[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 78 (Thursday, June 2, 2011)]
[House]
[Pages H3945-H3964]
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        DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2012

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 287 and rule 
XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House 
on the state of the Union for the further consideration of the bill, 
H.R. 2017.

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                     In the Committee of the Whole

  Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of 
the bill (H.R. 2017) making appropriations for the Department of 
Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012, and 
for other purposes, with Mr. Dreier in the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The CHAIR. When the Committee of the Whole rose earlier today, a 
request for a recorded vote on an amendment offered by the gentleman 
from Florida (Mr. Mica) had been postponed and the bill had been read 
through page 92, line 7.
  Mr. ADERHOLT. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The CHAIR. The gentleman from Alabama is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. ADERHOLT. Mr. Chairman, as we had talked earlier about this 
legislation, this bill is about putting priority on limited dollars and 
robustly supporting the most essential functions of the Department of 
Homeland Security and to make sure that our homeland is safe.
  The Department of Homeland Security, with all of its critical 
missions, is not immune from fiscal discipline. That has been the theme 
that we have been talking about since we started the bill yesterday 
afternoon. That means that the Department has to find the most cost-
effective way to meet its mission requirements.
  The American people, quite honestly, are demanding no less in this 
regard.
  Again, we started yesterday afternoon at around 3:30, we went until 
about 12:30 this morning, we started again about 12:30 today, this 
afternoon, and we are continuing with this legislation. It will 
probably take us a couple of more hours this evening before we finish. 
A lot of people have done a lot of work to make this bill happen and 
for it to take place.
  I just again would want to thank each of them for their hard work.
  Again, the ranking member, Mr. Price, has been a true partner in this 
as we have worked together, and I want to thank him for his 
contribution that he has made.
  Also, I would like to thank the full committee chairman and the 
ranking member, Mr. Hal Rogers and Mr. Dicks, for their support. They 
have both been very helpful as we have gone through this process, and 
they have had to make some very difficult choices as they have to work 
with all 12 subcommittees. I want to congratulate them, as we have 
kicked off the start of a new appropriations season, and we have nearly 
the first appropriation bill to come to the floor.
  But I do want to take a moment and thank the committee staff for 
their hard work, namely, I want to thank Stephanie Gupta and Paul Cox 
on the minority side; and, of course, the majority staff has worked 
very, very closely with the minority, and we do appreciate their hard 
work.
  But on the majority staff, Jeff Ashford, Kris Mallard, Kathy 
Kraninger, Miles Taylor, and Rebecca Ore have all done a tremendous job 
in their work and, of course, last but not least, Ben Nicholson. Ben 
Nicholson serves as the clerk of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on 
Appropriations and Ben has done a tremendous job as he has helped me up 
here as I have managed the time on this particular piece of 
legislation.

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  Also, on the appropriations staff, Jennifer Miller and Mike Robinson 
have done a great job, and also Jim Kulikowski. They have been very 
helpful in making sure this process moves forward. As you can imagine, 
there's a lot of moving parts. And so I do want to thank Mike, 
Jennifer, and Jim for their hard work.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. I move to strike the last word.
  The CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the chance as 
we enter the homestretch of this debate to also express my appreciation 
to the many colleagues and staff members who have brought us to this 
point.
  I want to commend Chairman Aderholt for this first voyage that he has 
taken as the subcommittee chairman and for the professional approach 
that he has brought to this, the careful process, the inclusive 
process. We are very grateful to him.
  We had a good, full season of hearings and an open process in the 
Appropriations Committee, at markup, and we've had an open process here 
on the floor. That's the way Appropriations is supposed to work. And so 
I do commend the chairman and the leadership for that.
  We have had a good, robust debate here. I certainly wish that we were 
in closer agreement on this bill. I have always believed that on 
Appropriations we should look out for the institutional role of this 
House in holding the executive accountable, on a bipartisan basis, no 
matter which party is in charge either here or in the White House.
  And so when the partisan divisions that inevitably characterize our 
work here, when those partisan divisions are evident on Appropriations, 
we try our best to overcome them. Historically, we have tried our best 
to overcome them. That has been very difficult this year, and we have a 
bill that we are divided on--but not on the entire bill by any means. 
As I said in my opening statement yesterday, the chairman and the 
majority have done a good job in keeping the frontline operations of 
the Homeland Security Department intact, keeping those operations 
strong.
  Where they've fallen down is, I believe, to pass a budget resolution 
that contains a Homeland Security allocation that is simply inadequate. 
That has been compounded by the treatment of disaster funds beyond the 
President's request, a refusal to designate those as emergency funds. 
And so we are left with a bill that's severely squeezed. I won't 
elaborate except to say that this is the bigger picture we are dealing 
with, the radical shortfall in the State and local grants, a challenge 
we will have to continue to work on.

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  We will move on from this point today and be working with our 
colleagues in the other body and with the White House to come up with a 
final product that hopefully keeps faith with the States and local 
communities who depend on us for a reliable partnership.
  Mr. DICKS. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. I yield to the gentleman from 
Washington.
  Mr. DICKS. One of the things that worries me about this bill is the 
role that the Department of Homeland Security plays in cybersecurity, 
and the fact that we have cut the S&T budget worries me because there 
were a number of projects, science and technology projects, underway to 
help us deal with this great threat to our country.
  I serve on the Defense Subcommittee. I have served on the 
Intelligence Committee. Cybersecurity gives an asymmetrical advantage 
to others--China, Russia, and Iran--penetrating the networks of our 
major defense companies. We've had stories just this week about 
Lockheed. They say this has been going on since the nineties, and this 
issue worries me. And I am concerned. You have bioterrorism, you have 
the threat of nuclear weapons, and you have the threat of cyber 
attacks. And this last one is where we're most vulnerable.
  And we have critical infrastructure in this country where homeland 
security is supposed to be taking care of it. The Defense Department 
has a Cyber Command. NSA has signed an agreement between the Defense 
Department and Homeland Security about sharing people so we get some of 
the expertise from the NSA over in Homeland Security.
  My concern is that we still don't have a real plan for our utilities 
and our critical infrastructure in this country. This is something that 
Homeland Security has to be involved in. And, as I said, they support 
the rest of the government.
  The CHAIR. The time of the gentleman from North Carolina has expired.
  (On the request of Mr. Dicks, and by unanimous consent, Mr. Price of 
North Carolina was allowed to proceed for 2 additional minutes.)
  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. I yield to the gentleman from 
Washington.
  Mr. DICKS. Regarding this cybersecurity vulnerability, I think our 
financial institutions make a major effort at trying to protect 
themselves. But I have been told that our corporate intellectual 
property, over the last few years, $1 trillion has been stolen through 
these cyber attacks from the free world to others. Some of these people 
are simply criminals. Some of them are acting under state authority. 
This is one of those issues that we are still vulnerable to. I just 
hope that these dramatic cuts in science and technology won't undermine 
our ability to come up with solutions on this cyber issue.
  I also believe the administration, the President, his people and the 
Department of Homeland Security have a responsibility to make certain 
that we have a plan and we have an approach and we work with the 
private sector in a way that will make sure that we are protecting our 
critical infrastructure.
  So I just urge you, Mr. Price, as the ranking member, and the 
chairman, Mr. Aderholt, to see if we can't make certain that, in 
conference, we keep some of this money in there for the cybersecurity 
programs that I know Dr. O'Toole is concerned about.
  And I appreciate the gentleman yielding.
  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. I thank the gentleman for his comments. 
I certainly share the commitment to developing a more comprehensive 
approach to cybersecurity, in particular, and to the research and 
development budget, in general.
  With that, let me reiterate my thanks for all who have brought us to 
this point on both sides of the aisle, for our fine staff whom we 
always depend on, and the way the staff has scrambled with this 
amendment process----
  The CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  (By unanimous consent, Mr. Price of North Carolina was allowed to 
proceed for 30 additional seconds.)
  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. At a time like this floor debate when 
we've had such a flurry of amendments from all sorts of sources, we 
realize anew how dependent we are on our staff for staying on top of 
all this and helping guide us, and we are very grateful to our staff on 
both sides of the aisle.
  With that, we are ready to proceed, Mr. Chairman.
  I yield back the balance of my time.


                 Amendment No. 23 Offered by Mr. Polis

  Mr. POLIS. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to carry out section 287(g) of the Immigration and 
     Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1357(g)).

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  The CHAIR. The gentleman from Colorado is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. POLIS. Mr. Chairman, I thank the Rules Committee for allowing an 
open rule, including the offering of my commonsense amendment which 
would save millions of dollars by cutting funding to 287(g), something 
that is called an immigration enforcement program which actually 
increases crime by expanding the mandate of our local crime-fighting 
officials.
  This program effectively adds responsibilities, which should be 
Federal responsibilities, to local law enforcement so that they 
effectively engage in Federal immigration enforcement. So instead of 
keeping serious criminals from threatening our communities, the 287(g) 
program forces police to waste their time trying to figure out the 
immigration status of noncriminals, as well as opening them up to 
charges of racial profiling which can be expensive to defend.
  Instead of using our precious national security dollars on these 
kinds of programs, this bill has estimated savings of $6.4 million for 
the next year alone. The inspector general found this program cost $68 
million.
  These programs force local law enforcement officers to follow and 
enforce Federal laws even though they are not trained to do so. That is 
why law enforcement officers from across the country have spoken out 
against it. The IG found 33 problems the first time they investigated 
287(g) last year. The biggest problem was that they found the program 
did not focus on noncitizens who actually pose a threat to public 
safety. Instead, it focused on noncitizens who pose no threat to public 
safety.
  Mr. Chairman, 287(g) forces police officers to enforce laws that they 
are not trained to do, which is why law enforcement leaders across the 
board tend to oppose this law. Chief Acevedo from Austin said: ``It's a 
matter of resources and priority. My priority is dealing with criminals 
and terrorism issues, not dealing with civil matters.''
  I would point out that the failure to enforce our Federal immigration 
laws is a Federal failure. It is a national failure. It is a national 
disgrace. But the answer is not to add an additional burden to our 
hardworking men and women who are working at local law enforcement to 
keep our communities safe at a time when their budgets are being 
constrained, both the money they receive from Washington as well as 
their local and State revenue.
  Why are we not listening to our local law enforcement officials? 
Instead of cutting funding for firefighters and police, we should stop 
wasting taxpayer funds on failed programs like 287(g).
  I would like to show the detrimental effect of the 287(g) program. 
You can see across Arizona, Statewide, incidents of violent crime went 
down 12 percent in the last 10 years. But they have one particular 
sheriff who does a particularly bad job of protecting his community. 
His name is Sheriff Arpaio. He is one of the notorious abusers of the 
287(g) program. In his community, Maricopa County, crime went up 58 
percent. So you have a 12 percent decrease, and then you have this 
incompetent sheriff who has a 58 percent increase. Now he might be 
incompetent in other areas as well, but one of the main reasons crime 
has gone up in Maricopa County is because he has diverted law 
enforcement resources to try to enforce Federal laws that we in this 
body are irresponsibly ignoring day in and day out and that this bill 
does nothing to fix.

