[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 127 (Friday, July 29, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H7491-H7499]
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 PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 1808, ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN OF 2022

  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, 
I call up House Resolution 1302 and ask for its immediate 
consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 1302

       Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be 
     in order to consider in the House the bill (H.R. 1808) to 
     regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep 
     and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes. All 
     points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. 
     In lieu of the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
     recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in 
     the bill, an amendment in the nature of a substitute 
     consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 117-60, 
     modified by the amendment printed in the report of the 
     Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution, shall be 
     considered as adopted. The bill, as amended, shall be 
     considered as read. All points of order against provisions in 
     the bill, as amended, are waived. The previous question shall 
     be considered as ordered on the bill, as amended, and on any 
     further 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 the Judiciary or their respective 
     designees; and (2) one motion to recommit.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Massachusetts is 
recognized for 1 hour.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I yield 
the customary 30 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Reschenthaler), pending which I

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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. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their 
remarks.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Massachusetts?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Speaker, today the Rules Committee met and reported a rule, 
House Resolution 1302, providing for consideration of H.R. 1808, the 
Assault Weapons Ban of 2022, under a closed rule.
  The rule self-executes a manager's amendment from Chairman Nadler. It 
provides 1 hour of debate equally divided by the chair and ranking 
member of the Committee on the Judiciary and provides one motion to 
recommit.

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  Madam Speaker, we have a gun violence crisis in this country, 23 
years after Columbine High School, 10 years after Sandy Hook Elementary 
School, 4 years after Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and 2 
months after Uvalde and Buffalo. The American people are tired of 
living in fear. They are tired of thoughts and prayers. They are tired 
of press releases offering sympathy but no solutions.
  Last month, the decades-long logjam on passing commonsense gun safety 
bills was broken. President Biden signed into law the bipartisan Safer 
Communities Act to help keep guns out of the hands of criminals.
  Why?
  Because the American people want to see us act. For decades, that 
hasn't happened. The gun lobby has had an iron grip on this place. But 
now, finally, that is changing. It is changing because the American 
people are demanding change, and it is time for all of us to listen.
  We can and must do more, which is why, today, we are considering H.R. 
1808, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2022.
  Now, I want to be crystal clear for everyone who is watching.
  This bill is not taking away anybody's guns.
  This bill is not about taking away anybody's constitutional rights. 
The Second Amendment gives Americans the right to own guns, but no 
right is unconditional or unlimited.
  You have the right to free speech, but you don't have the right to 
shout ``fire'' in a crowded movie theater. You have the right to keep 
and bear arms, but you don't have the right to own weapons being used 
to mow people down indiscriminately.
  Rights come with responsibilities, and we have a responsibility to 
try and stop mass shootings.
  As Members of Congress, we have a duty to weigh the rights of gun 
owners with the very first right mentioned in the Declaration of 
Independence: the right to live; the right to not get shot at school or 
at a place of worship or at a concert.
  It takes zero courage to hide behind the Second Amendment and not 
debate the merits here.
  You know what takes courage?
  Standing up to the gun lobby, putting people over politics. That 
takes courage, and that is what we are doing here today.
  Rounds that come out of assault weapons are traveling up to four 
times faster than out of a handgun. They are traveling at incredible 
speed and inflict immense damage on people's bodies. When combined with 
high-capacity magazines, they are designed to kill as many people as 
possible, as quickly as possible.
  Assault weapons do not belong on our streets, plain and simple.
  An assault weapon was used in Las Vegas to kill 60 people.
  An assault weapon was used at the Pulse Nightclub to kill 49 people.
  An assault weapon was used at Sandy Hook to kill 26 people, including 
20 children.
  Assault weapons slaughter people. They decimate bodies. Physicians 
say that an AR-15 can actually ``liquefy your organs'' because the 
projectile is traveling so fast. This does not happen with a typical 
handgun. This is something unique to assault weapons.
  Sixty-seven percent of Americans, including half of all Republicans, 
support a ban on assault weapons.
  This is not a radical idea. We are not in uncharted territory. The 
Government already bans automatic weapons.
  Why?
  Because they have no place in our communities.
  You don't need an automatic weapon to defend yourself. What we are 
proposing today is simply addressing another class of weapons that have 
no place in our communities: assault weapons.
  The 1994 assault weapons ban was associated with a 25 percent drop in 
gun massacres and a 40 percent drop in fatalities. This should not be a 
difficult vote. Let's come together and advance this commonsense 
legislation that could save thousands of lives.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Madam Speaker, I thank the distinguished chairman 
for yielding me the customary 30 minutes. I yield myself such time as I 
may consume.
  Madam Speaker, the rule before us today makes in order H.R. 1808, an 
unconstitutional bill to ban hundreds of the most popular firearms in 
the United States, including the sporting rifle, the AR-15.
  Law-abiding Americans in places like southwestern Pennsylvania and 
across the country use firearms every single day for things like sport 
shooting, hunting, and self-defense. So despite what the House 
Democrats claim, this bill would do little to prevent the mass 
shootings or the crime they are saying that it would, and this bill 
would not prevent criminals from obtaining firearms.
  I know the chairman just referenced a 1994 study. That was a 
congressionally mandated study to look at the 1994 assault weapons ban. 
That study found that ban was ineffective in reducing violent crime. 
``The banned guns were never used in more than a modest fraction of all 
gun murders.''
  A follow-up study to that 1994 ban came out in 2004, and that study 
found that ``the ban's effects on gun violence are likely to be small 
at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement.''
  Even UCLA law professor Adam Winkler, the resident anti-gun, so-
called subject matter expert, a left-leaning professor, stated: 
``There's no way to make assault rifle bans effective.''
  To that point, we saw that during the tragic shootings in San 
Bernardino, Newtown, and Buffalo, those all occurred in States that 
already had assault weapons bans on the books.
  So the question is this: Why are my far-left Democratic colleagues 
bringing this bill to the floor today?
  Well, in the words of Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Jerry 
Nadler, `` . . . banning these `common use' firearms is the `point of 
the bill.' ''
  In other words, let's call this what it is. It is a gun grab, pure 
and simple.
  This bill is not about public safety. Rather, this is the most severe 
restriction on the Second Amendment since the passage of the assault 
weapons ban of 1994. It would turn an American lending a firearm to a 
friend to go hunting into a criminal.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to oppose this rule, and I 
reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, the gentleman talks about statistics. 
Let's talk about statistics.
  Thirty percent of shootings in recent history have involved guns that 
were banned under the now-expired 1994 assault weapons ban.
  Thirteen killed and 23 injured at Columbine High School in Littleton, 
Colorado. The attackers used an assault weapon.
  Twenty-seven killed and one injured at an elementary school in 
Newtown, Connecticut. That was in December of 2012. The attacker used 
an assault weapon.
  Forty-nine killed and 53 injured at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, 
Florida, June 2016. The attacker used an assault weapon.
  Fifty-eight killed and 887 injured at a country music festival in Las 
Vegas in October of 2017. The attacker used an assault weapon.
  Seventeen killed and 17 injured at a high school in Parkland, 
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February 2018. The alleged attacker used an assault weapon.
  I could go on and on.
  Twenty-three killed and 26 injured at a Walmart in El Paso in August 
2019. The attacker used an assault weapon.
  Ten killed and one injured at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, 
in March of 2021. The attacker used an assault weapon.
  Madam Speaker, I include in the Record this list of incidents 
involving assault weapons.

