[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 150 (Tuesday, August 24, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H4359-H4372]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 4, JOHN R. LEWIS VOTING RIGHTS 
    ADVANCEMENT ACT OF 2021; PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF SENATE 
  AMENDMENT TO H.R. 3684, INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AND JOBS ACT; AND 
PROVIDING FOR ADOPTION OF S. CON. RES. 14, CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE 
          BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

  Mr. NEGUSE. Madam Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I 
call up House Resolution 601 and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 601

       Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be 
     in order to consider in the House the bill (H.R. 4) to amend 
     the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for 
     determining which States and political subdivisions are 
     subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes. All 
     points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. 
     The amendment printed in 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) one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the 
     chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on the 
     Judiciary or their respective designees; and (2) one motion 
     to recommit.
       Sec. 2.  The chair of the Committee on the Judiciary may 
     insert in the Congressional Record not later than August 24, 
     2021, such material as he may deem explanatory of H.R. 4.
       Sec. 3. (a) Upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in 
     order to take from the Speaker's table the bill (H.R. 3684) 
     to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety 
     programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes, with 
     the Senate amendment thereto, and to consider in the House, 
     without intervention of any point of order, a motion offered 
     by the chair of the Committee on Transportation and 
     Infrastructure or his designee that the House concur in the 
     Senate amendment. The Senate amendment and the motion shall 
     be considered as read. The motion shall be debatable for one 
     hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking 
     minority member of the Committee on Transportation and 
     Infrastructure or their respective designees. The previous 
     question shall be considered as ordered on the motion to its 
     adoption without intervening motion.
       (b) On the legislative day of September 27, 2021, the House 
     shall consider in the House the motion referred to in 
     subsection (a) if not offered prior to such legislative day. 
     A motion considered pursuant to this subsection shall be 
     considered as though offered pursuant to subsection (a).
       Sec. 4.  Senate Concurrent Resolution 14 is hereby adopted.
       Sec. 5.  Rule XXVIII shall not apply with respect to the 
     adoption by the House of a concurrent resolution on the 
     budget for fiscal year 2022.
       Sec. 6.  House Resolution 594 and House Resolution 600 are 
     laid on the table.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Colorado is recognized 
for 1 hour.
  Mr. NEGUSE. Madam Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I yield 
the customary 30 minutes to the gentlewoman from Minnesota (Mrs. 
Fischbach), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. 
During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the 
purpose of debate only.


                             General Leave

  Mr. NEGUSE. Madam 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 
gentleman from Colorado?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. NEGUSE. Madam Speaker, earlier today, the Rules Committee met and 
reported a rule, House Resolution 601, providing for consideration of 
three measures.
  First, the rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4 under a closed 
rule. The rule provides 1 hour of debate equally divided and controlled 
by the chair and the ranking minority member of the Committee on the 
Judiciary or their designee. The rule self-executes a manager's 
amendment from Chairman Nadler, provides one motion to recommit, and 
provides the Judiciary Committee with the authority to insert in the 
Congressional Record explanatory material related to H.R. 4 no later 
than August 24.

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  The rule also provides for consideration of the Senate amendment to 
H.R. 3684. The rule makes in order a motion offered by the chair of the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure that the House concur in 
the Senate amendment to H.R. 3684. The rule provides for 1 hour of 
debate on the motion equally divided and controlled by the chair and 
the ranking minority member of the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure or their designees.
  Finally, the rule provides that S. Con. Res. 14 is adopted under 
adoption of the rule.
  Madam Speaker, today is an important day. The underlying bills before 
us today are critical pieces of legislation to enact President Biden's 
Build Back Better agenda. This plan will create good-paying jobs, put 
money in the pockets of American families, lower healthcare and 
childcare costs, and invest in our Nation's infrastructure paid for by 
ensuring that the wealthiest Americans are paying their fair share in 
taxes. We also take important critical steps today to secure the right 
to vote and safeguard our democracy.
  S. Con. Res. 14 begins the process to enact this important 
legislative agenda. In short, the resolution sets out President Biden's 
Build Back Better plan, which includes critical investments that we can 
and must make now to provide a better future for our country.
  This is a plan to create jobs, to cut taxes, and to lower costs for 
working families.
  Our plan will make things affordable for the middle class and working 
families and reduce healthcare costs.
  The Build Back Better plan will help prepare our Nation for the 
impacts of climate change: Through historic investments in a reimagined 
Climate Conservation Corps, investments that will put people to work to 
protect and conserve our public lands and open spaces, invest in the 
electrification of our infrastructure, and ensure that we can prepare 
for and mitigate the impacts of climate change.
  We will provide for wildfire prevention and mitigation, resources 
that are desperately needed, Madam Speaker, across the western United 
States as we continue to experience devastating wildfires year after 
year. My State of Colorado, along with many other western States, are 
in the midst of a terrible drought which, combined with extreme heat, 
is continuing to wreak havoc on our communities.
  As a father of a 3-year-old daughter who will be starting preschool 
just next week, we will invest in our children through the Build Back 
Better plan by ensuring universal pre-K for every 3-year-old and 4-
year-old in our country, provide tuition-free community college, 
childcare for working families, upgrading school infrastructure, and 
strengthening our education workforce.
  We will fund investments in child nutrition programs, expand 
Medicare, Madam Speaker, for the first time in its 55-year history to 
include dental benefits, vision benefits, hearing coverage, critical 
coverage that will help our seniors access the care that they need.
  The Build Back Better plan will be transformational for the American 
people, reaching every aspect of their lives and making investments in 
resources that they can rely on. Madam Speaker, we will lower costs for 
the American people, we will cut taxes, and we will create jobs. This 
resolution is a first step toward making those critical investments a 
reality.
  I now turn to a bill that I know, Madam Speaker, you care deeply 
about, as you are the sponsor of the legislation, and that is the John 
R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, H.R. 4. Voting is a sacred 
right foundational to our democracy and to our Republic. It is a right 
that many have fought and died to secure and that the late civil rights 
hero, our dear friend and colleague, John Lewis, fought to protect, 
despite being harassed, jailed, and beaten. Madam Speaker, as you know, 
Mr. Lewis often told us that the vote is the most powerful nonviolent 
tool that we have.
  Unfortunately, it is a right that is once again under attack, and we 
see it, Madam Speaker, in the laws that are being passed in Georgia and 
in Florida and in Iowa. In State after State after State, and in the 
glaring absence of Federal standards and enforcement, partisan 
legislatures are making it harder for those who are legally eligible to 
vote to do so.
  We cannot stand by, Madam Speaker, as discriminatory measures run 
rampant, blocking Americans from participating in our democracy.
  Voting is a constitutional right. It is ingrained at the very core of 
who we are as Americans, Madam Speaker. As a Congress, protecting that 
right is foundational; it really is the heart of our duty.
  The vote can only truly represent the people's voice if they have the 
ability to execute it freely and easily. That is why Congress needs to 
take clear, decisive action today to protect voting rights by passing 
the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. This bill would 
strengthen the VRA and respond to recent Supreme Court cases striking 
critical provisions of the bill, while making clear that Congress has 
the power to create a new formula.

  The VRA has been reauthorized, Madam Speaker, as you know, on a 
bipartisan basis for decades, most recently in 2006 when the 
reauthorization on the VRA passed this Chamber 390-33, and in the 
Senate 98 votes for it, zero votes against it. This should not be a 
partisan issue.
  Our democracy is safeguarded only when every eligible voter has the 
opportunity to participate, and that is what we will ensure today by 
passing this bill out of the House.
  Finally, Madam Speaker, as you know, the rule provides for 
consideration of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. This 
bipartisan bill is an important down payment toward meeting the 
critical infrastructure needs of our communities. We all know that our 
Nation's infrastructure is in desperate need of repair, and this 
bipartisan bill seeks to make those much-needed investments.
  The bill invests in our roads, our highways, our bridges, focusing on 
making infrastructure resilient to the impacts of climate change and 
natural disasters.
  It has become particularly clear over the course of this last year 
that access to affordable, reliable broadband is absolutely critical 
for Americans to be able to do their jobs and to participate equally in 
remote learning, to access healthcare, to stay connected. This 
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provides $65 billion to expand 
broadband coverage to areas most in need across the United States, and 
it also takes steps to make sure that that coverage is more affordable 
for individuals for whom those costs might be prohibitive.
  The bill makes critical investments in our drinking water 
infrastructure, ensuring that clean, safe drinking water is a right in 
all communities.
  Lastly, I would be remiss, Madam Speaker, if I didn't mention that 
there are several priorities that I have been working on with many of 
my colleagues from the western United States that are part of this 
bill, the Joint Chiefs Landscape Restoration Partnership Program, my 
bill to help restore our forests and respond to wildfire risks; the 
reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools Program; and, of course, 
the Disaster Safe Power Grid Act, which ensures a safer and more 
resilient power grid in the face of emergencies.

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  The Senate has already passed this bill and shown the desire to 
invest in our infrastructure, and the House must now do the same.
  Madam Speaker, these three underlying bills that we are considering 
today make essential investments in American families and communities, 
and we have to meet this moment for the American people.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mrs. FISCHBACH. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Colorado 
for yielding me the customary 30 minutes. I will just say, it has been 
a long and bumpy road to get here so I am happy to finally be here on 
the floor with the rule.
  Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Madam Speaker, House Resolution 601 provides for the consideration of 
two controversial partisan bills and deems the $3.5 trillion 
reconciliation resolution adopted that strips away local control and 
adds trillions to the national debt.

