submitted |
| 135 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Increases the Defense Health Program's Research and Development account by $10 million and reduces the Defense Procurement-Wide account by the same amount. | Made In Order |
| 156 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Late Reduces funding for Procurement, Defense-Wide, by $1 million and transfers the same amount to the Spending Reduction Account. | Made In Order |
| 157 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Late Reduces funding for Procurement, Defense-Wide, by $2 million and transfers the same amount to the Spending Reduction Account. | Made In Order |
| 158 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Late Increases funding for Defense Health Program account (intended for PTSD) by $500,000 offset by a similar reduction in the Environment Restoration, Army account. | Made In Order |
| 19 | Version 1 | Jones (NC) | Republican | Restricts the use of funds approved by this Act from being used to carry out activities under the United States - Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement, without being approved by Members of Congress. | Made In Order |
| 20 | Version 1 | Jones (NC) | Republican | Restricts the use of funds approved by this Act from being used to carry out activities under the United States - Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement. | Made In Order |
| 106 | Version 3 | Kilmer (WA), Heck (WA) | Democrat | Revised Protects DoD civilians' security clearances. | Made In Order |
| 107 | Version 1 | Kilmer (WA) | Democrat | Makes a symbolic cut of $1 million to the Defense Human Resources Activity, Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide, account. Funds are reinserted at the same place, with the intent of encouraging a study on how the Defense Human Resources Activity components and the Chief Information Officer identify, catalogue, process, notify appropriate personnel, and rectify mistakes or inconsistencies found when data is uploaded to the Defense Manpower Data Center. | Made In Order |
| 16 | Version 1 | Kline (MN), Polis (CO), Paulsen (MN) | Bi-Partisan | Prohibits funds to carry out recent DOD recruitment policies in contravention of congressional intent in the Fiscal Year 2012 NDAA and to ensure all students are given the same opportunities to enlist in the armed forces. | Made In Order |
| 17 | Version 1 | Kline (MN), Paulsen (MN) | Republican | Prohibits funds from this Act to be used by the DOD to enlist an individual into the Armed Forces convicted of rape, sexual assault, or other sex crimes as outlined in the DOD enlistment waivers policy. Provides oversight to ensure DOD is properly screening individuals entering the military. | Made In Order |
| 18 | Version 1 | Kline (MN) | Republican | Withdrawn Provides funding to help reduce the backlog of pending cases in the Medical Evaluation Board/Integrated Disability Evaluation System for our servicemembers. Ensures adequate resources are available to increase the efficiency of adjudication times and bring transparency and action to the system while helping to prioritize the issue for the Secretary of Defense. | Withdrawn |
| 30 | Version 1 | LaMalfa (CA) | Republican | Provides that none of the funds made available in this act may be used to pay any fine assessed against a military installation by an appointed commission, board, or other state entity tasked with enforcing state emissions, water quality and land use laws and regulations. | Submitted |
| 31 | Version 1 | LaMalfa (CA) | Republican | Provides that none of the funds made available in this act may be used to pay any fine assessed against a military installation by the California Air Resources Board. | Made In Order |
| 108 | Version 2 | Lamborn (CO), O'Rourke (TX), Barrow (GA), Jenkins (KS) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Prohibits the use of funds to implement sequestration-related furloughs of civilian Department of Defense employees. | Made In Order |
| 109 | Version 1 | Lamborn (CO), Lummis (WY), Daines (MT), Cramer, Kevin (ND) | Republican | Prohibits the use of funds to conduct an environmental impact study on ICBMs. | Made In Order |
| 89 | Version 1 | Langevin (RI) | Democrat | Reduces the appropriation for Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $5 million and transfers this amount to RDT&E, Defense-Wide for the purpose of restoring the funding for Cyber Security Advanced Research to the amount requested in the President’s Budget. | Made In Order |
