[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 70 (Thursday, April 28, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H4594-H4601]
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            UKRAINE DEMOCRACY DEFENSE LEND-LEASE ACT OF 2022

  Mr. MEEKS. Madam Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 1065, I call 
up

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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, and ask 
for its immediate consideration in the House.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 1065, the bill 
is considered read.
  The text of the bill is as follows:

                                S. 3522

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Ukraine Democracy Defense 
     Lend-Lease Act of 2022''.

     SEC. 2. LOAN AND LEASE OF DEFENSE ARTICLES TO THE GOVERNMENTS 
                   OF UKRAINE AND EASTERN FLANK COUNTRIES.

       (a) Authority To Lend or Lease Defense Articles to Certain 
     Governments.--
       (1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), for fiscal years 
     2022 and 2023, the President may authorize the United States 
     Government to lend or lease defense articles to the 
     Government of Ukraine or to governments of Eastern European 
     countries impacted by the Russian Federation's invasion of 
     Ukraine to help bolster those countries' defense capabilities 
     and protect their civilian populations from potential 
     invasion or ongoing aggression by the armed forces of the 
     Government of the Russian Federation.
       (2) Exclusions.--For the purposes of the authority 
     described in paragraph (1) as that authority relates to 
     Ukraine, the following provisions of law shall not apply:
       (A) Section 503(b)(3) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
     (22 U.S.C. 2311(b)(3)).
       (B) Section 61 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 
     2796).
       (3) Condition.--Any loan or lease of defense articles to 
     the Government of Ukraine under paragraph (1) shall be 
     subject to all applicable laws concerning the return of and 
     reimbursement and repayment for defense articles loan or 
     leased to foreign governments.
       (4) Delegation of authority.--The President may delegate 
     the enhanced authority under this subsection only to an 
     official appointed by the President by and with the advice 
     and consent of the Senate.
       (b) Procedures for Delivery of Defense Articles.--Not later 
     than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
     President shall establish expedited procedures for the 
     delivery of any defense article loaned or leased to the 
     Government of Ukraine under an agreement entered into under 
     subsection (a) to ensure timely delivery of the article to 
     that Government.
       (c) Definition of Defense Article.--In this Act, the term 
     ``defense article'' has the meaning given that term in 
     section 47 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2794).

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The bill shall be debatable for 1 hour 
equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member 
of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
  The gentleman from New York (Mr. Meeks) and the gentleman from South 
Carolina (Mr. Wilson) each will control 30 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from New York (Mr. Meeks).

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                             General Leave

  Mr. MEEKS. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks 
and include extraneous material on S. 3522.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from New York?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. MEEKS. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Madam Speaker, today, I rise in support of S. 3522, the Ukraine 
Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022.
  When Russia launched its renewed war against Ukraine, it thought 
Ukraine would fall in a matter of days. Putin and Russia thought the 
West would be divided, unable to offer Ukraine the support that it 
needed. They thought the world would believe their Russian lies. They 
thought that we would never stay together.
  Well, Madam Speaker, on all accounts, Putin has been proven wrong. 
Two months ago, the people of Ukraine united in defense of their home. 
I visited Ukraine at that time, before the invasion, and they said: We 
will fight; we will defend our democracy and our country.
  Then what happened? President Biden kept all 30 nations of NATO 
together, joining with and bringing along other allies and other 
democracies from around the world, all united like never before. We 
have jointly imposed devastating sanctions on Russia and provided 
Ukraine with billions of dollars of security, humanitarian, and 
economic assistance. And we have demonstrated to Putin and to the 
Russian Government that their actions have left them isolated.
  At the time, our goal was clear: Help Ukraine do what we heard the 
people ask us to do, defend themselves. But it is now abundantly clear 
that we must adjust our assumptions and our strategies and that we must 
help Ukraine, as Secretary Austin said, win.
  I strongly support the efforts of the administration, in coordination 
and in close cooperation with Congress, to provide as much assistance 
as we can to help Ukraine protect itself. We must look forward to what 
Ukraine needs to fend off the renewed Russian offensive in the east 
and, ultimately, win this war, to retake territory, to liberate the 
towns and cities from Russian occupation and ongoing Russian war 
crimes, and to maintain and regain their sovereignty and territorial 
integrity.
  This bill is a further step in that direction of thinking toward the 
long term. It can and must be part of a strategy to not only continue 
providing Ukraine with the weapons systems its soldiers are well 
trained to use, including Russian tanks and planes, the U.S.- and NATO-
origin antiair and antitank missile systems and drones, but also to 
step up our training efforts. Through additional training, we will be 
able to provide more and more advanced equipment.
  The administration already has the authority to lend and lease 
equipment to allies and partners to support the United States' national 
security interests, and it has already been using all the funds that 
Congress has given it previously. This bill will allow the 
administration to cut through the red tape in existing lend-lease 
authorities to facilitate another channel by which all this vital 
support can be provided.
  Specifically, this bill streamlines the processes to facilitate the 
administration's provisioning of lent or leased defense articles to 
Ukraine or Eastern European countries impacted by Russia's invasion for 
fiscal year 2022 and fiscal year 2023. It does so by exempting the 
administration from provisions of law that limit the duration of loaned 
equipment to 5 years only, as well as exempting such loaned and leased 
equipment from repayment of costs incurred by doing so.
  In short, it does not create a new program, as lend-lease authority 
is already enshrined in law, but it gives the administration added 
flexibility in using an existing program to get vital support to 
Ukraine.
  I strongly support this bill, and I urge all of my colleagues to show 
the same unity that our allies have shown as we fight off this vicious 
invasion by Putin and Russia in Ukraine.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time 
as I may consume.
  Madam Speaker, I rise in support of S. 3522, the Ukraine Democracy 
Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022.
  Madam Speaker, it is absolutely amazing the unintended consequence of 
Vladimir Putin, war criminal Putin, that he has brought Democrats and 
Republicans together. He has united the people of the United States. 
With the leadership of Chairman  Greg Meeks and Ranking Member  Mike 
McCaul, Americans are united in their support of the people of Ukraine.
  For 63 days, the courageous people of Ukraine have resisted full-
scale invasion by war criminal Putin with his murderous occupying 
forces, in large part due to the courageous leadership of President 
Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
  Ukrainians have witnessed their prosperous homeland being attacked 
and the lives of their loved ones senselessly murdered. The world has 
been a witness to the countless atrocities inflicted upon the Ukrainian 
people, and we continue to see the depravity of the Putin forces in 
real time, targeting civilians and humanitarian infrastructure with 
mass murder, just as they conducted gruesomely in Aleppo, Syria.
  Ukraine's request is simple: Provide the weapons needed to defend the 
Ukrainian homeland and Ukrainian families. This bill does just that by 
removing bureaucratic red tape to support a loan or lease of defense 
articles to Ukraine immediately.

