Congressional Record, Volume 161 Issue 88 (Wednesday, June 3, 2015)

[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 88 (Wednesday, June 3, 2015)]
[House]
[Pages H3781-H3817]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT,
2016

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Fleischmann). Pursuant to House
Resolution 287 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. 2578.
Will the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Loudermilk) kindly take the
chair.

{time} 1342

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. 2578) making appropriations for the Departments of
Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes, with Mr. Loudermilk
(Acting Chair) in the chair.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The Acting CHAIR. When the Committee of the Whole rose earlier today,
the amendment offered by the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Austin Scott)
had been disposed of, and the bill had been read through page 98, line
20.

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:
Amendment by Mr. Pittenger of North Carolina.
Amendment by Mr. Nadler of New York.
Amendment by Mr. Farr of California.
Amendment No. 1 by Mrs. Blackburn of Tennessee.
Amendment by Mr. Foster of Illinois.
Amendment No. 9 by Ms. Bonamici of Oregon.
Amendment by Mr. Ellison of Minnesota.
Amendment by Mr. Grayson of Florida.
Amendment by Mr. Rohrabacher of California.
Amendment by Mr. Grayson of Florida.
Amendment by Mr. McClintock of California.
Amendment by Mr. Perry of Pennsylvania.
Amendment by Mr. Garrett of New Jersey.
The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the time for any electronic vote
in this series.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Pittenger

The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from North
Carolina (Mr. Pittenger) 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 will be a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 163,
noes 263, not voting 6, as follows:

[Roll No. 275]

AYES--163

Allen
Amash
Amodei
Babin
Barletta
Barr
Benishek
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Brady (TX)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Bucshon
Burgess
Byrne
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Clawson (FL)
Coffman
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comstock
Conaway
Cook
Cramer
Crawford
Curbelo (FL)
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Fincher
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Garrett
Gibbs
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Graham
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Grothman
Hardy
Harris
Hartzler
Hensarling
Hice, Jody B.
Hill
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jordan
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kirkpatrick
Kline
Knight
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Latta
LoBiondo
Loudermilk
Love
Luetkemeyer
Marchant
Marino
McCarthy
McCaul
McHenry
Meadows
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Mulvaney
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Pittenger
Pitts
Pompeo
Posey
Price, Tom
Ratcliffe
Reed
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Roskam
Rothfus
Rouzer
Russell
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanford
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shuster
Sinema
Smith (NE)
Smith (TX)
Stewart
Stutzman
Thornberry
Tipton
Walberg
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke

NOES--263

Abraham
Aderholt
Aguilar
Ashford
Barton
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (MI)
Blum
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Bost
Boustany
Brady (PA)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Buchanan
Buck
Bustos
Butterfield
Calvert
Capps
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Cole
Connolly
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Costello (PA)
Courtney
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cuellar
Culberson
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
Davis, Rodney
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
Denham
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Donovan
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellison
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farenthold
Farr
Fattah
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Gibson
Gohmert
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffith
Grijalva
Guinta
Guthrie
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hanna
Harper
Hastings
Heck (NV)
Heck (WA)
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jeffries
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Jolly
Jones
Joyce
Katko
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
Kuster
Lance
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren
Long
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lucas
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lummis
Lynch
MacArthur
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Massie
Matsui
McClintock
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
McSally
Meehan
Meeks
Meng
Moolenaar
Moore
Moulton
Murphy (FL)
Murphy (PA)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Noem
Nolan
Norcross
Nugent
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree
Pocan
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Reichert
Renacci
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Rigell
Rogers (KY)
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Ross
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Shimkus
Simpson
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (NJ)
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stefanik
Stivers
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Tiberi
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Trott
Tsongas
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Wagner
Walden
Walker
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Webster (FL)
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth
Young (AK)
Young (IA)

NOT VOTING--6

Adams
Boyle, Brendan F.
Jackson Lee
Kaptur
Roe (TN)
Smith (MO)

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Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

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

Amendment Offered by Mr. Nadler

The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York
(Mr. Nadler) 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

[Roll No. 276]

AYES--170

Amash
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Brady (PA)
Brown (FL)
Bustos
Butterfield
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Conyers
Cooper
Courtney
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Gibson
Grayson
Green, Al
Grijalva
Hahn
Hastings
Heck (WA)
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
Kuster
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
Maloney, Carolyn
Matsui
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Moulton
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Nolan
Norcross
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree
Pocan
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Rice (NY)
Rice (SC)
Richmond
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanford
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Speier
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth

NOES--256

Abraham
Aderholt
Aguilar
Allen
Amodei
Ashford
Babin
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Benishek
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Brownley (CA)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Capps
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Clawson (FL)
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comstock
Conaway
Cook
Costa
Costello (PA)
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Cuellar
Culberson
Curbelo (FL)
Davis, Rodney
Denham
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Dold
Donovan
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Garrett
Gibbs
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Graham
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Green, Gene
Griffith
Grothman
Guinta
Guthrie
Hanna
Hardy
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Heck (NV)
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Hill
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Jones
Jordan
Joyce
Katko
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kirkpatrick
Kline
Knight
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
MacArthur
Maloney, Sean
Marchant
Marino
Massie
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McSally
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (FL)
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Pompeo
Posey
Price, Tom
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rigell
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Royce
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Russell
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanchez, Loretta
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Sinema
Sires
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Stefanik
Stewart
Stivers
Stutzman
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Trott
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Vela
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke

NOT VOTING--6

Adams
Boyle, Brendan F.
Gutierrez
Jackson Lee
Kaptur
Roe (TN)

Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

{time} 1351

So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Stated for:
Mrs. CAPPS. Mr. Chair, on rollcall Vote No. 276 I am recorded as
voting ``no;'' however, I intended to vote ``yes.''
Mr. GUTIERREZ. Mr. Chair, I was inadvertently absent in the House
chamber for a vote on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. Had I been present, I
would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall vote 276 in support of the Nadler
Amendment to remove language in the underlying bill to prohibit the use
of funds to transfer or release detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Farr

The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California
(Mr. Farr) 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

[Roll No. 277]

AYES--153

Aguilar
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Brady (PA)
Bustos
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Courtney
Cramer
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
DeSaulnier
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Edwards
Ellison
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Foster
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Green, Al
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hahn
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Huffman
Israel
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
Kirkpatrick
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Maloney, Carolyn
Matsui
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Moulton
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Nolan
O'Rourke
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree
Pocan
Polis
Price (NC)
Rangel
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky

[[Page H3783]]

Schiff
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sinema
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Speier
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz
Waters, Maxine
Welch
Yarmuth

NOES--273

Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amash
Amodei
Ashford
Babin
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Benishek
Bera
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Cardenas
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Clawson (FL)
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comstock
Conaway
Connolly
Cook
Costello (PA)
Crawford
Crenshaw
Cuellar
Culberson
Curbelo (FL)
Davis, Rodney
Denham
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Dold
Donovan
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Engel
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Frankel (FL)
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Garrett
Gibbs
Gibson
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Graham
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Green, Gene
Griffith
Grothman
Guinta
Guthrie
Hanna
Hardy
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings
Heck (NV)
Heck (WA)
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Hill
Holding
Hoyer
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Jones
Jordan
Joyce
Katko
Keating
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Knight
Kuster
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Lynch
MacArthur
Maloney, Sean
Marchant
Marino
Massie
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McSally
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (FL)
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Noem
Norcross
Nugent
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Pallone
Palmer
Pascrell
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Pompeo
Posey
Price, Tom
Quigley
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Royce
Ruppersberger
Russell
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanford
Scalise
Schrader
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sessions
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Sires
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Stefanik
Stewart
Stivers
Stutzman
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Trott
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Wasserman Schultz
Watson Coleman
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (FL)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke

NOT VOTING--6

Adams
Boyle, Brendan F.
Grayson
Jackson Lee
Kaptur
Roe (TN)

Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

{time} 1355

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

Amendment No. 1 Offered by Mrs. Blackburn

The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from
Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn) 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

[Roll No. 278]

AYES--168

Allen
Amash
Babin
Barton
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Brady (TX)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Burgess
Byrne
Carter (GA)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Clawson (FL)
Coffman
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Conaway
Cook
Cooper
Cramer
Crawford
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Farenthold
Fincher
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Garrett
Gibbs
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Griffith
Grothman
Guinta
Guthrie
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hensarling
Hice, Jody B.
Hill
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
Kline
Knight
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Marchant
Massie
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McMorris Rodgers
McSally
Meadows
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Napolitano
Neugebauer
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Pompeo
Price, Tom
Ratcliffe
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rothfus
Rouzer
Royce
Russell
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanford
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shuster
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (TX)
Stewart
Stutzman
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Upton
Wagner
Walberg
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zinke

NOES--257

Abraham
Aderholt
Aguilar
Amodei
Ashford
Barletta
Barr
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Benishek
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Bost
Boustany
Brady (PA)
Brooks (IN)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Bustos
Butterfield
Calvert
Capps
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carter (TX)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Cole
Comstock
Connolly
Conyers
Costa
Costello (PA)
Courtney
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cuellar
Culberson
Cummings
Curbelo (FL)
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
Davis, Rodney
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
Denham
Dent
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Donovan
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Edwards
Ellison
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Fitzpatrick
Fortenberry
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Gibson
Graham
Granger
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hanna
Hardy
Hastings
Heck (NV)
Heck (WA)
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Himes
Honda
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jeffries
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Jolly
Joyce
Kaptur
Katko
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kirkpatrick
Kuster
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
MacArthur
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Marino
Matsui
McCarthy
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McKinley
McNerney
Meehan
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Moulton
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Neal
Newhouse
Noem
Nolan
Norcross
Nugent
Nunes
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree
Pocan
Polis
Posey
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Shimkus
Simpson
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (NJ)
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stefanik
Stivers
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Trott
Tsongas
Turner
Valadao
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walden
Walz

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Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Webster (FL)
Welch
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Womack
Yarmuth
Young (AK)
Zeldin

NOT VOTING--7

Adams
Boyle, Brendan F.
Carson (IN)
Hinojosa
Jackson Lee
Roe (TN)
Wilson (FL)

Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

{time} 1358

So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Stated against:
Mr. HINOJOSA. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 278, had I been present, I
would have voted ``no.''

Amendment Offered by Mr. Foster

The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Woodall). The unfinished business is the demand
for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from
Illinois (Mr. Foster) 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

[Roll No. 279]

AYES--195

Aguilar
Amash
Barletta
Bass
Becerra
Benishek
Bera
Beyer
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Bost
Brat
Brownley (CA)
Bucshon
Burgess
Bustos
Cardenas
Carson (IN)
Carter (GA)
Cartwright
Castro (TX)
Chabot
Chu, Judy
Clawson (FL)
Clay
Coffman
Collins (GA)
Connolly
Cooper
Costa
Costello (PA)
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Rodney
DeGette
Delaney
Denham
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Duffy
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellison
Emmer (MN)
Engel
Fitzpatrick
Forbes
Foster
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Gallego
Garamendi
Garrett
Gibbs
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Graham
Graves (GA)
Griffith
Grothman
Gutierrez
Harris
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Higgins
Himes
Holding
Hoyer
Hudson
Huffman
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt (VA)
Issa
Jeffries
Johnson, E. B.
Jones
Kaptur
Katko
Kelly (IL)
Kildee
Kind
Kinzinger (IL)
Kirkpatrick
Kline
LaMalfa
Lance
Larsen (WA)
Latta
Lawrence
Levin
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Loudermilk
Lowenthal
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Massie
McCarthy
McClintock
McCollum
McDermott
McHenry
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
McSally
Meeks
Meng
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moore
Murphy (FL)
Murphy (PA)
Nadler
Napolitano
Nolan
Norcross
Nugent
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Paulsen
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Perry
Peters
Peterson
Pittenger
Pocan
Poe (TX)
Polis
Price, Tom
Quigley
Rangel
Ratcliffe
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (NY)
Rohrabacher
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Sinema
Sires
Smith (NJ)
Smith (WA)
Stivers
Takano
Tiberi
Torres
Upton
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Wilson (FL)
Woodall
Yoho

NOES--232

Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amodei
Ashford
Barr
Barton
Beatty
Bishop (GA)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Boustany
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Brown (FL)
Buchanan
Buck
Butterfield
Byrne
Calvert
Capps
Capuano
Carney
Carter (TX)
Castor (FL)
Chaffetz
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Cole
Collins (NY)
Comstock
Conaway
Conyers
Cook
Courtney
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Culberson
Curbelo (FL)
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeLauro
DelBene
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Donovan
Duncan (SC)
Ellmers (NC)
Eshoo
Esty
Farenthold
Farr
Fattah
Fincher
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Fortenberry
Frankel (FL)
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gabbard
Gibson
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Guinta
Guthrie
Hahn
Hanna
Hardy
Harper
Hartzler
Hastings
Heck (NV)
Heck (WA)
Hill
Hinojosa
Honda
Huelskamp
Hurd (TX)
Israel
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Jordan
Joyce
Keating
Kelly (PA)
Kennedy
Kilmer
King (IA)
King (NY)
Knight
Kuster
Labrador
Lamborn
Langevin
Larson (CT)
Lee
Lewis
Lofgren
Long
Love
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lummis
Lynch
MacArthur
Marchant
Marino
Matsui
McCaul
McGovern
McKinley
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Moulton
Mullin
Mulvaney
Neal
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Noem
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Pearce
Pingree
Pitts
Poliquin
Pompeo
Posey
Price (NC)
Reed
Reichert
Rice (SC)
Richmond
Rigell
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rokita
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Royce
Rush
Russell
Ryan (OH)
Sanford
Scalise
Schiff
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sessions
Sewell (AL)
Simpson
Slaughter
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (TX)
Speier
Stefanik
Stewart
Stutzman
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tipton
Titus
Tonko
Trott
Tsongas
Turner
Valadao
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Watson Coleman
Weber (TX)
Welch
Westerman
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Yarmuth
Yoder
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke

NOT VOTING--5

Adams
Babin
Boyle, Brendan F.
Jackson Lee
Roe (TN)

Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

{time} 1403

Messrs. NORCROSS, SIRES, and CUMMINGS changed their vote from ``no''
to ``aye.''
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.

Amendment No. 9 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

[Roll No. 280]

AYES--282

Aguilar
Amash
Ashford
Barr
Bass
Becerra
Benishek
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blum
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Brady (PA)
Brat
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Buck
Bucshon
Bustos
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chaffetz
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clawson (FL)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coffman
Cohen
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comstock
Conaway
Connolly
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Costello (PA)
Courtney
Cramer
Crowley
Cummings
Curbelo (FL)
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
Davis, Rodney
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
Dent
DeSantis
DeSaulnier
DesJarlais
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Donovan
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellison
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Fincher
Fleischmann
Fortenberry
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Garrett
Gibson
Goodlatte
Graham
Graves (GA)
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffith
Grijalva
Grothman
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hanna
Hardy
Hastings
Heck (NV)
Heck (WA)
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Higgins
Himes
Honda
Hoyer
Huelskamp
Huffman
Hunter
Hurt (VA)
Israel
Jeffries
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Jolly
Jones
Joyce

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Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kirkpatrick
Kline
Knight
Kuster
Labrador
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren
Loudermilk
Love
Lowenthal
Lowey
Luetkemeyer
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lummis
Lynch
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Massie
Matsui
McClintock
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Messer
Mooney (WV)
Moore
Moulton
Mulvaney
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Newhouse
Nolan
Norcross
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Perry
Peters
Peterson
Pingree
Pocan
Poliquin
Polis
Price (NC)
Price, Tom
Quigley
Rangel
Reed
Ribble
Rice (NY)
Rice (SC)
Richmond
Rigell
Rogers (AL)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Schweikert
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (MO)
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stefanik
Stewart
Stutzman
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tipton
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Tsongas
Upton
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walden
Walorski
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wenstrup
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wilson (FL)
Woodall
Yarmuth
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke

NOES--146

Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amodei
Babin
Barletta
Barton
Beatty
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Black
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Bridenstine
Buchanan
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Cole
Cook
Crawford
Crenshaw
Cuellar
Culberson
Denham
Diaz-Balart
Duffy
Farenthold
Fitzpatrick
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gibbs
Gohmert
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Guinta
Guthrie
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hensarling
Hill
Hinojosa
Holding
Hudson
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hurd (TX)
Issa
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jordan
Katko
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
Long
Lucas
MacArthur
Marchant
Marino
McCarthy
McCaul
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McSally
Meadows
Meehan
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mullin
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Pompeo
Posey
Ratcliffe
Reichert
Renacci
Roby
Rogers (KY)
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Ruiz
Russell
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanford
Scalise
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Stivers
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Trott
Turner
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walker
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Westerman
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Yoder

NOT VOTING--4

Adams
Boyle, Brendan F.
Jackson Lee
Roe (TN)

Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

{time} 1407

Mr. REED 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 Mr. Ellison

The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Minnesota
(Mr. Ellison) 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

[Roll No. 281]

AYES--184

Aguilar
Ashford
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Brady (PA)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Bustos
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Courtney
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Fitzpatrick
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Graham
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hastings
Heck (WA)
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
Kirkpatrick
Kuster
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Matsui
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Moulton
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Nolan
Norcross
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree
Pocan
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Speier
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth

NOES--244

Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amash
Amodei
Babin
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Benishek
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Clawson (FL)
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comstock
Conaway
Connolly
Cook
Costello (PA)
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Culberson
Curbelo (FL)
Davis, Rodney
Denham
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Dold
Donovan
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Farenthold
Fincher
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Garrett
Gibbs
Gibson
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Griffith
Grothman
Guinta
Guthrie
Hanna
Hardy
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Heck (NV)
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Hill
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Jones
Jordan
Joyce
Katko
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Knight
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
LoBiondo
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
MacArthur
Marchant
Marino
Massie
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McSally
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Pompeo
Posey
Price, Tom
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Royce
Russell
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanford
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Stefanik
Stewart
Stivers
Stutzman
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Trott
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoder

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Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke

NOT VOTING--4

Adams
Boyle, Brendan F.
Jackson Lee
Roe (TN)

Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

{time} 1413

Mr. RUPPERSBERGER changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
Mr. SCOTT of Virginia 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. Grayson

The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Florida
(Mr. Grayson) 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

[Roll No. 282]

AYES--27

Aderholt
Brooks (AL)
Burgess
Carson (IN)
Duncan (TN)
Fincher
Gabbard
Gibson
Gohmert
Grayson
Issa
Jones
Katko
LaMalfa
Lofgren
McKinley
Mooney (WV)
Nolan
Perry
Posey
Rohrabacher
Russell
Sensenbrenner
Takai
Titus
Visclosky
Yoho

NOES--399

Abraham
Aguilar
Allen
Amash
Amodei
Ashford
Babin
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Benishek
Bera
Beyer
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Bost
Boustany
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (IN)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Bustos
Butterfield
Byrne
Calvert
Capps
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clawson (FL)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coffman
Cohen
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comstock
Conaway
Connolly
Cook
Cooper
Costa
Costello (PA)
Courtney
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cuellar
Culberson
Cummings
Curbelo (FL)
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
Davis, Rodney
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
Denham
Dent
DeSantis
DeSaulnier
DesJarlais
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Donovan
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Edwards
Ellison
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farenthold
Farr
Fattah
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foster
Foxx
Frankel (FL)
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gallego
Garamendi
Garrett
Gibbs
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Graham
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffith
Grijalva
Grothman
Guinta
Guthrie
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hanna
Hardy
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings
Heck (NV)
Heck (WA)
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Higgins
Hill
Himes
Hinojosa
Holding
Honda
Hoyer
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huffman
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Israel
Jeffries
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Jordan
Joyce
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kelly (PA)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kirkpatrick
Kline
Knight
Kuster
Labrador
Lamborn
Lance
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latta
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lummis
Lynch
MacArthur
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Marchant
Marino
Massie
Matsui
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McHenry
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
McSally
Meadows
Meehan
Meeks
Meng
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Moore
Moulton
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (FL)
Murphy (PA)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Noem
Norcross
Nugent
Nunes
O'Rourke
Olson
Palazzo
Pallone
Palmer
Pascrell
Paulsen
Payne
Pearce
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree
Pittenger
Pitts
Pocan
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Polis
Pompeo
Price (NC)
Price, Tom
Quigley
Rangel
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (NY)
Rice (SC)
Richmond
Rigell
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rokita
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sanford
Sarbanes
Scalise
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Schweikert
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Serrano
Sessions
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stefanik
Stewart
Stivers
Stutzman
Swalwell (CA)
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Tonko
Torres
Trott
Tsongas
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Welch
Wenstrup
Westerman
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (FL)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yarmuth
Yoder
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke

ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1

DeFazio

NOT VOTING--5

Adams
Boyle, Brendan F.
Conyers
Jackson Lee
Roe (TN)

Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

{time} 1416

Ms. MAXINE WATERS of California changed her vote from ``aye'' to
``no.''
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Rohrabacher

The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California
(Mr. Rohrabacher) 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

[Roll No. 283]