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  The bill deemed adopted under this rule is S. Con. Res. 14, the $3.5 
trillion tax-and-spending binge that passed the Senate earlier this 
month.
  Madam Speaker, prices are at a 13-year high, and inflation is rising. 
President Biden has already spent $1.9 trillion and is now looking to 
spend an additional $3.5 trillion, all while his administration pays 
Americans not to work and stifles our robust economy.
  Not only does this budget call for the highest sustained Federal 
spending level in American history, but it also amounts to a whopping 
$68 trillion over the next decade. It raises taxes on the American 
people, shifts jobs overseas, and taxes American employers at one of 
the highest rates in the world. It eliminates ``right to work'' 
protection and does nothing to address the historic flow of illegal 
immigration at the southern border.
  Democrats know their proposals are unpopular. They can't even get 
their own conference to agree. Instead, they are resorting to smoke and 
mirrors to push it through and hoping the American people aren't paying 
attention. Where is the transparency?
  If Democrats truly want to serve and help the American people, they 
need far more transparency and input from everyone, not just a few. 
This is no way to build a budget.
  Madam Speaker, then there is H.R. 4, which would make changes to the 
Voting Rights Act and strips State and local governments of their 
ability to manage their own elections. The Constitution places the 
responsibility for elections at the State level, and we have a long 
history of letting each State run their own elections. But H.R. 4 
grants the Federal Government unprecedented control over State and 
local elections. It empowers the Attorney General to bully States and 
forces those States to seek Federal approval before making changes to 
their own voting laws.
  H.R. 4 also provides incentives for advocacy groups to file as many 
objections as possible to manufacture litigation in the hope of 
triggering coverage under the Voting Rights Act. We need safeguards 
that make it easy to vote and hard to cheat. H.R. 4 is not the 
solution.
  Madam Speaker, finally, the final bill in this resolution is the 
Senate amendment to H.R. 3684, which provides for $1.2 trillion in new 
infrastructure spending.
  Madam Speaker, I hate to say it, but my Democrat colleagues are using 
the bipartisan infrastructure framework to force their Members to also 
push through trillions more in their outlandish spending resolution. 
Our constituents are tired of Washington playing games with their 
livelihoods.
  To be sure, investing in our Nation's infrastructure is critical. 
However, only a fraction of this $1 trillion-plus bill is for roads, 
bridges, and other projects the American people would consider 
traditional infrastructure. With tens of billions for electric vehicle 
plug-ins, Amtrak, and light rail, if you live in a deep blue city, this 
bill is for you. But if you are one of the millions of Americans in a 
more rural area, this bill leaves you behind.
  Madam Speaker, our country's infrastructure should not be tied to the 
Democrats' partisan spending spree, especially during a pandemic. But 
here we are. Until Democrats stop playing games and work with their 
colleagues on a truly bipartisan compromise, I urge my colleagues to 
oppose this rule and the underlying bills.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. NEGUSE. Madam Speaker, I must say with great respect for my 
colleague from Minnesota, I think the Republican minority leader of the 
United States Senate, Mitch McConnell, would disagree with the 
gentlewoman's characterization of the bipartisan infrastructure bill 
being for--I think she said--urban cities or blue cities.
  Madam Speaker, 19 Republicans voted for that bill in the United 
States Senate, including the Senate minority leader. So I think that it 
is important for us to recognize that the investments made in that 
bill, as well as the investments made in the resolution, the Build Back 
Better plan that we are also considering over the coming weeks are 
incredibly important for the future of our country.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from North 
Carolina (Ms. Ross), a distinguished member of both the Committee on 
Rules and the Committee on the Judiciary.
  Ms. ROSS. Madam Speaker, the rule before us provides for 
consideration of three landmark pieces of legislation. First and 
foremost, we are here to assume our duty to protect our American 
democracy. Just this year alone, 18 States have enacted 30 voter 
suppression laws. In response, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act 
would reinvigorate section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, restore 
geographic preclearance requirements eliminated in the Shelby decision, 
and take other steps to block discriminatory voting measures before 
they are implemented.
  The history of the fight for voting rights in America is long and 
painful. But at crucial forks on that difficult path, Members of this 
body from both parties have set politics aside and done the right 
thing.

  We are meeting here today at another pivotal juncture in the struggle 
for voting rights, and it is up to us to meet the urgency of the 
moment, live up to our constitutional responsibilities, and pass this 
critical legislation.
  Madam Speaker, I also rise in support of our $3.5 trillion Build Back 
Better budget resolution. By taking real action on climate change, 
expanding the child tax credit, and supporting universal pre-K and free 
community college, this budget represents an investment in all of our 
people, especially our children and grandchildren. For the sake of our 
constituents and our country, let's approve this vital funding.
  Madam Speaker, lastly, the rule before us provides for future 
consideration of the Senate's bipartisan infrastructure package. From 
expanding broadband to rebuilding roads, bridges, airports, rail, and 
water systems, this historic bill will help bring America's aging 
infrastructure into the 21st century and create jobs.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support the rule and this 
legislation.
  Mrs. FISCHBACH. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman 
from Missouri (Mr. Smith), ranking member of the Budget Committee.
  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from 
Minnesota for yielding.
  The last 24 hours, we need to just step back and look at it. And I 
need to remind my colleagues and remind the folks across the aisle that 
what we just witnessed is a circus; and also remind them that this is 
the people's House. This is not Pelosi's palace, this is the people's 
House.
  Madam Speaker, the middle of July, we were supposed to mark up a 
budget in the House Budget Committee, but the Democrats did not have 
the votes.
  Madam Speaker, before the August recess, we were suppose to pass the 
House budget. The Democrats did not have the votes. Yesterday--up until 
about 1 a.m. this morning, in fact--we were going to pass the House 
budget, but the Democrats did not have the votes. So now they have a 
scheme before us, a scheme that they are putting Bernie's budget with 
the transportation bill, which is not even going to be voted on today, 
not even going to be voted on this week, not even going to be voted on 
this month, along with a voting rights bill, because they can't pass 
Bernie's budget. You know why they can't pass Bernie's budget? Because 
the American people are fed up with the Democrats' reckless spending.
  Right now, we are facing the Biden inflation crisis. We are facing 
the Biden border crisis. We are facing the Biden energy crisis. And we 
are facing the Biden Afghanistan crisis. Yet, they bring forth a budget 
resolution that only makes those crises worse, $68 trillion in new 
spending, the most spending in the history of this country; $17 
trillion of debt, the largest increase of debt, in fact, more debt than 
the entire economies of every country in the world, except for the 
United States.
  Bernie Sanders may have lost the Presidential primary, but his 
policies have won. Bernie Sanders controls this Chamber, along with the 
liberal squad. But the American people are watching, and they are fed 
up. And they are letting the American people know whenever this Chamber 
changes and we actually bring order back to the House of 
Representatives.

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  Mr. NEGUSE. Madam Speaker, you know what is interesting? I don't 
remember the ranking member complaining about the deficit 3 years ago 
when they passed tax cuts for billionaires across our country to the 
tune of $2 trillion in terms of adding it to the deficit. I don't 
remember them complaining about process when they had to do three rules 
within a time period of 6 weeks to try to repeal the Affordable Care 
Act back in 2017.
  I heard much today by way of process, but very little in terms of 
substance. Why? Because they know that the plan we have put forward 
today will lower costs, will cut taxes, and will create jobs.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California 
(Ms. Pelosi), the distinguished Speaker of this House.
  Ms. PELOSI. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding and for 
his distinguished role on the Committee on Rules.
  Now, let us praise the Committee on Rules for the important work that 
they do making sure that legislation comes to the floor in a way that 
is consistent with the rules of the House, and in this case, a budget 
that is consistent with the values of our country.
  I thank the gentleman from Colorado and the chairman,  Jim McGovern, 
for his leadership as well. And to each and every member of the 
Committee on Rules, we have to salute them, on both sides of the aisle, 
for the time they put in and how they facilitate the work of the House.

  Madam Speaker, today is a great day of pride for our country and for 
Democrats. We have a President with a big, bold vision for our country 
and unprecedented opportunity to keep our promises for the people. We 
promised ``for the people'' that we would lower healthcare costs by 
lowering the cost of prescription drugs; we would increase paychecks by 
building the infrastructure of America; and we would have cleaner 
government by passing legislation.
  This rule does all three of those things and much more, enabling the 
Congress to vote on some of that legislation today; some of it in the 
bill, and some of it for later.
  When the President spoke about the infrastructure bill which is 
provided for in this rule, he said to our Republican friends, I want to 
find our common ground on infrastructure, but I will not confine my 
vision to what is in the bill that we can do in a bipartisan way unless 
you want to help us build back better. I like to say build back better 
for women, because that is what this budget will do; that is in this 
rule.
  So I salute the President, not only for his vision and his 
determination to get the job done, but for the priorities that will be 
contained here in this budget as we go forward.
  The Build Back Better budget agenda is one that is liberating for 
families, not just women, moms and dads, with childcare, with a child 
tax credit, with universal pre-K, with home healthcare, with workforce 
development. So that not only are we building the physical 
infrastructure of America, we are building the human infrastructure of 
America to enable many more people to participate in the success of our 
economy and the growth of our society. It does so with equity, a 40 
percent justice provision that will be in there.

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  Now, it remains for us to work together, work with the Senate, to 
write a bill that preserves the privilege of 51 votes in the Senate. So 
we must work together to do that in a way that passes the House and 
passes the Senate, and we must do so expeditiously. Expeditiously.
  The authorizations for highway, et cetera, will expire September 30. 
By October 1, we hope to have in place, that is the plan, to have in 
place the legislation for infrastructure. That is bipartisan, and I 
salute that, but it is not inclusive of all of the values we need to 
build back at a time when we have a climate crisis.
  So I salute our distinguished chair of the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure, Mr. DeFazio, for the knowledge that 
he brings, the value system and the knowledge that he brings to looking 
at how we do a reconciliation bill, a build back better bill in a way 
that is preserving of our planet for the children. For the children.
  Exciting in all of this is the fact that we will have the John R. 
Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. This is pretty exciting. And I 
commend you, Madam Speaker, for your leadership in making this 
possible; for you to be the author of it. But when you are the author, 
though, you will no longer be able to preside, you have to come down 
and manage us on the floor. So it is appropriate that during the rule 
that will enable this to come to the floor, you are presiding, so we 
can all congratulate you in a highly visible way.
  This legislation is so important. I was very much a part of passing 
the previous bill, that was in 2007, we wrote it in 2006, it became 
effective in 2007 when President Bush was President. We had Republican 
majorities in the House and Senate, and we passed the legislation 
overwhelmingly. Over nearly 400 votes in the House, unanimous in the 
Senate; signed by President Bush, as bipartisan as anything that has 
come to the floor.
  We walked down the steps of the Capitol in a bipartisan way, saluting 
the fact that we had extended the Voting Rights Act and President Bush 
signed it. And with great pride, he came to your neck of the woods, to 
Selma, on the 50th anniversary of the Selma march. But he came as the 
person who had signed the Voting Rights Act. And even more important 
than that, Laura Bush came, too, so their hearts are in this 
legislation.
  I would hope that there would be some level of bipartisanship on that 
as well. We will talk more about that as we go into the debate on that 
bill in a little while.
  But I do, again, want to thank Congresswoman DeLauro for her 
relentless, persistent, dissatisfied until now, I hope satisfied to a 
certain extent, more to come, of the child tax credit. For 10 
Congresses she has introduced that bill, and now it is being advanced.
  And Mr. Yarmuth, the chair of the Budget Committee, will lead us now 
as we prepare in our individual committees, our work for the Budget 
Committee to put together a package.
  Madam Speaker, as you know, a national budget should be a statement 
of our national values. What is important to us as a Nation should be 
reflected in our budget. And this will be the case. And under the 
leadership of Mr. Yarmuth, who is not only values-based, but eloquent 
in conveying that message, we are very excited about how we go forward.
  Again, I mentioned Peter DeFazio. In terms of the Voting Rights Act, 
the very distinguished chair of the Judiciary Committee, Mr. Nadler; 
and Zoe Lofgren for her work as chair on the Committee on House 
Administration; Mr. Butterfield, and so many people; and our 
distinguished whip, Mr. Clyburn, who has made this his life work.
  Passing this rule paves the way for the Build Back Better plan, which 
will forge legislative progress unseen in 50 years that will stand for 
generations alongside the New Deal and the Great Society. This 
legislation will be the biggest and perhaps most consequential 
initiatives that any of us have ever undertaken in our official lives.
  Everything we do is about the children. As you have heard me say when 
people ask me, what are the three most important issues facing the 
Congress? I always say the same thing: Our children, our children, our 
children; their health, their education, and the economic security of 
their families, a safe environment in which they can thrive, and a 
world at peace in which they can reach their fulfillment.
  When children come here to the Capitol, it is such an invigoration 
for us and an inspiration to us to see them because we are here for 
them. And as I say to them, as you see the statues and the monuments to 
those who went before, it is appropriate that we honor them, but they 
want us to honor you, the future of our country, to make it better for 
the children.
  Again, any delay in passing the rule threatens the Build Back Better 
plan, as well as voting rights reform, as well as the bipartisan 
infrastructure bill. We cannot surrender our leverage for the children. 
For the first time, I don't remember a time as historic as this, for 
the children.
  President Biden has given children leverage in his visionary 
proposal. The children have the leverage, not those at the high end who 
benefitted from the Republican tax bill, and I wouldn't even have 
brought it up except you are

