[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 142 (Wednesday, September 30, 2015)]
[House]
[Pages H6738-H6742]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
DIRECTING THE CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO MAKE CORRECTIONS
IN THE ENROLLMENT OF H.R. 719
Mrs. ROBY. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 448, I call up
the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 79) directing the Clerk of the
House of Representatives to make corrections in the enrollment of H.R.
719, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.
The Clerk read the title of the concurrent resolution.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 448, the
concurrent resolution is considered read.
The text of the concurrent resolution is as follows:
H. Con. Res. 79
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate
concurring), That in the enrollment of the bill H.R. 719, the
Clerk of the House of Representatives shall make the
following corrections:
(1) Insert after the enacting clause (before section 1) the
following:
``DIVISION A--TSA OFFICE OF INSPECTION ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 2015''.
(2) Insert after section 8 (before the statement of
appropriations) the following:
``DIVISION B--CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS RESOLUTION, 2015''.
(3) Insert after section 150 (before the short title) the
following new section:
``Sec. 151. Except as expressly provided otherwise, any
reference in this division to `this Act' shall be treated as
referring only to the provisions of this division.''.
(4) Add at the end the following new division:
``DIVISION C--DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACT OF 2015
``SEC. 1. SHORT TITLE.
``This division may be cited as the `Defund Planned
Parenthood Act of 2015'.
``SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
``Congress finds the following:
``(1) State and county health departments, community health
centers, hospitals, physicians offices, and other entities
currently provide, and will continue to provide, health
services to women. Such health services include relevant
diagnostic laboratory and radiology services, well-child
care, prenatal and postpartum care, immunization, family
planning services (including contraception), cervical and
breast cancer screenings and referrals, and sexually
transmitted disease testing.
``(2) Many such entities provide services to all persons,
regardless of the person's ability to pay, and provide
services in medically underserved areas and to medically
underserved populations.
``(3) All funds that are no longer available to Planned
Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., and its affiliates
and clinics pursuant to this division will continue to be
made available to other eligible entities to provide women's
health care services.
``(4) Funds authorized to be appropriated, and
appropriated, by section 4 are offset by the funding
limitation under section 3(a).
``SEC. 3. MORATORIUM ON FEDERAL FUNDING TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD
FEDERATION OF AMERICA, INC.
``(a) In General.--For the one-year period beginning on the
date of the enactment of this division, subject to subsection
(b), no funds authorized or appropriated by Federal law may
be made available for any purpose to Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, Inc., or any affiliate or clinic of
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., unless such
entities certify that Planned Parenthood Federation of
America affiliates and clinics will not perform, and will not
provide any funds to any other entity that performs, an
abortion during such period.
``(b) Exception.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to an
abortion--
``(1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or
incest; or
``(2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical
disorder, physical injury, or physical illness that would, as
certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death
unless an abortion is performed, including a life-endangering
physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy
itself.
``(c) Repayment.--The Secretary of Health and Human
Services and the Secretary of Agriculture shall seek
repayment of any Federal assistance received by Planned
Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., or any affiliate or
clinic of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., if
it violates the terms of the certification required by
subsection (a) during the period specified in subsection (a).
``SEC. 4. FUNDING FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER PROGRAM.
``(a) In General.--There is authorized to be appropriated,
and appropriated, $235,000,000 for the community health
center program under section 330 of the Public Health Service
Act (42 U.S.C. 254b), in addition to any other funds made
available to such program, for the period for which the
funding limitation under section 3(a) applies.
``(b) Limitation.--None of the funds authorized or
appropriated pursuant to subsection (a) may be expended for
an abortion other than as described in section 3(b).
``SEC. 5. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.
``Nothing in this division shall be construed to reduce
overall Federal funding available in support of women's
health.''.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The concurrent resolution shall be debatable
for 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by the majority leader
and minority leader or their designees.
The gentlewoman from Alabama (Mrs. Roby) and the gentlewoman from
Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro) each will control 10 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Alabama.
