[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 120 (Wednesday, July 25, 2007)]
[House]
[Pages H8457-H8466]
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COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT,
2008
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 562 and rule
XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House
on the state of the Union for the further consideration of the bill,
H.R. 3093.
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In the Committee of the Whole
Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the
Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of
the bill (H.R. 3093) making appropriations for the Departments of
Commerce and Justice, and Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes, with Mr.
Hastings of Florida (Acting Chairman) in the chair.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. When the Committee of the Whole rose earlier
today, a request for a recorded vote on
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the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from West Virginia (Mrs.
Capito) had been postponed.
The Clerk will read.
The Clerk read as follows:
Office of Justice Programs
justice assistance
For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other
assistance authorized by title I of the Omnibus Crime Control
and Safe Streets Act of 1968, the Missing Children's
Assistance Act, including salaries and expenses in connection
therewith, the Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to end
the Exploitation of Children Today Act of 2003 (Public Law
108-21), the Justice for All Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-
405), the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice
Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-162), and the
Victims of Crime Act of 1984, $250,000,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed
$127,915,000 shall be expended in total for Office of Justice
Programs management and administration.
Amendment Offered by Mrs. Biggert
Mrs. BIGGERT. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
The Clerk read as follows:
Amendment offered by Mrs. Biggert:
Page 41, line 19, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced
by $34,000,000) (increased by $34,000,000)''.
Mrs. BIGGERT. Mr. Chairman, I offer this amendment with the gentleman
from Texas (Mr. Lampson).
Every year, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children,
or NCMEC, receives funding through the Justice Assistance Account's
Missing Children Program. For the past several years, the House has
allocated funding in the Missing Children Program to NCMEC; however, in
this year's bill, there is no allocation. My amendment carves out of
the Missing Children Program $34 million for the National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children.
Authorized by Congress in section 404 of the Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention Act, the National Center is a true public-
private partnership, funded in the current fiscal year by Congress at
$26.6 million and augmented by $11 million in private sector donations.
Since its inception in 1984, NCMEC has handled more than 2.1 million
calls, trained 226,000 professionals, printed and distributed over 42
million publications, worked more than 130,300 missing children's
cases, and perhaps most importantly, played a role in the recovery of
more than 112,900 children. In fact, NCMEC's total recovery rate is an
impressive 96.3 percent.
Furthermore, the National Center operates the CyberTipline, the
congressionally mandated ``911 for the Internet.'' NCMEC has handled
more than 475,000 leads since March 1998. These leads have resulted in
hundreds of arrests and prosecutions for such crimes as child
pornography, online enticement of children, and sexual molestation.
Mr. Chairman, for generations the message was simple. Parents told
their children to never talk to strangers. My parents told me, and I
told my children. Times have changed. There are more threats to our
children, and our message must change with technology. Similarly, the
role of the National Center has changed. The Internet opened a new
world of child exploitation, and in order to sufficiently protect our
children, we must give the National Center the resources it needs to
help keep our children safe and at home.
I would urge my colleagues to adopt this amendment.
Mr. Chairman, I know that you are committed to the National Center
for Missing and Exploited Children, and I know that this will be an
important issue discussed at conference, and I understand that you
would like me to withdraw this amendment.
Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, will the gentlewoman yield?
Mrs. BIGGERT. I yield to the gentleman from West Virginia.
Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and
at the same time, let me compliment her for her leadership in this area
and her concern for this huge problem and these extremely important
programs that are focused in these organizations.
We have funded this account handsomely. The bill provides $61.4
million for missing children programs. As we move to conference, I know
the gentlelady is interested in funding for particular organizations to
focus on the problem. We are as well. At the same time, we want the
universe to be able to access these programs, and that's the way we
have structured our bill.
As we move toward conference, we look forward to working with the
gentlelady with regard to her particular concerns in this area.
Mrs. BIGGERT. I think that if the gentleman would commit to working
with Mr. Lampson and me to sufficiently fund the National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children at conference, I would be willing to
withdraw the amendment.
Mr. MOLLOHAN. Well, we are and we will work toward that. I know that
we are going to become more specific in these accounts as we move
toward conference. We anticipate that, and we look forward to working
with the gentlelady in that regard.
Mrs. BIGGERT. Reclaiming my time, I guess I was really concerned
because in the past there's always been the definite allocations for
these various groups.
Mr. MOLLOHAN. There have been earmarks for it, and what we are
looking forward to doing is working with the Senate on this, and we
anticipate and will work with the gentlelady to do just that.
I can't commit to a specific result here, but I can assure the
gentlelady that we will work for funding for the National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children, as we move through conference. All this
time working with her is all that I can commit to specifically.
Mrs. BIGGERT. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to withdraw the
amendment.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the amendment is withdrawn.
There was no objection.
Mr. FARR. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from California is recognized for
5 minutes.
Mr. FARR. Mr. Chairman, I would like to enter into a colloquy with
the chairman.
First of all, I want to thank the chairman and ranking member of the
committee. Many of you remember, last year I was down here haranguing
the committee for dropping the ``O'' for oceans out of NOAA, and I want
to thank the chairman for putting the ``O'' back into the National
Oceanic Atmospheric Administration in this year's CJS appropriations
bill, and I want to thank the gentleman for providing ample funding for
the National Marine Sanctuary program as well.
It is the funds in the sanctuary program's construction account that
I would like to ask the chairman about.
The Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary would like to build a
visitor's center in the city of Santa Cruz. This center will be the
only one of its kind in the country. The site was chosen because it
attracts people that do not regularly have access to the ocean.
It is my understanding that this project is one of NOAA's highest
priorities, and they intend to grant the city of Santa Cruz $5 million
from the construction account for the visitors center.
The question is, is it the intent of the committee to support the
partnership between NOAA and the city of Santa Cruz by providing NOAA
with the necessary funds so that they can grant the $5 million to the
city of Santa Cruz for the construction of the visitors center? The
money is included in the bill.
Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
Mr. FARR. I yield to the gentleman from West Virginia.
Mr. MOLLOHAN. Yes, and that's the intent of the committee, to work
with you in this regard.
Mr. FARR. I thank the chairman. That was the purpose of this, to get
that intent on record, and I want to thank the ranking member as well.
Amendment Offered by Mr. Etheridge
Mr. ETHERIDGE. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
The Clerk read as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Etheridge:
Page 41, line 20, insert ``(increased by $1,747,111)''
after the dollar amount.
Mr. ETHERIDGE. Mr. Chairman, I offer this amendment with my
colleague, Mr. Reichert of Washington State, to force the
administration to really do right by the widows and orphans of fallen
public safety officers.
For nearly 4 years, the U.S. Department of Justice has been dragging
its
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feet on providing benefits to the families of brave men and women who
have died in the line of duty protecting their communities.
There are more than 200 claims, some of which have been waiting for
decisions since 2003, languishing in the Public Safety Officers'
Benefits office at the Office of Justice Programs.
This is in clear conflict with the intent of Congress, which
unanimously passed the Hometown Heroes Survivors Benefits Act to
expedite cases and streamline the process. Instead, there has been
delay after delay from the Department of Justice, and the PSOB office
has created an incredibly complicated system that even personnel at the
PSOB office have been confused by.
