[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 201 (Friday, December 23, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H10063-H10074]
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PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE SENATE AMENDMENT TO HOUSE AMENDMENT 
TO SENATE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 2617, AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD 
AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2023; 
  RELATING TO CONSIDERATION OF SENATE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 4373, FURTHER 
ADDITIONAL CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS AND EXTENSIONS ACT, 2023; RELATING 
TO CONSIDERATION OF SENATE AMENDMENTS TO H.R. 1082, SAMI'S LAW; AND FOR 
                             OTHER PURPOSES

  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I 
call up House Resolution 1531 and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 1531

       Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be 
     in order to take 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 amendment 
     to the House amendment to 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

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     concur in the Senate amendment to the House amendment to the 
     Senate amendment. The Senate amendment and the motion shall 
     be considered as read. The motion shall be debatable for one 
     hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking 
     minority member of the Committee on Appropriations or their 
     respective designees. The previous question shall be 
     considered as ordered on the motion to its adoption without 
     intervening motion.
       Sec. 2.  Upon adoption of this resolution, the House shall 
     be considered to have taken from the Speaker's table the bill 
     (H.R. 4373) making appropriations for the Department of 
     State, foreign operations, and related programs for the 
     fiscal year ending September 30, 2022, and for other 
     purposes, with the Senate amendment thereto, and to have 
     concurred in the Senate amendment.
       Sec. 3.  Senate Concurrent Resolution 51 is hereby adopted.
       Sec. 4.  House Resolution 366 is hereby adopted.
       Sec. 5.  Upon adoption of this resolution, the House shall 
     be considered to have taken from the Speaker's table the bill 
     (H.R. 1082) to prohibit the unauthorized sale of ride-hailing 
     signage and study the incidence of fatal and non-fatal 
     assaults in TNC and for-hire vehicles in order to enhance 
     safety and save lives, with the Senate amendments thereto, 
     and to have concurred in the Senate amendments.
       Sec. 6.  House Resolution 1382 is hereby adopted.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Massachusetts is 
recognized for 1 hour.
  Mr. McGOVERN. 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 the purpose of debate only.


                             General Leave

  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their 
remarks.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Massachusetts?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, the Rules Committee met and reported a rule, House 
Resolution 1531, providing for consideration of a motion, if offered, 
by the chair of the Committee on Appropriations that the House concur 
in the Senate amendment to the House amendment to the Senate amendment 
to H.R. 2617. The rule provides 1 hour of debate equally divided and 
controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
Appropriations.
  The rule further deems as passed the following: S. Con. Res. 51, H. 
Res. 366, H. Res. 1382, and motions to concur in the Senate amendments 
to H.R. 1082 and the Senate amendment to H.R. 4373.
  Mr. Speaker, we are here today to debate a rule that would bring a 
Consolidated Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2023 to the floor.
  I give my wholehearted thanks to all of our appropriators, especially 
Chairwoman DeLauro, and their staff for the work that went into 
crafting such a strong, bicameral, bipartisan funding bill.
  This package offers tremendous investments in American families and 
workers while strengthening democracy at home and abroad.
  This spending agreement ensures permanent, mandatory, and continuous 
coverage for the 40 million children enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP. It 
provides record Medicaid funding for Puerto Rico, and permanent 
enhanced Medicaid funding for all other territories, as well as the 
PREVENT Pandemics Act, which uses lessons from COVID-19 to improve our 
preparedness for future public health emergencies.
  For the first time in more than a decade, we have provided more 
funding for the National Labor Relations Board, which helps defend 
workers' right to organize.
  There is also emergency disaster support to help victims of 
hurricanes and wildfires; to address the water crisis in Jackson, 
Mississippi; and $1 billion for Puerto Rico's electrical grid.
  Critically, this package includes language to reform the Electoral 
Count Act of 1887. This is an imperative measure that will help prevent 
any future insurrections designed to disrupt the peaceful transfer of 
power like we saw on January 6.
  This bill received broad support in the Senate, with the votes of 18 
Republican Senators, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and 
Senate Appropriations Vice Chair Shelby. Senators can rarely agree on 
what to get for lunch, let alone a spending package like this.
  I want to be clear here that I am not thrilled about everything in 
this package.
  Quite frankly, I find the endless increases in defense spending year 
after year to be appalling. We constantly hear from the other side that 
we don't have enough money to invest in the American people, yet there 
always seems to be enough to invest in the next weapons system that the 
Pentagon doesn't even want or need. We have to control this 
unbelievable defense spending habit that we have here in Congress, and 
I hope we will do that in the coming months.
  I am also thrilled that this bill includes a bipartisan agreement to 
permanently extend food benefit increases for parents with children. 
This will provide an extra $40 per child per month for struggling 
parents to feed their kids over the summer when hunger is often the 
worst. While I support that, I don't love the way we pay for it, by 
robbing Peter to pay Paul, and taking from our pandemic EBT benefits. I 
find that to be obnoxious, quite frankly. As we approach the farm bill, 
we all need to be focused on making sure that we restore any damage 
that might be done by this offset.
  But, again, the give and take of negotiations requires compromise.
  Mr. Speaker, I look forward to a constructive debate here on the 
House floor, and I reserve the balance of my time.

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  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the distinguished gentleman 
from Massachusetts, the chairman of the Rules Committee for yielding me 
the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Speaker, when I joined the Rules Committee, Chairman McGovern was 
incredibly welcoming and has been totally aboveboard. It has been a 
pleasure to work with Mr. McGovern, and it is a pleasure that he and I 
get to debate the last rule here for the 117th Congress. It is an 
honor, and I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts. I look forward to 
continuing to work with him on the Rules Committee.
  Mr. Speaker, the rule before us today provides for consideration of a 
4,000-page omnibus package that puts America last. This bill was 
crafted behind closed doors, it was released in the middle of the 
night, and it received absolutely no input from House Republicans.
  So, instead of responsibly governing, House Democrats are trying to 
ram through trillions of dollars in new spending in the final days of 
this lameduck session. No Congress in recent history has passed an 
omnibus appropriations bill during a lameduck session following a shift 
of power in the House.
  To do so this year would be a violation of congressional precedent 
and a flagrant disregard for the American people who voted in new 
leadership in the House. This omnibus package will not unleash American 
energy. It won't reign in out-of-control inflation, which is caused by 
reckless spending.
  Here we are just 3 days away from Christmas, and more than one-
quarter of Americans are expected to go into debt over Christmas costs, 
and about half are saying that they are going to cut back on holiday 
shopping altogether.
  Sadly, this comes as the majority of Americans have already reported 
an increase in personal debt this year as inflation outpaces their 
income.
  So instead of working on providing Americans with relief, this 
legislation is a last-ditch effort by Democrats to force their far left 
radical agenda on the American people before the clock runs out on the 
one-party rule that we have come to know in Washington.
  Further, despite the ongoing border crisis and Democrats' eagerness 
to let title 42 expire, this package effectively reduces funding for 
border enforcement and fails to include tougher policies that would 
actually address issues at the border.
  Specifically, this bill increases nondefense spending by $57 billion, 
yet there is no increase in funding for ICE enforcement and removal 
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and there is no increase for Border Patrol agent hiring, which is 
already grossly underfunded.
  Yet, in this bill the TSA received a drastic increase to give TSA 
officers a raise.
  So the men and women at the southern border that are stopping 
fentanyl from coming across the border, stopping terrorists, 
apprehending terrorists at the southern border, they are underfunded, 
yet the person that is wanding down your grandmother at the airport and 
taking your toothpaste, they get the raise. That is how backward this 
omnibus is.
  Almost 5 million illegal immigrants have been apprehended at the 
southern border since Joe Biden took office. That is not including the 
1 million got-aways that have not been apprehended at all. That is 1 
million people that are in this country that we have no control over, 
we don't know where they are, and they crossed illegally.
  Illegal immigrants who entered this country under Biden's border 
crisis will now cost U.S. taxpayers $20 billion a year on top of the 
trillions in spending Democrats are trying to pass just today.
  So I urge my colleagues to oppose this rule, and I reserve the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I am a little bit surprised that my friends are complaining about the 
process. Senator Shelby, a Republican over in the Senate, said I was 
surprised that they, meaning the House Republicans, didn't enter into 
negotiations because they are the Republicans in the House, they should 
have been at the table, but they chose not to come, which is kind of 
typical of what they do on everything is they say ``no'' and do not 
want to be part of a constructive solution.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. 
Jeffries), the chairman of the Democratic Caucus and future Democratic 
leader.
  Mr. JEFFRIES. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding and for 
his leadership in shepherding this legislation forward.
  I rise today in strong support of the rule, as well as the underlying 
spending agreement. This spending agreement was the product of 
bipartisan negotiation with Democrats and Republicans in the Senate.
  I thank Speaker Pelosi, Chairwoman DeLauro, and all of the members of 
the House Democratic Caucus for their leadership in helping to make 
sure that this bill includes strong democratic priorities.
  This legislation invests in children and families; invests in 
education and job training; invests in the creation and preservation of 
affordable housing; invests in hardworking Americans and organized 
labor; invests in research and development; invests in transportation 
and infrastructure; invests in technology and innovation; and invests 
in the health, safety, and well-being of the American people.
  This legislation reflects Democratic values.
  Democrats in the new year will continue to fight for lower costs, 
better paying jobs, and safer communities, and Democrats will always 
put people over politics.
  Happy holidays and happy new year.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Let's just talk briefly about all the junk that is in this omnibus. 
This omnibus increases funding for nondefense programs by 8 percent in 
addition to the trillions of dollars that have been spent over the 
last 2 years.

