[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 141 (Thursday, October 10, 2013)]
[House]
[Pages H6471-H6474]
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BORDER SECURITY AND ENFORCEMENT CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS RESOLUTION,
2014
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 1(c) of rule XIX, further
consideration of House Joint Resolution 79 will now be resumed.
The Clerk read the title of the joint resolution.
Motion to Recommit
Ms. SHEA-PORTER. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the
desk.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentlewoman opposed to the joint
resolution?
Ms. SHEA-PORTER. I am opposed.
The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit.
The Clerk read as follows:
Ms. Shea-Porter moves to recommit the joint resolution H.J.
Res. 79 to the Committee on Appropriations with instructions
to report the same back to the House forthwith with the
following amendment:
Strike all after the resolving clause and insert the
following:
That upon passage of this joint resolution by the House of
Representatives, the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 59) making
continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2014, and for other
purposes, as amended by the Senate on September 27, 2013,
shall be considered to have been taken from the Speaker's
table and the House shall be considered to have (1) receded
from its amendment; and (2) concurred in the Senate
amendment.
Ms. SHEA-PORTER (during the reading). Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous
consent to dispense with the reading.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentlewoman from New Hampshire?
There was no objection.
Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker, I reserve a point of order on the
gentlewoman's motion.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. A point of order is reserved.
Pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from New Hampshire is
recognized for 5 minutes in support of her motion.
Ms. SHEA-PORTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to offer a motion to
recommit to end this harmful and unnecessary government shutdown. I do
this by offering a motion that would bring to the floor the continuing
resolution that has already passed in the Senate and awaits
consideration in the House.
I know that not everyone is thrilled with this level of funding. Many
of us in the Democratic Caucus think it cuts too deeply into important
investments, while many of our Republican colleagues feel it doesn't
cut enough. The Senate bill is a compromise, but it is a compromise
that is acceptable to the majority of us in order to continue the vital
functioning of the government that all Americans pay for and that all
Americans deserve.
Unfortunately, a small faction of the majority party continues to
hold the entire government hostage while it tries to obstruct the
Affordable Care Act. I understand they disagree with the Senate and the
President on certain issues, but shutting the government down to try
and achieve an ideological goal that could not be achieved through the
legislative process, through the Supreme Court, or through the ballot
box is beneath the dignity of this body. That is why I urge my
colleagues to support my motion and allow us to get the government up
and
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running again. Then, and only then, can we resume debate and discussion
on other critical issues like creating jobs, supporting our veterans,
and, yes, improving the Affordable Care Act.
As of today, it has been 10 days since the government shutdown. That
is 10 days where we haven't had studies going forward at the National
Institutes of Health, 10 days where the Small Business Administration
hasn't been lending money to entrepreneurs and small businesses, and 10
days where families haven't had access to the critical services to
protect those who need it most.
In my own district, the Small Business Administration normally gives
out an average of $237,000 in loans each and every day. That is a total
of $2.37 million in loans that haven't been made to the small
businesses of New Hampshire's First District.
The majority has failed my State and others. All the American people
are asking for is for us to open the government. They would be happy
with a clean bill. We could put people back to work with a clean bill.
We could continue lending money to small businesses with a clean bill.
We could fund cancer research with a clean bill.
But instead of putting an end to the government shutdown by passing
the funding bill that the Senate has already agreed to, Republican
leaders in the House are offering bills to open individual agencies and
programs instead of the entire government. Make no mistake, that is not
an honest attempt to open the government. These cherry-picked funding
bills serve only to give political cover to the very people who caused
the government shutdown.
As former Republican Presidential candidate and Senator Bob Dole
said, along with my dear colleague, John Dingell:
Piecemeal or partial spending plans do not adequately
ensure that our veterans--and, indeed, all Americans--have
access to the system of self-government established to serve
and protect them.
