[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 10997-11001]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 5576, TRANSPORTATION, TREASURY, 
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, THE JUDICIARY, THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
           AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2007

  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the 
Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 865 and ask for its 
immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                               H. Res. 865

       Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this 
     resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule 
     XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee of the 
     Whole House on the state of the Union for consideration of 
     the bill (H.R. 5576) making appropriations for the 
     Departments of Transportation, Treasury, and Housing and 
     Urban Development, the Judiciary, District of Columbia, and 
     independent agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
     2007, and for other purposes. The first reading of the bill 
     shall be dispensed with. All points of order against 
     consideration of the bill are waived. General debate shall be 
     confined to the bill and shall not exceed one hour equally 
     divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority 
     member of the Committee on Appropriations. After general 
     debate the bill shall be considered for amendment under the 
     five-minute rule. Points of order against provisions in the 
     bill for failure to comply with clause 2 of rule XXI are 
     waived except as follows: beginning with ``to'' on age 5, 
     line 23 through the comma on line 24; beginning with the 
     colon on page 6, line 22 through ``year'' on line 26; 
     beginning with ``for'' on page 13, line 1 through ``Code'' on 
     line 6; beginning with the colon on page 13, line 17 through 
     ``expended'' on line 25; and sections 120, 127, 129, 206, 
     530, 707, and 931. Where points of order are waived against 
     part of a paragraph, points of order against language in 
     another part of such paragraph may be made only against such 
     other part and not against the entire paragraph. During 
     consideration of the bill for amendment, the Chairman of the 
     Committee of the Whole may accord priority in recognition on 
     the basis of whether the Member offering an amendment has 
     caused it to be printed in the portion of the Congressional 
     Record designated for that purpose in clause 8 of rule XVIII. 
     Amendments so printed shall be considered as read. When the 
     committee rises and reports the bill back to the House with a 
     recommendation that the bill do pass, the previous question 
     shall be considered as ordered on the bill and amendments 
     thereto to final passage without intervening motion except 
     one motion to recommit with or without instructions.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Florida (Mr. Lincoln 
Diaz-Balart) is recognized for 1 hour.
  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of 
debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from 
Florida (Mr. Hastings), pending which I yield myself such time as I may 
consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is 
for the purpose of debate only.
  Mr. Speaker, the rule provides 1 hour of general debate evenly 
divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of 
the Committee on Appropriations. It also provides one motion to 
recommit, with or without instructions.
  I would like to take a moment to reiterate that we bring this rule 
forward under an open rule. Historically, appropriations legislation 
has come to the House governed by open rules, and we continue to do so 
in order to allow each and every Member of the House the opportunity to 
submit amendments for consideration as long as they comply with the 
rules of the House.
  The legislation that we bring to the floor today appropriates over 
$67 billion for the Departments of Transportation, Treasury, and 
Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, 
and independent agencies, an increase of 6 percent over last year. And 
yet the bill is fiscally sound. It also represents our commitment to 
provide the necessary resources for programs and projects across the 
Nation ranging from transportation to housing, the judiciary, the 
executive office of the President, and the District of Columbia.
  The Nation's transportation infrastructure is the backbone of the 
economy. Its continued strength is essential to foster economic growth, 
and the bill that we bring to the floor today ensures that we have a 
reliable and stable transportation infrastructure, that we continue to 
do so, so that the economy can continue to grow.
  The bill includes $39.1 billion in funds for our highway system, 
representing an increase of $3.5 billion. Included in the bill is $900 
million for Amtrak. It includes significant financial and management 
reforms. In addition, the DOT Inspector General is required to report 
back regularly to Congress on Amtrak's progress on financial reforms.
  The bill that we bring to the floor also includes over $15 billion 
for the Federal Aviation Administration, an increase of $1.4 billion. 
Included in that amount is $16 million to hire and train 132 new air 
traffic controllers. That is vitally important as air traffic 
controllers begin to retire and yet air traffic continues to grow. This 
is essential, for example, in my district, which is the home of Miami 
National Airport, the third largest international airport in the 
country. Without an increase in the number of air traffic controllers, 
Miami International would not be able to continue its projected growth 
and continue to serve as the Hub of the Americas.
  The Department of Housing and Urban Development is funded at $35 
billion, an increase of $1.7 billion. These funds will permit the 
Department to administer programs and assist the public with their 
housing needs, economic and community development and fair housing 
opportunities. Under HUD the bill includes funding for such important 
programs as Tenant Based Rental Assistance, also known as section 8, 
and project-based rental assistance. These two programs serve almost 
3.5 million households with vouchers and project-based housing. The 
bill includes over $21 billion in funds for the program, an increase of 
over $800 million.
  H.R. 5576 provides $6.1 billion for the Federal Judiciary, an 
increase, Mr. Speaker, of almost 6 percent. This funding will enable 
the courts to effectively process priority criminal, civil, and 
bankruptcy cases.
  This legislation was introduced by Chairman Joe Knollenberg and 
reported out of the Appropriations Committee on June 6 by a voice vote. 
It is good legislation, essential to our continued commitment to the 
security and safety of all citizens and residents of the United States; 
and we bring it forth, as I stated before, under a fair and open rule.
  I would like to thank Chairman Knollenberg and Ranking Member Olver 
for their leadership on this important issue. I urge my colleagues to 
support both the rule and the underlying legislation.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I 
may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Florida, my good friend, 
Representative Diaz-Balart, for yielding me time. And I rise today in 
opposition to this rule and with great concern and reservation about 
the Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development 
Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2007.
  While the underlying legislation is a significant improvement over 
President Bush's proposed budget, I am deeply troubled that Republicans 
continue to use their inability to manage the fiscal needs of our 
country as a convenient scapegoat for underfunding or completely 
eliminating programs of critical importance to the neediest of 
Americans.
  Let me say from the outset I do believe that the subcommittee, led by 
Chairman Knollenberg and Ranking Member Olver, did all that it could do 
with the unreasonable fiscal constraints that the majority of this body 
gave them to work with. At the same time, this is the eighth 
appropriations bill for fiscal year 2007 that the House

