[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 194 (Wednesday, December 14, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H9745-H9752]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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,
McKinsey
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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
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
Yakym
Zeldin
NOT VOTING--8
Brooks
Budd
Carter (LA)
Cheney
Green (TN)
Hinson
Moore (AL)
Owens
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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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