[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 17]
[House]
[Pages 22991-22994]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 3221, NEW DIRECTION FOR ENERGY 
 INDEPENDENCE, NATIONAL SECURITY, AND CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT, AND FOR 
 CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 2776, RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ENERGY CONSERVATION 
                            TAX ACT OF 2007

  Mr. WELCH of Vermont. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to 
the distinguished gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Boustany).
  Mr. BOUSTANY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the rule and the 
underlying bill with its tax provisions. I think it's time that we 
level with the American public about this and be truthful about what we 
are trying to accomplish here. This bill has some good things in it, 
but it's not really addressing what we really need to be focused on 
right now. That is, the strategic management of our dependence over 
fossil fuels for the next 10 to 15 years as we transition.
  We need to manage our strategic dependence on fossil fuels, a 
strategic dependence that we are going to have for the next 10, 15, 
maybe 20 years as these new technologies develop. Now, what does this 
bill do? It taxes U.S. companies working on production of oil, and 
making these companies less productive and less competitive, therefore, 
shifting more oil and gas activity into the hands of national oil 
companies that are not our friends. This will not bring down the price 
of oil and gas and not alleviate our energy concerns.
  Secondly, it abrogates leases, very important leases in the Gulf of 
Mexico, with the stroke of a pen. Now, that's not the American way. 
That's not something that we would be proud of in this country, not 
something the American people would be proud of. It's certainly 
something that Hugo Chavez would be proud of.
  Finally, I will say this bill is not technology neutral. It seeks to 
pick winners and losers and eliminates some very promising technology 
for alternatives fuels.
  For that reason and many other reasons, I oppose this bill. I oppose 
the underlying bill with its tax provisions and urge all Members to 
think twice about this. We have to level with the American people about 
the energy situation and manage our strategic dependence and not deal 
with fantasy.
  Mr. WELCH of Vermont. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to 
the distinguished gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Gingrey).
  Mr. GINGREY. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, I attempted to offer an amendment to H.R. 3221, the New 
Direction for Energy Independence, National Security, and Consumer 
Protection Act, to prevent possible waste and maintain appropriate 
management of our government expenses. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 
requires the Secretary of Energy to contract with the National Academy 
of Public Administration to conduct a study for assessing management 
practices for research, development and demonstration programs at the 
Department.
  My amendment would simply prohibit funds in the bill to the Advanced 
Research Projects Agency, or ARPA-E, within the Department of Energy, 
until the study has been completed and it makes a recommendation that 
we do establish ARPA-E.
  However, the Rules Committee would not accommodate my amendment and 
refused to make it in order. Without this amendment, we are shooting in 
the dark. We are authorizing $300 million for fiscal year 2008 that may 
not be necessary. This is not a good way to manage the people's tax 
money. If the majority is going to gamble like this, we might as well 
put the whole Federal Treasury on green double zero and just hope for 
the best.
  I have another concern, and that's about a new portfolio standard. 
The renewable portfolio standard in this bill calls for 20 percent 
renewable by the year 2020, and it will not include any nuclear.
  Well, the Southern Company, in my district, provides about 12 to 15 
percent of their power by nuclear, but, yet, that cannot be included as 
a renewable.

