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BUSINESS MEETING 

MEETING 

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON 

ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS 

UNITED STATES SENATE 

ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS 

FIRST SESSION 

JULY 26, 2017 

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COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS 

ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS 

FIRST SESSION 

JOHN BARRASSO, Wyoming, Chairman 

JAMES M. INHOFE, Oklahoma 

SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO, West Virginia 

JOHN BOOZMAN, Arkansas 

ROGER WICKER, Mississippi 

DEB FISCHER, Nebraska 

JERRY MORAN, Kansas 

MIKE ROUNDS, South Dakota 

JONI ERNST, Iowa 

DAN SULLIVAN, Alaska 

RICHARD SHELBY, Alabama 

THOMAS R. CARPER, Delaware 

BENJAMIN L. CARDIN, Maryland 

BERNARD SANDERS, Vermont 

SHELDON WHITEHOUSE, Rhode Island 

JEFF MERKLEY, Oregon 

KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND, New York 

CORY A. BOOKER, New Jersey 

EDWARD J. MARKEY, Massachusetts 

TAMMY DUCKWORTH, Illinois 

KAMALA HARRIS, California 

RICHARD M. RUSSELL, Majority Staff Director 

GABRIELLE BATKIN, Minority Staff Director 

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JULY 26, 2017 

OPENING STATEMENTS 

Barrasso, Hon. John, U.S. Senator from the State of Wyoming .......................... 1 

Carper, Hon. Thomas R., U.S. Senator from the State of Delaware ................... 2 

Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 81 

LEGISLATION 

Text of S. 1514, the Hunting Heritage and Environmental Legacy Preservation for Wildlife Act .............................................................................................. 5 

Text of Duckworth Amendment No. 1 ............................................................ 69 

Text of Inhofe Amendment No. 1 .................................................................... 75 

Text of Sullivan Amendment No. 1 ................................................................. 78 

Text of Carper Amendment No. 1 ................................................................... 83 

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BUSINESS MEETING 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 2017 

U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS, Washington, DC. 

The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:02 a.m. in room 

406, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. John Barrasso (Chairman of the Committee) presiding. 

Present: Senators Barrasso, Carper, Inhofe, Capito, Boozman, 

Wicker, Fischer, Moran, Rounds, Ernst, Sullivan, Cardin, Merkley, 

Gillibrand, Markey, Duckworth, Harris, and Shelby. 

OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. JOHN BARRASSO, 

U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF WYOMING 

Senator BARRASSO. Good morning. I call this business meeting to 

order. 

I want to thank everyone for coming in this morning. 

We are here to consider S. 1514, the Hunting Heritage and Environmental Legacy Preservation for Wildlife Act, or the HELP for 

Wildlife Act. 

Ranking Member Carper and I will give opening statements, 

then I will call up the bill for amendment. After we vote to report 

the bill to the Senate, I will recognize other members for other additional statements that they would like to make. 

The HELP for Wildlife Act is a bipartisan comprehensive conservation bill designed to enhance recreational hunting and sport 

fishing activities, ensure common sense environmental regulations, 

and protect wildlife and wildlife habitat. 

I introduce this bipartisan bill along with Senators Cardin, Boozman, Klobuchar, Capito, and Baldwin. The bill also has been cosponsored by Senators Johnson, Enzi, King, and Inhofe. I want to 

thank them for working with me in crafting this legislation that 

over 50 environmental and sportsmen organizations have endorsed 

and that the Teddy Roosevelt Conservation Partnership has called 

the strongest legislative package of sportsmen’s priorities in years. 

Last week the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee 

heard testimony from several witnesses who agreed with the rest 

of the dozens of environmental and sportsmen organizations that 

the HELP for Wildlife Act is a significant conservation bill worth 

supporting. 

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s chief game warden 

and chief of the wildlife division applauded the bill for exhibiting, 

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ing their citizenry’’ and for ‘‘placing priority on and providing resources for America’s fish and wildlife resources and the places 

that they live.’’ 

The CEO of Ducks Unlimited, who is a former director of the 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, testified, ‘‘This bill is very important and has a lot of components in it that are important to all of 

us in the conservation community. This significant bipartisan conservation bill will improve habitat and protect wildlife throughout 

the Chesapeake Bay watershed in States like New York, Maryland, 

Delaware, and West Virginia.’’ 

