[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 133 (Friday, September 9, 2011)]
[House]
[Pages H6033-H6035]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2012
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 1(c) of rule XIX, further
consideration of H.R. 1892 will now resume. The Clerk will report the
title.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is a separate vote demanded on any amendment
to the amendment reported from the Committee of the Whole?
If not, the question is on the amendment in the nature of a
substitute, as amended.
The amendment was 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.
The Clerk read as follows:
Ms. Hochul moves to recommit the bill, H.R. 1892, to the
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence with instructions
to report the same back to the House forthwith with the
following amendment:
At the end of title III (page 26, after line 6), add the
following new section:
SEC. 312. PRIORITIZATION OF FUNDING TO COUNTER THE THREAT
POSED BY TRANSNATIONAL DRUG TRAFFICKING.
In obligating and expending funds authorized to be
appropriated in this Act, the head of each element of the
intelligence community shall include as a priority activities
in support of countering the threat posed by transnational
drug trafficking and the protection of United States borders
from drug-related crime, violence, and gang-related activity
in connection with transnational drug trafficking.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from New York is recognized
for 5 minutes.
Ms. HOCHUL. My amendment will very simply help the intelligence
community prioritize its funding and ensure that we direct it toward
securing our borders from many threats--terrorists as well as drug
dealers.
I want to be clear that support for my simple amendment, which is a
statement of our priorities, will ensure that our intelligence
community cooperates fully to protect our borders against terrorists as
well as the scourge of drug dealers. If support for my amendment is
passed, we can also vote on the underlying bill immediately following.
So my amendment does not harm the bill, and I want to make that very
clear.
Last night, as we sat in this Chamber, we all became aware of the
continued threat that we all face as intelligence reports were coming
out about unspecified threats in New York City and in Washington,
perhaps putting us in danger. And while the President so eloquently
laid out his comments on how we need to get our country back to work
and people off the unemployment lines, I will tell you today there are
groups of individuals I'd like to see on the unemployment lines--the
terrorists and the drug dealers, who are trying to do harm to this
country. My amendment is simply a statement of our priorities.
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Just 2 days ago in my district in Upstate New York, we had the
largest drug bust come over from Canada in our history. It equated to 9
million doses of cocaine that was going to be spread through our
community.
Mr. Speaker, that is intolerable. We have got to do more to secure
our borders, and we can work harder with our intelligence community and
their resources to secure our borders, and that's exactly what my
amendment would do.
It is not just the northern border; we all know what's occurring on
the southern border. Military operations are being conducted in our
country by Mexican drug cartels even as we speak. We have to do more to
protect our borders.
The murder capital of the world is not in some Far Eastern country,
Middle East. It is miles away from the U.S. border near El Paso, Texas.
I have a real problem with that as an American citizen. We need to do
more to protect our borders.
As the President spoke last night, we have to do so much more to get
our economy going again. Has anyone ever calculated the true cost to
our economy of what the drug problem is doing, this illegal drug
trafficking that's coming through our borders, what it's doing to our
communities on the southern border and on the northern border?
Ladies and gentlemen, we have got to do much more, and my amendment
is simply an opportunity. If you support this, it is a statement of
saying the intelligence community will make a
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higher priority of protecting our borders from the drug dealers and
terrorists and drug dealers who want to do us harm.
I think this is a simple amendment. Again, support for this will not
hurt the underlying bill. We can vote on this amendment and immediately
support the bill following.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. I rise in opposition to the motion to
recommit.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, this goes to the fundamental
heart of why some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle--and
I think their intentions are good--but fundamentally do not understand
the role and function of the intelligence community to protect the
United States of America.
Just as the gentlelady stated, the newspaper reported a very credible
threat to the security of the United States and to the violence of the
citizens and maybe two prominent cities here on our homeland. So every
day somebody gets up around the world with the sole intention of
killing innocent Americans in this country through an act of terrorism.
In addition to that, people are trying to penetrate our cybernetworks
all over this country, not only for intellectual property, but to cause
harm and damage. We have nuclear treaties and nuclear proliferation
that we ask and push and nudge our intelligence services to be on top
of and not to make a mistake. Don't make a mistake that would result in
a catastrophic event anywhere in the world, let alone here in the
United States of America.
I know some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle don't
want to deal with the hard issues of the border. But taking it from an
open, aggressive, build a fence, put more resources on the border,
getting serious about policing our southern border to take it into the
classified, nobody can see it, see, aren't we doing something, is the
wrong thing to do for this country.
