Weekly Wrap Up

Week 31 (July 26)

This Week’s Work 

• Question Attorney General William Barr about the Administration’s unconstitutional efforts to harm the 2020 census.
• Asked the Director of USCIS why the Administration had stopped accepting new applications for DACA after being directed to do so by the Supreme Court.
• Congressman Correa said goodbye to colleague and American Civil Rights icon, Congressman John Lewis.
• Congressman Correa’s Trahan-Correa Amendment to protect local control over school districts passed the House.

This Week’s Votes

• Provides $157.7 billion in base funding for active, reserve and National Guard military personnel, a decrease of $1.2 billion below the budget request and an increase of $7.5 billion above the FY 2020 enacted level.
• Prohibits the use of Defense funds for the President’s border wall at our troops’ expense, and requires that any unobligated funds that were taken for the border wall in fiscal year 2020 be returned to their original accounts and used for the original purposes for which they were appropriated by Congress.
• Provides full funding necessary to support the proposed 3.1 percent military pay raise.

• Provides $9.54 billion for the Commerce Department including $1.68 billion for the Census Bureau and $5.45 billion for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
• Provides $33.2 billion in funding for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to help ensure civil rights and reform police practices throughout the country, including $400 million for grants to carry out police reform initiatives such as pattern and practice investigations and independent investigation of law enforcement. 
• Adds new language prohibiting funding for law enforcement for crowd control, unless such law enforcement wears clearly visible identification showing their agency affiliation.

• The bill provides a total of $41 billion for the Department of Energy, including $2.85 billion for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. 
• Prohibits funding for nuclear weapons testing.
• Provides $7.46 billion for nuclear cleanup work at 16 sites across the country.
• Provides a total of $7.63 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers, including $2.6 billion for construction, $3.84 billion for operation and maintenance, and $1.68 billion for Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund projects. 

• Provides $61 billion for broadband infrastructure and $6 billion for the modernization of Federal buildings.
• Provides $12.1 billion for the IRS, which includes $2.6 billion for Taxpayer Services and $5.2 billion for Enforcement. 
• Includes new language making DACA recipients eligible for Federal employment.
• Includes a provision to prohibit the use of funds from the Treasury Forfeiture Fund for the construction of the President’s border wall.

• Provides $24.425 billion in emergency spending to rebuild this nation’s aged public health infrastructure. This funding will support State and local public health departments, public health laboratories, and global health activities, which is critical to national resilience from this and future public health threats.
• Includes a new provision to block the Administration’s new regulation that would allow discrimination in health and health education programs against individuals based on LGBTQ status.

• Consistent with the INVEST in America Act, the bill includes budgetary resources for surface transportation programs totaling $78.7 billion.
• In addition, the legislation provides $75 billion to support the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic by investing in our nation’s transportation and housing infrastructure.
• Blocks the administration’s public housing rule change targeting undocumented immigrants, which threatens the housing of 55,000 children who are citizens or legal residents.

• Improves U.S. water resource infrastructure by authorizing the construction of all 34 pending Corps Chief’s Reports, 35 feasibility studies, five comprehensive river basin studies, and expediting the completion of 41 existing feasibility studies.
• Requires the Corps to complete its review on minority community and tribal consultation, as well as update Corps’ policies on environmental justice considerations and community engagement and consultation.
• Creates additional flexibility for the Corps to address the water resources needs of economically disadvantaged communities, communities of color, and rural communities.

• Establishes the Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys to study and make recommendations to address social problems affecting Black men and boys.

• Establishes the National Museum of the American Latino in the Smithsonian Institution to illuminate Latino contributions to the story of the United States.

• Creates a new, $50 billion Child Care Stabilization Fund within the existing Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) program.
• Requires employers to keep child care workers on the payroll.
• Facilitates relief from copayments and tuition.
• Promotes health and safety through compliance with public health guidance.

• Enhances the child and dependent care tax credit (CDCTC) by making it refundable, allowing many low- and middle-income families to claim it for the first time.
• Creates a 50 percent refundable payroll tax credit for child care providers.

Catch Us In The News

• Congressman Correa questioned USCIS’s decision to limit new DACA applications following the Supreme Court’s ruling to restore the program.
• During an oversight hearing with Attorney General Barr, Congressman Correa asked why Administration attacking the integrity of the 2020 Census.
• Congressman Correa supports new legislation to expand childcare services and help working families during the pandemic. 

What We’re Reading

• NBC | After almost 20 years of hard work, Congress finally approved the creation of a Latino Smithsonian Museum.
• USA Today | To protect 250,000 jobs and billions of dollars of economic development, Congress includes critical banking reform for legal cannabis companies in COVID-19 relief package.
• Wall Street Journal | Latino business owners have been disproportionally affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Many aren’t aware or don’t qualify for assistance. 

Looking Ahead

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