The Vice President of the Environmental Protection and Restoration for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation testified, ‘‘The Chesapeake 

Bay Foundation strongly supports the conservation programs included in this bill. They are important to the sportsmen and anglers in our region and to restoring the Chesapeake Bay.’’ 

The environmental sportsmen’s communities are enthusiastic 

about the HELP for Wildlife Act for good reason. The bill protects 

the environment, and it conserves wildlife and wildlife habitats by 

creating fish habitat, conservation partnerships, and by reauthorizing the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, the National 

Fish and Wildlife Foundation Act, the Neotropical Migratory Bird 

Conservation Act, the Chesapeake Bay Program, and the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Grants Assistance Program. 

The bill enhances opportunities for sportsmen by ensuring anglers can continue to use lead tackle and by promoting public target ranges for recreational shooting. 

The bill provides farmers with regulatory certainty by ensuring 

that they are not held liable for bird baiting for hunting purposes 

when they adhere to USDA and State agriculture best practices. 

The bill puts an end to the Endangered Species Act listing of the 

gray wolf in Wyoming and the Great Lakes, which will free up the 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to redirect resources that were being 

spent on the already fully recovered gray wolf to other species that 

are truly in need. 

It is time for this Committee to take a major step toward furthering conservation efforts in our States in a bipartisan way. I 

urge my colleagues to stand with the 50∂ environmental and 

sportsmen’s organizations and constituents that they represent 

who want further conservation efforts in this country. 

I look forward to passing this important legislation out of the 

Committee today and working with my colleagues to pass it on the 

Senate floor. 

I will now turn to Ranking Member Carper for his statement. 

OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. THOMAS R. CARPER, 

U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF DELAWARE 

Senator CARPER. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 

Good morning, everyone. As we heard from our witnesses last 

week, the HELP for Wildlife Act addresses many issues that are 

important for our nation’s sportsmen and sportswomen who are 

currently working collectively to ensure that outdoor recreational 

opportunities abound for our generation and for future generations. 

I am especially pleased that the programs reauthorized in this 

legislation are highly leveraged by private funding, funding that is 

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often secured by the outdoor recreation community. I am encouraged that these dedicated individuals are willing to work hard to 

better conserve our nation’s wildlife and to work together. 

These programs also create wonderful opportunities in my home 

State of Delaware. I was pleased to learn from Dale Hall last week 

that Delaware has 10 projects completed or underway for funding 

through the North American Wetlands Conservation Act. These 

projects have conserved more than 10,000 acres of wetlands, and 

for a little State like Delaware, that is a lot. Contributions from 

partners tripled the Government’s investment in these projects. 

Tripled the Government’s investment. Delaware receives approximately $2 million per year through the 

Chesapeake Bay Program for a variety of non-point source pollution control, habitat conservation, and other initiatives that help 

improve local water quality, benefit fish and wildlife, and reduce 

the flow of harmful nutrients and sediments downriver to the 

Chesapeake Bay. 

I just want to take a moment just to applaud Ben Cardin for his 

continued work and commitment to cleaning up the Chesapeake 

Bay. I became Governor in 1993, and we had not been very good 

neighbors in Delaware; we were contributing to the degradation of 

the Chesapeake Bay. I think we have cleaned up our act a whole 

lot, and I hope we are much better neighbors to these guys. But 

nobody has worked harder than Ben. 

And we have received, as recently as last week, an update report 

on the Chesapeake Bay, and all the efforts for the last 20 years actually paying off. Water quality continues to improve, and the people who make their livelihoods there are better off because of that, 

so, Ben, I want to thank you. 

Senator CARDIN. Chairman, if the Ranking Member would just 

yield for a second. 

Senator CARPER. I refuse to yield. 

[Laughter.] 

Senator CARDIN. You can take as much time as you want. You 

said take a moment. Take more time if you need it. 

But let me first, you are kind in your praise, but I think the 

Committee should know that Senator Carper has been one of the 

great leaders on this issue, and we have done things together in 

Delmarva on the Bay, so thank you, Senator Carper. 

Senator CARPER. Thanks for saying that. 

Building upon these necessary investments in the Bay watershed, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation enables complementary water quality improvements by working with Delaware 

communities in agricultural industries. The National Fish and 

Wildlife Foundation also recently funded monitoring the restoration 

in our beloved First State National Historical Park, which is the 

newest national park, I believe, in America, in order to provide a 

better park experience for our residents and our visits. 

