[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 200 (Wednesday, November 17, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H6329-H6336]
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 PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H. RES. 789, CENSURING REPRESENTATIVE 
                               PAUL GOSAR

  Ms. SCANLON. Madam Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I 
call up House Resolution 795 and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 795

       Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be 
     in order without intervention of any point of order to 
     consider in the House the resolution (H. Res. 789) censuring 
     Representative Paul Gosar. The amendment to the resolution 
     printed in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying 
     this resolution shall be considered as adopted. The 
     resolution, as amended, shall be considered as read. The 
     previous question shall be considered as ordered on the 
     resolution and preamble, as amended, to adoption without 
     intervening motion or demand for division of the question 
     except one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by 
     the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
     Ethics or their respective designees.

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


                             General Leave

  Ms. SCANLON. 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 
gentlewoman from Pennsylvania?
  There was no objection.
  Ms. SCANLON. Madam Speaker, yesterday the Rules Committee met and 
reported a rule, House Resolution 795, providing for consideration of 
H. Res. 789, Censuring Representative Paul Gosar, under a closed rule. 
The rule self-executes a manager's amendment from Chairman Deutch and 
provides 1 hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the 
chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Ethics or their 
respective designees.

                              {time}  1230

  Madam Speaker, in any other Congress, the actions of Representative 
Paul Gosar might be easier to dismiss. After all, every single minute 
of every single day, 5,000 minutes of content are uploaded onto 
YouTube.
  So my colleagues across the aisle or the public might ask, who cares 
about one YouTube video post by Representative Gosar? He is just one of 
many Americans posting his fantasies online, even if his involve a 
violent scene in which he attacks and murders people that he has 
labeled as enemies of the American people, a colleague in Congress, and 
the President of the United States.
  But it is just an anime video, so it is not a big deal, right?
  Actually, it is a big deal. And here is why: People listen to Paul 
Gosar. He is an elected official; and that gives him credibility, 
whether justified or not. So while there are indeed 5,000 minutes of 
content uploaded every single minute of every single day, Mr. Gosar's 
video got real attention, just as he intended.
  American citizens stopped what they were doing to watch something 
that a Member of the U.S. Congress had fashioned. He posted it on his 
official Congressional social media, where he has hundreds of thousands 
of followers, and where the video was viewed over 3 million times.
  And what he posted was violence; fantasized violence. A wish made in 
a very specific way.
  As I said, in any other decade, or any other Congress, this public 
endorsement of violence by a Member of Congress might have been excused 
as a lapse in judgment, or even possibly a bad joke.
  But this Congress knows what happens when members of the radical 
right get stirred up by their leaders.
  Just a few months ago, this Congress had to hide in safe rooms under 
the protection of police and soldiers, or barricade ourselves in our 
offices because our place of work was overwhelmed by armed citizens who 
wanted to hang some of us.

