[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 202 (Friday, November 19, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H6659-H6667]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         BUILD BACK BETTER ACT

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 1(c) of rule XIX, further 
consideration of the bill (H.R. 5376) to provide for reconciliation 
pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14, as amended, will now resume.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Neal) 
has 1\3/4\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Brady) 
has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Massachusetts.
  Mr. NEAL. Madam Speaker, is the gentleman prepared to close? I 
reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. BRADY. Madam Speaker, I am prepared to close.
  Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Madam Speaker, we meet today to consider the largest spending bill in 
American history, a bill that no one has read, adds hundreds of 
billions to the deficit, was written in secret, and rushed to the floor 
to hide it from the American people.
  We have now the official costs, and the results are in. The claim by 
the President this costs zero and will reduce the national deficit is 
just simply untrue. According to the Congressional Budget Office, even 
counting the budget gimmicks, this bill adds hundreds of billions of 
dollars to the national debt and a more true accounting by the 
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates this could drive 
national deficits by $3 trillion over the next 10 years.

  The claim that this will not raise taxes on the middle class is 
simply false. One out of three Americans in the middle class will see a 
tax hike starting next year. The claim that this will make the wealthy 
pay their fair share is false as well. In this bill, coming out of 
COVID, two out of three millionaires in America will get a massive tax 
cut. And the claim that this will reduce inflation is not true as well. 
Even according to the White House's own favored analyst, the spending 
in this bill will drive up inflation for families, higher and longer, 
for at least a decade.
  The Build Back Better's crippling tax hikes will kill American jobs, 
drive many of them overseas. They hamper small businesses as they 
struggle to recover, worsen the labor shortage, and drive inflation 
even higher. The bill imposes over $400 billion in taxes on American 
small businesses. It couldn't come at a worse time.
  There are $800 billion in tax increases on American businesses who 
compete both here and around the world. This constitutes an economic 
surrender to China, Russia, Japan, and Europe, driving American jobs 
investment in manufacturing overseas.

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  The new corporate tax is really a ``Made in America'' tax. It hits 
American manufacturing, energy, and technology businesses the hardest, 
along with American consumers. The international tax increases make it 
better to be a foreign company than an American one. It is any wonder 
our foreign competitors are happy to embrace a global minimum tax. They 
are getting American jobs and a big bite of our tax base. There is a 
troubling new tax on retirement and a troubling new tax, the toddler 
tax, on American childcare. This is a terrible bill. I urge a ``no'' 
vote.
  Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. NEAL. Madam Speaker, I yield myself 45 seconds.
  Madam Speaker, this debate has gone on now for 3 months in the 
Committee on Ways and Means. Sixty amendments from the opposition were 
offered. This was fully vetted over 4 days of public scrutiny, and all 
maintained in daylight. I made sure of that, on purpose.
  And this, as I indicated last night, as I quoted a son of 
Massachusetts, Mr. Webster, I said rhetorically he asked, ``Did we do 
something worthwhile in our time?'' Today, we are going to answer that 
question. I am sorry that last evening when I quoted Webster it 
triggered an outburst from the Republican leader because we quoted an 
individual who was devoted to the Constitution of the United States and 
the premise that everybody in America gets a chance.
  Now, it is an honor for me to yield to the Speaker of the House, 
secure in her caucus, secure in her beliefs, and secure knowing what we 
are doing today in but a few minutes.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California 
(Ms. Pelosi).
  Ms. PELOSI. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding and for 
his extraordinary leadership.
  He and other chairs have brought us to a moment in history on the 
floor of the House today when we can do something of significance for 
the people. I thank the chairman.
  Madam Speaker, with confidence in the vision of President Biden, and 
associating myself with the inspiring and informative comments of the 
distinguished chairman, Mr. Neal, with our distinguished Democratic 
leader, Mr. Hoyer, the Democratic whip last evening, and with respect 
for those who work in this Capitol, and as a courtesy to my colleagues, 
I will be brief.
  In his remarks, our Democratic leader, Mr. Hoyer, talked about the 
pride we take in telling our children and our grandchildren that we 
were here present to pass the Build Back Better legislation and what it 
means for future generations. Whip Clyburn talked about the three legs 
of the Biden platform: the Rescue Plan, the BIF, the Infrastructure and 
Jobs bill, and now the Build Back Better, the infrastructure for our 
future. And Chairman Neal quoted   Daniel Webster and spoke of our 
responsibilities to the people.
  Madam Speaker, in that spirit, I proceed by saying: Under this dome, 
for centuries, Members of Congress have stood exactly where we stand 
now, to pass legislation of extraordinary consequence in our Nation's 
history and for our Nation's future.
  In the original House Chamber, now Statuary Hall where Lincoln 
served, is Clio, the muse of history. Clio reminds men and women in 
these hallowed Halls that we are part of history; that our words and 
actions will face the judgment of history; and that we are part of the 
long and honorable heritage of our democracy.
  With the passage of the Build Back Better Act, we--this Democratic 
Congress--are taking our place in the ``long and honorable heritage of 
our democracy,'' with legislation that will be a pillar of health and 
financial security in America that will be historic in forging landmark 
progress for our Nation. We talk about history as we look and prepare 
for the future.
  Much has been said since our distinguished Democratic leadership 
spoke last evening. Much has been said on this floor. But the facts are 
these: Following the vision of President Biden, guided by the expertise 
and energy of our chairs, Members, and staff, we have the Build Back 
Better bill that is historic, transformative, and larger than anything 
we have ever done before. We are building back better.
  If you are a parent, a senior, a child, a worker--if you are an 
American--this bill is for you. And it is better.
  It is better in terms of healthcare. It is better if you are a 
senior: Your cost at the pharmacy will be cut to a fraction, with 
annual costs capped under Medicare Part D, and you will benefit from 
the Medicare hearing benefit.