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acting as if you don't even know, when you added $2 trillion, or more, 
to the budget to give 83 percent of the benefits to the wealthiest 
people in our country.
  Leverage for the rich, no. We don't begrudge them their success, but 
this is about leverage for the children, for them, for their families 
for the future.
  And guess what? It would be our attempt to pay for this bill so it is 
not a burden to those children as we go forward. And that means that 
some of the people that benefitted from that tax bill, that tax scam in 
2017, are now going to have to pay their fair share, fair share, pay 
their fair share, and that we may have to address other ways to pay for 
the legislation by putting the responsibility on the high end, both 
whether it is corporate or individual, so that we can again 
make progress for the children without burdening them with the debt, 
some of which they got in 2017.

  So it is a pretty exciting day. I congratulate all on the Rules 
Committee for going in time and again as we sought clarification on how 
we go forward. I thank Mr. McGovern, Mr. Neguse, and so many other 
members of that committee.
  I thank all of our colleagues for their involvement in all of this. 
And I would hope that as we proceed, we could do so in the most 
transparent, bipartisan, and fair way for the children.
  Mrs. FISCHBACH. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Speaker, if we defeat the previous question, I will offer an 
amendment to the rule to provide for additional consideration of H.R. 
5071, authored by Representative Gallagher.
  Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to insert the text of my 
amendment into the Record, along with extraneous material, immediately 
prior to the vote on the previous question.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentlewoman from Minnesota?
  There was no objection.
  Mrs. FISCHBACH. Madam Speaker, President Biden's failure to lead has 
resulted in a national security and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan 
that we cannot ignore.
  Now the Taliban is back and the United States is less safe. The 
President has offered no specific plan for getting those Americans out 
of Afghanistan safely.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. 
Gallagher), from Wisconsin's Eighth Congressional District.
  Mr. GALLAGHER. Madam Speaker, I rise today to urge defeat of the 
previous question so that we can consider my bill, H.R. 5071, to ensure 
no Americans are left behind in Afghanistan.
  Over the past week, we have all seen the horrifying images coming out 
of Kabul: babies being passed over barbed wire, 2-year-olds trampled to 
death, bodies falling from C-17s. These pictures are now forever 
painted onto American history. They don't depict the orderly withdrawal 
that the President promised. These are, instead, portraits of chaos, 
tragedy, and dishonor.
  And, yet, the administration assures us a plan for every contingency. 
Was the plan for America to give billions of dollars worth of U.S. 
military equipment to the Taliban? Was the plan to put terrorists, 
effectively, in charge of security around the Kabul airport? Was the 
plan to leave over 10,000 American citizens stranded behind enemy 
lines?
  Madam Speaker, if this was the plan, a plan to surrender so 
incompetently and on such ignominious terms, then our country can't 
withstand any more of this administration's plans. It is time for this 
body, this Congress, to act, to hold the administration accountable and 
save lives. This bill would do that by requiring daily reporting to 
Congress on the number of Americans left in the country and the number 
of Afghan allies that are seeking refuge.
  The bill also critically prohibits the President from withdrawing our 
forces until all Americans, who want out, are safely out of the 
country. Right now, it seems, the President is doubling down on this 
August 31 withdraw date, despite strong bipartisan opposition and push 
back.
  Make no mistake, if we get out on August 31, we are going to condemn 
thousands to death. I don't care what secret side deal was struck with 
the Taliban, this is America, we don't leave anybody behind. A great 
country, such as ours, takes care of our citizens and our allies.
  Our enemies are mocking our surrender right now. We have all seen the 
images. The Taliban, for example, just mocked the iconic image of 
Marines raising the flag over Iwo Jima. It may be too late to save face 
because of this debacle, but it is not too late to save lives. This 
isn't a news cycle that will blow over. This isn't a narrative that you 
can spin. We are talking about American lives, and we are talking about 
America's honor.
  Madam Speaker, let's act now, before this crisis, and with it, 
America's standing in the world deteriorates even further.
  Mr. NEGUSE. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Madam Speaker, I certainly understand where my colleague is coming 
from and have great reverence and respect for him and his service to 
our country, and I certainly look forward to continuing to work with 
him on the important issues that he described.
  But defeating the previous question would hand over the floor to the 
Republican Conference. And, as you know, Madam Speaker, we have 
incredibly important pieces of legislation that we are considering, 
specifically, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, and the bipartisan 
infrastructure budget, and the President's Build Back Better plan 
today.
  Madam Speaker, I look forward to voting for the rule, and would 
encourage all Members in the House to vote for the rule, to vote for 
the previous question so that we can proceed with the business of the 
House.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania 
(Ms. Scanlon), a distinguished member of the Rules Committee.
  Ms. SCANLON. Madam Speaker, I rise today in enthusiastic support of 
this rule and the underlying legislation.
  H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, is essential 
to ensuring that every American voter has equal access to the ballot 
box, and the freedom to make his or her voice heard.
  Ever since the Supreme Court's decision in Shelby v. Holder opened 
the door, we have seen State legislatures pass hundreds of laws to 
restrict voter access while claiming, falsely, to protect our elections 
from voter fraud that doesn't even exist.
  Now, the unjustified attacks on the 2020 election results by the 
former President and his supporters have produced a wave of anti-
democratic bills. But it doesn't have to be this way. In Shelby, the 
Supreme Court invited Congress to amend the Voting Rights Act to 
address its concerns.
  For 8 years, our Republican colleagues refused the Court's invitation 
to reinvigorate the Voting Rights Act, while extremist politicians 
worked overtime to close polling locations, limit voting hours, purge 
voter rolls, and erect barriers to the ballot box.

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  We can't continue down this path if we want America to remain a 
functional democracy. Congress needs to do its job. I urge all of my 
colleagues and all Americans to support this bill.
  I would also like to speak briefly about the bipartisan 
infrastructure bill and the Build Back Better Act, which today's vote 
will move forward. Together, they are the key to helping Americans and 
American businesses succeed in the 21st century.
  Our country is facing multiple, interconnected crises: the COVID 
pandemic, a deeply unequal economy, long-neglected infrastructure 
needs, underfunded public services that often fail to serve those most 
in need, and climate disasters that are impacting our communities more 
often.
  The Build Back Better agenda is simple: make major investments in 
physical infrastructure and working families to create a fairer, more 
productive, and sustainable economy.
  We need the bipartisan infrastructure deal to enable America to 
compete in the 21st century, but we also need the Build Back Better Act 
to create jobs and lower costs and taxes for working families. These 
bills have the power to improve the lives of millions of Americans.

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  Madam Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to support the rule.
  Mrs. FISCHBACH. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman 
from Florida (Mr. Mast).
  Mr. MAST. Madam Speaker, let's be bipartisanly honest here for a 
moment. We just walked out of probably the most bipartisan moment in 
the last couple of years, a classified briefing with the Joint Chiefs, 
the Secretary, the Secretary of State, and others.
  There are things that, real-world, need to be done where Americans 
are at risk. They are cut off, and they are stranded. They are now in 
the situation where they are the hostages of Afghanistan because of 
everything that has been allowed to transpire under President Biden. 
And in this body, we are going to walk out of that classified briefing 
concerned behind closed doors but do nothing--do absolutely nothing--on 
the floor of the House.
  I am going to say the same thing I just said a few minutes ago: What 
the hell are we doing?
  Let's say that again: There are Americans cut off who need our help, 
and there are Special Immigrant Visa applicants cut off who need our 
help right now who will be killed. We heard the descriptions of the 
dangers in the briefing we just got out of.
  Defeat the previous question and bring up the only thing that this 
body will do in this entire week that has anything to do with what is 
going on in Afghanistan. This is the only opportunity, the only thing 
that is going on related to Afghanistan in this body.
  That is unconscionable. How in the world is that the case?
  Every time somebody tries to do something different in here, like 
take the ability of States to determine their own voting rights or 
other things, everybody needs to say: Stop. What the hell are you 
doing? Get focused back on Afghanistan and saving Americans.
  Mr. NEGUSE. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
New Jersey (Mr. Pallone), who is the distinguished chairman of the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce.
  Mr. PALLONE. Madam Speaker, this budget resolution allows us to 
implement President Biden's Build Back Better agenda to revitalize our 
economy by creating millions of good-paying jobs, and it allows us to 
aggressively combat the climate crisis. The goal of the Energy and 
Commerce Committee with this budget resolution is to make healthcare 
more affordable and accessible for all Americans. We can help 
accomplish that by closing the Medicaid coverage gap to provide quality 
comprehensive coverage to an estimated 4 million Americans who qualify 
for Medicaid but who have been denied access to care in their State.
  It will also continue subsidies under the Affordable Care Act to 
reduce health insurance costs. The Energy and Commerce Committee plans 
to lower the price of out-of-control and skyrocketing prescription drug 
prices by giving the Federal Government the ability to negotiate lower 
prices and will use the savings to expand Medicare benefits. Our plan 
is to provide investments in our public health infrastructure to help 
us respond to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and better respond to 
future public health emergencies.
  The Build Back Better agenda will allow us to create millions of new, 
homegrown jobs and combat the climate crisis by aggressively investing 
in clean energy and clean technology. The moment is here to invest in a 
more advanced and resilient economy and toward a 100 percent clean 
economy.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this budget resolution 
that allows us to carry out President Biden's bold vision and deliver 
on the Build Back Better agenda for the people.
  Mrs. FISCHBACH. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. McCarthy).
  Mr. McCARTHY. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding 
time.
  Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to today's rule.
  Madam Speaker, before I came here, I was listening to the debate. I 
listened to Congressman Gallagher, a veteran, come to the floor and 
talk about an idea that he has, an idea that here we are, Afghanistan 
is collapsing, and thousands of Americans in Afghanistan are trying to 
get out.
  Here we are, called back for a special session. All his previous 
question would say is that we would have to have a report every day on 
those Americans, that we wouldn't pick a timeline until the mission is 
finished, and that people would be able to be brought back.
  As I listened to his impassioned speech, I waited for the response. I 
listened to my friend on the other side. He respects Mr. Gallagher, but 
he could not turn the floor over because if the floor were turned over 
to Republicans, instead of changing the election law and spending $5 
trillion, they would put the American public first. God forbid we would 
do that.