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  This Congress has seen threats against Members of Congress more than 
double, forcing Members to pay for additional security for their homes, 
offices, and families; rethink how to engage with constituents; and 
even wear bulletproof vests to public events.
  So when a Member of this Congress fantasizes in public about 
beheading another Member of Congress, it is not fantasy to think that 
there are Americans out there who will take such a video as a call to 
action.
  A recent poll reported that 85 percent of Americans get their news 
from Facebook, while only 13 percent of Americans get their news from 
print. Are we really to believe that during this moment in time, that 
among that 85 percent, there are no Americans who will see this video 
and indulge in fantasies of their own?
  Every single day Members of this body receive death threats. I have 
gotten them. We all have. Our staffs and families have to deal with 
abusive and violent phone calls, emails, letters, and social media 
posts. And these threats are particularly numerous and violent for 
Members who are women of color.
  So every day we have to deal with the threat that somewhere out there 
is a radicalized American who has been taught to hate us, to regard us 
as evil, to fantasize, and even mobilize using that same social media, 
to eliminate us, taught by conspiracy theorists and far-right 
extremists; or by a fellow Member of Congress.
  That is not imagination; that is fact.
  In any other context, and especially in any other workplace, someone 
posting a video of himself killing a coworker would not be acceptable, 
and an employee who did that would almost certainly be fired.
  In any other context, and especially in a school, a student using 
school resources to post a video of himself beheading a classmate and 
attacking a school official would not be acceptable, and that student 
would face disciplinary charges, if not criminal charges, and would 
likely be referred for a mental health evaluation.
  But for the privileges traditionally afforded to Members of Congress, 
in any other context, someone posting a video of himself killing a 
Member of Congress and attacking the President of the United States 
would almost certainly be reported to the Secret Service and U.S. 
Capitol Police.
  We must condemn this celebration of political violence because, in 
addition to upholding the honor and integrity of the U.S. Congress, 
every Member of this body deserves to come to work and feel safe. That 
is true for any worker in any part of this country.
  It is unacceptable that our colleague would have to sit across from 
someone who has threatened her life in such a vivid way, and it is 
unacceptable for this body to let that action go unpunished.
  This is the House of Representatives of the United States Congress. 
We are all elected to be the leaders of this great country, and with 
that role comes immense responsibilities. People look up to us, they 
take our lead.
  So when a Member posts a video of himself killing his colleague, that 
is obviously going to have an impact on the way people approach their 
politics.
  So we cannot dismiss Representative Gosar's violent fantasies as a 
joke because, in this decade, in this America, someone is going to take 
him seriously. He is a public figure and, as we vividly saw on January 
6, the words and actions of public figures can readily act as a spark 
to the tinder of radical extremism. And God help us all when that 
happens.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I thank the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania (Ms. Scanlon), my friend, 
for yielding me the customary 30 minutes.
  Madam Speaker, today's rule covers one item, a resolution censuring 
Representative Paul Gosar for a video posted on his official Twitter 
account last week, and removing him from his seat on the Committees on 
Oversight and Reform and Natural Resources.
  Madam Speaker, today's action, once again, tramples on the 
traditional norms of the House; the idea that the majority and the 
minority have the right to appoint their own members to committees as 
they see fit. It sets a dangerous and disturbing precedent that will 
likely change the character of the House in the years to come, and not 
for the better.
  And the majority is doing so solely to play politics with this moment 
and to score a cheap political point at the expense of a Member of the 
minority.
  But before I go into all of that, I do think it is important to lay 
out the sequence of events that occurred here, since I believe they are 
instructive.
  Last week, Representative Gosar posted a video on his official 
Twitter account. This video was certainly provocative and, in my 
opinion, inappropriate.
  Upon being informed of the video's existence, Leader McCarthy 
immediately took action and called Congressman Gosar, conveying the 
message that this video was inappropriate. After that conversation, 
Congressman Gosar took the video down and issued a statement explaining 
and clarifying its meaning, and stating that he certainly didn't 
approve of violence against any person.
  Yesterday, Congressman Gosar took the additional step of appearing 
before the Republican Conference to further explain his actions. He 
described that his intention was for a depiction in the video to be 
symbolic of the policies he opposes, not actual people. He clarified 
that he did not intend it to be an endorsement of violence and, 
further, that he does not condone violence.
  But not content with his admission to a lapse in judgment, last night 
the majority made the decision to convene the Rules Committee on short 
notice to consider a resolution censuring Representative Gosar and 
removing him from his committee assignments. In doing so, the majority 
is acting in clear contrast to the existing precedent throughout the 
history of this institution; a precedent the majority has taken 
multiple deliberate steps to weaken in this Congress.
  Throughout the history of the House of Representatives, the majority 
and the minority have respected the right of each of their conferences 
to assign their respective members to committees. The decision about 
whether to seat a member on a committee, or to remove a member from a 
committee, traditionally rests with the respective conferences.
  Early this year, the majority took two actions to go against that 
tradition. First, the majority voted to remove a Republican Member of 
Congress from her committee assignments.
  Second, the Speaker unilaterally refused to appoint two of Leader 
McCarthy's choices to be Republican members on the Select Committee on 
the January 6 attack and, instead, appointed Republicans she wanted on 
the committee. Both of these actions are in stark contrast to the norms 
and traditions of the House of Representatives.
  Today, the majority is taking a third such action. This continues to 
set an extremely dangerous precedent for the future of the institution. 
In future years, the precedent may be used to give the majority veto 
power over the minority's committee assignments. That is a slippery 
slope for the institution to go down.
  But to make matters worse, in acting today, the majority is setting a 
standard for Members of the minority that it does not set for itself. 
There have been plenty of instances of Members on the majority side 
using intemperate language, making statements that directly or could be 
construed as endorsing violence or taking controversial or 
inappropriate actions; yet, the majority has yet to act to remove one 
of its own members from their committee assignments.
  This is a classic case of the old adage: ``Rules for thee but not for 
me.'' That is deeply frustrating.
  Madam Speaker, if action is truly necessary today, then there are two 
other options for addressing Representative Gosar's actions than what 
the majority is proposing. First, the majority can and should leave the 
matter up to Leader McCarthy and the Republican Conference. Indeed, 
this was the topic of discussion at yesterday's Republican Conference 
meeting and, historically, neither Leader McCarthy nor the Republican 
Conference has shied away from disciplining Members.
  Second, the House also has the option of referring Representative 
Gosar to the Ethics Committee. This is also an appropriate course of 
action, particularly if the majority believes that

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a violation of the Code of Ethics has occurred. Such a referral would 
give the bipartisan Ethics Committee the time to review the matter, 
allow Representative Gosar to present his arguments, and give the 
committee the chance to make appropriate recommendations.
  But once again, the majority is rushing forward with a resolution to 
strip a Republican member of a committee assignment without giving 
either of these two appropriate venues a chance to resolve the matter. 
In doing so, they are playing politics in the worst way, rushing to 
condemn a Republican Member for actions for which he has already sought 
to address.
  It is disturbing to note the surprise on my Democratic colleagues' 
faces last night at the Rules Committee when I referenced the public 
statement Congressman Gosar released after removing the video. They 
didn't seem to know about it. I think they are condemning his actions 
and didn't even know that he had already taken corrective action.
  That goes to show, frankly, that we have not taken the appropriate 
care in looking at this matter, and certainly not given Representative 
Gosar the opportunity to address it.
  Madam Speaker, I urge opposition to the rule, and I reserve the 
balance of my time.
  Ms. SCANLON. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  I would have to agree with my learned colleague that these are 
unusual actions, but these are also unusual times. Every time we have 
seen a new low in conduct from our colleagues across the aisle, we get 
crickets or excuses from the Republican Party. Indeed, it took 9 days 
before the minority leader publicly spoke about this threat; and his 
silence spoke volumes, both to the American people and those who were 
paying attention to Mr. Gosar's post.

