[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 87 (Thursday, June 16, 2011)]
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[Pages H4283-H4314]
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AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND
RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2012
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 300 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. 2112.
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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. 2112) making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012, and for other
purposes, with Mrs. Miller of Michigan 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 the amendment offered by the gentlewoman
from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono) had been postponed, and the bill had been read
through page 80, line 2.
Amendment No. 38 Offered by Mr. Holden
Mr. HOLDEN. Madam Chair, 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 new section:
Sec. __. Each amount made available by this Act (other
than an amount required to be made available by a provision
of law) is hereby reduced by 5.88 percent and may not be used
to carry out the limitations contained in paragraphs (1)
through (8) of section 728.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. HOLDEN. Madam Chair, what my amendment will do is restore the $1
billion in cuts to mandatory conservation programs in the underlying
bill. Almost half of the total cuts in this piece of legislation come
from mandatory conservation programs. That's the largest cut in
history.
Madam Chair, specifically in this bill there are $210 million in cuts
in the Conservation Steward Program; $350 million in cuts in the
Environmental Quality Incentives Program; $50 million in cuts in
Farmland Protection Program; 96,000 acres reduced in the Grassland
Reserve Program; 64,200 acres reduced in the Wetland Reserve Program;
and $35 million of reductions in Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program.
Madam Chair, to make this budget-neutral as it is scored by the CBO,
it is paid for with a 5.88 percent across-the-board cut in
discretionary spending in the bill, including the $102 million already
reduced in discretionary conservation programs in the bill.
Madam Chair, this is shared sacrifice as opposed to not shared
sacrifice in the overwhelming, significant reduction of $1 billion in
mandatory discretionary programs.
Madam Chair, in the farm bill we worked very hard in a bipartisan
manner to get the investment in conservation that our producers need
all across the country, and they need it now more than ever as they are
under significant danger and peril from regulatory agencies,
particularly the EPA. They need these conservation programs so they can
stay in compliance and they can do the job that they do so well in
producing our agriculture all across the country.
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This is a bipartisan bill. I am honored to be the ranking member on
the Conservation Subcommittee and to be joined by the chairman of the
subcommittee, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Thompson). And I
urge adoption of the amendment.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last
word.
The CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Madam Chair, as chairman of the House
Agriculture Committee's Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and
Forestry, I rise in strong support of this amendment offered by my
friend from Pennsylvania and ranking member on the subcommittee, Mr.
Holden.
This amendment will restore limited mandatory funding for the
conservation programs as defined under the current farm bill. I believe
it's important to note that this amendment does not have any additional
cost. We're still within the frame of the Appropriations Committee's
allocation for the bill.
This amendment simply preserves critical conservation programs which
remain important for many farms, ranches, and agricultural lands across
the Nation in order to protect environmentally sensitive areas. The
programs offer voluntary incentives for farmers and ranchers to enroll
land into conservation areas. In my district, these programs are vital
for water quality improvement on our local farms and throughout the
region. And it's the same for many other States. In my area of
Pennsylvania, this is vital to be able to deal with the mandates levied
upon us by agencies such as the EPA. The programs are cost-effective
and provide excellent returns on investment while utilizing local,
State, and private funding so that everyone involved has skin in the
game.
The amendment, again, does not increase the bill's cost by even one
penny because it's fully offset by reducing the bill's discretionary
funding by 5.88 percent. I commend the Appropriations subcommittee
chair for his efforts to produce an overall bill that is fiscally
responsible and reduces funding in total by 13 percent in comparison to
previous fiscal years.
And as the chairman of the subcommittee with jurisdiction over these
programs, I can say very frankly to my good friend from Georgia, I look
forward to the next farm bill where the
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authorizing committee can further explore making these programs even
more efficient and even more cost-effective, more so than they already
are.
However, changes to programs, as defined under the current farm bill,
especially when it comes to the mandatory spending in this amendment, I
believe should be handled by the Agriculture Committee, not the
appropriations process. I fully support this amendment and request my
colleagues to do the same.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. KINGSTON. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Georgia is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. KINGSTON. Madam Chair, I want to, first of all, thank my good
friend from Pennsylvania for talking to me about this amendment.
Earlier this week, I expressed my concerns at that time, which I still
have with it, and want to make a number of points.
Number one, we're not 100 percent sure what this scores out in terms
of budget authority. So there is that question over it. Number two, I
want to say that while conservation funding is down, farmers still have
access to $5.8 billion in conservation funding. And that's for private
landowners. Actually, it's $5.868 billion, to be exact.
I also want to make sure that my friends know that even though there
are CHIMPs in this, changes in mandatory programs, that no conservation
contracts will have to be canceled because of these limitations. The
Federal Government cannot and does not break farm commodity or
conservation contracts without significant consequences. We are aware
of that. So we have made sure that none of the conservation contracts
would be abrogated.
And then finally I want to say to my friend the ranking member, just
to underscore some of the sensitivities that we've been through in the
last couple of days, that this actually does cut the WIC program, cuts
the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, and it cuts the Conservation
Reserve Program and a lot of the other programs which there has been so
much passion about on this floor in the last couple of days.
So with that, I do oppose the amendment, and I urge everyone to vote
``no'' on it.
Mr. FARR. I move to strike the last word.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. FARR. Madam Chair, I rise with great concern for this amendment.
It wants to reduce about 5.8 percent across the board. Our problem is
that we have dealt a really bad deal. The bill that we brought to the
floor--and we cut some last night across the board--is $5 billion, or
23 percent below what the President requested. The President put
together all of the asks, and as you know, OMB scrubs those things. And
we're always very critical of the President's requests, sometimes
because they're so low. Nonetheless, this is 23 percent below what the
President requested. It's 14 percent below what we enacted last year.
We in the committee last year, under Rosa DeLauro, when we were in
the majority, we didn't have the impact on farm programs, particularly
the environmental programs, that the cuts do this year. It's below the
2010-enacted level, and it's actually below the 2008-enacted level.
You know, people use these terms very loosely, ``below a level.'' But
think of it in your own personal income. Think about what the costs of
life were for you in 2008 versus now. And I would submit that almost in
every case, your water bill, your cable bill, your garbage bill, your
utility bill, certainly the price of gasoline now, is a lot higher than
it was in 2008. Nonetheless, you've got the same amount of money. So
it's going to have a draconian impact, this amendment and the
underlying bill, on the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug
Administration.
So I'm concerned. I think the gentleman is well intended to protect
the programs that I care a great deal about. But I think the 5.8
percent across-the-board cut on top of what we've already cut is just
too much.
I yield back the balance of my time.
The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman
from Pennsylvania (Mr. Holden).
The question was taken; and the Chair announced that the noes
appeared to have it.
Mr. HOLDEN. Madam Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on
the amendment offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania will be
postponed.
Amendment Offered by Mr. Campbell
Mr. CAMPBELL. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
The CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
The Clerk read as follows:
At the end of the bill (before any short title), insert the
following new section:
The amount otherwise provided by this Act for
``Agricultural Programs, Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service, Salaries and Expenses'' is hereby reduced by
$11,000,000.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. CAMPBELL. Madam Chair, this amendment really ought to be a no-
brainer. It cuts $11 million from the USDA Wildlife Services' livestock
protection program. Let me give you four reasons why this should be a
no-brainer.
First of all, it saves $11 million. Not the end of the world, but
it's a start. We all know we have to save a lot of money. We all know
we have to spend less money, and this is a start for doing it. Now why
does it do that? Why do we cut $11 million from this? This program is
taxpayer money used to kill potential predators that supposedly are
threatening livestock. But this killing of predators is very
indiscriminate. We're killing all kinds of wildlife out there, both
predators and nonpredators, both threatening and nonthreatening. Third,
less than 1 percent of livestock in America is killed by predators
every year. So we're spending this money for a tiny, tiny portion of
the livestock that is out there. And fourth--and this is almost the
biggest reason--why are taxpayers paying this? Why is this a taxpayer
responsibility? If ranchers want to protect their livestock, why don't
they do it? Why don't they pay for it?
Madam Chair, there are so many ways to protect these livestock--with
pens and with fencing, with lighting, with all kinds of things--without
indiscriminately killing wildlife and without using taxpayer money to
do it. Madam Chair, this is $11 million we can save, should save, and
will save if this amendment is approved.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mrs. LUMMIS. Madam Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
The CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Wyoming is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mrs. LUMMIS. Madam Chairman, the gentleman from California would be
correct, that ranchers and farmers should be able to pay to deal with
the predator situation. The problem is, they're not allowed to.
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The Federal Government doesn't allow people to kill predators that
are attacking their livestock. So consequently, here's another
situation just like we discussed yesterday, where the government puts
restrictions on ranchers and farmers so they cannot protect their own
livestock. So the taxpayers--because of their demands that ranchers and
farmers not protect their own livestock, the Federal Government steps
in.
In addition, though, wildlife strikes on airplanes cost U.S.
commercial aviation $700 million a year. One part of Wildlife Services
is when USDA works with 822 domestic airports, as well as Department of
Defense air bases in the U.S. and in Iraq and in Afghanistan. So part
of this is to assist with efforts to prevent conflict between wildlife
and commercial aviation flights, some of which can be quite devastating
and deadly.
Furthermore, there's been an $18 million loss of sheep and lands to
predators, or $111 million when you add cattle and calf losses. Absent
predator management, losses would explode, and that would drive family
farms and ranchers out of business.
This is a very balanced program in terms of the approach it takes to
shared responsibility between airport managers and Wildlife Services,
ranchers and farmers and Wildlife Services. It requires a tremendous
cost share or matching program at greater than 40 percent. The Wildlife
Services Division
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has more than 2,500 cooperative agreements in place across the United
States.
Madam Chairman, I yield to the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr.
Peterson), former chairman of the Ag Committee.
Mr. PETERSON. The gentlewoman is exactly right. We would be happy to
control the predators. The problem is they won't let us. And right now
we're going through a delisting process in Minnesota on wolves. We just
had a meeting a couple of nights ago, a big meeting up north. And part
of the problem is, because of the budget situation and the pressure on
that part of the budget, they don't even have the resources at this
point, given the existing money, to be able to come in and help us
control the wolves.
And they are going through a process where they're turning over the
management to the local State DNR, and they're not allowing the farmers
to go out there and control the predators, and they're eating their
calves and their sheep. And there's even a program in Minnesota where
they pay them because we can't control it. And we would be happy to,
you know, we have been trying to get, we're happy they are finally
being delisted. But the farmers would take care of this. But in this
agreement it says that we can't do anything for 5 years. We can't hunt
these wolves for 5 years.
We also have a problem in Minnesota and other States with cormorants.
And we entered into an agreement with Mexico that we wouldn't shoot any
black birds since 1973 under the Migratory Bird Act, and so we can't
control cormorants. And Wildlife Services is the only way we can deal
with that. And we've been making some progress on it. But prior to this
treaty, we controlled these cormorants on these lakes by the local guys
going out and hunting them.
So we would be happy, if we get the Federal Government to get out of
this, to deal with it. We wouldn't need any money from the government.
This is a problem caused by us, and that's why we need this money. And
the last thing we need to do is reduce it. So I oppose this amendment.
Mrs. LUMMIS. Madam Chairman, I now yield to the gentleman from
Oklahoma (Mr. Lucas), the chairman of the Ag Committee.
Mr. LUCAS. I thank the gentlelady for yielding.
I too rise in opposition to this amendment. Let's face it. The
Wildlife Services plays a critical role in protecting humans from
dangers caused by wildlife. The Wildlife Services uses biologically
sound and socially----
The CHAIR. The time of the gentlewoman from Wyoming has expired.
Mr. LUCAS. I move to strike the last word.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Oklahoma is recognized.
Mr. DeFAZIO. Madam Chair, aren't you supposed to alternate sides?
That was Republican time.
The CHAIR. The Chair may alternate sides.
Mr. DeFAZIO. I thought you usually did.
The CHAIR. The Chair intends to let the gentleman from Oklahoma
finish his statement.
The gentleman from Oklahoma is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. LUCAS. Madam Chair, the Wildlife Services' usual biologically
sound and socially acceptable methods to resolve these issues when
agriculture and industrial production are harmed by wildlife, or public
safety is at risk from wildlife.
If you own a pet, you benefit from the Wildlife Services. They reduce
rabies in wildlife populations which prevents the spread of that
terrible disease to domestic animals and humans.
Every time you get in a car, you benefit from the Wildlife Services.
They work to reduce automobile collisions with deer, which affect an
average of 29,000 people each year, cause $1 billion in damages.
Every time you fly on a plane, you benefit from the Wildlife
Services. They have people working in all 50 States to prevent
dangerous aircraft collisions with birds.
How can we forget Captain Sullenberger's heroic landing on the Hudson
River after Flight 1549 hit a bird at takeoff? And while we applaud the
captain's achievement, there is no question that reducing these
dangerous collisions must be a priority in the future.
And the largest portion of the Wildlife Services' budget, 43 percent,
is spent on protecting human health and safety. Often Wildlife Services
is the first line of defense against health risks involving everything
from West Nile virus to avian flu, to Lyme disease. They prevent
disease exposure to humans, livestock and wildlife.
And what's more, Wildlife Services is one of the few Federal agencies
that requires private sector matching funds on a 1-1 basis. It's
unfortunate that there are not more Federal programs as fiscally
responsible as the Wildlife Services.
Yet, every year, animal rights groups opposed to the predator control
conducted by the joint USDA Wildlife Services programs attempt to
eliminate the funding from this vital program. And every year Congress
rejects these attempts. That's because the wildlife cause $126 million
in livestock losses for producers, field crop losses totaling $619
million, specialty crop losses at $146 million. All told, wildlife
causes $12.8 billion in damage every year to natural resources, public
infrastructure, private property and agriculture.
Without the predatory management done by Wildlife Services, losses
would explode, driving family farms and ranchers out of business.
Cutting funding for the Wildlife Services would be both costly and
dangerous. Doing so also ignores the proven science behind Wildlife
Services work, as well as their commitment to minimizing wildlife
mortality.
This amendment's not scientifically sound, and it's certainly not
economically minded. I urge my colleagues to oppose it, continue the
funding for the Wildlife Services' efforts to protect you, your
property, your pets.
Mr. DeFAZIO. I move to strike the requisite number of words.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Oregon is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. DeFAZIO. Actually, I have experience with this. When I was a
county commissioner and we were on some tough times, we said, we're not
going to continue this program. We dropped our share. Heard all the
same myths. Oh, my God, the deprivation. We're going to lose all our
sheep; we're going to lose all our cattle. We're going to have these
horrible things happen. Know what happened? Nothing. They took care of
the problem themselves. A coyote comes on your property in proximity to
your property, you can kill it. That's a myth. You can kill it. Sure
you can. There's this limited exemption regarding endangered species
which is apparently a problem in some States, not in ours. They just
killed some wolves in eastern Oregon because they were concerned that
they might have the caused predation.
Now, let's talk about this subsidy. It's unnecessary. It's
ineffective. And it's a taxpayer subsidy. I mean, are you guys serious
about cutting the deficit or not? Why give private ranching interests
subsidies to do something they should do themselves?
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There is no good reason to do that. Now you're going to say, oh,
we're worried about aircraft. Well, no. We're only cutting in one
budget, which is $13.7 million, which is the Livestock Protection
Program.
Now, of course he said it's incredibly cost effective. It's been
about $1 billion that's been spent on this program during its duration
by the Federal Government, $1 billion. And during that time--because
they're not following biology or any sensibility--the coyote population
has tripled despite the $1 billion. In Colorado, they fly around in
planes and shoot coyotes; it costs about 100 bucks a coyote. There are
more coyotes now than there were when Animal Damage Control started
these programs.
They don't understand pack behavior and what causes dispersion.
They've got coyotes now in parts of the country where they haven't seen
them for 100 years. It's a really effective program; it's working
really well. It has nothing to do with geese or any of that. That's
another part of Wildlife Services. That is not the subsidy to private
ranching interests to conduct lethal predator control.
And then they do some other great things. They have these nifty
little devices, they're called M-44s. It's basically a baited cyanide
shot shell. Now,
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it has sickened some humans--hasn't killed any yet. Has killed quite a
number of domestic animals. Sooner or later it's going to kill a kid.
Some kid is going to be pulling on that little string saying, gee, I
wonder what this does--BAM, cyanide shot shell. Now, that's really
discriminate. That's really effective. That's the same program that has
helped triple the population of coyotes out there over the last 80
years since these programs have existed.
So you can come up with all sorts of whoo-ha and say, oh, it has to
do with Captain Sullenberger. No. It has to do with we can't shoot
these things ourselves, no. I mean, just face it, if you want to
subsidize ranching interests, just be honest about it and say we want
to borrow $11 million in the name of the American taxpayers and give it
to private ranching interests. That's it, plain and simple, yes or no.
Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman
from California (Mr. Campbell).
The question was taken; and the Chair announced that the noes
appeared to have it.
Mr. CAMPBELL. Madam Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on
the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be
postponed.
Amendment Offered by Mr. Flake
Mr. FLAKE. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
The CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
The Clerk read as follows:
At the end of the bill (before any short title), insert the
following new section:
Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may
be used to provide (or to pay the salaries and expenses of
personnel to provide) to upland cotton producers counter-
cyclical payments for upland cotton under section 1104 of the
Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8714),
repayment rates for marketing assistance loans under section
1204(b) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 8734(b)) at the prevailing
world market price for upland cotton, cotton storage benefits
under section 1204(g) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 8734(g)), or loan
deficiency payments for upland cotton under section 1205 of
such Act (7 U.S.C. 8735).
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Arizona is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. FLAKE. Madam Chair, as I'm certain my colleagues are aware by
now, in 2002 Brazil filed a complaint with the WTO accusing the U.S. of
trade-distorting cotton subsidies that were inconsistent with our
international trade obligations. The WTO sided with Brazil; and after
years of debate, a WTO arbitration panel authorized Brazil to engage in
retaliatory trade sanctions against the U.S. for more than $800
million.
Instead of effectively reforming our programs, however, the
administration agreed to pay $147.3 million annually in technical
assistance to Brazilian cotton farmers every year until the issues of
trade compliance in our cotton programs are resolved in the next farm
bill's passage or a mutually agreed upon solution is reached. There is
little chance that we're going to have reauthorization this year of the
farm bill. I would suggest that it's probably not likely that we will
do so next year either.
So here we are again. We've talked about this before: spending money,
147 million taxpayer dollars to the Brazilians, so that we can continue
to subsidize our own cotton farmers. We simply shouldn't do that.
Now some will say, hey, if we do this, it will spark a trade war, if
we get rid of this payment to Brazil. In my view, we dealt with that
effectively in the Appropriations Committee. I offered an amendment
saying if you want to pay the Brazilians off to not have them retaliate
for our trade protections, then let's do that out of the money we're
giving to our own cotton farmers. So take out of direct payments $147
million and pay that. That amendment was adopted in the Appropriations
Committee.
Well, guess what? A point of order was raised here and that amendment
was stricken, so we couldn't do that. So all this concern--people say
they're concerned about the taxpayer, well, we protected the taxpayer
there by saying let's take the money out of the fund that we already
pay our own farmers and pay off the Brazilians. That was rejected here.
And so here we are again.
We have an amendment that will be voted on later, the Kind amendment,
which will simply strike that payment. I plan to vote for that
amendment; I hope we do that. But another way of approaching that as
well is to simply go at our own cotton subsidies to ensure that we're
not distorting the market by doing this program in the first place.
Now the Ag Committee will say, that's our expertise, let us deal with
that; we'll deal with that in a new farm bill. Well, they dealt with
that in the old farm bill, and many of us stood here and warned and
said this is trade distorting; the WTO is going to rule against us and
we're going to end up with retaliatory trade sanctions.
Well, the Ag Committee went ahead and did it anyway. It didn't fix
the problem. They will say, well, we tried, we tried. But it's not the
direct payments that are the problem. It's the countercyclical, it's
the other programs that we have. And until that is dealt with, we're
going to have these trade sanctions.
So when the Ag Committee stands up and says let us deal with that, I
would remind people we have let them deal with that, and they haven't
dealt with it. And so we have to go about it in another way.
I would simply say we cannot continue to subsidize our own ag
interests this way, in particular this cotton program, when we know
it's out of step with our international trade obligations.
So you can go about it in two ways. You can go ahead and say, hey,
we're going to not pay Brazil this amount, this protection money--or
whatever you want to call it, this tribute--and then that will force us
to deal with our own cotton subsidies; or we can deal with the cotton
subsidies ourselves with this amendment and simply say we aren't going
to do these trade-distorting cotton subsidies anymore. Then there won't
be a need to pay Brazil off.
So that's what this amendment does. I would urge adoption of it.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. CONAWAY. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. CONAWAY. Madam Chair, I'm going to oppose my good friend from
Arizona's amendment. He tried this in the CR 1 and lost this vote. This
is a bad way to attack this policy.
Quite frankly, the Ag Committee did a good-faith effort in addressing
what we thought were the issues in 2008 with a farm bill by doing away
with Step Two and other programs. Quite frankly, though, the Brazilians
won't lay out for us exactly what it is about our policies that they
don't like. We would be happy for the gentleman to elucidate that for
us, if he can describe exactly what those policies are. It's not the
countercyclical payments; it's not the marketing loan payments. It's
other things that we've been trying to fix, and we will attempt again
to fix those in 2012.
