[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 158 (Wednesday, October 28, 2009)]
[House]
[Pages H12008-H12009]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 ALLOWING FUNDING FOR THE INTEROPERABLE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS GRANT 
                                PROGRAM

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The unfinished business is the vote on the 
motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, S. 1694, 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 Virginia (Mr. Boucher) that the House suspend the rules 
and pass the bill, S. 1694.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 420, 
nays 0, not voting 12, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 819]

                               YEAS--420

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Adler (NJ)
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Arcuri
     Austria
     Baca
     Bachmann
     Baldwin
     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)
     Bright
     Brown (SC)
     Brown, Corrine
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Butterfield
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Cao
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Castle
     Castor (FL)
     Chaffetz
     Chandler
     Childers
     Chu
     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

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     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)
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Gordon (TN)
     Granger
     Graves
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hall (NY)
     Halvorson
     Hare
     Harman
     Harper
     Hastings (WA)
     Heinrich
     Heller
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herseth Sandlin
     Higgins
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hodes
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     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)
     Kosmas
     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
     Maloney
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Markey (CO)
     Markey (MA)
     Marshall
     Massa
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McCotter
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Minnick
     Mitchell
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy (NY)
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murphy, Tim
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nadler (NY)
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Neugebauer
     Nunes
     Nye
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olson
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paul
     Paulsen
     Payne
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Perriello
     Peters
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Polis (CO)
     Pomeroy
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Price (NC)
     Putnam
     Quigley
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Rodriguez
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Schakowsky
     Schauer
     Schiff
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Sestak
     Shadegg
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Souder
     Space
     Speier
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stearns
     Stupak
     Sullivan
     Sutton
     Tanner
     Taylor
     Teague
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Towns
     Turner
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden
     Walz
     Wamp
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Westmoreland
     Wexler
     Whitfield
     Wilson (OH)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Aderholt
     Bachus
     Baird
     Barrett (SC)
     Broun (GA)
     Gohmert
     Hall (TX)
     Hastings (FL)
     Hoyer
     McMahon
     Scott (GA)
     Tsongas

                              {time}  1326

  Mr. DELAHUNT changed his vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and 
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. McMAHON. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 819, had I been present, I 
would have voted ``yea.''
  (By unanimous consent, Mr. Shuler was allowed to speak out of order.)


   Members of Congress Victorious Over Capitol Hill Police in Annual 
                         Charity Football Game

  Mr. SHULER. Mr. Speaker, it is a great privilege today to finally 
announce that after a lot of hard knocks and tries on the gridiron, the 
Capitol Hill Police versus the Members of Congress, we finally 
successfully came away with a victory last night.
  Along with a lot of help, former members of the NFL certainly helped 
us along, certainly excluding me, Ken Harvey, John Booty and others 
played an outstanding game, but our Members of Congress did an 
outstanding job. I think it just goes to show you that, working 
together across the aisle, we too can succeed.
  The co-captain, Mr. Shuster, probably had the most difficult job all 
night of managing who was in the game. You can only imagine; every 
Member of Congress thought that they were the best player on the team. 
So he had the most difficult job all night.
  I would yield to my co-captain, Mr. Shuster.
  Mr. SHUSTER. I thank the gentleman from North Carolina.
  I want to rise also to congratulate all the participants in a game 
well-played last night. We had many Members of Congress. As the 
gentleman from North Carolina said, we had some former pro football 
players. It was a hard-fought battle. We won in overtime, 32-26, with a 
fantastic pass from Heath Shuler to John Booty. It was fabulous.
  As Mr. Shuler said, it has been four tries. This is our first 
victory, being able to beat the Capitol Police. But the big winner was 
the Capitol Hill Police Memorial Fund and the Washington Literacy 
Council. We believe we raised about $50,000 to be split between those 
two groups.

                              {time}  1330

  I would also like to acknowledge our offensive and defensive players 
in the game.
  Offensive, it was easy. It was Heath Shuler, five touchdown passes. 
He played a fantastic game. I think the NFL is going to start looking 
at you again, Heath. We'd like that. Maybe that seat will come open in 
North Carolina if you went back to the NFL.
  Also, on defense, there were two players that played the game, big 
surprises for our team: Jack Kingston, better known as Brett Favre of 
the congressional team, had an outstanding game. But the defensive 
player of the game went to Anthony ``Mad Dog'' Weiner, who had two key 
interceptions in the game and just played fantastic.
  I want to thank Speaker Pelosi and Leader Boehner for their help and 
support in putting this game together. Also Roger Goodell, the 
Commissioner of the NFL, was there last night to flip the coin. And 
John Booty and Ken Harvey, two former NFL players, did a fantastic job 
in setting this up.
  And finally, again, just to thank the Capitol Police, who do a great 
job day in and day out, making sure the Capitol is safe, making sure 
the people who come here are safe. So thank you to them.
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate our team that won so 
decisively last night. Mr. Boehner and I were there to cheer the 
Democratic/Republican, Republican/Democratic team on.
  The good news is that they won; the bad news is they beat the Capitol 
Police. So I don't know what that means.
  But the fact is that it was great teamwork between the Democrats and 
the Republicans, which was saluted in the Rotunda earlier today. 
Senator Edward Brooke, whom we had honored with the Congressional Gold 
Medal, was pleased to hear about this teamwork between Democrats and 
Republicans. And, indeed, it got a standing ovation from those folks 
who didn't even know about the game until then.
  But you should have seen our guys. They were so great.
  Mr. Shuster, congratulations. Congratulations to Heath Shuler. The 
last time I saw them, they were playing baseball. They go from baseball 
to football, all-round athletes; great teamwork, great leadership. 
Congratulations to our team.
  And I, too, want to join in thanking the Capitol Police. I know they 
went all-out last night because they always go all-out for us.
  Congratulations. We were suited up, but we were not called upon.
  Mr. BOEHNER. Congratulations.

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