[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 215 (Tuesday, December 14, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H7808-H7814]
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PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF S.J. RES. 33, JOINT RESOLUTION RELATING
TO INCREASING THE DEBT LIMIT
Mr. MORELLE. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I
call up House Resolution 852 and ask for its immediate consideration.
The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:
H. Res. 852
Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be
in order to consider in the House the joint resolution (S.J.
Res. 33) joint resolution relating to increasing the debt
limit. All points of order against consideration of the joint
resolution are waived. The joint resolution shall be
considered as read. All points of order against provisions in
the joint resolution are waived. The previous question shall
be considered as ordered on the joint resolution and on any
amendment thereto to final passage without intervening motion
except: (1) one hour of debate equally divided and controlled
by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on
Ways and Means or their respective designees; and (2) one
motion to commit.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New York is recognized
for 1 hour.
Mr. MORELLE. Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I yield the
customary 30 minutes to the gentleman
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from Texas (Mr. Burgess), my distinguished colleague from 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
Mr. MORELLE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members
may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their
remarks.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentleman from New York?
There was no objection.
Mr. MORELLE. Mr. Speaker, today, the Rules Committee met and reported
a rule, House Resolution 852, providing for consideration of S.J. Res.
33, a joint resolution relating to increasing the debt limit, under a
closed rule. The rule provides for 1 hour of debate equally divided and
controlled by the chair and ranking member of the Committee on Ways and
Means, or their designees, and provides one motion to commit.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues to adopt the rule and
support lifting the Nation's debt ceiling.
Failing to lift the debt ceiling and defaulting on our debt is not an
option. If we do not act, a default could result in the loss of
millions of jobs and $15 trillion in household wealth, according to
nonpartisan Moody's Analytics economist Mark Zandi. Mr. Zandi has
characterized a default as ``financial Armageddon,'' and JPMorgan Chase
CEO Jamie Dimon has gone even further, stating that a default ``could
cause an immediate, literally cascading catastrophe of unbelievable
proportions and damage America for 100 years.''
Earlier this year, a bipartisan group of former Treasury Secretaries
wrote to Congress arguing that protecting U.S. creditworthiness is a
``sacrosanct responsibility.'' I couldn't agree more.
Let's be clear about what we are talking about here today. The debt
limit is the total amount of money that the United States Government is
authorized to borrow to meet its existing legal obligations, including
Social Security and Medicare benefits, payments to veterans and
servicemembers, and tax refunds. The debt limit does not authorize any
new spending; it simply allows the government to pay its bills for
obligations it has already incurred.
Mr. Speaker, much of this debt was accrued on a bipartisan basis. It
includes emergency measures to combat the pandemic and increase defense
spending. While many on the other side of the aisle have tried to tie
raising the debt ceiling to our efforts to pass the President's agenda,
it should be noted that 97 percent of the total national debt accrued
before President Biden even took office.
Since 1960, Congress has acted 78 times to address the debt limit, 49
times under Republican Presidents and 29 times under Democratic
Presidents. In the last 10 years, the debt limit has been addressed
seven times on a bipartisan basis, including three times under the last
administration, during which, I would like to remind my Republican
colleagues, $7.8 trillion of the total national debt was incurred.
Arguments about raising the debt ceiling have become nonsensical. In
the current discourse, both sides of the aisle have agreed to spend
Federal dollars on important programs, but only one side of the aisle
believes that we should actually fulfill our obligations to pay our
creditors for those very same programs.
Mr. Speaker, if we choose not to honor our obligations to creditors,
what message does that send to the American people and, frankly, the
rest of the world? Everyday Americans pay their bills and honor their
commitments. Why shouldn't we do the same?
Mr. Speaker, it is frankly outrageous to hold the position that we
shouldn't be held to the same standard as families who work hard to
find a way to pay their bills every day.
I urge my colleagues to support the rule and the underlying
legislation to raise our Nation's debt ceiling, ensuring that America
can continue to pay its bills and honor its obligations.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, I thank Representative Morelle for yielding
me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
Mr. Speaker, this rule provides for consideration of S.J. Res. 33, a
bill to raise the debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion.
The Federal debt limit began over 100 years ago, in 1917, and it has
been required to be raised 100 times since then.
The problem isn't whether we should increase our debt limit; it is
that we have to issue debt at all. Debts are issued to cover the
difference between what you make and what you spend. When you spend
more than you make, you have to find a way to pay for the spending.
We are in the middle of a spending spree. For the last 11 months,
well over $1 trillion in taxpayer money was spent largely on partisan
priorities, and more likely coming if the Democrats manage to get a
final agreement on the Build Back Better Act or perhaps what more aptly
might be described as a socialist spending scam.