AYES--242

Aguilar
Amash
Ashford
Beatty
Becerra
Benishek
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (UT)
Blum
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Brady (PA)
Brooks (AL)
Brownley (CA)
Buck
Bustos
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chaffetz
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Clyburn
Coffman
Cohen
Collins (NY)
Connolly
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Costello (PA)
Courtney
Cramer
Crowley
Cummings
Curbelo (FL)
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
Davis, Rodney
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
DeSantis
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Donovan
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellison
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Garrett
Gibson
Graham
Graves (GA)
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Grothman
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hanna
Hastings
Heck (NV)
Heck (WA)
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Hoyer
Huffman
Hunter
Israel
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones
Joyce
Kaptur
Kelly (IL)
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kirkpatrick
Kuster
Labrador
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
LoBiondo
Loebsack

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Lofgren
Loudermilk
Love
Lowenthal
Lowey
Luetkemeyer
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lummis
Lynch
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Massie
Matsui
McClintock
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Mooney (WV)
Moore
Moulton
Mulvaney
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Newhouse
Nolan
Norcross
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Perry
Peters
Peterson
Pingree
Pocan
Poliquin
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Reed
Ribble
Rice (NY)
Rice (SC)
Richmond
Rigell
Rogers (AL)
Rohrabacher
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sanford
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Schweikert
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sherman
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stefanik
Stewart
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tipton
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Tsongas
Upton
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walden
Walz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Westmoreland
Wilson (FL)
Woodall
Yarmuth
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke

NOES--186

Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amodei
Babin
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Bass
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Black
Blackburn
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (IN)
Brown (FL)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Clawson (FL)
Cleaver
Cole
Collins (GA)
Comstock
Conaway
Cook
Crawford
Crenshaw
Cuellar
Culberson
Denham
Dent
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Duffy
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gibbs
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Griffith
Guinta
Guthrie
Hardy
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Hill
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Jordan
Katko
Keating
Kelly (PA)
Kennedy
King (IA)
Kline
Knight
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
Levin
Lipinski
Long
Lucas
MacArthur
Marchant
Marino
McCarthy
McCaul
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McSally
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mullin
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Pompeo
Posey
Price, Tom
Ratcliffe
Reichert
Renacci
Roby
Rogers (KY)
Rokita
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Royce
Russell
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Scalise
Scott, Austin
Sessions
Sewell (AL)
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Stivers
Stutzman
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Trott
Turner
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Wasserman Schultz
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Yoder
Young (IA)

NOT VOTING--4

Adams
Boyle, Brendan F.
Jackson Lee
Roe (TN)

Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

{time} 1420

Messrs. RANGEL and TAKAI changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Grayson

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 245,
noes 182, not voting 5, as follows:

[Roll No. 284]

AYES--245

Aguilar
Amash
Ashford
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Benishek
Bera
Beyer
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Blum
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Brady (PA)
Brat
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Burgess
Bustos
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clawson (FL)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coffman
Cohen
Cole
Collins (NY)
Conyers
Cooper
Costello (PA)
Courtney
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Curbelo (FL)
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
Dent
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellison
Emmer (MN)
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farenthold
Farr
Fattah
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Franks (AZ)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Gibson
Gohmert
Gosar
Graham
Graves (GA)
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Guinta
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hanna
Harris
Hastings
Heck (WA)
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Himes
Honda
Hoyer
Huffman
Hurd (TX)
Israel
Jeffries
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones
Jordan
Kaptur
Katko
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kirkpatrick
Kuster
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latta
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Loebsack
Lofgren
Loudermilk
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lummis
Lynch
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Massie
Matsui
McClintock
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McKinley
McNerney
Meadows
Meeks
Meng
Messer
Mooney (WV)
Moore
Moulton
Mulvaney
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Nolan
Norcross
O'Rourke
Olson
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Perry
Peters
Peterson
Pingree
Pocan
Poe (TX)
Polis
Posey
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Reed
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Rogers (AL)
Rohrabacher
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Ross
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Salmon
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sanford
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schrader
Schweikert
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sinema
Slaughter
Smith (NJ)
Speier
Stefanik
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tipton
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Tsongas
Upton
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walden
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Weber (TX)
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Zeldin
Zinke

NOES--182

Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amodei
Babin
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Collins (GA)
Comstock
Conaway
Connolly
Cook
Costa
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Culberson
Davis, Rodney
Denham
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Donovan
Duffy
Ellmers (NC)
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Frelinghuysen
Garrett
Gibbs
Goodlatte
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Griffith
Grothman
Guthrie
Hardy
Harper
Hartzler
Heck (NV)
Hensarling
Hice, Jody B.
Hill
Hinojosa
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Joyce
Kelly (PA)
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Knight
Lance
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Long
Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
MacArthur
Marchant
Marino
McCarthy
McCaul
McHenry
McMorris Rodgers
McSally
Meehan
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mullin
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Pittenger
Pitts
Poliquin
Pompeo
Price, Tom
Ratcliffe
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Roby
Rogers (KY)
Rokita
Roskam
Rothfus
Rouzer
Royce
Ruiz
Russell
Ryan (WI)
Scalise
Schiff
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Sires
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Stewart
Stivers
Stutzman
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Trott
Turner
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman

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Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Young (IN)

NOT VOTING--5

Adams Boyle, Brendan F.
Hurt (VA) Jackson Lee
Roe (TN)

Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

{time} 1424

Messrs. COLE and ASHFORD changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.

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

[Roll No. 285]

AYES--206

Aguilar
Amash
Becerra
Benishek
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (UT)
Blum
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Brady (PA)
Brooks (AL)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Buchanan
Buck
Bustos
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clay
Clyburn
Coffman
Cohen
Collins (NY)
Connolly
Conyers
Costa
Costello (PA)
Courtney
Crowley
Cummings
Curbelo (FL)
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
Davis, Rodney
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
DeSantis
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Doggett
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Duncan (SC)
Edwards
Ellison
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Garrett
Graves (GA)
Grayson
Green, Al
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hastings
Heck (NV)
Heck (WA)
Higgins
Himes
Honda
Hoyer
Huffman
Hunter
Israel
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones
Joyce
Kaptur
Kelly (IL)
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
Kirkpatrick
Kuster
Labrador
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren
Loudermilk
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lummis
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Massie
Matsui
McClintock
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Moulton
Mulvaney
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Newhouse
Nolan
Norcross
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Perry
Peters
Pingree
Pocan
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Ribble
Rice (NY)
Rice (SC)
Richmond
Rigell
Rogers (AL)
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sanford
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Schweikert
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sherman
Sinema
Sires
Smith (WA)
Speier
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tipton
Titus
Torres
Tsongas
Upton
Van Hollen
Vargas
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Westmoreland
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IN)

NOES--222

Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amodei
Ashford
Babin
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Bass
Beatty
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Black
Blackburn
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (IN)
Bucshon
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Clarke (NY)
Clawson (FL)
Cleaver
Cole
Collins (GA)
Comstock
Conaway
Cook
Cooper
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Cuellar
Culberson
Denham
Dent
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Dingell
Dold
Donovan
Duffy
Duncan (TN)
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gibbs
Gibson
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Graham
Granger
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Green, Gene
Griffith
Grothman
Guinta
Guthrie
Hanna
Hardy
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Hill
Hinojosa
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Jordan
Katko
Keating
Kelly (PA)
Kennedy
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Knight
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
Levin
Lipinski
Long
Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lynch
MacArthur
Marchant
Marino
McCarthy
McCaul
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McSally
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Peterson
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Pompeo
Posey
Price, Tom
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Roby
Rogers (KY)
Rokita
Rooney (FL)
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Russell
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Scalise
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Sewell (AL)
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Slaughter
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Stefanik
Stewart
Stivers
Stutzman
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tonko
Trott
Turner
Valadao
Veasey
Vela
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Wasserman Schultz
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Young (IA)
Zeldin
Zinke

NOT VOTING--4

Adams
Boyle, Brendan F.
Jackson Lee
Roe (TN)

Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

{time} 1429

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

Amendment Offered by Mr. Perry

The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from
Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry) 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

[Roll No. 286]

AYES--297

Aguilar
Allen
Amash
Ashford
Barletta
Barr
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Benishek
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (UT)
Blum
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Brady (PA)
Brat
Brooks (AL)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Buck
Burgess
Bustos
Butterfield
Calvert
Capps
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chaffetz
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clawson (FL)
Clay
Clyburn
Coffman
Cohen
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Conaway
Connolly
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Costello (PA)
Courtney
Cramer
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Curbelo (FL)
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
Davis, Rodney
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
Denham
DeSantis
DeSaulnier
DesJarlais
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Donovan
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellison
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farenthold
Farr
Fattah
Fitzpatrick
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Garrett
Gibson
Gohmert
Gowdy
Graham
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Grothman
Guinta
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hanna
Harper
Hastings
Heck (NV)
Heck (WA)
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Hoyer
Huffman
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Israel
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Joyce
Kaptur
Kelly (IL)
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kirkpatrick
Kline
Kuster
Labrador

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LaMalfa
Lance
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lowenthal
Lowey
Luetkemeyer
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lummis
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Marchant
Massie
Matsui
McCaul
McClintock
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Miller (FL)
Mooney (WV)
Moore
Moulton
Mulvaney
Murphy (FL)
Murphy (PA)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Newhouse
Nolan
Norcross
Nugent
O'Rourke
Olson
Pallone
Palmer
Pascrell
Paulsen
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Perry
Peters
Peterson
Pingree
Pocan
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Polis
Price (NC)
Price, Tom
Quigley
Rangel
Reed
Reichert
Ribble
Rice (NY)
Rice (SC)
Richmond
Rigell
Rogers (AL)
Rohrabacher
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Ross
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sanford
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Schweikert
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Shimkus
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (MO)
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stefanik
Stewart
Stivers
Stutzman
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tipton
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Tsongas
Upton
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Wagner
Walden
Walker
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Westmoreland
Wilson (FL)
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke

NOES--130

Abraham
Aderholt
Amodei
Babin
Barton
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Black
Blackburn
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Bridenstine
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Byrne
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Cleaver
Cole
Comstock
Cook
Crawford
Crenshaw
Culberson
Dent
Diaz-Balart
Fincher
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gibbs
Goodlatte
Gosar
Granger
Graves (MO)
Griffith
Guthrie
Hardy
Harris
Hartzler
Hensarling
Hice, Jody B.
Hill
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (OH)
Jolly
Jordan
Katko
Keating
Kelly (PA)
Kennedy
King (IA)
Knight
Lamborn
Latta
Lucas
Lynch
MacArthur
Marino
McCarthy
McHenry
McKinley
McSally
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mullin
Neugebauer
Noem
Nunes
Palazzo
Pearce
Pittenger
Pitts
Pompeo
Posey
Ratcliffe
Renacci
Roby
Rogers (KY)
Rokita
Roskam
Rothfus
Rouzer
Rush
Russell
Salmon
Scalise
Sessions
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Trott
Turner
Valadao
Walberg
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack

NOT VOTING--5

Adams
Boyle, Brendan F.
Jackson Lee
Roe (TN)
Yarmuth

Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

{time} 1433

Mr. JENKINS of West Virginia changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Garrett

The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New Jersey
(Mr. Garrett) 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

[Roll No. 287]

AYES--232

Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amash
Amodei
Babin
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Benishek
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Bost
Brady (TX)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Clawson (FL)
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comstock
Conaway
Cook
Costello (PA)
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Culberson
Davis, Rodney
Denham
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Donovan
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Garrett
Gibbs
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Griffith
Grothman
Guinta
Guthrie
Hardy
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Heck (NV)
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Hill
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Joyce
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Knight
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
LoBiondo
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Marchant
Marino
Massie
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McSally
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Pompeo
Posey
Price, Tom
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Royce
Russell
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanford
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Stewart
Stivers
Stutzman
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Trott
Upton
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke

NOES--196

Aguilar
Ashford
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Boustany
Brady (PA)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Bustos
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Courtney
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Curbelo (FL)
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Gibson
Graham
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hanna
Hastings
Heck (WA)
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Jolly
Kaptur
Katko
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
Kirkpatrick
Kuster
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
MacArthur
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Matsui
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Moulton
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Nolan
Norcross
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree
Pocan
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stefanik
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Tsongas
Turner
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth

[[Page H3790]]

NOT VOTING--4

Adams
Boyle, Brendan F.
Jackson Lee
Roe (TN)

Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

{time} 1438

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

personal explanation

Mr. ROE of Tennessee. Mr. Chair, I was unable to vote today because
of the death of a close friend. Had I been present, I would have voted:
rollcall No. 274--``aye,'' rollcall No. 275--``aye,'' rollcall No.
276--``nay,'' rollcall No. 277--``nay,'' rollcall No. 278--``nay,''
rollcall No. 279--``nay,'' rollcall No. 280--``nay,'' rollcall No.
281--``nay,'' rollcall No. 282--``nay,'' rollcall No. 283--``nay,''
rollcall No. 284--``aye,'' rollcall No. 285--``nay,'' rollcall No.
286--``nay,'' rollcall No. 287--``aye.''

Amendment Offered by Mr. Massie

Mr. MASSIE. 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 7606 (``Legitimacy of
Industrial Hemp Research'') of the Agricultural Act of 2014
(Public Law 113-79) by the Department of Justice or the Drug
Enforcement Administration.

The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman
from Kentucky and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Kentucky.

{time} 1445

Mr. MASSIE. Mr. Chairman, I rise today with four of my colleagues to
offer a bipartisan amendment that simply requires the DEA to comply
with Federal law.
The passage of our amendment to the 2014 farm bill legalized the
cultivation of industrial hemp for research purposes and has allowed
for the establishment of industrial hemp pilot programs in States
across the country. In fact, in my home State of Kentucky alone, nearly
1,800 acres of hemp are projected to be grown this summer in these
pilot programs.
However, despite the clear language of our farm bill amendment that
specifically states that State agriculture agencies and universities
will be growing the industrial hemp for research, the DEA has
continuously ignored the plain text of the Federal statute.
The DEA continues to waste valuable time and taxpayer dollars by
holding up non-psychoactive hemp seeds destined for legitimate hemp
pilot programs.
Last year, officials from the State of Kentucky were forced to file a
lawsuit in Federal court to compel the DEA to release industrial hemp
seeds for university pilot programs. This year, participants in hemp
pilot programs in Kentucky and other States did not receive their seeds
until just a few weeks before the start of the growing season.
The language is clear: State authorities, not the DEA, shall register
the sites where hemp will be grown. The DEA's deliberate refusal to
allow this simple fact has resulted in a broken process where the DEA
obfuscates and delays.
Mr. Chairman, States cannot launch industrial hemp pilot programs if
the DEA continues to violate Federal law by seizing and delaying
shipments of hemp seeds before they reach their destination.
I urge a ``yes'' vote note on our amendment to require the DEA to
follow Federal law, and I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Kentucky
(Mr. Barr).
Mr. BARR. In 2013, the Kentucky General Assembly passed Senate Bill
50, which exempted industrial hemp from the State's Controlled
Substances Act but also mandated that Kentucky follow all Federal rules
and regulations with respect to industrial hemp.
So, last year, I was proud to support an amendment to the 2014 farm
bill, sponsored by my fellow Kentuckian, Congressman Thomas Massie,
which authorized State departments of agriculture in States where
industrial hemp is legal to administer industrial hemp pilot programs
for the purposes of research and development.
The Kentucky Department of Agriculture Industrial Hemp Pilot Research
Program, in collaboration with my constituent, the University of
Kentucky College of Agriculture, has since facilitated through
permitted farmers the cultivation of nearly 2,000 acres of hemp this
year alone in Kentucky.
Hemp is an important crop that holds tremendous commercial promise in
Kentucky. In fact, former Speaker of the House Henry Clay was a large
producer of industrial hemp. It can be used for food, horse bedding,
animal feed, textiles, oils, lotions, cosmetics, rope, pharmaceuticals,
et cetera.
Just last week, I met with a very sophisticated partnership of
entrepreneurs, tobacco farmers, botanists, and even former law
enforcement officials who have put up their own capital to invest in
permanent industrial hemp projects, which they believe can spark a very
profitable business.
This is about jobs.
Mr. MASSIE. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I claim time in opposition, even though I
am not actually in opposition.
The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman
from Pennsylvania?
Mr. HARRIS. I object. I rise to claim time in opposition.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Maryland is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Chairman, the job of the DEA is not simple. The job
of the DEA is to stop drug use and drug abuse in the United States.
Sometimes the job isn't easy. When it comes to hemp, the job is not
easy because, Mr. Chairman, hemp and marijuana are both cannabis, and
you can't tell the seeds from one another. And it may be difficult for
the DEA to determine because they are supposed to determine that the
seeds used for hemp are below a certain level of THC--less than 0.3--
and you can't tell by looking. You have to test and make certain that
these seeds are in fact going to be used and qualify for the purposes
of these pilot hemp programs.
The fact of the matter is there really is no evidence that the DEA
does not comply with Federal law. They are fully complying with Federal
law. The author of the amendment himself admitted that the seeds were
there in time for planting. The fact of the matter is that this is not
an easy job.
Under section 7606 of the 2014 farm bill, industrial hemp in pilot
projects was authorized. Clearly, DEA licenses are not needed if they
are granted through the State departments of agriculture or academic
institutions. And the programs are proceeding.
The fact of the matter is that this amendment obfuscates the
distinction between marijuana and hemp. It partially ties the hands of
DEA to do what they need to do, which is to function as controllers of
drugs in this country.
I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Fleming).
Mr. FLEMING. I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I certainly
agree with Dr. Harris. I rise also in opposition to this amendment.
Cultivation of cannabis for industrial purposes is governed by the
Controlled Substances Act, and that includes hemp. It is permitted
pursuant to the registration requirements found in title 21, United
States Code.
In addition, the Agricultural Act of 2014 permits ``institutions of
higher learning and State Departments of Agriculture to grow or
cultivate industrial hemp.''
But let's make one thing clear. The DOJ says they have no intention
at all of interfering with what has been provided for in this
Department of Agriculture permit. But they still have control, they
still have oversight responsibility, and as a result of that, they
should do that.
Now, if there is any delay along the way, certainly we should help
with that. We should facilitate administratively. But the potential for
abuse here is very significant. The DEA and law enforcement must retain
control and oversight of hemp, which is a cannabis, just like
marijuana.
Mr. HARRIS. I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. MASSIE. Mr. Chairman, may I inquire as to how much time is
remaining?
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Kentucky has 2 minutes
remaining.

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Mr. MASSIE. I yield 45 seconds to the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr.
Barr).
Mr. BARR. To my good friend from Maryland, Dr. Harris, just a quick
response. We are talking about State-licensed programs where the law
enforcement officials in Kentucky can identify permitted land where
this hemp is grown. If it is on an unpermitted place, whether it is
otherwise legal industrial hemp or marijuana, it would be illegal if it
is not on a permitted piece of property. So there is no conflict with
law enforcement.
But the fact of the matter is that last year the DEA delayed the
seeds and delayed the planting of this legitimate, lawful, federally
authorized industrial hemp project.
This is about jobs. This is not about marijuana. In fact, as my
voting record just demonstrated in the last series of votes, I voted
against every single amendment that would have decriminalized or
facilitated marijuana. This is not about marijuana. This is about low-
THC industrial hemp, and it is about jobs.
Mr. MASSIE. I yield 1 minute to my colleague from Oregon (Mr.
Blumenauer).
Mr. BLUMENAUER. I appreciate the gentleman's courtesy and I
appreciate his leadership, focused like a laser on something that is
not like marijuana.
For generations, Americans have used hemp. It has just been recently
that it has been compromised. So we have to import hemp from overseas
to make perfectly legal hemp products that you can buy in any American
city.
This is an important step forward to be able to allow Kentucky and
Oregon farmers to do something that they have done for generations. It
is about economic development. It is about being rational. And it is
about being able to focus on things that are important.
I deeply appreciate the gentleman's focus and patience keeping us on
message here to be able to make sure that we are not having Federal
interference for something that is State supervised and where States
around the country want to allow this for their farmers and their
ranchers.
I think it is an important step forward, and I appreciate his
leadership in permitting me to speak on it.
Mr. MASSIE. I certainly thank the gentleman from Oregon, and I would
just say that these hemp pilot programs have been tremendous in
Kentucky. And they have answered all the questions, like the questions
law enforcement had. They came and visited the fields. They said: ``You
are right; there is no big deal here. This is okay.''
And so that is the important thing about these hemp programs, and we
need to keep them going, and we need to take it to the level. We can't
afford delays. You can't afford a delay when the weather is not always
cooperating with you. A week, 2 weeks could ruin you.
So I urge my colleagues to vote for this amendment. It is just common
sense. All we are asking is to follow the law. How hard is that?
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. HARRIS. May I inquire of the Chair how much time is remaining?
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Maryland has 2\1/2\ minutes
remaining.
Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Chairman, let's review what we have. What we have is
a situation where last year it wasn't the DEA that held up the seeds;
it was getting an import license. And then subsequent to that,
obviously the DEA had to test those seeds.
The U.S. Congress has set out a very clear plan for how we are going
to increase the use of industrial hemp in this country, and it
involves, first, pilot programs in States where it is legal, like
Kentucky, like Oregon, but subject to the oversight under the
Controlled Substances Act of the DEA.
The DEA has to be certain, since all seeds are now imported.
Eventually, under this plan, they won't be. Obviously, at some point we
will progress to a point where our industrial hemp seeds are grown here
in the United States, but they are not now.
Importing seeds and testing them is not a quick process, but it is a
process that has to be done. The fact of the matter is hemp and
marijuana are both cannabis. They are related. You can't tell the seeds
apart. You have to test these seeds.
Our drug problem is serious. I am glad I don't have to do the job the
DEA does dealing with controlling drugs that destroy lives in this
country. Sure, is it a process that sometimes might take time? Yes. But
that time is well worth taking.
Down the road, we are going to get to the proper industrial hemp
production. It has got to be done under controlled processes. The DEA
has these in place. The Department of Agriculture has these protocols
in place. State departments of agriculture do.
This amendment is just unnecessary. And worse than that, it obscures
the fact that it could tie DEA's hands from doing what it needs to do,
which is controlling dangerous substances.
I urge the body to reject the amendment, and I yield back the balance
of my time.
The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the
gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Massie).
The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes
appeared to have it.
Mr. MASSIE. 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 Kentucky
will be postponed.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Massie

Mr. MASSIE. 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 treat ammunition as armor piercing for purposes of
chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, except for
ammunition designed and intended for use in a handgun (in
accordance with 18 U.S.C. section 921(a)(17)).

