[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 107 (Thursday, July 10, 2014)]
[House]
[Pages H6049-H6065]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 
                                 2015.


                             General Leave

  Mr. SIMPSON. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks 
and include extraneous material on the further consideration of H.R. 
4923, and that I may include tabular material on the same.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Cassidy). Is there objection to the 
request of the gentleman from Idaho?
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 641 and rule 
XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House 
on the state of the Union for the further consideration of the bill, 
H.R. 4923.
  Will the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hultgren) kindly take the 
chair.

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                     In the Committee of the Whole

  Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of 
the bill (H.R. 4923) making appropriations for energy and water 
development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2015, and for other purposes, with Mr. Hultgren (Acting Chair) in 
the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The Acting CHAIR. When the Committee of the Whole rose on Wednesday, 
July 9, 2014, a request for a recorded vote on amendment No. 14 printed 
in the Congressional Record offered by the gentlewoman from Nevada (Ms. 
Titus) had been postponed, and the bill had been read through page 59, 
line 20.


                Amendment No. 16 Offered by Mrs. Lummis

  Mrs. LUMMIS. Mr. Chairman, I wish to call up amendment No. 16.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. 508.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used in contravention of section 3112(d)(2)(B) of the USEC 
     Privatization Act (42 U.S.C. 2297h-10(d)(2)(B)) and all 
     public notice and comment requirements under chapter 6 of 
     title 5, United States Code, that are applicable to carrying 
     out such section.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 641, the gentlewoman 
from Wyoming and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Chairman, I reserve a point of order.
  The Acting CHAIR. A point of order is reserved.
  The gentlewoman from Wyoming is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mrs. LUMMIS. Mr. Chairman, my amendment would reinforce the 
Department of Energy's already existing legal obligations when it sells 
or transfers excess uranium from the Federal inventory.
  One of these legal obligations is called the ``Secretarial 
Determination'' that the uranium transfers will not have an adverse 
material impact on the domestic uranium industry. The other obligation 
is to comply with the public notice and comment requirements of the 
Administrative Procedure Act.
  The Department's actions regarding uranium have come under justified 
scrutiny, so I will take both of them in turn.
  First, my amendment reinforces the required Secretarial Determination 
that uranium transfers do not adversely impact the domestic uranium 
industries.
  Congress decided to require a Secretarial Determination because, if 
the government dumps too much uranium onto the market, it can 
artificially distort the market and hurt domestic uranium industries. 
These include uranium mining, uranium conversion, and uranium 
enrichment industries, all crucial to developing a more robust domestic 
uranium supply chain to feed our nuclear power plants.
  Right now, 90 percent of the uranium used to provide electricity in 
this country is imported, but it doesn't have to be that way. Here in 
the United States, including my home State of Wyoming, we have abundant 
uranium resources. With uranium from American soil and through American 
jobs, we can correct this imbalance; but the task is made difficult, if 
not impossible, with the Department of Energy's cavalier uranium 
transfers.
  The Secretarial Determination process has, unfortunately, become a 
sham. Instead of protecting domestic uranium industries, it has become 
a tool to destroy them. Prior to the May 15, 2014, Secretarial 
Determination, the Department commissioned a market analysis that 
concluded the uranium transfers would reduce employment in the domestic 
uranium industries by 4 percent and reduce the spot price for mined 
uranium by 8 percent. That is what their own market analysis provided. 
Yet the Department is ignoring the results of its own study and is 
proceeding anyway, based on other information and analysis it decided 
not to share with the public.
  My amendment uses the power of the purse to reinforce existing 
statutory law, lest the Department flaunt the law, rendering it 
meaningless.
  Second, my amendment reinforces the Department's obligation to comply 
with the public notice and comment requirements of the Administrative 
Procedure Act. The Department of Energy has used its excess uranium as 
a slush fund, selling or bartering uranium to subsidize failed 
companies like the U.S. Enrichment Corporation or to fund other 
programs without having to come to Congress for the money. This program 
has operated in the shadows, making a mockery of our budget process.
  I want to quote a recent GAO report on the Department's uranium 
transfers. It says:

       We believe transparency is a fundamental tenet of good 
     government and that our recommendations support actions 
     needed to enhance DOE's transparency.


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  The GAO identified uranium transfers at below market value to prop up 
USEC, shortchanging the taxpayer and further distorting uranium 
markets. The report documented shortcomings in the Department's market 
analysis of how the transfers would impact uranium markets and the 
failure of the Department to adequately consult with the domestic 
industries. Unfortunately, on GAO's Web site, all of their 
recommendations to the Department to increase the transparency of its 
uranium transfers remained unfulfilled.
  My amendment simply reinforces the existing obligation of the 
Department to comply with the Administrative Procedure Act. Like any 
other agency, they have a legal obligation to engage in reasoned 
decisionmaking, not shadowed and arbitrary uranium transactions.
  My amendment barely touches the legislative reforms needed to fix 
this broken program, but I want to thank Chairman Simpson for helping 
me at least identify a way to address this issue that might be suitable 
to the appropriations process.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Chairman, I withdraw my reservation of a point of 
order.
  The Acting CHAIR. The reservation of a point of order is withdrawn.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition, although I 
am not opposed to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Idaho is 
recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Chairman, I support the gentlelady's amendment.
  For years, our subcommittee has criticized the Department of Energy's 
use of its uranium transfer authorities. The Department's reliance on 
its uranium transfers to generate funds for cleanup has inappropriately 
circumvented the appropriations process, has adversely impacted our 
domestic uranium mining and conversion industry, and is now creating 
instability of funding at Portsmouth as the market price of uranium 
continues to drop.
  The amendment restates current law but sends a message to the 
Department that it must cease relying on these off-budget measures, and 
I am pleased to support the gentlewoman's amendment and thank her for 
it.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Wyoming (Mrs. Lummis).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                    Amendment Offered by Ms. DeLauro

  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to enter into any contract with an incorporated 
     entity if such entity's sealed bid or competitive proposal 
     shows that such entity is incorporated or chartered in 
     Bermuda or the Cayman Islands, and such entity's sealed bid 
     or competitive proposal shows that such entity was previously 
     incorporated in the United States.

  Ms. DeLAURO (during the reading). Mr. Chair, I ask unanimous consent 
to dispense with the reading of the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentlewoman from Connecticut?
  There was no objection.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 641, the gentlewoman 
from Connecticut and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Connecticut.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself 2 minutes.
  My amendment would prohibit Federal contracts issued by agencies 
under the jurisdiction of this bill from going to entities incorporated 
in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, the two nations most often abused as 
tax havens.
  This body has accepted similar provisions for the Departments of 
Defense, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development. As before, 
we should not spend taxpayer money on Federal contracts that go to 
companies that have renounced their American citizenship in favor of an 
island tax haven.
  Just this week, Business Week wrote an article examining the 
loopholes that longstanding American companies like Ingersol Rand, 
which was founded in Connecticut in 1871, have been exploiting in order 
to enjoy lucrative government contracts while pretending to reside 
overseas for tax purposes.

