[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 14690-14694]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 2446, AFGHANISTAN FREEDOM AND 
                      SECURITY SUPPORT ACT OF 2007

  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I 
call up House Resolution 453 and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 453

       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. 2446) to reauthorize the Afghanistan Freedom 
     Support Act of 2002, 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 except 
     those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI. 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 Foreign Affairs. 
     After general debate the bill shall be considered for 
     amendment under the five-minute rule. The bill shall be 
     considered as read. Notwithstanding clause 11 of rule XVIII, 
     no amendment to the bill shall be in order except those 
     printed in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying 
     this resolution. Each such amendment may be offered only in 
     the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a 
     Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, 
     shall be debatable for the time specified in the report 
     equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an 
     opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be 
     subject to a demand for division of the question in the House 
     or in the Committee of the Whole. All points of order against 
     such amendments are waived except those arising under clause 
     9 or 10 of rule XXI. At the conclusion of consideration of 
     the bill for amendment the Committee shall rise and report 
     the bill to the House with such amendments as may have been 
     adopted. 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.
       Sec. 2. During consideration in the House of H.R. 2446 
     pursuant to this resolution, notwithstanding the operation of 
     the previous

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     question, the Chair may postpone further consideration of the 
     bill to such time as may be designated by the Speaker.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. 
McGovern) is recognized for 1 hour.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, for purposes of debate only, I yield the 
customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Lincoln Diaz-
Balart). All time yielded during consideration of this rule is for 
debate only.
  I yield myself such time as I may consume.


                             General Leave

  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I also ask unanimous consent that all 
Members be given 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their 
remarks on House Resolution 453.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Massachusetts?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, House Resolution 453 provides for 
consideration of H.R. 2446, the Afghanistan Freedom and Security 
Support Act of 2007 under a structured rule that makes in order all of 
the amendments that were submitted to the Rules Committee, except for 
those withdrawn by their sponsors.
  I want to acknowledge and express my respect for the work of Chairman 
Lantos and Ranking Member Ros-Lehtinen for bringing such a fine example 
of bipartisan cooperation and collaboration before the House for 
consideration.
  Following the ouster of the Taliban regime in late 2001, the United 
States, the United Nations and the international community embarked on 
what they hoped would be a comprehensive assistance program to help the 
new Afghan president, of President Hamid Karzai, establish a new 
democracy, rebuild the Afghan economy and provide for the general well-
being of the Afghan people.
  Regrettably, after a most promising start, progress has slowed in 
most parts of the country. Remnants of the Taliban continue to resist 
the new government and are reorganizing and strengthening their 
networks from neighboring countries. Instability has increased, 
including the introduction of suicide bombings against U.S. soldiers, 
NATO troops, Afghan officials, and civilians and international and 
Afghan humanitarian aid workers.
  Narcotics production threatens to overwhelm the country. According to 
UN studies, a large percentage of Afghans, including farmers, laborers, 
traffickers, war lords, insurgents, and officials participate in and 
benefit from illegal poppy trade.
  Congress first addressed the issue aiding Afghanistan by passing the 
Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002, which established a 
reconstruction program, mandated a relief coordinator, provided support 
to the NATO-led international security forces, and gave new security 
assistance authority to our President.
  In addition to food aid, refugee relief and other forms of emergency 
disaster assistance, the United States implemented a wide-ranging 
assistance program for Afghanistan, including aid for schools, 
hospitals and farms, and support to reestablish the participation of 
women and girls in society, education and the workplace.
  The legislation the House will take up today, H.R. 2446, reauthorizes 
programs created by the original Afghanistan Freedom Support Act, 
creates a new focus on counternarcotics efforts, and provides for 
stronger and more enhanced oversight of U.S. strategic goals and 
performance in Afghanistan.
  Overall, H.R. 2446 provides modest increases in authorized levels for 
humanitarian, development, democracy building and security assistance. 
I cannot stress enough how important it is that Afghanistan succeed in 
establishing and consolidating a representative government and 
rebuilding the country's economy and civil society.
  When we overthrew the Taliban regime, we made promises to the Afghan 
people with the full backing of the international community. We cannot 
renege on those promises. We cannot fail the people of Afghanistan who 
came together in support of a common vision for the future.
  I am very, very concerned that many of the difficulties confronting 
Afghanistan today, especially in the areas of security, are due in 
large part to taking our eye off the ball in Afghanistan and exhausting 
our economic and military resources in Iraq. We had the chance to make 
Afghanistan secure. We failed to do so because we chose not to invest 
the necessary resources in Afghanistan, but, rather, to transfer our 
attention and our resources to Iraq. We are now playing catch up in 
Afghanistan as the situation there is deteriorating.
  I applaud the chairman and members of the Foreign Affairs Committee 
for this timely reauthorization.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

