[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 179 (Tuesday, October 12, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H5626-H5628]
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 PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 2119, FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION 
 AND SERVICES IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2021; PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF 
 H.R. 3110, PROVIDING URGENT MATERNAL PROTECTIONS FOR NURSING MOTHERS 
   ACT; PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 3992, PROTECT OLDER JOB 
 APPLICANTS ACT OF 2021; RELATING TO CONSIDERATION OF SENATE AMENDMENT 
    TO HOUSE AMENDMENT TO S. 1301, PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR 
                 AMERICANS ACT; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Massachusetts is 
recognized.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how many more speakers the 
gentlewoman may have.
  Mrs. FISCHBACH. Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to close.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to close, and I reserve the 
balance of my time.
  Mrs. FISCHBACH. Mr. Speaker, it is unfortunate that, yet again, my 
colleagues on the other side of the aisle have chosen to operate 
without input from the minority. Voting for increasing the debt ceiling 
without proper consideration in the House is simply irresponsible. 
These bills include troubling consequences for small businesses.
  Given that the Democrats are unwilling to accept Republican input on 
anything else they are working to pass, including but not limited to 
stripping the Hyde amendment from all legislation possible, something 
that is in moral opposition to millions of Americans, I see no reason 
this should be any different. Again, Democrats can pass this extension 
using their majority.
  Mr. Speaker, we could have done so much good while addressing these 
topics. I am deeply disappointed that the majority chooses to pursue 
these bills without including House Republicans in negotiations. I ask 
that, in the future, they give us all the opportunity to come together 
for the good of the American people.
  Mr. Speaker, I oppose the rule; I oppose the underlying bills; and I 
ask Members to do the same.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

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  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. We 
are on the precipice of what economists call financial Armageddon, 
financial Armageddon. Mark Zandi has said: ``Even if resolved quickly, 
Americans would pay for this default for generations.''
  Their answer, according to virtually all Republicans, is to go home. 
Really? If we defaulted, 6 million jobs would be lost, unemployment 
would skyrocket to 9 percent, and $15 trillion in household wealth will 
be wiped away. Don't take my word for it, Mr. Speaker. That is 
according to the nonpartisan Moody's Analytics.
  The only solution my Republican friends can come up with is to leave 
town.
  Senate Republicans tried to filibuster this deal that Mitch McConnell 
developed to temporarily raise the debt limit. Now House Republicans 
have used the tools that they have here to unleash their own form of 
obstruction.
  This isn't about whether you like Mitch McConnell's compromise. I 
sure don't. I wanted to take the debt ceiling head-on in a longer term 
way. But this is about whether you want to lose 6 million jobs, see 
unemployment at 9 percent, and watch $15 trillion in household wealth 
evaporate, whether or not you want to cause a financial catastrophe 
that will be felt for generations.
  Members just cast their votes. We know which side they are on. Mr. 
Speaker, 198 Republicans voted to leave town to adjourn this Congress 
without solving the massive problem in front of us. That is stunning, 
Mr. Speaker. This is the sort of thing that can make you cynical about 
Congress and about the direction of our country.
  But I choose to focus on the 223 Members, including five Republicans, 
who voted to stay here today to pay our bills.
  I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on this rule, vote ``yes'' on 
protecting the full faith and credit of the United States of America, 
and vote ``yes'' on preventing financial Armageddon.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I 
move the previous question on the resolution.
  The previous question was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on adoption of the 
resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  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 219, 
nays 206, not voting 7, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 315]

                               YEAS--219

     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
     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--206

     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)
     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
     McHenry
     McKinley
     Meijer
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Mullin
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunes
     Obernolte
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (SC)
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     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)
     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--7

     Higgins (LA)
     Kelly (IL)
     Lesko
     McClintock
     Murphy (NC)
     Rouzer
     Tiffany

                              {time}  1923

  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.
  Stated against:
  Mr. ROUZER. Madam Speaker, due to a previous commitment to co-host 
the WATERS summit in Greenville, NC for the purpose of identifying 
potential solutions to mitigate flooding of my constituents--and 
because of the schedule change by the Speaker--I was not able to make 
the vote on the debt limit increase. Had I been present, I would have 
noted ``nay'' on Rollcall No. 315.


                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mrs. LESKO. Madam Speaker, had I been present, I would have voted 
``yea'' on rollcall No. 314 and ``nay'' on rollcall No. 315.


    Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress

     Adams (Brown)
     Armstrong (Meuser)
     Auchincloss (Clark (MA))
     Axne (Spanberger)
     Babin (Arrington)
     Baird (Bucshon)
     Barragan (Raskin)
     Beatty (Kelly (IL))
     Bentz (Valadao)
     Bilirakis (Fleischmann)
     Bishop (GA) (Williams (GA))
     Blumenauer (Beyer)
     Bonamici (Clark (MA))
     Brooks (Boebert)
     Brownley (Clark (MA))
     Buchanan (Cammack)
     Bush (Clark (MA))
     Butterfield (Kildee)
     Calvert (Valadao)
     Cardenas (Aguilar)
     Cartwright (Evans)
     Case (Schneider)