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  These firms simply should not be allowed to pretend they are an 
American company when it comes time to get contracts, then claim to be 
an offshore company when the tax bill arrives.
  According to a recent study, 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies used 
tax havens last year. They stashed nearly $2 trillion offshore for tax 
purposes, nearly two-thirds of which was hidden away by just 30 firms.
  Of the companies who have established subsidies and tax havens, 
nearly two-thirds have registered at least one in Bermuda or the Cayman 
Islands. The profits these companies claim were earned in these two 
island nations in 2010 total over 1,600 percent of the country's entire 
yearly economic output.
  These companies take advantage of our education system, our research 
and development incentives, our skilled workforce, and our 
infrastructure, all supported by U.S. taxpayers.
  We have already acted on the Transportation-HUD bill and Defense. Let 
us do the same for Energy and Water. Let's support the firms that are 
staying at home and meeting their obligations and pass this amendment.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Idaho is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Chairman, I rise to oppose this amendment.
  The Financial Services Appropriations bill has carried language for 
years which prohibits funding for any Federal Government contract with 
foreign incorporated entities which are treated as inverted domestic 
corporations. This language has been carried annually in the 
government-wide General Provisions section of the Financial Services 
Appropriations bill since approximately 2005 and is requested annually 
by the current administration.
  The changes which this amendment would propose to make could have 
significant consequences and really should be handled by the proper tax 
committees.
  I urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Chairman, ``The ranks of Federal contractors with 
foreign addresses''--and I am quoting from an article that appeared in 
Bloomberg this week--``The ranks of Federal contractors with foreign 
addresses are likely to grow this year as a new stampede of companies 
escapes the U.S. tax system.'' Escapes the U.S. tax system.
  These are companies who are taking their funds, bringing them to 
Ireland, to the Caymans, to Bermuda because they do not want to pay 
their fair share of taxes in the United States of America. There isn't 
a citizen who can get away with that, but we are allowing these 
companies to do it. And not only that--because it is legal under our 
Tax Code which has to be reformed, but my God, that is going to take a 
month of Sundays to get done--in the meantime, they are collecting 
millions and millions of dollars in Federal contracts.
  We are rewarding these arrent corporations who renounce their U.S. 
citizenship. They go offshore, take their money offshore, and don't pay 
taxes so that we can do anything about education or biomedical research 
or any other areas that we have had to cut the budget on so that they 
can save their money and not pay any taxes. Then we say: Okay, the 
floodgates are open; come and get a Federal contract. It is wrong and 
we shouldn't do that.
  Mr. Chairman, how much time is remaining?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Connecticut has 1\1/2\ minutes 
remaining.
  Ms. DeLAURO. I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to my colleague from Texas (Mr. 
Doggett).
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Chair, I thank my colleague. I have been pleased to 
join her in adding the language of this type to each appropriation bill 
that has thus far been approved in the House.

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  I am surprised that there could be any opposition to it today because 
all this amendment is saying is, if you renounce your citizenship and 
go abroad to avoid paying taxes, don't come with hand outstretched to 
ask the other taxpayers who stayed here and worked in America and who 
are proud to be American businesses and are paying their fair share, 
don't ask them to put their tax dollars into providing you a government 
contract.
  It seems to me very apparent that some corporations are willing to do 
their fair share in paying for American security, energy and water 
projects, and other vital government services and some are not. There 
are a string of corporations who have decided they would keep their 
business operations in America, but they would suddenly renounce their 
American citizenship and become a citizen of one of these island 
kingdoms. That is not the American approach of fairness in paying for 
the services that we need.
  This amendment would put an end to that renunciation of citizenship 
and asking for taxpayer-funded business. It is equitable; it is fair. 
We cannot have the resources that we need to remain the greatest Nation 
in the world without having every American citizen contributing their 
fair share. Most are. Those who renounce their citizenship and 
nominally declare that they are now a foreign citizen and not subject 
to full American taxation, they are not carrying their fair share.
  I urge adoption of this amendment, an equitable amendment, for 
fairness in our public policy.
  Ms. DeLAURO. I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from 
Connecticut will be postponed.


                 Amendment Offered by Mr. King of Iowa

  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to implement, administer, or enforce the prevailing 
     wage requirements in subchapter IV of chapter 31 of title 40, 
     United States Code.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 641, the gentleman 
from Iowa and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Iowa.
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, this is the amendment that strikes 
the funds that might be used to enforce the Davis-Bacon wage scale. 
That is a piece of legislation that passed here in this Congress 
sometime about 1931. It was designed to keep African Americans out of 
the labor force in New York as they were building Federal buildings. It 
is a remnant of the Jim Crow law. In fact, it is the only remnant that 
remains, as near as I believe, of the Jim Crow law.
  So it comes down to this. When you have a relationship between two 
people and they agree to a wage scale, that is all that should be 
required here. Instead, this Federal minimum wage scale sets a union 
scale. It is not prevailing wage; it is union scale.
  I have dealt with Davis-Bacon wage scales all of my business life. I 
started a construction company in 1975. We almost immediately had to 
deal with the Federal Government coming in and saying, on this side of 
the road you shall pay your shovel operator this, and on the other side 
of the road you shall pay him something that might be half again more 
than that, and the guy that runs the grease gun gets this, and the one 
that runs the excavator gets that. The Federal Government micromanaging 
and disrupting the efficiencies in our construction companies results 
in far higher costs for our construction projects.
  We have maintained a series of records over the years what it costs 
additional when we are doing Davis-Bacon federally mandated union scale 
jobs, and it runs between 8 and 35 percent in our company over these 
years. There is other data out there that is done--Beacon Hill has 
some--that shows a range, but in the end it boils down to a net effect 
of a 20 percent additional cost for a Davis-Bacon wage scale.
  Here we are bleeding red ink in the Federal Government. CBO made a 
recommendation, if we wanted to move towards balance, the repeal of the 
Davis-Bacon Act would be one of those things that would help us move in 
that direction. But on this bill itself, it appropriates $5.493 million 
for Civil Works programs. All of that would fall under the Davis-Bacon-
mandated wage scale. And in title II, the Department of the Interior 
Bureau of Reclamation appropriates $1.014 billion. So the total in this 
bill is $6.507 billion. If my amendment is enacted into law, we are 
going to see a savings in this bill of $1.3 billion.
  Mr. Chairman, no one can claim to be a fiscal conservative if they 
think the Federal Government needs to inflate the cost of wages. Supply 
and demand sets the cost of those wages. A reasonable pay scale is 
arrived at.
  I am hearing people say we must bring in tens of millions of people 
to do the work Americans won't do and pay them a mandated union scale. 
This is not settled by the prevailing wage. Somebody will get up and 
say, no, it is a prevailing wage. They take a survey from contractors 
and find out what the prevailing wage is; then they work that out, and 
a board makes a determination on what is actually the prevailing wage.
  It is simply not true in practice, Mr. Chairman. it is not true in 
practice. In practice, some advisers sit down and they decide whether 
people in different categories ought to have more money next year or 
not. It is an arbitrary, subjective decision. It is not prevailing 
wage.
  I know this law. I have been with this for a long time. I know that 
it costs taxpayers a lot of money. I don't think that there is any way 
to actually find out how hard this number is. I tell you, it is 8 to 35 
percent. Beacon Hill has a different number of around 5 to 38. Mine is 
8 to 35. I think theirs is 5 to 38 percent. But it averages out to 
about 20 percent, and that does not include the inefficiencies that are 
wired into this.
  The inefficiencies come when you have labor that is competing for the 
highest paying jobs and doing sometimes the most inefficient thing with 
the most inefficient machine because it pays the most money. It is a 
Jim Crow law. It needs to be eradicated. It was designed to lock 
African Americans out of the construction trades, particularly in New 
York, and now it is a Holy Grail for union wages.
  I used to say for the gentleman in Massachusetts who was here at the 
time, when he would say any time there is a relationship between two or 
more consenting adults the Federal Government should not stick their 
nose into it, I would say I agree with that. There is no reason why I 
shouldn't be able to climb into my son's excavator and let him pay me 
$10 an hour, whatever we agree to, or $15 or $20, not the mandated wage 
scale.
  So I urge adoption of my amendment that would eliminate the 
enforcement of the Davis-Bacon wage scale on this bill, and I yield 
back the balance of my time.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Ohio is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the King amendment.
  What is interesting to me is that the net effect of the King 
amendment would be to drive wages down, another Republican amendment to 
not really show any respect for the workers of this country. Are they 
all going to work for poverty wages?
  Millions of our citizens still remain out of work, the middle class 
is shrinking, and here we have a Member that stands up and he wants to 
have lower wages. The public wants Congress to create middle class jobs 
and to pay people what they are worth.
  The interesting thing about this amendment is that, when you look 
back at all the studies that have been done, for instance, when 
President Bush suspended Davis-Bacon wages during the Hurricane Katrina 
rebuilding efforts, construction costs went up

