[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 44 (Tuesday, March 9, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H1164-H1174]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF SENATE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 1319, AMERICAN 
                        RESCUE PLAN ACT OF 2021

  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, 
I call up House Resolution 198 and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 198

       Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be 
     in order to take from the Speaker's table the bill (H.R. 
     1319) to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of 
     S. Con. Res. 5, with the Senate amendment thereto, and to 
     consider in the House, without intervention of any point of 
     order, a motion offered by the chair of the Committee on the 
     Budget or his designee that the House concur in the Senate 
     amendment. The Senate amendment and the motion shall be 
     considered as read. The motion shall be debatable for two 
     hours equally divided among and controlled by the chair and 
     ranking minority member of the Committee on the Budget or 
     their respective designees and the chair and ranking minority 
     member of the Committee on Ways and Means or their respective 
     designees. The previous question shall be considered as 
     ordered on the motion to its adoption without intervening 
     motion.

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


                             General Leave

  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their 
remarks.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Massachusetts?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, today, the Rules Committee met and 
reported a rule, House Resolution 198, providing for a motion to concur 
with the Senate amendment to H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 
2021.
  The rule provides 2 hours of debate on the motion, equally divided 
and controlled by the chairs and ranking minority members of the 
Committees on Budget and Ways and Means.
  Madam Speaker, a once-in-a-century pandemic brought us the need to 
act, and a Democratic Congress and a Democratic President have seized 
the moment, not as a chance to help big corporations or the already 
well-off, as those on the other side have done over and over again, but 
as an opportunity to invest in our workers, our students, our 
communities, and the very people who need help the most.
  More than 18 million Americans are receiving unemployment benefits 
today. Nearly 24 million adults are going hungry. Roughly 12 million 
children are living in households with food insecurity. Up to 40 
million people cannot afford to pay rent and fear eviction. Over 2 
million women have been forced to leave the workforce. Eight of 10 
minority businesses are on the brink of closure. That is what COVID has 
wrought in America today.
  This is more than a Band-Aid; this is a lifeline, Madam Speaker. It 
will put more vaccines in arms, put more kids back safely in schools, 
put more money in people's pockets, and put more people back to work. 
It is hard to overstate just how important this is.
  This bill, Madam Speaker, attacks inequality and poverty in ways we 
haven't seen in a generation. This legislation makes the biggest 
investments in our workers and our middle class that I have seen in my 
two-and-a-half decades of service here.
  Make no mistake, I am disappointed to see the cut in the unemployment 
insurance made over in the Senate, and we are going to keep fighting to 
raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time lives in 
poverty. We are going to keep focusing on the hunger crisis in this 
country until we end it once and for all. These should be fundamental 
priorities of the wealthiest nation on the planet.
  But let's be clear. Today, we are on the doorstep of history. We are 
about to send the most sweeping and progressive economic investment in 
modern times to the President of the United States: $1,400 in direct 
payments, a historic child allowance, school infrastructure, an 
expansion of the Affordable Care Act, student loan relief, billions in 
rental assistance, aid that will cut child poverty in half, and I could 
go on and on and on.
  Everything included in this final package is necessary to crush the 
virus and revitalize our economy.
  As I have noted, I have been in Congress for more than 20 years, but 
this, Madam Speaker, this is among my proudest moments.
  I want to thank our distinguished Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and my 
fellow committee chairs who worked so hard on this bill. I want to 
thank Budget Committee Chair Yarmuth and all of my colleagues here in 
the House for getting us to this point.
  Democrats on both sides of the Capitol, together with the Biden 
administration, have crafted something historic. In 1 day, with a 
single vote in favor of this bill, we will change the lives of millions 
of Americans for the better.
  For all of our important work, day in and day out, we don't get many 
chances like this. I urge all of my colleagues to join me in voting for 
this rule and the underlying rescue plan.
  Let us rise and meet this moment, and let's send this historic bill 
to the President's desk for his signature.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Speaker, today's rule provides for consideration of the Senate 
amendment to H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
  First, the House considered the budget resolution setting the budget 
reconciliation instructions for this massive coronavirus relief bill. 
Then, the House considered and passed, on a partisan basis, the budget 
resolution authorizing a deficit increase of nearly $2 trillion. After 
an all-night vote-a-rama in the Senate, the House will consider this 
package for the third time.
  Three times the House will have debated and passed a partisan 
package, and only 9 percent is dedicated to actually crushing the 
coronavirus. This isn't just disappointing; it is irresponsible, and it 
is unrepresentative of the American people.
  Currently, Democrats only hold the majority by five Representatives. 
That means that the 211 Republicans, representing nearly 150 million 
Americans, have been shut out of this process; 150 million Americans 
are not represented in the package before us today.
  Madam Speaker, we all want to provide the resources to successfully 
emerge on the other side of the pandemic. This bill does include 
funding for testing and vaccine deployment, as well as some economic 
support and aid to those who are unemployed or experiencing food 
shortages, but this support is not targeted toward those identified as 
most vulnerable.

  This bill includes $1,400 in economic stimulus payments to anyone 
making $75,000 a year or less, including those who may not have lost 
their jobs or experienced reduced employment. In addition, there is no 
mechanism to ensure that these payments go only to American citizens.
  Republicans were pleased that the infrastructure projects in 
California and New York, projects that had nothing to do with 
coronavirus relief, have been removed. We are glad of that.
  My Democratic colleagues may argue that these projects would have 
created jobs, but why then are Democrats also providing $125 billion to 
schools even if they remain closed? Teachers want to teach. Teachers 
want to be safely in their classrooms teaching. The Centers for Disease 
Control has confirmed that with appropriate safety precautions, the 
risk of coronavirus transmission in schools is minimal. In fact, many 
States are prioritizing teachers for vaccines. Madam Speaker, our State 
of Texas is doing so. Why are we paying schools to keep them home?
  This bill also provides $362 billion for State and local governments. 
The CARES Act, passed on March 27, already provided a $150 billion 
Coronavirus Relief Fund to help local entities with lost revenue during 
the shutdowns. However, many local authorities have chosen to keep 
their economies shut down, despite a drop in coronavirus cases and the 
effectiveness of safety measures like social distancing and mask-
wearing.