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     Castor (FL) (Demings)
     Cawthorn (McHenry)
     Chu (Clark (MA))
     Cohen (Beyer)
     Cole (Lucas)
     Correa (Napolitano)
     Courtney (Himes)
     Crist (Deutch)
     Cuellar (Murphy (FL))
     Curtis (Owens)
     Davids (KS) (Spanberger)
     Davis, Danny K. (Underwood)
     DeFazio (Brown)
     DeGette (Blunt Rochester)
     DeSaulnier (Thompson (CA))
     DesJarlais (Fleischmann)
     DelBene (Schneider)
     Diaz-Balart (Cammack)
     Doggett (Raskin)
     Donalds (Cammack)
     Doyle, Michael F. (Evans)
     Eshoo (Matsui)
     Fallon (Carter (TX))
     Fletcher (Lamb)
     Foster (Beyer)
     Frankel, Lois (Clark (MA))
     Fulcher (Johnson (OH))
     Gaetz (Greene (GA))
     Gallego (Torres (CA))
     Garbarino (Miller-Meeks)
     Garcia (IL) (Schakowsky)
     Gibbs (Smucker)
     Gimenez (Cammack)
     Gomez (Raskin)
     Gonzales, Tony (Ellzey)
     Gonzalez, Vicente (Schneider)
     Gosar (Boebert)
     Gottheimer (Golden)
     Granger (Arrington)
     Graves (MO) (Long)
     Green (TN) (Fleischmann)
     Grijalva (Stanton)
     Hagedorn (Carl)
     Harshbarger (Kustoff)
     Hartzler (Bucshon)
     Hayes (Clark (MA))
     Hice (GA) (Greene (GA))
     Higgins (NY) (Pallone)
     Huffman (Stanton)
     Issa (Valadao)
     Jackson (Nehls)
     Johnson (SD) (Valadao)
     Johnson (TX) (Jeffries)
     Kahele (Ross)
     Keating (Clark (MA))
     Kilmer (Kildee)
     Kim (NJ) (Pallone)
     Kinzinger (Turner)
     Kirkpatrick (Stanton)
     Krishnamoorthi (Spanberger)
     LaHood (Smucker)
     LaMalfa (Valadao)
     Lamborn (Bacon)
     Langevin (Lynch)
     Larsen (WA) (Connolly)
     Lawson (FL) (Evans)
     Lee (NV) (Clark (MA))
     Leger Fernandez (Clark (MA))
     Letlow (Joyce (PA))
     Lieu (Beyer)
     Lofgren (Jeffries)
     Lowenthal (Levin (CA))
     Luetkemeyer (Long)
     Malinowski (Pallone)
     Maloney, Carolyn B. (Clarke (NY))
     McCaul (Kim (CA))
     McCollum (Craig)
     McEachin (Wexton)
     McNerney (Thompson (CA))
     Meng (Jeffries)
     Miller (WV) (Miller-Meeks)
     Moore (WI) (Beyer)
     Moore (UT) (Owens)
     Moulton (Pallone)
     Nadler (Jeffries)
     Neal (McGovern)
     Neguse (Perlmutter)
     Nunes (Garcia (CA))
     Obernolte (Kim (CA))
     Ocasio-Cortez (Bowman)
     O'Halleran (Stanton)
     Panetta (Kildee)
     Pappas (Kuster)
     Pascrell (Pallone)
     Payne (Pallone)
     Peters (Kildee)
     Pingree (Kuster)
     Porter (Wexton)
     Pressley (Raskin)
     Price (NC) (Ross)
     Reed (Kelly (PA))
     Reschenthaler (Meuser)
     Rodgers (WA) (Joyce (PA))
     Rogers (AL) (Carl)
     Rogers (KY) (Fleischmann)
     Roybal-Allard (Torres (CA))
     Ruiz (Aguilar)
     Rush (Underwood)
     Salazar (Cammack)
     Schrader (Murphy (FL))
     Schrier (Spanberger)
     Sewell (Kelly (IL))
     Sherman (Garamendi)
     Sherrill (Pallone)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Smith (WA) (Brown)
     Spartz (Miller-Meeks)
     Speier (Scanlon)
     Stansbury (Jones)
     Stauber (Bergman)
     Steel (Valadao)
     Stefanik (Meuser)
     Steube (Cammack)
     Stewart (Owens)
     Strickland (Williams (GA))
     Suozzi (Kildee)
     Swalwell (Crow)
     Tenney (Van Drew)
     Thompson (MS) (Brown)
     Timmons (Joyce (PA))
     Titus (Mfume)
     Tlaib (Kildee)
     Tonko (Pallone)
     Torres (NY) (Cicilline)
     Van Duyne (Kim (CA))
     Veasey (Brown)
     Wagner (Fleischmann)
     Walorski (Bucshon)
     Waltz (Mooney)
     Wasserman Schultz (Soto)
     Watson Coleman (Pallone)
     Welch (McGovern)
     Wilson (FL) (Brown)
     Young (Mast)

             PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR AMERICANS ACT

  The text of Senate amendment to House amendment to S. 1301 is as 
follows:

       Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the 
     following:

     SECTION 1. INCREASE OF PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT.

       The limitation under section 3101(b) of title 31, United 
     States Code, as most recently increased by section 301 of the 
     Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019 (31 U.S.C. 3101 note), is 
     increased by $480,000,000,000.

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