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  I am grateful to have introduced the House bipartisan version of the 
Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 and to work with our 
colleagues to bring this legislation to the floor today.
  Time is of the essence. Every day that goes by means more innocent 
lives lost. Congress has been united in its support of Ukraine, and we 
have given the administration the capacity to use funds under 
a Presidential Drawdown Authority specifically for Ukraine.

  Today, with the passage of this bill, we remain unified in our 
solidarity with the people of Ukraine.
  There is a successful historical precedent for lend-lease. During 
World War II, lend-lease was enacted to provide weapons to Great 
Britain, the Soviet Union, and 28 other Allies to defeat Nazi Germany. 
Lend-lease proved integral in the outcome of the siege of Leningrad.
  On May 5, 2005, I led a codel to Saint Petersburg. We, sadly, were 
there at the world's largest open cemetery to provide a wreath to 
recognize the appreciation of the people of the United States to the 
people of Russia. This is the final resting place of 420,000 civilians 
and 50,000 soldiers who died when Hitler's murderous forces invaded.
  America saved what is now Saint Petersburg, which is the birthplace 
of Putin. It is ironic in history that America now is considering this 
critical legislation to help Ukrainians avoid further loss of life at 
the hands of Putin's murderous forces.
  Ukraine's battle for its sovereignty is in the forefront of the fight 
between autocracy, which is the rule of gun, versus democracy, which is 
the rule of law. Their success is the success of democracy.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support passage of the bill, 
and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. MEEKS. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the distinguished majority leader of this body.
  Mr. HOYER. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from New York (Mr. 
Meeks), the chairman of the committee, for yielding. I thank him for 
his leadership in bringing this bill to the floor quickly and 
effectively. I thank Mr. Wilson, who represents the minority, and also 
Mr. McCaul, who is the ranking member of the committee, for bringing 
this. I thank Mrs. Spartz for bringing this issue to the personal 
attention of all of us, with her personal knowledge of Ukraine and her 
love of her native country.
  Madam Speaker, in 1940, after the Battle of France had ended and the 
Battle of Britain was beginning, Winston Churchill stood before the 
House of Commons and declared that the United Kingdom would fight on, 
if necessary, for years; if necessary, alone.
  Britain would fight by itself for some time, but it was not alone. 
Even though America was not at war, we made a strategic and moral 
determination that we must help Britain defend itself against fascism. 
To do that, we set up the lend-lease program, which cut through red 
tape and enabled critical American military aid to reach our Allies 
quickly so they could win the Battle of Britain, hold back the forces 
of fascism, and begin a counteroffensive in North Africa.
  Lend-lease established America as what President Franklin Roosevelt 
called the great arsenal of democracy.
  Today, the battle for democracy is taking place in another European 
nation, Ukraine. The Ukrainian people are the ones engaged in combat 
directly. They are at the point of the spear. They are the ones 
experiencing death and destruction and displacement. They are directly 
in the line of the Russian troops to repel Vladimir Putin's criminal 
and unprovoked invasion, an act that recalls the infamous attack on 
Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941: unprovoked, unjustified, 
unacceptable.
  But they are not alone in this fight. Already, the Biden-Harris 
administration and our allies have sent billions of dollars' worth of 
lethal military aid to help Ukraine defend itself against Putin's 
unlawful and immoral aggression.
  I heard the words of my friend from South Carolina that Putin has 
brought us together, has unified us, unified us as a NATO alliance, 
unified us as a European Union and the United States of America, 
unified us as a Congress, that this shall not stand. Already, the 
Biden-Harris administration and our allies have sent billions of 
dollars' worth of lethal military aid to help Ukraine defend itself 
against Putin's unlawful and immoral aggression.
  Putin, of course, meant the battle for Kyiv to be short-lived, to 
last days, and to see Ukraine's democratic government overthrown and a 
quisling regime installed.
  The battle of Kyiv, however, was won by the forces of freedom, thanks 
to the extraordinary heroism and courage of Kyiv's defenders and the 
antitank weapons and other equipment supplied by America and its NATO 
allies. They are not alone.
  Now, with war raging in Ukraine's east, we are rapidly sending 
additional arms to the Ukrainians that will help them hold the line 
against Russian forces and engage in the kind of counteroffensive that 
will defeat Russia's invasion.
  How extraordinarily ironic it is that Putin urges us not to escalate 
the war as Putin escalates it hourly, unjustifiably, criminally, 
despicably. Every negative adjective you can find applies to the 
unwarranted, unprovoked, and unacceptable aggression Russia has made on 
its neighbors.

