[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 46 (Wednesday, March 23, 2016)]
[House]
[Pages H1569-H1570]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              CONDEMNING THE TERRORIST ATTACKS IN BRUSSELS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Poe of Texas). The unfinished business 
is the vote on the motion to suspend the rules and agree to the 
resolution (H. Res. 658) condemning in the strongest terms the 
terrorist attacks in Brussels on March 22, 2016, which murdered more 
than 30 innocent people, and severely wounded many more, on which the 
yeas and nays were ordered.
  The Clerk read the title of the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Poe) that the House suspend the rules and 
agree to the resolution.
  This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 409, 
nays 0, not voting 24, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 138]

                               YEAS--409

     Abraham
     Adams
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (MI)
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Bonamici
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chabot
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clawson (FL)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coffman
     Cohen
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cook
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello (PA)
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Denham
     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
     Farenthold
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx
     Frankel (FL)
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Graham
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Hensarling
     Hice, Jody B.
     Higgins
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Holding
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huffman
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Israel
     Issa
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kaptur
     Katko
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy
     Kildee

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     Kilmer
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kline
     Knight
     Kuster
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Long
     Loudermilk
     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
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Meng
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Moore
     Moulton
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (PA)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Nolan
     Norcross
     Nunes
     O'Rourke
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Pallone
     Palmer
     Pascrell
     Paulsen
     Payne
     Pearce
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Pocan
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Polis
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (NC)
     Price, Tom
     Quigley
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (NY)
     Rice (SC)
     Richmond
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Russell
     Ryan (OH)
     Salmon
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanford
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stefanik
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Titus
     Torres
     Trott
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     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 (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yarmuth
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin

                             NOT VOTING--24

     Bass
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blumenauer
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Chaffetz
     Fincher
     Grijalva
     Herrera Beutler
     Labrador
     Love
     Noem
     Nugent
     Rangel
     Reichert
     Scalise
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Tonko
     Wilson (FL)
     Zinke

                              {time}  1118

  So (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and 
the resolution was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.


                          personal explanation

  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Speaker, on Monday, March 21; Tuesday, 
March 22; and Wednesday, March 23, 2016, I was on medical leave while 
recovering from hip replacement surgery and unable to be present for 
recorded votes. Had I been present, I would have voted:
  ``Yes'' on rollcall vote No. 130 (on the motion to suspend the rules 
and pass H.R. 4314, as amended).
  ``No'' on rollcall vote No. 131 (on ordering the previous question on 
H. Res. 653).
  ``No'' on rollcall vote No. 132 (on agreeing to the resolution H. 
Res. 653).
  ``Yes'' on rollcall vote No. 133 (on the motion to suspend the rules 
and pass H.R. 4742).
  ``Yes'' on rollcal1 vote No. 134 (on the motion to suspend the rules 
and pass H.R. 4755).
  ``Yes'' on rollcall vote No. 135 (on the motion to suspend the rules 
and pass H.R. 4336, as amended).
  ``Yes'' on rollcall vote No. 136 (on the motion to recommit H.R. 
2745, with instructions).
  ``No'' on rollcall vote No. 137 (on passage of H.R. 2745).
  ``Yes'' on rollcall vote No. 138 (on agreeing to the resolution on H. 
Res. 658).


                          Personal Explanation

  Mr. REICHERT. Mr. Speaker, due to an illness I was unable to vote on 
the following:
  Rollcall No. 130.
  Rollcall No. 131.
  Rollcall No. 132.
  Rollcall No. 133.
  Rollcall No. 134.
  Rollcall No. 135.
  Rollcall No. 137.
  Rollcall No. 138.
  Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.''
  On rollcall No. 136, had I been present, I would have voted ``no.''


                          personal explanation

  Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, had I been present for the vote on the 
Democratic Motion to Recommit H.R. 2745, which would add protections 
for consumers by ensuring that the underlying bill would not apply to 
mergers that would unreasonably increase the costs of pharmaceutical 
drugs (rollcall No. 136), I would have voted ``aye.''
  Had I been present for the vote on the passage of H.R. 2745, the 
Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act 
(rollcall No. 137), I would have voted ``nay.'' This bill would 
eliminate important administrative and procedural tools the Federal 
Trade Commission (FTC) uses to protect market competition and the 
American consumer. Additionally, this bill seems unnecessary, 
particularly after the Wall Street Journal dubbed 2015 the ``biggest 
year ever for mergers and acquisitions.''
  Additionally, had I been present for the vote on H. Res. 658, a 
resolution condemning in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks in 
Brussels on March 22, 2016, (rollcall No. 138), I would have voted 
``aye.'' These attacks signal a painful continuation in our struggle 
against terrorism.

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