[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 43 (Wednesday, March 11, 2009)]
[House]
[Pages H3292-H3296]
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             RECOGNIZING SUCCESS OF MARS EXPLORATION ROVERS

  Mr. DAVIS of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and 
agree to the resolution (H. Res. 67) recognizing and commending the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Jet 
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and Cornell University for the success of 
the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, on the 5th 
anniversary of the Rovers' successful landing.
  The Clerk read the title of the resolution.
  The text of the resolution is as follows:

                               H. Res. 67

       Whereas the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity 
     successfully landed on Mars on January 3, 2004, and January 
     24, 2004, respectively, on missions to search for evidence 
     indicating that Mars once held conditions hospitable to life;
       Whereas NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), managed by 
     the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), designed 
     and built the Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity;
       Whereas Cornell University led the development of advanced 
     scientific instruments carried by the 2 Rovers, and continues 
     to play a leading role in the operation of the 2 Rovers and 
     the processing and analysis of the images and other data sent 
     back to Earth;
       Whereas the Rovers relayed over a quarter million images 
     taken from the surface of Mars;
       Whereas studies conducted by the Rovers have indicated that 
     early Mars was characterized by impacts, explosive volcanoes, 
     and subsurface water;
       Whereas each Rover has discovered geological evidence of 
     ancient Martian environments where habitable conditions may 
     have existed;
       Whereas the Rovers have explored over 21 kilometers of 
     Martian terrain, climbed Martian hills, descended deep into 
     large craters, survived dust storms, and endured 3 cold, dark 
     Martian winters; and
       Whereas Spirit and Opportunity will have passed 5 years of 
     successful operation on the surface of Mars on January 3, 
     2009, and January 24, 2009, respectively, far exceeding the 
     original 90-Martian day mission requirement by a factor of 
     20, and are continuing their missions of surface exploration 
     and scientific discovery: Now therefore be it
       Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
       (1) commends the engineers, scientists, and technicians of 
     the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Cornell University for 
     their successful execution and continued operation of the 
     Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity; and
       (2) recognizes the success and significant scientific 
     contributions of NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from 
Tennessee (Mr. Davis) and the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Broun) each 
will control 20 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Tennessee.


                             General Leave

  Mr. DAVIS of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all 
Members may have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks 
and to include extraneous material on H. Res. 67, the resolution now 
under consideration.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Tennessee?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. DAVIS of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I 
may consume.
  A little over 5 years ago, the NASA rovers named Spirit and 
Opportunity landed on the surface of Mars. These rovers originally had 
a 90-day mission to survey the surface of the red planet and send back 
scientific information.
  By all measures, both rovers were incredibly successful during their 
original 90-day missions. Both rovers were able to maneuver around the 
surface of Mars, and they sent back scores of captivating images. The 
information they sent back has helped us to better understand the past 
and present geology of our planetary neighbor, and provided indication 
that water once flowed on the surface of Mars.
  The little rovers proved to be so robust that their original 90-day 
mission was extended, and extended, and extended again. Ultimately, the 
mission was extended six times. That is a tribute to our scientific 
knowledge in this country. Both rovers continue to function and are 
roving the surface of Mars as I speak.
  Without a doubt, these rovers have been wildly successful. Besides 
being impressive fetes of science and engineering, they have inspired 
countless children of our country with their amazing images of the red 
planet. This truly represents the best of what our national space 
program is about, and provides a reminder of why we should continue to 
support the work of NASA.
  I want to thank the sponsor of this resolution, Mr. Dreier, for 
introducing House Resolution 67, and I encourage my colleagues to 
support its passage.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. BROUN of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of House Resolution 67. This 
resolution recognizes and commends NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 
and Cornell University for the success of the Mars exploration rovers, 
Spirit and Opportunity.

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  By almost any measure, the Mars exploration rovers have been an 
extraordinary success. These rovers, named