This safety net that he attacks with a meat cleaver instead of a
scalpel is important to production agriculture in this country. As
we've said over and over these microphones the last 3 days, America has
always had an ag policy that attempts to put a safety net under
production agriculture.
We enjoy the safest, most abundant, cheapest food and fiber supply in
the world because of the hard work, the sweat equity, and the risk-
taking of the American ag producer. They rely on this safety net that
is intricate, it's complicated, it's interwoven, and it works.
We understand in 2012 we will have far fewer resources with which to
work that safety net. And the Ag Committee is committed to getting that
done; the chairman is committed to getting that done. We will then
bring that work product to this floor. The gentleman from Arizona will
then have the opportunity, if he doesn't think we've fixed the
Brazilian problem, to present a solution at that time.
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But at this stage, using an appropriations bill to rework the farm
bill in this manner and ignoring the work of the Ag Committee in my
view is wrong policy. We should defeat this amendment once again, as we
did in the CR in February-March. I ask my colleagues to vote against
the Flake amendment.
I yield back the balance of my time.
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Mr. PETERSON. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Minnesota is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. PETERSON. I also rise to oppose this amendment. As the gentleman
from Texas has indicated, we have been trying to resolve this. We made
significant changes already and there are some ongoing consultations or
whatever you want to call them with the Brazilians. But he is right:
They will not lay out what they actually want to resolve this
situation, and frankly, from what I can see, I don't think there is
anything that we can do that they will agree to. So we are trying to
work through this.
But as I said when we had this discussion yesterday, it is very
troubling to me that we are in this situation. With the way this WTO
operates, the Brazilians have the most closed market in the world. You
try to get any products into Brazil, and it is almost impossible. But
do we care about that? No. They are spending I don't know how many
billions of dollars of government money to increase production and
increase agriculture in Brazil, way more than we are spending, and do
we complain about that? No.
Some people say it is because of the agreements that we have entered
into. Who knows exactly what it is. But the Brazilians are not lily
white in all of this. They are utilizing some of the flaws in the WTO
agreement to push this cause, and, frankly, we have let them do it.
So this needs to get dealt with in the regular order in the farm
bill. This is not the place to do this on the floor of the House. We
will deal with it. I think the chairman will back me up on that. We
would love to have the Brazilians tell us what it is that they will
agree to so we can resolve this. These discussions are ongoing.
Hopefully they will be more forthcoming and we can get an answer to
what it is that will solve this problem. Frankly, from my experience, I
wouldn't hold my breath. So we will see.
So I oppose this amendment and I ask my colleagues to oppose it. This
is the wrong place to do it.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. LUCAS. Madam Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Oklahoma is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. LUCAS. Madam Chairman, I really kind of thought we were working
on the annual agriculture appropriations bill, with the discretionary
money, the programs that are handled on a year-to-year basis, but it
seems we are going to debate the farm bill. I guess if that is the
case, I should be managing it and let me just do it a year early.
The short statement is, like my colleagues Mr. Conaway and Mr.
Peterson, I rise in strong opposition to this amendment. This amendment
would turn an industry on its head. It would do no good.
My good friend from Arizona has come to the floor and implied this
would solve the trade dispute between the United States and Brazil. It
would do no such thing. Mr. Flake has called this the Brazilian cotton
problem, but the dispute is much more complicated than just cotton and
actually involves export programs. This amendment wipes out the safety
net established in 2008. For what reason? This is the kind of amendment
you get when you have so-called experts offering amendments in areas
outside their field of expertise.
This is a devastating amendment. This would throw the cotton market
into disarray. We have no assurance, as the ranking member and the
General Farm Commodities Subcommittee chairman have noted, no assurance
from the Brazilians that if we eliminated the cotton program, as this
amendment basically does, that it would make any difference to them.
As my colleagues have noted, we made huge changes in the 2008 farm
bill, eliminating step two, changing the GSM program in a way we
thought would satisfy the Brazilians. This amendment would circumvent
the legislative process in what can only be described as a haphazard
way.
Honestly, I really expected this amendment to be thrown out on a
point of order because it clearly, clearly would end the
countercyclical program for cotton, significantly changes how the
repayment program works, eliminates the loan deficiency payments, and
eliminates the cotton storage program. Those are major policy changes.
Again, this appropriation bill is 13 percent down. We are almost back
to 2006 levels. Anyone who is concerned about what is being spent on
the production of agriculture in rural America, take note; we are doing
our part today under Mr. Kingston's bill. And when we get to the farm
bill, be it next summer in regular order, be it this fall as part of
some grandiose budget deficit-debt ceiling agreement, we will make
incredibly tough decisions, because we will have to be a big part of
addressing the national budgetary issue.
But let us do it in regular order. Let us do it in the farm bill
process. Speaker Boehner has said time and time again, a more open
process. Look at the appropriations process. We are going to do a farm
bill under this open process. All of my good friends here will get to
use all of their agricultural expertise in every conceivable way they
can. But let's do it in regular order, in the proper fashion, in the
proper way.
Again, Madam Chairman, I urge my colleagues to reject this amendment.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. FARR. Madam Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. FARR. I rise with great concerns about this amendment, because I
don't think it does what the author intends it to do. All it does is
say none of the funds made available in this act--this act, not other
acts, not other bills that the chair and ranking member pass in their
committees--can be used for countercyclical payments to upland cotton
producers. There is nothing in here about Brazil. This doesn't affect
Brazil. But this does affect a lot of cotton growers in a lot of
States, including the State of California, which is one of the leading
cotton-producing States.
If this amendment was constructive, I think you would find a lot more
support for it, but I don't find it being very constructive because it
only limits it to cuts in this bill and not to what the underlying
problems are all about, which is covered in many other acts than this
one.
Mr. FLAKE. Will the gentleman yield?
Mr. FARR. I yield to the gentleman from Arizona.
Mr. FLAKE. I thank the gentleman.
I recognize the appropriations process isn't the best way to
legislate, it really isn't, and this is a clumsy way. This only applies
to this act, and you have to do it in strange ways. I understand that.
But we are told that we ought to rely on the expertise of the Ag
Committee. Well, the expertise of the Ag Committee is what got us into
this problem in the first place. It is what got us into the problem of
having to pay Brazil in order to continue to subsidize our own farmers.
That is what we are dealing with here.
I recognize this is clumsy. I recognize this is uncomfortable. But we
have got to do this some way, and we can't rely on just waiting until
the next farm bill is passed. It may not be this year, or likely won't
be. It won't be next year, or likely won't yet. So we could be doing
this for years. So I recognize it is clumsy, I apologize for that, but
we have to do something at some point.
Mr. FARR. Reclaiming my time, with all due respect, I don't think the
Agriculture Committee created the Brazilian problem. It was not the
committee's act that created it. It was what the Brazilians did in
their ability to become a major agricultural production country. And
they are going after production in other countries. They have got
connections with their government much closer between producers and
government than we have here. They are buying out companies. They are
going to really try to affect farm prices in the United States. I will
tell you, the next place they are going to go after is specialty crops.
So I am not a big fan, as you know. I spoke last night with concerns
about getting these payment limitations down and to essentially trying
to find a better program that is not so costly to the taxpayers. But
you don't do anything beneficial with this money, you just cut it. And
I am here to do things using money, taxpayers' money, to do the wise
thing.
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It doesn't affect the outcome at all. It just penalizes certain
people that happen to be in the cotton business. And I don't think that
I want to support an amendment that isn't constructive.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. NEUGEBAUER. I move to strike the last word.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. NEUGEBAUER. Thank you, Madam Chairman.
American farmers and ranchers are citizens, too. I represent West
Texas District 19 in Texas; 29,000 square miles, 27 counties, made up
of a lot of farmers and ranchers and farm families and ranch families.
They're concerned about the deficit as well. They're concerned about
the growing debt and the legacy that that will leave for our children
and our grandchildren. They're willing to step up and take their share
of the burden of being able to get our country headed back on the right
track again. In fact, that process started in the 2008 farm bill, where
a lot of these farm programs were reduced. And for the last few years,
for example, countercyclical payments have been nearly nil in many of
those commodities because the program was operating the way it was
designed.
So I appreciate my colleague's efforts to be a budget hawk and in
many ways and at many times I have supported a lot of his amendments
and ideas, but today I come to the floor saying that this is not the
place to write the farm bill; that we have that process coming up next
year. Farm families are stepping up in this particular appropriation
bill. As the chairman so appropriately pointed out, major cuts to
agricultural programs occur in the bill that we're considering today.
So I'm going to urge my colleagues, let's write the farm bill when
it's time to write the farm bill. Let's put together programs that are
good for production agriculture. I would remind a lot of folks that
when we look at this farm bill, a lot of people don't understand all of
the things that are in this. And it's called a farm bill, ag
appropriation bill. But quite honestly, a majority of this bill is
about food stamps, it's about nutrition programs, and a very smaller
percentage of this bill really has anything to do with production
agriculture. And I think one of the things that we have to be extremely
careful about here, and that's the reason we need to get this right and
that's the reason we need to do it in regular order, is today America
is dependent on 70 percent of its oil in this country. In other words,
every day we get up, 70 percent of our oil has to be imported in this
country. And just recently, the United States of America, half of its
credit is due to foreign countries.
And so today we are importing oil. Today, we have to import money to
finance our deficits. And what we want to be extremely careful about is
that in the future Americans don't have to wake up and determine who's
going to feed them because we have eliminated the farm industry in this
country. And so I think that's the reason it's important to do this
carefully. It's important to do it right. And I look forward as a
member of the Ag Committee, as we move into 2012, sitting down with my
colleagues and writing farm policy that will be good for America, be
good for our budget long term, and that's the appropriate time to do
that. So I'm going to urge my colleagues to vote against this
amendment.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. BLUMENAUER. I move to strike the last word.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Oregon is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. BLUMENAUER. I rise in support of the amendment from my good
friend from Arizona. I appreciate his work over the years as we've
tried to refocus attention and our resources in areas that are more
productive for most American farmers and ranchers, for the taxpayer,
and for the general economy.
I just heard my good friend talk about his concern about who's going
to feed America in the future. Well, the issue of having these lavish
agricultural subsidies that are concentrated three-quarters in the top
10 producers, and they are not people who are in the main producing
food, the fruits and vegetables that people care about that would add
to nutrition. The people that are in my agricultural community in
Oregon are basically shut out. 87% don't receive it. They are not
getting support for some of the things that are market neutral in terms
of marketing, in terms of research that's being slashed, in terms of
commonsense support for meeting their environmental objectives to
protect clean water and habitat.
Being able to start tamping this down is essential. The AGI
limitation, the one that I had on the floor last night that would limit
the total amount of payment, these are things that there's never a good
time to deal with them. I've been through three farm bill cycles. I've
heard the body express itself in terms of instructions to the conferees
and watched them disregard it when it came, for example, to limitation
of payment.
I would like to turn to my friend from Arizona to yield some time.
Before I do, I just want to correct one misapprehension that is
floating around about the amendment that we had on the floor last night
that limited title 1 payments to $125,000 per entity.
Now, some people are pretending that this would somehow affect
disaster payments or crop insurance. No. It is just title 1 payments.
It's very simple. It's set forth in the bill. Anybody can read it. And
it's not going to deal, for example, with disaster payments. But on
this note, I would like to yield to my good friend from Arizona,
thanking him for his continued partnership and advocacy in this area.
Mr. FLAKE. I thank the gentleman. I want to thank the gentleman for
his work in this area for a long time over the years to try to end
these out-of-step programs that we have in the agricultural field. Let
me just correct something that was said before. It was said that we're
in this position because of Brazil, because of the practices that
they're doing. No. It's because our own agricultural policy--in this
case, our cotton subsidies--is trade distorting. Nobody can stand up in
this body or on this floor and make a case otherwise. Nobody can stand
up with a straight face and say that our cotton program that we have is
not trade distorting. That's why we're in this problem. That's why
Brazil was able to take this case to the WTO, and the WTO ruled in
their favor--because we have trade distorting farm policies. That's
what we need to fix. That's the intent of this amendment.
There was an amendment last night by Congressman Kind that will be
voted on later today. I may not and likely will not call for a rollcall
on this one so that people can focus on that one. The Kind amendment
limits payments to Brazil. If we do that, then we can force a change in
our own policy, and we can force that issue better than perhaps any
other amendment right now. So that's what I would encourage people to
vote for, is the Kind amendment, when it comes to a rollcall later. If
you do not believe that it's proper to be sending money to Brazil to
address our own trade distorting cotton policy, then vote for the Kind
amendment later today.
I thank the gentleman for yielding.
Mr. BLUMENAUER. I appreciate his clarification. I agree
wholeheartedly with his sentiment. It's insane that instead of changing
our trade-distorting, unjustified subsidies, that we're instead going
to subsidize the cotton industry both in the United States and in
Brazil. It's certainly not the approach that we should be taking at a
time when we're going to have to do business differently. We talk about
people getting economic haircuts. What happens today is that 31
congressional districts get more than half of all the subsidies. They,
not coincidentally, are districts that are concentrated on the Ag
Committee and have a different perspective than the majority of the
people in the House.
I'm hopeful we can work our will with these amendments.
I yield back the balance of my time.
The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman
from Arizona (Mr. Flake).
The amendment was rejected.
Amendment Offered by Mr. Lujan
Mr. LUJAN. I have an amendment at the desk.
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:
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Sec. __. None of the fund made available by this Act may be
used by the Under Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and
Regulatory Programs to provide any marketing funds to any
entity that advertises, describes, labels, or offers for sale
chile peppers (also known as capsicum annum) as New Mexico
chile unless such chile peppers were grown in New Mexico.
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Mrs. LUMMIS. Madam Chairman, I reserve a point of order on the
gentleman's amendment.
The CHAIR. A point of order is reserved.
The gentleman from New Mexico is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. LUJAN. Thank you, Madam Chair.
I rise today to offer an amendment that will protect New Mexico chile
farmers from unfair marketing practices. Lately we've seen a disturbing
trend where marketers and retailers falsely use the unique quality and
brand of New Mexico chile to misleadingly advertise their products. New
Mexico is a special place where we take pride in our agricultural
products. In particular, we take pride in our chile. We even spell it
differently, Madam Chair. We spell it C-H-I-L-E, contrary to the more
popular spelling C-H-I-L-I most associated with Texas style chili.
Traveling around New Mexico, I've heard the plight of New Mexico
farmers. There is concern with the importation of peppers, of chili
powders from out of State and even from other countries that are
hurting our producers in New Mexico. It's a concern that they may be
put out of business, and it's a concern that is attacking the authentic
New Mexico chile brand.
This unfair practice has led to decreased revenues for New Mexico
chile farmers, who work all summer and diligently to raise their crops
for harvest in the fall months and whose prices are undercut by
imported products that falsely advertise as New Mexico chile.
Madam Chair, my amendment is simple and would not impose any costs on
the Federal Government. My amendment would prevent any funds from this
bill from being used to advertise, describe, label or offer for sale
chile peppers as New Mexico chile, unless the chile peppers used are
grown in New Mexico.
This amendment is important to the protection of New Mexico's local
chile producers, and I urge my colleagues to support this amendment and
protect this unique agricultural product. As we know, Madam Chair,
anyone who's tried it loves it.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Point of Order
Mrs. LUMMIS. Madam Chairman, I make a point of order against the
amendment. It is violative of clause 2 of rule XXI because it proposes
changes that require a new determination that is not within the purview
and scope of the current bill.
I respectfully ask for a ruling from the Chair.
The CHAIR. Does any other Member wish to be heard on the point of
order?
The gentleman from New Mexico is recognized.
Mr. LUJAN. Madam Chair, on the point of order, sadly, I think this
may be ruled out of order, but I would ask that maybe there is an
opportunity for the committee to work with myself not only as we get to
the farm bill but also with the Ag Committee as we talk about the
importance of this important product in New Mexico and its impact
there, and I would certainly respectfully request from our friends on
the other side of the aisle that maybe we can get a chance to work with
one another.
I would be happy to yield, Madam Chair.
The CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Wyoming is recognized on the point of
order.
Mrs. LUMMIS. Madam Chair, the committee would be very pleased to work
with the gentleman from New Mexico and myself in particular since my
daughter is a new resident of your State.
The CHAIR. The Chair is prepared to rule.
The Chair finds that this amendment imposes new duties on the
Secretary, specifically a duty to determine the activities of entities
receiving certain funds in the bill. 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.
Amendment Offered by Mrs. Blackburn
Mrs. BLACKBURN. I have an amendment at the desk.
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. __. Each amount made available by this Act (other
than an amount required to be made available by a provision
of law) is hereby reduced by 5 percent.
The CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Tennessee is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Thank you, Madam Chairman.
As you can see, this is a very simple bill. My amendment would
require every single agency covered in this Ag appropriations bill to
be accountable to the taxpayers by reducing one nickel out of a dollar
for what they have been given to spend. It requires all accounts to
absorb that equally, that 5 percent reduction, and it will keep the
bureaucracy from picking winners and losers or choosing to fund their
pet programs. Certainly the amendment will save the taxpayers money,
but this is also a stand for good government. It's about taking
responsibility, not torturing the American taxpayer with excuses for
ineffective and inefficient bureaucracies.
There are a lot of people that say the Appropriations Committee
deserves a pat on the back for decreasing discretionary spending by 4.7
percent below the 2008 levels, and I agree with that. I think they are
to be commended. Certainly off the President's request, the 13 percent
reduction that they have made. I'm part of that effort that has pushed
to return our spending to the pre-stimulus, pre-bailout levels, but
there is more that must be done. We have to make our government leaner.
We have to make it more effective. Every day, Americans are tightening
their belts. They're asking government to do the very same thing.
Tennesseans keep saying, why is it that government keeps asking us to
sacrifice for it when government should be sacrificing for us? Every
Federal program needs to be held accountable, and this is a way to do
it. Our States have done across-the-board cuts. Our city governments
have done across-the-board cuts. Even history will show you that twice
before, our Presidents have pushed for across-the-board cuts: World War
II, Korean Conflict, there were 28 percent and 30 percent across-the-
board cuts in discretionary spending. The reason they did this, Madam
Chairman, is because there was a crisis, there was a war, there was a
need to restructure, to reorder and to address the priorities of the
day.
One of my constituents came up to me recently--this is someone who is
active in the ag community in our State--and she said, ``It is time
that the bureaucracies get their house in order. It is time that you
all in Congress stop spending money you don't have on programs we don't
want.''
So as we do our due diligence on the spending process, as we act
responsibly to our constituents and to the taxpayer, it is time for us
to turn to the bureaucracies, the rank-and-file Federal employees who
put the pen to the paper on how this money gets spent, and say to them,
``Find another nickel on a dollar.'' We're doing it for the children,
we are doing it for our grandchildren, we're doing it to make certain
that we stop borrowing 40 cents of every dollar that is spent.
This amendment would reduce the budget authority by $951 million. It
would reduce the current outlays by $675 million. That would be spread
equally at a 5 percent rate across every single agency. It can be done,
and, Madam Chairman, in these times of crisis, it should be done as we
seek to return this Nation to fiscal stability and to responsibility.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. KINGSTON. Madam Chair, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Georgia is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. KINGSTON. First of all, I want to thank my good friend from
Tennessee for offering this amendment and her tireless work to try to
reduce spending in our country, and I absolutely agree with all the
statements that she has made.
I do want to point out, though, that the only budget that has passed
either body is the Ryan budget. I supported, as I know she did, the RSC
budget,
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which is actually more conservative, but it did not pass. At least we
did get a budget passed on the House floor. The Senate was unable to do
that. Even though the Democrats are the majority party over there, the
Senate rejected the President's budget 97-0, and apparently now they've
given up and they're not going to try to pass a budget. The only bill
that we have an opportunity to move is under the Ryan budget, which is
what this bill reflects. It is a 13.4--actually it's higher than that
because we cut it last night a little bit more, or we did some across-
the-boards, but it's about a 13.4 percent cut already.
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Where the big money is--and I know my friend from Tennessee is as
frustrated about this as I am--is in the mandatory spending. In fact, I
have a chart over there. We don't have any pages or I'd bring it up
here on the floor; but 86 percent of this budget is mandatory spending,
and I use the word ``mandatory'' loosely because it's really on
automatic spending. That's where the big money is. Unfortunately, we
can't get to it. This portion that we do have control over used to be
$23 billion; and right now, under our budget, it's $17.2 billion.
Let me show my friend this because I think it's very important. The
blue line is the mandatory spending of the Agriculture budget, and the
red line is the discretionary spending. The point is that this
committee has jurisdiction over the red line. We do not on this
committee have jurisdiction over the blue line. Yet you can see the
blue line is the one that's going up and that the red line is the one
that's actually going down.
So that's one of my frustrations about the entire process and about
the rules which we're governed by; but I want to make sure that my
friend knows, under the portion we do control, that we did cut it 13.4
percent.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. FARR. I move to strike the last word.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. FARR. I rise in opposition to this amendment.
