[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 153 (Monday, September 25, 2017)]
[House]
[Pages H7441-H7444]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
NORTH KOREAN HUMAN RIGHTS REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2017
Mr. ROYCE of California. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and
pass the bill (H.R. 2061) to reauthorize the North Korean Human Rights
Act of 2004, and for other purposes, as amended.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The text of the bill is as follows:
H.R. 2061
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``North Korean Human Rights
Reauthorization Act of 2017''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) The North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 (22 U.S.C.
7801 et seq.), the North Korean Human Rights Reauthorization
Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-346), and the Ambassador James R.
Lilley and Congressman Stephen J. Solarz North Korea Human
Rights Reauthorization Act of 2012 (Public Law 112-172) were
the products of broad, bipartisan consensus regarding the
promotion of human rights, transparency in the delivery of
humanitarian assistance, and the importance of refugee
protection.
(2) Fundamental human rights and humanitarian conditions
inside North Korea remain deplorable, North Korean refugees
remain acutely vulnerable, and the congressional findings
included in the Acts listed in paragraph (1) remain
substantially accurate today.
(3) The United States, which has the largest international
refugee resettlement program in the world, has resettled 212
North Koreans since the enactment of the North Korean Human
Rights Act of 2004.
(4) In addition to the longstanding commitment of the
United States to refugee and human rights advocacy, the
United States is home to the largest Korean population
outside of northeast Asia, and many people in the Korean-
American community have family ties to North Korea.
(5) Notwithstanding high-level advocacy by the United
States, South Korea, and the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees, China has forcibly repatriated tens of
thousands of North Koreans.
(6) Congressman Eni F.H. Faleomavaega served 25 years in
the House of Representatives, including as the Chairman and
the Ranking Member of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on
Asia and the Pacific, was a leader in strengthening the
relationship between the American and Korean peoples,
authored multiple resolutions regarding issues on the Korean
Peninsula, was a champion of human rights, and stated, in
support of the Ambassador James R. Lilley and Congressman
Stephen J. Solarz North Korea Human Rights Reauthorization
Act of 2012, that ``just as Ambassador Lilley and Congressman
Solarz worked hard to protect the human rights of the North
Korean people, we must remain vigilant in helping the people
of North Korea who struggle daily to escape the oppression
and tyranny of the North Korean regime''.
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS.
(a) In General.--It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) the United States should continue to seek cooperation
from all foreign governments to allow the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees access to process North Korean
refugees overseas for resettlement and to allow United States
officials access to process refugees for resettlement in the
United States (if that is the destination country of the
refugees' choosing);
(2) the Secretary of State, through persistent diplomacy by
senior officials, including United States ambassadors to
Asia-Pacific countries, and in close cooperation with United
States ally South Korea, should make every effort to promote
the protection of North Korean refugees and defectors; and
(3) because North Koreans fleeing into China face a well-
founded fear of persecution upon their forcible repatriation,
the United States should urge China to--
(A) immediately halt the forcible repatriation of North
Koreans;
(B) allow the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
unimpeded access to North Koreans inside China to determine
whether such North Koreans require protection as refugees;
and
(C) fulfill its obligations under the 1951 United Nations
Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, the 1967
Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, and the
Agreement on the Upgrading of the UNHCR Mission in the
People's Republic of China to UNHCR Branch Office in the
People's Republic of China (signed December 1, 1995).
(b) Continuing Sense of Congress.--It remains the sense of
Congress, as specified in section 3(3) of the North Korean
Human Rights Reauthorization Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-346;
22 U.S.C. 7801 note), that ``the Special Envoy for North
Korean Human Rights Issues should be a full-time position
within the Department of State in order to properly promote
and coordinate North Korean human rights and humanitarian
issues, and to participate in policy planning and
implementation with respect to refugee issues, as intended by
the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-
333; 22 U.S.C. 7801 et seq.)''.
SEC. 4. REAUTHORIZATION OF THE NORTH KOREAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACT
OF 2004.
(a) Human Rights and Democracy Programs.--Paragraph (1) of
section 102(b) of the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004
(22 U.S.C. 7812(b)) is amended by striking ``2017'' and
inserting ``2022''.
(b) Promoting Freedom of Information.--Section 104 of the
North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 (22 U.S.C. 7814) is
amended--
(1) in subsection (b)(1)--
(A) by striking ``$2,000,000'' and inserting
``$3,000,000''; and
(B) by striking ``2017'' and inserting ``2022''; and
(2) in subsection (c), by striking ``2017'' and inserting
``2022''.
