[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 194 (Wednesday, December 14, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H9745-H9752]
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 PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 1948, VA EMPLOYEE FAIRNESS ACT OF 
2021; PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF S. 3905, PREVENTING ORGANIZATIONAL 
    CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN FEDERAL ACQUISITION ACT; PROVIDING FOR 
CONSIDERATION OF S. 4003, LAW ENFORCEMENT DE-ESCALATION TRAINING ACT OF 
  2022; PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF SENATE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 1437, 
   PROVIDING RESEARCH AND ESTIMATES OF CHANGES IN PRECIPITATION ACT; 
     RELATING TO CONSIDERATION OF SENATE AMENDMENTS TO H.R. 2617, 
       PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT REFORM ACT; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

  Mr. DeSAULNIER. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, 
I call up House Resolution 1518 and ask for its immediate consideration

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  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 1518

       Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be 
     in order to consider in the House the bill (H.R. 1948) to 
     amend title 38, United States Code, to modify authorities 
     relating to the collective bargaining of employees in the 
     Veterans Health Administration. 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 117-71 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 Veterans' Affairs 
     or their respective designees; and (2) one motion to 
     recommit.
       Sec. 2.  Upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in 
     order to consider in the House the bill (S. 3905) to prevent 
     organizational conflicts of interest in Federal acquisition, 
     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 
     Oversight and Reform or their respective designees; and (2) 
     one motion to commit.
       Sec. 3.  Upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in 
     order to consider in the House the bill (S. 4003) to amend 
     the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
     provide for training on alternatives to use of force, de-
     escalation, and mental and behavioral health and suicidal 
     crises. 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 or their respective 
     designees; and (2) one motion to commit.
       Sec. 4.  House Resolution 1516 is hereby adopted.
       Sec. 5. (a) At any time through the legislative day of 
     Thursday, December 15, 2022, the Speaker may entertain 
     motions offered by the Majority Leader or a designee that the 
     House suspend the rules as though under clause 1 of rule XV 
     with respect to multiple measures described in subsection 
     (b), and the Chair shall put the question on any such motion 
     without debate or intervening motion.
       (b) A measure referred to in subsection (a) includes any 
     measure that was the object of a motion to suspend the rules 
     on the legislative day of December 12, 2022, December 13, 
     2022, December 14, 2022, or December 15, 2022, in the form as 
     so offered, on which the yeas and nays were ordered and 
     further proceedings postponed pursuant to clause 8 of rule 
     XX.
       (c) Upon the offering of a motion pursuant to subsection 
     (a) concerning multiple measures, the ordering of the yeas 
     and nays on postponed motions to suspend the rules with 
     respect to such measures is vacated to the end that all such 
     motions are considered as withdrawn.
       Sec. 6.  Notwithstanding clause 8 of rule XX, further 
     proceedings on a vote by the yeas and nays on the question of 
     adoption of a motion that the House suspend the rules offered 
     on the legislative day of December 12, 2022 may be postponed 
     through the legislative day of December 15, 2022.
       Sec. 7.  Upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in 
     order to take from the Speaker's table the bill (H.R. 1437) 
     to amend the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act 
     of 2017 to direct the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
     Administration to provide comprehensive and regularly updated 
     Federal precipitation information, 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 
     with an amendment consisting of the text of Rules Committee 
     Print 117-72. 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. 8.  Upon adoption of this resolution, the House shall 
     be considered to have taken from the Speaker's table the bill 
     (H.R. 2617) to amend section 1115 of title 31, United States 
     Code, to amend the description of how performance goals are 
     achieved, and for other purposes, with the Senate amendments 
     thereto, to have concurred in the Senate amendments numbered 
     1, 2, 3, and 5, and to have concurred in the Senate amendment 
     numbered 4 with an amendment consisting of the text of Rules 
     Committee Print 117-73.
       Sec. 9.  House Concurrent Resolution 124 is hereby adopted.

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


                             General Leave

  Mr. DeSAULNIER. Mr. 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 California?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. DeSAULNIER. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Rules Committee met and 
reported a rule, House Resolution 1518, providing for consideration of 
four measures.
  First, the rule provides for consideration of H.R. 1948 under a 
closed rule. The rule provides 1 hour of general debate equally divided 
and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs and a motion to recommit.
  Second, the rule provides for consideration of S. 3905 under a closed 
rule. The rule provides 1 hour of general debate equally divided and 
controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
Oversight and Reform, and a motion to commit.
  Third, the rule provides for consideration of S. 4003 under a closed 
rule. The rule provides 1 hour of general debate equally divided and 
controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
the Judiciary and a motion to commit.
  Fourth, the rule provides for consideration of a Senate amendment to 
H.R. 1437. The rule makes in order a motion offered by the chair of the 
Committee on Appropriations that the House concur in the Senate 
amendment with a House amendment and provides 1 hour of debate on the 
motion equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority 
member of the Committee on Appropriations.
  The rule also deems passage of a motion to concur in the Senate 
amendments to H.R. 2617 with a House amendment.
  The rule further deems passage of H. Con. Res. 124 and H. Res. 1516.
  Lastly, the rule provides the majority leader or his designee the 
ability to en bloc requested roll call votes on suspension bills 
considered from December 12 to December 15. The rule also provides roll 
call votes on suspension bills considered on December 12 may be 
postponed through December 15.
  Mr. Speaker, as we come to the end of the 117th Congress, we are 
working this week to pass legislation that deserves to make it across 
the finish line before the end of the year.
  First, the VA Employee Fairness Act. The healthcare workers at VA 
medical centers are exceptional at what they do serving our veterans. 
Many of them are veterans themselves. They deserve the same rights as 
their counterparts outside of the VA system to collectively bargain.
  In today's world, the balance of power is disproportionately skewed 
towards employers over employees.