The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman
from Kentucky and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Kentucky.
Mr. MASSIE. Mr. Chairman, back in March, the ATF backed off on a
controversial proposal to restrict the use of so-called ``green tip''
ammunition, some of the most popular ammunition in the country. In
fact, it is used in the popular rifle, the AR-15.
The BATFE received over 80,000 comments, primarily from citizens who
opposed the Bureau's attempt to restrict their Second Amendment rights.
And so the ATF rescinded its proposal.
In my opinion, the proposed restriction was based on a flawed
application of chapter 44 of title 18 of the United States Code. If you
go back and look at the debate that occurred in Congress, you will see
that the legislation that was written was clearly meant to cover
handgun ammunition. It was never meant to cover rifle ammunition.
In fact, there was a debate at the time whether they should limit so-
called ``armor-piercing'' ammunition by its functionality--in other
words, its efficacy--or whether they should limit it by its design. And
they chose to limit it by its design. Because if you limit it by its
functionality, what you will find out is darn near all rifle
ammunition, unfortunately, will penetrate the common vest. In fact, the
most lethal are deer rifles. And so a deer rifle is more lethal in
terms of penetrating a vest than would be, say, a so-called assault
rifle that shoots a much smaller caliber.
In any case, what happened is one pistol was made and came on the
market--or a few pistols were made, handguns were made--that could be
chambered with this round, but the round was designed and intended for
use in a rifle, not in a handgun.

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The clear text of the statute, in my opinion, excludes rifle rounds,
but what has happened is recently, the ATF--now, this is only one
example that I have recently--they proposed to ban the green tip
ammunition, otherwise known as M855 or SS109. This is 223, also known
as 556 ammunition. Well, there was a lot of public backlash, and so
they backed off of that.
What a lot of people don't know is they already did ban some
ammunition with this flawed interpretation. They banned the 7N6, which
is a 5.45 by 39 round, and so it was a mistake that happened, and we
need to correct this mistake.
We need to prevent future mistakes. The best way to do this is to
withhold funding for flawed interpretations.

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I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition to the
amendment.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. FATTAH. I was in support of the gentleman's first amendment; but,
in this instance, we are at a different point of view.
I note that the majority has a lot of enthusiasm for gun amendments
on this appropriations bill, and it is making it almost impossible for
us to deal with the challenges for the subcommittee around spending
when we keep getting mired down in this, these gun policy riders.
I would just say that it is obviously the majority's view that this
somehow is an appropriate vehicle to express your love for guns of all
types, ammunition of all types.
I think that my view would be we should make it permissible for any
gun that you could bring into the Capitol, you should be able to bring
into schools or colleges, or any ammunition you could bring into the
Capitol, you could use in any weapon. That might be a way to proceed.
The majority doesn't have any enthusiasm for the Second Amendment
when it comes to people coming into the United States Capitol because
we know that guns can be dangerous. We know that people can be harmed.
We know, in fact, that there were Members, when an attack happened
right here on this floor--that is why we have, on the back of these
chairs, certain protections--who were shot from this balcony.
We know the dangers of guns and ammunition, and it is unfortunate
that we would use an appropriations vehicle to move these policy
matters, which are controversial.
You want to attach them to a must-pass appropriations bill, one that
is about our economy and about innovation, and an appropriations bill
that is dealing with a whole set of issues. You make it challenging for
Members who have a different point of view on some of these
controversial policy issues, like guns and the access to them.
Some might interpret the Second Amendment that says, if you want a
bazooka or MX missile or whatever you want to have at your home, that
somehow you have a right to have it.
There are others of us who think that reasonable regulation might be
a better course of action, like the kind of reasonable regulation we
have at the Capitol, which is that you can't bring a gun into this
facility, unless you have some lawful reason to do so, and we regulate
that very strictly.
I am in opposition to this amendment. I have nothing against my
colleague, whom I enjoy working with on a whole range of issues. I
agree with him on hemp, and I disagree with him on guns.
I hope that we can move this bill forward, as we have been trying to
do since the chairman's mark in the subcommittee, and not get it mired
down in unnecessary, controversial items that are not attached to how
much money we are going to spend for these various accounts to move
these agencies of our government forward.
Mr. CULBERSON. Will the gentleman yield?
Mr. FATTAH. I yield to the gentleman from Texas.
Mr. CULBERSON. Madam Chair, I thank my good friend from Pennsylvania.
I do, as he knows, support this amendment because it has become
necessary to put restrictions like this on the bill because the ATF,
under President Obama, did attempt to prohibit 223 ammunition, which is
used in one of the most popular and widely available sporting rifles in
the United States.
The new Director of the ATF, Tom Brandon, I want to thank him and
professional law enforcement officers at the ATF. They came in to see
me when I was the brand-new chairman of the subcommittee earlier this
year.
We had a very good visit. We looked at the statute, and Director
Brandon and his chief counsel understood that the guidelines that they
had created went beyond the statute. They recognized that they were
going to have a very difficult budget year if they persisted in this
effort to interfere with American's lawful, constitutional Second
Amendment rights.
I was very grateful that Director Brandon chose to drop their
attempted prohibition on 223 ammunition after our meeting and in
response to the 80,000 letters and all the requests from Members of
Congress. The ATF did the right thing here by dropping their attempt to
ban ammunition.
Mr. Massie's amendment is necessary because I think it is important
to make it clear that we don't want the Obama administration coming
back and attempting to ban ammunition again.
I remember, as a student of American history, that General Gage, in
Boston, didn't go after the weapons first. They went after the powder
and the ammunition, I believe, Mr. Massie, in Lexington and Concord.
Mr. FATTAH. Reclaiming my time with just a question, Mr. Chairman,
maybe you could inform me, but I believe that the restrictions on
armor-piercing bullets predate the administration that you just named.
Is that accurate?
Mr. CULBERSON. Yes, but the ATF was attempting to use--the statute
says you cannot use armor-piercing ammunition that includes depleted
uranium, beryllium, and it has some very specific things.
As Mr. Massie said, the Congress was focused on the content of the
bullet, rather than what type of weapon it could be used in. In the
ATF's guideline, actually, the ATF created a legal framework for
analysis, which is fairly standard for this administration.
The Acting CHAIR (Mrs. Black). The time of the gentleman from
Pennsylvania has expired.
Mr. MASSIE. Madam Chair, how much time do I have remaining?
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Kentucky has 2\1/2\ minutes
remaining.
Mr. MASSIE. I gladly yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr.
Culberson), the chairman.
Mr. CULBERSON. Let me say that it is important to have Mr. Massie's
language in this bill because the ATF, in this instance, just as in the
EPA's attempt to regulate every square inch of the United States by
saying navigable waters include any piece of ground on which the water
drains off into a navigable stream, the EPA, the ATF, the Obama
administration routinely uses what they call a legal framework for
analysis to expand their executive authority far beyond what Congress
intended.
In this instance, I was successful with the help of my colleagues. As
the new chairman of the subcommittee, I was successful in persuading
Director Brandon and the ATF to drop their attempt to ban 223
ammunition, and I will be monitoring them closely. I will be exercising
very aggressive oversight over the ATF to ensure that they don't try it
again.
I welcome Mr. Massie's amendment to help drive home the point that
the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution is written in
plain English, and it guarantees, absolutely, the right of Americans to
keep and bear arms.
I welcome your amendment, Mr. Massie, and encourage Members to
support it.
Mr. MASSIE. I appreciate that. I appreciate the effort that the
chairman put in to making sure that our 556, 223 ammunition did not get
banned. I appreciate my colleague from Pennsylvania's comments as well.
Let me say something. I am sympathetic to the ATF's job. We write
some bad legislation here, okay. It is clear it has got gray areas.
What I am trying to do is to clear up a gray area for them so that,
when they go to work in the morning, they don't have to wonder should
this apply to this or should this apply to this or not.
Even with the chairman's great efforts, the reason why this is
necessary is because the same rationale that they were going to use to
ban 556, they actually used a year or two ago to ban 5.45, which is a
very similar round in composition and size and capacity. That is why
this amendment is necessary.

My colleague from Pennsylvania is right. I do love guns; I have an
enthusiasm, but the reason I am doing this is my respect for the
Constitution. I understand you have respect for the Constitution as
well; I do. We just interpret it a little bit differently.
This is not a bazooka amendment. This is just an ammunition
amendment, and I am just trying to make sure this very popular caliber
and other popular calibers are still able to be bought.

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I appreciate the efforts that everybody puts in to making sure these
laws are enforced. I just want to clear up this law. I urge my
colleagues to vote for this amendment.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. FATTAH. I am going to yield to the gentleman from New York on
this point. I just want to say something.
The point I made was that this restriction on armor-piercing bullets
did not emanate with this administration, even though some might want
to suggest somehow that this is President Obama's effort.
This dates back to a different period of time, when we had a
Republican President, and it was put into place to protect law
enforcement because the children who have been unfortunate victims of
gunshots in their schools or in movie theaters and other circumstances
where we have had these mass shootings, they haven't been wearing
bulletproof vests.
Bulletproof vests are used by our law enforcement officials. There
was a concern to make sure that they could be protected while they were
out protecting us, right? I just want to be clear, as we go forward,
what we are doing here and so that everybody who takes an action on
this and, however they may vote, understands that they are voting to
provide a circumstance in which there won't be any restriction on the
piercing power of the projectile, right?
When it is pointed at a human being, it can be deadly, so I just want
us to be clear.
I yield to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Engel), and I will keep
track that he doesn't go over 2 minutes.
Mr. ENGEL. I thank the gentleman for yielding to me. I must rise and
oppose this amendment.
Earlier this year, ATF recognized the threat posed by armor-piercing
handguns and tried to limit the sale of the green tip 556 round, which
is the military-made armor-piercing round that fits into pistols. This
would have made sense.
When ATF tried to make that change, the industry decried executive
overreach and hidden administrative agendas and shouted down this
commonsense proposal. I supported the ATF's proposal then, and I still
believe that this and other commonsense regulations on armor-piercing
handguns are sorely needed.
I introduced the APB Act to enact the ATF's proposed change into law
because we have a responsibility to protect our police and our
communities from these unreasonably dangerous weapons.
A hunter does not need a Sig Sauer P556 or an Extar EXP or any of the
other pistols that can fire these armor-piercing rounds. These
concealed weapons serve only one purpose: to kill human beings wearing
body armor.
ATF needs the authority to monitor and regulate firearms and
ammunition. When technology advances, like it did with the green tip,
ATF needs to be able to act to protect our neighborhoods and our law
enforcement. This amendment, I believe, would needlessly strip ATF's
authority to regulate dangerous armor-piercing bullets and put cops,
kids, and our communities at risk.
I urge my colleagues to oppose the amendment, and I thank the
gentleman from Pennsylvania.
Mr. FATTAH. Text is most helpful when put in context. It is true that
the Constitution says that it is a citizen's right to keep and bear
arms, but it says that as part of a well-regulated militia.
When we want to focus in on the Second Amendment, it may be helpful
for us to have a contextual framework in which the right is connected
to responsible and regulated activity on behalf of our community.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. CULBERSON. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word for a very
important clarification.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. CULBERSON. My colleague, Mr. Engel, I think may not have the
exact amendment in front of him because all Mr. Massie is attempting to
do is enforce existing law and make it clear that the ATF has to
enforce existing law, as written, and that armor-piercing ammunition
cannot be used in handguns.

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That is what the law says. The law says an armor-piercing round is
one that uses depleted uranium or other materials and is used in a
handgun. And that is all this amendment says.
So we, by accepting this amendment, are enforcing existing law, which
is to prevent the use of armor-piercing ammunition in a handgun. So it
is important that, I think, everyone understand that that is all this
amendment is intended to do. And I will, as subcommittee chairman, make
certain that the ATF does not interfere with Americans' Second
Amendment rights under the Constitution and that the ATF is enforcing
the law, as written by Congress, which is precisely what the gentleman
from Kentucky (Mr. Massie) is doing, and I urge Members to support his
amendment.
I yield back the balance of my time.
The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the
gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Massie).
The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes
appeared to have it.
Mr. MASSIE. Madam 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 Kentucky be
postponed.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Massie

Mr. MASSIE. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk regarding
the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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. 543. None of the funds made available by this Act may
be used by the National Institute of Standards and Technology
to consult with the National Security Agency or the Central
Intelligence Agency to alter cryptographic or computer
standards, except to improve information security (in
accordance with section 20(c)(1)(A) of the National Institute
of Standards and Technology Act (15 U.S.C. 278g-3(c)(1)(A))).

The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman
from Kentucky and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Kentucky.
Mr. MASSIE. Madam Chair, In December of 2013, news broke--and this
was in a Reuters article--that, as a key part of a ``campaign to embed
encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer
products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10
million contract with'' a private company--in fact, ``one of the most
influential firms in the computer security industry.''
It was further disclosed that ``an algorithm called Dual Elliptic
Curve . . . was on the road to approval by the National Institute of
Standards and Technology as one of four acceptable methods for
generating random numbers.''
The company adopted this algorithm, knowing that it would be used as
a standard, and it was, as expected, approved by the National Institute
of Standards and Technology. But ``within a year, major questions were
raised about Dual Elliptic Curve. Cryptography authority Bruce Schneier
wrote that the weakness in the formula `can only be described as a back
door.'''
This is just one example of the NSA exploiting its relationship with
NIST to weaken encryption standards.
Look, NIST, we would like for them to set the highest standards for
our country, particularly when it comes to encryption. Weakened
encryption standards allow the NSA to snoop on Americans without a
warrant.
So these back doors in encryption products are bad for privacy. It
makes it just way too easy to violate our Fourth Amendment.
But back doors in encryption software are also bad for security.
Think about this: Don't you want the best security available that the
minds in this country can create, produce, to safeguard your health
records, maybe to safeguard your gun records, maybe to safeguard your
bank accounts and your credit cards.

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We are more safe when we have better security and better encryption.
So it makes no sense for the National Institute of Standards and
Technology to work with the NSA to weaken our encryption software.
Finally, putting back doors in products is bad for business. It is
bad for privacy. It is bad for security. And it is bad for business.
Why is it bad for business? Why would somebody buy a product made in
America if it is known that the standards in America are weaker than
the standards elsewhere? You know, if there are back doors in products,
it is not just the government that can use them: hackers will find
them. In fact, once the weakness was exposed in this Dual Elliptic
Curve, it made it very easy for people to hack into that, and the
company had to say, Quit using this software. We found a weakness in
it.
So I would urge people to vote for this amendment. What it does is it
prevents the spending of money at the National Institute of Standards
and Technology to work with the NSA to weaken our encryption.
The amendment does nothing to keep them from making better
encryption, but they cannot weaken it. They cannot compromise it. They
can't spend your tax dollars making American products and our
government standards worse.
I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. CULBERSON. Madam Chairman, I claim the time in opposition,
although I support the amendment.
The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Texas is
recognized for 5 minutes.
There was no objection.
Mr. CULBERSON. Madam Chair, we accept the amendment, agree with the
reasoning that the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Massie) has laid forth.
I believe the amendment is acceptable to the minority as well. So the
amendment is agreed to unanimously.
I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. MASSIE. What is the balance of my time remaining, Madam Chair?
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Kentucky has 1\1/2\ minutes
remaining.
Mr. MASSIE. Madam Chair, I will just summarize why this is an
important amendment.
We trust the National Institute of Standards and Technology to
perform their constitutionally mandated responsibilities. That is one
of the great things about NIST: its authorization is in the
Constitution, to set the standards of weights and measures. So I
appreciate the job they do. But we put a lot of trust into them when
they set these standards. And a lot of people make business decisions.
It is kind of like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval, if I may use
that analogy.
So, when we stamp something as a government-approved standard, we
want to know it is the best in the world, that the United States has
the best encryption in their products, the best encryption. We want the
products that our government buys to be safe. So it would be wrong for
NIST to spend money working to put back doors in our products. That is
why I urge our colleagues to vote for this amendment.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. CULBERSON. Madam Chairman, I yield such time as he may consume to
the gentleman from Houston, Texas (Mr. Poe), my good friend and
colleague.
Mr. POE of Texas. I thank the chairman for yielding time to me.
Madam Chair, I would like to try to interpret what has been said in a
simpler way.
Assume that the builders in the United States get together and they
are given a new requirement: that when they build a new house, the
Federal Government wants the option to have a master key to a back
door--not only a back door but a secret back door so that at some time
down the road, maybe the Federal Government would like to enter that
secret back door for some purpose. And that is what this amendment is
preventing.
Just like we wouldn't let the Federal Government have a key to our
back door or require builders to put a master key in all of the new
homes that they build in the country and give the key to the
government, we would never allow that. That would certainly be in
violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.
All this amendment does is it prevents technology--when technology is
growing at a rapid rate--to prevent the Federal Government from
requiring companies that make cell phones, for example, that there be
an ability of the Federal Government to go in the cell phone and look
around, even without the knowledge of the person who owns the cell
phone. This is very similar to the bill that passed unanimously last
night. So I urge the adoption to this amendment as well.
I thank the chairman for allowing me to speak on the gentleman from
Kentucky's amendment, since he ran out of time.
Mr. CULBERSON. I am glad to do so.
Madam Chair, again, the amendment is agreed to unanimously. I
strongly support the gentleman from Kentucky's amendment.
I yield back the balance of my time.
The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the
gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Massie).
The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes
appeared to have it.
Mr. MASSIE. Madam 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 Kentucky
will be postponed.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Gosar

Mr. GOSAR. Madam 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 carry out the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms, and Explosives Special Advisory entitled ``Test,
Examination and Classification of 7N6 5.45x39 Ammunition'',
dated April 7, 2014. The limitation described in this section
shall not apply in the case of the administration of a tax or
tariff.

The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman
from Arizona and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Arizona.
Mr. GOSAR. Madam Chair, I rise today to stand with my colleague from
Kentucky (Mr. Massie) and with sportsmen and law-abiding gun owners
throughout the country.
Over the course of the last year, we have seen numerous misguided
attempts by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to
misclassify ammunition as ``armor-piercing'' and infringe on the Second
Amendment rights of our citizens.
At a forum I held at the end of March in Prescott, Arizona, a large
number of my constituents expressed their outrage about ATF
reclassifying the imported 7N6, commonly known as the 5.45 x 39
ammunition, as ``armor-piercing,'' thus preventing this ammo from being
imported.
7N6 ammo is very affordable and has been used for target practice by
sportsmen for years. The administration--especially the ATF, as we have
seen with Operation Fast and Furious and recent attempts to ban the
green tip ammo--has a penchant for interpreting the law as it sees fit
or as it is most convenient for them.
Fortunately, we have at least temporarily beaten back the attempt to
ban the .223 green tip ammo after 230 different Members of this body,
Chairman Culberson, and myself encouraged ATF to drop this misguided
attempt. But the 7N6 ammunition ban is yet another example of Federal
overreach on the part of the administration.
After years of having a sportsmen exemption, 7N6 was reclassified
after ATF found an extremely rare and obscure Polish-made pistol that
could supposedly use and shoot the 7N6 cartridge.
I strongly applaud the committee for including four other commonsense
provisions in this bill that protect the Second Amendment.
I ask that this body stand with sportsmen throughout this country. I
ask that my colleagues support this additional, commonsense provision
to protect the Second Amendment and allow the 7N6 ammo to be used for
target practice.
I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5
minutes.

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Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I guess redundancy has some utility here
because we have been around the rosie a number of times on this same
issue, both late last night and now early this afternoon, one amendment
after another amendment after another amendment, trying to make sure
that our fascination with armor-piercing bullets doesn't escape this
debate.

