[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 70 (Thursday, April 28, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H4586-H4594]
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PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF S. 3522, UKRAINE DEMOCRACY DEFENSE LEND-
               LEASE ACT OF 2022; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the House Committee on 
Rules, I call up House Resolution 1065 and ask for its immediate 
consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 1065

       Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be 
     in order to consider in the House the bill (S. 3522) to 
     provide enhanced authority for the President to enter into 
     agreements with the Government of Ukraine to lend or lease 
     defense articles to that Government to protect civilian 
     populations in Ukraine from Russian military invasion, and 
     for other purposes. All points of order against consideration 
     of the bill are waived. The bill shall be considered as read. 
     All points of order against provisions in the bill are 
     waived. The previous question shall be considered as ordered 
     on the bill and on any amendment thereto to final passage 
     without intervening motion except: (1) one hour of debate 
     equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking 
     minority member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs or their 
     respective designees; and (2) one motion to commit.
       Sec. 2.  House Resolution 1035 is hereby adopted.
       Sec. 3.  House Resolution 188, agreed to March 8, 2021 (as 
     most recently amended by House Resolution 1017, agreed to 
     March 31, 2022), is amended by striking ``April 29, 2022'' 
     each place it appears and inserting (in each instance) ``May 
     13, 2022''.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maryland is recognized 
for 1 hour.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I yield the 
customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Reschenthaler), pending which I yield myself such time as I may 
consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is 
for the purpose of debate only.


                             general leave

  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Maryland?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, the Rules Committee met yesterday and 
reported a rule, House Resolution 1065 providing for consideration of 
S. 3522, the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act under a closed 
rule.
  The rule provides for 1 hour of debate equally divided and controlled 
by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs. The rule provides for one motion to commit.
  The rule extends recess instructions, suspension authority, and same 
day authority through May 13, 2022. Finally, the rule deems H. Res. 
1035 as passed.
  Mr. Speaker, Vladimir Putin's criminal war of aggression and atrocity 
against the sovereign nation of Ukraine has dismembered the second 
largest country in Europe. Putin's soldiers have killed more than 2,700 
Ukrainian civilians and more than 100 children in Ukraine. They have 
raped and murdered untold numbers of women, leaving their bodies in the 
street. They have wounded thousands of civilians. They have displaced 
10 million Ukrainians, creating the largest exodus of displaced persons 
since the Nazis rampaged through Europe. They have traumatized a 
nation.
  It is a sobering thing to canvas the damage today, which is Holocaust 
Remembrance Day. Putin's invasion is intended to deal a fatal blow to 
democracy in Ukraine and around the world. Putin's lurch into fascist 
aggression has actually unified and galvanized the democratic world, 
the democratic nations, and peoples and movements of the world.
  I concede that Putin still has his cheerleaders for his homophobia, 
his corruption, and his white nationalist racism around the world. I 
concede that some people, even in this body, continue to chant the 
filthy words ``Russia hoax'' to describe what we know from our own 
intelligence community of Putin's unceasing efforts to subvert 
democracy all over the world. I concede that Vladimir Putin has been 
called a genius by a former twice-impeached President for his assault 
on a sovereign democratic nation.
  The vast majority of Americans and vast majority of democratic 
societies around the world reject Putin's atrocities against democracy. 
President Zelenskyy and President Biden have rallied the world against 
Putin and in defense of the heroic people of Ukraine standing strong 
against this aggression--people who have more courage in their pinky 
than Vladimir Putin and his thugs will ever be able to understand.
  Mr. Speaker, NATO members have sent or promised at least $8 billion 
in weapons to Ukraine. The billions we have sent from the United States 
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America has made a key difference in allowing the people of Ukraine to 
defend themselves. The people of America paid for anti-tank and anti-
air systems, for helicopters, for drones, for grenade launchers, for 50 
million rounds of ammunition, and more.
  Today, the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 comes 
before Congress as an important part of the effort to defend Ukraine. 
This act is rooted in the lend-lease program of World War II, which 
President Roosevelt proposed in January of 1941, which allowed our 
government to lend or to lease war supplies and equipment to any nation 
whose security was defined as vital to the defense and the security of 
the United States.
  Passage of that act enabled Great Britain and Winston Churchill to 
keep fighting and to survive the fascist Nazi bombardment until the 
United States could enter the war.
  President Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine needs weapons to sustain 
themselves, and President Biden has answered that call with billions in 
military assistance since Russia's full-blown invasion began on 
February 24, a day that will live in infamy in the freedom-loving 
world.
  On April 21, last Thursday, President Biden announced that we will be 
sending an additional $800 million in military aid to Ukraine, the 
eighth such installment, which will include 72 howitzers, 144,000 
artillery rounds, 72 tactical vehicles, and more than 121 Phoenix Ghost 
tactical drones. Today, I understand President Biden has asked for an 
additional aid package for the next several months.
  But S. 3522 will streamline current legal authorities under the Arms 
Export Control Act that allows our government to lend defense articles 
needed to defend civilian populations. We will eliminate red tape to 
make it easier for our government to lend or lease necessary military 
equipment in this struggle to defend Ukraine.
  The legislation requires the Biden administration to establish 
expedited procedures for delivering military equipment to Ukraine and 
other affected Eastern European countries to defend populations made 
vulnerable by Vladimir Putin's aggression. It also facilities the 
provisioning of loaned and/or leased defense articles to Ukraine, 
easing a myriad of administrative regulations and processes.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge everyone to support this legislation, and I 
reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the distinguished gentleman, 
my good friend from Maryland, (Mr. Raskin), for yielding me the 
customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, the rule before us today provides for consideration of 
S. 3522, the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022.
  Mr. Speaker, let me start by saying that I strongly support this 
bill, which streamlines existing defense authorities to enable the 
President to enter into a lend-lease agreement directly with Ukraine 
and Eastern European countries.