My amendment would simply ensure that there are enough benefits
personnel to deal with this backlog, enough appeals officers to address
the concerns of families who are wrongfully denied, and additional
managers or ombudsmen to help streamline claims and interact with
claimants to make an emotional and difficult process easier.
We owe our first responders no less than to be sure that their loved
ones are taken care of if they fall while working to ensure that our
communities are safe. These families should not have to jump through
hoop after hoop to receive what they justly deserve.
JoAnn Tilton of Katy, Texas, whose husband, Fire Chief Gary Tilton,
died of a heart attack after responding to a traffic accident, has
waited 2\1/2\ years to hear from the PSOB office.
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In that time she has been asked for volumes of information, been
given conflicting information. She had basically been given the
runaround in a bureaucratic marathon. She is one of the lucky ones,
because at least she has gotten information from the PSOB office, even
though that information includes having been told that a decision would
be made earlier this month, before going forward with the claim. Now
she is going to have to go through a second round of medical
information reviews.
Shelly Hardin of Hope Mills, North Carolina, whose husband, Sergeant
James Heath Hardin, died of a heart attack while working to apprehend a
criminal, did not even receive notice from the PSOB office that their
claim was being processed. The PSOB office still cannot say when they
will begin the processing.
They are but two of the hundreds of individuals whose lives have been
tragically disrupted, once by the death of the loved ones, and whose
lives continue to be disrupted by the Department's delays. These
additional funds will make sure that they wait no longer.
The brave men and women who serve our communities every day, many of
whom volunteer their time, don't ask when they get a call from someone
in distress. They act immediately, and the Justice Department should do
the same.
The history of the Hometown Heroes Act is riddled with delays. The
first delay came when they proposed regulations that were in direct
conflict with the legislation. Then came more delays when they quibbled
over wording and phrases and claims that they were waiting for approval
from the OMB.
It took 3 years to finalize the process. Since the law went into
effect, only 10 families have been approved for the Hometown Heroes
benefit out of 264 that have applied. Forty-seven claims have been
denied, and more than 200 families still await a verdict.
The U.S. Justice Department appears to be intentionally
misinterpreting the intent of Congress to create the presumption that
the death was caused by work in the line of duty. I urge the Justice
Department to act swiftly and fairly on the remaining claims to provide
the needed benefits, the much-deserved benefits.
I urge my colleagues to support these amendments.
Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. REICHERT. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Washington is recognized for
5 minutes.
Mr. REICHERT. Mr. Chairman, I am proud to stand today with my good
friend Mr. Etheridge in support of this amendment to the CJS
appropriations bill.
Nearly 4 years ago the President signed into law the Hometown Heroes
Survivors Benefit Act. This legislation, which was championed by the
author of this amendment Mr. Etheridge, corrected a technicality in how
public safety officers' benefits were paid. Specifically, the law
allowed for families of those killed in the line of duty, by heart
attack or stroke, to claim the benefit. It sounds simple.
I didn't have the opportunity to vote for this legislation because at
the time I was the sheriff in King County, Seattle, Washington,
completing my 33-year law enforcement career. During my time as a
police officer, I saw firsthand the pain that a family endures when
they lose a loved one. I have lost partners over those 33 years that I
was in the Sheriff's Office in Seattle. I know that pain. It doesn't go
away.
But yet they go out on the street day after day after day, and they
put their lives on the line. Their families are standing there with
them. Unfortunately, the families, who are dealing with this pain, and
who are eligible for this compensation under the Hometown Heroes
Survivors Benefit Act, are being stalled and denied by our government.
It took the Department of Justice almost 3 years just to issue a rule
that would dictate how these benefits would be paid. On top of the 3
years, in the last 10 months, since the rule was issued, only 10 claims
have been completed favorably, which averages to 1 claim a month. There
are approximately 200 claims left, as Mr. Etheridge indicated, still in
limbo.
I have seen the tears of these families. We just met with three
families last week. Through the Federal Government's inaction and
complacency, more tears will be shed.
This is absolutely unacceptable, outrageous. This amendment is
simple. It will double the current funding for the Public Safety
Officers' Benefit Program. This amendment will take away the excuse
that the Department of Justice does not have the people or the
resources to process these claims. The issue of taking care of first
responders, as I have said, is close to my heart.
Let's take care of the families. Let's implement a law that we put
into the books years ago. Passage of this amendment will send a strong
message to our Nation's first responders that we, the United States
Government, truly stand behind them and their families.
Please support the Etheridge-Reichert amendment.
Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Rhode Island is recognized
for 5 minutes.
Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. Chairman, I rise to support the Etheridge-Reichert
amendment. The Attorney General of the United States, Alberto Gonzales,
was up here on the Hill this week. The Attorney General was trying to
appeal to the United States Congress of the United States, trying to
appeal to the American people to restore the American people's
confidence in the Justice Department. I think one of the first steps he
can take to restore confidence in the American people and the
Department of Justice is to ensure that the people who are on the front
lines of the war against terror here in our own country, the men and
women in blue, the people who are protecting our men and women across
this country from crime, in our neighborhoods and our cities and our
towns, that those people who make the ultimate sacrifice and lay down
their lives for the protection of our citizens in our own communities,
that those people, when they make that ultimate sacrifice, that this
country is not going to let them down. It's not going to let their
families down.
The notion that we're going to make them wait for an insurance
policy, make their families wait, make their widows wait, make their
orphans wait, is an insult. The fact that the Department of Justice is
not willing to simply step up and pay $250,000 tax-free dollars to the
widow and children of fallen officers who have fallen in the line of
duty protecting people in this country from the criminal element of
this society is unforgivable.
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The fact that this Attorney General is up here on the Hill and has no
understanding of this, has no sensitivity to this, is one more example
of how out of touch this Attorney General is.
This amendment, this Etheridge amendment, is another example of how
this Congress has to remind the executive branch who needs to be in
charge when it comes to running the pursestrings around here, where the
priorities of the American people are. The priorities of the American
people are let's spend money where our law enforcement is. That is
where their families are.
This, my friends, is where our hometown heroes are. In my State we
have people like Deputy Assistant Day, who died trying to fight a fire,
and his family's widow is still waiting for that benefit. In the 1970s,
President Nixon put the public safety officers' benefit in at $100,000.
We never even increased it. We tried to increase it; wasn't even
increased for rate of inflation, cost-of-living adjustment. I worked to
try to increase it, as did Mr. Etheridge.
It took 9/11, unfortunately, it took a crisis like 9/11, before we
were able to attach this bill to the PATRIOT Act and get it included as
part of the PATRIOT Act and get it pushed through this Congress so that
we could increase it up to over $250,000. Now that it's up there, and
it's tied to the rate of inflation, it's there.
But it's not going to do a lot of good unless it's going out the
door, and it's going into the pockets and into the households and the
families that need it. That's why we need to pass this amendment to
give the administration and the Department of Justice the resources it
needs in order to give them no more excuses in order to process these
claims and get those families the resources they need in order to take
care of the widows and the orphans of our fallen heroes.
Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from West Virginia is recognized
for 5 minutes.
Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of Mr. Etheridge's
amendment. I can tell you that the beneficiaries of the Public Safety
Officers' Benefit Program and the Hometown Heroes Survivors Benefit
Program are extremely lucky to have advocates like Mr. Etheridge in the
United States House of Representatives. I mention him first and most
often because he has been all over this issue for the last 6 months,
since I have been chairman of this subcommittee.
I am extremely pleased to see Mr. Reichert on this, a person who
comes from law enforcement, who understands the issues of law
enforcement, and is probably personally acquainted with cases of
disappointment of beneficiaries under this program. It is tremendous
that this program is bipartisan.
You can tell by Mr. Kennedy's remarks and the sincerity behind them
that this is an issue of vital concern to the subcommittee as well. Mr.
Kennedy has been championing Mr. Etheridge's cause and Mr. Reichert's
cause through the process of this bill.
I give credit to these people because they have been especially
attentive to this concern. It is, indeed, something that we should be
concerned about.
As we talk about homeland security, as we talk about State and local
law enforcement, and as we recommend a bill with this kind of funding
to the House of Representatives, we have to be mindful of those people
who have made sacrifices and who have suffered greatly. That's what
these programs are about. That's why the Congress authorized them, and
that's why we have provided appropriations for them.
It is not acceptable that the Department of Justice has not moved
these beneficiary cases, with far greater expediency than they have. It
is actually a denial of the benefit that some of these cases have been
processed so slowly. So that's the initiative, that's the purpose of
Mr. Etheridge's amendment.
I am pleased to accept the amendment because of its merit.
Mr. Chairman, I yield to my ranking member, who has likewise been
passionate about ensuring that the Department of Justice moves these
beneficiary programs in the Office of Justice programs.
Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Thank you for yielding. I echo your sentiments.
Let's move on this amendment. I highly support it.
Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, we accept the gentleman's amendment.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the
gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Etheridge).
The question was taken; and the Acting Chairman announced that the
ayes appeared to have it.
Mr. ETHERIDGE. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from North
Carolina will be postponed.
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The Clerk will read.
The Clerk read as follows:
state and local law enforcement assistance
For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other
assistance authorized by the Violent Crime Control and Law
Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-322) (``the 1994
Act''); the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of
1968 (``the 1968 Act''); the Trafficking Victims Protection
Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-164); the
Violence Against Women and Department of Justice
Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-162); and the
Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000
(Public Law 106-386); and other programs; $1,315,000,000
(including amounts for administrative costs, which shall be
transferred to and merged with the ``Justice Assistance''
account): Provided, That funding provided under this heading
shall remain available until expended as follows:
(1) $600,000,000 for the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice
Assistance Grant program as authorized by subpart 1 of part E
of title I of the 1968 Act, as amended by section 1111 of
Public Law 109-162 (except that the special rules for Puerto
Rico under section 505(g) of the 1968 Act, as amended by
section 1111 of Public Law 109-162, shall not apply for
purposes of this Act), of which $25,000,000 is for State and
local law enforcement for security associated with the 2008
Presidential Candidate Nominating Conventions, to be divided
equally between the conventions; and $10,000,000 is for the
National Institute of Justice in assisting units of local
government to identify, select, develop, modernize, and
purchase new technologies for use by law enforcement;
(2) $405,000,000 for the State Criminal Alien Assistance
Program, as authorized by section 241(i)(5) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1231(i)(5)), as
amended by section 1196 of Public Law 109-162;
(3) $30,000,000 for the Southwest Border Prosecutor
Initiative to reimburse State, county, parish, tribal,
municipal governments only for costs associated with the
prosecution of criminal cases declined by local offices of
the United States Attorneys;
(4) $124,500,000 for discretionary grants, notwithstanding
the provisions of section 505 of the 1968 Act;
(5) $1,000,000 for the Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient
Alert Program, as authorized by section 240001(c) of the 1994
Act;
(6) $15,000,000 for activities authorized under Public Law
109-164;
(7) $40,000,000 for Drug Courts, as authorized by section
1001(25)(A) of title I of the 1968 Act, as amended by section
1142 of Public Law 109-162;
(8) $7,500,000 for a prescription drug monitoring program;
(9) $25,000,000 for prison rape prevention and prosecution
programs, as authorized by the Prison Rape Elimination Act of
2003 (Public Law 108-79), of which $1,800,000 shall be
transferred to the National Prison Rape Elimination
Commission for authorized activities;
(10) $10,000,000 for grants for residential substance abuse
treatment for State prisoners, as authorized by part S of the
1968 Act;
(11) $5,000,000 for a program to improve State and local
law enforcement intelligence capabilities including
antiterrorism training and training to ensure that
constitutional rights, civil liberties, civil rights, and
privacy interests are protected;
(12) $31,000,000 for assistance to Indian tribes, of
which--
(A) $12,000,000 shall be available for grants under section
20109(a)(2) of subtitle A of title II of the 1994 Act;
(B) $12,000,000 shall be available for the Tribal Courts
Initiative; and
(C) $7,000,000 shall be available for tribal alcohol and
substance abuse reduction assistance grants;
(13) $1,000,000 for a capital litigation improvement grant
program;
(14) $10,000,000 for mental health courts and adult and
juvenile collaboration program grants, as authorized by parts
V and HH of title I of the 1968 Act; and
(15) $10,000,000 for sex offender management assistance as
authorized by the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act
of 2006 (Public Law 109-248), the Violence Against Women and
Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public Law
109-162), and
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the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
(Public Law 103-322):
Provided further, That, if a unit of local government uses
any of the funds made available under this title to increase
the number of law enforcement officers, the unit of local
government will achieve a net gain in the number of law
enforcement officers who perform nonadministrative public
safety service.
community oriented policing services
For activities authorized by the Violent Crime Control and
Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-322), the Omnibus
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (``the 1968
Act''), the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice
Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-162), and the USA
PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public
Law 109-177) (including administrative costs), $725,000,000,
to remain available until expended: Provided, That of the
funds under this heading, not to exceed $2,575,000 shall be
available for the Office of Justice Programs for reimbursable
services associated with programs administered by the
Community Oriented Policing Services Office: Provided
further, That any balances made available through prior year
deobligations shall only be available in accordance with
section 505 of this Act. Of the amount provided--
(1) $30,000,000 is for the matching grant program for armor
vests for law enforcement officers, as authorized by section
2501 of part Y of the 1968 Act;
(2) $85,000,000 is for grants to address public safety and
methamphetamine manufacturing, sale, and use in hot spots as
authorized by section 754 of Public Law 109-177;
(3) $128,000,000 is for law enforcement technologies and
interoperable communications;
(4) $15,000,000 is for an offender re-entry program;
(5) $12,000,000 is for grants to upgrade criminal records,
as authorized under the Crime Identification Technology Act
of 1998 (42 U.S.C. 14601);
(6) $175,000,000 is for a DNA analysis and capacity
enhancement program, and for other local, State, and Federal
forensic activities, of which not less than $151,000,000
shall be for reducing and eliminating the backlog of DNA
samples and for increasing State and local DNA laboratory
capacity;
(7) $18,000,000 is for improving tribal law enforcement,
including equipment and training;
(8) $80,000,000 is for programs to reduce gun crime and
gang violence;
(9) $4,000,000 is for training and technical assistance;
(10) $49,692,000 is for the Office of Weed and Seed
Strategies, as authorized by section 103 of the 1968 Act, as
amended by section 1121 of Public Law 109-162;
(11) not to exceed $28,308,000 is for program management
and administration; and
(12) $100,000,000 for grants under section 1701 of title I
of the 1968 Act (42 U.S.C. 3796dd) for the hiring and
rehiring of additional career law enforcement officers under
part Q of such title notwithstanding subsection (i) of such
section.