  Instead, we have heard multiple reports that our colleagues are 
considering punishing their colleagues who voted for the bipartisan 
infrastructure package. I think that speaks volumes about where their 
priorities lie.
  We will continue to see Members emboldened by the lack of 
accountability engaging in evermore outrageous conduct, placing both 
the integrity of Congress and the safety of its Members at risk.
  While Mr. Gosar has since taken down his post, he has not apologized. 
In fact, he said publicly on TV that he does not apologize. He has 
doubled down on his decision to post the video saying, the cartoon 
exposes the threats to America. It doesn't make a threat to anyone.
  I would have to disagree with his assessment.
  As to the claim that there hasn't been enough of a process, that this 
should have gone to the Ethics Committee; I will remind my colleagues 
that we heard in the Rules Committee last night that the majority 
requested an emergency meeting of the Ethics Committee, which the 
minority denied.
  And this isn't a case where there are facts to discover. The actions 
of Representative Gosar were not hidden for an investigatory body to 
discover. His misconduct was paid for and produced with public 
resources and posted on an official public Twitter account, where it 
got more than 3 million views before it was taken down.
  There is no dispute about whether Representative Gosar posted the 
reprehensible video depicting the murder of one of his colleagues on 
his official channels. And the Republican Conference has had 2 weeks to 
decide to take action and hold him accountable. Instead, they are 
debating whether to punish their colleagues for voting for 
infrastructure for the American people.
  So we have said that--it actually just strikes me as odd that our 
colleagues would argue that this forms a harmful precedent, and that 
the threat of violence or murder in the future might be cause to 
censure and strip members of their committees. If that is the case, 
then sign me up because I do think that is reprehensible and deserves 
censure.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from New York 
(Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney), the distinguished chairwoman of the 
Committee on Oversight and Reform.

                              {time}  1245

  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Madam Speaker, I rise in support 
of the rule and in support of the underlying resolution, H. Res. 789. 
This is an extraordinary measure, and I do not support it lightly.
  As chair of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, I support and 
defend the rights of all committee members to express their views, even 
if I disagree with them. But the honest exchange of ideas cannot happen 
when one committee member promotes violence against another.
  No other workplace in America would tolerate such dangerous conduct, 
and neither should the House of Representatives.
  What Representative Gosar did is both despicable and beneath the 
office he holds. But make no mistake about it: Promoting political 
violence has real consequences.
  Many of our colleagues, including myself, and the Capitol Police have 
received credible death threats.
  Rejecting violence should not be a partisan issue. I call on my 
Republican colleagues to join us today in demanding accountability for 
those who promote it.
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume 
simply to make a couple of quick points to some of my friends' 
concerns.
  First of all, nobody has had 2 weeks to act. This incident occurred 
less than 2 weeks ago, and we were in recess last week. So let's focus 
on the here and now.
  I may be mistaken about this, but I don't think we have kept the 
Ethics Committee from meeting about this. Quite the opposite, we wish 
they had.
  The chairman did say he would put in a request for an emergency 
meeting. The reality is, the majority moved ahead, I think, before that 
could happen. That process, I think, would have been the appropriate 
one to follow or an appropriate one to follow in this case.
  So, I just simply posit those things for the record.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. 
Gaetz).
  Mr. GAETZ. Madam Speaker, I oppose political violence in all forms, 
regardless of the politics of the target.
  I am no expert on Japanese anime, but I am told, and I do believe, 
that it is not real. What is real is the crisis on our border, the 
inflation crushing American families, unvetted Afghans in our country. 
What is definitely real is the violence that burned our cities and 
harmed our businesses in the summer of 2020, often encouraged by 
Democrats in Congress.
  Anime is fiction to the point of the absurd. It is not really my 
thing, and it does glorify violence, but often to symbolize conflict, 
not realistic harm to another person.
  In the last session week we had, we reviewed Steve Bannon's podcast. 
Today, we are critiquing Paul Gosar's anime. Next week, we might be 
indicting Wile E. Coyote for an explosive ordnance against Road Runner.
  If you don't like Paul Gosar's tweets, tweet back at him. We know 
there are plenty of folks in Big Tech who will amplify your message.
  The gentlewoman from Pennsylvania gave the game away. This really 
isn't about a tweet. It is about removing a powerful conservative, Paul 
Gosar, from the Committee on Oversight and Reform. It is about 
characterizing conservatives as threats to the country, dangerous, 
because despite the majority's references to the Biden infrastructure 
bill, they have received no bump from it. The American people are not 
really into the infrastructure bill, and so we are here reviewing mean 
tweets.
  All of us in Congress--I shouldn't say all of us. Some of us have 
regretted things we have tweeted. I know I have. When we say uncouth 
things, we should resolve that. Congressman Gosar removed the tweet, 
and I hope he regrets it.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the 
gentleman from Florida.
  Mr. GAETZ. Madam Speaker, I would say I have regretted things I have 
tweeted. I hope that people who tweeted in support of violence in the 
summer of 2020 regret those tweets. I am not sure if they do or not.

