[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 159 (Friday, September 29, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H4861-H4869]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 5525, CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS AND 
                 BORDER SECURITY ENHANCEMENT ACT, 2024

  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Madam Speaker, by direction of the Committee on 
Rules, I call up House Resolution 741 and ask for its immediate 
consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 741

       Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be 
     in order to consider in the House the bill (H.R. 5525) making 
     continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2024, and for other 
     purposes. All points of order against consideration of the 
     bill are waived. The amendments printed in the report of the 
     Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution shall be 
     considered as adopted.
       The bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. All 
     points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended, 
     are waived. The previous question shall be considered as 
     ordered on the bill, as amended, and on any further amendment 
     thereto to final passage without intervening motion except: 
     (1) one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the 
     chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
     Appropriations or their respective designees; and (2) one 
     motion to recommit.
       Sec. 2. Upon passage of H.R. 5525 the title of such bill is 
     amended to read as follows: ``Reducing spending, securing the 
     border, and for other purposes.''.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is 
recognized for 1 hour.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Madam Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I 
yield the customary 30 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from 
Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern), my good friend, pending which I yield 
myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this 
resolution, all time yielded is for the purpose of debate only.


                             General Leave

  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that

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all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend 
their remarks.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Speaker, I rise in support of this rule and in support of the 
underlying legislation. House Resolution 741 provides for consideration 
of H.R. 5525, the Spending Reduction and Border Security Act, under a 
closed rule, with 1 hour of debate equally divided and controlled by 
the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
Appropriations or their respective designees, and provides one motion 
to recommit.
  Madam Speaker, I rise today to support the underlying legislation, 
which fully funds programs for our Nation's veterans, servicemembers, 
and the Department of Homeland Security while reducing other 
discretionary spending.
  Additionally, H.R. 5525 secures our southern border by resuming 
construction of the wall, increases the number of Border Patrol agents, 
and reforms our asylum laws to disincentivize mass illegal immigration.
  Under the President's disastrous immigration policies, over 7 million 
illegal immigrants have entered our country, while nearly 50,000 pounds 
of fentanyl have flooded across our border. That is enough to kill 
every single person on the entire planet. This crisis must end. It will 
only end through efforts of House Republicans.
  Finally, this legislation includes an important provision authorized 
by the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Huizenga), which establishes a 
bipartisan fiscal commission that addresses our out-of-control debt. 
While the Senate figures out what type of clothes to wear, House 
Republicans have put forth a plan which averts a government shutdown, 
restores fiscal responsibility, and addresses the Biden border crisis.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this rule, and I 
reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania, 
my good friend, for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield 
myself such time as I may consume.
  Madam Speaker, I will just take a moment first to recognize the loss 
of our dear colleague and historic trailblazer, Dianne Feinstein. The 
longest serving woman in the United States Senate, Senator Feinstein 
was a political giant.
  She fought hard for her constituents in California, passionately 
defended American civil liberties, and was a strong voice for national 
security as chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
  She broke more glass ceilings in her career than most thought was 
possible, and she will be missed. She left behind an incredible legacy. 
May she rest in peace.
  Now, Madam Speaker, I have the unfortunate task of turning to the 
business before us, a CR that the Republicans have brought forward.
  Again, I mentioned legacy with regard to Senator Feinstein. I ask my 
friends, is this their legacy? Is this what they want people to 
remember their service by? This bill, that was just dropped on us a few 
hours ago, really is a piece of garbage, and that is putting it nicely.
  Madam Speaker, the clock is ticking; less than 40 hours from a total 
MAGA Republican government shutdown. Less than 40 hours, and today we 
are here to consider the Republicans' latest continuing resolution that 
has absolutely no chance of becoming law. This version of the CR we are 
considering won't pass the Senate. It just won't. We all know that. 
Hell, I don't even think it is going to pass the House, it is so bad; 
and it will not be signed into law by President Biden. We all know 
that.
  We got this text late last night, and thanks to the quick work of 
Democratic Rules and Appropriations staff, we have some preliminary 
analysis about what this CR means for the American people. Let me tell 
you, the cuts in this bill are even worse than what was proposed 
before. They are going in the wrong direction.
  House Republicans' earliest CR slashed essential programs by 8 
percent, an 8 percent across-the-board mindless cut. This new version 
now has across-the-board cuts by 30 percent or more; by 30 percent or 
more. It is effectively a partial shutdown bill.
  They slash investments in cancer research. They eliminate public 
education by cutting funding for Head Start. They fail to support 
communities recovering from natural disasters. It cuts money for 
wildfire suppression by 50 percent. Haven't they been paying attention? 
The wildfires in Maui and in the western part of the Country. I mean, 
communities are desperate for help, and my friends propose a bill that 
would cut money for wildfire suppression by 57 percent. What planet are 
my friends living on?

