[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 113 (Thursday, July 10, 2008)]
[House]
[Pages H6377-H6378]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 MOTION TO INSTRUCT CONFEREES ON H.R. 3121, FLOOD INSURANCE REFORM AND 
                       MODERNIZATION ACT OF 2008


                           Motion to Instruct

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The unfinished business is the vote on the 
motion to instruct on H.R. 3121 offered by the gentleman from Texas 
(Mr. Neugebauer) on which the yeas and nays were ordered.
  The Clerk will redesignate the motion.
  The Clerk redesignated the motion.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to instruct.
  This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 385, 
nays 26, not voting 23, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 485]

                               YEAS--385

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Allen
     Altmire
     Arcuri
     Baca
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrett (SC)
     Barrow
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehner
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boozman
     Boren
     Boyd (FL)
     Boyda (KS)
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown, Corrine
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Butterfield
     Calvert
     Camp (MI)
     Campbell (CA)
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson
     Carter
     Castle
     Castor
     Cazayoux
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Childers
     Clarke
     Clay
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Cohen
     Cole (OK)
     Conaway
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     Davis, David
     Davis, Lincoln
     Davis, Tom
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly
     Doolittle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Edwards (MD)
     Edwards (TX)
     Ehlers
     Ellison
     Ellsworth
     Emanuel
     Emerson
     Engel
     English (PA)
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Everett
     Fallin
     Farr
     Fattah
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Filner
     Flake
     Fossella
     Foster
     Foxx
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (AZ)
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gillibrand
     Gingrey
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hall (NY)
     Hall (TX)
     Hare
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Heller
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herseth Sandlin
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hobson
     Hodes
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Hunter
     Inglis (SC)
     Inslee
     Issa
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Jones (OH)
     Jordan
     Kagen
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Keller
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind
     Kingston
     Kline (MN)
     Knollenberg
     Kucinich
     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Lamborn
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Mack
     Mahoney (FL)
     Maloney (NY)
     Manzullo
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul (TX)
     McCollum (MN)
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McHugh
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     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
     Myrick
     Napolitano
     Neugebauer
     Nunes
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Paul
     Payne
     Pearce
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Peterson (MN)
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Price (GA)
     Price (NC)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Reyes
     Reynolds
     Richardson
     Rodriguez
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothman
     Royce
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Salazar
     Sali
     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
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Souder
     Space
     Speier
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stearns
     Stupak
     Sullivan
     Sutton
     Tancredo
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walberg
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh (NY)
     Walz (MN)
     Wamp
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Welch (VT)
     Weldon (FL)
     Weller
     Westmoreland
     Wexler
     Whitfield (KY)
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (OH)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman (VA)
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                                NAYS--26

     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boustany
     Braley (IA)
     Broun (GA)
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Cubin
     Forbes
     Giffords
     Gilchrest
     Higgins
     Israel
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kirk
     Klein (FL)
     Latham
     Loebsack
     McCarthy (NY)
     Murphy, Patrick
     Nadler
     Pallone
     Roybal-Allard
     Scalise
     Weiner

                             NOT VOTING--23

     Andrews
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Cleaver
     Conyers
     Deal (GA)
     Doyle
     Fortenberry
     Frelinghuysen
     Gordon
     Hill
     Hulshof
     Marchant
     McNulty
     Mica
     Neal (MA)
     Peterson (PA)
     Pickering
     Pryce (OH)
     Rush
     Slaughter
     Waxman


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). Members are advised that 2 
minutes remain on this vote.

                              {time}  1545

  Mr. KLEIN of Florida changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  So the motion to instruct was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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                          Personal explanation

  Mr. CONYERS. Madam Speaker, I took a leave of absence the afternoon 
of July 10, 2008, as I was attending to personal business. The 
following list describes how I would have voted had I been in 
attendance this afternoon.
  ``Yea''--on Pearce (NM) amendment.
  ``Aye''--on Motion to Recommit H.R. 1286.
  ``Yea''--Final Passage H.R. 1286--Revolutionary Route National 
Historic Trail Designation Act.
  ``Yea''--Motion to Instruct Conferees on H.R. 1321--Flood Insurance 
Reform and Modernization Act of 2007.


                        Appointment of Conferees

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Edwards of Maryland). Without objection, 
the Chair appoints the following conferees:
  From the Committee on Financial Services, for consideration of the 
House bill and the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to 
conference: Messrs. Frank of Massachusetts, Kanjorski, Ms. Waters, 
Messrs. Watt, Clay, Klein of Florida, Mahoney of Florida, Bachus, Mrs. 
Biggert, Mrs. Capito, Messrs. Garrett of New Jersey, and Price of 
Georgia.
  From the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for consideration of sec. 
302 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: 
Messrs. Dingell, Boucher, and Barton of Texas.
  From the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for 
consideration of secs. 7 and 22 of the House bill, and secs. 107, 119, 
and 301 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to 
conference: Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Messrs. Braley of Iowa, 
and Graves.
  For consideration of secs. 7 and 35 of the House bill, and sec. 128 
of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Mr. 
Taylor.
  There was no objection.

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