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  As a former union member and a small business owner myself, and as 
the current chair of the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions 
subcommittee, I can think of no better way to honor these workers and 
the people they serve, who we all respect and honor, than to provide 
them the tools to empower them to have a voice in this important 
American workplace.
  From our national security to the regulation of prescription drugs, 
the Federal Government relies on services of contractors and 
consultants to provide for the American people. It is critical that we 
know that these contractors are working in the best interest of the 
American people.
  Unfortunately, the current Federal acquisition process allows bad 
actors to slip through the cracks without disclosing their potential 
conflicts of interest.
  As a member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, I am proud of

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the work that the committee has done to investigate McKinsey & Company 
for this very reason. This contractor--one of the oldest and most 
prestigious consulting firms in the world--was advising the FDA on the 
safety and efficacy of prescription pain medications at the same time 
the very same consultants were also advising Purdue Pharma on how to 
``turbocharge'' sales of OxyContin, a major driver of the opioid 
epidemic.
  While the McKinsey scandal shined a light on organizational conflicts 
of interest, the issue itself is not new. The Preventing Organizational 
Conflicts of Interest in Federal Acquisition Act would require Federal 
contractors to disclose any potential conflicts of interest before they 
are awarded a Federal contract to ensure they are effectively serving 
the taxpayers. In the Senate it was bipartisan, and it should pass 
without objection and without delay.
  Also included in today's rule is the Law Enforcement De-Escalation 
Training Act, which would direct the Department of Justice to develop 
trainings on alternatives to the use of force and safely to respond to 
an individual experiencing a mental health, behavioral health, or 
suicidal crisis. We shouldn't even have to be including this bill in 
the rule, but unfortunately, partisan politics caused it to need to be 
reconsidered this week.
  On this topic, I am proud that the district I represent is leading 
the way with an initiative we call A3, anyone, anywhere, anytime. This 
program connects people in need of mental health support that is 
outside the police system to help respond to the emergency while 
simultaneously allowing the police to focus on more appropriate police 
matters.
  This was a long, developed partnership between our behavioral health 
departments and our local law enforcement, which support it very 
strongly, and is working to protect the public.
  Finally, the rule includes a 1-week continuing resolution. 
Appropriators are hard at work to come to a year-long agreement over 
spending, and they need an extra week to finalize it.
  Mr. Speaker, we have a wonderful opportunity this week to make 
transformative changes with these bills.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the distinguished gentleman 
and my good friend from California for yielding me the customary 30 
minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, the rule before us provides for consideration of four 
pieces of legislation that are, once again, nothing but missed 
opportunities to address the multiple crises facing our country under 
the Biden Presidency.
  Rather than working with Republicans to actually address the 
unmitigated crisis at our southern border, to address the cold war we 
have with China, the proxy war we have with Russia, or the historic 
levels of inflation, Democrats are rushing to the floor these half-
baked legislative items that will create more problems than they aim to 
solve.
  Look no further than S. 3905, the Preventing Organizational Conflicts 
of Interest in Federal Acquisition Act. Instead of making meaningful 
reforms to Federal acquisition policy, this legislation is duplicative, 
and it is contradictory to existing policies. It also tells the Federal 
Acquisition Regulatory Council to do something that it is already 
required to do.
  Additionally, this rule provides for consideration of H.R. 1948, the 
VA Employee Fairness Act. This legislation would put veteran patients 
at risk by shifting questions of professional conduct to collective 
bargaining.
  The Secretary of the VA has been and should continue to be directly 
accountable for the quality of care provided to our veterans at the VA.
  While we are focusing on these unnecessary bills, China has recently 
signed a $50 billion trade deal with our ally Saudi Arabia; Putin, once 
again, threatened to launch a nuclear war on the West; and the wealth 
of the average American has dropped to the lowest level ever recorded.
  The chief of the U.S. Border Patrol reported that over the weekend 
there were over 16,000 migrant encounters at the border--and wait for 
it--that was in a 48-hour period, 16,000 in less than 2 days, but 
President Biden hasn't stepped foot on the southern border since he 
took office.
  Last week, when he was not visiting the border while in Arizona, 
President Joe Biden was asked about that, and his response was ``There 
are more important things going on.''
  Yet, during the administration there have been nearly 5 million 
illegal immigrant crossings at our southern border, and that includes 1 
million got-aways. These are individuals that we have no record of that 
we just know escaped into the interior of the country.
  Yet, Biden has failed at protecting our southern border just as he 
failed in America's prisoner swap with President Putin. The 
administration effectively surrendered to Putin by swapping a woke 
celebrity basketball player for the ``Merchant of Death,'' an 
international arms smuggler with the blood of Americans on his hands.

