[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 197 (Friday, November 21, 2025)]
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DENOUNCING THE HORRORS OF SOCIALISM
Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 879,
I call up the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 58) denouncing the
horrors of socialism, and ask for its immediate consideration in the
House.
The Clerk read the title of the concurrent resolution.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 879, the
concurrent resolution is considered read.
The text of the concurrent resolution is as follows:
H. Con. Res. 58
Whereas socialist ideology necessitates a concentration of
power that has, time and time again, collapsed into communist
regimes, totalitarian rule, and brutal dictatorships;
Whereas socialism has repeatedly led to famine and mass
murders, and the killing of over 100,000,000 people
worldwide;
Whereas many of the greatest crimes in history were
committed by socialist ideologues, including Vladimir Lenin,
Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Kim Jong
Il, Kim Jong Un, Daniel Ortega, Hugo Chavez, and Nicolas
Maduro;
Whereas tens of millions died in the Bolshevik Revolution,
at least 10,000,000 people were sent to the gulags in the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and millions more
starved in the Terror-Famine (Holodomor) in Ukraine;
Whereas between 15,000,000 and 55,000,000 people starved to
death in the wake of famine and devastation caused by the
Great Leap Forward in China;
Whereas the socialist experiment in Cambodia led to the
killing fields in which over a million people were gruesomely
murdered;
Whereas up to 3,500,000 people have starved in North Korea,
dividing a land of freedom from a land of destitution;
Whereas the Castro regime in Cuba expropriated the land of
Cuban farmers and the businesses of Cuban entrepreneurs,
stealing their possessions and their livelihoods, and exiling
millions with nothing but the clothes on their backs;
Whereas the implementation of socialism in Venezuela has
turned a once-prosperous country into a failed State with the
highest rate of inflation in the world;
Whereas President Thomas Jefferson, the author of the
Declaration of Independence, wrote, ``To take from one,
because it is thought that his own industry and that of his
fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others,
who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and
skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of
association, the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of
his industry, and the fruits acquired by it'';
Whereas President James Madison, the ``Father of the
Constitution'', wrote that it ``is not a just government, nor
is property secure under it, where the property which a man
has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated
by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the
service of the rest''; and
Whereas the United States was founded on the belief in the
sanctity of the individual, to which the collectivistic
system of socialism in all of its forms is fundamentally and
necessarily opposed: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate
concurring), That Congress denounces socialism in all its
forms, and opposes the implementation of socialist policies
in the United States.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The concurrent resolution shall be debatable
for 1 hour, equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking
minority member of the Committee on Financial Services or their
respective designees.
The gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Hill) and the gentlewoman from
California (Ms. Waters) each will control 30 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Arkansas.
General Leave
Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all
Members may have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks
and include extraneous material on the concurrent resolution under
consideration.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentleman from Arkansas?
There was no objection.
Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
Mr. Speaker, a ``yes'' vote on this resolution should be a relatively
straightforward, easy decision.
It simply states that Congress denounces socialism in all its forms
and opposes the implementations of socialist policies in the United
States of America.
It is a statement that I would hope all of our elected leaders in the
United States up and down our system of government could support.
Socialism ignores the side of a man and woman that is the spirit. It
dulls the human capacity for self-initiative, entrepreneurship, and
risk-taking. For those who have concerns about the resolution, I just
invite them to read it.
It outlines the pain and hardship experienced by millions around the
world who have suffered under socialist regimes. This is something that
the sponsor of the resolution, Congresswoman Salazar of Florida, has
focused on combating for her entire career.
Congresswoman Salazar is the daughter of Cuban exiles and was born in
Miami's Little Havana. Representative Salazar has led the charge
against socialist policies.
This resolution today is just one example of her commitment to her
constituents and our entire Nation. The contrast between the successful
policies under market capitalism and the freedoms associated with,
particularly, our robust democracy here in America and socialism across
the world and in history could not be starker.
I cannot express this enough: This resolution is not just a messaging
bill or, as some from across the aisle have called it, a waste of time.
It is not that to the people and the families who have experienced the
horrors and atrocities associated with socialist regimes.
Mr. Speaker, I thank Congresswoman Salazar for her work on this. I
urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to vote a vigorous
``yes'' on this resolution, and I reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, I wish we were here on the House floor this morning
debating solutions that would reduce grocery bills, lower housing
costs, end Trump's tariffs that are strangling American small
businesses and manufacturers, solve the Republican healthcare crisis,
or any legislation that allows Americans to afford to live through the
catastrophic economic policies of Trump and the Republicans.
Mr. Speaker, instead of doing the work that our constituents
desperately want us to do, Republicans in the House have chosen once
again to advance a resolution under the guise of denouncing
``socialism.''
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Let me be clear. This resolution is an embarrassing distraction from
the complete and total failure of the Trump administration to deliver
actual results for the American people, and the American people see
right through it. Sixty-one percent of Americans say that Trump's
policies have worsened economic conditions in this country, and 64
percent of Americans say Trump's policies are raising the prices of
food and groceries.
What is worse is that this very resolution goes further by using the
specter of socialism to undermine some of the most important government
programs in our country like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and
ObamaCare. These are programs that help everyday Americans put food on
their plate and care for their children.
Republicans absurdly think they can convince Americans these programs
that are decades old are leading America toward a Stalinist Russia,
even though it is blatantly obvious that the policies of Donald Trump
are straight out of a dictator's playbook.
Mr. Speaker, the House returned this week from the Trump-Republican
shutdown, the longest government shutdown in American history. While
House Republicans gave themselves a paid, 2-month vacation, hundreds of
thousands of Federal employees were left wondering how they were going
to pay their rent or mortgage, and 42 million Americans nearly lost
their food assistance.
What was the Trump administration doing? Instead of working with
Congress to end the shutdown or with local communities to blunt the
impacts of the shutdown, it decided to use the full force of the United
States Government to make sure these American families
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went hungry and fought twice in the Supreme Court to block legally
available funds from being used to help feed them. It further chipped
away at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and fired an entire
office dedicated to helping rural and struggling communities, the
Community Development Financial Institutions fund. All of this because
Republicans want to raise the cost for people with ObamaCare health
insurance.
Twenty-two million Americans will see their monthly health insurance
premiums double, and up to 5 million Americans will likely lose their
insurance altogether.
