[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 17, 2004)]
[House]
[Pages H1130-H1133]
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PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H. RES. 557, RELATING TO THE LIBERATION 
OF THE IRAQI PEOPLE AND THE VALIANT SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMED 
                      FORCES AND COALITION FORCES

  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, at this time I am happy to yield 2\1/2\ 
minutes to the gentleman from Lemoyne, Nebraska (Mr. Osborne), a very 
able Member.
  Mr. OSBORNE. Mr. Speaker, I would like to speak in support of the 
rule and the resolution.
  Obviously, much has happened in Iraq since the war began a year ago. 
The military occupation of Iraq was amazingly swift and efficient, 
taking only a few weeks. Since then much has been accomplished, and I 
would like to point out just a few things that I think are noteworthy.
  More than 200,000 Iraqis are now involved with security operations. 
U.S. troops have been reduced by 20,000. Most importantly, an interim 
constitution has been approved, including a bill of rights. The 
gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Dunn) and I have formed an Iraqi 
Women's Caucus, and we are pleased to see that Iraqi women will be 
given an active role in new government, after experiencing years of 
brutal oppression, with at least 25 percent representation. More than 
17,000 reconstruction projects have been completed. The 240 hospitals 
are open, and I think something else worthy of note, health care 
spending has been increased 26 times higher than under Saddam. Ninety 
percent of the children are now immunized. Electricity and water are 
being rapidly restored and improved. Oil production has increased 
dramatically. Schools and universities are operating following a 
massive infusion of school supplies. Private enterprise is increasing 
dramatically. Seventy percent of Iraqis now say that things are going 
well, and they see a brighter future.
  I just came from a meeting downstairs where we met with seven Iraqis 
who are over here as part of a delegation. One of those gentlemen saw 
three of his brothers executed and his father executed; their heads 
were chopped off. They talked about people who had been buried alive. I 
guess it is one thing to stand here and to debate and to talk; it is 
another to meet with people who have really experienced the pain and 
the suffering that was imposed by Saddam Hussein and to understand the 
gratitude that these people have for the military operation that has 
been going on in Iraq.
  Reconstruction has certainly been difficult. There have been bumps in 
the road, as has been true throughout history. Reconstruction is much 
further along right now than it was for Germany and Japan following 
World War II, and I think we need to not lose track of these 
accomplishments.
  There should be no disagreement, I believe, in this body that 
American troops are doing a remarkable job and deserve our total 
support. Also, I feel that there should be no disagreement, that we 
must see this conflict through to a successful resolution. It is 
important that we present a unified front in this body. I think recent 
events in Spain will indicate the danger of being fractionated, of 
sending mixed messages to terrorists. So I am hopeful that we can 
demonstrate a unified position.
  As a young captain told me on a recent visit to Iraq in Afghanistan, 
it is better to fight terrorists here than in the United States. I 
agree wholeheartedly. Support the resolution and the rule.

