[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 82 (Friday, May 18, 2018)]
[House]
[Pages H4226-H4233]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
AGRICULTURE AND NUTRITION ACT OF 2018
The Committee resumed its sitting.
The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Collins of Georgia). The gentlewoman from
California is recognized.
Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Mr. Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from
Pennsylvania (Mr. Cartwright).
Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to this amendment,
the Banks/Gosar amendment, as a clear threat to a bedrock protection of
the American people of the Clean Water Rule. The Clean Water Rule
guarantees clean drinking water for 117 million Americans. My
constituents rely on the Clean Water Rule, which protects critical
waterways like the Chesapeake Bay.
By eliminating this rule, we jeopardize the streams, headwaters,
wetlands, and other bodies of water supporting critical wildlife
ecosystems that naturally filter out pollution and provide essential,
clean drinking water to a third of our Nation.
Mr. Chairman, the farm bill should be a tool for protecting
Americans. It must not be used to poison their water. A vote for this
amendment is a vote against clean water, and I urge my colleagues to
oppose it.
Mr. BANKS of Indiana. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman
from Louisiana (Mr. Johnson), my fellow freshman colleague and a great
defender of private property rights.
Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the gentleman
from Indiana's leadership on this amendment, and that of Mr. Gosar and
others.
Since its inception, the 2015 Waters of the U.S. rule has been an
unworkable and unreasonable interpretation of the intent of the Clean
Water Act. It was an overreach of an administration wishing to flex its
muscles by imposing additional regulations where it had no
jurisdiction.
We are regulating things like backyard ditches and mud puddles, which
we have a lot of in Louisiana. The absurdity of this rule has been
evidenced by the back-and-forth legal battles that have ensued in the
courts, most recently this past January in National Association of
Manufacturers v. Department of Defense. The Supreme Court's opinion in
that case has thrown some industries into chaos, as uncertainty once
again looms.
Congress has the capability to provide a permanent statutory answer
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the merits of the rule, once and for all, by nullifying the rule in its
entirety. The Waters of the U.S. rule is bad for America's farmers, bad
for American energy, and bad for America's builders. My friend calls it
the poster child of government overreach, and I could not agree more.
Mr. Chair, I urge adoption of this amendment.
Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Mr. Chair, may I inquire how much time I have
remaining.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from California has 1\1/2\ minutes
remaining. The gentleman from Indiana has 30 seconds remaining.
Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Mr. Chair, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from
Minnesota (Mr. Peterson).
Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Chair, I rise to support this repeal.
Mr. Chair, I just want to caution people that I am worried about us
getting this through the Senate. I spent a lot of time trying to work
this thing before, had a number of meetings with Gina McCarthy. The
underlying problem with this is that we have four different agencies
that have jurisdiction over what a wetland is.
We passed in 1985 the wetland, the swampbuster bill in the farm bill.
We still, to this day, cannot define what a wetland is. And what I am
worried about when they do this new regulation, which they are probably
going to have to do to replace the old one, they are not going to be
able to come up with a definition because we haven't been able to do it
in 20-some years.
Mr. BANKS of Indiana. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time for
closing.
Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Mr. Chairman, I just think that, again, we are
saying anything Obama did is wrong. I want to continue protecting the
waters of the United States for the American people.
Mr. Chair, with that, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. BANKS of Indiana. Mr. Chairman, in closing, this amendment isn't
just important to farmers; it is important to all landowners in our
country. It is a big step forward in protecting our private property
rights. I applaud President Trump for delaying the rule as he had, but
this is our opportunity to repeal it once and for all.
Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the
gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Banks).
The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes
appeared to have it.
Mr. BANKS of Indiana. 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 Indiana 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 115-679 on
which further proceedings were postponed, in the following order:
Amendment No. 17 by Mr. Russell of Oklahoma.
Amendment No. 25 by Mr. Massie of Kentucky.
Amendment No. 28 by Mr. Roskam of Illinois.
Amendment No. 31 by Mr. Banks of Indiana.
The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the minimum time for any
electronic vote after the first vote in this series.
Amendment No. 17 Offered by Mr. Russell
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Oklahoma
(Mr. Russell) 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 15-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 54,
noes 356, not voting 17, as follows:
[Roll No. 200]
AYES--54
Abraham
Allen
Banks (IN)
Biggs
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Brat
Brooks (AL)
Budd
Burgess
Chabot
Curtis
DeSantis
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Foxx
Gabbard
Gaetz
Gianforte
Gosar
Graves (LA)
Griffith
Grothman
Hartzler
Hensarling
Hice, Jody B.
Issa
Johnson (LA)
Jones
Jordan
LoBiondo
Love
Massie
McClintock
Mooney (WV)
Norman
Palmer
Perry
Pittenger
Poe (TX)
Posey
Rohrabacher
Rooney, Francis
Rothfus
Russell
Sanford
Scalise
Schweikert
Sensenbrenner
Walker
Webster (FL)
Woodall
Young (AK)
Zeldin
NOES--356
Adams
Aderholt
Aguilar
Amash
Amodei
Arrington
Babin
Bacon
Barletta
Barr
Barragan
Barton
Bass
Beatty
Bera
Bergman
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (MI)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Blumenauer
Blunt Rochester
Bonamici
Bost
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Brooks (IN)
Brownley (CA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Bustos
Butterfield
Byrne
Calvert
Capuano
Carbajal
Cardenas
Carson (IN)
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Cheney
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coffman
Cohen
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comer
Comstock
Conaway
Connolly
Cook
Cooper
Correa
Costa
Costello (PA)
Courtney
Cramer
Crawford
Crist
Crowley
Cuellar
Culberson
Cummings
Davidson
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
Davis, Rodney
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
Demings
Denham
DeSaulnier
DesJarlais
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Dingell
Doggett
Donovan
Doyle, Michael F.