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Spirit and Opportunity, were originally intended to perform a 90-day 
mission on the hostile surface of Mars. Spirit was the first rover to 
land on the Mars surface on January 3, 2004. Spirit was joined on the 
Martian surface by Opportunity 3 weeks later on January 24, 2004. From 
the very early phases of the mission, these rovers have exceeded even 
the wildest expectations of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory team that 
designed and built them.
  Originally intended to perform a 90-day mission to search for 
evidence of water and other conditions that could have supported life 
on the harsh surface of the red planet, they have now exceeded that 
goal by over 1,800 days. Along the way they rewrote our knowledge of 
the Martian environment by discovering and verifying geological 
evidence of ancient Martian environments where hospitable conditions 
may have existed.
  While on Mars, these rovers have explored over 21 kilometers of 
Martian terrain, survived dust storms, mechanical difficulties, and 
endured three cold, dark Martian winters. The advanced scientific 
instruments deployed in conjunction with Cornell University have 
relayed over a quarter million images, including evidence of explosive 
volcanoes and subsurface water.
  At a time when Americans could use some good news, it is fortunate 
that we can recognize and commend the men and women of the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and 
Cornell University for their outstanding success in designing, 
developing, launching and operating the Mars Exploration Rovers.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this resolution.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. DAVIS of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, I yield as much time as he may 
consume to the gentleman from California (Mr. Schiff).
  Mr. SCHIFF. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, colleagues, 5 years ago in January, 2004, I had the 
privilege of being in the control room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory 
when Spirit, the first of two identical Mars rovers, landed in Gusev 
Crater. It was an amazing experience to watch the dozens of engineers, 
controllers and scientists who had worked so hard and for so long on 
the rover project to see its initial success. I'm proud to have many of 
them as my constituents, and I'm honored to share JPL with my 
colleague, David Dreier, and have joined him in this resolution 
honoring 5 years of surface operations by Spirit and its twin, 
Opportunity.
  Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars to begin what was planned as a 
3-month mission to evaluate whether conditions would have at one time 
been suitable for life on the red planet. Under the leadership of Dr. 
Charles Elachi and Principal Investigator Steve Squyres of Cornell 
University, JPL employees worked around the clock to make the most of 
what was planned as a limited duration mission.
  Equipped with cameras, spectrometers and grinders, America's robotic 
explorers have now been hard at work for more than 5 years and are 
still going strong. The rovers' incredible durability is a testament to 
the quality of their design, the care with which their operations are 
managed and a scientific bonanza for scientists here and around the 
world.
  The rovers' discovery of evidence of past water on Mars was 2004's 
top scientific ``Breakthrough of the Year'' according to the journal 
Science. The rovers have also uncovered evidence of Mars' violent 
volcanic past and have transmitted more than 36 gigabytes of data back 
to Earth.
  Despite a gimpy wheel, Spirit has spent most of the past year 
exploring an area dubbed Home Plate, which is rich in silica, another 
telltale sign of water. Opportunity has had shoulder troubles, but has 
covered a lot of ground in the last 5 years. The rover spent almost 2 
years exploring Victoria Crater and has now begun a long drive to its 
next major destination, a much larger crater called Endeavour. At more 
than 14 miles in diameter, Endeavour is more than 20 times larger than 
Victoria.
  People around the world have been captivated by the stunning 
photographs of the Martian surface and the planet's ruddy sky. In the 
first 2 months after Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars, JPL's rover 
Web site registered almost 9 billion hits. Since then we have watched 
the seasons change on Mars and have marveled at the changing terrain as 
the rovers have moved about the surface.
  NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed by the California Institute 
of Technology, designed, built and controls the rovers. JPL has been 
the pioneer of our exploration of the solar system from the beginning 
of our space program and is one of the crown jewels of American 
science. Explorer I, America's first satellite, was a JPL project. At 
the time it was launched, the United States had fallen behind the 
Soviets in the space race, and several other attempts of getting an 
``American Sputnik'' into orbit had ended in fiery explosions on the 
launch pad. Not only did Explorer I salvage our pride, but the tiny 
satellite discovered the Van Allen radiation belts that circle the 
Earth.
  Since then, JPL probes have explored most of our solar system--from 
the Ranger series that paved the way for the Apollo moon landings, to 
Voyager's grand tour of the outer planets in the 1970s and 1980s, to 
last spring's landing on Mars by the Mars Phoenix--and have also 
surveyed the cosmos as well as our own planet.
  In 2 years NASA will launch an even larger rover, the Mars Science 
Laboratory, which will build on the work being done today by Spirit and 
Opportunity. With a little luck, the rovers will still be working--
still expanding our understanding of Mars and, more importantly, of 
ourselves.
  I urge all my colleagues to support the resolution.
  Mr. BROUN of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I would like to yield to my good 
friend whom I respect tremendously, Mr. Dreier from California, as much 
time as he may consume.
  (Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, let me say how much I appreciate the hard 
work and the very thoughtful remarks by my very good friend. Mr. Broun, 
Mr. Davis and Mr. Schiff have all outlined some of the very great 
challenges that have been faced with this amazing Spirit and 
Opportunity program.
  I, like my friend, Mr. Schiff, was 5 years ago there when this 
program began. And I will never forget when Dr. Charles Elachi, the 
director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory about whom Mr. Schiff was 
just speaking, leaned to me and said, ``David, you know, I know this is 
scheduled to have a life span of 90 days, 3 months.'' He said, ``I 
suspect that it might just go a little longer than that.'' And here we 
are today marking the fifth anniversary of Spirit and Opportunity, 
named by two young students who came together. They had a contest to 
name them. And these very bright and thoughtful kids came forward and 
said they wanted to name them Spirit and Opportunity. And they have 
gone through an amazing 5 years, as Mr. Broun said so well, wind storms 
and all kinds of cold and great adversity, and yet they are still 
chugging along providing very important information back to us. Mr. 
Schiff talked about the days ahead, and now Opportunity is headed to 
that new massive crater Endeavour. And so we are going to continue to 
get more and more interesting information. These three gentlemen, Mr. 
Speaker, have just talked about what Spirit and Opportunity have gone 
through.
  I would like to take a moment to look at the context around which 
this whole issue is being considered, and that is the devastating 
economic times that we are facing right here in the United States of 
America. Obviously, first and foremost on our minds is getting our 
economy back on track, ensuring that people who are suffering greatly 
with foreclosures and job losses, and even worse in some instances, are 
able to have those needs addressed. And many of us have been working to 
try and put into place a strong, bold, dynamic and robust economic 