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due to the dramatic increase in the employment of unqualified workers.
  I would like to say to the gentleman--and I know you are a handyman 
because you have told me you are--that the people who work on these 
projects are ironworkers. I defy anybody in this place to do that. I 
think Stephen Lynch did that work. Congressman Lynch is about the only 
one that survived that. Boilermakers, carpenters, operating engineers, 
electricians, laborers, sheet metal workers, cement masons, roofers, 
painters, these people go up on those high bridges and they risk their 
lives. They need training. And do you know what? They deserve the wage 
they get under contract--under contract--not by happenstance, not by 
accident.
  I find it interesting that the gentleman offers this amendment, 
because in your district, since 1995, you have received $9 billion in 
Federal subsidy that goes to your farmers. I don't see the gentleman 
railing against the subsidies that come to your district. You get 
insurance. Your farmers get insurance if they lose their crop. What 
does an ironworker get if he falls off high scaffolding in New York 
City or Toledo, Ohio, or Cleveland or wherever? What does that worker 
get?
  It is interesting--I think the gentleman is kind of disingenuous--
your State ranks second in the Nation for agriculture subsidies. The 
Federal Government holds you up. Davis-Bacon simply says that, when you 
go to work, the price of what you are paid, your labor, is by contract; 
it is not by happenstance; it is not by accident; it is not by 
exploitation. In fact, we know when better buildings are built, when 
safe bridges are built, there are no washouts under tunnels and 
bridges. That is a good thing. That is a good thing for America.
  So I hold respect for the workers who want to work, who receive the 
training to work, who know how difficult the work is.
  I will tell you a story from my own district. We built one of the 
biggest bridges in Ohio several years back. We lost ironworkers and an 
operating engineer in that process, though we had signed every kind of 
safety agreement we could possibly sign. And do you know what happened? 
The construction company decided, because there were at least two 
lanes, they would pit sets of workers against one another to see who 
could finish the job fast enough. What happened was some of the cranes 
were not secured at the base as they hung above the river. The 
construction company, which was supposed to be abiding by the law and 
all the safety standards, found a trick in order to save a couple of 
pennies, and it cost the lives of some of the finest workers in the 
country.

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  I devoted months and months and months to making sure that there were 
good safety standards in place. And they always find a way around it.
  This is dangerous work. This is work that most people in this Chamber 
most likely never thought about, never did; don't understand what these 
workers go through in cold winter months, hanging above oil rigs across 
this country; handling public projects underground, above ground, above 
water.
  It is unbelievable what these people do. They go to other countries. 
Look at the dangerous scaffolding that exists in places like Ukraine, 
and you respect the trades of this country, who have managed to build 
apprenticeship and training programs so we don't lose lives needlessly.
  Davis-Bacon assures we have a middle class standard; that we have 
labor valued by contract, not by accident, not by happenstance, not by 
subsidy, like the gentleman's district gets, but by plain hard work.
  I couldn't be more in opposition to any amendment offered this 
afternoon, and I think the gentleman must be misguided in what he is 
trying to do here. But I think it is important to have definable 
standards.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Chair would ask Members to address their 
remarks to the Chair and not to other Members in the second person.
  The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Iowa 
(Mr. King).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Iowa will be 
postponed.


                    Amendment Offered by Ms. Speier

  Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used in contravention of section 4712 of title 41, United 
     States Code.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 641, the gentlewoman 
from California and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from California.
  Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Chairman, I think we can all agree that we want the 
workers at our nuclear facilities to be proactive in reporting health 
and safety violations. It seems pretty obvious.
  In California, whistleblowers were key in pointing out critical 
safety problems at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. Had these 
brave whistleblowers not come forward, we could have had a Fukushima-
like meltdown right next to the Marine Corps Base at Camp Pendleton and 
within 50 miles of 8 million Americans. We need more whistleblowers, 
not less.
  That is why I was flabbergasted to learn that the Department of 
Energy has allowed its contractors to force their employees to sign 
agreements not to disclose waste, fraud, or abuse. The DOE's allowance 
of nondisclosure agreements has been the subject of ongoing 
congressional investigations, which found that whistleblowers at the 
Hanford plutonium processing plant in Washington State were fired after 
raising safety concerns. Not only does this violate basic principles of 
workplace safety, but it circumvents Congress' constitutional duty to 
conduct oversight over governmental activities.
  This is a part of pattern of abuse by contractors using employment 
contracts to hide outrageous crimes within their organizations.
  In 2005, an employee of a contracting company deployed to Iraq was 
gang-raped by her coworkers and was then prevented from going to court 
because her employment contract said that sexual assault allegations 
would only be heard in private arbitration.
  Another contract worker in Iraq reported $80 million in fraud by the 
major defense contractor that employed him and was terminated for 
blowing the whistle. The employer used the excuse that the employee had 
missed a conference.
  Shockingly, the Department of Energy is actually subsidizing this 
type of illegal and unethical activity with taxpayer money. In many 
instances, DOE is picking up the legal tabs for these contractors, 
funding long legal battles against the very whistleblowers who have 
bravely come forward to protect public health and safety.
  The DOE told me just this week that they have no intention of 
stopping these subsidies, and that they would only seek reimbursement 
from the contractors if the whistleblower won in court.
  My amendment is simple. It makes clear that the Department of Energy 
must protect non-Federal employees from whistleblower retaliation. It 
is the workers on the front lines who are best suited to identify and 
expose misconduct, but contract workers are the most vulnerable to 
termination.
  The risk of career-ending retaliation is currently too great for most 
non-Federal employees to blow the whistle on their employer or contract 
manager.
  The DOE must stop allowing its contractors to stifle whistleblowers 
through illegal workplace secrecy agreements and taxpayer-funded 
lawsuits.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Will the gentlewoman yield?
  Ms. SPEIER. I yield to the gentleman from Idaho.
  Mr. SIMPSON. We would be happy to accept the gentlewoman's amendment.
  Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from California (Ms. Speier).

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  The amendment was agreed to.


                   Amendment Offered by Mr. Lankford

  Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. 508.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to prepare, propose, or promulgate any regulation or 
     guidance that references or relies on the analysis contained 
     in ``Technical Support Document: - Social Cost of Carbon for 
     Regulatory Impact Analysis - Under Executive Order 12866'' 
     issued by the Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of 
     Carbon, United States Government (February 2010), ``Technical 
     Support Document: - Technical Update of the Social Cost of 
     Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis - Under Executive Order 
     12866'' issued by the Interagency Working Group on Social 
     Cost of Carbon, United States Government (May 2013), 
     ``Technical Support Document - Technical Update of the Social 
     Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis - Under 
     Executive Order 12866'' issued by the Interagency Working 
     Group on Social Cost of Carbon, United States Government 
     (revised November 2013), or ``Technical Support Document - 
     Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory 
     Impact Analysis - Under Executive Order No. 12866'', 
     published at 78 Fed Reg. 228 (November 26, 2013).