  This disastrous negotiation is just another failed foreign policy 
decision that was based on Russia's terms, not ours. This rash decision 
left two other Americans detained in Russia: Pittsburgh history teacher 
Marc Fogel, and U.S. Marine Paul Whelan. They have no clear chance of 
returning home now. We have lost all leverage unless--I am going to be 
surprised to discover that--we have two ``merchants of death'' in a 
Federal prison in the U.S. Something tells me that is not the case.
  What we should be doing is we should be immediately acting to protect 
our national security. We should be ensuring the safe return of all 
Americans that are wrongfully detained abroad. We should be working to 
secure the southern border. We should not be passing ill-conceived and 
unnecessary legislation. To be frank, our time is too precious, and our 
challenges are too great.
  Mr. Speaker, for those reasons, I urge my colleagues to oppose this 
rule, and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. DeSAULNIER. Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record an ABC news 
piece titled: ``Lawmakers aim to strengthen transparency in the 
lucrative--and murky--Federal contracting process.''

                            [From ABC News]

 Lawmakers Aim To Strengthen Transparency in the Lucrative--and Murky--
                      Federal, Contracting Process

                            (By Soo Rin Kim)

       A bipartisan coalition of senators introduced legislation 
     on Monday meant to improve transparency in the highly 
     competitive and notoriously murky federal contracting 
     process, taking aim at companies that accept lucrative work 
     from government agencies without having to disclose potential 
     conflicts of interest
       The bill, called the Preventing Organizational Conflicts of 
     Interest in Federal Acquisition Act would seek to mitigate 
     conflict-of-interest concerns by forcing contractors to 
     ``disclose other parts of their business that conflict with 
     the work they are bidding to perform for the government,'' 
     according to Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., chairman of the 
     Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
       ``If we don't know whether [federal contractors] are 
     serving other, potentially conflicting interest, we can't be 
     confident that Americans are getting exactly what they pay 
     for,'' said Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, a cosponsor of the 
     bill.
       For many American companies, federal contracts represent a 
     crucial source of revenue, as well as visibility and 
     credibility. Firms from every major business sector compete 
     for this work, and winners often execute their end of the 
     agreement while pursuing outside business opportunities--
     which sometime overlap with their frederal contracts.
       While existing rules stipulate that government agencies 
     assess potential conflicts of interest before determining 
     contract winners, watchdogs say the process remains opaque.
       ``Based on current federal contract regulations, agencies 
     cannot always discern whether government contractors have 
     business relationships with foreign governments and private 
     entities that could create a conflict of interest,'' said 
     Noah Bookbinder, president of the nonprofit government 
     watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in 
     Washington.
       Scott Amey, general counsel for the government ethics 
     watchdog Project on Government Oversight, warned that 
     ``without more guidance, organizational conflicts of interest 
     can result in unfair competitive advantages and biased 
     contract awards--both of which compromise the impartiality of 
     the federal government and the integrity of the contracting 
     process.''
       In a press release announcing the new legislation, 
     lawmakers cited reporting in ProPublica that raised conflict-
     of-interest questions about consulting giant McKinsey & 
     Company's recent work for the Food and Drug Administration. 
     ProPublica reported that in at least one FDA contract, 
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     allegedly failed to disclose its conflicts of interest with 
     corporate pharmaceutical clients despite its contract with 
     the agency obligating the firm to do so.
       According to documents obtained by ProPublica, McKinsey 
     allegedly advised the FDA's drug-regulation division for more 
     than a decade while simultaneously accepting work from major 
     pharmaceutical companies. In some cases, according to 
     ProPublica, McKinsey helped those clients navigate FDA 
     regulations while advising the FDA on how to strengthen 
     regulations for the pharmaceutical industry.
       Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., said McKinsey's handling of its 
     work with the FDA demonstrates ``the danger that conflicts of 
     interest can pose in government contracting.''
       ``Our bipartisan bill would help ensure that companies that 
     enter into a contract with the government are acting in the 
     best interest of the American people,'' Hassan said.
       McKinsey spokesperson Neil Grace told ABC News that 
     McKinsey's consulting work with pharmaceutical companies 
     ``did not create a conflict of interest'' for the firm's work 
     with the FDA because it ``has not advised the FDA on 
     regulatory policy or on specific pharmaceutical products.'' 
     Instead, said Grace, McKinsey's work for the agency ``focused 
     on administrative and operational topics, including 
     improvements to organizational structures, business processes 
     and technology.''
       ``Given the absence of a conflict of interest, there was no 
     requirement for any McKinsey disclosure,'' Grace said. ``That 
     said, McKinsey's proposals to the FDA frequently mentioned 
     the company's and personnel's experience with the 
     pharmaceutical industry, making the FDA aware of this aspect 
     of McKinsey's work in the field.''
       Republican Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa joined Peters, 
     Grassley, and Hassan in sponsoring the federal legislation.

