[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 159 (Friday, September 30, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H8323-H8330]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              {time}  0915
     PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF SENATE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 6833, 
 AFFORDABLE INSULIN NOW ACT; PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 8987, 
                     FAIRNESS FOR 9/11 FAMILIES ACT

  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, 
I call up House Resolution 1404 and ask for its immediate 
consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 1404

       Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be 
     in order to take from the Speaker's table the bill (H.R. 
     6833) to amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, 
     the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and the Employee 
     Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to establish 
     requirements with respect to cost-sharing for certain insulin 
     products, and for other purposes, with the Senate amendment 
     thereto, and to consider in the House, without intervention 
     of any point of order, a motion offered by the chair of the 
     Committee on Appropriations or her designee that the House 
     concur in the Senate amendment. The Senate amendment and the 
     motion shall be considered as read. The motion shall be 
     debatable for one hour equally divided and controlled by the 
     chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
     Appropriations or their respective designees. The previous 
     question shall be considered as ordered on the motion to its 
     adoption without intervening motion.
       Sec. 2.  Upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in 
     order to consider in the House the bill (H.R. 8987) to amend 
     the Justice for United States Victims of State Sponsored 
     Terrorism Act to authorize appropriations for catch-up 
     payments from the United States Victims of State Sponsored 
     Terrorism Fund. All points of order against consideration of 
     the bill are waived. An amendment in the nature of a 
     substitute consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 
     117-68 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 gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Cole), 
pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During 
consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the purpose 
of debate only.


                             general leave

  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
be given 5 legislative days 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, yesterday the Rules Committee met and 
reported a rule, House Resolution 1404, making in order a motion 
offered by the chair of the Committee on Appropriations, or her 
designee, to concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 6833. The rule 
provides 1 hour of debate on the motion equally divided and controlled 
by the chair and ranking member of the Committee on Appropriations.
  The rule further provides for consideration of H.R. 8987, the 
Fairness for 9/11 Families Act, under a closed rule. The rule provides 
1 hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and 
ranking member of the Committee on the Judiciary, and provides one 
motion to recommit.
  Madam Speaker, I am sure we will have a spirited debate on this rule, 
but before we do, I want to begin by expressing my heartfelt sympathy 
for the people of Florida. The catastrophic devastation left behind by 
Hurricane Ian is unlike anything we have seen in quite some time.
  Our hearts are with those whose lives have been lost and their loved 
ones, and we pray for those who are missing that they will be located 
safely and soon. If there is one thing we know, it is that the people 
of Florida are strong. This is not their first hurricane. They will 
recover and they will come back stronger than ever.
  I want to thank all of the first responders who have sprung into 
action to save lives: from local police, fire, and EMS, all the way up 
to our Federal response at FEMA. The people of Florida ought to know 
that America stands with them. Part of standing with the people of 
Florida is passing this important legislation to keep the government 
open during this critical moment.
  Madam Speaker, with less than 24 hours until the end of the fiscal 
year, today we are here to do our job. We, in Congress, have a 
responsibility to the American people to keep the lights on. In 
addition to preventing the furlough of thousands of Federal employees, 
averting a shutdown will also ensure that our constituents can continue 
to receive the vital government services that they need.
  The last shutdown, when the Republicans were in charge of the House 
and the Senate and the White House, was the longest shutdown in our 
history. It cost our economy an astounding $11 billion.
  In contrast, Democrats are doing our job. We are keeping the 
government open as we finish up bipartisan, bicameral negotiations on a 
longer-term fiscal year 2023 appropriations package.
  This CR also provides Ukraine with the security, economic, and 
humanitarian assistance that they need to fight back against Russia's 
brutal invasion. With Russia holding fake elections to annex parts of 
Ukraine, the Ukrainian people urgently need our support to protect 
their families and defend global democracy.
  Finally, Madam Speaker, I mentioned earlier the devastating hurricane 
in Florida. We also just had an awful hurricane in Puerto Rico. The 
people of Puerto Rico are still reeling from the damage of Hurricane 
Fiona. Also, the people of Alaska are recovering from a terrible 
typhoon.
  This bill contains money to support communities across the United 
States as they recover from natural disasters.
  Madam Speaker, we are talking about hurricane relief for God's sake. 
I am begging my Republican friends, can we please at least come 
together on providing relief to communities devastated by hurricanes?
  Can we all agree that we ought not shut the government down in the 
middle of a major natural disaster response?
  The funding in this bill will help families and small businesses get 
back on their feet and rebuilt from extreme weather events while 
repairing damage to critical infrastructure.
  This is a bipartisan bill, Madam Speaker. It earned 72 votes in the 
Senate. I don't think you can get 72 votes in the Senate on what to 
have for lunch, let alone on government funding legislation.
  Madam Speaker, I am going to again plead with my colleagues, do not 
vote against additional funding to help people recover from hurricane 
damage, please, especially my Republican friends from Florida. A vote 
against this CR is a vote against funding for help with hurricane 
recovery in your own State.
  I just hope that we are not at the point where we have become so 
partisan and so polarized that we can't even agree on this.
  Madam Speaker, this rule also includes H.R. 8987, the Fairness for 9/
11 Families Act. This bill will ensure thousands of 9/11 families and 
victims who received some but not all of the compensation that they 
deserve are made whole.
  Both of these measures deserve broad support today. Americans are 
depending on us to get this done.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts, my 
very good friend, Chairman McGovern, for yielding me the customary 
time, and I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Madam Speaker, I want to begin by associating myself with the 
chairman's very appropriate remarks about the unfolding disaster in 
Florida and the southeast. It is something that moves all Americans. 
Florida, and frankly all of the region, is in our prayers and in our 
thoughts as they deal with an unprecedented natural disaster.