Last, but not least, the Migratory Bird Conservation Act and National Fish Habitat Partnership create and conserve habitat for 

some of our State’s most important birds and fish species. 

For all these reasons, I support the HELP for Wildlife Act. However, no bill is perfect, certainly none that I have ever written, and 

this one is no exception. I must respectfully reaffirm my concern 

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with the provision in this bill that removes Endangered Species Act 

protection for gray wolves and prohibits judicial review in the 

Great Lakes and in Wyoming. I have listened carefully, as we all 

have, to our colleagues and stakeholders on both sides of this difficult issue, and while I understand the Chairman’s concerns, I continue to believe that congressional intervention is not the best path 

forward, and I urge us not to make it a habit. 

Having said that, though, Mr. Chairman, I want to thank you for 

your efforts to produce a bipartisan bill and for everyone who has 

worked on this to get us here to this point today, and I look forward to working with our Chairman and with all of you colleagues 

going forward. 

Thanks so much. 

Senator BARRASSO. Thank you very much, Senator Carper. 

We do have a quorum, so we are ready to move. 

I would like to call up S. 1514, the Hunting Heritage and Environmental Legacy Preservation for Wildlife Act, the HELP for 

Wildlife Act. 

[The text of S. 1514 follows:] 

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Senator BARRASSO. Members have filed amendments to S. 1514. 

The record will reflect any member requesting to be recorded on 

any item on today’s agenda, as long as he or she does so by the 

close of business today and it does not change the outcome of the 

vote that was obtained in the Committee meeting. 

I would now recognize Senator Duckworth to offer Duckworth 

Amendment No. 1. 

Senator DUCKWORTH. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My amendment 

is based on a bipartisan bill that was introduced by longstanding 

leaders on Great Lakes issues, Senator Peters, Senator Stabenow, 

Senator Portman. It simply authorizes and increases funding for 

the Great Lakes Science Center, which is foundational for fishery 

management decisions on each Great Lake. 

The Center currently lacks a dedicated funding stream and has 

no permanent authorization. This uncertainty undermines the 

Great Lakes Science Center’s ability to conduct long-term planning 

and most effectively carry out its mission to manage the Great 

Lakes. 

I urge all my colleagues to support this amendment and yield 

back. Thank you. 

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Senator BARRASSO. Thank you very much, Senator Duckworth. I 

am pleased to support your amendment, Duckworth No. 1. 

Would anyone else like to be heard on this amendment? 

Senator CARPER. I would also like to record my support. I have 

a statement for the record. I applaud the Senator from Illinois for 

good work on this. Pleased to be able to support you. 

Senator BARRASSO. I then move to vote on the amendment. Is 

there a second? 

Senator INHOFE. Second. 

Senator BARRASSO. All those in favor, please say aye. 

[Chorus of ayes.] 

Senator BARRASSO. Opposed, no. 

[No audible response.] 

Senator BARRASSO. In the opinion of the Chair, the ayes have it. 

The Duckworth No. 1 amendment is agreed to. 

Senator Inhofe has filed Amendment No. 1 to S. 1514. 

Senator INHOFE. Mr. Chairman, when an entity would like to 

fund an eligible project using Pittman-Robertson funds, they can 

use the value of the land as part of their match, and the match is 

required. However, an exception is made in that if it is a land 

grant university, they are precluded from doing this. All this would 

do is allow the land grant universities to have the same opportunities for a match that other universities have. 

[The text of Inhofe Amendment No. 1 follows:] 

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Senator BARRASSO. It is my understanding, Senator Inhofe, that 

this is a revised amendment that will allow land grant universities 

to use land they own to satisfy the in-kind cost share requirement 

under the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration. That is certainly my understanding. I am pleased to support Inhofe No. 1, as 

revised. 

Would anyone else like to comment on the Inhofe amendment? 

[No audible response.] 

Senator BARRASSO. Seeing none, move to vote on the amendment. 

Is there a second? 

Senator SHELBY. Second. 

Senator BARRASSO. All those in favor, please say aye. 

[Chorus of ayes.] 

Senator BARRASSO. Opposed, no. 

[No audible response.] 

Senator BARRASSO. In the opinion of the Chair, the ayes have it. 

The revised Inhofe No. 1 is agreed to. 

I now recognize Senator Sullivan to offer Sullivan Amendment 

No. 1. 

