[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 142 (Friday, October 11, 2013)]
[House]
[Pages H6502-H6504]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS
RESOLUTION, 2014
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 1(c) of rule XIX, further
consideration of House Joint Resolution 76 will now resume.
The Clerk read the title of the joint resolution.
Motion to Recommit
Ms. KELLY of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at
the desk.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentlewoman opposed to the joint
resolution?
Ms. KELLY of Illinois. I am opposed.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to
recommit.
The Clerk read as follows:
Ms. Kelly of Illinois moves to recommit the joint
resolution H.J. Res. 76 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. KELLY of Illinois (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 Illinois?
There was no objection.
Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Speaker, I reserve a point of order on the
gentlewoman's motion.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. A point of order is reserved.
The gentlewoman from Illinois is recognized for 5 minutes in support
of her motion.
Ms. KELLY of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, my amendment is a long-overdue
commonsense improvement that has bipartisan support in this House and
has the majority of support of the American people. If my amendment
passes, it will end this costly and irresponsible government shutdown
and reopen the entire Federal Government so that we may once again
appropriately serve the American people.
As written, the bill before us offers the men, women, and children we
represent little comfort. This piecemeal approach to funding the
government is hurting folks in all of our districts. How can we commit
to protecting nuclear security but not commit to the security of our
Federal Government by completely funding it? How can we protect nuclear
weapons but furlough our intelligence personnel who serve on the front
lines in defending us from terrorist attacks? Why are we paying
hardworking Federal employees, who want to get back to work, to stay at
home and not to do the job our Nation depends on them to do?
As we sit here voting to fund bills bit by bit, our constituents are
being dealt the full blow and consequences of this shutdown. They can't
afford for this shutdown to drag on as we mull over whether it is more
important to get our food inspectors back on the job or for America's
veterans to have their benefits claims processed.
The piecemeal approach isn't working. The gimmicks must stop.
As we discussed nuclear weapon security, I was reminded of the movie
``War Games.'' This was the eighties movie with Matthew Broderick as
the slacker hacker facing off against a supercomputer that was
programmed to go to war when it doesn't even know what it is fighting
for.
I will allow a quick second for a ``spoiler alert'' and summarize:
after several failed attempts at starting a global nuclear war, the
computer runs through all the possible scenarios--all of which end in
stalemates--before it discovers the concept of mutually assured
destruction, the very simple concept that the war it was trying to
launch was an exercise in futility because it would destroy the U.S. in
the process.
``A strange game,'' the computer says. ``The only winning move is not
to play.'' And that is where we find ourselves as a Nation, heading
toward a mutually assured destruction at the hands of an ideological
few, programmed to go to war when they don't even know the risk of the
game they are playing and the consequences of their fight.
We have had a week go by without the lessons resonating that there
are no winners in the funding scenarios that have been brought to the
floor, and the American people are losing out worst of all.
But this isn't a game. This is reality. This isn't a fictional
eighties movie. This is the United States of America in October of
2013.
For the past week, we have pursued a fundamentally inept method for
reopening the government. Today we need to pay particular attention to
one number, 79. That is how many different appropriations bills the
House and Senate will have to pass to fund the full nondefense portion
of the Federal Government, given the rate of funding and the bills
passed or announced in the House of Representatives so far.
The men, women, and children in my district--in all of our
districts--are dealing with the taxing reality of a shut-down
government. We can't cherry-pick who to fund and who not to fund bit by
bit.
I ask all of you to vote ``yes'' on this motion because Congress has
a duty to offer the security of a functional government to our
families, our veterans, and our economy. Vote ``yes'' on this motion.
Vote ``yes'' to open up all of our government right now.
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Point of Order
Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Speaker, I make a point of order that the
instructions contained in the motion violate clause 7 of rule XVI,
which requires that an amendment be germane to the bill under
consideration.
As the Chair most recently ruled on October 10, 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 Illinois wish to
speak on the point of order?
Ms. KELLY of Illinois. Yes, I do, Mr. Speaker.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman is recognized to speak on
the point of order.
Ms. KELLY of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, doesn't the bill before us fund a
portion of the Federal Government? My motion to recommit would open up
the entire Federal Government so that all of the benefits that the
taxpayers have paid for with their hard-earned dollars are available.
Can the Chair explain why it is not germane to open up all of the
government instead of just a portion of the government? Mr. Speaker, if
you rule this motion out of order, does that mean 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?
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New Jersey makes a point
of order that the instructions proposed in the motion to recommit
offered by the gentlewoman from Illinois are not germane.
The joint resolution extends funding relating to the National Nuclear
Security Administration. The instructions in the motion propose an
order of business of the House.
As the Chair most recently ruled on October 10, 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. KELLY of Illinois. 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. FRELINGHUYSEN. 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. KELLY of Illinois. 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 recommittal.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 226,
nays 195, not voting 10, as follows:
[Roll No. 541]
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
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Conaway
Cook
Cotton
Cramer
Crawford
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
Gibbs
Gibson
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Grimm
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
Lummis
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 (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
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IN)
NAYS--195
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
Hastings (FL)
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, Sean
Matheson
Matsui
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
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--10
Coble
Crenshaw
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Maloney, Carolyn
McCarthy (NY)
McIntyre
Rush
Whitfield
Young (FL)
{time} 1055
Messrs. GARCIA and RICHMOND changed their vote from ``yea'' to
``nay.''
Mr. YOUNG of Alaska changed his vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
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.
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.
Recorded Vote
Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote.
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The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 248,
noes 176, not voting 7, as follows:
[Roll No. 542]
AYES--248
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
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Conaway
Cook
Cotton
Cramer
Crawford
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)
Grimm
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)
NOES--176
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
Hastings (FL)
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
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
Coble
Crenshaw
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
McCarthy (NY)
Rush
Young (FL)
{time} 1106
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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