Duffy
Dunn
Ellison
Emmer
Engel
Eshoo
Espaillat
Estes (KS)
Esty (CT)
Evans
Faso
Ferguson
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Flores
Fortenberry
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gallagher
Gallego
Garamendi
Garrett
Gibbs
Gomez
Gonzalez (TX)
Goodlatte
Gottheimer
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Guthrie
Gutierrez
Hanabusa
Handel
Harper
Harris
Hastings
Heck
Herrera Beutler
Higgins (LA)
Higgins (NY)
Hill
Himes
Holding
Hollingsworth
Hoyer
Hudson
Huffman
Huizenga
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd
Jackson Lee
Jayapal
Jeffries
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Joyce (OH)
Kaptur
Katko
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
Kennedy
Khanna
Kihuen
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger
Knight
Krishnamoorthi
Kuster (NH)
Kustoff (TN)
LaHood
LaMalfa
Lamb
Lamborn
Lance
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latta
Lawrence
Lawson (FL)
Lee
Lesko
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (MN)
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren
Long
Loudermilk
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lujan Grisham, M.
Lujan, Ben Ray
Lynch
MacArthur
Maloney, Carolyn B.
Maloney, Sean
Marchant
Marino
Marshall
Mast
Matsui
McCarthy
McCaul
McCollum
McEachin
McGovern
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
McSally
Meadows
Meeks
Meng
Messer
Mitchell
Moolenaar
Moore
Moulton
Mullin
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Newhouse
Noem
Nolan
Nunes
O'Halleran
O'Rourke
Olson
Palazzo
Pallone
Panetta
Pascrell
Paulsen
Payne
Pearce
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree
Pocan
Poliquin
Price (NC)
Quigley
Raskin
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Rice (NY)
Rice (SC)
Richmond
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rokita
Rooney, Thomas J.
Ros-Lehtinen
Rosen
Roskam
Ross
Rouzer
Roybal-Allard
Royce (CA)
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Rutherford
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Serrano
Sessions
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Sinema
Sires
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Smucker
Soto
Stefanik
Stewart
Stivers
Suozzi
Swalwell (CA)
Takano
Taylor
Tenney
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tipton
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Trott
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Weber (TX)
Welch
Wenstrup
Westerman
Williams
Wilson (FL)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Yarmuth
Yoho
Young (IA)
NOT VOTING--17
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brown (MD)
Buck
Clay
Curbelo (FL)
Gohmert
Labrador
Lieu, Ted
Norcross
Polis
Rogers (KY)
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Schneider
Sewell (AL)
Speier
Tsongas
Walz
Yoder
{time} 1118
Messrs. ESTES of Kansas, WESTERMAN, KELLY of Mississippi, ROYCE, and
STEWART changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
Messrs. BROOKS of Alabama, POE of Texas, GIANFORTE, GRAVES of
Louisiana, and ABRAHAM changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Amendment No. 25 Offered by Mr. Massie
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Kentucky
(Mr. Massie) 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 is a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 79,
noes 331, not voting 17, as follows:
[Roll No. 201]
AYES--79
Amash
Banks (IN)
Barletta
Barton
Biggs
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blumenauer
Brat
Brooks (AL)
Budd
Cheney
Comer
Cramer
Culberson
Curtis
Davidson
DeSantis
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Gabbard
Gaetz
Garrett
Gosar
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Griffith
Grothman
Guthrie
Harris
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Higgins (LA)
Huffman
Huizenga
Issa
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (LA)
Jones
Jordan
Lamborn
Lesko
Lofgren
Loudermilk
Marino
Massie
McClintock
McHenry
McNerney
McSally
Meadows
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Noem
Norman
Palmer
Perry
Pingree
Poe (TX)
Posey
Rice (SC)
Rohrabacher
Rooney, Francis
Rothfus
Sanford
Scalise
Schweikert
Sensenbrenner
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smucker
Taylor
Tipton
Webster (FL)
Welch
Wittman
Woodall
Zeldin
NOES--331
Abraham
Adams
Aderholt
Aguilar
Allen
Amodei
Arrington
Babin
Bacon
Barr
Barragan
Bass
Beatty
Bera
Bergman
Beyer
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (MI)
Blum
Blunt Rochester
Bonamici
Bost
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Brooks (IN)
Brownley (CA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Burgess
Bustos
Butterfield
Byrne
Calvert
Capuano
Carbajal
Cardenas
Carson (IN)
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chabot
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clyburn
Coffman
Cohen
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comstock
Conaway
Connolly
Cook
Cooper
Correa
Costa
Costello (PA)
Courtney
Crawford
Crist
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
Davis, Rodney
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
Demings
Denham
DeSaulnier
DesJarlais
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Dingell
Doggett
Donovan
Doyle, Michael F.