  I know I speak for my Republican colleagues in expressing my 
wholehearted support for the people of Ukraine as they defend 
themselves and their democracy against Vladimir Putin's atrocities. 
That is why I look forward--and so do so many of my colleagues--to 
voting for this bill later today.
  However, I have to urge my colleagues to oppose this rule as it 
continues Speaker Pelosi's authoritarian lockdown of the House of 
Representatives.
  For over 2 years the Speaker has used COVID-19 as an excuse to deny 
Members the ability to advocate on behalf of the people they represent. 
This rule keeps those oppressive procedures in place, despite the fact 
that even the bluest of States are easing their COVID restrictions. 
This is just further proof that my colleagues across the aisle care 
only about political science, not about real science.
  Further, Mr. Speaker, this rule fails to provide for consideration of 
legislation to address the serious issues facing the American people. 
Under the Biden administration, our Nation has careened from one crisis 
to the next.
  Right now, families across the country are facing a 41-year high in 
inflation and skyrocketing gas and food prices. These are expected to 
cost the average American family $5,000 a year.

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  This morning we learned the U.S. GDP fell by 1.4 percent during the 
first quarter of 2022. This is getting worse by the day. Forty percent 
of small businesses are planning to raise prices by 10 percent just to 
keep up with inflation. This economic crisis is not the result of the 
war in Ukraine as President Biden and the leftists on the other side of 
the aisle like to claim. This crisis is a direct result of the 
Democrats' out-of-control spending and their far-left, dangerous, 
radical policies.
  Just look at the fact that inflation has increased every month since 
Joe Biden has been President. Putin didn't invade Ukraine until 
February of this year, yet during President Biden's first year in 
office--again, well before the invasion of Ukraine--gas prices jumped 
nearly 53 percent, from $2.25 a gallon to $3.44 a gallon. Again, that 
was before Russian soldiers ever crossed the border in Ukraine.
  But talking about borders, let's talk about our southern border. The 
border crisis is a direct result of Joe Biden's incompetence, and the 
radical policies of the left are leading to disaster. Thanks to the 
open border policy of the left, last month over 200,000 illegal 
immigrants were encountered at our southern border. That is a new 
Biden-era high. Again, that is over 200,000 illegal immigrants. To put 
this in perspective for my colleagues, that is roughly three 
congressional districts.
  Since Biden took office, over 2.4 million illegal immigrants have 
been apprehended at our southern border, including more than 40 
individuals who are on the terrorist watch list. This is only going to 
get worse if President Biden gets away with lifting title 42.
  So, again, Mr. Speaker, while I support S. 3522 and, of course, the 
people of Ukraine, I believe this is a missed opportunity to help the 
American people, the people in southwestern Pennsylvania, and the 
people throughout this Nation.
  Mr. Speaker, I, therefore, urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the 
previous question and ``no'' on the rule, and I reserve the balance of 
my time.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to hear from my friend from Pennsylvania 
that he supports S. 3522, the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act. 
This is a moment of grave emergency in Ukraine as Putin's army 
continues to bomb hospitals and schools, rape and assault women, and 
murder the civilian population.
  I am, of course, disappointed that even when we agree, the minority 
caucus insists upon disagreeing and bringing up matters that are 
utterly extraneous to this resolution. But my friend mentioned 
authoritarian lockdowns, oppressive procedures, and dangerous and 
radical policies. I didn't know if he was referring to Vladimir Putin 
or to the prior President whose dangerous, radical appeasement of 
Vladimir Putin empowered and emboldened him as Vladimir Putin has tried 
to undermine NATO; and the last President did everything in his power 
to undermine NATO and to weaken NATO. But at this point we have the 
opportunity to rally the democratic world, the democratic nations of 
the world, the democratic societies, peoples, and movements against 
Putin's bloody, imperial invasion of Ukraine.
  That is what is on the table right now. That is what is on the table 
in the world today. That is where democracy is on the line.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from 
Rhode Island (Mr. Langevin).
  Mr. LANGEVIN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the Ukraine Democracy 
Defense Lend-Lease Act.
  In the spring of 1941, Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act, which 
allowed the United States to rapidly deliver weapons and military 
supplies to Allies like Great Britain, assisting their heroic fight 
against Adolph Hitler. Once dead set on creating a global empire, he 
failed.
  In the spring of 2022, another murderous dictator has emerged, 
committed to destroying a sovereign democracy and reconstituting old 
borders of the USSR. We must ensure that Putin also fails.

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  Since Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, the Biden 
administration has made impressive progress in the delivery of crucial 
security assistance to Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. And yet, it is 
time to cut through the remaining bureaucratic red tape and accelerate 
the delivery of critical equipment to the brave warfighters on the 
ground in Ukraine.
  Mr. Speaker, they deserve nothing less than our swift and unwavering 
support. Freedom and democracy are at stake.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support the rule and pass the 
Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act. We must stand with the 
Ukrainian people in their fight for their democracy, for their freedom, 
and for their homeland.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Maryland said that we just can't help 
but to disagree. Nothing could be further from the truth. This bill 
could be passed on the suspension calendar. This is going to pass by 
well over two-thirds vote. It passed, I believe, unanimously in the 
Senate. The fact that we are here debating a rule on this instead of 
just passing this on suspension is a waste of time. This bill will 
pass.
  But we have got a real crisis at the southern border. We have got 
inflation. Even the Biden administration said we are expected to have 
food shortages. We also are failing to project American power abroad, 
which is leading to chaos all over the world.
  We agree on the issue with Ukraine, yet we are still here wasting 
valuable time that we could be using to address real problems.
  But let's just go back to the southern border. As I mentioned earlier 
in my remarks, just in March, encounters at the southern border hit a 
new Biden-era high of over 200,000 individuals encountered at the 
southern border. In addition to apprehending individuals from the 
terrorist watch list, Border Patrol agents are seeing an increase in 
illicit drugs, including deadly fentanyl. Alarmingly, fentanyl border 
seizures increased by 134 percent in fiscal year 2021. President Biden 
and House Democrats had this open border policy that is creating a 
humanitarian and a security crisis both at the border and in our 
communities where people are literally dying from fentanyl overdoses.