  There is over $12 billion for the IRS on top of the nearly $80 
billion provided to the IRS with the Inflation Reduction Act.
  There is a 12 percent increase for climate research for the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
  You have got over $3 billion for pie-in-the-sky renewable energy 
programs with the Department of Energy. That is a historic high, by the 
way.
  You have a 22 percent increase for Climate Adaptation Science Centers 
in the U.S. Geological Survey.
  You have a 20 percent increase for the Biden White House.
  You have a 125 percent increase in loan authority for The Presidio 
Trust, which is a parochial priority of Speaker Pelosi's that has 
already received $70 million in loan authority since fiscal year 2020.
  So think about that when we go to vote on this trillion dollar 
omnibus, all the junk and wasteful spending that is in here.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. 
Bucshon), my good friend and a good doctor.
  Mr. BUCSHON. Mr. Speaker, I am against the rule and the underlying 
bill. It is a little Christmas tree of unnecessary earmarks, billions 
and billions of dollars of the American people's taxpayer money.
  But you know the one thing that is not in there? Full funding for our 
Nation's physicians. It is a travesty. In fact, there is a pay cut. The 
very people who helped get us through the pandemic, and this is how we 
thank them.
  Shortages, burnout, low morale, retirements; I wonder why?
  The American people should know what Washington is doing to America's 
physicians and subsequently what is happening to the American people's 
access to quality medical care.
  Washington, D.C., needs to wake up and reform the way that we fund 
our healthcare plans, both Medicare and Medicaid, and make sure the 
very people that are taking care of the American people are properly 
compensated for the years and years of training and expertise that is 
necessary to provide quality care in this country.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I love my friends on the other side of the aisle. They complain they 
are going to vote ``no,'' and then they are going to go home and do 
press conferences announcing all the Members' projects that they got, 
but that is what we have come to expect from my Republican friends here 
in the House. They don't want to come to the table. They don't want to 
be constructive. They are just no, no, no, no on everything. They are 
more interested in Twitter followers than they are in actually 
legislating. That is their problem, but that is not going to be the 
problem today.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. 
Jackson Lee).
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman very much for 
yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, there are no lameduck Americans. The lights are on, the 
doors are open, and they expect for us to work.
  I am excited about this omnibus. I am excited about the $800 billion 
that Democrats were able to get for housing and safer communities.
  I am excited about the STOP School Violence Act grants of $50 million 
for community-based violence intervention; $95 million for the 
background checks.
  I am excited about 40 million children being able to have good 
healthcare under Medicaid. I am excited about the enhancement of 
Medicare and Medicaid for my constituents.
  I am enormously excited about the $398 million--we have tried this 
over and over again--to transition the TSA workforce to pay parity with 
civil service employees performing similar work, as well as the dollars 
for refugees' processing and shelter.
  I am excited about the dollars for the United States Department of 
Housing and Urban Development for the 18th Congressional District; for 
Buffalo Bayou Park, $750,000, in the 18th Congressional District; for 
riverside planning for restoration; for the hospital, $750,000; $4 
million to deal with the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
and Transportation.
  I am excited because we are doing things for families.
  Mr. Speaker, vote for this bill. It is no lameduck. Happy holidays. 
It is for the American people, and the Democrats are standing tall.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  To my knowledge, this is a lameduck session. I am not sure if 
Democrats have changed the definition of ``lameduck.'' I know they 
tried to change the definition of ``recession'' this year, too. So I 
guess the language is constantly changing under this one-party rule 
here in Washington, D.C.
  When we on this side of the aisle talk about inflation and the harm 
to American families, this isn't something that is just theoretical.

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  Let's put this in context. Since January of 2021, Democrats have 
spent $3 trillion on partisan spending bills. Again, this is a key 
driver of inflation. Bidenflation is America's unwanted guest at a 
Christmas dinner table for the second year in a row.
  With inflation remaining high, families across the country will pay 
16.4 percent more for Christmas dinner compared to last year. The 
majority of Americans reported an increase in personal debt this year, 
and the top reason given was rising inflation and declining real wages.
  As of December, the share of Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck in 
Joe Biden's economy has risen to 63 percent. Let that sink in. Sixty-
three percent of Americans in Biden's economy are living paycheck-to-
paycheck.
  Families across the country are still paying more for just about 
everything. Fuel. Fuel is up 65.7 percent. Eggs are up about 50 
percent. Air fares are up 36 percent. Butter and margarine, they are up 
34 percent. Bread is up 15.7 percent. Milk is up by about 15 percent. 
Electricity is up by about 14 percent. Energy altogether is up over 30 
percent.

  So that is what you expect in Joe Biden's economy, and this $1.7 
trillion spending bill will do nothing more but drive up inflation even 
more and reduce real wages down further.
  For more on this, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from the great 
State of Texas (Mr. Roy).
  Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for 
yielding. I can't help but be amused when the gentleman from 
Massachusetts says that we refused to come to the table. As if the 
gentlewoman who will soon be the chair of the Appropriations Committee, 
Ms. Granger, my colleague from Texas, doesn't want to sit at the table 
with colleagues on either side of the aisle to come to consensus about 
how to spend taxpayer dollars; or better stated, how to borrow money we 
don't have, as if that is actually true.
  What table is the gentleman referring to?
  At what table does he want us to come sit down and negotiate?
  It is not this table.
  I don't have the power to offer an amendment on the floor of the 
House of Representatives, despite being elected by 750,000 Texans. I 
don't have the ability or the right to be able to stand up for them and 
have a debate on the floor of this Chamber.
  Everything the American people are watching right now is a complete 
sham. It is a fraud, a fraud being perpetrated on the American people 
right before their eyes, right as we head into Christmas, sitting here 
on the 23rd of December when--240-what--246 years ago those boys 
crossed the Delaware and we were dealing with Valley Forge, or the boys 
in 1944 sitting in foxholes in Bastogne over Christmas.
  We had 18 Republicans who joined with Democrats in the Senate get in 
their fancy planes and go home, and we are sitting here trying to do 
the work of the people, not spend money we don't have, not drive up 
more inflation, not have 7,500 earmarks for $16 billion for pet, 
leftist projects across this country.
  What you see here on the floor of the House of Representatives should 
make everybody ashamed. This is the people's House. Not one amendment 
has been offered on the floor of this body since May of 2016 in open 
debate.
  The gentleman from Massachusetts dares to impugn the character of the 
Appropriations Chairwoman Kay Granger and those Republicans he says 
won't sit at the table when, in fact, what you see here is a 4,100-page 
bill cooked up by a handful of people behind closed doors brought 
before the Rules Committee with no ability to offer an amendment, no 
ability to debate, no actual discussion on the people's House floor.