Duffy
Dunn
Ellison
Emmer
Engel
Eshoo
Espaillat
Estes (KS)
Esty (CT)
Evans
Faso
Ferguson
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Flores
Fortenberry
Foster
Foxx
Frankel (FL)
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gallagher
Gallego
Garamendi
Gianforte
Gibbs
Gomez
Gonzalez (TX)
Goodlatte
Gottheimer
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (MO)
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hanabusa
Handel
Harper
Hartzler
Hastings
Heck
Hensarling
Higgins (NY)
Hill
Himes
Holding
Hollingsworth
Hoyer
Hudson
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd
Jackson Lee
Jayapal
Jeffries
Jenkins (KS)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Joyce (OH)
Kaptur
Katko
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
Kennedy
Khanna
Kihuen
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger
Knight
Krishnamoorthi
Kuster (NH)
Kustoff (TN)
LaHood
LaMalfa
Lamb
Lance
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latta
Lawrence
Lawson (FL)
Lee
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (MN)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Long
Love
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lujan Grisham, M.
Lujan, Ben Ray
Lynch
MacArthur
Maloney, Carolyn B.
Maloney, Sean
Marchant
Marshall
Mast
Matsui
McCarthy
McCaul
McCollum
McEachin
McGovern
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meeks
Meng
Messer
Mitchell
Moolenaar
Moore
Moulton
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Newhouse
Nolan
Nunes
O'Halleran
O'Rourke
Olson
Palazzo
Pallone
Panetta
Pascrell
Paulsen
Payne
Pearce
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pittenger
Pocan
Poliquin
Price (NC)
Quigley
Raskin
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rokita
Rooney, Thomas J.
Ros-Lehtinen
Rosen
Roskam
Ross
Rouzer
Roybal-Allard
Royce (CA)
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Russell
Rutherford
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Serrano
Sessions
Sewell (AL)
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Sinema
Sires
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Soto
Stefanik
Stewart
Stivers
Suozzi
Swalwell (CA)
Takano
Tenney
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Trott
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Weber (TX)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Williams
Wilson (FL)
Wilson (SC)
Womack
Yarmuth
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
NOT VOTING--17
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brown (MD)
Buck
Clay
Cleaver
Curbelo (FL)
Gohmert
Labrador
Lieu, Ted
Norcross
Polis
Rogers (KY)
Schneider
Speier
Tsongas
Walz
Yoder
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.
{time} 1123
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Amendment No. 28 Offered by Mr. Roskam
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois
(Mr. Roskam) 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 is a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 359,
noes 51, not voting 17, as follows:
[Roll No. 202]
AYES--359
Abraham
Adams
Aderholt
Aguilar
Allen
Amodei
Arrington
Bacon
Barletta
Barr
Barragan
Barton
Bera
Bergman
Beyer
Biggs
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Blumenauer
Blunt Rochester
Bonamici
Bost
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Brat
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Brownley (CA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Budd
Burgess
Bustos
Byrne
Calvert
Capuano
Carbajal
Cardenas
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chabot
Cheney
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Coffman
Cohen
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comer
Comstock
Conaway
Connolly
Cook
Cooper
Correa
Costa
Costello (PA)
Courtney
Cramer
Crawford
Crist
Crowley
Cuellar
Culberson
Cummings
Curtis
Davidson
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
Davis, Rodney
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
Demings
Denham
DeSantis
DeSaulnier
DesJarlais
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Dingell
Doggett
Donovan
Doyle, Michael F.
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Dunn
Ellison
Emmer
Engel
Eshoo
Espaillat
Estes (KS)
Esty (CT)
Faso
Ferguson
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Flores
Fortenberry
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Frelinghuysen
Gabbard
Gaetz
Gallagher
Gallego
Garamendi
Garrett
Gianforte
Gibbs
Gomez
Gonzalez (TX)
Gosar
Gottheimer
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffith
Grijalva
Grothman
Guthrie
Handel
Harper
Harris
Hastings
Heck
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Higgins (LA)
Higgins (NY)
Hill
Himes
Holding
Hollingsworth
Hoyer
Hudson
Huffman
Huizenga
Hultgren
Hurd
Issa
Jackson Lee
Jayapal
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (LA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
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Jones
Jordan
Joyce (OH)
Kaptur
Katko
Keating
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
Kennedy
Khanna
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
King (NY)
Kinzinger
Knight
Krishnamoorthi
Kuster (NH)
Kustoff (TN)
LaHood
Lamb
Lamborn
Lance
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latta
Lawrence
Lawson (FL)
Lesko
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (MN)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren
Long
Loudermilk
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lujan Grisham, M.
Lujan, Ben Ray
Lynch
MacArthur
Maloney, Carolyn B.
