[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 108 (Wednesday, July 6, 2016)]
[House]
[Pages H4419-H4449]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2017

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaMalfa). Pursuant to House Resolution 
794 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. 5485.
  Will the gentleman from California (Mr. McClintock) kindly resume the 
chair.

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                     In the Committee of the Whole

  Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of 
the bill (H.R. 5485) making appropriations for financial services and 
general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and 
for other purposes, with Mr. McClintock (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, 
a ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised by the gentleman from 
Utah (Mr. Chaffetz) had been sustained.
  No amendment to the bill shall be in order except those printed in 
House Report 114-639, amendments en bloc described in section 3 of 
House Resolution 794, and pro forma amendments described in section 4 
of that resolution.
  Each amendment printed in the report shall be considered only in the 
order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated 
in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the 
time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the 
proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment except as 
provided by section 4 of House Resolution 794, and shall not be subject 
to a demand for division of the question.
  It shall be in order at any time for the chair of the Committee on 
Appropriations or his designee to offer amendments en bloc consisting 
of amendments printed in the report not earlier disposed of. Amendments 
en bloc shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for 20 minutes 
equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member 
of the Committee on Appropriations or their respective designees, shall 
not be subject to amendment except as provided by section 4 of House 
Resolution 794, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of 
the question.
  During consideration of the bill for amendment, the chair and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on Appropriations or their respective 
designees may offer up to 10 pro forma amendments each at any point for 
the purpose of debate.

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  Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, I move to strike the last word.


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  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from New York is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, I yield to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. 
Bishop).
  Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for 
yielding.
  Mr. Chairman, I would like to say a few words about the fiscal year 
2017 Financial Services Appropriations Act.
  I have been privileged to serve on the subcommittee since the 
beginning of the 114th Congress. I first want to commend the excellent 
work of Chairman Crenshaw, who will be retiring at the end of this 
Congress, Ranking Member Serrano, as well as the staffs of both the 
majority and the minority.
  Unfortunately, I will have to oppose this bill on final passage for a 
number of reasons. For example, I know that it is not the most popular 
or even the most politically wise thing to defend the Internal Revenue 
Service, but it does not make any sense to complain about the work of 
the IRS and then slash its ability to function by cutting its budget 
$246 million below the FY 2016 level and $1.4 billion below the 
President's budget request.
  Severe budget cuts have led to fewer audits, longer appeals, delayed 
refunds, and poorer service for the American people. It has also led to 
billions of dollars in lost tax revenue, money that could be used to 
repair our Nation's infrastructure or reduce the deficit. Instead, the 
cuts have only served to line the pockets of tax cheats, people who 
can't be audited and have collection by the Internal Revenue Service.
  Taxpayer Services, however, does get funding at the amount requested, 
which is a positive step for turning around the IRS' customer service 
issues. At the very least, it is encouraging to see the Congress taking 
the first steps to improving customer service and tax compliance--
resulting from unfair and unnecessary political attacks on the agency--
but now they are taking it seriously.
  I am also concerned that the FY 2017 Financial Services 
Appropriations Act contains a number of contentious policy riders that 
will hinder the government's ability to do its job. First of all, the 
bill unnecessarily micromanages the District of Columbia's budget and 
its laws, restricting home rule and the ability of the District of 
Columbia to manage its own finances.
  Also, the Federal Communications Commission is prohibited from 
implementing its popular net neutrality rules until all lawsuits 
contesting the rules have been resolved. The Commission has carefully 
tailored these rules to ensure approval by the courts, and the 
provision simply delays the implementation of consumer and small 
business protection from unscrupulous business practices.
  The bill severely undermines the Affordable Care Act by prohibiting 
funds to implement the individual mandate and the transfer of funds to 
the IRS for the use of implementing the Affordable Care Act.
  Additionally, the bill inhibits corporate transparency by blocking 
the Securities and Exchange Commission from requesting information on 
political contributions by corporations.
  Finally, it continues to prohibit individuals traveling to Cuba for 
educational exchanges outside of a degree program. That policy is a 
relic of the last century, and it has absolutely no part in today's 
globalized economy.
  As I said, I cannot support the FY 2017 Financial Services 
Appropriations Act as it currently stands. While we are still in tough 
economic times, this bill contains too many harmful policies and does 
not allocate the resources in a way to grow our Nation's economy.
  Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.


                 Amendment No. 1 Offered by Mr. Ellison

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 1 
printed in House Report 114-639.
  Mr. ELLISON. 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:

       Page 2, line 22, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000)''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 794, the gentleman 
from Minnesota (Mr. Ellison) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Minnesota.
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Chairman, we can raise living standards for working 
families across the country if we use Federal dollars to create good 
jobs.
  My amendment would reprogram funds to create an Office of Good Jobs 
in the Treasury Department that would help ensure the Department's 
procurement, grant making, and regulatory decisions to encourage the 
creation of good, decently paid jobs, collective bargaining rights, and 
responsible employment practices.
  Mr. Chairman, I am actually a little bit shocked to know that right 
now the U.S. Government is America's leading low-wage job creator, 
funding over 2 million poverty jobs through contracts, loans, and 
grants with corporate America. That is more than the total number of 
low-wage workers employed by Walmart and McDonald's combined.

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  U.S. contract workers earn so little, Mr. Chairman, that nearly 40 
percent of them use public assistance, like food stamps, Section 8, and 
Medicaid, to feed and shelter their families. To add insult to injury, 
many of these low-wage U.S. contract workers are driven deeper into 
poverty because their employers steal their wages and break other 
Federal employment and labor laws.
  It is intended that the appropriation for salaries and expenses at 
the United States Treasury Department be used to establish an Office of 
Good Jobs in the Department aimed at ensuring that the Department's 
procurement, grant-making, and regulatory decisions encourage the 
creation of decently paid jobs, collective bargaining rights, and 
responsible employment practices. The office's structure shall be 
substantially similar to the Centers for Faith-Based and Neighborhood 
Partnerships located within the Department of Education, Department of 
Housing and Urban Development, Department of Homeland Security, 
Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Labor, 
Department of Agriculture, and Department of Commerce, Department of 
Veterans Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Small Business 
Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, the Corporation for 
National and Community Service, and U.S. Agency for International 
Development.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from New York 
(Mr. Serrano), the ranking member.
  Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, I support the amendment.
  The aim of this amendment is to create an Office of Good Jobs within 
the Department of the Treasury. This office would help ensure that the 
Treasury makes contracting and employment decisions encouraging the 
creation of decently paid jobs, implementation of fair labor practices, 
and responsible employment practices.
  The Federal Government ought to be setting an example for the Nation 
when it comes to contracting decisions. Members of Congress who are 
committed to creating good-paying jobs and supporting workers have a 
chance with this amendment to see those values reflected throughout our 
government.
  This office will help guide the Treasury to make responsible 
contracting and employment decisions and do right by the countless men 
and women who help us perform the Nation's business each and every day.
  I urge adoption of the amendment.
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the gentleman's 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Florida is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, this amendment is duplicative and ignores 
the existing contractor award system that we already have in place. 
Contracting officers must already consult the system for award 
management to ensure a contractor can be awarded a contract.
  Businesses on the excluded parties list systems have been suspended 
or debarred through a due process system and may not be eligible to 
receive or renew Federal contracts for cited offenses. So the best way 
to ensure that the government contracts provide grants to the best 
employers is to enforce the existing suspension and debarment system.
  Bad actors who are in violation of the basic worker protections 
should not be awarded Federal contracts. Everybody agrees with that. 
That is why the Federal Government has already got a system in place to 
deny Federal contracts to bad actors. If a contractor fails to maintain 
high standards of integrity and business ethics, agencies already have 
the authority to suspend or debar the employer from government 
contracting.
  In 2014, for instance, Federal agencies issued more than 1,000 
suspensions and nearly 2,000 debarments to employees who bid on Federal 
contracts. This amendment is just going to delay the procurement 
process, with harmful consequences. On numerous occasions, the 
nonpartisan Government Accountability Office has highlighted costly 
litigation stemming from the complex regulatory rules, including from 
the Fair Labor Standards Act.
  So this amendment simply punishes employers who may unknowingly or 
unwillingly get caught in the Federal Government's maze of bureaucratic 
rules and reporting requirements. The procurement process is already 
plagued by delays and beneficiaries.
  I urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Chairman, how much time do I have remaining?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Minnesota has 2\1/2\ minutes 
remaining.
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Chairman, this is not duplicative. This amendment 
actually is not about debarment. Debarment says that, if you are the 
worst actor, you are going to get a sanction. This amendment says we 
are going to prioritize contractors who have good employment practices.
  Imagine yourself being a businessperson with a government contract 
and you are over here trying to make sure that you are respecting the 
union that the workers may have. You are making sure you never get hit 
with wage theft. You are making sure that you have a good benefits 
program for your employers. You are a good employer, the kind that we 
want to have working for the Federal Government, yet you are competing 
with somebody who does the bare minimum they can do to avoid debarment.
  That is the mistake that the gentleman from Florida is making. The 
Office of Good Jobs would prioritize good employers who make it a 
priority to say that we value our employees, we are not going to pay 
them the very least we can get by with, we are not going to try to 
force them on government benefits by not paying them a fair wage.
  It should be compelling to all of us that 40 percent of contract 
workers make so little that they are eligible for government welfare 
programs. These are people who work. They are people who work a job. 
They might be working at McDonald's, they might be doing cleanup in a 
Federal building, or they might be doing any number of jobs; but if 
somebody is making meals for our heroes at the Pentagon, I think they 
ought to be able to get a fair, decent job, and there ought to be 
somebody out there who makes sure that it happens. If there is no one 
to make sure that it happens, it won't happen. That is why our 
government, today, funds more low-wage jobs than Walmart or McDonald's 
combined.
  It is time to end this race to the bottom. It is time to say that the 
biggest buyer of goods and services in the world, the United States, 
should use its power to promote good jobs, not get-by jobs, not 
substandard jobs that barely eke past debarment, but good jobs.
  I would think that everybody in this body would want to use the 
dollar that way. I think the American taxpayer would want to use the 
dollar that way. What if the American taxpayer knew that the Federal 
contractors are paying 40 percent of the workers so little that these 
workers actually are eligible for welfare programs though they work 
hard every single day?
  Mr. Chairman, we ask for a ``yes'' vote on this amendment, because I 
think that everybody in this body wants to see good jobs for the 
American people.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Ellison).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Minnesota 
will be postponed.

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                  Amendment No. 2 Offered by Mr. Duffy

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 2 
printed in House Report 114-639.
  Mr. DUFFY. 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:

       Page 8, line 21, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $20,748,545)''.
       Page 8, line 23, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $15,270,929)''.
       Page 9, line 3, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $239,231)''.

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       Page 9, line 11, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $497,965)''.
       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $1,327,907)''.
       Page 10, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $1,576,889)''.
       Page 10, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $2,074,855)''.
       Page 10, line 12, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $165,988)''.
       Page 10, line 15, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $24,898)''.
       Page 265, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $20,748,545)''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 794, the gentleman 
from Wisconsin (Mr. Duffy) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Wisconsin.
  Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  The House Financial Services Committee, in conjunction with the 
Judiciary Committee, has been engaging in an investigation in regard to 
bank settlement agreements that were reached that created a slush fund 
to drive money to third-party organizations.
  Now, that is offensive because, if we look at our Constitution, it is 
the Congress that is supposed to appropriate, not the administration, 
not the DOJ, but the Congress. In these bank settlement agreements, you 
have the administration, along with approval from the judiciary, 
actually appropriating money to groups that this institution did not 
approve.
  So, to be clear, we are looking at funding for CDFI. My amendment 
will reduce that funding by $20.7 million. So before you are all 
shocked, let's actually talk about the numbers. The committee has 
increased funding by $16.5 million, bringing the number from $233.5 
million to $250 million. That is an over 7 percent increase in funding 
for CDFI.
  But if you add in the money that came from the bank settlements, the 
$45 billion from bank settlements, this is a $62 million increase or, 
as a percentage, it is 26 percent of an increase for CDFI. It is huge. 
If we want to increase that funding by 26 percent, that is our 
decision, in this House, not the DOJ, not the President, not the 
judiciary. It is our decision.
  So all I do is say: Hey, let's bring this back by $20 million. That 
is all. And still, if you include the $16 million that is currently in 
the bill, and then the $25 million that they got from the slush fund, 
it is still a 17 percent increase.
  This makes sense. I ask you all to join my amendment, join in a 
little effort to stand up for Article I of the Constitution, and do 
what is right.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Florida is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. This happens to be one of the most bipartisan accounts 
in the bill, and it is a lean program; it fills a niche that provides 
capital and credit in areas where often it is difficult. These are 
competitive grants and it is complicated to a certain extent. It is not 
as simple as just kind of flowing money back and forth. So I just want 
to urge people, to say: We don't want to reduce the funding in these 
areas.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. 
Serrano), the ranking member.
  Mr. SERRANO. I thank the chairman.
  I was going to open up by saying the same thing: This is probably the 
most bipartisan account that we have in this bill and it has been for 
years.
  I rise in strong opposition to this amendment. This amendment would 
slash funding for the Community Development Financial Institutions 
Fund, or CDFI Fund, by $20.7 million. This is a harmful and totally 
misguided cut.
  The fact is that the CDFI Fund helps generate economic growth and 
opportunity in some of our Nation's most distressed communities. The 
Fund supports financial institutions recognized for their expertise in 
providing services and support to distressed communities. These 
institutions leverage Federal funds to draw in new or increase sources 
of private funding.
  According to the description provided to the Rules Committee, the 
gentleman's amendment says: to ``offset an inappropriate augmentation 
of this account outside the appropriations process by the Department of 
Justice through settlement agreements, which required banks to donate 
$20.7 million to certified CDFI entities.''
  But the fact is that the Fund is not receiving money from DOJ or from 
any bank. It is completely inaccurate and inappropriate to reduce the 
CDFI Fund in any amount as a result of the gentleman's assertion.
  Any settlement with banks for fraudulent activity during or leading 
up to the financial crisis was delivered by banks directly to CDFIs. At 
no point has the Fund benefited or seen an increase in funding as a 
result.
  The fact that some of our large banks have entered into civil 
settlements with the Department of Justice should not even enter into 
this discussion. The fact is that the need for investment in these 
communities is far greater than the resources that have been provided.
  The passage of this amendment would do a great deal of harm. We are 
not just talking about cutting $20.7 million from the Fund. Because of 
the leveraging of private sector investment, we are actually talking 
about an amendment that would effectively cut many times that number of 
investment in job creation, community facilities, and housing.
  I strongly urge a ``no'' vote.
  Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Alaska (Mr. Young).
  (Mr. YOUNG of Alaska asked and was given permission to revise and 
extend his remarks.)
  Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to Mr. 
Duffy's amendment. I have listened to his arguments very closely. My 
interest in this is the American Indian and Alaska Native and Hawaiian 
Native. My interest is because this program, the CDFI, is the one 
program where they have access to moneys, and they cannot get it from 
the standard lending institutions for their businesses that they are 
trying to create. And it has worked successfully in Alaska and in the 
lower 48, too.
  I would suggest, respectfully, that a lot of people don't understand, 
we don't have a road system. Most of our--in fact, all of our villages 
don't have banks, and this program can work and does work very well to 
try to improve their lot. And I say they have been successful at 
creating new jobs that create money.
  Mr. Chairman, I would like to suggest one thing. I listened to these 
arguments about the money we are appropriating, and I wish everybody 
would understand in this body we cannot create jobs by creating 
government jobs. That is not real money. That is money that is being 
consumed. And this body has been neglectful in creating jobs from 
resources and manufacturing from, have not supported, nor have they 
made the suggestion that this should be done.
  So we talk about these programs, we need to have money available to 
create jobs that create real money, and a lot of this is done in the 
rural communities in my State of Alaska and the Indian country in the 
lower 48.
  So I suggest the gentleman has a point, but not a strong enough point 
to have me vote for his amendment.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I heard the gentleman from across the aisle talk about harmful cuts. 
When you look at the money that is going to this program, CDFI, even 
with my reduction, there is a $41 billion increase, or a 17 percent 
increase in funding. You can't disregard the money that went from the 
bank settlements. That is money that we should have appropriated. That 
has been taken from us, but we have to consider it. You can't not 
consider it.
  I listened to the debate in this Chamber among my colleagues, 
especially on the right, and they talk about: Oh, my goodness, we need 
to regain congressional authority, we want to start an Article I 
movement where we actually control spending. Well, hey, here is your 
opportunity.
  When the Department of Justice and the administration circumvent the 
Congress, we should take it seriously, and we should take into account 
the money that they appropriated through a bank settlement.