 30 Percent of Shootings Involved Guns That Were Banned Under the Now-
                Expired 1994 Federal Assault-Weapons Law

       13 killed and 23 injured at Columbine High School in 
     Littleton, Colo. (April 1999) The attackers used an assault 
     weapon.
       7 killed at an office in Wakefield, Mass. (Dec. 2000) The 
     attacker used an assault weapon.
       4 killed and 4 injured at a factory in Melrose Park, Ill. 
     (Feb. 2001) The attacker used an assault weapon.
       5 killed and 2 injured in multiple locations in Sacramento 
     (Sept. 2001) The attacker used an assault weapon.
       6 killed and 2 injured in a rural hunting area in 
     Birchwood, Wis. (Nov. 2004) The attacker used an assault 
     weapon.
       8 killed and 5 injured at a mall in Omaha (Dec. 2007) The 
     attacker used an assault weapon.
       4 killed and 5 injured at a youth center and a church in 
     Arvada, Colo. (Dec. 2007) The attacker used an assault 
     weapon.
       4 killed in a parking lot in Mt. Airy, N.C. (Nov. 2009) The 
     attacker used an assault weapon.
       4 killed and 7 injured at an IHOP restaurant in Carson 
     City, Nev. (Sept. 2011) The attacker used an assault weapon.
       12 killed and 70 injured at a movie theater in Aurora, 
     Colo. (July 2012) The attacker used an assault weapon.
       27 killed and 1 injured at an elementary school in Newtown, 
     Conn. (Dec. 2012) The attacker used an assault weapon.
       5 killed and 3 injured in multiple locations in Santa 
     Monica, Calif. (June 2013) The attacker used an assault 
     weapon.
       5 killed and 2 injured at two military centers in 
     Chattanooga, Tenn. (July 2015) The attacker used an assault 
     weapon.
       14 killed and 22 injured at a social services center in San 
     Bernardino, Calif. (Dec. 2015) The attackers used an assault 
     weapon.
       49 killed and 53 injured at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, 
     Fla. (June 2016) The attacker used an assault weapon.
       5 killed and 7 injured during a protest in Dallas (July 
     2016) The attacker used an assault weapon.
       58 killed and 887 injured at a country music festival in 
     Las Vegas (Oct. 2017) The attacker used an assault weapon.
       25 killed and 20 injured at a Baptist church in Sutherland 
     Springs, Texas (Nov. 2017) The attacker used an assault 
     weapon.
       5 killed and 12 injured in multiple locations in Rancho 
     Tehama Reserve, Calif. (Nov. 2017) The attacker used an 
     assault weapon.
       4 killed and 1 injured at a car wash in Saltlick Township, 
     Pa. (Jan. 2018) The attacker used an assault weapon.
       17 killed and 17 injured at a high school in Parkland, Fla. 
     (Feb. 2018) The alleged attacker used an assault weapon.
       4 killed and 4 injured at a Waffle House in Nashville 
     (April 2018) The attacker used an assault weapon.
       11 killed and 6 injured at a synagogue in Pittsburgh (Oct. 
     2018) The alleged attacker used an assault weapon.
       23 killed and 26 injured at a Walmart in El Paso (Aug. 
     2019) The alleged attacker used an assault weapon.
       9 killed and 37 injured outside a bar in Dayton, Ohio (Aug. 
     2019) The attacker used an assault weapon.
       7 killed and 23 injured in multiple locations in Odessa, 
     Texas (Aug. 2019) The attacker used an assault weapon.
       4 killed and 3 injured at a kosher market in Jersey City, 
     N.J. (Dec. 2019) The attackers used an assault weapon.
       4 killed and 3 injured at a gas station in Springfield, Mo. 
     (March 2020) The attacker used an assault weapon.
       10 killed and 1 injured at a grocery store in Boulder, 
     Colo. (March 2021) The alleged attacker used an assault 
     weapon.
       8 killed and 7 injured at a FedEx warehouse in Indianapolis 
     (April 2021) The attacker used an assault weapon.
       10 killed and 3 injured at a grocery store in Buffalo (May 
     2022) The alleged attacker used an assault weapon.
       21 killed and 17 injured at an elementary school in Uvalde, 
     Texas (May 2022) The attacker used an assault weapon.