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So we are projecting a wind farm off the coast of Georgia bigger than 
Cape Wind in Massachusetts, and that would only produce 1 percent 
toward this renewable standard. It's almost an impossible standard to 
meet, if you do not let us include nuclear as a renewable source, 
which, surely, it is. Basically, the compliance penalty for not meeting 
this standard, for the Southern Company in my district, would be $745 
million.
  This legislation is nothing more than a backhanded attempt to ease 
our Nation into a carbon trade scheme, and it victimizes Georgia by 
making us a donor State.
  I ask my colleagues to vote down this rule and vote against the 
underlying legislation.
  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to 
the distinguished gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. McCrery).
  Mr. McCRERY. Mr. Speaker, as the ranking member of the Ways and Means 
committee, I have tried my best to work with Chairman Rangel to 
engender an atmosphere in our committee of comity, an atmosphere that 
engenders respect for one another's views, and to engender an 
atmosphere in which we can fully explore and debate and discuss issues.
  We have very talented members on both sides of the aisle on the Ways 
and Means Committee, and we are not afraid to discuss issues and to 
debate differences that we have in those issues. It's a great 
committee.
  I gave a letter to the Rules Committee citing 24 instances just since 
the year 2000 where on tax bills when we were in the majority we gave 
the minority the chance to offer a substitute, an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute.
  Tax bills are always closed to amendments. We don't just allow willy-
nilly amendments to tax bills, for good reason. But we almost always 
offer the minority an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
  I am not pleased that the Rules Committee, and I suppose with the 
consent of the chairman, did not offer us an amendment in the nature of 
a substitute.
  Vote against this rule.
  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to 
the distinguished gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Shimkus).
  Mr SHIMKUS. Mr. Speaker, this rule is a joke. It does nothing for 
supply. No renewable fuel standard, no alternative fuel standard, 7 
minutes for debate by the minority side on energy policy in this 
country. Are you crazy?
  Coal. Take it down then, take it down, if you want. This is coal, our 
largest resource in this country, to help decrease our reliance on 
imported crude oil. What will it do for the economy? Coal-to-liquid, 
1,000 jobs, 2,500 construction jobs, 15 million tons of coal, up to 500 
coal-mining jobs. You all say no.
  What's it do for our national security, coal, to coal-to-liquid 
refinery, to pipelines to fuel our Air Force? Our Air Force is 
demanding liquified gasoline moved into jet fuel to decrease our 
reliance on important crude oil, and you guys won't bring up an energy 
bill? Shame on you.
  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to 
the distinguished gentleman from California (Mr. Bilbray).
  Mr. BILBRAY. Mr. Speaker, as a former member of the Air Resources 
Board in the State of California and working on air pollution issues 
for decades, I was looking at the text that said this bill was going to 
move America forward.
  This text is not moving America forward; it's moving us back to a 
1970's agenda. This agenda is the same agenda we had in the 
environmental community in the 1970s. In the 1970s, we were doing the 
best we could then. But this is the best America can expect from this 
Congress, is 30-year-old ideas that have been proven false, and the 
example, this bill is going to pick winners and losers in the industry.
  It is going to mandate not only the inclusion of poisons in our 
gasoline in places like California where in 1992 we warned you about 
MTBE, we warned you that ethanol was going to cause problems, but this 
place was bought off by special interest groups that claimed to be 
environmentally sensitive and forced MTBE into the fuel of America.
  Later, when you realized we were right, you said, sorry. Just last, a 
few months ago, Harvard came out with another study about ethanol. All 
we are asking is, don't mandate that this poison is put in the fuel.
  If you can't believe CARB, then why are the States around the north 
using our standards at CARB to clean up the environment? Look before 
you leap, but this technology that we are talking about doesn't even 
include zero mission generators like high pressure gas reactors, 
doesn't include.
  The only way we are going to beat greenhouse gases is to go nuclear, 
but you don't have the political guts to look our friends in the eye 
and say we have got to move beyond the 1970s. We have got to move 
forward. We have got to be willing to do what is right for the 
environment.
  If that tells Archer Daniels Midland or the extreme wackos who are 
always going to be against nuclear that, sorry, guys, the environment 
comes first, if you don't have the guts to do that, don't claim this is 
a green proposal. 1970 cars are polluting and wasteful. This bill is 
polluting and wasteful.

                              {time}  1030

  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I will be asking 
Members to defeat the previous question so that I may amend the rule to 
provide for the adoption of H. Res. 622, a resolution introduced by Mr. 
Blunt to correct the injustice done to all Members of this House on 
August 2, 2007.
  As my colleagues know, the majority engaged in a manipulation of the 
vote on the motion to recommit the Agriculture appropriations bill to 
reverse the outcome.
  If we defeat the previous question, the resolution will direct the 
Clerk to retrieve the Agriculture appropriations bill from the Senate, 
add in the amendments that should have been included in the bill, and 
return the bill to the Senate.
  While we took the important step yesterday to establish a select 
committee to investigate the reasons why this injustice occurred, the 
Agriculture appropriations bill will continue through the legislative 
process well before the select committee's final report is complete; 
meaning that we must act now to correct this injustice.
  I ask my colleagues to support me in defeating the previous question 
and righting this wrong.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the amendment 
be printed just prior to the vote on the previous question.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Florida?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. I yield 1 minute to the 
distinguished ranking member of the Rules Committee.
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend for yielding.
  Democrats and Republicans alike have decried what took place late 
last Thursday night. This previous question which we are about to vote 
upon would allow the Democrats to erase the most unsightly of blemishes 
on the already tarnished record that we witnessed governing this 
institution. It would allow us as a body to heal, and to give democracy 
an opportunity to once again flourish in this hallowed institution. Mr. 
Speaker, this previous question vote will in fact give us as a body the 
opportunity to heal. I urge my colleagues to join with Mr. Diaz-Balart 
in voting ``no'' on the previous question so we can rectify this wrong.
  I thank my friend for yielding.
  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I urge all of our 
colleagues in a responsible manner, realizing the historic importance 
of what has transpired this week, to defeat the previous question, 
allow this wrong to be righted, to defeat the previous question and 
defeat also this unfair rule.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. WELCH of Vermont. Mr. Speaker, there are two points I would like 
to make, one about the rule and one about the process.

