[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 87 (Thursday, May 23, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H4146-H4149]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SETTING EVERY COMMUNITY UP FOR RETIREMENT ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2019
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 1(c) of rule XIX, further
consideration of the bill (H.R. 1994) to amend the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986 to encourage retirement savings, and for other purposes,
will now resume.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
Motion to Recommit
Mr. McHENRY. Madam Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentleman opposed to the bill?
Mr. McHENRY. Yes, in its current form.
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The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to
recommit.
The Clerk read as follows:
Mr. McHenry moves to recommit the bill H.R. 1994 to the
Committee on Ways and Means with instructions to report the
same back to the House forthwith with the following
amendment:
Add at the end of title IV the following new section:
SEC. 405. REPORTS BY TAXPAYERS ENGAGED IN BOYCOTTS, ETC.
AFFECTING ISRAEL.
(a) In General.--Section 999 of the Internal Revenue Code
of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new
subsection:
``(g) Boycotts, etc. Affecting Israel.--
``(1) In general.--Any applicable person shall be treated
as a person that has operations in a country which is on the
list maintained by the Secretary under subsection (a)(3), and
subsection (a)(1) shall apply by substituting `that such
person is an applicable person' for `such operations'.
``(2) Applicable person.--For purposes of this subsection,
the term `applicable person' means a person who knowingly
engages in a commerce-related or investment-related boycott,
divestment, or sanctions activity in the course of interstate
or international commerce that is intended to penalize,
inflict economic harm on, or otherwise limit commercial
relations with Israel or persons doing business in Israel or
Israeli-controlled territories for purposes of coercing
political action by, or imposing policy positions on, the
Government of Israel.
``(3) International boycott factor.--For purposes of
sections 908(a), 952(a)(3), and 995(b)(1)(F)(ii), the
international boycott factor with respect to such person
shall be 1 (and subsection (c)(2) shall not apply).''.
(b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section
shall apply to transactions after the date of the enactment
of this Act.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from
North Carolina is recognized for 5 minutes in support of his motion.
Mr. McHENRY. Madam Speaker, this is a final amendment to the bill.
This amendment will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If
adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage, as
amended.
You know the drill on a motion to recommit. I stand here before the
House today to get an affirmative vote that we stand together against
the anti-Semitic notion of the BDS movement.
The BDS movement is an effort to weaponize the world's economy
against one simple State, one State, the great State of Israel and the
Jewish people. They are trying to weaponize our economy, our dollars,
against our only ally in the Middle East that is a democracy.
This is an effort for us today--today--to say that we will stand
against this movement. This movement is about anti-Zionism. Anti-
Zionism is anti-Semitism.
Let us speak with one clear voice today that we as the American
people will not stand for this economic warfare. We will stand with our
ally, and we will stand with the Jewish people in the Israel State.
Why weaponize our economy against Israel? To destroy Israel, to choke
off economic growth, to choke off economic opportunity, and thereby
weaken the State of Israel so they get rolled into the sea.
That is unacceptable. That is the notion of the BDS movement.
It may be polite in certain company to say you boycott, you divest,
you sanction the State of Israel. It is not polite to say that you are
anti-Semitic.
But what the BDS movement says is that you are anti-Semitic. What you
say by supporting the BDS movement is that you are okay with
discriminating against people because of their faith; you are okay
discriminating against the Jewish people because you don't like--well,
let me stop there.
This body has a long history of working together in a bipartisan
fashion. I have worked for 3 years to hammer out a bipartisan approach
to stopping the BDS movement. That got rolled into the bill that was
passed in January in the Senate.
Seventy-seven Senators joined together and sent a bill over here to
the House. We have waited 4 months, with no vote on that bill, and it
is not because we don't have bipartisan support to stop the BDS
movement. We do. We do.
In this Chamber, we have stood together in a bipartisan forum to
stand against hate and to stand against anti-Semitism, but the
leadership over there doesn't want us to have a vote on that bill.
