[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 57 (Tuesday, April 10, 2018)]
[House]
[Pages H3075-H3078]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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END BANKING FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKERS ACT OF 2018
Mr. ROYCE of California. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and
pass the bill (H.R. 2219) to increase the role of the financial
industry in combating human trafficking, as amended.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The text of the bill is as follows:
H.R. 2219
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 ``End Banking for Human
Traffickers Act of 2018''.
SEC. 2. INCREASING THE ROLE OF THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY IN
COMBATING HUMAN TRAFFICKING.
(a) Treasury as a Member of the President's Interagency
Task Force To Monitor and Combat Trafficking.--Section 105(b)
of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of
2000 (22 U.S.C. 7103(b)) is amended by inserting ``the
Secretary of the Treasury,'' after ``the Secretary of
Education,''.
(b) Required Review of Procedures.--Not later than 180 days
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Financial
Institutions Examination Council, in consultation with the
Secretary of the Treasury, the private sector, and
appropriate law enforcement agencies, shall--
(1) review and enhance training and examinations procedures
to improve the capabilities of anti-money laundering and
countering the financing of terrorism programs to detect
financial transactions relating to severe forms of
trafficking in persons;
(2) review and enhance procedures for referring potential
cases relating to severe forms of trafficking in persons to
the appropriate law enforcement agency; and
(3) determine, as appropriate, whether requirements for
financial institutions are sufficient to detect and deter
money laundering relating to severe forms of trafficking in
persons.
(c) Interagency Task Force Recommendations Targeting Money
Laundering Related to Human Trafficking.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 270 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Interagency Task Force to
Monitor and Combat Trafficking shall submit to the Committee
on Financial Services and the Committee on the Judiciary of
the House of Representatives, the Committee on Banking,
Housing, and Urban Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary
of the Senate, and the head of each appropriate Federal
banking agency--
(A) an analysis of anti-money laundering efforts of the
United States Government and United States financial
institutions relating to severe forms of trafficking in
persons; and
(B) appropriate legislative, administrative, and other
recommendations to strengthen efforts against money
laundering relating to severe forms of trafficking in
persons.
(2) Required recommendations.--The recommendations under
paragraph (1) shall include--
(A) feedback from financial institutions on best practices
of successful programs to combat severe forms of trafficking
in persons currently in place that may be suitable for
broader adoption by similarly situated financial
institutions;
(B) feedback from stakeholders, including victims of severe
forms of trafficking in persons and financial institutions,
on policy proposals derived from the analysis conducted by
the task force referred to in paragraph (1) that would
enhance the efforts and programs of financial institutions to
detect and deter money laundering relating to severe forms of
trafficking in persons, including any recommended changes to
internal policies, procedures, and controls relating to
severe forms of trafficking in persons;
(C) any recommended changes to training programs at
financial institutions to better equip employees to deter and
detect money laundering relating to severe forms of
trafficking in persons;
(D) any recommended changes to expand information sharing
relating to severe forms of trafficking in persons among
financial institutions and between such financial
institutions, appropriate law enforcement agencies, and
appropriate Federal agencies; and
(E) recommended changes, if necessary, to existing
statutory law to more effectively detect and deter money
laundering relating to severe forms of trafficking in
persons, where such money laundering involves the use of
emerging technologies and virtual currencies.
(d) Limitation.--Nothing in this Act shall be construed to
grant rulemaking authority to the Interagency Task Force to
Monitor and Combat Trafficking.
(e) Definitions.--As used in this section--
(1) the term ``appropriate Federal banking agency'' has the
meaning given the term in section 3(q) of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1813(q));
(2) the term ``severe forms of trafficking in persons'' has
the meaning given such term in section 103 of the Trafficking
Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102);
(3) the term ``Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat
Trafficking'' means the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and
Combat Trafficking established by the President pursuant to
section 105 of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence
Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7103); and
(4) the term ``law enforcement agency'' means an agency of
the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a
State, authorized by law or by a government agency to engage
in or supervise the prevention, detection, investigation, or
prosecution of any violation of criminal or civil law.
SEC. 3. COORDINATION OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING ISSUES BY THE
OFFICE OF TERRORISM AND FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(a) Functions.--Section 312(a)(4) of title 31, United
States Code, is amended--
(1) by redesignating subparagraphs (E), (F), and (G) as
subparagraphs (F), (G), and (H), respectively; and
(2) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the following:
``(E) combating illicit financing relating to severe forms
of trafficking in persons;''.
