[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 170 (Wednesday, September 29, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H5518-H5525]
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PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF S. 1301, PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR 
                             AMERICANS ACT

  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, 
I call up House Resolution 688 and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 688

       Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be 
     in order to consider in the House bill (S. 1301) to provide 
     for the publication by the Secretary of Health and Human 
     Services of physical activity recommendations for Americans. 
     All points of order against consideration of the bill are 
     waived. An amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting 
     of the text of Rules Committee Print 117-16 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 Ways and Means or their respective 
     designees; and (2) one motion to commit.

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


                             General Leave

  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
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 Massachusetts?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, today the Rules Committee met and 
reported a rule, House Resolution 688, providing for consideration of 
S. 1301 under a closed rule. The rule self-executes an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 
117-16, temporarily extending the public debt limit.
  The rule provides one hour of debate, equally divided and controlled 
by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Ways and 
Means or their respective designees. Finally, the rule provides one 
motion to commit.
  Madam Speaker, having just sat through a Rules Committee meeting, it 
is a pleasant surprise that the Republicans have now rediscovered the 
issue of the debt. Wow.
  Where the hell were you for the past 4 years?
  Where was your concern when you all passed the tax cut bill for the 
wealthy and big corporations that CBO projected would add $1.9 trillion 
to the deficit? That is trillion with a T. And that is even after 
taking into account any effects from economic growth.
  Give me a break.
  Madam Speaker, the question before us today is this: Will the United 
States of America pay its bills?
  I wish that were hyperbole.
  We always have. The United States has never defaulted. Never, ever 
defaulted, not once.
  But the actions of my friends on the other side have made the world 
seriously wonder about the full faith and credit of this Nation.
  Raising the debt ceiling has traditionally been something that both 
parties have agreed to, no matter who controlled Congress or who sat in 
the White House.
  I have been in Congress more than 20 years now. I voted to raise the 
debt ceiling when I was in the majority, and I voted to raise the debt 
ceiling when I was in the minority. I voted to raise it under 
Democratic Presidents and Republican Presidents, and I cast those votes 
even when I vehemently disagreed with our spending decisions.
  I opposed the Republican tax cut for the wealthy and large 
corporations that passed under the last administration. I still think 
it is awful, awful, awful policy; but I still, nevertheless, voted to 
raise the debt ceiling under the prior administration because 
regardless whether we win or lose on policy here, defaulting on our 
debt would lead to economic catastrophe on a global scale.

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  Unemployment would rise; the stock market would crater; interest 
rates would skyrocket; imports would become more expensive; and 
inflation would increase.
  We are not talking about a scenario that only impacts wealthy 
investors or large corporations. Every single American would be hurt, 
everyone with a pension or a retirement account, everyone with a small 
business, everyone with a car or home loan, and everyone who walks into 
a store, whether they are buying groceries or the latest