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  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I'd like to thank 
the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern) for the time; and I 
yield myself such time as I may consume.
  As we all know, Mr. Speaker, after the defeat of the Soviet Army in 
Afghanistan, the brutal Taliban took over the country. The Taliban 
ruled that country through terror, through systematic assassination, 
torture, intimidation. They denied Afghans all personal freedoms and 
made women fifth-class citizens. They also provided safe harbor to 
Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. It is from that safe harbor that al Qaeda 
was able to plan and train for the horrendous attack of September 11, 
2001, against the United States of America.
  Following the fall of the Taliban, due in large part to the heroic 
assistance of the United States Armed Forces and coalition forces from 
many, many countries throughout the world, the international community 
worked together under the auspices of the Bonn Compact to make possible 
what was really a wonderful, historic accomplishment, a democratically 
elected government in Afghanistan.
  In 2004, Afghanistan adopted a new constitution and held successful 
presidential elections. Parliamentary elections followed in 2005. 
Factions that once fought on the battlefield now, after decades of 
violence, debate and resolve their differences in parliament with 
ballots instead of bullets.
  However, Mr. Speaker, there are remnants of the former Taliban 
regime, along with al Qaeda, that are intent on overthrowing the 
democratically elected government of Afghanistan. The Taliban is using 
suicide bombings against U.S. and NATO troops, against Afghan 
officials, against civilians, both international and Afghan 
humanitarian workers, assistance workers.
  Opium poppy cultivation and drug trafficking have become significant 
negative factors in Afghanistan's fragile political and economic order. 
Afghanistan currently accounts, unfortunately, for a majority of the 
world's illicit opium production.
  As the democratically elected government faces grave challenges, we 
must not turn our backs on that young democracy. We must continue our 
support as that country moves from a brutal dictatorship to a 
consolidated democracy.
  In 2002, this Congress passed the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act. 
That law provided both economic and military aid to the young Afghan 
democracy.
  This legislation will reauthorize the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act 
through the year 2010. The programs reauthorized in this bill focus on 
countering narcotics production and boost security efforts to protect 
United States and NATO forces as well as Afghan officials and 
international assistance workers. This legislation calls for the 
President to set out a detailed strategy for Afghanistan and provide 
reports on progress there.
  The Afghanistan Freedom and Security Support Act of 2007, this 
legislation that we bring to the floor today, builds on congressional 
initiatives enacted in 2002 and 2004; and I again congratulate the 
leaders, who in those Congresses back in 2002 and 2004, worked so hard 
to ensure that these

