[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 182 (Friday, November 3, 2023)]
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     DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES 
                        APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2024

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Ciscomani). Pursuant to House Resolution 
838 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. 4821.
  Will the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Smith) 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. 4821) making appropriations for the Department of the 
Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2024, and for other purposes, with Mr. Smith of Nebraska 
(Acting Chair) in the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The Acting CHAIR. When the Committee of the Whole rose on the 
legislative day of Thursday, November 2, 2023, amendment No. 125, 
printed in part A of House Report 118-261, offered by the gentleman 
from Tennessee (Mr. Rose), had been disposed of.


                  Amendment No. 126 Offered by Mr. Roy

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 126 
printed in part A of House Report 118-261.
  Mr. ROY. 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 environmental justice activities.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 838, the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Roy) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. ROY. Mr. Chairman, the amendment that I am offering here on the 
legislation we are considering would prohibit any of the funds in this 
appropriations bill from being used to carry out so-called 
environmental justice activities.
  This so-called environmental justice is nothing more, in the end, 
than a synthesis of divisive racial ideology and policies that my 
colleagues on the other side of the aisle like to promote with radical 
environmentalism.
  Basically, they are taking the radical environmental policies 
perpetuated in the EPA and Interior through this administration, 
doubling down on them, injecting divisive race policies, and now 
creating a larger problem for the American people.
  The entire ideology is based on the notion that Federal environmental 
funding should be allocated based on immutable characteristics. Let's 
think about that for a minute. Not only do we need to destroy the 
American economy with radical environmental policies, but we need to 
inject divisive race policies in the middle of it. That is where we 
are.
  People are running around, going to the gas station to get gasoline. 
They are trying to power their homes. They are wondering why we are 
having massive instability around the world. They wonder why China is 
on the rise. They wonder why Iran is able to enrich itself by selling 
oil to China. They wonder why they can't afford to live their own lives 
while inflation is destroying their well-being. Now, we are injecting 
race into the middle of it all.
  Biden's so-called Justice40 Initiative directs 40 percent of Federal 
clean energy and energy efficiency spending based on ethnicity, migrant 
status, and income status. You literally just can't make up this 
absurdity.
  Here are some of the examples.
  ``Developing a roadmap to dismantle environmental racism'' in 
Brunswick, Georgia.
  Ecology Action in Bloomington, Illinois, ``seeks to identify and 
develop mitigation strategies for disproportionate climate impacts . . 
. and increase tree equity.'' What in the hell is tree equity?
  Supporting summer high school environmental internships in Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin, ``to build climate resilience and connect mainly young 
people of color to life skills and environmental sector career 
pathways.'' However, a recent study conducted by President Obama's 
former Energy Secretary found, on average, solar workers make $12,000 a 
year less than oil and gas workers.
  The fact of the matter is that we are destroying the American economy 
by chasing the climate agenda, which my colleagues on the other side of 
the aisle fully acknowledge and admit is being

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driven by the climate agenda and that the American people must suffer 
higher inflation and higher costs--an inability to afford their own 
homes and their own cars to go about their own jobs and their own way 
of life--in order to pursue an agenda that everybody acknowledges that, 
even if we do everything my colleagues on the other side of the aisle 
say we should do, wouldn't dent CO2 production relative to 
what is happening in China, India, and countries around the world.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition to this 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Maine is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, in recent years, Democrats have made historic 
investments in environmental justice, and the EPA has already put those 
dollars to good use. I think it is unfortunate that my colleagues 
across the aisle continue to attack good government programs.
  Environmental justice, just to explain this, ensures that all 
Americans receive the same degree of protection from environmental and 
health hazards. It is particularly important in rural communities, like 
the one I represent and like the one I imagine my colleague represents. 
Many of these rural communities are in the very districts my colleagues 
across the aisle are representing.
  Rural communities and low-income communities have long been targeted 
by corporations, regulatory agencies, and local planning and zoning 
boards when siting polluting facilities.
  Let me give you a list of the kinds of things we are talking about 
here: landfills, waste transfer stations, incinerators, garbage dumps, 
diesel bus and truck garages, auto body shops, smokestack industries, 
industrial hog and chicken processors, oil refineries, chemical 
manufacturers, and radioactive waste storage areas.
  Because of this, these communities typically have lower property 
values, higher health disparities, and shorter lifespans. We are not 
talking about something trivial here. We are talking about serious 
concerns about your health, the length of your life, and what your 
property is worth.
  Why would my colleagues try to defund any effort to improve the lives 
of people in rural and low-income communities?
  I am sorry, but it is just another attempt to implement an extreme 
agenda to attack minority groups at all costs and to return to a time 
when environmental discrimination was the norm.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to support our rural and low-income 
communities by rejecting this amendment, and I reserve the balance of 
my time.
  Mr. ROY. Mr. Chairman, the fact is, I have not heard one 
constituent--not one constituent among the 750,000 people who I 
represent--come up to me and say: Do you know what I need, Congressman 
Roy? I need environmental justice funding.
  Calls to my office are just begging for environmental justice 
funding. Has anybody had a constituent do that, call up and say: Will 
you please solve the world's problems with environmental 
justice funding? No.

