[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 215 (Tuesday, December 14, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H7816-H7820]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         JOINT RESOLUTION RELATING TO INCREASING THE DEBT LIMIT

  Mr. BEYER. Madam Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 852, I call up 
the joint resolution (S.J. Res. 33) joint resolution relating to 
increasing the debt limit, and ask for its immediate consideration in 
the House.
  The Clerk read the title of the joint resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 852, the joint 
resolution is considered read.
  The text of the joint resolution is as follows:

                              S.J. Res. 33

       Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
     United States of America in Congress assembled, The the 
     limiation under section 3101(b) of title 31, United States 
     Code, as most recently increased by Public Law 117-50 (31 
     U.S.C. 3101 note), is increased by $2,500,000,000,000.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The joint resolution shall be debatable for 
1 hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority 
member of the Committee on Ways and Means or their respective 
designees.
  The gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Beyer) and the gentleman from Texas 
(Mr. Brady) each will control 30 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Virginia.


                             General Leave

  Mr. BEYER. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks 
and insert extraneous material on Senate Joint Resolution 33.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Virginia?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. BEYER. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Madam Speaker, I am pleased that today the House will take action to 
protect our Nation's full faith and credit. S.J. Res. 33 will ensure 
that the United States continues to be a nation that pays its bills, 
period.
  Without today's action, for the first time in our history, the United 
States Government could default on its debt obligations because of the 
debt limit, and this would be ruinous for U.S. workers and their 
families.
  It would trigger a financial crisis on par with that of 2008, 
resulting in catastrophic economic damage with millions of jobs lost, 
businesses shuttered, and a banking system in chaos.
  At a time when our recovery is strong but uncertain, we risk the loss 
of six million jobs, an unemployment rate of nearly 9 percent, the 
elimination of $15 trillion in household wealth, and a decline in real 
GDP of 4 percent.
  Nonpartisan Moody's Analytics economist Mark Zandi predicted that 
following a default, a global market panic on the scale of the 2008 
financial crisis would ensue.
  J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon predicted that such a default could 
``cause an immediate, literally cascading catastrophe of unbelievable 
proportions and damage America for 100 years.''
  If the United States were to default, it would likely prompt a 
lasting downgrade of the country's credit that would drastically 
increase costs for mortgages, car loans, student loans, credit card 
bills, and other borrowing. This would threaten the livelihoods of the 
very people we are here to represent.
  I want to be very clear. Raising the debt ceiling is not about 
incurring new debts. We are simply ensuring the Federal Government 
keeps its existing commitments, that it pays the bills we have already 
racked up.
  By raising the debt limit, we are meeting our existing obligations to 
members of the military, veterans, and recipients of Medicare, 
Medicaid, and Social Security.
  In fact, 97 percent of the debts currently necessitating an increase 
were accrued prior to the Biden administration, many of which were 
passed with bipartisan support. This includes emergency pandemic relief 
measures, increased defense spending, and continued government 
operations.
  Madam Speaker, the time to act is now. Treasury Secretary Yellen has 
issued a dire warning: Without congressional action by tomorrow, the 
government will be left with insufficient funds to finance government 
operations.
  Over 50 million seniors could stop receiving Social Security checks 
for a time. Troops would go unpaid. Millions of families who rely on 
the monthly child tax credit could see delays. Our current economic 
recovery would reverse into recession, with billions of dollars of 
growth and millions of jobs lost.
  As the 2011 debt ceiling crisis shows, even narrowly avoiding a 
default costs

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the country billions of dollars. While raising the debt ceiling does 
not, on its own, create new debts for the United States Government, a 
failure to do so certainly would.
  Congress has addressed the debt limit 79 times since 1960 to prevent 
default; 30 times with a Democrat in the White House, 49 times under a 
Republican President. In fact, under President Trump, Congress took 
action to address the debt limit three times and did so without drama. 
Today's action should be no different.
  I urge my colleagues to support this measure to lift the debt 
ceiling, continue paying our bills, and ensure our continued economic 
recovery.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. BRADY. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  In 2018, Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi, Leader Hoyer, Whip Clyburn, 
and 116 other House Democrats voted to default on the debt, shut down 
the government, and refuse disaster relief to devastated communities 
across America like mine.

