[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H3524-H3572]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              {time}  1700
                    ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings 
will now resume on those amendments printed in House Report 118-142 on 
which further proceedings were postponed, in the following order:
  Amendment no. 27 by Mr. Blumenauer of Oregon.
  Amendment no. 28 by Ms. Tlaib of Michigan.
  Amendment no. 5 by Mr. Jackson of Texas.
  Amendment no. 10 by Mr. Rosendale of Montana.
  Amendment no. 20 by Mr. Norman of South Carolina.
  Amendment no. 21 by Ms. Greene of Georgia.
  Amendment no. 22 by Mr. Gaetz of Florida.
  Amendment no. 23 by Ms. Greene of Georgia.
  Amendment no. 24 by Mr. Davidson of Ohio.
  Amendment no. 25 by Mr. Ogles of Tennessee.
  Amendment no. 30 by Mr. Roy of Texas.
  Amendment no. 31 by Mr. Roy of Texas.
  The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the time for any electronic vote 
after the first vote in this series.


               Amendment No. 27 Offered by Mr. Blumenauer

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 27, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Blumenauer), on which further 
proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice 
vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 198, 
noes 217, not voting 24, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 298]

                               AYES--198

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Buck
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Espaillat
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Massie
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Norcross
     Norton
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Santos
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                               NOES--217

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Case
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Costa
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     Deluzio
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Gottheimer
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Luetkemeyer

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     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perez
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Salazar
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--24

     Armstrong
     Barr
     Barragan
     Bice
     Cammack
     Duncan
     Eshoo
     Evans
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Gallego
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Greene (GA)
     Joyce (OH)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kim (CA)
     Lucas
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Rose
     Thompson (PA)
     Wexton
     Williams (NY)

                              {time}  1722

  Messrs. KEAN of New Jersey, COMER, SIMPSON, Ms. SALAZAR, Messrs. 
BUCHANAN, MIKE GARCIA of California, Ms. LEE of Florida, Mr. BILIRAKIS, 
Mrs. LESKO, Messrs. MOSKOWITZ, DELUZIO, and MURPHY and changed their 
vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  Mr. IVEY, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Ms. TLAIB, Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, Ms. 
PELOSI, Mr. BERA, Ms. McCOLLUM, and Mr. CARBAJAL changed their vote 
from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ. Mr. Chair, I was unable to be present for rollcall 
No. 298 due to the limited voting window made available for members. 
Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye'' on rollcall No. 298.
  Stated against:
  Mrs. KIM of California. Mr. Chair, had I been present, I would have 
voted ``no'' on rollcall No. 298.


                 Amendment No. 28 Offered by Ms. Tlaib

  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Womack). The unfinished business is the demand 
for a recorded vote on amendment No. 28, printed in House Report 118-
142 offered by the gentlewoman from Michigan (Ms. Tlaib), on which 
further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by 
voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 160, 
noes 266, not voting 13, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 299]

                               AYES--160

     Adams
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Brown
     Brownley
     Bush
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Courtney
     Crockett
     Crow
     Davis (IL)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Houlahan
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Matsui
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Norcross
     Norton
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sherman
     Smith (WA)
     Soto
     Stansbury
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Trahan
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                               NOES--266

     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Boyle (PA)
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Caraveo
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Case
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Correa
     Costa
     Craig
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davidson
     Davis (NC)
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flood
     Foxx
     Frankel, Lois
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Golden (ME)
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Gottheimer
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harder (CA)
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houchin
     Hoyer
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Magaziner
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Manning
     Massie
     Mast
     McBath
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Moylan
     Mrvan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Panetta
     Pence
     Perry
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Pfluger
     Plaskett
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Ruppersberger
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Sewell
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Sorensen
     Spanberger
     Spartz
     Stanton
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Torres (NY)
     Trone
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Vasquez
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Chavez-DeRemer
     Emmer
     Evans
     Gallego
     Hoyle (OR)
     Jackson Lee
     Kelly (PA)
     Mullin
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Rogers (KY)
     Wexton
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1725

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


            Amendment No. 5 Offered by Mr. Jackson of Texas

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 5, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Jackson), on which further 
proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice 
vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.

[[Page H3526]]

  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 221, 
noes 213, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 300]

                               AYES--221

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--213

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Duarte
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fitzpatrick
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Evans
     Gallego
     Kelly (PA)
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1729

  Mr. CUELLAR changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


               Amendment No. 10 Offered by Mr. Rosendale

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 10, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentleman from Montana (Mr. Rosendale), on which further 
proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice 
vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 222, 
noes 211, not voting 7, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 301]

                               AYES--222

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--211

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)

[[Page H3527]]


     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Duarte
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Evans
     Gallego
     Kelly (PA)
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1732

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                 Amendment No. 20 Offered by Mr. Norman

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 20, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Norman), on which 
further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by 
voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 222, 
noes 210, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 302]

                               AYES--222

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--210

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Buck
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Evans
     Gallego
     Kelly (PA)
     Kuster
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1735

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Ms. KUSTER. Mr. Chair, had I been present, I would have voted ``no'' 
on rollcall No. 302.


           Amendment No. 21 Offered by Ms. Greene of Georgia

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 21, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentlewoman from Georgia (Ms. Greene), on which further 
proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice 
vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.

[[Page H3528]]

  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 89, 
noes 341, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 303]

                                AYES--89

     Alford
     Arrington
     Babin
     Balderson
     Banks
     Bean (FL)
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Brecheen
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Cammack
     Carl
     Cline
     Cloud
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Davidson
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Edwards
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Greene (GA)
     Guest
     Hageman
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Houchin
     Hunt
     Jackson (TX)
     Johnson (LA)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     LaMalfa
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mann
     Massie
     McClain
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moran
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Norman
     Ogles
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rosendale
     Roy
     Santos
     Self
     Smith (MO)
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Steube
     Stewart
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Weber (TX)
     Williams (TX)
     Zinke

                               NOES--341

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Allen
     Allred
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balint
     Barr
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bentz
     Bera
     Bergman
     Beyer
     Bice
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bost
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Calvert
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carey
     Carson
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (LA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Clyde
     Cohen
     Cole
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crenshaw
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Duarte
     Dunn (FL)
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flood
     Foster
     Foushee
     Foxx
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallagher
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Mike
     Garcia, Robert
     Gimenez
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Gottheimer
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Green, Al (TX)
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Grothman
     Guthrie
     Harder (CA)
     Harris
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Hudson
     Huffman
     Huizenga
     Issa
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Joyce (OH)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (MS)
     Khanna
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kildee
     Kiley
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     Lamborn
     Landsman
     Langworthy
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lynch
     Mace
     Magaziner
     Malliotakis
     Manning
     Mast
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCaul
     McClellan
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McCormick
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     McHenry
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Meuser
     Mfume
     Miller (OH)
     Miller-Meeks
     Molinaro
     Moore (UT)
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Moylan
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Owens
     Pallone
     Palmer
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Pence
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Ross
     Rouzer
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salazar
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sessions
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Smucker
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Spartz
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Steel
     Steil
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Strong
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Tenney
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Turner
     Underwood
     Valadao
     Van Orden
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Cherfilus-McCormick
     De La Cruz
     Evans
     Gallego
     Kelly (PA)
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Simpson
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1738

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                 Amendment No. 22 Offered by Mr. Gaetz

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 22, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Gaetz), on which further 
proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice 
vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 70, 
noes 358, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 304]

                                AYES--70

     Babin
     Balderson
     Banks
     Bean (FL)
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Brecheen
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Cammack
     Carl
     Cline
     Cloud
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Davidson
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Greene (GA)
     Hageman
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Houchin
     Hunt
     Jackson (TX)
     Johnson (LA)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     LaMalfa
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mann
     Massie
     McClain
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Nehls
     Norman
     Ogles
     Perry
     Reschenthaler
     Rosendale
     Roy
     Self
     Stauber
     Steube
     Tiffany
     Van Drew
     Weber (TX)
     Williams (TX)

                               NOES--358

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Alford
     Allen
     Allred
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balint
     Barr
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bentz
     Bera
     Bergman
     Beyer
     Bice
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bost
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Calvert
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Carey
     Carson
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (LA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Clyde
     Cohen
     Cole
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     De La Cruz
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Duarte
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Estes
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flood
     Foster
     Foushee
     Foxx
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallagher
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Mike
     Garcia, Robert
     Gimenez
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Gottheimer
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Green, Al (TX)
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Harris
     Hayes
     Higgins (LA)
     Higgins (NY)
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Hudson
     Huffman
     Huizenga
     Issa
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Joyce (OH)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (MS)
     Khanna
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kildee
     Kiley
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     Lamborn
     Landsman
     Langworthy
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lynch
     Mace
     Magaziner
     Malliotakis
     Manning
     Mast
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCaul
     McClellan
     McClintock
     McCollum

[[Page H3529]]


     McCormick
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     McHenry
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Miller (OH)
     Miller-Meeks
     Molinaro
     Moore (UT)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Moylan
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Murphy
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Owens
     Pallone
     Palmer
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Pence
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Pfluger
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Posey
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Ross
     Rouzer
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salazar
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Santos
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Smucker
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Spartz
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Stevens
     Stewart
     Strickland
     Strong
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Tenney
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Timmons
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Turner
     Underwood
     Valadao
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Cardenas
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Evans
     Gallego
     Harder (CA)
     Kelly (PA)
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Sessions
     Smith (MO)
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1740

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Mr. MEUSER. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 304, I mistakenly voted 
``aye'' when I intended to vote ``no.''


           Amendment No. 23 Offered by Ms. Greene of Georgia

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 23, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentlewoman from Georgia (Ms. Greene), on which further 
proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice 
vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 95, 
noes 332, answered ``present'' 2, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 305]

                                AYES--95

     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Balderson
     Banks
     Bean (FL)
     Biggs
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buck
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Cammack
     Cline
     Cloud
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Davidson
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Gaetz
     Garcia, Mike
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Graves (LA)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Grothman
     Guest
     Hageman
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Houchin
     Hunt
     Jackson (TX)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Langworthy
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     Loudermilk
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McClintock
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Nehls
     Norman
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rosendale
     Roy
     Santos
     Schweikert
     Self
     Stauber
     Steube
     Tenney
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Zinke

                               NOES--332

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Alford
     Allen
     Allred
     Amodei
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balint
     Barr
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bentz
     Bera
     Bergman
     Beyer
     Bice
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Calvert
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carey
     Carl
     Carson
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (LA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Clyde
     Cohen
     Cole
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crenshaw
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     De La Cruz
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Duarte
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Ferguson
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flood
     Foster
     Foushee
     Foxx
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gallagher
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Gimenez
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Gottheimer
     Granger
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al (TX)
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Guthrie
     Harder (CA)
     Harris
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Hudson
     Huffman
     Huizenga
     Issa
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Joyce (OH)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (MS)
     Khanna
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kildee
     Kiley
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     Lamborn
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Letlow
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Malliotakis
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     McHenry
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Meuser
     Mfume
     Miller-Meeks
     Molinaro
     Moore (UT)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Moylan
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Owens
     Pallone
     Palmer
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Pence
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Ross
     Rouzer
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salazar
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sessions
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Smucker
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Spartz
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Stevens
     Stewart
     Strickland
     Strong
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Turner
     Underwood
     Valadao
     Van Orden
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--2

     McCormick
     Murphy
       

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Evans
     Feenstra
     Gallego
     Kelly (PA)
     Ogles
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Smith (MO)
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1744

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Mr. McCORMICK. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 305, I mistakenly voted 
``present'' when I intended to vote ``no.''


                Amendment No. 24 Offered by Mr. Davidson

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 24, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Davidson), on which further 
proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice 
vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.

[[Page H3530]]

  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 129, 
noes 301, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 306]

                               AYES--129

     Armstrong
     Babin
     Balderson
     Banks
     Bean (FL)
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Brecheen
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Curtis
     Davidson
     DesJarlais
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Houchin
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Jackson (TX)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kustoff
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Langworthy
     LaTurner
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McClain
     McClintock
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moran
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Palmer
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rosendale
     Roy
     Santos
     Schweikert
     Self
     Stauber
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Tenney
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wittman
     Zinke

                               NOES--301

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Alford
     Allen
     Allred
     Amodei
     Arrington
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balint
     Barr
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bentz
     Bera
     Bergman
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bost
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Buchanan
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Calvert
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (LA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crenshaw
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     De La Cruz
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Duarte
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Feenstra
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flood
     Foster
     Foushee
     Foxx
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallagher
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Mike
     Garcia, Robert
     Gimenez
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Gottheimer
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Guthrie
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Hudson
     Huffman
     Issa
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Joyce (OH)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kildee
     Kiley
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     LaHood
     Lamborn
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCaul
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McCormick
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Miller-Meeks
     Molinaro
     Moore (UT)
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Moylan
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Owens
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Pence
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Ross
     Rouzer
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salazar
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sessions
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Smucker
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Spartz
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Strong
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Turner
     Underwood
     Valadao
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)
     Womack
     Yakym

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Evans
     Gallego
     Granger
     Kelly (PA)
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Smith (MO)
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1748

  Mr. STRONG changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                 Amendment No. 25 Offered by Mr. Ogles

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 25, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Ogles), on which further 
proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice 
vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 71, 
noes 360, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 307]

                                AYES--71

     Babin
     Balderson
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Cammack
     Carl
     Cline
     Cloud
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Davidson
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fry
     Gaetz
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Greene (GA)
     Grothman
     Guest
     Hageman
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Houchin
     Hunt
     Jackson (TX)
     Johnson (LA)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     LaMalfa
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mann
     Massie
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Mills
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Nehls
     Norman
     Ogles
     Perry
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rosendale
     Roy
     Self
     Stauber
     Steube
     Tiffany
     Van Drew
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Williams (TX)
     Zinke

                               NOES--360

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Alford
     Allen
     Allred
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balint
     Banks
     Barr
     Barragan
     Bean (FL)
     Beatty
     Bentz
     Bera
     Bergman
     Beyer
     Bice
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Calvert
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carey
     Carson
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (LA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Clyde
     Cohen
     Cole
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     De La Cruz
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Estes
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flood
     Foster
     Foushee
     Foxx
     Frankel, Lois
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Frost
     Fulcher
     Gallagher
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Mike
     Garcia, Robert
     Gimenez
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Gottheimer
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Green, Al (TX)
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Guthrie
     Harder (CA)
     Harris
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Hudson
     Huffman
     Huizenga
     Issa
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Joyce (OH)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (MS)
     Khanna
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kildee
     Kiley
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     Lamborn
     Landsman
     Langworthy
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (FL)

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     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lynch
     Mace
     Magaziner
     Malliotakis
     Manning
     Mast
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClellan
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McCormick
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     McHenry
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Meuser
     Mfume
     Miller (OH)
     Miller-Meeks
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Moore (UT)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Moylan
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Murphy
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Owens
     Pallone
     Palmer
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Pence
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Pfluger
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Ross
     Rouzer
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salazar
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Santos
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sessions
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Smucker
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Spartz
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Stevens
     Stewart
     Strickland
     Strong
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Tenney
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Timmons
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Turner
     Underwood
     Valadao
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Evans
     Gallego
     Kelly (PA)
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Smith (MO)
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1751

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                  Amendment No. 30 Offered by Mr. Roy

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 30, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy), on which further 
proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice 
vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 217, 
noes 212, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 308]

                               AYES--217

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--212

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fitzpatrick
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Evans
     Gallego
     Gonzales, Tony
     Kelly (PA)
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Smith (MO)
     Wexton
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1754

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                          personal explanation

  Ms. WEXTON. Mr. Chair, I regret that I was not able to be present for 
rollcall Nos. 298, 299, and 308 on the Blumenauer, Tlaib, and Roy 
amendments to H.R. 2670. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye'' 
on rollcall No. 298, ``no'' on rollcall No. 299, and ``no'' on rollcall 
No. 308.


                  Amendment No. 31 Offered by Mr. Roy

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 31, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy), on which further 
proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice 
vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.

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                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 227, 
noes 201, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 309]

                               AYES--227

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Auchincloss
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     Davis (NC)
     De La Cruz
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Golden (ME)
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moulton
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pappas
     Pence
     Perez
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--201

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Norcross
     Norton
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1

     Boyle (PA)
       
       

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Cherfilus-McCormick
     DesJarlais
     Evans
     Gallego
     Gonzales, Tony
     Kelly (PA)
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Smith (MO)
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting Chair (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1757

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                 Amendment No. 32 Offered by Mr. Crane

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 32 
printed in House Report 118-142.
  Mr. CRANE. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of subtitle G of title X, insert the following:

     SEC. 5__. PROTECTION OF IDEOLOGICAL FREEDOM.

       Section 2001 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(c) Protection of Ideological Freedom.--(1) No employee 
     of the Department of Defense or of a military department, 
     including any member of the armed forces, may compel, teach, 
     instruct, or train any member of the armed forces, whether 
     serving on active duty, serving in a reserve component, 
     attending a military service academy, or attending a course 
     conducted by a military department pursuant to a Reserve 
     Officer Corps Training program, to believe any of the 
     politically-based concepts referred to in paragraph (4).
       ``(2) No employee of the Department of Defense or of a 
     military department, including any member of the armed forces 
     may be compelled to declare a belief in, or adherence to, or 
     participate in training or education of any kind that 
     promotes any of the politically-based concepts referred to in 
     paragraph (4) a condition of recruitment, retention, 
     promotion, transfer, assignment, or other favorable personnel 
     action.
       ``(3) The Department of Defense and the military 
     departments may not promote race-based or ideological 
     concepts that promote the differential treatment of any 
     individual or groups of individuals based on race, color, 
     sex, or national origin, including any of politically-based 
     concepts referred to in paragraph (4).
       ``(4) A politically-based concept referred to in this 
     paragraph is any of the following:
       ``(A) Members of one race, color, sex, or national origin 
     are morally superior to members of another race, color, sex, 
     or national origin.
       ``(B) An individual, by virtue of his or her race, color, 
     sex, or national origin, is inherently racist, sexist, or 
     oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously.
       ``(C) An individual's moral character or status as either 
     privileged or oppressed is necessarily determined by his or 
     her race, color, sex, or national origin.
       ``(D) Members of one race, color, sex, or national origin 
     cannot and should not attempt to treat others without respect 
     to race, color, sex, or national origin.
       ``(E) An individual, by virtue of his or her race, color, 
     sex, or national origin, bears responsibility for, or should 
     be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment because 
     of, actions committed in the past by other members of the 
     same race, color, sex, or national origin.
       ``(F) An individual, by virtue of his or her race, color, 
     sex, or national origin, should be discriminated against or 
     receive adverse treatment to achieve diversity, equity, or 
     inclusion.
       ``(G) An individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, 
     or any other form of psychological distress on account of his 
     or her race, color, sex, or national origin.
       ``(H) Such virtues as merit, excellence, hard work, 
     fairness, neutrality, objectivity, and racial colorblindness 
     are racist or sexist, or were created by members of a 
     particular race, color, sex, or national origin to oppress 
     members of another race, color, sex, or national origin.
       ``(5) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as 
     compelling any individual to believe or refrain from 
     believing in any politically-based concept referred to in 
     paragraph (4) in their private and personal capacity.''.

  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Bucshon). Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the 
gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Crane) and a Member opposed each will 
control 5 minutes.

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  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Arizona.
  Mr. CRANE. Mr. Chairman, today, I rise before you with a critical 
amendment that remedies the harm imposed by political and military 
leaders who emphasize social justice, progressive dogma, and climate 
issues against the dedicated men and women of our Armed Forces, who 
joined to defend our country.
  My amendment specifically prohibits DOD from considering race, 
gender, religion, or political affiliations, or any other ideological 
concepts as the sole basis for recruitment, training, education, 
promotion, or retention decisions.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mrs. BEATTY. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Ohio is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mrs. BEATTY. Mr. Chair, this week, Republicans are choosing MAGA 
extremism over our military, over women's health rights, and over 
diversity, equity, and inclusion.
  Our military, Mr. Chairman, was founded to fight for the freedom of 
all our citizens. House Republicans have threatened democracy with 
these divisive amendments, setting us back in history far before civil 
rights and taking us back to slavery. The very fabric of our country 
stands on equal rights, freedoms, and the decisions of all our 
citizens.
  They are divisive amendments using the defense bill to undermine the 
freedom for us to learn about one another, for us to hire one another, 
and for us to understand our cultures.
  It would bring us together if we did DEI. Even your own chairman of 
the Financial Services Committee said that we would include diversity 
and inclusion in our committees because we are stronger when we are 
together.
  Democrats have long advocated for more rights, not for less, for more 
access for those marginalized, and for more freedom for those who are 
considered citizens of our beloved country.
  Mr. Chairman, this is wrong, and we are better than that. It is very 
difficult as a Black woman for me to stand on this House floor and have 
my colleagues say that there is no value and no need for diversity, 
equity, and inclusion.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRANE. Mr. Chair, I think it is interesting that my colleague 
talks about the divisiveness of this amendment. It is not divisive at 
all. What is divisive is how the military is becoming a political and 
social experiment.
  I don't know how many people over there or how many other people in 
this Chamber served in the military, but I happened to join the Navy 
the week after 9/11. I can tell you this, Mr. Chair: I served with all 
sorts of people from all over the country of multiple colors.
  Do you know what, Mr. Chair? The people whom I served with were there 
not because of what race they were. They were there because they passed 
the standards. They were there because they were the best of the best.
  Do you know what, Mr. Chair? That made me feel really safe when we 
were going into the most dangerous parts of the world.
  That is what we need to continue. We need to have a military that 
continues to be the strongest military in the world because of 
standards and because the people whom we have there are the best of the 
best.
  The military was never intended to be inclusive. Its strength is not 
its diversity. Its strength is its standards. Diversity can be a great 
thing, but that should not be our focus.
  I can tell you right now that you can keep playing around with these 
games of diversity, equity, and inclusion, but there are some real 
threats out there, and if we keep messing around and keep lowering our 
standards, it is not going to be good.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. Members are reminded to direct their remarks to the 
Chair.
  Mrs. BEATTY. Mr. Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
California (Ms. Chu).
  Ms. CHU. Mr. Chair, I rise in strong opposition to these amendments 
to the National Defense Authorization Act, which aren't designed to 
protect our national security or support the men and women in uniform 
who protect our freedoms.
  These amendments are anti-diversity and anti-freedom. They hurt women 
and restrict access to necessary abortion care. They are homophobic. 
They censor servicemembers. They deny the existence of trans people. 
They needlessly undermine our military's readiness and effectiveness. 
They even attack our domestic film industry.
  Further, these amendments seek to interfere with international 
collaboration on research by targeting Asian researchers and scientists 
and then peddle conspiracy theories about COVID-19.
  As chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, I have 
to underscore how these amendments open the door to more hate, 
violence, and profiling of Asian Americans, especially after 3 years of 
increased anti-Asian hate.
  Ultimately, what was a bipartisan bill in committee has become a 
vehicle for MAGA Republican extremism.
  Vote ``no.''
  Mr. CRANE. Mr. Chair, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from 
Maryland (Mr. Harris).
  Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Chair, the gentleman from Arizona has it absolutely 
right. When I was in the military as a physician, what you wanted when 
you were injured in battle, Mr. Chair, was the best person taking care 
of you with the greatest skill. You didn't care what the color of their 
skin was. You didn't care what their religion was. You didn't care what 
their background was. You wanted a highly trained individual who was 
going to keep our fighting force healthy.
  Mr. Chair, that is why we need this amendment, to protect our men and 
women serving this country. This has nothing to do with other 
amendments. It is about having a fighting force that is the best in the 
world.

  Mrs. BEATTY. Mr. Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
Texas (Mrs. Fletcher).
  Mrs. FLETCHER. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment and 
to the amendments that this body has debated here today and what they 
have done to this traditionally bipartisan process, and, more 
importantly, what they do to the members of our armed services, 
especially our women in uniform.
  In 2021, women made up more than 17 percent of our Active-Duty force, 
231,000 members, and 21 percent of our National Guard and Reserves. 
More than 23,000 of them are stationed in Texas.
  Every day, the women of the United States military fight for our 
freedom, yet, today, House Republicans are asking these women to fight 
for your freedom while they just voted to take away theirs.
  Mr. CRANE. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mrs. BEATTY. Mr. Chair, may I inquire how much time I have remaining.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Ohio has 1 minute remaining.
  Mrs. BEATTY. Mr. Chair, in closing, let me just say that this is 
difficult today, but let me assure my colleagues on the other side of 
the aisle that we are not playing games. Let me assure my colleagues on 
the other side of the aisle that we take this very seriously and very 
personally.
  Let me assure my colleagues on the other side of the aisle that when 
we use a defense bill, when we use our military--I am old enough to 
remember when Black officers and when women were not allowed to serve--
you are setting us back on this floor on both sides of the aisle.
  We have people of color, people who have served, women who have 
served on this side of the aisle, and to use it to deny women rights to 
their reproductive rights, to use this as an excuse in a political 
maneuver, we are so serious that this has become something that is very 
difficult for us to stand on this floor and work with you and look at 
you for something that is so appalling.
  The ACTING Chair. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
  Members are again reminded to direct their remarks to the Chair.

