[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 183 (Friday, November 15, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H8885-H8902]
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            UNITED STATES EXPORT FINANCE AGENCY ACT OF 2019

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Bonamici). Pursuant to House Resolution 
695 and rule XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of 
the Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration 
of the bill, H.R. 4863.
  Will the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Danny K. Davis) kindly take the 
chair.

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                     In the Committee of the Whole

  Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of 
the bill (H.R. 4863) to promote the competitiveness of the United 
States, to reform and reauthorize the United States Export Finance 
Agency, and for other purposes, with Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois 
(Acting Chair) in the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The Acting CHAIR. When the Committee of the Whole rose on Thursday, 
November 14, 2019, amendment No. 9 printed in House Report 116-289 
offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Ruiz) had been disposed 
of.


                  Amendment No. 10 Offered by Ms. Meng

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 10 
printed in House Report 116-289.
  Ms. MENG. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Page 7, line 17, insert ``Asian American- and Native 
     American Pacific Islander-serving institutions,'' before 
     ``Tribal colleges''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 695, the gentlewoman 
from New York (Ms. Meng) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from New York.
  Ms. MENG. Mr. Chair, my amendment would ensure that the United States 
Export Finance Agency's efforts to diversify its workforce include 
outreach to Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving 
institutions, AANAPISIs.
  AANAPISIs, like other minority-serving institutions, can provide 
pathways for underserved communities to earn a degree and secure a job 
in the economy.
  The underlying bill includes outreach to historically Black colleges 
and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, and Tribal colleges 
and universities. Whenever there are discussions of minority 
communities, it is essential that we remember to include Asian 
Americans and Pacific Islanders.
  For those who are the first in their family to attend college, 
minority-serving institutions can open doors and fulfill their dreams. 
If we are to have a workforce that reflects our diversity, we must 
ensure that our government is reaching into all underserved 
communities.
  The AAPI community is the fastest-growing minority group in the U.S. 
By 2060, the AAPI population is projected to reach 40 million.
  By engaging with minority-serving institutions like these AANAPISIs, 
we can help people achieve their goals, find fulfilling careers, and 
ensure our Nation remains globally competitive.
  Again, with my amendment, I am requesting that the U.S. Export 
Finance Agency is inclusive and engages AANAPISIs in its workforce 
outreach efforts.
  Mr. Chair, I urge support for the amendment, and I reserve the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Chair, I claim time in opposition to the amendment, 
although I am not opposed.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from North 
Carolina is recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Chair, first, I want to commend the gentlewoman from 
New York (Ms. Meng) for offering this in the series that she is 
offering. I think they are constructive amendments to this 
reauthorization and important insights on what we should be doing to 
recruit in the Federal workforce.
  And we have a major need, though it is not in the financial services 
jurisdiction, but it is really important for all of us to acknowledge 
that we have a need in the Federal workforce for a wider set of views 
and expertise coming into the Federal workforce. I think this is a 
thoughtful attempt to do those things, so I do appreciate the 
gentlewoman's efforts.

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  I would say this: The bill encompasses historically Black colleges, 
women's colleges, and others, and Ex-Im will tell you that it doesn't 
engage in a lot of recruitment efforts named in this legislation, not 
because it doesn't care about diversity, but because it is a small 
agency of around 400 staff. But I think it is important they have this 
as a part of their charter.
  But let me just say this: This bill and this reauthorization is 
unnecessarily doomed. Chairwoman Waters and I negotiated a bipartisan 
deal, a bill that is in the Clerk's office called H.R. 3407, which 
would have reauthorized this institution for a 7-year term, increased 
its size, and focused on really important things that relate to our 
national security and our economic security, including combating the 
rise of Chinese aggression.
  And that bill is still an opportunity for bipartisanship. What we 
have before us today is not. So, while I appreciate the gentlewoman's 
efforts on this amendment, this bill is not going anywhere in the 
Senate. The President said he is going to veto it. Because of those 
things, this bill is unnecessarily doomed.
  This reauthorization of the Ex-Im Bank is unnecessarily put in 
jeopardy because of the approach taken here in the House, and that is 
unfortunate. I hope that cooler heads will prevail, and we will be able 
to extend and keep the bank open, the institution open, for a longer 
term. I think that will happen in the appropriations process or in the 
continuing resolution, and I would support those measures.
  But the bill before us today Republicans will largely oppose. So, Mr. 
Chair, I would encourage my colleagues to vote ``no,'' and I yield back 
the balance of my time.
  Ms. MENG. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Meng).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                  Amendment No. 11 Offered by Ms. Meng

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 11 
printed in House Report 116-289.
  Ms. MENG. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Page 8, line 4, after ``internships'' insert ``(including 
     paid internships)''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 695, the gentlewoman 
from New York (Ms. Meng) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from New York.
  Ms. MENG. Mr. Chair, my amendment would direct the U.S. Export 
Finance Agency to develop and place minorities and women in paid 
internships.
  While the agency has done important work to expand market 
opportunities for American businesses around the globe, diversity in 
the workforce is equally as important.
  In today's economy, internships often act as the gateway to a 
professional career for a recent graduate. These experiences allow 
people to make connections and gain valuable experiences that prepare 
them for a full-time job.
  Unpaid internships can be a barrier to entering a desired career 
field. While some young people can take an unpaid internship, many 
people lack the resources to do that. This barrier has a 
disproportionate impact on minorities, low-income individuals, and 
women.
  When we do not have adequate diversity in internships and low-level 
positions, the pool of diverse individuals who can grow to serve in 
leadership positions in our businesses is severely stunted.
  That is why I introduced this amendment, to highlight the importance 
of paid internships. All entities should focus their efforts on 
compensating interns for the valuable work they contribute to their 
workplaces.
  Mr. Chair, I urge support for the amendment, and I reserve the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. STIVERS. Mr. Chair, I claim time in opposition, although I am not 
opposed to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Ohio is 
recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. STIVERS. Mr. Chair, first, I want to commend the gentlewoman from 
New York for her work on this. I think it is a great idea to have paid 
interns at the Ex-Im Bank. The sad part is it is not going to happen 
because this bill is not going to become law.
  Republicans agreed unanimously to support a bipartisan compromise, 
the Waters-McHenry bipartisan deal on Ex-Im Bank, that would have 
actually reauthorized the Ex-Im Bank and done it in a bipartisan way.
  Unfortunately, we are here on a partisan process. I have always 
supported the Ex-Im Bank. I signed the discharge petition last time for 
the Ex-Im Bank, but I can't support this product.
  Luckily, we have a path forward through the appropriations process, 
and we will be reauthorizing the Ex-Im Bank on the CR.
  I think this general idea is a good idea, and I hope the gentlewoman 
will push it in the version that gets in the CR because this version, 
unfortunately, Mitch McConnell has said is dead in the Senate and it is 
under a veto threat.
  So I do encourage my colleagues to support this amendment, but, 
unfortunately, it is not going to become law.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

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  Ms. MENG. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for his words, and I 
yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. STIVERS. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Meng).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                  Amendment No. 12 Offered by Ms. Meng

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 12 
printed in House Report 116-289.
  Ms. MENG. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Page 7, line 18, insert ``community colleges,'' after 
     ``women's colleges,''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 695, the gentlewoman 
from New York (Ms. Meng) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from New York.
  Ms. MENG. Mr. Chair, my amendment would ensure that community 
colleges are included in the U.S. Export Finance Agency's efforts to 
diversify its workforce. We must ensure community colleges are not left 
out of the broader target of colleges and universities in the agency's 
recruitment efforts.
  Approximately 6 million students are enrolled in public 2-year 
colleges. These institutions offer nontraditional students, like those 
experiencing financial obstacles, working parents, or students who are 
embarking on new career paths, the opportunity to earn a degree.
  I am proud to have a community college, Queensborough Community 
College, in my district in Queens, New York. I know that community 
colleges provide an affordable career pathway for many students of 
underserved communities.
  That is why I offer this amendment to ensure that the U.S. Export 
Finance Agency engages with community colleges across the country in 
its workforce outreach efforts.
  I urge support for the amendment, and I reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. STIVERS. Mr. Chair, I claim time in opposition, although I am not 
opposed to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Ohio is 
recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. STIVERS. Mr. Chair, I am going to sound like a broken record 
here, but Republicans have supported, unanimously, a bill that was 
bipartisan, the Waters-McHenry deal that would have reauthorized the 
Bank. Unfortunately, we are not here debating that. We have a much more 
partisan version in front of us.
  I agree with the gentlewoman from New York, and I thank her for her 
work on a diverse workforce at the Export-Import Bank. Our community 
colleges do an incredible job. Having several community colleges in my 
district, I want to recognize them.

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  I encourage my colleagues to support this amendment, and I reserve 
the balance of my time.
  Ms. MENG. Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman for his words, and I yield 
back the balance of my time.
  Mr. STIVERS. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Meng).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                  Amendment No. 13 Offered by Ms. Meng

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 13 
printed in House Report 116-289.
  Ms. MENG. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Page 10, after line 19, insert the following:
       (f) Additional Advisory Committee Members.--Section 3(d) of 
     such Act (12 U.S.C. 635a(d)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)--
       (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``17'' and inserting 
     ``19''; and
       (B) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``higher education,'' 
     before ``State''; and
       (2) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the following:
       ``(D) 1 member appointed to the Advisory Committee shall be 
     representative of 4-year institutions of higher education.
       ``(E) 1 member appointed to the Advisory Committee shall be 
     representative of community colleges.''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 695, the gentlewoman 
from New York (Ms. Meng) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from New York.
  Ms. MENG. Mr. Chair, my amendment adds two advisory positions to the 
U.S. Export Finance Agency's Advisory Committee, one who represents 4-
year colleges and one who represents community colleges.
  The Advisory Committee, which currently is comprised of 17 members, 
provides recommendations on agency financing programs to strengthen 
American exports. The committee has representatives of environment, 
production, commerce, finance, agriculture, labor, services, State 
government, and textile industries, and the small business and labor 
communities. Adding two members from the education community would 
enhance the committee's ability to inform and advise the Export Finance 
Agency's work.
  Those who work in our education system and with students who study 
international trade and finance or go on to run businesses are uniquely 
positioned to provide suggestions on improving these agency programs. 
Adding these instructions would ensure U.S. economic competitiveness.
  I urge support for the amendment, and I reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. STIVERS. Mr. Chair, I claim time in opposition, although I am not 
opposed to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Ohio is 
recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. STIVERS. Mr. Chair, I want to, again, remind everybody that 
Republicans unanimously voted for a bipartisan version of Ex-Im 
authorization, the Waters-McHenry bipartisan compromise. Unfortunately, 
that deal isn't on the floor. We have a version that is under a veto 
threat and that the Senate says is dead on arrival.
  While this amendment is great to add our colleges and community 
colleges to the advisory board, it is not going to become law. Luckily, 
we do have a path forward through the appropriations process, and I 
hope my colleague from New York will be talking to not only the 
Financial Services Committee staff but the Appropriations Committee 
staff to get this in the version that will become law through the CR.
  I encourage my colleagues to support this amendment. It is too bad it 
is not going to become law in this version because it is dead on 
arrival in the Senate and under a veto threat. But I do hope that the 
gentlewoman works through the appropriations process to make this 
amendment happen because our colleges and universities can add a lot to 
the advisory board at the Ex-Im.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. MENG. Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman for his words, and I yield 
back the balance of my time.
  Mr. STIVERS. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Meng).
  The amendment was agreed to.