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has considered; and in almost every single bill, the wants of the well-
to-do are trumping the needs of the less fortunate. The underlying 
legislation is following this very unfortunate trend, and its 
priorities are short-sighted.
  While no one single area was completely spared from funding cuts, the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development and the critical public 
housing assistance programs funded in this important Department are, 
without doubt, the worst off in this bill.
  Fair housing activities, the Community Development Financial 
Institutions fund, rental assistance, the Public Housing Capital fund, 
Community Development Block Grants, and elderly housing, let me go back 
to that, elderly housing programs, all that I just identified are just 
some of the many programs whose budgets have been placed on the 
chopping block in this bill.
  I find it incomprehensible as to why the majority in this body 
continues to cut funding for public housing assistance at a time when 
people need it most. Do my colleagues realize that it costs much less 
to keep someone in a home or apartment than it does to put a roof over 
their head once they have become homeless?
  I ask: Where is Congress's commitment to keeping people in their 
homes? Where is our commitment to helping those most in need? If we are 
committed to them, then we certainly have a weird way of showing it 
around here.
  Later today, Representative Al Green and I are going to offer an 
amendment to restore funding for fair housing activities at HUD. I am 
hopeful that the House will approve our amendment along with others who 
would seek to restore funding for section 8 vouchers, rural housing 
programs, and the HOPE VI program, which is completely eliminated in 
this bill.

