Congressional Record — Daily Digest, Friday, February 26, 2021
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The Daily Digest for Friday, February 26, 2021 reports that the Senate was not in session and stands adjourned until 3 p.m. on Monday, March 1, 2021, with no committee meetings listed. For the House, it lists 54 public bills and 12 resolutions introduced, and a report filed on House Resolution 166, providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1319) on reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 5. The House passed H.R. 803, to designate certain lands in the State of Colorado as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System, by 227 yeas to 200 nays (Roll No. 45). It rejected the Westerman motion to recommit by 204 yeas to 221 nays (Roll No. 44) and agreed to Neguse en bloc amendment No. 1.
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Friday, February 26, 2021
Daily Digest
Senate
Chamber Action Committee Meetings
The Senate was not in session and stands ad- No committee meetings were held.
journed until 3 p.m., on Monday, March 1, 2021.
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House of Representatives
door Recreation Legacy Partnership (ORLP) pro-
Chamber Action gram; the ORLP program provides grants for out-
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 54 pub- door recreational opportunities in urban and low-in-
lic bills, H.R. 1391–1444; and 12 resolutions, H.J. come cities across the nation; Brown (No. 2) that en-
Res. 28; H. Con. Res. 20–21; and H. Res. 167–175 courages the Secretary of the Interior and the Sec-
were introduced. Pages H855–59 retary of Agriculture to ensure servicemembers and
Additional Cosponsors: Pages H860–61 veterans have access to these public lands for outdoor
Report Filed: A report was filed today as follows: recreation and wellness programs; DeFazio (No. 4)
H. Res. 166, providing for consideration of the that adds the Southwestern Oregon Watershed and
bill (H.R. 1319) to provide for reconciliation pursu- Salmon Protection Act of 2021 to the bill, which
ant to title II of S. Con. Res. 5 (H. Rept. 117–8). withdraws certain land located in Curry County and
Page H855
Josephine County, Oregon, from all forms of entry,
appropriation, or disposal under the public land
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein she laws, location, entry, and patent under the mining
appointed Representative Cuellar to act as Speaker laws, and operation under the mineral leasing and
pro tempore for today. Page H735
geo-thermal leasing laws; DeSaulnier (No. 5) that
Recess: The House recessed at 10:23 a.m. and re- adds the Rosie the Riveter National Historic Site
convened at 10:33 a.m. Page H757 Expansion Act to the bill, which marks a local his-
Colorado Wilderness Act of 2021: The House toric site at the Nystrom Elementary School, as part
passed H.R. 803, to designate certain lands in the of the Rosie the Riveter/ World War II Home Front
State of Colorado as components of the National National Historical Park in Richmond, California;
Wilderness Preservation System, by a yea-and-nay Garamendi (No. 6) that makes a minor boundary ad-
vote of 227 yeas to 200 nays, Roll No. 45. Consider- justment of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Na-
ation began yesterday, February 25th. tional Heritage Area to include approximately 62
Pages H737–57, H757–61 acres of adjacent publicly owned land encompassing:
Rejected the Westerman motion to recommit the the decommissioned United States Army Reserve
bill to the Committee on Natural Resources by a Center (now owned by the City of Rio Vista, CA);
yea-and-nay vote of 204 yeas to 221 nays, Roll No. U.S. Coast Guard Station Rio Vista; Beach Drive
44. Pages H760–61 Wastewater Treatment Plant (City of Rio Vista); and
Agreed to: Sandy Beach County Park (Solano County, CA);
Neguse en bloc amendment No. 1 consisting of Keating (No. 10) that extends the life of the Cape
the following amendments printed in part B of H. Cod National Sea-shore Advisory Commission, which
Rept. 117–6: Barragán (No. 1) that adds the Out- Advises the Superintendent of the Seashore about the
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doors for All Act to the bill, which codifies the Out- communities needs, until 2028; Lieu (No. 12) that
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adds the Santa Monica Mountains National Recre- Park System administered by the Secretary of the In-
ation Area Boundary Adjustment Study Act to the terior; Spanberger (No. 24) that adds specified addi-
bill, which directs the Department of the Interior to tional lands in the George Washington National
conduct a special resource study of the coastline and Forest (a part of the George Washington and Jeffer-
adjacent areas to the Santa Monica Bay from Will son National Forests in Virginia, West Virginia, and
Rogers State Beach to Torrance Beach, including the Kentucky) to the Rough Mountain Wilderness and
areas in and around Ballona Creek and Baldwin Hills the Rich Hole Wilderness; and Tlaib (No. 28) that
and the San Pedro section of Los Angeles, excluding incorporates the Environmental Justice in Rec-
the Port of Los Angeles north of Crescent Avenue; reational Permitting Act into the bill, which re-
McEachin (No. 13) that adds the Great Dismal quires the Department of the Interior and the De-
Swamp National Heritage Area Act to the bill, partment of Agriculture to complete an interagency
which requires a study to assess the suitability and report on the use of special recreation permits by
feasibility of designating areas within Virginia and recreation service providers serving environmental
North Carolina as a National Heritage Area; McKin- justice communities (by a yea-and-nay vote of 229
ley (No. 14) that adds the National Heritage Area yeas to 198 nays, Roll No. 41); and
Act of 2021 to the bill, which establishes a system Pages H737–48, H757–58
of national heritage areas (NHAs) and brings uni- Curtis amendment (No. 3 printed in part B of H.