(c) Report by Special Envoy on North Korean Human Rights.--
Subsection (d) of section 107 of the North Korean Human
Rights Act of 2004 (22 U.S.C. 7817) is amended by striking
``2017'' and inserting ``2022''.
(d) Report on Humanitarian Assistance.--Section 201 of the
North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 (22 U.S.C. 7831) is
amended in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by striking
``2017'' and inserting ``2022''.
(e) Assistance Provided Outside of North Korea.--Paragraph
(1) of section 203(c) of the North Korean Human Rights Act of
2004 (22 U.S.C. 7833(c)) is amended by striking ``2017'' and
inserting ``2022''.
(f) Annual Reporting.--Section 305 of the North Korean
Human Rights Act of 2004 (22 U.S.C. 7845) is amended in the
matter preceding paragraph (1) by striking ``2017'' and
inserting ``2022''.
SEC. 5. ACTIONS TO PROMOTE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND
DEMOCRACY IN NORTH KOREA.
The North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004, as amended by
this Act, is further amended--
(1) in subsection (a) of section 103 (22 U.S.C. 7813)--
(A) by striking ``radio broadcasting'' and inserting
``broadcasting, including news rebroadcasting,''; and
(B) by striking ``increase broadcasts'' and inserting
``increase such broadcasts, including news rebroadcasts,'';
and
(2) in subsection (a) of section 104 (22 U.S.C. 7814)--
(A) by striking ``The President'' and inserting the
following:
``(1) In general.--The President'';
(B) by inserting ``, USB drives, micro SD cards, audio
players, video players, cell phones, wi-fi, wireless
internet, webpages, internet, wireless telecommunications,
and other electronic media that share information'' before
the period at the end; and
(C) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
``(2) Distribution.--In accordance with the sense of
Congress described in section 103, the President, acting
through the Secretary of State, is authorized to distribute
or provide grants to distribute information receiving
devices, electronically readable devices, and other
informational sources into North Korea, including devices and
informational sources specified in paragraph (1). To carry
out this paragraph, the President is authorized to issue
directions to facilitate the free-flow of information into
North Korea.
``(3) Research and development grant program.--In
accordance with the authorization described in paragraphs (1)
and (2) to increase the availability and distribution of
sources of information inside North Korea, the President,
acting through the Secretary of State, is authorized to
establish a grant program to make grants to eligible entities
to develop or distribute (or both) new products or methods to
allow North Koreans easier access to outside information.
Such program may involve public-private partnerships.
``(4) Culture.--In accordance with the sense of Congress
described in section 103, the Broadcasting Board of Governors
may broadcast American, Korean, and other popular music,
television, movies, and popular cultural references as part
of its programming.
``(5) Rights and laws.--In accordance with the sense of
Congress described in section 103, the Broadcasting Board of
Governors shall broadcast to North Korea in the Korean
language information on rights, laws, and freedoms afforded
through the North Korean Constitution, the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Commission of
Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic
of Korea, and any other applicable treaties or international
agreements to which North Korea is bound.
``(6) Broadcasting report.--Not later than--
``(A) 180 days after the date of the enactment of this
paragraph, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the
Broadcasting Board of Governors, shall submit to the
appropriate congressional committees a report that sets forth
a detailed plan for improving broadcasting content for the
purpose of reaching additional audiences and increasing
consumption of uncensored news and information using all
available and reasonable means; and
``(B) one year after the date of the enactment of this
paragraph and annually thereafter for each of the next five
years, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the
Broadcasting Board of Governors, shall submit to the
appropriate congressional committees a report on the
effectiveness of actions taken pursuant to this section,
including data reflecting audience and listenership,
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device distribution and usage, technological development and
advancement usage, and other information as requested by such
committees.''.
SEC. 6. REPEAL OF DUPLICATE AUTHORIZATIONS.
Section 403 of the North Korea Sanctions and Policy
Enhancement Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-122; 22 U.S.C. 9253)
is hereby repealed.
SEC. 7. REPORT BY THE BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORS.
(a) In General.--Not later than 120 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Broadcasting Board of
Governors shall submit to the appropriate congressional
committees a report that--
(1) describes the status of current United States
broadcasting to North Korea and the extent to which the Board
has achieved the goal of 12-hour-per-day broadcasting to
North Korea, in accordance with section 103(a) of the North
Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 (22 U.S.C. 7813(a)); and
(2) includes a strategy to overcome obstacles to such
communication with the North Korean people, including through
unrestricted, unmonitored, and inexpensive electronic means.
