[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 17]
[House]
[Pages 23870-23878]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE REFORM ACT of 2005

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 509 and rule 
XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House 
on the State of the Union for the further consideration of the bill, 
H.R. 1461.

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                     In the Committee of the Whole

  Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the State of the Union for the further consideration of 
the bill (H.R. 1461) to reform the regulation of certain housing-
related Government-sponsored enterprises, and for other purposes, with 
Mrs. Capito (Acting Chairman) in the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The Acting CHAIRMAN. When the Committee of the Whole rose earlier 
today, amendment No. 8 printed in House Report 109-254 offered by the 
gentlewoman from California (Ms. Loretta Sanchez) had been disposed of.
  It is now in order to consider amendment No. 9 printed in House 
Report 109-254.


                Amendment No. 9 Offered by Mr. Kanjorski

  Mr. KANJORSKI. Madam Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The Acting CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 9 offered by Mr. Kanjorski:
       Strike line 8 on page 270 and all that follows through line 
     3 on page 271 and insert the following:

     SEC. 181. BOARDS OF ENTERPRISES.

       (a) Fannie Mae.--
       (1) In general.--Subsection (b) of section 308 of the 
     Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act (12 U.S.C. 
     1723(b)) is amended in the first sentence by striking 
     ``eighteen persons,'' and inserting ``not less than 7 and not 
     more than 15 persons,''.
       Strike line 10 on page 271 and all that follows through 
     line 6 on page 272 and insert the following:
       (b) Freddie Mac.--
       (1) In general.--Paragraph (2) of section 303(a) of the 
     Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act (12 U.S.C. 
     1452(a)(2) is amended in subparagraph (A) by striking 
     ``eighteen persons,'' and inserting ``not less than 7 and not 
     more than 15 persons,''.
       Page 280, lines 1 and 2, strike ``shall be elected by the 
     members and''.
       Page 280, line 3, after the period insert ``All directors 
     of a Bank who are not independent members pursuant to 
     paragraph (3) shall be elected by the members.''.
       Page 280, lines 8 and 9, strike ``one-third'' and insert 
     ``two-fifths''.
       Page 280, line 10, strike ``as follows'' and insert ``, who 
     shall be appointed by the Director of the Federal Housing 
     Finance Agency from a list of individuals recommended made by 
     the Housing Finance Oversight Board, and shall meet the 
     following criteria''.
       Page 280, line 20, after ``housing,'' insert ``community 
     development, economic development,''.
       Page 281, line 5, strike ``An'' and insert 
     ``Notwithstanding subsection (f)(2), an''.
       Page 281, strike lines 11 through 14, and insert the 
     following new paragraph:.
       (2) in the first sentence of subsection (b), by striking 
     ``directorship'' and inserting ``member directorship pursuant 
     to subsection (a)(2)'';
       Page 281, strike lines 15 through 23.
       Page 281, line 25, after the semicolon insert ``and''.
       Page 282, strike lines 1 through 8.
       Page 282, line 9, strike ``(5)'' and insert ``(4)''.
       Page 282, line 10, strike ``subsection (e)'' and insert 
     ``subsections (e) and (f)''.
       Page 283, strike lines 5 through 19 and insert the 
     following:

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       (c) Continued Service of Independent Directors After 
     Expiration of Term.--Section 7(f)(2) of the Federal Home Loan 
     Bank Act (12 U.S.C. 1427(f)(2)) is amended--
       (1) in the second sentence, by striking ``or the term of 
     such office expires, whichever comes first''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new sentence: ``An 
     appointive Bank director may continue to serve as a director 
     after the expiration of the term of such director until a 
     successor is appointed.''.

  The Acting CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to House Resolution 509, the gentleman 
from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kanjorski) and the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. 
Oxley) each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kanjorski).
  Mr. KANJORSKI. Madam Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Chairman, simply stated, the amendment would ensure a continued 
independent public voice in the corporate governance of Fannie Mae, 
Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks. The amendment also has 
had bipartisan support in the Committee on Financial Services. It 
additionally now has the support of the National Association of 
Homebuilders and the National Association of Realtors.
  The bill before us would make a dramatic change in the board 
structures of the three government-sponsored enterprises, and this 
issue deserves a public debate.
  The charters of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac presently require that the 
boards of both enterprises shall at all times have five members 
appointed by the President. Additionally, in order to represent the 
public interest and provide an independent voice, the charters of the 
Federal Home Loan Banks require at least six individuals to be 
appointed by the regulator to serve on each bank board.
  Unfortunately, the bill before us today would eliminate the 
requirement for Presidential appointees on the boards of Fannie Mae and 
Freddie Mac. It would also abolish regulatory appointees on the boards 
of the Federal Home Loan Banks.
  In my view, requiring Presidential and regulatory appointees to serve 
on the board of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan 
Banks is entirely appropriate, given the unique nature of their 
charters and their important public missions.
  Government-sponsored enterprises by their very nature are public-
private entities, and they need to have a public voice at the highest 
levels of governance.

