[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 57 (Thursday, March 31, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H4046-H4053]
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MOTION TO INSTRUCT CONFEREES ON H.R. 4521, AMERICA COMPETES ACT OF 2022

  Mr. LUCAS. Madam Speaker, pursuant to the order of the House of March 
30, 2022, I offer a motion to instruct on H.R. 4521.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. Lucas moves that the managers on the part of the House 
     at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses 
     on the Senate amendment to the bill H.R. 4521 be instructed 
     to agree to section 2502 of the Senate amendment.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 7 of rule XXII, the 
gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Lucas) and the gentlewoman from Michigan 
(Ms. Stevens) each will control 30 minutes. The Chair recognizes the 
gentleman from Oklahoma.
  Mr. LUCAS. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I rise today to urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this motion to 
instruct the conferees on our competitiveness legislation.
  This motion instructs conference members to agree to section 2502 of 
the Senate legislation. This section is simple and common sense. It 
says that no person or entity of concern can receive grants, awards, or 
other support from the National Science Foundation, federally funded 
manufacturing programs, or technology hubs authorized by this 
legislation.
  A person or entity of concern is generally defined by the Department 
of Defense as directed by Congress in previous Defense Reauthorization 
Acts.
  DOD has identified entities of concern as Communist Chinese military 
companies and companies owned or controlled by the People's Liberation 
Army, and they have defined persons of concern as individuals 
affiliated with these CCP military entities.
  Simply put, this motion ensures that we aren't giving taxpayer 
dollars to the adversaries who are trying to steal U.S. technology and 
use it against us.
  The Senate was right to add this important guardrail, and it is only 
responsible that we urge our House conferees to ensure it is included 
in the final conferenced legislation.
  I would like to point out that we wouldn't have this particular 
difference in our bills had the process of passing the House 
legislation been done in regular order.
  The COMPETES Act was developed in a back room by the Speaker's office

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with very little input or review from relevant committees.
  Although thoroughly vetted and bipartisan Science Committee bills 
were included in that package, they were sandwiched in among unrelated, 
partisan spending that added up to a backdoor attempt to pass parts of 
the Build Back Better Act. Because of this rushed, opaque bill-writing 
process, unsurprisingly, the COMPETES Act had a lot of flaws.
  Despite less than 3 days to review the bill text, Members submitted 
more than 600 amendments to the bill. But the Rules Committee, with 
very little input, made in order only 261; and of that number, only 
three Republican amendments were given individual debate time on the 
floor, with all other Republican amendments being considered en bloc. 
Not only did Members have little opportunity to write this bill, but 
they also had almost no opportunity to fix its flaws.
  I could go on about the danger of passing massive bills like this out 
of regular order, but for now I will focus on this particular issue. 
This provision preventing funds from going to Chinese military entities 
and persons of concern was submitted as a part of multiple Republican 
amendments to the Rules Committee, but none of these amendments were 
made in order. I fail to see how amendments limiting taxpayer funds 
from going to China isn't relevant to a bill about competitiveness with 
China.
  Democrats' failure to include similar language in the COMPETES Act is 
an unfortunate example of an unwillingness to be strong on China and 
protect our national security. But we have a chance to rectify that 
now.
  Madam Speaker, surely we can all agree that we shouldn't be sending 
taxpayer dollars to Communist leadership in China. They are already 
stealing our discoveries and using them to surpass us economically and 
militarily. We are spending the time, money, and effort to plant the 
seeds of new technologies, but China is the one harvesting the crop.
  We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to pass legislation to 
improve U.S. technology and to set us up to be globally competitive for 
the coming decade.
  The Science Committee has spent 2 years preparing for this 
opportunity. Working together, Republicans and Democrats held meetings 
with stakeholders, conducted in-depth hearings, and individually marked 
up more than a dozen bills to strategically scale-up America's research 
and development capacities.
  Those bills all passed out of committee unanimously, and many passed 
across the floor with strong bipartisan support. They double down on 
investment in basic research at the National Science Foundation, the 
Department of Energy Office of Science and National Labs, and the 
National Institute of Standards and Technology.
  They also direct the creation and regular review of a national 
science and technology strategy, as well as improving STEM education 
and regional research opportunities.
  The Science Committee bills are targeted to the areas where 
government investment is most needed and will give us the biggest 
reward. We ensure our approach is strategic, focusing on the 
technologies of the future like quantum sciences, artificial 
intelligence, and advanced manufacturing. We will keep America 
competitive and secure and help create good jobs here at home.
  This legislation should be the foundation for the conference 
legislation, not the COMPETES Act, which is more of a climate change 
bill than a technology bill, and not the bill formerly known as USICA, 
which is a grab-bag of special interest provisions cobbled together 
into a franken-bill.
  There is a lot of chaff to separate from the wheat of this bill, but 
I believe we can come to smart, consensus policy through the 
conference. The Science Committee worked together to pass strong 
bipartisan legislation, and I think our process, as well as our end 
result, should serve as a model moving forward.
  I am looking forward to getting to work and paring down these bills 
to the smart policies we need. It is urgent that we act now. Democratic 
leadership delayed the legislation for 9 months. I assure you the 
Chinese Communist Party isn't doing the same. Let's stop playing 
politics with something so important.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to pass this motion, and I 
reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. STEVENS. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong and enthusiastic support of 
moving forward to conference the America COMPETES Act of 2022 with the 
Senate.
  For those watching back at home, a conference committee is a joint 
committee between the House and Senate, a temporary ad hoc 
configuration to negotiate elements of a bill; and it is, frankly, the 
best of legislative action; Congress working for the American people, 
debating through democracy and deliberation to produce an end result.
  As a Member of Congress, I often ask myself, I often pose the 
question, what will drive our economy for the next 10 years, 20 years, 
30 years? What is our moonshot of the next 50 years? What can I do 
today to ensure that my neighbors in southeast Michigan are on a strong 
path to a successful future? What are the technologies and research 
investments that we can make today to ensure the success of the Nation 
for all of us?
  The legislation that we are moving to conference today, the America 
COMPETES Act, tackles those big questions and secures our competitive 
edge for generations to come. This bill is an investment in our people. 
It reflects our ability to reach higher, to think deeper, and to invent 
solutions to not only today's problems but solutions for tomorrow's 
opportunities.
  Americans are known for their hustle, for their ingenuity. My job, 
our job in Congress is to connect people to the tools to unlock a good 
life, to connected opportunity for everyone. And, frankly, the tools of 
the future are in this bill.
  The COMPETES Act turbocharges America's scientific research and 
technological leadership while strengthening America's economic and 
national security at home and abroad. Even more, this bold investment 
in innovation ensures our top scientific minds have the tools to rise 
to the challenge of our climate crisis, from clean energy technologies 
to emissions measurement.
  Not only does this bill look to the future, but it also mends the 
acute stressors that we are all feeling today due to our years of 
Federal underinvestment in science and innovation. A conference 
committee to discuss this, my friends, the America COMPETES Act tackles 
our supply chain vulnerabilities to make more goods in America and 
surges production of American-made semiconductors, chips, that which we 
invented here in this Nation, and in the 1990s were producing 40 
percent of a crucial component in everything from cars to computers to 
medical devices. And the American people are ready; ready for 
investments that will spur innovative solutions to create jobs across 
the Nation, support American manufacturing, and build a strong and 
diverse STEM workforce ready to address the challenges we face as a 
Nation.