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 641, the gentleman 
from Oklahoma and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Oklahoma.
  Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. Chairman, in 2010, the administration put together 
a working group to monetize the cost per ton of carbon emissions for 
use in cost-benefit analyses for rulemaking undertaken by all agencies 
in the Federal Government, and then reconvened this group again in 2013 
to further increase what they called the ``social cost of carbon.'' 
They increased that amount by 50 percent in just 3 years.
  The process was done behind closed doors and without any public 
input. The administration refuses to release how much of their 
deliberations were done in public, how much were done in private, or 
any of the details of their deliberations. They refuse to release the 
way they used the scientific modeling or even who actually did the 
modeling for them, or even something as basic as the list of 
participants at the meeting--even when it was discussed.
  Months after releasing the report--and only after sustained 
pressure--the administration relented, put the document and the numbers 
up for public comment, a procedure that is routine for the rulemaking 
process. But the administration has continued to use the calculations 
that they said they set aside. They use those calculations for the 
recent EPA rules decreasing emissions by 30 percent for existing power 
plants by 2030.
  My amendment would prevent the Department of Energy from doing the 
same thing. This is a rule that has been set aside. It is a number that 
has not been agreed to and there was no public comment for. They cannot 
change a regulatory number without any notice and comment and without 
any public input. This would prevent them from doing that.
  The DOE rulemakings using the social cost of carbon have the 
potential to raise the cost for everyday activities and purchases for 
all Americans.
  I would ask that this group join me in supporting the amendment, 
which would prohibit the flawed and capricious social cost of carbon 
rule from being implemented by the Department of Energy.
  With that, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Ohio is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chairman, this amendment tells the Department of 
Energy to deny the latest climate change science.
  The amendment denies that carbon pollution is harmful and, according 
to this amendment, the cost of carbon pollution is zero. That is 
science denial at its worst.
  You don't have to look too far to discover the damage already caused 
by climate change. In fact, in the State that I live in, what used to 
be Tennessee's ecosytem and climate zone is no more. It has been moved 
up. If you plant any seed in the ground, you look at the back of the 
packet, it has all been changed.
  We see very unusual weather patterns developing all across our Nation 
and the world.
  We can't put our heads in the sand and deny reality. There is a 
reality out there.
  There was a book written called, ``Last Child in the Woods,'' and it 
talks about how most Americans now don't spend enough time outdoors. In 
fact, a lot of them are even afraid to be out there. So a lot of people 
spend their life in air-conditioned situations or well-heated 
situations and don't really look at what is happening to our ecosytem.
  In May, our Nation's leading climate scientists released the National 
Climate Assessment, which confirmed that climate change is real, it is 
caused by humans, and it is already harming communities across America. 
The assessment explains that scientific evidence is ``unequivocal.'' 
This amendment tells the Department to ignore these scientific 
findings.
  The latest science shows that climate change is expected to 
exacerbate heat waves. Has anybody noticed the erratic nature of what 
is happening in the places you live?
  Droughts. I heard Senator Feinstein say the other day that California 
is become a desert State. Interesting statement.
  Wildfires. Who can deny those?
  Floods and water- and vector-borne diseases will pose greater risk to 
human health, to animal life, and any living creatures around us.
  It is interesting to me that, in my own State, the pork industry is 
undergoing an incredible implosion because of something that is 
infecting the hog population and they are being lost, not by the tens 
or the hundreds or the thousands, but by the millions. There is 
something wrong.
  Wheat and corn yields are already experiencing negative impact due to 
climate change. After 2050, the risk of overall declining crop yields 
increases substantially.
  Federal agencies have a responsibility to calculate the cost of 
climate change and take them into account.
  Unfortunately, what this amendment would require is that the 
government assume zero harm and zero cost from carbon pollution and 
carbon change.
  The truth is that unchecked climate change would have catastrophic 
economic impacts here in the United States and across the globe. Those 
who are less fortunate will bear the heaviest burdens.
  I urge my colleagues to reject this amendment. Don't be a science 
denier. Pretending that climate change doesn't exist won't make it go 
away. Maybe every single Member of this Chamber should have to enroll 
in some STEM classes so that science and technology and engineering and 
math are a part of our DNA and it might be easier to really evaluate 
the world around us with more objectivity.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. Chairman, I would be glad for the Members of this 
body to enroll in a science class. I would also be glad for the Members 
of this body to enroll in a world history class and possibly look at 
the history of the Earth.
  Do you realize there were glaciers in Ohio centuries ago?
  If we are talking about weather today, we are talking about a 
different topic. We are talking about an administration not following 
the Administrative Procedure Act.
  If this is about an administration saying they can change rules as 
they choose to, I look forward to seeing that same standard being 
applied to Republican Presidents in the days ahead.
  But when an administration can change a rule without notice and 
comment and shift the social cost of carbon by 50 percent in a 3-year 
time period without following the rule, without following the law, so 
much so that when we addressed it in a hearing, they admitted it, set 
the rule aside, and then the EPA chose to use it anyway, we are not 
talking about weather anymore. We are suddenly talking about the rule 
of law.

                              {time}  1400

  Now, this is not an area on which we had disagreement--Republicans 
and Democrats--in committee because it was clear that the 
administration did not follow the rule of law. This is a simple 
statement. It is not a statement

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about climate change. It is not a statement about a future ice age or 
of a future flood. It is a statement about: Do we choose to follow the 
law or not?
  If someone wants to argue that we shouldn't follow the Administrative 
Procedure Act, I look forward to the day when we just set the entire 
thing aside and let the administration do whatever it wants to at any 
point, but I hope that day does not occur and that we do follow the 
rule of law and require the administration to do the same.
  With that, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chair, I would inquire of the time remaining on both 
sides.
  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Westmoreland). The gentlewoman from Ohio has 
1\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Oklahoma has 1 minute 
remaining.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chairman, in closing, let me say that Federal 
agencies have a responsibility to calculate the costs of climate change 
and to take them into account. This amendment would tell the Department 
to ignore those impacts, and that, in my judgment, is irresponsible.
  The administration is using common sense, and that was the clear 
message from the Government Accountability Office when it added climate 
change to its high-risk list. That is exactly what the Obama 
administration is doing.
  An interagency task force worked over the last couple of years to 
estimate the costs of harm from carbon pollution. The cost calculation 
was first issued in 2010, and a refined and updated calculation was 
published last year.
  It incorporated updated scientific and technical information, and it 
was a very conservative calculation. The full costs of climate change 
are almost certainly going to be significantly higher, but it is better 
than the previous estimate, and it is much, much better than assuming 
that the costs are zero.
  So I urge my colleagues to reject the Lankford amendment. Again, 
don't be a science denier. Let's not pretend climate change doesn't 
exist. That won't make it go away.
  Let's behave as though we care about future generations and are doing 
our very best to meet the challenges of the current era.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. LANKFORD. I can assure you I have great care, Mr. Chairman, for 
future generations, as I do for this generation and as I do for the 
United States Constitution.
  No administration can ignore the Administrative Procedure Act, change 
it capriciously by 50 percent and say, I have new science, and go into 
a room and literally not publish who was in the room, not take any 
public comment, not even disclose what the memos were or all of the 
models that were even used in the discussion, but just say, I am going 
to change this by 50 percent because there have been updates, and so 
everyone's costs just went up dramatically.
  That is not the way we work things in America. This is not about 
science. This is about law, though this is the first time I have ever 
heard anyone, Mr. Chairman, discuss the loss of piglets as being 
connected to weather, as has been discussed on the floor today. It was 
a virus that spread across the entire United States. This is not about 
piglets. This is not about weather. This is just law.
  With that, I would encourage the passage of this amendment, and I 
yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Lankford).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Oklahoma 
will be postponed.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Ohio is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. KAPTUR. I wonder if the chairman would be willing to engage in a 
brief colloquy regarding transparency and accountability regarding 
transmission and capacity market changes imposed by the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission.
  Mr. SIMPSON. I would be happy to join the gentlelady in a colloquy.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
  I now yield to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Sean Patrick 
Maloney).
  Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New York. I would like to thank the 
chairman and the ranking member for working with me on this issue.
  Mr. Chairman, in January, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 
known as FERC, approved a proposal by the New York Independent System 
Operator to create a new capacity zone in the Hudson Valley. The 
committee report accompanying the fiscal year 2015 Energy and Water 
Appropriations bill acknowledges that zones like this one may result in 
increases in consumer energy costs.
  In the case of the Hudson Valley, this new zone would impose an 
unprecedented $230 million increase in energy costs for our region in 
just the first year and nearly $500 million in increased costs over a 
3-year period. Initial estimates suggest that customers throughout the 
Hudson Valley could see their utility bills go up by 3 to 10 percent.
  Not only did FERC approve this new zone, but they have completely 
disregarded ratepayers and local officials in this decision. They have 
consistently ignored local stakeholders' warnings that this zone will 
arbitrarily hurt families and businesses.
  Moreover, they have failed to demonstrate that the zone would even 
achieve the result that they are seeking. FERC has also failed to take 
into account a wide range of ongoing investments that will facilitate 
the movement of energy in New York State and which may reduce or 
eliminate the need for such high-capacity payments.
  Would the chairman and the ranking member agree that it is the intent 
of the report language to ensure that FERC reexamines and reforms the 
way they conduct this type of decisionmaking, so that the proceedings 
ensure the Commissioners hear and consider the concerns of local 
ratepayers?
  Mr. SIMPSON. Yes, I would agree that that is the intent.
  Ms. KAPTUR. I also agree.
  Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New York. I want to thank the chairman 
and the ranking member.
  Would you also be committed to continuing to work with me during 
fiscal year 2015 to ensure that FERC makes reforms to ensure that the 
views of residents, local and State officials, regulators, and business 
leaders are taken into account when FERC makes these major decisions?
  Mr. SIMPSON. I would agree to do so, and I believe the gentlelady 
from Ohio would agree to do so as well.
  Ms. KAPTUR. I would.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Cassidy

  Mr. CASSIDY. Mr. Chairman, I have amendment No. 91 at the desk, a 
limitation amendment regarding life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions and 
LNG exportation.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used by the Department of Energy to apply the report 
     entitled ``Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Perspective on Exporting 
     Liquefied Natural Gas from the United States'', published in 
     the Federal Register on June 4, 2014 (79 Fed. Reg. 32260), in 
     any public interest determination under section 3 of the 
     Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C. 717b).

