Congressional Record, Volume 165 Issue 183 (Friday, November 15, 2019)

[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.

{time} 0919

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.

{time} 0930

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''.

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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
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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.

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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

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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

[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

[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

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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

[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

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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.

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