                              {time}  1815

  Mr. CRANE. Mr. Chairman, that was unbelievably inspiring. My 
amendment has nothing to do with whether or not * * * Black people or 
anybody can

[[Page H3534]]

serve. Okay. It has nothing to do with the color of your skin, any of 
that stuff.
  What we want to preserve and maintain is the fact that our military 
does not become a social experiment. We want the best of the best. We 
want to have standards that guide who is in what unit, and what they 
do.
  And I am going to tell you guys right now the Russians, the Chinese, 
the Iranians, the North Koreans, they are not doing this because they 
want the strongest military possible. I hope my colleagues on the other 
side can understand what we are doing.
  Mrs. BEATTY. Mr. Chair, I was asking to be recognized to have the 
words colored people--
  The Acting CHAIR. For what purpose does the gentlewoman seek 
recognition?
  Mrs. BEATTY. Mr. Chair, I would like to be recognized to have the 
words colored people stricken from the Record. I find it offensive and 
very inappropriate.
  The Acting CHAIR. Is the gentlewoman asking for unanimous consent to 
take down the words?
  Mrs. BEATTY. Mr. Chair, I am asking for unanimous consent to take 
down the words of referring to me or any of my colleagues as colored 
people.
  The Acting CHAIR. For what purpose does the gentleman from Arizona 
seek recognition?
  Mr. CRANE. Mr. Chair, can I amend my comments to people of color?
  Mrs. BEATTY. I have asked unanimous consent, Mr. Chair, to have the 
words stricken. I didn't ask for an amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. Is there unanimous consent to have the words 
withdrawn?
  Without objection, so ordered.
  Mr. CRANE. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Crane).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mrs. BEATTY. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Arizona will 
be postponed.


                 Amendment No. 33 Offered by Mr. Norman

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 33 
printed in House Report 118-142.
  Mr. NORMAN. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of subtitle G of title V, add the following:

     SEC. 5__. ELIMINATION OF OFFICES OF DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND 
                   INCLUSION AND PERSONNEL OF SUCH OFFICES.

       Every office of the Armed Forces and of the Department of 
     Defense established to promote diversity, equity, and 
     inclusion is eliminated and the employment of all personnel 
     of such offices is terminated.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentleman 
from South Carolina (Mr. Norman) and a Member opposed each will control 
5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from South Carolina.
  Mr. NORMAN. Mr. Chair, again, I cannot believe we are sitting here 
debating this issue with all of the problems this country has. The fact 
that we are taking up this much time is bizarre to me.
  The overview of this amendment is the fact that the military's sole 
purpose is to provide for the defense of our Nation. Our military's 
focus should be the protection of the American people and our freedoms, 
not liberals' feelings.
  Therefore, my amendment would eliminate any offices of diversity, 
equity, and inclusion in the Armed Forces and the Department of 
Defense.
  We should be spending our hard-earned tax dollars to focus on 
diversity of ideas. We should be focused on diversity of ideas and 
opinions, not races and genders. DEI programs tend to be ineffective, 
and the cost to the taxpayer is spending more money that we don't have.
  To sum this up, a woke military is a weak military. The fact is that 
woke ideology undermines military readiness in various ways. It 
undermines cohesiveness by emphasizing differences based on race, 
ethnicity, and sex.
  It undermines leadership authority by introducing questions about 
whether promotion is based on merit or quota requirements.
  It leads to military personnel serving in specialties and areas for 
which they are not qualified or ready. It takes time and resources away 
from training activities and weapons development that contribute to the 
readiness.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. TOKUDA. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Hawaii is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. TOKUDA. Mr. Chair, I don't get this whole woke reference, but I 
am definitely awake after what I have heard on this floor today.
  During our markup, we heard repeatedly that the PRC and Russia--even 
today we heard it--they aren't spending their troops' time on DEI. I 
absolutely agree with you. They aren't.
  The strongest military possible, the one we aim to be, the one we 
are, is a diverse, equitable, and inclusive one.
  When you compare our military with those of our competitors, what is 
immediately striking is the diversity of our servicemembers.
  Studies have long shown and demonstrated that diversity helps 
organizations out-innovate, outperform, out-strategize, outmaneuver 
others.
  Our diversity is our strength. Our commitment to equality, to 
exclusiveness, that is what makes us Americans. It is why we have the 
very best military in the world.
  Some House Republicans insist on peddling a false choice between DEI 
and readiness. Why are they so keen on emulating and becoming more like 
the PRC, more like Russia?
  Eliminating DEI won't help our military compete more effectively with 
the PRC. It will, however, undermine the innovative thinking, the 
cultural competency, the inclusive institutional cultures, the 
qualitative edge, our ability to win if we need to be agile and ready 
and lethal.
  This amendment to terminate DEI offices and personnel and all of the 
insidious DEI-related amendments we have had to hear and will hear 
tonight by my Republican colleagues aren't just harmful to our national 
security--they are a major threat.
  It is time we set aside the political games that we are seeing and 
get serious about our national security and stand by our servicemen and 
-women of all backgrounds who have given up so much in defense of our 
country and to keep all of us safe.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. NORMAN. Mr. Chair, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from 
Alabama (Mr. Rogers).
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  I would ask my friend and colleague from South Carolina, does he 
believe his amendment is intended to impact uniformed personnel who 
work in these offices?
  Mr. NORMAN. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. I yield to the gentleman from South Carolina.
  Mr. NORMAN. It is not.
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. It is not?
  Mr. NORMAN. Correct.
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. It is not. That is what I was hoping to hear.
  Mr. NORMAN. Mr. Chair, this is not about taking away anybody's 
career. This is not about trying to harm people.
  The brave men and women who serve in our military do it because they 
are a family, and the whole point of this bill, this amendment, is to 
get the recruiting where it needs to be. We are 30 percent down.
  As of today, we have spent $1.4 billion on an equity action plan, and 
nobody has any idea where that money is going. It is high time that we 
just cut it out and get back to what the military is supposed to do, 
which is to protect this Nation.
  As Eli Crane said, who has been on the front lines, this country is 
in trouble. This country has other Nations that want to do harm to us. 
By eliminating this, we will take the first step in hopefully getting 
safety back at the forefront.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. TOKUDA. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Washington (Mr. Smith).

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  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chairman, it is obvious to me that the 
Republican majority doesn't understand what diversity, equity, and 
inclusion is, so I am going to attempt to explain it this way.
  We need to be intentional in recruiting from populations that have 
been historically discriminated against.
  I will use myself as an example. I grew up in a neighborhood that was 
95 percent White. My friends were White. My family was White. I moved 
into a responsible position. I started to hire people.
  Typically, you either hire people you know, or you hire people who 
you know know. That is where you get it. I looked around, and I was 
hiring a bunch of White people, all right. That is who I knew.
  What I did is I affirmatively reached out to groups that worked with 
Black people or Hispanic people or gay people. When I had openings, I 
said, okay, who have you got? I don't have those relationships, and I 
built those relationships.
  That is what diversity, equity and inclusion is, and it is sorely 
needed in a country that at least until about 30 or 40 years ago was 
really racist, okay.
  To correct that, we have to work with communities, diverse 
communities, to make sure that we recruit the people diversely.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Ms. TOKUDA. Mr. Chair, I yield an additional 15 seconds to the 
gentleman from Washington.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. We are not missing our recruitment goals 
because we are trying to expand the people we are recruiting.
  We are missing our recruitment goals primarily because of COVID, and 
also, by the way, because a lot of Republicans are running around 
talking about how terribly weak our military is. If they would stop 
spreading that message, maybe people would believe in our military and 
join.
  That is what DEI is. Eliminating it is a huge mistake.
  Ms. TOKUDA. Mr. Chair, may I inquire as to how much time is 
remaining.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Hawaii has 1\1/2\ minutes 
remaining.
  Mr. NORMAN. Mr. Chair, may I inquire as to how much time is 
remaining.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from South Carolina has 2 minutes 
remaining.
  Mr. NORMAN. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chair, I would say we do have a difference of opinion on what 
diversity is. I believe diversity is diversity of new ideas. Diversity 
is not based on your race or your ethnicity.
  That is where we are in this country now. We hire the finest to go 
into the military not because of the color of their skin and really not 
because of their sexual preference.
  This is just continuing to try to claim everyone is victimized in 
this country. Well, I am sorry. It is time for us to put the priorities 
in place.
  This administration has been more divisive and is more concerned 
about ensuring cadets use the right pronouns. How stupid is that? How 
uncaring is that about the men that are serving?
  This administration is more concerned about the government forcing 
our military to take shots. That is not their role. That is why some of 
the recruiting is down.
  Yes, it is down. We are weak. Why do you think China is doing what 
they are doing? Why do you think Russia is doing what they are doing?
  This would have never happened under a strong administration led by 
Donald Trump, and to this administration, you don't keep peace by 
weakness.
  The purpose of my amendment will strengthen the military, and that is 
my first and number one goal, which is the security of this country.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. TOKUDA. Mr. Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
Virginia (Mrs. McClellan).
  Mrs. McCLELLAN. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to the amendment. 
First, let me just say, our diversity is our strength. The diversity of 
this country is our strength. The diversity of our military is our 
strength.
  I keep hearing the other side of the aisle say that DEI and critical 
race theory is about assigning characteristics to people based on the 
color of their skin.
  That is not what DEI or critical race theory are. What they are, are 
a recognition that for 350 years, from the founding of this country in 
Jamestown through the civil rights movement, that our laws, our social 
mores assumed different characteristics based on the color of your skin 
and made Black people second-class citizens.
  DEI is designed to address that and to ensure that our military, 
which kept my uncles from serving in combat because of the color of 
their skin, to make sure their children and grandchildren want to serve 
in that military because it is a welcoming and inclusive place.

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  Ms. TOKUDA. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. NORMAN. Mr. Chair, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. LaMalfa), my good friend.
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Chair, I hear nonsense. I call it nonsense.
  Our strength is not in our diversity. Our strength is in our unity. 
We take diverse ideas, diverse talents, and we put them together. With 
an offensive football team, where you have all different types and 
sizes of people with speeds and talents, they all come together as a 
team. They all start to play at the same time.
  The same thing for our military. We have the Navajo Code Talkers. 
They weren't worried about what color or gender or whatever they were.
  We have all sorts of people coming together as a team. Our military 
is forced together in recruiting and in training to become a team. You 
don't worry about what everybody looks like and this and that or the 
other.
  That is what we have when we have unity, not diversity, which is 
divisive.
  Mr. NORMAN. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. TOKUDA. Mr. Chair, in closing, I just have one question to ask: 
What about us scares you?
  My grandfather, my father-in-law, and my brother all fought and 
risked their lives for this country. Yet, the sacrifices made by so 
many who feel marginalized, our communities of color, simply pale in 
comparison to the hate and fear that drives this obsession with DEI.
  First and foremost, we just heard that under a strong administration 
like the Trump administration, you would not have this. However, DEI is 
not new. In 2020, the Trump administration established a Defense Board 
and a Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion to increase 
diversity and ensure equitable opportunity across all ranks.
  If you want to be more like China, if you want to be more like 
Russia, keep this up. I don't want to be like them. DEI is necessary.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Norman).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. TOKUDA. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from South 
Carolina will be postponed.


                 Amendment No. 34 Offered by Mr. Norman

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 34 
printed in House Report 118-142.
  Mr. NORMAN. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of subtitle E of title X, insert the following:

     SEC. 10__. PROHIBITION ON DISPLAY OF UNAPPROVED FLAGS.

       (a) Prohibition.--No member of the Armed Forces or civilian 
     employee of the Department of Defense may display a flag 
     other than an approved flag in any work place, common access 
     area, or public area of the Department of Defense.
       (b) Approved Flag.--In this section, the term ``approved 
     flag'' means any of the following:
       (1) The American flag.

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       (2) The flag of a State or of the District of Columbia.
       (3) A military service flag.
       (4) A General Officer flag.
       (5) A Presidentially-appointed Senate-confirmed civilian 
     flag.
       (6) A Senior Executive Service and Military department 
     specific flag.
       (7) A POW/MIA flag.
       (8) The flags of another country that is an ally or partner 
     of the United States or for official protocol purposes.
       (9) The flag of an organization in which the United States 
     is a member.
       (10) A ceremonial, command, unit, or branch flag or guidon

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentleman 
from South Carolina (Mr. Norman) and a Member opposed each will control 
5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from South Carolina.
  Mr. NORMAN. Mr. Chair, what my amendment does is codify the Trump 
administration's guidance to prohibit the display of unapproved flags.
  My amendment prohibits any member of the Armed Forces or civilian 
employees of the Department of Defense from displaying a flag other 
than an approved flag in a workplace, a public area, a training 
facility, or other areas owned or leased by the Department of Defense.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. HOULAHAN. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment.
  Instead of debating the very many pressing national security issues 
that our country faces, my Republican colleagues are, unfortunately, 
using this amendment and many others to continue their needless crusade 
against the LGBTQ+ community.
  It goes without saying that regardless of sexual orientation or 
gender identity, the servicemembers and civilian employees who work at 
the Department of Defense provide a great sacrifice and great service 
to our great Nation. With this amendment, my Republican colleagues are 
once again attempting to erase and censor the LGBTQ+ community in our 
Armed Forces and in those workplaces.
  For 17 years, Don't Ask, Don't Tell prohibited servicemembers from 
being openly themselves without the threat of being discharged. I 
served during this time. Since its repeal, our country has made 
significant strides to acceptance in our Armed Forces and in the DOD.
  With this amendment, anti-equality lawmakers are attempting to take 
us backward by prohibiting servicemembers and DOD employees from 
displaying the Pride flag, a symbol of strength and acceptance of the 
LGBT community, individuals, and the many ongoing challenges that 
continue to be faced by that community.
  Regardless of whether you are a servicemember serving overseas or a 
civilian employee working at the Pentagon, all of our servicemembers 
and defense employees should have the opportunity to celebrate their 
identity and their truth, and this amendment would take that away.
  With the enactment of the Respect for Marriage Act, we saw 
possibilities for progress when both Democrats and Republicans came 
together in support of the LGBTQ community, yet instead of embracing 
this bipartisanship and progress, with this amendment, my colleagues on 
the other side of the aisle are espousing an anti-equality and anti-
trans agenda.
  At a time when the LGBTQ+ community is facing a deluge of attacks in 
States across our Nation, now more than ever, we must come together in 
support of that community, their heroes, and those who honorably serve 
our country.
  Once again, I stand here as a veteran, the mother of a gay daughter, 
an ally to LGBTQ servicemembers and DOD employees, and in strong 
opposition to this amendment.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. NORMAN. Mr. Chair, let me reiterate, flags mean something. We 
wear flags on our sleeves. We honor it prominently on parade fields. We 
carry it in combat. We drape it over the coffins of those who have 
given their lives for this Nation.
  Approved flags include the American flag; the flag of a State or the 
District of Columbia; a general officer flag; a presidentially 
appointed, Senate-confirmed civilian flag; a Senior Executive Service 
and military department-specific flag; a POW-MIA flag; the flag of 
another country that is an ally or a partner of the United States or 
for official protocol purposes; the flag of an organization in which 
the United States is a member; a ceremonial, command, unit, or branch 
flag or guidon.
  In the words of former Secretary of the Army Mark Esper: ``Flags are 
powerful symbols, particularly in the military community, for whom 
flags embody common mission, common histories, and the special, 
timeless bond of warriors.''
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. HOULAHAN. Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Massachusetts (Ms. Pressley).
  Ms. PRESSLEY. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to amendment No. 34.
  I rise today on behalf of the servicemembers and their families who 
make innumerable sacrifices for our country and our freedoms, yet 
today, there are efforts underfoot to deny them their own.
  Healthcare is a human right, yet today there are deep disparities 
that create barriers to access to care, including today's amendments, 
which will only deepen those gaps.
  This is especially true when it comes to abortion care and 
reproductive healthcare. There has been a daily assault on access to 
regular and routine care.
  In addition to full-spectrum reproductive care being an essential 
human right, it is also a readiness imperative for our military. If you 
care about the fitness of our military, then part of that readiness 
imperative includes access to the full spectrum of reproductive care. 
This is a human right. You should not have to forfeit your right to 
medical care when you enlist to serve your nation.
  Due to the massive restrictions to abortion care enacted at the State 
level, for many of our military families on base, they cannot receive 
the care they need, and they must navigate onerous travel to get basic 
healthcare. This includes in instances of being raped by a fellow 
soldier or a superior.
  My colleagues across the aisle are trying to trap pregnant 
servicemembers and deny them the care that they seek. This is 
dystopian, but unfortunately, it is all too real. Since draconian and 
cruel abortion bans have been enacted across our country, pregnant 
people have been denied care, and the outcomes have been debilitating 
and devastating.
  People have been denied miscarriage treatment and care for ectopic 
pregnancies. Mothers have lost their ability to have a child because of 
convoluted laws that delayed or denied the urgent abortion care they 
sought, resulting in lasting health issues and infertility.

  It is unconscionable that this military bill will become yet another 
blunt instrument to deny women and families across the Nation their 
bodily autonomy. This is not the type of exceptionalism that we should 
be leading in this country.
  Ms. HOULAHAN. Mr. Chair, may I inquire how much time I have 
remaining.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Pennsylvania has 30 seconds 
remaining.
  Ms. HOULAHAN. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. NORMAN. Mr. Chair, may I inquire how much time I have remaining?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from South Carolina has 3 minutes 
remaining.
  Mr. NORMAN. Mr. Chair, I yield myself the balance of my time to 
close.
  I will just sum this up: Flags have meaning. Flags have purpose. 
Flags are a symbol of a great nation, as America is. Flags mean 
something. It is not something to be flippant about. It is not 
something to take lightly.
  To my friends on the other side of the aisle, this amendment has 
nothing to do with medical service. It has nothing to do with a lot of 
things that have been brought up. This is about having the Department 
of Defense approve flags before they go up, pure and simple. Nothing 
else.
  I would just say that, as we debate this, I am still amazed that we 
are spending the time here. I think the diversion that the left wants 
to provide in the House is to try to move the ball and get the American 
public off the real problems that we are facing, which are a weakness 
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this administration, which is a denial of where we are as a country.
  It is time to take our country back. It boils down to one issue. We 
are going to preserve our freedom, and we are going to fight for it. A 
flag represents that.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. HOULAHAN. Mr. Chair, I yield myself the balance of my time to 
close.
  We agree that we should not be spending our time and wasting our time 
on this issue. We agree that flags have purpose and flags have meaning. 
We agree that we should be flying properly approved flags.
  However, what we don't agree on is that we should be taking our 
Nation back. This is all of our Nation, not just for some.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Norman).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. HOULAHAN. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from South 
Carolina will be postponed.


                Amendment No. 35 Offered by Mrs. Boebert

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 35 
printed in House Report 118-142.
  Mrs. BOEBERT. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of subtitle F of title VI, add the following new 
     section:

     SEC. 6__. PROHIBITION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR CERTAIN 
                   BOOKS IN SCHOOLS OPERATED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF 
                   DEFENSE EDUCATION ACTIVITY.

       None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act 
     or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2024 or any 
     fiscal year thereafter for the Department of Defense 
     Education Activity may be obligated or expended to purchase 
     or maintain in a school library any book that contains 
     pornographic material or espouses radical gender ideology.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentlewoman 
from Colorado (Mrs. Boebert) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Colorado.
  Mrs. BOEBERT. Mr. Chair, I rise in favor of my amendment, which 
prohibits Department of Defense Education Activity schools from 
purchasing and having pornographic and radical gender ideology books in 
their libraries.
  The Department of Defense Education Activity services over 66,000 
military-connected children in the Americas, Europe, and the Pacific.
  My colleagues on the other side of the aisle will mischaracterize 
this amendment as extreme. All the while, the Biden administration has 
spent the last 2 years promoting radical gender ideology to 
impressionable young children in K-12 schools throughout our country, 
including our military schools. Now that is extreme.
  Speaking as the mother of four boys, enough is enough. I don't send 
my boys to school to receive indoctrination from the woke mob or to be 
sexualized by groomers. The same can be said for our servicemembers who 
are also parents that send their children to DoDEA schools.
  I will take some time to discuss the books that have been found in 
DoDEA libraries that contain explicit sexual details not appropriate 
for children.

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  One book titled, ``All Boys Aren't Blue,'' published in April 2022 is 
a book included in DoDEA libraries. It is described as a nonfiction 
``manifesto'' by George Johnson that includes lines with sexually 
explicit content. The book describes oral sex, ejaculation, anal sex, 
pornography, and masturbation.
  Another book, ``This Book Is Gay,'' also included in DoDEA libraries, 
discusses the casual hookup site ``Grindr'' and includes detailed 
information on how to have gay anal sex. This book includes details 
about sex parties, orgies, and sex toys.
  Another book, ``Gender Queer,'' by Maia Kobabe, again included in 
DoDEA libraries, contains explicit imagery of oral sex.
  ``Middle School Is a Drag'' by Greg Howard, included in DoDEA 
libraries, is about a 12-year-old boy who starts a talent agency 
business for child drag queen performers. One of the kids he signs is 
an 8th-grader named ``Mistress of Madness and Mayhem.''
  I see some folks getting uncomfortable in this room right now, and I 
would agree that this is very uncomfortable, especially for our 
children in K-12 schools.
  Another book that is found, ``Some Girls Bind'' by Rory James, 
included in DoDEA libraries, explores the journey of a character who 
questions whether she is ``genderqueer.'' The teen binds her breasts 
every day ``to feel more like herself.'' Chest binding is associated 
with some medical risks, which can be permanent.
  ``Julian is a Mermaid,'' found in DoDEA elementary school libraries, 
describes a boy who wants to become a mermaid. During the book, the boy 
repeatedly strips down to his underwear. Later he puts on lipstick and 
dons a headdress. He is then given costume jewelry before being taken 
to the NYC Mermaid Parade where he can freely express himself.
  Here is the bottom line: Let's stop grooming our children, including 
our military kids. It is gross. It is wrong. I am here to take a stand 
against it, and I urge my colleagues to pass my amendment to protect 
our military children from obscene content they should not be exposed 
to.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. HOULAHAN. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 
5 minutes.
  Ms. HOULAHAN. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this harmful and 
very misguided amendment; and let's do start with the facts.
  This amendment, dare I say, is a naked attempt at discrimination, an 
attempt to ban books such as those who depict families with two moms or 
two dads. To block those stories is to block the story of my own 
daughter and her wife, as an example.
  My colleagues on the other side of the aisle like to say that they 
are for individual rights and freedom, but it is perhaps more accurate 
to say that some of them want the individual right to deny other people 
and other families their rights and freedoms, as well.
  The Federal Government does not and should not get to choose what my 
children or my daughter's children read.
  As a parent myself, I also have children, and a former teacher, I 
believe that the beauty of books is in its ability to expose us to 
worlds and ideas that are outside of our own. Our schools should be 
focused on creating environments that support every student, all 
students, and not censoring their individual experiences.
  Here is where we clearly do agree. Parents across the country want 
their children to learn in safe and affirming environments, which is 
why I am also in vehement opposition and, frankly, quite disgusted by 
some nonstop attempts that seem to be coming from our colleagues on the 
other side of the aisle to label content that they don't like as 
pornography, as a shield that, frankly, in my opinion is hiding blatant 
bigotry.
  So I rise on behalf of my daughter and the LGBTQ+ people whose 
experiences must be told. This bill, this amendment doesn't stop with 
LGBTQ+ people or servicemembers. This amendment also yields other 
harmful consequences.
  How the text is currently written would allow for further draconian 
and out-of-touch interpretations that could ban books simply like Judy 
Blume's, one that we have probably all read, those of us of a certain 
age and gender, ``Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.'' or other 
stories that teach young people about puberty, their bodies, or contain 
information about health and sexual education.
  America is a country of freedom of speech and freedom of ideas, and 
yet my colleagues across the aisle want to ban books that enable the 
next generation to thrive.
  So today I rise, dare I say, to allow people to be able to choose 
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read to their children, or what their children read.
  As a child in DoDEA schools, I actually got to be exposed to this 
exact situation where I had the opportunity to read a lot when I was 
growing up in Defense Department schools, and I can't imagine a world 
where my parents didn't have the ability or the authority to decide 
what it was that I was going to be able to read.
  I urge my colleagues to vote against this very harmful amendment and 
against all efforts that politicize military and hurt military 
readiness and national security.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mrs. BOEBERT. Mr. Chair, I would say that allowing these books in our 
DoDEA schools is what is harmful. Saying that I am characterizing this 
as pornography, no, I am saying exactly what it is.
  As a mom, I am not allowed to show my children triple-X-rated videos, 
nor would I. That is illegal. They have to be 18 to watch this. We have 
ratings on things.
  I am simply saying do not allow this in our children's schools. This 
is something that is harmful. It is grooming our children and 
indoctrinating them, and I urge adoption of this amendment to put an 
end to it in our military schools.

  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
  Ms. HOULAHAN. Mr. Chair, how much time do I have remaining?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Pennsylvania has 2 minutes 
remaining.
  Ms. HOULAHAN. Mr. Chair, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman 
from Ohio (Mrs. Sykes), my colleague.
  Mrs. SYKES. Mr. Chair, I didn't come to Congress to play politics. I 
came here to put the needs of Ohio's 13th Congressional District first, 
not to vote on bogus, oppressive, extreme, barbaric, erroneous, 
ridiculous, time-wasting amendments like this one.
  Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for my colleagues who are 
choosing to play partisan games with our national security by including 
amendments that would strip lifesaving reproductive healthcare away 
from our women in uniform.
  This is nothing more than the latest attempt by House Republicans to 
advance their extreme agenda taking us backward by punishing women and 
banning abortion nationwide.
  As the vice chair of the Bipartisan Women's Caucus, we just recently 
honored and recognized our women in uniform, but today we are 
dishonoring those women.
  Our military was founded to protect our freedoms. Politicians should 
not be making healthcare decisions for any woman, but especially not 
for our women in uniform who serve us each and every day.
  I cannot support any legislation that impedes on a woman's freedom to 
make decisions about her healthcare, even if it is no longer 
constitutionally protected.
  Ms. HOULAHAN. Mr. Chair, I would just urge my colleagues please to 
vote against this harmful amendment and other amendments that are 
similarly working very much to destroy and distract from what I think 
is really important, which is the national security of our Nation.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. All time is expired. The question is on the 
amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Colorado (Mrs. Boebert).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. HOULAHAN. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Colorado 
will be postponed.
  The Chair understands that amendment No. 36 will not be offered.
  The Chair understand that amendment No. 37 will not be offered.
  The Chair understands that amendment No. 38 will not be offered.
  The Chair understands that amendment No. 39 will not be offered.