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  Congress should not bail out State and local governments for 
mismanagement that occurred prior to the pandemic. The total revenue 
loss of State and local governments during the pandemic is $7.6 
billion. This bill provides over $219 billion, and it is available 
until expended.
  Let me say that again: It is available until expended. That is $200 
billion more than the lost revenue due to the pandemic, the crisis 
which this bill is meant to target.

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  This bill also provides $400 million for an emergency food and 
shelter program, with $110 million set aside specifically for 
humanitarian relief to families and individuals encountered by 
Department of Homeland Security officials.
  Since his first day in office, President Biden has worked to overturn 
the advances achieved by the Trump administration to limit border 
crossings by those undocumented, which is particularly concerning given 
that limited coronavirus testing is occurring along our Southern 
border. Just recently, over 100 individuals crossing without 
documentation tested positive for the coronavirus, but were 
subsequently released into the interior of the United States.
  We cannot allow the desires of foreign nationals to come before the 
needs of American citizens. We should provide testing and personal 
protective equipment to all encountered along our Southern border so 
that we can protect our frontline officials and protect American 
communities.
  These are only a few of the concerning provisions included in this 
so-called relief package, but the most concerning piece is that 
Republicans' participation in this process was extremely limited by 
Democrats. Bipartisanship is not unprecedented. We came together to 
pass prior coronavirus relief bills. Literally, 1 year ago, March of 
last year, we passed three bipartisan coronavirus relief packages 
through the House and the Senate. And we can do so again.
  Why now are the Democrats deciding Republicans are not worthy, we are 
not worthy partners, and limiting the voices of our constituents?
  Why should only half of the Congress be allowed to participate in the 
making of a law that will affect the entire country?
  Is only half of the American population worth saving?
  Those are the questions being asked today. With that, I urge 
opposition to the rule.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I include in the Record an article that 
appeared in Politico entitled, `` `Check Partisanship At the Door': 
Biden finds GOP allies for rescue money.''

                     [From Politico, Mar. 5, 2021]

  `Check Partisanship at the Door': Biden Finds GOP Allies for Rescue 
                                 Money

                          (By Kellie Mejdrich)

       Republicans in Congress attacking President Joe Biden's 
     plan to pour hundreds of billions of dollars in pandemic 
     relief aid into local governments are facing resistance--from 
     GOP-run states and cities.
       Republican mayors in Texas, Arizona, Florida and Oklahoma 
     are among those backing Biden's state and local government 
     funding plan as part of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid 
     bill that's before the Senate, defying GOP lawmakers in 
     Washington, who are broadly resisting the spending.
       ``In a crisis and an emergency, you check partisanship at 
     the door, and you get through the crisis,'' said John Giles, 
     the Republican mayor of Mesa, Ariz. ``You can get back to 
     playing politics when the crisis is over. And so this is one 
     of those times.''
       The clash between local and national Republicans is a rare 
     public division in a party that has generally been united in 
     opposition to policies being pushed by Biden and Democrats in 
     control of Congress. It's a breach that Biden and House 
     Speaker Nancy Pelosi have gone out of their way to exploit as 
     the coronavirus legislation enters the final stretch.
       Lawmakers including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell 
     of Kentucky, Sens. Rick Scott and Marco Rubio of Florida, and 
     Ted Cruz of Texas have been among the most vocal national 
     Republicans in rejecting the aid, calling it a ``bailout'' of 
     what they say are poorly run Democratic states and arguing 
     that state budgets fared much better than expected during the 
     pandemic. They also say that a good chunk of the money doled 
     out to the states by Congress last year remains unspent.
       McConnell slammed the relief package in his opening remarks 
     Friday, calling it ``an ideological spending spree packed 
     with non-Covid-related policies'' and panning the $350 
     billion targeted for state governments as a ``massive cash 
     bailout for mismanaged state and local governments.''
       But Giles and other mayors say their residents are locked 
     in a struggle to fill pantries with food as municipal 
     reserves and other dedicated funds are running dry.
       ``There has been an overwhelming backlash from our 
     Republican congressmen and senators because of how much money 
     is in this bill,'' said Arlington, Texas, Mayor Jeff 
     Williams. ``For us, the reality is the need is very much here 
     for cities.''
       Williams said that when he talks with his counterparts in 
     Washington he tells them ``we have seen the great economists 
     of our country all come together'' in support of these 
     additional funds for state and local governments.
       He also draws on comments by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome 
     Powell. While Powell hasn't taken a specific position on 
     state aid or the coronavirus legislation itself, he has often 
     spoken of the drag on the economy from the loss of more than 
     a million state government jobs during the pandemic.
       Biden underlined the conflict within the party by inviting 
     a bipartisan group of governors and mayors to the White House 
     last month to discuss local funding issues. Pelosi late last 
     month said Republicans in Congress were choosing to ``mock'' 
     the aid package despite its broad support, citing a 
     bipartisan letter signed by mayors across the country 
     requesting more aid--including signatures from more than 30 
     Republicans.
       Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, a Republican who attended the 
     White House meeting, told POLITICO, ``We're hoping that it 
     doesn't become a partisan punching bag.'' He said he hoped 
     that ``hearing from local officials that are on the ground, 
     day in and day out, will be something that motivates elected 
     officials from both parties'' to support the funding.
       GOP lawmakers say that a surge in tax revenue for most 
     states following last year's massive aid packages makes more 
     help unnecessary now. But while the financial picture is 
     brighter than many officials projected, some of the states 
     hardest hit by the pandemic are represented by these 
     lawmakers.
       A recent report from Moody's Analytics showed that five of 
     the 10 states with the biggest budget shortfalls are 
     Louisiana, Oklahoma, Alaska, Florida and Kansas. They were 
     among 19 states where Moody's identified looming budget 
     shortfalls even after accounting for federal aid and local 
     reserves. Ten of the 19 are represented by at least one GOP 
     senator.
       ``It would be a dereliction of duty for me not to try to 
     fight for $116 million that would allow us to restore our 
     police, fire and other core services,'' said Oklahoma City 
     Mayor David Holt, a Republican.
       City and county leaders are amplifying calls for support 
     because the new bill sets aside more than $100 billion for 
     municipal and county governments--just over $120 billion in a 
     ``local fiscal recovery fund,'' according to the latest 
     Senate version of the bill.
       So while just 38 cities got funding in the first round in 
     March, the United States Conference of Mayors estimates the 
     new formula expands eligibility to 19,000 cities, towns and 
     villages. That's why more than 30 Republican mayors signed on 
     to the letter in support of the package last month that 
     Pelosi touted, with Giles, Holt, Suarez and Williams among 
     them.
       Giles said the city of Mesa was lucky enough to get $90 
     million in the first round of aid, but added, ``We could have 
     turned in twice that much in receipts that were tied to virus 
     relief; our expenses have gone higher.''
       ``Because we're in the food bank business, we're in the 
     buying laptop computers for school business, we're in the 
     rent, utility business. We're doing all of these things that 
     we weren't doing a year and a half ago,'' he said.
       Even some Republican governors have publicly vouched for 
     the plan, including Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas and Larry 
     Hogan of Maryland, citing the financial stakes ahead.
       Meanwhile, 22 Republican governors in a statement issued at 
     the end of February criticized Biden's funding plan--but only 
     because their states will see a smaller share of the direct 
     grant funding compared to what Congress sent them in March.
       ``The new stimulus proposal allocates aid based on a 
     state's unemployed population rather than its actual 
     population, which punishes states that took a measured 
     approach to the pandemic and entered the crisis with healthy 
     state budgets and strong economies,'' read the statement, 
     whose signatories included Republican Governors Ron Desantis 
     of Florida, Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma and Doug Ducey of 
     Arizona.
       Many of Florida's tourism-dependent cities have taken a 
     financial beating, and the state faces a big shortfall for 
     the coming budget year. Local media reported last month that 
     the state deficit was estimated at $2 billion.
       Yet the same day that Miami's Suarez traveled to Washington 
     to discuss local funding with the president, Republican Sen. 
     Scott slammed Biden's proposed aid package for the states in 
     an editorial, saying the money would be used to ``bail out 
     fiscally irresponsible governors in New York and Illinois.'' 
     Rubio, Florida's other Republican senator, has also spoken 
     critically of more local aid, saying that some states ``see 
     this as the latest opportunity to get bailed out.''