           Amendment No. 14 Offered by Mr. Brown of Maryland

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 14 
printed in House Report 116-289.
  Mr. BROWN of Maryland. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Page 4, after line 15, insert the following:
       ``(4) Training.--The Agency shall make available to its 
     employees appropriate inclusion and diversity training, not 
     less frequently than every 2 years, to ensure employees have 
     an understanding of the specific challenges facing minority- 
     and women-owned businesses.''.
       Page 4, line 16, strike ``(4)'' and insert ``(5)''.
       Page 5, line 24, strike ``(5)'' and insert ``(6)''.
       Page 7, line 7, strike ``(6)'' and insert ``(7)''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 695, the gentleman 
from Maryland (Mr. Brown) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Maryland.
  Mr. BROWN of Maryland. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  I want to recognize the hard work of my colleague from California, 
Chairwoman Maxine Waters, on the underlying bill and the outstanding 
effort of the gentlewoman's entire committee to bring this bill to the 
floor.
  The Export-Import Bank plays an important role in helping U.S. 
businesses maintain and expand their presence in the global economy, 
increasing exports and creating jobs at no expense to American 
taxpayers.
  Ninety percent of customers supported by the Export-Import Bank are 
small businesses, not counting the tens of thousands of companies in 
the supply chain of larger exporters.
  The Export-Import Bank helps create a level playing field for 
American businesses by countering more than 100 foreign export credit 
agencies. China alone provides $130 billion in financing to bolster its 
exports.
  Without Ex-Im, U.S. companies and workers will be left at a 
significant disadvantage when facing foreign competitors and will 
struggle to enter competitive markets. This diminishes both our 
economic and national security.
  The underlying bill reauthorizes the Bank for 10 years, increases the 
agency's lending capacity to $175 billion, and gives U.S. companies the 
tools they need to have a fair shot in today's increasingly competitive 
trade environment.
  Mr. Chairman, H.R. 4863 also makes workforce and supplier diversity a 
priority by establishing an Office of Minority and Women Inclusion at 
the agency. A diverse workforce and an inclusive workplace have been 
shown to enhance financial performance and the ability to accomplish 
the mission. However, there continues to be a trend of low 
representation of minorities and women in the financial services 
industry and disparities in access to credit, capital, and banking.
  Chairwoman Waters was one of the original authors of a section of the 
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act that created an Office of Minority 
and Women Inclusion at most Federal financial service agencies. Now, 
the new Export Finance Agency will have such an office as well. These 
offices have the important responsibilities of overseeing all diversity 
matters in management, employment, business activities, and 
procurement.
  My amendment would build on the existing model by requiring the 
agency to offer inclusion and diversity training to ensure employees 
understand the specific challenges facing minority- and women-owned 
businesses. This will allow for the agency to adopt the best and most 
up-to-date processes and practices to ensure we are increasing 
contracting opportunities and services available to minority-owned and 
women-owned businesses.
  Women- and minority-owned business exporters is one the fastest 
growing market segments, and my amendment will help more of these firms 
turn export opportunities into real sales that will maintain and create 
American jobs.

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  Now, more than ever, we must work together to ensure that there are 
diverse perspectives at the table and that these historically 
disadvantaged businesses have the opportunity to grow and be 
successful.
  I strongly encourage my colleagues to support this amendment and the 
underlying bill.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Chair, I claim time in opposition, though I am not 
opposed.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from North 
Carolina is recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Chairman, let me say, to begin with, that, again, 
Republicans and the Financial Services Committee unanimously supported 
the agreement that Chairwoman Waters and I reached on a bipartisan bill 
that would strengthen the Bank and combat Chinese aggression, both 
their economic and military aggression, around the globe. It forced the 
Ex-Im Bank to not subsidize Chinese state-owned enterprises that are 
engaged in especially the service to the military and intelligence 
bureaus or the repression of the people in Hong Kong or religious 
minorities. That is the focus of it.
  Rather than focus on those important economic interests for us as 
Americans, we are getting into a number of issues of social policy. 
That was the main set of policy changes that we have before us in this 
partisan bill that we are debating, that the Senate majority leader 
already says they won't take up, and the President already said he is 
going to veto.
  At the end of the day, we are going to have a clean reauthorization 
of the Bank. It could have been different. We could have had a 
different outcome.
  I commend Mr. Brown for offering the amendment. Look, diversity and 
inclusion, we have a subcommittee. It has been a priority of Chairwoman 
Waters, and we have heard testimony in that committee from witnesses 
emphasizing the need to change the corporate culture to improve 
recruitment and retention of women and minorities, not for just the 
social purpose of recruiting more diverse people, but for the economic 
outcome that a better workforce, a more diverse workforce, both 
experientially and every type of measure of diversity, leads to better 
economic returns for the shareholders of those companies.
  I think it is really important, what the gentleman is emphasizing 
with his amendment. It has an important social purpose. It does. But it 
also has an important economic outcome. It means that we get better 
policies as a result of better workforce and better inclusion processes 
for recruiting new folks and also, once you have folks internally, how 
we work with each other.
  Quite frankly, the Congress could use, I think, a little bit of this, 
a little bit of the medicine we are giving to agencies.
  Mr. Chair, I support the amendment, and I yield back the balance of 
my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Brown).
  The amendment was agreed to.

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                  Amendment No. 15 Offered by Mr. Lamb

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 15 
printed in House Report 116-289.
  Mr. LAMB. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Page 27, line 3, strike ``and''.
       Page 27, line 13, strike the 1st period, the close 
     quotation marks and the 2nd period and insert ``; and''.
       Page 27, after line 13, insert the following:
       ``(3) details the effects of exports and projects financed 
     by the Agency on the number of jobs created or retained in 
     the energy and related technologies industries of the United 
     States.''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 695, the gentleman 
from Pennsylvania (Mr. Lamb) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Pennsylvania.
  Mr. LAMB. Mr. Chairman, I thank Madam Chairwoman for her work on the 
underlying bill.
  Mr. Chairman, I am offering this amendment because one of the most 
pressing problems in my district in western Pennsylvania and in America 
as a whole has been the massive erosion of our manufacturing and 
industrial base, particularly in the last 20 years. Many people view 
this as an older problem, but, in fact, it is since the year 2000 that 
we have shed millions and millions of jobs, lost mostly to China and 
some to Mexico.
  But today, in my district, there still remains a plant that makes 
large steel components for nuclear reactors and nuclear power plants 
and the Navy's nuclear fleet. They are organized by the IBEW. These are 
good-paying jobs in the manufacturing base that have remained.
  And so the question is: How did those jobs get there, and why did 
they remain? The answer is because the United States Government has 
performed its historic role to drive open and create a new market and 
preserve that market with the partnership of private industry--and that 
is the market for nuclear energy.
  If the United States hadn't made its investments in the 1940s and 
1950s, they never would have opened the first nuclear reactor for 
civilian use in my district in Beaver Valley; we never would have had 
15,000 people working in nuclear energy directly in Pennsylvania today: 
71 additional companies and thousands and thousands of more 
manufacturing jobs that allow us to sell nuclear technology all around 
the world.
  Of the many tools the U.S. Government has used for this purpose, the 
Export-Import Bank is an important one. They have helped drive open 
these new markets overseas and make it possible for historic companies 
like Westinghouse to sell their technology all over the world, with it 
still being made and manufactured in the United States.
  And so, today, as we vote to reauthorize this Bank, I would ask to 
add an amendment that will make sure that not only will we defend the 
jobs we have already created, but we will play some offense and create 
some new jobs. And if we are going to play offense, we will keep score; 
we will make sure we know exactly how many jobs are both preserved and 
created in the energy and related manufacturing sectors.
  In our district, there is a company called Eaton that makes software 
and hardware products to integrate clean energy into the grid both in 
the United States and overseas. They are one of the biggest users of 
Ex-Im financing in my district. For them to create new manufacturing 
jobs to sell new ways to integrate clean energy all over the world, 
they need this reauthorization.
  Just earlier this year, I met a Pennsylvanian who is working on a 
design for wind turbines that look a lot more like helicopter blades 
than they do like the windmills we tend to see today. An entrepreneur 
like this will benefit from the role his government plays in 
reauthorizing the Ex-Im Bank, and we need to take careful account of 
every single new job that is created from new opportunities like this 
one.
  Mr. Chair, this is the United States Government at its finest. We 
will keep score on the work we do on the Ex-Im Bank so that we will 
win. These jobs and these markets will be created somewhere. Our duty 
is to make sure it is here.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment, even though I am not opposed to it.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from North 
Carolina is recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Chairman, let me say this. Chairwoman Waters and I 
negotiated a bipartisan deal, and it was a priority for me to ensure 
that this agency of government didn't discriminate against different 
energy sources--high priority for Republicans and some Democrats.
  Coal country was at risk in these negotiations because there is an 
extreme element of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle who 
want to limit our capacity to export American technology that uses 
coal, which is far cleaner than what is being used around the globe, 
and limit the export of our natural resources that power our economy. 
So I am grateful that the partisan bill before us did not go to that

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very far left position that would have limited our coal technology from 
being used to export.
  So my colleague, Mr. Lamb, represents a significant piece of historic 
coal country. It makes it easier for someone like him who represents 
the interests of his district in that regard to vote for this bill 
because they didn't include those extreme measures that would have 
limited and particularly hurt coal country and the technology developed 
here in the United States on the use of fossil fuels. So that is a 
laudatory thing.
  Now, there are minor measures in here that have sort of minor 
discriminatory effects against the use of nuclear power and the 
measurement of carbon, but not to the extent that I feared in this 
bill. So I am grateful that what is before us isn't the most extreme. 
It is just merely not helpful to the export of certain American 
technologies and energy.
  I am grateful that Chairwoman Waters didn't decide to go to that far 
left element that would have gone to the extreme of saying we are not 
going to export, specifically, coal technology using the Export-Import 
Bank. That limitation is not in here, and so I am grateful for that.
  So we have an amendment before us that Mr. Burgess of Texas offered 
to say that, in particular, nuclear technology would be a helpful thing 
and an emphasis for the Export-Import Bank. My colleagues on the other 
side of the aisle voted against that by voice vote, and then they asked 
for a rollcall vote. I anticipate that they will have a negative vote 
on their side on this, but it shows that Republicans are interested in 
the diverse array of energy sources and making sure that we don't 
discriminate against our American technology being exported that is 
useful globally.