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  The Presidential and regulatory appointments, therefore, signal that 
each entity is not only accountable to its shareholders, but also to 
broader national public policy interests.
  Additionally, the Presidential and regulatory appointment system 
gives citizens a needed voice in ensuring the viability of our Nation's 
housing finance system and that the benefits of this system are widely 
distributed. Maintaining public representation on the GSE boards is 
therefore critical to ensuring continued public trust in these very 
important financial institutions.
  This amendment would accordingly restore the Presidential and 
regulatory board appointment systems for GSEs while still preserving 
important changes made by the bill. These changes include providing 
flexibility in the size of corporate boards at Fannie Mae and Freddie 
Mac and lengthening the terms of service at the Federal home loan 
banks.
  The amendment would also make three other minor modifications to the 
bill related to the boards of the Federal home loan banks. They include 
raising the number of independent directors, adding community and 
economic development expertise and allowing appointed independent 
directors to continue to serve until a successor is in place.
  This commonsense amendment to retain an independent public voice on 
the GSE boards received bipartisan support during the markup of this 
bill. It also has the backing of those who know our housing markets 
best, like the National Association of Home Builders and the National 
Association of Realtors. In a recent letter to me about this amendment, 
the home builders note that ``a diverse governing board of directors 
that is well balanced in knowledge and expertise in the full range of 
GSE-related issues and activities is critical.''
  They also believe that the amendment ``will help ensure that the 
GSE's board of directors are best equipped to make informed, sound 
judgments in fulfilling their duties, including monitoring risk 
management activities of the GSEs' executives.''
  In sum, this amendment is one that deserves the support of everyone 
who wants to preserve a public voice within the public-private entities 
and promote good corporate governance. It has the support of the home 
builders and the realtors.
  May I say, at the full committee the amendment was offered and had a 
35-35 vote at full committee. On the basis of knowing the importance to 
corporate governance of this body, I urge my colleagues to adopt this 
amendment.
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Madam Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. KANJORSKI. I yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts.
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Madam Chairman, I just wanted to add my 
voice. The ranking member of the subcommittee has spent a good deal of 
time focused on the corporate governance of these GSEs. He is one of 
the best students ever in the House. This is a very thoughtful and, I 
think, wholly constructive amendment.
  It does not detract from any of the purposes that we have. In fact, I 
think it would enhance them, and I hope the amendment is adopted.
  Mr. OXLEY. Madam Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Madam Chairman, let me just say to my friend from Pennsylvania there 
are some sections of that amendment that I support in terms of 
independence. But I do have a problem with the Presidential appointees 
to the board. They are basically symbols of the tie between Fannie Mae, 
and Freddie Mac and the Federal Government, and really do speak to the 
implied guarantee out there for the GSEs.
  The gentleman indicated that he had bipartisan support. In fact, it 
failed on a tie vote in the committee. I will concede there was 
bipartisan support. There was also bipartisan opposition.
  But at the same time I think that President Bush, who has decided not 
to fill those vacancies on the board, is on the right track, and I 
think this amendment would simply add to the perception of the Federal 
guarantee. To that extent, I would oppose the amendment.
  Madam Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. KANJORSKI. Madam Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIRMAN (Mrs. Capito). The question is on the amendment 
offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kanjorski).
  The amendment was agreed to.


          Sequential Votes Postponed in Committee of the Whole

  The Acting CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings 
will now resume on those amendments on which further proceedings were 
postponed, in the following order:
  Amendment No. 5 by Mr. Royce of California.
  Amendment No. 6 by Mr. Paul of Texas.
  Amendment No. 7 by Mr. Garrett of New Jersey.
  The Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the time for any electronic vote 
after the first vote in this series.


                  Amendment No. 5 Offered by Mr. Royce

  The Acting CHAIRMAN. The pending business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California 
(Mr. Royce) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.

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  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 73, 
noes 346, not voting 14, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 543]

                                AYES--73

     Akin
     Bartlett (MD)
     Beauprez
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Cardoza
     Chabot
     Chocola
     Cooper
     Culberson
     Deal (GA)
     DeLay
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Ehlers
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Flake
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gillmor
     Gohmert
     Goode
     Gutknecht
     Hall
     Hayworth
     Hensarling
     Hoekstra
     Hostettler
     Hunter
     Inglis (SC)
     Jones (NC)
     Kennedy (MN)
     King (IA)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kline
     Kolbe
     Leach
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Manzullo
     McHenry
     Musgrave
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Otter
     Paul
     Pence
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Rohrabacher
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Saxton
     Sensenbrenner
     Shadegg
     Shays
     Sherwood
     Smith (NJ)
     Stearns
     Tancredo
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Tiahrt
     Upton
     Weldon (FL)
     Westmoreland

                               NOES--346

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Alexander
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baker
     Baldwin
     Barrett (SC)
     Barrow
     Barton (TX)
     Bass
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blumenauer
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Bono
     Boozman
     Boren
     Boucher
     Boustany
     Boyd
     Bradley (NH)
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown, Corrine
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Butterfield
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Carnahan
     Carson
     Carter
     Case
     Castle
     Chandler
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Cole (OK)
     Conaway
     Conyers
     Costa
     Costello
     Cramer
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cubin
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     Davis (TN)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dent
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Drake
     Edwards
     Emerson
     Engel
     English (PA)
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Everett
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Fitzpatrick (PA)
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fossella
     Frank (MA)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Gerlach
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gingrey
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Gordon
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (WI)
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Harman
     Harris
     Hart
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hefley
     Herger
     Herseth
     Higgins
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Hyde
     Inslee
     Israel
     Issa
     Istook
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     Jindal
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Knollenberg
     Kucinich
     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Lynch
     Mack
     Maloney
     Marchant
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCaul (TX)
     McCollum (MN)
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHugh
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinney
     McMorris
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Menendez
     Mica
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Neugebauer
     Ney
     Northup
     Nunes
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Osborne
     Owens
     Oxley
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pearce
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Pickering
     Poe
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Price (GA)
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Ross
     Rothman
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryun (KS)
     Sabo
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanders
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schmidt
     Schwartz (PA)
     Schwarz (MI)
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Simpson
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Sodrel
     Solis
     Souder
     Spratt
     Stark
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Sullivan
     Sweeney
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Towns
     Turner
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--14