  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman 
from North Carolina (Ms. Ross), a distinguished member of the Committee 
on Rules.
  Ms. ROSS. Madam Speaker, I represent a southern State. Many of my 
constituents are responsible, law-abiding gun owners, and I support 
their ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
  Contrary to what opponents of this legislation continue to claim, 
this bill will allow current, law-abiding gun owners to keep all of 
their guns. It simply prevents future sales of assault rifles.
  Let's be clear: Assault weapons are designed to kill as many people 
as possible as quickly as possible. They are not designed for 
recreation. They are designed for combat.
  It is incredibly irresponsible to allow people without specialized 
training to possess these weapons.
  Madam Speaker, when assault weapons are used in mass shootings, on 
average, six times as many people are shot as in other mass shootings.
  In 2022, there have already been 24 school shootings. The deadliest, 
in Uvalde, Texas, involved an assault weapon.
  But if my friends across the aisle are not convinced of the need to 
protect our children, perhaps they will be convinced of the need to 
protect the police. According to Violence Policy Center, one quarter of 
law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in 2016 were killed 
by an assault weapon.
  After the assault weapons ban expired, the proportion of large-
capacity-magazine-equipped guns used in murders of police increased by 
30 percent. These weapons belong with our military, not on our streets 
or in our schools.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support the rule and the bill.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  This false equivalence between an AR-15 and a so-called weapon of war 
just shows the ignorance of my friends on the other side of the aisle.
  An AR-15 is not an M16. An M16 has numerous functions: safety, three-
round bursts, semi-automatic, and fully automatic. An AR-15 has no such 
setting as a three-round burst and the fully automatic. So this false 
comparison between a so-called weapon of war and what we would describe 
as sporting rifle, again, shows the lack of understanding about these 
platforms.
  Additionally, the AR-15 is by far the most popular sporting rifle in 
the United States. There are over 20 million that are in the possession 
of Americans right now.
  But while we are talking about statistics, a 2020 FBI study shows 
that there are more murders committed with knives, clubs, and fists 
than with firearms.
  Also, when you are looking at firearm deaths, just in the year 2020, 
both the CDC and the FBI reported that over half of these firearm-
related deaths were suicides. So let's just be clear when we are 
talking about statistics.
  If you are breaking down those studies, you can look at 2020, where 
59 percent of murders were committed by handguns. Only 3 percent were 
committed with what is being described as assault rifles, what I would 
describe as sporting rifles.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Minnesota 
(Mrs. Fischbach), my good friend from the Committee on Rules, who is 
here to talk more about this issue.
  Mrs. FISCHBACH. Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from the 
Committee on Rules for providing the time to speak.
  Madam Speaker, my colleagues are proving, yet again, that they want 
to strip law-abiding citizens of their Second Amendment rights. The 
latest so-called assault weapons ban is unconstitutional and will 
impact other aspects of American life.
  This bill would end the sale of some of the most popular rifles sold 
in America today, impacting the sporting industry and all of those who 
rely on it for their livelihoods.
  This bill will have an impact in ways even the supporters of the bill 
do not understand. For example, under this law, stabilizing braces for 
pistols would be outlawed.
  Despite what some of my colleagues have said, stabilizing braces are 
not bump stocks and will not turn a pistol into an assault rifle. 
Stabilizing braces are used by hunters with disabilities, including 
many of our disabled veterans, to help them safely hunt with pistols.
  Not only is this bill an assault on our constitutional rights, but 
the loss of the revenue from the sales of these firearms will also have 
a devastating impact on the Federal Aid to Wildlife Restoration Fund, 
which helps States pay for environmental conservation efforts. The bill 
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for how to make up for the severe decrease in conservation funding.
  Democrats are no longer disguising their radical agenda to ban guns 
and do away with the Constitution's Second Amendment. My colleagues 
from the other side have said that they will do everything they can to 
ban guns in this country, even to the point of packing the Supreme 
Court to make it happen. Anyone who thinks this bill is not a step in 
that direction is kidding themselves. This is yet another attempt from 
the left to strip law-abiding citizens of their Second Amendment 
rights, and I oppose this bill and the rule.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Let me just respond to the gentlewoman by saying that the manager's 
amendment adds language to make clear that devices used to make hunting 
accessible to everyone, especially our disabled veterans, are not 
affected by this legislation.
  This provision also makes sure the gun industry cannot exploit 
legitimate accessibility devices to make firearms especially deadly for 
mass shooters as has occurred in the past when bump stocks were claimed 
to be an accessibility accessory but used to inflict horrible mass 
violence in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting that killed 60 and injured more 
than 400 people.