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  I would just suggest we have better things to do on the floor of the 
House of Representatives than be the hall monitors for Twitter.
  If we got a thousand Americans, in almost any district in America, 
and asked what was troubling them, I don't know that we would find two 
in any district that would put Paul Gosar on the list of things that 
matter to them more than the issues that they face at their kitchen 
table.
  Ms. SCANLON. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Maryland (Mr. Raskin), a distinguished member of the Rules Committee.
  Mr. RASKIN. Madam Speaker, is there a high school or a workplace in 
America that would do nothing if a student or a worker posted violently 
threatening material against a fellow student or a colleague? Please 
show it to me, if so.
  Last month, a high school student in Michigan made threatening 
statements about a specific classmate. He was arrested.
  In Boulder, Colorado, several high school students were expelled for 
posting violently threatening material online.
  Last month, in Chicago, a firefighter was fired for his threatening 
social media posts, including a cartoon of someone running someone else 
over in a car.
  A woman in Pennsylvania who made violent threats against a colleague 
on Facebook was fired, and the State court found she was ineligible for 
unemployment compensation because her violently threatening speech 
online constituted willful misconduct.
  It is remarkable to me, Madam Speaker, that we have colleagues who 
think we should do nothing in the face of a Member of the United States 
House of Representatives who posts an animated cartoon video of him 
killing a colleague.
  Congressman Gosar is 62. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is 
32.
  Mr. COLE. 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 consider a resolution that would add a new 
House rule stating that any resolution proposing to remove a Member 
from a committee assignment shall not be in order unless offered by, or 
with the concurrence of, the leader of the party of the Member that is 
the subject of the resolution.
  Madam Speaker, my amendment would reinforce the longstanding norm of 
basic fairness that today's resolution does not comply with. Throughout 
the entire history of the House of Representatives, it has been an 
unwritten rule, or norm of conduct, that one party does not attempt to 
exercise a veto over the other party's committee assignments. The 
reasons for this are obvious. It protects the operations of the 
institution and ensures that politically motivated attempts to remove 
Members from committees do not happen.
  But the majority's actions, both today and earlier this Congress, 
threaten that norm and threaten to set off a new round of escalating 
partisan punishment anytime the majority changes hands. Establishing 
this as a written rule of the House would ensure that no Member ever 
faces this kind of partisan retribution again.
  Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to include in the Record the 
text of my amendment, 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 reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. SCANLON. Madam Speaker, like the distinguished gentleman from 
Oklahoma, I, too, long for the times when the norms of civilized 
conduct in this House were observed. When, perhaps, our colleagues 
across the aisle can return to those norms, then motions and 
resolutions like the one we are considering today will not be 
necessary.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey 
(Mr. Payne).
  Mr. PAYNE. Madam Speaker, I rise today to condemn the actions of 
Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona and support this resolution.
  There have been many times when I have stood on this floor and 
disagreed with my Republican colleagues. At times, I have done so with 
passion. But I have never supported or promoted violence against any of 
them. The vast majority of my colleagues, Republican and Democrat, have 
shown that they feel the same way.
  We know that there is a line that cannot be crossed when it comes to 
how we refer to our political rivals, and Representative Gosar has 
crossed that line. He crossed it when he created a video that depicts 
attacking President Joe Biden and killing Representative Alexandria 
Ocasio-Cortez.
  This behavior is unacceptable from any Member of Congress. It would 
not be tolerated in any workplace in the country, and it should not be 
tolerated here.
  That is why we must censure Representative Gosar and remove him from 
his committees. We must show the country that inappropriate actions, 
like his video, have consequences. We must remind all Members that 
there is a certain decorum to how we treat each other that must be 
respected at all times. We must show the country that we can debate as 
Democrats and Republicans but still respect each other as Americans.
  Madam Speaker, I heard the gentleman from Florida mention Wile E. 
Coyote and the Road Runner. Yes, it is true that they are cartoons, but 
neither one of them can pick up a gun. Congressman Gosar can.
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. SCANLON. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, this is a very troubling moment in 
our history.
  After the rule is passed, you will see other Members come to the 
floor to continue this debate.
  I thought I would start out by holding up a most precious document, 
and that is the Constitution of the United States of America. I often 
get chills when I read its Preamble, which indicates that the body of 
people who started this Nation organized to create a more perfect 
Union.
  I love to hear those words because what it suggests is that we wanted 
to be the standard-bearer for what is best and better in the world. We 
wanted to cease conflict. We wanted to be the defenders of peace. And 
even with the original sin, we wanted somehow to be better than others.
  I get chills when I walk through the Halls of this very august place, 
to see the depictions of the debates in the early years, to realize how 
fragile democracy is, and how we could not last.

  I hold this up because, interestingly, we can be so proud that 
Congress was listed as the first body of government, Article I.
  As I read the charges in here, it gives us powers as the House of 
Representatives. Nowhere is there a privilege to kill. Nowhere is there 
the instruction to kill. Nowhere is there an instruction to be free to 
murder. Yet, with a great deal of trepidation and sadness, I am here 
because of a video.
  This headline speaks to it: ``House to vote on censuring 
Republican,'' Mr. Gosar, ``who shared violent video targeting'' a 
Member of Congress.
  That is the crux of why we are here. It is not speech of people 
supporting the right to be free in this Nation and supporting the 
George Floyd bill, where protesters, peaceful and otherwise, did rise 
up, young people, about 66,000 in Houston, completely peaceful, as it 
was around the Nation.
  Don't try to compare the pain of protesters on an issue of justice 
with the actions of this gentleman. Yes, I call him that.
  Mr. Gosar is seen delivering a fatal blow to the back of the 
monster's head, and blood is seen gushing from the wound. The face is 
that of our colleague, and it is violent.
  In addition, it is treasonous to be seen to attack the President of 
the United States of America.
  In one scene, footage of migrants crossing the Rio Grande is overlaid 
with what appears to be splattered blood.
  Who are we as a Nation?
  In another, the words ``drugs,'' ``crime,'' ``poverty,'' ``money,'' 
``murder,'' ``gangs,'' ``violence,'' and ``trafficking'' flash across 
the screen. Mr. Gosar knew what he was doing.

