[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 134 (Thursday, December 7, 2006)]
[House]
[Pages H8895-H8898]
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    WAIVING REQUIREMENT OF CLAUSE 6(a) OF RULE XIII WITH RESPECT TO 
CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN RESOLUTIONS AND PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF 
                      MOTIONS TO SUSPEND THE RULES

  Mrs. CAPITO. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I 
call up House Resolution 1096 and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 1096

       Resolved, That the requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII 
     for a two-thirds vote to consider a report from the Committee 
     on Rules on the same day it is presented to the House is 
     waived with respect to any resolution reported on the 
     legislative day of December 7, 2006.
       Sec. 2. It shall be in order at any time on the legislative 
     day of December 7, 2006, for the Speaker to entertain motions 
     that the House suspend the rules. The Speaker or his designee 
     shall consult with the Minority Leader or her designee on the 
     designation of any matter for consideration pursuant to this 
     resolution.
       Sec. 3. House Resolutions 810, 939, 951, and 1047 are laid 
     upon the table.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Boozman). The gentlewoman from West 
Virginia (Mrs. Capito) is recognized for 1 hour.
  Mrs. CAPITO. Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I yield the 
customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. 
McGovern), 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.
  (Mrs. CAPITO asked and was given permission to revise and extend her 
remarks.)
  Mrs. CAPITO. Mr. Speaker, House Resolution 1096 waives clause 6(a) of 
rule XIII requiring a two-thirds vote to consider a rule on the same 
day it is reported from the Rules Committee against certain resolutions 
reported from the Rules Committee. The resolution applies the waiver to 
any special rule reported on this legislative day.
  The rule also provides that suspensions will be in order at any time 
on this legislative day.

                              {time}  1030

  The resolution also provides that the Speaker or his designee shall 
consult with the minority leader or her designee on any suspension 
considered under this rule.
  Mr. Speaker, this Congress has accomplished many things. We have 
worked on a variety of initiatives that will provide our working men 
and women with the resources necessary to succeed, expand access to 
health care, secure our borders, and continue to grow our economy. I 
would like to just comment on a few of these.
  I am proud to say that I was part of the majority of Members that 
passed a raise in the Federal minimum wage for the first time in 9 
years. It is important that we assist those who are struggling with the 
necessary tools to help them develop as individuals and in the 
workforce. I tell you that the hardworking men and women of West 
Virginia deserve this raise.
  Another component of helping Americans succeed is making health care 
more affordable and accessible. This Congress has led the charge in 
modernizing our entitlement programs, allowing them to better serve the 
21st-century senior.