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  They cut loans and grants for farmers in rural communities. They 
defund law enforcement. Republicans want to talk about fentanyl? They 
cut money from the DEA.
  What are they thinking? You can't make this stuff up, Madam Speaker.
  We estimate that if Republicans get their way, if this thing were 
ever to become law, up to 1 million seniors will be kicked off of Meals 
on Wheels.
  My friend from Pennsylvania talks about, oh, we are upholding our 
obligation to protect our national security. I will remind the 
gentleman and my friends on the other side of the aisle that national 
security means more than the number of bombs we have in our arsenal. It 
means the quality of life for our people. It means whether or not our 
senior citizens have security in their retirement years. It means 
whether they have access to food. It means whether or not people have 
jobs and whether or not people can have a decent living in this 
country. That has to be part of the discussion on national security, 
and this bill just blows all that up.
  We expect WIC to get at least a 30 percent cut. Women, infants, and 
children will go hungry because of Republicans' misplaced priorities. 
Talk about cruelty.
  In the Rules Committee just not too long ago this morning, I asked my 
friends, who claim that they were well-versed in all the details of 
this bill, is the 30 percent cut in WIC accurate? Is that correct? 
There was silence. How many women, infants, and children will be cut 
off from the benefit if this were to pass? There was silence. No one 
knows.
  We do know, thanks to the work of the staff, that there is a 30 
percent cut and a 74 percent cut in LIHEAP, a program that keeps 
Americans warm during the winter. I come from the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts. We have cold winters. The gentleman comes from 
Pennsylvania. It gets cold in Pennsylvania, too. Winter is coming. 
Everybody represents constituencies that rely on this program to heat 
their homes, and my friends cut it by 74 percent.
  What are my friends thinking? Give me a goddamn break. This is wrong.
  What are you doing? When it comes to keeping seniors warm or 
providing pregnant mothers and their babies food, Republicans have a 
problem, but the sky is the limit if it is a defense contract--cost 
overruns be dammed. They have no problem with tax cuts for corporations 
or for millionaires or billionaires, no problem with heaping more 
subsidy giveaways to the fossil fuel industry.
  Let me just say, we do not share the same values, and this is proof 
of that, Madam Speaker. This is proof of that.
  This majority is a failure. The day Speaker McCarthy handed his gavel 
over to the MAGA/QAnon fringe, this was the inevitable outcome. The 
government will shut down tomorrow. Let me repeat that: The government 
will shut down tomorrow.
  Let me say to my Republican friends: You own this. You did this, and 
this is just plain stupid. Stop wasting time and work with us to get 
this done in a bipartisan way.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to 
join us in defeating this rule. I mean, we are wasting time today. This 
is a total waste of time. Let's defeat this rule and force the Rules 
Committee to go back up and come up with a rule that will allow a 
bipartisan bill to come before the floor. Let's end this clown show 
once and for all.

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  The American people are watching. They are frustrated by all of this, 
and I hope that my friends on the other side of the aisle, my moderate 
friends on the other side of the aisle, will join us in defeating this 
rule. We appreciate the statements that have been made, calling out the 
incompetence of the Republican leadership, but now I think it is time 
to put your votes where your quotes are.
  We have to stop this. Now is the time to send that message, and I 
reserve the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from the use 
of profanity.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Madam Speaker, if my friend from Massachusetts is 
worried about energy prices in Boston, there is an easy solution. You 
can import liquefied natural gas from Pennsylvania, which is cheap and 
abundant.
  Unfortunately, Democrats in New England and New York have refused to 
build the Constitution Pipeline, which would actually bring LNG into 
New England. Instead, people in Boston are paying higher prices for the 
petroleum that is coming in from tankers from--guess where--Russia. 
Again, just complete circular logic from my friends across the aisle.
  Now, let's talk about not only the high energy prices that the middle 
and working class have to pay because of Democratic policies but also 
how real wages are down.
  Inflation-adjusted average hourly wages were $11.39 when Biden took 
office. They are now at $11.04, meaning that Americans have seen a 3.1 
percent pay cut under Biden. You might think that it is only 3.1 
percent, but let's talk about inflation.
  Prices have risen 17.4 percent since President Biden took office. 
That is roughly a 20 percent cut, so who is really working for the 
middle class and looking out for the working class? It is not President 
Biden.
  You also have another crisis, which is totally ignored, and that is 
the immigration crisis. Before I yield to my good friend from New York, 
let's just talk about New York.
  In New York, the immigration crisis has led to over 100,000 migrant 
arrivals in 2022, which the mayor says is destroying the city. New York 
City Mayor Eric Adams said: ``We are about to experience a financial 
tsunami that I don't think the city has ever experienced.''
  The mayor also said: ``The national government has turned its back on 
New York City.''
  Well, Mayor, it is not the national government that turned its back 
on you. It is the Democratic President and the Democrats in Congress.

