[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 27, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H4669-H4712]
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        DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2024

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 723 and rule 
XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House 
on the state of the Union for the further consideration of the bill, 
H.R. 4367.
  Will the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Guthrie) kindly take the chair.

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                     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. 4367) making appropriations for the Department of 
Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and 
for other purposes, with Mr. Guthrie (Acting Chair) in the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The Acting CHAIR. When the Committee of the Whole House rose earlier 
today, amendment No. 11 printed in part B of House Report 118-216 
offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Arrington) had been disposed 
of.


                 Amendment No. 13 Offered by Mr. Correa

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 11 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mr. CORREA. 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 13, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $496,260,000) (increased by $496,260,000)''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Correa) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California.
  Mr. CORREA. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I say to you, if you want to reduce fentanyl on our streets, I ask 
you to vote for this amendment.
  This amendment No. 13 simply allows CBP to hire additional CBP 
officers at our ports of entry in addition to new CBP Border Patrol 
agents. Our ports of entry today are the economic engine of our 
country. They are vital gateways for our international commerce, 
travel, and they collect more than $112 billion in duties and taxes 
every year, but our ports of entry are understaffed.
  CBP has told us they need 4,000 more agents at our ports of entry. As 
you know, about 90 percent of fentanyl seizures and other narcotics 
actually happen at our ports of entry. That is with only 2 percent of 
the vehicles crossing being inspected. That is with only 17 percent of 
cargo coming across those ports of entries being inspected. If you want 
to stop and if you want to seize more fentanyl, you need to hire more 
agents at our ports of entry. It is very simple.
  Today, this bill that I am amending calls for 2,000 more border 
agents, but only 150 new officers at our ports of entry. Let me repeat: 
This bill only calls for 150 new agents at our ports of entry, and my 
amendment simply says: Give the CBP, our folks at the border, the 
ability and the flexibility to determine who they hire--ports of entry, 
or between ports of entry. Those experts that are there protecting our 
borders day in and day out should make that decision.
  Again, Mr. Chair, 90 percent of the fentanyl seized coming into this 
country is seized at our ports of entry. Ninety percent? Says who? 
Ninety percent, says those officers at our ports of entry.
  They need our help. Let's give them the flexibility. Let's give them 
the tools to make sure they keep our country safe from fentanyl while 
continuing to increase economic commerce and trade at our borders.
  Mr. Chair, I ask my colleagues to support amendment No. 13, and I 
reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, the amendment offered by the gentleman 
from California is well-meaning, but ultimately misguided. We are 
averaging nearly 10,000 encounters at the southern border on a daily 
basis, near record levels. My bill addresses the challenge by funding 
an additional 1,800 Border Patrol agents to relieve the burden on our 
overworked agents along the southwest border.
  Taking funds dedicated to the Border Patrol agents and instead using 
them to hire additional customs officers dilutes our efforts to secure 
the border between the ports of entry. Additional officers may be 
needed to help with legitimate trade and travel that crosses the 
border, but we have to address the immediate crisis caused by this 
administration's disastrous border security policies.
  If you turn on the television, you can see the flood of migrants 
heading north on trains, crossing the border in an uncontrolled 
fashion. It must stop, which is why we desperately need additional men 
and women in green uniforms to help us gain operational control of the 
border. I reluctantly urge my colleagues to vote no on this amendment. 
Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CORREA. Mr. Chair, and I say to my colleague on the other side of 
the aisle, who is absolutely correct, we need those forces at our 
border. I am just pointing out that we know most of the drugs, 
narcotics, fentanyl, come across the ports of entry. Why not give those 
ports additional personnel to stop the fentanyl that we know is killing 
our citizens, our young people in our streets.

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  Give them the opportunity to also hire. Give the Border Patrol and 
those agents at our ports of entry the ability to stop these poisons 
from coming into our country. One death is one death too many from an 
overdose from fentanyl. Let's stop fentanyl and other narcotics from 
coming into the country.
  Again, sir, 90 percent of the fentanyl and narcotics are actually 
apprehended at our ports of entry. That is not my statistic. That is 
not his statistic. That is Homeland Security data. Mr. Chair, I reserve 
the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. Members are reminded to direct their remarks to the 
Chair.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CORREA. Mr. Chair, again, I think all of us recognize the 
challenges we have at our border.
  What I am merely doing is presenting this amendment, amendment No. 
13, in response to what I have seen at our ports of entry, which is: 
They need more personnel, and they need it today. Let's help them at 
the border keep our country safe. Let's give them the personnel and the 
resources they need.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, I 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 California (Mr. Correa).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. CORREA. 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 California 
will be postponed.


                Amendment No. 19 Offered by Mr. Grothman

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 19 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mr. GROTHMAN. 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 14, line 20, after the first dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000)''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman 
from Wisconsin (Mr. Grothman) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Wisconsin.
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chair, I have been down on the border several times, and every 
time we are down there, we learn a little bit more.
  My amendment would highlight the need for alternative methods of 
management for border wall infrastructure during flood season. The 
border wall faces a challenge when the waters rise during flood season. 
These floods can jeopardize the structural integrity of the wall, 
compromising its effectiveness and putting our border at risk.
  During a recent hearing I held in Sierra Vista, Arizona, I was 
surprised to discover the way in which we deal with this issue. We deal 
with it just by opening up the gates along the wall. You heard that 
right. Border Patrol agents are required to open vast sections of the 
wall, allowing migrants to flow into the country unimpeded. This comes 
at a time when we are facing an unprecedented crisis.
  Last month, U.S. officials encountered 230,000 migrants crossing the 
border; 180,000 of those migrants crossed the border between ports of 
entry, areas that are supposed to be protected by the wall. However, 
during flood season, these migrants simply walked through because we 
open up the gates.
  To address this critical concern, we need to explore alternative 
methods and technologies that can protect the border wall.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Again, I understand where the gentleman is coming from, 
but, if we look at it, even the prior administration also understood 
that the way to address this issue is to put those gates there because 
of the flooding.
  Congress has been looking at this issue with CBP for the last 15 
years, and, while it is not perfect, I do understand the prior two 
administrations have come to the same conclusion, and that is: Deal 
with the monsoons, the flooding, and they put those doors to make sure 
that things are not washed off.
  Keep in mind that we are spending about $36 million a mile for every 
fence that we put up. That is $36 million a mile. With about $3 to $5 
million, we can get the best technology that can include drones, that 
could include sensors, that can include so much of the technology to 
address that.
  Again, if you spent $36 million a mile for a fence, all you need is a 
$100 ladder that would take care of the problem that you have. Again, I 
will show that, even in Texas, Mr. Chairman, people are concerned about 
the flooding over there, and that is why the fence is put a quarter 
mile or a half a mile away, so all the landowners that are over here, 
they lose their property because you are putting the fence on this 
side, so the renters, the property, the private right is gone because 
of the fence.
  All you have is the river over here. People just walk over here to 
the fence and claim asylum. We have to have repercussions at the 
border. Whoever is supposed to stay, stay. Whoever is supposed to be 
deported should be deported.
  Again, we cannot play defense on the 1-yard line, called the U.S. 
border. We need to extend the perimeter out there. Again, I feel, Mr. 
Chairman, that the wall might be damaged because of the water or the 
flooding, but, again, the past administration--the Trump 
administration, the Biden administration, and the Bush administration--
all came up with the same conclusion when they got asked to look at 
this issue, and they said: You have to put doors or gates so the rain 
or the floods don't wash away the fence.
  Mr. Chair, I understand where my colleague is coming from, but I will 
ask the floor to vote ``no.''
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

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  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Chair, I just reiterate, being at the border and 
talking to the members of the Border Patrol who are on the border every 
day, they feel the current situation is untenable and is allowing more 
people to cross the border than they should.
  As far as the idea of simply climbing over a fence, I have yet to 
meet anybody on the border, be it Border Patrol agent, be it American 
law enforcement, be it people who have land on the border, who do not 
feel the wall is a good thing.
  They all realize it is a wall system. It takes more than just a wall. 
They prefer if we describe it as a wall system, but they all feel we 
need additional barriers at the border to prevent this over 200,000 
people a month streaming in here.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Grothman).
  The amendment was agreed to.


           Amendment No. 23 Offered by Ms. Wasserman Schultz

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 23 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. 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 213.
       Strike section 214.
       Strike section 220.
       Strike section 221.
       Strike section 224.
       Strike section 404.
       Strike section 405.
       Strike section 544.
       Strike section 549.
       Strike section 550.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentlewoman 
from Florida (Ms. Wasserman Schultz) and a Member opposed each will 
control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Florida.

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  Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. Chair, my amendment gives my Republican 
colleagues a chance to reconsider some of the cruel and reckless 
partisan riders tacked onto this atrocity of a Homeland Security bill.
  Republicans are really done, obviously, pretending that they just 
want people to immigrate here legally. This bill puts their bitter 
disdain for all immigrants on clear display because when President 
Biden set up legal pathways to reduce pressure at the border, the 
radical right objected. They took aim at Dreamers and refugees with 
legal status. By taking away their right to work, they threaten to harm 
our economy, jack up inflation, and condemn these communities to 
poverty in the process. That is not securing the homeland. It is 
inflicting vicious harm.
  Instead of registering immigrants and offering the chance to work and 
pay taxes, this bill would leave immigrants to languish in private 
prisons that fail to meet bare minimum standards for convicts, all at 
taxpayer expense.
  This Republican bill blocks inspections of detention facilities so 
our constituents can't see the horrific treatment and squalid 
conditions that migrants are forced to endure.
  Even that malevolence doesn't satisfy my Republican colleagues. 
Listen carefully here. This bill goes further to mandate that every 
last one of these prisons is filled to the brim, packed full of people 
who have not been convicted of a crime, have not faced a judge, and 
have not seen a lawyer.
  Finally, this bill blocks legally admitted migrants from being 
reunited with their families, separating children, even toddlers, from 
their families. Yet, MAGA Republicans will still preach to all of us 
about family values.
  I know the people they are marginalizing in this bill, people who 
come from Venezuela, Cuba, and Haiti. They are my neighbors, my 
friends, my children's classmates. They are like family in my 
community.
  None of us are happy with our immigration system. Why not work toward 
a bipartisan plan that balances legal pathways with unbiased 
enforcement?
  The secret is out: Republicans don't want a solution. They want more 
chaos and more heartbreak. They want more desperate people trying their 
luck against the Rio Grande or the Florida Straits instead of safely 
applying online from home and coming through a port of entry. The pain 
is the point for these extremists.
  Mr. Chair, I wish my amendment could make sense of this bill, but 
these provisions barely scratch the surface. All I can hope is that my 
colleagues will show a shred of courage and common sense, even if it 
means facing jeers from the radical rightwing fringe, their base who is 
holding this majority hostage.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to join me in countering this effort 
to deepen the despair of families who have had enough of it for one 
lifetime.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, this amendment seeks to strike several 
provisions that are crucial to ending the open border crisis that this 
administration has created.
  While I have heard it just portrayed as somehow being cruel and being 
done by names that are called MAGA or other things, if I am not 
mistaken, it was just this morning on the news that I happened to see 
the mayor, I believe a Democrat, from New York saying they can't take 
any more; the Governor of New York, a Democrat, saying they can't take 
any more; the Governor of Massachusetts declaring a state of emergency; 
the Democratic mayor of Chicago, same issue.
  I guess it is our problem, and we are attempting to fix it. The Biden 
administration continues to subvert the law and implement policies that 
are detrimental to our border security, our national security, and our 
overall sovereignty.
  This bill includes several provisions to mitigate the misguided and 
ineffective policies of the Biden administration that have been 
exploited by transnational criminal organizations, human smugglers, and 
cartels.
  For example, the bill prohibits funds to implement the 
administration's prosecutorial discretion guidance, which encourages 
DHS attorneys to administratively close nonpriority cases, allowing 
aliens to continue living in this country without having any legal 
basis to do so.
  Additionally, this bill includes a provision prohibiting asylum 
officers from making determinations about an alien's credible fear 
claims instead of actual immigration judges.
  These are only two of the main provisions in the bill that seek to 
reverse the damage done in the past 2\1/2\ years and halt the migration 
crisis in its tracks.
  To strike these provisions would be to tell our constituents that 
Congress approves of this administration's catastrophe at the border. 
Nothing could be further from the truth.
  While they may not admit it, my colleagues on the other side of the 
aisle know that what is happening at the border right now is nothing 
short of a catastrophe.
  Mayors and Governors throughout this country alike are speaking out 
on the impact of the illegal migration crisis on communities across the 
Nation and are calling on this administration to acknowledge and 
resolve the problem at the border. This amendment would only make the 
disaster worse.
  Mr. Chair, I urge defeat of the amendment, and I reserve the balance 
of my time.
  Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. Chair, I will give a couple of examples of 
the type of torture that the language in this bill supports and 
endorses.
  One provision, section 404, prohibits funds for asylum officers to 
adjudicate fear claims, which is the point of our asylum program.

  Republicans include the perfect provision to demonstrate that they 
value disrupting due process for migrants more than they value speeding 
up results for their constituents. They want to block asylum officers, 
who receive extensive training and face enough difficulties as it is, 
from assessing whether refugees have a reasonable claim to asylum.
  While Republicans continue to engage in massive hyperbole, leaving 
people with the impression that people are storming the border, this 
bill actually prevents a lawful, orderly asylum process from occurring 
because the Republicans defund it in this bill.
  Another section eliminates the inspections of detention facilities. 
All I have heard since the MAGA majority gaveled in this Congress is 
oversight, oversight, oversight. Yet, when it comes to our detention 
facilities where vulnerable women and families are held indefinitely 
without a trial or legal counsel, Republicans want no oversight at all.
  These inspections are critical. These inspectors ought to get combat 
pay for what they walk into. At one facility in my home State, Mr. 
Chair, an investigation found severe violations, including sexual 
voyeurism by guards, denial of menstrual products as punishment, 
refusal of lifesaving medication and healthcare, beatings, and extended 
solitary confinement.
  Yet, Republicans in this Homeland Security bill actually eliminate 
funding for inspections of detention facilities and allow this torture 
to continue. It is outrageous.
  Mr. Chair, I will use the balance of my time to underscore my fierce 
opposition to these toxic anti-immigrant provisions.
  I will always stand up to counterattacks on legal pathways for 
migrants. I will also condemn cruelty against the vulnerable, even when 
it is justified by deterrence. I will never stay silent when 
opportunists try to blind the American people to the trauma we are 
inflicting on a generation of refugees.
  The extreme MAGA Republicans ignored dozens of commonsense requests 
from bipartisan Members regarding detention conditions, preserving 
asylum access, and ensuring that Congress upholds its oversight 
responsibility.
  Mr. Chair, I hope my colleagues will join me in mitigating the most 
harmful components of this bill, and I yield back the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. 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 
gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Wasserman Schultz).

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  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. 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 Florida 
will be postponed.


                Amendment No. 24 Offered by Mr. Burchett

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 24 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mr. BURCHETT. 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 32, line 1, insert ``or across State lines'' after 
     ``United States''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman 
from Tennessee (Mr. Burchett) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Tennessee.
  Mr. BURCHETT. Mr. Chair, the key to this amendment is just four 
words: ``or across State lines.''
  One of my cosponsors, Mr. Donalds--I guess it is like football 
practice this morning--is absent.
  This amendment prohibits Federal funds from being used to transport 
illegal immigrants over the age of 18 across State lines except for the 
purpose of removing the individuals from the country.
  As it currently stands, the bill prohibits funds from being used to 
transport illegal immigrants into the interior of this country but 
fails to recognize there are already folks here illegally.
  This amendment will cut wasteful and unnecessary spending of taxpayer 
dollars. It will get the Biden administration out of the human 
trafficking business. It will focus Homeland Security operations on 
removing the people who enter our country illegally.
  Mr. Chair, our border States have been overwhelmed by the Biden 
administration's pro-illegal immigration agenda since he first came to 
office. This amendment would help our border agents do what they are 
supposed to do, and that is protect our border and deport illegal 
immigrants.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I oppose this amendment.
  I trust the work of Border Patrol agents. I trust the work of OFO, 
which are the men and women in blue at ports of entry. I trust the Air 
and Marine agents. I trust the work of ICE agents. I trust the work of 
HSI, Homeland Security agents. I trust the work that they do.
  What we are looking at, what wants to be changed, is section 221 that 
says that none--this is what the law is right now--none of the funds 
appropriated or otherwise made available by this act may be made 
available to transport aliens unlawfully present, paroled, or 
inadmissible to the United States into the interior of the United 
States for purposes other than the enforcement of immigration law.
  It is already here. Again, I don't think we ought to be legislating 
on the House floor. I think we need to get input from the agents that I 
mentioned that I support: Border Patrol, OFO, Air and Marine, ICE, HSI. 
I think we need to ask for it, but the law is already there. It says: 
cannot go into the interior of the U.S. itself.
  Mr. Chair, I stand in opposition, and I yield back the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. BURCHETT. Mr. Chair, we are leaving out a key element of this. I, 
too, trust our Border Patrol agents. They are underpaid and overworked. 
I do not trust this White House. This has four words added to it: ``or 
across State lines.'' That is what is currently happening. It needs to 
stop, Mr. Chair. That is the bottom line.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Burchett).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. BURCHETT. 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 Tennessee 
will be postponed.

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                Amendment No. 25 Offered by Ms. Escobar

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 25 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Ms. ESCOBAR. 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 224.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentlewoman 
from Texas (Ms. Escobar) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Texas.
  Ms. ESCOBAR. Mr. Chair, my amendment strikes section 224 of the bill, 
which mandates that ICE prioritize detention before considering any 
other options, such as alternatives to detention.
  This mandate is absurd, and for a party claiming to champion fiscal 
responsibility, it makes no sense to mandate detention, which is the 
most expensive option available.
  We know from previous alternatives to detention, like the case 
management program run by DHS in 2016, that providing case management 
services for migrant families costs the Department roughly $39 per day. 
Compare that to the cost of detaining those same families, which is 
roughly $300 per day.
  The mandate makes no sense, even on the most practical level. The 
United States simply does not have the capacity to detain every single 
asylum seeker who arrives at our Nation's front door, nor should it.
  Furthermore, section 244 of the bill hamstrings DHS' operational 
flexibility to effectively manage their resources depending on the 
Department's needs at a given time. This could cause a ripple effect of 
management issues for several agencies within DHS, including ICE and 
CBP, which would further exacerbate the challenges we see in border 
communities like mine.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, the amendment before you seeks to 
strike a provision in the bill that requires the prioritization of 
detention and appropriate GPS monitoring technology for aliens going 
through immigration proceedings.
  As we continue to see record levels of migrant encounters under this 
administration, and our nondetained docket continues to grow 
exponentially, we must use every available tool to compel the 
Department to enforce the law.
  Striking the provision will give the Biden administration a free pass 
to continue releasing migrants into the country, a total disregard of 
the law. We cannot allow the administration to continue the status quo 
that has ravaged our communities.
  Mr. Chair, I urge defeat of the amendment, and I reserve the balance 
of my time.
  Ms. ESCOBAR. Mr. Chair, if my colleagues were truly being honest with 
each other, they would admit the proposed Homeland Security 
appropriations bill is unworkable and truly will not solve the 
challenges that we face.
  For this reason, at the appropriate time, I will offer a motion to 
recommit this bill back to committee.
  Mr. Chair, this bill pulls money from critical DHS functions and 
improvements, including investing in our ports of entry, the CBP One 
app, and even endangers public safety by defunding CBP's recently 
updated vehicle pursuit policy.
  In short, this bill is filled with unworkable, empty promises 
Republicans feed their base instead of putting forth real solutions.
  I have tremendous respect for my colleague, the gentleman from Ohio, 
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us on a bipartisan solution that is truly workable.
  I was born and raised in El Paso, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border. I 
live there today. I raised my two children there in that beautiful 
community.
  No one wants safety, security, and order more than those of us who 
live there and have invested our lives in those communities. We know 
that relying on borders, as my colleague, Representative Cuellar, has 
pointed out, is not the answer.
  They don't deter or manage, and they don't make migrants go away. All 
it does is feed cartels so that they can find other routes for 
migrants. We share a commitment to wanting to end that.
  We can find a solution and a bipartisan pathway. My colleague, Maria 
Salazar, and I have come together to find compromise, to seek true 
solutions that uphold our values and actually solve the problems at 
hand, and I invite my Republican colleagues to join us.
  There is no doubt that this is a very broken system that puts 
significant pressure and strain on communities like mine, on NGOs, on 
local governments, on our Federal personnel, and, of course, the 
incredible inhumanity that migrants endure in order to seek an 
opportunity to live and work in our country.
  This broken system is a consequence of Congress' inaction. It has 
been 37 years since Congress has reformed and passed a comprehensive 
immigration law. There is no better time than the present to do that 
together, in a bipartisan way.
  Depending on unworkable solutions, expecting that Mexico will accept 
every migrant, believing we can jail every human being that comes to 
our border is unrealistic, and it is not a true solution.
  If the House rules permitted, I would have offered a motion to 
recommit with an important amendment to this bill.
  My amendment would cut the billions of dollars being allocated to the 
outdated and expensive border wall and reallocate it to the programs 
and services necessary to address a deadly and urgent matter--the 
fentanyl smuggling detection and interdiction that is needed at our 
ports of entry.
  The most effective way to ensure that fentanyl smugglers are caught 
and held accountable is to send resources where fentanyl is entering 
the country--our ports of entry.
  Over 90 percent of fentanyl is seized at these land ports and 
interior checkpoints, and it is overwhelmingly smuggled by U.S. 
citizens crossing the border legally.
  Mr. Chair, I include in the Record the text of my amendment.

       Ms. Escobar moves to recommit the bill H.R. 4367 to the 
     Committee on Appropriations with the following amendment:
       Page 13, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $310,274,000)''.
       Page 14, line 20, after the first dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $658,400,000)''.
       Page 14, line 20, after the second dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $317,000,000)''.
       Page 14, line 22, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $975,400,000)''.
       Page 15, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $258,750,000)''.
       Page 16, line 21, after the first dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increase by $15,000,000)''.
       Page 16, line 21, after the second dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $15,000,000)''.
       Page 18, line 16, after the first dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $9,676,000)''.
       Page 19, line 10, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $50,000,000)''.
       Page 27, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $658,400,000)''.
       Page 27, line 11, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $1,052,000,000)''.
       Page 27, line 15, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $317,000,000)''.
       Page 27, line 17, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $76,600,000)''.
       Page 56, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $14,700,000)''.

  Ms. ESCOBAR. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, I certainly appreciate my distinguished 
colleague and am always there to work together in a bipartisan fashion 
to try to fashion something.
  She is right. It is long overdue for Congress to address this 
situation, but unfortunately, this is about appropriations and not 
authorizations.
  Therefore, Mr. Chair, I urge a ``no'' vote on 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 Texas (Ms. Escobar).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. ESCOBAR. 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 Texas will 
be postponed.


         Amendment No. 26 Offered by Mr. Tony Gonzales of Texas

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 26 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mr. TONY GONZALES of Texas. 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 33, line 8, insert ``at all detention facilities'' 
     after ``full capacity''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Tony Gonzales) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. TONY GONZALES of Texas. Mr. Chair, I represent a district that is 
over 42 percent of the southern border, places that, sadly, nobody knew 
very well a few years ago and now everybody knows, places like Eagle 
Pass, Del Rio, and El Paso.
  Right now in my communities, we are completely overwhelmed. In El 
Paso alone, there are over 11,000 people who are here illegally in the 
community. That has saturated the situation.
  In Eagle Pass, we have come to beyond the breaking point where over 
2,000 people are coming illegally. In that community, we are beyond a 
point of return, and we need help. We need assistance.
  Every instinct in my body is to leave this place and go home and help 
the people in my district. It feels as if a Category 5 hurricane has 
hit the southern border. This is the absolute worst I have seen it, and 
there is no bottom to it. There is no end in sight.
  My amendment is simple. My amendment asks to end catch and release 
essentially in a humane and orderly way. If there is space, if there is 
capacity, instead of DHS releasing migrants into a community that is 
already saturated, this amendment asks that they look for other places 
where they have capacity.
  It is humane and orderly, and most importantly, it would end the 
catch-and-release policies that have turned my communities upside down.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I rise respectfully in opposition against 
this amendment, but I will say this: My good friend and I share the 
border. We will continue working.
  I do believe in detention beds. I do believe there is a place for 
them. I do believe that we should best utilize the detention beds for 
the high-risk detainees, and I believe also that we should give ICE 
flexibility.
  I will commit to my good friend from Texas (Mr. Tony Gonzales) and to 
my other good friend from Ohio (Mr. Joyce) that I will work with them 
when we get in conference committee because this is not the final bill. 
I will work with them on this particular language.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. TONY GONZALES of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I urge this body to please 
grant the people in my district, the people in Eagle Pass, the people 
in El Paso some relief. We are beyond a breaking point, and we are 
completely overwhelmed.
  I am here to urge this body to do something today, not a week, not a 
month, not a year, not 10 years from now--today. Ending catch and 
release is exactly what our communities need to get some relief.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Tony Gonzales).
  The amendment was agreed to.

