[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 127 (Friday, July 29, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H7491-H7499]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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,
Florida, in
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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
provides no alternative
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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
Butterfield
Carbajal
Cardenas
Carson
Carter (LA)
Cartwright
Case
Casten
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Cherfilus-McCormick
Chu
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Cooper
Correa
Costa
Courtney
Craig
Crist
Crow
Cuellar
Davids (KS)
Davis, Danny K.
Dean
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
DelBene
Demings
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle, Michael F.
Escobar
Eshoo
Espaillat
Evans
Fletcher
Foster
Frankel, Lois
Gallego
Garamendi
Garcia (IL)
Garcia (TX)
Gomez
Gottheimer
Green, Al (TX)
Grijalva
Harder (CA)
Hayes
Higgins (NY)
Himes
Horsford
Houlahan
Hoyer
Huffman
Jackson Lee
Jacobs (CA)
Jayapal
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (TX)
Jones
Kahele
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Khanna
Kildee
Kilmer
Kim (NJ)
Kind
Kirkpatrick
Krishnamoorthi
Kuster
Lamb
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lawson (FL)
Lee (CA)
Lee (NV)
Leger Fernandez
Levin (CA)
Levin (MI)
Lieu
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Luria
Lynch
Malinowski
Maloney, Carolyn B.
Maloney, Sean
Manning
Matsui
McBath
McCollum
McEachin
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Mfume
Moore (WI)
Morelle
Moulton
Mrvan
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Neguse
Newman
Norcross
O'Halleran
Ocasio-Cortez
Omar
Pallone
Panetta
Pappas
Pascrell
Payne
Pelosi
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
Schrier
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Sewell
Sherman
Sherrill
Sires
Slotkin
Smith (WA)
Soto
Spanberger
Speier
Stansbury
Stanton
Stevens
Strickland
Suozzi
Swalwell
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tlaib
Tonko
Torres (CA)
Torres (NY)
Trahan
Trone
Underwood
Vargas
Veasey
Velazquez
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wexton
Wild
Williams (GA)
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth
NAYS--211
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
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)
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)
Kinzinger
Kustoff
LaHood
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Latta
LaTurner
Lesko
Letlow
Long
Loudermilk
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Mace
Malliotakis
Mann
Massie
Mast
McCarthy
McCaul
McClain
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
Meijer
Meuser
Miller (IL)
Miller (WV)
Miller-Meeks
Moolenaar
Mooney
Moore (AL)
Moore (UT)
Mullin
Murphy (NC)
Nehls
Newhouse
Norman
Obernolte
Owens
Palazzo
Palmer
Pence
Perry
Pfluger
Posey
Reschenthaler
Rice (SC)
Rodgers (WA)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rose
Rosendale
Rouzer
Roy
Rutherford
Salazar
Scalise
Schrader
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--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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