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       But even with better outcomes for states overall, state and 
     local government employment still hasn't recovered from the 
     pandemic downturn. The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data 
     show that they are still down about 1.4 million jobs from a 
     year ago--about 1 million of which are in education.
       Teryn Zmuda, chief economist of the National Association of 
     Counties, said states do need the help.
       ``Local government specifically is down 1 million of those 
     10 million jobs that the nation is short right now,'' Zmuda 
     said. ``So, aid to local governments will get those 1 million 
     workers back in the workforce.''

  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I raise that because the only place 
where this bill isn't bipartisan is here in Washington. Republican 
mayors and Republican Governors all across the country want this bill. 
Seventy percent of the American people want this bill. But here in 
Washington, my Republican friends think they know better than their 
constituents. They have what we call Potomac fever or they have gone 
Washington on their constituents.
  The bottom line is people back home need help. People back home are 
struggling, businesses back home have been devastated because of this 
pandemic. This is a bill designed to help the American people.
  Before I yield to the gentlewoman from Connecticut, we are about to 
be treated to a little bit of theatrics, and I understand that they 
want to delay the passage of this bill and bring up an alternative, a 
bill that they claim is going to help our schools but provides no new 
funding.
  What we are doing here, Madam Speaker, is we are not only providing 
funding to help our schools reopen safely, we are also providing money 
to help those who are unemployed, to help those who are hungry, to help 
our cities and towns that are on the verge of laying off first 
responders.
  In a moment, everybody in this House needs to stand and be counted; 
and on this side of the aisle--and I hope some of my Republican friends 
will join with us--we are going to stand with the people. We are going 
to stand with the people.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Connecticut 
(Ms. DeLauro), the distinguished chairwoman of the Committee on 
Appropriations.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, after a year of battling this pandemic, 
our communities are on the edge, and the American Rescue Plan is here.
  To the American public, help is on the way.
  It will put money directly into people's pockets. The $1,400 per 
person payment, the expansion of unemployment benefits will help people 
deal with increasing debt, paying rent, buying food, and paying 
healthcare bills. State and local funding is necessary to prevent our 
State and local governments from relying on tax increases to stay 
afloat; to keep first responders, frontline health workers, and other 
providers of vital services on the job.
  One of the provisions included in the American Rescue Plan that I am 
particularly proud of, that I have championed for nearly two decades, 
is the expansion and the improvement of the child tax credit. In this 
plan, the credit increases from $2,000 to $3,000 for children 6-17, 
with an additional $600 each for children under 6. Think of that. It is 
a new lifeline to the middle class, and it cuts child poverty nearly in 
half.
  Franklin Roosevelt lifted seniors out of poverty--90 percent of 
them--with Social Security. And with the stroke of a pen, President 
Biden is going to lift millions and millions of children out of poverty 
in this country.
  As families struggle to stay in their home, feed their families, 
purchase necessities, this plan provides for hardworking Americans. It 
includes $12 billion in emergency food assistance, including an 
extension of increased food stamps. The relief also provides $45 
billion for rental and mortgage assistance.
  It is time to make a bold investment in the health and the security 
of the American people. This is a watershed moment, an historic piece 
of legislation. We will vote for the American Rescue Plan with the 
determination to adequately meet the moment with strength, with action, 
and with hope.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Iowa 
(Mrs. Hinson) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mrs. HINSON. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair would advise that all time has 
been yielded for the purpose of debate only. Does the gentleman from 
Massachusetts yield for purposes of the unanimous consent request?
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I will not yield for that purpose. All 
time yielded is for the purpose of debate only.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Massachusetts does not 
yield. Therefore, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California 
(Mr. McCarthy), the distinguished Republican leader, for the purpose of 
a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. McCARTHY. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The chair now recognizes that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I now yield to the gentleman from 
Arkansas (Mr. Crawford) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. CRAWFORD. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I now yield to the gentleman from Georgia 
(Mr. Hice) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. HICE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call 
up H.R. 682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind 
screens and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.

  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I now yield to the gentleman from 
Virginia (Mr. Good) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. GOOD of Virginia. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call 
up H.R. 682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind 
screens and back in the classrooms.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Texas 
(Ms. Van Duyne) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Ms. VAN DUYNE. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I now yield to the gentlewoman from 
Arizona (Mrs. Lesko) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mrs. LESKO. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back into the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I now yield to the gentleman from 
Louisiana (Mr. Johnson) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to 
call up H.R. 682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from 
behind screens and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.