  Do you know what I have had? I have had phone calls to my office 
saying: I can't afford gas. I can't afford electricity.
  I have had calls from workers from a refinery in my district saying 
that they are going to drive us out of business and that they don't 
know what they are going to do.
  That is all a direct result of a radical agenda by Democrats in the 
White House, the administration, and my colleagues across the aisle in 
this Chamber and the other Chamber who are more interested in advancing 
a radical agenda than standing up for American citizens who simply want 
to live their lives.
  Mr. Chairman, this amendment is a straightforward amendment. It would 
do what the American people want us to do, which is focus on our job 
here in this Chamber to deliver our constitutional duties and nothing 
more and not divide us by race while also destroying the American 
economy with radical environmentalism.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chairman, may I inquire as to the time remaining.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Maine has 3 minutes remaining.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chairman, my colleague on the other side of the 
aisle said no one ever calls his office and talks about environmental 
justice. I understand. There are all kinds of words we use in Congress 
that people rarely talk to us about. They don't talk to us about many 
of the procedures that we have on the floor, all kinds of things that 
we do.
  However, you do have people who call your office to say: Do you know 
what? I don't want that chemical manufacturer sited next to my house. I 
am worried about that hog farm that is coming down the road from me. I 
am worried about the garbage dump. I am worried about the health 
impacts that my family is experiencing because of where we live.
  Maybe that didn't happen in your district. I will admit that 
everything doesn't happen in all of our districts, but there are 
certainly districts across the country where people are experiencing 
adverse health impacts. They are experiencing loss of property values 
because things have been sited in their neighborhood.
  Maybe my colleague, like so many times here in Congress, just doesn't 
like the words. I understand. I have heard the term ``environmental 
justice'' so many times over the last couple of days, as if it is some 
kind of a discriminatory term, or as if it is some kind of term that 
they just can't get out of their mouth without feeling angry.
  We can call it anything we want. We can call it poor siting of messy 
places. We can call it anything my colleagues want. To make sure that 
all Americans get a fair deal and that people don't have adverse health 
impacts, I am willing to change that, just like we can't say ``climate 
change'' without people getting upset.
  I am happy, every time we have to discuss this, just to say ``extreme 
weather.'' Okay, it is extreme weather. It is too much melting. It is 
too much heat. Too much of things that aren't supposed to happen and 
going wrong--the hottest summer on record, melting of the polar ice 
cap, and people who live in communities like mine experiencing the 
greatest heat in the ocean of any oceans on Earth.
  These are things that are impacting all of us. I will call it 
whatever my colleagues like, but we have to do something about it. We 
have to have equity here, and we have to make sure it is a fair deal 
for everybody.
  I heard you didn't like the term ``tree equity.'' I get it. It is one 
of those things that you just think: What are we talking about now?
  In fact, urban areas have changed. I am so fortunate that I live in 
the most forested State in the Nation. I don't know what it is like 
where my colleague lives. If my colleague lives on top of a hill, maybe 
there are some trees up there. It makes a huge difference if you are in 
a part of the city that has trees, if your playgrounds are paved and 
black and hot in the summer, or if your playgrounds have some trees and 
shade and some cover so kids can go out and play. We are just talking 
about kids being able to play on the playground and having a decent 
life.
  When we are talking about making sure we plant trees, which often my 
colleagues on the other side of the aisle say is a really good idea, we 
go ahead and believe we should plant more trees.
  Let's not get caught up in the terminology. I think there is a lot we 
could work on together here and that we believe in together. This 
amendment to disregard all funding for environmental justice--tell me 
what you want to call it--that is just not appropriate and is not how 
we should be funding our environmental laws and not how we should be 
dealing with climate change.
  Mr. Chair, I oppose 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 Texas (Mr. Roy).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by

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the gentleman from Texas will be postponed.


                  Amendment No. 127 Offered by Mr. Roy

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 127 
printed in part A of House Report 118-261.
  Mr. ROY. 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 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 838, the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Roy) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. ROY. Mr. Chair, before I talk about this amendment, the 
gentlewoman referred to the importance of having trees. No one 
disagrees with that. Yes, I live in the Texas Hill Country, where live 
oaks are something we try to figure out how to protect, especially, for 
example, when you have an ice storm like earlier this year. You are out 
there figuring out a way to go save your trees by cutting limbs and 
figuring out how to preserve the beauty that God gave us. Nobody 
disagrees with that.

