[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 107 (Tuesday, June 25, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H5139-H5147]
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   PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 3401, EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL 
APPROPRIATIONS FOR HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE AND SECURITY AT THE SOUTHERN 
                            BORDER ACT, 2019

  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I 
call up House Resolution 462 and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 462

       Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be 
     in order to consider in the House the bill (H.R. 3401) making 
     emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year 
     ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes. All points 
     of order against consideration of the bill are waived. The 
     amendment printed in the report of the Committee on Rules 
     accompanying this resolution shall be considered as adopted. 
     The bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. All points 
     of order against provisions in the bill, as amended, are 
     waived. Clause 2(e) of rule XXI shall not apply during 
     consideration of the bill. The previous question shall be 
     considered as ordered on the bill, as amended, and on any 
     further amendment thereto, to final passage without 
     intervening motion except: (1) one hour of debate equally 
     divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority 
     member of the Committee on Appropriations; and (2) one motion 
     to recommit with or without instructions.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Massachusetts is 
recognized for 1 hour.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I yield 
the customary 30 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Cole), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. 
During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the 
purpose of debate only.


                             General Leave

  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Massachusetts?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, today, the Rules Committee met and 
reported a rule, House Resolution 462, providing for consideration of 
H.R. 3401 under a closed rule. One hour of general debate has been 
provided, controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the 
Committee on Appropriations.
  Mr. Speaker, I have fought for human rights my entire career. As co-
chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, I have seen troubling 
conditions abroad, but never in my wildest imagination did I ever think 
I would see such inhumane conditions here at home, all because of the 
President's cruel and failed immigration policies.
  We have children today at border facilities forced to sleep on 
concrete floors, with the lights kept on 24 hours a day. They are not 
being given soap, diapers, or even a toothbrush. Lice combs are being 
shared. Bottles aren't able to be washed. In some cases, children are 
being supervised by other kids not much older than themselves.
  This is happening in America today because of the choices made by 
President Trump. It is horrific. This is child abuse, plain and simple.
  In a document obtained by ABC News, one physician who visited 
recently described the conditions there by saying: ``The conditions 
within which they are held could be compared to torture facilities.''
  Torture facilities, Mr. Speaker, at the behest of this 
administration. This should sicken every single American.
  This administration seems to relish this and use the lives of these 
children as political theater. The President even had the audacity to 
claim, ``We're doing a fantastic job under the circumstances.''
  Are you kidding me? Lives are being torn apart. There were some 
children who we know will never be reunited with their families, who 
are being locked in cages and forced to endure inhumane and unspeakable 
conditions.
  There is a special place in hell for those who are ripping children 
from the arms of their mothers, putting them in cages without even a 
blanket, arguing that they shouldn't even get basic necessities like a 
toothbrush.
  If your heart doesn't break, if you don't want to do everything you 
can to end this, then you should really take a hard look in the mirror. 
This majority doesn't agree with the President's policies. We will not 
turn a blind eye to this humanitarian catastrophe.
  This bill delivers billions to provide necessities like food, water, 
and blankets, and it will also fund things like legal assistance and 
support services for unaccompanied children and refugees.
  There are also strict limits here on influx shelters. It protects 
sponsors from DHS immigration enforcement based on information 
collected by HHS during the vetting process. It creates strong 
oversight by Congress, including to protect unaccompanied children.
  This legislation also reverses the administration's senseless 
decision to block the humanitarian funding that Congress has already 
appropriated for the Northern Triangle countries.
  At the same time, we do not provide a single penny for the 
President's failed mass-detention policy. There are humane alternatives 
here instead because we are not going to help this President continue 
this cruelty.
  Mr. Speaker, this is not a perfect measure, but this isn't a big 
immigration bill. This is an appropriations bill. I want to recognize 
the extraordinary leadership of Chairwoman Lowey, Chairwoman DeLauro, 
and Chairwoman Roybal-Allard. They have been dedicated to getting this 
done.
  The updated language submitted today will enhance protections for the 
rights and for the dignity of migrants even further.
  It wasn't too long ago that President Reagan said America was best 
represented as ``the shining city upon a hill.'' It should sicken all 
of us that this administration apparently believes this country is, 
instead, best represented by separated children living in filth in a 
cage down by the border.
  I urge all my colleagues to vote for this bill and the underlying 
legislation so we can honor our values and show the real humanity of 
the American people.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from 
engaging in personalities toward the President.
  Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume, and 
I thank my good friend, the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. 
McGovern), for yielding me the customary 30 minutes.
  Mr. Speaker, we are here today on our second rule of the day. This 
one is on a supplemental appropriations bill for the southern border. 
While the Rules Committee met to consider this bill last night and took 
testimony on it, due to some reported revolts in the Democratic Caucus, 
we did not actually report this bill out last night.
  Instead, we met on this bill at 5:30 this afternoon and reported it 
to the floor 10 minutes later, using the same-day authority that 
Chairman McGovern has so often referred to as martial law.
  Our emergency meeting this afternoon includes several last-minute 
changes in the bill that have provided little opportunity for anyone on 
either side of the aisle to actually review. Tragically, that is the 
story of this bill: last-minute changes made on short notice in an 
attempt to push through a partisan agenda at the expense of not only 
deliberation and consideration by the House of Representatives but, 
more importantly, at the expense of innocent children.