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smartphone. Our country would be thrown into a recession virtually 
overnight.
  This is the type of disaster that Republicans are flirting with here, 
Madam Speaker. They are not refusing to raise the debt ceiling to try 
to prevent President Biden's agenda in the future. This isn't about the 
bipartisan transportation bill or reconciliation bill, which we have 
yet to consider, because raising the debt ceiling only pays for the 
prior debts that we have already racked up. We are talking about the 
spending Republicans voted for under President Trump.
  They ballooned the deficit, and now they are trying to wash their 
hands of the consequences. It is like going to a restaurant, eating a 
meal, and refusing to pay the tab when the waiter brings the bill. Only 
here, they risk bringing down the entire global economy.
  All because of what? They are upset that their party doesn't control 
Congress. Give me a break. We are talking about people's livelihoods 
here.
  Earlier this week, Senate Republicans filibustered a continuing 
resolution that would have lifted the debt ceiling. Every day 
Republicans waste playing political games brings us one day closer to a 
default, one day closer to catastrophe.
  I have heard the Senate minority leader and others suggest that 
reconciliation is some kind of panacea that will allow us to raise the 
debt ceiling easily and in a partisan way. Well, let me remind them 
that there are challenges with that, and it will take time, time that 
we do not have.
  Just yesterday, the Treasury Secretary said that we are likely to hit 
the debt limit on October 18, just days from now.
  We have had a lot of fights on this floor. Congress has been a little 
dysfunctional from time to time. But let me repeat, the United States 
of America has never defaulted in its more than 200-year history. Not 
once.
  Republicans are playing with fire here. We need cooler heads to 
prevail. The underlying bill is that chance. It is an opportunity to 
raise the debt ceiling in a clean way, the kind of approach that would 
have passed overwhelmingly on suspension a few years ago.
  We need to get this done, Madam Speaker. We don't have a moment to 
spare. Economists estimate that defaulting on our debts even for just a 
few hours could cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars over the 
next decade.
  After all that we have done to bring our Nation through the COVID 
pandemic, that is a hit that we can't afford, Madam Speaker.
  So, to my friends on the other side, I get it. You are not going to 
vote for this even though 97 percent of what is necessitating us to 
raise the debt ceiling was accumulated before President Biden even took 
office. Much of it was racked up under President Trump on your watch 
when you controlled the Congress.
  Still, you are not going to vote to do the responsible thing here. 
That is crystal clear. But please get out of the way and tell all your 
friends in the Senate to get out of the way, too.
  Let us pass this. Let us do the responsible thing.
  We will do it with a Democratic majority in the House and the Senate. 
We are good at cleaning up your mess.
  Let's pass this rule and the underlying legislation. Let's step back 
from the brink. Let's prevent an avoidable economic meltdown. And let's 
do what America has always done: pay its bills.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts 
(Mr. McGovern), my very good friend, the distinguished chairman of the 
Rules Committee, for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield 
myself such time as I may consume.
  Madam Speaker, today's rule covers a standalone bill that suspends 
the national debt limit through the end of 2022.
  Today's item does not come out of a vacuum. Just last week, the 
Democratic majority in the House passed a continuing resolution to fund 
the government through early December. Unfortunately, that bill also 
included this same suspension of the debt ceiling through 2022. The 
inclusion of this item meant that not a single Republican in the House 
supported last week's bill, and not a single Republican in the Senate 
supported it either.
  But today, not content with having run headlong into a brick wall 
once, the majority is now seeking to do the same thing again. As 
baseball player and philosopher Yogi Berra once said, today is truly 
deja vu all over again.
  Madam Speaker, I don't know how much more clear Republicans can be on 
this topic. So long as the Democratic majority continues to insist on 
spending money hand over fist, Republicans will refuse to help them 
lift the debt ceiling.
  This year alone, the majority has rammed through one partisan 
spending bill through reconciliation already. That bill spent $1.9 
trillion, allegedly for COVID relief, but really about a laundry list 
of progressive policy priorities. And I remind my friends they were 
offered a compromise of many hundreds of billions of dollars, but that 
wasn't sufficient.
  Today, the majority is neck-deep in negotiations on an even bigger 
partisan reconciliation bill, this one supposedly $3.5 trillion but, 
frankly, likely to run much higher than that. If passed, this one would 
mean Democrats have pushed through $5\1/2\ trillion of spending in 1 
year, which is almost one-and-a-half times the amount of normal Federal 
spending. And that all comes on top of our regular discretionary and 
nondiscretionary spending.

  Madam Speaker, Republicans have been very clear on this for months. 
So long as Democrats keep pushing these bloated spending measures, and 
so long as they continue to ram through partisan policies like those 
found in the Green New Deal, Republicans will not work with them to 
raise the debt limit.
  Since the beginning of this year, Democrats have been pushing their 
policy agenda despite having the bare minimum of a majority in both the 
House and the Senate. The results have been shocking: more Big 
Government socialism, more spending, and higher taxes. They have been 
doing all this on their own, with only Democrats voting for these 
measures.
  To be clear, this is the choice the majority has made. They have 
chosen to govern in a majority-rules fashion. They are pushing through 
bill after bill larded up with huge spending and more and more Big 
Government socialism all on their own. The majority also has the power 
to lift the debt ceiling all on their own, using a process they are 
quite familiar with, reconciliation.
  Since they have chosen to ram the rest of their agenda through on 
their own, they also have the responsibility to lift the debt ceiling 
on their own. If they want to keep spending the people's money like 
this, then they alone must act and take responsibility.
  Madam Speaker, my good friend alluded to the fact that he has 
repeatedly voted for debt ceiling increases in his capacity as a 
Member. I know that to be true, and I respect my friend. I have done 
that myself. I have voted under both Republicans and Democrats. But I 
do want to address this point about the debt limit.
  The point was best summed up by Speaker Pelosi in her Dear Colleague 
letter Sunday night. ``The debt limit is a shared responsibility, and I 
urge Congress to come together . . . on a bipartisan basis, as it has 
in the past.'' Oh, really? I think we should look at the record and 
clear that up.
  The last five times that Congress voted on raising the debt limit 
when Republicans controlled the White House, the Senate, and the House, 
President Biden, who was then in the Senate, didn't vote to raise it a 
single time. Majority Leader Schumer voted to raise it once out of five 
times. The Democratic leadership voted to raise it once out of five 
times.
  So to somehow pretend that both sides have not on occasion used the 
debt ceiling to express their concerns or that everybody has rallied to 
the cause simply does not square with the facts.
  Madam Speaker, I will make a bold prediction. I suspect the debt 
ceiling will at some point get raised, and I suspect it will be before 
we reach a deadline. And I share my friend's point that, indeed, that 
needs to happen.
  However, when you launch a program as expensive and as expansive as 
the Democrats have, and you choose to do it on a partisan line way, 
then don't shirk the responsibility at the end of the day. Don't try to 
shift it to others. I think that is what is happening here.

