[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 6 (Wednesday, January 26, 2005)]
[House]
[Pages H216-H219]
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                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Chairman, I would like to inform you that I was 
absent for rollcall vote No. 10 and rollcall vote No. 11 on January 26, 
2005. These votes were on amendments to H.R. 54, the Congressional Gold 
Medal Enhancement Act of 2005.
  I respectfully request that it be entered into the Congressional 
Record that if present, I would have voted: Rollcall vote No. 10, on 
the Crowley amendment--``no''; rollcall vote No. 11, on the Crowley 
amendment--``no.''
  The CHAIRMAN. Under the rule, the Committee rises.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
Terry) having assumed the chair, Mr. LaHood, Chairman of the Committee 
of the Whole House on the State of the Union, reported that that 
Committee, having had under consideration the bill (H.R. 54) to amend 
title 31, United States Code, to provide reasonable standards for 
congressional gold medals, and for other purposes, pursuant to House 
Resolution 42, he reported the bill back to the House with an amendment 
adopted by the Committee of the Whole.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the rule, the previous question is 
ordered.
  The question is on the amendment.
  The amendment was agreed to.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the engrossment and third 
reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was 
read the third time.


               Motion to Recommit Offered by Mr. Crowley

  Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentleman opposed to the bill?
  Mr. CROWLEY. Yes, I am opposed to the bill in its current form.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. Crowley of New York moves to recommit the bill, H.R. 
     54, to the Committee on Financial Services with instructions 
     to report the same to the House forthwith with the following 
     amendment:
       Page 2, strike line 7 and all that follows through line 19 
     and insert the following new paragraph:
       ``(2) Program requirement.--The Secretary may not strike a 
     congressional gold medal for presentation posthumously on 
     behalf of any individual except during the 20-year period 
     beginning 5 years after the death of the individual (unless 
     the Act of Congress authorizing the striking of such medal 
     was enacted before the death of such individual).''.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New York (Mr. Crowley) is 
recognized for 5 minutes.

                              {time}  1230

  Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Speaker, today we begin the 109th Congress in 
earnest, and we do so by considering a bill that we do not need to act 
on for a problem that, in our view and in the view of many of my 
colleagues, simply does not exist. We considered this bill today not in 
the spirit of openness and bipartisanship that should categorize the 
democratic debate in the House, but with a restrictive rule that did 
not allow us to have a debate on a key issue: whether one of the 
highest honors that can be bestowed upon citizens of our country for 
their extraordinary deeds, a Congressional Gold Medal, can be awarded 
to one individual or more for their collective honorable or heroic 
actions.
  Mr. Speaker, if this bill passes in its current form, not only would 
it limit medals to two per year, but it would prevent the House of 
Representatives and the Senate from awarding medals in the future to 
any group of individuals for their collective heroic deeds,