| 91 | Version 1 | Langevin (RI) | Democrat | Reduces the appropriation for Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $22 million and transfers this amount to RDT&E, Navy for the purpose of supporting development, demonstration, evaluation and fielding of promising undersea technologies in RDT&E Project Number 2033, for Advanced Submarine Systems Development. | Made In Order |
| 130 | Version 1 | Lee, Barbara (CA) | Democrat | Prohibits cash payment to an employee, officer, elected official, or representative of the government of a foreign country for the purposes of bribery, coercion, or any activity that is illegal or undermines the rule of law. | Submitted |
| 131 | Version 1 | Lee, Barbara (CA), Schakowsky (IL) | Democrat | Requires a report ranking all military departments and Defense Agencies in order of how advanced they are in achieving auditable financial statements as required by law. | Submitted |
| 132 | Version 1 | Lee, Barbara (CA), Blumenauer (OR), Schrader (OR), Conyers (MI), Polis (CO) | Democrat | Reduces funding by 1%, excluding the Defense Health Program and Military Personnel Accounts. | Made In Order |
| 133 | Version 1 | Lee, Barbara (CA) | Democrat | Requires a report, in classified and unclassified form, describing the utilization of the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF). | Submitted |
| 3 | Version 1 | LoBiondo (NJ) | Republican | Prohibits funding for Department of Defense aviation demonstration teams to perform outside of the United States. | Made In Order |
| 99 | Version 1 | Lowenthal (CA) | Democrat | Increases funding by $5,000,000 for the STARBASE Youth Program which falls under the Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide and reduce the same amount from the Maintenance, Defense-Wide, Office of the Secretary of Defense account. | Made In Order |
| 128 | Version 1 | Lujan Grisham (NM), Lamborn (CO) | Bi-Partisan | Reduces RDT&E by $10 million and adds $10 million to RDT&E for Operationally Responsive Space (ORS). | Made In Order |
| 104 | Version 2 | Massie (KY), Yoho (FL), Schrader (OR), Amash (MI) | Bi-Partisan | Revised States that no funds made available by this Act may be used to fund military or paramilitary operations in Syria. | Submitted |
| 105 | Version 2 | Massie (KY), Amash (MI), Yoho (FL) | Republican | Revised Provides that no funds made available by this Act may be used to fund military or paramilitary operations in Egypt. | Made In Order |
| 8 | Version 1 | McKinley (WV), Napolitano (CA), McNerney (CA), Lowenthal (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Increases the Youth Challenge Program under Civil Military Programs within the Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide account by $10,000,000. Decreases by $10,000,000 under Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide the general account for the Office of the Secretary of Defense. | Made In Order |
| 23 | Version 1 | Meadows (NC) | Republican | Prohibits the use of funds for payment of salaries to recess appointees until the appointee is formally confirmed by the Senate. | Made In Order |
| 154 | Version 1 | Moran, James (VA), Smith, Adam (WA) | Democrat | Late Strikes sections 8107, which prohibits funding to transfer or release any individual detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba into the United States, its territories, or possessions. Strikes section 8198, which prohibits funding to transfer any individual detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to a country of origin or other foreign country or entity unless the Secretary of Defense makes certain certifications. Strike Section 8109, which prohibits funding to modify any United States facility (other than the facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba) to house any individual detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. | Made In Order |
| 44 | Version 1 | Mulvaney (SC), Van Hollen (MD), Coffman (CO), Murphy, Patrick (FL) | Bi-Partisan | Reduces funds made available in the Overseas Contingency Operations budget by $3,546,000,000 to better correspond with the President’s request. Protects all amounts made available for the National Guard and Reserve Component Equipment modernization shortfalls for homeland defense and emergency response. | Made In Order |
| 119 | Version 1 | Murphy, Patrick (FL), Coffman (CO) | Bi-Partisan | Prevents funds from being used to maintain or improve facilities that DOD lists as being completely unused. | Made In Order |
