[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 194 (Tuesday, November 18, 2025)]
[House]
[Pages H4730-H4734]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair will remind all persons in the 
gallery that they are here as guests of the House and that any 
manifestation of approval or disapproval of proceedings is in violation 
of the rules of the House.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, they are here as honored guests of the 
House. We are delighted they are here.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. JORDAN. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentlewoman from 
Florida (Ms. Lois Frankel).
  Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida. Mr. Speaker, for far too long, the 
survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse were failed by a justice system 
that minimized their suffering and prosecutors who treated young girls 
as if they were criminals. That was wrong.
  I am here with my colleagues to promise that we will get to the 
bottom of why the Epstein survivors were treated so badly, who made 
those decisions, and who they were protecting. There will be no more 
secrecy and no more excuses.
  Mr. Speaker, we all deserve the truth, and I thank the survivors for 
their courage and perseverance. Their voices are being heard.
  Mr. JORDAN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the distinguished 
gentleman from the great State of Louisiana (Mr. Johnson), the Speaker 
of the United States House of Representatives.
  Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for doing 
such an extraordinary job on all of this.
  Mr. Speaker, for 43 long days, the Democrats held this House and the 
entire country hostage. Finally, with the lights back on, this body is 
returning to our regular legislative session. We have a lot of work to 
do.
  My colleagues on this side of the Chamber are ready and eager to get 
back to our urgent legislative work we promised the American people we 
would do.
  Just to name a few of those priorities, we have to continue lowering 
the cost of healthcare. We have to bring down prices for American 
families. We have to finish the regular appropriations process.
  I wish I could say that our first order of business would be to get 
to those urgent priorities. However, of course, we are spending time on 
the floor about something else. This is something we could have 
resolved last week when we brought a unanimous consent to pass this 
discharge with the full support of the body.
  Mr. Speaker, our friends over here, who are arguing today, stalled 
that. They objected to it. They wanted to have this exercise instead. 
That is why we say that this is a ``show'' vote. That is what this is. 
They are making a show of it, and it really is a shame.
  Mr. Speaker, we have some heroic women in the Chamber today. I met 
with many of them a while back. They are here in the gallery. They have 
come forward. They have shown their faces. They have used their names 
to share the unspeakable tragedies that many of them were subjected to, 
some of them when they were very young. It is a heroic service to the 
country.
  They are seeking justice, and justice has been delayed for too long. 
The Department of Justice many years ago should have brought these 
charges. It took too long to do it.