growth program that, interestingly enough, is modeled after the program 
that was put into place by the man who called for us to put a man on 
the Moon by the end of the decade in the 1960s. That, of course, was 
John F. Kennedy. And we are continuing to try and work for those kinds 
of growth policies.
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would argue that, as we look at sort of the amorphous space program out 
there, why in the world are we investing resources on that when we have 
so many pressing challenges right here at home? And there are a couple 
of points that I think need to be made. First, when we were celebrating 
the landing of another great JPL program, the Phoenix, one of the great 
scientists got up and talked about the fact that throughout world 
history, every single developed nation has, in fact, regardless of what 
challenges they faced, always looked at the imponderable. They have 
always made risk to pursue the unknown. And I'm reminded, of course, 
that it was the great Queen Isabella who sold her jewels so that 
Christopher Columbus might have the opportunity to discover America. 
And so risk-taking is something even during adverse times we need to 
continue to pursue. And we can't ignore that, because we are the United 
States of America, the greatest nation the world has ever known. And 
that is why this is very important.
  Second, we need to also realize, Mr. Speaker, that there are very 
important gains that we as a society and as a world are able to glean 
from this very important work, whether it is in medical imaging, and I 
know Dr. Broun understands that, whether it is in dealing with 
environmental protection, whether it is dealing with cellular 
technology or global positioning systems, there are a wide range of 
things that have emanated from programs like Spirit and Opportunity 
that have dramatically improved the standard of living and quality of 
life of people here in the United States and around the world.
  And so it is in that context that I join in celebrating the work of 
our friends in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and CalTech and all 
involved in this very important NASA research and effort that is going 
on. I thank both my friends for their hard work in their committee and 
for coming forward and allowing Mr. Schiff and me to consider this 
resolution.
  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to rise in support of this resolution which I 
authored with my California colleague, Mr. Schiff, to recognize the 
five-year anniversary of the landing of the Mars Exploration Rovers, 
Spirit and Opportunity. I also commend the individuals that contributed 
to the success of the missions. In particular, the great minds at the 
La Canada Flintridge-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who 
designed and built the rovers, and whom I have the distinct honor to 
represent. JPL is managed by the California Institute of Technology 
(Caltech), and very ably led by JPL's outstanding director, Dr. Charles 
Elachi.
  Mr. Speaker, as you may recall, during the summer of 2003, NASA 
launched its Mars Exploration Rovers from Cape Canaveral Air Force 
Station in Florida. The rovers were an exciting addition to NASA's Mars 
Exploration Program, and their mission was to explore the surface of 
Mars for three months in search of clues to give scientists a peek into 
the planet's past. Specifically, the rovers were to determine whether 
Mars had ever contained environments with quantities of water 
sufficient to support life.
   After traveling more than a quarter million miles, Spirit and 
Opportunity successfully landed on Mars's surface on January 3, 2004 
and January 24, 2004, respectively. Within their primary three-month 
mission time frame, the rovers successfully uncovered geological 
evidence indicating that a body of water once flowed through certain 
regions, and that early Mars was characterized by impacts from meteors, 
explosive volcanoes and subsurface water.
  In an amazing display of endurance, Spirit and Opportunity managed to 
maintain their operational status far beyond the three months that were 
expected, and continue to operate to this day, five years later. The 
rovers explored more than 21 kilometers of Mars's terrain, climbed 
hills, descended deep into large craters, survived dust storms and 
endured three brutal Martian winters. Their amazing missions continue 
to yield valuable information about the history of Mars and are 
symbolic of America's pioneering spirit.
  Mr. Speaker, while oftentimes the parts that are developed for our 
space missions are sent off never to be seen again, it is important to 
realize that the technology stays here at home where it continues to 
make important contributions to our lives. For example, NASA-sponsored 
work at facilities like JPL has resulted in the development of critical 
technologies that have been commercially applied in fields as far 
ranging as medical imaging, transportation, cellular 
telecommunications, supercomputing and environmental protection. In 
addition, these projects inspire our youth to pursue education in the 
STEM fields--science, technology, engineering and mathematics. And they 
provide well-paid, highly technical jobs for innovators and 
entrepreneurs throughout our country. In fact, the success of the Mars 
rovers is due to the contributions of many, including workers from all 
across the country--from Composite Optics in San Diego, California to 
BAE Systems in Manassas, Virginia.
  The footprints of NASA's many successes have been made as far away as 
our moon, the planet Mars and beyond. But its most important impact is 
here at home. The work being done at JPL and other facilities is 
spurring the innovations that create jobs and make our lives better. 
And it is inspiring new generations of innovators who will pursue the 
careers that will continue to keep the United States at the forefront 
of technological advancement.
  Mr. Speaker, I commend the men and women whose tireless work has made 
the Mars rovers' expeditions such a tremendous success, and I urge my 
colleagues to vote in support of this resolution.
  Mr. DAVIS of Tennessee. I yield myself as much time as I may consume.
  As heard earlier on this floor, we talked about other nations 
throughout the world who seem to be achieving higher academic standards 
than we are here in this country in the classroom. But as we start 
observing many of these countries, none of those are putting in play 
and putting into reality the science that we are doing in this country.
  The rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, that landed on Mars were an 
American project, not one of the other nations that we talked about. So 
as we discuss from time to time areas where we must recognize we may 
have failures, but our educational system is also providing, and has 
provided, bright young minds with the challenges that has brought 
forward the research, the development, the space exploration that is 
going on today in this country.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. BROUN of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  I thank my colleague from Tennessee and my colleague from California. 
We are, as Republicans and Democrats, coming and talking about 
something that is extremely important, and that is science exploration 
of Mars and what Spirit and Opportunity have done there. We talked on 
the previous bill about math and science and how important it is that 
we go forward with these types of projects. And it absolutely is 
critical for the future of our Nation that we do so.
  The other things that are critical for our Nation that we need to 
explore is how to stimulate our economy. And the best way to stimulate 
our economy is by stimulating small business. Small business is hurting 
today. It is hurting terribly. The American middle class and the 
workers of America are hurting terribly.
  We have proposals brought forth to this floor in bill after bill that 
markedly increase the size of the Federal Government. This is what I 
call the steamroll of socialism being shoved down the throats of the 
American people.