  Madam Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. 
Lawler).
  Mr. LAWLER. Madam Speaker, 75 percent of Americans believe we are 
headed in the wrong direction, according to nearly every single 
national poll.
  NBC News recently had a poll that showed Republicans outperform 
Democrats by 21 points on the question of who is better equipped to 
handle the economy. Why? Because Bidenomics has been an absolute 
disaster.
  There is record inflation, skyrocketing energy prices, higher grocery 
bills. People are struggling. This administration has increased 
spending by over $5 trillion in new spending in just 2 years.
  The American people elected a House Republican majority to serve as a 
check and balance on this administration and on the Senate, but also to 
govern.
  There are real challenges in this country, starting with our economy: 
our reckless out-of-control spending; the cost of living; our long-term 
debt crossing $33 trillion; the fact that if we do nothing, Social 
Security and Medicare will both go broke within the next decade; and 
then, of course, immigration and the crisis at our southern border.
  Since Joe Biden took office, 6 million migrants have crossed our 
southern border, many of them illegally. Asylum cases are taking 2 to 3 
years at a minimum to be heard. This administration has failed to 
combat the malign influence of the cartels trafficking women and 
children, trafficking drugs, and fentanyl pouring into our communities, 
killing 70,000 Americans just last year.
  It is shameful, yet what do the American people see? They see a 
government on the precipice of a shutdown.
  My colleagues across the aisle will pin it squarely on the 
Republicans, but let's be clear: Through this appropriations process, 
we have now passed four appropriations bills through the House. Senator 
Schumer and Senate Democrats have passed exactly zero appropriations 
bills through the Senate.
  Our fiscal year ends tomorrow, so Congress has not done its work to 
pass these appropriations bills, either through the House or the 
Senate, by the September 30 deadline.
  I agree with my colleagues in the House Republican majority that we 
need to pass single-subject appropriations bills. The committee has 
been doing that work. It is important work, but it takes time. It takes 
time to go line by line and break the way this place has operated for 
three decades, and we need time to complete that work.
  Shutting down the government will serve no purpose whatsoever, and in 
fact, it will tank an already fragile economy because of the Biden 
administration's policies.
  Our veterans, our seniors, our Active-Duty military, all the 
employees within the Federal Government will be hurt by a shutdown. Our 
stock market and our 401(k)'s will be impacted.
  There is absolutely no reason for a shutdown, and it is imperative 
that we, in the House, lead, govern, and pass a continuing resolution 
to keep the government funded short-term while we finish our work.
  People can blame leadership. People can say that we should have done 
this back in July. I would remind some of those very people that they 
refused to move rules. They refused to move some of these bills because 
they wanted more cuts, and that is fine. That is democracy.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Madam Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to 
the gentleman from New York.
  Mr. LAWLER. Madam Speaker, unlike the previous Speaker, this Speaker 
has allowed this place to actually function as a democracy. He is not 
ruling it with an iron fist. So many people complained about the way 
that it was previously run, and now they kind of want it run like that 
again. It is not the way we should operate.
  We need to pass a CR. Any CR in a divided government ultimately will 
be bipartisan. We all know that. There is no partisan CR that is going 
to become law in a divided government, but we have to negotiate and 
have to get to that point.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman's commentary 
and his critique of Republican leadership, but what I didn't hear is 
how he was going to vote on this rule or how he is going to vote on the 
underlying bill.
  The bottom line is, quotes are fine, but votes are better. Votes are 
more important here.
  By the way, this bill that we are talking about guts things like 
LIHEAP, cuts it by 74 percent, which will impact people in New York, 
which will impact people in Pennsylvania and all over this country.
  The bottom line, Madam Speaker, is that if we want to get rid of the 
nonsense and get to the business of funding government in a bipartisan 
way, then we need to stop this now. We need to sit in a room in a 
bipartisan way and figure this out.

  That is what the United States Senate is doing. My Republican friends 
have never once talked to the Democratic leadership here about trying 
to come up with a compromise. Republicans never once talked to our 
ranking members about how we come to a middle ground. It has always 
been their way or the highway.
  By the way, it is not just their way. It is their far-rightwing way, 
going way, way in the wrong direction.
  Madam Speaker, the CR we are considering in this rule is not just 
shameful. It is a partisan measure. It is also, as I have said, a 
complete waste of time, time we do not have.
  Tomorrow, the government shuts down. This will not keep the 
government open. It will not keep it functioning for the American 
people. It does the opposite. It ensures a shutdown will occur, and if 
anybody is opposed to a shutdown, then stand with

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us right now and say no to this nonsense.
  Madam Speaker, I am urging that we defeat the previous question, and 
if we do, I will offer an amendment to the rule for swift consideration 
of the Senate's bipartisan continuing resolution to fund the government 
after they send it to the House.
  Once we receive the Senate CR, the chair and/or ranking member of the 
Appropriations Committee can call it up as a privileged question 
without further action from the Rules Committee.
  There will be 1 hour of debate, and the House will have an up or down 
vote on keeping the government running while full-year funding is being 
negotiated. We can send the bill straight to the President's desk.
  During the 2013 shutdown, a Senate CR was privileged under the House 
rules until the Republican majority turned that off.
  We aren't even at the procedural stage yet because House Republicans 
have failed to advance any real plan to fund the government.

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  They would rather fight with one another than negotiate with the 
Senate.
  Some have even openly called for a government shutdown, and we have 
been through those quotes of Republican after Republican saying they 
relish a government shutdown.
  We can fix this right now. If anything deserves to be privileged for 
consideration on this floor, it is a bill to keep the government open. 
That is so vitally important, Madam Speaker.
  Clearly, it is time for the adults in the room to step up to the 
plate. We need to give Congress more time.
  Again, I ask my moderate friends on the other side of the aisle not 
to follow the fringe of their party down this path. It is my hope that 
some reasonable Republicans who are interested in governing will join 
with us in this effort.
  So reject this insanity of cheering on a government shutdown and 
abandon the sinking ship that is MAGA extremism. Moderates have a 
chance to say enough is enough. A bipartisan CR would be temporary, but 
it is better than nothing. We need the time to work all this stuff out.
  Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to insert the text of my 
amendment into the Record along with any extraneous materials 
immediately prior to the vote on the previous question.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Massachusetts?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from 
Colorado (Mr. Neguse), to discuss our proposal.
  Mr. NEGUSE. Madam Speaker, I thank the ranking member for yielding.
  I would simply say to my colleague from New York, if you don't want a 
shutdown, if you are trying to prevent a shutdown, prove it.
  There is a simple way to prove it, Madam Speaker. Defeat the previous 
question so we can consider a simple amendment, an amendment that does 
one thing, that let's this body take an up or down vote on the 
bipartisan Republican and Democratic Senate continuing resolution that 
is being negotiated as we speak. That is it. It gives that resolution 
privilege so that this House can consider it, can take that up or down 
vote and ensure that the government stays funded, Madam Speaker.
  If you are not prepared to do that, if my colleagues aren't prepared 
to do that, then please spare us these supposed concerns for a 
government shutdown that you have engineered from the start.
  You want to talk about blame, Madam Speaker, here is a quote, and 
this is not my quote.