formity to the way NHAs are designated, managed, Rept. 117–6) that requires a study to determine if
and assessed and provides Congress the ability to any land withdrawn by this legislation contains geo-
conduct oversight of the program; O’Halleran (No. thermal resources, or minerals needed for battery
18) that adds the Casa Grande Ruins National storage, renewable energy technology, or electric ve-
Monument Boundary Modification Act of 2021, hicles (by a yea-and-nay vote of 221 yeas to 205
which modifies the boundary of the Casa Grande nays, Roll No. 42). Pages H748–50, H758–59
Ruins National Monument by transferring approxi- Rejected:
mately 11.21 acres to the Park Service and approxi- Neguse en bloc amendment No. 2 consisting of
mately 3.5 acres to the Bureau of Indian Affairs; al- the following amendments printed in part B of H.
lows the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain Rept. 117–6: Gosar (No. 7) that sought to exclude
lands from willing sellers, donors, or through ex- lands in the 4th Congressional District of Arizona
change and enter into cooperative agreements with from the permanent mineral withdrawal under this
the State of Arizona for the cooperative management Act; Gosar (No. 8) that sought to delay the perma-
of certain lands; O’Halleran (No. 19) that adds the nent mineral withdrawal under the Act until the
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument Bound- Secretary of the Interior completes a mineral survey
ary Adjustment Act to the bill, which transfers ap- of proposed withdrawal area (including uranium, rare
proximately 97.7 acres from the Forest Service to the earth elements, geothermal resources and oil and nat-
Sunset Crater National Monument; these lands in- ural gas) and determines there are no mineral re-
clude an NPS visitor, an NPS administrative facility, sources, geo-thermal resources, or critical minerals
and a portion of the key access road to the Monu- present other than uranium; Herrell (No. 9) that
ment; Panetta (No. 20) that stipulates that nothing sought to strike all ‘‘Potential Wilderness’’ designa-
in this Act may be construed to limit the authority tions in the bill; Lamborn (No. 11) that sought to
of the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of ensure that nothing in the bill would affect the es-
Agriculture under section 4(d)(1) of the Wilderness tablishment, access, operation, or maintenance of
Act to manage for fire, insects, and diseases in wil- transmission right-of-ways; Moore (UT) (No. 15)
derness areas designated; Pingree (No. 21) that in- that sought to state that no wilderness or potential
cludes the York River in Maine in the National Park wilderness designation under this Act shall be effec-
Service’s Wild and Scenic River System; Plaskett tive in any county where the county has not formally
(No. 22) that adds the St. Croix National Heritage approved such designation; Newhouse (No. 16) that
Area Act to the bill, which designates a National sought to state that this Act shall not take effect
Heritage Area for the island of St. Croix, U.S. Vir- until the Secretary of the Interior certifies that no re-
gin Islands, pursuant to a congressionally-directed newable energy jobs have been loss as a result of this
feasibility study completed by the National Park Act; Newhouse (No. 17) that sought to state that
Service in September, 2010, and consistent with the nothing in this Act shall prohibit development of
procedures traditionally laid out for such heritage new renewable hydro-electric energy and associated
area site designations as last enacted in the John D. transmission lines and rights of way within the wild
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Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recre- and scenic designations, wilderness designations, or
ation Act; Pocan (No. 23) that makes Wisconsin’s wilderness study area designations under this Act;
Ice Age National Scenic Trail a unit of the National Stauber (No. 25) that sought to require approval of
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local counties before mineral withdrawal can take Congressional-Executive Commission on the Peo-
place; Stauber (No. 26) that sought to state that this ple’s Republic of China—Appointment: The
Act shall not apply to any lands or waters in Colo- Chair announced the Speaker’s appointment of the
rado’s Third and Fifth Congressional Districts or any following Members on the part of the House to the