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  And I say to the gentleman from Pennsylvania, I didn't use the words 
``weapon of war'' in my opening statement, and I certainly know the 
difference between an automatic and a semiautomatic weapon, but if that 
is the argument you want to have, bring that to the parents whose 
children were lost in Uvalde, you know, who were mowed down by an AR-
15. As I pointed out in my opening statement, these weapons actually 
decimate bodies. Physicians say that an AR-15 can actually liquify your 
organs because the projectile is traveling so fast.
  As the gentleman may recall, DNA samples had to be gathered from 
those children who were murdered because their bodies were 
unrecognizable. So, I mean, come on.
  This is about saving lives.
  I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Doggett).
  Mr. DOGGETT. Madam Speaker, weapons of war are designed for war. They 
are designed to kill as many people as possible as quickly as possible. 
Our country is exceptional in making these weapons of war, these 
assault weapons, available in the civilian sector, and we have 
quickly--because those weapons are easier to qualify for than getting a 
driver's license; they are easier for a teenager to get than to buy a 
beer, because we have done that, we have turned our churches, our 
schools, our shopping centers, our entertainment venues, almost any 
place, into a battleground with one massacre after another.
  There is no Second Amendment right to own a machine gun, which has 
been banned in this country since, I believe, the thirties. But if you 
talk about rights, how about the rights of those little children in 
Uvalde to live, the rights of those families to be whole? They have 
rights, also. And that is what we are protecting today.
  I think that we just cannot continue to live like we have been living 
in the shadow of fear, a terrible kind of American exceptionalism where 
we are horribly exceptional to the amount of dead children gunned down 
in their best tennis shoes after end of the school year celebrations, 
of young parents having to bury their still younger little children; 
where we are the exception in how many congregants die where they are 
massacred in their churches or in their temples; where we are the 
exception, the outlier in how many gruesome bullet-ridden bodies our 
doctors see month after month.
  And God help us because Texas has been among the worst. From El Paso 
to Uvalde to across the center of the State to the Houston area, 
murderers, massacres with assault weapons, where one family or another 
grieves.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield the gentleman an additional 30 
seconds.
  Mr. DOGGETT. Madam Speaker, Texas children right now have no reality 
as they will soon be returning to school than to duck and cover and 
learn new exercises. We can do something about that and banning assault 
weapons is the most critical issue in doing that, not the kind of weak, 
modest measure that will never change things in Texas that we passed 
earlier in the year since it is dependent on the Texas legislature, but 
a direct effort to limit the access to assault weapons that are weapons 
of war that kill and kill and kill that make us exceptional in quite 
the wrong way.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  I just want it noted that the gentleman from Massachusetts said that 
no one on his side is describing these weapons as ``weapons of war,'' 
and then the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Doggett), the first thing he 
said was that AR-15s are ``weapons are war.''
  So, we need to understand that when the left and when radical 
Democrats are describing AR-15s as ``weapons of war,'' and as the 
gentleman from Texas just said, ``machine guns,'' they are doing two 
things simultaneously. Number one, they are showing their absolute 
ignorance for how these platforms operate; and two, they are 
deliberately trying to mislead the American people on what these 
platforms do.
  No one on my side of the aisle is trying to say that machine guns 
should be legal. An AR-15 is a sporting rifle; it is a semiautomatic. 
It is not the kind of platform that is used by the military. It is not 
an M16, it is not an M4; but, again, the other side tries to use this 
to muddy the waters and confuse the American people and to put all 
firearms in the same category.
  Let's talk about some more statistics. In 2021, a Georgetown study 
found that 1.67 million instances were found where firearms were used 
in self-defense. In 2019 alone, there were 386 self-defense killings 
that were determined to be justified. So, these are just some of the 
ways in which someone can legally use a sporting rifle.
  Let's talk about the chaos at the southern border. Since Joe Biden 
took office, over 3.1 million illegal immigrants have been apprehended 
at the southern border, and that includes 56 illegal immigrants who 
were on the terror watch list.
  President Biden and House Democrats have this open-door policy that 
has created a humanitarian crisis and a security crisis, as well, and 
they want to make things worse by lifting title 42.
  Republicans know border security is national security. That is why 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 2021, to 
enforce title 42.
  Madam 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. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Roy), my good friend, to explain the amendment.
  Mr. ROY. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding and for 
his leadership on this matter. Yes, we shouldn't be talking about 
disarming the American people when it is my colleagues on the other 
side of the aisle that are leaving the American people exposed to 
dangerous cartels and dangerous narcotics flying through your 
communities and dangerous criminal gang members and criminals that are 
coming in and harming the American people, including people that are 
affiliated with terrorist countries and organizations. My colleagues on 
the other side of the aisle don't seem to care a whit about that.

  Yesterday, Mayor Bowser was all upset because 4,000 people have been 
bused to D.C. from Texas since April. 4,000 people. Do you know how 
many people were apprehended in Texas yesterday? About 4,000 people.
  Welcome to the party. Because that is the reality of what we are 
dealing with at our southern border. Virtually all of the people being 
apprehend are being released into the United States under notice to 
appear or parole. There is only one barrier to all being released, and 
that is the use of title 42 during a pandemic.