It doesn't do any of the things that the author talked about. It's a
one-sentence bill. This is a legal bill. We are here as lawmakers. It
says that each amount made available by this act other than the amount
required to be made available by provision of law, which is the one
part that Mr. Kingston just talked about, is hereby reduced by 5
percent.
That's all it says. There is nothing about accountability. The
accountability goes on before our committee. That's what we do. We go
over every item in the USDA's and FDA's budgets and in a public process
where there is input and give-and-take. We do the scrutiny every year.
That's what the Appropriations Committee is all about. It makes good
press releases to get up here and say that, if you cut, squeeze and
trim, government is going to get a lot better; but then they don't
practice it in their own offices or in their own lifestyles. They just
demand that, by just cutting out money, people who give services to
people can't give those services.
So this amendment doesn't do anything that the author talks about
except to whack a budget that was already whacked. It was whacked by
the allocation given to us. As I pointed out, it's $5 billion less.
It's almost 23 percent less than what the President requested. It's 14
percent below what Congress enacted last year. It's 26 percent below
what we enacted in 2010. It's even below what we enacted in 2008. Last
night, we cut across the board. We did what this amendment does, in a
very small proportion; but we used that money beneficially to adjust
for the WIC program. So just whacking it across the board by 5 percent
isn't going to cause any good for anybody, and I oppose the amendment.
I yield back the balance of my time.
The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the
gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn).
The question was taken; and the Chair announced that the noes
appeared to have it.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on
the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Tennessee will be
postponed.
Amendment Offered by Mr. Flake
Mr. FLAKE. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
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 by this Act may
be used for the construction of an ethanol blender pump or an
ethanol storage facility.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Arizona is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. FLAKE. This is a rather straightforward amendment. I should say,
before I start, that an identical amendment to this was approved when
we voted on H.R. 1 earlier this year by a vote of 261-158.
Mr. KINGSTON. Will the gentleman yield?
Mr. FLAKE. I yield to the gentleman from Georgia.
Mr. KINGSTON. I supported this when you offered it on the continuing
resolution, and I plan to support it today.
Mr. FLAKE. Okay. Then, reclaiming my time, I will be very brief.
The ethanol industry, as we all know, receives a trifecta of
government support. Its use is mandated by law. It is protected by a
prohibitive import tariff on imported ethanol; and it receives billions
in subsidies, effectively paying them to follow the law.
Everyone knows that ethanol subsidies are going to go away. Thirty
years is enough. I mean, even Al Gore and others who supported them in
the beginning said, no, that was a mistake, and we're going the other
direction now. So ethanol supports--or direct subsidies or the import
tariffs--are going to go.
The industry is asking, How can we keep these subsidies going? The
effort now is to pay for infrastructure, so the Secretary of
Agriculture, Secretary Vilsack, has indicated that he wants the USDA to
determine how it can potentially use programs to promote the
distribution and storage--blender pumps--and how to put money into
infrastructure. As we all know, once you start putting money into
infrastructure, then you say, well, we've already put some money in,
and we've got to continue to do it, so those subsidies will continue
and continue and continue.
We cannot continue to do this, Madam Chair. We cannot continue to
fund this, particularly when we are borrowing 40 cents on the dollar. I
would urge the adoption of the amendment, and I am glad that the
chairman supports it.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. PETERSON. I move to strike the last word.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Minnesota is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. PETERSON. I rise in opposition to the amendment. We are, once
again, debating ethanol. There is so much misrepresentation and
misunderstanding of what's going on.
The ethanol industry has been one of the best things that has
happened in rural America. We have created a tremendous amount of jobs
in small towns that otherwise get bypassed, and they've been very
successful. The way we've been able to do it up to this point is
through the blend, by having people blend 10 percent ethanol. The EPA
is approving going to 15 percent ethanol, but the industry has hit what
they call a ``blend wall.''
Now, the blend was basically driven by the fact that the refineries
and oil companies needed octane. Gasoline is low in octane and high in
Btus. Ethanol is high in octane and low in Btus. Back in the old days,
we used lead to raise the octane level. Then when lead was banned, the
oil companies decided to create MTBE. We warned them against that, but
they went ahead and built the MTBE plants, which, it turned out,
poisoned the water in a number of cities in the United States. Then the
oil companies and refineries went to the ethanol blend, which they
should have done in the first place. That's working, but we're at a
limit now.
If we're going to move ahead, we have to have access to the
marketplace. The problem that we have is that we don't have the cars
like Brazil
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has which can burn different levels of ethanol, and we don't have the
pumps in the gas stations so that people can have access to ethanol. If
we're going to get rid of the VTAC and the other programs that we have
in ethanol, we're okay with that as long as the consumers have the
ability to make the choice at the station. If they want to burn
ethanol, they've got to have the ability to be able to do that.
So we need to get the pumps in the station. We need to get the car
companies to start building vehicles like they do in Brazil, which run
a 25-30 percent blend. The American companies are building these cars
in Brazil. Every gas station in Brazil has ethanol as opposed to those
in the United States. That's one of the reasons they have been so
successful and why they are now completely independent from any foreign
sources of fuel for their vehicles.
What we're trying to do here is eventually eliminate the subsidies
that people have complained about--the VTAC and other things.
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But in order for us to be able to maintain this industry and maintain
these jobs in rural America, we have to be able to have the
infrastructure. We have to have the blended pumps. We have to have the
cars. The right blend is 25/30 percent. You will get the best
performance, the best mileage. Brazil has figured this out. They've
been doing this for a long time. Their blend is 26 percent. We have
people that have put in amendments that say we can't blend above 10
percent. We have this foolishness about how it is going to ruin small
engines and so forth. This argument has been going on since 1975, and
you know, we've been blending ethanol, we haven't ruined any engines
yet.
So we need to defeat this amendment because this goes in the wrong
direction. If you want a market that's open and lets consumers have a
choice, the way to do it is to get the infrastructure in place. I ask
my colleagues to oppose this amendment.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. WELCH. I move to strike the last word.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Vermont is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. WELCH. Madam Chairman, I rise in support of the amendment, and I
do it with great deference and respect to my leader, the ranking member
of the Agriculture Committee.
But here's the issue. One, at what point do we have taxpayers given
relief from these $6 billion subsidies to an industry? The ethanol
industry gets 45 cents a gallon. They get the benefit of 54 cents as a
protective tariff against the import of, among others, Brazilian
ethanol, and then they get a mandate requiring that they put ethanol in
their vehicles. Now, as Mr. Flake mentioned, that's a trifecta:
subsidy, protective tariff, and a mandate. No other industry has that
level of Federal taxpayer and legislative benefit. We just don't have
it.
Second, this is helping parts of rural America. I listened carefully
to what Mr. Peterson said, but it is causing significant difficulties
in my State for our dairy farmers who purchase grain. One of the rising
costs for them is the cost of grain, and one of the factors in that are
these tariff barriers and mandates that are pushing up their costs. So
it's making life on the dairy farm pretty tough.
Now, the final thing is that folks who use small engines like
chainsaws or weed whackers or lawn mowers or boats where they don't run
that engine continuously as we do our cars are complaining--and
mechanics are backing them up--that the ethanol is doing real damage to
those engines.
So it's time, I think, for this Congress to step back and give the
taxpayer some relief. Ethanol, if it's going to sink or swim, it should
be doing it on its own merits at this point.
I yield to my friend from Arizona (Mr. Flake).
Mr. FLAKE. I thank the gentleman and thank him for his articulate
remarks on this.
I failed to mention the breadth of support for this amendment in the
outside community. Let me just read some of these names.
The CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
Mr. KINGSTON. I move to strike the last word.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Georgia is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. KINGSTON. I yield to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Flake).
Mr. FLAKE. I thank the gentleman.
Suffice it to say, there's a long list of organizations supporting
this. Everyone on the right from Americans for Limited Government,
Americans for Prosperity; on the left, Freedom Action, Friends of the
Earth, Greenpeace; then everyone in the middle, the Grocery
Manufacturers Association, Milk Producers Council, National Chicken
Council, National Council of Chain Restaurants, National Meat
Association, National Turkey Federation, National Wildlife Federation,
and on and on and on.
This is a great amendment and I urge its adoption.
This amendment is supported by the following organizations:
Action Aid USA; American Frozen Food Institute; American
Meat Institute; Americans for Limited Government; Americans
for Prosperity; California Dairies, Inc.; Clean Air Task
Force; Competitive Enterprise Institute; Environmental
Working Group; Friends of the Earth; Freedom Action;
Greenpeace USA; Grocery Manufacturers Association; Milk
Producers Council; National Chicken Council; National Council
of Chain Restaurants; National Meat Association; National
Restaurant Association; National Turkey Federation; National
Wildlife Federation; Oxfam America; Southeast Milk, Inc.;
Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Mr. KINGSTON. Madam Chair, I yield to the gentlewoman from South
Dakota (Mrs. Noem).
Mrs. NOEM. I appreciate the gentleman for yielding.
Madam Chair, we talk a lot on the House floor recently about
agriculture and about the fact that agriculture needs a haircut and
that people are concerned about agriculture getting too many benefits
provided by the taxpayers. I would certainly say that in the past, in
the most repast, agriculture has been significantly cut, and under this
bill here before us today, we also see significant cuts.
I rise in strong opposition to this amendment offered by the
gentleman from Arizona because this amendment is an attack on consumer
choice, on the free market access, and on home grown American energy.
He's trying to provide technology that would allow consumers to decide
if they want to use an ethanol blend. We've seen the reports out there
that have indicated that ethanol has reduced the price of gasoline up
to 89 cents a gallon, and across this country consumers don't even have
the option to purchase that right now if they would like to.
I have a plan that would modernize ethanol policy. It would send over
a billion dollars to deficit reduction. It would make sure that we have
infrastructure in place so that consumers can have relief from these
high gas prices.
With everything that has been going on in the country today, one of
the top two issues that I hear about every day in South Dakota and
across this country is high gas prices. If we can reduce those high gas
prices for people at home struggling with that today, the best thing we
can do is give them a flex pump in their community where they can
access that. Right now they have no choice if they want to use an
American, domestically grown, renewable energy source which they can
use to reduce their dependence on foreign sources of oil.
I'm a strong supporter of an all-of-the-above American energy plan,
and that's truly what we need. We need to put Americans first. We need
to stop relying on the Middle East to fuel our vehicles. We can grow
that product right here in our country. We can provide the taxpayers
with lower priced gasoline. We can renewably do that over and over and
over again and give them that choice and that option. We just need to
give them a pump. We need to give them a pump in their community so
they have that option, and that's what this country is about is
flexibility, by giving those people back home options.
That's why I am not a supporter of this amendment. I think that that
is certainly a wise place for us to invest in making sure that we rely
upon ourselves, that we use our own sources and we provide exactly what
the American people need today.
The CHAIR. The time of the gentlelady has expired.
Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. I move to strike the last word.
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The CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. I also rise in opposition to this amendment,
and I associate myself with the remarks of the gentlelady from South
Dakota.
I believe that with the economic challenges that our country has
felt, much of which is related to the cost of fuel, this is an
amendment that I think undermines our ability to recover and to create
jobs.
In our rural community down in Mitchell County, Georgia, we have an
ethanol facility there which contributes a tremendous amount to the
local economy. It hires people and it is, I think, the example of how
we grow our rural economy. In fact, this amendment would stop that kind
of job growth. It would not allow this facility to expand and to be
prosperous, and I just think that it's the wrong way to go.
When America and the American economy gets sick and gets a cold, the
rural economy has pneumonia and it's on life support, and we need to
make sure that--we had some 30, 40, 50, 60 individuals in rural Georgia
who decided that they wanted to invest their own money in a home grown
industry for renewable energy, so that we would be in a position to
contribute to our own energy self-sufficiency and we would be able to
do it in a way where our local individuals would be able to create jobs
and to increase the economy there in our local rural community. It has
worked very well except for the fact that they don't have the
facilities, don't have the pumps, and we need to make sure that they
do.
This amendment I think is pennywise and pound foolish, and I think
that we need to go ahead and move ahead to help our country become
energy self-sufficient. How do we do that? By making sure that
consumers do have access to the blends so that we will not continually
have to fight with the Middle East for the cost of fuel. Oil prices
really are battering our economy. Energy costs are battering our
economy. It's also battering our national security. When you look at
how many billions of gallons of fuel are spent for our national
security with our military vehicles, our weapons, we need to have
alternative energy sources, and I think this amendment undermines that.
I oppose it and I associate myself with all those who oppose this
amendment. I think that we need to move forward with energy self-
sufficiency, energy independence for our country.
I yield back the balance of my time.
The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman
from Arizona (Mr. Flake).
The question was taken; and the Chair announced that the noes
appeared to have it.
Mr. FLAKE. Madam Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on
the amendment offered by the gentleman from Arizona will be postponed.
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Amendment Offered by Mr. Gardner
Mr. GARDNER. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
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 new section:
Sec. __. The amount otherwise provided by this Act for
``Integrated Activities'' is hereby increased by, and the
amount otherwise provided by this Act for ``National
Institute of Food and Agriculture-research and education
activities'' is hereby reduced (to be derived from amounts
for competitive grants (7 U.S.C. 22 450i(b))) by, $4,400,000,
respectively.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Colorado is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. GARDNER. Madam Chair, this amendment moves funding over to the
integrated activities account. I am very concerned about our work when
it comes to animal disease and food safety issues, especially when it
relates to issues like FMD, chronic waste and disease, mad cow disease,
other infectious animal diseases, prion-based diseases.
I want to make sure that we are not imperiling the U.S. livestock
industry, especially when it comes to our livestock exports. If we were
to delay even just 3 to 4 days in terms of finding or responding to an
outbreak of FMD, it could cost our country $135 billion in agriculture
and possibly destroy our export markets.
Madam Chair, I would just ask for a ``yes'' vote on the amendment.
I yield back the balance of my time.
The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman
from Colorado (Mr. Gardner).
The amendment was agreed to.
Amendment No. 26 Offered by Mr. Flores
Mr. FLORES. Madam 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), add the
following new section:
Sec. 4__. None of the funds made available by this Act may
be used to enforce section 526 of the Energy Independence and
Security Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-140; 42 U.S.C. 17142).
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. FLORES. I rise to offer my amendment, which would address another
restrictive and misguided Federal regulation.
Section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act prohibits
Federal agencies from entering into contracts for the procurement of an
alternative fuel unless its ``lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions'' are
less than or equal to emissions from an equivalent conventional fuel
produced from conventional petroleum sources. Simply put, my amendment
would stop the government from enforcing the ban on the U.S. Department
of Agriculture and all other Federal agencies funded by the Ag
appropriations bill.
The initial purpose of section 526 was to stifle the Defense
Department's plans to buy and develop coal-based, or coal-to-liquids,
jet fuels, based on the opinion of environmentalists that coal-based
jet fuel produces more greenhouse gas emissions than traditional
petroleum. Earlier this week, I offered my similar amendment to the
MILCON-VA approps bill, and it passed this House by a voice vote.
My friend from Texas (Mr. Conaway) also had language added to the
defense authorization bill to exempt the Defense Department from this
burdensome regulation. We must ensure that our military becomes energy
independent and can efficiently rely on domestic and more stable
sources of fuel. But section 526's ban on fuel choice applies to all
Federal agencies, not just the Defense Department. This is why I am
offering this amendment again today.
While we hope the USDA is not going to be fueling up any jets any
time soon, the underlying bill does allow for the purchase of more than
400 new passenger vehicles. The Department of Agriculture's choice on
fuel to power these vehicles to provide service to our Nation's farmers
and agricultural producers will be limited without my amendment.
The USDA should not be burdened with wasting its time studying fuel
emissions when there's a simple fix, and that's not to restrict their
fuel choices based on extreme environmental views, policies, and
regulations like section 526.
Madam Chairman, section 526 makes our Nation more dependent on Middle
Eastern oil. And stopping the impact of section 526 would help us
promote American energy, improve the American economy, and create
American jobs. I urge my colleagues to support the passage of this
commonsense amendment.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. FARR. I rise in opposition to the amendment, Madam Chair.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. FARR. Madam Chair, look, if you like dirty air, you will love
this amendment. If you like dirty fuel, you will love this amendment.
What this provision does is it strikes the requirement in law that
says to the government, which is a big purchaser of fuel, look, don't
buy dirty fuel. Buy something that is clean. I mean, that's what we're
trying to do is stimulate clean air, fuel efficiency, alternative
fuels. This strikes us down. This is going back to the old smokestack,
fill the air full of dirty air. This goes back to all the traditional
people that just don't like the fact that there's competition out there
and that the Federal Government has to purchase that competition. I
don't understand why in a competitive world, where fuel and efficiency
and engine development, where we're going to have to lead that or have
our clock cleaned, this is exactly what creates markets for that.
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You look at venture capital, you look at all these people that go in
and put private risk capital out. Then they have got to have a market.
And fortunately, the government tries to be that market, whether we're
buying healthy foods for children, whether we're buying food for our
troops, whether we're trying to encourage alternative fuels, as we have
under this program where the Navy planes have found a proven
alternative to traditional aviation fuel that they've tested in
supersonic speed jets.
This is a program that tells the American ingenuity, Get out there
and invent something. Because guess what, if you invent it, we, as a
purchaser of cleaner and better standards, are going to be your market.
And this amendment just wipes that all out. It's really back to dirty
smokestacks, dirty air, and no competition and no ability for America
to succeed in the future.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. KINGSTON. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Georgia is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. KINGSTON. For clarification purposes, I yield to my friend from
Texas (Mr. Flores).
Mr. FLORES. I thank the gentleman for yielding to me.
Let me correct some of the comments made by my friend from
California. First of all, this is a typical example of the way that the
Federal Government operates, where the left hand does something that's
entirely different from the right hand. On one hand, the left hand
says, We want to have alternative fuel sources available for our
economy. The right hand says, But we can do it for everybody, except
the agencies of the Federal Government.
Let me give you an example. Oil sands from Canada. Production of oil
from oil sands in Canada could completely displace our use of Middle
Eastern oil. And yet, we're trying to block in this bill the use of oil
sands from Canada. Virtually all the fuel in the United States has oil
from some oil sands in Canada blended in as fuel. That would mean all
that fuel is off limits to the United States Government and, in
particular with this bill, to the United States Department of
Agriculture.
We should reduce our dependence on Middle Eastern oil, not increase
our dependence on Middle Eastern oil. And my amendment to eliminate the
impact of section 526 reduces that dependence on Middle Eastern oil.
Remember also, Madam Chairman, this amendment was passed by a voice
vote for the MILCON-VA bill.
Mr. KINGSTON. I yield back the balance of my time.
The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman
from Texas (Mr. Flores).
The amendment was agreed to.
Amendment Offered by Mr. Flake
Mr. FLAKE. I have an amendment at the desk.
The CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
The Clerk read as follows:
At the end of the bill (before any short title), insert the
following new section:
Sec. __. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available by this Act may be used to pay the salaries and
expenses of personnel of the Department of Agriculture to
provide any benefit described in section 1001D(b)(1)(C) of
the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308-3a(b)(1)(C)) to
a person or legal entity if the average adjusted gross income
of the person or legal entity exceeds $250,000.
Mr. FLAKE (during the reading). I ask unanimous consent that the
amendment be considered as read.
The CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from
Arizona?
There was no objection.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Arizona is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. FLAKE. Madam Chair, much attention has been paid to making
significant cuts in Federal spending. The first step in addressing the
massive public debt that has accumulated, I would submit, is that all
areas of spending need to be on the table. This includes spending on
farm subsidies. We've already talked a lot about this today.
Over the last 15 years, almost three-quarters of farm payments have
gone to just 10 percent of producers. The bottom 80 percent of
recipients account for slightly more than a tenth of that money. Under
current law, recipients are entitled to receive farm subsidies so long
as their adjusted gross income, or AGI, is less than $500,000 in
nonfarm AGI and $750,000 in farm AGI.
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Thus, you can have an adjusted gross income of slightly less than
$1.25 million and still ask taxpayers to foot the bill for your Federal
agriculture payment. Let me say that again. You can have an adjusted
gross income of $1.25 million, adjusted gross income, and still go to
the trough here and ask the taxpayers for farm subsidy payments. I
would ask anyone, how can they explain why a family earning more than
$1 million a year needs to receive a check from the government?
This amendment would lower that income limit to be eligible to
receive farm payments from $1.25 million to $250,000 in adjusted gross
income. I think a farmer has done well if they clear $250,000. I think
it's wonderful if they do that. They should try to take a day off from
their hard work if they do. But don't come back to the Federal
Government and say, we need more farm subsidy payments. Let's have some
sanity in this program here.
I urge adoption of the amendment.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. I move to strike the last word.
The CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. I couldn't agree more with the gentleman from
Arizona when he says that we've got to put everything on the table in
order to eliminate this deficit and to put us on a path toward
balancing our budget. We've got a fiscal crisis.
But at the same time, we need to make smart choices. We need to
establish priorities. We don't need to cut off our feet or cut off our
hands. We need to empower ourselves and have the tools that we need.