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  Additionally, the underlying legislation cuts Amtrak's funding next 
year by more than one-third to a level that is barely half of what 
Amtrak has identified to continue operating at its current level.
  Yesterday in the Rules Committee, the subcommittee's ranking 
Democrat, my good friend, Representative Olver, asked that his 
amendment restoring $400 million in Amtrak funding cuts be made in 
order under the rule.
  Why did he need a waiver? Because unlike other amendments that will 
be offered today, Mr. Olver's amendment would have paid for itself by 
rolling back a small portion of the tax cuts to those making $1 million 
or more. The rule, however, blocks Mr. Olver from offering his 
amendment. As a result, the House will never have the opportunity to 
vote on restoring funding cuts to Amtrak.
  I find it so difficult to believe that we think that it is okay to 
have a secondhand rail system in this country. That is foolish. And 
somehow or another we must preserve the integrity of the last remaining 
rail system of consequence for people in a corridor to be transported.
  Finally, I intend to offer an amendment which prohibits the Federal 
Aviation Administration from consolidating or eliminating Terminal 
Radar Control Centers, or TRACONs, at airports in federally designated 
high threat urban areas.
  In some places, FAA's TRACON consolidation program is leaving entire 
States without an approach radar system to coordinate and oversee 
approaching air traffic in that State. In other instances, 
consolidation runs the risk of placing undue stress on nearby TRACONs 
already having to deal with larger air spaces and staffing shortfalls.
  The consolidation of these centers in high risk urban areas which are 
already considered to be at greater risk for terrorist attack or for 
natural disasters is not good policy. Do we really want to limit the 
capacity of our air traffic radar systems during national emergencies, 
especially if Congress can do something about it?
  I hope that my colleagues will support my amendment later today. Case 
in point. In West Palm Beach, Florida, what we find is that one is 
being consolidated into Miami. And if that whole radar system goes 
down, when we have a natural hurricane disaster, as is always the 
potential, then we do not have, if the Miami system goes down, the 
backup of the West Palm Beach radar system. Mr. Speaker, I find it very 
difficult to believe that FAA does not understand that.
  Mr. Speaker, in my 14 years in the House, I have been fond of saying 
that the budget and appropriations bills present Congress with the 
opportunity to outline its priorities. The underlying transportation 
appropriations bill provides the American people with the grim reality 
that the majority in this body would rather cut the taxes of those of 
us in our society who are better off financially, they would rather cut 
our taxes than pay for housing assistance programs which benefit the 
less fortunate in our country.
  This is not political rhetoric, as some on the other side of the 
aisle may suggest today. On the contrary, it is the obvious and very 
real fiscal mess which we have all brought upon ourselves. How we get 
out of this mess will be up to the American people in just a few short 
months. I urge my colleagues to oppose this rule.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such 
time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I simply would reiterate that the legislation we bring 
to the floor today by this rule appropriates 6 percent more for the 
Departments of Transportation and Treasury and Housing and Urban 
Development, and the Judiciary and District of Columbia and other 
agencies, 6 percent more than last year.
  And we are proud of the legislation we bring forth. I know that 
Chairman Knollenberg has worked long and hard, as well as many of our 
members of the Appropriations Committee on this legislation, to 
prioritize needs and to bring forth as fair a piece of legislation as 
possible.
  With regard to the area of housing, the bill, as I stated before, 
includes funding for important programs such as the tenant-based rental 
assistance, also known as Section 8, and as a matter of fact, the bill 
includes over $21 billion for the program, an increases of over $800 
million from last year.
  I think Chairman Knollenberg has done a very good job, and he 
deserves our commendation, as do the other members of the committee.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I 
may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, before yielding to Mr. Olver, I would just respond to my 
friend who brags about a 6 percent increase. He and I have districts 
that are very close to each other, we adjoin each other, but we 
evidently live in different sections of south Florida where fair 
housing programs are being cut in this program, with a 2.2 percent 
reduction.
  Community development financial assistance, a cut of $15\1/2\ 
million; tenant-based rental assistance program that you just talked 
about, my good friend from Florida, is funded at $14.3 billion. You say 
that is a great increase. Guess what the administration requested? $100 
million more that they did not get.
  Project-based rental assistance is cut $200 million. Cost-share 
requirement for HUD earmark, the bill requires that HUD earmarks in the 
bill is subject to a 40 percent cost sharing. Rural housing received a 
cut. Public housing capital fund, $261 million, 10 percent below for 
fiscal year 2006.
  How in the world can you all make increases out of cuts, when in fact 
people are hurting and need adequate housing?
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 6 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Olver).
  Mr. OLVER. I thank the gentleman from Florida for yielding me the 
time.
  Mr. Speaker, once again, I am going to dwell upon what my Member from 
the Rules Committee has already spoken about. The majority of the House 
shows its true priorities.
  The rule that we have before us today does not make in order my