General Leave
Mrs. ROBY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may
have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks, and to
include extraneous material on H. Con. Res. 79.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentlewoman from Alabama?
There was no objection.
Mrs. ROBY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
I rise today in strong support of H. Con. Res. 79, a concurrent
resolution directing the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make
corrections in the enrollment of H.R. 719. This resolution directs the
Clerk of the House of Representatives to make several corrections in
the enrollment of H.R. 719, the Continuing Appropriations Act 2016,
including by adding at the end of the text of the House-passed version,
H.R. 3134, the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015.
The House passed H.R. 3134 by a vote of 241-187 on September 18. The
bill precludes any Federal funds from being authorized or appropriated
for 1 year for any purpose to Planned Parenthood Federation of America
or any affiliate or clinic of that organization unless entities certify
that affiliates and clinics will not perform and will not provide any
funds to any other entity that performs elective abortions during such
period. The bill also redirected funding from Planned Parenthood
facilities to federally qualified health centers to provide women's
health services.
This resolution and the related enrollment process sends a signal
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this House's commitment to bar funding for Planned Parenthood and gives
the Senate the opportunity to limit funding in the continuing
resolution.
Mr. Speaker, this is actually the exact same language in the Defund
Planned Parenthood Act sponsored by my friend, the gentlewoman from
Tennessee (Mrs. Black), which the House passed earlier this month. Mrs.
Black is a tireless defender of the unborn, and I have been privileged
to work with her on several pro-life measures, including a very similar
defund correction to the spending bill back in 2011.
So why this correction? My colleagues might be wondering if I just
saw what happened in the Senate. Why take up this bill when the votes
just aren't there in the Senate? The answer is simple. Because I
believe, as long as there is an opportunity before us to defund Planned
Parenthood, we should take it because, when it comes to this fight, I
want to leave it all on the field.
I understand that, so far, we have lacked the votes in the Senate to
include defund language in the continuing resolution, and I realize
this is a last-ditch effort to do this and that the chances of this
correction maneuver succeeding in the Senate are low. But I believe,
Mr. Speaker, I believe that we have to fight until the very end.
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I have always been up front with those I represent about the low
likelihood of defunding Planned Parenthood, especially in a stopgap
spending bill. Pro-life advocates in my State and around this country
understand the math; and while they hope that Senate Democrats will
change their hearts, they don't really expect them to. What they do
expect is for us to try, to fight to the very end, and to exhaust every
possible option in our effort to stop tax dollars from flowing to this
organization.
That is why, Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues in the House and in
the Senate to support this defund correction and to join me to fight
until the very end to defund Planned Parenthood.
I reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 2 minutes.
This ``enrollment correction'' is yet another procedural maneuver. It
is designed to destroy health care for millions of American women. It
is unacceptable, and we will not stand for it.
The disgraceful rightwing assault on reproductive freedom has become
an all-out war on the health and the well-being of millions of low-
income American women. Each year, Planned Parenthood provides 2.7
million people, men and women, with lifesaving services.
I would hope that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle would
open their hearts--open their hearts--to healthcare services for women
who don't have the wherewithal to go to the same kinds of private
doctors that the men and women of the United States House of
Representatives have the opportunity to do. Open your hearts, because
for many, Planned Parenthood is their only way of receiving these
healthcare services.
The president of the American Congress of OB-GYNs has warned that,
without Planned Parenthood, many patients will be left without a
doctor; and that is what these attacks are designed to achieve. The
rightwing does not want poor women to have health care, period. It is
spiteful, it is cruel, and it is wrong.
We know what happens when funding is taken away from Planned
Parenthood. In Scott County, Indiana, a full-scale HIV epidemic was
triggered that has been declared a public healthcare emergency. Do we
want more people to die? Are we really prepared to see that picture
repeated across the country?
The American people have made it clear that they will not accept any
bill that cuts funding for women's health care or compromises
reproductive freedoms. Let us in this body respect and trust the
healthcare decisions that women make.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Poe of Texas). The time of the
gentlewoman has expired.