                              {time}  1145

  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield 6 minutes to the 
distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Murtha), the ranking 
member of the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on 
Appropriations, who has absolutely no peer in the House of 
Representatives in being in support of the troops in Iraq and the armed 
services before and during and after Iraq.
  Mr. MURTHA. Mr. Speaker, I am indignant, I am insulted, and I am 
embarrassed that no one came to me and asked me about this resolution. 
Nobody said, Do you have any input? Nobody has supported this war. The 
gentleman from California (Mr. Lewis) and I put a bill on this floor 
that only 16 people voted against. And I am embarrassed that my 
colleague would come up with a partisan resolution saying whatever was 
said without any consultation to the Democrats, particularly me, who 
has voted so strongly for the defense of this country.
  I go home and people criticize me for my position on the war. One 
fellow said to me, Never in history have so many been misled by so few. 
And, unfortunately, he was talking about me. He believed that I had 
misled him. I believed there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. 
I believed there was imminent danger to this country. And the reason we 
go to war is because there is a core danger to our national security. 
We do not go to war because they drained the swamps in Iraq.
  I do not think anybody needs to question the Congress who supports 
the troops in Iraq or anyplace else. We voted continuously and 
overwhelmingly for the troops. We have tried to make sure they had what 
they needed, even though there were mistakes made in the original 
deployment.
  There were many shortages that we saw. And we made sure when we went 
over there, a number of us went over there, we found those shortages, 
reported them to the Department of Defense; and we started to rectify 
those shortages.
  We know there were changes that before our subcommittee an Under 
Secretary of Defense came forward and said this war will cost nothing. 
This war will be paid for by the oil revenues of the Iraqis. We know 
that in the last war our allies came up with $60 billion. We know that 
this time we have come up with $150 billion to pay for this war from 
the United States. We are paying much of the expense of the allies in 
this war.
  This is not the time to divide the country. We are talking about we 
have got the lowest level of support internationally than we have ever 
had. All the polls indicate that overseas we are discredited. We are 
discredited because they do not believe what we say.
  It is hard to comprehend. I read not long ago where Dean Acheson went 
to France and he went to France to talk about the Cuban missile crisis. 
And when he went to France, he said, I have got proof. He talked to 
President de Gaulle, and President de Gaulle was not one of our best 
supporters. He said, I have got photos here which will show you that we 
have missiles in Cuba. This was during the missile crisis. President de 
Gaulle said, I do not need to see those photos. I will take the word of 
the President of the United States.
  Now, that is the problem we face. We need to come together. I hope 
that this resolution will be withdrawn and that we will change a few 
words in it that would make it unified for the whole country.
  For instance, is it safer today in Spain? Is it safer in the Middle 
East? These are the things that I worry about. Just by putting 
something on paper you cannot say it is safe. It is just like the 
President, I am sure he thought the war was over when he said the war 
is over. I am sure when he made the announcement he thought the war was 
over, but that does not make it over. And putting it on paper does not 
mean that we are out of this with this conflict.
  We need the support of allies. We need the support, the solid support 
of this Congress. This is a long-term fight. I had members of the State 
Department over before with me in my office and they were telling me 
about the transition. This is going to be a very, very difficult 
transition. I do not say it was a shotgun wedding, but I would say we 
put together something where it is going to be very difficult to get 
the Iraqi people to agree when you have the divisions that you have in 
Iraq.
  So we are going to need everybody's support, not only in Congress; 
but we are going to need the people of the world's support because it 
is such a difficult issue for us to face.
  I am in it for the long run. Any money that they need, any equipment