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  The Acting CHAIR. The Chair understands that amendment Nos. 27 and 28 
will not be offered.


                 Amendment No. 29 Offered by Mr. Clyde

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 29 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mr. CLYDE. 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 41, line 9, strike the first dollar amount and insert 
     ``$1,778,222,250''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman 
from Georgia (Mr. Clyde) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Georgia.
  Mr. CLYDE. Mr. Chairman, I rise today to offer an amendment to cut 
the funding levels for the Department of Homeland Security's 
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, also known as CISA, 
by 25 percent, which equals about a $592.7 million reduction.
  On CISA's website, the agency's mission reads: ``We lead the national 
effort to understand, manage, and reduce risk to our cyber and physical 
infrastructure.'' Great mission statement.
  Unfortunately, CISA has dangerously and nefariously migrated far from 
its mission, kind of like one of the illegal aliens coming across our 
southern border.
  Last year, CISA was involved in the infamous Disinformation 
Governance Board established under the Biden administration's 
Department of Homeland Security to regulate and police Americans' 
speech.
  While this dystopian Disinformation Governance Board was rightfully 
disbanded a few months later after enormous public outcry, many will be 
shocked to learn that CISA has not stopped monitoring Americans' free 
speech.
  According to a draft copy of DHS' ``Quadrennial Homeland Security 
Review,'' CISA drafted plans to target ``inaccurate information'' on a 
wide range of topics, including ``the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, 
the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine, racial justice, U.S. withdrawal 
from Afghanistan, and the nature of U.S. support to Ukraine.''
  Moreover, Twitter's business records suggest that CISA migrated its 
true mission to protect the Nation's critical cyber and physical 
infrastructure into controlling what Americans can say and what speech 
is accessible online.
  This is wrong, dangerous, and a massive violation of our 
constitutional rights. Americans' First Amendment freedoms shall not be 
regulated or controlled by a rogue government agency either directly or 
indirectly through Big Tech. This government by proxy censorship has no 
place in our constitutional Republic.
  For some background, CISA was first created with overwhelming 
bipartisan support prior to my service here in the House. Under the 
Trump administration, CISA focused on countering foreign cyber 
influence. Unfortunately, since the current administration took office, 
CISA has aggressively shifted beyond the original mandate of countering 
foreign threats.
  In January 2021, CISA officials renamed the Countering Foreign 
Influence Task Force, one of the key bodies countering foreign 
disinformation founded during the Trump administration. They renamed it 
to the mis-, 
dis-, and malinformation team, or MDM team, meaning they took the word 
``foreign'' out of the title. This shift in name represents a shift in 
CISA's mission from foreign to domestic to censor American citizens.

                              {time}  1915

  Earlier this year, information was reported that showed members of 
CISA had privately characterized those who raised concerns over 
government censorship of free speech. CISA had labeled these 
individuals bad actors.
  CISA needs to return to its original mission of strengthening and 
protecting our national cybersecurity and infrastructure, not censoring 
free speech and infringing America's First Amendment liberties.
  As CISA's budget has drastically increased by 44 percent over the 
last 3 fiscal years, this agency has dangerously expanded its mission 
to police free speech and to silence the American people.
  There is a clear connection here. Given an extraordinary boost in 
funding, CISA has weaponized tax dollars to censor Americans and target 
speech they find disagreeable. It is time to end this injustice in 
order to protect the American people's unalienable First Amendment 
rights.
  Therefore, I offer this amendment to reduce CISA's funding closer to 
its fiscal year 2019-2020 funding level. This agency must be refocused 
on its true mission and not get expanded funding to continue 
undermining our constitutional rights.
  There is nothing like a budget cut to get an agency's attention.
  Mr. Chair, I urge all Members to support my amendment in an effort to 
stop CISA's Orwellian practices and defend our cherished First 
Amendment freedoms.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, I claim time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, we set out to make precise and 
calculated cuts in this bill due to CISA's rapid growth over the last 
few years. The top line serves effectively as a strategic pause and 
significant budget growth. It is $19 million above the fiscal 2023 
enacted level, but $130 million below the President's requests.
  This provides CISA the opportunity to mature its operations 
commensurate with its historic budget growth. This amendment would cut 
CISA's operation and support budget by 25 percent on top of what we 
have already done.
  We had a debate on a cut of this magnitude during full committee 
consideration, and I said then, as I do again now, passing this 
amendment would make our homeland less secure. This mis-, dis-, and 
mal-information language is strong, and I want to commend the gentleman 
from Georgia for his valuable edits to those provisions during markup, 
which we made sure we addressed in a more holistic way.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this amendment, and 
I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CLYDE. Mr. Chairman, the only thing that agencies in this town 
respect is funding.
  Indeed, reduced funding is the only way that we will bring them back 
to their core mission. This agency has had a 44 percent increase in 
funding, and yet, they have taken that money, and what they have done 
to our First Amendment civil liberties, to our rights, is they have 
spied upon us.
  In the cybersecurity world, they have taken our information and they 
have misused it. I think CISA needs a haircut, and I think this haircut 
will get their attention.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, it is with the utmost respect I speak 
to my colleague. We have had lengthy debates about this in full 
committee. I understand and appreciate the desire that he has to defund 
or at least severely reduce the budget of this agency.
  However, we are at a time in America where it serves as a 
clearinghouse for those rogue nations and bad actors that prey upon 
Americans on a daily basis. This is something that is not only 
important for everybody who works in the cyber communities and cyber 
systems, but also for the schools, hospitals, water and sewage 
facilities, the gas pipeline, and all those things throughout our 
country that don't have a safety net. They have to rely on CISA for 
their information in the hope and support because unfortunately the 
companies that provide the software do nothing when they are hacked by 
these outside influences and actors.
  All this agency could do and hope to do is promote that 
clearinghouse, if you will, that platform for which we can all come to 
an understanding. Bad actors exist and we must prevent it.
  I understand and appreciate and will work closely with my colleague 
to make sure the things he talks about as far as the attacks on First 
Amendment rights never occur in any agency of the United States.
  Mr. Chair, at this time I must 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 Georgia (Mr. Clyde).

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  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. CLYDE. 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 Georgia will 
be postponed.


                 Amendment No. 38 Offered by Ms. Tenney

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 38 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Ms. TENNEY. 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 the bill (before the short title) insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to pay Secretary Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas a salary 
     that exceeds $1.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentlewoman 
from New York (Ms. Tenney) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from New York.
  Ms. TENNEY. Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of my amendment to 
reduce Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas' salary to 
$1.
  Since President Biden has taken office, we have witnessed an 
unprecedented invasion on our southern border, causing 6 million 
migrants to flood across our border, and including the northern border.
  The district that I represent in upstate and central New York 
contains most of the New York border region. Secretary Mayorkas has 
ended numerous successful border policies by the Trump administration, 
including the remain in Mexico policy, building the border wall, and 
ending the catch-and-release policy. As a result, all of our 
communities have been transformed into border communities, including 
New York.
  Near my district in Erie County, two migrants were charged, one for 
rape and one with a sexual assault. In nearby Rensselaer County, a 
migrant has been charged with murder.
  These migrants were not vetted, in spite of the false claims of 
Governor Kathy Hochul, who claimed they were vetted. Over 100 
individuals on the terror watch list have successfully crossed the 
southern border, putting all of our communities at risk, including 
those in New York.
  Secretary Mayorkas is willfully derelict in his duties or is 
completely incompetent. Either way, he should no longer be paid 
hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for failing to perform the 
basic obligations required under our Constitution to protect American 
citizens and to provide effective border security and control of our 
border.
  I was honored to co-lead this amendment with my friend from Texas and 
my colleague, Representative Chip Roy. I urge my colleagues to join us 
in support of this amendment and to finally hold Secretary Mayorkas 
accountable. I am hoping Mr. Roy will join me and speak on behalf of 
this amendment.
  Mr. Chair, I would say that just this past month we hit a record for 
migrant crossings in American history of over 304,000. Despite repeated 
pleas and actions by me and my colleagues on this side of the aisle, 
Mayorkas refuses to change course and actually secure our border.
  Secretary Mayorkas has completely failed to do his job and has 
completely doubled down on his failed policies. While Congress 
ultimately needs to impeach and remove Secretary Mayorkas, defunding 
his salary is a great first start.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to support this amendment, and I 
reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I claim time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment.
  Any Secretary of Homeland Security plays a very critical role in 
national security. Secretary Mayorkas has served our country as U.S. 
Attorney, director of USCIS, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security and 
now Secretary.
  I know that we hear a lot from the other side of the aisle where they 
say that the Secretary has not achieved operational control of the 
border. Operational control of the border was first defined in the 
Secure Fence Act of 2006, and neither the Border Patrol chief nor the 
Secretary has yet declared operational control since then.
  If you look at it, two Republican Presidents, Bush and Trump, neither 
of them obtained operational control. Two Democrats, Obama and Biden, 
also have not obtained operational control.
  I know how important the Constitution is to my colleagues, and I 
would ask you to say that by targeting salaries it is simply 
unconstitutional, as pointed out in the United States v. Lovett, a 
Supreme Court case from 1946.
  If we are going to uphold the Constitution, the Court has said that 
targeting salaries is not the right way. We all want to secure the 
border, but targeting somebody's salary does not get us to the end that 
we want to get to.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no,'' and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Ms. TENNEY. Mr. Chairman, the Holman rule still exists, and we are 
exercising our right under the Holman rule.
  Mr. Chair, may I inquire much time I have remaining.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.
  Ms. TENNEY. Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas 
(Mr. Roy).
  Mr. ROY. Mr. Chairman, I have great respect for my colleague on the 
other side of the aisle from Texas. On this matter we disagree.
  The Secretary of Homeland Security has entirely abdicated his 
responsibility to follow the laws of the United States. He has done so 
purposely, he has done so with complete disregard to his constitutional 
obligation to run the Department of Homeland Security, which by 
definition means he is supposed to secure the homeland--having released 
some 2 million people into the United States.
  He has come before the House Judiciary Committee, and literally said, 
yes, we have operational control of the border, while staring directly 
at a statute defining operational control of the border under the 
Secure Fence Act. He later went back to the committee and said, no, no, 
no, that is not the definition I was talking about. He knew full well 
what he was doing.
  He is trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the American people 
that he is somehow following the laws. That he is somehow following 
asylum laws and parole laws when he is using parole--which is supposed 
on a case-by-case basis--to literally dump hundreds of thousands of 
people into the United States.
  Americans are dying. Kids are dying from fentanyl poisoning. The very 
migrants that my colleagues say this is supposed to be helpful for are 
dying in the Rio Grande or dying on south Texas ranches or getting sold 
into the sex trafficking trade, or dying, or getting abused in stash 
houses.

  This is a blatant disregard of his duty. He should be removed from 
office. We sure as hell shouldn't be funding his salary. The Holman 
rule exists for us to exercise our Article I authority over an abusive 
Article II executive.
  It is time for Congress to reassert its authority, to reclaim 
control, to use the power of the purse to stop the abusive authority by 
this Secretary to endanger the American people, to endanger migrants, 
and to undermine our Homeland Security.
  Ms. TENNEY. Mr. Chair, may I inquire much time I have remaining.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman has 30 seconds remaining.
  Ms. TENNEY. Mr. Chairman, let me just be clear to everyone out there. 
The Democrats in New York are against this policy put in place by Joe 
Biden and Secretary Mayorkas. Even Mayor Adams of New York City has 
blamed Joe Biden. Our current Governor Kathy Hochul has done a 180 and 
now she blames Joe Biden. Even former Governor Cuomo is now blaming Joe 
Biden for this migrant crisis in New York.
  Mr. Chair, 82 percent of New Yorkers, in a recent poll, blame Joe 
Biden and Secretary Mayorkas for this migrant crisis in New York, which 
is having devastating consequences on our security, and is harming our 
taxpayers.

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  Mr. Chair, I ask my colleagues to join Congressman Roy and I in 
reducing Secretary Mayorkas' salary to $1. I yield back the balance of 
my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Tenney).
  The amendment was agreed to.

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                 Amendment No. 39 Offered by Mr. Biggs

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 39 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  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:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to pay the salary and expenses of the position of the 
     Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security 
     Agency, occupied by Jen Easterly.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, 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 prohibits the use of funds to pay the salary and expenses of CISA 
Director Jen Easterly.
  It is no secret at this point that this administration is waging war 
on conservative voices, and Jen Easterly has been at the tip of the 
Biden administration's spear to censor American speech.
  In the recent case decision of Missouri v. Biden, Judge Doughty 
specifically pointed out Ms. Easterly's targeting of conservative 
speech for censorship. In fact, Ms. Easterly's censorship efforts were 
so explicit and pervasive that Judge Doughty believed that the 
plaintiffs in the case are likely to succeed in their claims against 
Ms. Easterly and the other Biden administration officials.
  This was affirmed recently by the Fifth Circuit. On September 6, 
2023, they wrote, ``CISA, however, did flag content. Beyond holding 
regular industry meetings with the platforms, CISA officials engaged in 
`switchboarding' operations, meaning they acted as an intermediary for 
a third-party group by forwarding flagged content from them to the 
platforms.''
  For her part, Ms. Easterly has both worked with and in some cases 
coerced social media platforms to take down and suppress posts that 
don't fit into the administration's idea of what the truth is. We know 
this because Ms. Easterly herself has said that conservative opinions 
that question the administration are not truth but are instead 
alternative facts and are dangerous to national security, implying that 
terms like truth are for her and the administration to define. She and 
other members of the administration have ordered the removal of posts 
about Hunter Biden's laptop, the COVID lab-leak theory, the 
ineffectiveness of masks and the vaccine, questions about the security 
of the 2020 election and future elections, and the state of the 
economy. Most of that has been proven objectively to be true, but she 
suppressed it as well as suppressing a variety of other posts, which 
happened to be inconvenient for the Biden administration.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, I understand and join in the outrage 
shared by my colleagues over the CISA mis-, dis-, and malinformation 
scandal.
  No administration and no government should ever be in the business of 
labeling or attempting to convince social media companies that First 
Amendment-protected speech is or is not disinformation.
  The government is not the arbiter of the truth, a position that even 
the ACLU agrees with. That is why we worked diligently to address 
government censorship concerns in this bill, and I stand by our 
language.
  However, this amendment is not targeted at the policies of the Biden 
administration that we disagree with. It is targeted at a person who 
wasn't in office when CISA engaged in mis-, 
dis-, and malinformation activities. While we might not agree with her 
policies, the CISA Director has a history of dutiful service to this 
country, including a long career in the military.
  Director Easterly is a West Point graduate, two-time recipient of the 
Bronze Star, retiring from the Army after more than 20 years in 
intelligence and cyber operations.
  While I empathize with the sponsor on the sentiment behind this 
amendment, I cannot support it, and I urge my colleagues to vote 
``no.''
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chair, not only has Ms. Easterly already suppressed 
many conservative voices, she has stated that she is preparing to do 
the same thing again for the 2024 election; not somebody else in the 
administration, not somebody else in CISA, Ms. Easterly has said this. 
This continuous and purposeful censorship of conservative voices must 
stop.
  Just as we saw in the last amendment with Secretary Mayorkas, using 
the Holman rule helps us do our job and do our duty.
  In July, Federal Judge Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana 
gave a memo decision in the case of the State of Missouri v. Joseph R. 
Biden, Jr. As part of his conclusions, Judge Doughty stated multiple 
times that it was likely the plaintiffs in this case will prevail on 
their ultimate case of censorship and suppression of conservative 
voices by the Biden administration.
  The primary means of censorship by the defendants in the case was by 
colluding with and in some cases ordering social media companies to ban 
conservative individuals on their platforms and to take down posts 
which dared to question the Biden administration on a number of 
important issues.
  Among the defendants listed by Terry Doughty as having directed this 
purposeful policy of censorship are CISA Director Jen Easterly. I urge 
my colleagues to join me in this important endeavor of holding someone 
accountable. I don't know what more we need to do, but certainly we 
should hold Ms. Easterly accountable.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Cuellar), the ranking member.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chairman, I join the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. 
Joyce), my chairman, in strong opposition to this amendment.
  CISA Director Easterly leads an organization of over 3,000 dedicated 
public servants who play a critical role in our national security.
  First, Director Easterly is the operational lead for Federal 
cybersecurity charged with protecting and defending the Federal 
civilian executive branch networks, the dot-gov we all rely on.
  Second, CISA serves as the national coordinator for critical 
infrastructure security and resilience, working with partners across 
government and industry to make sure that we protect and defend our 
Nation's critical infrastructure from bad actors.

  Again, when you target somebody by name and you want to reduce their 
salary, it is unconstitutional. Targeting salaries is unconstitutional, 
as pointed out by United States v. Lovett, a Supreme Court case from 
1946.
  I join the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Joyce), my good friend, in asking 
my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this amendment.
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chair, I appreciate the two-on-one here. No, that is 
fine. I am just kidding you guys.
  Here is the deal. Not only is this critical that you hold people 
accountable, but this person, this Director lied in response to a 
question from Representative Cloud on this particular issue, on these 
issues that we were talking about in testimony in the approps oversight 
hearing earlier this year.
  It is my opinion that if we fail to hold this person accountable, 
then we are going to see like things happen in the future. When you 
provide a specific deterrent, you also provide a general deterrent, and 
that is the way a justice system works. That is the way you hold people 
accountable.
  Mr. Chair, in closing, I appreciate my colleagues who don't want to 
see this

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done. It is not unconstitutional to do this. This is a good way to hold 
people accountable. That is one of the jobs of the United States 
Congress, to hold people accountable.
  What did the Founders give us? They gave us the purse strings. In 
this instance, it seems to me that this individual should have her 
salary eliminated.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, in closing, I disagree. I understand 
and appreciate the concerns of my colleague and certainly feel that, 
again, they have been addressed in what we could do within the confines 
of an appropriations bill. 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 Arizona (Mr. Biggs).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. BIGGS. 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. 40 Offered by Mr. Biggs

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 40 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  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:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to pay the salary and expenses of the position of 
     Director for the Election Security Initiative of the 
     Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, occupied by 
     Geoffrey Hale.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, 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, this may seem like Groundhog Day, but I am 
going anew. I rise to speak in support of my amendment which prohibits 
the use of funds to pay the salary and expenses of CISA Director of 
Election Security Initiative Geoffrey Hale.
  As outlined in Judge Doughty's memo decision in the Missouri v. Biden 
case, as Director Hale worked with social media companies to censor 
conservatives who speak out against the Biden administration, he was 
singled out by the judge.
  Under the guise of protecting national security and election 
integrity, Mr. Hale and his team purposely suppressed social media 
posts that went against the Biden administration's view of what they 
considered the truth to be.
  CISA seems to believe itself to be the ultimate arbiter of truth, 
ordering social media companies to suppress and ban posts and users 
that dare to question their side of the story, that dare to speak up 
for what they believe. Listen to what I am saying, please.
  That is what was going on in the agency that was supposed to protect 
cybersecurity and our elections.
  The blatant censorship by Mr. Hale and others of constitutionally 
protected speech has got to end. It is the weaponization of government 
against the American people. It is up to us to stand up against that.
  I urge my colleagues to join me in passing this amendment. At some 
point we are going to have to recognize that we need to hold people 
accountable.
  Now, I appreciate my colleagues who oppose this, but I will just tell 
you something. I don't think we can say we can't do this in the 
appropriations bill. We have already done something else in the 
appropriations bill. We just passed by voice vote a defunding of the 
Secretary of Homeland Security. Why cannot we hold these people 
accountable? I think we can.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, I empathize with wanting to hold this 
administration accountable for its many failed border and immigration 
policies. I also join in the outrage shared by my colleagues over the 
CISA mis-, dis-, and malinformation scandal.
  Labelling Americans' First Amendment-protected speech as mis-, dis-, 
or malinformation is not a role for any government agency, whether 
there is a Democrat or Republican in the White House. However, this 
amendment targets a career civil servant who was not in charge of 
creating the policy on which we disagree.
  We worked diligently in our bill to address the security failures and 
censorship concerns associated with this administration. I stand by our 
language.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Cuellar), the ranking member.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. 
Joyce), my good friend, for yielding. Again, I stand in opposition to 
the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Biggs) on this amendment.
  What we are looking at here is CISA Director of Election Security 
plays a critical role in our national security. Director Hale has 
served his role in many administrations as a career civil servant under 
Republican and Democratic administrations.
  Again, I say that targeting salaries is unconstitutional, as pointed 
out in United States v. Lovett, a Supreme Court case from 1946. I join 
my chairman, Mr. Joyce, in urging our colleagues to vote ``no.''
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chairman, I again appreciate my colleagues and their 
position. I fundamentally disagree. You have a heavy burden when you 
are going to enjoin people. When this case came before the court, the 
CISA Director of Election Security Initiative, Geoffrey Hale, was one 
of the defendants that was found to be one of the officials of this 
administration that was engaged in a clear and focused policy of using 
the Department of Homeland Security to stop conservatives from 
questioning the Biden administration on social media, even if it meant 
censoring constitutionally protected speech.
  I guess we have a fundamental difference here. I appreciate and 
understand what my colleagues who oppose this measure are saying, but I 
am just not certain what we are going to do then. How are we going to 
stand up to an administration where every institution of this 
administration has been weaponized: FBI, DOJ, Department of Education, 
the border security leadership.

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  We have CISA and the people who are running CISA leading areas that 
are systematically suppressing speech and censoring speech.
  This isn't me saying it. It is a court of law saying it after 
evidentiary hearings. It is through admissions, through discovery of 
these individuals. That is why these individuals lost in court, but 
there is no other way to hold them accountable.
  Holding an administration accountable is one thing, but holding an 
individual accountable for systematically participating in violations 
of our First Amendment rights, this is the way we do it. This is the 
way we should do it.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to join me, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, I don't want to make any arguments 
other than to say that I urge a ``no'' vote on this, and 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 noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. BIGGS. 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. 41 Offered by Mr. Biggs

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 41 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.

