[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 70 (Friday, May 9, 2014)]
[House]
[Pages H4021-H4023]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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AMERICAN RESEARCH AND COMPETITIVENESS ACT OF 2014
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Yoder). Pursuant to clause 1(c) of rule
XIX, further consideration of H.R. 4438 will now resume.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
Motion to Recommit
Mrs. KIRKPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the
desk.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentlewoman opposed to the bill?
Mrs. KIRKPATRICK. I am opposed to it in its current form.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to
recommit.
The Clerk read as follows:
Mrs. Kirkpatrick moves to recommit the bill H.R. 4438 to
the Committee on Ways and Means with instructions to report
the same back to the House forthwith with the following
amendment:
Add at the end the following:
(e) Strengthening America's Middle Class.--Section
41(b)(2)(A)(i) of such Code is amended by striking ``such
employee,'' and inserting ``such employee, but only if the
taxpayer pays women employees equal pay for equal work and,
in hiring employees, the taxpayer gives priority to
unemployed American workers, particularly veterans, and does
not outsource American jobs to foreign workers,''.
(f) Ensuring That Tax Cuts for Corporations Are Offset.--
Nothing in this Act shall result in an increase in the
deficit.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from
Arizona is recognized for 5 minutes in support of her motion.
Mrs. KIRKPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, this is the final amendment to the
bill, which will not kill the bill nor send it back to committee. If
adopted, this bill will immediately proceed to final passage, as
amended.
Mr. Speaker, this bill is fiscally irresponsible. It is an unpaid-for
bill that costs $156 billion. When combined with the other six
permanent tax extenders passed by Republicans on the Ways and Means
Committee, the combined cost of all six bills is $310 billion. Not $1
of these bills is paid for, not $1 to offset the cost.
They do not close one special interest, corporate tax loophole to
offset the cost of these bills.
The bill threatens so many critical programs that we care about. It
threatens tax extender provisions that are not included, the new
markets tax credit, the work opportunity tax credit for veterans, and
renewable energy incentives.
The bill also threatens enhancements made to refundable tax credits
for working families that expire in 2017, the child tax credit, the
earned income tax credit, the American opportunity tax credit for
education.
Republicans may have turned off, at the eleventh hour, the automatic
spending cuts that would have resulted from passing this legislation
after we called them out for it. What isn't done with one hand by them
will be done with the other.
Republicans will add to the deficit. Let me make that clear.
Republicans will add to the deficit and then automatically use that to
push for harmful cuts elsewhere.
The Ryan budget lays out where the Republicans will make the cuts.
They will make cuts to education, Head Start programs, and K-12
education. They will make cuts to medical research, such as the
important work done by the National Institutes of Health.
On the other hand, medical research is one type of research that they
seek to incentivize with this bill. On the other hand, they are cutting
programs at the National Institutes of Health.
Do you get my drift here?
They will make cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and other health programs
to the tune of $2.9 trillion. They will make cuts to transportation,
$52 billion.
This bill throws the Republican budget so out of balance--the first
opportunity they have to go against their budget, they take it--they
had to waive their own rules to make this bill work.
Chairman Camp made this provision permanent in his tax reform bill
and paid for the provisions. He paid for it. The President made this
provision permanent, and he has offsets to cover the cost in his
budget.
We should have time to look and find common pay-fors and pass this
bill in a fiscally responsible manner.
Again, I support the R&D tax credit, as do the vast majority of the
members of our Caucus, but we do not support this bill.
I ask for a ``yes ``vote on my motion.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. CAMP. Mr. Speaker, I am opposed to the motion.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Michigan is recognized
for 5 minutes.
Mr. CAMP. Mr. Speaker, this economy isn't growing. Last quarter's GDP
showed 0.1 percent economic growth. It is essentially flat.
Do we have any pro-growth ideas or policies coming from the other
side? None. They seem to be happy with the way things are. But,
frankly, Americans aren't. Americans think the country is going in the
wrong direction. Americans think things aren't going to get better
because--you know what?--they haven't been. Median incomes have been
declining. So what we need to do is adopt something that is pro-growth.
This is a policy that has wide bipartisan support. Republicans and
Democrats have long supported the research and development tax credit.
Do you know why? Because it allows companies to innovate, to create and
refine medical products that help extend and make people's lives
better. It helps small companies like one in my home State of Michigan
that actually makes footwear for our soldiers and men and women in
harm's way, and they continue to refine that product as they meet
difficult conditions overseas.
We need to innovate and grow. Democrats 71 times voted to extend this
provision, unpaid for. The President, when he was in the Senate, voted
twice to extend the R&D credit without paying for it. The President,
twice, as President of the United States signed legislation that twice
extended this credit without paying for it.
Look, let's stop the charade. Let's be honest. This credit will be
extended. Let's give businesses the certainty
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they need, employers, so they can grow and invest and create jobs, so
that everyone can get higher wages, so we can reverse this terrible
trend of incomes declining.
Let's raise wages for everyone. Let's adopt a permanent R&D tax
credit.
Vote against this motion and vote for the bill.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the previous question is
ordered on the motion to recommit.
There was no objection.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the noes appeared to have it.