| 120 | Version 1 | Murphy, Patrick (FL) | Democrat | Prevents funds from being used on contracts that were not bid competitively, efficiently, and fairly, per existing White House guidance promoting strategic sourcing, effective competition, and awards to small businesses. | Submitted |
| 180 | Version 1 | Murphy, Patrick (FL) | Democrat | Late Limits funds from being used on new acquisitions that the Secretary’s Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation has determined would not be cost efficient. | Submitted |
| 103 | Version 1 | Nadler (NY) | Democrat | Withdrawn Prohibits the force-feeding of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. | Withdrawn |
| 123 | Version 2 | Nadler (NY) | Democrat | Revised Prevents the further detention of Guantanamo Bay detainees that have already been cleared for release. | Made In Order |
| 124 | Version 1 | Nadler (NY) | Democrat | Prevents further construction or expansion of existing facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba | Made In Order |
| 125 | Version 1 | Nadler (NY), Garamendi (CA), Polis (CO) | Democrat | Cuts $70 million of unrequested funds for the East Coast Missile Defense site and dedicate that funding to deficit reduction instead. | Made In Order |
| 141 | Version 1 | Nugent (FL) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Limits funds available to treat military technicians (dual status) as other than personnel for purposes any sequestration order. | Withdrawn |
| 142 | Version 2 | Nugent (FL) | Republican | Late Revised Reduces appropriations for Defense-wide rapid innovation and increases the appropriations to develop a high power microwave cruise missile weapon. | Made In Order |
| 143 | Version 1 | Nugent (FL) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Permanently reclassifies dual status technicians as military personnel under the Budget Control Act, making them exempt from the impact of sequester. | Withdrawn |
| 144 | Version 1 | Nugent (FL) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Limits funds available for American military involvement or any lethal aid to Syria. | Withdrawn |
| 145 | Version 1 | Nugent (FL) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Reduces appropriations for Air Force sociocultural modeling and increases the appropriations to develop a high power microwave cruise missile weapon. | Withdrawn |
| 146 | Version 1 | Nugent (FL) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Limits funds available to provide lethal military equipment to Egypt. | Withdrawn |
| 147 | Version 2 | Nugent (FL) | Republican | Late Revised Ensures none of the funds may be used by the NSA to target a US person or acquire and store the content of a US person’s communications, including phone calls and e-mails. | Made In Order |
| 148 | Version 1 | Nugent (FL) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Prevents the Executive branch from using lethal force on Americans abroad without a prior judicial determination. Provides exceptions for the use of lethal force under a declaration of war, authorization for the use of military force, or when such force is in self defense to an imminent threat to the United States. | Withdrawn |
| 149 | Version 1 | Nugent (FL) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Expresses a sense of congress the Executive branch should not use lethal force on Americans abroad without a prior judicial determination. Provides exceptions for the use of lethal force under a declaration of war, authorization for the use of military force, or when such force is in self defense to an imminent threat to the United States. | Withdrawn |
| 150 | Version 1 | Nugent (FL) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Reduces appropriations for Defense-wide environmental research and increases the appropriations to develop a high power microwave cruise missile. | Withdrawn |
| 110 | Version 1 | Nunes (CA), Costa (CA), Langevin (RI), Keating (MA), Cicilline (RI), Valadao (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from using FY14 funds for the reduction in force structure at Lajes Field, Azores Portugal. | Made In Order |
| 61 | Version 1 | O'Rourke (TX) | Democrat | Withdrawn Exempts the Department of Defense’s entire civilian workforce from sequester-related furlough in FY2014. | Withdrawn |
| 62 | Version 1 | O'Rourke (TX) | Democrat | Strikes Section 8058. | Made In Order |
