HR 2670 Considered in House – 7-12-13 – FY 2024 NDAA

Yesterday, the House began consideration of HR 2670, the FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act. With one exception, the House considered each of the 290 amendments approved for consideration by the House Rules Committee in a series of five en bloc debates and votes. All except the amendments in en block #5 were adopted by voice votes. A recorded vote on the fifth block of amendments was requested and postponed until today.

The one exception was amendment #60. That amendment would have expanded the parole in place provisions of 8 USC 1182 (as amended by §1758(c) of the 2020 NDAA, PL 116-92) to include honorably discharged members of the armed forces. The action prohibiting consideration of this amendment was taken during the debate of H Res 582, the Rule for consideration of HR 2670. The vote on that action was approved on a party-line vote of 215 to 201.

The move to delay a vote on en bloc #5 was a procedural move to allow the House Rules Committee to meet to consider a second rule for the continued consideration of HR 2670 today. That meeting ended early this morning with a new rule that will be introduced today. That rule would make in order an additional 80 amendments including many controversial amendments that would not generally be amenable to en bloc consideration.

There is one amendment in the new batch that is of specific interest here, Amendment #74 which would establish a National Digital Reserve Corps in the General Services Administration. This is similar to the provisions of HR 4818.