  Madam Speaker, today's rule covers two items. The first I will 
discuss is H.R. 8987, the Fairness for 9/11 Families Act. This bill 
would shift just under $3 billion from the CARES Act small business 
loan fund to the United States

[[Page H8324]]

Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund to compensate victims of the 
9/11 terror attacks.
  Last night at the Rules Committee we heard testimony on this bill, 
which unfortunately, is the only hearing this bill will receive this 
Congress. My Republican colleagues on the Judiciary Committee testified 
at length about the efforts they have gone to in order to work with the 
majority on this matter. But instead of working together in a 
bipartisan manner, the majority instead chose to move ahead on this 
bill with no hearing or markup held in the committee of jurisdiction.
  This represents a complete failure of regular order. Madam Speaker, 
it results in a lack of process that is unfair to everyone. It is 
especially unfair to the victims of 9/11 who deserve both a bipartisan 
process and a bipartisan bill that everyone can support. It did not 
have to be this way, and it is unfortunate that the majority decided to 
treat this issue with less than the gravity it deserved.
  Despite these procedural failures, however, I intend to support this 
legislation, but we could have and should have done much better.
  Our second bill is the Senate amendment to H.R. 6833, a continuing 
resolution funding the government through December 16 of 2022.
  Madam Speaker, it is unfortunate that Congress has waited until the 
last minute to take up the serious work of funding the government and 
keeping it open. It is equally unfortunate that our only option for 
doing so is the flawed, inadequate bill that does not meet the needs of 
the American people.
  Despite this bill's flaws, there is much to like in it and much that 
I do support. I voted in favor of the omnibus spending bill back in 
March, and this bill would maintain those spending levels through the 
middle of December. I support additional funding for Ukraine as they 
seek to defend themselves against Vladimir Putin's unjust and illegal 
invasion, and I support additional funds for disaster relief.
  But just as important as what is included in this bill is what is not 
included in this bill and should have been.
  It is undeniable that we are facing a humanitarian crisis on our 
southern border, caused in large part by the Biden administration's 
unwillingness to confront what is staring them in the face. The 
administration asked for $1.8 billion to assist migrants, which they 
have received in this legislation, but they did not ask for a single 
penny to secure the border.
  The Biden administration has sought to add workers elsewhere in the 
government, like 87,000 new employees at the IRS, but they did not ask 
for money to add any new Border Patrol agents to help address this 
Biden-made crisis on the southern border. This could and should have 
been addressed in this bill, but it is not.
  Similarly, the bill does nothing to address the high price of energy 
or provide new sources of energy. We should be doing everything we can 
to provide secure, reliable, and inexpensive energy to the American 
people. Instead, the President is spending his time chastising energy 
companies. We should have addressed this issue in this bill, too, but 
we did not.
  Nor does this bill address other crises affecting the American 
people, including inflation and the economic recession, both caused by 
the reckless and profligate spending policies of the Biden 
administration and this majority. I could go on and on, but the point 
remains: so much should have been in this bill but is not.
  I hope that if my friends in the majority take anything from today's 
discussion, it is this: it is high time for them to get serious about 
appropriations and about holding bipartisan discussions with 
Republicans on full-year spending bills.
  Consider where we are: the House Appropriations Committee, I am proud 
to say, passed all 12 bills out of committee this summer, yet, as of 
today, only six have passed the floor. It is the majority's 
responsibility to bring those bills to the floor.
  In the Senate, which Democrats also control, the record is even 
worse. Not a single bill has been passed out of the Senate 
Appropriations Committee. In addition, no serious negotiations have 
taken place between Republicans and Democrats and between the House and 
the Senate. These negotiations have been postponed all summer and into 
the fall while the House takes up one political messaging bill after 
another.
  Madam Speaker, we need to focus on the serious business of funding 
government. In order to accomplish that goal and achieve a bipartisan 
agreement, four conditions will have to be met.
  First, defense spending will have to go up to meet the level 
authorized in the fiscal year 2023 NDAA. The level included in the 
House defense appropriations bill is wholly inadequate to meet 
America's defense needs and must go up to reach a final deal.
  Second, non-defense discretionary spending will have to come down. 
The House non-defense appropriations bills were all marked up at a 
bloated level of spending which cannot be justified. These numbers must 
be reduced for an agreement to be had.
  Third, longstanding bipartisan pro-life policies that have 
historically been carried in appropriations bills must be restored. The 
majority stripped these out in the Appropriations Committee this year, 
but they must go back in. I cannot emphasize this point strongly 
enough, Madam Speaker. No Republicans--and I mean no Republicans--will 
vote for these bills unless these bipartisan pro-life riders are 
restored.
  Fourth, the 12 House Appropriations Committee bills include countless 
poison pills that have to come out. These are liberal policy riders on 
all matters of topics, ranging from climate change to abortion to labor 
law. They have to come out to reach a bipartisan deal. The 
appropriations bills cannot pass this House and pass the Senate unless 
there is a bipartisan deal.
  Madam Speaker, we can reach a bipartisan, bicameral, full-year 
spending deal if my friends in the majority get serious about 
negotiating. At the end of the day, Republicans must be included in 
these negotiations. If the majority continues to dither, we are headed 
for a year-long continuing resolution. That is a bad outcome for the 
institution, a bad outcome for the government, and a bad outcome for 
the American people.