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  Nonetheless, the idea that a core responsibility of the Federal 
Government is tree equity is absurd. The State of Texas is the eighth 
largest economy in the world. We are perfectly capable of figuring out 
how to deal with trees.
  We don't have any money. We are $34 trillion in debt, $2 trillion a 
year in deficit spending, and we are talking about tree equity?
  What the hell are we doing? That is the question here.
  I love trees. I love live oak trees. I do everything I can to 
preserve and protect the environment in which I live because--this is a 
crazy idea--I live there. I actually like to fish, and I like to live 
in clean air and clean water. I like to have an environment that is 
great to be in for my kids and my family.
  We had a Clean Water Act and a Clean Air Act in Texas before the 
Environmental Protection Agency was even created here in this town.
  The fact of the matter is we can do what we need to do to protect our 
communities without this place spending money we don't have to 
interfere with this. Yes, there are interstate issues we must deal 
with, and we can deal with those things. Nevertheless, the fact is we 
can do these things.
  This amendment that I am offering prohibits any of the funding in the 
Interior-Environment appropriations bill from being used to carry out 
President Biden's executive orders on climate change.
  These executive orders direct the EPA to wage its regulatory war on 
the United States energy production and the internal combustion engine. 
The fact of the matter is there are ambitious efforts to convert our 
entire fleet of vehicles to have two-thirds of new vehicles be electric 
vehicles by 2032.
  Now, that might sound good in a little focus group in some Ivy League 
cabal in Boston, but the idea of what this is going to actually do to 
hardworking Americans is something we ought to actually flush out for 
the American public when the average EV is $16,000 more than a vehicle 
with an internal combustion engine.
  Maybe we should talk about the racial justice issues of cobalt miners 
around the world who are being exploited in the Congo so that we can 
empower China by buying all of their batteries rather than producing 
American oil and gas.
  If people think that all of this stuff is an accident of what we are 
seeing unfold in the Middle East and what we are seeing unfold in 
Ukraine while our prices are going up and while our national security 
strength is going down because we are pursuing this radical agenda, 
these things are all connected.
  So, yes, we should not be funding these radical executive orders that 
are destroying the American way of life and making it virtually 
impossible for people to figure out how to live their lives while we 
pursue unicorn energy theories that we are going to be able to somehow 
magically produce power without the use of reliable power.
  Texas has tons of wind and solar. That is great, but we also have a 
grid that is decreasingly reliable directly as a consequence of Federal 
regulatory impact on our ability to manage our grid. That is wrong, we 
shouldn't do it, and we shouldn't be funding a continuation of it.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Maine is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, we are only 14 days away from a government 
shutdown, and instead of focusing on keeping the government open, we 
are working on a bill that is going nowhere.
  The draconian cuts that are proposed in this bill violate the 
agreement reached by former Speaker McCarthy and President Biden and 
that were memorialized in statute in Public Law 118-5, the Fiscal 
Responsibility Act of 2023.
  We would not be teetering on the brink of a government shutdown if my 
Republican colleagues had held up their end of the bargain.
  Now we are here today to protect the welfare of the American public, 
and we cannot close our eyes to the impacts of climate change, such as 
the drought, flooding, severe storms, and wildfire events we are 
experiencing.
  As of October 10, the United States has experienced 24 confirmed 
weather/climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each. 
This is a new record.
  This amendment seeks to prohibit funding that will result in more 
resilient communities, mitigate the impacts of climate change, and 
protect our world for future generations.
  Not investing in strategies that minimize and prevent the 
acceleration of climate change and instead spending billions in 
disaster relief shows my Republican colleagues are not thinking about 
what is best for the American taxpayer. Our economy, our health, our 
livelihoods, our food security, and our quality of life all depend on 
healthy ecosystems.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to reject this amendment and to focus 
instead on addressing climate change and on making our Nation stronger, 
and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROY. Mr. Chair, the fact of the matter is that, yes, this bill 
returns the funding to the ever-efficient model of effectiveness of the 
2018 Federal Government.
  Yes, it does back up the funding levels. Frankly, we ought to be 
doing it for more of our agencies, and we are trying to take those 
steps forward. I will say that unapologetically because the American 
people are sick and tired of the Federal Government spending money we 
don't have to fund agencies that are directly at war with their way of 
life. That is the truth.
  That is why gasoline is $1 more than it was when Biden took office, 
despite the fact that the President has completely dumped our Strategic 
Petroleum Reserve in order to try to preserve political benefits for my 
colleagues on the other side of the aisle. That is just the simple 
truth, and everybody knows it.

  Yet, we run around here ignoring the reality of what that means for 
the American people who are trying to get by every single day while the 
Federal Government is directly at odds with their ability to prosper, 
earn a living, pay their bills, pay for their energy, pay for their 
schools, buy cars, and do what they need to do.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

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  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, my colleague on the other side of the aisle 
has proposed this bill that would really slash and burn so many of the 
important programs that our President has implemented to tackle climate 
change.
  Why did he have to do that?
  I have been in Congress for about 15 years, and I am very fortunate 
to have served that amount of time. But since I came here, I have been 
dealing with colleagues on the other side of the aisle who have denied 
that climate change existed, who have done everything they could to 
support the oil and gas industry, and who have pushed back on any kind 
of legislation or funding or anything we could possibly do to deal with 
climate change, and 15 years later we are in a very serious situation.
  Now, my colleague is proud of saying that it is a simple truth. It is 
a simple truth this, it is a simple truth that.
  Mr. Chair, let me tell you a simple truth. Our planet is warming. We 
had the hottest summer on record, oceans are heating. The polar ice cap 
is melting. We are in a very serious state, and most scientists will 
say that things are happening much faster than we ever anticipated. 
Here we are having a ridiculous debate about something that is not 
actually going to go anywhere and a bill that is not going to happen 
with a party on the other side of the aisle that wants to cut 
everything we have already done in the last 2 years to support funding 
for climate change.
  This is our responsibility to our children and our grandchildren. Mr. 
Chair, you can say that we are just going to handle it in my small town 
and my small State. I am just going to explain to you that the planet 
is warming as an entire entity. Yes, we have to deal with foreign 
countries, but we also have to make sure that our country is on the 
right track, that we are investing in renewable energy, that we are not 
putting our heads in the sand and just ignoring what is going on out 
there, that all of these things are critically important. We have to 
stop digging in our heels on every single bill and denying that climate 
change is real and making all kinds of crazy arguments about well, it 
is India's fault or China's fault or America can't do it.
  We can do all these things. We can manufacture the batteries in this 
country. We can manufacture the solar panels in this country. That is 
much of what we have done in the last bill, the infrastructure bill, 
the IRA, investing in our country, and investing in American 
manufacturing so that this can be homegrown American energy.
  Every time the gentleman talks about gas prices, he refuses to 
acknowledge that we are trying to end our dependence on gas and oil, we 
are trying to make sure we are an energy-independent nation, and, yes, 
that takes a transition. Nonetheless, at this moment in time, we have 
to make those investments in the future.
  I have never seen a party so unwilling to invest in our economic 
future and to acknowledge what is actually happening in our daily lives 
and in our families' daily lives.
  If the gentleman really listened to his constituents or took their 
calls or listened to what people are saying about their worries about 
the future, one of their greatest worries is what are we going to do 
about the warming planet?
  What are we going to do about the number of days when kids can't go 
outside and play because it is too hot?
  What are we going to do about making sure we are looking at our 
future together?
  That is not what the gentleman is doing here. He is just denying that 
climate change exists. He is denying that we have real work ahead of us 
and we ought to be doing it together.
  Once again, I oppose this horrible amendment, 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 question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. PINGREE. 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. 128 Offered by Mr. Schweikert

