[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 102 (Thursday, June 19, 2008)]
[House]
[Pages H5608-H5611]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           FEDERAL EMPLOYEES PAID PARENTAL LEAVE ACT OF 2008

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Blumenauer). The question is on the 
engrossment and third reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was 
read the third time.


            Motion to Recommit Offered by Mr. Jordan of Ohio

  Mr. JORDAN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I offer a motion to recommit.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentleman opposed to the bill?
  Mr. JORDAN of Ohio. In its present form, I am.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. Jordan of Ohio moves to recommit the bill (H.R. 5781) 
     to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform with 
     instructions to report the bill back to the House promptly in 
     the form to which it may be perfected at the time of this 
     motion with the following amendments:

       In the matter proposed to be inserted by section 2(a)(3) of 
     the bill, insert at the end the following:
       ``(7) An employee who is a father and who is not in 
     compliance with a court ordered child support arrangement 
     shall not be eligible for any paid leave under paragraph 
     (2).''.
       In the matter proposed to be inserted by section 3(a)(3) of 
     the bill, insert at the end the following:
       ``(5) Exclusion of deadbeat dads.--An employee who is a 
     father and who is not in compliance with a court ordered 
     child support arrangement shall not be eligible for any paid 
     leave under this subsection.''.
       In the matter proposed to be inserted by section 4 of the 
     bill, insert at the end the following:
       ``(E) Exclusion of deadbeat dads.--An employee who is a 
     father and who is not in compliance with a court ordered 
     child support arrangement shall not be eligible for any paid 
     leave under this paragraph.''.

  Mr. JORDAN of Ohio (during the reading). I ask unanimous consent that 
the motion to recommit be considered as read and printed in the Record.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Ohio?
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from 
Ohio is recognized for 5 minutes in support of his motion.

                              {time}  1400

  Mr. JORDAN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I offer this motion to recommit with 
instructions.
  This motion to recommit is simple and straightforward, one of these 
important issues that I think we can all agree on, and, frankly, an 
issue I would have brought as an amendment in committee if I had 
thought about the idea then. It says that people who are not compliant 
with their court-ordered child support arrangements, deadbeat dads, are 
not eligible for the expanded Federal benefits included in the bill.
  This motion sends a clear message to the American people that we have 
respect for their hard-earned tax dollars they send to Washington, DC. 
The underlying bill, however, sends a far different message about the 
priorities of the majority party in Congress.
  Think about it: American families are paying more than $4 a gallon 
for gasoline, but are we acting to bring more energy to this country? 
America faces unprecedented terrorist threats from abroad, but are we 
renewing legislation to help better secure the homeland? Are we 
addressing out-of-control Federal spending? Are we acting to better 
secure our borders? We are approaching a $10 trillion national debt, a 
problem that threatens our Nation's economic future, but are we cutting 
spending or reforming the out-of-control earmark process?
  Here is what Congress is doing, Mr. Speaker. Congress is spending its 
time and energy on H.R. 5781, a bill to give Federal bureaucrats, 
including deadbeat dads, a new handout, a vast expansion to the already 
generous benefits package they receive at the expense of