     Bishop (GA)
     Boswell
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Emanuel
     Foley
     Meek (FL)
     Reyes
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roybal-Allard
     Shaw
     Wexler
     Whitfield

                              {time}  1631

  Messrs. DICKS, GORDON, COLE of Oklahoma, and GOODLATTE changed their 
vote from ``aye'' to ``no''.
  Messrs. OTTER, STEARNS, HALL, BEAUPREZ and FERGUSON changed their 
vote from ``no'' to ``aye''.
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                  Amendment No. 6 Offered by Mr. Paul

  The Acting CHAIRMAN (Mrs. Capito). The pending business is the demand 
for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Paul) on which further proceedings were postponed and on 
which the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIRMAN. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 47, 
noes 371, not voting 15, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 544]

                                AYES--47

     Akin
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Blackburn
     Boehner
     Burton (IN)
     Chocola
     Deal (GA)
     Duncan
     Feeney
     Flake
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gohmert
     Goode
     Hensarling
     Hoekstra
     Hostettler
     Inglis (SC)
     Istook
     Jones (NC)
     Kingston
     Leach
     Linder
     Mack
     Manzullo
     McHenry
     Miller (FL)
     Myrick
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Otter
     Paul
     Pence
     Pitts
     Platts
     Price (GA)
     Rohrabacher
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Sensenbrenner
     Shadegg
     Shays
     Tancredo
     Westmoreland
     Young (AK)

                               NOES--371

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Alexander
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baker
     Baldwin
     Barrett (SC)
     Barrow
     Bass
     Bean
     Beauprez
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Bono
     Boozman
     Boren
     Boucher
     Boustany
     Boyd
     Bradley (NH)
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown, Corrine
     Burgess
     Butterfield
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carson
     Carter
     Case
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Cole (OK)
     Conaway
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Cramer
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cubin
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     Davis (TN)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     DeLay
     Dent
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     Engel
     English (PA)
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Everett
     Farr
     Fattah
     Ferguson
     Filner
     Fitzpatrick (PA)
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fortenberry
     Fossella
     Frank (MA)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Gerlach
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Gordon
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (WI)
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Gutknecht
     Hall
     Harman
     Harris
     Hart
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Herger
     Herseth
     Higgins
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hyde
     Inslee
     Israel
     Issa
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     Jindal
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kirk
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kucinich

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     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Marchant
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCaul (TX)
     McCollum (MN)
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHugh
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinney
     McMorris
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Menendez
     Mica
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy
     Murtha
     Musgrave
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Neugebauer
     Ney
     Northup
     Nunes
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Osborne
     Owens
     Oxley
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pearce
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Poe
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Ross
     Rothman
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryun (KS)
     Sabo
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanders
     Saxton
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schmidt
     Schwartz (PA)
     Schwarz (MI)
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Simpson
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Sodrel
     Solis
     Souder
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stearns
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Sullivan
     Sweeney
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Towns
     Turner
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--15

     Bishop (GA)
     Boswell
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Emanuel
     Foley
     Meek (FL)
     Reyes
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roybal-Allard
     Shaw
     Sherman
     Wexler
     Whitfield

                              {time}  1641

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


          Amendment No. 7 Offered by Mr. Garrett of New Jersey

  The Acting CHAIRMAN. The pending business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New Jersey 
(Mr. Garrett) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIRMAN. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 57, 
noes 358, not voting 18, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 545]

                                AYES--57

     Akin
     Alexander
     Baker
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Blackburn
     Boustany
     Burgess
     Carter
     Castle
     Chocola
     Cooper
     Culberson
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Deal (GA)
     Delahunt
     Duncan
     English (PA)
     Flake
     Franks (AZ)
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gohmert
     Green (WI)
     Gutknecht
     Harris
     Hensarling
     Hostettler
     Istook
     Jindal
     Jones (NC)
     King (IA)
     Kolbe
     Leach
     McCrery
     Musgrave
     Nussle
     Otter
     Paul
     Pence
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Royce
     Rush
     Ryan (WI)
     Sensenbrenner
     Shadegg
     Sodrel
     Stearns
     Tancredo
     Taylor (MS)
     Tiahrt
     Weldon (FL)
     Westmoreland

                               NOES--358

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bass
     Bean
     Beauprez
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Bono
     Boozman
     Boren
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Bradley (NH)
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown, Corrine
     Burton (IN)
     Butterfield
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carson
     Case
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Cole (OK)
     Conaway
     Conyers
     Costa
     Costello
     Cramer
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cubin
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     Davis (TN)
     Davis, Tom
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DeLay
     Dent
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Everett
     Farr
     Fattah
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Filner
     Fitzpatrick (PA)
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fortenberry
     Fossella
     Foxx
     Frank (MA)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Gerlach
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gonzalez
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Gordon
     Granger
     Graves
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hall
     Harman
     Hart
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Herger
     Herseth
     Higgins
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hyde
     Inglis (SC)
     Inslee
     Israel
     Issa
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kucinich
     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Mack
     Maloney
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCaul (TX)
     McCollum (MN)
     McCotter
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McHugh
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinney
     McMorris
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Menendez
     Mica
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Neugebauer
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nunes
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Osborne
     Owens
     Oxley
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pearce
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Pickering
     Poe
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Price (GA)
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ross
     Rothman
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryun (KS)
     Sabo
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanders
     Saxton
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schmidt
     Schwartz (PA)
     Schwarz (MI)
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Shays
     Sherman
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Simpson
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Souder
     Spratt
     Stark
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Sullivan
     Sweeney
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Towns
     Turner
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--18