Senator SULLIVAN. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This is an amendment that permits the importation of polar bear trophies that were 

taken from legal hunts in Canada by American citizens prior to the 

2008 listing of the polar bear as threatened. 

In 2014 the Obama administration issued a statement of administration policy in support of this exact language. It is a provision 

that is very narrowly tailored to address just these 41 sets of legal 

trophies, and I ask my colleagues for their support on this narrowly 

drafted legislation that was previously supported by the Fish and 

Wildlife Service of the Obama administration, and I think should 

have bipartisan support in this Committee. 

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Senator BARRASSO. Thank you, Senator Sullivan. I am pleased to 

support your Amendment No. 1. 

Would anyone else like to be heard on the Sullivan Amendment 

No. 1? 

Senator MERKLEY. Mr. Chairman. 

Senator BARRASSO. Senator Merkley. 

Senator MERKLEY. I know my colleague has brought this forward, and he accurately cites the previous support. I do oppose this 

because essentially when there is consideration of listing, you are 

on the verge of a listing, there has been a surge in hunting for species that this would encourage. Should we have some other endangered species that has a certain date, then there would be a rush 

to go do takings of that endangered species. I think it is not great 

policy, and I think we should oppose it. 

Senator BARRASSO. Thank you very much, Senator Merkley. 

Would anyone else like to be heard on the Sullivan Amendment 

No. 1? 

Senator SULLIVAN. I just would respond. 

Senator BARRASSO. Senator Sullivan. 

Senator SULLIVAN. There is no evidence that that rush takes 

place. There is no evidence at all; that is speculation. And second, 

these were legal hunts, completely legal. The previous Administration supported this. If you are kind of retroactively saying to people 

who engage in conservation and hunting that you can no longer do 

something even though it was legal at the time, I think that is bad 

policy, and we are just trying to correct it. It is very narrowly tailored, and I ask my colleagues to support it. 

Senator BARRASSO. Would anyone else like to be heard on the 

Sullivan Amendment? 

Senator CARPER. I have a statement I would like to submit for 

the record, if I could. Thank you. 

Senator BARRASSO. Absolutely. Without objection. 

[The prepared statement of Senator Carper follows:] 

STATEMENT OF HON. THOMAS R. CARPER, 

U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF DELAWARE

I recognize that this amendment applies to only 41 hunters who participated in 

legal hunting activities. Allowing them to import their trophies seems reasonable to 

me, particularly since import fees fund necessary polar bear conservation measures. 

But I have heard from stakeholders and from some of my colleagues that, by creating this exception, we could set a bad precedent. We do not want to make a retroactive decision that would encourage a rush to hunt declining species, particularly 

those that may ultimately need Endangered Species Act protections. This is troubling. 

The HELP for Wildlife Act includes mostly non-controversial provisions, and I am 

concerned about adding another controversial provision that affects so few individuals. While I can certainly understand Senator Sullivan’s case for adding this 

amendment, I cannot support it. 

Senator BARRASSO. Seeing no others wishing to make a statement, I move that we vote on this amendment. Is there a second? 

Senator INHOFE. Second. 

Senator BARRASSO. All those in favor, please say aye. 

[Chorus of ayes.] 

Senator BARRASSO. Opposed, nay. 

[Chorus of nays.] 

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Senator BARRASSO. In the opinion of the Chair, the ayes have it, 

and Sullivan No. 1 is agreed to. 

Senator MERKLEY. Mr. Chairman, I would like to be recorded as 

a no vote. Thank you. 

Senator BARRASSO. The record will reflect that. 

I would now like to recognize Senator Carper—— 

Senator CARDIN. Would you also put me as no on that? 

Senator BARRASSO. Yes, sir. 

I now recognize Senator Carper to offer Carper Amendment No. 

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Senator CARPER. Thanks, Mr. Chairman. 

Mr. Chairman, I realize that gray wolf management is a priority 

for you and for a number of our colleagues. I fully acknowledge 

that wolves present unique challenges in your State that much of 

our country may not understand. We have heard compelling arguments for why wolves should be managed at the State level in Wyoming, and I commend you for allowing that robust defense to 

occur in our Committee. 

Having said that, though, I have a strong interest in preserving 

the publicly informed, science driven process that currently exists 

for making endangered species determinations, and I am not sure 

that legislatively delisting species is consistent with that interest. 

States and wildlife agencies typically have many years—sometimes decades—of advanced notice that a species is declining, and 

Endangered Species Act protection is only required when State 

management to protect and recover species has failed. For this reason, I believe the rigors of judicial review are warranted. 

