[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 14657-14675]
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    FOREIGN RELATIONS AUTHORIZATION ACT, FISCAL YEARS 2010 AND 2011

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 522 and rule 
XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House 
on the state of the Union for the further consideration of the bill, 
H.R. 2410.

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                     In the Committee of the Whole

  Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of 
the bill (H.R. 2410) to authorize appropriations for the Department of 
State and the Peace Corps for fiscal years 2010 and 2011, to modernize 
the Foreign Service, and for other purposes, with Ms. DeGette (Acting 
Chair) in the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The Acting CHAIR. When the Committee of the Whole rose earlier today, 
a request for a recorded vote on amendment No. 15 by the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Royce) had been postponed.


           Amendment No. 16 Offered by Mr. Meeks of New York

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 16 
printed in part C of House Report 111-143.
  Mr. MEEKS of New York. I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 16 offered by Mr. Meeks of New York:
       At the end of title X, insert the following:

     SEC. 10__. REPORT ON UNITED STATES-BRAZIL JOINT ACTION PLAN 
                   TO ELIMINATE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION.

       Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act and one year thereafter, the Secretary of State 
     shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
     report detailing the status, efficacy, and coordination of 
     the United States-Brazil Joint Action Plan to Eliminate 
     Racial Discrimination, and a summary of short and long-term 
     efforts to address the plight of in Afro Latinos and 
     indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere through 
     cooperation and bilateral efforts.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 522, the gentleman 
from New York (Mr. Meeks) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from New York.
  Mr. MEEKS of New York. Madam Chair, I rise today with an important 
amendment to H.R. 2410, the Foreign Relations Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011.
  We here in the United States understand all too well that it takes 
more than just passing laws to ensure equal access to prosperity. It 
took decades of constant pressure and struggle to get the legal right 
to full participation of African Americans in our American democracy, 
yet we realize that our work is far from over in our great Nation.
  Racial discrimination is a sobering reality, both here in the United 
States and in the rest of the world. We understand that we cannot throw 
stones from a glass house, but instead we must work in tandem with our 
neighbors to ensure that all citizens in our hemisphere are unfettered 
by discriminatory practices now and the vestiges of those practices of 
the past.
  It is in our interest to work toward a more equal hemisphere. And we 
are all at risk if our citizens do not have full faith in the strength 
of democracy to provide upward mobility. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther 
King, Jr., put it best when he said, Injustice anywhere is a threat to 
justice everywhere.
  Afro-Latinos face a longstanding struggle against racial 
discrimination and a lack of opportunities. Afro-Latinos make up 
approximately 150 million of the region's 540 million total population 
and, along with women and indigenous populations, are among the 
poorest, most marginalized groups in the region.
  People of African descent comprise a significant portion of the 
population in several Latin American countries and account for nearly 
50 percent of the region's poor. For many Afro descendants, endemic 
poverty is exacerbated by isolation, exclusion, and racial 
discrimination.
  In Brazil, Afro-Latinos represent 45 percent of the population but 
constitute 64 percent of the poor and 69 percent of the extremely poor. 
In Colombia, the plight of Afro-Colombians is perhaps harshest, as they 
are all too often caught in the crossfire of violent conflict.
  Congress previously supported the United States-Brazil Joint Action 
Plan Against Racial Discrimination in House Resolution 1254 and called 
for both the United States and Brazil to promote equality and to 
continue to work toward eliminating racial discrimination. The joint 
action plan helps to facilitate the exchange of information on the best 
practices of antidiscrimination measures and development of ideas of 
how to bilaterally promote racial and ethnic equality.
  With this amendment, we request that Secretary Clinton report on 
plans and efforts to address the plight of Afro-Latinos and indigenous 
peoples in the Western hemisphere. And we also request a report on the 
status of the U.S.-Brazil joint action plan so we can gain a greater 
understanding of how to increase our collaboration on similar 
initiatives.
  Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Madam Chair, I rise to claim time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Florida is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. The U.S.-Brazil Joint Action Plan to eliminate 
racial and ethnic discrimination and promote equality recognizes the 
commitment of our governments to promote equality and opportunity.