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  Now, I notice a number of the staff, a number of the folks on the 
other side of the aisle, people that are still masked. We still are 
under emergency declarations, and yet, we are going to allow people to 
flow into this country, and we are going to remove the one last vestige 
of security that this administration remotely will actually look at and 
use: title 42 at our border.
  They are building facilities to process more people to release them 
into the United States.
  Mayor Bowser wants to complain and then call out the National Guard 
because 4,000 people were shipped from Texas to D.C.; the 4,000 that 
Texas gets on a daily basis. Again, welcome to the dang party.
  You know what? Do you know what you are not talking about, my 
colleagues on the other side of the aisle? The 73 human beings caught 
in a stash house in Washington, D.C., this week. Seventy-three human 
beings in a stash house in our Nation's Capital. But my colleagues on 
the other side of the aisle, my colleagues particularly on the 
Judiciary Committee, brushed that aside, patting themselves on the back 
in the false name of compassion for how much they love Brown people for 
having open borders. Well, the Brown people in south Texas are sick and 
tired of it. The Brown people of south Texas that I know, the 
candidates on my side of the aisle, are standing up for a secure 
border, and that begins with enforcing our laws under title 42 during a 
pandemic to ensure that we turn people away.
  My friend, Yvette Herrell, introduced a bill that would solve the 
problem, and that is what we would proceed to. We have a discharge 
petition that would unleash that bill. I welcome any of my colleagues 
on the other side of the aisle to join that discharge petition, 
perhaps, particularly if you are in a tough race. You might want to go 
home and say that you actually care about a secure border.
  But what I will tell you is, is that we should be moving to secure 
the border of the United States, rather than this fool's errand of the 
unconstitutional taking of Americans' Second Amendment rights.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Let me just say something to my friend from Pennsylvania. You know, 
maybe it is true that the military doesn't use AR-15s, but I will say 
to the gentleman that mass shooters do. We saw what an AR-15 can do in 
Uvalde. We saw what it can do in Buffalo.
  I just remind people when you have these kind of debates that people 
are watching. You know, the parents who lost their children in Uvalde, 
they are watching. People who have lost ones to mass shootings all 
around this country are watching. You know, to try to parse words over, 
well, you know, it is not a military-style weapon or this or that or 
whatever when we know what these weapons can do, that little children 
had to be identified with DNA samples because their bodies were blown 
apart.
  You know, you want to talk about extreme positions? We just had a 
Rules Committee meeting, and Mr. Massie testified before the Rules 
Committee. You may recall the back and forth between him and Mr. Raskin 
when Mr. Raskin essentially asked him whether or not machine guns 
should be legal, and Mr. Massie responded by saying, well, I think 
States should make that determination.
  So that means that if a State wanted to make machine guns legal, it 
is somehow okay? So you want to talk about extremism? We have seen what 
extremism is all about from many of my friends on the other side of the 
aisle, and we have seen the power of the gun lobby, the blood money 
that has poured into campaigns that has resulted in people coming to 
the floor and making these ridiculous arguments for us to do nothing. 
So this is a moment when people have to stand up and be counted.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas 
(Ms. Jackson Lee).
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. 
We can see the lengths the Democrats have gone to to simply try to save 
lives. With John Lewis we sat on the floor of the House, not regarding 
what would happen to us personally after Parkland and literally said 
you have got to do something. As John Lewis said: ``Never give up, 
never give in, never give out,'' the moral authority of this Congress.
  We failed because my friends on the other side of the aisle just 
could not see the carnage and bloodshed that happened to Parkland or 
Sandy Hook and elsewhere. Now we have in the backdrop El Paso. We have 
Uvalde. And I repeat myself, going there days after that tragedy and 
literally hugging crying 9-year-olds who should be on the playground 
who are crying because of their loss and deceased friends. The story 
that is so powerful, two of them, one that bled to death, and one that 
smeared themselves with blood to live.
  Do we now stand in the way of stopping carnage and bloodshed? And my 
good friend that I have done a lot of things with, M4s, M16s are 
weapons are war; if I have the correct numbers, and I believe I do.
  You can pontificate about that, but, frankly, the language is 
``assault-style weapons.'' That is what it is. And assault-style 
weapons still do not belong in civilians' hands because the munitions 
that are used in war, when soldiers can't even bring their weapons of 
war home when they are off duty or coming home to see family members or 
traveling as a civilian, it is because they are killers. And that is 
what killed those children in Parkland, Highland. That is what killed 
them in Uvalde, in Buffalo. That is what killed these people in El 
Paso, and in the hands in some instances of white supremacists.
  Let me be perfectly clear, as I thank Mr. Cicilline for this 
legislation, he prohibits that possession. Many of them are 
grandfathered in. I wish somebody would read the bill. These are 
weapons already grandfathered in. Don't frighten the American people. 
What is most frightening are the parents who are outside these doors.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield the gentlewoman an additional 1 
minute.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, what is really frightening is that 
parents who are outside these doors are asking the question: What are 
we doing?

                              {time}  1430

  I would say the families in Buffalo, where the theme was replacement 
theory, or these little babies, where is your heart in a reasonable 
bill that prohibits the sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession of 
semiautomatic assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition feeding 
devices subject to grandfathering provisions but, in actuality, allows 
the possession of any semiautomatic assault weapon lawfully possessed 
on the date of enactment?
  How much fairer can we get? I only ask my colleagues to stop 
pontificating to us like we know less than you when it comes, as a 
civilian, that there are weapons of war that our military has, that 
there are assault-style weapons that are in the hands of citizens on 
the streets of this country, and that they adapt the same munitions. 
The individual in Uvalde had 350 pounds.
  Madam Speaker, let us vote for the rule and the underlying bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to please direct their 
remarks to the Chair.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Speaker, I have a lot of respect for my colleague from Texas, 
but when the question is asked why servicemembers can't bring their 
M16s and their M4s home, it is because those are fully automatic 
weapons. They are not AR-15s.
  The gentlewoman actually answers her own question. The M16 and the M4 
platform are automatic. The AR-15 is not automatic. They are two 
different platforms.
  The gentlewoman and the gentleman from Texas said words to the effect 
of, ``What are we doing? Why are Republicans not doing enough?'' or 
words to that effect.
  Well, let me remind my colleagues across the aisle that it was 
Republicans, not Democrats, it was Republicans in 2017 that had the Fix 
NICS Act. It is Republicans that are trying to get legislation passed 
to keep guns