  It is better if you have diabetes: When you go to the pharmacy, 
instead of paying hundreds for insulin, you will pay no more than $35 
per month.
  And it is better for all Americans: We are halting Big Pharma's 
outrageous tax hikes; and in addition to that, we are dramatically 
lowering healthcare costs under the Affordable Care Act.
  We are also expanding coverage to millions under the Affordable Care 
Act, as I mentioned.
  It is better in terms of family care. If you are a parent, it is 
better. Most families will benefit from reduced childcare costs, cut 
fully in half for most families, and free universal pre-K for every 3- 
and 4-year-old in America.
  It is better if you are a middle-income family. You will benefit from 
an expanded Biden child tax cut and paid family and medical leave.
  It is better if you are a caregiver. You will have the respect you 
deserve with the benefit of an historic investment of high-quality home 
healthcare.
  And it is better for America's working families, with an average of 2 
million jobs created each year over 10 years, together with the BIF.
  Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs; a four-letter word.
  And it is better for climate. If you want your family to benefit from 
clean air, clean water, for the development of good-paying green jobs 
for the future and from improved national security, we are meeting the 
President's vision to cut pollution in half by 2030 and 100 percent by 
2050, creating good-paying union jobs and lowering families' energy 
costs; advancing environmental justice with the Justice40 initiative of 
President Biden; and honoring our commitment to passing on a better 
planet to our children. Our responsibility is always to our children 
and to the future.
  Last week, our congressional delegation went to COP26 in Glasgow and 
affirmed the commitment of this Congress to meet and beat our climate 
goals. With this legislation, we can achieve this for the children and 
for Mother Nature.
  The Build Back Better agenda creates jobs, secures tax cuts for the 
middle class, lowers costs for families, while making the wealthiest 
pay their fair share. Good-paying jobs; cut taxes for the middle class; 
lower costs, especially in regard to healthcare and childcare; making 
the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share.
  Build Back Better is fully paid for. It reduces the deficit and grows 
the economy. Unlike--and perhaps I need to remind you--unlike the 
Republican tax scam, which was passed in the dark of night, with the 
speed of light, with no hearings whatsoever, and it increased the 
deficit by more than $2 trillion, more than this whole bill does for 
the American people; tax cuts for the wealthiest, giving 83 percent of 
the benefits to the top 1 percent and did nothing to help the American 
people in terms of jobs, clean air, clean water, affordable healthcare, 
and the rest.

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  Madam Speaker, 83 percent to the top 1 percent, in the dark of night, 
at speed of light. Don't make me laugh about criticizing this bill.
  Build Back Better will not increase inflation, according to the 
experts, including an array of Nobel Peace Prize-winning economists and 
Moody's.
  This victory is possible because of the tenacious, tireless, and 
values-based leadership of our chairs, members, and staff of the 
committees.
  I just want to acknowledge the staff of this institution, the House 
of Representatives, for their just being there for us over and over 
again regardless of when and where. Thank you so much.
  Build Back Better is a better agenda for workers, for families, for 
children, and for our planet. If you believe, as I do, that this planet 
is God's creation, and we have a moral obligation to be good stewards 
of it, this bill is for you.
  Even if you don't share that view--and I think most of us do. If you 
don't share that view, we all agree that we have a moral responsibility 
to our children and to their future to pass on the planet in a 
responsible way.

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  We are proud to be passing this legislation under the leadership of 
President Joe Biden. He was an advocate and a leader in terms of the 
bipartisan infrastructure bill, but he did not confine his vision for 
America to that bill alone.
  Today, we have the opportunity to build back better for the American 
people and for the children. Madam Speaker, I urge an ``aye'' vote on 
the legislation and a ``no'' vote on the motion to recommit.
  Mr. NEAL. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Madam Speaker, the Build Back Better Act is one of the 
most consequential pieces of legislation that has ever made its way 
through the halls of Congress.
  Over the last several decades, the rich have gotten richer, only for 
the Middle Class to pay the price as America's working families and our 
physical and social infrastructure have suffered the death of a 
thousand cuts.
  The Build Back Better Act sets our Nation on a new course--lowering 
the cost of health care, family care, and senior care, improving 
infrastructure, combating climate change, and creating good-paying jobs 
in every sector and community in our nation.
  Seniors will benefit from new federal negotiating powers to lower the 
price of prescription drugs, a $2,000 cap on their out-of-pocket drug 
expenses on Medicare Part D, and the inclusion of hearing care in 
Medicare for the first time.
  Americans with diabetes will no longer pay more than $35 per month 
for insulin.
  The vast majority of families will pay no more than 7 percent of 
their income for childcare. There will be new universal preschool for 
all 3- and 4-year-olds, and the Child Tax Credit will cut taxes for 
hardworking families.
  Our farmers will benefit from new investments in regenerative 
agriculture, soil conservation, and urban agriculture.
  The Civilian Climate Corps will help preserve and protect our 
environment while combating climate change.
  We will develop new emission-reduction technologies for our critical 
infrastructure like ports, and build the electric and hydrogen vehicles 
of the future for consumers and the public sector--including hundreds 
of thousands of vehicles of the United States Postal Service, and the 
heavy trucks and service equipment of city and county fleets--all while 
ensuring our workers receive the training they need for these new 
technologies. The Build Back Better Act will ensure our workers are not 
left behind in the transition to the new economy.
  We will modernize our electric grid, and upgrade our homes and 
neighborhoods through new weatherization initiatives.
  Under-resourced neighborhoods will finally have the resources for 
new, quality, affordable housing. Small business owners will see new 
opportunities for growth as our communities recover from years of 
underinvestment.
  And our veterans will receive higher quality care at new VA 
facilities across the Nation.
  The American people will do all this by finally requiring the 
wealthiest, the biggest corporations, and the tax cheats to pay their 
fair share. Multimillionaires and those who store their wealth offshore 
will pay the taxes they owe to support America's resurgence.
  And no one making less than $400,000 a year will pay one red cent in 
higher taxes.
  We know that what America makes and grows makes and grows America. 
The Build Back Better Act will invest in and support those who do the 
making and growing. Every child, worker, family, senior will benefit.
  The Build Back Better Act will guide America to a better future, and 
restore the Middle Class that has long labored to build up this 
Nation--the greatest Democratic Republic in the world.
  Today is a good day for America. Now, let's get this bill to 
President Biden's desk.
  Ms. ESHOO. Madam Speaker, I rise in full support of the Build Back 
Better Act.
  This is a historic day for the American people and for the future of 
our country because this legislation is the most transformative 
investment in our people in more than half a century.
  As Chairwoman of the Health Subcommittee, I'm proud that the bill 
allows Medicare to negotiate the prices it pays for prescription drugs, 
just as the VA has for many years. Our bill also caps out-of-pocket 
drug costs for seniors at $2,000 annually, caps the monthly price of 
insulin for patients with diabetes at $35, expands the Affordable Care 
Act to lower insurance premiums by an average of $600 per person per 
year, and brings health insurance coverage to four million uninsured 
Americans.
  We're voting to tackle the climate crisis with the largest clean 
energy investment in our country's history. Climate change poses an 
existential threat to our country and our planet, and this bill 
recognizes the scale of these problems by putting the U.S. on a path to 
cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 and meet our climate goals 
under the Paris Agreement.
  This legislation dramatically lowers the cost of childcare and makes 
pre-K universal for all three and four year olds in our country. Under 
the bill, the vast majority of American families will pay no more than 
seven percent of their income on childcare. We also improve elder care 
by investing $150 billion to provide quality home-based care for 
seniors and people with disabilities.
  Every American family with an income of less than $150,000 will 
continue to receive monthly payments from the expanded Child Tax Credit 
for another year. This tax credit has already lifted three million 
children out of poverty.
  Very importantly, the bill restores deductibility of state and local 
taxes (SALT). Prior to the harmful $10,000 cap that was put into place 
in the 2017 Trump tax cut law, my constituents claimed an average SALT 
deduction of $63,083. This bill raises the cap to $80,000 until 2030, 
without adding a cent to the deficit.
  All of these policies are fully paid for without raising taxes on 
anyone earning less than $400,000 per year. Revenue is raised through a 
new 15 percent minimum tax on businesses that report more than $1 
billion in profits to shareholders. This ends the shameful practice of 
large, profitable businesses paying zero in income taxes. It also 
raises taxes on the wealthiest 0.02 percent of Americans with a five 
percent surtax on incomes of more than $ 10 million and a further three 
percent on incomes over $25 million. Finally, the bill provides robust 
funding for IRS tax enforcement to crack down on tax cheats which the 
Treasury Department estimates will raise $400 billion in revenue.
  I came to Congress to solve problems and better the lives of the 
American people. The Build Back Better Act is an economic launching pad 
for the middle class and working families. Let history record that 
House Democrats came together to pass legislation to drastically 
improve the lives of the American people and that sadly, not one 
Republican chose to join us.
  Mr. NADLER. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of the Build Back 
Better Act, a once-in-a-generation investment to lower the everyday 
costs that burden working families and adequately address the climate 
crisis. This bold, progressive bill at the core of President Biden's 
Build Back Better agenda will have a positive impact on every single 
American family.
  The legislation delivers the largest investment in childcare and 
early education in history. Build Back Better is estimated to provide 
access to childcare for nearly one million young children in New York. 
I am proud that the bill also provides universal, high-quality, free 
preschool for every 3- and 4-year-old in America. Today, only 25 
percent of young children in New York have access to publicly funded 
preschool, and the costs for those that can't enter publicly funded 
programs are often crippling. I am thrilled that nearly 300,000 young 
children in New York will now be able to attend preschool. The bill 
also will provide over two million students in New York with resources 
to purchase school meals.
  The Build Back Better Act will also improve the lives of working 
families by expanding rental assistance and affordable housing, 
establishing paid family and medical leave, extending the Child Tax 
Credit, extending the American Rescue Plan's Earned Income Tax Credit, 
and finally addressing the unfair SALT Deduction caps.
  I am also pleased that this historic legislation will lower 
prescription drug costs for millions of Americans by finally 
negotiating lower drug prices for seniors, stopping outrageous price 
hikes in prescription drugs, setting a new $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket 
prescription costs for seniors, and capping the cost of life-saving 
insulin at $35 per month. The bill will further lower health care costs 
for Americans by passing the largest expansion of the Affordable Care 
Act in a decade to make coverage more affordable, expanding Medicaid 
coverage and eligibility, and expanding access to affordable home care 
for older adults and those with disabilities.
  Finally, I am incredibly proud that the Build Back Better Act 
contains the single largest investment to combat the climate crisis in 
human history. This historic bill includes a $500 billion investment in 
clean energy and climate to cut greenhouse pollution by well over one 
gigaton in 2030, reduce home energy costs, create hundreds of thousands 
of high-quality jobs, and advance environmental justice for those 
communities on the frontline of the climate crisis. The bill will also 
provide a vital boost to New York's climate resilience and preparedness 
efforts to safeguard the city from future Superstorm Sandy level 
storms.
  Best of all, the historic investments included in the Build Back 
Better Act are not only fully paid for, the Treasury Department 
estimates that the bill will reduce the deficit by over $100 billion 
over a decade.