  One even said, Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the 
White House; responsibility to govern rests squarely on their 
shoulders.
  Well, right now the Democrats control the House, the Senate, and the 
White House. Responsibility rests squarely on their shoulders.
  Make no mistake, Democrats have known this day has been coming for 2 
years and did absolutely nothing. They passed no budget, passed no 
appropriations bills, and they didn't spend a moment in bipartisan 
outreach to address the debt ceiling.
  I agree, Congress should not play political games with the debt 
ceiling, but neither should it ignore the future financial crisis at 
risk of accelerating if President Biden and congressional Democrats 
pass their nearly $5 trillion socialist welfare plan.
  Despite its desperate bid to shift blame for this debt ceiling crisis 
Democrats themselves created, increasing America's national debt is 
necessary to make room in the so-called Build Back Better bill for 
trillions of wasteful spending and special interest handouts for the 
wealthy and big business.
  Make no mistake, the debt ceiling is not merely about paying for past 
spending, it is about making room for new wasteful spending, trillions 
that will pour more fuel on the inflation fire that marks Joe Biden's 
Presidency, the highest rate in decades, that has robbed families of 
their real wage gains from the past 3 years.
  Although the President and Democrats in Congress continue to deny 
that inflation is real, this is now a crisis for families, and 
especially seniors on fixed incomes. Their claims that this costs zero 
has been debunked by the independent Congressional Budget Office and 
multiple organizations, and fact-checked as false and misleading by The 
Washington Post.
  And Democrats' insistence that future permanence will be paid for 
begs the question they refuse to answer. How? Everyone knows there are 
only two ways to raise trillions of dollars more: Tax middle-class 
families or rob from entitlement programs like Social Security, 
Medicare, Medicaid.
  The truth is, the Democrats need this debt ceiling to fund special 
interests, give tax subsidies for luxury electric vehicles, and tax 
windfalls to millionaires, while the middle class gets nothing, or even 
a tax hike.

