[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 147 (Thursday, December 4, 2014)]
[House]
[Pages H8651-H8652]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 PROTECTING VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS AND EMERGENCY RESPONDERS ACT OF 2014

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The unfinished business is the vote on the 
motion to concur in the Senate amendment to the bill (H.R. 3979) to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that emergency 
services volunteers are not taken into account as employees under the 
shared responsibility requirements contained in the Patient Protection 
and Affordable Care Act offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. 
McKeon), on which the yeas and nays were ordered.
  The Clerk will redesignate the motion.
  The Clerk redesignated the motion
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to concur.
  This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 300, 
nays 119, not voting 15, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 551]

                               YEAS--300

     Adams
     Amodei
     Bachus
     Barber
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barrow (GA)
     Barton
     Beatty
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bera (CA)
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Boustany
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Capito
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Carter
     Cartwright
     Cassidy
     Castor (FL)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Cook
     Cooper
     Costa
     Cotton
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Daines
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Rodney
     Delaney
     DelBene
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Duffy
     Ellmers
     Engel
     Enyart
     Esty
     Farenthold
     Fattah
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gingrey (GA)
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al
     Griffin (AR)
     Grimm
     Guthrie
     Hanabusa
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Holding
     Horsford
     Hoyer
     Hudson
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Israel
     Issa
     Jeffries
     Jenkins
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kaptur
     Kelly (PA)
     Kilmer
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kline
     Kuster
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Langevin
     Lankford
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     Latta
     Levin
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Long
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lummis
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney, Sean
     Marino
     Matheson
     McAllister
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Messer
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, George
     Moran
     Mullin
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nolan
     Norcross
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paulsen
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters (CA)
     Peters (MI)
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Price (GA)
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Rothfus
     Royce
     Ruiz
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Scalise
     Schneider
     Schock
     Schwartz
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sessions
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Sinema
     Sires
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Southerland
     Speier
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Terry
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Titus
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Visclosky
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walorski
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (IN)

                               NAYS--119

     Amash
     Bass
     Becerra
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Braley (IA)
     Brat
     Broun (GA)
     Capps
     Cardenas
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clawson (FL)
     Clay
     Cohen
     Conyers
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette

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     DeLauro
     DesJarlais
     Doggett
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Gowdy
     Grayson
     Griffith (VA)
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hastings (FL)
     Holt
     Honda
     Huelskamp
     Huffman
     Jackson Lee
     Jolly
     Jones
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kind
     Labrador
     Lee (CA)
     Lewis
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Marchant
     Massie
     Matsui
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     Meng
     Moore
     Mulvaney
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nugent
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Payne
     Pearce
     Pingree (ME)
     Pocan
     Polis
     Posey
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Richmond
     Rohrabacher
     Ross
     Roybal-Allard
     Sanford
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Shea-Porter
     Simpson
     Slaughter
     Stockman
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Waters
     Waxman
     Weber (TX)
     Welch
     Westmoreland
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth
     Yoho

                             NOT VOTING--15

     Aderholt
     Bachmann
     Bishop (UT)
     Capuano
     Coble
     Crawford
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Green, Gene
     Hall
     Johnson, E. B.
     McCarthy (NY)
     Miller, Gary
     Negrete McLeod
     Rush

                              {time}  1437

  Mr. SERRANO changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Messrs. NORCROSS, MEEKS, and HIMES changed their vote from ``nay'' to 
``yea.''
  So the motion to concur was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  Stated for:
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 551, had I been 
present, I would have voted ``yes.''


                          Personal Explanation

  Mrs. McCARTHY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably absent 
during the week of December 1, 2014. If I were present, I would have 
voted on the following: rollcall No. 532--On final passage of H.R. 
5629--``yea;'' rollcall No. 533--On final passage of H.R. 3438--
``yea;'' rollcall No. 534--On final passage of S. 2040--``yea;'' 
rollcall No. 535--On final passage of H.R. 5050--``yea;'' rollcall No. 
536--On final passage of H.R. 3572--``yea;'' rollcall No. 537--On final 
passage of H.R. 5739--``yea;'' rollcall No. 538--On final passage of 
H.R. 3240--``yea;'' rollcall No. 539--On final passage of H.R. 2366--
``yea;'' rollcall No. 540--On final passage of H. Res. 766--``nay;'' 
rollcall No. 541--On final passage of H.R. 5769--``yea;'' rollcall No. 
542--On approving the Journal--``yea;'' rollcall No. 543--On motion to 
recommit with instructions--``yea;'' rollcall No. 544--On final passage 
of H.R. 5771--``aye;'' rollcall No. 545--On final passage of H.R. 647--
``yea;'' rollcall No. 546--On ordering the previous question on the 
rule--``nay;'' rollcall No. 547--On final passage of H. Res. 770--
``no;'' rollcall No. 548--On final passage of H. Res. 758--``yea;'' 
rollcall No. 549--On Motion to recommit with instructions--``yea;'' 
rollcall No. 550--On final passage of H.R. 5759--``nay;'' rollcall No. 
551--On motion to concur with amendment on H.R. 3979--``yea.''


                          personal explanation

  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 
549--``yes;'' 550--``no;'' 551--``yes.''
  Had I been present, I would have voted as listed.


                          personal explanation

  Mrs. BACHMANN. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall vote No. 549 on the Democrat 
Motion to Recommit on H.R. 5759 I intended to vote ``no''; on rollcall 
vote No. 550 on H.R. 5759--Executive Amnesty Prevention Act of 2014 I 
intended to vote ``aye''; on rollcall vote No. 551 on the passage of 
H.R. 3979--Carl Levin and Howard P. `Buck' McKeon National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015--Concur in the Senate Amendment 
with a House Amendment I intended to vote ``aye''--I was away from the 
floor due to a family emergency.

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