So, today, we are saying let's have the vote. Let's stand up for the
State of Israel. Let's stand against hate. Let's stand up against this
anti-Zionism and the anti-Semitism that underlies it. Let's stand up
for our Jewish friends and allies, and let's speak with one voice that
the BDS movement is anti-Semitism.
Vote ``yes'' on this motion to recommit.
Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. NEAL. Madam Speaker, I claim time in opposition to the motion to
recommit.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Massachusetts is
recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. NEAL. Madam Speaker, the gentleman really gave away his argument
in the opening sentence, when he said: You know the drill on the MTR.
Yes, we know the drill on MTRs, how they are being used to heap scorn
on complicated arguments, the demagogue arguments that should be taken
up in a separate space.
But you know what else this is about? For those of us who came
through the wards and precincts of American politics, there is a
difference in politics between being cute and being clever. This is
cute. This is not clever.
So let me just bring to your attention the following:
We have before us today the most important and substantive advance in
retirement savings in the last 15 years in America. Understanding today
that the average Social Security benefit in America--``average,''
meaning that half the American people who receive the benefit are below
$16,000. We have a chance to augment retirement savings and open up
more opportunities for people to save for a retirement that we all know
comes pretty quickly.
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This has been well met in a bipartisan manner. It was marked up in
the committee. And one Member said at the Rules Committee the other
night: There is one sentence here, Mr. Chairman, over which we
disagree.
Have we gotten to this point, in this institution, where now one
sentence stops us from advancing good legislation? I certainly hope
not.
There is another provision in this legislation, as we proceed to the
Memorial Day recess, that ought to be critical in all of our minds. We
fixed an egregious error in the tax bill. We have straightened out that
issue, where families will not be taxed at the highest marginal rate of
the parents, but, instead, we will recede to a previous provision that
made sure that the survivors of those who were killed in military
conflict would receive a benefit. That was important.
Let me just say to the new Members on our side: This is a safe
provision. For years, I wore a bracelet for the refuseniks who wished
from Russia to emigrate to Israel. There is no weakness on our part in
support of the State of Israel on this side of the aisle.
You have a chance to stand up right now for retirement savings for
those who have lost loved ones in military conflict, to stand up for
Tribal interests, to stand up for those who receive scholarships, and
to continue help for those families who are in financial distress
because they lost a loved one in a military conflict.
Set aside the demagoguery, and turn down this motion to recommit.
Madam 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. McHENRY. Madam Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair
will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on
the question of passage.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 200,
noes 222, not voting 9, as follows:
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[Roll No. 230]
AYES--200
Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amodei
Arrington
Babin
Bacon
Baird
Balderson
Banks
Barr
Bergman
Biggs
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Bost
Brady
Brindisi
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Budd
Burchett
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Cheney
Cline
Cloud
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comer
Conaway
Cook
Crawford
Crenshaw
Cunningham
Curtis
Davidson (OH)
Davis, Rodney
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Duffy
Duncan
Dunn
Emmer
Estes
Ferguson
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Flores
Fortenberry
Foxx (NC)
Fulcher
Gaetz
Gallagher
Gianforte
Gibbs
Gohmert
Gonzalez (OH)
Gooden
Gottheimer
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Green (TN)
Griffith
Grothman
Guest
Guthrie
Hagedorn
Harris
Hartzler
Hern, Kevin
Hice (GA)
Higgins (LA)
Hill (AR)
Holding
Hollingsworth
Horn, Kendra S.
Houlahan
Hudson
Huizenga
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson (SD)
Jordan
Joyce (OH)
Joyce (PA)
Katko
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kustoff (TN)
LaHood
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Latta
Lesko
Long
Loudermilk
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Luria
Marchant
Marshall
Mast
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
Meadows
Meuser
Miller
Mitchell
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Moulton
Mullin
Newhouse
Norman
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Pence
Perry
Posey
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reschenthaler
Rice (SC)
Riggleman
Roby
Rodgers (WA)
Roe, David P.