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  Three years ago, we stood on this floor and passed a monumental 
enhancement to Medicare, the creation of a prescription drug plan under 
Medicare. This program has helped to provide prescription drug coverage 
to 91 percent of the seniors in my home State of West Virginia. The 
numbers do not lie. This program has been a success, and I look forward 
to continued work with various groups in West Virginia and throughout 
the country to help the remaining beneficiaries find a prescription 
plan that best suits their needs.
  Regardless of their district's geographic location, no Member can 
honestly say that our Nation's immigration problems have not touched 
their constituents. We are all suffering from an immigration system 
that is clearly broken. The House passed a strong enforcement first 
approach last December, but, unfortunately, our friends in the other 
body could not come to agreement and insisted on a different plan. We 
must secure our borders and gain control over the flow of immigrants 
coming into our Nation before we can discuss any way to form a pathway 
to citizenship.
  Finally, Mr. Speaker, the pro-growth tax policies put in this place 
by this Congress have fostered a strong economy. We are seeing some of 
the lowest unemployment in my State, the lowest unemployment in 
history; tax receipts have surged from economic growth, and, as a 
result, the deficit is beginning to fall.
  We still have work to do, and that is why we are here today. Despite 
this record of success, there is much more work to be done. We have 
several measures left that should garner bipartisan support, and in an 
attempt to make sure that this important work is finished by the end of 
the legislative week as well, we are here today to pass a rule to 
provide for the consideration of bills under rules that would require 
them to pass by two-thirds majority. This allows us to consider items 
in a timely manner and ensure that last-minute issues are resolved 
prior to our adjournment.
  This balanced rule provides the minority with the ability to consult 
with the Speaker on any suspension that is offered, ensuring that their 
input and views are duly considered before any legislation considered 
under this rule is brought to the floor.
  This rule also allows for consideration of special rules reported on 
this legislative day. We are obviously nearing the end of our session, 
and this rule will allow the House to finish its business in a timely 
fashion.
  I am proud of the accomplishments of this House over the past 2 
years. I now ask my colleagues to support this rule so that we may 
continue the work of the American people in a timely fashion today. 
Completing consideration of these suspensions and remaining bills 
ensures that we may accomplish as much as possible in the final days in 
Congress.
  Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to 
support this balanced rule.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  (Mr. McGOVERN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentlewoman from West 
Virginia (Mrs. Capito) for yielding me the customary 30 minutes.
  Mr. Speaker, the 109th Congress is ending the same way it started, in 
a closed and secretive fashion. I guess old habits die hard. Once again 
we are here on the floor debating a martial law rule that also makes 
today a suspension day. Here we are, once again, unsure of what we will 
be considering today, tonight, or tomorrow.
  Now, it is hard to be shocked by the majority's tactics, because this 
is business as usual. Time after time the Republican majority has 
forced this House to consider bills under a closed process. In the 
109th Congress, out of the 190 total rules reported, only one non-
appropriations bill was considered under an open rule. One out of 190. 
That is a dismal record, even for this Republican majority.
  Mr. Speaker, the trouble with this martial law rule is that it allows 
the House to consider any bill before we even have a chance to read it. 
What is going to be included in the final bill? We already know about 
the tax extenders, Medicare fixes and offshore drilling that will be 
cobbled together in one bill. What else will be thrown in here? What 
other surprises does this Republican majority have in store?
  Just a few years ago, Mr. Speaker, liability protection for 
pharmaceutical companies was included in a conference report after the 
conference was closed. Is that going to happen again in their rush to 
get out of town?
  Legislation is not supposed to work like this. None of the issues we 
are considering here are new. The Ways and Means Committee knew about 
the Medicare problem all year, but didn't care to act. The offshore 
drilling measure should be considered under regular order, but the 
Republican majority appears unwilling to schedule it that way. And the 
tax extender provisions, things like the R&D tax credits and work 
opportunity tax credit, to name a few, should be passed on their own 
and considered in the Senate in regular order.
  Mr. Speaker, there is a better way to run this body. The truth, Mr. 
Speaker, is that the American people expect and deserve better. That is 
why the 110th Congress must be different. I believe we need to 
rediscover openness and fairness in this House. We must insist on full 
and fair debate on the issues that come before this body. People should 
have time to read the bills before they are considered. The Rules 
Committee will end its regular practice of meeting in the dead of night 
simply to report out a closed rule. There will be a new direction for 
the House of Representatives.
  Mr. Speaker, I don't expect that the Democratic majority will be 
perfect, but I do expect the incoming majority to understand that every 
Member of this House, Republican and Democrat, deserves to be treated 
with respect and fairness. Every Member, whether it is the Speaker of 
the House or a freshman in the minority party, represents the same 
number of people. Everyone deserves to be heard, everyone deserves to 
know what we are voting on, and nobody deserves a process as 
undemocratic and insulting as the one before us.
  Mr. Speaker, this is a sad, but fitting, way to end the 109th 
Congress. As I said, old habits die hard. I hope this is truly the end 
of an era where rules, respect for this institution, and democracy 
didn't matter, and the beginning of a new direction for the House of 
Representatives.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mrs. CAPITO. Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to yield such time as he 
may consume to the gentleman from California (Mr. Dreier), the 
