[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 18 (Friday, February 3, 2012)]
[House]
[Pages H456-H459]
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                      BASELINE REFORM ACT OF 2012

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 1(c) of rule XIX, further 
consideration of the bill (H.R. 3578) to amend the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to reform the budget baseline 
will now resume.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the engrossment and third 
reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was 
read the third time.


                           Motion to Recommit

  Mr. TIERNEY. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentleman opposed to the bill?
  Mr. TIERNEY. I am.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. Tierney moves to recommit the bill H.R. 3578 to the 
     Committee on the Budget with instructions to report the same 
     back to the House forthwith with the following amendment:
       In section 257(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
     Deficit Control Act of 1985 as added by section 2, strike 
     ``Budgetary'' and insert ``Except as provided in paragraph 
     (3), budgetary'' in paragraph (1) and after paragraph (2) add 
     the following new paragraph:
       ``(3) Maintaining current funding levels in real 
     (inflation-adjusted) terms for: pell grants and education 
     programs for students; health and all discretionary spending 
     that provide benefits for seniors; job, health, and all 
     discretionary spending that provide benefits for veterans; 
     and health research, including nih and research to cure 
     cancer.--The discretionary portions of budget functions 500 
     (Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services), 550 
     (Health), 570 (Medicare), 600 (Income Security), 650 (Social 
     Security), and 700 (Veterans Benefits and Services), other 
     than unobligated balances, shall be adjusted for inflation as 
     follows:
       ``(A) The inflator used in paragraph (2) to adjust 
     budgetary resources relating to personnel shall be the 
     percent by which the average of the Bureau of Labor 
     Statistics Employment Cost Index (wages and salaries, private 
     industry workers) for that fiscal year differs from such 
     index for the current year.
       ``(B) The inflator used in paragraph (2) to adjust all 
     other budgetary resources shall be the percent by which the 
     average of the estimated gross domestic product chain-type 
     price index for that fiscal year differs from the average of 
     such estimated index for the current year.''.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from 
Massachusetts is recognized for 5 minutes in support of his motion.
  Mr. TIERNEY. Mr. Speaker, this is the final amendment to this bill. 
It will not kill the bill, and it won't send it back to committee. If 
adopted, we will then vote on the passage of the bill, as amended.
  When families in my district and across the country sit around the 
kitchen table to try to balance their budgets, they know that costs 
don't stay the same every year. They know the price of milk and gas and 
college and health care all go up. Yet H.R. 3578, left unamended, holds 
the budgetary baseline constant instead of allowing it to reflect 
increases in costs, making simple inflation adjustments look like 
increases in spending.
  Ignoring increases in costs will dramatically lower program levels in 
the baseline. Translated, this means that the priorities we support to 
help sustain the middle class and those aspiring to it, the programs we 
pay our taxes to support, will be cut as inflation eats into the 
accounts set in the budget.
  The Republican majority argues that America's middle class must make 
even more sacrifices to address our debt. The majority's mantra is that 
austerity alone, spending cuts focused only on nondefense discretionary 
domestic spending with no additional revenue and without closing any 
special interest tax loopholes, is all they think should be done.
  Never mind that it's largely their policies enforced under the last 
administration, aided and abetted by the then-Federal Reserve Board 
chairman, that were largely responsible for the debt situation. Never 
mind that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has since testified 
that this was wrong, that his ``unconstrained free market'' ``winner-
take-all'' theory had never worked in his 80-plus-year life span. Never 
mind that in the 1970s, we used to spend 5 percent of our national 
income on discretionary domestic spending, like education, job 
training, health, research, veterans, and infrastructure; but more 
recently, we've already pared that back to 2.5 percent.
  With this bill, the majority tries to balance the budget on the backs 
of workers, middle class families, small businesses, and society's most 
challenged. They refuse to consider a fair distribution of our tax 
obligations. They even refuse to close special interest tax loopholes.
  This bill, if not amended, chooses shielding the extraordinarily 
well-off from any fair share of taxes over sustaining Pell Grants, 
student assistance promising opportunity to families. It chooses 
allowing hedge fund managers the benefit of especially low tax rates 
over Meals on Wheels for seniors. And it chooses special tax credits to 
the mature, extremely profitable oil and gas companies over providing 
the security of housing for homeless veterans returning from duty in 
Iraq and Afghanistan.
  The austerity-only approach to addressing their largely self-induced 
debt is not the smart response to our economy's needs. We need to deal 
with our economic situation in a smart way, as attested by the majority 
of economists from all across the political divide. We need a gradual 
approach, balanced between spending cuts and revenue increases fairly 
distributed. Those need to be appropriately targeted in amount, share 
and time, not applied in bludgeon fashion like this bill on the floor 
today.
  Choking off the middle class by cutting spending for education, 
health,

