mr. lankford: i yield two minutes of my time to the gentleman from florida. mr. crenshaw: i thank the gentleman for yielding and i rise in support of this amendment. i think we all believe in commonsense regulation and we have plenty of that, but the gentleman has pointed out that so often well-intentioned rules and regulations have unintended consequences and i don't think anybody believes that we don't have enough regulation. any time there's a problem, somebody suggests that we spend more money, pass another rule, pass another law. what i think what we need and what this gentleman is talking about is we need common sense. we need to protect investors and do it in a reasonable way. so this is an amendment that i think makes the point that so often the rules are bad for investors, they are bad for the economy, and that shouldn't be the case. so i urge my colleagues to support this amendment. and i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. both gentleman reserve? mr. serrano: would yield back. the chair: the gentleman from new york

mr. lankford of oklahoma. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote the yeas are 227, the nays are 191 nd the amendment is adopted. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from louisiana, mr. cassidy, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevail by voice vote -- prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment offer by mr. cassidy of louisiana. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested

mr. lankford: i move -- mr. simpson: i reserve a point of order. the chair: the gentleman from oklahoma and a member opposed will each control five minutes. mr. lankford: i'm pleased the appropriators and this chairman has included the requirement that discretionary grants must be disclosed to the house and senate in a timely manner and must include information about where those funds are going. this is a very positive step forward with greater transparency and greater availability for this body to have oversight. this amendment i'm offering per effects information about those grants. in addition to the money where it would go, it is critical we know how many entities competed for these awards and how the winner was selected so we know the full transparency of the program itself. it provides millions of dollars to granteys and important that congress has their and fulfills their responsibility of oversight. it will allow for critical independent assessments of how money and spends its will go a long way to give congress data of how the department o

mr. lankford, as much time as he deserves. lambinglanching -- mr. lankford: we have been frarking since 1948 and i i want people to understand you can do that. oklahoma we do all of the above energy, solar, wind, coal. oil and gas. we understand all of the above energy and we understand all of that can work together. and for viewers on c-span and in lights in this room, we ups that energy drives our economy. interact don't interact with our economy, whatever it may be and however we operate, it operates because of energy. and if some point this administration's policies are fully implemented we will watch the price of energy, price of food, price of everything we do in america go up, not because of prempses but reality. we can do this. and also, build a strong economy. you come to oklahoma, unemployment right now is 4.5%. one of the top energy producers in the country. go to north dakota, the unemployment is 2.7%. they have a negative unemployment rate. they have more job listings than they have unemployment there. why? because they are finding a way

mr. lankford of oklahoma. an amendment by mr. cassidy of louisiana. the chair will reduce to two minutes the time for any electronic vote after the first vote in the series. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from california, mr. mcclintock, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. mcclintock of california. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise nd be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes y electronic device. and this will be a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of represe

mr. lankford. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. lankford: if i asked americans why do we have the endangered species act, they would say to increase endangered species population number. but then you ask, with each species, was the goal. rarely will you hear the goal being increased population. you'll hear terms like protection of habitat. expansion of the species. but you're not going to hear population numbers. what effect does that have? come to oklahoma sometime. in western oklahoma we deal with a beautiful little ground chicken, the lesser prairie chicken. it's listed as a threatened species now. what's the result of that? the first question we we ask is, what's the number we need to have to recover? i don't know. wore going to try to recover habitat. they're trying to block in 8,000 to 9,000 acres at a time of grassland and say no one can do development on these 8,000 to 9,000 acre blocks of land, that's no build, no construction, no energy, no wind power, blocking it off, leaving it natural, up to 70% of that area. suddenly p

mr. lankford of oklahoma. age 4, line 25, after expended insert of which such sums are necessary to carry out the study authorized in section 6002 of the water resources reform and development act of 2014. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 641, the gentleman from oklahoma, and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from oklahoma. mr. langevin: thank you, sir. there was -- mr. lankford thank you, sir. the bill included a study that would allow the corps of engineers to be able to evaluate their projects. as simple as this may be, the corps of engineers has a tremendous number of things on their inventory that they're doing operation and naint assistance for. -- maintenance for. they will do a simple evaluation of which projects met the central focus of the corps of engineers and which projects might not meet the central focus. it might make a simple determination if what is the core projects of the corps. there are projects all over the country. there might be

mr. lankford. >> thank you for being here. let me ask you a couple quick questions. one is just some background. how does cbo score or evaluate? federal reserve now has $4.4 trillion in assets they've said they're going to unwind. no one is certain how that's going to happen. how does that figure into your long-term look on what the federal reserve is going to do with $4.4 trillion in assets? >> it affects our revenue projections over the coming decade because, as you know, the federal reserve turns over to the government any extra money it earns on its portfolio. beyond the coming decade, it doesn't matter directly because for these projections, we simply take the federal reserve receipts in the tenth year as a share of gdp and hold those constant going forward. >> there's no assumption built into this where the federal reserve -- i should say it this way. your assumption is the federal reserve holds that $4.4 trillion, not trying to sell -- >> we presume they will be changing the size and the composition of the portfolio over the coming decade. the projections we r

mr. lankford, had been disposed of and the bill had been read through page 152, line 15. pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, proceedings will now resume on those amendments on which further proceedings were postponed in the following order . amendment number 1 by mr. fleming of louisiana. amendment by mr. gosar of arizona, amendment by mr. grayson of florida, amendment by mr. heck of washington, first amendment by mr. desantis of florida, second amendment by mr. desantis of florida, first amendment by ms. blackburn of tennessee. second amendment by ms. blackburn of tennessee. third amendment by mrs. blackburn of tennessee. fourth amendment of mrs. blackburn of tennessee. amendment of mr. massie of kentucky. the chair will reduce to two minutes the time for any electronic vote after the first vote in this series. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 1 printed in the congressional record, offered by the gentleman from louisiana, mr. fleming, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the