distinguished chairman of the Rules Committee, who has led us very ably 
over the last several years.
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, let me begin by expressing my appreciation 
to the gentlewoman from West Virginia for her great service on the 
Rules Committee and to say that I was listening to the comments of my 
colleague on the other side of the aisle upstairs and came down because 
I was reminded of what is described as the ``Moral of the Work'' at the 
beginning of each of Winston Churchill's great volumes that he 
provided: The Gathering Storm. You can go through the litany of them. 
But there were four points in the ``Moral of the Work.'' He said in 
war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in 
peace, goodwill.
  We all acknowledge and congratulate our Democratic colleagues on the 
fact that they have won the majority. I certainly hope that it is going 
to be for only a 2-year period. But I congratulate them and look 
forward to working with them in a bipartisan way on a wide range of 
public policy questions that we will face in the 110th Congress.
  But the rule that we are considering right now, Mr. Speaker, will 
allow for Democrats to have an opportunity to offer measures under 
suspension of the rules. We receive loads of requests from Democrats 
who very much want to have an opportunity to have their measures 
brought to the floor. This rule allows for consideration of those 
measures.
  I would also like to say that as we look at the challenge of trying 
to ensure that we open up new markets for U.S. workers around the 
world, and as we work to put into place the economic growth policies 
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an amazingly low unemployment rate, and I heard my friend from West 
Virginia talk about the fact that we have seen an unemployment rate in 
her State of West Virginia actually at an extraordinarily low level, 
and across the country we have a 4.6 percent unemployment rate, and 
what we are trying to do is to put into place policies before we 
adjourn the 109th Congress that will sustain that economic growth 
pattern that we fortunately have seen, and, as we got the news this 
morning, a plummeting of the number of jobless claims.
  So we continue to have very positive news, and it is because of these 
policies, and we are determined before we adjourn the 109th Congress 
sine die to make sure that we have these measures in place. That is all 
this rule does.
  So we can have a wide range of criticism leveled at what it is that 
we have done. I frankly am very proud of the things that we have 
accomplished.
  I see two of my colleagues from Georgia here, Mr. Price, and Dr. 
Gingrey, who have worked very hard on the Rules Committee. I mentioned 
my friend from West Virginia, Mrs. Capito. And we have been able to do 
a lot of things in a bipartisan way as well, Mr. Speaker.
  So it seems to me that we should recognize that moving ahead with 
this rule, passing it, will allow us to get on a road towards 
completing our work on behalf of the American people.
  So again I conclude by congratulating my colleagues for having won 
the majority. I congratulate them and look forward to working with 
them. And it is my hope that the ``Moral of the Work'' as put forward 
by Winston Churchill can in fact be subscribed to by people on both 
sides of the aisle.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, just for the record, I have no problem with the fact 
that people can offer suspension bills today. My problem is with the 
martial law rule, the martial law rule which waives clause 6(a) of rule 
XIII to provide for same day consideration of any rule reported on the 
legislative day of December 7, 2006.
  This rule, which circumvents the regular 1-day layover requirement 
for consideration of a rule, will allow the House to consider any rule 
on any piece of legislation on the House floor on the same day the rule 
is reported without requiring the standard two-thirds vote for same-day 
consideration of a rule.
  I guess the problem I have is, again, not with suspension bills, 
which are mostly noncontroversial bills, but my problem is with 
significant pieces of legislation, some legislation which may not have 
even been heard by committees of jurisdiction, which may not have been 
reported out of committees of jurisdiction, bills that will come before 
us that the House has never even considered, things that we will not 
have an opportunity to be able to read before we vote on them.
  I keep on hearing that we need to consider our business in a timely 
fashion. Well, what is the rush? We could be here next week. Since they 
didn't get their work done before the election, we can stay here 
another week and do this right.
  I think people expect Members of Congress when they vote on 
legislation to know what they are voting on. They don't want any more 
backroom deals. They don't want to read in the newspapers a week or two 
weeks from now that the House passed some omnibus bill that had all 
these objectionable provisions included in it.
  So my point is that this is a bad process and we should do better, 
and I hope in the future we will do better. But here we are today, and 
I think those who care about responsible legislating should oppose this 
rule.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mrs. CAPITO. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, as one who cares about responsible legislating, I guess 
I would like to say that I have been in the legislative process now for 
10 years, 4 years in my State House and 6 years now here in Congress. 
When you reach the end of a legislative session, there is always, 
rightly or wrongly, a rush to wrap up loose ends, to make sure that you 
don't leave issues undone, untied, so that you can start afresh in the 
new Congress.
  But I would like to tell the gentleman something he probably already 
knows, that in the 103rd Congress, which was the last Congress that the 
Democrats had control, they actually used the same-day rule provisions 
22 times, and this Congress, rightly or wrongly, has used the same-day 
rule 20 times.
  So I would like to ask the gentleman, what I am hearing you say, and 
I know you will be on the Rules Committee and I will be leaving the 
Rules Committee because of the new majority-minority makeup in the 
committee, but what I am hearing you say is that you are basically 
promising that this same-day rule provision that we have used in the 
109th Congress will not be a provision or mechanism that you will be 
using next December when you have control of the Rules Committee.