     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (UT)
     Boswell
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Davis (FL)
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Emanuel
     Foley
     Johnson, Sam
     Marshall
     Pelosi
     Reyes
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roybal-Allard
     Shaw
     Wexler
     Whitfield

                              {time}  1649

  Mr. TANNER changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The Acting CHAIRMAN (Mrs. Capito). The question is on the committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute, as amended.
  The committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, as amended, 
was agreed to.
  The Acting CHAIRMAN. Under the rule, the Committee rises.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
Thornberry) having assumed the chair, Mrs. Capito, Acting Chairman of 
the Committee of the Whole House on

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the State of the Union, reported that that Committee, having had under 
consideration the bill (H.R. 1461) to reform the regulation of certain 
housing-related Government-Sponsored Enterprises, and for other 
purposes, pursuant to House Resolution 509, she reported the bill back 
to the House with an amendment adopted by the Committee of the Whole.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the rule, the previous question is 
ordered.
  Is a separate vote demanded on any amendment to the committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute adopted by the Committee of the 
Whole? If not, the question is on the amendment.
  The amendment was agreed to.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the engrossment and third 
reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was 
read the third time.


        Motion to Recommit Offered by Mr. Frank of Massachusetts

  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I offer a motion to 
recommit.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentleman opposed to the bill?
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. In its present form, I am, Mr. Speaker.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. Frank moves to recommit the bill, H.R. 1461, to the 
     Committee on Financial Services with instructions to report 
     the same back to the House forthwith with the following 
     amendments:
       In the matter proposed to be inserted by section 128(a) of 
     the bill, in section 1337(e)(2)(A) of the Housing and 
     Community Development Act of 1992, strike ``as its primary 
     purpose'' and insert ``among its primary purposes''.
       In the matter proposed to be inserted by section 128(a) of 
     the bill, in section 1337(e)(2)(C)(i) of the Housing and 
     Community Development Act of 1992, strike ``except that'' and 
     all that follows through ``period'' and insert the following:

     ``except that such term shall not include any voter 
     registration or get-out-the-vote activity conducted on a non-
     partisan basis;''.

  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts (during the reading). Mr. Speaker, I ask 
unanimous consent that the motion be considered as read and printed in 
the Record.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Massachusetts?
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Frank) 
is recognized for 5 minutes on his motion.
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, a little while ago, we had a 
vote on the manager's amendment. It was a very close vote. It was 210 
to 205. One Member inadvertently voted the other way that he planned 
to. So it was 209 to 206.
  What I am offering here as the recommit is a close replay of that 
vote, but it ought to be even clearer for people. My recommittal motion 
leaves the manager's amendment as adopted entirely intact except for 
two changes.
  One, instead of requiring that to participate in the Affordable 
Housing Fund, housing must be the organization's primary purpose, it 
says it must be one of its primary purposes. If you maintain the 
requirement that it be the primary purpose, no faith-based organization 
may participate.
  Some of you may remember a familiar passage: Thou shalt have no 
primary purpose above me. If you say that you can only do this if you 
have housing as your primary purpose, by definition the Catholic Church 
and the Baptists and the Episcopalians and the Jewish groups, which are 
collectively today a very important provider of affordable housing, are 
simply automatically debarred. There will be no faith-based groups 
allowed.
  People are talking about faith-based groups. I am aware of no 
restriction as binding as saying it has to be the primary purpose, and 
I will insert into the Record at this point a letter not just from 
Catholic Charities, but from Bishop DiMarzio, on behalf of the United 
States Conference of Catholic Bishops, saying that: ``Proposals that 
would limit eligible recipients to organizations that have as their 
purpose the provision of affordable housing would effectively prevent 
Catholic dioceses, parishes and Catholic Charities agencies from 
participating.''

         Department of Social Development and World Peace,
                                  Washington, DC, October 3, 2005.
     Hon. J. Dennis Hastert,
     Speaker of the House of Representatives,
     Washington, DC.
       Dear Mr. Speaker: I write as Chairman of the Domestic 
     Policy Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic 
     Bishops (USCCB) to urge you to retain the Affordable Housing 
     Fund as part of the Federal Housing Finance Reform Act of 
     2005 (H.R. 1461) and bring the bill to a vote forthwith. The 
     Catholic Bishops have historically urged the federal 
     government to help meet our nation's promise of a decent home 
     for every American family, especially those families with 
     extremely low incomes.
       As I noted in my June 10 letter to the House of 
     Representatives, the Catholic Community--through our 
     Charities agencies, dioceses, and parishes--serves tens of 
     thousands of men, women, and children who struggle to 
     maintain adequate housing. Besides sheltering homeless people 
     who turn to us for help, we have built, and continue to 
     maintain, thousands of affordable housing units. All of these 
     experiences have demonstrated to us how inadequate, 
     substandard housing hurts human life, undermines families, 
     destroys communities, and weakens the social fabric of our 
     nation. Despite our efforts--and the efforts of so many 
     others--there just is not enough affordable housing 
     available.
       Proposals that would limit eligible recipients to 
     organizations that have as their primary purpose the 
     provision of affordable housing would effectively prevent 
     Catholic dioceses, parishes and Catholic Charities agencies 
     from participating in Affordable Housing Fund programs. 
     Similarly, proposals that would prohibit recipients from 
     engaging in voter registration and lobbying activities with 
     their own funds during the period they are utilizing 
     affordable housing funds would force Catholic agencies to 
     choose between participating in Affordable Housing Fund 
     programs or engaging in constitutionally protected voter 
     registration and lobbying activities with their own funds. I 
     urge you to oppose inclusion of these kinds of unnecessary 
     limitations and prohibitions in H.R. 1461 as it moves to the 
     House floor for a vote. There are ample ways to write 
     safeguards into the legislation to prevent the diversion of 
     affordable housing funds to uses other than what they are 
     intended without requiring recipients to forego their 
     constitutionally protected rights as a condition for 
     participating in Affordable Housing Fund programs.
       The Bishops' statement, Putting Children and Families 
     First, notes: ``Many families cannot find or afford decent 
     housing, or must spend so much of their income for shelter 
     that they forego other necessities, such as food and 
     medicine. . . . [The Catholic bishops] support housing 
     policies which seek to preserve and increase the supply of 
     affordable housing and help families pay for it.'' We must 
     put in place a sustainable source of funds to build 
     affordable housing and this new fund would do that.
       As I said in my June letter, this legislation presents 
     Congress with a genuine opportunity to make the shelter needs 
     of extremely low-income families a national priority. I 
     believe that such families who need housing the most should 
     be targeted to receive these limited funds.
       With every best wish, I am,
           Sincerely,