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  It also underscores the importance of cooperating in the promotion of 
human rights in order to maintain an environment of peace, of 
democracy, and of prosperity in the region.
  The United States' commitment to freedom and equality is 
longstanding. This joint action plan between our two countries helps to 
further these values throughout the hemisphere.
  Mr. Meeks' amendment requires the Secretary of State to report on the 
progress of these important bilateral efforts under the action plan. 
This report will help to bring accountability and greater oversight to 
the objectives and to the goals of this important joint effort between 
the United States and Brazil.
  I thank Congressman Meeks for his introduction of this amendment, and 
I urge my colleagues to support it.
  Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. MEEKS of New York. Madam Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman 
from Georgia (Mr. Scott).
  Mr. SCOTT of Georgia. Madam Chair, first of all, I would like to 
commend the gentleman from New York (Mr. Meeks) for his long service in 
this area of bringing attention to bringing equality to the cultures of 
Central America, South America, and Latin America. He is to be indeed 
commended.
  Madam Chair, the United States and Brazil are strong partners with a 
common history and ancestry that, unfortunately, includes experiences 
of slavery, racism, and discrimination against citizens of African 
heritage. Still, the United States and Brazil, under the joint action 
plan, are working to learn from each other's experiences in order to 
combat racism, promote equality, and increase cooperation in a 
multitude of fields including education, culture, health, and sports.
  Madam Chair, because combating racism and discrimination requires 
constant vigilance, I support the gentleman from New York's amendment, 
which will provide Congress with better information moving towards that 
end.

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  Mr. MEEKS of New York. Madam Chair, I just want to give some good 
progress that has been made in Latin America. For example, we see 
Graciela Dixon become the first black woman to head Panama's Supreme 
Court in 2005 and Joaquim Barbosa of Brazil rise as a prominent member 
of the Supreme Court. Paula Moreno stands now as Colombia's first Afro-
Colombian to serve as a minister in a presidential cabinet. And in 
Ecuador, it was reported that a group of more than 100 black women in 
2006 sought more government assistance for housing to combat racial 
discrimination in the rental market.
  We are in this together; we can accomplish this together. And I thank 
the gentlewoman who is the ranking member on the committee for 
supporting this bill as well as the Chair of the committee.
  Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from New York (Mr. Meeks).
  The amendment was agreed to.