Maloney, Sean
Marchant
Marino
Marshall
Mast
McCarthy
McCaul
McCollum
McEachin
McGovern
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
McSally
Meadows
Meeks
Meng
Messer
Mitchell
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Moore
Moulton
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Nolan
Norman
Nunes
O'Halleran
O'Rourke
Olson
Palazzo
Pallone
Palmer
Panetta
Pascrell
Paulsen
Payne
Pearce
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Perry
Peters
Pingree
Pittenger
Pocan
Poliquin
Posey
Price (NC)
Quigley
Raskin
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Rice (NY)
Rice (SC)
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rokita
Rooney, Francis
Ros-Lehtinen
Rosen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Roybal-Allard
Royce (CA)
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Russell
Rutherford
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez
Sarbanes
Scalise
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Schweikert
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Sinema
Sires
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Smucker
Soto
Stefanik
Stewart
Stivers
Suozzi
Swalwell (CA)
Takano
Taylor
Tenney
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tipton
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Trott
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Visclosky
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Wasserman Schultz
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Welch
Wenstrup
Westerman
Williams
Wilson (FL)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yarmuth
Yoho
Young (IA)
Zeldin
NOES--51
Amash
Babin
Banks (IN)
Bass
Beatty
Butterfield
Carson (IN)
Clarke (NY)
Cleaver
Clyburn
Evans
Foxx
Fudge
Goodlatte
Gutierrez
Hanabusa
Hartzler
Hunter
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kelly (IL)
Kihuen
King (IA)
LaMalfa
Langevin
Lee
Love
Massie
Matsui
McClintock
Mullin
Murphy (FL)
Newhouse
Noem
Peterson
Poe (TX)
Richmond
Rogers (AL)
Rohrabacher
Rush
Sanford
Scott, Austin
Sessions
Smith (MO)
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Velazquez
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Young (AK)
NOT VOTING--17
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brown (MD)
Buck
Clay
Curbelo (FL)
Gohmert
Labrador
Lieu, Ted
Norcross
Polis
Rogers (KY)
Rooney, Thomas J.
Schneider
Speier
Tsongas
Walz
Yoder
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.
{time} 1129
Mses. LEE and MAXINE WATERS of California changed their vote from
``aye'' to ``no.''
Mr. GALLEGO, Ms. DeLAURO, Mr. LEVIN, Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM of
New Mexico, Messrs. DeSAULNIER, and KEATING changed their vote from
``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Stated for:
Mr. LANGEVIN. Mr. Chair, I inadvertently voted ``no.'' I meant to be
recorded as: ``yea'' on rollcall No. 202.
Mr. KIHUEN. Mr. Chair, during rollcall Vote No. 202 on H.R. 2, I
mistakenly recorded my vote as ``no'' when I should have voted ``yes''.
Amendment No. 31 Offered by Mr. Banks of Indiana
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Indiana
(Mr. Banks) 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 is a 2-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 238,
noes 173, not voting 16, as follows:
[Roll No. 203]
AYES--238
Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amash
Amodei
Arrington
Babin
Bacon
Banks (IN)
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Bergman
Biggs
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Bost
Brady (TX)
Brat
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Budd
Burgess
Bustos
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Cheney
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comer
Comstock
Conaway
Cook
Cooper
Costa
Cramer
Crawford
Cuellar
Culberson
Curtis
Davidson
Davis, Rodney
Denham
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Donovan
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Dunn
Emmer
Estes (KS)
Faso
Ferguson
Fleischmann
Flores
Fortenberry
Foxx
Frelinghuysen
Gaetz
Gallagher
Garrett
Gianforte
Gibbs
Gonzalez (TX)
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Griffith
Grothman
Guthrie
Handel
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Higgins (LA)
Hill
Holding
Hollingsworth
Hudson
Huizenga
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (LA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Joyce (OH)
Katko
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger
Knight
Kustoff (TN)
LaHood
LaMalfa
Lamb
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
Lesko
Lewis (MN)
LoBiondo
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
MacArthur
Marchant
Marino
Marshall
Massie
Mast
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McSally
Meadows
Messer
Mitchell
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Newhouse
Noem
Norman
Nunes
O'Halleran
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Peterson
Pittenger
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Posey
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Rice (SC)
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney, Francis
Rooney, Thomas J.
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Royce (CA)
Russell
Rutherford
Sanford
Scalise
Schrader
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (TX)
Smucker
Stefanik
Stewart
Stivers
Taylor
Tenney
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tipton
Trott
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Veasey
Vela
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Zeldin
NOES--173
Adams
Aguilar
Barragan
Bass
Beatty
Bera
Beyer
Blumenauer
Blunt Rochester
Bonamici
Brady (PA)
Brownley (CA)
Butterfield
Capuano
Carbajal
Cardenas
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Correa
Costello (PA)
Courtney
Crist
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
Demings
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle, Michael F.
Ellison
Engel
Eshoo
Espaillat
Esty (CT)
Evans
Fitzpatrick
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Gomez
Gottheimer
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hanabusa
Hastings
Heck
Higgins (NY)
Himes
Hoyer
Huffman
Jackson Lee
Jayapal
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Khanna
Kihuen
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
Krishnamoorthi
Kuster (NH)
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lawson (FL)
Lee
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham, M.
Lujan, Ben Ray
Lynch
Maloney, Carolyn B.
Maloney, Sean
Matsui
McCollum
McEachin
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Moulton
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Nolan
O'Rourke
Pallone
Panetta
Pascrell
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Pingree
Pocan
Price (NC)
Quigley
Raskin
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Rosen
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Sinema
Sires
Smith (NJ)
Smith (WA)
Soto
Suozzi
Swalwell (CA)
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Vargas
Velazquez
Visclosky
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth
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NOT VOTING--16
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brown (MD)
Buck
Clay
Curbelo (FL)
Gohmert
Labrador
Lieu, Ted
Norcross
Polis
Rogers (KY)
Schneider
Speier
Tsongas
Walz
Yoder
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.
{time} 1136
Mr. O'HALLERAN changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Gianforte). The question is on the committee
amendment in the nature of a substitute, as amended.
The amendment was agreed to.
The Acting CHAIR. Under the rule, the Committee rises.
Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr.
