[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 113 (Tuesday, June 29, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H3250-H3258]
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PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 2662, IG INDEPENDENCE AND
EMPOWERMENT ACT; PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 3005, REPLACEMENT
OF BUST OF ROGER BROOKE TANEY WITH BUST OF THURGOOD MARSHALL; PROVIDING
FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 3684, INVESTING IN A NEW VISION FOR THE
ENVIRONMENT AND SURFACE TRANSPORTATION IN AMERICA ACT; PROVIDING FOR
CONSIDERATION OF H. RES. 503, ESTABLISHING THE SELECT COMMITTEE TO
INVESTIGATE THE JANUARY 6TH ATTACK ON THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL; AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I
call up House Resolution 504 and ask for its immediate consideration.
The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:
H. Res. 504
Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be
in order to consider in the House the bill (H.R. 2662) to
amend the Inspector General Act of 1978, and for other
purposes. All points of order against consideration of the
bill are waived. The amendment in the nature of a substitute
recommended by the Committee on Oversight and Reform now
printed in the bill shall be considered as adopted. The bill,
as amended, shall be considered as read. All points of order
against provisions in the bill, as amended, are waived. The
previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill,
as amended, and on any further amendment thereto, to final
passage without intervening motion except: (1) one hour of
debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and
ranking minority member of the Committee on Oversight and
Reform or their respective designees; (2) the further
amendments described in section 2 of this resolution; (3) the
amendments en bloc described in section 3 of this resolution;
and (4) one motion to recommit.
Sec. 2. After debate pursuant to the first section of this
resolution, each further amendment printed in part A of the
report of the Committee on Rules not earlier considered as
part of amendments en bloc pursuant to section 3 of this
resolution shall be considered only in the order printed in
the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the
report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for
the time specified in the report equally divided and
controlled by the proponent and an opponent, may be withdrawn
by the proponent at any time before the question is put
thereon, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be
subject to a demand for division of the question.
Sec. 3. It shall be in order at any time after debate
pursuant to the first section of this resolution for the
chair of the Committee on Oversight and Reform or her
designee to offer amendments en bloc consisting of further
amendments printed in part A of the report of the Committee
on Rules accompanying this resolution not earlier disposed
of. Amendments en bloc offered pursuant to this section shall
be considered as read, shall be debatable for 20 minutes
equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking
minority member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform or
their respective designees, shall not be subject to
amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division
of the question.
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Sec. 4. All points of order against the further amendments
printed in part A of the report of the Committee on Rules or
amendments en bloc described in section 3 of this resolution
are waived.
Sec. 5. Upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in
order to consider in the House the bill (H.R. 3005) to direct
the Joint Committee on the Library to replace the bust of
Roger Brooke Taney in the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the
United States Capitol with a bust of Thurgood Marshall to be
obtained by the Joint Committee on the Library and to remove
certain statues from areas of the United States Capitol which
are accessible to the public, to remove all statues of
individuals who voluntarily served the Confederate States of
America from display in the United States Capitol, and for
other purposes. All points of order against consideration of
the bill are waived. The bill shall be considered as read.
All points of order against provisions in the bill are
waived. The previous question shall be considered as ordered
on the bill and on any amendment thereto to final passage
without intervening motion except: (1) one hour of debate
equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking
minority member of the Committee on House Administration or
their respective designees; and (2) one motion to recommit.
Sec. 6. Upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in
order to consider in the House the bill (H.R. 3684) to
authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety
programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes. All
points of order against consideration of the bill are waived.
In lieu of the amendment in the nature of a substitute
recommended by the Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure now printed in the bill, an amendment in the
nature of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules
Committee Print 117-8, modified by Rules Committee Print 117-
9 and the amendment printed in part B of the report of the
Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution, shall be
considered as adopted. The bill, as amended, shall be
considered as read. All points of order against provisions in
the bill, as amended, are waived. The previous question shall
be considered as ordered on the bill, as amended, and on any
further amendment thereto, to final passage without
intervening motion except: (1) 90 minutes of debate, with 60
minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and
ranking minority member of the Committee on Transportation
and Infrastructure or their respective designees and 30
minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and
ranking minority member of the Committee on Energy and
Commerce or their respective designees; (2) any further
amendments and amendments en bloc provided by subsequent
order of the House; and (3) one motion to recommit.
Sec. 7. Upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in
order without intervention of any point of order to consider
in the House the resolution (H. Res. 503) Establishing the
Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the
United States Capitol. The resolution shall be considered as
read. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on
the resolution and preamble to adoption without intervening
motion or demand for division of the question except one hour
of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and
ranking minority member of the Committee on Rules or their
respective designees.
Sec. 8. (a) At any time through the legislative day of
Thursday, July 1, 2021, the Speaker may entertain motions
offered by the Majority Leader or a designee that the House
suspend the rules as though under clause 1 of rule XV with
respect to multiple measures described in subsection (b), and
the Chair shall put the question on any such motion without
debate or intervening motion.
(b) A measure referred to in subsection (a) includes any
measure that was the object of a motion to suspend the rules
on the legislative day of June 28, 2021, or June 29, 2021, in
the form as so offered, on which the yeas and nays were
ordered and further proceedings postponed pursuant to clause
8 of rule XX.
(c) Upon the offering of a motion pursuant to subsection
(a) concerning multiple measures, the ordering of the yeas
and nays on postponed motions to suspend the rules with
respect to such measures is vacated to the end that all such
motions are considered as withdrawn.
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The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Pennsylvania is
recognized for 1 hour.
Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I yield the
customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr.
Reschenthaler), pending which I yield myself such time as I may
consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is
for the purpose of debate only.
General Leave
Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members be
given 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentlewoman from Pennsylvania?
There was no objection.
Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Rules Committee met and reported a rule,
House Resolution 504, providing for consideration of H.R. 2662, the IG
Independence and Empowerment Act, under a structured rule. The rule
provides 1 hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair
and ranking minority member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform,
makes in order six amendments, provides for en bloc authority, and
provides one motion to recommit.