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  As I told The Danish Foreign Policy Society when I was visiting with 
our allies earlier this month, the invasion of Ukraine must end in a 
strategic defeat for Putin and global criminality. Anything less would 
send a dangerous signal to other dictators around the world that wars 
of aggression could yield net gains. That must not happen.
  America and our allies must ensure that the only thing Putin gains 
from the invasion of Ukraine is a hard lesson learned through bitter 
defeat and loss. Let there be no mistake; that is the only outcome we 
can accept.
  The lend-lease bill we will pass today is a bipartisan expression of 
the House's support for Ukraine and the continued provision of the 
lethal arms it requires to defend its freedom, its sovereignty, and its 
people.
  I thank, as I said earlier, Chairman   Gregory Meeks, Ranking Member  
 Michael McCaul, Representative   Joe Wilson, and staff members of the 
Foreign Affairs Committee for their work on this bill.
  The Senate passed this legislation unanimously earlier this month. I 
urge my colleagues: This is not a partisan issue. This is about 
freedom. This is about democracy. This is about morality. This should 
not be an issue that is at all dividing the 435 of us who have the 
honor to serve in this body.
  Once this legislation is enacted, the Biden-Harris administration 
will have another tool to ensure that military aid reaches Ukraine 
quickly and efficiently so that it can be deployed to the front lines 
and defend democracy. We owe freedom nothing less than that.
  The White House has already requested additional funding for military 
and humanitarian aid, and the House will stand ready to take action 
once there is agreement on the path forward.
  I tell Chairman Meeks of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and I tell 
Chairman Smith of the Armed Services Committee, as soon as that is 
ready to move, I will move it as soon as it is possible.
  The White House has urgently requested the resources that Ukraine 
needs. Can we do any less than that? In the meantime, I urge all of my 
colleagues to support this bill, as I said, unanimously. Let us show 
Vladimir Putin, let us show the dictators and autocrats of the world, 
let us show them what happens when democracy is attacked.
  Hitler thought when he took Sudetenland and the free world did little 
that he could then go to Poland, and he could go to Russia, and he 
could go to Africa, and he could go to France, and he could go 
someplace else.
  The free world led by America must make it very clear that it will 
not stand for this, that America will be part of an extraordinary 
alliance of free nations, moral nations, who believe in law, not might 
makes right.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to unanimously and decisively 
approve this legislation.
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the 
gentlewoman from Indiana (Mrs. Spartz).

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  Mrs. SPARTZ. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of the Ukraine 
Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act.
  Bureaucracy, as we all know, is an enemy in any crisis, so 
streamlining processes and improving speed and agility are extremely 
important.
  I just recently went to Ukraine twice, and I want to share with you 
the brutality of this war, the atrocities that happened to the civilian 
population. It is very difficult to express in words. It is very 
disturbing.
  The strength and resiliency of the Ukraine people and their optimism 
are very inspiring to me as an American and inspiring to a lot of 
people around the world.
  I talked to one of the American reporter journalists, and he said: I 
have been reporting here for a while, and I can tell you, Ukrainians 
don't even realize how much they are like Americans.
  I talked to one Ukrainian servicemember, who actually grew up in the 
Kharkiv area close to the Russian border, and he told me: You know 
what? I always thought that we would become brothers and sisters, but 
to tell you the truth, we are not brothers anymore. This is a different 
people. I look at them, and we are West, and they are East. They are 
barbaric and lost in the last century or before.
  I think it is very important for us to make sure that we support the 
Ukrainian people in this war and fight for freedom to bring stability 
and international order back to try to defend this fight for freedom 
and defend Europe and all of us from further escalation of this 
conflict.
  I think it is also important for us to add some oversight and make 
sure that we do have military to share to make sure that these 
processes do work. I truly believe this collaboration of our great 
United States of America and our great American people with the 
strength and resiliency of the Ukrainian people will bring victory and 
peace back.
  Madam Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to support this bill, and 
I thank the bipartisan collaboration on these issues and support of 
this Congress and this body. It is very important for us to be strong 
and stand together because this is a national security issue that we 
need to have resolved. I truly believe our country, the greatest 
country in the world, is an inspiration for a lot of people, and we are 
going to defeat the enemies of freedom and democracy around the world.
  Madam Speaker, I urge support of this bill.
  Mr. MEEKS. Madam Speaker, first, let me thank Representative Spartz. 
She traveled with me when we visited Poland, and I know she was 
recently over there. She has relatives, and I think we saw her with--I 
think it was her grandparent, who is in her nineties, on Easter Sunday, 
celebrating and standing with the Ukrainian people. I thank the 
gentlewoman for her support even though she isn't a member of the 
Foreign Affairs Committee, particularly for standing up for justice. I 
thank her personally for that.
  I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Green), my friend 
and leader.