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  I also hear my colleagues talk about: Oh, my gosh, we have a really 
big debt, $19 trillion in debt is going to tank our economy. And I 
agree. If you care about $19 trillion in debt, we can reduce this fund 
by $20 million, and still have it $41 million more than it was last 
year.
  And, oh, by the way, this appropriations is $3 million more than the 
President's request, so we are not harming the Fund. We are not harming 
people. More money is going to CDFI. It is just that we are considering 
the amount of money that came through bank settlements that 
circumvented Congress, and I think that is only appropriate.
  I would ask all of my colleagues to join with me and do what is right 
by this institution, and do what is right by way of our debt and our 
next generation, and make sure that we consider those bank settlements, 
and reduce this fund by $20.7 million.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I wish it were as simple as the gentleman 
suggests. But it is important to realize this amendment would literally 
reduce almost every program in the CDFI. And remember, these funding 
cuts would devastate some of our Nation's most distressed populations, 
including Native Americans and people with disabilities, people in 
rural communities. So I urge my colleagues to vote ``no.''
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Duffy).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. DUFFY. 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 Wisconsin 
will be postponed.


                 Amendment No. 3 Offered by Mr. Becerra

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 3 
printed in House Report 114-639.
  Mr. BECERRA. 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:

       Strike section 127.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 794, the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Becerra) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California.
  Mr. BECERRA. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Secret money is killing our democracy. More and more, our elections 
are being driven by organizations that are receiving hundreds of 
millions of dollars in secret donations. We don't know and can't find 
out who is giving all this money.
  These secret organizations use the Tax Code to hide the source of 
their money by operating under a law meant for not-for-profit social 
welfare organizations. These organizations get tax-exempt treatment and 
don't have to report the donors of their dollars.
  The result is this: What was meant to be for a social welfare 
organization, organizations we would recognize, like voluntary fire 
departments or the NAACP, all those organizations are now being used as 
cover by other organizations which are using the Tax Code to be able to 
spend hundreds of millions of dollars driving our elections every year 
now; so much so that, today, those organizations that are so-called 
social welfare organizations are spending more money than the political 
parties, the Democratic political party and the Republican political 
party, spend combined.
  In 2006, these so-called social welfare organizations spent about 
$1.5 million campaigning, politicking. In 2012, our last Presidential 
election, these so-called social welfare organizations spent more than 
$257 million, more than the two political parties spent in 2012 for the 
Presidential elections.
  Mr. Chairman, there is a provision in this bill that would prevent 
the IRS from giving guidance to make sure that no one is abusing the 
Tax Code to influence our politics, and I simply have an amendment that 
would strike that provision, so that the IRS could tell us what is a 
social welfare organization and what is really a political 
organization, so we don't give special tax treatment to these so-called 
social welfare organizations that are really politicking and we don't 
let them hide behind that particular tax provision to hide the names of 
their donors.
  We have no idea who is giving this money and, Mr. Chairman, it is 
time for us to have transparency and openness in our election system, 
not hide this. Secret money is killing our elections.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Florida is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, first, let me say that the IRS made a 
real mess of this 501(c)(4). You remember, that was the section of the 
Code that they used to single out individuals and groups of individuals 
based on their political philosophy, then they went around to 
intimidate them, to bully them, to put extra scrutiny on them, and they 
made a real mess of it.
  But let me interrupt my opposition to yield 1 minute to the gentleman 
from New York (Mr. Serrano), my good friend, the ranking member, to 
speak in support, and then I will continue.
  Mr. SERRANO. That will confuse some people.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge support of the amendment. This amendment would 
strike language that prevents reform of the 501(c)(4) rules that have 
caused confusion and abuse in the campaign financial field.
  We have heard from a number of charities and foundations that these 
rules governing electoral campaign activity must be made more clear and 
be effectively enforced. The language in the underlying bill prevents 
that and should be stricken.
  I urge support for the amendment, and I thank my chairman for the 
minute.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. BECERRA. Can the Chairman let me know how much time remains?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from New York has 2\1/2\ minutes 
remaining.
  Mr. BECERRA. Mr. Chairman, I yield 45 seconds to the gentlewoman from 
New Mexico (Ms. Michelle Lujan Grisham).
  Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM of New Mexico. I thank my distinguished 
colleague from California for yielding time.
  Mr. Chairman, in the 2012 Presidential election, dark money groups 
such as these spent over a quarter billion dollars on partisan 
political campaign activities. In 2014, we saw the greatest wave of 
secret special interest money ever raised in a congressional election.

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  In 2016, dark money groups have spent nearly 10 times what they did 
at the same point last year.
  We must ensure that social welfare groups exclusively spend their 
money on their social welfare mission like early childhood education or 
veterans' assistance.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to vote for this sensible 
amendment to help ensure that our elections are transparent.
  Mr. BECERRA. Mr. Chairman, I yield 45 seconds to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Schiff).
  Mr. SCHIFF. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the amendment offered 
by Mr. Becerra.
  Special interest groups have increasingly been raising dark money for 
political campaigns by exploiting loopholes in IRS regulations. These 
groups designate themselves as 501(c)(4) or social welfare 
organizations, which allows them to operate tax exempt and raise 
unlimited money completely anonymously.
  Tax-exempt status was intended to be limited to social welfare 
organizations that focus on just that--the social welfare--not 
political activity. But IRS audits of these organization can take 
years, and at that point, the damage is already done.
  The announcement that the IRS would release clearer guidelines on 
what constitutes candidate-related political activity should have been 
welcomed, not blocked by a rider.

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  Real campaign finance reform is still needed, and passing this 
amendment striking the rider would be an important step to help the IRS 
clamp down on organizations illegally funneling anonymous, unregulated 
money in our elections.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time to 
close.
  Mr. BECERRA. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Mr. Chairman, when you make a contribution to the local volunteer 
fire department, you know what the money will be used for. When you 
make a contribution to the League of Women Voters, you know what the 
contribution will be used for. When you make a contribution to the 
NAACP, you know what the contribution will be used for.
  There are a whole bunch of organizations that we don't understand why 
they are using their money for something other than social welfare. 
They are influencing our elections. It has to stop. We can't even find 
out what the source of the money is. It could be money laundered from 
some drug sale. It could be money from some foreign government. We 
don't know where the money from some of these organizations is coming 
from to influence our elections.
  It is time for us to have clarity. This provision in this bill has no 
reason, no purpose, to be here. It simply keeps secret the dark money 
that influences our elections. My amendment simply strikes that 
provision so that the IRS can give us clarity on who can and who cannot 
use tax-exempt laws to try to be a social welfare organization. It is 
time for us to have clarity in the law. Get rid of secret money.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge Members to vote for this amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Chairman, as I said, the IRS made an incredible mess of this 
section of the IRS code, the 501(c)(4). After they messed it up and 
they intimidated people and they bullied folks, then they said: Well, 
let's just write a new regulation.
  So in 2013 they came along and said: Here is how we are going to 
determine tax-exempt status.
  A lot of people said: Well, here is an effort to just kind of shut 
down freedom of speech.
  What is interesting is, instead of clearing the air, the IRS 
generated this incredible firestorm of criticism from all across the 
political spectrum. Not surprisingly, the American Center for Law and 
Justice, which represents Tea Party organizations targeted by the IRS, 
described the regulation as an attack on free speech.
  But among the other 160,000 comments that came, the American Civil 
Liberties Union said: ``The proposed rule threatens to discourage or 
sterilize an enormous amount of political discourse in America.''
  The IRS has got plenty to do. They always complain they don't have 
enough money. They don't need to go out and try to write a new rule to 
kind of clear the air of what they messed up a couple of years ago. The 
only thing this new regulation did was it just kind of united liberals 
and conservatives. So the best thing to do is leave it like it is and 
reject this amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge a ``no'' vote.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Becerra).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. BECERRA. 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.


                 Amendment No. 4 Offered by Mr. Ellison

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 4 
printed in House Report 114-639.
  Mr. ELLISON. 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:

       Page 84, beginning on line 13, strike section 506.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 794, the gentleman 
from Minnesota (Mr. Ellison) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Minnesota.
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to join with Ranking Member Johnson to 
strike section 506 of this appropriations bill. This is another anti-
consumer provision inserted into a funding bill. It actually doesn't 
belong here.
  The language I ask my colleagues to remove restricts the Consumer 
Financial Protection Bureau's ability to curb mandatory arbitration in 
consumer contracts. Last month, the CFPB proposed prohibitions on class 
action lawsuits and mandatory pre-dispute mandatory arbitration in 
financial contracts.
  I strongly supported the CFPB's actions. We must limit this well-
known scourge on the rights of everyday Americans: forced arbitration 
clauses. People talk about how the rules are rigged. They say the deck 
is stacked in favor of powerful interests. Forced arbitration clauses 
are a perfect example of an unfair system. Powerful corporations rig 
the rules to make it more difficult for people to hold companies 
accountable for wrongdoing.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Georgia 
(Mr. Johnson).
  Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the 
Ellison amendment, which strikes section 506 from the bill, a deeply 
flawed provision that would restrict the Consumer Financial Protection 
Bureau's ability to fulfill its statutory mandate to regulate pre-
dispute mandatory arbitration clauses in contracts for financial 
products and services.
  Over the past several decades, forced arbitration clauses have 
proliferated in countless consumer, employment, and small-business 
contracts depriving countless Americans of their right to a jury trial 
in a court of law while insulating corporations from public 
accountability. That is why when Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act in 
2010, we explicitly empowered the CFPB to study pre-dispute forced 
arbitration, and then based on the study's results, ban or limit the 
practice through regulation.
  In March 2015, the CFPB issued a seminal report finding that forced 
arbitration agreements restrict consumers' access to relief in disputes 
involving financial services and products. As overwhelmingly and 
methodically documented in this report, the CFPB confirmed what we 
already knew, that forced arbitration clauses blocked consumers from 
suing wrongdoers in court individually or in class action lawsuits.
  Now it is time for the CFPB to ensure that consumers have their day 
in court by adopting a strong rule banning forced arbitration clauses 
in contracts for financial services and products. This amendment 
ensures that the CFPB can do just that.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to support the Ellison amendment.
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Woodall). The gentleman from Florida is 
recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Arkansas (Mr. Womack), a valued member of our subcommittee.
  Mr. WOMACK. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for the time and also 
his great work as chairman of the subcommittee. As a proud member of 
the subcommittee, we are going to miss Mr. Crenshaw. It has been a 
delight to work with him as well as the ranking member, Mr. Serrano, 
for his tireless effort on behalf of these issues.
  Mr. Chairman, for 90 years--for 90 years--Federal law has protected 
the enforceability of arbitration agreements because arbitration 
provides an alternative method of resolving disputes that is quicker 
and cheaper than the expensive, overburdened court system.
  Hundreds of millions of contracts are based on this principle: credit 
card contracts, checking accounts, Internet agreements, cell phones, 
and cable TV. There are dozens of contracts that have this provision.

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  Don't let my colleagues across the aisle fool you on this subject. 
Arbitration empowers individuals. Injured parties can obtain fair 
resolution of disputes without the need of an attorney. But many oppose 
this approach, particularly plaintiffs' attorneys, because arbitration 
proceedings can't be used to bring lawyer-driven class actions that 
provide millions in legal fees but little or no benefit to the 
consumer.
  Dodd-Frank authorized the CFPB to conduct a study of arbitration and 
at the same time granted CFPB authority to promulgate a regulation for 
related products or services within the bureau's jurisdiction. However, 
this authority was caveated, Mr. Chairman, with the requirement that 
any rule be in the public interest and for protection of consumers 
while remaining consistent with the results of the bureau's arbitration 
study.
  Mr. Chairman, Congress wanted any regulation to be based on a fair, 
complete study of real-world implications of regulating or banning 
arbitration. Yet, CFPB's study--which led to its May, 2016, proposed 
regulation effectively eliminating arbitration--fell far short of the 
requirements set by Congress.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I yield the gentleman an additional 30 
seconds.
  Mr. WOMACK. So, Mr. Chairman, that is why the Appropriations 
Committee approved language in our bill to address this issue, and we 
did so unanimously. Now Congress has to step in again to restore basic 
fairness to the effort to regulate arbitration.
  Section 506 of this bill simply ensures that no rule issued by the 
bureau shall be effective until the bureau evaluates the costs and 
benefits to consumers associated with conditioning or limiting the use 
of arbitration and specifically, Mr. Chairman, finds that the 
demonstrable benefits of the rule outweigh the costs to consumers.

  Any attempt to strike it would be misguided.
  So, Mr. Chairman, I urge a ``no'' vote on the amendment by the 
gentleman from Minnesota.
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Chairman, may I inquire as to how much time I have 
remaining?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Minnesota has 2 minutes 
remaining.
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, if you live in Minnesota and you get into a dispute 
with a bank over a bank account, a credit card or a cell phone company, 
well, that might just be too bad because the arbitration court is in 
Delaware. You can pack up and move to a hotel for a week. You don't 
have any other option. Instead of an impartial judge, your case is 
going to be decided by an arbitrator chosen and paid for by the firm.
  What if the arbitrator makes a mistake in ruling?
  We have appellate courts for a reason. If you have forced arbitration 
and the arbiter makes a mistake, that is too bad for you. The ruling 
likely cannot be repealed or reversed.
  Do you want to know what happened to other people who may have had 
the same problem with the company?
  You are out of luck there, too, because the documents and the 
arbitrator's decisions are not publicly available.
  This is unfair, and it is wrong. It is no way to treat consumers in 
our country. We should strike this improper provision. We should accord 
the CFPB with the respect it really does deserve because they examine 
this issue carefully in the public interests.
  Strike section 506 of this appropriations bill. It doesn't belong 
there. It is anticonsumer, and both Republicans and Democrats have 
consumers in our districts, and I hope that they are following this 
debate. Because when they find that a financial product with a forced 
arbitration clause is hurting them and their family, they are going to 
know who stood up for them. I hope all Members, as they choose their 
vote on this particular bill, think carefully about who is on their 
side and who isn't.

                              {time}  2000

  I would just like to add, as I close, that we should split the CFPB's 
efforts to allow Americans to join our claims together and hold 
financial companies accountable when they make mistakes and when they 
break the law. We should encourage, not prevent, a fair financial 
marketplace. If you want a fair system, if you want greater economic 
freedom, then those mandatory arbitration clauses need to stop.
  Please support the Ellison-Johnson amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, for 9 years arbitration agreements have 
been legal, and they have been upheld by the courts. They provide an 
alternative method of resolving disputes. They are quicker and cheaper 
than the slow, more expensive court system. The provision in our bill 
before you merely requires the CFPB to stop and further study the use 
of arbitration before moving forward with this arbitration rule.
  In their own study, it is noted that consumers didn't select 
financial products like credit cards or cell phones based on whether 
they were subject to dispute resolution clauses or may require 
arbitration. And actually, studies have shown that consumers receive 
more compensation in arbitration than they do in class action. So you 
have to ask yourself: Why is the CFPB trying to go after something 
consumers say they don't care about but actually financially benefit 
from?
  I urge rejection of this amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. McClintock). The question is on the amendment 
offered by the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Ellison).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. 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 Minnesota 
will be postponed.
  It is now in order to consider amendment No. 5 printed in House 
Report 114-639.