The rule also provides for consideration of H.R. 3005 under a closed
rule. The rule provides 1 hour of debate equally divided and controlled
by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on House
Administration and provides one motion to recommit.
The rule further provides for consideration of H.R. 3684, the INVEST
in America Act. The rule provides 90 minutes of general debate with 60
minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking
minority member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure,
and 30 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking
minority member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. It combines
the Rules Committee prints for the surface transportation and clean
water provisions of the bill, self-executes a manager's amendment from
Chairman DeFazio, and provides one motion to recommit.
The rule additionally provides for consideration of H. Res. 503,
Establishing the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack
on the United States Capitol, under a closed rule. The rule provides 1
hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking
minority member of the Committee on Rules.
Finally, the rule provides the majority leader or his designee the
ability to en bloc requested rollcall votes on suspension bills
considered on June 28 or 29, and this authority lasts through July 1.
Mr. Speaker, we are here today to consider a rule for four measures
that address some of the most fundamental issues upon which Congress
may act as we continually strive to form a more perfect Union,
establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common
defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of
liberty for all of us and our descendants.
In passing these three bills and in creating a select committee to
investigate the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the U.S. House of
Representatives is putting forward real solutions to repair our
physical infrastructure, protect our systems of accountability,
acknowledge our relationship with the past, and establish a shared
understanding and plan to address the deep wounds inflicted upon this
building, those who serve and protect here, our government, and our
democratic Republic by the attack on the Capitol on January 6.
Mr. Speaker, I want to first thank the Members and committees that
worked on the bills we consider here today, in particular, the
Herculean efforts by the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
and the Oversight and Reform Committee, and Congresswoman Barbara Lee,
Majority Whip Clyburn, and Majority Leader Hoyer for their leadership
to remove symbols of hate from the Capitol Building.
Mr. Speaker, no one can deny that our Nation's infrastructure is in a
shameful state of disrepair. For decades, we have heard a lot of talk
about infrastructure while efforts to build and maintain the networks
and systems on which we all rely have been grossly underfunded. Whether
it be roads and bridges or ports and rail lines, year after year, we
fail to muster the political will to properly fund infrastructure, and
the consequences are increasingly dire.
My district, Pennsylvania's Fifth Congressional District, is home to
Philadelphia's airport, port, rail yard, and, as a key part of the
Northeast Corridor, dozens of miles of interstate highways and
passenger rail lines, as well as regional commuter and light rail lines
that link Philadelphia and its suburbs.
True to its position, PA-05 sits as a transportation keystone to a
vast interstate and international economic network. The problems facing
my district's transportation infrastructure are not that different from
those of other regions. Our infrastructure is
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aging and, in some cases, beyond usable lifespan. It is heavily used,
and State and local authorities don't have enough money to meet
maintenance needs, much less to make investments in modernization,
expansion, or other improvements. Anyone who travels our roadways knows
that axle-bending, tire-rattling potholes are the norm.
Nationwide, the situation is no better: aging and inadequate
electrical grids, shamefully deficient water infrastructure, 47,000
structurally deficient bridges. You can go to any congressional
district and find a litany of projects in desperate need of funding.
We have heard lip service about infrastructure week for so long that
it has become a sick national joke. We must act now.
While the U.S. has sat on its hands, our allies and adversaries
around the world have forged ahead with advancements in transportation
networks, from high-speed rail that puts ours to shame to building up
broadband and 5G networks.
China spends 8 percent of its GDP on infrastructure. Our European
partners spend 5 percent of their GDP on infrastructure. Here in the
United States, we spend a meager 2.4 percent.
We are falling behind the rest of the world and, in doing so, failing
to promote the general welfare of our citizens.
That is why I am proud to support this rule to pass the INVEST in
America Act. This bill will provide over $715 billion over the next 5
years to repair and improve our Nation's infrastructure. It will create
good-paying jobs and lay the foundation for robust economic growth in
the 21st century.
It will make record investments in roads, transit, and rails,
allowing State departments of transportation to address maintenance
backlogs and make forward-thinking investments in road safety, climate
mitigation and resiliency, and low-income and underserved communities
in our cities, suburbs, and rural areas.
It will help build out our Nation's EV infrastructure and help
Americans shift to the next generation of clean energy vehicles. It
will assist transit agencies in expanding service areas and adopting
zero-emission vehicles, and it gives States funding to help prepare for
the impacts of climate change and extreme weather.
This package also includes over $160 billion for drinking water and
wastewater infrastructure. Right now in the United States, there are
millions of Americans who don't have access to clean drinking water or
who aren't connected to a wastewater network. There is no excuse for
that. The water provisions include much-needed funding to fully replace
lead pipes throughout the country and strengthen water standards so the
EPA can better address PFAS contamination.
These issues are vitally important to my district and others in
southeastern Pennsylvania and across the country. I commend the Energy
and Commerce Committee for crafting this comprehensive water
infrastructure package.
Lastly, I want to state my strong support for the Member designated
projects included in the INVEST in America Act. I thank Chairman
DeFazio for giving my colleagues and I, on both sides of the aisle, the
opportunity to secure dedicated funding for important local projects in
our districts and for instituting strong safeguards in this funding to
prevent fraud and abuse.
The Member designated projects process allowed us to work with our
State and local transit agencies and local governments to highlight
high-impact transportation projects in need of funding.
I am proud that $20 million for seven great projects in my district
have been included in this bill, including redesign of dangerous rail
crossings and upgrades to commuter stations, and perhaps most
significantly, this bill includes a project I submitted with my
Pennsylvania colleague (Mr. Evans), to redesign Cobbs Creek Parkway,
one of the most dangerous corridors in our region and the site of
hundreds of crashes and multiple fatalities year after year. The
redesign will make Cobbs Creek Parkway safer for pedestrians, cyclists,
and motorists.
Voting against this bill to invest in America is voting against jobs;
it is voting against economic growth; it is voting against safety; and
it is voting against making sure people have clean drinking water. Now
is the time to tackle these issues, and so I urge all my colleagues to
support this measure.