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  I served 13 years in the Vermont State Senate, a small body, 30 
members, sometimes in the minority, sometimes in the majority; and we 
had fierce fights about issues of enormous public concern, tax policy, 
environmental policy. In all of the time that I served in that State 
Senate, winning fights, but losing as many as I won, I never, ever saw 
the other side leave on an appropriations vote. Never. When you lose, 
you get up and you fight another day. That is what we learned. That is 
what all of us have learned.
  There is a use of process here that has an effect of avoiding 
discussing substantive issues that are really of vital concern to the 
people of this country and the people that we represent. None of us can 
certify that the position we take at any given moment is guaranteed to 
be the right one. We have to debate that, we have to listen to the 
other side. But we don't stop listening when it comes to our final 
decision, the ultimate responsibility that we have been given by the 
people who have elected us to stand in this well and to vote ``yes'' or 
``no'' and to accept accountability for the ``yes'' or ``no'' vote that 
we take.
  I do not understand, Mr. Speaker, walking out on a vote, most 
importantly, one involving appropriations for rural America. I don't 
understand the excessive use of motions to adjourn when it has no 
purpose, no purpose whatsoever other than to bring down the respect 
that the American people should have in this institution. I don't 
understand that. Maybe in time I will.
  This bill brought forth by this rule is going the allow America to 
have a new debate on energy. It is that simple. The old approach on 
energy has been oil and fossil fuels. It has had a place and will have 
a place, to be sure. But the question is, are we going to continue with 
the public policy of this country, with subsidies as we have for mature 
industries like oil and nuclear, which in the 2005 legislation received 
$15 billion in taxpayer subsidies. That is real money from real 
Americans. Yet, as that happens, global warming expands, the price of 
gasoline increases. It is a dead-end policy, Mr. Speaker.
  And the question that is going to be raised in this legislation for 
the decision of each and every one of us is whether we are going to 
turn a page on the old energy policy to a new one that is going to 
allow efficiency to matter. Using less, not more, saves money. The 
efficiency provisions in this bill will save tax ratepayers $300 
billion. Whether we are going to use the power of tax incentives, a tax 
incentive budget to unleash the entrepreneurial skills, the engineering 
skills of people across this country in local communities, to harness 
wind, solar, renewable sources of energy, whether we are going to 
unleash the opportunity to create 3 million new jobs.
  Let me say this: for all the good that is done by some of the energy 
policies that we have had, let's make the acknowledgment that there are 
many good things out there, every time a consumer in a local area, my 
town of Hartland, pays the light bill, most of the time that dollar 
that I pay gets sent hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away to a 
generator. And what we are trying to do in our State, what we are 
trying to do in many other States around the country is to have an 
energy policy that is going to allow consumers to spend their money 
locally so that the repair person that was mentioned that fixes the air 
conditioners, more of those people are going to have jobs. Every dollar 
that we keep in our local economy is strengthening our local economy.
  Energy efficiency, renewable energy is about creating jobs, not just 
improving and cleaning out the environment. It is about independence 
and strengthening of local communities, not just shipping local money 
to faraway corporations.
  Mr. Speaker, if we needed any wake-up call about why we have to turn 
a page and move in a new direction, it is in this morning's newspaper 
report about Toyota. Let me just read one paragraph:
  ``Booming sales of fuel efficient cars helped lift Toyota to its 
biggest quarterly profit ever, and kept the maker of Prius Hybrid on 
pace to pass General Motors as the world's number one automaker.''
  That is not good news for us. What is good news for us is that we 
accept the challenge that is there, not run from it.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``yes'' vote on this rule and support this 
underlying legislation.
  The material previously referred to by Mr. Lincoln Diaz-Balart of 
Florida is as follows:

 Amendment to H. Res. 615 Offered by Mr. Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Florida

       At the end of the resolution insert the following new 
     Sections:
       Sec. 5. Upon adoption of this resolution, House Resolution 
     622 is hereby adopted.