(b) Form.--The report required under subsection (a) shall
be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a
classified annex.
(c) Appropriate Congressional Committees.--In this section,
the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on
Appropriations of the Senate.
SEC. 8. REPORT BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
(a) In General.--Not later than 120 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in
consultation with the heads of other relevant Federal
departments and agencies, shall submit to the appropriate
congressional committees a report that includes a description
of any ongoing or planned efforts of the Department of State
with respect to each of the following:
(1) Resuming the repatriation from North Korea of members
of the United States Armed Forces missing or unaccounted for
during the Korean War.
(2) Reuniting Korean Americans with their relatives in
North Korea.
(3) Assessing the security risks posed by travel to North
Korea for United States citizens.
(b) Form.--The report required under subsection (a) shall
be submitted in unclassified form.
(c) Appropriate Congressional Committees.--In this section,
the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on
Appropriations of the Senate.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from
California (Mr. Royce) and the gentleman from New York (Mr. Engel) each
will control 20 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California.
General Leave
Mr. ROYCE of California. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that
all Members may have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their
remarks and include any extraneous material in the Record.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentleman from California?
There was no objection.
Mr. ROYCE of California. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I
may consume.
Mr. Speaker, let me point out that the world is rightly focused on
the threat that North Korea poses to global security--the detonations,
the missile launches, the forward-deployed artillery--that we have seen
from across the border in South Korea.
I have been once to North Korea. I know my colleague, Eliot Engel,
has been twice to the capital there. But going along the eastern
coast--the eastern seaboard into North Korea--you can see the threat.
You can see the artillery--the tanks, the Katyusha rockets, and the
howitzers lined up--and you can see where they are aimed.
I think we have to maybe point out that the provocations underscore a
simple, jarring fact, and that is that Kim Jong-un wants to pose a
mortal threat, and not just to the United States, but to our democratic
treaty allies--to South Korea and to Japan.
But I think, as we face that reality, we cannot afford to forget that
the regime's greatest victims are the people of North Korea themselves.
That is the longest held hostage here. And remembering that this is not
just a moral imperative, but, also, it is a strategic one, too. If Kim
Jong-un had to answer to the North Korean people, he would pose far
less a danger to us, to South Korea, and to Japan. Maybe he would pose
no danger whatsoever if he really had to answer to his own people.
The truth is that Kim Jong-un's most potent enemy is his own
citizens, if they were to be empowered. The regime should be forced to
confront the dismal reality that it has inflicted on its own
population. Obsessed not just with self-preservation, but also with his
concept of reunification of the peninsula--based on the words he uses--
under his own leadership, he and his father and his father's father
have been willing to inflict starvation and stunting.
I asked Hwang Jang-yop, the former minister of propaganda--myself and
one of my colleagues here had asked him--and he said that 2 million
people had been starved by the regime. He said the real number was 1.9
million. And he said: You have to understand, we put all the resources
into the weapons program, into the ICBM program, and into the nuclear
capability. People fend for themselves basically. That is the system
there. And when he defected, the propaganda minister shared that with
us.
In the meantime, you will notice that there is one man in that system
that feasts on imported luxuries and on liquor, and that is the deity
himself. That is Kim Jong-un. The bonds of public affection for Kim
certainly are strong in the capital, but, in the countryside, those who
have defected tell me that they are so fragile that they can only be
maintained with purges, with public executions, and with deadly prison
camps.
It is no wonder, then, that the regime's harshest critics are escaped
North Koreans who have seen through the wall of misinformation that Kim
Jong-un works so hard to maintain. We have heard, time and again, from
North Korean refugees about the indelible impact of real information
from the outside world, whether it be defector broadcasts or pirated
South Korean TV dramas set in the affluent bustling metropolis of
Seoul.
Just last month, I was discussing these issues in Seoul with Thae
Yong-ho, the highest ranking North Korean defector. The minister is the
former ambassador to the U.K. Many of you read about his defection
there in Britain. He is now in Seoul. He emphasized that such knowledge
undermines the lie that North Korea is a worker's paradise and that it
is the envy of the world.
Increasingly, he says, for 30-some dollars, a village or a family can
purchase a device that plays these dramas from South Korea that come in
from the porous border with China, and, as a result of that, they learn
more. And, frankly, I will say that as a result of the two different
organizations of defectors from North Korea who broadcast on shortwave,
people are learning more as well. Our problem is that it needs to be
broadcast beyond just the area around the border. We need to figure out
how to help others hear the truth.
