Later that year, the House rejected an amendment offered by Arizona Republican Paul Gosar to the fiscal 2019 Energy-Water bill that would have reduced the salary of Mark Gabriel, the Western Area Power administrator, to just $1. Ninety Republicans voted against the amendment, which was defeated 139-276.
In 2017, the House overwhelmingly defeated a Holman rule amendment offered by Republican Rep. Morgan Griffith of Virginia to a fiscal 2018 spending package including Legislative Branch funding that would have cut one-third of the Congressional Budget Office’s staff. That amendment drew opposition from 116 Republicans and was defeated on a 116-309 vote.
Also in 2017, a then-Daytona Beach, Fla.-area GOP lawmaker tried offering several Holman rule amendments to a separate fiscal 2018 spending bill.
One amendment offered by Ron DeSantis, the former lawmaker and current Florida governor and presidential candidate, would have protected the continued operations of his former workplace, the Guantánamo Bay detention camp. His amendment would have defunded the offices of the special envoy for Guantánamo detention closure and the principal director for detainee policy.
Another amendment DeSantis offered would have eliminated the salary for the director of civil works of the Army Corps of Engineers, which he described as a “duplicative office.” Both amendments were made in order by the Rules Committee, clearing a critical first hurdle, but DeSantis ended up offering neither amendment on the floor.
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