We need to stand up for these men and women who we ask every day to
protect this country. When you try to divert resources to gang violence
from our intelligence services, that sends a very clear signal to
America: you don't get it.
I want terrorists caught. I want a great raid on somebody like Osama
bin Laden. I want all of the resources of the intelligence community
geared to keeping us safe.
We have a Border Patrol; we have National Guard. We have lots of
other ways to secure our border. Let's not waste the resources. Let's
not give a slap in the face to every member of our intelligence
community who is risking their life today to get a piece of
information, to take an action that keeps us safe here in the homeland.
I strongly urge the rejection of this misguided amendment.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the previous question is
ordered on the motion to recommit.
There was no objection.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the noes appeared to have it.
Recorded Vote
Ms. HOCHUL. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair
will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on
the question of passage.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 145,
noes 257, not voting 29, as follows:
[Roll No. 697]
AYES--145
Ackerman
Altmire
Andrews
Baca
Baldwin
Barrow
Bass (CA)
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Boren
Boswell
Braley (IA)
Butterfield
Capps
Carnahan
Carney
Carson (IN)
Castor (FL)
Chandler
Chu
Cicilline
Clarke (MI)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Cuellar
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Deutch
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Ellison
Engel
Eshoo
Farr
Filner
Frank (MA)
Fudge
Garamendi
Gonzalez
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Hahn
Hanabusa
Hastings (FL)
Heinrich
Higgins
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hochul
Holt
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson Lee (TX)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Keating
Kildee
Kind
Kucinich
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Levin
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lowey
Lujan
Lynch
Maloney
Markey
McCollum
McGovern
McIntyre
McNerney
Meeks
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Murphy (CT)
Napolitano
Olver
Owens
Pallone
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Pingree (ME)
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Richardson
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell
Sherman
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Stark
Sutton
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Tonko
Towns
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz (MN)
Waxman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth
NOES--257
Adams
Aderholt
Alexander
Amash
Austria
Bachus
Bartlett
Bass (NH)
Benishek
Berg
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Black
Blackburn
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boustany
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Brooks
Broun (GA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Buerkle
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canseco
Cantor
Capito
Capuano
Carter
Cassidy
Chabot
Chaffetz
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cohen
Cole
Conaway
Connolly (VA)
Cravaack
Crawford
Crenshaw
Critz
Crowley
Culberson
Cummings
Davis (KY)
Denham
Dent
DesJarlais
Dold
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Dreier
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellmers
Emerson
Farenthold
Fattah
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Flake
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Gardner
Garrett
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gibson
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Grimm
Guinta
Guthrie
Gutierrez
Hall
Hanna
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Heck
Hensarling
Herger
Herrera Beutler
Himes
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (IL)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Kelly
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kinzinger (IL)
Kissell
Kline
Labrador
Lamborn
Lance
Landry
Lankford
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lee (CA)
Lewis (CA)
LoBiondo
Lofgren, Zoe
Long
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Mack
Manzullo
Marchant
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (CA)
McCarthy (NY)
McCaul
McClintock
McDermott
McHenry
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meehan
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Nadler
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Palazzo
Pascrell
Paulsen
Pearce
Pence
Peterson
Petri
Platts
Poe (TX)
Polis
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Quayle
Rahall
Reed
Rehberg
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Richmond
Rigell
Rivera
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (AR)
Ross (FL)
Rothman (NJ)
Royce
Runyan
Ryan (WI)
Scalise
Schilling
Schmidt
Schock
Schwartz
Schweikert
Scott (SC)
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Southerland
Speier
Stearns
Stivers
Stutzman
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Tsongas
Turner
Upton
Walberg
Walden
Walsh (IL)
Watt
Webster
West
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Woolsey
Yoder
Young (IN)
NOT VOTING--29
Akin
Bachmann
Barletta
Barton (TX)
Bishop (UT)
Brown (FL)
Cardoza
Diaz-Balart
Giffords
Granger
Holden
Honda
Johnson (GA)
Lewis (GA)
Lungren, Daniel E.
Marino
McCotter
Miller, Gary
Neal
Paul
Pitts
Reyes
Sullivan
Thompson (PA)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Wilson (SC)
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore
The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). Two minutes are remaining
in this vote.