So, today, harnessing the power of information and public
expectations inside North Korea is more important than ever. Along with
enhanced sanctions on the regime's enablers, this is critical. It is a
critical nonmilitary tool because it confronts the growing North Korean
threat to our safety with a very different methodology by educating and
empowering North Koreans themselves.
This bill, H.R. 2061, does not merely reauthorize activities under
the North Korean Human Rights Act, but it enacts important updates to
freedom-of-information authorities, to reflect technological advances
beyond radio broadcasting, including USB drives, mobile devices, and
other very promising tools. It also renews the obligations of the
special envoy for North Korean human rights.
Finally, the bill enhances congressional oversight tools to help
ensure that our investments stand the best chance of paying dividends
in freedom for North Korea, and greater security for the rest of the
world will be the result of this.
Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman emeritus of the Foreign Affairs
Committee, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, for authoring this bill. I also thank
our ranking member, Eliot Engel, for his work on this issue. And I
thank the chair and ranking member of our Asia and the Pacific
Subcommittee as well, Ted
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Yoho and Brad Sherman. The gentlewoman from Florida is tireless in her
defense of human rights and has been a legislative leader on
North Korea for more than a decade.
I am a proud cosponsor of this excellent bill, which deserves our
unanimous support.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this measure.
First, I thank our chairman, who always conducts himself in such a
bipartisan fashion. I thank him for including everyone and thank him
for the work that he does.
I also thank the bill's author, our former chair of the Foreign
Affairs Committee, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen from Florida. I am pleased to join
her as the Democratic cosponsor of this legislation. She authored an
earlier version of this bill, which is a testament to how long she has
been working to shine a light on the daily horror of so many living in
North Korea and to bring American leadership to bear, to ease their
suffering.
We have been focused on North Korea a great deal lately because of
the Kim regime's increasingly provocative behavior and our own
administration's inconsistent and irresponsible rhetoric.
North Korea poses a great threat to our national security and the
security of our friends and allies. We need a smart, coherent approach
that combines diplomacy, pressure, and deterrence to halt North Korea's
progress in developing nuclear weapons.
At the same time, we cannot lose sight over what the North Korean
people are enduring. This is a country where people don't have rights,
and anyone who dares speak his or her mind may find themselves
subjected to beatings, torture, brutal imprisonment, or even death.
The United States Commission of Inquiry found that Kim Jong-un's
regime is very likely committing crimes against humanity.
Mr. Speaker, I visited North Korea twice. When I was there with a few
of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle, our North Korean minders
were very careful to make sure we only saw what we were supposed to
see.
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But we could sense that beneath the surface, something was terribly,
terribly wrong. First of all, they wouldn't let us go out of Pyongyang;
that just out of sight, it was amazing that there were so many people
living under the most brutal conditions imaginable and that no one
dared shatter the illusion that the North Korean authorities had just
created.
When you go into North Korea, it feels like you are stepping back
into 1953 Berlin. Everything was gray and dark and drab, and you could
just see something was wrong.
We know better. We have seen year after year of disturbing reports
and stories from defectors who have told us exactly what life is like
for most North Koreans, and we haven't forgotten them.
The law that we are reauthorizing today first became law in 2004.
This legislation will preserve funding for American assistance to North
Korean refugees, for humanitarian assistance inside the country, as
well as information efforts by our government, and to try every means
possible to get the message out to regular North Korean people that we
are not their enemy.
I will say that I am greatly concerned that the latest iteration of
the President's travel ban, which now includes North Korea, sends
exactly the wrong message to defectors from that country. By closing
our door to them, we reinforce the paranoia that the regime
perpetrates. We have to be careful not to get caught in the middle of
that.
An earlier version of this law created a senior State Department
position to focus on human rights in North Korea. It is a big job, Mr.
Speaker, and in recent years, there has been someone to do this
important work full time, but it has been reported that the
administration plans to combine this position with the Under Secretary
for Democracy. I think that would be a mistake.
The Under Secretary position already oversees the bureaus and offices
that deal with a huge range of issues from counterterrorism, to
refugees, to narcotics, to human trafficking. It is a pretty full
agenda, yet the administration on the one hand says North Korean human
rights should be combined with that job, and on the other hand has not
yet nominated anyone to fill the position.
So I think there is a lot of work to be done on both sides, and that
is what we are doing on the Foreign Affairs Committee. We are working
together.
This reauthorization reaffirms Congress' view that we should have a
senior full-time diplomat dealing with North Korean human rights. I ask
that this provision be included once again. I am grateful to Chairman
Royce and Chairman Emeritus Ros-Lehtinen that Congress will continue to
speak out on the importance of this role.