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  My colleagues on the other side of the aisle know it. We are spending 
money we don't have.
  Go home and sell your projects. Go home and talk about all the pork 
you are bringing home. But you are destroying the United States of 
America, and you are absolutely destroying this body.
  The American people did not send us here to do that. My colleagues on 
the other side of the aisle know that. My colleagues on the other side 
of the aisle know full well that this body is broken, but they do not 
care.
  Mr. Speaker, $45 billion to Ukraine.
  Have we had a full debate on Ukraine?
  Or do we take $45 billion of funding for Ukraine, package it in a 
$1.7 trillion bill, and invite the President of Ukraine to address this 
body for theatrics while heading out for Christmas in order to jam 
through a big spending, Democrat-priority bill that the American people 
resoundingly rejected in November?
  For 70 years, we in this body, when we have had a transfer of power 
in the Senate, have not done this in a lameduck. Yet, that is what my 
Democratic colleagues are doing.
  There are consequences to this.
  You can't go out and talk about inflation and talk about what the 
American people are feeling right now--when they are trying to fill up 
their tanks with gas, they are trying to have presents for their 
families, and they are trying to pay their bills--and then come here 
and dump hundreds of billions of dollars in the economy while the Feds 
are raising interest rates, people can't afford to buy homes, and they 
can't live, and then say that you are doing the people's work.
  My colleagues on the other side of the aisle the night before last 
were apoplectic that Mike Lee was daring to challenge the idea that we 
should have a bill that literally prohibits Border Patrol from securing 
the border. He wanted to try to fix that. He tried to extend title 42.
  My Democratic colleagues rejected it. I sat here on the floor, and 
they were more concerned about catching their flights for Christmas. 
They were coming to me and saying: We can't be here over Christmas.
  Well, why the hell not?
  The American people deserve us to be here over Christmas actually 
fighting for them instead of trying to catch planes while one half of 
this body is going to vote by proxy. One half of this body is not even 
going to be here, and they are lying. They are lying on forms saying 
that they are voting by proxy because of COVID, and it is a lie. One 
half of this body is going to do it, you know it, and it is destroying 
this country.
  I am not going to just sit here and roll over on this. This is going 
to continue. The American people are going to know precisely what is 
happening to them by the people's House.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to direct their remarks 
to the Chair.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I remind the Members that the microphones are working. 
People don't have to shout.
  But, in any event, let me say that it wasn't I who said that 
Republicans didn't come to the table. That was Republican Senator 
Richard Shelby. I mentioned that earlier.
  Mr. Speaker, there are people who come to the floor and yell and 
scream about the process, and, yet, what is their plan?
  Their plan is vengeance.
  I would take a moment to thank the 18 Republican Senators, including 
the senior Senator from Texas, Senator Cornyn, who voted for this bill. 
I don't think the senior Senator from Texas voted for the omnibus 
because he thought it was bad for Texas or that it would destroy the 
country. Quite the contrary. I thank him for his vote.
  Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record the names of the Senators--
Republican Senators--who voted for the omnibus in the Record.

               List of R Senators That Voted YES on Omni

       1. Blunt (R-MO)
       2. Boozman (R-AR)
       3. Capito (R-WV)
       4. Collins (R-ME)
       5. Cornyn (R-TX)
       6. Cotton (R-AR)
       7. Graham (R-SC)
       8. Inhofe (R-OK)
       9. McConnell (R-KY)
       10. Moran (R-KS)
       11. Murkowski (R-AK)
       12. Portman (R-OH)
       13. Romney (R-UT)
       14. Rounds (R-SD)
       15. Shelby (R-AL)
       16. Thune (R-SD)
       17. Wicker (R-MS)
       18. Young (R-IN)

  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.

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  Mr. Speaker, I heard some of my Republican colleagues on the other 
side threatening to vote against any legislation in the future 
sponsored by Republicans in the Senate sent over to the House because 
they don't like their vote. In fact, the leader, Leader McCarthy, said, 
``when I am Speaker, their bills will be dead on arrival in the 
House.''
  Well, some of the 18 Republican Senators who voted for the bill 
yesterday actually had some incredible legislation signed into law; for 
example, Senator Cornyn's bill, S. 4834, the PROTECT Our Children Act 
of 2022 was signed into law just a couple of days ago. That is 
protecting our children.
  Would that be dead on arrival now?
  Senator Boozman's bill, S. 2102, which expands access to mammograms 
for veterans, was passed in June, and it is now law.
  Is that not important, providing mammograms to our veterans, and that 
would be dead on arrival under this new rule my Republicans are saying 
they want to enforce?
  Senator Inhofe is the lead sponsor on S. 1790, the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 Act. I just complained about how 
big the defense budget is. I don't like the fact that it is so 
overblown and bloated, but I know my Republican friends do.
  But would they have blocked that bill because Senator Inhofe voted 
for the omnibus?
  Imagine if veterans or children didn't get the aid they needed 
because of petty politics. That is no way to govern, Mr. Speaker.
  This legislation that some of these Republican Senators have brought 
forward will not only keep the lights on but provide aid to thousands 
of Americans. It is important that the President sign it. It will make 
life better for people in this country.
  So I get it that this is the time when everybody is yelling and 
screaming and trying to score political points, but at the end of the 
day, let us reflect what our purpose here is, and that is to get stuff 
done and to improve the lives of the American people. If you don't like 
the priorities in this bill, then you can vote against it. But 18 
Republicans--pretty conservative Republicans--voted for it over in the 
Senate. They put people ahead of politics, and I applaud that.
  This is not a perfect bill. There are a lot of things in here I don't 
like. But rather than yelling and screaming and threatening revenge, 
maybe people should sit down and talk and work things out and come to 
some sort of a compromise. That is what they did in the Senate. I hope 
that some of my friends will learn from that example.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Speaker, my good friend from Massachusetts was talking about 
priorities. So let's look at some of the national security priorities 
in this omnibus.
  There is a $65 million increase for the United Nations Relief and 
Works Agency which, for those of you who don't know, produces materials 
promoting terrorism and anti-Semitism.
  While we are talking about anti-Semitism, let's talk about the U.N.'s 
Commission of Inquiry. I had an amendment in the State and Foreign 
Operations Subcommittee to make sure that no U.S. taxpayer dollars went 
to the Commission of Inquiry on Israel, which does nothing more than 
harass our Israeli allies and harasses the only Jewish majority state 
in the world. Yet, that amendment that I had was stripped out of this 
omnibus.
  This also allows the U.S. to continue to cooperate with the 
International Criminal Court, which is deeply flawed. As a former JAG, 
I can tell you that that court is incredibly unfair to U.S. 
servicemembers as well as Israel.
  This also underfunds foreign military financing requests from Egypt 
and Taiwan. So we give billions of dollars to Ukraine with zero 
accountability as to where those funds are going. There is no SIGAR-
style oversight on that. Yet our allies in Taiwan and our allies in 
Egypt are underfunded.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. 
Burchett) to talk more on this omnibus.
  Mr. BURCHETT. Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this bill which I feel is pumped 
full of woke nonsense.
  This $1.66 trillion package has billions of dollars set aside for 
LGBT centers, museums, hiking trails, pride centers, skate parks, solar 
panel projects, and other Democrat priorities.
  We are giving $410 million to five Middle Eastern countries for 
border security, while billions of dollars of our own border protection 
are prohibited. They are prohibited, Mr. Speaker, from being used to 
enhance border security; not to mention over $45 billion for Ukraine, 
bringing it up to $100 billion total.
  Mind you, Mr. Speaker, the Democrats blocked the bill that would have 
allowed us to have some transparency and audited those funds and know 
where they went. These massive costs are not our responsibility. They 
are Europe's, Mr. Speaker.
  My Democratic colleagues are not even keeping an account of where 
this money is really going. One hundred billion dollars is about $200 
million per congressional district. Imagine what east Tennesseans could 
do with $200 million or the districts on our southern border.
  If you are a Republican and vote for this but claim to be a fiscal 
conservative, Mr. Speaker, then you are a liar. If you are a Democrat 
and vote for this but claim to be against war, then you are a liar.
  We only have ourselves to blame, Mr. Speaker, and those 20 million 
so-called conservatives who decided to stay home for whatever reason 
this past election year.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, let me just say that I am proud of the work that the 
Rules Committee has done over the past two sessions. I just want to 
contrast where our focus has been and what we have accomplished to the 
Party of No.

