[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 174 (Tuesday, December 10, 2013)]
[House]
[Pages H7618-H7619]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             VA EXPIRING AUTHORITIES EXTENSION ACT OF 2013

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The unfinished business is the vote on the 
motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 1402) to amend 
title 38, United States Code, to extend the authorization of 
appropriations for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay a monthly 
assistance allowance to disabled veterans training or competing for the 
Paralympic Team and the authorization of appropriations for the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide assistance to United States 
Paralympics, Inc., as amended, 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 Florida (Mr. Miller) that the House suspend the rules 
and pass the bill, as amended.
  This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 353, 
nays 0, not voting 78, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 631]

                               YEAS--353

     Aderholt
     Amash
     Andrews
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barber
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barrow (GA)
     Barton
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bera (CA)
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Bonamici
     Boustany
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Broun (GA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carter
     Cartwright
     Cassidy
     Castor (FL)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coffman
     Cohen
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Connolly
     Cook
     Cooper
     Costa
     Cotton
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Daines
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Duckworth
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers
     Engel
     Enyart
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farenthold
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx
     Frankel (FL)
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Gene
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hall
     Hanabusa
     Hanna
     Harper
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Hensarling
     Higgins
     Himes
     Holding
     Holt
     Honda
     Horsford
     Hoyer
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huffman
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hurt
     Israel
     Issa
     Jeffries
     Jenkins
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     King (IA)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kline
     Kuster
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Lankford
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     Latta
     Levin
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Long
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lummis
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Marchant
     Massie
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McAllister
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McNerney
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Meng
     Messer
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, George
     Moran
     Mullin
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (PA)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Negrete McLeod
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nolan

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     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     O'Rourke
     Olson
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters (CA)
     Peters (MI)
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Pocan
     Poe (TX)
     Polis
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanford
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Speier
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stockman
     Stutzman
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Tipton
     Titus
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Welch
     Wenstrup
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yarmuth
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--78

     Amodei
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bishop (GA)
     Black
     Blumenauer
     Brady (TX)
     Butterfield
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Carson (IN)
     Castro (TX)
     Clarke
     Coble
     Conaway
     Conyers
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Doyle
     Fudge
     Gowdy
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Grijalva
     Guthrie
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Herrera Beutler
     Hinojosa
     Hunter
     Jackson Lee
     Johnson, Sam
     Kaptur
     King (NY)
     Labrador
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Lee (CA)
     Lewis
     Lipinski
     Marino
     McCarthy (NY)
     McDermott
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meeks
     Miller, Gary
     Moore
     Mulvaney
     Neal
     Nugent
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Radel
     Rangel
     Reed
     Reichert
     Richmond
     Rigell
     Rogers (KY)
     Runyan
     Rush
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Schock
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Sewell (AL)
     Smith (WA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Vela
     Walorski
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman

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  So (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and 
the bill, as amended, was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The title of the bill was amended so as to read: ``A bill to amend 
title 38, United States Code, to extend certain expiring provisions of 
law, and for other purposes.''.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.


                          Personal Explanation

  Mrs. McMORRIS RODGERS. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 630 on H.R. 3521, 
on Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, ``the Department of Veterans 
Affairs Major Medical Facility Lease Authorization Act of 2013, as 
amended'', I am not recorded because I was absent due to the birth of 
my daughter. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 631 on H.R. 1402, on Motion to Suspend 
the Rules and Pass, ``VA Expiring Authorities Extension Act of 2013, as 
amended'', I am not recorded because I was absent due to the birth of 
my daughter. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''

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