On December 10, the Congressional Budget Office published an estimate
of the Build Back Better Act, confirming the bill's true cost to be
almost $5 trillion, $4.9 trillion, while adding $3 trillion in new
debt.
Democrats claim the bill is paid for, but that is simply not true.
Now, it is confirmed by independent analysis. Instead of zero dollars,
the bill will create a carve-out for deducting State and local taxes
that will add almost $250 billion to the deficit.
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It will protect so-called green companies from a new minimum tax and
provide $12,500 tax credits for purchasing an electric vehicle so long
as that vehicle is made using union labor.
The bill will also provide billions in benefits to the wealthy
through the expanded child tax credit that will add over $1.5 trillion
to the deficit if this policy is made permanent, and that is, of
course, what is being pushed for in the Build Back Better Act.
Additionally, the $1 trillion infrastructure bill that the Democrats
just ushered into law requires a $118 billion transfer from Treasury to
the highway trust fund, which Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has
stated will occur tomorrow, December 15.
Republicans will not support raising the debt limit while Democrats
push through trillions of dollars for purely partisan political
spending, thereby depleting our Treasury not just for today but for
generations to come.
Unfortunately, all this spending will only exacerbate the very high
rate of inflation, inflation which has been crippling so many Americans
and causing so much suffering in the last 11 months.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in November, the
Consumer Price Index rose by 0.8 percent, but 6.8 percent over the last
12 months. The most significant increase was in the energy sector,
while prices went up for gas, food, shelter, and vehicles, among other
things.
Here is the real bad news: We have only seen the tip of the iceberg
when it comes to inflation. Likely, the inflation rates by March are
going to be absolutely astonishing. And that is what happens when you
push so many dollars out into an economy that has no way to absorb
them.
Sure, 2 years ago we all voted for the CARES Act, a trillion dollars
to rescue the country from the coronavirus. And then there was
additional coronavirus relief passed in December. And then almost
immediately another coronavirus bill in February, and then the
transportation bill in September, and now the Build Back Better Act.
The economy simply cannot absorb those dollars that the Federal
Government is pushing out. They have got no place to go except to
create more and more inflation. And who does inflation hurt? It hurts
those people at the lower end of the income scale.
Despite repeated encouragement from the Committee on the Budget
Ranking Member Jason Smith and Senator McConnell, Democrats have
refused to raise the debt ceiling through reconciliation, which of
course is their right to do. They have majorities in both the House and
the Senate.
They have had ample time to do this, but they simply would not act.
So, instead, a temporary extension that would only last a couple of
months happened earlier this year. And now, once again, in the middle
of the night,
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we are having to vote on a bill to increase the national debt in order
to pay for Democrats' social spending and infrastructure policies.
Democrats claim that raising the debt limit has always been
bipartisan. But, you know, here is just a little bit of history: In
1993, the Democrats used reconciliation to raise the debt limit with a
party-line vote in the omnibus budget reconciliation bill.
In 2010, the Democrats again raised the debt limit by $1.9 trillion
with a purely party-line vote. Republicans voted in opposition out of
concern for the then-Obama administration's amount of spending that was
occurring. A New York Times article reporting on the vote said, ``They
wanted to raise the ceiling enough to avoid putting their Members
through another such vote before the midterm elections.''
Do you kind of get the sense that history is repeating itself
tonight?
Financial success and financial longevity begins years before it is
realized. We certainly cannot be reckless and feckless with the
Nation's future now. Under no argument is this plan fiscally
responsible. Under no fantasy is the Build Back Better Act paid for.
We have to remember to be beneficial to the American people, we have
to be demonstrative of representative government. We should not be
raising the debt limit to allow for continuation of partisan social
spending.
Mr. Speaker, I urge opposition to the rule, and I reserve the balance
of my time.
Mr. MORELLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Those who know me know I am not a very sophisticated guy, and they
also know I am not a financial wizard; but I will tell you this: I
would love to have a philosophical debate, maybe sit down, have a cup
of coffee with the distinguished gentleman from Texas, and we might
even find some common ground about what our practices ought to be
relative to spending and taxing and all those things.
But to be clear, none of what Dr. Burgess just talked about has
anything to do with what we are doing here today. Ninety-seven percent
of the debt that we have incurred as a Nation happened before Joe Biden
took office.
As for Build Back Better, which many on our side of the aisle are
working to try to enact, that is something that is prospective. We are
talking tonight about paying the bills of things that we have already
agreed to pay for. It has absolutely nothing to do with it.
I appreciate the distinguished gentleman because he is trying to
bring into this debate many things which have no relevance here,
apparently to make a better case, but the truth is we have a decision
before us that is a serious one. It not only affects the
creditworthiness of the United States, but it affects global markets.
This would be, as I indicated earlier, catastrophic. This is Armageddon
if it doesn't happen.
