[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 115 (Tuesday, July 31, 2012)]
[House]
[Pages H5448-H5449]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENT EFFICIENCY AND STREAMLINING ACT OF 2011

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The unfinished business is the vote on the 
motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill (S. 679) to reduce the 
number of executive positions subject to Senate confirmation, 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 motion offered by the 
gentleman from Utah (Mr. Chaffetz) that the House suspend the rules and 
pass the bill.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 261, 
nays 116, not voting 54, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 537]

                               YEAS--261

     Ackerman
     Altmire
     Amodei
     Andrews
     Baca
     Bachus
     Barber
     Barrow
     Bass (CA)
     Bass (NH)
     Becerra
     Berman
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boren
     Boswell
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Carter
     Castor (FL)
     Chaffetz
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Cravaack
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     DeFazio
     DeLauro
     Dent
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fincher
     Flake
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Fudge
     Gallegly
     Garamendi
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffith (VA)
     Grijalva
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanabusa
     Harper
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hochul
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Israel
     Issa
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kissell
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Long
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)

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     Miller, George
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nunes
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Platts
     Polis
     Price (GA)
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Reichert
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Rivera
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rokita
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (SC)
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stark
     Stivers
     Sullivan
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Tipton
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Turner (NY)
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Welch
     Whitfield
     Wilson (FL)
     Woolsey
     Yarmuth
     Young (AK)

                               NAYS--116

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Amash
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Barletta
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Berg
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Boustany
     Brooks
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Canseco
     Chabot
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Crawford
     Culberson
     Denham
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Emerson
     Farenthold
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Gosar
     Graves (GA)
     Griffin (AR)
     Hall
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Herrera Beutler
     Huelskamp
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Jones
     Kelly
     King (IA)
     Kline
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Lankford
     Latta
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marino
     McClintock
     McKinley
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Nugent
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Peterson
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Quayle
     Rehberg
     Ribble
     Rigell
     Roe (TN)
     Rooney
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schweikert
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stutzman
     Terry
     Turner (OH)
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--54

     Akin
     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Benishek
     Berkley
     Bishop (GA)
     Broun (GA)
     Campbell
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Cassidy
     Crenshaw
     DeGette
     DesJarlais
     Dicks
     Doggett
     Duffy
     Filner
     Fleming
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gowdy
     Hanna
     Hayworth
     Heinrich
     Higgins
     Hirono
     Huizenga (MI)
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (IL)
     Jordan
     Kaptur
     Kucinich
     Labrador
     Lewis (GA)
     Mack
     McCaul
     Moore
     Noem
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paul
     Pence
     Renacci
     Richmond
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rush
     Scott, Austin
     Sutton
     Towns
     Walberg
     Westmoreland
     Young (IN)

                              {time}  1906

  Mrs. EMERSON, Messrs. LANCE, HALL, Ms. HERRERA BEUTLER, Messrs. 
ROYCE, NUGENT, GERLACH, SOUTHERLAND, OLSON, and CULBERSON changed their 
vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Messrs. GUTHRIE, FINCHER, BRADY of Texas, SMITH of New Jersey, Mrs. 
MILLER of Michigan, Messrs. FRELINGHUYSEN, WHITFIELD, Ms. SPEIER, 
Messrs. LoBIONDO, HURT, GOODLATTE, Mrs. ROBY, Messrs. GRIFFITH of 
Virginia, HULTGREN, BACHUS, KINZINGER of Illinois, FRANKS of Arizona, 
SENSENBRENNER, BASS of New Hampshire, HUNTER, REED, GRIMM, Mrs. 
ELLMERS, Messrs. WALDEN, HASTINGS of Washington, KINGSTON, GUINTA, 
ROKITA, GRAVES of Missouri, DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California, SCOTT of 
South Carolina, LONG, STIVERS, HERGER, WELCH, and MEEHAN changed their 
vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and 
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. FILNER. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall 537, 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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