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 128 
printed in part A of House Report 118-261.
  Mr. SCHWEIKERT. 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 spending reduction 
     account), insert the following:
       Sec. ___.  Each amount made available by this Act (other 
     than an amount required to be made available by a provision 
     of law) is hereby reduced by 16 percent.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 128, the gentleman 
from Arizona (Mr. Schweikert) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Arizona.
  Mr. SCHWEIKERT. Mr. Chair, this is actually an amendment that is 
brutal. It is not a happy place to go, but I am trying to be 
intellectually honest here.
  Every dime we vote on as Members of Congress is now borrowed. 
Remember, Mr. Chairman, the last fiscal year we borrowed 8.4 percent of 
GDP. Every dime of military is borrowed; every dime of nondefense is 
discretionary, which is functionally what we are going over right now, 
and, what, $300 billion, $400 billion of Medicare. For my brothers and 
sisters on the left, their solution is often: Well, raise revenues.
  Mr. Chairman, we are engaged in this insanity right now where we are 
borrowing money to send it to entities that have their own taxing 
authority.
  I have been the treasurer of the fourth biggest county in America. I 
managed the bank, I managed the tax collections, and I managed the 
finances, or parts of the finances. I understand local government and 
the burdens there, but we had taxing authority.
  Is it rational in a society, particularly with the higher interest 
rates, for us to borrow and then send the money to entities with their 
own taxing authority?
  Mr. Chair, I understand both on Republicans and Democrats, we despise 
this because there are lots of things we like. There are things I like 
that I voted for for years now, but I just look at the math, and I keep 
wondering: Is it both moral or rational for us to borrow money and send 
it to entities that have their own taxing authority?
  If these programs are so important, which many of them are, there is 
a solution. Those entities can actually produce the receipts and 
revenues themselves.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Idaho is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to this 
amendment, which cuts programs in this bill by an additional 16 
percent, and for not all of these programs do local governments or 
entities have a taxing authority to pay for them.
  The underlying bill provides $25.4 billion in new nondefense 
discretionary spending which is $13.4 billion, 35 percent below the 
fiscal year 2023 level. The bill also rescinds $9.4 billion in funding 
provided to the EPA, The Presidio Trust and the Council on 
Environmental Quality through Inflation Reduction Act.
  In drafting this bill, we worked really hard to rein in Federal 
spending. One thing that all Republicans agree on is that we have to 
reduce spending. The debate occurs on how much and how fast.
  In drafting this bill, as I said, we worked very hard to rein in 
Federal spending while prioritizing critical needs within our reduced 
allocation.
  Unfortunately, this is kind of a sledgehammer approach when we just 
want to reduce the bill across the board by 16 percent.
  We would be reducing wildfire fighting. We have done everything we 
can to protect wildfire fighting, which is devastating, particularly in 
the West where I live.
  We have also done everything we can to protect the Indian Health 
Service. That is something that is vital here. We don't actually do a 
very good job of supporting the Indian Health Service overall.
  Mr. Chairman, if you look at the amount of money per patient that the

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VA spends and the amount that average Americans spend, and then how 
much we spend per person on the Indian Health Service, it is about one-
half of what we spend on other healthcare needs. So we are trying 
everything we can over the years in a bipartisan way to bring up the 
Indian Health Service and improve their health, but they don't have a 
separate taxing authority to be able to do that. That is the Federal 
Government.
  This sledgehammer approach which would just reduce every budget in 
this bill by 16 percent that is not mandatory spending, I think is 
inappropriate, and I don't think it is the proper way to go.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.

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  Mr. SCHWEIKERT. Mr. Chair, I think the chairman actually was 
generous. I think it is a lot more than a sledgehammer. This is like a 
small nuclear weapon. Partially that was the point.
  Obviously, I care tremendously about IHS and have worked really hard 
on that. I am just trying to work through this. I want to put this in a 
moral paradigm. I have my 15-month-old sitting behind me, but this is 
no longer about the next generation. It is about your own retirement.
  We have a math problem. It is a brutal math problem. One more time: 
We borrow every dime of discretionary; we borrow every dime of 
military; and now we are actually borrowing hundreds and hundreds of 
billions of dollars of what is mandatory. Some of this breaks my heart, 
but I don't seem to be able to communicate to my brothers and sisters 
how ugly the math is.
  One more time: As of yesterday, we were borrowing $78,000 every 
second. $78,000 every second. For our friends on the left, they care 
about this. We care about this. It is just so hard to turn off the 
faucet.
  The very last thing, and then I am going to sit down and shut up and 
go away. The debt is primarily driven by demographics. It is something 
we don't tell honestly, but we got old. If you actually look at from 
today through the next 30 years, 100 percent of the projected debt, 75 
percent of it is Medicare, 25 percent if we backfill Social Security in 
9 years when the trust fund is empty.
  Do you see any of this debate--and I know this is small compared to 
the scale we are borrowing, but I have to find some way to get people 
to start understanding the scale of this math because the math always 
wins. Sometimes it takes a while, but the math will always win.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Chair, I sympathize with what the gentleman is 
saying. I agree with him. It is a huge problem, and it is a math 
problem. He mentioned something that is really important.
  We used to spend about 70 percent of the budget on discretionary 
spending--that is the money we appropriate through these appropriations 
bills--and about 30 percent was spent on mandatory spending. That has 
been reversed, where it is about 70 percent mandatory spending today 
and only 30 percent in discretionary spending.
  Consequently, we have to address mandatory spending. That is 
difficult to do because anytime you say we have to reform Social 
Security if we are going to save it, all of a sudden, the commercials 
are going: Oh, they are going to take away your Social Security.
  It is a political football that Republicans and Democrats have to get 
together and address. That is why the Speaker has said we are going to 
create a debt commission to look at how we can reduce this debt that we 
are facing.
  I agree with the gentleman. It is horrible what is going on. As I 
said earlier, the debate is not really whether to cut spending, it is 
how much and how fast. I guess the gentleman said it best when he 
called it a small nuclear weapon in this, but I agree with what he is 
saying in general. It is how we go about it that is the challenge.
  Mr. Chair, I oppose 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 Arizona (Mr. Schweikert).
  The amendment was rejected.