  When we took over, we passed a new rules package that actually had 
bipartisan support for the first time in over a decade. We had the 
first-ever House Office of Diversity and Inclusion to recruit, train, 
develop, promote, and retain a congressional workforce that reflected 
the diversity of the American people.
  We established a Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress 
which has already led to real changes to improve the efficiency and the 
effectiveness of our congressional community. We required a Member Day 
hearing so that all Members had a chance to be heard across the 
Congress.
  We implemented a Consensus Calendar to expedite consideration of 
ideas with broad, bipartisan support.
  We had remote voting by proxy and remote committee proceedings to 
keep Congress functioning during a once-in-a-lifetime global pandemic, 
over a dozen hearings, roundtables, site visits in at least eight 
cities, and numerous interactive discussions on social media exploring 
what it will take to finally end hunger in America, which led to the 
first White House conference on hunger, nutrition, and health in over 
50 years.
  We held the first-ever congressional hearing on Medicare for all and 
the first-ever congressional hearing on seating a delegate from the 
Cherokee Nation.
  We passed landmark legislation that President Biden signed into law 
that will have a positive impact for generations to come: the American 
Rescue Plan, the bipartisan infrastructure law to rebuild America and 
reinvest in our communities; the Inflation Reduction Act to lower 
prices for consumers and invest in clean energy to address the climate 
crisis; the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to reduce gun violence; 
the Respect for Marriage Act to guarantee and expand civil rights for 
all Americans; the CHIPS and Science Act to turbocharge American 
manufacturing, and requiring legislation to have a hearing and a markup 
before being considered on the floor.
  We set an example to disagree without being disagreeable, even during 
polarized times like two Presidential impeachments. One journalist 
praised our hearing in the Rules Committee as a master class in what 
civility and respectful disagreement should look like in Congress.

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  I would just say that none of these accomplishments would have been 
possible without the incredible staff on the Rules Committee.
  Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record the names of all staff, 
Democratic and Republican, who have spent countless hours at the Rules 
Committee over the last 4 years working late at night, early in the 
morning, and every time in between to help bring legislation to the 
floor to improve the lives of the American people.

                           Committee on Rules


                Staff in the 116th, and 117th Congresses

       Chairman James P. McGovern
       Matthew Bonaccorsi
       Cindy Buhl
       Jennifer Chandler
       Kim Corbin
       Eric Delaney
       Adam Duffy
       Jeff Gohringer
       Caitlin Hodgkins
       Lori Ismail
       Rose Laughlin
       Ana Martinez
       Lale Morrison
       Lauren Mueller
       Allie Neill
       Liz Pardue
       Nate Perkins
       Allie Polaski
       Matthew Price
       Samantha Russell
       Don Sisson
       Jessica Suh
       Dan Turton
       David Vince

       Ranking Republican Tom Cole
       Emily Ackerman
       Jennifer Belair
       Kelly Chambers
       Sarah Corley
       Matt Diller
       Chris Erb
       James Fitzella
       Hannah Gill
       Eric Shepard
       Steve Waskiewicz
  Mr. McGOVERN. I also thank the House and Senate clerks who have been 
working around the clock trying to get the omnibus text to us as 
quickly as possible. Their work has not gone unnoticed.
  I think it is important for us to reflect on the hard work of the 
people who served all of us in this Congress, and I am proud to have 
worked with all of them on both sides of the aisle.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Speaker, this omnibus underfunds border security. Let's just give 
a few stats.
  This year, 98 suspected terrorists have been apprehended attempting 
to cross the southern border.
  There were more than 14,000 pounds of illicit fentanyl seized in 
fiscal year 2022. That is just what was seized. But we know that we 
only seize 5 to 10 percent of the fentanyl coming across our border, 
and that has deadly consequences for Americans. There has been a 94 
percent increase in fentanyl deaths since 2019.
  To put that in context, that is one fentanyl overdose every 7 minutes 
in the U.S. For more context on that, that would be the equivalent of 
one commercial airliner going down every single day in this country. It 
is an unmitigated disaster, and it is being caused because we have such 
a porous southern border.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from the great State 
of Texas (Mr. Sessions), who is a former chairman of the Rules 
Committee.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania yielding me time.
  Mr. Speaker, today America faces the Congress as we debate--yes, 
debate--just days before Christmas, this spending that will take place 
next year.
  In the 20 years I spent on the Rules Committee, I do know that the 
staff and the members do hard work, and I respect them for that. But 
the differences between our parties appear at the Rules Committee.
  For 8 years, Republicans--6 of those years with me as chairman of the 
Rules Committee--held government spending completely flat, 
discretionary spending. And yet we see what is happening now is a good 
bit of that discretionary spending they are moving to mandatory 
spending--mandatory spending that will put a burden on the taxpayer of 
this country--not just 4,100 pages, not just $1.7 trillion, but 
actually empowering government to intrude into the lives of American 
citizens.
  Over $20 billion will be given to the IRS over this next year.

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  The Federal Government under President Biden does not even have 
government employees reporting to work. They stay at home. Yet, we add 
87,000 new IRS employees.
  Mr. Speaker, what we have today is the difference on the priorities, 
I think, of the American people, people who want to have jobs and 
careers, people who want to be safe in their own homes. An open border 
with this President and the Democratic Party is openly assisting 
illegal immigration into this country with literally an unlimited 
amount of money.
  Detaining people at the border is important for national security. 
This next year, the Texas delegation will engage in this issue on the 
floor.
  I thank the Speaker for this time but will let them know that the 
American people will hear from the Republican Party next year.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman 
from California (Mr. McCarthy), my good friend and the next Speaker of 
the House.
  Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, we are 2 days away from Christmas. The 
Christmas season is the season of giving, but in Congress, it appears 
the season of giving will line the pockets of Democrats' special 
interests and stick hardworking Americans with the tab. That is what 
this omnibus does.
  As I listen to this debate, Mr. Speaker, I listened to the other 
side. My friend says: No, it is the Democrats who have put people 
before politics. They are so giving that they are putting the people 
before politics.
  What does that mean? What is the definition when you are so caring 
and you care so deeply about the people that you put them first before 
any politics? Well, let's look because that is what they say this 
omnibus does for them.
  First, guess how many pages. Over 4,000, so pet projects, pork, and 
progressive priorities. Guess how much it costs. They say, oh, about 
$1.7 trillion. If you really add it all up, and you add the paygo and 
the other things that have been done before, we are talking more than 
$2 trillion because the people need to borrow more. That is really 
looking out for them.
  Guess who wrote it. Well, two retiring Senators who face no 
accountability from the voters again. Now, they probably really cared 
about the people. They cared so much about the people that Senator 
Leahy gets numerous projects named after himself because the people 
wanted that.
  Do you know who requested that? Just one person, so you don't have to 
use plural--no people, just Leahy.
  Shelby gets something named after him, too.
  Speaker Pelosi, she gets a couple of things named after her because 
the people are more important than the politics because that is what 
the people of America want right now.
  Guess when it was made public so the people would know how hard the 
Democrats worked for them. Well, it was in the dead of night, at 2 
a.m., on Tuesday before Christmas.
  The Democrats care so much about the people that they are home with 
the people and not here to read the bill or even vote on it.
  I am not sure you don't put a medal in here for the people who don't 
show up for work because they care so much.
  This is a monstrosity that is one of the most shameful acts I have 
ever seen in this body. The appropriations process has failed the 
American public, and there is no greater example of the nail in the 
coffin of the greatest failure of a one-party rule of the House, the 
Senate, and the Presidency than this bill here. You controlled it all.
  Mr. Speaker, I just heard him brag about how great the Rules 
Committee is. They are so great because they care about the people. 
They care so much about the people that they never did their work.
  The Senate didn't pass one appropriation bill, not one, so that 
people could read it or have debate. They passed a continuing 
resolution for the people so the government wouldn't shut down.
  What date did they pick? Well, let's pick it right before Christmas 
so Members won't be here. They won't read the bill. They will vote by 
proxy.

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  They care so much about the people, they created a system to control 
the floor where they have all the votes in their back pocket, so the 
people have no say.
  The country is tired of it. Mr. Speaker, I know you are busy reading, 
but I do know this is true. The country is tired of it.
  Do you know why? Because they told you last month. They told you last 
month that, no, you don't put people before politics. You have done 
nothing but put politics before the people of America.
  Do you know what? They fired you. They fired you. They chose a new 
direction for our country by electing a House Republican majority for 
the 118th Congress.
  If you dearly cared about the people, why wouldn't you let everybody 
read it? Why wouldn't you let them debate it? Why wouldn't you simply 
wait 11 days? Just wait 11 days.
  The people have spoken. They don't like that you didn't do your job. 
They didn't like that you put yourselves before them. They didn't like 
that you wouldn't show up for work.
  So, you stuck it to them one more time, but you did it in a manner 
that is so big, we have never seen it before. Eleven days.
  This current debate isn't just about bad policy. It is a slap in the 
face to every American that voted, which raises the question: What 
exactly are we voting on?
  I will guarantee you, not a single Member that will vote ``yes'' can 
tell you everything that is in it because no one has had the time to 
read it.
  Maybe my good friend on the Rules Committee, Mr. Speaker, might be at 
the groundbreaking for Elizabeth Warren's new $3 million swimming pool 
in Massachusetts because that is what America needs to borrow money 
on right now, because that is putting people before politics.