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initiatives that are being reauthorized today were passed. And these 
initiatives now are, as I say, reauthorized in this legislation, H.R. 
2466, that will be before the House today.
  Among those initiatives passed in 2002, 2004 are the creation of 
multiple programs, but this legislation calls for the creation of a 
coordinator role for the development of a coherent, consistent counter-
narcotics strategy, and to strengthen the fight against the drug 
trade's links to totalitarian Islamic terrorism.
  We also insured in this legislation that initiatives passed in 2002 
and 2004 continued, such as prohibition on assistance to Afghan 
officials who are found to be supporting criminal activities such as 
narcotics trafficking.
  This bill, good legislation, Mr. Speaker. This bill reaffirms the 
commitment of the United States to support Afghanistan in its 
transition to a stable, representative democracy.
  This bill, good legislation, Mr. Speaker, that we bring to the floor 
today, authorizes the appropriation of $1.7 billion annually for 
humanitarian and economic assistance and $320 million annually for 
military assistance during fiscal 2008 to 2010.
  This is important legislation. It's important legislation for the 
fight against the international drug trade and totalitarian Islamists, 
dangerous remnants of the defeated Taliban, the Taliban who were 
overthrown, thank God.
  Remnants of the Taliban are festering, and they use deadly tactics 
against United States and NATO forces, as well as Afghans and 
humanitarian workers. Those people have no scruples, and we only have 
to remember, Mr. Speaker what they did to the Afghan people when they 
were in power. So they use horrendous tactics, brutal tactics without 
limits against our troops and other international forces that are in 
Afghanistan pursuant to the request of the democratically elected 
government to secure the peace.
  And, furthermore, Mr. Speaker, poppy cultivation and opium production 
continue to directly support insurgents, militias and terrorist groups. 
In the face of these very difficult challenges, we cannot allow that 
fledgling democracy, that budding democracy striving to be a stable 
society, to fail.
  With regard to process, our friends on the other side of the aisle, 
again, the majority had another opportunity yesterday in the Rules 
Committee to open the process and comfort with an open rule. They voted 
down an amendment by our ranking member of the Committee on Rules to 
bring this legislation forth under an open rule. Yes, they made in 
order all of the amendments that were presented before the committee, 
and that's commendable. But why not come forth with an open rule? I 
think that was disappointing.
  Let's not fail to see, however, Mr. Speaker, that this is, this 
underlying legislation that's being brought forward is extremely 
important. It's a very important piece of legislation.
  And by the way, with regard, again, to process, precisely since it's 
such an important project that as a Nation we're working on and there's 
great national consensus on the need to do everything we can to 
consolidate, to help consolidate the representative democracy and the 
peace in Afghanistan, precisely I think there would have been no harm 
in allowing, as this debate proceeds, to allow any Member who's hearing 
the debate who has an idea for an amendment to bring it forth. That's 
why an open rule is appropriate.
  I'd like to thank, Mr. Speaker, the chairman, the distinguished 
chairman of the International Relations Committee, Mr. Lantos, for his 
hard work on this important facet of our foreign policy and the 
legislation that's being brought forth today, as also the distinguished 
ranking member, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, who's also worked very hard on this 
legislation, and other members of the International Relations 
Committee. I want to thank them for their hard work on this important 
issue, which constitutes, as I said, a project where the American 
people, in consensus fashion, are moving forward and doing everything 
possible so that our friends and allies in Afghanistan can survive and 
defeat the brutal Taliban and al Qaeda.

                              {time}  1330

  This legislation brought forward today is an important bill. It is of 
the utmost importance to our national security and obviously to the 
region where Afghanistan is and, of course, to the people, to the noble 
people of Afghanistan, as they continue their efforts to consolidate 
their representative democracy and achieve peace and prosperity in 
their great country.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Let me just say that, again, the underlying legislation is incredibly 
important. We do have an obligation, a moral obligation, to the people 
of Afghanistan. And, quite frankly, from a national security 
perspective, that is where our attention should be and where our 
attention should have been. It is regrettable, it is regrettable that 
the President of the United States and his administration and many in 
this Chamber have chosen to take their eye off what our responsibility 
is in Afghanistan over these last several years, and instead, we find 
ourselves bogged down in a quagmire in Iraq.
  Those who are responsible for September 11, those who are responsible 
for the murder of so many of our citizens, they were in Afghanistan. 
That is where al Qaeda was. And instead of holding al Qaeda accountable 
in Afghanistan, instead of making sure that our resources go to 
promoting democracy and stability in Afghanistan, instead of focusing 
on this ever-growing drug problem in Afghanistan, we have spent over 
half a trillion dollars in Iraq. And that is regrettable. And, quite 
frankly, when history looks back on how these last few years were 
conducted, they are going to take note of the fact that we missed 
important opportunities to better protect our country by taking our eye 
off of what our responsibility was in Afghanistan.
  And let me just say about the rule, I will apologize to my colleague 
from Florida for a rule that we bring to the floor today that makes 
every single amendment that was offered in the Rules Committee and not 
withdrawn by its author in order. Every Republican amendment, every 
Democratic amendment. And I know that that is different from the way 
things used to be when the Republicans were in charge of the Rules 
Committee. They had a tendency to just shut us all out routinely. But 
things are different now, and under the Democratic administration here 
in the Congress, we are trying to make sure that all points of view 
have an opportunity to be heard on the floor.
  So I am happy that we have this rule, and, again, I apologize to the 
gentleman that it is not like what they used to do.
  With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the distinguished 
gentleman from Vermont, a member of the Rules Committee (Mr. Welch).
  Mr. WELCH of Vermont. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from 
Massachusetts for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, in April, I had the opportunity to join five of my 
colleagues on a delegation trip to Afghanistan. And our six-member 
delegation, three Democrats and three Republicans, spent 2 days in 
Iraq, 2 days in Afghanistan. And we had an opportunity to speak with 
American, Iraqi, Afghani soldiers; military leaders; security forces; 
government leaders; and civil servants. And at every turn in our trip, 
we encountered these extraordinary men and women from our country that 
are doing incredible work in very dangerous and trying circumstances. 
And I had the opportunity to meet troops from my State as my colleagues 
met troops from their States, and all of us were incredibly proud at 
the selflessness of these troops who are performing the missions that 
we have assigned to them.
  But the circumstances in each country and each war are very 
different. Iraq is in a full-blown civil war. The British, our last 
remaining significant ally in Iraq, will soon withdraw, and American 
forces are now viewed as occupiers. The situation is much different in 
Afghanistan. And I came