  With all that in consideration, the Democrats and the left still want 
to do away with title 42 and lift it. That is why, Mr. Speaker, if we 
defeat the previous question, I will personally offer an amendment to 
the rule to immediately consider H.R. 471, the PAUSE Act of to 2021.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to insert the text of my 
amendment in the Record along with any extraneous material immediately 
prior to the vote on the previous question.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentlewoman 
from New York (Ms. Stefanik), who is the Republican Conference chair. 
She will explain the amendment.
  Ms. STEFANIK. Mr. Speaker, I rise to oppose the previous question so 
that we can immediately consider H.R. 471, the PAUSE Act introduced by 
the gentlewoman from New Mexico, Yvette Herrell, to ensure title 42 
remains in place.
  Mr. Speaker, since Joe Biden took office and started implementing his 
radical open border policies, over 2.4 million illegal immigrants have 
been apprehended at our southern border. We just had the highest number 
of border encounters in the past 20 years--over 220,000 in March alone.
  In FY 2022, CBP has seized hundreds and hundreds of thousands of 
pounds of drugs and thousands and thousands of pounds of illicit 
fentanyl, the leading cause of death for adults aged 18-45. What is 
worse, over 40 people on the U.S. terrorist watch list were encountered 
at our U.S. southern border. And just today, Secretary Mayorkas, when 
asked if those individuals on the U.S. terrorist watch list had been 
released into the United States of America, could not answer that 
question. That should stun every American. It is unacceptable that the 
Secretary of Homeland Security cannot answer a question about whether 
those dangerous terrorists have been released into the United States of 
America.
  In fact, just yesterday, in previous testimony, Secretary Mayorkas 
claimed that the Biden administration has ``effectively managed'' the 
crisis at the southern border and delusionally believes that the 
southwest border is somehow secure. Let me tell you something, Mr. 
Speaker, the American people are smart. There is nothing effective 
about this border crisis. No good management has come from the Biden 
administration when it comes to the southern border.
  This has been an invasion. Just look at the numbers. President 
Obama's own Secretary of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, said 1,000 
apprehensions a day would be a crisis. We are already at the 7,000 
mark, and we could see upwards of 18,000 a day if title 42 is lifted.
  I just came back with my colleagues on a congressional delegation 
from Eagle Pass, Texas, from the Del Rio sector of our southern border. 
This was a delegation led by Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, hosted 
by our colleague, Tony Gonzales, who has been such a tremendous voice 
standing up for his constituents, particularly Border Patrol officers 
and their families.
  It was a somber day. Just hours before, our Border Patrol identified 
the remains of Texas National Guardsman Bishop Evans. In fact, I had 
the opportunity to go on the boat with the river Border Patrol 
officers, the two individuals who actually identified the remains.
  God bless Bishop Evans. God bless his grandmother who has laid him to 
rest.
  This is irresponsible of Joe Biden; and Joe Biden, Secretary 
Mayorkas, and this administration must be held accountable.
  We also spoke to ranchers, local leaders, and local elected 
officials. They broke down in tears talking about the risks to their 
livelihood and their families. One rancher told us, in fact, that his 
children needed to carry pistols if they wanted to go outside and play 
in their yard because they needed to protect themselves as droves of 
illegal immigrants cross their property.
  Do you know whom they blame, Mr. Speaker?
  They blame Joe Biden, and they blame this administration who has 
turned their backs on having a secure border. They have turned their 
backs on the people, not just of south Texas but the people across this 
country.
  We also witnessed a processing facility where illegal immigrants were 
given brand new iPhones--just released. I thought they were doing 
facial recognition technology to run through a list. No. They were 
doing facial recognition technology to hand the illegal immigrants 
their cell phone paid for by U.S. taxpayer dollars.
  This is a crisis. Every district across the country is a border 
district and every State is a border district.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 1 minute to the 
gentlewoman from New York.
  Ms. STEFANIK. On top of that, we have seen flights in the middle of 
the night relocating illegal immigrants to other States across the 
Nation, including my home State of New York.
  This current crisis is untenable. Our systems are well-beyond the 
breaking point. The drug crisis caused by our porous border is reaching 
every part of this country causing deaths in every congressional 
district. Every Member of Congress needs to step up and secure the 
border. Our colleagues across the aisle have had over a year to put 
forth any bill to secure the border. They have failed to put forth any 
single bill, and, now, because we are heading toward a November 
election, they are honestly worried. And they should be, because the 
American people are smart. They know this is a result of their failed 
policies.

  In my district in northern New York, I am proud to represent Border 
Patrol officers who have been transferred over and over and over again 
to the southern border. They are stepping up to do their job. They are 
stepping up to address this catastrophe caused by Joe Biden.
  House Republicans are going to be unified. We stand behind the PAUSE 
Act to make sure title 42 remains in place, which is why we will oppose 
the previous question.

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  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I think that all of these efforts to distract us from 
the issue at hand are meant to cover up the very clear pro-Russian and 
pro-Putin faction at the heart of their side of the aisle.
  Last month in March of this year, the very distinguished gentlewoman 
from Georgia went on a radio show called the ``Voice of Rural 
America,'' and she followed Donald Trump's sickening appeasement of 
Vladimir Putin and blamed Ukraine for the situation.
  She said:

       You see, Ukraine just kept poking the bear and poking the 
     bear which is Russia, and Russia invaded. There is no win for 
     Ukraine here. Russia is successful in this invasion.

  When Members of Congress are cheerleaders for Vladimir Putin and are 
voices of nothing but defeatism, fatalism, and pessimism for democracy 
in Europe, then they try to distract us with a lot of phony rhetoric 
about other issues.
  She also said:

       NATO has been supplying the neo-Nazis with powerful weapons 
     and extensive training on how to use them. What the hell is 
     going on with these NATO Nazis.

  Mr. Speaker, we have to decide which side we are on.
  When Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and Americans looked at what was 
happening in Europe during World War II and they saw Nazis marching 
down the street, they did not see very fine people on both sides of the 
street. They did not start cheerleading for Mussolini, Hitler, and 
Franco. Yet we have people here who go out and speak on the side of 
Vladimir Putin and on the side of Russia.