| 33 | Version 2 | Palazzo (MS), Nugent (FL) | Republican | Revised Prevents any funds from being used to plan for or carryout furloughs of Dual Status Military Technicians | Made In Order |
| 34 | Version 1 | Palazzo (MS) | Republican | Prevents any funds from being used to rebase any Air Force, Air Guard, or Air Force Reserve aircraft until 60 days after the National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force has submitted its report as required by the FY 2013 NDAA | Made In Order |
| 93 | Version 2 | Pierluisi (PR), Young, Don (AK) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Enables the Department of Defense to respond to significant public safety hazards and fulfill its environmental restoration responsibilities under CERCLA by removing unexploded ordnance from the Northwest Peninsula of the island of Culebra in Puerto Rico, which is a formerly used defense site where U.S. Navy ship-to-shore bombing and weapons training occurred from 1903 until 1975. | Made In Order |
| 122 | Version 1 | Pocan (WI) | Democrat | Makes available from amounts available for the Department of Defense for research, development, test, and evaluation $10,000,000 for applied research to improve the safety of advanced batteries, specifically lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries. | Made In Order |
| 162 | Version 1 | Poe (TX) | Republican | Late Cuts funding to Pakistan by $600 million. | Made In Order |
| 163 | Version 1 | Poe (TX) | Republican | Eliminates the waiver to conditions on aid to Pakistan. | Made In Order |
| 92 | Version 1 | Polis (CO) | Democrat | Strikes $107,000,000 for 14 Ground-based Interceptors and reduces the deficit by the same amount. | Made In Order |
| 152 | Version 1 | Polis (CO) | Democrat | Late Withdrawn Strikes $68,174,000 for 8 MQ-9 Reaper drones and reduces the deficit by the same amount. | Withdrawn |
| 164 | Version 1 | Polis (CO) | Democrat | Late Withdrawn Strikes $146,000,000 in funding for the UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters and apply the savings to the spending reduction account. | Withdrawn |
| 41 | Version 1 | Quigley (IL) | Democrat | Limits funds made available in the bill to operate and maintain no more than 300 land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles. | Made In Order |
| 102 | Version 2 | Radel (FL) | Republican | Revised Prohibits the use of any funds with respect to military action in Syria to the extent such action would be inconsistent with the War Powers Resolution. | Made In Order |
| 47 | Version 1 | Rigell (VA) | Republican | Withdrawn Reduces the Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund by 50% ($139,500,000) and moves those funds to the Spending Reduction Account. | Withdrawn |
| 48 | Version 1 | Rigell (VA) | Republican | Prohibits funds in the Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund from being used to commence new projects. | Made In Order |
| 49 | Version 1 | Rigell (VA) | Republican | Withdrawn Reduces the Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund by 50% ($139,500,000) and redistributes those funds to Operation and Maintenance Accounts of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. | Withdrawn |
| 9 | Version 1 | Rogers, Mike (AL) | Republican | Withdrawn Reduces the accounts in this act to implement the New START Treaty. | Withdrawn |
| 10 | Version 1 | Rogers, Mike (AL) | Republican | Provides that none of the funds made available by this act may be used to carry out reductions to the nuclear forces of the United States to implement the New START Treaty. | Made In Order |
| 168 | Version 1 | Rohrabacher (CA) | Republican | Late Prohibits any funds in the bill from being provided to Pakistan. | Made In Order |
| 175 | Version 1 | Rooney (FL) | Republican | Late Prohibits Department of Defense funds to provide military equipment and support to rebel groups in Syria. | Submitted |
| 2 | Version 1 | Runyan (NJ) | Republican | Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for any purpose that would violate 49 U.S.C. 41106, the Fly CRAF Act. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for unapproved foreign carrier flights without proper authorization. | Made In Order |
| 153 | Version 3 | Scalise (LA) | Republican | Late Revised Prohibits the Department of Defense from entering into any new contracts for the procurement or production of non-petroleum based fuels for use as the same purpose or as a drop-in substitute for petroleum. | Made In Order |