(b) Interagency Coordination.--Section 312(a) of title 31,
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the
following:
``(8) Interagency coordination.--The Secretary of the
Treasury, after consultation with the Undersecretary for
Terrorism and Financial Crimes, shall designate an office
within the OTFI that shall coordinate efforts to combat the
illicit financing of severe forms of trafficking in persons
with--
``(A) other offices of the Department of the Treasury;
``(B) other Federal agencies, including--
``(i) the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in
Persons of the Department of State; and
``(ii) the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat
Trafficking;
``(C) State and local law enforcement agencies; and
``(D) foreign governments.''.
(c) Definition.--Section 312(a) of title 31, United States
Code, as amended by this section, is further amended by
adding at the end the following:
``(9) Definition.--In this subsection, the term `severe
forms of trafficking in persons' has the meaning given such
term in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102).''.
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SEC. 4. ADDITIONAL REPORTING REQUIREMENT UNDER THE
TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION ACT OF 2000.
Section 105(d)(7) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7103(d)(7)) is amended--
(1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A)--
(A) by inserting ``the Committee on Financial Services,''
after ``the Committee on Foreign Affairs,''; and
(B) by inserting ``the Committee on Banking, Housing, and
Urban Affairs,'' after ``the Committee on Foreign
Relations,'';
(2) in subparagraph (Q)(vii), by striking ``; and'' and
inserting a semicolon;
(3) in subparagraph (R), by striking the period at the end
and inserting ``; and''; and
(4) by adding at the end the following:
``(S) the efforts of the United States to eliminate money
laundering relating to severe forms of trafficking in persons
and the number of investigations, arrests, indictments, and
convictions in money laundering cases with a nexus to severe
forms of trafficking in persons.''.''.
SEC. 5. MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR THE ELIMINATION OF TRAFFICKING.
Section 108(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of
2000 (22 U.S.C. 7106(b)) is amended by adding at the end the
following new paragraph:
``(13) Whether the government of the country, consistent
with the capacity of the country, has in effect a framework
to prevent financial transactions involving the proceeds of
severe forms of trafficking in persons, and is taking steps
to implement such a framework, including by investigating,
prosecuting, convicting, and sentencing individuals who
attempt or conduct such transactions.''.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from
California (Mr. Royce) and the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr.
Keating) 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 to include any extraneous material on this bill 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, this legislation is on human trafficking, which, put
another way, is modern-day slavery. It continues to devastate the lives
of millions of people; and whether we are talking about trafficking,
labor trafficking, which is indentured servitude or, basically,
slavery, or whether we are talking about underage children that are
frequently trafficked for sexual exploitation by these criminal
syndicates, the results are the same.
The results to these broken lives, due to these perpetrators of these
disgusting acts who prey on these vulnerable and defenseless people,
leave in their wake the broken lives of these children and of those who
are trafficked for labor.
These are not faraway crimes, as the Members here know from their own
districts. These are crimes in the United States; and if you go to Los
Angeles and ask the District Attorney, or you ask the District Attorney
in Orange County, what is the average age that children are trafficked
into these brothels or into these syndicates, they will tell you the
average age now is 14.
When you ask them why, they will tell you because a 14-year-old or
15-year-old is much less likely to put up resistance once she has been
kidnapped or enticed by some Romeo into this kind of conduct.
I think of the survivors when I think about this, the ones that many
of us have met who share their stories with us, and I think of Angela
Guanzon. She was labor-trafficked, working in an abusive workplace day-
in, day-out, 16 hours, 18 hours, never seeing the light of day,
sleeping on the hallway floor. Survivors have taught me that the horror
of trafficking lies not in the statistics that we talk about here, but
in the stolen lives of these people.
Why is this so common? How can it be that we have so many instances
of this?
It is common because it is profitable and because these people, these
children and others who are trafficked, have very little resistance.
That is why.
The International Labor Organization estimates that it is a $150
billion business in illegal profit made from forced labor each year,
making human trafficking the third most valuable criminal enterprise in
the world.
And guess what? If your gang is involved in this instead of in drug
crimes, they are much less likely to experience violence themselves
because their victims cannot really fight back. They are in a line of
work where they can lord their violence over their victims.
Traffickers are laundering their money through financial institutions
that they can access with the click of a keyboard; and cutting off
their access to the banking system is critical to putting an end to
these illegal operations once and for all.
The End Banking for Human Traffickers Act of 2018 will help law
enforcement and financial institutions identify and report suspected
human traffickers so that they can be prosecuted to the fullest extent
of the law.
In California, by the way, we had, a few years ago, put a new law on
the books that allows us, if we can catch them, to put them away for
over 20 years.