It is also my view that we need to stop neglecting our diplomacy and
get these positions filled. We cannot expect the State Department to
deal with these challenges--whether North Korea's nuclear program or
North Korea's human rights record--without leadership in place, but I
am glad that Congress is continuing to do its job in helping to promote
human rights for the North Koreans.
I am, again, grateful to my friend from Florida and the chairman.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. ROYCE of California. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Yoho), chairman of the Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.
Among a number of amendments that he has contributed to this bill,
there is one in particular that I think is very important, and that is
increasing the number of tools that can be used here, to include new
technologies to North Korea, like USB drives. It is a lot easier for
people to watch on USB drives as well as, of course, mobile phones and
DVDs.
Mr. YOHO. Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding.
Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 2061, the North Korean Human
Rights Reauthorization Act of 2017. I commend Chairman Emeritus Ros-
Lehtinen for leading this reauthorization effort, and Chairman Royce
and my colleagues on the Foreign Affairs Committee for their support of
this legislation.
The horrific human rights abuses committed by Kim Jong-un are an
integral part of his power structure. Countering these unspeakable
crimes, however we can, is both a moral imperative and a sound
strategy.
As amended, H.R. 2061 includes my Distribution and Promotion of
Rights and Knowledge Act, which will improve U.S. efforts to broadcast
outside information into North Korea, weakening Kim Jong-un's regime by
eroding his stranglehold on information. It will provide light to the
North Koreans; not just light to read by, but shine light on those
innate basic beliefs of liberty and freedom.
Specifically, this language updates the means in which information
can be disseminated, helping to find new ways to end the Kim regime's
monopoly on information.
The two bills are natural partners and, together, they can
meaningfully advance human rights and free flow of information in North
Korea.
Mr. Speaker, I again thank the chairman for yielding.
Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
Mr. Speaker, the Kim regime poses a grave threat to global security,
and it is critical that the United States move ahead with a coherent
strategy to help meet this challenge.
At the same time, the Kim regime's treatment of its own people
represents one of the worst human rights situations in the entire
world. We cannot lose sight of that human suffering that is going on
every day.
For years, the United States has made it a priority to do what we can
to help those living under this brutal dictatorship and to assist those
who have escaped it. This legislation will ensure that the United
States continues this important work in the years ahead.
I want to say that Chairman Royce has made it a mark of his to travel
the region, to speak with South Korea, to speak with the leaders in
Asia. I am pleased that we are well represented when he goes there and
lets the regimes know that we in Congress have a lot of things to say
and that we want to stand by our allies and let North
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Korea understand that they cannot push anybody around.
Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for having visited Korea with him
and for all the things he does in Asia. I think the committee is united
in supporting this legislation. We have to speak out. We have to
protect the North Korean people who have no protection from a brutal
dictator and a regime that treats them like they are worthless.
I urge Members to support this bill.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. ROYCE of California. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I
may consume.
Mr. Speaker, I want to thank our ranking member, Mr. Eliot Engel,
also for his work on the original bill.
For a number of years, we have been focused in a bipartisan way,
those of us who are concerned about human rights in North Korea. This
is the reauthorization, but the original measure was to promote human
rights and free information inside North Korea, and to focus on the
protection of North Koreans who have fled the country and face a
heightened risk of exploitation and human trafficking. We have been
able to work on enforcement, but now with reauthorization, there is a
chance to update it.
Those updates in H.R. 2061 not only reauthorize the North Korean
Human Rights Act, but there are these promising new technological
advances to pierce the information darkness, as Mr. Ted Yoho mentioned.
That darkness is maintained intentionally by Kim Jong-un's regime.
Confronted by a rapidly nuclearizing North Korea, these tools are more
important than ever.
Rather than putting all of his energy into menacing the world, as he
does with his nuclear program, Kim Jong-un must be confronted with the
urgent needs, with the legitimate aspirations of the people of North
Korea. There are 120,000 of his people that are in what we call these
gulags across North Korea. Without reforms, these individuals are never
going to see the light of day, they are never going to be released to
freedom.
This critical bipartisan bill deserves our unanimous support.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the
gentleman from California (Mr. Royce) that the House suspend the rules
and pass the bill, H.R. 2061, as amended.
The question was taken.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the opinion of the Chair, two-thirds
being in the affirmative, the ayes have it.
Mr. ROYCE of California. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and
nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further
proceedings on this motion will be postponed.
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