Just to note, in 2016, prior to the election of the previous
administration, the national debt was $19.5 trillion or 105 percent of
GDP. In 2020, when the administration's time had run its course, the
debt had risen to $27.7 trillion or 129 percent of GDP, a $7.8 trillion
increase. Included in that was a $1.9 trillion tax cut, which hasn't
paid for itself, which has added dramatically to the debt. But the debt
has been accumulated during decades of real need by the American
public.
So we could have a conversation; and, frankly, the discussion about
spending takes place in the Appropriations Committee, it takes place in
the Budget Committee, taxation takes place in the Ways and Means
Committee. What we are doing now is making a decision to pay our bills.
Fundamentally, bottom line. It doesn't require a whole lot of
sophistication or talk about financial markets. It is clearly a simple
question, are we going to pay for the things that we have agreed to
buy, and that is it. It is as simple as can be.
Every household in America makes those decisions. You get something,
you get a bill in the mail, you pay for it. Even if you have buyer's
remorse, even if your wife says to you that fine exercise thing that
you bought, which is going to be the most expensive coat hanger in the
house because you are not going to use it, we still pay for it because
it is in the house, and we bought it. That is as simple as it can
possibly be.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, if we defeat the previous question, Republicans will
amend the rule to immediately consider an amendment to the Democrats'
fiscal year 2022 budget resolution to replace the socialist $5 trillion
tax-and-spend reconciliation instructions with new instructions for
authorizing committees to produce legislation to reduce the deficit to
combat runaway inflation currently fueling the highest price spike in
40 years and to get Americans back to work.
Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to insert the text of this
amendment into the Record, along with extraneous material, immediately
prior to the vote on the previous question.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Missouri (Mr.
Smith), the ranking member of the Budget Committee, to explain the
amendment.
Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, if we defeat the previous
question, we will consider an amendment to the rule to replace the
socialist $5 trillion tax-and-spend reconciliation instructions from
the fiscal year 2022 budget with a new call for committees to draft
legislation to reduce the deficit, to combat runaway inflation and help
get Americans back to work.
This country has been through a lot in the past year under one-party
rule by the Washington Democrats and President Biden.
We have an inflation crisis; we have an energy crisis; we have a
border crisis; and we have a supply chain crisis. Contributing to it
all is a leadership crisis in the Oval Office.
With all of these problems, you would think Democrats would finish
the year addressing just one--just one--of those issues.
But instead, Mr. Speaker, we are here on the last day of session for
the year, and Democrats have chosen to spend this valuable time
attacking former President Trump and his staff, attacking members of
the Republican Conference, and they have even found room to include a
$2.5 trillion increase to the debt ceiling.
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In fact, since Speaker Pelosi took the gavel in the House in 2019,
House Democrats have added more than $9 trillion--House Democrats since
2019 have added more than $9 trillion to the national debt, which is
more than the combined deficits under all 72 years that Republicans
have ever been in the majority.
The American people, Mr. Speaker, they deserve a Congress that is
focused on the problems that they are facing in their everyday lives; a
Congress that is delivering on policies to stop the runaway rise in
prices, a problem that has now reached a 40-year high.
Even President Biden's budget in May predicted inflation at 2
percent, Mr. Speaker. We are now at over 7 percent, the highest
inflation in 40 years.
The White House administration says that inflation is a high-class
problem, Mr. Speaker. I will tell you, the people across America
believe it is a real problem. They care about the prices in the grocery
store. They don't care about the prices in the stock market.
But you know what, House Democrats argue and say inflation is
transitory, yet now they are finally agreeing that these rising costs
in prices are actually having a real impact.
We could be working on legislation to actually help American families
by reducing the cost of energy during the winter.
To do that, we need to get rid of the reconciliation instructions in
the Democrats' budget, the same reconciliation plan that has paralyzed
Washington for months as Democrats fought over how to spend $5
trillion.
Even the Congressional Budget Office on Friday confirmed that what
passed out of this Chamber a few weeks ago does not cost zero. It cost
$5 trillion.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, I yield the gentleman an additional 2
minutes.
Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, the official congressional
scorekeepers said on Friday that the build back broke bill that passed
out of here a couple weeks ago did not cost $1.5 trillion, did not cost
$2 trillion, but cost $5
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trillion. But this administration will say it costs zero.
The American people see right through it. They see right through this
mess. And they know one thing. They know that this is nothing but
hogwash. It is hogwash, Mr. Speaker. And we should instead replace all
of these reconciliation instructions to bring forward a plan to reduce
the deficit and stop the inflation that is destroying family budgets.
Mr. Speaker, I ask all my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to
defeat the previous question, so that we can actually work on
legislation to help American families at the supermarket, to help
combat a price spike that is pushing working families to the brink and
to actually provide some real solutions this week on behalf of the
American people whom we represent in this body.