[[Page H4678]]

  

  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:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to pay the salary and expenses of the position of the 
     Under Secretary of the Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans 
     at the Department of Homeland Security, occupied by Robert 
     Silvers.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, 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. Chair, I rise to speak in support of my amendment, 
which prohibits the use of funds to pay the salary and expenses of the 
DHS Under Secretary for the Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans, 
Robert Silvers.
  Much of my argument is the same. In a court hearing, they are found 
to have violated the free speech rights of Americans systematically. 
They are going to lose in court, and we have an opportunity to hold 
them accountable.
  I feel the need to try to throw maybe a slider instead of a fastball. 
I am reminded of George Mason, who said many years ago something to the 
effect that because individuals can be punished and rewarded in Heaven 
but nations can't, nations need to be held accountable on Earth. I am 
now making an appeal that we hold individuals where we can accountable 
on Earth.
  What we have are people who systematically defied the rights of 
American citizens for no other reason than they didn't like what was 
being said about the administration. They politicized their position, 
and we are going to hold them accountable. I thought it was $17 million 
or something like that that was going to come off their overall budget. 
Maybe I am off on that--$19 million? I was pretty close.
  Let me give you another example. Somebody said recently that they 
will take responsibility for that, for a problem that this 
administration was doing. That begs the question: How did you take 
responsibility for it? You can't just say, ``I take responsibility. I 
take the full blame.'' No. What did you do? What did you do to take 
blame? Were you fired? Were you reprimanded? What happened?
  If you don't hold people accountable, they will persist. There is a 
theory of punishment in criminal law--and I practiced criminal law--and 
it was, why do you have punishment and sentencing at all? You have 
punishment and sentencing for public safety. That is one reason.
  You also have two kinds of deterrents. You have a general deterrent 
and a specific deterrent. If you have a specific deterrent, you are 
trying to teach that individual that that conduct is not acceptable and 
cannot happen again, so you punish them in whatever way you can that is 
appropriate. A general deterrent is when the entire society--in this 
instance, it is the Federal bureaucracy that says, if we do that, we 
are subject to specific deterrents--in other words, maybe even the 
elimination of our position, elimination of our salary, whatever it may 
be.
  If we don't hold people accountable, this action will persist because 
there will be no specific or general deterrents.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to this amendment of 
my friend from Arizona.
  The DHS Under Secretary for the Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans 
plays a critical role in our national security. The Senate confirmed 
this position to do certain things. At his confirmation, Mr. Silvers 
said that the Department must secure the borders. It must be relentless 
in disrupting the human and drug trafficking organizations that inflict 
such devastation. It must administer our immigration system securely 
and humanely and must also facilitate the lawful flows of trade and 
travel that power this economy.
  Again, we might have some differences on how we secure the border. We 
did have an opportunity the last 2 years in the Homeland appropriations 
that we added $2.4 billion, a 15 percent increase, to Homeland the last 
couple of years. I remind my colleagues that except for two members of 
the Republican Party that are still serving, everybody else voted no on 
securing the borders--hiring more Border Patrol, hiring more ICE 
agents, hiring more RFO, Air and Marine, technology. Except for two 
Members that are still serving on the Republican side, everybody voted 
no.
  If we want to secure the border, let's look at how we do that. Again, 
I say this just because we might have differences on how we do it, but 
to target an individual, I would assume it would violate the Bill of 
Attainder Clause of the Constitution. In fact, targeting an individual 
by name is unconstitutional, as pointed out in United States v. Lovett, 
a Supreme Court case in 1946.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this 
unconstitutional amendment. If we want to have a debate on border 
policy, we certainly can do that.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chair, may I inquire as to the time remaining.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Arizona has 1\1/2\ minutes 
remaining.
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chair, I appreciate my colleague talking about the 
border. I wasn't going to bring up the border because that is not what 
my main beef is with this amendment. My beef was about the censorship 
of U.S. citizens, but if you want to talk border, let's talk border.
  I have to clear up one fact that I hear so often from my colleagues 
across the aisle. When they say something like 90 percent of all the 
fentanyl that is coming across the border is seized at ports of entry, 
that is a total sham statement. Ninety percent of interdictions take 
place at ports of entry, not 90 percent of the drugs coming across.
  Why do you stop 90-plus percent at the ports of entry? Because that 
is where the X-ray machines are, where the dogs are, where the 
personnel is.
  You have all the equipment, but do you know where you don't have 
equipment? How about the 62-linear miles of the Tohono O'odham Nation 
Reservation in southern Arizona, which is one of the busiest drug and 
human trafficking corridors in the world?
  This Under Secretary has not secured the border. That is two strikes.
  I want to get back to the CISA argument because we have an individual 
who systematically is okay with censoring United States citizens who 
are exercising First Amendment rights, but if we want to talk border, I 
will be here till hell freezes over to talk about why we need to make 
changes in the Homeland Security folks on the border.
  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 noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. BIGGS. 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. 42 Offered by Mr. Biggs

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 42 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  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:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to pay the salary and expenses of the position of the 
     Assistant Secretary for Counter Terrorism and Threat 
     Prevention at the Department of Homeland Security, occupied 
     by Samantha Vinograd.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, 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. Chair, I rise to speak in support of my amendment, 
which

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prohibits the use of funds to pay the salary and expenses of the DHS 
Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism and Threat Prevention, 
Samantha Vinograd.
  When she was senior adviser for national security, Ms. Vinograd took 
her role of surveilling and stopping terrorist threats against our 
Nation and turned it on the American people.
  As outlined by Judge Doughty in his memo ruling in the Missouri v. 
Biden case, Ms. Vinograd and her colleagues purposefully and 
systematically targeted American conservatives who dared to exercise 
their right of freedom of speech.
  This is on issues that later proved to be accurate objectively, 
ranging from COVID-19 origins, lab leak theory, the Hunter Biden 
laptop. The DHS explicitly sought to suppress statements and posts that 
made the Biden administration look bad.
  Turning the counterterrorism role of the DHS on the American people 
and engaging in explicit government censorship of constitutionally 
protected speech constitutes a major breach of trust.
  Despite this--or, more likely, because of it--Ms. Vinograd was 
promoted. She wasn't held accountable.
  The court names her as a responsible defendant for this activity. She 
wasn't held responsible. She was promoted to Assistant Secretary for 
Counterterrorism and Threat Prevention.
  In her new position, Ms. Vinograd is no doubt even more of a threat 
to conservatives who wish to exercise their constitutional right of 
freedom of speech.
  Unelected bureaucrats like Ms. Vinograd cannot be allowed to continue 
to censor Americans and to decide for themselves what is worthy of 
being called the truth.
  Mr. Chair, I urge the passage of my amendment.
  Now, I want to add something different this time, as well. Elected 
officials have an accountability measure built in. Leave out 
impeachment or anything else, our voters elect us. They look at us with 
scrutiny. We stand before them. We tell them what we intend to do. They 
look at our record to see how successful we were in doing what we said 
we would do. You do not have the same ability with a bureaucrat.
  The reason that we know about these things, as we began to see these 
things, is you had an attorney general and several attorneys general 
come together and file a lawsuit, and a court, in looking at the 
discovery and taking evidence, said the plaintiffs here, the attorneys 
general, the States, are going to probably win this. Why? Because 
people like this bureaucrat, Ms. Vinograd, abused her authority and 
violated the constitutional rights of American citizens. Seems to me 
that someone like that should not be in the pay of the American 
Government.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment. 
Respectfully, to my colleague, again, if we are concerned about the 
security of the country, national security, border security, again, I 
will remind that the last couple of years, we have added over $2.4 
billion to the Homeland Security bill, and there were only two of my 
Republican colleagues that are still in Congress that voted for the 
increase.
  If we are concerned about security and the work that we are doing--
terrorism, counterterrorism, and threat--we all should have voted for 
the appropriation bill.

                              {time}  2000

  Mr. Chair, let me bring up some figures again. We know as of July 
2023, just a couple months ago, 92.9 percent of the fentanyl, 93 
percent of the heroin, 94.1 percent of the meth were seized at the 
ports of entry and interior checkpoints.
  If you look at the U.S. Sentencing Commission, 86 to 87 percent of 
the people that were caught with drugs were U.S. citizens. I want to go 
after anybody that brings drugs in but, again, we, as Members of 
Congress, have the constitutional duty to provide oversight over the 
budget. The way we provide oversight is not by targeting somebody by 
name and going after their salary.
  Again, this will violate the Bill of Attainder Clause in the U.S. 
Constitution, and it would also be in violation of the Supreme Court 
case of 1946 that we have mentioned before.
  If we want to provide oversight, there is a way of doing it and it is 
not targeting somebody without their due process and basically firing 
that individual.
  Again, if we want to go ahead and debate how much money we put in, we 
can do that, but not by targeting somebody against the Constitution.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chair, may I inquire how much time is remaining.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Arizona has 2 minutes remaining.
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chairman, I would rebut a couple of things. When you 
quote statistics saying 94 percent of all drugs coming into the country 
are stopped at interior checkpoints or ports of entry, that is an 
inaccurate statement. It is 94 percent of drugs that are interdicted, 
that we catch, that is where you catch them.
  Why do you catch them there? I mean, this is not rocket science. You 
catch them there because you have personnel there. You have drug-
sniffing dogs. You have X-ray machines that are looking at trucks. You 
have personnel there.
  But I will tell you what you don't have. Come with me to San Miguel 
Gate.
  I have been all over southern Texas. I have been all over southern 
Arizona and Southern California. Come with me to San Miguel Gate. There 
is nothing near the San Miguel Gate. The nearest town south of the 
border is Caborca; that is 2 hours away.
  You know what happens? You have more got-aways, known and unknown, 
through that sector than anywhere else in the country.
  Good grief. They don't want to be caught because they are the ones 
that are bringing in drugs and human trafficking. That is just kind of 
a fallacious argument.
  The next thing is when you say, only two people voted to increase 
Homeland Security funding, it was because it was an omnibus bill. You 
had every Christmas tree ornament in the world on that puppy, just 
enough to drive every Republican off but two.
  Yeah, if we had done 12 bills like so many of us advocate, you might 
have seen a different thing. You might have seen a kind of a joinder of 
stuff. This does not violate the Bill of Attainder provision of the 
Constitution. It doesn't violate a court decision. What this is is 
adherence to the Holman Rule?
  Mr. Chairman, I urge adoption, and 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 noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. BIGGS. 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 Arizona will 
be postponed.


                 Amendment No. 43 Offered by Mr. Biggs

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 43 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  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:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to pay the salary and expenses of the position of the 
     Director of the Departmental GAO-OIG Liaison Office for the 
     Department of Homeland Security, occupied by Jim Crumpacker.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, 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, at the risk of sounding like a broken 
record, I rise in support of my amendment, which prohibits the use of 
funds to pay the salary and expenses of DHS Director of the 
Departmental GAO-OIG liaison office Jim Crumpacker.

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  Director Crumpacker leads DHS's Department of OIG liaison office, an 
office tasked with maintaining mutually beneficial and productive 
relations with GAO and the OIG. That is what Mr. Crumpacker stated in 
testimony before the Senate several years ago.
  Unfortunately, under the Biden administration, that mutually 
beneficial and productive relationship has broken down completely.
  DHS continues to obstruct oversight by its own inspector general in 
violation of the agency's obligations under the Inspector General Act.
  Last year, then-Ranking Member Comer and Oversight Committee 
Republicans opened an investigation into reports that the Department of 
Homeland Security was obstructing efforts by their inspector general to 
conduct oversight over DHS programs and policies consistent with its 
obligations under the Inspector General Act.
  At the time the letter was sent, committee Republicans had uncovered 
a memo circulated to Customs and Border Protection employees, which 
essentially encouraged CBP employees to resist OIG's request for access 
to CBP systems.
  Think of that. You have a memo going out to CBP employees saying, 
Don't cooperate with the OIG. The memo falsely claimed that OIG's 
access to information was not unlimited, contrary to the statute, 
incorrectly relying on a statute that limited public disclosure of 
information.
  To be clear, the Inspector General Act contains no such limitation.
  DHS/OIG has a statutory mandate to have timely access to all records, 
reports, audits, reviews, documents, papers, recommendations, or other 
materials from DHS components, with only a narrow national security 
exemption that requires Congressional notification. Unfortunately, DHS 
continues to slow-walk and stonewall oversight efforts.
  In June, Inspector General Cuffari came to committee and testified 
under oath that:
  Since the fall of 2021, DHS/OIG has consistently reported DHS delays 
and denials of DHS/OIG's request for information.
  These are requests for information allowed under statute, and a 
response is mandated. These are requests for information that our more 
than 700 career professionals need in order to do their jobs in the OIG 
offices and which DHS is required to provide to DHS/OIG consistent with 
the statute.
  I remain hopeful that DHS will improve its responsiveness to our 
requests for information so that DHS/OIG can continue to provide 
Congress and the public robust and timely oversight with the words that 
Inspector General Cuffari said.
  I appreciate his optimism, but after nearly 3 years, Congress may 
need to start twisting some arms.
  This is the place, this is the individual who has put his thumb on 
the scale to prevent that information from going to the inspector 
general, information that we need, and we need the results of that OIG 
report.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, again, this amendment violates the Bill of 
Attainder Clause of the U.S. Constitution. This amendment, again, by 
targeting someone by name is unconstitutional as pointed out by U.S. v. 
Lovett, a Supreme Court case from 1946.
  Again, I would go back. If we are so interested in border security 
and national security, we had a chance to add $2.4 billion to CBP's 
budget authority, an increase of 15 percent. It doesn't matter what the 
vehicle was. The bottom line is some people who voted, except for two 
of my Republican colleagues, voted against pay raises for Border 
Patrol, the mental health services that we provided, college help also, 
clothing allowance, technology, canines, everything that is so 
important to border security, except for two of my colleagues who are 
still in Congress.
  Again, you can say that I didn't like the vehicle and this pay raise 
for Border Patrol and the other help that we provided. The bottom line 
is some folks voted against border security, and now we are trying to 
come back to try to change the narrative.
  Again, I would say that it violates the Bill of Attainder Clause of 
the U.S. Constitution and the Lovett case of 1946. If we want to 
provide oversight, there are ways, and I will be happy to sit down with 
my colleague from Arizona and go over that.

  Mr. Chair, I ask my colleagues to vote ``no,'' and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chair, may I inquire how much time is remaining.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Arizona has 1\1/2\ minutes 
remaining.
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chair, let's litigate the border some more, and let's 
talk about how these things get funded.
  If that is the new deal that you throw an omnibus bill because you 
don't bother to do your 12 bills and you are going to say, Oh, you 
voted against something, then we should start talking about all of the 
bad programs and policies that you all voted for in that omnibus bill 
that has left us with $2 trillion in deficit this year. That is what 
you did. You added $2 trillion to the national debt.
  Mr. Chair, the bottom line is they have an individual here, Mr. 
Crumpacker, who has basically said we are not going to provide 
information to the DHS-OIG.
  What are we going to do about it? We are going to say, Oh, that is 
just too bad. That is too bad.
  Mr. Chair, we have a massive border problem. I don't even think my 
colleague across the aisle would disagree with that.
  Last Friday in the Rules Committee, the gentleman from Massachusetts 
said there was no border crisis. I thought that was intriguing. You got 
11,000 people rolling through the Tucson sector. Those are the 
encounters. They don't get those kinds of groups in Tucson because they 
are getting the runners. But you know what, the whole border is in 
disarray, and that is between the ports of entry.
  That is your ports of entry that you are so pleased with. You have 
the CBP One app bringing people in by the tens of thousands. I think we 
need to hold Mr. Crumpacker responsible.
  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 noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. BIGGS. 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 Arizona will 
be postponed.


                 Amendment No. 44 Offered by Mr. Biggs

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 44 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  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:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to pay the salary and expenses of the position of the 
     Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, occupied by 
     Alejandro Mayorkas.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, 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 prohibits the use of funds to pay the salary and expenses of DHS 
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
  I want to speak about Secretary Mayorkas. I want to speak about what 
has happened at the border. By the time we are standing here today, you 
have millions and millions of people who have come through illegally 
into our country, and what they have done is they have surrendered.
  In the meantime, you have at least 2.5 million people who have not 
surrendered and who have escaped into the country.
  I have asked Secretary Mayorkas, I brought him to a Border Security 
Caucus. I said: Secretary, do you know what the Secure Fence Act of 
2006 says?

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  Can you tell me, do we have operational control of the border?
  He says: Oh, yeah, we have operational control of the border.
  Okay. Then how come you have set a record every month?
  At that point, he had set a record every month, from February 2021; 
every month a new record. In fact, last month we had another new 
record: 304,000 encounters.
  We brought him into the Committee on the Judiciary. He is under oath 
at that point.
  Do you know what the definition of operational control of the border 
is?

                              {time}  2015

  Oh, yeah.
  Do we have it?
  Yeah, we have it.
  Then, Mr. Secretary, why in the world are we seeing literally tens of 
thousands of people, 8 to 9,000 most days, some days 10, 12, 13,000 
people? That is a violation of that act.
  He says, Look, we have control.
  The last time we had him in, what, just a month, month-and-a-half 
ago: Mr. Secretary, hey, do you have operational control?
  And he says, Yeah.
  We bring out the poster with the statute again and said, Hey, take a 
look at the statute.
  He says, Oh, no, no. We don't have operational control with that. We 
have defined our own operational control.
  That is the kind of person that needs to be held accountable.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. 
Scalise), our distinguished majority leader, who we are so happy to see 
with us on the floor tonight.
  Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Chairman, I thank my friend from Arizona for leading 
and for his leadership on the border, on this amendment, on this issue.
  I rise in strong support of the amendment. As I see my friend from 
Ohio, Mr. Joyce, I rise in strong support of his legislation. Frankly, 
Mr. Chairman, all of us here in the House and Senate, as we talk about 
the necessary funding of government, should be talking about what we 
need to do to secure America's border, and it should start with the 
Secretary of Homeland Security, who has been derelict in his job, and 
this is the most important job that he has.
  Not only has he gone before committees and said, Yes, the border is 
secure, as Mr. Biggs talked about, he said there is operational 
control. Do you know who has operational control of the border? The 
drug cartels have operational control of the border.
  It has become a multibillion-dollar industry for the drug cartels to 
bring people across our border--not just from South America, Central 
America--from all over the world, over 140 countries, millions of 
people. He can't even tell you what the real number is. Is it 5 
million? Is it 8 million?
  This Department of Homeland Security won't even tell you what that 
number is of how many millions of people have come into our country 
illegally since he took this job, since Joe Biden became President of 
the United States and systematically destroyed the things that were 
working to secure America's border.
  More people than live in my home State of Louisiana have entered our 
country illegally since Joe Biden became President of the United 
States. They can't even tell you where they are going. We see mayors 
all around the country, livid--Republican mayors, Democrat mayors. It 
doesn't matter what your party affiliation is. It is wrecking cities.
  Read comments from the mayor of New York City himself, Mayor Adams. 
The cost of migrants will destroy New York City. You have people, 
leaders--Republican, Democrat--all across America pleading with 
President Biden to address this problem, and he refuses. He doesn't 
want to solve this problem.
  Secretary Mayorkas doesn't want to do his job and solve this problem. 
The tools are there. The ability is there. They dismantled the things 
that were working day one, and so what we have done as House 
Republicans is brought legislation, not just today in Mr. Joyce's bill, 
but we brought H.R. 2, the border security package that we passed 
months ago, to take necessary steps to secure America's border.
  It has been sitting over in the Senate. They don't want to take 
action on this. The United States Senate has sat back and done not a 
single thing to secure the border. They want to pass a CR over here 
that continues the open border policy, meaning millions more people 
coming across our border illegally to communities all across America.
  I have gone to our border. I have embedded with our Border Patrol 
agents. You don't need to re-invent the wheel to know how to fix this 
problem. Our Border Patrol agents will tell you what needs to happen to 
fix this problem. They have told the President. He doesn't want to take 
those steps.
  This House took those steps, but more of those steps need to be 
funded, and that is what Mr. Joyce did in his bill that the Committee 
on Appropriations put together, to actually fund more Border Patrol 
agents, to give them more technology, to build the wall. Yes, walls 
work. Technology works.
  Border Patrol agents want to do their job because they don't want the 
drug cartels having operational control like Secretary Mayorkas has 
allowed them to have. If he is going to be derelict in his duty, we are 
not going to be derelict in ours, and so why don't we work until we get 
this right, not only here in the House, which we have done and we are 
going to continue to do, but until the Senate finally realizes it is a 
problem worth taking up for America, until the President of the United 
States finally realizes this is a problem worth taking up for the 
American people, who are sick and tired of an open southern border.
  It is not just because it is open. It is because of the problems that 
are coming with it every single day. We are losing 150 young people who 
are dying every single day in America from the drug overdoses that are 
coming in from the open southern border.
  Imagine if an airplane fell out of the sky every single day in 
America. How long would it take for us to stop everything we are doing 
and fix that? It wouldn't be a week that would go by that we would 
allow that to happen as a country, and, yet, it has been going on for 
over a year and a half, over 2 years, every community.
  Talk to coroners in any community in America and ask them how many 
fentanyl deaths they are seeing of young people. I had a high school 
group here not long ago, and I said, How many of you know someone who 
died of a fentanyl overdose? Every single hand went up.

  These are our young people in America that they are poisoning with 
drugs made in China, infiltrated through our southern border because 
the drug cartels have been allowed to have operational control of our 
border by a Secretary who says it is under control. If that is under 
control, I don't know what he would consider out of control.
  We are fed up with this problem. America is fed up with this problem. 
Look at what they are saying all around the country. The whole 
mainstream media is covering this issue. It is not like this issue is 
under radar anymore. Six months ago, it was. This issue wasn't being 
covered for a long time.
  I have to give credit to a lot of my colleagues who represent border 
communities, because they are on the front lines. They started getting 
vocal, because they started seeing it before anybody else did. They 
started raising alarms, and they said, This is a crisis.
  Then others started going down to the border. We have taken over 150 
delegations down to the border, Members of Congress, again, embedding 
with Border Patrol agents, talking about the problem, listening to our 
Border Patrol agents, who are telling us what needs to happen. That is 
how we built the legislation we passed. That is how we built the 
legislation we are working on passing here on this floor right now.
  Look at what they are saying all around the country. Everybody is 
seeing this except the President of the United States and the United 
States Senate. We are not going to be quiet about this. We are going to 
continue fighting until we get this problem fixed. America demands it. 
America deserves it. We need to secure our border.
  That is what this bill does. It is a package of bills. It has been 
months in the works. It is time for the President to pay attention to 
this crisis and join with us as we talk about funding the government. 
You fund the government

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to address the problems that this country is facing, and this open 
southern border is at the top of that list.
  Let's get this done.
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, first of all, let me just say, as a point of 
privilege, it is so good to see my good friend from Louisiana. Again, I 
am with him all the way. I appreciate it.
  We disagree on this amendment. We might agree on defunding other 
things, but not this particular one.
  I will say, again, in the last 2 years, we added $2.4 billion to the 
CBP operation moneys. From there, we added moneys for more Border 
Patrol agents, more CBP officers, new intel specialists, trade 
enforcement staff, and other personnel. We added additional technology 
at the ports of entry. We added initiatives that support CBP workforce, 
such as suicide prevention, wellness efforts, uniform allowances, 
tuition allowance, to make sure that we support our men and women in 
green, in blue, and Homeland Security in general.
  Again, I will say that, if we support them, except for two Members 
that are still on my Republican side, all voted against supporting 
Border Patrol in all this. If we are so interested, why did we vote on 
$2.4 billion of moneys for Border Patrol?
  Again, this is something that I would ask you to look at. Again, what 
we should be focusing right now is: How do we keep our government open? 
Folks said, If you pass H.R. 2, and we are going to go ahead and get 
the job done. It is right in the Senate. If this bill passes the floor, 
it is going to be in the Senate.
  What we ought to be focusing on is: How do we keep the government 
open? Again, I would remind my colleagues that, if you look at the last 
five shutdowns, the House Republicans controlled the House. On November 
13, 1995, the Republicans controlled the House; December 15, 1995, it 
was the Republicans who controlled the House; September 30, 2013, the 
Republicans controlled the House; January 19, 2018, the Republicans 
controlled the House; December 21, 2018, again, the Republicans 
controlled. We had shutdowns, and, again, if we are not careful, the 
Republican-controlled House will have another shutdown at 12:01 this 
coming Sunday.
  Again, we want to work with you. We want to sit down. You know my 
position. I have always said that I don't like open borders, and we 
have to make sure that we secure the border. Again, people talk about 
crime. I can pick any city. I will say New Orleans. If I pick New 
Orleans, you will see that crime is lower per 100,000 than in my 
hometown of Laredo. Rape, murder, assaults, those crimes are lower. Our 
border is safe.
  Now, that is on the crime part. If you want to talk about migration, 
I agree we need to do more on that, but cutting somebody's salary 
doesn't get us to what we need. We need to make sure that we stop 
playing defense on the one-yard line, called the U.S. border.

  What we need to do is to do what happened in 2015 and 2019. President 
Barack Obama sat down with the Mexicans and said, Hey, you have to stop 
people from coming to the border, and guess what? The numbers went 
down.
  In 2019, President Trump did the same thing, and asked the Mexicans, 
Hey, stop the people from coming in. Guess what? The numbers came down.
  We need to make sure that we put authorities--and I emphasize--
authorities for Homeland, where they can do more outside the U.S. 
border, because otherwise, we are not going to see the same thing we 
saw in 2015 and 2019.
  We keep playing defense on the one-yard line. I want to secure the 
border, but, again, if you want to stop drugs, I will say it again, 
most of the drugs will be coming in--again, the latest numbers from 
July of 2023, 92.9 percent of the fentanyl, 93 percent of the heroin, 
94.1 of the meth were seized at the ports of entry and interior 
checkpoints.
  Again, I will say that, if you look at the U.S. Sentencing 
Commission, 86 to 87 percent of the people that were caught with drugs 
were U.S. citizens. I don't care who brings in drugs. I want to make 
sure that they are put in jail.
  Again, I will say this: I know that a lot of you believe in the 
border wall, but if you look, this is fencing all here, and this is 
where the heat map shows. Why? Because the border fence is a quarter 
mile to a mile away from the river where the international border is.
  Keep in mind--I agree with you--89 to 90 percent of the people asking 
for asylum don't get granted asylum officers. What we ought to be doing 
is sending judges and asylum officers down here to make sure that we do 
our job over here.
  If we need to deport somebody, I will be the first one to say, Deport 
that individual, but, again, putting a wall, $36 million a mile, when 
you can get $3 to $5 million for the drones.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Molinaro). Members are reminded to direct their 
remarks to the Chair.