  So this amendment is fine. I think it is important that we do measure 
jobs and impact, specifically, on energy jobs. In the bipartisan bill 
that Chairwoman Waters and I negotiated, I pushed hard for a similar 
provision, where the Bank would need to provide job creation 
information to Congress. That was stripped out. It is not before us 
today.
  So what the gentleman is offering is constructive. It is good. It 
should have a bipartisan vote. I thank the gentleman for offering this, 
for having the view and the eye of his constituents in mind, 
specifically when it comes to energy production.
  I know that western Pennsylvania still has this great, strong, 
vibrant energy production capacity; and so I am grateful that my 
colleague would offer something that not only helps his district, but 
also helps American job creation and ensures the Bank measures that job 
creation.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LAMB. Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman for his words, and again, 
I would commend the chairwoman for including all energy sources and 
technology in this bill.
  I think our debate going forward will be more honest and accurate 
when we have a score of how many jobs have been created, so we not only 
are talking about energy sources in the abstract, but we can tie them 
to a specific job number for hardworking American families.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California 
(Ms. Pelosi), the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I 
thank him for his leadership in bringing this amendment to the floor.
  It is very important for us to quantify just what this means as you 
require the agency to detail the effects of exports and projects 
financed by the agency on American jobs in energy and related fields 
and industries. This energy issue is an essential issue to so much of 
what commerce is about, especially in relationship to China as we are 
discussing that today.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the reauthorization of the 
Export-Import Bank, which, for nearly a century, has been a force for 
creating jobs, strengthening small businesses, and advancing America's 
entrepreneurship and ingenuity in the world.
  Mr. Chair, I thank Chairwoman Waters for her extraordinary 
leadership. She has been relentless and persistent in working on this 
legislation, after a lifetime commitment to creating good-paying jobs 
and powering growth that lifts up all communities. We are blessed that 
she is in the position that she is in as chair of the Financial 
Services Committee, having the authority and the authorization power 
over the Ex-Im Bank.
  When I was on the Appropriations Committee, I chaired the State, 
Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee, which funded the 
Ex-Im Bank, so I know well the good work that the Ex-Im Bank does, 
especially reaching down into communities and small businesses and 
suppliers across the country.
  Let me just say this about China. Mr. McHenry and I share some 
similar views on this subject, but I don't think that we should be 
taking the view of--I can immodestly say, as I said to my colleagues 
yesterday, I take second place to no one in this Congress in 
criticizing China for their human rights violations, whether it is what 
they are doing in Hong Kong now, antidemocratic actions; what they are 
doing to Uyghurs, the Muslims, 1 million, 2 million, 3 million, who 
knows how many people put into education camps and then putting other 
people in the homes of the people whom they have put into the camps--it 
is against humanity--what they are doing to undermine the culture of 
Tibet, whether it is the religion, the language, the culture of Tibet 
to resettle Hans there to dilute the Tibetan culture; whether it is 
what is going on all throughout China: jailing journalists, human 
rights lawyers, Christians, democracy activists throughout the 
mainland.
  So that is something that I have fought with China for 30 years. I 
have also fought them on their trade policies for 30 years, as well, 
all of this since Tiananmen Square.
  When we first started this fight, we had a trade deficit with China 
of $5 billion a year, which I thought would be useful in trying to 
improve the human rights situation, freeing the prisoners of Tiananmen 
Square, gaining access to their markets, stopping their privacy of 
intellectual property and stopping their proliferation of technologies 
that could be used in weapons of mass destruction to world countries.
  $5 billion a year, oh, they would never want to give that up. We 
could get concessions. But the powers that be and corporate America and 
all demanded that, no, we couldn't do that. If we just had peaceful 
evolution, that would lead to all this democratization and fairness in 
trade and stopping hostile activities regarding weapons of mass 
destruction and the rest.
  It didn't, and here we are 30 years later. We won every vote in the 
House. We couldn't override vetoes of Democratic and Republican 
Presidents. I put it at both doorsteps.
  Here we are 30 years later. The trade deficit is not $5 billion a 
year anymore; it is more than $5 billion a week--a week.
  So I share your concerns about human rights and other policies with 
regard to China, but we cannot let China's inhumanity and cruelty take 
a toll on America's small businesses and our economic opportunities.
  And so, as I say, I established those credentials to brag because I 
was right, but also to say I work with China on issues that relate to 
energy and climate and the rest of that because they are big players in 
that.
  It is very disappointing because, as I have said, if, for commercial 
purposes, we decide to ignore the human rights violations perpetrated 
by China, we lose all moral authority to challenge anyone anyplace.

  And so we continue to challenge them, but we cannot empower them to 
hurt our economy. And that is exactly what we would do today if we were 
to reject this reauthorization of the Ex-Im Bank because of China.
  I salute those who have put amendments forward providing financing. 
The Bank will not provide financing for any individual sanctioned for 
human rights and free speech violations, including in China and 
including Hong Kong, or provide financing for those sanctions for 
opioid trafficking, human trafficking, or sex trafficking.
  So I thank Chair Waters for that, and I congratulate Congresswoman 
Torres Small, Congressman McAdams, Congressman Rose, and Congressman 
Lamb for their leadership

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on so many pieces of improving this legislation.
  But I do urge our colleagues to recognize what President Reagan said. 
The Export-Import Bank ``creates and sustains jobs for millions of 
American workers and contributes to the growth and strength of the 
United States economy. The Export-Import Bank contributes in a 
significant way to our Nation. . . .''--Ronald Reagan.
  This legislation ensures that the Ex-Im Bank can continue to 
contribute to our Nation's strength in a way that is good for American 
workers, American businesses, and our values. I urge a strong 
bipartisan vote.
  I again commend the chairwoman for her extraordinary leadership in 
getting us to this point and associate myself with some of the concerns 
that Mr. McHenry has put forth.
  Mr. LAMB. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  If I may begin by commending the Speaker, Speaker Pelosi. You won't 
hear this often, and probably won't hear it often from her, that she 
agrees with me nor I with her; but when it comes to China, we see it 
very similarly.
  Her track record is, indeed, long and it is, indeed, strong when it 
comes to human rights abuses, in particular around religious minorities 
in China. But, also, she has spoken out consistently in her term of 
service here in Congress against Chinese abuses.

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  I think we should have a bipartisan understanding. Sadly, when she 
says that the earlier fight that she had with China was hijacked by 
corporate America, sadly, the language that Chairwoman Waters and I 
attempted to pass out of committee in good faith was hijacked by 
corporate America, because they don't want to see any limitation on 
their capacity to get subsidization from Ex-Im to export.
  So I hope that we can come back together after this bill doesn't go 
anywhere in the Senate, and we can come back together on strong enough 
language so that we can do something proactive and together when it 
comes to China.
  Small businesses, indeed, need more emphasis from the Ex-Im Bank, and 
that is why I am saddened that it takes 10 years for this bill to 
actually raise the small business mandate and tell Ex-Im to prioritize 
small businesses.
  So, again, it is a special moment when, I think, we have folks on the 
left and the right together on an important economic issue like China. 
That is why the underlying bill that we negotiated was really 
important, and this is a bad bill.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Cox of California). The question is on the 
amendment offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Lamb).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                 Amendment No. 16 Offered by Mr. Rouda

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 16 
printed in House Report 116-289.
  Mr. ROUDA. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Page 5, beginning on line 2, strike ``the racial, ethnic, 
     and gender diversity'' and insert ``diversity in race, 
     ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 695, the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Rouda) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California.
  Mr. ROUDA. Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of my amendment to add 
sexual orientation and gender identity to the agency's Office of 
Minority and Women Inclusion standards for workforce diversity.
  The bill already requires the agency's newly established Office of 
Minority and Women Inclusion to develop standards for equal employment 
opportunity in the racial, ethnic, and gender diversity of the 
workforce and senior management of the agency.
  This agency, which aims to develop a level playing field for American 
businesses in the global economy, must be representative of and able to 
understand all businesses across the country. True diversity includes 
representation of the LGBTQ community.
  That is why I have offered this amendment to add consideration of 
sexual orientation and gender identity as part of the agency's equal 
opportunity and diversity standards for its own workforce.
  Mr. Chair, I ask that my colleagues join me in supporting this 
amendment. I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment, although I am not opposed to it.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from North 
Carolina is recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Chair, I think it is important that we promote these 
policies. Again, what Chairwoman Waters and I negotiated in H.R. 3407, 
which was a bipartisan product to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank, 
prioritized economic policy and national security policy. It 
prioritized innovative technologies, especially when it comes to energy 
development, and it put limitations on Ex-Im Bank subsidizing Chinese 
foreign policy and economic policy.
  So additional social legislating is fine. This is a social 
legislating reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank. That is the 
emphasis Chairwoman Waters chose. The Democrats chose to bring a bill 
that prioritized social policy over economic policy, so this is 
probably a fine addition to it.
  But if we are going to talk about diversity and ensuring diversity in 
the workforce of the Export-Import Bank, shouldn't we also be talking 
about protection of religious minorities and making sure that we are 
not subsidizing products that are used to repress people in Hong Kong 
or religious minorities in China? That is what current Ex-Im policy 
permits.
  There are examples of this. We have strategic competitors, we have 
companies that have significant abuses, and yet we are still doing 
business with them through the Export-Import Bank. I think that is bad 
policy.
  We need to look no further than Hong Kong or the Uighurs in China to 
see the Chinese true intent here.
  I wish there was the same vigor from social policy applied by my 
Democratic colleagues applied to thwarting the ever-expanding Chinese 
Communist Party's actions through their state-owned enterprises.
  So, Mr. Chair, it is a fine amendment, we should agree to it. I 
reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROUDA. Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman from North Carolina for 
his comments. I also thank the chair for her leadership on this bill.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Rouda).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                 Amendment No. 17 Offered by Mr. Rouda

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 17 
printed in House Report 116-289.
  Mr. ROUDA. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Page 16, beginning on line 2, strike ``and persons with 
     disabilities'' and insert ``persons with disabilities, and 
     individuals self-identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, 
     transgender, or queer''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 695, the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Rouda) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California.
  Mr. ROUDA. Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of my amendment to add 
LGBTQ-owned businesses to the United States Export Finance Agency's 
small business outreach plan.
  American businesses, specifically small businesses, are the backbone 
of our economy and a cornerstone of the American Dream.
  The bill before us today requires the agency to develop a 
comprehensive outreach plan to ensure small business owners are aware 
of the financing options available to them through the agency. This 
plan already includes an emphasis on outreach to businesses

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owned by women, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities.
  I believe it is critical we include an emphasis on outreach to LGBTQ 
entrepreneurs as well, who create jobs across the country and 
contribute hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S. economy every 
year.
  My amendment ensures all Americans, regardless of who they are or who 
they love, can access the tools needed to jump-start their American 
Dream and contribute to our economy.
  It is a simple, but meaningful, step to ensure greater equality on 
Main Streets across the United States.
  Mr. Chair, I ask that my colleagues join me in supporting this 
amendment. I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment, although I am not opposed to it.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from North 
Carolina is recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Chair, Republicans unanimously voted for a 
bipartisan agreement that Chairwoman Waters and I negotiated in the 
Financial Services Committee. I just want to reiterate that.
  The focus there was combating Chinese aggression, it was focused on 
economic policy. There were a number of bipartisan tradeoffs in order 
to ensure that the Bank was focused on economic policy, not mainly on 
social policy, but what we have before us is mainly a social policy-
related reauthorization of this important economic institution.
  I think it is important that all businesses be considered and have 
significant small business outreach by the agency. This is a 
significant addition to it, and I think it is worthy of support.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes.''
  Unfortunately, what we have before us is really a sideshow and a 
waste of time while the impeachment hearings are going on. It is quite 
a filler for the House floor for a bill that won't make it into law.
  So here we go. We have wasted a significant week here on the House 
floor with something that is not going to actually end up anywhere.
  So there we go. The amendment is fine to support, but let's just get 
this thing over with.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROUDA. Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman from North Carolina for 
his support for the bill, and once again I thank Madam Chair for her 
extraordinary leadership on this bill.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Rouda).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                Amendment No. 18 Offered by Ms. Stevens