  I don't know if you are going to go to the Leahy center that he 
requested that never went before the committee. It never went before 
the people. But you know best, Mr. Speaker. You knew that people really 
wanted it even if they didn't request it because Leahy requested it, 
and he will never have to stand before the people again.
  Here are some of the worst parts of the omnibus. First, to state the 
obvious, the omnibus spends too much, increasing the deficit and 
fueling even more inflation.
  Now, the Democrats have been fired. They had 4 years. Let's just look 
at recent history. When Republicans had the majority in the House for 8 
years, and you look at discretionary spending from the day we got the 
gavel to the day we had to hand it back, do you know how much it 
increased? Zero.
  You had it for 4 years before you got fired again. Do you know how 
much it increased, discretionary spending? One-third, over $440 
billion.
  Do you want to know why we have inflation the highest it has been in 
41 years? You won the majority, and you wasted it. You spent too much, 
and you harmed the American public.
  The worst thing any government could do to its public is bring 
inflation, and that is exactly what you are continuing. This bill 
increases the baseline spending by $134 billion.
  Let me put it another way. The American, hardworking taxpayer--you 
just added $1.5 trillion over 10 years to the national debt when we are 
already drowning in $31 trillion in debt. I don't remember the people 
requesting that, but in your definition, that is what you did.
  What kind of projects are such high priorities that you have to 
increase spending by so much? Well, some leftwing pet projects. Let's 
look, for example, at what the people really requested here. For 
example, there is $2.35 million for the Leahy center in Vermont named 
after Senator Patrick Leahy.
  Who requested it? Well, Patrick Leahy did. Who wrote the bill? 
Patrick Leahy.
  Meanwhile, Chairwoman DeLauro bragged that the omnibus fulfills 98 
percent of the Democrat Members' requests in the House. That is $5.4 
billion for 3,213 Democratic projects.
  Mr. Speaker, I am not quite sure of your definition of ``people.'' I 
guess it is those Members that you are really looking after. That would 
be politics.
  Our economy is already in dire condition. Passing this omnibus only 
supercharges that disaster.
  Do you know what? Inflation is higher today than it was 11 months ago 
when President Biden said it had peaked. Families are paying $400 more 
per month than they did a year ago. Why? Because you put them before 
your politics, as you say. They just didn't know that they really 
wanted to pay more.
  Last month, our deficit was nearly $250 billion, another record you 
own, a record for the highest for the month of November. It was fueled 
by a 55 percent increase in our interest payments. Why? Because you own 
the majority: the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. That is what 
you brought the American public.
  Meanwhile, personal credit card debt exploded by almost $400 billion 
in the third quarter. That is another record you own for the third 
quarter.
  Inflation is the economy's number one problem. The Federal Reserve 
continues to raise the rate. Why? Because you took the majority. It is 
raising rates, and you still don't get it.
  Democrats want this bill to put more pressure on the working family 
because you know better than the working family, apparently.
  Americans have had enough. That is why, again, millions voted to fire 
the Democrats in this one-party rule.
  Mr. Speaker, second, the omnibus spending bill intensifies the crisis 
at the southern border. Now, I know, Mr. Speaker, maybe the Rules chair 
will say they are putting the people before politics. That is why the 
President says there are more important things to do than even visit 
the border. He hasn't had much time in his 40 years of elected office 
to have a chance to visit the border.
  Since taking office and having one-party rule, Democrats' and Biden's 
open border policy has caused the worst border crisis in American 
history.
  You can try to ignore it, but in 11 more days, since you won't show 
up for work here, you no longer will have that opportunity. We are 
going to take our work to the border. We are going to have our hearings 
on the border.
  All you will have to do is open your eyes, and you will see what you 
created. You will see the disaster that has become of your legacy.
  On this administration's watch, record numbers of illegal border 
crossings, deadly drugs, and even terror suspects have come into our 
country.
  I remember almost 2 years ago, on a tour of the border, speaking to 
the border agents. You learn a lot if you are willing to do that. They 
told me never before had they seen so many people coming across the 
border that they catch on the terrorist watch list.
  I went to a press conference after and told the American public what 
we had learned. I would assume everybody, especially, Mr. Speaker, when 
the Rules chair says he cares so much about the people, that they would 
be concerned because he knew what has happened when terrorists have 
come to America before, that they would want to rally together to 
protect America.
  No, Mr. Speaker. Congressman Gallego called me a liar. He said he had 
as much clearance as I did, Mr. Speaker, that this could not be true. 
But, lo and behold, even the DHS came out and said we tried to deny the 
facts, but now we know it is a record-setting number.
  How many people on the terrorist watch list coming into this country 
is too much for you? How many? How many before they act again?
  If you don't want to do that, we now have caught enough fentanyl in 
the last year to kill every single American. It is in every single one 
of your cities. If you listen to the people and stop playing politics, 
they will tell you to stop it.
  There is enough now to kill 10 times over every single American.

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  My good friend, Guy Reschenthaler, on the Rules Committee just 
recently told you today--well, as many of you sit home and let somebody 
cast your vote--300 Americans will be poisoned and die from fentanyl 
from your lack of action.
  What does this do to stop it?
  Nothing.
  What does it do to help manage the crisis at the border?
  Well, this bill provides more for migrant shelter services and 
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number of ICE detention beds, these facilities that eventually release 
even more migrants across the country.
  Meanwhile, this disastrous bill reduces funding for border technology 
that would prevent more illegal border crossings in the first place.
  This bill funds--and you should brag about this--300 additional 
Border Patrol agents. But as you brag about that, there will be 3,000 
illegal border crossings in 1 single day, just in El Paso. These border 
crossings are over one overpass in El Paso, and in 7 weeks 70,000 
people came to that one location.
  I know you care about the people and the border because you say so. 
It is just not the border of America. Because in this bill that you say 
you put people before politics, you put $410 million for border 
security in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman. You will fund 
walls and technology to protect the Middle East but not to protect 
America. What is worse, you brag about it.
  When the American public asks you about it, you tell them to shut up, 
you know best, you are putting their issues first, but you are too busy 
to go to the border to see what is happening. So I want you to look in 
the eye of a parent when they come to you and tell you their child just 
died from a fentanyl overdose, not because they purchased fentanyl, but 
they purchased a Xanax or something else. It is so rampant. It is laced 
in everything we see. Sure, try to explain to them how you put them 
before politics when you pass this bill.
  This omnibus will continue to fully fund the IRS, including the 
87,000 new agents, and do nothing to protect you, the family, or your 
business from being targeted by the government. But don't fear, Mr. 
Speaker, you told the public that you put them before politics.
  Remember earlier this year, the Democrats funded 87,000 new IRS 
agents and approved $85 billion to spy on Americans spending $600 or 
more. So if you go Christmas shopping this year and you spend $600, 
don't fear, the Democrats looked after you. They have got an agent 
following your every need. But you can trust them. You can trust them.
  Just listen to what we recently found on the Twitter files, the 
collusion between Big Tech and the FBI and the intel community. Oh, you 
can trust the intel community. Remember those 51 individuals, Mr. 
Speaker, the Haydens and Brennans. They told the American public: Don't 
play politics. All of this stuff is just Russian and false. I want to 
tell you that 2 weeks before an election because you can trust me.
  Well, now we find the truth. It is clear that instead of focusing on 
actual threats to our country and the people, they colluded with the 
private companies by the way of personnel and direct payments. Is there 
any money in here for the FBI to pay Twitter to go after Americans 
because you know best of what they want, you wouldn't want to do that 
with politics? Why does the FBI want to go after them?
  Because they want to go after free speech because they may be talking 
about politics. Those people must not know that they are putting people 
before politics too. They are taking care of those people--shut them 
down. Not only is it wrong, it is illegal.
  It is time Congress conducts real oversight and accountability in 11 
days. I promise you this, House Republicans will begin that on the very 
first day.
  This bill will give the Biden administration a free pass. This bill 
provides the FBI with $375 million for a new headquarters and over $11 
billion in funding. I guess this Congress of Democrat majority right 
now doesn't care if the FBI spied on you, if the FBI went after you 
simply because you wanted free speech. I guess they believe in that.
  I guess that is what you mean by putting people before politics. 
Don't listen to the people because if they talk about something other 
than your politics of what you agree, you should shut them down. Fund 
something that does that.
  Oh, probably the most sacred of all the Democrats' power, before they 
were fired, was the wokeism. Buried in the omnibus is even more money 
for wokeism in the government and the military.
  The woke left wants to further divide Americans against each other 
based upon race, sex, and background. They want to teach our kids that 
America is inherently bad and that you should distrust and hate your 
fellow Americans instead of striving to be a more perfect Union.
  We look to the threats around the world, the rise of China, the 
threats from Africa to Asia. You brag about what you did for the 
Pentagon.
  Where did you put the money?
  Well, $8.6 million for gender advisor programs at the Pentagon. That 
is going to strengthen our ability to protect America. There is $200 
million for the Gender Equity Fund. But you want to make sure it works 
everywhere--gender programs in Pakistan. I am not sure how many 
Americans requested that. But then again, you were looking out for the 
people.
  There is $575 million for family planning in areas where population 
growth threatens biodiversity; $4 million for shared equity housing 
models. These type of woke handouts should not be funded by taxpayers. 
They go against everything we stand for as Americans. Most Americans 
share Dr. Martin Luther King's belief that the content of character 
matters more than the color of your skin.
  For all the reasons I have laid out, at the very end this will cost 
you more than $2 trillion more than  4,000 pages is a train wreck. It 
is jam-packed with wokeism, Washington special interests, and wasteful 
spending that means more crushing debt to 330 million Americans and 
generations to come.