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  We have to find solutions to this economic problem we have in 
America. And building a bigger government, building a more socialistic 
government, is not going to create jobs. It is not going to bring about 
the things that we need to get us out of this economic downturn.
  I hope that as we work together on this bill, and as we did with the 
previous bill, that we can work together, Democrats and Republicans 
alike, can come and find some commonsense economic solutions for 
America, commonsense solutions that will stimulate the real economic 
engine of America, and that is small business.
  Small businesses create most of the jobs in America today. We have 
proposals that are going to take away jobs from small business because 
it is going to put a heavier regulatory burden on that small business. 
It is going to put a heavier tax burden on small businesses. We have 
seen proposals in the budget that will increase taxes on what is 
described as the wealthiest in America.
  But most of those tax increases will affect small businesses, and it 
is going to rob jobs, rob jobs that are critical for the economic well-
being of America.
  Small business is the economic engine that pulls along the train of 
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need to stoke the fires of that train so it has the ability to create 
jobs, to bring us out of this economic downturn.
  What I see over and over again are policies that are being suggested 
that are going to rob small business of those critical assets that they 
need. They are going to rob the American people of the jobs that we 
need.
  Government does not make one single nickel, not one single penny. All 
it does is it takes away from the private sector. We have policies that 
are taking away from the private sector and increasing a bigger and 
bigger government to tell us how to live our lives. It is robbing the 
private sector of necessary funds that are absolutely critical to get 
us out of this economic downturn.
  We cannot continue down this road toward a socialistic society with 
socialized medicine that is going to destroy the quality of health 
care. It is going to be extremely costly. It has been said very often 
around here that if you think health care is expensive today, wait 
until it is free. It is going to destroy the innovation that is 
absolutely critical.
  So as we commend NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Cornell 
University on this outstanding scientific accomplishment that they 
brought forward with Spirit and Opportunity, we need to look beyond 
that and we need to look in a bipartisan way. We have got to stop what 
I think is an idiocy of destroying small business and creating a bigger 
socialistic government.
  We have seen bill after bill that spend too much, tax too much, 
borrow too much. Our children and grandchildren are going to live at a 
standard that is much less than we have today if we don't just stop 
this, and I am struggling for a word here, but one where we are 
bringing forth policies that are absolutely adverse to what this 
country was founded upon. We stand at a crossroads, and it is a 
crossroads that will lead one direction towards socialism and total 
government control, and another direction which leads toward freedom, 
entrepreneurship, innovation and economic security.
  So I call upon my colleagues on the Democratic side, let's work 
together. Let's work together to find policies that make sense. Let's 
work together to find commonsense market-based solutions that will 
stimulate small business, that won't hurt our children and 
grandchildren like bill after bill that is being proposed and a budget 
that is being proposed. We have to stop this direction, this steamroll 
of socialism that is being driven by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. It is 
a steamroller of socialism that is being shoved down the throats of the 
American people, and it is going to strangle the American economy. It 
is going to kill the American public economically.
  So as we applaud these scientific endeavors, I call upon my 
Democratic colleagues to work with us in a bipartisan way so we can 
find economic solutions that are so drastically needed, so that we can 
find the solutions that America needs.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. DAVIS of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I 
may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I have observed over the last 8 years probably the 
largest increase in spending in the history of this country except 
perhaps the 8 years of Lyndon Johnson. And all that spending was 
directed toward some of the same exact spending that is occurring today 
under this new administration and under this new majority in Congress.
  Yet I hear described under the old administration good government, 
with the exact same expenditures, becoming socialism. I suggest that we 
all become bipartisan and start reading from the same dictionary.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the 
gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Davis) that the House suspend the rules 
and agree to the resolution, H. Res. 67.
  The question was taken.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the opinion of the Chair, two-thirds 
being in the affirmative, the ayes have it.
  Mr. DAVIS of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and 
nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, this 15-
minute vote on the motion to suspend the rules on H. Res. 67 will be 
followed by 5-minute votes on the motion to suspend the rules on S. 22 
and the motion to suspend the rules on H. Con. Res. 38, if ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 421, 
nays 0, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 116]