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 18 
printed in House Report 116-289.
  Ms. STEVENS. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Page 16, line 3, strike ``and''.
       Page 16, line 8, strike the period and insert ``; and''.
       Page 16, after line 8, insert the following:
       (D) an emphasis on outreach to small businesses in sectors 
     impacted by retaliatory tariffs.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 695, the gentlewoman 
from Michigan (Ms. Stevens) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Michigan.
  Ms. STEVENS. Mr. Chair, I rise today to encourage my colleagues to 
support my amendment, which would direct the newly titled United States 
Export Finance Agency to include in its outreach plan an emphasis on 
small businesses in sectors impacted by retaliatory tariffs.
  For nearly a century, the Export-Import Bank has been a powerful 
force for creating the good-paying jobs of the future by ensuring that 
small businesses can compete on a fair and global playing field.
  Mr. Chair, today we recognize our phenomenal chair of the Financial 
Services Committee for her leadership and stewardship in seeing us to 
this point.
  It has been through consistency, it has been through commitment to 
our small businesses that we arrive at this place where today we will 
be voting this bill into law, for we must compete in foreign markets, 
we must not cede any ground to China, and we certainly must prevent any 
uncertainty making its way into our marketplace here in America.
  So that is why today is particularly significant if we reflect on the 
past when it was called into question if this Export-Import Bank would 
be reauthorized. Today we are renaming it and reclaiming our ground.
  Just this year, the Export-Import Bank has financed approximately $9 
million of exports from companies in my district in southeastern 
Michigan, helping small and mid-size businesses reach global markets 
that they would not otherwise be able to access, selling best-in-class 
products from a best-in-class workforce in southeastern Michigan to the 
markets who desire it.
  This bipartisan initiative is critical for advancing America's 
economic preeminence in the world and lifting up communities in a place 
where I call home.
  Many of us have heard from businesses in our districts about the 
negative impact of tariffs on their bottom lines and on their export 
activities. In no short order have I heard that being repeated in 
southeastern Michigan, in the hub of American manufacturing, 
particularly for automotive.
  Taxpayers in Michigan alone have paid $1.6 billion so far in 
additional tariffs that were placed on imported products between May 
2018 and August 2019.
  Our Michigan businesses, including manufacturers and farmers, have 
faced $589 million in new retaliatory tariffs as a direct result of the 
trade actions taken by the current administration.
  This isn't winning.
  It is no coincidence that exports from my State as a result are 
projected to drop 7 percent this year alone.

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  Now, more than ever, we must be paying attention to the needs of our 
small and midsized businesses, which are bearing the brunt of a self-
inflicted and go-it-alone trade war. Our friendly reminder is that 
small businesses are the lifeblood of our U.S. economy, making up over 
99 percent of all firms in this country.
  As the Export-Import Bank continues to help businesses access new 
markets--small businesses that have been harmed by retaliatory 
tariffs--they must be a part of this central mission.
  The reauthorization that we are passing here today has the support of 
a wide range of stakeholders--quite remarkable--from the U.S. Chamber 
of Commerce to the National Association of Manufacturers to the AFL-
CIO.
  Our workforce will benefit from this action. Our economy will benefit 
from this legislation.
  I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to join me in 
ensuring our small businesses reeling from the tariffs know that they 
are supported by the great resources of the U.S. Export Finance Agency.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition, 
although I am not opposed to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman is recognized for 
5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Chairman, once again, we are on the floor 
talking about the importance of the export agency to small business. It 
is important to small business, which is why, in the Waters-McHenry 
bipartisan compromise, we had a strong, well-argued, well-focused, 
well-delivered policy for small business that, unfortunately, Mr. 
Chairman, is now not in the bill before us today.
  I want to compliment Mr. McHenry and Ms. Waters for their work 
together. I wish the Speaker had come to their aid in June to whip the 
vote for their well-argued compromise. Although, I want to associate 
myself, as well, with the Speaker's strong comments about China and the 
30 years that America has tried since Tiananmen Square to change 
China's mercantilistic trade policy and be part of the world economy, 
and it hasn't

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worked. The Speaker outlined it beautifully today. She talked about her 
30-year commitment there.
  Again, if we want to stop retaliatory tariffs and worrying about 
retaliatory tariffs, we should use every tool in our armory here to 
push back against China, to change China's mercantilistic policy. We 
have done that with CFIUS reform in this House on a bipartisan basis. 
We have done that with the Asia Reassurance Act in this House on a 
bipartisan basis. We could have used the Export Finance Agency on a 
bipartisan basis in a very conscious manner to make sure that the Ex-Im 
agency credits don't benefit China and their ability to extend their 
One Belt, One Road work around the world.
  I appreciate my friend from Michigan's amendment. I appreciate her 
support of small business. I appreciate her support of trying to 
measure the impact of retaliatory tariffs on small business and 
agriculture, for that matter.
  But we would be much more effective, Mr. Chairman, if we had adopted 
the underlying bill with its better position to support small business 
and its better position to strike back against the mercantilistic trade 
policies of China.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. STEVENS. Mr. Chairman, I think ringing throughout this amendment 
is the importance of our manufacturing economy. That is also what we 
are standing up here today to deliver for manufacturers, small 
businesses, and our labor force here in Michigan.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California 
(Ms. Waters), the chairwoman of the Financial Services Committee.
  Ms. WATERS. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman for offering this 
thoughtful amendment.
  This amendment strengthens the bill's emphasis on small business. 
While we have a lot in this bill for small businesses, the 
gentlewoman's amendment further strengthens these efforts by requiring 
that the agency emphasize outreach to small businesses in sectors that 
have been impacted by retaliatory tariffs.
  Mr. Chairman, I strongly support the gentlewoman's amendment to 
further help small businesses that have been caught up in this tariff 
war.
  Ms. STEVENS. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Chairman, again, I don't oppose this 
amendment. I urge its adoption. But I, again, remind this House that we 
had a better policy in the bipartisan Waters-McHenry bill that would do 
more for small business and that Republicans support a reauthorization 
of the Export-Import Bank, the export agency. We want that opportunity.
  This bill, as designed, is not going to be voted on in the Senate and 
not going to become law. I look forward to the day when we are back on 
the House floor doing a bipartisan reauthorization of the Ex-Im Bank.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Michigan (Ms. Stevens).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. WATERS. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Michigan 
will be postponed.


       Amendment No. 19 Offered by Ms. Kendra S. Horn of Oklahoma

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 19 
printed in House Report 116-289.
  Ms. KENDRA S. HORN of Oklahoma. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at 
the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Page 33, after line 22, insert the following:

     SEC. __. GAO REPORT ON THE EFFECT OF AGENCY CLOSURE ON 
                   BUSINESSES THAT USE AGENCY SERVICES.

       Within 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
     the Comptroller General shall submit to the Congress a 
     written report on the effect that closure of the United 
     States Export Finance Agency would have on businesses that 
     use services of the United States Export Finance Agency.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 695, the gentlewoman 
from Oklahoma (Ms. Kendra S. Horn) and a Member opposed each will 
control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Oklahoma.
  Ms. KENDRA S. HORN of Oklahoma. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such 
time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, the Export-Import Bank is a critically important tool 
in the economic toolbox for Oklahoma businesses and workers. The Ex-Im 
Bank has long helped Oklahoma businesses sell their products to the 
global marketplace, opening the door for our economy to enter global 
commerce. Over the last 5 years alone, the Ex-Im Bank's partnership 
with businesses across my State has resulted in the export of more than 
$500 million in goods around the world.
  My amendment would require the GAO to submit to Congress, within 1 
year, a report about the impact that closure of the Export-Import Bank 
would have on businesses that utilize the Bank's services.
  I have visited with businesses across my State and district about the 
use of the Export-Import Bank and learned from them how the services of 
the Ex-Im Bank helped them to export their products. One important 
service that they shared with me is the Export-Import Bank's credit 
insurance program. This program allows businesses to purchase insurance 
and acts as a safety net in the case where a foreign buyer does not 
fully pay for the product that was exported.
  One company in my district is the Mills Machine Company, located in 
Shawnee, Oklahoma. This small business, established in 1908, is a 
family-owned custom manufacturer and worldwide exporter of earth 
drilling tools and bits. Chuck Mills, the president of Mills Machine 
Company, shared that the Export-Import Bank's credit insurance program 
allows his company to offer open account terms to their customers with 
minimal risk.
  When the Ex-Im Bank's reauthorization lapsed in 2015, Mr. Mills 
searched the private market for similar insurance to the Ex-Im Bank but 
couldn't find anything remotely comparable. His business slowed until 
the Bank's reauthorization later this year.
  The Bank's lapsed reauthorization in 2015 gave us but a small window 
into the economic hardship that would result if the Export-Import Bank 
permanently closed for the Mills Machine Company and many other similar 
businesses across this country. My amendment would help us further 
understand the impact closure of the Export-Import Bank would have on 
businesses across this country.
  I urge my colleagues to support this amendment and the 
reauthorization of this bill so American businesses across this country 
and in Oklahoma can continue to utilize the Bank to grow their 
businesses and export American products to the world.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition, 
although I am not opposed to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman is recognized for 
5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Chairman, first, let me say, as we talked 
about this morning, the Republicans supported unanimously the Waters-
McHenry bipartisan deal to reauthorize the Bank with a long, 
constructive reauthorization.
  Let me also thank the gentlewoman from Oklahoma for offering the 
amendment to think about the idea of what would be the downside to her 
constituents and to American business were the Bank to close. I would 
argue that is not a prospect here but will be useful information to 
future policymakers.
  Why do I have that point of view? Well, there is a plan to extend 
this Bank. It will not lapse.
  If we had done the Waters-McHenry bill, we wouldn't even be on the 
House floor today. We would already have this signed into law, through 
the Senate, and on its way to the President's desk. But we are here 
today because this bill is not going to be taken up in the Senate, and 
this Bank is, most

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likely, in the interim, going to be reauthorized through the 
appropriations process. But I think informing policymakers of the risks 
of it being closed is good.
  Let me also say that President Trump considers the export agency an 
important tool in his economic outfit, his economic choice of 
opportunities to support American business, to increase trade in 
exports, to counter the One Belt, One Road initiative of China. Again, 
the Waters-McHenry bill would have done a better job on that.
  The President has appointed Directors of the Ex-Im Bank that are 
fully functioning. The new President, Kim Reed, is doing a good job in 
running the Ex-Im Bank. So the Ex-Im Bank is in good shape with a good 
board and with a good mission and would have been made stronger and 
better by the Waters-McHenry bill.
  I think this information that the gentlewoman from Oklahoma suggests 
will be useful to future policymakers, and I certainly don't have a 
problem with the amendment going forward.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. KENDRA S. HORN of Oklahoma. Mr. Chairman, I will close by saying, 
the information that this amendment would provide will help us to have 
a broader picture of the economic impact and benefits of the services 
and the benefits of the Export-Import Bank.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to support this amendment and the 
underlying bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Chairman, Republicans support the 
amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Oklahoma (Ms. Kendra S. Horn).
  The amendment was agreed to.