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  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I now yield to the gentleman from South 
Carolina (Mr. Wilson) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 
to call up H.R. 682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from 
behind screens and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I now yield to the gentleman from Iowa 
(Mr. Feenstra) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. FEENSTRA. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I now yield to the gentlewoman from Iowa 
(Mrs. Miller-Meeks) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up 
H.R. 682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind 
screens and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I now yield to the gentleman from Texas 
(Mr. Fallon) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. FALLON. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, at this time I yield to the gentleman 
from North Carolina (Mr. Cawthorn) for the purpose of a unanimous 
consent request.
  Mr. CAWTHORN. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back into the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I now yield to the gentleman from Texas 
(Mr. Jackson), a valuable member of the Doctors Caucus, for the purpose 
of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. JACKSON. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I now yield to the gentlewoman from South 
Carolina (Ms. Mace) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Ms. MACE. Madam Speaker, as a single working mom, I ask unanimous 
consent to call up H.R. 682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids 
out from behind screens and back into the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.

  The chair would advise Members that even though a unanimous consent 
request is not entertained, embellishments accompanying such requests 
constitute debate and will become an imposition on the time of the 
Member who yielded for that purpose.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I now yield to the gentleman from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Fitzgerald) for the purpose of a unanimous consent 
request.
  Mr. FITZGERALD. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up 
H.R. 682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind 
screens and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I now yield to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Obernolte) for the purposes of a unanimous consent 
request.
  Mr. OBERNOLTE. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
862, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.

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  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Tennessee 
(Mr. Burchett) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. BURCHETT. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids from behind screens and 
back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Colorado 
(Mrs. Boebert) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mrs. BOEBERT. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Missouri 
(Mrs. Hartzler) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mrs. HARTZLER. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Georgia 
(Mrs. Greene) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to 
call up H.R. 682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from 
behind screens and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Illinois 
(Mrs. Miller) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to 
call up H.R. 682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from 
behind screens and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Meuser) for the purpose of a unanimous consent 
request.
  Mr. MEUSER. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. 
Davidson) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. DAVIDSON. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
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that purpose; therefore, the unanimous consent request cannot be 
entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Montana 
(Mr. Rosendale) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. ROSENDALE. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from New York 
(Ms. Tenney) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Ms. TENNEY. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Georgia 
(Mr. Clyde) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. CLYDE. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Williams) for the purposes of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. WILLIAMS of Texas. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call 
up H.R. 682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind 
screens and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Florida 
(Mr. Webster) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.

  Mr. WEBSTER of Florida. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to 
call up H.R. 682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from 
behind screens and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Arrington) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. ARRINGTON. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Florida 
(Mr. Gimenez) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. GIMENEZ. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Alabama 
(Mr. Carl) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. CARL. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 682, 
the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens and 
back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Gohmert) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. GOHMERT. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Indiana 
(Mrs. Spartz) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mrs. SPARTZ. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Utah (Mr. 
Owens) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. OWENS. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Smucker) for the purpose of a unanimous consent 
request.
  Mr. SMUCKER. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Georgia 
(Mr. Allen) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. ALLEN. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from South 
Carolina (Mr. Norman) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. NORMAN. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from New York 
(Ms. Malliotakis) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Ms. MALLIOTAKIS. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up 
H.R. 682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind 
screens and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Alabama 
(Mr. Moore) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. MOORE of Alabama. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call 
up H.R. 682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind 
screens and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.

  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Michigan 
(Mr. Walberg), a valuable member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, 
for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. WALBERG. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R.

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682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry) for the purpose of a unanimous consent 
request.
  Mr. PERRY. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Florida 
(Mr. Dunn), another member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, for 
the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. DUNN. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 682, 
the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens and 
back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Nehls) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. NEHLS. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Georgia 
(Mr. Carter), another valuable member of the Energy and Commerce 
Committee, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. CARTER of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call 
up H.R. 682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind 
screens and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Arizona 
(Mr. Gosar) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. GOSAR. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Idaho (Mr. 
Fulcher) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. FULCHER. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.

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  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New York 
(Mr. Jacobs) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. JACOBS of New York. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to 
call up H.R. 682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from 
behind the screens and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Reschenthaler) for the purpose of making a unanimous 
consent request.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up 
H.R. 682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind 
screens and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from North 
Carolina (Ms. Foxx) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Ms. FOXX. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 682, 
the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens and 
back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Minnesota 
(Mr. Hagedorn) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. HAGEDORN. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back into the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from New 
Mexico (Ms. Herrell) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Ms. HERRELL. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. 
Wenstrup) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. WENSTRUP. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back in the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Florida 
(Mr. C. Scott Franklin) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. C. SCOTT FRANKLIN of Florida. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous 
consent to call up H.R. 682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids 
out from behind screens and back into the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Virginia 
(Mr. Griffith), another valuable member of the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. GRIFFITH. I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 682, the Reopen 
Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens and back in the 
classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Virginia 
(Mr. Cline) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. CLINE. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 
682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens 
and back into the classroom.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman 
from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose; therefore, the 
unanimous consent request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
Indiana (Mrs. Spartz).
  Mrs. SPARTZ. Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to this rule.
  I am not going to talk much about the underlying bill since it will 
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change anyone's vote at this point. I would just summarize it as 
advancing a socialist agenda by putting temporary bandages on old 
problems without fixing them, at the expense of the middle class and 
the future of our children.
  Madam Speaker, I mainly just wanted to express my strong 
disappointment with how broken our legislative process is and how 
dysfunctional Congress is. If we do not fix it soon and have some 
common sense, we are going to destroy our great Republic. We should be 
embarrassed to call ourselves policymakers.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, it is interesting that we just saw a 
parade of Republicans come before the microphone and urge us to move on 
a bill, and they read the short title of the bill. But the real title 
of the bill, and let me read it to you, is: ``To encourage local 
educational agencies to resume in-person instruction at elementary and 
secondary schools.'' That is what the bill does.