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  This historic legislation will ensure that our workers and families 
are no longer held back by high costs or lack of access. For too long, 
we have failed to invest properly in everyday people. Instead, we have 
allowed big corporations and the wealthy to access all the resources 
this Nation has to offer without paying their fair share. This stops 
here. By passing President Biden's agenda into law, we have set our 
Nation on a course to meet its climate goals, create millions of good-
paying jobs, relieve working families struggling to afford the growing 
costs of raising children, and grow our economy. I urge my colleagues 
to vote yea on this transformative legislation.
  Mr. SABLAN. Madam Speaker, H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act, 
provides critical investments to lower the everyday costs that face 
working families in the Marianas and across America--from health care 
to education to job training to child care and more.
  The Act appropriates $1 billion for critical infrastructure in the 
Marianas and other insular areas which could create new jobs and 
improve the quality of life for all in our islands.
  The bill helps more Marianas families access the health care they 
need by increasing base funding for Medicaid to $70 million and making 
permanent the current 83 percent federal/17 percent local shares for 
Medicaid, a ratio better than any State in the Nation.
  Dental, vision, and hearing services are also added as mandatory 
Medicaid benefits.
  The over 2,000 seniors and others in the Marianas who are insured 
through Medicare would be eligible for hearing aids, a new program 
benefit. And for those who also participate in the Medicare Part D drug 
program out of pocket costs are capped at $2,000.
  As Chairman of the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and 
Secondary Education, I strongly support the transformative investments 
the Act makes in education from birth, universal pre-kindergarten and 
all the way to placement in a rewarding career.
  Our youngest learners in the Marianas will have access to high-
quality, child care up to age 5 and universal free pre-kindergarten.
  And 10,800 Marianas students, who receive free lunches in school, 
will qualify for a supplemental summer feeding program of $65 per 
month.
  The Build Back Better Act includes my College Access Act which 
provides bachelor's degree students from the Marianas up to $15,000 per 
year to make up the difference between in-state and out-of-state 
tuition at public colleges.
  Moreover, the Act increases the maximum annual Pell grant for low-
income students to $7,045. The White House estimates there are 1,032 
students in the Marianas who rely on Pell to cover tuition, books, 
housing, and other expenses.
  The legislation helps job seekers in the Marianas get placed with 
career and training opportunities with the inclusion of provisions from 
my Employment Services and Jobs Parity Act and Job Corps Nationwide Act 
making funding from these federal programs available for the first 
time.
  The Build Back Better Act extends the Child Tax Credit that has 
already provided $28.7 million this year to Marianas families. Parents 
would also benefit from funding that ensures they pay no more 7 percent 
of their income for high quality child care and a new paid family leave 
policy, providing four weeks of paid leave in the case of birth or 
illness.
  And money in the bill will help the Marianas reduce its reliance on 
fossil fuels by opening offshore wind lease sales and cover the full 
cost of new tax credits for electric vehicles and residential solar and 
wind systems.
  I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 5376 to help all communities in 
our country build back better.
  Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Madam Speaker, I thank Chairman Yarmuth 
for his steadfast commitment to shepherding this landmark legislation 
to the floor.
  I am honored to join with my colleagues, just days after President 
Biden signed a sorely needed and long-awaited infrastructure package 
that will rebuild the Nation's deteriorating roads and bridges to 
consider the ``Build Back Better Act.''
  Madam Speaker, the magnitude of what we are doing here is really 
compelling.
  Twenty-eight years ago, I came to Congress to advocate for the 
interests of my friends and neighbors who, after decades of struggle, 
deserve a more fair and equitable economy that fuels prosperity and job 
growth in our communities well into the future.
  That is just what H.R. 5376 will do.
  I could not be prouder to be a part of this Democratic majority as we 
come together, with a sense of urgency, to deliver for the people while 
tackling climate change and other challenges that put our communities 
at risk.
  I am particularly appreciative that the bill invests $1.5 billion in 
the Department of Homeland Security to provide crucial resources to 
three challenges confronting the Nation: cybersecurity; domestic 
terrorism and other threats to houses of worship and non-profits; and 
reducing the Department of Homeland Security's carbon footprint.
  The homeland security title of this bill provides $100 million in new 
funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program, which helps DHS take 
necessary action to help secure churches, synagogues, mosques, and 
other nonprofits from domestic terrorism and other threats.
  It has been just 3 years since the deadliest attack on the Jewish 
community in U.S. history, when 11 lives were lost in a mass shooting 
at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  The funding the House provides today can help prevent such a tragedy 
from happening again.
  Madam Speaker, I include in the Record a statement in support of this 
additional funding from the Jewish Federations of America.
  It also invests in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security 
Agency to help State and local governments develop secure and resilient 
critical infrastructure networks by, among other things, accelerating 
State and local governments' transition to the (dot) gov domain and 
increasing capacity to hire network defenders.
  Finally, the homeland security title provides $900 million in 
strategic investments to help the department reduce its carbon 
footprint and mitigate the ongoing effects of climate change that have 
a direct impact on our national security.
  Once again, I thank Chairman Yarmuth for his leadership along with 
Speaker Pelosi, Leader Hoyer, and my fellow committee chairs for their 
months of hard work to produce this once-in-a-generation legislation 
which includes so many important investments in our homeland security.
  For these reasons, I urge passage of H.R. 5376 and look forward to 
swift action on this package by the Senate so that it can be signed by 
President Biden and begin to improve the lives of my constituents in 
the Second District of Mississippi and beyond.