Mr. MORELLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
I appreciate Mr. Smith's enthusiasm and exuberance. The arguments
that folks would make that House Democrats are responsible for the
spending of the Trump administration and the Trump White House, that
argument is, frankly, absurd and happened during a global pandemic, so
we had much work to do to spare the American public.
But I am going to do this: Moved by the spirit of the season, I am
going bestow a gift on Members, and I am not going to rebut point by
point but rather reserve the balance of my time and allow my colleague
to speak.
Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from
Texas (Mr. Fallon).
Mr. FALLON. Mr. Speaker, if our friends across the aisle are
concerned about paying our bills and they are alarmed by the debt, then
I think we should all get together, all 435 Members, and talk about
fiscal responsibility and pass a balanced budget amendment. That is the
way forward and to avert this financial catastrophe that we are
flirting with.
Let's be very candid, Mr. Speaker, about what we are doing here.
Let's be candid with the American people about what we are doing here
in this Chamber tonight.
This is about a debt ceiling limit increase to ram through more
wasteful and reckless spending.
We are renovating our house in Texas, and I found an old political
mailer, a 9-year-old mailer; and I was outraged about the fact that we
had a $14 trillion debt. Today that is $29 trillion.
It is not about placing blame on Republicans or Democrats, it is
about recognizing we have an issue that is going to destroy this
country if we don't address it. And we continue to kick the can down
the road and land that can on the backs of future generations like my
15-year-old son and my 12-year-old son.
There are failed states in this world. Here is a $100 trillion bill
from the Nation of Zimbabwe. It is worth maybe 40 cents. It is
essentially worthless. That could be what we end up with if we don't
recognize the fact that at the local level cities can't spend more than
they take in, counties can't, even States can't. So why does the
Federal Government get to? Because we own a printing press down the
street?
Let's be responsible. Let's work together. This Chamber 20-plus years
ago passed a balanced budget amendment, if I am not mistaken, and it
failed in the Senate. It is time to do the right thing, the courageous
thing, the American thing, and pass a balanced budget amendment.
Mr. MORELLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
I wonder, when the gentleman finished his home's renovations if he
paid the contractor or refused to pay because he might be tempted to do
renovations in the future.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
Mr. Speaker, just before I close, I do want to take a moment and
acknowledge that it was 1 year ago last night that the FedEx trucks
departed from Kalamazoo, Michigan, carrying the very first doses of
what we now know as the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
And when you stop and reflect upon what was accomplished between the
middle of May and the middle of December of 2020, it truly was a
startling scientific accomplishment; not one, not two, but three
vaccines.
We told ourselves at the beginning of the Operation Warp Speed
process that if we got 40 to 45 percent effectiveness, it would be a
victory, and those vaccines delivered in excess of 90 percent. People
might quibble and say, well, you have to get a booster or you have to
get an additional shot. We are so fortunate to have those tools to be
able to combat this illness.
We are by no means through, but then even just last week the
additional news that now an oral medication, the so-called Tamiflu for
coronavirus, is now available, which I submit is going to change with
the application of additional therapeutics, is really going to change
the equation, and I just wanted to take a minute and reflect on that.
We are, again, just one day past the 1-year anniversary of Kalamazoo,
Michigan, delivering that vaccine to the world.
Otherwise in closing to this argument, raising the debt ceiling to
$2.5 trillion does seem a tad irresponsible in the middle of
unprecedented spending by House Democrats. You have got control of the
White House, you have got control of the Senate, you have got control
of the House, and you haven't passed a single appropriations bill.
How are we supposed to run our business if we will not do our normal
work and pass a budget and pass the 12 appropriations bills?
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The Federal Government is currently operating under the second
continuing resolution of this fiscal year. One-third of Federal
spending is done through discretionary appropriations. When you stop to
think about it, that is really not much. That means two-thirds comes
through on autopilot. But the amount that we actually tell ourselves we
are going to control, the one-third of the Federal budget, we haven't
done our work.
Now, we are talking about raising the debt limit to pay for trillions
of dollars in spending, and the Democrats won't even fund the basic
functions of government through regular appropriations. That actually
comes at a cost. It is very difficult to get a phone call answered by a
Federal agency, by the head of a Federal agency, by a Cabinet Secretary
because we no longer make the appropriations.
These folks are relatively new on the job, within the last year. They
have no history of knowing that they have to come to Congress to get
their appropriations bills passed. So as a consequence, they basically
ignore the Congress.
Democrats are desperate to push through as much social spending as
they can because the balance of power, quite likely, is getting ready
to change. Why else would they be so reckless in such a short amount of
time with Americans' hard-earned taxpayer dollars? We cannot push
inflation higher by raising the debt limit to allow for trillions in
additional partisan spending.
Mr. Speaker, here is the real problem that is going to lead to that
balance of power shift. It is inflation that is at levels that have not
been seen since the Carter administration.
