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H.R. 8998 – Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

PASSED 210-205

Agreed to by Recorded Vote

Brecheen #25 – Prohibits funding for any diversity, equity, and inclusion program or office AGREED TO 211-202
Perry/Roy #85 – Prohibits funds made available by this Act to be used for environmental justice activities AGREED TO 210-204

Failed by Recorded Vote

Boebert #7 – Reduces the salary of Michael S. Regan, Administrator of the EPA, to $1 FAILED 146-264-1
Boebert #8 – Reduces the salary of Melissa Schwartz, Director of Communications of the Department of the Interior, to $1 FAILED 134-272-1
Boebert #9 – Reduces the salary of Elizabeth Klein, Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, to $1 FAILED 145-267-1
Boebert #18 – Prohibits funds for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund FAILED 208-211
Boebert #20 – Reduces the salary of Tracy Stone-Manning, Director of the Bureau of Land Management, to $1 FAILED 145-268-1

Brecheen #23 – Reduces funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities to FY2019 levels FAILED 147-269
Brecheen #24 – Defunds the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and moves its $12 million in appropriations to the Spending Reduction Account FAILED 156-236

Harshbarger #45 – Prohibits funding for the U.S. Board on Geographic Names FAILED 174-239
Miller (IL) #57 – This amendment would reduce the salary of Ya-Wei (Jake) Li, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pesticide Programs to $1 FAILED 148-267-1
Perry #81 – Prohibits the use of funds to give formal notification under, or prepare, propose, implement, administer, or enforce any rule or recommendation pursuant to, section 115 of the Clean Air Act FAILED 207-211
Perry #82 – Prohibits the use of funds for EPA to take any "backstop" actions related to the Chesapeake Bay TMDL FAILED 185-231
Perry #83 – Eliminates funding for CEQ and moves this funding to the spending reduction account FAILED 173-243
Tenney #91 – Reduces the salary of the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality Brenda Mallory to $1 FAILED 160-256-1