  Madam Speaker, I heard the Democrat on the other side say we could 
not turn the floor over to the Republicans to let the American public 
know how many Americans were there. It would be devastating--
devastating--to allow that to happen.
  This week, the House is in session for the first time since Kabul 
fell to the Taliban. What is happening in Afghanistan is a disaster for 
America's security and credibility, not for just today and not for next 
week, but for decades to come. Other countries are questioning whether 
we have the resolve to honor our word because of the bungled 
withdrawal.
  President Biden magnified this damage over the past week by hiding at 
Camp David, delivering incoherent speeches, and is reported as failing 
to contact a single foreign leader for 36 hours. Today, he signaled an 
unconditional surrender to the Taliban, promising to leave in just 7 
days.
  We just had a classified briefing for all the Members. I don't 
believe any Member walking out of there believes that in 7 days we 
could get the thousands of Americans out. That is why we can't 
relinquish the floor to the Republicans to actually get a report on it.
  Madam Speaker, the President's actions gave the impression of 
incompetency and a declining power. This week, we learned that the 
Taliban seized millions in U.S. weapons, making them stronger than they 
were 20 years ago.
  Madam Speaker, it is reported the Taliban now has more Black Hawk 
helicopters than Australia. Military missions should be dictated by our 
Nation's interests, not by our enemies or by arbitrary timelines.
  Right now, there is no greater national priority than getting our 
people home. But I just heard from the Democrat on the other side that 
we could not relinquish the floor to allow Mr. Gallagher's, a 
veteran's, previous question to come up because that would be dealing 
with the Nation's interests right now. No. We need to deal with the 
Democrats' priorities right now.
  As I look around, I see our allies responding to this crisis with the 
seriousness it deserves. Madam Speaker, the Speaker called us back 
here. We are not the only body of power that has been called back.
  In Britain, Parliament returned from its summer recess. Do you know 
what they are doing, though, Madam Speaker? They are working in an 
emergency session on this current situation to get their citizens home.
  In France, President Macron is trying to rally the U.N. Security 
Council.
  This House should be correcting this disastrous record left by this 
Commander in Chief and proving that America never abandons her people 
or shrinks from defending our interests.
  Madam Speaker, that is not what I heard on this floor. I heard a 
direction, Madam Speaker, by the Democrat leading and in charge of this 
right now that we could not relinquish the floor simply to Mr. 
Gallagher's request of letting America know how many Americans are 
there and to not put a timeline until every American comes home.
  We should be doing nothing else on the floor until every single 
American is home. Democrats called us back for an emergency session, 
the first session since Kabul fell to the Taliban. But faced with a 
national security and credibility crisis in Afghanistan, they have done 
nothing to plan to address it.
  We were allotted 90 minutes, and, oh my God, we went over 15 minutes. 
But we made sure that then the Democrats had to shut that meeting down, 
that Members of Congress could ask no more longer questions because we 
needed to get back to the floor right now.

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  When history writes about this day, they will talk about the entire 
week. They will talk about last night, how Congress worked late into 
the night, actually ordered food to come in, was in the Speaker's 
Office for late hours, spent their day calling other Members and 
twisting votes. We had reports that the President called people, that 
former Presidents called people, and that people were threatened and 
that their spouses were threatened about jobs. We heard that they were 
threatened even in their own campaign.
  But what were they threatened about? Was it anything to deal with 
Americans coming home? No. It was about this rule. It was about what we 
are bringing up right now. The reason we had to stop our briefing was 
because we had to come to the floor to deal with this.
  So, what are we talking about? $5 trillion of hard-earned taxpayer 
money being spent on more Big Government, changing election law to 
benefit one party over another, outlawing IDs even though the majority 
of America wants it, and nothing about how that $5 trillion will spend 
$1 bringing Americans home or making us safer.
  What is the definition of a public servant? I would say doing 
something for the good of the others.
  Madam Speaker, the party today of the majority, the Democrats here, 
their interest is themselves, to stay up late into the night while 
other nations are working to bring their citizens home.
  Madam Speaker, as people walk onto this floor and vote on this bill 
that they worked late into the night on, I want them to think about one 
thing. I want them to think about those American families in 
Afghanistan who late into the night were not knowing if they could even 
make it to the airport, not knowing if they will even get out, and 
wondering if the public servants were thinking of them. The sad answer 
is the majority was not. They were thinking of themselves, that it is 
too important to deal with anything else.
  Madam Speaker, there are allies who are sitting in Afghanistan. Why 
did they go? They went to defend America because America was attacked 
and out of the respect and character of who we are.
  This body, elected and respected around the world, in a time of 
crisis doesn't speak of it and doesn't act on it but only acts for 
themselves and, in a moment of time of using the rules to allow the 
opportunity to change its course and to correct them when they were 
wrong, the voice of the other side says: No, we could not turn the 
floor over to allow America to know how many Americans are there or to 
get a report on it.