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  Now we are in this process of making sure all the American people get 
the information, but we have to do it in the right way.
  After 4 years of Democratic control under President Biden, they were 
not truthful with us about a lot of things. The Democrats insisted the 
border was secure. We knew it wasn't. They insisted that inflation was 
transitory. We knew it wouldn't be. They misled the American people 
about the obvious mental and physical decline of the previous Commander 
in Chief. Now those same Democrats are demanding transparency. Suddenly 
transparency is their new word.
  Out of nowhere, they have taken a curious concern in the Epstein 
investigation, all in the name of transparency.
  However, the question has been asked here many times during the 
debate on the floor and everybody is questioning why it is that the 
Democrats have done this right now. We have to look at the obvious 
facts.
  The Democrats had all the Epstein files in their possession for 4 
long years under the Biden Presidency. The Biden Department of Justice 
had these files, and no one on this side, who is breathless today about 
the urgency of this release, ever said a word about it. It was the 
Democrats who could have urged President Biden's Department of Justice 
to go beyond prosecuting just Epstein and Gislaine Maxwell, but they 
didn't do it. It is a fair question to ask today: Why now? Why the 
sudden urgent interest in Jeffrey Epstein?
  We know why. It is because the Democrats were never interested in 
transparency or executing justice or protecting the victims of this 
unspeakable tragedy before. The simple truth is obvious for everybody 
to see. This is a political exercise for Democrats. It pains me to say 
it. I wish that was not the truth, but it is, and it is undeniable. 
This is as deceitful and dishonest as their pointless stunt was to shut 
the government down.
  Democrats are using the Epstein tragedy, the unspeakable evils that 
this guy committed with his trafficking ring and all of the abuses that 
they made these young women go through, they are using that as a 
political weapon to try to distract from their failures as a party and 
to try their best to try to tie President Trump somehow into this 
wretched scandal.
  The President had nothing to do with it. He has been very clear. He 
has nothing to hide. That is why he endorsed the vote today. I suspect 
this vote will be probably unanimous.
  Here is the important point that everybody needs to understand: We 
have been advocates of maximum transparency, but we have also insisted 
that the victims be carefully protected. The Oversight Committee has 
been doing extraordinary work. We have got some of the most vigorous 
advocates on the Republican and Democrat side on the Oversight 
Committee. They have been working in earnest to deliver transparency 
for the American people and to do it in a responsible manner.
  What do we mean by that?
  The bipartisan effort over there is already producing all the results 
that the discharge petition seeks and much, much more. Chairman Comer 
and all of these advocates over there have been releasing thousands of 
documents, for example, from the Epstein estate. By the way, in my 
view, that has been the greatest treasure trove of information because 
it has yielded for us Epstein's own personal flight logs, his financial 
records, his daily calendars, and so much more.
  Importantly, none of that was addressed or is addressed in the 
legislation that is being voted on today. The estate files wouldn't 
even have been encompassed in that. It goes to show that the Oversight 
Committee is doing it in the right way.
  From the very beginning, we have been insistent that this matter be 
handled carefully and with the utmost caution and care for the people 
who have been harmed. They should not be made to suffer any longer.
  We are talking about real people's lives at stake here and young 
victims who don't want to be dragged into this political game who could 
get hurt further. However, the Democrats are rushing to release the 
thousands of unsubstantiated documents that may be included in this 
that may be in the public domain with the passage of this bill.
  There are serious deficiencies in the legislation that I have noted 
at length,

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and Republicans have to work to address those deficiencies in the 
Senate if and when this legislation is advanced.
  I stood before the American public today at our press conference, and 
I explained in detail the dangers of the discharge petition. We have 
posted it at my website, speaker.gov, a summary that the legal counsel, 
a small army of lawyers, have put together. I used to be a Federal 
Court litigator. Many of my colleagues who have spoken today were. We 
understand the dangers of how this was haphazardly drawn up.
  Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record a document titled ``How the 
Flaws of H.R. 4405 Could Revictimize Epstein's Victims, Create New 
Victims, and Damage the Judicial System''.
                                                November 18, 2025.

How the Flaws of H.R. 4405 Could Revictimize Epstein's Victims, Create 
              New Victims, and Damage the Judicial System