  This bill will make the border worse. It will make inflation worse. 
It will make the economy worse. It will make government worse.
  The American people are probably asking themselves: How did we get 
into this mess?
  I will tell you how. Democrats failed to do their job.
  Mr. Speaker, if someone wants to challenge me on that then why did 
the America public fire you just a few months ago?
  Why did you wait to pass this bill, if it was so great, until after 
the election?
  Why did you allow two Senators to write it that can't be held 
accountable, and then name things after themselves?
  Why did you pass the CR to push it against Christmas with the storm 
before our very eyes?
  Why are the majority of Democrats not even here if you think it is so 
good?
  This is your legacy. I feel sad for you, but more importantly, for 
the damage that you have done to America. During the last year 
Democrats controlled the House, the Senate, and the Presidency, and 
they have yet to fulfill their most basic tasks.
  Senate Democrats passed zero appropriations bills out of their 
committee. They passed zero appropriations bills off the floor. Mr. 
Speaker, they didn't do a damn thing. They went 0-12.
  Instead of following the law and funding the government by September 
30, they did what they do best: They created a crisis and then didn't 
even let it go to waste.
  We all remember what Speaker Pelosi told us about ObamaCare: You have 
to pass it to find out what is in it. This is exactly the same. They 
waited until the last minute in a lameduck Congress with 4,000 pages, 
$2 trillion, and put it into the laps of the American public.
  Did we have time to read the bill? No.
  Did we have time to debate the bill? No.
  Did we mark up the bill? No.
  Are there Members of Congress here to vote on it? Nope.
  It is all right. We got your votes in the back pocket. I don't know 
where the American people asked for that.
  In 11 days this all changes. We are going to reclaim this body's 
integrity and service to the American people after this institution 
covers itself in disgrace one last time under the Democrat one-party 
rule.
  Mr. Speaker, a new direction is coming. In 11 days, Republicans will 
deliver. I request a ``no'' vote on the omnibus.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, after listening to that, it is clear he 
doesn't have the votes yet.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman 
from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry), my good friend.

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  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Speaker, this is completely disgusting. Everything 
about it is disgusting: the fact that it showed up in the middle of the 
night, the fact that we knew for essentially a year, everybody in this 
place knew what was coming, that this had to be done.
  The folks on this side of aisle made sure we were going to do this 
right before Christmas. We all know what is going to happen. Everybody 
has got to get home for Christmas, not troops that go overseas. They 
are not going to be home for Christmas, but you folks are.
  This is not about America's priorities, this is about your 
priorities, your personal priorities.
  You know how we know that? Because your names are on these things. 
Somebody wrote this.
  Somebody wrote in there that we are going to protect Tunisia and 
Egypt's border, but we are not going to do anything to protect our 
border. Somebody wrote that. Yeah, I know you are all over there 
talking about it, somebody has got a name attached to that, and you are 
proud of it.
  This is a Christmas tree of 7,000 of your priorities, not America's 
priorities.
  This does absolutely nothing to fix our border.
  It does nothing to fix the fire of fentanyl deaths that are raging 
across the United States of America, absolutely nothing at all.
  It does nothing to fix the fact that people that I represent can't 
afford butter, milk, bread, gasoline, and energy. It does nothing to 
fix any of that. These are about your priorities.
  Now, my friends on the other side of the aisle say we are not willing 
to be constructive. Well, forgive me. Forgive me for voting ``no'' and 
not being constructive in playing a part in you destroying our country. 
Our country is sick of what you are doing. This is why you are doing it 
now.
  My friend on the other side of the aisle says, well, this is about 
getting things done. People on this side of the aisle don't want to get 
things done. Look at what is in this bill, ladies and gentlemen. This 
isn't about getting things done. This is about getting things before 
you are done. That is what this is. That is why it is happening now. 
That is why it is happening the way it is. The American people are sick 
of this and it must end.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, for the record, the minority leader came 
to the floor and was criticizing community projects, and maybe he 
doesn't know this, let me inform him: that over 100 of his Members on 
the Republican side requested and received community projects, all of 
which I am happy to say were vetted. Maybe he is suggesting that they 
should all give them back because I know they are going to vote ``no'' 
on this bill and go home and do a press release and a press conference, 
but he ought to understand that. There is that saying, ``physician, 
heal thyself.''
  The bottom line is that over 100 Members on that side requested 
community projects that were fully vetted--I am not questioning whether 
they are good or not--their communities requested them and they have 
community support. That is on your side.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

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  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman 
from the great State of Texas (Mr. Gohmert), my good friend.
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, look, 4,155 pages, and that doesn't include 
the couple of thousand pages of explanation, definition, and all this 
other stuff.
  At least with ObamaCare, 2,500 pages, we had time to go through it. I 
did. I read it, highlighted, made notes. This is 4,155 pages, and we 
haven't had a chance.
  Well, the House rules make sure that you can't shove a bill through 
without people knowing what is in it, and that is the rule that 
requires that the bill be read. But the majority, for a few days more, 
decided we don't want people to know what is in it; and as the Speaker 
previously famously said, we have got to pass it and find out what is 
in it.
  That is why the majority in the Rules Committee, in this rule, said, 
we consider it as already read because we don't want you to know what 
is in that. That is dangerous because there is so much garbage.
  There are people struggling, maxing out credit cards to get gasoline, 
and this bill is going to do for inflation--well, I won't go there, but 
it is going to do a lot of damage for inflation; and people that can 
least afford it will be harmed tremendously by the callous treatment 
that the rules of the House have gotten and that the people that are 
hurting across America are getting.
  It should be voted down, and we should have time to look at exactly 
what is being given away.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
California (Ms. Pelosi), the Speaker of the House.
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding, and for 
his extraordinary leadership as the chairman of the Rules Committee for 
so many years. I thank the chairman and the members of his committee 
for expeditiously bringing us to the floor for this very, very 
important legislation.
  This will probably be my last speech as Speaker of the House on this 
floor, and I am hoping to make it my shortest. Members have planes to 
catch, gifts to wrap, toys to assemble, carols to sing, religious 
services to attend to.
  In terms of singing songs, one that I always think of at this time 
and in this setting is an English song: Christmas is coming, the goose 
is getting fat, pleased to put a penny in the old man's hat.
  Yes, indeed, the goose is getting fat. We have a big bill here 
because we have big needs for our country. We have the largest defense 
appropriation ever and, again, to help us honor our oath of office to 
protect and defend, and what the Constitution says, provide for the 
common defense but, at the same time, pleased to put a penny in the old 
man's hat. We address the needs of America's working families, with 
special focus on our children.
  So I rise in strong support of this bipartisan omnibus government 
funding bill for us today, to keep from shutting the government down 
but, more importantly, to meet the needs of the American people.
  Let me applaud the magnificent appropriations chairwoman, Rosa 
DeLauro. She is a maestro with a baton. She has just done such a job of 
reflecting the values of our country in terms of how we allocate our 
resources.
  There is plenty else in the bill that is outside the realm of the 
Appropriations Committee, all of it very, very important.
  I commend Chairman Pat Leahy in the Senate and Vice Chair Richard 
Shelby for their bipartisan support; congratulate them for their 
service to the Congress for many years; wish them much success with 
much gratitude as they end their service in Congress.
  I want to recognize the outstanding work of all of the staffs on both 
sides of the aisle, on both sides of the Capitol, but I want to point 
out my brilliant policy director, Richard Meltzer.
  I also want to acknowledge Wendell Primus, Robert Edmondson, Alex 
Urry, and so many other policy professionals, again, on both sides of 
the aisle who helped strengthen the bill.
  Mr. Speaker, this bill is about our heroes, honoring our heroes, our 
heroic veterans, with a major increase in veterans' healthcare, a 
national security imperative that falls under the nondefense 
discretionary, even though we know it is part of our national security 
responsibility.
  Honoring the heroes of 9/11: delivering benefits to families that 
have long been wrongfully denied; and bolstering funding for a health 
program for first responders and survivors there.
  Our firefighters and first responder heroes: those who weigh in when 
emergency disaster calls upon them for relief resources.
  The extraordinary heroes in Ukraine, fighting on the frontlines of 
the battle for democracy: In this legislation, we proudly deliver 
another consequential round of security, economic and humanitarian aid.
  As the President of Ukraine said the other night, it isn't about 
charity; it is about security; it is about working together. What a 
special honor it was for us to be on the floor when President Zelenskyy 
spoke powerfully about the