And I think that if we're going to have a strong agricultural
community, if we're going to have American farmers be able to produce
high quality, safe, economical food for the people of this country and
for export, and to be able to compete in the global marketplace, we are
going to have to have reasonable and smart farm support.
Our authorizing committee has done a great job. And Members of this
body have done a tremendous job in trying to review over the years what
we need to do to tighten up and make more efficient our farm support
programs. And we've got to do that. And of course they do have to be on
the table. But let's be smart. Let's not take a meat ax to it when we
need to take a scalpel approach.
An individual or a legal entity must be actively engaged in farming
rules that are administered by USDA in order to participate in farm
programs. To receive the payments when they are available, individuals
or legal entities determined to be actively engaged in farming must
prove their average adjusted gross farm and nonfarm income are below
the levels that are set by the statute. If an individual is determined
to be eligible, the total benefits for all crops are limited to a
specific amount as dictated by the statute.
Now, we can't have a cookie-cutter approach to this. Our farmers in
the Midwest and other parts of the country other than the Southeast
have a different need in terms of farm support and farm support
programs. We have a diversity of crops. We have a multitude of crops in
our portfolio in the Southeast, from Virginia all the way to Texas. And
in order to be able to grow those crops effectively, a producer has to
have versatile equipment. For example, if you grow cotton you've got to
have a certain kind of equipment for cotton. If you grow corn and
grain, you've got to have a different piece of equipment for that.
There are three different kinds of equipment. And peanut growers,
cotton growers, and grain growers all in the Southeast have to finance
those various kinds of equipment.
Now, the 2008 farm law made the most comprehensive and far-reaching
reforms of eligibility and limitations on farm programs in 20 years. It
substantially reduced the level of the income test that was established
in the 2002 farm bill by creating two new tests to determine
eligibility. Individuals or entities with a 3-year average adjusted
gross nonfarm income exceeding $500,000 are not eligible for any
commodity program benefits. Individuals
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with a 3-year average adjusted gross farm income exceeding $750,000 are
ineligible for direct benefits.
While this amount may seem generous, the gross income is calculated
before debt servicing and other expenses are met. Since a new cotton
harvester can cost upwards of $750,000, and investments in land and
crop input such as fuel are escalating, you've still got to take into
account the cost of the irrigation system, the labor cost, the rent on
the land, the ad valorem taxes, and health insurance for the farmers
and for their families. So you've really got a lot of expenses that are
not taken into account when this statutory limitation on income is
calculated.
It also, in '08, eliminated the three entity rule and replaced it
with the direct attribution rule, which provides that each payment is
attributed to a specific individual. That reduced the payment, since
prior to 2008, individuals could participate in three entities
receiving payments.
Congress thoroughly debated the level of income tax when we developed
the 2008 farm bill so that the tests for farm income and the tests for
nonfarm income were appropriate. The tests are administered by USDA,
and the documents submitted to USDA by program participants are subject
to rigorous review by USDA and IRS.
This is a bad, bad thing, and I suggest that we ought to let the
authorizing committee do this in the farm bill and not do it now.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. LUCAS. Madam Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Oklahoma is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. LUCAS. Madam Chairman, I rise in opposition to this amendment.
This is clearly an attempt to legislate policy through an appropriation
bill, contrary to the intent of regular order, and this is not the way
that we should do business.
Arbitrarily changing eligibility requirements for farm programs
outside of the farm bill is irresponsible. It seriously undermines
farmers' ability to make long-term plans and investments, and it adds a
dangerous element of uncertainty to the market. The result would be a
reluctance to make investments in equipment and practices that increase
productivity.
The process of developing the 2012 farm bill would begin in the
Agriculture Committee next week. Our first step will be a comprehensive
audit of current farm programs to determine which are working, which
are not, and how to best insure that America's farmers and ranchers
remain competitive and productive into the 21st century.
Our farm program audits are just the beginning of what will be a very
transparent, inclusive, thorough process of developing the 2012 farm
bill. During that process, we will be careful to consider how best to
stabilize, how to provide stability and certainty to farmers during
lean years. Without appropriate risk management tools in place, a few
bad seasons could put farming operations out of business permanently.
Proponents of this amendment makes it sound like the Agriculture
Committee has done nothing on this issue. That couldn't be farther from
the truth. As my colleague has just alluded, in 2008, the Agriculture
Committee, under the leadership of my colleague, then-chairman
Peterson, meticulously debated the appropriate levels for farm program
eligibility. The results were some of the most aggressive reforms in
AGI in 2 decades.
Not only did we tighten eligibility, but in the implementation of
those rules, USDA allows IRS to verify a farmer's AGI.
In 2012, we will once again review how to efficiently and effectively
target farm policy. America's farmers, ranchers and taxpayers deserve
an open and accountable policymaking process. This amendment not only
precludes a transparent process, but it silences the voices of
Americans who would like to contribute to comprehensive discussion of
farm policy.
I urge you to oppose this amendment to prevent policy discussions
from being shortchanged. Allow us to work through regular order in the
open process that will be used in the coming year.
Once again, I oppose the amendment.
I yield back the balance of my time, Madam Chairman.
Mr. PETERSON. I move to strike the last word.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Minnesota is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. PETERSON. I rise in opposition to this amendment.
As Chairman Lucas just indicated, we spent a lot of time working
through this. This has a much bigger impact on my friends in the South
than it does in our part of the world, although it does affect some of
our folks. But one of the reasons is the way they finance and operate
in the South, where they have a lot of shared rent. We are pretty much
cash renting up in our part of the world now.
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But you've got folks that have land that get caught up in this AGI,
and it causes problems in terms of financing their operations and the
way that they have structured agriculture in the South.
When I've been down there in Arkansas and other places--Mississippi,
Georgia--the people that have been the most opposed to this are the
bankers. And if you're concerned about having family farmers and
keeping as many people on the land as possible, this is exactly the
wrong way to go about it. You're going to upset the whole apple cart in
doing this.
Having said that, why do we have an adjusted gross income limit on
farmers? Why don't we have it on everybody? If this is such a good
idea, why don't we have anybody that gets any money from the government
be subject to this AGI? If it's good enough for farmers, then anybody
that makes $250,000 doesn't get anything from the government, period,
just like farmers. That's how much sense this makes.
The other thing that everybody talks about is that 80 percent of the
people only get 10 percent of the payments. Well, people need to
understand that we have a definition of ``farmer'' that is flawed and
we should get rid of. They claim that we have 2 million farmers in this
country. But do you know what it takes to be a farmer, the definition?
If you could produce $1,000 of farm income--you don't have to, just if
you could produce $1,000, you're considered a farmer. The true reality
is we have 350,000 commercial farmers that produce over 90 percent of
the food, and obviously they're going to get the payments because
that's the way the system works.
We have worked through this on the committee. I didn't agree with
these AGI limits and payment limits that we put in the bill, but it was
something we had to work out and we worked it out. This should not be
dealt with on the floor. Once again, people who have made decisions
based on the 5-year farm bill--they've made a lot of investments,
they've put a lot of money into their operations based on how this
thing is structured--we should not come in and pull the rug out in the
middle of the deal here. And we should do this in the regular order in
the farm bill. That's where it needs to be done.
This is a bad amendment. I urge my colleagues to oppose it.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. CONAWAY. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. CONAWAY. Madam Chair, I want to make a couple of quick points.
The ranking member, the former chairman of the Ag Committee, made a
good point, which is the percentages that get bandied about in this
regard that seem to make the arguments a little more inflammatory are
based on a skewed definition. You don't live on a farm that makes only
$1,000 of gross revenue. That's not a farmer who's in the business of
farming, and that's who these Ag support safety nets should support.
I would like to make one comment about why the Ag Committee is the
one that ought to be making these kinds of things. If you will read the
gentleman's amendment, it says, ``to a person, legal entity, if the
average adjusted gross income of the person or legal entity is
$250,000.'' Average of what, Madam Chairman? Average of 1 year? Average
of 5 years? Average of a lifetime? Average of what? And so a poorly
crafted amendment--I know the gentleman is working in good faith, he
has been at this for a long time, I don't have any problem with that,
but this is an example of a hastily drawn, poorly
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drafted amendment that is unenforceable in effect and it skews up. So
in addition to all the other things we have said about letting the Ag
Committee do it, here's a good example of why.
Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. CRAWFORD. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word.
The CHAIR. The gentleman from Arkansas is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. CRAWFORD. Madam Chair, I also rise today because I strongly
oppose this amendment.
As I've listened to the debate, I think some folks are missing some
fundamental principles of where our Nation's food supply comes from.
I've seen many Members come to the floor to defend funding our
nutrition programs--which is obviously a worthy cause--but at the same
time many of those Members come down here and attempt to pull the rug
out from under farmers by scrapping programs that provide an important
safety net to our producers.
We have to be clear: We can't have a stable food supply for
recipients of nutrition programs and all Americans unless our commodity
producers have some stability. Through a deliberate and balanced
approach, the Ag Committee has brought reform to the AGI means test by
further targeting program benefits to those individuals that depend on
farming for their livelihood. By setting the income level at an
appropriate level, the committee recognized the production costs and
the economies of scale that are necessary to be competitive in today's
agriculture. An overly restrictive AGI ceiling disregards the financial
reality of commercially viable farms.
Let's be clear about this: A farmer's AGI is not profit. There are
still a number of expenses that must be covered. In addition to
personal expenses, farmers must service the debt that, given the cost
of today's machinery and land, can easily reach into the millions of
dollars.
At a time when more and more people have to rely on the productivity
and stability of American agriculture, now is not the time to pose a
threat to the very food source on which they rely.
Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last
word.
The CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia. Madam Chair, I know that $250,000 sounds
like a lot of money. It will buy you a third of a new John Deere cotton
picker.
From our standpoint as a country, agriculture and manufacturing have
been the foundations of our economy. The things that we need to get our
economy back on track are access to capital and regulatory certainty.
And when you make changes that are this drastic on the floor through an
amendment process instead of going through the committee process where
it should be done, then you hinder those two things. Farmers lose
confidence, and their lenders lose confidence in Federal policy, and
that does away with the stability and predictability that some of these
issues are designed to provide. The loans necessary to operate the
business may become harder to come by if we start to make amendments
like this and allow amendments like this on the floor.
I simply rise to say this: Agriculture has been strong. It's been one
of the bright spots in America, and it will continue to be one of the
bright spots in America because of the work ethic of the people
involved in the agricultural industry.
I would ask my colleagues to oppose this amendment and allow us to
deal with this in the Agriculture Committee in the farm bill that we
will be starting over the next couple of weeks.
Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the
gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Flake).
The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes
appeared to have it.
Mr. FLAKE. Madam Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Arizona will
be postponed.
Amendment Offered by Mr. Lipinski
Mr. LIPINSKI. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
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 by this Act may
be used to alter contract no. GS-35F-4076D with respect to
the location of data storage.
Mr. KINGSTON. Madam Chair, I reserve a point of order on the
gentleman's amendment.
The CHAIR. A point of order is reserved.
The gentleman from Illinois is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. LIPINSKI. Madam Chair, I applaud the administration's leadership
in looking for ways to save money and simplify our Federal IT
infrastructure by moving data to storage in cloud computing, but the
critical question is where will this data actually be stored?
There is no reason for essential government data to be stored in
offshore facilities, and the USDA has recognized that fact. In cloud
computing contracts signed by the USDA, Secretary Vilsack and CIO Chris
Smith have insisted that all data must be stored in the United States.
This amendment seeks to reinforce and codify USDA contracts' terms
specifically regarding where the data is stored. That is all that this
speaks to. It says that this contract, in regards to where the data is
stored, will be codified with this amendment.
Now, why is this important? It's critical for security reasons. We
shouldn't have to worry about another nation seizing the infrastructure
where our data is stored. It's critical for reliability reasons. We
don't want another country, either intentionally or accidentally,
disconnecting us from the servers we need to run our government.
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And it is critical because building, operating, and safeguarding this
infrastructure here in the United States also means more American jobs.
So what this amendment seeks to do, as I said, is just look at this
one part of the contract and say this data must be stored here in the
United States, that this cannot be changed.
I ask my colleagues to support this amendment. It is budget neutral.
It supports the efforts of the USDA and keeps our data secure and
accessible and supports American jobs.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Chairman, I withdraw my reservation--as I read the
amendment, it looks like it is in order--and I move to strike the last
word.
The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Bishop of Utah). The gentleman from Georgia is
recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. KINGSTON. I oppose the amendment, and do so out of caution.
What I want to say to my friend, who knows a lot about this and I
know is a very careful steward of tax dollars and very deliberative in
his legislation in general, I am not that familiar with the issue. I am
not certain why location is that important, and I am very reluctant to
tie the hands of the USDA in seeking the best contract. I want them to
do what a business would do and be free from micromanagement by the
U.S. Congress. If the location is outside of the United States or the
location is in Illinois or in Georgia or in California, I want them to
do what is best for the USDA and the best for the taxpayers. As I
understand this amendment, it would limit that sort of flexibility.
So I oppose the amendment; but I want to say to the gentleman from
Illinois, I certainly will continue a dialogue with you on this,
because I do realize I need to learn more about it. But on that basis,
I do not want to tie their hands based on location.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. FARR. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. FARR. I yield to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Lipinski).
Mr. LIPINSKI. I thank the ranking member very much for yielding.
I thank the chairman for his comments, but I think there has been a
little bit of confusion, and I just want to clear this up. This speaks
specifically
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to a contract that the USDA has already entered into, and essentially
it is just looking at that one piece of that contract that says all
data must be stored in the United States and codifying that to say that
that part cannot be changed.
This is one contract that has already been signed. It is not speaking
to anything else in the future. But I think that it is important for
security that I think this is a good move that the USDA made. So I just
want to speak to that in this amendment specifically, and it is not in
any way tying the hands of the USDA or any other agency in the future.
I would hope that the other agencies, USDA and other agencies, follow
this lead in the future because I think it is good for the United
States. But it doesn't any further tie the hands of the USDA. I just
wanted to clear that up.
Mr. FARR. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Lipinski).
The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes
appeared to have it.
Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois
will be postponed.
Amendment Offered by Mr. Flake
Mr. FLAKE. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
The Acting 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 new section:
Sec. __. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available by this Act may be used to pay the salaries and
expenses of personnel to carry out a market access program
under section 203 of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (7
U.S.C. 5623).
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Arizona is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. FLAKE. Mr. Chairman, administered by the USDA's Foreign
Agricultural Service, the MAP program uses funds from the Commodity
Credit Corporation to aid the development, expansion and maintenance of
foreign markets for U.S. agricultural commodities and products. It does
so by forming partnerships with nonprofit trade organizations and
cooperatives, nonprofit State regional trade groups, small businesses
and others to market our products overseas.
In a perfect world, if there is a lot of money hanging around to do
something, this might be a good thing to do to help these small
companies market their products overseas. I would argue that is really
not the proper role and function of government, but people could argue
when times are good, let's do that. But we are borrowing 40 cents on
the dollar. Every dollar that we spend on this kind of thing is
borrowed. And we are borrowing money to subsidize companies, small and
large, to market their products overseas.
A while ago, The New York Times shined some light on this program.
They spotlighted the ridiculousness of a fashion show in India put on
with taxpayer money in partnership with the cotton industry's Cotton
Council International. Here we are subsidizing a fashion show in India
in partnership with the Cotton Council International.
The article notes that ``over the last decade, the program has
provided nearly $2 billion in taxpayer money to agricultural trade
associations and farmer cooperatives. These promotions are as varied as
a manual for pet owners in Japan and a class at a Mexican culinary
school to teach aspiring chefs how to cook rice for Mexican
customers.'' Come on. We are spending money that we are borrowing for
this kind of activity.
You will hear arguments for every dollar we spend in this, it yields
$20 in returned income or whatever else. You always hear that when you
hear about government spending that people want to protect. But let me
say, when we are running debt and deficits like we are today, we
shouldn't be running programs like this. We ought to save money where
we can.
Time magazine also noted here that a lot of the money goes to large
farmer-owned cooperatives. It will be portrayed it is just helping
small businesses, that there have been reforms to make sure it doesn't
go to corporations like McDonald's or whatever else.
But this article noted that corporations like Sunkist, Welch's and
Blue Diamond, which grows and sells almonds, combined these three
companies had over $2 billion in sales in 2009. These aren't small
companies, yet we are subsidizing them. We are subsidizing the
promotion of their products overseas. I am glad they are exporting. I
hope they continue to export. But they don't need to do it with
taxpayer money.
I urge adoption of the amendment.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. FARR. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. FARR. Mr. Chairman, this is the kind of program that I think Mr.
Flake pointed out that you wonder why we use taxpayer moneys to market
American agriculture abroad, and you say, well, we don't need to do
that. As he pointed out, he pointed out a couple of great big companies
that take advantage of it.
But guess what? In this legislation we carve out so that the small
businesses can take advantage of this. And why do we do that? I don't
know how much you see in the advertising that goes on to buy products
from other countries, but remember the Juan Valdez coffee ad for
Colombian coffee, ``Wake up and smell the coffee''? Guess what? That
was subsidized by the Colombian Government. It was very, very
effective. Coffee prices actually went down and they lost their ability
because it cost them about $40 million a year to do that advertising.
What we have created in the United States is a matching program
saying, you put up your money first, put up the private sector money,
and we will match it, and we carve out and protect it.
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And I'm just looking. California has a lot of congressional
districts. You wouldn't think that districts in San Francisco or Los
Angeles--we have 53 Members of Congress from California. There's only
four congressional districts in California that don't take advantage of
this program. I would imagine those are in the middle of Los Angeles.
Because there are companies in it--and I can go through all of them. A
lot of them are very small. In my county alone, we have Soy Vay, for
example. Soy Vay, the sauce. That's a husband and wife company. They
take advantage by putting some of their money up and then they get to
advertise. I don't know what countries they choose to advertise in.
They can't advertise their product per se. They have to advertise the
generic of it. So you don't sell Sunkist oranges, you sell: You should
buy more California oranges.
It's an easy program to attack, but when you get down to managing in
a global market and world competition, this stuff makes sense. As long
as other countries are going to do it to us to stay competitive, we've
got to do it to them. I think our way of doing it protects the small
producer, more than anybody else, and allows them to get--we do this in
tourism promotion all the time. We just passed a bill to advertise
United States abroad. We have a Tourism Promotion Board to do that.
We're going to have to be globally competitive. And this is one of the
programs that allows us to be globally competitive.
Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. Will the gentleman yield?
Mr. FARR. I yield to the gentleman from Georgia.
Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. Thank you very much.
I couldn't agree with Mr. Farr more. The one thing that I think we
need to understand that this program enhances is our trade deficit. We
have been suffering with a global economy over the years. But the one
aspect of the American economy in terms of our trade deficit that has
kept us afloat has been agricultural exports. And it's programs like
the Market Access Program that has allowed us to maintain a trade
balance with our global competitors.
So I would think that this is a program that we ought to carefully
protect. It's a program that works. And it's what has kept our trade
deficit at
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the level that it is. If we should take this away, we can look to have
more products from China, fewer of our exports going overseas, and
fewer of the smaller companies that benefit from this carve-out, being
able to utilize the Internet marketing and to sell their products
oversees. So I would think that this is, again, penny-wise, pound-
foolish, and it should be defeated.
Mr. FARR. I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Oklahoma is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. LUCAS. Let me ever so briefly say that I oppose the amendment.
It, once again, is the process of cutting funding for the Market Access
Program, in effect legislating farm policy through the appropriations
process. It is not appropriate under regular order. It should not be
occurring. We will consider this, along with other programs, in the
2012 Farm Bill program.
Let me note, I agree with my colleagues. Over the last 25 years MAP
has boosted agriculture exports, it has increased American jobs, it has
added to rural income. I know we have a lot of discussion these days on
creation of jobs, and rightly so. Exports are one of the most surefire
ways to increase American jobs. In fact, for every billion dollars in
exports, approximately 8,400 jobs are created here at home. In 2010,
agricultural exports alone supported nearly 1 million American jobs.
Please oppose the amendment.
I yield back the balance of my time.
The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the
gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Flake).
The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes
appeared to have it.
Mr. FLAKE. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Arizona will
be postponed.
Ms. SEWELL. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Alabama is recognized for 5
minutes.
Ms. SEWELL. I would have offered an amendment to actually control the
cormorants, which are an invasive species that affect the catfish
farmers. I understand that due to technical reasons, I can't. But I was
hoping the chairman would allow me to engage in a colloquy regarding
it.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services, APHIS as it's known,
is an agency within the USDA which plays a critical role in helping
farmers to handle losses as a result of wolves, coyotes, birds, and
other invasive species. This agency is especially important to our
catfish farmers because it helps to protect and control the livestock
from cormorants, which are birds that prey upon catfish.
In the South, especially in Alabama, the southern catfish production
has seen phenomenal growth over the last 30 years. The continued growth
of the catfish industry has really been limited by the growth of these
cormorants and other invasive species that feed upon the livestock.
The State of Alabama has roughly 22,000 water acres of fish farms
where nearly 200 commercial farmers produce 25 different species, most
of which are catfish. In Alabama, farmers are quite concerned that in
the committee record it looked as if the control of these invasive
species would be limited only to the Southeast. I don't think that was
the original intent of the committee report.