There is a genuine concern on our side of the aisle, I think as 

you know, about the implications of legislatively delisting species. 

We have heard from stakeholders and citizens from across our 

country who do not believe that this is the right approach, and I 

believe it is my duty as Ranking Member of this Committee to ensure that these concerns are represented and that our Committee 

has an opportunity to vote on these provisions based on their 

standalone merits. 

Thank you. 

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Senator BARRASSO. Well, thank you very much, Senator Carper. 

I strongly oppose the Carper Amendment. It should be no surprise. This amendment would strike Sections 7 and 8 of the bill, 

which contains language strongly supported by not just me, but by 

a number of Democratic colleagues, including Senator Baldwin and 

Senator Klobuchar. 

The Obama administration’s Fish and Wildlife Service delisted 

the gray list in Wyoming and the western Great Lakes only to be 

dragged through seemingly never ending court processes. These 

sections put the species management back where they have always 

belonged, in the hands of the States. Neither Section 7 nor Section 

8 of the bill prohibits future rules listing the gray wolf, should either population become threatened or endangered. 

In 2011 Senators Carper, Cardin, Merkley, Whitehouse, and 

Gillibrand voted in favor of H.R. 1473. That was the Department 

of Defense and Full Year Continuing Appropriations Act. That bill 

included a similar gray wolf delisting provision for both Montana 

and Idaho that was sponsored by Senators Tester and Risch. Responsibly controlling wolves while maintaining healthy populations 

is the goal of Wyoming and the Great Lakes States embodied in the 

language in this conservation bill. 

Wyoming, Wisconsin, and Minnesota have far exceeded their population recovery goals for the gray wolf. Wolf populations have increased so much that they have led to serious conflicts within these 

States. Attacks on household pets, hunting dogs, and other domestic animals are very serious. 

As this chart shows, in Wisconsin, this is in Wisconsin, from 

2013 to 2016, death and injury of domesticated animals, this is of 

domesticated animals, of hunting dogs, of pets, in that single year 

were 42. So that is what we are looking at. 

In addition, killing of wildlife populations in Wyoming has also 

raised concerns about maintaining our State’s iconic elk population. 

This shows a number of elk that were taken. It shows an example 

of what is called a surplus kill done by wolves of native elk that 

occurred in 2016 in Bondurant, Wyoming. 

Finally, I was looking at this and thinking about a friend of mine 

who is an athletic trainer, who I have worked with for a number 

of years, me being an orthopedic surgeon, he an athletic trainer. I 

ran into him one day, and I said, how are you doing? He said, terrible. I said, what happened? He said, well, I had my hunting dog 

with me in western Wyoming, and then he pulled out his iPhone 

to show me pictures of his dog that had an interaction with a wolf, 

and it was graphic. And you knew that this dog was not going to 

survive and then ultimately didn’t survive. This hunting dog, this 

was a member of my family, and got into a scrape with a wolf and 

very quickly was lost. 

So this is a serious matter and certainly meaningful to all the 

people who have been experiencing it, so it is for these reasons that 

I urge a no vote on the Carper Amendment. 

Would anyone else like to be heard on Carper Amendment No. 

1? 

Senator CARPER. Mr. Chairman, I would ask for a roll call vote, 

please. 

Senator BARRASSO. OK. 

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Seeing none, I move to a vote, and a roll call has been asked. Is 

there a second? 

Senator INHOFE. Second. 

Senator BARRASSO. We would ask the Clerk to call the roll. 

The CLERK. Mr. Booker. 

Senator CARPER. Yes by proxy. 

The CLERK. Mr. Boozman. 

Senator BOOZMAN. No. 

The CLERK. Mrs. Capito. 

Senator BARRASSO. No by proxy. 

The CLERK. Mr. Cardin. 

Senator CARDIN. Aye. 

The CLERK. Mr. Carper. 

Senator CARPER. Aye. 

The CLERK. Ms. Duckworth. 

Senator DUCKWORTH. Aye. 

The CLERK. Mrs. Ernst. 

Senator ERNST. No. 

The CLERK. Mrs. Fischer. 

Senator FISCHER. No. 

The CLERK. Mrs. Gillibrand. 

Senator GILLIBRAND. Aye. 

The CLERK. Ms. Harris. 

Senator HARRIS. Aye. 