Mr. Speaker, also included in this bill is the IG Independence and
Empowerment Act, a bill from the House Oversight and Reform Committee
to overhaul and reform the legal powers and protections of our
inspectors general.
Inspectors general are a vital part of our Federal institutions,
ensuring that taxpayers and officials have an independent source of
oversight and information to ensure government employees, from the
interns to the President, are following the law and properly
administering their duties.
For our government to function and be free of waste and corruption,
to protect against fraud and impropriety, we need inspectors general
who are empowered to act and who are protected from arbitrary,
capricious, or personal attacks. But we saw, over the past 4 years,
that there were critical flaws in the law that govern our inspector
general programs. We saw that it was possible for an administration to
undermine the independence of the inspectors general through
unprecedented firings and denial of access to information.
A little over a year ago, the former President fired five Cabinet
inspectors general over 6 weeks, with the announcements often coming on
Friday nights when the Nation's attention was elsewhere.
The inspector general for Health and Human Services was fired for
reporting accurately on the Nation's dire shortage of lifesaving PPE
during the beginning of the pandemic. The State Department inspector
general was fired for investigating then-Secretary Pompeo's use of
government staff to run personal errands. And the Department of
Transportation inspector general was fired for investigating suspicious
grant awards to Kentucky, the State represented by the former
Secretary's husband and the then-Senate majority leader. In other
words, these inspectors general were fired for doing their jobs.
The IG Independence and Empowerment Act will enact needed reforms to
protect IGs from political firings, give them increased powers and
resources to investigate waste and corruption, and increase
accountability and transparency for the Council of the Inspectors
General on Integrity and Efficiency. I strongly support the IG
Independence and Empowerment Act and call on my colleagues to do the
same.
Mr. Speaker, the last bill in today's rule is long overdue. The bill
would replace the bust of Roger Brooke Taney in the Old Supreme Court
Chamber in the Capitol with a bust of Thurgood Marshall and would
remove the statues of individuals who voluntarily served in the
Confederate States of America from display in the Capitol.
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In Philadelphia, we have a street named after Chief Justice Taney and
we have a Little League World Series Champion baseball team named after
that street.
In 2020, following conversations about race and inclusiveness in
America, the Taney Dragons Little League team decided to rename itself
the Philadelphia Dragons saying that they cannot ignore the very real
feelings that the name ``Taney'' engenders among members of our
community, and that the new name will be inclusive, nondivisive, and
also speak to our league's geography.
I say we follow the lead of our children on this issue. If they can
do it, so can we. As we seek to form that more perfect Union and secure
the blessings of liberty for all, we cannot accept the presence in this
Capitol Building of Confederate icons, including the bust of the author
of the Dred Scott decision or those who fought to protect slavery and
wage war against the United States. Symbols of the Confederacy deserve
to be in textbooks and museums, not venerated in the Capitol.
Finally, Mr. Speaker, this rule provides for the creation of a select
committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the United States
Capitol Building where we stand. I am, and I think most of the public
is, disappointed that the Senate failed to join in the establishment of
a bipartisan commission to establish once and for all the facts about
what happened on that day.
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We had a bipartisan bill. Chairman Thompson and Ranking Member Katko
of Homeland Security, through good-faith negotiations, were able to
craft bipartisan legislation to create a commission to investigate the
January 6 insurrection. Our Republican colleagues got everything they
wanted in that bill, and yet, their leadership withdrew its support at
the last moment and couldn't take yes for an answer.
Since our colleagues refused to approve a bipartisan commission, the
House must move ahead with an investigation of the January 6 events and
a select committee is our final avenue. We must investigate the causes
and events that led to that attack. It is my sincere hope that the
committee can dive into the facts and produce a cohesive narrative
around January 6 and the events that preceded it and make
recommendations that will prevent such horrors from ever being repeated
again.
The January 6 attack on our Capitol was a crime, a crime against our
government and a crime against the men and women who serve here,
whether it was elected officials, congressional staff, or law
enforcement. Period. It was an ugly, violent crime and crimes need to
be investigated. Thousands participated and over 800 illegally entered
the building.
Roughly 500 so far have been criminally charged by law enforcement.
Some have pled guilty. But the fact-finding is not yet done. We need to
know how organized they were and what their level of coordination was.
Despite the claims of some in this Chamber, we now know that many of
these rioters were armed, which means that every single one of us and
all of our staffs were in very real danger. Some of the rioters came to
abduct the Vice President and the Speaker of the House and put them on
trial. Some planned to take this building over and hold it until
January 20 in an attempt to stave off President Biden's inauguration.
Some just wanted to destroy things, and they did.
That, too, the intention of the rioters, needs to be probed. Some
think Donald Trump incited this riot; some think he did not. New and
wild claims have surfaced about who instigated the violence. Let's
investigate that, too. Let's investigate everything connected to this
horrible event honestly, unflinchingly, objectively, and without
passion or prejudice, but let us not leave this crime unexamined.
If we are to come together as a Nation to unite behind our shared
constitutional values, to ensure domestic tranquility and secure the
blessings of democracy and liberty, we must do so from a shared
understanding of reality.
Mr. Speaker, I hope that every member of this Chamber can find it in
themselves to vote for this rule when it is considered on the floor.
Our country cannot afford to wait longer on infrastructure. If we
continue with business as usual, our infrastructure deficit will
continue to grow. Our roads and bridges will continue to deteriorate,
and our national economy will be less vibrant and competitive as a
result.
We need to pass the INVEST in America Act. Full stop. We also need to
pass the IG Independence and Empowerment Act, and we need to remove
racist icons from the Capitol. These repairs and reforms cannot wait,
and so I hope that Congress can find the political will to
expeditiously pass the bills considered under the rule today.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the distinguished gentlewoman
from Pennsylvania for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield
myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, the rule before us today provides for consideration of
four pieces of legislation: H.R. 2662, the inspector general reform
bill; H.R. 3005, which requires the removal of certain Capitol statues;
H.R. 3684, the Democrats' surface transportation reauthorization bill;
and then H. Res. 503 which establishes a select committee to
investigate January 6.