                              {time}  0930

  When the majority begins to seriously negotiate on a bipartisan 
appropriations package, I will certainly be there to help. But neither 
I, nor many of my colleagues, will participate in kicking the can down 
the road so my Democratic friends can ignore their responsibility to 
govern until after the upcoming election.
  I urge opposition to the rule, and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Reschenthaler), my good friend and my fellow member 
of both the Appropriations Committee and the Rules Committee.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Madam Speaker, I thank Ranking Member Cole for 
yielding me the time.
  Under the Biden-Harris administration, we are seeing crises, 
manufactured crises. Let's just look at a few in turn.
  We have a manufactured economic crisis. The inflation rate has 
increased by 550 percent since January of 2021. Total government 
spending during that time has increased over $9 trillion. This is out-
of-control spending that is leading to this inflation. It is costing 
the average American family $6,000 a year.
  Let me just put that in perspective. That would be like going up to a 
family and saying, can you give me 1 month's paycheck? Most cannot do 
that. The inflation has deprived the average American family of 1 
month's pay, and this CR does absolutely nothing to address inflation. 
It does nothing to bring the economic crisis to an end.
  It just doesn't stop there. Let's talk about the manufactured energy 
crisis. The day, literally, day 1 that Biden took office, he declared 
war on American energy. He shut down the Keystone Pipeline and, as a 
result, American families are paying higher and higher prices at the 
pump.
  We are going to face record-level energy costs going into this 
winter, and yet, this CR does absolutely nothing to address the energy 
crisis.
  Let's talk about crime. There is a crime wave going on all over 
country. Cities across the Nation are witnessing the results of the 
defund the police

[[Page H8325]]

movement. Homicide rates across this country have increased roughly 50 
percent, compared to this time in 2019.
  In my home State of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia has recorded over 400 
murders so far this year. Philadelphia is on track to see the highest 
homicide rate in recorded history, and it is because of the defund the 
police movement. It is because of Democrat rule.
  It is not just Philly. Los Angeles, in 2021, L.A. defunded the police 
by $150 million. What did they get? Homicide rates went up 23 percent, 
yet this CR does nothing to combat the crime wave that we are seeing. 
It does nothing to re-fund the police.
  Let's talk about fentanyl. In my district, and across the country, 
communities are facing the opioid epidemic, and that is a direct result 
of fentanyl flooding across our porous southern border.
  The devastation is because of Biden's failed policies, the open 
border policies that he has instituted. And just don't take my word for 
it. The DEA Commissioner said that the open border policies are killing 
Americans ``at rates never seen before.''
  Yet, this CR does nothing to address the fentanyl issue. It does 
nothing. It is because the base of the Democratic Party, the woke 
yuppies who stay at home and are on Zoom classes all day view this 
issue as a Cracker Barrel problem, something that will never affect 
them because they don't shop at Walmart. They drive a hybrid, not a 
Chevy Silverado; so that is why we are not seeing urgency on the 
fentanyl crisis.
  Let me just put it in perspective. Fentanyl overdose leads to about 
300 deaths every single day in this country. That is the equivalent of 
an airliner going down every single day. If an airliner went down just 
once a week in this country, it would be declared an emergency within 2 
to 3 weeks.
  Yet, we are seeing the same death every single day, and because it is 
viewed as a fly-over problem, an issue that is facing people that don't 
live on the coast, no one cares about it, and this CR does nothing to 
address it.
  It is just not fentanyl. Let's talk about the crisis of immigration. 
Since Biden took office, over 3.5 million illegal immigrants have been 
apprehended at the southern border. This CR does nothing to add 
additional border security; nothing for additional infrastructure; 
nothing for advanced technology.
  For those reasons, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the rule 
and ``no'' on the continuing resolution.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  I appreciate my friend from Pennsylvania reciting the Republican 
Congressional Campaign Committee's greatest hits, but let me remind 
people who are watching why we are here today.
  We are here today to move two important pieces of legislation 
forward; one that would help 9/11 families, which I hope we all can 
agree is worth supporting; and the second is to make sure that the 
government doesn't shut down; that we continue to provide funding that 
will help aid some of the natural disasters that we are seeing happen 
all over this country.
  While it is too early to have a damage assessment from Hurricane Ian 
and actually know what the true cost of all this is going to be, make 
no mistake, this CR will help. There is money for 2022 disasters and 
community development block grants for disaster recovery above the OMB 
request.
  More importantly, we included language to give FEMA a full year's 
worth of funding up front, not just for the 2\1/2\-month CR period; and 
more help will come for Florida, as we find out what is needed.
  Communities across America are currently dealing with record-breaking 
numbers of storms. According to The Washington Post this morning, 
``Since 2017, an unprecedented number of storms rated Category 4 
or stronger have lashed the U.S. shoreline: Harvey, Irma, Maria, 
Michael, Laura, Ida, and now Ian. They all qualify as `rapid 
intensification events,' when a storm's wind speeds increase by at 
least 35 miles within 24 hours.''