The CLERK. Mr. Inhofe. 

Senator INHOFE. No. 

The CLERK. Mr. Markey. 

Senator MARKEY. Aye. 

The CLERK. Mr. Merkley. 

Senator MERKLEY. Aye. 

The CLERK. Mr. Moran. 

Senator BARRASSO. No by proxy. 

The CLERK. Mr. Rounds. 

Senator ROUNDS. No. 

The CLERK. Mr. Sanders. 

Senator CARPER. Yes by proxy. 

The CLERK. Mr. Shelby. 

Senator SHELBY. No. 

The CLERK. Mr. Sullivan. 

Senator SULLIVAN. No. 

The CLERK. Mr. Whitehouse. 

Senator CARPER. Yes by proxy. 

The CLERK. Mr. Wicker. 

Senator WICKER. No. 

The CLERK. Mr. Chairman. 

Senator BARRASSO. No. 

The Clerk will report. 

The CLERK. Mr. Chairman, the yeas are 10, the nays are 11. 

Senator BARRASSO. On this vote, the amendment has failed. 

Does any Senator seek recognition to offer any additional amendments to the bill? 

[No audible response.] 

Senator BARRASSO. Seeing none, I move that we vote on the bill. 

Is there a second? 

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Senator INHOFE. Second. 

Senator CARPER. Second. 

Senator BARRASSO. All those in favor, please say aye. 

[Chorus of ayes.] 

Senator BARRASSO. All those opposed, no. 

[Chorus of nos.] 

Senator CARPER. Can we have a roll call vote, please? 

Senator BARRASSO. The roll call vote has been requested. The 

Clerk will please call the roll. 

The CLERK. Mr. Booker. 

Senator CARPER. No by proxy. 

The CLERK. Mr. Boozman. 

Senator BOOZMAN. Yes. 

The CLERK. Mrs. Capito. 

Senator BARRASSO. Aye by proxy. 

The CLERK. Mr. Cardin. 

Senator CARDIN. Aye. 

The CLERK. Mr. Carper. 

Senator CARPER. Aye. 

The CLERK. Ms. Duckworth. 

Senator DUCKWORTH. Aye. 

The CLERK. Mrs. Ernst. 

Senator ERNST. Aye. 

The CLERK. Mrs. Fischer. 

Senator FISCHER. Aye. 

The CLERK. Mrs. Gillibrand. 

Senator GILLIBRAND. No. 

The CLERK. Ms. Harris. 

Senator HARRIS. No. 

The CLERK. Mr. Inhofe. 

Senator INHOFE. Aye. 

The CLERK. Mr. Markey. 

Senator MARKEY. No. 

The CLERK. Mr. Merkley. 

Senator MERKLEY. No. 

The CLERK. Mr. Moran. 

Senator BARRASSO. Aye by proxy. 

The CLERK. Mr. Rounds. 

Senator ROUNDS. Aye. 

The CLERK. Mr. Sanders. 

Senator CARPER. No by proxy. 

The CLERK. Mr. Shelby. 

Senator SHELBY. Aye. 

The CLERK. Mr. Sullivan. 

Senator SULLIVAN. Aye. 

The CLERK. Mr. Whitehouse. 

Senator CARPER. No by proxy. 

The CLERK. Mr. Wicker. 

Senator WICKER. Aye. 

The CLERK. Mr. Chairman. 

Senator BARRASSO. Aye. 

The Clerk will report. 

The CLERK. Mr. Chairman, the yeas are 14, the nays are 7. 

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Senator BARRASSO. So we have approved S. 1514, as amended, by 

a vote of 14 to 7. It shall be reported favorably to the Senate. 

The voting part of the business meeting is finished; however, I 

would be happy to remain and recognize any member who wishes 

to make a statement on this legislation that we have just approved. 

Senator CARDIN. Mr. Chairman, I ask consent to put a statement 

in the record. 

Senator BARRASSO. Without objection, so ruled. 

[The referenced statement was not received at time of print.] 

Senator BARRASSO. I ask unanimous consent that the staff have 

authority to make technical and conforming changes to each of the 

matters approved today. I also ask unanimous consent that the 

amendments that we just agreed to be considered incorporated into 

the underlying text of S. 1514 and the revised text be considered 

as the amendment in the nature of the substitute. Without objection. 

With that, our business meeting is concluded. 

[Whereupon, at 10:25 a.m. the Committee was adjourned.] 

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