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out of the hands of criminals, not out of the hands of law-abiding 
citizens. It was the last administration under President Trump that 
banned bump stocks when the Obama administration let that ban expire.
  Those are just a few things that Republicans are doing in this arena.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. 
Diaz-Balart), my good friend.
  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Madam Speaker, title 42 is a critical tool to manage 
the crisis at the southern border. It is hard to believe that the Biden 
administration claims that the termination of title 42 would actually 
decrease the number of encounters at the border. This is not only 
grotesquely disingenuous; it is actually laughable.
  Does the administration not remember the caravans headed to the 
southern border when the administration just announced the end of title 
42?
  Do you know the cartels actually used the end of title 42 to promote, 
to advertise, their human smuggling business?
  Has the administration even spoken to our brave heroes, the Border 
Patrol agents, who consistently say that without title 42 authority, 
they would lose any semblance of operational control on the border?
  Let's be clear. The expected influx of border crossings if title 42 
ended is not just a humanitarian crisis, which it is. It is a national 
security crisis, as well. The cartels will once again use the increased 
flow as a distraction to continue to bring in record amounts of 
narcotics such as fentanyl.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the previous 
question so that we can bring up H.R. 471, the PAUSE Act, to help give 
our border agents the tools that they need in order to achieve 
operational control of the border.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman 
from Georgia (Mr. Hice), my good friend.
  Mr. HICE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I am amazed at how my radical 
friends on the left now are so concerned with the lives of children 
when they literally stand and cheer and celebrate the killing of 3,000 
through abortion every single day.
  Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to this rule that allows the 
consideration of the assault weapons ban.
  What we have going on right now is a complete disregard for regular 
order that started yesterday and is continuing here today. The House 
floor is being run like a circus, quite frankly, and the American 
people deserve better than this.
  They continue, the Democrats do, to ram legislation through without 
proper notice and without even markup in committees. The floor should 
be run with at least a basic sense of decorum, and that is totally out 
of control right now. There is a complete lack of respect for the rules 
and the norms of this historic institution and how it should be run.
  As for the legislation being considered, it is just another attempt 
by the radical left to once again take away the Second Amendment rights 
of the American people.
  Madam Speaker, time and time again, the left here has tried to 
disregard and trample the constitutional rights of the American people.
  This bill is full of, among other things, questionable definitions 
that show that the left doesn't even know what they are talking about 
when it comes to the issue of assault weapons.
  Madam Speaker, I implore my colleagues to vote against this rule and 
the previous question, as well.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, very briefly. Maybe the gentleman hasn't 
been paying attention to what has been going on around here, but this 
bill actually had a hearing and a markup, 14 hours in the Committee on 
the Judiciary.
  Madam Speaker, the text has been available 72 hours in advance. The 
manager's amendment was made available on Tuesday night. I don't know 
what the heck he is talking about.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentlewoman from Georgia (Mrs. Greene), my good friend.

  Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, we are here debating about an 
assault weapons ban so that the chairman of the Committee on the 
Judiciary can campaign when he goes back home, which is really odd 
because in that district, in that area of New York, they don't seem to 
be suffering from as much crime as the rest of New York where people 
really do need guns to defend themselves or maybe the rest of America 
or like Atlanta in my home State of Georgia.
  I will tell you something right now. I thank God for AR-15s because 
there have been a lot of people that have saved their own lives and 
defended others. I will remind you of a few.
  How about an 8-month pregnant woman who saved her husband's and 
daughter's lives from home invaders who were trying to kill them? Thank 
God she had an AR-15.
  Let me remind you of a man that had an AR-15 that was able to defend 
a church from a mass shooter who killed 26 people in the First Baptist 
Church in Sutherland, Texas. Thank God for his AR-15.
  Let me explain something to my Democrat colleagues. You can pass as 
many gun control laws as you like, but no one will stop a murderer. No 
one is going to hand over a gun who has murder in their heart.
  Do you think that your gun control laws are going to cause criminals 
to come running to hand over the AR-15s that they possess? No, I don't 
think so.
  If you are concerned about protecting Americans and saving lives, 
stop voting to kill babies up until the day of birth. Care about those 
children and their body parts, and then do something about all the 
crime all over America that is affecting Americans every single day.
  How about our border? How about our border being overrun with drugs 
and fentanyl and human trafficking? Do you care about those people, 
those migrants who are dying on the way because of your policies of 
open borders?
  Oh, no, it is not the gun that is the problem. It is the policies. It 
is the policies that you are pushing right now that are hurting 
Americans and causing our children to not be safe.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are again reminded to direct their 
remarks to the Chair.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Whether it is Pennsylvania or Massachusetts, they 
are still two great Commonwealths, right?
  Madam Speaker, I have no further speakers at this time, and I yield 
myself the balance of my time for closing.
  Madam Speaker, I am incredibly disappointed but, unfortunately, not 
at all surprised that, once again, we are considering legislation that 
will do nothing more than penalize law-abiding citizens while doing 
absolutely nothing about the root cause of gun violence.
  We know from history, and we know from numerous studies that I have 
talked about today, that assault weapons bans do not work.
  So, why is this bill coming before us today? It is just the latest in 
the House Democrats' never-ending attack on America's Second Amendment 
rights.
  Madam Speaker, I, therefore, urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the 
previous question and vote ``no'' on the rule.
  Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I have great respect for my friend from 
Pennsylvania and all of my colleagues on the Committee on Rules, and I 
know they feel strongly about this issue. I believe that many of the 
concerns that they have raised are unwarranted, and this bill deals 
with many of them.
  As has been said repeatedly, this is not about taking away anybody's 
guns. It is dealing with the future. It is dealing with ways that we 
can better protect the people of this country.
  So, it is frustrating when we hear arguments about, ``Oh, you said 
military-style. This, technically, isn't a military weapon,'' or we 
have all these numbers that have been kind of manipulated and presented 
as reasons for us to do nothing. I find that really disconcerting. 
Maybe it is because so many people are dying. Maybe it is because so 
many people are being murdered by these weapons.
  The sheer number is incomprehensible. Maybe some of my colleagues

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have lost the human ability to feel what that really means. I mean, I 
have talked to parents, and I have talked to brothers and sisters, to 
grandparents, who have lost loved ones in these massacres, who have 
lost loved ones to assault weapons. I mean, it is painful.
  We can do something to make it possible that fewer people are victims 
of mass shootings, that fewer children die, that fewer churchgoers die, 
fewer people shopping in the grocery store or going to a concert or 
just minding their own business.