Where is the Republican plan? Where is the plan? Where is the plan to
deal with all of this? They don't have one because they think keeping
healthcare costs low is socialist.
If Republicans truly cared about denouncing authoritarian socialism,
they would start with the Trump administration. In less than 1 year,
the Trump administration has demanded U.S. companies like Intel, U.S.
Steel, MP Materials, Lithium Americas, and Trilogy Metals to hand over
stock to the U.S. Government. These are capitalist companies who are
doing business that they claim this government supports. Trump is also
considering forcing Lockheed Martin to do the same.
Why are my colleagues, who are so quick to tout their capitalist
leans, silent when Trump follows China's communist tactics? The double
standard is astounding.
This resolution also seeks to condemn atrocities committed by
despotic regimes such as Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong, which everyone
in this Chamber agrees should be condemned.
Somehow, once again, this resolution fails to condemn some of our
history's most terrible dictators, like Adolph Hitler and modern-day
dictators like Vladimir Putin, who is responsible for killing countless
people in Ukraine, or President Xi who basically runs actual
concentration camps for ethnic minorities.
Why aren't House Republicans denouncing these dictators when we, as
Congress, can actually do something to stop it? It is probably because
President Trump has said he thinks Putin has done ``a great job,'' and
is ``a genius,'' or maybe because he thinks President Xi ``is really a
friend of mine.''
In line with these other authoritarian regimes, just this week, Trump
said Democrats in the House and Senate had committed ``seditious
behavior, punishable by death'' and reposted a post saying: ``hang
them.''
We should be working as Congress to denounce these horrific words,
not beloved government programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
Just as those authoritarian regimes are often rife with corruption,
the Trump family is also doing everything possible to enrich itself.
Since taking office, they have issued their own stablecoins and meme
coins and various crypto products, even as Congress was in the middle
of considering legislation and regulators were drafting rules. In fact,
the Trump family is more than $1 billion richer from crypto alone since
Trump took office, and Trump's billionaire buddies have also made
fistfuls of money as the rest of America struggles just to put food on
the table.
The excess is so great that Trump is literally tearing down the White
House to build a golden ballroom. He is sending $40 billion to bail out
Argentina and his billionaire buddies and has even hosted Great Gatsby-
themed parties at Mar-a-Lago.
This resolution is a huge waste of time and does absolutely nothing
to lower costs or solve any of the problems that our country faces.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this resolution.
If they keep it up, I am going to name all of the Republicans who took
PPP money. Is that socialism? I am going to name them who are taking
advantage of other programs that they call socialist. I am going do it
if they keep this up.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this resolution,
and I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
Mr. Speaker, I always enjoy my good friend from California's long
lectures to this House on her views about current events. I am always
grateful for her point of view.
Mr. Speaker, I would share from my perspective that the shutdown was
borne fully and irresponsibly by the United States Senate, by just a
handful of Democratic Senators with their leader, Mr. Schumer, that
refused to keep the government open while we continue debates about
something we do every day here, which is, what are the ways and means
to fund the American Government.
This House body under Speaker Mike Johnson with bipartisan vote, I
might add, had a clean continuing resolution to keep the government
open for those 42 days. Yet, 14 times, Senate Democrats denied funding
to air traffic controllers, denied funding to farm assistance, and
denied funding for all the Federal programs, inconveniencing States,
hurting families, and hurting Federal workers.
Further, perhaps, unlike some, I certainly gave up my pay for those
42 days by direction of this House. I was not going to be paid
personally as a Member of Congress while we see this kind of lack of
responsibility out of the Senate.
Today, what we are talking about here in the most vigorous democracy
in the land in our 250th year, we are talking about rejecting socialism
that punishes freedom, punishes individual action, and tears families
apart. That is what we are here to talk about. We are not here to
rattle down about current events.
Mr. Speaker, the gentlewoman from Florida, Congresswoman Salazar,
leads our Western Hemisphere Subcommittee in the House Foreign Affairs
Committee and what better person, Mr. Speaker, to have this
responsibility.
Born in Little Havana in Miami, daughter of Cuban exiles, let her
tell you how cushy life was under Castro's Communist socialist
dictatorship.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms.
Salazar).
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Ms. SALAZAR. Mr. Speaker, I thank the honorable gentleman from
Arkansas, the distinguished French Hill, chairman of the Committee on
Financial Services. It is a pleasure for me to be serving with him on
this committee.
Mr. Speaker, I am going to say before I start, before I explain to
this body why I am introducing this resolution, when I was a journalist
covering stories for Univision Network, I interviewed many people who
had lost their legs or lost their brothers or sisters in the middle of
the ocean, trying to get to Miami, and the sharks ate them up. Some of
them were eaten up alive. Others lost legs.
When they made it to Florida, I was able to interview them as a
journalist and see the horrors of what they had to go through because
they were escaping the paradise called socialism. I am going to start
with that and maybe finish with another anecdote.
The reason we are introducing this resolution is to condemn the
horrors of socialism, and I am presenting just the facts. I invite my
colleagues on the other side to vote to condemn this nefarious
ideology.
This has nothing to do with political parties. This is not a
Democratic issue. This is not a Republican issue. This is a moral vote
against an ideology that has destroyed millions and millions of
families--many of those families I serve in District 27, the heart of
the city of Miami, the heart of the Cuban exile community and now the
Venezuelan community--and murdered more than 100 million lives besides
crushing hundreds of thousands of other families and individuals.
Unfortunately, socialism and Marxism crush the human soul. It is not
just in my community in Miami. Millions of Cubans had to flee. It is
the rest of the hemisphere and the rest of the world. Just look at
Russia, look at North Korea, and look at Iran.
What a coincidence that, today, President Trump is receiving in the
White House the mayor-elect, Mr. Mamdani, from New York City. I salute
the President for receiving Mr. Mamdani because he won fair and square,
and that is the way democracy works.
Let me just tell you something. Knowing very well how Fidel worked,
how Hugo Chavez works, and how socialism works, I want to put this in
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perspective. If it were to be the other way around and Trump would have
been the mayor-elect and Mamdani were to be the President of the United
States, I assure you that there is no way that Mamdani is going to
receive Trump at the White House, period.
How do I know that? Because I know exactly how they operate.