     BACKGROUND. On November 12, 2025, a motion to discharge in 
     relation to H. Res. 581 was filed and assigned to the 
     Discharge Calendar. Accordingly, the House is poised to 
     consider H.R. 4405, compelling the Department of Justice 
     (DOJ) to release its files related to Jeffrey Epstein and 
     Ghislaine Maxwell. While Republicans fully support 
     transparency and the release of the names of those who 
     conspired with and aided Epstein and Maxwell, the bill the 
     House will consider is flawed.
     ANALYSIS. The flaws in H.R. 4405 include the following.
       1. Fails to Fully Protect Victim Privacy. While H.R. 4405 
     permits the Attorney General to withhold ``personally 
     identifiable information of [Epstein's] victims'' and 
     ``personal and medical files and similar files,'' this 
     authority is limited to disclosures that ``constitute a 
     clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.'' 
     Protections for Epstein's victims should go further. Congress 
     should give the Attorney General broader authority to redact 
     all victim information. This would prevent the release of 
     information that could be used to unmask victims who have 
     chosen to remain anonymous. Anything less risks revictimizing 
     those who were trafficked and exploited. The courts have 
     recognized this concern. On August 20, 2025, Judge Richard 
     Berman (SDNY) issued an order denying DOJ's request to 
     release Epstein grand jury materials, noting ``names and 
     identifying information [of victims] appear in the subject 
     materials.'' Judge Berman quoted a letter related to victims' 
     concerns, which stated: ``[T]ransparency cannot come at the 
     expense of the very people whom the justice system is sworn 
     to protect . . .'' and he quoted a letter from a victim, Jane 
     Doe 2, which stated: ``I beg the court to make sure it is the 
     upmost [sic] priority that in any sort of release ALL and 
     EVERY detail that could possibly reveal our identities be 
     redacted.''
       2. Could Create New Victims. H.R. 4405 requires DOJ to 
     release information, even in cases where DOJ or the FBI has 
     determined it was false. Congress should avoid mandating this 
     kind of release. Doing so could ruin the reputations of 
     innocent persons, such as those who may have known Epstein 
     but knew nothing of his crimes, or whose names Epstein 
     exploited and used in order to get close to his intended 
     victims. Releasing information containing the names of 
     innocent people would subject the innocents to a guilt by 
     association, creating a new group of victims who have no 
     means to clear their names. To avoid this, the Attorney 
     General should be given additional authority to redact 
     information the FBI has previously deemed was false or not 
     credible.
       3. Potentially Jeopardizes Grand Jury Secrecy. Rule 6(e) of 
     the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure prohibits the release 
     of grand jury materials. An unauthorized release can be 
     prosecuted as a criminal offense, including obstruction of 
     justice. This secrecy exists to protect the individual. Grand 
     juries are not adversarial. There is no opportunity for the 
     subject of a grand jury inquiry to cross-examine, disprove 
     testimony, or challenge the evidence. If Congress compels 
     release of grand jury materials, it raises a risk that the 
     grand jury process will become politicized in the future. 
     Imagine how a malicious prosecutor could abuse and weaponize 
     the grand jury process by inducing testimony about a 
     political adversary, testimony the prosecutor knows is false 
     and which could not be contested, with the hopes a future 
     Congress would later compel disclosure. H.R. 4405 is 
     ambiguous as to whether it requires DOJ to release grand jury 
     materials from the Maxwell and Epstein cases. As such, as 
     written, the current text of H.R. 4405 creates a conflict of 
     laws. Congress can clear up any ambiguity by requiring the 
     Attorney General to redact grand jury materials.
       4. Fails to Prohibit Release of Child Sexual Abuse 
     Materials. H.R. 4405 allows the Attorney General to redact 
     portions of records that ``depicts or contains child sexual 
     abuse materials (CSAM) as defined under 18 U.S.C. 2256 . . . 
     .'' It necessarily follows that the redaction authority is 
     limited by whatever CSAM definition is found in 18 U.S.C. 
     2256. Unfortunately, Sec. 2256 does not contain any CSAM 
     definition, which means that H.R. 4405 bestows no real legal 
     authority on the Attorney General to redact those materials. 
     The bill should be amended to clearly prohibit release of any 
     CSAM.
       5. Jeopardizes Future Federal Investigations. H.R. 4405 
     allows the Attorney General to redact ``portions of records 
     that . . . would jeopardize an active federal investigation 
     or ongoing prosecution'' but only if ``narrowly tailored and 
     temporary.'' This standard ignores the impact disclosure 
     might have on future investigations. Release of this 
     information could publicly identify individuals who were 
     promised confidentiality, such as a whistleblower or 
     confidential informant, in exchange for agreeing to share 
     information in the Epstein case. Violating confidentiality 
     would have a chilling effect, deterring future whistleblowers 
     and informants. Release could also publicly reveal the 
     identity of undercover law enforcement officers, preventing 
     them from working in future operations. In order to properly 
     protect whistleblowers, informants, and undercover officers, 
     the Attorney General should be given additional authorities 
     to redact information related to these types of individuals 
     (if any), provided they were not complicit in Epstein's 
     crimes.
       6. National Security Concerns. H.R. 4405 requires the 
     Attorney General to complete the release of information 
     within 30 days, including to declassify ``classified 
     information to the maximum extent possible.'' This raises two 
     concerns. First, it may not be feasible to properly undertake 
     such an extensive review in such a short period of time. 
     Second, it ignores the principle that declassification should 
     rest with the agency that originated the intelligence so as 
     to protect sources and methods. It is incredibly unwise to 
     demand that DOJ declassify materials originated by other 
     agencies. H.R. 4405 should be amended to direct relevant 
     intelligence agencies to work with the Attorney General to 
     declassify in a reasonable time frame.
     CONCLUSION. Republicans support transparency, especially when 
     it comes to disclosing the names of those who conspired with 
     and aided Jeffrey Epstein. Before H.R. 4405 becomes law, each 
     of the above concerns should be addressed, with particular 
     attention paid to ensuring the highest protection for 
     victims.

  Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. It is dated today.
  It summarizes just five or six of the major concerns.
  Among them, it fails to fully protect victim privacy. It could create 
new categories of victims. It potentially jeopardizes grand jury 
secrecy.
  It fails to prohibit release of child sexual abuse materials that are 
not appropriately defined in the legislation. It jeopardizes future 
Federal investigations. Moreover, we have national security concerns 
regarding classified information.
  We will put this in the Record because we need the legislative Record 
to reflect what is the legislative intent behind this vote. I used to 
litigate cases. We used to litigate Federal statutes and whether or not 
they could survive, and legislative intent is important.
  We need to state clearly for the record, and as Speaker of the House, 
I am saying to you this legislation that will pass today is flawed, and 
it must be amended.
  The question is: Why didn't we amend it here before we passed it?
  It is because the authors won't allow it.
  It is because under the rules of the House under a discharge 
petition, they have to agree to consent for the legislation to be 
amended, and they are not doing that. Now we rely on our partners in 
the other Chamber to get that done, and they need to do that.
  The victims deserve our utmost respect. In fact, they should be 
saluted for their courage. The young women who have not come forward, 
and some of them are middle-aged women who have not come forward, also 
deserve our respect, and they deserve to be protected.
  Republicans support transparency. We want maximum transparency, 
especially when it comes to disclosing the names of anybody who had 
anything to do with these evils, anybody who conspired with or aided in 
any way Jeffrey Epstein must be brought to justice.
  We want the bill to be amended so it doesn't at the same time violate 
victim privacy, create new victims, disclose the names of any 
whistleblower or informant, cause the release of grand jury materials 
or child sexual abuse materials, or undermine our national security. If 
and when the Senate takes this up, we will work with our colleagues 
over there to make sure that these things are corrected.
  I will just close with this simple thought.
  We have been at this a while, and it has dragged on for a while, but 
it is time for this to come to light.
  I expect that this will be a unanimous vote, and it will reflect what 
I think every Member in this Chamber--

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and I will say this--now, at least in recent days, every Member of the 
Chamber, on the Democrat side, didn't say anything for 4 years, but 
they are for maximum transparency now, and so is this side. But we want 
to do it in a respectful and careful manner so that we don't subject 
innocent people to further harm. That has been the whole thing.
  I told all my Members today I will be voting ``yes'' on this, and I 
suspect almost everyone will. We will send it to the Senate, and I hope 
it is corrected.