  Now, let me just say to my Republican friends, I don't know if you go 
home and you don't talk to principals, superintendents, teachers, 
parents, and students, but our schools don't need encouragement. What 
they need are resources to be able to reopen safely.
  This bill that you are talking about here doesn't provide one 
additional cent to help schools reopen. Nothing. No money. No 
resources. Nothing. Give me a break. Come on.
  Madam Speaker, the bill that we are about to debate here will provide 
$130 billion to help K-12 schools reopen safely. That is not 
encouragement. It is real resources to make it a reality.
  By the way, this bill also requires States to award K-12 funds to 
local school districts no later than 60 days after receipt and school 
districts to develop plans to ensure that schools return to in-person 
learning.
  I could have saved you a lot of time and a lot of embarrassment. That 
was bad theater. It was terrible theater.
  Madam Speaker, people need help. We are trying to crush this virus, 
get this economy back on the right track, and reopen our schools, and 
this is what we get. Look, I hope everybody takes note of those who 
went before the mike to argue against this bill and for a symbolic bill 
that provides no resources, because, at the end of the day, people need 
to know who was on their side in the middle of this crisis, who stood 
up and fought for them and provided much-needed Federal relief to our 
local communities and our schools. That was pathetic.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from North 
Carolina (Ms. Ross), a distinguished new member of the Committee on 
Rules.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Let me remind Members to direct their 
comments to the Chair.
  Ms. ROSS. Madam Speaker, the American Rescue Plan will finally 
deliver needed aid to individuals, families, workers, businesses, and 
healthcare systems. I am proud that this Congress has taken such swift 
action to get this important work done.
  I want to highlight one part of the bill that would be life-changing 
for hundreds of thousands of people in my State.
  Sadly, North Carolina is one of only 12 States that has not expanded 
Medicaid under the ACA. This failure has left over 600,000 low-income 
North Carolinians without healthcare.
  The American Rescue Plan provides an added incentive for States like 
mine to expand Medicaid. The bill offers a 5-point increase in the 
Federal funding match for Medicaid for 2 years to States that choose to 
expand the program during this pandemic. This would bring North 
Carolina more than $2 billion in Federal healthcare coverage for our 
most vulnerable people and help our hardest-hit hospitals.
  Madam Speaker, our State desperately needs the relief provided in 
this bill.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, may I inquire as to the time remaining.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas has 22\1/2\ minutes 
remaining. The gentleman from Massachusetts has 18 minutes remaining.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Speaker, if we defeat the previous question, Republicans will 
amend the rule to immediately consider H.R. 682, the Reopen Schools 
Act, introduced by Mrs. Hinson from Iowa, to ensure that the $54.3 
billion that Congress appropriated in December in order to help schools 
reopen is, in fact, prioritized to meet the expenses of actually being 
open for in-person learning.
  Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to insert the text of this 
amendment in the Record, along with extraneous material, immediately 
prior to the vote on the previous question.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Texas?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
New York (Ms. Tenney), who is here to explain the amendment.
  Ms. TENNEY. Madam Speaker, I rise today to oppose the previous 
question and to offer an amendment to help our schools safely reopen 
their doors for in-person learning.
  Madam Speaker, millions of children around the Nation have been out 
of the classroom for the better part of a year. This has taken a 
serious toll not only on their learning and social development but also 
on their working parents, who have been forced to juggle home-schooling 
their children and working full-time jobs.
  The data is in, and it makes abundantly clear that at-home learning 
is not a sufficient substitute for in-person education. One recent 
study found that children began to fall significantly behind in math. 
The study concluded that it would take students in grades 5 and 6 at 
least 12 weeks, on average, to catch up to where they were expected to 
be.

  Madam Speaker, the science is in, and it, too, makes abundantly clear 
that schools can reopen safely if the right precautions are taken. 
Commonsense social-distancing measures significantly reduce the spread 
of COVID-19 in schools and make the classroom a safe place for our 
students and our teachers. The CDC Director said last month that the 
science shows our schools can reopen safely even before every teacher 
is vaccinated.
  Madam Speaker, this is what the science tells us. Yet, despite these 
facts, too many children in my district and around the country are 
still not in the classroom. Students are losing out on a true, sound, 
basic education guaranteed them by the New York State Constitution, and 
parents are being forced to choose between going to work to earn a 
paycheck or staying home to teach their children. It is an impossible 
decision that no parent should be forced to make.
  In my home State of New York, Governor Cuomo has said one thing and 
done another. The result has been confusion across the State and a 
patchwork of incoherent and conflicting policies. Governor Cuomo claims 
to support the science. Yet, it is March 2021, and New York still does 
not have a statewide plan to reopen our schools. It is clear that he is 
putting special interests before our students' education.
  Sadly, we New Yorkers aren't surprised. Governor Cuomo has already 
lost credibility due to his unconscionable coverup of nursing home 
deaths. He failed to put our seniors first, and now he is failing to 
put our students first. We can and we must do better.
  Madam Speaker, under the American Rescue Plan that the House will 
consider again later this week, nearly $130 billion is set aside for 
schools. But if you read the fine print, 95 percent of that money won't 
be spent until after 2021 is over. If you keep reading, you realize 
that there is no requirement that the funding be used to reopen schools 
safely, something our Nation is desperately crying out for.
  The rescue plan fails to prioritize our students and does not do 
enough to return safely to in-person learning, which our students 
desperately need.

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  If we defeat the previous question, we will move to immediately 
consider the Reopen Schools Act, which states that schools, which 
accept a portion of the COVID-19 funding, must reopen. In order to 
receive full funding, schools are required to allow at least 50 percent 
of their students in the classroom, in person, at least 50 percent of 
the time.
  This is what New York families are requesting, and it is exactly what 
families across the country are demanding from their leaders in 
Washington.