                Amendment No. 40 Offered by Mr. Davidson

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 40 
printed in House Report 118-142.
  Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of subtitle C of title VII, insert the following 
     new section:

     SEC. 7__. STUDY AND REPORT ON HEALTH CONDITIONS OF MEMBERS OF 
                   THE ARMED FORCES DEVELOPED AFTER ADMINISTRATION 
                   OF COVID-19 VACCINE.

       (a) Study.--The Secretary of Defense shall conduct a study 
     to assess and evaluate any health conditions arising in 
     members of the Armed Forces after one year after receiving 
     the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and each of the two 
     years thereafter.
       (b) Study Parameters.--In conducting the study under 
     subsection (a), the Secretary shall--
       (1) disaggregate data collected by--
       (A) vaccine type and manufacturer;
       (B) age group at the time such first dose was administered, 
     including--
       (i) individuals who have attained 18 years of age but who 
     have not yet attained 30 years of age;
       (ii) individuals who have attained 30 years of age but who 
     have not yet attained 40 years of age;
       (iii) individuals who have attained 40 years of age but who 
     have not yet attained 50 years of age;
       (iv) individuals who have attained 50 years of age but who 
     have not yet attained 60 years of age; and
       (v) individuals who are 60 years of age or older; and
       (C) health condition developed after receiving such first 
     dose, regardless of whether the condition is attributable to 
     the receipt of such first dose; and
       (2) assess the prevalence of each such health condition--
       (A) by each age group specified in paragraph (1)(B) among 
     the unvaccinated population; and
       (B) among each such age group for each of the years 2015, 
     2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.
       (c) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act and each year thereafter for the 
     subsequent four years, the Secretary shall submit to the 
     Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives 
     and the Senate a report on the results of each study 
     conducted under subsection (a).
       (d) COVID-19 Vaccine Defined.--The term ``COVID-19 
     vaccine'' means a vaccine licensed under section 351 of the 
     Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262) or authorized for 
     emergency use under section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, 
     and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 360bbb-3) for immunization 
     against the virus responsible for COVID-19.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentleman 
from Ohio (Mr. Davidson) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Ohio.
  Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Chair, the amendment I have introduced, amendment 
No. 40, simply requires that the Department of Defense study and report 
the health conditions arising in members of the Armed Forces after 
administration of the COVID-19 vaccine.
  We have important voids in the data collected afterwards. We moved 
development of this vaccine at warp speed, and the Department of 
Defense mandated that members get the vaccine, so we have a great 
ability to study these members.
  They have very consistent health checkups. They have very consistent 
requirements for predeployment, postdeployment, during deployment. 
There are lots of ways to capture data in the military population, and, 
frankly, it is overwhelmingly young, fit, healthy people that make up 
our military, so the study could be very important.
  It would be important to understand any long-term effects or 
healthcare needs in the vaccinated population, and we could learn from 
that process to develop future considerations, whether it is risk 
assessments as we mandate vaccines, or how to combat future health 
emergencies more effectively.
  The Biden administration forced our men and women in uniform to take 
this vaccine without really knowing the full effects which would have 
been great to know in advance. But given the pandemic, they made a 
decision that the risk was too great. Lots of us disagreed with that 
risk assessment. That is all past.
  At this point, we simply want to study how did it turn out? What were 
the effects? What have been the results? That is all the study does.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. KUSTER. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from New Hampshire is recognized 
for 5 minutes.

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  Ms. KUSTER. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment, and to 
all of the amendments that have been added to this bill as a Christmas 
tree and a mockery of the men and women who serve in our military. I am 
opposed to making this bill into a vehicle for perpetuating the culture 
wars of this extreme majority.
  In particular, I am opposed to the amendment that would attempt to 
enact an extreme, anti-choice agenda, to ban abortion nationwide, and 
to interfere with the healthcare of women in our military who are 
serving in a post-Dobbs era when their efforts to provide for their 
family, to create a family, and to have the full range of reproductive 
health will be compromised.
  Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Chair, I am inquiring as to whether the gentlewoman 
is actually opposed to my amendment. For her to qualify as an opponent 
of my amendment she would have to speak in opposition to the amendment; 
what it does.
  My amendment does nothing about abortion. It simply requires a study 
of COVID-19.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman will suspend.
  Does the gentlewoman from New Hampshire claim the time in opposition 
to amendment No. 40?
  Ms. KUSTER. Mr. Chair, I am opposed to amendment No. 40. I am 
speaking in opposition to all of the amendments that have been added.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman is recognized.
  Ms. KUSTER. Mr. Chair, I yield such time as she may consume to the 
gentlewoman from California (Ms. Brownley), my colleague.
  Ms. BROWNLEY. Mr. Chair, this year marks 50 years since our country 
stopped drafting citizens into service and began instituting an all-
volunteer force. Unfortunately, today's military is facing significant 
recruitment challenges. That can be detrimental to the security of our 
great Nation.
  Seeking to limit the reproductive rights and freedom of America's 
servicewomen only exacerbates the issue. Why would a woman who takes an 
oath to defend our Nation do so when House Republicans stand in this 
Chamber attacking their bodily autonomy?
  Today, women make up about 20 percent of our Armed Forces, and our 
military is stronger because of their contribution. It is important to 
note that servicewomen experience higher unintended pregnancy rates 
than their civilian counterparts, largely due to limited access to 
contraceptive services and the inexcusable high degree of sexual 
assault.

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  It is an appalling reality that nearly one in four female 
servicemembers have reported sexual harassment during their careers. 
That my Republican colleagues would force a woman raped by her superior 
to pay for her own travel to access abortion care is beyond appalling.
  This amendment is a shameful politicization of our military, and it 
is using our servicemembers as pawns in an ideological debate.
  Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Chair, I must say that I consider the opposition to 
this amendment, which no one raised an objection to the actual 
amendment that I am offering, dilatory. I think it could be objected to 
by the Chair and gaveled down, and we could just call the question, 
unless they are actually opposed to the amendment.
  They are debating something that my amendment doesn't do. It simply 
requires a study on the results of COVID-19. It doesn't say what the 
outcome has to be. It just says to study it, to come back to us and 
tell us: How did it turn out for the people who got vaccinated? Do they 
have any other health problems? Do they have better health? What is the 
outcome as a result of these folks being vaccinated?
  I just want a study of the vaccinated population. It is a very simple 
amendment. We are considering hundreds of amendments, so if the other 
side is simply looking for a way to filibuster and delay, I would 
appreciate them not doing it on this amendment and staying to the rules 
of the House. If they have an objection, then state it, but they object 
to something else and are using the time inappropriately in my 
consideration.
  I ask for the consideration of the Chair.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. KUSTER. Mr. Chair, I am opposed to the amendment that has been 
offered, but I want to get back to the crux of the matter of the 
Christmas tree of cultural war issues that has been added to this bill 
to the detriment of our servicemembers.
  My own father fought in World War II. He was a hero. He was shot down 
in the Battle of the Bulge, and he served for 6 months in a German 
prison camp. I have the utmost respect for those who are serving our 
country and keeping us safe, but the amendments that have been passed 
in this Chamber today are putting the lives of our servicemembers at 
risk.
  I have a very brief story from a constituent just this week who was 
pregnant and very much wanted to carry to birth. She lost that baby at 
20 weeks. It was tragic. What was even more tragic in a post-Dobbs era 
was that she could not get the healthcare that she needed for herself, 
for her family, and she was forced to travel out of State. She was 
forced to get care that would save her life, and that is my point about 
how horrific we are.
  We are in a state in this country where my colleagues across the 
aisle would put servicemembers at risk who could have been raped and 
molested by members of the military, and we know that to be a very 
significant risk.
  Now, servicemembers would not be able to travel to get the healthcare 
they need for a pregnancy that they very much wanted.
  Mr. Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. 
Sorensen).
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from New Hampshire has 30 seconds 
remaining.
  Ms. KUSTER. Mr. Chair, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from 
Illinois (Mr. Sorensen).
  Mr. SORENSEN. Mr. Chair, today, extremists have put our national 
security at risk with this partisan National Defense Authorization Act.
  I was pleased to work across the aisle with Congressman LaHood to try 
to save the 182nd Airlift Wing in Peoria, Illinois. We should be 
focused on these bipartisan issues, not the extremists who have added 
amendments that have nothing to do with national defense and security, 
including the extreme restriction on abortion access, which threatens 
women servicemembers' ability to make their own healthcare decisions. 
We need a clean and bipartisan NDAA.
  Ms. KUSTER. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Chair, I haven't heard an objection to this 
amendment. I hope we can agree to move forward and conduct the study. 
We just want to know what the health effects were on the vaccinated 
population in the military so that next time we can make a better risk 
assessment and hopefully get it right.
  We will learn a lot from the military population that can surely help 
the rest of the country because they have much more consistent access 
to healthcare, much more consistent required checkups. I think the 
dataset can be very good. I hope we can get this study done.
  Mr. Chair, I urge adoption of this good amendment, and I yield back 
the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Davidson).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                 Amendment No. 41 Offered by Mr. Waltz

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 41 
printed in House Report 118-142.
  Mr. WALTZ. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:
       At the end of subtitle E of title X, insert the following:

     SEC. 10__. AVAILABILITY OF EXCESS DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
                   CONTROLLED PROPERTY FOR TRANSFER TO FEDERAL AND 
                   STATE AGENCIES.

       Section 2576a(e) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (4) as 
     subparagraphs (A) through (D);
       (2) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``The Secretary''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(2) The Secretary shall make available for transfer under 
     this section all excess controlled property of the Department 
     of Defense, other than the types of property referred to in 
     subparagraphs (A) through (D) of paragraph (1).''.


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  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentleman 
from Florida (Mr. Waltz) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Florida.
  Mr. WALTZ. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of my amendment to 
allow the Department of Defense excess property 1033 program to be 
administered as intended by Congress to assist State and local law 
enforcement agencies.
  For more than 25 years, this program has often allowed cash-strapped 
local law enforcement jurisdictions to get the equipment they need to 
help our communities stay safe at a low cost. I am proud this amendment 
is supported by the National Association of Police Organizations, the 
National Sheriffs' Association, and the Florida Police Benevolent 
Association.
  Through the 1033 program, the Defense Logistics Agency transfers 
unneeded excess military property to State, local, and Tribal law 
enforcement agencies. This property ranges from helicopters and 
vehicles to computers and medical supplies. This program has been 
crucial in allowing State and local law enforcement to acquire items 
needed for search and rescue operations, disaster response, active-
shooter situations, and other situations with equipment they otherwise 
could not afford.
  The 1033 program is not militarization of the police but an important 
tool in protecting our communities.
  Last May, President Biden issued an executive order titled: 
``Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice 
Practices to Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety.''
  Despite what its title indicates, this executive order actually 
jeopardizes our public safety by effectively eliminating law 
enforcement's access to this vital surplus equipment. The EO institutes 
onerous reporting requirements and gives President Biden's politicized 
Department of Justice veto power over lawful transfers of equipment.
  This effort is a continuation of the Obama administration's policies 
that discount the critical needs of police officers in the interests of 
political optics, often for the far left's defund the police movement.
  This amendment is simple. It rolls back this misguided EO. It 
requires the Secretary of Defense to make all excess equipment meeting 
the definition of controlled property available for transfer through 
the 1033 program.
  This is important. Congress has prohibited the transfer of bayonets, 
grenades, weaponized tracked combat vehicles, and weaponized drones 
under the program. President Biden, however, overruled congressional 
intent by implementing this executive order unilaterally barring 
additional items from the 1033 program.
  The program was authorized by Congress to keep our communities safe 
from violent criminals and help local law enforcement respond to 
natural disasters. Contrary to the narrative on the other side of the 
aisle, access to this equipment is vital to these law enforcement 
agencies' ability to protect our communities. There are countless 
examples in which this now-prohibited equipment proved vital for law 
enforcement.
  Our State and local law enforcement put their lives on the line to 
keep us safe. Their jobs are tough enough. We cannot seek to demonize 
them, defund them, or certainly deprive them of the equipment they 
need.
  This amendment doesn't fully address many of the burdensome paperwork 
and regulations that President Biden has placed on the program. It is a 
good first step to get them the equipment they need as Congress 
intended.
  Mr. Chair, I urge support for this amendment, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. The 1033 program has been around for 30-plus 
years. It has been an open conduit through which armaments directly 
from battlefields have flowed directly into the hands of State, local, 
and Federal law enforcement agencies.
  This equipment has operated to militarize police departments without 
civilian authority. The 1033 program operates such that a law 
enforcement agency, even a school law enforcement agency or university 
law enforcement agency can just simply petition the Defense Logistics 
Agency for whatever equipment is listed on the website.
  They can order it. As long as they can pay for the transportation of 
it to their location, they can get the equipment without any civilian 
oversight authority approving it.
  The rules of the 1033 program require that, once the law enforcement 
agency takes possession of the equipment, that it be placed into 
service within 1 year of its acquisition or else it has to be returned. 
That is a recipe for law enforcement agencies to acquire military-grade 
weaponry without county commission or city council approval.
  They get it and must put it into use within a year of their receipt 
of it. That means that untrained police officers using military 
equipment against civilians without civilian authority approval. That 
is a pipeline that needs to be shut down. After President Obama shut 
the pipeline down to a great extent, President Trump reopened it, and 
now President Biden has shut it down.
  Now, we have this amendment that seeks to open it to even more 
militarized equipment than was allowed in the first place.
  If you want large-caliber, .50-caliber weaponry from the battlefields 
of Afghanistan and Iraq to flow to your neighborhood, then you support 
this amendment.
  If you want large-caliber weaponry, artillery, mortar rounds, if you 
want that coming onto your property, into your community, then vote for 
this amendment.
  If you want weaponized drones from the battlefield to flow to your 
community without your Representatives' knowledge or consent, then vote 
for this amendment.
  If you want flamethrowers, if you want missiles, if you want all 
kinds of equipment that this amendment opens the door to to come to 
your community, then be in favor of this amendment. I stand opposed to 
it.
  Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. 
Crockett).
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Georgia has 1 minute remaining.
  Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I yield 1 minute to the 
gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Crockett).
  Ms. CROCKETT. Mr. Chair, it must be nice to perch yourself upon 
privilege. The vast majority of my colleagues across the aisle have 
never had to have ``the talk.''
  In fact, most of them may not even know what ``the talk'' is, but 
let's talk about it. I am going to talk to you about my life 
experiences as a civil rights lawyer and urge that we legislate from a 
place of compassion instead of a conspiratorial, sunken place.
  Let's talk about these weapons. Let's talk about the fact that in the 
summer of 2021 when George Floyd was killed, I represented over 600 
protesters pro bono. Unfortunately, these were people who believe in 
the Constitution and understand that there is more than one amendment 
besides just the Second Amendment. They were actually exercising their 
freedoms under the First Amendment, but instead what happened is that 
they ended up becoming victimized.

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  Let me tell you, when I am talking about this, I am not talking about 
conjecture. I am talking about what is real. You can Google Brandon 
Saenz, a 26-year-old who had his eye shot out.
  Let me be clear. You can be injured, and it not necessarily be a 
firearm. Honestly, if my colleagues really care about making sure that 
we are going to be safe in our streets----
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
  Ms. CROCKETT. Then maybe we will get some gun reform----
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
  Ms. CROCKETT. And stop going after women's reproductive rights, 
because if you believe in freedom, then kids should be able to go to 
school and know that they will be safe.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman is no longer recognized.
  Mr. WALTZ. Mr. Chair, I yield such time as he may consume to the 
gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Good).
  Mr. GOOD of Virginia. Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman from Florida 
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bringing this important amendment, and I appreciate him allowing me to 
speak for a moment to support the amendment.
  This amendment would prohibit the Biden administration from 
unilaterally issuing any restrictions on the 1033 program, which allows 
police departments across the country to have access to lifesaving 
military surplus equipment.
  It is imperative that our Federal, State, and local law enforcement 
maintain access to this equipment used to protect and save the lives of 
Americans, especially in circumstances of terrorist attacks, search and 
rescue operations, natural disasters or, yes, riots in our cities.
  The Obama and Biden administrations put restrictions on the 1033 
program that helps police departments across the country. Their 
antipolice action would limit the ability for police departments to 
obtain equipment needed for border security, counterdrug operations, 
and more.
  In a time when morale is low in police departments across the Nation, 
thanks to antipolice riots and calls to defund the police from my 
friends across the aisle, we must take every action possible to ensure 
our law enforcement officers have the tools they need to keep 
themselves and our communities safe, essentially to do their jobs.
  Mr. Chair, I am proud to support the amendment, and I urge my 
colleagues to do the same.
  Mr. WALTZ. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman has the only time remaining.
  Mr. WALTZ. Mr. Chair, we talk a lot about misinformation. There are 
no instances of artillery, missiles, flamethrowers, or anything else 
that has been said about this being passed on to law enforcement that 
is prohibited by Congress, and this amendment would not change that.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Waltz).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Florida will 
be postponed.
  The Chair understands amendment No. 42 will not be offered.
  The Chair understands amendment No. 43 will not be offered.
  The Chair understands amendment No. 44 will not be offered.


                Amendment No. 45 Offered by Mr. Davidson

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 45 
printed in House Report 118-142.
  Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the appropriate place in subtitle C of title XII, insert 
     the following:

     SEC. __. REPORT ON ALLIED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COMMON 
                   DEFENSE.

       (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) section 1003 of the Department of Defense Authorization 
     Act, 1985 (Public Law 98-525; 63 Stat. 2241)--
       (A) expresses that due to threats that are ever-changing, 
     Congress must be informed with respect to allied 
     contributions to the common defense to properly assess the 
     readiness of the United States and the countries described in 
     subsection (b)(2) for threats; and
       (B) requires that the Secretary of Defense to submit to 
     Congress an annual report on the contributions of allies to 
     the common defense;
       (2) the threats facing the United States--
       (A) extend beyond the global war on terror; and
       (B) include near-peer threats; and
       (3) the President should seek from each country described 
     in subsection (b)(2) acceptance of international security 
     responsibilities and agreements to make contributions to the 
     common defense in accordance with the collective defense 
     agreements or treaties to which such country is a party.
       (b) Reports on Allied Contributions to the Common 
     Defense.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than March 1, each year, the 
     Secretary, in coordination with the heads of other Federal 
     agencies, as the Secretary determines to be necessary, shall 
     submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report 
     containing a description of--
       (A) the annual defense spending by each country described 
     in paragraph (2), including available data on nominal budget 
     figures and defense spending as a percentage of the gross 
     domestic products of each such country for the fiscal year 
     immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the report is 
     submitted;
       (B) the activities of each such country to contribute to 
     military or stability operations in which the Armed Forces of 
     the United States are a participant or may be called upon in 
     accordance with a cooperative defense agreement to which the 
     United States is a party;
       (C) any limitations placed by any such country on the use 
     of such contributions; and
       (D) any actions undertaken by the United States or by other 
     countries to minimize such limitations.
       (2) Countries described.--The countries described in this 
     paragraph are the following:
       (A) Each member country of the North Atlantic Treaty 
     Organization.
       (B) Each member country of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
       (C) Each country party to the Inter-American Treaty of 
     Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Treaty), done at Rio de Janeiro 
     September 2, 1947, and entered into force December 3, 1948 
     (TIAS 1838).
       (D) Australia.
       (E) Japan.
       (F) New Zealand.
       (G) The Philippines.
       (H) South Korea.
       (I) Thailand.
       (3) Form.--Each report under paragraph (1) shall be 
     submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified 
     annex.
       (4) Availability.--A report submitted under paragraph (1) 
     shall be made available on request to any Member of Congress.
       (c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
     Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
     House of Representatives.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentleman 
from Ohio (Mr. Davidson) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Ohio.
  Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Chair, this amendment requires the Secretary of 
Defense to submit to Congress a report on allied contributions to 
defense spending.
  The 1985 NDAA established an annual report from the Department of 
Defense on allied contributions to our common defense with the initial 
focus on NATO. Of course, the Cold War was going on then, but that 
continued until 2004. The DOD stopped producing this report as the 
Pentagon's priorities shifted to the global war on terror.
  Nevertheless, the report is an important one. NATO allies have an 
obligation to provide their own defense. We don't want there to be some 
misunderstanding that NATO membership has somehow bought war insurance 
and that America will either fight or fund your war. We will help you 
fight and win a war under article 5 and only then if Congress 
authorizes combat.
  We might authorize spending, we might authorize combat, but Congress 
is the body that declares our wars. We can do that better when we know 
whether our allies are promoting their own defense. If they are 
shortchanging their own defense, we might feel differently about the 
vulnerability.
  Weakness invites aggression. Unfortunately, many of our allies have 
invited that aggression. As Donald Trump cautioned Germany, as an 
example, you shouldn't be doing business with Russia. Look how it 
turned out. Now, this isn't simply the fault of Germany underfunding 
their defense or becoming totally dependent upon Russia. Russia took 
advantage of it, but Germany was naive enough to fall victim to it. It 
hasn't hurt Germany as directly as it has hurt Ukraine, but it all 
works together.
  Ukraine is not a NATO ally, but they are an ally. They are clearly 
paying a high cost for their own defense. Could we have worked 
differently and prevented this combat?
  Let us look at other areas around the world. As we look at our 
allies, whether it is Israel as an ally, Taiwan as an ally, our NATO 
allies, or others around the world, I think it is important that this 
report gets produced and we understand it.
  I think it is also important that, if appropriate, we share it in 
public so that our adversaries know that we have

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a very strong collective defense and a strong commitment. If we don't 
hold people accountable for it, we will inherently be weak, because 
their intelligence service will know. It motivates our allies to do the 
right thing.
  Since 2006, the majority of our NATO allies have consistently failed 
to meet their 2 percent GDP defense commitment. Even as a war is taking 
place in their own backyard, the United States remains the largest 
contributor to the war in Ukraine.
  The U.S. should not continue to subsidize the defense of NATO member 
countries who choose not to invest in themselves.
  Good data makes for good legislation, and this report would supply 
Congress with valuable information that is needed to make sound policy 
decisions that put America first.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  I think it is important to point out in this amendment that our 
allies have very much stepped up in the war in Ukraine. This was about 
a week ago now. The stats may be a little bit different. The United 
States actually ranks 13th in terms of percentage of GDP that we have 
committed to help Ukraine. That means of our 53 partners, 12 others 
have been doing more than we have.
  My biggest concern about this amendment is twofold. One, it 
undermines that level of support and seems to imply that our allies are 
not doing that. Second, along with several other amendments here, it 
can be interpreted as being anti-NATO. I am worried more about the 
other amendments than I am worried about this one, but make no mistake 
about it, the NATO alliance has served the United States' interests 
very, very well for its--quick math off the top of my head--roughly 75-
plus years of existence, and we should not be undermining that.
  This particular amendment, not as problematic, but the idea that our 
allies are not contributing or the idea that the U.S. doesn't benefit 
from our contribution, I think, is mistaken, based on our place in the 
world.
  Right now, as we look to confront Russia and China, nothing is more 
important than our allies and partners. We need to work with them to 
build the coalition that is going to be able to stand up for a rules-
based international order and for the peaceful resolution of our 
differences. I do not wish to undermine those alliances, and I hope we 
do remember the contributions of our allies.