I want to thank my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee,
especially Chairman Hensarling and Ranking Member Maxine Waters, for
their important contributions to this legislation.
This legislation will not only bolster our efforts to combat human
traffickers' use of our domestic financial institutions, but it is
going to encourage other countries to cut off traffickers from their
global financial system.
This bill is going to update the State Department's annual
Trafficking in Persons Report to require a country-by-country
assessment of whether foreign governments have a framework in place to
prevent financial transactions involving the proceeds of severe forms
of human trafficking.
Now, these annual reports, as we know, which the State Department
uses to rank countries' efforts to combat trafficking, are taken very
seriously in foreign capitals. They have helped to reinforce global
norms of responsible behavior.
I say that because when we first introduced this some years ago, we
have seen 120 governments now enact national anti-trafficking laws in
order to try to comply with the reports that we do through our audits
through our State Department in these other countries. They do not want
to be shamed. When we name them, we shame them, and so we get
compliance. This will assist on that as well. It is a critical first
step for enforcement.
So, as the center of the global financial system and the leading
country in terms of combating human trafficking in the world, the
United States must take all possible steps to address this crime and,
for this reason, this bill, H.R. 2219, deserves our unanimous support.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. KEATING. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this measure. As an original
cosponsor of the End Banking for Human Traffickers Act of 2018, I would
like to first thank my coauthors, Chairman Royce, Representative
Maloney, and Representative Love. I am proud of our bipartisan work on
this important issue.
This issue represents actions that are abhorrent, coercive, actions
that constitute modern-day slavery. They also are sustained because
they are among the most lucrative criminal activities we have in the
world right now.
This is ranked as the third most lucrative international crime in the
world. And it is a unique one in the sense that, unlike drugs, where
they will market their poison to individuals and they will be ingested
and consumed and that ends the transaction, tragically, you see, time
and time again, that these young women, many of them children, over and
over again are used by these financial purveyors of criminality in
their actions to redundantly gain profits at the expense of destroying
and taking away years of innocent lives.
This legislation is a testament to how important our bipartisan
collaboration is here in the House, as well as among our colleagues in
the Senate. When we have the opportunity to work together, we take
meaningful action to address real harms being suffered by
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innocent people here and around the world. And this is, indeed, not
only an international issue where we need cooperation, but it is a
domestic issue as well.
In 2012, the International Labor Organization estimated that there
were 21 million victims of human trafficking worldwide. In the United
States alone, over 8,500 human trafficking cases were reported just
last year, and those are cases where the investigation was fruitful and
the prosecution commenced, an understatement by multiple effects of
what the actual incidence of this crime is.
While there are current laws to combat the practice of human
trafficking by criminalizing perpetrators and providing support for
victims, the End Banking for Human Traffickers Act of 2018 works to
dismantle the economic framework that enables it and sustains it. It
empowers the Secretary of the Treasury with the ability to assist and
directly get involved to a greater extent with all the other agencies
involved. I know, from my own experience, that the importance of that
coordination will more easily lead to good cases and more effective
prosecutions and bringing people to justice.
I come at this issue from many perspectives; one of them being my
position, as with Chairman Royce, on the Foreign Affairs Committee,
where we look at the international factor that we are trying to work
cooperatively throughout the world and here at home to better
prosecute, better bring to justice.
I also represent the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and
Intelligence in the Homeland Security Committee, and it is important to
note that this criminal enterprise is one of the most prominent ways
that terrorists fund themselves.
While we have had effect trying to eliminate the caliphate and the
taxing that goes with that, we have seen terrorists lose those
opportunities to raise money. However, what we have seen is them move
even further into other areas to sustain their terrorist activity; and
primary among them is the use of human trafficking and the funding for
their terrorist activity through that criminal enterprise.
Another way I have come to view this is as a former District Attorney
myself. I worked with the regional task force in the Boston region in
Massachusetts to try and work to coordinate activities to seek out, to
investigate, and ultimately prosecute human trafficking.
There is one thing I did know through my term as a District Attorney
and looking at this issue as well, more specifically: If we are going
to be effective, one of the best tools we have in terms of
investigating, seeking out this activity, and bringing it to justice,
is to follow the money, and that is what this act does. It follows the
money. It uses the economic tools we have here, through the Secretary
of the Treasury, among many other assets we have in this country, and
it seeks out and will find out, from the money laundering standpoint,
just who is involved, where this is occurring, and how we can attack
it.