  People should read The Washington Post about what is happening as a 
result of these storms.
  We have an obligation to help all of these communities. But you know 
what won't help? A government shutdown in the midst of a natural 
disaster of this magnitude.
  Again, I would point out to my colleagues here, we think it is 
unacceptable to ever shut down the Federal Government. My Republican 
friends obviously have a different point of view because when they were 
in charge, when they controlled the House, the Senate, and the White 
House, they shut the government down, the longest government shutdown 
in our history, and it was costly. To even contemplate doing that in 
the face of these natural disasters is unbelievable.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished 
gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Malliotakis), my good friend.
  Ms. MALLIOTAKIS. Madam Speaker, I rise today to comment on one 
portion of the rule, H.R. 8987, which is a bill that is incredibly 
important to me and to those that I represent. As a matter of fact, I 
drafted the legislation. On August 5, I had introduced the language as 
part of H.R. 8667. We garnered bipartisan support for this very 
important bill.
  What the bill does is finally make whole so many of our families that 
were affected by 9/11 because they lost loved ones, but they were not 
compensated properly under the United States Victims of State Sponsored 
Terrorist Fund.
  So we are talking about 5,347 widows and children that were excluded 
from this fund by this body; and it was an injustice that should have 
never been allowed to happen. As a result of their initial exclusion, 
widows and children missed the first two payments of the USVSST fund, 
creating a massive disparity between their restorative justice payments 
and others that were included.
  This bill would catch up those widows and children to the other 
victim groups and ensure that, moving forward, they are no longer left 
out, forgotten, or excluded. So this bill is truly about fairness and 
doing what is right for the wives and the children or the husbands and 
the children of our first responders killed on September 11.
  Twenty-one years later, this House is finally going to do the right 
thing, and I am very happy to have played a part in helping them move 
this forward.
  In the gallery I have a special guest, Angela Mistrulli, who is the 
head of the 9/11 Children for Justice. She is a tireless advocate who 
has been affected personally, and I thank her for working with our 
office over the last 6 months and the advocacy of all of her members in 
seeing this through. I hope all my colleagues support this on the floor 
when it comes up later today.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  I appreciate the gentlewoman's comments, and I hope that she will 
vote for the rule because if the rule doesn't pass, we can't bring this 
bill up for a vote. I agree with her; this is incredibly important. So 
I hope all my colleagues will vote for the rule, not just to help 9/11 
families, but also to keep the government open during this really 
critical time.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  If we defeat the previous question, I will offer an amendment to the 
rule to bring up H.R. 7967, the Prosecutors Need to Prosecute Act, for 
immediate consideration. The bill will ensure that the perpetrators of 
violent crimes are held accountable for their actions and that victims 
of violent crimes receive the justice that they deserve.
  Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to insert the text of my 
amendment in the Record, along with 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 Oklahoma?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, America's largest cities are in the midst of 
a wave of violent crime, making some of them nearly unlivable. This 
spike in violent crime has many causes, but one factor is undeniably 
making the problem worse: That is the fuzzy-headed ideology followed by 
woke prosecutors who are refusing to do their jobs and prosecute 
violent offenders.
  As part of the Commitment to America, Republicans have made it clear

[[Page H8326]]

that we will fund the police; that we will take clear steps to stop the 
scourge of fentanyl coming over the southern border into our Nation; 
and that we will crack down on prosecutors and district attorneys who 
refuse to prosecute violent criminals.
  H.R. 7967 fulfills that commitment. It would require the same 
prosecutors to report annually on the cases they receive and their 
decisions to prosecute or not prosecute. As Justice Louis Brandeis 
said, ``sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.''
  This reporting would allow the citizens of our great cities to see, 
once and for all, just what this wave of progressive woke prosecutors 
is actually up to, and just how many violent crime cases they are 
refusing to prosecute out of ideology.
  To further explain the amendment, I yield 3 minutes to the 
gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Malliotakis), my good friend, the author 
of the bill.
  Ms. MALLIOTAKIS. Madam Speaker, I rise today to urge that we amend 
the rule to also include H.R. 7967, which is the Prosecutors Need to 
Prosecute Act. My legislation would hold prosecutors accountable and 
create transparency by letting the public know how many cases 
prosecutors are declining to prosecute, the number of offenses 
committed by career criminals, and the number of criminals released.

  Over the past 2 years, we have seen a disturbing trend in progressive 
district attorneys in cities across the country who are refusing to 
prosecute violent criminal offenders. Look no further than my city of 
New York, our city of New York, where Manhattan District Attorney Alvin 
Bragg released a Day 1 memo initially directing his staff not to 
prosecute certain crimes, including drug possession, trespassing, sex 
trading, driving with a suspended license, resisting arrest, and public 
obscenity. He even directed his staff to downgrade felony charges filed 
by our police, including armed robbery, weapons charges, and drug 
dealing.
  Worst of all, his office will no longer seek sentences of life 
without parole, which means that the most heinous murderers, including 
terrorists, serial killers, cop killers, and perps who kill young 
children in connection with sex crimes will be released back onto our 
streets in 20 years or less.
  These policies have sent a clear message to the criminals. It is, go 
ahead, break the law because we will not enforce it. With prosecutors 
that refuse to prosecute, violent career super-criminals are free to 
wreak havoc on our streets.
  I urge my colleagues to oppose the previous question today so we can 
hold woke prosecutors accountable for failing to do their jobs and 
protect.
  We want to be able to add this legislation to the rule because it is 
incredibly important that the public knows which prosecutors are 
refusing to do their job; and as we saw in San Francisco, they did 
repeal one of their prosecutors. Many States, like ours, do not have a 
recall law, but this would give them the information they need to make 
informed decisions when it comes to selecting who is going to be the 
prosecutors for their cities, because prosecutors should actually be 
prosecuting crimes. They should not be acting like criminal defense 
attorneys.