  That is basically all I have to say about this. I don't think I have 
any speakers.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Chair, the gentleman didn't raise an objection to 
understanding how much they are contributing. He implies he already 
knows. The world doesn't know, and I certainly don't get access to all 
of that information.
  I do know they are paying for their own defense, and some of them 
quite a lot. I do know that they have helped in the war in Ukraine, and 
they have certainly taken on a heavy burden with refugees. All of that 
is different in different places around the world.
  Our allies stating how much they contribute certainly helps us make 
policy. I hope all my colleagues will see through this as an attempt to 
avoid accountability for our allies. We shouldn't underappreciate them, 
but we shouldn't cover for them either. We should hold them 
accountable, and the American people should know they are stepping up, 
they are doing really well.
  You can state it in percentage of GDP. That is the obligation, 2 
percent of their GDP, and yet the biggest countries with the biggest 
resources with very little debt, I might add, aren't paying their 
defense.
  In our case, we are borrowing from China to defend our country and, 
frankly, to defend lots of them and people that aren't even part of our 
NATO alliance.
  It is important that we pass this and we study it. Whether this 
amendment passes or not, we need to know it, and we need to hold them 
accountable for their failure to honor their obligations.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Davidson).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                 Amendment No. 46 Offered by Mr. Alford

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 46 
printed in House Report 118-142.
  Mr. ALFORD. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:
       Page 40, line 22, insert ``or the Air Force Reserve'' after 
     ``Air National Guard''.
       Page 41, line 3, insert ``and the Commander of the Air 
     Force Reserve'' after ``National Guard''.
       Page 41, line 5, insert ``and the Air Force Reserve'' after 
     ``National Guard''.
       Page 41, line 9, insert ``and the Air Force Reserve'' after 
     ``Air National Guard''.
       Page 41, line 15, insert ``and the Air Force Reserve'' 
     after ``Air National Guard''.
       Page 42, line 22, insert ``and the Air Force Reserve'' 
     after ``Guard''.
       Page 43, line 4, insert ``and the Air Force Reserve'' after 
     ``Guard''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentleman 
from Missouri (Mr. Alford) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Missouri.
  Mr. ALFORD. Mr. Chair, I offer this amendment to simply add ``Air 
Force Reserve'' in addition to ``Air National Guard'' to Mr. Bacon's 
language that he secured in our National Defense Authorization Act that 
directs the Secretary of the Air Force to not terminate fighter flying 
missions until the Secretary submits a modernization plan to the Armed 
Services Committee with options for replacement of aircraft with more 
capable aircraft. This is important not to just my district at Whiteman 
Air Force Base and the 442nd Fighter Wing but at several bases across 
our great Nation.
  As A-10s and other platforms are retired, we must ensure that our Air 
Force Reserve and Air National Guard units have follow-on missions. 
This amendment will help provide clarity to Congress and Reserve and 
National Guard units on how the Air Force will modernize and replace 
our fighter squadrons.
  I think we all know that the world is changing. Our platforms are 
changing. The A-10 is a very lethal aircraft, as we have seen for the 
last 30 years.
  The 442nd at Whiteman Air Force Base, the men and women there have 
served proudly. I feel they and others deserve security in knowing that 
a replacement is going to be there at Whiteman Air Force Base, that 
they have some answers and security from the Secretary until those 
final decisions of modernization are made.
  Mr. Chair, I urge support of this amendment, I hope it gets 
bipartisan support, and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, this is part of a troubling 
battle that we have frequently on the Armed Services Committee.
  As the military, whether it is the Air Force or some other branch, is 
trying to move forward, they discontinue different programs. There are 
always people who like those programs, and we step in and block it and 
make it difficult for the military to make the decisions they need to 
make.
  At this particular moment in history, this is enormously important, 
because innovation, new weapons technology, is absolutely crucial. Our 
information systems, just to give one example, are not where they need 
to be in order to manage all of the information that is now flowing, 
make sure that it is protected, and it gets to who needs to get it in 
real time.
  We need to upgrade all of those systems. We need to improve our 
unmanned systems, drones, develop counter-drone technology, missiles, 
and counter-missile technology. All of that is dependent upon new, 
innovative technologies that we need to adopt and implement.
  That costs money if we can't discontinue previous programs. We have 
held onto many, many programs way

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past the point at which they are actually useful, because it impacted 
somebody's district somewhere. That is always going to be the case. I 
am basically opposed to us stepping in and blocking these things and 
tying the hands of the military to upgrade and innovate in the way that 
they need. I am in opposition to this.

                              {time}  1930

  Mr. Chairman, I also want to explain something just quickly. I am 
going to yield to Ms. Frankel in a minute. She is not going to talk 
about this. She is going to talk about something else. For everyone's 
information, she can do that. Basically, it is your time and you can 
talk about whatever you want. I think you can stand up and mumble 
gibberish for 2 minutes if you are so inclined. You have 2 minutes do 
it, it is their time, not related to this, but it is still a perfectly 
lawful way to handle this.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. ALFORD. Mr. Chairman, I am eager to hear what Ms. Frankel has to 
say not related to this amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I thank the ranking member for his hard work and 
dedication in crafting this bipartisan NDAA.
  This amendment is not intended to block in any way the modernization. 
We know that the A-10 is the legacy aircraft. A lot of people love the 
A-10, and it has performed well in battle. It has seen effective 
lethality in several theatres of battle.
  The people who operate out of the 442nd have a deep love of their 
fighter mission. They have a deep passion for continuing that mission. 
They know that new platforms are coming.
  Whiteman Air Force Base is going to be home of the new B-21 stealth 
bomber. There are going to be complementary aircraft and programs to 
that. They know that. They know the world is changing and that the 
pacing threat from Communist China has really changed how we view 
warfare and deterrence. They get that.
  We owe it to them, and they deserve a little security because it is 
very easy for them to pick up now and leave and go into the private 
sector. There is too much talent in the 442nd and other fighter 
squadrons to not have that security. That is all we are asking for in 
this amendment, Mr. Chairman, is a little security. We are asking for a 
little appreciation and a little respect for the hardworking men and 
women who have dedicated their lives in service to America.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Frankel).
  Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida. Mr. Chairman, my, my, my, the Republican 
attacks on abortion never seem to end, and now they are targeting the 
servicewomen in the military.
  After that extreme decision by the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. 
Wade, half of the States in our country are banning or severely 
restricting access to legal abortion. Take a look at this poster and 
this map. The dark-shaded States are where these abortion restrictions 
are now in place. Look at those black dots. Those are the over 500 
military bases in our country. Many of them are in States that now ban 
or restrict abortion.
  Mr. Chairman, that is why, last year, the Department of Defense 
established travel transportation allowances for servicemembers and 
dependents who need to travel to access abortion. Shamelessly, the 
Republicans are now seeking to block this effort.
  Our servicemembers leave their homes, their families, their friends, 
and are willing to risk their lives to serve our Nation. They train 
hard. They have dreams. They have goals. We trust them with Black 
Hawks, intelligence operations, and special ops. We should trust them 
with their own healthcare decisions, including when it comes to 
deciding whether to start or grow a family.
  Mr. Chairman, they stand for our freedom; it is time to stand for 
theirs.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my 
time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Alford).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                  Amendment No. 47 Offered by Mr. Good

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 47 
printed in the House Report 118-142.
  Mr. GOOD of Virginia. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of subtitle E of title X, insert the following:

     SEC.__. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS RELATED TO OPERATIONS OF 
                   COMMISSION ON THE NAMING OF ITEMS OF THE 
                   DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

       None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act 
     or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2024 may be used 
     to operate the commission on the naming of items of the 
     Department of Defense that commemorate the Confederate States 
     of America or any other person who served voluntarily with 
     the Confederate States of America established pursuant to 
     section 370 of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National 
     Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (10 U.S.C. 113 
     note).

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentleman 
from Virginia (Mr. Good) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Virginia.
  Mr. GOOD of Virginia. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of my amendment 
to the NDAA, which would simply block funds from being made available 
to the Naming Commission established by Congress just a few years ago.
  The intent of that commission was to try to rewrite our Nation's 
history by changing the names of our famous military bases and forts, 
tearing down statues, and even putting blankets over monuments with 
names not deemed worthy of remembrance by some. What a tragedy.
  You only have to look outside my district at the famous Monument 
Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, which has recently been desecrated by the 
removal of once famous beautiful monuments.
  This effort to remove statues and rename bases encourages an endless 
cycle of renaming institutions, buildings, and cities across the 
country under the destructive ruse of political wokeness.
  Historical sites are healthy environments to observe varied 
perspectives of historical events, engage diverse viewpoints, and 
inspire robust conversation as we remember our Nation's history. We 
should protect American memorials to preserve and remember our history.
  It has been said that those who do not remember history are condemned 
to repeat it.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to consider the precedent being 
set by this arbitrary effort to rewrite our Nation's history.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to 
support this amendment to preserve our history and fight these reckless 
efforts to destroy our country, our Founders, and our history.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in 
opposition, and I yield myself 2 minutes.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chairman, this is my favorite amendment. 
It sort of drives home the point.
  When we talk about history, you have to understand the history of how 
these bases were named. We had the Civil War. We got rid of slavery. We 
tried Reconstruction. Reconstruction did not go well.
  Then there was a concerted movement in this country to make sure that 
we continued to establish white supremacy as the way we were going to 
approach this country. A lot of fascinating books have actually been 
written about this. It was a very well-coordinated effort.
  There was an effort to rename all these bases after people from the 
Confederate war to celebrate white supremacy. The Ku Klux Klan grew up 
all over the place. I can't remember the name of the guy, but a guy 
from my area just wrote a fascinating book about the Ku Klux Klan 
taking over the State of Indiana and the battle and fight that went 
into that.
  All of these bases that are named for our history, as you describe 
it, are monuments to white supremacy. If you don't support white 
supremacy, or if, God forbid, you are Black and not White, and you are 
going to serve at a base that is a monument, historically

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it is exactly why it was named that. It was named that as part of an 
overall concerted effort to establish white supremacy. But we are just 
going to let that go.
  That is the kind of thing that undermines good order and discipline 
in the military. This is the kind of thing that makes people who aren't 
White feel like they are not included.
  I do not believe for 1 second that the United States of America is an 
essentially racist country or that white supremacy is currently the 
policy that we are trying to advance. What I cannot understand is why 
so many people serving in this body don't want to stand up for that 
basic principle and want to continue to celebrate the worst parts of 
our history instead of the best parts.
  These monuments are supposed to reflect our values. This is not a 
value we should be reflecting. Oh, by the way, this is why we still 
need diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, to try to educate 
people on these very fundamental facts that they ought to know.
  Please, if you supported all the others, please oppose this 
amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. GOOD of Virginia. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman 
from Alabama (Mr. Rogers).
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Chairman, I thank my friend from Virginia 
for yielding. I urge adoption of this amendment. I will remind people 
that this commission was established for the purpose of renaming our 
major military installations that had been named after Confederate 
officers. That mission is complete.
  There is no reason for us to continue to spend funding on this 
commission to hunt for things to do. We were told it was going to cost 
only a million dollars, but they have gone over $30 million. We need to 
just let them complete their job, which they have done. Stop this 
funding and adopt this amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge a favorable vote on my colleague's amendment.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentlewoman from Virginia (Mrs. McClellan).
  Mrs. McCLELLAN. Mr. Chairman, I want to personalize the remarks 
alluded to by our ranking member because I was born Black in Virginia, 
and I was raised there.
  I represent the former capital of the Confederacy. My entire family 
was raised in the former Confederacy. For my entire life I have lived 
in the shadow of Robert E. Lee and his fellow Confederate generals. He 
was a looming presence in my hometown of Petersburg where the former 
Fort Lee sits.
  He was a looming presence in my neighborhood. I want to talk about 
the monument that the gentleman from Virginia alluded to. One of the 
largest monuments to General Lee stood for 130 years around the corner 
from my house, which is ironic because General Lee himself did not 
believe monuments to Confederate generals should be erected because he 
recognized that countries where there is a civil war, monuments to the 
losing side help to foster wounds that haven't healed. That is exactly 
what happened in this country.

  That monument, and many others, were put up as part of a backlash for 
the social, political, and economic gains of formerly enslaved people 
during Reconstruction. Another wave of monuments were put up as 
backlash to Brown v. Board of Education and the gains of the civil 
rights movement.
  When that monument came down, I felt a weight off of my shoulders 
that I didn't know I was carrying. It was the burden of having to drive 
past a man who fought against the country he swore to serve to keep my 
ancestors enslaved. He owned people who could have been my ancestors 
and was documented to be horrifically cruel to them.
  We are trying to recruit a diverse armed services. We need to recruit 
the sons and daughters and granddaughters of the descendants of slaves. 
Having them walk into a building on a base named for their former 
oppressors is not going to create a welcoming environment.
  Mr. GOOD of Virginia. The true history of America is that no nation 
in the history of the world has rescued more people, freed more people, 
fed more people, ministered to more people, and, yes, evangelized more 
people around the globe.
  No nation in the history of the world has been more welcoming to 
people from all nationalities, all races, all ethnicities, and given 
more opportunity, more upward mobility to people of all races, all 
ethnicities, and all nationalities.
  No nation in the history of the world did as the United States did 
just some 85 years after declaring our independence, where the Nation 
went to war with itself where the majority population suffered great 
loss of blood and treasure to free the minority population. No nation 
in the history of the world has it happened like it has happened in the 
United States of America.
  It was our Founding documents and principles that provided the 
framework for us to realize our ideals of all men being created equal, 
endowed by our Creator by unalienable rights.
  The United States is unique among the nations of the world. Our 
history is worth preserving. It is worth protecting. It is worth 
remembering. It is worth honoring. It is worth learning and growing 
from.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chairman, I believe we have the right to 
close, and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. GOOD of Virginia. Mr. Chairman, it is time to defund this Naming 
Commission. It is time for us to move past these efforts to change our 
history. It is time for us to preserve our history and our Founders and 
the principles of our Nation, and to defund the Naming Commission.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge all of my colleagues to support this amendment, 
and I yield back the balance of my time.

                              {time}  1945

  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I yield myself the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. Chair, I actually agree with what the gentleman has listed in 
terms of what this great country has done.
  What is beyond belief is why in the name of God would we choose to 
celebrate the particular aspects of our history that don't reflect 
those values that the gentleman just explained.
  I want to talk about all the great things that the United States of 
America has done. I don't want to talk about our history of white 
supremacy. I want to understand it and make sure that we don't ever 
repeat it.
  I have an enormous amount of respect for the chairman of the 
committee, but I want to make sure everyone understands what we are 
voting on here. This is to prohibit the use of Federal funds to carry 
out the recommendations of the base naming commission.
  So to say, ``They are done. It doesn't really matter. This is going 
to block what they did. This is going to stop the ability to change 
those names,'' this commission was passed on a bipartisan basis to make 
sure that this is implemented. This amendment would gut that and go 
against that bipartisan agreement and the work that they have done.
  Please understand what you are doing. As I said earlier, it is 
something we should not be doing.
  Mr. Chair, I urge a ``no'' vote, and I yield back the balance of my 
time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Good).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Virginia 
will be postponed.


           Amendment No. 48 offered by Ms. Greene of Georgia

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 48 
printed in House Report 118-142.
  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of subtitle C of title XVIII, add the following:

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     SEC. 1. PROHIBITION.

       Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including 
     section 614 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 
     2364), no military assistance shall be furnished for cluster 
     munitions, no defense export license for cluster munitions 
     may be issued, and no cluster munitions or cluster munitions 
     technology shall be sold or transferred to Ukraine.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentlewoman 
from Georgia (Ms. Greene) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Georgia.
  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I rise today to address the House 
about our National Defense Authorization Act. I want to remind the 
House that the National Defense Authorization Act is to fund the 
Department of Defense, whose mission is stated on their website. That 
says that their mission is to deter war and protect our Nation's 
national security interests.
  My amendment is to stop cluster munitions or cluster munitions 
technology from being sold or transferred to Ukraine. Cluster bombs are 
brutal and inhumane weapons that cause lasting harm to civilians in 
areas where they are used.
  When a cluster bomb is deployed, it launches multiple different 
submunitions, which are smaller bombs, in all different directions. The 
impact radius of cluster bombs varies but can be as high as several 
football fields. This causes more widespread destruction, imposing a 
greater risk to civilian areas, which kills lives. It doesn't save 
lives.
  Also, this is an escalation in war. It doesn't deter war.
  The dud rate varies per bomb, and the dud rate is very important. 
They can typically be anywhere between 2 percent and as high as 40 
percent. These bombs are very unreliable, which makes them very 
dangerous.
  Congress even passed a law in 2009 that says the U.S. cannot deploy 
or transfer cluster munitions with a dud rate higher than 1 percent, 
but the President can sign a waiver to bypass this restriction.
  The Biden administration says that they will not deliver cluster 
bombs to Ukraine with a dud rate higher than 2.35 percent. Again, the 
dud rate is known to be anywhere between 2 percent and as high as 40 
percent, which means we do not know.
  Also, over 120 countries are party to the Convention on Cluster 
Munitions banning the use, production, transfer, and stockpiling of 
these weapons, including most of the U.S.'s NATO allies, which is 
extremely important. I remind the House that Ukraine is not a NATO 
member nation.
  What is next? Chemical or biological weapons? Nuclear weapons?
  Again, this is an escalation of war that does not belong in our 
Nation's funding bill for the Department of Defense.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Illinois is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Chair, I yield myself 1\1/2\ minutes.
  Mr. Chair, the reality is that Ukraine needs these munitions. Until 
the West can meet the full demands of the war in Ukraine, these 
munitions will fill the gaps and ensure a successful Ukrainian 
counteroffensive and ensure that the Ukrainians are not defenseless.
  The goal is to give Ukraine the tools it needs to end this war 
quickly. A protracted war will cost more lives and allow Putin to 
commit more war crimes.
  Mr. Chair, I was in Bucha and stood where some of these crimes were 
committed. Ultimately, this amendment was not introduced out of concern 
for civilians. No. This amendment exists because a very few Members 
across the aisle don't seem to mind if the Russians win, and then we 
would see democracy fall and authoritarianism rise.
  To ensure a Ukrainian victory, we must continue to make these very 
tough decisions that will end this war and ultimately save lives.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman 
from California (Ms. Jacobs).
  Ms. JACOBS. Mr. Chair, cluster munitions maim and kill 
indiscriminately, and they often fail to explode on impact, leaving 
communities littered with dangerous, unexploded land mines for years if 
not decades. Cleaning them up is expensive, dangerous, and takes a long 
time.
  Despite claims about the dud rates, we know that when actually used 
in war, these weapons are unpredictable and kill more civilians than 
anticipated. That is why I am opposed to sending cluster munitions to 
Ukraine.
  Unlike some of my Republican colleagues, I am a strong supporter of 
Ukraine. My bipartisan amendment would have banned the transfer of all 
cluster munitions to any country, and my amendment would have garnered 
strong support across both parties.
  It is clear that this amendment is not about cluster munitions at 
all. It is about opposing any support to Ukraine.
  We shouldn't be transferring cluster munitions at all, and the U.S. 
should join 123 other countries in banning this weapon once and for all 
and protecting the children who are maimed and killed by these horrific 
weapons.
  Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Chair, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from 
South Carolina (Mr. Wilson).
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Chair, I oppose this amendment. As 
a 31-year Army veteran myself and a very grateful dad of four sons who 
served in Iraq, Egypt, and Afghanistan, I want to reestablish peace 
through strength as developed by President Ronald Reagan.
  We must support Ukraine to end criminal Putin's war of aggression as 
quickly as possible and stop the carnage with Putin's mass murder of 
innocent civilians.
  Putin's forces are bombing civilians, kidnapping children to Russia, 
raping and torturing, and have mined a nuclear plant and blown up a 
dam. In light of Ukraine's ongoing counteroffensive, which is pitting 
Ukrainian defenders against dug-in Russian soldiers, cluster munitions 
are an effective new weapon for Ukraine's arsenal.
  These weapons will be effective against fortified Russian trenches 
and concentrated troops of Putin's soldiers who are being sacrificed to 
death by Putin for his own personal gain of oil, money, and power.

  The Wall Street Journal has editorialized that Biden is right on 
cluster bombs for Ukraine. Cluster bombs are an antipersonnel weapon 
that ejects multiple bomblets over a large area. They can be very 
effective to promote the Ukrainian cause.
  Ukraine is not seeking to use these bombs against civilians. There is 
a moral distinction between Russia's aggression and Ukraine's use of 
cluster bombs for defense. Those best suited to make the tradeoff 
between risks are the Ukrainians whose lives are on the line every day.
  Mr. Chair, I urge opposition to the amendment.
  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman 
from Florida (Mr. Gaetz).
  Mr. GAETZ. Mr. Chair, it is worth acknowledging the great bipartisan 
work on this issue with my colleague, Ms. Jacobs, and my colleague, Mr. 
McGovern, who have been speaking on these issues with clarity for some 
time.
  The opponents of the amendment made the principal argument that we 
have to do anything for Ukraine to win the war. Why not just send the 
nukes? If the standard is we will do anything for Ukraine to win, then 
send them tactical nuclear weapons.
  Of course, we are not going to do that, which means there has to be a 
line somewhere. I would hope that we could draw that line somewhere on 
the humane side of the cluster bomb question.
  These bombs are indiscriminate. For goodness' sake, we are still 
cleaning up cluster bombs in Laos because civilians are being killed.
  When my colleagues say, well, civilians won't be killed, tell that to 
the people in the places where cluster munitions have been deployed, 
and people are still being killed because that is, in fact, the case.
  It is also an argument that has been made that Ukrainians are only 
going to use this in their own country. How depraved to use these bombs 
in your own country? That is not a reason to vote against the 
amendment. It is the reason to vote for it.

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  Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Chair, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from 
Colorado (Mr. Crow).
  Mr. CROW. Mr. Chair, I fully support Ukraine in its existential fight 
for freedom and democracy. I have also spent years in this Chamber 
addressing the issue of civilian casualties. In fact, I am one of the 
founding co-chairs of the Protection of Civilians in Conflict Caucus. 
Why? Because I spent the formative years of my life in Afghanistan 
seeing the horrific results of war, including cluster munitions.
  However, there are times in this Chamber when a measure doesn't do 
what we think it does, when it, in fact, does the opposite.
  This measure will not stop the use of clusters in Ukraine. I have 
written to the administration. I have asked for clarity. I have asked 
for assurances and mitigation measures, and I will continue to do that.
  What this measure will do is play right into pro-Russian and pro-
Putin propaganda. It will be twisted and contorted by nefarious actors 
who say that America doesn't support Ukraine and that Democrats don't 
support Ukraine. That is not where we need to be because that is the 
history of this bill. That is the history of many of those who are 
supporting this bill and who have originated this bill. That is the 
context from which this bill originates.
  That is not where progressive, pro-Ukrainian Members should be.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to oppose this measure vociferously.
  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I urge the House to pass this 
amendment. Our National Defense Authorization Act is for the funding of 
the Department of Defense. It is for our Nation, for the United States 
of America, and there should be no funding for a foreign war. There 
should be no weapons sent that increase war.
  As a matter of fact, it leaves bombs behind for generations to come. 
That hurts the Ukrainian people.
  For anyone to say that this must be done to help the Ukrainian people 
doesn't care about the innocent Ukrainian lives that will be killed for 
years to come from these cluster munitions.
  Mr. Chair, I urge the House to pass my amendment, and I yield back 
the balance of my time.
  Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Chair, we hear a lot about humanity here. Let's put 
the facts in front of that. The Ukrainians are firing as many artillery 
shells in 2 days as we produce in a month. They will run out. They will 
be defenseless.
  If you are now suddenly worried about civilians, Mr. Chair, watch 
what Putin has already done: raped, murdered, and tortured innocent 
civilians, targeted civilians. If there are no artillery shells to 
defend them, then he will go unabated. Then you will see inhumanity 
that we have not seen since the Second World War.
  Mr. Chair, vote against this amendment, and I yield back the balance 
of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Georgia (Ms. Greene).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Georgia 
will be postponed.

                              {time}  2000


                Amendment No. 49 Offered by Ms. Hageman

  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Curtis). It is now in order to consider 
amendment No. 49 printed in House Report 118-142.
  Ms. HAGEMAN. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Page 251, line 6, after the period insert the following: 
     ``Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
     Committee on Armed Services and the Select Subcommittee on 
     the Weaponization of the Federal Government of the House of 
     Representatives a report containing all documents from the 
     Group. The report required under the preceding sentence shall 
     be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a 
     classfied annex.''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentlewoman 
from Wyoming (Ms. Hageman) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Wyoming.
  Ms. HAGEMAN. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of my amendment 49, which would 
require that all documents and correspondence of the Countering 
Extremism Working Group are provided to the Select Subcommittee on the 
Weaponization of the Federal Government and the Committee on Armed 
Services.
  I am offering this amendment to build upon a larger concept and theme 
within the House NDAA this year, ending the politicization and 
weaponization of the DOD.
  I am proud to stand with my colleagues here in the House and fight 
for an NDAA which is focused on warfighting, readiness, and lethality 
and for an NDAA which conducts meaningful oversight into the political 
issues which have infiltrated the DOD in recent years.
  Through our work on the Judiciary Committee and on the Select 
Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, we have 
discovered that rampant abuse of power is not confined to one agency or 
department, nor is it limited to one subject area.
  In the wake of a partisan political persecution spurred by the events 
on January 6, extremism or domestic violence extremism has been 
misconstrued to include a wider group of individuals to serve as a 
predicate for State surveillance, invasion of privacy, and in some 
instances, deprivation of rights.
  We first uncovered this within the DOJ with the padding of DVE crime 
statistics, which was done to support the political statements of 
policymakers.
  In my first 7 months in Congress, I have had the opportunity to 
uncover some of these abuses. However, there are some legacy issues 
which date back to before my time in Congress, to a time when true 
oversight for the purpose of the protection of the rights of Americans 
took a back seat to the politicization agenda of some influential 
leaders on the other side of the aisle.
  One such issue was other potential abuses of extremism in the 
government, including in the DOD Countering Extremism Working Group.
  My amendment would ensure that both committees receive documentation 
from the DOD about the work done in the Countering Extremism Working 
Group so we can provide proper oversight.
  I hope there is nothing there. I hope we find that the DOD abused no 
serviceman or -woman's rights and that this was an exercise in 
legitimately protecting their own force.
  Without confirming this through the evidence, I cannot trust that the 
Biden administration and the DOD Under Secretary Austin did the right 
thing simply because they have failed to earn the trust of the American 
people due to routine exposure of wrongdoing and abuse.
  I urge all of my colleagues to support this amendment, and I reserve 
the balance of my time.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from New York is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chair, there are a lot of buzz words, complicated sub-
working groups and weaponization and all of this sort of language that 
may hide what is happening here, but I want to be crystal clear about 
what this amendment does.
  As someone who served in uniform proudly in two combat deployments, 
this weakens our military. It weakens our national security because it 
essentially tries to sweep back under the rug what is a growing, more 
dramatic problem of extremism of many kinds within our Department of 
Defense, something that has had bipartisan agreement.
  Rather than keeping that bipartisan, sober tenor to the debate, this 
amendment hypocritically, in my opinion, actually politicizes it by 
referring it to, unfortunately, a subcommittee that is, I think, 
broadly known to operate in that way.
  Let's be clear about what is happening in our Department of Defense.

