[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 213 (Wednesday, December 16, 2020)]
[House]
[Pages H7224-H7225]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    TRANSPARENCY AND EFFECTIVE ACCOUNTABILITY MEASURES FOR VETERAN 
                             CAREGIVERS ACT

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the 
unfinished business is the vote on the motion to suspend the rules and 
pass the bill (S. 2216) to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 
formally recognize caregivers of veterans, notify veterans and 
caregivers of clinical determinations relating to eligibility for the 
family caregiver program, and temporarily extend benefits for veterans 
who are determined ineligible for the family caregiver program, and for 
other purposes, on which the yeas and nays were ordered.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Takano) that the House suspend the rules 
and pass the bill.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 380, 
nays 0, not voting 49, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 244]

                               YEAS--380

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Allen
     Allred
     Amash
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Axne
     Babin
     Bacon
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Barragan
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bera
     Bergman
     Beyer
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NC)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bost
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brindisi
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (MD)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budd
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Calvert
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Carter (GA)
     Cartwright
     Case
     Casten (IL)
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chabot
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Cisneros
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Cline
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Comer
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Cox (CA)
     Craig
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Cunningham
     Davids (KS)
     Davidson (OH)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny K.
     Davis, Rodney
     Dean
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Delgado
     Demings
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Emmer
     Engel
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Estes
     Evans
     Ferguson
     Finkenauer
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx (NC)
     Frankel
     Fudge
     Fulcher
     Gabbard
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (CA)
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Gianforte
     Gohmert
     Golden
     Gomez
     Gonzalez (OH)
     Gooden
     Gosar
     Gottheimer
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Green, Al (TX)
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Grothman
     Guthrie
     Haaland
     Hagedorn
     Hall
     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
     Hurd (TX)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     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 (NY)
     Kirkpatrick
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster (NH)
     Kustoff (TN)
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamb
     Lamborn
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     Lawrence
     Lawson (FL)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Levin (CA)
     Levin (MI)
     Lieu, Ted
     Lofgren
     Long
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan
     Luria
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Massie
     Mast
     Matsui
     McAdams
     McBath
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McEachin
     McGovern
     McKinley
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Meuser
     Mfume
     Miller
     Moolenaar
     Moore
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mucarsel-Powell
     Mullin
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (NC)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Norcross
     Norman
     Nunes
     O'Halleran
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     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
     Rodgers (WA)

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     Roe, David P.
     Rose (NY)
     Rose, John W.
     Rouda
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Rutherford
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Shalala
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Smucker
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Speier
     Stanton
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stevens
     Stivers
     Suozzi
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Taylor
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Tipton
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres Small (NM)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Turner
     Underwood
     Upton
     Van Drew
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walberg
     Walden
     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
     Yarmuth
     Young
     Zeldin

                             NOT VOTING--49

     Abraham
     Baird
     Bishop (UT)
     Brady
     Buchanan
     Byrne
     Carter (TX)
     Cheney
     Cloud
     Collins (GA)
     Curtis
     DesJarlais
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Flores
     Gibbs
     Gonzalez (TX)
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Guest
     Holding
     King (IA)
     Kinzinger
     Lesko
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Loudermilk
     Marchant
     Marshall
     McHenry
     Mitchell
     Mooney (WV)
     Olson
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rooney (FL)
     Ryan
     Sensenbrenner
     Shimkus
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Spano
     Stauber
     Stewart
     Wagner
     Walker
     Wright
     Yoho


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). Members are reminded to 
put on their masks.

                              {time}  1733

  Mr. CLINE changed his vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and 
the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.


   members recorded pursuant to house resolution 965, 116th congress

     Allred (Wexton)
     Axne (Davids (KS))
     Barragan (Beyer)
     Bera (Aguilar)
     Blumenauer (Beyer)
     Bonamici (Clark (MA))
     Brownley (CA) (Clark (MA))
     Cardenas (Cisneros)
     Case (Cartwright)
     Cleaver (Davids (KS))
     Cohen (Beyer)
     Cooper (Himes)
     Costa (Correa)
     Craig (McCollum)
     Davis (CA) (Scanlon)
     Dean (Scanlon)
     DeFazio (Davids (KS))
     DeGette (Blunt Rochester)
     DelBene (Cicilline)
     DeSaulnier (Matsui)
     Deutch (Rice (NY))
     Doggett (Raskin)
     Doyle, Michael F. (Cartwright)
     Escobar (Garcia (TX))
     Finkenauer (Underwood)
     Fletcher (Raskin)
     Frankel (Clark (MA))
     Garamendi (Sherman)
     Gomez (Aguilar)
     Grijalva (Garcia (IL))
     Hastings (Wasserman Schultz)
     Heck (Kildee)
     Jayapal (Raskin)
     Johnson (TX) (Jeffries)
     Kennedy (McGovern)
     Kilmer (Kildee)
     Kim (Davids (KS))
     Kind (Beyer)
     Kirkpatrick (Stanton)
     Kuster (NH) (Bustos)
     Lamb (Panetta)
     Langevin (Lynch)
     Lawrence (Kildee)
     Lawson (FL) (Demings)
     Lieu, Ted (Beyer)
     Lofgren (Jeffries)
     Lowenthal (Beyer)
     Lowey (Tonko)
     McEachin (Wexton)
     McNerney (Raskin)
     Meng (Clark (MA))
     Moore (Beyer)
     Mucarsel-Powell (Wasserman Schultz)
     Nadler (Jeffries)
     Napolitano (Correa)
     Neguse (Perlmutter)
     Norcross (Sherrill)
     Pascrell (Pallone)
     Payne (Wasserman Schultz)
     Peters (Kildee)
     Peterson (McCollum)
     Pingree (Cicilline)
     Pocan (Raskin)
     Porter (Wexton)
     Price (NC) (Butterfield)
     Richmond (Butterfield)
     Roybal-Allard (Garcia (TX))
     Ruiz (Dingell)
     Rush (Underwood)
     Schakowsky (Kelly (IL))
     Schneider (Casten (IL))
     Schrier (Spanberger)
     Serrano (Jeffries)
     Sewell (AL) (Cicilline)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Smith (WA) (Courtney)
     Speier (Scanlon)
     Titus (Connolly)
     Vargas (Correa)
     Veasey (Beyer)
     Watson Coleman (Pallone)
     Welch (McGovern)
     Wild (Scanlon)
     Wilson (FL) (Hayes)

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