  Mr. GREEN of Texas. Madam Speaker, and still I rise. I thank Mr. 
Meeks for what he has done to bring this legislation to fruition, as 
well as Mr. Wilson.
  I rise and I stand where I stand because we should all stand 
together. I stand here because we are engaged in a war for the world, 
and Ukraine is the front line of democracy in this war.
  We cannot allow a ruthless, reckless, careless dictator to dictate 
the terms of engagement. The terms of engagement for us will have to be 
set by us.
  Our President has said no boots on the ground. I agree, but that 
doesn't mean that we can't have planes in the air that Ukrainians will 
pilot. That doesn't mean that we can't have tanks on the ground with 
the Ukrainians manning them. It doesn't mean that you can't have 
torpedoes in the water that Ukrainians are going to fire. It simply 
means this: We have no choice. If we allow this to happen, what happens 
when some other dictator decides that he is going to threaten?
  I believe that this legislation is a continuation of what President 
Biden has said he would do. No boots on the ground. We provide the 
armaments; they provide the army.
  We are engaged in a war for the world. We must win. Ukraine must be 
victorious in this battle.
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the 
gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Hill).
  Mr. HILL. Madam Speaker, I thank my friend, Mr. Wilson from South 
Carolina, for his leadership on this effort. Of course, I have to thank 
my good friend, our chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee,  Greg 
Meeks, for his immense work for many weeks on trying to get this done 
and done in the right way.
  I rise in support of the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act. We 
have to thank two essential people for this concept. Winston Churchill 
thought up the idea of lend-lease. He talked his essential partner in 
the very special transatlantic relationship, FDR, Franklin Delano 
Roosevelt, into this concept. Roosevelt sold it to the Congress, and it 
is a real moment in history that we are back on this House floor 
supporting lend-lease.
  Congress came together to arm Britain in the face of the blitz by the 
Nazis, but today, we find ourselves in a very similar situation with 
Putin systematically bombing and shelling the peaceful villages and 
cities of Ukraine, the Ukrainian people bravely defending their own 
sovereign land in the face of evil.
  When I was in Romania 2 weeks ago, the Prime Minister there described 
their fighting spirit as: The Ukrainian people fight with lions' 
hearts.
  This bill will expedite the resources needed for Ukraine to defend 
themselves against Russia's illegal, unwarranted, and brutal war in 
Ukraine.
  In every single meeting with our Ukrainian friends, parliamentarians, 
ministers, citizens, and our own colleagues, the answer is: While they 
appreciate the American response and the response of 30 other nations, 
they need weapons, and they need them now.
  In history, victory and defeat can come down to days and weeks, if 
not hours. There have been too many delays already in getting Ukraine 
the military equipment they need.
  That is why I am pleased to see that we are enacting this 
Churchillian idea, born in World War II, a strategy now that will set 
the foundation for victory in this war and the President's authority to 
get the weapons to the brave Ukrainians fighting for their own 
independence and freedom.
  Madam Speaker, I encourage all of my colleagues to support this bill. 
I thank the Members who worked on it so diligently.
  Mr. MEEKS. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New 
Jersey (Mr. Pascrell), a member of the House Ways and Means Committee.
  Mr. PASCRELL. Madam Speaker, to Mr. Meeks and Mr. Wilson: Thank you 
for your hard work on this legislation.
  Now, the Lord works in strange ways. As you get older, you can list 
the ways. The country is closer together in a most weird way for a 
common objective. We speak of unity more now than we spoke of division 
8 months ago.
  Russia is bombing hospitals--war crimes. Russian soldiers are 
violating women and murdering children. Russia is seeking the total 
destruction of Ukraine.
  Against all odds, Ukraine and the Ukrainian people have pushed Russia 
back. Russia and Putin are losing.
  This war will not end soon. Putin is deranged and humiliated. The 
violence will only intensify. It is the responsibility of our 
government and every single American to support the Ukrainian people.
  Before Pearl Harbor, America enacted the Lend-Lease Act to keep 
democracy alive. Our legislation channels the same spirit and the same 
purpose. In 1940, FDR awakened America's arsenal of democracy. With it, 
we preserved freedom.
  With our action today, we reawaken that arsenal of democracy once 
more. We again are witnessing a conflict of civilization versus 
darkness, freedom versus tyranny.
  New Jersey's Ninth District has one of the largest Ukrainian-American 
populations in America. They cry out for help. We cry with them. The 
brave Ukrainian people have undaunted courage. They must know America 
stands with them no matter what.
  God bless Ukraine, and God bless the United States of America. The 
Lord does work in strange ways.

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  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, I continue to reserve 
the balance of my time.