Permission to Consider Amendment Nos. 5, 6, and 7 Offered by Ms. Moore 
                          of Wisconsin En Bloc

  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that amendment 
Nos. 5, 6, and 7, printed in House Report 114-639, be considered en 
bloc.
  The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman 
from Florida?
  There was no objection.


          Amendments En Bloc Offered by Ms. Moore of Wisconsin

  Ms. MOORE. Mr. Chairman, I offer amendment Nos. 5, 6, and 7 made in 
order under the rule.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendments.
  The text of the amendments is as follows:

           amendment no. 5 offered by ms. moore of wisconsin

       Strike section 501.


           amendment no. 6 offered by ms. moore of wisconsin

       Strike section 503.


           amendment no. 7 offered by ms. moore of wisconsin

       Strike section 505.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 794, the gentlewoman 
from Wisconsin (Ms. Moore) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Wisconsin.
  Ms. MOORE. Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank the chair and the 
ranking member for agreeing to this en bloc amendment request.
  These three amendments, offered with Financial Services ranking 
member Ms. Waters, Mrs. Maloney of New York, and Mr. Ellison of 
Minnesota, address Republican attacks on the Consumer Financial 
Protection Bureau, the CFPB.
  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is one of the central 
pillars of the Wall Street reform, the Dodd-Frank Act. To date, the 
Bureau has returned more than $11.4 billion to 25 million consumers 
that have been harmed by predatory financial practices.
  Let me repeat that for you, Mr. Chairman. $11.4 billion has been 
returned to our constituents, 25 million of them, as a result of the 
work of the CFPB.
  Yet our colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to again side 
with

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foes of the Bureau, with the predatory and other unscrupulous lenders. 
Our amendment seeks to preserve the independence and efficacy of this 
watchdog agency.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. 
Ellison), a member of the Financial Services Committee.
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding.
  That is right, Mr. Chairman, $11.4 billion to over 25 million 
consumers. The CFPB has been working on behalf of consumers.
  How many households are stronger, better off because of the CFPB? How 
much justice has been accorded by the CFPB? And yet here we are, after 
being so successful with the CFPB, and our friends on the other side of 
the aisle want to weaken it, water it down, snarl it up, and entangle 
it up in a bureaucratic mess.
  It is a good thing, Mr. Chairman, that the CFPB is independent. It is 
good that they don't have to worry about the political pressures. It is 
good that they can have a single-minded focus on one thing, and one 
thing only: what is good for the American consumer.
  By the way, we have plenty of oversight. Just ask Richard Cordray. He 
must be the most frequent visitor to the Financial Services Committee 
in the whole of the United States Government. He comes all of the time 
and has to answer question after question all day long, day in and day 
out, from our Republican colleagues, and he answers the questions as 
well as anybody possibly could.
  There is accountability. There is a letter writing process. There are 
questions he has to answer. There are all types of oversight.
  But do you know what? There is not the ability for the Republicans to 
say: We are going to snatch your money if you don't do it our way. We 
are going to take away your independence and tie down the CFPB in an 
unwieldy five-person commission if you don't do things our way.
  Right now, the consumers have an advocate on their side, and that is 
the way it should stay. I support and urge support for the Moore 
amendments.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendments.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Florida is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, this amendment would strike one of the 
very best and most important provisions of the bill, that is, putting 
the CFPB under the appropriations process. That is number one.
  It also would strike a provision of the current law, which merely 
requires the CFPB to notify Congress whenever they request money from 
the Federal Reserve. That is the law today.
  And the third thing it does is it strikes the provision that changes 
this CFPB, the Director, to a five-member commission.
  Now, the combination of these provisions introduces ordinary and 
customary congressional checks that most every other agency abides by. 
We are not asking the CFPB to do anything the Department of Defense or 
the State Department or the Department of Justice or the Treasury 
Department doesn't already do. I think it is truly ironic that the 
agency responsible for making consumer financial products more 
transparent and financial institutions more accountable is 
nontransparent to the Congress and to the American people.
  The Dodd-Frank authorizes the CFPB to fund itself by drawing money 
from the Federal Reserve to the extent their Director deems 
``necessary.'' Now, the Federal Reserve doesn't oversee the agency. It 
doesn't exercise any authority over it. But the Federal Reserve must 
transfer the CFPB whatever funds the Director requests without asking 
any questions.
  So the Bureau has already diverted over $2 billion from the 
Treasury's general fund and, therefore, increased the Federal debt by 
$2 billion without any congressional input or approval of its 
activities.
  Now, other consumer protection agencies, such as the Consumer Product 
Safety Commission or the Federal Trade Commission, they are both funded 
through the appropriations process. Why not the CFPB?
  With regard to the five-member commission structure, I think some 
more diverse viewpoints would help the CFPB understand stakeholder 
concerns and would make the direction of the agency a little bit more 
accountable. Other consumer investor protection agencies, such as the 
Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, or 
the Securities and Exchange Commission, they are all funded through the 
appropriations process, and they are all led by five-member 
commissions. Why not the CFPB?
  So this provision in the bill neither abolishes the Bureau; they 
don't eliminate the Bureau's funding. Instead, they will increase the 
Bureau's transparency and leadership, allow us to understand what it is 
that they are doing and how they are going about it.
  Let's just make the CFPB a little more transparent and a little more 
accountable. I urge a ``no'' vote on this amendment.

  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. MOORE. Mr. Chairman, could the Chair inform me about how much 
time I have remaining?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Wisconsin has 1\1/2\ minutes 
remaining.
  Ms. MOORE. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the concern that the gentleman 
has about maintaining the budgetary constraints, but that is the very 
problem that agencies like the FDIC and others have had. They have had 
the authority, but they have not had the independence. The 
appropriation process ties the hands of these agencies. The one bright 
star is the CFPB, which is independent, and it supports consumers.
  I just want to point out that changing the structure of the CFPB to a 
commission would add $66 million to our deficit.
  I look forward to my friends on the other side of the aisle's vote on 
my amendment since it not only preserves the independence of the CFPB, 
but it continues to ensure that U.S. markets are the fairest and most 
robust in the world, and it protects consumers from mischief in this 
appropriations process.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendments en bloc offered 
by the gentlewoman from Wisconsin (Ms. Moore).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. MOORE. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendments offered by the gentlewoman from Wisconsin 
will be postponed.
  It is now in order to consider amendment No. 8 printed in House 
Report 114-639. Does any Member wish to take up this amendment?
  The Chair understands that amendment No. 9 printed in House Report 
114-639 will not be offered.


                 Amendment No. 10 Offered by Mr. Himes

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 10 
printed in House Report 114-639.
  Mr. HIMES. 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:

       Page 114, line 10, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $50,000,000)''.
       Page 115, line 7, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $50,000,000)''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 794, the gentleman 
from Connecticut (Mr. Himes) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Connecticut.
  Mr. HIMES. Mr. Chairman, my amendment does one very simple thing, 
which is to increase the funding for the Securities and Exchange 
Commission by $50 million, bringing the funding in this bill for the 
Securities and Exchange Commission to the level of funding for the SEC 
in 2016.
  I would point out, Mr. Chairman, that this level of funding is still 
significantly lower than the President's request of $1.78 billion.
  I would further point out, Mr. Chairman, that the work of the SEC, at 
its core, is about protecting investors who are essential to the 
functioning of our capital markets and to protecting the

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long-term sustainability of the U.S. financial system.
  Mr. Chairman, as I think this body knows, the Dodd-Frank Act--which I 
understand is controversial in this Chamber, but which has gone a very 
long way to avoiding the kind of meltdown that we had in 2008 and which 
destroyed $17 trillion in American asset value at its worst--as well as 
the JOBS Act, which attracted strong bipartisan support in this 
Chamber, those two bills required the SEC to write some 70 new 
regulations. And yet despite that requirement and all of the advocacy 
that we saw, particularly from my friends on the Republican side of the 
aisle for more alacrity in the writing of the rules for the JOBS Act, 
we are now seeing a real cut in the budget for the SEC.
  Just to give you a sense of what the SEC does, it is now responsible 
for overseeing some 26,000 market participants and over 9,000 public 
companies. The assets managed by SEC-registered investment advisers 
have increased 210 percent since 2005 to almost $70 trillion. That is a 
lot of money. That is a lot of investment.
  This is an organization which is really essential to one of the chief 
competitive advantages that the United States has, which is the 
liquidity and the respect that the world has for our capital markets. 
Again, $50 million bringing the SEC up to the level of funding that it 
had last year.
  And as a final point, let me point out that the SEC is funded not by 
taxes, but by fees that it collects.

                              {time}  2015

  So this would not have the effect of cutting another program or of 
raising anybody's taxes; but it would, in fact, simply authorize $50 
million in fees that would be used for the SEC's budget.
  I would like to thank the chairman and the ranking member for the 
opportunity to offer this amendment, and I would like to thank the 
cosponsors of this amendment, Representatives Maloney, Hinojosa, 
Perlmutter, and Sewell.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to the gentleman's 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Florida is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chair, the bill before us today takes a measured 
approach to the Securities and Exchange Commission. A lot of people 
don't realize that that agency has received some of the largest 
increases over the last decade that a lot of agencies wish they had 
received.
  Today, we cut the SEC's funding by $50 million from the 2016 because 
the Commission estimates that $50 million is carryover funding from 
last year. In addition, we rescind money from the SEC's reserve fund, 
which was set up kind of like a slush fund under Dodd-Frank. That is 
totally outside congressional oversight.
  Because the Commission has been using the reserve fund for important 
information technology projects, we have increased funding for the IT 
in the bill. Now, I believe that, if we upgrade information technology, 
the Commission will be better able to leverage its resources, catch bad 
actors, and provide the quality of review that security filings 
deserve.
  To that end, the bill targets funding for another area of need within 
the Commission, and that is the economic analysis. I believe continuing 
to set aside funding to fully fund the SEC's Division of Economic and 
Risk Analysis is going to help the SEC's work withstand any kind of 
judicial review.
  I happen to believe that the current Chair, Mary Jo White, is 
steering the SEC towards prioritizing enforcement and investor 
protection and not so much the politically charged rulemakings. Because 
of that, we have kept the SEC's funding at a reasonable level. The 
level of funding included in this bill is more than fair and does not 
need to be adjusted in any way.
  The fact that this agency is fee-based in no way diminishes the need 
for congressional oversight over the Commission's funding. I would say 
the SEC is not starved for resources, and I urge a ``no'' vote on this 
amendment.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. HIMES. Mr. Chair, I appreciate the gentleman's perspective, but I 
disagree. He is correct that, in fact, the funding for the SEC has 
risen in the last 8 years, but so has the dramatic amount of work that 
is required of it.
  Mr. Chair, I will close with just one important point, which is that 
we saw over the course of the last 2 weeks the dramatic market 
volatility that was introduced by Great Britain's decision to remove 
itself from the EU. There was not a stock market or an asset market 
anywhere on the globe that didn't suffer a significant jolt. These are 
moments of uncertainty--maybe even of chaos--in the capital markets.
  We have a fairly significant election coming up this November. We are 
not looking at a moment in which the capital markets are likely to 
experience smooth sailing off into the foreseeable future.
  We saw, in the last 2 weeks, precisely the volatility that warrants 
the need to have a cop on the beat to watch. This is not the moment to 
cut the SEC's funding. I would urge my colleagues in this Chamber to 
pass this amendment and to fully fund the cop that we need on this 
beat.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chair, I just want to reiterate that we are 
treating the SEC very fairly. We want to make sure that the markets are 
safe and that they are orderly, and they are. Just giving more money to 
the SEC is not necessarily going to make things better.
  Over the years, as my colleague understands, we have increased their 
funding, and they still miss an occasional Madoff scandal and things 
like that. You don't just buy the regulation. You spend the money where 
you ought to spend it--cost-benefit, help them keep the markets 
orderly--and that is what we do in this bill.
  I urge the rejection of this amendment.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Himes).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. HIMES. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Connecticut 
will be postponed.


                Amendment No. 11 Offered by Mr. DeFazio

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 11 
printed in House Report 114-639.
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Page 115, line 24, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $22,703,000)''.
       Page 265, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $22,703,000)''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 794, the gentleman 
from Oregon (Mr. DeFazio) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Oregon.
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Chair, I yield myself 90 seconds.
  This bipartisan amendment would zero out funding for an obsolete, 
archaic system--the so-called Selective Service.
  Thirty-nine years ago, the Russians invaded Afghanistan. Jimmy 
Carter, in one of the moments of his rather pathetic Presidency, 
decided that we would send two symbols to the Russians: we wouldn't go 
to the Olympics, and we would reinstate registration for the draft 
despite the fact that his own Selective Service had just come up with a 
report showing that the need for Selective Service was obsolete and 
unnecessary.
  They tried to recall all of the reports. They didn't. Senator Mark 
Hatfield obtained one, and it was printed in the Congressional Record. 
The Selective Service, itself, decided its time was gone, but we 
reinstated it as a symbol of our opposition to the Russians.
  So here we are today, 39 years later, wasting $23 million a year in 
making every male American, at the age of 18, register for a draft that 
will never, ever again happen, under penalty of felony of law, of the 
deprivation of Federal assistance, of Federal jobs, and of other

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things--for life--if they fail to register. Yet we are still here 
tonight to defend it.
  The chairman will say: Well, we are going to study this. We are going 
to study it and decide whether or not we might still need this someday. 
Yet, of course, the Department of Defense, itself, says: We do not want 
a draft. We like to select highly qualified people for our all-
volunteer military.
  In fact, in March, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said: ``The 
thing I'd like to say about the Selective Service System and the draft, 
generally, is this: We want to pick our own people. We don't want 
people to be forced to serve us.'' Yet the chairman of the committee 
will rise in a vain attempt to defend this wasteful system.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to the gentleman's 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Florida is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chair, I think most of us would hope that we won't 
ever need to use the draft again, but I think the agency is an 
important insurance policy that we can use against unforeseen threats. 
In an emergency, in a wartime situation, the effects of this amendment 
could be disastrous. This is a small price to pay for an agency that 
has the potential to avert a crisis should the draft ever need to be 
reinstated.
  The voluntary military we have maintained for 40 years is, certainly, 
the preferred method of defending our Nation. We have got the best-
trained and the best-equipped military in the world. But the decision 
on the issue to support and to maintain the Selective Service System is 
a decision that should be made by the Department of Defense. I believe 
that this is a small price to pay to make sure that we have this 
ability should we ever need it.
  I urge a ``no'' vote on this amendment.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Chair, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from 
Colorado (Mr. Coffman).
  Mr. COFFMAN. Mr. Chair, I rise in support of the DeFazio amendment, 
and I am a proud cosponsor of the amendment.
  As the gentleman from Oregon mentioned, the draft ended in 1973. 
Conscription ended. Then the Selective Service System was put on the 
shelf, inactivated, and was only activated when, in a show of resolve, 
President Jimmy Carter, in the aftermath of the December 1979 Soviet 
invasion of Afghanistan, reinstituted conscription. He reinstituted 
signing up for the Selective Service System. I think he suspended wheat 
sales to the Soviet Union as well as our participation in the Olympic 
Games, which were scheduled to be in Moscow.
  It has never been used. During the height of Iraq and Afghanistan, 
there has never even been a discussion within the Department of 
Defense, even with personnel shortages, about using the draft.
  In a recent study by the Army Recruiting Command, it determined that 
something like 75 percent of young people--military-aged people--are 
ineligible to serve in the United States Army. Either they are 
overweight; they don't have high school or have high school but don't 
have a high enough score on the Armed Forces Entrance Exam; they have 
had altercations with the law; or they have drug and alcohol issues.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. DeFAZIO. I yield the gentleman an additional 30 seconds.
  Mr. COFFMAN. We have extremely high standards today. I think, in my 
having served in the United States Army when there was a draft, that 
having conscription--having people being forced to serve--compromises 
the extraordinary, I think, capability of our military. This is about 
putting it back on the shelf, as it was in 1973, and if the President, 
as Commander in Chief, ever felt it needed to come off the shelf, he or 
she could do so.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time to close.
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  For those who persist in the fantasy that, someday, we will need to 
reinstate the draft, this legislation allows the President the 
authority to restore funding should he believe that such actions are in 
the interest of the national defense. Beyond that, the report, 
actually, from 1979, from the Selective Service, itself, said: We do 
not have the training capacity of the old days of training, with 
broomsticks, the young troops to go into war.
  Today, we have a professional military--the best in the world. If you 
believe in our military and if you believe in an all-volunteer force, 
then you will vote for this amendment. If you want to send a message 
that, someday, we are going to conscript young men, involuntarily, to 
go into the military, into a training capacity that doesn't exist, and 
have hundreds or thousands or millions of bodies, untrained, go into a 
massive land war, unlike the way wars are fought today with the 
professional military and much more targeted with drones and air 
strikes, then vote for this, say that we are going to go back to Korea, 
that we are going to go back to the way it was in World War II, that we 
are going to go back to World War I.