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  During President Biden's State of the Union Address, he called on 
Congress to get our innovation package to him for his signature. So we 
should be proud--I certainly am--to be here as we move to take the next 
step in this process. There is, frankly, no time to waste in getting 
the COMPETES Act to the President's desk.
  As the chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Research and Technology, I 
am so proud of the range of bipartisan Science, Space, and Technology 
Committee provisions that have long been championed that are included 
in this package.
  I am especially proud of the NIST for the Future Act, my legislation. 
This critical investment in NIST will ensure the agency and its 
employees have the resources they require to be a key part of 
bolstering our American technology enterprise: a resilient supply 
chain, small and midsize manufacturers being brought to the table to 
deliver for America, and the American workforce that compels them.
  Since Michigan's 11th District sent me to Congress, I have been 
laser-focused on bringing innovation economy

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solutions not only to folks in southeastern Michigan but also, 
obviously, all across the United States.
  We built a transformative piece of legislation from the ground up. 
The ranking member is right--bipartisan years of work on the Science, 
Space, and Technology Committee to do such legislation. We heard from 
the science community. We heard from industry. We heard from academia. 
We heard from other stakeholders. They all told us the same thing: 
Don't leave Americans behind. Don't leave anyone behind based on 
geography or demographics. Bring the scientific research enterprise to 
all.
  We are here, and we are here with a lot of hardworking people from 
the Science, Space, and Technology Committee staff. We have not had a 
conference committee since 2018, albeit for NDAA. Many people have not 
been able to be privy to such an action, and they deserve our 
gratitude. These are the folks writing the text late into the night 
based on our corrections, the Science, Space, and Technology Committee 
staff who work so hard and the Science, Space, and Technology Committee 
members.
  The United States has long been a beacon of excellence in science and 
innovation, and it is long overdue that we restore Federal support for 
these vital initiatives, that we invest now and lead the world.
  The House's and Senate's approaches may certainly have some 
differences, but we seek the same goal: to deliver for this Nation.
  I am very confident that we will have a very productive conference 
process and hope to get the America COMPETES Act to President Biden's 
desk for signature very soon.
  The U.S. has endless potential to compete globally in science and 
innovation. The America COMPETES Act provides the critical resources 
and tools we need to achieve that.
  I look forward to working with my colleagues throughout conference to 
invest in America's most valuable resource, the talent of our people.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LUCAS. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Babin).
  Mr. BABIN. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Oklahoma for 
yielding.
  Madam Speaker, last month, the House passed the COMPETES Act, better 
known as the concedes act, which was forced through this Chamber in a 
partisan fashion and lacked the policies needed to truly bolster our 
scientific infrastructure and combat threats from our foreign 
adversaries.
  The hard work and the bipartisan collaboration of the Science, Space, 
and Technology Committee were left in the wake of partisan politics.
  The House-passed concedes act let China off the hook very simply for 
failing to contain COVID-19. It failed to ban funding to CCP-tied 
organizations. It failed to punish the CCP for its blatant human rights 
abuses. It failed to strengthen America's competitive edge over China.
  Today, we have the opportunity to instruct conferees to bolster the 
language and actually stand up against Communist China.
  That is why I support this motion to instruct. It will ensure that no 
entities identified as Chinese military companies operating in the 
United States are eligible to receive funds through the new technology 
directorate, the supply chain resiliency program that we set up through 
Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
  We must put a stop to Communist China spreading misinformation, 
stealing our technology, and bolstering its economic advantages while 
weakening ours. The FBI and intelligence agencies have continually 
warned Congress about these same threats from Communist China.
  China's investment in development, and not in basic research, implies 
that they are building their technological success on the backs of 
U.S.-funded basic research.
  We have even seen the infiltration of Chinese influence in our 
university systems and academia on several different occasions at the 
top institutions of America. We must work to ensure that China cannot 
undermine our open system of research and development.
  This time, let's support scientific discovery, advance American 
technology, and hold our foreign adversaries accountable, and let's not 
waste the American people's time again.
  Ms. STEVENS. Madam Speaker, the ranking member, the gentleman from 
Oklahoma (Mr. Lucas), has given us a motion to instruct, a negotiation 
that we will pursue in the conference to come.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey 
(Mr. Pallone).
  Mr. PALLONE. Madam Speaker, we are at a crucial moment in our 
Nation's history, and Congress has the chance to reinvigorate our 
economy and ensure that we can outcompete every other nation.
  The America COMPETES Act will put us on a course to lead the pack in 
creating the strongest and most advanced economy of the 21st century. 
Today's actions move us one step closer to making this legislation a 
reality.
  Over the past 40 years, America's manufacturing sector has lost 
market share to economic competitors like China. This decline in 
manufacturing, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, has led to severe 
supply chain disruptions across our economy that have raised prices for 
consumers.
  As the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, I would like to 
highlight several important provisions in the America COMPETES Act that 
will help reverse this trend, strengthen our economy, bolster our 
Nation's supply chains, and ensure that more critical goods are made 
right here in the United States.
  The legislation invests $45 billion in grants, loans, and loan 
guarantees to support supply chain resilience and manufacturing of 
critical goods, industrial equipment, and manufacturing technology 