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amendment that reflects some very important national priorities. My 
amendment would have added a badly needed $1.7 billion to the bill. 
Specifically it would have provided increases for the following 
programs: First, $400 million for Amtrak, which would bring total 
funding to $1.3 billion, just barely above last year's $1.294 billion, 
and allow Amtrak to continue to provide national intercity passenger 
rail service.
  Remember that the Transportation, Treasury, HUD bill proposes a $900 
million amount for Amtrak, which is below, $394 million below the 2006 
enacted, which would at least require substantial cuts in service 
provided, and probably in routes, the termination of routes in order to 
manage to get through the year. And without that money, they would have 
no chance of dealing with the huge backlog of infrastructure 
improvements that affect reliability and safety of the system.
  Second, the amendment would have provided a $636 million increase for 
public housing operating fund. That is the level of funding of $3.56 
billion that is already there, but that account funds the operating 
costs that exceed the rents that the public housing authorities may 
legally collect, and provides for major operating costs, including 
building maintenance, utilities and services for residents.
  Remember that public housing authorities operate in every single 
congressional district in the country and serve the lowest income 
elderly people, for the most part, in that process. And the President's 
request, according to HUD's figures, only provide 85 percent of the 
authorities' operating requirement.
  Third, the amendment would have provided a $261 million increase for 
the public housing capital fund, which is funded in the bill at 10 
percent below fiscal year 2006. Funding for this has declined steadily 
since 2001 when $3 billion was provided, and there is a $20 billion 
backlog in public housing capital repair needs, which really goes to 
the backlog of modernization, rehabilitation and replacement of housing 
units.
  Fourth, $144 million was provided in my amendment for tenant-based 
voucher programs, which just would restore funding levels to the 
President's request in the President's budget for this year.
  Fifth, $100 million was provided in my amendment for the HOPE VI 
program for revitalization of public housing. The bill before us 
provides no funding for HOPE VI. This is the fourth year in a row that 
the administration has proposed eliminating the program, and it is 
zeroed out in the committee bill before us as the program for 
revitalizing severely distressed public housing.
  Sixth, there was a total of $89 million provided for increases in 
construction for housing for the elderly and housing for the disabled, 
which with what is provided in the bill would bring the total for that 
pair of accounts to less than 1 percent above the enacted level of 3 
years ago, and this at a time when all of the demographic studies show 
that the average age of our population is rising steadily, and our 
over-80 elder population represents the fastest growing cohort.
  Seventh, $30 million increase for the CDFI program, which has been 
enormously successful in leveraging, by at least 20-1, additional 
private investment in underserved communities. $40 million is 
appropriated for the CDFI fund, and while the subcommittee bill is an 
improvement over the President's request, it is still a 25 percent cut 
from the 2006 enacted number.
  Eighth, there was a $30 million amount for the rural housing and 
economic development program that is zeroed out in the bill before us. 
My amendment was fully offset by a 4.11 percent reduction to the tax 
cuts for individuals making over $1 million annually. That represents a 
$4,700 on average cut from the $114,000-plus tax cut for those 
millionaire individuals.
  The chairman of the subcommittee had faced difficult choices in this 
bill. The President's budget was inadequate in many respects, and left 
holes that had to be filled. The chairman did his best to provide a 
fair allocation of money within the amount assigned to the 
subcommittee, and in spite of the chairman's creativity, many problems 
still remain because of the majority party's decision to make tax cuts 
to the wealthiest 1 percent their number one priority. The majority 
party would rather help those that do not need help than those that do. 
My amendment would have corrected some of this imbalance.
  I urge all of my colleagues to put our national priorities first and 
oppose this rule.
  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such 
time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I simply reiterate that we bring this legislation forth 
with an open rule, which means that any Member of the House who has an 
idea for more funding for one program, less funding for another, they 
can bring forth any amendment as long as they obviously follow the 
rules of the House.
  So we are bringing forth this appropriations bill with an open rule, 
we look forward to debate. We think it is good legislation.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