  Mr. DeSAULNIER. Mr. Speaker, conflicts of interest are not a new 
issue, but it is clear that more needs to be done by this Congress. The 
American people ought to have faith that their tax dollars are being 
spent wisely on contractors who are working in their best interest. 
This bill will increase impartiality and integrity within the Federal 
consultant and contractor system.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, instead of addressing any of the 
crises that are actually facing this Nation, House Democrats are 
allowing the Senate to ram through a huge omnibus spending bill that 
was written without the input of House Republicans and was written 
behind closed doors.
  In September, House Republicans were very clear in opposition to 
postponing a government funding fight to the Democrat-controlled lame-
duck session. Once again, House Democrats failed to meet the 
fundamental duty of funding the government despite spending most of the 
year passing trillions of dollars in wasteful spending that has fueled 
inflation and driven up our debt.
  That is why if we defeat the previous question, I will personally 
offer an amendment to the rule to immediately strike sections 8 and 9 
from the rule, which would strike the omnibus vehicle from this rule.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to insert the text of my 
amendment in the Record, along with any extraneous material, 
immediately prior to the vote on the previous question.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Roy), to explain the amendment.
  Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my friend from Pennsylvania, I 
appreciate the Speaker, and the gentleman from California.
  Mr. Speaker, my friend from Pennsylvania and I share a love of outlaw 
country music, whether it is Texas-based--my preference--or generally. 
There is a famous picture of Johnny Cash standing up giving his middle 
finger, and it is on the cover of an album. If all 435 of us stood on 
the steps of the Capitol with our middle finger to the American people, 
it would be a more honest action than what we are engaging in here on 
the floor of the people's House right now.
  Let me tell you what is happening right now. In true swamp fashion, 
what we are about to do is deem as passed a House bill on Federal 
agency reporting goals with a House amendment to a previously passed 
Senate amendment to enable us to have a revenue measure--to enable us 
to give the Senate a revenue measure to satisfy the constitutional 
requirement that revenue bills originate in the House. The House 
amendment to a Senate amendment fast-tracks the omnibus by allowing the 
Senate to bypass a motion to proceed vote.
  Now, that is a bunch of complicated, parliamentary procedure 
gobbledygook for the American people, but what it is is a fraud. It is 
a fraud.
  It is actually trying to end-run the rules in order to jam through 
what? A massive $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill without any actual 
debate. That is what is happening right now on the floor of the House 
of Representatives, nothing else.
  In that $1.7 trillion bill--and pause for a second--what are we 
actually packaging here? A week-long continuing resolution to keep the 
government open through this weekend into next week so negotiations can 
continue to wrap up this $1.7 trillion monstrosity.
  So the vote today is a vote to perpetuate and extend funding for a 
week to allow a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill in a lameduck 
Congress. That has not been done, by the way, in the last 70 years when 
we have had a flip of the House, a flip in majority control of the 
House. We have not done that over the last 70 years. In the five times 
there has been a flip, we do not pass big spending bills in a lameduck 
Congress, which is what this is. My Democratic colleagues know it; my 
Democratic colleagues in the Senate know it; and the Senate Republicans 
who seem to be trying to grease the skids of this, they know it, as 
well. Here we sit.
  So to the American people, you need to understand what the people's 
House is doing to you today--standing on the steps of the Capitol 
sticking their middle finger up at you would be more honest because 
this is defense spending, $858 billion, a 10 percent increase.
  We can debate the need for a defense spending increase. Many of us 
probably would agree we need to have more defense spending, but we also 
need to fix the Department of Defense. We need to stop having it turn 
into a woke agency that is essentially social engineering wrapped in a 
uniform. Let's fix the Department of Defense. No, we are not debating 
that. We are just going to give another blank check of 10 percent 
additional spending.
  But it is worse than that. We are now going to have nondefense 
spending reports--we haven't seen the text because, oh, no, the little 
people here in the House can't see the text before we actually vote on 
this crap. No, no, no, they are going to jam it through without seeing 
the text. Nondefense spending--reports indicate somewhere between an 8 
to 11 percent increase.
  Now, to put that in context, we are talking about something in the 
order of $50 to $60 billion. Here is the thing, we just spent something 
like $2 trillion in nondefense discretionary plus-up during COVID, and 
we are now going to jump into this, and we are going to say, oh, yeah, 
I have got a good idea. Let's jump up nondefense discretionary 
spending. That is all of the alphabet soup of all of the agencies that 
are attacking the American people every single day, empowering the FBI 
to designate parents as domestic terrorists, empowering the DHS to not 
actually secure the homeland while Americans are dying from fentanyl 
poisoning and immigrants are burning up 53 of them in a tractor trailer 
in San Antonio.
  That is what we are dealing with. This CR is the gateway drug to an 
omnibus spending bill next week. That is why we should oppose it. We 
should oppose the CR, we should oppose this rule, and we should oppose 
the omnibus.
  The American people deserve a House of Representatives that is 
actually doing the work of appropriating rather than jamming through an 
omnibus bill right before Christmas in a lameduck session after the 
American people spoke and sent a new majority to the people's House.
  Mr. DeSAULNIER. Mr. Speaker, first of all, my good friend from 
Pennsylvania and the gentleman from Texas--you know, I am always open 
to working on these sometimes difficult rules that we have in our 
Congress. I respect the opinion, but I have a different perspective. 
What we are doing today is keeping the lights on.
  With all due respect, the last time the Republicans were in charge of 
the Congress the lights went off. That is

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not good for anyone. It is not good for the American people, and it is 
not good for the world economy.

