[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 163 (Saturday, December 17, 2005)]
[House]
[Pages H12056-H12059]
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      PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF MOTIONS TO SUSPEND THE RULES

  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I 
call up House Resolution 623 and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 623

       Resolved, That it shall be in order at any time on the 
     legislative day of Saturday, December 17, 2005, for the 
     Speaker to entertain motions that the House suspend the rules 
     relating to the following measures:
       (1) The bill (H.R. 4519) to amend the Public Health Service 
     Act to extend funding for the operation of State high risk 
     health insurance pools.
       (2) The bill (H.R. 2520) to provide for the collection and 
     maintenance of human cord blood stem cells for the treatment 
     of patients and research, and to amend the Public Health 
     Service Act to authorize the C. W. Bill Young Cell 
     Transplantation Program.
       (3) The bill (H.R. 4568) to improve proficiency testing of 
     clinical laboratories.
       (4) The bill (H.R. 3402) to authorize appropriations for 
     the Department of Justice for fiscal years 2006 through 2009, 
     and for other purposes.
       (5) The bill (H.R. 4579) to amend title I of the Employee 
     Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, title XXVII of the 
     Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to extend by one year provisions requiring parity in the 
     application of certain limits to mental health benefits.
       (6) The bill (H.R. 4525) to temporarily extend the programs 
     under the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other 
     purposes.
       (7) The conference report to accompany the bill (S. 1281) 
     to reauthorize the human space flight, aeronautics, and 
     science programs of the National Aeronautics and Space 
     Administration, and for other purposes.
       (8) The conference report to accompany the bill (S. 467) to 
     extend the applicability of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act 
     of 2002.
       (9) A joint resolution making further continuing 
     appropriations for the fiscal year 2006, and for other 
     purposes.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. McHugh). The gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Sessions) is recognized for 1 hour.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I yield 
the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Hastings), 
my friend, pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. 
During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the 
purpose of debate only.
  Mr. Speaker, this resolution provides that certain specified measures 
may be considered under suspension of the rules at any time on the 
legislative day of Saturday, December 17, 2005.
  Mr. Speaker, the Republican leadership of this House has set forth a 
positive legislative agenda for the remainder of this week and the 
balance of the first session of the 109th Congress. The goal of this 
plan is to address a number of outstanding issues remaining on 
Congress's calendar before we adjourn that maintain our commitment to 
improving America's economy and national security.
  Over the past year, we have passed a number of important new 
education, health care, tax, trade and national security bills that 
will keep Americans safer and healthier, create new jobs and improve 
our economy. This rule will allow the House to consider a number of 
additional bills today under suspension of the rules that will ensure 
that Congress can complete some additional important work before we 
adjourn for the holidays.
  This rule makes in order the consideration of nine bills under 
suspension