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  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the 
distinguished gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Blumenauer), my good friend 
and classmate.
  Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, I will be brief. I appreciate the 
gentleman's courtesy; and I agree, this is a difficult challenge that 
the committee has faced. I look forward to full and vigorous debate.
  I would just call attention to one element here on page 77, where the 
committee expresses its reservations about using land use and economic 
development as measures for new starts in terms of transit projects; 
and I would respectfully suggest that we need to have a serious 
conversation with the committee and staff, because they are sort of 
missing the boat in terms of what we did laboriously in the 
transportation and infrastructure committee for the last 2 years. There 
are 84 communities around the country that are interested in streetcars 
under the Small Starts Program to be able to move forward in something 
that isn't as expensive as light rail or heavy rail.
  The whole reason communities are interested is because it has very 
powerful economic development impact, and it can prevent congestion in 
the first place because it encourages development along that streetcar 
line. The streetcar line can be built quickly, cheaply; and it prevents 
people from having to move out to vast stretches of the countryside and 
then come in.
  I would hope that we would be able to work with the subcommittee to 
be able to give them examples of what is happening around the country 
and why people in Chicago and Charlotte are interested in what has 
already happened in my community in Portland, Oregon.
  The subcommittee's suggestion that somehow this money come from HUD 
community block grant funding is a little off base because my 
understanding is those monies aren't supposed to be for transportation. 
The streetcar program, the Small Starts Program, is very definitely 
transportation, very definitely transit; and it enables us to avoid 
some of that congestion in the first place.
  I look forward to a conversation with the committee at a later date.
  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, we have no further 
speakers on this side of the aisle, and I reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Utah (Mr. Matheson).
  Mr. MATHESON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask my colleagues to 
oppose the previous question. I do not think it is appropriate to let 
this bill go through without an up-or-down vote on whether or not 
Congress should have an increase in its own pay.
  The effect of this legislation is that is exactly what is going to 
happen. Here we are in a circumstance where we continue to swim in a 
lake of red ink, $8 trillion now. Our debt is above that now.
  We just voted on a $94 billion supplemental earlier today. I don't 
think it is

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appropriate to have this cost increase, this increase in salary for 
Members of Congress go through without an up-or-down vote. That is why 
I encourage my colleagues to oppose the previous question, because a 
``no'' vote on the previous question will give Members the opportunity 
to vote up or down on the automatic cost-of-living pay raise for 
Members of Congress.
  If the previous question is defeated, I will offer an amendment to 
this rule. My amendment will block the fiscal year 2007 cost-of-living 
pay raise for Members of Congress. I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' 
on the previous question so that we can have a debate and vote on this 
issue in the light of day.
  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I have no further speakers at 
this time, and I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, again I am very 
proud of the work of Chairman Knollenberg and the rest of the Members 
who have worked hard on this appropriation bill. We think it is a good 
bill. It is fair. We bring it forward to an open rule, which permits 
any germane amendment to be introduced, discussed, debated by this 
House.
  I look forward to the debate. We are proud of the underlying 
legislation as well as the rule that we bring it forth with.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the 
previous question on the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on ordering the previous 
question.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. MATHESON. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair 
will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for electronic voting, if 
ordered, on the question of adoption of the resolution.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 249, 
nays 167, not voting 16, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 261]

                               YEAS--249

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Akin
     Alexander
     Andrews
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baker
     Baldwin
     Barton (TX)
     Bass
     Beauprez
     Berman
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blumenauer
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Bono
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown, Corrine
     Burton (IN)
     Butterfield
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp (MI)
     Campbell (CA)
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cole (OK)
     Conaway
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Cramer
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis, Tom
     DeGette
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Ehlers
     Engel
     English (PA)
     Eshoo
     Everett
     Farr
     Fattah
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Foley
     Fortenberry
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Gutknecht
     Harman
     Harris
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hefley
     Herger
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Honda
     Hostettler
     Hoyer
     Hunter
     Hyde
     Inglis (SC)
     Israel
     Issa
     Istook
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     LaTourette
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Marchant
     Markey
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHugh
     McKeon
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Mollohan
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Murtha
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Neal (MA)
     Ney
     Nunes
     Oberstar
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Owens
     Oxley
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Pelosi
     Pence
     Pombo
     Price (GA)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Rangel
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reyes
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Sabo
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Saxton
     Schakowsky
     Schmidt
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Sherman
     Simpson
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Solis
     Souder
     Stark
     Sullivan
     Sweeney
     Tancredo
     Tauscher
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Upton
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walsh
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Weldon (FL)
     Weller
     Wexler
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wynn
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NAYS--167