right here in the U.S.
  It also invests $52 billion for the CHIPS for America Act, 
incentivizing private-sector investments in semiconductor fabrication. 
This funding will help eliminate disruptions in the semiconductor 
supply chain from abroad that have hurt American automakers, medical 
supply chain companies, and manufacturers of heavy machinery.
  The bill invests $3 billion to help build a domestic solar 
manufacturing supply chain so we can aggressively counter China's 
control of the solar chain that jeopardizes our energy security 
interests. The bill also keeps our electric grid secure and resilient 
in the face of evolving cybersecurity and physical security threats.
  Madam Speaker, the America COMPETES Act also improves our medical 
product supply chain and strengthens our Strategic National Stockpile. 
During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were widespread 
shortages of essential medicines, medical supplies, and some personal 
protective equipment.
  This legislation increases our domestic drug manufacturing base by 
expanding the use of advanced and continuous manufacturing practices. 
It also establishes a $1.5 billion supply chain manufacturing pilot 
program that will help maintain domestic reserves of critical medical 
supplies. It creates a $10.5 billion program that awards grants to 
States to expand or maintain a State strategic stockpile of products 
essential in the event of a public health emergency.
  Finally, Madam Speaker, the America COMPETES Act will help innovate 
our wireless supply chain and network security by funding the 
deployment of cutting-edge technology and ensuring that next-generation 
mobile wireless networks and technologies are safe and secure from 
foreign adversaries.
  Madam Speaker, for far too long, America has relied heavily on other 
nations to manufacture critical goods essential to our economy. That 
must come to an end as we work together to reinvigorate our 
manufacturing base and create new, good-paying jobs here at home.
  Mr. LUCAS. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
California (Mrs. Kim).
  Mrs. KIM of California. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from 
Oklahoma for yielding.
  Madam Speaker, I rise in support of Ranking Member Lucas' motion to 
instruct.
  This motion will agree with section 2502 included in USICA, which 
prohibits entities identified as Chinese military companies from 
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funds through the new technology directorate, the supply chain 
resiliency program, the regional innovation program, or the 
Manufacturing USA program.
  In other words, this motion ensures taxpayer dollars spent in this 
bill do not go toward the Chinese Communist Party.
  On the Science, Space, and Technology Committee, we spent several 
months working on a series of bipartisan competitiveness bills that we 
could have gone to conference with. Unfortunately, with little notice, 
we voted on a 3,000-page bill that was not bipartisan, did not include 
strong protections to safeguard U.S. investments from CCP, and provided 
$8 billion for a climate slush fund that we have zero oversight over 
and China has already taken $100 million from.
  Republicans offered several amendments with similar language to that 
of Ranking Member Lucas' motion to instruct in the Rules Committee, but 
unfortunately, the majority did not allow them to be considered on the 
House floor.
  The CCP is watching us. Today, we have an opportunity to send a 
strong bipartisan and bicameral message: We are bolstering American 
competitiveness and national security to ensure we lead in the 
development and deployment of the technologies of the future.
  It is imperative we have guardrails, such as Mr. Lucas' motion to 
instruct, in order to ensure these investments do not fall into the 
hands of the CCP and to attain a true bipartisan, bicameral agreement.
  I thank Ranking Member Lucas for his leadership and his motion.
  Ms. STEVENS. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Oregon (Mr. Blumenauer).
  Mr. BLUMENAUER. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding 
and allowing me to speak on this.
  I think it is worth the wait to bring these important provisions 
together to the floor to work on a path forward and maybe a little hint 
of restoring regular order.
  It is important that we invest in innovation for our future. And I 
would note not just the cutting edge, high-tech future developments 
that are so important in my State and in many others that are going to 
help keep us on the front lines, but it is also important to invest in 
legacy technology, legacy chips.
  We had the manufacturing supply chain all over America halt for lack 
of chips that cost only a few pennies because it wasn't profitable for 
some to create the legacy chips moving forward. And I hope some of 
these billions will be invested in opportunities to ramp up that 
production. It happened very fast, and it will make a difference from 
automobiles to microwaves and washing machines.
  I am proud of the work we have done in the Ways and Means Committee 
under the leadership of Richie Neal to develop pro-worker responsive 
efforts and deal with the Chinese challenge.
  Now, because the benefits of trade are broadly understood and spread 
but the problems are localized, the impacts often hit individual 
communities. That is why our provision has a strong Trade Adjustment 
Assistance program. Sadly, it expired a year ago, setting us back, 
leaving people desperately in need of this help out of luck.
  We have a very strong, carefully crafted provision that will help 
workers and communities alike with an updated, modernized Trade 
Adjustment Assistance program.
  We hear a lot of concerns about China, and I share those concerns. 
Our provisions are tough on China.
  For instance, we closed the de minimis loophole that allows 2 million 
packages a day to be imported into the United States directly to our 
consumers, uninspected in the main and evading tariffs. It is time for 
us to close that de minimis loophole.
  I note that the Chinese give Americans $7 of an exemption, and ours 
is $800. The least we ought to do is close that de minimis loophole.
  The trade title is strongly supported by American business and 
organized labor. We are dealing with a TSP and MTB that will improve 
global standards and strengthen American manufacturing.
  The title is supported by AFL-CIO, American Alliance of 
Manufacturers, the autoworkers, machinists, electricians. People who 
want to build products in America are advantaged under this.
  It meets workers' needs, bolsters America's ability to compete, and 
is attuned to what Americans want.
  Madam Speaker, I look forward to the work with the committee moving 
this forward, and ultimately, its passage.

