Amendment No. 6 Offered by Mr. Fine

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 6
printed in part A of House Report 119-749.
  Mr. FINE. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Page 42, strike line 6 through line 10.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 1423, the gentleman
from Florida (Mr. Fine) and a Member opposed each will control 5
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Florida.
  Mr. FINE. Mr. Chairman, I will start by acknowledging the
extraordinary work of my friend, colleague, and mentor from Florida on
this overall package, which I do intend to support, but no matter how
great a job we do on anything, there is always room to improve.
  At a time and a place in which we have a $40 trillion debt, I have an
obligation to be looking to save money wherever we can.
  My amendment would strike all funding for the Global Environment
Facility, which would save taxpayers $140 million. The GEF, as I see
it, is a wasteful fund that spends money to bankroll woke climate
initiatives, including grants designed to bring countries such as
Namibia and Serbia into compliance with the Paris climate agreement,
which President Trump withdrew the United States from because it did
not reflect American interests and priorities.
  My colleagues across the aisle and other supporters of the GEF and
green new scam argue that it is America's responsibility to give
millions of taxpayer dollars to unelected bureaucrats because the GEF
fights so-called climate change.
  Let's examine some examples of the important work that GEF is funding
with money that we are borrowing from our children and grandchildren:
The Women Ocean Guardians project, which seeks ``to strengthen the
sustainable use, management, and conservation of large marine
ecosystems by enhancing gender-responsive ocean governance, empowering
women frontliners in coastal and marine ecosystems and implementing
community-led solutions'' because we have got to make sure when we
fight climate change it is gender responsive.
  Second project, in the Central African Republic, ``to catalyze land
restoration and biodiversity conservation through inclusive and gender-
responsive landscape governance.'' Again, just think of the absurdity
of this, gender-responsive landscape governance.
  Then there was a grant given in 2024 in Afghanistan for
``strengthened resilience of rural communities' livelihoods to climate
risks and variability in selected provinces in Afghanistan.''
  Let me remind all my colleagues that Afghanistan has been under the
rule of the Taliban. Do we really think the Taliban is going to use
this money to address so-called climate change?
  The United States, as I said before, is almost $40 trillion in debt,
and that debt continues to grow every single day, every single minute,
every single hour that we are here.
  I think it is a gross misuse of taxpayer dollars to subsidize an
organization that spends money helping other countries comply with an
agreement the United States is not even a party to or giving money to
the Taliban for any reason, let alone for forestry.
  President Trump's budget request eliminated funding for the Global
Environment Facility. Congress should follow that example and eliminate
this unnecessary $140 million expenditure.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

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  Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in
opposition to this amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida. Mr. Chair, I am opposing this amendment
that strikes the Global Environment Facility fund.
  This amendment would eliminate the United States' contribution to the
Global Environment Facility, a multilateral trust fund that provides
grant-based funding to developing countries to address global
environmental challenges.
  It has long had bipartisan support for very good reason. It benefits
the U.S. economy and the environment by addressing problems that cross
borders and affect our domestic health, safety, and prosperity.
  It helps protect tropical forests. It reduces transboundary
pollutants like microplastics. It prevents unsustainable fishing and
invasive species. It combats illegal wildlife tracking, which
transnational criminal organizations use to finance their very
dangerous activities.
  Even in our own country, we are challenged. Just look around, Mr.
Chair. Put on the news. We are challenged by severe drought, rainfall,
storms, and heat. It is pretty hot out there. Land degradation and the
loss of soil and water health are threatening livelihoods all over the
world.
  We are continuing to see ever-greater humanitarian needs caused by
these disasters both domestically and abroad. We need to get ahead of
these crises.
  Helping communities cope, especially those with the least means to do
so, is not only moral. It is smart. These are problems that cannot be
solved alone. Funding for the Global Environment Facility allows us to
work together, leverage contributions of other countries, and provide
U.S. leadership to tackle these challenges.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment, and I
reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FINE. Mr. Chairman, may I inquire how much time I have remaining.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Florida has 2 minutes remaining.

  Mr. FINE. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of
my time.
  Mr. FINE. Mr. Chairman, I will close by saying this: Irrespective of
the ridiculous examples that I gave before, again, the idea that there
is gender responsive ways to deal with environmental problems as though
somehow men and women would deal with environmental solutions
differently, setting all of that ridiculousness aside, I think we have
a simple question before us. When you are $40 trillion in debt, Mr.
Chair, and the things you are paying for are being borrowed from your
children and grandchildren, the question is no longer whether something
is a good idea. The question is whether it is worth driving us further
into debt to do.
  Even if I were to grant that these projects were noble--and I do
not--it is not worth borrowing from my two sons and every American's
children and grandchildren to do that.
  If we do not begin to deal with these problems soon, then we won't
have a budget to spend. This is one small step in order to try to get
our fiscal house in order.
  I hope that all of my colleagues will support my amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR (Ms. King-Hinds). The question is on the amendment
offered by the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Fine).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes
appeared to have it.
  Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida. Madam Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Florida will
be postponed.

                 Amendment No. 8 Offered by Mr. Massie

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 8
printed in part A of House Report 119-749.
  Mr. MASSIE. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the
     following:

                          no funds for israel