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  In recent years, local law enforcement has increased community 
policing efforts, working with our residents, both documented and 
undocumented, to finally defeat violent crime and keep our communities 
safe. This is the reason why law enforcement officers across my 
community, including sheriffs and police chiefs, are strongly opposed 
to 287(g), which stretches local police forces beyond the breaking 
point, hinders law enforcement, and causes real harm and danger to 
American citizens living in our communities.
  I call on Congress to fix our broken immigration system. We need to 
enforce our Federal laws. We need better border security. Nobody from 
either side of the aisle disagrees with that. But it is time to stop 
playing politics with this issue and stop trying to foist a Federal 
responsibility into our already overtaxed local community law 
enforcement efforts, increasing crime and putting innocent Americans in 
harm's way at the risk of violent crime. I strongly urge a ``yes'' vote 
on my amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CARTER. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the gentleman's 
amendment.
  The CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. CARTER. Mr. Chairman, I strongly endorse robust enforcement of 
our Nation's immigration laws. I happen to be from the State that has 
more of the Mexican border than any other State in the union. We are 
very familiar with that border. We have been living with it for our 
entire lives, and for the life of our State, from before the time when 
it was a State when it was a republic.
  Our law enforcement officers see an epidemic of lawlessness flowing 
across the southern border of the United States, and our law 
enforcement officers in our area want to be involved in protecting the 
life, liberty, and property of Texans, and they are perfectly willing 
to be involved in protecting the life, liberty, and property of every 
American citizen. They are deeply concerned with what is going on at 
the border, and they want to be involved. They have volunteered to go 
into the 287(g) program, which gives them the kind of training which 
this Congress believes, and has made it a point to believe, that they 
should have, to know how to deal with immigrants who are looked upon as 
having special law enforcement needs.
  The best I've been able to figure, I don't know who's imposing this 
on the people of Boulder, Colorado, but it is not being imposed on 
anybody else that I know of. It's a volunteer program. Law enforcement 
officers go and seek 287(g) training so that they can meet the 
standards that those who deal in immigration issues want them to know 
and understand. That's why we created 287(g), to make knowledgeable law 
enforcement officers at the local level who could be effective in 
assisting those who have the Federal requirement and the Federal duty 
to protect our borders.
  I only agree with one thing that I have heard from my colleague: I 
agree we are failing at protecting our borders. And I would argue that 
this committee has done everything and continues to do everything that 
we can do to protect our borders, and this bill does everything it can 
do and does not short the people who protect our borders any because of 
the dangerousness that we are aware of on our southern border.
  I don't understand why enlisting volunteers to assist in law 
enforcement would be offensive to anyone. Now if the folks in Colorado 
don't want to be part of the 287(g) program, don't volunteer. This is 
not hard stuff. But, you know, if you are one or two lone border 
patrolmen out in the middle of Brewster County in Texas, you've got a 
lonely, dangerous job. You've got some people coming through for 
economic reasons, and other people coming through who are clearly 
violators of the laws of the State of Texas and the laws of the United 
States, and our law enforcement officers who believe in their oath of 
office to protect people that they are there to protect. They volunteer 
for this program so that they can assist the border patrolmen in the 
effort both of the economic immigrants and the criminal immigrants that 
come across our border.
  And don't tell a law enforcement officer that he's not happy to see a 
sheriff when he sees a body of armed men packing packs across open 
country in Texas.
  This is a good program. It is a program that has effectively trained 
law enforcement to understand the rules that Federal agents have to 
play by, and still gives them the authority to assist people who need 
their assistance.
  I would argue that the safest part of the Texas border is the part of 
the border where local law enforcement and local sheriffs and Operation 
Stonegarden in other areas--the safest part is where local law 
enforcement has joined with Federal law enforcement to enforce the laws 
of this land. I think anything short of that is leaving resources on 
the table that will protect the United States of America.
  So I very much oppose this gentleman's amendment, and I very much 
hope that our colleagues will realize that we need every resource 
available, and in my opinion even troops, to protect the American 
border and make sure Americans citizens and their property and their 
lives are safe. So I urge my colleagues to not support this gentleman's 
amendment, to oppose this gentleman's amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.

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  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last 
word.
  The CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. Mr. Chairman, I want to commend our 
colleague from Colorado for offering this amendment and for calling 
attention to some of the deficiencies in the 287(g) program and some of 
the ways that we need to do things better. I would have wished for an 
amendment, though, that would have given the Department of Homeland 
Security more direction.
  If not 287(g), then what should immigration enforcement look like, 
and what should the interface between the Federal Government and local 
authorities look like?
  I'm afraid the amendment doesn't really address that very 
conclusively, but I want to offer just a few reflections on the 287(g) 
program and the ways in which I think we might transition to something 
more positive in the area of immigration enforcement.
  The gentleman from Colorado has already described the 287(g) program. 
It delegates Federal immigration authority to local law enforcement in 
many respects, supposedly to identify criminals in their communities. 
At the end of the fourth quarter of fiscal year '10, the 287(g) program 
had established partnerships with 72 local jurisdictions; but both the 
DHS Inspector General and the GAO have raised serious concerns about 
the 287(g) program, particularly related to the lack of oversight by 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the fact that it was not really 
living up, in many cases, to its stated goal of focusing on serious 
criminals who pose a threat to the community. The Inspector General 
found 33 major deficiencies in the program last year, and found 16 more 
when he recently reassessed the program. Based on these concerns, I 
believe we do need to take a hard look at 287(g) and make sure that 
that authority is being exercised properly before we simply appropriate 
more money for the program.
  Now, Mr. Chairman, when I chaired the Appropriations Subcommittee on 
Homeland Security, we pushed ICE to place a much greater emphasis on 
the identification and removal of criminal aliens. Part of ICE's 
response has been the Secure Communities Program, which we fully 
supported and continue to do so in this bill. Since 2008, resources 
have consistently grown for ICE to make progress in finding aliens in 
local and State custody and in removing them at the completion of their 
criminal sentences.
  This bill supports the continued expansion of Secure Communities, 
which already covers many more prisons than 287(g). Now, Secure 
Communities isn't perfect either, by any means, but at least it does 
draw that bright line between the Federal role and the local role in 
immigration enforcement. It sorts that role out much more effectively 
than the 287(g) program. I think we should concentrate on making the 
Secure Communities Program work

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well. It accomplishes the objectives of 287(g) but much more 
efficiently, much less problematically, and without deputizing local 
police to enforce immigration law. That is a proposition that is rife 
with complications and potential abuses.
  So I believe--and our subcommittee determined last year--that it is 
desirable to transition from 287(g) into the Secure Communities format. 
As it stands now, it's a duplicative program. It is a program that is 
highly problematic. If we work on Secure Communities--make sure it 
works responsibly and monitor it carefully--I believe it can accomplish 
the task more efficiently to identify and remove dangerous criminals 
from our communities, which I think we very widely agree should be the 
main priority of immigration enforcement.
  With that, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky. I move to strike the last word.
  The CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky. Mr. Chairman, for those who want to be sure 
that we send away from our borders illegal aliens who are criminals, 
they surely would understand that the 287(g) program gives us a hugely 
better opportunity to do that.
  We've got a few thousand ICE agents, Border Patrol agents, doing a 
wonderful job, and they are dedicated public servants; but there are so 
few of them, relatively speaking, to deal with the millions of illegals 
crossing our borders, many of whom are here in a criminal nature. A few 
thousand Federal agents. By working with local law enforcement, we can 
multiply that by hundreds of thousands of enforcers of America's laws, 
and we can get rid of the criminal aliens in this country. That's what 
287(g) empowers localities to do.
  Now, it is entirely up to the local communities. If they don't want 
to participate in the 287(g) program and receive funds from the Federal 
Government to train their local officials on how to enforce the Federal 
law, it's their choice. They don't have to do it. We don't make them do 
it. It's purely a local option. Many communities have. However, if they 
want to and if they decide to seek Federal assistance, it is there for 
them through this program to help train their local officials. We need 
to better empower States and localities, and through this program, 
that's exactly what we do.
  Everyone admits we are failing to protect our borders. There is a 
consensus around that. We have not protected America's borders 
yesterday, today or probably tomorrow. The reason we can't do it is 
that we are outnumbered, and there is just not the Federal manpower to 
stop it. If you're going to want to try to stop it, particularly keep 
criminal aliens out, I don't understand why you would not want to gain 
some extra help from the local law enforcement officers, properly 
trained under this program and financed. I don't understand that.
  In 1996, this section was added as an amendment to the Immigration 
and Nationality Act for the express purpose to provide necessary 
immigration enforcement assistance to State and local law enforcement 
entities. It authorizes the department to enter into agreements with 
State and local law enforcement, equipping them through thorough 
training to perform important immigration enforcement functions. Local 
law enforcement agencies that are closest to the problem are more 
threatened by the criminality involved, and have more motivation to try 
to stop the criminal activity flowing across the border.
  To date, the ICE agency has trained more than 1,240 State and local 
officers nationwide pursuant to this program. Since 2006, the 287(g) 
program has, according to ICE, resulted in the identification of more 
than 200,300 potentially removable aliens, mostly at local jails. Law 
enforcement agencies participate in the program in 24 different States: 
Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, 
Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, 
Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. Those 
States say to keep this program in place because it's helping us keep 
criminal aliens out of our local communities--no longer selling drugs 
to our kids, no longer engaging in any criminal activity in their 
communities.
  So I urge the defeat of this amendment. This program works. It is the 
only program that has allowed us to engage tens of thousands of local 
law enforcement officers to help with this consuming problem we have 
with criminal aliens.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman 
from Colorado (Mr. Polis).
  The question was taken; and the Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. POLIS. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on 
the amendment offered by the gentleman from Colorado will be postponed.