                               YEAS--421

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Adler (NJ)
     Akin
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Arcuri
     Austria
     Baca
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrett (SC)
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blumenauer
     Blunt
     Boccieri
     Boehner
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boozman
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boustany
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Braley (IA)
     Broun (GA)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown, Corrine
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Butterfield
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Cao
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Castle
     Castor (FL)
     Chaffetz
     Chandler
     Childers
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cohen
     Cole
     Conaway
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Dahlkemper
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     Davis (TN)
     Deal (GA)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Driehaus
     Duncan
     Edwards (MD)
     Edwards (TX)
     Ehlers
     Ellison
     Ellsworth
     Emerson
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Fallin
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Flake
     Fleming
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Fudge
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Giffords
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Gordon (TN)
     Granger
     Graves
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hall (TX)
     Halvorson
     Hare
     Harman
     Harper
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Heinrich
     Heller
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herseth Sandlin
     Higgins
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hodes
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Hunter
     Inglis
     Inslee
     Israel
     Issa
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jenkins
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan (OH)
     Kagen
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kilroy
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kirkpatrick (AZ)
     Kissell
     Klein (FL)
     Kline (MN)
     Kratovil
     Kucinich
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NY)
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Mack
     Maffei
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Markey (CO)
     Markey (MA)
     Marshall
     Massa
     Matheson
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                             NOT VOTING--10

     Alexander
     Bright
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     Maloney
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     Miller, Gary
     Radanovich
     Schock

                              {time}  1231

  So (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and 
the resolution 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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