The first bill, H.R. 2662, reforms appointment requirements,
authorities, and oversight of Federal inspectors general.
Republicans agree that reforms are necessary. We agree it is
necessary to ensure that IGs have the tools they need to conduct robust
investigation and oversight. In fact, there are several provisions in
this bill that we introduced with Republicans as coleads.
But unfortunately, Mr. Speaker, rather than working toward a
bipartisan solution, the majority once again chooses a partisan
approach and rejected good-faith efforts from Republicans to craft a
proposal that both sides agreed on. The bill before us today includes
problematic language limiting a President's authority to remove an IG
even when that IG has committed dereliction of duty of an important
act.
Further, H.R. 2662 requires the President to name the first assistant
as acting IG without any exceptions, even when that assistant may be
implicated in the very same misconduct that led to the removal of the
previous IG.
Lastly, the bill grants the authority to issue subpoenas for former
Federal officials without providing the necessary protections to
prevent abuses of this authority.
Mr. Speaker, without these problematic provisions, the IG reform bill
could come to the floor with broad, bipartisan support. It is just an
absolute shame though, I must say, it is not surprising that my
colleagues across the aisle once again threw away an opportunity for
bipartisanship simply to score cheap political points with their
radical liberal base.
In keeping with that theme, the rule makes in order H.R. 3684, the
Democrats' retread of last year's Green New Deal. Only this time it is
now disguised as infrastructure. Instead of working with Republicans to
provide desperately needed infrastructure investment, House Democrats
doubled down on the same mandates, the same restrictive policies, and
the same social justice warrior priorities that failed to go anywhere
last year.
This partisan package spends nearly $548 billion on progressive
priorities and programs while actually restricting new road and bridge
construction. That is right. It actually restricts new construction of
roads and bridges. When we talk about the money, like I said, it is
about $550 billion. That is an 11 percent funding increase over last
year's bill and a whopping 79 percent increase over the bipartisan FAST
Act, the last surface transportation reauthorization bill that was
passed by this Chamber.
Alarmingly, but not surprisingly, this bill is not paid for. So then
where does the money come from? Well, the answer is simple, deficit
spending. Deficit spending which further fuels inflation and increases
the cost of things like gas and food that all American families need.
Simply put, every American will pay more for everything to meet the
demands of the Democrat's far-left radical base.
You would hope that with a price tag like this, with an impact on
American families like this, that the bill would actually provide for
massive investment to fix our Nation's crumbling roads and bridges. But
you would be wrong. H.R. 3684, puts climate and the Green New Deal
above real infrastructure needs. In fact, up to $1 out of every $2
spent in this bill is tied up in Green New Deal mandates. This bill
puts up roadblocks for transportation and also puts up roadblocks for
transporting clean-burning, affordable LNG--obviously, liquefied
natural gas--which is another blow to blue-collar workers already
devastated by Joe Biden's war on American energy and his war on blue-
collar workers.
In focusing on this radical far-left priority, the majority has
failed to include the regulatory reforms necessary to address money-
wasting permitting delays that currently plague critical infrastructure
projects. Think about it. Right now, it takes 6 years on average just
to break ground on major public projects; 6 years. An average of 20 to
30 percent of infrastructure project costs are lost to red tape. These
costs are real money. This means that about $164 billion in this bill
would actually just be wasted on red tape and project delays.
But that is not even the most egregious example of wasteful spending
in this legislation. This bill lifts a bipartisan ban and allows the
Federal Transit Administration to spend money on art. That is right.
According to liberals across the aisle, art is now infrastructure.
America's taxpayer dollars are
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hard at work in--clearly, newspeak liberal, or really newspeak on
display--calling art infrastructure.
Finally, the bill favors big urban areas to the detriment of smaller
rural communities like the ones I represent in southwestern
Pennsylvania. H.R. 3684 prioritizes funding for urban transportation
modes like transit and rail over roads and bridges that everyday
Americans use. In fact, more money is given to electric vehicle
charging stations than to the entire Rebuild Rural grant program.
I would also be remiss if I failed to point out that those very same
electric vehicles cannot be built without critical minerals from China.
China is, of course, the world's number one polluter. So where are the
climate priorities? Where are the environmental priorities that my
colleagues on the liberal side of the aisle claim they care about?
At the end of the day, the Democrats are prioritizing their fantasy
of the Green New Deal over traditional concepts of actual
infrastructure. My colleagues across the aisle, the Liberal Party, have
chosen to bow down to the woke mob that they are terrified of. They
have chosen to prioritize woke liberal yuppies over rural America and
blue-collar workers that actually work for a living.
Mr. Speaker, for this reason, I urge my colleagues to oppose this
rule, and I reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, this bill is really straightforward. It increases money
for surface transportation. It focuses on hard infrastructure. We need
to fix the basics and then we can improve and expand them. This bill
does include money specifically directed to our rural areas, and the
crack about urban yuppies is kind of crazy.
We know that in Pennsylvania, which both the gentleman and I
represent, we know that we have businesses in western Pennsylvania that
are losing money because of the state of our roadways. If you build a
turbine in western Pennsylvania, in order to get it to the port in
eastern Pennsylvania right now, those companies have to take an 800-
mile detour because our roadways cannot support that turbine. So it is
impacting their businesses.
It is increasing energy costs. It is wasting time. But these kinds of
things affect businesses across our entire Commonwealth and across our
entire country. So these are much-needed, overdue by decades,
bipartisan neglect. This bill addresses some of those issues.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind my colleagues across the aisle of
some important facts.
For one, you can't make solar panels without mining, because you have
to mine critical minerals. You also can't make windmills without steel,
and you can't make steel without mining coal. So that is just something
to keep in mind.
Mr. Speaker, last month, CBP encountered more than 180,000 illegal
immigrants at our southern border. That is a new 21-year high. Think
about it. Last month, in 1 month, almost 200,000 illegal immigrants
were at our southern border.