  If you believe we have entered into the 21st century and that we are 
never going to involuntarily conscript Americans to serve in the 
military again, the all-volunteer force is the best in the world. Yes, 
it needs to be the best trained and the best equipped. Let's focus on 
that. Let's spend $23 million on their training and on their equipment 
instead of wasting it on an obsolete system that penalizes young 
Americans under felony penalty if they don't register and register 
their changes of address. By the way, the Selective Service doesn't 
know where most people live. Their computers are obsolete, and they 
don't work.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chair, I just want to note that the overwhelming 
``fantasy'' that the gentleman refers to was shared on a bipartisan 
basis, overwhelmingly, in rejecting this amendment a couple of years 
ago. This is not a brand new idea. And we appreciate the gentleman's 
bringing it before us, but in the military, they talk about things that 
you don't know. You do not know what you do not know.
  I believe that this is a small price to pay to make sure that we have 
this ability, should a crisis occur, in that we might save thousands--
if not millions--of lives.
  I urge a ``no'' vote on this amendment.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Oregon (Mr. DeFazio).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Oregon will 
be postponed.

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                Amendment No. 12 Offered by Mr. Grayson

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 12 
printed in House Report 114-639.
  Mr. GRAYSON. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Strike section 613.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 794, the gentleman 
from Florida (Mr. Grayson) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Florida.
  Mr. GRAYSON. Mr. Chair, this language strikes the anti-abortion 
language in section 613, which restricts abortion coverage for those 
who participate in Federal Employees Health Benefit plans. In other 
words, Federal employees.
  Singling out abortion care and requiring its exclusion from health 
insurance plans is discrimination. Federal employees commit their lives 
to public service, and they should not be penalized because of the 
source of their health insurance and who their employer happens to be. 
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coverage, and they pay their out-of-pocket expenses. They deserve the 
same benefits and access to comprehensive health care as those in the 
private sector. This ban separates public servants from private-sector 
employees and treats them as unequal.
  All Federal employees should have equal access to health care that 
other employees receive in the private sector. Here, we are saying that 
one employer, the government, is free to deny care to its employees, 
something that we would generally not allow in the private sector.
  We are also prohibiting these Federal employee plans from covering 
abortions, and that constitutes political interference in a woman's 
personal decisionmaking. Restricting abortion coverage in these plans 
is a bad policy that harms women. Sometime during the course of 
pregnancy, for instance, one might find out that the fetus is abnormal. 
That is a personal decision whether to terminate that pregnancy or not 
that should be made personally, and the government should not weigh in 
in one way or another in making that decision.
  If a woman does decide--either because her life is threatened or 
because of fetal abnormalities or some other reason--that she wants to 
terminate the pregnancy, she could be looking at tens of thousands or 
hundreds of thousands of dollars of unreimbursed health expenses. We 
shouldn't pretend that we are covering people's health coverage needs 
while allowing them to fall subject to a bill that could be tens or 
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
  Now, lifting this ban does not mandate abortion coverage. It simply 
permits the Federal Employees Health Benefit plans to cover abortions.
  I think we need to get to the heart of the matter, which is this: the 
most fundamental right of anyone, a man or a woman, is the right to 
control your own body, and that includes a womb. If liberty means 
anything, if freedom means anything, that is what it means. That is 
true for me and it is true for you. It is true for men, and it is true 
for women; and that includes pregnant women and women who happen to be 
Federal employees.
  Abortion has to be fully legal or women are not fully equal. I urge 
my colleagues to support this amendment.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Florida is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chair, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from New 
Jersey (Mr. Smith), one of the great champions of innocent unborn life.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from 
Florida for his extraordinary leadership on this bill and on the life 
issue.
  Mr. Chairman, on June 8, 1983, 33 years ago, I sponsored the 
amendment to ban the use of taxpayer funds to subsidize abortion in the 
Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. The Smith amendment passed 
226 to 182, and has been in effect almost continuously ever since.
  Today, more Americans oppose taxpayer funding for abortions than ever 
before. A January 2016 Marist poll found a supermajority of Americans--
68 percent of all respondents and 69 percent of women--oppose taxpayer 
funding for abortion.
  Why do Americans continue to trend pro-life?
  First, the pro-life movement is comprised of millions of selfless, 
compassionate human rights defenders, women and men, filled with deep 
faith in God, hope, love, and indomitable spirits.
  Second, post-abortive women are silent no more, courageously speaking 
to the extraordinary harm they have endured from abortion. As the NGO 
Feminists for Life have reminded us, women deserve better than 
abortion.
  Third, sonograms, ultrasound imagery, is a game changer. Countless 
parents have watched with awe and wonder as their child appears on the 
screen, moving about, even sucking his or her thumb. First baby 
pictures today are of the child before birth. That first picture is a 
powerful confirmation that their child exists and that they are parents 
now and that birth is merely an event in the life of a child.
  Ultrasounds have also been an effective tool in helping to diagnose 
and to treat disease and disability for these young patients. Some 
unborn children indeed are the youngest patients in need of benign 
interventions.
  I would note to my colleagues that for the past several years, there 
has been a global movement called The First Thousand Days of Life, 
providing for nutrition and supplementation to bolster the health and 
wellness of children and women from conception until the second 
birthday. The consequences of caring for children before birth is 
absolutely revolutionary and breathtaking, boosting their immunity as 
well as their cognitive abilities throughout their entire lifetime.
  Abortion, on the other hand, is the polar opposite of life. It is 
violence against children. Abortion methods dismember, decapitate, or 
chemically poison innocent babies to death. Later-term abortions 
inflict excruciating pain and suffering on the child, especially during 
the dismemberment procedure.
  The Grayson amendment would reverse over three decades of prudent 
public policy that ensures that taxpayers do not subsidize abortion. I 
would note parenthetically that the law governing the Federal Employees 
Health Benefits Program specifies that the Federal Government 
contributes at least 72 percent of the average premium cost for all 
plans, so it is taxpayers who are footing the bill.

  Vote ``no'' on the Grayson amendment.
  Mr. GRAYSON. Mr. Chairman, I yield for a moment to my friend from New 
Jersey, if he will answer a single question. And the question is this: 
Does the gentlemen believe that women who have abortions should be 
incarcerated?
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Absolutely not. Thank you for the question.
  Let me point out that every bill we have brought--the Partial-Birth 
Abortion Ban, the Born Alive Act, every single piece of legislation 
that would seek to protect the lives of unborn children--has a specific 
clause that women are held harmless; that there could be no 
prosecutions against them.
  Mr. GRAYSON. Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time, again, addressing a 
question to the gentleman from New Jersey: If you maintain that 
abortion is murder--which is pretty much what you just said--then why 
do you not believe that the women who have these abortions should be 
incarcerated? Why do you not believe that?
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. GRAYSON. I yield to the gentleman from New Jersey.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Chairman, it is the gentleman who called 
it murder. I call it the taking of human life.
  We need to hold the abortionists liable. We, in the pro-life 
movement, look at the women as co-victims. I have worked--I say to my 
friend from Florida--with well over 100 women, many of whom were part 
of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, all of whom have had 
abortions, including the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Alvita King, 
who has had two abortions. She has said very, very strongly that in 
every abortion there was a co-victim, and that is the mother.
  Mr. GRAYSON. Reclaiming my time, I appreciate my friend from New 
Jersey answering those questions.
  I would maintain that the simpler answer is that abortion is not 
murder; it is not the taking of human life.
  I yield 1 minute to my colleague from New York (Mr. Serrano).
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Florida has 45 seconds 
remaining.
  Mr. GRAYSON. I yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from New 
York (Mr. Serrano).
  Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chair, the problem with this argument is that it has 
become an abortion argument and it isn't a debate about abortion. It is 
an issue about a doctor and a woman and her healthcare decision and an 
insurance where one person can have certain rights under their 
insurance plan and another one cannot.
  Let's remember that there are some Federal dollars in this plan, but 
there are also personal dollars, but no rights according to some 
people.
  Mr. GRAYSON. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, it is very clear that our policy is the 
taxpayers' fund should not be used to fund abortions and, therefore, we 
have continued this prohibition. Not only has

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this prohibition been in place since 1981, it was also requested by the 
administration as part of its 2017 budget request.
  So I urge a ``no'' vote on this amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. DeGETTE. Mr. Chair, I rise in support of Grayson Amendment Number 
12.
  This amendment would finally remove a longstanding, harmful 
appropriations rider that deprives federal employees of coverage for 
the full range of reproductive health care.
  As co-chair of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, I'm routinely dismayed by 
the repeated inclusion in legislation of divisive riders that interfere 
with women's health care decisions. Why must important bills that get 
the people's business done be misused by politicians to limit women's 
reproductive rights and choices?
  For too long, Congress has interfered with women's health decisions 
through bans on insurance coverage for reproductive health care. I 
applaud Mr. Grayson for taking action to lift these unnecessary and 
harmful restrictions in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. 
However, these restrictions exist in many other places throughout 
federal law. We should do away with them all.
  Every single year, my Republican colleagues feel the need to include 
provisions attacking women's health in the Financial Services 
Appropriations bill. This year is no exception. As usual this year's 
bill is riddled with such provisions.
  But this time, Republicans have taken it one step further. An 
amendment filed by Rep. Palmer has also been made in order on this 
appropriations bill.
  Mr. Palmer's amendment would prohibit Washington, DC from enforcing 
the Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Act, which the city enacted 
to help protect women and their families from employment discrimination 
based on reproductive health choices.
  Preventing DC from enforcing this law is egregious. It is beyond 
inappropriate for Congress to strike down state laws that help protect 
women from employment discrimination based on choices such as using 
birth control, undergoing in vitro fertilization, or having an 
abortion.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Grayson).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. GRAYSON. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Florida will 
be postponed.


                 Amendment No. 13 Offered by Mr. Kildee

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 13 
printed in House Report 114-639.
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Strike section 625.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 794, the gentleman 
from Michigan (Mr. Kildee) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Michigan.
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Chair, this amendment offered by myself and my 
colleagues would strike section 625 of this bill and, if adopted, would 
allow the SEC to write regulations requiring corporations to disclose 
their political contributions. This amendment would not require the SEC 
to regulate political disclosure. It would simply allow them to do so 
if they deem it something that would be necessary or important so that 
investors and citizens and voters know where the tens of thousands, 
hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars spent by corporations are 
going to affect the outcome of elections.
  The Supreme Court decision in Citizens United has opened the 
floodgate for corporations to spend an unlimited amount of money, 
affecting our democracy in ways that we, as citizens, can never find 
out about, that we can never determine, dramatically affecting the 
outcome of elections, often spending more money than any other 
candidate or any other political party.
  Knowledge is power, and the American citizens have the right to know 
how corporations are spending money to affect the outcome of elections. 
This amendment would allow the SEC to write regulations that would 
allow for that kind of disclosure.
  This democracy should not be for sale. Transparency is the key. The 
citizens of this country have a right to know and to understand how 
money is affecting the outcome of their elections.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Florida is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, this is the law today that he is trying 
to remove.
  The SEC doesn't need to be engaged in politically charged, unmandated 
rulemakings. The language included in this bill just keeps the SEC on 
track. It prevents them from developing or proposing or issuing a rule 
that would require disclosure of political contributions in the SEC 
filings.
  Let's call the amendment what it is. It is an end-run around the 
Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.
  The SEC has got bigger priorities to focus on, and thank goodness 
they have been focusing on those. They have been going after people 
that profit from insider trading. They are trying to stop the fraud 
that goes on. And the bill continues to support the SEC doing its job; 
protecting investors, encouraging capital formation.
  I urge a ``no'' vote on this amendment.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Chair, may I inquire as to how much time I have 
remaining?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Michigan has 3\1/2\ minutes 
remaining.
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Florida (Mr. Deutch).
  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Chair, this is a simple amendment. It strikes a 
highly partisan policy rider that would bar the SEC from requiring 
disclosure of political spending by corporations.
  Since the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United, we have seen 
an explosive growth in corporate political spending. Even under the 
twisted interpretation of the First Amendment in that case, disclosure 
would at least mean some level of accountability.
  In that case, the Court decided that corporations get the same free 
speech rights as people; and now these corporations are taking 
advantage by funneling unlimited funds through tax-exempt groups to 
secretly influence our elections.
  Section 625 of this bill would completely bar any funds from being 
used to develop a rule to require disclosure of political contributions 
to tax-exempt organizations. This represents a behind-closed-doors 
trick to block the administration from requiring corporations to simply 
stand behind their political spending.
  Corporations shouldn't be able to hide their political motivations 
behind complex webs of so-called social welfare groups, not when these 
groups are little more than P.O. boxes in Virginia.
  We have to get money out of politics, but until then, let's have some 
disclosure.
  I urge my colleagues to support this amendment.