Democracy is just a tool to get to power, period. People who love
freedom, we are just useful fools to be used in order to get to the
business of power, which is all socialist, communist, whatever you want
to call it. If it is not democracy, freedom, and a free-market economy,
it is just a bad ideology. Unfortunately, that is what they do to
achieve power. They use us.
Just look at Venezuela. Oh, my God, Venezuela is in the news.
Everyone is talking about Venezuela, my God, the Caribbean.
Let me just give you the facts. Maria Corina Machado, who is the
legitimate President of Venezuela, who won 80-20 after President Biden
gave the opportunity to Maduro to do fair and square elections and
transparent elections, 2 years ago Maduro signs a document by the name
of the Barbados Agreement, and he agrees to the Biden administration
and to Juan Gonzalez, who used to be the National Security Advisor for
Latin America, that he was going to leave if he did not win the
elections. He signed that document with the Biden administration.
What did he do? He just spit on Biden's face because we believed
that, oh, my God, Biden, look what he is doing. It is good. It is a
good idea to give the opportunity to Maduro to just create and conduct
free, fair, and transparent elections with international observers, and
he was going to go. Look at where he is at now.
Maduro is not only the head of the Suns Cartel, one of the most
important drug trafficking cartels in the world, but he was also
indicted in 2020 by a Federal grand jury in this country for being one
of the major drug traffickers in the world. Not only that, he is now on
the transnational criminal organization list. Not only that, he is the
head of the Suns Cartel.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 1 minute to
the gentlewoman from Florida.
Ms. SALAZAR. As you can see, I can speak until tomorrow about
socialism.
The problem is that Venezuela is the perfect example, and the
Venezuelans would make fun of the Cubans 25 years ago, saying that it
was impossible for that to happen in Venezuela. They had the largest
reserves of oil in the world. They were a brave and strong democracy.
They were not an island. It was impossible. They have such a strong
economy.
Look, right now, the average Venezuelan weighs 15 pounds less because
of a lack of food, and the Trump administration has to come to rescue
them from what they have turned that country into.
We are at a crossroads in this country. Young Americans, 70 percent
believe that socialism is good. One in three believes that government
should control major industries. One in four says that we should
abolish private property.
It is my duty as a Representative of District 27, the heart of the
Cuban exile community, to tell this body it is time to denounce
socialism in this country because, just like it happened to the
Venezuelans, it could happen to the Americans.
Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, for those who are expecting their Social
Security checks this month, turn them down if you think that is
socialism.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr.
Himes), who is also the ranking member of the Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence.
Mr. HIMES. Mr. Speaker, I thank Ms. Waters for the time, although I
must say that I am a little bit confused. I am not going to frame this
as a parliamentary inquiry, but I am very confused.
We have just gotten back from a 2-month paid vacation in which
Federal employees didn't get paid, in which we started a war without
congressional approval, in which electricity prices went up for 70
million Americans, and in which inflation is rocking along at 3\1/2\
percent.
I thought we were going to be in this Chamber talking about
affordability.
By the way, my friends on the Republican side just got shellacked in
an election, from sea to shining sea, where the word is affordability.
They got shellacked on affordability.
What did we do this week? Congressman Norman, a guy who put a .38
Smith & Wesson on the table when he met with Moms Demand Action on Gun
Safety and who called for martial law to stop the peaceful transfer of
power to stop Joe Biden from becoming President, decided that Stacey
Plaskett should no longer be on the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence. We spent half a day on that.
Congresswoman Mace decided that Cory Mills should no longer be on
committees. Apparently, we may do another one.
I prepared a speech on affordability with lots of good ideas on how
to make stuff cheaper. It says it right there: Lots of good ideas on
how to make stuff cheaper.
Good idea number one: Get rid of tariffs, which are a tax on bananas,
coffee, vegetables, pasta sauce, pasta, televisions, automobiles, and
burgundy, a fine French claret for my Republican friends over there.
Number two: Stop canceling generation projects, which will make
electricity cheaper.
That was my speech. Instead, we are here to denounce the horrors of
socialism. That is not what I was prepared to talk about. If I were
prepared to talk about it, I would point out two things.
Number one, if you have ever cracked a book or talked to somebody,
you would know that socialism is different than communism. The chairman
and I both come out of a highly capitalist industry, banking. There are
socialist countries that have exhibited horrors, like Denmark, like
Finland, any other number of socialist countries. Communism, in fact,
if this resolution said communism, I suspect we wouldn't even have to
debate it because who likes communism.
Anyway, I would make that point if I were interested in having this
debate, or I might point out--and I welcome the Republican majority in
finally catching on--the fact that we are living in the most socialist
administration in two and a half centuries.
What is the definition of socialism? Again, if you crack a book, you
will see that it is state control over the means of production. This
President has taken a 10 percent stake in Intel, a 15 percent stake in
MP Materials, a 10 percent stake in Lithium Americas, and a 10 percent
stake in Trilogy Metals, and we have a golden share in U.S. Steel--
state control of the means of production.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 1 minute to the
gentleman from Connecticut.
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Mr. HIMES. If the definition of socialism is political control over
the means of production, welcome to the great socialist state of the
United States of America.
The other definition, by the way, has to do with command and control.
Those are words we remember from the Communist era, command and
control. Well, holy smokes, there is not a media company, a law firm,
or a university that has not been subject to the command and control of
the Oval Office.
The President has demanded money. It looks a little like extortion to
me, but in order to avoid making a personality, let's just call it
dividends. The President has demanded dividends from any number of
companies. This is command and control.
I am not actually interested in having that debate because I think we
would all agree on much of this stuff, including the fact that we are
now living in one of the most socialist countries on the planet.
What I really want to do is talk about affordability, which is what
the American people care about.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from
engaging in personalities toward the President.
Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the
gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Kim), who grew up in Korea, and as a
young girl immigrated here to the United States of America. She knows
the truth of postwar Korea and how challenging it was.
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She compared the Korea of her childhood to the Korea of today:
Democracy, freedom, vigorous democracy, amazingly vigorous democracy in
Korea today. Mrs. Kim is now the chairwoman of our East Asia and
Pacific Subcommittee on Foreign Affairs. What a transition and what a
great voice to condemn socialism.
Mrs. KIM. Mr. Speaker, it is such an honor to stand here to strongly
support H. Con. Res. 58.