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  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I am happy to yield to the gentlewoman 
if she could tell me how much money is in her bill.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 15 seconds to the gentlewoman from New York 
(Ms. Tenney) to ask how much money is in the gentlewoman's bill.
  Ms. TENNEY. Madam Speaker, the money is coming from the American 
Rescue Act that the gentleman voted for, but what we are doing here is 
prioritizing the spending.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I reclaim the balance of my time.
  Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Madam Speaker, here we have a Republican colleagues coming to the 
floor basically advocating nothing. Their bill--read the long title 
again--is to encourage local educational agencies to resume in-person 
instruction at elementary and secondary schools. Not one new cent in 
money.
  Schools don't need to be encouraged. They need the resources to be 
able to deal with issues like ventilation, to be able to make sure that 
the infrastructure is such that it is safe for students and teachers 
and others to come back to the schools.
  And my Republican friends, while they are coming here and trying to 
find ways to delay the American Rescue Act, they are going to vote 
against it. They are not advocating for one additional cent for 
vaccines. They are not advocating for any additional help for those who 
are unemployed, for small businesses and restaurants that are 
struggling. They don't want any more resources to go to cities and 
towns.
  So I hope that we don't see some of my Republican friends show up at 
announcements announcing money and resources for schools and cities and 
towns, for those who are struggling, trying to take credit for 
something that they voted against.
  Madam Speaker, I would, again, urge my colleagues on both sides to 
look at this for what it is. This is not about trying to help people. 
This is about a continuing effort to delay much-needed resources to our 
schools, to our struggling families, and to our small businesses.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. 
Lois Frankel).
  Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support 
of the American Rescue Plan.
  Madam Speaker, I have been honored to be in public service in my 
State legislature, as mayor of West Palm Beach, and now here in 
Congress. I can unequivocally say that this is the most important, 
impactful piece of legislation that I have ever had the honor to vote 
for.
  We all know that this past year has tested us like never before. The 
pandemic has destroyed lives and livelihoods. It has disproportionately 
hurt women, especially women of color, who are already at an economic 
disadvantage. The impacts have been devastating. Women have lost 5.3 
million jobs, 2 million of which are permanent losses. And that is not 
all. Women also make up the majority of our frontline workforce. In 
fact, Madam Speaker, we are calling this a ``she'' session.
  Schools close and the loss of accessible childcare have only added to 
the crisis, but this bill will rescue women and their families with the 
relief they need. It will crush COVID-19, get our children safely back 
to school, and rescue the childcare industry. It is going to increase 
the child tax credit, taking half of our children in poverty out of 
poverty. It is going to get the vaccines into the arms of Americans.
  I will tell you this, Madam Speaker: My office is getting calls day 
after day, all day, from people who want these vaccines.
  This rescue package will put money directly into the pockets of 
working people and get people back to work.
  Women have shouldered so much of this pandemic. So it is time to 
extend the helping hand that they and their families need to get 
through this pandemic.
  I believe, Madam Speaker, that better days are ahead with this rescue 
plan, and I urge my colleagues to pass it.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
New York (Ms. Tenney).
  Ms. TENNEY. Madam Speaker, I would just like to address the question 
that the gentleman from Massachusetts posed.
  What is allocated for this bill?
  $54.3 billion is going to be appropriated immediately.
  Madam Speaker, at this point, the bill that he is talking about has 
no money--only 5 percent until after 2021.
  We have students and parents and everyone coming to us, and they want 
to open their schools because the children are falling far behind. This 
is particularly difficult in New York, where we have no plan in place 
and the Governor has failed to give us a plan, and our students are 
failing and we need to have our students back on track.
  That is all that we are asking for, is that this money be allocated 
now and not wait for only 5 percent to be allocated until after 2021.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Speaker, let me just state for the record and respond to the 
gentlewoman. The bill she is talking about is not an appropriations 
bill. Let's be clear. Let's make sure we are clear about what we are 
talking about here. This is not an appropriations bill.
  She is talking about money that was previously allocated in previous 
bills. The bill that my Republican friends are bringing forward 
allocates zero. It encourages schools to open up.

  Again, our schools don't need encouragement. What they need are 
resources. And if my friends would go home and listen to their 
superintendents, to the principals, to the teachers, to the parents, to 
the students, they would understand how desperate the situation is.
  Now is the time for action, not more empty rhetoric, not more 
political theater, not more words. People need resources and they need 
it now.
  Madam Speaker, I am happy to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Pennsylvania (Ms. Scanlon), a distinguished member of the Rules 
Committee.
  Ms. SCANLON. Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the 
rule and underlying act, the American Rescue Plan Act.
  The COVID-19 pandemic has taken the lives of over 525,000 Americans. 
Our communities are struggling and our constituents are desperate for 
relief. Millions remain out of work, and as many as 12 million children 
are living in households where they don't get enough to eat.
  We are grateful to have new leadership in the White House and in the 
Senate. I look forward to passing legislation that will end the 
pandemic and open our economy and let America get back to work. The 
American Rescue Plan puts money directly in the hands of American 
people.
  The direct cash infusion will help millions of Americans pay their 
rent and keep the lights on at home. In addition to $1,400 worth of 
direct stimulus payments for a large chunk of Americans, support for 
small businesses and restaurants, and an extension of unemployment 
insurance benefits, the American Rescue Plan Act expands the child tax 
credit and the earned income tax credit to give families the support 
they so desperately need. The child tax credit expansion alone will cut 
childhood poverty in half.
  Madam Speaker, I look forward to passage of this act because, unlike 
the political charade that our colleagues just treated us to and 
wasting the time of the House and the American people, the American 
Rescue Plan Act will, number one, crush the virus; number two, get 
Americans back to work; and number three, actually help children get 
out from behind their screens and back in the classroom.
  Madam Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to support this bill and 
this rule.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
Georgia (Mrs. Greene).
  Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I would like to remind my 
Democrat colleagues across the aisle that I am from the State of 
Georgia, where, proudly, we are open. My son has been going in person 
to school this entire school year. As a matter of fact, he played 
football, where they had practices and games and parents got to attend 
and sit in the stadium.
  Children being kept home from school is about the worst thing that