                              {time}  2045

  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Maryland (Mr. Sarbanes).
  Mr. SARBANES. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Chairman, I want to commend Mr. Kildee for this amendment, which 
promotes more accountability and transparency and disclosure at a time 
when that is what people are asking for. They want to know where the 
secret money is coming from, and they want to know where it is going. 
They say sunshine is the best disinfectant, but yet again, this House 
is acting to shield corporate and big money donors from the light of 
day.
  It is this Russian doll technique. You open the Russian doll because 
you think you can see what is inside, and then when you open it, there 
is another doll inside; and then you open that one, and there is 
another doll inside that one. You can never get to where the money 
really is. You can never find out who is actually bankrolling these 
huge expenditures, these TV commercials

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that are coming in, this megaphone that is taking over our politics 
from secret interests.
  All Mr. Kildee is seeking is that we provide the transparency, the 
disclosure, the information that the American people are seeking. We 
need more of that. We need more disclosure. We need more 
accountability. We need more transparency. That is what the American 
people are demanding. That is what this amendment would do. Let's pass 
this amendment and ensure that accountability in our politics.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New 
York (Mr. Serrano), the ranking member of the subcommittee.
  Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, if I didn't know better, I would be 
confused. On one hand, we cut money from the SEC because they shouldn't 
be the cop on Wall Street that it should be, but then on the other hand 
we want to continue to cut money and prevent them from telling us where 
the other money is coming from, which is the one that funds elections.
  What is the problem with the American people knowing that such a 
candidate or such a committee got money from such a corporation? I want 
to know. They want to know.
  So, sure, our ratings are low. You know why our ratings are low? 
Because there is so much secrecy in what we do, and it shouldn't be. 
This is a great amendment, and it is one that should be accepted on a 
bipartisan basis.
  Let's stop trying to tell the SEC that they don't exist. They exist.
  And I will tell you one last point that is very short. When I was 
chairman of this committee, they came to us and said: We don't want any 
more money; we are fine. Then we found out years later why they didn't 
want more money, because they didn't want to enforce anything. We fell 
through into a big hole.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Chairman, fundamentally, this amendment is simply 
about the right of the American people to know who is influencing the 
elections that determine the leadership in this country.
  This legislation, as presented, would actually prohibit the SEC from 
requiring that kind of disclosure. The American people deserve a 
democracy that is transparent. This amendment would provide the SEC 
with the tools to make rules that would provide that. I urge my 
colleagues to support my amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, as I pointed out earlier, this is 
existing law. This is the law today, and they want to strike that law. 
I would encourage them to look up something called the Federal Election 
Commission. That is a place where people disclose their political 
contributions, and it is right there for everybody to see. So they want 
to take existing law that says that is not the role of the SEC; it is 
the role of the FEC. They want to change the law that basically, today, 
says the SEC has got better things to do than require----
  Mr. KILDEE. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. CRENSHAW. I yield to the gentleman from Michigan.
  Mr. KILDEE. Are the corporate contributions made under the provisions 
that we are speaking of disclosed to the Federal Election Commission? 
Corporate spending under the Citizens United case, for example; are 
those disclosed by corporations to the FEC?
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Reclaiming my time, as I pointed out, I understand this 
is an end run about that lawsuit, but there is disclosure that takes 
place. And again, the law today that was added last year, part of the 
omnibus bill, the SEC ought to be trying to find tax cheats, they ought 
to be trying to find people doing insider trading, and, quite frankly, 
they really don't have it high on their list of things to do because 
right now the law prevents them from doing that.
  I think it is just better to keep the law just like it is today. 
Reject this amendment, and vote ``no.''
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Kildee).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. KILDEE. 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 Michigan 
will be postponed.


                 Amendment No. 14 Offered by Ms. Eshoo

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 14 
printed in House Report 114-639.
  Ms. ESHOO. 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:

       Strike section 632.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 794, the gentlewoman 
from California (Ms. Eshoo) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from California.
  Ms. ESHOO. I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, this amendment strikes what I believe is an unnecessary 
provision in the bill that would block the FCC's net neutrality rules 
until the court took final action to determine their legality. The 
provision my amendment strikes was written before the court announced 
its decision.
  On Tuesday, June 14, the Federal appeals court issued its long-
awaited ruling in this case, and the decision could not be clearer. The 
court fully upheld the FCC's net neutrality rules, and that is why I am 
offering the amendment. It found that the FCC acted within its 
authority, acted consistent with Supreme Court precedent, consistent 
with the Administrative Procedure Act, and consistent with the 
Constitution. Every issue raised by opponents in court was rejected, 
whether it was procedural or substantive.
  Following this clear and decisive ruling, there is simply no reason 
for Congress to be blocking the FCC's rules. The courts have spoken, 
and legal scholars agree.
  I think the American people also spoke very clearly. Over 4 million 
offered their comments by filing them at the FCC during the rulemaking 
process, and the vast majority of them were in support of strong rules. 
This level of public input broke records at the FCC.
  The late Justice Antonin Scalia's dissent in the 2005 Brand X case 
reflects the same commonsense view the American people expressed in 
their public comments. Justice Scalia said: ``After all is said and 
done, after all the regulatory cant has been translated, and the smoke 
of agency expertise blown away, it remains perfectly clear that someone 
who sells cable-modem service is `offering' telecommunications.''
  So Congress need not block these rules now in the hopes that an 
appeal to the Supreme Court will overturn this clear ruling, and that 
is why I am offering the amendment. I urge my colleagues to support it 
and strike what now is an unnecessary section from the bill.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Florida is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, this language is merely a legislative 
stay on the FCC's net neutrality order, and it is the same language 
that was in last year's bill. This net neutrality rule was very, very 
controversial. She mentioned there were 4 million, I guess, inputs 
under the proposed rule. Some were for, some were against.
  Let me be clear. There is no dispute about the desire for a free and 
open Internet, but I think, when you look at the consumers, you look at 
the businesses, you look at government, they have benefited greatly 
from the absence of regulatory restrictions on the Internet. At the end 
of the day, this is an issue for the courts to decide.
  Even in light of recent circuit court decisions, litigation on this 
rule is no way finished. I think it is just fair in a controversial 
rule like this to wait until its legality has been finally determined 
before we implement the rule. So I urge a ``no'' vote.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.

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  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Chairman, the gentleman really offers a lack of 
response to the amendment because the Federal appeals court issued a 
very broad decision, and it really couldn't be clearer. I understand 
that this language was written before the court came out with its 
decision, but now that the court has, I think that this language really 
doesn't mean anything unless the majority simply wants to leapfrog over 
the decision, even though they don't like it and have fought it.
  I just don't think that this belongs in the legislation anymore. It 
was put in before the court spoke, and I believe that it is appropriate 
to remove the language now.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from New York is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. SERRANO. I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of this amendment. It strikes section 
632 of the underlying bill, a controversial FCC rider that prohibits 
the FCC from implementing its order on net neutrality until three court 
cases are resolved.
  Yet again the majority is trying to hijack the regulatory process for 
its own ends. This rule went into effect almost a year ago, and none of 
the fears that were raised about the net neutrality rule have come to 
pass. There has been increased investment and profits for Internet 
service providers. There is no reason to continue the crusade against 
this rule.
  Although section 632 sets out to only last as long as the lawsuits 
are ongoing, the actual text encourages the plaintiffs in these 
lawsuits to do everything in their power to delay a resolution to the 
cases in question.
  Four million people wrote in about the rule that this committee is 
now trying to stop. The normal process of objecting to a rule would be 
that you go to the courts, and that already happened here. The U.S. 
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied a petition 
by several telecom companies and industry trade groups to delay 
implementation of the Federal Communications Commission, FCC, net 
neutrality rules.
  Organizations like the Consumers Union have pointed out that there 
was plenty of public notice with the net neutrality rules. There was an 
initial notice of proposed rulemaking, an extensive description 
released before the FCC vote, and waiting 2 months after the Federal 
Register publication before the rules took effect. Throwing in an 
additional hurdle departs from established rulemaking practice and 
simply isn't needed.
  Ironically, just last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 
District of Columbia upheld the FCC's 2015 net neutrality rules in 
these cases, giving the agency unquestionable authority to regulate the 
Internet.

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  Of course, they could still appeal, which demonstrates how harmful 
this rider is. It would delay net neutrality while the court process 
plays out.
  Blocking net neutrality means blocking an open Internet. It allows a 
broadband provider to block any Web site or application it wants and 
would allow pay-for-priority schemes, where all traffic is slowed down 
to make the way for the content of deep-pocketed giants who can pay for 
preferential treatment.
  It seems to me that Republicans are trying to give corporations more 
freedom and options to do whatever they want while trying to place more 
restrictions and burdens on individual citizens, like denying them 
access to a free and open Internet. Section 632 is harmful to our 
economy, our democracy, and should be stricken from the bill.
  I thank the gentlewoman for her amendment, and I urge support for the 
amendment.
  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Chair, how much time do I have remaining?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.
  Ms. ESHOO. I will close with these comments, Mr. Chairman. I often 
say to my constituents that we love our history once it has been made, 
but we don't always appreciate it when we are making history.
  I think that this issue relative to the Internet and its entire 
future will be now, because of the court decision, totally 
uninterrupted. No company, no ISP, not anyone can block or throttle 
online traffic or have paid prioritization agreements that would create 
fast and slow lanes.
  Imagine if private companies owned all of the freeways in California, 
and every time there is an exit or an on ramp, you end up having to 
pay--pay for something.
  The court made very, very clear that the way the FCC drew up its 
rules is for the protection of the consumer, which is at the heart of 
this. I think that June 14 was a day of great history made in our 
country and for the betterment of it, for consumers, for competition, 
and for our national economy.
  It is with all of that in mind that I offer this amendment, and I 
urge my colleagues to support it. I think it makes sense. What was in 
the bill was drawn up before the court spoke. The court has spoken very 
clearly.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, we are not here to debate the merits of 
the net neutrality rule. Everybody knows how controversial it was.
  It has been pointed out there are 4 million objections or supporters. 
I don't know how they were split, but there were millions for, millions 
against. It just tells you how controversial it is.
  So all this provision says is: let's wait until it is finally 
resolved. We all know that it is going to end up in the United States 
Supreme Court. And once it has been determined yes or no, then the FCC 
ought to enforce it. But until that time, it ought to be stayed through 
the legislative process. That is what this bill does. That is what the 
amendment attempts to undo.
  So I urge a ``no'' vote on this amendment.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from California (Ms. Eshoo).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from California 
will be postponed.


                Amendment No. 15 Offered by Mr. Ellison

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 15 
printed in House Report 114-639.
  Mr. ELLISON. 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:

       Page 143, beginning on line 10, strike section 637.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 794, the gentleman 
from Minnesota (Mr. Ellison) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Minnesota.
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Chairman, my amendment would repeal an effort to 
undermine the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act and an effort to 
eliminate consumer protections for some of the country's most 
vulnerable borrowers and invite a return to the kind of predatory 
mortgage practices that helped fuel the financial crisis of 2008 in the 
first place.
  The manufactured housing industry is growing and highly profitable. 
In fact, according to its trade association, manufactured housing--what 
some people might call trailer homes, but actually is accurately called 
manufactured housing--is an industry that has recorded shipment 
increases in every month since 2014. Manufactured Housing for 
Regulatory Reform found that 2014 marked the fifth consecutive year of 
annual industry productions increases.
  Even one of the world's most respected investors, Berkshire Hathaway 
chairman Warren Buffet, has been touting the profitability of 
manufactured housing. In a letter to shareholders, he pointed out that 
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Homes, Berkshire Hathaway's profitable manufactured housing business 
subsidiary, earned a total of $585 million in 2014, an increase of 34 
percent over 2013. This is despite the fact that Dodd-Frank protections 
that this bill seeks to roll back were in place in 2014.
  Unfortunately, this is the same Clayton Homes that was the subject of 
a BuzzFeed and The Seattle Times and Center for Public Integrity 
investigation that found that this manufactured housing empire profits 
in every way imaginable from producing to selling, to housing, to the 
loans that take advantage of vulnerable consumers and leave them with 
virtually no way to refinance.
  The investigation details a story of disabled Army veteran and 
Clayton Homes customer, Dorothy Mansfield. Ms. Mansfield's monthly 
income was less than $700, but Clayton approved her for a $60,000, 20-
year loan at more than 10 percent interest. The monthly payment of $673 
consumed much of Ms. Mansfield's only income--her Army disability 
benefit--and within 18 months of purchase, she was behind on payments 
and Clayton was attempting to foreclose on her home.
  This is precisely the kind of predatory practices that Dodd-Frank was 
enacted to stop. But today, we consider legislation that would pave the 
way for its return.
  I urge my colleagues to support this amendment and oppose the 
predatory manufactured housing loans.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Florida is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. First, just let me say that the provision the gentleman 
would like to strike is a provision that gives every American the 
opportunity to pursue what we call the American Dream--that of home 
ownership.
  I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Fleischmann) 
to tell us a little bit more about why we ought to oppose this 
amendment.
  Mr. FLEISCHMANN. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to the gentleman's 
amendment, and I thank the chairman for the opportunity to address 
that.
  Mr. Chair, I represent a wonderful area of east Tennessee. A lot of 
folks purchase manufactured homes. It is a great American industry. It 
is a booming industry. It is a good industry. But more important than 
that, that great industry is the great American Dream--that dream of 
home ownership.
  Manufactured homes offer an opportunity to men and women, many times, 
to purchase their first home. These are not the most affluent people in 
America. These are people who are pursuing the American Dream--or part 
of it--of home ownership.
  What this amendment seeks to do is unfortunate. That is why I oppose 
it. There is no more fervent opponent to the Dodd-Frank rule in this 
house than me, but it protects the Dodd-Frank provisions that were in 
the law.
  This does not violate Dodd-Frank. This is more of an indication of 
how a bad law spews more bad law. And what this does is it hurts those 
precious consumers, those poor Americans who are trying desperately to 
get credit. What it does, Mr. Chairman, is create a situation where, if 
someone is a loan originator or a salesman, it makes them subject to 
the constrictions of Dodd-Frank. This was never intended on its worst 
day--and there are many worst days of Dodd-Frank--to do this.
  I ask this House to reject the gentleman's amendment, uphold a great 
American industry--the manufactured home industry--but even more 
importantly, to uphold that special precious American Dream, that 
chance of home ownership.
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Chairman, how much time do I have remaining?
  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Woodall). The gentleman from Minnesota has 2\1/
2\ minutes remaining.
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Chairman, let me just be clear. This is not a matter 
of whether manufactured housing is good or bad. Manufactured housing is 
obviously an option that Americans should have available to them.
  This amendment is about protecting consumers and making sure that 
they don't get hit on all sides of the bargain: the sale of the home, 
the loan, the origination, the insurance, and all over. It is making 
sure that the mortgage originator is operating in the interests that 
they are supposed to operate in--under the definition of loan 
originator or mortgage originator.
  This requirement prevents salespeople from being incentivized to 
steer buyers to higher-cost loans. It is one thing to stand up and say: 
Hey, we are trying to help people reach the great American Dream, but 
it is quite another to say: Hey, look, yeah, great American Dream at a 
fair and affordable price, great American Dream at a price that people 
can actually afford and that is fair to the consumer.

  So that is what we are talking about here. I absolutely believe that 
if people want to live in manufactured housing, they should. Let me 
tell you, in my district in Minnesota, I have a lot of people who live 
in manufactured housing.
  There are a lot of success stories, too, Mr. Chairman. I can tell you 
about people who lived on property owned by somebody else. They bought 
that property that their manufactured homes were on and now it is 
theirs. And now they are living in much more security than they ever 
have. And they got a good deal.
  They need people who are going to be looking out after them. This is 
a very, very important issue, because a lot of these folks don't have 
that many advocates looking out for them. We should make sure that the 
requirement that prevents salespeople from being able to steer buyers 
to high-cost loans is something that we should not tolerate. It robs 
families who don't have that many resources of the precious resources 
they have.
  So this is another one looking out for consumers, affirming people's 
right to live in a manufactured home, if that is choice, recognizing 
that that is a good choice for many families, but at the same time 
recognizing that these same families need to be treated fairly.
  Mr. Chairman, I ask for a ``yes'' vote.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, if the gentleman really wants people to 
have access to manufactured housing, then I don't think he would be 
proposing this amendment. If you adopt this amendment and take out the 
language we have in the bill, then you are going to limit access to 
quality, affordable housing for an awful lot of people.
  That is what happens when the CFPB tries to overregulate an industry. 
What happens is they limit access to financing and you limit options 
for manufactured housing.
  You have got to understand that these new regulations don't reflect 
the unique nature of manufactured homes; the sales process, the 
lenders. The lenders can't offer small balanced loans anymore because 
of these regulations, and that is what they used to purchase affordable 
housing.
  So if you really care about folks and you want them to be able to 
access the housing market, if you really want them to be able to pursue 
the American Dream of owning a home someday, then you will reject this 
amendment and allow the provision that we put in this bill to stand.
  Let me once again urge that my colleagues vote ``no'' on this 
amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Ellison).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. ELLISON. 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 Minnesota 
will be postponed.


                Amendment No. 16 Offered by Mr. Ellison

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 16 
printed in House Report 114-639.
  Mr. ELLISON. 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:

       Page 143, beginning on line 21, strike section 638.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 794, the gentleman 
from Minnesota (Mr. Ellison) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.

