[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 52 (Friday, March 19, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H1589-H1601]
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                     PREVENTING PAYGO SEQUESTRATION

  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 233, I call up 
the bill (H.R. 1868) to prevent across-the-board direct spending cuts, 
and for other purposes, and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 233, the bill 
is considered read.
  The text of the bill is as follows:

                               H.R. 1868

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. PREVENTING PAYGO SEQUESTRATION.

       (a) Statutory PAYGO Scorecards.--The budgetary effects of 
     this Act and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 
     117-2) shall not be counted on either PAYGO scorecard 
     maintained pursuant to section 4(d) of the Statutory Pay-As-
     You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(d)).
       (b) Senate PAYGO Scorecards.--The budgetary effects of this 
     Act shall not be counted on any PAYGO scorecard maintained 
     for purposes of section 4106 of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th 
     Congress).

     SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF MEDICARE 
                   SEQUESTRATION.

       (a) In General.--Section 3709(a) of division A of the CARES 
     Act (2 U.S.C. 901a note) is amended by striking ``March 31, 
     2021'' and inserting ``December 31, 2021''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) 
     shall take effect as if enacted as part of the CARES Act 
     (Public Law 116-136).

     SEC. 3. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.

       (a) Disregard of Certain Additional Compensation for 
     Purposes of Medicaid and Chip.--Section 2104(h) of the CARES 
     Act (15 U.S.C. 9023(h)) is amended by striking ``Federal 
     pandemic unemployment compensation'' and inserting ``Federal 
     Pandemic Unemployment Compensation or Mixed Earner 
     Unemployment Compensation''.
       (b) Rural Health Clinic Payments.--
       (1) In general.--Section 1833(f)(3) of the Social Security 
     Act (42 U.S.C. 1395l(f)(3)) is amended--
       (A) in subparagraph (A)--
       (i) in clause (i), by striking subclauses (I) and (II) and 
     inserting the following:
       ``(I) with respect to a rural health clinic that had a per 
     visit payment amount established for services furnished in 
     2020--

       ``(aa) the per visit payment amount applicable to such 
     rural health clinic for rural health clinic services 
     furnished in 2020, increased by the percentage increase in 
     the MEI applicable to primary care services furnished as of 
     the first day of 2021; or
       ``(bb) the limit described in paragraph (2)(A); and

       ``(II) with respect to a rural health clinic that did not 
     have a per visit payment amount established for services 
     furnished in 2020--

       ``(aa) the per visit payment amount applicable to such 
     rural health clinic for rural health clinic services 
     furnished in 2021; or
       ``(bb) the limit described in paragraph (2)(A); and''; and

       (ii) in clause (ii)(I), by striking ``under clause (i)(I)'' 
     and inserting ``under subclause (I) or (II) of clause (i), as 
     applicable,''; and
       (B) in subparagraph (B)--
       (i) in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking ``2019, 
     was'' and inserting ``2020'';
       (ii) in clause (i), by inserting ``was'' after ``(i)''; and
       (iii) by striking clause (ii) and inserting the following:
       ``(ii)(I) was enrolled under section 1866(j) (including 
     temporary enrollment during the emergency period described in 
     section 1135(g)(1)(B) for such period); or
       ``(II) submitted an application for enrollment under 
     section 1866(j) (or requested such a temporary enrollment for 
     such period) that was received not later than December 31, 
     2020.''.
       (2) Effective date.--The amendments made by this subsection 
     shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the 
     Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 116-260).
       (c) Eligibility for Reemployment Services.--Section 306(a) 
     of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 506(a)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``individuals referred to reemployment 
     services as described in section 303(j)'' and inserting 
     ``claimants for unemployment compensation, including 
     claimants referred to reemployment services as described in 
     section 303(j),''; and
       (2) by striking ``such individuals'' and inserting ``such 
     claimants''.
       (d) Additional Amount for Certain Hospitals With High 
     Disproporationate Share.--Effective as if included in the 
     enactment of section 203(a) of title II of division CC of 
     Public Law 116-260, subsection (g) of section 1923 of the 
     Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396r-4) amended by such 
     section 203(a) is amended by adding at the end the following 
     new paragraph:
       ``(3) Additional amount for certain hospitals with high 
     disproporationate share.--
       ``(A) In general.--In the case of a hospital with high 
     disproportionate share (as defined in subparagraph (B)) 
     located in a State referenced in subsection (e) of section 
     4721 of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, a payment adjustment 
     during a State fiscal year shall be considered consistent 
     with subsection (c) if the payment adjustment does not exceed 
     175 percent of the costs of furnishing hospital services 
     during the year, but only if the Governor of the State 
     certifies to the satisfaction of the Secretary that the 
     hospital's applicable minimum amount is used for health 
     services during the year. In determining the amount that is 
     used for such services during a year, there shall be excluded 
     any amounts received under the Public Health Service Act, 
     title V, title XVIII, or from third party payors (not 
     including the State plan under this title) that are used for 
     providing such services during the year.
       ``(B) Hospital with high disproporationate share defined.--
     In subparagraph (A), a hospital is a `hospital with high 
     disproportionate share' if--

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       ``(i) the hospital is owned or operated by the State (or by 
     an instrumentality or a unit of government within the State); 
     and
       ``(ii) the hospital--

       ``(I) meets the requirement described in subparagraphs (A) 
     or (B) of subsection (b)(1); or
       ``(II) has the largest number of inpatient days 
     attributable to individuals entitled to benefits under the 
     State plan of any hospital in such State for the previous 
     fiscal year.

       ``(C) Applicable minimum amount defined.--In subparagraph 
     (A), the `applicable minimum amount' for a hospital for a 
     fiscal year is equal to the difference between the amount of 
     the hospital's payment adjustment for the fiscal year and the 
     costs to the hospital of furnishing hospital services 
     described in paragraph (1)(A) during the fiscal year.''.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The bill shall be debatable for 1 hour, 
equally divided and controlled by the chair and the ranking minority 
member of the Committee on the Budget or their respective designees.
  The gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Yarmuth) and the gentleman from 
Missouri (Mr. Smith) each will control 30 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Kentucky.


                             General Leave

  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks 
and insert extraneous material into the Record on H.R. 1868.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Kentucky?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, because of the American Rescue Plan, relief checks are 
already being deposited in Americans' bank accounts, furloughs have 
already ended for tens of thousands of workers, and we have averted the 
unemployment cliff. But we have a loose end to tie up before our work 
is finished, and that is the bill before us.
  Enacting COVID relief through budget reconciliation was always plan 
B, but the American people could not afford any more delays, and 
Congress needed a path forward for the American Rescue Plan and the 
transformative support it provides. Because paygo requirements cannot 
be changed in reconciliation bills, we knew from the outset that this 
additional legislative fix was needed to avert painful and 
indiscriminate cuts to Medicare, farm supports, and other programs.
  The language of H.R. 1868 should look familiar. Over the past year, 
Congress has enacted multiple COVID relief packages to address the 
crises facing the American people and our economy. Each time, we 
excluded these bills from statutory paygo calculations because of the 
dire impact sequestration would have on our Nation's seniors, students, 
farmers, and others.
  Today's bill will ensure the American Rescue Plan is treated the same 
as these previous relief measures and treated the same as the last 
reconciliation bill passed by Congress. That was in 2017, when 
Republicans used reconciliation to pass the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
  Following the bill's passage without Democratic support in either the 
House or Senate, Republicans proposed this same legislative fix, albeit 
buried in a problematic continuing resolution. Enough House and Senate 
Democrats joined Republicans to prevent harmful across-the-board cuts 
to critical programs I mentioned, even though we opposed the short-term 
CR and the massive tax giveaways to the wealthy.
  This time the situation is flipped, but the same nonetheless. House 
Republicans opposed the American Rescue Plan. I don't understand their 
position. This bill is supported by more than 70 percent of Americans 
and will directly benefit far more. But that is the choice they made. 
Either way, a statutory legislative fix for paygo is now needed and, 
historically, that has been enacted with little dispute.
  Even in the wake of contentious legislation, Congress has come 
together to prevent sequestration and to protect Medicare, farm support 
programs, social services, resources for students and individuals with 
disabilities, and other programs Americans rely on. This time should be 
no different.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Speaker, this week, the President has been traveling across the 
country telling Americans how appreciative they should be that 
Washington Democrats are spending, or have spent, $1.9 trillion in 
borrowed dollars, money they are using to bail out States run by the 
President's political buddies and to reward devastating lockdowns that 
have destroyed hundreds of thousands of small businesses and kept kids 
out of schools; billions on policies that will reduce private-sector 
employment in this country; billions on foreign aid.
  And out of all the money, less than 9 percent goes towards healthcare 
spending to crush the virus and to put vaccinations in people's arms.
  The massive debt-inducing spending package also threatens billions in 
cuts to seniors on Medicare, including $36 billion starting next year. 
My guess is that the President is probably not going to be bragging to 
seniors he meets on the road that the bill he signed into law is 
cutting billions of dollars from their Medicare, just as I am sure he 
won't bother to mention that the economic recovery he wants to take 
credit for is already underway; that the economy is steadily projected 
to reach the level of real GDP growth we saw prior to the pandemic by 
the middle of this year; that we are on track this year, in fact, to 
have the largest economic growth in more than 15 years, all without one 
dime used from the nearly $2 trillion bailout package that the 
Democrats passed in the last week.
  In other words, just as President Biden has desperately tried to take 
credit for the incredible, truly historic work President Trump did to 
ensure that we have vaccines going into the arms to save lives, he is 
trying to take credit for an economic recovery put in place by the 
policies signed into law by President Trump. Don't listen to the words. 
Watch his actions.
  In fact, it was under President Trump's leadership that Operation 
Warp Speed delivered multiple vaccines in record time with planning to 
get those shots in the arms of the American people. Meanwhile, the 
Biden administration has spent an inordinate amount of time running 
afoul of fact checkers with their shameless rhetoric meant to dismiss 
the incredible work done by the previous administration.
  Nevertheless, we are here today because Democrats want to fix one of 
the many problems caused by President Biden and the House Democrats in 
the $1.9 trillion bailout: Those cuts to Medicare. And they want to do 
so by erasing almost $2 trillion in spending from the Nation's books; 
pretending $2 trillion in spending is not going to happen.