Collins of Georgia) having assumed the chair, Mr. Gianforte, 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. 2) to provide for the reform and continuation of agricultural and
other programs of the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year
2023, and for other purposes, and, pursuant to House Resolution 900, he
reported the bill back to the House with an amendment adopted in the
Committee of the Whole.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the rule, the previous question is
ordered.
Is a separate vote demanded on any amendment to the amendment
reported from the Committee of the Whole?
If not, the question is on the committee amendment in the nature of a
substitute, as amended.
The amendment was agreed to.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the engrossment and third
reading of the bill.
The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was
read the third time.
Motion to Recommit
Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to
recommit at the desk.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentleman opposed to the bill?
Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New York. I am opposed in its current
form.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to
recommit.
The Clerk read as follows:
Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York moves to recommit the
bill H.R. 2 to the Committee on Agriculture with instructions
to report the same back to the House forthwith, with the
following amendment:
Page 206, line 16, strike ``$255,000,000'' and insert
``$329,000,000''.
Page 206, line 23, strike ``$200,000,000'' and insert
``$260,000,000''.
Page 207, line 6, strike ``$34,500,000'' and insert
``$44,500,000''.
Page 207, line 13, strike ``$9,000,000'' and insert
``$13,000,000''.
Strike section 4011.
Page 331, after line 23, insert the following new
subsection:
(b) Mandatory Funding.--Chapter 1 of subtitle D of title
XXIII of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act
of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 950aaa et seq.) is amended by adding at the
end the following:
``SEC. 2335B. MANDATORY FUNDING.
``Of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation, the
Secretary shall use to carry out this section--
``(1) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2019;
``(2) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2020;
``(3) $15,000,000 for fiscal year 2021;
``(4) $25,000,000 for fiscal year 2022; and
``(5) $25,000,000 for fiscal year 2023.''.
Page 332, line 1, strike ``(b)'' and insert ``(c)''.
Page 333, line 11, strike ``(e)'' and insert ``(f)''.
Page 334, line 14, strike the close quotation marks and the
following period.
Page 334, after line 14, insert the following:
``(e) Mandatory Funding.--Of the funds of the Commodity
Credit Corporation, the Secretary shall use to carry out this
section $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through
2023.''.
Page 348, line 21, strike the close quotation marks and the
following period.
Page 348, after line 21, add the following:
``(j) Mandatory Funding.--Of the funds of the Commodity
Credit Corporation, the Secretary shall use to carry out this
section--
``(1) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2019;
``(2) $15,000,000 for fiscal year 2020;
``(3) $25,000,000 for fiscal year 2021;
``(4) $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2022; and
``(5) $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2023.''.
Page 411, line 21, strike the close quotation marks and the
following period.
Page 411, after line 21, add the following:
``(c) Mandatory Funding.--Of the funds of the Commodity
Credit Corporation, the Secretary shall use to carry out this
section $19,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through
2023.''.
Page 430, line 4, strike ``and inserting `; and' '' and
insert ``and inserting a semicolon''.
Page 430, strike lines 6 through 9 and insert the
following:
(iii) by adding at the end the following new subparagraphs:
``(D) $40,000,000 for fiscal year 2019;
``(E) $45,000,000 for fiscal year 2020;
``(F) $45,000,000 for fiscal year 2021;
``(G) $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2022; and
``(H) $50,000,000 for fiscal year2023.''; and
Page 436, after line 19, insert the following:
(c) Mandatory Funding.--
(1) In general.--Section 412(k)(1)(B) of the Agricultural
Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 (7
U.S.C. 7632(k)(1)(B)) is amended by striking ``fiscal year
2014 and each fiscal year thereafter'' and inserting ``each
of fiscal years 2014 through 2018 and $115,000,000 for each
of fiscal years 2019 through 2023.''.
(2) Reservations.--Section 412(k)(1)(C) of the Agricultural
Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 (7
U.S.C. 7632(k)(1)(C)), as amended by subsection (b), is
further amended--
(A) by striking ``shall reserve not less than'' and
inserting the following: ``shall reserve--
``(A) not less than'';
(B) by striking the period at the end and inserting ``;
and''; and
(C) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
``(B) of the funds made available under subparagraph (B) to
carry out the activities specified in paragraphs (1) through
(5) of subsection (b), not less than--
``(i) $15,000,000 for fiscal year 2019;
``(ii) $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2020;
``(iii) $40,000,000 for fiscal year 2021;
``(iv) $40,000,000 for fiscal year 2022; and
``(v) $40,000,000 for fiscal year 2023.''.
Page 436, line 20, strike ``(c)'' and insert ``(d)''.
Page 452, line 4, strike ``; and'' and insert a semicolon.
Page 452, strike lines 5 and 6 and insert the following:
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``and'' at the end;
(iii) in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at the
end and inserting ``; and''; and
(iv) by adding at the end the following new subparagraphs:
``(D) $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2019;
``(E) $40,000,000 for fiscal year 2020;
``(F) $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2021;
``(G) $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2022; and
``(H) $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2023.'';
Page 539, after line 11, insert the following:
(1) in paragraph (1)(D), by striking ``2014 through 2018''
and inserting ``2019 through 2023'';
Page 539, line 12, strike the enumerator and insert
``(2)''.
Page 539, line 16, strike ``and'' at the end.
