Amendments to H.R. 4664 – Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2024

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En blocs receive up to twenty minutes of debate. Standalone amendments receive up to 10 minutes of debate.

Green indicated amendments en bloc. Black indicates standalone amendments.

En Bloc #1, offered by Womack (R-AR): ADOPTED BY VOICE

Molinaro (R-NY) – Amendment No. 1 – Increases and decreases the Department of the Treasury to encourage the Department to continue to improve its Financial Literacy for Students Initiative and to consciously target rural areas

Gottheimer (D-NJ) – Amendment No. 3 – Increases funding by $3 million for the Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence to support efforts to counter criminal and terrorist groups through the acquisition of improved blockchain analysis tools, training on cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency-related investigations, and investigative support to reduce crimes involving ransomware attacks or exploiting the use of cryptocurrency. The offset of $3 million is from the GSA Real Property Activities Federal Buildings Funds

Gottheimer (D-NJ) – Amendment No. 4 – Increases and decreases funding for the Treasury Department to deploy a finance attaché to work out of the US Embassy in Jerusalem

Gottheimer (D-NJ) – Amendment No. 5 – Increases funding by $37 million, for the Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence to support efforts to implement sanctions on Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, Russia, China, North Korea and other terrorist groups. The offset of $37 million is from the GSA Real Property Activities Federal Buildings Funds

Schweikert (R-AZ) – Amendment No. 6 – Increases and decreases funding for the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration by $1 million to provide a report to Congress on the Internal Revenue Service’s use of artificial intelligence in compliance efforts and in investigating complex tax evasion cases through information on the no-change rate of cases selected, dollar amounts recovered through this technology, human controls on the technology’s decision- making ability and processes, and privacy controls of taxpayer data 

Beatty (D-OH) – Amendment No. 7 – Increases and decreases funding for the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to highlight the importance of the office to protect our financial system from illicit activity, combat money laundering, and promote national security

Scott, David (D-GA) – Amendment No. 8 – Increases and decreases support efforts to assist financial institutions and entities in identifying, recognizing, detecting, curtailing, and preventing suspicious activities in relation to funding streams that could benefit Hamas

Waters (D-CA) – Amendment No. 10 – Increases and decreases funding for the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund

Schweikert (R-AZ) – Amendment No. 13 – Increases and decreases funding for the Internal Revenue Service’s Taxpayer Service by $1 million to provide an update to Congress on the agency’s use of artificial intelligence and chatbot technology at the taxpayer and customer service level and to detail plans to expand the use of chatbot technology to include providing taxpayers with tools, information, and assistance needed to comply with tax filing obligations with the goal of reducing delays in email or text response and telephone wait times further, decreasing the complexity of the tax code, and improving taxpayer resolution and satisfaction 

Hudson (R-NC) – Amendment No. 14 – Increases and decreases the Taxpayer Advocate Services Account by $5 million to highlight the importance of timely taxpayer advocate services

Ramirez (D-IL) – Amendment No. 17 – Increases and decreases funding to the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Programs by $27,200,000 

Scott, David (D-GA) – Amendment No. 20 – Increases and decreases the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau’s Salaries and Expenses account by $2 million, with the intent of urging the Bureau’s Director work with the Civil Penalty Fund Administrator to craft a plan that allocates funding for financial literacy programming from the Civil Penalty Fund 

Williams (D-GA) – Amendment No. 22 – Increases and decreases the Election Assistance Commission to highlight the importance of protecting election workers 

Molinaro (R-NY) – Amendment No. 23 – Increases and decreases the Federal Trade Commission to encourage the agency to collaborate with the FCC, DOJ, and Department of Treasury to pursue and deter fraud and scams targeted towards seniors

Lucas (R-OK) – Amendment No. 29 – Decreases and increases funding for the Securities and Exchange Commission by $1,000,000,000 to underscore the importance that the Securities and Exchange Commission refrain from moving forward with requirements that are inconsistent with existing regulatory frameworks enforced by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission or the federal banking agencies. 