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  The 1 minute and 32 seconds was posted by him. It shows him battling 
a towering, naked monstrosity with the face of that Democratic Member. 
It is against women of color; it is against women; and it is against 
Members of Congress.
  Last week, Ted Lieu and I, and 30 other Members, sent a letter to 
Republican leadership asking if there was one person that would call 
this out and indicate shame, shame, shame.
  I include in the Record the letter that was sent to Republican 
leadership.

                                Congress of the United States,

                                Washington, DC, November 12, 2021.
     Hon. Kevin McCarthy,
     Republican Leader, House of Representatives,
     Washington, DC.
       Dear Republican Leader McCarthy: We write as members of the 
     United States House of Representatives to express our extreme 
     concern, indignation, and fear regarding the recent actions 
     of Representative Paul Gosar and to ask that you publicly 
     request a House Ethics Committee investigation into Mr. 
     Gosar's actions.
       On November 7, 2021, Mr. Gosar shared a grotesque video on 
     Twitter in which his face and those of several other 
     Republican Members of the House are edited into the opening 
     credits of the Netflix anime series Attack on Titan, and in 
     which Mr. Gosar is depicted killing a giant monster with the 
     face of a Democratic Member of Congress.
       The one minute and thirty-two-seconds video depicts Mr. 
     Gosar battling a towering, naked monstrosity with the face of 
     a Democratic Member of the House superimposed over the 
     monster's face. Mr. Gosar is then seen delivering a fatal 
     strike to the back of the monster's neck, and blood is seen 
     gushing from the wound. The video also depicts Mr. Gosar 
     leaping at President Biden while brandishing two swords, and 
     the video is interspersed throughout with real-life footage 
     of Border Patrol officers rounding up migrants at the U.S.-
     Mexico border. In one scene, footage of migrants crossing the 
     Rio Grande is overlaid with what appears to be splattered 
     blood. In another, the words ``drugs,'' ``crime,'' 
     ``poverty,'' ``money,'' ``murder,'' ``gangs,'' ``violence'' 
     and ``trafficking'' flash across the screen.
       Sharing the glorification of violence expressed in this 
     video goes far beyond the protections afforded by the Speech 
     and Debate Clause in the Constitution and is beneath the 
     dignity of a person serving in the Congress of the United 
     States. Mr. Gosar's actions display a breakdown of reasoned 
     discourse not seen in the House since the summer of 1856, 
     when South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks attacked 
     Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a cane on the 
     Senate floor. The beating nearly killed Sumner and 
     contributed significantly to the country's polarization over 
     the issue of slavery and to the use of violence that 
     eventually led to the Civil War.
       In a like manner, Mr. Gosar's actions serve solely to 
     glorify the usage of violence against Members of the House. 
     As we witnessed with Mr. Gosar's actions leading up to 
     January 6, threats of violence and the glorification of 
     violence lead to actual violence. Mr. Gosar has continuously 
     been a strong proponent of the Big Lie that President Biden 
     lost the 2020 Presidential election. As reported by several 
     media outlets, Mr. Gosar was intimately involved with the 
     planning of the January 6 rally and, following the January 6 
     attack, Mr. Gosar called the insurrectionists ``peaceful 
     patriots.'' Rather than condemn calls for violence against 
     Congress and actual violence against Congress, Mr. Gosar has 
     instead shared an animated video of himself killing a fellow 
     Member of Congress.
        Less than one year has passed since Congress witnessed the 
     January 6 domestic terrorists break into the Capitol 
     building, vandalize and steal property, threaten our safety 
     and lives, and attack and kill Capitol police officers. Less 
     than one year has passed since we witnessed crowds chanting 
     ``Hang Mike Pence,'' and ``Hang Nancy Pelosi'' outside this 
     bastion of democracy. If ever there was a time for the House 
     to come together to promote civility, discourse, and 
     cooperation, it is now.
        For these reasons, we are asking that as the Leader of the 
     Republican Conference you publicly request an investigation 
     into Mr. Gosar's actions by the House Ethics Committee to 
     determine whether Mr. Gosar has violated the Rules of the 
     House to a degree sufficient to warrant disciplinary action, 
     including ordering the cessation of conduct that threatens 
     the lives of fellow Members of Congress and the President, 
     removal from his Committee positions, censure, expulsion, or 
     further disciplinary action as determined by the Committee or 
     the House of Representatives.
        We must act to protect the dignity and integrity of the 
     House.
           Very truly yours,
         Sheila Jackson Lee, Alan Lowenthal, Grace F. Napolitano, 
           Rashida Tlaib, Ted Lieu, Nanette Barragan, Sylvia R. 
           Garcia, Grace Meng, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Jimmy Gomez, 
           Dwight Evans, Mike Doyle, David N. Cicilline, John 
           Larson, Henry C. ``Hank'' Johnson, Jr., Adriano 
           Espaillat, Mike Quigley, Ilhan Omar, J. Luis Correa, 
           Stacey E. Plaskett, David Price, Linda Sanchez, Andre 
           Carson, Earl Blumenauer, Troy A. Carter, Madeleine 
           Dean, Mary Gay Scanlon, Jason Crow, Jim Cooper, Jerry 
           McNerney, Brenden F. Boyle, Steve Cohen, Members of 
           Congress.

