[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 194 (Friday, December 16, 2011)]
[House]
[Pages H9905-H9906]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 2055, CONSOLIDATED APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2012

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The unfinished business is the question on 
adoption of the conference report on the bill (H.R. 2055) making 
appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans 
Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2012, and for other purposes, on which the yeas and nays were ordered.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the conference report.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 296, 
nays 121, not voting 16, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 941]

                               YEAS--296

     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baldwin
     Barletta
     Barrow
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (CA)
     Bass (NH)
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Berkley
     Berman
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blumenauer
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boren
     Boswell
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Butterfield
     Calvert
     Camp
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carter
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clay
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Conaway
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Denham
     Dent
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Edwards
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farenthold
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flores
     Forbes
     Foxx
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garamendi
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gonzalez
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffin (AR)
     Grimm
     Hall
     Hanabusa
     Hanna
     Harper
     Hartzler
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Heinrich
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hochul
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Hunter
     Inslee
     Israel
     Issa
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Jenkins
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly
     Kildee
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kissell
     Kline
     Lance
     Langevin
     Lankford
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Long
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Marino
     Matsui
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCaul
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Neal
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Olver
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paulsen
     Payne
     Pearce
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pitts
     Platts
     Pompeo
     Price (GA)
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Reyes
     Richmond
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (WI)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Schiff
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Stivers
     Sullivan
     Sutton
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Turner (NY)
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Visclosky
     Walden
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Watt
     Webster
     Welch
     West
     Whitfield
     Wilson (FL)
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yarmuth
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                               NAYS--121

     Adams
     Akin
     Amash
     Amodei
     Austria
     Bartlett
     Berg
     Bishop (UT)
     Boustany
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burton (IN)
     Campbell
     Capuano
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Coffman (CO)
     Cooper
     Costello
     Cravaack
     DeFazio
     DesJarlais
     Doyle
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellison
     Flake
     Fleming
     Fortenberry
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (AZ)
     Fudge
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gowdy
     Graves (GA)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grijalva
     Guinta
     Hahn
     Harris
     Holden
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hurt
     Johnson (OH)
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kind
     King (IA)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kucinich
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Landry
     Lee (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lummis
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Markey
     Matheson
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Pence
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Poe (TX)
     Polis
     Posey
     Quayle
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Reed
     Ribble
     Richardson
     Rivera
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Ryan (OH)
     Schakowsky
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Sensenbrenner
     Southerland
     Stark
     Stearns
     Stutzman
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Tipton
     Towns
     Turner (OH)
     Velazquez
     Walberg
     Walsh (IL)
     Waters
     Waxman
     Westmoreland
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Woolsey

                             NOT VOTING--16

     Bachmann
     Cardoza
     Carson (IN)
     Cassidy
     Coble
     Davis (KY)
     Filner
     Giffords
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Herger
     Johnson, E. B.
     Napolitano
     Nunnelee
     Paul
     Speier

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  Messrs. KINZINGER of Illinois, DUNCAN of South Carolina, TOWNS, Ms. 
RICHARDSON, Messrs. SOUTHERLAND and COFFMAN of Colorado changed their 
vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Messrs. MILLER of Florida, GONZALEZ, RICHMOND, CONYERS, RUSH and WATT 
changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the conference report was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  Stated for:
  Mr. CASSIDY. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 941 I was unavoidably 
detained.

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  Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. CARSON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, on December 16, 2011, I missed 
rollcall vote 941. I was detained because of physical illness and could 
not make it to the floor. Had I been present, I would have voted 
``yea'' on rollcall 941.
  Stated against:
  Mr. FILNER. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall 941, I was away from the Capitol 
due to prior commitments to my constituents. Had I been present, I 
would have voted ``nay.''
  Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Mr. Speaker, on Friday, December 16th, 2011, I was 
absent during rollcall vote No. 941 in order to attend an important 
event in my district. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on 
Adoption of the Conference Report on H.R. 2055--Consolidated 
Appropriations Act.

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