                                  Most Rev. Nicholas DiMarzio,

                              Chairman, Domestic Policy Committee,
     U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
                                  ____

         American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging,
                                                 October 24, 2005.
       Dear Representative: On behalf of the American Association 
     of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA), I want to 
     express our members' deep reservations over an amendment 
     expected to be proposed when H.R. 1461, the GSE reform 
     legislation, is brought to the floor this week.
       The proposed amendment seeks to impose restrictions on the 
     eligibility of non-profit faith-based organizations 
     interested in applying for development funding under the 
     Affordable Housing Fund created in this legislation.
       While on one hand Congress and the Administration call for 
     greater participation by non-profit, faith-based 
     organizations to carry the load in helping our neediest 
     citizens, the House now seems poised to cut us off from a 
     funding stream that we need in order to continue to provide 
     affordable housing to low-income seniors. President Bush 
     himself has lauded the faith-based, non-profit housing 
     partnership with government as an outstanding example of 
     successful faith-based programs.
       AAHSA has 5600 members nationwide; all are non-profit 
     organizations and most are faith-based. Our members serve two 
     million people every day and provide services across the 
     continuum: assisted living residences, continuing care 
     retirement communities, nursing homes, senior housing 
     facilities, and home and community based services.

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       For our many members who are non-profit sponsors of 
     affordable senior housing, the proposal is a slap in the face 
     to their efforts to be active participants in their 
     communities and ensuring the highest possible quality of life 
     for their senior residents.
       As an association, we encourage our members to engage in 
     and sponsor such non-partisan and perfectly legal activities 
     as voter registration, providing transportation to the polls, 
     candidate debates and Town Hall meetings. Because of the high 
     concentration of voters, many of our senior housing 
     facilities even serve as polling sites.
       Our members should not have to choose between being good 
     citizens and being eligible applicants for the quasi-public 
     monies to be made available under the Affordable Housing 
     Fund. Furthermore, even if a facility did not provide any of 
     the civic services, the mere fact that it is affiliated with 
     another organization that does, would render the organization 
     ineligible.
       Please support H.R. 1461, but without this restrictive 
     amendment.
           Sincerely yours,
                                           William L. Minnix, Jr.,
     President and CEO.
                                  ____


                Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America,
                                 Washington, DC, October 24, 2005.
     Hon. Nancy Pelosi,
     Hon. Steny Hoyer,
     Hon. Louise Slaughter,
     Hon. Barney Frank,
     House of Representatives,
       Dear Leaders of the House of Representatives: We write on 
     behalf of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of 
     America to urge you to ensure that the Federal Housing 
     Finance Reform Act of 2005 (H.R. 1461) contains no provisions 
     which would be disruptive to participation of the many 
     religiously affiliated organizations in affordable housing 
     programs.
       Proposals that would limit eligible recipients to 
     organizations that have as their ``primary purpose'' the 
     provision of affordable housing would effectively prevent 
     many Jewish community entities from participating in 
     Affordable Housing Fund programs. Similarly, proposals that 
     would prohibit recipients from engaging in voter registration 
     and lobbying activities with their own funds in order to 
     receive affordable housing funds would force many Jewish 
     agencies to choose between participating in Affordable 
     Housing Fund programs or engaging in constitutionally 
     protected voter registration and lobbying activities with 
     their own funds. We urge you to oppose inclusion of these 
     kinds of unnecessary limitations and prohibitions in H.R. 
     1461 and, if they are to be considered by the House on the 
     floor, to ensure that these provisions receive a full debate 
     and up or down vote.
       It is critical to note that such proposals are as 
     objectionable when it comes to housing funds and free speech 
     rights as they are objectionable when proposed with regard to 
     other social welfare program funds and other constitutionally 
     protected rights. As is the case with many other federally 
     funded social-welfare programs in which faith-based entities 
     participate, there are appropriate ways to write safeguards 
     into the legislation to prevent the diversion of funds to 
     uses other than what they are intended without requiring 
     recipients to forego their constitutionally protected rights 
     as a condition for participating. We urge you to uphold these 
     principles in the context of H.R. 1461.
           Sincerely,
     Rabbi T. Hersh Weinreb,
     Nathan J. Diament.
                                  ____