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Bias, discrimination, hate, and extremism threaten the safety of all 
communities and institutions, and our military is no exception.
  I think we can all agree that one extremist in the ranks is one too 
many. The U.S. intelligence community's annual threat assessment once 
again concluded transnational racially and ethnically motivated violent 
extremists continue to pose the most lethal threat to U.S. persons and 
interests and a significant threat to a number of U.S. allies and 
partners.
  The Countering Extremism Working Group has functioned exactly as 
intended. It should continue its work to ensure that extremism has no 
place in our military. They are doing good, necessary work.
  We must continue to, as Members of Congress and Americans, hold the 
principle that this work should be nonpartisan. It should not be under 
the sort of heated politicized rhetoric that I fear this amendment 
would put it under.
  I stand in strong opposition and encourage my colleagues to vote 
against this amendment, and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. HAGEMAN. Mr. Chair, this bill is nothing more than related to 
transparency and oversight. We have had FBI whistleblowers who have 
testified before the judiciary and the select committee as to how the 
FBI is padding its DVE statistics.
  We want to ensure that the Countering Extremism Working Group is not 
just another way in which our government has been weaponized against 
the American people.
  What I cannot understand is why any Democrat would oppose 
transparency and good government. I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chair, this is not a Democrat or Republican thing. This 
is about the American people having pride in and sending the message to 
all members, the millions of members in the Department of Defense, that 
we are proud of them, we support them, we support the work that our 
Department of Defense is doing, and we are not intending to politicize 
it in the way that this amendment does.

  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. HAGEMAN. Mr. Chair, again, this bill is about transparency and 
oversight. We all support our troops. This isn't about not supporting 
our troops. This is about ensuring that the Countering Extremism 
Working Group has not been politicized; nothing more and nothing less.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chair, what is clear when you see how this 
weaponization of the Federal Government subcommittee has operated, 
sadly, to me as someone who loves our country, it has become a deeply 
partisan body. With all due respect to my colleague, I don't agree with 
her characterization in any way.
  The other piece here that is not being spoken about, anti-Semitism 
and violent White nationalism are on the rise in the Department of 
Defense, and this working group is directly focused on countering that.
  Politicizing that work undercuts that important work, puts our troops 
at risk, and puts our national security at risk.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. HAGEMAN. Mr. Chair, I would note for the record that the 
gentleman on the other side just slandered the men and women in 
service, in uniform, by making the accusations that he has.
  Again, what I am talking about here is simply providing us with the 
documentation. This isn't about interfering in the work that the 
working group has done. It is simply to oversee and make sure that that 
particular working group is not being weaponized against our men and 
women in service.
  As I said, we may not find anything at all. They may have done 
exactly what they were required to do, but at the same time, there is 
nothing wrong with this body overseeing and ensuring that these types 
of groups are operating the way that they should.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chair, I am prepared to close and wrap this up.
  Ms. HAGEMAN. Mr. Chair, the word of the day is transparency. Any 
group that is within the Department of Defense we should have oversight 
of, and that is all that this bill does.
  I urge my colleagues to vote for this amendment.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chair, in brief, while I understand the spirit of what 
my colleague is saying, there has to be reasonable lines at which we 
cannot say there is unlimited resources to dedicate to unlimited 
oversight of every conspiracy theory that may be out there.
  I would reassert in closing, dealing with extremism cannot be about 
political or ideological litmus tests but practical threats to the 
operations and values of our military.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Wyoming (Ms. Hageman).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Wyoming 
will be postponed.


                Amendment No. 50 Offered by Mr. Davidson

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 50 
printed in House Report 118-142.
  Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Strike section 217.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentleman 
from Ohio (Mr. Davidson) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Ohio.
  Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chair, my amendment strikes section 217 which authorizes funds to 
NATO for the joint fund established for the Defence Innovation 
Accelerator for the North Atlantic Initiative with the acronym DIANA.
  NATO has suffered from major mission creep and bureaucratic bloat 
while separate entities like DIANA are tied closely to the innovation 
fund that was to launch in NATO in 2022.
  There are 22 allies listed as participants, and the United States 
isn't one of them. Meanwhile, there are numerous countries that are 
participating in this fund; Germany, Turkiye, Italy, Spain, et cetera, 
who already do not meet their 2 percent GDP commitment to fund their 
own defense.
  Why would we expect them to contribute fully to DIANA when they won't 
contribute the basic amount to their own defense, which is NATO's 
purpose, to defend. It is a defensive alliance.
  We have colleagues who support a new strategic purpose for NATO. It 
doesn't need a new strategic purpose. It isn't even accomplishing its 
own purpose to focus on its own defense.
  You have countries like Germany who have literally no debt. There is 
very little debt in their country. Meanwhile, the United States is 
borrowing money to fund things like this.
  We could fund it for our own country, but I don't know that we need 
to fund it on behalf of NATO. This program adds one more financial 
burden to the United States within NATO while European countries take a 
free ride off our efforts.
  There is no focus from the United States Government to make these 
countries pay for the commitments they made as part of being members of 
the NATO alliance.
  Since 2006, they have all avoided their basic financial 
responsibility. There is no reason to expand the financial obligations 
within NATO until they follow through and honor their commitments.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from New York is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New York 
(Mr. Meeks), the ranking member of our Foreign Affairs Committee.
  Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Chair, I rise in strong opposition to this amendment.

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This is a poorly conceived and ill-intentioned attempt to kill the 
United States' support for the Defence Innovation Accelerator of the 
North Atlantic program, otherwise known as DIANA, which is a 
cooperative NATO effort to outsmart and out-innovate our adversaries.
  The DIANA program was set up by NATO as an effort to spur increased 
defense research and development funding to rapidly adapt to a new era 
of strategic competition by bringing key defensive experts together 
with the NATO alliances, leading entrepreneurs, and academic 
researchers.
  The DIANA initiative is specifically designed to leverage breaking 
developments and critical advances and next-generation defense 
capabilities such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, 
hypersonics, space domain, as well as advanced materials and 
manufacturing sciences for the benefit of all NATO allies.
  With U.S. adversaries such as Russia in its brutal, unprovoked war of 
aggression in Ukraine and our global competition with China where China 
in its efforts to outpace the United States in technological 
superiority and undermine international norms and freedoms continue 
their malign efforts, it is more important than ever that we work 
closely with our NATO allies to out-innovate and out-compete at the 
leading edge of defense technology.
  Eliminating funding from the DIANA program is precisely the opposite 
of what we should be doing--the opposite. We should be working together 
with our NATO allies in a collective way. Therefore, I encourage all 
Members to oppose this amendment.

                              {time}  2015

  Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Chair, I agree that we should be working 
collaboratively with our NATO allies. In fact, we do.
  I was fortunate to get to serve in Germany at a time when the Cold 
War was at its height. I saw the wall fall while I was there, and I got 
to see people rushing to our side. They were not asking for more 
government. They were asking for more freedom.
  Germany is reunified, things we never thought we would see, but they 
are also spending their money on all sorts of things except their own 
defense. Now, they spend something. They are helpful. I don't want to 
underappreciate the good things they do, but we shouldn't continue 
funding initiatives together unless they honor their commitment.
  In fact, only 7 countries out of these 23 countries are paying 2 
percent of their GDP. If we don't hold them accountable, why are they 
going to step up? They are not. Meanwhile, we are bankrupting our own 
country, making us weaker, less free, less safe, more burdened by debt, 
and we are not holding our allies accountable for paying their fair 
share.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Washington State (Mr. Larsen).
  Mr. LARSEN of Washington. Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of the 
Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic and ask my 
colleagues to oppose this amendment.
  The Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic helps the 
United States and its NATO allies counter Russia and China through the 
accelerated development of innovative technologies to defend the U.S. 
and our NATO allies.
  These innovative technologies include artificial intelligence, 
quantum computing, and hypersonic missiles and defense, all valuable 
tools to give the U.S. and its NATO allies leverage over Russia and 
China.
  Continued U.S. leadership and collaboration with NATO allies on 
emerging technologies will lead to greater innovation and ensure the 
U.S. will have a direct influence on the modernization of the NATO 
alliance.
  Earlier this year, an American was elected chair of the board of the 
Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic, and two 
Americans currently serve on the board. The U.S. will lead this new, 
necessary NATO national security effort, and Americans will continue to 
work alongside its allies to build a stronger alliance and a safer 
world.
  In addition, the language that is in the underlying bill is actually 
the language to authorize the U.S. to begin funding its part. That is 
why the U.S. doesn't currently fund its part. We had to write 
legislation to get the U.S., the DOD, to get its authorization to fund 
its part in DIANA.
  In addition to that, in the next 5 years, the U.S. commitment is 
about $47 million, while NATO allies will contribute about $1.1 
billion, so I would say we are going to get our money's worth, Mr. 
Chair.
  The U.S. must continue to support the Defence Innovation Accelerator 
for the North Atlantic. I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting 
this effort, support U.S. participation in NATO, and to oppose this 
amendment.
  Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Chair, this is an important signal to send to all 
our allies. We are, indeed, your allies, but we are not going to fund 
or fight your wars. You are not buying insurance for America to carry 
the load. We are a participant. We would love a collaborative 
relationship. The idea that they are doing something better in DIANA is 
encouraging, but they are not honoring the fundamental nature of the 
agreement, and that is a problem. We have to hold them accountable for 
doing just that. I don't understand why my colleagues object to doing 
that.
  I understand people are passionate about the DIANA program, and that 
is why I hope they are passionate about it. You have something maybe 
they care about. I don't know. We have got to send the message that you 
can't just underinvest in your own defense and count on America to bail 
you out.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, with respect to my colleague and alum of a United 
States military academy, I respectfully disagree. I think at this 
moment when our allies and our entire alliance is engaged in direct hot 
war is a moment where we have to have our allies' backs, where we have 
to lead by assuming some risk and hoping and pushing and nudging our 
allies to follow.
  I do respect the spirit of what my colleague is saying, but in the 
heat of battle is not the time to question our allies or to back away 
from our allies. In fact, as my colleagues have said, it is the moment 
to lean in and strengthen our alliance, bolster our alliance, bolster 
innovation, and bring to bear the resources of the DIANA effort.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Chair, it is precisely the time to lean in and have 
your allies' back. If our allies won't do that now, when will they do 
it? There is a war on their borders, and they will not invest at the 
levels they have committed to as part of the treaty.
  If they won't do it now, when will they? How do we not hold them 
accountable for this?
  We have no defined mission, we have no accountability, no defined 
strategy. We just have an open checkbook. How in the world does this 
encourage a stronger alliance? It doesn't.
  I ask my colleagues to please support this amendment. Please hold our 
NATO allies accountable for doing what they said they would do.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Davidson).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Ohio will be 
postponed.

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                Amendment No. 51 Offered by Mr. Davidson

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 51 
printed in House Report 118-142.
  Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Chair, I rise to offer amendment No. 51 as the 
designee for Mr. Roy.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the appropriate place in subtitle D of title XII, insert 
     the following:

     SEC. __. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON BURDEN SHARING WITHIN NATO.

       Congress--
       (1) recognizes that the 2014 Wales Summit Defense Spending 
     Benchmark ensures the NATO Alliance can maintain the best 
     common defense to safeguard its members in the event a mutual 
     military response is warranted;
       (2) asserts that for far too long the majority of NATO 
     member countries have relied on the financial contributions 
     and military capabilities of the United States and have 
     failed to fully invest in their own defense;
       (3) praises Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and 
     the United Kingdom for meeting the minimum 2 percent GDP 
     defense spending obligations in 2022;
       (4) denounces Croatia, France, Slovakia, Romania, 
     Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Albania, Bulgaria, 
     Italy, Germany, Hungary, Denmark, Portugal, Turkey, 
     Montenegro, Czech Republic, Canada, Slovenia, Belgium, Spain, 
     and Luxembourg's failure to meet the minimum 2 percent GDP 
     defense spending obligation in 2022 and strongly urges these 
     nations to fulfill the commitment they pledged to meet;
       (5) maintains that European countries in NATO should be 
     chiefly responsible for safeguarding the European continent 
     and should not delay in meeting the 2 percent defense 
     spending obligations;
       (6) expresses that the United States should not continue 
     subsidizing NATO member countries who choose not to invest in 
     their own defense by meeting the 2014 Wales Summit Defense 
     Spending Benchmark; and
       (7) calls on NATO leaders to make the 2 percent defense 
     spending pledge binding for all NATO member countries at the 
     Vilnius Summit

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentleman 
from Ohio (Mr. Davidson) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Ohio.
  Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Chair, this amendment expresses a sense of 
Congress. This doesn't even have teeth on it. It just asks nicely, 
please, NATO allies, would you contribute the amount that you said you 
would, please? It is a kind ask. It is a sense of Congress that you 
should do what you said you would do.
  NATO countries who choose not to invest in their own defense, 
specifically meeting the 2014 Wales Summit Defense Spending Benchmark, 
better known as the 2 percent GDP commitment, should be held 
accountable for that. That is all it is saying, you should actually do 
what you said you would do.
  In 2006, NATO defense ministers agreed to annually commit a minimum 
of 2 percent of their Nation's GDP on their own defense. According to 
NATO, this spending threshold ``serves as an indicator of a country's 
political will to contribute to NATO's common defense. . . . ''
  In 2014, the NATO alliance adopted the ``defense investment pledge.'' 
At that time, only 3 of NATO's 28 NATO member countries were meeting 
their 2 percent defense spending commitment. At that time, the NATO 
alliance issued the statement: We agree to reverse the trend of 
declining defense budgets, to make the most effective use of our funds, 
and to further a more balanced sharing of costs and responsibilities. 
Our overall security and defense depend both on how much we spend and 
how we spend it.
  They recognized the problem, and they committed to change course back 
in 2014. The Senate ratified this pledge in 2014 with a ``yes'' vote 
97-2.
  In 2022, NATO's annual report showed that only 7 of now 30 NATO 
member countries meet the 2 percent GDP defense spending level. 
Numerous NATO member countries use the United States security umbrella 
to evade their financial commitments to their own defense.
  There is a war raging on their borders, and they are still not 
stepping up. If not now, when? This amendment that I am offering now on 
behalf of Mr. Roy that I have cosponsored doesn't cut anything. It just 
says, it is a sense of Congress that you should do what you said you 
would do. It is a sense of what the Senate said 97-2 when they ratified 
it that, yeah, we agree with this pledge.
  The United States is doing it. Why in the world shouldn't our own 
countrymen expect the members of their alliance to do what they said 
they would do as a part of the alliance?
  Failing to do this makes our alliance weaker, it makes our alliance 
less secure, and it sets a horrible standard for any future ally.
  Mr. Chair, I urge support for this amendment, and I reserve the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from New York is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New York 
(Mr. Meeks).
  Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Chairman, this week, NATO leaders held a summit in 
Lithuania to discuss, address, and prepare for the alliance's future. 
It was done with the United States at the table, leading the efforts to 
galvanize ambitions in the face of multiple threats, most notably those 
related to Russia's unjust and tragic war against Ukraine.
  In Lithuania, allies agreed to continue to ramp up support for 
Ukraine and use the 2 percent of GDP amount as a floor. Some of our 
strongest allies in the alliance are set to move even beyond that 
threshold in the coming years. We have not seen NATO stronger, NATO 
working closer together, NATO speaking together.
  Now, I know that the former President thought that NATO had outlived 
its usefulness and that we should not be a part of it. This amendment 
would lend itself to that type of mentality. We know that the strength 
of NATO is its unity. We know that what Mr. Putin was after was to 
divide NATO. We don't need to utilize any language or have any language 
that would accelerate that thought.
  What we need to do is to make sure that we continue with the spirit 
of what took place at the NATO summit. The language of this amendment 
seeks to create disunity at a time when NATO's unity is being actively 
tested by Vladimir Putin. So, no, we should not agree to denounce our 
allies in the NDAA, as this amendment does. We should not look to 
reignite some of the disunity and disruption that previous America 
First policies promoted.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chair, I yield an additional 1 minute to the gentleman 
from New York.
  Mr. MEEKS. As I said, we should not look to reignite some of the 
disunity and disruption that America First or America only promoted. We 
don't need to call out in an amendment our strongest of allies. This 
amendment calls out and criticizes and denounces Canada, Italy, the 
Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Denmark, France, and many others in the 
middle of war.
  I surely would not want to be fighting a war in a bunker saying we 
are allies and then someone is denouncing me. That is not the way 
allies stick together and fight an unjust war that is currently taking 
place in Ukraine where you have Russia taking land from a sovereign 
country.
  Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Chair, I would just point out that Ukraine is not a 
member of NATO. I know some of my colleagues want to make them that, 
maybe so that we could already go to war with a country that would 
inherently involve Article V, or they would be admitted today because 
they are in a state of war today. However, they are not, so we aren't 
having NATO allies in bunkers right now hunkered down and having allies 
call them out.

                              {time}  2030

  The surest way to wind up there is to continue to under-invest in our 
defense, and that is exactly what more than 75 percent of our NATO 
allies are doing. They said they would invest in their defense and they 
are not doing it.
  Do they have no shame? They expect us to carry the load? Are we going 
to fight and fund their wars?
  I mean, we did help a lot in World War I. We helped a lot in World 
War II. There were a lot of people that fought and died, not just 
Americans, to get there. But America is a great ally, and

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we are simply asking that they too become great allies. That is all 
this amendment does. It doesn't cut funding. It doesn't bail on them.
  It simply says, we expect you to do what you said you would do. We 
are just calling it out. You are not doing it. Please do it.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chair, I remind my colleagues that the word, as my 
colleague from New York has said, the word ``denounces'' is a strong 
word especially to use in the heat of battle and the heat of an 
unprecedented and unjust war.
  I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Meeks).
  Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Chair, what NATO has done when they have seen the 
taking of property from a sovereign country is stick together. The one 
thing that Mr. Putin did think would happen was that we would be 
divided. That has not happened, and NATO has been stronger because they 
see the inhumanity and the criminal activity that is now taking place 
by Vladimir Putin. One voice, standing together, to stop that.
  While it is the Ukrainian people who are fighting, it is the allies 
in NATO who are giving the ammunition that is necessary to win. But for 
that, this war would have been over in 2 weeks or less. It is that 
unity that has continued until Ukraine will win this fight. We must 
stand together, not giving any weakness of disunity.
  Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Chairman, this amendment doesn't deal with Ukraine, 
it deals with NATO. It doesn't say anything bad. It denounces people 
that don't do what they said.
  I denounce people that don't keep their word. Shame on you. You said 
you would do something, and you didn't do it. You should be held 
accountable for that. That is all we are saying.
  Seventy-five percent of NATO countries, the biggest, strongest, 
biggest economies, they are the ones that are underinvesting. There are 
some heroes out there like Poland or Estonia that are spending more 
than their share of their GDP. But the biggest, wealthiest countries in 
Europe are underinvesting, and it is time to hold them accountable.
  I urge our colleagues to support this amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chair, again, in closing, I reiterate the points of Mr. 
Meeks. At the moment when NATO is headed in the right direction, when 
we are seeing the greatest strength, unity, cohesion, results, and 
success, back to the founding charter of the organization, now is not 
the time to take steps backwards and denounce our allies.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Davidson).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Ohio will be 
postponed.


                 Amendment No. 52 Offered by Mr. Gaetz

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 52 
printed in House Report 118-142.
  Mr. GAETZ. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Add at the end of subtitle G of title V the following new 
     section:

     SEC. 5__. PROHIBITION ON FEDERAL FUNDS FOR TRAINING ON 
                   DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION.

       None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act 
     may be obligated or expended for training on diversity, 
     equity, and inclusion.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentleman 
from Florida (Mr. Gaetz) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Florida.
  Mr. GAETZ. Mr. Chair, there is a time in every debate where 
everything has been said but not yet by everyone and that may be where 
we are in the DEI debate. But what I bring to the House now is the most 
fulsome amendment to completely remove DEI from the DOD.
  Even if my amendment doesn't pass, I want my colleagues to know that 
this NDAA, in the base bill, takes a meat cleaver to DEI. The 
amendments that we have adopted in the last round of voting have 
certainly ensured that DEI, regardless of the passage or not of my 
amendment, will not be a principal feature of our military service if 
this bill becomes law, and that would be a great thing for our 
military.
  That said, it is important to note that in the name of DEI our 
military has done some pretty strange things. Secretary Austin, in his 
first act, ordered a 24-hour stand-down so that everyone could reflect 
on their extremism.
  The reality is even majority-minority units in the military found 
this divisive. They complained to my office and certainly it did not 
create a more lethal force.
  Also, in the name of DEI, we have hired some rather strange people in 
the government. There is one DEI officer named Kelisa Wing and she 
actually, if you can believe this, worked in the DEI's Department at 
DoDEA, the education system within DOD. She put out the following 
inclusive tweet:
  ``I'm so exhausted at these white folx in these PD [professional 
development] sessions this lady actually had the CAUdaacity to say that 
black people can be racist too . . . I had to stop the session and give 
Karen the BUSINESS . . . ''
  This was the person that we had hired to create a more inclusive 
environment, and I think it is indicative of the inherently divisive 
culture that has permeated radical racial ideology. My amendment gives 
us the opportunity to pull it up by the root, and I hope my colleagues 
support it.
  I would add this final point before yielding back. We have standards 
in the military that allow the military to expel racists and white 
supremacists completely in the absence of DEI programs. We have had 
those standards in the military for quite some time.
  So even if my amendment were to become law, I don't want anyone in 
the body to think that we would be stuck with people in the military 
that didn't meet longstanding preexisting standards of personal 
conduct.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mrs. McCLELLAN. Mr. Chairman I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Virginia is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mrs. McCLELLAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman 
from Nevada (Mr. Horsford).
  Mr. HORSFORD. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in strong opposition to this 
amendment.
  Mr. Chair, the previous speaker, the maker of this amendment, talked 
about being exhausting. This issue that he has brought before this body 
and the committee is exhausting.
  Just this week, the sponsor of this amendment called diversity, 
equity, and inclusion in the military a ``failed experiment.'' He has 
called it cancerous.
  Just this week, a Senator from Alabama stated that it was his opinion 
that white nationalists are not necessarily racist and refused to 
denounce white nationalists serving in the military; all of this with 
the backdrop of the same Senator holding up hundreds of military 
nominations, which is actively hurting our national security, something 
that this NDAA bill would address.
  To what end? The U.S. Marine Corps does not have a confirmed 
commandant, as we speak.
  Yet, just an hour ago, on this very floor, one of the Members on the 
other side of this body said that his amendment had nothing to do, 
whether colored people or Black people can serve.
  Mr. Chairman, these comments show exactly why we need diversity, 
equity, and inclusion initiatives. Every day our military grows more 
diverse, more and more reflecting the diversity of our Nation.
  This amendment does nothing to address the recruitment shortfalls 
that our services are facing and, instead, it will only make it more 
difficult to recruit Americans of diverse backgrounds representing the 
true makeup of our Nation.

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  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. HORSFORD. What are you so afraid of? Why do you keep bringing 
these divisive issues to the body of this floor. You are out of order. 
You are exhausting.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is out of order. The gentleman is no 
longer recognized. The gentleman is no longer recognized.
  Mr. GAETZ. Mr. Chair, excuse me. I demand a ruling on my point of 
order.
  Mrs. McCLELLAN. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.


                             Point of Order

  Mr. GAETZ. Excuse me. Point of order, Mr. Chairman.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Florida is recognized.
  Mr. GAETZ. No, Mr. Chairman, I made a point of order. You have to 
rule on the point of order.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman will state his point of order.
  Mr. GAETZ. The gentleman has an obligation to address the Chair, not 
other Members. He did not do that. He was out of order, violating the 
decorum of the House.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman has not stated a timely point of 
order.


                         Parliamentary Inquiry

  Mr. GAETZ. Parliamentary inquiry then. I seek recognition to make a 
parliamentary inquiry.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman will state his parliamentary inquiry.
  Mr. GAETZ. What is the parliamentary mechanism that requires an 
individual to address the Chair because if it is not that, we can 
address each other, let's do that for the rest of the debate.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Chair will not engage in this dialogue. Would 
the gentleman like to be recognized for his time?
  Mr. GAETZ. I want to be recognized for a parliamentary inquiry.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is not recognized. Would you like 
to----
  Mr. GAETZ. I am not recognized for a parliamentary inquiry? I am not 
recognized for a parliamentary inquiry?
  The Acting CHAIR. The Chair will not engage with the gentleman.
  Mr. GAETZ. I have a parliamentary inquiry.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for his 5 minutes.
  Mr. GAETZ. Parliamentary inquiry.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman will state his inquiry.
  Mr. GAETZ. Will the Chair--will the Chair encourage Members to 
address the Chair and rather than one another?
  The Acting CHAIR. The Chair will remind all Members to address their 
remarks to the Chair.
  Mr. GAETZ. Very well. I seek recognition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized. The gentleman from 
Florida is recognized for his amendment.
  Mr. GAETZ. Mr. Chairman, the childish antics that we just observed 
indicate that we have got a lot of work to do both in this House and 
the military, not to have radical, racial ideology governing our 
discourse and governing the policy choices that we make in these bills.
  The policy choice that my amendment seeks to make ensures that we do 
not have the cancer of DEI harming our military.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. 
Luna).
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Chair, I would just like to remind people that whether 
you are White, Black, Brown, we all bleed the same, so to have this 
completely divisive ideology being pushed, to have Members from across 
the aisle making it about race when some of these Members have not even 
served, it is completely to me, not only a foreign ideology, but I 
would like to remind people when you are getting shot at, okay, when my 
husband was shot in Afghanistan, do you think he was sitting there 
asking what color the person that was evacuating him was?
  Do you think he was sitting there wondering about diversity, equity, 
and inclusion? No. The only thing he cared about was making sure that 
someone who was evacuating him knew how to do their job. That is what 
the military needs to be focusing on.
  So to have it about race just goes to show that maybe more Members, 
maybe more Members across the aisle need to be serving in our military 
because that is not something that we focus on. What we focus on is 
mission readiness. That is what it is all about.
  I don't care if you guys think that I am racist. I am a minority 
woman. Maybe I am the wrong color of minority for you, but I am a 
minority woman.
  I support this for those reasons because I have lost friends.