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  What we are trying to do here in the House is make it a little bit 
easier for the arcane rules that, I think, most of us would agree to in 
the Senate to make it easier for the bill to come back over and, 
hopefully, have an agreement, a bipartisan agreement, on longer 
spending in an omnibus.
  With all due respect, we have something that we have here in these 
Chambers: a disagreement. The tone, I think you can tell, of my voice 
is very different. But I do think the things that both gentlemen have 
brought up are real issues.
  Immigration is a real issue. We have tried, many of us, to come up 
with something that is bipartisan that leads to solutions to a 
difficult situation that multiple administrations and Congresses have 
struggled for; that has a long history in this country when it comes to 
immigration, the benefit and the challenges around that; and being able 
to make sure that the beneficiaries of immigration are consistent with 
treaties that we have signed around the world, and principles, but also 
to American citizens.
  On the other issues, those are all real issues. What we have here in 
front of us today in these resolutions are laws that will actually help 
the American people, too, and, lastly, will continue to keep the lights 
on by funding government.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I really can't stand the cliche that history repeats 
itself, but that is true. To prove that, let me just read some excerpts 
from a Joe Biden speech from 2006. Joe Biden said: ``The world is going 
to Hades in a handbasket. We are desperately concerned about the 
circumstance relating to the avian flu. We do not have enough vaccines. 
We do not have enough police officers. And we are going to debate, the 
next 3 weeks, I am told, gay marriage, a flag amendment, and God only 
knows what else. I can't believe the American people can't see through 
this. We already have a law, the Defense of Marriage Act. We all 
voted.''
  That was Joe Biden in 2006. It sounds awfully familiar to what my 
colleagues across the aisle are doing now with these fluff bills, bills 
that are already on the books and nothing but a distraction from the 
real crises that are facing this Nation.
  To talk more about that, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Roy), my good friend.
  Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I understand the collegiality of the body and 
wanting to engage. I am happy to engage. We just never get a chance to 
engage.
  We are down here, basically, in a fake debate. That is what we all 
know. I mean, the truth is it is not like we have a body, a Chamber 
filled here with human beings debating this $1.7 trillion while we are 
$32 trillion in debt. I would be happy to.
  Why don't we actually roll up our sleeves around these tables and do 
the work? But we don't do that.
  We are literally down here, and we are going to do--what?--30 minutes 
a side, if we even do that, and then we are going to vote. We are going 
to vote on a rule that packages together, as I said, deeming as passed 
a House bill on Federal agency reporting goals with a House amendment 
to a previously passed Senate amendment to pass a $1.7 trillion 
omnibus, combined with a CR for an extension for a week, in a lame-duck 
Congress. That is the truth.
  The American people pull their hair out. They go, gosh, what on Earth 
is happening in Washington?
  Well, I will tell them what is happening in Washington. This, this is 
what is happening in Washington.
  We know what this is about. This is jamming through a bill at the 
eleventh hour to get the political priorities of the current Democratic 
majority, and a handful of Senate Republicans are happy to do it so 
they can get pork.
  The House and the Senate have requested a total of $16 billion for 
7,500 earmarks. The top requester: Senator Richard Shelby, ranking 
member of Senate Appropriations, with $656 million. This is a nice 
little send-off for the appropriators in the Senate.
  But the fact of the matter is the American people are the ones who 
get screwed in this deal. They are the ones who end up losing their 
country with $32 trillion in debt.
  There is no justification for ramping up spending an additional 10 
percent for nondefense discretionary after all the money that has been 
spent under COVID and using the Defense Department as the backs upon 
which you are going to place the debt of our children and grandchildren 
and say that, ``Oh, yes, we are doing this for defense.'' That is just 
wrong.
  At what point are we actually going to do the work of the American 
people in the people's House? At what point are we going to actually 
debate? At what point are we actually going to amend? At what point are 
we actually going to live within our means and stop writing checks we 
can't cash?
  The American people are staring at us. They throw their hands up in 
the air and wonder what has become of the country that their brothers 
and sisters and dads and moms and daughters and sons have fought for.
  Why do we stand in front of that flag? Why do we open in prayer? Why 
do we say the Pledge of Allegiance if we are going to rip apart the 
flag right here in this body, in this Chamber? Because that is what we 
are doing, using backroom deals, dropping these bills on the floor, and 
not allowing us to actually engage in debate over these important 
matters.
  The American people are tired of spending money we don't have, and 
they are tired of open borders. They are tired of empowering 
bureaucrats like the FBI. They are tired of forced vaccine mandates at 
the Department of Defense. They are tired of an IRS harassing the 
American people, allegedly, for more revenue. They are tired of an NIH 
and a CDC making it up as they go along and shutting down economies and 
jamming it down the throats of the American people. They are tired of 
an EPA and a Department of the Interior restricting Americans' ability 
to have reliable energy. The American people are tired of it.