           Amendment No. 20 Offered by Mr. Levin of Michigan

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 20 
printed in House Report 116-289.
  Mr. LEVIN of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Page 12, line 14, strike the close quotation marks and the 
     following period.
       Page 12, after line 14, insert the following:
       ``(n) Report on Consultations With Potentially Impacted 
     Communities.--The Agency shall include in its annual report 
     to Congress under subsection (a) of this section a report on 
     the steps taken by the Agency to consult with affected 
     communities, including affected workers, pursuant to section 
     11(a)(2).''.
       Page 23, line 18, insert ``, including affected workers,'' 
     before ``in the country''.
       Page 28, line 10, insert ``including impacts on workers,'' 
     before ``and on''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 695, the gentleman 
from Michigan (Mr. Levin) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Michigan.
  Mr. LEVIN of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, my amendment seeks to recognize 
the role that workers everywhere play in supporting American exports 
and to ensure that this vital constituency has a voice in projects that 
impact them directly.
  While the Export-Import Bank works to help grow American jobs, we 
must not forget the impact American export projects have on workers and 
their communities abroad.
  International trade is crucial to a strong American economy, but it 
must go beyond benefiting corporations only. It must raise the standard 
of living for workers in all countries involved. Trade should not come 
at the cost of foreign workers any more than it should come at the cost 
of the American middle class.

                              {time}  1030

  In fact, only when we help raise the standard of living in other 
countries will we end the hemorrhage of American jobs to countries with 
rock-bottom wages and inadequate protections for workers' safety and 
the environment.
  This bill already requires consultation with communities potentially 
impacted by the projects it finances, and my amendment simply makes 
clear that the workers in these communities must be consulted as well. 
This way workers will have a voice in the projects that directly affect 
them.
  My amendment also works to ensure that Congress has the best 
information possible in determining how these policies are implemented. 
The bedrock of good policy is good information, and the only way for us 
to truly judge the quality of our actions today is to ensure that we 
know how our ideas are carried out.
  The law already includes robust reporting requirements, and my 
amendment includes a simple addition to require an explanation of the 
ways in which these potentially impacted communities, including 
workers, are consulted.
  Back in my district, I am consistently heartened to see the 
solidarity among teachers, autoworkers, and so many others in Macomb 
County and Oakland County, Michigan. By passing my amendment, we can 
make clear that we, too, stand in solidarity with workers all around 
the world.
  I urge my colleagues to support this simple, yet necessary, 
amendment, and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition, although I am 
not opposed to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from North 
Carolina is recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Chair, we did have a bipartisan bill that we 
negotiated. That is not before us today. That bill would have combated 
Chinese aggression.
  What we have before us is a partisan bill, and the partisan bill is 
focused more on social policy than economic policy. It doesn't link up 
our American foreign policy and economic interest with the charter of 
this institution, so it is a huge, missed opportunity.
  This amendment would take a good step in promoting accountability for 
the effects of projects financed by the Bank. I appreciate the 
gentleman's interest in helping communities and ensuring the Bank has 
that focus. We welcome this transparency and accountability.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. LEVIN of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the gentleman's 
words, and I look forward to continuing to work with him in the spirit 
of bipartisanship.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Levin).
  The amendment was agreed to.


       Amendment No. 21 Offered by Ms. Torres Small of New Mexico

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 21 
printed in House Report 116-289.
  Ms. TORRES SMALL of New Mexico. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the 
desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Page 21, line 9, strike ``or''.
       Page 21, after line 9, insert the following:
       ``(C) sanctions relating to human rights abuses, including 
     engaging in human trafficking, including sex trafficking, and 
     any sanctions imposed under Executive Order 13581 (Blocking 
     Property of Transnational Criminal Organizations); or''.
       Page 21, line 10, strike ``(C)'' and insert ``(D)''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 695, the gentlewoman 
from New Mexico (Ms. Torres Small) and a Member opposed each will 
control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from New Mexico.
  Ms. TORRES SMALL of New Mexico. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time 
as I may consume.
  Mr. Chair, I rise to offer amendment No. 21 to H.R. 4863, the United 
States Export Finance Agency Act of 2019.
  Today's world shows an alarming trend: Human trafficking is on the 
rise. A report published earlier this year by the United Nations Office 
on Drugs and Crime found the global trend has increased steadily since 
2010.
  This is an issue found worldwide, in the United States, and in my 
home State of New Mexico. Women and girls are especially targeted.
  We know that these victims are sexually exploited and forced into 
labor, slavery, or forms of servitude by perpetrators who manipulate 
them using

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coercion, fraud, deception, and abduction.
  That is why New Mexico has launched a number of interagency 
initiatives and collaborations with nonprofits and the Federal 
Government to prevent, prosecute, and protect sex trafficking 
survivors.
  That is why the Ex-Im reauthorization bill we are voting on today 
includes forcefully stated and required exclusions to prohibit the 
Bank's board of directors from approving transactions with end users, 
obligors, and lenders involved in sanctionable activities and other 
violations of law.
  But to reinforce the point about this particularly menacing crime, I 
am offering this amendment to make it clear that these prohibitions 
against entities and individuals sanctioned for global human rights 
abuses include those who recruit, transport, transfer, harbor, receive, 
or facilitate the trafficking of men, women, and children.
  Sanctions alone are rarely, if ever, the entire solution to human 
rights or corruption crises, but they play an enormously important role 
to stop money from going to bad actors who seek to do bad things around 
the world. Every time we use these tools to disrupt that flow of money, 
we keep our country safer.
  This applies to individuals, but also to the transnational criminal 
organizations which, among other bad acts, manage the networks that 
exploit and facilitate the abuse of sex trafficking victims in the U.S. 
and abroad.
  Mr. Chair, I encourage my colleagues to join together to support this 
amendment and the underlying bill to offer a united, bipartisan front 
against human trafficking.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition, although I 
am not opposed to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from North 
Carolina is recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Chair, going back to the bill that Chairwoman Waters 
and I negotiated that we filed as H.R. 3407, we took on some of these 
tough issues about human rights abuses and did it in an aggressive way, 
especially when it pertains to China.
  The amendment here is fine. It actually will have zero effect, 
though, because, if you are a sanctioned entity, American businesses 
are prohibited from doing business with you. So what this says is not 
only are you prohibited from doing the business, you also can't get 
financing for the business you are not permitted to do.
  Okay. That is fine. You can put it in the bill or you cannot put it 
in the bill. Ex-Im will not finance a business that is prohibited under 
law.
  So now the gentlewoman is saying they are prohibited under law from 
getting financing. Okay. That is good.
  Again, it is a nice cover for what was gutted out of the bill that 
Chairwoman Waters and I negotiated, which actually did tough things. In 
that legislation, Republicans sought to restrict Ex-Im assistance for 
entities involved in sanctionable human rights abuses, including human 
trafficking and sex trafficking.
  It goes beyond this amendment. Rather than support those provisions, 
Democrats decided to allow this amendment, which is simply a watered-
down version of that provision that Republicans supported in committee.
  It will do nothing. It will do nothing in fact; it will do nothing in 
law. And so this is much more about political cover, and I will tell 
you how I will know.
  I am not going to ask for a rollcall vote on this, but I would 
suspect my Democrat colleagues will ask for a rollcall vote on this 
amendment so it gives them political cover rather than actually do 
something of substance.
  Tens of millions of individuals, worldwide, are victims of human 
trafficking. It is a tragedy. It is awful. This amendment will not have 
any effect on stopping human trafficking and human rights abuses, and, 
in fact, it merely restates existing law rather than striking 
meaningful steps toward ending these horrific practices. So that is 
fine.
  I commend my colleague for offering this. It gives a number of their 
colleagues who wish to have a watered-down bill before us, it gives 
them political cover, but it is simply a restatement of existing law.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. TORRES SMALL of New Mexico. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the 
gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters).
  Ms. WATERS. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman for offering this 
thoughtful amendment.
  This amendment prohibits the Bank from providing financing to a 
person involved in sanctionable activity relating to human rights 
abuses, specifically human trafficking, including sex trafficking.
  I strongly support the gentlewoman's amendment to strengthen this 
bill with respect to combating human trafficking, including sex 
trafficking, and, of course, I urge all of my colleagues to do so.
  This makes our bill stronger. This is the most important piece of 
legislation, and the Export-Import Bank is significant in the fact that 
it has provided 1.5 million jobs over the past 10 years, supported 
businesses to the tune of $255 billion, and made money for our Treasury 
to the tune of about $3.4 million.

  Every amendment that has come before us today has made this a 
stronger and stronger piece of legislation.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
  Ms. TORRES SMALL of New Mexico. Mr. Chair, I yield the gentlewoman 
from California an additional 1 minute.
  Ms. WATERS. I am sorry that the gentleman from North Carolina is 
still bemoaning the fact that the first bill that we negotiated is not 
before us.
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Chair, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  As we close this debate, and this is the last amendment before us, I 
do want to reiterate that I am grateful to Chairwoman Waters. Again, I 
want to thank the gentlewoman for ignoring the requests from the 
extreme left of her own party and their demands for having the Bank ban 
coal technology exports.
  There are some minor environmental provisions in here that have a 
negative impact on American industries and their ability to sell 
overseas, but I am grateful that she ignored the request from members 
of her party on the extreme left and their demands to tell the Bank to 
stop funding coal and only fund clean energy projects; so the Bank will 
continue to be able to fund coal and cleaner coal technology exports in 
adherence with the environmental standards of the regime they are 
sending.
  It could have been absolutely devastating in terms of the 
consequences on energy production, but they simply chose to do minor 
things. I think that is a laudatory thing that deserves some bipartisan 
praise that the extreme left did not win the day in terms of that piece 
of policy in this bill.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on final passage of 
this bill. We will have an extension of the Bank. We will continue to 
use Export-Import financing for perhaps up to 2 percent of our exports. 
That will be a helpful thing.
  But what we need to do is focus, also, on combating the rise of 
Chinese aggression economically, and I think we have that capacity. 
This is not the way to do it. This bill is going nowhere in the Senate. 
The President has already said that he will veto it.
  So let's get on with the business of the American people, and let's 
get back to sensible policy discussions here.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to support this amendment--though it 
will have no impact whatsoever; it is a restatement of existing law; it 
is fine, but it doesn't actually have real teeth to it--and vote ``no'' 
on the final passage of this bill.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. TORRES SMALL of New Mexico. Mr. Chairman, I thank Chairwoman 
Waters and the advocates fighting for the Bank's reauthorization.
  Again, we must ensure that bad actors who seek to do bad things 
around the world don't profit from their crimes. I urge my colleagues 
to support this amendment and final passage of the bill.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from New Mexico (Ms. Torres Small).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.

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  Ms. WATERS. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from New Mexico 
will be postponed.