Many of these illegal immigrants are traveling from and through high-
risk South and Central American countries where COVID-19 infection
rates are skyrocketing. South America, in particular, has become a
major COVID-19 hot spot with death rates eight times above the global
average.
And yet, the Biden administration is considering ending Title 42, the
public health authority that allows Customs and Border Patrol to
quickly turn back migrants due to the dangers posed by highly
contagious diseases. CBP heavily relies on Title 42 authority to expel
adults and family units that illegally cross the border. In May of
2021, CBP expelled more than 100,000 individuals under Title 42.
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Mr. Speaker, thanks to the draconian shutdown measures from far-left
Governors, including Pennsylvania's Tom Wolf, many States are still
recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. Ending Title 42 puts that
fragile recovery at risk, especially at a time when powerful variants
continue to pop up across the globe.
That is why, if we defeat the previous question, I will personally
offer an amendment to the rule to immediately consider my good
friend's, Congresswoman Yvette Herrell, PAUSE Act. The PAUSE Act would
provide for stringent enforcement of Title 42, and would prohibit HHS
and DHS from weakening Title 42's implementation.
Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to insert the text of my
amendment in the Record, along with any extraneous material,
immediately prior to the vote on the previous question.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentleman from Pennsylvania?
There was no objection.
Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, here to explain the amendment is the
bill's author, my good friend, Congresswoman Herrell. I yield 5 minutes
to the gentlewoman from New Mexico (Ms. Herrell).
Ms. HERRELL. Mr. Speaker, if the previous question is defeated, we
will amend the rule to immediately consider my bill, H.R. 471, the
PAUSE Act, which will preserve and protect Title 42 health restrictions
at the border.
The border is in flames, and this crisis is cruel, it is costly, and
it is cowardice.
Biden's border crisis is harming my constituents and all Americans.
The ranchers and the people who live in and around the border cannot
let their children play outside for fear of cartel gunmen. In the past,
people along the border, on the American side, in my district, have
been held at gunpoint. They have had vehicles stolen. Some have even
been kidnapped.
The first duty of our Nation is to defend its border and its people.
President Biden has been derelict in this duty, whether it be from the
pandemic that continues or the violent criminals that cross our border
in the dark of night.
Sheriffs are reaching out to me. Just like the Border Patrol, they,
too, are overwhelmed. They are seizing record amounts of drugs, guns,
smuggled people, and untold numbers of other illicit materials are
getting past them, all because President Biden has put politics over
the American people.
President Obama's Secretary of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, stated
that 1,000 migrants a day was a crisis. Just in May, U.S. Customs and
Border Protection encountered 180,034 illegal immigrants along the
southwest border, a 20-year monthly high. That amounts to 5,807 illegal
immigrants per day in May. This is a crisis nearly six times greater
than the threshold established by President Obama's Secretary of
Homeland Security.
Title 42 is the only major Trump-era border policy left in place
under the administration. It allows the Border Patrol to quickly expel
illegal immigrants, sending them back across the border, instead of
placing them in congregate facilities where outbreaks of COVID-19 and
other variants are all but guaranteed.
Ending Title 42 would turn what is already a crisis into an
unmitigated, uncontrollable, and undeniable catastrophe.
The pandemic continues to rage in Latin America. And Guatemala and
Brazil are both currently around 90 percent of their peak weekly
infection rates. And in the past months, CBP has encountered more than
170,000 migrants from those two countries alone.
Ending Title 42 now, while fewer than half of the American citizens
are fully vaccinated, sends the message that all illegal immigration is
more important than protecting Americans.
Despite the fact that Biden wants to let a flood of illegal
immigrants into our country, he clearly believes a public health
emergency still exists. President Biden has placed several COVID-19
travel bans on dozens of countries. And these bans remain in place,
indicating he thinks the public health emergency is ongoing.
Speaker Pelosi has extended proxy voting in the House, stating there
is an ongoing public health emergency due to COVID.
Mr. Speaker, if Vice President Harris had taken the time to listen to
my constituents last week, instead of just talking to immigration
activists at the El Paso airport, this administration would learn the
effects of their failed
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policies on our border communities. That is why I invited her twice to
visit my district.
If she had cared to respond, she could have heard from the farmers,
ranchers, community leaders, and residents of our border communities.
She could have heard how the crisis is different between the gaps in
the border wall than it is in major cities like El Paso. And she could
have heard from the five county sheriffs in my district who wrote to me
in support of keeping Title 42 in place.
This crisis is a double threat and places the security of our Nation
and the safety of the American people at risk.
At minimum, however, we need to keep the last administration's
appropriate use of Title 42 in place. That is what we could do today,
if the previous question is defeated.
We must preserve Title 42 border restrictions until all local, State,
and Federal Government restrictions end; until all State and Federal
public health emergencies end; and Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention--CDC--COVID-19 travel risk levels for Canada and Mexico have
been reduced to Level 1.
Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``no'' vote on the previous question. Please
don't make the American people pay for the mistakes made at our border
because of the failed policies of this administration.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from
engaging in personalities toward the President.
Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, does the gentleman from Pennsylvania have
further speakers?
Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Yes, I do.
Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, just another fact of life now. We
cannot make an electronic vehicle without critical minerals.
Unfortunately, due to the red tape that is put upon the mining industry
by liberals across the aisle, we are now dependent on China for roughly
80 percent of our critical minerals. Simply put, we now cannot make an
electric car without China.
Here to talk about another predicament that liberals across the aisle
put us in is my good friend from Texas.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy).
Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Pennsylvania, and I
thank the gentlewoman from New Mexico for articulating so well the
state of our southern border, which is the direct result and the
consequence of the rote incompetence of the current administration and
my Democratic colleagues on the other side of the aisle. That is the
best I can put it.
Or, frankly, it is the purposeful use of the border for political
purposes. Because there is nothing else that can explain what is
actually happening at the state of our border. That a political party
would say that having cartels having operational control of our border,
to the detriment of the well-being of the United States and its
citizens; or the migrants who seek to come here, getting put into the
human and sex trafficking trade, that somehow that should be seen as a
compassionate position by my colleagues on the other side.