Human trafficking is a multi-billion dollar industry. Its
perpetrators rely on banking and financial systems to fund and profit
their crimes against innocent men, women, and children, and this bill
will strengthen our work to target, prosecute, and to bring to justice
those who reap financial rewards from this abhorrent criminal practice.
This Congress, the House passed a number of important bills dealing
with anti-trafficking measures. This is one of the most important, and
it strikes it at its heart, where we can find out where this is
occurring, where we can investigate further everyone that is involved
in this. It is not just limited to the people that we find in the
initial investigations with these reports, we will be better able to
bring everyone involved in this activity to justice.
So let's continue this momentum by passing the End Banking for Human
Traffickers Act of 2018.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. ROYCE of California. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I
may consume.
I would just begin here by recognizing Representative Bill Keating,
who brings to this issue--I just want to acknowledge this. We don't
have that many District Attorneys, former District Attorneys in this
body who have the experience of law enforcement in terms of dealing
with the types of criminals that go into this line of work, and he
brings that expertise and has assisted greatly in this. I just wanted
to acknowledge that before the body today.
I acknowledge also the contribution of Congressman Chris Smith, who,
I think it was in 2000, as I recall, originally brought before us this
very idea of how to combat human trafficking internationally. He has
worked on many, many issues, the International Megan's Law, and many
others.
But this idea of how we could hold governments around the world to
account, this idea of the TIP Report, and then, on top of it, the
enforcement, so that it meant something; the idea that he would get on
a plane and go and make certain that our consulates and our embassies
overseas were carrying out that audit, and that the victims had someone
to explain this to; that NGOs had someone to talk to about what was
going on in-country, so that, country by country by country, he could
identify situations where underaged children were being trafficked or
being exploited.
I just wanted to acknowledge that the gentleman has really been
dogged all of these years in moving this issue, and thank him again for
what he has done for humanity, frankly.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr.
Smith).
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Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, first of all, let me thank
Chairman Royce for his very kind remarks. I want to thank him for his
extraordinary leadership on combating human trafficking for so many
years.
This bill is just another example of that ironclad commitment to the
victims and to trying to bring to justice the perpetrators of this
offensive and really abject cruelty perpetrated by human traffickers.
H.R. 2219, authored by Chairman Royce and, of course, joined by Mr.
Keating, Mrs. Maloney, and Mrs. Love as original cosponsors of the End
Banking for Human Traffickers Act of 2018, will make an enormous
difference when enacted into law. It recognizes the very important role
the Secretary of the Treasury has to play in the detection and
eradication of human trafficking, and it ensures that the Secretary is
included in the President's Interagency Task Force to Monitor and
Combat Human Trafficking.
As we all know, Mr. Speaker, profits drive human trafficking. Profits
drive human traffickers to do unspeakable harm to their fellow human
beings. Trafficking victims suffer unspeakable cruelty that scars, if
they are rescued and are the lucky ones who are rescued, scars that
they carry on for the entirety of their life.
This bill goes after the traffickers' profits by turning the
Treasury's watchful eye on the traffickers' system for moving and
hiding money. The Royce bill will ensure that those working at the
Treasury's anti-money laundering and terrorist financing units are
ready, willing, and able and empowered legally to detect signs that
money may by tied to traffickers and to report their findings to law
enforcement.
The bill asks the Secretary of the Treasury to review the
Department's systems and tell Congress if any additional legislative
changes are needed so that the Department can be effective in the fight
against human trafficking.
Finally, the bill adds, as the chairman pointed out in his opening
comments, to the minimum standards to combat human trafficking by which
we evaluate every country in the world, including our own, whether a
government is keeping a watchful eye on financial transactions, putting
the issue on the map for countries that have never thought about it and
may be unwittingly providing financial cover to the traffickers.
This bill will reduce profits of the traffickers and, again, will set
an example for other countries of the world to follow.
Mr. Speaker, I applaud Chairman Royce for his bill and hope this body
will strongly support it.
Mr. KEATING. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
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Mr. Speaker, first off, I would like to say, as the chairman
mentioned in the previous resolution that we discussed, Mr. Royce is
leaving us at the end of this term, and I would like to thank him for
the real bipartisan effort we have shown--Mr. Smith typifies that as
well--on the Foreign Affairs Committee.
This is an important committee that has broad responsibilities, as
this bill indicates; and, in a Congress where, too often, there are
divides and bitterness, that committee stands out as a committee of
members who work together, who accomplish solutions to very complex
international problems that affect us here at home. I know, going
forward, I believe very strongly, we are going to have an even larger
role in issues to come.