                              {time}  2030

  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chair, may I inquire as to the time remaining.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Arizona has 2 minutes remaining.
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chair, let's talk about which side wants to get 
something done on the border. I keep hearing about the magnificent omni 
bill. How many Democrats voted for H.R. 2 in this House? Not one. Don't 
tell me that you care about the border. You didn't vote to secure the 
border with H.R. 2.
  When you say Americans are importing the drugs, first of all, you got 
it wrong again. I don't think you are listening. Ninety-two percent of 
the drugs they catch, that is what they catch. It is what they 
interdict. That is what they stop. That is who they arrest. That takes 
place at the ports of entry. That ain't where 92 percent of the drugs 
are coming through.
  They are coming through the places wide open where there is no 
fencing in Arizona. We don't have the river. We have four-strand 
barbed-wire fence in places. They are coming through there. It is 
considered the number one drug trafficking corridor in the world.
  Don't be telling me that we are stopping 92 percent of the drugs 
because we are not. Don't show me a heat map of where people are coming 
through in Texas. That is xenophobic. You need to spread out. Don't be 
so parochial.
  Let's go to Arizona. I will take you to Cocopah. We will stand right 
there. Literally hundreds of people walk on through. They are not 
coming from the Northern Triangle states. They are coming from 
Mauritania. They are coming from Mali and Togo. They are coming from 
all over the world.
  Don't say that you guys care about the border because you are not 
doing a damn thing to stop it.
  What is happening on the border is a crisis. It is the largest mass 
migration in the history of this entire world. It is time you join us 
and bring it under control because it is bringing crime.
  Laredo is great. Good.
  Do you know what they are releasing in Cochise County now? Secretary 
Mayorkas is calling them freedom runs. We are just going to release 
people into the community and call them freedom runs.
  Mr. Chair, it is time to do something, and I urge my colleagues to 
vote for my amendment.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. Members are reminded to direct their remarks to the 
Chair.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Biggs).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                 Amendment No. 45 Offered by Mr. Biggs

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 45 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  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:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to implement, administer, or enforce the rule 
     entitled ``Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility'' 
     published by the Department of Homeland Security in the 
     Federal Register on September 9, 2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 55472).

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman

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from Arizona (Mr. Biggs) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Arizona.
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chair, I rise to speak in support of my amendment, 
which prohibits the use of funds in furtherance of the public charge 
ground of inadmissibility rule.
  Section 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act states that any 
alien who is likely at any time to become a public charge is 
inadmissible for entry or a readjustment of status. Any alien at any 
time who might become a public charge is inadmissible for entry or even 
for readjustment of status. Think about that.
  Someone is a public charge if they are likely to become primarily 
dependent on the government for subsistence, as demonstrated by either 
receipt of public cash assistance for income maintenance or 
institutionalization for long-term care at government expense.
  The primary factor that the DHS is supposed to look at when 
determining if someone is or will likely be a public charge is the 
likelihood that the person will be reliant on government benefits and 
services, such as Medicaid and SNAP.
  This past December, the DHS greatly reduced the number of public 
benefits considered when determining whether an immigrant is or will be 
a public charge and thus inadmissible for entry or permanent residency.
  The Trump administration rightly included programs such as SNAP, 
housing vouchers, and Medicaid in its determinations on whether an 
individual would be a public charge. However, President Biden and 
Secretary Mayorkas have decided that not only should we take in 
thousands of illegal aliens every day but that they should receive the 
same benefits that thousands of struggling Americans rely on and that 
those same Americans should pay for it.
  The American ideals of self-sufficiency and personal responsibility 
have always been the spirit of our immigration law. It is in this 
spirit that Congress decided that immigrants who are likely to become a 
public charge are ineligible for admittance or permanent residency. 
However, under this new rule, individuals who are reliant on a number 
of government benefits can be considered self-sufficient when applying 
for renewal or adjustment of status.
  The DHS' new rule is not only costly to the American taxpayer but 
also directly incentivizes hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens to 
cross the southern border and come into our country.
  It seems to me that Secretary Mayorkas is not only negligent and 
reckless with securing the border, but he is also negligent and 
reckless with the American taxpayers' hard-earned money.
  That is why I am calling to stop any funding for the DHS' new public 
charge rule until they secure our border and start acting in the best 
interests of the American people.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, since 1999, the policy has been, under the 
Clinton administration, under the Bush administration, and the Obama 
administration, that immigration officials still consider whether a 
noncitizen will become dependent on cash benefits. I agree. That has 
been the policy since 1999, and I think we ought to stick with that 
policy where a noncitizen should not be dependent on cash benefits. 
Follow the law, and that is what we want to do under the current 
policy.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chair, I urge the passage of my amendment, and 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 amendment was agreed to.


                 Amendment No. 46 Offered by Mr. Biggs

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 46 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  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:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to implement a COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandate for 
     travelers passing through the Transportation Security 
     Administration checkpoints.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, 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. Chair, I rise to speak in support of my amendment.
  My amendment prohibits the use of funds to implement a TSA vaccine or 
mask mandate. For years, the Biden administration subjected millions of 
Americans to draconian vaccine and mask mandates, even when the science 
showed these mandates did very little.
  I remember at one point having literally meta studies and individual 
studies showing the inefficacy of masks, but we were nonetheless 
compelled to wear masks.
  Now, we are beginning to hear the same people and institutions 
suggesting again that we need to start looking at public vaccine and 
mask mandates due to small rises in COVID. This must be coming up on an 
election year or something.
  Specifically, there is talk about TSA mandating people who wish to 
fly to wear a mask or be vaccinated. These types of mandates are just 
another form of overreach by this power-grabbing administration, and 
the American people are not going to put up with it for a second time.
  Americans make calculated decisions about their health risks every 
day. You just saw the great   Steve Scalise come down, with a judgment 
of his own health risk, so he could participate on the floor in 
something that is meaningful to him. We all make those types of 
decisions about our health risks every day.
  The last thing they need is for unelected bureaucrats to tell them 
once again when they can and cannot fly, especially since we now know 
the actual efficacy, or I should say ineffectiveness, of the vaccine 
and masks.
  These calls to renew vaccine and mask mandates are coming from the 
same people such as Anthony Fauci, who relished controlling the day-to-
day lives of Americans and profited off it.
  Americans have had enough. This is why we must ensure that neither 
President Biden, Anthony Fauci, or any other bureaucrat can force 
Americans to get a vaccine or wear a mask just to exercise their right 
to travel.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, these policies, in my opinion, should be 
debated in a different bill. DHS' role here is guided by the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC. The DHS doesn't come up 
with policies. They don't develop their independent policies on these 
issues. Rather, they implement policies that originate with the CDC.
  We can get into a debate about wearing masks or having vaccines, but, 
again, I think we need to concentrate this on another bill and not on 
Homeland.
  Mr. Chair, I oppose this amendment, and I yield back the balance of 
my time.
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Chair, I think this does belong in this bill. TSA is 
in this bill, and this is an important policy. I urge the passage of my 
amendment to stop any funds from being used to implement a TSA vaccine 
or mask mandate.
  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 amendment was agreed to.


                Amendment No. 47 Offered by Mrs. Boebert

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 47 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mrs. BOEBERT. 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:


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       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  The salary of Ur M. Jaddou, Director of U.S. 
     Citizenship and Immigration Services, shall be reduced to $1.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, 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 today to offer my amendment that 
utilizes the Holman rule to reduce the salary of Ur Jaddou, director of 
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, to $1.
  Ms. Jaddou is a radical leftist. Before joining the Biden 
administration, she worked for an open borders group called DHS Watch. 
While at DHS Watch, Jaddou called for stopping Border Patrol funding 
and referred to CBP as President Trump's ``personal militia.''
  Ms. Jaddou has also previously called for the mass release of illegal 
immigrants. Someone like this should not be in a position of influence 
at the Department of Homeland Security. She has no regard for the rule 
of law.
  Ms. Jaddou proposed and finalized the rule Procedures for Credible 
Fear Screening and Consideration of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and 
CAT Protection Claims by Asylum Officers, which removed ICE attorneys 
and the adversarial process from the credible fear asylum application 
process. The rule violates the jurisdiction of Department of Justice 
immigration judges as stated by section 103 of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act and the Homeland Security Act.
  Ms. Jaddou also heavily prioritizes USCIS resources to adjudicate and 
issue employment authorization documents for millions of illegal 
aliens, parolees, and ever-expanding populations of temporary protected 
status instead of adjudicating lawful nonimmigrant and immigrant 
applications. These misguided amnesty pursuits have rapidly increased 
the USCIS' pending backlog to over 9 million cases.

                              {time}  2045

  Mrs. BOEBERT. Jaddou previously pushed other amnesty policies in her 
role as USCIS during the Obama administration.
  Specifically, she aggressively tried to expand parole in place in 
order to bypass Congress and implement mass amnesty.
  Jaddou has also defended the unconstitutional Deferred Action for 
Childhood Arrivals program, falsely claiming this is a permissible 
exercise of discretion by the Secretary of Homeland Security.
  As an attorney, she should know only Congress has the authority to 
authorize this type of program. With that, Obama and DHS should have 
never unilaterally created this amnesty program.
  Jaddou in her current role is literally enabling and supporting the 
Biden border crisis. In August alone, there were 232,972 illegal 
immigrants encountered at the southern border.
  Customs and Border Patrol has seized 25,500 pounds of fentanyl so far 
in fiscal year 2023. Of course, that is only what has been seized, not 
what we know is coming into our country illegally and killing 
Americans, at least 300 a day.
  Biden's bureaucrats like Jaddou are literally allowing deadly 
fentanyl to easily flow into our communities and kill our children.
  My amendment is supported by the National Immigration Center for 
Enforcement, NumbersUSA, and the American Accountability Foundation.
  I urge my colleagues to support my amendment and hold Ms. Jaddou 
accountable for her blatant disrespect for the law of our Nation.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I claim time in opposition to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, we support border security. We also support 
the U.S. Citizen Immigration Service where they have asylum officers.
  One of the things we ought to be doing is adding more money to 
support the asylum officers so they can be at the border, and they can 
make a decision whether somebody stays or has a credible fear.
  We know the numbers; 89, 90 percent of the people who ask for asylum 
will be denied because the law is very specific on what asylum is.
  It has to be persecution by the state based on religion or based on 
political beliefs. If you are coming in because you want a job, or you 
are coming in for a better life, or you are coming in because of a 
drought or you are hungry or because your country is falling apart, it 
is not allowed under the law.
  What we ought to do is make sure that Homeland has the money to 
support border security. Again, I remind my friends that the last 2 
years, we added $2.4 billion to the CBP budget authority, a 15 percent 
increase. Except for two Members from the Republican side, everybody 
voted ``no'' on it.
  Again, we want to support border security. If you want to look at 
fentanyl, the fentanyl will come in through two ports in Mexico, the 
legal precursors.
  Then they come up here, and we have to make sure that we add money 
for technology to make sure that we stop the drugs coming in.
  Again, I am for border security, and I want to work with you to get 
to border security. Congressman Holman in 1976, the Holman Rule--keep 
in mind that the Bill of Attainder Clause says no punishment without a 
trial.
  I believe this is in violation of Lovett in The Supreme Court in 
1946; it says this type of action is unconstitutional.
  Again, if we want to have a debate, let's go ahead and have a debate, 
but to target somebody's salary is unconstitutional.
  I agree. We need to do more to secure the border, and I certainly 
want to work with my colleagues from Colorado, Ohio, and wherever you 
might be from. I certainly want to work with you.
  I yield back the balance of my time, Mr. Chairman.
  Mrs. BOEBERT. Mr. Chair, I do appreciate my colleague on the other 
side of the aisle and his efforts to promote border security.
  He and I have had conversations about the border. I realize that he 
represents a district on the border, and I appreciate his sincere 
concern for what is taking place.
  Unfortunately, we do have an invasion. My colleague mentioned that 
much of the fentanyl that is coming into our country is being found at 
the ports of entry.
  We know that it is being found at the ports of entry, but 
unfortunately, our Border Patrol agents are overrun, they are 
overworked, and there is just too large of a surge for them to handle 
everything that is happening at the border.
  Certainly, we want more funding to secure the border, but we don't 
want more funding for our Border Patrol agents to simply be process 
agents and bring people into our country in these mass amounts that we 
are seeing.
  I do appreciate my colleague and his efforts to work with us to 
secure the southern border, and I look forward to future conversations, 
as well.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Colorado (Mrs. Boebert).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                Amendment No. 48 Offered by Mrs. Boebert

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 48 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mrs. BOEBERT. 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 the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  The salary of Kenneth L. Wainstein, Secretary of 
     Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis, shall be 
     reduced to $1.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, 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 today to offer my amendment that 
utilizes the Holman Rule to reduce the salary of Under Secretary of 
Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis, Kenneth Wainstein.
  In 2020, Mr. Wainstein claimed that President Donald Trump's 
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was a threat to the rule of law and endorsed Joe Biden for President of 
the United States.
  I will tell you what is a threat to the rule of law: blatantly 
violating Federal immigration law and intentionally facilitating a 
complete and total invasion at our southern border.
  I will tell you what is a threat to the rule of law: refusing to 
cooperate with State and local law enforcement officials as required 
under Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
  I will tell you, Mr. Chair, what is a threat to the rule of law: 
pursuing a radical open border agenda, purposefully and willfully 
circumventing every safeguard, check, and balance required by law, 
allowing terrorists and deadly drugs like fentanyl to freely flow into 
our great country.
  This administration has presided over the largest influx of illegal 
immigrants in American history. Since they took power, there have been 
over 6 million illegal crossings of our southern border. That's right--
6 million.
  Under this administration's watch, illicit fentanyl has killed more 
than 100,000 American citizens. Furthermore, 151 people whose names 
appear on the terrorist watch list were stopped.
  I applaud our brave men and women who serve as our Customs and Border 
Patrol agents who were able to detain these 151 people who are on the 
terrorist watch list.
  They were trying to cross our southern border, an all-time record of 
known terrorists on the watch list crossing into our country, beating 
the previous record also held by the Biden administration in fiscal 
year 2022. This is more than the encounters in all fiscal years 2017, 
2018, 2019, and 2020 combined.
  In August, we discovered that a smuggler with ties to ISIS was 
helping migrants enter the United States from Mexico. This madness 
needs to end.
  This has all occurred on the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for 
Intelligence and Analysis, Mr. Wainstein's, watch.
  The American people deserve to have a Department of Homeland Security 
committed to securing the homeland, not sitting idly by as terrorists 
flock across our wide open southern border.
  My amendment is supported by the National Immigration Center for 
Enforcement, NumbersUSA, and the American Accountability Foundation.
  I urge my colleagues to support my amendment and hold Mr. Wainstein 
accountable for not doing his job and for his role in facilitating the 
worst border crisis in our Nation's history.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I claim time in opposition to this amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, the last 2 years we had an opportunity to add 
$2.4 billion to the CBP budget authority. That is a 15 percent 
increase.
  Except for two Members, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle 
voted ``no''. Money for Border Patrol, money for intelligence, money 
for securing the border, and they voted ``no'' on it. We had an 
opportunity to vote ``yes'', and it was voted against.
  Again, I would say that if we have differences, how do we address 
this, by cutting somebody's salary, which is unconstitutional?
  In United States v. Lovett, the Supreme Court says you can't do this. 
It is due process without a trial, punishment without a trial, which is 
the Bill of Attainder Clause again.
  I want to secure the border, but I want to make sure that we put 
funding on this. We are about to have a shutdown this Saturday.
  Again, we have been asking our Republican friends to sit down, and I 
am ready to sit down and work it out. If we don't do this, we are going 
to be affecting so many people.
  It is going to affect 43,000 U.S. Coast Guard employees, including 
38,000 Active-Duty Coast Guard military personnel.
  It is going to affect 59,000 CBP personnel, including Border Patrol 
agents, Customs and Border Protection officers, 16,800 ICE personnel, 
including HSI agents, 58,000 TSA personnel, 19,300 FEMA employees, and 
6,300 Secret Service personnel. We are not focusing on what we ought to 
focus on, and that is making sure that we don't have a shutdown.
  Again, Members, I would remind you that the last five shutdowns, you 
were in charge, and again, five--we are going to make it number six.
  We want to sit down and work with you, but again, as the minority 
Members, we want to sit down and be at the table.
  I ask that we oppose the amendment, and I yield back the balance of 
my time.
  Mrs. BOEBERT. May I inquire as to how much time is remaining.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman has 2 minutes remaining.
  Mrs. BOEBERT. Mr. Chair, I would agree with my colleague on the other 
side of the aisle. We do want to sit down and have a conversation.
  We realize we are in divided government right now, and that is the 
process that we are currently working on. We are trying to avoid doing 
things as normal as they have been done since the mid-1990s here in 
Washington, D.C.
  We do not want to govern and fund the entire government with a 
straight up and down vote ``yes'' or ``no.''
  We don't want continuing resolutions or omnibus bills. We want to go 
through the funding of the Federal Government bill by bill, sit down, 
and work with our colleagues on the other side of the aisle.
  This will be bipartisan. This will be bicameral. We do not have the 
majority in the Senate. We will have to come together in conference and 
hash out our differences and work with one another.
  I do agree with my colleague that we are going to have to work 
together in a bipartisan, bicameral way to fund the Federal Government.
  I understand that there are a lot of scary numbers of people who 
would be impacted by a shutdown, but that is why this week we are here, 
passing four appropriations bills to fund the Federal Government, to 
avoid a full government shutdown.
  There may be a partial shutdown for a short amount of time, but I 
believe that we can come together and alleviate that and come to a 
resolution soon.
  We can do our jobs. We are passing the Department of Defense bill. We 
have that on the floor. We are also bringing up the Department of 
Homeland Security bill, the State and foreign ops, and the ag bill. We 
can fund these parts of the Federal Government.
  Mr. Chair, again, I urge my colleagues to support my amendment, and I 
yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. 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.
  Mr. CUELLAR. 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.


                Amendment No. 49 Offered by Mrs. Boebert

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 49 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mrs. BOEBERT. 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 the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. ___.  The salary of Claire Trickler-McNulty, Assistant 
     Director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of 
     Immigration Program Evaluation, shall be reduced to $1.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, 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 today to offer my amendment that 
utilizes the Holman Rule to reduce the salary of the U.S. Immigration 
and Customs Enforcement Assistant Director, Office of Immigration 
Program Evaluation, Claire Trickler-McNulty, to $1.
  Ms. McNulty needs to be held accountable for her blatant disregard of 
our Nation's national security. Ms. McNulty is an advocate for open 
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  Ms. McNulty admitted publicly that she stayed at the Department of 
Homeland Security during the Trump administration to sabotage border 
enforcement.
  Ms. McNulty worked for an organization known as KIND where she 
provided legal services for illegal aliens to fight deportation and 
stay in the country even though they broke our laws and entered America 
illegally.

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  Now this open borders advocate is supposed to help protect America's 
cross-border crime and illegal immigration that threaten national 
security when she clearly has no interest in following the law and 
doing either of these things.
  The appointment of Ms. McNulty is a prime example of the Biden-Harris 
administration's ignorance to the importance of securing the border. 
Not only is she an open borders fanatic, but she was behind an $80 
million no-bid contract that the DHS Inspector General criticized as 
improper.
  The Biden administration has essentially closed ICE down. They do 
nothing about people entering the country illegally, that has been 
shown repeatedly. Just look at the 151 terrorists on the terror watch 
list that have entered America on Biden and McNulty's watch.
  During Ms. McNulty's tenure at ICE, instead of protecting our borders 
and enforcing our laws, ICE now is acting more like a social service 
agency for illegals.
  ICE is even partnering with groups that campaign for ICE to be 
abolished, that give aid to illegal aliens, and that award contracts 
that strictly prohibit tackling the whereabouts of illegal aliens.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to support my amendment and hold Ms. 
McNulty accountable for doing her job, or not, and for her role in 
facilitating the worst border crisis in our Nation's history.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I claim time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition. This particular 
individual has served in senior roles throughout DHS, including as a 
career official under Republican and Democratic administrations.
  As a career official, she led the initial implementation of the 
Prison Rape Elimination Act standards for ICE during the Trump 
administration--and she was not fired under the Trump administration. 
During the Trump administration she also led the development of a 2019 
National Detention Standards, which is interesting because my 
colleagues included it as a provision in this bill that would require 
those standards to be applied to all detention facilities.
  If we have a problem with policy, let's debate policy. I can tell you 
we ought to be focusing on making sure that we keep the government 
open. We can pass these four bills, but I can tell you there is no 
Senate conference over there. They are not going to take these bills up 
in the next couple of days.
  Instead of focusing on what we ought to do, that is, preventing the 
sixth Republican-led shutdown since 1995, we ought to be working 
together instead of doing this.
  This amendment violates the Bill of Attainder Clause of the U.S. 
Constitution. As the U.S. Supreme Court has said in United States v. 
Lovett, 1946, it is unconstitutional to target an individual.
  Mr. Chair, I ask Members to vote ``no,'' and I yield back the balance 
of my time
  Mrs. BOEBERT. Mr. Chair, I would remind Members that Ms. McNulty only 
stayed in the Trump administration, as she was quoted, to sabotage 
border security efforts. That is not genuine. That is un-American. It 
is not dutiful.
  There are many things that we are doing right now to avoid a 
shutdown. I certainly do not want a government shutdown. That is why my 
colleagues do not want a government shutdown. That is why we are 
debating these four bills and why we are debating the amendments to 
these four bills.
  I agree with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, and maybe 
many on my own side, that we should have done this sooner. We should 
not have waited until the deadline, but here we are, and we are all in 
Washington, D.C., working diligently to ensure that the debate is heard 
on these bills and we have an opportunity to fund these very important 
aspects of the Federal Government.
  Mr. Chair, I urge adoption of my amendment, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. 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.
  Mr. CUELLAR. 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.


                Amendment No. 50 Offered by Mrs. Boebert

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 50 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mrs. BOEBERT. 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 the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  The salary of Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Officer 
     for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, shall be reduced to $1.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, 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 today to offer my amendment that 
utilizes the Holman rule to reduce the salary for the Officer for Civil 
Rights and Civil Liberties, Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia to $1.
  DHS's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is staffed with 
people that literally want to abolish the U.S. Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement, an agency whose mission is to protect America from the 
cross-border crime and illegal immigration that threaten national 
security.
  The woman that leads DHS's Office for Civil Rights and Civil 
Liberties once said that illegal immigrant felons, convicted of murder 
and rape, shouldn't be eligible for deportation solely because of their 
crimes.
  Let me repeat that. Wadhia believes that illegal immigrant felons 
convicted of murder and rape should not be deported. She has also 
advocated for purging the term illegal immigrant and tried to humanize 
illegal immigration in order to allow mass illegal immigration.
  Throughout her career, this open border bureaucrat has aggressively 
pursued pro-amnesty policies and even defended illegal immigrants in 
court who should have been deported.
  In her current role, she is literally enabling and supporting the 
Biden border crisis. Since Joe Biden took office, more than 6 million 
illegal aliens have entered America. In August alone, there were 
232,972 illegal aliens encountered at the southern border, and that 
does not include the got-aways who were not encountered by our brave 
Custom and Border Patrol agents.
  Customs and Border Patrol have seized 25,500 pounds of fentanyl so 
far in fiscal year 2023, a deadly drug that is literally killing our 
children.
  Mr. Chair, 25,500 pounds is only what was seized at the border, not 
what is still flowing freely into our country. Biden's bureaucrats are 
literally allowing deadly fentanyl to easily flow into our communities.
  She has also been a major part of the Federal Government's obsession 
with diversity, equity, and inclusion, consistently forcing woke 
policies down the throats of public servants. These woke Federal 
policies shouldn't be embedded in our Nation's border and national 
security policies. These misguided agency initiatives need to come to 
an end.
  My amendment is supported by the National Immigration Center for 
Enforcement, NumbersUSA, and the American Accountability Foundation. I 
urge my colleagues to support my amendment and hold Shoba Wadhia 
accountable for her going rogue in an administration that has ignored 
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of law and has facilitated the worst border crisis in our Nation's 
history.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chairman, I claim time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. This bill on Homeland Security passed June 21, 2023. We 
are in September and we are just taking the bill right now. This bill, 
Homeland Security, got passed out of appropriations on June 21, 2023, 
and here we are late at night trying to pass a bill where there is no 
Senate conference. They are not even considering this bill, and we are 
not addressing the issue before us.
  The issue before us is that the last government shutdowns were under 
Republican House majorities. In fact, the longest shutdown in history 
was a Republican House and Senate with Trump in the White House in 
2018. Again, on November 13, 1995, December 15, 1995, September 30, 
2013, June 19, 2018, and December 21, 2018, Republican-controlled 
Houses had a shutdown, five of them that we are looking at, and I think 
we are going to have the sixth one. Again, this bill passed on June 21 
of 2023, and here we are in the middle of the night trying to decide.
  Instead of focusing on what we ought to do to make sure we don't have 
a government shutdown, we are focusing on a bill that might pass over 
to the Senate, but there is no conference committee. What are we going 
to do at 12:01?
  Again, if we have a problem or a difference--I should say, a 
difference in policy--I am ready to sit down. I don't want to see open 
borders. I want to make sure we support Border Patrol. I don't just go 
visit the border; I live there. I go with Border Patrol to church, I 
see them at the stores, our kids go to school together. I want to make 
sure that we support our men and women in green.
  This amendment is unconstitutional. When you target salaries, the 
Supreme Court has already said in United States v. Lovett in 1946, it 
said, the Bill of Attainder Clause to the Constitution says that you 
cannot provide punishment without due process.
  If we have a difference, let's debate it. You know what? We should 
have been doing this on June 22, the day after we passed it. Here we 
are in the middle of the night, 9:10 p.m. Eastern time, and we are 
talking about passing a bill that the Senate is not even considering 
right now.
  Mr. Chair, I want to sit down with my good friend from Colorado and 
the chairman, Mr. Joyce, but this is not the time to be talking about 
taking people's salaries away.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time, and I ask Members to 
vote ``no.''
  Mrs. BOEBERT. Mr. Chair, legislating is beautiful. It is great to 
actually be down here debating the real issues that Americans are faced 
with day in and day out.
  I do agree with my colleague on the other side of the aisle that we 
should have been debating this bill on June 22, but here we are. It is 
our responsibility to pass these appropriations bills, 12 individual 
appropriations bills in total, to the Senate.
  What the Senate does is up to them and their Chamber. This is our 
House and it is our responsibility to do our part of our jobs. That is 
exactly what we are doing tonight.
  I, too, would like to see our border secured. And I look forward to 
my colleague on the other side of the aisle joining us to support H.R. 
2 to secure the border. I can tell he is very, very enthusiastic about 
actually accomplishing something rather than just throwing money at a 
problem and creating more processing agents.
  I can see the sincerity and hear the sincerity in his voice that he 
wants a secure Nation and secure borders, especially since he 
represents a district on the southern border and encounters our brave 
Border Patrol agents each and every day.
  My colleague has brought up several times tonight that you cannot 
have punishment without a trial. Well, this Holman rule is part of our 
House rules. We are a self-governing, majority rule body. The Holman 
rule is here in place to hold unelected bureaucrats accountable.
  If my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have any sort of 
qualm with punishment without trial, I would encourage them to visit 
our January 6 prisoners in the D.C. jail.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. 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.
  Mr. CUELLAR. 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.

