[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 38 (Thursday, March 6, 2014)]
[House]
[Pages H2236-H2237]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           RAISING A QUESTION OF THE PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE

  Ms. FUDGE. Mr. Speaker, I have a resolution at the desk previously 
noticed under rule IX.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the resolution.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Whereas on March 5, 2014, during a hearing before the House 
     Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Committee 
     Chairman Darrell E. Issa gave a statement and then posed ten 
     questions to former Internal Revenue Service official Lois 
     Lerner, who stated that she was invoking her Fifth Amendment 
     right not to testify;
       Whereas the Committee's Ranking Member, Rep. Elijah E. 
     Cummings, clearly sought recognition to take his turn for 
     questions under Committee and House Rules;
       Whereas, Chairman Issa then quickly adjourned the hearing 
     and refused to allow him to make any statement or ask any 
     questions;
       Whereas Ranking Member Cummings protested immediately, 
     stating: ``Mr. Chairman, you cannot run a Committee like 
     this. You just cannot do this. This is, we are better than 
     that as a country, we are better than that as a Committee.''
       Whereas, Chairman Issa then returned and allowed Ranking 
     Member Cummings to begin his statement, but when it became 
     clear that Chairman Issa did not want to hear what Ranking 
     Member Cummings was saying, turned off Ranking Member 
     Cummings' microphone, ordered Republican staff to ``close it 
     down,'' and repeatedly signaled to end the hearing with his 
     hand across his neck;
       Whereas Ranking Member Cummings objected again, stating: 
     ``You cannot have a one-sided investigation. There is 
     absolutely something wrong with that'';
       Whereas Chairman Issa made a statement of his own and posed 
     questions during the hearing, but refused to allow other 
     members of the Committee, and in particular the Ranking 
     Member who had sought recognition, to make statements under 
     the five-minute rule in violation of House Rule XI;

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       Whereas Chairman Issa instructed the microphones to be 
     turned off and adjourned the hearing without a vote or a 
     unanimous consent agreement in violation of Rule XVI because 
     he did not want to permit Ranking Member Cummings to speak;
       Whereas Chairman Issa's abusive behavior on March 5 is part 
     of a continuing pattern in which he has routinely excluded 
     members of the Committee from investigative meetings, and has 
     routinely provided information to the press before sharing it 
     with Committee members;
       Whereas Chairman Issa has violated Clause 1 of Rule XXIII 
     of the Code of Official Conduct which states that ``A Member, 
     Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer or employee of the 
     House shall behave at all times in a manner that shall 
     reflect creditably on the House'': Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the House of Representatives strongly 
     condemns the offensive and disrespectful manner in which 
     Chairman Darrell E. Issa conducted the hearing of the House 
     Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on March 5, 
     2014, during which he turned off the microphones of the 
     Ranking Member while he was speaking and adjourned the 
     hearing without a vote or a unanimous consent agreement.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The resolution qualifies.
  Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, I move to lay the resolution on the table.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to lay the 
resolution on the table.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--``ayes'' 
211, ``noes'' 186, answered ``present'' 10, ``not voting'' 23, as 
follows:

                             [Roll No. 107]

                               YEAS--211

     Aderholt
     Amash
     Amodei
     Bachmann
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Cook
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Daines
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     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
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     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
     McAllister
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Petri
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     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--186

     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
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Enyart
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia
     Grayson
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     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
     Nolan
     O'Rourke
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters (CA)
     Peters (MI)
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     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
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--10

     Brooks (IN)
     Capuano
     Clarke (NY)
     Conaway
     Dent
     Deutch
     Gowdy
     Issa
     Meehan
     Sanchez, Linda T.

                             NOT VOTING--23

     Bachus
     Chaffetz
     Coble
     Collins (NY)
     Crawford
     Gosar
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Hastings (WA)
     Hinojosa
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     McCarthy (NY)
     McHenry
     Messer
     Negrete McLeod
     Olson
     Pastor (AZ)
     Rooney
     Schneider
     Schwartz
     Smith (NE)
     Vargas

                              {time} 1408

  Messrs. CARNEY and SCHRADER changed their vote from ``yea'' to 
``nay.''
  Messrs. NUNES, MULVANEY, PEARCE, DUNCAN of South Carolina, HARRIS, 
MEADOWS, GINGREY of Georgia, MILLER of Florida, Mrs. HARTZLER, Messrs. 
McKINLEY, CRAMER, BRADY of Texas, WALDEN, McALLISTER, DUFFY, and AUSTIN 
SCOTT of Georgia changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  Mmes. LINDA T. SANCHEZ of California, CLARKE of New York, Messrs. 
CAPUANO and DEUTCH changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``present.''
  Messrs. CONAWAY, GOWDY, DENT, Mrs. BROOKS of Indiana, and Mr. MEEHAN 
changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``present.''
  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. SMITH of Nebraska. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 107, had I been 
present, I would have voted ``yes.''

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