As a Korean American who grew up in the aftermath of the Korean war,
I have witnessed the horrors of socialism firsthand. I always say, if
you want to see the difference between socialism and freedom, just look
at the Korean Peninsula at night. South Korea shines with opportunity.
North Korea is trapped in darkness.
Time and time again throughout history, socialism has led to
disaster, starvation, imprisonment, and the death of over 100 million
people worldwide.
My own family lived those horrors. My mother-in-law risked her life
crossing the DMZ lines multiple times to rescue loved ones from the
North Korean regime. To this day, tens of thousands of Korean families
remain separated by a system that tears apart communities and crushes
basic human dignity.
Now more than ever, as socialist ideas gain traction here at home--
and as our Nation's largest city and financial capital has elected not
just a socialist, but a communist as mayor--we must firmly demand our
capitalist free market system, which empowers Americans of all
backgrounds to achieve freedom, opportunity, and prosperity.
I know what America represents because I remember my first glimpse of
freedom as a young girl, looking up, wide-eyed, as U.S. soldiers tossed
candy from their trucks in the community where I lived. Today, as one
of the first Korean-American women to serve in Congress, that freedom
tastes just as sweet.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds
to the gentlewoman from California.
Mrs. KIM. Mr. Speaker, stories like these can only happen in America.
As a Member of Congress, I will always fight for the American Dream and
for our free market system that keeps it within reach for everyday
Americans.
Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, House Republicans just passed a resolution that gives
Senators the right to sue their own government for up to $500,000.
Trump is suing the government also. The President of the United States,
who controls the Department of Justice, is suing the Department of
Justice. He wants to personally get $230 million because he didn't like
being investigated, and he wants to get revenge on his enemies. Give me
a break.
I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Gottheimer).
Mr. GOTTHEIMER. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this bill.
Democrats just had a huge win across the country because we focused
on what hardworking families care about: lowering food and healthcare
prices, cutting childcare costs, and lowering utility bills.
What do socialists stand for? Tax-raising, job-killing policies like
defunding the police, shuttering prisons, massive unfunded spending
increases, and even government-run grocery stores.
In New York, job-killing comptroller, socialist, and reckless spender
Brad Lander refuses to condemn anti-Semitic language like globalize the
intifada, which calls for the death of the Jewish people. Many of
Mayor-elect Mamdani's policies are radically at odds with both the
Democratic Party and American values.
After all, socialists aren't Democrats. They are socialists.
Democrats are about common sense, problem-solving ideas that promote
public safety, opportunity for all, and lower costs for all Americans.
I urge all Republicans to work with us on those pressing issues.
America is the land of opportunity. Capitalism, American innovation,
and the American worker are what built our great country. We cannot let
socialism tear it down.
Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman
from Tennessee (Mr. Rose), my good friend, a prominent member of the
House Financial Services Committee, and very active on financial policy
in this House.
Mr. ROSE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H. Con. Res. 58,
titled: ``Denouncing the Horrors of Socialism.'' It is a shame that I
have to defend the obvious, but it is necessary because, unfortunately,
across the Nation, progressive Democrats are increasingly cozy with the
failed, discredited ideology.
Socialism has time and again led to economic ruin, human deprivation,
and mass suffering. From the breadlines of Eastern Europe to the failed
Communist regimes of Cuba and Venezuela, socialism promises equality
but delivers it selectively. It promises security but delivers
surveillance. It promises fairness but delivers oppression and
democide.
Yet, shockingly, socialism is making a comeback here in America, even
in the world's greatest city. The newly elected, self-proclaimed
democratic socialist mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, offers
socialism. He is a mayor who champions radical economic overreach, a
progressive ideology that can easily turn once-prosperous countries
into wastelands.
Americans built New York City as a gateway for immigrants seeking a
better life. We built it on freedom, self-reliance, and open markets,
not on forced redistribution or centralized planning.
The situation now extends to Seattle, where the mayor-elect has
chosen to boycott Starbucks, a company founded in her own city.
Is this what we want, a country where those who run our cities turn
their backs on the very entrepreneurial spirit that made them thrive?
Meanwhile, I believe that we are still that shining city on the hill.
We welcome more legal immigrants than any nation on Earth, more than
the next four countries combined. They don't come because they crave
government control, but because they flee it. They come for liberty.
They come for freedom.
Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Listen, instead of debating this pointless resolution, Congress
should be focused on how we can reverse the catastrophic economic
policies of the Trump administration that have raised costs for
everyone.
It is estimated that the illegal disastrous tariffs Trump has imposed
will amount to an average tax increase of $1,200 in 2025 and $1,600 in
2026 per household and represent the largest U.S. tax increase as a
percent of GDP since 1993.
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Mr. Speaker, not only are Trump's policies raising prices for
everyone, they are killing American jobs. Although he campaigned on
bringing back manufacturing to the United States, President Trump's
tariff policies have killed 42,000 manufacturing jobs.
Since the beginning of this year, U.S. employers have eliminated
nearly 1.1 million jobs. This past October saw the highest number of
layoffs for any October since 2003.
Additionally, during the Trump Republican shutdown, Trump fired an
entire office at the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
that was dedicated to helping rural and struggling communities.
Instead of debating this useless resolution, we should be working to
reverse the Trump administration's reckless economic policies that are
hurting the American people.
Does anyone want to know why Republicans are so scared of the mayor
of New York? It is because he wants to lower grocery bills,
transportation costs, and housing costs. Republicans know that Trump's
policies are the reason costs are so high.
Mr. Speaker, the evidence and the facts are right before us about
what is happening with this economy. The President of the United States
refuses to accept the facts, and he keeps supporting these tariffs. He
does not understand how it all works.
We are in danger of him because they and him--the President and the
Republican Party--simply want to be in control. They love power. The
President loves Putin. The President likes Kim Jong Un. He likes having
a parade with
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all of the military to show he is in control. He comes up with policies
that give him more power and more control, and he is ignoring the harm
that he is doing to this country.
Mr. Speaker, I say to all the Members: It is not only about the harm
that is coming to urban communities. Those rural communities that are
losing their hospitals, that don't have healthcare, and have hungry
families who have voted for him are now understanding and are
demonstrating that it has been buyer's remorse. When the next election
comes, we are going to see what happens.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
Mr. Speaker, regarding the policies that are perhaps being considered
in New York, the voices of the people of New York have been heard. They
have spoken.