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            Amendment No. 51 Offered by Mr. Castro of Texas

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 51 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mr. CASTRO of Texas. 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 the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. ___.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used for the Texas border and immigration enforcement 
     program known as ``Operation Lone Star''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Castro) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas for 5 minutes.
  Mr. CASTRO of Texas. Mr. Chair, I yield myself 2\1/2\ minutes.
  My amendment would prohibit Federal Homeland Security funding from 
being diverted for Operation Lone Star, ensuring that Federal Homeland 
Security appropriations are spent on Federal operations like Border 
Patrol.
  Operation Lone Star, unfortunately, has been defined by corruption, 
incompetence, and cruelty. Two years ago, the Governor of my State of 
Texas launched Operation Lone Star, a destructive $4.5 billion 
political stunt that has led to a Federal civil rights investigation, 
the tragic deaths of 8 National Guard servicemembers, and a formal 
diplomatic complaint from our Nation's and Texas' largest trading 
partner.
  Under the guise of border security, Governor Greg Abbott has embarked 
on an unprecedented campaign of government overreach--seizing private 
property, destroying livelihoods, and turning American border cities 
and towns into war zones where helicopters buzz overhead and armed 
troopers pull over American citizens for looking too much like 
immigrants.
  At the beginning of the summer, Governor Abbott installed invisible 
razor wire in the middle of the Rio Grande and built a 1,000-foot 
string of floating deathtraps that are separated by serrated blades and 
secured to the riverbed with a net that is designed to catch and drown 
the families who reach it.
  During the August recess, I went down to Eagle Pass, Texas, to see 
the impact of Operation Lone Star for myself. Standing on the banks of 
the river, I could see scraps of clothing and shoes stuck in the razor 
wire mesh that Governor Abbott's troops have installed on the border.
  The wire isn't tall enough or strong enough to stop anyone who is 
desperate enough to cross, but it is sharp enough to leave them 
bloodied and broken.
  When families finally make it to U.S. soil, Operation Lone Star 
troopers have been arresting the fathers and sons on trumped-up 
trespassing charges and locking them up for months at a time, some 
without the ability to reach their families, while bussing their wives 
and children to cities that are thousands of miles away and also to 
other States, including New York, Colorado, California, and Illinois.
  Mr. Chair, Americans want border security. They also want an 
efficient and orderly immigration process. Operation Lone Star 
interferes with that. It hurts the Federal Government's effort, and it 
damages Border Patrol's efforts.
  When Democrats were in the majority, we voted for billions of dollars 
in funding for Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and 
Customs Enforcement, and we fought to rebuild a functioning immigration 
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from what had been left behind by the Trump administration.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. CASTRO of Texas. Mr. Chair, I yield myself an additional 30 
seconds.
  Mr. Chair, Operation Lone Star isn't border security. It is just 
plain out brutality. There is a difference between treating people like 
human beings and treating them like animals.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, Texans have every right to defend and 
secure their borders, particularly during a time when the White House 
has abandoned attempts to secure the border and enforce our immigration 
laws.
  Due to the Biden administration's failed policy, States along the 
border, including Texas, are seeing their resources being severely 
depleted. They are overrun. Therefore, Governor Abbott did what most 
responsible, reasonable public servants would do and launched Operation 
Lone Star. The goal of Operation Lone Star is to stop cartels and 
criminals from smuggling deadly drugs, weapons, and people into Texas.
  As of last week, the multiagency effort resulted in 457,500 
apprehensions and more than 34,400 criminal arrests, with more than 
31,300 felonies reported. In the fight against fentanyl, Texas law 
enforcement has seized over 429 million lethal doses of fentanyl.
  Due to the rapid and dangerous migrant street releases in Texas, the 
Governor has recently had to deploy additional buses to Eagle Pass and 
El Paso to assist those border communities overwhelmed by the influx of 
migrants. This is a constantly compounding issue that gets forgotten in 
the beltway because it is out of sight and out of mind.
  This administration is putting politics over people, and it has 
completely abandoned these areas along our southwest border. If this 
was happening in my backyard, I would want my State to step up, too. I 
urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this amendment, and I reserve the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. CASTRO of Texas. Mr. Chair, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Casar), my good friend.
  Mr. CASAR. Mr. Chair, we must stop the dangerous, expensive, corrupt, 
and ineffective political stunts at the border and instead chart a new 
path for a safe, orderly, and humane immigration system. Abbott's 
Operation Lone Star must end, and I urge passage of the amendment of 
the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Castro), my good friend, to ensure 
Federal funding does not go to this failed program.
  Every day, Texas Governor Greg Abbott violates the rights of asylum 
seekers and violates the rights of our border communities all to score 
political points against President Biden. We have seen these inhumane 
policies in action that have taken the lives of children at the border, 
and we have lost National Guardsmen to death.

  This is not only inhumane, but Operation Lone Star is not effective. 
Governor Abbott is lighting $25 million on fire every week to cause 
suffering instead of creating solutions.
  Why do my colleagues across the aisle not want solutions? Because 
they have no interest in a functioning immigration system. They thrive 
off of keeping the immigration system broken so they can continue to 
stoke anti-immigrant fears for their own politics.
  Operation Lone Star, furthermore, is also unconstitutional. In 
Arizona v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled the Federal 
Government, not people like Governor Abbott, have supremacy over the 
immigration system. Abbott's unconstitutional, abusive, wasteful, and 
inhumane Operation Lone Star is a disgrace to our State and to our 
Nation.
  I want to be clear: Not one cent of Federal money should go toward 
caging families, cutting innocent people with razor wire, or drowning 
children, period.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chairman, I yield such time as he may consume 
to the distinguished gentleman from Texas (Mr. Pfluger), my friend.
  Mr. PFLUGER. Mr. Chair, what an opportunity to have Texans debating 
Texans. I hope that every Texan from the RGV all the way to Amarillo 
and from El Paso all the way to Beaumont is listening to this debate 
because the line is clear.
  Chaos and lawlessness or law and order. Which is it going to be?
  I do agree with my colleague who just said that the Constitution 
clearly says this is a Federal issue. I think this is the first thing 
that we have agreed on. The Constitution does say that. Article IV, 
Section 4. Joe Biden has abdicated his responsibility.
  I have got the numbers from the Del Rio sector right here. Just in 
Del Rio during FY 23, 347,572 encounters, 144,900 known got-aways, 
2,155 criminal arrests, and the gall to say that the Governor of Texas 
doesn't have the right to protect us when the Federal Government has 
completely abdicated?
  I was in Eagle Pass this week. I wish that my colleagues would have 
been there. I wish they would have met the young lady from Venezuela 
who was brutally attacked by the cartels, separated from her husband, 
kicked in the face multiple times, 30 stitches in her head because of 
the failed policies.
  Texas is the only government that is doing anything about this, and 
yet they have the gall to say that we don't have the right to defend 
ourselves when a Venezuelan flag is placed onto the shore of Texas 
property? In any other time period in history, that would be a 
declaration of war.
  Talk to the troopers. Talk to the State troopers who are down there 
and see the things that they are going through: The resuscitation of a 
4-year-old last week and the week before.
  I have had multiple Border Patrol agents tell me that the reason we 
have 2.3 million people who have entered this country illegally this 
year is because we have no consequences. There were 2.2 million last 
year. Every year since Joe Biden has been President, this chaos has 
gotten worse and worse. Enough is enough.
  I am so glad that we are sitting here having a Texas versus Texas 
debate because I hope that Texans are looking at this for what it is. 
The reason that this is an issue is because the President of the United 
States, Secretary Mayorkas, and others throughout the administration on 
day one in January of 2021 reversed every single policy that worked. No 
more MPP, no more border wall, and to hear the falsehoods that are 
coming out of my colleagues about not funding Border Patrol agents? 
Take a look at H.R. 2. Take a look at what that does to fund more 
agents, to put more technology into place.
  It is time for a shutdown of the southern border, and that is what we 
are calling on the President to do. This amendment should have said 
that we are going to reimburse the State of Texas for $5 billion this 
year and $5 billion last year.
  Mr. CASTRO of Texas. Mr. Chair, cruelty and incompetence, these are 
what define Operation Lone Star. Unfortunately, the era that we are in 
in American politics for those across the aisle is marked by 
fearmongering because they have no solutions to the real issues that 
confront Americans--education, healthcare, jobs. They can't even get a 
budget together, so they try to scare everybody. They try to use these 
brown-skinned immigrants to scare everybody. That is what this is 
about. They are either going to send this money to Border Patrol or 
they are going to send it to Greg Abbott so he can go on FOX News and 
be celebrated.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Castro).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. CASTRO of Texas. 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 Texas will 
be postponed.
  The Chair understands that amendment No. 52 will not be offered.


           Amendment No. 53 Offered by Ms. Greene of Georgia

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 53 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.

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  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to require an employee of the Department of Homeland 
     Security to wear a face mask.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, 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, my amendment will prohibit the 
Department of Homeland Security from implementing any mask mandate for 
the employees of the Department.
  This is an extremely important amendment. Our current appropriation 
bills completely stop the mandates for vaccines but do not stop the 
mandates for any future mask mandates.
  We need to recognize as a country what Americans have already 
recognized, COVID is over. This is something that we even passed a 
resolution on, and the President himself signed it, declaring COVID is 
over.
  We all know something to be very, very true: Masks don't work. They 
did not stop the spread of COVID. They were really a violation of 
people's rights. Even Dr. Anthony Fauci himself said that masks do not 
prevent the spread of COVID, and he said so in a personal email to one 
of his friends, advising her not to wear a mask when she flew on an 
airplane.
  However, the Biden administration forced our TSA agents, forced 
everyone to be masked every single time they flew and every single time 
TSA agents showed up to work.
  This administration insisted that illegal aliens posed no threat to 
spreading COVID, yet treated Border Patrol agents as if they were the 
COVID superspreaders. We saw many migrants come up illegally invading 
our country with no masks on, a constant, steady stream of thousands 
and thousands of people coming into our country from countries all over 
the world, bringing all kinds of diseases, but yet Homeland decided 
that it was Border Patrol agents and ICE agents who had to be masked, 
not the people coming into our country illegally, bringing all kinds of 
diseases with them. They weren't worried about COVID. It was about 
control.
  Border Patrol agents and all DHS employees were required to wear 
masks when fulfilling a number of official duties at a time when there 
was almost no enforcement of these same mask requirements for these 
same illegal aliens coming across the border.
  In light of Democrats' attempts to manufacture the resurgence of 
COVID, my amendment will protect employees of the Department of 
Homeland Security against all tyrannical mask mandates.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

                              {time}  2130

  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment 
because I think this is a policy that should be debated in a different 
context in a different bill.
  DHS' role here is guided by the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, the CDC. DHS does not develop independent policies on these 
issues but rather implements policies that originate within the CDC.
  Again, we can have this debate, but I think we are in the wrong 
jurisdiction of the bill. This is the Department of Homeland Security 
bill, not the Labor-HHS bill. If we are talking about things that are 
important, I would respectfully ask that we look at the date that this 
Homeland bill was on--June 21, 2023.
  We should have taken this bill on June 22, 2023, but here we are, at 
9:30 on September 27, looking at trying to pass one of four bills to a 
Senate that has not taken H.R. 2. Certainly, they are not in conference 
ready to take up any of our bills.
  What we ought to be focusing on is the shutdown. That is what we 
ought to be focusing on. Again, I will remind my friend that the last 
five government shutdowns were under a Republican House majority. We 
are, again, under a House Republican majority, whether it was on 
November 13, 1995, a Republican-controlled House, 5 days of a shutdown; 
December 15, 1995, a Republican-controlled House, 21 days of a 
shutdown; September 30, 2023, a Republican-controlled House, 16 days of 
a shutdown; January 19, 2018, 2 days; and, of course, December 21, 
2018, a Republican-controlled House, 34 days.
  Again, we are under a Republican-controlled House. On Sunday, 12:01, 
I hope we are not talking about a shutdown because, Members, we could 
pass this bill. Over there, there is no Senate waiting for this. They 
are working on a continuing resolution. If we have a shutdown, it is 
border security that is going to be hurt because, in October, starting 
next week, we are supposed to hire 150 new Border Patrol agents.
  All of that will stop. Any vetting, any hiring, anything that we are 
supposed to do will be shut down. Members should have done this on June 
22, 2023, but here we are, at 9:33 p.m. Eastern time, where we are 
debating a bill and an amendment that has nothing to do with this. It 
is the wrong jurisdiction.
  I say, respectfully, that we ought to be focusing on trying to keep 
the government open.
  Mr. Chair, I respectfully ask Members to vote ``no'' on this, and I 
yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, this is laughable. This is 
absolutely pathetic. All the whining and complaining about shutdowns 
coming from Democrats, who forced shutdowns on Americans by shutting 
down their businesses, shutting down their freedom of speech, shutting 
down their churches, shutting down their playgrounds, shutting down 
beaches, shutting down every human right that Americans possessed, 
shutting down their freedoms. Listen to Democrats whining and 
complaining about working late at night.
  Americans wanted to work late. They wanted to work all the time, but 
Democrats forced shutdowns. Do you know how many small businesses 
closed? We don't know the actual number, but it is a casualty to the 
American Dream. Businesses were forced to shut down, and they went out 
of business.
  Children are behind in schooling because their schools shut down, and 
they were forced to stay home doing virtual schooling. We have kids all 
over America who can't read, can't do math, and this is all happening 
under the Biden administration that wants to use all of our hard-earned 
taxpayer resources to pay for migrant children in our taxpayer-funded 
schools.
  Yes, it is important to have an amendment in the Department of 
Homeland Security appropriation bills forcing there to be no mask 
mandates because we know the truth: Democrats will do everything they 
can to bring COVID back, scare Americans, and convince them that a 
piece of paper strapped on their ears with rubber bands is going to 
protect them from the man-made COVID-19 virus that came from the Wuhan 
lab.
  This is outrageous. I can't listen to the pathetic whining. It really 
is pathetic.
  We remember last Congress. Last Congress, Democrats had us in here 
late at night practically every night. I can remember many times 
sitting on the House floor waiting for them to get all of their things 
together and voting past midnight.
  This is what hard work looks like. We don't want to hear government 
employees getting a taxpayer-funded paycheck whining about a shutdown 
when this comes from the very party that shut down America, and we 
haven't recovered yet.
  Mr. Chair, 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 amendment was agreed to.


           Amendment No. 54 Offered by Ms. Greene of Georgia

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 54 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  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 the bill (before the short title), add the 
     following:
       Sec. _.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used for the Uniting for Ukraine 
     program.


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  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, 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, my amendment will prohibit funding 
for the Uniting for Ukraine program.
  This is a streamlined, categorical parole process that allows an 
unlimited number of illegal aliens into our country from Ukraine.
  There have been over 9 million illegal aliens who have invaded our 
country since Joe Biden took office. It is unprecedented.
  Just last month, over 300,000 illegals invaded our country, the most 
ever recorded in a single month. Over this past weekend, Border Patrol 
reported there were over 11,000 illegal alien encounters in just a 24-
hour period.
  I deeply sympathize with the innocent people in Ukraine, especially 
since our government is forcing a proxy war there by funding and 
fueling the war instead of pushing peace in this country.
  However, America is facing our own war at our southern border, and we 
cannot stand to address every global crisis when our own house is not 
in order, not safe.
  We cannot afford to violate our own immigration laws on behalf of a 
global crisis, especially a global crisis that the United States 
Government is fueling and funding. The United States is fueling the war 
in Ukraine by sending tanks, ammunition, F-16s, and over $113 billion 
taxpayer dollars and counting, especially when the debate in Washington 
and the argument is about more money for Ukraine.
  The Uniting for Ukraine process grants mass categorical parole to 
these individuals, which is a complete violation of our own immigration 
laws. Parole is to be granted on a case-by-case basis, as required by 
the law. Although many claim the specific process is granting parole on 
a case-by-case basis, based on a proven track record, this 
administration doesn't even know what case by case means. They just 
know mass migration into the United States.
  Joe Biden and Secretary Mayorkas continue to abuse our immigration 
laws and create categorical parole for illegal aliens into our country. 
Secretary Mayorkas has already granted temporary legal status to 75,000 
Ukrainians under the temporary protected status designation, which 
includes benefits such as work permits, Social Security numbers, and 
driver's licenses.
  This Uniting for Ukraine process has no numerical cap, which means an 
unlimited number of illegal aliens from Ukraine can come and displace 
American workers. Our country needs to put American citizens first for 
once.
  We need to win the war at the southern border that the Mexican 
cartels are waging on our country before granting parole to an 
unlimited number of individuals and allowing them to remain here for an 
indefinite amount of time.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. Members are reminded to refrain from engaging in 
personalities toward the President.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I rise in strong opposition to an amendment 
that prohibits funding for the Uniting for Ukraine program.
  In life, we have to make a decision: Either we are for good or for 
evil. Either we are for democracy or for dictatorships. This Uniting 
for Ukraine program allows Ukrainians who are displaced by the Russian 
invasion of Ukraine to apply to come to the U.S. through humanitarian 
parole.
  This amendment seeks to stop a program and block thousands of 
Ukrainians from entering the country. Here, again, is an attempt to cut 
any support for Ukraine as they fight to defend the country from an 
illegal Russian invasion.
  Putin is attempting to rewrite the map of Europe through the use of 
force. He is doing so in violation of international law and is 
deliberately killing civilians, destroying the economic livelihood of 
Ukraine, and taking kids from Ukraine, stealing the kids, taking them 
to Russia.
  War crimes are being committed on a mass scale, and the United States 
and the democratic nations of the world must continue to strongly 
oppose him.
  Again, I remind Members that this bill passed on June 21, 2023. Here 
we are, at 9:40 p.m., and we are going to be here till about 2 or 3 
o'clock in the morning. I don't mind working. My parents were migrant 
workers who worked hard, so we can work and stay here till whatever 
time, but the point I am trying to make is that instead of looking at 
this bill on June 22, 2023, here we are a few days before the shutdown 
and, again, I remind everyone that the last five shutdowns have been by 
Republican-controlled Houses.
  This Sunday, at 12:01, we will probably see the sixth Republican-
controlled shutdown. Again, I want to work with the majority. I want to 
work with my good friend, who is always in a good mood, Mr. Joyce. I 
want to work with him on this, but you can't say: We are in the 
majority. You are in the minority. You are not going to have a say.
  Some of us don't just go visit the border. We actually live there. I 
work with the Border Patrol. I want to support them.
  I want to remind Members that we had an opportunity to put $2.4 
billion, which we did add, to support Border Patrol and control the 
border. Guess what? All except for two Republicans that are still in 
the House of Representatives voted against border security.
  Again, we have a choice. It is either good or evil. It is either a 
dictatorship or a democracy. I stand for good, and I stand for 
democracy, and I ask Members to vote against this amendment.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, may I inquire as to the time 
remaining.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Georgia has 1\3/4\ minutes 
remaining.

  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I will remind the House and the 
American people watching at home that Democrats aren't worried about 
shutdowns. They love shutdowns. They shut down America for almost 2 
years.
  People are still suffering from the Democratic, communist shutdowns. 
I don't know why they keep complaining about it because they are the 
party that forced it on the American people while they are complaining 
about it for themselves. That is so pathetic.
  Everyone here gets a taxpayer-funded paycheck, so don't whine about 
shutdowns when you shut down America on the very people who pay your 
salary.
  Let's talk about allowing an unlimited number of Ukrainians into the 
country on the American taxpayer dime. This war is not supported by 
American taxpayers, not Americans. Over 55 percent of Americans do not 
want to fund it anymore.
  We want to talk about funding Border Patrol agents. Let's talk about 
funding Border Patrol so they can secure our border, not be the 
welcoming committee to the entire world for the United States of 
America.
  Mr. Chair, I ask the House to pass my amendment, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.

                              {time}  2145

  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Georgia (Ms. Greene).
  The amendment was agreed to.


           Amendment No. 55 Offered by Ms. Greene of Georgia

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 55 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  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 the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  The salary of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, 
     Secretary of Homeland Security, shall be reduced to $1.00.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentlewoman 
from Georgia (Ms. Greene) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Georgia.


                         Parliamentary Inquiry

  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chairman, I raise a point of order.

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  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, haven't we done this amendment two or three 
times already?
  I mean, we know that the majority doesn't want to pay the salary. We 
already passed--
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman will suspend.
  The amendment has been made in order under the rule.
  The gentlewoman from Georgia is recognized.
  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, my amendment uses the Holman rule, 
which is different from other amendments that have been introduced. 
This uses the Holman rule to reduce the salary of Secretary Alejandro 
Mayorkas to $1, and $1 is too much money.
  Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has aided and abetted the complete 
invasion of our country by deliberately flooding our Nation with drugs, 
terrorists, and illegals from over 160 countries from around the world.
  The mission of the Department of Homeland Security States right here: 
``With honor and integrity, we will safeguard the American people, our 
homeland, and our values.''
  Being that Secretary Mayorkas has direction, authority, and control 
over the entire Department, he has failed in his duties to safeguard 
the American people and our homeland, and he deserves to be fired and 
impeached.
  His job is to protect our homeland and strengthen the national 
security of our country. Yet, his policies, directives, and statements 
have created a national security crisis, and has tragically resulted in 
the deaths of thousands of Americans each year.
  Since assuming office, he has allowed approximately 7.5 million 
illegal encounters at our border; over 250 people on the terrorist 
watch list to be caught crossing our border, and those are the ones we 
know of, approximately 1.6 million known got-aways to evade U.S. 
authorities. Imagine how many we don't even know about.
  Just this fiscal year alone, Border Patrol arrested over 32,000 
illegals with criminal convictions and over 167 MS-13 gang members.
  Remember, there are 1.6 million that got away.
  Are these terrorists? Are these gang members?
  I am sure they are. How many of them have criminal records?
  Secretary Mayorkas has allowed fentanyl, the number one killer of 
Americans between the ages of 18 and 45, to overwhelmingly flood into 
our country and kill around 300 Americans every single day. This fiscal 
year alone Border Patrol has seized approximately 24 pounds of fentanyl 
attempting to be smuggled into the United States. That is enough 
fentanyl to kill every single American 15 times over, but the fentanyl 
keeps coming because 300 Americans are dying every single day.
  His open border policies have allowed unaccompanied children to be 
exploited, and now over 85,000 of them are unaccounted for. Where are 
these children?
  Tens of thousands of other children have been forced into slave 
labor, and that is according to The New York Times.
  He has provided copious amounts of baby formula to illegal aliens at 
one of the largest processing centers in the country, while American 
mothers and infants were intensely suffering from severe shortages and 
couldn't find baby formula on the grocery store shelves.
  He flooded hospital maternity units with illegal aliens, so much so 
that American mothers were turned away and forced to delay inductions. 
That was in Yuma, Arizona.
  He canceled border wall construction contracts established under 
President Trump that would have secured our Nation's border and was 
securing our Nation's border, but now the materials lay rusting on the 
ground.
  He has repeatedly pulled border agents from actually securing our 
border and has moved them to processing roles, welcoming committees, 
leaving huge gaps for the Mexican cartels and drug smugglers to exploit 
and gain control of our border, and they are controlling our border.
  He has violated the law by directing DHS to mass-parole illegal 
aliens into the U.S. when Federal law specifically prohibits this. He 
has encouraged asylum fraud, abused the credible fear standard, and 
exercised mass catch-and-release policies.