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of the rules. These bills accomplish necessary and noncontroversial 
goals, such as extending funding for the operation of State high-risk 
health insurance pools, providing for collection of human cord blood 
stem cells for medical treatment and research, and improving the 
proficiency testing of clinical laboratories.
  The suspension authority will also allow us to consideration 
legislation to authorize appropriations for the Department of Justice, 
improve medical benefits for patients, extend important educational 
programs and help NASA to continue its human space flight, aeronautics 
and science programs.
  Perhaps most notably, it provides for consideration of the conference 
report to extend the applicability of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act. 
Extending TRIA is a goal upon which I have worked very closely with my 
friends and fellow House conferees, Chairman Mike Oxley and Chairman 
Richard Baker, and I commend them for their hard work in preparing this 
bill for President Bush's signature.
  This legislation represents a fiscally responsible response to the 
threats that acts of terrorism pose to the American economy. It also 
includes important taxpayer protections and will ensure that this 
important program does not expire and leave the marketplace for 
terrorism insurance in uncertainty.
  After the tragedy of September 11, the marketplace for terrorism 
insurance largely disappeared. This lack of terrorism coverage 
terminated or delayed billions of dollars in commercial property 
financing, threatening business operations and development and job 
creation and our overall economy.
  TRIA has proven its ability to stabilize the market, and it will 
continue to provide essential protection for businesses of all sizes in 
our country. I urge my colleagues to take the opportunity later today 
to follow up on this program's successful record and to reauthorize 
TRIA so that the program does not lapse and hurt businesses and 
policyholders around this great Nation.
  Like TRIA, all of the bills scheduled for consideration by the 
Republican House leadership on behalf of all Americans enjoy broad 
support from Members of both the majority and the minority parties. 
This rule simply provides us with the tools needed to ensure that all 
of the important work is completed before we adjourn to our families 
and communities to celebrate for the holidays.
  Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to 
support this uncontroversial and balanced rule.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I 
may consume, and I thank my friend from Texas (Mr. Sessions) for the 
time.
  Mr. Speaker, I guess it is appropriate that we are providing for 
suspension of the rules, since we learned yesterday that the President 
has suspended the law regarding spying on American citizens. I heard 
one of our colleagues earlier say that it was the law. I would remind 
him that this House has passed no such measure permitting spying on 
American citizens, even babies know that.
  Mr. Speaker, as my colleague has already noted, this rule will permit 
the House to consider nine pieces of legislation under suspension of 
the rules. While I will not oppose this rule and intend to support the 
nine bills to which the rule applies, and I say that advisedly, taking 
into consideration the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey), my 
distinguished colleague, who will explain in detail the circumstances 
regarding Labor-HHS and the drastic implications for the finances of 
certain agencies.
  I am deeply concerned that the House is again operating outside the 
boundaries of regular order.