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Messrs. SCOTT of Virginia, CROWLEY, COHEN, and McDERMOTT changed
their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
So the motion to recommit was rejected.
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The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Recorded Vote
Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 384,
noes 14, not voting 33, as follows:
[Roll No. 698]
AYES--384
Ackerman
Adams
Aderholt
Alexander
Altmire
Andrews
Austria
Baca
Bachus
Baldwin
Barrow
Bartlett
Bass (CA)
Bass (NH)
Becerra
Benishek
Berg
Berkley
Berman
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Black
Blackburn
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boren
Boustany
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
Brooks
Broun (GA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Buerkle
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Butterfield
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canseco
Cantor
Capito
Capps
Carnahan
Carney
Carson (IN)
Carter
Cassidy
Castor (FL)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Chandler
Chu
Cicilline
Clarke (MI)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cohen
Cole
Conaway
Connolly (VA)
Cooper
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Cravaack
Crawford
Crenshaw
Critz
Crowley
Cuellar
Culberson
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
Davis (KY)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Denham
Dent
DesJarlais
Deutch
Dicks
Doggett
Dold
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Dreier
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Edwards
Ellison
Ellmers
Emerson
Engel
Eshoo
Farenthold
Farr
Fattah
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Flake
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Frank (MA)
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gallegly
Garamendi
Gardner
Garrett
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Gonzalez
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Grijalva
Grimm
Guinta
Guthrie
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hall
Hanabusa
Hanna
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Heck
Heinrich
Hensarling
Herger
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Himes
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hochul
Holt
Hoyer
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt
Inslee
Israel
Issa
Jackson (IL)
Jackson Lee (TX)
Jenkins
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly
Kildee
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kinzinger (IL)
Kissell
Kline
Labrador
Lamborn
Lance
Landry
Langevin
Lankford
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Long
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lujan
Lummis
Lynch
Mack
Maloney
Manzullo
Marchant
Markey
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (CA)
McCarthy (NY)
McCaul
McClintock
McCollum
McHenry
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
Meehan
Meeks
Mica
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller (NC)
Moran
Mulvaney
Murphy (CT)
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Nadler
Napolitano
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Olver
Owens
Palazzo
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Paulsen
Payne
Pearce
Pence
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Petri
Pingree (ME)
Platts
Poe (TX)
Polis
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Price (NC)
Quayle
Quigley
Rahall
Rangel
Reed
Rehberg
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Richardson
Richmond
Rigell
Rivera
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (AR)
Ross (FL)
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Runyan
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Scalise
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schilling
Schmidt
Schock
Schrader
Schwartz
Schweikert
Scott (SC)
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Sewell
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (NE)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Southerland
Speier
Stearns
Stivers
Stutzman
Sutton
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tierney
Tipton
Tonko
Towns
Tsongas
Turner
Upton
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walberg
Walden
Walsh (IL)
Walz (MN)
Watt
Waxman
Webster
Welch
West
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wilson (FL)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Yarmuth
Yoder
Young (IN)
NOES--14
Amash
Blumenauer
Capuano
Duncan (TN)
Filner
Gibson
Kucinich
Lee (CA)
McDermott
McGovern
Miller, George
Moore
Stark
Woolsey
NOT VOTING--33
Akin
Bachmann
Barletta
Barton (TX)
Bishop (UT)
Boswell
Brown (FL)
Cardoza
Conyers
Diaz-Balart
Dingell
Giffords
Granger
Holden
Honda
Lewis (GA)
Lungren, Daniel E.
Marino
McCotter
Miller, Gary
Neal
Paul
Pelosi
Pitts
Reyes
Smith (NJ)
Sullivan
Thompson (PA)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Wilson (SC)
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore
The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). Two minutes are remaining
in this vote.
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So the bill was passed.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
Stated for:
Mr. CARDOZA. Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, I was unable to vote on H.R.
1892, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 because
of road closures caused by flooding in and around my home. The roads
were impassable, and I regret that I could not be present for votes.
Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye'' on final passage.
Personal explanation
Mr. AKIN. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall Nos. 697 and 698, I was delayed
and unable to vote. Had I been present I would have voted ``no'' on
rollcall No. 697 and ``aye'' on rollcall No. 698.
Authorizing the Clerk to Correct Engrossment
Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that in
the engrossment of the bill, H.R. 1892, the Clerk be authorized to make
such technical and conforming changes as necessary to reflect the
actions of the House.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentleman from Michigan?
There was no objection.
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