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  Mr. MEEKS. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
the great State of Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee), a dynamic Member of 
Congress.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, I thank the chairman of the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs and the manager, Mr. Wilson, who I have traveled 
with as well, and I know his heart.
  Madam Speaker, I rise and support the legislation, S. 3522, that will 
provide the President with the authority to lend and lease defense 
articles to be able to help in the fight.
  Madam Speaker, but as I do that, realizing what we are standing for, 
I raise my button that says, ``We Stand With Ukraine,'' the very nation 
that is standing in the gap and fighting for the preservation of 
democracy around the world against the tyranny of autocracy and a one-
man band and a one-man war.
  We have all heard of the atrocities that this violent dictator has 
chosen to wage against the innocent people of Ukraine, a country that 
wants nothing more than to love, to live, and to live under a 
democratic regime. But let me tell you the story of what they face 
every day.
  Mariupol, the people who are there under siege do not know whether or 
not the soldiers, the injured soldiers, civilians, and children will 
ever come out alive. Or the mother who held her 3-month-old baby with 
her family members in her own apartment, seeking refuge and bombed by 
the Russians.
  Or the little girl, 16 years old, who was told to take off her 
clothes to be raped by a Russian soldier, and to be raped again and 
again.
  For the children who sat amongst the bodies of their parents, for the 
children who themselves were killed in Mariupol and around the nation, 
for those who lost loved ones who are fleeing through universal 
humanitarian routes that are known in every war.
  I recall, as a Member of the United States Congress, going to the 
Bosnian War, Albanian Civil War, Iraq, Afghanistan. I don't think I 
have ever seen a direct and deliberate attack on civilians as Vladimir 
Putin's war has done.
  So this is a crucial moment in our history. We have our 
responsibilities to America. We have the responsibilities of securing 
the southern border. I just spent hours in the Committee on the 
Judiciary where my friends on the other side of the aisle decided to 
take up one issue, the attack about title 42.
  On this floor, just a few hours ago, there was a constant rampant 
voice of title 42 regarding the southern border when we were discussing 
this bill under the rule.
  I want the American people to know that talk is cheap, and what we 
should be doing now is realizing that this is serious business. We must 
pass this legislation.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
  Mr. MEEKS. Madam Speaker, I yield an additional 1 minute to the 
gentlewoman.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, the gentleman is extremely kind for 
the passion that I have.
  Madam Speaker, we must pass this legislation to deal with not only 
the lend-lease on defense articles, but to be able to provide the 
necessary humanitarian relief as well.
  Madam Speaker, I conclude my remarks by saying that the children have 
to be prioritized. When I was in Ukraine on the border and visiting a 
reception center, I saw the faces of the children. Unaccompanied 
children should be registered. Children with parents should be 
registered. We should be focused, as UNICEF says, to eliminate the 
nightmare that the children are facing, the death that they face, the 
injury that they face, and to prioritize it and to make sure that 
children can face the trauma that this war is.
  As we do that, let us continue to bolster up the American people's 
support and let us address their needs, because they have needs, but 
let us make sure that the victory is ours.
  Finally, I am grateful for one of our hostages coming home; he lives 
in Texas. There are two more that we know that are well-known, and we 
must bring home both of them, including the Olympian that plays in 
Russia and who is a WNBA star. We must bring them home.
  Madam Speaker, I support this legislation and ask all my colleagues 
to support this important legislation.
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, I continue to reserve 
the balance of my time.
  Mr. MEEKS. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from the 
great State of Tennessee (Mr. Cohen).
  Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding.
  Madam Speaker, I rise to support this important legislation that 
Congressman Wilson and I have cosponsored. We have had bipartisan 
support on this legislation as well.
  It is important that we support Ukraine in every way possible. 
America does not have to give up its blood from our soldiers in this 
war, we only have to give our treasure. What a bargain that is for 
America. We supply and help Ukrainians fight the Russians. Putin sees 
this as a war against America and the West. We are fortunate. 
Eventually, it would come to NATO lands, and it will be our blood, not 
just our treasure that we would have to give.
  The Ukrainians are doing a great job, but they need our help and 
support. I hope they get airplanes, too. Every bomb that falls on the 
people in the hospitals and kills innocent lives could be prevented, 
and we should try to do all we can to prevent it.
  Madam Speaker, I met today with the President of Georgia. I met with 
the President of Kosovo. They both are concerned that Putin's got his 
eyes on their countries as well. And he does. He is looking at the 
Balkans. He is looking at the Baltic, where I visited Lithuania. I have 
been to Estonia and Latvia; he desires those countries, too. He wants 
to put together a repeat of what they had as the great Russian empire. 
And he won't be stopped unless we do it. If we can do it with Ukrainian 
men and women fighting, we are lucky and we are fortunate, and we 
should do all we can to help them.

  Putin is a bully, and you don't stop a bully with kindness and 
negotiations. You have to stand up to that person. Stand up to the 
bully. That is the only thing they understand and respect.
  We need to continue our sanctions and sanction him into oblivion. We 
need to support Ukraine or else this war will go on and America will be 
at risk of being personally involved. Ukraine is the battleground now. 
America will be next through NATO and other efforts of Putin.
  Glory to Ukraine. Glory to the United States of America.
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, I continue to reserve 
the balance of my time.
  Mr. MEEKS. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the very distinguished 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ryan).
  Mr. RYAN. Madam Speaker, I thank the distinguished chair.

       We shall pay any price, we shall bear any burden, we shall 
     support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival 
     and the success of liberty.

  President Kennedy's inaugural address.
  And here we stand in the most powerful country, in the most powerful 
legislative body, voting on an issue of freedom, of liberty, the basic 
foundation of this country. I am proud that this is a bipartisan effort 
to support the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian leadership because 
they have paid the ultimate sacrifice. They are bearing the ultimate 
burden.
  So it is appropriate for us, as this monster, Vladimir Putin, invades 
a free country, blackmails the neighbors around energy issues, scares 
all of Eastern Europe and all of Europe, in conjunction with the 
support of China who looked the other way and said, Well, just wait 
until after the Olympics. There is a lot at stake here.
  This is about much more than just Ukraine. This is about freedom 
around the world.
  I agree with what the chairman and so many other speakers said. We 
cannot let Vladimir Putin gain one inch of soil in Ukraine. Not one 
inch. You can't reward bad behavior. You can't reward violence. And 
that is what we will be doing.
  So I rise in support of this bill. I support the $33 billion that the 
President has proposed this morning.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. MEEKS. Madam Speaker, I yield the gentleman an additional 1 
minute.