  That, of course, serves two purposes for our Democrat colleagues. 
First, it avoids the immediate cuts, which they caused and they chose 
to happen. Second, it gives them a clean slate on which they are 
reportedly already planning to add trillions more in spending in the 
months to come.
  Given all of this, I would ask my colleagues to move forward with a 
much better approach, one that stops their Medicare cuts and does so in 
a more responsible way. Let's work together to protect seniors and to 
cut waste from their bailout bill that the American people clearly 
don't want, such as stopping billions in benefits and payments to 
prisoners and illegal immigrants--billions in payments to prisoners and 
illegal immigrants; stopping funds they recklessly jammed into the 
bailout for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National 
Endowment for the Humanities; stopping special handouts to Federal 
employees; rescinding billions in bailouts that go to State governments 
that do not need it, and reward their continued lockdowns.
  Mr. Speaker, put people before politics. Put people before politics. 
Put seniors ahead of the Democrats' special interests and their 
political class. This is the responsible way to address the Medicare 
cuts caused by my Democrat colleagues. It is a far better approach than 
to simply pretend $1.9 trillion in spending is not happening. It is a 
far more honest approach given the fact that the President is traveling 
the country bragging about the same nearly $2 trillion in spending.
  Mr. Speaker, $1.9 trillion, such a big number, is hard to put in 
proper perspective. But this year, when the American people pay their 
Federal income taxes, every single penny--every

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single penny of their hard-earned money the IRS collects will total 
less than the cost of this $1.9 trillion bailout to their friends, 
donors, and political allies.
  Let's do the responsible thing: Protect seniors by rolling back some 
of the most wasteful and wrong policies embedded in the Democrat's 
bailout bill.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Virginia (Mr. Scott), the distinguished chairman of the Committee on 
Education and Labor, and also a member of the Budget Committee.
  Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 1868.
  Since the start of the pandemic, Congress has passed several 
emergency COVID-19 response packages to help our communities get back 
on their feet. Unfortunately, as the chairman mentioned, due to 
technicalities in the reconciliation process, some of that progress 
will be wiped away unless we pass this legislation.
  So H.R. 1868 is necessary to prevent the automatic, across-the-board 
funding cuts that will undermine our recovery. Just as the ranking 
member mentioned, that will happen unless we pass this bill. Many of 
those cuts will occur within the jurisdiction of the Committee on 
Education and Labor.
  For example, the legislation before us protects student borrowers 
from automatic increases and loan origination fees and would increase 
the cost of taking out a student loan.
  The bill protects TEACH Grants, which help recruit talented 
individuals into the classroom.
  The proposal preserves funding for many of our colleges struggling to 
survive during the pandemic.
  Passing this legislation will prevent cuts to grants that go to 
students whose parents made the ultimate sacrifice serving our Nation 
in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  Finally, this bill protects Americans' access to affordable 
healthcare during the global health emergency.
  Mr. Speaker, Congress took bold action to get our country through the 
pandemic by enacting the American Rescue Plan. Now we must take this 
final step in the reconciliation process to ensure that we do not 
undermine critical programs that students and families urgently need.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support the legislation.

                              {time}  0930

  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the 
gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Good).
  Mr. GOOD of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I thank the distinguished ranking 
member from Missouri for yielding this time.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to H.R. 1868, the 
Democrats' attempt to put a Band-Aid on their out-of-control spending, 
and this bill tries to remove, as the others speakers have said, the 
tough consequences of their continued reckless and irresponsible 
spending.
  Last week, the Democrats passed their massive $2 trillion blue State 
bailout package with the intent to burden future generations of 
Americans with yet another layer of crippling debt and inevitably 
higher taxes for years to come.
  This was yet another effort to further use the COVID virus as an 
opportunity to fund their leftist expansion of government, climate 
extremism, woke social justice, and radical progressive agenda. At $2 
trillion, the Pelosi bailout bill would spend another $6,000 per 
American citizen. This $6,000 in debt, per citizen, with the chance for 
some to receive a $1,400 check, is a raw deal for Americans. Everybody 
gets an IOU for $6,000; some people get a $1,400 check in return.
  Only 9 percent of the $2 trillion is even related to COVID relief, 
with the bulk of the spending going to fund these Democrat pet 
projects. There is no pressure at all on the teachers' unions to even 
reopen the schools in return for the additional $130 billion in the 
bill, the Democrats rejected those commonsense amendments to require 
the schools to reopen. Only 5 percent of that $130 billion for schools 
will even be spent this year in 2021, that is how essential it is for 
COVID relief.
  Now Democrats are finally acknowledging today that their spending is 
out of control and unsustainable, but instead of seeking a true remedy 
for their problem, they are once again trying to kick the can down the 
road and exempt their spending from longstanding paygo rules.
  This new legislation would prevent sequestration for mandatory 
spending, which was only triggered in response to the reckless spending 
bill they passed last week. Their ill-conceived bill failed to cut 
funding for the unnecessary projects prioritized by Democrats, but not 
by the American people.
  The imminent future sequester cuts this new bill is intended to 
address came about as a result of the blatantly partisan and 
irresponsible bill the Democrats rammed through last week. Our national 
debt is now nearing $30 trillion, an inconceivable number. It equates 
to about $90,000 per citizen. This amounts to an economic crisis, a 
national security crisis, and we can't afford to ignore it any longer. 
A day of reckoning is coming.
  But the majority is ignoring it. Any semblance of fiscal discipline 
would have resulted in a COVID bill that was maybe 10 to 20 percent of 
the $2 trillion that was in H.R. 1319, the Pelosi blue State bailout. 
But instead, they unilaterally, on a hyperpartisan basis, rammed 
through the $2 trillion to satisfy their left wing, and appease poorly 
run blue States and Democratic governors.
  Our country cannot continue to afford to race toward fiscal 
insolvency, and this bill allows the Democrats to put the pedal to the 
metal without consequence, as we speed faster toward a fiscal 
catastrophe. Rather than truly helping the country, the bill enables 
Democrats' fiscal irresponsibility. Actions like this are why Congress 
has such a low, abysmal approval rating.
  I will continue to tell my folks back home that I am fighting for 
them and their hard-earned tax dollars, while the other side wants to 
continue to steal those dollars to fund their future pet projects.
  Mr. Speaker, we find ourselves today truly in March madness, and the 
Democrats are throwing up another air ball with this legislation. I 
urge a ``no'' vote on this bill.
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind the gentleman from 
Virginia that in 2017 when Republicans passed an almost identical 
amount of tax cuts, 83 percent of which went to the top 1 percent and 
major corporations, Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor: 
Sequestration has never happened, will not happen now, and will never 
happen. His words were prophetic because it is not going to happen 
today.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. 
Pallone), the distinguished chairman of the Energy and Commerce 
Committee.
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the chair of our Budget 
Committee, the gentleman from Kentucky. He really makes the point so 
well.
  Look, regardless of what our ranking member says on the other side, 
America is not in great shape, the economy is not good, many people 
have lost their jobs, and the reason for the American Rescue Plan was 
exactly that. We want to help people. We want to make sure people get 
direct cash payments to help them. We want to make sure the State and 
local governments get help, because they don't want to be laying people 
off and not provide services during the pandemic. We want to help small 
businesses.
  The contrast between what we, as Democrats, push in the American 
Rescue Plan to help people in this economic and health crisis is so 
vast compared to what the Republicans did with their tax cut, which 
just helped the wealthiest and helped corporate interest. It is that 
simple.
  So I am just going to ask my colleagues on the other side to put 
partisanship aside and vote for this bill. This legislation includes 
non-controversial policies that will truly help all of our 
constituents. It provides critical support for hospitals and rural 
health clinics and prevents cuts to Medicare and other important 
programs.
  In recent weeks, Republicans have claimed that any cuts to Medicare 
would be incredibly harmful. But the only way to make sure that these 
cuts don't happen is passing this legislation today. In the past, we 
have always been able to come together to prevent these cuts.

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  When Republicans passed their $2 trillion tax law for the wealthiest 
few, it triggered billions in mandatory cuts, and Congress ultimately 
voted to prevent those cuts with Democratic support. If Republicans 
truly want to protect Medicare and other programs that support our 
farmers, our students, and the Nation's defense, they simply should 
vote for this bill today.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to remind my colleagues that in addition to 
averting statutory paygo cuts, this bill provides additional relief 
specifically to frontline healthcare providers through increased 
Medicare payments. This is a policy that Congress supported multiple 
times. Please support this bill if you care.
  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I just want to remind the gentleman from New Jersey that 
the folks in southeast Missouri, a family of four who makes less than 
$55,000 a year, under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act had zero in tax 
liability because of what the Republicans passed.
  I don't think a family of four, who makes $55,000 or less, is 
considered the wealthy. But apparently maybe someone from New Jersey 
might think someone who makes $55,000 for a family of four is wealthy. 
It is surely not in southeast Missouri.
  I also would like to point out that the gentleman from New Jersey did 
not help support in waiving this provision back in 2017.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. 
McClintock).
  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, this bill is just the first taste of a 
bitter brew concocted by those who pushed through $1.9 trillion of pure 
deficit spending last week.
  Now, this measure involves our paygo rules. You remember paygo. The 
current version dates to 2010. In those days everyone was worried about 
a $1.3 trillion deficit and $13 trillion of national debt. Isn't that 
adorable?
  Paygo requires across-the-board spending cuts to offset any bill that 
spends money we don't have. And we just spent a lot of money we don't 
have. As paygo works, the first installment payment for this Biden 
binge is $345 billion of spending cuts every year for the next 5 years, 
and that includes $52 billion in paygo and BCA cuts to Medicare, which 
is expected to go broke in 2024 as it is. Now, that is just to pay for 
the party the Democrats had the other day. So it is time to pay for it.
  How do you deal with a bill like that? Well, it is pretty simple: 
Just forget about it. Just wipe it off the books and start planning the 
next trillion-dollar spending spree. In fairness, that is how both 
parties have addressed paygo since we passed it. And the net result is 
the deficit has nearly tripled and the debt has more than doubled in 
less than a decade.
  At least the Republican tax cuts in 2017 helped produce such a strong 
economic recovery that our revenues went up. They didn't go down. Now, 
that should have reduced our deficit, but our failure to control 
spending instead drove that deficit still higher. In short, it is the 
spending, stupid.
  No nation has ever spent, taxed, and borrowed its way to prosperity, 
but many have spent, taxed, and borrowed themselves into bankruptcy and 
ruin. History warns us that nations that bankrupt themselves aren't 
around very long, because before you can provide for the common defense 
and promote the general welfare, you first have to be able to pay for 
them.
  Excessive debt saps the credit of a nation that is its lifeline in 
times of genuine peril. It consumes the future prosperity of the nation 
as interest costs swell. It saps the economic vitality of our Nation by 
crowding out capital that would otherwise be available to consumers and 
home buyers and businesses. It robs the currency of its value, 
pilfering the Nation's savings and their pensions. It alienates capital 
markets until interest rates rise and interest costs balloon into a 
debt spiral. Once this starts, there is no way to stop it until the 
whole house of cards crashes down.
  Do you know want to know what that looks likes? It looks a lot like 
Venezuela.
  In the spring of 1945, there was serious concern whether we could 
continue the war into 1946. Bond sales were failing miserably, war 
taxes, spending, borrowing, and inflation had hollowed out our economy, 
and the Nation's credit was nearing exhaustion. Now consider this: we 
are carrying a larger percentage of debt today than we were at the very 
end of World War II, and I fear how we could respond to a similar 
sustained national threat today.
  When a colleague told the great economist, Adam Smith, that a British 
defeat would be the ruin of the nation, Smith calmly observed: ``Be 
assured, my young friend, that there is a great deal of ruin in a 
nation.''
  But as I look at the unprecedented and unsustainable debt that these 
policies are producing, I can't avoid a sense of foreboding that our 
Nation is fast running out of ruin, and that a terrible day of 
reckoning is coming.