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  Let's pass this Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act to show 
where America is. We are not cheerleaders for Vladimir Putin. We are 
not going to follow the Trump-Putin axis down the road toward autocracy 
and kleptocracy and sedition and insurrection and corruption and coups 
in the United States. That is not where we are going.
  This is the land of the free, the home of the brave. We stand for 
democracy here, not Vladimir Putin.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania 
(Ms. Scanlon), a distinguished member of the Rules Committee.
  Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, many people say ours is a nation of 
immigrants. But our Nation also has an unfortunate history of political 
opportunists who attack the latest wave of immigrants and seek to stoke 
fear and chaos in order to gain or cling to power.
  Whether the attacks were against my ancestors, the Irish; those at 
the southern border today; or the many other groups in between, we have 
heard the same language and scare tactics year after year, generation 
after generation. But then as now, those attacks are a sham. They are 
attention-seeking to divide and distract us from their proponents' lack 
of seriousness, their lack of solutions, and, at times, their own 
misconduct.
  Now, I rise today in support of the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-
Lease Act and hope to send it quickly to President Biden's desk. The 
Senate acted quickly to pass this bill and send it our way.
  Eighty years ago, the U.S. created the lend-lease program to provide 
military and humanitarian aid to Great Britain and our Allies in Europe 
as they stood on the front lines to oppose the Axis powers that 
threatened democracies around the world, including our own.
  Today, the Ukrainian people are standing on the front lines in the 
fight for democracy and against tyranny. The U.S. needs to provide them 
with every possible measure of humanitarian and military aid.
  To date, Congress and President Biden have led the world in 
supporting the Ukrainian people, sending nearly $14 billion in food, 
medical supplies, and military assistance to Ukraine, working in close 
collaboration with our allies.
  With this aid, the Ukrainian armed forces have been incredibly 
effective in opposing Putin's unlawful and unprovoked invasion. But the 
Ukrainian success is dependent on them having the equipment and 
supplies to continue fighting, and this bill will ensure that they do.
  This is a bill that every freedom- and democracy-loving Member of the 
House should support, and I look forward to its swift passage on the 
floor.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Just two quick points in rebuttal for my friend from Pennsylvania.
  First off, if there is concern about the humanitarian crisis on the 
southern border, the best thing you can do is try to bring order to 
that southern border. The trek that these individuals have to take is 
incredibly dangerous. Women and children are often exploited. Coyotes 
are making literally millions of dollars. Oftentimes, when the illegal 
immigrants come to the United States, they are put in sort of 
indentured servant status to the drug cartels and the coyotes.
  The perverse thing about arguing that you care about people is that 
if you really did care about the humanitarian crisis, you would share 
the Republican viewpoint of law and order.
  Secondly, to the fact that we need to act quickly on the bill 
regarding Ukraine, my colleagues across the aisle could have passed 
this bill on Tuesday. The fact that we are here wasting time on a bill 
that could have passed by suspension just shows the lack of seriousness 
on the other issues facing the American people. To act quickly, my 
colleagues should have been advocating this bill be run on Tuesday on 
suspension.
  Here to talk more about these issues is the Republican leader of the 
Oversight and Reform Committee, Mr.   James Comer of Kentucky, who 
recently led a delegation to the southern border.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. 
Comer).
  Mr. COMER. Mr. Speaker, Oversight and Reform Committee Republicans 
witnessed firsthand the crisis on the border after the southern border 
trip I led earlier this month.
  By pushing blanket amnesty and eroding interior enforcement, 
President Biden has now signaled to the world that our laws can be 
violated with little to no consequence.
  In 2021, over 2 million apprehensions of illegal immigrants were 
made. This is the most ever recorded by U.S. Border Patrol. In fact, I 
want to quote Punchbowl News because they really put it into 
perspective yesterday morning when they reported: ``According to U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection, during the past 3 weeks, the agency has 
`encountered an average of 7,800 migrants per day across the southwest 
border. This compares to a historical average of 1,600 per day in the 
prepandemic years,' a roughly 480 percent increase.''
  The surge of illegal immigrants is overwhelming the Department of 
Homeland Security. As a result, DHS was forced to release hundreds of 
thousands of these illegal border crossers into the United States.
  Catch and release does not work. It only encourages more illegal 
immigration. The numbers we have don't even account for illegal 
immigrants who have evaded capture entirely. That number is estimated 
to be in the hundreds of thousands.
  The situation only gets worse when we look at how much fentanyl and 
other deadly drugs are being smuggled across the border by cartels. On 
our trip, we witnessed hundreds of discarded backpacks littering the 
ground, backpacks that once carried illicit narcotics.
  The Biden administration's border policies have only boosted the 
human smuggling industry and empowered drug cartels.
  Now, President Biden's decision to terminate the CDC's public health 
order under title 42 on May 23 will turn this national security and 
humanitarian crisis into a catastrophe.

