[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 72 (Friday, May 18, 2012)]
[House]
[Pages H3145-H3147]
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  MOTIONS TO INSTRUCT CONFEREES ON H.R. 4348, SURFACE TRANSPORTATION 
                     EXTENSION ACT OF 2012, PART II

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The unfinished business is the vote on the 
motion to instruct on H.R. 4348 offered by the gentleman from Georgia 
(Mr. Barrow) on which the yeas and nays were ordered.
  The Clerk will redesignate the motion.
  The Clerk redesignated the motion.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to instruct.
  This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 261, 
nays 152, not voting 18, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 292]

                               YEAS--261

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Amash
     Austria
     Baca
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     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
     Chandler
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Cooper
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Dold
     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
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Hochul
     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
     Lankford
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marino
     Matheson
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meehan
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Paul
     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)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Ross (FL)

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     Royce
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner (NY)
     Turner (OH)
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Walz (MN)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                               NAYS--152

     Ackerman
     Andrews
     Baldwin
     Bass (CA)
     Bass (NH)
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Courtney
     Critz
     Crowley
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Dicks
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gonzalez
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Olver
     Pallone
     Pastor (AZ)
     Pelosi
     Peters
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Smith (WA)
     Stark
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Woolsey
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--18

     Amodei
     Bishop (UT)
     Braley (IA)
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Costa
     Costello
     Cummings
     Filner
     Gosar
     Kaptur
     Landry
     Pascrell
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Slaughter
     Speier
     Sullivan
     Tsongas


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

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

                              {time}  1253

  So the motion to instruct was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  Stated against:
  Mr. FILNER. Mr. Chair, on rollcall 272, I was away from the Capitol 
due to prior commitments to my constituents. Had I been present, I 
would have voted ``nay.''
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The unfinished business is the vote on the 
motion to instruct on H.R. 4348 offered by the gentleman from West 
Virginia (Mr. Rahall) on which the yeas and nays were ordered.
  The Clerk will redesignate the motion.
  The Clerk redesignated the motion.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to instruct.
  This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 245, 
nays 169, not voting 17, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 293]

                               YEAS--245

     Ackerman
     Adams
     Aderholt
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (CA)
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boren
     Boswell
     Brady (PA)
     Brooks
     Brown (FL)
     Burgess
     Butterfield
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Cravaack
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Duffy
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Emerson
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fitzpatrick
     Fortenberry
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gerlach
     Gibson
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffith (VA)
     Grijalva
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hall
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hochul
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kissell
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy (PA)
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Olver
     Pallone
     Pastor (AZ)
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Renacci
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rivera
     Rogers (KY)
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross (AR)
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schmidt
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Stark
     Stearns
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Welch
     Whitfield
     Wilson (FL)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Yarmuth
     Yoder
     Young (FL)

                               NAYS--169

     Akin
     Alexander
     Amash
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Barletta
     Bartlett
     Bass (NH)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Biggert
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chaffetz
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Davis (KY)
     Dreier
     Duncan (SC)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan
     Kelly
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Lankford
     Lewis (CA)
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marino
     Matheson
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McKeon
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Paul
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pence
     Polis
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Ribble
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Roskam
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner (NY)
     Turner (OH)
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Wilson (SC)
     Womack
     Woodall
     Young (AK)
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--17

     Amodei
     Braley (IA)
     Cardoza
     Costello
     Cummings
     Filner
     Gohmert
     Gosar
     Johnson (IL)
     Landry
     Pascrell
     Quigley
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Slaughter
     Speier
     Sullivan
     Tsongas


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

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

                              {time}  1300

  Ms. WATERS changed her vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the motion to instruct 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. FILNER. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall 293, I was away from the Capitol 
due to prior commitments to my constituents. Had I been present, I 
would have voted ``yea.''

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                          Personal Explanation

  Mr. BRALEY of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I regret missing floor votes on 
Friday, May 18, 2012 due to a visit to a wounded Iowa warrior at Walter 
Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD.