  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Minnesota (Ms. Craig), a distinguished member of the Energy and 
Commerce Committee.
  Ms. CRAIG. Mr. Speaker, last week we passed the American Rescue Plan 
to help our Nation get through a COVID-19 public health and economic 
crisis. This historic legislation is already helping millions of 
Americans and hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans.
  When I think about this piece of legislation, it is widely, on a 
bipartisan basis, supported in a swing district like mine back in 
Minnesota. But if Congress fails to take action--and we are not going 
to let that happen--to prevent sequestration, countless Federal 
programs that our constituents rely on could be impacted.
  If we fail to pass H.R. 1868, cuts to programs at USDA could 
devastate family farmers who are already reeling after years of trade 
instability and stupid trade wars. We must act because we cannot allow 
cuts to Medicare, risking seniors' access to care at a time when they 
need it the most, in the midst of a deadly global pandemic.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on this 
crucial legislation to ensure that the Federal Government can meet the 
needs of Minnesotans and the American people during a public health 
crisis. This body that I joined just over 2 years ago; this body has 
come together numerous times to make sure that we do not allow 
sequestration to take cuts for worse ideas than helping the American 
people through a public health crisis.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to please support this bill today.
  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes the gentleman 
from Ohio (Mr. Wenstrup).

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  Mr. WENSTRUP. Mr. Speaker, the pandemic was a problem that led some 
healthcare providers to close their doors. In a bipartisan way, in the 
previous session of Congress, we made an effort to fix that problem.
  Now, because of the Democrats' irresponsible spending bill, 
healthcare providers who are struggling will see decreased payments, 
which is the last thing they need right now, and it is the last thing 
we need right now.
  Medicare reimbursement rates are already low, only balanced out by 
non-Medicare payments. The better way is to target the funding to those 
who need it and are still working to come out of the pandemic. We can 
fill the gaps without adding to the deficit.
  Wasn't the idea of a rescue to improve access to care? Yet, 9 percent 
of the $1.9 trillion really went to address the COVID crisis.
  They bailed out failed pension funds without reform and ignored our 
doctors and healthcare providers on the front lines of the pandemic. 
They cut payments to caregivers. $1.9 trillion, yet cuts to healthcare 
providers during a pandemic.
  What Democrats are trying to do today is ignore the negative 
consequences of the bill they passed earlier this month. The 
consequences of the bill passed 2 weeks ago means there will be payment 
cuts to providers.
  $1.9 trillion? Someone should be helped in this measure, but we can 
do better. We can do better, but we weren't talked to for our ideas.
  Mr. Speaker, Members should ask themselves: What about all of this 
today? Will the next several generations of Americans look to us and 
say thank you as they get stuck with paying our bills?

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  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Georgia (Mr.   David Scott), who is the distinguished chairman of the 
Agriculture Committee.
  Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for 
yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, this is an important and urgent activity that we are on 
this morning. Now, my Republican friends talked about this, but they 
did the identical, same thing in 2017 with President Trump's tax cuts. 
What is good for my friends is also good for us. That is the way the 
rules are.
  Mr. Speaker, let me tell you how devastating the damage would be if 
we do not act. First of all, it will cut $29 billion from badly needed 
programs, and no entity will be impacted and devastated like 
agriculture. They will cut $29 billion and cut our programs for energy 
efficiency and rural development.
  We are working on that together. This bill will save our rural 
development, research, specialty crop development, and beginning and 
veteran farmer development.
  Out of the $29 billion, it will take $23 billion out of our Commodity 
Credit Corporation, limiting our ability to make payments to our 
farmers and food producers at this critical time when we are in a 
hunger crisis.
  Mr. Speaker, you must understand, we Democrats and Republicans need 
to send a powerful message to the Nation on this bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield the gentleman from Georgia an 
additional 30 seconds.
  Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, let us move hand in hand 
together at this serious time.
  Now, when my friends used this, it was for the tax cut, most of which 
went to the wealthy. But this $23 billion cut to our CCC will devastate 
the American people where it hurts the most: their food, their water, 
their shelter, and their clothing. We must not do that.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join us.
  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind the body 
that the reason we are here today is because of the reckless behavior. 
All of these cuts on Medicare are because House Democrats forced 
through a nearly $2 trillion spending bill. The reason we have the 
paygo statutory provision is because President Obama signed it into law 
and House Democrats passed it. So the cuts are the result today of all 
the policies that Democrats have been doing since 2010.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. 
Carter).
  Mr. CARTER of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, today, we are addressing a 
problem that didn't even exist a week ago. It did not even exist last 
week.
  The Republicans stood on this floor and argued against the $1.9 
trillion partisan package last week. There were many reasons to oppose 
it, but one of the most significant reasons was the fact that the bill 
would trigger cuts to Medicare and other essential programs.
  We argued that it would harm all of our constituents. I argued that 
it would harm my constituents in Georgia to my friend, my fellow 
delegation member. This bill penalized the State of Georgia more than 
any State in the United States. More than any State in the Nation, 
Georgia was punished. We lost $1.3 billion because of the funding 
formula. We didn't shut down our State, and we didn't destroy our 
economy, and the funding was based on the unemployment rate and not 
population.
  Where did that $1.3 billion go? It went to blue States. It went to 
California, and it went to New York. Georgian taxpayers' money went to 
other States; it went to blue States.
  What did it do to Medicare in the State of Georgia? We lost $11.5 
billion that would have gone to the seniors on Medicare in the State of 
Georgia.
  Where did it go? Again, it went to California, and it went to New 
York. It went to the blue States. It went to the States that shut down 
their businesses and destroyed their economies. Yet, the bill was 
pushed forward anyway.
  This could have all been avoided altogether. We could have crafted a 
bipartisan package that would not have triggered these Medicare cuts. 
Instead, those across the aisle resorted to forcing a bill through 
reconciliation. In the end, they passed a package filled with political 
favors on the back of our seniors.
  Again, this could have been avoided. But today, we need to fix this 
for our constituents who are recognizing we have a spending problem.
  Now that the largest stimulus bill in our history has been signed 
into law, our deficit for the year will also break records. We are now 
projected to have a Federal deficit of $3.4 trillion, and debt as a 
share of our GDP will be at 100 percent for only the second time in our 
country's history.
  My colleagues have shown little regard for actually paying for this 
reckless spending for political favor. That is why I urge my colleagues 
to find a way to pay for restoring the cuts to Medicare. The first 
place I suggest looking for it is in the over 90 percent of the last 
package that will not go to addressing the pandemic.
  Mr. Speaker, this is wrong, and my colleagues know it is wrong. Let's 
get this fixed.
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Panetta), who is a distinguished member of the Ways and 
Means Committee.
  Mr. PANETTA. Mr. Speaker, today, I rise in support of H.R. 1868 to 
prevent these harmful budget cuts to vital agricultural programs that 
are relied on by farmers, farmworkers, and food-insecure families in 
all of our districts.
  If we don't pass this bill today, $29 billion in agricultural funding 
would be subject to these sequester cuts. Those types of cuts would 
zero out funding for such crucial agricultural programs like EQIP, the 
Conservation Stewardship Program, and the Regional Conservation 
Partnership Program.
  In my district on the mid-central coast of California, many farmers, 
ranchers, and forest landowners rely on those types of helpful programs 
not just to survive, Mr. Speaker, but to succeed. They use those 
programs to harvest their products and to be part of the climate 
solution.
  The producers in my district understand and appreciate the old adage 
called usufruct, which basically says the land they use now must be 
kept fresh and fertile, not just for them, but for future generations. 
It is these programs that contribute to their current product and, yes, 
that type of forward thinking.
  Sequester cuts would also prevent the Federal Government from 
purchasing and donating food to food banks through section 32 
purchases. After the year we had, in which food banks contributed so 
much to the food security of so many of my constituents, we should be 
doing everything we can to protect and bolster our food programs.
  We should also be doing everything we can to protect the production 
of food, but sequestration cuts would compromise many parts of the farm 
bill, like the specialty crop block grants or the agricultural research 
extension programs at public universities.
  As the co-chair of the Congressional Agriculture Research Caucus, I 
know that these types of ag research programs help our farmers meet the 
challenges of 2021 and will allow them to prepare for challenges of the 
21st century.
  Mr. Speaker, as the Representative from the salad bowl of the world, 
it is my job to ensure that my farmers, farmworkers, and food-insecure 
families have all the tools that they need to live and lead healthy and 
productive lives.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the 
gentleman from California.
  Mr. PANETTA. Mr. Speaker, as Representatives in Congress for this 
Nation, it is all of our jobs to ensure that the programs for those 
tools and that food are here not just for today but tomorrow. We can 
live up to that responsibility by supporting H.R. 1868.
  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Kelly), who is the newest member of the 
Budget Committee.
  Mr. KELLY of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.R. 
1868, the bill to prevent across-the-board direct spending cuts.