  H.R. 3401 is a supplemental appropriations bill providing funding for 
the humanitarian crisis on the southern border. When it comes to H.R. 
3401, I have good news and bad news.
  The good news is that the Democrats finally agree that we need a 
supplemental appropriations funding bill for the southern border after 
Republicans have been sounding the alarm for months. The fact is, as my 
friends know, the President first requested assistance in this matter 
on May 1, almost 2 months ago.
  A lot of the crisis at the border is because my friends simply didn't 
discharge their responsibilities. If you are the guy that is supposed 
to pay for the toothpaste and the soap, and you don't, you have some 
measure of responsibility when they are not delivered on time.
  There is actually some more good news here. There is a real 
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for us to produce a bipartisan, bicameral bill that can become law.
  The bad news is that H.R. 3401 is not that bill. In here, the 
majority is once again making no pretense to even pretending to work 
with the minority.
  H.R. 3401 contains several partisan provisions.
  It fails to provide supplemental funding for the Department of 
Defense despite the significant resources the military has expended 
responding to this crisis.
  It includes partisan policy riders that tie the hands of the 
administration and fail to provide the flexibility necessary for the 
government to adequately address the crisis.
  Most notably, this bill was produced without any Republican input at 
all.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to reiterate what I said a moment ago. Both 
Republicans and now Democrats agree that there is a need for a 
supplemental appropriations bill. Why the majority failed to take 
advantage of the opportunity this agreement provides, I don't know.
  Until the majority chooses to work with Republicans on this and 
produce a bipartisan bill, I fear we will simply be heading down the 
exact same path we have trodden so often before in this Congress, with 
the House pushing yet another piece of partisan legislation that will 
not pass the Senate and will not be signed into law by the President. 
That is disappointing, to say the least.
  Mr. Speaker, this state of affairs could and should have been 
avoided. Instead of pushing three partisan bills this week, the 
majority could have chosen to work with Republicans to craft bipartisan 
bills to address all three of these problems.
  Even if that did not come to pass, the majority at the Rules 
Committee could have worked with us to make minority amendments in 
order and to give all Members an opportunity to fix these flawed bills 
on the floor, or at least be heard. That they did not is merely yet 
another indication of where the majority's priorities lie, with pushing 
partisan bills to score political points and avoiding doing the hard 
work of actually making law.
  There is a chance to change this, Mr. Speaker, but in order to do so, 
the majority needs to decide whether they are here to score political 
points or if they are here to make law.
  I remind my friends on the other side, passing a bill that is a 
partisan bill through this Chamber won't solve the problem. I 
congratulate them on having a vehicle to go to conference. That is a 
good thing. But when they get there, they are going to find out they 
are going to have to do something they haven't done, frankly, 
throughout their tenure in the majority, and that is actually sit down 
and compromise with people on the other side of the aisle and work with 
the administration.
  I hope they prove up to that task because if they don't, we will have 
exactly the same result--that is, legislation passing here but not 
succeeding in the other Chamber.
  That will not solve the crisis on the border. It will exacerbate it.
  Mr. Chair, I urge opposition to the rule, and I reserve the balance 
of my time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, at this moment, I reserve the balance of 
my time.
  Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Georgia (Mr. Woodall), my good friend.
  Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend on the Rules Committee 
for yielding.
  I love coming down to the House floor during Rules Committee time, 
Mr. Speaker. It is kind of a one-on-one relationship we have with the 
gentleman in that chair. It is a one-on-one relationship with our 
colleagues on the other side of the aisle.
  Candidly, I like the members of the Rules Committee. We have men and 
women up there who fight hard on absolutely everything every day, not 
because they are trying to be obstinate, but because they really 
believe in what they are doing.
  When my friend from Massachusetts said earlier he takes a backseat to 
no one when it comes to standing up for children, I believe that is 
absolutely true.

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  But the ranking member, the gentleman from Oklahoma, also takes a 
backseat to no one. I have seen him and his leadership as chair of the 
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies 
Subcommittee last year. He was taking slings and arrows from all sides, 
fighting the Republicans, fighting the Democrats, fighting Northerners, 
Southerners, all folks of all stripes, trying to do the right thing for 
the right reasons.
  My friend from Massachusetts says that the administration is using 
children for political theater. This isn't a Republican or Democrat 
problem. This is a House problem we are having.
  The Senate, Republicans and Democrats, came together nearly 
unanimously to move a bill that we could send to the White House today 
that would fund the problems that the gentleman from Massachusetts 
referenced immediately, the funding shortfalls immediately, the 
problems in staffing immediately, and the problems in counseling 
immediately.
  Instead, as the gentleman from Oklahoma pointed out, we tried to move 
a bill last night at midnight. It fell apart because the Democratic 
Caucus didn't have enough votes to move it, and in the last 12 hours, 
instead of coming to Republicans to try to find a bipartisan pathway 
forward, the Democratic Caucus has been largely insular looking for a 
pathway to follow alone.
  My friend from Massachusetts is 100 percent right. This is an issue 
that should not be used to score partisan points. It should not be used 
for political theater. It is an opportunity, one among many, but 
perhaps the most important for us to come together and unite around 
things that every man and woman in this Chamber believes in, and that 
is serving our fellow man.
  As the gentleman from Oklahoma said, we can start that road towards 
conference with the passage of this bill tonight. But if we reject this 
bill and bring up the Senate bill, we don't have to start the pathway 
towards conference. We can start the pathway towards progress, towards 
solution. We can end the talk and begin the action. I think that is 
what every Member of this Chamber wants to do, and I hope they will 
take yes for an answer.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, let me provide a little bit of a news 
flash for my Republican friends. The Senate bill has a hold on it by a 
Republican from the home State of the Senate Majority Leader, and I saw 
a news report today that the chairman of the Appropriations Committee 
in the Senate, Mr. Shelby, was asked by a reporter: Do you have 
assurance that the President would sign the bill that the Senate 
produced?
  Mr. Shelby replied that he did not.
  So this is moving, and I would urge my colleagues on both sides of 
the aisle to support it.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. 
Jackson Lee).
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, let me thank the gentleman from 
Massachusetts, and let me also indicate to my good friends on the other 
side of the aisle how grateful I am to the Democratic leadership who 
put children first and have worked with the CHC, the CPC, the CBC, and 
the whole Democratic Caucus for the passionate views that Members have, 
many of the Members who have made repeated trips to the border.
  As a Representative from a border State living with this on a very 
daily basis and interacting with my colleagues who live actually on the 
border but also seeing the results of it by many of those who have come 
to Houston, Texas, I understand that we have to get this right.
  Let me also say to my good friend Chris Cuomo, who, night after night 
after night after night, would ask the question, ``What is Congress 
doing?'' I can assure him that the mess that we are in, unfortunately, 
goes right to the foot and the front door of the White House, for if it 
were not the overfocus on building a wall, or the insisting on 
maintaining individuals on the Mexican border when Mexico is not 
prepared, or the steering away of funds from the likes of Guatemala, 
Honduras, and El Salvador and the rage of individuals who are fleeing 
in desperation to get away from persecution and having the right to 
claim the legal right of asylum, which is international law, maybe we 
would not be here.