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 641, the gentleman 
from Louisiana and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Louisiana.
  Mr. CASSIDY. Mr. Chairman, the United States is the largest producer 
of natural gas in the world and has a large and growing natural gas 
reserves base.
  The Energy Information Administration estimates that proven and 
unproven reserves of natural gas are large enough to fuel America for 
over 90 years at current consumption rates, and more is being found.

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  A study sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and published by 
IHS concluded that unconventional gas development supported over 
900,000 jobs in recent years.
  The U.S. Department of Energy, however, recently changed the process 
by which it reviews and approves liquefied natural gas export projects 
to non-free trade agreement countries.
  Among its process changes, the DOE is releasing a new environmental 
report that explores the life-cycle greenhouse gas impact of U.S. LNG 
exports. According to the DOE, the report will be used to ``inform its 
decisions'' regarding greenhouse gas emissions of U.S. LNG exports for 
use in electric power generation in Europe and Asia.
  With this new report, the DOE is compromising with intervening 
environmental groups that want the criteria and scope of the ``public 
interest'' to include life-cycle greenhouse gas emission impacts.
  While the DOE claims that impacts are not ``reasonably foreseeable'' 
at this time, by acknowledging special interest environmental group 
requests for expanded scope of review beyond the LNG facility, the DOE 
opens the door to prolonged litigation.
  LNG export projects already go through extensive environmental impact 
analysis during the project's National Environmental Policy Act, or 
NEPA, review. This new report adds another layer of legal risk and 
uncertainty to an already extensive and difficult process.
  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce supports the Cassidy-Fleming amendment 
and notes that the DOE's sole jurisdiction lies in considering the 
public interest of exporting the commodity and should not waste funds, 
potentially delaying license application review in an effort beyond its 
jurisdiction.
  The Cassidy-Fleming amendment prohibits the DOE from applying its 
report or the perceived impact on life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions 
in its LNG export public interest determination process, so I urge my 
colleagues to support this amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield to my colleague from Louisiana, Dr. Fleming.
  Mr. FLEMING. I thank my good friend, who is also from Louisiana (Mr. 
Cassidy), and I do support the Cassidy-Fleming amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, the President has bragged about the increase in energy 
production during his tenure as President of the United States.
  However, what we have actually found is that there has been a 15 
percent decline in energy production on Federal lands and offshore, 
where he is in control. On the other hand, in the private sector, we 
have had a veritable explosion in production, if you don't mind my 
using that term.
  What is that reflective of? It is reflective of the miracle that is 
fracking, which is going on in the U.S. today.
  One of the centers of that is the Haynesville shale in my district, 
where we have produced an abundance of natural gas. We used to have to 
import it from other countries. Today, we have such a glut that we have 
capped many of the wells.
  Natural gas is the cleanest carbon-based energy; so, while we are 
taking down coal, why aren't we increasing the production of natural 
gas? In doing so, why not supply it to the rest of the world? Because 
the air we breathe in the United States is the same air they breathe in 
China and in Russia and vice versa.
  I support this amendment. Let's stop throwing monkey wrenches into 
the machinery of natural gas production and energy production in 
general, and let's get the cost of energy down for Americans.
  Let's stop this nonsense, this hyperregulatory atmosphere we have. 
Despite the President's claim, it is American ingenuity--it is 
innovation by Americans, specifically fracking technology and 
horizontal drilling--that has brought about this wonderful miracle that 
we have.
  Let's get on board. Let's get both sides of the aisle on board with 
this, and let's stop messing around with our technology. This is going 
to be the first LNG export facility--that is, Lake Charles, which is 
just below my district, in Congressman Boustany's district--from which 
we are going to be supplying the rest of the world with natural gas--
which, as I say, has half the carbon footprint of coal.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to this amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Chairman, when a company wants to export liquefied 
natural gas, LNG, it has to submit an application with the Department 
of Energy.
  For the export to countries with a free trade agreement with the 
U.S., the DOE must grant the applications without modification or 
delay. For the export to countries without a free trade agreement, the 
DOE has to approve an application, unless it finds that the proposed 
export will not be consistent with the public interest.
  To make this determination, the DOE evaluates a range of factors. It 
looks at the economic impacts, the international considerations, U.S. 
energy security, and environmental effects.
  Mr. Cassidy's amendment would prohibit the DOE from even considering 
one of the most important factors: the impact of LNG exports on climate 
change. I don't understand why we would do that.
  The world's leading scientists are unequivocal: climate change is 
already happening on all continents and across the oceans, and it is 
going to get much worse if we don't cut our emissions of carbon and 
other greenhouse gases.

                              {time}  1415

  So that would mean that we need to scrutinize the energy 
infrastructure decisions that we make today for their impact on climate 
change in the future. Every decision to build a new LNG export terminal 
has climate implications. We need to understand and weigh those 
effects.
  Now, whether exporting LNG will have a positive or a negative impact 
on global greenhouse gas emissions is a complex but a critical 
question. Natural gas consumption for electricity emits less carbon 
pollution than coal. So proponents of LNG exports argue these exports 
will displace coal consumption in these other countries, the way it is 
happening here in the United States, and that would produce a climate 
benefit; but other LNG exports will raise natural gas prices in the 
United States, which could increase the coal use here in the United 
States and carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants. So, on the 
one hand, it helps; on the other hand, it might hurt.
  LNG exports would also drive new domestic natural gas production in 
the U.S. Now, that could increase emissions of methane--that is a 
potent greenhouse gas--unless we take measures to control that 
pollution at the wellhead and throughout the natural gas system.
  So, if we are going to live in a carbon-constrained world, we need to 
understand and consider the climate impacts of key energy policy 
decisions, such as building a new LNG export terminal and exporting 
America's natural gas.
  Mr. Cassidy's amendment takes a head-in-the-sand approach. DOE 
shouldn't even look at this. DOE shouldn't look at the lifecycle carbon 
emissions from LNG. This amendment says that DOE can't even consider 
those findings for any future studies of climate impacts when making a 
public interest determination.
  If you are going to have the consequences of climate change, 
shouldn't we know about it if we are going to say that a particular 
application is or is not in the public interest?
  Considering climate impacts is not going to slow down the review 
process. Nobody has made that argument. It makes no sense to require 
DOE to make a determination without the benefit of all the facts.
  Ignoring climate change will not make it go away. Quite the opposite. 
So I am urging my colleagues to oppose this amendment. It is a 
shortsighted amendment.
  DOE has to make a determination in those cases where it is before 
them on what is the public interest. They have to look at the economic 
impacts. They have to look at international considerations. They have 
to look at U.S. energy security and environmental effects.
  Why should we say they should look at everything else but not be able 
to look at the environmental effect if it

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deals with climate change? It is a mystery to me why we would want to 
do something like this.
  Now, Mr. Cassidy made an argument that that is not within the 
jurisdiction of DOE. Well, we know DOE can look at energy security, but 
the economic impacts, they are going to have to look to other agencies 
of the government to help them with that one. The international 
considerations, they will probably want the State Department and others 
to help them with that one.
  So don't limit DOE and take away their jurisdiction as they make what 
is in the public interest, because it is in the public interest to look 
at all these considerations.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. CASSIDY. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Louisiana 
will be postponed.


                   Amendment Offered by Mr. McNerney

  Mr. McNERNEY. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill, before the short title, insert the 
     following:
       Sec. ___.  None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     used for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 641, the gentleman 
from California and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California.
  Mr. McNERNEY. Mr. Chairman, California, like most of the West and 
Midwest, is suffering and enduring a devastating drought. This is 
impacting the livelihoods of our families, our farmers, our small 
businesses throughout the State. California produces about half of the 
Nation's fruits, vegetables, and nuts; in other words, California feeds 
the rest of the country.
  California's Governor wants to move forward with something called the 
Bay Delta Conservation Plan, or the BDCP, which will build two massive 
tunnels to facilitate shipping water from one part of the State to the 
other.
  I agree with every Californian that we need long-term, statewide 
solutions to our State's water needs. There needs to be some level of 
predictability for our families, farmers, and small businesses about 
our water supply. To do that, we need to focus on conservation, 
recycling, reuse, and storage. The BDCP does none of these things.
  California voters and the State legislature haven't agreed on whether 
or not to fund this project, which is expected to cost $25 billion, a 
cost that keeps rising. The project is still in the draft stage. Right 
now, the plan is already more than 30,000 pages, and final comments 
aren't even due until the end of July. According to the plan, the 
Federal Government is expected to contribute $4 billion.
  Anyone who follows California water knows it is an emotional issue, 
one the State has been debating for decades. But the BDCP is not based 
on sound science. For example, the Delta Independent Science Board 
issued a report this year that said:

       We find the science in this BDCP falls short of what the 
     project requires. Many of the impact assessments hinge on 
     overly optimistic expectations about the feasibility, 
     effectiveness, or timing of the proposed conservation 
     actions, especially habitat restoration.