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  One last point, Madam Speaker. We talk a lot about the Trump debt. I 
remind my friends they were in control the last 2 years of the Trump 
Presidency. I remind my friends that most of the debt was actually 
accumulated in that time. And I do remind my friends it was a 
bipartisan effort. The biggest part of that debt was COVID relief, 
which we agreed on, on both sides of the aisle and both supported, and 
we raised the debt ceiling for it.
  So, when we work together, we can solve these problems. My friends 
have chosen not to work with us, and I think now they are going to have 
to bear the responsibility. I am sure they are up to the task.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Let me say this, and let me preface my remarks by saying I love the 
gentleman from Oklahoma. He is one of my favorite people here in the 
Congress. But I would remind him that when the Republicans passed their 
expensive tax cut for the rich, for the very wealthy, for big 
corporations, they didn't work with us. They just shoved it through. As 
I mentioned earlier, CBO tells us that the addition to our debt is 
close to $2 trillion, and that is after taking into account any 
potential benefits from growth.
  I didn't like that policy. I still don't like that policy. I think 
the rich already get enough, and I think big corporations get too much 
in this country. But nonetheless, my view did not prevail.
  Then, when we had to vote on the debt ceiling, the issue was: Do we 
pay our bills?
  Now, this is a quote from the distinguished Minority Leader Kevin 
McCarthy. Let me read it. He says: ``When the United States makes 
promises, it keeps them, which is why the House voted today to avoid 
the threat of a debt default.''

  That was several years ago, but he is right. When the United States 
makes promises, it keeps them. I didn't think that was a partisan 
issue. I didn't think that that was controversial.
  But, look, here we are in Washington. Everything is a political 
fight. I mean, that is the way this place seems to work nowadays. And I 
get it. I am not even asking Republicans to vote with us to raise the 
debt ceiling anymore. I mean, it is just a hopeless cause. They have 
made a political decision. I get it. So, we are not asking for your 
support. What we are asking for is for you to get out of the way.
  In the Senate, Democrats are prepared to carry the burden and raise 
the debt ceiling to make sure we pay bills, 97 percent of which were 
accumulated before Joe Biden was President. We are still paying for the 
Trump tax cuts.
  We will do it. We will clean up the mess. What we are asking for is 
for you to get out of the way. Yet, we have Senators now threatening to 
use the filibuster to try to derail this, to put one hurdle after 
another after another.
  They said they wanted Democrats to bear the burden. Democrats will do 
it. We always do. We are good at cleaning up messes that are left for 
us by our Republican friends. But get out of the way. Get out of the 
way, and let us do what the American people expect us to do, and that 
is to pay our bills.
  Let me say one other thing. Everybody keeps telling me--and I heard 
this on the Rules Committee, too--the bipartisan infrastructure bill 
and the reconciliation, unless I missed something, we haven't passed 
either one of them yet. I mean, hopefully, we will, but those are 
things we are going to do in the future.
  By the way, on the reconciliation bill, we are doing something that 
my Republican friends refused to do on their tax cut bill, and that is 
we are paying for it. So, we understood the issue of the debt, I guess, 
long before they did. At least we are more consistent than my 
Republican friends are.
  In any event, I would just again say to my friends, we are not even 
asking you to vote for this anymore because that is a hopeless cause at 
this point. We are just asking you to get out of the way so we can get 
this done.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