  Former Obama administration Secretary of Homeland Security Johnson 
once said that only 1,000 apprehensions per day was ``a relatively bad 
number'' that ``overwhelms the system.'' He described 4,000 
apprehensions per day as a crisis.
  The Department of Homeland Security now predicts as many as 12,000 to 
18,000 illegal migrants per day will attempt to cross the border 
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title 42 order terminates, overwhelming the congregate processing 
facilities in ports and Border Patrol stations that we toured along the 
border in California and Arizona.
  This administration's plan to address this catastrophe boils down to 
simply speeding up the release of even more illegal border crossers. 
Mr. Speaker, that is no plan at all. Placing illegal immigrants over 
Americans is unacceptable.
  Committee on Oversight and Reform Republicans have been at the 
forefront of this crisis, demanding answers and seeking to hold the 
administration accountable to the American people.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to 
the gentleman from Kentucky.
  Mr. COMER. Mr. Speaker, the American people should know this: We will 
persist in exposing the waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement by this 
administration that has led to this current crisis. We will do 
everything in our power to stop the flow of fentanyl across President 
Biden's broken border.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I find this astounding. We are here to talk about aid to 
Ukraine, how to streamline and expedite aid to defend the people of 
Ukraine, and they will talk about anything but.
  I was willing to believe that the distinguished gentlewoman from 
Georgia and several other Members were isolated in their Conference. 
Now, I am starting to think that maybe they are speaking for the whole 
Conference.
  I wonder if my good friend from Pennsylvania would explicitly 
repudiate some of these statements made by the gentlewoman from 
Georgia.
  Does the minority Conference agree that NATO has been supplying the 
``neo-Nazis in Ukraine'' with powerful weapons?
  Does the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania support or 
dissociate himself from the argument that the aid that we send to 
Ukraine falls ``into the hands of Nazis,'' a statement made by the 
gentlewoman from Georgia, echoing Putin's filthy claim that his war on 
the sovereign democracy of Ukraine is, in fact, an attempt to denazify 
the country?
  Of course, we hear distinct echoes in everything that we get from the 
erudite gentlewoman from Georgia.
  Does the minority agree that Putin invaded because Ukraine repeatedly 
poked the bear?
  I mean, I can't understand why they won't talk about defending 
Ukraine. That is what this legislation is about. That is what this rule 
is about. They want to talk about anything other than that.
  We can debate all of those other important issues in other contexts 
at the right time. This is how the House of Representatives works. But 
why are they covering up for the pro-Putin faction within their 
Conference? I would like them to dissociate themselves from the people 
who are blaming Ukraine for Russia's bloody imperial invasion and war 
of human rights violations and atrocities against the people. Please do 
that.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman 
from Georgia (Mrs. Greene).
  Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise to oppose the previous 
question so that we can immediately consider H.R. 471, the PAUSE Act of 
2021.
  This important bill, introduced by my good friend Yvette Herrell, 
would maintain health screening protections at the border and ensure 
that the Biden administration does not allow foreigners to enter our 
country illegally without being properly vetted.
  I am from Georgia. For those of us that don't live in border States, 
it is a lot different when we see on the news the stories of the 
massive invasion at our southern border. It is a lot different when we 
read about it.
  But when I went to the border just a few days ago with Congressman 
Tony Gonzales--he put together a great trip, and I am so grateful--it 
became very clear to me. What is happening at our southern border is a 
crisis of epic proportions, and it is difficult to comprehend it until 
you actually see it in person.
  This is a complete human and drug trafficking operation that is doing 
nothing for Americans but hurting our country and enriching the 
cartels. They have grown their network and expanded it massively 
throughout their country, into our country, far-reaching, even into our 
cities, as was explained to us by the Border Patrol, where they recruit 
from our own American cities to come down to Mexico to help them 
traffic humans and drugs across our southern border.
  This should never be happening, and it certainly was not happening 
not long ago under the Trump administration, where we had the most 
secure border we have had in decades.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge our Congress to take this very seriously. As we 
are discussing other countries and other borders, this is the one 
country where we all swear an oath to uphold our laws and defend our 
Constitution, and we serve the American people from each of our own 
districts.
  We should be taking extreme seriousness to this invasion at our 
southern border, not only for the COVID-19 pandemic but also for the 
many other dangerous diseases such as tuberculosis and others that they 
bring into our country.
  Passing title 42 is imperative, and it is the most important thing 
this Congress can do at this time, as there is an average of 7,000 
people coming across the border every single day and hundreds of 
thousands of got-aways that we don't know who they are, where they are 
from, and what their purpose and intent is to do in the United States 
of America.
  We already know that 42 known terrorists have been apprehended at our 
southern border, but we don't know how many terrorists exist in those 
hundreds of thousands of got-aways.
  When I listen to a grown man cry over the amount of illegal aliens 
that are, 24 hours a day, coming across his ranch in Eagle Pass, it is 
a shame, and it is a tragedy.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, the United States of America just witnessed the most 
astonishing spectacle. We are here to debate aid to the people of 
Ukraine defending themselves against a massive invasion by Vladimir 
Putin and his army. Then, the minority puts up the distinguished 
gentlewoman from Georgia, who does not mention Ukraine once.
  She does not mention the thousands of Ukrainian civilians who have 
been slaughtered by Putin's army. She does not mention more than 100 
Ukrainian children who have been shot and killed by the Russian army. 
Instead, she talks about a massive invasion at the border, a massive 
invasion, which their own speakers have said, today, hundreds of 
thousands of people have been apprehended in.
  That is very different from a military invasion, the one in Ukraine. 
Of course, the gentlewoman is not going to talk about that. She had a 
lot to say the other day when she heckled me continuously. When I came 
to the floor, it was like ``The Rocky Horror Picture Show'' in here 
with her chanting about the Russia hoax and Russia this and Russia 
that.
  Now, she had the opportunity to tell the world what her views about 
Russia are. I put them out there, exactly what she has said. She said 
that the aid that the taxpayers of America are sending to the people of 
Ukraine to defend themselves against Vladimir Putin and the Russian 
army falls into the hands of Nazis.

                              {time}  1315

  I want to see her proof.
  Where is her evidence?
  She talks about NATO Nazis. Does the minority believe that our allies 
in NATO, who are trying to defend the people of Ukraine, are Nazis? Has 
it come to this?
  The gentlewoman talked about massive invasion. We had a massive 
invasion of our own Chamber. * * *
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I would request to have words taken 
down.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maryland will be seated.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to withdraw the 
offending remark.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Maryland?
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, no objection.

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  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the words are withdrawn.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, the House rules do forbid engaging in 
personalities. I accept the advice of the Parliamentarian that I used 
unparliamentary language to make my point, and I certainly respect the 
necessity for parliamentary decorum.