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  Mr. RYAN. Madam Speaker, we need to continue this process; not one 
inch of soil.
  Like Mr. Pascrell said, there are States like New Jersey or Ohio, 
where we have people from Ukraine and from Poland and from Lithuania, 
and those ties run deep. Their family members, friends that they have 
lost, that have gotten killed, slaughtered by a monster.
  So we need to keep going.
  Planes: The $33 billion that the President wants, this process 
expedites all that.
  We should look at what we need to do to China if they continue to 
support Russia in this effort.
  I think, in a bipartisan way, we need to come together around a 
whole-of-government approach.
  We need to get natural gas from eastern Ohio to Eastern Europe, from 
western Pennsylvania to Eastern Europe, from West Virginia and New York 
to Eastern Europe, and knock the legs out from under Vladimir Putin.
  Whole-of-government approach. Be aggressive. Not one inch of 
territory. And make sure we ensure the survival and the success of 
liberty.
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, I continue to reserve 
the balance of my time.
  Mr. MEEKS. Madam Speaker, I yield myself 1 minute.
  Madam Speaker, I think it is important to note that S. 3522 is a 
smart and critical step to give another piece of artillery to the 
administration so that it has flexibility as it needs to provide 
Ukraine the support that it needs so that it has the ability to win.
  It is also important to show, and that is why it is important for us 
to be on the floor today, as Mr. Wilson has indicated, the unity that 
we have here in the United States House of Representatives.
  Madam Speaker, I will tell you that working with Mr. McCaul and Mr. 
Wilson and Mrs. Spartz on the other side of the aisle, as well as with 
all of my colleagues on the committee on the Democratic side of the 
aisle, and working with the Speaker and the majority leader, it is that 
unity that is going to win this war.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, I continue to reserve 
the balance of my time, and I am very grateful that next we will have 
the Speaker of the House.
  Mr. MEEKS. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
California (Ms. Pelosi), the great Speaker of the United States House 
of Representatives.
  Ms. PELOSI. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I 
thank the distinguished Mr. Wilson for yielding as well.
  Madam Speaker, I am so pleased that this legislation has such strong 
bipartisan support on the floor of the House. It removes all doubt in 
anyone's mind that we are all committed as a Nation, as a Congress--
House and Senate--in terms of this legislation. I thank both gentlemen 
for their leadership.
  Madam Speaker, I appreciate that the gentleman is working with the 
ranking member, Mr. McCaul, on this important issue as well, and I 
thank him for affording me this opportunity today.
  Madam Speaker, 81 years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt came 
here to the Congress of the United States, to the House of 
Representatives, where I am proud to say my father, Thomas D'Alesandro, 
served as a Member of Congress. And President Franklin Roosevelt 
delivered a bold and historic request.
  In his 1941 State of the Union Address, President Roosevelt explained 
that democracy itself was under dire threat not only in Europe, but 
around the world. And he called on Congress to lend a hand to our 
Allies overseas, bolstering their defenses so they could defeat the 
evils of fascism.

                              {time}  1530

  It was this initiative that would be enacted just two months later 
that undeniably turned the tide of the Second World War. And the Lend-
Lease program would help propel the allies to a victory that preserved 
the promise of democracy for generations to come.
  Today, we see an echo of that chapter in history as a murderous 
tyrant seeks to conquer its neighbor and dismantle its democracy. And 
this moment demands we summon a commitment to respond.
  The Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 revives this 
pivotal program, waiving time-consuming requirements and the President 
authority to send critical defensive resources to Ukraine.
  It is important to note that it is about time. Time is very important 
when lives are at stake.
  In doing so, we enable the administration to move faster to bolster 
Ukraine's security forces, empowering them to repel the Russian 
invaders; protect innocent civilians; and preserve their cherished 
democracy.
  As war rages on Ukraine, every minute matters. It is about time. This 
strong action could mean the difference between lives saved and lives 
lost. In any given battle, it could mean the margin between victory and 
defeat.
  It is with astonishing unity that the Senate sent us this important 
legislation after passing it with a unanimous vote.
  And as we hope to secure a strong bipartisan vote here in the House, 
let us salute the leaders of this legislation, Chairman   Gregory 
Meeks, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He acknowledged 
his ranking member, Mr. McCaul from Texas; Congressman   Joe Wilson of 
South Carolina, who is managing the bill on the Republican side today; 
and Congressman   Steve Cohen, who helms the Helsinki Commission and 
played a role in this legislation.
  Madam Speaker, restoring the Lend-Lease authority is just the latest 
action proudly taken by this Congress to strengthen Ukraine and to 
decimate Russia. We have delivered billions in humanitarian security 
and economic assistance for Ukraine, including the $13.6 billion in the 
latest supplemental, and more to come, as our President has put forth a 
request earlier today that we will turn into legislation, turn into 
support democracy in Ukraine and, therefore, democracy in the world. I 
salute the President for his leadership.
  These resources are already--of the $13.6 billion, are already 
reaching communities on the ground and helping Ukraine repel Russian 
forces. But we need to do more.
  As we prepare to take up the President's new supplemental request, we 
are moving in lockstep with the administration and our allies to 
isolate Russia and devastate its economy.
  From severing normal trade relations to banning the import of Russian 
energy, our strong actions in the House and in the Senate have made 
Russia weaker in every way. And the House took its first steps to 
prosecute Russian war crimes so the perpetrators can be held 
accountable for the unthinkable, grotesque, diabolical atrocities.
  Later today, with the blessing of the Embassy of Ukraine, we will 
unveil in the Speaker's Dining Room--and we invite our Members to come 
and their guests--a photo exhibit that captures many of these 
atrocities.
  These haunting photographs show the horror and heartbreak of Russia's 
callous aggression of Ukraine, and serve as an important reminder of 
our moral duty to continue to take swift, decisive action to help.
  Going back to Lend-Lease, upon the enactment of the historic Lend-
Lease law in March of 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt called upon the 
conscience of our country when he declared: ``The light of democracy 
must be kept burning. It is not enough for us merely to trim the wick 
or polish the glass. The time has come when we must provide the fuel in 
an ever-increasing amount to keep the flame alive.''
  Madam Speaker, our task today remains the same.
  I do want to acknowledge also another item, and I thank Mr. Chairman 
and others for their support of this. We are doing Lend-Lease today. We 
talked about what we did in the omnibus bill, the supplemental, $13.6 
billion.
  We talked about severing our purchase of oil. We have talked about 
severing our normal trade relations. But we also did something 
yesterday when we did what I call ``seize and freeze.'' Seize the 
assets of the oligarchs and the Russians, that money, and freeze it. 
And when it thaws, to use that money to help rebuild Ukraine after the 
victory over the Russians.
  So, again, we are thinking of what we need to do in humanitarian 
assistance;