                         Parliamentary Inquiry

  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California 
(Mr. Gomez) for the purpose of making a parliamentary inquiry.
  Mr. GOMEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise to ask a point of parliamentary 
inquiry.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Flood). The gentleman may state his 
parliamentary inquiry.
  Mr. GOMEZ. Is this an appropriate time to point out that the 
Republicans named children's savings accounts in their so-called One 
Big Beautiful Bill Act after Donald Trump, someone connected to--
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman has not stated a parliamentary 
inquiry. The gentleman will suspend. The gentleman is no longer 
recognized.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to close. I have no more 
speakers on my side, and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. JORDAN. May I inquire as to the time remaining.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Ohio has 30 seconds 
remaining. The gentleman from Maryland has 6\1/4\ minutes remaining.
  Mr. JORDAN. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I take the opportunity of the Speaker's 
presence to respond to some of the things that he said. In the very 
presence of the victims and the survivors who have come to join us 
today, the Speaker said that now would be the time we should be working 
on urgent legislative work.
  Mr. Speaker, justice is urgent legislative work. The truth is urgent 
legislative work.
  The Speaker says: Why now? Why now?
  Mr. Speaker, you were the one who refused to swear in Adelita 
Grijalva for 50 days. We would have done it 50 days ago, but she 
provided the 218th signature on the discharge petition.
  So why now?
  It was because of your dilatory tactics, your delay, your 
postponement of it.
  Now the gentleman says that there are not sufficient protections. 
There are protections in the bill for the victims to make sure that 
their names will be redacted. Yet, we hear even the Speaker of the 
House of Representatives openly inviting the U.S. Senate to start 
finger painting on this bill which we have waited more than 5 months to 
bring to the floor.
  The Senate should pass the bill exactly as it is written. The 
President should sign it exactly as he said he would when he finally 
changed his mind, and the Epstein file must be released. Moreover, if 
the President is serious about what he is saying, he has got the power 
to release the Epstein file right now. Nobody is stopping him. It is 
within his possession. It is within his control. He can release the 
whole thing, and he can redact the names of the victims and others who 
are innocent in this process.
  Mr. Speaker, Speaker Johnson said that these are unspeakable evils. 
However, because of the bravery and the invincible courage of the women 
who joined us today, they are no longer unspeakable.

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  They are spoken. They are articulated. The cat is out of the bag. We 
know what has been going on for decades. It has been a double standard 
of justice going all the way back to Alex Acosta, who got later 
rewarded with a Cabinet appointment in the Trump administration.
  Alex Acosta had a 60-count Federal indictment ready to go against all 
kinds of people for an interstate sex trafficking conspiracy, with 
solicitation, child sex abuse, all of it. He traded that 60-count 
Federal indictment for 1 count in State court.
  Jeffrey Epstein ended up getting the sweetest of sweetheart deals 
ever on the plea bargain front. He was free from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. to do 
whatever he wanted in continuing to perpetrate his crimes and run his 
conspiracy. Then he would come and would watch TV and spend the night 
in jail. It was over in about a year. This was after the rape and 
sexual abuse of hundreds and hundreds of girls. He kept going, and he 
kept at it.
  We want the whole truth to come out.
  This is the United States of America. Even the British monarchy 
wouldn't put up with this. How about the American democracy? How about 
we say: No way. We are not going to allow this coverup to go on for 1 
day more.
  I am glad the President changed his mind after pulling out all the 
stops to try to get one of our Republican colleagues to change their 
mind, to remove their name from the discharge petition. He gave up.
  I want to salute the gentlewoman from Colorado (Ms. Boebert) for 
having the courage to stand her ground in the Situation Room in the 
White House and say, no, she wasn't going to be bullied.
  I am glad the President changed his mind, but let's be clear: Mr. 
President, you have the power today to release the entire file. That is 
what you called for. That is what Pam Bondi called for. That is what 
Kash Patel called for. We don't need anybody calling for the Senate to 
slow things down for more weeks and more months.
  The American people have had it.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to direct their 
comments to the Chair and not to their colleagues.
  Mr. JORDAN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Nehls).
  Mr. NEHLS. Mr. Speaker, the Democratic Party, with help from the 
dishonest media, used the Epstein files not to seek justice for the 
victims but to smear President Trump, and it is sickening, quite 
sickening.
  The Democrats have used the Epstein files to distract the American 
people from the wins President Trump and his administration have 
delivered for the American people for the last 11 months.
  I am proud to work with my Republican colleagues on the House 
Oversight Committee, in coordination with the Justice Department. Mr. 
Speaker, 65,000 pages of documents related to Epstein have been 
released.
  What have my Democrat colleagues done? They have selectively leaked 
and altered documents to mislead the American people.
  As President Trump has stated, we have nothing to hide, nothing to 
hide here. I am voting to release the files so that we can move on from 
this smear campaign the Democrats have manufactured. God bless Donald 
J. Trump.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to how much time I have 
remaining.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maryland has 2 minutes 
remaining.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  I thank all of America for tuning in to this. I thank Representatives 
Massie, Khanna, and Greene and all of those who have insisted upon 
bringing the truth forward and a reckoning with the reality of one of 
the worst international child sex trafficking rings ever to exist in 
the United States and the coverup attendant to it.
  We have the opportunity today to do justice for the victims, for the 
survivors who have come forward to say that the voice of the victims 
and the survivors must be put at the very center of our deliberations, 
not shunted off to the side, not submerged, not subordinated, but put 
at the very center. We must hear from the people who themselves were 
victimized by this nightmare.
  Now, our colleagues across the aisle seem to want to make this into 
some sort of partisan contest. I haven't heard so much talk about the 
Democrats since the Democratic National Convention. All that we have 
done here is to say we want to bring the truth forward, along with a 
bipartisan group. We don't want the Senate monkeying around with this 
in order to slow things down. We want it passed in the Senate. We want 
it signed.