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  It should come as no surprise to my Democrat friends. They were told 
during what little process we had in the $1.9 trillion spending bill 
that it was going to disproportionately hurt seniors and that it was 
going to hurt farmers.
  My friends were told this, and they ignored that, knowing they would 
have to fix it later and drive something just as irresponsible through 
now.
  A disproportionate share of this $2 trillion goes to urban, poorly 
run, Democrat cities and States at the expense of our rural, blue-
collar Americans who feed, clothe, and protect America every day. We 
told my friends this weeks ago, and they ignored it.
  I am deeply concerned that the Democrats would enact a bill that adds 
$1.9 trillion to an American deficit without the support of a single 
Republican. Over 200 voting Members of this body had no opportunity for 
input into this massively destructive package.
  The Biden administration promised the American people bipartisanship 
and unity. However, they unilaterally drafted and pushed this bill 
through without any Republican support.

  Now, the Democrats have hastily put together a bill that jeopardizes 
the standing of our seniors and mortgages the future of our children.
  My colleague, Ranking Member Smith, reminded the Democrats of the 
consequences of such a dramatic increase in mandatory spending: a $36 
billion cut to Medicare beginning in 2022. Democrats would rather cut 
benefits to American seniors in rural America than give up checks to 
illegal immigrants and prisoners.
  The Democrats have taken advantage of the need of the American 
people. My colleagues are advocating for a more responsible alternative 
that would remove the wasteful spending of the Biden bailout bill and 
protect the most vulnerable population. We must cut the billions of 
liberal State bailouts and be sure money already authorized is spent 
responsibly.
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I want to remind the gentleman from 
Mississippi, along with all the other Members of this body, that his 
citizens will receive, in total, $900 million from just the $1,400 
checks. That is the average that every congressional district is going 
to receive, and I hope that at some point they will realize the 
benefits of that injection of capital into an economy that is 
struggling.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. 
Courtney), who is a distinguished member of the Education and Labor 
Committee.
  Mr. COURTNEY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman of the Budget 
Committee for his and his committee staff's steady hand over the last 
couple of months to make sure that the American Rescue Plan was enacted 
last week.
  Mr. Speaker, in that week's time up to today, the American people 
have had a chance to listen to the debate and evaluate for themselves 
what they think of the American Rescue Plan. A Morning Consult poll 
that came out yesterday showed 72 percent support for the plan, 44 
percent among Republicans across the country.
  Why not? Ninety million Americans on Wednesday received $1,400 checks 
totaling $242 billion. For those Americans who are not connected 
digitally to the IRS, they are going to get their checks through the 
mail.

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  For those Americans who are filing their 2020 tax returns, whose 
income now qualifies them for the economic impact payments, they are 
going to receive their checks.
  On Monday, people who were on unemployment got an extension because 
of the American Rescue Plan. These are working people in the service 
sectors, in the commercial real estate sector, in most parts of the 
economy that are still hurting out there.
  Every ``no'' vote was a ``no'' vote in terms of people getting that 
critical economic help.
  Another vote of confidence happened on Wednesday, which is, the 
Federal Reserve Board met and voted to keep their key benchmark rate at 
zero, not just for a couple of weeks or a couple of months, but for the 
balance of 2021, for all of 2022, and into 2023.
  So for all of the historical arguments that we are overheating the 
economy and inflation is going to go up, Jerome Powell, Donald Trump's 
nominee as chair of the Federal Reserve, took questions for over an 
hour on this inflation issue, argued, accurately, with a battalion of 
economists that they have at the Federal Reserve that there is still 
slack in this economy and 10 million folks on unemployment need to get 
this type of fiscal relief that the American Rescue Plan responsibly 
targeted, which is going to make sure that this country recovers as 
soon as possible.
  This is a routine bill today. We have done it over and over again in 
the last 10 years. Vote ``yes'' and make sure that this economy, as the 
Chairman of the Federal Reserve advised us, gets the help it needs.
  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Burgess), one of the leading doctors of the 
Republican Conference and a great member of the Budget Committee.
  Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, I am going to speak in opposition to H.R. 1868, but I 
also feel obligated to point out that you may say that the inflation 
rate is zero, but if you bought a gallon of gas, purchased a two-by-
four at Home Depot, or bought a sack of Quikrete at Lowe's, you would 
know that inflation is a real phenomenon.
  But I do rise in opposition to H.R. 1868. There was no effort made on 
the part of the majority party to work with Republicans on what should 
be a bipartisan priority, and that is provider relief.
  I have heard from physicians and I have heard from hospitals in Texas 
that struggled financially throughout the pandemic. But the bill we 
have before us today is simply an excuse to wipe out the scorecard of 
the fiscal impact of this $1.9 trillion partisan package passed last 
week.
  Last week, Republicans warned that this would threaten cuts to 
Medicare, but those warnings were repeatedly ignored. If the House 
majority really cared, if the House Democrats really cared about 
meaningful healthcare provider relief, they would have worked to gain 
Republican support, worked with us to build a bill from the ground up. 
Instead, this bill is coming toward us as a Hail Mary pass right before 
the Medicare sequester cuts go into effect in April.
  As a physician, I have deep empathy for those whose medical practices 
have been impacted and are now struggling to stay open. I know I have 
helped many doctors, many clinics, navigate the Provider Relief Fund 
over this past year. We need targeted relief for the providers who are 
hurting, and some are hurting more than others.
  I am a cosponsor of H.R. 1999, which is an alternative approach that 
adds over $12 billion to the Provider Relief Fund and ensures that 
dollars would flow to those doctors who have experienced lost revenue 
or increased cost.
  This type of financial relief has already been proven successful. We 
passed the CARES Act on March 27 of last year. We know it's successful.
  Additionally, this alternative bill ensures that the 4 percent cut to 
Medicare providers that was included in last week's reconciliation bill 
as a result of statutory paygo does not go into effect in 2022.
  The American Rescue Plan Act gifted $350 billion to State and local 
governments that simply was not justified. Providers in our State and 
local communities are worthy of funding and they should specifically 
benefit from those State and local dollars that are not necessary to go 
where they are planned to go. That is why we would like to redirect the 
State and local funding toward provider relief.
  Maintaining a strong healthcare workforce is critical to the health 
of this Nation during normal times, and it is especially critical 
during a public health emergency.
  We should work together on the right policy solution to deliver this 
relief to ensure that it stands a chance of actually passing in the 
other body, and that should be a starting point for those discussions.
  Mr. Speaker, I hope we can come to such a sensible solution.
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I am happy to yield 2 minutes to the 
gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky), a distinguished member of 
the Budget Committee.

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  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to cosponsor H.R. 1868 to 
prevent arbitrary cuts to Medicare and to ensure that the American 
Rescue Plan is treated in the same way as previous coronavirus bills 
have been treated, including the CARES Act.
  This legislation, as we all know, this fix is needed to avoid painful 
cuts to our mandatory spending programs. And let's remember--the 
hypocrisy is overwhelming here--that the Democrats voted with 
Republicans in 2017 to avoid Medicare cuts as a result of the 
Republican's tax scam, a $2 trillion tax cut, that went mostly to the 
wealthy.
  Our healthcare workers have been working nonstop for over a year 
fighting this pandemic. They do not deserve a cut in Medicare payments 
for taking care of seniors and people with disabilities.
  By removing the sequester, we can ensure that providers keep their 
doors open and they can continue to treat their patients.

  Though Republicans voted against the American Rescue Plan, which they 
shouldn't have, I sincerely hope that today they will join us and vote 
to protect these programs that enjoy broad bipartisan public support 
and ensure that our commitment to our Nation's seniors and people with 
disabilities are met during this public health crisis.
  Especially now, we need to be working together, as we did for the 
Republicans. When the Republicans were giving tax cuts to the 
wealthiest Americans, we were not going to let Medicare suffer.
  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind the 
gentlewoman from Illinois that actions speak louder than words, and 
that the Democrats did not help the folks in 2017, since the 
gentlewoman tried to point out the hypocrisy.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Arrington).
  Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, to the gentlewoman's point about working together, 
Democrats did not offer a hand of bipartisanship in this ram-and-jam 
job on the $2 trillion bailout bill. They even lost Democrats on it. So 
they didn't work with us.
  It was a pure partisan play, and there is a reason for that. It is 
mostly unrelated to COVID. It is bailout galore. It is a wish list of 
the liberals in this House, and they just pushed it through and called 
it, in disguise, COVID relief.
  But the fundamental principle we are talking about today is paygo. 
This is a law passed by Democrats, signed by a Democrat President. It 
says, fundamentally--and the American people understand this--if you 
spend beyond your means, you have got to find a way to pay for it. You 
have got to offset it or you go into debt.
  Mr. Speaker, the American people, if they don't pay their bills, they 
get their water turned off or their electricity turned off. The IRS 
will hunt them down and put them in jail if they don't pay their taxes. 
They will have their mortgage foreclosed, their cars repossessed. That 
is what happens to the American people when they don't pay their bills.
  President Obama, when he signed the law, said, You can't spend a 
dollar unless you cut a dollar elsewhere. I agree with him.
  Ms. Pelosi, our Speaker, gave a speech and she gave glowing points as 
she embraced wholeheartedly and full-throatedly this paygo. She said it 
is important `` . . . to our fiscal soundness, and to our children and 
grandchildren.''
  She said: `` . . . who could oppose this great idea?''
  She went on to say: `` . . . investments in our children's future . . 
. must be paid for, or else we are heaping debt onto our children.''
  The national debt is almost $30 trillion and counting.
  Who is going to pay for that?
  Not us. Not you. Our kids are going to pay for it.
  These are Ms. Pelosi's words, Mr. Speaker: ``This pay-as-you-go is 
part of a blueprint for fiscal responsibility. . . . ''
  She said: `` . . . subjecting spending to the harshest scrutiny. 
Every Federal dollar that is spent must be subjected to scrutiny to 
make sure taxpayers get his or her money's worth.''
  Bailing out union pensions, giving cities and States money that 
horribly mismanaged their business prior to COVID, giving people more 
money to be on unemployment than they made in their previous jobs, 
paying people who are not economically harmed in this COVID disaster, 
all of these things are wasteful. There is a litany of wasteful, 
irresponsible, and unnecessary spending, hundreds of billions of 
dollars.
  And the Speaker is saying every dollar is going to be scrutinized. We 
are going to stick it to our seniors. We are going to stick it to our 
kids. That is a profile in courage, if I ever saw one. Now, that is the 
leadership that made this country great, Mr. Speaker. These are Ms. 
Pelosi's words, not mine, but I agree with her.
  We have an opportunity here to do the right thing by our children, to 
offset the spending here in this $2 trillion bailout with the wasteful 
spending that is in there. And I gave you a list, Mr. Speaker.
  Mr. Speaker, I plead with you and I plead with my colleagues to 
offset this and do right by our kids and their future in this country.
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to how much time remains 
on both sides?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Kentucky has 11\1/2\ 
minutes remaining. The gentleman from Missouri has 1\1/4\ minutes 
remaining.
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I am happy to yield 2 minutes to the 
gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee), a distinguished member of the 
Budget Committee.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I thank our distinguished chairman for 
yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, whenever you hear the words of Speaker Pelosi, you know 
that the gentlewoman is leading us on the fight to protect our seniors. 
I am glad to cosponsor this legislation to be a strong supporter of 
being on the front seat of protecting our seniors.
  Whenever you hear us being demagogued from those on the other side 
using demagoguery, you can be assured that when they pass a tax bill, 
it was not having seniors as their priority. But when you hear the word 
``Medicare,'' you know that Democrats are standing strong to make sure 
that not one dime is taken away from our seniors with Medicare.
  My open letter to my seniors in my district--open message to my 
seniors is: We will die on the vine to protect your Medicare. That is 
what we are doing today on the floor of the House. Not one dime will 
come out of your Medicare.
  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to support H.R. 1868, which excludes the 
budgetary effects of the American Rescue Plan of 2021 from scorecards 
established by the Pay-As-You-Go, or PAYGO Act of 2010, preventing 
across-the-board cuts to numerous direct-spending programs. That is 
what we are doing here today. We are taking our seniors seriously.
  I say to seniors: Have no fear with all of this demagoguery because 
we are going to make sure that not one dime comes out of your pocket.
  In addition, I say to seniors: You are going to be living in cities 
like Houston, where it says that Houston's share of the stimulus 
package is $615 million.
  That is going to help keep the city services going, the fire, the 
police, and trash pickup going. We know that seniors call my office and 
these issues are important to them.
  Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record a Houston Chronicle article 
dated March 10, 2021, showing that the city of Houston will receive 
$615 million.