Ms. DeLAURO. I yield myself an additional 10 seconds.
Let's respect and trust the healthcare decisions that women make. We
must respect their wishes. I urge my colleagues to vote against this
disgraceful bill.
I reserve the balance of my time.
Mrs. ROBY. I reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. DeLAURO. I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs.
Lowey), someone who has spent her entire career working at issues that
help working families with their health care, and particularly women.
Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Speaker, this resolution is more political theater:
all sound and fury, signifying nothing and going nowhere. We are
proceeding to debate this resolution even though there is no money--
zero money--in the CR for Planned Parenthood and even though we all
understand that if the Senate also adopts this resolution, it will
effectively shut down the government, slowing economic growth and job
creation.
Planned Parenthood provides essential preventive health services,
including birth control, lifesaving cancer screenings, well-women
exams, and advice on family planning to nearly 3 million women each
year.
Community health centers are not an alternative to Planned
Parenthood. The California Primary Care Association noted:
``Eliminating Planned Parenthood from our State's comprehensive network
of care would put untenable stress on remaining providers. We do not
have the capacity for such an increase in care.''
I urge a ``no'' vote on the resolution.
Mrs. ROBY. I reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from
North Carolina (Ms. Adams)
Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today as a woman who is angry. These
attacks on Planned Parenthood aren't about some deceptive videos. It is
about a woman's right to make decisions about her own body. Women's
reproductive rights are decisions she should make. It should be between
a woman, her doctor, and her family, not a male-dominated Congress.
So let's be clear. Attacking Planned Parenthood is part of a ploy to
roll back women's rights. What hypocrisy. I wish my colleagues on the
other side of the aisle cared this much about the millions of women and
children who go hungry every day or the educational inequities that
exist in our most vulnerable communities.
I stand with Planned Parenthood for the services they provide. Last
year, they served more than 2.7 million across our Nation, and more
than 31,000 in North Carolina just through nine centers. More than
21,000 patients received safe contraception; more than 18,000 STI tests
were conducted, and more than 3,500 Pap tests and more than 2,500
breast exams. Real women getting real preventive care.
I will continue to advocate for women's comprehensive health care and
their right to control their own body. The war on women must stop.
Ms. DeLAURO. I would inquire as to how much time is remaining.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Connecticut has 5
minutes remaining.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from
California (Ms. Lee).
Ms. LEE. First, I want to thank Congresswoman DeLauro for yielding
and for her tremendous leadership on so many issues important to women
and the entire country.
Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to H. Con. Res. 79, which
once again attempts to defund Planned Parenthood for 1 year. This
callous action would leave millions of women across the country without
access to critical healthcare services. This shameful resolution is the
15th anti women's health vote this year.
We know that Planned Parenthood centers are essential to the health
and well-being of women and their families. They serve as primary care
facilities for women seeking birth control, comprehensive family
planning services, and cancer and STI screenings.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, in 21 percent of counties
where Planned Parenthood operates health centers, it is the county's
only family planning provider. Mr. Speaker, for these communities,
there are no other options. Defunding Planned Parenthood would hurt the
communities that need help the most: low-income women and women of
color.
Politicians have no business interfering with a woman's personal
health
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decisions that are best for her and her family, and she needs family
planning centers to exercise all of her options as it relates to her
health care.
This resolution is deceitful and it is wrong. It is past time to end
this war on women, and it is past time for Republicans to listen to the
American people, develop a responsible budget, and stop their attacks
on women's health.
Vote ``no'' on this very backward, egregious resolution. It is going
to harm women. It is going to hurt women. It does not protect the
health and safety of women.
Ms. DeLAURO. I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentlewoman from
the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton).
Ms. NORTON. I thank my good friend for her incredibly excellent work
on this bill.
A threat to shut down the government over funding Planned
Parenthood's contraceptive and preventative care measures looms again
in 3 months, although 73 percent of the public is against forcing a
shutdown over Planned Parenthood.