Mr. Speaker, modern-day slavery destroys the lives of far too many
innocent people. Today, in 2018, this should no longer be a topic of
discussion, yet it is becoming increasingly more problematic.
The solutions are within reach, and that requires coordination and
cooperation. This bill does both. We have the information; we have the
expertise; now we must act decisively to put the best tools in the
right hands to end this injustice once and for all. And by focusing on
the financial mechanism that enables this and sustains this, we will be
best able to combat it, not just in seeking it out and destroying it,
but making sure, in a comprehensive way, we deal with all those
wrongdoers that are involved, not just a few at the bottom rung of the
ladder.
This bill will give the right people around the table the opportunity
to better equip themselves to combat human trafficking and break down
the financing that supports and enables this heinous crime.
Mr. Speaker, I again thank my coauthors for their efforts, and 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, with Chairman Smith present, I want to speak on the
legislation which he previously brought up, the legislation prior to
this bill. I want to join him--I am a cosponsor of his legislation--in
support of H. Res. 128.
He and Karen Bass and other Members have worked together as
cosponsors of this legislation, and I want to say the Ethiopians are a
very proud people. They have a very rich heritage and a very rich
history.
Ethiopia is a very important partner for the United States. It has
asserted regional influence through rapid economic growth, as we know,
and strong cooperation with us on our security initiatives in the
region. It has that commitment that it constantly shows towards
combating radical jihadist extremism, and it has made notable strides
to address domestic challenges of health and child survival and food
security.
We have both made trips out there to see that progress, and we
celebrate these accomplishments. Ethiopia has come a long way from the
devastating famines of the 1980s, and it has achieved much of the
benchmarks. Most of the benchmarks that the Millennium Development
Goals have set out for it to date have been met.
This resolution recognizes the need to continue a close partnership
between the United States and Ethiopia to continue that momentum. But
it is because of these important bilateral ties that we must ensure
that Ethiopia is respecting good governance and democratic values.
Deeply ingrained ethnic divisions, marginalization, and years of
conflict provide unique governance challenges for the country.
Advancing democratic values is never easy, but they are the best way to
further Ethiopia's progress and to further our robust bilateral
relationship.
Reports of widespread human rights abuses and crackdowns on freedom
of expression and excessive force against peaceful protestors are
unacceptable.
The Government of Ethiopia has released thousands of political
prisoners in the last few months, and this is a welcome development.
However, the recently reimposed state of emergency criminalizes
peaceful assembly and allows state security forces to arrest citizens
without charge. This state of emergency must be lifted immediately,
which is what this resolution also calls for.
The United States must hold the Government of Ethiopia accountable to
the peaceful voices of their citizens, while allowing for inclusive
political participation and respecting human rights and freedom of
expression.
All parties must come to the table in order to advance democratic
principles and chart the course for a prosperous, inclusive, and
peaceful Ethiopia; otherwise, stability and economic progress will
suffer over the long term.
There is cause for hope, and I commend Dr. Abiy Ahmed for his recent
appointment as Prime Minister. I am so encouraged by his call for
increased political competition and in defense of fundamental human
rights. We hope that, under his leadership, the government will enact
meaningful political and social reforms.
Mr. Speaker, I would also like to thank my colleague Representative
Coffman for his work on this resolution.
Mr. Speaker, returning to the End Banking for Human Traffickers Act,
I want to again thank my colleagues, the ranking member of the Foreign
Affairs Committee, Mr. Engel, Chairman Hensarling, Ranking Member
Waters of the Financial Services Committee, and, of course, Bill
Keating for their support of this important legislation. And I thank
Mr. Chris Smith again.
I have seen some real reasons for hope that I think, when we are
talking about a topic that is this grim, it is good to remind ourselves
of how awareness can lead to coordinated action and how that, then, can
lead to freeing people from this bondage, especially freeing children
from this bondage.
In southern California, we have had great involvement from concerned
citizens, certainly from our NGO community, the local law enforcement.
I have a trafficking task force that I put together some years ago to
bring all of these forces together and work also with victims--
survivors, as they refer to themselves--working together to drive these
forms of exploitation out of our community; and I have seen some of the
effectiveness, especially last October, with the good work of the FBI
shutting down, across this Nation, so many of these rings.
But if we are going to be successful in ending this horrific trade,
not just here but worldwide, we have got to cut traffickers off from
the financial system. These criminals are laundering profits through
that financial system far too easily. This bill will help end that easy
access, and it is certainly going to strengthen the tools for law
enforcement to fight these crimes against human dignity.
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. 2219, 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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