| 161 | Version 1 | Scalise (LA) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Prohibits the Department of Defense from entering into any new contracts for the procurement or production of biofuels for the purpose of test, certification, research, or development. | Withdrawn |
| 178 | Version 1 | Schiff (CA) | Democrat | Late Prohibits funding the use of force pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF, PL 107-40) effective on December 31, 2014 - concurrent with the end of our combat role in Afghanistan. | Made In Order |
| 179 | Version 1 | Schiff (CA) | Democrat | Late Prohibits the use of funds for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence unless certain significant opinions by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court are declassified or disclosed, consistent with national security protections, as of March 31, 2014. | Submitted |
| 7 | Version 1 | Schweikert (AZ) | Republican | Provides that none of the funds made available by this Act may used for military operations in or against Syria except under a declaration of war against Syria pursuant to Article I, section 8, clause 11 of the Constitution. | Submitted |
| 28 | Version 1 | Schweikert (AZ) | Republican | Provides that none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to transfer military equipment to the Government of Egypt until the Government of Egypt and the Department of Defense have performed an analysis of Egypt’s security needs. | Submitted |
| 26 | Version 2 | Sessions (TX), Thompson, Mike (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Reduces the Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide account (with the intention of cutting the Office of the Sec. of Defense) by $10 million and increases the Defense Health Program by a similar amount to create a pilot program to assist service individuals suffering from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). | Made In Order |
| 118 | Version 1 | Shea-Porter (NH), LoBiondo (NJ) | Bi-Partisan | Designates funding to study the Therapeutic Service Dog Training Program, which was directed in House Report 113-102 accompanying the FY14 NDAA. | Made In Order |
| 21 | Version 1 | Speier (CA) | Democrat | Withdrawn Strikes $100 million beyond the President's request for the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle. | Withdrawn |
| 22 | Version 1 | Speier (CA) | Democrat | Withdrawn Strikes $897,507,000 for 2 ships for the Littoral Combat Ship program and reduces the deficit by the same amount. | Withdrawn |
| 172 | Version 2 | Speier (CA), Schrader (OR), Wilson (FL), Chu (CA), Eshoo (CA), Keating (MA), Brownley (CA), Esty (CT), Rush (IL), Schakowsky (IL), Walz (MN), Meng (NY), Maloney, Carolyn (NY), Braley (IA) | Democrat | Late Revised Provides $10 million in additional funds to increase training for investigators to properly investigate sexual assault related offenses. | Made In Order |
| 173 | Version 3 | Speier (CA), Wilson (FL), Chu (CA), Eshoo (CA), Keating (MA), Brownley (CA), Esty (CT), Rush (IL), Schakowsky (IL), Walz (MN), Meng (NY), Maloney, Carolyn (NY), Braley (IA) | Democrat | Revised Provides funds to identify individuals who were separated from the military on the grounds of a disorder subsequent to reporting a sexual assault and, if appropriate, correcting their record. | Made In Order |
| 174 | Version 1 | Stockman (TX), Rohrabacher (CA) | Republican | Late Prohibits participation by the People's Republic of China in joint U.S. military exercises. | Made In Order |
| 121 | Version 1 | Swalwell (CA) | Democrat | Withdrawn Increases by $5,000,000 the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Air Force Support Systems Development (Alternative Energy Research). Reduces $2,500,00 from Army Aircraft Procurement and $17,500,000 from Army Missile Procurement. | Withdrawn |
| 36 | Version 1 | Takano (CA) | Democrat | Prevents any funding for tuition assistance in this bill from being used by institutions of higher education for recruiting or marketing activities. | Submitted |
| 11 | Version 1 | Terry (NE) | Republican | Requires the report described on page 105 of the committee passed bill to include a description of how much money civilian salaries were reduced due to furloughs and how much budget authority would have been needed to offset these furloughs. | Submitted |
| 12 | Version 1 | Terry (NE) | Republican | Prohibits the Department of Defense to spend any appropriated funds in FY14 to enforce Section 526 of the Energy Independent and Security Act of 2007. | Made In Order |