                              {time}  1300

  Ms. JACKSON LEE. This brings me to tears. There is no celebration on 
this floor. It is imperative that we pass this resolution and Mr. Gosar 
is censured and removed from his seat. The reason is you cannot depict 
the murder of another Member of Congress or the President of the United 
States.
  Madam Speaker, I stand here today as a senior member of the 
Committees on the Judiciary, on Homeland Security, and on the Budget, 
to support this Rule governing debate of H. Res. 789 to censure Rep. 
Gosar and to remove him from his committee assignment.
  I also stand here, Madam Speaker, to express my concern, indignation, 
and fear regarding Representative Gosar's actions.
  On November 7, 2021, Mr. Gosar shared a grotesque video on Twitter in 
which his face and those of several other Republican Members are edited 
into an anime segment, and in which Mr. Gosar is depicted killing a 
giant monster with the face of a Democratic Member of Congress.
  Mr. Gosar is then seen delivering a fatal strike to the back of the 
monster's neck, and blood is seen gushing from the wound.
  The video also depicts Mr. Gosar leaping at President Biden while 
brandishing two swords, and the video is interspersed throughout with 
real-life footage of Border Patrol officers rounding up migrants at the 
U.S.-Mexico border.
  In one scene, footage of migrants crossing the Rio Grande is overlaid 
with what appears to be splattered blood.
  In another the words ``drugs'' ``crime'' ``poverty'' ``money'' 
``murder'' ``gangs,'' ``violence'' and ``trafficking'' flash across the 
screen.
  The one minute and thirty-two second video depicts Mr. Gosar battling 
a towering, naked monstrosity with the face of a Democratic Member of 
the House superimposed over the monster's face.
  This was a one minute and thirty-two second speech threatening 
violence against a member of the House.
  Last week, my colleague Ted Lieu and I, along with thirty other 
members of the House, sent a letter to Minority Leader McCarthy asking 
him to request an Ethics investigation into Mr. Gosar's actions.
  Rather than standing for the dignity of the House, Minority Leader 
McCarthy has done nothing.
  I would like to submit into the record the November 12, 2021 letter 
sent to Minority Leader McCarthy by myself, Ted Lieu, and thirty other 
members of Congress.
  Sharing the glorification of violence expressed in this video goes 
far beyond the protections afforded by the Speech and Debate Clause in 
the Constitution and is beneath the dignity of a person serving in the 
Congress of the United States.
  Mr. Gosar's actions display a breakdown of reasoned discourse not 
seen in the House since the summer of 1856, when South Carolina 
Congressman Preston Brooks attacked Massachusetts Senator Charles 
Sumner with a cane on the Senate floor.
  The beating nearly killed Sumner and contributed significantly to the 
country's polarization over the issue of slavery and to the use of 
violence that eventually led to the Civil War.
  In a like manner, Mr. Gosar's actions serve solely to glorify the 
usage of violence against Members of the House.
  As we witnessed with Mr. Gosar's actions leading up to January 6, 
threats of violence and the glorification of violence lead to actual 
violence.
  Mr. Gosar has continuously been a strong proponent of the Big Lie 
that President Biden lost the 2020 Presidential election.
  As reported by several media outlets, Mr. Gosar was intimately 
involved with the planning of the January 6 rally and, following the 
January 6 attack, Mr. Gosar called the insurrectionists ``peaceful 
patriots.''
  Rather than condemn calls for violence against Congress and actual 
violence against Congress, Mr. Gosar has instead shared an animated 
video of himself killing a fellow Member of Congress.
  Rather than uphold the dignity and sanctity of the House, Republican 
Leader McCarthy has done nothing
  Less than one year has passed since Congress witnessed the January 6 
domestic terrorists break into the Capitol building, vandalize and 
steal property, threaten our safety and lives, and attack and kill 
Capitol police officers.
  Less than one year has passed since we witnessed crowds chanting 
``Hang Mike Pence'' and ``Hang Nancy Pelosi'' outside this bastion of 
democracy. If ever there was a time for the House to come together to 
promote civility, discourse, and cooperation, it is now.
  For these reasons, I urge all members to vote in favor of this Rule 
governing debate.

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  We must act to protect the dignity and integrity of the House.
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Ms. SCANLON. Madam Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from 
Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern), the distinguished chairman of the Rules 
Committee.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I want to thank the gentlewoman from 
Pennsylvania for yielding me the time and for her distinguished service 
on the Rules Committee.
  Madam Speaker, the standard we have set is simple. When a Member uses 
taxpayer money to produce a video encouraging violence against another 
Member, they should lose the privilege of serving on a committee. That 
is what serving on a congressional committee is. It is a privilege. It 
is not a right.
  I don't know what Congressman Gosar has said in the privacy of 
Republican Conference meetings. I am not getting any invitations to 
those. Frankly, Madam Speaker, I don't really care because it is what 
he said publicly that counts, and publicly he has defended his actions.
  Can we just be honest here, Madam Speaker? For once, can my 
colleagues on the other side stand up to their leadership and say in 
public what they know to be true?
  After our colleague Gabby Giffords was shot, after the distinguished 
minority whip was shot, after what happened on January 6, after a 
record-breaking increase in threats against Members, will none of my 
colleagues on the other side admit that Congressman Gosar should be 
held accountable?
  And for all the talk from those on the other side about this standard 
somehow being a slippery slope, let me remind them that it is their own 
colleagues who have suggested removing Republicans not for advocating 
violence, but for voting for the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
  Is this the state of the Republican Party today? If you vote for a 
bipartisan bill, your own colleagues will call for retribution, but if 
you tweet a video depicting the murder of a colleague and depicting 
violence against the President of the United States, that is somehow 
okay? Come on.
  His office produced this video, and Congressman Gosar defended it. We 
have people out there being influenced by garbage like this. We have 
Members being forced to pay for security. We have Members getting death 
threats. This is dangerous stuff that we are talking about here.
  But last night in the Rules Committee we heard a lot of 
rationalization. We heard explanation. We heard whataboutism. Give me a 
break.
  Madam Speaker, the dangerous standard, the real slippery slope would 
be for this Congress to do nothing here, to be satisfied with a stern, 
private phone call from the Republican leadership and no 
accountability.
  We cannot allow the normalization of political violence in America. 
Something is very, very wrong with that. And something is very, very 
wrong with anyone who thought posting this video was okay.
  Now, the minority leader had a ``stern, private call'' with 
Congressman Gosar. Guess what? That is not enough. There must be real 
consequences.
  Censure and removing Congressman Gosar from his committee assignments 
is appropriate here. This isn't about partisanship or anyone's voting 
record. This is about accountability, and at some point, we need to 
come together to uphold the integrity and the decency of this 
institution.
  To be honest, Madam Speaker, unfortunately, I am not hearing a hell 
of a lot of willingness from many on the other side to do that.
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Ms. SCANLON. Madam Speaker, I am prepared to close if the gentleman 
is prepared to close. I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time to 
close.
  Obviously, I oppose the rule. Today's action threatens one of the key 
norms of this institution, the right of the majority and minority to 
make committee assignments for their respective Members. It threatens 
to set a new, dangerous precedent for this institution, allowing the 
majority to have a veto over the minority's assignments.
  Representative Gosar has already addressed his misguided decision to 
post the video and has sought to rectify it.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the previous 
question, ``no'' on the rule, and I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. SCANLON. Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Madam Speaker, I include in the Record a November 9 Insider article 
entitled: ``GOP Lawmakers Want to Punish the 13 Republicans Who Voted 
for Biden's Infrastructure Bill By Kicking Them Off Congressional 
Committees, Report Says.''