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courage and commitment, heroism and hope of the people.
  Of course, our everyday heroes, America's working families, the 
people who make our country work, our families grow, our communities 
thrive for our children, securing critical investments for the health, 
housing education, economic well-being, and more; on top of, under 
President Biden, forming nearly 10 million jobs, largely in the private 
sector, but with the public policy to enable that to happen.
  Indeed, this bill puts people over politics.
  Mr. Speaker, it was sad to hear the minority leader earlier say that 
this legislation is the most shameful thing to be seen on the House 
floor in this Congress. I can't help but wonder: has he forgotten 
January 6?
  Indeed, this is a day of immense patriotism, immense patriotism as we 
reform the Electoral Count Act of 1987 to thwart future attempts to 
disrupt the peaceful transfer of power, and as I said before, here, in 
the heart of our democracy.

  Mr. Speaker, this is truly a package for the people. With immense 
gratitude to Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro, Chairman Patrick Leahy, and Vice 
Chair Shelby, I urge a strong bipartisan ``aye'' vote.
  I wish everyone a happy, healthy, and safe New Year. Happy Holidays. 
Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Hanukkah. Whatever it is you 
celebrate, be safe.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Garcia) my good friend and fellow Naval officer.
  Mr. GARCIA of California. Mr. Speaker, it is cold outside. It is 
about 24 degrees outside of the Chamber right now, and as a kid from 
southern California, that is especially cold. But that is not as cold 
as what is happening inside this Chamber.
  Right now, as we speak, our Nation is $31 trillion in debt. We are 
suffering from record-high inflation, and we are about to vote on a 
$1.7 trillion spending bill, a record-high spending bill that is going 
to aggravate these things; and more than half of the Members of 
Congress have not shown up to vote on this bill, not to engage in 
debate.
  The Democratic Party has not allowed us to bring this forward through 
the normal debate process, through the committees, through markups, 
just bringing it to the floor.
  Mr. Speaker, that is cold. The fact that this bill pays more credence 
to the borders of foreign nations like Tunisia and Egypt than to ours--
the fact that the Speaker of the House speaks of the personal desires 
and necessities of Members of Congress and prioritizes that over 
American citizens is cold.
  The fact that we, this week, had more Members of Congress show up to 
listen to a speech by a president of a foreign nation than to vote on 
the annual operating budget for our entire Nation is cold.
  We have to do better. We knew this budget was due on September 30 of 
this year, yet we decided to wait. The Appropriations Committee, the 
Republicans within the House Appropriations Committee, worked our tails 
off to make sure that we had something that was responsible; that gave 
back to America; that provided the security of Americans, and the 
Democrats in this House and in the Senate failed to bring that budget 
forward until the last minute.
  It is cold outside, but what we are doing as a body, what Members of 
this body are doing to the American people is so much colder.
  This $1.7 trillion will aggravate our debt. It will aggravate our 
inflation. During a season where families are now making decisions 
whether to buy their kids presents--
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the 
gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Clyde), my good friend, and also fellow 
Naval officer.
  Mr. CLYDE. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  If every Senate Republican did their job, we wouldn't be in this 
mess. Yet yesterday, 18 Republican Senators voted for this $1.7 
trillion omnibus bill in order to skip town for Christmas. Those Senate 
Republicans got played by the Democrats as expertly as my wife plays 
the violin.
  Unfortunately, we are likely to see Republicans in this body do the 
very same thing and get played the very same way as the Senate, hoping 
to quickly and quietly pass this massive spending bill with no 
questions or accountability.
  But Americans deserve the truth. A vote for this bill is a vote for 
increasing inflation as Americans struggle to afford the costs of 
living; bolstering foreign nations' border security, while woefully 
ignoring our wide-open southern border, rubber-stamping wasteful pork 
projects like LGBTQ museums, to bee-friendly highways and everything in 
between, empowering alphabet agencies like the ATF with more money, as 
bureaucrats destroy our Nation and infringe on our freedoms, pouring an 
additional $45 billion into Ukraine, with zero accountability, and 
green-lighting another year of the left's Big Government, socialist 
agenda, right before the end of Democrats' one-party rule in 
Washington.
  A vote for this omnibus bill is a vote for America last. I urge all 
my colleagues to reject the swamp status quo and stand up for America 
and vote ``no'' on this monstrosity.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman 
from Louisiana (Mr. Higgins), my good friend.
  Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, witness then the demise of a 
nation once great. Witness the arrogance of thieves in suits from their 
wealth and comfort as they spend the American treasure of a generation 
yet unborn.
  Witness as they smile, in full knowledge that they are comfortable 
with taking the position that they are better managers of our Nation's 
decline.
  But witness ye, also, that the American people have had enough. We 
struggle, we the people. Americans from sea to shining sea cannot pay 
for groceries or fuel. They are cold and hungry and feel betrayed by 
this body.
  I understand that sentiment and passion because I share it.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.

                              {time}  1200

  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I would tell the gentleman from Louisiana 
(Mr. Higgins) that his veterans bill is included in this omnibus 
package.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time 
to close.
  Mr. Speaker, I say again that in modern American history, a lameduck 
omnibus package has never been passed before the new majority takes 
over.
  Where is the claim that there is a threat to democracy? Where is the 
talk about institutional integrity when we are doing this unprecedented 
step?
  This package is designed to sideline the incoming Republican House 
majority, to sideline incoming Speaker Kevin McCarthy by extending many 
programs in this bill for multiple years and providing large funding 
increases for Democrat priorities. This is on top of the out-of-control 
spending that has led to historic inflation rates this year.
  Why are we not curbing wasteful government spending? Why are we not 
funding border security and border enforcement? Why are we not 
unleashing American energy dominance? Why are we not investing in our 
law enforcement officers?
  This omnibus does nothing to effectively address any of the crises 
that we are currently facing.
  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. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Mr. Speaker, the decision before us today is clear. Either we choose 
to do the job the American people elected us to do and vote for a good 
bipartisan, bicameral bill, or we shut down the government 2 days 
before Christmas as a massive storm wreaks havoc on Americans' holiday 
travel plans. It is as simple as that.
  Games like the one House Republicans are playing by using this bill 
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counterparts in the Senate is equal parts dangerous and destructive.
  As Republican Senator Kevin Cramer said: ``The reality is this kind 
of chest-thumping and immaturity doesn't instill confidence in their 
ability to lead.''
  You hear it all the time: Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the 
good. I will be one of the first to say that this bill isn't perfect. 
It doesn't address everything I wanted, nor does it address everything 
in the way I wanted. But it is a good bill.
  It was put together through hours of hard-fought negotiations that 
involved Members in both Chambers from both sides of the aisle. It is 
not anyone's fault but their own that House Republicans chose to walk 
away from the negotiating table.
  At the end of the day, we are here to legislate, to get stuff done. 
We are here to help the American people, and that requires us to keep 
the lights on.
  The last time Republicans held the majority in the House, they left 
us in a prolonged government shutdown that cost our country and 
taxpayers over $11 billion. I can promise you that the Democrats have 
no plan of letting that happen under our watch.
  We must pass this rule and the underlying bill and get it to the 
President's desk.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``yes'' vote on the rule and the previous 
question.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the 
previous question on the resolution.
  The previous question was ordered.
  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.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 215, 
nays 206, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 547]