Amendment Offered by Mr. Chabot
Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
The Clerk read as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Chabot:
Page 47, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced
by $15,000,000)''.
Page 47, line 14, after the dollar amount, insert
``(increased by $15,000,000)''.
Mr. CHABOT (during the reading). Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous
consent that the amendment be considered as read and printed in the
Record.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the
gentleman from Ohio?
There was no objection.
Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Chairman, this amendment is really very
straightforward. It would add $15 million to the $15 million presently
designated for jurisdictions experiencing a high rate of violent and
drug trafficking crime involving firearms. My amendment would offset
this increase by taking $15 million from a new offender reentry program
that the underlying bill appears to authorize.
Mr. Chairman, there is no doubt that reentry programs play a critical
role in the criminal justice system, ensuring that offenders who are
released back into our communities receive the assistance they need to
make them productive members of our communities. Indeed, millions of
offenders are released back into our communities each year. More often
than not, these individuals are released back into society without
support, increasing the likelihood of recidivism, jeopardizing the
safety of our communities, and ultimately increasing the cost to
society.
In fiscal year 2006, more than $13 million in Federal funds were
awarded to States to assist them with their reentry programs. During
that same year, more than $146 million was allocated to the Federal
Bureau of Prisons to help community corrections centers across the
Nation get inmates who are close to being released the assistance they
needed.
This Congress, the House is set to consider H.R. 1593, the Second
Chance Act of 2007, of which I am an original cosponsor. This
legislation would, among other things, reauthorize State and local
adult and juvenile reentry programs at a level of $65 million for
fiscal year 2008 and 2009. Yet, at the same time we cannot forget the
needs of our communities. More must be done to give State and local law
enforcement the resources they need to combat the violent crime and
gang activity that continues to plague our cities, including my city,
Cincinnati, particularly violent crimes committed with firearms.
According to the Bureau of Justice statistics, in 2005, 65 percent of
all murders, 42 percent of all robberies, and 21 percent of all
aggravated assaults that were reported to police were committed with
firearms.
Moreover, the violent crime associated with gang activity continues
to leave residents in our Nation's cities and towns feeling like
prisoners in their own homes. In my own city, Cincinnati, crimes
committed with firearms, local gang activity, and drug trafficking
continue to threaten the well-being of law-abiding citizens. In fact,
this past spring the Cincinnati City Council voted to obtain the help
of renowned Professor David Kennedy to assist the city in fighting
violent crime.
Making additional funds available in this jurisdiction and
jurisdictions across the country will empower residents of cities and
towns to take back their communities and make them a safer place to
live and work and raise our families. I urge my colleagues to support
this amendment.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from West Virginia is recognized
for 5 minutes.
Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I admit to being a bit confused by the
gentleman's logic here, who I have great respect and great regard for.
He comes out of an exemplary academic background, and I can't imagine
how we could be thinking differently on this amendment. Nevertheless,
we do, and I rise in strong opposition to the amendment as I understand
it.
I am particularly pleased that the bill provides $80 million for
State and local grants to address violent crime and gun crime across
the Nation, the two issues that the gentleman expresses concern about.
I hope he agreed with the committee when we increased funding for this
purpose by $35 million over 2007. I have to oppose his amendment
because of the offset of $15 million for law enforcement costs of
offender reentry programs.
These are the programs that go hand in glove with our other law
enforcement activities. Recidivism is a terrible problem. These
programs establish partnerships with correctional institutions, with
community corrections, with social services, with faith-based
institutions and with community policing groups. They want to help make
our communities safer.
Our Nation's prisons are bursting at the seams. In the Federal
prisons alone we have an inmate population that has risen six-fold
since 1980; we have 195,000 inmates in Federal prison. The recidivism
rate is 40 percent, and in the States it is 67 percent. If we reduce
those numbers, we are dramatically not only reducing crime in the
country and reducing the recidivism rate in the process, we are doing
both at one time. So these statistics being deplorable, we need more
resources applied to addressing recidivism. For those reasons, I must
oppose the gentleman's amendment.
In light of the fact that we have increased funding significantly for
the violent gang and the gun crimes across the country by $35 million
and by providing $80 million in this bill, that seems to be a healthy
increase for that purpose that the gentleman expressed his concern
about.
Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
Mr. MOLLOHAN. I yield to the gentleman from Ohio.
Mr. CHABOT. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
I want to first of all compliment him for the fact that he also
attended an institution which I think is probably one of the best
colleges in the country.
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Mr. MOLLOHAN. It certainly is.
Mr. CHABOT. We happened to go to the same college, by the way.
As far as the committee report, it says that the committee directs
that the remaining $15 million will be available to jurisdictions
experiencing a high rate of violent and drug trafficking crime
involving firearms. And we certainly support that.
What we are trying to do is increase that, because we think there
should be additional funding because we do believe that gang activity
and violence is plaguing a number of communities, including the one
that I happen to represent, the city of Cincinnati. And when we looked
into the bill, when we called the committee for further clarification
about what the other $15 million went toward, we were told that this
provision had been inserted in previous Congresses, but that they
weren't really sure what, if any, reentry program that they were
referring to.
So rather than just let the money sit, I propose to give it to those
jurisdictions that are falling victim to violent crime and drug
traffickers, particularly those that are committed with firearms. And I
don't believe that the $15 million, as I said, that is currently in the
bill is sufficient. And since this money was available and wasn't
designated, to our knowledge, in any particular program, we thought
that it would be appropriate to increase the funding so that we could
help more cities better fight against gang activity and violence, and
particularly when those are involved with firearms.
Mr. MOLLOHAN. I can assure the gentleman that I am fully in support
of his purpose. This is the first time that I have been introduced to
his concerns specifically, and I am advised our staff haven't really
talked.
I don't know if there is a way that the gentleman feels we can
accommodate him.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from West Virginia has
expired.
(By unanimous consent, Mr. Mollohan was allowed to proceed for 2
additional minutes.)
Mr. CHABOT. If the gentleman would yield, I would be happy to work
with the gentleman in good faith, and perhaps we could work out
something that would boost up the money for our cities.
Mr. MOLLOHAN. I just can't believe that we cannot do that, if the
gentleman would wish to withdraw his amendment.
Mr. CHABOT. With that understanding, we would be happy to withdraw
the amendment and work with the gentleman on that issue.
Mr. MOLLOHAN. I thank the gentleman.
Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from New Jersey is recognized for
5 minutes.
Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. I just wanted to say that it has been interesting
to be a spectator between two William & Mary graduates. We are not
allowed to make product endorsements on the floor, but it is good to
see that the logic will reign, and I will be supporting the Chair's
logic.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to withdraw the
amendment, with the understanding we can work together.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the amendment is withdrawn.
There was no objection.
Announcement by the Acting Chairman
The Acting CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings
will now resume on those amendments on which further proceedings were
postponed, in the following order:
Amendment No. 4 by Mr. Rogers of Michigan.
An amendment by Mr. Sessions of Texas.
An amendment by Mrs. Capito of West Virginia.
An amendment by Mr. Shimkus of Illinois.
Amendment No. 22 by Mr. English of Pennsylvania.
An amendment by Ms. Zoe Lofgren of California.
An amendment by Mr. King of Iowa.
The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the time for any electronic vote
after the first vote in this series.
Amendment No. 4 Offered by Mr. Rogers of Michigan
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Michigan
(Mr. Rogers) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which
the noes prevailed by voice vote.
The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
The Clerk redesignated the amendment.
Recorded Vote
The Acting CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 200,
noes 228, not voting 8, as follows:
[Roll No. 720]
AYES--200
Akin
Alexander
Altmire
Bachmann
Bachus
Baker
Barrett (SC)
Barrow
Bartlett (MD)
Barton (TX)
Bean
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boehner
Bonner
Bono
Boozman
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brown (SC)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Buchanan
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Buyer
Camp (MI)
Cannon
Cantor
Capito
Carney
Carter
Castle
Chabot
Coble
Cole (OK)
Conaway
Costa
Crenshaw
Culberson
Davis (KY)
Davis, David
Davis, Lincoln
Davis, Tom
Deal (GA)
DeFazio
Dent
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Dingell
Donnelly
Doolittle
Drake
Dreier
Duncan
Ellsworth
Emerson
English (PA)
Everett
Fallin
Feeney
Flake
Forbes
Fortenberry
Fortuno
Fossella
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Gillmor
Gingrey
Gohmert
Goode
Goodlatte
Granger
Graves
Hall (TX)
Harman
Hastert
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
Heller
Hensarling
Herger
Hobson
Hoekstra
Hulshof
Inglis (SC)
Issa
Jindal
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, Sam
Jones (NC)
Jordan
Kagen
Keller
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kirk
Kline (MN)
Knollenberg
Kuhl (NY)
Lamborn
Latham
LaTourette
Lewis (KY)
Linder
LoBiondo
Lucas
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Manzullo
Marchant
Matheson
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul (TX)
McCotter
McCrery
McHenry
McHugh
McKeon
McMorris Rodgers
Mica
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Moran (KS)
Murphy, Patrick
Murphy, Tim
Musgrave
Myrick
Neugebauer
Nunes
Pearce
Pence
Peterson (PA)
Pickering
Pitts
Platts
Poe
Price (GA)
Pryce (OH)
Putnam
Radanovich
Ramstad
Rehberg
Reichert
Renzi
Reynolds
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Sali
Saxton
Schmidt
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shuler
Shuster
Skelton
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Souder
Space
Stearns
Stupak
Sullivan
Tancredo
Tanner
Taylor
Terry
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Turner
Udall (CO)
Upton
Walberg
Walden (OR)
Weller
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wicker
Wilson (NM)
Wilson (SC)
Wolf
Young (FL)
NOES--228
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Allen
Andrews
Arcuri
Baca
Baird
Baldwin
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Biggert
Bilbray
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Bordallo
Boren
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd (FL)
Boyda (KS)
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brown, Corrine
Butterfield
Calvert
Campbell (CA)
Capps
Capuano
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carson
Castor
Chandler
Christensen
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Conyers
Cooper
Costello
Courtney
Cramer
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Dicks
Doggett
Doyle
Edwards
Ehlers
Ellison
Emanuel
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Faleomavaega
Farr
Fattah
Ferguson
Filner
Frank (MA)
Frelinghuysen
Giffords
Gilchrest
Gillibrand
Gonzalez
Gordon
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hall (NY)
Hare
Hastings (FL)
Herseth Sandlin
Higgins
Hill
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hodes
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hooley
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones (OH)
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kind
Klein (FL)
Kucinich
Lampson
Langevin
Lantos
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lee
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lynch
Mahoney (FL)
Maloney (NY)
Markey
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum (MN)
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McNerney
McNulty
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Melancon
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Mitchell
Mollohan
Moore (KS)
Moore (WI)
Moran (VA)
Murphy (CT)
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Murtha
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Norton
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Paul
Payne
Perlmutter
Peterson (MN)
Petri
Pomeroy
Porter
Price (NC)
Rahall
Rangel
Regula
Reyes
Rodriguez
Rothman
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Salazar
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schwartz
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sestak
Shays
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Shimkus
Simpson
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Solis
Spratt
Stark
Sutton
Tauscher
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Towns
Udall (NM)
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walsh (NY)
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Welch (VT)
Weldon (FL)
Wexler
Wilson (OH)
Woolsey
Wu
Wynn
Yarmuth
NOT VOTING--8
Clarke
Cubin
Davis, Jo Ann
Hunter
LaHood
Marshall
Wamp
Young (AK)
{time} 1804
Mr. WALSH of New York, Mr. BILBRAY, Mrs. CAPPS, and Messrs. MEEKS of
New York, WEINER, and McNULTY changed their vote from ``aye'' to
``no.''
Messrs. DENT, TERRY, UDALL of Colorado, POE, LATHAM, and Mrs. EMERSON
changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Amendment Offered by Mr. Sessions
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr.
Sessions) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the
noes prevailed by voice vote.
The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
The Clerk redesignated the amendment.
Recorded Vote
The Acting CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. This will be a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 125,
noes 294, not voting 17, as follows:
[Roll No. 721]
AYES--125
Akin
Bachmann
Baker
Barrett (SC)
Barton (TX)
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boehner
Bonner
Bono
Boozman
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Buchanan
Burton (IN)
Buyer
Campbell (CA)
Cannon
Cantor
Carter
Chabot
Conaway
Culberson
Davis (KY)
Davis, David
Davis, Tom
Deal (GA)
Dent
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Dreier
Ehlers
Everett
Feeney
Flake
Fortuno
Fossella
Franks (AZ)
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Gingrey
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Granger
Hall (TX)
Hastings (WA)
Heller
Hensarling
Hoekstra
Hulshof
Inglis (SC)
Issa
Johnson, Sam
Jones (NC)
Jordan
Keller
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kline (MN)
Knollenberg
Lamborn
Linder
LoBiondo
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Manzullo
Marchant
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul (TX)
McCotter
McHenry
McKeon
McMorris Rodgers
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Musgrave
Myrick
Neugebauer
Nunes
Pearce
Pence
Petri
Pitts
Platts
Poe
Porter
Price (GA)
Putnam
Radanovich
Ramstad
Rehberg
Reichert
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Sali
Saxton
Schmidt
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shuster
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Souder
Stearns
Sullivan
Tancredo
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Walberg
Westmoreland
Wilson (NM)
Wilson (SC)
Wolf
Young (FL)
NOES--294
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Alexander
Allen
Altmire
Andrews
Arcuri
Baca
Bachus
Baird
Baldwin
Barrow
Bartlett (MD)
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Bordallo
Boren
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd (FL)
Boyda (KS)
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brown (SC)
Brown, Corrine
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Burgess
Butterfield
Calvert
Camp (MI)
Capito
Capps
Capuano
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carney
Carson
Castle
Castor
Chandler
Christensen
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coble
Cohen
Cole (OK)
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Cramer
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Donnelly
Doolittle
Doyle
Drake
Duncan
Edwards
Ellison
Ellsworth
Emanuel
Emerson
Engel
English (PA)
Eshoo
Etheridge
Faleomavaega
Fallin
Farr
Fattah
Ferguson
Filner
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Frank (MA)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Giffords
Gilchrest
Gillibrand
Gillmor
Gonzalez
Goode
Gordon
Graves
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hall (NY)
Hare
Harman
Hastert
Hastings (FL)
Hayes
Herger
Herseth Sandlin
Hill
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hobson
Hodes
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hooley
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Jindal
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, E. B.