  The Acting CHAIR. Members are reminded to direct their remarks to the 
Chair.
  Mr. GAETZ. Mr. Chairman, I reserve and I thank the Chair for that 
acknowledgement.
  Mrs. McCLELLAN. Mr. Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
Hawaii (Ms. Tokuda).
  Ms. TOKUDA. Mr. Chair, you know, it has been said once already on 
this floor, but I don't think it can be said enough. If we ever, ever 
needed a reason to support DEI training, you need look no further than 
the debates, the antics that we have seen on this floor today, the 
childish, yes, actions that we have heard from the other side.
  In fact, from the backwards, racially insensitive comments spoken on 
this floor, it seems DEI training would be good right here in the Halls 
of Congress.
  Mr. Chair, we have spent hours in markup already debating DEI, but 
apparently it wasn't enough. So here we are again forced to debate yet 
another bad amendment.
  Never mind that 40 percent of our servicemembers identify as members 
of minority groups, or that 42 percent of servicemembers of color turn 
down assignments because of concerns about racism and discrimination 
that they have experienced.
  Never mind that almost half of all servicemembers in a recent survey 
said they have been the subject of racial slurs or jokes in their 
communities.
  To say that we do not need DEI is to say racism and discrimination 
does not exist in our military and in our society.
  For the sponsor of this amendment to be proud of taking a meat 
cleaver to DEI flies in the face of all Americans and the diversity 
that we represent.
  What this reckless amendment and this obsession over DEI really 
exposes is a callous disregard for these servicemembers and their 
experiences. They deserve better. America is better than this, and I 
strongly urge my colleagues to vote ``no.''

                              {time}  2045

  Mr. GAETZ. Mr. Chair, I can answer the gentlewoman's question. If her 
question is, when will we stop debating DEI, the answer is when we get 
rid of DEI in the military. We will be here fighting this fight each 
and every day because what fashions itself as an inclusive ideology is, 
in fact, inherently divisive and harmful.
  I acknowledge that we have many minorities that serve in our 
military, and we are so grateful for their patriotism, but it is the 
very minority groups, it is the very minority servicemembers in my 
district, who come and complain about these initiatives.
  This isn't an affront to our servicemembers. It is something we are 
doing for our servicemembers.
  Do you know what they really complain about? A lot of this DEI 
training takes away from their jumps, their live fire time, their time 
in the cockpit.
  We need to spend more time ensuring that we can protect the homeland 
and less time on pronoun training and the rest of this nonsense.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mrs. McCLELLAN. Mr. Chairman, may I inquire as to the time remaining.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Virginia has 2\1/2\ minutes 
remaining.
  Mrs. McCLELLAN. Mr. Chair, I think this debate today demonstrates 
exactly why diversity, equity, and inclusion are necessary, not only in 
the military, but we probably need some training here in this body.
  I am going to limit my remarks to the armed services. I want to break 
down what DEI training actually is because most of the comments I have 
heard today are not an accurate definition of what DEI is. I am going 
to take those words one at a time.
  Diversity training and diversity efforts recognize that we need to 
have a military, servicemembers, and an officer corps that reflects the 
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the country that they protect. For a wide variety of reasons, it 
doesn't.
  We need to recognize that our diversity is our strength and that our 
unity is our power, but we can only have unity when we recognize and 
respect the diversity of this country and the people who serve.
  Equity recognizes that despite the fact the first casualty of the 
Revolutionary War was a Black man, Black men weren't allowed to serve 
in the military until the Civil War. Until 1948, the service was 
segregated and Black men like my uncles were not allowed combat duty. 
My uncles were only allowed to cook when they served during World War 
II.
  My uncles brought back home stories of the names they were called, of 
the threats they received, not from the enemy but from their fellow 
servicemembers. Their children and grandchildren, who heard those 
stories, didn't want to serve in a military that was unwelcoming to 
them.
  Inclusion means we are creating an atmosphere and a workplace that is 
inclusive of the full diversity of everyone who serves.
  Mr. Chair, whether we like it or not, the history of this country is 
complicated. The history of this country is rooted in the original sin 
of slavery and 100 years of Jim Crow when Black Americans were treated 
as second citizens, if they were treated as citizens at all.
  We have to teach that history, and most of the amendments we have 
seen today have either tried to whitewash that history or ignore that 
it ever happened. We cannot do it. I urge the body to reject this 
amendment.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Gaetz).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mrs. McCLELLAN. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Florida will 
be postponed.
  The Chair understands that amendment No. 53 will not be offered.
  The Chair understands that amendment No. 54 will not be offered.


                 Amendment No. 55 Offered by Mr. Biggs

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 55 
printed in House Report 118-142.
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:
       Add at the end of subtitle A of title XVIII insert the 
     following new section:

     SEC. ___. EXCLUSIONS AND EXEMPTIONS FROM THE ENDANGERED 
                   SPECIES ACT OF 1973 FOR DEFENSE-RELATED 
                   OPERATIONS.

       (a) Exclusion of Military Institutions as Critical 
     Habitat.--Section 4(a)(3)(B) of the Endangered Species Act of 
     1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533(a)(3)(B)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(B)(i) The Secretary shall not designate as critical 
     habitat--

       ``(I) any military installation or a State-owned National 
     Guard installation, or any portion thereof, as such terms are 
     defined in section 100 of the Sikes Act; or
       ``(II) any other lands, waters, or geographical area that 
     is otherwise designated for use by the Secretary of Defense 
     including by any contractor of the Department of Defense, if 
     the Secretary of Defense determines in writing and submitted 
     to the Secretary of the Interior that such area is necessary 
     for military training, weapons testing, or any other reason 
     determined appropriate by such Secretary of Defense.

       ``(ii) The Secretary of Defense shall not be required to 
     consult with the Secretary of the Interior, under section 
     7(a)(2) of this Act with respect to agency action, regardless 
     of whether the area described in clause (i) is subject to an 
     integrated natural resources management plan prepared under 
     section 101 of the Sikes Act.''.
       (b) Additional Exclusions and Exemptions From the 
     Endangered Species Act for Defense-related Operations.--
     Section 10 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
     1539) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(h) Exclusion for National Defense-related Operations.--
       ``(1) Exclusions.--The prohibitions under section 9 shall 
     not apply with respect to military personnel engaged in a 
     national defense-related operation, unless such prohibited 
     act is the purpose of such operation.
       ``(2) Definitions.--For the purposes of this subsection--
       ``(A) The term `national defense-related operation' means--
       ``(i) research, development, testing, and evaluation of 
     military munitions, other ordinance, and weapons systems;
       ``(ii) the training of members of the Armed Forces in the 
     use and handling of military munitions, other ordnance, and 
     weapons systems;
       ``(iii) general training and military preparedness; or
       ``(iv) any action or duty that the Secretary of Defense 
     determines necessary to support the Department of Defense in 
     its mission.
       ``(B) The term `military personnel' means--
       ``(i) a member of the Armed Forces; and
       ``(ii) a civilian employee or contractor (including a 
     subcontractor at any tier) of the--

       ``(I) Department of Defense (including a nonappropriated 
     fund instrumentality of the Department); or
       ``(II) any other Federal agency, or any provisional 
     authority, to the extent such employment relates to 
     supporting the mission of the Department of Defense 
     overseas.''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentleman 
from Arizona (Mr. Biggs) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Arizona.
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chairman, I rise to speak in support of my amendment, 
which exempts defense-related activities from the Endangered Species 
Act.
  This amendment would end the Endangered Species Act application in 
areas used for national defense-related operations and prohibits the 
Secretary of the Interior from designating areas necessary for military 
operations as crucial habitats.
  I have been listening to my colleagues now for quite a while this 
afternoon and this evening on both sides. Where there was comity and 
concord, it was always arguing over how much we need to be ready and 
prepared. I will give you an example of what is happening here, the 
Yuma Proving Ground and the Barry M. Goldwater Range, where you can 
fire live fire missiles, are booked literally months, almost a year, in 
advance. Why? It is one of the most remote areas in the country that 
allows us to do it, but can we do it all the time? No. They are closed 
at least 12 percent of the time. That means contractors and the 
military can't complete their mission and prepare for their mission.
  Why is that? Compliance with environmental laws has created 
restrictions on how DOD manages plants and conducts training exercises 
on its installations, not just at YPG or at Goldwater.
  According to DOD, 85 percent of Army installations have threatened or 
endangered species present. Two million acres of Army training and 
testing lands have training restrictions in place related to ESA 
compliance requirements. These restrictions hinder our readiness and 
our mission.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from New York is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Huffman).
  Mr. HUFFMAN. Mr. Chairman, this is an extreme solution in search of a 
problem that does not exist. The Department of Defense is not asking 
for this huge loophole from the Endangered Species Act. They have never 
asked for this, and they don't need it.
  This year is the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act. 
Since its enactment, the ESA has provided that all agencies of the 
Federal Government, including the Department of Defense, should 
conserve threatened and endangered species.
  This amendment undermines that commitment, essentially writing the 
Department of Defense out of the ESA. It broadly excludes all DOD 
activities, including activities of defense contractors, from ESA 
requirements.
  It also constrains other Federal agencies from designating critical 
habitat, one of the most essential tools under the Endangered Species 
Act. This is habitat that is necessary for the recovery of an 
endangered or threatened species.
  There is zero evidence that the ESA is negatively impacting military 
activities. In fact, in many cases, setting aside areas around military 
bases for conservation actually helps the military by limiting other 
types of development and uses around essential military areas.

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  Further, the Department of Defense already has a lot of flexibility 
on how they can comply with the ESA.
  We are in the midst of a biodiversity crisis, and the Endangered 
Species Act continues to be an essential, visionary, and critical tool 
for keeping species from going extinct. It is a sad testimony to the 
extremism of the House Republican majority that they are turning this 
historically bipartisan NDAA into a bonfire of hate, bigotry, and 
ignorance, and this amendment throws another log on that fire by trying 
to use NDAA to gut one of our most vital and essential environmental 
laws.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this terrible 
amendment.
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chairman, to oppose this amendment is an example of 
hate, bigotry, and ignorance. This is a longstanding issue, and you 
stand there and have the audacity to say there is zero evidence.
  Explain then why officials have to report that on the Goldwater Range 
they had to cancel 8 percent of their F-16 training exercises. What is 
this for? It is for the Sonoran pronghorn, which doesn't inhabit that 
range? It inhabits the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in the Cabeza 
Prieta Refuge.
  However, anytime that pronghorn gets within 3 miles of this massive 
range that we have expended--by the way, you all just voted to give Mr. 
Grijalva from Arizona more money to expand and improve that. Guess 
what? It won't be able to be used a significant portion of the time.
  If biologists determine that the Sonoran pronghorn is present within 
3 miles of the training range, they shut it down.
  We can't bomb in certain places. We can't test missiles in certain 
places. Why? For the acuna cactus.
  I am telling you, when you say this isn't necessary, it is necessary. 
It is not extremist to say we need to help get our military ready in 
one of the most unique training ranges in the country, the Goldwater 
Range off Luke Air Force Base and the Yuma Proving Ground.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia 
(Mr. Beyer).
  Mr. BEYER. Mr. Chairman, as co-chair of the Endangered Species 
Caucus, I rise today in strong opposition to amendment No. 55 of the 
National Defense Authorization Act offered by Mr. Biggs of Arizona.
  We are facing a biodiversity crisis in America and around the world. 
We should be discussing how better to protect our Nation's wildlife 
instead of these unconscionable, extreme, MAGA Republican attack on 
efforts to protect our endangered species.
  As my friend Mr. Huffman said, this is one of the most successful 
bills in American history, and this is an absolutely baseless attack on 
the Endangered Species Act that the Department of Defense has not asked 
for. No colonels, no generals, no admirals, no captains have said that 
they have trouble fulfilling their mission because of the Endangered 
Species Act.

  The Department of Defense already has a strong natural resources 
program. They work very closely with the Fish and Wildlife Service, and 
they have been part of delisting many of the species earlier listed, 
including, most importantly, the American bald eagle.
  In the midst of a biodiversity crisis, we need an ESA that remains 
strong. We need all Federal agencies, especially the Department of 
Defense, to continue to collaborate with each other to protect our 
endangered wildlife.
  Actions to protect these species do not hinder our national security. 
Managing endangered species in balance with their mission is something 
that the Department of Defense already does very well.
  By the way, the Goldwater Range is actually managed not by the 
Endangered Species Act but by the Department of Defense's own resource 
management plan.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to reject this unwanted, 
unnecessary, and destructive amendment.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chairman, I think that it is interesting when we talk 
about protecting wildlife. How about protecting the homeland? How about 
protecting our military by allowing them to be ready and prepared? How 
about protecting the development of new military capabilities through 
the research and development that goes through both the Barry M. 
Goldwater Range, which, by the way, is impacted by the ESA, and also 
the Kofa range. That is why DOD responds.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge the passage of this amendment. I think it is 
necessary if you want to keep advocating for preparation, which 
everybody has been talking about. That is the only thing everybody has 
been in harmony about until you get to this. Then we are told that if 
you want that, somehow you are a bigot, somehow you are ignorant.
  That is audacious, offensive, and childish, and it doesn't warrant 
the worthiness of the debate that should be going on about a real 
issue.
  If you want to talk about it, let's talk about it, but you don't need 
to throw out ad hominem attacks. That is really a shame.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Biggs).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Arizona will 
be postponed.

                              {time}  2100


                 Amendment No 56. Offered by Mr. Perry

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 56 
printed in House Report 118-142.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the appropriate place in subtitle B of title XII:

     SEC. __. PROHIBITION ON FUNDING FOR AND REMOVAL OF SANCTIONS 
                   AGAINST THE TALIBAN.

       (a) Prohibition on Funding.--None of the funds authorized 
     to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available 
     for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2024 may be 
     used to provide any kind of support to the Taliban or any 
     Taliban affiliate, including financial, humanitarian, or 
     materiel assistance.
       (b) Prohibition on Removal of Sanctions.--Any sanctions, 
     financial or otherwise, imposed by the United States against 
     the Taliban or any Taliban affiliate on or before August 18, 
     2021, may not be waived or in any way mitigated except by 
     enactment of a law after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act specifically providing for such waiver or mitigation.
       (c) Affiliate Defined.--In this section, the term 
     ``affiliate''--
       (1) has the meaning given such term in section 230.405 of 
     title 17, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the 
     date of enactment of this Act);
       (2) means a person that is closely associated with another 
     person typically in a dependent or subordinate manner; or
       (3) means a person that has a common purpose or shared 
     characteristics with another person.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentleman 
from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Pennsylvania.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chair, for nearly two decades, brave American 
servicemembers gave their blood, sweat, tears, and many made the 
ultimate sacrifice, to the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, fighting terror 
and ensuring our national security. In a few short days of abject 
incompetence from President Biden and his administration, those gains 
were erased.
  After 3 long years, the Biden administration has yet to take any 
accountability for its despicable withdrawal of American troops from 
Afghanistan. I still struggle to grasp the level of abdication of 
leadership and sheer dereliction of duty that occurred in Afghanistan 
on that day.
  To this very day, it should infuriate every single American to see 
the hateful and terrorizing Taliban regime regain control of Kabul once 
again, touting our American weapons, aircraft, and machinery in a 
mockery of our longstanding fight for the freedom of Afghanistan.

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  While the underlying bill does have a section prohibiting the 
transport of currency to the Taliban, which I applaud, by the way, this 
amendment goes further by prohibiting any funding to the Taliban.
  I mean, truth is actually stranger than fiction. We fought these 
people for 20 years. In their mind, we surrendered. In the world's 
mind, we walked out, abandoned the fight that Americans gave their 
blood, sweat, and tears for, and now we are paying them. It would be 
some kind of clown show if it weren't so sad.
  I ask my fellow colleagues to support this amendment to refuse any 
kind of support to this hideous regime, especially since the special 
inspector for Afghanistan reconstruction recently confirmed to the 
Oversight Committee that he cannot assure that American taxpayer 
dollars are not going to fund the Taliban.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE. Mr. Chair, I claim time in opposition to this 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from California is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  I rise in strong opposition to this amendment. This ties the 
administration's hands in how it can best support the people of 
Afghanistan living under Taliban rule. It prohibits the use of any 
funds authorized via this bill to be used, even tangentially, to aid in 
our support of the millions of Afghan women and girls suffering under 
Taliban rule or to those Afghans living in poverty and in need of 
humanitarian relief.
  The administration already jumps through many hoops to ensure that 
aid is not moving through Taliban hands. This amendment also removes 
the President's ability to issue waivers or licenses to allow for 
humanitarian need. This amendment counters our own interests to prevent 
humanitarian crises, to assist with detained Americans, and to continue 
our ongoing work to relocate all those Afghan allies who worked 
alongside the United States over the course of our 20-year war in 
Afghanistan.
  The amendment strives to be tough on the Taliban without any regard 
for the Afghan people, which will just embolden the Taliban and create 
further discord and distrust between the United States and Afghanistan.
  The amendment is a red herring. The bogeyman word in this amendment 
is the Taliban. What this amendment does is ties the hands of the 
administration by requiring sanction mitigation to go through Congress. 
That is the job for the administration. With the dysfunction of this 
Congress, you should not even ask us to put toilet paper in the 
bathroom. This amendment would make that humanitarian aid illegal and 
people would die.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chair, I yield 30 seconds to the gentlewoman from 
Florida (Mrs. Luna).
  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Chair, I couldn't help but pull out my pocket 
Constitution, and I couldn't seem to find anywhere in here where it 
says we need to fund programs for humanitarian aid for women and 
children in Afghanistan. I just wanted to point that out.
  Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE. Mr. Chair, the text is not in the Constitution; it 
is in the bill.
  Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Washington (Mr. 
Smith).
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I can't say it any better than my 
colleague said it, so I will primarily associate myself with her 
remarks.
  The bottom line is, we have interests in Afghanistan. She mentioned a 
lot of the humanitarian interests. There are also national security 
interests. ISIS is present in Afghanistan. We have considerable concern 
about what they might do in terms of posing a transnational threat. We 
have taken strikes against there.
  There are many conceivable situations where we might need to work 
with Afghanistan in focusing on this issue, on humanitarian needs or 
national security needs. If it requires Congress to do it, it ties the 
hands of the President to basically be able to implement the policies 
that we will need to protect our interests. There is no need to have 
this requirement.
  Mr. Chair, I join my colleague in urging a ``no'' vote on this 
amendment.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chair, I remind everybody that this is the National 
Defense Authorization Act. It has to do with the military. If you want 
to keep spending money and sending money to Afghanistan, God bless you. 
Then do it in State and Foreign Ops or do it in Intel. Do it somewhere 
other than in the National Defense Authorization Act.
  This is about the defense of our country, about what is important to 
us and our military, not spending money in Afghanistan that should be 
spent on troops from the United States.
  Yes, we absolutely do want to tie the hands of this Commander in 
Chief. He has absolutely no clue what he is doing. He is the one that 
walked out of the battle, gave everything to Afghanistan, gave 
everything to the Taliban, gave premier weaponry to the number one 
terrorist organization on the planet.

  You want to send them more money? If you want to do that, you can 
vote for that, but don't do it in the National Defense Authorization 
Act. People wear the uniform with the flag on their shoulder in defense 
of this country, in defense of our ideals, not so that you can spend 
money on whatever quixotic crusade that you are on in Afghanistan that 
you have already failed at and now you are trying to make amends for.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. Members are reminded to direct their remarks to the 
Chair.
  Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE. Mr. Chair, may I inquire as to the time remaining.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.
  Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE. Mr. Chair, I yield 45 seconds to the gentleman 
from Washington (Mr. Smith).
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, let's be clear. There is no money 
in the authorizing bill for Afghanistan, so the gentleman's worries are 
misplaced. In fact, if he wasn't bringing up this amendment, we 
wouldn't even be talking about it. So that last little bit there was 
completely wrong, totally confusing, some big, impassioned plea about 
how dare we pass an authorizing act that funds the Taliban.
  I assure all Members there is no money in this bill for funding the 
Taliban. This amendment has got nothing to do with the authorizing 
bill. It goes way beyond that. We are not doing what the sponsor of 
this amendment just said we are doing.
  I don't know. Maybe he wishes to withdraw the amendment at this point 
since it is pointless to his argument, but I just want to be clear to 
the Members who will have to vote on this, it is not in the bill. This 
amendment has nothing to do with that.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chair, let me speak to that. If there is no funding in 
here and no authorization for spending any American tax dollars in 
Afghanistan, then you certainly won't mind an amendment that does 
nothing.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chair, I yield to the gentleman.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, this prohibits the President from 
funding anything, including all of that other stuff, so it goes beyond 
what is in the bill. He implied that in the bill we are funding this. 
The executive branch is a different thing. His amendment would prohibit 
the administration from doing anything. That is the objection to it.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chair, reclaiming my time.
  I don't think the American people trust this President to spend any 
of their money in Afghanistan on the Taliban. This is about the Taliban 
and spending tax dollars.
  People get up in the morning, while it is still dark out, and they 
pack their lunchbox. They don't even see their kids before they go to 
school, and they go out to work to make a living and pay their taxes. 
They dutifully do that. They want to support their country, including 
the national security of their country.
  I bet this is what they don't want to do: Spend their hard-earned tax 
dollars on the Taliban to persecute women and children and not let them 
go to school

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and hang up their adversaries on poles and crucify them and all of 
those kinds of things. That is what they don't want to pay for. They 
don't trust this President to make the right decision, because the last 
time he had the opportunity to do that, he screwed it up.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE. Mr. Chair, the last election proved that the 
majority of the people did trust the President. They voted for him.
  I just restate that we don't send money to the Taliban. We send money 
to USAID and charitable organizations. They use the money to help the 
people directly.
  This amendment would make that work, that very important critical, 
diplomatic, strategic work illegal, and then people would die. They 
would die with that red blood.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

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  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chairman, that money is being spent right now on the 
Taliban and people are dying. Americans don't want this blood on their 
hands. They don't want to spend their tax money on the Taliban. Yet, 20 
years to defeat the Taliban, and they walked away.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE. Mr. Chairman, may I inquire how much time I have 
remaining?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman has 1 minute and 15 seconds 
remaining.
  Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE. Mr. Chairman, I want to say how important it is to 
read bills and to read amendments. Once again, this amendment removes 
the President's ability to issue waivers or licenses to allow for 
humanitarian need.
  This amendment counters our own interests to prevent humanitarian 
crises, to assist with detained Americans, and to continue our ongoing 
work to relocate all of those Afghan allies who worked alongside the 
United States over the course of our 20-year war in Afghanistan. Mr. 
Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania 
will be postponed.
  The Chair understands that amendment No. 57 will not be offered.


                 Amendment No. 58 Offered by Mr. Perry

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 58 
printed in House Report 118-142.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chairman, I have got an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the appropriate place in subtitle F of title XXVIII, 
     insert the following:

     SEC. 28__. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR USE OF SUSTAINABLE 
                   BUILDING MATERIALS IN MILITARY CONSTRUCTION.