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what we need to do in economic assistance; what we must do in security 
assistance, weapons, et cetera. But we have to do some other aspects as 
well.
  Our task today, again, remains the same as it did with the original 
Lend-Lease. Make no mistake. Russia invaded with the stated goal of 
ending liberty and self-governance in Ukraine. Yet, with unimaginable 
courage and determination, the Ukrainian people are putting their lives 
on the line for democracy; not only for their own nation, but for 
democracy writ large for the world.
  It is about freedom versus dictatorship; autocracy versus democracy. 
The Ukrainian people are making the fight for all of us. We must help 
them.
  So, it is our duty to honor their heroism at the front lines of the 
battle for freedom by helping to fuel this righteous fight.
  It is with endless admiration for the Ukrainian people and their 
leadership, President--just everybody. I won't start naming names. All 
of them. We have had visits from so many of them--and their unyielding 
commitment to keeping alight democracy's precious flame that I urge a 
strong, bipartisan ``aye'' vote for this vital legislation.
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the 
gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Walberg).
  Mr. WALBERG. Madam Speaker, I thank my friend and colleague. And 
thank you, Madam Speaker, for your statements. I agree wholeheartedly 
with you.

  America is having a fight undertaken for us by the Ukrainian forces. 
Ukraine is fighting for liberty around the world. It is fighting for 
freedom-loving countries that want to push back against aggression from 
any nation, whether it be Russia or China or any other that would 
attempt to take away liberties from free citizens.
  I just returned from Ukraine Tuesday night. I spent the Easter 
weekend in Ukraine. I had the unbelievable privilege of speaking in two 
churches. Irpin, where the city had been impacted by missiles and 
bombs, homes blown up, lives taken; and a church that had not met since 
the beginning of war met on Easter, Resurrection Sunday.
  And I looked at the faces of the people thinking, How do I speak to 
them? An American Member of Congress, who lives freely, without nations 
trying to take our freedom away. And I could only respond to them from 
the one who gave freedom, His words, Jesus himself.
  And I looked at the faces of the people, and there was resolve there, 
and there was a joy that they were doing what was necessary to promote 
freedom for their land.
  I spoke in another church in Kyiv that afternoon. The same viewpoint 
on the faces of those citizens. And yet, a great appreciation for 
America, for their Western allies, for what we have done, thus far, to 
stand with them. They are fighting for us as well as for themselves.
  Later that afternoon, I went out to the Bucha region, and I saw the 
site of a massive undertaking by Russia to cross the river to bring 
their tanks in to take over Kyiv. And the amazing forces of the 
citizens themselves fought back. One hundred Ukrainian lives were lost; 
500 Russian lives.
  I saw a boot laying there of a Russian soldier with the foot still in 
it. And I came to understand that Ukrainians aren't killing Russians, 
Putin is.
  America needs to stand. I was in Odesa, and I saw the missile strike 
on an apartment that took the lives of a grandmother, her daughter, and 
a little baby, the 3-month-old daughter of that young lady.
  I talked to the mayor of Odesa. They are standing firm. The blockade 
that is on there must be taken away so they can feed the world.
  In my pocket I carry an emblem, military emblem that was given to me 
at Hostomel airfield that the brave forces took on Russia, trying to 
take that airfield to become a hopping off point for all of their 
action. They held back Russia's troops; their elite troops; their elite 
marines.
  The Russian troops took out the largest aircraft in the world that 
was only used for humanitarian reasons.
  This bill is necessary. I express appreciation to my colleagues for 
moving it forward. I express appreciation to our Speaker for moving it 
forward. It needs to be done.
  Stand with Ukraine. They have stood with us.
  God bless Ukraine. God bless America.
  Mr. MEEKS. Madam Speaker, I have no further requests for time at this 
time, and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time 
as I may consume.
  Madam Speaker, in closing, this bill calls on the administration to 
supply the defense articles needed to defeat war criminal Putin's 
forces, and for the land of Ukraine to be returned to its rightful and 
lawful inhabitants, the courageous people of Ukraine.
  The Ukrainian fight is a fight of freedom-loving people around the 
world. This is part of authoritarianism, which is rule of gun opposing 
democracy, rule of law.
  America stands with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, with 
President Salome Zourabichvili of the Republic of Georgia, President 
Maia Sandu of Moldova, and with the rightful President, Sviatlana 
Tsikhanouskaya, of Belarus.
  Additionally, as we are discussing Lend-Lease, I had the 
extraordinary opportunity with Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo in 
2005, to visit, sadly, the world's largest open cemetery in Saint 
Petersburg, the victims, half a million people of the siege of 
Leningrad. And we were there to show the love and affection of the 
United States to the people of Russia.
  We were there to also find out that it was American Lend-Lease 
equipment that provided for the defeat of Hitler and for the saving, 
actually, of the Putin family. And so, Lend-Lease has a long proud 
history of providing for freedom successfully.
  In December, I visited the courageous Ukrainian patriots in Kyiv. I 
am confident Ukraine will win for freedom and independence. We are all 
inspired by the Ukrainian-American Congresswoman Victoria Spartz of 
Indiana, and over a million dynamic Ukrainian Americans who are 
successful across America.
  I urge all Members to support this legislation, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. MEEKS. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume 
for the purpose of closing.
  Madam Speaker, as we stand here right now, in the House Foreign 
Affairs Committee, Secretary Antony Blinken is testifying and talking 
about his recent visit to Kyiv, asking--well, replying to questions 
that Members on both sides are asking.
  And the sense of unity that has been talked about here today, about 
us being united against Putin's aggression, about us standing together 
and trying to make sure that we do all that we can to help the 
Ukrainian people, and that unity, that unity, is what is going to make 
sure that we preserve democracies around the world.