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  The reason why I can say that is because, in the last couple of 
hours, the head of CBP, in good conscience, in their own moral compass, 
and in their own standard of what is right and what is indignity, could 
not stand by where almost 100 children were returned back to the filth 
that they had had to live in.
  Now, I know the people in CBP. I know that there are good, 
hardworking people all over the border who work for the Federal 
Government, but there is the lack of resources because we are being 
held up by individuals who did not want to transfer or to focus on 
their needs over a wall or over mass deportation, policies that were 
distracting from helping these children.
  I also know that when there is a will, there is a way. So the 
question of whether or not they could find toothpaste, toothbrushes, 
and soap appalls me, that the administration could not readily have 
those resources for those border personnel. It is a disgrace.
  I know it because I was there holding little Roger, 9 months old, who 
had been separated from his family. Roger couldn't speak, so if he 
didn't have a clean diaper, he could not speak.
  But in this bill that we are dealing with--and we are still making 
sure that we are dealing with the administration, telling them that 
they have to provide aid to Central American countries--we are doing 
something that is not done: $200 million omitted from the Senate bill 
for processing a Senate pilot program.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield the gentlewoman from Texas an 
additional 1 minute.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. This program would provide medical treatment, food, 
clothing, telephone access, legal representation, asylum interviews, 
and other services to migrant families and unaccompanied children, the 
same children who were down there; and we wonder why this wealthy 
country and the executive who has the ability to move dollars around 
could not get the minimal, bare needs of those people. $92 million for 
medical care, which is what I begged for; $90.6 million for temporary 
duty and overtime; $90 million for transport; preventing spending money 
for any purpose that isn't specifically described in the measure, such 
as expanding border barriers.