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  Ms. STEVENS. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Oregon for 
reminding us about the importance of legacy chips and the MTB. I also 
thank the previous gentlewoman from California for reminding us about 
Manufacturing USA, which was probably started under the Obama 
administration.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LUCAS. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Oklahoma (Mrs. Bice).
  Mrs. BICE of Oklahoma. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of the motion 
to instruct from my colleague and Oklahoma delegation member, Mr. 
Lucas.
  Safeguarding our national security, improving our supply chain 
resiliency, and bolstering American innovation are things that we can 
all agree on. However, in the COMPETES Act, Democrats took these 
problems and drafted ineffective, partisan policies in response. As a 
member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, we had 
previously advanced strong legislation to combat these very issues.
  On top of this, when this legislation came to the House floor for a 
vote in February, Republicans in the House were denied the opportunity 
to provide input on these important issues through the restrictive 
processes of the majority.
  While over 600 amendments were submitted, less than half of those 
were made in order by the Committee on Rules. Of the 600, there were a 
number that would have taken steps to address the ever-growing threat 
we face from the Chinese Communist Party and their affiliated companies 
operating in the United States.
  This motion to instruct will ensure that the critical investments we 
are making in America's innovation don't fall into the hands of our 
foreign adversaries.
  Democrats' failure to include similar provisions in the COMPETES Act 
exemplify their continued, weak policies on China that compromise our 
strategic advantage and our national security.
  It is common sense that U.S. taxpayer dollars should not be lining 
the pockets of the Chinese Communist Party, and instead, should be used 
to strengthen our industries here at home. Investing in American 
companies will strengthen the economy while keeping the Nation safe.
  Madam Speaker, this should not be a partisan issue. I encourage the 
adoption of the motion.
  Ms. STEVENS. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
New York (Mr. Meeks).
  Mr. MEEKS. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Michigan for 
yielding the time.
  Madam Speaker, we find ourselves in a competition to lead in the 21st 
century. And that is a competition that the United States cannot afford 
to lose, and if we do what we should do here, will not lose.
  A month ago, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping thought that America was 
in decline, that America could no longer lead the world, and that they 
could therefore simply overwhelm smaller states. They believed that 
they could undermine the rules-based order whenever they chose.
  Well, this incredible global coalition, binding and getting us 
together, working with our allies, that President Joe Biden has put 
together to condemn Russia and support the Ukrainian people, has proven 
that their assertion is absolutely wrong. But the events of the past 
month have underscored the need to position America for this challenge 
on a long-term basis.
  Therefore, it is absolutely critical that Congress get H.R. 4521 to 
the President's desk. It is an investment in science, innovation, and 
technology, which would allow us to excel in the global economy for 
decades, bolster our domestic industry, and create jobs for American 
workers.

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  Madam Speaker, I am proud that my bill, the EAGLE Act, serves as the 
foreign affairs division of America COMPETES. It bolsters our diplomacy 
to marshal a coalition of states to check the PRC's aggression, its 
theft of technology, its shirking of global rules, and its gross 
violation of human rights, of which we need to focus on.
  And I know that if we put our minds to it, we can work together in a 
bipartisan and bicameral way to finalize this critical legislation and 
get it to the President's desk, and we must do it.
  That is because our allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific are 
watching. They need our help to bolster international rules, combat the 
PRC's coercion, and address shared global challenges like climate 
change. And after what we have seen in Ukraine, the people of Taiwan 
are watching, to ensure that we deepen our economic ties, strengthen 
its defense, and create greater space for Taiwan globally.
  Hong Kongers and Uyghurs are also watching to make sure we get this 
done because they urgently need the refugee protections that are in the 
COMPETES Act. They need Congress to send a message to Beijing that its 
genocide in Xinjiang, its destruction of Hong Kong's autonomy, and its 
lack of regard for human rights will not stand.
  Ms. STEVENS. Madam Speaker, we are lucky to have such a chair of the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs here in the Congress.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LUCAS. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Arkansas (Mr. Westerman).
  Mr. WESTERMAN. Madam Speaker, in a peewee sports competition, you can 
make the case that if you are competing, you are winning. But when it 
comes to global standing, energy independence, and economic security, 
there are no participation trophies. Our goal can't be to just compete. 
We have to dominate because if we are not winning in this area, we are 
losing. And if America loses, the world loses.
  Unfortunately, this so-called COMPETES Act would place America on the 
loser's bench. I am baffled why, at a time when gas prices are 
skyrocketing from Putin's war in Ukraine, and more Americans than ever 
are facing economic instability, this majority is still laser-focused 
on a blind, green-energy political agenda when America needs a 
rational, domestic energy plan that results in reliable, affordable, 
and clean energy.

