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The House convened, starting a new legislative day.

A joint resolution condemning the violence and domestic terrorist attack that took place during events between August 11 and August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, recognizing the first responders who lost their lives while monitoring the events, offering deepest condolences to the families and friends of those individuals who were killed and deepest sympathies and support to those individuals who were injured by the violence, expressing support for the Charlottesville community, rejecting White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups, and urging the President and the President's Cabinet to use all available resources to address the threats posed by those groups. (09/12/2017 legislative day)

A concurrent resolution authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center for a ceremony to present the Congressional Gold Medal to the Filipino Veterans of World War II. (09/12/2017 legislative day)

The House adjourned. The next meeting is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on September 13, 2017.

On motion to adjourn Agreed to by voice vote.

Mr. LaMalfa moved that the House do now adjourn.

POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Blackburn amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced that the ayes had prevailed. Ms. Clark (MA) demanded a recorded vote, and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.

ONE MINUTE SPEECHES - The House proceeded with further one minute speeches.

Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 3354 as unfinished business.

On motion that the Committee rise Agreed to by voice vote.

Mr. Cole moved that the Committee rise.

POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Gibbs amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced that the ayes had prevailed. Ms. Clark (MA) demanded a recorded vote, and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 504, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Gibbs amendment No. 187.

An amendment, offered by Mr. Gibbs, numbered 187 printed in House Report 115-297 to prohibit funds to implement, administer, or enforce the final regulations on "Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses."

POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Ellison amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Ellison demanded a recorded vote, and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 504, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Ellison amendment No. 186.

An amendment, offered by Mr. Ellison, numbered 186 printed in House Report 115-297 to prohibit funds from going federal contracts with willful or repeated violators of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

On agreeing to the Scott (VA) amendment; Agreed to by voice vote.

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 504, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Scott (VA) amendment No. 184.

An amendment, offered by Mr. Scott (VA), numbered 184 printed in House Report 115-297 to prohibit the use of funds in this Act to prepare for or facilitate the transfer of the Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs into the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.