                Amendment No. 129 Offered by Mr. Stauber

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 129 
printed in part A of House Report 118-261.
  Mr. STAUBER. 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 implement or enforce the final rule of the Council on 
     Environmental Quality titled ``National Environmental Policy 
     Act Implementing Regulations Revisions'' and published April 
     20, 2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 23453).

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 838, the gentleman 
from Minnesota (Mr. Stauber) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Minnesota.
  Mr. STAUBER. Mr. Chair, I rise to offer my amendment that prohibits 
any funds from being used to carry out the Biden administration's NEPA 
Phase 1 rule.
  It is clear we have bipartisan consensus--our permitting system is 
broken. Our permitting system is holding up projects in every district, 
whether it is Republican or Democrat, and NEPA deserves a lot of this 
blame.
  When NEPA was first passed in 1969, it was a five-page bill. Over the 
last 50 years, it has grown out of control thanks to executive actions 
and activist courts. Today, NEPA is an albatross, blocking everything 
from highway infrastructure projects that connect communities and 
enable commerce to energy projects that are necessary for securing our 
energy independence.
  In 2020, the Trump administration enacted the first real NEPA reforms 
in a generation. It helped bring NEPA back to its original intent. 
Importantly, the Trump administration's reforms removed the requirement 
to consider ``cumulative impacts,'' that go far beyond a proposed 
project. This prevented opponents of important projects from abusing 
the NEPA process and pointing to outrageous, distant, so-called 
cumulative impacts a project could hypothetically pose.
  The reforms also forced Federal agencies to build consistency in 
permitting reviews and ensured all Federal agencies follow the same 
standards and procedures. These reforms began to point us back in the 
right direction. The Biden administration's NEPA Phase 1 rule reversed 
the Trump-era reforms. It reinstated the cumulative impact 
requirements. It gave free rein back to Federal agencies to put up 
roadblocks for projects they didn't want.
  The Phase 1 rule is just another part of the Biden administration's 
anywhere but America, any worker but American agenda.
  Mr. Chair, the Biden administration's NEPA Phase 1 rule is a step in 
the wrong direction. It is important that we adopt my amendment and 
return some sanity to our broken permitting system.
  I urge all my colleagues to join me in supporting this amendment, and 
I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CASTEN. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Illinois is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CASTEN. Mr. Chair, I believe my colleagues across the aisle 
fundamentally misunderstand or intentionally misrepresent the interests 
of energy consumers in the United States and the interests of energy 
producers.
  NEPA is critically important to protect all Americans, but let's run 
through some statistics. There are currently 2,000 gigawatts of 
electric generation waiting to be interconnected to the queue in this 
country. That is more generation than we have by almost a factor of 2. 
Of those 2,000 gigawatts, there is 1 gigawatt of coal, 85 gigawatts of 
gas, and every other power plant that is trying to be interconnected to 
the grid is a zero carbon source of energy. They are not represented by 
NEPA.
  Let's talk about the fossil fuel sector. Today, we use about 20 
million barrels of oil a day. A decade ago, you know how much oil we 
used in this country? About 20 million barrels a day.