  I hope help is on the way. I am glad the Republicans seem united 
against this in the House, and I am looking at Mitch McConnell when I 
say this: Do your job, Leader McConnell. Do your job, and follow the 
wishes of the American people, who gave a majority to Republicans in 
the House of Representatives. Let's stop this bill.
  Mr. DeSAULNIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  We are not talking about the Federal budget in its entirety today. 
That will continue to be negotiated and debated, and there will be a 
vote on it.
  What we are talking about are specific resolutions that the Committee 
on Rules has passed down here to this body to talk about protecting 
workers who protect veterans. That is what we are talking about today. 
We are talking about improving healthcare for America's veterans that 
we all say we respect, admire, and honor.
  We know that when people are able to organize in the workplace, or at 
least to present the opportunity, they are safer. Research shows that 
hospitals that have had the ability for workers and nurses to organize 
and have a fair say in how they treat their patients, that mortality 
rates improve, that people are served better. That is what we are 
talking about today.
  We are talking about giving police departments the resources they 
need in the world today so that behavioral health people can do their 
job, so that police officers can do their job and not respond to almost 
one in four calls in the United States that involve mental health, 
where the police officers are asked to do something that they shouldn't 
be asked to do.
  As I mentioned in my opening comments, I have spent 30 years involved 
in my own district--from a mayor of a city of 130,000 people, to the 
legislature, to this body--developing programs with the police 
department in behavioral health, which started with a conversation with 
a beat patrolman and a mental health clinician. All it is about is 
improving the safety of Americans. That is what we are talking about 
here.

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  We are talking about helping with the opioid crisis. I haven't heard 
anything from the gentleman about the things that are actually in this 
rule.
  Do we want to help people with the high mortality and suicide crisis 
in opioids that we know now, from the hearings that we have had, that 
the chair and I have asked for in the Committee on Oversight?
  We brought the CEOs of the largest corporation, Johnson & Johnson, to 
testify in front of Congress about what they did at what used to be a 
great American pharmaceutical company that once had one of the most 
admired CEOs in the world and now has somebody who has lied on his 
college resume twice and has helped to kill Americans by deliberately 
turbocharging the sale of opioids to Americans.
  That is what we are talking about in this rule, holding people 
accountable.
  McKinsey & Company, a company that was based in San Francisco for 
years--I have known people who lived in my district and worked there. 
It once was a shining light of American innovation and management. Now, 
it has fallen to this epitome of greed and hypocrisy. That is what we 
are talking about, stopping that kind of behavior, in this rule.
  We are talking about keeping the lights on in the United States 
Congress, and the Federal Government, for 1 week so that we can have an 
omnibus, and then we can debate those other things.
  Do I agree that the process is not perfect? I agree. Do I agree we 
could do better? I agree, and I am open to those things. But let's 
focus on what is in this rule.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Once again, this rule provides for four pieces of legislation that, 
once again, are just missed opportunities to actually address the 
problems we are facing.
  Let's talk about one of the biggest problems, and that is the 
southern border. To contextualize this, let me give you some stats. 
This year, 98 suspected terrorists have been apprehended attempting to 
cross the southern border. Think about that.
  It took 19 hijackers on 9/11 to pull off the largest terrorist attack 
in this country. In this year alone, we have let 98 suspected 
terrorists walk across the southern border.
  In October, there were over 230,000 illegal immigrant encounters at 
the southern border. That is just in October. To put that into context, 
that is a 334 percent increase from the average number of October 
encounters under President Trump.
  In November, there were more than 70,000 known got-aways at the 
southern border. That is a historic record.
  What is really worse is the fentanyl crisis, the fentanyl that is 
coming across the southern border. There were more than 14,000 pounds 
of illicit fentanyl seized in fiscal year 2022. That is a record.
  As a reminder, a lethal dose of fentanyl is only 2 milligrams. 
Fentanyl was responsible for two-thirds of all drug overdoses last 
year.
  There has been a 94 percent increase in fentanyl deaths since 2019. 
To put that into more context, that is one fentanyl overdose every 7 
minutes in the United States.
  Just 5 to 10 percent of the drugs coming across the southern border 
are seized by our Border Patrol agents.
  What does the administration say on this? It is classic gaslighting. 
I will quote Joe Biden once again. He said, ``There are more important 
things going on.'' Kamala Harris, the so-called border czar, said the 
border is secure. DHS Secretary Mayorkas said, look, the border is 
secure.
  They are either gaslighting, or they have no connection and no 
grounding in reality.
  As far as the omnibus, let's just go back to September. In September, 
House Democrats were clear in their opposition to postponing a 
government funding fight to the Democrat-controlled lame-duck session. 
We didn't want it then; we don't want it now.
  Unfortunately, on September 30, a continuing resolution was passed 
funding the government through December 16. So, here we are today.
  This 1-week continuing resolution is an attempt to buy additional 
time for a massive lame-duck spending bill in which House Republicans 
had no seat at the negotiating table.
  We will soon be in the majority. Republicans will soon be in the 
majority. We will be in the driver's seat to fight for our priorities. 
That is why every Republican should be a ``no'' on the Democrats' lame-
duck omnibus spending bill.
  To talk more about the omnibus, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Roy).
  Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from California talked about the 
extent to which the process is bad and that we can do better. Well, I 
am glad that he agrees with that.
  The question is, well, let's agree right now to amend the CR to 
March. Why don't we do that? Why don't we agree right now to amend the 
continuing resolution until March?
  Well, we know why my Democratic colleagues don't want to do that, 
right? They don't want to have a full-throated debate on this. They 
don't want to have an actual discussion.
  Why don't we have an open process? Why don't we actually have 
amendments here on the floor of the House? We haven't been able to 
offer an amendment on the floor of the House of Representatives since 
May 2016.
  But the gentleman from California knows this. My colleagues on the 
other side of the aisle know this. This isn't about actually saying 
let's have a process that works. It is the opposite. It is using 
Christmas and the end of the year to jam this through, not to buy time 
with a 1-week CR so we can negotiate.
  Who is negotiating? Three people in a room? We are not. We are not 
debating this on the floor. We are not going to do it in the light of 
day. No. What is going to happen is one big bill will be dropped on the 
floor after this rule is jammed through, on the 23rd of December, 2 
days before Christmas, intentionally, right before Christmas, in order 
to force everybody to come in, with no amendments, to vote up or down 
on $1.7 trillion.
  How on Earth did we end up $32 trillion in debt? That is how, and 
there is no actual resolve to do anything about that.
  Again, control of the House of Representatives has shifted from one 
party to the other five times since 1954. In none of those years have 
we had the outgoing Congress pass a comprehensive spending bill in the 
lame duck that is after the election. We shouldn't do it now. We 
shouldn't do it in the future.
  One last point: If there is a debate in the Senate right now and some 
of our Senate colleagues decide to object to the continuing resolution, 
which I would support, which would then call into question the funding 
on Saturday, when we wake up, let's be very clear that it is Democrats 
who would be risking shutting down the government because they are so 
married to funding the alphabet soup of the bureaucracy throughout this 
town that is strangling the American people, strangling prosperity, 
spending money we don't have, refusing to secure the border, empowering 
FBI agents to go after the American people. Those are the priorities of 
my Democratic colleagues.
  If there is any debate on Saturday as to whether the lights are going 
to be turned on in the government, it is on the hands of Democrats 
married to a bureaucracy rather than standing up in defense of the 
American people who send us here.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from 
engaging in personalities toward the President or the Vice President.