  Our constituents are paying almost $5 a gallon to fill their cars. 
Yet, I am hearing my Democrat colleagues suggest the solution is just 
to buy an electric vehicle. What a slap in the face to thousands of 
hardworking men and women that President Biden put out of their jobs by 
canceling pipelines and shuttering American mines, while turning to 
international adversaries like Russia, China, Iran, and Venezuela to 
solve the energy and mineral crisis he created.
  Madam Speaker, no, if we really want to win, we must unleash the full 
power of American energy and mineral development by processing permits, 
issuing leases, streamlining the regulatory process, and giving our own 
homegrown industries the ability to use our American resources. We can 
and we will do that safer, cleaner and faster than anyone else in the 
world.
  Where China uses child and slave labor to mine minerals vital to 
batteries and computers, we can use state-of-the-art technology to 
access those minerals that are right here in the U.S.
  Where Russia controls oil rights and uses it as political leverage, 
we can produce energy for our own people and be an exporter to our 
allies.
  Madam Speaker, we have no other option than to win.
  I urge my colleagues to give Americans the power to develop, 
innovate, and unleash our full potential. If you look around, Democrat 
strategies are proving to be losing strategies. Americans can't afford 
higher prices and more incompetence. Let's begin to put an end to the 
madness by passing this motion to instruct.
  Madam Speaker, I encourage that.
  Ms. STEVENS. Madam Speaker, may I inquire how much time is remaining?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. Luria). The gentlewoman from Michigan 
has 13\3/4\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Oklahoma has 15 
minutes remaining.
  Ms. STEVENS. Madam Speaker, as the gentleman from Arkansas reminds 
us, I am proud that Michigan is the destination where the combustion 
engine was invented and innovated, and very proud to be the destination 
where our workers are manifesting and innovating electric vehicles.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. 
Beyer).
  Mr. BEYER. Madam Speaker, I confess, I cannot connect my friend from 
Arkansas' comments with this motion to instruct, but I won't take any 
time to refute these things.
  Madam Speaker, manufacturing has long been a core strength of the 
American economy. But the decades-long decline of manufacturing jobs in 
the United States has cut off pathways to economic security for so many 
families across this country.
  Passage of the America COMPETES Act will be a landmark investment in 
infrastructure, in clean technology, in innovation that will create and 
preserve high-quality jobs in communities across America, and advance 
U.S. competitiveness and drive long-term economic growth.
  Disinvestment in American homemade products has also contributed to 
the severe supply chain disruptions during the coronavirus pandemic 
that have pushed up prices for so many American consumers. The America 
COMPETES Act will bolster supply chains, ramp up domestic manufacturing 
of critical components, like semiconductors, and insulate U.S. workers 
and families from price volatility and help build their own economic 
resilience.
  Part of the House-passed version is the National Secure Data Service 
Act, which will allow agencies to link together data collected through 
surveys, Federal program administration, nongovernmental data sources 
to advance evidence-based policymaking. This will be a great boon for 
artificial intelligence and machine learning.
  Also included in the COMPETES Act, is an amendment I cosponsored with 
Representative Trahan to increase investment in fusion energy, the holy 
grail for our climate and for world poverty.
  The COMPETES Act bottom line gives the U.S. the competitive edge 
needed to maintain our global leadership in innovation and research.
  Madam Speaker, I am not sure why my Republican friends felt the need 
to offer this motion in the first place. Of course, we all understand 
that the essential subtext of the COMPETES Act has been to strengthen 
our competitive position versus communist China or, to restate my 
friend from Arkansas, to put us in the dominant position to compete 
against communist China.
  Of course, nothing in this landmark initiative in American research, 
in American innovation, in American manufacturing, American artificial 
intelligence or American chips is intended to be transferred to the 
PRC. So if this is meant to show that Republicans are tougher on China 
than Democrats, that is silly and untrue.
  Together, we will fight China's human rights abuses. We will fight 
its cheating on trade. We will fight its autocratic, dictatorial 
government. And the COMPETES Act gives us the strength we need to do 
that today.
  Mr. LUCAS. Madam Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. McCaul).
  Mr. McCAUL. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Oklahoma for 
yielding.
  Madam Speaker, the Chinese Communist Party poses a generational 
threat to the United States and our freedom-loving allies around the 
world.
  They are brutally oppressing their own people. They are committing 
genocide against ethnic and religious minorities. They are expanding 
their military reach and carrying out territorial aggression against 
their neighbors. We cannot wait any longer to address these issues.
  Madam Speaker, I stand before you, quite frankly, disappointed. We 
had a great opportunity here, and this bill that passed the House is 
not the bill. I am very hopeful we can get to a good place in our 
conference committee.
  Unfortunately, the Democrat leaders chose not to work with 
Republicans to pass a substantive, meaningful bill to counter this 
malign influence. Instead,

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they jammed the partisan COMPETES Act through the House.
  The COMPETES Act, in my judgment, is a Trojan horse filled with 
unserious, dangerous, and wasteful provisions.