       This is not conservatism. This is stupidity. The idea that 
     we are going to shut the government down when we don't 
     control the Senate, when we don't control the White House. 
     These people can't define a win. They don't know how to take 
     yes for an answer. It is a clown show. You keep running 
     lunatics, this is what you are going to have.

  These are not my words, Madam Speaker. These are the words of the 
gentleman from New York. If he doesn't want to be a part of this clown 
show--I don't disagree with him, by the way. I don't think the American 
people disagree with him either.
  Clearly, the House Republican Caucus is in dysfunction and chaos, but 
there is an easy way for him to leave this clown show and govern with 
Republican Senators, Democratic Senators, with your colleagues on this 
side of the aisle, defeat the previous question and support the 
amendment and let's have the debate on a bipartisan CR that keeps our 
government funded.
  I don't know how a Member can vote for the previous question and 
deprive this body of an opportunity to vote on that bipartisan CR. I 
don't know how you go back and tell the tens of thousands, hundreds of 
thousands of troops and law enforcement officers and Border Patrol 
agents who will be forced to work without pay that you decided that 
this body shouldn't vote on a stopgap measure to keep the government 
running. I don't know how you do that.
  I can tell you this: The American people well understand the 
Republican plan that they have brought to the floor. You do not get to 
have it both ways. You don't get to say that you support law 
enforcement and fentanyl interdiction and then put a bill on the floor 
that cuts the DEA, that cuts the FBI, that will harm State and local 
law enforcement officers.
  You do not get to say you care about public safety and then put a 
bill on the floor that cuts, by more than 50 percent, wildland fire 
suppression in States like Colorado, the State that I happen to be 
honored to represent in the United States Congress. You do not get to 
have it both ways.
  The time for political games is over.
  We have 24 hours to go, Madam Speaker. Let's defeat the previous 
question and let's pass this amendment to keep the government up and 
running.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman 
from New York (Mr. Lawler), for the purpose of rebuttal.
  Mr. LAWLER. Madam Speaker, it is always great to listen to DCCC 
talking points. At a very time when Leader Jeffries said that he would 
not politicize this potential shutdown in a meeting of the Problem 
Solvers Caucus, that very day the DCCC and House Majority Forward 
announced million-dollar ad campaigns--mail, TV--attacking individuals 
like me on the issue of a shutdown, despite me saying very clearly that 
I oppose a shutdown.
  So we know that on the other side they actually want a shutdown. They 
relish it because they think it will benefit them politically.
  Here is what you never hear from them: They don't want to deal with 
the border, they don't want to shut down the border. They don't want to 
deal with spending cuts. They want to increase spending. They don't 
want to deal with our long-term debt. They want to blow it through the 
roof.
  We have real challenges in this country, and, yes, we need to work in 
a bipartisan manner.
  When Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, is saying the migrant 
crisis is destroying New York City, that it is going to cost them more 
than $12 billion; when Kathy Hochul, the Governor of New York says 
there is no more room at the inn, despite sanctuary city policies, 
right to shelter, the use of taxpayer money to give free housing, 
healthcare, education, clothing, and food to illegal immigrants, and a 
refusal to cooperate with ICE and law enforcement, spare me your 
righteous indignation.
  None of you are willing to actually tackle the challenges. You are 
looking to use this as a vehicle to win back the majority. That is it.
  I am actually willing to work across the aisle. I signed on to the 
Problem Solvers CR. Join us in that. Not a single one of you have.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to direct their remarks 
to the Chair.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I wonder whether the DCCC writes the 
gentleman's speeches because what the gentleman from Colorado quoted 
was his words in a speech. Talk is cheap around here. Votes are the 
currency of the realm in this place.
  The choice is clear, and the gentleman has made clear where he 
stands.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania 
(Ms. Scanlon), a distinguished member of the Rules Committee.
  Ms. SCANLON. Madam Speaker, I thank the ranking member for yielding.

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  We are 37 hours, 6 minutes and 25 seconds away from a shutdown, an 
unnecessary and devastating government shutdown after wasting weeks on 
rightwing messaging points and bills.
  Here, the majority has brought to this floor not a responsible short-
term funding bill, but more of the same posturing, dangerous, and 
unrealistic games to placate the most extreme factions in their party. 
It is well past time for the chaos caucus to get serious about 
governing.
  Funding the Federal Government is Congress' most basic duty and this 
colossal failure of the Speaker and House Republicans to keep the 
lights on across this country will cause real harm to our economy and 
to hardworking families.
  These aren't just numbers. These are real people whose lives will be 
upended. This shutdown means senior citizens won't be able to heat 
their homes because this CR cuts 74 percent from the LIHEAP budget. 
That is a $137 million cut to LIHEAP in Pennsylvania alone. That is 
over 342,000 families who are counting on this program and who will be 
left in the cold in October. Just a few hours from now are when those 
funds should start to become available.
  This shutdown means that mothers and babies in my district will go 
hungry because their WIC benefits will be cut. It means that teachers 
will be kicked out of their classrooms that need them most because of 
draconian cuts to the IDEA and Title 1. Cuts to Title 1 and IDEA 
equates to nearly 150,000 teachers and service providers being cut from 
our public schools where they need help the most.
  Approximately 275,000 children will lose access to Head Start, 
undermining early education for them and their futures, and harming 
their parents' ability to go to work.
  My district is home to the Philadelphia airport. TSA workers and 
travelers alike will be affected by delays.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the 
gentlewoman from Pennsylvania.
  Ms. SCANLON. Madam Speaker, the last time the Republicans shut down 
the government in 2018-2019, we had to run food drives to feed TSA 
workers who were required to show up but were not paid. Some of them 
lost their jobs when they lost their cars, doubling down on the harm.
  Look, a Republican government shutdown is going to hurt working 
families, interrupt vital services, damage our economy, endanger our 
national security, force millions of our troops and government 
employees to work without pay, all because Speaker McCarthy has turned 
over the House of Representatives to the most extreme Members of his 
caucus.
  Meanwhile, House Democrats, bipartisan Senate leadership, and 
President Biden are working together to keep the lights on.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentlewoman from Indiana (Mrs. Spartz), my good friend.
  Mrs. SPARTZ. Madam Chair, unfortunately, muscle memory is very strong 
in Washington, D.C.
  Unfortunately, Wall Street and K street are very powerful in 
Washington, D.C.