     [From The Jewish Federations of North America, Oct. 28, 2021]

  Jewish Federations Express Gratitude for Additional Security Funding

       Jewish Federations Express their gratitude to House 
     Homeland Security Chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and Senate 
     Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee Chair Gary 
     Peters (D-MI) for helping to secure an additional $100 
     million for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) in 
     the Homeland Security portion of the reconciliation package.
       ``Communities can only flourish when their security needs 
     are met. The inclusion of an additional $100 million for the 
     Nonprofit Security Grant Program will save lives, help keep 
     Jewish and other communities safe, and allow them to 
     flourish'' said Eric Fingerhut, President and CEO of the 
     Jewish Federations of North America.
       ``Just yesterday, we commemorated three years since the 
     Tree of Life massacre in Pittsburgh, the worst violent 
     anitsemitic attack in the nation's history. Additional 
     funding to the Nonprofit Security Grant Program will not only 
     help secure synagogues, but houses of worship and nonprofits 
     of every stripe across the nation that face threats at a time 
     of increased violent extremism,'' he added.
       The NSGP provides grants to nonprofits to help fund 
     security measures such as inspection and screening systems, 
     physical barriers, and development of emergency preparedness 
     plans.
       This year, as hate crimes spiked and houses of worship were 
     increasingly targeted, the NSGP was able to fund fewer than 
     half of all applicants.
       Fingerhut advocated for increasing NSGP funds at a Senate 
     HSGAC hearing on violent extremism this Summer.
       Homeland Security Appropriations bills in both chambers 
     propose leaving NSGP funding flat at $180 million, as overall 
     proposed funding levels remain unchanged.
       Federations' advocacy for further government investment in 
     community safety measures is part of the public-private 
     partnership envisioned in the historic LiveSecure campaign, 
     which is raising $54 million in philanthropic dollars to 
     spread the security umbrella to every Jewish community across 
     the country and help fortify Jewish communal institutions.
       Jewish Federations also thank Senate Majority Leader 
     Charles Schumer (D-NY) for his leadership on this program, 
     and the perennial champions Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), 
     Rob Portman (R-OH), and Reps. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) and John 
     Katko (R-NY) for supporting NSGP funding. We look forward to 
     continuing to work with them to increase annual funding for 
     the program through the appropriations process.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Madam Speaker, President Biden's massive new 
multitrillion dollar tax and spend bill, the so-called Build back 
Better Act will cost at least $4 trillion according to the U.S. Chamber 
of Commerce.
  According to the Chamber, the Build Back Better Act will 
significantly increase inflation and lead to up to 3 million people 
losing their employer sponsored health insurance plans.
  Astonishingly, as we debate this legislation on the floor of the 
House today, there is still no detailed cost analysis by the 
nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