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  They need this debt ceiling to give tax breaks to trial lawyers, 
local media corporations, and pay 1.5 million workers more to stay home 
than go back to work.
  Democrats need a quarter of a trillion dollars to lift the SALT cap 
so that two out of three millionaires will get a huge tax break.
  Meanwhile, for working families, inflation grows worse. Main Street 
businesses continue to struggle hard to find workers, and many parents 
will pay over $1,000 a month more for childcare under Build Back 
Better.
  These are President Biden's priorities. Congressional Democrats, 
these are their priorities. The question to America is, are these your 
priorities? The answer is no, which is why so many Americans 
overwhelmingly question the competence of President Biden and Democrats 
to lead this country.
  I urge a strong ``no'' vote on this bill, and I reserve the balance 
of my time.
  Mr. BEYER. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. BRADY. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Ohio 
(Mr. Davidson).
  Mr. DAVIDSON. Madam Speaker, it is not compassionate to bankrupt 
America. That is exactly what this plan does. It equips this country 
with more debt to pay for the past debt with no plan to pay for the 
future debt. The only thing is more debt. It is a debt bomb, and it is 
something that this body has an obligation to stop.
  This country is on auto pilot for a crash site, and the only plan is 
to keep riding on auto pilot right into the crash site. The whole point 
of the debt ceiling is to force this body to do its duty and to come up 
with a plan to not default.
  The only question isn't whether we default tomorrow, which we 
shouldn't, of course we should pay our debts, but we shouldn't default 
in the future either. And unless we come up with a different course of 
action, this is going to ride all the way to the crash site.
  I will oppose this, and I encourage all of my colleagues to do the 
same, and we should continue to oppose it until there is a plan to 
avert the crisis in the crash that is coming.
  Don't bankrupt America.
  Mr. BEYER. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. BRADY. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Alabama (Mr. Palmer).
  Mr. PALMER. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Texas for his 
leadership. A lot has been said about the Congressional Budget Office 
scoring the Build Back Better bill, that it increases the deficit by $3 
trillion, putting truth to the lie that the bill is paid for. It is 
not.
  What the American people need to know is that there is another CBO 
report that was released earlier this fall that should be front and 
center of this debate over raising the debt limit.
  Here is what that report says about the direction America is heading. 
According to the CBO, by 2051, America's debt-to-GDP ratio will be over 
200 percent. In other words, our debt will be twice the size of our 
entire economy.
  That CBO report said a growing debt burden would increase the risk of 
a fiscal crisis and higher inflation, as well as undermine confidence 
in the U.S. dollar, making it more costly to finance public and private 
activity in international markets.
  The CBO reported that, with growing debt and rising interest rates, 
net spending for interest more than triples relative to the size of the 
economy.
  A New York Times article reported that the CBO warned that such high 
debt levels will lift borrowing costs, slow economic output, and raise 
the risk of a fiscal crisis.
  The Committee for a Responsible Budget warned that the Nation's long-
term output was an air raid siren that can be heard for miles. It said 
the mounting debt will make it harder to address income inequality and 
to make needed infrastructure improvements. Apparently, my Democratic 
colleagues are deaf to that siren.
  Now my colleagues want to raise the debt limit by another $2.5 
trillion so they can continue down the path of reckless spending with 
no regard for the consequences for our Nation's future. That is the 
wrong path. That is the dangerous path. And that is why every Member 
should heed the warnings and vote ``no.''
  Mr. BEYER. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
California (Ms. Pelosi), the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
  Ms. PELOSI. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding me the 
time, and more importantly, for bringing this important legislation to 
the floor. Now we say that with many bills, and let me tell you, Madam 
Speaker, what this means to America's families.
  America's families, as they gather around the kitchen table and 
figure out their priorities and how they are going to pay their bills 
is what keeps them up at night.
  We must lift the debt ceiling to cover the expenses already incurred. 
It is important to note over 95 percent of it occurred during the Trump 
administration, under 4 percent of it during the Biden administration.
  But sadly, Republicans have not only abandoned the responsibility 
they have

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in all of this, this is what it means to you.
  For families, a default could mean millions of American jobs 
eliminated, trillions in household wealth erased, reducing the value of 
the dollar and an immediate reversal of our strong economic recovery--
six million jobs already under Joe Biden--and having a terrible impact 
globally for decades to come.
  Just the discussion of not lifting the debt ceiling a number of years 
ago when the Republicans in Congress were refusing to do so lowered the 
credit rating of the United States of America.
  Our Constitution says and it makes clear the validity of the public 
debt of the United States authorized by law shall not be questioned.

  I point out this other fact. If you have a car loan, if you have a 
mortgage, if you have a student loan, if you have credit card bills, 
any other borrowing, your interest rates will go up unless we lift the 
debt ceiling. So this has a direct impact on the pockets of the 
American people on the prospects for their success.
  Let's be clear, Republicans want less money in the pockets of the 
American people for whatever reason. I don't know what the middle class 
and working families ever did to them for them to want to exact this 
toll on our economy, on our standing in the world and what it means 
globally, but very importantly when you are discussing your finances 
over the kitchen table, understand that if your interest rates go up it 
is because the refusal of the Republicans to lift the debt ceiling.
  I close by saying the full faith and credit of the United States 
should never be questioned. The health of our economy should never be 
threatened. The financial security of our families must never be 
gambled.
  I urge a strong ``yes'' vote for this legislation so that we 
strengthen our economic recovery, spare families the pain of a 
catastrophic default and uphold our duty in the Constitution of the 
United States to uphold the full faith and credit of the United States 
of America.
  Madam Speaker, I urge an ``aye'' vote, and I thank Mr. Beyer for his 
leadership on this issue and Mr. Richie Neal, the chair of the 
committee, as well.
  Mr. BRADY. Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Madam Speaker, sort of a gentle reminder, 2018 Democratic leader 
Nancy Pelosi, Leader Hoyer, Whip Clyburn, and 116 other Democrats voted 
to default on America's debt to shut down our government at the same 
time and refused disaster relief to devastated communities across 
America, including in Texas. And as they said, Republicans controlled 
the House, the Senate, and the White House, and the responsibility to 
govern rests squarely on their shoulders.
  And another gentle reminder to the American public, our Democratic 
friends have known this day has been coming for 2 years. This is a 
crisis that they created. Didn't bother to pass a budget, didn't do 
their appropriations bill, no bipartisan outreach. Waited again and 
again for this cliff and created this crisis. It has been frustrating 
to watch this go on.
  And, too, I know middle-class Americans, one out of every three, will 
see a tax hike in the Build Back Better bill, but two out of three 
millionaires get a huge tax cut. A quarter of a trillion dollars of 
this debt ceiling, a quarter of a trillion dollars of this increase 
will go to millionaires and billionaires and other wealthy Americans.