Former Republican Senator Judd Greg, who was chairman of the Senate
Budget Committee, said:
A small group of Republican legislators led by the junior
Senator from Texas decided to take as hostages government
operations and the raising of the debt ceiling. The price of
release was to be the death of ObamaCare. This approach never
had a snowball's chance in Texas of succeeding.
However, here we are still shut down 10 days after the start of the
new fiscal year; and, instead of voting on legislation that if brought
to the floor would pass and open the government, what are we voting on?
The same little, tiny piecemeal appropriations designed for messaging
and attack ads that we have been voting on all week. It is Washington
politics at its worst.
It has been 10 days of this sort of chicanery, and it is time to give
it up. Let's stop the gamesmanship; turn the lights back on; reopen the
government; and address the actual critical problems addressing the
country.
We need more jobs. We need to find ways to grow the economy, make
education more affordable, and invest in our decaying infrastructure.
All of these are problems that our constituents sent us here to deal
with, and they are what they expect us to work on.
That is probably why, yesterday, when Gallup released polling on what
Americans believe is the most important problem facing our country, it
should come as no surprise to find that, for the first time in history,
they picked dysfunctional government. It has always been either the
economy, unemployment, or jobs that were the most pressing problems. In
yesterday's poll, though, it was us. I can't say that I am surprised,
because I agree with them. We need to fix this, and that starts by
doing the basics like funding the government and raising the debt
ceiling.
I will end with one final quote from my former Republican colleague,
Senator Gregg. He said:
People who have no interest in governing cannot be allowed
to be the dominant voices in a major party.
I thank you for your support, and I hope you will support this
critical motion.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Point of Order
Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker, I make a point of order that the
instructions contained in the motion violate clause 7 of rule XVI,
which requires that the amendment be germane to the bill under
consideration.
As I am sure you are aware, the Chair has ruled on October 2, 3, 4,
7, 8, and 9 of 2013, the instructions contain a special order of
business within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Rules, and
therefore, the amendment is not germane to the underlying bill.
Mr. Speaker, I insist on my point of order.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Does the gentlewoman from New Hampshire wish
to be heard on the point of order?
Ms. SHEA-PORTER. Mr. Speaker, I wish to be heard on the point of
order.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from New Hampshire is
recognized on the point of order.
Ms. SHEA-PORTER. Mr. Speaker, doesn't the bill before us set up a
commission to examine deficit reduction?
My motion to recommit would open up the entire Federal Government so
that our taxpayers can receive the benefits they have already paid for,
to recommit deals with government expenditures. And right now we are
running a deficit. So isn't the amount the government is spending a
relevant topic to the deficit reduction?
We have voted to pay workers furloughed during a shutdown. I
supported that bill. But what sense does it make to have workers paid
to sit at home and not be able to do their jobs? What kind of a strange
House is this that would force this situation on our Federal workers?
Mr. Speaker, if you rule this motion out of order, does this not mean
that we will not have a chance to keep the entire Federal Government
open today? Can the Chair please explain why we can't keep the entire
Federal Government open today?
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The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair is prepared to rule.
The gentleman from Texas makes a point of order that the instructions
proposed in the motion to recommit offered by the gentlewoman from New
Hampshire are not germane.
The joint resolution extends funding relating to the Department of
Homeland Security. The instructions in the motion propose an order of
business of the House.
As the Chair most recently ruled on October 9, 2013, a motion to
recommit proposing an order of business of the House is not germane to
a measure providing for the appropriation of funds because such motion
addresses a matter within the jurisdiction of a committee not
represented in the underlying measure.
Therefore, the instructions propose a non-germane amendment. The
point of order is sustained.
Ms. SHEA-PORTER. Mr. Speaker, I appeal the ruling of the Chair.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is, Shall the decision of the
Chair stand as the judgment of the House?
Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker, I move to lay the appeal on the table.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to table.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Ms. SHEA-PORTER. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 15-
minute vote on the motion to table will be followed by a 5-minute vote
on passage of the joint resolution, if arising without further
proceedings in recommital.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 226,
nays 196, not voting 9, as follows:
[Roll No. 539]
YEAS--226
Aderholt
Amash
Amodei
Bachmann
Bachus
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Benishek
Bentivolio
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Broun (GA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Burgess
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Cantor
Capito
Carter
Cassidy
Chabot
Chaffetz
Coble
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Conaway
Cook
Cotton
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Culberson
Daines
Davis, Rodney
Denham
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gardner
Garrett
Gerlach
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Gibbs
Gibson
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Guthrie
Hall
Hanna
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (WA)
Heck (NV)
Hensarling
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Joyce
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Lankford
Latham
Latta
LoBiondo
Long
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Marchant
Marino
Massie
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Palazzo
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Petri
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Radel
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Royce
Runyan
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanford
Scalise
Schock
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (TX)
Southerland
Stewart
Stivers
Stockman
Stutzman
Terry
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walorski
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IN)
NAYS--196
Andrews
Barber
Barrow (GA)
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Bera (CA)
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Bustos
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu
Cicilline
Clarke
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Courtney
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle
Duckworth
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Enyart
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Garcia
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hanabusa
Heck (WA)
Himes
Hinojosa
Holt
Honda
Horsford
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jackson Lee
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
Kirkpatrick
Kuster
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
Maffei
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Matheson
Matsui
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Michaud
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Negrete McLeod
Nolan
O'Rourke
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters (CA)
Peters (MI)
Peterson
Pingree (ME)
Pocan
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Rangel
Richmond
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schneider
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Speier
Swalwell (CA)
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Titus
Tonko
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth
NOT VOTING--9
Grimm
Hastings (FL)
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Lummis
McCarthy (NY)
Rush
Smith (NJ)
Young (FL)
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Mr. CONYERS and Ms. BASS changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
So the motion to table 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. LUMMIS. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 539, I was detained in a
hearing and missed rollcall 539. Had I been present, I would have voted
``aye.''
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the joint
resolution.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. 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 249,
nays 175, not voting 7, as follows:
[Roll No. 540]
YEAS--249
Aderholt
Amash
Amodei
Bachmann
Bachus
Barber
Barletta
Barr
Barrow (GA)
Barton
Benishek
Bentivolio
Bera (CA)
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Broun (GA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Burgess
Bustos
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Cantor
Capito
Carter
Cassidy
Chabot
Chaffetz
Coble
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Conaway
Cook
Cotton
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Culberson
Daines
Davis, Rodney
DelBene
Denham
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foster
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallego
Garcia
Gardner
Garrett
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gibson
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Guthrie
Hall
Hanna
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (WA)
Heck (NV)
Hensarling
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Joyce
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Lankford
Latham
Latta
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Long
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Lynch
Maloney, Sean
Marchant
Marino
Massie
Matheson
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (FL)
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Palazzo
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Peters (CA)
Peters (MI)
Petri
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Radel
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Royce
Ruiz
Runyan
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanford
Scalise
Schneider
Schock
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Sinema
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Southerland
Stewart
Stivers
Stockman
Stutzman
Terry
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walorski
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IN)
NAYS--175
Andrews
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Brady (PA)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu
Cicilline
Clarke
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Courtney
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle
Duckworth
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Enyart
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Garamendi
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hanabusa
Heck (WA)
Himes
Hinojosa
Holt
Honda
Horsford
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jackson Lee
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
Kirkpatrick
Kuster
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Maffei
Maloney, Carolyn
Matsui
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Michaud
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Negrete McLeod
Nolan
O'Rourke
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Pelosi
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Perlmutter
Peterson
Pingree (ME)
Pocan
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Rangel
Richmond
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Speier
Swalwell (CA)
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Titus
Tonko
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth
NOT VOTING--7
Grimm
Hastings (FL)
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
McCarthy (NY)
Rush
Young (FL)
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So the joint resolution was passed.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
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