Castro (D-TX) – Amendment No. 33 – Increases and decreases funding in the Postal Service Fund to be used for repairing and replacing clusterbox units for certain neighborhoods

Gottheimer (D-NJ) – Amendment No. 34 – Increases and decreases funding for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service to hire more Postal Police Officers with the intent of holding mail fraudsters accountable

Neguse (D-CO) – Amendment No. 36 – Increases and decreases the USPS Postal Service Fund by $5 million to highlight the need for reliable, consistent mail delivery in rural and mountain communities

Jayapal (D-WA) – Amendment No. 66 – Prohibits the sale or transfer of the Seattle Archives. Protects and ensures access to generations of Tribal artifacts and history for Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington

Kim (R-CA) – Amendment No. 67 – Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to oppose a proposal to admit Taiwan to the International Monetary Fund

Molinaro (R-NY) – Amendment No. 71 – Increases and decreases funding to emphasize it should be the policy of the USPS to provide mailbox delivery to those who wish to receive it, rather than being forced to only use a P.O. box. 

Moore (D-WI) – Amendment No. 75 – Increases and decreases funding for the U.S Postal Service Inspector General to allow that Office to assess ongoing U.S. Postal Service efforts to prevent attacks on letter carriers and other postal employees and to make recommendations on how to strengthen those efforts.

Molinaro (R-NY) – Amendment No. 2 – Increases and decreases the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to encourage the Committee to evaluate the rising threat of farmland owned by adversarial nations – VOTE REQUESTED

Grothman (R-WI) – Amendment No. 9 – Eliminates funding for the Department of Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund – VOTE REQUESTED

Schweikert (R-AZ) – Amendment No. 11 – Increases and decreases funding by $1 million to instruct the Postal Service IG to provide Congress with the operating expenses and annual revenue for each post office location for the last five years in addition to a financial analysis of postal service locations owned by the USPS, the location’s current market value, its operating costs, and estimates on the revenue raised through leasing or selling of USPS-owned locations – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Bice (R-OK) – Amendment No. 12 – Increases and decreases funding for the Internal Revenue Service by $5,000 with the intent to direct the Commissioner to provide Congress with the quantity and types(s) of: weapons, weapons systems, ammunition, explosive devices, armored vehicles, drones/UAVs, and chemical weapons such as tear gas and calming agents in their possession – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Harshbarger (R-TN) – Amendment No. 15 – Strikes all funding for firearms and ammunition for the IRS – VOTE REQUESTED

Davidson (R-OH) – Amendment No. 16 – Ensures no funds may be used by the Department of the Treasury to design or develop a Central Bank Digital Currency, or establish a United States Central Bank Digital Currency as legal tender – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Perry (R-PA) – Amendment No. 18 – Reduces CFPB funding to $0 – VOTE REQUESTED

Ramirez (D-IL) – Amendment No. 19 – Increases and decreases funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by $635,000,000 – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Ogles (R-TN) – Amendment No. 21 – Reduces funding for Consumer Product Safety Commission to FY 2019 level – VOTE REQUESTED

Perry (R-PA) – Amendment No. 24 – Reduces the amount for Salaries and Expenses of the FTC to FY19 levels – VOTE REQUESTED

Neguse (D-CO) – Amendment No. 25 – Increases and decreases funding that the Commission may retain from fees collected for premerger notification filings under the HartScott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act – NOT OFFERED

Brecheen (R-OK) – Amendment No. 26 – Reduces funding for the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Real Property Activities to FY19 spending levels – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Burlison (R-MO) – Amendment No. 27 – Increases and decreases funding for the Office of Personnel Management by $20,000 to provide for the renewal of a security clearance for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) whistleblower David Grusch – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Hill (R-AR) – Amendment No. 28 – Increases and decreases the funding level of Salaries and Expenses at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with the intent to direct the Commission to propose a reasonable, workable, and staggered schedule on the adoption and implementation of major rulemaking proposals and recently finalized rules – NOT OFFERED