  Fortunately, we have people on the Republican side that are willing 
to stand up for Main Street, willing to challenge their own leadership 
to deliver on issues of national security.
  This institution went through tougher times. We deliberated a lot of 
issues, but we used to be able to come together on issues of national 
security and our border security. Our destructive debt situation is 
destroying American lives.
  I hope the other side will join Republicans to win this battle for 
the American people. It shouldn't be a political issue, politicized. If 
this government cannot deliver maybe it is worth it to shut it down. 
What is it for then? If we cannot come together on this, then we are 
not worthwhile to represent the American people.
  So I hope that the other side stops being sheep and starts to 
actually not be afraid to challenge their own leadership and do 
something for this country because American people are sick and tired 
of us being worthless. We need to protect this country because if we 
don't save this Republic, no one else around the world will be able to 
defeat a lot of enemies, foreign and domestic.
  I will tell you one thing, there is nothing unreasonable or extreme 
to serve the people, to secure the border, and deal with our debt.
  I would appreciate it if the other side wakes up and supports 
Republicans.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I would just say to the gentlewoman, we 
are not here to support Republicans. We are here to support our 
constituents.
  Madam Speaker, if the President were presented with H.R. 5525, he 
would veto it, so this is a complete waste of time.
  Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to include in a Record a 
Statement of Administration Policy on this underlying bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Massachusetts?
  There was no objection.

                   Statement of Administration Policy


  H.R. 5525--Spending Reduction and Border Security Act, 2024--(Rep. 
                             Donalds, R-FL)

       The Administration strongly opposes House passage of H.R. 
     5525, making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2024, 
     and for other purposes. Hours before a Government shutdown, 
     House Republicans are playing partisan games instead of 
     working in a bipartisan manner to fund the Government and 
     address emergency needs.
       In a blatant violation of the funding agreement the Speaker 
     and the President reached just a few months ago, the bill 
     endangers the vital programs Americans rely on by making 
     reckless cuts to programs, regardless of the consequences for 
     critical services from education to food safety to law 
     enforcement to housing to public health. It also fails to 
     address key emergency funding needs where lives are at stake, 
     ignoring the Administration's request for resources to combat 
     the fentanyl crisis and effectively manage the border, 
     support the people of Ukraine as they defend their homeland 
     from Russia's illegal war, and stand with communities across 
     America as they recover from natural disasters.
       In addition, H.R. 5525 fails to provide the resources 
     needed to avoid severe disruptions to Government services--
     risking unnecessary delays for travelers by underfunding the 
     Federal Aviation Administration; loss of access to nutritious 
     food for pregnant and postpartum women and children by 
     underfunding the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for 
     Women, Infants, and Children; and deterioration in service 
     for the over 71 million Americans who rely on the income 
     support Social Security programs provide.
       The bill also includes harmful, partisan border legislation 
     that would further exacerbate the challenges at the border. 
     It would cut off most access to humanitarian protections in 
     ways that are inconsistent with the Nation's values and 
     international obligations. In addition, the bill would make 
     processing less efficient by prohibiting the use of the CBP 
     One mobile application to process noncitizens and restricting 
     the Department of Homeland Security's parole authority, such 
     that successful programs, like ``Uniting for Ukraine,'' would 
     be prohibited. House Republicans propose these harmful 
     policies while providing none of the supplemental funding 
     needed to manage the border; we need real actions to secure 
     the border.
       The Administration urges House Republicans to follow the 
     Senate's lead and engage in a bipartisan appropriations 
     process that funds the Federal Government in a responsible 
     manner, consistent with the bipartisan agreement earlier this 
     year.
       If the President were presented with H.R. 5525, he would 
     veto it.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman 
from New Mexico (Ms. Leger Fernandez).
  Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ. Madam Speaker, this extreme Republican bill 
reveals their mean-spirited values more than any words they utter. 
Those values are to kick 275,000 young, 4-year-old children out of Head 
Start.
  Republicans hypocritically talk about fentanyl but then defund the 
law enforcement officers who seize this deadly drug. This bill deprives 
that brother, sister, daughter, a friend of yours that you might have 
who is battling mental health or addiction, of the funds they use.
  Don't talk about fentanyl. Don't talk about addiction if you are not 
going to fund the law enforcement and the health resources we need to 
truly tackle that.
  Madam Speaker, then they slash BAA funding by 30 percent, including 
slashing the Tribal law enforcement officers who are out there also 
interdicting and protecting us from criminal activity.