We think about having government-controlled grocery stores, instead
of relying on entrepreneurial immigrant families or Korean families
with the beautiful bodegas and flower shops around the city. They are
now somehow doing an inadequate job. The mayor proposes that the
government step into those businesses or run those grocery stores, for
example.
Mr. Speaker, he proposes even more difficult rent controls that have
already driven down the number of units available in the city of New
York, which is already suffering from a huge housing shortage and a
huge price disadvantage for the thousands of people who want to work in
the city.
This is contrary to economic choice, and that is another reason why
we are here on this House floor. We are here to note that an open and
democratic market capitalist system offers choice. The freedom to
choose is of critical value. That is limited under socialism, in
addition to the atrocities.
One of my favorite economists, Nobel Prize Winner Friedrich Hayek,
authored books I read as a young man such as, ``The Road to Serfdom''
and ``Constitution of Liberty.'' This is a man who lived under
socialism. He lived through the Communist regimes of Stalin and Eastern
Europe and of Nazi Germany. He talked about the road to serfdom. Mr.
Speaker, we think of some of these policies potentially as the scenic
route to socialism.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr.
McClintock), who chairs the Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity,
Security, and Enforcement for House Judiciary. He is someone who
understands market capitalism and a constitutional Republic like no
other Member.
Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, it is often said that capitalism is
selfishness and socialism is sharing. That is exactly backwards. The
only way to succeed in a capitalist society is to figure out what
somebody else needs and how to get it for them better than they can get
it for themselves. It might be mowing their lawn. It might be doing
brain surgery on their child. We have to help our neighbor somehow.
It is true if I take $1 from Peter and give it to Paul, Paul is $1
richer and Peter is $1 poorer. What I have really done is to take from
both of them $1 worth of incentive to help each other. Peter no longer
has a reason to help Paul because he no longer benefits, and Paul has
no reason to help Peter because he no longer needs to.
Socialism, thus, dissolves the natural bonds that hold a society
together and lead each of us to help one another. Capitalism is
voluntary. Peter and Paul help each other because it is in their mutual
interest to do so. Socialism is compulsion. We have got to take what
one has earned from helping others and give it to someone who has none.
As Lincoln said: ``It is the same spirit that says, You toil and work
and earn bread, and I'll eat it.''
Slavery and socialism both spring from that same rotten principle.
Many societies have succumbed to the siren's song of a benevolent and
all-powerful government, only to awaken one morning to find that
benevolence is gone and the all-powerful government is still there.
Let that not be the epitaph of the United States of American. The
history of human society can be summed up in just four words: Freedom
works; socialism sucks.
Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, the gentleman said something about what was happening in
New York with the mayor, and he mentioned government-owned grocery
stores. First of all, my colleague won't admit that groceries are too
high and that families cannot afford the cost of eggs and basic good
foods to have great nutrition for their families.
By the way, let me remind my colleagues of something. My then-husband
was stationed at Camp Carson in Colorado. Mr. Speaker, guess where we
got our food? We got our food from government-owned commissaries. They
had the best prices, and we had great nutrition. They absolutely
supported the families. Who ran them? They were run by the government.
I would love the idea of seeing what we can do to reduce the cost of
groceries. We already have them in the commissaries. They have price
control, and they are heavily subsidized.
Let me ask the question: Does this mean we should eliminate them
because that is socialism or because the commissaries provide food that
is affordable at the bases all over America and the world?
Are the fire departments, police departments, schools, and hospitals
socialism? I raise the question.
Instead of my colleagues taking this time to talk about how we were
the cause of the shutdown, when my colleagues know they were, don't
deflect it. Come on. Let's talk about socialism. Let's talk about the
commissaries. Let's talk about our Social Security. Let's talk about
the PPP program and how some of my colleagues got money from their
government to put into their businesses.
Let's talk about socialism. My colleagues on the other side of the
aisle are trying to deflect from what is wrong with this administration
and what is wrong with the economic policies of this administration.
Let's talk about it.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
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The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to direct their remarks
to the Chair.
Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman
from Georgia (Mr. Carter), who is a distinguished senior member of the
House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Mr. CARTER of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for
yielding.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of this resolution denouncing
the horrors of socialism, and there are horrors.
Socialism has no place in our country. Unfortunately, so-called woke
liberals in New York City don't seem to understand that socialism is
nothing more than mutually assured poverty and recently voted to bring
these failed policies to their own once-great city.
While I am saddened that New Yorkers will be willing victims of
Zohran Mamdani's destined-to-fail socialist policies, I have filed
legislation ensuring not one dime goes to fund his un-American agenda.
The rest of the country should not be forced to subsidize one mayor's
destructive actions.
Today's resolution builds on those efforts, making it clear that the
United States does not stand for, does not support, and does not
condone a system of government that makes people poorer, less free, and
less safe.
With this resolution, we reiterate our Nation's commitment to
remaining a free and prosperous society.
Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, as I am challenging my Republicans on the
opposite side of the aisle, let's talk about socialism. Let's not try
to deflect from what you know and understand that you want to hide.
Before I go into much more, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from
Maryland (Mr. Raskin), who is the ranking member of the Judiciary
Committee, to tell them what socialism is really all about.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to oppose this cynical and silly
resolution. I am not a socialist myself, but a Tom Payne Democrat, a
champion of strong democracy, universal freedom, and equal rights for
everybody, but this resolution is ridiculous.
From its first paragraph, it promotes the fallacy that socialist
ideology leads
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to social collapse. In fact, many of our strongest democratic allies on
Earth, including Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland, lead
strong, democratic socialist governments and thriving societies and
economies. Yet, House Republicans base their entire resolution on this
falsehood and advance a false equation between democratic socialism and
Communist dictatorship, a preposterous assertion that contaminates the
entire resolution.
The resolution even tries to conscript to these ideological
deceptions the words of Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison,
enlightenment liberals who lived long before socialist ideology even
existed and would detest the fanatical, theocratic politics of the MAGA
movement and the plutocratic billionaires and plundering CEOs who are
running these things behind the curtains.
Thomas Jefferson is quoted embarrassingly in this resolution for the
proposition that to take property from one to give to another is to
violate arbitrarily the first principle of association. This is a
bizarre argument, not only because Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, a
decade before the word ``socialism'' even existed and was in common
use, but it is also bizarre because Jefferson shamefully owned more
than 600 enslaved people over the course of his lifetime. Whatever his
many other virtues, and he had many, his entire livelihood was based on
appropriating the labor of other people against their will and stealing
their property that they should have had in their own bodies and in
their own lives.