Schweikert (R-AZ) – Amendment No. 30 – Increases and decreases funding for the Small Business Administration’s Office of the Inspector General by $1 million to provide Congress a report on the estimated fiscal impact of selling off delinquent loans within the COVID-19 portfolio to third parties and a cost-benefit analysis of not pursuing aggressive loan recollection efforts to recoup the estimated $33.4 billion in either past due, delinquent, in liquidation or charged off EIDL loans – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Buck (R-CO) – Amendment No. 31 – Increases and Decreases the Postal Service Fund by $500,000 to highlight the need to resolve an ongoing ZIP code issue in Lone Tree, Colorado – NOT OFFERED

Buck (R-CO) – Amendment No. 32 -Increases and Decreases the Postal Service Fund by $5,000,000 to highlight the need for a single unique ZIP code for each of the following communities: Castle Pines, Colorado, Eastvale, California, Somers, Wisconsin, Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, and Caledonia, Wisconsin – NOT OFFERED

Neguse (D-CO) – Amendment No. 35 – Increases and decreases funding for the U.S. Postal Service Fund by $10 million to highlight the need for additional workforce recruitment and retention efforts in mountain communities where the cost of living is a barrier – NOT OFFERED

Barr (R-KY) – Amendment No. 37 – Ensures none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be made available to implement or enforce General License No. 8H, issued by the Office of Foreign Assets Control on October 25, 2023 – VOTE REQUESTED

Barr (R-KY) – Amendment No. 38 – Ensures none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce Executive Order 14008 titled ‘‘Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad’’ (January 27, 2021) or any rule or regulation to implement such Order – VOTE REQUESTED

Bean (R-FL) – Amendment No. 39 – Prohibits the SBA from implementing the CA SBLC program – VOTE REQUESTED

Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 40 – Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to be used to provide financial assistance to Sanctuary Cities – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 41 – Prohibits performance awards or bonuses for senior executive service employees at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Burchett (R-TN) – Amendment No. 42 – Reduces salary of SEC chairman Gary Gensler to $1 – VOTE REQUESTED

Cammack (R-FL) – Amendment No. 43 – Prohibits funds from being used to finalize any rule or regulation that has resulted in or is likely to result in an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Collins (R-GA) – Amendment No. 44 – Prohibits funding for the Executive Office of the Vice President – VOTE REQUESTED

Davidson (R-OH) – Amendment No. 45 – Ensures no funds are used to support an increase in the weight of the Chinese renminbi in the Special Drawing Rights basket of the International Monetary Fund ADOPTED BY VOICE

Emmer (R-MN) – Amendment No. 46 – Ensures none of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the Securities and Exchange Commission to carry out an enforcement action related to a crypto asset transaction – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Fischbach (R-MN) – Amendment No. 47 – Prohibits funds from being used to regulate or require farmers disclose scope 3 emissions – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Fitzgerald (R-WI) – Amendment No. 48 – Repeals the subpoena authority of Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office and the Office of Financial Research – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Fitzgerald (R-WI) – Amendment No. 49 – Prohibits funding the FTC to issue Unfair Competition rulemakings – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Fitzgerald (R-WI) – Amendment No. 50 – Prohibits funding for the FTC to enforce Sec. 5 of the FTC Act in a manner that is inconsistent with the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Fitzgerald (R-WI) – Amendment No. 51 – Prohibits funding for the FTC’s suspension of early termination to premerger notification filings – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Foxx (R-NC) – Amendment No. 52 – Prohibits implementation of the April 6, 2023 proposed revisions to OMB Circular A-4 to minimize projected costs and maximize projected benefits of new regulations – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Fry (R-SC) – Amendment No. 53 – Prohibits funding for the Treasury Department’s Climate Hub – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Gaetz (R-FL) – Amendment No. 54 – Prohibits funds from being used for the acquisition of property for a new Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters – VOTE REQUESTED