I really was hoping the chairman would address that issue and just
clarify, if he would, whether or not the cormorants funding would be
limited.
Mr. KINGSTON. Will the gentlewoman yield?
Ms. SEWELL. I yield to the gentleman from Georgia.
Mr. KINGSTON. I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and also to bring
up the fact that the cormorants are a problem all over the country. And
certainly, as one from Georgia, I know exactly that you in Alabama are
having the problems that they have in the Northeast and in Mississippi
and all the other places. I will absolutely work with the gentlewoman
from Alabama to make sure that the USDA is addressing your cormorant
problems. And I will work with the ranking member from California to
make sure that it does not get forgotten.
I also appreciate your diligence on the cormorant issue. Realizing
that the report is a little bit misleading as we have written it, I
think you have underscored something that we all are behind you on. So
we will work with you on it.
Ms. SEWELL. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. PETERSON. Will the gentlewoman yield?
Ms. SEWELL. I yield to the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Peterson).
Mr. PETERSON. I'm sorry, I was out of the Chamber. As I understand
it, you're trying to get the cormorant animal damage extended to other
parts of the country.
Ms. SEWELL. To make sure on the clarification of the language.
Mr. PETERSON. That is a very important thing. This is getting to be a
bigger and bigger problem. We've had the problem in the Midwest. They
have had the problem in the Northeast. But there's a lot of problems I
know in Alabama and Mississippi and some of those States as well
because these birds migrate.
As I said earlier, the reason we got into this problem is because we
entered into this migratory bird treaty with Mexico and Canada back in
1973. In Mexico, blackbirds are sacred as part of their culture down
there. And so there's a prohibition in that treaty against any hunting
of any blackbirds, whether it be crows or cormorant or whatever it is.
So that has tied our hands in terms of trying to deal with these
issues.
We've been able to make changes on kind of a pilot basis in certain
areas, but we need to do this all over the country because these birds
migrate. They go all the way from Canada, down to Mexico, and back and
forth. They cause a lot of damage to fish farms. In my part of the
world, it's sport fishing lakes. A cormorant will eat three times its
weight in fish a day. They do tremendous damage when they get in there.
So I support the gentlewoman and hope we can extend this program
around the country.
Ms. SEWELL. I yield back the balance of my time.
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Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Georgia is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. KINGSTON. I want to thank the ranking member for working with us
on this bill. I want to thank all the minority and the majority staff
for all their fine work. We would not be here today without them. At
their request and because the hour is late and Members are eager to
vote on this bill, I will submit the names of all the hardworking
people who made this thing happen, but I wanted to say thank you on
behalf of both of us.
I yield to my friend from California.
Mr. FARR. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
I know we've been here almost 25 hours of debate. I appreciate the
open rule and the fact that we've had a huge debate. I personally would
like to thank you and all the staff. I wore my Father's Day tie for you
because I know your children are in town and you've been spending a lot
of time here on the floor, and I'd like to wish you a happy Father's
Day.
Mr. KINGSTON. The same to you. I wore my organic cotton tie on your
behalf. Thank you very much.
This legislation would not be possible without the great working
relationship I enjoy with our ranking member Mr. Farr. Again, we don't
always agree but we do try to communicate and put together a sound
product. I also thank all the staffers who have averaged about 50-60
hours a week since December to make this happen. Matt Smith and Martha
Foley with the Minority, and Rochelle Dornatt and Troy Phillips with
Ranking Member Farr's office, our majority staff clerk of many years
Martin Delgado and his team Tom O'Brien, Betsy Bina, and Andrew Cooper.
From my personal office, Allie Thigpen, Michael Donnal, Adam Sullivan,
Chris Crawford, Caroline Black, and Mary Carpenter. You might not see
them on the House floor, but their fingerprints are all over the bill.
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings
will
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now resume on those amendments on which further proceedings were
postponed, in the following order:
An amendment by Ms. Pingree of Maine.
Amendment No. 1 by Ms. Foxx of North Carolina.
Amendment No. 25 by Mr. Kind of Wisconsin.
An amendment by Mr. Dingell of Michigan.
An amendment by Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas.
Amendment No. 23 by Mr. Gibson of New York.
Amendment No. 3 by Mr. Blumenauer of Oregon.
Amendment No. 1 by Mr. King of Iowa.
Amendment No. 2 by Mr. King of Iowa.
Amendment No. 22 by Mr. Garrett of New Jersey.
Amendment No. 29 by Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas.
An amendment by Mr. Scalise of Louisiana.
Amendment No. 28 by Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas.
An amendment by Ms. Hirono of Hawaii.
Amendment No. 38 by Mr. Holden of Pennsylvania.
An amendment by Mr. Campbell of California.
An amendment by Mrs. Blackburn of Tennessee.
Amendment No. 1 by Mr. Flake of Arizona.
Amendment No. 2 by Mr. Flake of Arizona.
An amendment by Mr. Lipinski of Illinois.
Amendment No. 3 by Mr. Flake of Arizona.
The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the time for any electronic vote
after the first vote in this series.
Amendment Offered by Ms. Pingree of Maine
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Maine
(Ms. Pingree) 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 Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIR. The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the time for any
electronic vote after the first vote in this series.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 170,
noes 238, not voting 24, as follows:
[Roll No. 437]
AYES--170
Ackerman
Andrews
Baldwin
Barrow
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)
Chandler
Chu
Cicilline
Clarke (MI)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Clyburn
Coffman (CO)
Cohen
Connolly (VA)
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Deutch
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Fortenberry
Fudge
Garamendi
Gibson
Gonzalez
Green, Al
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hanabusa
Hanna
Hastings (FL)
Heinrich
Higgins
Himes
Hinchey
Hirono
Hochul
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson Lee (TX)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Keating
Kildee
Kind
Kissell
Kucinich
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lujan
Lynch
Maloney
Markey
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Murphy (CT)
Nadler
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree (ME)
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Reyes
Richmond
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Runyan
Ruppersberger
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sewell
Sherman
Shuler
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stark
Sutton
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Tonko
Towns
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
NOES--238
Adams
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Altmire
Amash
Austria
Baca
Bachmann
Bachus
Barletta
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Bass (NH)
Benishek
Berg
Biggert
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
Chaffetz
Cleaver
Coble
Cole
Conaway
Cravaack
Crawford
Crenshaw
Critz
Culberson
Davis (KY)
Dent
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Dold
Donnelly (IN)
Dreier
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers
Emerson
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Flake
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Gardner
Garrett
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Grimm
Guinta
Guthrie
Hall
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Heck
Hensarling
Herger
Herrera Beutler
Hinojosa
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (IL)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
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
Manzullo
Marchant
Marino
Matheson
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meehan
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Napolitano
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Palazzo
Paul
Paulsen
Pearce
Pence
Petri
Pitts
Platts
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Quayle
Reed
Rehberg
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Richardson
Rigell
Rivera
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (AR)
Ross (FL)
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Scalise
Schilling
Schmidt
Schock
Scott (SC)
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Sires
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Southerland
Stearns
Stutzman
Sullivan
Terry
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Turner
Upton
Walberg
Walden
Walsh (IL)
Webster
West
Westmoreland
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Young (IN)
NOT VOTING--24
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Denham
Eshoo
Frank (MA)
Giffords
Green, Gene
Inslee
Larson (CT)
McCotter
Neal
Olson
Olver
Poe (TX)
Polis
Rangel
Rokita
Rush
Schweikert
Slaughter
Stivers
Tsongas
Weiner
Whitfield
{time} 1158
Messrs. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia, WEST, YOUNG of Indiana, HALL, and
CULBERSON changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
Messrs. JACKSON of Illinois, GUTIERREZ, CUMMINGS, COFFMAN of
Colorado, Ms. BASS of California, Messrs. WELCH and COSTA changed their
vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Stated for:
Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 437, I missed the
vote due to a hearing on Pipeline Safety in Energy & Commerce
Subcommittee. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.''
Stated against:
Mr. BILIRAKIS. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 437, had I been present, I
would have voted ``no.''
Amendment No. 1 Offered by Ms. Foxx
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from North
Carolina (Ms. Foxx) 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 Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
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The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 212,
noes 201, not voting 19, as follows:
[Roll No. 438]
AYES--212
Adams
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Amash
Austria
Bachmann
Bachus
Bartlett
Benishek
Berg
Biggert
Bilbray
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boren
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brooks
Broun (GA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Buerkle
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canseco
Capito
Carney
Carter
Cassidy
Chabot
Chaffetz
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cole
Conaway
Cravaack
Crawford
Crenshaw
Culberson
Davis (KY)
Denham
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Dold
Dreier
Duncan (SC)
Ellmers
Emerson
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Flake
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Gardner
Garrett
Gibbs
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Grimm
Guinta
Guthrie
Hall
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Heck
Hensarling
Herger
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Kelly
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Labrador
Lamborn
Lance
Landry
Lankford
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lewis (CA)
Long
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Manzullo
Marchant
Marino
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKeon
McKinley
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Palazzo
Paul
Paulsen
Pearce
Pence
Petri
Platts
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Quayle
Reed
Rehberg
Reichert
Renacci
Rigell
Rivera
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (FL)
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Scalise
Schmidt
Schock
Schweikert
Scott (SC)
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Southerland
Stearns
Stutzman
Sullivan
Terry
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Turner
Upton
Walden
Walsh (IL)
Webster
West
Westmoreland
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Young (IN)
NOES--201
Ackerman
Altmire
Andrews
Baca
Baldwin
Barletta
Barrow
Barton (TX)
Bass (CA)
Bass (NH)
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Boswell
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brown (FL)
Butterfield
Cantor
Capps
Capuano
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carson (IN)
Castor (FL)
Chandler
Chu
Cicilline
Clarke (MI)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly (VA)
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Critz
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Dent
Deutch
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Duffy
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Fortenberry
Frank (MA)
Fudge
Garamendi
Gerlach
Gibson
Gonzalez
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hanabusa
Hanna
Hastings (FL)
Heinrich
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Himes
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hochul
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson Lee (TX)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Keating
Kildee
Kind
Kissell
Kucinich
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lujan
Lynch
Maloney
Markey
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
Meehan
Meeks
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Murphy (CT)
Nadler
Napolitano
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree (ME)
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Reyes
Ribble
Richardson
Richmond
Roe (TN)
Ross (AR)
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Runyan
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schilling
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell
Sherman
Shuler
Sires
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stark
Sutton
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Tonko
Towns
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
NOT VOTING--19
Cleaver
Eshoo
Giffords
Larson (CT)
McCotter
Neal
Olson
Olver
Pelosi
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Rangel
Rokita
Slaughter
Stivers
Tsongas
Walberg
Weiner
Whitfield
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute left in this
vote.
{time} 1203
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Amendment No. 25 Offered by Mr. Kind
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Wisconsin
(Mr. Kind) 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 Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 223,
noes 197, not voting 12, as follows:
[Roll No. 439]
AYES--223
Ackerman
Adams
Altmire
Amash
Andrews
Baca
Bachmann
Baldwin
Bass (CA)
Bass (NH)
Becerra
Benishek
Berkley
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (NY)
Bishop (UT)
Blumenauer
Brady (PA)
Broun (GA)
Buerkle
Burton (IN)
Campbell
Capps
Capuano
Carnahan
Carney
Cassidy
Castor (FL)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Chandler
Chu
Cicilline
Clarke (MI)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cohen
Connolly (VA)
Conyers
Cooper
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (CA)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Dent
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Dreier
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Fitzpatrick
Flake
Frank (MA)
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Garamendi
Garrett
Gerlach
Gibson
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Gowdy
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grimm
Guinta
Gutierrez
Hall
Hanabusa
Harris
Heinrich
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Himes
Hinchey
Hirono
Hochul
Holt
Honda
Hunter
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson Lee (TX)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jordan
Kaptur
Keating
Kildee
Kind
King (NY)
Kucinich
Labrador
Lamborn
Landry
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
LaTourette
Lee (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Lujan
Lummis
Lynch
Maloney
Manzullo
Marino
Markey
Matheson
McClintock
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McKinley
Meehan
Meeks
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Mulvaney
Murphy (CT)
Murphy (PA)
Nadler
Napolitano
Nugent
Pallone
Pascrell
Paul
Payne
Pelosi
Pence
Peters
Petri
Pingree (ME)
Platts
Posey
Price (GA)
Price (NC)
Quayle
Quigley
Rahall
Rehberg
Richardson
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Ross (FL)
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Scalise
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Schweikert
Scott (SC)
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sherman
Shuster
Sires
Smith (NJ)
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stark
Stearns
Stutzman
Sutton
Terry
Tiberi
Tierney
Tonko
Towns
Turner
Upton
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walberg
Walsh (IL)
Waters
Watt
Webster
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wilson (SC)
Wolf
Woodall
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
Yoder
Young (AK)
NOES--197
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Austria
Bachus
Barletta
Barrow
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Berg
Berman
Biggert
Bishop (GA)
Black
Blackburn
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boren
Boswell
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
Brooks
Brown (FL)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Burgess
Butterfield
Calvert
Camp
Canseco
Cantor
Capito
Cardoza
Carson (IN)
Carter
Clyburn
Cole
Conaway
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Cravaack
Crawford
Crenshaw
Critz
Cuellar
Culberson
Davis (IL)
Davis (KY)
Denham
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Dicks
Dold
Ellmers
Emerson
[[Page H4300]]
Farenthold
Fincher
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Gallegly
Gardner
Gibbs
Gonzalez
Goodlatte
Gosar
Granger
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Grijalva
Guthrie
Hanna
Harper
Hartzler
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Heck
Hensarling
Herger
Hinojosa
Holden
Hoyer
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hurt
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson (OH)
Jones
Kelly
King (IA)
Kingston
Kinzinger (IL)
Kissell
Kline
Lance
Lankford
Latham
Latta
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Long
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Marchant
Matsui
McCarthy (CA)
McCarthy (NY)
McCaul
McHenry
McIntyre
McKeon
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
Mica
Miller (NC)
Myrick
Neugebauer
Noem
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Owens
Palazzo
Pastor (AZ)
Paulsen
Pearce
Perlmutter
Peterson
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Polis
Pompeo
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Reyes
Ribble
Richmond
Rigell
Rivera
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (AR)
Runyan
Ruppersberger
Schilling
Schmidt
Schock
Schwartz
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Sessions
Sewell
Shimkus
Shuler
Simpson
Smith (NE)
Smith (TX)
Southerland
Sullivan
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tipton
Walden
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waxman
Welch
West
Wilson (FL)
Wittman
Womack
Young (FL)
Young (IN)
NOT VOTING--12
Eshoo
Giffords
Larson (CT)
McCotter
Neal
Olver
Rangel
Rokita
Slaughter
Stivers
Tsongas
Weiner
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute left in this
vote.
{time} 1214
Mr. WITTMAN, Mrs. BONO MACK, and Mr. POE of Texas changed their vote
from ``aye'' to ``no.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Amendment Offered by Mr. Dingell
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Michigan
(Mr. Dingell) 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 Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 178,
noes 241, not voting 13, as follows:
[Roll No. 440]
AYES--178
Ackerman
Altmire
Andrews
Baca
Baldwin
Barrow
Bass (CA)
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Biggert
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Boren
Boswell
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brown (FL)
Burgess
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Carnahan
Carney
Carson (IN)
Castor (FL)
Chu
Cicilline
Clarke (MI)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly (VA)
Conyers
Cooper
Courtney
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Deutch
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
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
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson Lee (TX)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Keating
Kildee
Kind
Kissell
Kucinich
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lujan
Lynch
Maloney
Markey
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McNerney
Meehan
Meeks
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Murphy (CT)
Murphy (PA)
Nadler
Napolitano
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Pingree (ME)
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Reyes
Richardson
Richmond
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuler
Sires
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stark
Sutton
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Tonko
Towns
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
NOES--241
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
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brooks
Broun (GA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Buerkle
Burton (IN)
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canseco
Cantor
Capito
Cardoza
Carter
Cassidy
Chabot
Chaffetz
Chandler
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cole
Conaway
Costa
Cravaack
Crawford
Crenshaw
Critz
Cuellar
Culberson
Davis (KY)
Denham
Dent
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Dreier
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers
Emerson
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Flake
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
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
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)
Kline
Labrador
Lamborn
Lance
Landry
Lankford
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lewis (CA)
LoBiondo
Long
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Manzullo
Marchant
Marino
Matheson
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Mica
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Mulvaney
Myrick
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Owens
Palazzo
Paul
Paulsen
Pearce
Pence
Peterson
Petri
Pitts
Platts
Poe (TX)
Polis
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Quayle
Reed
Rehberg
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rigell
Rivera
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (AR)
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
Stearns
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--13
Costello
Eshoo
Giffords
Larson (CT)
McCotter
Neal
Olver
Rangel
Rokita
Slaughter
Stivers
Tsongas
Weiner
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in
this vote.
{time} 1218
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Amendment Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Texas
(Ms. Jackson Lee) 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 Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 167,
noes 252, not voting 13, as follows:
[[Page H4301]]
[Roll No. 441]
AYES--167
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
Cohen
Conyers
Cooper
Costello
Courtney
Critz
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Deutch
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Edwards
Ellison
Fattah
Filner
Fitzpatrick
Frank (MA)
Fudge
Garamendi
Gonzalez
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffith (VA)
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hanabusa
Hastings (FL)
Heinrich
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hochul
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson Lee (TX)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Kildee
Kind
Kissell
Kucinich
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lujan
Lynch
Maloney
Markey
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Moran
Murphy (CT)
Nadler
Napolitano
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Pelosi
Peters
Petri
Pingree (ME)
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Reyes
Richardson
Richmond
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schwartz
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sewell
Sherman
Shuler
Sires
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stark
Sutton
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Tonko
Towns
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Welch
West
Wilson (FL)
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
NOES--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
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canseco
Cantor
Capito
Carter
Cassidy
Chabot
Chaffetz
Chandler
Clyburn
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cole
Conaway
Connolly (VA)
Costa
Cravaack
Crawford
Crenshaw
Cuellar
Culberson
Davis (KY)
Denham
Dent
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Dold
Dreier
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers
Emerson
Engel
Farenthold
Farr
Fincher
Flake
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Gardner
Garrett
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gibson
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Griffin (AR)
Grimm
Guinta
Guthrie
Hall
Hanna
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Heck
Hensarling
Herger
Herrera Beutler
Hinchey
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (IL)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Keating
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
Manzullo
Marchant
Marino
Matheson
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McCollum
McHenry
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meehan
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Moore
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Neugebauer
Noem
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Owens
Palazzo
Paul
Paulsen
Pearce
Pence
Perlmutter
Peterson
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
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (AR)
Ross (FL)
Royce
Runyan
Ryan (WI)
Scalise
Schilling
Schmidt
Schock
Schrader
Schweikert
Scott (SC)
Scott, Austin
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Southerland
Stearns
Stutzman
Sullivan
Terry
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Turner
Upton
Walberg
Walden
Walsh (IL)
Webster
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Young (IN)
NOT VOTING--13
Eshoo
Giffords
Larson (CT)
McCotter
Neal
Nugent
Olver
Rangel
Rokita
Slaughter
Stivers
Tsongas
Weiner
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in
this vote.
{time} 1222
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Stated against:
Mr. NUGENT. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 441 I was unavoidably
detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.''