But I will tell you that it is a policy that is in the false name of
compassion.
I note that Vice President Harris finally found her way to the
border, although it was in a pit stop on her way to Los Angeles, taking
4 hours to stop in El Paso for a photo-op to go say hi to some Border
Patrol en route to Los Angeles.
That is not the kind of visit that we have been talking about that is
required of the President of the United States or his appointee, the
Vice President, who is supposedly in charge of securing the border of
the United States.
And I would note that this is real. That for those of us who go and
spend time on the border and talk to ranchers getting overrun; talk to
people getting harmed, getting broken into; high-speed chases in
communities in south Texas; the massive amounts of opioids flowing into
Texas and throughout the rest of our country; the number of migrants
being abused in the human and sex trafficking trade, it is very real.
To the little girls who I have spoken to on the border and visited
with, coming across the river at midnight, 1:00, 2:00 in the morning,
and the dangers that they have been put into, I would ask my Democratic
colleagues: Why don't they care?
Why don't my Democratic colleagues care about these migrants being
abused and exploited by cartels?
Today, right now, as we speak, a child is on an interstate in Texas,
heading to be put into child pornography and into the sex trafficking
trade. As we speak in the people's House, it is happening, literally,
at this moment.
Some amount of opioids is going into I-10, flowing over through
Houston, throughout the rest of the southeast to be distributed
throughout our country, heading west on I-10 to go out to the West
Coast.
Why did Governor DeSantis send resources to Texas?
Because his State is getting overrun by opioid abuse that is coming
through the southwest border.
We have a massively wide open border that is being exploited, and the
reality of the situation is it is my Democratic colleagues who refuse
to enforce the law. It is that simple.
Think, from October to December of 2020, in the previous
administration, there were 185,000 expulsions made under Title 42,
which the gentlewoman from New Mexico just discussed. That was 85
percent of all encounters. Think about that: 85 percent of the
encounters we were able to expel under Title 42.
Compared to the Biden administration, since relaxing Title 42--not
yet eliminating it, although that is allegedly coming--relaxing it,
only 64 percent of encounters were enforced between February to April
of 2021, leaving 289,000 expulsions under Title 42.
So what will happen when that additional 60 percent of people are
taken in?
Border Patrol can't do their job, y'all. They can't. Border Patrol is
overrun.
Our border is wide open between the ports of entry because the Border
Patrol is processing people at processing centers in McAllen. The Vice
President would know that if she hadn't missed the mark by 750 miles,
landing her plane in El Paso instead of McAllen.
Tomorrow, 30 to 40 of my colleagues on this side of the aisle--to the
best of my knowledge, zero, unfortunately, on the other side of the
aisle--are going to the border to meet with Governor Abbott and former
President Trump to talk about what is happening in McAllen, where the
actual crisis exists.
My friend from Pennsylvania rightly noted that COVID still remains a
major public health issue at the border, a risk for Americans and
migrants. Latin America and the Caribbean have the world's highest
death toll from COVID in proportion to its population, with 33 million
reported infections and 1 million reported deaths.
Brazil leads the region. It leads the world in the daily average
number of new infections reported. Colombia is reporting the highest
rate of infections in South America. Guatemala is at peak. Honduras is
at 86 percent of peak.
Border Patrol had 9,000 CBP employees test positive, and 32 CBP
employees have died. As of March, 7.4 percent of tests given to UACs in
the past year turned out to be positive, and multiple facilities have
had positivity rates of 10 percent or higher. That is the reality of
what is going on at the border.
Yet Title 42, the health code provisions that allow us to secure the
border during a pandemic, during the spread of communicable diseases,
is about to be jettisoned by the Biden administration, endangering the
American people and endangering our Border Patrol.
We need to enforce the full Title 42 authority, and it is imperative
for border and public health security. That is why we should defeat the
previous question. We will amend the rule to immediate consideration of
my friend from New Mexico's bill, H.R. 471, as amended, that will
preserve existing border health protection measures intended to
safeguard the citizens of our country.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume
to the gentleman from Texas.
Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, if my Democrat colleagues vote for the previous
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question, which I expect that they will do, they are choosing to pursue
a radical leftist environmental agenda that will harm Americans, that
will harm Americans, rather than secure our border, which we are
presenting as an option, for us to do our job in the people's House, to
actually do our duty as the people's House to secure the border of a
sovereign nation to the benefit of our people, of the State of Texas,
our entire Nation as a whole, and the migrants who seek to come here.
That is the choice right now, ladies and gentlemen. It is a choice
for this body. Choose to secure the border of the United States and
make our country stronger, or secure a political agenda which has no
hope of uniting this country and benefiting the American people.
The small businesses that the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania was
talking about, let's talk about the small businesses that got crushed
under COVID, crushed by the policies of this body and others, that were
shutting businesses down to the tune of 100,000 businesses, forcing
them to close.
Let's talk about the impact of our kids and schools and the masks
being worn, and the mental health issues, and the cancer screenings
that didn't occur because we had locked down and shut down our economy.
And, right now, let's talk about the damage being done to this
country because of wide open borders with empowered cartels.
We should, right now, defeat the previous question so that we can
amend it to do the work of the American people.
Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, does the gentleman have additional
speakers?
Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to close.
Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, I think I have one more speaker.
I am finding the argument a little bit hard to follow for my
colleagues across the aisle because, as I understand it, it was a bad
thing to shut down businesses in the U.S. to protect people when there
was a virus rampant here. But we have to shut down the border because
there is a virus rampant here. It is just a little hard to follow the
logic sometimes.
If the gentleman is prepared to close, then I reserve the balance of
my time.
{time} 1315
Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to close, and I yield
myself the balance of my time.