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they need, anything they need, I am going to be there in front, the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Lewis) and I, and all the rest of the 
committee and all the rest of the Members of Congress. Because 
everybody wants to support the troops. But you put it on paper, it does 
not mean that the troops are safer.
  Now, I had two young women come to my office. Both of them had lost 
their husbands. One had two children, one had one child. I have lost 
six from my district. And they are from a very poor family. And they 
came in and they went to Walter Reed and they took gifts out to the 
wounded at Walter Reed.
  Many of us have been out there. The gentleman from Florida (Mr. 
Young) has been out there; the gentleman from California (Mr. Lewis) 
has been out there. All of us have been out to Walter Reed. And this 
one young woman, 22 years old with a child said, You know, I got 
married, I got pregnant. Then my husband was deployed and I had a baby. 
He was killed and I had a baby. She said, I should not have to live my 
whole life in one year.
  We support the troops. All of us support the troops. But we cannot 
get up here and divide the Nation at this time. This should be a 
bipartisan resolution. And I would hope we will be able to work that 
out so that everyone can vote for a resolution that shows this great 
country is united.
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Florida (Mr. Goss), the very distinguished vice chairman of the 
Committee on Rules and, more importantly, the chairman of the Permanent 
Select Committee on Intelligence.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the chairman yielding me the 
time.
  Mr. Speaker, I think this debate is about the rule, and that is what 
we are going to be talking about in order to have more chances to 
articulate the sentiments as were just expressed so articulately by the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Murtha).
  And I have the highest feelings of praise also for Mr. Murtha and his 
very strong record on behalf of our defense forces, our troops. He 
knows the subject, and he attends to them very well. And I am sorry 
that the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Murtha) is aggrieved by the 
procedure today.
  I need to tell you that I was not consulted either. This is a 
leadership resolution that is simply designed after 1 year of fighting 
the war on terror, the chapter in Iraq of the book on the war on 
terrorism for 1 year and all the extraordinary success and work that 
has happened over there. It is entirely appropriate to commend our 
troops who are working so hard and the members of the Coalition. That 
is the main thrust of this resolution.
  Now, I admit it also says that we are commending and acknowledging 
and recognizing the courage and the accomplishment of the Iraqi people 
to go through very difficult days. And it is entirely appropriate to do 
that. It is no mean thing to come up with an interim constitution in 
the operational climate that those folks are operating.
  And I think it is entirely appropriate for the House of 
Representatives of the Congress of the United States, the people's 
House, to say we sympathize with them, we understand what they have 
been through. And we are very grateful that they have got the patience 
to go forward with it and the commitment to do this hard work.
  This is a democracy-building exercise in an area where democracy has 
had many false starts and very little success. This is good news. It is 
entirely appropriate for us at the end of the year to celebrate the 
good news.
  There has been some concern, as we saw last night in the Committee on 
Rules, about whether or not we should be declaring that we are better 
off without Saddam. And the language that was used was that the world 
is safer without him. We did not say the world is safe. We are in the 
middle of a war on terror. And everybody needs to know that.
  And we need the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Murtha) and all his 
good works and everybody's good works in this body to support the war 
on terror because the war on terror will not be won without commitment. 
We know how these people work, and we have to be smart enough to resist 
the temptations, the wedges they drive, the propaganda they put out, 
apply our capabilities and get the job done. It will take all of us.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of 
my time.
  Mr. Speaker, the last speaker, who is my good friend and the 
chairperson of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the 
ranking member of the Committee on Rules on which he and I serve, just 
made the comment that he was not consulted. I say to my good friend 
that he is an original cosponsor of the legislation: the gentleman from 
Illinois (Mr. Hyde), the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay), the 
gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. 
Pryce), the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Goss), and the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Hunter).
  Now, that said, my good friend had the privilege that the gentleman 
from Pennsylvania (Mr. Murtha) and the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. 
Skelton) did not have, and that was even to be original co-sponsors 
even if they were not consulted.
  Mr. Speaker, I will be asking for a ``no'' vote on the previous 
question because I feel this totally closed rule is just plain wrong. 
There is not one single opportunity for any Member of the House to 
offer an amendment to this resolution, not even on the motion to 
recommit.
  Oddly enough, when the current House Republican leadership was in the 
minority, a motion to recommit without instructions was one of the 
things they complained most about. Now, here they are doing the very 
thing they said was so wrong and offensive at that time. Where will the 
sanctimony end?
  The war in Iraq is one of the most serious issues facing our Nation 
today. Anything that speaks to this matter on the floor of the U.S. 
House of Representatives should be done, as the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Murtha) said, in a way that allows all responsible 
viewpoints to be considered. That is what democracy is all about.
  This rule simply gags that process. Ironic, do you not think, when we 
are exporting democracy to Iraq.
  Mr. Speaker, this is not about stopping consideration of the 
underlying resolution. I am not aware of one single Member of this body 
who does not support and praise the incredibly brave men and women who 
are in harm's way in Iraq.

                              {time}  1200

  I believe we can all agree wholeheartedly on supporting our soldiers, 
but there are other important matters that are not addressed in this 
resolution, issues that many in this House want to include in this 
resolution.
  Therefore, if the previous question is defeated, I will offer an 
amendment to the rule that will allow the motion to recommit to contain 
instructions.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to submit for the Record 
immediately prior to the vote on the previous question a description of 
the motion to recommit that will be offered if the previous question is 
defeated and the rule is amended to allow instructions.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Bass). Is there objection to the request 
of the gentleman from Florida?
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman's time has expired.
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of the time.
  Mr. Speaker, let me just say that my friend, the chairman of the 
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, looked at that resolution 
and was so proud of it that he immediately joined as a cosponsor, as I 
believe everyone in this House should.
  Let me just say, Mr. Speaker, obviously everyone in this House should 
be in support of a resolution which affirms that the United States and 
the world have been made safer with the removal of Saddam Hussein and 
his regime from power in Iraq; that commends the Iraqi people for their 
courage in the face of unspeakable oppression and brutality inflicted 
upon them by Saddam Hussein's regime; that commends the Iraqi people on 
the adoption of Iraq's interim constitution and commends the Members of 
the U.S. Armed Forces and coalition forces for liberating Iraq; and 
expresses its gratitude for their valiant service. That is what we are 
doing here today. Everyone should be in support of it.