  More people are coming because they are desperate, from countries, 
Haiti and African countries. We are going to get enhanced translators 
to help people understand, and if they are determined to be able to be 
in this country through the asylum process, they would be allowed.
  We are acknowledging the fact that there is desperation. We are 
acknowledging the fact that our CBP and others need to do their job, 
but we are acknowledging the fact that this is our responsibility. We 
are going to help these children. We are going to hold them to us like 
they are ours, and we are going to make sure that there are not these 
kinds of horrible descriptions and conditions that our little babies 
have to suffer through. We are going to do that today.
  Mr. Speaker, as a senior member of the Committees on the Judiciary 
and Homeland Security, I rise in support of the rule governing debate 
on H.R. 3401, the ``Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for 
Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act of 
2019,'' and the underlying legislation.
  I support this legislation because it provides the humanitarian 
assistance needed to address the inhumane conditions and treatment of 
immigrants, especially immigrant children, that this administration has 
created and allowed to persist.
  The scenes emanating from the Southern border are heartbreaking, and 
they have been for a very long time.
  I remember when I was at the border, visiting with children separated 
from the border.
  I remember young baby Roger, a very young child, who should not have 
been subject to these conditions.
  We are learning of other children living in squalid conditions.
  A chaotic scene of sickness and filth is unfolding in an overcrowded 
border station in Clint, Texas, my homestate, where hundreds of young 
people who have recently crossed the border are being held, according 
to lawyers who visited the facility this week.
  Some of the children have been there for nearly a month.
  Children as young as 7 and 8, many of them wearing clothes caked with 
human excrement and tears, are caring for infants they've just met, the 
lawyers said.
  Toddlers without diapers are relieving themselves in their pants.
  Teenage mothers are wearing clothes stained with breast milk.
  Most of the young detainees have not been able to shower or wash 
their clothes since they arrived at the facility, those who visited 
said.
  They have no access to toothbrushes, toothpaste or soap.
  The arrival of thousands of migrants at a time, overflowing the 
border patrol facilities of the Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration 
and Customs Enforcement and Health and Human Services, has created a 
humanitarian crisis that has resulted in unsafe, unsanitary conditions 
and tragic deaths.
  All sides need to come together immediately and commit the necessary 
resources and capabilities to manage this situation and provide for the 
basic human rights of everyone involved.
  If Congress and the administration fail to come to an agreement, the 
situation at the border will only deteriorate. Cutting funding to these 
agencies now will not punish the agencies or the administration: it 
will punish the migrants. Congress has an urgent moral responsibility 
to protect children and families, and defend the health, dignity and 
lives of those in need.
  Conditions at Customs and Border Protection facilities along the 
border have been an issue of increasing concern as officials warn that 
the recent large influx of migrant families has driven many of the 
facilities well past their capacities.
  In May, the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security 
warned of ``dangerous overcrowding'' among adult migrants housed at the 
border processing center in El Paso, with up to 900 migrants being held 
at a facility designed for 125. In some cases, cells designed for 35 
people were holding 155 people.
  This is why it is imperative to support this supplemental funding 
bill, which:
  Provides $4.5 billion in emergency spending to address the 
humanitarian crisis at the border--securing robust funding for 
priorities including legal assistance, food, water, sanitary items, 
blankets and medical services, support services for unaccompanied 
children, and refugee services, which will relieve the horrific 
situation of over-crowding and help prevent additional deaths.
  Protects families and does not fund the administration's failed mass 
detention policy--funding effective, humane alternatives to detention 
with a proven track record of success, placing strict limits on influx 
shelters, protecting sponsors from DHS immigration enforcement based on 
information collected by HHS during the vetting process and creating 
strong oversight by Congress including to protect unaccompanied 
children.
  Helps address the roots causes of the crisis--reversing the 
administration's senseless decision to block the U.S. assistance that 
Congress has already appropriated for the Northern Triangle countries, 
and ensuring funding is used responsibly to improve border security, 
stop human smuggling and drug trafficking, combat corruption and reduce 
poverty and promote growth in Central America.
  And the bill is sure to guarantee that it does not use the emergency 
that is this crisis, for the purpose of advancing any other policy 
objectives.
  Specifically, the supplemental also contains important oversight 
provisions to hold the administration accountable and to protect the 
rights and dignity of migrants, including:
  No funding for a border wall or barriers, or for ICE detention beds;
  Prohibits the use of funds for any purpose not specifically 
described;
  Places strict conditions on influx shelters to house children by 
mandating compliance with requirements set forth in the Flores 
settlement;
  Protects sponsors and potential sponsors from DHS immigration 
enforcement based on information collected by HHS during the sponsor 
vetting process;
  Ensures congressional oversight visits to facilities caring for 
unaccompanied children without a requirement for prior notice;
  Requires monthly reporting on unaccompanied children separated from 
their families;
  Requires additional reporting about the deaths of children in 
government custody; and
  Ensures CBP facilities funded in the bill comply with the National 
Standards on Transport, Escort, Detention, and Search.
  I urge all members to support the rule and the underlying 
legislation.
  Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, we have heard some pretty harsh words about the 
administration's failure to respond. The reality is the administration 
asked 2 months ago of our friends who were slow to respond.
  The administration warned us of what would happen, and it is 
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in front of our eyes, and it is unfolding because of the failure of 
Democrats in the House to actually take it seriously.
  Let's go back to the rhetoric at the time: it is a manufactured 
crisis; it is not real; it is all made up.
  That turned out to be a bad mistake, and it set us back weeks in this 
Chamber getting to where we finally are beginning to get a response.
  Frankly, our friends simply couldn't get their act together on this 
for a while. I am glad they are beginning to do that now.
  But let's also look at a little history, Mr. Speaker.
  This problem isn't new. What is new is the slowness to respond. We 
faced this very same problem when we were in the majority and President 
Obama was in office in 2014. He asked for $3.7 billion. He got it 
within 24 days, and he got it without a lot of extraneous conditions 
added on it. That is exactly the opposite of the manner in which our 
friends on the other side are responding at the last minute. But they 
are responding, and for that I give them some credit.
  But again, what is new is the slowness of response, the unwillingness 
to work with the other Chamber, and the unwillingness to work with the 
President to meet an emergency that he warned us was coming 2 months 
ago.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy).
  Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for his leadership here 
on the floor today.
  Is there a crisis?
  I think there is, and I am glad that we are here today where our 
colleagues on the other side of the aisle are finally acknowledging 
that there is a crisis.
  Not that long ago, the Speaker of the House called the situation a 
fake crisis at the border. Senate Minority Leader Schumer called it a 
crisis that does not exist. The House majority leader said that there 
is no crisis at the border. The House Democratic Caucus chairman, 
Hakeem Jeffries, said that there is no crisis at the border. House 
Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Engel called the situation a fake 
crisis at the border. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler 
said that there is no crisis at the border. Representative Debbie 
Wasserman Schultz said that we don't have a border crisis.
  I could go on and on and on of statements on the record, in the news 
media, in this building, and in this Chamber saying that there is no 
border crisis. Now, either that is putting your head in the sand and 
ignoring the facts in front of you, or it was very purposeful. It was 
very purposeful to try to hide the fact that there is, in fact, a 
crisis for some sort of cynical political gain.
  The fact of the matter is, in May of this year, there were 84,000 
families that attempted to enter the country and that were 
apprehended--84,000, which is more than all of 2014. Anybody with eyes, 
anybody who has gone to the border has seen that there has been a 
crisis for months on end, and our colleagues on the other side of the 
aisle were willfully ignoring it.
  President Obama, in 2014, put forward a bill, legislation, that was 
introduced by Senator Mikulski that added $762 million in it for ICE to 
deal with unaccompanied children at the time, which, today, our 
colleagues on the other side of the aisle say we cannot do. President 
Obama was asking for money for ICE, and today we are told, no, you 
can't have any money for ICE.
  But if the majority doesn't provide resources to ICE, where are they 
going to put the children whom they say they want to take care of? 
Where are they going to put the families? Where are they going to put 
the people they are detaining at the border?
  When the majority creates a tent facility at CBP to process people at 
the border, as this bill suggests doing, they have no resources in 
there for DOD; they have no resources in there for ICE in any 
significant way; and they have no place to put the people they say they 
want to take care of in this bill.
  What are they asking CBP and what are they asking our people at the 
border to do?
  Then the majority has the audacity to point at ICE and CBP and tell 
them they are failing to do their jobs when, for months on end, we have 
not provided the resources necessary for them to do their job.
  The American people sent us here to solve problems, and one of those 
is to secure the border of the United States and to ensure those people 
who seek to come here can do so safely, yet we bury our head in the 
sand for political gain and ignore the facts on the ground.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield the gentleman from Texas an additional 
30 seconds.
  Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, this legislation falls short. This legislation 
that the House leadership has put forward has been late, does not 
address the problem, and will, in fact, make the problem worse by 
binding the hands of Border Patrol and binding the hands of the people 
whom we have asked to do their job.
  We should reject this legislation. We should work together to provide 
legislation that would actually solve the problem and stop enriching 
cartels on the backs of human beings because the strongest nation in 
the history of the world refuses to acknowledge the problem that 
cartels are exploiting asylum laws and human beings for profit.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, let me just say to the gentleman from Texas, he went 
through a series of quotes, and I think what Democrats were responding 
to was the crisis that the President was talking about.
  The President, as you know, Mr. Speaker, for years has been railing 
against immigrants. He talked about an infestation of immigrants. He 
has characterized immigrants in the most derogatory and the most 
hateful terms possible, that we were being invaded. That is not the 
crisis that we are talking about here today.
  The crisis we are talking about here today is the one the President 
created, the mistreatment of children in U.S. custody. There is no 
denying it.
  Read the press accounts. Read The New Yorker; read The New York 
Times; and read The Washington Times. They talk about how little 
children have been mistreated at the border under U.S. custody, and 
that should offend every single person in this Chamber; and that this 
administration created and manufactured this crisis in order to make 
political points, I think, is unconscionable.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to gentlewoman from California (Mrs. 
Davis).
  Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the rule 
and the underlying bill.
  Mr. Speaker, let me just tell you about a family at our local shelter 
in San Diego. The mother and the father owned a successful fruit stand 
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  If they didn't pay, the safety of their children was in jeopardy.
  Eventually, one of their kids was injured on his way home from 
school, and the mother shared that it was common--common--for the gangs 
to shoot into the air and for shrapnel to hit unintended objects and, 
sometimes, people.
  The gangs also targeted young, female children, attempting to use 
them as prostitutes.
  The question that we have had before us is: What do we do? What do we 
do with families? What do we do with children separated from their 
families that come 1,000 miles to escape violence?
  What are our choices? Do we shut the door? Do we keep them detained 
under inhumane conditions or hear their case?
  So, we must consider who we are as a country and what are our values. 
The least we can do--the least we can do--is to provide basic care 
while their case is heard.
  Today's proposed funding is crucial to helping improve humanitarian 
efforts at the border. This crisis, we know, will only get worse if we 
don't act now, so let's act now. Let's act now. Let's pass this rule, 
and let's pass the underlying bill.
  Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the distinguished 
gentlewoman from Arizona (Mrs. Lesko), my good friend and fellow member 
of the Rules Committee.
  Mrs. LESKO. Mr. Speaker, being from Arizona, this issue is very 
important to me, and it has been for years.
  I am glad that my Democratic colleagues are finally acknowledging 
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there is a crisis at the border, because we have known there was a 
crisis for, what, 20 years now, and it keeps growing and growing.
  The reason I say that: I know, today, everyone is standing up and 
saying, ``Let's help everyone.'' And I am glad of that, but it wasn't 
that long ago, on national TV, that Speaker Pelosi and Senator Schumer 
went in front of the public and said: This is a manufactured crisis. 
Trump and the Republicans are making it all up.
  Well, if anyone goes to the border, like I have gone to the border, 
you will see that it is a real crisis and it is growing each and every 
day. That is why President Trump asked for humanitarian aid on May 1.
  Then, the Department of Homeland Security and HHS sent all of us this 
letter--all of us Congressmen and Congresswomen--saying: We need help 
now. We are running out of funds. This is a crisis.
  So, the Republicans made motion after motion after motion--17 times--
asking for humanitarian aid.
  And what did my Democrat colleagues do? They said no. No. They 
rejected every one.
  So, here I am in Rules Committee last night--it is almost midnight--
and we thought we were going to vote on this bill, on the humanitarian 
aid. Nope. Pulled out. Nope. I guess they couldn't get the votes over 
on the Democratic side.
  So, then they did a change. From what the media said, some of their 
more progressive members demanded some requirements and changes.
  So we were supposed to meet at rules at 11 a.m. this morning with a 
new bill. Nope. That was pulled.
  So, here we are. We got the new version of the bill at 5:00 tonight. 
We had the rules meeting at 5:30. Then we started the rules debate at 
6:00. We didn't even have time to read the bill.
  So, I have some major concerns with this bill. I wish we had worked 
on a bipartisan basis.
  To give you one example, there was a young girl who died in Arizona--
actually, was found dead--7 years old. And guess who helped rescue the 
other members of the party? It was the Arizona National Guard.
  Yet, the bill prevents any funding from going to the Department of 
Defense that will help with the Arizona National Guard and other 
national guards that are helping at the border.
  I really wish that we could work together in a bipartisan fashion, 
get something done, go back to rules.
  Let's do a clean bill. Let's send it to the Senate tonight. Let's 
help solve this crisis now.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Let me just say, I am so sorry the gentlewoman was inconvenienced, 
but I think she misspoke when she said that Republicans--or she--just 
received the bill at 5:00.
  The bill has been available since last week. The only thing that was 
different was there was an amendment, a manager's amendment. It was 
seven pages long, double spaced, on single sides. It didn't take that 
long to read.
  So, I am sorry whether or not she couldn't get through it all, but it 
is not a new bill. This bill has been around.
  Let me also say, again, for the record: We don't agree. We don't 
agree with the crisis that the President has been talking about for 
years and years and years and years, the derogatory fashion and way in 
which he refers to immigrants. We don't agree.
  He talked about there being an infestation of immigrants, that we are 
being invaded. No, that is not the crisis.
  The crisis that he created, that this administration created, which 
should, quite frankly, cause more outrage on the other side of the 
aisle, was separating children from their parents. And, as we gather 
here today, there are countless children who may never be reunited with 
their parents.
  The crisis that he created was denying these children in our custody 
basic things--basic necessities like soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes--
and where little kids were being taken care of by other little kids.
  This is an outrage, and it is a crisis that he manufactured, that he 
created. And we need to fix it.
  So, that is what this bill is trying to do. If my colleagues on the 
other side of the aisle don't want to support it, fine. But we are 
going to do what is right. That is why we ran for office. That is why 
we won the last election, because people were horrified by what was 
happening at the border, the way we were treating other human beings.