                                                    Consortium for


                                    Citizens with Disabilities

                                 Washington, DC, October 24, 2005.
     Hon. David Dreier,
     House of Representatives,
     Washington, DC.
     Hon. Louise Slaughter,
     House of Representatives,
     Washington, DC.
       Dear Chairman Dreier and Ranking Member Slaughter: As you 
     know, the House is scheduled this week to consider HR 1461, 
     the Federal Housing Finance Reform Act of 2005. The 
     Consortium for Citizens With Disabilities (CCD) would like to 
     go on record against language in the proposed Manager's 
     Amendment that we believe would be of tremendous harm to 
     community-based non-profit disability organizations across 
     the country.
       CCD is a coalition of more than 100 national disability 
     organizations working together to advocate for national 
     public policy that ensures the self-determination, 
     independence, empowerment, integration and inclusion of 
     children and adults with disabilities in all aspects of 
     society. A large part of our agenda focuses on civil rights 
     and protections for the 56 million people with disabilities 
     in the U.S.
       It is CCD's understanding that the proposed Manager's 
     Amendment contains language that would require many 
     disability organizations to violate state law if they were to 
     apply for grants made available through the Affordable 
     Housing Fund included in HR 1461. This would result from a 
     requirement in the legislation for non-profit organizations 
     that seek funding from this program to certify that they are 
     not engaged in voter registration or voter education efforts, 
     regardless of the source of these funds.
       At the outset, CCD would like to make clear that we oppose 
     efforts on the part of Congress to use federal funding as 
     leverage to control how non-profit disability organizations 
     expend other resources, including state and local, as well as 
     privately raised funds. Such restrictions, in our view, 
     amount to undue federal government control over activities of 
     non-profit disability organizations. Unfortunately, the 
     language in the proposed Manager's Amendment to HR 1461, 
     singling out voter registration activities of non-profit 
     organizations, takes an additional step that would place non-
     profit disability groups in jeopardy of violating both the 
     Constitution and the law.
       In addition, this would also conflict with the ``Motor 
     Voter'' law. The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 
     (``Motor Voter law'') was enacted to facilitate voter 
     registration, with the goal of increasing turnout on Election 
     Day. Besides requiring states to allow voter registration at 
     motor vehicle agencies, the Motor Voter law also requires 
     nonprofit organizations that receive state funds and are 
     primarily engaged in providing services to persons with 
     disabilities to provide voter registration forms as well as 
     assistance in completing them. Because some of these same 
     organizations would be prohibited from engaging in voter 
     registration activities under the manager's amendment to H.R. 
     1461, the manager's amendment would force many 
     organizations--particularly those that provide housing and 
     other services to people with disabilities--to choose between 
     their obligation to register voters and their ability to 
     provide housing to individuals who need it most. No 
     organization should be forced to make such a decision.
       Because voter registration, identification, and get-out-
     the-vote efforts, as well as lobbying, are constitutionally 
     protected First Amendment activities, funding restrictions 
     that would stifle such activities could well be struck down 
     if they are not adequately tailored to further an important 
     government interest. Ensuring that organizations spend 
     federal funds only as Congress has intended is, in itself, a 
     legitimate government objective. The extreme breadth of the 
     language in the proposed manager's amendment, however, would 
     do nothing to further this goal. It does not seem possible 
     that retroactively prohibiting activities, disqualifying 
     applicants based on their affiliations with organizations 
     that do not receive any federal dollars, or restricting the 
     use of other unrelated funds would ensure that Affordable 
     Housing Fund grants are used properly and in accordance with 
     the law. Furthermore, there is no legitimate governmental 
     interest in preventing nonpartisan voter participation 
     activities. As such, the restrictions in the proposed 
     manager's amendment will face inevitable challenge and could 
     well be struck down as unconstitutional.
       Finally, the proposed legislation would affect disability 
     organizations that are essential to the successful 
     development of affordable housing and permanent supportive 
     housing for persons with disabilities. For example, it would 
     affect non-profit disability organizations that have a direct 
     role in the development and subsequent ownership of 
     affordable rental housing for people with disabilities. 
     Equally important, the proposed legislation would affect non-
     profit service provider organizations that are affiliated 
     with affordable housing developers/owners for the purposes of 
     providing essential supportive services to people who are 
     living in the housing. Many non-profit service providers have 
     structured these relationships with housing providers through 
     formalized Memoranda of Understanding, Management Agreements, 
     or other written agreements.
       CCD has supported the Affordable Housing Fund contained in 
     HR 1461 since its inception. Nonprofit disability groups 
     across the country struggle every day to seek out funding to 
     meet the growing affordable housing crisis for non-elderly 
     people with disabilities. HUD programs such as Section 811, 
     Section 8 tenant-based and project-based, HOME, CDBG and 
     McKinney-Vento are critical resources in meeting the needs of 
     extremely low-income people with disabilities. However, 
     additional resources are needed to ensure that the increasing 
     demand for affordable rental housing in the community among 
     people with disabilities is met.
       Non-profit disability organizations want to be able to 
     access the resources being made available by this important 
     legislation. CCD therefore urges you to remove the unfair and 
     unwarranted restrictions on non-profit disability groups in 
     the proposed Manager's Amendment to HR 1461. Non-profit 
     disability groups should not be forced to violate state law 
     in order to compete for affordable housing resources.
           Sincerely,
                                                    Curtis Decker,
                                                            Chair.