                              {time}  1545

  It is the unity that we have seen with the United States in the lead, 
keeping 30 NATO countries together, which no one thought would happen 
before this incursion.
  It is the unity of bringing our Asian allies together. It is the 
unity bringing our Western Hemisphere allies together. It is the unity 
bringing our African allies together.
  It is that unity right here in the United States Congress. Working 
together is what is going to prevail.
  There was a question asked before I left the hearing. One Member said 
he was at a townhall meeting, and someone asked the question: Well, 
what does this mean to me? That was the question.
  Secretary Blinken said, with which I agree: What does it mean? Well, 
when you look at what is at stake, number one, the world is asking: 
What happens? Are there any consequences for a country that decides 
just to go invade someone else's sovereign property? If we allow that 
to happen, if it could happen there, it could happen anywhere.
  The questions of what we do, what we stand for, who we are, and what 
our values are, are on the line right now, not only in Ukraine but for 
all of us who believe in democracy.
  When you look at the consequences and the lack of care of the rest of 
the world by this invasion by Mr. Putin--we are going to have to do 
hearings

[[Page H4601]]

now to talk about starvation. People around the world will starve 
because of the lack of wheat.
  We are looking at what he tried to utilize with reference to energy 
resources. It has a reverberation back here in the United States as we 
are looking at what is taking place with rising oil costs, with rising 
food costs.
  This is about us around the world, some, yes, making sacrifices so 
that we can show the world that unity. And together, we will prevent 
evil from occurring.
  We have seen it once in the 1940s. I never thought I would have to 
see and fight it again in 2022. This is a trying time for the camera of 
history, which is rolling.
  I, again, thank Mr. McCaul because I have been working very closely 
with my ranking member to make sure that we have one voice on this. We 
have talked often and made sure that we are working in a bipartisan 
manner. I thank Mr. Wilson for managing this bill on the floor and 
working collectively together in that regard. I thank the leadership on 
both sides of the aisle because with that, Ukraine will win.
  When Ukraine wins, the American people win; the world wins; democracy 
wins.
  Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. Beatty). All time for debate has 
expired.
  Pursuant to House Resolution 1065, the previous question is ordered 
on the bill.
  The question is on the third reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to be read a third time, and was read the third 
time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. MEEKS. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 
8, the yeas and nays are ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 417, 
nays 10, not voting 3, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 141]

                               YEAS--417

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

                                NAYS--10

     Biggs
     Bishop (NC)
     Davidson
     Gaetz
     Gosar
     Greene (GA)
     Massie
     Norman
     Perry
     Tiffany

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Allen
     Nehls
     Stewart

                              {time}  1620

  Mr. DAVIDSON changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Mr. FLEISCHMANN, Ms. SALAZAR, and Mr. SCHWEIKERT changed their vote 
from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.


                          personal explanation

  Mr. ALLEN. Madam Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been 
present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 139, ``nay'' on 
rollcall No. 140, and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 141.


    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)
     Cuellar (Correa)
     DeSaulnier (Beyer)
     Frankel, Lois (Wasserman Schultz)
     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)
     OHalleran (Stanton)
     Ocasio-Cortez (Escobar)
     Perlmutter (Neguse)
     Pfluger (Mann)
     Price (NC) (Butterfield)
     Rodgers (WA) (Joyce (PA))
     Ross (Beyer)
     Scott, David (Jeffries)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Strickland (Jeffries)
     Suozzi (Beyer)
     Taylor (Van Duyne)
     Tlaib (Takano)
     Trahan (Beyer)
     Veasey (Escobar)
     Wagner (McHenry)
     Waters (Takano)

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