Again, my prediction is, over the next 6 months, this is going to
become a great deal worse. It will be unsustainable for most American
families who live paycheck to paycheck. Then on top of that, it is a
spending level that is driving that inflation level. And we are doing
nothing, nothing to put the brakes on that.
Mr. Speaker, again, I urge a ``no'' vote on the previous question so
we can get to the talk for fiscal sanity and ``no'' on the underlying
measure, and I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. MORELLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
First, let me echo Dr. Burgess' comments about the vaccine. I want to
encourage every American to get that vaccine. We still have far too
many people who have chosen not to get the vaccine and the third dose,
for those who are eligible, under the messenger RNA, to do a third
shot. But we encourage every single American to do it, and I want to
make sure to repeat that. I join with my colleague in thanking those
who made that possible.
Mr. Speaker, I also thank all of my colleagues for their work in
support of the rule before us today. As I mentioned earlier, protecting
U.S. creditworthiness is a sacred responsibility, and it would be an
abdication of that
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sacred responsibility to fail to address the debt limit and ensure that
the United States Government pays its bills.
We have heard a lot of rhetoric today, but we all know that the
measure before us today is not about new spending. No matter how many
times it is said, it is not about new spending.
We are acting today to ensure that America can pay its obligations
that we have already agreed to incur. Pretending otherwise is a
disservice to the American people.
Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``yes'' vote on the rule and the previous
question.
The material previously referred to by Mr. Burgess is as follows:
Amendment to House Resolution 852
At the end of the resolution, add the following:
Sec. 2. The provisions of Senate Concurrent Resolution 14
shall continue to have force and effect for all purposes in
the House, except with the following revisions:
(1) In title II--
(A) strike ``increase'' in each place it appears and insert
``decrease'';
(B) strike ``by not more than'' in each place it appears
and insert ``by at least'';
(C) strike each dollar amount and insert ``$,100,000,000'';
and
(D) strike ``September 15, 2021,'' in each place it appears
and insert ``December 31, 2021,''.
(2) By adding at the end the following:
TITLE V--POLICY STATEMENT ON INFLATION AND RECONCILIATION
SEC. 501. POLICY STATEMENT ON INFLATION AND RECONCILIATION.
(a) Findings.--The House finds the following as it relates
to the inflationary impact of the policies of the Democrat-
controlled Congress and Biden Administration:
(1) President Biden's Fiscal Year 2022 budget request
assumed inflation, under the Administration's policies, would
amount to two percent in 2021, 2022, and over the next
decade.
(2) Actual inflation under the Administration's policies
has totaled more than three times these estimates.
(3) Since Joe Biden took office, inflation has increased at
an annualized rate of more than seven percent, the highest
level in 40 years.
(A) Gasoline prices have increased by 58 percent on an
annualized basis.
(B) Household energy prices have increased by 13 percent on
an annualized basis.
(C) Meat prices have increased by 14 percent on an
annualized basis.
(D) According to the Congressional Budget Office,
`Inflation has eroded the purchasing power of families'.
(4) There is a clear link between the Democrats' reckless
out-of-control deficit spending and the inflation crisis
Americans currently face. After one year of Democrat control,
House Democrats have passed $7.5 trillion in new spending--
more than the Federal Government has ever spent in any year
in American history--$3 trillion of which has been enacted.
This amounts to nearly $60,000 per American household. This
includes Public Law 117-2, Public Law 117-58, and as
confirmed by the Congressional Budget Office, the $5 trillion
reckless reconciliation spending plan--the largest spending
bill in United States history, and the direct product of the
prior reconciliation instructions previously enacted.
(b) Policy on Halting Out-of-Control Deficient Spending and
Promoting Policies To Address the Inflation Crisis.--It is
the policy of this concurrent resolution to adopt
reconciliation instructions that instruct authorizing
committees to produce legislation to:
(1) Cut Washington spending to reduce the deficit and
combat governmental fueled inflation.
(2) Address the crisis of rising prices currently facing
American families by providing solutions to bring down the
cost of goods and get more Americans back to work.
Sec 3. H.R. 5376 is laid on the table.
