[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 113 (Tuesday, June 29, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H3250-H3258]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     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. 
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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 
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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.
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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
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     Doyle, Michael F.
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     Yarmuth

                               NAYS--197

     Allen
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     Baird
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     Barr
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice (OK)
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     Budd
     Burchett
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     Carl
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     Chabot
     Cheney
     Cline
     Clyde
     Cole
     Comer
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     Curtis
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     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Emmer
     Estes
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Fischbach
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     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

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     Boebert (Gosar)
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     Cardenas (Gomez)
     Carl (Joyce (PA))
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     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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