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So here we have another one, and maybe there is something different
about this one than the one before, but I am not able to discern what
it is. I am opposed to it.
I think that people have a right to weapons under our Constitution. I
think common sense suggests people should have a right to weapons, long
guns, rifles, for both sports activities and for their own protection.
I also think that it is a responsible thing for those who are governing
our country to put in place reasonable regulations and restrictions
just like the regulations and restrictions that we have here on the
Capitol campus.
Not only do we spend hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers'
money for our own police force to protect us, we also say that you
can't bring a firearm into the buildings that we work in each and every
day.
Now, we do this even though we come to the floor and profess our
undying love for the unfettered notion of the Second Amendment as
interpreted by some that you can have a gun anywhere, in a bar, in a
park, in a school, in a daycare center, and at church. Take your gun
and ride off into the wind with it. But we won't allow it here.
I am just waiting for a Member of the majority, since we have
multiple amendments, to come to the floor and to say that people should
be able to exercise their Second Amendment here when they visit the
people's House, when they visit their elected Representatives, that
somehow we want to welcome them and their guns with their armor-
piercing bullets, and then I would know that you truly love the Second
Amendment and that you see it as an unfettered right anywhere, anytime,
and under any circumstances.
Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. GOSAR. Madam Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas
(Mr. Culberson), the chairman of the committee.
Mr. CULBERSON. Madam Chair, I strongly support the gentleman's
amendment, and it is necessary because the ATF, once again, here
attempted to ban ammunition that could be used in a handgun that is
otherwise commonly available for rifles. In the statute, the Congress
intended to prohibit the use of armor-piercing ammunition for handguns.
So the gentleman's amendment is necessary, and I strongly support the
amendment as, again, additional protection for Americans'
constitutional Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms.
I would point out to my good friend from Pennsylvania that at the
Texas Capitol, concealed-carry permit holders are actually given a
separate line so they can get into the capitol even more rapidly
because law enforcement officers in Texas recognize that a concealed-
carry permit holder is their best backup because they have had a
background check and they are trained in the use of the weapon.
I coauthored the legislation in Texas in the 1990s to allow Texans to
get a concealed-carry permit, and we have prevented a lot of crimes and
saved a lot of lives. I don't think there has even been a fistfight
among concealed-carry permit holders in Texas in all these years. They
are given expedited access to the Texas Capitol because law enforcement
recognizes an honest, law-abiding American with a concealed-carry
permit is their best friend.
I support the gentleman's amendment, and I urge its passage.
Mr. GOSAR. Madam Chair, I yield such time as he may consume to the
gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Massie), my friend.
Mr. MASSIE. Madam Chair, I thank the gentleman from Arizona's
leadership on this issue, and my profound gratitude and immense respect
to Chairman Culberson for making sure that this interpretation that was
applied to 5.45 ammunition was not applied to 5.56. He has the
gratitude of millions of gun owners in this country--law-abiding gun
owners, I should say.
This travesty of justice still applies to this other caliber, using
the same reasoning. I won't impugn the motives of the ATF. I won't do
that. I think they are just trying to enforce the law. There is a gray
area here, and I think this bill clears up that gray area for the
benefit of millions of gun owners--law-abiding gun owners--in this
country, and I thank Representative Gosar for leading on this.
Mr. GOSAR. Madam Chair, what I would like to do is highlight that
only an obscure pistol could use this 7N6 ammunition. So I was going
out of the way for a very popular round that is used for target
practice all over this country. So I would ask for support for my
amendment.
I thank the gentleman for helping me, and I yield back the balance of
my time.
The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the
gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Gosar).
The amendment was agreed to.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Issa

Mr. ISSA. Madam 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 operate or disseminate a cell-site simulator or
IMSI catcher in the United States except pursuant to a court
order that identifies an individual, account, address, or
personal device

The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman
from California and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California.
Mr. ISSA. Madam Chair, I rise today to offer this amendment, and it
becomes necessary because selective spying by using these devices
commonly called StingRays or cell site simulators or IMSI catchers has
become a reality.
These sophisticated, affordable mobile devices in fact spoof or
convince your phone that they are a valid cell tower and allow for the
gathering of communications content, including texts and emails.
What is disturbing is that Federal dollars may be being used to
capture tens of thousands of Americans' information without a warrant.
The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the Associated Press, and
more have, in fact, uncovered cases of nationwide use by the FBI and
other agencies working to cover up StingRay use in instances in which
they have, among other things, dropped criminal cases to avoid having
to disclose their use of them. Additionally, they have entered into
nondisclosure agreements at times in order to not do so.
Just a month ago, this House--and the Senate, a few days ago--passed,
overwhelmingly, a new authorization of the PATRIOT Act. We did so with
a careful balance between what our government can do to us and what
protections we have, and particularly the Fourth Amendment.
This is a narrowly crafted amendment. It in no way stops the use of
these devices when a Federal court has ordered and allowed the use,
either a FISA court or a common warrant issued by a judge.
Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I claim the time in opposition, but I am not
in opposition.
The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Pennsylvania
is recognized for 5 minutes.
There was no objection.
Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I concur with the gentleman's amendment, and
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. ISSA. At this time, Madam Chair, I yield 1 minute to the
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Farenthold).
Mr. FARENTHOLD. Madam Chair, I rise in support of our amendment today
that I am working on with Mr. Issa.
Madam Chair, the Associated Press reported yesterday that they
confirmed reports that the FBI is flying surveillance cameras in
aircraft over the U.S. with these devices. They are operated sometimes
through shell companies that use video and StingRay technology to
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in bulk both visually and from our cell phones.
This flies in the face of every concept of liberty and privacy that
we cherish in this country. Our Founding Fathers would be sickened if
they found out how far we have slipped. As much as I have been
encouraged by the fact that both Houses of Congress have passed the USA
FREEDOM Act to end bulk surveillance under section 215 of the PATRIOT
Act, reports like this show me we still have a long way to go.
This secretive FBI program to hack into our cellphones seems far from
appropriate and constitutional, and it must be curtailed. This
amendment would ensure that any usage of this program would only happen
through a court order targeting a specific individual and never as a
dragnet for bulk surveillance.
I am happy to hear that there is very little opposition to this, and
I look forward to working to continue to regain our liberty from mass
and unconstitutional surveillance.
Mr. ISSA. Madam Chair, I have no further speakers. I urge passage,
and I yield back the balance of my time.
The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the
gentleman from California (Mr. Issa).
The amendment was agreed to.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Flores

Mr. FLORES. Madam 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 further implementation of the coastal and marine
spatial planning and ecosystem-based management components of
the National Ocean Policy developed under Executive Order
13547.

The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman
from Texas and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.

Point of Order

Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I rise to assert a point of order on this
amendment.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman will state his point of order.
Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I make a point of order against the
amendment because it proposes to change existing law and constitutes
legislation in an appropriation bill and, therefore, violates clause 2
of rule XXI.
The Acting CHAIR. Does any other Member wish to be heard on the point
of order?
Mr. FLORES. Madam Chair, this amendment does not change existing law.
It just removes the funding for an unconstitutional, unstatutory action
by the President.

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Madam Chair, it seems like I have caused some excitement with the
Parliamentarian this afternoon, so why don't I do this.
I ask unanimous consent to withdraw the amendment and go to the
second Flores amendment.
The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman
from Texas?
There was no objection.
The Acting CHAIR. The amendment is withdrawn.

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June 3, 2015, on page H3796, the following appeared: There was
no objection. AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. FLORES

The online version should be corrected to read: There was no
objection. The Acting CHAIR. The amendment is withdrawn. AMENDMENT
OFFERED BY MR. FLORES

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Amendment Offered by Mr. Flores

Mr. FLORES. Madam 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 Executive Order 13547 (75 Fed. Reg.
43023, relating to the stewardship of oceans, coasts, and the
Great Lakes), including the National Ocean Policy developed
under such Executive Order.

The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman
from Texas and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas.
Mr. FLORES. Madam Chair, I rise today to offer a simple amendment to
address an ongoing overreach by the executive branch of our government.
My amendment bans the use of Federal funds for the implementation of
Executive Order 13547. That executive order, which was signed in 2010,
requires that 60-plus bureaucracies, as shown on this chart,
essentially zone the oceans and the sources thereof.
This amendment addresses a critical executive branch encroachment
into the powers of Congress as set forth in our Constitution. The
activities being conducted by Executive Order 13547 have not been
authorized by Congress, nor have appropriations been made by Congress
to fund those activities.
Madam Chair, since 2010, this body has voted six times in support of
this amendment in a bipartisan manner. This language was also included
in the base text of the fiscal year 2016 Energy and Water Development
Appropriations bill. Today, I am offering my amendment again because
concerns have been raised that the effects of the National Ocean Policy
extend well beyond restricting ocean activities and encroach into
inland activities.
I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I visited Chicago a few years back for the
coastal zone conference to talk about how important it was that this
administration has finally put forward, and we support, an ocean
policy. There have been since 2012 over 15 different amendments seeking
to undermine responsible ecosystem-based management of our oceans.
As appropriators, we have not been willing to accept these efforts to
undermine this. We understand we have a responsibility as stewards. In
fact, as a Nation we have more responsibility for the world's oceans
than any other Nation in terms of territorially in the world.
We have some challenging circumstances. It is good that we now have a
policy going forward. I would ask that the House oppose this amendment.
I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr.
Cicilline), the former mayor and a great Congressman.
Mr. CICILLINE. Madam Chair, I rise in strong opposition to the Flores
amendment, which would prohibit the implementation of the National
Ocean Policy, which permits better coordination among Federal agencies
responsible for coastal planning.
This amendment, in particular, would undermine NOAA's participation
in planning, it would hurt States and communities, businesses, and
would impede States like Rhode Island from managing their own resources
in a way that best fits their needs and priorities.
This administration has made it clear that the National Ocean Policy
does not create new regulations, supersede current regulations, or
modify any agency's established mission, jurisdiction, or authority.
Rather, it helps coordinate the implementation of existing regulations
by Federal agencies to establish a more efficient and effective
decisionmaking process.
In the Northeast, our regional ocean council has allowed our State to
pool resources and businesses to have a voice in decisionmaking and has
coordinated with Federal partners to ensure all stakeholders have a
voice in the process.
It is astounding to me that since 2012, 15 riders undermining ocean
planning have been introduced to House bills, including riders on two
previous CJS appropriations bills.
Allowing Federal agencies to coordinate implementation of over 100
ocean laws and giving States and local governments a voice in the ocean
planning process is smart public policy.
I urge my colleagues to reject this misguided amendment and to
understand and accept our responsibility to be good stewards of our
oceans. That is what the administration's policy does. This is allowing
agencies to coordinate that work in a thoughtful, strategic, and smart
way.
Mr. FLORES. Madam Chair, I again reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, who has the right to close?
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania has the right to
close.
Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. FLORES. Madam Chair, first of all, I think it is important to set
the record straight. The issue here is not whether or not we want to
take care of our oceans. All of us want to take care of our oceans. All
of us believe in managing the ocean economy, the ocean

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ecology. We also believe in trying to make sure that we have a
government that adheres to this Constitution. Under article I of that
Constitution, all legislative powers are reserved to this body, to this
Congress, not to the President. That is the issue at stake here. The
President has overstepped his constitutional statutory bounds.
Now, in the year 2000, Congress did pass something during the 106th
Congress to create an ocean commission to review and make
recommendations. Since then, the 108th, 109th, 110th, and 111th
Congresses each looked at those recommendations and decided to take no
legislative action.
That is what caused the President to move forward with his executive
order to try to go around Congress. There are no appropriations. We
have asked the Department for this function specifically. We have asked
the Department of Interior specifically to provide their statutory
support for the President's actions. They have provided none. So the
President has gone around Congress by signing these executive orders.
There are 67 groups that include fishing, agricultural, farming,
energy, and other industries that are concerned about the impact of
this Federal overreach--and again, I would say an unconstitutional
Federal overreach.
Again, this is a simple amendment that just stands up for the
constitutional rights of this Congress to create the statutes under
which this activity can be conducted and to transparently appropriate
the funds for this activity should it so choose.
We are not against ocean planning, as I said at the outset of this.
What we are for, though, is for the Constitution and to stand up for
our congressional rights to enact the statutes related to this activity
and for the appropriators to be able to transparently appropriate the
money.
Again, this amendment has been adopted with bipartisan support six
times over the last 4\1/2\ years and is already included in the base
text of the fiscal year 2016 Energy and Water Appropriations bill.
I want to thank Chairman Culberson for considering this amendment,
and I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, can I inquire how much time is remaining.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania has 2\1/2\ minutes
remaining.
Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from
California (Mr. Farr).
Mr. FARR. Madam Chair, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
What selective memory you have. You say that the President is abusing
his authority. Do you know who first asked for this? President Bush. He
is the one that created the Commission and asked for those
recommendations.
And guess what? Five Republicans authored that bill--Republicans
Greenwood, Bilbray, Gilchrest, Horn, and Franks. That was in 2000 and
2004 they introduced it. The bill went to committee, and the committee
never heard the bill. So don't say that Congress never had a chance to
enact this thing. Congress refused, just like Congress refuses to
respond to the President's ask that we ought to decide whether we ought
to go to war in the Middle East.
You are very selective. You say, Don't let the President make these
executive orders, and then when he does you want to sue him because it
is about immigration or issues like that. You criticize this President
because Congress fails to take action, even after Presidents--
Republican and Democratic Presidents--have asked Congress to take
action, and we refused. And now you get up and say, Well, because we
refused, you took executive action, therefore, we ought to not allow it
to be implemented.
The Acting CHAIR. Members will address their remarks to the Chair.
Mr. FARR. Thank you, Madam Chair. I am referring the remarks to the
Madam Chair.
Look, deleting this ability for the National Ocean Policy--by the
way, we haven't appropriated money. No money is being spent on it. But
we are smart about getting 70 or 80 Federal agencies together to have
one stop to figure out how we can get all these permits. That is why
the fishermen support it.
I live in a coastal community. The author of this does not. We make
our living off the ocean. And, by God, we want all the regulatory
agencies to be in sync. And one of the policies here is, let's have a
healthy ocean. What is wrong with that?
Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, if the oceans die, it is impossible for us
to live.
The Pew Foundation in Philadelphia has put hundreds of millions of
dollars behind efforts around ocean science. My friend, Gerry Lenfest,
has put a lot of his own fortune behind this effort. When I first got
to the Congress, I was chair of the Friends of the Caribbean Caucus. We
should do better by our oceans.
I ask that we oppose this, and I yield back the balance of my time.
The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Flores).
The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes
appeared to have it.
Mr. FATTAH. Madam 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 Texas will
be postponed.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Duncan of South Carolina

Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina. Madam 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 prosecute or hold liable any person or corporation
for a violation of section 2(a) of the Migratory Bird Treaty
Act (16 U.S.C. 703(a)).

The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman
from South Carolina and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from South Carolina.
Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina. Madam Chair, the question we should ask
ourselves is, should green energy companies be held liable for
incidental deaths of birds of prey or migratory birds as a result of
them flying into wind turbines or onto solar arrays.
As you may know, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 and the Bald
and Golden Eagle Protection Act, while well-intentioned, are
significantly outdated.
Under current law, the accidental death of a protected bird is
punishable as a misdemeanor; a second offense can be charged as a
felony. This includes accidental deaths caused by wind turbines and
solar panels.
The MBTA covers over 1,000 different species of birds. The Migratory
Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act were
written to target the intentional killing of migratory birds and birds
of prey. I don't think anybody believes that accidental deaths as a
result of solar panels or wind energy production warrants felony
prosecution.
Every year, cars, trucks, skyscrapers, windmills, oil platforms,
airplanes, and houses with big windows cause the deaths of hundreds of
thousands of these protected birds, doing things that are otherwise
well within the law but that make drivers, pilots, property owners, and
green energy companies potential felons under a strict interpretation
of an outdated law.
As you can imagine, the enforcement of this law is pretty spotty,
with bureaucrats selectively enforcing these regulations, creating
uncertainty in the green energy marketplace.
President Obama's Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced plans
to study the possibility of creating a permitting regime under the
MBTA, which would allow for incidental and accidental take without
criminal penalty, and they have suspended prosecutions until this is
worked out. I agree with this approach. That is consistent with a bill
I introduced--my CLEAN Energy Producers Act, H.R. 493.
My amendment today to the Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations
bill will suspend further prosecutions for incidental avian deaths
under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act until this incidental take
permitting regime is implemented.
I believe this is the right step as we move toward permanent reforms
of the MBTA and the BGEPA as a part of the

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national all-of-the-above energy independence strategy.
I would urge a ``yes'' vote on this important issue, and I reserve
the balance of my time.

{time} 1600

Mr. FARR. Madam Chair, I rise in opposition.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. FARR. Madam Chair, what is broken that needs fixing? These are
laws that have been in place for 100 years. In fact, they are laws that
have been implemented because the United States has signed treaties
with other countries that share our migratory fowl, countries like
Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Russia. These are treaties that require that
we be responsible for the wildlife that flies over our air space and
lands in our soil.
Migratory birds are integrated into a healthy, natural system. In
many ways, they affect the predators, the prey, the seed dispensers,
and the pollinators. They are really actively appreciated by millions
of people. We have a society in America called the National Audubon
Society. We make an awful lot of money in my district off watchable
wildlife.
Why would we want to stop the laws that protect that wildlife? I
think this is all about responsible management; but to have an
amendment that says that none of the funds may be available to
prosecute or hold liable any persons who have violated the law, you are
dismantling law enforcement's ability to enforce the law where people
have violated it--violated it.
I think the public of this country does appreciate their watchable
wildlife, whether they are hunting it or whether they are viewing it,
and a lot of people make money off of it. I don't think this amendment
is at all constructive. You are upsetting 100 years of law and
international responsibility that we have as a country in this
hemisphere.
I oppose the amendment and ask people to vote against it.
Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina. Madam Chair, I am in full support of
the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. I am an avid water fowler; I am an avid
hunter, and I see how the Migratory Bird Treaty Act has benefited the
species from the heyday of the market hunting and what we saw in the
early 1900s.
I believe that the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden
Eagle Protection Act were designed to talk about the intentional
killing or overharvesting of migratory birds and potential killing of
birds of prey.
Even the Obama administration recognizes that there is something
wrong with how we prosecute these cases of incidental and accidental
deaths. This simply takes what they are already doing and says let's
just have a pause until we can work this out in permanent law. That is
all my amendment does.
Madam Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. FARR. Well, with all due respect, that is not what your law says.
It says:

None of the funds made available by this act may be used to
prosecute or hold liable any person or corporation for a
violation of the provision of law found in section 703(a) of
title 16 of the United States Code.

There is no language in here about working anything out. There is no
language about being responsible managers of the land or flyways.
Yes, we have a lot of new equipment up in our energy business, our
wind energy and our solar energy. Those things, obviously way before
you build them, you are supposed to take into account whether they are
being built right in a flyway.
We have condors in our area that we have obviously spent a lot of
money trying to revive. People actually spend money to come to very
expensive hotels so that they can come see a condor. These are things
that you want to protect.
To say that none of the funds can be made available to hold liable
people that are violating the law seems to me just a reckless act to
upset 100 years of wildlife management.
Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina. Mr. Chairman, if somebody has
intentionally violated law, absolutely, they ought to be prosecuted.
This amendment is in order because we are dealing with justice and how
this is prosecuted. We are saying that the Justice Department can't
expend any money to prosecute these incidental accidental deaths.
We need an interpretation of law. There is no doubt in my mind that
we ought to revisit the MBTA and Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act,
and we will. I am on the Natural Resources Committee. I promise you,
this issue will come up; but I think it is appropriate to say we are
going to hold off on expending any money by prosecuting these
accidental incidental deaths.
I would urge my colleagues to vote for this. I think it is the right
place and the right time.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. FARR. Mr. Chair, in closing, to say that the law says that those
who are in violation of law--I mean, how many golden eagles do you have
to kill and tell the law enforcement you can't do anything about it?
This isn't about accidental death. This is people violating the law
with an intent. You have to have an intent to do wrong.
I think this is a reckless amendment. I hope we defeat it.
I yield back the balance of my time.
The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Duncan of Tennessee). The question is on the
amendment offered by the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Duncan).
The amendment was agreed to.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Lamborn

Mr. LAMBORN. 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 collect information about individuals attending
gun shows, by means of an automatic license plate reader, or
to retain any information so collected.

Mr. FARR. I reserve a point of order on this issue.
The Acting CHAIR. A point of order is reserved.
Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman from Colorado and a
Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Colorado.
Mr. LAMBORN. Mr. Chairman, earlier this year, an email uncovered by
the ACLU revealed that the Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, and
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF,
collaborated on a plan to use automatic license plate readers to
monitor and collect information about law-abiding citizens attending
gun shows.
Under this program, mere attendance at a gun show would have been
enough to have one's attendance recorded in a massive DEA database. As
if that weren't bad enough, the primary purpose of this database is
asset forfeiture, a controversial practice of seizing motorists'
possessions if police suspect they are criminal proceeds.
In response to inquiries about the uncovered document, the DEA has
said that the proposal was rejected by superiors and never implemented.
Keep in mind that this was taking place in Phoenix in 2009 at about the
time of Fast and Furious, and there were, I believe, rogue projects
going on in that part of the country at the time.
We have litigated that as a House against the Department of Justice,
and they have not supplied the documents that they were supposed to
have supplied to Congress.
We also held former Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of
Congress for not providing those documents. This was at a time when,
perhaps, rogue projects were actually going on in Phoenix. I believe
that they were, and I believe that this is one of those.
However, the DEA never supplied any documents saying that they
rejected this project. They blamed it on an underling, and they said it
was never implemented. While this assurance is welcome, the fact that
such a proposal was even considered raises very serious privacy
concerns.
My amendment would prohibit any funds from being used to collect or
retain information about individuals attending gun shows by means of an
automatic license plate reader. This

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amendment is supported by the NRA, the National Rifle Association; the
Gun Owners of America; and the ACLU.
Automatic license plate readers should not be used to target law-
abiding citizens who are engaged in their constitutionally protected
rights. Without strong regulations and greater transparency, this new
technology would only increase the threat of illegitimate government
surveillance.
I encourage my colleagues to support this amendment in order to rein
in the illegal surveillance of Americans and to send a clear message to
agencies like the DEA and the ATF that automatic license plate readers
must not be used to collect information during constitutionally
protected activities.
This includes Second Amendment activities, like attending gun shows.
Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.