Mr. MORELLE. Mr. 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. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution
8, the yeas and nays are ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 220,
nays 212, not voting 1, as follows:
[Roll No. 445]
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)
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
Perlmutter
Peters
Phillips
Pingree
Pocan
Porter
Pressley
Price (NC)
Quigley
Raskin
Rice (NY)
Ross
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan
Sanchez
Sarbanes
Scanlon
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schneider
Schrader
Schrier
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Sewell
Sherman
Sherrill
Sires
Slotkin
Smith (WA)
Soto
Spanberger
Speier
Stansbury
Stanton
Stevens
Strickland
Suozzi
Swalwell
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tlaib
Tonko
Torres (CA)
Torres (NY)
Trahan
Trone
Underwood
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wexton
Wild
Williams (GA)
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth
NAYS--212
Aderholt
Allen
Amodei
Armstrong
Arrington
Babin
Bacon
Baird
Balderson
Banks
Barr
Bentz
Bergman
Bice (OK)
Biggs
Bilirakis
Bishop (NC)
Boebert
Bost
Brady
Brooks
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Budd
Burchett
Burgess
Calvert
Cammack
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
Gonzales, Tony
Gonzalez (OH)
Good (VA)
Gooden (TX)
Gosar
Granger
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Green (TN)
Greene (GA)
Griffith
Grothman
Guest
Guthrie
Hagedorn
Harris
Harshbarger
Hartzler
Hern
Herrell
Herrera Beutler
Hice (GA)
Hill
Hinson
Hollingsworth
Hudson
Huizenga
Issa
Jackson
Jacobs (NY)
Johnson (LA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson (SD)
Jordan
Joyce (OH)
Joyce (PA)
Katko
Keller
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
Kim (CA)
Kinzinger
Kustoff
LaHood
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Latta
LaTurner
Lesko
Letlow
Long
Loudermilk
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Mace
Malliotakis
Mann
Massie
Mast
McCarthy
McCaul
McClain
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
Meijer
Meuser
Miller (IL)
Miller (WV)
Miller-Meeks
Moolenaar
Mooney
Moore (AL)
Moore (UT)
Mullin
Murphy (NC)
Nehls
Newhouse
Norman
Nunes
Obernolte
Owens
Palazzo
Palmer
Pence
Perry
Pfluger
Posey
Reed
Reschenthaler
Rice (SC)
Rodgers (WA)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rose
Rosendale
Rouzer
Roy
Rutherford
Salazar
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sessions
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smucker
Spartz
Stauber
Steel
Stefanik
Steil
Steube
Stewart
Taylor
Tenney
Thompson (PA)
Tiffany
Timmons
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Van Drew
Van Duyne
Wagner
Walberg
Walorski
Waltz
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Williams (TX)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Young
Zeldin
NOT VOTING--1
Higgins (LA)
{time} 2208
So the previous question was ordered.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
[[Page H7813]]
Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress
Amodei (Balderson)
Armstrong (Johnson (SD))
Axne (Wild)
Baird (Bucshon)
Barragan (Beyer)
Bass (Cicilline)
Beatty (Blunt Rochester)
Bera (Aguilar)
Bilirakis (Fleischmann)
Blumenauer (Beyer)
Bonamici (Kuster)
Bowman (Pocan)
Boyle, Brendan F. (Evans)
Brooks (Moore (AL))
Brownley (Kuster)
Buchanan (Waltz)
Butterfield (Kildee)
Carl (Joyce (PA))
Calvert (Garcia (CA))
Cardenas (Gomez)
Carter (TX) (Weber (TX))
Case (Correa)
Cawthorn (McClain)
Clark (MA) (Kuster)
Cohen (Beyer)
Cole (Lucas)
Crist (Soto)
Cuellar (Green (TX))
Curtis (Stewart)
DeFazio (Brown (MD))
DelBene (Larsen (WA))
DeGette (Blunt Rochester)
DeSaulnier (Beyer)
Diaz-Balart (Burgess)
Doggett (Raskin)
Doyle, Michael F. (Evans)
Escobar (Garcia (TX))
Espaillat (Correa)
Fletcher (Raskin)
Frankel, Lois (Kuster)