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  Not to mention the heat your home tax on middle-class families, the 
toddler tax on middle-class families, the made in America tax on our 
Main Street businesses. What is now clear is that President Biden is a 
pay-cut President. Even as most Americans work hard to get ahead in 
their careers and their workplaces, they are now falling behind every 
month of this Presidency.
  They have lost 3 years' worth of real wage growth, went backward in 
getting ahead. And just since spring, Americans are losing an average 
of $377 a month in real purchasing power.
  Who is the party for the middle class and working families? Not 
Democrats, who are robbing--inflation--from their paychecks. Adding 
another $5 trillion to the inflation fire will only cause prices to 
continue to grow faster than paychecks.
  The middle class is on the hook for Democrats' handouts to the 
highest earners, including their government checks to the top 1 percent 
and the biggest corporations, lavish subsidies for luxury electric 
vehicles, and tax cuts for the wealthiest.
  Over half of families with two kids who pay for childcare will be 
forced to pay a $27,000 toddler tax each year under the Democrats' 
Washington takeover of childcare. All this hurts American workers and 
their families, the poor, and the seniors.
  We ought to stop this economic strain. We ought to stop this economic 
suppression. We ought to stop this attack on middle-class and working 
families. We ought to make progrowth tax reform permanent. It lifted 
millions of Americans out of poverty, brought jobs back from overseas, 
and, for the first time, started to shrink income inequality.
  Madam Speaker, you may remember, in 2019, families in America, their 
household income grew more in 1 year under President Trump and the 
Republicans than in all 8 years of President Obama and Biden combined.
  We believe there is a smarter way to help American working families, 
but I know this: Democrats are wrong to fight for $5 trillion of social 
spending that will send jobs overseas, limit choice in childcare, 
worsen healthcare, and lower paychecks by flaming inflation longer and 
making the worker shortage worse.
  Madam Speaker, we can't afford this pay-cut Presidency. I once again 
urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this measure, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. BEYER. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Madam Speaker, very briefly, it seems my Republican friends would 
like to make this debate about the bipartisan infrastructure bill and 
about the Build Back Better bill despite the fact that these were 
wildly popular with the American people. Listening to my Republican 
friends, it sounds like we are in a desperate country instead of one 
that has created 6 million jobs so far this year, an all-time record 
that has 6 percent GDP growth expected this year. Our unemployment rate 
is 4.2 percent. It has recovered faster than any time in American 
history.
  We are about to fund daycare for American working families, bring 3- 
and 4-year-olds to school. The child tax credit will be extended.
  Our infrastructure bills are going to build more roads and highways, 
electric grid, broadband, fix the lead pipes.
  All this is in two bills that are paid for--that are paid for--every 
penny. When people suggest that the benefits may be extended, we have 
also promised to pay for them if that, in fact, happens.
  You complain that we haven't done the appropriations bill. This House 
did the appropriations bill. But in the Senate, which requires 60 
votes, the appropriations bill didn't happen over there.
  Madam Speaker, this is not about two very good bills, two paid-for 
bills that don't increase the deficit, that don't add to inflation. It 
is about the simple fact that we need to pay our bills.
  It is a simple bill. This vote should be simple.
  During the Trump administration, the Republicans added $7.9 
trillion--50 percent--to the national debt. Their Tax Cuts and Jobs Act 
alone added $1.9 trillion. We have to pay for that. That is what we are 
paying for tonight.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues, Democrat and Republican, to vote 
for this good Senate joint resolution to lift the debt ceiling.
  Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. OBERNOLTE. Madam Speaker, I rise today to oppose this $2.5 
trillion debt limit increase which this Congress is voting on without 
any discussion of how this debate will ever be repaid.
  Over the past year, Congress' record levels of spending has sparked 