Mr. Speaker, once again, this Chamber is considering legislation that
could easily have passed with bipartisan support. If Democrats would
stop appeasing their radical, progressive base and they would stop
worrying about what whiny, spoiled millennials are saying on Twitter,
if they decided they would finally try to approach their work here in
some kind of bipartisan manner, then we could work for real solutions
for real Americans that would help the country.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the previous
question and ``no'' on the rule, and I yield back the balance of my
time.
Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleagues on both sides of the
aisle for the lively debate today. I understand that there are some who
have concerns with the rule and its underlying legislation, but these
bills are vitally important to our country, and I am confident they
would greatly benefit all of us.
We should be able to support robust infrastructure spending that
meets our Nation's current needs. We should all support a vigorous
corps of inspectors general who can weed out fraud, waste, and
corruption in the Federal Government. We should all support removing
symbols of hate from the Capitol. These should be easy bills for us all
to get behind.
Lastly, I strongly support the creation of a select committee to
investigate the January 6 insurrection and debunk the absurd theories
and falsehoods that have infected our collective understanding of that
day. While some of our colleagues may continue their denial, those of
us in this Chamber who are committed to transparency and accountability
and the well-being of the Nation can no longer afford to be held back
by the sensitivities of those who put their fealty to the former
President over their duty or obligation to the country.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote for the rule and the
previous question.
The material previously referred to by Mr. Reschenthaler is as
follows:
Amendment to House Resolution 504
At the end of the resolution, add the following:
Sec. 9 Immediately upon adoption of this resolution, the
House shall proceed to the consideration in the House of the
bill (H.R. 471) to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human
Services from lessening the stringency of, and to prohibit
the Secretary of Homeland Security from ceasing or lessening
implementation of, the COVID-19 border health provisions
through the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, and for other
purposes. All points of order against consideration of the
bill are waived. The bill shall be considered as read. All
points of order against provisions in the bill are waived.
The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the
bill and on any amendment thereto to final passage without
intervening motion except: (1) one hour of debate equally
divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority
member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce; and (2) one
motion to recommit.
Sec. 10. Clause 1(c) of rule XIX shall not apply to the
consideration of H.R. 471.
Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, I yield back balance of my time, and I move
the previous question on the resolution.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on ordering the previous
question.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Mr. RESCHENTHALER. 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 214,
nays 195, not voting 21, as follows:
[Roll No. 189]
YEAS--214
Adams
Aguilar
Allred
Auchincloss
Axne
Barragan
Bass
Beatty
Bera
Beyer
Blumenauer
Blunt Rochester
Bonamici
Bourdeaux
Bowman
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brownley
Bush
Bustos
Butterfield
Carbajal
Cardenas
Carson
Carter (LA)
Cartwright
Case
Casten
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Correa
Costa
Courtney
Craig
Crist
Crow
Cuellar
Davids (KS)
Davis, Danny K.
Dean
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
DelBene
Delgado
Demings
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle, Michael F.
Escobar
Eshoo
Espaillat
Evans
Fletcher
Foster
Frankel, Lois
Gallego
Garamendi
Garcia (IL)
Garcia (TX)
Golden
Gomez
Gonzalez, Vicente
Gottheimer
Green, Al (TX)
Grijalva
Harder (CA)
Hayes
Higgins (NY)
Himes
Horsford
Houlahan
Hoyer
Huffman
Jackson Lee
Jacobs (CA)
Jayapal
Jeffries
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
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
Stansbury
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
NAYS--195
Aderholt
Allen
Amodei
Armstrong
Arrington
Babin
Bacon
Baird
Balderson
Barr
Bentz
Bergman
Bice (OK)
Biggs
Bilirakis
Bishop (NC)
Bost
Brooks
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Budd
Burchett
Burgess
Calvert
Cammack
Carl
Carter (TX)
Cawthorn
Chabot
Cheney
Cline
Clyde
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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
Gaetz
Gallagher
Garbarino
Garcia (CA)
Gibbs
Gimenez
Gonzales, Tony
Gonzalez (OH)
Gooden (TX)
Gosar
Granger
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Green (TN)
Greene (GA)
Griffith
Grothman
Guthrie
Hagedorn
Harris
Harshbarger
Hern
Herrell
Herrera Beutler
Hill
Hinson
Hollingsworth
Hudson
Huizenga
Issa
Jackson
Jacobs (NY)
Johnson (LA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson (SD)
Jordan
Joyce (OH)
Joyce (PA)
Katko
Keller
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
Kim (CA)
Kinzinger
Kustoff
LaHood
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Latta
LaTurner
Lesko
Letlow
Long
Loudermilk
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Mace
Malliotakis
Mann
Massie
Mast
McCarthy
McCaul
McClain
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
Meijer
Meuser
Miller (IL)
Miller (WV)
Miller-Meeks
Moolenaar
Mooney
Moore (UT)
Mullin
Murphy (NC)
Nehls
Newhouse
Nunes
Obernolte
Owens
Palazzo
Palmer
Pence
Perry
Pfluger
Posey
Reed
Reschenthaler
Rice (SC)
Rodgers (WA)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rosendale
Rouzer
Roy
Rutherford
Salazar
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sessions
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smucker
Spartz
Stauber
Steel
Stefanik
Steil
Steube
Stewart
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)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Young
Zeldin
NOT VOTING--21
Banks
Bishop (GA)
Boebert
Brady
Brown
Carter (GA)
Cloud
Cooper
Fulcher
Gohmert
Good (VA)
Guest
Hartzler
Hice (GA)
Higgins (LA)
Johnson (GA)
Mfume
Moore (AL)
Norman
Rose
Scalise
{time} 1346
Mrs. STEEL changed her vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
So the previous question was ordered.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
members recorded pursuant to house resolution 8, 117th congress
Babin (Nehls)
Bourdeaux (Kuster)
Cardenas (Gomez)
Carl (Joyce (PA))
Cawthorn (Nehls)
Clark (MA) (Kuster)
Cohen (Beyer)
DesJarlais (Fleischmann)
Fallon (Nehls)
Gallego (Gomez)
Garcia (IL) (Gomez)
Garcia (TX) (Jeffries)
Gonzalez, Vicente (Carbajal)
Grijalva (Stanton)
Horsford (Jeffries)
Hoyer (Trone)
Jackson Lee (Butterfield)
Jacobs (NY) (Garbarino)
Johnson (TX) (Jeffries)
Kind (Connolly)
Kirkpatrick (Stanton)
Lawson (FL) (Evans)
Leger Fernandez (Jacobs (CA))
Lieu (Beyer)
Lowenthal (Beyer)
McClain (Bergman)
Meng (Jeffries)
Mullin (Lucas)
Napolitano (Correa)
Owens (Curtis)
Payne (Pallone)
Rice (NY) (Peters)
Ruiz (Aguilar)
Rush (Underwood)
Sewell (DelBene)
Steube (Franklin, C. Scott)
Strickland (DelBene)
Timmons (Wilson (SC))
Torres (NY) (Jeffries)
Wilson (FL) (Hayes)
Young (Joyce (OH))
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on adoption of the
resolution.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Mr. RESCHENTHALER. 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 218,
nays 197, not voting 15, as follows:
[Roll No. 190]
YEAS--218
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
Carter (LA)
Cartwright
Case
Casten
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Correa
Costa
Courtney
Craig
Crist
Crow
Cuellar
Davids (KS)
Davis, Danny K.