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  Today, we use 40 percent less coal than we did 10 years ago. Do you 
know why? Because those industries cannot compete. People, given the 
choice, prefer cleaner, cheaper energy.
  The fastest growing vehicle segment is electric vehicles. The fastest 
growing source in the power sector is renewable energy. Energy is 
getting cheaper. What is the energy industry doing in response? They 
are becoming exporters. The reason why the gas industry is growing, the 
reason why the oil industry is growing is because they are building 
terminals to export overseas. What is hard about that is that the 
American people don't want you to drill in their backyard. They don't 
want you to drill a pipeline through their neighborhood just so that 
you can run it to a terminal and sell it overseas at a profit.
  If you are of the opinion that the American people don't have any say 
in how their communities look, how their natural parks look, how their 
natural lands look, and if you are of the opinion that the profits of 
energy producers vastly outweigh the interests of energy consumers, 
vote for this amendment. However, if you put energy consumers first, 
this is an absolute ``no.''
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. Members are reminded to direct their remarks to the 
Chair.
  Mr. STAUBER. Mr. Chair, I think my colleagues on the other side of 
the aisle don't understand this.
  This administration just last month removed NEPA for the Floyd 
Bennett Field to host migrants. The Biden administration completely 
took NEPA off the table for their agenda because of the open border. By 
the way, the IRA, the IIJA, and the CHIPS Act are not going to happen 
without permitting reforms and NEPA changes. Come hell or high water, 
it is not going to happen without the changes. I think both sides of 
the aisle understand that and agree with that.
  We have the highest standard of living in the world because of our 
process. This administration continues to put up roadblocks for energy 
transmission, distribution, generation, mining projects, nuclear 
projects, road construction projects, dams, and forest management. 
Everything that the American people want to do in a reasonable fashion 
is held up in part because of NEPA. This is a very good amendment, and 
I urge adoption.
  Mr. Chair, in closing, we can agree that our permitting process is 
broken. In the debt ceiling, we got a couple of permitting concerns 
addressed that were generational, hadn't been done in 40 years. We want 
to be able to make sure that the American worker, the American 
manufacturer, American technology, our natural resources in our country 
can be used responsibly.
  Why are we putting agreements together with the Congo to mine our 
minerals that we have, for instance, in northern Minnesota, the biggest 
copper-nickel find in the world. Why are we doing that?
  Why is this administration stopping the American worker, stopping the 
creativity that we have, stopping not only our energy independence but 
our national security by going to our adversaries and asking them for 
our critical minerals or asking them for their energy? We can do 
better.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Stauber).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                Amendment No. 130 Offered by Mr. Stauber

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 130 
printed in part A of House Report 118-261.
  Mr. STAUBER. 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 finalize, implement, or enforce the proposed rule 
     of the Council on Environmental Quality titled ``National 
     Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations Revisions 
     Phase 2'' and published July 31, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 49924).

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 838, the gentleman 
from Minnesota (Mr. Stauber) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Minnesota.
  Mr. STAUBER. Mr. Chair, I rise to offer my amendment that prohibits 
any funds from being used to finalize or otherwise carry out the Biden 
administration's proposed NEPA Phase 2 rule.
  Rather than working to fix our broken permitting system and working 
to address the incredible challenges and barriers NEPA poses, the Biden 
administration's proposed rule makes our already broken system even 
worse. This proposed rule expands the broken NEPA framework, adds 
additional requirements, and creates new tools for opponents to shut 
down good projects.
  The NEPA Phase 2 rule would require Federal agencies not only to 
consider climate change but also add a new requirement to consider 
environmental justice during the NEPA review process, including 
environmental tree justice and tree equity. These new requirements are 
just another way that opponents of highway infrastructure projects, 
water infrastructure projects, critical mineral mining projects, 
renewable energy projects, transmission projects, oil and gas 
development projects get to a ``no.'' This administration does not want 
to do it here in the United States of America.
  Additionally, the NEPA Phase 2 rule violates the reforms Congress has 
put forth to address our permitting woes. These reforms were part of 
the bipartisan Fiscal Responsibility Act that we passed earlier this 
year.
  Trust me, the permitting provisions in the debt ceiling agreement did 
not solve all of our permitting problems, but they were an important 
step in the right direction. For example, it included strict page 
limits and review deadlines for an environmental assessment or an 
environmental impact statement.
  Does the NEPA Phase 2 rule implement these reforms? Absolutely not.
  This administration is not following the laws that Congress put 
forward. In fact, when CEQ chair Brenda Mallory, the Biden 
administration official tasked with fixing NEPA and our broken 
permitting system, testified before the Natural Resources Committee in 
June, she claimed the administration didn't need to change a thing.

                              {time}  1000

  She told Congress this administration would just follow and do 
business as usual.
  She falsely claimed that this administration was already doing 
everything the debt ceiling agreement instructed it to do, and that is 
absolutely not true.
  The NEPA Phase 2 rule is a blatant show of disregard for 
congressional intent and the law that this body passed and President 
Biden signed into law.
  The NEPA Phase 2 rule is completely misguided. It is a step in the 
wrong direction, and it is important we vote today to prevent the 
administration from moving to finalize the rule.
  Mr. Chair, I urge all of my colleagues to support this amendment, and 
I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Maine is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, I oppose this amendment, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. STAUBER. Mr. Chair, what this amendment does is that it allows 
American energy, American prosperity, American technology, and American 
workers to provide energy and critical minerals, transmission projects, 
highway and bridge projects, dams and rivers.
  This allows us to do it here. This allows our communities to have a 
voice in what happens, not Federal three-letter agency bureaucrats 
telling the American people what they need and what is best in their 
communities because our local elected officials know better than 
Washington, D.C., and the bureaucrats.
  These three-letter agencies are out of control. They are unelected. 
They are not accountable to anybody, and this administration is not 
following the laws that this body passed.
  For years and years, administrations haven't followed what Congress 
and the Senate have put forward. It is about time we do that, and it 
can start today.
  Mr. Chair, I urge adoption of my amendment, 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 Minnesota (Mr. Stauber).
  The amendment was agreed to.


               Amendment No. 131 Offered by Mr. Westerman

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 131 
printed in part A of House Report 118-261.
  Mr. WESTERMAN. 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, before the short title, insert the following:


                         ocean justice strategy

       Sec. ___. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to develop, finalize, implement, administer, or 
     enforce the Ocean Justice Strategy referenced in the Notice 
     titled ``Ocean Justice Strategy'' (88 Fed. Reg. 37518; 
     published June 8, 2023).