              [From the Houston Chronicle, Mar. 10, 2021]

Houston's Share of Stimulus Bill Expected To Top $600M, Help Avoid Cuts 
                    to City Services, Officials Say

                          (By Jasper Scherer)

       Houston and Harris County are expected to receive more than 
     $1.5 billion through the stimulus bill approved by Congress 
     Wednesday, providing a massive cash injection that city 
     officials say will help close a budget shortfall widened by 
     the pandemic for the second year in a row.
       The measure provides local governments with their most 
     generous round of COVID-related funding yet, and it comes 
     with fewer spending restrictions than last year's aid. 
     Houston will receive an estimated $615 million, putting the 
     city at more than $1 billion in direct federal relief during 
     the pandemic, while Harris County is projected to receive 
     $914 million--more than double its allotment from the first 
     round of local aid last March.
       ``I'm hopeful and optimistic that we will be able to use 
     this money to, essentially, bail

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     the city out of a very dire financial situation,'' said City 
     Controller Chris Brown, who monitors the spending of 
     Houston's more than $5 billion city budget.
       Many local governments, including Houston, have seen their 
     sales tax revenues plummet as the pandemic slowed consumer 
     spending on dining, tourism and other leisure activity. And 
     while rising appraisal values mean the city is projected to 
     take in more money from property taxes this year than last, 
     officials say the pandemic's true toll on property tax 
     revenue may not be felt until early 2022, when homeowners 
     make payments for this year's not-yet-certified tax rolls.
       Much to the relief of local officials, the latest round of 
     federal aid allows cities and counties to spend the funds to 
     replace revenue lost due to the pandemic. Trump 
     administration rules barred local governments from using the 
     first round of local COVID relief to plug budget holes, 
     stipulating it could only cover expenses tied directly to the 
     pandemic, though Mayor Sylvester Turner's administration 
     still was able to use the funds to avoid furloughing city 
     employees.
       Marvin Odum, the former Shell executive appointed by the 
     mayor to oversee the city's COVID recovery, said Wednesday he 
     is ``very optimistic the funds will be able to be used to 
     mitigate the city's budget shortfalls resulting from COVID-
     19.'' Still, he noted that beyond the broad language in the 
     bill, federal officials have yet to release specific rules 
     for how local governments can spend the funds.
       ``I'll just caution that clarity on the guidelines for 
     these programs tends to come over time. It's not always 
     available immediately,'' Odum said.
       Republican lawmakers bitterly opposed the local aid, 
     including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who accused 
     Democrats of sending ``wheelbarrows of cash to state and 
     local bureaucrats to bail out mismanagement from before the 
     pandemic.'' Meanwhile, local officials across the country 
     have warned they would have to enact deep cuts to city 
     services, such as fire, police and trash collection, without 
     federal aid to offset their revenue losses.
       ``Every mayor, every county judge, every local official 
     that I visited with since before December, they all need 
     help,'' said U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, a former 
     Houston controller and county commissioner. ``Every city in 
     America will get dollars to help with their revenue 
     shortfalls. And that's huge, because they can keep the 
     firefighters working, they can keep police departments open, 
     they can get the garbage picked up.''
       Even before the pandemic, Houston officials in recent years 
     have scrambled to close major city budget gaps, often dipping 
     into reserves to balance spending and revenue. The city's 
     public safety costs, which make up more than half of spending 
     on core services, have steadily increased as the budget 
     remains capped by a limit on how much property tax revenue 
     the city can take in each year.
       ``It's going to solve, in the short term, some of these 
     problems, but the real challenge is, you cannot solve a 
     structural problem with one-time financing sources,'' Brown 
     said. ``You actually have to do the hard work to cut 
     recurring expenses. And that's the only way you can narrow 
     that budget gap over time.''
       Local governments will receive half their federal aid 
     within 60 days of Friday, when President Joe Eiden will sign 
     the bill into law, according to White House press secretary 
     Jen Psaki. They will receive the second half of the funds at 
     least a year later.
       That means Houston will receive more than $300 million to 
     offset its revenue losses next fiscal year, along with any 
     potential shortfall before the current fiscal year ends June 
     30. Odum said the city finance department is projecting a 
     budget gap of between $160 and $200 million next year, while 
     Brown--whose office generates its own estimates separate from 
     Turner's administration--said he expects the shortfall to be 
     even higher.
       Brown noted that while finance department projections 
     assume the city will see a less-than-1 percent reduction in 
     sales tax revenue this year, the actual decrease has been 7 
     percent.
       ``The (Turner) administration, I don't think, has properly 
     evaluated the reductions in sales and property tax,'' Brown 
     said. ``There's a $40 million variance between us and (the) 
     finance (department) in sales tax alone.''
       Brown estimated city officials will have to lay off about a 
     dozen city employees for every $1 million trimmed from the 
     budget, meaning Houston could have been looking at more than 
     2,000 layoffs without any federal aid.
       Instead, Houston's relief will far exceed its budget 
     deficit. The city also is expected to devote a chunk of the 
     aid to direct COVID relief, such as testing and vaccinations. 
     Turner's administration exhausted the previous round of aid, 
     totaling $405 million, in December. Those funds covered 
     contact tracing efforts, city workers whose jobs were 
     consumed by COVID, and relief to renters and small 
     businesses, among other areas.
       Turner, who proposes the annual budget to city council each 
     year, did not respond to questions Wednesday about how he 
     intends to spend the new round of relief aid.

  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, let me also indicate that seniors' 
healthcare will be in a good place with this particular program. Their 
grandchildren will be able to go back to school with almost $1 billion 
to the Houston Independent School District.
  Seniors' stimulus checks are not going to be ignored. They are going 
to be able to get stimulus checks directly into their accounts. Their 
grandchildren, their children will get $3,600 for a 5-year-old.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the 
gentlewoman from Texas.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, they will get $3,000 for children above 9 years old. 
There will be enhanced unemployment for the young people in their lives 
who have been unemployed. And then, of course, that local restaurant 
will be able--and I fought for this--to be open again with $28 billion.
  The issue of public assistance or local government assistance was 
something I was allowed to offer a motion to instruct on. It was 
something that I thought we could not abandon. We will not abandon 
seniors. We will not let them touch one dime of Medicare, as our 
friends on the other side have.
  Vote for this legislation because we are seniors first.
  Mr. Speaker, as a senior member of the Committees on the Judiciary, 
on Homeland Security, on the Budget, and as the Member of Congress for 
a congressional district that has experience the worst of the COVID-19 
as a public health emergency and economic catastrophe, I rise in strong 
support of H.R. 1868, which excludes the budgetary effects of the 
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, from the scorecards established by 
the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act of 2010, preventing across-the-
board cuts to numerous direct spending programs.
  The legislation also excludes the budgetary effects of this Act from 
the Senate PAYGO scorecards.
  This legislation is necessary to ensure that that Medicare and other 
programs are protected from PAYGO sequestration.
  The Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act requires across-the-board cuts, known 
as ``sequestration,'' to a defined set of programs if certain 
legislation affecting mandatory spending or revenues increases net 
deficits.
  Although legislation that Congress designates as an emergency or 
otherwise excludes from the PAYGO scorecard does not trigger 
sequestration, this action is necessary because restrictions on the 
content of reconciliation bills prevented the American Rescue Plan Act 
of 2021 from including a provision to avert sequestration.
  The bill before also extends a separate Medicare sequester relief 
provision, first enacted in the CARES Act, that expires March 31,
  Mr. Speaker, Congress has never permitted sequestration to affect the 
Medicare trust fund and it certainly will not allow it now, just when 
help is arriving under the American Rescue Plan Act to put shots in 
arms, money in pockets, kids in school, and workers back on the job.
  It is worthwhile to explain why the American Rescue Plan Act is the 
most transformative legislation in more than a half century and easily 
justifies exclusion from sequestration.
  H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act, is a landmark, life-saving 
legislation that will provide urgently-needed resources to defeat the 
virus, put vaccines in people's arms, money into families' pockets, 
children safely back into classrooms, and people back to work.
  With tens of millions of Americans infected, more than half a million 
lives lost, over 18 million Americans unemployed and millions more 
hungry and food and housing insecure, thanks to the work of 
congressional Democrats in the House and Senate and the Biden 
Administration, at long last the people of the United States and my 
home state of Texas can be assured that `Help Is On The Way.'
  In simple terms this life-saving and life-enhancing legislation puts 
vaccines in arms, puts money in people's pockets, puts children safely 
back in school, and it will put workers back in jobs.
  1. Put Vaccines in Arms: The plan will mount a national vaccination 
program that includes setting up community vaccination sites nationwide 
and addressing disparities facing communities of color. It will also 
take complementary measures to combat the virus, including scaling up 
testing and tracing, addressing shortages of personal protective 
equipment and other critical supplies, investing in high-quality 
treatments, and addressing health care disparities.
  2. Put Money in People's Pockets: The plan finishes the job on the 
President's promise to provide $2,000 in direct assistance to 
households across America with checks of $1,400

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per person, following the $600 down payment enacted in December. The 
plan will also provide direct housing assistance, nutrition assistance 
for 40 million Americans, expand access to safe and reliable child care 
and affordable health care, extend unemployment insurance so that 18 
million American workers can pay their bills and support 27 million 
children with an expanded Child Tax Credit and more than 17 million 
low-wage workers through an improved Earned Income Tax Credit.
  3. Put Children Safely Back in School: The plan delivers $170 billion 
for education and $45 billion for childcare providers. This includes a 
$130 billion investment in K-12 school re-opening and making up for 
lost time in the classroom, with funds that can be used for such things 
as reducing class sizes, modifying spaces so that students and teachers 
can socially distance, improving ventilation, implementing more 
mitigation measures, providing personal protective equipment and 
providing summer school or other support for students that help make up 
lost learning time this year. The plan also provides more than $40 
billion for higher education.