Mrs. KIRKPATRICK. 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, the Chair
will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on
the question of passage of the bill.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 191,
nays 209, not voting 31, as follows:
[Roll No. 210]
YEAS--191
Barber
Barrow (GA)
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Bera (CA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Bustos
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Caardenas
Carney
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Courtney
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
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
Gutieerrez
Hahn
Hanabusa
Heck (WA)
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Holt
Honda
Horsford
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jackson Lee
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones
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)
Lujaan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
Maffei
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
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)
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters (CA)
Peters (MI)
Peterson
Pingree (ME)
Pocan
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Rangel
Richmond
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Ryan (OH)
Saanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schneider
Schrader
Scott (VA)
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
Velaazquez
Visclosky
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Waxman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth
NAYS--209
Aderholt
Amash
Amodei
Bachus
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Benishek
Bentivolio
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Broun (GA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Cantor
Capito
Carter
Cassidy
Chabot
Chaffetz
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Conaway
Cook
Cotton
Cramer
Crenshaw
Culberson
Daines
Davis, Rodney
Denham
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Gardner
Garrett
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gibson
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Grimm
Guthrie
Hall
Hanna
Harris
Hastings (WA)
Heck (NV)
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Jordan
Joyce
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Lankford
Latham
Latta
LoBiondo
Long
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
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
Olson
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Petri
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanford
Scalise
Schock
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Southerland
Stewart
Stivers
Stockman
Stutzman
Terry
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walorski
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westmoreland
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (IN)
NOT VOTING--31
Bachmann
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Carson (IN)
Clay
Coble
Crawford
DeGette
Diaz-Balart
Duffy
Frelinghuysen
Granger
Harper
Hartzler
Hastings (FL)
Hurt
Kingston
Marchant
McAllister
Nunnelee
Palazzo
Payne
Reed
Runyan
Rush
Schwartz
Scott, David
Smith (TX)
Whitfield
Williams
Young (AK)
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Messrs. COLLINS of Georgia, MULLIN, McCAUL, KING of Iowa, WEBSTER,
MULVANEY, and ROGERS of Alabama changed their vote from ``yea'' to
``nay.''
Messrs. DOYLE, LARSEN of Washington, ELLISON, and HOYER changed their
vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
So the motion to recommit was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Stated for:
Mr. CARSON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, on May 9, 2014, I missed rollcall
vote 210. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.''
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Mr. LEVIN. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 274,
nays 131, not voting 26, as follows:
[Roll No. 211]
YEAS--274
Aderholt
Amash
Amodei
Bachus
Barber
Barletta
Barr
Barrow (GA)
Barton
Benishek
Bentivolio
Bera (CA)
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blumenauer
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Broun (GA)
Brownley (CA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Burgess
Bustos
Byrne
Calvert
Camp
Cantor
Capito
Capps
Capuano
Carter
Cassidy
Chabot
Chaffetz
Clark (MA)
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Conaway
Connolly
Cook
Cotton
Courtney
Cramer
Crenshaw
Culberson
Daines
Davis, Rodney
Delaney
DelBene
Denham
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers
Enyart
Esty
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foster
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallego
Garamendi
Garcia
Gardner
Garrett
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gibson
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Grimm
Guthrie
Hall
Hanna
Harris
Hastings (WA)
Heck (NV)
Heck (WA)
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Holding
Holt
Honda
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Jones
Jordan
Joyce
Keating
Kelly (PA)
Kennedy
Kilmer
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Kuster
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Langevin
Lankford
Larson (CT)
Latham
Latta
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Long
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lummis
Lynch
Maffei
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Marino
Massie
Matheson
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Moran
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (FL)
Murphy (PA)
Neal
Negrete McLeod
Neugebauer
Noem
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Nolan
Nugent
Nunes
Olson
Pascrell
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Peters (CA)
Peters (MI)
Peterson
Petri
Pingree (ME)
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Rahall
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
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Saanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sanford
Scalise
Schneider
Schock
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shea-Porter
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Sinema
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Southerland
Stewart
Stivers
Stockman
Stutzman
Swalwell (CA)
Terry
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tierney
Tipton
Titus
Tonko
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walorski
Walz
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westmoreland
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (IN)
NAYS--131
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Bishop (NY)
Bonamici
Brady (PA)
Brown (FL)
Butterfield
Campbell
Caardenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu
Cicilline
Clarke (NY)
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeLauro
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle
Duckworth
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Eshoo
Farr
Fattah
Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutieerrez
Hahn
Hanabusa
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Horsford
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jackson Lee
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Kelly (IL)
Kildee
Kind
Kirkpatrick
Larsen (WA)
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis
Lipinski
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujaan, Ben Ray (NM)
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
Meeks
Meng
Miller, George
Moore
Nadler
Napolitano
O'Rourke
Owens
Pallone
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Pocan
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Richmond
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Speier
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velaazquez
Visclosky
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Waxman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth
NOT VOTING--26
Bachmann
Bishop (GA)
Clay
Coble
Crawford
DeGette
Duffy
Granger
Harper
Hartzler
Hastings (FL)
Hurt
Kingston
Marchant
McAllister
Nunnelee
Palazzo
Reed
Runyan
Rush
Schwartz
Scott, David
Smith (TX)
Whitfield
Williams
Young (AK)
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So the bill was passed.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
Stated for:
Ms. GRANGER. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 211, due to a previously
scheduled, and very important, constituent event in my district, I will
not be present for this vote. Had I been present, I would have voted
``yea.''
personal explanation
Mrs. HARTZLER. Mr. Speaker, on Friday, May 9, 2014, I was unable to
vote. Had I been present, I would have voted as follows: on rollcall
No. 210, ``nay,'' on rollcall No. 211, ``yea.''
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