                              {time}  1430

  For the last year, my friends in the Republican leadership have 
consistently convened the House a mere 3 days a week, occasionally 4. 
They have regularly sent Members home earlier than anyone else in this 
country gets off work. Sure, I certainly, and I believe all of us, 
appreciate going home a few hours earlier during the week. But forgive 
me, Mr. Speaker, if I am not the most sympathetic Member when the 
leadership cries legislative crisis time and time again over situations 
that it created.
  There is a better way to run this body, and the Republicans continue 
to show that they are incapable of leading the House in an efficient 
and regular manner.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I, like my wonderful colleague, Mr. 
Hastings, am here doing the work of the American people. We are proud 
of what we are doing. It is just 1 week before Christmas, and we have a 
lot of work left to do. That is why we are here. We are here to work.
  There are a number of my colleagues who showed up for work today 
prepared and ready. We know they miss their family and friends. Nathan 
Deal of Georgia, Tom Price of Georgia, and John Shimkus of Illinois are 
just an example of three Members of Congress who, even on a weekend and 
even a week before Christmas, show up.
  So it is my hope that this same spirit we all talk about today, of 
accomplishing our work on behalf of the American people, the importance 
of completing our work because we said we would do it, to be 
responsible to the people of this whole country, all the people, that 
that spirit will carry through because that is why we are here today.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 2\1/2\ 
minutes to the distinguished gentleman, my good friend from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Frank).
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I have to say I was struck 
by the gentleman from Texas crediting his fellow Republicans for 
showing up. Because if it were not for the combination of institutional 
incompetence and ideological extremism that dominates the Republican 
Party, none of us would have had to be here. So I guess we all deserve 
recognition as victims of that.
  I actually think this motion should have been retitled. It should 
have been called Subversion of the Rules, not Suspension of the Rules, 
because that is what is happening. We are being at almost gunpoint, the 
metaphorical, parliamentary equivalent of gunpoint, being asked to 
debate under very restrictive measures bills that deserve more.
  Let me talk about one, the terrorism risk insurance. I think it is an 
important bill, and I agree substantively with what the gentleman from 
Texas said. Unfortunately, the right wingers who dominate this 
administration and much of the congressional leadership in both Houses 
do not agree. They tried to kill this thing, until finally, at the 
overwhelming insistence of people who are involved in the economy of 
this country said that that would be irresponsible, they did the next 
best thing. They have forced us to deal with it in a constricted and 
inappropriate way.
  We did take it up in the House, and we had a full markup in our 
committee, and we voted on it on the floor. In the Senate, and let us 
praise the rule change that now allows us to tell the truth about what 
goes on in the Senate, the Senate passed a very restricted version of 
this. The Senate chairman of the banking committee then refused to 
appoint conferees.
  Interestingly, we are going to have to amend this rule, because the 
rule, reasonably, said let us take up on suspension the conference 
report on TRIA. And then the Rules Committee had to be reminded that 
there is no conference report on TRIA, because the Republican Senate 
chairman, knowing that he would have been outvoted in the conference, 
refused to allow one and, instead, individually dictated what would be 
in it.
  So we are going to have to amend it, because if we had a vote on a 
conference report on TRIA, we would have no TRIA. They would not have a 
conference. The regular order has been totally subverted. 
Unfortunately, we have to accommodate it because we are up against a 
December 31 extension.
  By the way, if the House Republican leadership had not delayed 
consideration of this bill, we could have done it months ago and not 
been vulnerable to that kind of extortion.
  What we have now is a bill that leaves out, for example, the 
commission on how to deal with terrorism insurance that the families of 
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11 have asked for. We will go into that further when we debate it, but 
the families of September 11 asked for a commission. We included it in 
the House bill. Chairman Oxley and Chairman Baker accommodated that 
reasonable request. It is not in the Senate Bill. And because of this 
outrageously high-handed legislative procedure, we do not have a chance 
to include it.
  An important provision was adopted here in the House, sponsored by 
the gentlewoman from Florida, to prevent people who are traveling to 
what some insurance companies think are dangerous areas, like Israel, 
from being denied life insurance. That is not in the bill. Maybe some 
people do not like it, but we should have been able to have had a forum 
in which it could be debated and decided.
  Instead, we have the right wing that controls the executive branch 
and both Houses of Congress grudgingly allowing a bare bones and, I 
think, inadequate form of extension. It is better than nothing. It is 
important to the economy, and the gentleman from Texas is right. But 
here is a combination of ideological extremism and a refusal to 
recognize the legitimacy of a democratic process here.
  As we salute democracy in Iraq, and I am glad we saw it yesterday, I 
guess I am starting to get jealous of the Iraqis, because as of now 
there is more democracy being practiced under American auspices in Iraq 
than the leadership here in the House of Representatives is allowing on 
the floor of this body.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Massachusetts has very 
appropriately talked about this important act, this TRIA legislation; 
and I would like to take time to thank the ranking member of the 
Financial Services Committee (Mr. Frank of Massachusetts) for not only 
his work for a long time on this bill but for working clearly and 
closely with industry and consumer groups to make sure that what we had 
control over of here in the House that we passed.
  I do admit that there is frustration. There is frustration on my 
part, too, as the gentleman is well aware. And I will tell you that the 
process that has taken place may not be perfect, but I want to thank 
the gentleman not only for his support of the work that we were able to 
accomplish but for sticking with it.
  The good part is there will be a process here today and the gentleman 
will be able to speak very clearly about his thoughts on that, and we 
will move forward.
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman will yield 
for just a moment, I want to thank the gentleman for his graciousness 
on that, and I appreciate that.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, at this particular moment I am 
privileged to yield such time as he may consume to my good friend, the 
gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey), the distinguished ranking member 
of the Appropriations Committee.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding me this 
time. I want to put the House on notice that I intend to ask for a 
rollcall on this rule. And if we do have a rollcall, I am going to vote 
against it, and I want to explain why.
  One of the bills that this rule makes in order is the continuing 
resolution. At this point, this Congress has not passed the defense 
bill. It has not passed the Labor, Health, Education and Social 
Services appropriations bill. Together that equals about 65 percent of 
all the discretionary spending in the budget. We still have not passed 
those bills almost 3 months into the fiscal year.
  Now, this resolution will allow the continuing resolution, which 
expires today, to continue until February 15. Now, it also says that we 
will not be able to amend the CR. However, there is nothing to prevent 
the Senate from amending the CR when it goes over there, and I fully 
expect them to try because they have a different set of priorities than 
the Republican House leadership. If you do not believe that, just ask 
Mr. Stevens.
  There is another problem with the CR, and that is that it funds both 
the Defense bill and the Labor, Health, and Education bill at a very 
much lower level and on a very much more restricted basis than I think 
is healthy. Example: on the Defense side, if the Defense appropriations 
bill does not pass, it means that money will trickle out to the 
military, but they will not be able to do the advanced procurement 
expenditures that they need if you are going to have intelligent 
planning.
  On the Labor-Health side, what it means, and this is even more 
serious, I think, because I think there is a better chance that the 
defense bill may pass, but the Labor-Health bill right now is so 
inadequate that the majority leader in the Senate cannot get enough 
votes to pass it. And so now what they are doing is setting up this 
scenario: they are going to fund Labor-Health programs at a level $1.4 
billion below the House-passed bill and $3 billion below last year. And 
because of the peculiarities of the formula, programs such as the 
Community Service Block Grants are going to be funded at a level 50 
percent below last year. You might as well gut that program if you let 
that happen.
  And why are they doing it? I think the reason they are doing it is 
because they know they cannot pass that turkey of a Labor-Health bill 
now as it is, so they are trying to set up a scenario in which in 
February Senators will have to vote for that inadequate bill in order 
to escape from the crisis which was manufactured by this inadequate and 
rigid CR.
  I think House Members, if we are going to be asked to pass another 
CR, ought to have an opportunity to amend it. Coming from an 
agricultural State, I am told that the agreement just reached between 
the House and the Senate is going to allow Senator Cochran to put $2 
billion wherever he wants it in agriculture, and I would kind of like 
to see some of that money going to the MILC program. But it is not 
going to under the way this is set up.
  I would also like to amend the funding rate for a number of programs 
so that you do not indirectly, under the table, without a frontal vote, 
gut programs like the Community Services Block Grant.
  So I want to put the House on notice, despite any agreement at the 
leadership level, I intend to ask for a rollcall vote because this is 
nuts.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I 
may consume.
  I hope that the general body heard and understood Mr. Obey's 
explanation, the fact remains that it would devastate programs in this 
country that people are totally relying upon; and, more importantly, my 
friends who espouse their support of the military, put the military in 
a position of not being able to do advanced procurement and to live at 
restrictive levels. That is not right. Therefore, we need to pay 
particular attention to the continuing resolution.
  I would urge Members to be prepared to come back for this particular 
measure, in light of the explanations offered by my colleagues Mr. 
Frank of Massachusetts and Mr. Obey.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.