  The Science Board goes on to say:

       The analyses largely neglect the influences of levee 
     failures and environmental effects of increased water for 
     agriculture.

  I want to thank the chairman and the ranking member for making time 
for me to discuss this important issue today, and I hope in the future 
we can look at this type of funding from the Federal Government.
  Ms. MATSUI. Mr. Chair, over the past four years, I have been heavily 
engaged in the BDCP process, actively promoting Sacramento's interest 
to President Obama's administration, Governor Brown's administration 
and the many stakeholders that would be affected by the project.
  It has not been an easy road as we all know.
  While I support a Delta solution because a sustainable system is 
necessary, I continue to have serious concerns that the BDCP process 
will ultimately create significant and irreversible harm to the 
Sacramento region.


                               GOVERNANCE

  First, the BDCP process must respect northern California's interests. 
Unfortunately, it currently does not. The current governance structure 
of the BDCP includes the Delta water exporters and the state and 
federal water agencies. There is no representation for us in that 
structure. We cannot affect the process at all. We are left to a 
spectator role.
  Given that this project is the largest water infrastructure project 
ever undertaken by California and that it has a permit for 50 years 
attached to it--this governance structure is totally unacceptable.
  Here is why governance matters. Northern California was clearly 
harmed this year by the poor operations of our reservoirs. Yes, the 
drought has caused the low water levels in our reservoirs, but we 
should NEVER have a community on the brink of running out of drinking 
water. That is totally unacceptable. And with a BDCP in place and no 
role in the governance structure we would not be able to prevent 
operations, like this year, from happening again.


                               OPERATIONS

  Sacramento County is the home of the BDCP's three water intakes; this 
will forever change our County's landscape not to mention how much 
water is available in the river.
  The current BDCP framework does not specify how the project will be 
operated, quite literally building the project first and then figuring 
out how much water to send south later. This is also unacceptable.
  You can imagine that after the Delta water exporters spend over $15 
billion building a new conveyance structure there will be tremendous 
pressure to maximize its water delivery output.
  There have been times where the entire flow of the Sacramento River 
has been less than 15,000 cfs. Under the BDCP framework announced 
today, this would mean the Sacramento River would be reduced . . . to a 
trickle.
  In addition, this plan must recognize senior water rights in northern 
California. Currently there are no assurances that those will be 
preserved.


                               THE DELTA

  I also need to mention that the BDCP was created to solve two 
pressing issues--restoration of the Delta and a stable water supply for 
Delta water exporters. All I have seen is an urgency to push a new 
water conveyance with a guaranteed water supply for the exporters. I 
have not seen glowing reports from the fish agencies that the BDCP is 
going to guarantee restoration of the Delta ecosystem. To the contrary 
the state and federal Fish and Wildlife and National Marine Fisheries 
sound doubtful that the BDCP will recover the salmon and smelt species.
  In conclusion, I will just say that what I have seen of the BDCP is 
alarming. I do not believe that its current form will achieve 
California's co-equal goals. And as for Northern California--there are 
no benefits--only negative impacts.
  Mr. THOMPSON of California. Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of 
this amendment. The proposed Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) is not 
a workable solution to California's water challenges.
  We have a serious statewide drought in California, yet the BDCP 
doesn't do a single thing to alleviate this drought. Further, the 
current BDCP is flawed, hurts wildlife and puts the interests of South-
of-Delta water contractors ahead of North-of-Delta farmers, fishers and 
small business owners.
  Until we have a plan that is transparent, based on sound science and 
developed with all stakeholders at the table, the federal government 
shouldn't be wasting taxpayer dollars on this proposal.
  We must remain focused on solutions to the statewide drought in 
California and not on a misguided plan that will risk billions in 
California tax dollars and thousands of jobs. I support this amendment 
and thank my colleague for raising this important issue.
  Mr. McNERNEY. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to withdraw this 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman 
from California?
  There was no objection.


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings 
will now resume on those amendments on which further proceedings were 
postponed, in the following order:
  An amendment by Mr. McClintock of California.
  An amendment by Ms. Bonamici of Oregon.
  An amendment by Ms. Speier of California.

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  Amendment No. 15 by Ms. Titus of Nevada.
  An amendment by Mr. Schiff of California.
  An amendment by Mr. Quigley of Illinois.
  An amendment by Mr. Chabot of Ohio.
  Amendment No. 14 by Ms. Titus of Nevada.
  An amendment by Ms. DeLauro of Connecticut.
  An amendment by Mr. King of Iowa.
  An amendment by Mr. Lankford of Oklahoma.
  An amendment by Mr. Cassidy of Louisiana.
  The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the time for any electronic vote 
after the first vote in this series.


                  Amendment Offered by Mr. McClintock

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California 
(Mr. McClintock) on which further proceedings were postponed and on 
which the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 129, 
noes 290, not voting 13, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 379]

                               AYES--129

     Amash
     Amodei
     Bachmann
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Broun (GA)
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Campbell
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coble
     Collins (GA)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Culberson
     Daines
     DeSantis
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Fincher
     Fleming
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Graves (GA)
     Hall
     Harris
     Hensarling
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     King (IA)
     Kingston
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lance
     Lankford
     Long
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Marchant
     Massie
     McCarthy (CA)
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nunes
     Olson
     Paulsen
     Perry
     Petri
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Roskam
     Ross
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Southerland
     Stewart
     Stockman
     Stutzman
     Thornberry
     Walberg
     Walorski
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westmoreland
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--290

     Bachus
     Barber
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barrow (GA)
     Barton
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera (CA)
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boustany
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Carter
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coffman
     Cohen
     Cole
     Collins (NY)
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Denham
     Dent
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers
     Engel
     Enyart
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farenthold
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Frelinghuysen
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia
     Gardner
     Gerlach
     Gibson
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves (MO)
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grijalva
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Harper
     Hartzler
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Holt
     Honda
     Horsford
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jolly
     Joyce
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kline
     Kuster
     Lamborn
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     Latta
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Marino
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McAllister
     McCaul
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Meng
     Michaud
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (PA)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Negrete McLeod
     Nolan
     Nugent
     O'Rourke
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pearce
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters (CA)
     Peters (MI)
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Rigell
     Roby
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Rothfus
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stivers
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Tipton
     Titus
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wagner
     Walden
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Waxman
     Welch
     Whitfield
     Wilson (FL)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Yarmuth
     Young (AK)

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Aderholt
     Carney
     DesJarlais
     Grimm
     Hanabusa
     Jackson Lee
     Johnson (GA)
     McCarthy (NY)
     Nunnelee
     Palazzo
     Pompeo
     Rangel
     Richmond

                              {time}  1458

  Mr. GERLACH, Ms. LINDA T. SANCHEZ of California, Messrs. DANNY K. 
DAVIS of Illinois, WELCH, RUSH, LYNCH, ELLISON, Ms. DelBENE, and Mr. 
BARR changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  Messrs. BUCSHON, RICE of South Carolina, and SOUTHERLAND changed 
their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                   Amendment Offered by Ms. Bonamici

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Oregon 
(Ms. Bonamici) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 221, 
noes 199, not voting 12, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 380]

                               AYES--221

     Barber
     Barrow (GA)
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Bera (CA)
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Coffman
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Enyart
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fitzpatrick
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia
     Gardner
     Gibson
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Graves (MO)
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Harris
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Holt
     Honda
     Horsford
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch

[[Page H6058]]


     Maffei
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Meng
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Negrete McLeod
     Nolan
     O'Rourke
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters (CA)
     Peters (MI)
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Pocan
     Polis
     Posey
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Tipton
     Titus
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth
     Young (AK)