  Here is what the American Rescue Plan Act means for the State of 
Texas, Houston, and Harris County.
  An estimated $16.7 billion will come to the State of Texas.
  The lion's share of $3.3 billion will come directly to the City of 
Houston, and Harris County will receive a similar share of $5.667 
billion, thanks to a provision in the law I helped secure that created 
the Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund and appropriated $45.57 
billion.
  $1.4 billion in direct payments is allocated to smaller jurisdiction 
like Jacinto City.
  Houston Independent School District can expect to receive close to 
$100 million ($993,198 million to be more precise).
  The law specifically allows this funding to be used:
  1. To respond to the pandemic or its negative economic impacts, 
including assistance to households, small businesses, and nonprofits, 
or aid to impacted industries such as tourism, travel, and hospitality;
  2. For premium pay to eligible workers performing essential work (as 
determined by each recipient government) during the pandemic, providing 
up to $13 per hour above regular wages;
  3. For the provision of government services to the extent of the 
reduction in revenue due to the pandemic (relative to revenues 
collected in the most recent full fiscal year); and
  4. To make necessary investments in water, sewer, or broadband 
infrastructure.
  In addition to these funds, Texas will receive $100 million out of 
the newly created $10 billion Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund for 
``critical capital projects directly enabling work, education, and 
health monitoring, including remote options, in response to the public 
health emergency with respect to the Coronavirus Disease.
  Now all that is well and good but let me tell you what the American 
Rescue Plan Act means for a hard-working and hard-pressed single mother 
of two children making a modest income:
  Stimulus checks: $1,400 3 = $4,200
  Child tax credit: $3,600 (5-year-old) + $3,000 (9-year-old) = $6,600. 
Half of that amount will be paid out periodically from late July 
through December; the rest will come as a check with next year's taxes.
  Enhanced unemployment: If the parent becomes unemployed in March, she 
will be eligible for $300 in aid every week through the last week of 
August.
  Total: $10,800 from stimulus and tax credits, plus another $7,500 
from 25-weeks of enhanced unemployment aid. This individual would also 
receive $318 per week in state unemployment aid and thousands more from 
the Earned Income Tax Credit.


                              Restaurants

  Finally, let me discuss briefly the good things for the restaurant 
industry that are in the American Rescue Plan Act.
  The law allocates $28 billion in funds to devastated food service 
establishments, including bars, and food trucks, and vendors.
  Unlike the Paycheck Protection Program, which saddled restaurants 
with burdensome loans if the bulk of the funds were not spent on 
payroll, these restaurant relief dollars are grants, plain and simple.
  Grant sizes will generally be determined by subtracting lower 2020 
pandemic-era receipts from higher 2019 gross receipts.
  Over $5 billion will be set aside for smaller venues whose annual 
gross receipts were below $500,000, leaving $23.6 billion for everyone 
else.
  Grants will be capped at $10 million for restaurant groups and $5 
million for individual venues.
  Publicly traded companies or restaurants with more than 20 locations 
will not be eligible to participate in this funding.
  And, for the first 21 days, establishments owned by women, veterans, 
or economically and socially disadvantaged groups will be prioritized.
  This transformative legislation will also provide direct housing 
assistance, nutrition assistance for 40 million Americans, expand 
access to safe and reliable child care and affordable health care, 
extend unemployment insurance so that 18 million American workers can 
pay their bills and support 27 million children with an expanded Child 
Tax Credit and more than 17 million low-wage childless workers through 
an improved Earned Income Tax Credit, which will reduce the number of 
children living in poverty in America by 50 percent.
  I want to commend my colleagues and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for 
her leadership and President Biden for signing into law the American 
Rescue Plan Act of 2021, and I urge all Members to join me in voting to 
pass H.R. 1868, which excludes the budgetary effects of the American 
Rescue Plan Act from the scorecards established by the Statutory Pay-
As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act of 2010, and thus precludes the implementation of 
direct across the board cuts in spending.

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  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Doggett), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, 55 years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson 
overcame sustained Republican opposition to enact Medicare. It has been 
a literal lifeline for millions. Those who suffered without healthcare 
before Medicare now have access to a family physician and hospital care 
when they need it.
  Former Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich, in this very room, plotted 
to let Medicare wither on the vine. Millions of Americans would have 
withered had he been successful. Yet, generations of Republicans have 
sought to privatize it, cut it, or weaken it. Surely, some of the 
strongest evidence of the success of Medicare, through all of these 
times, is the claim by today's Republicans that after so many failed 
attempts to weaken Medicare, they are here, quite amazingly, claiming 
to be its new protectors.
  Of course, this comes following their understandable desperation to 
justify their inexplicable efforts to deny the relief that was offered 
by the American Rescue Plan: the survivor benefits; the unemployment; 
the small business and rental assistance so vitally needed; the support 
for getting our students back in school, the funding to keep State and 
local employees doing their jobs. Republicans have resisted that rescue 
plan with the same fervor that they resisted Medicare in the first 
place. So determined are these folks to oppose anything that President 
Biden advances, they have come out here and claimed that the rescue 
plan means Medicare cuts, which certainly it does not.
  Most of Medicare falls within the jurisdiction of the Ways and Means 
Health Subcommittee, which I chair. We do need to strengthen Medicare. 
The latest financial report suggests that additional revenues will be 
needed to sustain Medicare beginning in 2026. Some of the changes that 
are needed are largely accounting adjustments, and others will require 
additional revenue.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the 
gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, what our colleagues should be doing is 
coming together to work with us to ensure the permanent security of 
Medicare.
  Medicare works, but after 55 years, it needs some updates. It has not 
provided adequate protection against pharmaceutical price gouging; it 
does not cover most of dental, hearing, and vision care; and, of 
course, too many Americans are just too young to benefit from Medicare.
  I believe we need to be working together to make Medicare better and 
more widely available to more Americans, because health security is 
American security.
  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Illinois (Mrs. Bustos), a distinguished member of the Committee on 
Agriculture and Committee on Appropriations.
  Mrs. BUSTOS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to support H.R. 1868. I know 
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have talked this morning about the importance of the bill protecting 
Medicare. I want to talk with you for a couple of minutes here about 
its protection of farm supports and other direct spending as it 
pertains to our family farmers.
  As chair of the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk 
Management, this bill will protect critical resources like the 
Commodity Credit Corporation, resources that our family farmers depend 
on now more than ever.
  There are nearly 2 million farmers across our Nation. In the district 
that I serve, we have close to 10,000 family farms. But throughout our 
Nation, there is no farm that isn't touched by the Commodity Credit 
Corporation, not one American farmer who wouldn't be impacted by these 
cuts. In the district I serve, those close to 10,000 family farmers 
would have fewer resources if this were to happen and would face 
challenges as they try to pay their bills and put food on the table.
  The truth is, our family farmers have seen an onslaught of challenges 
for years, each year worse than the one before it: extreme weather 
conditions; devastated crops; unstable and uncertain trade markets that 
held back exports and economic growth; and throughout the past year, a 
global pandemic that has left many of our farmers ravaged, even as they 
kept fighting for fellow Americans, to keep them fed.
  COVID-19 has impacted all of us. But, thankfully, we have never truly 
seen empty store shelves. We have our American farmers to thank for 
that. We have our American farmers to thank for the stable food supply 
and for the certainty that, even after years of challenges, even at the 
height of this worldwide crisis, our American farmers have had our 
backs. Now, it is time for us to have theirs.
  A vote against this bill is a vote to cut farm funding. I urge my 
colleagues to vote to protect our family farmers and vote ``yes'' on 
this critical bill.
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I have no further speakers, and I am 
prepared to close.
  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. Speaker, my colleagues and I have introduced an alternative, a 
more responsible approach that protects our seniors and rolls back some 
of the most wasteful and absurd parts of the Democratic bailout bill.
  I would encourage my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to put 
America's seniors ahead of their special interest allies. Join us in 
finding a solution that protects and respects America's seniors and the 
working class. We will offer such a solution as a motion to recommit. 
If adopted, it will instruct the Budget Committee to consider an 
amendment to make the sensible cuts in waste offered in H.R. 1999, the 
Protect Seniors and Cut Waste Act.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to insert the text of this 
amendment in the Record immediately prior to the vote on the motion to 
recommit.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Missouri?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, let's put the healthcare of our 
seniors ahead of prisoners, illegal immigrants, and the political 
class.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Mr. Speaker, the last couple of months have been an incredibly busy 
time. The work that was done on the American Rescue Plan, from start to 
finish, was extraordinary, and we owe our staffs an enormous debt of 
gratitude, and not just the Budget Committee staff, but the staff of 
the 12 committees that also contributed to the drafting of the American 
Rescue Plan.
  I would like to take this time to read the names of the Budget 
Committee staff who pulled all-nighters, all-weekenders, and went way 
beyond the call of duty in doing the work on the American Rescue Plan:
  Erika Appel, Ellen Balis, Samantha Carter, Edward Etzkorn, Jose 
Guillen, Jocelyn Harris, Emily King, Sarah Lee, Sheila McDowell, Diana 
Meredith, Leyla Mocan, Kimberly Overbeek, Barbara Pike, Katie Raymond, 
Scott Russell, Laura Santos, Raquel Spencer, Greg Waring, Alexandra 
Weinroth, Christie Wentworth, Jennifer Wheelock, Sam Wice, Ted Zegers, 
and Grady Stevens. I want to thank all of them personally for their 
work on behalf of the House.
  In closing, Mr. Speaker, I just want to say this: You know, we have 
heard a lot of newly found concern about the deficit and the debt 
today. We heard it during the debates. This is the same party that 
drove up the deficit 3 years ago, 4 years ago now, with a $2 trillion 
tax cut, most of which benefitted the wealthiest Americans, and, 
according to virtually everyone who has looked at it, didn't even come 
close to paying for itself.
  What we have done in the American Rescue Plan is give an incredible 
boost to the American people, the American people who need the boost 
most. Not one dollar in the American Rescue Plan goes to the top 1 
percent of Americans. The vast majority goes to middle- and lower-
income people struggling to get by.
  I am kind of amused when people talk about their States being 
cheated. The gentleman from Georgia talked about how Georgia was 
cheated. Under the American Rescue Plan, Georgia gets over $8 billion, 
twice as much as Georgia got under the CARES Act. That doesn't even 
count all of the money that is going to the Georgia citizens.
  As I said, in every congressional district in this country, on 
average, the people, the citizens we represent, will get $900 million, 
every congressional district.
  My friend from Missouri talked about his family of four. I know his 
math is better than this, but a family of four doesn't get $1,400, as 
he mentioned. A family of four gets $1,400 times four, which is $5,600, 
and then two children, depending on their ages, get at least $3,000 
each. So that family of four is going to get $11,000 out of this bill.

