[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
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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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