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  Mr. ELLISON. I move to strike the last word.
  The CHAIR. The gentleman from Minnesota is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Chair, I rise today to shed some light on an 
amendment that was offered by the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King) last 
night which the House will vote on later today.
  The gentleman from Iowa came to the floor at approximately 11:30 p.m. 
last night and under the open rule offered an amendment prohibiting any 
funds from the Homeland Security bill to be used for ACORN and ACORN-
affiliated community organizations. Besides the fact is that it is 
clear that ACORN or ACORN-affiliated community organizations are not 
eligible for funds from the Homeland Security appropriations bill, 
because as far as I know, ACORN is not in the business of homeland 
security.
  In addition to going after ACORN, the gentleman from Iowa in his 
amendment goes after 300 organizations. Let me quote from Ranking 
Member Norm Dicks' eloquent words during debate last night:
  You're asking this House to vote on something that you haven't 
verified, and you don't know what these groups are all about.
  The gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Price), ranking member of 
Homeland Security appropriations, also asked a good question when he 
asked for specific information on what was the wrongdoing of these 
organizations. The gentleman from Iowa's response was that he didn't 
know.
  So, Mr. Chair, to highlight the ridiculous nature of this amendment, 
the gentleman from Iowa is asking this body to vote on an amendment to 
beat up on ACORN and ACORN-affiliated organizations and cannot produce 
a single item of evidence for the record of wrongdoing by these 
organizations in his amendment.
  Mr. Chair, one of the organizations listed, and the reason I take 
certain umbrage to this amendment is that it's an organization in my 
own district, is known as Minnesota Neighborhoods Organizing for 
Change. Minnesota Neighborhoods Organizing for Change are people who 
are known to me. They work hard every day. They work on foreclosure. 
They work on trying to get people to vote. They work with poor people 
in particular.
  Let me read from their Web site to describe to you what they actually 
do:
  Minnesota Neighborhoods Organizing for Change is a new nonprofit 
committed to building power in low-income and moderate-income 
neighborhoods through community organizing, civic engagement, political 
mobilization, and education. NOC is a member-funded and member-run 
organization that takes on the social and economic justice issues that 
impact our community the most. Whether it's huge issues like health 
care and bank reform or a small neighborhood concern like getting a 
stop sign installed at a dangerous intersection, NOC members work 
together to apply their collective strength and get things done.
  This is a good, decent civic service organization, Mr. Chair, and I 
resent them being slandered in the way they were last night.
  So how did Minnesota Neighborhoods Organizing for Change get on the 
gentleman from Iowa's hit list? Well, they used to be an affiliate of 
ACORN. Now they're an independent organization. So I guess there is 
guilt by association.
  Also, Mr. Chair, since the gentleman from Iowa wants this body to 
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about ACORN, a community organizing group, on the Homeland Security 
bill, I think it's fair to talk about ACORN.
  The House, in 2009, voted to defund ACORN. I voted against that 
defunding amendment because it was unconstitutional and based on 
politics of fear and guilt by association. It was a good vote, and I'm 
proud I voted that way, because a Federal court, Mr. Chair, in December 
2009, found the House ban on ACORN grants unconstitutional, and I'm 
proud I was not on the side of that unconstitutional vote.
  Finally, the GAO, in a study released in June 2010, found, quote, no 
evidence of ACORN mismanaging Federal funds. Again, we held this 
organization up for ridicule and destruction, and we, the Congress, 
were wrong.
  Mr. DICKS. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. ELLISON. I yield to the gentleman from Washington.
  Mr. DICKS. I want to commend the gentleman. I hope other Members who 
are watching this tonight will look at this amendment that the 
gentleman from Iowa offered last evening. There are over 300 
organizations. And what the gentleman has said here is why the 
gentleman from North Carolina and I so vehemently opposed this 
amendment.
  This is guilt by association; there is no question about it. These 
various groups, some of which were just mentioned in the media, the 
author of this amendment said repeatedly when asked about some of these 
groups by Mr. Price:
  I have no facts; I have no information. The Government Oversight 
Committee put together this list and we added some more names that we 
found in the media.
  And he couldn't describe one of these groups that had had a problem.
  So I hope that the Members will carefully look at this list.
  The CHAIR. The time of the gentleman from Minnesota has expired.
  (On request of Mr. Dicks, and by unanimous consent, Mr. Ellison was 
allowed to proceed for 1 additional minute.)
  Mr. ELLISON. I yield to the gentleman from Washington.
  Mr. DICKS. I appreciate the gentleman yielding.
  Again, this is a very serious amendment. I hope it will be defeated. 
I appreciate the gentleman rising to tell us about this group in 
Minnesota, and I am sure that there are other groups here that are 
doing good work, helping people, and that would hurt them, I think, in 
other areas. I think people would say, You're banned from being able to 
get a contract at Homeland Security even if you're doing good work 
helping people. That, I think, is a serious mistake.
  Mr. ELLISON. Let me say quickly, I pulled some articles about this 
whole thing:
  ``House Ban on ACORN Grants is Ruled Unconstitutional.''
  ``ACORN Workers Cleared of Illegality by Outside Probe.''
  ``ACORN Did Nothing Wrong,'' is another headline.
  ``All You Need to Know About the ACORN Scandal and Who is Behind 
It.''
  Who was behind it? A young man named James O'Keefe, who was found 
guilty of a Federal crime.

                  [From NY Times.Com., Dec. 11, 2009]

          House Ban on Acorn Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional

                           (By Janie Lorber)

       Washington.--The federal government must continue to 
     provide grant money to the national community organizing 
     group Acorn, a federal court ruled Friday, saying that the 
     House violated the Constitution when it passed a resolution 
     barring the group from receiving federal dollars.
       A judge at the United States District Court in Brooklyn 
     issued a preliminary injunction that nullifies the resolution 
     and requires the government to honor existing contracts with 
     the group and review its applications for new grants unless 
     the Obama administration appeals the decision.
       The court ruled that the resolution amounted to a ``bill of 
     attainder,'' a legislative determination of guilt without 
     trial, because it specifically punishes one group.
       That provision plays a crucial, but rarely necessary, role 
     in maintaining the balance of powers, said Eric M. Freedman, 
     a professor of constitutional law at Hofstra Law School. ``It 
     says that the Congress may not act as judge, jury and 
     executioner. That is precisely what the Congress sought to do 
     in this case, and the district court was entirely right to 
     enjoin it.''
       In the opinion, Judge Nina Gershon wrote of Acorn, ``They 
     have been singled out by Congress for punishment that 
     directly and immediately affects their ability to continue to 
     obtain federal funding, in the absence of any judicial, or 
     even administrative, process adjudicating guilt.''
       The Justice Department said it was still reviewing the 
     ruling Friday night.
       Judge Gershon's opinion made a point of separating the 
     court's ruling from the controversy surrounding Acorn, which 
     is short for Association of Community Organizations for 
     Reform Now.
       The House acted after the organization came under fire for 
     a series of embarrassing scandals, most notably the 
     disclosure by conservative activists of videotape showing 
     Acorn counselors giving mortgage advice to people posing as a 
     pimp and a prostitute interested in setting up a brothel. 
     Even before that, Republicans attacked the group, accusing it 
     of voter registration fraud in 2008.
       Jules Lobel, a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional 
     Rights, which brought the suit on behalf of Acorn, said the 
     resolution was the first time Congress had ever singled out 
     one group for punishment. ``Whenever you challenge a statute 
     of Congress, it's always a significant political battle,'' 
     Mr. Lobel said.
       The chief executive of Acorn, Bertha Lewis, issued a 
     statement calling the ruling a victory for the group and 
     ``the citizens who work through Acorn to improve their 
     communities and promote responsible lending and 
     homeownership.''
       In a lawsuit filed last month, Acorn that it was penalized 
     by Congress ``without an investigation'' and had been forced 
     to cut programs that counsel struggling homeowners and to lay 
     off workers.
                                  ____


           [From The Two-Way--NPR's News Blog, Dec. 7, 2009]

         (ACORN Workers Cleared of Illegality by Outside Probe)

                            (By Frank James)

       ACORN, the community organizing group which found itself 
     embroiled in the latest of several controversies after some 
     of its workers were recorded providing advice to a couple 
     posing as a pimp and prostitute, was cleared of illegality in 
     the matter by the former Massachusetts attorney general.
       But Scott Harshbarger, the lawyer ACORN hired to conduct a 
     review, criticized the organization for bad management which 
     it said contributed to the ACORN's problems. A major problem, 
     he said, was that the organization grew too quickly, 
     neglecting training of its workers and other essentials.
       An excerpt of Harshbarger's report:
       The serious management challenges detailed in our report 
     are the fault of ACORN's founder and a cadre of leaders who, 
     in their drive for growth, failed to commit the organization 
     to the basic, appropriate standards of governance and 
     accountability. As a result, ACORN not only fell short of 
     living its principles but also left itself vulnerable to 
     public embarrassment. This hidden camera controversy is an 
     apt example.
       While some of the advice and counsel given by ACORN 
     employees and volunteers was clearly inappropriate and 
     unprofessional, we did not find a pattern of intentional, 
     illegal conduct by ACORN staff; in fact, there is no evidence 
     that action, illegal or otherwise, was taken by any ACORN 
     employee on behalf of the videographers. Instead, the videos 
     represent the byproduct of ACORN's longstanding management 
     weaknesses, including a lack of training, a lack of 
     procedures, and a lack of on-site supervision.
       Harshbarger provided ACORN with nine recommendations:
       1. ACORN should return its organizational focus to its core 
     competency-- community organizing and citizen engagement 
     empowerment, with related services--and transition away from 
     the provision of services that may be provided more 
     effectively and efficiently by others.
       2. ACORN should consolidate, simplify and centralize its 
     local and national organizational staffing, monitoring and 
     supervision.
       3. ACORN should develop a simplified national organization 
     and board structure consisting of just two entities--a 
     501(c)(3) for charitable, non-profit fundraising, advocacy 
     and education with a majority of independent members, and a 
     501(c)(4) for support of ACORN community organization and 
     political activity, with at least one-third independent 
     members.
       4. ACORN should continue to implement the comprehensive 
     internal governance program and strategy, including internal 
     controls, compliance and codes of ethics, designed to educate 
     and guide staff, volunteers and board members, that was 
     recommended and has been adopted within the past year.
       5. ACORN should recruit an independent ethics officer and/
     or independent inspector general to oversee and implement the 
     governance and compliance program at the national level, and 
     an independent member of the national board should chair a 
     board-level ethics and governance committee.
       6. ACORN should hire an appropriately qualified and 
     experienced chief operating and financial officer, 
     comptroller and in-house auditing staff.
       7. ACORN should continue to strengthen its legal capacity 
     to guide its governance reforms, coordinate the dissolution 
     of all extraneous ACORN organizations and represent the 
     organization's interests in litigation and investigations.