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such as those of the hundreds of first responders that perished in the 
9/11 terrorist attacks.
  I am puzzled why we would act to impose such limits on our own 
ability to recognize the accomplishments of the citizens that we are 
elected to represent. And I am even more puzzled that we would fix a 
process that is not broken, that is bipartisan in nature, and that 
works remarkably well for all Members.
  The bipartisan process we have in place has allowed us to honor the 
Reverend Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King; Nancy and Ronald 
Reagan; Betty and Gerald Ford; Pope John Paul II; the Little Rock Nine; 
the leaders of Brown v. The Board of Education; Jackie Robinson; civil 
rights leader Dorothy Height; the Navajo Code Talkers; General Henry 
Shelton; Charles Schulz; John Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop of New 
York; Father Theodore Hesburgh; Rosa Parks; Nelson Mandela; Mother 
Teresa; Frank Sinatra; Ruth and Billy Graham; Ecumenical Patriarch 
Bartholomew; British Prime Minister Tony Blair; and others.
  But under this bill, Mr. Speaker, we may not be able to honor Nancy 
and Ronald Reagan jointly, nor Betty and Gerald Ford jointly, nor 
Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King jointly, nor the Little Rock 
Nine, nor the Navajo Code Talkers. And under this bill my colleague, 
the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson-Lee), will be prevented from 
honoring the fallen astronauts from the space shuttle Columbia.
  In the 108th Congress the gentlewoman from Texas worked hard to gain 
the requisite two-thirds cosponsorship of the House for a bill that 
would honor these fallen American heroes posthumously with the 
Congressional Gold Medal. It is only right that the rule of the House 
be honored and that her hard-won efforts be not undone by this bill.
  Since the majority party gained control of this House in 1995, 20 
gold medals have been enacted into law either to an individual or a 
group of individuals. Using the process we currently have in place, 10 
gold medal bills out of 20 were sponsored by Republican Members, and 10 
were sponsored by Democratic Members. How can anyone possibly argue 
that the existing process does not work? We are fixing something that 
simply is not broken.
  Unfortunately, the bipartisan spirit that has characterized the 
House's consideration of gold medals in the past has not carried over 
to the debate on this bill. Not only did we do not have an open rule, 
but today represents the first time this House is debating this issue 
in any form. The committee responsible for legislation on this bill, 
the Committee on Financial Services, on which I serve, has not held a 
single hearing on this bill, let alone a markup.
  The limited debate over this bill on the House floor may culminate in 
the passing of a bad bill, unless my colleagues join me in voting in 
favor of sending this bill back to committee, where we can have a 
meaningful debate, and where we can determine whether limiting gold 
medals is truly in the interest of the public and in the interest of 
the House.
  Mr. Speaker, the House has become the 109th Congress on a bad note: 
We are considering a bill with almost no meaningful debate, and it 
proposes to represent a solution to a problem that simply does not 
exist, a problem the record shows does not exist. Does this action 
foretell what lies ahead in terms of the existence of bipartisanship 
throughout this Congress?
  I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to do the right 
thing, to vote in favor of my motion to recommit this bill back to the 
Committee on Financial Services and to allow this House to take a 
closer look at this legislation to determine whether it really meets 
the interests of the American people.
  Mr. OXLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the motion to 
recommit.
  (Mr. OXLEY asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. OXLEY. First of all, Mr. Speaker, let me point out that this is a 
motion with instructions, so it does not go back to the Committee on 
Financial Services, it would automatically come back to the floor.
  Secondly, I want to applaud the gentleman from Delaware, who 
sponsored this legislation. The concept behind the gold medal, the 
highest award that the Congress can provide, has historically been 
given, historically, to an individual. The first individual was George 
Washington, even before the Declaration of Independence. Historically 
that was the case.
  In the first 123 years of the existence of our country, only 45 
medals were given out, all of them to individuals. Since that time, we 
have had a tenfold increase in the next subsequent 100 years. And the 
gentleman from Delaware is right, we need to reform the system.
  There is bipartisanship in the existing system because it involves 
290 cosponsors, so everybody gets an opportunity to weigh in on the 
importance of the medal. There is an opportunity now with commemorative 
coins to honor groups as opposed to the individual medal. So the 
gentleman from Delaware needs to be congratulated on forward-looking 
reforms, just as he did in the commemorative coin program.
  This is an effort, really, to gut these reforms, this so-called 
motion to recommit, and that is why I oppose it. We had extensive 
debate during general debate, as well as the two amendments offered by 
my friend from New York, and so I would ask that the motion to recommit 
be defeated; that we pass this legislation; and then get on to the work 
of defining two medals each year, a maximum of two medals each year, 
four for the Congress, to honor individuals who have had extraordinary 
contributions to our country.
  Let us go back to what the original intent of the Founding Fathers 
was in this gold medal. I think it is important to do so.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Terry). Without objection, the previous 
question is ordered on the motion to recommit.
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.
  Mr. CROWLEY. 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 any electronic vote on 
the question of passage.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 187, 
nays 217, not voting 29, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 12]

                               YEAS--187

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carson
     Case
     Chandler
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costello
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (TN)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Emanuel
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Ford
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Herseth
     Higgins
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kind
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     McCarthy
     McCollum (MN)
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Menendez
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Ross
     Rothman
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sabo
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanders
     Schakowsky
     Schwartz (PA)
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sherman
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Spratt
     Stark
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor (MS)
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters

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     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Wexler
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn

                               NAYS--217

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Bachus
     Baker
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Bass
     Beauprez
     Biggert
     Bishop (UT)
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Boozman
     Boustany
     Bradley (NH)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Burgess
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chocola
     Coble
     Cole (OK)
     Conaway
     Cox
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Davis (KY)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     DeLay
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Doolittle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Emerson
     English (PA)
     Everett
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Fitzpatrick (PA)
     Flake
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Fossella
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gohmert
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Green (WI)
     Gutknecht
     Hall
     Harris
     Hart
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hostettler
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hyde
     Inglis (SC)
     Issa
     Istook
     Jindal
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Leach
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Marchant
     McCaul (TX)
     McCrery
     McHenry
     McHugh
     McKeon
     McMorris
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nunes
     Nussle
     Osborne
     Otter
     Oxley
     Paul
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Portman
     Price (GA)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Saxton
     Schwarz (MI)
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Sodrel
     Souder
     Stearns
     Sweeney
     Tancredo
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Upton
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--29

     Baird
     Berkley
     Bilirakis
     Blackburn
     Bono
     Burton (IN)
     Costa
     Davis (FL)
     DeFazio
     Delahunt
     Ehlers
     Foley
     Frank (MA)
     Gallegly
     Granger
     Graves
     Israel
     Jenkins
     Kaptur
     Lantos
     Manzullo
     McCotter
     Moran (VA)
     Rohrabacher
     Roybal-Allard
     Schiff
     Shays
     Simpson
     Sullivan


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Terry) (during the vote). Members are 
advised 2 minutes remain in the vote.

                              {time}  1302

  Mr. PENCE changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  So the motion to recommit was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 12 I was in the Chamber 
seeking recognition but the vote was closed. Had I been able to vote, I 
would have voted ``no.''
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. CROWLEY. 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 231, 
noes 173, not voting 29, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 13]

                               AYES--231

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Bachus
     Baker
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Bass
     Beauprez
     Biggert
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Boozman
     Boustany
     Boyd
     Bradley (NH)
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Burgess
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Case
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chocola
     Coble
     Cole (OK)
     Conaway
     Cox
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Cunningham
     Davis (KY)
     Davis (TN)
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     DeLay
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Doolittle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Edwards
     Emerson
     English (PA)
     Eshoo
     Everett
     Fattah
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Fitzpatrick (PA)
     Flake
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Fossella
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gohmert
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Green (WI)
     Green, Gene
     Gutknecht
     Hall
     Harris
     Hart
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Holt
     Hostettler
     Hunter
     Hyde
     Inglis (SC)
     Issa
     Istook
     Jindal
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     King (IA)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Leach
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Marchant
     Marshall
     McCaul (TX)
     McCrery
     McHenry
     McHugh
     McKeon
     McMorris
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy
     Murtha
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nunes
     Nussle
     Osborne
     Otter
     Oxley
     Paul
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Price (GA)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Saxton
     Schwartz (PA)
     Schwarz (MI)
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Sodrel
     Souder
     Stearns
     Stupak
     Sweeney
     Tancredo
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Upton
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NOES--173

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Brown (OH)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carson
     Chandler
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costello
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Emanuel
     Engel
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Farr
     Filner
     Ford
     Gibbons
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green, Al
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Herseth
     Higgins
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Inslee
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matheson
     McCarthy
     McCollum (MN)
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Menendez
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Ross
     Rothman
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sabo
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanders
     Schakowsky
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sherman
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Snyder
     Solis
     Spratt
     Stark
     Strickland
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Wexler
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn

                             NOT VOTING--29

     Baird
     Berkley
     Bilirakis
     Bono
     Burton (IN)
     Carter
     Costa
     Davis (FL)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     DeFazio
     Delahunt
     Ehlers
     Foley
     Frank (MA)
     Gallegly
     Granger
     Graves
     Israel
     Jenkins
     Lantos
     Manzullo
     McCotter
     Moran (VA)
     Rohrabacher
     Roybal-Allard
     Schiff
     Shays
     Simpson
     Sullivan


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Terry) (during the vote). Members are 
advised that 2 minutes remain in this vote.

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  So the bill was passed.

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

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