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you can possibly do. If you really want to do anything to help 
Americans, reopen the schools, reopen America, and stop wasting more 
American tax dollars.
  It is a complete lie to the American taxpayers that you are going to 
save the day with your $1.9 trillion spending bill, and you think you 
are going to save children. If you want to save children, reopen the 
schools.
  The Biden administration is fine with having 100 percent open schools 
at the border for children who are coming into our country.
  Why are our children being forced to stay home in blue States and, 
many places, for no reason when their parents pay the taxes?
  The best way to save America is reopen.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
  Members are reminded to direct their remarks to the Chair.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Speaker, we all want schools to reopen, but we want them to 
reopen safely. There is such a thing called science that we need to 
respect, and we need to make sure that our schools are reopened safely.
  This is a deadly disease that has invaded our country. We have all 
lost friends and loved ones to COVID-19. We lost a congressman-elect 
and a sitting Member of Congress on the Republican side to COVID. So to 
get up here and to talk like this is much ado about nothing? Come on. 
What are my friends thinking? This is serious.
  Communities after communities all throughout this country are trying 
to find ways to reopen schools safely. Some of them are trying to 
invest in infrastructure for better ventilation to make sure that it is 
safe. Some are talking about additional school buses to be able to 
transport kids to and from school safely. They need resources, not 
encouragement.
  Give me a break. How insulting to somebody watching this debate in 
any of our districts to hear Members of Congress get up and say, you 
know, you don't need any help, you don't need any resources, you don't 
need any money to be able to help institute these changes so we can get 
kids back to school safely, but we are going to give you encouragement 
instead.
  Come on. We can do better than that.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
New Mexico (Ms. Herrell).
  Ms. HERRELL. Madam Speaker, I just rise in opposition to this.
  Madam Speaker, I would say it is more disingenuous for this body to 
pretend to tell the American people that we are doing something good 
for their children when, in fact, more money in this bill is going to 
help one Democratic district in California than is going to help all of 
the COVID relief efforts.
  We have got our priorities very wrong. Our children are the future.
  And thank God that the Senate took the $15-an-hour minimum wage out 
of this because that was another nail in the coffin for our small 
business owners. But to sit here and think we are doing something 
special for our constituents, that is not really truthful. We are doing 
something special for Speaker Pelosi and a lot of others who want big 
bailouts for the Democratic cities.

  We can do better. We can do better for our students and for our 
families because those are the people in the trenches. Our future 
depends on it. Our students depend on it. We need to put our children 
back in school and we need to open our economy.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Speaker, I would encourage all of my colleagues on both sides 
of the aisle to read the bill, to look at what is in this bill, and to 
look at the people who it will help. To claim somehow that this is not 
going to help with reopening of schools or helping our small businesses 
or helping children struggling in poverty or helping people who are 
hungry shows that people are not reading the bill.
  This is a big, bold, appropriate response to a horrific pandemic that 
has struck our country and struck the world. So we are acting, and it 
is the right thing to do.

                              {time}  1615

  Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Connecticut 
(Mrs. Hayes).


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  March 9, 2021, on page H1172, the following appeared: 1615 Mr. 
MCGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Connecticut (Mrs. Hayes).
  
  The online version has been corrected to read: 1615 Madam 
Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Connecticut 
(Mrs. Hayes).


 ========================= END NOTE ========================= 


  Mrs. HAYES. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of the American Rescue 
Plan.
  I was sitting in my office listening to debate, and I was thrilled to 
hear my colleagues on the other side of the aisle speak up about 
reopening schools. These are words I have been waiting a year to hear. 
I immediately looked up H.R. 682 to read it, and I was so disappointed 
that this bill offers no support, no assistance, and no funding for 
school reopenings.
  The American Rescue Plan, on the other hand, invests in helping K-12 
schools reopen safely and addresses learning loss in the classroom.
  The bill provides nearly $130 billion to help schools take the steps 
recommended by the CDC to ensure students and educators can return to 
the classroom safely.
  This includes repairing ventilation systems, reducing class sizes, 
implementing social distancing guidelines, purchasing PPE, and hiring 
support staff to address students' well-being.
  Madam Speaker, as someone who has spent over a decade in the 
classroom, I can tell you that this is what every teacher in America is 
looking for, this is what every parent is looking for, and this is what 
is necessary to reopen schools safely--not just in communities that are 
largely Democrat but also in Republican communities. All of our 
children will benefit from the provisions of this bill.
  The bill also sets aside 20 percent for long-term learning loss to 
get our kids from behind screens and back into the classroom by 
providing comprehensive after-school programs, summer learning 
programs, extended schooldays, reengaging students who have been absent 
from remote learning, and hiring counselors and nurses to care for 
students' emotional and physical well-being.
  I am thrilled to see part of my own legislation included in this 
bill, the Save Education Jobs Act, which will not only make sure that 
we are not laying off support staff and personnel to meet our students, 
but to make sure that there are not budget cuts in light of the 
catastrophic shortfalls that are expected as a result of this pandemic.
  I am so proud to be a part of a body that came up with this 
legislation that gives America's schools exactly what they need, gives 
America's children the support that is necessary, and reopens our 
economy by investing $130 billion.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Madam Speaker, here are the facts: This bill is not going to reopen 
our economy. It is not going to reopen our schools or provide targeted 
relief to those who need it most. This is the most expensive bill in 
the history of the United States House of Representatives, and it does 
not even prioritize the immediate needs of the American people. Rather 
than work for the American people, Democrats are fine working for their 
own future 2 years from now. That is really not the way it is supposed 
to be. We are supposed to be focused on the next generation, not the 
next election. I find this unacceptable.
  This is a $1.9 trillion partisan wish list that could ultimately 
increase the deficit $3 trillion without addressing the immediate needs 
of Americans who are trying to survive this pandemic. With $1 trillion 
of unspent funding--cash already in the till from previous bills--why 
is it so urgent to pass another $2 trillion now without the 
representation of literally one-half of the country?
  Madam Speaker, I urge a ``no'' vote on the previous question, ``no'' 
on the rule, ``no'' on the underlying measure, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Madam Speaker, we can talk and talk and talk and talk, and it might 
make us feel better, but it doesn't do any good for the people we 
represent who are in desperate need. They are crying out for help. 
People are struggling, people are hungry, and businesses are shutting 
down.
  My friends talk about reopening schools. They offer a measure that