  He has turned every single State into a border State. Veterans are 
even being kicked out of their hotel rooms to make room for illegals.
  He has even caused approximately a 1,700-percent increase in just one 
sector of the northern border. He has not only enabled child 
exploitation, sex and drug trafficking, and fentanyl overdoses, but he 
has also done everything in his power to put Americans last.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman's time has expired.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chairman, I claim time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I guess the question I have is, we have done 
this amendment three times.
  Lower it down to $1. Lower it down to $1. Lower it down to $1. I 
guess his salary would now be $3 dollars since we have done this three 
times.
  Nevertheless, I would remind Members again that the last two fiscal 
years we added $2.4 billion to CBP authority. That is a 15-percent 
increase. Money that would have been used to hire more Border Patrol 
agents, more CBP officers, intel specialists, threat enforcement 
officers, and other personnel, adding technology at the ports of entry 
where 90 or 94 percent of the drugs come in.
  Again, initiatives to support the morale of the CBP workforce, like 
suicide prevention, wellness efforts, uniform allowances, and tuition.
  Guess what? Every single Republican, except two that are still 
serving, voted no to pay the Border Patrol and give them the money so 
they can do the work. They voted no.
  Again, here we are, at 9:50. What are we doing? Taking a bill that 
passed on June 21, 2023. We are not talking about the continuing 
resolution--because again, on Sunday at 12:01, we are going to have the 
sixth Republican shutdown since 1995.
  Again, I thank all the staff, both on the Republicans' and Democrats' 
side, for working late; Capitol Police are working late. We can stay 
here as long as you want to, and maybe increase it to $4 instead of $3 
on the pay for the Secretary.
  Mr. Chair, I would say this: We are going to have a shutdown because 
we can pass this bill, or we can say we are going to strip out the H2B 
visa and get some Members who are going to vote ``no.'' Whatever you 
want to do, but there is no Senate waiting to handle this bill.
  Mr. Chair, I say to my colleagues again, we can stay as long as we 
want to. I can stay, and some of us will be here at 2:00, 3:00 in the 
morning, but again, we ought to be working on a CR because we are going 
to have the sixth Republican shutdown. Five in a row; you can make it 
six if you don't work with us.
  Mr. Chairman, I oppose the amendment respectfully, 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 amendment was agreed to.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Chair understands that amendment Nos. 56 
through 59 will not be offered.


                Amendment No. 60 Offered by Ms. Hageman

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 60 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  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:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used by the Secretary of Homeland Security to travel to 
     outside of the United States.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, 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. Chairman, I rise in favor of my amendment, No. 60, 
which would prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from traveling 
outside of the United States.

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  Mr. Chairman, under Mr. Mayorkas, the Department of Homeland Security 
is a disaster by every single metric, and he has utterly failed at 
protecting our country, securing our borders, adhering to the rule of 
law, and protecting the constitutional rights of the citizens of this 
country.
  The southern border is in chaos. We are being invaded by military-
aged men from hostile countries from around the world and our cities 
are being overwhelmed by a mass of humanity and level of migration most 
likely not seen in world history.
  At the same time, the Committee on the Judiciary continues to expose 
Mayorkas' role in creating, implementing, and enforcing the censorship 
industrial complex. The list of failures goes on and on and on and on.
  Despite Mr. Mayorkas' direct and intentional involvement in the 
destruction of the borders, boundaries, security, and integrity of the 
United States of America, he has had the audacity to travel overseas to 
praise--yes, praise--the importance of the borders in other countries 
and the benefits of having an orderly transfer of people and goods 
across the same.
  Yes, while ignoring the invasion on our southern and northern 
borders, an invasion that he has facilitated, Mr. Mayorkas actually 
traveled to a border between Poland and Ukraine to praise ``the use of 
U.S. technology that has been deployed to ensure the safe transfer of 
people and goods between Poland and Ukraine.''
  That is right, even while our border has become a raging inferno, Mr. 
Mayorkas traveled to view another nation's border crossing, to view and 
judge their operations while also meeting and speaking with their 
border enforcement officers. If only he had the same such care for what 
is happening right here in the United States of America.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of amendment No. 60, 
and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I claim time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to this amendment, 
with all due respect, but I would remind folks that we can't play 
defense on the one-yard line and call it the U.S. border. We have to 
make sure we move the perimeter. The Secretary has to look at threats 
inside and outside the United States.
  Mr. Chair, I ask the gentlewoman to look at 2015.
  What happened in 2015? The numbers went down under President Obama. 
Why? Because we were able to go, visit, talk to other countries so they 
can stop the migrants before they came to the U.S. The numbers went 
down.
  In 2019, under President Trump, the same thing happened. Again, we 
were able to work with those countries, traveled over there, talked to 
them to make sure that they are able to stop folks before they come 
over here. The numbers went down.
  Again, we need to do the same thing, because it is not only the 
Secretary, but if you have a shutdown--and again, I remind Members at 
10:00 at night, we should have been doing this debate back on June 22, 
a day after the appropriations of Homeland Security passed.
  But here we are, addressing something when we know there is no Senate 
waiting for this bill. There is no Senate ready that has handled H.R. 
2. So again, the best thing to do to avoid the sixth Republican 
shutdown since 1995 is to sit down with Democrats, do it in a 
bipartisan way, and address this particular issue.
  Mr. Chair, a shutdown would not be helpful for anybody. I ask my 
colleagues to please look at this amendment, and I urge them to reject 
it.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. HAGEMAN. Mr. Chair, with all due respect, I do not believe Mr. 
Mayorkas was traveling to other countries to learn how best we can 
secure our border.
  In fact, I don't think there is any evidence whatsoever that he has 
ever traveled to another country and asked them to stop sending their 
poor to our country to invade our country.
  The fact is that Mayorkas and his boss, Joe Biden, are the largest 
human traffickers and drug smugglers in U.S. history. We receive 
absolutely no benefit whatever from Mr. Mayorkas traveling to other 
countries to observe their functioning borders while ours is burned to 
the ground.

                              {time}  2200

  There is no basis, rationale, or benefit for Secretary Mayorkas to 
travel outside of the United States to enjoy the fruits of an ordered 
society. He has failed to do his job and should not be rewarded for 
such failure by traveling the world at the taxpayers' expense. He needs 
to leave the visitation and discussions with foreign nations to the 
State Department. He needs to secure our border and reform his corrupt 
Department.
  My amendment would prohibit Mr. Mayorkas from traveling outside of 
the United States while acting as the Secretary of the DHS.
  I urge all of my colleagues to support this amendment. Mr. Chair, I 
yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. Members are reminded to refrain from engaging in 
personalities toward the President.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Wyoming (Ms. Hageman).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                Amendment No. 61 Offered by Ms. Hageman

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 61 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  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:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to implement the Climate Literacy Strategy.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 61, 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 rise in support of my amendment No. 61 to 
H.R. 4367, which would prevent the DHS from implementing its ``climate 
literacy strategy.''
  Mr. Chair, it seems that there is nothing that Mr. Mayorkas and his 
Department won't do to distract from carrying out their central mission 
of defending the U.S. homeland, a mission at which they have failed 
miserably.
  The climate literacy strategy states its objective is `` . . . to 
develop a climate literate DHS workforce, ensuring all employees across 
the Department have a sufficient and up-to-date understanding of 
climate change and its relevance to the DHS mission.''
  That is flatout hogwash.
  The DHS states it will develop and administer this climate literate 
workforce through its program for climate change professionals, which 
DHS calls the ``CCP'' for short. No, I am not making that up.
  It will also have a Department-wide website for sharing climate 
change information, have climate change trainings, and develop a 
community of practice to champion and share climate discussions.
  I will use the word again: This is hogwash.
  There are no resources to build a wall, no resources to apprehend 
illegal aliens, which have numbered over 10 times the population of the 
State of Wyoming since Joe Biden took office, no resources to stop 
terrorists from crossing our borders, but, of course, under Mr. 
Mayorkas' so-called leadership, there are vast sums of money available 
for promoting climate hysteria to ensure access to the newest climate 
propaganda and developments.
  I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of amendment No. 61.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment. It 
ensures that all employees across the Department have a sufficient up-
to-date understanding for climate change.
  If we keep in mind, one of the agencies under DHS is FEMA. What does 
FEMA deal with? Climate, hurricanes. All this strategy does is it 
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Department from studying or even understanding one of the most pressing 
issues.
  Again, just understand, we can't put our heads in the sand and say 
there is nothing happening on that, yet in times of crisis during a 
natural disaster we expect the Department to deliver on its mission and 
make decisions during evolving circumstances.
  All it does is understand the evolving environment. That is all.
  I will vote ``no'' and encourage my colleagues to do the same.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. HAGEMAN. Mr. Chair, again, with all due respect, it is not the 
DHS' responsibility to deal with climate. In fact, the DHS has 
absolutely no capacity to do that whatsoever.
  What the DHS' responsibility is is to protect the homeland from the 
invasion that we are seeing on the southern and northern borders.
  My constituents are sick and tired of this. Not a cent of money 
should go to distracting the DHS employees from their jobs of defending 
this country.
  I urge all of my colleagues to support my amendment, strip every last 
penny from this bone-headed initiative, and force the DHS to actually 
do its job.
  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 amendment was agreed to.


                Amendment No. 62 Offered by Ms. Hageman

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 62 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  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:

         At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert 
     the following:
         Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
     may be used for the Department of Homeland Security's 
     Environmental Justice Strategy.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, 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 rise in support of my amendment No. 62, 
which would prevent the DHS from carrying out its environmental justice 
strategy, whatever that nonsensical word salad means in today's 
parlance.
  Similar to the climate indoctrination boondoggle I addressed when 
addressing my prior amendment, this is yet another angle being taken by 
Secretary Mayorkas and the DHS to worship at the altar of the so-called 
climate change instead of actually focusing their attention and 
resources on the gross incompetence that this administration calls 
border security.
  While this administration continues to use newspeak to extol the 
virtues of this so-called environmental justice agenda, the reality is 
that Joe Biden, Mayorkas, and others in this administration are 
responsible for vast amounts of energy poverty around the world.
  What this administration is not pursuing is environmental justice. It 
instead, has an affirmative goal of universal government-imposed 
wretchedness. This is what happens when you staff an entire 
administration with people who have never held a job in the private 
sector--a collapse of your supply chain, your energy resources, and 
ultimately, your prosperity.
  Environmental justice isn't any such thing. It is an Alice in 
Wonderland level of gaslighting that is destroying our ability to 
produce energy, grow food, and provide affordable housing.
  Congress' power is in the purse, and we must exercise that power by 
ensuring that there are no funds going to anything that doesn't secure 
our border. For my colleagues across the aisle, 11,000 illegal border 
crossings a day does not count for border security.
  I urge my colleagues to support amendment No. 62, and I reserve the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment, and I 
encourage my colleagues to vote ``no.''
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. HAGEMAN. Again, Mr. Chair, I think that I have made my point with 
these three amendments. The purpose of the DHS and Mr. Mayorkas is to 
secure our border and protect the homeland. He has failed. There is no 
other thing that our DHS should be doing except specifically that.
  For that reason I urge that my colleagues support amendments 60, 61, 
and 62, and 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 amendment was agreed to.


                Amendment No. 63 Offered by Mr. Huizenga

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 63 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mr. HUIZENGA. 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 the bill (before the short title), insert 
     the following:
         Sec. __.  None of the funds made available in this Act 
     may be made available to administer, implement, or enforce 
     the ``Funding the Asylum Program With Employer Petition 
     Fees'' section of the proposed rule entitled ``U.S. 
     Citizenship and Immigration Services Fee Schedule and Changes 
     to Certain Other Immigration Benefit Request Requirements'' 
     (88 Fed. Reg. 402).

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman 
from Michigan (Mr. Huizenga) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Michigan.
  Mr. HUIZENGA. Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of my amendment to 
protect farmers, the agricultural business, and small businesses 
throughout west Michigan, and, frankly, across America from a costly 
new fee.
  Along with a host of additional fee increases for H-2A and H-2B 
visas, the Biden administration has proposed a brand-new $600 per-
petition fee, Mr. Chair, on employers seeking visas for temporary 
workers.
  This impacts a wide range of guest worker categories, such as H-2A 
and H-2B. H-2As, of course, are used for temporary agricultural work, 
and H-2Bs are usually used in the tourism industry. Frankly, I know my 
friend from Texas has been very involved in the H-2B and H-2A space. We 
have had this discussion before.
  Furthermore, the administration--not me, not Republicans--but the 
Biden administration itself is dubbing this increase the ``asylum 
program fee.'' This $600 fee will be coming directly out of the pockets 
of farmers and small businesses and funneled to the asylum process 
backlog caused by this administration's failed border policies.
  In April of this year, six Republicans and six Democrats from 
Michigan--nearly our entire delegation--joined together to oppose this 
increase in a bipartisan letter to Secretary Mayorkas requesting that 
he reconsider reimplementing this fee and other significant fee 
increases that we view as harmful.
  Making ends meet in the face of soaring prices and record inflation 
is hard enough. The Federal Government should not be inventing 
additional costs that raise prices for consumers and make it harder for 
family farms and small businesses to keep their doors open.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support 
this commonsense amendment, and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment. 
Again, this amendment would strike a section within a proposed rule. 
Proposed rules have no force of law.
  If enacted, the administration would just simply rename the section 
and continue to execute the fee rules as currently as they are trying 
to do that.
  Let's keep in mind USCIS is a fee-funded agency. Except for a small 
portion, they don't get appropriations. They work on fees. We have to 
find the right balance on the fees and where we add those fees.
  Again, I understand what you're trying to do, but I think this 
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will strike a proposed rule, and I don't think this is the right way to 
address this. I do understand what you are saying, but based on that, I 
would ask that we vote ``no,'' and I encourage my colleagues to do the 
same.
  I would say this as the ranking member, if Chairman Joyce would want 
to sit down with me, I would be happy to sit down and have this 
conversation.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. HUIZENGA. Mr. Chair, I wish the gentleman hadn't necessarily 
yielded back his time because I would have loved to have a little bit 
of a colloquy on this.
  I fully understand the USCIS is a fee-based institution. It takes in 
those fees.
  In addition to the $600 per petition fee, they also had proposed a 
tripling of a fee for the named employee. If you are putting in--and 
the gentleman knows this issue very well. If you have a particular 
person that you are requesting to come into the country, this 
administration tripled that fee. If you have an unnamed person for an 
H-2A or an H-2B, they doubled that fee increase.
  I had an amendment that was going to attempt to address those two 
issues, as well. The Rules Committee ruled that nongermane. We can have 
that discussion outside of that, but they did rule this particular 
proposal and this amendment as germane, as relevant to this discussion.
  While we have seen a fee already that is in place be increased, we 
are not able to do that, but this is a brand-new fee that the 
administration, again, has labeled the ``asylum program fee.''
  We all know that there are serious issues at the southern border, and 
it is something the gentleman has talked about pretty extensively. I 
just don't see how penalizing small businesses and people who are using 
the system legally and increasing their costs which are going to be 
passed along to the general public, how that makes sense in this case.
  I talked to a farmer back in southwest Michigan who regularly employs 
about 100 seasonal temporary workers. It doesn't take a math genius to 
figure out 100 H-2A visas with a $600 fee, that is $60,000 in 
additional fees that this farmer is going to have to put up front 
before they have done the harvest, before they have actually reaped any 
of the benefit of the work.
  That is why I believe this is so crucially important to U.S. 
agriculture.

                              {time}  2215

  While I understand the gentleman may oppose this particular amendment 
as it is sitting, I hope he wouldn't oppose the spirit of this. I would 
love to work with him on this because I do believe we need to address 
this issue.
  Mr. Chair, I again urge all of my colleagues to vote for this 
amendment. I believe it is a commonsense 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 Michigan (Mr. Huizenga).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                 Amendment No. 64 Offered by Mr. Nehls

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 64 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mr. NEHLS. 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 the bill (before the short title), insert 
     the following:
         Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
     may be used for the Office for Civil Rights and Civil 
     Liberties of the Department of Homeland Security.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Nehls) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. NEHLS. Mr. Chair, my amendment would prohibit funds for the 
Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Department of 
Homeland Security.
  Under Joe Biden, the Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at 
the Department of Homeland Security, also known as CRCL, has become a 
corrupt, woke, and anti-ICE component of DHS.
  The CRCL is responsible for advancing equity at the DHS. As part of 
this principle, DHS created its first-ever equity task force in 2021. 
One of the task force's so-called accomplishments was reversing the 
public charge. I call it public disaster.
  President Donald J. Trump rightfully defined ``public charge'' as an 
immigrant who receives one or more designated public benefits for more 
than 12 months within a 36-month period. He rightfully included food 
stamps, housing vouchers, and Medicaid as benefits that would 
disqualify an immigrant from receiving a green card.
  Trump's rule protected the American taxpayer and put Americans first. 
Joe Biden and his woke CRCL continue to put Americans last.
  Under Joe Biden, through the CRCL, his administration has made it 
easier for illegal aliens to receive Federal benefits at the expense of 
hard-earned tax dollars.
  The CRCL said President Trump's rule ``had a chilling effect on 
immigrants of color and individuals with disabilities with respect to 
their willingness to seek any form of assistance from the Federal 
Government.'' This decision, folks, had nothing to do with skin color 
or disabilities.
  It is clear that DHS's Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is 
catering to these immigrants in an attempt to get their votes. To me, 
it is criminal.
  Perhaps even more troubling, bureaucrats at the CRCL have deep ties 
to the abolish ICE movement, which seeks to stop deportation of illegal 
aliens. In fact, CRCL chief Shoba Wadhia has led the charge with pro-
open border and anti-enforcement activities for years. She even 
advocated to take away funds from ICE and CBP.
  Prior to joining CRCL, she also suggested that even the most violent 
illegal alien felons should not be deported. Let me say that again. The 
chief of CRCL at DHS doesn't believe that violent illegal aliens, 
felons, should be deported. Tell me how that makes sense.
  Let me be clear. Someone who immigrates illegally is an illegal 
alien. Ms. Wadhia advocates against using the term ``illegal 
immigrant'' and suggests using the term ``noncitizens'' or ``migrants'' 
instead.
  Ms. Wadhia has no business leading this office.
  Other CRCL policy advisers have also directly supported the abolish 
ICE movement or worked with other organizations that have. These people 
are not concerned with defending our homeland.
  I remind my colleagues on the left that DHS has a vital mission to 
ensure a safe, secure, and prosperous homeland. It is abundantly clear 
that the DHS Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is doing the 
exact opposite. We must defund this woke, corrupt, anti-ICE office 
within the DHS.
  Mr. Chair, I urge all of my colleagues to support my amendment, and I 
reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment, with 
all due respect to my colleague, the former sheriff, as my brother is a 
former sheriff on the border.
  I ask that if we have differences in opinion, instead of just 
eliminating this office of civil rights, I would remind our colleagues 
that this Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties covers the 260,000 
personnel who work for DHS. That is, it covers the 43,000 U.S. Coast 
Guard employees and the 59,000 CBP personnel. That includes Border 
Patrol and OFO, who are the men and women in blue. It covers 16,800 ICE 
personnel, including HSI agents and immigration enforcement officers; 
58,000 TSA personnel; 19,300 FEMA employees; and 6,300 Secret Service 
personnel. All of those employees are under Homeland.
  Again, I do understand we might have some differences, and I will be 
the first one to say let's sit down and have a bipartisan conversation 
to address those concerns. To eliminate the office, I would say that 
would not be the right policy.
  Again, I remind folks, at 10:23, that we passed the Homeland 
appropriations on June 21. We should have been doing this at 10:23 on 
June 22 instead of doing this tonight.
  I don't think there is a conference committee on the Senate side. We

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ought to be focusing on how to keep the government open.
  With all due respect to my good friend from Texas, the former 
sheriff, we might have some differences, but I will be the first one to 
sit down with him and figure out how we can address these issues.
  Mr. Chair, for those reasons, I ask my colleagues to oppose this 
amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. NEHLS. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Nehls).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. NEHLS. 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 Texas will 
be postponed.


                 Amendment No. 65 Offered by Mr. Nehls

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 65 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mr. NEHLS. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk as the designee 
of Mr. Norman.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  The salary of Jonathan Davidson, Chief of Staff 
     of the Department of Homeland Security, shall be reduced to 
     $1.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Nehls) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. NEHLS. Mr. Chair, my amendment reduces the salary of Jonathan 
Davidson, the chief of staff of the Department of Homeland Security, to 
$1.
  His salary last year was $158,500. With his new role, it will be at 
least $180,000. $180,000 for this guy, and he does nothing.
  In a short stint in his role, he has completely failed in upholding 
his mission, a complete dereliction of duty under his leadership at DHS 
with the invasion that is currently happening at our southern border.
  Just in his first month on the job, there were over 232,000 
enforcement encounters at the southwest border. This is a 36.5 percent 
increase in traffic.
  Mr. Chair, 101,000 single individuals, with the majority of these 
persons being military-age males, were encountered at our border just 
in the month of August. This isn't effective leadership, and we need to 
hold DHS officials accountable. This guy needs to be unemployed.
  We have written DHS 15 times this Congress to conduct oversight over 
the board. Again, we request documents and information to understand 
the Biden administration's plans, if any. We never get anything.
  My point is this: This guy's salary needs to be reduced to $1 because 
that is all he is worth.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment.
  Again, getting information from Homeland can be frustrating. I have 
been frustrated, also. I agree that they should be providing 
information.
  Sometimes we disagree with the policy on how to secure the border. 
Sometimes I disagree with my Republican friends. Sometimes I disagree 
with my Democratic friends. Again, it is a difference in policy that we 
can work out.
  To go after a specific person by name is against the Constitution, 
the Bill of Attainder Clause, where you should have due process before 
this step is taken. Targeting salaries is unconstitutional, as pointed 
out by the United States v. Lovett, a Supreme Court case from 1946.
  There is another way to address this. I will be happy to sit down 
with my good friend from Texas to address this.
  Mr. Chair, at this time, I respectfully oppose this amendment, and I 
yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. NEHLS. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Nehls).
  The amendment was agreed to.


 Vacating Demand for Recorded Vote on Amendment Offered by Mr. Burchett

  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Mr. Chair, I ask unanimous consent that the 
request for a recorded vote on amendment No. 24 be vacated to the end 
that the amendment be withdrawn.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the request for a recorded vote 
on amendment No. 24 offered by the gentleman from Tennessee is vacated 
and the amendment is withdrawn.
  There was no objection.


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings 
will now resume on those amendments printed in part B of House Report 
118-216 on which further proceedings were postponed, in the following 
order:
  Amendment No. 13 by Mr. Correa of California.
  Amendment No. 23 by Ms. Wasserman Schultz of Florida.
  Amendment No. 25 by Ms. Escobar of Texas.
  Amendment No. 29 by Mr. Clyde of Georgia.
  Amendment No. 39 by Mr. Biggs of Arizona.
  Amendment No. 40 by Mr. Biggs of Arizona.
  Amendment No. 41 by Mr. Biggs of Arizona.
  Amendment No. 42 by Mr. Biggs of Arizona.
  Amendment No. 43 by Mr. Biggs of Arizona.
  Amendment No. 48 by Mrs. Boebert of Colorado.
  Amendment No. 49 by Mrs. Boebert of Colorado.
  Amendment No. 50 by Mrs. Boebert of Colorado.
  Amendment No. 51 by Mr. Castro of Texas.
  Amendment No. 64 by Mr. Nehls of Texas.
  The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the minimum time for any 
electronic vote after the first vote in this series.