Amendment No. 23 Offered by Mr. Gibson
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York
(Mr. Gibson) 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 Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 221,
noes 198, not voting 13, as follows:
[Roll No. 442]
AYES--221
Ackerman
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Altmire
Austria
Baca
Bachus
Baldwin
Barletta
Barton (TX)
Bass (CA)
Bass (NH)
Benishek
Berg
Berkley
Berman
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (UT)
Boren
Boswell
Boustany
Braley (IA)
Brown (FL)
Burgess
Calvert
Capito
Capps
Capuano
Carnahan
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cassidy
Castor (FL)
Chandler
Chu
Cicilline
Clarke (MI)
Clarke (NY)
Coble
Cohen
Connolly (VA)
Costello
Crawford
Critz
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeLauro
Denham
DesJarlais
Deutch
Dicks
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Duffy
Edwards
Ellison
Emerson
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Fitzpatrick
Forbes
Foxx
Frank (MA)
Franks (AZ)
Fudge
Gallegly
Garamendi
Gardner
Gibbs
Gibson
Gohmert
Gonzalez
Goodlatte
Gosar
Graves (MO)
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Grijalva
Hanabusa
Hanna
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (FL)
Heck
Heinrich
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Hinchey
Hirono
Hochul
Holden
Honda
Hoyer
Huelskamp
Hurt
Inslee
Issa
Jackson (IL)
Jackson Lee (TX)
Jenkins
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones
Jordan
Keating
Kind
King (IA)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kucinich
Labrador
Landry
Langevin
LaTourette
Lee (CA)
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Loebsack
Lowey
Luetkemeyer
Lujan
Lummis
Lynch
Maloney
Manzullo
Markey
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McHenry
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinley
McNerney
Meeks
Mica
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Moran
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Nadler
Napolitano
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Owens
Pastor (AZ)
Pelosi
Petri
Pingree (ME)
Polis
Pompeo
Price (NC)
Rahall
Reed
Rehberg
Renacci
Reyes
Richardson
Richmond
Rigell
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (MI)
Ross (AR)
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Loretta
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schilling
Schock
Schrader
Scott (SC)
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Serrano
Sessions
Sewell
Sherman
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Sires
Smith (NE)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Southerland
Speier
Sutton
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tonko
Towns
Van Hollen
Visclosky
Walden
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Watt
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Wittman
Womack
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Young (IN)
NOES--198
Adams
Amash
Andrews
Bachmann
Barrow
Bartlett
Becerra
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (NY)
Black
Blackburn
Blumenauer
Bonner
Bono Mack
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Brooks
Broun (GA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Buerkle
Burton (IN)
Butterfield
Camp
Campbell
Canseco
Cantor
Cardoza
Carter
Chabot
Chaffetz
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coffman (CO)
Cole
Conaway
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Courtney
Cravaack
Crenshaw
Culberson
Davis (KY)
DeGette
Dent
Diaz-Balart
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Dreier
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers
[[Page H4302]]
Engel
Farenthold
Fincher
Flake
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Fortenberry
Frelinghuysen
Garrett
Gerlach
Gingrey (GA)
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Grimm
Guinta
Guthrie
Gutierrez
Hall
Harper
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hensarling
Herger
Himes
Holt
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Israel
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Kaptur
Kelly
Kildee
King (NY)
Kingston
Kissell
Kline
Lamborn
Lance
Lankford
Larsen (WA)
Latham
Latta
Levin
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Lofgren, Zoe
Long
Lucas
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Marchant
Marino
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McMorris Rodgers
Meehan
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Miller, George
Moore
Murphy (CT)
Myrick
Neugebauer
Nunnelee
Olson
Palazzo
Pallone
Pascrell
Paul
Paulsen
Payne
Pearce
Pence
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pitts
Platts
Poe (TX)
Posey
Price (GA)
Quayle
Quigley
Reichert
Ribble
Rivera
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (KY)
Rohrabacher
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (FL)
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Runyan
Ryan (WI)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sarbanes
Scalise
Schmidt
Schwartz
Schweikert
Sensenbrenner
Shimkus
Smith (NJ)
Stark
Stearns
Stutzman
Sullivan
Terry
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tierney
Tipton
Turner
Upton
Velazquez
Walberg
Walsh (IL)
Waters
Waxman
Webster
West
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wilson (SC)
Wolf
Woodall
Yoder
NOT VOTING--13
Eshoo
Giffords
Hinojosa
Larson (CT)
McCotter
Neal
Olver
Rangel
Rokita
Slaughter
Stivers
Tsongas
Weiner
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining on
this vote.
{time} 1227
Mrs. SCHMIDT changed her vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
Messrs. CLARKE of Michigan and LANDRY changed their vote from ``no''
to ``aye.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Stated for:
Mr. HINOJOSA. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 442, had I been present, I
would have voted ``aye.''
Amendment No. 3 offered by Mr. Blumenauer
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Oregon
(Mr. Blumenauer) 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 Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 154,
noes 262, not voting 16, as follows:
[Roll No. 443]
AYES--154
Ackerman
Amash
Andrews
Bachmann
Baldwin
Bass (CA)
Bass (NH)
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Biggert
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Brady (PA)
Campbell
Capps
Capuano
Castor (FL)
Chabot
Chu
Cicilline
Clarke (MI)
Clay
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cohen
Connolly (VA)
Conyers
Cooper
Crowley
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
Dent
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Doyle
Dreier
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellison
Fattah
Filner
Fitzpatrick
Flake
Frank (MA)
Franks (AZ)
Garamendi
Garrett
Graves (GA)
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Grimm
Gutierrez
Hanabusa
Heinrich
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Himes
Hinchey
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Kildee
Kind
King (NY)
Kucinich
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lujan
Lynch
Maloney
Markey
Matheson
McCarthy (NY)
McClintock
McDermott
McGovern
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Mulvaney
Nadler
Napolitano
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Paul
Paulsen
Payne
Pelosi
Peters
Petri
Pingree (ME)
Polis
Posey
Price (GA)
Quayle
Quigley
Rahall
Reichert
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Runyan
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schwartz
Sensenbrenner
Sherman
Sires
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stark
Sutton
Tierney
Tonko
Towns
Van Hollen
Walsh (IL)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Waxman
Wilson (FL)
Woodall
Wu
Yarmuth
Young (IN)
NOES--262
Adams
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Altmire
Austria
Baca
Bachus
Barletta
Barrow
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Benishek
Berg
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boren
Boswell
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
Brooks
Broun (GA)
Brown (FL)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Buerkle
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Butterfield
Calvert
Camp
Canseco
Cantor
Capito
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carney
Carson (IN)
Carter
Cassidy
Chaffetz
Chandler
Clarke (NY)
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cole
Conaway
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Cravaack
Crawford
Crenshaw
Critz
Cuellar
Culberson
Cummings
Davis (KY)
DeLauro
Denham
DesJarlais
Dicks
Donnelly (IN)
Duffy
Edwards
Ellmers
Emerson
Engel
Farenthold
Farr
Fincher
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gallegly
Gardner
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Gonzalez
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (MO)
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Guinta
Guthrie
Hall
Hanna
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Heck
Herger
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hochul
Holden
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt
Issa
Jackson Lee (TX)
Jenkins
Johnson (IL)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Keating
Kelly
King (IA)
Kingston
Kinzinger (IL)
Kissell
Kline
Labrador
Lamborn
Lance
Lankford
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lee (CA)
Lewis (CA)
Loebsack
Long
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Manzullo
Marchant
Marino
Matsui
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McCollum
McHenry
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
Meehan
Meeks
Mica
Miller (MI)
Miller (NC)
Miller, Gary
Murphy (CT)
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Palazzo
Pastor (AZ)
Pearce
Pence
Perlmutter
Peterson
Pitts
Platts
Poe (TX)
Pompeo
Price (NC)
Reed
Rehberg
Renacci
Reyes
Ribble
Richardson
Richmond
Rigell
Rivera
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (AR)
Ross (FL)
Scalise
Schilling
Schmidt
Schock
Schrader
Schweikert
Scott (SC)
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Serrano
Sessions
Sewell
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Southerland
Stearns
Stutzman
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Turner
Upton
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walberg
Walden
Walz (MN)
Watt
Webster
Welch
West
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woolsey
Yoder
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NOT VOTING--16
Diaz-Balart
Eshoo
Gibson
Giffords
Landry
Larson (CT)
McCotter
Neal
Olver
Rangel
Rokita
Slaughter
Stivers
Sullivan
Tsongas
Weiner
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in
this vote.
{time} 1230
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Stated against:
Mr. GIBSON. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 443, I would have voted
``no.''
Amendment Offered by Mr. King of Iowa
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on amendment No. 1 offered by the gentleman from Iowa
(Mr. King) 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 Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
[[Page H4303]]
The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 155,
noes 262, not voting 15, as follows:
[Roll No. 444]
AYES--155
Adams
Akin
Bachmann
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Benishek
Berg
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Bono Mack
Brady (TX)
Brooks
Broun (GA)
Buerkle
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Camp
Campbell
Canseco
Cantor
Carter
Chaffetz
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Conaway
Crenshaw
Culberson
Davis (KY)
Denham
Dent
DesJarlais
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Flake
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gardner
Garrett
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Griffith (VA)
Grimm
Guinta
Hall
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (WA)
Hensarling
Herger
Huelskamp
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt
Jenkins
Jordan
Kelly
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Lamborn
Lankford
Latham
Latta
LoBiondo
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Mack
Manzullo
Marchant
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Mulvaney
Myrick
Neugebauer
Nugent
Nunnelee
Olson
Palazzo
Paul
Paulsen
Pence
Petri
Pitts
Platts
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Quayle
Reed
Reichert
Ribble
Roe (TN)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Roskam
Ross (FL)
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Scalise
Schilling
Schmidt
Schock
Schweikert
Scott (SC)
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shuster
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Southerland
Stearns
Stutzman
Sullivan
Thornberry
Tipton
Upton
Walberg
Walden
Walsh (IL)
Webster
Westmoreland
Wolf
Womack
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NOES--262
Ackerman
Aderholt
Alexander
Altmire
Amash
Andrews
Austria
Baca
Bachus
Baldwin
Barletta
Barrow
Bass (CA)
Bass (NH)
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Biggert
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Bonner
Boren
Boswell
Boustany
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brown (FL)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Butterfield
Calvert
Capito
Capps
Capuano
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cassidy
Castor (FL)
Chabot
Chandler
Chu
Cicilline
Clarke (MI)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Cole
Connolly (VA)
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Cravaack
Crawford
Critz
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Dreier
Edwards
Ellison
Emerson
Engel
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Forbes
Fortenberry
Frank (MA)
Fudge
Gallegly
Garamendi
Gibson
Gonzalez
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffin (AR)
Grijalva
Guthrie
Gutierrez
Hanabusa
Harper
Hastings (FL)
Hayworth
Heck
Heinrich
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Himes
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hochul
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Huizenga (MI)
Inslee
Israel
Issa
Jackson (IL)
Jackson Lee (TX)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kaptur
Keating
Kildee
Kind
Kinzinger (IL)
Kissell
Kline
Kucinich
Lance
Landry
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
LaTourette
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Long
Lowey
Lujan
Lungren, Daniel E.
Lynch
Maloney
Marino
Markey
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McKeon
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
Meehan
Meeks
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Murphy (CT)
Murphy (PA)
Nadler
Napolitano
Noem
Nunes
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Pearce
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree (ME)
Poe (TX)
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Rehberg
Renacci
Reyes
Richardson
Richmond
Rigell
Rivera
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Ross (AR)
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Runyan
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuler
Simpson
Sires
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stark
Sutton
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Tiberi
Tierney
Tonko
Towns
Turner
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Welch
West
Whitfield
Wilson (FL)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Woodall
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
Yoder
Young (IN)
NOT VOTING--15
Eshoo
Giffords
Hanna
Johnson (IL)
Labrador
Larson (CT)
McCotter
Neal
Olver
Rangel
Rokita
Slaughter
Stivers
Tsongas
Weiner
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). One minute remains in this vote.
{time} 1235
Mrs. SCHMIDT changed her vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
PERSONAL EXPLANATION
Mr. JOHNSON of Illinois. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 444, I was taken
from the floor by Agricultural staff to analyze certain issues, and
inadvertently missed the first King amendment. I have been a strong
supporter of ranch justice, including in the farm arena. However, the
process of dealing with claims, and the fiscal impact, necessitate a
``present'' vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``present.''
Amendment Offered by Mr. King of Iowa
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on amendment No. 2 offered by the gentleman from Iowa
(Mr. King) 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 Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 240,
noes 176, not voting 16, as follows:
[Roll No. 445]
AYES--240
Adams
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Amash
Austria
Bachmann
Bachus
Barletta
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Benishek
Berg
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
Carter
Cassidy
Chabot
Chaffetz
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cole
Conaway
Costello
Cravaack
Crawford
Crenshaw
Critz
Cuellar
Culberson
Davis (KY)
Denham
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Donnelly (IN)
Dreier
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers
Emerson
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Flake
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
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
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (WA)
Heck
Hensarling
Herger
Herrera Beutler
Holden
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Kaptur
Kelly
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Labrador
Lamborn
Lance
Landry
Langevin
Lankford
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lewis (CA)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Long
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Manzullo
Marchant
Marino
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meehan
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Palazzo
Paul
Paulsen
Pearce
Pence
Peterson
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
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
Simpson
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Southerland
Stearns
Stutzman
Sullivan
Terry
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Turner
Walberg
Walden
Walsh (IL)
Webster
West
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Young (IN)
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NOES--176
Ackerman
Altmire
Andrews
Baca
Baldwin
Barrow
Bass (CA)
Bass (NH)
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Biggert
Bilbray
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
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
Courtney
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Dent
Deutch
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Doyle
Edwards
Engel
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Frank (MA)
Fudge
Garamendi
Gonzalez
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hanabusa
Hanna
Hastings (FL)
Hayworth
Heinrich
Higgins
Himes
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hochul
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson Lee (TX)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Keating
Kildee
Kind
Kissell
Kucinich
Larsen (WA)
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lujan
Lynch
Maloney
Markey
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Moore
Moran
Murphy (CT)
Nadler
Napolitano
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Pingree (ME)
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Reyes
Richardson
Richmond
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell
Sherman
Sires
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stark
Sutton
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Tonko
Towns
Upton
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
NOT VOTING--16
Ellison
Eshoo
Giffords
Johnson (IL)
Larson (CT)
McCotter
Meeks
Miller, George
Neal
Olver
Rangel
Rokita
Slaughter
Stivers
Tsongas
Weiner
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). One minute remains in this vote.
{time} 1238
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Stated against:
Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Chair, on June 16, 2011, I inadvertently missed
rollcall No. 445, and would have voted ``no'' on that rollcall vote.
personal explanation
Mr. JOHNSON of Illinois. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 445, I was taken
off the floor by agricultural staff to analyze certain agricultural
issues, and inadvertently missed the vote. I am a strong pro-life
Member, but this amendment addresses an issue simply not a part of the
bill. Had I been present, I would have voted ``present.''
Amendment No. 22 Offered by Mr. Garrett
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New Jersey
(Mr. Garrett) 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 Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 231,
noes 189, not voting 12, as follows:
[Roll No. 446]
AYES--231
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
Boren
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brooks
Broun (GA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Buerkle
Burton (IN)
Calvert
Camp
Canseco
Cantor
Capito
Carter
Cassidy
Chabot
Chaffetz
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
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Gardner
Garrett
Gerlach
Gibbs
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
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
Manzullo
Marchant
Marino
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meehan
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Palazzo
Paul
Paulsen
Pearce
Pence
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
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)
Southerland
Stearns
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--189
Ackerman
Altmire
Andrews
Baca
Baldwin
Barrow
Bass (CA)
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Boswell
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brown (FL)
Burgess
Butterfield
Campbell
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
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Fortenberry
Frank (MA)
Fudge
Garamendi
Gibson
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.
Jones
Kaptur
Keating
Kildee
Kind
Kissell
Kucinich
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
LaTourette
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lujan
Lynch
Maloney
Markey
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Murphy (CT)
Nadler
Napolitano
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree (ME)
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Reyes
Richardson
Richmond
Ross (AR)
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell
Sherman
Shuler
Sires
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stark
Sutton
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Tonko
Towns
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
NOT VOTING--12
Eshoo
Giffords
Larson (CT)
McCotter
Neal
Olver
Rangel
Rokita
Slaughter
Stivers
Tsongas
Weiner
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in
this vote.
{time} 1242
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Amendment No. 29 Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Texas
(Ms. Jackson Lee) on which further proceedings were postponed and on
which the noes prevailed by voice vote.
[[Page H4305]]
The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
The Clerk redesignated the amendment.
Recorded Vote
The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 181,
noes 237, not voting 14, as follows:
[Roll No. 447]
AYES--181
Ackerman
Altmire
Andrews
Baca
Baldwin
Barrow
Bass (CA)
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Biggert
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Boren
Boswell
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brown (FL)
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Carnahan
Carney
Carson (IN)
Castor (FL)
Chandler
Chu
Cicilline
Clarke (MI)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly (VA)
Conyers
Cooper
Costello
Courtney
Critz
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Deutch
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
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 (IL)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Keating
Kildee
Kind
Kissell
Kucinich
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lujan
Lynch
Maloney
Markey
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McNerney
Meehan
Meeks
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Moore
Moran
Murphy (CT)
Nadler
Napolitano
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Pelosi
Peters
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Reyes
Richardson
Richmond
Rohrabacher
Ross (AR)
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell
Sherman
Shuler
Sires
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stark
Sutton
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Tonko
Towns
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
NOES--237
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
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brooks
Broun (GA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Buerkle
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canseco
Cantor
Capito
Cardoza
Carter
Cassidy
Chabot
Chaffetz
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cole
Conaway
Costa
Cravaack
Crawford
Crenshaw
Culberson
Davis (KY)
Denham
Dent
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Dreier
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers
Emerson
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Flake
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
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 (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
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
Manzullo
Marchant
Marino
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Olson
Owens
Palazzo
Paul
Paulsen
Pearce
Pence
Perlmutter
Peterson
Petri
Pingree (ME)
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)
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (FL)
Royce
Runyan
Ruppersberger
Ryan (WI)
Scalise
Schilling
Schmidt
Schock
Schweikert
Scott (SC)
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Southerland
Stearns
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--14
Eshoo
Giffords
Larson (CT)
McCotter
Miller, George
Neal
Nunnelee
Olver
Rangel
Rokita
Slaughter
Stivers
Tsongas
Weiner
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in
this vote.
{time} 1245
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Amendment Offered by Mr. Scalise
The Acting 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 Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 238,
noes 179, not voting 15, as follows:
[Roll No. 448]
AYES--238
Adams
Aderholt
Alexander
Altmire
Amash
Austria
Bachmann
Bachus
Barletta
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Benishek
Berg
Biggert
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
Canseco
Cantor
Capito
Carter
Cassidy
Chabot
Chaffetz
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cole
Conaway
Costello
Cravaack
Crawford
Crenshaw
Critz
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)
Frelinghuysen
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
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (WA)
Heck
Hensarling
Herger
Herrera Beutler
Holden
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt
Jenkins
Johnson (IL)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
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
Manzullo
Marchant
Marino
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meehan
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Neugebauer
Noem
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Palazzo
Paul
Paulsen
Pearce
Pence
Peterson
Petri
Pitts
Platts
Poe (TX)
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Quayle
Rahall
Reed
Rehberg
Renacci
Ribble
Rigell
Rivera
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (AR)
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
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--179
Ackerman
Andrews
Baca
Baldwin
Barrow
Bass (CA)
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Bass (NH)
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
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
Courtney
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Deutch
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Frank (MA)
Fudge
Garamendi
Gonzalez
Green, Al
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hanabusa
Hanna
Hastings (FL)
Hayworth
Heinrich
Higgins
Himes
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hochul
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Issa
Jackson (IL)
Jackson Lee (TX)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Keating
Kildee
Kind
Kissell
Kucinich
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lujan
Lynch
Maloney
Markey
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McNerney
Meeks
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Murphy (CT)
Nadler
Napolitano
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Pingree (ME)
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Reichert
Reyes
Richardson
Richmond
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell
Sherman
Shuler
Sires
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stark
Sutton
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Tonko
Towns
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
NOT VOTING--15
Akin
Bilbray
Eshoo
Giffords
Larson (CT)
McCotter
Neal
Nugent
Olver
Rangel
Rokita
Slaughter
Stivers
Tsongas
Weiner
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in
this vote.
{time} 1248
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Stated for:
Mr. AKIN. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 448, had I been present, I would
have voted ``aye.''
Mr. NUGENT. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 448, had I been present, I
would have voted ``aye.''
Amendment No. 28 Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Texas
(Ms. Jackson Lee) 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 Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 182,
noes 235, not voting 15, as follows:
[Roll No. 449]
AYES--182
Ackerman
Andrews
Baca
Baldwin
Barrow
Bartlett
Bass (CA)
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Biggert
Bilbray
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Boren
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brown (FL)
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Carnahan
Carney
Carson (IN)
Castor (FL)
Chandler
Chu
Cicilline
Clarke (MI)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly (VA)
Conyers
Cooper
Costello
Courtney
Critz
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Deutch
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Forbes
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 (IL)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Kildee
Kind
Kissell
Kucinich
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lujan
Lynch
Maloney
Marchant
Markey
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McNerney
Meeks
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Murphy (CT)
Napolitano
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Paul
Payne
Pelosi
Peters
Pingree (ME)
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Reyes
Richardson
Richmond
Rohrabacher
Ross (AR)
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell
Sherman
Shuler
Sires
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stark
Sutton
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Tonko
Towns
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
NOES--235
Adams
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Altmire
Amash
Austria
Bachmann
Bachus
Barletta
Barton (TX)
Bass (NH)
Benishek
Berg
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boswell
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brooks
Broun (GA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Buerkle
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canseco
Cantor
Capito
Cardoza
Carter
Cassidy
Chabot
Chaffetz
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cole
Conaway
Costa
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
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
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 (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Keating
Kelly
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Lamborn
Lance
Landry
Lankford
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lewis (CA)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Long
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Manzullo
Marino
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meehan
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Owens
Palazzo
Paulsen
Pearce
Pence
Perlmutter
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)
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
Stutzman
Sullivan
Terry
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Turner
Upton
Walberg
Walden
Walsh (IL)
Webster
West
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Young (IN)
NOT VOTING--15
Eshoo
Giffords
Labrador
Larson (CT)
McCotter
Nadler
Neal
Olver
Rangel
Rokita
Slaughter
Stivers
Tsongas
Weiner
Wilson (SC)
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.