                              {time}  1100

  The CR really reveals who extreme Republicans are--``sin verguenza,'' 
``without shame'' about hurting those

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most vulnerable, cutting programs for our world communities by 30 
percent.
  I stand for rural America--this bill does not, and it puts down our 
ranchers and farmers.
  If they don't get their way, what will they do? They will shut the 
government down.
  Let's remind everybody, every time we have a government shutdown of 
any note, it is because Republicans did it under their leadership, and 
they hurt everybody in the process. And why? To protect the rich and 
the wealthy.
  To protect the rich and the wealthy, the extreme Republicans will cut 
Social Security. They have said it. We have the words. They will do it. 
They will slash public school funding horribly--horribly--for those 
schools that most need it. They will criminalize abortion. Over and 
over again they have told us what they intend to do in their 
appropriation bills. They are going to make it hard for women to get 
access to the healthcare they need and they deserve everywhere.
  I say that this bill is ``sin verguenza,'' ``without shame.''
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Madam Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman 
from Michigan (Mr. Huizenga), my good friend.
  Mr. HUIZENGA. Madam Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman yielding.
  The short-term stop-gap government funding measure we are debating 
here today not only keeps our government open, which is very important, 
it responsibly reduces spending, makes critical reforms to secure the 
border, and, importantly, contains the text of my bipartisan bill to 
establish a fiscal debt commission.
  The Fiscal Commission Act of 2023 now included in this bill will 
create a commission that proposes recommendations to finally tackle our 
Nation's unsustainable debt trajectory in the medium and the long term.
  Furthermore, both Chambers of Congress will be required, Madam Chair, 
to take a vote on the commission's proposal.
  With this key provision, Congress can no longer kick the can down the 
road on the rapidly growing threat of our national debt.
  Given the bipartisan support of this legislation upon introduction, 
it is clear that both Republicans and Democrats understand that time is 
running out.
  The Federal Government is already spending more on interest on the 
national debt than it spends on children--something that my colleagues 
I know are very concerned about because they talk about it. The 
interest is already nearly more than what we spend on defense, and we 
are rapidly approaching a point where interest on the debt will be more 
than Social Security and Medicare.
  In building the Fiscal Commission Act of 2023, we learned from past 
commission mistakes and gave this legislation real teeth, practicality, 
urgency, and clear goals for Congress to come face-to-face with this 
massive challenge.
  Specifically, the commission is made up of 16 commissioners that 
include 12 Members of Congress, as well as 4 private-sector experts 
that are selected by leaders of both the House and the Senate.
  The commission is tasked with identifying policies to improve our 
fiscal situation in the medium term and to achieve a sustainable debt-
to-GDP ratio in the long term.
  Importantly, it will put forward solutions to ensure the solvency of 
our 20-plus trust funds for decades to come. The commission will also 
propose recommendations designed to balance the budget at the earliest 
reasonable date, including at minimum stabilizing the debt-to-GDP ratio 
at or below 100 percent within 10 years--all while addressing growth of 
direct spending and the gap between revenues and expenditures.
  The proposal will then come to Congress in the days shortly after the 
2024 election where the House and Senate must take an up-or-down vote 
on the recommendations without amendment and without delay.
  I am proud to say that joining me in the introduction of the Fiscal 
Commission Act of 2023 there were an even number of Republicans and 
Democrats.
  With this inclusion in the continuing resolution before us today, I 
urge all my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to keep our 
government open this week and secure our Nation's fiscal future for 
generations to come.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I remind the gentleman from Michigan 
that if the Republicans' shutdown moves forward, he has 5,607 people in 
his district who are Federal employees who will lose their paycheck.
  In the Rules Committee today, Madam Speaker, Democrats offered an 
amendment saying, yeah, we are happy to talk about how to keep Social 
Security and Medicare solvent, but we want to guarantee that we are not 
going to cut people's benefits, and the Republicans rejected that.
  We know what this is about. This is about going after Social Security 
and trying to make it solvent by cutting people's benefits, and 
Democrats are against that unequivocally.
  Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas 
(Ms. Jackson Lee).
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, the people of America are suffering. We 
have repeatedly told them that they are our priority, but the people of 
America are suffering while my colleagues insist on a government 
shutdown, which is what they are doing.
  Blatantly they have violated the very agreement that Speaker McCarthy 
and the President of the United States--two people holding the greatest 
trust--agreed to to be able to go forward on a funding scheme that 
would save the American people.
  Yet, we stand here today where my very constituents in Houston, 
Texas, are going to have the soldiers that served in our Nation's 
military not paid. It is going to have $2 billion in loans to small 
businesses not given. It is going to stop nearly 800,000 children from 
getting nutrition. It is going to stop 456 million people from getting 
housing, and yet, we are standing here stating that we are patriots?

  I don't want a government shutdown. Food safety will be, in essence, 
in jeopardy. Law enforcement will not be paid. These are the people who 
say we are pro-law enforcement, but, yet, they will not be paid.
  What goes on with the Senate? It is a bipartisan resolution that if 
we vote on it today as it comes across, the government will stay open.
  I support the previous question because the people of America are 
suffering, and I don't expect this draconian cutting of everything, 
losing salaries for the military, cutting out food benefits, cutting 
Social Security payments, cutting Medicare payments, Medicaid payments, 
to be our definition of individuals who are standing here working for 
the American people and fellow Houstonians.
  My commitment is to be here to insist that the government not close. 
I don't know why a commonsense continuing resolution cannot be passed.
  I do want to say that as this has been offered into the Record, the 
President's statement, how can we run government if a deal that Speaker 
McCarthy made with the President of the United States on behalf of the 
people of this Nation cannot be kept?
  As I stand here today, I want to say that people are suffering. Let 
us stop their suffering and keep the government open.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Gaetz).
  Mr. GAETZ. Mr. Speaker, the House of Representatives has passed 
funding bills to fund our veterans, our troops, our Border Patrol, our 
State and foreign ops.
  These are the core functions of government. The Senate should take up 
and pass those bills to make sure those folks are paid, and they should 
do it today.
  The rule we are on now advances a continuing resolution that weakens 
the Republican position on strong border policies.
  Just last night, we passed a Department of Homeland Security 
appropriations bill that was lashed to policy requirements at the 
Department of Homeland Security. They had to do certain things to fix 
the border to get the money, and one of those things was E-Verify.
  Last night, we stood together and we demanded that E-Verify be 
included if Mayorkas wanted the money, and this continuing resolution 
that the rule we are on now would facilitate strips E-Verify and takes 
it out. Why would Republicans just overnight back away