                              {time}  0945

  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  I am embarrassed for my friends on the other side of the aisle. I 
just saw the bill. I am looking at the bill, and all it does is ask for 
more reports, more paperwork. I don't know. I kind of think it is silly 
that that is going to fight crime, asking for more reports and more 
paperwork. Give me a break.
  We are here today, Madam Speaker, to try to bring two important bills 
to the floor, one to help 9/11 families and the other, Madam Speaker, 
to keep the government open because if it shuts down amidst all of 
these natural disasters, things are going to be incredibly worse for 
everybody who right now is suffering. And this is what they come to the 
floor with? This is what they want to talk about?
  If you want to talk about what they are about, let's look at their 
poorly named ``Commitment to America,'' which I guess is a rip-off on 
Contract with America, which basically would gut Social Security and 
Medicare. They want to ban abortion nationwide, and they want to make 
it easier for people to overturn the will of the American people in 
elections.
  I mean, that is the radical agenda they are all pushing here.
  Here we are, at this moment, trying to make sure that essential 
funding is there to help deal with these natural disasters, and this is 
what we get? This is like we hear the greatest hits from the National 
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. They use Russian B-roll in 
their rollout of their Commitment to America. Come on.
  At this moment, right now, we have two bills that, quite frankly, 
should enjoy huge bipartisan support. We ought to move forward to help 
the 9/11 families, and at the same time, we ought to keep this 
government open. Then, that gives us time to work out a longer term 
bill, which we can vote on after the election.
  But turn on the news. Look at what is happening in Florida right now. 
Look at what happened in Puerto Rico. Look at what is happening in 
Alaska. People need help. We have a responsibility.
  Look at what is happening in Ukraine. Do we support helping preserve 
democracy in Ukraine or not? That is what is at stake here.
  So, we can try to cut a political ad on the House floor here. Fine. 
But let's not kind of make-believe that what my friends are trying to 
do is somehow real or will make any kind of a difference. It is a sound 
bite, plain and simple.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume to 
quickly respond to my friend.
  Crime is also a problem all across the country, and we will work with 
you on the 9/11 survivors bill, which I point out, again, was 
originally my colleague from New York's bill as opposed to a Democratic 
proposal. But I will give you credit for picking up a good idea that my 
friend originated.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentlewoman from New York 
(Ms. Malliotakis), my friend, to respond.
  Ms. MALLIOTAKIS. Madam Speaker, I understand that my colleagues on 
the other side of the aisle don't believe in transparency, that they 
believe this information should be kept from the public. But these 
prosecutors work for us.
  Quite frankly, crime has soared in my city. People are getting 
killed. People are getting assaulted. Nearly every single category of 
crime has risen in New York City, and our prosecutors are refusing to 
put people behind bars.
  If the Democrats feel that public safety and crime skyrocketing in 
America's cities is not an issue, that explains why you support 
defunding the police, bail reform, and all of these ridiculous 
policies.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  My friend can yell all that she wants, but what I took exception to 
is the fact that a proposal that essentially does nothing more than 
call for more reports to be sent to the Committee on the Judiciary is 
somehow fighting crime.
  I would also tell my friends, let's not talk about defunding the 
police when my friends on the other side of the aisle have Members that 
are now selling T-shirts to defund the FBI and law enforcement or the 
fact that many of them voted against bills last week that actually 
provided more funding to the police.
  Come on. Reports somehow are going to fight crime? I mean, if that is 
your crime-fighting solution, well, America is in trouble.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Madam Speaker, it has become all too common in recent years to learn 
about the perpetrators of violent crime who should have been locked up 
for earlier incidents. All too often, we hear that a woke prosecutor 
decided not to pursue charges against a criminal for an earlier violent 
act, only for that same criminal to then offend again and again. As 
part of our Commitment to America, House Republicans will take action 
to end this practice.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. 
Tiffany) to speak more about this

[[Page H8327]]

issue and the solution contained in H.R. 7967.
  Mr. TIFFANY. Madam Speaker, I appreciate the remarks by the gentleman 
from Oklahoma because he has been spot-on throughout this whole debate.
  I rise to oppose the previous question so that the House can consider 
the Prosecutors Need to Prosecute Act.
  Madam Speaker, it is no secret that crime is completely out of 
control in this country. Annual homicide records have been broken in at 
least a dozen major cities. Brazen smash-and-grab robberies in broad 
daylight are a daily occurrence. Killings, severe beatings, armed 
robberies, carjackings, sexual assaults, arson, and looting have become 
a common feature on the evening news.
  The gentleman on the other side of the aisle asked why we are doing a 
bill like this. Turn on the news and you will see. Crime in America is 
at historic levels.
  Yet, rogue prosecutors in cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, 
Philadelphia, New York City, and Milwaukee continue to release 
predators from custody almost as fast as the police can arrest them.
  The use of no-cash bail policies, plea bargains, and a complete 
refusal to put dangerous repeat offenders behind bars has demoralized 
our police and endangered our communities, and America's most iconic 
cities resemble a Third World country.
  Take Milwaukee County. Here is a quote from the district attorney in 
Milwaukee County. If you want to know why there should be data kept on 
this and why the American people should know what is going on as a 
result of prosecutors' actions in cities across America, here is a 
quote: ``Is there going to be an individual I divert . . . who is going 
to go out and kill somebody? You bet.''
  That district attorney is still there in Milwaukee County. He is the 
person who gave a low-cash bail to the man who committed the Waukesha 
Christmas parade killings last year, killing six people, out on low-
cash bail, injuring 60.
  There is a problem in America, and it needs to be dealt with. 
Americans are sick and tired of the lawlessness, and they are demanding 
accountability. That is what this is about, accountability.
  Madam Speaker, each year, jurisdictions across the United States 
benefit from the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant 
program, which provides funding to States, Tribes, and local 
governments to support a range of justice-related programs.
  If we defeat the previous question, we will offer an amendment to the 
rule, calling for immediate consideration of the Prosecutors Need to 
Prosecute Act, offered by my friend from New York City, which will 
apply a reporting requirement to these grants.
  It would, among other things, mandate that district attorneys report 
to Congress how often they follow through on holding criminals charged 
with violent crimes, like murder, rape, arson, crimes involving illegal 
guns, and motor vehicle theft, accountable.
  They would also be required to disclose how often they prosecute the 
initial charges, how often they secure convictions, whether or not 
those charged were already on probation or parole, and how many 
offenders were released without bail.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the 
gentleman from Wisconsin.
  Mr. TIFFANY. Madam Speaker, the American people need to know if the 
people they have entrusted to keep their neighborhoods safe are 
actually using their tax dollars to finance this crime wave. It is time 
to end the policy of underwriting progressive policies that endanger 
the lives and livelihoods of decent, hardworking Americans, and that 
starts with transparency.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to stand with us for safer 
communities and oppose the previous question.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Let me say this again: a reporting requirement. I mean, all of us are 
against violent crime, and we are against all the things that the 
gentleman listed. That is why we brought a group of bills to the floor 
last week to try to deal with some of these challenges. Again, many of 
my Republican colleagues voted against it.
  I am not questioning why my friends bring these items to the floor. I 
know why they do it. It is politics 101. But I do have to say that I do 
have a problem when they come to the floor and say that they are making 
a proposal that will somehow do something. A reporting requirement, 
more paperwork to the Committee on the Judiciary, oh, boy, that is 
really going to stop carjackings, that is going to stop murder. Give me 
a break.
  If you want to come up with something that actually does something, 
we are all willing to work with you. But to come to the floor to say, 
oh, a reporting requirement, more paperwork going to the Committee on 
the Judiciary is somehow going to do something to prevent crime, I 
mean, I don't know anybody who believes that.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. 
Jackson Lee).
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, this morning, a resident of the State 
of Florida was interviewed, and he said that with Ian, his whole house 
was gone. Everything in his house was gone.
  The people of South Carolina are facing Ian now. The people of the 
areas of Alaska and the people in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico have 
all faced an enormous surge and impact of hurricanes--lives lost, 
people still being rescued.
  That is why the leadership of this Congress and the Members will join 
together, I hope in a unified manner, to recognize what our job is. Our 
job is to be the umbrella on a rainy day.
  In this, those who will suffer in the coldness of the winter, I am 
reminded of the freeze in Texas. Of course, we had no electricity, but 
thank God for $1 billion for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance 
Program. Some people are saying how grateful they are. Helping FEMA to 
be able to be on the ground, $2 billion for helping people recover 
their housing and infrastructure. They are obliterated in Florida, 1 
million people without lights. Of course, we know about Jackson, 
Mississippi, and Flint, Michigan, $20 million for water and wastewater 
and other crises that we have had.
  I want this Congress to stand up for not shutting the government down 
but taking its rightful responsibility and dealing with the crises of 
America.
  We have done it with the Inflation Reduction Act. We want to take 
people over politics. We want to make sure that we have jobs, good 
healthcare, low cost. We want to do something.
  My friend on the Committee on the Judiciary, I am always eager to 
work with you. We all are facing the crises that come about after the 
pandemic.