| 13 | Version 1 | Terry (NE) | Republican | Reduces the appropriation for environmental mitigation on Indian lands from $12 million to $1 million to create flexibility within appropriated amounts for the purpose of offsetting civilian furloughs. | Submitted |
| 14 | Version 2 | Terry (NE) | Republican | Revised Increases Defense wide O/M by $1 billion, while reducing funding in the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund by $2.6 billion. The reduction would be in order to give DOD more flexibility to offset civilian furloughs. | Made In Order |
| 15 | Version 1 | Terry (NE) | Republican | Reduces the appropriation for the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund by $4 billion and transfers this amount to Defense Wide Operations and Maintenance within Title IX of the bill. | Submitted |
| 165 | Version 1 | Terry (NE) | Republican | Late Decreases the appropriated level by 60% for Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster and Civic Aid and increase the appropriated level for U.S. Air Force Operations and Maintenance by $13,500,000. | Submitted |
| 166 | Version 1 | Terry (NE) | Republican | Late Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from spending any appropriated dollars to reduce the military and civilian force structure at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. | Submitted |
| 167 | Version 1 | Terry (NE) | Republican | Late Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from spending any appropriated dollars to reduce the force structure of the United States Strategic Command below the total number of military and civilian personnel assigned there as of October 1, 2012. | Submitted |
| 27 | Version 1 | Turner (OH), Rogers, Mike (AL) | Republican | Prevents funds from being used to reduce strategic delivery systems and ensures that the President is in compliance with the Arms Control and Disarmament Act. | Made In Order |
| 54 | Version 1 | Velzquez (NY) | Democrat | Increases the funding to the Maintenance and Operations – Defense-wide budget by $1 million for the purposes of funding the Military Hazing Prevention Oversight Panel. | Submitted |
| 55 | Version 1 | Velzquez (NY) | Democrat | Increases the funding to the Defense Health Program by $5 million for the purposes of reducing military hazing and suicides. | Made In Order |
| 58 | Version 2 | Walberg (MI) | Republican | Revised Increases funding for the Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force-Crisis Response by $10 million and reduces funding to the Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide account by $11 million. | Made In Order |
| 59 | Version 1 | Walberg (MI), Cohen (TN), Esty (CT), Rigell (VA) | Bi-Partisan | Reduces the Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund by $79 million and transfer the savings to the Spending Reduction Account. | Made In Order |
| 38 | Version 2 | Walorski (IN) | Republican | Revised Prohibits any funds made available by this Act from being used to transfer or release detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Yemen. | Made In Order |
| 176 | Version 2 | Welch (VT) | Democrat | Late Revised Prohibits funds to pay customs fees to the Government of Afghanistan for the transportation of U.S. military equipment across Afghanistan's borders. | Submitted |
| 35 | Version 1 | Wittman (VA) | Republican | Provides that none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to propose, plan for, or execute an additional Base Realignment and Closure round. | Made In Order |
| 136 | Version 1 | Yoho (FL) | Republican | Prohibits funds to be used to furnish, train, or support military activities to any group or individual in Syria unless Congress has formally declared war with Syria. | Submitted |
Committee Votes
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 59
Motion by Ms. Slaughter to report an open rule. Defeated: 4–8
Majority MemberVote
Ms. FoxxNay
Mr. BishopNay
Mr. ColeNay
Mr. WoodallNay
Mr. NugentNay
Mr. WebsterYea
Ms. Ros-LehtinenNay
Mr. BurgessNo Vote
Mr. Sessions, ChairmanNay
Minority MemberVote
Ms. SlaughterYea
Mr. McGovernYea
Mr. HastingsYea
Mr. PolisYea
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 60
Motion by Ms. Foxx to report the rule. Adopted: 8-4
Majority MemberVote
Ms. FoxxYea
Mr. BishopYea
Mr. ColeYea
Mr. WoodallYea
Mr. NugentYea
Mr. WebsterYea
Ms. Ros-LehtinenYea
Mr. BurgessNo Vote
Mr. Sessions, ChairmanYea
Minority MemberVote
Ms. SlaughterNay
Mr. McGovernNay
Mr. HastingsNay
Mr. PolisNay