  Secondly, it would say that, yes, the restrictions on electioneering 
are maintained. By the way, with regard to the funds themselves from 
the Affordable Housing Fund, they can only be used for affordable 
housing with very strict penalties if they are not. We are talking now 
not about using that

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money for any purpose other than housing, but whether, if you agree to 
use that money for housing under those restrictions, you may, with your 
own money, do other things such as voter registration or get out the 
vote.
  We maintain the restrictions on electioneering. We maintain the 
restrictions on making a communication vote for this one, a vote for 
that one. We say, however, there should be an exception to this, and 
copies of the recommit are available over there.
  All we want to say is that when we restrict and prevent 
electioneering, it does not cover any voter registration or get-out-
the-vote activity conducted on a nonpartisan basis.
  Those who have a fear of ACORN should understand that the ACORN 
Florida activity referred to before would not be allowed under this. I 
would rather not be that restrictive, but I accept the reality of it. 
So only organizations that fit in the column of nonpartisan.
  The gentleman from Ohio from the Republican Conference raised the 
issue. Under this bill, as it now stands, if you are a religious 
organization, and you maintain an elderly housing project, which are 
built with these funds, you cannot get a bus to take people to vote. 
That is get-out-the-vote activity. You cannot have a voter registrar in 
there. So that is what we are talking about, not using the funds for 
this, but using those funds on your own to help out.
  There is a procedural issue here. The leadership in the Committee on 
Rules said we did not stop you from voting; you could vote on the 
manager's amendment, and you get a recommit. The manager's amendment, 
some people were conflicted because it included the preference for the 
hurricane areas. It included restrictions that I reluctantly accepted. 
I am not trying to change here.
  This is the only chance we have to vote cleanly on whether or not we 
should exclude all faith-based groups and whether or not groups, faith-
based or not, that agree to try to provide low-income housing with 
these funds should be debarred with their own funds from doing 
nonpartisan voter registration and get out the vote.
  Here is the dilemma. On the one hand, we say we do not get a vote, 
and the Committee on Rules people said, oh, no, you have the recommit. 
On the other, they said to the Republicans, but do not vote against 
recommit; nice people do not vote against recommittal motions; recommit 
is not a real amendment; recommit is a procedural vote.
  Well, this is a test. We have this situation. I do not believe most 
Members over there want to keep religious groups out. I do not believe 
they want to penalize voter registration. A small, conservative, 
ideological group, and I admire ideologues, sometimes I am one myself, 
they have held this out, and they have held off the bill.
  Here is the one chance, the recommit, to see whether or not Members 
will frankly take back control of the House, because as long as you 
accept this interchange of events, bill comes out of committee, 
majority leadership holds it up and insists on provisions that we never 
got to vote on, and then you do not get a chance to vote just on those 
provisions, the only chance you get is when we do the recommit, and 
then what are you told: You cannot vote for the recommit; nice people 
do not do that.
  The question here is will democracy prevail in the House and when 
Members on the other side vote their conscience and not be told that 
they simply cannot do what they know is right, many of them, because it 
is in a motion to recommit, when no other alternative was presented to 
them.
  Mr. OXLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the motion to 
recommit.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Ohio is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. OXLEY. Mr. Speaker, I never thought a debate on GSE reform would 
be so emotional, and it has been a long day and a very productive day 
and a good debate.
  Let me, first of all, say to my friend from Massachusetts, who worked 
very well with us in committee on this important legislation, let us 
not lose sight of the fact that this is the first major GSE reform bill 
to ever come before any Congress. It was well written and well 
received, and it does a lot to create a world-class regulator for the 
GSEs.
  Secondly, it creates for the first time a housing fund that will 
funnel millions and millions of dollars into affordable housing through 
the GSEs, and I think we do not want to lose sight of that.
  Thirdly, this legislation does not ban faith-based groups from 
providing housing. All it says is that we want groups that have had a 
record of building houses, a record of building houses in the various 
States, to be able to do that. We want to make certain that that money 
is used for housing, not for political activity, not for lobbying or 
everything else.
  Fourthly, let me add, the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Frank) in 
his motion talks about a nonpartisan basis.

                              {time}  1700

  There is no definition in the campaign laws that I can find that 
defines what is essentially nonpartisan, and I think we need to keep 
that in mind.
  Understand this effort is to try to get as much money into the areas, 
in particularly the first 2 years in the hurricane-related areas, so we 
can provide affordable housing. Those folks along the gulf coast that 
were affected, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, need to understand 
that this is the best way to provide affordable housing as quickly as 
possible with the maximum amount of oversight in this area.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Baker), the 
sponsor of the legislation.
  Mr. BAKER. Mr. Speaker, this is a very important vote under 
consideration. I wish to point out that 3.5 percent assessment of net 
profits for the first 2 years will generate an estimated $400 million a 
year nationwide.
  The identified needs for Hurricane Katrina only are probably in 
excess of $300 billion for housing-related activities. If we add Rita 
and Wilma, the funds will be far depleted before we ever get to the 
issue of whether we need to be engaged in voter registration or voter 
transport to the precincts. If one were to go to Trailer City on Groom 
Road in Baker, Louisiana, and walk up to one of those trailers and say, 
hey, folks, I am here from the Federal Government and I want to buy a 
new van to haul you to the precinct next year to go vote, what kind of 
response do you think you will get if you said that will come at the 
expense of advancing replacement housing for families to go home?
  And then let us talk about the administration of the program. How do 
you confirm affordable housing works and they are doing it? You look at 
the lot and see the house. You knock on the door and see if anybody is 
inside. That is easy.
  How do you confirm that the money being spent for voter enhancement, 
education, and transportation is used for a valid purpose? Do you go to 
Uncle Bob's RV Trailer Park and look to see if they are using those 
vehicles for voter transport? How do we know?
  The idea here is we have very restricted resources. We have an 
incredibly large problem to resolve with response to the hurricanes. We 
know that by deploying these resources this way, we can ensure we are 
helping people in the most effective manner possible.
  We should come back through regular order, have committee hearings 
and talk about it. How are we going to have advocacy for people to be 
able to vote and participate? And if we want to fund that, fund it 
separately. This is not the time, not the place, not the way. Please, 
do not vote for this motion to recommit.
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. OXLEY. I yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts.
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman has done great 
work, but he said this does not bar religious groups.
  From October 3 to the Speaker from the Catholic bishops: ``Limiting 
eligible recipients to organizations that have as their primary 
purpose,'' which