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings 
will now resume on those amendments printed in House Report 116-289 on 
which further proceedings were postponed, in the following order:
  Amendment No. 2 by Mrs. Torres of California.
  Amendment No. 3 by Mr. Flores of Texas.
  Amendment No. 4 by Mr. McAdams of Utah.
  Amendment No. 5 by Mr. Davidson of Ohio.
  Amendment No. 18 by Ms. Stevens of Michigan.
  Amendment No. 21 by Ms. Torres Small of New Mexico.
  The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the minimum time for any 
electronic vote after the first vote in this series.


          Amendment No. 2 Offered by Mrs. Torres of California

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from 
California (Mrs. Torres) on which further proceedings were postponed 
and on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 419, 
noes 2, not voting 15, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 617]

                               AYES--419

     Abraham
     Adams
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Allen
     Allred
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Axne
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Barragan
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bera
     Bergman
     Beyer
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NC)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bost
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brady
     Brindisi
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (MD)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budd
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Case
     Casten (IL)
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chabot
     Cheney
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Cisneros
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Comer
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Cox (CA)
     Craig
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Cunningham
     Curtis
     Davids (KS)
     Davidson (OH)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny K.
     Davis, Rodney
     Dean
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Delgado
     Demings
     DeSaulnier
     DesJarlais
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Emmer
     Engel
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Estes
     Evans
     Ferguson
     Finkenauer
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flores
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx (NC)
     Frankel
     Fudge
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Gianforte
     Gibbs
     Gohmert
     Golden
     Gomez
     Gonzalez (OH)
     Gonzalez (TX)
     Gooden
     Gottheimer
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Green, Al (TX)
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Haaland
     Hagedorn
     Harder (CA)
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings
     Hayes
     Heck
     Hern, Kevin
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Higgins (NY)
     Hill (AR)
     Himes
     Holding
     Hollingsworth
     Horn, Kendra S.
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hudson
     Huffman
     Huizenga
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Jackson Lee
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson (TX)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kaptur
     Katko
     Keating
     Keller
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger
     Kirkpatrick
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster (NH)
     Kustoff (TN)
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamb
     Lamborn
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     Lawrence
     Lawson (FL)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lesko
     Levin (CA)
     Levin (MI)
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan
     Luria
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Massie
     Mast
     Matsui
     McAdams
     McBath
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McNerney
     Meadows
     Meeks
     Meng
     Meuser
     Miller
     Mitchell
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Moore
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mucarsel-Powell
     Mullin
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (NC)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Norcross
     Norman
     Norton
     Nunes
     O'Halleran
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Pallone
     Palmer
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters
     Peterson
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Posey
     Pressley
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (NY)
     Rice (SC)
     Richmond
     Riggleman
     Roby
     Rodgers (WA)
     Roe, David P.
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rooney (FL)
     Rose (NY)
     Rose, John W.
     Rouda
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Sablan
     San Nicolas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Sewell (AL)
     Shalala
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Shimkus
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Smucker
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Spano
     Speier
     Stanton
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stevens
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Suozzi
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Taylor
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tipton
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres Small (NM)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Turner
     Upton
     Van Drew
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watkins
     Watson Coleman
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Welch
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Wright
     Yarmuth
     Yoho
     Young
     Zeldin

                                NOES--2

     Amash
     Gosar
       

                             NOT VOTING--15

     Connolly
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Gonzalez-Colon (PR)
     Lofgren
     Marchant
     Marshall
     McEachin
     Omar
     Plaskett
     Radewagen
     Ratcliffe
     Serrano
     Timmons
     Underwood

                              {time}  1112

  Messrs. LAMBORN, YOHO, BIGGS, FERGUSON, and EMMER changed their vote 
from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Ms. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Chair, I missed rollcall No. 617, on agreeing to 
the Torres (CA) amendment to H.R. 4863. Had I been present, I would 
have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 617.


                 Amendment No. 3 Offered by Mr. Flores

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Flores) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the 
noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 188, 
noes 232, not voting 16, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 618]

                               AYES--188

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bergman
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     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)
     Comer
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Cook
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson (OH)
     Davis, Rodney
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dunn
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ferguson
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flores
     Fortenberry
     Foxx (NC)
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Gianforte
     Gibbs
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez (OH)
     Gooden
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hagedorn
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hern, Kevin
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill (AR)
     Holding
     Hollingsworth
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan

[[Page H8896]]


     Joyce (PA)
     Katko
     Keller
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger
     Kustoff (TN)
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamb
     Lamborn
     Latta
     Lesko
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     Meuser
     Miller
     Mitchell
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Murphy (NC)
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Pence
     Posey
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (SC)
     Riggleman
     Roby
     Rodgers (WA)
     Roe, David P.
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose, John W.
     Rouzer
     Rutherford
     Scalise
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Shimkus
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smucker
     Spano
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Taylor
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Vela
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Watkins
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Wild
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Wright
     Yoho
     Young
     Zeldin

                               NOES--232

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Amash
     Axne
     Barragan
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Biggs
     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
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Cox (CA)
     Craig
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Cunningham
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny K.
     Dean
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Delgado
     Demings
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duncan
     Engel
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Finkenauer
     Foster
     Frankel
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Golden
     Gomez
     Gonzalez (TX)
     Gosar
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Haaland
     Harder (CA)
     Hastings
     Hayes
     Heck
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horn, Kendra S.
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Jackson Lee
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (TX)
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim
     King (IA)
     Kirkpatrick
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster (NH)
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lawson (FL)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Levin (CA)
     Levin (MI)
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Luria
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McAdams
     McBath
     McCollum
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meadows
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mucarsel-Powell
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Norcross
     Norton
     O'Halleran
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters
     Peterson
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Rooney (FL)
     Rose (NY)
     Rouda
     Roy
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan
     Sablan
     San Nicolas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell (AL)
     Shalala
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Speier
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Suozzi
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres Small (NM)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Van Drew
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wexton
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--16

     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Gonzalez-Colon (PR)
     Horsford
     Joyce (OH)
     Kind
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Marchant
     Marshall
     McEachin
     Omar
     Plaskett
     Radewagen
     Serrano
     Timmons


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1117

  Messrs. GARCIA of Illinois and COX of California changed their vote 
from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Mr. VELA. Mr. Chair, during a long vote series today, I 
unintentionally voted aye on the Flores Amendment to H.R. 4863 United 
States Export Finance Agency Act, on rollcall number 618. Had I been 
able to correct my vote at that time, I would have voted ``nay.''


                 Amendment No. 4 Offered by Mr. McAdams

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Utah (Mr. 
McAdams) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the 
ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 414, 
noes 1, not voting 21, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 619]

                               AYES--414

     Abraham
     Adams
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Allen
     Allred
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Axne
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Barragan
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bera
     Bergman
     Beyer
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NC)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bost
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brady
     Brindisi
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (MD)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Case
     Casten (IL)
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chabot
     Cheney
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Cisneros
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Comer
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Cook
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Cox (CA)
     Craig
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Cunningham
     Curtis
     Davids (KS)
     Davidson (OH)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny K.
     Davis, Rodney
     Dean
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Delgado
     Demings
     DeSaulnier
     DesJarlais
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Emmer
     Engel
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Estes
     Evans
     Ferguson
     Finkenauer
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flores
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx (NC)
     Frankel
     Fudge
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Gianforte
     Gibbs
     Gohmert
     Golden
     Gomez
     Gonzalez (OH)
     Gonzalez (TX)
     Gooden
     Gosar
     Gottheimer
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Green, Al (TX)
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Haaland
     Hagedorn
     Harder (CA)
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings
     Hayes
     Heck
     Hern, Kevin
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Higgins (NY)
     Hill (AR)
     Himes
     Hollingsworth
     Horn, Kendra S.
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hudson
     Huffman
     Huizenga
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson (TX)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kaptur
     Katko
     Keating
     Keller
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger
     Kirkpatrick
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster (NH)
     Kustoff (TN)
     LaHood
     Lamb
     Lamborn
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     Lawrence
     Lawson (FL)
     Lee (CA)
     Lesko
     Levin (CA)
     Levin (MI)
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan
     Luria
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Massie
     Mast
     Matsui
     McAdams
     McBath
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McNerney
     Meadows
     Meeks
     Meng
     Meuser
     Miller
     Mitchell
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Moore
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mucarsel-Powell
     Mullin
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (NC)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Norcross
     Norman
     Norton
     Nunes
     O'Halleran
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Pallone
     Palmer
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters
     Peterson
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Posey
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (NY)
     Rice (SC)
     Richmond
     Riggleman
     Roby
     Rodgers (WA)
     Roe, David P.
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rooney (FL)
     Rose (NY)
     Rose, John W.
     Rouda
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Sablan
     San Nicolas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Sewell (AL)
     Shalala
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Shimkus
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Smucker
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Spano
     Speier
     Stanton
     Stauber

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     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stevens
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Suozzi
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Taylor
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tipton
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres Small (NM)
     Trone
     Turner
     Underwood
     Upton
     Van Drew
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watkins
     Watson Coleman
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Welch
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Wright
     Yarmuth
     Yoho
     Young
     Zeldin

                                NOES--1

       
     Amash
       

                             NOT VOTING--21

     Budd
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Gonzalez-Colon (PR)
     Holding
     Jackson Lee
     Kind
     LaMalfa
     Lee (NV)
     Lofgren
     Marchant
     Marshall
     McEachin
     Omar
     Plaskett
     Pressley
     Radewagen
     Serrano
     Timmons
     Torres (CA)
     Trahan


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1121

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Mrs. LEE of Nevada. Mr. Chair, had I been present, I would have voted 
``yea'' on rollcall No. 619.


