[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 108 (Monday, September 13, 2004)]
[House]
[Pages H7031-H7032]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    EXPRESSING GRAVE CONCERN OF CONGRESS REGARDING CONTINUING GROSS 
  VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES OF SYRIAN PEOPLE BY 
                   GOVERNMENT OF SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The pending business is the question of 
suspending the rules and agreeing to the concurrent resolution, H. Con. 
Res. 363, as amended.
  The Clerk read the title of the concurrent resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the 
gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Ros-Lehtinen) that the House suspend the 
rules and agree to the concurrent resolution, H. Con. Res. 363, as 
amended, on which the yeas and nays are ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 342, 
nays 0, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 90, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 441]

                               YEAS--342

     Abercrombie
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Bass
     Becerra
     Bell
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blackburn
     Blumenauer
     Blunt
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Bono
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Bradley (NH)
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown, Corrine
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Burgess
     Burns
     Burton (IN)
     Butterfield
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Cardin
     Cardoza
     Carson (IN)
     Case
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Chocola
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Cole
     Collins
     Cooper
     Costello
     Cox
     Cramer
     Crane
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (TN)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     DeLay
     Deutsch
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dooley (CA)
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Emanuel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Farr
     Fattah
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Filner
     Flake
     Foley
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fossella
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gonzalez
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Gordon
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (TX)
     Green (WI)
     Greenwood
     Gutknecht
     Hall
     Harman
     Harris
     Hart
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Hensarling
     Herseth
     Hill
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley (OR)
     Hostettler
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hyde
     Israel
     Issa
     Istook
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     John
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     LaHood
     Lampson
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham

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     Leach
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Lucas (OK)
     Maloney
     Manzullo
     Marshall
     Matheson
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McDermott
     McHugh
     McIntyre
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     Mica
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moore
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neugebauer
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nunes
     Nussle
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Osborne
     Ose
     Otter
     Oxley
     Pallone
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pearce
     Pelosi
     Pence
     Peterson (MN)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Platts
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Portman
     Price (NC)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rehberg
     Renzi
     Reyes
     Reynolds
     Rodriguez
     Rogers (AL)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Schiff
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherman
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Skelton
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Souder
     Spratt
     Stearns
     Stenholm
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Sullivan
     Tancredo
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thompson (CA)
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Turner (OH)
     Udall (CO)
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watson
     Watt
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Wexler
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1

       
     Waters
       

                             NOT VOTING--90

     Ackerman
     Baker
     Ballenger
     Beauprez
     Biggert
     Bishop (UT)
     Boehlert
     Boozman
     Brown (OH)
     Burr
     Cannon
     Capuano
     Carson (OK)
     Carter
     Clay
     Conyers
     Crowley
     DeMint
     Emerson
     Engel
     English
     Evans
     Everett
     Frost
     Gephardt
     Gerlach
     Goss
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hastings (FL)
     Herger
     Hinchey
     Hoeffel
     Hoekstra
     Houghton
     Inslee
     Isakson
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kleczka
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     LaTourette
     Lipinski
     Lucas (KY)
     Lynch
     Majette
     Markey
     Matsui
     McGovern
     McInnis
     McKeon
     Murtha
     Neal (MA)
     Nethercutt
     Owens
     Pascrell
     Paul
     Peterson (PA)
     Pryce (OH)
     Quinn
     Rangel
     Regula
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Sabo
     Sanders
     Sandlin
     Saxton
     Schakowsky
     Schrock
     Serrano
     Simpson
     Slaughter
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (WA)
     Stark
     Sweeney
     Tauzin
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Thompson (MS)
     Toomey
     Towns
     Turner (TX)
     Udall (NM)
     Vitter
     Waxman
     Weiner


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

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

                              {time}  1857

  Mr. TIERNEY changed his vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So (two-thirds of those present having voted in the affirmative) the 
rules were suspended and the concurrent resolution, as amended, was 
agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The title of the concurrent resolution was amended so as to read: 
``Concurrent resolution expressing the grave concern of Congress 
regarding the continuing gross violations of human rights and civil 
liberties of the Syrian and Lebanese people by the Government of the 
Syrian Arab Republic.''.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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