Congressional Record — House of Representatives, H7272 (December 18, 2020)
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Page H7272 of the Congressional Record, House, for December 18, 2020, lists Members recorded pursuant to House Resolution 965 and prints bill text amending the Overtime Pay for Protective Services Act of 2016 to cover calendar years 2016 through 2023, with Secret Service reports to committees. Hoyer says negotiators are trying to reach agreement on funding of the government and the COVID–19 response and that he intends to ask for a recess until 5 o'clock. Scalise adds that government funding expires at midnight. A communication from the Clerk of the House follows.
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H7272 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE December 18, 2020
MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE (3) in subsection (b)(1)— the Senate and the House, to try to
RESOLUTION 965, 116TH CONGRESS (A) by inserting ‘‘for a given calendar come to agreement not only with re-
Allred (Wexton) Gottheimer Napolitano year’’ after ‘‘for premium pay’’; and spect to funding of the government,
Axne (Davids (Panetta) (Correa) (B) by striking ‘‘during 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019,
but also with respect to the response to
(KS)) Grijalva (Garcı́a Neguse and 2020’’ and inserting ‘‘during each of cal-
Barragán (Beyer) (IL)) (Perlmutter) endar years 2016 through 2023’’. COVID–19 and the pandemic that af-
Bera (Aguilar) Haaland (Davids Pascrell (b) REPORTS.— flicts our people and has afflicted our
Blumenauer (KS)) (Pallone) (1) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the economy in a very negative way. So we
(Beyer) Hastings Payne
Bonamici (Clark (Wasserman (Wasserman
term ‘‘appropriate committees of Congress’’ are trying to get to an agreement, try-
(MA)) Schultz) Schultz) means the Committee on Appropriations, the ing to get paper done.
Brownley (CA) Heck (Kildee) Peters (Kildee) Committee on Homeland Security and Gov- Mr. Speaker, I have told the Repub-
(Clark (MA)) Jayapal (Raskin) Peterson ernmental Affairs, and the Committee on the lican whip that we intend to ask for a
Cárdenas Johnson (TX) (McCollum) Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee
(Cisneros) (Jeffries) Pingree recess until 5 o’clock this afternoon,
on Appropriations, the Committee on Over-
Case Kelly (IL) (Cicilline) sight and Reform, and the Committee on the which would give us 3 more hours to
(Cartwright) (Clarke (NY)) Pocan (Raskin) work on both the discussions. And I
Cleaver (Davids Kennedy Porter (Wexton) Judiciary of the House of Representatives.
(KS)) (McGovern) Price (NC) (2) REPORT ON EXTENSIONS.—Not later than just got off the phone with the Speak-
Cohen (Beyer) Kilmer (Kildee) (Butterfield) January 30 of each of calendar years 2021, er, who just got off the phone with Sen-
Costa (Correa) Kim (Davids Richmond 2022, and 2023, the Director of the United ator MCCONNELL, and so we are hoping
Craig (KS)) (Butterfield) States Secret Service shall submit to the ap- that, in the next 3 hours, we will have
(McCollum) Kind (Beyer) Roybal-Allard propriate committees of Congress a report on
Davis (CA) Kirkpatrick (Garcia (TX)) a clearer picture of where we are.
the effects of the amendments made by sub-
(Scanlon) (Stanton) Ruiz (Dingell)
section (a) and the amendments made by sec-
Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman
Dean (Scanlon) Kuster (NH) Rush from Louisiana (Mr. SCALISE), my
DeFazio (Davids (Bustos) (Underwood) tion 2(a) of the Secret Service Overtime Pay
(KS)) Lamb (Sherrill) Ryan (Kildee) Extension Act (Public Law 115–383; 132 Stat. friend.
DeGette (Blunt Langevin Schakowsky 5121), which shall include, with respect to the Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Speaker, I thank
Rochester) (Lynch) (Underwood) previous calendar year, the information de- the gentleman for yielding.
DelBene Lawrence Schneider scribed under paragraphs (1) through (7) of As the gentleman from Maryland
(Cicilline) (Kildee) (Casten (IL)) section 2(c) of the Secret Service Recruit-
DeSaulnier Lawson (FL) Schrier pointed out, we know government
(Matsui) (Demings) (Spanberger)
ment and Retention Act of 2018 (Public Law funding expires at midnight. Clearly,
Deutch (Rice Lieu, Ted (Beyer) Serrano 115–160; 132 Stat. 1246).