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  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Minnesota.
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Chairman, this is another amendment protecting 
consumers in manufactured housing. It strikes section 638.
  Section 638 weakens rules protecting buyers of mobile homes--or 
manufactured homes--from being sold products that can ruin them 
financially. It strikes language that prevents staff at the Consumer 
Financial Protection Bureau from protecting buyers of manufactured 
homes from high-cost financing.
  New manufactured homes are of good quality. However, the financing of 
these homes has a long and sordid history of abuse.
  If a site-built homeowner can get a mortgage for 5 percent, why 
should a manufactured home buyer need to pay 15 percent?
  If a home buyer is offered a loan of 15 percent, I think they should 
receive counseling that lower-cost options might be available.
  Two years ago, I wrote letters to the heads of the major financing 
firms for manufactured homes. I asked them for information on their 
default rates.

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  Why should a buyer of a manufactured home be charged three times more 
than a buyer of a site-built home?
  I was told by their trade association that they could share that 
information, but only if I promised confidentiality. I declined that 
because I wasn't going to be an aider and abetter to their conspiracy.
  This is a paradox. The manufactured housing industry wants permission 
to charge consumers 10 percent above prime, so 14 or 15 percent, but 
they are unwilling to say why. But they say it is because that is the 
only way to attract lenders to the market.
  Why do they need to charge manufactured home buyers an interest rate 
three times as high as that of other buyers? Manufactured home buyers 
deserve financing that lets them build equity in their home.
  Last year, the Seattle Times ran a series of articles on how the 
financing industry used to prey on manufactured home buyers. I am glad 
the Democrats created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. 
Democrats gave the CFPB the authority to protect home buyers, including 
17 million people who live in manufactured homes.
  We have already voted on the majority's goal to stop the Consumer 
Financial Protection Bureau from protecting manufactured home buyers. 
Last year, the majority brought forward H.R. 650 with this same 
language; 162 Members voted against it. President Obama issued a veto 
threat.
  The majority needs 290 votes to override a veto, and the bill only 
got 263. So people who want to sell buyers high fee and interest loans 
are trying another tack: authorizing in an appropriations bill. We 
should oppose their efforts on procedural grounds, but also on 
principle grounds.
  I urge support of my amendment because absolutely everybody should 
get a fair shot at being able to get a piece of the American Dream, 
which is to own their own home, including a manufactured home. But they 
shouldn't have to pay three times what site-built homeowners have to 
pay just because they might be in a slightly different situation.
  I know that colleagues might say: Oh, we are just standing up for the 
American Dream here; we are just trying to make sure people can get 
into a home.
  Well, at what price, Mr. Chairman? At what price? Three times what 
average site-built homeowners have to pay? Three times what your 
average mortgage holder of a site-built home might pay? I don't think 
that is right.
  I think that we should strike the language in section 638 and should 
stand up for consumer justice for those people who my colleagues agree 
are just trying to get a piece of the American Dream. They are just 
trying to get a piece of the American Dream; but, as they are doing so, 
there are some mortgage lenders, some lenders that are taking money out 
of their pockets as they are trying do that. I think the Congress of 
the United States should stand with those consumers and not with the 
big companies that make out so much, that make such an exorbitant 
profit at their expense.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Florida is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, we just had a discussion earlier about 
access to affordable housing, manufactured homes. Manufactured homes 
are a little bit different, and a lot of times folks that can't afford 
a house try to buy a manufactured home. And if you put some of these 
provisions that the CFPB has tried to put in, what you do, you end up 
denying those folks access to that kind of housing, and I think that is 
wrong.
  I urge Members to reject this amendment like they rejected the last 
amendment.
  I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Fleischmann).
  Mr. FLEISCHMANN. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the gentleman 
from Minnesota's amendment, and I thank the chairman for this time.
  Perhaps the only thing the gentleman from Minnesota and I agree on is 
that this amendment is akin to his first amendment which I vigorously 
opposed and I asked the House to oppose.
  Let me reiterate. The manufactured housing industry is a great 
American industry. The dream of owning a home is part of the American 
Dream. Manufactured housing offers an opportunity to those who are less 
affluent to get part of that American Dream, to buy a house.
  Now, what has happened--and again, Dodd-Frank itself, a law which, if 
I was in this House, I would have voted against. I wasn't here then, 
but I have vigorously opposed since then--Dodd-Frank actually allows 
what this gentleman is trying to oppose with his amendment.
  So as bad as this law is, and as bad as the law that has come from 
this very bad law is, and this amendment is indicative of that, I want 
to talk about what happens when we do this.
  This is a miscalculation in a formula by those proponents of the 
rules of Dodd-Frank, and what it does, it scares away lenders. It 
scares away those who want to give credit because it opens them up to 
liability.
  Therefore, what does it do? It squeezes the poor American consumer 
and deprives them of the opportunity to get credit; therefore, it 
deprives them of the opportunity to get a home; therefore, it deprives 
them of a part of the American Dream.
  If the gentleman would listen to me, I have seen this. Who will 
profit? Those who are vultures, who actually have capital, who have 
cash, who are liquid.
  When these mobile homes now will not sell, there will be a glut on 
the market, and what will happen? They will swoop in, and those people 
who want to see their precious home, their first home, appreciate in 
value, now it will depreciate in value, and they will be harmed.
  This is a perfect example of government overreach. Dodd-Frank is a 
bad law, and this is an attempt to try to construe Dodd-Frank with CFPB 
rules that are detrimental to the American consumer.
  So do not let it hurt the American Dream. Do not let it hurt this 
great American industry. I respectfully urge a ``no'' vote on this 
gentleman's amendment.

  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Chairman, how much time do I have remaining?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Minnesota has 45 seconds 
remaining.
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Chairman, the manufactured home industry is a 
growing industry that is highly profitable. There are loans to be had 
in this space. There is no need to allow consumers to have to pay three 
times--three times--what people pay for a mortgage for a site-built 
home. This is just ringing the dinner bell on people who already are 
economically vulnerable.
  I demanded, Mr. Chairman, information that might justify these higher 
interest rates for manufactured home buyers, and no information was 
forthcoming because there is none. This is just a chance to take 
advantage of people who don't have as much money as some other people.
  So American Dream, by all means; consumer predation, no way. I urge a 
``yes'' vote.

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  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, just finally, let me say once again, we 
all appreciate the effort that we have to protect consumers. But you 
can go so far as basically to regulate people out of the opportunity to 
own a home, and that is what is happening with this overzealous 
consumer protection agency, and all we are trying to do is bring some 
common sense back into that.
  So I would urge folks to reject this amendment. Leave the bill as it 
is, providing an opportunity for people who maybe can't own a great big 
house, but they can buy a manufactured home that might be less 
expensive. It might incur a little more risk since it is a mobile home, 
to a certain extent.
  Take all that into consideration, and leave the bill as it is. Reject 
this amendment. I urge people to vote ``no.''
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Ellison).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr ELLISON. 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 Minnesota 
will be postponed.


           Amendment No. 17 Offered by Ms. Sewell of Alabama

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 17 
printed in House Report 114-639.
  Ms. SEWELL of Alabama. 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:
       Page 144, beginning on line 12, strike section 639.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 794, the gentlewoman 
from Alabama (Ms. Sewell) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Alabama.
  Ms. SEWELL of Alabama. Mr. Chairman, today I rise in support of the 
CFPB's recent efforts to rein in predatory practices utilized by payday 
lenders across this country.
  I am opposed to any congressional efforts to weaken or prohibit 
regulations of these actors. That is why I have offered an amendment 
striking section 639 of the underlying bill, which prohibits funds from 
being used by the CFPB to enforce any regulations or rules with respect 
to payday loans, vehicle title loans, or other similar loans during the 
fiscal year 2017.
  I am proud to be joined by my colleagues, Representatives Waters, 
Ellison, and Hinojosa, in offering this simple yet critically important 
amendment.
  President Obama's visit to Birmingham, Alabama, in the heart of my 
district in March 2015 to announce CFPB's efforts to address predatory 
lending practices was something that was very important to my 
constituency. During his speech, he noted that there were four times as 
many payday lenders in Alabama as there were McDonald's. Additionally, 
there are more title loan lenders per capita in Alabama than any other 
State.
  This stark contrast not only illustrates the pervasiveness of this 
industry participant but, rather, underscores the critical need for 
stronger consumer protections to fight against unfair and abusive 
lending practices.
  Oftentimes, African Americans, Latinos, and other minority 
communities are especially disproportionately impacted by the cycle of 
long-term debt resulting from payday loans, vehicle title loans, as 
well as check advance loans. These lenders target our most vulnerable, 
fiscally underserved communities, including low-income and elderly, 
while residents with limited access to traditional bank loans or credit 
are attracted to promises of easy access to fast cash.
  Predatory lending compromises the financial security of millions of 
Americans. It is a problem that is too big to ignore, and the CFPB's 
efforts to protect these communities should be applauded rather than 
restricted.
  The CFPB's proposed rules are not unduly burdensome. Rather, the 
majority of payday loans and title lenders who do not ask for any proof 
of income or whether the borrower has the ability to repay, that, to 
me, seems to be commonsense regulation. Lenders should be able to make 
loans to those who have the ability to repay, and asking that question 
doesn't seem overly burdensome.
  Studies show that 69 percent of the borrowers use payday loans to 
meet everyday expenses such as rent, bills, medicine, and groceries. 
These CFPB rules would require lenders to make sure borrowers can 
afford to pay back the loans before giving a loan, in the same way that 
traditional banks do when they prepare loans. The payday lending 
industry should be subject to the same regulations as traditional banks 
when it comes to making sure that people who they are lending money to 
have the ability to repay.
  The rule would also limit the ability of lenders to access borrowers' 
credit account information through automatic debiting if there are not 
sufficient funds initially in their checking accounts.
  Borrowers should not be at the mercy of predatory lending practices. 
CFPB's proposed rules would strengthen consumer protections and make it 
harder to prey on vulnerable communities. CFPB's proposed rules have 
bipartisan support and empower consumers to make better financial 
decisions.
  I understand that there are needs for short-term cash and for small-
dollar-amount loans that provide consumers with this necessary access. 
I will continue to work with the CFPB and stakeholders to perfect this 
rule and create incentives for traditional and responsible lenders to 
enter this short-term lending space; however, it is unconscionable for 
any Members of this body to support legislation designed to thwart 
efforts to protect consumers and the most vulnerable Americans.
  I strongly support the adoption of these proposed regulations and 
would continue to fight for greater consumer protections. I urge my 
colleagues to support this amendment which would allow for resources to 
be available to the CFPB to enforce these new regulations against 
payday lenders. I urge my colleagues to support this amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Florida is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. First, just let me say the provision in question that 
they are trying to eliminate merely puts a pause on the CFPB's rule 
until it submits a detailed report. To tell us other good reasons why 
we ought to reject this amendment, I yield 2 minutes to my good friend 
from North Carolina (Mr. McHenry).
  Mr. McHENRY. I thank the chairman. I thank him for his great work on 
this bill that he has produced tonight. And I have enormous respect for 
my colleague from Alabama and her concerns.
  At risk with this amendment is cutting off access to credit for 
millions of Americans. Under the plan the CFPB is considering, not only 
would their regulation eliminate small-dollar loans, but it could also 
introduce significant new underwriting expenses on every loan. The 
result? The very consumers that need the money the most will ultimately 
be left in the dark.
  Payday lending needs to be studied, deserves to be studied, should be 
considered, and carefully considered. Instead, this amendment wants the 
CFPB to go full bore, full steam ahead, without having thoughtfully 
answered the question: Where will consumers that need these loans go 
next?

                              {time}  2130

  That is the deeper, harder issue. Outrage is easy. It is. But the 
tough part, indeed, the most important part for us as policymakers is 
to make sure that we get this right for those Americans--those millions 
of Americans--that actually need short-term lending.
  Ms. SEWELL of Alabama. Mr. Chairman, I yield 40 seconds to the 
gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Ellison).
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman.
  The way that payday loans work is that they rely on the fact that you 
will borrow the money, and then you have

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an exorbitant interest rate, and then you are going to have to borrow 
money to repay the last loan plus a fee and the interest rate. You roll 
it over and you roll it over, so before you know it, your whole check 
is going to pay this loan. No one has ever asked you whether you could 
afford it. They just took advantage of your desperate situation.
  It makes sense for the CFPB to make sure people don't get caught in 
this cycle of debt. It is the way Americans are going to get back to 
financial health and not be taken advantage of when they are in a 
vulnerable financial state.
  There are many alternatives. We need to be exploring those, not just 
doing it for payday lending.
  Ms. SEWELL of Alabama. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Ohio (Mr. Stivers).
  Mr. STIVERS. Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank the chairman for 
yielding me time and for his great work on the underlying bill, 
including the provisions that are in the bill as we stand.
  I rise in strong opposition to this amendment. While I have great 
respect for my colleague from Alabama, the language that is proposed 
would strip bipartisan language that was inserted into the bill that 
merely puts a pause on the CFPB short-term lending rule, and the result 
of passing this amendment would hurt millions of consumers having any 
access to capital.
  In fact, the Independent Community Bankers of America and the 
National Credit Union Association--who don't agree on much--recently 
wrote a letter to the CFPB voicing their strong opposition to the 
current rule that is being proposed because they believe that it will 
drive them out of the short-term credit making market and stop them 
from serving consumers in their local communities.
  In fact, even the CFPB admits that 84 percent of short-term loan 
volumes will disappear as a result of this rule. That will leave 
millions of Americans without access to money that they might need to 
get emergency medical assistance, to pay for unexpected automobile 
repairs, or to heat or cool their home. This amendment is a problem.
  We need to allow the language in the bill to last. All it does is 
require the CFPB to provide documentation for what they are doing and 
show where consumers will be able to turn to meet their financial 
needs. This is a bipartisan amendment that is in the bill now. We 
should reject the Sewell-Waters amendment.
  I urge members to vote ``no'' on the amendment and urge them to vote 
``yes'' on the underlying bill.
  Ms. SEWELL of Alabama. Mr. Chairman, I want to say that I think it is 
really important that we not reward bad actors. I think that the fact 
of the matter is that lots of payday lenders--while access to credit is 
critically important, to reward bad behavior is not something that I 
think this House should be about, and I ask Members to support this 
amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, nobody wants to reward bad actors. Let me 
just say that payday lending today is regulated at the State level. My 
home State of Florida has one of the most progressive and effective 
small-dollar-lending loan statutes in the country. It has become 
somewhat of a national example of the successful compromise between 
strong consumer protection and increased access to capital.
  So I hope that when the CFPB exercises the pause that we ask for in 
this bill, that they will take a look at some of the progressive laws 
that are around the country and they can balance that without denying 
folks access, as was pointed out.
  So I urge a ``no'' vote on this amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Alabama (Ms. Sewell).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. SEWELL of Alabama. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Alabama 
will be postponed.
  The Chair understands that amendment No. 18 will not be offered.