                               NOES--199

     Amash
     Amodei
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Bentivolio
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capuano
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Daines
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     Diaz-Balart
     Doyle
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fattah
     Fincher
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Harper
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Hensarling
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Lankford
     Latham
     Latta
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McAllister
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McKeon
     Meadows
     Messer
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Petri
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Price (GA)
     Rahall
     Reed
     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
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stockman
     Stutzman
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walorski
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Aderholt
     Carney
     DesJarlais
     Grimm
     Hanabusa
     Jackson Lee
     Johnson (GA)
     McCarthy (NY)
     Nunnelee
     Pompeo
     Rangel
     Richmond


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1502

  Messrs. MARCHANT and MESSER changed their vote from ``aye'' to 
``no.''
  Mr. CUMMINGS changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                    Amendment Offered by Ms. Speier

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from 
California (Ms. Speier) on which further proceedings were postponed and 
on which the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 184, 
noes 235, not voting 13, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 381]

                               AYES--184

     Amash
     Bachmann
     Bass
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bera (CA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Braley (IA)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Broun (GA)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Campbell
     Capps
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clawson (FL)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Coble
     Cohen
     Collins (GA)
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Costa
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Daines
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     Delaney
     DeSantis
     Deutch
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Foxx
     Frankel (FL)
     Franks (AZ)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Garamendi
     Garrett
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Gowdy
     Grayson
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Hastings (FL)
     Holding
     Holt
     Honda
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huffman
     Huizenga (MI)
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kuster
     Labrador
     Lance
     Langevin
     Lankford
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Long
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Maffei
     Marchant
     Massie
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Meeks
     Meng
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Negrete McLeod
     Nolan
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peters (CA)
     Peters (MI)
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Pocan
     Polis
     Quigley
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Roe (TN)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanford
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schwartz
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Shea-Porter
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Speier
     Stockman
     Stutzman
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Walden
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wenstrup
     Wilson (FL)
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho

                               NOES--235

     Amodei
     Bachus
     Barber
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barrow (GA)
     Barton
     Beatty
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonamici
     Boustany
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (FL)
     Bucshon
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Camp
     Capito
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Castro (TX)
     Clyburn
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cooper
     Cotton
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Denham
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Ellmers
     Enyart
     Esty
     Farenthold
     Fattah
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallego
     Garcia
     Gardner
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gingrey (GA)
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Horsford
     Hoyer
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Joyce
     Kaptur
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kline
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     Latta
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lummis
     Lynch
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Marino
     Matheson
     McAllister
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Messer
     Michaud
     Miller, Gary
     Moran
     Mullin
     Murphy (PA)
     Neal
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Pascrell
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peterson
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Rigell
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (MI)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Runyan
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Scalise
     Schneider
     Schock
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Sessions
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Southerland
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Terry
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Visclosky
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walorski

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     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Yarmuth
     Young (AK)
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Aderholt
     Cantor
     Carney
     DesJarlais
     Hanabusa
     Jackson Lee
     Johnson (GA)
     McCarthy (NY)
     Nunnelee
     Pompeo
     Rangel
     Richmond
     Rogers (KY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1506

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                 Amendment No. 15 Offered by Ms. Titus

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Nevada 
(Ms. Titus) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 75, 
noes 344, not voting 13, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 382]

                                AYES--75

     Amodei
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bishop (UT)
     Blumenauer
     Brownley (CA)
     Capps
     Capuano
     Castor (FL)
     Chaffetz
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Conyers
     Crowley
     Davis (CA)
     Deutch
     Doggett
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Frankel (FL)
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck (NV)
     Holt
     Honda
     Horsford
     Huffman
     Kennedy
     Kirkpatrick
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McGovern
     McKeon
     Meeks
     Meng
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Negrete McLeod
     Pallone
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peters (MI)
     Pocan
     Polis
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Schakowsky
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Shea-Porter
     Smith (WA)
     Stewart
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tsongas
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waxman

                               NOES--344

     Amash
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barber
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barrow (GA)
     Barton
     Bass
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bera (CA)
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonamici
     Boustany
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Braley (IA)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Broun (GA)
     Brown (FL)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Capito
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Carter
     Cartwright
     Cassidy
     Castro (TX)
     Chabot
     Cicilline
     Clawson (FL)
     Clay
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Coffman
     Cohen
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Cook
     Cooper
     Costa
     Cotton
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Daines
     Davis, Danny
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Enyart
     Esty
     Farenthold
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garcia
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck (WA)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Holding
     Hoyer
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Israel
     Issa
     Jeffries
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Kuster
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Langevin
     Lankford
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     Latta
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Long
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lummis
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McAllister
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (PA)
     Neal
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nolan
     Nugent
     Nunes
     O'Rourke
     Olson
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters (CA)
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     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
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Speier
     Stivers
     Stockman
     Stutzman
     Swalwell (CA)
     Terry
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Tonko
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Visclosky
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walorski
     Walz
     Waters
     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--13

     Aderholt
     Carney
     Culberson
     DesJarlais
     Garamendi
     Hanabusa
     Jackson Lee
     Johnson (GA)
     McCarthy (NY)
     Nunnelee
     Pompeo
     Rangel
     Richmond


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1511

  Mr. CICILLINE changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Schiff

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California 
(Mr. Schiff) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 216, 
noes 205, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 383]

                               AYES--216

     Barber
     Barrow (GA)
     Barton
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Bera (CA)
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brooks (AL)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Dent
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Enyart
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fitzpatrick
     Flores
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia
     Gerlach
     Gibson
     Goodlatte
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffith (VA)
     Grijalva
     Grimm
     Hahn
     Harris
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Holt
     Honda
     Horsford
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jolly
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     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
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (FL)

[[Page H6060]]


     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Negrete McLeod
     Nolan
     O'Rourke
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters (CA)
     Peters (MI)
     Pingree (ME)
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Reichert
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stivers
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Woodall
     Yarmuth
     Young (AK)

                               NOES--205

     Amash
     Amodei
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barr
     Bentivolio
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (IN)
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Daines
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     DeSantis
     Diaz-Balart
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Holding
     Hoyer
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Lankford
     Latham
     Latta
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McAllister
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Rahall
     Reed
     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
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stewart
     Stockman
     Stutzman
     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
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Aderholt
     Bilirakis
     Carney
     DesJarlais
     Hanabusa
     Jackson Lee
     McCarthy (NY)
     Nunnelee
     Pompeo
     Rangel
     Richmond


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1515

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Quigley

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois 
(Mr. Quigley) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 181, 
noes 239, not voting 12, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 384]

                               AYES--181

     Amash
     Bachmann
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera (CA)
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brownley (CA)
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coffman
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deutch
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Enyart
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Garcia
     Grayson
     Griffith (VA)
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Holt
     Honda
     Horsford
     Hoyer
     Huelskamp
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Massie
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Messer
     Michaud
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Negrete McLeod
     Nolan
     O'Rourke
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters (CA)
     Peters (MI)
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rohrabacher
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanford
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schock
     Schwartz
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Sires
     Speier
     Stockman
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NOES--239

     Amodei
     Bachus
     Barber
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barrow (GA)
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Broun (GA)
     Brown (FL)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coble
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Costa
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Daines
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffin (AR)
     Grimm
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Joyce
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kline
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Lankford
     Larsen (WA)
     Latham
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lummis
     Maloney, Sean
     Marchant
     Marino
     McAllister
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran
     Mullin
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Peterson
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Royce
     Ruiz
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Scalise
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Sessions
     Sewell (AL)
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Slaughter
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Southerland
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Swalwell (CA)
     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)

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Aderholt
     Carney
     DesJarlais
     Hanabusa
     Jackson Lee
     McCarthy (NY)
     Nunnelee
     Pompeo
     Rangel
     Richmond
     Rogers (MI)
     Vela

[[Page H6061]]




                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1518

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Chabot

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. 
Chabot) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the 
noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 176, 
noes 243, not voting 13, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 385]

                               AYES--176

     Amash
     Amodei
     Bachmann
     Barrow (GA)
     Barton
     Bentivolio
     Bilirakis
     Black
     Blackburn
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Braley (IA)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Camp
     Cantor
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coble
     Coffman
     Cohen
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cooper
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crenshaw
     Daines
     Davis, Rodney
     DeSantis
     Doggett
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Fudge
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kind
     King (IA)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Lankford
     Latta
     Levin
     Long
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Maffei
     Marchant
     Massie
     Matheson
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McDermott
     McHenry
     McKinley
     Meadows
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Negrete McLeod
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters (CA)
     Petri
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Polis
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (TX)
     Stewart
     Stockman
     Stutzman
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Tonko
     Upton
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walorski
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Yarmuth
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--243