                              {time}  1330

  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to close when my friend from 
Pennsylvania is prepared to close, and I reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I would tell my colleague across the 
aisle that I still have several speakers, just so we are on the same 
page.
  Mr. Speaker, there were comments made prior regarding why we, on our 
side of the aisle, are not talking about the underlying bill.
  The answer to that is very simple. Let's put this into perspective.
  We are here debating the rule.
  We are not debating final passage. In fact, we don't need to debate 
final passage because the vast majority of my colleagues agree on this 
particular bill. We are not here debating final passage of the bill.
  We are debating, in essence, the rest of the legislative calendar for 
the day. We simply are arguing that in this calendar and in the agenda 
for the rest of the day, we should be considering other important 
matters, such as the crisis at the southern border.
  So I just felt like I needed to put that in perspective.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. 
Guest), my good friend.
  Mr. GUEST. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to oppose the previous question.
  Right now, the men and women of law enforcement are battling to 
secure our borders. Every day they are pushing back against drug 
smugglers, human traffickers, and the cartels. Make no mistake, this is 
the worst border crisis in our Nation's history and this administration 
took just over a year to bring our national security to this state.
  I know because I have seen it myself. I was at the border a few days 
ago for my second trip in two weeks and I heard from the men and women 
on the border. Every single person we talked with told the same story. 
They told us that this administration, President Biden's 
administration, has abandoned them. They asked us to please provide 
help.
  Instead of providing help, President Biden and many of my colleagues 
on the left have attacked the last tool the men and women of law 
enforcement have to perform their duties.
  Without the Court's intervention, this administration would have 
stripped the last tool these law enforcement officers have to secure 
our border. I am glad that some of my colleagues across the aisle have 
seen the value in preserving title 42.
  They have seen the importance of securing our borders against 
criminals and terrorists that we know are exploiting the crisis to 
enter America. They see the devastating impact that 18,000 encounters a 
day would have on communities across our Nation if title 42 is removed. 
Most importantly, they see the hard work of the men and women of law 
enforcement on the border, and like Republicans, they want to help.
  I hope the rest of the Democratic Caucus will join them and support 
these men and women who are risking their lives to secure our Nation.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, my good friend from Pennsylvania suggests that this is 
something that we didn't actually need to bring to the floor, that it 
could have been done on a suspension vote. And yet, I am certain that 
my dear friend is aware that a number of suspension votes on things as 
simple as post office renamings have been voted down by the minority.
  There was a distinguished judge who a post office was going to be 
named after and that was sabotaged on a suspension vote. There have 
been multiple votes like that.
  In fact, we have a resolution that we put forward to affirm support 
for NATO and its democratic principles. And that was rejected by 63 
Members of the minority caucus; 63 Members voted against a resolution 
expressing unequivocal support for a strong NATO and for the democratic 
principles underlying it.
  Mr. Speaker, I would love if it were as simple as he was suggesting, 
that we could all agree to this, but they are not agreeing with the 
things that we are putting forward about the need to unite for 
democracy around the world. That is why we are precisely in this 
situation we are in.
  Even when we are trying to talk about the importance of this new 
lend-lease expediting program to allow the U.S. Government to lend 
military equipment, to lease military equipment to Ukraine and to get 
it done quickly, it seems like our friends keep on wanting to change 
the subject to talk about anything other than that.
  Mr. Speaker, I don't know what to say other than I wish we were 
unified in supporting this rule for the legislation that we are 
bringing forward to make it a lot easier to get support to the people 
of Ukraine, the support they need to fight off the bloody military 
invasion being conducted by Putin's army.

  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman 
from Tennessee (Mr. Green), my good friend, to rebut the gentleman from 
Maryland.
  Mr. GREEN of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, it is frustrating to hear the 
political games being played, when a piece of legislation isn't really 
about what it is intended to be about or what the title says that it 
is.
  My colleague, whom I have respect for, and have watched him argue 
cogently on some issues, is actually incorrect on this. Suggesting that 
because I voted ``no'' on this bill I somehow don't support NATO, it is 
really, quite frankly, absurd.
  I remember being in Iraq in 2003 when British SAS soldiers were 
wounded, and my Tier One task force went in, and we pulled those guys 
off the battlefield wounded. I took care of them in the back of the 
helicopter. I am fully supportive of NATO.
  Quite frankly, it angers me that the suggestion because I voted on a 
piece of legislation that had a clause in it that didn't make sense to 
me that I am somehow not supportive of NATO. No one has been more 
supportive of NATO.
  Yes, many of us voted ``no'' on that bill, but it was because it 
created this extra body to discuss democracy when we are at war trying 
to save a democracy.
  How about we focus NATO on what is going on in Ukraine and not 
forming some new discussion group about democracy?
  So, yeah, several of us voted no. But I assure you, Mr. Speaker, and 
my colleague from Maryland, that has nothing to do with a lack of 
support for NATO. Because when I was on that battlefield helping that 
British SAS warrior and they are supporting us, I didn't see a lot of 
other people who might be pointing a finger at us for not supporting 
NATO on that battlefield that day. There was nobody in this room in 
that helicopter flying into Baghdad with me.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I thank the distinguished gentleman for his service, of 
course, and also for his clarification about his particular vote.
  The House Resolution we are talking about is 831, calling on the 
United States Government to uphold the founding democratic principles 
of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and establishing a center for 
democratic resilience within the headquarters of the North Atlantic 
Treaty Organization.
  Of course, everyone in the majority voted for it. I think the vast 
majority of the people on the gentleman's side of the aisle voted for 
it, but there were 63 Members who did find this or that clause 
objectionable and, therefore, voted against it. But that is precisely 
my point.
  My good friend from Pennsylvania takes me to task for saying, Why 
didn't we just do this on a suspension vote basis, just bring it up 
here and let it glide through. Because nothing is simple when we are 
talking about these issues.
  There are some people who are out there on the radio calling NATO 
Nazis and saying that the money that Americans are putting into Ukraine 
is going