                              {time}  1300

  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time 
for closing.
  Lives are being lost while President Biden and Congressional 
Democrats continue to ignore the crisis at our southern border. 
Tragically, just last week, on December 7, United States Border Patrol 
Agent Raul Humberto Gonzalez, Jr., was killed while chasing a group of 
migrants across the border.
  To go back to that quote from President Biden about the southern 
border and about why he hasn't visited, despite the fact that he was 
just in Arizona, ``There are more important things going on.'' That is 
what President Biden has to say; stinging words

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given the deaths and casualties that we are seeing at the southern 
border and the fentanyl deaths and overdoses in the interior of this 
country.
  It is absolutely maddening to see such a flagrant disregard not only 
for our hardworking Border Patrol agents but our Nation's immigration 
system as a whole. For that reason, we must bring the border crisis to 
an end.
  But President Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats have manufactured 
this historic crisis on our southern border by halting the construction 
of the border wall, ending Trump's remain in Mexico policy, and 
refusing to visit the border.
  U.S. Border Patrol facilities are becoming overrun with thousands of 
illegal immigrants in custody. This crisis is only getting worse. On 
December 21, title 42 ends, a powerful tool that allowed border 
officials to expel more than 2 million migrants during the pandemic. 
There now have been 20 straight months of over 150,000 illegal border 
crossings.
  Yet, with today's rule, House Democrats continue to ignore this 
historic disaster at our border. This crisis could not be more 
devastating to the sovereignty and the security of our Nation.
  Mr. Speaker, for those reasons, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' 
on the rule, and I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. DeSAULNIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time 
for closing.
  Mr. Speaker, let me say that I always enjoy being on the floor and 
debating my friend from Pennsylvania. I will miss this if I am not 
afforded the opportunity to do it again.
  Mr. Speaker, again, focusing on the rule here. First in this rule, we 
are helping veterans. We are helping the people who serve veterans to 
be able to organize.
  One of my favorite quotes on the ability of workers to have a voice 
is from Dwight David Eisenhower, who said, Only a fool would try to 
stop an American man or woman in the workplace from organizing.
  So that is the first point, helping people to have a voice in the VA 
to serve our veterans better.
  The second point is on holding McKinsey & Company, a very large 
corporation, American company, accountable for their role in the opioid 
epidemic.
  Third in the rule is helping our investment in public safety, a 
bipartisan effort that came out of the Senate, to help provide them to 
de-escalate when they are in a difficult situation.
  Lastly, we are here to keep the lights on.
  Mr. Speaker, while I appreciate the debate and the passion, we do 
have work to do today, and I would request and ask Democrats and 
Republicans to vote ``yes'' on this rule.
  This rule is an important step in passing these bills that will make 
a difference in the lives of the Americans that we represent and help 
restore faith in this institution and the government.
  Mr. Speaker, I strongly support the legislation, and I urge a ``yes'' 
vote on the rule and the previous question.
  The material previously referred to by Mr. Reschenthaler is as 
follows:

                   Amendment to House Resolution 1518

       Strike sections 8 and 9.