I am grateful for the high-quality coverage Planned Parenthood gives
women's health across the board, including abortion services, not
funded by the Federal Government. The District of Columbia is the only
jurisdiction Congress denies the full reach of Roe v. Wade to low-
income women, by denying the local government the right to spend its
own local funds on abortion services for poor women.
For the Nation, to cut government funds for Medicaid, family
planning, and preventative care would cut off our collective noses to
spite our faces. Every public dollar spent on family planning services
alone saves $7 in undesired births and other preventative care.
For all the heat generated by Republicans, Planned Parenthood is
regarded more favorably now than it was before the current fight began.
The reason is, for nearly a century, Planned Parenthood's incredibly
effective work for women's health has won it a strong following across
our country from both parties.
Ms. DeLAURO. I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms.
Jackson Lee).
Ms. JACKSON LEE. Let me thank the gentlewoman from Connecticut for
her kindness. As well, let me thank the chair and ranking member of the
Appropriations Committee, because we know the work that they have done.
Mr. Speaker, let me just simply say that I am very disappointed that
we are now settling for a CR that continues to have a sequester that
cuts across and denies Border Patrol agents, Customs and Border
Protection, Secret Service, and leaves the American people vulnerable.
So, the first order of business is that we are not doing what we are
supposed to do in providing for the American people. Now we move to
another unseemly legislative initiative that is attacking women's
health. And what does that mean? We use it under the guise of Planned
Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood has any number of clinics in almost 50 States that
deal with women's health, contraception, sexually transmitted disease;
places where women who are impoverished can go when they cannot go
anywhere else.
In a hearing yesterday, someone was debating why they don't do
mammograms. Women know that when we go to any doctor, the doctor refers
mammograms.
So this is a bad bill. It is against women's health. The sequester is
bad. Vote down both bills.
Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to H. Con. Res. 79.
We are here again wasting valuable time on measures we know are
having no real chance of survival beyond these debates.
I strongly oppose this continued effort to drag women's health issues
and women's rights through this political circus.
At what point will the Majority step back and get regal about
substantive and genuine legislation.
The amount of legislative time we have wasted on these offensive
messaging bills is ridiculous and must end.
Our constituents deserve better.
Our legislative and public service roles demand more.
And as we approach yet another deadline for piecemeal fiscal fixes,
we should be focused on passing a comprehensive and cost-savings
budget.
Yet, we are here today debating another measure that threatens
millions of Americans' access to preventative care and could end up
costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
However, we know H. Con. Res. 79 is not a serious attempt at passing
real legislation.
As such, it is simply being offered here today as a shameless
political decoy to attack the legal rights of women.
Politicians are continuing to try to sneak around the Constitution
and four decades of Supreme Court precedent with sham laws that do
nothing to improve women's health care and only make it more difficult,
if not impossible, to obtain safe and legal abortion.
Restricting all access to reproductive and women's health services
only exacerbates a woman's risk of an unintended pregnancy and fails to
accomplish any meaningful overthrow of Roe v. Wade.
In recent years, state policymakers have passed hundreds of
restrictions on abortion care under the guise of protecting women's
health and safety.
Fights here in Congress have been no different.
In my state of Texas a law that would have cut off access to 75
percent of reproductive healthcare clinics in the state was challenged
before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2014 and 2015.
On October 2, 2014, the Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional
a Texas law that required that all reproductive healthcare clinics that
provided the full range of services would be required to have a
hospital-style surgery center building and staffing requirements.
This requirement meant that only 7 clinics would be allowed to
continue to provide a full spectrum of reproductive healthcare to
women.
Any woman facing an unintended pregnancy needs to be able to make her
own decisions and weigh all her options--and these laws take those
options away.
Texas has 268,580 square miles only second in size to the state of
Alaska.
The impact of the law in implementation would have ended access to
reproductive services for millions of women in my state.
In 2015, the State of Texas once again threatened women's access to
reproductive health care when it attempted to shutter all but 10
healthcare providers in the state of Texas.
The Supreme Court once again intervened on the behalf of Texas women
to block the move to close clinics in my state.