Agreed to by Voice Vote

En Bloc #1 (Adams #1, Beyer #5, Boebert #12, Buchanan #26, Buchanan #27, Buchanan #28, Budzinski #29, Desaulnier #31, Dingell #32, Dingell #33, Duarte #34, Feenstra #35, Garbarino #36, Perez #37, Gottheimer #38, Gottheimer #39, Kamlager-Dove #49, Kennedy #50, Kennedy #51, Lawler #52, Lawler #53, Lawler #54, Lawler #55, Molinaro #58, Molinaro #59, Molinaro #60, Molinaro #61, Molinaro #62, Moylan #63, Moylan #64, Moylan #65, Moylan #66, Moylan #67, Moylan #68, Moylan #69, Neguse #70, Neguse #71, Norton #74, Schweikert #86, Stanton #87, Titus #94, Tlaib #95, Vasquez #96, Wittman #97)
Arrington #2 – Prohibits funding from being made available for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's final rule using an endangered species designation of several types of freshwater mussels, federalizing over 1,500 miles of Texas rivers
Arrington #3 – Prohibits funding from being made available for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's ‘‘Final Land Protection Plan & Environmental Assessment Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge.’’ This plan aims to increase the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge in Texas from 6,400 acres to 700,000 acres
Bentz #4 – Prohibits the use of any federal funds to create National monuments in Malheur County, Oregon under the Antiquities Act
Bice #6 – Prohibits federal funding for drag shows at the Smithsonian Institution
Boebert #10 – Transfers funds from EPA bureaucrats to the Forest Service for active management
Boebert #11 – Transfers funds from EPA bureaucracy to the inspector general to combat waste, fraud, and abuse
Boebert #13 – Prohibits funds made available by this Act to be used to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule titled ‘‘Fluid Mineral Leases and Leasing Process”
Boebert #14 – Prohibits funds made available by this Act to be used for a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Council at the Department of the Interior
Boebert #15 – Prohibits funds made available by this division to be used to carry out the Bicycle Subsidy Benefit Program of the Department of the Interior
Boebert #16 – Prohibits funds made available by this Act to be used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the draft resource management plan and supplemental environmental impact statement referred to in the notice of availability titled ‘‘Notice of Availability of the Draft Resource Management Plan and Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Colorado River Valley Field Office and Grand Junction Field Office Resource Management Plans, Colorado"
Boebert #17 – Prohibits made available by this Act to be used to declare a national monument with the use of the antiquities Act in Montrose County, Colorado; Mesa County, Colorado; Montezuma County, Colorado; San Juan County, Colorado; or Dolores County, Colorado
Boebert #19 – Reduces the salary of Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, to $1
Brecheen #21 – Prohibits the Indian Health Service from using appropriated funds to provide sex-transition surgeries or treatment
Cammack #30 – 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
Griffith #40 – Prevents the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement from enforcing perpetual deed restrictions on Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization program projects
Hageman #41 – Prohibits the Bureau of Land Management from finalizing, implementing, administering, or enforcing its proposed Western Solar Plan
Hageman #42 – Prohibits the Bureau of Land Management from finalizing, implementing, administering, or enforcing the Rock Springs Resource Management Plan in Wyoming
Hageman #43 – Prohibits the EPA from establishing or operating the Office of Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Hageman #44 – Prohibits the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from finalizing, implementing, administering, or enforcing the proposed Resource Management Plans by the BLM's Buffalo Field Office in Wyoming and the Miles City Field Office in Montana
Huizenga #46 – Prohibits funds from being used to implement, administer, or enforce the EPA final rule ‘‘Determinations of Attainment by the Attainment Date, Extensions of the Attainment Date, and Reclassification of Areas Classified as Marginal for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards’’ with respect to Berrien, Allegan, and Muskegon counties in Michigan
Jackson (TX) #47 – Reduces funding for the Fish and Wildlife Service to FY21 levels
Jackson (TX)  #48 – Ensures no funding from this bill can be used by the Fish and Wildlife Service to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce its proposed rule to list the Texas Kangaroo Rat as endangered and designate 600,000 acres as (10 minutes) critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act
McCormick #56 – Reduces funding for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Programs and Management account by $7 million. Reallocates $5 million to the EPA OIG for increased oversight of the EPA
Miller (IL)/Norman #72 – Prohibits funding for the Environmental Protection Agency's Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Workgroup
Miller (IL)/Norman #73 – Prohibits funding for rule titled "Control of Air Pollution From New Motor Vehicles: Heavy-Duty Engine and Vehicle Standards”
Obernolte #75 – Prohibits any funds made available by this Act from being used by the Environmental Protection Agency to approve a waiver for the California Air Resources Board's In-Use Locomotive Regulation
Ogles #76 – Prohibits funds to carry out the provisions of section 50262 of Public Law 117- 169 (Inflation Reduction Act)
Ogles #77 – Prohibits funds for the Environmental Financial Advisory Board of the Environmental Protection Agency
Ogles #78 – Prohibits funds to be used by the Environmental Protection Agency for the U.S. Global Change Research Program
Palmer #79 – Prohibits the EPA from using funds to arm agents as part of the agency's criminal enforcement division
Palmer #80 – Prohibits funds from being used to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule entitled "National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Lime Manufacturing Plants Technology Review”
Pfluger #84 – Prohibits EPA from redesignating the Permian Basin as in nonattainment for ozone
Stauber #88 – Ensures States and other cooperating entities that provide search and rescue services on Federal lands can receive reimbursement
Stauber #89 – Prohibits any funds being used to designate the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness as a national monument under the Antiquities Act
Stauber #90 – Prohibits any funds from being used to expand the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
Tenney #92 – Prohibits funding for Executive Order 14019, relating to Promoting Access to Voting
Tiffany #93 – Strikes funding for the removal of roads that are no longer needed

Failed by Voice Vote

Brecheen #22 – Reduces funding for the National Endowment for the Arts to FY2019 levels