  Mr. WELCH of Vermont. 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. 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 9 of rule XX, the Chair 
will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on 
the question of adoption of the resolution.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 220, 
nays 186, not voting 26, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 825]

                               YEAS--220

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Arcuri
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd (FL)
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Castor
     Chandler
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Conyers
     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
     Ellsworth
     Emanuel
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Giffords
     Gillibrand
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hall (NY)
     Hare
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Herseth Sandlin
     Higgins
     Hill
     Hinchey
     Hirono
     Hodes
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kagen
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind
     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
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Mitchell
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Pallone
     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
     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
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch (VT)
     Wexler
     Wilson (OH)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Yarmuth

                               NAYS--186

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Bachus
     Baker
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehner
     Bonner
     Bono
     Boozman
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Broun (GA)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp (MI)
     Campbell (CA)
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Castle
     Chabot
     Cole (OK)
     Conaway
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Davis, David
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     Dent

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     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)
     Hastings (WA)
     Heller
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Issa
     Johnson (IL)
     Jones (NC)
     Jordan
     Keller
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Knollenberg
     Kuhl (NY)
     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
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Pickering
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe
     Porter
     Price (GA)
     Pryce (OH)
     Putnam
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renzi
     Reynolds
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Sali
     Schmidt
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shays
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Souder
     Stearns
     Sullivan
     Tancredo
     Terry
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden (OR)
     Walsh (NY)
     Wamp
     Weller
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson (NM)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--26

     Bachmann
     Boyda (KS)
     Carson
     Clarke
     Clay
     Coble
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Ellison
     Hastert
     Hayes
     Hinojosa
     Inglis (SC)
     Jindal
     Johnson, Sam
     Klein (FL)
     Kline (MN)
     Kucinich
     LaHood
     Oberstar
     Paul
     Radanovich
     Saxton
     Skelton
     Weldon (FL)


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

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

                              {time}  1058

  Ms. GRANGER changed her vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Mr. DeFAZIO changed his 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. 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. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 215, 
nays 191, not voting 26, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 826]

                               YEAS--215

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allen
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Arcuri
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd (FL)
     Boyda (KS)
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Castor
     Chandler
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Conyers
     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
     Ellsworth
     Emanuel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Giffords
     Gillibrand
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hall (NY)
     Hare
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Herseth Sandlin
     Higgins
     Hill
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hodes
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hooley
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones (OH)
     Kagen
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind
     Langevin
     Lantos
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lynch
     Mahoney (FL)
     Maloney (NY)
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     Watt
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     Weiner
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     Wexler
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     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Yarmuth

                               NAYS--191

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Bachus
     Baker
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett (MD)
     Barton (TX)
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
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     Bono
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     Broun (GA)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Calvert
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     Campbell (CA)
     Cannon
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Castle
     Chabot
     Cole (OK)
     Conaway
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Davis, David
     Davis, Tom
     Deal (GA)
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
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     Drake
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     Engel
     English (PA)
     Fallin
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     Flake
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     Fortenberry
     Fossella
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
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     Gerlach
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     Gillmor
     Gingrey
     Gohmert
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                             NOT VOTING--26

     Bachmann
     Carson
     Clarke
     Clay
     Coble
     Crenshaw
     Cubin
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Ellison
     Everett
     Feeney
     Hastert
     Hayes
     Jefferson
     Jindal
     Johnson, Sam
     Klein (FL)
     Kline (MN)
     Kucinich
     LaHood
     Marshall
     Oberstar
     Paul
     Radanovich
     Saxton
     Skelton

                              {time}  1107


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). Less than 2 minutes remain 
in the vote.
  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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