{time} 1251
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Amendment Offered by Ms. Hirono
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Hawaii
(Ms. Hirono) 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 Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
[[Page H4307]]
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 288,
noes 132, not voting 12, as follows:
[Roll No. 450]
AYES--288
Ackerman
Alexander
Altmire
Andrews
Baca
Bachus
Baldwin
Barletta
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Bass (CA)
Bass (NH)
Becerra
Berg
Berkley
Berman
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blumenauer
Boren
Boswell
Boustany
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brooks
Brown (FL)
Buchanan
Butterfield
Calvert
Camp
Capito
Capps
Capuano
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cassidy
Castor (FL)
Chaffetz
Chandler
Chu
Cicilline
Clarke (MI)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly (VA)
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Cravaack
Crawford
Critz
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Dent
DesJarlais
Deutch
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellison
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Forbes
Fortenberry
Frank (MA)
Fudge
Gallegly
Garamendi
Garrett
Gerlach
Gibson
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Gonzalez
Goodlatte
Gosar
Graves (MO)
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Grijalva
Grimm
Guthrie
Gutierrez
Hall
Hanabusa
Hanna
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (FL)
Heck
Heinrich
Herger
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Himes
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hochul
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Hultgren
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson Lee (TX)
Jenkins
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones
Jordan
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly
Kildee
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kissell
Kline
Kucinich
Labrador
Lance
Landry
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Latham
LaTourette
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Luetkemeyer
Lujan
Lungren, Daniel E.
Lynch
Maloney
Marchant
Marino
Markey
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (CA)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinley
McNerney
Meehan
Meeks
Mica
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Mulvaney
Murphy (CT)
Nadler
Napolitano
Noem
Nunes
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Paul
Paulsen
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Petri
Pingree (ME)
Platts
Polis
Pompeo
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Rehberg
Renacci
Reyes
Richardson
Richmond
Rigell
Rogers (MI)
Ros-Lehtinen
Ross (AR)
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Scalise
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schilling
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sewell
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Sires
Smith (NJ)
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stark
Sutton
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Tiberi
Tierney
Tonko
Towns
Turner
Upton
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walden
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Welch
Whitfield
Wilson (FL)
Wittman
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
Young (AK)
NOES--132
Adams
Aderholt
Akin
Amash
Austria
Bachmann
Barrow
Benishek
Biggert
Bonner
Bono Mack
Brady (TX)
Broun (GA)
Bucshon
Buerkle
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Campbell
Canseco
Cantor
Carter
Chabot
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cole
Conaway
Crenshaw
Culberson
Davis (KY)
Denham
Diaz-Balart
Dreier
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Ellmers
Emerson
Engel
Farenthold
Flake
Fleming
Flores
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gardner
Gibbs
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Guinta
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hensarling
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hunter
Hurt
Inslee
Issa
Johnson, Sam
Kingston
Kinzinger (IL)
Lamborn
Lankford
Latta
Lewis (CA)
Long
Lucas
Lummis
Mack
Manzullo
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McMorris Rodgers
Miller, Gary
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Neugebauer
Nugent
Nunnelee
Olson
Palazzo
Pearce
Pence
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Posey
Price (GA)
Quayle
Reed
Reichert
Ribble
Rivera
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rohrabacher
Rooney
Roskam
Ross (FL)
Royce
Runyan
Ryan (WI)
Schmidt
Schock
Schweikert
Scott (SC)
Scott, Austin
Sessions
Simpson
Smith (NE)
Smith (TX)
Southerland
Stearns
Stutzman
Sullivan
Thornberry
Tipton
Walberg
Walsh (IL)
Webster
West
Westmoreland
Wilson (SC)
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Young (FL)
Young (IN)
NOT VOTING--12
Eshoo
Giffords
Larson (CT)
McCotter
Neal
Olver
Rangel
Rokita
Slaughter
Stivers
Tsongas
Weiner
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.
{time} 1256
Mr. CHAFFETZ and Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN changed their vote from ``no'' to
``aye.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Amendment No. 38 Offered by Mr. Holden
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from
Pennsylvania (Mr. Holden) 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 Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 84,
noes 335, not voting 13, as follows:
[Roll No. 451]
AYES--84
Altmire
Barletta
Bartlett
Berkley
Bishop (GA)
Boren
Brady (PA)
Brown (FL)
Cardoza
Carney
Chandler
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Critz
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
Doyle
Filner
Fitzpatrick
Foxx
Gerlach
Goodlatte
Griffith (VA)
Hall
Harper
Himes
Holden
Huizenga (MI)
Hurt
Johnson (IL)
Kelly
Kinzinger (IL)
Kissell
Kucinich
Labrador
Long
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Manzullo
Marino
Matheson
McCarthy (NY)
Meehan
Mica
Moran
Murphy (CT)
Murphy (PA)
Owens
Palazzo
Paul
Peterson
Petri
Pingree (ME)
Platts
Quigley
Rahall
Renacci
Ribble
Rush
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott, David
Sensenbrenner
Shuler
Shuster
Smith (NE)
Smith (WA)
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Visclosky
Walsh (IL)
Walz (MN)
Welch
West
Wittman
NOES--335
Ackerman
Adams
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Amash
Andrews
Austria
Baca
Bachmann
Bachus
Baldwin
Barrow
Barton (TX)
Bass (CA)
Bass (NH)
Becerra
Benishek
Berg
Berman
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (NY)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blumenauer
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boswell
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
Brooks
Broun (GA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Buerkle
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Butterfield
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canseco
Cantor
Capito
Capps
Capuano
Carnahan
Carson (IN)
Carter
Cassidy
Castor (FL)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Chu
Cicilline
Clarke (MI)
Clarke (NY)
Cohen
Cole
Conaway
Connolly (VA)
Conyers
Cooper
Cravaack
Crawford
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cuellar
Culberson
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (KY)
DeGette
DeLauro
Denham
Dent
DesJarlais
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Donnelly (IN)
Dreier
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellison
Ellmers
Emerson
Engel
Farenthold
Farr
Fattah
Fincher
Flake
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Frank (MA)
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gallegly
Garamendi
Gardner
Garrett
Gibbs
Gibson
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Gonzalez
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffin (AR)
Grijalva
Grimm
Guinta
Guthrie
Gutierrez
Hanabusa
Hanna
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Heck
Heinrich
Hensarling
Herger
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hochul
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Huelskamp
Hultgren
Hunter
Inslee
Israel
Issa
Jackson (IL)
Jackson Lee (TX)
Jenkins
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Kaptur
Keating
Kildee
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kline
Lamborn
Lance
Landry
Langevin
Lankford
Larsen (WA)
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
[[Page H4308]]
Lujan
Lungren, Daniel E.
Lynch
Mack
Maloney
Markey
Matsui
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McHenry
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
Meeks
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller (NC)
Miller, Gary
Miller, George
Moore
Mulvaney
Myrick
Nadler
Napolitano
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Paulsen
Payne
Pearce
Pelosi
Pence
Perlmutter
Peters
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Polis
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Price (NC)
Quayle
Reed
Rehberg
Reichert
Reyes
Richardson
Richmond
Rigell
Rivera
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (AR)
Ross (FL)
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Runyan
Ruppersberger
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Sarbanes
Scalise
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schilling
Schmidt
Schock
Schweikert
Scott (SC)
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Serrano
Sessions
Sewell
Sherman
Shimkus
Simpson
Sires
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Southerland
Speier
Stark
Stearns
Stutzman
Sullivan
Sutton
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tierney
Tipton
Tonko
Towns
Turner
Upton
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Walberg
Walden
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Webster
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wilson (FL)
Wilson (SC)
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
Yoder
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Young (IN)
NOT VOTING--13
Eshoo
Giffords
Larson (CT)
Marchant
McCotter
Neal
Olver
Rangel
Rokita
Slaughter
Stivers
Tsongas
Weiner
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.
{time} 1300
Ms. WILSON of Florida changed her vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Stated against:
Mr. WEST. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 451, had I been present, I would
have voted ``no.''
Amendment Offered by Mr. Campbell
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California
(Mr. Campbell) 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 Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 132,
noes 287, not voting 13, as follows:
[Roll No. 452]
AYES--132
Ackerman
Baldwin
Bass (CA)
Becerra
Berman
Blackburn
Brady (PA)
Brooks
Campbell
Capps
Capuano
Carnahan
Carney
Carson (IN)
Castor (FL)
Chu
Cicilline
Clarke (MI)
Coffman (CO)
Cohen
Connolly (VA)
Cooper
Crowley
Davis (CA)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Deutch
Dicks
Doggett
Dold
Doyle
Duncan (TN)
Ellison
Engel
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Fitzpatrick
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Gallegly
Garrett
Gerlach
Grijalva
Grimm
Hanabusa
Hayworth
Heinrich
Higgins
Himes
Hinchey
Hirono
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (IL)
Jones
Keating
Kucinich
Langevin
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lipinski
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Mack
Maloney
Markey
McCarthy (NY)
McClintock
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McHenry
McNerney
Meehan
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Murphy (CT)
Nadler
Napolitano
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Paul
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Petri
Pingree (ME)
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Reichert
Reyes
Rohrabacher
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schwartz
Schweikert
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sherman
Sires
Smith (NJ)
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stark
Sutton
Tonko
Towns
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Waxman
Welch
Whitfield
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
Young (IN)
NOES--287
Adams
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Altmire
Amash
Andrews
Austria
Baca
Bachmann
Bachus
Barletta
Barrow
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Bass (NH)
Benishek
Berg
Berkley
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blumenauer
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boren
Boswell
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
Broun (GA)
Brown (FL)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Buerkle
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Butterfield
Calvert
Camp
Canseco
Cantor
Capito
Cardoza
Carter
Cassidy
Chabot
Chaffetz
Chandler
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coble
Cole
Conaway
Conyers
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Cravaack
Crawford
Crenshaw
Critz
Cuellar
Culberson
Cummings
Davis (IL)
Davis (KY)
Denham
Dent
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Dingell
Donnelly (IN)
Dreier
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Edwards
Ellmers
Emerson
Farenthold
Fincher
Flake
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Frank (MA)
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Garamendi
Gardner
Gibbs
Gibson
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Gonzalez
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Guinta
Guthrie
Gutierrez
Hall
Hanna
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Heck
Hensarling
Herger
Herrera Beutler
Hinojosa
Hochul
Holden
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt
Issa
Jackson Lee (TX)
Jenkins
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jordan
Kaptur
Kelly
Kildee
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kinzinger (IL)
Kissell
Kline
Labrador
Lamborn
Lance
Landry
Lankford
Larsen (WA)
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Long
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lujan
Lummis
Lungren, Daniel E.
Lynch
Manzullo
Marchant
Marino
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meeks
Mica
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller (NC)
Miller, Gary
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Owens
Palazzo
Paulsen
Pearce
Pence
Peterson
Pitts
Platts
Poe (TX)
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Quayle
Rahall
Reed
Rehberg
Renacci
Ribble
Richardson
Richmond
Rigell
Rivera
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (AR)
Ross (FL)
Rothman (NJ)
Royce
Runyan
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Scalise
Schilling
Schmidt
Schock
Schrader
Scott (SC)
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Sessions
Sewell
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (NE)
Smith (TX)
Southerland
Stearns
Stutzman
Sullivan
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tierney
Tipton
Turner
Upton
Visclosky
Walberg
Walden
Walsh (IL)
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Webster
West
Westmoreland
Wilson (FL)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
NOT VOTING--13
Eshoo
Giffords
Larson (CT)
McCotter
Neal
Olver
Rangel
Rokita
Sanchez, Linda T.
Slaughter
Stivers
Tsongas
Weiner
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.
{time} 1306
Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California, Messrs. COFFMAN of Colorado and CLARKE
of Michigan, Ms. SPEIER, and Mr. BERMAN changed their vote from ``no''
to ``aye.''
Messrs. FRANK of Massachusetts, FLAKE, SAM JOHNSON of Texas, ROTHMAN
of New Jersey, and AMASH 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 Mrs. Blackburn
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from
Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn) 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 Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
[[Page H4309]]
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 109,
noes 310, not voting 13, as follows:
[Roll No. 453]
AYES--109
Amash
Bachmann
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Biggert
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Bono Mack
Brady (TX)
Broun (GA)
Buchanan
Buerkle
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Campbell
Chabot
Chaffetz
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cooper
Davis (KY)
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Flake
Fleischmann
Fleming
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Garrett
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gowdy
Graves (GA)
Griffith (VA)
Grimm
Hall
Hensarling
Herger
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt
Issa
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jordan
King (NY)
Kline
Labrador
Lamborn
Landry
Latta
Long
Lummis
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Manzullo
Marchant
McCarthy (CA)
McClintock
McHenry
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Nugent
Nunnelee
Paul
Paulsen
Pence
Petri
Pitts
Pompeo
Price (GA)
Quayle
Renacci
Ribble
Rigell
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Ross (FL)
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott (SC)
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Southerland
Stearns
Stutzman
Sullivan
Terry
Tiberi
Upton
Walberg
Walsh (IL)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Woodall
Yoder
Young (FL)
Young (IN)
NOES--310
Ackerman
Adams
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Altmire
Andrews
Austria
Baca
Bachus
Baldwin
Barletta
Barrow
Bass (CA)
Bass (NH)
Becerra
Benishek
Berg
Berkley
Berman
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Bonner
Boren
Boswell
Boustany
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brooks
Brown (FL)
Bucshon
Butterfield
Calvert
Camp
Canseco
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
Conaway
Connolly (VA)
Conyers
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Cravaack
Crawford
Crenshaw
Critz
Crowley
Cuellar
Culberson
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Denham
Dent
DesJarlais
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Dreier
Duffy
Edwards
Ellison
Ellmers
Emerson
Engel
Farenthold
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Frank (MA)
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gallegly
Garamendi
Gardner
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gibson
Gonzalez
Gosar
Granger
Graves (MO)
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffin (AR)
Grijalva
Guinta
Guthrie
Gutierrez
Hanabusa
Hanna
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Heck
Heinrich
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Himes
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hochul
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson Lee (TX)
Jenkins
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly
Kildee
Kind
King (IA)
Kingston
Kinzinger (IL)
Kissell
Kucinich
Lance
Langevin
Lankford
Larsen (WA)
Latham
LaTourette
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lujan
Lynch
Maloney
Marino
Markey
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCaul
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
Meehan
Meeks
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Murphy (CT)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neugebauer
Noem
Nunes
Olson
Owens
Palazzo
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Pearce
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree (ME)
Platts
Poe (TX)
Polis
Posey
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Reed
Rehberg
Reichert
Reyes
Richardson
Richmond
Rivera
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (AR)
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Runyan
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schilling
Schmidt
Schock
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Sires
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stark
Sutton
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tierney
Tipton
Tonko
Towns
Turner
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walden
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Webster
Welch
West
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wilson (FL)
Wolf
Womack
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
Young (AK)
NOT VOTING--13
Eshoo
Giffords
Larson (CT)
McCotter
Neal
Olver
Rangel
Rokita
Sanchez, Linda T.
Slaughter
Stivers
Tsongas
Weiner
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.
{time} 1309
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Amendment Offered by Mr. Flake
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on amendment No. 1 offered by the gentleman from Arizona
(Mr. Flake) 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 Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 283,
noes 128, not voting 21, as follows:
[Roll No. 454]
AYES--283
Adams
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Altmire
Amash
Andrews
Bachmann
Bachus
Barletta
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Bass (CA)
Bass (NH)
Becerra
Benishek
Berkley
Berman
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blumenauer
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boren
Boustany
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Brooks
Broun (GA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Buerkle
Burgess
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canseco
Cantor
Capito
Capps
Capuano
Carney
Carter
Cassidy
Castor (FL)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Chandler
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cohen
Cole
Conaway
Connolly (VA)
Cooper
Courtney
Cravaack
Crawford
Crowley
Cuellar
Culberson
Davis (CA)
Davis (KY)
DeLauro
Denham
Dent
DesJarlais
Deutch
Doggett
Dold
Doyle
Dreier
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellison
Ellmers
Farenthold
Farr
Fitzpatrick
Flake
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Foxx
Frank (MA)
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gallegly
Garrett
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gibson
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Green, Gene
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Grijalva
Grimm
Guinta
Guthrie
Hall
Hanna
Harper
Harris
Hayworth
Heinrich
Hensarling
Herger
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Himes
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hochul
Honda
Huizenga (MI)
Hunter
Hurt
Issa
Johnson, Sam
Jordan
Kelly
King (NY)
Kingston
Kline
Kucinich
Labrador
Lamborn
Lance
Landry
Lankford
Larsen (WA)
LaTourette
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Lofgren, Zoe
Long
Lujan
Lungren, Daniel E.
Lynch
Mack
Maloney
Marchant
Marino
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McHenry
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Mica
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Miller, George
Moran
Mulvaney
Murphy (CT)
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Nadler
Neugebauer
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Paul
Paulsen
Payne
Pearce
Pence
Perlmutter
Peters
Petri
Pingree (ME)
Pitts
Platts
Poe (TX)
Polis
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Quayle
Quigley
Rahall
Reed
Rehberg
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Richardson
Rigell
Roe (TN)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rooney
Roskam
Ross (FL)
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Runyan
Ryan (WI)
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Scalise
Schiff
Schmidt
Schrader
Schwartz
Schweikert
Scott (SC)
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Sherman
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Sires
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Southerland
Speier
Stearns
Stutzman
Sullivan
Sutton
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tipton
Tonko
Upton
Van Hollen
Walberg
Walden
Walsh (IL)
Webster
Welch
West
Westmoreland
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Woolsey
Wu
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Young (IN)
[[Page H4310]]
NOES--128
Ackerman
Austria
Baca
Baldwin
Barrow
Berg
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Boswell
Braley (IA)
Brown (FL)
Burton (IN)
Butterfield
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carson (IN)
Chu
Cicilline
Cleaver
Clyburn
Conyers
Costa
Costello
Crenshaw
Critz
Cummings
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
Diaz-Balart
Dicks
Dingell
Donnelly (IN)
Emerson
Engel
Filner
Fincher
Fortenberry
Gardner
Gonzalez
Graves (MO)
Hanabusa
Hartzler
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Heck
Holden
Holt
Hoyer
Huelskamp
Hultgren
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson Lee (TX)
Jenkins
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones
Kaptur
Kildee
Kind
King (IA)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kissell
Langevin
Latham
Latta
Lewis (CA)
Loebsack
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Manzullo
Markey
McCarthy (NY)
McNerney
Meehan
Meeks
Miller (NC)
Moore
Napolitano
Noem
Owens
Palazzo
Pelosi
Peterson
Price (NC)
Reyes
Richmond
Rivera
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Ros-Lehtinen
Ross (AR)
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Schakowsky
Schilling
Schock
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell
Shimkus
Smith (NE)
Terry
Thompson (MS)
Tiberi
Tierney
Towns
Turner
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Whitfield
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth
Yoder
NOT VOTING--21
Clarke (MI)
Eshoo
Fattah
Garamendi
Giffords
Gosar
Green, Al
Gutierrez
Keating
Larson (CT)
McCotter
Neal
Olver
Rangel
Rokita
Sanchez, Linda T.
Slaughter
Stark
Stivers
Tsongas
Weiner
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in
this vote.
{time} 1312
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Stated for:
Mr. GOSAR. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 454, I would have voted ``aye''
but was in an interview and missed the vote.
Amendment Offered by Mr. Flake
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on amendment No. 2 offered by the gentleman from Arizona
(Mr. Flake) 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 Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 186,
noes 228, not voting 18, as follows:
[Roll No. 455]
AYES--186
Ackerman
Adams
Amash
Andrews
Bachmann
Baldwin
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Bass (CA)
Bass (NH)
Benishek
Berkley
Berman
Biggert
Bishop (NY)
Blackburn
Blumenauer
Boswell
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Broun (GA)
Buchanan
Campbell
Capps
Capuano
Castor (FL)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Chu
Cicilline
Clay
Cleaver
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cohen
Connolly (VA)
Cooper
Courtney
Cravaack
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (CA)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Dent
Deutch
Doggett
Dold
Doyle
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Fattah
Filner
Fitzpatrick
Flake
Fleming
Foxx
Frank (MA)
Franks (AZ)
Garrett
Gibson
Gohmert
Gonzalez
Gowdy
Graves (GA)
Green, Gene
Griffin (AR)
Grimm
Heck
Heinrich
Hensarling
Higgins
Himes
Hinchey
Honda
Hoyer
Hunter
Inslee
Israel
Issa
Johnson (GA)
Jordan
Kaptur
Kind
King (NY)
Kucinich
Labrador
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Long
Lynch
Mack
Maloney
Markey
Matheson
McCarthy (NY)
McClintock
McDermott
McGovern
McHenry
McKinley
Meeks
Mica
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller, Gary
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Mulvaney
Murphy (CT)
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Nadler
Nugent
Pallone
Pascrell
Paul
Paulsen
Payne
Pelosi
Peters
Petri
Pingree (ME)
Pitts
Platts
Polis
Posey
Price (GA)
Price (NC)
Quayle
Quigley
Reichert
Richardson
Roe (TN)
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Ross (FL)
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Runyan
Ruppersberger
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Schwartz
Schweikert
Scott (SC)
Scott (VA)
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Sherman
Sires
Smith (NJ)
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stark
Stearns
Sutton
Tonko
Van Hollen
Visclosky
Walsh (IL)
Waxman
Welch
West
Wilson (SC)
Wolf
Woodall
Woolsey
Wu
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Young (IN)
NOES--228
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Altmire
Austria
Baca
Bachus
Barletta
Barrow
Becerra
Berg
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boren
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brooks
Brown (FL)
Bucshon
Buerkle
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Butterfield
Calvert
Camp
Canseco
Cantor
Capito
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carney
Carson (IN)
Carter
Cassidy
Chandler
Clarke (MI)
Clarke (NY)
Clyburn
Cole
Conaway
Conyers
Costa
Costello
Crawford
Crenshaw
Critz
Cuellar
Culberson
Davis (IL)
Davis (KY)
Denham
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Dicks
Dingell
Donnelly (IN)
Dreier
Duffy
Edwards
Ellison
Ellmers
Emerson
Engel
Farenthold
Farr
Fincher
Fleischmann
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gallegly
Gardner
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gingrey (GA)
Goodlatte
Gosar
Granger
Graves (MO)
Green, Al
Griffith (VA)
Grijalva
Guinta
Guthrie
Hall
Hanabusa
Hanna
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Herger
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hochul
Holden
Holt
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hurt
Jackson (IL)
Jackson Lee (TX)
Jenkins
Johnson (IL)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Keating
Kelly
Kildee
King (IA)
Kingston
Kinzinger (IL)
Kissell
Kline
Lamborn
Lance
Landry
Lankford
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lujan
Lummis
Lungren, Daniel E.