Kagen
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kind
Kingston
Kirk
Klein (FL)
Kucinich
Kuhl (NY)
Lampson
Langevin
Lantos
Larsen (WA)
Latham
LaTourette
Lee
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (KY)
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lucas
Lynch
Maloney (NY)
Markey
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum (MN)
McCrery
McDermott
McGovern
McHugh
McIntyre
McNerney
McNulty
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Melancon
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Miller, Gary
Miller, George
Mitchell
Mollohan
Moore (KS)
Moore (WI)
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Murphy (CT)
Murphy, Patrick
Murphy, Tim
Murtha
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Norton
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Paul
Payne
Perlmutter
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Pickering
Pomeroy
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Rahall
Rangel
Regula
Renzi
Reyes
Rodriguez
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Ross
Rothman
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Salazar
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schwartz
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sestak
Shays
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuler
Simpson
Sires
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (NE)
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Solis
Space
Spratt
Stark
Stupak
Sutton
Tanner
Tauscher
Taylor
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Towns
Turner
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Upton
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walden (OR)
Walsh (NY)
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Welch (VT)
Weller
Wexler
Whitfield
Wicker
Wilson (OH)
Woolsey
Wu
Wynn
Yarmuth
NOT VOTING--17
Bean
Clarke
Cubin
Davis, Jo Ann
Davis, Lincoln
Higgins
Hirono
Hunter
Jones (OH)
LaHood
Larson (CT)
Mahoney (FL)
Marshall
Reynolds
Wamp
Weldon (FL)
Young (AK)
Announcement by the Acting Chairman
The Acting CHAIRMAN (during the vote). Members are advised there is 1
minute remaining in this vote.
{time} 1808
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Amendment Offered by Mrs. Capito
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from West
Virginia (Mrs. Capito) on which further proceedings were postponed and
on which the noes prevailed by voice vote.
The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
The Clerk redesignated the amendment.
Recorded Vote
The Acting CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. This will be a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 229,
noes 196, not voting 11, as follows:
[Roll No. 722]
AYES--229
Akin
Alexander
Altmire
Bachmann
Bachus
Baker
Barrett (SC)
Barrow
Bartlett (MD)
Barton (TX)
Bean
Berkley
Berry
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boehner
Bonner
Bono
Boozman
Boren
Boswell
Boustany
Boyda (KS)
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
Brown (SC)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Buchanan
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Buyer
Calvert
Camp (MI)
Campbell (CA)
Cannon
Cantor
Capito
Carney
Carter
Castle
Chabot
Chandler
Coble
Cohen
Cole (OK)
Conaway
Conyers
Cramer
Crenshaw
Cuellar
Culberson
Davis (AL)
Davis (KY)
Davis, David
Davis, Tom
Deal (GA)
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DeFazio
Dent
Donnelly
Doolittle
Drake
Dreier
Duncan
Ellsworth
Emerson
English (PA)
Everett
Fallin
Feeney
Ferguson
Flake
Forbes
Fortenberry
Fortuno
Fossella
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Giffords
Gilchrest
Gillibrand
Gillmor
Gingrey
Gohmert
Goode
Goodlatte
Gordon
Granger
Graves
Harman
Hastert
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
Heller
Hensarling
Herger
Herseth Sandlin
Hobson
Hoekstra
Hooley
Hulshof
Inglis (SC)
Issa
Jindal
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, Sam
Jones (NC)
Jordan
Keller
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kirk
Kline (MN)
Knollenberg
Kuhl (NY)
Lamborn
Lampson
Latham
LaTourette
Lewis (KY)
Linder
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lucas
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Manzullo
Marchant
Matheson
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul (TX)
McCotter
McCrery
McHenry
McHugh
McIntyre
McKeon
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
Melancon
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Mitchell
Moran (KS)
Murphy, Patrick
Murphy, Tim
Musgrave
Myrick
Neugebauer
Nunes
Paul
Pearce
Pence
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pitts
Platts
Poe
Pomeroy
Porter
Price (GA)
Pryce (OH)
Putnam
Radanovich
Ramstad
Rehberg
Reichert
Renzi
Reynolds
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Royce
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Sali
Saxton
Schmidt
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Sestak
Shadegg
Shays
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Skelton
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Souder
Space
Stearns
Sullivan
Tancredo
Tanner
Taylor
Terry
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Turner
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Upton
Walberg
Walden (OR)
Walz (MN)
Weller
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wicker
Wilson (NM)
Wilson (SC)
Wu
Young (FL)
NOES--196
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Allen
Arcuri
Baca
Baird
Baldwin
Becerra
Berman
Biggert
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Bordallo
Boucher
Boyd (FL)
Brady (PA)
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carson
Castor
Christensen
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cooper
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
Davis, Lincoln
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle
Edwards
Ehlers
Ellison
Emanuel
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Faleomavaega
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Frank (MA)
Frelinghuysen
Gonzalez
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hall (NY)
Hall (TX)
Hare
Hastings (FL)
Higgins
Hill
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hodes
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones (OH)
Kagen
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kind
Klein (FL)
Kucinich
Langevin
Lantos
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lee
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lynch
Mahoney (FL)
Maloney (NY)
Markey
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum (MN)
McDermott
McGovern
McNulty
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Mollohan
Moore (KS)
Moore (WI)
Moran (VA)
Murphy (CT)
Murtha
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Norton
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Payne
Perlmutter
Peterson (MN)
Price (NC)
Rahall
Rangel
Regula
Reyes
Rodriguez
Rothman
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Salazar
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schwartz
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Simpson
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Solis
Spratt
Stark
Stupak
Sutton
Tauscher
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Towns
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walsh (NY)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Welch (VT)
Weldon (FL)
Wexler
Wilson (OH)
Wolf
Woolsey
Wynn
Yarmuth
NOT VOTING--11
Andrews
Brown, Corrine
Clarke
Cubin
Davis, Jo Ann
Hunter
LaHood
Marshall
Ruppersberger
Wamp
Young (AK)
{time} 1812
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Amendment Offered by Mr. Shimkus
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois
(Mr. Shimkus) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which
the noes prevailed by voice vote.