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  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Madam Speaker, just to quickly respond to my friend, I remind him, 
his leadership didn't vote to raise the debt ceiling. I remind him four 
out of the last five times we had complete control. I remind him that 
the majority leader in the United States, Mr. Schumer, didn't vote for 
it four out of five times. And I remind him that then-Senator Biden 
didn't vote for it once.
  So please, please, let's look at the facts here before we start 
saying how much Democrats have always bellied up to the bar to help us 
out. That is just simply not the case.
  Madam Speaker, if we defeat the previous question, I will offer an 
amendment to the rule to bring up H.R. 1897 for immediate 
consideration. This bill is simple: Before the Biden administration can 
release any illegal immigrant from custody, the person must have a 
negative COVID-19 test.
  Madam Speaker, the Biden administration's crisis at the southern 
border is not only a humanitarian and a security crisis, but it is also 
a public health crisis.
  Just last week, Secretary Mayorkas admitted that 12,000 migrants in 
Del Rio, Texas, who were released by the Biden administration, were not 
tested for COVID-19 and were not subject to any vaccination or testing 
mandates. This stands in stark contrast with the CDC's continuing 
embrace of mask mandates, even for the vaccinated.
  Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to insert the text of my 
amendment in the Record, along with the extraneous material immediately 
prior to the vote on the previous question.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Oklahoma?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Iowa (Mrs. Miller-Meeks), my good friend and author of this bill, to 
further explain the amendment.
  Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS. Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for yielding 
me the time on this critical issue. I would say to the gentleman from 
Massachusetts that I am also giving him the opportunity to urge all of 
our colleagues to defeat the previous question so we can take up the 
bill, H.R. 1897, the REACT Act.
  My commonsense legislation would require the Department of Homeland 
Security to test all migrants illegally crossing our border who they 
plan to release into our communities for COVID-19.
  I have traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border twice this year. On both 
trips, I have spoken with the brave men and women serving in Customs 
and Border Protection and also the physicians who are stationed there. 
I saw the crisis they are facing firsthand. I believe that it is our 
Congressional responsibility to address this crisis and support our 
officers.
  Earlier this month, the DHS Office of Inspector General called for 
the Department to improve COVID-19 detection and prevention measures at 
the U.S.-Mexico border amid record-setting migrant arrivals. I even 
inquired of Secretary Mayorkas in a hearing whether or not testing was 
being done, and he alluded and gave the allusion that there was 
testing. However, to quote directly from the report, ``CBP does not 
conduct COVID-19 for migrants who enter CBP custody and is not required 
to do so.''
  The report further stated that: ``We recommended DHS reassess its 
COVID-19 response framework to identify areas for improvement to 
mitigate the spread of COVID-19 while balancing its primary mission of 
securing the border.''
  Currently, everyone legally entering the United States by plane is 
required to display a negative test for COVID-19. Why aren't we 
requiring this of those who come here illegally?
  Numerous public health officials--and I am one--have stated that the 
failure of the U.S. authorities to test adult migrants for the 
coronavirus in jam-packed border processing centers is creating a 
potential for new transmissions, including among migrants who may have 
arrived healthy at America's door.
  The administration has correctly recognized the need to test 
individuals arriving from Afghanistan--and not only are they tested, 
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COVID-19 and other childhood illnesses--but it does not seem to 
understand the importance of doing the same to those crossing our 
border illegally.
  In August, more than 208,000 migrants were encountered along the 
southwest border. This means each day, approximately 6,700 individuals 
were encountered. To put this in perspective, President Obama's 
Secretary of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, stated in his tenure that 
1,000 apprehensions a day was considered a bad day. We are at more than 
six times that now, and on top of that, we continue to face a global 
pandemic.
  I applaud the work being done by the CBP agents and officers working 
around the clock to keep this country safe and healthy. I will also do 
whatever I can to support their work.
  We recently watched a debacle unfold in Del Rio, Texas, where we have 
learned that DHS did not test any of approximately 15,000 migrants who 
camped out under the Del Rio Bridge, many of whom who came from South 
America where they are experiencing the lambda variant. We now know 
that around 12,000 of these individuals were released into the United 
States.
  Right now, the majority is preparing a reckless multi-trillion-dollar 
tax-and-spend package. None of the money in that legislation would go 
to CBP, despite the DHS Inspector General clearly stating that CBP 
officials do not have the necessary resources to conduct testing.
  If the majority already wants to spend trillions upon trillions, why 
not include money to support CBP and testing for COVID-19?
  The current lack of testing at our border is completely unacceptable 
and irresponsible. It puts the health and safety of CBP border 
communities, migrants, and all Americans at risk. The current lack of 
testing is unacceptable.

  Madam Speaker, for this reason, I urge my colleagues on both sides of 
the aisle to support my legislation, the REACT Act, by voting ``no'' on 
the previous question.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, we are talking about whether or not the 
United States of America will pay its bills and not default. I mean, 
that is what this is about. And we could talk about this, but with all 
due respect to the gentlewoman from Iowa, if we want to solve this 
pandemic, it begins at home.
  She represents a State where just maybe a little more than 50 percent 
are vaccinated.
  Go home and tell your people to get vaccinated.
  It is the unvaccinated in this country that are filling up our 
emergency rooms, that are allowing this disease to be able to mutate.
  So there's that old saying, ``physician, heal thyself,'' and to hear 
this from a party that embraces the conspiracy theories that are out 
there that are discouraging people from getting vaccinated. But I would 
encourage the gentlewoman--we can talk about this at another time--but 
in the meantime, Iowa needs to do better, as well as many other States 
in this country.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Doggett).
  Mr. DOGGETT. Madam Speaker, today, I am voting to approve legislation 
to cover massive costs incurred by the self-described ``King of Debt'' 
for wasteful tax expenditures that we, Democrats, strongly opposed.
  While his other claim to be ``a stable genius'' never had an ounce of 
credibility, Trump has indeed earned the undisputed title, ``King of 
Debt.''
  Republicans have a ``dine and dash'' strategy--run up a tab for a 
massive feast for the wealthiest one percent, and then dodge the bill 
to cover it. It is surely a new low.
  More than $2 trillion for a massive tax scam. Multinational 
corporations in America today, thanks to their shenanigans, now pay an 
effective tax rate of less than 8 percent, with 55 corporations paying 
absolutely nothing on $40 billion in combined profits. That is the 
equity that they added to our Tax Code as working families around this 
country paid their fair share.
  Even more public debt was incurred as we rightly responded to help 
Americans recover from Trump's pandemic incompetence. After ignoring 
COVID and sound medical advice from his own scientific advisors, then 
refusing the most basic public health measures, his failed 
mismanagement has been devastating to our country, both in lives and in 
dollars--hundreds of thousands of American lives. They are marked out 
on the Mall today with white flags all around the Washington Monument, 
and they have taken a toll on one American family after another.
  Last year, it was bleach; this year, it is horse dewormer. You could 
not make this stuff up.
  While there is no limit to the duplicity of those that are 
politically enraptured by the Trump personality cult--those with so 
little commitment to American democracy that they refuse to recognize 
the result of the last national election and continue promoting the big 
lie, there is a statutory limit that this Congress faces for our 
national debt.
  Today, it must be raised in recognition of all the damage that Trump 
and his delusional cohorts have wreaked on our country. Putting 
``America First'' or ``Making It Great'' surely includes not driving it 
off a cliff into a self-inflicted, politically-motivated financial 
disaster.
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I am sure my friend from Massachusetts is not aware of this, but Mrs. 
Miller-Meeks has actually run multiple events for vaccines. She has 
vaccinated people herself. She has spent 24 years in public health in 
service to the country.
  So I agree with you about the vaccine. Nobody in this body has done 
more to promote it and administer it than Mrs. Miller-Meeks.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the distinguished gentlewoman 
from Tennessee (Mrs. Harshbarger), my very good friend, to speak more 
about the need to ensure illegal immigrants are tested for COVID-19 
before being released.
  Mrs. HARSHBARGER. Madam Speaker, I rise to oppose the previous 
question so that we could immediately consider H.R. 1897, the REACT 
Act. It is urgent that we pass this critical and commonsense 
legislation offered by my friend and colleague from Iowa, Mrs. Miller-
Meeks.
  We all know that the crisis on our southern border is a national 
security crisis. My colleague, Mrs. Miller-Meeks is a physician and I 
am a pharmacist, so we totally understand. What is less discussed is 
that it is also a public health crisis. Illegal immigrants are coming 
across our southern border in record numbers and they are coming from 
countries with low COVID vaccination rates.