[[Page 23877]]

this bill does now, ``the provision of affordable housing, would 
effectively prevent Catholic dioceses, parishes and Catholic charities 
from participating.''
  Secondly, none of the money here would go to those other purposes. I 
agree with what the gentleman said. I just do not agree with what the 
bill said. This is their chance to reconcile them.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Thornberry). Without objection, the 
previous question is ordered on the motion to recommit.
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule 
XX, this 15-minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by 
5-minute votes on passage of H.R. 1461, if ordered, and the motion to 
suspend the rules and pass H.R. 3945.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 200, 
noes 220, not voting 13, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 546]

                               AYES--200

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carson
     Case
     Chandler
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (TN)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Herseth
     Higgins
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kind
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Leach
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCollum (MN)
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Menendez
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Ross
     Rothman
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sabo
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanders
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schwartz (PA)
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Shays
     Sherman
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Spratt
     Stark
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor (MS)
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn

                               NOES--220

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Bachus
     Baker
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Bass
     Beauprez
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Bono
     Boozman
     Boustany
     Bradley (NH)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chocola
     Coble
     Cole (OK)
     Conaway
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Cunningham
     Davis (KY)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     DeLay
     Dent
     Doolittle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     English (PA)
     Everett
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Fitzpatrick (PA)
     Flake
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Fossella
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gohmert
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (WI)
     Gutknecht
     Hall
     Harris
     Hart
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hostettler
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hyde
     Inglis (SC)
     Issa
     Istook
     Jenkins
     Jindal
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     McCaul (TX)
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McHenry
     McHugh
     McKeon
     McMorris
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nunes
     Nussle
     Osborne
     Otter
     Oxley
     Paul
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe
     Pombo
     Porter
     Price (GA)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Saxton
     Schmidt
     Schwarz (MI)
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Simpson
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Sodrel
     Souder
     Stearns
     Sullivan
     Sweeney
     Tancredo
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Upton
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Westmoreland
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Bishop (GA)
     Boswell
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Emanuel
     Foley
     Reyes
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roybal-Allard
     Shaw
     Wexler
     Whitfield

                              {time}  1723

  So the motion to recommit was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Thornberry). The question is on the 
passage of the bill.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 331, 
noes 90, not voting 12, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 547]

                               AYES--331

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baker
     Baldwin
     Barrett (SC)
     Barrow
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Bass
     Bean
     Beauprez
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Bono
     Boozman
     Boren
     Boucher
     Boustany
     Boyd
     Bradley (NH)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown, Corrine
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Butterfield
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Cardin
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carter
     Case
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Coble
     Cole (OK)
     Conaway
     Costa
     Costello
     Cramer
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     Davis (TN)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     DeFazio
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     DeLay
     Dent
     Dicks
     Doggett
     Doolittle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     Engel
     English (PA)
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Everett
     Farr
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Filner
     Fitzpatrick (PA)
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fortenberry
     Fossella
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Gerlach
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Gordon
     Granger
     Graves
     Green (WI)
     Gutknecht
     Hall
     Harman
     Harris
     Hart
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herseth
     Higgins
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Holt
     Hooley
     Hostettler
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hyde
     Inglis (SC)
     Issa
     Istook
     Jackson (IL)
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     Jindal
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     Kildee
     Kind
     King (IA)

[[Page 23878]]


     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCaul (TX)
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McHenry
     McHugh
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McMorris
     Meehan
     Melancon
     Menendez
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Neugebauer
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nunes
     Nussle
     Obey
     Ortiz
     Osborne
     Oxley
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Poe
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Price (GA)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross
     Rothman
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Saxton
     Schiff
     Schmidt
     Schwartz (PA)
     Schwarz (MI)
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shays
     Sherman
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Sodrel
     Souder
     Spratt
     Stearns
     Strickland
     Stupak
     Sullivan
     Sweeney
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Turner
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Westmoreland
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Wu
     Wynn
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                                NOES--90

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Blackburn
     Brady (PA)
     Capuano
     Carson
     Chocola
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Crowley
     DeGette
     Dingell
     Doyle
     Fattah
     Flake
     Frank (MA)
     Garrett (NJ)
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hastings (FL)
     Hinchey
     Honda
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kucinich
     Leach
     Lee
     Lewis (GA)
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Mack
     Maloney
     Markey
     McCollum (MN)
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (NC)
     Musgrave
     Nadler
     Oberstar
     Olver
     Otter
     Owens
     Pastor
     Paul
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Platts
     Price (NC)
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Royce
     Sabo
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanders
     Schakowsky
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Shadegg
     Simpson
     Solis
     Stark
     Tancredo
     Towns
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Woolsey

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Bishop (GA)
     Boswell
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Emanuel
     Foley
     Reyes
     Roybal-Allard
     Shaw
     Wexler
     Whitfield

                              {time}  1736

  Mr. MEEHAN changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

                          ____________________