  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished 
gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Biggs), my good friend.
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Speaker, I just want to say at the outset that the 
condescending tone towards our side by the previous speaker is really 
uncalled for, and, quite frankly, it is unparliamentary in and of 
itself.
  When he talks about political points being unconscionable, that may 
be an understatement.
  Let me just tell you something. When I was down at the border 
recently, the DEA informed me of a little girl who was forced to take 
care of two young children. She is the age of 11. She had been 
trafficked. She had been trafficked by cartels right into Charleston, 
South Carolina.
  Right there, at that position, many people--40 or more people--had 
used that location in Charleston as a sponsor to be released under the 
catch-and-release problem that we have, because we are overcrowded at 
the border. We have no place to keep them.
  This bill doesn't fix that. This bill doesn't fix that. If you wanted 
to take care of a humanitarian issue, you would give ICE some money for 
beds.
  And that little girl, age 11, is taking care of two young boys--until 
what? Until that cartel affiliate in Charleston, South Carolina, could 
send those three children back to be used on the border for a faux 
family unit to come back in.
  That is what is unconscionable, the fact that we are not funding ICE 
when ICE has a 10,000-bed shortage, when CBP has a 15,000-bed shortage.
  You want to talk about lack of humanitarian care: This bill doesn't 
take care of that because the bill from my colleagues across the aisle 
does not address giving ICE and CBP what they need to hold on to 
people, so you can keep families together.
  That is the reality of the situation.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield the gentleman from Arizona an 
additional 30 seconds.
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  So, that program that my colleagues across the aisle are putting 
together in this bill enshrines catch-and-release. It also facilitates 
human trafficking--it does--just like we saw with the little girl who 
was sent to Charleston, South Carolina, and was going to be sent back 
and used by cartels as a fake family unit.
  That is what is unconscionable here, and I would urge my colleagues 
to oppose the rule.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the comments from the 
gentleman from Arizona. He talks about ICE. He wants more funding for 
ICE. The previous speaker talked about more money for the Department of 
Defense.
  We are talking about children here. That is what this bill addresses: 
money for State-licensed shelters, legal services, child advocates, 
post-release services, Federal field specialists, case management 
services, and money for the Office of the Inspector General.
  The humanitarian crisis is that children are being mistreated at our 
border and we need to address it, and that is what we are trying to do 
with this bill.
  So, I appreciate all the other things that my Republican friends want 
to fund, but the crisis that we need to address right now is the 
mistreatment of children at our border.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I just want to briefly yield myself such time 
as I may consume to make a quick point.
  My friend is saying there is no money for Border Patrol and the 
military. Whose custody do you think those children are in for the 
first couple of days?
  The problems are actually at those facilities. They have not been 
identified at Health and Human Services, other than they are just 
simply too full because my friends have spent so much time arguing 
about this rather than giving the administration the money that it 
asked for in a timely fashion, 2 months ago.

