[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 25 (Thursday, February 25, 2010)]
[House]
[Pages H906-H907]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             MEDICARE PHYSICIAN PAYMENT REFORM ACT OF 2009

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 1(c) of rule XIX, 
proceedings will now resume on the motion offered by the gentleman from 
Michigan (Mr. Conyers) to concur in the Senate amendments to the bill 
(H.R. 3961) to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reform 
the Medicare SGR payment system for physicians.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion by the 
gentleman from Michigan.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. POSEY. Mr. Speaker, I object to the vote on the ground that a 
quorum is not present and make the point of order that a quorum is not 
present.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Evidently a quorum is not present.
  The Sergeant at Arms will notify absent Members.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 315, 
nays 97, not voting 20, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 67]

                               YEAS--315

     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Adler (NJ)
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Arcuri
     Austria
     Baca
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Baird
     Barrow
     Barton (TX)
     Bean
     Berkley
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehner
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boozman
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boustany
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Bright
     Broun (GA)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown, Corrine
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Butterfield
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Cao
     Capito
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Castle
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Childers
     Clay
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Dahlkemper
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     Davis (TN)
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dicks
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Driehaus
     Edwards (TX)
     Ellsworth
     Emerson
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Fattah
     Flake
     Fleming
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garamendi
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Giffords
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Gordon (TN)
     Granger
     Graves
     Grayson
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hall (NY)
     Halvorson
     Harper
     Hastings (WA)
     Heinrich
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herseth Sandlin
     Higgins
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Hodes
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Hoyer
     Hunter
     Inglis
     Inslee
     Israel
     Issa
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Jenkins
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kilroy
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kirkpatrick (AZ)
     Kissell
     Klein (FL)
     Kline (MN)
     Kosmas
     Kratovil
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lee (NY)
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Markey (CO)
     Marshall
     Massa
     Matheson
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McMahon
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meek (FL)
     Melancon
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, Gary
     Mitchell
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy (NY)
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murphy, Tim
     Napolitano
     Neugebauer
     Nunes
     Nye
     Obey
     Olson
     Ortiz
     Owens
     Pascrell
     Paulsen
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Petri
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Pomeroy
     Posey
     Putnam
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Rehberg
     Reyes
     Rodriguez
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (WI)
     Salazar
     Scalise
     Schauer
     Schiff
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (GA)
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Sestak
     Shadegg
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Souder
     Space
     Spratt
     Stearns
     Sutton
     Tanner
     Taylor
     Teague
     Terry
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Titus
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Walden
     Walz
     Wamp
     Wasserman Schultz
     Watson
     Weiner
     Whitfield
     Wilson (OH)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Yarmuth
     Young (FL)

                                NAYS--97

     Abercrombie
     Baldwin
     Bartlett
     Becerra
     Berman
     Bishop (UT)
     Blumenauer
     Boccieri
     Braley (IA)
     Capuano
     Chaffetz
     Chu
     Clarke
     Cleaver
     Cohen
     Costello
     Crowley
     Cummings
     DeFazio
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Duncan
     Edwards (MD)
     Ehlers
     Ellison
     Engel
     Farr
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Green, Al
     Grijalva
     Hare
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Heller
     Hinchey
     Hirono
     Holt
     Honda
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (IL)
     Jones
     Kagen
     Kucinich
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Loebsack
     Lujan
     Maffei
     Maloney
     Markey (MA)
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     Meeks (NY)
     Michaud
     Miller, George
     Minnick
     Moore (WI)
     Nadler (NY)
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Olver
     Pallone
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paul

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     Payne
     Perriello
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis (CO)
     Price (NC)
     Richardson
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Speier
     Thompson (CA)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Welch
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Young (AK)

                             NOT VOTING--20

     Barrett (SC)
     Bishop (NY)
     Boucher
     Capps
     Deal (GA)
     Dent
     Fallin
     Gingrey (GA)
     Hall (TX)
     Mack
     Myrick
     Pitts
     Price (GA)
     Radanovich
     Reichert
     Stark
     Stupak
     Sullivan
     Westmoreland
     Wilson (SC)

                              {time}  1926

  Messrs. THOMPSON of California, MAFFEI, DeFAZIO, FRANK of 
Massachusetts, COSTELLO, PAYNE, HONDA, NEAL of Massachusetts, LARSON of 
Connecticut, HASTINGS of Florida, TIERNEY, BARTLETT, HELLER, BERMAN, 
GEORGE MILLER of California, SARBANES, CLEAVER, HARE, ENGEL, EHLERS, 
RYAN of Ohio and PRICE of North Carolina and Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. 
RICHARDSON, Ms. CLARKE and Ms. FUDGE changed their vote from ``yea'' to 
``nay.''
  So the motion 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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