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to support Nazis. I haven't heard anybody renounce or repudiate that 
point of view.
  Then there are others who find far more substantive and defensible 
problems with what we are doing.
  In any event, they have been voting against it, so we were not able 
to do a suspension resolution. So we bring it up to have a discussion 
about Ukraine to see if we can get unity and then they take us off in 
50 other directions.
  It is a sad thing to see that when President Zelenskyy and the people 
of Ukraine have demonstrated democratic courage, bravery, and valor to 
the entire world, and democratic societies are trying to get together 
to mobilize behind democracy to oppose what Vladimir Putin and his gang 
of thugs in Moscow and their allies in different places, like Orban in 
Hungary and--well, I don't want to get into the whole rogues' gallery 
of tyrants and bullies that they have gathered to support them.
  We have got to be building the democratic forces. We should be 
together on this. We should be able to think about this in a far 
broader way than just talking points for the next election.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, let me just be clear. We are not 
going down several roads. We are going down one road with this argument 
and that is the southern border.
  I am willing to bet that this vote will pass, the underlying bill 
will pass with over a two-thirds vote. We could have tried to run this 
on Tuesday. Even if it did fail, we could have been here running it 
today.
  We have delayed this when we have serious business to discuss, 
particularly the southern border. And that is what we are debating; the 
fact that the legislative business for today should include the crisis 
at the southern border.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. 
Carter), my good friend, and a good pharmacist, to talk more about the 
crisis at the southern border.
  Mr. CARTER of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise to oppose the previous 
question so that we can immediately consider H.R. 471 to reinstate 
title 42 and protect our Nation from the influx of drugs and illegal 
immigrants flocking across our southern border.
  Mr. Speaker, it is no coincidence that a 480 percent spike in border 
encounters, combined with a 68 percent drop in deportations, has led to 
the most deadly year on record for opioid overdoses.
  This administration must answer for its atrocious public health 
record. The fentanyl that is invading our schools and killing our 
children is coming across the southern border. No mask is going to 
protect them from the dangers hiding in what appears to be an everyday 
painkiller. And this administration isn't going to protect them either.

  Unlike President Biden and border czar, Harris, I have been to the 
southern border. In fact, I have been there four times. I have seen the 
gaping holes where a wall should be, the vast areas of land where 
smugglers can walk into our country virtually unchecked.
  Lifting title 42 will open the flood gates even further. Like pouring 
hot water into a cold glass, the rule of law at our southern border is 
shattering.
  Right now, in America, your child is forced to be vaccinated and wear 
a mask in order to attend school, but illegal immigrants are bused 
around the country without so much as a COVID test.
  Explain to me how a President can justify extending pandemic-era 
student loan pauses, advocate for mask mandates on airplanes, and 
insist on vaccine mandates for healthcare workers, but when it comes to 
protecting our immigration system, suddenly the pandemic is no longer a 
concern.
  If you are worried about contracting COVID, I suggest spending time 
at the southern border, because apparently, you can't contract it 
there.
  Title 42 is a necessary rule that is preventing our border crisis 
from becoming a full-blown catastrophe. Removing it now would shackle 
our Border Patrol agents and threaten our immigration system, as we 
know it.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to close, and I yield 
myself the balance of my time.
  Mr. Speaker, let me just start by reiterating that I and the vast 
majority of my colleagues support S. 3522, and we look forward to 
voting on that bill later today. We need to bolster Ukraine's defense 
capability and protect vulnerable civilian populations in Ukraine.
  However, we are debating the rule right now. The rule before us 
extends Speaker Pelosi's authoritarian COVID lockdown that has stripped 
rank-and-file Members of their ability to advocate for the people they 
represent.
  Let's just look at the stats. Ninety percent of the country is in a 
low-risk community level. That is according to the CDC; over 90 percent 
of the country. So why is the Speaker so afraid to let the House get 
back to work?
  If the Speaker followed the real science, not the political science 
the left has followed through this entire pandemic, the Speaker would 
allow the people's House to resume regular business.
  Further, this rule is a missed opportunity to address the serious 
issues that are facing American families. American families are getting 
hammered by inflation. Gas prices are out of control. The border crisis 
is raging, and we are being told by President Biden that we are 
expected to face food shortages in future months.

                              {time}  1345

  On top of all that bad news, just this morning, we learned the GDP 
decreased at an annual rate of 1.4 percent in the first quarter of 
2022. Our GDP is decreasing. This is the weakest showing since the 
pandemic recovery began and this falls well below the projections of 
economists.
  So, instead of passing legislation to address the serious economic 
crisis we are facing and the serious security issue we are facing at 
the southern border, Democratic leadership is sending the House home a 
day early. We were supposed to be here tomorrow. Yet, we are getting 
sent home early, despite all these issues facing the American people.
  We can do a lot more for this country and the American people. For 
that reason, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the previous 
question and ``no'' on the rule, and I yield back the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I thank my friend for our lively discussion today. And I am glad to 
hear, again, that he supports the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease 
Act of 2022, S. 3522. I wish we could have focused on the meaning of 
this legislation, rather than for them to fight about the rule and to 
raise subjects that are not part of this legislation.
  More than 10 million Ukrainians have been forced out of their homes; 
have been forced to flee in the worst mass exodus of refugees since 
World War II. Thousands of Ukrainian civilians have been killed. More 
than 100 Ukrainian children have been murdered by Putin's Army.
  And I have heard the word authoritarian uttered on the other side of 
the aisle today, and it applies to whom? Not Vladimir Putin. They used 
it to apply to Nancy Pelosi, to the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives, because they disagree with some interpretations of the 
rules of the House.
  Well, this is a serious moment for people who are serious about 
democracy in the new century. If allowed to continue, Vladimir Putin 
will spread his rampage beyond Ukraine into neighboring countries in 
Eastern Europe, and then other authoritarian and autocratic leaders 
around the world will decide they will be able to do to their neighbors 
what Vladimir Putin was allowed to do to his neighbor.
  This legislation is named after what President Roosevelt made happen 
during World War II, the Lend-Lease program that, without declaring 
war, America would come to the aid of its allies by lending and leasing 
military equipment to our allies in order to secure the democratic 
world. And that is where we are again.
  So we need to streamline all of the red tape. We need to expedite the 
delivery of equipment to our allies in Ukraine. And I hope we will hear 
the end of the constant statements of defeatism and pessimism and 
surrender that we get from so many people who are out there and 
continue to take the position of the former President Trump