Page 539, strike lines 17 and 18 and insert the following:
``(B) $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2019;
``(C) $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2020;
``(D) $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2021;
``(E) $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2022; and
``(F) $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2023.'';
Page 539, line 19, strike the enumerator and insert
``(3)''.
Page 539, line 20, strike the enumerator and insert
``(4)''.
Page 549, line 20, strike ``$5,000,000'' and insert
``$10,000,000''.
Page 550, line 16, strike ``$5,000,000'' and insert
``$10,000,000''.
Page 602, line 12, strike ``; and'' and insert a semicolon.
Page 602, strike lines 13 and 14 and insert the following:
(B) in clause (ii), by striking the period at the end and
inserting ``; and''
(C) in clause (iii), by striking the period at the end and
inserting ``; and''; and
(D) by adding at the end the following new clause:
``(iv) $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2019;
``(v) $35,000,000 for fiscal year 2020;
``(vi) $40,000,000 for fiscal year 2021;
``(vii) $40,000,000 for fiscal year 2022; and
``(viii) $40,000,000 for fiscal year 2023.'';
Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New York (during the reading). Mr.
Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to dispense with the reading of the
motion.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentleman from New York?
There was no objection.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New York is recognized
for 5 minutes in support of his motion.
Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself as
much time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, this is the final amendment to the bill. If adopted, it
will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted, we
will proceed to final passage, as amended.
I offer the motion to recommit on behalf of farmers and rural
communities
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who are confronting threats to their livelihood, sadly, that are
included within this bill.
Mr. Speaker, the communities I represent rely heavily on agriculture.
Hudson Valley farmers feed New York and America, they create thousands
of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity, and they preserve
the cultural heritage for generations of farmers who have done the
same.
I was raised in a small town surrounded by family farms, and I am
proud to say I still live in one today. Agriculture drives the economy
of my district.
Suffice it to say, I didn't think I would ever oppose a farm bill. I
was proud to be part of the bipartisan team that wrote the last one.
That bipartisan bill was a huge win for farmers in my part of the
world, but this farm bill is very different, and I am disappointed to
say that we are following the best farm bill ever for the Hudson Valley
with the very worst farm bill ever for the Hudson Valley.
It claims to create efficiencies, but really just ends up going after
people who need a hand, the ones we are supposed to focus on in this
bill.
One instance is simply the mandate that parents pay their child
support or lose their SNAP benefits. Now, that, on its face, sounds
like it makes sense: You don't pay your child support when you have
kids, that should be a problem, but this bill goes about it in all the
wrong ways and it ends up hurting the very children who rely on that
child support, and it would actually end up costing more than it would
save us.
It also goes after critical trade programs just as millions of our
farmers are reeling from a trade war and the renegotiation of NAFTA.
Earlier this week, my Hudson Valley district was slammed by a series
of storms, which destroyed acres and acres worth of crops. My office
has been inundated with calls from farmers whose very livelihoods are
in jeopardy as a result.
One farmer named Josh Morgenthau, who runs the famous farm called
Fishkill Farms, may have lost $1 million worth of crops. That is just
one farmer in Duchess County.
So the very same week when we faced these deadly storms, we are now
talking about responding to millions of dollars in crop damages without
improving the very crop insurance programs that farmers like Josh
depend on today, right now. That is a kick in the teeth to the guys I
represent.
But the problems with this bill don't stop with crop insurance, as
bad as those are.
This bill eliminates America's largest conservation program, and that
is a killer for rural New York because of growing urban sprawl and the
loss of farmland around New York City. In fact, in New York State, we
lose 10 times more farmland than we preserve every single year. Now,
you don't need your slide ruler to figure out that is a big problem for
us.
This bill does too little to help small, diverse family farms like I
represent, but it is a huge win for corporate industrial agriculture.
It doesn't add a penny to the very research foundation that is funding
local efforts in my part of the world to fight invasive species like
the allium leafminer, which threatens the entire onion crop of the
black dirt region, one of the Nation's largest.
This is all happening against the backdrop of aging farmers, and that
fact threatens the sustainability of the industry. New farmers can't
get access to crop insurance or farmland they need to start a viable
business. The land costs too much. These kids are loaded up with
student debt.
Don't take my word for it. The National Young Farmers Coalition
adamantly opposes the Republican bill.
We can't wait for the next farm bill to fix these problems. The
average age of our farmers is going up all the time. It used to be 50;
today it is 60 years old, the average farmer. It keeps going in the
wrong direction.
We should be doing more in this bill to support young and beginning
farmers and to incentivize careers in agriculture.
I promised my farmers, including my agricultural advisory board, on
which Josh Morgenthau and other young farmers sit, that I would fight
for them in Washington.
In our motion, we provide almost $400 million for the Market Access
Program, Foreign Market Development, and Technical Assistance for
Specialty Crop Farms over 5 years.
For the scholarships at 1890s institutions and Historically Black
Colleges that help to prepare our next generation, we provide $95
million, and we fund the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Program at $120
million.
We provide $80 million for organics research. We commit $140 million
to promote farmers markets and local foods, and we invest $125 million
in outreach and assistance for socially disadvantaged farmers.
For research on specialty crops to advance the fruit, vegetable,
flower, and nut growers that contribute the largest portion of our
Nation's farm gate value, we provide $175 million.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the gentleman's
motion.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5
minutes.
Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Speaker, this attempt at legislating is a little
late. For all of the rhetoric, my colleagues on the other side of the
aisle have said for over a month now that this bill was so broken they
couldn't fix it.