It seems every month we are faced with a new attack on women's access
to reproductive health care, often couched in deceptive terms and
concern for women's health and safety.
And in fact we are here today supposedly to talk about the safety of
women--but we know that's not really the case.
If my colleagues were so concerned about women's health and safety,
they would be promoting any one of the number of evidence-based
proactive policies that improve women's health and well-being.
Instead, they are proposing yet another attempt to ban abortion.
That is their number one priority. This is certainly not about
protecting women's health, it's about politics.
We must separate the personal views of abortion from the legal issues
and fundamental constitutional rights.
Undisputable, every woman has the constitutional right to make
personal health care decisions so basic that it must be equally
protected for all.
Restricting access to women's reproductive health care providers
makes it increasingly difficult--and sometimes impossible--for women
who have decided to end a pregnancy to get the safe, legal, high-
quality care they need.
The result is not the elimination of abortions, but higher costs,
longer delays, and extra steps for women seeking abortion care, and in
the process punish women for their decision to exercise their
constitutional right to end a pregnancy.
History tells us that unsafe and late-term abortions did not cease to
exist without adequate access to clinical service. Rather, the exact
opposite--as we know limited and restricted access only leads to unsafe
and dangerous practices.
Today, countless women in states like Texas and Mississippi,
Wisconsin, Alabama, Tennessee, and Louisiana--where state laws are
already gravely impacting women's access to health care providers--
women are being forced to travel upwards of hundreds of miles or cross
state lines to access their constitutional right to an abortion.
These restrictions create sharp disparities in access to care that
are troublingly reminiscent of the time before Roe v. Wade, when access
depended on a woman's social status, where she lived or her ability to
travel to another state.
In an effort to undermine what they could not otherwise overturn,
politicians are attempting to ``turn back the clock'' to the pre-Roe
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by shuttering reproductive health care clinics and cutting off women's
access to safe and legal abortion care.
Yet, far too many women who cannot afford to travel elsewhere will
face an impossible choice between carrying an unintended pregnancy to
term or seeking drastic options outside the law.
A right that only exists on paper is no right at all.
Simply, restricting a women's right and access to legal abortion
services discriminately endangers the lives of women.
Congress should be doing everything it can to ensure that women have
access to preventive care, not eliminating it.
This is a legislative assault on all progressive health care,
service, and advocacy organizations who aim to provide vital care and
services to women and men across this country.
Hundreds of thousands have already spoken up, including leading
groups and communities such as the growing voice of our millennial
generation.
For instance, the nearly 60,000 OB-GYN physicians and partners in
women's health warn that this bill would scare providers away from
providing comprehensive, compassionate care to women, in a time where
America desperately needs more ob-gyns participating in Medicaid
programs.
Physicians and experts in the field have long argued that these
damaging measures serve no medical purpose, interfere in the doctor/
patient relationship, and do nothing to promote women's health.
My colleagues should not be closing the door to health care services.
Rather, my colleagues should be doing more to connect our youth and
women to services that help them reduce their risk of unintended
pregnancies and STD's, and improve their overall health through
preventative screenings, education and planning, and not restricting
their access to lawfully entitled family planning and private health
services.
I urge all Members to vote against the continued attack on women's
health and rights.
Ms. DeLAURO. I yield to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Hastings) for
the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
(Mr. HASTINGS asked and was given permission to revise and extend his
remarks.)
Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this
measure.
Mr. DeLAURO. May I inquire as to how much time is remaining.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Connecticut has 1\1/2\
minutes remaining.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
What we are facing here today and what this is about, this so-called
enrollment correction, is a procedural maneuver because the United
States Senate sent over a continuing resolution that continues to fund
Planned Parenthood. Because the majority is interested in defunding the
opportunity for healthcare services for women, they have asked for this
procedural maneuver to defund Planned Parenthood.
It is simply about taking funds away from American women. Think about
it. Think about shutting the government down because of women's health.