                               YEAS--215

     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
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis, Danny K.
     Dean
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Demings
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Frankel, Lois
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Golden
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs (CA)
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (TX)
     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
     Pelosi
     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)
     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
     Brooks
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Budd
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Cheney
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Comer
     Conway
     Crawford
     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
     Garbarino
     Garcia (CA)
     Gibbs
     Gimenez
     Gohmert
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez (OH)
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hartzler
     Hern
     Herrell
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Issa
     Jackson
     Jacobs (NY)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Katko
     Keller
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McHenry
     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
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zeldin

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Buck
     Cawthorn
     Crenshaw
     Gallagher
     Hollingsworth
     Johnson (GA)
     Jones
     Kinzinger
     McKinley
     Torres (NY)

                              {time}  1234

  Mr. CARTER of Georgia and Mrs. MILLER of West Virginia changed their 
vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  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.
  Stated for:
  Mr. JONES. Mr. Speaker, I regret that I was delayed by traffic to 
vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 
547.


    Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress

     Aguilar (Soto)
     Amodei (Balderson)
     Auchincloss (Wasserman Schultz)
     Axne (Pappas)
     Babin (Nehls)
     Bacon (Flood)
     Baird (Bucshon)
     Barr (Donalds)
     Barragan (Clarke (NY))
     Beatty (Cherfilus-McCormick)
     Bentz (Fitzgerald)
     Bera (Beyer)
     Bishop (GA) (Strickland)
     Blumenauer (Beyer)
     Bonamici (Wasserman Schultz)
     Brooks (Moore (AL))
     Brown (MD)
     (Ruppersberger)
     Brown (OH) (Cherfilus-McCormick)
     Brownley (Correa)
     Buchanan (Bucshon)
     Budd (Kustoff)
     Burgess (Weber (TX))
     Bush (Bowman)
     Bustos (Pappas)
     Cardenas (Soto)
     Carter (GA) (Murphy (NC))
     Carter (TX) (Nehls)
     Cartwright (Beyer)
     Castor (FL) (Wasserman Schultz)
     Castro (TX) (Takano)
     Chu (Takano)
     Cleaver (Davids (KS))
     Clyburn (Wasserman Schultz)
     Cohen (Casten)
     Conway (Valadao)
     Cooper (Beyer)
     Costa (Correa)
     Courtney (Perlmutter)
     Crawford (Moore (AL))
     Crow (Blunt Rochester)
     Cuellar (Garcia (TX))
     Curtis (Armstrong)
     Davis, Danny K. (Evans)
     Dean (Evans)
     DeFazio (Pallone)
     DeGette (Blunt Rochester)
     DelBene (Strickland)
     Demings (Evans)
     DeSaulnier (Beyer)
     DesJarlais (Fleischmann)
     Doggett (Takano)
     Doyle, Michael F. (Evans)
     Duncan (Weber (TX))
     Escobar (Garcia (TX))
     Ferguson (Kustoff)
     Fletcher (Evans)
     Flores (Weber (TX))
     Foster (Casten)
     Frankel, Lois (Wasserman Schultz)
     Gallego (Beyer)
     Garamendi (Correa)
     Garbarino (Fischbach)
     Garcia (IL) (Correa)
     Gibbs (Joyce (PA))
     Gimenez (Diaz-Balart)
     Gomez (Torres (CA))
     Gonzales, Tony (Weber (TX))
     Gonzalez, Vicente (Garcia (TX))
     Gooden (TX) (Joyce (PA))
     Gosar (Weber (TX))
     Gottheimer (Craig)
     Graves (MO) (Fleischmann)
     Greene (GA) (Moore (AL))
     Grijalva (Torres (CA))
     Grothman (Fitzgerald)
     Hartzler (Weber (TX))
     Hayes (Raskin)
     Hern (Flood)
     Herrell (Joyce (PA))
     Herrera Beutler (Valadao)
     Hice (GA) (Bishop (NC))
     Higgins (NY) (Pallone)
     Houlahan (Evans)
     Hudson (Rouzer)
     Huffman (Casten)
     Issa (Calvert)
     Jackson (Nehls)
     Jacobs (NY) (Zeldin)
     Jayapal (Cicilline)
     Johnson (LA) (Nehls)

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     Johnson (TX) (Pallone)
     Joyce (OH) (Valadao)
     Kahele (Correa)
     Katko (Kim (CA))
     Keating (Perlmutter)
     Kelly (IL) (Casten)
     Kelly (PA) (Keller)
     Khanna (Blunt Rochester)
     Kildee (Evans)
     Kilmer (Strickland)
     Kind (Beyer)
     Kirkpatrick (Pallone)
     Krishnamoorthi (Pappas)
     Kuster (Pappas)
     LaHood (Kustoff)
     LaMalfa (Fleischmann)
     Lamborn (Fleischmann)
     Langevin (Pappas)
     Larson (CT) (Blunt Rochester)
     LaTurner (Valadao)
     Lawrence (Garcia (TX))
     Lawson (FL) (Evans)
     Lee (NV) (Pappas)
     Leger Fernandez (Perlmutter)
     Letlow (Nehls)
     Lofgren (Takano)
     Long (Bucshon)
     Loudermilk (Fleischmann)
     Lowenthal (Beyer)
     Luetkemeyer (Kim (CA))
     Luria (Connolly)
     Lynch (Pappas)
     Mace (Nehls)
     Malliotakis (Yakym)
     Maloney, Sean P. (Torres (CA))
     Manning (Ross)
     McBath (Strickland)
     McCaul (Weber (TX))
     McClain (Fitzgerald)
     McHenry (Donalds)
     Meeks (Cherfilus-McCormick)
     Meijer (Upton)
     Meng (Clarke (NY))
     Meuser (Nehls)
     Miller (IL) (Donalds)
     Miller (WV) (Murphy (NC))
     Miller-Meeks (Keller)
     Moolenaar (Bergman)
     Moore (UT) (Armstrong)
     Moore (WI) (Raskin)
     Morelle (Perlmutter)
     Moulton (Pappas)
     Mrvan (Perlmutter)
     Murphy (FL) (Wasserman Schultz)
     Napolitano (Correa)
     Neal (Evans)
     Neguse (Perlmutter)
     Newman (Correa)
     Obernolte (Pfluger)
     Ocasio-Cortez (Bowman)
     O'Halleran (Pappas)
     Omar (Blunt Rochester)
     Owens (Armstrong)
     Palazzo (Fleischmann)
     Pascrell (Pallone)
     Payne (Pallone)
     Peters (Torres (CA))
     Pingree (Beyer)
     Pocan (Raskin)
     Porter (Beyer)
     Posey (Diaz-Balart)
     Pressley (Perlmutter)
     Price (NC) (Ross)
     Quigley (Blunt Rochester)
     Rice (NY) (Wasserman Schultz)
     Rice (SC) (Weber (TX))
     Rodgers (WA) (Bilirakis)
     Rogers (AL) (Calvert)
     Rogers (KY) (Fleischmann)
     Roybal-Allard (Correa)
     Ruiz (Takano)
     Rush (Torres (CA))
     Ryan (OH) (Blunt Rochester)
     Salazar (Dunn)
     Sanchez (Levin (CA))
     Scanlon (Evans)
     Schakowsky (Casten)
     Schneider (Perlmutter)
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  December 23, 2022, on page H10074, in the first column, the 
following appeared: Tiffany (Fitzgerald) Timmons (Fleischmann) 
Titus (Pallone)
  
  The online version has been corrected to read: Tiffany 
(Fitzgerald) Titus (Pallone)


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