Dean
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
DelBene
Delgado
Demings
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle, Michael F.
Escobar
Eshoo
Espaillat
Evans
Fletcher
Foster
Frankel, Lois
Gallego
Garamendi
Garcia (IL)
Garcia (TX)
Golden
Gomez
Gonzalez, Vicente
Gottheimer
Green, Al (TX)
Grijalva
Harder (CA)
Hayes
Higgins (NY)
Himes
Horsford
Houlahan
Hoyer
Huffman
Jackson Lee
Jacobs (CA)
Jayapal
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (TX)
Jones
Kahele
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Khanna
Kildee
Kilmer
Kim (NJ)
Kind
Kirkpatrick
Krishnamoorthi
Kuster
Lamb
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lawson (FL)
Lee (CA)
Lee (NV)
Leger Fernandez
Levin (CA)
Levin (MI)
Lieu
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Luria
Lynch
Malinowski
Maloney, Carolyn B.
Maloney, Sean
Manning
Matsui
McBath
McCollum
McEachin
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Mfume
Moore (WI)
Morelle
Moulton
Mrvan
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
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
Stansbury
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
NAYS--197
Allen
Amodei
Armstrong
Arrington
Babin
Bacon
Baird
Balderson
Barr
Bentz
Bergman
Bice (OK)
Biggs
Bilirakis
Bishop (NC)
Boebert
Bost
Brady
Brooks
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Budd
Burchett
Burgess
Calvert
Cammack
Carl
Carter (TX)
Cawthorn
Chabot
Cheney
Cline
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
Gaetz
Gallagher
Garbarino
Garcia (CA)
Gibbs
Gimenez
Gonzales, Tony
Gonzalez (OH)
Gooden (TX)
Gosar
Granger
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Green (TN)
Greene (GA)
Griffith
Grothman
Guthrie
Hagedorn
Harris
Harshbarger
Hern
Herrell
Herrera Beutler
Hill
Hinson
Hollingsworth
Hudson
Huizenga
Issa
Jackson
Jacobs (NY)
Johnson (LA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson (SD)
Jordan
Joyce (OH)
Joyce (PA)
Katko
Keller
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
Kim (CA)
Kinzinger
Kustoff
LaHood
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Latta
LaTurner
Lesko
Letlow
Long
Loudermilk
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Mace
Malliotakis
Mann
Massie
Mast
McCarthy
McCaul
McClain
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
Meijer
Meuser
Miller (IL)
Miller (WV)
Miller-Meeks
Moolenaar
Mooney
Moore (UT)
Mullin
Murphy (NC)
Nehls
Newhouse
Nunes
Obernolte
Owens
Palazzo
Palmer
Pence
Perry
Pfluger
Posey
Reed
Reschenthaler
Rice (SC)
Rodgers (WA)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rosendale
Rouzer
Roy
Rutherford
Salazar
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sessions
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smucker
Spartz
Stauber
Steel
Stefanik
Steil
Steube
Stewart
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)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Young
Zeldin
NOT VOTING--15
Aderholt
Banks
Carter (GA)
Cloud
Cooper
Fulcher
Gohmert
Good (VA)
Guest
Hartzler
Hice (GA)
Higgins (LA)
Moore (AL)
Norman
Rose
{time} 1409
Ms. CHU changed her vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
So the resolution was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 8, 117TH CONGRESS
Babin (Nehls)
Boebert (Gosar)
Bourdeaux (Kuster)
Cardenas (Gomez)
Carl (Joyce (PA))
Cawthorn (Nehls)
Clark (MA) (Kuster)
Cohen (Beyer)
DesJarlais (Fleischmann)
Fallon (Nehls)
Gallego (Gomez)
Garcia (IL) (Gomez)
Garcia (TX) (Jeffries)
Gonzalez, Vicente (Carbajal)
Grijalva (Stanton)
Horsford (Jeffries)
Hoyer (Trone)
Jackson Lee (Butterfield)
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Jacobs (NY) (Garbarino)
Johnson (TX) (Jeffries)
Kind (Connolly)
Kirkpatrick (Stanton)
Lawson (FL) (Evans)
Leger Fernandez (Jacobs (CA))
Lieu (Beyer)
Lowenthal (Beyer)
McClain (Bergman)
Meng (Jeffries)
Mfume (Evans)
Mullin (Lucas)
Napolitano (Correa)
Owens (Curtis)
Payne (Pallone)
Rice (NY) (Peters)
Ruiz (Aguilar)
Rush (Underwood)
Sewell (DelBene)
Steube (Franklin, C. Scott)
Strickland (DelBene)
Timmons (Wilson (SC))
Torres (NY) (Jeffries)
Wilson (FL) (Hayes)
Young (Joyce (OH))
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