[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 95 (Tuesday, June 10, 2008)]
[House]
[Pages H5142-H5143]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  MERIDA INITIATIVE TO COMBAT ILLICIT NARCOTICS AND REDUCE ORGANIZED 
                    CRIME AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2008

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The unfinished business is the vote on the 
motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 6028, as amended, 
on which the yeas and nays were ordered.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Berman) that the House suspend the rules 
and pass the bill, H.R. 6028, as amended.
  This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 311, 
nays 106, not voting 16, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 393]

                               YEAS--311

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Alexander
     Allen
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Arcuri
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baird
     Barrow
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt
     Boehner
     Bono Mack
     Boozman
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boustany
     Boyd (FL)
     Boyda (KS)
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown, Corrine
     Buchanan
     Butterfield
     Calvert
     Camp (MI)
     Cannon
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Castle
     Castor
     Cazayoux
     Chandler
     Childers
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Conaway
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     Davis, Lincoln
     Davis, Tom
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dicks
     Doggett
     Donnelly
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Emanuel
     Emerson
     Engel
     English (PA)
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Fallin
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Frank (MA)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Giffords
     Gilchrest
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hall (NY)
     Hare
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Herger
     Herseth Sandlin
     Higgins
     Hill
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hobson
     Hodes
     Holden
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Inglis (SC)
     Inslee
     Israel
     Issa
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kagen
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Keller
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kirk
     Klein (FL)
     Knollenberg
     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Mack
     Mahoney (FL)
     Maloney (NY)
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum (MN)
     McHugh
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     McNulty
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Michaud
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Mitchell
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murphy, Tim
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Nunes
     Oberstar
     Obey

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     Olver
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Pearce
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Reyes
     Reynolds
     Richardson
     Rodriguez
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Saxton
     Scalise
     Schiff
     Schmidt
     Schwartz
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Sessions
     Sestak
     Shadegg
     Shays
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Simpson
     Sires
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Souder
     Space
     Spratt
     Stupak
     Sutton
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh (NY)
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Weller
     Wexler
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (OH)
     Wolf
     Wu
     Yarmuth
     Young (FL)

                               NAYS--106

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Bachmann
     Baldwin
     Barrett (SC)
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Brady (TX)
     Broun (GA)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Campbell (CA)
     Cantor
     Carney
     Carson
     Carter
     Chabot
     Clarke
     Coble
     Cole (OK)
     Conyers
     Culberson
     Davis, David
     Deal (GA)
     Duncan
     Ellison
     Ellsworth
     Everett
     Feeney
     Filner
     Flake
     Forbes
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Gingrey
     Gohmert
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves
     Hall (TX)
     Heller
     Hensarling
     Hoekstra
     Hunter
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Jones (OH)
     Jordan
     King (IA)
     Kingston
     Kline (MN)
     Kucinich
     Lamborn
     Latta
     Lee
     Lewis (GA)
     Linder
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     McCaul (TX)
     McCotter
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Moore (WI)
     Musgrave
     Neugebauer
     Paul
     Payne
     Petri
     Platts
     Poe
     Price (GA)
     Putnam
     Rogers (AL)
     Rohrabacher
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Sali
     Schakowsky
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Shuster
     Smith (TX)
     Stark
     Stearns
     Sullivan
     Thornberry
     Walberg
     Wamp
     Welch (VT)
     Weldon (FL)
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield (KY)
     Wittman (VA)
     Woolsey
     Young (AK)

                             NOT VOTING--16

     Costello
     Cubin
     Cummings
     Dingell
     Ferguson
     Fossella
     Gillibrand
     Holt
     Hulshof
     McCrery
     Meek (FL)
     Ortiz
     Rush
     Speier
     Tancredo
     Wilson (SC)


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). There are 2 minutes 
remaining.

                              {time}  1331

  Messrs. WITTMAN of Virginia, ADERHOLT, and FORBES changed their vote 
from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  So (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and 
the bill, as amended, was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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