  My colleagues are right. The ERs are full of a lot of unvaccinated 
people, because there are 200,000 or more coming across the southern 
border every month and 209,000 were encountered in August alone. And 
the Biden administration is then transporting these illegal immigrants 
to communities all across our country--in most cases, without the 
Governor's approval, as is in Tennessee.
  Currently, there is no requirement for individuals released by CBP or 
ICE to test negative for COVID before they are released. That means 
that any COVID-positive migrants released by the administration are 
spreading COVID throughout our communities.
  Just this week, the DHS Secretary admitted that there were at least 
12,000 or more Haitian migrants released into our communities who were 
not subject to COVID testing mandates--and I won't even talk about the 
non-SIV Afghans.
  Contrast this with the Biden administration's policy of forcing 
American workers to get tested or vaccinated or its policy of only 
letting fully vaccinated tourists fly into our country. The lack of 
COVID testing at the southern border is reckless and it is 
unacceptable, and it is a detriment to our healthcare system.
  But it doesn't have to be this way. There is a solution to the border 
health crisis.
  My friend from Iowa introduced the REACT Act to protect American 
public health from the border crisis. This critical bill would require 
testing for everyone crossing our border, and it would require a 
negative test before CBP or ICE can release these illegal immigrants 
from custody.
  The ultimate solution is just to close the border, but since that is 
a commonsense solution, it is not going to happen. It is time to 
implement the proper health screenings for these individuals

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entering our country and stop putting Americans at risk.
  Madam Speaker, the House should immediately pass the REACT Act 
because lives depend on it.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Speaker, we are on the edge of default, on the edge of 
catastrophe, and this is the response from my Republican friends.
  Madam Speaker, yes, I have nothing but the highest respect for the 
gentlewoman from Iowa, but I just pointed out that a little over 50 
percent of her State is vaccinated. That is not good. And the 
gentlewoman from Tennessee who just spoke, her State is even worse--
something like 45 percent are fully vaccinated. That is dangerous for 
not only the people of Iowa and Tennessee, but for the people of this 
country.
  Doctor after doctor after doctor have told us that this is spreading 
because of the lack of attention to getting people vaccinated in this 
country. So we need to do better.
  What we are talking about here today is whether or not we are going 
to default, whether we are going to court a catastrophe.
  Madam Speaker, I will say to the gentleman from Oklahoma, he went 
through a list of people who voted against raising the debt ceiling in 
the past. I am willing to bet that many of those were attached to 
policy items where there was an objection.
  I don't recall Democrats threatening to filibuster--threatening to 
filibuster--raising the debt ceiling. And yet, that is what Republicans 
are doing, cheered on by Republicans in the House.
  So, look, we are happy to clean up your mess. We are happy to do the 
right thing. All Democrats will vote for it in the House. I am not 
asking anymore for you to join us because it is a waste of my breath.
  But what we are asking you to do is get out of the way so that 
something really horrible doesn't happen in this country.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