lands, waters, or minerals in Arizona’s Fourth Con- Congressional-Executive Commission on the People’s
gressional District; Stauber (No. 27) that sought to Republic of China: Representatives Suozzi,
state that this Act shall not apply to any lands or Malinowski, Wexton, Tlaib, Mast, Hartzler, and
waters in Colorado’s Third Congressional District; Steel. Page H854
and Westerman (No. 29) that sought to allow the United States Holocaust Memorial Council—Ap-
Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Inte- pointment: The Chair announced the Speaker’s ap-
rior to exempt any wilderness or potential wilderness pointment of the following Members on the part of
designated under this Act that does not meet the the House to the United States Holocaust Memorial
definition of wilderness under the Wilderness Act Council: Representatives Deutch, Schneider, Law-
(by a yea-and-nay vote of 197 yeas to 226 nays, Roll rence, Zeldin, and Kustoff. Page H854
No. 43). Pages H750–57, H759–60
H. Res. 147, the rule providing for consideration Quorum Calls—Votes: Nine yea-and-nay votes de-
of the bills (H.R. 803) and (H.R. 5) was agreed to veloped during the proceedings of today and appear
Wednesday, February 24th. on pages H757–58, H758–59, H759–60, H760–61,
H761, H772–73, H773, H852–53, and H853.
Recess: The House recessed at 2:47 p.m. and recon-
vened at 8:35 p.m. Pages H761–62
Adjournment: The House met at 9 a.m. and ad-
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021: The House journed at 2:07 a.m.
passed H.R. 1319, to provide for reconciliation pur-
suant to title II of S. Con. Res. 5, by a yea-and-nay
vote of 219 yeas to 212 nays, Roll No. 49.
Committee Meetings
Pages H773–H853 WEATHERING THE STORM: THE ROLE OF
Rejected the Hinson motion to recommit the bill PRIVATE TECH IN THE SOLARWINDS
to the Committee on the Budget by a yea-and-nay BREACH AND THE ONGOING CAMPAIGN
vote of 205 yeas to 218 nays, Roll No. 48. Committee on Oversight and Reform: Full Committee;
Pages H852–53
and Full Committee of the House Committee on
Pursuant to the Rule, the amendment printed in Homeland Security held a joint hearing entitled
H. Rept. 117–8 shall be considered as adopted. ‘‘Weathering the Storm: The Role of Private Tech in
Page H773
the SolarWinds Breach and the Ongoing Cam-
H. Res. 166, the rule providing for consideration paign’’. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.
of the bill (H.R. 1319) was agreed to by a yea-and-
nay vote of 219 yeas to 210 nays, Roll No. 47, after AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT OF 2021
the previous question was ordered by a yea-and-nay
vote of 217 yeas to 205 nays, Roll No. 46. Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on
Pages H762–73
H.R. 1319, the ‘‘American Rescue Plan Act of
Agreed that in the engrossment of the bill, the 2021’’. The Committee granted, by record vote of
clerk be authorized to make technical corrections and 8–4, a closed rule providing consideration of H.R.
conforming changes. Page H853
1319, the ‘‘American Rescue Plan Act of 2021’’. The
rule provides that immediately upon adoption of this
United States Group of the NATO Parliamen- resolution, the House shall proceed to the consider-
tary Assembly—Appointment: The Chair an- ation of H.R. 1319. The rule provides one hour of
nounced the Speaker’s appointment of the following debate equally divided among and controlled by the
Members on the part of the House to the United chair and ranking minority member of the Com-
States Group of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly: mittee on the Budget or their respective designees
Representatives Connolly, Sánchez, Larsen (WA), and the chair and ranking minority member of the
Meeks, Brendan F. Boyle (PA), Vela, Titus, and Tur- Committee on Ways and Means or their respective
ner. Page H853 designees. The rule waives all points of order against
Migratory Bird Conservation Commission—Ap- consideration of the bill. The rule provides that the
pointment: The Chair announced the Speaker’s ap- amendment printed in the Rules Committee report
pointment of the following Members on the part of shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as
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the House to the Migratory Bird Conservation Com- amended, shall be considered as read. The rule
mission: Representatives Thompson (CA) and Witt- waives all points of order against provisions in the
man. Page H854 bill, as amended. The rule provides one motion to
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