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  The material previously referred to by Mr. Hastings of Florida is as 
follows:

Previous Question for H. Res. 561 Rule for H. Res. 557--Iraq Resolution

       Amendment in nature of substitute:
       Strike all after the resolved clause and insert:
       Resolved, That upon the adoption of this resolution it 
     shall be in order without intervention of any point of order 
     to consider in the House the resolution (H. Res. 557) 
     relating to the liberation of the Iraqi people and the 
     valiant service of the United States Armed Forces and 
     Coalition forces. The resolution shall be considered as read 
     for amendment. The previous question shall be considered as 
     ordered on the resolution and preamble to final adoption 
     without intervening motion except: (1) four hours of debate 
     equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking 
     minority member of the Committee on International Relations; 
     and (2) one motion to recommit.
       Sec. 2. During consideration of House Resolution 557 
     pursuant to this resolution, notwithstanding the operation of 
     the previous question, the Chair may postpone further 
     consideration of the resolution to a time designated by the 
     Speaker.

                  Motion To Recommit With Instructions

       M. _____________ moves to recommit the resolution H. Res. 
     557 to the Committee on International Relations with 
     instructions to report the same back to the House forthwith 
     with the following amendments:
       Page 2, line 2, strike ``affirms'' and insert 
     ``acknowledges the belief''.
       Page 2, line 4, strike the semicolon and insert ``, and the 
     belief that a final judgment on the value of activities in 
     Iraq cannot be made until Iraq is stable and secure;''.
       Page 3, line 5, strike ``and''.
       Page 3, line 9, strike the period and insert a semicolon.
       Page 3, after line 9, insert the following:
       (5) urges the President--
       (A) to take all steps necessary to ensure that all members 
     of the United States Armed Forces serving in Iraq receive the 
     best force protection equipment available, including 
     protective body armor and extra-armored wheeled vehicles 
     capable of providing better protection against explosive 
     devices;
       (B) to ensure that all members of the Armed Forces who 
     suffer wounds or other injuries, or who incur illness, while 
     serving in Iraq receive complete, timely, and high-quality 
     health care to treat the short-term and long-term 
     consequences of such wounds, injuries, and illnesses;
       (C) to recognize the key contributions made by members of 
     the reserve components of the Armed Forces, and their 
     families, in Operation Iraqi Freedom, and, in consultation 
     with Congress, to address immediately the disparity that 
     exists for many Reserve and Guard personnel between the pay 
     they receive in civilian life and the military compensation 
     they receive when ordered to active duty;
       (D) to acknowledge that there were serious deficiencies in 
     United States pre-war intelligence on Iraq, particularly in 
     light of the failure to find any evidence of significant 
     weapons of mass destruction stockpiles, and to take steps now 
     to improve intelligence so that United States troops are 
     better protected and future United States national security 
     strategies are better informed;
       (E) to request sufficient funding immediately to fully 
     support United States military operations in Iraq and the 
     surrounding region in order to ensure the safety and well-
     being of United States troops deployed to Iraq and the 
     surrounding region;
       (F) to obtain far-reaching international participation in 
     the securing, reconstruction, and political development of 
     Iraq, including the protection of women's and children's 
     rights; and
       (G) to take steps to correct the failure of the United 
     States Government to plan adequately for the post-war 
     occupation of Iraq, including the failure to integrate 
     internal United States Government studies and outside expert 
     opinions that predicted the onset of guerrilla activity and 
     described how to promote effective reconstruction, 
     democratization, and civil society development activities, 
     and the failure to apply those studies and opinions today in 
     order to improve current United States reconstruction efforts 
     in Iraq;
       (6) expresses deep sorrow and regret for the deaths of more 
     than 550 and the wounding of more than 3,500 members of the 
     United States Armed Forces in Iraq and extends support to 
     their families; and
       (7) expresses sorrow and regret for the deaths in Iraq of 
     United States civilians, United Nations personnel, unknown 
     numbers of Iraqi civilians, and other noncombatants.