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  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Madam Speaker, to my good friend from Massachusetts, if we want to 
deal with urgent matters, why don't we pass a clean CR and make sure 
the government doesn't shut down in 48 hours. That is urgent. And 
hopefully we will be able to get about that business shortly.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Burgess), my very good friend and fellow Rules Committee member, 
classmate, member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, who has been a 
passionate advocate on this issue and who will speak more about the 
previous question.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Madam Speaker, please inform the White House that there is a crisis 
along our southern border. That is why defeating the previous question 
is so important, so we can take up this amendment.
  More than 1 billion undocumented immigrants crossed the southern 
border this year, including hundreds of thousands in the last several 
months. It is the highest level in years. In the most recent 
accounting, over 15,000 illegal immigrants, the majority originating 
from the country of Haiti, were camped under a bridge in Del Rio. They 
had no food. They had no water. They had no sanitation. They had no 
shelter.
  The Biden administration admitted in 12,000 of these migrants and 
Secretary Mayorkas admitted that not a single one was vaccinated or 
tested for the coronavirus.
  It is unconscionable that thousands of migrants continue to stream 
across our border without being tested while the Biden administration 
implements mandates for masks and mandates for vaccines for American 
citizens. But this not only contradicts the guidance from our public 
health authorities, but it puts American citizens at risk and their 
communities in danger.
  Madam Speaker, I have offered amendments several times throughout 
consideration of the reconciliation bill that we previously passed, the 
America Rescue Plan, and during the markup of the Build Back Better 
plan in the Energy and Commerce Committee to provide funding for and 
require testing of migrants entering along our southern border. Every 
time Democrats voted against this commonsense amendment.
  So it is hypocritical to declare that Americans must take 
precautions, Americans must be subject to mandates to protect public 
health, while allowing non-Americans, noncitizens, to roam free into 
the country without so much as a temperature check.
  Representative Miller-Meeks' bill will require a negative coronavirus 
test before any immigrant without proper documentation can be released 
from custody. As you know, currently the procedure is catch and 
release.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield an additional 1 minute to the 
gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, this Nation was built by immigrants. And 
we take in, legally and lawfully, over a million immigrants each year; 
more than any other country. But those seeking to come here must follow 
our laws, must follow our current regulations.
  Unfortunately, they do not get to cross the border just because they 
want to; they must acquire proper documentation and take precautions to 
protect public health, as is currently required by all other Americans 
by the Biden administration.
  Madam Speaker, so I urge my fellow Members to vote against the 
previous question so we can immediately take up this important bill.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I just want to point out for the record 
that in Texas only 51 percent of the population is fully vaccinated. 
That is better than Tennessee, but still that means half the 
population.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 15 seconds to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Burgess).
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, the gentleman will notice that the 
primary county that I represent, Denton County, has a significantly 
higher vaccination rate because we put together a vaccine hub at Texas 
Motor Speedway. We are very grateful for the participation of all 
members of the community.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I merely point out that we have a lot of 
work to do in this country to be able to control the virus.
  Madam Speaker, I also include in the Record a letter to Speaker 
Pelosi from Janet Yellen, who is the Secretary of the Treasury.

                                   Department of the Treasury,

                               Washington, DC, September 28, 2021.
     Hon. Nancy Pelosi,
     Speaker, House of Representatives,
     Washington, DC.
       Dear Madam Speaker: I am writing to follow up on my 
     previous letters regarding the debt limit and to provide 
     additional information regarding the Department of the 
     Treasury's ability to continue to finance the operations of 
     the U.S. government.
       In my September 8 letter, I explained that Treasury's cash 
     and extraordinary measures would most likely be exhausted 
     sometime during the month of October. Based on our most 
     recent information, including tax payments associated with 
     the September 15 deadline for third quarter estimated tax 
     payments for businesses and individuals, I am now able to 
     further refine that projection.
       We now estimate that Treasury is likely to exhaust its 
     extraordinary measures if Congress has not acted to raise or 
     suspend the debt limit by October 18. At that point, we 
     expect Treasury would be left with very limited resources 
     that would be depleted quickly. It is uncertain whether we 
     could continue to meet all the nation's commitments after 
     that date. While this is our best estimate, the federal 
     government's cash flows are subject to unavoidable 
     variability. For example, the government's daily gross cash 
     flow (excluding financing) over the past year averages nearly 
     $50 billion per day and has exceeded $300 billion. As a 
     result, it is important to remember that estimates regarding 
     how long our remaining extraordinary measures and cash may 
     last can unpredictably shift forward or backward. This 
     uncertainty underscores the critical importance of not 
     waiting to raise or suspend the debt limit. The full faith 
     and credit of the United States should not be put at risk.
       Furthermore, we know from previous debt limit impasses that 
     waiting until the last minute can cause serious harm to 
     business and consumer confidence, raise borrowing costs for 
     taxpayers, and negatively impact the credit rating of the 
     United States for years to come. Failure to act promptly 
     could also result in substantial disruptions to financial 
     markets, as heightened uncertainty can exacerbate volatility 
     and erode investor confidence.
       I am also writing to notify you, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 
     8348(1)(2), of my determination