                              {time}  1630

  Those provisions include fringe, progressive priorities, like $8 
billion worth of taxpayer money into an unaccountable U.N. slush fund. 
This U.N. slush fund has already provided at least $100 million 
directly to China, a country that this Congress, former Republican 
administration, and current Democrat administration have all agreed is 
committing genocide.
  In fact, it is worse. The Xinjiang Province--you get this money to 
make solar panels and batteries in the Xinjiang Province where they 
commit genocide itself. That is not good for America and it is 
certainly not good for the U.S. taxpayer.
  Secretary Kerry admitted before our committee that the CCP is using 
slave labor to make these green energy products--like solar panels and 
batteries--that could be used by this U.N. fund. In effect, the bill 
would fund their slave labor and prop up their forced abortions. We 
tried to stop this from happening--to stop U.S. taxpayers from funding 
slave labor in my motion to recommit, and shockingly, we were outright 
rejected by the Democrats.
  The motion to recommit prohibited taxpayer money going to slave 
labor, genocide, and the Wuhan Lab, and every Democrat voted against 
that measure. This is a test of our time.
  Madam Speaker, so I remain the eternal optimist and hopeful that this 
conference process will be able to rectify these glaring issues that I 
have outlined. We can start today by supporting this motion that will 
block billions of dollars going to the CCP military PLA companies and 
human rights abusers.
  Congress owes it to the American people to pass a bill that takes 
this threat seriously. That includes tough export controls, outbound 
investment screening and funding for the CHIPS for America Act, which I 
introduced, to give us a competitive edge, bring manufacturing to the 
United States to make advanced semiconductor chips and protect our 
national security at the same time.
  This is vitally important to our national security, and it keeps 
critical U.S. technology out of the hands of the Chinese military, like 
hypersonics. It ensures U.S. taxpayers are not subsidizing their 
genocide.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this motion to 
instruct. I hope we can all work together in a bipartisan manner on 
what could be the most important legislation of this Congress.
  Ms. STEVENS. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Speaker, I join the ranking member in being optimistic because 
we are in a conference committee negotiating the America COMPETES Act, 
we will get this CHIPS legislation done. Proudly, I have led 29 
Democrats and 29 Republicans in endorsing the CHIPS Act legislation, so 
it will be bipartisan. It will get done for the American people, and we 
will solve some of our supply chain woes.
  Madam Speaker, I am delighted to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman 
from New York (Mr. Tonko).
  Mr. TONKO. Madam Speaker, I am very proud of the efforts that have 
been made by the House to advance COMPETES, an act that is about 
investment; a bipartisan effort promoted with higher prioritization by 
the leadership of this House to address investment: investment in 
research, investment in workforce, investment in manufacturing.
  It is so important that we are now investing in research as the 
COMPETES Act requires so that we create the next generation of product 
line and chips. It is important to invest in that pipeline of workers 
that will have those precision-oriented skills in an innovation economy 
that requires such precision. It is important that we retrofit our 
manufacturing centers so as to compete and compete effectively.
  I am impressed by the fact that we have taken the strengths of so 
many committees and brought them into the forefront of COMPETES to make 
certain that we invest in the CHIPS for America Act. I have industries 
for microelectronics, and certainly the semiconductor industry that are 
hosted in the 20th Congressional District that I am honored to 
represent. They deserve and they require, more importantly, a 
partnership with the Federal Government. Those resources will be there 
with the passage of this bill as we bring together a consensus.
  We will invest in that $52 billion worth of investment for the chips 
industry, the CHIPS for America Act. We will make certain that a bill 
that I authored, the Micro Act, is incorporated in the context of 
COMPETES, and that will complement the provisions in CHIPS by making 
certain that we accelerate early stage microelectronics research to 
feed into the national semiconductor technology center.
  It is so important to have that cutting-edge investment so that we 
can lead the world in innovation, and making certain also that we 
promote strong global leadership by positioning the interests and the 
values of our United States, not China, to win on the world stage, 
including with strong action to hold the PRC accountable for its trade 
abuses which hurt U.S. workers, and for its human rights violations.
  The America COMPETES Act will elevate American leadership in the 
global arena, putting diplomacy first, strengthening our alliances, 
combating unfair trade practices, and standing up for our national 
values.
  The COMPETES Act ensures that American goods are made in America by 
American workers and boosts competition addressing supply bottlenecks, 
strengthening U.S. manufacturing, and lowering those kitchen table 
costs.
  This is a measure that is all-inclusive. It is the boldest, strongest 
statement on competitiveness for America. It is the great strength of 
COMPETES that I hope will carry us now into an innovation economy with 
the workforce prepared to go, a research investment that gives us the 
vision and tethers that vision into future product lines and chips 
development, and that will allow for us to strengthen our manufacturing 
partnership. They require that assistance and they require our 
partnership.
  Mr. LUCAS. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Ohio (Mr. Chabot).
  Mr. CHABOT. Madam Speaker, I rise today to strongly support Mr. 
Lucas' motion to instruct conferees on the American COMPETES Act.
  The House-passed version of the bill should really have been called--
as a number of my colleagues have mentioned--the American concedes act. 
Democratic leadership cobbled this legislation together from mostly 
partisan bills without Republican support, in stark contrast to what 
our colleagues in the Senate did.
  As ranking member of the Asia-Pacific Subcommittee, which has 
jurisdiction over China, I am deeply disappointed by the partisan 
nature and the substance, in many ways, of this House-passed bill.
  Competing with China should not be a partisan issue. On every front, 
the Chinese Communist Party is aggressively challenging the free world 
and our belief that open societies and free markets, and, yes, rule of 
law are the way to a prosperous and equitable civilization.
  After decades of inaction, it is time to reevaluate our basic 
approach toward engagement with China. The Democrats' bill doesn't do 
that. When Republicans attempted to amend the bill to make it better, 
the Democrats rejected virtually every one of those attempts.
  I would like to highlight two particularly concerning omissions from 
the House bill. First, we should have adopted provisions to modernize 
and strengthen our relationship with Taiwan which, by the way, got 
bipartisan support in the Senate.
  Second, we should also have used the opportunity to advance strong 
export control policies to ensure that our critical technologies do not 
advance the PRC's own drive for technological supremacy.
  Moving forward, as we seek to bridge the gap between the House and 
Senate bills, let's have these three priorities in mind. First, the 
CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, is an adversary. No amount of 
cajoling or diplomacy is going to get them to drop their hegemonic 
ambitions. They want to be the top dog.