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  Just as they bang the gavel down, the 90 minutes have come. You have 
asked enough questions. You can ask no more because we must get to the 
floor to pass $5 trillion and change election law so the Democrats 
believe they can buy and change an election.
  Madam Speaker, if there is any moment in time to put an election 
aside, if there is any moment in time to put politics aside, I would 
have thought today was the day. I would have thought we were being 
called back so that we could focus on what the rest of the world is 
focused on.
  So when the Speaker came to the floor to speak, I turned my volume 
up. Surely, she was going to speak of this day. Surely, she was going 
to talk about the Gold Star families. Surely, she was going to thank 
those veterans and those who have served here knowing what they are 
going through and what they are watching.
  And you know what she said? Speaker Pelosi actually said: Today is a 
great day of pride for our country and Democrats. Today is a great day 
of pride for our country and our Democrats.
  Let me be very clear. It is not. It is an embarrassing day for our 
Nation. We are 3 weeks away from the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, and 
this is what history will write. This is what you did with your 
majority. This is what you controlled. This is how you made sure you 
would not release the floor for the idea that Americans can find out 
how many are stuck in Afghanistan or how they are going to get home.
  I hope you are proud of that because this is what your leadership has 
done. This is what your leadership worked on. This is what the power of 
the twisting of the arm has delivered. The United States of America is 
not going to let terrorists dictate when and how we get Americans out.
  I firmly believe what has been said many times and especially by 
Abraham Lincoln, `` . . . government of the people, by the people, for 
the people, shall not perish from the Earth.'' If you believe that too 
and you are watching, I ask that you pick up your phones and you call, 
especially if you are a Democrat because I do not think the leadership 
here represents you with what they are asking for. I know your love of 
this country.
  I know the thousands upon thousands of Democrats who served their 
Nation, who served in Afghanistan, and I know those Americans who are 
in Afghanistan are not just of one party. I would like to see both 
parties work on the issue, what is really before us.
  Can you not put politics aside? Can you not care for one moment that 
you could rig an election to get elected? Can you not care about making 
government so large that you are going to bring more inflation and 
trillions of dollars?
  That is what you spent last night on. That is what you spent the 
whole time on. That is what you brought us in for. That is what you 
closed the briefing on, but we couldn't ask any more questions. Time is 
up. That is what you are fighting so hard for that a veteran who has 
served his country asked for a previous question to simply say: Can we 
get a report of how many Americans are still there? And asked that we 
do not pick a date when we get out until every American is out.
  But I heard the leadership on the other side say that we could not do 
that. We have to change the election law. We have to spend $5 trillion. 
This is what we came back for in a special session. This is what our 
mission is.
  Everyone who votes for this rule today, that is what you are voting 
for. That is what you are championing. That is what history will write. 
And, no, it is not a good day. Maybe in your caucus you think it is a 
great day for you and the Democrats. It is an embarrassing day for 
America. It is an embarrassing day for this floor, and it is 
embarrassing that you would even move forward with it.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to direct their remarks 
to the Chair, and not to each other in the second person or to a 
perceived viewing audience.
  Mr. NEGUSE. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague on the Rules Committee 
for the respectful way in which she has engaged in today's debate. I 
wish I could say the same for all of the speeches that Members have 
delivered today.
  I think it is unfortunate to have deeply partisan speeches made on 
the floor on matters of such great significance. I have great respect 
and reverence for Democratic and Republican Members of this body who 
have served so honorably in our Nation's Armed Forces and who have been 
working together to do everything they can, in concert with the 
administration, to evacuate Americans and our Afghan partners out of 
Afghanistan.
  I think it is unfortunate, as I said, to hear folks politicize that 
particular issue. I didn't hear much, Madam Speaker, regarding the 
bipartisan infrastructure deal that we are considering today. I didn't 
hear much by way of specifics in terms of the voting rights advancement 
act that we are considering today. Why? Because my friends on the other 
side of the aisle know that both the Build Back Better plan and the 
bipartisan infrastructure deal will create jobs, will lower costs, and 
will cut taxes.
  I wish we could have a reasonable debate on the merits of these 
particular policies, but it is clear that some would prefer to avoid 
that debate entirely.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. 
Jackson Lee), my distinguished colleague on the Judiciary Committee.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, I am very proud to be able to stand 
here today remembering the Constitution and saying to my good friends 
that this floor belongs to the American people. This floor is a floor, 
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Lewis has often challenged us, that calls upon us to be courageous.
  I am also here to say to you that I have no doubt that the United 
States military, with the will of the American people, will ensure that 
all Americans come out of Afghanistan and our allies. But at the same 
time, I am grateful for the idea of a build back America act that will 
have Texas get universal pre-K childcare, tuition-free community 
college. And then, of course, the invest act that will see us get $537 
million for bridges, $100 million for broadband, $3.3 billion for 
public transit so that our climate can improve.
  I know that the Texas delegation, State representatives who 
sacrificed and came to this Nation's Capital to cry out for justice, 
Texas Democratic representatives who are here in this place now, that 
H.R. 4 is going to save the day, not partisan, but it is going to make 
us a democratic Republic. And we need to pass H.R. 4 because John Lewis 
said: Do you have any courage?
  Madam Speaker, as a senior member of the Judiciary Committee and an 
original cosponsor, I rise today in strong support of the Rule 
governing debate of Senate Amendment to H.R. 3684, Infrastructure 
Investment and Jobs Act; S. Con. Res. 14, Budget Resolution For Build 
Back Better Plan; and H.R. 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement 
Act.
  Madam Speaker, as a senior member of the Committees on the Judiciary, 
on Homeland Security, and on the Budget, I rise in strong support of 
the Rule governing debate of Senate Amendment to H.R. 3684, the 
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which represents the most 
significant long-term investment in the United States' infrastructure 
and competitiveness in nearly a century.
  This legislation will make life better for Americans across the 
country, create a generation of good-paying union jobs, grow our 
economy, invest in communities that have too often been left behind, 
and better position the United States to compete globally and win in 
the 21st century.
  The United States is the wealthiest country in the world, yet after 
decades of underinvestment, the country's roads, bridges, and water 
systems are crumbling, and our electric grid is vulnerable to 
catastrophic outages.
  Too many families lack access to affordable, high-speed internet, 
clean drinking water, and public transportation, and too often, past 
infrastructure investments have disproportionately and negatively 
impacted low-income neighborhoods and communities of color.
  Investing in our infrastructure--and investing in communities across 
the country--can create millions of good-paying jobs in underserved 
areas and lay the groundwork for not only a full economic recovery from 
the pandemic, but also usher in a new era of American innovation and 
prosperity.
  The historic Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act invests $550 
billion in new federal investment to make an array of transformational 
investments in our country's infrastructure including:
  $121 billion to repair and rebuild our roads and bridges with a focus 
on climate change mitigation, resilience, equity, and safety for all 
users, including cyclists and pedestrians.
  $89.9 billion to modernize America's public transit, by increasing 
routes, reducing the transit maintenance backlog, and providing more 
frequent service, resulting in better options for riders, improved 
environmental outcomes, and increased access to jobs and essential 
destinations.
  $66 billion to modernize and expand passenger and freight rail 
networks across the country, to position our railways to play a central 
role in our transportation and economic future.
  $15 billion in zero emission and clean buses and ferries and to build 
the first-ever national network of electric vehicle chargers in the 
United States, in order to address the adoption of electric vehicles 
and support domestic manufacturing jobs.
  $42 billion to modernize our airports, ports, and waterways;
  $50 billion to weatherize our infrastructure and insulate it against 
the threats of droughts, floods, and wildfires.
  $55 billion to drinking water infrastructure, including eliminating 
the Nation's lead service lines and pipes, thereby delivering clean 
drinking water to up to ten million American families and more than 
400,000 schools and child care facilities that currently do not have 
it, including in Tribal nations and disadvantaged communities.
  $65 billion to upgrade our power infrastructure to facilitate the 
expansion of renewable energy.
  $21 billion in environmental remediation, making it the largest 
investment in addressing the legacy pollution that harms the public 
health of communities and neighborhoods in American history.
  $65 billion to connect every American to reliable high-speed 
internet, building on the billions of dollars for broadband deployment 
in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
  Across this country, far too many communities are struggling with 
crumbling roads and structurally unsound bridges, outrageous 
congestion, lead-coated pipes and no broadband access.
  The Senate Amendment to H.R. 3684 addresses economic disparities in 
our economy and the consequences of decades of disinvestment in 
America's infrastructure that have fallen most heavily on communities 
of color.
  Through critical investments, the legislation increases access to 
good-paying jobs, affordable high-speed internet, reliable public 
transit, clean drinking water and other resources to ensure communities 
of color get a fair shot at the American dream.
  These critical investments are first steps in advancing equity and 
racial justice throughout our economy.
  Additional investments are needed in our nation's caregiving 
infrastructure, housing supply, regional development, and workforce 
development programs to ensure that communities of color and other 
underserved communities can access economic opportunity and justice.
  This bill will address these challenges, and will also deliver much-
needed investment to my home state of Texas, making life better for 
millions of Texas residents.
  Specifically, under the bill, Texas is expected to receive:
  $26.9 billion for federal-aid highway apportioned programs and $537 
million for bridge replacement and repairs with a focus on climate 
change mitigation, resilience, equity, and safety for all users, 
including cyclists and pedestrians;
  $3.3 billion over five years to improve public transportation options 
across the state through healthy, sustainable transportation options 
for millions of Americans;
  $408 million over five years to support the expansion of an EV 
charging network in the state; and
  Texas will also have the opportunity to apply for the $2.5 billion in 
grant funding dedicated to EV charging in the bill;
  A minimum allocation of $100 million to help provide broadband 
coverage across the state, including providing access to at least 
1,058,000 Texans who currently lack it.
  In addition, 8,381,000 or 29% of people in Texas will be eligible for 
the Affordability Connectivity Benefit, which will help low-income 
families afford internet access.
  Madam Speaker, in sum, I encourage all members to support the Rule 
governing debate of Senate Amendment to H.R. 3684 Infrastructure 
Investment and Jobs Act, so that we can invest in strengthening our 
infrastructure and competitiveness, and do so in a way that creates the 
good-paying union jobs of the future, addresses long-standing racial 
and economic injustice, and helps to fight the climate crisis.
  Madam Speaker, as a senior member of the Committees on the Judiciary, 
on Homeland Security, and on the Budget, I rise in strong support of 
the Rule governing debate of S. Con. Res. 14, which reorders budgetary 
priorities to provide $3.5 trillion investments to build back better 
and provides reconciliation instructions to 13 House and 12 Senate 
committees to support visionary and transformative investments in the 
health, well-being, and financial security of America's workers and 
families.
  It is often said that the federal budget is an expression of the 
nation's values and the budget resolution before us is a clear 
declaration of congressional Democrats' commitment to ensuring that our 
government, our economy, and our systems work For The People.
  Madam Speaker, these long-overdue investments in America's future 
will be felt in every corner of the country and across every sector of 
American life, building on the success of the American Rescue Plan, 
accommodating historic infrastructure investments in the legislative 
pipeline, and addressing long-standing deficits in our communities by 
ending an era of chronic underinvestment so we can emerge from our 
current crises a stronger, more equitable nation.
  Should our friends across the aisle join us in this endeavor, it 
would send a powerful signal to the American people if our colleagues 
across the aisle would join us in this effort because nothing would 
better show them that their elected representatives can set 
partisanship aside and put America first.
  And that bipartisan achievement would portend success for similar 
initiatives in the area of strengthening the infrastructure of 
democracy in which every American has a vital interest, national and 
homeland security, and criminal justice and immigration reform.
  I would urge my Republican colleagues to heed the words of Republican 
Governor Jim Justice of West Virginia who said colorfully several 
months ago, ``At this point in time in this nation, we need to go big. 
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cows and count the cows and just move. And move forward and move right 
now.''
  The same sentiment was expressed more eloquently by Abraham Lincoln 
in 1862 when he memorably wrote:
  ``The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. 
The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the 
occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We 
must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.''
  Madam Speaker, the bipartisan action we took in February 2021 when we 
passed the American Rescue Plan was a giant step in the right 
direction, but it was a targeted response to the immediate and urgent 
public health and economic crises; it was not a long-term solution to 
many of the pressing challenges facing our nation that have built up 
over decades of disinvestment in our nation and its people in every 
region and sector of the country.
  We simply can no longer afford the costs of neglect and inaction; the 
time to act is now.
  The Build Back Better Plan makes the transformative investments that 
we need to continue growing our economy, lower costs for working 
families, and position the United States as a global leader in 
innovation and the jobs of the future.
  This $3.5 trillion gross investment will build on the successes of 
the American Rescue Plan and set our nation on a path of fiscal 
responsibility and broadly shared prosperity for generations to come.
  The Build Back Better Plan will provide resources to improve our 
education, health, and child care systems, invest in clean energy and 
sustainability, address the housing crisis, and more; all while setting 
America up to compete and win in the decades ahead.
  The Build Back Better Plan is paid for by ensuring that the wealthy 
and big corporations are paying their fair share and Americans making 
less than $400,000 a year will not see their taxes increase by a penny.
  Let me repeat that: No American making less than $400,000 a year will 
not see their taxes increase by a penny.
  In sum, Madam Speaker, the investments made by the Build Back Better 
Plan will expand opportunity for all and build an economy powered by 
shared prosperity and inclusive growth.
  Madam Speaker, while I am proud to strongly support this Rule and 
underlying bill, I would be remiss if I did not express my 
disappointment at the Rules Committee's decision to not include my 
amendments to this bill.
  Jackson Lee Amendments #6, #7, and #8 are easy to understand and 
vitally important--they simply protect state legislators who, in 
keeping with their sacred oath to uphold the Constitution of the United 
States, refuse to perform unconstitutional acts under the guise of 
legislative process.
  Specifically:
  Jackson Lee Amendment #6 allows for federal judicial review of any 
warrants issued for the arrest of a state legislator where said state 
legislator refuses to engage in the state legislative process due to a 
reasonably held belief that doing so would infringe on the right to 
vote.
  Jackson Lee Amendment #7 inserts a Sense of the Congress stating that 
a state's power to arrest a duly elected representative of a 
constituency for refusal to engage in a state's legislative process 
should be subject to federal judicial review where such elected 
representative's refusal is premised upon a reasonable belief that 
participation would result in the suppression of voting rights or other 
violations of the Constitution of the United States of America.
  Jackson Lee Amendment #8 privileges against arrest any member of a 
state legislature for any reason except treason or murder while the 
legislature of that state is debating or voting on legislation relating 
to redistricting or election practices or legislation relating to the 
right to vote in federal, state, or municipal elections.
  These amendments would have critically strengthened H.R. 4 because 
state legislatures across the country are utilizing every weapon in 
their arsenal to curtail voting rights; and no one should fear arrest 
due to fighting for the Constitutional rights of their constituents.
  This includes my home state of Texas, where earlier this month 
officers of the Texas House of Representatives delivered civil arrest 
warrants, signed by the Texas state Speaker of the House, for more than 
50 absent Democrats in an attempt force a vote on the naked attempt at 
voter suppression known as Texas S.B. 7.
  This is the latest Republican attack on these brave state 
legislators, which began on May 30, where after a night of impassioned 
debate and procedural objections, these Democratic lawmakers in Texas 
took action to block passage of this massive overhaul of the state's 
election laws.
  Since the arrest warrants were issued, it is my understanding that 
mass intimidation of the Texas House Democrats has occurred.
  State officials came to their homes with the purpose of dragging them 
back to eviscerate the voting rights of thousands of Texans.
  These elected Texas Representatives have had to hide away from their 
friends, their families, and their loved ones, all to ensure that 
Texans retain their most sacred of rights.
  They are risking their freedom to ensure every Texan has full access 
to their constitutional right to vote.
  Texas Republicans seek to pass voting regulation laws focused on 
diverse, urban areas, by setting rules for the distribution of polling 
places in only the handful of counties with a population of at least 1 
million--most of which are either under Democratic control or won by 
Democrats in recent national and statewide elections.
  Standing between all of this and the voting rights of thousands of 
Texans are those brave state legislators who currently have a warrant 
out for their arrest.
  No elected representative in this great nation should fear that he or 
she will be locked away for simply standing up for justice and ensuring 
that America's citizens have the right to vote.
  For this reason, I believe that H.R. 4 would have been greatly 
strengthened by the inclusion of my amendments in the Rule.
  I strongly encourage all Members of Congress to support this Rule and 
the underlying bill, because it is the responsibility and sacred duty 
of all members of Congress who revere democracy to preserve, protect, 
and expand the precious right to vote of all Americans by passing H.R. 
4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
  Madam Speaker, I am here today to remind the nation that the need to 
pass this legislation is urgent because the right to vote--that 
``powerful instrument that can break down the walls of injustice''--
faces grave threats.
  The threat stems from the decision issued in June 2013 by the Supreme 
Court in Shelby County v Holder, 570 U.S. 193 (2013), which invalidated 
Section 4(b) of the VRA, and paralyzed the application of the VRA's 
Section 5 preclearance requirements.
  Not to be content with the monument to disgrace that is the Shelby 
County decision, the activist right-wing conservative majority on the 
Roberts Court, on July 1, 2021, issued its evil twin, the decision in 
Brnovich v. DNC, 594 U.S. __, No. 19-1257 and 19-1258 (July 1, 2021), 
which engrafts on Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act onerous burdens 
that Congress never intended and explicitly legislated against.
  Madam Speaker, were it not for the 24th Amendment, I venture to say 
that this conservative majority on the Court would subject poll taxes 
and literacy tests to the review standard enunciated in Brnovich v. 
DNC.
  According to the Supreme Court majority, the reason for striking down 
Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act was that ``times change.''
  Now, the Court was right; times have changed.
  But what the Court did not fully appreciate is that the positive 
changes it cited are due almost entirely to the existence and vigorous 
enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.
  And that is why the Voting Rights Act is still needed and that is why 
we must pass H.R. 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
  Let me put it this way: in the same way that the vaccine invented by 
Dr. Jonas Salk in 1953 eradicated the crippling effects but did not 
eliminate the cause of polio, the Voting Rights Act succeeded in 
stymieing the practices that resulted in the wholesale 
disenfranchisement of African Americans and language minorities but did 
not eliminate them entirely.
  The Voting Rights Act is needed as much today to prevent another 
epidemic of voting disenfranchisement as Dr. Salk's vaccine is still 
needed to prevent another polio epidemic.
  As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg stated in Shelby County v. Holder, 
``[t]hrowing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to 
work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella 
in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.''
  For millions of Americans, the right to vote protected by the Voting 
Rights Act of 1965 is a sacred treasure, earned by the sweat and toil 
and tears and blood of ordinary Americans who showed the world it was 
possible to accomplish extraordinary things.
  I strongly encourage all Members of Congress to support this bill, 
because it is the responsibility and sacred duty of all members of 
Congress who revere democracy to preserve, protect, and expand the 
precious right to vote of all Americans by passing H.R. 4, the John 
Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
  Mrs. FISCHBACH. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman 
from Louisiana (Mr. Scalise), the minority whip.
  Mr. SCALISE. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Minnesota 
for yielding.