The resolution is completely disoriented. It plainly feeds into the
decades-long Republican obsession with labeling the great programmatic
achievements of American democracy as socialism, including Medicare,
Medicaid, Social Security, public education, and public health measures
in the Affordable Care Act.
By defining essential, democratic public programs as socialist, and
in claiming that socialism inevitably leads to Stalinist communism and
social collapse, these plutocrat Republicans are plainly working to
undermine the living standards of the working-class majority of America
and rip up the social fabric of the country.
Meantime, President Trump's heroes and best friends in the world are
Communist dictators.
If House Republicans really want to oppose the promotion of socialist
ideology, why don't they write a letter to President Trump and condemn
his worship and admiration of Stalinist dictator Kim Jong-un of North
Korea? He said they have a ``unique'' relationship and a very ``special
friendship.''
Former KGB officer Vladimir Putin thinks that the collapse of the
Soviet Union was the greatest catastrophe of the 21st century. Of him,
Trump said, ``Putin, very smart,'' and, ``Will he become my new best
friend?''
What about the chief of the Chinese Communist Party, President Xi?
Trump described him as a ``brilliant man,'' and that he has ``the look,
the brain, the whole thing.'' President Trump has no problem with the
actual horrors of communism today, like the Chinese Government's
massive human rights violations against the Uyghurs, Tibetans, and
political dissenters in their country. ``He's a brilliant guy,'' and,
``He controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist.''
How about Vladimir Putin's persecution and poisoning of human rights
and anticorruption activists like Alexei Navalny? Of him, Trump said:
``I don't know exactly what happened. . . . We haven't had any proof
yet, but I will take a look.''
I am voting ``no'' on this pathetic, disorienting resolution, which
is divorced from reality and drenched in rightwing ideology. It will
only serve to accelerate MAGA's attempts to defund the essential social
programs that are central to American democracy and that were built by
the American people, like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security,
which they call socialism but which serve our people.
Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the
gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Malliotakis), who serves on the House
Ways and Means Committee and who is firmly opposed to socialism.
Ms. MALLIOTAKIS. Mr. Speaker, let me educate our colleagues on the
other side of the aisle.
Socialism is communism-lite. Socialism is the first step to
communism. Socialism is the antithesis of the American Dream because,
in this country, we believe that, regardless of where you come from or
how you started, Mr. Speaker, if you work hard, if you sacrifice, and
if you play by the rules, then you can succeed.
That only happens in a country where you have freedom, where you have
liberty, where you have self-determination, and where you have the free
market.
In contrast, Mr. Speaker, socialism is the belief that you work hard,
you sacrifice, you do everything right, and the government can take
what you earn from you to keep it for themselves or to redistribute it
to whomever they choose.
Millions of immigrants in this country fled their homelands to come
to the United States to escape socialism and communism. Mr. Speaker,
just ask your constituents from Russia, Poland, Albania, China, Korea,
Vietnam, Venezuela, or Cuba, where my mother fled in 1959 to escape the
very things that our new socialist mayor in New York City says he
wants.
He is a socialist who says he wants to seize the means of production.
He wants to abolish private property rights. He wants government-run
supermarkets. Yes, he says he is a socialist.
Guess what, Mr. Speaker. Those are policies straight out of the
Communist playbook of Karl Marx, so there is no difference between
socialism and communism.
Where these policies were tried, yes, they failed.
Mr. Speaker, look at Venezuela, a nearby country where self-
proclaimed socialists destroyed the richest country in South America.
They implemented these government-run supermarkets, and they have empty
shelves. Venezuelans lost an average of 20 pounds due to starvation.
They promised free universal healthcare, and now they have a severe
shortage of medical supplies, medicine, and doctors.
It is a horrible system. They seized the means of production, and it
led to hyperinflation and complete economic collapse, which is why you
have all these Venezuelans trying to come over our border illegally,
Mr. Speaker.
Sadly, New York City chose to learn the hard way what socialism is,
and we, those of us who did not vote for this guy, are going to pay the
price. It is up to all of us to fight back, to educate our youth, and
to contain this ugly monster so it does not spread and destroy our
country.
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Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I would just like to say that the
Republicans are confusing socialism with despotism or authoritarianism.
Again, Republicans are confusing socialism with despotism or
authoritarianism. Despots try to control the press, education, and the
system of justice. Despots send the military against their own
citizens. Despots try to control the economy. Despots arrest their own
citizens, including children, in the middle of the night.
Let me just say that the young lady talked about working hard, and
socialism, you know, robs families of what they have worked hard for
and what they have earned. Well, I want to ask you: What is this
administration doing when it takes a 10 percent equity stake in Intel,
15 percent equity stake in MP Materials, a 10 percent equity stake in
Lithium America, a 10 percent equity stake in Trilogy Metals, and a
``golden share'' in U.S. Steel Corporation? What is that?
Now, the Republicans have tried to confuse you on what socialism is
and even called it communism-lite. That is an absolute distraction from
what we are discussing here today.
Communism is communism. Socialism is socialism. This is a government
run by someone who is not taking into consideration the facts and the
harm and the threat that they are doing to education, the attempt to
take over law firms, the attempt to tell some of the finest
universities in this country what they can teach and what they cannot
teach, and I repeat, giving away our money to a country, $40 billion,
at a time when that money is so desperately needed in this government.
We can talk about this all day, but, absolutely, you are looking
silly when
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you are trying to talk about communism-lite or you are trying to
describe socialism when you don't know what it is.
So I am saying that I denounce this administration, Trump's family,
and all that is going on that is undermining our democracy.
We are about a democracy that must be protected, that must be fought
for. We on this side of the aisle are fighting every day to make sure
there is justice and there is equality and that our government is not
undermining democracy and calling it socialism, calling it communism,
calling it whatever you think you can use to deflect from what is going
on.
We are in a terrible time in this government with a President of the
United States and a family who is enriching themselves on our backs.
Yes, I fought hard to keep the President of the United States, the
Cabinet, and the Members of Congress from owning cryptocurrency, but
unfortunately, they are enriching themselves every day. I think the
President has enriched himself by maybe $1 trillion already in the
limited time that he has been the President of the United States.