       None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act 
     or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2024 may be 
     obligated or expended for the promotion of, or preference 
     for, sustainable building materials (including low-embodied 
     or no-carbon concrete or asphalt) or ``net-zero emissions'' 
     in military construction.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentleman 
from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Pennsylvania.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chairman, this amendment simply prohibits the 
obligation of funds for promotion of, or preference for, sustainable 
building materials, including low-embodied concrete or asphalt, or net-
zero emissions in military construction.
  Let me be clear: this does not prohibit the use of those materials. 
You can still use them. It ensures a fair playing field for all types 
of construction materials, including ones that we have a long history 
of knowing about and knowing what their integrity is without the 
government's thumb on the scale.
  We don't need the government's thumb on the scale. We know what 
works, and we don't need to be experimenting with things that might be 
unsafe.
  The Biden administration is already demanding so-called green 
concrete and asphalt standards across the whole of government. They 
have committed to a governmentwide effort to buy clean, including 
through construction materials. I don't know, buy clean? I don't know 
what you think is dirty about concrete, it comes out of the ground, 
there is aggregate in it--Portland cement.
  I don't know what is unclean about stick-built construction made of 
wood grown all across the country. Hopefully, it is grown across this 
country and not coming from China.
  Despite GSA issuing the first nationwide green concrete and asphalt 
standards, according to their 2022 sustainability plan, environmentally 
preferable paving hasn't saved any money at the initial six job sites.
  Furthermore, it is unclear whether the technical changes in concrete 
mixtures, in other words, replacing Portland cement with things like 
fly ash and hemp, are durable enough for any and all scenarios.
  Even the loudest voices advocating these technologies worldwide 
acknowledge the inability for the free market to adopt these 
technologies on its own.
  I am going to quote the World Economic Forum because we love them so 
much, they are for America. In their 2023 report, it said: ``It is a 
chicken and egg situation: If . . . firms and their clients as well as 
policymakers don't prioritize''--put their thumb on the scale for--
``the use of low-carbon concrete in buildings and infrastructure 
projects, many manufacturers will be loath to allocate capital 
expenditures for materials production. And until low-carbon cement and 
concrete products are produced at greater scale, their availability and 
cost will be a concern for the industry.''
  You know what the answer is?
  The Federal Government is going to demand it. That is the answer.
  Again, if green construction materials somehow become more cost 
effective than traditional building materials, they will be used in 
private and public projects alike.
  I am going to give you a scenario in my hometown where they used fly 
ash underneath the asphalt at new government construction. After about 
6 months, when the asphalt on top of it all cracked because it was 
expanding and contracting due to heat and moisture, they tore it all 
back out and put the old stuff in that works.
  I am not saying that we shouldn't endeavor to find new things that 
are better. What I am saying is that the market will figure these 
things out without the Federal Government forcing us to accept things 
that we don't know about, cost more, and we are unsure about the long 
term viability.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. Chairman, that was a most interesting argument 
presented by our colleague.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Alabama 
(Mr. Rogers), the chairman of the Armed Services Committee.
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Chairman, I thank my friend from 
California. I support the gentleman's intentions, but I have concerns 
with the impacts if this amendment were enacted as written.
  Lumber is a sustainable building product. Innovative timber products 
are currently being used in military construction projects throughout 
the country. I don't think anyone wants to limit the use of these 
timber products.
  The American Wood Council and the Southeastern Lumber Manufacturers 
Association are opposed to this amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to oppose it.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chairman, this amendment doesn't prohibit the use of 
any of this material--not what the chairman said and not what my friend 
from California is going to state. It

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doesn't prohibit any of that. All we are saying is that the Federal 
Government shouldn't put its thumb on the scale and demand and require 
that we use these products. The market will work it out. The engineers 
will work it out.
  The sustainability over time of using these products will ensure the 
cost effectiveness and the integrity of the construction. We can't 
wait, we are going to force this on everybody whether they want it or 
not, and when it fails, they are going to come back to this place and 
say: Well, we need more money to fix these things that we screwed up 10 
years ago by using this stuff that wasn't ready for prime time. I am 
going to remind you when the time comes because I am going to be voting 
against all that funding.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman 
from Washington (Mr. Smith), the ranking member of the Armed Services 
Committee.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chairman, the point of all this is 
whether or not sustainability should be an objective that we work 
toward in our building materials. What this amendment does is it 
undermines the ability to get to that goal of sustainability.
  Now, sustainability can mean a lot of different things. Mr. Rogers 
focused on the aspect of how timber can be used. There is an aspect of 
sustainability that focuses on whether or not what you are building 
will enable us to sustain the planet. It is sort of widely accepted 
that the way we are using carbon-emitting--all kinds of different 
issues--is jeopardizing the health of the planet long term. That is 
something that we ought to think about and we ought to be concerned 
about.
  If this amendment passes, you are putting your thumb on the scale in 
a different way, saying the sustainability isn't important, you are 
going to focus on other issues.

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  Actually, Mr. Garamendi is very good on other issues. As the chairman 
of the Readiness Subcommittee, he always pointed out: Don't look at the 
upfront cost. Look at the sustainability costs.
  What does it cost to maintain what you are doing? What is the long-
term cost going to be?
  The market may be very good at figuring out what is going to be 
cheapest right now today in this second, but then we pay over the long 
term.
  This amendment basically guts our ability to contemplate that long 
term, to contemplate what sustainability would look like and what those 
long-term costs are.
  It is good to be on the same side as the chairman on an amendment. I 
am with him. We should reject this amendment. Please vote ``no.''
  Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. Chair, may I inquire as to how much time is 
remaining.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 3 minutes 
remaining. The gentleman from Pennsylvania has 30 seconds remaining.
  Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. Chair, I yield myself 2 minutes.
  Mr. Chair, I am curious here about the history of the United States 
Government putting its finger on the scale. Let's think for a moment 
about the way in which the railroad industry was created in the United 
States. We are talking not only a finger, a thumb, but the 
extraordinary weight of the Federal Government creating it.
  Let's talk about nuclear energy. Let's talk about aircraft. Let's 
talk about the airline industry.
  When we talk about anything in modern America today, in one way or 
another, the Federal Government led and caused in part, together with 
the private sector, for the industry to develop.
  What we are doing here in the NDAA is to set out a mechanism using 
the military to bring into the economy new technologies that are 
sustainable and that reduce greenhouse gases.
  If you want to buy steel from several American steel companies, this 
amendment would make it impossible for the military to buy that steel 
because they are using sustainable methods of creating the steel.
  Throughout the entire system, we find the military moving toward 
sustainability, reducing costs, and, I might add here, maintaining the 
standard that is necessary for that particular steel structure. It 
could be sustainable, using hydrogen rather than coal to create the 
steel. It could be wood, cross-laminated wood products, which 
previously were not used by the military because they weren't 
considered. What we have done is to say consider using these 
sustainable materials.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chairman, I know my good friend is from California so 
I have to restate things over and over again, but this prohibits the 
obligation of the preference--the preference--for sustainable building 
materials. It does not prohibit the use of these materials. They can be 
used. It just doesn't say that the government is going to put its thumb 
on the scale.
  By the way, all we are doing in this NDAA without this amendment is 
saying the taxpayers are going to bear the burden. You folks up there 
are going to bear the burden of seeing if this stuff works, how long it 
works, and how expensive it is.
  The railroads, yes, absolutely, because there wasn't a railroad. 
Nuclear energy did not exist without the government. That is a little 
different from things that already exist and things that already work.
  Mr. Chair, I urge adoption of this amendment, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. Chair, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Mr. Chair, it is always interesting to listen to my colleague, and I 
often find that he is incorrect, Mr. Chairman. However, let's consider 
for a moment what we really have here.
  We have an entirely new system being developed within the United 
States and really around the world, and that is new materials that are 
being developed every day.
  This amendment would make it difficult, if not impossible, for the 
military to engage in the purchase of these new materials. It is, in 
fact, the military that has throughout the history of the United States 
brought into the American economy new systems and new materials. We can 
go through a long list of those, but I won't spend all my time to do 
that.
  What I will simply say is that what we are doing with the NDAA is to 
make sure that we have resiliency and that we are reducing the impact 
of carbon in our society and in the climate of this world. We are also 
requiring that those new materials meet the highest standards used in 
all of the United States.
  I am afraid that I am out of time. We will continue this in the back 
room.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry).
  The amendment was rejected.


                 Amendment No. 59 Offered by Mr. Perry

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 59 
printed in House Report 118-142.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of subtitle B of title II, add the following:

     SEC. 227. PROHIBITION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR CERTAIN 
                   PROJECTS.

       None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act 
     or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2024 for the 
     Department of Defense for research, development, test, and 
     evaluation may be obligated or expended for projects 
     involding electric vehicles, electric vehicle charging, or 
     photovoltaic technology.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentleman 
from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Pennsylvania.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chairman, this amendment prohibits the use of research 
development, testing, and evaluation funding for electric vehicles, 
electric vehicle charging, and photovoltaic technology in the NDAA.
  For the past decade, the Department of Defense RDT&E funding has been

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squandered on wasteful, ineffective green technologies at the expense 
of enhanced readiness and lethality.
  This misguided push by the left and this administration has only 
worsened this misallocation of resources in their dangerous efforts to 
force the American people to abandon the forms of energy and 
transportation that allow for our prosperity and security.
  This effort has now moved in a dangerous direction toward the 
procurement of electric tactical vehicles without regard to the 
numerous drawbacks of EVs compared to the internal combustion engine 
vehicles.
  What happens when the batteries die on the battlefield and our 
soldiers, sailors, and marines are stuck for hours while the battery is 
recharging in a sandstorm? How does prioritizing the green energy cult 
over the safety and lethality of our warfighters promote our national 
security?
  More concerningly, the component minerals necessary for these 
technologies are almost entirely controlled by our enemies in Beijing. 
That is great. The supply chain for our military comes from China, 
giving our literal enemies complete control over our military supply 
chains and our ability to disrupt the defense of our Nation.
  Mr. Chair, I urge support of this amendment, and I reserve the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. NORCROSS. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from New Jersey is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. NORCROSS. Mr. Chair, prohibiting funds for electric vehicles, 
electric chargers, and photovoltaic technology?
  Over the past 4 years, every Army and every Marine Corps uniformed 
officer who testified before our Tactical Air and Land Forces 
Subcommittee has been crystal clear: electrification of combat and 
tactical vehicles has tremendous operating promise and value. That is 
what they, the experts, tell us.
  This capability is needed sooner rather than later.
  In every meeting I have had with military leaders on electrification, 
they talk about electric vehicle operational value, that this is a 
proven tactical capability that will make our ground forces more 
mobile, lethal, and survivable.
  This is about fighting and winning. This is not a climate issue. This 
is about giving our warfighters the best equipment.
  Mr. Chair, when you walk down the street, do you hear those electric 
cars? No, you don't. That is exactly why they want this. It is because 
they are quiet. They don't put out the heat signature of combustion 
engines.
  This isn't made up accidentally. This is the testimony from military 
leaders over the last 4 years, starting with the Trump administration 
and now continuing with the Biden administration.
  This is important. Our military leaders say they support 
electrification. It is not for climate change. It is about operational 
value for our warfighters.
  It is insane that we want to take away from our warfighters a vehicle 
that can be safe to sneak up on somebody, not to say: Hey, I am here, 
folks.
  By the way, they charge. That is great. Mr. Chair, do you know what 
happens to vehicles? They run out of gas. The very first prisoner of 
war during the Iraqi invasion was from a fuel truck that made a wrong 
turn.
  We understand those challenges, but this is about giving our 
warfighters what they need, the operational need, the equipment. Not to 
mention that by pulling down photovoltaic, we are shutting down any 
satellite in the future because, do you know what, Mr. Chair? They 
don't have extension cords in space. They need solar panels, and you 
are trying to shut it down. It is unbelievable.
  Mr. Chair, I urge so strongly the opposition to this amendment, and I 
reserve the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. Members are reminded to direct their remarks to the 
Chair.

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  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  As someone who did serve and did use the vehicles for over 3 decades, 
I rose from the bottom to the general ranks, so I would say at some 
level, when you are a GO, you are in top leadership.
  Not one person in those over 3\1/2\ decades ever told me--not one--we 
are not going to be able to win this fight without an electric tactical 
vehicle. Not one.
  As for the first prisoner in Iraq who made a wrong turn driving a 
fuel truck, it wasn't because they ran out of fuel. It was because they 
made a wrong turn. I know where the wrong turn was made because I 
served in Diwaniyah. It has nothing to do with the issue at hand.
  The issue at hand is that we shouldn't be spending our R&D money from 
the military on things that can be bought off the shelf once they are 
proven.
  If the military does want to buy this stuff, let the contractors 
prove it to them so that the taxpayers don't have to pay for all the 
failures along the way, and even more importantly, so the 
servicemembers in contact don't have to pay with their lives for the 
failures along the way.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. NORCROSS. Mr. Chairman, I would just remind everybody that we 
used to ride horses into battle. It doesn't make them wrong, but I 
don't think they work too well today. There are certainly plenty.
  Mr. Chair, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. 
Rogers), the chairman of the committee.
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Chair, this amendment would prohibit the 
Department of Defense from spending any research and development 
funding on solar cells and other technologies on Earth or in orbit.
  Most people who know me know that I spend a lot of time on national 
security space. Mr. Chair, 100 percent of our U.S. satellites, both 
government and commercial, rely on secure communications. Missile 
warning and global positioning are powered by solar cells.
  Ending research and development on cutting-edge solar technology does 
not advance national defense. In fact, it would limit our ability to 
confront China in space as they seek to challenge our superiority.
  I agree that DOD shouldn't waste time on fake green initiatives, but 
advancing key space capabilities with these technologies makes our 
military more lethal. I urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment.
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the chairman's remarks, and I 
certainly live better because satellites exist in space. Unfortunately, 
I have to live with the fact that the satellites in space are powered 
by Chinese-made solar panels.
  When the chairman can tell me that the solar panels are all going to 
be made in America without slave labor from the Congo or from East 
Turkestan, then maybe this wouldn't be germane, but I don't think we 
should be dependent on our enemy for our power or our satellites.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. NORCROSS. Mr. Chair, I remind everybody that we do not allow 
Chinese-made solar panels on our satellites, and that facts do count.
  Mr. Chair, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Washington 
(Mr. Smith), the ranking member of the committee.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chairman, I really would just associate 
myself with Chairman Rogers' remarks. These technologies are crucially 
important to developing the capabilities that we need to be able to 
compete with China, deter our adversaries, and have a strong military.
  I understand that there are controversial decisions that are made; 
what is the right technology going forward? We will never be perfect 
about this. We have gone through this in DOD in many instances.
  Gosh, we spent a lot of money on the F-35 that didn't quite work out. 
We spent a lot of money on a lot of different programs that didn't work 
out perfectly.
  Targeting electric, solar, new green energy I realize is being done 
because of the politics around it, but I would hope that we could put 
aside those political debates on that to recognize the crucial need 
that we have for these technologies in the military.
  If the gentleman's amendment passes, I guess we would have to take 
down the satellites. I mean, how is this going to work, exactly? This 
is a really, really bad idea, and I hope we will vote ``no.''

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  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chairman, I urge adoption of the amendment, and I 
yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. NORCROSS. Mr. Chairman, I would just remind everybody, this is an 
operational need that came from the experts, those who testified before 
our committee over the last 4 years, that they want this, they need 
this, and they understand.
  It is a proven technology to give our warfighters that tactical 
equipment that they need, and I strongly urge opposition to this 
amendment.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry).
  The amendment was rejected.
  The Chair understands that amendment No. 60 will not be offered.


                  Amendment No. 61 Offered by Mr. Issa

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 61 
printed in House Report 118-142.
  Mr. ISSA. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk; No. 61, 
oddly enough.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of subtitle F of title X, insert the following:

     SEC. 10__. REPORT AND TRANSMISSION OF DOCUMENTS ON WITHDRAWAL 
                   OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES FROM AFGHANISTAN.

       (a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     submit to the congressional defense committees a report on 
     certain Department of Defense actions during the withdrawal 
     of the United States Armed Forces withdrawal from Afghanistan 
     and the subsequent noncombatant evacuation operations.
       (b) Elements.--The report described in subsection (a) shall 
     include the following elements:
       (1) A discussion of the strategy that led to the withdrawal 
     of the United States Armed Forces from Bagram Airfield, 
     Afghanistan, including--
       (A) the anticipated effect of withdrawal on potential 
     operations in the final phase of the overall withdrawal of 
     the United States Armed Forces and persons from Afghanistan;
       (B) the extent to which considerations of the timing of 
     such withdrawal were incorporated into such strategy in light 
     of--
       (i) the impending collapse of the Afghan National Army; and
       (ii) the potential need for noncombatant evacuation 
     operations to evacuate citizens and lawful permanent 
     residents of the United States and individuals potentially 
     eligible for special immigrant visas;
       (C) a description of how such strategy included plans for 
     contingencies arising from operational constraints at the 
     Hamid Karzai International Airport; and
       (D) a description of how such strategy accounted for the 
     risk of jailed ISIS-K fighters, or any other combatants or 
     terrorists, being released from Bagram.
       (2) A summary of the information known about the Abbey Gate 
     suicide-bomber, including a description of what was known 
     before the withdrawal of United States Armed Forces from 
     Afghanistan and what is known now, including information on--
       (A) the suicide bomber;
       (B) known threats to Hamid Karzai International Airport and 
     actions taken to mitigate or respond to the threat; and
       (C) actions taken to retaliate for the bombing.
       (3) In consultation with the Secretary of State, an 
     analysis of persons not employed by the United States 
     Government who were evacuated in the airlift from Hamid 
     Karzai International Airport, including--
       (A) the number of such persons;
       (B) the percentage of such persons whose biometrics were 
     recorded;
       (C) the percentage of such persons who were checked against 
     appropriate databases and terror watch lists;
       (D) a description of the vetting process for such persons, 
     including the percentage of such persons who had legitimate 
     and accurate government documentation and the process by 
     which such documentation was verified;
       (E) a description of the procedures applied to such persons 
     who failed entry vetting criteria, including--
       (i) how many such persons are no longer under United States 
     or partner government supervision;
       (ii) where such persons have been housed since the 
     evacuation; and
       (iii) plans for the future care, release, or incarceration 
     of such persons; and
       (F) a description of the procedures for individuals who 
     passed vetting procedures, including--
       (i) the number of such persons who have been brought to the 
     United States; and
       (ii) rhe number of such persons awaiting resettlement and 
     plans for resettlement of such persons.
       (c) Form.--The report required under subsection (a) shall 
     be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a 
     classified annex.
       (d) Publication.--The report described in subsection (a) 
     shall be published on a publicly available Department of 
     Defense internet website.
       (e) Transmission of Documents.--Not later than 180 days 
     after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
     Defense and the Secretary of State shall transmit to the 
     congressional defense committees, the Committee on Foreign 
     Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations of the Senate copies of all documents 
     (including all records, communications, correspondence 
     (including email), messages (including text and instant 
     messages), transcripts, summaries, agendas, written 
     agreements, notes, memoranda, diplomatic cables, reports, 
     legal opinions, analytical products, briefing materials, 
     intelligence assessments, white papers, nonpapers, meeting 
     readouts, and other materials, regardless of electronic or 
     physical format), both classified and unclassified, in the 
     possession of the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of 
     State that refer or relate to--
       (1) the decision to withdraw the Armed Forces from Bagram 
     Airfield, including the decision to withdraw without 
     notifying the Afghan Government;
       (2) the decision to rely on Hamid Karzai International 
     Airport for operations following the withdrawal from Bagram 
     Airfield;
       (3) the transfer, and potential escape, of prisoners held 
     at Bagram Airfield;
       (4) the Abbey Gate suicide-bomber, including referring and 
     relating to actions taken to mitigate or respond to the 
     threat to operations at Hamid Karzai International Airport 
     and actions taken to retaliate for the bombing;
       (5) the consequences of air lifting large numbers of 
     persons with unknown backgrounds and intentions out of 
     Afghanistan; and
       (6) communications with nongovernmental groups of United 
     States persons attempting to extract persons from 
     Afghanistan, including those that refer or relate to--
       (A) the lists of persons delivered to the Department of 
     State by Operation Pineapple Express;
       (B) attempts by United States Government personal to 
     prevent or assist such groups in the movement of persons 
     within, into, or out of Afghanistan, including between Kabul 
     and Mazar-i-Sharif, between Kabul and the borders of 
     Afghanistan, between Kabul and to airstrips in neighboring 
     countries, and within Kabul to the Hamid Karzai International 
     Airport;
       (C) any monetary support the United States Government 
     considered offering; and
       (D) whether there were intelligence or surveillance 
     activities directed at those groups, and the purpose and 
     extent of such activities.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Issa) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California.
  Mr. ISSA. Mr. Chairman, I yield 45 seconds to the gentleman from 
Alabama (Mr. Rogers).
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Chairman, I support the amendment and 
believe it will help the Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees 
in their ongoing investigations of the war in Afghanistan.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Crow).
  Mr. CROW. Mr. Chairman, I do a lot of good work with my friend from 
California, and we have agreed before, but I have to vehemently 
disagree with him on this particular amendment.
  It is framed as an Afghanistan oversight amendment, an issue that is 
very important to me and which I have worked very hard on over the last 
couple of years, both before the withdrawal from Afghanistan and after 
the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
  It lists a number of efforts and a number of data points and 
information and documents that it wants the government to turn over.
  If only somebody had thought of this before. If only we thought about 
doing oversight of Afghanistan before; like maybe the Special Inspector 
General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, SIGAR, or maybe the Abbey Gate 
investigation, or maybe the thousands of documents that CENTCOM already 
has on its website, or maybe the Oversight and Accountability 
Subcommittee that Foreign Affairs actually just created that I am the 
ranking member of, or maybe the DOD, State Department, and CIA after-
action reviews that exist, or maybe the General Accountability Office 
investigations, or maybe the IG investigations, or maybe the bipartisan 
Afghanistan War Commission

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that we have supported that has eight Democrats and eight Republicans 
that many of my friends on the opposite side of the aisle won't even 
agree to fund now, or maybe the 20 pieces of legislation that I and 
others have supported to make sure that we learn lessons and do this 
right, or maybe the Afghan Allies Protection Act that I am moving 
forward to do right by our SIVs, or maybe the Afghan Adjustment Act to 
make sure that we are helping those Afghans that we evacuated.
  I could go on and on about all the efforts that I have worked on, and 
others have worked on that I would fully support and hope that you 
would do the same, but this is just a political effort, right?
  There is all this other stuff going on that I support that are good, 
bipartisan efforts. This is duplicative which makes it gratuitously 
political, and I urge my colleagues not to support this measure.

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  Mr. ISSA. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I wish my colleague had stayed for a little longer because I would 
like to change his mind as to why I am doing it, what I am doing, and 
what the purpose would be.
  My office has been in pretty constant contact with many of the 
families--more than 10 of them--of the 13 who lost their lives in the 
withdrawal from Afghanistan. Many of the individuals, the family 
members have asked specific questions that have never been answered, 
and they continue to want to have specific questions answered, 
particularly and including, obviously, individuals, what we knew about 
them, how they came to be released, a lot of the activities that went 
on.
  Now, some of it will have to be transmitted on a classified basis, 
but most of it can be given to the committees of jurisdiction openly.
  Those families, the families of the 13 and the families of all of the 
others who have lost their lives, deserve closure. I believe that 
although the special IG and lots of other organizations have done a lot 
of good work, much of it is not yet available to Congress, and as a 
result, not available to the families or to the American people.
  For that reason, I crafted this multipage amendment specifically and 
narrowly to ask for information that to a great extent has not yet been 
granted, which the Department of Defense has.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I 
may consume.
  The gentleman's amendment requires the DOD to generate a report and 
provide all documentation to Congress on the decision to withdraw from 
Afghanistan, the attack at Abbey Gate, in coordination with State, 
provide the number and immigration status of those evacuated from 
Afghanistan, and U.S. support or interference with nongovernmental 
groups assisting with the evacuation.
  There is nothing particularly narrowly crafted about this. It is very 
broad. The larger problem, this is all information, as Mr. Crow 
indicated, that has been turned over repeatedly to multiple different 
commissions and multiple different entities.
  I do not doubt that the families still have questions. To the extent 
they have questions, we should try to answer them. Those questions are 
not going to be answered in the documentation that the gentleman is 
asking for, and I know this because these documents have already been 
turned over, already been made available; and as the gentleman just 
said, the families still have questions. I completely respect that. We 
should find ways to answer those questions.
  This amendment isn't going to do that. It is not going to answer 
those questions. It is simply asking for documentation that has already 
been provided in multiple forums. I will grant you that it depends on 
the forum, but we have got the inspector general. Mr. Crow went through 
the list of all the different people who have seen this.
  And remember, right now, the Republican-led House Foreign Affairs 
Committee, which is not being remotely shy about pursuing this 
information, is leading an investigation on precisely that issue. 
Therefore, this is duplicative and will not answer the questions that 
the gentleman just raised, so I don't support this amendment. I agree 
with Mr. Crow that there is no apparent purpose for it. This 
information has been provided, and if we pass this amendment, it 
implies that it hasn't. That is wrong, dishonest, and we shouldn't do 
it.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. ISSA. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I wish that the gentleman would come with me. On Monday night, I will 
have more than two dozen of the family members for dinner after votes, 
and you are invited. My treat.
  The fact is, those unanswered questions are not because voluminous 
documents haven't been requested, and in some cases, many have been 
received. It is because when committees ask--and I have plenty of 
experience on oversight. When committees ask, they get told we will 
provide you such information as is appropriate to your request and we 
determine should be granted. That is short of when you pass a law.
  The weight of this amendment in this act will, in fact, have a weight 
of law for compliance. That is a weight of law which is higher than a 
committee requesting or even a committee subpoena. That is the reason 
that this is different.
  This will ensure that if someone says, look, we have already granted 
it all, they can either push a button and duplicate it, they can give 
us stacks from other reports or, in fact, they can look one more time 
for the information we have been asking for and be more complete, 
compliant with a law that will ultimately be signed by the President.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I yield myself 30 seconds. The 
weight of law is important if the information hasn't been turned over. 
That is what the weight of law does. It compels them to do it.
  Again, I will emphasize, the answers that the gentleman seeks--and I 
applaud you for having those conversations with the victims. I hope you 
can answer those questions. I hope somebody can, but this amendment 
does not advance that conversation at all.
  I appreciate the fact that the gentleman has had some time to talk 
about this very important issue, but the amendment is simply seeking 
information that has already been provided.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I yield myself an additional 15 
seconds.
  As far as the opportunity to have it again, as I understand it, that 
subcommittee on Foreign Affairs is still going. They are very, very far 
from done, so those questions have a very obvious forum and multiple 
other forums in which to continue to answer those questions.

  Again, this amendment implies the Department of Defense is 
withholding something. They are not.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. ISSA. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Let 
me tell a quick story. Some years ago, we subpoenaed information from 
the Department of Justice. The Attorney General himself, then Eric 
Holder, came before me both in committee and personally up to and 
including the moment in which he was held in contempt, met with us in 
the Speaker's office, and assured us that if we would just take the 279 
pages that was fully meeting all of our requests and accept that as a 
complete record and be done with it, that he would give them to us. 
Otherwise, he would withhold them.
  We held him in contempt. We went to court, and many months later, Amy 
Berman Jackson, a Federal judge, said: Let me see the documents you are 
withholding, and all of them that you are claiming the executive 
privilege. All of them that, in fact, are responsive to his request.
  We received thousands of pages that never went to Amy Berman Jackson 
because they had no merit. Then we received more than 10,000 more pages 
that did go through a review process; 279, 2,000, 10,000. The fact is, 
it is not new for administrations to give you some documents and not 
look thoroughly until there is a compelling law.