                   Amendment Offered by Mr. Sessions

  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I offer an amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Amendment offered by Mr. Sessions:
       In the 8th paragraph, strike ``conference report to 
     accompany the''

  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleagues on both 
sides of the aisle for their thoughtful comments this morning about the 
circumstances, as we are here on December 17, almost a week before 
Christmas. I would like to thank all my colleagues for coming down and 
speaking clearly.
  There is a lot of frustration, but I believe the process is important 
for us to follow through. I am proud of what we are doing. We can 
accomplish it all together.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the 
previous question on the amendment and on the resolution.
  The previous question was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. McHugh). The question is on the 
amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Sessions).
  The amendment was agreed to.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution, as 
amended.

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  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I object to the vote on the ground that a 
quorum is not present and make the point of order that a quorum is not 
present.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Evidently a quorum is not present.
  The Sergeant at Arms will notify absent Members.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 213, 
nays 190, not voting 30, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 663]

                               YEAS--213

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

                               NAYS--190

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bean
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Carnahan
     Carson
     Case
     Chandler
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (TN)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Emanuel
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Herseth
     Higgins
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kind
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     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)
     Moran (VA)
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Ross
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sabo
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanders
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schwartz (PA)
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sherman
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Stark
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor (MS)
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn

                             NOT VOTING--30

     Akin
     Baca
     Barton (TX)
     Becerra
     Cardoza
     Clay
     Cubin
     Cummings
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Ehlers
     Gilchrest
     Hoyer
     Hyde
     Istook
     Kolbe
     McCarthy
     McCrery
     Myrick
     Pastor
     Platts
     Spratt
     Stearns
     Waters
     Watson
     Weldon (PA)
     Westmoreland
     Wexler
     Young (FL)

                              {time}  1518

  Ms. HERSETH changed her vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  So the resolution, as amended, was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  Stated for:
  Mr. STEARNS. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 663 I was unavoidably 
detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.''

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