[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
opportunity
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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
unfolding
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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
in Guatemala, and they were threatened by a gang for money.
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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.
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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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