                 Amendment No. 19 Offered by Ms. Norton

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 19 
printed in House Report 114-639.
  Ms. NORTON. 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:
       Page 193, beginning on line 23, strike section 817.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 794, the gentlewoman 
from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton) and a Member opposed each 
will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia.
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, my amendment strikes the repeal of the District of 
Columbia budget autonomy referendum, which allows D.C. to spend its own 
local funds, consisting of local taxes and local fees, after a 30-day 
congressional review period.
  Astonishingly, House Republicans appear to be so afraid of a local 
jurisdiction spending its local funds without the approval of a Federal 
body, the U.S. Congress, that they will be voting for a second time in 
a little over a month to repeal the referendum.
  D.C.'s budget autonomy referendum is in effect as I speak. The D.C. 
Council recently passed its first local budget pursuant to the 
referendum. Therefore, the repeal would be the most significant 
reduction in the District of Columbia's authority to govern itself 
since Congress granted the city limited home rule in 1973.
  Smart lawyers differed about the validity of the referendum when D.C. 
enacted it. However, the referendum has been litigated, and there is 
only one judicial opinion in effect. In March, the D.C. Superior Court 
upheld the referendum, no appeal was filed, and the court ordered D.C. 
employees to implement it.
  Some House Republicans had either been disguising or simply mistaken 
in their opposition to the referendum because they are using legalistic 
arguments. For example, the Speaker revealed a reason that some may 
oppose the referendum. He said: ``There are real consequences. The D.C. 
government wants to use revenues to fund abortions in the District. 
House Republicans will not stand for that.''
  Well, the Speaker was wrong about the effect of the budget autonomy 
referendum. Congress loses nothing under budget autonomy. Congress 
retains the authority to legislate on any D.C. matter, including its 
local budgets at any time.
  Mr. Chairman, this is not statehood, I am here to tell the floor this 
evening. The referendum is a modest attempt by a local jurisdiction to 
get enough control of its local funds to be able to implement its own 
budget soon after it is passed, like other American jurisdictions, 
instead of having it caught up into congressional delays that have 
nothing to do with our local budget.
  Indeed, the riders in this bill prohibiting D.C. from spending its 
local funds on marijuana commercialization and abortion services for 
low-income women were changed from those in prior appropriations bills 
to apply whether or not D.C. has budget autonomy. Historically, D.C. 
riders applied only to funds included in appropriations bills because 
only appropriations bills authorized D.C. spending. In this bill, the 
riders apply to any D.C. funds, however authorized, including those in 
budgets passed pursuant to budget autonomy. The riders Congress places 
in D.C. appropriations bills will be untouched by budget autonomy.
  Local control over local dollars raised by local taxpayers is a 
principle much-cited by congressional Republicans and is central, if I 
may say so, to the American people form of government. Beyond this core 
principle, budget autonomy has practical benefits for the District, 
including lower borrowing costs, more accurate revenue and expenditure 
forecasts, improved agency operations, and the removal of the threat of 
D.C. government shutdowns because the Federal Government shuts down.
  D.C.'s budget is bigger than the budgets of 14 States, Mr. Chairman. 
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funds. While D.C. is in a better financial position than most cities 
and States, with a rainy-day fund of $2.17 billion on a total budget of 
$13.4 billion, budget autonomy would make the district economy even 
stronger.
  Why would anybody in this House oppose that possibility?
  The repeal of the referendum is not only bad policy, it is a blight 
on this country's most revered principle--local control.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Florida is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
North Carolina (Mr. Meadows).
  Mr. MEADOWS. Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank the gentleman from 
Florida, the chairman of the committee, for his fine work, for his 
friendship, and I just want to say: You will be missed.
  I rise in opposition to the gentlewoman's amendment. This is 
something that we have debated for many, many hours. She knows full 
well what is the issue and what is not the issue, Mr. Chairman. I am 
here tonight to clear the record once again.
  To suggest that this is all just about local control and local budget 
autonomy missed the foundational principles of where they have this 
limited right in D.C. already. It goes back to our Founding Fathers and 
the principles found in the Constitution. It goes back to when this was 
debated and actually signed into law where Democrats and Republicans 
came together to say that we are going to give D.C. the ability to have 
local control over local issues with one major exception, and that 
major exception had to do with the appropriation of funds, and truly 
the power that rests and resides in this esteemed body.
  So to suggest that anything nefarious is happening would be to ignore 
not only history, but to ignore debate that has happened in this very 
Chamber before.
  The gentlewoman from D.C. has offered a number of times a bill to 
actually repeal this very right. So to suggest that D.C. automatically 
has this right to be able to have budget autonomy would go against 
previous arguments that the gentlewoman has made.
  So I am here tonight to say that not only am I in strong opposition, 
but this is something that we must stand up to for the integrity of 
this body and certainly because of the principles that our Founding 
Fathers laid at this incredible city that we call our Nation's Capital, 
Washington, D.C. It was to preserve it in a way that allowed for this 
body to not only manage and appropriate, but to oversee what is the 
Nation's city.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, just very briefly, I think Mr. Meadows 
said it well. The bill before us right here continues to appropriate 
D.C. local funds just like it has been doing for the last 43 years 
under Democratic and Republican majorities and Democratic and 
Republican administrations. So this bill is no radical departure from 
the past.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge a ``no'' vote on the gentlewoman's amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from New York is recognized for 5 
minutes.

                              {time}  2145

  Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, when I became chairman of this committee 
in the past, I think I was the first chairman ever to say that I wanted 
less power rather than more power. The reason I said that was because I 
didn't want to oversee the District of Columbia as chairman of the 
committee as one overseeing a colony.
  For me, that was very important, since I was born in the colony of 
Puerto Rico and I now represent the Bronx, New York, in Congress. So it 
is very personal for me that I should not do to others what I don't 
like people doing to my birthplace.
  Let's understand something. This is not a constitutional question any 
longer. In my opinion, and I have been saying this for years, this is 
about the ability to say that you stand for things that you really 
don't stand for in your own districts. So people who can't control the 
budget in their district go to the newspapers and say: I am very strong 
on controlling spending. And when you ask them where, they say: Oh, in 
the District of Columbia.
  And then they will tell you: I oppose the needle exchange programs.
  And they say: Where? We have one here.
  They say: Oh, but I do it in the District of Columbia.
  And they say: And I stop women from getting their health services in 
order and getting abortions.
  They say: But it is legal here.
  They say: No, but I did it in the District of Columbia.
  What has happened is that D.C. has become this playground for Members 
of Congress to say ``I stand strong on these issues,'' when, in fact, 
they don't stand strong on those issues. They only stand strong on the 
issues of the abuse of the District of Columbia.
  And we will continue to do this. We will probably see it again and 
again and again. I mean, just look at this, and I don't want her to 
feel any worse than she feels already, but she can't vote on her own 
amendment today because she doesn't have a vote. The gentleman from 
Puerto Rico is in a similar situation. He can't vote on his own 
amendment. He sponsored a bill with Mr. Duffy that he can't vote on. 
That is the situation we have.
  How can we, as the greatest country on Earth--and I don't say that in 
jest. I believe it. How can we go and tell countries in Latin America 
and the Caribbean and the Middle East to be democratic, to be 
supportive of democracy, and then we don't practice it on a place down 
the block from us--not down the block, the place where we are situated. 
How can we tell Puerto Rico that it can't deal with its own situation 
and yet tell Latin America that it must change its ways, and the Middle 
East that it must change its ways? We continuously have this 
contradiction, and we have to take care of it.
  This one is a simple one. This one is they passed a referendum, the 
courts spoke, Congress had an opportunity to say something stronger, it 
didn't, and now it is trying to come back and make up for it by putting 
language in the bill where it doesn't belong.
  Please, ladies and gentlemen, think of this vote not as a vote that 
can score you points back home, but a vote that can give people in the 
District of Columbia the ability to take their own money and spend it 
as they see fit, no different than North Carolina, than the Bronx, New 
York, or than any other community. Even Florida does it that way, too.
  I ask that you support Ms. Norton's amendment. I probably can predict 
the outcome of it, but we will continue to fight this fight because it 
is right. And the same Constitution that may have said some things 
about D.C. that we are expanding on and overusing is the same 
Constitution that guarantees all of us the right to govern ourselves 
and to govern our resources and to govern how we behave.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from the 
District of Columbia will be postponed.


                 Amendment No. 20 Offered by Mr. Amodei

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 20 
printed in House Report 114-639.
  Mr. AMODEI. 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 to enforce the requirements in section 316(b)(4)(D) 
     of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 
     30118(b)(4)(D)) that the solicitation of contributions from 
     member corporations' stockholders and executive or 
     administrative personnel, and the families of such 
     stockholders or personnel, by trade associations must be 
     separately and specifically approved by the

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     member corporation involved prior to such solicitation, and 
     that such member corporation does not approve any such 
     solicitation by more than one such trade association in any 
     calendar year.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 794, the gentleman 
from Nevada (Mr. Amodei) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Nevada.
  Mr. AMODEI. Mr. Chairman, my amendment would prohibit funds being 
used by the FEC to enforce the prior approval requirement for trade 
associations. The prior approval requirement is the requirement that 
trade associations must acquire written approval for Member 
corporations to solicit PAC donations. They must further require 
stockholders and member companies to only contribute to one trade 
association. It is a requirement in the FEC laws that is unique amongst 
all PACs only to those that are trade association-related PACs.
  So, therefore, the objective of the amendment is to say, out of all 
of the PACs out there, we do not need to treat trade associations 
specially. We should treat everybody the same, all PACs, including 
trade associations. It was a result of a law that was passed in 1978 
which, I would submit to you, for the last 38 years, has been a 
solution in search of a problem.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. AMODEI. I yield to the gentleman from Florida.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I think it is a very good amendment that 
the gentleman has brought before us. It basically levels the playing 
field. It is not a partisan issue that is going to impact Democrats or 
Republicans. I would join him in urging adoption of this amendment.
  Mr. AMODEI. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from New York is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, to quote a great American Republican, 
Ronald Reagan, ``there you go again'' trying not to allow things to be 
out in the open when they should be in the open. This is a new effort 
to funnel unlimited money into politics.
  Current law limits trade association PACs from soliciting member 
corporations, their stockholders, and their executives without 
permission from the corporation and limits these solicitations to a 
single trade association PAC each year. This amendment would remove 
these solicitation restrictions and expand the number of solicitations 
a stockholder or corporate executive could get.
  I don't know about you, but I think most Americans are pretty sick of 
politically motivated fundraising emails. This would expand the number 
of emails that many people would get.
  This is just another way to empower groups, like the Chamber of 
Commerce, over the needs of ordinary Americans. That is not right.
  Last I heard, most trade association PACs were not lacking for money, 
and most corporations, millionaires, and billionaires had plenty of 
loopholes in our campaign finance system. But the gentleman from Nevada 
seems to think differently on both counts.
  This bill is not the right place to change campaign finance law, let 
alone to change it in a way that hurts American voters. I oppose the 
amendment.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. AMODEI. Mr. Chairman, to quote the same Ronald Reagan, ``facts 
are stubborn things.'' Let's take a look at the facts here.
  Trade associations may give 2-1 to Republicans, since we brought up 
the P word for politics; however, the ones that aren't regulated, which 
are labor PACs, give 9-1 to Democrats. We are not asking you to pick 
one or the other; we are asking you to treat them all the same.
  Oh, and by the way, on this very floor earlier tonight, I believe 
there was some discussion about we are not hiding anything. If you want 
to see who gave to whom, you go to the FEC Web site. So it is not a 
question of are we hiding something.
  I want to just give you a couple of more stubborn things, and then I 
will reserve.
  The top 20 PACs in the 2014 cycle were all outside the prior approval 
rule. The top three are EMILY's List, SEIU, and the National Rifle 
Association. This is probably the first time those three outfits have 
been mentioned in the same sentence, but they are not required to do 
this.
  By the way, Independent Electrical Contractors and the Rural 
Broadband Association should enjoy the same First Amendment rights to 
participate, which are now prohibited by this rule.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, first of all, I think my Reagan quote was 
better than the other Reagan quote, and I stand by that comment.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. AMODEI. Mr. Chairman, I will concede the point that maybe your 
Reagan quote was better, and I want to welcome you to the Reagan quote 
club. We are glad to have you on board.
  Let me just say this. This seeks a level playing field. I think we 
have a 38-year history. I provided some facts that I think are 
relevant. Nobody is seeking advantage here. It is to treat everybody 
the same. I believe the word is the E word, which is equality.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Chairman, I think that this is one of those 
opportunities to insert language into an appropriations bill that 
doesn't belong there.
  I think the gentleman, who is a very nice guy, should rethink it. 
Maybe he can invite us all to his home State and we can discuss it at 
length, or at least to the chairman's State and we can discuss it at 
length, or to the Bronx to a Yankee game and we can discuss it at 
length.
  But I think that we are spending too much time here putting things in 
this bill that don't belong in this bill. And we are reaching a point 
where we may never again see what I saw when I got here, which is the 
ability to see a bill stand alone and pass and get signed by the 
President, or, rather, what we have now where we get these omnibus 
bills or these continuing resolutions.
  We should look at that. We should look at what we are doing to the 
committee, what we are doing to ourselves, and what we are doing to the 
Nation.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Nevada (Mr. Amodei).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. SERRANO. 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 Nevada will 
be postponed.


               Amendment No. 21 Offered by Mrs. Blackburn

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 21 
printed in House Report 114-639.
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. 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 to implement, administer, or enforce any of the rules 
     proposed pursuant to section 222 of the Communications Act of 
     1934 (47 U.S.C. 222) and other statutory provisions in the 
     Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that was adopted by the Federal 
     Communications Commission on March 31, 2016 (FCC 16-39).

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 794, the gentlewoman 
from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn) and a Member opposed each will control 
5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Tennessee.
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Chairman, this amendment would prohibit funds 
made available by the act from being used to implement, administer, or 
enforce any of the rules proposed in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 
adopted by the FCC on March 31, 2016. That is order FEC 16-39. It is 
intended to regulate ISP consumer privacy obligations.

                              {time}  2200

  Mr. Chair, there are two problems with the FCC's actions that warrant 
a delay in the adoption of rules by the agency.