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     that, by reason of the statutory debt limit, I will continue 
     to be unable to fully invest the portion of the Civil Service 
     Retirement and Disability Fund (CSRDF) not immediately 
     required to pay beneficiaries, and that a ``debt issuance 
     suspension period,'' previously determined to end on 
     September 30, 2021, will continue through October 18, 2021. 
     As a result, the Treasury Department will continue to suspend 
     additional investments of amounts credited to, and will 
     redeem an additional portion of the investment held by, the 
     CSRDF, as authorized by law.
       In addition, because the Postal Accountability and 
     Enhancement Act of 2006 provides that investments in the 
     Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund (PSRHBF) shall be 
     made in the same manner as investments for the CSRDF, the 
     Treasury Department will also continue to suspend additional 
     investments of amounts credited to, and will redeem an 
     additional portion of the investments held by, the PSRHBF. By 
     law, the CSRDF and PSRHBF will be made whole once the debt 
     limit is increased or suspended. Federal retirees and 
     employees will be unaffected by these actions.
       Again, I respectfully urge Congress to protect the full 
     faith and credit of the United States by acting as soon as 
     possible.
           Sincerely,
                                                  Janet L. Yellen.

  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, let me quote from the letter. It says: 
``We know from previous debt limit impasses that waiting until the last 
minute can cause serious harm to business and consumer confidence, 
raise borrowing costs for taxpayers, and negatively impact the credit 
rating of the United States for years to come. Failure to act promptly 
could also result in substantial disruptions to financial markets, as 
heightened uncertainly can exacerbate volatility and erode investor 
confidence.''
  We are not asking you to do anything more other than to just step out 
of the way. We will do the serious business of making sure that we 
don't default on our financial obligations.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I just want to quickly inquire of my friend. 
I am prepared to close, if my friend is.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I am.
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, could I have a quick time check?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Oklahoma has 12\1/2\ 
minutes remaining.
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I can assure Members I won't use it all.
  Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Madam Speaker, I just want to quickly point out to my friend who has 
cited a number of statistics on State vaccinations, and I agree with 
him. Everyone should be vaccinated. I spend a lot of time in my 
district urging people to do that. I know my good friend from 
Massachusetts does the same thing.
  But with respect to the previous question, nobody is vaccinated that 
is coming across illegally. They are not tested, and they are not 
vaccinated. This is really a commonsense item. I am surprised, quite 
frankly, my friends have not accepted this in some earlier iteration. 
My friend, Dr. Burgess, mentioned he brought it up multiple times. This 
is actually something we should agree on.
  Let's not just let anybody into our country that has not been tested. 
And if they are found unvaccinated, give them the vaccine. I think we 
can argue about immigration all day long. I don't know why in the world 
we argue about that particular issue at all. What my friend from Iowa 
is proposing is very much common sense.
  Madam Speaker, the bill before us today is a deeply misguided bill. 
It makes in order one item, a standalone bill lifting the debt ceiling 
through the end of 2022.
  Republicans have been very clear on their stance. So long as 
Democrats continue to spend, spend, spend on partisan reconciliation 
bills, Republicans will not act to help them lift the debt ceiling. The 
majority has been governing in a partisan manner since they took 
control earlier this year. That is their prerogative.
  If they continue to insist on ramming their big government socialist 
agenda through Congress on narrow partisan votes, then it becomes their 
responsibility to lift the debt limit on their own.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the previous 
question and ``no'' on the rule, and I yield back the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Madam Speaker, let me remind my colleagues that Mitch McConnell led 
three efforts to increase the debt limit under President Trump. He has 
voted over 30 times to increase the debt limit by over $20 trillion 
during his career.
  He worked with President Obama in 2015, saying then: I made it very 
clear that after the November election we are certainly not going to 
shut down the government or default on the national debt. We will 
figure some way to handle that. What is different now? Not a thing. 
Nothing.
  He did the right thing then. He is simply unwilling to do the right 
thing today. Instead, he is making up new precedent out of whole cloth, 
the impacts of which would be devastating.
  So this is not just about Senator McConnell, every Republican in the 
House and Senate should do the right thing and raise the debt ceiling.
  It has never been the responsibility of just one party to ensure that 
America pays its bills. And to pretend otherwise, is to blindly be 
following a policy that will send our economy off a cliff.
  Madam Speaker, I just have to say to my Republican friends, stop 
doubling down on the insanity. At some point we all have to act like 
grownups around here and get the people's business done. Too many of my 
friends on the other side of the aisle continue to get on one knee and 
genuflect in front of the altar of Donald Trump and all the stuff that 
goes with that. Well, you know what, it is time that we all act like 
serious legislators.
  We have a discussion on immigration and COVID testing, we ought to 
have that discussion in a different context, not on the debt ceiling 
bill.
  I will again say to my colleagues, I don't even know how many Members 
of the Republican Conference are vaccinated. We have people who come 
here and fight against efforts to get everybody vaccinated, who fight 
against communities that want to encourage people to wear masks in 
order to protect the citizens of that community.
  We are here to legislate. This bill will fulfill one of the most 
basic responsibilities Congress has; that is, to ensure that America 
pays its bills. We always have, Madam Speaker.
  And, you know, to try to make this debate into a debate about 
reconciliation--by the way, which we want to pay for as much of it as 
possible so it won't add to the deficit and the debt. That is a future 
debate.
  This is about paying all the bills that were accumulated; 97 percent 
of which was accumulated, not under Joe Biden, but under his 
predecessor. Stuff that my friends on the other side of the aisle voted 
for. And to turn this into a political football about what might happen 
down the road is really ridiculous. It is dangerous. It is reckless.
  My friends have said that they want Democrats to basically carry 
these bills. Happy to do it. On our side nobody wants to default. On 
our side we all understand the consequences. Mark Zandi, an economist 
for Moody's, said that it would be such a catastrophe if we defaulted 
on our debt. He said it would impact generations and generations and 
generations into the future.
  Every economist, no matter what their political affiliation may be, 
has said the same thing. So we have to do this.
  And, again, to try to make this about something else is just trying 
to avoid dealing with reality. I would say to my colleagues, all we are 
asking for now--we are no longer asking for your vote--you know, that 
is a waste of time at this particular point. I have seen all the press 
releases. I have seen the talking points come out of the RCCC and the 
RNC. It is maddening to see how this issue can be so distorted. We are 
not asking for that anymore. You already decided to make this a 
political issue.
  We are just asking you to get the hell out of the way and to allow us 
to keep this government running on track and not in default. That 
should not be a controversial issue. It should not be an issue that 
people walk away from. When you accumulate bills, you got to pay for 
them.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote for this rule so we can 
prevent a completely avoidable economic meltdown.
  The material previously referred to by Mr. Cole is as follows:

[[Page H5524]]

  


                   Amendment to House Resolution 688

  At the end of the resolution, add the following:

       Sec. 2. Immediately upon adoption of this resolution, the 
     House shall proceed to the consideration in the House of the 
     bill (H.R. 1897) to require a diagnostic test for COVID-19 
     for an inadmissible alien released from the custody of the 
     United States Customs and Border Protection or the United 
     States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 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 the Judiciary; and (2) one motion 
     to recommit.
       Sec. 3. Clause l(c) of rule XIX shall not apply to the 
     consideration of H.R. 1897.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and 
I move the previous question on the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on ordering the previous 
question.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. COLE. 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 217, 
nays 206, answered ``present'' 2, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 305]

                               YEAS--217

     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
     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
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Rice (NY)
     Ross
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Speier
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Suozzi
     Swalwell
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NAYS--206

     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice (OK)
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brooks
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budd
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cawthorn
     Chabot
     Cheney
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Comer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Dunn
     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)
     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
     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
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (SC)
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     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

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--2

     Biggs
     Roy
       

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Brady
     Carson
     Green (TN)
     Lesko
     Pappas
     Pence

                              {time}  1341

  Messrs. ROUZER, WALTZ, DAVIDSON, LUCAS, and TURNER changed their vote 
from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Mr. BIGGS changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``present.''
  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

     Armstrong (Timmons)
     Babin (Arrington)
     Barragan (Gallego)
     Beyer (Connolly)
     Butterfield (Kildee)
     Fulcher (Johnson (OH))
     Grijalva (Garcia (IL))
     Kirkpatrick (Stanton)
     Lawson (FL) (Evans)
     McCaul (Salazar)
     McEachin (Wexton)
     McHenry (Cammack)
     Meng (Jeffries)
     Napolitano (Correa)
     Payne (Pallone)
     Reschenthaler (Meuser)
     Rush (Underwood)
     Ryan (Kildee)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Stefanik (Smucker)
     Torres (NY) (Jeffries)
     Wilson (FL) (Hayes)
  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.
  Mr. COLE. 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 214, 
nays 212, not voting 5, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 306]

                               YEAS--214

     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)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     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

[[Page H5525]]


     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Luria
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCollum
     McEachin
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newman
     Norcross
     O'Halleran
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Rice (NY)
     Ross
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Sires
     Slotkin
     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
     Golden
     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
     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
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (SC)
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Scalise
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Taylor
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Young
     Zeldin

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Lesko
     Pence
     Smith (WA)

                              {time}  1400

  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

     Armstrong (Timmons)
     Babin (Arrington)
     Barragan (Gallego)
     Beyer (Connolly)
     Butterfield (Kildee)
     Fulcher (Johnson (OH))
     Grijalva (Garcia (IL))
     Kirkpatrick (Stanton)
     Lawson (FL) (Evans)
     McCaul (Salazar)
     McEachin (Wexton)
     McHenry (Cammack)
     Meng (Jeffries)
     Napolitano (Correa)
     Payne (Pallone)
     Reschenthaler (Meuser)
     Rush (Underwood)
     Ryan (Kildee)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Stefanik (Smucker)
     Torres (NY) (Jeffries)
     Wilson (FL) (Hayes)

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