Garamendi (Sherman)
Gimenez (Cammack)
Gohmert (Weber (TX))
Gonzalez, Vicente (Correa)
Gosar (Boebert)
Gottheimer (Sherrill)
Granger (Arrington)
Graves (MO) (Fleischmann)
Green (TN) (Fleischmann)
Grijalva (Stanton)
Guthrie (Bucshon)
Hagedorn (Moolenaar)
Hartzler (DesJarlais)
Hayes (Wild)
Hern (Lucas)
Herrera Beutler (Rice (SC))
Horsford (Carter (LA))
Huffman (Levin (CA))
Jacobs (CA) (Correa)
Jacobs (NY) (Garbarino)
Jackson (Van Duyne)
Jayapal (Raskin)
Johnson (TX) (Beyer)
Jones (Craig)
Joyce (OH) (Garbarino)
Kahele (Mrvan)
Katko (Meijer)
Khanna (Connolly)
Kilmer (Kildee)
Kim (CA) (Gonzalez (OH))
Kinzinger (Meijer)
Kirkpatrick (Pallone)
Krishnamoorthi (Brown (MD))
LaHood (Wenstrup)
Lamborn (Bacon)
Lawson (FL) (Evans)
Leger Fernandez (Gallego)
Lesko (Joyce (PA))
Long (Banks)
Loudermilk (Fleischmann)
Lowenthal (Beyer)
Luetkemeyer (McHenry)
Maloney, Carolyn B. (Wasserman Schultz)
Mast (Waltz)
McCaul (Burgess)
McEachin (Brown (MD))
Meng (Kuster)
Meuser (Burgess)
Miller (WV) (Van Duyne)
Moore (UT) (Stewart)
Moulton (Beyer)
Nadler (Pallone)
Napolitano (Correa)
Neal (Beyer)
Neguse (Perlmutter)
Nehls (Fallon)
Newman (Wild)
Nunes (Garcia (CA))
Ocasio-Cortez (Garcia (IL))
O`Halleran (Stanton) Owens (Stewart)
Pascrell (Pallone)
Payne (Pallone)
Peters (Kildee)
Pingree (Kuster)
Porter (Aguilar)
Posey (Cammack)
Price (NC) (Connolly)
Reed (Rice (SC))
Reschenthaler (Burgess)
Rodgers (WA) (Joyce (PA))
Roybal-Allard (Connolly)
Ruiz (Aguilar)
Ruppersberger (Aguilar)
Rush (Quigley)
Salazar (Cammack)
Sanchez (Costa)
Schrader (Correa)
Sessions (Babin)
Sewell (Cicilline)
Simpson (Stewart)
Sires (Pallone)
Speier (Scanlon)
Stansbury (Kuster)
Stefanik (Burgess)
Strickland (Schrier)
Suozzi (Kildee)
Swalwell (Gomez)
Titus (Connolly)
Tonko (Pallone)
Torres (NY) (Cicilline)
Trahan (McGovern)
Trone (Brown (MD))
Underwood (Casten)
Van Drew (Burgess)
Vargas (Correa)
Velazquez (Clarke (NY))
Wagner (McHenry)
Walorski (Banks)
Watson Coleman (Pallone)
Welch (McGovern)
Wilson (FL) (Brown (MD))
Wilson (SC) (Dunn)
Zeldin (Timmons)
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution
8, the yeas and nays are ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 220,
nays 212, not voting 1, as follows:
[Roll No. 446]
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)
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
Perlmutter
Peters
Phillips
Pingree
Pocan
Porter
Pressley
Price (NC)
Quigley
Raskin
Rice (NY)
Ross
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan
Sanchez
Sarbanes
Scanlon
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schneider
Schrader
Schrier
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Sewell
Sherman
Sherrill
Sires
Slotkin
Smith (WA)
Soto
Spanberger
Speier
Stansbury
Stanton
Stevens
Strickland
Suozzi
Swalwell
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tlaib
Tonko
Torres (CA)
Torres (NY)
Trahan
Trone
Underwood
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wexton
Wild
Williams (GA)
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth
NAYS--212
Aderholt
Allen
Amodei
Armstrong
Arrington
Babin
Bacon
Baird
Balderson
Banks
Barr
Bentz
Bergman
Bice (OK)
Biggs
Bilirakis
Bishop (NC)
Boebert
Bost
Brady
Brooks
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Budd
Burchett
Burgess
Calvert
Cammack
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
Gonzales, Tony
Gonzalez (OH)
Good (VA)
Gooden (TX)
Gosar
Granger
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Green (TN)
Greene (GA)
Griffith
Grothman
Guest
Guthrie
Hagedorn
Harris
Harshbarger
Hartzler
Hern
Herrell
Herrera Beutler
Hice (GA)
Hill
Hinson
Hollingsworth
Hudson
Huizenga
Issa
Jackson
Jacobs (NY)
Johnson (LA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson (SD)
Jordan
Joyce (OH)
Joyce (PA)
Katko
Keller
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
Kim (CA)
Kinzinger
Kustoff
LaHood
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Latta
LaTurner