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  Before that, if the President is true to his word, and he wants to 
see all of this come to light, he can release it now instead of 
fighting, kicking and screaming every step along the way. I am glad he 
has changed his mind, and I hope he maintains the momentum he has to 
stick with the vast majority of the American people who want to see 
that the truth is done here. While he is at it, the administration 
could reconsider their terrible policies gutting Federal offices and 
programs designed to combat violence against women.
  The DOJ terminated hundreds of grants to police departments, 
defunding the police when it comes to investigating violent sex crimes 
and to support victims. His DOGE destroyed programs to combat 
international human trafficking rings. Let's get back on the side of 
the women.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. JORDAN. Mr. Speaker, Speaker Johnson said it right: Why now after 
4 years of doing nothing? It is because going after President Trump is 
an obsession with these guys.
  The best example is that John Brennan testified in front of our 
committee under oath and said he was not involved with the dossier. The 
only problem is, Tulsi Gabbard declassified a report, released that 
report, and it said exactly the opposite. She related a story in there 
where a CIA official went up to Mr. Brennan and said: We shouldn't 
include this in the report. John Brennan's response was: Yeah, but 
doesn't it ring true? Forget the facts. Forget the truth. Go after 
Trump. Put it in. The same dynamic is at work here.
  We are all for protecting innocent victims. We are all for exposing 
the bad guys who did bad things, but this is an obsession with the 
left. For 10 years, they have been going after President Trump.
  Vote ``yes'' to make sure the bad guys are held accountable. We all 
want to do that. Speaker Johnson is right. I think it is going to be 
unanimous, but understand what they are doing because they had 4 years 
and didn't do a darn thing.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Jordan) that the House suspend the rules and 
pass the bill, H.R. 4405.
  The question was taken.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the opinion of the Chair, two-thirds 
being in the affirmative, the ayes have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.


                Announcement By the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 15-
minute vote on the motion to suspend the rules will be followed by 5-
minutes votes on:
  Ordering the previous question on House Resolution 879;
  Adoption of House Resolution 879, if ordered; and
  Adoption of H. Res. 878.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 427, 
noes 1, not voting 5, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 289]

                               AYES--427

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Alford
     Allen
     Amo
     Amodei (NV)
     Ansari
     Arrington
     Auchincloss
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Balint
     Barr
     Barragan
     Barrett
     Baumgartner
     Bean (FL)
     Beatty
     Begich
     Bell
     Bentz
     Bera
     Bergman
     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 (GA)
     Carter (LA)
     Carter (TX)
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Ciscomani
     Cisneros
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyburn
     Clyde
     Cohen
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     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
     Fong
     Foster
     Foushee
     Foxx
     Frankel, Lois
     Franklin, Scott
     Friedman
     Frost
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Garamendi
     Garbarino
     Garcia (CA)
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                                NOES--1

       
     Higgins (LA)
       

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Beyer
     Casar
     Rulli
     Sherrill
     Womack

                              {time}  1443

  Messrs. JACKSON of Texas and DAVIS of Illinois changed their vote 
from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and 
the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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