  I mean, the gun violence in this country has reached epidemic 
proportions. It is unbelievable.
  The American people are sick and tired of being scared. I mean, when 
my own kids go to the movies, I worry about them. I am worried that 
there might be somebody with an AR-15 that will be in that movie 
theater, or if they go to a concert. I think my anxiety is similar to 
the anxiety of most parents when their kids go out. This doesn't have 
to be.
  All I am pleading with my colleagues to do is to think long and hard 
on how they vote on this.
  Madam Speaker, we should all be sick to our stomachs about what is 
happening. The idea that somehow we can't do anything about it I don't 
think anybody buys.
  I get it. The gun lobby plays a big role with many of my friends on 
the other side of the aisle. Follow the money; you will see what I am 
talking about. I don't want you to do anything, but I am pleading with 
my colleagues, especially on the Republican side of the aisle. I mean, 
this is the right thing to do.
  The previous assault weapons ban had an impact. Unfortunately, it was 
left to expire. I mean, we need to pass this. This is the right thing 
to do. Talk to the families. Talk to those who lost loved ones in one 
of these massacres.
  As I said, to defend AR-15s that can destroy the bodies of people--I 
remind you that the children in Uvalde, many of them had to be 
identified by DNA.
  I mean, at some point, we have to say enough is enough. At some 
point, we have to turn our words into action.
  Madam Speaker, I am hoping and praying that this is the day. I urge 
all of my colleagues to vote for the rule and vote for the previous 
question.
  The material previously referred to by Mr. Reschenthaler is as 
follows:

                   Amendment to House Resolution 1302

       At the end of the resolution, add the following:
       Sec. 2. 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 COV1D-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. 3. Clause 1(c) of rule XIX shall not apply to the 
     consideration of H.R. 471.

  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and 
I move the previous question on the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on ordering the previous 
question.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. 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 215, 
nays 205, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 407]

                               YEAS--215

     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
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis, Danny K.
     Dean
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     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
     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)
     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
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NAYS--205

     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice (OK)
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brady
     Brooks
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budd
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cawthorn
     Chabot
     Cheney
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Comer
     Conway
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Flores
     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)
     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
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     Meijer
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Mullin
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Obernolte
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     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

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Costa
     Donalds
     Griffith
     Kinzinger
     McCarthy
     Mfume
     Murphy (NC)
     Scott, David
     Veasey
     Zeldin

                              {time}  1527

  So the previous question was ordered.

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  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


    Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress

     Babin (Pfluger)
     Barr (Wagner)
     Bass (Neguse)
     Blumenauer (Kuster)
     Blunt Rochester (Kelly (IL))
     Boebert (Cawthorn)
     Bourdeaux (Correa)
     Bowman (Ocasio-Cortez)
     Boyle, Brendan F. (Trone)
     Bush (Ocasio-Cortez)
     Bustos (Kuster)
     Cardenas (Soto)
     Carter (TX) (Weber (TX))
     Casten (Neguse)
     Cherfilus-McCormick (Neguse)
     Comer (Keller)
     Craig (Kuster)
     Crawford (Long)
     Crist (Wasserman Schultz)
     Cuellar (Correa)
     Curtis (Moore (UT))
     DeGette (Perlmutter)
     DeSaulnier (Perlmutter)
     DesJarlais (Fleischmann)
     Deutch (Wasserman Schultz)
     Evans (Neguse)
     Garamendi (Pallone)
     Garbarino (Moore (UT))
     Gibbs (Bucshon)
     Gimenez (Salazar)
     Gonzales, Tony (Bice (OK))
     Gonzalez (OH) (Meijer)
     Good (Greene (GA))
     Gosar (Gaetz)
     Granger (Weber (TX))
     Green (TN) (Fleischmann)
     Guthrie (Wagner)
     Hartzler (Moore (UT))
     Herrera Beutler (Moore (UT))
     Jacobs (NY) (Fleischmann)
     Jayapal (Pallone)
     Jeffries (Velazquez)
     Johnson (LA) (Graves (LA))
     Johnson (SD) (Fleischmann)
     Johnson (TX) (Pallone)
     Jones (Trone)
     Joyce (PA) (Keller)
     Kahele (Correa)
     Katko (Meijer)
     Kirkpatrick (Pallone)
     LaHood (Latta)
     Lawson (FL) (Wasserman Schultz)
     Leger Fernandez (Garcia (TX))
     Letlow (Moore (UT))
     Levin (MI) (Correa)
     Malliotakis (Armstrong)
     Maloney, Carolyn B. (Wasserman Schultz)
     McBath (Bishop (GA))
     McEachin (Trone)
     McHenry (Wagner)
     McNerney (Pallone)
     Miller (WV) (Mooney)
     Miller-Meeks (Keller)
     Moore (WI) (Neguse)
     Moulton (Perlmutter)
     Neal (Kildee)
     Nehls (Weber (TX))
     Newman (Trone)
     Omar (Dingell)
     Owens (Moore (UT))
     Payne (Pallone)
     Porter (Wexton)
     Rice (NY) (Wasserman Schultz)
     Rice (SC) (Meijer)
     Ruppersberger (Trone)
     Ryan (Kuster)
     Sewell (Cicilline)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Smith (WA) (Wasserman Schultz)
     Spartz (Banks)
     Speier (Garcia (TX))
     Stefanik (Keller)
     Steube (Franklin, C. Scott)
     Stevens (Kuster)
     Stewart (Moore (UT))
     Strickland (Neguse)
     Suozzi (Perlmutter)
     Swalwell (Correa)
     Taylor (Armstrong)
     Thompson (CA) (Correa)
     Tiffany (Fitzgerald)
     Tlaib (Dingell)
     Torres (NY) (Correa)
     Trahan (Trone)
     Van Drew (Fleischmann)
     Vargas (Correa)
     Walorski (Banks)
     Welch (Pallone)
     Wenstrup (Latta)
     Williams (GA) (Neguse)
     Wilson (SC) (Dunn)