Good (R-VA) – Amendment No. 55 – Prohibits funds in the bill from being used to implement COVID-19 vaccine mandates – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Good (R-VA), on behalf of Gooden (R-TX) – Amendment No. 56 – Prohibits the White House from failing to disclose visitor access records or “visitor logs” – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Graves (R-LA) – Amendment No. 57 – Prohibits the use of funds to promulgate new major rules if OMB determines that the regulation is likely to result in a significant impact on the economy, a major increase in prices for consumers, or adverse effects on American global competition – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Greene (R-GA) – Amendment No. 58 – Reduces the salary of Danny Werfel, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, to $1 – NOT OFFERED

Greene (R-GA) – Amendment No. 59 – Prohibits funding for the White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy – NOT OFFERED

Grothman (R-WI) – Amendment No. 60 – Eliminates funding for the SBA’s contracting preference program for “socially and economically disadvantaged individuals” – NOT OFFERED

Hageman (R-WY) – Amendment No. 61 – Prevents funds for the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility at the Office of Personnel Management – NOT OFFERED

Hageman (R-WY) – Amendment No. 62 – Prohibits funds from being made available to the SEC to approve a rule change proposed by the New York Stock Exchange LLC to adopt listing standards for Natural Asset Companies (NACs) – NOT OFFERED

Harshbarger (R-TN) – Amendment No. 63 – Prohibits funding for the White House Gender Policy Council – VOTE REQUESTED

Hill (R-AR) – Amendment No. 64 – Prohibits funding from being used to support the allocation of IMF reserve assets (Special Drawing Rights) to Iran – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Huizenga (R-MI) – Amendment No. 65 – Prohibits funds to be made available to authorize U.S. financial institutions whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13902 other than a transaction for the sale of agricultural commodities, food, medicine, or medical devices – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Luetkemeyer (R-MO) – Amendment No. 68 – Prohibits support for an increase in the People’s Republic of China’s shareholding at the International Monetary Fund – ADOPTED BY VOICE

McClain (R-MI) – Amendment No. 69 – Extends the Holman Rule to Neera Tanden, Director of the Domestic Policy Council – NOT OFFERED

Meuser (R-PA) – Amendment No. 70 – Prohibits the SBA from using the new affiliation and lending criteria for the 7(a) lending program – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Mooney (R-WV) – Amendment No. 72 – Prohibits funding for the CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) Working Group led by the Department of Treasury – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Mooney (R-WV) – Amendment No. 73 – Prohibits funding for the SEC’s Private Fund Adviser Rule – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Moore (R-UT) – Amendment No. 74 – Prohibits funds from being used to develop, finalize, or implement the proposed rule titled “Revising Scope of the Mining Sector of Projects That Are Eligible for Coverage Under Title 41 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act” (88 Federal Register 65350) – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Norman (R-SC) – Amendment No. 76 – Prohibits the use of funds to finalize, implement, or enforce the proposed rule entitled “Conflicts of Interest Associated with the Use of Predictive Data Analytics by Broker-Dealers and Investment Advisers” – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Norman (R-SC) – Amendment No. 77 – Prohibits use of funds by the OMB to consider the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases (SC-GHG) in the development and implementation of budgets, federal procurement processes, or environmental reviews – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Norman (R-SC) – Amendment No. 78 – Prohibits funding to implement, finalize, or enforce the proposed rule entitled “Substantial Implementation, Duplication, and Resubmission of Shareholder Proposals Under Exchange Act Rule 14a-8” – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Norman (R-SC) – Amendment No. 79 – Prohibits use of funds to to implement, finalize, or enforce the proposed rule entitled “Enhanced Disclosures by Certain Investment Advisers and Investment Companies About Environmental, Social, and Governance Investment Practices” – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Nunn (R-IA) – Amendment No. 80 – Ensures none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement or enforce the final rule of the Securities and Exchange Commission titled “Cyber security Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure” (88 Fed. Reg. 51896; published August 6 4, 2023) – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Nunn (R-IA) – Amendment No. 81 – Ensures none of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the Securities and Exchange Commission to approve the proposed rule of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board titled “Proposing Release: Amendments to PCAOB Auditing Standards related to a Company’s Noncompliance with Laws and Regulations; And Other Related Amendments (published June 6,8 2023) – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Ogles (R-TN) – Amendment No. 82 – Prohibits funds from use to impose a COVID-19 mask mandate – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Ogles (R-TN) – Amendment No. 83 – Prohibits funds to implement or enforce the CFPB’s rule entitled “Small Business Lending Under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.” – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Ogles (R-TN) – Amendment No. 84 – Prohibits funds from being used to finalize, implement, or enforce the proposed rule titled “Upholding Civil Service Protections and Merit System Principles,” which would prohibit a future administration from reinstating President Trump’s Schedule F policy for Federal employees – VOTE REQUESTED