record-breaking inflation. Just last week, our nation hit its highest 
inflation rate in 40 years with current annual inflation for the twelve 
months ending in November at 6.8%. As a consequence, real average 
hourly earnings decreased by half a percent in November. Surging costs 
for food, energy, housing, and other items have left the average 
American family reeling. In my California district, the average price 
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gasoline has increased over $20 since January, while the price of 
natural gas is up more than 25 percent.
  Congress is not only spending at a level that is well beyond our 
self-imposed limits, but also beyond what our economy can safely 
handle, and Madam Speaker, instead of reducing our spending and finding 
places to save as any American family would, this institution is 
working to push through another multi-trillion-dollar social spending 
package that would drive our debt and our inflation further into 
crisis.
  Madam Speaker, this unconscionable spending is the epitome of 
irresponsible governance. We must take measures to end this reckless 
spending and put our financial house in order. To that end I have 
introduced two bills that the House might better spend its time 
considering in the coming weeks instead of continuing debate on the 
reckless social spending bill.
  My Constitutional Amendment to balance the budget would amend the 
U.S. Constitution to ensure total federal spending for a fiscal year 
does not exceed the total amount of federal revenue. It includes off-
ramps that encourage bipartisanship in times of crisis and would end 
the seemingly-endless cycle of budget deficits.
  Likewise, my Finding Federal Savings Committee Resolution would help 
to cut back on government waste by creating a bipartisan committee in 
this body to identify underperforming and nonessential federal programs 
and recommend their elimination or modification. Neither of these ideas 
are partisan, nor are they radical. They simply take steps to solve a 
problem that this body has continued to kick down the road for future 
generations to repay.
  Madam Speaker, this Congress must do better. I call on my colleagues 
to reverse course, to stop this reckless spending, and to vote no on 
raising the debt ceiling without a plan to repay our debt.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, as a senior member of the Committees 
on the Judiciary, on Homeland Security, and on the Budget, I rise in 
support of S.J. Res. 33--Joint resolution relating to increasing the 
debt limit, a measure raising the national debt limit by $2.5 trillion, 
which is imperative to avoid a wasteful, irresponsible, reckless 
threatening of the nation's singular indispensable asset: the full 
faith and credit of the United States.
  Madam Speaker, preserving the full faith and credit of the United 
States by raising to the debt limit to ensure that America pays the 
bills for past expenditures when they come due is not a partisan 
exercise but an act of patriotism, a recognition and embrace of the 
solemn obligation to preserve the unrivaled advantages that flow from 
the ability provided in the Article I, Section 8, clause 2 of the 
Constitution to ``borrow money on the credit of the United States.''
  Long ago, in 1789, Alexander Hamilton, the nation's first and 
greatest Treasury Secretary, understood that the path to American 
prosperity and greatness lay in its creditworthiness which provided the 
affordable access to capital needed to fund internal improvements and 
economic growth.
  It is because of the existence and wise use of the Borrowing Power 
that the nation was able to expand its reaches, resources, and riches 
by financing the Louisiana Purchase, the purchase of Alaska from 
Russia, to fund the investments to end the Great Depression, to finance 
the mobilization of resources needed in World War II to defeat fascism 
and save freedom in the nation and the world, to revive the economy 
after the catastrophic Great Recession of 2008, and most recently, to 
protect the public health and safety and restore the economy during the 
COVID-19 pandemic.
  This is why the ability to borrow money on the credit of the United 
States to finance its growth and protect its people and interests is 
essential to the national security and led Hamilton to proclaim that 
``the proper funding of the present debt, will render it a national 
blessing.''
  But to maintain this blessing, or to ``render public credit 
immortal,'' Hamilton understood that it was necessary that: ``the 
creation of debt should always be accompanied with the means of 
extinguishment.''