                          Personal Explanation

  Mr. PASCRELL. Mr. Speaker, on May 18, 2012, I missed several rollcall 
votes due to a longstanding commitment to give the commencement address 
at Passaic County Community College, in my district.
  Had I been present I would have voted:
  ``Aye''--Smith (WA)/Amash Amendment (No. 46)--Eliminates indefinite 
military detention of any person detained under AUMF authority in US, 
territories or possessions by providing immediate transfer to trial and 
proceedings by a court established under Article III of the 
Constitution of the United States or by an appropriate State court.
  ``Nay''--Gohmert Amendment (No. 45)-- Clarifies that the FY 2012 
National Defense Authorization Act and the 2001 Authorization for Use 
of Military Force (UAMF) do not deny the writ of habeas corpus or deny 
any Constitutional rights for persons detained in the United States 
under the AUMF who are entitled to such rights.
  ``Nay''--Coffman Amendment (No. 17)--Repeals the moratorium on A 76 
procedures, which prohibits the outsourcing of U.S. military jobs to 
private contractors.
  ``Aye''--Keating Amendment (No. 18)--Freezes the transfer, reduction 
or elimination of Air National Guard units supporting an Air and Space 
Operations Center or an Air Force Forces Staff until the impact of the 
unit's loss and alternative plans to support the augmented Air Force 
missions are provided to.
  ``Aye''--Broun Amendment (No. 19)--Eliminates the maximum age 
limitation for individuals seeking to enlist in the U.S. military, 
provided they meet all of the other current qualifications for 
enlistment.
  ``Aye''--Carson Amendment (No. 20)--Prohibits military promotion 
boards from considering any information from official documents, word 
of mouth, or in writing on the pursuit of treatment or counseling for 
mental health or addiction issues, unless the service member is found 
unfit for duty or a danger to themselves or others. Would require the 
information on this prohibition to be promulgated to current service 
members.
  ``Aye''--Cummings Amendment (No. 26)--Expands the mortgage 
protections under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) to include 
servicemembers serving in a contingency operation, surviving spouses of 
servicemembers whose deaths are service-connected, and veterans who are 
totally disabled at the time of discharge. The amendment also repeals 
the sunset provision that is set to expire at the end of this year and 
increases fines for violations of the SCRA.
  ``Nay''--Sablan Amendment (No. 29)--Includes the Northern Mariana 
Islands as an eligible location, in addition to the United States and 
Guam, for the overhaul, repair and maintenance of naval vessels and 
other vessels under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Navy.
  ``Aye''--Johnson (GA) Amendment (No. 30)--Includes a finding stating 
that the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to South Korea would 
destabilize the Western Pacific region and would not be in the national 
security interests of the United States.
  ``Aye''--Johnson (GA) Amendment (No. 31)--Requires the Secretary of 
Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to report to Congress 
regarding whether nuclear weapons reductions pursuant to the New START 
Treaty are in the national security interests of the United States.
  ``Nay''--Price (GA) Amendment (No. 32)--Prohibits the President from 
making unilateral reductions to U.S. nuclear forces.
  ``Nay''--Rigell Amendment (No. 38)--Replaces the pending sequester of 
discretionary spending for FY 2013 and replaces it by reducing the 
discretionary spending limit for that year so that it conforms with the 
Republican/Ryan budget levels deemed in force in the House, but this 
replacement is contingent upon the enactment of spending reductions 
over five years of at least the amount of the sequester it supplants. 
Also requires a detailed report on the impact of the sequestration of 
funds authorized and appropriated for FY 2013 for the Department of 
Defense.
  ``Aye''--Lee Amendment (No. 42)--Limits Defense funding to the amount 
consistent with the Budget Control act. The resulting $8 billion 
reduction in the underlying bill's authorization would come from 
programs selected by the President in consultation with the Defense 
Secretary, with military pay and health care exempt.
  ``Nay''--Duncan amendment (No. 47)--Limits funds authorized to be 
appropriated by this Act to any institution or organization established 
by the Convention on the Law of the Sea, including the International 
Seabed Authority, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, 
and the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.
  ``Aye''--Coffman Amendment (No. 48)--Authorizes the President to 
remove all Brigade Combat Teams that are permanently stationed in 
Europe and replace them with a rotational force.
  ``Nay''--Lee Amendment (No. 49)--Appoints a Special Envoy for Iran to 
ensure that all diplomatic avenues are pursued to avoid a war with Iran 
and to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
  ``Nay''--Franks Amendment (No. 54)--Limits the availability of funds 
for nuclear nonproliferation activities with the Russian Federation 
until Russia is no longer providing support to the government of 
Syria's suppression of the Syrian people or transferring to Iran, North 
Korea or Syria equipment and technology that could be used to make 
weapons of mass destruction.
  ``Nay''--Pearce Amendment (No. 55)--Strikes provisions in the bill 
that authorize $150 million for DOE to support the U.S. Enrichment 
Corporation (USEC) development of domestic uranium enrichment capacity.
  ``Nay''--Rehberg Amendment (No. 59)--Bans any reductions to the 
strategic nuclear triad unless the Secretary of Defense certifies that: 
1) further reductions in the Russia Federation's arsenal are needed for 
compliance with New START limits; and 2) Russia is not developing or 
deploying nuclear delivery systems not covered by New START limits. 
Would also protect all three legs of the nuclear triad from 
elimination.
  ``Aye''--Price Amendment (No. 111)--Requires the Department of 
Justice to order an investigation into the possible violation of U.S. 
law regarding numerous leaks of sensitive information involving U.S. 
and Israeli military, intelligence, and operational capabilities. Would 
provide the Administration with 30 days after bill becomes law to begin 
its investigation and 60 days after enactment to report to Congress.
  ``Aye''--Democratic Motion to Recommit H.R. 4310.
  ``Nay''--Final Passage of H.R. 4310--National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2013.
  ``Aye''--Democratic Motion to Instruct Conferees on H.R. 4348--
Offered by Mr. Barrow of Georgia.
  ``Aye''--Democratic Motion to Instruct Conferees on H.R. 4348--
Offered by Mr. Rahall of West Virginia.

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