They come tricking trotting in here this afternoon with an amendment
of this scope.
This would have been a great conversation to have had in committee,
but we spent 5 hours listening to complaints that we weren't amenable
to any changes.
It would have been handy to have that go through the Rules Committee
so we would have had at least overnight to look at what this deal does.
To come in here now and pull this procedural trick, which, quite
frankly, the minority always does. When we are in the minority, we do
it. When you are in the minority, you do it as well, and I oppose the
gentleman's motion.
Mr. Speaker, we are at a point in time where it is now time to move
forward. We have had a relatively complicated process, a 600-page bill,
51 amendments made in order, now this attempt to legislate at the last
second.
But it is about to get real simple. We are about to start putting up
red and green votes on the board behind you, Mr. Speaker.
And let me tell you what the green votes are for. Green votes will
mean you stand with Americans. You stand with those producers out there
who are in a terrible circumstance. There has been a 50-percent drop in
farm income the last 5 years.
Today's headlines in the USA Today: Farmers being forced to quit as
income dies.
That is who you will stand for with a green vote. Or a red vote says,
no, we want to continue to argue about this. We want to take advantage
of what might happen in November because we are going to say ``no'' to
this.
We have got SNAP beneficiaries out there who are dependent on this
new program we are going to put in place to have their case managers to
help them walk through this labyrinth of social networks to try to get
them to a job. So you are saying ``no'' to those guys as well.
We are going to say ``no'' to the men and women who eat our food
every single day.
You can love the farm bill or you can hate the farm bill, but it
delivers the most effective, affordable, and safest food and fiber
supply of any developed Nation in the world.
That is a pocketbook issue that comes across this country, and a
``no'' vote says: Never mind. A ``yes'' vote today will say we stand
with those men and women who buy food every single day; for those
paycheck-to-paycheck families whose rent doesn't change, their car
payment doesn't change. If something happens to them, it comes out of
their food budget. Why on Earth would we intentionally try to screw
those folks over by raising the cost of food, by not continuing this
process and moving forward?
Mr. Speaker, this is pretty darn simple. Very darn simple. Either
vote with those SNAP recipients whose lives would be better, whose
impact will be better, or you vote against them.
You will vote with the men and women who suffered through the
terrible times in the last 5 years, the worst since the Depression, or
you vote ``no.''
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There is no group of Americans more in tune to what goes on on this
floor than the men and women of production agriculture. It is vital to
their livelihood, vital to their existence, what we do here tonight.
And you will hear a lot of rhetoric about those red votes, reasons
why they voted ``no'' on it, but I guarantee you, those farmers and
ranchers back home that are watching this clock and watching what
happens, they will understand what it means. They will understand that
those ``yes'' votes mean we are going to move this process forward. We
are going to continue to attempt to give them the assurance over the
next 5 years what this farm bill will do for them and how they will
stay in business, how their bankers will make plans in moving this
thing forward.
Mr. Speaker, we have had 3 years of hard work on this, 114 hearings.
We are ready to move this bill forward. I recommend that my folks vote
against the last-minute, last-ditch effort to look like they are
legislating because they ignored the legislative process for over a
month, including in committee, and let's move this forward.
Mr. Speaker, vote ``no'' on this amendment and ``yes'' on the bill.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the previous question is
ordered on the motion to recommit.
There was no objection.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the noes appeared to have it.
Recorded Vote
Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I demand a
recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule
XX, this 5-minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by 5-
minute votes on:
Passage of the bill, if ordered; and
Agreeing to the Speaker's approval of the Journal, if ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 183,
noes 226, not voting 18, as follows:
[Roll No. 204]
AYES--183
Adams
Aguilar
Barragan
Bass
Beatty
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer
Blunt Rochester
Bonamici
Brady (PA)
Brownley (CA)
Bustos
Butterfield
Capuano
Carbajal
Cardenas
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Cooper
Correa
Costa
Courtney
Crist
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
Demings
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle, Michael F.
Ellison
Engel
Eshoo
Espaillat
Esty (CT)
Evans
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Gomez
Gonzalez (TX)
Gottheimer
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hanabusa
Hastings
Heck
Higgins (NY)
Himes
Hoyer
Huffman
Jackson Lee
Jayapal
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Khanna
Kihuen
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
Krishnamoorthi
Kuster (NH)
Lamb
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lawson (FL)
Lee
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham, M.
Lujan, Ben Ray
Lynch
Maloney, Carolyn B.
Maloney, Sean
Matsui
McCollum
McEachin
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Moulton
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Nolan
O'Halleran
O'Rourke
Pallone
Panetta
Pascrell
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree
Pocan
Price (NC)
Quigley
Raskin
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Rosen
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Sinema
Sires
Smith (WA)
Soto
Suozzi
Swalwell (CA)
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth
NOES--226
Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amash
Amodei
Arrington
Babin
Bacon
Banks (IN)
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Bergman
Biggs
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Bost
Brady (TX)
Brat
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Budd
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Cheney
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comer
Comstock
Conaway
Cook
Costello (PA)
Cramer
Crawford
Culberson
Curtis
Davidson
Davis, Rodney
Denham
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Donovan
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Dunn
Emmer
Estes (KS)
Faso
Ferguson
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Flores
Fortenberry
Foxx
Frelinghuysen
Gaetz
Gallagher
Garrett
Gianforte
Gibbs
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Griffith
Grothman
Guthrie
Handel
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Higgins (LA)
Hill
Holding
Hollingsworth
Hudson
Huizenga
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (LA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Joyce (OH)
Katko
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger
Knight
Kustoff (TN)
LaHood
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
Lesko
Lewis (MN)
LoBiondo
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
MacArthur
Marchant
Marino
Marshall
Massie
Mast
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McSally
Meadows
Mitchell
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Newhouse
Noem
Norman
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Pittenger
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Posey
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Rice (SC)
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney, Francis
Rooney, Thomas J.