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from such a strong and necessary provision as E-Verify?
  I will be voting against this continuing resolution because I want 
House Republicans to have the strongest position on the border. The 
American people will come with us on that. We have just got to have the 
courage to lead and not surrender.
  I know big businesses don't want E-Verify, but we should want it 
anyway for the American worker.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I will point out to the gentleman who just 
spoke that the Senate can't even take up the Homeland Security 
appropriations bill because the way the Republicans wrote the rule was 
that they are not going to send it over until the Senate passes H.R. 2 
without changing a comma and the President signs it into law.
  Lots of luck with that.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, just remember that the Senate has 
passed zero appropriations bills.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Arizona (Mrs. 
Lesko).
  Mrs. LESKO. Mr. Speaker, I am in support of funding the government so 
our military, Border Patrol officers, and other dedicated employees 
that are protecting our Nation can continue with their job and get paid 
while they are doing it.
  I am also in support of House Republicans pushing and demanding that 
the Senate secure our border by including the bill that we have already 
passed out of this House, H.R. 2.
  One of the biggest crises in our Nation right now is a result of this 
administration's disastrous border policies.
  President Biden's policies have allowed 233,000 border crossings in 
just August of this year compared to 50,000 just 3 years ago under 
President Trump.
  Biden has invited 211,000 additional migrants to fly directly into 
the United States from their home foreign country.
  Biden has accepted 263,000 additional more migrants to apply for 
asylum via his new CBP One app.
  Biden has allowed 151 migrants to enter our country that are on the 
terrorist watch list--and that is just who we have caught.
  Biden has allowed migrant women and children to get raped by cartels. 
His policies have allowed young migrant children to be sold into sex 
slavery. His policies have allowed fentanyl to flood our border and 
kill our citizens.

  This has got to stop, and Republicans are here to stop it and protect 
our Nation.
  House Republicans have already passed a bill to secure our border 
that is now sitting over in the Senate waiting to be heard. Schumer 
won't even bring it up for a vote.
  It is time for the Democrat-controlled Senate to pass our border 
security bill. It is time for the insanity at our southern border to 
end. It is time to pass this bill and pressure the Democrats in the 
Senate to secure the border.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman 
from Colorado (Mr. Neguse), a distinguished member of the Rules 
Committee.
  Mr. NEGUSE. Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member for his 
indulgence, and I would be remiss to come back to the floor to simply 
say only in Washington can you have Members who claim they want to 
avoid a shutdown while they take every step to shut down the 
government.
  Only in Washington can you have Members who claim to support law 
enforcement while they promote a bill that cuts funding for law 
enforcement.
  Only in Washington can you claim that you want to secure the border 
while engineering a shutdown that will force Border Patrol agents to 
work without pay.
  Only in Washington can you claim that this so-called debt commission 
that they have designed will not harm programs like Social Security 
months after rolling out a plan--the Republican Study Committee in 
June--rolling out a plan that guts Social Security.
  My colleague from Pennsylvania is a member of that group. The 
gentleman from Michigan who spoke earlier, who apparently has proposed 
this amendment, is a member of that group. Why don't they be honest 
with the American people about their plans? Because they know the plan 
to cut Social Security is deeply unpopular, and, yet, they soldier on.
  Mr. Speaker, 24 hours, that is how much time we have. Defeat the 
previous question. Let's support the amendment to give an up-or-down 
vote on the bipartisan deal that Republicans and Senate Democrats have 
been working on. Let's keep the government up and running. Let's avert 
this extreme Republican government shutdown.