                 Amendment No. 13 Offered by Mr. Correa

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 13, printed in part B of House Report 
118-216 offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Correa), 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 206, 
noes 223, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 442]

                               AYES--206

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     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
     Evans
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Fulcher
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     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
     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)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Mace
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Morelle
     Moskowitz

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     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Santos
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     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
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Van Orden
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                               NOES--223

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Bowman
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     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
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gomez
     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)
     Jacobs
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (PA)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luttrell
     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
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Ogles
     Omar
     Owens
     Palmer
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Pressley
     Ramirez
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Tlaib
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (NY)
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Bush
     Carter (TX)
     Gonzales, Tony
     Luna
     Moore (WI)
     Peltola
     Pence
     Radewagen
     Sablan
     Schakowsky

                              {time}  2255

  Mr. MIKE GARCIA of California, Messrs. WALTZ, GROTHMAN, CURTIS, 
PFLUGER, FITZPATRICK, KEAN of New Jersey, GARBARINO, D'ESPOSITO, and 
LAWLER changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  Ms. PINGREE, Ms. McCLELLAN, Messrs. PHILLIPS, GRIJALVA, NORCROSS, Ms. 
DeLAURO, Mr. VARGAS, Mrs. DINGELL, Mses. TITUS, CLARKE of New York, 
Messrs. DAVIS of Illinois, SANTOS, and Ms. CHU changed their vote from 
``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


           Amendment No. 23 Offered by Ms. Wasserman Schultz

  The Acting CHAIR (Mrs. Cammack). The unfinished business is the 
demand for a recorded vote on amendment No. 23, printed in part B of 
House Report 118-216 offered by the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. 
Wasserman Schultz), 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 will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 209, 
noes 220, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 443]

                               AYES--209

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     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
     Evans
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallego
     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
     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
     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
     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)

                               NOES--220

     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)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     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
     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)
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     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
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler

[[Page H4697]]


     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
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (NY)
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Bush
     Carter (TX)
     Collins
     Gonzales, Tony
     Luna
     Moore (WI)
     Peltola
     Pence
     Radewagen
     Sablan


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2259

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


                Amendment No. 25 Offered by Ms. Escobar

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 25, printed in part B of House Report 
118-216 offered by the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Escobar), 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 will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 210, 
noes 220, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 444]

                               AYES--210

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     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
     Evans
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallego
     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
     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
     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)

                               NOES--220

     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)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     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
     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)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     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
     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
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (NY)
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Bush
     Carter (TX)
     Gonzales, Tony
     Luna
     Moore (WI)
     Peltola
     Pence
     Radewagen
     Sablan


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2303

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


                 Amendment No. 29 Offered by Mr. Clyde

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 29, printed in part B of House Report 
118-216 offered by the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Clyde), 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 108, 
noes 320, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 445]

                               AYES--108

     Allen
     Amodei
     Arrington
     Babin
     Balderson
     Bean (FL)
     Bergman
     Biggs
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carter (GA)
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Curtis
     Davidson
     DesJarlais
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Edwards
     Emmer
     Fallon
     Ferguson
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Johnson (LA)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     Lesko
     Loudermilk
     Mann
     Massie
     McClain
     McClintock
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moylan
     Nehls
     Norman
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Roy
     Santos
     Self
     Sessions
     Smith (MO)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Steube
     Tenney
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Van Drew
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Yakym
     Zinke

[[Page H4698]]


  


                               NOES--320

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Alford
     Allred
     Armstrong
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balint
     Banks
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bentz
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bice
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Calvert
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carl
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crawford
     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)
     Ellzey
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Estes
     Evans
     Ezell
     Feenstra
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flood
     Foster
     Foushee
     Foxx
     Frankel, Lois
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Frost
     Gallagher
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Mike
     Garcia, Robert
     Gimenez
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Gottheimer
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houchin
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Hudson
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson (TX)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Joyce (OH)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Khanna
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kildee
     Kiley
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Letlow
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Magaziner
     Malliotakis
     Manning
     Mast
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCaul
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McCormick
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     McHenry
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Meuser
     Mfume
     Miller (OH)
     Miller-Meeks
     Molinaro
     Moore (WI)
     Moran
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Murphy
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Ross
     Rouzer
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Salazar
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     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)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     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
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wagner
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wenstrup
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Williams (NY)
     Wilson (FL)
     Womack

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Barr
     Bush
     Carter (TX)
     Gonzales, Tony
     Luna
     Lynch
     Peltola
     Pence
     Radewagen
     Sablan


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2306

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


                 Amendment No. 39 Offered by Mr. Biggs

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 39, printed in part B of House Report 
118-216 offered by the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Biggs), 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 will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 147, 
noes 282, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 446]

                               AYES--147

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Balderson
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bergman
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Flood
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     Kelly (MS)
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Lesko
     Luetkemeyer
     Luttrell
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Norman
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Roy
     Santos
     Scalise
     Self
     Sessions
     Smith (MO)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Strong
     Tenney
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (NY)
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--282

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Amodei
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balint
     Banks
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bentz
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bice
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Calvert
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Foxx
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallagher
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Gottheimer
     Granger
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Joyce (OH)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (PA)
     Khanna
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kildee
     Kiley
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Letlow
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Lynch
     Mace
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCaul
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Miller (OH)
     Miller-Meeks
     Molinaro
     Moore (WI)
     Moran
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Moylan
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Rogers (KY)
     Ross
     Rouzer
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Salazar
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Steel
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Titus
     Tlaib

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     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
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Wittman
     Womack

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Bush
     Carter (TX)
     Gonzales, Tony
     Luna
     Peltola
     Pence
     Radewagen
     Sablan
     Steube


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2309

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


                 Amendment No. 40 Offered by Mr. Biggs

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 40, printed in part B of House Report 
118-216 offered by the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Biggs), 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 270, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 447]

                               AYES--160

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Balderson
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bergman
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     Kelly (MS)
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     Loudermilk
     Luetkemeyer
     Luttrell
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Norman
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Roy
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Self
     Sessions
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Strong
     Tenney
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (NY)
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--270

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Amodei
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balint
     Banks
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bentz
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bice
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Calvert
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Edwards
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flood
     Foster
     Foushee
     Foxx
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallagher
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Gottheimer
     Granger
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Joyce (OH)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (PA)
     Khanna
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kildee
     Kiley
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Letlow
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lucas
     Lynch
     Mace
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Miller (OH)
     Miller-Meeks
     Molinaro
     Moore (WI)
     Moran
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Rogers (KY)
     Ross
     Rouzer
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Salazar
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Steel
     Stevens
     Strickland
     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
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Womack

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Bush
     Carter (TX)
     Gonzales, Tony
     Luna
     Peltola
     Pence
     Radewagen
     Sablan


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2312

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


                 Amendment No. 41 Offered by Mr. Biggs

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 41, printed in part B of House Report 
118-216 offered by the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Biggs), 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 168, 
noes 261, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 448]

                               AYES--168

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Balderson
     Banks
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     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
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     Kelly (MS)
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     Loudermilk
     Luetkemeyer
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Norman
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)

[[Page H4700]]


     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Self
     Sessions
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Strong
     Tenney
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (NY)
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--261

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Amodei
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balint
     Barr
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Calvert
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Edwards
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fitzpatrick
     Fletcher
     Flood
     Foster
     Foushee
     Foxx
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     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
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Joyce (OH)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (PA)
     Khanna
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kildee
     Kiley
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Kustoff
     LaLota
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Letlow
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lucas
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Miller (OH)
     Miller-Meeks
     Molinaro
     Moore (WI)
     Moran
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Moylan
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Norcross
     Norton
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Rogers (KY)
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Salazar
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Steel
     Stevens
     Strickland
     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
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Womack

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Bush
     Carter (TX)
     Gonzales, Tony
     Luna
     Nickel
     Peltola
     Pence
     Radewagen
     Sablan


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2315

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


                 Amendment No. 42 Offered by Mr. Biggs

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 42, printed in part B of House Report 
118-216 offered by the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Biggs), 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 164, 
noes 265, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 449]

                               AYES--164

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     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
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     Kelly (MS)
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     Loudermilk
     Luetkemeyer
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Norman
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Santos
     Scalise
     Self
     Sessions
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Strong
     Tenney
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (NY)
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--265

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Amodei
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Calvert
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Duarte
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flood
     Foster
     Foushee
     Foxx
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     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
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Joyce (OH)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (PA)
     Khanna
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kildee
     Kiley
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Kustoff
     LaLota
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Letlow
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lucas
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Miller (OH)
     Miller-Meeks
     Molinaro
     Moore (WI)
     Moran
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Moylan
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Rogers (KY)
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Salazar
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Steel
     Stevens
     Strickland
     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
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters

[[Page H4701]]


     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Womack

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Bush
     Carter (TX)
     Gonzales, Tony
     Luna
     Peltola
     Pence
     Radewagen
     Sablan
     Webster (FL)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2318

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


                 Amendment No. 43 Offered by Mr. Biggs

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 43, printed in part B of House Report 
118-216 offered by the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Biggs), 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 will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 162, 
noes 264, not voting 12, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 450]

                               AYES--162

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buck
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     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
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     Kelly (MS)
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     Loudermilk
     Luetkemeyer
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Norman
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Perry
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Self
     Sessions
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Strong
     Tenney
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Westerman
     Williams (NY)
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--264

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Amodei
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bentz
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Calvert
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     D'Esposito
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Edwards
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fitzpatrick
     Fletcher
     Flood
     Foster
     Foushee
     Foxx
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     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
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Joyce (OH)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (PA)
     Khanna
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kildee
     Kiley
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Kustoff
     LaLota
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Letlow
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lucas
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Miller (OH)
     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
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Rogers (KY)
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Salazar
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Steel
     Stevens
     Strickland
     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
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wenstrup
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Womack

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Buchanan
     Bush
     Carter (TX)
     Craig
     Gonzales, Tony
     Luna
     Peltola
     Pence
     Pfluger
     Radewagen
     Sablan
     Webster (FL)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2320

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


                Amendment No. 48 Offered by Mrs. Boebert

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 48, printed in part B of House Report 
118-216 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 159, 
noes 269, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 451]

                               AYES--159

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Balderson
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Gimenez
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kelly (MS)
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     Loudermilk
     Luetkemeyer
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Norman
     Ogles
     Palmer
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Santos
     Scalise
     Self
     Sessions
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steil
     Steube
     Strong
     Tenney
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)

[[Page H4702]]


     Webster (FL)
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--269

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Amodei
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balint
     Banks
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Calvert
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     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
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flood
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Mike
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (PA)
     Khanna
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kildee
     Kiley
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Kustoff
     LaLota
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Letlow
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lucas
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Miller (OH)
     Miller-Meeks
     Molinaro
     Moore (UT)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Moylan
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Obernolte
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Owens
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Rogers (KY)
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Salazar
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Stevens
     Strickland
     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
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wenstrup
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Williams (NY)
     Wilson (FL)
     Womack

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Bush
     Carter (TX)
     Gonzales, Tony
     Griffith
     Luna
     Nunn (IA)
     Peltola
     Pence
     Radewagen
     Sablan


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2323

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


                Amendment No. 49 Offered by Mrs. Boebert

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 49, printed in part B of House Report 
118-216 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 161, 
noes 267, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 452]

                               AYES--161

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Gimenez
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     Kelly (MS)
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     Loudermilk
     Luetkemeyer
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Ogles
     Palmer
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Self
     Sessions
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Strong
     Tenney
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Westerman
     Williams (NY)
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--267

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Amodei
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bentz
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Calvert
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     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
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flood
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Mike
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Joyce (OH)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (PA)
     Khanna
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kildee
     Kiley
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Kustoff
     LaLota
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Letlow
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lucas
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Miller (OH)
     Miller-Meeks
     Molinaro
     Moore (UT)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Moylan
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Obernolte
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Owens
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Rogers (KY)
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Spartz
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Steel
     Stevens
     Strickland
     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
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wenstrup
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Womack

[[Page H4703]]


  


                             NOT VOTING--10

     Bush
     Carter (TX)
     Gonzales, Tony
     Griffith
     Luna
     Peltola
     Pence
     Radewagen
     Sablan
     Salazar


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2326

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


                Amendment No. 50 Offered by Mrs. Boebert

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 50, printed in part B of House Report 
118-216 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 161, 
noes 268, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 453]

                               AYES--161

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Gimenez
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     Kelly (MS)
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     Loudermilk
     Luetkemeyer
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moran
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Norman
     Ogles
     Palmer
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Santos
     Scalise
     Self
     Sessions
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Strong
     Tenney
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--268

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Amodei
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Calvert
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     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
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fitzpatrick
     Fletcher
     Flood
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Mike
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Gottheimer
     Granger
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Joyce (OH)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Kean (NJ)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (PA)
     Khanna
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kildee
     Kiley
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Kustoff
     LaLota
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Letlow
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lucas
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     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
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Rogers (KY)
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Salazar
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simpson
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Steel
     Stevens
     Strickland
     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
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Williams (NY)
     Wilson (FL)
     Womack

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Bush
     Carter (TX)
     Gonzales, Tony
     Griffith
     Luna
     Peltola
     Pence
     Radewagen
     Sablan


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2330

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


            Amendment No. 51 Offered by Mr. Castro of Texas

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 51, printed in part B of House Report 
118-216 offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Castro), 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 211, 
noes 220, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 454]

                               AYES--211

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     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
     Evans
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallego
     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
     Massie
     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

[[Page H4704]]


     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     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
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                               NOES--220

     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)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     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
     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)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     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
     Perez
     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
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (NY)
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Bush
     Carter (TX)
     Gonzales, Tony
     Luna
     Peltola
     Pence
     Radewagen
     Sablan


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2333

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


                 Amendment No. 64 Offered by Mr. Nehls

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 64, printed in part B of House Report 
118-216 offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Nehls), 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 182, 
noes 247, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 455]

                               AYES--182

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     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
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     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
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     Loudermilk
     Luetkemeyer
     Luttrell
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moylan
     Nehls
     Norman
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Santos
     Scalise
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Strong
     Tenney
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--247

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Amodei
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Bucshon
     Budzinski
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     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
     Evans
     Fitzpatrick
     Fletcher
     Flood
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     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
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     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 (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     LaLota
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Letlow
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lucas
     Lynch
     Mace
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Miller-Meeks
     Molinaro
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     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
     Salazar
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     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)
     Thompson (PA)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Turner
     Underwood
     Valadao
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wagner
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters

[[Page H4705]]


     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Williams (NY)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Bush
     Carter (TX)
     Gonzales, Tony
     Luna
     Murphy
     Peltola
     Pence
     Radewagen
     Sablan


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  2337

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


                          personal explanation

  Ms. BUSH. Madam Chair, I was not present during today's first or 
second vote series. Had I been present, I would have voted: YEA on Roll 
Call No. 417, NAY on Roll Call No. 418, NAY on Roll Call No. 419, NAY 
on Roll Call No. 420, NAY on Roll Call No. 421, NAY on Roll Call No. 
422, NAY on Roll Call No. 423, NAY on Roll Call No. 424, NAY on Roll 
Call No. 425, NAY on Roll Call No. 426, NAY on Roll Call No. 427, NAY 
on Roll Call No. 428, NAY on Roll Call No. 429, NAY on Roll Call No. 
430, NAY on Roll Call No. 431, NAY on Roll Call No. 432, NAY on Roll 
Call No. 433, NAY on Roll Call No. 434, NAY on Roll Call No. 435, NAY 
on Roll Call No. 436, YEA on Roll Call No. 437, NAY on Roll Call No. 
438, YEA on Roll Call No. 439, YEA on Roll Call No. 440, NAY on Roll 
Call No. 441, NAY on Roll Call No. 442, YEA on Roll Call No. 443, YEA 
on Roll Call No. 444, NAY on Roll Call No. 445, NAY on Roll Call No. 
446, NAY on Roll Call No. 447, NAY on Roll Call No. 448, NAY on Roll 
Call No. 449, NAY on Roll Call No. 450, NAY on Roll Call No. 451, NAY 
on Roll Call No. 452. NAY on Roll Call No. 453, YEA on Roll Call No. 
454 and NAY on Roll Call No. 455.

                              {time}  2345


                 Amendment No. 66 Offered by Mr. Norman

  The Acting CHAIR (Mrs. Miller-Meeks). It is now in order to consider 
amendment No. 66 printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mr. NORMAN. Madam 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 the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  The salary of Kristie Canegallo, Deputy Secretary 
     of Homeland Security, shall be reduced to $1.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, 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. Madam Chair, my amendment reduces the salary of Kristie 
Canegallo, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, to $1.
  A little background on who she is:
  She has served as Chief of Staff at DHS since January 2022.
  She recently took on the role of Deputy Secretary in July of this 
year.
  Her job is to oversee the agency and work to advance the Department's 
mission and organizational priorities.
  Her salary in 2022 was $183,100.
  As stated, her job is to oversee and enforce the mission of DHS, 
which is to safeguard the American people, our homeland, and our 
values.
  Dereliction of duty, as this is simply not the case.
  She is the number two individual at DHS. Her job is to assist the 
priorities of Mayorkas in securing our homeland, our values, and our 
people. She has simply been asleep at the switch and has not done the 
job.
  Our homeland is less secure now than it was when she came into this 
role. In her first year in her role at DHS, over 2.76 million illegal 
individuals crossed the border. These were just the ones that they came 
in contact with.
  In addition, 1.4 million individuals have been encountered, according 
to DHS, since January 1 of 2023.
  We are witnessing an invasion of our homeland before our very eyes, 
and my Democratic colleagues are acting like it is a normal Wednesday 
with business as usual.
  Is this effective leadership? No, it is not. This is a crisis in this 
country. This is an invasion. It is against our Constitution. It is 
against our core values that this country was built on.
  Thus, that is the reason I am asking to cut the salary to $1, and I 
reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment, and 
I urge Members to vote ``no.''
  Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. NORMAN. Madam Chair, as we look at the challenges this country 
faces, we look at the reasons why our border is unsecure, why our 
national security is at risk, and it is because of the inaction of 
people in prominent roles such as Ms. Canegallo.
  The only reason that she is in the job is for political reasons, 
which is to keep the power of the Democratic Party.
  These illegals are getting drivers' licenses, they are getting Social 
Security numbers, and it is completely against everything that this 
country stands for.
  For that reason, I hope Members will support this.
  Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman has the only time remaining.
  Mr. NORMAN. Madam 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.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam 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. 67 Offered by Mr. Norman

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 67 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mr. NORMAN. Madam 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 the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  The salary of Kimberly O'Connor, Executive 
     Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, shall be 
     reduced to $1.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, 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. Madam Chair, this amendment reduces the salary of 
Kimberly O'Connor, executive secretary of the Department of Homeland 
Security, to $1.
  Her role is executive secretary of DHS where she oversees the 
management of written communication intended for and originated by the 
Secretary and the Deputy Secretary of DHS.
  Why should we implement the Holman rule regarding her salary? She 
cosigned a letter led by the House Oversight Committee from November 2, 
2022, to Secretary Mayorkas about the abject failures at the southern 
border.
  In her letter it was stated that: We have written DHS 15 times this 
Congress to conduct oversight over the border crisis. Again, we request 
documents and information to understand the Biden administration's 
plans, if any, to secure the border.
  Her role is to manage written correspondence for Mayorkas. She can't 
bother to do her job and give timely and adequate responses about the 
abject failures at the border, so why do our tax dollars deserve to go 
to pay her salary?
  She continues to not give the committee and Members answers to their 
questions. Failure to get us answers from DHS on the border is 
unacceptable, and it is creating a crisis at the border.
  Madam Chair, I urge the cutting of her salary, and I reserve the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I urge Members to vote ``no'' on this 
amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. NORMAN. Madam Chair, I urge that her salary be cut, and I yield 
back the balance of my time.

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  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.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam 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.
  The Chair recognizes that amendment 68 will not be offered.


                 Amendment No. 69 Offered by Mr. Norman

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 69 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mr. NORMAN. Madam 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 the bill (before the short title), insert 
     the following:
         Sec. __.  The salary of Blas Nunez-Neto, Assistant 
     Secretary for Border and Immigration Policy, shall be reduced 
     to $1.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, 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. Madam Chair, my amendment reduces the salary of Blas 
Nunez-Neto, assistant secretary for border and immigration policy, to 
$1.
  He has worked at DHS since 2021. He served as an assistant secretary 
for border and immigration policy.
  The reason to implement the Holman rule to reduce his salary is 
dereliction of duty to uphold the mission of DHS, to safeguard the 
American people, our homeland, and our values.
  The border and our homeland have become less secure in his capacity 
of border policy at DHS.
  Considering these facts of the crisis and invasion at our border, we 
think this individual is inadequately doing his job. Why should our tax 
dollars continue to pay him?
  Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment.
  I urge Members to vote ``no,'' and I yield back the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. NORMAN. Madam Chair, I urge the reduction of the salary of this 
individual to secure our borders, and 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.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam 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. 70 Offered by Mr. Ogles

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 70 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mr. OGLES. Madam 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 the bill (before the short title), insert 
     the following:
         Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
     may be used to carry out Executive Order 14019 (86 Fed. Reg. 
     13623; relating to promoting access to voting), except for 
     sections 7, 8, and 10 of such Order.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman 
from Tennessee (Mr. Ogles) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Tennessee.
  Mr. OGLES. Madam Chair, I rise in support of my amendment to prohibit 
taxpayer money from being used on President Biden's nakedly political 
executive order allegedly promoting access to voting.
  This dangerous executive order instructed a wide range of agencies, 
including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Small 
Business Administration to engage in voter turnout operations. Think 
about that for a moment, the government is engaging in voter turnout.
  Worse, it instructs agencies to partner with approved third-party 
organizations to assist them in their voter registration and other 
election-focused efforts.
  Who will approve these organizations? What criteria will be used? The 
executive order doesn't say.
  Congress has never granted the administration any authority to 
approve such groups or specify criteria therein.
  This executive order is blatantly illegal.
  Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

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  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment.
  This order on voting access will ensure that all Americans can 
exercise their right to vote, including voters in underserved 
communities; voters who are younger or older, in rural and urban areas; 
servicemembers and veterans; and other folks like voters with 
disabilities or language access concerns.
  Madam Chair, I ask that we oppose this amendment, and I yield back 
the balance of my time.
  Mr. OGLES. Madam Chair, I agree with my colleague that I, too, would 
like all to participate in the voting process, all demographics across 
all spectrums.
  It should also be noted that there are already provisions in the law 
to allow for soldiers deployed to vote.
  Madam Chair, I urge adoption of my amendment, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Ogles).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                 Amendment No. 71 Offered by Mr. Ogles

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 71 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mr. OGLES. Madam 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 the bill (before the short title), insert 
     the following:
         Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
     may be used for the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman 
from Tennessee (Mr. Ogles) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Tennessee.
  Mr. OGLES. Madam Chair, I rise today in support of my amendment to 
prohibit funding for the so-called Homeland Intelligence Experts Group.
  The conduct of certain members of the intelligence community, who 
behaved as political hacks, quite frankly, rather than sources of 
unbiased information, has undermined Americans' faith in government. 
That concerns me.
  Some of these officials peddled obvious falsehoods in an effort to 
undermine the American people's confidence in the election of 2016, and 
some meddled in the 2020 election, as well.
  Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  This amendment would undermine a recent effort by the Secretary--in 
fact, I believe it was only announced a few days ago--to convene 
private-sector experts in homeland and national security, some widely 
recognized, including former senior intelligence officials, who will 
provide the DHS with a wide range of views and perspectives on the 
Federal Government's intelligence enterprise to DHS' I&A and the Office 
of the Counterterrorism Coordinator. All

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we are trying to do is get information from experts.
  Madam Chair, I say that we vote ``no'' on this amendment, and I yield 
back the balance of my time.
  Mr. OGLES. Madam Chair, at a time when we see dysfunction in 
government and, quite frankly, in Congress, it is important that we 
restore faith in institutions.
  At a time when there are ongoing investigations into, say, the Hunter 
Biden laptop, it is important that we let due process work its way and 
not interject so-called experts.
  With that being said, I encourage, at a time when we desperately need 
to restore faith in institutions, let's do that thing. Let's trust the 
process as we move forward.
  Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Ogles).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                Amendment No. 72 Offered by Mr. Pfluger

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 72 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mr. PFLUGER. Madam 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 the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be made available to administer, 
     implement, or enforce a ``Remain-in-Texas'' policy.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Pfluger) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. PFLUGER. Madam Chair, I rise in support of my amendment to block 
any potential remain in Texas policy.
  It appears Democrats are starting to realize the severity of the 
border crisis. On August 8, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey 
declared a state of emergency due to an influx of illegal aliens. I 
think the number was 7,500. The next day, New York City Mayor Eric 
Adams stated that the illegal alien influx was ``not sustainable'' and 
would ``destroy New York City.''
  All it took for the President to realize there was a crisis at the 
border was a little complaining from his Democrat donors. They don't 
mind the border crisis as long as it stays far away from their blue 
State.
  What is the President's solution? Instead of securing the border, the 
Biden administration is considering instating a remain in Texas policy. 
You heard that right--not a policy to thwart illegal immigration but 
one that would punish Texas and force our State to be the sole provider 
for millions of illegal immigrants crossing our southern border every 
single year.
  Liberal sanctuary cities, like New York, that openly obstruct Federal 
immigration laws and have policies in place to shield criminals from 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement should not be immune to the crisis 
at our collective southern border.
  President Biden's remain in Texas policy must remain in the trash 
can. My amendment ends this administration's attempt to force Texans to 
bear the brunt of the immigration crisis.
  Secure the border and vote ``yes'' on this amendment.
  Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I claim the time in opposition to this 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I rise in opposition, with all due respect 
to my good friend from Texas.
  First of all, this program is not in existence, so why are we going 
to try to prohibit funds for something that doesn't even exist?
  One of the things that we ought to be looking at is trying to find an 
expedited way of removing folks who are not supposed to be here. As I 
said before, if you get 100 people before an immigration judge, you 
will see that 89 to 90 percent, generally speaking, are going to be 
rejected because, again, the law is very specific as to what 
persecution is.
  What I am hoping the administration is trying to do is to make sure 
that we expedite removals. If you expedite removals, that is the 
repercussion that we all have been talking about. That is the 
consequence that we all have been talking about.
  To say no funds will be used--for what? That program is not in. We 
need to fund expedited ways to remove people who, after they have their 
day in court, should be removed.
  With all respect to my good friend from Texas, I urge my colleagues 
to vote ``no,'' and I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. PFLUGER. Madam Chair, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Burgess), my good friend and colleague.
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Chair, I thank Representative Pfluger for yielding 
and for working on this issue. It is so critically important.
  Maybe the President didn't have an absolute plan in mind, but he did 
say he wanted people to remain in Texas and not bother the mayor of New 
York City and the Governor of Massachusetts.
  The gentleman knows this really well that that rainy Saturday we were 
working on this up in the Rules Committee, the President said he was 
going to veto the Homeland Security appropriations bill. Veto the 
Homeland Security appropriations bill when the Governor of 
Massachusetts says we have an emergency, the mayor of New York says we 
are losing our city, and he is going to veto the Department of Homeland 
Security appropriations bill?
  This policy that Mr. Pfluger is attempting to prevent is wrong. The 
President should not have articulated it, and he certainly should not 
have articulated that he is going to veto the bill to protect the 
border.
  Governor Abbott had to declare an invasion. He had to declare an 
emergency. He is having to spend Texans' billions on doing the job the 
United States Government should be doing. We need to fund this bill and 
pass this bill.
  Mr. PFLUGER. Madam Chair, I also thank my colleague from Texas on the 
other side of aisle for bringing up a good point, that we should be 
thinking about how to remove people who come across illegally.
  That is exactly what Border Patrol agents told me just this past 
weekend when I was in Eagle Pass. Their solution, which was the last 
solution of the administration, was deportation.
  I think my colleague was actually the one on TV about a week ago who 
said--and I am not necessarily quoting exactly what my colleague said--
until you see the images of people being deported, they are going to 
continue to come.
  I couldn't agree with him more, that those images need to happen 
because that is the message that we need to send.
  So, no, we don't need a remain in Texas policy. We need a remain in 
Mexico policy. We need to go back to the policies of the previous 
administration that were working before we had millions of people 
coming into this country illegally because they know that the border is 
wide open.
  This is a symptom. Let's get to the root cause. Let's send H.R. 2 in 
the form that we passed it here in the House to the Senate and to the 
President and secure our border once and for all. Enough is enough.
  Madam Chair, I urge a ``yes'' vote on this, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Pfluger).
  The amendment was agreed to.