(3) OPEN RECOMMENDATIONS.—Not later
we have been working for days in a
(NY)) Lipinski (Jeffries)
Doggett (Raskin) (Schrader) Sewell (AL) than 60 days after the date of enactment of very productive way to get close to an
Doyle, Michael Lofgren (Jeffries) (Cicilline) this Act, the Director of the United States agreement on both funding of govern-
F. (Cartwright) Lowenthal Sires (Pallone) Secret Service shall submit to the appro- ment as well as COVID relief. We are
Escobar (Garcia (Beyer) Smith (WA) priate committees of Congress a report dis- not quite there on all of these details,
(TX)) Lowey (Tonko) (Courtney)
Eshoo McEachin Speier (Scanlon)
cussing the progress of the United States Se- but we are eager to see if we can get
(Thompson (Wexton) Titus (Connolly) cret Service in implementing each rec- this resolved.
(CA)) McNerney Vargas (Correa) ommendation of the Government Account- As the gentleman knows, everybody,
Finkenauer (Raskin) Veasey (Beyer) ability Office to the United States Secret
(Underwood) Meng (Clark Watson Coleman
Members on both sides are very inter-
Service that has not been designated as
Fletcher (MA)) (Pallone) closed by the Comptroller General of the ested in finding out what the schedule
(Raskin) Moore (Beyer) Welch United States. will be. I appreciate that update, and I
Frankel (Clark Mucarsel-Powell (McGovern) imagine that means we will stay tuned
(MA)) (Wasserman Wild (Scanlon)
(4) PROTECTIVE MISSION PANEL.—Not later
Garamendi Schultz) Wilson (FL) than 1 year after the date of enactment of and see if, between now and 5 p.m., we
(Sherman) Nadler (Jeffries) (Hayes) this Act, the Comptroller General of the can get that resolved.
United States shall submit to the appro- Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I thank
f
priate committees of Congress a report on the gentleman.
SECRET SERVICE OVERTIME PAY the extent of the progress made by the
For the general Membership, I would
EXTENSION ACT United States Secret Service in imple-
menting the recommendations of the United urge them, however, to keep tonight
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask States Secret Service Protective Mission free, tomorrow free, Sunday free, and
unanimous consent to take from the Panel, including in particular those items such days thereafter as we may need—
Speaker’s table the bill (S. 5036) to pertaining to training and personnel enumer- and I hope we do not need any of those
amend the Overtime Pay for Protective ated in the Executive Summary to Report days—so that we can, A, pass funding
Services Act of 2016 to extend the Se- from the United States Secret Service Pro- for the balance of the fiscal year until
cret Service overtime pay exception tective Mission Panel to the Secretary of September 30 of next year, and that we
Homeland Security dated December 15, 2014.
through 2023, and for other purposes, can give the kind of relief that, frank-
(c) REPEAL OF SUPERSEDED REPORTING RE-
and ask for its immediate consider- QUIREMENT.—Section 2(b) of the Secret Serv-
ly, Mr. SCALISE and I have been talking
ation in the House. ice Overtime Pay Extension Act (Public Law about for the last 3 weeks, for small
The Clerk read the title of the bill. 115–383; 132 Stat. 5121) is repealed. businesses, people on unemployment
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. The bill was ordered to be read a insurance, people who are having trou-
CUELLAR). Is there objection to the re- third time, was read the third time, ble putting food on their table, trans-
quest of the gentleman from Maryland? and passed, and a motion to reconsider portation systems that are about to
There was no objection. was laid on the table. shut down, and other relief that both
The text of the bill is as follows: sides are trying to come to an agree-
f ment on.
S. 5036
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM Mr. Speaker, I urge every Member to
resentatives of the United States of America in keep their schedule free, essentially,
(Mr. HOYER asked and was given
Congress assembled, for such days as it takes to accomplish
permission to address the House for 1
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. those two objectives.
minute.)
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Secret Serv- Unless the gentleman wants to say
ice Overtime Pay Extension Act’’. Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, the Repub-
something further, I yield back the bal-
lican whip and I have been discussing
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF OVERTIME PAY EXCEP- ance of my time.
TION THROUGH 2023 FOR PROTEC- where we are and to bring Members up
TIVE SERVICES. to speed on what status we have for
f
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 2 of the Overtime today and the next few days.
rfrederick on DSKBCBPHB2PROD with HOUSE
Pay for Protective Services Act of 2016 (5 Mr. Speaker, as everybody in the
U.S.C. 5547 note) is amended— House knows, and America knows, as COMMUNICATION FROM THE
(1) in the section heading, by striking CLERK OF THE HOUSE
of midnight tonight, the government
‘‘2020’’ and inserting ‘‘2023’’;
(2) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘during will run out of authority to operate The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be-
2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, or 2020’’ and inserting and run out of funds, authorization, to fore the House the following commu-
‘‘during any of calendar years 2016 through be spent. As a result, everybody is nication from the Clerk of the House of
2023’’; and working very, very hard on both sides, Representatives:
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