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  First, the FCC's proposed rules are extreme and go well beyond 
anything they should be doing in this space, and it is a bipartisan 
concern. In May, Democrats Bobby Rush, Gene Green, and Kurt Schrader 
joined several Republicans in a letter to all of the FCC Commissioners 
and voiced strong concerns that the FCC's proposed privacy rulemaking 
``intends to go well beyond'' the traditional framework that has 
guarded consumers from data practices of Internet service providers and 
``ill-serves consumers who seek and expect consistency in how their 
personal data is protected.''
  The FTC has traditionally been our government's sole Internet privacy 
regulator. A dual privacy enforcement model will create confusion 
within the existing Internet ecosystem. The FCC simply doesn't have the 
requisite technical expertise to regulate privacy.
  Former FTC Commissioner Joshua Wright testified before the House 
Judiciary Committee that the FTC has ``unique expertise'' in 
``enforcing broadband service providers' obligations to protect the 
privacy and security of consumer data.''
  The FCC's proposed rule would create economic harm. Former FTC 
Commissioner Joshua Wright, a GMU economist, recently said that there 
has been no economic analysis on the rule's impact. He said, ``That's a 
bad thing, to be clear.''
  Let me tell you something. The fact that we have an agency that is 
not studying and working on the economic impact and reviewing what this 
is going to do to the economy is absolutely unbelievable, especially 
when you look at the fact that the FCC does not have the authority and 
expertise to move into privacy. That is the FTC's domain and a place 
where they work. This new rule has caused the FTC to bring forward two 
dozen additional questions; the stakeholders have proposed 500 
questions; and the rule is a 147-page rule.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McNERNEY. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. McNERNEY. Mr. Chair, Americans overwhelmingly agree that online 
privacy is a fundamental right. According to the Pew Research Center, a 
large majority of Americans wants the government to do more to protect 
their privacy. Consumers want a voice in how their data is shared and 
sold. Despite this loud cry from the American people that we in 
Congress do more, this amendment would do less. It would make it harder 
for consumers to decide how their data is treated.
  Let me reread the amendment:
  ``None of the funds made available by this Act can be used to 
implement, administer, or enforce any of the rules proposed pursuant to 
section 222 of the Communications Act.''
  These are privacy protection rules. These are rules that are meant to 
protect consumers' privacy. If this amendment becomes law, consumers 
will have little or no choice as to how their Internet service 
providers sell our most personal data.
  We need strong rules to protect consumers' most sensitive 
information, and we need those rules to be enforced. American consumers 
need to choose for themselves whether their locations, their search 
histories, or their purchasing habits, including medical equipment, 
should be sold, traded, or otherwise used without their permission. I 
believe that consumers who consistently demand greater privacy 
protection online would oppose this amendment, which takes away their 
protections.
  My Republican colleagues claim that the FCC's proposed rules for 
privacy protection will confuse consumers, but let's be clear. The data 
shows that consumers are already confused when it comes to privacy. 
Just a few weeks ago, Georgetown law professor Paul Ohm testified 
before the Communications and Technology Subcommittee of the Energy and 
Commerce Committee that privacy in the U.S. has never been uniformly 
controlled. For example, there are sector-specific privacy laws for 
consumers' health, credit, and educational information. This is not to 
mention the 50-State patchwork of State privacy laws all across this 
country.
  Consumers want to be heard. They want more privacy. We have an 
obligation to respond to their requests by opposing this amendment. I 
urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Chair, a couple of points here.
  We have a privacy regulator. It is the Federal Trade Commission. The 
FTC has that jurisdiction. To add the FCC is going to cause confusion 
as to who is in charge of what. Everyone knows that. Do we need to pass 
a privacy bill? Absolutely. Do we need to pass a data security bill? 
Absolutely. That is the responsibility of this body. It is not the 
responsibility of unelected bureaucrats, who are sitting down at the 
FCC, who come up with a 147-page rule, and then they are not even 
looking, necessarily, at where the problem is with privacy. They are 
going to focus on the ISPs. They are out in front of their skis, if you 
will, on this one.
  We have a privacy regulator. It deserves to keep that authority 
because it has expertise in that area.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McNERNEY. Mr. Chair, I warned my colleagues that the other side 
would say that this is going to be confusing to consumers, but 
consumers are already pretty confused about their privacy protection. 
In fact, I will bet that everyone in this room is confused about his 
privacy protection.
  We need a body that can put privacy protection up front and create 
rules that make sense and that can be enforced uniformly across the 
country. That is going to make customers more confident that their data 
is being protected. That is what we need.
  Mr. Chair, prohibiting the FCC from using funds to enforce any 
proposed privacy rules would have the effect of leaving the FCC with 
very little room to protect consumer privacy. I don't think that is 
what Americans want. Americans want their privacy protected. If we 
remove all funds for enforcement capabilities from the FCC we are going 
to be left with no privacy protection.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Chair, what we have is an issue of jurisdiction. 
The jurisdiction is with the FTC, and they have the funds, and they do 
a good job of this. Let them do their job. Preemption--yes, that is 
something that we should discuss and pass in a privacy and data 
security bill within this body. It should not be done by the FCC, which 
is saying, Hey, just trust us; just trust a Federal agency, and we will 
come in here and do this through the rules.
  It is a Big Government power grab. I think people have had enough of 
that. It is expensive. It is confusing. I urge support for my 
amendment.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. McNERNEY. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Tennessee 
will be postponed.


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings 
will now resume on those amendments printed in House Report 114-639 on 
which further proceedings were postponed, in the following order:
  Amendment No. 1 by Mr. Ellison of Minnesota.
  Amendment No. 2 by Mr. Duffy of Wisconsin.
  Amendment No. 3 by Mr. Becerra of California.
  Amendment No. 4 by Mr. Ellison of Minnesota.
  Amendments En Bloc by Ms. Moore of Wisconsin.
  Amendment No. 10 by Mr. Himes of Connecticut.
  Amendment No. 11 by Mr. DeFazio of Oregon.
  Amendment No. 12 by Mr. Grayson of Florida.
  Amendment No. 13 by Mr. Kildee of Michigan.

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  Amendment No. 14 by Ms. Eshoo of California.
  Amendment No. 15 by Mr. Ellison of Minnesota.
  Amendment No. 16 by Mr. Ellison of Minnesota.
  Amendment No. 17 by Ms. Sewell of Alabama.
  Amendment No. 19 by Ms. Norton of the District of Columbia.
  Amendment No. 20 by Mr. Amodei of Nevada.
  Amendment No. 21 by Mrs. Blackburn of Tennessee.
  The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the time for any electronic vote 
after the first vote in this series.


                 Amendment No. 1 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

  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 173, 
noes 245, not voting 15, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 357]

                               AYES--173

     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
     Castro (TX)
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Garamendi
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lynch
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Murphy (FL)
     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
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     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--245

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Castor (FL)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello (PA)
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Emmer (MN)
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     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
     Himes
     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 (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaHood
     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
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     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
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--15

     Bost
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Clarke (NY)
     Delaney
     Ellmers (NC)
     Gallego
     Hastings
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Nadler
     Nugent
     Takai
     Turner
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield

                              {time}  2231

  Mr. REED, Mrs. BLACK, Messrs. PALAZZO, HOLDING, WALDEN, CARTER of 
Georgia, and HUNTER changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  Mr. CONYERS changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Mrs. BROOKS of Indiana. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 357, I was 
unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay.''


                  Amendment No. 2 Offered by Mr. Duffy

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


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 166, 
noes 254, not voting 13, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 358]

                               AYES--166

     Abraham
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cramer
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Emmer (MN)
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guthrie
     Hanna
     Harris
     Hensarling
     Hice, Jody B.
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hunter
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Mulvaney
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Olson
     Palmer
     Perry
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roe (TN)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Russell
     Salmon
     Sanford

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     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stefanik
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tipton
     Trott
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Woodall
     Yoho
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                               NOES--254

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Ashford
     Barr
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brady (PA)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     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
     Comstock
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello (PA)
     Courtney
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fleischmann
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Frelinghuysen
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Garamendi
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Guinta
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hardy
     Harper
     Hartzler
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Hultgren
     Hurd (TX)
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jolly
     Joyce
     Kaptur
     Katko
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kline
     Kuster
     LaHood
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     MacArthur
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McNerney
     McSally
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Moore
     Moulton
     Mullin
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (PA)
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Noem
     Nolan
     Norcross
     Nunes
     O'Rourke
     Palazzo
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Paulsen
     Payne
     Pearce
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Poliquin
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Reed
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rooney (FL)
     Roskam
     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
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Tiberi
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Upton
     Valadao
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Westerman
     Wilson (FL)
     Womack
     Yarmuth
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Bost
     Buchanan
     Cole
     Delaney
     Ellmers (NC)
     Gallego
     Hastings
     Nadler
     Nugent
     Takai
     Turner
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield

                              {time}  2236

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


                 amendment No. 3 offered by mr. becerra

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California 
(Mr. Becerra) 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 183, 
noes 239, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 359]

                               AYES--183

     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
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     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)
     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
     Swalwell (CA)
     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--239

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     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
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     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
     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 (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaHood
     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
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     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
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Bost
     Buchanan
     Delaney
     Ellmers (NC)
     Hastings
     Nadler
     Nugent
     Takai
     Turner
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield

[[Page H4441]]


  



                    announcement by the acting chair

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

                              {time}  2240

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


                 Amendment No. 4 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 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 181, 
noes 236, not voting 16, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 360]

                               AYES--181

     Adams
     Aguilar
     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
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     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)
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Rush
     Russell
     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)
     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--236

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     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)
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     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)
     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 (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaHood
     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
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     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
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--16

     Bass
     Bost
     Buchanan
     Delaney
     Ellmers (NC)
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Hastings
     LaMalfa
     Nadler
     Nugent
     Ruppersberger
     Takai
     Turner
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield


                    announcement by the acting chair

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

                              {time}  2243

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


          Amendments En Bloc Offered by Ms. Moore of Wisconsin

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


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 179, 
noes 243, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 361]

                               AYES--179

     Adams
     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
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     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)
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     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
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     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

[[Page H4442]]


  


                               NOES--243

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     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)
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     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 (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaHood
     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
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     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
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Bost
     Buchanan
     Delaney
     Ellmers (NC)
     Hastings
     Nadler
     Nugent
     Takai
     Turner
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2247

  So the en bloc amendments were rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                 amendment no. 10 offered by mr. himes

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from 
Connecticut (Mr. Himes) 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 183, 
noes 238, not voting 12, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 362]

                               AYES--183

     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
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     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)
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     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
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     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--238

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     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
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     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
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Katko
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaHood
     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
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Peterson
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     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
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Bost
     Buchanan
     Delaney
     Ellmers (NC)
     Hastings
     Nadler
     Nugent
     Palazzo
     Takai
     Turner
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2251

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

[[Page H4443]]

  



                Amendment No. 11 Offered by Mr. DeFazio

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


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 128, 
noes 294, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 363]

                               AYES--128

     Amash
     Beyer
     Bishop (UT)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brady (PA)
     Brooks (AL)
     Burgess
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Chaffetz
     Chu, Judy
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coffman
     Cohen
     Collins (GA)
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davidson
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Garrett
     Gohmert
     Gosar
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hanna
     Harris
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hudson
     Huffman
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Kelly (IL)
     Kildee
     Kirkpatrick
     Labrador
     Lance
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lummis
     Massie
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     Meadows
     Meeks
     Mica
     Mulvaney
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     Pallone
     Palmer
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Rangel
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Richmond
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanford
     Sarbanes
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Stewart
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Upton
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NOES--294

     Abraham
     Adams
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Allen
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Bera
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (MI)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Cardenas
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chabot
     Cicilline
     Clawson (FL)
     Cole
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cook
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello (PA)
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Rodney
     DeGette
     DelBene
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DeSaulnier
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Dold
     Donovan
     Duckworth
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Emmer (MN)
     Engel
     Esty
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx
     Frankel (FL)
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Goodlatte
     Gowdy
     Graham
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hahn
     Hardy
     Harper
     Hartzler
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Hice, Jody B.
     Higgins
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Holding
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huelskamp
     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
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Katko
     Keating
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy
     Kilmer
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Kuster
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langevin
     Latta
     Lawrence
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lynch
     MacArthur
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Marchant
     Marino
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     McSally
     Meehan
     Meng
     Messer
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Moore
     Moulton
     Mullin
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (PA)
     Napolitano
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nunes
     O'Rourke
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Pascrell
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pelosi
     Peters
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (NC)
     Price, Tom
     Quigley
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Rice (NY)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ruiz
     Russell
     Ryan (OH)
     Salmon
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Scalise
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stefanik
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Trott
     Tsongas
     Valadao
     Van Hollen
     Visclosky
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Welch
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Bost
     Buchanan
     Delaney
     Ellmers (NC)
     Hastings
     Nadler
     Nugent
     Takai
     Turner
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2255

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


                Amendment No. 12 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

  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 177, 
noes 245, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 364]

                               AYES--177

     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)
     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
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     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
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Murphy (FL)
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     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
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     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--245

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert

[[Page H4444]]


     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Cook
     Costello (PA)
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donovan
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     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
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kaptur
     Katko
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Langevin
     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
     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
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     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
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Bost
     Buchanan
     Delaney
     Ellmers (NC)
     Hastings
     Nadler
     Nugent
     Takai
     Turner
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2258

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


                 Amendment No. 13 Offered by Mr. Kildee

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


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 186, 
noes 236, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 365]

                               AYES--186

     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
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Gibson
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     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)
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Poliquin
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Rigell
     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)
     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--236

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     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
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     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
     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 (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaHood
     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)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     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
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Bost
     Buchanan
     Delaney
     Ellmers (NC)
     Hastings
     Nadler
     Nugent
     Takai
     Turner
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2301

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


                 Amendment No. 14 Offered by Ms. Eshoo

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

[[Page H4445]]

  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 182, 
noes 238, not voting 13, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 366]

                               AYES--182

     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
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     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)
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Reichert
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Rigell
     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
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     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--238

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     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
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     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 (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaHood
     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
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     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
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Bost
     Buchanan
     Delaney
     Ellmers (NC)
     Hastings
     Nadler
     Nugent
     Sires
     Takai
     Turner
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Zeldin


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2304

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


                Amendment No. 15 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

  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 167, 
noes 255, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 367]

                               AYES--167

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Ashford
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brady (PA)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     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
     Murphy (FL)
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NOES--255

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (FL)
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carney
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello (PA)
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Emmer (MN)
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry

[[Page H4446]]


     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
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Katko
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaHood
     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)
     Moulton
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (NY)
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stefanik
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Trott
     Tsongas
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Bost
     Buchanan
     Delaney
     Ellmers (NC)
     Hastings
     Nadler
     Nugent
     Takai
     Turner
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2308

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


                Amendment No. 16 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

  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 162, 
noes 255, not voting 16, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 368]

                               AYES--162

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brady (PA)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     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
     Meng
     Moore
     Murphy (FL)
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Posey
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NOES--255

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (FL)
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carney
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello (PA)
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     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
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Katko
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Loudermilk
     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)
     Moulton
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Polis
     Pompeo
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (NY)
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stefanik
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Trott
     Tsongas
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--16

     Becerra
     Bost
     Buchanan
     Delaney
     Ellmers (NC)
     Hastings
     Lee
     Love
     Meeks
     Nadler
     Nugent
     Takai
     Turner
     Van Hollen
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield

                              {time}  2310

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


           Amendment No. 17 Offered by Ms. Sewell of Alabama

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


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 182, 
noes 240, not voting 11, as follows:

[[Page H4447]]

  


                             [Roll No. 369]

                               AYES--182

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera
     Beyer
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brady (PA)
     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
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Gibson
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Grothman
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     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
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Murphy (FL)
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Poliquin
     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
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NOES--240

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (FL)
     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)
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     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
     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 (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     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)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stefanik
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Trott
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Bost
     Buchanan
     Delaney
     Ellmers (NC)
     Hastings
     Nadler
     Nugent
     Takai
     Turner
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2313

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


                 Amendment No. 19 Offered by Ms. Norton

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


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 182, 
noes 238, not voting 13, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 370]

                               AYES--182

     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
     Comstock
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     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)
     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
     Swalwell (CA)
     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--238

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     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)
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Emmer (MN)
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     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
     Jackson Lee
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones

[[Page H4448]]


     Jordan
     Joyce
     Katko
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaHood
     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
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     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
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Bost
     Brat
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Delaney
     Ellmers (NC)
     Hastings
     Nadler
     Nugent
     Takai
     Turner
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2316

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Mrs. COMSTOCK. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 370, I mistakenly voted 
``yes,'' when I intended to vote ``no.''


                 Amendment No. 20 Offered by Mr. Amodei

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Nevada 
(Mr. Amodei) 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 235, 
noes 185, not voting 13, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 371]

                               AYES--235

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     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
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     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
     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 (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     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
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Perry
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     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
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                               NOES--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
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Gibson
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Guinta
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     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
     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)
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pearce
     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
     Swalwell (CA)
     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

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Bost
     Buchanan
     Crawford
     Delaney
     Ellmers (NC)
     Hastings
     Nadler
     Nugent
     Rigell
     Takai
     Turner
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2319

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


               Amendment No. 21 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 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 232, 
noes 187, not voting 14, as follows:

[[Page H4449]]

  


                             [Roll No. 372]

                               AYES--232

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     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
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Emmer (MN)
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     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)
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Katko
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaHood
     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
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     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
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin

                               NOES--187

     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
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fitzpatrick
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Graham
     Graves (LA)
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     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
     MacArthur
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     McSally
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Murphy (FL)
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Rigell
     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)
     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

                             NOT VOTING--14

     Bost
     Buchanan
     Delaney
     Ellmers (NC)
     Hastings
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Nadler
     Nugent
     Takai
     Turner
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Zinke


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2322

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Chairman, I move that the Committee do now rise.
  The motion was agreed to.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
Carter of Georgia) having assumed the chair, Mr. Woodall, 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. 
5485) making appropriations for financial services and general 
government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and for other 
purposes, had come to no resolution thereon.

                          ____________________