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       8. ACORN should require all of its state and local 
     affiliates to agree to oversight by the national staff and 
     board, and to adhere to appropriate national standards, 
     including financial audits, training and supervision.
       9. ACORN should formalize a strong, independent national 
     advisory group and charge it with the responsibility to 
     report within six months, and thereafter annually for two 
     years, to the national board on the progress of the reform 
     action plan.
       After the videos by a conservative videographer went viral 
     on the Internet, Congress passed legislation to prevent ACORN 
     from receiving federal funding. ACORN is suing the federal 
     government on the grounds that the legislation is an 
     unconstitutional ``bill of attainder'' since it targets for 
     punishment an individual group. ACORN fired some of the 
     workers caught on video.
       ACORN welcomed the report as an important step in its 
     redemption. In a statement, ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis is quoted 
     as saying:
       ``The report is part vindication, part constructive 
     criticism and 100% roadmap to the future,'' ACORN CEO Bertha 
     Lewis said.
       ``ACORN's leadership is pleased that this evaluation shows 
     even the low-level employees portrayed in the videos did not 
     engage in any illegal activity or seek to encourage it,'' 
     Lewis continued. ``Mr. Harshbarger was tough but fair in 
     examining where ACORN has been and what we still need to 
     accomplish in having the most effective possible organization 
     to represent the interests of the communities we represent--
     low and moderate income, African American and Latino families 
     across America.''
       It's unlikely the Harshbarger report will silence the 
     group's conservative critics, however.
                                  ____


                    [From the NJ.com, June 15, 2010]

   ACORN Did Nothing Wrong. So Says the Congressional Watchdog Office

                      (By John D. Atlas/NJ Voices)

       On Monday, June 14, a preliminary probe by the U.S. 
     Government Accountability Office (GAO) of ACORN has found no 
     evidence the association or related organizations mishandled 
     the $40 million in federal money they received in recent 
     years.
       A review of grants by nine federal agencies found no 
     problems with ACORN's grants. In my book Seeds of Change I 
     document how ACORN, the largest most successful national 
     anti-poverty organization in America, was forced to close its 
     door.
       The GAO interviewed and obtained documentation from grant 
     program managers and staff from nine agencies; NeighborWorks, 
     the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), the Corporation for 
     Public Broadcasting (CPB), the Environmental Protection 
     Agency (EPA), the Department of the Treasury (Treasury), and 
     the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Department of 
     Homeland Security and (DHS), the Department of Justice (DOJ), 
     and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). 
     Most of the grants were for housing-related purposes during 
     fiscal years 2005 through 2009.
       The GAO, an independent, nonpartisan agency that works for 
     Congress, is often called the ``congressional watchdog.'' It 
     investigates how the federal government spends taxpayer 
     dollars. Nearly two dozen members of Congress requested an 
     investigation after a series of complaints against ACORN and 
     its affiliates. The complaints included an embezzlement 
     matter, several cases of voter registration fraud, and the 
     release of edited and misleading videotapes, secretly made by 
     conservative activists that appeared to implicate ACORN 
     workers in several offices facilitating prostitution. In fact 
     the staff in most of ACORN's offices turned the pair away, 
     reported the couple to the police, refused to provide them 
     any aid, and in one case tried to convince the phony 
     prostitute to get counseling. In no ACORN office did 
     employees file any paperwork or do anything illegal on the 
     duo's behalf.
       But Fox News broadcasted the deceptive tapes nearly around 
     the clock for several days defaming ACORN.
       While Republicans in Congress, who for years had accused 
     ACORN of corruption, used the phony tapes to lead an effort 
     to successfully strip the group of federal funding in 2009. 
     Months later the group was exonerated from any wrongdoing by 
     every official and independent investigation.
       After the broadcast of the videotapes on Fox and CNN, the 
     New York Times and Washington Post inaccurately reported that 
     the ACORN workers in several offices facilitated 
     prostitution. The papers also reported that O'Keefe was 
     dressed up in a cartoonish pimp garb when he entered the 
     ACORN offices, when he actually wore a dress shirt and slacks 
     and identified himself as a student or friend of the young 
     woman who posed as a prostitute. As a result of the 
     conservative's smear campaign and the media's erroneous 
     reporting of the smears as true, the U. S. Congress defunded 
     ACORN, which led to many of its funders and allies to 
     withdraw their support.
       An independent investigation by the Brooklyn District 
     Attorney's office and the Attorney General of California 
     vindicated ACORN of any wrongdoing. A federal judge ruled 
     that the law barring the group's receipt of federal funds was 
     unconstitutional. Although Acorn had internal problems, it 
     has never been convicted of wrongdoing. I capture the story 
     of this incident as well as the history of ACORN, in my new 
     book, Seeds of Change, The Story of ACORN, America's most 
     controversial anti-poverty community organizing group. What 
     happened to Acorn is one of the most bizarre incidents in 
     recent history.
       One of the activists, James O'Keefe recently pleaded guilty 
     to charges of entering federal property under false pretenses 
     when he attempted to embarrass Senator Mary Landrieu because 
     of her support for national health care legislation. Acorn 
     has never been convicted of a crime. But the right wing 
     activist trying to entrap Acorn into committing an unlawful 
     act, becomes a criminal.
                                  ____


              [From the Huffingtonpost.com, Oct. 22, 2009]

   All You Need to Know About the ACORN Scandal and Who Is Behind It

                            (By Mike Stark)

       Andrew Breitbart says he cares a lot about the truth, but 
     it appears that's only true when he isn't the one being 
     questioned.
       You remember Breitbart as Matt Drudge's junior partner, the 
     proprietor of BigGovernment.com, and, apparently, babysitter 
     for juvenile delinquents James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, the 
     conservative, hidden-camera-wielding duo that went undercover 
     to obtain footage of low-level ACORN staffers.
       They continued their media assault yesterday at the 
     National Press Club. With assists from Republican Congressmen 
     Steve King and Thad McCotter, Fox News and the aforementioned 
     Andrew Breitbart, O'Keefe and Giles unleashed their most 
     recent attack.
       Let's review their story:
       O'Keefe, dressed as a pimp, and Giles, disguised as a 
     prostitute, visited ACORN offices where they asked for 
     assistance purchasing a home. They claimed to have difficulty 
     documenting income derived from the streets. But they had so 
     much money! In fact, it wasn't just the two of them--they had 
     a whole crew of underage girls from El Salvador turning 
     tricks for them. Hell, they had so much money, they needed 
     help laundering it for the pimp's run for Congress.
       Now let's tell the truth.
       The truth is that O'Keefe never wore the pimp outfit into 
     an ACORN office. Instead, he posed as a candidate for 
     Congress that wanted to help a young woman caught in the 
     trappings of prostitution. Supposedly, he wanted to help her, 
     and her fellow prostitutes, escape the clutches of a brutal 
     pimp by finding a place for them to live.
       Look, the ACORN personnel aren't blameless. Some did and 
     said some pretty stupid things and deserved to be fired. But 
     the world in which they work is vastly different from the 
     world most readers of this blog post recognize. CNN, 
     Desperate Housewives, even The Wire aren't going to begin to 
     convey the social chaos that defines the neighborhoods ACORN 
     often serves.
       Breitbart and his crew would have you believe that the 
     ACORN staffers should have called the police when confronted 
     with a prostitute.
       I hope the staffers, at first, were celebrating. It's not 
     often you see a prostitute assert control over her life and 
     try to break free from a pimp. The idea that this one was 
     trying to take a whole crew of vulnerable underage women with 
     her must have been amazing!
       In the first video below, Breitbart asks me if I'm 
     disturbed by what I saw in the videos.
       If he had let me answer, I would have told him that I 
     perceive ACORN's mission to be helping the underserved. That 
     I don't understand how helping women out of sexual slavery is 
     something that deserves to be condemned. That what I'm 
     disturbed by is the behavior being demonstrated by those up 
     on the stage that would demonize people trying to make a real 
     difference in people's lives.
       In the end, I think I ruined their little press conference.
       Evidently, it hadn't occurred to them that they might face 
     serious scrutiny. Why, for example, does O'Keefe dress up in 
     the ridiculous pimp garb for the bumpers of the video when he 
     didn't wear that costume into the ACORN offices? Why is 
     Breitbart attaching his name and credibility to someone that 
     was kicked out of his Rutgers dorm for refusing to cease his 
     use of racial slurs? Exactly why would Breitbart expect an 
     ACORN staffer to call the police on a Congressional candidate 
     trying to rescue a young prostitute from her vicious pimp?
       Finally, in the second video, we learn all we need to know
       After hiding behind the lawsuit and using it as a shield to 
     deflect questions they did not want to answer, they refuse to 
     commit to releasing every full and unedited tape they have in 
     exchange for ACORN dropping all of its lawsuits.
       If they really wanted the truth out there, why do they need 
     to edit these tapes in the first place? Why aren't the 
     unedited videos already in the public domain?
       UPDATE: I've been questioned regarding my sourcing for the 
     claim that O'Keefe was kicked out of his Rutgers dorm for 
     frequently using racial slurs.
       After checking with my sources, neither of which were James 
     O'Keefe or any of his public comments, writings or other 
     communication regarding the matter, I do not feel compelled 
     to change anything about my post.
       You may believe I should have informed my readers that Mr. 
     O'Keefe denies the allegations, but frankly, as a matter of 
     my own personal judgment, Mr. O'Keefe is not credible. As 
     such, it would be irresponsible for me to report what I 
     consider to be O'Keefe's prevarications. in the business of 
     reporting

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     the truth as best as I know it. ``Balancing'' the truth with 
     lies is not a practice I subscribe to.
                                  ____


                     [From Nola.com, May 25, 2011]

      James O'Keefe Denied Permission to Travel Outside New Jersey

                       (By The Associated Press)

       A federal magistrate in New Orleans has refused to let 
     conservative activist James O'Keefe make several trips 
     outside New Jersey while he's on probation for a case in 
     which he was accused of trying to tamper with the phones in 
     Sen. Mary Landrieu's office.
       Last week, O'Keefe asked for permission from Magistrate 
     Daniel Knowles III to attend a conference in Washington, 
     travel to Charleston, S.C., and Baltimore for paid speeches 
     and make several personal trips to Maryland.
       Knowles, who denied that request Monday without 
     explanation, had approved several previous requests by 
     O'Keefe to travel outside New Jersey. O'Keefe's attorney, 
     Michael Madigan, said in court papers that prosecutors and 
     his client's probation officer didn't object to his latest 
     request.
       On Tuesday, Madigan said he hadn't seen Monday's order.
       ``All his prior travel had been approved,'' Madigan said. 
     ``Obviously, the young man needs to travel to make a 
     living.''
       O'Keefe and three others pleaded guilty last year to 
     misdemeanor charges of entering federal property under false 
     pretenses.
       The FBI has said O'Keefe used his cell phone to try to 
     capture video of two others who posed as telephone repairmen 
     and asked to see the phones at Landrieu's office. O'Keefe has 
     said the group was trying to investigate complaints that 
     constituents calling Landrieu's office couldn't get through 
     to criticize the Democrat's support of a health care reform 
     bill.
       O'Keefe is famous for wearing a pimp costume in a video 
     that embarrassed the community organizing group ACORN. 
     Knowles sentenced him last May to three years of probation, 
     100 hours of community service and a $1,500 fine.
                                  ____


                    [From Scoop.co.nz, June 2, 2011]

      Federal Judge Denies First Amendment in ACORN Worker Lawsuit

                           (By Brad Friedman)

