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On agreeing to the Lipinski amendment; Agreed to by voice vote.

POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Langevin amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Langevin 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. 961, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Lipinski amendment No. 10.

An amendment, offered by Mr. Lipinski, numbered 10 printed in Part A of House Report 115-783 to provide $30M for the National Security Technology Accelerator, to support national security innovation and entrepreneurial education programs at universities. Reduces Operations and Maintenance-Defense Wide by the same amount.

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 961, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Langevin amendment No. 9.

An amendment, offered by Mr. Langevin, numbered 9 printed in Part A of House Report 115-783 to provide $10 million for Weapons and Munitions Technology (0602624A), $10 million for Innovative Naval Prototypes (INP) Applied Research (0602792N), and $20 million for Innovative Naval Prototypes Advanced Technology Development (0603801N) to be used for accelerated development and prototyping for the electromagnetic railgun.

On agreeing to the Soto amendment; Agreed to by voice vote.

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 961, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Soto amendment No. 8.

An amendment, offered by Mr. Soto, numbered 8 printed in Part A of House Report 115-783 to increase funding for the Quantum Information Sciences program within the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army account by $5 million to further advance quantum computing research.

On agreeing to the McSally amendment; Agreed to by voice vote.

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 961, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the McSally amendment No. 7.

An amendment, offered by Ms. McSally, numbered 7 printed in Part A of House Report 115-783 to increase A-10 wing replacement funds to House-passed NDAA level.

On agreeing to the Allen amendment; Agreed to by voice vote.

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 961, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Allen amendment No. 6.

An amendment, offered by Mr. Allen, numbered 6 printed in Part A of House Report 115-783 to transfer $10,000,000 to the Defense POW/Missing Persons Office to assist in identifying unclaimed remains missing since the Korean conflict.

The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.

Considered as unfinished business. H.R. 6157 — "Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes."

Ms. Cheney filed reports from the Committee on Rules, H. Res. 964 and H. Res. 965.

Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 6157 as unfinished business.

Ms. Granger moved that the Committee rise.