  The talk about future generations, I love that. You know, I am sure 
that when the national debt reached $1 billion under Abraham Lincoln, 
there were people saying: ``Wow, we are laying an incredible burden on 
our grandchildren.'' When it reached $1 trillion under Ronald Reagan, I 
am sure there were people saying the same thing. And when it gets to 
$50 trillion, as it probably will in the next couple of decades, people 
will be saying the same thing.
  We have been accumulating debt for our entire history, and yet no one 
has ever been asked to pay for that debt, and no one ever will.
  So all in all, we are very proud of the American Rescue Plan. The 
American people love the American Rescue Plan. This fix, which we ask 
for today, is something that, again, is just what the Republicans asked 
to do in 2017. It is a routine measure. Nobody wants to cut Medicare to 
providers and certainly benefits to our citizens. I am sure we will 
have a bipartisan vote on this today, and I urge all of my colleagues 
to support H.R. 1868.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 233, the 
previous question is ordered on the bill.
  The question is on the engrossment and the third reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was 
read the third time.


                           Motion to Recommit

  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at 
the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. Smith of Missouri moves to recommit the bill, H.R. 1868 
     to the Committee on the Budget.

  The material previously referred to by Mr. Smith of Missouri is as 
follows:

       Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the 
     following:

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Protect Seniors and Cut 
     Waste Act''.

     SEC. 2. PAYGO ACT SEQUESTER.

       The budgetary effects of the American Rescue Plan Act of 
     2021 shall not be counted for purposes of determining whether 
     a sequester occurs under the report issued after Congress 
     adjourns to end the 1st session of the 117th Congress and 
     during January 2022 under section 5 of the Statutory Pay-As-
     You-Go Act of 2010.

     SEC. 3. SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND 
                   SOCIAL SERVICES EMERGENCY FUND.

       (a) Supplemental Appropriation.--There is appropriated, out 
     of any amounts in the

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     Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for an additional amount 
     for ``Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund' '', 
     $12,300,000,000, to remain available until expended, to 
     prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, 
     domestically or internationally, which shall be for necessary 
     expenses to reimburse, through grants or other mechanisms, 
     eligible health care providers for health care related 
     expenses or lost revenues that are attributable to 
     coronavirus.
       (b) Conditions.--The following conditions shall apply with 
     respect to funds appropriated by subsection (a):
       (1) Such funds may not be used to reimburse expenses or 
     losses that have been reimbursed from other sources or that 
     other sources are obligated to reimburse.
       (2) Recipients of payments under this section shall submit 
     reports and maintain documentation as the Secretary of Health 
     and Human Services determines are needed to ensure compliance 
     with conditions that are imposed by this subsection for such 
     payments, and such reports and documentation shall be in such 
     form, with such content, and in such time as the Secretary 
     may prescribe for such purpose.
       (3) The term ``eligible health care providers'' means 
     public entities, Medicare or Medicaid enrolled suppliers and 
     providers, and such for-profit entities and not-for-profit 
     entities not otherwise described in this paragraph as the 
     Secretary may specify, within the United States (including 
     territories), that provide diagnoses, testing, or care for 
     individuals with possible or actual cases of COVID-19.
       (4) The Secretary shall, on a rolling basis, review 
     applications and make payments under this section.
       (5) Funds appropriated under this section shall be 
     available for building or construction of temporary 
     structures, leasing of properties, medical supplies and 
     equipment including personal protective equipment and testing 
     supplies, increased workforce and trainings, emergency 
     operation centers, retrofitting facilities, and surge 
     capacity.
       (6) In this section, the term ``payment'' means a pre-
     payment, prospective payment, or retrospective payment, as 
     determined appropriate by the Secretary.
       (7) Payments under this section shall be made in 
     consideration of the most efficient payment systems 
     practicable to provide emergency payment.
       (8) To be eligible for a payment under this section, an 
     eligible health care provider shall submit to the Secretary 
     an application that includes a statement justifying the need 
     of the provider for the payment and the eligible health care 
     provider shall have a valid tax identification number.
       (9) For any reimbursement by the Secretary from the 
     Provider Relief Fund to an eligible health care provider that 
     is a subsidiary of a parent organization, the parent 
     organization may, allocate (through transfers or otherwise) 
     all or any portion of such reimbursement among the subsidiary 
     eligible health care providers of the parent organization, 
     including reimbursements referred to by the Secretary as 
     ``Targeted Distribution'' payments, among subsidiary eligible 
     health care providers of the parent organization, except that 
     responsibility for reporting the reallocated reimbursement 
     shall remain with the original recipient of such 
     reimbursement.
       (10) For any reimbursement from the Provider Relief Fund to 
     an eligible health care provider for health care related 
     expenses or lost revenues that are attributable to 
     coronavirus (including reimbursements made before the date of 
     the enactment of this Act), such provider may calculate such 
     lost revenues using the Frequently Asked Questions guidance 
     released by the Department of Health and Human Services in 
     June 2020, including the difference between such provider's 
     budgeted and actual revenue budget if such budget had been 
     established and approved prior to March 27, 2020.
       (11) Of the amount made available in the third paragraph 
     under the heading ``Department of Health and Human Services--
     Office of the Secretary--Public Health and Social Services 
     Emergency Fund'' in Public Law 116-136, not less than 85 
     percent of the unobligated balances available as of the date 
     of enactment of this Act and of any funds recovered from 
     health care providers after the date of enactment of this Act 
     shall be for any successor to the Phase 3 General 
     Distribution allocation to make payments to eligible health 
     care providers based on applications that consider financial 
     losses and changes in operating expenses occurring in fiscal 
     year 2021 that are attributable to coronavirus.
       (12) Not later than 3 years after final payments are made 
     under this section, the Office of Inspector General of the 
     Department of Health and Human Services shall transmit a 
     final report on audit findings with respect to this program 
     to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate.
       (13) Nothing in this section limits the authority of the 
     Inspector General or the Comptroller General to conduct 
     audits of interim payments at an earlier date.
       (14) Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
     provide a report to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
     House of Representatives and the Senate on the obligation of 
     funds, including obligations to such eligible health care 
     providers, summarized by State of the payment receipt. Such 
     report shall be updated and submitted to such Committees 
     every 60 days until funds are expended.
       (c) Emergency Designations.--
       (1) Amounts repurposed in subsection (b) that were 
     previously designated by the Congress as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
     Deficit Control Act of 1985 are designated by the Congress as 
     an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) 
     of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985.
       (2) The amount appropriated by subsection (a) is designated 
     by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget 
     and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
       (3) Each amount designated in this Act by the Congress as 
     an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) 
     of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985 shall be available only if the President subsequently so 
     designates all such amounts and transmits such designations 
     to the Congress.
       (d) Application of Provisions.--Amounts appropriated 
     pursuant to this section and pursuant to title II of Public 
     Law 117-2 shall be subject to the requirements contained in 
     Public Law 116-260 for funds for programs authorized under 
     sections 330 through 340 of the Public Health Service Act.

     SEC. 4. CORONAVIRUS STATE FISCAL RECOVERY FUND ADJUSTMENT.

       (a) In General.--Section 602 of the Social Security Act is 
     amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ``$219,800,000,000'' 
     and inserting ``$79,800,000,000''; and
       (2) in subsection (b)(3), by striking ``$195,300,000,000'' 
     and inserting ``$55,300,000,000''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) 
     shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the 
     American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

     SEC. 5. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.