Lesko
Letlow
Long
Loudermilk
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Mace
Malliotakis
Mann
Massie
Mast
McCarthy
McCaul
McClain
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
Meijer
Meuser
Miller (IL)
Miller (WV)
Miller-Meeks
Moolenaar
Mooney
Moore (AL)
Moore (UT)
Mullin
Murphy (NC)
Nehls
Newhouse
Norman
Nunes
Obernolte
Owens
Palazzo
Palmer
Pence
Perry
Pfluger
Posey
Reed
Reschenthale
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
Higgins (LA)
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{time} 2236
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
Amodei (Balderson)
Armstrong (Johnson (SD))
Axne (Wild)
Baird (Bucshon)
Barragan (Beyer)
Bass (Cicilline)
Beatty (Blunt Rochester)
Bera (Aguilar)
Bilirakis (Fleischmann)
Blumenauer (Beyer)
Bonamici (Kuster)
Bowman (Pocan)
Boyle, Brendan F. (Evans)
Brooks (Moore (AL))
Brownley (Kuster)
Buchanan (Waltz)
Butterfield (Kildee)
Carl (Joyce (PA))
Calvert (Garcia (CA))
Cardenas (Gomez)
Carter (TX) (Weber (TX))
Case (Correa)
Cawthorn (McClain)
Clark (MA) (Kuster)
Cohen (Beyer)
Cole (Lucas)
Crist (Soto)
Cuellar (Green (TX))
Curtis (Stewart)
DeFazio (Brown (MD))
DelBene (Larsen (WA))
DeGette (Blunt Rochester)
DeSaulnier (Beyer)
Diaz-Balart (Burgess)
Doggett (Raskin)
Doyle, Michael F. (Evans)
Escobar (Garcia (TX))
Espaillat (Correa)
Fletcher (Raskin)
Frankel, Lois (Kuster)
Garamendi (Sherman)
Gimenez (Cammack)
Gohmert (Weber (TX))
Gonzalez, Vicente (Correa)
Gosar (Boebert)
Gottheimer (Sherrill)
Granger (Arrington)
Graves (MO) (Fleischmann)
Green (TN) (Fleischmann)
Grijalva (Stanton)
Guthrie (Bucshon)
Hagedorn (Moolenaar)
Hartzler (DesJarlais)
Hayes (Wild)
Hern (Lucas)
Herrera Beutler (Rice (SC))
Horsford (Carter (LA))
Huffman (Levin (CA))
Jacobs (CA) (Correa)
Jacobs (NY) (Garbarino)
Jackson (Van Duyne)
Jayapal (Raskin)
Johnson (TX) (Beyer)
Jones (Craig)
Joyce (OH) (Garbarino)
Kahele (Mrvan)
Katko (Meijer)
Khanna (Connolly)
Kilmer (Kildee)
Kim (CA) (Gonzalez (OH))
Kinzinger (Meijer)
Kirkpatrick (Pallone)
Krishnamoorthi (Brown (MD))
LaHood (Wenstrup)
Lamborn (Bacon)
Lawson (FL) (Evans)
Leger Fernandez (Gallego)
Lesko (Joyce (PA))
Long (Banks)
Loudermilk (Fleischmann)
Lowenthal (Beyer)
Luetkemeyer (McHenry)
Maloney, Carolyn B. (Wasserman Schultz)
Mast (Waltz)
McCaul (Burgess)
McEachin (Brown (MD))
Meng (Kuster)
Meuser (Burgess)
Miller (WV) (Van Duyne)
Moore (UT) (Stewart)
Moulton (Beyer)
Nadler (Pallone)
Napolitano (Correa)
Neal (Beyer)
Neguse (Perlmutter)
Nehls (Fallon)
Newman (Wild)
Nunes (Garcia (CA))
Ocasio-Cortez (Garcia (IL))
O'Halleran (Stanton)
Owens (Stewart)
Pascrell (Pallone)
Payne (Pallone)
Peters (Kildee)
Pingree (Kuster)
Porter (Aguilar)
Posey (Cammack)
Price (NC) (Connolly)
Reed (Rice (SC))
Reschenthaler (Burgess)
Rodgers (WA) (Joyce (PA))
Roybal-Allard (Connolly)
Ruiz (Aguilar)
Ruppersberger (Aguilar)
Rush (Quigley)
Salazar (Cammack)
Sanchez (Costa)
Schrader (Correa)
Sessions (Babin)
Sewell (Cicilline)
Simpson (Stewart)
Sires (Pallone)
Speier (Scanlon)
Stansbury (Kuster)
Stefanik (Burgess)
Strickland (Schrier)
Suozzi (Kildee)
Swalwell (Gomez)
Titus (Connolly)
Tonko (Pallone)
Torres (NY) (Cicilline)
Trahan (McGovern)
Trone (Brown (MD))
Underwood (Casten)
Van Drew (Burgess)
Vargas (Correa)
Velazquez (Clarke (NY))
Wagner (McHenry)
Walorski (Banks)
Watson Coleman (Pallone)
Welch (McGovern)
Wilson (FL) (Brown (MD))
Wilson (SC) (Dunn)
Zeldin (Timmons)
=========================== NOTE ===========================
December 14, 2021, on page H7814 (first column), the following
appeared: Wagner (McHenry) Walorski (Banks) Watson Coleman
(Pallone) Welch (McGovern) Wilson (FL) (Brown (MD)) Wilson (SC)
(Dunn) Zeldin --------------------------
The online version has been corrected to read: Wagner (McHenry)
Walorski (Banks) Watson Coleman (Pallone) Welch (McGovern) Wilson
(FL) (Brown (MD)) Wilson (SC) (Dunn) Zeldin (Timmons)
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