Point of Order

Mr. FARR. Mr. Chairman, I make a point of order against the amendment
because it proposes to change existing law and constitutes legislation
in an appropriation bill and, therefore, violates clause 2 of rule XXI.
That rule states in pertinent part: ``An amendment to a general
appropriation bill shall not be in order if changing existing law''
One of the provisions is that it ``requires a new determination.''
I ask for a ruling from the Chair.
The Acting CHAIR. Does any other Member wish to be heard on the point
of order?
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Colorado.
Mr. LAMBORN. Mr. Chairman, let me respond to that by saying that The
Wall Street Journal published an article on January 27 of this year
which quotes what the ACLU uncovered through a Freedom of Information
Act request to the Department of Justice.
In pertinent part, this revelation that was obtained by the ACLU
reads:

The DEA Phoenix Division Office is working closely with the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on
attacking the guns going to ``blank''--that is redacted--and
the gun shows to include programs-operations with license
plate readers at the gun shows.

At least some agent or agents within the DEA's Phoenix region
believed that they had the authority to go to gun shows and use
automatic license plate recognition technology to, basically, throw out
a dragnet and take in the identities of everyone who was attending a
constitutionally protected activity.
That is what this amendment attacks. At least some elements within
the DEA thought that they had this authority. They thought they had
this power.
I don't think this is creating any new legislation, because it is
going after a power they believed they already had and believed that
they had the ability to exercise.
So the withdrawal of funding to something they thought they had the
power to do is not creating a new oversight or provision. I forget the
word the gentleman used. It is not legislating in the sense of giving
them a power they didn't already have. They thought they had this
power. This amendment would withdraw the funding for that.
I would urge the Chair to reject the point of order raised by the
opposition.
The Acting CHAIR. Does any other Member wish to be heard on the point
of order? If not, the Chair is prepared to rule.
The Chair finds that this amendment includes language requiring a new
determination by the relevant Federal officials of whether an
individual is attending a gun show. The gentleman from Colorado has not
proven that this determination is required by existing law.
The amendment, therefore, constitutes legislation in violation of
clause 2 of rule XXI.
The point of order is sustained, and the amendment is not in order.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Sanford

Mr. SANFORD. 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. __. Each amount made available by this Act (other
than an amount required to be made available by a provision
of law) is hereby reduced by 2.48 percent.

The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman
from South Carolina and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from South Carolina.
Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, this is a very simple and straightforward
amendment, as has been laid out, which is to, in essence, make an
across-the-board cut of this particular appropriation by 2.48 percent.
I think it is important to do so simply for this reason. I was in a
Budget hearing this morning, and the new Director of the Congressional
Budget Office came by.
In his testimony, what he talked about was the way in which the
American civilization and the Federal budget was nearing a tipping
point beyond which there would be substantial consequence to that which
we can budget here at the Federal level; to the value of the dollar; to
future interest rates; and, ultimately, to the American way of life.

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I think what is interesting is that, indeed, Admiral Mike Mullen, a
military man, observed the same, because when he was asked what is the
biggest threat to the American way of life and to American security,
his answer was the American debt.
You can look at a long list of different authors who have talked
about this theme in different ways. You know, Reinhart and Rogoff
talked about it in their book entitled, ``This Time is Different,''
wherein, again, you look at economies that get to around 90 percent
debt to GDP and, frankly, the wheels start to come off. Bad things
begin to happen both to the economy and to the government's ability to
perpetuate funding for programs that are important.
We have gone through a long list of well-discussed programs within
this particular appropriation bill that are important, but for our
government's ability to sustain those programs, we need to look beyond
10 or 15 years out. We need to look at the long run, and ultimately
that is what this bill is about.
I think it is interesting from a nonpartisan standpoint that Erskine
Bowles and Alan Simpson said, if you look at our financial picture, it
is the most predictable financial collapse or calamity in the history
of man. I could go through a lot of other reasons numerically as to why
I think it is important, but the short answer is we are nearing that
tipping point that was talked about in the Budget hearing this morning.
I see my colleague standing, so I will reserve the balance of my time
and come back to a few other points in a moment.
Mr. FARR. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to across-the-board
cuts.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. FARR. Mr. Chairman, I respect the gentleman's presentation, but I
think we ought to put it in full context. We do have an across-the-
board cut. It is a huge cut. It is called sequestration. Although
Admiral Mullen did admonish the Congress for the fact that we were
running a deficit and it was a threat to our national security, he also
opposed sequestration, across-the-board cuts.
I think the problem is--and this bill certainly is an across-the-
board cut from what we used to spend, with the exception of the
protection of one program, but I oppose this. We are on the Committee
on Appropriations. We try to go through these things with a fine-tooth
comb to figure out how to adjust the spending of the United States of
America. The worst thing you can do is just do an across-the-board cut
because that harms good programs, and you aren't necessarily cutting
enough to really make a big dent in the national debt.
Frankly, the spending of America has come down quite dramatically,
and the economy has improved, and our national debt is, in the recent
years, at an all-time low. I think, frankly, we in Congress talk about
this debt but don't put it into context.
I like to put it in the context that I talk to my constituents about
that what we have at the national level, just like you have at the
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sort of two debts. You have a short-term debt, which is that credit
card, you spent too much that one month, so you are going to pay it
slowly off in the next couple months. That is the annual deficit.
The long-term debt is that big mortgage that we have on our houses.
We don't panic because of a mortgage. We made an agreement over a
period of time--15, 30 years--that we are going to pay off this
mortgage, and we know what those payments will be.
Wall Street doesn't worry about a deficit when we have a plan to pay
it off. Wall Street worries about when we take a meat-ax approach to
not running the government efficiently, not having enough people to
process people when they need permits and they need access to licenses
and things like that.
So I wish Congress would get off this sort of let's just use a meat-
ax approach to solving these problems because we won't spend the time
to get into the weeds. And although I respect the gentleman and his
approach, I just don't think this is the proper way to do it, and I
would oppose the across-the-board cut.
Mr. CULBERSON. Will the gentleman yield?
Mr. FARR. I yield to the gentleman from Texas.
Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Chairman, I wish to join in opposition to this
amendment. I share my colleague's concern about government spending,
but two-thirds of the problem is in Social Security and Medicare and
Medicaid, and in ObamaCare, the national debt, the interest on the
debt. That is what is drowning us.
We, in the appropriations process, handle about a third of Federal
spending, and we have cut spending here in this bill. We have limited
resources; and as chairman of the subcommittee, we have prioritized
that money to go, first and foremost, to law enforcement.
The gentleman's amendment would cut $683 million out of Federal law
enforcement, which is something I just simply cannot support. The
gentleman's amendment would cut $212 million out of the FBI and just
eviscerate their ability to deal with cyber espionage and to deal with
terrorism. The gentleman's amendment would cut $450 million from NASA,
essentially crippling our efforts to get Americans back into space on
an American-made rocket, something we simply have to do as quickly as
possible.
We have in our bill prioritized the limited, very precious, and
scarce, hard-earned tax dollars that our constituents have entrusted us
with and made sure that Federal law enforcement is taken care of,
scientific research is protected, NASA is protected. But first and
foremost, we protected public safety with the way we have prioritized
our spending.
I have to urge Members to oppose this amendment because we have
already followed the Dave Ramsey approach in spending money where it is
most needed. We have got to focus on the two-thirds of the problem that
is drowning us: the mandatory, automatic spending programs--Medicare,
Social Security, Medicaid--that are drowning this economy. That is
where the deficit and the debt is coming from. While we continue to do
our part in Appropriations on the one-third that we have got control
over, we are continuing to cut and prioritize, let's focus on the two-
thirds that is actually hurting the American economy. I would urge
Members to oppose this amendment and defeat it.
The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman from California has
expired.
Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. FATTAH. It is good to see my good friend on the floor. I,
unfortunately, can't support his amendment, but I appreciate his work
here in the Congress.
In the past, unlike those rhetorically who offer notions of support
for Simpson-Bowles, I actually supported it and voted for it. I am the
only Member of the House that has offered a bill to get rid of the
income tax and pay our debts.
I wanted to set up a consumption tax, which 150 other countries in
the world use. We have got a consumption-based economy. It might be a
good notion to find our revenues where the action is.
I don't take a backseat to anyone when it comes to fiscal
responsibility, but unless we have a global budget deal, it is going to
be impossible for us to manage the accounts of what you agree are very
important Federal agencies that have very important responsibilities.
We are running the most important, the most powerful country in the
world. We can't do it on the cheap and be number one. China builds 100
science-only universities in 5 years. It would take us 20 years to
build one. We don't have the same kind of decisionmaking process,
obviously, and it takes us a while to formulate our decision package;
but even when we get there, we have this debate about whether or not we
are going to stand up and be the leading country in the world, whether
in space exploration or in any of the areas of scientific enterprise in
which we have always had the absolute lead. Now we have only a relative
lead.
There are those who are working in ways that are adverse to insisting
on America being number one. Those are people who want to tell the
American public that we can continue to have the best military in the
world and not pay for it or the best education system and not pay for
it. Or you look at our national laboratories, and I have visited Oak
Ridge, I have visited Los Alamos and Sandia and Fermi and Argonne. You
look at these laboratories. These were major investments. Now, some
might call it spending, but it helped America win wars, but also win
the economic fight against our competitors by making these investments.
I just think that it is not a matter of what we can cut. It is where
does our country want to end up. Do we want to be something less than
number one in the world? Is that the legacy we want to leave our
children and grandchildren? Or are we going to make the decisions that
others before us have made, which is that we have to make tough
decisions, and we are going to have to carry our own pail of water up
the hill, and we are going to have to pay for all that we get. It was
Abraham Lincoln who said you may not get all that you pay for, but you
will pay for all that you get.
So this notion that somehow America can be number one on the cheap, I
am not buying it. The world's not going to buy it. We are competing
with countries that have a billion-plus population. They are making
investments, and they want to eat our lunch, economically. There may be
challenges in other ways for our country down the road, and we have to
be prepared as leaders to make some tough decisions and to tell the
American public that, in order to retain our position, we might have to
actually stand up to the bar and pay our fair share.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, I admire the earnestness of my colleagues
who, in good faith, are pressing forward in terms of trying to protect
a whole host of programs that I think we all recognize are of great
importance to the American people.
Churchill once observed that the beauty of the American political
system was that it always did the right thing--after it had exhausted
every other possible remedy. My fear in this is, if we wait late in the
game, and this is exactly what the Budget Director was talking about
this morning, if we wait, the consequences to waiting, in numerical
terms, become horrific. We are dealing with a math trap that compounds
with time. Einstein, in fact, was once asked what is the most powerful
force in the universe, and his reply was compound interest. The numbers
become, I think, absolutely compelling.
So I would agree with my colleagues that across-the-board cuts are
absolutely not the best way to go. When I was involved in State
politics, I worked earnestly against across-the-board cuts. It is only
out of desperation that I offer a proposal that entails across-the-
board cuts because, again, if we wait, what the Budget Director this
morning says was that there will be real consequences.
I would make four additional points:
One, if we are serious about addressing the entitlement problem, then
we shouldn't be borrowing from entitlement spending to fund mandatory
spending, and that is exactly what this particular appropriation bill
does to the tune of about $10 billion. So I think

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that if we are really going to get earnest about entitlement spending,
this would be a place to start, which is part of the reason as to why
we focused on this particular appropriation bill.
Two, my colleague from California mentioned national debt is at an
all-time low. That is incorrect. In fact, we are at an all-time high if
you look at the numbers. Roughly, it took us 200 years to get to $5
trillion in debt. Over the Bush administration, we went from 5 to 10.
It doubled. And now, during the Obama administration, it is going to
double again from roughly 10 to 20. It is at an all-time high.
I think the key to a mortgage is your ability to pay it off. It is
not, again, is there a mortgage or isn't there. It is can you pay it
off. If you look at the numbers--and increasingly rating agencies
around the world have suggested that when you get up around that 90
percent number, there is less and less probability that you will be
able to perpetuate that spending, which goes to the heart of can we
perpetuate our ability to fund these worthwhile programs, which is what
this amendment is about.
Lastly, I would say Admiral Mullen, when he spoke against the
sequester, he did so, in large measure, because what he recognized was
the way in which sequester disproportionately impacted the military.
For a host of reasons, again, I would ask support for this amendment.
I yield back the balance of my time.
The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the
gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Sanford).
The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes
appeared to have it.
Mr. CULBERSON. 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 South
Carolina will be postponed.

Amendment No. 3 Offered by Mr. King of Iowa

Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
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. ___. None of the funds made available by this Act may
be used with respect to the case State of Texas, et al. v.
United States of America, et al. (No. B-14-254 in the United
States District Court for the Southern District of Texas and
No. 15-40238 in the United States Court of Appeals for the
Fifth Circuit).

The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman
from Iowa and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Iowa.

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Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, this amendment is an amendment, in
short form, that says that none of the funds made available by this act
may be used with respect to the case State of Texas, et al. v. United
States of America.
I point out to the body, Mr. Chairman, that that is the case that was
filed by then-Attorney General of Texas Greg Abbott, now Governor of
Texas, to protect the interest of Texans. It has been signed on to now
by 25 States, I believe. And this is in reference to the President's
November 20 DAPA policy, his executive amnesty policy.
We have watched as this Congress has three times voted to reject the
President's initiative, and the debate has been centered on
constitutional grounds. The position of this Congress has three times
been that the President of the United States is the leader of the
executive branch of this government, and the legislative powers are all
vested here in the United States Congress, in a House and in a Senate.
That is article 1 of the Constitution.
That is what the President taught through his 10 years as an adjunct
professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago, and that
is what he also uttered at least 22 times as President of the United
States--that he didn't have the authority to establish in advance an
executive amnesty that would waive the application of the law for some
5 million people.
Not only does this Congress agree with the President's 22 statements
that he has since changed his position on--by the way, the President
has a 33-page Office of Legal Counsel opinion that is written, I think,
very loosely--and I read every word of that--but the President's
convictions, I believe, were reflected prior to this political
decision.
And so my amendment prohibits any of the funds from being used to
further defend this unconstitutional executive amnesty position.
Mr. Chairman, I would point out that not only has Congress voted
three times but also the President's 22 statements, as I said, and then
it is backed up by Federal Judge Hanen, who ruled on the side of the
Constitution and the rule of law and the separation of powers. And on
the administration's appeal, a three-judge panel in the Fifth Circuit
also ruled and indicated that the State of Texas and the other
coplaintiffs were likely to prevail, and granted standing to the State
of Texas.
And now we have an administration that appears to be willing to
continue this debate further and go with an appeal to the Circuit Court
again. They actually have the opportunity to go directly to the Supreme
Court.
So, Mr. Chairman, I go through this long list of things that have
happened because a lot of money has been spent and wasted in an attempt
to, let's say--the gracious way to say it would be to stretch the
Constitution beyond any bounds that it had been stretched before.
This amendment simply directs that none of the funds made available
shall be used to continue that endeavor.
With that, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. FATTAH. Will the gentleman yield?
Mr. KING of Iowa. I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania.
Mr. FATTAH. So when the gentleman references the Congress acting
three times, when you say ``the Congress,'' do you mean both Houses of
the Congress? Or, are you referring to one House?
Mr. KING of Iowa. I would have to go back and look at the record in
the Senate to give you an accurate count. I can tell you that it is an
accurate count for the House. It may not be a full three times in the
Senate.
Mr. FATTAH. I thank the gentleman, and if he would continue to yield,
we can continue for one second. Because I know that you appreciate the
construction of our government and the way the Constitution framed it.
It is not the law of the land that one House acts on something. We need
the House to act, the Senate to act, and then we need a Presidential
signature or an override by a Presidential veto.
Mr. KING of Iowa. Reclaiming my time, and thanking the gentleman from
Pennsylvania for his insight, Mr. Chairman, I would state that the
Constitution is very clear. It was very clear to the President of the
United States for 10 years while he taught it, and it was very clear
when he made his statements 22 times.
So this is the Congress reasserting itself. Our Founding Fathers
expected we would do that.
I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. FATTAH. I rise in opposition.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. FATTAH. I thank the gentleman for yielding me the time in that
colloquy. I look forward to being able to do the same in return, but I
do appreciate the opportunity to communicate with my colleague, because
I don't want anyone to misinterpret the facts here.
Every single President has acted in this area. And these actions by
this President are no different than the actions by previous Presidents
in this trade space around providing amnesty.
And what the gentleman strenuously and sincerely objects to is that
this has benefited a large number of people whom the President has a
different view of, in terms of their circumstances, because they were
brought here as young children. And the President says, well, they are
here, they went to school here, and this is the only country they know,
and they have abided by our laws, and he is granting them this ability
to stay. And the gentleman objects.
But I don't want anyone to think that the Congress has taken some
different view, because the Congress is

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two Houses--the House and the Senate--and even if both Houses were to
act, the way our laws are structured, you need a Presidential
signature.
So, in fact, one House may have a difference of opinion. When Ronald
Reagan was President, the Democrats had a difference of opinion. It
didn't change the law so that we voted in some particular way.
I don't want anyone to misinterpret the comments of my colleague as
he has articulated his sincere objections to these issues.
And then to get to the point of his amendment, what he is saying is
that it is wonderful that the judiciary is responding, they are
interpreting the law the way he thinks it should be interpreted, but
here what he wants to do is to deny the executive branch appropriate
resources to pursue its policy objectives by saying that none of the
funds here can be used by DOJ in furtherance of their position.
So I think it is fair for the House to have a view. The House is even
suing the President about his point of view on some things. But it is
unfair for us to deny the executive branch an opportunity to put forth
its arguments in court on any of these matters so that we can get a
proper ruling from the third branch of our government.
And even though there have been rulings in the gentleman's favor, he
and I both know that we are not at the final rendezvous here, and that
the wheels of justice grind slowly, but there will be a final decision
probably by the highest court in the land. But we should not deny the
DOJ an opportunity to go into court and argue the administration's
position. I think that would be unfair.
Therefore, I oppose this amendment, and I reserve the balance of my
time.
Mr. CULBERSON. I move to strike the last word.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Chairman, I wish to speak in support of the
amendment. I strongly support Mr. King's amendment because what the
President has done is clearly illegal.
The President does not have the ability to change the law by himself.
As my good friend from Philadelphia points out, one House of Congress
cannot change the law all by itself. And similarly, the Chief Executive
cannot change the law enacted by Congress and signed by the President
all by himself.
The law is very clear that people who are in the country illegally,
who have violated the immigration laws of the United States, need to be
deported. And the President by this illegal executive action has
attempted to override the Federal law enacted by Congress and signed by
previous Presidents.
The District Court agreed that President Obama's action is illegal
and that an injunction lies against it. The District Court suspended
the President's executive order because it was illegal. The Federal
Court of Appeals in New Orleans suspended the President's executive
order because it was illegal. We expect the full Fifth Circuit Court of
Appeals to suspend the President's executive order because it is
illegal. We expect the Supreme Court to suspend the President's order
because it is illegal, because the Constitution clearly says that as
chief executive you have an obligation to faithfully execute the laws
of the United States.

You cannot make a law all by yourself with the stroke of a pen. And
that is exactly what President Obama has done. In addition, it has
placed an incredibly unaffordable financial burden on the people of
Texas, the people of Tennessee, and the people of all the States of the
Union that would have to deal with these folks that are here illegally.
All that we ask is that the law be enforced. All that we ask is that
the law be respected, because, as our Founding Fathers understood, the
law is the foundation of all of our liberty. Without law enforcement,
there can be no liberty. Because there is just simply anarchy. If you
look at northern Mexico today, it is in a complete state of anarchy.
Mexico is essentially a failed state because they have no law
enforcement.
In the United States of America we cannot expect to preserve this
great Republic handed down to us by our Founders without enforcing the
law. The fundamental question that this lawsuit, Texas v. United
States, is pursuing--and winning--is respect for the rule of law as the
foundation for all our liberties.
So I strongly support Mr. King's amendment as an important tool in
the ongoing effort to overturn the President's illegal executive
amnesty. We expect the Supreme Court will stand behind the State of
Texas and agree that the President's order must be suspended because it
is illegal, because without law enforcement, without respect for the
law, there can be no liberty. That is the issue here.
I strongly support the gentleman's amendment, and I yield back the
balance of my time.
Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I would just reiterate that the
President of the United States has signed a document. It is a November
20 document that says that he is going to impose executive amnesty.
This House disagrees. Many in the Senate also disagree.
They have been chasing down an expensive rabbit trail to advance an
operation of imposing amnesty in the United States of America, in
contravention of our laws.
This Congress is reserved the right by the Constitution to write
immigration law, and our Founding Fathers imagined we would jealously
guard that power. That is what this amendment is about.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I think that we are at a point where it is
difficult to reconcile what we are trying to do here--that is, in an
appropriations bill--with these policy riders.
Now, I have heard my chairman claim that the President of the United
States has done things that are illegal three or four times. I think
that that kind of language is not useful in the debate, nor is it
factual, because I think that the President has been acting well in
concert with the precedents of former Presidents who have provided
clemency and amnesty.
And I have heard Members like Mr. King criticize those other
Presidents who have provided amnesty, like Ronald Reagan and others,
and I have never heard anyone claim that President Reagan acted
illegally in those matters. So I find it unusual that we would be in
this type of circumstance.
I heard the chairman run through a litany in which he also has the
Supreme Court finally make some decision, which they have obviously not
done yet.
So I would like to try to get back on the tracks of moving an
appropriations bill. And the point that we have to understand here is
that, if we are a coequal branch of the government--that is, the
President is coequal to us, but we are one-half of the Congress--then
the idea that what the House says goes is nonsensical.
Mr. KING of Iowa. Will the gentleman yield?
Mr. FATTAH. I yield to the gentleman.
Mr. KING of Iowa. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
I would just make the point that this Congress passed an amnesty act
in 1986, and Ronald Reagan signed that. It was an act of Congress that
brought amnesty in 1986. I think it was a mistake, but I believe it was
constitutional.
Mr. FATTAH. Reclaiming my time, I appreciate the gentleman's point.
Like I was saying, it is nonsensical to assume that whatever the
unfettered action of the House is, that it, number one, represents the
action of the Congress, because it doesn't. We have two Houses. We have
a Senate and a House. And then we are coequal to the President, but the
President has certain rights provided to him under the Constitution.
If you find no exception in the actions of other Presidents, it is
unusual that we would have such enthusiastic language in condemnation
of this President's very similar actions.
I yield back the balance of my time.
The Acting CHAIR. 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.
Mr. FATTAH. 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.