       Rightwing activists and propagandists James O'Keefe and 
     Hannah Giles, employees of con-artist and propagandist Andrew 
     Breitbart, may not use the First Amendment as an excuse for 
     breaking the law in California, according to a federal 
     judge's ruling this week.
       Judge M. James Lorenz rejected the defendants' argument and 
     motion for summary judgment in federal court, as part of the 
     civil lawsuit filed against them by former San Diego ACORN 
     worker Juan Carlos Vera.
       Giles had previously thrown O'Keefe under a bus by arguing 
     that she should not be held accountable at all for violating 
     California's Invasion of Privacy Act [CA Penal Code 
     Sec. 632], since he, not she, was actually wearing the hidden 
     video camera used to secretly tape their conversations with 
     Vera, even after they had asked if their meeting would be 
     kept confidential.
       For his part, O'Keefe, a convicted federal criminal, argued 
     that he was allowed to violate the law because the U.S. 
     Constitution's First Amendment protected him as a 
     ``journalist''. The judge ruled against the defendants on all 
     points . . .
       According to Maria Dinzeo of Courthouse News Service:
       Juan Carlos Vera claimed James O'Keefe III and Hannah Giles 
     visited his office in August 2009, and conspired to create 
     video and audio tapes of him, even after asking him if their 
     conversation would be confidential.
       [Lorenz ruled] that the law ``is directed to the 
     surreptitious recording of confidential communications and 
     not the manner or method of recording the conversation.'' 
     Given the meaning of the word ``record,'' Lorenz found Giles 
     equally responsible.
       Lorenz also rejected O'Keefe's motion for judgment on the 
     pleadings, in which he argued that First Amendment 
     protections for journalists supersede the California Privacy 
     Act. Since there was a mutual understanding that the 
     conversation was confidential, Lorenz found that the privacy 
     law ``is not an overbroad intrusion on expose newsgathering 
     in which O'Keefe participates.''
       ``Expose newsgathering'' is not what O'Keefe traffics in, 
     as demonstrated again most recently by, ironically enough, 
     the ``news'' website of Fox ``News'' host Glenn Beck after a 
     similarly deceptive and secretly video taped smear of an NPR 
     employee by O'Keefe last March.
       But O'Keefe's long track record of deceptive video hit-jobs 
     was not at issue in this particular legal argument.
       In his ruling [PDF], Judge Lorenz highlighted specific 
     portions of the CA law which is violated by ``Every person 
     who, intentionally and without the consent of all parties to 
     a confidential communication, by means of any electronic 
     amplifying or recording device, eavesdrops upon or records 
     the confidential communication.''
       The ruling goes on to further cite the statute which reads 
     ``The term `confidential communication' includes any 
     communication carried on in circumstances as may reasonably 
     indicate that any party to the communication desires it to be 
     confined to the parties thereto.''
       ``California's law is quite clear,'' Lorenz wrote in 
     response to the First Amendment arguments by O'Keefe and 
     Giles, ``that persons who engage in news gathering are not 
     permitted to violate criminal laws in the process.''
       O'Keefe and Giles were sued by Vera last summer, after an 
     investigation by California's Attorney General found that the 
     pair had likely violated the CA Privacy Act by secretly 
     taping workers at ACORN. The duo were spared criminal charges 
     for violation of the same law after bargaining for immunity 
     in exchange for finally providing law enforcement with the 
     unedited videos of their secretly taped meetings with ACORN 
     employees.
       After examining the unedited video tapes, the CA AG echoed 
     all other independent investigations of the tapes published 
     by Breitbart, to determine that they had been ``severely 
     edited'' to present a false portrait of ACORN and of the 
     meetings with workers there.
       The AG found the CA ACORN workers ``committed no violation 
     of criminal law.'' Previously, a New York District Attorney 
     investigation also found ``no criminality'' in the ``highly 
     edited'' video tapes of ACORN workers there.
       Similarly findings were also offered by a former 
     Massachusetts attorney general and an investigation by the 
     Congressional Research Service.
       Vera, however, and other ACORN employees across the 
     country, were fired by the organization shortly after 
     Breitbart's publication of the falsely edited video tapes on 
     his Rightwing political websites.
       No employees of ACORN have been charged with any crimes in 
     relation to the O'Keefe/Giles/Breitbart hit-jobs carried out 
     during the summer of 2009 in which Breitbart and O'Keefe had 
     purported to the media that he had played a pimp during 
     meetings with ACORN to Giles, who was dressed as a prostitute 
     during those encounters. In fact, ACORN workers had been told 
     that O'Keefe, playing her conservatively dressed boyfriend, 
     was hoping to rescue Giles from an abusive pimp who had been 
     threatening her life and stealing her money. (One of the 
     videos was deceptively edited to make it appear that ACORN 
     workers had told Giles to bury her money in the backyard, so 
     the government couldn't get at it for tax purposes. In fact, 
     as the actual transcripts revealed, the worker was advising 
     her on how to keep the abusive pimp from stealing it from 
     her. Giles blatantly lied about that point on Fox ``News.'')
       Their hoax was successful, however, resulting in the loss 
     of federal funding for ACORN which led to a loss of private 
     donations, eventually forcing the four-decade-old community 
     organization to close its doors.
       ACORN had long been targeted by Rightwingers due largely to 
     their years-long success in legally registering millions of 
     legal low- and middle-income citizens to vote. Most such 
     voters tend to vote for Democrats.
       Despite persistent, yet evidence-free, claims by the Right 
     over many years that ACORN participated in ``voter fraud,'' 
     there is no known evidence of even a single fraudulent vote 
     ever having been cast in any election due to an improper 
     registration by any ACORN worker.
       The BRAD BLOG spent a fair portion of 2010 demonstrating to 
     the New York Times and other media outlets that they had 
     repeatedly misreported the story of the hoax carried out by 
     O'Keefe, Giles and Breitbart. In fact, O'Keefe neither 
     dressed as a ``pimp'' nor represented himself as one in the 
     secretly-taped meetings with ACORN workers, even as he 
     famously lied to the public and media about having done so.
       Following our numerous exposes, the NY Times was eventually 
     forced to issue corrections for some of their reporting after 
     their Public Editor admitted both he and the paper had been 
     ``wrong'' about O'Keefe's version of the story which they had 
     reported uncritically.
       In addition to the civil lawsuit O'Keefe and Giles are 
     facing in San Diego, O'Keefe's high-powered Republican 
     attorneys were able to obtain a plea deal for him in another 
     case, in which felony counts were lowered to misdemeanor 
     charges in exchange for his guilty plea.
       That case involved a scam similar to the one carried out 
     against ACORN. O'Keefe and his fellow conspirators were 
     caught secretly taping federal employees at the New Orleans 
     office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) after entering the 
     property under false pretenses and attempting to access her 
     phone system.
       For his part, admitted liar Breitbart is busy defending 
     himself against a lawsuit brought by former USDA official 
     Shirley Sherrod. She was fired after Breitbart published yet 
     another deceptively edited video, purporting to serve as 
     evidence that the African-American Sherrod was discriminating 
     against white farmers in her role as a federal worker.
       The unedited version of the tape demonstrated that Sherrod 
     had been doing the complete opposite of what Breitbart 
     attempted to illustrate her as doing.
       Though an apology was quickly issued to Sherrod by the 
     White House, they have never apologized for having defunded 
     ACORN under the fraudulent pretenses knowingly presented to 
     the public by O'Keefe, Giles and Breitbart.

  I yield back the balance of my time.


                     Amendment Offered by Ms. Eshoo

  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.

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  The CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to enter into a contract with a corporation or other 
     business entity that does not disclose its political 
     expenditures.

  Mr. CARTER. Mr. Chairman, I reserve a point of order on the 
gentlewoman's amendment.
  The CHAIR. The gentleman reserves a point of order.
  The gentlewoman from California is recognized for 5 minutes in 
support of her amendment.
  Ms. ESHOO. I thank the Chairman.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise today to speak about what I think is a very, 
very important undertaking. It deals with our democratic system and 
what works against it.
  My amendment would require that anyone that receives an 
appropriation, a contract, doing business with the Federal Government 
produce full disclosure relative to political expenditures.
  I raised this because I think there is a dark corner of our system 
that is not being addressed, and it is an issue that is as much about 
deficit reduction as it is about our democracy. We know that there are 
political expenditures that are made. Some are disclosed; some aren't. 
I think it's important to state that I think, I really believe, that 
this could have been a bipartisan agreement. It's important to remember 
that our Republican colleagues were for disclosure before they were 
against it.
  In 2000, Senator Mitch McConnell asked, ``Why would a little 
disclosure be better than a lot of disclosure?''
  In 2007, on Meet the Press, Speaker John Boehner said, we need ``full 
disclosure of all the money that we raise and how it's spent. And I 
think sunlight is the best disinfectant.''
  I agree with what the Speaker said in 2007, but since then our 
colleagues have changed their minds. Not a single Republican voted for 
the DISCLOSE Act. And when I offered an amendment similar to this one 
in February, it wasn't even allowed to be brought up for a vote. Since 
then, Republicans have gone on high alert at the news that the 
President is considering an Executive order to create the same kind of 
disclosure they used to favor.

                              {time}  1700

  I know that the National Chamber of Commerce has weighed in, and 
they've raised First Amendment. I'm really interested in this new 
effort and interest of the National Chamber of Commerce, and I hope 
they'll come to my office and talk to me about forming a coalition on 
First Amendment rights. This is not about that. This is not about that, 
and no one can say that with a straight face.
  My constituents are very smart; they can think for themselves. But 
even the smartest people can't make a decision without critical 
information, and today's broken system leaves millions of Americans in 
the dark. They don't know who's paying for what; they don't know who is 
being paid to say what because there is not disclosure at the Federal 
level.
  So this levels this out. It very simply says that we're on the side 
of taxpayers, that we are going to make sure that whether it's 
procurement or contracts or appropriations, that we want to be on the 
side of the taxpayer, on the side of the taxpayer having full 
disclosure so that they not only know who's doing business with the 
Federal Government, but where these tax dollars are going.
  There's a requirement at the SEC, Mr. Chairman, where boards of 
directors, who essentially are the congress of a corporation, must 
disclose their financial interests. Why? So that shareholders know. 
Well, guess who the shareholders are in the country? The taxpayers, the 
citizens. This is in many ways a backdoor earmark, and we need to get 
rid of it.
  So I hope that this will be made in order. And I also think that this 
is a very important effort for full disclosure at the Federal level, 
whoever does business with the Federal Government, that they disclose. 
It's a fair requirement, it's a simple requirement, and I think it's 
something we should all agree on: disclosure, disclosure, disclosure.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.