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the American taxpayer, at the expense of every single American family. 
That is our priority? That is our answer to $4 gasoline, expanding 
benefits to Washington bureaucrats and deadbeat dads?
  I ask you, Mr. Speaker, what will you tell the folks about back home? 
What will you tell the folks who are worried about the economy, worried 
about higher taxes on the horizon, worried about paying more than $4 a 
gallon for gasoline for the rest of the summer? Will you tell them not 
to worry, that their problems belong on the back burner? That the 
priority of their Member of Congress is to take their tax dollars and 
expand the benefits package of deadbeat dads in the Federal workplace? 
Will you tell them that these deadbeat dads, who already receive among 
the richest benefit packages in the Nation, are more deserving of 
relief than law-abiding families and taxpayers of your district who are 
paying $4 a gallon for gasoline?
  Mr. Speaker, like most issues, the people get it. The American people 
know what the priorities of Congress should be. Millions of them have 
signed petitions and communicated to our offices that we need to focus 
on their priorities. They know our priorities should not be giving 
deadbeat dads a new taxpayer-funded benefit. They know we should adopt 
this motion to recommit and move on with the important business facing 
our Nation.
  Mr. Speaker, there is another old line that I think is appropriate. 
``Most politicians don't see the light; they feel the heat.'' With $4 
gasoline, possibly headed for $5 this summer, can you handle the heat 
you will feel back home once your constituents find out that your 
priority is to lend a hand to deadbeat dads, or will you see the light 
and join me in supporting this motion to recommit?
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the motion to 
recommit.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California is recognized 
for 5 minutes.
  Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, there they go again, coming up with a 
gimmick because they don't want the underlying bill. If they don't want 
the underlying bill, let them vote no. But what they have offered 
instead is a motion to recommit promptly, which kills the bill. So I 
would urge all of my colleagues who believe that parents ought to be 
able to bond with their children and have a paid family leave on the 
birth of a child or the adoption of a newborn, that they vote against 
this motion to recommit.
  Federal law is very clear. If you are behind in your child support 
payments, you can get your wages garnished. That means there is an 
automatic reduction in your paycheck to pay for the support of your 
children. The fact is that no one who is behind in childcare can get 
paid parental leave. The reason is their wages will already be 
garnished. That is why this amendment is a gimmick.
  No amendment like this was offered in our committee. This was never 
brought up in our deliberations. In fact, the gentleman was very clear 
in his arguments for the motion to recommit. He is against the bill. He 
was against the bill in committee, and he is against the bill now.
  Now, I think we ought to understand that if this were a serious 
amendment, it would have been a ``forthwith'' motion. But it is not. It 
is a ``promptly'' motion to kill the bill.
  There are 400,000 civilian DOD employees around the Nation. They have 
been working overtime to protect our Nation, often serving in Iraq and 
Afghanistan. But what this motion says to them, and to all other hard-
working Federal employees, is you won't get any paid leave, and if you 
are sick and have used up your leave, you can't take the time to bond 
with your family.
  It is wrong, it is anti-family, and I believe this motion to recommit 
should be defeated. It is like so many other motions to recommit that 
we have seen on this floor. When it is designed ``promptly,'' it sends 
the bill back to the committee, and those who didn't like it in 
committee will fight it some more. But if you are for this bill, vote 
against the motion to recommit and vote ``yes'' on final passage.
  I would like to yield the balance of the time to the gentleman from 
Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), our majority leader.
  Mr. HOYER. I thank the chairman for yielding, and I thank him for his 
work on this bill. I thank Mrs. Maloney as well.
  Ladies and gentlemen of the House, I would hope we would defeat this 
motion. Again, this is a motion to recommit promptly. If in fact the 
motion maker wanted to change the substance and offer an amendment that 
would go into effect, he would have offered a motion to amend and 
report back forthwith. The effect of this motion, as we all know, is to 
delay for some period of time the passage of this bill. My friend from 
Georgia will get up and ask the rhetorical question that we all know 
the answer to, does it kill it? It does not kill it. But, my friends, 
we have 5 legislative days to go in this session before we break. We 
ought to pass this bill now. We ought to pass this bill and tell the 
Federal employees of this country, who work for all of us, all 300 
million of us, some 2 million civilian Federal employees, that we honor 
their service.
  But, more importantly, this is not just about those who will get 
leave. It is, as I said in my statement, much more about the children, 
who will have better nurturing and a sense of self-confidence in their 
early months of life. Scientist after scientist, educator after 
educator, tell us that if that occurs, if that bonding occurs in the 
early months, children are much better off, and if those children are 
better off, our communities and our society and our families are better 
off.
  I would ask all my colleagues to oppose this motion. Pass this bill. 
Say to the children who are perhaps yet to be born and have just been 
born, we want to ensure the best start we can for you in life in 
America.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time has expired.


                         Parliamentary Inquiry

  Mr. WESTMORELAND. Mr. Speaker, parliamentary inquiry.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Please state the inquiry.
  Mr. WESTMORELAND. I feel like I know the answer to this, but if this 
motion should pass, could the bill not be referred back to the 
committee from which it came and be reported out the next legislative 
day?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. As the Chair reaffirmed on November 15, 
2007, and a couple of times after that, at some subsequent time the 
committee could meet and report the bill back to the House.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the previous question is 
ordered on the motion to recommit.
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.
  Mr. JORDAN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair 
will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on 
the question of passage.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 206, 
nays 220, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 427]

                               YEAS--206

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehner
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boozman
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Broun (GA)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp (MI)
     Campbell (CA)
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carney
     Carter
     Castle
     Chabot
     Childers
     Coble
     Cole (OK)
     Conaway
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Davis, David
     Deal (GA)
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Donnelly
     Doolittle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Ehlers
     Ellsworth
     Emerson
     English (PA)
     Everett
     Fallin
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Flake
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Fossella
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Giffords
     Gingrey
     Gohmert
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves
     Hall (TX)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Heller
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hunter
     Inglis (SC)
     Issa
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Jordan
     Keller
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kline (MN)
     Knollenberg
     Kuhl (NY)

[[Page H5610]]