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Amendment Offered by Mr. King of Iowa

Mr. KING of Iowa. 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 negotiate or finalize a trade agreement that
includes provisions relating to visas issued under section
101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.
1101(a)(15)). The limitation described in this section shall
not apply in the case of the administration of a tax or
tariff.

The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, 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 amendment addresses the
circumstances around the trade promotion authority and later on,
perhaps, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but it also addresses any of
our trade negotiations that might take place that would be funded under
this bill.
The rationale is that there has been much concern about the
negotiations with regard to trade promotion authority in particular,
enabling the discussion about immigration visas as being part of the
trade negotiations.
It is a longstanding pattern and practice of this Congress to assert
our constitutional authority over immigration visas. When our U.S.
Trade Representative or other negotiators bring in negotiations that
have to do with visas, it complicates our trade negotiations and puts
us in a place where, when we see a trade agreement come before us,
perhaps it is under a trade promotion authority that would be
negotiated and this House votes on it, then it may well have within it
visa agreements that have been negotiated with the multiple countries
and taking out of the hands of Congress the ability to directly
establish, although there is an indirect inference, but directly
establish our immigration policy.
A lot of the opposition to the trade negotiations that have been
taking place in the Trans-Pacific Partnership have been about concerns
of news reports that have come from places likes Australia that have
pointed out that there are negotiations going on that have to do with
visas.
There was a circumstance several years ago, under a previous
administration, where they had negotiated immigration provisions in a
trade agreement, and even though it was a nonamendable trade agreement,
we went before the Judiciary Committee and had a full hearing. I
offered two amendments that passed, and ultimately, there were changes
made in that agreement. There is a long history on this with me.
It has been an important issue to maintain the separation of
immigration policy and the Congress from the executive branch
negotiations in trade. That is what this amendment does. It says no
immigrant visas will be negotiated in trade agreements. That means all
of them.
Again, the Constitution enumerates this power to the Congress, not
the executive branch. I urge its adoption.
I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to this
amendment.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. FATTAH. I think that the hopes of having some bipartisan support
for this bill is waning. I think it is very unfortunate that we are now
at a point where we are trying to intrude in an entirely different area
of the President's prerogatives. He can negotiate all he wants.
Now, I may not support what he negotiates, but to say you can't even
discuss something in a negotiation, I think, is unfortunate.
I am in opposition, and I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, may I inquire as to how much time I
have remaining?
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Iowa has 2\1/2\ minutes
remaining.
Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I would reiterate this point, that
this Congress and a lot of the American people lack confidence in the
negotiations of our President. A lot of this angst has flowed forth
from the Iranian negotiations and their march towards a nuclear
capability that has undermined his credibility and made it
significantly more difficult for a Congress that is in favor of trade,
especially on my side of the aisle.
I am a natural-born free trader. I have always believed that I can
compete with anybody in the world, and I think America and American
companies can compete with anyone in the world. I think that we need to
have a level playing field.
What is happening is that lack of confidence in the President's
negotiations and the willingness to, I believe, give away some of the
positions that would better enhance our national security with regard
to Iran, in particular, has made it far more difficult for those like
me, who are pro-free trade, pro-smart trade, and because of that and
the discussions about immigration visas being part of the negotiations
and the indications from other countries that that is taking place, the
secrecy around these negotiations is another component of it.
When we have to go into a secure room and give up our iPhone and
leave our notes there in order to be able to see what the
administration will present us as far as these negotiations are
concerned, it is hard to have confidence that we are getting all of the
straight story.
This is a way to put some containment around the negotiations. If the
administration says there are no visas being negotiated, there should
be no reason to oppose this amendment. That is really the bottom line.
If the administration opposes my amendment, that is a strong
indication that they are not giving us the full story, but we are
getting more of the full story from places like Australia.
I urge the adoption of my amendment, and I reserve the balance of my
time.
Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I continue to reserve the balance of my
time.
Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, may I inquire as to the time
remaining, please?
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Iowa has 45 seconds remaining.
Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the balance of my time
here and reiterate that this amendment addresses a lack of trust that
these trade negotiations are focused on the things that trades are
supposed to be discussed about.
I have a strong suspicion that they have included immigration visas
in their trade agreements. This amendment is drafted consistent with
the position of this Congress that immigration should not be part of
trade negotiations.
If the administration says that it is not part of trade negotiations,
they should say, Fine, I am happy to support the King amendment; and
they will be happy to prove it in that fashion.
Meanwhile, a lot of us are not going to a secure room to see if there
is anything in there, and we won't know what is presented to the this
Congress until it is too late to resist.
Mr. Chairman, I urge adoption of my amendment, and I yield back the
balance of my time.
Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, let me assure the House I have no intention
of taking 4\1/2\ minutes to make the comments that I intend to make.
I was at SelectUSA, which is a gathering of people that the
administration has brought together from around the world who were
businesspeople and about investments in America. I was there with a
number of Members of the U.S. Senate, Senator Nelson and others.
I got a chance at the lunch to sit next to a gentleman who has
businesses in the United States--manufacturing businesses--and in South
Africa and his home country in Asia and a number of other places.
He was saying that, when he travels to America, even though he has
got 3,000 employees here, it is almost impossible for him to get the
kind of visas and to get back and forth post-9/11 that can make it an
efficient business trip for him. It requires such advance planning and
so on.
I could imagine, in a negotiation, that there could be some
consideration when there is a person who has got a multinational
business and is employing Americans in Iowa or some other

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State about their entry and exit from our country. In fact, he
indicated that, in these other countries, he has such arrangements,
just not in our own. I think that America has got to think about where
it is on these issues.
This is not the appropriate bill for this. This is a bill to
determine the appropriation levels that we are going to fund in certain
accounts. We are well off the tracks, and I hope that we vote this
amendment down. I am opposed to it.
I yield back the balance of my time.
The Acting CHAIR. 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.
Mr. FATTAH. 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 Mr. King of Iowa

Mr. KING of Iowa. 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
under the heading ``Department of Justice--Office of Justice
Programs--State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance'' may be
used in contravention of section 642(a) of the Illegal
Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
(8 U.S.C. 1373(a)).

The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, 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, my amendment eliminates the funding
that might be used in contravention of section 642(a) that is
designated in the amendment.
642(a) is the section in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant
Responsibility Act of 1996, as I know it, that prohibits the political
subdivisions in America from establishing sanctuary policies we often
refer to as sanctuary cities. These are the political subdivisions that
establish a policy that prohibit their law enforcement officers and
their other agents from cooperating with Federal immigration officials.
It seems illogical to me to think that any local government would
want to prohibit their law enforcement officers from assisting in,
cooperating with, and transferring information to the Federal law
enforcement officers who are enforcing immigration law.
That section, it reads, in part, but with the thought being contained
here: ``Notwithstanding,'' the language says, ``the political
subdivisions may not prohibit, or in any way restrict any government
entity or official from sending to or receiving from the INS''--at the
time, that is ICE today--``information regarding the citizenship or
immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.''
Mr. Chairman, I grew up in a law enforcement family. I looked at the
men around me as a little boy, and I just thought that all adult men
put on a uniform of some kind or another. I was steeped in respect for
the supreme law of the land--the Constitution--and the rule of law.
When there was an issue that came forward, whether it was a bank
robbery or some tragedy that took place, all levels of law enforcement
cooperated with all other levels of law enforcement. No one that was a
member of the city police said: I am not going to be serving papers
here because that is the county's job.
No county deputy decided that he wouldn't pull somebody over for
speeding because that was the city speed limit on a city street. No
highway patrol officer decided that he wouldn't enforce local law.
No one that came in from the Division of Criminal Investigation or
the FBI decided that it was their bailiwick, that it was exclusively
their law to enforce and that no one should help them with that.
Law enforcement, to be effective, has to be a cooperation from all
levels; and, of course, the public has to respect the rule of law; and
they have to respect those who are there to protect and serve and to
also enforce that law.
For me, I cannot understand how or why a city would establish these
policies, but they are doing so. In the process of that, they are
undermining the rule of law and eroding the respect for the rule of law
and leaving their citizens vulnerable, when we could be helping them
with Federal officers who need to get this information.
This is an amendment that has been offered in multiple years. It has
passed this House multiple times. The number that I saw last year with
the identical language passed the House by a vote of 214-94.
We have been consistent in defending the rule of law. This amendment
says that no funds shall go to these political subdivisions from this
bill, if they establish sanctuary city policies, to put it in short
summation.
I urge its adoption, and I reserve the balance of my time.

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Mr. COSTA. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the
amendment.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. COSTA. Mr. Chairman, the description of the amendment, as we
understand it, prohibits the use of these funds that contravene section
642 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act
of 1996.
The facts are that the States and localities around the country that
have adopted laws and policies to limit immigration enforcement by law
enforcement are focused on protecting public safety. We have this in
California. We have it in many border States. There is a level of
cooperation that does take place between local law enforcement agencies
as well as our Federal enforcement officers.
Surely, we don't believe it is good public policy to force an
unwanted role upon police through the threat of sanctions, which is
what this amendment does, or withholding police funding. Frankly, if
you believe in Federalism and if you believe in that relationship
between local, State, and Federal Government, this is really top-down
and I think runs contrary to the notion that law enforcement agencies
at all levels collaborate and cooperate.
Holding this sort of a sword of Damocles, so to speak, over the head
of local law enforcement agencies simply, I think, is not good public
policy.
In an op-ed piece that was published in Roll Call last year, the
police chief of Dayton, Ohio, explained why his department instructs
its officers not to check the immigration status of witnesses and
victims or to question their status in minor traffic stops.
He says:

These policies allow us to focus our limited resources on
our primary mission, which is crime solving and community
safety.

We know that local law enforcement agencies are clearly stretched
very thin across the country. They also said victims of crimes should
never be afraid to reach out for help due to the fear of immigration
consequences because, notwithstanding the fact of their status, crimes
are perpetrated upon these people as well.
Since Dayton adopted these policies and innovative ways of addressing
crime problems, their crime rates have significantly declined; and, in
the past 3 years, serious crime has declined nearly 22 percent, while
serious property crime has gone down 15 percent. It is simply, we
believe, perverse to punish communities that want to prioritize because
they know best what their challenges are within their communities to
protect the public against crime and to enact community-based policing
activities. To deny them this funding through this threat of the SCAAP
funds simply is, we believe, inappropriate.
Finally, I think that this amendment focuses on a problem that
doesn't exist.
With those statements, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word to speak
in support of the amendment.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Chairman, the objection of the gentleman from
California (Mr. Costa) to this amendment is that he does not believe
current Federal law is good public policy. As a Member of Congress, he
has the privilege of filing amendments and filing

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legislation to change current Federal legislation, but we cannot, as
lawmakers, encourage law breaking.
All the amendment of the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King) says is that
if a local or State government expects to receive Federal money, they
should comply with Federal law. It is really that simple.
Mr. King's amendment simply says that, if you expect to receive
funding from the Department of Justice, if you expect to receive
funding under the SCAAP program--the State Criminal Alien Assistance
Program--to compensate local jurisdictions for housing illegal aliens
who have broken State law and are housed in a State or local jail at
local taxpayer expense, if you want to be compensated for that and if
you want to apply for grant funding from the Department of Justice, all
Mr. King's amendment says is follow Federal law. If you want Federal
money, follow Federal law.
The Federal law is very clear. The law Mr. King is referencing here
is very simple. It simply says that a State or local government may not
prohibit or in any way restrict a government entity or official from
sending or receiving any information regarding the citizenship or
immigration status of any individual to the Immigration Services. That
is all this law says.
It is a very important piece of law because, as the gentleman from
Iowa (Mr. King) quite correctly points out, we expect all our local and
State and Federal law enforcement officials to work together
seamlessly.
Because we are a Nation of laws, we understand that all our liberty
depends on the enforcement of the law, with equal protection and due
process for everyone. All our liberties depend on local, State, and
Federal law enforcement officers using their good hearts, their good
sense, and their ability, as law enforcement officers, to recognize
when and where they need to cooperate and communicate with the State
law enforcement officials, with Federal law enforcement officials to
protect the life and liberty of the people of the United States. That
is what is really at stake here.
That is the objection that we have had to the President's unlawful
actions. That is the concern and the objection we have in the State of
Texas to the uncontrolled flow of people and drugs and guns and illegal
material across the border. Our concern is not with the lawful free
flow of people back and forth over the Rio Grande River. Our concern is
with the illegal, criminal conduct.
We recognize in Texas the importance of free trade with Mexico and
with Canada, but you cannot have free trade and a strong economy
without safe streets, and you cannot have safe streets until the law is
enforced. We in Texas, first and foremost, recognize that, in order to
have that good relationship with Mexico, the law has got to be
enforced.
We need workers from Mexico to come here lawfully. We need our laws
to be respected so that we can ensure the economy stays strong, so that
our liberty is protected. Our liberty can only be safe when the law is
enforced.
All Mr. King's amendment says is, if you expect to receive Federal
money, follow Federal law. It is not complicated. That is very, very
simple. Under the law that has been on the books since 1996, a State or
local unit of government cannot restrict in any way the ability of a
government official to either send information to Immigration Services
or receive information from Federal immigration regarding the
citizenship or unlawful status of any individual.
If my colleague from California (Mr. Costa) objects to that law, it
is his privilege, as a Member of Congress, to file an amendment or file
legislation to amend it or change it. In the meantime, our
responsibility as lawmakers and my responsibility as chairman of the
Commerce, Justice, Science Subcommittee is to ensure that the law is
enforced.

If agencies of the Federal Government or State or local governments
expect to receive Federal money, if they expect to have the privilege
of spending our constituents' hard-earned tax dollars, they should
expect to follow the law.
If you want Federal money, follow Federal law. It is that simple.
That is all Mr. King's amendment does, and I urge Members to support
it.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I want to reiterate the positions
that were taken by the gentleman from Texas. We have political
subdivisions, primarily, as sanctuary cities that are violating Federal
law, and all we are saying is follow the law.
The point hasn't been made here that the Department of Justice could
enforce this law, but they choose not to, and that empowers the
political subdivisions, particularly the cities that continue to
advance these sanctuary policies.
Can you imagine being a police officer and being told that, if you
pick up people who are unlawfully present in America, that you can't
tell the INS--even if you are having coffee with them--that you have
got a jail full of people who are unlawfully present in America that
are required by law to be placed into removal proceedings? That is just
illogical.
I would point out that, if you disagree with this section of the
code, you are here in this Congress, bring a bill to try to change it.
In the meanwhile, I am for full funding of the SCAAP funding. I think
that, when we have people in the country and we are not enforcing
immigration law, we should make sure that local jails are funded when
they are picking up people that are unlawfully present in America.
I support the Byrne JAG grants. I want to give that to them, but we
cannot do that under provisions if the local subdivisions are violating
law.
Then with regard to the statement that this is a problem that doesn't
exist--no, it is a problem that exists all over this country. It is
growing. It is replete in city after city. We need to restore respect
for the rule of law. That is what this amendment does. I urge its
adoption.
I yield back the balance of my time.
The Acting CHAIR. 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.
Mr. KING of Iowa. 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 Mr. Luetkemeyer

Mr. LUETKEMEYER. 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
be used to carry out the program known as ``Operation Choke
Point''.

The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman
from Missouri and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Missouri.
Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Mr. Chairman, question: How does the Federal
Government get rid of an industry it doesn't like?
Answer: Simple, it cuts off that industry from the financial services
sector.
Sounds impossible, doesn't it? However, that is exactly what the
Department of Justice is doing in conjunction with the FDIC right now.
Their name for this action is called Operation Choke Point. It is
designed to force legally operating entities out of business by choking
them off from the financial services they need to operate their
businesses.
What started with nondepository lenders has spread to other
industries, including pawn shops, tobacco retailers, and the firearms
and ammunition industries, to name just a few, as well as the
businesses that provide services and products to these industries.
This amendment would ensure that Operation Choke Point is ended and
that the DOJ returns to their proper job, targeting companies based on
fraudulent actions, not entire industries based on political motive. An
identical amendment was offered by a bipartisan group of lawmakers
during fiscal year 2015 debate, and it was passed by voice vote.
This isn't a partisan issue. This is an issue of DOJ abusing its
authorities. I urge support for this amendment.

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I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Williams).
Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Chair, soon, we will vote to end funding for a
government program that is, at best, unethical and, at worst, illegal.
The program known as Operation Choke Point forces banks to discriminate
against legitimate, legal businesses.
Today, we know that banks are closing their customers' accounts under
a directive by the U.S. Department of Justice. There is no appeals
process.
That is right; the enforcer of the law of the land is backing this
potentially unlawful program. Hard-working American businessowners are
having their livelihoods ripped out from under them by a law
established by this administration, not by Congress.
Operation Choke Point is another example of how the Obama
administration has gone around Congress to create laws, rather than do
their job to enforce the laws we already have on the books.
As a businessowner myself, Operation Choke Point worries me greatly.
Operation Choke Point is un-American. It is deceiving and simply wrong.
It is time this Congress uses its power of the purse to rein in
government overreach and restore government accountability.
I urge my colleagues to support this amendment to defund Operation
Choke Point.
In God we trust.
Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5
minutes.

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Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, now I think that there may be some
mutuality of interest if what the gentleman says is true about what is
at stake here. However, this is not a process in which we can discern
all of that at this moment. This is an appropriations bill. I think
that this is probably an area where the Congress should hold some
hearings and look into it, take some testimony and figure out exactly
what is going on before we would shut down what might be a very
important program.
It may be, as the gentleman describes, that is something where DOJ is
just moving in ways that make little or no sense. But I think that to
come at the final point in the bill and seek to restrict DOJ in this
way, I would be reluctant to support it, and therefore, I stand in
opposition to it.
Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman
from South Carolina (Mr. Mulvaney).
Mr. MULVANEY. I thank my friend, Mr. Luetkemeyer, and I thank the
chairman. What we are up here talking about is a program where the
government is trying to put legal businesses out of business--that is
what Operation Choke Point is--legal businesses that some people don't
like especially within the administration, pawnshops, payday lenders,
ammunition manufacturers, gun shops, but legal businesses.
With all due respect to my friend from Pennsylvania, we have had
hearings on this. In fact, the Department of Justice has claimed they
have stopped this program. They have agreed with us that they shouldn't
be doing this. Now, we don't believe they are actually doing that. We
have indications from what is happening back in our districts that even
though the Department of Justice says they have stopped Operation Choke
Point, that it is still going on.
So here is my question, Mr. Chairman: Who supports this program? The
Department of Justice says it is wrong. The Department of Justice says
it is not even doing it. So who would get up here on this floor and
say: ``I think Operation Choke Point is a great idea. I think we should
go ahead and continue to use means within the Department of Justice to
drive legal businesses out of business''? I'm not really sure how you
defend that position.
This is real for me in my district, Mr. Chairman. I have a woman-
owned business in my home county who cannot get money to expand her
pawnshop. I have businesses elsewhere in South Carolina that have a
little tiny piece of their large financial services business in payday
lending. They have been cut off from their financial relationships of
25 years. They can't get banking services. That is why the DOJ said
they were going to stop. We just don't happen to believe them.
Mr. Chairman, we should support this amendment because it is the
appropriate thing to do, to my good friend from Pennsylvania, because
that is how we work. We defund programs that we don't like. And if the
DOJ says they are not doing it anyway, what is the harm in voting for
the amendment?
So I would ask again, who could possibly be against the amendment?
Who could possibly be for Operation Choke Point?
I hope we have overwhelming and broad support for Mr. Luetkemeyer's
amendment later on this evening.
Mr. FATTAH. I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from
Missouri (Mr. Luetkemeyer) for purposes of a colloquy.
Since the Republicans are in the majority, you have held hearings on
this. Is there legislation that is coming forward to end these
practices?
I yield to the gentleman.
Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Yes. There have been hearings in the Financial
Services Committee. There also have been hearings in the Oversight and
Government Reform Committee. In fact, the Oversight and Government
Reform Committee has an extensive report on both the DOJ and FDIC
activities that include emails and internal memos from those agencies
indicating these activities. They can't be denied. They admit this in
discussions with the FDIC. In a follow-up hearing to the report, they
admit doing this. They have put in place a number of provisions of a
bill that I am offering.
Mr. FATTAH. Let me restate my question.
Is there legislation coming forward that would end the practice?
Mr. LUETKEMEYER. That is what I was getting to.
As a result of these reports, we have come up with a bill. I have a
bill filed. It will be coming up later on this month for a hearing in
committee.
The FDIC has put in place many of the same provisions of the bill
already as protocols for their operations on how they handle situations
like this. I think we are making progress.
The problem is that DOJ has flipped the model of using FIRREA, which
is a bank law that banks use to protect themselves against fraud, to
now use that law against them. As a result, we need to stop that. That
is part of the bill as well.
Mr. FATTAH. Reclaiming my time, I appreciate your answering my
question.
So what I hear is that you held some hearings, that you have
legislation, that you are making progress, and that the administration
has already curtailed some of these practices that you are concerned
about. However, you would still like to proceed with this prohibition
of funds which might be entirely appropriate.
I don't have enough information, standing here today, to agree with
you that that is the right thing to do, so I stand in opposition to the
amendment even though I may not be, in spirit, in opposition to what it
is that you are attempting to do. I just don't have enough information
to join you in this effort as robustly as you are engaged in it.
Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. LUETKEMEYER. How much time do I have remaining, Mr. Chairman?
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Missouri has 30 seconds
remaining.
Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Mr. Chairman, I just want to reiterate that I think
my two other spokespeople here, with regards to this, have expressed
concern.
There are businesses across this country that are being choked off
from financial services, and as a result, they are doing legal business
but yet not being able to do that business because of the actions of
the FDIC and the DOJ, which the OGR report indicates that they are
doing. They admit this wrongdoing in different committee hearings as
well as meetings on campus here. What we are trying to do is protect
legal businesses to be able to continue to do a legal business
Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.