                    [From the Insider, Nov. 9, 2021]

 GOP Lawmakers Want To Punish the 13 Republicans Who Voted for Biden's 
   Infrastructure Bill by Kicking Them Off Congressional Committees, 
                              Report Says

                            (By Tom Porter)

       Republican leaders in the US House of Representatives are 
     expecting a bid to punish the 13 Republicans who voted for 
     President Joe Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill by 
     stripping them of committee assignments, according to a 
     report.
       Punchbowl News reported that some Republican lawmakers were 
     determined to take action against the 13, several of whom are 
     ranking members or senior Republicans on House committees or 
     subcommittees.
       The report did not detail what level of support the move 
     might have as of Tuesday morning.
       Under House rules, a party's steering committee has the 
     power to recommend that a lawmaker be removed from committee 
     assignments, which is then subject to a vote by the caucus 
     and the full House.
       It is a punishment that has historically been reserved for 
     lawmakers who have been accused of crimes, or been involved 
     with extremism.
       The support of the 13 Republicans was ultimately vital for 
     the infrastructure bill passing into law last week, with six 
     Democrats voting against it amid a monthslong dispute in the 
     party over a connected bill that is being stalled in the 
     Senate. The infrastructure bill was passed by the Senate in a 
     bipartisan vote in June.
       The move to take action against the 13 Republicans who 
     supported the infrastructure bill highlights the fury of some 
     GOP lawmakers against party colleagues for backing Biden's 
     legislation.
       Several hard line loyalists to former President Donald 
     Trump on the far right of the GOP House caucus, including 
     Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz, have been 
     publicly critical of the 13 lawmakers. Trump himself has also 
     criticized them.
       ``Here are the `Republicans' that just voted to help Biden 
     screw America,'' Greene tweeted last week, branding them 
     ``traitors, and sharing pictures and phone numbers of them.
       In an Monday CNN interview, Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan--
     one of the 13 Republicans who voted for the infrastructure 
     bill--played a threatening message he'd received after the 
     vote.
       ``I'll tell you it's a terrible way--we have seen civility 
     really downslide here. I'm concerned about my staff. They are 
     taking these calls,'' he said.
       There has long been tensions in the GOP between centrists 
     and Trump loyalists. In May, Rep. Liz Cheney was removed from 
     her leadership role in the House GOP over her criticism of 
     Trump and his baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election.

  Ms. SCANLON. Madam Speaker, as I indicated, there are some in the 
Republican Conference who want to kick 13 Republicans off their 
committees for voting for an infrastructure bill that will benefit 
their constituents, but when a Member of Congress publicly celebrates a 
video depicting the murder of a colleague, silence.
  It is disgraceful that Congress is the one place in the United States 
where a video calling for the murder of a Member of Congress is not 
universally condemned, and it is a sad thing for this institution.
  Madam Speaker, we are here to address the conduct of a Member of 
Congress who disseminated and celebrated a video that portrays him 
murdering another Member of Congress and attacking the President of the 
United States.
  The evidence speaks for itself. There is nothing more to review. 
Nothing to investigate. No questions to answer or facts to find.
  We have all seen the video. We have heard Mr. Gosar's response, and 
we have seen the lack of response from the Republican Party leadership 
to condemn Representative Gosar's celebration of violence to make clear 
that such actions are unacceptable, and that political violence is 
unacceptable in the United States of America.