So don't come here talking about the dangers of socialism. You better
come here and talk about what you are going to do to strengthen our
democracy, how you are going to make sure that we have an education
system for all the children, rather than an education system that is
being torn apart by the President of the United States. Let's talk
about how people are sleeping on the street, homeless, when we are
cutting Section 8 programs in housing.
We can go on about this all day. I will reserve the balance of my
time so I can rest a bit. Let them say what they want to say, so I can
come back and tell them what they need to hear.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from
engaging in personalities toward the President.
Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, I recognize the gentleman from
Missouri (Mr. Alford), the chair of the Small Business Subcommittee on
Oversight, Investigations, and Regulations and a distinguished member
of the Appropriations Committee.
Mr. ALFORD. Mr. Speaker, my blood pressure is up right now. I cannot
believe what I just heard on the House floor, the ranking member of
this distinguished committee denouncing Trump but will not denounce
socialism on the House floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
History is clear. Socialism kills people. It leads to the deaths of
tens of millions. It crushes religious liberty and destroys free
markets.
Our Founders built this Nation on a revolutionary idea that
individual liberty and not government control is a source of human
achievement. They understood that when the government owns the economy,
they soon seek to own the people.
I hope people who are watching right now on C-SPAN or on the news get
what is going on in this body today. This side is against socialism.
That side is for socialism. I am disgusted with what is going on in
this body, and I hope the American people see through the charade, the
gaslighting, and the lies that are being told.
Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to how much time
I have remaining.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Arkansas has 5\1/4\
minutes remaining.
Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the
gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Salazar), my friend from south Florida
who is also a child of Cuban exiles from the Castro takeover of Cuba.
Ms. SALAZAR. Mr. Speaker, if there is someone who has seen the
horrors of socialism up close within the Democratic Party, and is in
the House, it is the Honorable Congresswoman Maxine Waters. And I would
love for you to support this resolution specifically because, Madam
Waters, for decades, you traveled to Cuba dozens of times to visit
Fidel Castro personally, whom you considered your friend.
Congresswoman Waters was in Havana, and she saw the destruction of
Biblical proportions that Castro caused on that island, who, at the
time, in 1960, had the highest per capita income in the Western
Hemisphere.
* * *
The SPEAKER pro tempore. For what purpose does the gentlewoman from
California seek recognition?
Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I move to take the words down.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Order. The House will be in order. The
gentlewoman from California, for what purpose do you rise?
Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I rise to take down her words.
{time} 1020
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Florida is recognized.
Ms. SALAZAR. Mr. Speaker, I am asking for unanimous consent to
withdraw the violations of the rules and continue with my speech, which
is that there are many people on this floor that have--
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the words are withdrawn.
Mrs. HAYES. We object.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Objection is heard.
The objection is withdrawn.
The gentlewoman from Florida--her request is accepted with unanimous
consent. The gentlewoman from Florida is recognized.
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Ms. SALAZAR. Mr. Speaker, there are many people on this floor who
have seen the horrors of communism. They have been to Cuba. They have
been friends with Fidel Castro. They have seen the jails full of Cuban
prisoners. They have seen people preparing rafts to die in the middle
of the ocean, eaten by sharks.
There are many people in the Democratic Party who have witnessed that
and have not said anything.
For this reason, Mr. Speaker, I am asking some of my colleagues on
that side of the aisle, many of them who are very good friends of mine,
to understand that denouncing communism and socialism is the right
thing to do for the Democratic Party.
If some of the highest, most important Members of the Democratic
Party on that side of the aisle want to vote with us, they would be
doing a favor to their Republic. Not only that, the Democratic Party
will become the new champions for freedom in the Western Hemisphere.
Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
Mr. Speaker, I thank Ms. Salazar for withdrawing her words, and let's
get on with this discussion about socialism.
Instead of legislating and doing the work to tackle real problems--
Americans face the skyrocketing cost of groceries, rising rents, and
mortgage payments.
Republicans have always opposed Medicaid and Medicare. They have been
undermining it since day one, and they do not want to fix the
catastrophic economic policies of this administration.
Mr. Speaker, I want you to know that this administration is
responsible for the situation that we find ourselves in with this
failing economy. The Trump administration must take the credit for what
is happening with the loss of food for our children, for a limited
period of time, before we fought to get it back.
Mr. Speaker, I haven't finished, but I vote ``no,'' and I want you to
vote ``no'' because this is absolutely unnecessary.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my
time.
Mr. Speaker, in the short time we have remaining this morning on this
important resolution, let's cut to the chase.
America stands as a beacon of freedom. America stands as a place of
choice. America stands as a place of initiative and opportunity. What
the gentlewoman from Florida brings to the House today is a resolution
that says that we condemn the horrors of socialism not just the
atrocities associated with mass murder in Ukraine or Cuba or Venezuela
or imprisonment but the capture of the spirit that ends individual
freedom and ends individual opportunity.
Mr. Speaker, I will say that I have been shocked at some of the
debate today that we hear from a daughter of
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Korea, two daughters from Cuba, who have seen firsthand the dangers,
the fear, the atrocities, the restraint, the constraint, the end of
freedom that they experienced and their families experienced
personally.
In my young life, I worked to bring freedom to Eastern Europe. I saw
East Germany's empty shelves, empty eyes, empty spirits, no choice, and
in West Germany, vibrancy. Yet, today, we would even have to debate
that socialism has some value to the human spirit across the land, it
is amazing to me.
Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``yes'' vote on this resolution whether you are
a Democrat, a Republican, old, young, no matter what your political
philosophy is, let's unite on this floor and reject the evils of
socialism.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time for debate has expired. Pursuant to
House Resolution 879, the previous question is ordered on the
concurrent resolution and the preamble.