     LaHood
     Lamborn
     Lampson
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marshall
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul (TX)
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McHenry
     McHugh
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy, Tim
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Nunes
     Paul
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe
     Porter
     Price (GA)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Sali
     Saxton
     Scalise
     Schmidt
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shays
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Souder
     Space
     Stearns
     Sullivan
     Tancredo
     Terry
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh (NY)
     Wamp
     Weldon (FL)
     Weller
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield (KY)
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman (VA)
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NAYS--220

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Andrews
     Arcuri
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd (FL)
     Boyda (KS)
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carson
     Castor
     Cazayoux
     Chandler
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis, Lincoln
     Davis, Tom
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Edwards (MD)
     Edwards (TX)
     Ellison
     Emanuel
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Foster
     Frank (MA)
     Gillibrand
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hall (NY)
     Hare
     Harman
     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)
     Kagen
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind
     Klein (FL)
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lynch
     Mahoney (FL)
     Maloney (NY)
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum (MN)
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNulty
     Meek (FL)
     Melancon
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Mitchell
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peterson (MN)
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Rodriguez
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schwartz
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sestak
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Sires
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Speier
     Spratt
     Stupak
     Sutton
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch (VT)
     Wexler
     Wilson (OH)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Gilchrest
     Hulshof
     Loebsack
     Meeks (NY)
     Rush
     Stark
     Tiahrt
     Wolf


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

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

                              {time}  1431

  Messrs. CARNAHAN and BOUCHER changed their vote from ``yea'' to 
``nay.''
  Mrs. MUSGRAVE, Messrs. BOOZMAN, SHULER, and CHILDERS changed their 
vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the motion to recommit was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.
  Mrs. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and 
nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 278, 
nays 146, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 428]

                               YEAS--278

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Alexander
     Allen
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Arcuri
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bilbray
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd (FL)
     Boyda (KS)
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Buyer
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson
     Castor
     Cazayoux
     Chandler
     Childers
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis, Lincoln
     Davis, Tom
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly
     Doyle
     Drake
     Edwards (MD)
     Ellison
     Ellsworth
     Emanuel
     Emerson
     Engel
     English (PA)
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Farr
     Fattah
     Ferguson
     Filner
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Frank (MA)
     Gerlach
     Giffords
     Gillibrand
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hall (NY)
     Hall (TX)
     Hare
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Hayes
     Herseth Sandlin
     Higgins
     Hill
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hobson
     Hodes
     Holden
     Holt
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (NC)
     Jones (OH)
     Kagen
     Kaptur
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind
     Kirk
     Klein (FL)
     Kucinich
     LaHood
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     LaTourette
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lynch
     Mahoney (FL)
     Maloney (NY)
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum (MN)
     McCotter
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHugh
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     McNulty
     Meek (FL)
     Melancon
     Michaud
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Mitchell
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murphy, Tim
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pearce
     Perlmutter
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Platts
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Rodriguez
     Rogers (AL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     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 (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Space
     Speier
     Spratt
     Stupak
     Sutton
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch (VT)
     Wexler
     Wilson (OH)
     Wittman (VA)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NAYS--146

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehner
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boozman
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Broun (GA)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp (MI)
     Campbell (CA)
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Carter
     Castle
     Chabot
     Coble
     Cole (OK)
     Conaway
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Davis, David
     Deal (GA)
     Doolittle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Ehlers
     Everett
     Fallin
     Feeney
     Flake
     Fossella
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gingrey
     Gohmert
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves
     Hastings (WA)
     Heller
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hoekstra
     Hunter
     Inglis (SC)
     Issa
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan
     Kanjorski
     Keller
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kline (MN)
     Knollenberg
     Kuhl (NY)
     Lamborn
     Latham
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul (TX)
     McCrery
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Nunes
     Paul
     Pence
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Poe
     Price (GA)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Roskam
     Royce

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     Ryan (WI)
     Sali
     Scalise
     Schmidt
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Smith (NE)
     Souder
     Stearns
     Sullivan
     Tancredo
     Terry
     Thornberry
     Walberg
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh (NY)
     Wamp
     Weldon (FL)
     Weller
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield (KY)
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Edwards (TX)
     Gilchrest
     Honda
     Hulshof
     Loebsack
     Meeks (NY)
     Rush
     Stark
     Tiahrt
     Wolf


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). Two minutes remain in the 
vote.

                              {time}  1439

  Mr. PICKERING changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Mrs. DRAKE changed her vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  Stated for:
  Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, this afternoon I was on an official leave of 
absense to attend the commencement ceremony for Potomac Falls High 
School, a high school in my congressional district, at which I was the 
main commencement speaker. Had I been present and voting, I would have 
voted ``yea'' on H.R. 5781, the Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave 
Act of 2008.
  Mr. EDWARDS of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I missed rollcall 428 today. It 
was my intention to vote ``yea'' on that vote.

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