  But thank God we have legislation that deals with safer communities 
and restricting gun trafficking. We have one that provides us with the 
opportunity for those cases that have been backlogged.
  We have done the work as Democrats. We ask you to join us in this 
effort. The CR must pass. Ukraine is fighting for democracy. We are 
helping them. We must make a difference by keeping the government open.
  Madam Speaker, I ask for support for the underlying rule.
  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time for 
closing.
  Madam Speaker, it is deeply unfortunate that we have once again 
waited until the last minute to fund the government. With no time left 
for negotiations, the majority is putting forward a bill to fund the 
government that was not subject to bipartisan negotiations in the 
House. It is no surprise, then, that this bill fails to accomplish so 
many things that are necessary to address the crises currently 
confronting the Nation.
  I am an appropriator, and I would advise my friend that the 
Appropriations Committee--and I give great credit to my friend, the 
chairwoman of that committee, Ms. DeLauro from Connecticut, and the 
ranking member, Ms. Granger from Texas--actually got all 12 bills done 
by the end of July and out of committee.

                              {time}  1000

  Six of those have come across the floor. That is a good thing. Six 
others

[[Page H8328]]

have not. That includes, by the way, the bills to defend the United 
States of America, the largest spending bill. It includes the bill to 
defend our southern border.
  The reality is, they haven't come to the floor because my friends 
don't have the votes to pass them. Many of their own Members want to 
reduce the size of defense as opposed to increase it in a dangerous 
world. Many of their friends simply don't want to do anything to secure 
the southern border.
  Now, the reality is, in the end, I think we will get both those 
things done, and there will have to be a bipartisan negotiation to do 
it. There has been absolutely no negotiation since July in the House.
  I also point to the United States Senate, which is not the 
responsibility of my friends, but their party controls it. That body 
has not moved a single bill out of the Senate Appropriations Committee. 
Not one.
  Now we are asked, because we are in an emergency, to kick the can 
down the road. My friends have had months to deal with this issue and 
to engage in serious bipartisanship. They have chosen not to do that. 
They would rather do messaging bill after messaging bill after 
messaging bill. That is what we have been dealing with.
  Frankly, the Rules Committee, unusually, has become a committee of 
original jurisdiction in bill after bill after bill because those bills 
have not gone through the committee. They are raced through the Rules 
Committee to come to the floor to make a political point on the eve of 
an election. That is a bad way to govern.
  Now, I am hopeful once we get to the other side of the election, my 
friends will sit down, and we will arrive at a bipartisan agreement on 
funding the government, which is the primary responsibility of 
Congress, in my view. But so far those negotiations have not taken 
place. We don't have agreed-upon top lines.
  My friends can't pass important bills, so they are left to linger. 
And then they come to us at the very last minute and say, gosh, you 
have to help us here in this emergency.
  We are going to pass the bills. The government is not going to shut 
down. Nobody here has the illusion that it will. But we should not be 
in this situation. Both sides have done this, I will grant my friend 
that. But this is a particularly egregious process of no negotiations 
on things like defense and securing the southern border.
  We live in a dangerous world. We don't need a CR in defense; we need 
a bill. Actually, the Democratic-controlled House Armed Services 
Committee produced a bill. It is just $30 billion more than the 
President asked for because that is what that committee felt we needed. 
It passed on a bipartisan basis.
  Why can't we move the appropriations level up to do what a 
Democratic-controlled House Armed Services Committee asked us to do?
  Our friends have not wanted to deal with that issue.
  We know we have a crisis on the southern border. You can turn on the 
television and see it every night. You can look at the fentanyl pouring 
into the country. You can see the tragedy of human trafficking.
  Is there anything in this bill that asked us to do anything 
different, anything new?
  Has any legislation come to the floor to do that?
  No. We are just asked, please allow us to continue the current state 
of affairs to exist on the southern border. That is a travesty.
  When you say, well, we are bringing irrelevant issues, the reality is 
you won't bring the relevant issues to the floor. You won't bring the 
relevant appropriations bills to the floor.
  But make no mistake, Republicans have put forward a Commitment to 
America to address the concerns of our citizens:
  We will fund the police and uphold law and order.
  We will add needed security infrastructure at the southern border.
  We will achieve longer and healthier lives for our citizens.
  We will ensure that America has an all-of-the-above energy policy 
that provides consistent, low-cost energy to keep our economy strong. 
That is something my friends don't want to deal with.
  We will end the majority and the Biden administration's reckless 
spending policies that have led to record inflation and stifling 
economic recession.
  This administration inherited a V-shaped recovery, and a 1.4 percent 
inflation rate. Now we are in a recession with a 40-year-high, 8.3 
percent inflation rate. That is a record of disaster. We ought to be 
talking about those issues, not maintaining the status quo.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the previous 
question and ``no'' on the rule, and I yield back the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I have great respect for the gentleman 
from Oklahoma (Mr. Cole), but I will take exception with his 
characterization of us passing messaging bills.
  Let me just go through a few items here that we did pass and that 
have been signed into law:
  The Honoring our PACT Act for our veterans.
  The Inflation Reduction Act.
  The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.
  The Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment 
Act.
  The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the biggest investment in 
infrastructure ever in this country. A bill, by the way, that some of 
my colleagues on the other side of the aisle voted against, but they 
were at the announcement of moneys to rebuild bridges and roads in 
their district even though they voted against it.
  The Postal Service Reform Act.
  Protecting Medicare and American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act.
  The American Rescue Plan Act.
  I could go on and on and on. These aren't messaging bills. These are 
major investments in our country that will have an impact for 
generations, that will help our children, that will help our senior 
citizens, that will help our veterans.