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that Vladimir Putin is some kind of genius for invading his neighbor. 
He is not a genius. He is a mass murderer. He is not a genius. He is a 
human rights violator, and he is a perpetrator of war crimes.
  The world needs to know where America stands. And we should stand, if 
we could, unified, for the people of Ukraine, for democracy in Europe, 
and for democracy all around the world.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``yes'' vote on the rule and the previous 
question.
  The material previously referred to by Mr. Reschenthaler is as 
follows:

                   Amendment to House Resolution 1065

       At the end of the resolution, add the following:
       Sec. 4. Immediately upon adoption of this resolution, the 
     House shall proceed to the consideration in the House of the 
     bill (H.R. 471) to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human 
     Services from lessening the stringency of, and to prohibit 
     the Secretary of Homeland Security from ceasing or lessening 
     implementation of, the COVID-19 border health provisions 
     through the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, and for other 
     purposes. All points of order against consideration of the 
     bill are waived. The bill shall be considered as read. All 
     points of order against provisions in the bill are waived. 
     The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the 
     bill and on any amendment thereto to final passage without 
     intervening motion except: (1) one hour of debate equally 
     divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority 
     member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce; and (2) one 
     motion to recommit.
       Sec. 5. Clause l(c) of rule XIX shall not apply to the 
     consideration of H.R. 471.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I 
move the previous question on the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on ordering the previous 
question on the resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 
8, the yeas and nays are ordered.
  Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes 
the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of adoption of 
the resolution.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 218, 
nays 204, not voting 7, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 139]

                               YEAS--218

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

                               NAYS--204

     Aderholt
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice (OK)
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brady
     Brooks
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budd
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cawthorn
     Chabot
     Cheney
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Comer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia (CA)
     Gibbs
     Gimenez
     Gohmert
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez (OH)
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hartzler
     Hern
     Herrell
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Hollingsworth
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Issa
     Jackson
     Jacobs (NY)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Katko
     Keller
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     Meijer
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Mullin
     Murphy (NC)
     Nehls
     Norman
     Obernolte
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (SC)
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Taylor
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Zeldin

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Allen
     Fulcher
     Kinzinger
     Meng
     Newhouse
     Salazar
     Sherman

                              {time}  1425

  Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS and Mr. TURNER changed their vote from ``yea'' to 
``nay.''
  So the previous question was ordered.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Ms. SALAZAR. Madam Speaker, I was unavoidably detained and unable to 
vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 
139.


    members recorded pursuant to house resolution 8, 117th congress

     Adams (Manning)
     Bass (Beyer)
     Brooks (Moore (AL))
     Brown (MD) (Evans)
     Brown (OH) (Jeffries)
     Brownley (Correa)
     Carey (Balderson)
     Casten (Foster)
     Castro (TX) (Correa)
     Cawthorn (Gaetz)
     Craig (Pallone)
     Crist (Wasserman Schultz)
     DeSaulnier (Beyer)
     Doyle, Michael F. (Evans)
     Garcia (TX) (Correa)
     Gomez (Correa)
     Grijalva (Stanton)
     Hartzler (Lamborn)
     Higgins (NY) (Pallone)
     Johnson (TX) (Jeffries)
     Lamb (Pallone)
     Lawson (FL) (Wasserman Schultz)
     Levin (MI) (Beyer)
     Lowenthal (Beyer)
     Meijer (Katko)
     Morelle (Jeffries)
     Ocasio-Cortez (Escobar)
     O'Halleran (Stanton)
     Perlmutter (Neguse)
     Pfluger (Mann)
     Price (NC) (Butterfield)
     Ross (Beyer)
     Scott, David (Jeffries)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Strickland (Jeffries)
     Suozzi (Beyer)
     Taylor (Van Duyne)
     Trahan (Beyer)
     Veasey (Escobar)
     Wagner (McHenry)
     Waters (Takano)
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. Beatty). The question is on the 
resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. 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.
  This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 220, 
nays 205, not voting 4, as follows:

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                             [Roll No. 140]

                               YEAS--220

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

                               NAYS--205

     Aderholt
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice (OK)
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brady
     Brooks
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budd
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cawthorn
     Chabot
     Cheney
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Comer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia (CA)
     Gibbs
     Gimenez
     Gohmert
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez (OH)
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Harshbarger
     Hartzler
     Hern
     Herrell
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Hollingsworth
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Issa
     Jackson
     Jacobs (NY)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Katko
     Keller
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     Meijer
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Mullin
     Murphy (NC)
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Obernolte
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (SC)
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Taylor
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Zeldin

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Allen
     Calvert
     Harris
     Kinzinger

                              {time}  1440

  So the resolution was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.


    Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress

     Adams (Manning)
     Bass (Beyer)
     Brooks (Moore (AL))
     Brown (MD) (Evans)
     Brown (OH) (Jeffries)
     Brownley (Correa)
     Carey (Balderson)
     Casten (Foster)
     Castro (TX) (Correa)
     Cawthorn (Gaetz)
     Craig (Pallone)
     Crist (Wasserman Schultz)
     DeSaulnier (Beyer)
     Doyle, Michael F. (Evans)
     Garcia (TX) (Correa)
     Gomez (Correa)
     Grijalva (Stanton)
     Hartzler (Lamborn)
     Higgins (NY) (Pallone)
     Johnson (TX) (Jeffries)
     Lamb (Pallone)
     Lawson (FL) (Wasserman Schultz)
     Levin (MI) (Beyer)
     Lowenthal (Beyer)
     Meijer (Katko)
     Morelle (Jeffries)
     Ocasio-Cortez (Escobar)
     O'Halleran (Stanton)
     Perlmutter (Neguse)
     Pfluger (Mann)
     Price (NC) (Butterfield)
     Ross (Beyer)
     Scott, David (Jeffries)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Strickland (Jeffries)
     Suozzi (Beyer)
     Taylor (Van Duyne)
     Trahan (Beyer)
     Veasey (Escobar)
     Wagner (McHenry)
     Waters (Takano)

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