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Jackson Lee). 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 yeas and nays were ordered.
  This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 217, 
nays 211, not voting 3, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 408]

                               YEAS--217

     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
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     Doyle, Michael F.
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     Maloney, Sean
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     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NAYS--211

     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice (OK)
     Biggs
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     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
     Conway
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Flores
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia (CA)
     Gibbs
     Gimenez
     Gohmert
     Golden
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez (OH)
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hern
     Herrell
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
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     Hinson
     Hollingsworth
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Issa
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     Jacobs (NY)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
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     Joyce (PA)
     Katko
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     Kelly (MS)
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     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
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     Meuser
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     Miller-Meeks
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     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Mullin
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     Scott, Austin
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     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
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     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Taylor
     Tenney
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     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
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     Walberg
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Griffith
     Harshbarger
     Zeldin

                              {time}  1544

  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

     Babin (Pfluger)
     Barr (Wagner)
     Bass (Neguse)
     Blumenauer (Kuster)
     Blunt Rochester (Kelly (IL))
     Boebert (Cawthorn)
     Bourdeaux (Correa)
     Bowman (Ocasio-Cortez)
     Boyle, Brendan F. (Trone)
     Bush (Ocasio-Cortez)
     Bustos (Kuster)
     Cardenas (Soto)
     Carter (TX) (Weber (TX))
     Casten (Neguse)
     Cherfilus-McCormick (Neguse)
     Comer (Keller)
     Craig (Kuster)
     Crawford (Long)
     Crist (Wasserman Schultz)
     Cuellar (Correa)
     Curtis (Moore (UT))
     DeGette (Perlmutter)
     DeSaulnier (Perlmutter)
     DesJarlais (Fleischmann)
     Deutch (Wasserman Schultz)
     Donalds (Timmons)
     Evans (Neguse)
     Garamendi (Pallone)
     Garbarino (Moore (UT))
     Gibbs (Bucshon)
     Gimenez (Salazar)
     Gonzales, Tony (Bice (OK))
     Gonzalez (OH) (Meijer)
     Good (Greene (GA))
     Gosar (Gaetz)
     Granger (Weber (TX))
     Green (TN) (Fleischmann)
     Guthrie (Wagner)
     Hartzler (Moore (UT))
     Herrera Beutler (Moore (UT))
     Jayapal (Pallone)
     Jeffries (Velazquez)
     Johnson (LA) (Graves (LA))
     Johnson (SD) (Fleischmann)
     Johnson (TX) (Pallone)
     Jones (Trone)
     Joyce (PA) (Keller)
     Kahele (Correa)
     Katko (Meijer)
     Kinzinger (Meijer)
     Kirkpatrick (Pallone)
     LaHood (Latta)
     Lawson (FL) (Wasserman Schultz)
     Leger Fernandez (Garcia (TX))
     Letlow (Moore (UT))
     Levin (MI) (Correa)
     Malliotakis (Armstrong)
     Maloney, Carolyn B. (Wasserman Schultz)
     McBath (Bishop (GA))
     McEachin (Trone)
     McHenry (Wagner)
     McNerney (Pallone)
     Miller (WV) (Mooney)
     Miller-Meeks (Keller)
     Moore (WI) (Neguse)
     Moulton (Perlmutter)
     Neal (Kildee)
     Nehls (Weber (TX))
     Newman (Trone)
     Omar (Dingell)
     Owens (Moore (UT))
     Payne (Pallone)
     Porter (Wexton)
     Rice (NY) (Wasserman Schultz)
     Rice (SC) (Meijer)
     Ruppersberger (Trone)
     Ryan (Kuster)
     Scott, David (Perlmutter)
     Sewell (Cicilline)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Smith (WA) (Wasserman Schultz)

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     Spartz (Banks)
     Speier (Garcia (TX))
     Stefanik (Keller)
     Steube (Franklin, C. Scott)
     Stevens (Kuster)
     Stewart (Moore (UT))
     Strickland (Neguse)
     Suozzi (Perlmutter)
     Swalwell (Correa)
     Taylor (Armstrong)
     Thompson (CA) (Correa)
     Tiffany (Fitzgerald)
     Tlaib (Dingell)
     Torres (NY) (Correa)
     Trahan (Trone)
     Van Drew (Fleischmann)
     Vargas (Correa)
     Veasey (Kelly (IL))
     Walorski (Banks)
     Welch (Pallone)
     Wenstrup (Latta)
     Williams (GA) (Neguse)
     Wilson (SC) (Dunn)

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