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  Madam Speaker, I rise to object to this whole process. What we are 
doing here today, this is an example of the misplaced priorities of 
this Democrat majority.
  Let's start with the bill at hand, this package of bills that 
includes a budget that I am sure very few people in this Chamber have 
read, that authorizes the taxing and spending of trillions more 
dollars.
  Now, what does that mean? They call it the for the children act. It 
really should be called the mountains of debt for the children act 
because that is what it does. If you look at inflation today, every 
family in America is facing inflation. They are paying over 40 percent 
more for gasoline, for cars, for things that they buy at the grocery 
store.
  Families know that if you add trillions more in debt, trillions more 
in spending, trillions more in taxes, inflation will only go up and you 
know who is going to pay for it. It is not anybody in this Chamber, 
Madam Speaker. Under their own budget--it says it--it is the children. 
That is who is going to pay for it.
  Right here. Just go to page 7 where it authorizes up to $45 trillion 
in debt--we are at about $28.6 trillion right now--$45 trillion in debt 
with taxes and spending through the roof that will hit every family in 
America, Madam Speaker.
  Then let's get back to those priorities. Now, you would think with 
the backdrop of everything that we have been dealing with in 
Afghanistan, as we here in this Chamber, with so many of our veterans 
who served in Afghanistan honorably, have been calling on the President 
to ensure and commit that he will get all Americans out. Yet, what is 
our President doing? I will tell you what he has been doing. He has 
been working the phones pressuring Members of Congress this week.
  I wish, Madam Speaker, I could say he was pressuring Members of 
Congress to help get Americans out. That is not what he was doing. He 
was working the phones this week pressuring Members of Congress to vote 
for this trillions of dollars in spending and tax package. That has 
been President Biden's priority.
  He just said today he is going to bow to the Taliban's deadline of 
August 31 even if we don't get all Americans out. President Biden 
should be the President of the United States; not bowing to terrorists; 
not bowing to anybody except committing that he will get all Americans 
out instead of living by some artificial deadline.
  Every ounce of his energy ought to be focused between now and next 
Tuesday, the date he set and the date the Taliban set, every minute he 
ought to be spending between now and next Tuesday should be focused on 
getting all Americans out. But if he fails to do it, people will look 
back and say: What was he doing instead? What were the President of the 
United States' priorities? He was pressuring Members of Congress to 
vote for this garbage: trillions of dollars in debt and spending, 
rather than focus on getting Americans out of harm's way that he left 
behind.
  It is a national and international disgrace. Our priorities ought to 
be with the American people. That is what we will fight for. That is 
why we oppose this whole process.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from 
engaging in personalities toward the President.
  Mr. NEGUSE. Madam Speaker, while I would relish the opportunity to 
respond to the points made by my colleague, we have a lot of enthusiasm 
on our side to speak in support of this rule.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Connecticut 
(Ms. DeLauro), the distinguished chairwoman of the Committee on 
Appropriations, who has led on the child tax cut for decades.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, this rule allows us to move forward on 
rebuilding our Nation's crumbling infrastructure, restoring the power 
of the Voting Rights Act, and an historic budget resolution that 
advances our priorities by making critical investments to expand our 
Nation's social safety net to continue to build back better.
  For far too long, the deck has been stacked for the wealthy and the 
well-connected, while middle-class hardworking families and the 
vulnerable have been left behind.
  After decades of disinvestment, we have an opportunity today to make 
history, to deliver on a promise we made to the American people: to 
build a stronger, fairer future for our kids; a once-in-a-lifetime 
moment, creating more jobs, cutting middle-class taxes, while simply 
asking the biggest corporations and the top 1 percent to pay their fair 
share of taxes.
  What are the transformative issues in this bill: expanding to improve 
the child tax credit already acclaimed to cut child poverty and hunger 
with only one payment; guaranteeing affordable high-quality childcare; 
tackling the long-term healthcare crisis; access to long-term services 
and supports for aging loved ones and those with disabilities; 
universal pre-K; 2 years of tuition-free community college; maximizing 
the Pell grant award; launching the first-of-its-kind paid family and 
medical leave benefits; historic investments ranking alongside the New 
Deal and the Great Society, standing the test of time and strengthening 
our society.
  President Roosevelt didn't just rebuild America. He created Social 
Security, and when it came to infrastructure and human needs, he did 
both. So to meet today's moment, we must and we can do both. We have 
that opportunity not to throw money at a problem but to build the 
architecture for the future.
  Today, we must advance this rule and the budget resolution, 
demonstrating our commitment to our values, making a difference in the 
lives of so many Americans. This is a moral imperative. And to 
paraphrase President Franklin Roosevelt: This is our rendezvous with 
destiny, a watershed moment. Don't let the moment pass. It will not 
come back again. Let's seize it with action, with hope and unity of 
purpose for a better, stronger America.