The lack of care and concern, first and foremost, about the 2.7 million
men and women that Planned Parenthood serves every year is a grave
consequence. But in addition, shutting down the Federal Government the
last time cost $24 billion to American taxpayers, held up disability
checks for veterans, and, in fact, held back people's IRS rebates.
Their preoccupation with denying women's health is cruel, it is
spiteful, it is wrong, and it does great harm to this great Nation.
Vote against this bad piece of legislation.
I yield back the balance of my time.
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Mrs. ROBY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, not everyone, I recognize, in this country is pro-life,
like I am. But those who are should not be forced to have their tax
dollars fund an organization that aborts more than 350,000 unborn
babies every year.
Federal law has long prohibited public funds from being used to
actually perform abortions. However, Planned Parenthood gets millions
in grants and reimbursements for other services that they provide, like
pregnancy tests, birth control, Pap smears, STD tests, and other
various treatments.
Of course, low-income women should have access to these critical
services. But why is it necessary--why is it necessary--for those
services to be funded at the Nation's largest abortion provider?
It isn't actually, but the abortion industry and its supporters--it
is what they want you to think it is. And they talk about women's
health because they don't want to talk about abortion.
They don't want to talk about how ugly it is and how painful it is
not just to the mother having to make the decision, but to the unborn
baby who doesn't have a voice, who doesn't have a say.
When it comes to funding, they like to pretend, Mr. Speaker, that
abortion doesn't exist and that Planned Parenthood is the only place
where low-income women can get health care.
Taking away Federal funding from Planned Parenthood means attacking
women's health, they say. That is not true.
The truth is that there are more than 13,000 federally qualified and
rural health centers throughout this country that offer low-cost health
care to women. In fact, these centers outnumber Planned Parenthood
clinics 20-1.
If those who defend Federal funding of Planned Parenthood truly just
wanted to make sure that low-income women have access to health care
and not abortion, then why not simply support these noncontroversial
community health centers instead?
If this argument is really about making sure women have access to
health care, then we would all agree right here, right now, to support
these community health centers.
But you see, Mr. Speaker, that is not what this is about. You see,
while federally qualified and rural health centers provide a wide range
of medical services, they don't perform abortions. That is what they
really want. They want to preserve the pipeline of funding to the
Nation's largest abortion provider.
This talk of women's health is nothing but a charade, a false
pretense, that I believe more and more Americans are realizing is
phony.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this concurrent
resolution.
I yield back the balance of my time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time for debate has expired.
Pursuant to House Resolution 448, the previous question is ordered.
The question is on the concurrent resolution.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Mrs. ROBY. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX and the
order of the House of today, this 15-minute vote on adoption of the
concurrent resolution will be followed by 5-minute votes on adoption of
the motion to concur in the Senate amendment to the House amendment to
the Senate amendment to H.R. 719, and agreeing to the Speaker's
approval of the Journal, if ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 241,
nays 185, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 7, as follows:
[Roll No. 527]
YEAS--241
Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amash
Amodei
Babin
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Benishek
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Bost
Boustany
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
Curbelo (FL)
Davis, Rodney
Denham
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)
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
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Jones
Jordan
Joyce
Katko
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
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Knight
Labrador
LaHood
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
Lipinski
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
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Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Peterson
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Pompeo
Posey
Price, Tom
Ratcliffe
Reed
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Roby
Roe (TN)
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)
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Stefanik
Stewart
Stivers
Stutzman
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Trott
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
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Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke
NAYS--185
Adams
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
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
Dent
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
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
Hanna
Hastings
Heck (WA)
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jackson Lee
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Keating
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
Kirkpatrick
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
Maloney, Sean
Matsui
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Meng
Moore
Moulton
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Nolan
Norcross
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
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
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
ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1
King (IA)
NOT VOTING--7
Brady (TX)
Culberson
Hudson
Kelly (IL)
Meeks
Pingree
Reichert
{time} 1647
Mr. LOEBSACK changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
Messrs. DUNCAN of South Carolina and PERRY changed their vote from
``nay'' to ``yea.''
So the concurrent resolution was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
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