Manzullo
Marchant
Marino
Matsui
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McCollum
McIntyre
McKeon
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
Meehan
Miller (MI)
Miller (NC)
Napolitano
Neugebauer
Noem
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Owens
Palazzo
Pastor (AZ)
Pearce
Pence
Perlmutter
Peterson
Poe (TX)
Pompeo
Rahall
Reed
Rehberg
Renacci
Reyes
Ribble
Richmond
Rigell
Rivera
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rooney
Roskam
Ross (AR)
Rush
Sanchez, Loretta
Scalise
Schilling
Schmidt
Schock
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (NE)
Smith (TX)
Southerland
Stutzman
Sullivan
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tierney
Tipton
Towns
Turner
Upton
Walberg
Walden
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Webster
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wilson (FL)
Wittman
Womack
Yarmuth
Yoder
NOT VOTING--18
Eshoo
Garamendi
Giffords
Gutierrez
Larson (CT)
McCotter
Neal
Olver
Rangel
Rokita
Sanchez, Linda T.
Slaughter
Stivers
Tsongas
Velazquez
Waters
Watt
Weiner
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in
this vote.
{time} 1315
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Stated against:
Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Madam Chair, today I was unavoidably detained
and missed the vote on: Flake Amendment No. 2 to H.R. 2112. Prohibits
the use of funds to be used for the construction of any ethanol blender
pump or any ethanol storage facility. Had I been present, I would have
voted ``no'' on this bill.
Amendment Offered by Mr. Lipinski
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois
(Mr. Lipinski) 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 Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
[[Page H4311]]
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 162,
noes 254, not voting 16, as follows:
[Roll No. 456]
AYES--162
Ackerman
Aderholt
Altmire
Baca
Baldwin
Bartlett
Bass (NH)
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Bilbray
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blackburn
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brown (FL)
Burgess
Capito
Capuano
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carney
Carson (IN)
Chandler
Chu
Coble
Conaway
Cooper
Costello
Courtney
Cravaack
Critz
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Dent
Deutch
Dicks
Doggett
Dold
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Duffy
Duncan (TN)
Engel
Filner
Fitzpatrick
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Frank (MA)
Franks (AZ)
Garrett
Gerlach
Gibson
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Granger
Graves (MO)
Griffith (VA)
Grijalva
Grimm
Hanna
Heck
Heinrich
Higgins
Hinojosa
Hochul
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Johnson (IL)
Jones
Kaptur
Keating
King (NY)
Kissell
Langevin
LaTourette
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lowey
Lujan
Lynch
Manzullo
Markey
Matheson
McCarthy (NY)
McCaul
McClintock
McGovern
McHenry
McIntyre
Meehan
Mica
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (NC)
Moore
Moran
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Nadler
Napolitano
Nugent
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Paul
Peters
Pitts
Platts
Quigley
Rahall
Reichert
Reyes
Rigell
Rohrabacher
Rooney
Rothman (NJ)
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schilling
Scott (SC)
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Sires
Smith (NJ)
Smith (WA)
Stark
Sullivan
Sutton
Terry
Tiberi
Tonko
Turner
Velazquez
Visclosky
Waxman
Welch
Wittman
Wolf
Wu
Yarmuth
NOES--254
Adams
Akin
Alexander
Amash
Andrews
Austria
Bachmann
Bachus
Barletta
Barrow
Barton (TX)
Bass (CA)
Benishek
Berg
Biggert
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blumenauer
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boren
Boswell
Boustany
Brooks
Broun (GA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Buerkle
Burton (IN)
Butterfield
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canseco
Cantor
Capps
Carter
Cassidy
Castor (FL)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Cicilline
Clarke (MI)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coffman (CO)
Cohen
Cole
Connolly (VA)
Conyers
Costa
Crawford
Crenshaw
Crowley
Culberson
Davis (CA)
Davis (KY)
Denham
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Dingell
Dreier
Duncan (SC)
Edwards
Ellison
Ellmers
Emerson
Farenthold
Farr
Fattah
Fincher
Flake
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gallegly
Gardner
Gibbs
Gingrey (GA)
Gonzalez
Gosar
Gowdy
Graves (GA)
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffin (AR)
Guinta
Guthrie
Hall
Hanabusa
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hensarling
Herger
Herrera Beutler
Himes
Hinchey
Hirono
Hoyer
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Inslee
Issa
Jackson Lee (TX)
Jenkins
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jordan
Kelly
Kildee
Kind
King (IA)
Kingston
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Kucinich
Labrador
Lamborn
Lance
Landry
Lankford
Larsen (WA)
Latham
Latta
Lee (CA)
Lewis (CA)
Lofgren, Zoe
Long
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Maloney
Marchant
Marino
Matsui
McCarthy (CA)
McCollum
McDermott
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
Meeks
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Miller, George
Mulvaney
Murphy (CT)
Neugebauer
Noem
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Palazzo
Pastor (AZ)
Paulsen
Payne
Pearce
Pelosi
Pence
Perlmutter
Peterson
Petri
Pingree (ME)
Poe (TX)
Polis
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Price (NC)
Quayle
Reed
Rehberg
Renacci
Ribble
Richardson
Richmond
Rivera
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (AR)
Ross (FL)
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Runyan
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Sanchez, Loretta
Scalise
Schmidt
Schock
Schrader
Schwartz
Schweikert
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Sessions
Sewell
Smith (NE)
Smith (TX)
Southerland
Speier
Stearns
Stutzman
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tierney
Tipton
Towns
Upton
Van Hollen
Walberg
Walden
Walsh (IL)
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Webster
West
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wilson (FL)
Wilson (SC)
Womack
Woodall
Woolsey
Yoder
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Young (IN)
NOT VOTING--16
Brady (TX)
Eshoo
Garamendi
Giffords
Gutierrez
Larson (CT)
McCotter
Neal
Olver
Rangel
Rokita
Sanchez, Linda T.
Slaughter
Stivers
Tsongas
Weiner
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in
this vote.
{time} 1318
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Amendment Offered by Mr. Flake
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on amendment No. 3 offered by the gentleman from Arizona
(Mr. Flake) 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 Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 101,
noes 314, not voting 17, as follows:
[Roll No. 457]
AYES--101
Amash
Bachmann
Bachus
Bass (NH)
Benishek
Berkley
Black
Blackburn
Brooks
Broun (GA)
Buerkle
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Campbell
Cantor
Carney
Chabot
Chaffetz
Cicilline
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cohen
Connolly (VA)
Cooper
Culberson
Davis (CA)
DeFazio
Doggett
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Fitzpatrick
Flake
Fleming
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Garrett
Gerlach
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Gowdy
Graves (GA)
Grimm
Guinta
Hall
Hanabusa
Hayworth
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hunter
Jordan
Lamborn
Lankford
LoBiondo
Long
Mack
Matheson
McClintock
McCollum
McHenry
Meehan
Miller (FL)
Miller, Gary
Moran
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Nugent
Pascrell
Paul
Paulsen
Pearce
Pence
Peters
Polis
Price (GA)
Quayle
Quigley
Rohrabacher
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Schweikert
Scott (SC)
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Smith (NJ)
Southerland
Speier
Stearns
Stutzman
Sullivan
Tiberi
Tonko
Van Hollen
Walberg
Walsh (IL)
West
Wilson (FL)
Wilson (SC)
Woodall
Young (AK)
Young (IN)
NOES--314
Ackerman
Adams
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Altmire
Andrews
Austria
Baca
Baldwin
Barletta
Barrow
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Bass (CA)
Becerra
Berg
Berman
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Bishop (UT)
Blumenauer
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boren
Boswell
Boustany
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
Brown (FL)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Butterfield
Calvert
Camp
Canseco
Capito
Capps
Capuano
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carson (IN)
Carter
Cassidy
Castor (FL)
Chandler
Chu
Clarke (MI)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cole
Conaway
Conyers
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Cravaack
Crawford
Crenshaw
Critz
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (IL)
Davis (KY)
DeLauro
Denham
Dent
DesJarlais
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Dicks
Dingell
Dold
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Dreier
Duffy
Edwards
Ellison
Ellmers
Emerson
Engel
Farenthold
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Fincher
Fleischmann
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Frank (MA)
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gallegly
Gardner
Gibbs
Gibson
Gonzalez
Goodlatte
Gosar
Granger
Graves (MO)
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Grijalva
Guthrie
Hanna
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Heck
Heinrich
Herger
Higgins
Himes
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hochul
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hurt
Israel
Issa
Jackson (IL)
Jackson Lee (TX)
Jenkins
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly
Kildee
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kinzinger (IL)
Kissell
Kline
Kucinich
Labrador
Lance
Landry
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lucas
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Luetkemeyer
Lujan
Lummis
Lungren, Daniel E.
Lynch
Maloney
Manzullo
Marchant
Marino
Markey
Matsui
McCarthy (CA)
McCarthy (NY)
McCaul
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
Meeks
Mica
Michaud
Miller (MI)
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Moore
Murphy (CT)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neugebauer
Noem
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Owens
Palazzo
Pallone
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peterson
Petri
Pingree (ME)
Pitts
Platts
Poe (TX)
Pompeo
Posey
Price (NC)
Rahall
Reed
Rehberg
Reichert
Renacci
Reyes
Ribble
Richardson
Richmond
Rigell
Rivera
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (AR)
Ross (FL)
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Runyan
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Scalise
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schilling
Schmidt
Schock
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Sires
Smith (NE)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Stark
Sutton
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tierney
Tipton
Towns
Turner
Upton
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walden
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Webster
Welch
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
Yoder
Young (FL)
NOT VOTING--17
DeGette
Eshoo
Garamendi
Giffords
Gutierrez
Inslee
Larson (CT)
McCotter
Neal
Olver
Rangel
Rokita
Sanchez, Linda T.
Slaughter
Stivers
Tsongas
Weiner
Ms. BASS of California changed her vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
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So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will read.
The Clerk read as follows:
This Act may be cited as the ``Agriculture, Rural
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012''.
Mr. KINGSTON. 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.
Terry) having assumed the chair, Mr. Bishop of Utah, Acting 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.
2112) making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food
and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs 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 300, 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
Ms. HOCHUL. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentlewoman opposed to the bill?
Ms. HOCHUL. I am opposed to the bill in its current form.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to
recommit:
Ms. Hochul moves to recommit the bill H.R. 2112 to the
Committee on Appropriations with instructions to report the
same back to the House forthwith with the following
amendment:
Page 55, after line 23, insert the following:
In addition, for carrying out section 4a of the Commodity
Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 6a), including establishing limits to
diminish, eliminate, or prevent excessive speculation, and as
authorized by section 12(d) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 16(d)),
$11,800,000.
Page 6, line 11, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced
by $4,000,000)''.
Page 27, line 11, after the dollar amount, insert
``(reduced by $3,800,000)''.
Page 30, line 10, after the dollar amount, insert
``(reduced by $4,000,000)''.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from New York is recognized
for 5 minutes in support of her motion.
Ms. HOCHUL. Mr. Speaker, I am here today as someone who very recently
stood before the voters, and I can tell you that the constituents I
represent are fed up with our inability to control the soaring price of
gas in this country. In the diners, in the small businesses, and
certainly at the gas stations, you can feel the incredible anger and
helplessness of our consumers. And that is why I feel compelled to
stand here today to offer this final amendment to restore critical
funding to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
The CFTC is like the sheriffs in town who protect us from the Wild
West of oil speculators. Now if Republicans had their way, they would
send these sheriffs packing, let the speculators drive up our gas
prices and run wild, just shooting around town. But those who support
my final amendment to the bill see it differently. We like law and
order. We like it when people play by the rules. And we like having
sheriffs around to make sure someone is keeping an eye on these
speculators on behalf of our consumers.
The Agriculture appropriations bill under debate right now would hurt
every single person we represent. And among the many problems with this
bill is the fact that it cedes regulation of the oil market back to Big
Oil, and it pits consumers against speculators.
Today oil is trading at about $100 a barrel. In my district, my
constituents are paying over $4 a gallon just to fill up, and that's
for regular. The price of diesel is really, really hurting my farmers,
who pay a quarter more for every gallon.
You know, the worst part is that none of this is new for western New
York. A few years ago, my region had the highest gas prices in
America--not high prices, the highest. Even today, the village of
Arcade, a tiny village in a farming community in Wyoming County, is
listed as having among the highest gas prices in the Nation. How can
that possibly be explained? What is so disturbing is that our area was
just starting to climb out of recession when the price of gas
skyrocketed, sending our recovery efforts backwards.
For all the Members who are concerned about the deficit, I hope you
will support this amendment. The high cost of oil is not only
bankrupting American families and businesses but is also bankrupting
our country.
I know that the folks back home in my district are fed up with the
deficit; they're fed up with the poor economy; and they are fed up with
high gas prices. And they want to know what we're going to do to solve
these problems. I'll tell you, the answer does not lie in firing the
regulators who watch and control the speculators who now make up over
70 percent of the market. And that's exactly what this bill does.
Recently, several traders and firms were charged by the CFTC with
price manipulation, trying to hoard crude oil and score a quick $50
million. And I ask, how does gutting this agency, which protects our
consumers from speculators, end up reducing the price of gas? The
answer is, it doesn't.
Even the CEO of Exxon-Mobil blames speculators for the high prices,
saying that just last month, oil should be trading around $60 to $70 a
barrel if it was governed by supply and demand. Can you imagine, $60 a
barrel? Also recently, the world's largest commodity trader, Goldman
Sachs, told their clients that the speculators had artificially driven
up the price of oil by as much as $27 a barrel.
The bottom line is, how do we justify slashing the budget for the
only agency that can crack down on excessive speculation? I will tell
you, it's not by firing all the sheriffs just when Jesse James is
coming to town. I don't know about anyone else, but when I return home
this weekend, I sure would not want to have to explain my support for a
bill that would, in effect, make it easier for Big Oil companies and
speculators to take advantage of our consumers, our drivers.
The choice is simple. Does this Congress stand with the consumers,
our families, our small businesses, and our
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farmers? Or does it stand with the speculators? I know where my
constituents expect me to stand.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the motion to
recommit.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Georgia is recognized for
5 minutes.
Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I want to start off by saying, if this was
a serious amendment, if this was a serious proposal--we have had 25
hours of debate--it would have been out on the House floor, and we
could have taken a look at it. But let me say this: Very importantly,
there is absolutely nothing in this bill that prohibits the CFTC from
looking at oil speculation as it respects the supply or the cost of
oil.
{time} 1330
This amendment is not needed because of that alone. But let me also
quote the Democrat Commissioner on the CFTC, Michael Dunn, a Democrat
member of the CFTC. There has been a suggestion by some that once we
set position limits, that's speculative limits, on physical
derivatives, that the price we pay will inevitably drop. I believe this
is a fallacy.
To date, the CFTC staff has been unable to find any reliable economic
analysis to support the contention that excessive speculation is
affecting the markets we regulate, or that position limits will prevent
excessive speculation. The price volatility exists in our markets
because of global supply and demand for physical commodities.
Now, why are the Democrats trying to get us bogged down in that the
price of oil is going up because of speculation? Well, I can tell you.
Go back to January 2009, and ask your constituents if they remember
paying a 1.83 per gallon. And in that same month, who became President
of the United States but President Obama, the Democrat.
The change you were asking for, the change we were promised was that
gas went from $1.83 per gallon to now $3.80, a 90 percent increase. And
the Democrats want us to believe it's because of speculators. You know
why it's gone up? Because of more regulation, less permitting, more
delays and more lawsuits.
Think about this. The President recently went down to Brazil and he
told them, hey, we understand you're going to drill offshore. We
encourage you to do so. We want to lend you the money, and we want to
become your best customers.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, I've got news for the President. I've got
news for the Democrats. American technology and American engineers do
not need to hold second place to Brazil or any other country in the
world. We are America.
We need to have an all-of-the-above energy policy. We do need to look
at solar. We do need to look at ethanol. We do need to look at wind. We
need to also look at nuclear and fossil fuels, and we need to do it
here in the United States of America.
We are Americans. And if you want to bring down the price of gas at
the pump, then let's increase our own domestic supply and quit playing
games of blaming it on Wall Street.
I recommend a ``no'' vote on the motion to reconsider.
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
Ms. HOCHUL. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule
XX, this 15-minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by
5-minute votes on passage of H.R. 2112; and approval of the Journal, if
ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 185,
noes 233, not voting 14, as follows:
[Roll No. 458]
AYES--185
Ackerman
Altmire
Andrews
Baca
Baldwin
Barrow
Bass (CA)
Becerra
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
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.
Jones
Kaptur
Keating
Kildee
Kind
Kissell
Kucinich
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lujan
Lynch
Maloney
Markey
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McNerney
Meeks
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Murphy (CT)
Nadler
Napolitano
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree (ME)
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Reyes
Richardson
Richmond
Ross (AR)
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell
Sherman
Shuler
Sires
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stark
Sutton
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Tonko
Towns
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
NOES--233
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
Chaffetz
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)
Frelinghuysen
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
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
Manzullo
Marchant
Marino
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meehan
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Palazzo
Paul
Paulsen
Pearce
Pence
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
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
Stutzman
Sullivan
Terry
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Turner
Upton
Walberg
Walden
Walsh (IL)
Webster
West
Whitfield
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Young (IN)
NOT VOTING--14
Eshoo
Giffords
Larson (CT)
McCotter
Neal
Olver
Rangel
Rokita
Slaughter
Stivers
Tsongas
Weiner
Westmoreland
Yoder
[[Page H4314]]
Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore
The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). There are 2 minutes
remaining in this vote.
{time} 1352
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 will be a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 217,
nays 203, not voting 12, as follows:
[Roll No. 459]
YEAS--217
Adams
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Austria
Bachus
Barletta
Bartlett
Bass (NH)
Benishek
Berg
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brooks
Buchanan
Bucshon
Buerkle
Burton (IN)
Calvert
Camp
Canseco
Cantor
Capito
Carter
Cassidy
Chabot
Chaffetz
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cole
Conaway
Cravaack
Crawford
Crenshaw
Culberson
Davis (KY)
Denham
Dent
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Dold
Dreier
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Ellmers
Emerson
Farenthold
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Gardner
Garrett
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gibson
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Griffin (AR)
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
Jordan
Kelly
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
Manzullo
Marchant
Marino
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McHenry
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meehan
Mica
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Neugebauer
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Palazzo
Paulsen
Pearce
Pence
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)
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (FL)
Royce
Runyan
Ryan (WI)
Scalise
Schilling
Schmidt
Schock
Scott (SC)
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Southerland
Stearns
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)
NAYS--203
Ackerman
Altmire
Amash
Andrews
Baca
Bachmann
Baldwin
Barrow
Barton (TX)
Bass (CA)
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Boren
Boswell
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Broun (GA)
Brown (FL)
Burgess
Butterfield
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Chandler
Chu
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Clay
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Doyle
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Franks (AZ)
Fudge
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Gonzalez
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffith (VA)
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.
Jones
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Kind
King (IA)
Kissell
Kucinich
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Larsen (WA)
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
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Lynch
Maloney
Markey
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McClintock
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McNerney
Meeks
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Murphy (CT)
Nadler
Napolitano
Noem
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Paul
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree (ME)
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Reyes
Richardson
Richmond
Rohrabacher
Ross (AR)
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Schwartz
Schweikert
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell
Sherman
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Sires
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stark
Sutton
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Tonko
Towns
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
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Eshoo
Giffords
Larson (CT)
McCotter
Neal
Olver
Rangel
Rokita
Slaughter
Stivers
Tsongas
Weiner
Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore
The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). There is 1 minute
remaining in this vote.
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Mr. GUTIERREZ changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
Mr. GARY G. MILLER of California changed his vote from ``nay'' to
``yea.''
So the bill was passed.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
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