  Mr. DeSAULNIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and 
I move the previous question on the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on ordering the previous 
question.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The 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 5-
minute votes on:
  Adoption of the resolution, if ordered;
  The motion to recommit on H.R. 3648;
  Passage of H.R. 3648, if ordered; and
  An en bloc motion to suspend the rules, if ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 212, 
nays 210, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 520]

                               YEAS--212

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Axne
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bourdeaux
     Bowman
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brown (MD)
     Brown (OH)
     Brownley
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     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
     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)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin (CA)
     Levin (MI)
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Luria
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCollum
     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
     Pressley
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     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--210

     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
     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)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hartzler
     Hern
     Herrell
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     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
     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

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     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zeldin

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Bush
     Carter (LA)
     Cheney
     Green (TN)
     Hinson
     Lee (NV)
     Porter
     Raskin

                              {time}  1347

  Mr. BUDD, Ms. TENNEY, and Mr. COMER changed their vote from ``yea'' 
to ``nay.''
  So the previous question was ordered.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Mrs. LEE of Nevada. Mr. Speaker, had I been present, I would have 
voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 520.


    Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress

     Axne (Pappas)
     Beatty (Neguse)
     Boebert (Gaetz)
     Brooks (Moore (AL))
     Brown (MD) (Evans)
     Cawthorn (Gaetz)
     Cherfilus-McCormick (Brown (OH))
     Cicilline (Jayapal)
     Clyburn (Butterfield)
     DeFazio (Pallone)
     Dingell (Pappas)
     Doyle, Michael F. (Evans)
     Dunn (Salazar)
     Escobar (Garcia (TX))
     Espaillat (Correa)
     Gosar (Weber (TX))
     Jacobs (NY) (Sempolinski)
     Johnson (TX) (Pallone)
     Kelly (IL) (Horsford)
     Kim (NJ) (Pallone)
     Kirkpatrick (Pallone)
     Krishnamoorthi (Pappas)
     Larson (CT) (Pappas)
     Lawson (FL) (Evans)
     Levin (CA) (Huffman)
     Meeks (Horsford)
     Newman (Correa)
     Norcross (Pallone)
     Ocasio-Cortez (Tlaib)
     O'Halleran (Pappas)
     Palazzo (Fleischmann)
     Pascrell (Pallone)
     Payne (Pallone)
     Pressley (Neguse)
     Rice (SC) (Weber (TX))
     Rush (Beyer)
     Sewell (DelBene)
     Simpson (Fulcher)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Speier (Garcia (TX))
     Stevens (Craig)
     Strickland (Correa)
     Tiffany (Fitzgerald)
     Titus (Pallone)
     Welch (Pallone)

  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. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. 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 216, 
nays 206, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 521]

                               YEAS--216

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Axne
     Barragan
     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
     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
     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
     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--206

     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice (OK)
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brady
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cawthorn
     Chabot
     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)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hartzler
     Hern
     Herrell
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     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 (UT)
     Mullin
     Murphy (NC)
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Obernolte
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (SC)
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
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     Rouzer
     Roy
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     Salazar
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sempolinski
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
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     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
     Yakym
     Zeldin

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Brooks
     Budd
     Carter (LA)
     Cheney
     Green (TN)
     Hinson
     Moore (AL)
     Owens

                              {time}  1404

  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

     Axne (Pappas)
     Beatty (Neguse)
     Boebert (Gaetz)
     Brown (MD) (Evans)
     Cawthorn (Gaetz)
     Cherfilus-McCormick (Brown (OH))
     Cicilline (Jayapal)
     Clyburn (Butterfield)
     DeFazio (Pallone)
     Dingell (Pappas)
     Doyle, Michael F. (Evans)
     Dunn (Salazar)
     Escobar (Garcia (TX))
     Espaillat (Correa)
     Gosar (Weber (TX))
     Jacobs (NY) (Sempolinski)
     Johnson (TX) (Pallone)
     Kelly (IL) (Horsford)
     Kim (NJ) (Pallone)
     Kirkpatrick (Pallone)
     Krishnamoorthi (Pappas)
     Larson (CT) (Pappas)
     Lawson (FL) (Evans)
     Levin (CA) (Huffman)
     Meeks (Horsford)
     Newman (Correa)
     Norcross (Pallone)
     Ocasio-Cortez (Tlaib)
     O'Halleran (Pappas)
     Palazzo (Fleischmann)
     Pascrell (Pallone)
     Payne (Pallone)
     Porter (Beyer)
     Pressley (Neguse)
     Rice (SC) (Weber (TX))
     Rush (Beyer)
     Sewell (DelBene)
     Simpson (Fulcher)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Speier (Garcia (TX))
     Stevens (Craig)
     Strickland (Correa)
     Tiffany (Fitzgerald)
     Titus (Pallone)
     Welch (Pallone)

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