  This is what we are supposed to be doing, helping uplift the American 
people, investing in our country. So that is not messaging. That is 
real work.
  Today's bills aren't messaging bills, either. I mean, helping 9/11 
families. That is not a messaging bill. That is real. It is something 
we should do. We ought to be together on that.
  This continuing resolution, this is important, especially in light of 
all the natural disasters that are happening in this country right now.
  Madam Speaker, this should be simple. We have an obligation to fund 
the government. We have a bipartisan bill, again, that had 72 votes in 
the Senate. We have a bipartisan bill that not only will keep the 
lights on but will provide critical funding to help communities 
devastated by recent natural disasters.
  Now, House Republicans have made it clear that they would rather brag 
about their dangerous, extreme, unpopular agenda than do real work. All 
I can say to that is that Democrats are committed to putting people 
over politics.
  The Republicans' radical agenda bans abortion, and we want to protect 
Americans' right to affordable, accessible healthcare and safeguard 
America's right to reproductive care.
  We are here to defend Americans' right to vote. They want to make it 
easier to overturn elections.
  We want to protect Social Security. You saw the agenda that the 
Republican leaders in the Senate unveiled. They gut Social Security.
  There is a contrast here. But today, we are here to advance relief 
for communities hit by natural disasters, pass overdue benefits for 9/
11 families, and keep the government running.
  What does putting people over politics mean?
  It means that we come together to make sure that the people of 
Florida have what they need to get through this terrible disaster.
  It means that we are there for the people of Puerto Rico and that we 
are there for the people of Alaska, that we are there for people 
anywhere in this country, whether it is a red State or blue State, who 
are dealing with these natural catastrophes.
  That is what this is about. If this went down and we shut the 
government down, the pain that people are already dealing with would 
only increase. Shame on us for doing that.
  Now, I get it, Madam Speaker. There are some people here who don't 
really care about whether the government stays open or shuts down.

[[Page H8329]]

  I remind you again, when my friends were in charge, when the 
Republicans controlled the House, when they controlled the Senate, when 
they controlled the White House, they shut the government down. They 
walked away. The longest shutdown in history. Billions and billions and 
billions of dollars it cost our economy.
  We had to clean up their mess when we took over. Today, we are doing 
what is right for the American people, for all people. This is not 
about politics. This is about putting people over politics. I urge a 
``yes'' vote on the rule and the previous question.
  The material previously referred to by Mr. Cole is as follows:

                   Amendment to House Resolution 1404

       At the end of the resolution, add the following:
       Sec. 3. Immediately upon adoption of this resolution, the 
     House shall proceed to the consideration in the House of the 
     bill (H.R. 7967) to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
     Streets Act to direct district attorney and prosecutors 
     offices to report to the Attorney General, 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 the Judiciary; and (2) one motion 
     to recommit.
       Sec. 4. Clause 1(c) of rule XIX shall not apply to the 
     consideration of H.R. 7967.
  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. COLE. 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, this 15-
minute vote on ordering the previous question will be followed by a 5-
minute vote on adoption of the resolution, if ordered. This is a 15-
minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 219, 
nays 208, not voting 5, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 474]

                               YEAS--219

     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
     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
     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 (TX)
     Jones
     Kahele
     Kaptur
     Katko
     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
     Peltola
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Rice (NY)
     Ross
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (NY)
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Speier
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Suozzi
     Swalwell
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NAYS--208

     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
     Finstad
     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)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hartzler
     Hern
     Herrell
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Hollingsworth
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Issa
     Jackson
     Jacobs (NY)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Keller
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     Meijer
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Mullin
     Murphy (NC)
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Obernolte
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (SC)
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sempolinski
     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
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Carson
     Johnson (GA)
     Kinzinger
     Rogers (AL)
     Zeldin

                              {time}  1053

  Mr. ISSA, Ms. VAN DUYNE, and Mr. HUIZENGA changed their votes from 
``yea'' to ``nay.''
  So the previous question was ordered.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Mr. KATKO. Madam Speaker, I was recorded as ``yes'', but I intended 
to vote ``nay'' on rollcall No. 474.


    Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress

     Bacon (Hartzler)
     Beatty (Cicilline)
     Bergman (Moolenaar)
     Bilirakis (Fleischmann)
     Boyle, Brendan F. (Beyer)
     Brooks (Fleischmann)
     Brown (MD) (Trone)
     Brownley (Pingree)
     Buchanan (Bucshon)
     Budd (McHenry)
     Bustos (Pingree)
     Carter (TX) (Weber (TX))
     Cawthorn (Gohmert)
     Cherfilus-McCormick (Neguse)
     Chu (Beyer)
     Conway (LaMalfa)
     Crawford (Fleischmann)
     Cuellar (Correa)
     Demings (Dean)
     Diaz-Balart
     (Reschenthaler)
     Donalds (Cammack)
     Doyle, Michael F. (Pallone)
     Dunn (Cammack)
     Gimenez (Malliotakis)
     Gonzalez, Vicente (Correa)
     Gosar (Weber (TX))
     Herrera Beutler (Meijer)
     Houlahan (Wexton)
     Jacobs (NY) (Sempolinski)
     Jayapal (Cicilline)
     Johnson (TX) (Stevens)
     Kirkpatrick (Pallone)
     Lawson (FL) (Stevens)
     Leger Fernandez (Cicilline)
     Lynch (Trahan)
     Mace (Smucker)
     Mast (Waltz)
     McEachin (Beyer)
     Meng (Escobar)
     Mfume (Beyer)
     Murphy (FL) (Peters)
     Newman (Beyer)
     Ocasio-Cortez (Neguse)
     Payne (Pallone)
     Pfluger (Ellzey)
     Porter (Neguse)
     Pressley (Trahan)
     Rice (NY) (Morelle)
     Rice (SC) (Meijer)
     Ryan (OH) (Correa)
     Salazar (Waltz)
     Sewell (Cicilline)
     Sherman (Garamendi)
     Sherrill (Pallone)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Soto (Escobar)
     Speier (Garcia (TX))
     Steel (Obernolte)
     Steube
     (Reschenthaler)
     Timmons (Duncan)
     Vargas (Garamendi)
     Wilson (FL) (Cicilline)
     Wilson (SC) (Norman)
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  This will be a 5-minute vote.

[[Page H8330]]

  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 219, 
nays 209, not voting 4, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 475]

                               YEAS--219

     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
     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
     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
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newman
     Norcross
     O'Halleran
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Peltola
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Rice (NY)
     Ross
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (NY)
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Speier
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Suozzi
     Swalwell
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NAYS--209

     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
     Finstad
     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)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hartzler
     Hern
     Herrell
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Hollingsworth
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Issa
     Jackson
     Jacobs (NY)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Katko
     Keller
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     Meijer
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Mullin
     Murphy (NC)
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Obernolte
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (SC)
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sempolinski
     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
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Carson
     Kinzinger
     Rogers (AL)
     Zeldin

                              {time}  1110

  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

     Bacon (Hartzler)
     Beatty (Cicilline)
     Bergman (Moolenaar)
     Bilirakis (Fleischmann)
     Boyle, Brendan F. (Beyer)
     Brooks (Fleischmann)
     Brown (MD) (Trone)
     Brownley (Pingree)
     Buchanan (Bucshon)
     Budd (McHenry)
     Bustos (Pingree)
     Carter (TX) (Weber (TX))
     Cawthorn (Gohmert)
     Cherfilus-McCormick (Neguse)
     Chu (Beyer)
     Conway (LaMalfa)
     Crawford (Fleischmann)
     Cuellar (Correa)
     Demings (Dean)
     Diaz-Balart
     (Reschenthaler)
     Donalds (Cammack)
     Doyle, Michael F. (Pallone)
     Dunn (Cammack)
     Gimenez (Malliotakis)
     Gonzalez, Vicente (Correa)
     Gosar (Weber (TX))
     Herrera Beutler (Meijer)
     Houlahan (Wexton)
     Jacobs (NY) (Sempolinski)
     Jayapal (Cicilline)
     Johnson (TX) (Stevens)
     Kind (Beyer)
     Kirkpatrick (Pallone)
     Lawson (FL) (Stevens)
     Leger Fernandez (Cicilline)
     Lynch (Trahan)
     Mace (Smucker)
     Mast (Waltz)
     McEachin (Beyer)
     Meng (Escobar)
     Mfume (Beyer)
     Murphy (FL) (Peters)
     Newman (Beyer)
     Ocasio-Cortez (Neguse)
     Payne (Pallone)
     Pfluger (Ellzey)
     Porter (Neguse)
     Pressley (Trahan)
     Rice (NY) (Morelle)
     Rice (SC) (Meijer)
     Ryan (OH) (Correa)
     Salazar (Waltz)
     Sewell (Cicilline)
     Sherman (Garamendi)
     Sherrill (Pallone)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Soto (Escobar)
     Speier (Garcia (TX))
     Steel (Obernolte)
     Steube
     (Reschenthaler)
     Timmons (Duncan)
     Vargas (Garamendi)
     Wilson (FL) (Cicilline)
     Wilson (SC) (Norman)


 =========================== NOTE =========================== 

  
  September 30, 2022, on page H8330, in the second column, the 
following appeared: Johnson (TX) (Stevens)
  
  The online version has been corrected to read: Johnson (TX) 
(Stevens) Kind (Beyer)


 ========================= END NOTE ========================= 




                          ____________________