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rooney (FL)
Rose (NY)
Rose, John W.
Rouzer
Roy
Rutherford
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Shimkus
Simpson
Slotkin
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smucker
Spanberger
Spano
Stefanik
Steil
Steube
Stewart
Taylor
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Timmons
Tipton
Turner
Upton
Van Drew
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Waltz
Watkins
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Wild
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Wright
Yoho
Young
Zeldin
NOES--222
Adams
Aguilar
Allred
Amash
Axne
Barragan
Bass
Beatty
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer
Blunt Rochester
Bonamici
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brown (MD)
Brownley (CA)
Bustos
Butterfield
Carbajal
Cardenas
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Case
Casten (IL)
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Cisneros
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Cooper
Correa
Costa
Courtney
Cox (CA)
Craig
Crist
Crow
Cuellar
Cummings
Davids (KS)
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny K.
Dean
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
DelBene
Delgado
Demings
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle, Michael F.
Engel
Escobar
Eshoo
Espaillat
Evans
Finkenauer
Fletcher
Foster
Frankel
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Garcia (IL)
Garcia (TX)
Golden
Gomez
Gonzalez (TX)
Green (TX)
Grijalva
Haaland
Harder (CA)
Hastings
Hayes
Heck
Higgins (NY)
Hill (CA)
Himes
Horsford
Hoyer
Huffman
Jayapal
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (TX)
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Khanna
Kildee
Kilmer
Kim
Kind
Kirkpatrick
Krishnamoorthi
Kuster (NH)
Lamb
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lawson (FL)
Lee (CA)
Lee (NV)
Levin (CA)
Levin (MI)
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan
Lynch
Malinowski
Maloney, Carolyn B.
Maloney, Sean
Massie
Matsui
McAdams
McBath
McCollum
McEachin
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Morelle
Mucarsel-Powell
Murphy
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Neguse
Norcross
O'Halleran
Ocasio-Cortez
Omar
Pallone
Panetta
Pappas
Pascrell
Payne
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Phillips
Pingree
Pocan
Porter
Pressley
Price (NC)
Quigley
Raskin
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Rouda
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan
Sanchez
Sarbanes
Scanlon
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schneider
Schrader
Schrier
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Shalala
Sherman
Sherrill
Sires
Smith (WA)
Soto
Speier
Stanton
Stevens
Suozzi
Swalwell (CA)
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tlaib
Tonko
Torres (CA)
Torres Small (NM)
Trahan
Trone
Underwood
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wexton
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth
NOT VOTING--9
Armstrong
Gosar
Herrera Beutler
Jackson Lee
Jeffries
Johnson (LA)
Kinzinger
Stauber
Stivers
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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. NEAL. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 417,
nays 3, not voting 11, as follows:
[Roll No. 231]
YEAS--417
Abraham
Adams
Aderholt
Aguilar
Allen
Allred
Amodei
Arrington
Axne
Babin
Bacon
Baird
Balderson
Banks
Barr
Barragan
Bass
Beatty
Bera
Bergman
Beyer
Biggs
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (UT)
Blumenauer
Blunt Rochester
Bonamici
Bost
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brady
Brindisi
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Brown (MD)
Brownley (CA)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Budd
Burchett
Burgess
Bustos
Butterfield
Byrne
Calvert
Carbajal
Cardenas
Carson (IN)
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Cartwright
Case
Casten (IL)
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chabot
Cheney
Cicilline
Cisneros
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Cline
Cloud
Clyburn
Cohen
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comer
Conaway
Connolly
Cook
Cooper
Correa
Costa
Courtney
Cox (CA)
Craig
Crawford
Crenshaw
Crist
Crow
Cuellar
Cummings
Cunningham
Curtis
Davids (KS)
Davidson (OH)
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny K.