            Amendment No. 5 Offered by Mr. Davidson of Ohio

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. 
Davidson) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the 
noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 210, 
noes 214, not voting 12, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 620]

                               AYES--210

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bergman
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Bishop (UT)
     Bost
     Brady
     Brindisi
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budd
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Cheney
     Cline
     Cloud
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Comer
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cox (CA)
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson (OH)
     Davis, Rodney
     Delgado
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ferguson
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flores
     Fortenberry
     Foxx (NC)
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Gianforte
     Gibbs
     Gohmert
     Golden
     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)
     Holding
     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
     Lamb
     Lamborn
     Latta
     Lesko
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luria
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     Meadows
     Meuser
     Miller
     Mitchell
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Moulton
     Mullin
     Murphy (NC)
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Peterson
     Posey
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (SC)
     Riggleman
     Roby
     Rodgers (WA)
     Roe, David P.
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rooney (FL)
     Rose (NY)
     Rose, John W.
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Scalise
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Shimkus
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spanberger
     Spano
     Speier
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Taylor
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Van Drew
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Watkins
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Wild
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Wright
     Yoho
     Young
     Zeldin

                               NOES--214

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Amash
     Axne
     Barragan
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brown (MD)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Case
     Casten (IL)
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Cisneros
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Cunningham
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny K.
     Dean
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Demings
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Engel
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Finkenauer
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Frankel
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez (TX)
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Haaland
     Harder (CA)
     Hastings
     Hayes
     Heck
     Higgins (NY)
     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)
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lawson (FL)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Levin (CA)
     Levin (MI)
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McAdams
     McBath
     McCollum
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Morelle
     Mucarsel-Powell
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Norcross
     Norton
     O'Halleran
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Rouda
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Sablan
     San Nicolas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell (AL)
     Shalala
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Sires
     Smith (WA)
     Soto
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Suozzi
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres Small (NM)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wexton
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Gonzalez-Colon (PR)
     Lofgren
     Marchant
     Marshall
     McEachin
     Omar
     Plaskett
     Radewagen
     Serrano
     Timmons


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1127

  Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ changed her vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                Amendment No. 18 Offered by Ms. Stevens

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Michigan 
(Ms. Stevens) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 396, 
noes 27, not voting 13, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 621]

                               AYES--396

     Abraham
     Adams
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Axne
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Barragan
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bera
     Bergman
     Beyer
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NC)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bost
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brady
     Brindisi
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (MD)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budd
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Case
     Casten (IL)
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chabot
     Cheney
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Cisneros

[[Page H8898]]


     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Comer
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Cook
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Cox (CA)
     Craig
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Cunningham
     Curtis
     Davids (KS)
     Davidson (OH)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny K.
     Davis, Rodney
     Dean
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Delgado
     Demings
     DeSaulnier
     DesJarlais
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Dunn
     Emmer
     Engel
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Estes
     Evans
     Finkenauer
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flores
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx (NC)
     Frankel
     Fudge
     Fulcher
     Gallagher
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Gianforte
     Gibbs
     Gohmert
     Golden
     Gomez
     Gonzalez (OH)
     Gonzalez (TX)
     Gooden
     Gottheimer
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al (TX)
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Haaland
     Hagedorn
     Harder (CA)
     Hartzler
     Hastings
     Hayes
     Heck
     Hern, Kevin
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins (LA)
     Higgins (NY)
     Hill (AR)
     Himes
     Holding
     Hollingsworth
     Horn, Kendra S.
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hudson
     Huffman
     Huizenga
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Jackson Lee
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson (TX)
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kaptur
     Katko
     Keating
     Keller
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger
     Kirkpatrick
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster (NH)
     Kustoff (TN)
     LaHood
     Lamb
     Lamborn
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     Lawrence
     Lawson (FL)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Levin (CA)
     Levin (MI)
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan
     Luria
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McAdams
     McBath
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McCollum
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McNerney
     Meadows
     Meeks
     Meng
     Meuser
     Miller
     Mitchell
     Moolenaar
     Moore
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mucarsel-Powell
     Mullin
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (NC)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Norcross
     Norman
     Norton
     Nunes
     O'Halleran
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters
     Peterson
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Posey
     Pressley
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (NY)
     Rice (SC)
     Richmond
     Riggleman
     Roby
     Rodgers (WA)
     Roe, David P.
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rooney (FL)
     Rose (NY)
     Rose, John W.
     Rouda
     Rouzer
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Sablan
     San Nicolas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Sewell (AL)
     Shalala
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Shimkus
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Spano
     Speier
     Stanton
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Stevens
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Suozzi
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Taylor
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tipton
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres Small (NM)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Turner
     Underwood
     Upton
     Van Drew
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watkins
     Watson Coleman
     Webster (FL)
     Welch
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yarmuth
     Yoho
     Zeldin

                                NOES--27

     Allen
     Amash
     Babin
     Biggs
     Burchett
     Duncan
     Ferguson
     Gaetz
     Gosar
     Green (TN)
     Harris
     Hice (GA)
     Jordan
     Kelly (MS)
     LaMalfa
     Lesko
     Massie
     Mast
     McClintock
     Mooney (WV)
     Palmer
     Roy
     Smith (NE)
     Steube
     Weber (TX)
     Wright
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Gonzalez-Colon (PR)
     Lofgren
     Marchant
     Marshall
     McEachin
     Omar
     Plaskett
     Radewagen
     Serrano
     Smith (WA)
     Timmons


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1131

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


       Amendment No. 21 Offered by Ms. Torres Small of New Mexico

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from New 
Mexico (Ms. Torres Small) on which further proceedings were postponed 
and on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 417, 
noes 2, not voting 17, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 622]

                               AYES--417

     Abraham
     Adams
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Allen
     Allred
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Axne
     Babin
     Bacon
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Barragan
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bera
     Bergman
     Beyer
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NC)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bost
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brady
     Brindisi
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (MD)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budd
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Case
     Casten (IL)
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chabot
     Cheney
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Cisneros
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Comer
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Cook
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Cox (CA)
     Craig
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Cunningham
     Curtis
     Davids (KS)
     Davidson (OH)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny K.
     Davis, Rodney
     Dean
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Delgado
     Demings
     DeSaulnier
     DesJarlais
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Dunn
     Emmer
     Engel
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Estes
     Evans
     Ferguson
     Finkenauer
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flores
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx (NC)
     Frankel
     Fudge
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Gianforte
     Gibbs
     Gohmert
     Golden
     Gomez
     Gonzalez (OH)
     Gonzalez (TX)
     Gooden
     Gosar
     Gottheimer
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Green, Al (TX)
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Haaland
     Hagedorn
     Harder (CA)
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings
     Hayes
     Heck
     Hern, Kevin
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Higgins (NY)
     Hill (AR)
     Himes
     Holding
     Hollingsworth
     Horn, Kendra S.
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hudson
     Huffman
     Huizenga
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Jackson Lee
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson (TX)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Katko
     Keating
     Keller
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger
     Kirkpatrick
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster (NH)
     Kustoff (TN)
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamb
     Lamborn
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     Lawrence
     Lawson (FL)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lesko
     Levin (CA)
     Levin (MI)
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan
     Luria
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Mast
     Matsui
     McAdams
     McBath
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McNerney
     Meadows
     Meeks
     Meng
     Meuser
     Miller
     Mitchell
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Moore
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mucarsel-Powell
     Mullin
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (NC)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Norcross
     Norman
     Norton
     Nunes
     O'Halleran
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Pallone
     Palmer
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters
     Peterson
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Posey
     Pressley
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (NY)
     Rice (SC)
     Richmond
     Riggleman
     Roby
     Rodgers (WA)
     Roe, David P.
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rooney (FL)
     Rose (NY)
     Rose, John W.
     Rouda
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Sablan
     San Nicolas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Sewell (AL)
     Shalala
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Shimkus
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Smucker
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Spano
     Speier
     Stanton
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stevens

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     Stewart
     Stivers
     Suozzi
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Taylor
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tipton
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres Small (NM)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Turner
     Underwood
     Upton
     Van Drew
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watkins
     Watson Coleman
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Welch
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Wright
     Yarmuth
     Yoho
     Young
     Zeldin

                                NOES--2

     Amash
       
     Massie
       
       
       

                             NOT VOTING--17

     Baird
     Duncan
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Gonzalez-Colon (PR)
     Kaptur
     Lofgren
     Marchant
     Marshall
     McEachin
     Omar
     Plaskett
     Radewagen
     Rush
     Serrano
     Timmons
     Woodall


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1136

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Mr. BAIRD. Mr. Chair, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, 
I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 622.
  Mr. RUSH. Mr. Chair, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, 
I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 622.
  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Kildee). There being no further amendments 
under the rule, the Committee rises.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. Cox 
of California) having assumed the chair, Mr. Kildee, Acting Chair of 
the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, reported 
that that Committee, having had under consideration the bill (H.R. 
4863) to promote the competitiveness of the United States, to reform 
and reauthorize the United States Export Finance Agency, and for other 
purposes, and, pursuant to House Resolution 695, he reported the bill, 
as amended by that resolution, back to the House with sundry further 
amendments adopted in the Committee of the Whole.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the rule, the previous question is 
ordered.
  Is a separate vote demanded on any further amendment reported from 
the Committee of the Whole? If not, the Chair will put them en gros.
  The amendments were agreed to.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the engrossment and third 
reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was 
read the third time.


                           Motion to Recommit

  Mr. RIGGLEMAN. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentleman opposed to the bill?
  Mr. RIGGLEMAN. I am opposed to the bill in its current form.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. Riggleman moves to recommit the bill H.R. 4863 to the 
     Committee on Financial Services with instructions to report 
     the same to the House forthwith with the following amendment:
       Page 33, after line 22, insert the following:

     SEC. __. LIMITATION ON FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE CHINESE 
                   GOVERNMENT.

       Section 2 of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 (12 U.S.C. 
     635), as amended by the preceding provisions of this Act, is 
     amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(n) Limitation on Financial Assistance for the Chinese 
     Government.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Agency may not provide a loan, 
     guarantee, or insurance benefitting the Government of China 
     (whether as a lender, obligor, or end user), with respect to 
     which credit assistance from the Agency is first sought after 
     the effective date of this subsection, if the lender, 
     obligor, or end user knowingly provides significant 
     financial, material, technological, or other support to, or 
     significant goods or services in support of any of the 
     following policies, activities, or entities of the Government 
     of China:
       ``(A) The People's Liberation Army.
       ``(B) The Ministry of State Security.
       ``(C) The Belt and Road Initiative (or any successor or 
     comparable initiative of that government).
       ``(D) Gross violations of internationally recognized human 
     rights (as defined in section 502B of the Foreign Assistance 
     Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2304(d)(1))), including such 
     violations with respect to ethnic or religious minorities in 
     China.
       ``(E) The theft of United States intellectual property or 
     the illicit transfer of technology from a United States 
     person.
       ``(2) Exemption.--Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a loan, 
     guarantee, or insurance which--
       ``(A) would enable exports directly by United States small 
     business concerns; or
       ``(B) is required for the export of humanitarian goods or 
     services, including lifesaving, rescue, and medical equipment 
     (such as ambulances, firefighting vehicles, hospital 
     supplies, and medical devices).
       ``(3) Presidential waiver.--The President may waive any 
     requirement of paragraph (1) for up to 1 year at a time, on 
     reporting in writing to the committees specified in paragraph 
     (1) that the waiver is essential to the national interest of 
     the United States, with a detailed explanation of the reasons 
     therefor.
       ``(4) Definitions.--In paragraph (1):
       ``(A) Government of china.--The term `Government of China' 
     means--
       ``(i) the state and the Government of China, as well as any 
     political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality thereof;
       ``(ii) any entity owned or controlled, directly or 
     indirectly, by any of the foregoing, including any 
     corporation, partnership, association, or other entity in 
     which any of the foregoing owns a 50 percent or greater 
     interest or a controlling interest, and any entity which is 
     otherwise controlled by any of the foregoing;
       ``(iii) any person that is or has been acting or purporting 
     to act, directly or indirectly, for or on behalf of any of 
     the foregoing; and
       ``(iv) any other person which the Secretary of the Treasury 
     determines is included in any of the foregoing.
       ``(B) Knowingly.--The term `knowingly', with respect to 
     conduct, a circumstance, or a result, means that a person has 
     actual knowledge, or should have known, of the conduct, the 
     circumstance, or the result.''.