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 838, the gentleman 
from Arkansas (Mr. Westerman) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Arkansas.
  Mr. WESTERMAN. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chair, I commend my colleague from Idaho (Mr. Simpson) for the 
great work that he and his committee did in giving us this 
appropriation bill. I also commend the minority and everyone who spent 
so much time on the floor working through these amendments. Everybody 
will be glad to know that this is the last one. It is a great one, and 
I hope everybody will support my amendment.
  Mr. Chair, I obviously support my amendment, which prohibits funds 
from being used to implement the Biden administration's ocean justice 
strategy, which undermines the intent of the Ocean Policy Committee by 
forcing so-called environmental justice principles into the Federal 
Government's role in ocean economic activities.
  In 2018, then-President Trump signed Executive Order No. 13840, which 
established the Ocean Policy Committee. The Ocean Policy Committee, co-
chaired by CEQ and the Office of Science and Technology Policy, was 
created to focus on growing the ocean economy, prioritizing scientific 
research, coordinating resources and data sharing, and engaging with 
stakeholders.
  The committee was codified into law through the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021.
  The Ocean Policy Committee should be working on important issues, 
such as leveraging resources and expertise to maximize the 
effectiveness of Federal investments in ocean research. Unfortunately, 
this administration has chosen to advance a misguided agenda that is 
not focused on the founding tenets of the Ocean Policy Committee to 
grow the ocean economy. Instead, it is pushing concepts like the ocean 
justice strategy, which forces environmental justice principles into 
the Federal Government's ocean activities.
  Ocean justice or environmental justice should not be used to hijack 
legitimate work that benefits the American people. It cannot and should 
not become a driving force and detrimental tool to impede our Federal 
resources management.
  For those reasons, I support and urge my colleagues to join me in 
supporting this amendment.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Maine is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, as far as I can tell, this is just another 
attack on environmental justice. The Council on Environmental Quality 
is coordinating the development of an ocean justice strategy that will 
propose equitable and just practices to advance safety, health, and 
prosperity for communities that are residing near the ocean, the coast, 
and the Great Lakes. This amendment seeks to block that strategy.
  Coastlines are home to approximately 40 percent of the United States 
population. Unfortunately, coastal communities do not share equitably 
in the benefits provided by the ocean or equitably bear the burden of 
the negative impacts of human activities associated with the ocean, 
such as climate change, coastal flooding, and other threats.
  Environmental justice ensures that all Americans receive the same 
degree of protection from environmental and health hazards. This 
amendment is just another way to attack minority groups at all costs 
and return the United States to a time when environmental 
discrimination was the norm.
  Mr. Chair, I oppose the amendment, and I reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. WESTERMAN. Mr. Chair, the Ocean Policy Committee should focus on 
addressing the issues that it was actually created to address--most 
importantly, streamlining Federal coordination.
  This administration's push of this ocean justice strategy is just 
another example of unchecked bureaucrats forcing their agenda on 
Americans and increasing red tape.
  My amendment stops them from moving forward. Our ocean economy is as 
diverse as the ocean itself, and there is no one-size-fits-all approach 
to managing it. The problem we have with Federal programs is they take 
a different course from how Congress intended for them to go. This 
isn't cutting funds from the Ocean Policy Committee. It is just forcing 
the Ocean Policy Committee to do the job that they were established to 
do without adding unnecessary burdens to their work.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting the 
amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Chair, once again, I am kind of caught in this 
challenge of not understanding exactly what it is that my colleagues 
don't like about the term ``environmental justice,'' or in this case, 
``ocean justice.''
  It seems like ``justice'' is a word that we are very comfortable with 
in a patriotic way that everyone understands. Justice is important in 
this country.
  As a Member who represents as much coastline as anybody in here that 
is extremely impacted by the challenges that are going on in the ocean, 
such as sea level rise and extreme storms, I have to deal with these 
questions. I think it is totally appropriate to have a justice strategy 
in making sure that we have equitability in how we take care of people.
  If you live in a community where it is underresourced and are 
impacted by these ocean storms that come at us with total surprise--for 
example, a winter storm or nor'easter, as we call them, or a hurricane 
in the southern part of the country, and there aren't resources to 
rebuild. Perhaps sea level rise is making it so that your community 
needs to be moved.
  I was talking last night about the 31 Native communities in Alaska 
that have to be moved because of sea level rise. If you don't have a 
justice lens, somebody might turn around and just say: I am sorry. This 
community isn't valuable enough. You don't have the resources, and your 
people can't move their own homes. You can't deal with rebuilding the 
coastal protections, so the money is going somewhere else, to a 
wealthier community, to someplace where we think people matter more.

  Those decisions are critical decisions about how we spend our Federal 
funds, about how we make sure the work we do is equitable. Climate 
change is having a huge impact on life on the ocean.
  I do not want to criticize my colleague. I am sure he has put this 
forward in good faith, but the last I saw, Arkansas doesn't have an 
ocean, and my colleague is trying to make policy for those of us who 
represent ocean communities in the East, West, and South throughout 
this country, the 40 percent of the United States population that lives 
on the ocean. These are critical strategies for us.
  We don't need to make the same mistakes that we made in the past with 
not having a lens of environmental justice. Why in the world would we 
want to turn back and have discrimination and make bad policy? Why in 
the world when we are facing some of the most severe crises we have 
ever seen? We have hurricanes that come on us with no warning, extreme 
storms in the winter, extreme storms at times of the year we never 
expected them.
  I can go on for much more time than I have to talk about what just 
happened in my own State and the challenges people are worried about, 
about sea level rise, about the ocean impact