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away, as did my colleagues, with the clear impression that there is 
will on the part of Afghani leaders to step up and to take control of 
their future.
  In Afghanistan, we have 37 allied nations joining with us to help the 
Afghanis drive out the Taliban and to restore order and to create a 
future for that country.
  In fact, the differences between these two situations in Iraq and 
Afghanistan was best summed up by three soldiers I spoke to who had 
completed full tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I asked, What is the 
difference in your experience? And the soldiers said, In Iraq it seems 
as though everyone is interested in fighting each other and us. In 
Afghanistan everyone is interested in fighting for their future.
  What this legislation recognizes is that we have partners, 37 other 
nations, working with us in Afghanistan, and we have a partner, the 
government and people of Afghanistan, in our effort to restore order 
and to create a future for that country.
  H.R. 2446, the Afghanistan Freedom and Security Support Act, 
reinforces the United States' long-term commitment to support 
Afghanistan in its efforts to confront its challenges and to complete 
its transformation into a secure and prosperous future.
  This bill enhances the narcotics operations. More importantly, it 
provides incentives to encourage greater participation from our NATO 
allies in the International Security and Assistance Force. If we have 
learned anything, it is that we have got to work together and not 
alone.
  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such 
time as I may consume.
  I appreciate the gentleman from Massachusetts' kind words. What I had 
been referring to before with regard to the process is that I don't 
believe that any harm would have been done if the majority would have 
kept its promise of open rules. It is the majority that promised during 
the campaign that they were going to bring a significant amount, as 
many as possible, of bills to the floor under open rules. And this is a 
noncontroversial bill, and, yes, they made the amendments in order by 
the Members who went to the Rules Committee, and that is appreciated.
  So what harm would it have caused if this legislation would have been 
brought forth under an open rule, as was proposed, in amendment form, 
by the ranking member of Rules? That is what my point was. No harm 
would have been done.
  And, simply, I would like to remind the majority of the promises that 
the majority made during the campaign of bringing forth legislation 
under open rules. So I don't believe that any harm would have accrued 
if they would have kept their promise. That's all.
  But with regard to the apology, I certainly appreciate the gentleman 
from Massachusetts' kind words, Mr. Speaker.
  And, again, with regard to this underlying legislation, which is of 
extreme importance, there is a national consensus in the United States 
that we not only have an obligation, but we must do everything in our 
power so that the democratically elected government in Afghanistan 
survives, and that is what this legislation is about. We will have 
other continuing debates on nearby countries and what our obligations 
are or what is, rather, in our national interest with regard to the 
stability in neighboring countries of Afghanistan as well and in trying 
to prevent neighboring countries from becoming basically safe harbors 
for international terrorism.