                             Point of Order

  Mr. CARTER. Mr. Chairman, I insist on my point of order.
  The CHAIR. The gentleman will state his point of order.
  Mr. CARTER. Mr. Chairman, I make a point of order against the 
amendment because it proposes to change existing law and constitutes 
legislation in an appropriation bill and therefore violates clause 2 of 
rule XXI.
  The rule states, in pertinent part: An amendment to a general 
appropriations bill shall not be in order if changing existing law and 
it requires a new determination.
  I ask for a ruling from the Chair.
  The CHAIR. Does any Member seek to speak on the point of order? If 
not, the Chair is prepared to rule.
  The Chair finds that this amendment includes language requiring a new 
determination of whether a corporation discloses certain contributions. 
The amendment, therefore, constitutes legislation in violation of 
clause 2 of rule XXI.
  The point of order is sustained and the amendment is not in order.
  Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The CHAIR. The gentleman from New Jersey is recognized for 5 minutes.
  (Mr. ANDREWS asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Chairman, I believe this bill would be improved by 
an amendment similar to that which Ms. Eshoo just offered, and here's 
why. Justice Brandeis said sunlight is the great antiseptic of 
democracy, and we have followed his teaching to a great extent in 
conducting our democracy.
  Mr. Chairman, you and I and every other Member on this floor must 
disclose every dollar we raise and every dollar we spend in the pursuit 
of our politics, so must the National Republican Campaign Committee, so 
must the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, so must people 
running for the United States Senate and for the Office of Presidency. 
And I think our democracy is strengthened by this.
  Now, we have a disagreement over whether there should be limitations 
on what people may spend. I, frankly, believe that limitations are 
appropriate, but I know that some of our colleagues who follow the 
libertarian principle believe that limitations on what someone may 
spend is a violation of someone's right of free speech. I respectfully 
disagree, but I understand it. There should be no disagreement, though, 
over a universal requirement to disclose who has spent what.
  If you're proud of what you say, then you ought to let people know 
who it was that said it. But instead we have, as my friend from 
California said, a dark corner of American politics where people who 
wish to manipulate the outcome of elections and influence legislation 
have a special privilege that Republicans and Democrats in this House 
do not have, that Members of the Senate do not have, that the 
Presidential candidates do not have. They can say what they want to say 
but not say who they are. They can hide behind corporate veils and 
within corporate shadows to fail to disclose who they are. Now, I find 
this to be puzzling.
  I think the Members of this House are proud of what we say. I think 
the Members of this House want the public to know whom we support and 
whom we oppose because we believe in what we say. Who are these people 
who want to spend hundreds of millions, maybe billions, of dollars to 
influence elections but are afraid the public will find out who they 
are? And why should they enjoy this special privilege?
  So I think we do need an amendment like that that Ms. Eshoo put 
forward that says that if you want the privilege of doing business with 
the United States Government, then one of the conditions is to 
participate in a healthy democracy that runs that United States 
Government. And that healthy democracy would include a requirement that 
people winning business with our government meet the same level of 
disclosure that every single one of us does.
  I'm proud of the things that my party and my friends say on the 
floor; and I'm, frankly, proud of what our adversaries say on the floor 
because they believe in good faith that what they say is right for the 
country. And they

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don't hide a thing--maybe the public thinks we should hide sometimes 
when we say the things we do, but we don't hide a thing. Why should 
there be a special class of Americans who have the prerogative of free 
speech, but not the obligation to identify themselves when they speak?
  This is an insipid, insidious threat to the free exchange of ideas. 
We should use every tool within our constitutional purview to stop this 
threat. I think Ms. Eshoo has a great idea, and I hope that under a 
truly open rule the day will come when we can consider her idea.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.


                       Announcement by the Chair

  The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings will now 
resume on those amendments on which further proceedings were postponed, 
in the following order:
  An amendment by Mr. Scalise of Louisiana.
  An amendment by Mr. King of Iowa.
  An amendment by Mr. Cravaack of Minnesota.
  Amendment No. 1 by Mr. Amash of Michigan.
  Amendment No. 2 by Mr. Amash of Michigan.
  Amendment No. 3 by Mr. Amash of Michigan.
  Amendment No. 1 by Mr. Rokita of Indiana.
  Amendment No. 2 by Mr. Rokita of Indiana.
  Amendment No. 42 by Mr. Cole of Oklahoma.
  An amendment by Mr. Gohmert of Texas.
  An amendment by Mr. Mica of Florida.
  Amendment No. 23 by Mr. Polis of Colorado.
  The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the time for any electronic vote 
after the first vote in this series.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Scalise

  The CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Scalise) 
on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes 
prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 207, 
noes 213, not voting 12, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 396]

                               AYES--207

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Amash
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (NH)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boren
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan
     Kelly
     King (IA)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Landry
     Latham
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Marchant
     Marino
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meehan
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paul
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pence
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Walberg
     Walden
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--213

     Ackerman
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bass (CA)
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Biggert
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boswell
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Emerson
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gonzalez
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Grimm
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hochul
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kissell
     Kucinich
     Lance
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     LaTourette
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McCotter
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKinley
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy (PA)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reichert
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stark
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walsh (IL)
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Whitfield
     Wilson (FL)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth
     Young (AK)

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Castor (FL)
     Chaffetz
     Frelinghuysen
     Giffords
     Johnson (GA)
     Lankford
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Manzullo
     Myrick
     Neal
     Rush
     Schwartz

                              {time}  1735

  Messrs. SIRES, CARNEY, ROSKAM, HOLT, FATTAH, TURNER and PETRI changed 
their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  (By unanimous consent, Mr. Bishop of Utah was allowed to speak out of 
order.)


                         Farewell to the Pages

  Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Fellow Members of the House, if you would turn 
your attention to the back rail there, you will see the pages who have 
served us for this past semester.
  Thank you. You are supposed to applaud after I speak.
  These are the kids who still get up in the middle of the night--at 
times which I thought was only a rumor--so they can go to an accredited 
high school in the Library of Congress and complete a full day of 
studies before they are here at 10 o'clock to serve us.
  They have learned the process of government by watching us, which is 
a scary thought, but in the process of doing that, they have gained a 
healthy respect for our system, and they have learned lessons that they 
will take with them and made friendships they will take with them 
through the rest of their lives, and they have served this body well.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Kildee).
  Mr. KILDEE. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Chairman, I would like to take this opportunity to express my 
personal gratitude to all of the pages for

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what they have done to serve this House of Representatives.
  These groups of young people who come from all across the Nation 
represent what is good about our country. To become a page, Mr. 
Chairman, these young people have proven themselves to be academically 
qualified. They have ventured away from the security of their homes and 
families to spend time in an unfamiliar city. Through this experience, 
they have witnessed a new culture, made new friends and learned the 
details of how our government operates.
  As we all know the job of congressional page is not an easy one. 
Along with being away from home, the pages must possess the maturity to 
balance competing demands for their time and their energy. In addition, 
they must have the dedication to work long hours and the ability to 
interact with people at a personal level. At the same time they face a 
challenging academic schedule of classes in the House page school.
  The pages have witnessed the House debate issues of war and peace, 
hunger and poverty, justice and civil rights. You have lived through 
history. You have seen Congress at moments of greatness, and you have 
seen Congress with its frailties. You have witnessed the workings of an 
institution that has endured well over 200 years.
  No one has seen Congress and Members of Congress as close up as have 
you, and I am sure that you will consider your time spent in 
Washington, D.C., to be one of the most valuable and exciting 
experiences of your lives. With this experience, you will all move 
ahead to lead successful and productive lives.
  I would like to thank the members of the House Page Board, who 
provide such a service to this body: Congressman Rob Bishop, not only a 
member of the board but a dear friend; Diana DeGette, also a very good 
friend; and my good friend on the other side of the aisle, Virginia 
Foxx.
  I don't think we have ever had a disagreement in the page board. We 
reach unanimity there.

                              {time}  1740

  I also thank the Clerk of the House, Karen Haas; the Sergeant at 
Arms, Bill Livingood; and Ms. Lynn Silversmith Klein. I want to thank 
them for their service on the House Page Board. And I thank all our 
departing pages.


                         spring 2011 page class

     Daniel Ryan Ackerman, MI
     Aram Ambartsumyan, WA
     Dina Asfaha, CA
     Thomas B. Ashe, MA
     Jihad Barnes, PA
     Ryan Andrew Beeson, NC
     Eliana Marie Bencosme, MA
     Annabelle Boyd, IL
     Erin Brewer, TX
     Michael S. Brinkley, GA
     Emily M. Bull, PA
     Ashley Burke, VA
     Edgar Byrum Davis Camacho, II, TX
     Olivia Campbell, CA
     Wesley Lanier Colston, GA
     D'ymond Shanty'l Dantzler, MD
     Stephen Delahunt, WI
     Timothy Desmarais, RI
     Anna Dietderich, WA
     William Powell Eddins, NC
     Jeremy-Clay Fauchier, CA
     Brad Fingeroot, MI
     Maria G. Garcia, CA
     Christopher W. Gardner, CA
     Kari Ellen Gibson, IL
     Therese Gildea, CT
     Julian Alexander Gilyard, NC
     Micah C. Goodman, NC
     Neshaun Grady, IN
     Lauren Harper, OH
     Branden Haynes, VA
     Sophia Hoog, SC
     P.K. Isacs, CT
     Aminata Jamina, MA
     Stella Joh, CA
     Alia Khan, IL
     Anna Mather, WA
     Giovana Meza, CA
     Thomas McKee, NC
     Andrew Robert Mumford, MI
     Alexander Murphy, NY
     Nicholas Jacob Ensign Murphy, NY
     Frances Diane Murray, WY
     Imani Nicole Phillips, CT
     Dante Michael Procopio, RI
     Brendan Coltrane Browner
     Pulsford, KY
     Natalie Queally, CA
     Kiwanda Robinson, MD
     Molly Rose, IL
     Shayna Saliman, CA
     Jack Sanders, IA
     Sarah Suchower, WA
     Shayna Talbott, FL
     Adriana Threlkeld, CA
     Daisy Torres, CA
     Julie Towbin, FL
     Amanda Trosen, MO
     Allie Vreeman, MN
     Ervis Vukaj, CT
     Kel Walters, TX
     Scott Weber, OH
     Avery Weisel, NC
     Conor Winters, NC
     Allison Zwierlein, CA
  Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Reclaiming my time, I would like to yield to the 
gentlewoman from North Carolina, who is also a member of the Page 
Board.
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Chairman, I simply want to add my congratulations to 
the pages and my great thanks to them for their service to us. They 
really do a tremendous amount to help this House work effectively. And 
I also want to say a thank you to the page coordinators, Ms. Keating 
and Ms. Sampson who are with them, who help facilitate their activities 
here. They also do a tremendous job and work long hours. And I'm very 
grateful to them.
  Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Mr. Chairman, once again, we thank the pages who 
will be having their graduation ceremony tomorrow and then leaving us. 
We wish you very well on your further endeavors. Thank you very much.


                 Amendment Offered by Mr. King of Iowa

  The CHAIR. Without objection, 2-minute voting will continue.
  There was no objection.
  The CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King) on which 
further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by 
voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 251, 
noes 168, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 12, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 397]

                               AYES--251

     Adams
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Bass (NH)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boren
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Capito
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Hochul
     Holden
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kelly
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kissell
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Lankford
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Marchant
     Marino
     Matheson
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paul
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peters
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--168

     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Bass (CA)
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boswell
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay

[[Page H3955]]


     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Courtney
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Engel
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gonzalez
     Gosar
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Loebsack
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stark
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1

       
     Amash
       

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Barton (TX)
     Chaffetz
     Ellison
     Eshoo
     Frelinghuysen
     Giffords
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Manzullo
     Myrick
     Neal
     Rush
     Schwartz

                              {time}  1747

  Mr. HIGGINS changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 397, had I been present, I 
would have voted ``no.''
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 397 I put my card in the 
slot, but didn't check whether my vote registered. It so happens that 
the vote was not recorded. Had I been present, I would have voted 
``no.''


                       Announcement by the Chair

  The CHAIR. The Chair wishes to remind Members this is a series of 2-
minute votes.