  Mr. RIGGLEMAN (during the reading). Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous 
consent to dispense with the reading.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Virginia?
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from 
Virginia is recognized for 5 minutes in support of his motion.
  Mr. RIGGLEMAN. Mr. Speaker, this amendment will not kill the bill but 
simply strengthen it so the House can send a strong message to China.
  I offer this MTR for a very simple reason: China is a problem. China 
is a major human rights violator; China is responsible for 
unprecedented amounts of personal data and intellectual property theft; 
and China's military seeks to extend its reach throughout the world.
  Based on my experience in the Department of Defense and in 
intelligence communities, I can personally attest to the multitude of 
threats China poses.
  If my colleagues across the aisle believe that part of a healthy Ex-
Im Bank is ignoring the issues China presents, then go ahead and vote 
against this MTR and guarantee uncertainty for long-term Ex-Im 
reauthorization.
  But if, like me, you understand and care about what happens to 
freedom and democracy around the world, and if you care about human 
rights around the world and you want to see the Bank reauthorized with 
a purpose, then please join me in supporting this MTR that imposes 
necessary and just requirements for entities wishing to do business 
with Chinese state-owned enterprises.
  I want to share a quote from our Speaker of the House on China. When 
speaking to a group of survivors at the 30-year anniversary of 
Tiananmen Square, Speaker Pelosi said: ``We cannot allow economic 
interests with China to blind us to the moral injustices committed by 
China.'' And about an hour ago, the Speaker came to the well and 
documented Chinese human rights abuses and actions and said, ``It is 
against humanity.''
  Well said, Madam Speaker. I couldn't agree more. I would also like to 
add that missing from that quote is that we should not allow economic 
interests with China to blind us to the threats of national security.
  In that same vein, earlier this week, the Financial Services 
Committee held a hearing focused on multilateral development banks. My 
colleague, Mr. Sherman, who is the chair of the Asia, the Pacific, and 
Nonproliferation Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, 
attended that hearing and spoke eloquently and forcefully, arguing: 
``As long as China benefits one penny from this institution, it is an 
attack on the national security of the United States.''

[[Page H8900]]

  Well, if Mr. Sherman is alarmed by World Bank loans benefiting small-
scale farmers in China, surely he and his colleagues don't want Ex-Im 
assistance supporting China's largest semiconductor manufacturer, 
China's major technology providers such as Huawei, or China's Export-
Import Banks or their state-owned shipping groups that are taking over 
ports in Europe, South America and other parts of the world as we 
speak.
  The questions we face today are not partisan. The question is: Do we 
as Americans, as Members of Congress that have sworn an oath to protect 
this country, allow Ex-Im to finance Chinese Government-controlled 
entities that are building military installations in the South China 
Sea, installations which one day may threaten the lives of U.S. 
servicemembers?
  Do we allow Ex-Im to support Chinese companies that support Beijing's 
brutal oppression of religious minorities in western China or the 
surveillance of freedom-loving protesters in Hong Kong?
  I use these examples to make the point that we are united in this 
body, and we should be. It is easy, it is simple, and it is good for 
America and American businesses and good for the millions of oppressed 
people in China that we pass this MTR.
  To make this amendment even easier to implement, it does not mandate 
any particular bureaucratic procedures for Ex-Im. My amendment achieves 
the same objective of the original bipartisan Waters-McHenry agreement, 
but provides more flexibility so that Ex-Im can remain nimble.
  Mr. Speaker, in closing, I would like to say to all of my colleagues 
who claim to be interested in helping American workers and American 
businesses two things: pass USMCA, pass an Ex-Im reauthorization that 
is tough on China and also good for American workers. These things are 
not mutually exclusive.
  To borrow the phrase so many of my colleagues like to use: We can 
walk and chew gum at the same time. And we could do it easily today 
with bipartisan support. If the people's House does the people's 
business, then the Senate will take those measures up and the President 
will sign them into law and your constituents will thank you for it.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to join me, and I yield back 
the balance of my time.
  Mr. HECK. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the motion.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Washington is recognized 
for 5 minutes.
  Mr. HECK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to this 
motion, because I also rise, as I have so many times before, as a 
strong supporter of the Export-Import Bank, and I am going to tell you 
why.
  It is because I want us to be a nation that builds things. I want the 
most advanced factories in the world, building the most complex goods 
invented, to be located in America and filled with American workers. 
That is what I want. And I actually think we all, all 435 of us, want 
that.
  We vote for manufacturing tax breaks. We vote for infrastructure to 
improve the shipment of manufactured goods. We vote for programs to 
develop a manufacturing workforce.
  Those bills are not controversial, because we all want American 
manufacturers to keep their production facilities here. We want them to 
tap into new markets and add more ships and keep increasing good-paying 
jobs that don't require a mountain of college debt.
  But to do that, we must have a robust export credit agency. Private 
markets simply cannot meet the needs of our smallest and largest 
exporters. Every other major economy in the world has figured this out. 
They all set up export credit agencies to boost their manufacturers. 
Only the U.S. alone sabotages itself.
  For 7 years I have been fighting to end this sabotage and to restore 
the Bank to its rightful place supporting manufacturing jobs, and we 
are slowly succeeding, but none of it has come easy.
  Over 7 years, the opponents of the Bank have evolved in their 
tactics.
  At first, they outright opposed the Bank and called for it to be 
shuttered. Ultimately, those arguments failed, because we didn't want 
to unilaterally disarm.
  Next, they claimed to support the Ex-Im, but only if the agency's 
charter was crippled in its support for our most advanced manufacturing 
goods. They would restrict the Bank from backing sales in--listen to 
this, Mr. Speaker--U.S. locomotives and aircrafts and turbines to our 
largest foreign markets. Again, these arguments failed, because we knew 
our purpose was to support American workers.
  Finally, in the last few weeks, we have come to this point where 
support of Ex-Im is conditioned on turning it into a foreign policy 
agency, but these arguments must fail too.
  Everyone on both sides of the Chamber wants to do more to combat the 
near peer competition of China and all the threat that they pose to our 
system of government and our values, but passion untempered by 
expertise can lead to some very bad outcomes.
  The truth is, the Financial Services Committee does not have the 
expertise necessary to make China policy. The Ex-Im Bank does not have 
the expertise either, and I fear that making it to do so will lead to 
very bad outcomes, loss of U.S. goods and lost jobs for U.S. workers.
  The MTR would create one-way sales. They are going to sell to us, but 
we can't sell to them.
  A version of this amendment was rejected in committee not once, not 
twice, not three times, but seven times. No more sales to railroads or 
to utilities or of airplanes.
  There is a better way, and it is included in the underlying bill, 
that is sharply focused and targeted to hold China accountable.
  I understand the frustration with China, as I have sat on this floor 
before. You know what? If we want to relitigate admission of China into 
the WTO, bring it out. Let's have that debate, but let's not do it 
under the subterfuge of trying to cripple and hamper the Export-Import 
Bank.
  There is an exemption in this bill supposedly for small businesses. 
Mr. Speaker, when are the Republicans going to get into their heads the 
notion of a supply chain? Big businesses have massive supply chains 
made up of what? Small businesses.
  If we pass this MTR, I guarantee this is what is going to happen: 
increased bankruptcy, factory workers laid off, factories closed in 
America. That is what will happen. Let's not shoot ourselves in the 
foot.
  Mr. Speaker, if the Republicans want us to be a nation that builds 
the most sophisticated machines on land, on sea, in the air, in space, 
if the Republicans want us to be a nation that sends its goods around 
the world, defeat this motion, support this bill, and put the Ex-Im on 
a strong footing to meet the challenges of the decade to come.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the previous question is 
ordered on the motion to recommit.
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. RIGGLEMAN. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair 
will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on 
passage of the bill.
  This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 203, 
noes 218, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 623]

                               AYES--203

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bergman
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     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)
     Comer
     Conaway
     Cook
     Craig
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson (OH)
     Davis, Rodney
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ferguson
     Finkenauer
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flores
     Fortenberry
     Foxx (NC)
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Gianforte

[[Page H8901]]


     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)
     Holding
     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
     Lamborn
     Latta
     Lee (NV)
     Lesko
     Lipinski
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     Meadows
     Meuser
     Miller
     Mitchell
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Murphy (NC)
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Porter
     Posey
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (SC)
     Riggleman
     Roby
     Rodgers (WA)
     Roe, David P.
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rooney (FL)
     Rose (NY)
     Rose, John W.
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Scalise
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Shimkus
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spanberger
     Spano
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Taylor
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Van Drew
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Watkins
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Wright
     Yoho
     Young
     Zeldin

                               NOES--218

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Amash
     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
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Cox (CA)
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     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
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Frankel
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Golden
     Gomez
     Gonzalez (TX)
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Haaland
     Harder (CA)
     Hastings
     Hayes
     Heck
     Higgins (NY)
     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)
     Levin (CA)
     Levin (MI)
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Loebsack
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Luria
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McAdams
     McBath
     McCollum
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mucarsel-Powell
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Norcross
     O'Halleran
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Pressley
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Rouda
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell (AL)
     Shalala
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Soto
     Speier
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Suozzi
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres Small (NM)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wexton
     Wild
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Lofgren
     Marchant
     Marshall
     McEachin
     Omar
     Serrano
     Timmons


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

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

                              {time}  1156

  So the motion to recommit was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 235, 
noes 184, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 624]

                               AYES--235

     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
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Cox (CA)
     Craig
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     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
     Fitzpatrick
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Frankel
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Golden
     Gomez
     Gonzalez (TX)
     Gottheimer
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Haaland
     Harder (CA)
     Hastings
     Hayes
     Heck
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horn, Kendra S.
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hunter
     Jackson Lee
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (TX)
     Kaptur
     Katko
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim
     Kind
     Kinzinger
     Kirkpatrick
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster (NH)
     Lamb
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lawson (FL)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Levin (CA)
     Levin (MI)
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Long
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan
     Luria
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McAdams
     McBath
     McCollum
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mucarsel-Powell
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Norcross
     O'Halleran
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Reed
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Roby
     Rose (NY)
     Rouda
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell (AL)
     Shalala
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Speier
     Stanton
     Stefanik
     Stevens
     Suozzi
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres Small (NM)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Upton
     Van Drew
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wagner
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wexton
     Wild
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NOES--184

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bergman
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     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)
     Comer
     Conaway
     Cook
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson (OH)
     Davis, Rodney
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ferguson
     Fleischmann
     Fortenberry
     Foxx (NC)
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Gianforte
     Gibbs
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez (OH)
     Gooden
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Green (TN)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hagedorn
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hern, Kevin
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill (AR)
     Holding
     Hollingsworth
     Hudson
     Huffman
     Huizenga
     Hurd (TX)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Keller
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kustoff (TN)
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Latta
     Lesko
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     Meadows
     Meuser
     Miller
     Mitchell
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Murphy (NC)
     Norman
     Nunes
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Posey
     Pressley
     Ratcliffe
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (SC)
     Riggleman
     Rodgers (WA)
     Roe, David P.
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rooney (FL)
     Rose, John W.
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Shimkus
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker

[[Page H8902]]


     Spano
     Stauber
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Taylor
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tipton
     Tlaib
     Turner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Watkins
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Wright
     Yoho
     Young
     Zeldin

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Flores
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Herrera Beutler
     Lofgren
     Marchant
     Marshall
     McEachin
     Omar
     Serrano
     Timmons


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

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

                              {time}  1204

  So the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

                          ____________________