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The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the
gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Luetkemeyer).
The amendment was agreed to.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Denham

Mr. DENHAM. Mr. Chairman, I rise to offer an amendment.
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 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration to implement in the California Central Valley
Recovery Domain any existing recovery plan for salmon and
steelhead populations listed under the Endangered Species Act
of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) as threatened species or
endangered species if that recovery plan does not address
predation by non-native species.

The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman
from California and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California.
Mr. DENHAM. Mr. Chairman, this amendment will help protect native
salmon and steelhead species in California. My amendment would increase
the effectiveness of recovery plans for species of salmon and steelhead
listed under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 by ensuring an
appropriate focus on predation control efforts.
Predation has long been recognized as a source of significant
mortality for endangered and threatened species. In fact, according to
NOAA, nonnative species are cited as a cause of endangerment for 48
percent of the species listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
This is especially true for marine species, and along the Pacific coast
salmon and steelhead juveniles.
Recently, the National Marine Fisheries Service found protection of
salmon and steelhead required ``significantly reducing the nonnative
predatory fishes,'' and that reducing the number of nonnative predatory
fishes was necessary to ``prevent extinction or to prevent the species
from declining irreversibly.''
In my own State, as far back as 1995, the State Water Resources
Control Board recommended in its water quality control plan for the Bay
Delta that the State and Federal fish agencies pursue programs to
determine the impacts of predation by nonnative fish on salmon and
steelhead. Unfortunately, despite such recognition, nothing has been
done, and there are currently no programs in California to remove these
nonnative predator fish.
Today in California, species such as the nonnative striped bass,
introduced into California from New Jersey, consume up to 95 percent of
the salmon and steelhead juveniles along the Sacramento and San Joaquin
River System. These bass are not suppressed but, rather, managed by
local State officials for abundance and sport fishing.
Mr. Chairman, predator control efforts can and do work. Currently,
control of predator fish is being successfully used in a number of
locations in North America. In the Great Lakes, control efforts of sea
lamprey have reduced predation on lake trout, whitefish, salmon,
rainbow trout, and others. In the Wood River System of Alaska, control
of the arctic char reduced predation on sockeye salmon. In the Columbia
and Snake Rivers, control of pike minnow reduced predation on salmon.
In Cultus Lake, British Columbia, sockeye salmon increased after an
eradication program focusing on pike minnow.
Recovering threatened and endangered salmon and steelhead populations
has been a critical priority for Congress for years. This amendment
simply ensures that controlling nonnative predators is a top priority
for NOAA and all other stakeholders interested in maintaining healthy
and sustainable salmon and steelhead populations.
Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition to the
amendment even though my opposition is not as apparent as it might
otherwise be.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from
California (Mr. Costa), my great colleague here.
Mr. COSTA. Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank the gentlemen from
California and from Pennsylvania for allowing me this time, and the
gentleman from California for offering this important amendment.
Let me give a little perspective here. Clearly, everyone is aware of
the disastrous drought that is having catastrophic impacts in
California, not only in the San Joaquin Valley but throughout the
State. There are a number of factors that have caused the challenges
that we face with a lack of water in California. Obviously, it hasn't
rained very much or snowed very much in the mountains for 4 years.
In addition to that, we have a broken water system in the sense that,
designed in the fifties and the sixties, both the Federal and State
water projects, for a State of 20 million people, today we have 38
million people, and we have a lot of demands not only for the use of
agriculture, but for people in our cities and for the environment.
Mr. Chairman, this amendment relates to our requirements under the
law to protect the environment, those endangered species, salmonoid and
steelhead that are native to California.
What happened is some 100 years ago, before we had a better
understanding and before California was a much bigger State, there was
the introduction of striped bass from the East Coast, bound from the
Gulf of Saint Lawrence Seaway all the way down to Alabama. These are
native fish on the East Coast, but they were not native to California.
They were introduced in a small number but became very successful in
propagation, so much so that in the early 1900s, after 10 years of
introduction, over 1 million pounds a year was being harvested of these
nonnative striped bass fish in the San Francisco Bay-San Joaquin-
Sacramento-Delta River systems.
The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I yield the gentleman an additional 2
minutes.
Mr. COSTA. As I was saying, Mr. Chairman, the fact is that the State
has changed a great deal to present day. The current water system is
unable to meet the demands under the current restrictions that are
required under the Endangered Species Act to maintain and to try to
increase the population of salmonoid and steelhead.
We have determined, as my colleague and friend from California
stated, that these fish, these predator fish, are responsible for a
large amount of the takings of both the native California salmon and
steelhead, and yet we have no program to balance this.
What this amendment would do is it simply requires that for a
recovery plan to be effective, it must incorporate and address all
factors involved in species recovery, those of particularly high
concern.
Some of the studies have indicated on the Sacramento River over 95
percent of the juvenile salmon and steelhead are eaten by these
predator striped bass, these nonnative fish and other invasive species.
This amendment ensures that the recovery plan for endangered salmon and
steelhead takes these factors into account, including the predation by
the nonnative species such as striped bass.
Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to support the amendment of the
gentleman from California.

{time} 1730

Mr. DENHAM. Mr. Chairman, how much time do I have remaining?
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 2 minutes
remaining.
Mr. DENHAM. Mr. Chairman, I would just like to point out one thing.
Turlock Irrigation District, which is in my district, was forced to do
a federally ordered study which actually showed, on the lower Tuolumne,
42,000 snook were killed by nonnative fish. This nearly eliminated the
entire population. This is a federally ordered study.
With that, I yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from
California.
Mr. VALADAO. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from California for
offering this very important amendment.
When you look at what is going on in Central Valley, my hometown, and
you hear stories--and I see for myself because I was there this past
week--cities, houses, running out of water, wells

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going dry. There was a news article a couple of days ago about a city
in my district named Lemoore where wells are going dry that supply
homes there the south side of town. That is a frustrating situation.
We fought for the last couple of years to bring legislation to the
floor. We delivered it to the Senate a few times to help resolve this.
What makes this more frustrating than anything is we have got a
situation here where we could actually make a difference. There are
studies here that prove that 95 percent of the fish that we are trying
to protect are being eaten by species that we are doing nothing about.
The tools are there.
This is a simple amendment that actually helps deliver and force
these agencies which should be looking out for the best interests of
the people of the United States, it forces them to actually use every
single tool in their toolbox to actually address the situation instead
of wasting water.
When I saw the story not too long ago about water being diverted or
released in these pulse flows to trick some of our species to try to
protect instead of actually doing something to make a difference, it is
a waste of water that could have made a real difference for the people
in my district, people who are unemployed. We are starting to see
unemployment numbers again upwards of 50 percent in some of these
communities, houses where they are actually delivering water by truck
so they can bathe. This is a real dire situation.
This amendment is a step in the right direction that actually allows
these government agencies which, again, are supposed to take the
interests of the American people at heart first to use all the tools in
their toolbox.
This is a good idea, this is a good amendment, and this really truly
makes a difference.
Again, thank you for this amendment, and I urge support.
Mr. DENHAM. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the
gentleman from California (Mr. Denham).
The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes
appeared to have it.
Mr. FATTAH. 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 California
will be postponed.

Vacating Demand for Recorded Vote on Amendment Offered by Mr. King of
Iowa

Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chair, an amendment was passed, King No. 077, and
passed by a voice vote. I requested a recorded vote. I ask unanimous
consent that my request for a recorded vote on the amendment that it be
withdrawn and allow the voice vote on which it passed to be the fact.
The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
The Clerk redesignated the amendment.
The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the request for a recorded vote
is withdrawn. Accordingly, the ayes have it and the amendment is agreed
to.
There was no objection.
Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. FATTAH. We have arrived at our final moment in this bill where my
colleague from New York, who is an extraordinary Member, has a very
important amendment to offer.
I yield back the balance of my time.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Jeffries

Mr. JEFFRIES. 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 for the monitoring or review of electronic
communications between an inmate and attorney or attorney's
agents who are traditionally covered by attorney client
privilege except as provided in 28 CFR 501.3(d).

The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman
from New York and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from New York.
Mr. JEFFRIES. Mr. Chairman, I thank the distinguished gentleman, the
ranking member from Pennsylvania, for his leadership.
This amendment would prohibit the use of funds in connection with the
monitoring or review of electronic communications between an inmate
detainee and his or her attorney or attorney's agents who are
traditionally covered by the attorney-client privilege, except in
circumstances where reasonable suspicion exists that a particular
inmate's communications with attorneys or their agents may be designed
to further or facilitate acts of terrorism.
This amendment is designed to protect the legally sacrosanct
attorney-client privilege. It would protect the Sixth Amendment right
to counsel of individuals who are using electronic communications to
share privileged information with their designated court advocate.
The attorney-client privilege is one of the oldest recognized
privileges in American jurisprudence. It is intended to encourage the
full and frank communication between attorneys and their clients and
thereby promote the broader public interests in the observance of the
law and the administration of justice. It, of course, is anchored in
the Sixth Amendment.
Currently, in-person attorney visitations in facilities that are run
by the Bureau of Prisons can take place in attorney-client rooms which
provide the privacy to share information necessary for a lawyer to
adequately defend his or her client in court.
However, this is not the case for correspondence collected through
electronic means. Waiver notices in Federal prisons vary from facility
to facility, with some having clearly posted notices which state that
by using the Trust Fund Limited Inmate Computer System, otherwise known
as TRULINCS, inmates are waiving their privilege rights. Other
facilities, however, provide no indication on the level of privacy that
a detained individual can expect when using electronic prison
resources.
The TRULINCS system also does not provide an option for a detained
individual who hasn't been convicted to contact his or her attorney
without subjecting electronic communications to external review.
The reading and collecting of privileged information in instances
where clients are having electronic exchanges with their attorneys is a
clear invasion of the traditional attorney-client privilege.
In this great country, there is a presumption of innocence, as one of
our Founding Fathers, John Adams, has eloquently set forth. It is a
foundational principle of our democracy.
It seems unreasonable to require in the 21st century that protection
of the attorney-client privilege at a detention center only occurs
through in-person visitation. These correctional facilities are often
located in distant locations that cannot be easily accessed. We live in
an era of modern technology and communication. The technology is
available in these facilities, and our laws should reflect and adapt to
the modern age.
This amendment would prohibit the prison system from compromising the
attorney-client privilege, as anchored in the Sixth Amendment
constitutional right to assistance of counsel.
For that reason, I urge my colleagues to support it, and I reserve
the balance of my time.
Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition, although
I am not in opposition.
The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Texas is
recognized for 5 minutes.
There was no objection.
Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Chairman, the gentleman from New York is prepared
to withdraw the amendment. We will work together to resolve this
problem, so I do claim the time in opposition.
I think the gentleman from New York has raised a very valid concern.
Certainly we do not want to see any exception to the attorney-client
privilege. It can't be limited to just those circumstances where an
attorney is actually present with the individual

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interviewing him at the facility. I think the gentleman has identified
a legitimate problem that we need to address.
As I discussed with Mr. Jeffries earlier, we got the language very
late, and I want to be certain that we are not creating any
unanticipated problems. Mr. Jeffries wants to be sure to exclude the
very reasonable exception in current law that if a court order, on a
finding of a judge, sees that there is potential or reasonable cause
for concern that there may be furtherance of a terrorist plot in the
course of those communications between an attorney and a client, the
Department of Justice would have the right under that court order to
listen to that conversation.
We want to make sure that we protect that exception but make sure we
take care of the one he has identified, so if I could, with my
colleague from Philadelphia Mr. Jeffries' help, we appreciate, as we
just discussed earlier, if he would withdraw this amendment. I will
work with my colleague Ranking Member Fattah from Philadelphia to help
address the concern you have got when we move to conference. I think it
is a valid concern and one that we will work closely with you, sir, to
resolve.
Mr. FATTAH. Will the gentleman yield?
Mr. CULBERSON. I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania.
Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I would be happy to concur with the chair's
every utterance on this amendment that we will work together and help
facilitate what I think is a very righteous effort on behalf of
Congressman Jeffries to protect the rights of all Americans to have
privileged conversations and interactions with their attorneys so that
their rights can be fully protected.
I thank the gentleman for yielding.
Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time to hear
from my colleague from New York for the purpose of completing the
discussion.
Mr. JEFFRIES. Mr. Chairman, I thank the distinguished gentleman from
Texas and the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania for their
willingness to work together on this very important issue in terms of
the preservation of the attorney-client privilege in the detainee
context and look forward to working with the two of them and Members of
this august body to resolve this issue.
Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to withdraw the amendment at
this time.
The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman
from New York?
There was no objection.
The Acting CHAIR. The amendment is withdrawn.

=========================== NOTE ===========================

June 3, 2015, on page H3809, the following appeared: There was
no objection. ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR

The online version should be corrected to read: There was no
objection. The Acting CHAIR. The amendment is withdrawn.
ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR

========================= END NOTE =========================

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:
Amendment by Mr. Massie of Kentucky.
Amendment by Mr. Massie of Kentucky.
Amendment by Mr. Massie of Kentucky.
Amendment by Mr. Flores of Texas.
Amendment by Mr. Sanford of South Carolina.
Amendment No. 3 by Mr. King of Iowa.
Amendment by Mr. King of Iowa.
Amendment by Mr. Denham of California.
The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the time for any electronic vote
after the first vote in this series.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Massie

The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Kentucky
(Mr. Massie) 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 289,
noes 132, not voting 11, as follows:

[Roll No. 288]

AYES--289

Aguilar
Amash
Amodei
Ashford
Barr
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Benishek
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (UT)
Blum
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brady (PA)
Brat
Brooks (AL)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Buck
Bucshon
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chaffetz
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clawson (FL)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coffman
Cohen
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comstock
Connolly
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Costello (PA)
Courtney
Cramer
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Curbelo (FL)
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
Davis, Rodney
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
Dent
DeSantis
DeSaulnier
DesJarlais
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Donovan
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellison
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fleischmann
Fortenberry
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Garrett
Gibson
Goodlatte
Gowdy
Graham
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffith
Grijalva
Grothman
Guthrie
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hanna
Hardy
Harper
Hastings
Heck (NV)
Heck (WA)
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Hoyer
Huelskamp
Huffman
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt (VA)
Israel
Issa
Jeffries
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson, E. B.
Jolly
Jones
Joyce
Kaptur
Katko
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kirkpatrick
Kline
Knight
Kuster
Labrador
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Lofgren
Loudermilk
Love
Lowenthal
Lowey
Luetkemeyer
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lummis
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Marchant
Massie
Matsui
McClintock
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
McSally
Meeks
Meng
Messer
Mooney (WV)
Moore
Moulton
Mulvaney
Murphy (FL)
Murphy (PA)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Newhouse
Nolan
Norcross
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Paulsen
Payne
Perlmutter
Perry
Peterson
Pingree
Pocan
Poe (TX)
Polis
Price (NC)
Price, Tom
Quigley
Rangel
Reed
Ribble
Rice (NY)
Rice (SC)
Richmond
Rigell
Rogers (AL)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Ros-Lehtinen
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Ruppersberger
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Sanchez, Loretta
Sanford
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Schweikert
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sherman
Shimkus
Simpson
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (MO)
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stefanik
Stutzman
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tipton
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Tsongas
Upton
Valadao
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wenstrup
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (FL)
Woodall
Yarmuth
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke

NOES--132

Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Babin
Barletta
Barton
Bishop (MI)
Black
Blackburn
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Bridenstine
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Burgess
Bustos
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Cole
Conaway
Cook
Crawford
Crenshaw
Culberson
Denham
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gibbs
Gohmert
Gosar
Granger
Graves (LA)
Guinta
Harris
Hartzler
Hensarling
Hill
Holding
Hudson
Huizenga (MI)
Hurd (TX)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jordan
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
Loebsack
Long
Lucas
Lynch
MacArthur
Marino
McCarthy
McCaul
McCollum
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meadows
Meehan
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mullin
Neugebauer
Noem
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Pearce
Pelosi
Peters
Pittenger
Pitts
Poliquin
Pompeo
Posey
Ratcliffe
Reichert
Renacci
Roby
Rogers (KY)
Rooney (FL)
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Ruiz
Rush
Russell
Salmon
Sanchez, Linda T.
Scalise
Scott, Austin
Sessions
Sewell (AL)
Shuster
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Trott
Turner
Wagner
Walberg
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Westerman
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Yoder

[[Page H3810]]

NOT VOTING--11

Adams
Bilirakis
Cartwright
Fattah
Jackson Lee
Johnson (GA)
Nugent
Roe (TN)
Sinema
Stewart
Stivers

{time} 1812

Messrs. FORBES, CALVERT, LYNCH, SESSIONS, KELLY of Pennsylvania, and
Mrs. ROBY changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
Ms. FUDGE, Messrs. DEUTCH, HASTINGS, ISRAEL, DANNY DAVIS of Illinois,
GUTIERREZ, CLYBURN, ELLISON, HUFFMAN, Mses. LORETTA SANCHEZ of
California, MAXINE WATERS of California, and WASSERMAN SCHULTZ changed
their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Stated for:
Ms. SIMMS. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 288 I was unavoidably detained.
Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.''
Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Chair, During rollcall vote No. 288 on H.R. 2578, I
mistakenly recorded my vote as ``nay'' when I should have voted
``aye.''
(By unanimous consent, Mr. McCarthy was allowed to speak out of
order.)

Legislative Program

Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Chair, I rise for the purpose of making an
announcement.
Members are advised that no more votes are expected in the House
tonight.
The House will begin debate on the fiscal year 2016 Transportation,
Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill immediately following
this vote series. Debate will continue late tonight, so any Member
wishing to offer an amendment should be prepared to do so at the
appropriate point in the bill.
Our next votes are expected at approximately 11 a.m. tomorrow.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Massie

The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Westmoreland). Without objection, 2-minute
voting will continue.
There was no objection.
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Kentucky
(Mr. Massie) 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

[Roll No. 289]

AYES--250

Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amash
Amodei
Ashford
Babin
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Benishek
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Burgess
Bustos
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Clawson (FL)
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comstock
Conaway
Cook
Cooper
Costello (PA)
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Cuellar
Culberson
Curbelo (FL)
Davis, Rodney
DeFazio
Denham
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Dold
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Garrett
Gibbs
Gibson
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Green, Gene
Griffith
Grothman
Guinta
Guthrie
Hanna
Hardy
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Heck (NV)
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Hill
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Jones
Jordan
Joyce
Katko
Kelly (PA)
Kind
King (IA)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kirkpatrick
Kline
Knight
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
LoBiondo
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
MacArthur
Marchant
Marino
Massie
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McSally
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Noem
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Peterson
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Polis
Pompeo
Posey
Price, Tom
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Royce
Russell
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanford
Scalise
Schrader
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Stefanik
Stivers
Stutzman
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Trott
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Walz
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke

NOES--171

Aguilar
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brady (PA)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Butterfield
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clay
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Costa
Courtney
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Donovan
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Graham
Grayson
Green, Al
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hastings
Heck (WA)
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
King (NY)
Kuster
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Matsui
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Moulton
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Nolan
Norcross
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Perlmutter
Peters
Pingree
Pocan
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Speier
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth

NOT VOTING--11

Adams
Bilirakis
Capps
Clarke (NY)
Cleaver
Conyers
Jackson Lee
Nugent
Pelosi
Roe (TN)
Stewart

Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

{time} 1818

Mr. PITTENGER changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Stated against:
Mrs. CAPPS. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 289, had I been present, I
would have voted ``no.''