                   Amendment Offered by Mr. Cravaack

  The CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Cravaack) 
on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes 
prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 289, 
noes 131, not voting 12, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 398]

                               AYES--289

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Amash
     Austria
     Baca
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (NH)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Berkley
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Connolly (VA)
     Cooper
     Costello
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Critz
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     DeFazio
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Heinrich
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Hochul
     Holden
     Hoyer
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Israel
     Issa
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kissell
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Lankford
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Long
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Mack
     Marchant
     Marino
     Markey
     Matheson
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Paul
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Price (NC)
     Quayle
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Richardson
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (WI)
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Schiff
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Wu
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--131

     Ackerman
     Andrews
     Baldwin
     Bass (CA)
     Becerra
     Berman
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Conyers
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gonzalez
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Holt
     Honda
     Inslee
     Jackson (IL)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kildee
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lujan
     Maloney
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Moore
     Murphy (CT)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Olver
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Richmond
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Schakowsky
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Speier
     Stark
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Woolsey
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Canseco
     Chaffetz
     Frelinghuysen
     Giffords
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Manzullo
     Miller, George
     Myrick
     Neal
     Rush
     Schwartz
     Sutton


                       Announcement by the Chair

  The CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in this 
vote.

                              {time}  1750

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                     Amendment Offered by Mr. Amash

  The CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote 
on amendment No. 1 offered by the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Amash) 
on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes 
prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 127, 
noes 295, not voting 10, as follows:

[[Page H3956]]

                             [Roll No. 399]

                               AYES--127

     Adams
     Amash
     Baldwin
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Benishek
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Broun (GA)
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cardoza
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chu
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     DesJarlais
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Farenthold
     Filner
     Fincher
     Flake
     Fleming
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Graves (GA)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grijalva
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hall
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Heck
     Herrera Beutler
     Holt
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Johnson (IL)
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kucinich
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Landry
     Lankford
     Lee (CA)
     Mack
     Marchant
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McGovern
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Mulvaney
     Nunnelee
     Pallone
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paul
     Payne
     Pearce
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Poe (TX)
     Polis
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Reichert
     Ribble
     Rigell
     Roe (TN)
     Rooney
     Roskam
     Roybal-Allard
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schmidt
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Speier
     Stearns
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Tipton
     Tonko
     Turner
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     Wilson (SC)
     Wu
     Young (AK)

                               NOES--295

     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Austria
     Baca
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barrow
     Bass (CA)
     Bass (NH)
     Becerra
     Berg
     Berkley
     Berman
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blackburn
     Blumenauer
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boustany
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Braley (IA)
     Brooks
     Brown (FL)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burton (IN)
     Butterfield
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Carter
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Conaway
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Denham
     Dent
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flores
     Foxx
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (AZ)
     Fudge
     Gallegly
     Garamendi
     Gerlach
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gonzalez
     Granger
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffin (AR)
     Grimm
     Hanabusa
     Hanna
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heinrich
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hochul
     Holden
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Jenkins
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly
     Kildee
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kissell
     Kline
     Lance
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Long
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Marino
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McCotter
     McDermott
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKinley
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy (PA)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Olver
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Pascrell
     Paulsen
     Pelosi
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pitts
     Platts
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Renacci
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rivera
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross (AR)
     Ross (FL)
     Rothman (NJ)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schilling
     Schock
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Southerland
     Stark
     Stivers
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (FL)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Woolsey
     Yarmuth
     Yoder
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Chaffetz
     Frelinghuysen
     Giffords
     Hirono
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Manzullo
     Myrick
     Neal
     Rush
     Schwartz


                       Announcement by the Chair

  The CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in the vote.

                              {time}  1753

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                     Amendment Offered by Mr. Amash

  The CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote 
on amendment No. 2 offered by the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Amash) 
on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes 
prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 123, 
noes 300, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 400]

                               AYES--123

     Amash
     Baldwin
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Benishek
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cardoza
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Clarke (MI)
     Crenshaw
     DesJarlais
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Farenthold
     Filner
     Flake
     Fleming
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Garrett
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gowdy
     Graves (GA)
     Griffith (VA)
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Heck
     Heinrich
     Herrera Beutler
     Holt
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kucinich
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Landry
     Lankford
     LaTourette
     Lee (CA)
     Lipinski
     Marchant
     McClintock
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (CT)
     Pallone
     Paul
     Pearce
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Polis
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Reichert
     Ribble
     Rigell
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rooney
     Roskam
     Roybal-Allard
     Ryan (WI)
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Scalise
     Schmidt
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Sensenbrenner
     Slaughter
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Southerland
     Stark
     Stearns
     Terry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     Wilson (SC)
     Wu
     Yarmuth
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NOES--300

     Ackerman
     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Austria
     Baca
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barrow
     Bass (CA)
     Bass (NH)
     Becerra
     Berg
     Berkley
     Berman
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blackburn
     Blumenauer
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boustany
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Braley (IA)
     Brooks
     Brown (FL)
     Bucshon
     Burton (IN)
     Butterfield
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Carter
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cohen
     Cole
     Conaway
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Denham
     Dent
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flores
     Foxx
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (AZ)
     Fudge
     Gallegly
     Garamendi
     Gardner
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gonzalez
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffin (AR)
     Grijalva
     Grimm
     Hall
     Hanabusa
     Hanna
     Harper
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hochul
     Holden
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Jenkins
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly
     Kildee
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kissell
     Kline
     Lance
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     Latta
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Long
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch

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     Mack
     Maloney
     Marino
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCaul
     McCollum
     McCotter
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKinley
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (PA)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Olver
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paulsen
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pitts
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Renacci
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rivera
     Roby
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross (AR)
     Ross (FL)
     Rothman (NJ)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schilling
     Schock
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tierney
     Towns
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (FL)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Woolsey
     Yoder
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Chaffetz
     Frelinghuysen
     Giffords
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Manzullo
     Myrick
     Neal
     Rush
     Schwartz


                       Announcement by the Chair

  The CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in the vote.

                              {time}  1757

  Mr. HIGGINS and Ms. HOCHUL changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                     Amendment Offered by Mr. Amash

  The CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote 
on amendment No. 3 offered by the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Amash) 
on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes 
prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 257, 
noes 164, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 401]

                               AYES--257

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Amash
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (NH)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boren
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Capito
     Cardoza
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Costello
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Gene
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Himes
     Holden
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kelly
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kissell
     Kline
     Kucinich
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Lankford
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Mack
     Marchant
     Marino
     Matheson
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meehan
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paul
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Southerland
     Speier
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Walz (MN)
     Waters
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--164

     Ackerman
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Bass (CA)
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boswell
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Calvert
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gonzalez
     Green, Al
     Grijalva
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Higgins
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hochul
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Loebsack
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Stark
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Bishop (UT)
     Chaffetz
     Frelinghuysen
     Giffords
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Manzullo
     Myrick
     Neal
     Rush
     Schilling
     Schwartz


                       Announcement by the Chair

  The CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in this 
vote.

                              {time}  1800

  Mr. LYNCH changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Rokita

  The CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote 
on amendment No. 1 offered by the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Rokita) 
on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes 
prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 110, 
noes 312, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 402]

                               AYES--110

     Amash
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Benishek
     Bishop (UT)
     Bono Mack
     Brady (TX)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Butterfield
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Chabot
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Conaway
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Farenthold
     Flake
     Flores
     Foxx
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Graves (GA)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Hall

[[Page H3958]]


     Harris
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Inslee
     Issa
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan
     Kingston
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Landry
     Lankford
     Latta
     Lummis
     Marchant
     McCarthy (CA)
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Neugebauer
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Paul
     Pearce
     Pence
     Petri
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rigell
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Roskam
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schmidt
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shuster
     Smith (NE)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thornberry
     Tipton
     Walberg
     Walsh (IL)
     Westmoreland
     Wilson (SC)
     Yoder
     Young (AK)

                               NOES--312

     Ackerman
     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Austria
     Baca
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Baldwin
     Barletta
     Barrow
     Bass (CA)
     Bass (NH)
     Becerra
     Berg
     Berkley
     Berman
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blumenauer
     Bonner
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boustany
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (AZ)
     Fudge
     Gallegly
     Garamendi
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gonzalez
     Granger
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Hanna
     Harper
     Hartzler
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Heinrich
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hochul
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Hultgren
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jenkins
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly
     Kildee
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kissell
     Kline
     Kucinich
     Lance
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Long
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Mack
     Maloney
     Marino
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCaul
     McCollum
     McCotter
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKinley
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy (PA)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Noem
     Olson
     Olver
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paulsen
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Platts
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross (AR)
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schilling
     Schock
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stark
     Stivers
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Webster
     Weiner
     Welch
     West
     Whitfield
     Wilson (FL)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Chaffetz
     Frelinghuysen
     Giffords
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Manzullo
     Myrick
     Neal
     Rush
     Schwartz


                       Announcement by the Chair

  The CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in this 
vote.

                              {time}  1803

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Rokita

  The CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote 
on amendment No. 2 offered by the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Rokita) 
on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes 
prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 218, 
noes 205, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 403]

                               AYES--218

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Amash
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (NH)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Dold
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan
     Kelly
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Lankford
     Latham
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Marchant
     Marino
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meehan
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paul
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pence
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Rehberg
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Roskam
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--205

     Ackerman
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Barletta
     Barrow
     Bass (CA)
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Emerson
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Fitzpatrick
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gibson
     Gonzalez
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Grimm
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hochul
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     Kissell
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     LaTourette
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKinley

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     McNerney
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy (PA)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Reichert
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross (AR)
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stark
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Chaffetz
     Frelinghuysen
     Giffords
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Manzullo
     Myrick
     Neal
     Rush
     Schwartz


                       Announcement by the Chair

  The CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in this 
vote.

                              {time}  1806

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                  Amendment No. 42 Offered by Mr. Cole

  The CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Cole) on 
which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes 
prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 252, 
noes 170, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 404]

                               AYES--252

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Amash
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (NH)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boren
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Cooper
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Critz
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     DeFazio
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Gene
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Hochul
     Holden
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan
     Kelly
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Lankford
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Marchant
     Marino
     Matheson
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meehan
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paul
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pence
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Rahall
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Speier
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--170

     Ackerman
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Bass (CA)
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boswell
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gonzalez
     Green, Al
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     Kissell
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Olver
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Stark
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Burgess
     Chaffetz
     Frelinghuysen
     Giffords
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Manzullo
     Myrick
     Neal
     Rush
     Schwartz


                       Announcement by the Chair

  The CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in this 
vote.

                              {time}  1810

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Mr. SHIMKUS. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 404 I inadvertently voted 
``no'' when I intended to vote ``yes.''


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Gohmert

  The CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gohmert) on 
which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes 
prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 199, 
noes 224, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 405]

                               AYES--199

     Adams
     Akin
     Alexander
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     DesJarlais
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Gene
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grijalva
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Herger

[[Page H3960]]


     Herrera Beutler
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kelly
     King (IA)
     Kingston
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Landry
     Lankford
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Mack
     Marchant
     Marino
     Matheson
     McCarthy (CA)
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McMorris Rodgers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paul
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pence
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Womack
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--224

     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Altmire
     Amash
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bass (CA)
     Bass (NH)
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brooks
     Brown (FL)
     Bucshon
     Butterfield
     Calvert
     Cantor
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Denham
     Dent
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Emerson
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gonzalez
     Gowdy
     Green, Al
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Hensarling
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hochul
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kissell
     Kucinich
     Lance
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCaul
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (CT)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Nugent
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rigell
     Ross (AR)
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shuler
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stark
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Woodall
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Chaffetz
     Frelinghuysen
     Giffords
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Manzullo
     Myrick
     Neal
     Rush
     Schwartz


                       Announcement by the Chair

  The CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in this 
vote.