       (a) Rural Health Clinic Payments.--
       (1) In general.--Section 1833(f)(3) of the Social Security 
     Act (42 U.S.C. 1395l(f)(3)) is amended--
       (A) in subparagraph (A)--
       (i) in clause (i), by striking subclauses (I) and (II) and 
     inserting the following:
       ``(I) with respect to a rural health clinic that had a per 
     visit payment amount established for services furnished in 
     2020--

       ``(aa) the per visit payment amount applicable to such 
     rural health clinic for rural health clinic services 
     furnished in 2020, increased by the percentage increase in 
     the MEI applicable to primary care services furnished as of 
     the first day of 2021; or
       ``(bb) the limit described in paragraph (2)(A); and

       ``(II) with respect to a rural health clinic that did not 
     have a per visit payment amount established for services 
     furnished in 2020--

       ``(aa) the per visit payment amount applicable to such 
     rural health clinic for rural health clinic services 
     furnished in 2021; or
       ``(bb) the limit described in paragraph (2)(A); and''; and

       (ii) in clause (ii)(I), by striking ``under clause (i)(I)'' 
     and inserting ``under subclause (I) or (II) of clause (i), as 
     applicable,''; and
       (B) in subparagraph (B)--
       (i) in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking ``2019, 
     was'' and inserting ``2020'';
       (ii) in clause (i), by inserting ``was'' after ``(i)''; and
       (iii) by striking clause (ii) and inserting the following:
       ``(ii)(I) was enrolled under section 1866(j) (including 
     temporary enrollment during the emergency period described in 
     section 1135(g)(1)(B) for such period); or
       ``(II) submitted an application for enrollment under 
     section 1866(j) (or requested such a temporary enrollment for 
     such period) that was received not later than December 31, 
     2020.''.
       (2) Effective date.--The amendments made by this subsection 
     shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the 
     Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 116-260).
       (b) Additional Amount for Certain Hospitals With High 
     Disproporationate Share.--Effective as if included in the 
     enactment of section 203(a) of title II of division CC of 
     Public Law 116-260, subsection (g) of section 1923 of the 
     Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396r-4) amended by such 
     section 203(a) is amended by adding at the end the following 
     new paragraph:
       ``(3) Additional amount for certain hospitals with high 
     disproporationate share.--
       ``(A) In general.--In the case of a hospital with high 
     disproportionate share (as defined in subparagraph (B)) 
     located in a State referenced in subsection (e) of section 
     4721 of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, a payment adjustment 
     during a State fiscal year shall be considered consistent 
     with subsection (c) if the payment adjustment does not exceed 
     175 percent of the costs of furnishing hospital services 
     during the year, but only if the Governor of the State 
     certifies to the satisfaction of the Secretary that the 
     hospital's applicable minimum amount is used for health 
     services during the year. In determining the amount that is 
     used for such services during a year, there shall be excluded 
     any amounts received under the Public Health Service Act, 
     title V, title XVIII, or from third party payors (not 
     including the State plan under this title) that are used for 
     providing such services during the year.

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       ``(B) Hospital with high disproporationate share defined.--
     In subparagraph (A), a hospital is a `hospital with high 
     disproportionate share' if--
       ``(i) the hospital is owned or operated by the State (or by 
     an instrumentality or a unit of government within the State); 
     and
       ``(ii) the hospital--

       ``(I) meets the requirement described in subparagraphs (A) 
     or (B) of subsection (b)(1); or
       ``(II) has the largest number of inpatient days 
     attributable to individuals entitled to benefits under the 
     State plan of any hospital in such State for the previous 
     fiscal year.

       ``(C) Applicable minimum amount defined.--In subparagraph 
     (A), the `applicable minimum amount' for a hospital for a 
     fiscal year is equal to the difference between the amount of 
     the hospital's payment adjustment for the fiscal year and the 
     costs to the hospital of furnishing hospital services 
     described in paragraph (1)(A) during the fiscal year.''.

     SEC. 6. INDIVIDUALS NOT LAWFULLY PRESENT IN UNITED STATES 
                   PRECLUDED FROM 2021 RECOVERY REBATES.

       (a) In General.--Section 6428B(c) of the Internal Revenue 
     Code of 1986, as added by the American Rescue Plan Act of 
     2021, is amended by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph 
     (2), by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4), and by 
     inserting after paragraph (2) the following new paragraph:
       ``(3) any individual who was not lawfully present in the 
     United States as of the date of the enactment of the American 
     Rescue Plan Act of 2021, and''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall take effect as if included in the enactment of section 
     9601 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

     SEC. 7. INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS PRECLUDED FROM 2021 RECOVERY 
                   REBATES.

       (a) In General.--Section 6428B(c) of the Internal Revenue 
     Code of 1986, as added by the American Rescue Plan Act of 
     2021 and amended by the preceding provisions of this Act, is 
     amended by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (3), by 
     redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (5), and by 
     inserting after paragraph (3) the following new paragraph:
       ``(4) any individual who was incarcerated on the date of 
     the enactment of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, and''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall take effect as if included in the enactment of section 
     9601 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

     SEC. 8. REQUIRING A SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER TO RECEIVE COBRA 
                   CONTINUATION COVERAGE.

       (a) In General.--Section 9501(a)(3) of the American Rescue 
     Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2) is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking at the end ``and'';
       (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at the end 
     and inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(C) has been issued a social security number (as defined 
     in section 24(h)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) by 
     the Social Security Administration.''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) 
     shall take effect as if included in the enactment of section 
     9501 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

     SEC. 9. RESCISSIONS OF AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT OF 2021 
                   FUNDS.

       Of the funds appropriated by the American Rescue Plan Act 
     of 2021 (Public Law 117-2), all unobligated funds available 
     under the following provisions of such Act are hereby 
     rescinded:
       (1) Section 2021 (relating to the National Endowment for 
     the Arts).
       (2) Section 2022 (relating to the National Endowment for 
     the Humanities).
       (3) Section 4001 (relating to the Emergency Federal 
     Employee Leave Fund).

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX, the 
previous question is ordered on the motion to recommit.
  The question is on the motion to recommit.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.
  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. 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 202, 
nays 216, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 95]

                               YEAS--202

     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
     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)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Luetkemeyer
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McKinley
     Meijer
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Mullin
     Murphy (NC)
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Obernolte
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (SC)
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     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)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Zeldin

                               NAYS--216

     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
     Frankel, Lois
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Golden
     Gomez
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hastings
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     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
     Neal
     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
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Brady
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Hoyer
     Kinzinger
     Lucas
     McHenry
     Nunes
     Roy
     Wilson (SC)
     Young

                              {time}  1114

  Messrs. O'HALLERAN, LEVIN of Michigan, CARSON, and Ms. BASS changed 
their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Messrs. CARL and STIVERS changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the motion to recommit was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.

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    MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 8, 117TH CONGRESS

     Allred (Davids (KS))
     Axne (Stevens)
     Barragan (Beyer)
     Bera (Aguilar)
     Bishop (GA) (Butterfield)
     Blumenauer (Beyer)
     Bourdeaux (Clark (MA))
     Boyle, Brendan F. (Jeffries)
     Buchanan (Gimenez)
     Bucshon (Walorski)
     Bush (Clark (MA))
     Cardenas (Gomez)
     Cleaver (Davids (KS))
     DeSaulnier (Matsui)
     DesJarlais (Fleischmann)
     Gaetz (Waltz)
     Garbarino (Joyce (OH))
     Grijalva (Garcia (IL))
     Hastings (Butterfield)
     Kahele (Mrvan)
     Kim (NJ) (Davids (KS))
     Kirkpatrick (Stanton)
     Langevin (Lynch)
     Lawson (FL) (Evans)
     Lieu (Beyer)
     Lowenthal (Beyer)
     McEachin (Wexton)
     Meng (Clark (MA))
     Mfume (Brown)
     Moore (WI) (Beyer)
     Moulton (Underwood)
     Napolitano (Correa)
     Payne (Pallone)
     Peters (Kildee)
     Pingree (Cicilline)
     Porter (Wexton)
     Rodgers (WA) (Joyce (PA))
     Rush (Underwood)
     Schneider (Aguilar)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Slotkin (Stevens)
     Smith (WA) (Courtney)
     Timmons (Steube)
     Vargas (Correa)
     Wasserman Schultz (Soto)
     Watson Coleman (Pallone)
     Williams (GA) (Jacobs (CA))
     Wilson (FL) (Hayes)
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.
  Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana. Mr. 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 246, 
nays 175, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 96]

                               YEAS--246

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Axne
     Bacon
     Barragan
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bera
     Bergman
     Beyer
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bourdeaux
     Bowman
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brown
     Brownley
     Buchanan
     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)
     Davidson
     Davis, Danny K.
     Dean
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Delgado
     Demings
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Dunn
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Frankel, Lois
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     Garcia (CA)
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Gimenez
     Golden
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hastings
     Hayes
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Huffman
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs (CA)
     Jacobs (NY)
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (TX)
     Jones
     Kahele
     Kaptur
     Katko
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     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
     Malliotakis
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCollum
     McEachin
     McGovern
     McKinley
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Mfume
     Miller-Meeks
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     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)
     Rogers (KY)
     Ross
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan
     Salazar
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Speier
     Stanton
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Suozzi
     Swalwell
     Takano
     Tenney
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Upton
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NAYS--175

     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bentz
     Bice (OK)
     Biggs
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brooks
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budd
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cawthorn
     Chabot
     Cheney
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Comer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davis, Rodney
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Emmer
     Estes
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Gibbs
     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
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Hollingsworth
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Issa
     Jackson
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Keller
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Mace
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     Meijer
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Mullin
     Murphy (NC)
     Nehls
     Norman
     Obernolte
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (SC)
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Steel
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Taylor
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Van Duyne
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Zeldin

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Brady
     Gohmert
     Hoyer
     Kinzinger
     McHenry
     Nunes
     Wilson (SC)
     Young

                              {time}  1200

  Mrs. MURPHY of Florida changed her vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So 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 8, 117TH CONGRESS

     Allred (Davids (KS))
     Axne (Stevens)
     Barragan (Beyer)
     Bera (Aguilar)
     Bishop (GA) (Butterfield)
     Blumenauer (Beyer)
     Bourdeaux (Clark (MA))
     Boyle, Brendan F. (Jeffries)
     Buchanan (Gimenez)
     Bucshon (Walorski)
     Bush (Clark (MA))
     Cardenas (Gomez)
     Cleaver (Davids (KS))
     DeSaulnier (Matsui)
     DesJarlais (Fleischmann)
     Gaetz (Waltz)
     Garbarino (Joyce (OH))
     Gonzalez, Vicente (Gomez)
     Grijalva (Garcia (IL))
     Hastings (Butterfield)
     Kahele (Mrvan)
     Kim (NJ) (Davids (KS))
     Kirkpatrick (Stanton)
     Langevin (Lynch)
     Lawson (FL) (Evans)
     Lieu (Beyer)
     Lowenthal (Beyer)
     McEachin (Wexton)
     Meng (Clark (MA))
     Mfume (Brown)
     Moore (WI) (Beyer)
     Moulton (Underwood)
     Napolitano (Correa)
     Payne (Pallone)
     Peters (Kildee)
     Pingree (Cicilline)
     Porter (Wexton)
     Rodgers (WA) (Joyce (PA))
     Rush (Underwood)
     Schneider (Aguilar)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Slotkin (Stevens)
     Smith (WA) (Courtney)
     Timmons (Steube)
     Vargas (Correa)
     Wasserman Schultz (Soto)
     Watson Coleman (Pallone)
     Williams (GA) (Jacobs (CA))
     Wilson (FL) (Hayes)
       
       

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