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  Second, the legislation must not include irrelevant pet projects like 
money for the U.N. climate slush fund.
  Third, at a bare minimum, we must ensure that any new technology or 
grant funding doesn't end up going to China. A bill aimed at competing 
with the Chinese Communist Party that simultaneously funds their 
military modernization simply makes no sense.
  Mr. Lucas' motion to instruct would go a long way towards making sure 
that American tax dollars don't go to fund the Chinese Communist Party. 
Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support it.
  Ms. STEVENS. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Michigan 
for her leadership, along with my colleague from Texas, Congresswoman 
Johnson, who chairs the Science, Space, and Technology Committee, and 
the many, many committees that have worked on the COMPETES Act.
  As an alum of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee and 
a member of the Homeland Security Committee, I could not be more 
ecstatic for America, for Houstonians, for Texans. To really take the 
words of President Biden that were said to us in his comment on the 
COMPETES Act: It is transformational investment in our industrial base 
as well as research and development. It will help drive not only the 
American economy, but the global economy. It will, in fact, bring more 
manufacturing jobs back, and, yes, we will use the terminology, it will 
reimagine not only the Midwest, but it will reimagine the Southwest, 
the East, the West, the North, and the South. It will reimagine 
opportunities for young people.
  And the chips we have been waiting for, as indicated by the 
gentlewoman from Michigan, I know we will have the opportunity to 
really join in in a bipartisan way in conference for something that 
nobody disagrees with. In addition, this ugly thing called the supply 
chain that for a moment clogged the system, raised the prices, which 
still have not been stabilized, but we will have the opportunity to 
address that question as well by unclogging the seaways, by investing 
with the infrastructure bill in ports, and getting products where they 
need to go.
  Let me also suggest that we will be able to build other companies, 
smaller companies. Small businesses will improve or be able to result 
in more investment. At the same time, this bipartisan legislation will 
create opportunities for the next generation and the next generation.
  I hope as well that minority businesses, minority scientists, 
historically Black colleges will have the opportunity to be part of the 
COMPETES Act, which I know that they will. This idea that we have a 
distance between us as Republicans and Democrats has to be closed.
  This is an American bill. This is a bill to say to China: We are not 
going to take, sitting down, the unfair competition that you exert on 
many of the inventions that actually are made right here in the United 
States. Take the age-old internet and what China has done in many 
instances.
  Madam Speaker, I rise to support the COMPETES Act and it going to 
conference, and at the same time recognize that any issue dealing with 
China and the chips dealing with semiconductors will be addressed in 
conference, and, as well, we will get the job done. It is 
transformational and we can do no less than to invest in the great 
mountain of research and development in this Nation.
  Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to support the COMPETES Act 
ultimately, and to work with conference as we go forward on this 
legislation.
  Mr. LUCAS. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Nebraska (Mr. Smith).
  Mr. SMITH of Nebraska. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of the motion 
to instruct conferees. I welcome this opportunity to reconcile the 
differences between the House and the Senate bills. This is an 
opportunity to finally hold China accountable, and I hope we get to 
a strong work product that we can be proud of.

  The House version of this bill, the COMPETES Act, truly is a 
nonstarter for House Republicans--no surprise--for both sides of the 
Senate as well, and actually for the American people--and that is my 
concern.
  While it was messaged as legislation to combat the Chinese Communist 
Party's predatory practices, the trade provisions in the House bill did 
little to level the playing field with China, adding hurdles that would 
hurt American consumers and small businesses.
  Instead, that bill actually discourages work during a workforce 
shortage by expanding and delinking the trade adjustment assistance 
from new trade opportunities. It adds red tape and narrows eligibility 
of trade programs like GSP and MTB. These are relief measures that we 
know help small businesses and manufacturers in the marketplace. The 
bill also exacerbates our supply chain crisis by making unvetted 
changes to de minimus; and it also fails to address the 
administration's lackluster effort to compete with China in the Indo-
Pacific and around the world.
  The Senate's bipartisan approach, while imperfect, addresses China, 
promotes small businesses of all sizes across our country, and more 
than anything, it empowers American consumers right here at home.

                              {time}  1645

  It offers a clean renewal of MTB, retroactively extends GSP, mandates 
a section 301 exclusion process with retroactivity, and does not 
include the Green New Deal wish list.
  Let's work together on a final product that actually holds China 
accountable.
  Madam Speaker, I reiterate my support and certainly urge my 
colleagues to do the same.
  Ms. STEVENS. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LUCAS. Madam Speaker, I have no further requests for time. I am 
prepared to close, and I believe I have the right to close, so I 
continue to reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. STEVENS. Madam Speaker, I am prepared to close.
  We have heard today, Madam Speaker, a commitment to act, a commitment 
to move into a conference, a commitment to get the America COMPETES Act 
done for the United States, CHIPS Act funding, investment in scientific 
research, and more. This is an exciting moment in this Chamber.
  Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. LUCAS. Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  I thank my colleagues for their words of support for this motion.
  As I said when we began this debate, we have a once-in-a-generation 
chance to strengthen U.S. science and technology and secure a place in 
the global economy. The Science, Space, and Technology Committee has 
passed strategic, bipartisan legislation to do just that. Our bills 
double our investment in critical research and technology. They are a 
strong commitment to America's technological development.
  There is no question that our bills should be the core of the final 
conferenced legislation. We can't afford to pollute these critical 
policies with partisan poison pills and throw away our deliberate, 
strategic approach for long-term growth in favor of the one-time 
spending spree in the COMPETES Act.
  There is a difference between empty spending and making an 
investment. The COMPETES Act is empty, unfocused spending. The Science, 
Space, and Technology Committee has passed targeted, bipartisan 
investments in research and technology. They will pay off in more jobs, 
a stronger economy, and a more secure homeland.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support that approach and to 
support guardrails to ensure that our taxpayer investments aren't going 
to Communist leadership in China. That is why this motion is so 
important.
  This isn't a partisan issue. It has been part of Senator Schumer's 
legislative text on competitiveness from day one. That is because this 
is basic, commonsense policy, and I can't imagine that any of our 
constituents would disagree with that.
  Madam Speaker, I encourage my colleagues to pass this motion, and I 
yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time for debate has expired.
  Without objection, the previous question is ordered.