The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
The Clerk redesignated the amendment.
Recorded Vote
The Acting CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. This will be a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 340,
noes 87, not voting 9, as follows:
[Roll No. 723]
AYES--340
Abercrombie
Aderholt
Akin
Allen
Altmire
Andrews
Arcuri
Baca
Bachmann
Bachus
Baker
Barrett (SC)
Barrow
Bartlett (MD)
Barton (TX)
Bean
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boehner
Bonner
Bono
Boozman
Bordallo
Boren
Boswell
Boustany
Boyda (KS)
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
Brown (SC)
Brown, Corrine
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Buchanan
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Buyer
Camp (MI)
Campbell (CA)
Cannon
Cantor
Capito
Capps
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carney
Carson
Carter
Castle
Castor
Chabot
Chandler
Christensen
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coble
Cohen
Cole (OK)
Conaway
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Cramer
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (CA)
Davis (KY)
Davis, David
Davis, Lincoln
Davis, Tom
Deal (GA)
Dent
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Doggett
Donnelly
Doolittle
Doyle
Drake
Dreier
Duncan
Edwards
Ehlers
Ellsworth
Emerson
Engel
English (PA)
Eshoo
Everett
Faleomavaega
Fallin
Fattah
Feeney
Ferguson
Filner
Flake
Forbes
Fortenberry
Fortuno
Fossella
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Giffords
Gilchrest
Gillibrand
Gillmor
Gingrey
Gohmert
Goode
Goodlatte
Gordon
Granger
Graves
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Gutierrez
Hall (NY)
Hall (TX)
Hare
Harman
Hastert
Hayes
Heller
Herger
Herseth Sandlin
Hill
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hobson
Hodes
Hoekstra
Holt
Hooley
Hulshof
Inglis (SC)
Inslee
Issa
Jefferson
Jindal
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones (NC)
Jones (OH)
Jordan
Kagen
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Keller
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kirk
Klein (FL)
Kline (MN)
Knollenberg
Kuhl (NY)
Lamborn
Lampson
Langevin
Lantos
Larsen (WA)
Latham
LaTourette
Levin
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lucas
Lungren, Daniel E.
Lynch
Mack
Mahoney (FL)
Maloney (NY)
Manzullo
Marchant
Markey
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (CA)
McCarthy (NY)
McCotter
McCrery
McGovern
McHenry
McHugh
McIntyre
McKeon
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
McNulty
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Melancon
Mica
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Mitchell
Moore (KS)
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Murphy (CT)
Murphy, Patrick
Murphy, Tim
Murtha
Musgrave
Myrick
Neugebauer
Norton
Nunes
Ortiz
Pallone
Pearce
Pence
Perlmutter
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pitts
Platts
Poe
Pomeroy
Porter
Price (GA)
Pryce (OH)
Putnam
Radanovich
Ramstad
Regula
Rehberg
Reichert
Renzi
Reyes
Reynolds
Rodriguez
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothman
Royce
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Sali
Sanchez, Loretta
Saxton
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schmidt
Schwartz
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Sestak
Shadegg
Shays
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Souder
Space
Spratt
Stearns
Stupak
Sullivan
Sutton
Tancredo
Tanner
Tauscher
Taylor
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Towns
Turner
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Upton
Walberg
Walden (OR)
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Watson
Watt
Weiner
Welch (VT)
Weller
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wicker
Wilson (NM)
Wilson (SC)
Woolsey
Wu
Wynn
Yarmuth
Young (FL)
NOES--87
Ackerman
Alexander
Baird
Baldwin
Biggert
Bilbray
Blumenauer
Boucher
Boyd (FL)
Butterfield
Calvert
Capuano
Clay
Culberson
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Dicks
Dingell
Ellison
Emanuel
Etheridge
Farr
Frank (MA)
Frelinghuysen
Gonzalez
Grijalva
Hastings (FL)
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Hastings (WA)
Hensarling
Higgins
Hinchey
Holden
Honda
Hoyer
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Kingston
Kucinich
Larson (CT)
Lee
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
McCaul (TX)
McCollum (MN)
McDermott
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Mollohan
Moore (WI)
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Pascrell
Pastor
Paul
Payne
Peterson (MN)
Price (NC)
Rahall
Rangel
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Salazar
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sarbanes
Serrano
Simpson
Sires
Solis
Stark
Tierney
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walsh (NY)
Waters
Waxman
Weldon (FL)
Wexler
Wilson (OH)
Wolf
NOT VOTING--9
Clarke
Cubin
Davis, Jo Ann
Hunter
LaHood
Marshall
Nadler
Wamp
Young (AK)
Announcement by the Acting Chairman
The Acting CHAIRMAN (during the vote). Members are reminded there is
1 minute remaining in this vote.
{time} 1818
Ms. WATERS and Ms. LINDA T. SANCHEZ of California changed their vote
from ``aye'' to ``no.''
Mr. MARKEY, Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE
JOHNSON of Texas, and Ms. BERKLEY changed their vote from ``no'' to
``aye.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Amendment No. 22 Offered by Mr. English of Pennsylvania
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from
Pennsylvania (Mr. English) on which further proceedings were postponed
and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote.
The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
The Clerk redesignated the amendment.
Recorded Vote
The Acting CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. This will be a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 83,
noes 342, not voting 11, as follows:
[Roll No. 724]
AYES--83
Aderholt
Akin
Bachmann
Bean
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boehner
Boswell
Buyer
Cannon
Capito
Carter
Chabot
Cuellar
Davis (KY)
Davis, David
Dent
Donnelly
Dreier
Emerson
English (PA)
Feeney
Flake
Franks (AZ)
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Giffords
Gillibrand
Gingrey
Gohmert
Granger
Heller
Hensarling
Herger
Hobson
Hoekstra
Hulshof
Jordan
King (IA)
Kline (MN)
Kuhl (NY)
Lamborn
Manzullo
Matheson
McCaul (TX)
McCrery
McHenry
McHugh
McKeon
Meeks (NY)
Mica
Murphy, Patrick
Myrick
Nunes
Pearce
Peterson (PA)
Platts
Poe
Price (GA)
Reynolds
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (MI)
Roskam
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Sali
Schmidt
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shimkus
Shuster
Smith (WA)
Space
Tancredo
Tanner
Tiberi
Turner
Walberg
Weller
Wicker
Wilson (SC)
NOES--342
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Alexander
Allen
Altmire
Andrews
Arcuri
Baca
Bachus
Baird
Baker
Baldwin
Barrett (SC)
Barrow
Bartlett (MD)
Barton (TX)
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Bonner
Bono
Boozman
Bordallo
Boren
Boucher
Boustany
Boyd (FL)
Boyda (KS)
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
Brown (SC)
Brown, Corrine
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Buchanan
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Butterfield
Calvert
Camp (MI)
Campbell (CA)
Cantor
Capps
Capuano
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carney
Carson
Castle
Castor
Chandler
Christensen
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coble
Cohen
Cole (OK)
Conaway
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Cramer
Crenshaw
Crowley
Culberson
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
Davis, Lincoln
Davis, Tom
Deal (GA)
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Doolittle
Doyle
Drake
Duncan
Edwards
Ehlers
Ellison
Ellsworth
Emanuel
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Everett
Faleomavaega
Fallin
Farr
Fattah
Ferguson
Filner
Forbes
Fortenberry
Fortuno
Fossella
Foxx
Frank (MA)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gonzalez
Goode
Goodlatte
Gordon
Graves
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hall (NY)
Hare
Harman
Hastert
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
Herseth Sandlin
Higgins
Hill
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hodes
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hooley
Hoyer
Inglis (SC)
Inslee
Israel
Issa
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Jindal
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones (NC)
Jones (OH)
Kagen
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Keller
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kind
King (NY)
Kingston
Kirk
Klein (FL)
Knollenberg
Kucinich
Lampson
Langevin
Lantos
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latham
LaTourette
Lee
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lucas
Lungren, Daniel E.