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  Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Burgess), my very good friend, fellow Rules Committee member, and 
distinguished doctor.
  Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Yes, I 
am a member of the Rules Committee. I am also a member of the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce.
  The Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee has under their 
jurisdiction the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
  So, the Department of Health and Human Services is tasked with caring 
for unaccompanied children who are transferred from Customs and Border 
Protection at their processing centers. I have seen this firsthand on 
many trips to the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement shelters.
  HHS personnel work hard. They provide quality, compassionate care to 
children who cross the border without legal status.
  These facilities have security to protect the children inside, but a 
child who wants to leave may request to be returned to their home 
country, and they may do so with on-site social work.
  In my experience, all shelters I have visited are designed 
appropriately for the ages of the children who are occupying them. If 
an older teen decides, of their own volition, that they need to leave, 
they are neither detained nor restrained.
  So, it bothers me when I hear these facilities referred to as 
detainment centers or child prisons. Office of Refugee Resettlement are 
shelters to protect these children while they are awaiting placement in 
homes in this country.
  And I do need to add one other thing. This is a closed rule. It is a 
shame we are doing it as a closed rule. I offered an amendment up in 
the Rules Committee a few moments ago to reimburse the State of Texas 
for the $800 million that Governor Abbott has felt is required to send 
down to the border for border security.

  Governor Perry did it in his administration.
  This is an ongoing problem for the State of Texas. This is work that 
should be done by the United States Federal Government, and the State 
has to take up and expend those dollars. That is wrong, and it needs to 
change.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  The gentleman did offer an amendment in the Rules Committee. He is a 
member of the Rules Committee. He knew there was a budget point of 
order against it, so it was not compliant with the rules of the House, 
so it wasn't made in order.
  I am not sure what the gentleman was talking about, about these young 
children--2, 3, 4 years old--what? To request that they be sent back to 
their homes, that they could somehow just walk out of where they are 
being held right now? I am not quite sure what he is talking about.
  The bottom line is, there is also money in here for U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection. My friends know that, if they have read the bill.
  So I just have to say, I think where the outrage is here is that this 
administration has overseen an immigration policy which does not 
reflect the values of this country, where children have been separated 
from their parents, and now we see children being held in the worst 
conditions possible.
  It does not reflect the values of the American people, and we need to 
pass this bill to try to remedy that.
  I reserve the balance of my time.