Davis, Rodney
Dean
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
DelBene
Delgado
Demings
DeSaulnier
DesJarlais
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Doggett
Doyle, Michael F.
Duffy
Duncan
Dunn
Emmer
Engel
Escobar
Eshoo
Espaillat
Estes
Evans
Ferguson
Finkenauer
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fletcher
Flores
Fortenberry
Foster
Foxx (NC)
Frankel
Fudge
Fulcher
Gabbard
Gaetz
Gallagher
Gallego
Garamendi
Garcia (IL)
Garcia (TX)
Gianforte
Gibbs
Gohmert
Golden
Gomez
Gonzalez (OH)
Gonzalez (TX)
Gooden
Gottheimer
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Green (TN)
Green (TX)
Griffith
Grijalva
Grothman
Guest
Guthrie
Haaland
Hagedorn
Harder (CA)
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings
Hayes
Heck
Hern, Kevin
Hice (GA)
Higgins (LA)
Higgins (NY)
Hill (AR)
Hill (CA)
Himes
Holding
Hollingsworth
Horn, Kendra S.
Horsford
Houlahan
Hoyer
Hudson
Huffman
Huizenga
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Jayapal
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson (SD)
Johnson (TX)
Jordan
Joyce (OH)
Joyce (PA)
Kaptur
Katko
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
Kennedy
Khanna
Kildee
Kilmer
Kim
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kirkpatrick
Krishnamoorthi
Kuster (NH)
Kustoff (TN)
LaHood
LaMalfa
Lamb
Lamborn
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latta
Lawrence
Lawson (FL)
Lee (CA)
Lee (NV)
Lesko
Levin (CA)
Levin (MI)
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren
Long
Loudermilk
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lujan
Luria
Lynch
Malinowski
Maloney, Carolyn B.
Maloney, Sean
Marchant
Marshall
Mast
Matsui
McAdams
McBath
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McCollum
McEachin
McGovern
McHenry
McKinley
McNerney
Meadows
Meeks
Meng
Meuser
Miller
Mitchell
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Moore
Morelle
Moulton
Mucarsel-Powell
Mullin
Murphy
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Neguse
Newhouse
Norcross
Norman
Nunes
O'Halleran
Ocasio-Cortez
Olson
Omar
Palazzo
Pallone
Palmer
Panetta
Pappas
Pascrell
Payne
Pence
Perlmutter
Perry
Peters
Peterson
Phillips
Pingree
Pocan
Porter
Posey
Pressley
Price (NC)
Quigley
Raskin
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reschenthaler
Rice (NY)
Rice (SC)
Richmond
Riggleman
Roby
Rodgers (WA)
Roe, David P.
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rooney (FL)
Rose (NY)
Rose, John W.
Rouda
Rouzer
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Rutherford
Ryan
Sanchez
Sarbanes
Scalise
Scanlon
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schneider
Schrader
Schrier
Schweikert
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Shalala
Sherman
Sherrill
Shimkus
Simpson
Sires
Slotkin
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Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (WA)
Smucker
Soto
Spanberger
Spano
Speier
Stanton
Stefanik
Steil
Steube
Stevens
Stewart
Suozzi
Swalwell (CA)
Takano
Taylor
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Timmons
Tipton
Titus
Tlaib
Tonko
Torres (CA)
Torres Small (NM)
Trahan
Trone
Turner
Underwood
Upton
Van Drew
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Waltz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watkins
Watson Coleman
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Welch
Wenstrup
Westerman
Wexton
Wild
Williams
Wilson (FL)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Wright
Yarmuth
Yoho
Young
Zeldin
NAYS--3
Amash
Massie
Roy
NOT VOTING--11
Armstrong
Chu, Judy
Dingell
Gosar
Herrera Beutler
Jackson Lee
Jeffries
Johnson (LA)
Kinzinger
Stauber
Stivers
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So the bill was passed.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
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