[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 62 (Monday, April 7, 2025)]
[House]
[Pages H1442-H1443]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              CLEAR COMMUNICATION FOR VETERANS CLAIMS ACT

  The SPEAKER. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business 
is the vote on the motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 
1039) to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to seek to enter into 
an agreement with a federally funded research and development center 
for an assessment of notice letters that the Secretary sends to 
claimants for benefits under laws administered by the Secretary, and 
for other purposes, as amended, on which the yeas and nays were 
ordered.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman 
from Illinois (Mr. Bost) that the House suspend the rules and pass the 
bill, as amended.
  This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 412, 
nays 0, not voting 21, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 90]

                               YEAS--412

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Alford
     Allen
     Amo
     Amodei (NV)
     Ansari
     Arrington
     Auchincloss
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Balint
     Barr
     Barragan
     Barrett
     Baumgartner
     Bean (FL)
     Beatty
     Begich
     Bell
     Bentz
     Bera
     Bergman
     Beyer
     Bice
     Biggs (AZ)
     Biggs (SC)
     Bilirakis
     Bishop
     Boebert
     Bonamici
     Bost
     Boyle (PA)
     Brecheen
     Bresnahan
     Brown
     Brownley
     Buchanan
     Budzinski
     Burchett
     Burlison
     Bynum
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carbajal
     Carey
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Carter (TX)
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     Cisneros
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyburn
     Clyde
     Cohen
     Cole
     Collins
     Conaway
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crane
     Crank
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davidson
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     De La Cruz
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     DesJarlais
     Dexter
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donalds
     Downing
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Elfreth
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Escobar
     Espaillat
     Estes
     Evans (CO)
     Evans (PA)
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Fedorchak
     Feenstra
     Fields
     Figures
     Fine
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Flood
     Foster
     Foushee
     Foxx
     Frankel, Lois
     Franklin, Scott
     Friedman
     Frost
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     Garcia (CA)
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Gill (TX)
     Gillen
     Gimenez
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Goldman (TX)
     Gomez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez, V.
     Gooden
     Goodlander
     Gosar
     Gottheimer
     Graves
     Gray
     Green (TN)
     Green, Al (TX)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Hamadeh (AZ)
     Harder (CA)
     Haridopolos
     Harrigan
     Harris (MD)
     Harris (NC)
     Harshbarger
     Hayes
     Hern (OK)
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill (AR)
     Himes
     Hinson
     Horsford
     Houchin
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Hudson
     Huffman
     Huizenga
     Hurd (CO)
     Issa
     Ivey
     Jack
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (TX)
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson (TX)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Kean
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy (NY)
     Khanna
     Kiley (CA)
     Kim
     Knott
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Landsman
     Langworthy
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latimer
     Latta
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Letlow
     Levin
     Liccardo
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Lynch
     Mace
     Mackenzie
     Magaziner
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Mannion
     Massie
     Mast
     Matsui
     McBath
     McBride
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClain Delaney
     McClellan
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McCormick
     McDonald Rivet
     McDowell
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     McGuire
     McIver
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Meuser
     Mfume
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Min
     Moolenaar
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (NC)
     Moore (UT)
     Moore (WI)
     Moore (WV)
     Moran
     Morelle
     Morrison
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Murphy
     Nadler
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Olszewski
     Omar
     Onder
     Pallone
     Palmer
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Patronis
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Perry
     Peters
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Pou
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Randall
     Raskin
     Reschenthaler
     Riley (NY)
     Rivas
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Ross
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Ruiz
     Rulli
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Salazar
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Scalise
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schmidt
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Self
     Sessions
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shreve
     Simon

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     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Smucker
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spartz
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stauber
     Steil
     Steube
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Strong
     Subramanyam
     Suozzi
     Sykes
     Takano
     Taylor
     Tenney
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Tran
     Turner (OH)
     Underwood
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Vindman
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Westerman
     Whitesides
     Wied
     Williams (GA)
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--21

     Babin
     Carter (GA)
     Comer
     Connolly
     Fong
     Hunt
     James
     Kennedy (UT)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Maloy
     Messmer
     Norcross
     Ogles
     Owens
     Pettersen
     Pfluger
     Sherrill
     Stefanik
     Stutzman
     Swalwell
     Thanedar

                              {time}  1902

  So (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and 
the bill, as amended, was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.


                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. THANEDAR. Mr. Speaker, had I been present, I would have voted YEA 
on Roll Call No. 89 and YEA on Roll Call No. 90.

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