                              {time}  1430

  Mrs. FISCHBACH. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman 
from California (Mrs. Kim).
  Mrs. KIM of CALIFORNIA. Madam Speaker, I would like to thank the 
gentlewoman from Minnesota for yielding.
  Madam Speaker, I rise today in opposition to the rule that is being 
debated as we consider the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation.
  I rise today in support of workers, families, and businesses in 
communities I represent in California's 39th Congressional District.
  Now is the time for Congress to show it can work together for the 
American people.
  As our economy recovers during the COVID-19 pandemic and Americans 
across the country pay more everywhere from the grocery store to the 
gas pump, Democrats are once again bypassing bipartisanship and moving 
forward with a partisan $3.5 trillion budget.
  According to Tax Foundation, this budget reconciliation would also 
raise taxes for people I represent in California's 39th District by an 
average of over $600. My constituents have been burdened enough by some 
of the highest State taxes in the country.
  Now, our Nation is scrambling to keep promises we made in Afghanistan 
to Americans and Afghan partners. The last thing we need is trillions 
more in spending on unrelated priorities and more taxes. This makes no 
sense.
  The majority's budget will increase prices, raise taxes, and take 
even more money out of taxpayers' pockets. I urge my colleagues to vote 
``no'' on this reconciliation.
  Mr. NEGUSE. Madam Speaker, my colleague from California is certainly 
right about one thing, the Build Back Better plan would raise taxes on 
billionaires. The tax cuts that ultimately were approved by my 
colleagues on the other side of the aisle several years ago for the 
richest Americans in our country, we do not pursue that in our bill. 
Instead, we pursue tax cuts for working families, for middle-class 
Americans.
  Madam Speaker, I would like to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman 
from California (Ms. Waters), the distinguished chairwoman of the 
Committee on Financial Services, whose leadership has kept millions of 
Americans in their homes over the course of the last year.
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pass the House's budget resolution. The budget resolution will make 
historic investments in housing in this country.
  We are in the middle of a housing crisis. As chairwoman of the 
Financial Services Committee, it is not lost on me that more than 
580,000 people experience homelessness on any given night, while 
millions of families are, at this moment, paying the bulk of their 
income toward rent.
  The bottom line is that housing is infrastructure. This is why I 
introduced groundbreaking legislation, the Housing Is Infrastructure 
Act of 2021, to provide more than $600 billion to address our country's 
affordable housing crisis, increase first-generation homeownership, and 
end homelessness.
  While the budget resolution only allocates $339 billion to the 
Financial Services Committee, this funding is still historic and will 
transform the lives of millions of families. However, we must first 
pass the budget resolution so that we can then pass the President's 
Build Back Better agenda, including this historic funding for housing 
programs.
  This rule also brings us one step closer to the critical House 
passage of H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
  This President is going to bring all of the Americans who want to 
come home, home.
  Mrs. FISCHBACH. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman 
from Florida (Mr. Waltz).
  Mr. WALTZ. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of Representative 
Gallagher's bill, to get us some simple facts: How many Americans are 
stranded and are we going to get them home.
  Yes, these issues are important. We should debate these issues. 
Infrastructure, healthcare, all of these issues are critical to our 
country.
  But the number one job of the Federal Government is to keep Americans 
safe. Today, America is less safe. Americans are stranded behind enemy 
lines, and they are not all going to get out by August 31.
  Colleagues, what happens in Afghanistan does not stay in Afghanistan. 
It will follow us home. Terrorism is a cancer that once again will 
threaten the United States.
  I want everyone to see this picture and remember it: Osama bin 
Laden--by the way, then-Vice President Biden opposed the raid to bring 
this man to justice. His deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri--know that name--who 
is now leading al-Qaida, now has a terrorism playground from which to 
plot and plan attacks on the United States once again.
  The intelligence has been clear. Al-Qaida 3.0 will come roaring back. 
The Taliban equals al-Qaida. As we head into the 20th anniversary of 9/
11, we once again are going to face the prospect of more Pulse 
nightclubs, San Bernardinos, and, God forbid, another 9/11.
  What has me so upset, so flaming mad, as a veteran, as a Green Beret 
that has had to fight this fight, is future soldiers are now going to 
have to go back and deal with this again, but now with no bases, no 
local allies, and a Taliban that is armed to the teeth with our own 
equipment. That is unconscionable. It is unacceptable. If the White 
House won't lead, then Congress will.
  Mr. NEGUSE. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Alabama (Ms. Sewell).
  Ms. SEWELL. Madam Speaker, I rise today in full support of H.R. 4, 
the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
  Madam Speaker, I have the great privilege of not only representing 
Birmingham, Montgomery, and my hometown of Selma, Alabama, but growing 
up, literally, at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I had an 
opportunity time and time again to see John Lewis in action.
  John would come to my home church, Brown Chapel AME Church, to remind 
us all that what happened on that bridge 56 years ago was that 
Americans, ordinary Americans, dared to stand up to this country and to 
make sure that it lived up to its ideals of justice and equality for 
all.

  I am proud to say that I get to walk in the footsteps of John Lewis, 
but I am more proud of the fact that so many of us in this Chamber 
walked with him.
  The best way that we can live up to the legacy of John Lewis is to 
remember that he fought for every American to have the equal right to 
vote, equal access to the ballot box.
  I get that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is reserved for the most 
egregious State actors. But what it says is that Federal oversight is 
needed when States go amok.
  Since the Shelby v. Holder decision, I have introduced, in four 
successive Congresses, the Voting Rights Advancement Act, and we 
renamed it the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
  We must live up to John's ideals of equality and justice for all in 
voting rights. What we have seen in States like Georgia and Texas, and 
around this country, has been State legislatures making it harder for 
people to vote.
  I just want to say that we must get into good trouble, necessary 
trouble. John reminded us that we must be courageous in the face of 
adversity and in the face of inequity. I ask for you to please vote for 
H.R. 4 and vote for the rule that would get it to the floor.
  Mrs. FISCHBACH. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman 
from Alabama (Mr. Rogers), the ranking member of the Armed Services 
Committee.
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to 
this rule.
  For 4 months, Republicans have demanded to know the President's plan 
to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies and conduct counterterrorism 
operations in Afghanistan. For 4 months, they have told us: ``We are 
working on it.''
  Well, now it is clear they never had a plan. The President's abject 
failure to plan is endangering the lives of thousands of American 
civilians and our allies in Afghanistan.
  Reports have been rolling in for over a week of Americans being 
assaulted or having to hide from Taliban thugs while they wait for a 
rescue. Afghan allies are being brutalized and killed by these 
terrorists as they desperately try to get inside the gates of the Kabul 
airport.
  And that is just those lucky enough to be in Kabul. Thousands of 
Americans and Afghan allies are still stranded hundreds of miles away 
from Kabul with little hope of rescue.
  Now comes an ultimatum from the terrorists that if our forces don't 
withdraw by next Tuesday, they will start shooting.
  What is the response from the majority? Well, Speaker Pelosi brought 
us back to Washington, but not to deal with this dire situation in 
Afghanistan. No, we are here today to vote on a partisan, $4 trillion 
giveaway to the radical left; a bill that doesn't include a single 
dollar to rescue Americans or our allies from Afghanistan or even a 
single penny on national security.
  I have to wonder what the majority is thinking. Instead of this 
partisan exercise, I urge the majority to work with us to hold the 
President accountable and save Americans and allies still in 
Afghanistan.
  Mr. NEGUSE. Madam Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from 
Ohio (Mr. Ryan).
  Mr. RYAN. Madam Speaker, we see our Republican friends are very 
upset. They said: This is embarrassing. What are we doing? What have we 
done?
  What you are mad about is that we are delivering for the American 
people. We saved pensions; we cut taxes for working-class people; we 
invested in the communities, and we invested in the schools. Now, 
universal preschool; everyone can go to community college; vision, 
dental, hearing for Medicare recipients; and paid family leave.
  If you think for one second I am going to apologize for what we are 
doing, you are wrong.
  Once again, we should have done this 30 or 40 years ago. And, 
obviously, once again, the Republican Party is MIA.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Sewell). Members are reminded to address 
their remarks to the Chair.
  Mrs. FISCHBACH. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Ellzey).
  Mr. ELLZEY. Madam Speaker, I rise to urge defeat of the previous 
question so that we can immediately consider H.R. 5071.
  Operations Enduring Freedom and Freedom's Sentinel are coming to a 
conclusion in a way that no American should be willing to tolerate nor 
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years ago. There have been 2,443 U.S. military killed in action, 3,800 
contractor and DOD civilians killed in action, 1,144 allied troops 
killed in action, and over 30,000 veteran suicides since 
9/11; the victims of their internal and unseen wounds.
  In Texas District 6, we lost Staff Sergeant Jeremy S. on April 6, 
2011, and Private First Class Joel R. on April 16, 2011. Brothers in 
arms, killed 10 days apart.
  In Texas, we have lost 193 of our sons and daughters, all of whom, 
like Luke Bushatz would say: ``Not one ounce of sweat or blood in the 
defense of others is a waste.'' But last week, this administration 
handed over 600,000 weapons, 75,000 vehicles, and 200 aircraft to the 
enemy.
  What we have now is September 10, 2001, with a well-armed enemy.
  For those who have stood the watch and those who have died standing 
that watch, duty, honor, and country is not an academic study; it is a 
way of life and sometimes death.
  So I call on our Commander in Chief, Madam Speaker, to take those 
words as seriously as we do and to do his duty to honor our 
servicemembers and their families by informing this body, and the 
Americans we represent, every day on what is happening on the ground in 
Afghanistan and what this administration is doing to bring American 
citizens, and the Afghans who helped us, to safety.
  Infrastructure needs did not leave 10,000 to 15,000 Americans 
stranded. Climate change did not cause this catastrophe. Combat is a 
not a PowerPoint briefing. American lives are at stake. Get our 
countrymen out of Afghanistan. The mission is only complete when they 
are out, not one minute before.
  Mr. NEGUSE. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

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  Mrs. FISCHBACH. Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Arrington).
  Mr. ARRINGTON. Madam Speaker, with respect to the rule and bills, if 
someone were to devise a plan to intentionally destroy the great State 
of Texas, they would do the following:
  They would sabotage their sovereignty by opening its borders and 
granting amnesty and citizenship.
  They would steal the right to safeguard the integrity of their 
elections.
  They would strip the freedoms of both employees and employers by 
forcing unionization of the workforce.
  They would destroy its agriculture and energy economy by abusing 
their regulatory authority and weaponizing the tax code in the name of 
a politically manufactured climate crisis.
  They would crush the most prosperous economy in the Nation under the 
weight of the highest tax rates in the world.
  They would quench the spirit of self-reliance.
  They would diminish the dignity of work by trapping their citizens in 
an endless cycle of government dependence and poverty.
  And they would permanently plunder the freedom and independence of 
the Lone Star State by saddling future generations with a debt they 
could never repay.
  While this legislation, Madam Speaker, may not have been written with 
the intention of destroying the State of Texas, it is clear that should 
these bills pass, that is exactly what it would do, and not only to my 
great State but to the entire Nation.
  Mr. NEGUSE. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mrs. FISCHBACH. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Arizona (Mr. Schweikert).
  Mr. SCHWEIKERT. Madam Speaker, this is a moment where I am hoping our 
friends on the left will keep a certain promise that many of you have 
made, Madam Speaker, because we have a long list of the promises from 
the President to leadership and to others promising that this spending 
will be 100 percent paid for.
  You already know we are going to have probably a continuing 
resolution with the omnibus. There is a trillion dollars of structural 
debt there. Okay. And the $1.2 trillion so-called bipartisan--
bipartisan in the Senate.
  Okay, when we actually do the honest math, it is not a quarter 
trillion of borrowing; it is about $500 billion of borrowing because a 
bunch of the pay-fors are fake.
  When we start looking at what Senate Finance and others--where are 
you getting the other $1.7 trillion on your $3.5 trillion of spending?
  Look, I am just asking you to keep a promise because when you add up 
all the new revenues, all the new receipts, all the new tax hikes, the 
corporate tax hikes that unemployed some million Americans in 24 
months, the capital gains tax that loses money, where are you going to 
get all this cash that you have promised will be 100 percent paid for?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair again reminds Members to address 
their remarks to the Chair.
  Mr. NEGUSE. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the distinguished majority leader.
  Mr. HOYER. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of this rule. This rule 
allows the Congress of the United States to do the people's business in 
two critical areas--actually, three.
  Number one, it provides for us to receive from the Senate the budget 
and to do what the Republicans did on their tax bill: act on a budget 
reconciliation bill.
  You did that. You, of course, didn't pay for it. We are going to pay 
for this.
  Secondly, this rule allows us to proceed on a piece of legislation 
which seeks to make sure that the Voting Rights Act, protecting the 
most important asset a citizen has, and that is their right to vote or, 
as our Speaker has said, the voice of those not empowered. That is not 
exactly what it was, Madam Speaker.
  Two of these items are critical, and when we talk about saving lives, 
the reconciliation bill and the budget, the Build Back Better Act is 
going to save lives and enrich the quality of lives of our people.
  Thirdly, this rule will allow us to proceed to adopt the bipartisan--
69 Senators voting for it--infrastructure bill. It is not a perfect 
bill. It is not our bill, and it is limited in some respects in terms 
of its addressing one of our most important challenges and enemies, and 
that is climate change. It nevertheless is a very, very substantial 
investment in America, its growth, people, and jobs.
  Vote for this rule. It is a good bill for the people.
  Mrs. FISCHBACH. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume to close.
  Madam Speaker, Democrats continue to ram through controversial 
policies and reckless spending with a complete disregard for the rules 
and with no consideration of what those decisions will mean for future 
generations and what they have to pay back.
  President Biden took office saying he would be President for 
everybody, but he certainly isn't acting like that. The legislation 
before us today that is included in this rule would leave rural 
communities behind, concentrate even more power at the Federal level, 
and tax and spend recklessly.
  The President is too busy pressuring Members of his own party to 
support $5 trillion in spending to even address the crisis in 
Afghanistan.
  Madam Speaker, I oppose the rule and the underlying bills, and I ask 
Members to do the same. I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. NEGUSE. Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time to 
close.
  We have heard a lot about partisanship during the course of today's 
debate.
  What are the three bills that we are considering within the rule 
today?
  The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, a reauthorization of 
the Voting Rights Act. VRA has been reauthorized by Republicans and 
Democrats in the United States Congress for decades. The last time it 
was signed by George W. Bush, a Republican.
  A bipartisan infrastructure deal that earned the votes of 69 
Senators, 19 Republicans, including Mitch McConnell, but apparently, 
that proposal is too radical for the House Republican Conference.
  And a Build Back Better plan that would invest in American families, 
that would lower costs, that would cut taxes for working families.
  Americans are worth investing in. Our families, our students, our 
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are worth investing in. And we have a chance to do that today.
  The late Congressman John Lewis once said that every generation 
leaves behind a legacy. What that legacy will be is determined by the 
people of that generation. Madam Speaker, I would say that our legacy 
must be one of progress, of courage, and of action.
  I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on this rule and on the previous 
question.
  The material previously referred to by Mrs. Fischbach is as follows:

                   Amendment to House Resolution 601

       At the end of the resolution, add the following:
       Sec. 7. Immediately upon adoption of this resolution, the 
     House shall proceed to the consideration in the House of the 
     bill (H.R. 5071) to direct the Secretary of Defense to submit 
     to Congress daily reports on the evacuation of citizens and 
     permanent residents of the United States from Afghanistan, 
     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 Armed 
     Services; and (2) one motion to recommit.
       Sec. 8. Clause 1(c) of rule XIX shall not apply to the 
     consideration of H.R. 5071.
  Mr. NEGUSE. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I 
move the previous question on the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on ordering the previous 
question.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mrs. FISCHBACH. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 
8, the yeas and nays are ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 220, 
nays 212, not voting 0, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 257]

                               YEAS--220

     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
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis, Danny K.
     Dean
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Delgado
     Demings
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Frankel, Lois
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Golden
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     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
     Pelosi
     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--212

     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice (OK)
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brady
     Brooks
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budd
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cawthorn
     Chabot
     Cheney
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Comer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia (CA)
     Gibbs
     Gimenez
     Gohmert
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez (OH)
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hagedorn
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hartzler
     Hern
     Herrell
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Hollingsworth
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Issa
     Jackson
     Jacobs (NY)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Katko
     Keller
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kim (CA)
     Kinzinger
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     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 (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Mullin
     Murphy (NC)
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunes
     Obernolte
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (SC)
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     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

                              {time}  1533

  Messrs. ROUZER, BRADY, and RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois changed their 
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

     Aderholt (Moolenaar)
     Amodei (Balderson)
     Barragan (Raskin)
     Blumenauer (Bonamici)
     Bowman (Omar)
     Brownley (Clark (MA))
     Calvert (Garcia (CA))
     Cardenas (Correa)
     Curtis (Moore (UT))
     Davids (KS) (Kim (NJ))
     DeFazio (Brown)
     DeGette (Blunt Rochester)
     DeSaulnier (Thompson (CA))
     Deutch (Rice (NY))
     Diaz-Balart (Cammack)
     Duncan (Babin)
     Emmer (Cammack)
     Escobar (Garcia (TX))
     Fleischmann (Bilirakis)
     Frankel, Lois (Clark (MA))
     Garbarino (Miller-Meeks)
     Garamendi (Sherman)
     Gibbs (Smucker)
     Gomez (Raskin)
     Granger (Cole)
     Grijalva (Stanton)
     Hagedorn (Meuser)
     Harshbarger (Kustoff)
     Herrera Beutler (Simpson)
     Horsford (Kilmer)
     Jayapal (Raskin)
     Johnson (TX) (Jeffries)
     Katko (Malliotakis)
     Kelly (IL) (Clarke (NY))
     Khanna (Lee (CA))
     Kind (Connolly)
     Kirkpatrick (Stanton)
     Lawson (FL) (Evans)
     Luetkemeyer (Long)
     Maloney, Carolyn B. (Clarke (NY))
     McEachin (Wexton)
     McHenry (Budd)
     McNerney (Huffman)
     Meijer (Moore (UT))
     Meng (Jeffries)
     Moore (AL) (Brooks)
     Moulton (McGovern)
     Mullin (Lucas)
     Napolitano (Correa)
     Nehls (Jackson)
     Newman (Casten)
     Nunes (Garcia (CA))
     Payne (Pallone)
     Pingree (Kuster)
     Pocan (Raskin)
     Porter (Wexton)
     Pressley (Omar)
     Reed (Arrington)
     Reschenthaler (Meuser)
     Rodgers (WA) (Joyce (PA))
     Roybal-Allard (Aguilar)
     Ruiz (Correa)
     Rush (Underwood)
     Salazar (Cammack)
     Sanchez (Aguilar)
     Scott, David (Cartwright)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Steel (Obernolte)
     Stefanik (Meuser)
     Steube (Cammack)
     Stevens (Dingell)
     Stewart (Owens)
     Strickland (Larsen (WA))
     Thompson (PA) (Meuser)
     Timmons (Cammack)
     Titus (Connolly)
     Tonko (Pallone)
     Torres (CA) (Correa)
     Trone (Connolly)
     Vargas (Correa)
     Velazquez (Clarke (NY))
     Wagner (Long)
     Walorski (Baird)
     Watson Coleman (Pallone)
     Welch (McGovern)
     Wilson (FL) (Hayes)
     Young (Malliotakis)
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mrs. FISCHBACH. 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 220, 
nays 212, not voting 0, as follows:

[[Page H4372]]

  


                             [Roll No. 258]

                               YEAS--220

     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
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis, Danny K.
     Dean
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Delgado
     Demings
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Frankel, Lois
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Golden
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     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
     Pelosi
     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--212

     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice (OK)
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brady
     Brooks
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budd
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cawthorn
     Chabot
     Cheney
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Comer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia (CA)
     Gibbs
     Gimenez
     Gohmert
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez (OH)
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hagedorn
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hartzler
     Hern
     Herrell
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Hollingsworth
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Issa
     Jackson
     Jacobs (NY)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Katko
     Keller
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kim (CA)
     Kinzinger
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     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 (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Mullin
     Murphy (NC)
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunes
     Obernolte
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (SC)
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     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

                              {time}  1608

  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

     Aderholt (Moolenaar)
     Amodei (Balderson)
     Barragan (Raskin)
     Blumenauer (Bonamici)
     Bowman (Omar)
     Brownley (Clark (MA))
     Buchanan (Dunn)
     Calvert (Garcia (CA))
     Cardenas (Correa)
     Curtis (Moore (UT))
     Davids (KS) (Kim (NJ))
     DeFazio (Brown)
     DeGette (Blunt Rochester)
     DeSaulnier (Thompson (CA))
     Deutch (Rice (NY))
     Diaz-Balart (Cammack)
     Duncan (Babin)
     Emmer (Cammack)
     Escobar (Garcia (TX))
     Fleischmann (Bilirakis)
     Frankel, Lois (Clark (MA))
     Garbarino (Miller-Meeks)
     Garamendi (Sherman)
     Gibbs (Smucker)
     Gomez (Raskin)
     Granger (Cole)
     Grijalva (Stanton)
     Hagedorn (Meuser)
     Harshbarger (Kustoff)
     Herrera Beutler (Simpson)
     Horsford (Kilmer)
     Jayapal (Raskin)
     Johnson (TX) (Jeffries)
     Katko (Malliotakis)
     Kelly (IL) (Clarke (NY))
     Khanna (Lee (CA))
     Kind (Connolly)
     Kirkpatrick (Stanton)
     Lawson (FL) (Evans)
     Luetkemeyer (Long)
     Maloney, Carolyn B. (Clarke (NY))
     McEachin (Wexton)
     McHenry (Budd)
     McNerney (Huffman)
     Meijer (Moore (UT))
     Meng (Jeffries)
     Moore (AL) (Brooks)
     Moulton (McGovern)
     Mullin (Lucas)
     Napolitano (Correa)
     Nehls (Jackson)
     Newman (Casten)
     Nunes (Garcia (CA))
     Payne (Pallone)
     Pingree (Kuster)
     Pocan (Raskin)
     Porter (Wexton)
     Pressley (Omar)
     Reed (Arrington)
     Reschenthaler (Meuser)
     Rodgers (WA) (Joyce (PA))
     Roybal-Allard (Aguilar)
     Ruiz (Correa)
     Rush (Underwood)
     Salazar (Cammack)
     Sanchez (Aguilar)
     Scott, David (Cartwright)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Steel (Obernolte)
     Stefanik (Meuser)
     Steube (Cammack)
     Stevens (Dingell)
     Stewart (Owens)
     Strickland (Larsen (WA))
     Thompson (PA) (Meuser)
     Timmons (Cammack)
     Titus (Connolly)
     Tonko (Pallone)
     Torres (CA) (Correa)
     Trone (Connolly)
     Vargas (Correa)
     Velazquez (Clarke (NY))
     Wagner (Long)
     Walorski (Baird)
     Watson Coleman (Pallone)
     Welch (McGovern)
     Wilson (FL) (Hayes)
     Young (Malliotakis)

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