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  Among the bill's most egregious provisions, it:
  Effectively bans Catholic and other faith-based schools from 
participating in the expanded child care program;
  Dramatically raises taxes on businesses and individuals;
  Grants more power to the IRS to target taxpayers by removing taxpayer 
protection requirements and hiring 87,000 additional agents;
  Permits taxpayer money to go to entities involved China's genocide 
against the Uyghur Muslims;
  Institutes price controls on prescription drugs and subjects 
companies that refuse to comply to a massive excise tax, which would 
cripple innovation and could cause the removal of life-saving drugs 
from the U.S. market.
  And, shockingly, the legislation forces taxpayers to pay for abortion 
on demand in several new and expanded programs.
  Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize or facilitate the killing 
of an unborn child.
  The so-called Build Back Better Act:
  Gives states $30 billion over three years to create reinsurance 
programs for health insurance issuers. There are no protections 
whatsoever to prevent subsidization of plans covering elective 
abortion,
  Extends to January 1, 2027 the increases to premium tax credits 
available for consumers through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Premium 
tax credits allow taxpayer funding to subsidize ACA plans that provide 
elective abortion;
  Provides $10 billion worth of public health funding grants that 
aren't Hyde Amendment protected,
  Makes permanent the Health Coverage Tax Credit without Hyde 
protection to prevent taxpayer funds in this program from paying for 
health plans that include elective abortion;
  Mandates abortion coverage in the Affordable Care Act (ACA);
  And more.
  The National Right to Life Committee strongly opposes this 
legislation and pointed out that: ``The 2010 Obamacare law as would the 
Build Back Better (BBB) created multiple new streams of federal funding 
that are ``self-appropriated'' flowing outside regular appropriations.
  ``That said, the Obamacare law contains a provision that specifically 
permitted states to ban elective abortion coverage in their exchanges, 
and 25 states passed legislation doing so. The BBB, starting in 2024, 
would explicitly override the laws of 11 of these states--states that 
did not expand their Medicaid programs. One additional non-expansion 
state (Wyoming) will also now be required to cover abortion.
  ``Further, the provisions mandate that Obamacare silver exchange 
plans cover abortion and transportation for abortions (without cost 
sharing) for the Medicaid coverage gap population. The BBB provides 
unlimited appropriations to finance this abortion expansion. The BBB 
would mandate coverage in the abovementioned 12 states of ``services 
described in subsection (a)(4)(C) of section 1905 of such [the Social 
Security] Act [family planning services] for which Federal payments 
would have been so available [``under title XIX of the Social Security 
Act] which are not otherwise provided under such plan as part of the 
essential health benefits package described in section 1302(a).'' 
Obamacare specifically excluded abortion as a required essential health 
benefit under section 1303, and this BBB provision would effectively 
override the 2010 law.''
  The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops wrote to every Member of 
Congress on Wednesday and said: ``it is completely unacceptable that 
the current House version of the Build Back Better Act expands taxpayer 
funding of abortion . . . No proposal to support individuals needing 
affordable health care coverage should compel Americans to pay for the 
destruction of human life through their tax dollars . . . In addition, 
the latest text maintains the proposed health care affordability fund 
for states without Hyde protections, and provides funding for several 
public health grants without Hyde protections. This fundamental problem 
of expanded taxpayer funding of abortion in the Build Back Better Act 
must be remedied before the bill moves forward.''
  The Susan B. Anthony List opposes the bill and said yesterday: ``It 
is critical to remember that whenever abortion is not explicitly 
excluded from funding, it is included . . . A careful reading of this 
bill shows billions of dollars being appropriated outside of Hyde 
protections, leaving them available for direct and indirect abortion 
funding, upsetting the status quo and funneling money to the abortion 
industry . . . The ACA coverage provision mandates abortion coverage 
for its Medicaid-gap population in the twelve states that opted out of 
Medicaid expansion for plan years 2024 and 2025. It is notable that 
none of these states currently fund abortion coverage. This language 
would coerce them states to cover abortion against the will of their 
constituents.''
  The Hyde Amendment, Madam Speaker, has saved more than 2.4 million 
lives--about 60,000 per year since it was first enacted.
  Hyde protections need to be added to this bill.
  It is time, I believe, for more of us to face the harsh reality of 
what abortion does to children and look beyond the sound bites and 
slogans.
  No-one in the media ever bothers to expose the violent methods of 
abortion that include dismemberment of a child's fragile body, 
including decapitation, and that drugs like RU-486 starve the baby to 
death.
  Or that unborn babies killed by abortion at 20 weeks or later 
experience excruciating suffering and physical pain. And until rendered 
unconscious or dead by these hideous procedures, the baby feels the 
pain every cut according to medical experts in life-enhancing prenatal 
surgery.
  Abortion is not health care unless one construes the precious life of 
an unborn child to be analogous to a tumor to be excised or a disease 
to be vanquished pregnancy is not a disease.
  Mr. Biden once wrote constituents, explaining that his support for 
laws against funding for abortion, by saying ``it would protect both 
the woman and her unborn child.''
  Mr. Biden went on to say ``that those of us who are opposed to 
abortion should not be compelled to pay for them.'' I agree. Most 
Americans agree.
  Over the years, the polls have consistently shown that Americans do 
not support taxpayer funded abortion.
  The January 2021 Marist poll found that by a margin of 58 percent to 
38 percent oppose taxpayer funded abortion.
  The Marist poll found that a supermajority of 65 percent of 
Independents oppose taxpayer funding of abortion.
  Unborn babies need the President of the United States and Members of 
Congress to be their friend and advocate, not powerful adversaries.
  Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois. Madam Speaker, I ran for Congress to 
help people in Chicago, in Illinois and across the country achieve the 
American dream. The Build Back Better Act represents a transformative 
investment in children, families, workers, businesses, and the planet 
that will improve health and well-being, advance economic and 
environmental justice, meaningfully address climate change, and grow 
our economy while asking the wealthiest and most secure to pay their 
fair share. The pandemic has harmed tens of millions of Americans--
disproportionately hurting African Americans and other communities of 
color, women, seniors, and children. This bill meets immediate needs 
for food, shelter, medical care, and child care as well as long-term 
needs for quality education, good-paying jobs, safe roads and water, 
and a healthy environment. I am deeply proud that many priorities that 
I have championed are included in this historic bill.
  It provides 4 weeks of paid family and medical leave for workers so 
that they do not face the inhumane choice of caring for loved ones or 
financial ruin. Lower-income workers and workers of color are much less 
likely to have any paid leave, yet are more likely to need it due to 
greater health challenges and less savings to weather caregiving 
without pay. As Chair of the Subcommittee with jurisdiction over paid 
leave, I have worked closely with Ways and Means Chairman Neal and 
advocates to shape this equity-generating, universal benefit.
  The bill enhances the Earned Income Tax Credit to improve the 
economic well-being of millions of childless workers and noncustodial 
parents--with new help for younger workers, foster and homeless youth, 
and seniors. I've fought for these improvements for over a decade via 
my Responsible Fatherhood Act. These changes will help 17 million 
adults nationwide and over 600,000 in Illinois.
  It provides $2 billion to train workers with barriers to employment--
including people with records--for careers in the allied health 
professions. This provision will help Chicago State which has a stellar 
Health Profession Opportunity Grant program and expand programs like 
those offered by the Safer Foundation to help people with records 
become successful healthcare professionals.
  It helps vulnerable students by making Pell non-taxable and removing 
the lifetime ban on the American Opportunity Tax Credit for past felony 
drug convictions.
  It incents substantial private investment in solar energy that will 
reduce electricity costs for tens of millions of low-income individuals 
while making the air they breathe safer.
  It contains strong labor provisions so that our investments in green 
energy benefit workers as well as businesses.
  It includes $1 billion for to help justice-involved individuals 
obtain employment and training services via the Reentry Employment 
Opportunities Program. It makes sure that people leaving prison have 
Medicaid coverage to improve health and successful reentry.
  It includes $2.5 billion for public health approaches to reduce 
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advance trauma interventions, which I have championed via the RISE from 
Trauma Act.
  It helps restore fairness to the tax code by rolling back the 
Republicans' punitive limit on the State and Local Tax deduction to 
hurt citizens in blue states like Illinois.
  The pandemic hit Black renters with children especially hard, with 29 
percent reporting that their household is not caught up on rent. 
Further, in 2020, Black and Latino families with children were more 
than twice as likely to suffer food insecurity as white households. The 
Build Back Better Act addresses racial and economic inequities for 
communities of color and rural and underserved communities. It 
dramatically reduces child poverty via a substantial Child Tax Credit, 
raising a projected 4.1 million children above the poverty line and 
cutting child poverty by more than 40 percent. In October alone, the 
advanced CTC gave caregivers in my Congressional District over $30 
million to provide food, shelter, and other necessities for 121,000 
children. This bill makes the largest investment in affordable housing 
and community development in half a century--over $145 billion--and it 
feeds the hungry with $10 billion for nutrition.
  It makes Americans healthier by decreasing the cost of health 
insurance and medication, expanding medical services, investing $1 
billion in community health centers, and providing tremendous funding 
to reduce health inequities.
  It makes the largest investment in child care in our Nation's 
history, saving most families more than half of their spending on child 
care. Further, it makes historic investments to care for seniors and 
individuals with disabilities so that they can receive care in their 
homes and communities, recognizing the need to care for our aging 
population.
  It makes the largest expansion of free education since our country 
established public high schools a century ago. It provides universal 
and free preschool for all 3- and 4-year-olds, promoting racial equity 
in education. In addition, it expands access to affordable higher 
education by increasing the Pell grants by $550 for more than 5 million 
students, creating grants to close the college completion gap, and 
investing in Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority 
Serving Institutions, including Predominantly Black Institutions like 
Malcolm X, Olive-Harvey, and Chicago State.
  This legislation invests billions in small businesses, including $1.6 
billion for minority owned businesses and $105 million for education 
and financial assistance for the formerly-incarcerated to form 
businesses to create jobs in their communities. Further, it ensures the 
largest effort to combat climate change in American history.
  I am honored to vote for this once-in-a-generation legislation. I 
