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DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 961, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Visclosky amendment No. 22.

An amendment, offered by Mr. Visclosky, numbered 22 printed in Part A of House Report 115-783 to bar the use of funds in contravention of existing federal requirements for meaningful consultation and engagement with tribal communities related to activities that will impact them.

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 961, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Visclosky amendment No. 16.

An amendment, offered by Mr. Visclosky, numbered 16 printed in Part A of House Report 115-783 to increase Peer-Reviewed Breast Cancer Research Program funding by $5,000,000.

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 961, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Poe (TX) amendment No. 20.

An amendment, offered by Mr. Poe (TX), numbered 20 printed in Part A of House Report 115-783 to reduce the amount of Coalition Support Fund reimbursements Pakistan is eligible to receive by $200 million.

On agreeing to the Lipinski amendment; Agreed to by voice vote.

On agreeing to the Soto amendment; Agreed to by voice vote.

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 961, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Soto amendment No. 14.

An amendment, offered by Mr. Soto, numbered 14 printed in Part A of House Report 115-783 to increase funding for Gulf War illness research under the Defense Health Program by $1 million.

On agreeing to the Lipinski amendment; Agreed to by voice vote.

POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Langevin amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Langevin demanded a recorded vote, and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 961, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Lipinski amendment No. 10.

An amendment, offered by Mr. Lipinski, numbered 10 printed in Part A of House Report 115-783 to provide $30M for the National Security Technology Accelerator, to support national security innovation and entrepreneurial education programs at universities. Reduces Operations and Maintenance-Defense Wide by the same amount.

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 961, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Langevin amendment No. 9.

An amendment, offered by Mr. Langevin, numbered 9 printed in Part A of House Report 115-783 to provide $10 million for Weapons and Munitions Technology (0602624A), $10 million for Innovative Naval Prototypes (INP) Applied Research (0602792N), and $20 million for Innovative Naval Prototypes Advanced Technology Development (0603801N) to be used for accelerated development and prototyping for the electromagnetic railgun.

On agreeing to the Soto amendment; Agreed to by voice vote.

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 961, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Soto amendment No. 8.

An amendment, offered by Mr. Soto, numbered 8 printed in Part A of House Report 115-783 to increase funding for the Quantum Information Sciences program within the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army account by $5 million to further advance quantum computing research.

On agreeing to the McSally amendment; Agreed to by voice vote.