  In other words, to retain and enjoy the prosperity that flows from 
good credit, it is necessary for a nation to pay its bills.
  The United States has never defaulted on the payment of any debt 
incurred, and because of the size and strength of its economic and 
unmatched creditworthiness, is able to borrow on the lowest and most 
favorable terms of any nation or entity in the history of the world.
  So secure and reliable is a bond issues by the Department of Treasury 
that the United States is the preferred haven for investments of 
foreign governments, corporations, and sovereign wealth funds.
  The interest rate charged the federal government of the United States 
is the base for which every rate, from the prime rate charged the 
richest corporation to rates charged small business on purchases to the 
mortgages rates and students loans taken out by consumers.
  If you raise the cost of borrowing for the government of the United 
States, you set off a chain reaction of increased interest rates for 
every other borrower in the United States and around the world.
  This is why leading public finance experts and agencies, like Moody's 
Chief Economist Mark Zandi, have said it would be ``cataclysmic'' for 
the United States to default on its loan obligations.
  Republicans know the debt ceiling needs to be raised; in 2019 during 
the Trump Administration, the Republican Senate Majority Leader 
marshalled Senate Republicans to vote to raise the debt ceiling, 
saying: ``We raised the debt ceiling because America can't default[,] 
that would be a disaster.''
  Madam Speaker, this debate over extending the debt limit is not about 
restraining future spending, it is about paying the bills piled up 
already under both Republican and Democratic administrations.
  The question of raising the national debt limit does not depend on 
how one feels about the Build Back Better agenda, as wildly popular as 
it is among all Americans, Democrats, Independents, and Republicans 
included.
  It is instead about preserving the singular asset of the United 
States, its enviable and unrivaled creditworthiness, to finance future 
investments beneficial to the national interest, like the provision of 
free college for two years, or $2 billion investment to reduce violence 
in communities approved by the Committee on the Judiciary, or 
investments to preserve and strengthen Medicaid expansion programs, or 
extend broadband to underserved rural and urban areas, an action that 
will be as life-changing as the rural electrification program was in 
the 1930s.
  Madam Speaker, if our friends across the aisle really want to shrink 
the deficit, reduce the national debt, practice fiscal responsibility, 
and bring about sustained economic growth and prosperity, there is a 
much better, easier, and more certain way to achieve these goals than 
by tampering with the U.S. Constitution.
  The easier and better way is for the American people to keep a 
Democrat in the White House and place Democratic majorities in the 
House and Senate.
  In the 1990s under the leadership of President Clinton the budget was 
balanced for four consecutive years, the national debt was paid down, 
the national debt, 23 million new jobs were created, and projected 
surpluses exceeded $5 trillion.
  Under President Obama the financial crisis and economic meltdown 
inherited from his Republican predecessor was ended, the annual deficit 
was reduced by 67 percent, the auto industry was saved from collapse, 
and 15 million jobs were created.
  In contrast, under every Republican administration since President 
Reagan the size of the deficit bequeathed to his successor was 
substantially larger than the deficit he inherited, a major economic 
recession occurred, and economic growth was lower than it was at the 
beginning of his administration.
  To preserve the sanctity of the full faith and credit of the United 
States, protect American jobs and businesses of all sizes, and ensure 
the continued growth of the economy, I support and urge all Members to 
join me in voting for S.J. Res. 33--Joint resolution relating to 
increasing the debt limit.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time for debate has expired.
  Pursuant to the rule, the previous question is ordered on the joint 
resolution.
  The question is on the third reading of the joint resolution.
  The joint resolution was ordered to be read a third time, and was 
read the third time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the joint 
resolution.
  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 221, 
nays 209, not voting 4, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 449]