came to Congress to make this type of momentous change. I urge my 
colleagues to pass it.
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong 
support of the Build Back Better Act.
  The Oversight Committee, which I chair, authored several key sections 
of this bill, which together will allocate nearly $14 billion.
  My committee's sections are more than just numbers on a page--they 
represent a substantial and genuine investment in our future.
  We have no future if we don't get serious about combatting climate 
change, and my committee's title would make the federal government a 
leader on combatting climate change by electrifying the federal 
government's vehicle fleet, and building the fleet of the future.
  Our title includes nearly $3 billion for GSA to purchase tens of 
thousands of electric vehicles and build the infrastructure necessary 
to support them.
  It also includes nearly $6 billion for the Postal Service to purchase 
electric vehicles for its new fleet, and to build the infrastructure 
necessary to charge these vehicles.
  EVs are a sensible and cost-effective investment that will reduce 
emissions and keep the federal government competitive.
  The title also includes $4 billion for GSA to expand the use of 
emerging green technologies and ensure that federal buildings are 
modernized with greener construction materials and modern environmental 
systems.
  I'm especially pleased that we've included dedicated funding for OMB 
to support implementation of the Act and track labor, equity, and 
environmental standards and performance.
  Our title also includes funding to ensure proper oversight of these 
programs.
  It is critical that the House pass the Build Back Better Act as 
quickly as possible so that we can get this to the President's desk 
without delay.
  I urge all my colleagues to support this bill.
  Mr. NUNES. Madam Speaker, the Democrats have summoned us to the House 
floor today to debate their unaffordable socialist spending bill. It is 
rather novel for Congress to debate a bill that does not yet have final 
legislative text, but. after suffering alarming electoral defeats 
earlier this month, the Democrats appear desperate to save President 
Biden's domestic agenda, regardless of the consequences. So, here we 
are.
  While the bill's actual provisions remain unclear, what is clear is 
the Biden administration's zeal to permanently transform the American 
economy. In an October press conference, White House Press Secretary 
Jen Psaki went to great lengths to explain that the Democrats' 
reconciliation spending bill is seen by the President as a vehicle to 
remake the economy.
  Biden seeks to ``do something historic that will fundamentally change 
the economy,'' she declared. He's seeking to make ``fundamental 
changes,'' she added. She later noted that the President seeks to 
``make fundamental change in our economy,'' ``change fundamentally how 
we invest in our workforce,'' ``fundamentally change the economy,'' and 
``fundamentally change people's lives.''
  We should take Psaki at her word--President Biden believes he has 
found basic flaws in our economic system, and the solution is to inject 
trillions of dollars into government programs.
  Earlier this year, the President made a down payment on this 
fundamental transformation when he signed into law the Democrats' $1.9 
trillion so-called stimulus plan. The economic impact has been 
staggering: gas prices are reaching record highs, our supply chain is 
in crisis, small businesses are beset by a government-made labor 
shortage, and skyrocketing inflation is making everyday life 
unaffordable for working Americans.
  The response from Democrats has been instructive. First, Democrats 
denied that inflation existed at all. Then, they claimed Republicans 
were exacerbating concerns over what they deemed ``transitory 
inflation'' for political gain. Next, they said inflation was both not 
transitory and, in fact, a good thing for the economy. Now, they accuse 
Republicans of opposing their plan to tackle the inflation they claimed 
was a good thing.
  If inflation is indeed a good thing, then America is in luck--the 
Democrats' Build Back Better agenda promises much more of it. It's as 
if the Democrats are attempting to hyperinflate their way out of 
inflation.
  This unaffordable bill won't solve the problems the Democrats have 
created. It won't lower energy prices, or tame inflation, or resolve 
the supply chain crisis, or help Americans get back to work. To the 
contrary, it's an ideological bill designed to implant socialism 
irreversibly in the federal government.
  The whole bill is a slap in the face to the American people. 
Thankfully, however, this debate is just political theater, since we 
all know the bill, whenever it is finally passed by House Democrats, 
will die a quick death in the Senate.
  Ms. BONAMICI. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of a meaningful 
and consequential piece of legislation, the Build Back Better Act.
  This bill will strengthen our economy, create good-paying jobs, and 
make extraordinary investments that will improve child care, education, 
health care, child nutrition, and housing. Importantly, the legislation 
will take critical steps to address the climate crisis.
  This legislation is a significant victory for children, families, 
caregivers, and early childhood educators. According to data from 
Oregon State University, every county in my home state of Oregon was a 
child care desert for infant and toddler care before the coronavirus 
pandemic, meaning that there is only one spot for every three children 
who need care. The $390 billion investment for early childhood care and 
universal preschool in the Build Back Better Act is fundamental to the 
long-term success and health of our kids and economy. These investments 
will help millions of parents, overwhelmingly women, return to work. 
Additionally, we will finally recognize the critical role of early 
childhood educators by making sure they are paid a living wage.
  We have also provided substantial investments in our students by 
making higher education more affordable, including by increasing the 
value of the Pell Grant and expanding federal financial aid to eligible 
students with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), temporary 
protected status (TPS), and deferred enforced departure (DED) status. 
To help students succeed in school and transition into a rewarding 
career, the Build Back Better Act provides funding for retention and 
completion grants. The bill also supports our teaching workforce by 
investing in grant programs to help train new teachers and address the 
teacher shortage. Additionally, the legislation also supports 
communities of color through targeted investments in Historically Black 
Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-
Serving Institutions and other Minority Serving Institutions.
  As Chair of the Education and Labor Committee's Civil Rights and 
Human Services Subcommittee, I know students will be better equipped to 
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worrying about their next meal. The Build Back Better Act provides nine 
million more students free school meals through improving the Community 
Eligibility Provision, which is a significant step toward ending 
childhood hunger.
  The Build Back Better Act provides for greater access to high-
quality, affordable health care and lowers costs for many Americans, 
especially our nation's seniors. The bill extends the enhanced 
Affordable Care Act premium tax credits that were included in the 
American Rescue Plan, and lowers the cost of prescription drugs by 
finally allowing Medicare to negotiate prices for some drugs. The bill 
expands Medicare to cover the cost of hearing aids and makes home 
health care for elderly parents or loved ones with disabilities more 
affordable and accessible. It also includes significant resources for 
Older Americans Act meal programs and other senior services that I have 
long championed, particularly those supporting LGBTQ+ seniors and other 
underserved communities.
  The bill will allow work authorization and provide important 
protections from deportation for many immigrants who have been building 
lives in this country and contributing to our communities for more than 
a decade. The legislation will not provide the crucial path to 
citizenship that I have been advocating for, but this is significant 
progress that we can continue to build on.
  Importantly, we are facing a code red climate emergency and the Build 
Back Better Act is the most significant climate bill to come before the 
U.S. House of Representatives. It provides long-term extensions for 
renewable energy tax credits, and for the first time, energy storage 
projects will qualify for investment tax credits. This bill also 
invests $29 billion in nonprofit, state, and local institutions that 
support rapid deployment of low- and zero-emission technologies, with a 
particular focus on low-income communities that historically have not 
received these types of investments. This legislation combats methane 
emissions, which account for one-fifth of global greenhouse gas 
emissions, by creating a methane emissions reduction program to 
incentivize oil and gas companies to reduce their methane leaks.
  The health of our ocean reflects the health of our planet. The Build 
Back Better Act makes a significant investment by providing $6 billion 
for habitat restoration projects to conserve, restore, and protect 
coastal and marine habitats, increasing these ecosystems' resilience to 
climate change. It also provides $500 million for National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration climate research to improve our 
understanding of the interdependence of our nation's coasts, ocean, 
weather, and climate. Although there is still tremendous work needed to 
prevent national and global climate disaster, the Build Back Better Act 
makes transformational and unprecedented investments in combating 
climate change.
  The Build Back Better Act will also improve conditions for working 
Americans. It provides nearly $20 billion in funding for education and 
career training opportunities for underemployed and dislocated workers 
and fosters greater collaboration between industry, labor, nonprofits, 
and educational institutions to equip workers with skills training and 
post-training employment opportunities.
  This bill will also support families when they need to take leave 
from work. Currently, the U.S. is one of only six nations in the world 
without a national paid leave program. The Build Back Better act brings 
the United States in line with every other OECD country by providing 
workers with four weeks of paid family leave for childbirth, major 
illness recovery, and family caretaking responsibilities.
  Oregonians have long experienced pronounced challenges from the lack 
of affordable housing. The Build Back Better Act includes $150 billion 
to build and upgrade affordable housing stock and enhance rental 
assistance for low-income Americans. It also includes critical updates 
to and expands the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, which will further 
incentivize affordable housing development. This funding will improve 
housing affordability, support people experiencing homelessness, and 
shrink the homeownership gap for people of color.
  Data reported by the United States Census Bureau found that the Child 
Tax Credit expansion that was included in the American Rescue Plan has 
already slashed taxes for millions of families and contributed 
significantly to reducing child hunger and housing insecurity. The 
Build Back Better Act builds upon this success by extending the 
enhanced Child Tax Credit for another year.
  And finally, The Build Back Better Act is fully paid for by making 
sure the wealthiest Americans and large corporations pay their fair 
share in taxes.
  The Build Back Better Act's historic investments will improve the 
lives of families and individuals, create thousands of good-paying 
jobs, and help our country rebuild after the devastating COVID-19 
pandemic. And with the provisions to address the climate crisis, it 
will help bring about a better, healthier, and more secure future for 
Oregonians and Americans. For these reasons, I look forward to voting 
in favor of this bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time for debate has expired.
  Pursuant to House Resolution 744, the previous question is ordered on 
the bill, as amended.
  The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was 
read the third time.