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jobs, job training, research, senior care, and our obligations to 
veterans is shortsighted. Studies and reports from international and 
national economists tell us that a vibrant middle class is essential 
for the well-being of our economy; imperative for businesses so they 
have customers for their goods and services; important to employers so 
they have the next generation of innovators, inventors, scientists, 
teachers, engineers, and a generally capable workforce; and important 
to families and individuals as they seek personal and economic 
security.

                              {time}  1100

  We shouldn't need to argue the moral imperative of meeting our 
obligations to those suffering from debilitating health conditions and 
the families that support them; to the care of our seniors, especially 
those aged, alone and poor; nor to our duty to our military forces, 
especially the wounded and disabled.
  Left as is, this bill is a step to undoing all the progress, however 
slow, so far made in moving from the near depression caused by the 
failed policies of 2001-2008. Simply cutting spending on the middle 
class, at the same time businesses and families have been forced to 
limit spending, and just as municipalities and the States are trimming 
back, just adds to the downward spiral of fewer customers for our 
businesses, less growth for our economy, more layoffs, and on and on in 
a repeating circle.
  Make no mistake, this bill, if not amended, makes the dream of post-
high school certificates or degrees or acquired job skills more remote 
for many; makes the visit of a neighbor and delivery of perhaps the 
day's only warm meal for seniors less likely; means research on 
debilitating health conditions or diseases may be delayed, and the cure 
of cancers a more distant goal; and consigns our veterans to longer 
periods of homelessness and more difficulty getting the services they 
need to get a job.
  This amendment would allow the effects of inflation to be factored 
into the budgetary baseline so as to avoid automatic cuts in purchasing 
power that would otherwise result from this bill. Passing this 
amendment allows us to at least start on a path to the kind of America 
most of us envision, or at least it lessens the obstacles to that 
America that are thrown up by this legislation in its current form.
  Let's pass this amendment and start down a path that recalls what 
makes this country exceptional, the notion that everyone, no matter 
what economic or social condition one is born into, should have an 
equal opportunity to reach our goals; to an America reflecting that its 
people should shoulder and will shoulder any burden, suffer any 
sacrifice, if shared fairly.
  Let's pass this amendment and add back at least a modest degree of 
balance and fairness.
  Mr. Speaker, I would hope that for those who count on us to be fair 
and just, or to make smart, targeted, and balanced approaches to our 
complex challenges, we could at least do that.
  I urge support of this amendment, and yield back the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the motion.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Georgia is recognized for 
5 minutes.
  Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, this is another one of those commonsense 
reforms that I'm so proud that this Budget Committee has brought to the 
floor, time and time again, and will continue throughout the spring.
  When I get back home, Mr. Speaker, folks say, Rob, why haven't you 
gotten this done already? And my friend from Massachusetts has just 
laid out exactly the reason why. These are politics of division, not of 
unity. These are politics of fear, not of hope.
  And I tell my friend, as he knows very well, this bill does not cut 
one penny from any of the priorities that he mentioned. My friend knows 
it to be true. Mr. Speaker, you know it to be true, and I say it to the 
American people today, what this bill does is to shine sunshine on what 
has been a budget process cloaked in darkness for far too long. And 
both parties have been complicit in that, Mr. Speaker, and both parties 
are going to unite today to change that history.
  Mr. Speaker, do folks back home want to see over 50 different 
duplicative job training programs plussed up year after year after 
year, without any regard to their efficacy? No, they don't.
  Do folks back home want to see education programs that have failed 
our children time and time again plussed up, while those education 
programs that are successful go needy? No, they don't.
  Mr. Speaker, do folks want to see those income security programs that 
are providing insecurity to folks back home plussed up at the expense 
of those programs that can be a hand up out of poverty? I tell you they 
do not.
  This bill does one thing and one thing only: This bill provides 
honesty in our budget process. And if this motion to recommit passes, 
we will return to the days where confusion, rather than clarity, is the 
touchstone of this budget process.
  Chairman Ryan has given us an opportunity, with this legislation, to 
bring the American people into this debate, to make the budgeting here 
in this body look like the budgeting around the dinner table back home.
  Are expenses going up in this country? They are, Mr. Speaker. Are 
times tough in this country? Yes, they are. When we spend $10 today and 
$12 tomorrow, the American people know that we're spending more and not 
less.
  We can continue to put lipstick on this budget pig, as this motion to 
recommit would have us do, Mr. Speaker, but I encourage my colleagues 
to vote ``no'' on this motion to recommit and unite to throw open the 
doors of this institution and bring in budget sunshine once again.
  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.
  Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were 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. 3578, if ordered, and adoption of the 
conference report to accompany H.R. 658.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 177, 
nays 238, not voting 17, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 31]