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  In the absence of meaningful action by his own party, it is up to 
Members of the House of Representatives and the country as a whole to 
decide whether such actions deserve consequences.
  Today, we ask ourselves, is this behavior acceptable to you? Is it 
acceptable to the American people? The way we vote today says a lot, 
not only about the integrity of the Members who are entrusted with the 
privilege of representing this great country, but also the direction in 
which we are headed.
  I am grateful to the few Republican colleagues who have the integrity 
and the guts, quite frankly, to condemn Mr. Gosar's actions. But, once 
again, Republican leadership lacks the courage to properly manage the 
actions of their conference, and so Congress must act.
  Rejecting political violence should not be a partisan effort. How far 
has the party of Lincoln fallen that it would excuse this conduct? We 
must say that political violence is not acceptable in the United States 
of America.
  Madam Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to support the rule and 
underlying resolution.
  The material previously referred to by Mr. Cole is as follows:

       Strike all after the resolving clause and insert the 
     following:
       That immediately upon adoption of this resolution, the 
     House shall proceed to the consideration in the House of the 
     resolution (H. Res. 796), amending the Rules of the House of 
     Representatives to prohibit the consideration of a resolution 
     proposing to remove a Member from a standing committee unless 
     the resolution is offered by, or with the concurrence of, the 
     Leader of the party of the Member that is the subject of the 
     resolution. The resolution shall be considered as read. The 
     previous question shall be considered as ordered on the 
     resolution to adoption without intervening motion or demand 
     for division of the question except one hour of debate 
     equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking 
     minority member of the Committee on Rules. Clause 1(c) of 
     rule XIX shall not apply to the consideration of House 
     Resolution 796.

                              H. Res. 796

       Resolved,

     SECTION 1. REMOVAL OF A MEMBER FROM A STANDING COMMITTEE.

       Clause 5(a)(1) of rule X of the Rules of the House of 
     Representatives is amended to read as follows:
       ``(1)(A) The standing committees specified in clause 1 
     shall be elected by the House within seven calendar days 
     after the commencement of each Congress, from nominations 
     submitted by the respective party caucus or conference. A 
     resolution proposing to change the composition of a standing 
     committee shall be privileged if offered by direction of the 
     party caucus or conference concerned.
       ``(B) A resolution proposing to remove a Member from a 
     standing committee shall not be in order unless offered by, 
     or with the concurrence of, the Leader of the party of the 
     Member that is the subject of the resolution.
       ``(C) The Committee on Rules may not report a rule or order 
     that waives the application of subdivision (B).''.

  Ms. SCANLON. 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 221, 
nays 207, not voting 5, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 377]

                               YEAS--221

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Axne
     Barragan
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bourdeaux
     Bowman
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brown (MD)
     Brown (OH)
     Brownley
     Bush
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cheney
     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
     Kinzinger
     Kirkpatrick
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Lamb
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lawson (FL)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin (CA)
     Levin (MI)
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Luria
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCollum
     McEachin
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newman
     Norcross
     O'Halleran
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Rice (NY)
     Ross
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Speier
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Suozzi
     Swalwell
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NAYS--207

     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
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cawthorn
     Chabot
     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)
     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)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Long
     Lucas
     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
     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

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Griffith
     Loudermilk
     Luetkemeyer
     Perry
     Velazquez

                              {time}  1345

  Mrs. RODGERS of Washington and Mr. ROGERS of Alabama changed their 
vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Messrs. KRISHNAMOORTHI, NEGUSE, MALINOWSKI, and HORSFORD changed 
their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the previous question was ordered.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Ms. VELAZQUEZ. Madam Speaker, on Wednesday, November 17, I regret not 
being present for one vote session due to a committee briefing. Had I 
been present, I would

[[Page H6336]]

have voted ``aye'' on the motion on ordering the previous question on 
the Rule H. Res. 795, roll No. 377.


    Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress

     Auchincloss (Clark (MA))
     Blumenauer (Beyer)
     Carter (LA) (Kahele)
     DeFazio (Brown (MD))
     Dingell (Clark (MA))
     Khanna (Gomez)
     Kildee (Butterfield)
     Kirkpatrick (Stanton)
     Lawrence (Beatty)
     Lawson (FL) (Evans)
     Lesko (Joyce (PA))
     Levin (MI) (Raskin)
     Lowenthal (Beyer)
     McEachin (Wexton)
     Nunes (Garcia (CA))
     Porter (Wexton)
     Rice (NY) (Murphy (FL))
     Roybal-Allard (McCollum)
     Rush (Quigley)
     Stevens (Lee (NV))
     Swalwell (Gomez)
     Tlaib (Bowman)
     Underwood (Casten)
     Waltz (Salazar)
     Wilson (FL) (Hayes)
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. McCollum). 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 222, 
nays 208, not voting 3, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 378]

                               YEAS--222

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Axne
     Barragan
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bourdeaux
     Bowman
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brown (MD)
     Brown (OH)
     Brownley
     Bush
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cheney
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis, Danny K.
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                               NAYS--208

     Aderholt
     Allen
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     Ellzey
     Emmer
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     Zeldin

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Griffith
     Loudermilk
     Perry

                              {time}  1407

  Mr. MULLIN changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  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

     Auchincloss (Clark (MA))
     Blumenauer (Beyer)
     Carter (LA) (Kahele)
     DeFazio (Brown (MD))
     Dingell (Clark (MA))
     Khanna (Gomez)
     Kildee (Butterfield)
     Kirkpatrick (Stanton)
     Lawrence (Beatty)
     Lawson (FL) (Evans)
     Lesko (Joyce (PA))
     Levin (MI) (Raskin)
     Lowenthal (Beyer)
     McEachin (Wexton)
     Nunes (Garcia (CA))
     Porter (Wexton)
     Rice (NY) (Murphy (FL))
     Roybal-Allard (McCollum)
     Rush (Quigley)
     Stevens (Lee (NV))
     Swalwell (Gomez)
     Tlaib (Bowman)
     Underwood (Casten)
     Waltz (Salazar)
     Wilson (FL) (Hayes)

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