     Bachus
     Barber
     Barletta
     Barr
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Bera (CA)
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bucshon
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Calvert
     Campbell
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Carter
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cole
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cook
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crawford
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Denham
     Dent
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Enyart
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia
     Gerlach
     Gibson
     Granger
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffith (VA)
     Grijalva
     Grimm
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck (WA)
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Holt
     Horsford
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Joyce
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     King (NY)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     Lee (CA)
     Lewis
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Marino
     Matsui
     McAllister
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCollum
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Meng
     Michaud
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Nunes
     O'Rourke
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pearce
     Pelosi
     Peters (MI)
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Pocan
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Reed
     Reichert
     Roby
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Southerland
     Speier
     Stivers
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Waxman
     Welch
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (FL)
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Young (AK)

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Aderholt
     Bass
     Carney
     DesJarlais
     Hanabusa
     Honda
     Jackson Lee
     McCarthy (NY)
     McMorris Rodgers
     Nunnelee
     Pompeo
     Rangel
     Richmond


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1522

  Mrs. ELLMERS changed her vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                 Amendment No. 14 Offered by Ms. Titus

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Nevada 
(Ms. Titus) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 96, 
noes 326, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 386]

                                AYES--96

     Amodei
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bishop (UT)
     Blumenauer
     Brownley (CA)
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Chaffetz
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Conyers
     Crowley
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Doggett
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Grijalva
     Hahn
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck (NV)
     Holt
     Honda
     Horsford
     Huffman
     Jones
     Kennedy
     Kirkpatrick
     Langevin
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McGovern
     McKeon
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Negrete McLeod
     Pallone
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters (MI)
     Pocan
     Polis
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schrader
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Slaughter
     Speier
     Stewart
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tsongas
     Vargas
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Waxman
     Wilson (FL)

                               NOES--326

     Amash
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barber
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barrow (GA)
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bera (CA)
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonamici
     Boustany
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Braley (IA)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Broun (GA)
     Brown (FL)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Capito
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Castro (TX)
     Chabot
     Clawson (FL)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Coffman
     Cohen
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Cook
     Cooper
     Costa
     Cotton
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Daines
     Davis, Rodney
     Delaney
     DelBene
     Denham
     Dent

[[Page H6062]]


     DeSantis
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Enyart
     Esty
     Farenthold
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garcia
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck (WA)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Holding
     Hoyer
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Israel
     Issa
     Jeffries
     Jenkins
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Kuster
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Lankford
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     Latta
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Long
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Maffei
     Maloney, Sean
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McAllister
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (PA)
     Neal
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nolan
     Nugent
     Nunes
     O'Rourke
     Olson
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Peters (CA)
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     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
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schock
     Schwartz
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Sewell (AL)
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Sires
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Southerland
     Stivers
     Stockman
     Stutzman
     Swalwell (CA)
     Terry
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Tonko
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Van Hollen
     Veasey
     Vela
     Visclosky
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walorski
     Walz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Welch
     Wenstrup
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yarmuth
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Aderholt
     Carney
     DesJarlais
     Hanabusa
     Jackson Lee
     McCarthy (NY)
     Nunnelee
     Pompeo
     Rangel
     Richmond


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1526

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                    Amendment Offered by Ms. DeLauro

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from 
Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro) on which further proceedings were postponed 
and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 221, 
noes 200, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 387]

                               AYES--221

     Barber
     Barrow (GA)
     Barton
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera (CA)
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Camp
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coffman
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Enyart
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fitzpatrick
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Garamendi
     Garcia
     Gardner
     Gibson
     Graves (MO)
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffin (AR)
     Grijalva
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck (WA)
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Holt
     Honda
     Horsford
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Hunter
     Israel
     Issa
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Kline
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKinley
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Negrete McLeod
     Nolan
     O'Rourke
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paulsen
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters (CA)
     Peters (MI)
     Pingree (ME)
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stewart
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Wolf
     Woodall
     Yarmuth
     Yoder

                               NOES--200

     Amash
     Amodei
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barr
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Broun (GA)
     Bucshon
     Butterfield
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coble
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Daines
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     Diaz-Balart
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallego
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hurt
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jordan
     Joyce
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Lankford
     Latham
     Latta
     Long
     Lucas
     Lummis
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     Matheson
     McAllister
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Pearce
     Perry
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     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
     Womack
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Aderholt
     Carney
     DesJarlais
     Hanabusa
     Jackson Lee
     McCarthy (NY)
     Nunnelee
     Pompeo
     Rangel
     Richmond
     Smith (MO)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1529

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                 Amendment Offered by Mr. King of Iowa

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded

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vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King) on 
which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes 
prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 181, 
noes 239, not voting 12, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 388]

                               AYES--181

     Amash
     Amodei
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coble
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Daines
     Dent
     DeSantis
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     King (IA)
     Kingston
     Kline
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lankford
     Latham
     Latta
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McAllister
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Royce
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stewart
     Stockman
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tipton
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walorski
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westmoreland
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--239

     Barber
     Barletta
     Barrow (GA)
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera (CA)
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cook
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Duffy
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Enyart
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fitzpatrick
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia
     Gerlach
     Gibson
     Graves (MO)
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Grimm
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Holt
     Honda
     Horsford
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Hultgren
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jolly
     Joyce
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Lance
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKinley
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Meng
     Michaud
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (PA)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Negrete McLeod
     Nolan
     O'Rourke
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters (CA)
     Peters (MI)
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stivers
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Waxman
     Welch
     Whitfield
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth
     Young (AK)

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Aderholt
     Carney
     Denham
     DesJarlais
     Hanabusa
     Jackson Lee
     McCarthy (NY)
     Nunnelee
     Pompeo
     Rangel
     Richmond
     Smith (MO)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1533

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                   Amendment Offered by Mr. Lankford

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Lankford) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 227, 
noes 191, not voting 14, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 389]

                               AYES--227

     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
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coble
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Daines
     Davis, Rodney
     Dent
     DeSantis
     Diaz-Balart
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     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
     Herrera Beutler
     Holding
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kelly (PA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Lankford
     Latham
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     Matheson
     McAllister
     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
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Rahall
     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 (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)

[[Page H6064]]



                               NOES--191

     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
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     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
     Gibson
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Holt
     Honda
     Horsford
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     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
     Matsui
     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)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters (CA)
     Peters (MI)
     Pingree (ME)
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     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
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--14

     Aderholt
     Carney
     Denham
     DesJarlais
     Hanabusa
     Hudson
     Jackson Lee
     King (IA)
     McCarthy (NY)
     Nunnelee
     Pompeo
     Rangel
     Richmond
     Smith (MO)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1536

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Cassidy

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Louisiana 
(Mr. Cassidy) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 232, 
noes 187, not voting 13, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 390]

                               AYES--232

     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
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coble
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Daines
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     Diaz-Balart
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallego
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     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
     Herrera Beutler
     Holding
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     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jordan
     Joyce
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     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
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     Kline
     Labrador
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     Lance
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     Latham
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
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     McAllister
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     McCaul
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     McHenry
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     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
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     Neugebauer
     Noem
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     Petri
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     Posey
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     Rigell
     Roby
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     Scalise
     Schock
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     Sensenbrenner
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     Shimkus
     Shuster
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     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
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     Southerland
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     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--187

     Barber
     Barrow (GA)
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera (CA)
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
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     Cardenas
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     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
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     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
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     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Enyart
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Garamendi
     Garcia
     Gibson
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Holt
     Honda
     Horsford
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     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)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     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)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters (CA)
     Peters (MI)
     Pingree (ME)
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     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
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Aderholt
     Carney
     DeFazio
     DesJarlais
     Farr
     Hanabusa
     Jackson Lee
     McCarthy (NY)
     Nunnelee
     Pompeo
     Rangel
     Richmond
     Waters


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1539

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Chairman, I move that the Committee do now rise.
  The motion was agreed to.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
Rodney Davis of Illinois) having assumed the chair, Mr. Westmoreland, 
Acting Chair of the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the 
Union, reported that that Committee, having had under consideration the 
bill (H.R. 4923) making appropriations for energy and water development 
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, and 
for other purposes, had come to no resolution thereon.

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