[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 36 (Thursday, March 6, 2003)]
[House]
[Pages H1652-H1653]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           MOTION TO ADJOURN

  Mr. COOPER. Mr. Speaker, I offer a privileged motion.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. Cooper moves that the House do now adjourn.

  Mr. COOPER. Mr. Speaker, I am an unlikely radical. I called for a 
motion to adjourn today, that disrupted normal House business, in order 
to highlight one of the smelliest pieces of legislation in recent 
memory. Sunshine is the best disinfectant, and this bill, although it 
is labeled as helpful to our military men and women, needs lots of 
sunshine and lots of disinfectant so that a new, improved bill can be 
truly helpful to our military.
  I felt compelled to rise in reluctant opposition to H. Res. 126 and 
H.R. 878, the rule for debate and the ``Armed Forces Tax Fairness 
Act.'' I am one of the strongest supporters of our National Guard and 
Reserve, but this bill is not good enough for them. It only grants a 
tiny fraction of the tax relief that our Guard and Reserve deserve, and 
it is a bill loaded with special interest provisions that have nothing 
to do with the Guard and Reserve,
  Fortunately, the Republicans have now pulled the bill from the floor 
because I think they were beginning to notice the stink that their 
legislation was causing. I hope that we will vote on an improved bill 
very soon because our service men and women deserve a clean, strong 
bill to give them tax relief now.
  Newspapers across the nation have denounced H.R. 878 with headlines 
such as, ``Help Soldiers, Not Gamblers,'' but many members still feel 
compelled to vote for it on final passage because it does still contain 
some relief for our men and women in uniform. That is a devil's 
bargain. We should not be blackmailed into accepting special interest 
tax provisions just because they are packaged with all too meager tax 
breaks for our Guard and Reserved. Especially in a time of war, the 
U.S. House of Representatives should honor and reward our Guard and 
Reserve, and not limit their benefits as this bill does. Above all we 
should not load it with lobbyists' dream lists of special interest tax 
provisions, such as a tax relief for foreign gamblers.
  The Republicans majority are using our Guard and Reserve as human 
shields for their special interests selfishness. They should have 
allowed a substitute to be offered so that Congress could vote for 
either their bill, with $189 million in tax benefits for our Guard and 
Reserve over 10 years, or the Democrats and Senate Finance Committee 
bills with $851 in tax relief for our troopers. A fair vote on these 
two bills was denied the House, under the rule, H. Res. 126, and that's 
why I am opposing not only the bill but also the rule.
  Who would have thought that the Republican majority would add tax 
breaks for foreigners who bet on U.S. horse races to the bill, or tax 
relief for bow and arrow manufacturers, or tax breaks for mixing diesel 
fuel with water. These provisions should be considered separately, not 
in legislation whose title is the ``Armed Forces Tax Fairness Act.''
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to adjourn 
offered by the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Cooper).
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. COOPER. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 63, 
noes 358, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 12, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 48]

                                AYES--63

     Allen
     Andrews
     Ballance
     Berry
     Brown (OH)
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carson (IN)
     Clay
     Cooper
     Crowley
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Evans
     Farr
     Filner
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Grijalva
     Hastings (FL)
     Hinchey
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kucinich
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lynch
     Markey
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNulty
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moran (VA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pastor
     Pelosi
     Price (NC)
     Rangel
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sabo
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Stark
     Tanner
     Taylor (MS)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Velazquez
     Woolsey

                               NOES--358

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baker
     Baldwin
     Ballenger
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Bass
     Beauprez
     Becerra
     Bell
     Bereuter
     Berkley
     Berman
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blumenauer
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Bono
     Boozman
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Bradley (NH)
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown, Corrine
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Burgess
     Burns
     Burr
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Cardin
     Carson (OK)
     Carter
     Case
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chocola
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Cole
     Collins
     Combest
     Costello
     Cox
     Cramer
     Crane
     Crenshaw
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (TN)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     DeLay
     DeMint
     Deutsch
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dicks
     Dooley (CA)
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Emanuel
     Emerson
     Engel
     English
     Eshoo
     Everett
     Fattah
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Flake
     Fletcher
     Foley
     Forbes
     Fossella
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frost
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gonzalez
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Gordon
     Goss
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (TX)
     Green (WI)
     Greenwood
     Gutierrez
     Gutknecht
     Hall
     Harman
     Harris
     Hart
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hill
     Hinojosa
     Hobson

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     Hoeffel
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Holt
     Hooley (OR)
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hulshof
     Hyde
     Inslee
     Isakson
     Israel
     Issa
     Istook
     Janklow
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     John
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kleczka
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     LaHood
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Leach
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Lucas (KY)
     Majette
     Maloney
     Manzullo
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     Mica
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mollohan
     Moore
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy
     Murtha
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Nethercutt
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nunes
     Nussle
     Ortiz
     Osborne
     Ose
     Otter
     Oxley
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Platts
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Portman
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Renzi
     Reyes
     Reynolds
     Rodriguez
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanders
     Sandlin
     Saxton
     Schrock
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherman
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Simpson
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Solis
     Souder
     Spratt
     Stearns
     Stenholm
     Strickland
     Sullivan
     Sweeney
     Tancredo
     Tauscher
     Tauzin
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thompson (CA)
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Toomey
     Turner (OH)
     Turner (TX)
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Upton
     Visclosky
     Vitter
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Wu
     Wynn
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1

       
     Paul
       

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Conyers
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Etheridge
     Gephardt
     Hunter
     Lucas (OK)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Snyder
     Stupak
     Van Hollen
     Wexler


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Calvert) (during the vote). Members are 
reminded that there are 2 minutes remaining in this vote.

                              {time}  1151

  Mr. HONDA and Mr. SCHIFF changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the motion to adjourn was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.

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