  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I 
move the previous question.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on ordering the previous 
question.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and 
nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair 
will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for electronic voting, if 
ordered, on the question of adoption of the resolution.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 217, 
nays 197, not voting 19, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 62]

                               YEAS--217

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Bachus
     Baker
     Ballenger
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Bass
     Beauprez
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Bono
     Boozman
     Bradley (NH)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Burgess
     Burns
     Burr
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chocola
     Coble
     Cole
     Collins
     Cox
     Crane
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Cunningham
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     DeLay
     DeMint
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Doolittle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     English
     Everett
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Flake
     Foley
     Forbes
     Fossella
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Goss
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (WI)
     Greenwood
     Gutknecht
     Hall
     Harris
     Hart
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hyde
     Isakson
     Issa
     Istook
     Jenkins
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     LaHood
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas (OK)
     Manzullo
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McKeon
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Neugebauer
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nunes
     Nussle
     Osborne
     Ose
     Otter
     Oxley
     Paul
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Platts
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Saxton
     Schrock
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Simpson
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stearns
     Sullivan
     Sweeney
     Tancredo
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Toomey
     Upton
     Vitter
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Weldon (FL)
     Weller
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NAYS--197

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Alexander
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Ballance
     Becerra
     Bell
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown, Corrine
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Cardoza
     Carson (IN)
     Carson (OK)
     Case
     Chandler
     Clay
     Clyburn
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costello
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (TN)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Deutsch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dooley (CA)
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Emanuel
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Frost
     Gephardt
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green (TX)
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Hill
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley (OR)
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     John
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind
     Kleczka
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Lucas (KY)
     Majette
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moore
     Moran (VA)
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Rodriguez
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Sabo
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanders
     Sandlin
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sherman
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Snyder
     Solis
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stenholm
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor (MS)
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)

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     Tierney
     Towns
     Turner (TX)
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Wexler
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn

                             NOT VOTING--19

     Barton (TX)
     Bereuter
     Gibbons
     Hoeffel
     Israel
     Kirk
     Kucinich
     Leach
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Smith (WA)
     Souder
     Tauzin
     Tiahrt
     Turner (OH)
     Weldon (PA)


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Bass) (during the vote). Members are 
advised there are 2 minutes remaining in this vote.

                              {time}  1220

  Ms. WOOLSEY changed her vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  So the previous question was ordered.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to offer a personal 
explanation of the reason I missed rollcall vote No. 62, On Ordering 
the Previous Question for H. Res. 557. At the time the vote was called, 
I was seated at a House Armed Services Committee hearing and had just 
completed a question to which one of the witnesses was offering a long 
response.
  I respectfully request that it be entered into the Congressional 
Record that if present, I would have voted: Rollcall vote No. 62, on 
Ordering the Previous Question--``yea.''
  Mr. TIAHRT. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 62 I was unavoidably 
detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. TURNER of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 62 I was unavoidably 
detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 228, 
noes 195, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 63]

                               AYES--228

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Bachus
     Baker
     Ballenger
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Bass
     Beauprez
     Bereuter
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Bono
     Boozman
     Bradley (NH)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Burgess
     Burns
     Burr
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chocola
     Coble
     Cole
     Collins
     Cox
     Crane
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Cunningham
     Davis (TN)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     DeLay
     DeMint
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Doolittle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     English
     Everett
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Flake
     Foley
     Forbes
     Fossella
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Goss
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (WI)
     Greenwood
     Gutknecht
     Hall
     Harris
     Hart
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hyde
     Isakson
     Issa
     Istook
     Jenkins
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     LaHood
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Leach
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas (OK)
     Manzullo
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McKeon
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Neugebauer
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nunes
     Nussle
     Osborne
     Ose
     Otter
     Oxley
     Paul
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Platts
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Saxton
     Schrock
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Simpson
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Souder
     Stearns
     Sullivan
     Sweeney
     Tancredo
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Toomey
     Turner (OH)
     Upton
     Vitter
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NOES--195

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Ballance
     Becerra
     Bell
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown, Corrine
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Cardoza
     Carson (IN)
     Carson (OK)
     Case
     Chandler
     Clay
     Clyburn
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costello
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Deutsch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dooley (CA)
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Emanuel
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Frost
     Gephardt
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green (TX)
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Hill
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley (OR)
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     John
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind
     Kleczka
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Lucas (KY)
     Lynch
     Majette
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moore
     Moran (VA)
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Rodriguez
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Sabo
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanders
     Sandlin
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sherman
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Snyder
     Solis
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stenholm
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor (MS)
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Turner (TX)
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Wexler
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Hoeffel
     Israel
     Kaptur
     Kucinich
     Lowey
     Maloney
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Smith (WA)
     Tauzin

                              {time}  1231

  So the resolution was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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