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  Those are legitimate debates.
  Today, the legislation being brought forth, Mr. Speaker, is one where 
there is a national consensus in the United States, thank God, 
fortunately, and that is that with regard to that country that was for 
so long oppressed by the brutal Taliban and that had given sanctuary to 
the terrorists that carried out the mass murders of September 11, 2001, 
against the United States of America, that we certainly have an 
obligation to do everything we can to make certain that the people of 
Afghanistan have as much ability, that they have the wherewithal to 
proceed along a path towards a consolidated, representative democracy 
in peace and with prosperity.
  That is why we agree that this legislation is very important; and it 
reauthorizes critical programs, programs of critical importance with 
regard to our assistance to Afghanistan that were authorized initially 
and appropriated by the Congress of the United States in 2002 and 2004.
  Mr. Speaker, having said that, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, again, I regret that my colleagues on the 
other side of the aisle are not pleased with the rule that makes all of 
the amendments that were offered in order, but I think that that is the 
way we should do business around here. It is in sharp contrast to the 
way they used to do business when the Republicans were in the majority, 
where there was a tendency to shut everything down, to close everything 
up, to not allow Members of the minority to be able to have amendments. 
But we're different, and I'm glad we are different.
  On the underlying legislation, there should be unanimity in this 
House about the importance of passing this legislation. It is important 
that we keep our commitment to the people of Afghanistan. It is 
important that we keep our commitment to the people of the United 
States, who after September 11 we said, in the Congress and in the 
White House, that we are going to do everything we can do bring to 
justice, to hold to account those who are responsible for September 11.
  Unfortunately, today, we are not anywhere near where we should be in 
Afghanistan; and the reason for that is because we have diverted our 
resources, we have diverted our soldiers and our political capital to a 
never-ending war in Iraq. We have put our soldiers in the middle of a 
civil war in Iraq. We have spent over half a trillion dollars in Iraq; 
and, as a result, those resources have not been sent to Afghanistan; 
and I think that is regrettable.
  But we need to pass this bill today. I hope it passes with a 
unanimous vote. I urge my colleagues to support the rule.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``yes'' vote on the previous question and on 
the rule.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the 
previous question on the resolution.
  The previous question was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the 
yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, this 15-
minute vote on adopting House Resolution 453 will be followed by 5-
minute votes on the motion to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 1716, the 
motion to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 632, and the motion to 
suspend the rules and pass H.R. 964.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 220, 
nays 195, not voting 17, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 431]

                               YEAS--220

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Arcuri
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bean
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd (FL)
     Boyda (KS)
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson
     Castor
     Chandler
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis, Lincoln
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellsworth
     Emanuel
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Giffords
     Gillibrand
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hall (NY)
     Hare
     Harman
     Herseth Sandlin
     Higgins
     Hill
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hodes
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Inslee

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     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kagen
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind
     Klein (FL)
     Kucinich
     Lampson
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lynch
     Mahoney (FL)
     Maloney (NY)
     Markey
     Marshall
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum (MN)
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Mitchell
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murtha
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peterson (MN)
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Rodriguez
     Ross
     Rothman
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schwartz
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sestak
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Shuler
     Sires
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Solis
     Space
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stupak
     Sutton
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Weiner
     Wexler
     Wilson (OH)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Yarmuth

                               NAYS--195

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Baker
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehner
     Bonner
     Bono
     Boozman
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp (MI)
     Campbell (CA)
     Cannon
     Capito
     Carter
     Castle
     Chabot
     Coble
     Cole (OK)
     Conaway
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Davis, David
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Doolittle
     Drake
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     English (PA)
     Everett
     Fallin
     Feeney
     Ferguson
     Flake
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Fossella
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gohmert
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves
     Hall (TX)
     Hastert
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Heller
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hulshof
     Inglis (SC)
     Issa
     Jindal
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Jordan
     Keller
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kline (MN)
     Knollenberg
     Kuhl (NY)
     LaHood
     Lamborn
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul (TX)
     McCotter
     McCrery
     McHenry
     McHugh
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy, Tim
     Musgrave
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Nunes
     Paul
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe
     Porter
     Price (GA)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Sali
     Saxton
     Schmidt
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shays
     Shimkus
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Souder
     Stearns
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh (NY)
     Wamp
     Weldon (FL)
     Weller
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--17

     Baca
     Becerra
     Cantor
     Conyers
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Hastings (FL)
     Holden
     Hunter
     Jefferson
     Meek (FL)
     Nadler
     Pallone
     Pickering
     Shuster
     Tancredo
     Waxman
     Welch (VT)


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

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

                              {time}  1408

  Messrs. HASTERT, LINDER, TERRY, GOODLATTE, DENT, KIRK, SAXTON, 
GINGREY and ROYCE changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  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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