                               YEAS--221

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Axne
     Barragan
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bourdeaux
     Bowman
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brown (MD)
     Brown (OH)
     Brownley
     Bush
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)

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     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis, Danny K.
     Dean
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Delgado
     Demings
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Frankel, Lois
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Golden
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs (CA)
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (TX)
     Jones
     Kahele
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Kind
     Kinzinger
     Kirkpatrick
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Lamb
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lawson (FL)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin (CA)
     Levin (MI)
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Luria
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCollum
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     Meeks
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moulton
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     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
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     O'Halleran
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     Omar
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     Panetta
     Pappas
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     Porter
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     Ross
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     Ruiz
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     Rush
     Ryan
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     Sarbanes
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     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
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     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Sires
     Slotkin
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     Stanton
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     Swalwell
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     Trahan
     Trone
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     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NAYS--209

     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bentz
     Bergman
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     Biggs
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     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brady
     Brooks
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budd
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Cammack
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     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Cheney
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Comer
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     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
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     Gohmert
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez (OH)
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
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     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
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     Harris
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     Hartzler
     Hern
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     Luetkemeyer
     Mace
     Malliotakis
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     Wittman
     Womack
     Young
     Zeldin

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Cawthorn
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Vela

                              {time}  0020

  So the joint resolution was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  Stated for:
  Mr. VELA. Madam Speaker, I was present and voted ``yea'' on rollcall 
No. 449, final passage of S.J. Res. 33. However, it has come to my 
attention that my vote was not recorded, and I would like the record to 
show how my vote would have been counted on S.J. Res. 33. Had I been 
present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 449.


    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)
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     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)
     Fulcher (Johnson (OH))
     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)
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     Kahele (Mrvan)
     Katko (Meijer)
     Khanna (Connolly)
     Kilmer (Kildee)
     Kim (CA) (Gonzalez (OH))
     Kinzinger (Meijer)
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     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)
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     Reed (Rice (SC))
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     Rodgers (WA) (Joyce (PA))
     Roybal-Allard (Connolly)
     Ruiz (Aguilar)
     Ruppersberger (Aguilar)
     Rush (Quigley)
     Salazar (Cammack)
     Sanchez (Costa)
     Schrader (Correa)
     Sewell (Cicilline)
     Simpson (Stewart)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Speier (Scanlon)
     Stansbury (Kuster)
     Stefanik (Burgess)
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     Suozzi (Kildee)
     Swalwell (Gomez)
     Titus (Connolly)
     Tonko (Pallone)
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     Trahan (McGovern)
     Trone (Brown (MD))
     Underwood (Casten)
     Van Drew (Burgess)
     Vargas (Correa)
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     Wagner (McHenry)
     Walorski (Banks)
     Watson Coleman (Pallone)
     Welch (McGovern)
     Wilson (FL) (Brown (MD))
     Wilson (SC) (Dunn)
     Zeldin (Timmons)


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  December 14, 2021, on page H7820 (second column), the following 
appeared: Hagedorn (Moolenaar) Hartzler (DesJarlais) Hayes (Wild) 
Hern (Lucas)Herrera Beutler (Rice (SC)) Horsford(Carter (LA)) 
Huffman(Levin (CA)) Jacobs (CA)------------------------
  
  The online version has been corrected to read: Hagedorn 
(Moolenaar) Hartzler (DesJarlais) Hayes (Wild) Hern (Lucas) 
Herrera Beutler (Rice (SC)) Horsford (Carter (LA)) Huffman (Levin 
(CA)) Jacobs (CA) (Correa)


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