Lynch
Mack
Mahoney (FL)
Maloney (NY)
Marchant
Markey
Matsui
McCarthy (CA)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum (MN)
McCotter
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
McNulty
Meek (FL)
Melancon
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller (NC)
Miller, Gary
Miller, George
Mitchell
Mollohan
Moore (KS)
Moore (WI)
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Murphy (CT)
Murphy, Tim
Murtha
Musgrave
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Neugebauer
Norton
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Paul
Payne
Pence
Perlmutter
Peterson (MN)
Petri
Pickering
Pitts
Pomeroy
Porter
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Putnam
Radanovich
Rahall
Ramstad
Regula
Rehberg
Reichert
Renzi
Reyes
Rodriguez
Rogers (KY)
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Ross
Rothman
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Salazar
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Saxton
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schwartz
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sestak
Shays
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Shuler
Simpson
Sires
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Snyder
Solis
Souder
Spratt
Stark
Stearns
Stupak
Sutton
Tauscher
Taylor
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tierney
Towns
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Upton
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walden (OR)
Walsh (NY)
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Welch (VT)
Weldon (FL)
Westmoreland
Wexler
Whitfield
Wilson (NM)
Wilson (OH)
Wolf
Woolsey
Wu
Wynn
Yarmuth
Young (FL)
NOT VOTING--11
Clarke
Cubin
Davis, Jo Ann
Hall (TX)
Hunter
LaHood
Marshall
Rangel
Sullivan
Wamp
Young (AK)
Announcement by the Acting Chairman
The Acting CHAIRMAN (during the vote). There is less than 1 minute
remaining in this vote.
{time} 1821
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Amendment Offered by Ms. Zoe Lofgren of California
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from
California (Ms. Zoe Lofgren) on which further proceedings were
postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote.
The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
The Clerk redesignated the amendment.
Recorded Vote
The Acting CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. This will be a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 388,
noes 39, not voting 9, as follows:
[Roll No. 725]
AYES--388
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Akin
Allen
Altmire
Andrews
Arcuri
Baca
Bachmann
Bachus
Baird
Baldwin
Barrett (SC)
Barrow
Bartlett (MD)
Barton (TX)
Bean
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blumenauer
Blunt
Boehner
Bono
Boozman
Bordallo
Boren
Boswell
Boucher
Boustany
Boyd (FL)
Boyda (KS)
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
Brown (SC)
Brown, Corrine
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Buchanan
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Butterfield
Buyer
Calvert
Camp (MI)
Campbell (CA)
Cannon
Cantor
Capito
Capps
Capuano
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carney
Carson
Carter
Castle
[[Page H8466]]
Castor
Chabot
Chandler
Christensen
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coble
Cohen
Cole (OK)
Conaway
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Cramer
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cuellar
Culberson
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
Davis (KY)
Davis, David
Davis, Lincoln
Davis, Tom
Deal (GA)
DeFazio
DeGette
Dent
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Doggett
Donnelly
Doolittle
Doyle
Drake
Dreier
Duncan
Edwards
Ellison
Ellsworth
Emanuel
Emerson
Engel
English (PA)
Eshoo
Etheridge
Faleomavaega
Fallin
Farr
Fattah
Feeney
Ferguson
Filner
Flake
Forbes
Fortenberry
Fortuno
Fossella
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Giffords
Gilchrest
Gillibrand
Gillmor
Gingrey
Gohmert
Gonzalez
Goode
Goodlatte
Gordon
Granger
Graves
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Hall (NY)
Hall (TX)
Hare
Harman
Hastert
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
Heller
Hensarling
Herger
Herseth Sandlin
Higgins
Hill
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hobson
Hodes
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hooley
Hulshof
Inglis (SC)
Inslee
Israel
Issa
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Jindal
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones (NC)
Jones (OH)
Jordan
Kagen
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Keller
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kirk
Klein (FL)
Kline (MN)
Knollenberg
Kucinich
Kuhl (NY)
Lamborn
Lampson
Lantos
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
LaTourette
Lee
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lucas
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Mahoney (FL)
Maloney (NY)
Manzullo
Marchant
Markey
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (CA)
McCarthy (NY)
McCaul (TX)
McCotter
McCrery
McGovern
McHenry
McHugh
McIntyre
McKeon
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
McNulty
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller (NC)
Miller, Gary
Miller, George
Mitchell
Moore (KS)
Moore (WI)
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Murphy (CT)
Murphy, Patrick
Murphy, Tim
Murtha
Musgrave
Myrick
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Neugebauer
Norton
Nunes
Ortiz
Pallone
Pastor
Paul
Payne
Pearce
Pence
Perlmutter
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pitts
Platts
Poe
Pomeroy
Porter
Price (GA)
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Putnam
Radanovich
Ramstad
Regula
Rehberg
Reichert
Renzi
Reyes
Reynolds
Rodriguez
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Salazar
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Saxton
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schmidt
Schwartz
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Sestak
Shadegg
Shays
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Sires
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Solis
Souder
Space
Spratt
Stark
Stearns
Stupak
Sullivan
Sutton
Tancredo
Tanner
Tauscher
Taylor
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Tierney
Towns
Turner
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Upton
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Walberg
Walden (OR)
Walsh (NY)
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Welch (VT)
Weldon (FL)
Weller
Westmoreland
Wexler
Whitfield
Wicker
Wilson (NM)
Wilson (OH)
Wolf
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
Young (FL)
NOES--39
Alexander
Baker
Berry
Bonner
Clay
Delahunt
DeLauro
Dicks
Dingell
Ehlers
Everett
Frank (MA)
Frelinghuysen
Gutierrez
Hinchey
Hoekstra
Hoyer
Jackson (IL)
Kennedy
Langevin
Latham
Lynch
McCollum (MN)
McDermott
Melancon
Michaud
Mollohan
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Pascrell
Rahall
Rothman
Ruppersberger
Sali
Terry
Visclosky
Wilson (SC)
Wynn
NOT VOTING--9
Clarke
Cubin
Davis, Jo Ann
Hunter
LaHood
Marshall
Rangel
Wamp
Young (AK)
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Mr. DELAHUNT changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I move that the Committee do now rise.
The motion was agreed to.
Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker having assumed the
chair, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Acting 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. 3093) making
appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, and
Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30,
2008, and for other purposes, had come to no resolution thereon.
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