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  There was no objection.
  The question is on the motion to instruct.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Ms. STEVENS. 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.
  Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 15-minute vote on the motion to 
instruct will be followed by 5-minute votes on:
  The motion to recommit on H.R. 6833; and
  Passage of H.R. 6833, if ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 351, 
nays 74, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 100]

                               YEAS--351

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Allen
     Allred
     Amodei
     Arrington
     Auchincloss
     Axne
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Beatty
     Bentz
     Bera
     Bergman
     Beyer
     Bice (OK)
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Bourdeaux
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brooks
     Brown (OH)
     Brownley
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budd
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carey
     Carl
     Carson
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (LA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Case
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cawthorn
     Chabot
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Cleaver
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyburn
     Clyde
     Cole
     Comer
     Connolly
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Curtis
     Davids (KS)
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     Dean
     DeFazio
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Delgado
     Demings
     DeSaulnier
     DesJarlais
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Doggett
     Donalds
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Eshoo
     Estes
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foxx
     Frankel, Lois
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Gallego
     Garbarino
     Garcia (CA)
     Gibbs
     Gimenez
     Gohmert
     Golden
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez (OH)
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Gottheimer
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Harder (CA)
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hayes
     Hern
     Herrell
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Higgins (NY)
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinson
     Hollingsworth
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Issa
     Jackson
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs (CA)
     Jacobs (NY)
     Jayapal
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kahele
     Kaptur
     Katko
     Keating
     Keller
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     Kim (NJ)
     Kinzinger
     Kirkpatrick
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamb
     Lamborn
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawrence
     Lawson (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Leger Fernandez
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Levin (CA)
     Lofgren
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luria
     Lynch
     Mace
     Malinowski
     Malliotakis
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Mann
     Manning
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McEachin
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McNerney
     Meijer
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (NC)
     Neguse
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norcross
     Norman
     O'Halleran
     Obernolte
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Pallone
     Palmer
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters
     Pfluger
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Posey
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (NY)
     Rice (SC)
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Ross
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Salazar
     Scalise
     Scanlon
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sessions
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Spartz
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Taylor
     Tenney
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Turner
     Underwood
     Upton
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Veasey
     Vela
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Welch
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Zeldin

                                NAYS--74

     Barragan
     Bass
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Brown (MD)
     Bush
     Butterfield
     Casten
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cohen
     Correa
     Davis, Danny K.
     DeGette
     Dingell
     Escobar
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Gomez
     Green, Al (TX)
     Huffman
     Jeffries
     Johnson (TX)
     Kelly (IL)
     Kind
     Lee (CA)
     Levin (MI)
     Lieu
     Lowenthal
     Matsui
     McBath
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Meng
     Mfume
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Newman
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Payne
     Pressley
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stevens
     Suozzi
     Takano
     Thompson (MS)
     Tlaib
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Vargas
     Velazquez
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Armstrong
     Brady
     Bustos
     Cheney
     Fortenberry
     Hartzler

                              {time}  1724

  Mses. CHU, LEE of California, Mr. TRONE, Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts, 
Messrs. VARGAS, COHEN, Mrs. McBATH, Messrs. MFUME, GREEN of Texas, 
SMITH of Washington, LIEU, TAKANO, BROWN of Maryland, Mrs. TRAHAN, 
Messrs. MEEKS, EVANS, THOMPSON of Mississippi, Ms. BARRAGAN, Mrs. 
DINGELL, Mses. BLUNT ROCHESTER, and PRESSLEY changed their vote from 
``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Messrs. MOORE of Alabama, SCHNEIDER, CARDENAS, Mses. SEWELL, 
UNDERWOOD, Mr. RASKIN, Ms. KAPTUR, and Mr. JONES changed their vote 
from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the motion to instruct 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

     Baird (Walorski)
     Bilirakis (Fleischmann)
     Bowman (Meng)
     Brooks (Green (TN))
     Cawthorn (Nehls)
     Comer (Fleischmann)
     Crist (Wasserman Schultz)
     Cuellar (Pappas)
     Curtis (Stewart)
     DeGette (Blunt Rochester)
     Espaillat (Correa)
     Harder (CA) (Gomez)
     Jayapal (Gomez)
     Johnson (TX) (Jeffries)
     Joyce (OH) (Garbarino)
     Kahele (Takano)
     Kind (Beyer)
     Kinzinger (Meijer)
     Kirkpatrick (Pallone)
     Krishnamoorthi (Beyer)
     LaMalfa (Palazzo)
     Lawson (FL) (Wasserman Schultz)
     Mace (Rice (SC))
     Manning (Beyer)
     McClain (Fitzgerald)
     Mrvan (Takano)
     Newman (Beyer)
     Owens (Stewart)
     Roybal-Allard (Wasserman Schultz)
     Salazar (Gimenez)
     Sanchez (Gomez)
     Scott, David (Jeffries)
     Sessions (Babin)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Speier (Scanlon)
     Steel (Obernolte)
     Strickland (Takano)
     Suozzi (Beyer)
     Taylor (Carter (TX))
     Thompson (MS) (Evans)
     Trone (Beyer)
     Waltz (Mast)
     Wilson (FL) (Jeffries)
     Wilson (SC) (Rice (SC))
     Yarmuth (Beyer)

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