[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 18]
[House]
[Pages 24881-24882]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




EXPRESSING SENSE OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THAT FRANCE, GERMANY, AND 
RUSSIA CAN BEST CONTRIBUTE TO RECONSTRUCTION OF IRAQ BY FORGIVENESS OF 
                            OUTSTANDING DEBT

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The pending business is the vote on agreeing 
to the resolution, House Resolution 198, as amended, on which the yeas 
and nays were ordered.
  The Clerk read the title of the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution, as 
amended.
  This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 394, 
nays 31, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 545]

                               YEAS--394

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baker
     Baldwin
     Ballance
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Bass
     Beauprez
     Becerra
     Bell
     Bereuter
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blumenauer
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Bono
     Boozman
     Boswell
     Boyd
     Bradley (NH)
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown, Corrine
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Burgess
     Burns
     Burr
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Cardin
     Cardoza
     Carson (IN)
     Carson (OK)
     Carter
     Case
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chocola
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Cole
     Collins
     Cooper
     Costello
     Cox
     Cramer
     Crane
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (TN)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     DeLay
     DeMint
     Deutsch
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dicks
     Doggett
     Dooley (CA)
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Emanuel
     Emerson
     Engel
     English
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Everett
     Farr
     Fattah
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Flake
     Fletcher
     Foley
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fossella
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frost
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gephardt
     Gerlach
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gonzalez
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Gordon
     Goss
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (TX)
     Green (WI)
     Greenwood
     Gutierrez
     Gutknecht
     Hall
     Harman
     Harris
     Hart
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hill
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Hoeffel
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Honda
     Hooley (OR)
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hyde
     Inslee
     Isakson
     Israel
     Issa
     Istook
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Janklow
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     John
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kleczka
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kucinich
     LaHood
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Leach
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lowey
     Lucas (KY)
     Lucas (OK)
     Lynch
     Majette
     Maloney
     Manzullo
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McGovern
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     Mica
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, Gary
     Moore
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy
     Murtha
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Nethercutt
     Neugebauer
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nunes
     Nussle
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Ortiz
     Osborne
     Ose
     Otter
     Owens
     Oxley
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pearce
     Pelosi
     Pence
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Platts
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Portman
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Quinn
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Renzi
     Reyes
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Sabo
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanders
     Sandlin
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrock
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherman
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Simpson
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Spratt
     Stearns
     Stenholm
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Sullivan
     Tancredo
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Tauzin
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Toomey
     Towns
     Turner (OH)
     Turner (TX)
     Udall (CO)
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Vitter
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watson
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Wexler
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                                NAYS--31

     Baird
     Boucher
     Capuano
     Conyers
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Dingell
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Grijalva
     Hastings (FL)
     Holt
     Jackson (IL)
     Larsen (WA)
     Lee
     Lewis (GA)
     Lofgren
     McCarthy (MO)
     McDermott
     Miller, George
     Olver
     Pastor
     Paul
     Rodriguez
     Serrano
     Stark
     Tierney
     Udall (NM)
     Waters
     Watt
     Wynn

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Ballenger
     Clay
     Jones (OH)
     Marshall
     Mollohan
     Radanovich
     Saxton
     Souder
     Sweeney


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). Members are advised that 2 
minutes remain in this vote.

                              {time}  1225

  Ms. LEE, Mr. DINGELL and Mr. WYNN changed their vote from ``yea'' to 
``nay.''
  Mr. HONDA and Mr. MARKEY changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the resolution, as amended, was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


         Amendment to the Preamble Offered By Ms. Ros-Lehtinen

  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I offer an amendment to the preamble.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Amendment to the preamble offered by Ms. Ros-Lehtinen:
       Strike the preamble insert in lieu thereof the following:
       Whereas France, Germany, Russia, and other nations have 
     expressed an interest in assisting in the reconstruction of 
     Iraq;
       Whereas France, Germany, Russia, and other nations have 
     previously encouraged and provided debt relief as a way to 
     assist other nations;
       Whereas France, Germany, Russia, and other nations had 
     extensive trade relationships with Iraq;
       Whereas loans and other support from France, Germany, 
     Russia, and other nations were use by the Saddam Hussein 
     regime to support the development of its weapons of mass 
     destruction programs, the expansion of the Iraqi Army that 
     the regime used to invade its neighbors, and the building of 
     palaces, monuments, and other means of aggrandizing Saddam 
     Hussein;
       Whereas the United States has already provided 
     approximately $3,000,000,000 in the form of grants to provide 
     for the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people and to rebuild 
     Iraq's crumbling infrastructure; and
       Whereas France, Germany, Russia, and other nations are 
     capable of making generous pledges for the reconstruction of 
     Iraq at the International Conference on Reconstruction in 
     Iraq to be held in Madrid: Now, therefore, be it

  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (during the reading). Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous 
consent that the amendment be considered as read and printed in the 
Record.

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  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentlewoman from Florida?
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on amendment to the preamble 
offered by the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Ros-Lehtinen).
  The amendment to the preamble was agreed to.
  The title of the resolution was amended so as to read: ``Resolution 
expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that France, 
Germany, Russia, and other nations can contribute to Iraq's 
reconstruction by forgiving debts owed by Iraq to those nations and by 
making generous pledges for Iraq's reconstruction at the International 
Conference on Reconstruction in Iraq to be held in Madrid''.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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