Ogles (R-TN) – Amendment No. 85 – Prohibits funding to finalize the CPSC’s rule title “Safety Standard for Portable Generators” – NOT OFFERED

Ogles (R-TN) – Amendment No. 86 – Prohibits funds to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the CFPB’s rule entitled “Registry of Nonbank Covered Persons Subject to Certain Agency and Court Orders” – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Ogles (R-TN) – Amendment No. 87 – Prohibits funds to finalize the Federal Labor Relations Authority’s proposed rule entitled “Miscellaneous and General Requirements” (87 Fed. Reg. 78014) which would restrict federal employees’ ability to opt out of membership in a labor union – VOTE REQUESTED

Pfluger (R-TX) – Amendment No. 88 – Prohibits funds from being used by DC for signage that designates 16th Street NW as “Black Lives Matter Plaza” – NOT OFFERED

Rosendale (R-MT) – Amendment No. 89 – Prohibits any funds made available in this act from being used to enforce the ‘‘Federal Supplier Climate Risks and Resilience Proposed Rule’’ – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Rosendale (R-MT) – Amendment No. 90 – Prohibits any of funds made available by this Act from being used for the purchase or construction of any new Federal buildings in Washington, D.C. – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Rosendale (R-MT) – Amendment No. 91 – Cuts funding to the Consumer Product Safety Commission by 50% – VOTE REQUESTED

Rosendale (R-MT) – Amendment No. 92 – Prevents funds from being used for the Office of Gun Violence Prevention – VOTE REQUESTED

Roy (R-TX) – Amendment No. 93 – Prohibits the District of Columbia (DC) from using federal or local funds to require that students in elementary or secondary schools receive a COVID-19 vaccination – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Roy (R-TX) – Amendment No. 94 – Prohibits funds from being used to implement any of President Biden’s executive orders on climate change – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Salazar (R-FL) – Amendment No. 95 – Prohibits funds from being used to produce official documents containing the term “latinx” or “latin-x” – VOTE REQUESTED

Sessions (R-TX) – Amendment No. 96 – Prohibits funds from being used for 18F within the Technology Transformation Service at GSA – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Norman (R-SC), on behalf of Steil (R-WI) – Amendment No. 97 – Prohibits the use of funds to implement or enforce the SEC’s Staff Legal Bulletin (SLB) 14L – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Norman (R-SC), on behalf of Steil (R-WI) – Amendment No. 98 – Prohibits the use of funds for implementing or enforcing the SEC’s 2022 Proxy Advisor Rule – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Steube (R-FL) – Amendment No. 99 – Defunds the Communications Equity and Diversity Council at the FCC – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Tenney (R-NY) – Amendment No. 100 – Reduces the salary of White House Press Secretary Karine JeanPierre to $1 – VOTE REQUESTED

Tenney (R-NY) – Amendment No. 101 – Prohibits funding to finalize, implement, or enforce the FAR Council’s proposed “Federal Acquisition Regulation: Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate-Related Financial Risk” rule – VOTE REQUESTED

Wagner (R-MO) – Amendment No. 102 – Prohibits use of funds to finalize or implement the proposed interpretive guidance of the Financial Stability Oversight Council titled “Authority To Require Supervision and Regulation of Certain Nonbank Financial Companies” – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Wagner (R-MO) – Amendment No. 103 – Prohibits funds from being used to make a determination under section 113 of the Financial Stability Act of 2010 – NOT OFFERED

Williams (R-TX) – Amendment No. 104 – Prohibits the SBA from creating any new business lending program – ADOPTED BY VOICE