     Aderholt
     Allen
     Baird
     Barrett (SC)
     Barrow
     Bartlett (MD)
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berry
     Bishop (NY)
     Boozman
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boustany
     Bradley (NH)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Burgess
     Capito
     Capps
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carson
     Carter
     Case
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Chocola
     Coble
     Cuellar
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (KY)
     Davis (TN)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     DeFazio
     Delahunt
     Dent
     Doggett
     Drake
     Duncan
     Edwards
     Emanuel
     Emerson
     Etheridge
     Filner
     Fitzpatrick (PA)
     Flake
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fossella
     Foxx
     Gerlach
     Gibbons
     Gingrey
     Goode
     Gordon
     Green (WI)
     Hall
     Hart
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hensarling
     Herseth
     Higgins
     Holden
     Holt
     Hooley
     Hulshof
     Inslee
     Jenkins
     Jindal
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Jones (NC)
     Kaptur
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     Kildee
     Kind
     Kucinich
     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Langevin
     Latham
     Leach
     Lewis (KY)
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Marshall
     Matheson
     McCaul (TX)
     McCollum (MN)
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKinney
     McMorris
     Melancon
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (NC)
     Moore (KS)
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy
     Napolitano
     Neugebauer
     Northup
     Norwood
     Obey
     Osborne
     Otter
     Paul
     Pearce
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Renzi
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Ross
     Royce
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Salazar
     Sanders
     Schiff
     Schwartz (PA)
     Schwarz (MI)
     Scott (GA)
     Sensenbrenner
     Shays
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simmons
     Snyder
     Sodrel
     Spratt
     Stearns
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Van Hollen
     Walden (OR)
     Wamp
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wu

                             NOT VOTING--16

     Berkley
     Boehner
     Conyers
     Deal (GA)
     DeLauro
     Evans
     Kennedy (RI)
     Lewis (GA)
     Manzullo
     Miller (MI)
     Nussle
     Payne
     Reichert
     Sessions
     Strickland
     Weldon (PA)

                              {time}  1605

  Mr. MURPHY, Mr. DUNCAN, Mrs. DRAKE, Mr. JENKINS, Mr. FLAKE, Mrs. 
MALONEY, Messrs. KIND, COBLE, SHIMKUS, NORWOOD, RYAN of Wisconsin, 
MILLER of Florida, PAUL, PICKERING, FOSSELLA, HAYES, PETERSON of 
Minnesota, HENSARLING, Mrs. CAPITO, Messrs. ROGERS of Kentucky, RENZI, 
BURGESS, GERLACH, CARTER, DAVIS of Kentucky, SCHWARZ of Michigan, 
WESTMORELAND, LATHAM, and HALL changed their vote from ``yea'' to 
``nay.''
  Mr. FATTAH, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Messrs. GENE GREEN of Texas, RANGEL, 
STARK, WAXMAN, NADLER, OWENS, and PASTOR changed their vote from 
``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the previous question was ordered.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Daniel E. Lungren of California). The 
question is on the resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. 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 221, 
noes 194, not voting 17, as follows:

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                             [Roll No. 262]

                               AYES--221

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Bachus
     Baker
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Bass
     Beauprez
     Berman
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonner
     Bono
     Boozman
     Boustany
     Bradley (NH)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp (MI)
     Campbell (CA)
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Chocola
     Coble
     Cole (OK)
     Conaway
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Doolittle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     English (PA)
     Everett
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Foley
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Fossella
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gohmert
     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
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     Jindal
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Kaptur
     Keller
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MN)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kline
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Larsen (WA)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Leach
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Marchant
     McCaul (TX)
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McDermott
     McHenry
     McHugh
     McKeon
     McMorris
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Mollohan
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy
     Murtha
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nunes
     Oberstar
     Osborne
     Otter
     Oxley
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Poe
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Price (GA)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Saxton
     Schmidt
     Schwarz (MI)
     Sensenbrenner
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     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)
     Weller
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NOES--194

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berry
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (OH)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carson
     Case
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (TN)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Emanuel
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Fitzpatrick (PA)
     Flake
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Gonzalez
     Goode
     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)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kind
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larson (CT)
     Lee
     Levin
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCollum (MN)
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Michaud
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Paul
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Platts
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sabo
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanders
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schwartz (PA)
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sherman
     Simmons
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Spratt
     Stark
     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
     Wexler
     Woolsey
     Wynn

                             NOT VOTING--17

     Berkley
     Brady (TX)
     Conyers
     Deal (GA)
     DeLauro
     Evans
     Kennedy (RI)
     Lewis (GA)
     Manzullo
     Miller (MI)
     Nussle
     Payne
     Reichert
     Sessions
     Strickland
     Weldon (PA)
     Wu


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

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

                              {time}  1614

  So the resolution was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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