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would encourage our schools to be reopened but don't offer one 
additional penny in resources to help them reopen, which is so tone 
deaf and so disconnected from reality. People need help, and they need 
it now.
  Madam Speaker, let's be really honest here. My Republican friends do 
not have a problem spending $2 trillion. They spent that with their tax 
cut bill that benefited mostly people who are well-off and well-
connected, and they were willing to spend that on COVID when Donald 
Trump was President.
  What they have a problem with is where this is going: to our workers, 
not the wealthy; and to our communities, not corporations. That is the 
fundamental difference in how we govern. Democrats govern for the 
people.
  Right now people are hurting, Madam Speaker. An overwhelming majority 
of the American people across all party lines and divisions support the 
American Rescue Plan. We have seen that in poll after poll after poll. 
My Republican friends just say that they are uninformed, including 
their Republican mayors and Republican Governors. How insulting.
  This bill will put more vaccines in arms. It will put our kids back 
to school safely. It will put food on dinner tables and put workers 
back in jobs.
  This pandemic is an all-hands-on-deck moment. After weeks and weeks 
of work, Congress doesn't have a moment to spare.
  I urge all of my colleagues to support these historic investments in 
our Nation. We have told our neighbors and communities that help is on 
the way. Let's deliver on that promise.
  I am proud to be on the House floor today. I am proud to speak in 
favor of the American Rescue Plan. And I am proud to vote in favor of 
this important piece of legislation. This will help save lives and will 
help save our economy.
  The material previously referred to by Mr. Burgess is as follows:

                   Amendment to House Resolution 198

       At the end of the resolution, add the following:
       Sec. 2. Immediately upon adoption of this resolution, the 
     House shall resolve into the Committee of the Whole House on 
     the state of the Union for consideration of the bill (H.R. 
     682) to encourage local educational agencies to resume in-
     person instruction at elementary and secondary schools, and 
     for other purposes. The first reading of the bill shall be 
     dispensed with. All points of order against consideration of 
     the bill are waived. General debate shall be confined to the 
     bill and shall not exceed one hour equally divided and 
     controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the 
     Committee on Education and Labor. After general debate the 
     bill shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute 
     rule. All points of order against provisions in the bill are 
     waived. When the committee rises and reports the bill back to 
     the House with a recommendation that the bill do pass, the 
     previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill 
     and amendments thereto to final passage without intervening 
     motion except one motion to recommit. If the Committee of the 
     Whole rises and reports that it has come to no resolution on 
     the bill, then on the next legislative day the House shall, 
     immediately after the third daily order of business under 
     clause 1 of rule XIV, resolve into the Committee of the Whole 
     for further consideration of the bill.
       Sec. 3. Clause 1(c) of rule XIX shall not apply to the 
     consideration of H.R. 682.

  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and 
I move the previous question on the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on ordering the previous 
question on the resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 
8, the yeas and nays are ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 216, 
nays 206, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 65]

                               YEAS--216

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Axne
     Barragan
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bourdeaux
     Bowman
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brown
     Brownley
     Bush
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Cartwright
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis, Danny K.
     Dean
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Delgado
     Demings
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Frankel, Lois
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Golden
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Haaland
     Harder (CA)
     Hastings
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs (CA)
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (TX)
     Jones
     Kahele
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Lamb
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lawson (FL)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin (CA)
     Levin (MI)
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Luria
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCollum
     McEachin
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neguse
     Newman
     Norcross
     O'Halleran
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Rice (NY)
     Ross
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Speier
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Suozzi
     Swalwell
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wexton
     Wild
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NAYS--206

     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice (OK)
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brooks
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budd
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cawthorn
     Chabot
     Cheney
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Comer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Emmer
     Estes
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia (CA)
     Gibbs
     Gimenez
     Gohmert
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez (OH)
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hagedorn
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hartzler
     Hern
     Herrell
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Hollingsworth
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Issa
     Jackson
     Jacobs (NY)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Katko
     Keller
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kim (CA)
     Kinzinger
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     Meijer
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Moolenaar
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Mullin
     Murphy (NC)
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunes
     Obernolte
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (SC)
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Taylor
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Timmons
     Turner
     Upton
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Young
     Zeldin

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Bishop (GA)
     Brady
     Fudge
     Mooney
     Neal
     Tiffany
     Valadao
     Webster (FL)
     Williams (GA)

                              {time}  1708

  Messrs. MULLIN and GONZALEZ of Ohio changed their votes from ``yea'' 
to ``nay.''
  So the previous question was ordered.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:

[[Page H1174]]

  

  Mr. VALADAO. Madam Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been 
present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 65.
  Mr. BRADY. Madam Speaker, I apologize for missing this vote. I was 
unable to be present. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on 
rollcall No. 65.


    MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 8, 117TH CONGRESS

     Allred (Davids (KS))
     Amodei (Kelly (PA))
     Babin (Norman)
     Baird (Walorski)
     Barragan (Beyer)
     Cardenas (Gomez)
     Carter (TX) (Calvert)
     Cohen (Beyer)
     DeFazio (Davids (KS))
     Grijalva (Garcia (IL))
     Haaland (Davids (KS))
     Hastings (Wasserman Schultz)
     Johnson (TX) (Jeffries)
     Kirkpatrick (Stanton)
     Langevin (Lynch)
     Lawson (FL) (Evans)
     Lee (NV) (Kuster)
     Lieu (Beyer)
     Lofgren (Jeffries)
     Lowenthal (Beyer)
     McEachin (Wexton)
     McHenry (Banks)
     McNerney (Raskin)
     Meng (Clark (MA))
     Moore (WI) (Beyer)
     Morelle (Tonko)
     Moulton (Rice (NY))
     Napolitano (Correa)
     Palazzo (Fleischmann)
     Payne (Wasserman Schultz)
     Pingree (Kuster)
     Porter (Wexton)
     Roybal-Allard (Leger Fernandez)
     Ruiz (Aguilar)
     Rush (Underwood)
     Steube (Franklin, C. Scott)
     Strickland (DelBene)
     Thompson (MS) (Butterfield)
     Watson Coleman (Pallone)
     Wilson (FL) (Hayes)
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. Beatty). The question is on the 
resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 
8, the yeas and nays are ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 219, 
nays 210, not voting 2, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 66]

                               YEAS--219

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Axne
     Barragan
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bourdeaux
     Bowman
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brown
     Brownley
     Bush
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Cartwright
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis, Danny K.
     Dean
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Delgado
     Demings
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fletcher
     Foster
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                               NAYS--210

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                             NOT VOTING--2

     Katko
     Tiffany
       

                              {time}  1754

  Ms. SEWELL, Messrs. THOMPSON of California and SMITH of Washington 
changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the resolution was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  Stated against:
  Mr. KATKO. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been 
present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 66.


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