                              {time}  1813

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                     Amendment Offered by Mr. Mica

  The CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Mica) on 
which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes 
prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 219, 
noes 204, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 406]

                               AYES--219

     Adams
     Akin
     Alexander
     Amash
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (NH)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Conaway
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Denham
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kelly
     King (IA)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Lankford
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Mack
     Marchant
     Marino
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paul
     Pearce
     Pence
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Roskam
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stark
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--204

     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bass (CA)
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bilbray
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Dent
     Deutch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gonzalez
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hochul
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kissell
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Lujan
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy (PA)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paulsen
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reichert
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rogers (AL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross (AR)
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano

[[Page H3961]]


     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Chaffetz
     Frelinghuysen
     Giffords
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Manzullo
     Myrick
     Neal
     Rush
     Schwartz


                       Announcement by the Chair

  The CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in this 
vote.

                              {time}  1817

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                 Amendment No. 23 Offered by Mr. Polis

  The CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote 
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Polis) on 
which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes 
prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 107, 
noes 313, not voting 12, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 407]

                               AYES--107

     Ackerman
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Bass (CA)
     Becerra
     Blumenauer
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Carnahan
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Cohen
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Gonzalez
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Jackson (IL)
     Johnson (GA)
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Slaughter
     Speier
     Stark
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Wilson (FL)
     Woolsey

                               NOES--313

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Amash
     Andrews
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (NH)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Berkley
     Berman
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boustany
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carney
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Clarke (MI)
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Critz
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     DeFazio
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (AZ)
     Fudge
     Gallegly
     Garamendi
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Hochul
     Holden
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Inslee
     Israel
     Issa
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly
     Kildee
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kissell
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Lankford
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Mack
     Marchant
     Marino
     Matheson
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Pascrell
     Paul
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peters
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Rahall
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Ross (FL)
     Rothman (NJ)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schiff
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Sutton
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Visclosky
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     Welch
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Wu
     Yarmuth
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Camp
     Canseco
     Chaffetz
     Frelinghuysen
     Giffords
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Manzullo
     Myrick
     Neal
     Rush
     Schwartz
     Smith (NJ)


                       Announcement by the Chair

  The CHAIR (during the vote). One minute remains in this vote.

                              {time}  1821

  Ms. TSONGAS changed her vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The CHAIR. The Clerk will read.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       This Act may be cited as the ``Department of Homeland 
     Security Appropriations Act, 2012''.

  Mr. ADERHOLT. Mr. Chairman, I move that the Committee do now rise and 
report the bill back to the House with sundry amendments, with the 
recommendation that the amendments be agreed to and that the bill, as 
amended, do pass.
  The motion was agreed to.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
Gingrey of Georgia) having assumed the chair, Mr. Dreier, Chair of the 
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, reported that 
that Committee, having had under consideration the bill (H.R. 2017) 
making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2012, and for other purposes, reported 
the bill back to the House with sundry amendments adopted in the 
Committee of the Whole, with the recommendation that the amendments be 
agreed to and that the bill, as amended, do pass.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under House Resolution 287, the previous 
question is ordered.
  Is a separate vote demanded on any amendment reported from the 
Committee of the Whole? If not, the Chair will put them en gros.
  The amendments were agreed to.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. 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

  Mr. BISHOP of New York. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at 
the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentleman opposed to the bill?
  Mr. BISHOP of New York. In its current form, I am.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. BISHOP of New York moves to recommit the bill H.R. 2017 
     to the Committee on Appropriations with instructions to 
     report the same back to the House forthwith with the 
     following amendment:

[[Page H3962]]

       Page 45, line 18, after the dollar amount insert 
     ``(increased by $75,000,000)''.
       Page 64, lines 2 and 4, after each of the dollar amounts 
     insert ``(reduced by $75,000,000)''.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes in 
support of his motion.
  Mr. BISHOP of New York. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this final 
amendment, the Bishop-Holt motion to recommit, in order to increase 
funding for grants for transportation security and counterterrorism.
  Intelligence seized from Osama bin Laden's compound indicates that al 
Qaeda was targeting America's railroads on the 10th anniversary of the
9/11 attacks. Earlier, in 2009, the FBI disrupted a plot to blow up 
trains in New York City and in Washington, D.C.
  The 9/11 Commission placed some of the blame for the intelligence 
breakdown before the 9/11 attacks on a failure of imagination; but 
today, we don't have to imagine the damage a terrorist could do on a 
rush-hour commuter train. That is evident from the tragedies in Madrid, 
London, and Mumbai. An even more deadly attack could occur on a train 
carrying hazardous chemicals through a major city, including trains 
that pass regularly only a stone's throw from the U.S. Capitol.
  While airline security upgrades over the past 10 years can help 
prevent another 9/11, we still face an evolving threat to multiple 
modes of transportation. In fact, trips by rail exceed air travel by 18 
times. Yet air travel receives over 200 times more Federal security 
funding per passenger than rail.
  Still, the bill before us today makes deep cuts to rail security. It 
provides no specific funding for transit, rail, or bus security grants 
in 2012. Instead, it rolls nine grant programs together to compete for 
funding that has already been cut 55 percent. That's not a failure of 
imagination; that's a dereliction of duty.
  In response, the Bishop-Holt amendment would increase funding for 
grants for transportation security and counterterrorism by $75 million, 
fully offset with a reduction in funding for the National Bio and Agro-
defense facility, otherwise known as NBAF.
  While DHS insists that a new billion-dollar animal disease research 
lab in the heart both of cattle country and tornado alley is completely 
safe, both the GAO and the National Academy of Sciences have found many 
faults in safety and in cost overruns. In fact, most of us agree with 
the National Academy of Sciences that the risk of a release of foot-
and-mouth disease in America's heartland must be better addressed 
before DHS proceeds with construction. We have much higher homeland 
security priorities than beginning a new billion-dollar facility that 
will replicate many of the existing functions already conducted at our 
Federal labs.
  Fourteen million Americans ride mass transit every day in our 
Nation's urban areas, with millions more riding commuter or passenger 
rail each year. If we understand the clear threat to these passengers 
and accepted efforts to protect them are underfunded, we must do more 
to keep them safe.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to make the right choice and 
support this final amendment to increase funding for grants for 
transportation security and terrorism.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Holt).
  Mr. HOLT. Mr. Speaker, this proposed amendment has a simple purpose: 
to prevent the reckless cuts to passenger rail security.
  Mr. Speaker, you probably read that at the time the al Qaeda leader 
bin Laden was killed he was planning attacks on U.S. passenger rail 
systems. Even as we debate this bill, our intelligence and law 
enforcement communities are running to ground leads about these and 
other potential terrorist plots. This discovery underscores the need to 
sustain, not to cut, transit security funding.
  Following the terrible events of 2001, our Nation took unprecedented 
steps to secure our Nation's airlines--appropriately so. However, 
transit security grant programs remain badly underfunded. We need these 
funds to field canine teams, install surveillance cameras and security 
fencing, provide the resources for incident response training, and a 
host of other mission-critical activities that are required to help 
secure our trains and buses.
  Transit provides 18 times as many passenger trips as aviation, but 
receives 12 times less security funding. In other words, aviation 
security receives 215 times as much Federal funding per passenger as 
land transit. We have to do much, much better because the threat is 
real. In 2004, terrorist cells conducted successful and deadly bombings 
in Spain; the next year in the U.K.; in India; in Belarus, hundreds of 
people killed, thousands of people wounded. Let's not put off the 
necessary rail security steps until after the tragedy here. Let's 
thwart bin Laden's plans.
  I urge support for this amendment.
  Mr. BISHOP of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. ADERHOLT. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the gentleman's 
motion.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Alabama is recognized for 
5 minutes.
  Mr. ADERHOLT. Mr. Speaker, this bill is about priorities, fiscal 
discipline priorities as our Nation grapples with a genuine budget 
crisis, and security priorities in the aftermath of Osama bin Laden's 
death and as we approach the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
  This bill includes robust spending reductions on bureaucracy and on 
programs that are not producing, cutting waste, reducing spending, and 
instilling genuine budget discipline.

                              {time}  1830

  Mr. ADERHOLT. In addition, this bill puts money where it matters: 
frontline operations, intelligence, counterterrorism, and disaster 
relief.
  Mr. Speaker, the gentleman's motion is simply a political ploy at the 
end of an open process on a bill that delivers the Nation's spending 
restraints and robust security that our Nation needs.
  And furthermore, under Speaker Boehner's leadership, as executed by 
Chairman Dreier and Chairman Rogers, we have just completed 2 days of 
floor debate under a completely open rule. It is the most open possible 
debate before the people's House.
  We have repeatedly addressed the issues that the gentleman is raising 
with this motion and thoroughly debated the merits of this shortcoming 
of his points.
  In short, it is time to vote, Mr. Speaker. It's time to deliver 
fiscal discipline, and it's time to deliver robust security. The 
American people are demanding no less.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  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.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. BISHOP of New York. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was 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--ayes 187, 
noes 234, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 408]

                               AYES--187

     Ackerman
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bass (CA)
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gonzalez
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hochul
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kissell
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matheson

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     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Olver
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Ross (AR)
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shuler
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stark
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth

                               NOES--234

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Amash
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (NH)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kelly
     King (IA)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Lankford
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Marchant
     Marino
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meehan
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Paul
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Becerra
     Chaffetz
     Frelinghuysen
     Giffords
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Manzullo
     Myrick
     Neal
     Pence
     Rush
     Schwartz


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

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

                              {time}  1853

  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.
  Under clause 10 of rule XX, the yeas and nays are ordered.
  This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 231, 
nays 188, not voting 13, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 409]

                               YEAS--231

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barrow
     Bass (NH)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Berkley
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boren
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brooks
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Critz
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Holden
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Inslee
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan
     Kelly
     King (IA)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Lankford
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Marchant
     Marino
     Matheson
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meehan
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sessions
     Sewell
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                               NAYS--188

     Ackerman
     Amash
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (CA)
     Berman
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boswell
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Broun (GA)
     Brown (FL)
     Burgess
     Butterfield
     Campbell
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Flake
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Grimm
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Harris
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hochul
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kissell
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (CT)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Olver
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paul
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sherman
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Speier
     Stark
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walsh (IL)
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Becerra
     Chaffetz
     Conyers
     Frelinghuysen
     Giffords
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Manzullo
     Markey
     Myrick
     Neal
     Pence
     Rush
     Schwartz


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

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

[[Page H3964]]

                              {time}  1859

  So the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

                          ____________________