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of storms. This would take away the opportunity to look forward on that 
and make sure that our funding is equitable, that all communities are 
taken care of, that all parts of the country, particularly those rural 
areas that probably my colleague represents and I represent that are 
often underresourced are thought about, as well.
  Again, this is a misguided amendment. People are going after a 
language that either they just don't want to say or somehow don't 
believe in or want to bring us back to a time when we had 
discrimination in our Federal policy and how we spent our Federal 
funds. It is a misguided amendment. It is a bad idea.
  Mr. Chair, I oppose it, and I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Westerman).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                    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 A of House Report 
118-261 on which further proceedings were postponed, in the following 
order:
  Amendment No. 120 by Mr. Ogles of Tennessee.
  Amendment No. 126 by Mr. Roy of Texas.
  Amendment No. 127 by Mr. Roy 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. 120 Offered by Mr. Ogles

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 120, printed in part A of House Report 
118-261 offered by the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Ogles), on which 
further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by 
voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 214, 
noes 204, not voting 20, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 593]

                               AYES--214

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     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

                               NOES--204

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Curtis
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fitzpatrick
     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
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peltola
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     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
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--20

     Castro (TX)
     Garbarino
     Hoyle (OR)
     Jackson Lee
     Joyce (OH)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kuster
     LaHood
     Lesko
     Miller (OH)
     Napolitano
     Newhouse
     Phillips
     Plaskett
     Radewagen
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Sewell
     Underwood
     Wexton

                              {time}  1039

  Mrs. PELTOLA and Ms. BROWN changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  Mr. SCHWEIKERT changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                  Amendment No. 126 Offered by Mr. Roy

  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. LaLota). The unfinished business is the demand 
for a recorded vote on amendment No. 126, printed in part A of House 
Report 118-261 offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy), on which 
further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by 
voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 212, 
noes 204, not voting 22, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 594]

                               AYES--212

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Ciscomani
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards

[[Page H5391]]


     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     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

                               NOES--204

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fitzpatrick
     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)
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peltola
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     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
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--22

     Castro (TX)
     Cline
     Garbarino
     Jackson Lee
     Joyce (OH)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kuster
     LaHood
     Lesko
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Napolitano
     Newhouse
     Phillips
     Plaskett
     Porter
     Radewagen
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Sewell
     Underwood
     Wexton


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1044

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Ms. PORTER. Mr. Chair, I was unable to reach a voting station from my 
official meeting in the Capitol during the two-minute window. Had I 
been present, I would have voted ``no'' on rollcall No. 594.


                  Amendment No. 127 Offered by Mr. Roy

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 127, printed in part A of House Report 
118-261 offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy), 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 208, 
noes 207, not voting 24, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 595]

                               AYES--208

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     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)
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Norman
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     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

                               NOES--207

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fitzpatrick
     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)
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kiley
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Mace
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCaul
     McClellan

[[Page H5392]]


     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Nunn (IA)
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peltola
     Perez
     Peters
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     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)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--24

     Arrington
     Castro (TX)
     Garbarino
     Gosar
     Jackson Lee
     Joyce (OH)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kuster
     LaHood
     Lesko
     Miller (OH)
     Napolitano
     Newhouse
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Plaskett
     Radewagen
     Rutherford
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Sewell
     Torres (NY)
     Underwood
     Wexton


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1047

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Ms. PETTERSON. Mr. Chair, had I been present, I would have voted 
``no'' on rollcall No. 595.
  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Steube). There being no further amendment, 
under the rule, the Committee rises.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
LaLota) having assumed the chair, Mr. Steube, 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. 4821) 
making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, 
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and 
for other purposes, and, pursuant to House Resolution 838, he reported 
the bill back to the House with sundry amendments adopted in the 
Committee of the Whole.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the rule, the previous question is 
ordered.
  Is a separate vote demanded on any amendment reported from the 
Committee of the Whole? If not, the Chair will put them en gros.
  The amendments were agreed to.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the engrossment and third 
reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was 
read the third time.


                           Motion to Recommit

  Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the 
desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Ms. Leger Fernandez of New Mexico moves to recommit the 
     bill H.R. 4821 to the Committee on Appropriations.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX, the 
previous question is ordered on the motion to recommit.
  The question is on the motion to recommit.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.
  Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ. 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 5-
minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by a 5-minute 
vote on passage of the bill; and the motion to suspend the rules and 
pass H.R. 3774.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 201, 
nays 215, not voting 17, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 596]

                               YEAS--201

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     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
     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)
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peltola
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     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
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                               NAYS--215

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     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, Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Murphy
     Nehls
     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

                             NOT VOTING--17

     Castro (TX)
     Garbarino
     Jackson Lee
     Joyce (OH)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kuster
     LaHood
     Lesko
     Miller (OH)
     Napolitano
     Newhouse
     Phillips
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Sewell
     Underwood
     Wexton

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                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). There are 2 minutes 
remaining.

                              {time}  1056

  Ms. WATERS and Mr. VEASEY changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the motion to recommit was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
  Pursuant to clause 10 of rule XX, the yeas and nays are ordered.
  This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 213, 
nays 203, not voting 17, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 597]

                               YEAS--213

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     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
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lee (FL)
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Murphy
     Nehls
     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--203

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     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
     Fitzpatrick
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawler
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Molinaro
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peltola
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     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
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--17

     Castro (TX)
     Garbarino
     Jackson Lee
     Joyce (OH)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kuster
     LaHood
     Lesko
     Miller (OH)
     Napolitano
     Newhouse
     Phillips
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Sewell
     Underwood
     Wexton


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). There are 2 minutes 
remaining.

                              {time}  1103

  So the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

                          ____________________