                               YEAS--177

     Ackerman
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Bass (CA)
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gonzalez
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hochul
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     Kissell
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Pingree (ME)
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     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
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Stark
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Woolsey
     Yarmuth

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                               NAYS--238

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Amash
     Amodei
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barrow
     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
     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
     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
     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.
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marino
     Matheson
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meehan
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner (NY)
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--17

     Burton (IN)
     Cardoza
     Carson (IN)
     Filner
     Fortenberry
     Hahn
     Heinrich
     Hinchey
     Issa
     Mack
     Paul
     Polis
     Ruppersberger
     Shuler
     Sires
     Speier
     Turner (OH)

                              {time}  1129

  Mrs. MALONEY, Messrs. COHEN, LEVIN, and CROWLEY changed their vote 
from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the motion to recommit was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Mr. FILNER. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall 31, I was away from the Capitol 
due to prior commitments to my constituents. Had I been present, I 
would have voted ``yea.''
  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 noes appeared to have it.
  Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 235, 
nays 177, not voting 20, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 32]

                               YEAS--235

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Amash
     Amodei
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barrow
     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
     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
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Green, Gene
     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
     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.
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marino
     Matheson
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meehan
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     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)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner (NY)
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                               NAYS--177

     Ackerman
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Bass (CA)
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Fattah
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gonzalez
     Green, Al
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hochul
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     Kissell
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     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
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Ross (AR)
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Stark
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Woolsey
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--20

     Cardoza
     Carson (IN)
     Carter
     Farr
     Filner
     Fortenberry
     Franks (AZ)
     Graves (MO)
     Hahn
     Heinrich
     Hinchey
     Issa
     Mack
     Miller, Gary
     Paul
     Shuler
     Sires
     Smith (NJ)
     Speier
     Turner (OH)


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

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

                              {time}  1135

  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. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 32 I was 
unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''

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  Mr. FRANKS of Arizona. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 32 I was 
unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''
  Stated against:
  Mr. FILNER. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall 32, I was away from the Capitol 
due to prior commitments to my constituents. Had I been present, I 
would have voted ``nay.''

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