                              {time}  1115

  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to close, and I reserve 
the balance of my time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to the time remaining.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaLota). The gentleman from 
Massachusetts has 3\1/2\ minutes remaining.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Mr. Speaker, it is an absolute joke that we are here today dealing 
with this, as I said at the beginning of my remarks, piece of garbage. 
That is what it is. This is not a serious attempt at legislating. This 
is a MAGA Republican press release at best, and it is a lousy press 
release.
  All the priorities that are in this bill represent deep cuts to 
things that matter to Democrats. When we talk about national security, 
we don't only talk about the size of our military and the number of 
bombs we have. We talk about whether or not people in this country have 
access to jobs, whether they have food, whether or not we have good 
schools, whether or not people have access to healthcare and retirement 
security. We talk about things like the purity of our environment.
  My Republican friends talk about bombs and about tax cuts for the 
rich and for big corporations. They don't care about the people who are 
at the heart and soul of our concerns on the Democratic side. If they 
did, they wouldn't cut and slash programs like WIC, the women, infants, 
and children program, providing basic nutrition for low-income, 
pregnant moms and newborn babies. They wouldn't cut LIHEAP, a program 
that provides vulnerable people with help to be able to heat their 
homes in winter. They wouldn't cut it by 74 percent.
  Who does that? Who thinks like that? Who would come to the floor and 
defend that kind of garbage?
  The bottom line is, we don't share the same values. It is that 
simple.
  I want to tell you, we are going to fight as hard as we can against 
all the things that you claim you value in this book because this is 
not what America is about. Basically, this is about turning our back on 
people. This is essentially a government shutdown in and of itself.
  Let me just close with a couple of comments to our moderate friends 
who go on MSNBC and give all these quotes about how they want a balance 
and how they want this. They criticize their leadership, and then they 
come to the floor and vote with the majority. Enough of that. It is 
votes, not quotes, that matter. It is votes, not quotes.
  If you really want to avoid a government shutdown, to the so-called 
moderates on the other side of the aisle, vote with us. Vote ``no'' on 
the previous question so we can guarantee that the Senate-passed bill 
will have a vote here in the House. Vote ``no'' on the rule so we don't 
have to waste all this time today arguing over this nonsense, this 
hardline, rightwing garbage that guts the heart and soul of our social 
safety net. We can do so much better.
  At the end of the day, we have to come together, Democrats and 
Republicans, and come up with a bill. My friends keep on going in the 
wrong direction. They keep on going further and further to the right. 
That is a road to nowhere.
  The Senate, to their credit, Democrats and Republicans, are talking. 
You guys can't even talk with yourselves. You are fighting amongst 
yourselves.
  This is a radical idea: Maybe sit down and try to negotiate a 
bipartisan solution here because you control one-half of one branch of 
government--and barely. You would never know it when you see this kind 
of stuff come to the floor.

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  Enough of the nonsense. People send us here, at a minimum, to keep 
the lights on. You have to do that. Work with us. Stop this nonsense.
  Again, vote ``no'' on the previous question, vote ``no'' on this 
garbage.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my 
time.
  Last week, our national debt reached a record high of--wait for it--
$33 trillion. This is a result of the White House and a result of the 
previous Democrat-controlled Congress spending trillions of dollars 
outside the appropriations process.
  Let's remember, under Democratic control, we saw the highest 
inflation in over 40 years, the highest interest rates in over 20 
years, and a 17 percent increase in consumer prices. That is why this 
underlying legislation establishes a bipartisan fiscal commission to 
get our Nation on the right course.
  This is just one of the many manufactured crises caused by Democrats' 
far-left policies. Look at our southern border. At the southern border, 
President Biden's immigration policies caused a flood of illegal 
immigrants into our Nation and illicit fentanyl into our communities.
  Just last week, our Nation set an all-time record for illegal 
crossings in a single year. Over 25,000 pounds of fentanyl have also 
been trafficked across our southern border this year. To put that into 
perspective, this is enough to kill every single American citizen.
  Sadly, too many towns across my home State of Pennsylvania have felt 
the consequences of the Democrats' pro-open border agenda. In 
Pennsylvania alone, there were over 5,000 reported overdose deaths in 
2022. Not only is the White House doing nothing to address this crisis, 
but the Democrats' pro-crime agenda actually encourages it.
  If you doubt me on that, let's just take a look at what happened in 
Pittsburgh recently. In Pittsburgh, law enforcement caught a drug 
trafficker with $2 million worth of fentanyl. To put that into 
perspective, that is enough to kill 35 percent of the population in 
Pennsylvania. Then, to make matters worse, a far-left, radical judge 
released that criminal on the streets the very next day, and he has 
since fled the State.
  This is absolutely ridiculous. House Republicans are the only leaders 
in Washington willing to do something about this. Thanks to Republicans 
and our Commitment to America, the underlying legislation will reduce 
our exploding national debt, avert a government shutdown, and secure 
our southern border.
  For those reasons, I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on the 
previous question and ``yes'' on the rule.
  The material previously referred to by Mr. McGovern is as follows:

  An Amendment to H. Res. 741 Offered by Mr. McGovern of Massachusetts

       At the end of the resolution, add the following:
       Sec. 3. Upon receipt of a message from the Senate 
     transmitting H.R. 3935 with a Senate Amendment or amendments 
     thereto, a single motion that the House concur in the Senate 
     amendment or amendments may be called up as a privileged 
     question, without intervention of any point of order, by the 
     chair or ranking minority member of the Committee on 
     Appropriations or their respective designees. The Senate 
     amendment or amendments and the motion shall be considered as 
     read. The motion shall be debatable for one hour equally 
     divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority 
     member of the Committee on Appropriations or their respective 
     designees. The previous question shall be considered as 
     ordered on the motion to its adoption without intervening 
     motion or demand for division of the question.
       Sec. 4. Clause 1(c) of rule XIX shall not apply to the 
     consideration of the motion.
  Mr. RESCHENTHALER. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, 
and I move the previous question on the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on ordering the previous 
question.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 15-
minute vote on ordering the previous question will be followed by 5-
minute votes on:
  Adoption of the resolution, if ordered; and
  Agreeing to the Speaker's approval of the Journal, if ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 217, 
nays 207, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 508]

                               YEAS--217

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cohen
     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
     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 (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
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     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

                               NAYS--207

     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)
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen

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     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Boebert
     Bush
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Dingell
     Gonzales, Tony
     Joyce (OH)
     Luna
     Peltola

                              {time}  1147

  Mses. VELAZQUEZ and LOFGREN changed their vote from ``yea'' to 
``nay.''
  Messrs. COHEN, RUTHERFORD, and LAWLER changed their vote from ``nay'' 
to ``yea.''
  So the previous question was ordered.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further 
proceedings on this question are postponed.

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