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  I do not want to go back through the process of going to a Federal 
judge or holding someone in contempt. This is a way to ensure that they 
either comply or honestly tell us they have already complied. I cannot 
take the word this lightly of any administration. I have been down that 
road before.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I yield the balance of my time to 
Mr. Crow.
  Mr. CROW. My friend from California, I will always accept an offer to 
meet with our families of the fallen. I served in Afghanistan, as you 
know, and some of my friends and people that I served with made the 
ultimate sacrifice, but this is not the way to advance this mission and 
get this done.
  As the ranking member of the Oversight and Accountability 
Subcommittee, I will work with you to do it the right way.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my 
time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Issa).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                Amendment No. 62 Offered by Mr. Burlison

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 62 
printed in House Report 118-142.
  Mr. BURLISON. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Page 531, after line 11, add the following:
       (c) Repeal of Inspector General Oversight of Diversity and 
     Inclusion in Department of Defense.--Section 554 of the 
     William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization 
     Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116-283; 10 U.S.C. 141 
     note) is repealed.
       (d) Prohibition on Establishment of New Diversity, Equity, 
     and Inclusion Positions; Hiring Freeze.--On or after the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense may 
     not--
       (1) establish any new positions within the Department of 
     Defense with responsibility for matters relating to 
     diversity, equity, and inclusion; or
       (2) fill any vacancies in positions in the Department with 
     responsibility for such matters.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentleman 
from Missouri (Mr. Burlison) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Missouri.
  Mr. BURLISON. Mr. Chairman, I urge all of my colleagues to support 
this amendment to eliminate the diversity and inclusion deputy 
inspector general to prohibit the establishment of new diversity, 
equity, and inclusion positions within the DOD and to prohibit the 
Secretary from filling any vacancies for DEI positions.
  For years, the left has forced radical and unpopular ideas into our 
very institutions that are under the cover of DEI policies.

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  DEI initiatives and policies are not about making everyone feel like 
they belong. It is a smokescreen. Instead of uniting us, it is about 
dividing us. It is about dividing our country into separate groups that 
are based on identity, and conforming to a radical agenda that replaces 
our shared American identity instead with a tribalism, with a tribal 
collectivism.
  And you know what? It is a disgrace to our political and military 
leaders who have allowed this to occur in the Department of Defense. 
You see, the DOD's mission is not that. Its mission, instead, is to 
provide the military forces that are needed to deter war and ensure the 
Nation's security.
  Dividing our troops and the DOD employees by race and identity does 
nothing but distract from the mission of addressing real and imminent 
threats to the U.S. national security. In reality, woke indoctrination 
serves as only one of these very threats.
  DEI in the military breeds hostility among the enlisted by focusing 
on identity-driven grievances instead of bringing people together, 
instead of unity. It undermines that shared American identity and a 
patriotic love of country that compelled our dedicated servicemembers 
to join in the first place.
  The U.S. military is one of our last great merit-based institutions 
that is still standing. Millions of selfless patriots serve our 
country, but their service is exploited by the wokeness and the 
religion of DEI.
  Instead of judging our servicemembers based on merit, they are judged 
by identity. Instead of having a unified body of men and women who are 
ready to defend our Nation, we have a group of people who are 
fragmented into the belief of their gender identities.
  Instead of men and women in the armed services being trained in 
readiness, their time is wasted learning whatever new woke ideology 
comes out of leftist universities. This is not acceptable, and we have 
to stop this madness before it is too late. That is why I filed this 
amendment.
  This amendment repeals the DEI inspector general at the DOD and 
prohibits the establishment of new DEI positions. Specifically, it 
prohibits the Secretary from establishing any new DEI positions at the 
DOD.
  The DOD will not be able to fill any DEI vacancies that might come 
up. This amendment simply eliminates these unnecessary taxpayer-funded 
positions, and that is it.
  I urge my colleagues to adopt this amendment, and I reserve the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Strickland).
  Ms. STRICKLAND. Mr. Chair, this amendment will eliminate the 
inspector general position responsible for overseeing diversity and 
inclusion efforts in the military.
  My colleagues across the aisle must understand the full purpose of 
this office. Number one, it is tasked with supporting effective, 
evidence-based programs on diversity and inclusion. Number two, it is 
responsible for responding to extremism and criminal gang activity 
within our Department of Defense.
  This amendment eliminates the investigators who are responsible for 
weeding out criminal efforts in our government, the same investigators 
who keep our military accountable to the people we serve.
  Mr. Chair, is it my colleagues' intent to support these criminal 
activities? Because eliminating the deputy inspector position is 
exactly the message this sends to our department and the American 
people.
  Researchers at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and 
Responses to Terrorism looked at three decades of extremist attacks in 
the U.S., and they found that a military background is the most 
commonly shared characteristic among extremists who committed or 
plotted mass casualty attacks from 1990 through 2022.
  Offenders with military backgrounds were 2\1/2\ times more likely to 
be classified as a mass fatality perpetrator than extremists who don't 
serve in the Armed Forces.
  Through December 2021, 120 individuals with U.S. military backgrounds 
were identified as participants in the violent failed coup on January 
6.
  This is unacceptable. For our safety, for the security of our 
military, the U.S. must make it a priority to root out extremism in our 
Armed Forces. Eliminating this office and deputy inspector general sets 
us back.
  The NDAA that we passed out of committee was broadly supported in a 
bipartisan manner. This suite of amendments attacking DEI and 
validating extremism, undermines our safety and our security.
  Instead of putting housing, childcare, military families and their 
needs first, my friends across the aisle are choosing to fail them. I 
strongly oppose this amendment.
  Mr. BURLISON. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
the great State of Texas (Mr. Roy).
  Mr. ROY. Mr. Chairman, earlier today the ranking member of the House 
Rules Committee accused me of offering a racist amendment. It was 
racist and that was because it said that we shouldn't have policies 
under DEI encouraging that any race is inherently superior or inferior 
to any other race, color, or national origin; the United States being a 
fundamentally racist country, the Declaration of Independence or 
Constitution of the United States are fundamentally racist documents; 
an individual's moral character or worth is determined by the 
individual's race, color, or national origin; an

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individual, by virtue of the individual's race is inherently racist or 
oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously; or that an 
individual, because of the individual's race, bears responsibility for 
the actions committed by other members of the individual's race, color, 
or national origin.

  The fact is we have DEI positions like that held by Kelisa Wing where 
she talked about ``CAUdacity'' to say that Black people can be racist 
too. That is what is happening. We are inculcating racist positions at 
the Department of Defense.
  I support my friend's amendment to strike these racist positions. The 
Department of Defense should be colorblind so we can defend the United 
States of America instead of having social engineering experiments that 
are wrapped in a uniform.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the 
gentlewoman from Alabama (Ms. Sewell).
  Ms. SEWELL. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to this 
amendment.
  Like so many of the Republican amendments that were shockingly made 
in order, this is yet another tragic attempt to gut DOD of any efforts 
to increase diversity and decrease extremism.
  Let me be clear: This provision will only hurt our national security 
and readiness. Some 41 percent of our military members are minorities, 
and that number will continue to grow. So it is unbelievable to me why 
my colleagues across the aisle are so opposed to ensuring that nearly 
half of our servicemen and -women feel seen, heard, and supported as 
they defend our country.
  As we continue to face recruitment and retention challenges, we 
should be using every tool in the toolbox to recruit the best and the 
brightest. That means recruiting people of diverse backgrounds.
  As a Black woman standing before you today, hear me when I say that 
this amendment is as harmful as it is hurtful.
  We simply should not have to defend why diversity is our Nation's 
strength and yet, here we are. It is maddening, and it is dangerous.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chairman, I yield 30 seconds to the 
gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Strickland).
  Ms. STRICKLAND. Mr. Chairman, Congress must support an inspector 
general position that ensures military equal opportunity programs work 
and sounds the alarm when extremism takes root in our military.
  What we are seeing here today is a small group of MAGA extremists 
holding the NDAA hostage in their efforts to politicize the Department.
  I urge my moderate colleagues across the aisle who don't want to fire 
criminal investigators, who don't want to tell our servicemembers that 
they don't belong, who don't want to leave military families high and 
dry to please vote ``no'' on this amendment. Use your conscience.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the balance of 
my time.
  I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding of what DEI is, and 
there are certainly examples and there are many anecdotes of bad DEI, 
of DEI that goes too far in the opposite direction, as has been 
described over and over and over again.
  But the basic idea that we need to make sure that our military is 
inclusive and focus on diversity and equity, as we have argued 
throughout the day today is inarguable.
  There is a history of racism. There is a history of sexism. There is 
a history of bigotry.

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  As was pointed out, we wouldn't even allow trans or gay people to 
serve in many instances. Now that we have allowed Black people to serve 
in the military, they are not getting promoted at the same level.
  If we are going to recruit from the diverse population that we have 
in this country, we have to at least focus on it. If folks want to 
focus on some minor bad aspect of it, we can talk about that, but what 
you are doing is you are completely eliminating like 10 times--talk 
about shooting a dead horse. We have now shot this thing like 15 times 
in the course of the day. You are completely eliminating any 
consideration of this Nation's history and how we are going to recruit 
and retain members of the military.
  These amendments are terrible ideas for the national security of this 
country, and I, once again, urge a ``no'' vote on this amendment.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Burlison).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Missouri 
will be postponed.


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings 
will now resume on those amendments printed in House Report 118-142 on 
which further proceedings were postponed, in the following order:
  Amendment No. 32 by Mr. Crane of Arizona.
  Amendment No. 33 by Mr. Norman of South Carolina.
  Amendment No. 34 by Mr. Norman of South Carolina.
  Amendment No. 35 by Mrs. Boebert of Colorado.
  Amendment No. 41 by Mr. Waltz of Florida.
  Amendment No. 47 by Mr. Good of Virginia.
  Amendment No. 48 by Ms. Greene of Georgia.
  Amendment No. 49 by Ms. Hageman of Wyoming.
  Amendment No. 50 by Mr. Davidson of Ohio.
  Amendment No. 51 by Mr. Davidson of Ohio.
  Amendment No. 52 by Mr. Gaetz of Florida.
  Amendment No. 55 by Mr. Biggs of Arizona.
  Amendment No. 56 by Mr. Perry of Pennsylvania.
  Amendment No. 62 by Mr. Burlison of Missouri.
  The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the time for any electronic vote 
after the first vote in this series.


                 Amendment No. 32 Offered by Mr. Crane

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 32, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Crane), on which further 
proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice 
vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 214, 
noes 210, not voting 15, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 310]

                               AYES--214

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Golden (ME)
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa

[[Page H3562]]


     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--210

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fitzpatrick
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--15

     Crenshaw
     Evans
     Gallego
     Garbarino
     Johnson (GA)
     Kelly (PA)
     LaTurner
     McGovern
     Meuser
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Smith (MO)
     Valadao
     Waltz
     Williams (NY)

                              {time}  2220

  Mses. BUSH, CROCKETT, Messrs. DAVIS of Illinois, CUELLAR, and VICENTE 
GONZALEZ of Texas, changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                 Amendment No. 33 Offered by Mr. Norman

  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Womack). The unfinished business is the demand 
for a recorded vote on amendment No. 33, printed in House Report 118-
142 offered by the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Norman), on which 
further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by 
voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 216, 
noes 216, not voting 7, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 311]

                               AYES--216

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--216

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fitzpatrick
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar

[[Page H3563]]


     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Turner
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Evans
     Gallego
     Kelly (PA)
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Smith (MO)
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  2229

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6(h) of rule XVIII, the 
Committee rises.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
Womack) having assumed the chair, Mr. Curtis, Acting Chair of the 
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, reported to the 
House that during consideration of the bill (H.R. 2670) to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense and for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes, pursuant to 
House Resolution 583, the votes cast by the Delegates and the Resident 
Commissioner were decisive on a recorded vote on the amendment offered 
by the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Norman).
  The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The Clerk designated the amendment.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 6(h) of rule XVIII, the 
Chair will put the question to the House de novo.
  The question is on the amendment.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 214, 
noes 213, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 312]

                               AYES--214

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--213

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fitzpatrick
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Turner
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Evans
     Gallego
     Kelly (PA)
     Peltola
     Smith (MO)
     Williams (NY)

                              {time}  2238

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Curtis). Pursuant to clause 6(h) of rule 
XVIII, the committee will resume its sitting.

                              {time}  2244


                     In the Committee of the Whole

  Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the State of the Union for the further consideration of 
the bill (H.R. 2670), to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 
for military activities of the Department of Defense and for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes, with Mr. Womack in the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The Acting CHAIR. When the Committee of the Whole rose earlier today, 
the amendment offered by the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Norman) 
had been rejected on a recorded vote on which the votes cast by the 
Delegates and the Resident Commissioner were decisive.
  That result has since been rejected by the House.


                 Amendment No. 34 Offered by Mr. Norman

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 34, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Norman), on which 
further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by 
voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.

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                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 218, 
noes 213, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 313]

                               AYES--218

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     Davis (NC)
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--213

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fitzpatrick
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Molinaro
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Evans
     Gallego
     Kelly (PA)
     McHenry
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Smith (MO)
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  2243

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                Amendment No. 35 Offered by Mrs. Boebert

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 35, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentlewoman from Colorado (Mrs. Boebert), on which 
further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by 
voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 222, 
noes 209, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 314]

                               AYES--222

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     Davis (NC)
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--209

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu

[[Page H3565]]


     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Evans
     Gallego
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Kelly (PA)
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Smith (MO)
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  2246

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                 Amendment No. 41 Offered by Mr. Waltz

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 41, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Waltz), on which further 
proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice 
vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 234, 
noes 198, not voting 7, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 315]

                               AYES--234

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Caraveo
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     Davis (NC)
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Gottheimer
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harder (CA)
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Landsman
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moskowitz
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pappas
     Pence
     Perez
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Scholten
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Swalwell
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Titus
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Vasquez
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Wild
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--198

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Burchett
     Bush
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Massie
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Norcross
     Norton
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Evans
     Gallego
     Kelly (PA)
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Smith (MO)
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  2249

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


            Amendment No. 47 Offered by Mr. Good of Virginia

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 47, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Good), on which further 
proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice 
vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.

[[Page H3566]]

  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 177, 
noes 253, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 316]

                               AYES--177

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Curtis
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     LaTurner
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Self
     Sessions
     Smith (NE)
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--253

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Burgess
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carey
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Duarte
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fitzpatrick
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Mike
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Guthrie
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Hill
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Huizenga
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Joyce (OH)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     LaLota
     Landsman
     Langworthy
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Letlow
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Mace
     Magaziner
     Malliotakis
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Miller (OH)
     Molinaro
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Obernolte
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Reschenthaler
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Smucker
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Turner
     Underwood
     Valadao
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Womack

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Evans
     Gallego
     Kelly (PA)
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Smith (MO)
     Van Drew
     Williams (NY)
     Williams (TX)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  2252

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


           Amendment No. 48 Offered by Ms. Greene of Georgia

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 48, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentlewoman from Georgia (Ms. Greene), on which further 
proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice 
vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 147, 
noes 276, answered ``present'' 2, not voting 14, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 317]

                               AYES--147

     Arrington
     Babin
     Balderson
     Balint
     Banks
     Bean (FL)
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Bush
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (TX)
     Casar
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Clarke (NY)
     Cline
     Cloud
     Collins
     Comer
     Connolly
     Crane
     Crawford
     Curtis
     DeGette
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Emmer
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Frost
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia, Robert
     Gomez
     Good (VA)
     Gosar
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Grothman
     Guest
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Houchin
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Jayapal
     Johnson (LA)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kim (CA)
     LaMalfa
     Larsen (WA)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (PA)
     Loudermilk
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     McCaul
     McCollum
     McGovern
     Meng
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Neal
     Nehls
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Ogles
     Omar
     Owens
     Palmer
     Perry
     Pocan
     Porter
     Posey
     Pressley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Reschenthaler
     Rosendale
     Roy
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Santos
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Self
     Smith (NJ)
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Steube
     Stewart
     Takano
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Underwood
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Vargas
     Velazquez
     Waltz
     Watson Coleman
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Williams (TX)
     Zinke

                               NOES--276

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Baird
     Barr
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bentz
     Bera
     Bergman
     Beyer
     Bice
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bost
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Calvert
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Ciscomani
     Clark (MA)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Clyde
     Cohen
     Cole
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crenshaw
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davidson
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     De La Cruz
     Dean (PA)
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duarte
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flood
     Foster
     Foushee
     Foxx
     Frankel, Lois
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Gallagher
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Golden (ME)
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Gooden (TX)
     Gottheimer
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Green, Al (TX)
     Guthrie
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Hudson
     Huffman
     Huizenga
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)

[[Page H3567]]


     Jackson (NC)
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Joyce (OH)
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     Lamborn
     Landsman
     Langworthy
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Leger Fernandez
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lynch
     Mace
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Mast
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClain
     McClellan
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McGarvey
     McHenry
     Menendez
     Mfume
     Miller-Meeks
     Molinaro
     Moore (WI)
     Moran
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Moylan
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Murphy
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Obernolte
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Pence
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Pfluger
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Quigley
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Ross
     Rouzer
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Salazar
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Scanlon
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sessions
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (WA)
     Smucker
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Spartz
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Steel
     Steil
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Strong
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Tenney
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Timmons
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Trone
     Turner
     Valadao
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Wexton
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--2

     Jackson Lee
     Kaptur
       

                             NOT VOTING--14

     Allred
     Bishop (GA)
     Evans
     Gallego
     Goldman (NY)
     Jacobs
     Kelly (PA)
     Meeks
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Smith (MO)
     Van Orden
     Wild
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  2255

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Mr. ALLRED. Mr. Chair, had I been present, I would have voted ``no'' 
on rollcall No. 317.
  Mr. VAN ORDEN. Mr. Chair, had I been present, I would have voted 
``no'' on rollcall No. 317, Amendment 48.


                Amendment No. 49 Offered by Ms. Hageman

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 49, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentlewoman from Wyoming (Ms. Hageman), on which further 
proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice 
vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 218, 
noes 213, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 318]

                               AYES--218

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--213

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crenshaw
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Evans
     Gallego
     Kelly (PA)
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Smith (MO)
     Van Drew
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  2259

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                Amendment No. 50 Offered by Mr. Davidson

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 50, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Davidson), on which further 
proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice 
vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.

[[Page H3568]]

  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 79, 
noes 353, not voting 7, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 319]

                                AYES--79

     Arrington
     Babin
     Biggs
     Bishop (NC)
     Bowman
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Bush
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carter (TX)
     Cline
     Cloud
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crenshaw
     Davidson
     DesJarlais
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Emmer
     Fallon
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hunt
     Jackson (TX)
     Johnson (LA)
     Jordan
     LaMalfa
     Lee (PA)
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McClintock
     Miller (IL)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Nehls
     Norman
     Ogles
     Omar
     Perry
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rosendale
     Roy
     Self
     Steube
     Tiffany
     Tlaib
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)

                               NOES--353

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Alford
     Allen
     Allred
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Balint
     Banks
     Barr
     Barragan
     Bean (FL)
     Beatty
     Bentz
     Bera
     Bergman
     Beyer
     Bice
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Boebert
     Bonamici
     Bost
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Calvert
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carl
     Carson
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Clyde
     Cohen
     Cole
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crawford
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     De La Cruz
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Duarte
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Estes
     Ezell
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flood
     Foster
     Foushee
     Foxx
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Fry
     Gallagher
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Gottheimer
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houchin
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Hudson
     Huffman
     Huizenga
     Issa
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (MS)
     Khanna
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kildee
     Kiley
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     Lamborn
     Landsman
     Langworthy
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Leger Fernandez
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lynch
     Mace
     Magaziner
     Malliotakis
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McCormick
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     McHenry
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Meuser
     Mfume
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moore (UT)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Moylan
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Murphy
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Owens
     Pallone
     Palmer
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Pence
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Pfluger
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Ross
     Rouzer
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salazar
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Santos
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sessions
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Smucker
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Spartz
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Stevens
     Stewart
     Strickland
     Strong
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Tenney
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Timmons
     Titus
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Turner
     Underwood
     Valadao
     Van Orden
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wenstrup
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Evans
     Gallego
     Kelly (PA)
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Smith (MO)
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  2302

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                Amendment No. 51 Offered by Mr. Davidson

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 51, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Davidson), on which further 
proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice 
vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 212, 
noes 218, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 320]

                               AYES--212

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Omar
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perez
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--218

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fitzpatrick
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)

[[Page H3569]]


     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Hudson
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Lamborn
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Rogers (KY)
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Turner
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Buck
     Evans
     Gallego
     Kelly (PA)
     McCaul
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Smith (MO)
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  2305

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                 Amendment No. 52 Offered by Mr. Gaetz

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 52, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Gaetz), on which further 
proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice 
vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 210, 
noes 221, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 321]

                               AYES--210

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Babin
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--221

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fitzpatrick
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Molinaro
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Turner
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Arrington
     Evans
     Gallego
     Kelly (PA)
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Smith (MO)
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  2308

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                 Amendment No. 55 Offered by Mr. Biggs

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 55, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Biggs), on which further 
proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice 
vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 193, 
noes 237, not voting 9, as follows:

[[Page H3570]]

  


                             [Roll No. 322]

                               AYES--193

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Good (VA)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mann
     Massie
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Santos
     Scalise
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Duyne
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--237

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Buchanan
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fitzpatrick
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Gooden (TX)
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Joyce (OH)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     LaLota
     Landsman
     Langworthy
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Mace
     Magaziner
     Malliotakis
     Manning
     Mast
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Miller-Meeks
     Molinaro
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Nunn (IA)
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salazar
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Van Drew
     Van Orden
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Wittman

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Cammack
     Evans
     Gallego
     Kelly (PA)
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Schweikert
     Smith (MO)
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  2311

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                 Amendment No. 56 Offered by Mr. Perry

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 56, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry), on which 
further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by 
voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 247, 
noes 185, not voting 7, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 323]

                               AYES--247

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Caraveo
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cohen
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Correa
     Craig
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     Davis (NC)
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Gottheimer
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kildee
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Landsman
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Magaziner
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Manning
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moskowitz
     Moylan
     Mrvan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pappas
     Pence
     Perez
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Spartz
     Stanton
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--185

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)

[[Page H3571]]


     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Connolly
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crockett
     Crow
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Norton
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Stansbury
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Evans
     Gallego
     Kelly (PA)
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Smith (MO)
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  2314

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                Amendment No. 62 Offered by Mr. Burlison

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 62, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Burlison), on which further 
proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice 
vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 218, 
noes 213, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 324]

                               AYES--218

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--213

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fitzpatrick
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Casar
     Evans
     Gallego
     Kelly (PA)
     Peltola
     Radewagen
     Smith (MO)
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  2318

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Chair, had I been present, I would have 
voted ``aye'' on rollcall No. 304 (Gaetz Amendment 22 to H.R. 2670), 
``aye'' on rollcall No. 305 (Greene Amendment 23 to H.R. 2670), ``aye'' 
on rollcall No. 306 (Davidson Amendment 24 to H.R. 2670), ``aye'' on 
rollcall No. 307 (Ogles Amendment 25 to H.R. 2670), ``aye'' on rollcall 
No. 308 (Roy Amendment 30 to H.R. 2670), ``aye'' on rollcall No. 309 
(Roy Amendment 31 to H.R. 2670), ``aye'' on rollcall No. 310 (Crane 
Amendment 32 to H.R. 2670), ``aye'' on rollcall No. 311 (Norman 
Amendment 33 to H.R. 2670), ``aye'' on rollcall No. 312 (Norman 
Amendment 33 to H.R. 2670), ``aye'' on rollcall No. 313 (Norman 
Amendment 34 to H.R. 2670), ``aye'' on rollcall No. 314 (Boebert 
Amendment 35 to H.R. 2670), ``aye'' on rollcall No. 315 (Waltz 
Amendment 41 to H.R. 2670), ``aye'' on rollcall No. 316 (Good Amendment 
47 to H.R. 2670), ``aye'' on rollcall No. 317 (Greene Amendment 48 to 
H.R. 2670), ``aye'' on rollcall No. 318 (Hageman Amendment 49 to H.R. 
2670), ``aye'' on rollcall No. 319 (Davidson Amendment 50 to H.R. 
2670), ``aye'' on

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rollcall No. 320 (Davidson on behalf of Roy Amendment 51 to H.R. 2670), 
``aye'' on rollcall No. 321 (Gaetz Amendment 52 to H.R. 2670), ``aye'' 
on rollcall No. 322 (Biggs Amendment 55 to H.R. 2670), ``aye'' on 
rollcall No. 323 (Perry Amendment 56 to H.R. 2670), and ``aye'' on 
rollcall No. 324 (Burlison Amendment 62 to H.R. 2670).
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Chair, I move that the Committee do now 
rise.
  The motion was agreed to.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
Fry) having assumed the chair, Mr. Womack, Acting Chair of the 
Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, reported that 
that Committee, having had under consideration the bill (H.R. 2670) to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense and for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes, had 
come to no resolution thereon.

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