The question is on adoption of the concurrent resolution.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 285,
nays 98, answered ``present'' 2, not voting 47, as follows:
[Roll No. 305]
YEAS--285
Aderholt
Aguilar
Alford
Allen
Amo
Amodei (NV)
Arrington
Auchincloss
Babin
Bacon
Baird
Balderson
Barrett
Baumgartner
Bean (FL)
Begich
Bentz
Bera
Bergman
Bice
Biggs (AZ)
Biggs (SC)
Bilirakis
Bishop
Boebert
Boyle (PA)
Brecheen
Bresnahan
Budzinski
Burchett
Burlison
Calvert
Cammack
Carbajal
Carey
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Case
Castor (FL)
Cherfilus-McCormick
Ciscomani
Cisneros
Clark (MA)
Cline
Cloud
Clyburn
Clyde
Cole
Collins
Comer
Conaway
Correa
Costa
Craig
Crane
Crank
Crawford
Crenshaw
Crow
Cuellar
Davidson
Davis (NC)
De La Cruz
Deluzio
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Donalds
Downing
Dunn (FL)
Edwards
Ellzey
Emmer
Estes
Evans (CO)
Ezell
Fallon
Fedorchak
Figures
Fine
Finstad
Fischbach
Fitzgerald
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Flood
Fong
Foster
Foxx
Frankel, Lois
Franklin, Scott
Fry
Fulcher
Garbarino
Gill (TX)
Gillen
Golden (ME)
Goldman (TX)
Gonzales, Tony
Gonzalez, V.
Gooden
Goodlander
Gosar
Gottheimer
Graves
Gray
Greene (GA)
Griffith
Grothman
Guest
Guthrie
Hageman
Hamadeh (AZ)
Harder (CA)
Haridopolos
Harrigan
Harris (MD)
Harris (NC)
Harshbarger
Hern (OK)
Higgins (LA)
Hill (AR)
Himes
Hinson
Horsford
Houlahan
Hudson
Huizenga
Hunt
Hurd (CO)
Issa
Jack
Jackson (TX)
James
Jeffries
Johnson (LA)
Johnson (SD)
Johnson (TX)
Jordan
Joyce (OH)
Joyce (PA)
Kaptur
Kean
Keating
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
Kennedy (UT)
Kiggans (VA)
Kiley (CA)
Kim
Knott
Kustoff
LaHood
LaLota
LaMalfa
Landsman
Langworthy
Latta
Lawler
Lee (FL)
Lee (NV)
Letlow
Levin
Lieu
Loudermilk
Luttrell
Lynch
Mackenzie
Magaziner
Malliotakis
Maloy
Mann
Mannion
Mast
McBath
McClain
McClain Delaney
McClintock
McCormick
McDonald Rivet
McDowell
McGuire
Meeks
Meng
Messmer
Meuser
Miller (IL)
Miller (OH)
Miller (WV)
Miller-Meeks
Mills
Moolenaar
Moore (AL)
Moore (NC)
Moore (UT)
Moore (WV)
Moran
Morelle
Morrison
Moskowitz
Moulton
Mrvan
Murphy
Nehls
Newhouse
Norcross
Obernolte
Ogles
Onder
Owens
Palmer
Panetta
Pappas
Patronis
Perez
Perry
Peters
Pettersen
Pfluger
Pou
Reschenthaler
Riley (NY)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rose
Rouzer
Roy
Ruiz
Ryan
Salazar
Salinas
Scalise
Schmidt
Schneider
Scholten
Schrier
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Self
Sessions
Simpson
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smucker
Sorensen
Soto
Stanton
Stauber
Stefanik
Steil
Steube
Stevens
Strickland
Strong
Stutzman
Suozzi
Sykes
Taylor
Tenney
Thompson (PA)
Tiffany
Timmons
Titus
Torres (NY)
Trahan
Turner (OH)
Valadao
Van Drew
Van Duyne
Vasquez
Vindman
Wagner
Walberg
Walkinshaw
Wasserman Schultz
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Westerman
Whitesides
Wied
Williams (TX)
Wilson (FL)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Yakym
Zinke
NAYS--98
Adams
Ansari
Balint
Barragan
Beyer
Bonamici
Brown
Carson
Carter (LA)
Casten
Castro (TX)
Chu
Clarke (NY)
Cleaver
Cohen
Courtney
Crockett
Davis (IL)
Dean (PA)
DeGette
DeLauro
DeSaulnier
Dexter
Doggett
Elfreth
Escobar
Espaillat
Evans (PA)
Fletcher
Foushee
Friedman
Frost
Garcia (IL)
Garcia (TX)
Goldman (NY)
Green, Al (TX)
Grijalva
Hayes
Hoyer
Hoyle (OR)
Huffman
Ivey
Jackson (IL)
Jacobs
Jayapal
Johnson (GA)
Kamlager-Dove
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy (NY)
Larson (CT)
Lee (PA)
Leger Fernandez
Matsui
McClellan
McCollum
McGarvey
McGovern
McIver
Menendez
Min
Moore (WI)
Mullin
Neal
Neguse
Ocasio-Cortez
Olszewski
Omar
Pallone
Pelosi
Pocan
Pressley
Ramirez
Randall
Raskin
Rivas
Sanchez
Scanlon
Schakowsky
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Sewell
Sherman
Simon
Smith (WA)
Subramanyam
Takano
Thanedar
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tlaib
Tokuda
Tonko
Tran
Underwood
Vargas
Waters
Watson Coleman
Williams (GA)
ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--2
Bynum
Ross
NOT VOTING--47
Barr
Beatty
Bell
Bost
Brownley
Buchanan
Casar
Davids (KS)
DelBene
Dingell
Feenstra
Fields
Garamendi
Garcia (CA)
Gimenez
Gomez
Houchin
Khanna
Krishnamoorthi
Larsen (WA)
Latimer
Liccardo
Lofgren
Lucas
Luna
Mace
Massie
McBride
McCaul
Mfume
Nadler
Norman
Nunn (IA)
Pingree
Quigley
Rulli
Rutherford
Shreve
Smith (MO)
Spartz
Stansbury
Swalwell
Torres (CA)
Van Orden
Veasey
Velazquez
Womack
{time} 1058
Mr. HOYER changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
So the concurrent resolution was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
Stated for:
Ms. DelBENE. Mr. Speaker, I necessarily had to miss the vote. Had I
been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 305.
Mr. NUNN of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I could not make today's vote. Had I
been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 305.
Mr. RULLI. Mr. Speaker, had I been present, I would have voted YEA on
Roll Call No. 305.
Mr. FEENSTRA. Mr. Speaker, I was unable to be present for this vote.
Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 305.
Mr. WOMACK. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably absent and unable to vote.
Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 305.
Mr. GOMEZ. Mr. Speaker, today I was not recorded on Roll Call No.
305. Had I been present, I would have voted ``NAY'' on Roll Call No.
305.
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