                           Motion to Recommit

  Mr. BRADY. Madam Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. Brady moves to recommit the bill H.R. 5376 to the 
     Committee on the Budget.

  The material previously referred to by Mr. Brady is as follows:

       Strike section 138401 and insert the following:

     SEC. 138401. PROHIBITION ON NEW REQUIREMENTS TO REPORT BANK 
                   ACCOUNT DEPOSITS AND WITHDRAWALS.

       The Secretary of the Treasury (including any delegate of 
     the Secretary) may not require any financial institution to 
     report the inflows or out-flows (or any similar amount, 
     whether on a transaction or aggregate basis) of any account 
     maintained by such institution, except to the extent that 
     such reporting is required under any program, or other 
     provision of law, as in effect on October 1, 2021.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX, the 
previous question is ordered on the motion to recommit.
  The question is on the motion to recommit.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.
  Mr. BRADY. 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 208, 
nays 220, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 384]

                               YEAS--208

     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice (OK)
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brady
     Brooks
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Budd
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cawthorn
     Chabot
     Cheney
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Comer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia (CA)
     Gibbs
     Gimenez
     Gohmert
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez (OH)
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hagedorn
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hartzler
     Hern
     Herrell
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Hollingsworth
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Issa
     Jackson
     Jacobs (NY)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Katko
     Keller
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kim (CA)
     Kinzinger
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     Meijer
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Mullin
     Murphy (NC)
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunes
     Obernolte
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Pence
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (SC)
     Rodgers (WA)
     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

                               NAYS--220

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Axne
     Barragan

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     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)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis, Danny K.
     Dean
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Delgado
     Demings
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Frankel, Lois
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Golden
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs (CA)
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (TX)
     Jones
     Kahele
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Lamb
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lawson (FL)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin (CA)
     Levin (MI)
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Luria
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCollum
     McEachin
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newman
     Norcross
     O'Halleran
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Rice (NY)
     Ross
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Speier
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Suozzi
     Swalwell
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Buck
     Carl
     Clarke (NY)
     Perry
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)

                              {time}  0908

  Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Ms. PINGREE, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of 
New York, Messrs. STANTON, CARSON, MOULTON, and MFUME changed their 
vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Messrs. GRAVES of Louisiana, HOLLINGSWORTH, DAVIDSON, GOSAR, PALMER, 
and EMMER changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the motion to recommit was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


    Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress

     Amodei (Balderson)
     Baird (Walorski)
     Barragan (Allred)
     Blumenauer (Beyer)
     Boyle, Brendan F. (Jeffries)
     Brooks (Moore (AL))
     Brown (MD) (Blunt Rochester)
     Buchanan (Waltz)
     Burgess (Lucas)
     Bustos (Brownley)
     Calvert (Garcia (CA))
     Cardenas (Gomez)
     Carey (Balderson)
     Cleaver (Butterfield)
     Comer (LaTurner)
     Crenshaw (Mullin)
     Curtis (Moore (UT))
     DeFazio (Carbajal)
     DeSaulnier (Thompson (CA))
     Duncan (Timmons)
     Dunn (Waltz)
     Emmer (McHenry)
     Evans (Mfume)
     Fallon (Nehls)
     Ferguson (Kustoff)
     Fletcher (Allred)
     Garbarino (Jacobs (NY))
     Gibbs (Bucshon)
     Gimenez (Waltz)
     Gohmert (Weber)
     Gonzales, Tony (Ellzey)
     Gonzalez (OH) (Armstrong)
     Green (TN) (DesJarlais)
     Hagedorn (Moolenaar)
     Harshbarger (Fleischmann)
     Hartzler (Walberg)
     Herrera Beutler (Moore (UT))
     Hudson (Balderson)
     Huffman (McNerney)
     Issa (Garcia (CA))
     Jackson (Nehls)
     Johnson (OH) (Fulcher)
     Johnson (TX) (Jeffries)
     Joyce (OH) (Valadao)
     Joyce (PA) (Keller)
     Katko (Meijer)
     Kelly (PA) (Keller)
     Kind (Connolly)
     Kinzinger (Valadao)
     Kirkpatrick (Stanton)
     Krishnamoorthi (Levin (CA))
     LaHood (Miller (WV))
     Lamborn (McHenry)
     Larsen (WA) (Connolly)
     Lawson (FL) (Mfume)
     Lesko (Miller (WV))
     Letlow (Cammack)
     Lieu (Raskin)
     Long (Fleischmann)
     Loudermilk (Cammack)
     Lowenthal (Beyer)
     Lynch (Langevin)
     Mast (Waltz)
     McBath (Williams (GA))
     McEachin (Wexton)
     Meeks (Jeffries)
     Moulton (Kahele)
     Napolitano (Correa)
     Nunes (Garcia (CA))
     Payne (Pallone)
     Porter (Wexton)
     Reed (Walorski)
     Reschenthaler (Keller)
     Rice (NY) (Murphy (FL))
     Rodgers (WA) (Moore (UT))
     Roybal-Allard (McCollum)
     Rush (Quigley)
     Salazar (Waltz)
     Sewell (Cicilline)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Stauber (Bergman)
     Steube (Timmons)
     Stevens (Lee (NV))
     Stewart (Moore (UT))
     Strickland (Jeffries)
     Swalwell (Gomez)
     Thompson (MS) (Butterfield)
     Thompson (PA) (Meuser)
     Tiffany (Arrington)
     Trahan (Langevin)
     Trone (Beyer)
     Underwood (Casten)
     Veasey (Beatty)
     Welch (McGovern)
     Wilson (FL) (Hayes)
     Young (Spartz)
     Zeldin (Timmons)
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. BRADY. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 
8, the yeas and nays are ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 220, 
nays 213, not voting 1, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 385]

                               YEAS--220

     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)
     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
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs (CA)
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (TX)
     Jones
     Kahele
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Lamb
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lawson (FL)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin (CA)
     Levin (MI)
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Luria
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCollum
     McEachin
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newman
     Norcross
     O'Halleran
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Rice (NY)
     Ross
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Speier
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Suozzi
     Swalwell
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NAYS--213

     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
     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

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     Lesko
     Letlow
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     Meijer
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Mullin
     Murphy (NC)
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunes
     Obernolte
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Pence
     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--1

       
     Perry
       

                              {time}  0944

  So the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Clark of Massachusetts). Without 
objection, a motion to reconsider is laid on the table.
  Mr. CLYDE. Madam Speaker, I object.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Objection is heard.


    members recorded pursuant to house resolution 8, 117th congress

     Amodei (Balderson)
     Baird (Walorski)
     Barragan (Allred)
     Blumenauer (Beyer)
     Boyle, Brendan F. (Jeffries)
     Brooks (Moore (AL))
     Brown (MD) (Blunt Rochester)
     Buchanan (Waltz)
     Burgess (Lucas)
     Bustos (Brownley)
     Calvert (Garcia (CA))
     Cardenas (Gomez)
     Carey (Balderson)
     Carl (Rogers (AL))
     Cleaver (Butterfield)
     Comer (LaTurner)
     Crenshaw (Mullin)
     Curtis (Moore (UT))
     DeFazio (Carbajal)
     DeSaulnier (Thompson (CA))
     Duncan (Timmons)
     Dunn (Waltz)
     Emmer (McHenry)
     Evans (Mfume)
     Fallon (Nehls)
     Ferguson (Kustoff)
     Fletcher (Allred)
     Garbarino (Jacobs (NY))
     Gibbs (Bucshon)
     Gimenez (Waltz)
     Gohmert (Weber)
     Gonzales, Tony (Ellzey)
     Gonzalez (OH) (Armstrong)
     Green (TN) (DesJarlais)
     Hagedorn (Moolenaar)
     Harshbarger (Fleischmann)
     Hartzler (Walberg)
     Herrera Beutler (Moore (UT))
     Hudson (Balderson)
     Huffman (McNerney)
     Issa (Garcia (CA))
     Jackson (Nehls)
     Johnson (OH) (Fulcher)
     Johnson (TX) (Jeffries)
     Joyce (OH) (Valadao)
     Joyce (PA) (Keller)
     Katko (Meijer)
     Kelly (PA) (Keller)
     Kind (Connolly)
     Kinzinger (Valadao)
     Kirkpatrick (Stanton)
     Krishnamoorthi (Levin (CA))
     LaHood (Miller (WV))
     Lamborn (McHenry)
     Larsen (WA) (Connolly)
     Lawson (FL) (Mfume)
     Lesko (Miller (WV))
     Letlow (Cammack)
     Lieu (Raskin)
     Long (Fleischmann)
     Loudermilk (Cammack)
     Lowenthal (Beyer)
     Lynch (Langevin)
     Mast (Waltz)
     McBath (Williams (GA))
     McEachin (Wexton)
     Meeks (Jeffries)
     Moulton (Kahele)
     Napolitano (Correa)
     Nunes (Garcia (CA))
     Payne (Pallone)
     Porter (Wexton)
     Reed (Walorski)
     Reschenthaler
        (Keller)
     Rice (NY) (Murphy (FL))
     Rodgers (WA) (Moore (UT))
     Roybal-Allard (McCollum)
     Rush (Quigley)
     Salazar (Waltz)
     Sewell (Cicilline)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Stauber (Bergman)
     Steube (Timmons)
     Stevens (Lee (NV))
     Stewart (Moore (UT))
     Strickland (Jeffries)
     Swalwell (Gomez)
     Thompson (MS) (Butterfield)
     Thompson (PA) (Meuser)
     Tiffany (Arrington)
     Trahan (Langevin)
     Trone (Beyer)
     Underwood (Casten)
     Veasey (Beatty)
     Welch (McGovern)
     Wilson (FL) (Hayes)
     Young (Spartz)
     Zeldin (Timmons)

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