                              {time}  1845

  Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Florida (Mr. Spano).
  Mr. SPANO. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the immigration 
supplemental that will be brought to the floor later tonight.
  While I appreciate that the majority in this House has finally come 
to the realization that there is, in fact, a crisis on our southern 
border after spending the first 6 months denying that fact, they 
continue to refuse to work with Republicans to address the real 
problem.
  The bill before us today was drafted with no Republican input. For 
the past 2 days, its fate has seemed uncertain, as there are members of 
the Democratic conference who don't believe we should have a border or 
enforce our laws.
  We are a nation of laws. Americans who selflessly choose to join the 
law enforcement profession put their lives on the line every day to 
protect Americans and care for those in their custody. They are working 
overtime to deal with this crisis. What support do they get in this 
supplemental?
  It doesn't fund the pay or overtime shortage. Instead, members of the 
majority party have spent the past week calling ICE and CBP criminal 
agencies that are killing children.
  I want everybody to think about that for just a moment. There are 
members of the Democratic conference who are telling Americans that ICE 
and CBP are killing children in their custody.
  The Democratic leadership has been engaged in negotiations the past 2 
days to win the support of these Members. One of the solutions 
contained in the manager's amendment is an extra $2 million for the 
continued operation of the Immigration Court Help Desk program.
  The average wait time to have a case heard in the immigration court 
is over 700 days. Does the bill include the $55 million that the Senate 
bill does for additional immigration judges? No. Rather, it includes $2 
million for a 1-800 number to check on the status of a case.
  The wait is over 700 days.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. COLE. I yield an additional 15 seconds to the gentleman from 
Florida.
  Mr. SPANO. The wait is 700 days. That is like putting a Band-Aid on a 
gaping wound.
  I look forward to addressing this crisis, but this bill is not the 
solution. If they were serious about solving the problem, Democrats 
would include additional funding to take care of our law enforcement, 
which is working so hard to address the crisis, and they would include 
additional funding to reduce the court backlog.
  It is time to get serious about the crisis. It is time to offer real 
solutions.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  If we defeat the previous question, I will offer an amendment to the 
rule to immediately bring up H.R. 3056, the Border Crisis Supplemental 
Appropriations Act of 2019.
  Unlike the bill before us today, H.R. 3056 provides all the necessary 
funding that the administration has requested to address the 
humanitarian crisis on the southern border. The bill provides funding 
for the Department of Defense, which has expended significant resources 
responding to the crisis. It also provides the funding for refugee and 
entrant assistance and for U.S. Customs and Border Protection that the 
administration has requested and has told us is necessary to meet the 
crisis.
  Most notably, this bill does so without adding any of the partisan 
riders that plague the majority's version of the supplemental. We can 
provide funding to meet this crisis without tying the hands of the 
administration and leaving them no wiggle room or flexibility.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to insert the text of my 
amendment in the Record, along with extraneous material, immediately 
prior to the vote on the previous question.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Oklahoma?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio 
(Mr. Gonzalez).
  Mr. GONZALEZ of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I have been sitting here now for 
about 10 minutes listening to my colleagues on the other side saying 
this solves the problem, that this bill finally solves the problem. 
Nothing could be further from the truth. This is the poorest faith 
effort I have ever seen to solve the problem.
  The Senate has a bipartisan bill. It is not perfect. I don't love 
that bill. But it is a bipartisan bill that we could vote on tonight, 
and we could actually solve something. We could actually get something 
done.
  What happened instead? Instead, we, as Republicans, were completely 
shut out of the process, and they negotiated amongst themselves. That 
solves absolutely nothing. Not to mention there

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isn't a single person whom I have heard on the other side of the aisle 
who has been serious and honest about what is actually causing this 
problem, about solving the horrible incentives that we have in our 
immigration system that incentivize the most dangerous journey up 
through our southern border.
  I am the son of Cuban immigrants. My family escaped from communist 
Castro to come to this country and did it legally. I would love to see 
a good faith effort. My door is wide open to anybody anywhere who wants 
to have a serious conversation about how we reform our immigration 
system.
  I understand my colleagues on the other side of the aisle do not like 
the President. I get that, okay? But that doesn't change the fact that 
our immigration system has been broken for decades, and the only people 
on planet Earth who can solve that problem are the ones in this body.
  If my colleagues want to solve the problem, come find me. My door is 
wide open.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  I want to begin by telling my good friend how much I respect him, how 
much I admire him. I know how passionate he is on the issue of the 
children. No doubt about that.
  I also want to tell my friend that I think, 8 weeks ago, we should 
have been acting on this. We were told there wasn't a crisis, and there 
wasn't a serious effort on the other side.
  Last night, when my friends were struggling to find the votes, 
frankly, we could have delivered a lot of votes. Instead, they moved 
the bill further to the left to placate the most extreme elements in 
their own conference. I think that is going to make to it much harder 
to come to a deal eventually with the Senate and with the 
administration.
  Mr. Speaker, in closing, I urge opposition to this rule. The rule 
will make in order consideration of H.R. 3401, a supplemental 
appropriations bill that could have been a bipartisan bill. Instead, 
the majority chose to make it partisan, failing to fund the national 
security elements of the border crisis, including partisan policy 
riders that tie the hands of the administration.
  Not to be outdone, the majority also pushed through last-minute 
changes, using the same-day rule authority that had not been adequately 
considered by anyone on either side of the aisle.
  Let me just reiterate, for the record, to reinforce the point my 
friend Mrs. Lesko made. Look, we got this bill at 4:57. We convened the 
Rules Committee at 5:30.
  I can read things, but I can't always understand everything, let 
alone research everything in 33 minutes. We haven't got a single 
opportunity to offer a single amendment to this bill.
  That is unfortunate, and I don't think it is a process that is likely 
to lead to a successful outcome.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to conclude by urging my colleagues to vote 
``no'' on the previous question, to vote ``no'' on the rule, to vote 
``no'' on the underlying measure.
  Let's go to work on a bipartisan bill. Let's meet all the requests 
the administration has asked for, in terms of resources. Give them the 
flexibility they need to do the job and recognize this is not a new 
problem.
  We dealt with it, frankly, pretty successfully when President Obama 
was here by giving them the resources and the flexibility they needed. 
I am sorry my friends are not extending that same courtesy to the 
current President.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Mr. Speaker, I, too, have great respect for the gentleman from 
Oklahoma. We don't always agree on everything, but there are some 
things we do agree on.
  I want to say this with great respect for him and for the gentlewoman 
from Arizona, and I am sorry if I offended her in the way I responded 
to her comments. But my friends had the bill for quite some time. What 
is new today is the amendment, the 7-page amendment.
  It is not correct to say that the bill was just given to the minority 
at 4:30 or 5 today or whenever, right before we met. The bottom line is 
that Members have had it for a while. The amendment, which is 7 pages, 
is something new.
  The amendment has been characterized as us moving to the left. Let me 
remind people what is in this amendment. There are stronger 
requirements for care of unaccompanied minor children, tightened 
restrictions on influx shelters, accountability for contractors 
violating standards at influx shelters, funding for the Immigration 
Court Help Desk program, ensuring access to translation services.
  That is not left or right or middle of the road. To me, it just 
sounds like common sense. To characterize this as a move to the left, I 
just don't get it.
  Mr. Speaker, this administration's actions at the border should not 
be ignored. What these children are going through should not be 
minimized. But that hasn't stopped some on the other side of the aisle 
from trying, as they continue to defend any move that this 
administration makes.
  I mean, we didn't hear a lot of talk about the children in the debate 
on the other side. Some did raise the issue, but most of the talk was 
on other things.
  Last night, I heard one of my friends on the other side of the aisle 
defend the conditions at these border facilities in an interview, and 
he came to the floor again today. He said that there was ``no lock on 
the door,'' and, ``Any child is free to leave at any time. But they 
don't, and you know why? Because they're well taken care of.''
  Mr. Speaker, is he really suggesting that a 3- or 4-year-old 
unaccompanied child should just get up and walk out of one of these 
facilities? Come on, what are we talking about here?
  I don't know how anybody could say being denied soap or being denied 
toothbrushes and medical care is being well taken care of, because 
these are inhumane conditions, and I think it is child abuse.
  America is better than this, and we must demand better for these 
kids.
  Let's vote on this rule and on the underlying bill so that we can get 
this aid where it is needed as quickly as possible and hold this 
administration accountable.
  The material previously referred to by Mr. Cole is as follows:

                   Amendment to House Resolution 462

       At the end of the resolution, add the following:
       Sec. 2. That immediately upon adoption of this resolution, 
     the House shall resolve into the Committee of the Whole House 
     on the state of the Union for consideration of the bill (H.R. 
     3056) to provide supplemental appropriations relating to 
     border security, and for other purposes. The first reading of 
     the bill shall be dispensed with. All points of order against 
     consideration of the bill are waived. General debate shall be 
     confined to the bill and shall not exceed one hour equally 
     divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority 
     member of the Committee on Appropriations. After general 
     debate the bill shall be considered for amendment under the 
     five-minute rule. Points of order against provisions in the 
     bill for failure to comply with clause 2 of rule XXI are 
     waived. Clause 2(e) of rule XXI shall not apply during 
     consideration of the bill. When the committee rises and 
     reports the bill back to the House with a recommendation that 
     the bill do pass, the previous question shall be considered 
     as ordered on the bill and amendments thereto to final 
     passage without intervening motion except one motion to 
     recommit with or without instructions. If the Committee of 
     the Whole rises and reports that it has come to no resolution 
     on the bill, then on the next legislative day the House 
     shall, immediately after the third daily order of business 
     under clause 1 of rule XIV, resolve into the Committee of the 
     Whole for further consideration of the bill.
       Sec. 3. Clause l(c) of rule XIX shall not apply to the 
     consideration of H.R. 3056.

  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I 
move the previous question on the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on ordering the previous 
question.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were 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 the adoption of the resolution.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 226, 
nays 188, not voting 18, as follows:

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                             [Roll No. 409]

                               YEAS--226

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Axne
     Barragan
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brindisi
     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
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Cox (CA)
     Craig
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     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
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Golden
     Gomez
     Gonzalez (TX)
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Haaland
     Harder (CA)
     Hastings
     Hayes
     Heck
     Higgins (NY)
     Hill (CA)
     Himes
     Horn, Kendra S.
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Jackson Lee
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     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)
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Luria
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McAdams
     McBath
     McCollum
     McEachin
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meng
     Moore
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mucarsel-Powell
     Murphy
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Norcross
     O'Halleran
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Rice (NY)
     Rose (NY)
     Rouda
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Shalala
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Speier
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Suozzi
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres Small (NM)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Van Drew
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wexton
     Wild
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NAYS--188

     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bergman
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Bost
     Brady
     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
     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
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hagedorn
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hern, Kevin
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill (AR)
     Hollingsworth
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Katko
     Keller
     Kelly (MS)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger
     Kustoff (TN)
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Latta
     Lesko
     Loudermilk
     Luetkemeyer
     Marchant
     Marshall
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     Meuser
     Miller
     Mitchell
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     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)
     Rose, John W.
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Shimkus
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spano
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Taylor
     Thompson (PA)
     Timmons
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Watkins
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Wright
     Yoho
     Young
     Zeldin

                             NOT VOTING--18

     Abraham
     Amodei
     Clyburn
     Gabbard
     Holding
     Kelly (PA)
     Lamborn
     Levin (MI)
     Long
     Lucas
     Meadows
     Meeks
     Omar
     Richmond
     Rooney (FL)
     Ryan
     Swalwell (CA)
     Thornberry

                              {time}  1923

  So the previous question was ordered.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. COLE. Mr. 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 225, 
nays 189, not voting 18, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 410]

                               YEAS--225

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Axne
     Barragan
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brindisi
     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
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Cox (CA)
     Craig
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     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
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Golden
     Gomez
     Gonzalez (TX)
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Haaland
     Harder (CA)
     Hastings
     Hayes
     Heck
     Higgins (NY)
     Hill (CA)
     Himes
     Horn, Kendra S.
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Jackson Lee
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     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)
     Lewis
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Luria
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McAdams
     McBath
     McCollum
     McEachin
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meng
     Moore
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mucarsel-Powell
     Murphy
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Norcross
     O'Halleran
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Rice (NY)
     Rose (NY)
     Rouda
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Shalala
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Speier
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Suozzi
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres Small (NM)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Van Drew
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wexton
     Wild
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NAYS--189

     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bergman
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Bost
     Brady
     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
     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
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hagedorn
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hern, Kevin
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill (AR)
     Hollingsworth
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Katko
     Keller
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger
     Kustoff (TN)
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Latta
     Lesko
     Loudermilk
     Luetkemeyer
     Marchant
     Marshall
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McKinley

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     Meuser
     Miller
     Mitchell
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     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)
     Rose, John W.
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Shimkus
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spano
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Taylor
     Thompson (PA)
     Timmons
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Watkins
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Wright
     Yoho
     Young
     Zeldin

                             NOT VOTING--18

     Abraham
     Clyburn
     Gabbard
     Holding
     Lamborn
     Levin (MI)
     Lieu, Ted
     Long
     Lucas
     McHenry
     Meadows
     Meeks
     Omar
     Richmond
     Rooney (FL)
     Ryan
     Swalwell (CA)
     Thornberry


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. DeGette) (during the vote). There are 2 
minutes remaining.

                              {time}  1932

  Mr. VELA changed his vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the resolution was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.


                          personal explanation

  Mr. LEVIN of Michigan. Madam Speaker, had I been present, I would 
have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 409 and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 410.

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