               Amendment No. 73 Offered by Mr. Rosendale

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 73 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mr. ROSENDALE. Madam 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 the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. ___.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to carry out the Department of Homeland Security 
     memorandum titled ``Worksite Enforcement: The Strategy to 
     Protect the American Labor Market, the Conditions of the 
     American Worksite, and the Dignity of the Individual''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman

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from Montana (Mr. Rosendale) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Montana.
  Mr. ROSENDALE. Madam Chair, my amendment No. 73 would prohibit funds 
from being used to enforce Secretary Mayorkas' memo prohibiting 
workforce immigration enforcement.
  With the stroke of a pen, Secretary Mayorkas eliminated a key method 
of interior enforcement and required our Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement agents, the ICE agents, to fight with one hand tied behind 
their back.
  Right now, there are over 16.8 million illegal aliens in our country, 
and estimates suggest that upward of 65 percent of the illegal aliens 
are employed.
  Businessowners and ranchers in Montana work hard to ensure they are 
in compliance with Federal immigration law, and this memo punishes law-
abiding businesses that refuse to hire illegal aliens.
  Additionally, Americans should not be expected to compete in the 
labor market with illegal aliens who are depressing wages and keeping 
good-paying jobs away from American citizens.
  President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas' refusal to allow ICE to do 
their job and enforce our Nation's laws is a clear dereliction of duty 
and presents risk to our country's national security.
  Simply put, my amendment would allow ICE agents to do their job 
enforcing immigration law with the most effective methods possible. 
Under President Trump, workforce enforcement operations were common 
practice, making it clear to illegal aliens and the employers that 
there would be consequences for breaking the law, putting all 
businesses on a level playing field.
  It is time we protect small business owners and workers and force 
Secretary Mayorkas to let ICE do its job.
  Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. Members are reminded to refrain from engaging in 
personalities toward the President.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I claim the time in opposition to this 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I stand against this amendment. I am in 
opposition. I support ICE. I support enforcing the law.
  Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROSENDALE. Madam Chair, Secretary Mayorkas acknowledges the 
threat of illegal labor in his memo ending workplace enforcement: 
``Unscrupulous employers create an unfair labor market. They also 
unfairly drive down their costs and disadvantage their business 
competitors who abide by the law.''
  These businesses are not abiding by the law. The illegal aliens who 
are working there are not supposed to be employed. It is not fair to 
the labor market. It is not fair to the Americans who wanted to have 
these positions. It absolutely does suppress the wages and hurts 
everyone.
  Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

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  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Montana (Mr. Rosendale).
  The amendment was agreed to.


               Amendment No. 74 Offered by Mr. Rosendale

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 74 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mr. ROSENDALE. Madam 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 the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  The total amount of appropriations made available 
     by this Act is hereby reduced by $8,722,000,000.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman 
from Montana (Mr. Rosendale) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Montana.
  Mr. ROSENDALE. Madam Chair, my amendment No. 74 will reduce the total 
amount of funds appropriated by this bill to move our country toward 
fiscal responsibility, bringing spending toward fiscal year 2022 
levels.
  We all know that we are facing a $33 trillion national debt, and at 
the spending levels that are being proposed by the appropriation bills 
that we have been going over the last several days, we very easily 
could be facing a $3 trillion addition to that debt by the time we add 
the interest in.
  It is clear that President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas have no 
interest in securing our border or enforcing immigration law. Instead, 
this administration is spending money to encourage illegal immigration 
through illegal migrant parole programs and cooperation with far-left 
NGOs.
  Additionally, Secretary Mayorkas has issued countless memos 
handicapping law enforcement efforts from ICE and CBP.
  I have gone down there and visited the border myself several times. 
As long as President Biden refuses to enforce immigration law and stop 
the invasion at our southern border, DHS should not be rewarded with a 
budget increase.
  President Trump secured the border and provided for our national 
defense with significantly less money. It is abundantly clear that 
Biden's border crisis is a deliberate policy choice by this 
administration and not a funding issue.
  This country, again, is $33 trillion in debt. We cannot afford to 
continue business as usual, primarily when President Biden and 
Secretary Mayorkas use taxpayer dollars to prevent our border from 
being secured.
  Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Madam Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Madam Chair, I appreciate my colleague's concern 
about the rampant Federal spending by the Democrats and this 
administration. However, this amendment is not the way to address the 
larger problem we face.
  This bill makes targeted cuts to wasteful spending, eliminates 
funding for woke programs, and prohibits funding for policies and 
programs that encourage illegal immigration. In contrast, this 
amendment would indiscriminately cut the top-line spending of the 
Department of Homeland Security by $8.7 billion, which is a 14 percent 
reduction to the discretionary funding in this bill.
  These cuts would not be targeted to specific programs or activities. 
Instead, it would be left to the Biden administration to decide how and 
where to apply these reductions. Unfortunately, this administration 
would likely align such reductions into its proposals in the 
President's budget request.
  The first cut the administration will make is to eliminate the $2.1 
billion for the border wall, followed by the 16,500 additional 
detention beds that were funded in this bill.
  Funding for Border Patrol staffing would be slashed, as would funding 
for additional ICE deportation officers.
  All the critical border security investments and immigration 
priorities we have included in this bill will be stripped out in favor 
of continuing the status quo.
  Let's ensure that this bill we pass on the floor does what the Biden 
administration has failed to do--act to address the border security 
crisis, which has been raging for the last 2\1/2\ years.
  Let's remember that true border security comes with a price tag, and 
I think we should all be willing to pay.
  Madam Chair, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this amendment, 
and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROSENDALE. Madam Chair, in 2020, the DHS bill appropriated $67.8 
billion. In 2022, the DHS bill appropriated $75.538 billion. The 2024 
DHS appropriation bill includes $91.5 billion.
  While I certainly respect the work that has been done in that 
committee, we all are going to have to take a haircut. If not, we are 
going to add $3 trillion a year to the national debt. Over the next 5 
years, that will rise to $50 trillion.
  Madam Chair, $50 trillion in just 5 years, not 20 years, not 50 
years, and it will cost 50 percent of the annual revenue in interest 
payments alone to service that.

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  If you think that we are making difficult decisions right now, when 
50 percent of the revenue that we collect on an annual basis is going 
to service that loan, we are going to have to make massive changes to 
the way that we run the Federal Government, and every single person in 
the country is going to feel it. It is going to be dramatic pain.
  All I am asking is that we reduce by $8.7 billion. I can't believe 
that I am saying only $8.7 billion.
  Again, I respect the work that has been done, but these are some 
difficult decisions that need to be taken care of, and I am willing to 
do my part to help us get there.
  Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Madam Chair, I appreciate the concerns of the 
gentleman from Montana, but I maintain that I urge my colleagues to 
vote ``no'' on this amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Montana (Mr. Rosendale).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Madam 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 Montana will 
be postponed.


                  Amendment No. 75 Offered by Mr. Roy

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 75 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mr. ROY. Madam 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 the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this act may 
     be used to implement, enforce, or otherwise carry out 
     Executive Orders 13678 (``Revision of Civil Immigration 
     Enforcement Policies and Priorities''), 14010 (``Creating a 
     Comprehensive Regional Framework To Address the Causes of 
     Migration, To Manage Migration Throughout North and Central 
     America, and To Provide Safe and Orderly Processing of Asylum 
     Seekers at the United States Border''), or 14012 (``Restoring 
     Faith in Our Legal Immigration Systems and Strengthening 
     Integration and Inclusion Efforts for New Americans'').

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Roy) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. ROY. Madam Chair, the amendment I put forward prohibits funding 
in this act to President Biden's executive orders that put needless 
limits on immigration enforcement, scale back sound asylum policies, 
and establish its own set of immigration directives that Congress has 
not passed.
  The executive orders that President Biden put in place as soon as he 
got into the White House have had an enormous negative impact on the 
ability of Border Patrol and ICE to carry out their job--in particular, 
ICE.
  The results are pretty clear. Deportations of criminal aliens 
plummeted by 62 percent between fiscal year 2020 under President Trump 
and fiscal year 2021 under President Biden. It went from 150,000, 
103,000, all the way to 38,000 under Biden.
  The fact of the matter is this is not shocking. When you issue 
executive orders that place restrictions on the ability of ICE to do 
its job, shockingly, it can't do its job.
  Congress, Article I in the Constitution, has not only the power but 
the duty to tell Article II in the Constitution: Hey, you don't get to 
use the funds that we are appropriating to not do your job.
  This amendment would simply say to the President of the United States 
and the Secretary that we have this crazy idea that maybe, just maybe, 
the President should follow the law instead of issuing executive orders 
to undermine the ability of law enforcement personnel to do their job, 
leaving the American people exposed to dangers, fentanyl pouring into 
our communities, and criminal aliens being able to carry out crimes on 
the streets of the country.
  Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I oppose this amendment, respectfully, to 
my friend from Texas.
  I am looking at the language, and I assume that the first executive 
order that is referenced is 13678. That one deals with authority for 
criminal investigators of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and 
Explosives issued by President Obama, so I assume that is not the 
correct one. You are probably looking at 13768, which deals with ICE.
  Nevertheless, even though he is referring to the wrong one here, this 
amendment is not doing what I think he intends to do. All I am saying 
is I trust ICE to prioritize and limit their resources where they can 
focus on the greatest threat.
  Again, if we are worried about the border, I would emphasize that for 
the last 2 fiscal years, we have added $2.4 billion to CBP budget 
authority, over a 15 percent increase.
  I would say that except for two Members, who are not present here 
today, on the Republican side, everybody voted ``no.''
  Again, I ask you to focus on what we have. I assume that the 
executive order that he is referring to--I would ask you if you want to 
withdraw the amendment and bring it back, we will consider it tomorrow.
  Otherwise, I would oppose this amendment, and I yield back the 
balance of my time, with all due respect to my good friend from Texas 
(Mr. Roy).
  Mr. ROY. Madam Chair, I appreciate my friend from Texas, and I will 
certainly review the amendment. I am not going to withdraw it.
  I want to review the amendment and see if the reference is somehow 
incorrect, but the intent of the amendment--and it is now, I am being 
told, a leg counsel drafting error on the number, so it is probably the 
number that my friend is referring to.
  The purpose of it is very clear, which is to turn away the executive 
orders of the President of the United States that have been undermining 
our security.
  The gentleman, I think, properly referenced the number. I think on 
that one, given that there is a drafting error, and I have three other 
amendments that accomplish the same thing, I am actually going to 
withdraw the amendment.
  Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time and withdraw the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The amendment is withdrawn.


                  Amendment No. 76 Offered by Mr. Roy

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 76 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mr. ROY. Madam 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 the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
     shall be used to terminate the Department of Homeland 
     Security's Migration Protection Protocols.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Roy) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. ROY. Madam Chair, the amendment that we have in front of us 
prohibits funding from the act to be used to terminate the Migrant 
Protection Protocols. This is one of the most important things that we 
need to address.
  H.R. 2, which this body, led by Republicans, passed in the spring, 
addresses the need to return to use of Migrant Protection Protocols to 
put in place the return to Mexico and remain in Mexico policies of the 
previous administration, which, when combined with the use of title 42 
authority, were effective in eliminating the flow coming across our 
border.
  When the current administration completely abandoned on day one the 
use of Migrant Protection Protocols, the reality is we have seen the 
resulting chaos at our border.
  It is hard for anybody who is objectively looking at the state of our 
border to find any defense for the current

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policies of the administration allowing the abject failure to occur.
  This amendment would assert our Article I authority to say to the 
President that the President must not use funds to terminate the 
Migrant Protection Protocols--that is, we should not be funding the 
failure of this administration to do its job.
  Very simply put, as we put forward in H.R. 2, the choices before us 
should be to detain, to put in expedited removal, or to put in a 
migrant protection protocol-type system, remaining in Mexico. 
Otherwise, you have what we have, which is an utter disregard for the 
border using parole authority wrongly--instead of on a case-by-case 
basis, mass releases under parole.
  We have the use of asylum, not for persecution but rather as a 
blanket release into the United States, to the point of 2 million 
releases over the last 2\1/2\ years under this administration.

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  This is a very simple policy that we can adopt as a Congress to 
restrain the abuse of this administration.
  Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I claim time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I do not believe in catch and release, and 
I certainly want to give our men and women everything they need to 
have, and that is why it is important that we address this issue.
  Your amendment deals with a program called remain in Mexico. The only 
problem is, we can't stop the funds in that program because it got 
terminated in February 2021. We had an opportunity to vote on this on 
May 22, but we did not bring this up at that time. Except for two 
Members, everybody voted ``no'' on this on the Republican side, and it 
is a little bit too late for this.
  Madam Chair, I would say to my good friend from Texas, I do support 
the MPP, I do support it, but this program is gone. I think we need to 
have a little bit of discussion if we are going to be looking at ways 
to stop folks from coming in.
  I would remind folks what happened in 2015 and what happened in 2019 
under President Trump and under President Obama, that is, we worked 
with Mexico, not to keep them there, but actually for them to secure 
their southern border with Guatemala. We need to do that again.
  If we are able to do that, I think we should be able to address that 
issue. I do support MPP, but this amendment is trying to stop funding 
for something that doesn't exist. For that reason, I will ask my 
colleagues to vote ``no,'' and I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROY. Madam Chair, the termination of this program resulted in a 
decrease by 64 percent for illegal alien apprehensions between ports of 
entries or found inadmissible at ports of entry.
  Border encounters with Central American families--the main driver of 
the crisis for the better part of the first 2 years, comprised the 
majority of the MPP-amenable aliens--dropped by 80 percent.
  A report found MPP to be ``an indispensable tool in addressing the 
ongoing crisis at the southern border and restoring integrity to the 
immigration system.''
  The purpose of the amendment is to ensure that we are not continuing 
to fund the ending of the kinds of programs that could be successful--
that is the point. We are putting restrictions on the extent to which 
the administration can ignore the tools that it should be using.
  Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                  Amendment No. 77 Offered by Mr. Roy

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 77 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mr. ROY. Madam 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 the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to carry out the Department of Homeland Security 
     memorandum titled ``Guidelines for Enforcement Actions in or 
     Near Protected Areas''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Roy) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. ROY. Madam Chair, the amendment before us is pretty simple. It 
prohibits funding from this Act to carry out the Department of Homeland 
Security's memo titled ``Guidelines for Enforcement Actions in or Near 
Protected Areas.''
  The Biden administration issued a memo prohibiting ICE from arresting 
illegal migrants in most public places. If you look at a map, there are 
literally circles drawn that pretty much cover an entire geographic 
region. Effectively, they are making it impossible for ICE to do its 
job.
  It is purposeful, and this amendment is pretty simple: Don't use 
money to do this stupid thing.
  Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I claim time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, we had an opportunity for the last 2 fiscal 
years to put $2 billion to support CBP, including ICE, and that was a 
15 percent increase. We had an opportunity to vote on it, and there 
were folks that did not support these particular moneys for Homeland.
  I have full faith in the men and women that work for DHS, they are 
capable of carrying out their Federal law enforcement responsibilities 
and of carrying out their statutory authorities.
  This amendment is not needed. I support ICE and they will carry out 
the work that needs to be done so they can enforce immigration law.
  Madam Chair, I ask my colleagues to vote ``no,'' and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. ROY. Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                  Amendment No. 78 Offered by Mr. Roy

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 78 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Mr. ROY. Madam 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 the bill (before the short title) insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
     used to implement any of the following executive orders:
       (1) Executive Order 13990, relating to Protecting Public 
     Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle 
     the Climate Crisis.
       (2) Executive Order 14008, relating to Tackling the Climate 
     Crisis at Home and Abroad.
       (3) Section 6 of Executive Order 14013, relating to 
     Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs To Resettle Refugees and 
     Planning for the Impact of Climate Change on Migration.
       (4) Executive Order 14030, relating to Climate-Related 
     Financial Risk.
       (5) Executive Order 14057, relating to Catalyzing Clean 
     Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability.
       (6) Executive Order 14082, relating to Implementation of 
     the Energy and Infrastructure Provisions of the Inflation 
     Reduction Act of 2022.
       (7) Executive Order 14096, relating to Revitalizing Our 
     Nation's Commitment to Environmental Justice for All.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Roy) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. ROY. Madam Chair, this amendment prohibits--as I have done in a 
number of our other appropriations bills, successfully so far. This 
amendment prohibits any of the funding in the Homeland Security 
appropriations bill from being used to carry out President Biden's 
executive orders on climate change.
  These executive orders are pursuing a climate fetish to the detriment 
of our ability to have national security and energy security. It is 
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dependent on China and foreign sources of energy. It is making lives 
more difficult for the American people.
  Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security, has literally 
said, the climate crisis is the most prominent threat we face. 
Meanwhile, we have had 6 million migrant encounters, 2 million releases 
in our country, and 70-some-thousand Americans die from fentanyl 
poisoning. There are little girls and migrants getting abused in the 
sex trafficking trade and getting distributed through the United 
States. That is what the Secretary focuses on. It is absurd. This is 
pretty simple: Stop doing that.
  Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I claim time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I stand in opposition, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. ROY. Madam Chair, I appreciate the brevity of my colleague, and I 
yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                Amendment No. 79 Offered by Mr. Tiffany

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 79 
printed in part D of House Report 118-216.
  Mr. TIFFANY. Madam 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 the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used in contravention of section 642(a) of the Illegal 
     Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 
     (8 U.S.C. 1373(a)).

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentleman 
from Wisconsin (Mr. Tiffany) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Wisconsin.
  Mr. TIFFANY. Madam Chair, my amendment would prevent State and local 
governments who refuse to cooperate with Federal immigration 
authorities from being able to obtain Federal funds under this Act.
  These so-called sanctuary city policies are nothing new. They are 
also illegal. In fact, they have been illegal since Bill Clinton signed 
a law making them illegal in the 1990s.
  As we have seen in recent months, these misguided policies serve as a 
magnet for illegal aliens--overwhelming schools, hospitals, and other 
local services.
  New York Mayor Eric Adams recently conceded that the tidal wave of 
illegal immigrants flooding into his sanctuary city will cost Big Apple 
residents a staggering $12 billion. He went on to say the influx will 
destroy his city.
  But there is more to this issue than dollars and cents. Because these 
policies prevent local law enforcement from reporting illegal aliens to 
ICE, police are often forced to release foreign criminals from custody 
who, of course, go on to target new victims. That doesn't just put 
sanctuary cities at risk, it puts every other neighboring community at 
risk, too.
  Madam Chair, why are Americans being forced to finance the dangerous 
and illegal policies of sanctuary cities like New York and Chicago?
  Why are we being asked to pick up the tab for the problems these 
jurisdictions are bringing upon themselves?
  It is time to stop rewarding bad behavior.
  If you make an affirmative decision to violate Federal law, then you 
should be prepared to forego Federal funds.
  Madam Chair, I ask for a ``yes'' vote, and I reserve the balance of 
my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I claim time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I rise in opposition, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. TIFFANY. Madam Chair, I would just conclude by saying, let's take 
New York City as an example. In the Natural Resources Committee today 
we had a hearing in regards to a national park in New York that is now 
being used as an encampment for illegal aliens. What is next?
  Is it Yosemite next? Is it Yellowstone next? Is it the national 
seashore that is in my district, the Apostle Islands National 
Lakeshore. Where next will they do this?
  Plus, they ignore the NEPA process, something that the other side 
talks constantly about--we must follow the NEPA process. They are 
gutting it.
  It shows what the goals of the Biden administration are. It is the-
ends-that-justify-the-means mentality. They will do anything to 
continue the invasion of our country.
  Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Tiffany).
  The amendment was agreed to.


              Amendment No. 80 Offered by Ms. Malliotakis

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 80 
printed in part B of House Report 118-216.
  Ms. MALLIOTAKIS. Madam 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 the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to provide assistance to the Department of Defense to 
     house persons at military installations in the United States, 
     except in the case of a major disaster declaration made 
     pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
     Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), or for 
     U.S. Coast Guard personnel.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 723, the gentlewoman 
from New York (Ms. Malliotakis) and a Member opposed each will control 
5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from New York.
  Ms. MALLIOTAKIS. Madam Chair, my amendment would prohibit any funds 
from being used by the Department of Homeland Security to assist the 
Department of Defense to house illegal immigrants at military 
installations within the United States, specifically, referring to 
Coast Guard bases.
  I had an amendment earlier today that passed by voice vote with no 
opposition. The reason why this is needed, unfortunately, is because 
the Governor of New York State, which I represent, sent a letter on May 
12 to President Biden requesting that national parks as well as 
military installations and naval resources in and across the northeast 
be utilized as available space to maintain critical and essential 
public services to shelter and house migrants.
  I know that it is hard to believe that in a post-9/11 world, the 
Governor of New York, of all places, would actually want to house 
citizens of other countries on our military installations, but sadly, 
that is the reality of what my Governor is requesting of the 
administration.
  It is not the first time that this has been considered. Under the 
Obama administration, they had identified a number of bases that were 
accommodating individuals who were citizens of other countries, 
including the Army base in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, an Air Force base in 
San Antonio, Texas, and a naval base in southern California.
  I think it is particularly important to note that we found roughly 
250 individuals on the terror watch list at the southern border, but 
that does not include those individuals who are among the 1.7 million 
who have entered our country without any interaction with our 
government or our law enforcement.
  There is a concern there that we didn't know who they are, where they 
are, and what their intentions are. They could very well turn up in New 
York City and try to demand housing because our mayor continues to 
incentivize illegal immigration and people to come to New York City to 
do so.

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  Mr. Chair, I think, again, in a post- 9/11 world, it would be 
ridiculous to allow citizens of other countries to become residents of 
our military installations. I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.

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  Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Chair, I think I know what my friend from New York 
is trying to get to, but, again, I would ask that she please look at 
the language here. The language says section, and then there is a 
blank, followed by ``None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to provide assistance to the Department of Defense to house 
persons . . . '' Persons.
  What do we mean by persons? Undocumented? Military folks? Or do we 
only house animals? But it says any person at military installations 
except if they are there because of the Stafford Act or U.S. Coast 
Guard personnel. Even that ``personnel,'' that means personnel, a Coast 
Guard officer can stay there, but their families or dependents cannot 
stay there.
  Again, I know what they are trying to get at, but I think this 
language, the way it was drafted by the attorneys, will probably do 
more harm because, again, you cannot house any person except for 
Stafford or Coast Guard personnel, but not their families.
  Again, I don't know if you want to withdraw that or if we could 
consider this, but the way this is drafted, I would ask her to please 
look at this carefully.
  For those reasons, I would oppose this amendment, and I yield back 
the balance of my time.
  Ms. MALLIOTAKIS. Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Malliotakis).
  The amendment was agreed to.
  Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Madam Chair, I move that the Committee do now 
rise.
  The motion was agreed to.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
Tiffany) having assumed the chair, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, 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. 
4367) making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes, had 
come to no resolution thereon.

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