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Royce (CA)
Russell
Rutherford
Sanford
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smucker
Stefanik
Stewart
Stivers
Taylor
Tenney
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tipton
Trott
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Zeldin
NOT VOTING--18
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brown (MD)
Buck
Clay
Curbelo (FL)
Gohmert
Labrador
Lieu, Ted
Messer
Norcross
Polis
Rogers (KY)
Ros-Lehtinen
Schneider
Speier
Tsongas
Walz
Yoder
Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore
The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). There are 2 minutes
remaining.
{time} 1155
So the motion to recommit was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 198,
nays 213, not voting 17, as follows:
[Roll No. 205]
YEAS--198
Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amodei
Arrington
Babin
Bacon
Banks (IN)
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Bergman
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Bost
Brady (TX)
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Cheney
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comer
Comstock
Conaway
Cook
Costello (PA)
Cramer
Crawford
Culberson
Curtis
Davis, Rodney
Denham
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Donovan
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Dunn
Emmer
Estes (KS)
Faso
Ferguson
Fleischmann
Flores
Fortenberry
Foxx
Gallagher
Garrett
Gianforte
Gibbs
Goodlatte
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Griffith
Grothman
Guthrie
Handel
Harper
Hartzler
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Higgins (LA)
Hill
Holding
Hollingsworth
Hudson
Huizenga
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (LA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Joyce (OH)
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
Kinzinger
Knight
Kustoff (TN)
LaHood
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LaMalfa
Lamborn
Latta
Lesko
Lewis (MN)
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
MacArthur
Marchant
Marino
Marshall
Mast
McCarthy
McCaul
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McSally
Messer
Mitchell
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Newhouse
Noem
Norman
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Pittenger
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Rice (SC)
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rokita
Rooney, Francis
Rooney, Thomas J.
Roskam
Ross
Rouzer
Royce (CA)
Russell
Rutherford
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (TX)
Smucker
Stefanik
Stewart
Stivers
Taylor
Tenney
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tipton
Trott
Turner
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Zeldin
NAYS--213
Adams
Aguilar
Amash
Barragan
Bass
Beatty
Bera
Beyer
Biggs
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer
Blunt Rochester
Bonamici
Brady (PA)
Brat
Brownley (CA)
Budd
Bustos
Butterfield
Capuano
Carbajal
Cardenas
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Cooper
Correa
Costa
Courtney
Crist
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davidson
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
Demings
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle, Michael F.
Duncan (TN)
Ellison
Engel
Eshoo
Espaillat
Esty (CT)
Evans
Fitzpatrick
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gabbard
Gaetz
Gallego
Garamendi
Gomez
Gonzalez (TX)
Gosar
Gottheimer
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hanabusa
Harris
Hastings
Heck
Higgins (NY)
Himes
Hoyer
Huffman
Issa
Jackson Lee
Jayapal
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones
Jordan
Kaptur
Katko
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Khanna
Kihuen
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
King (NY)
Krishnamoorthi
Kuster (NH)
Lamb
Lance
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lawson (FL)
Lee
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham, M.
Lujan, Ben Ray
Lynch
Maloney, Carolyn B.
Maloney, Sean
Massie
Matsui
McClintock
McCollum
McEachin
McGovern
McNerney
Meadows
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Moulton
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Nolan
O'Halleran
O'Rourke
Pallone
Panetta
Pascrell
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Perry
Peters
Peterson
Pingree
Pocan
Posey
Price (NC)
Quigley
Raskin
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Rosen
Rothfus
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Sanchez
Sanford
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Sinema
Sires
Smith (NJ)
Smith (WA)
Soto
Suozzi
Swalwell (CA)
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Upton
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth
NOT VOTING--17
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brown (MD)
Buck
Clay
Curbelo (FL)
Gohmert
Labrador
Lieu, Ted
Norcross
Polis
Rogers (KY)
Schneider
Speier
Tsongas
Valadao
Walz
Yoder
Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore
The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). There are 2 minutes
remaining.
{time} 1203
Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
Mr. GARRETT changed his vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
So the bill was not passed.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
PERSONAL EXPLANATION
Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Speaker, due to a conflict, I unavoidably missed the
following votes on May 18. Had I been present, I would have voted as
follows:
1. On rollcall No. 200, I would have voted ``nay.''
2. On rollcall No. 201, I would have voted ``nay.''
3. On rollcall No. 202, I would have voted ``aye.''
4. On rollcall No. 203, I would have voted ``nay.''
5. On rollcall No. 204, I would have voted ``aye.''
6. On rollcall No. 205, I would have voted ``nay.''
Motion to Reconsider
Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion at the desk.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to
reconsider.
The Clerk read as follows:
Mr. Ryan of Wisconsin moves to reconsider the vote on
passage of H.R. 2
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to reconsider
offered by the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Ryan).
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further
proceedings on this question will be postponed.
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