Amendment Offered by Mr. Massie

The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Kentucky
(Mr. Massie) 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

[[Page H3811]]

[Roll No. 290]

AYES--383

Abraham
Aderholt
Aguilar
Allen
Amash
Amodei
Ashford
Babin
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Benishek
Bera
Beyer
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Bost
Boustany
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brady (TX)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Burgess
Bustos
Butterfield
Byrne
Calvert
Capps
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Cartwright
Castro (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clawson (FL)
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coffman
Cohen
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comstock
Conaway
Connolly
Conyers
Cook
Costa
Costello (PA)
Courtney
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cuellar
Culberson
Cummings
Curbelo (FL)
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
Davis, Rodney
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
DelBene
Denham
Dent
DeSantis
DeSaulnier
DesJarlais
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellison
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Eshoo
Esty
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foster
Foxx
Frankel (FL)
Franks (AZ)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garrett
Gibbs
Gibson
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Graham
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffith
Grijalva
Grothman
Guinta
Guthrie
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hanna
Hardy
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings
Heck (NV)
Heck (WA)
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Higgins
Hill
Himes
Hinojosa
Holding
Honda
Hoyer
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huffman
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Israel
Issa
Jeffries
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Jones
Jordan
Joyce
Kaptur
Katko
Kelly (IL)
Kelly (PA)
Kildee
Kilmer
King (IA)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kirkpatrick
Kline
Knight
Kuster
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latta
Levin
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lummis
Lynch
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Marchant
Marino
Massie
Matsui
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
McSally
Meadows
Meehan
Meng
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Moore
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (FL)
Murphy (PA)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Noem
Nolan
Norcross
Nunes
O'Rourke
Olson
Palazzo
Pallone
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Perlmutter
Perry
Peters
Peterson
Pingree
Pittenger
Pitts
Pocan
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Polis
Pompeo
Posey
Price, Tom
Rangel
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Russell
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanchez, Loretta
Sanford
Sarbanes
Scalise
Schrader
Schweikert
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Sinema
Slaughter
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stefanik
Stivers
Stutzman
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Trott
Tsongas
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Walz
Watson Coleman
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Welch
Wenstrup
Westerman
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yarmuth
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke

NOES--43

Brady (PA)
Carson (IN)
Castor (FL)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cooper
Delaney
Donovan
Engel
Farr
Fattah
Frelinghuysen
Garamendi
Harper
Keating
Kennedy
Kind
King (NY)
Langevin
Lawrence
Lee
Lewis
MacArthur
Meeks
Moulton
Pascrell
Payne
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Sanchez, Linda T.
Schakowsky
Schiff
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Sires
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Wilson (FL)

NOT VOTING--6

Adams
Jackson Lee
Nugent
Pelosi
Roe (TN)
Stewart

Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

{time} 1825

Ms. BROWN of Florida, Messrs. CLYBURN, SWALWELL of California,
BUTTERFIELD, LOEBSACK, CARDENAS, RUSH, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Messrs.
GUTIERREZ, and HINOJOSA changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
Mr. LANGEVIN changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.

Announcement by the Acting Chair

The Acting CHAIR. The Chair announces to all Members that 2-minute
voting will be strictly enforced.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Flores

The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr.
Flores) 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

[Roll No. 291]

AYES--236

Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amash
Amodei
Babin
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Benishek
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Clawson (FL)
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comstock
Conaway
Cook
Costello (PA)
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Cuellar
Culberson
Curbelo (FL)
Davis, Rodney
Denham
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Farenthold
Fincher
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Garrett
Gibbs
Gibson
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Griffith
Grothman
Guthrie
Hanna
Hardy
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Heck (NV)
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Hill
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Jones
Jordan
Joyce
Katko
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Knight
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
LoBiondo
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
MacArthur
Marchant
Marino
Massie
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McSally
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Noem
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Pompeo
Posey
Price, Tom
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Royce
Russell
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanford
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Stivers
Stutzman
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Trott
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Vela
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zinke

NOES--190

Aguilar
Ashford
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer

[[Page H3812]]

Bonamici
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brady (PA)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Bustos
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Courtney
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Donovan
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Fitzpatrick
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Graham
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Guinta
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hastings
Heck (WA)
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
King (NY)
Kirkpatrick
Kuster
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Matsui
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Moulton
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Nolan
Norcross
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree
Pocan
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stefanik
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth
Zeldin

NOT VOTING--6

Adams
Jackson Lee
Nugent
Pelosi
Roe (TN)
Stewart

Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

{time} 1828

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

Amendment Offered by Mr. Sanford

The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from South
Carolina (Mr. Sanford) 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

[Roll No. 292]

AYES--134

Allen
Amash
Babin
Barton
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Brady (TX)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Buchanan
Buck
Burgess
Byrne
Carter (GA)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Clawson (FL)
Coffman
Collins (GA)
Conaway
Cook
Cramer
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Farenthold
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Garrett
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Griffith
Grothman
Guthrie
Harris
Hensarling
Hice, Jody B.
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
King (IA)
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Latta
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lummis
Marchant
Massie
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
Meadows
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Olson
Palmer
Perry
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Pompeo
Price, Tom
Ratcliffe
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rouzer
Royce
Russell
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanford
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Stutzman
Tiberi
Upton
Wagner
Walberg
Walker
Walorski
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Woodall
Yoho
Young (IN)
Zinke

NOES--290

Abraham
Aderholt
Aguilar
Amodei
Ashford
Barletta
Barr
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Benishek
Beyer
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Bost
Boustany
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brady (PA)
Brooks (IN)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Bucshon
Bustos
Butterfield
Calvert
Capps
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Carter (TX)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Cole
Collins (NY)
Comstock
Connolly
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Costello (PA)
Courtney
Crawford
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cuellar
Culberson
Cummings
Curbelo (FL)
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
Davis, Rodney
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
Denham
Dent
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Donovan
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Edwards
Ellison
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fortenberry
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Gibbs
Gibson
Graham
Granger
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Guinta
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hanna
Hardy
Harper
Hartzler
Hastings
Heck (NV)
Heck (WA)
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Hill
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jeffries
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, E. B.
Jolly
Joyce
Kaptur
Katko
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kelly (PA)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kirkpatrick
Kline
Knight
Kuster
Lance
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
MacArthur
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Marino
Matsui
McCarthy
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
McSally
Meehan
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Moulton
Mullin
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Newhouse
Noem
Nolan
Norcross
Nunes
O'Rourke
Palazzo
Pallone
Pascrell
Paulsen
Payne
Pearce
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree
Pocan
Polis
Posey
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Rigell
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stefanik
Stivers
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tipton
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Trott
Tsongas
Turner
Valadao
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walden
Walters, Mimi
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Westmoreland
Wilson (FL)
Wittman
Womack
Yarmuth
Yoder
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Zeldin

NOT VOTING--8

Adams
Bera
Jackson Lee
Johnson (GA)
Nugent
Pelosi
Roe (TN)
Stewart

Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

{time} 1831

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

Amendment No. 3 Offered by Mr. King of Iowa

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

[[Page H3813]]

[Roll No. 293]

AYES--222

Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amash
Amodei
Babin
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Benishek
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Clawson (FL)
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comstock
Conaway
Cook
Costello (PA)
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Culberson
Davis, Rodney
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Garrett
Gibbs
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Griffith
Grothman
Guinta
Guthrie
Hardy
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Hill
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Joyce
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Knight
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
LoBiondo
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Marchant
Marino
Massie
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Noem
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Pompeo
Posey
Price, Tom
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney (FL)
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Royce
Russell
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanford
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Stivers
Stutzman
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Trott
Turner
Upton
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke

NOES--204

Aguilar
Ashford
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brady (PA)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Bustos
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coffman
Cohen
Connolly
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Courtney
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Curbelo (FL)
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
Denham
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Donovan
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Gibson
Graham
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hanna
Hastings
Heck (NV)
Heck (WA)
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, E. B.
Jolly
Kaptur
Katko
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
King (NY)
Kirkpatrick
Kuster
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
MacArthur
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Matsui
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
McSally
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Moulton
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Nolan
Norcross
Nunes
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree
Pocan
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Ros-Lehtinen
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stefanik
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Tsongas
Valadao
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth

NOT VOTING--6

Adams
Jackson Lee
Nugent
Pelosi
Roe (TN)
Stewart

Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

{time} 1835

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

Amendment Offered by Mr. King of Iowa

Recorded Vote

[Roll No. 294]

AYES--227

Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amash
Amodei
Babin
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Benishek
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Clawson (FL)
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comstock
Conaway
Cook
Costello (PA)
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Culberson
Davis, Rodney
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers (NC)
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Garrett
Gibbs
Gibson
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Griffith
Grothman
Guinta
Guthrie
Hanna
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Hill
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Jones
Jordan
Joyce
Katko
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Knight
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
LoBiondo
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Marchant
Marino
Massie
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Noem
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Pompeo
Posey
Price, Tom
Ratcliffe
Reed
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney (FL)
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Royce
Russell
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanford
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Stefanik
Stivers
Stutzman
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Trott
Turner
Upton
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke

NOES--198

[[Page H3814]]

Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Graham
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hardy
Hastings
Heck (NV)
Heck (WA)
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
King (NY)
Kirkpatrick
Kuster
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
MacArthur
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Matsui
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
McSally
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Moulton
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Nolan
Norcross
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree
Pocan
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Reichert
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Ros-Lehtinen
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Speier
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Tsongas
Valadao
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth

NOT VOTING--7

Adams
Jackson Lee
Nugent
Pelosi
Roe (TN)
Stewart
Vela

Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

{time} 1838

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

Amendment Offered by Mr. Denham

The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California
(Mr. Denham) 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

[Roll No. 295]

AYES--245

Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amash
Amodei
Ashford
Babin
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Benishek
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Clawson (FL)
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comstock
Conaway
Cook
Costa
Costello (PA)
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Cuellar
Culberson
Curbelo (FL)
Davis, Rodney
Denham
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Dold
Donovan
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Farenthold
Fincher
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Garrett
Gibbs
Gibson
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Griffith
Grothman
Guinta
Guthrie
Hardy
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Heck (NV)
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Hill
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Jones
Jordan
Joyce
Katko
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Knight
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
LoBiondo
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
MacArthur
Marchant
Marino
Massie
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McSally
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Noem
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Peterson
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Pompeo
Posey
Price, Tom
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Royce
Russell
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanford
Scalise
Schrader
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Stefanik
Stivers
Stutzman
Takano
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Trott
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke

NOES--181

Aguilar
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brady (PA)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Bustos
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Conyers
Cooper
Courtney
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Fitzpatrick
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Graham
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hanna
Hastings
Heck (WA)
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
Kirkpatrick
Kuster
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Matsui
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Moulton
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Nolan
Norcross
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Perlmutter
Peters
Pingree
Pocan
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Speier
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth

NOT VOTING--6

Adams
Jackson Lee
Nugent
Pelosi
Roe (TN)
Stewart

Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

{time} 1841

So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will read.
The Clerk read as follows:

This Act may be cited as the ``Commerce, Justice, Science,
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016''.

Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Chairman, I move that the Committee do now rise
and report the bill back to the House with sundry amendments, with the
recommendation that the amendments be agreed to and that the bill, as
amended, do pass.
The motion was agreed to.
Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr.
Reed) 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. 2578)
making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice,
Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30,
2016, and for other purposes, directed him to report the bill back to
the House with sundry amendments adopted in the Committee of the Whole,
with the recommendation that the amendments be agreed to and that the
bill, as amended, do pass.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the rule, the previous question is
ordered.

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Is a separate vote demanded on any amendment reported from the
Committee of the Whole? If not, the Chair will put them en gros.
The amendments were agreed to.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the engrossment and third
reading of the bill.
The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was
read the third time.

Motion to Recommit

Ms. BROWNLEY of California. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit
at the desk.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentlewoman opposed to the bill?
Ms. BROWNLEY of California. I am in its current form.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to
recommit.
The Clerk read as follows:

Ms. Brownley of California moves to recommit the bill H.R.
2578 to the Committee on Appropriations with instructions to
report the same back to the House forthwith with the
following amendment:
Page 23, line 14, after the dollar amount, insert
``(reduced by $6,000,000)''.
In the ``Violence Against Women Prevention and Prosecution
Programs'' account, on page 38, line 9, after the dollar
amount, insert ``(increased by $3,000,000)''.
In the ``Violence Against Women Prevention and Prosecution
Programs'' account, on page 39, line 22, after the dollar
amount relating to sexual assault victims assistance, insert
``(increased by $3,000,000)''.
In the ``Juvenile Justice Programs'' account, on page 47,
line 10, after the dollar amount relating to missing and
exploited children programs, insert ``(increased by
$3,000,000)''.

Ms. BROWNLEY of California (during the reading). Mr. Speaker, I ask
unanimous consent to dispense with the reading.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentlewoman from California?
There was no objection.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman is recognized for 5 minutes.
Ms. BROWNLEY of California. Mr. Speaker, this is the final amendment
to H.R. 2578, which will not kill the bill or send it back to
committee. If adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final
passage, as amended.
My amendment would provide an additional $3 million for Violence
Against Women prevention and prosecution programs, increasing resources
for sexual assault victims' assistance. My amendment would also provide
an additional $3 million for Juvenile Justice programs, directed to the
Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force program.
Mr. Speaker, there is more than ample room within the budget cap for
this bill to do more to help sexual assault victims and prevent the
exploitation of children. I hope we can all agree that these critical
programs are worthy of added resources.
The Sexual Assault Services Program was authorized through the
Violence Against Women Act and was the first Federal program dedicated
to the provision of direct services to victims of sexual violence.
Across the country, the Sexual Assault Services Program supports
critical, lifesaving, safety net services. Support services are offered
to both adult and minor survivors of sexual assault and to family
members who are helping them cope with the mental health issues and
physical trauma of sexual assault.
The program also funds intervention and advocacy services, providing
survivors with the help that they need to navigate through the medical
and criminal justice systems.
For many survivors of sexual assault, this program is a critical and
necessary source of support at the most vulnerable time in their lives.
We must support these lifesaving programs and stand up for survivors of
sexual assault.
Additionally, we must do more to protect vulnerable children from
predators who despicably exploit children on the Internet. That is why
my amendment will provide a much-needed increase for the Internet
Crimes Against Children Task Force program, which funds State and local
law enforcement who investigate online child exploitation.
The program also provides forensic, prevention, and investigative
assistance to law enforcement, educators, prosecutors, and families.
The program also ensures law enforcement officers are trained to deal
with online child pornography and child enticement so that these cases
will be fully investigated and prosecuted.
In 2014 alone, 7,800 individuals were arrested, and the task forces
around the country conducted over 60,000 forensic investigations.
Clearly there is an urgent and compelling moral need to address these
heinous crimes.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on the motion to
recommit, to vote ``yes'' to protect women and girls from sexual
assault and violence, to vote ``yes'' to protect children from online
predators.
Mr. Speaker, at this time, I yield to the gentlewoman from Florida
(Ms. Wasserman Schultz), my friend who is a champion in protecting
children.
Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the
gentlewoman's motion to recommit because there are children out there
who need to be saved. They are waiting to be saved.
This motion provides additional funding for the Internet Crimes
Against Children program, a national network of 61 coordinated law
enforcement task forces investigating and prosecuting those who
sexually exploit our most vulnerable constituents, our children.
With the proliferation of the Internet and wireless technology,
online child pornography has become an epidemic. And let's not forget
that these are not just heinous images. They are crime scene photos.
The ICAC needs resources to go after these criminals now.
According to estimates, half of these arrests lead us to the door of
a hands-on offender, and that is a child waiting to be rescued. Yet in
one recent year, the ICAC only had the resources to investigate a mere
2 percent of all leads.
Previous increases in Federal funding have directly resulted in
thousands more arrests, contributing to many more thousands of children
who are outright rescued or who will be spared contact with an abuser.
Let's take this opportunity to help the ICAC rescue more children.
Please, think about these precious babies being victimized. Let's
rescue as many of them as possible. If you are a parent, God forbid it
was your own child.
I urge Members' support for the motion to recommit, and I thank the
gentlewoman for her commitment to making sure that we can rescue
America's victimized children.
Ms. BROWNLEY of California. I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the motion to
recommit.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Speaker, before I begin--and I will be very
brief--I want to make sure to thank the majority staff who have worked
so hard on this bill. I want to thank our chief clerk, John Martens;
Leslie Albright; Jeff Ashford; Taylor Kelly; Colin Samples; and Aschley
Schiller for their tireless work drafting this bill, along with Bob
Bonner and Matt Smith on the minority's staff and Corey Inglee and
Megan Olmstead in my personal office. And a personal thank you to my
good friend, the Congressman from Philadelphia, who has done such a
great job. We have worked together arm in arm on this bill.
Starting at about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, we have worked
through over 80 amendments. All the gentlewoman from California (Ms.
Brownley) would have had to do was to show up here. During the course
of that debate, any Member could have offered an amendment, and that is
one of the great things about this process.
I want to thank our majority leader and our Speaker, Mr. Boehner, for
opening up the legislative process. Unlike in the past, any Member of
this Congress could stand up and represent their 700,000 constituents.
You could take a Big Chief notepad and a pencil and just write out an
amendment and walk right down there and give it to the Clerk.
All the gentlewoman from California had to do was just write the
amendment up and present it to the Clerk. Why, we would have even
accepted it. But instead, she offers it up here today as a procedural
trick to confuse and confound.
We produced a great bill. The ranking member and I have worked
together arm in arm to produce a good

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bill that protects this Nation's investment in space exploration and
scientific research but, above all, invests in the good people of the
law enforcement community.
Mr. HOYER. Will the gentleman yield?
Mr. CULBERSON. I yield to the minority leader.
Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman. I am the whip. I wanted to make
that perfectly clear.
The fact of the matter is, did the gentleman just say if this
amendment had been offered previously that you would have accepted it?
Mr. CULBERSON. Absolutely, because it would have been done properly.
Mr. HOYER. But you are now urging----
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will suspend.
Mr. HOYER. Parliamentary inquiry.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas has the time.
Mr. CULBERSON. The gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer) is exactly
right. We would have accepted this amendment earlier in the process
because it is an open process. Anyone has a chance to come down here
and offer an amendment in an open and free House of Representatives.
That is why this amendment should be defeated.
We have got a good bill. I urge Members to vote ``no'' against this
motion to recommit.
I yield back the balance of my time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the previous question is
ordered on the motion to recommit.
There was no objection.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the noes appeared to have it.
Ms. BROWNLEY of California. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas
and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 5-
minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by a 5-minute
vote on the passage of the bill.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 184,
nays 240, not voting 8, as follows:

[Roll No. 296]

YEAS--184

Aguilar
Ashford
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brady (PA)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Bustos
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
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
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Graham
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hastings
Heck (WA)
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
Kirkpatrick
Kuster
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Matsui
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Moulton
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Nolan
Norcross
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree
Pocan
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Speier
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth

NAYS--240

Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amash
Amodei
Babin
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Benishek
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Clawson (FL)
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Conaway
Cook
Costello (PA)
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Culberson
Curbelo (FL)
Davis, Rodney
Denham
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Dold
Donovan
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Garrett
Gibbs
Gibson
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Griffith
Grothman
Guinta
Guthrie
Hanna
Hardy
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Heck (NV)
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Hill
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Jones
Jordan
Joyce
Katko
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Knight
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
LoBiondo
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
MacArthur
Marchant
Marino
Massie
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McSally
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Noem
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Pompeo
Posey
Price, Tom
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Royce
Russell
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanford
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Stefanik
Stivers
Stutzman
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Trott
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke

NOT VOTING--8

Adams
Comstock
Jackson Lee
Nugent
Pelosi
Roe (TN)
Rush
Stewart

{time} 1859

So the motion to recommit was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
Under clause 10 of rule XX, the yeas and nays are ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 242,
nays 183, not voting 7, as follows:

[Roll No. 297]

YEAS--242

Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amodei
Ashford
Babin
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Benishek
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Brownley (CA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Burgess
Bustos
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Clawson (FL)
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Conaway
Cook
Costa
Costello (PA)
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Cuellar
Culberson
Curbelo (FL)
Davis, Rodney
Denham
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Dold
Donovan
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Frelinghuysen
Garrett
Gibbs
Gibson
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Graham
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Green, Gene
Griffith
Grothman
Guinta
Guthrie
Hanna
Hardy
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Heck (NV)
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Hill
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Jordan
Joyce
Katko
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Knight
Kuster
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
LoBiondo
Long
Loudermilk

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Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
MacArthur
Maloney, Sean
Marchant
Marino
Massie
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McSally
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Noem
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Peterson
Pittenger
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Pompeo
Posey
Price, Tom
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Royce
Russell
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Sinema
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Stefanik
Stivers
Stutzman
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Trott
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Vela
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke

NAYS--183

Aguilar
Amash
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brady (PA)
Brown (FL)
Buck
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Conyers
Cooper
Courtney
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Fleming
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Franks (AZ)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Grayson
Green, Al
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hastings
Heck (WA)
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones
Kaptur
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
Kirkpatrick
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
Maloney, Carolyn
Matsui
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Moulton
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Nolan
Norcross
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Pingree
Pitts
Pocan
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sanford
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Speier
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth

NOT VOTING--7

Adams
Comstock
Jackson Lee
Keating
Nugent
Roe (TN)
Stewart

Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Dold) (during the vote). There are 2
minutes remaining.

{time} 1905

So the bill was passed.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

personal explanation

Mrs. COMSTOCK. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained and missed the
last two votes in this evening's series. Had I been present I would
have voted as follows: 1) Democrat Motion to Recommit--``no,'' 2)
Passage of H.R. 2578--FY16 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations
Act--``yes.''

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