                              {time}  1045

  I would like to hear if that is what you are saying, and I would hope 
that by the rhetoric that I am hearing from you today that this is the 
direction that you want to take the committee. You will be part of the 
leadership of that committee.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Let me respond to the gentlewoman by saying that I hope that we do 
not have to use martial law rules, and I hope that we will do our 
business. Actually, we are going to work 5 days a week, so we will be 
able to get our business done in a timely fashion, in a professional 
fashion.
  But what I object to about the way this House has been run, it is not 
just the martial law rules, it has been the closed rules in general. It 
has been the closing off debate and denying not just Democrats but 
Republicans the chance to offer amendments on the House floor, the 
chance to be heard.
  I am not saying every rule will be an open rule. I am not saying the 
Democrats are going to be perfect, but what I do believe is that we 
will be significantly better. We have to be.
  I think one of the reasons why people have such a low regard for this 
Congress is they have watched how this Congress has been run, and they 
have seen how closed it has been and they have seen the results of that 
closed process: items that appear in legislation that never had 
committee hearings, that had never been debated on the House floor 
mysteriously appearing in conference reports.
  I think people want a more open process, a more fair process. I think 
if the new majority, and I hope, and I know this is a tall order, but I 
hope if Speaker-elect Pelosi can create a more open and fair process in 
this House, that it will go a long way to increasing collegiality and 
respect for one another.
  I think a lot of the bitterness and rancor that exists in this 
Congress is when people feel locked out, when they feel disrespected.
  So I hope we do better and I am going to fight in the Rules Committee 
to do better.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mrs. CAPITO. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I thank the gentleman for his response, and I have enjoyed my 2 years 
of service with him on the Rules Committee. He is a mighty adversary. 
And I also want to say congratulations to you and to the new majority. 
You fought hard for it, you won it, and I look forward to the new open 
process that you are proposing and particularly in the first 100 hours 
that you are proposing in the first several days of our legislative 
session in the 110th Congress.
  I would like to just kind of piggyback on one thing you said, and I 
think it really rings true. It certainly rings true in my State and 
everywhere.
  People are tired of the way we conduct our debate here in Congress. 
They turn us off. They do not listen to us because we heighten the 
words that we use, we disrespect each other as individuals. I am not 
saying that you and I do, but certainly several of our Members do on 
both sides of the aisle. We use words that are meant to catch the 30-
second sound byte, that are meant to inflame one side or the other.
  In my service in the Rules Committee, Chairman Dreier asked me to 
chair a Subcommittee on Civility, and

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I began working with that and working with Representative Cleaver on 
the other side. We joined together in a Special Order where we both 
debated civilly over the pros and cons of tax relief without throwing 
the usual big word bantering, disrespecting words at one another that 
we have a tendency to do in our debate. I would ask my colleagues who 
are listening, join together in this effort with Representative Cleaver 
so we can grow the amount of Members, we can have Special Orders where 
we debate the pros and cons of such hot issues like the war in Iraq or 
immigration or tax relief, all these things that are so important to 
the American public, but we do it in a way where we have a little bit 
more time where we can go back and forth and ask each other questions. 
It is difficult the way our structured debate is, to actually make a 
point in one minute and then be able to respond to the other side.
  So I would join with my colleague and maybe convince him to join our 
Subcommittee on Civility and we can have longer, more meaningful, and I 
think the American public would actually embrace the opportunity to sit 
down in front of their TV, watch C-SPAN for an hour, become educated on 
an issue on both sides, and then understand a little bit more about why 
we are voting one way or the other, where our belief systems are.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Let me also say to my colleague from West Virginia that I have 
enjoyed serving on the Rules Committee with her as well, and I have 
enjoyed our debates. I admire her intellect and I appreciate her 
efforts to create a more civil Congress, and I regret that she will no 
longer be on the Rules Committee because I thought she added a lot to 
the debate and to the civility in that committee.
  Again, Mr. Speaker, I would simply say to my colleagues that this 
process is not the process in which we should conduct our business. 
This martial law rule is not needed. We can stay here next week and get 
our business done in regular order. There is no need to rush out of 
here, and my fear is that we have created a process in which Members 
are not going to have an opportunity to even know what they are voting 
on.
  So, with that, I would urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this 
martial law rule.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mrs. CAPITO. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague. Again, I urge 
my colleagues to join me in supporting this rule to provide that 
suspensions will be in order anytime the legislative day of December 7, 
a very historic day in our Nation's history, 2006, and that special 
rules will be considered on the same day.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the 
previous question on the resolution.
  The previous question was ordered.
  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.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 212, 
nays 190, not voting 30, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 528]

                               YEAS--212

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Bachus
     Baker
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Bass
     Beauprez
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Bono
     Boozman
     Boustany
     Bradley (NH)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Burgess
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp (MI)
     Campbell (CA)
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chocola
     Coble
     Cole (OK)
     Conaway
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Doolittle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     English (PA)
     Everett
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Fitzpatrick (PA)
     Flake
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Fossella
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gohmert
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (WI)
     Gutknecht
     Hall
     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
     Kolbe
     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Leach
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     McCaul (TX)
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McHenry
     McHugh
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Northup
     Nunes
     Osborne
     Oxley
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     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
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Saxton
     Schmidt
     Schwarz (MI)
     Sekula Gibbs
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Sodrel
     Souder
     Stearns
     Sullivan
     Tancredo
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Upton
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NAYS--190

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Carnahan
     Carson
     Chandler
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (TN)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Emanuel
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Farr
     Filner
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Herseth
     Higgins
     Hinojosa
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     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
     McCarthy
     McCollum (MN)
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sabo
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schwartz (PA)
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sherman
     Sires
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor (MS)
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Wexler
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn

                             NOT VOTING--30

     Berry
     Burton (IN)
     Cardoza
     Case
     Cubin
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Evans
     Fattah
     Gibbons
     Harris
     Hinchey
     Hyde
     Istook
     Jefferson
     Kaptur
     Millender-McDonald
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Otter
     Owens
     Paul
     Pickering
     Platts
     Sanders
     Simpson
     Strickland
     Sweeney
     Watson
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield

                              {time}  1119

  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.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Rehberg). Pursuant to House Resolution 
1096, the following resolutions are laid on the table: H. Res. 810, H. 
Res. 939, H. Res. 951, and H. Res. 1047.

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