        Amendment No. 18 Offered by Mrs. Kirkpatrick of Arizona

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 18 
printed in part C of House Report 111-143.
  Mrs. KIRKPATRICK of Arizona. I have an amendment at the desk and ask 
for its consideration.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 18 offered by Mrs. Kirkpatrick of Arizona:
       Page 264, beginning line 1, insert the following:
       (K) Flow of illegal funds.--A description and assessment of 
     efforts to reduce the southbound flow of illegal funds.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 522, the gentlewoman 
from Arizona (Mrs. Kirkpatrick) and a Member opposed each will control 
5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Arizona.
  Mrs. KIRKPATRICK of Arizona. Madam Chair, over the past 1\1/2\ years, 
we have witnessed record levels of violence along the southwest border. 
Since the beginning of 2008, over 7,500 people have died as drug 
cartels have fought over trafficking routes between Mexico and the 
United States.
  As the fighting has continued in Mexico, those of us who live in 
border States have seen our communities threatened. Many communities in 
my home State of Arizona have seen gang violence on the rise, and the 
State now leads the Nation in both kidnapping and identity theft, an 
increase that is directly linked to illegal activity along the border.
  Our local law enforcement is doing a great job combating crime, but 
they cannot take on the cartels alone. They need the Federal Government 
to do its job.
  The criminal organizations that smuggle people and drugs into the 
United States bringing this high level of crime into our homes are 
fueled by the southbound flow of illegal arms and cash. Arms illegally 
carried to Mexico are the weapons of choice for cartels, while it is 
money streaming in from the United States that funds their massive 
armies.
  This bill calls on the President to report to Congress on the 
activities of the Merida Initiative. Among the matters covered by this 
report is the assessment of United States efforts to prevent the 
southbound flow of illegal arms. However, it does not currently include 
any assessment of our efforts to prevent the movement of cash. The 
illegal movement of people, drugs, weapons, and money are entirely 
linked together, and it is impossible to address one of those issues 
without tackling the rest.
  Therefore, I offer this amendment to include an assessment of United 
States efforts to stem the stream of cash heading south into Mexico. 
The cartels are continually finding new and innovative ways to 
transport funds, and our government needs to be at least as creative if 
these organizations are going to be stopped.
  Madam Chairwoman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Madam Chair, I rise to claim the time in 
opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Florida is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Madam Chair, the Merida Initiative is an historic 
opportunity to cooperate with our democratic partners in the region 
against narcotrafficking and organized crime. Requiring comprehensive 
reporting on U.S. actions and the consequences of such are essential 
not only to ensuring oversight but also to ensuring our efforts are 
effective and, indeed, long lasting.
  Congresswoman Kirkpatrick's amendment works to include a review of 
the illegal southbound flow of cash under Merida reporting. I believe 
we should also oversee north in addition to southbound flows of cash 
across our borders. Only through a comprehensive approach and 
understanding of what we are facing can we truly be successful.
  I support the gentlewoman's amendment, and I congratulate her for 
offering it.
  Mr. BERMAN. Would the gentlewoman yield?
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. I would be most honored to yield to our 
distinguished chairman.
  Mr. BERMAN. I thank the ranking member for yielding.
  I just want to add my support. The fact is I had a chance to go to 
Mexico City, and the gentlewoman from Arizona is absolutely right. The 
guns are one issue but the huge amounts of cash that are transported 
are another. Her amendment makes what I think are some good provisions 
in this legislation on strengthening the Merida Initiative even better, 
and I urge its adoption.
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mrs. KIRKPATRICK of Arizona. Madam Chairwoman, I thank the chairman 
and the ranking member for their help with this amendment.
  I ask my colleagues to support this amendment, which addresses a key 
part of the fight against drug trafficking organizations.
  Madam Chairwoman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Arizona (Mrs. Kirkpatrick).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                  Amendment No. 19 Offered by Mr. Kirk

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 19 
printed in part C of House Report 111-143.
  Mr. KIRK. Madam Chair, I have an amendment on the roll.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 19 offered by Mr. Kirk:
       At the end of subtitle A of title II, add the following:

     SEC. 205. ELIGIBILITY IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES FOR AN AGENCY 
                   OF A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT TO RECEIVE A REWARD 
                   UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE REWARDS PROGRAM.

       (a) Eligibility.--Subsection (f) of section 36 of the State 
     Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2708(f)) 
     is amended--
       (1) by striking ``(f) Ineligibility.--An officer'' and 
     inserting the following:
       ``(f) Ineligibility.--
       ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), an 
     officer''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(2) Exception in certain circumstances.--The Secretary 
     may pay a reward to an officer or employee of a foreign 
     government (or any entity thereof) who, while in the 
     performance of his or her official duties, furnishes 
     information described in such subsection, if the Secretary 
     determines that such payment satisfies the following 
     conditions:
       ``(A) Such payment is appropriate in light of the 
     exceptional or high-profile nature of the information 
     furnished pursuant to such subsection.
       ``(B) Such payment may aid in furnishing further 
     information described in such subsection.
       ``(C) Such payment is formally requested by such agency.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Subsection (b) of such section 
     (22 U.S.C. 2708(b)) is amended in the matter preceding 
     paragraph (1) by inserting ``or to an officer or employee of 
     a foreign government in accordance with subsection (f)(2)'' 
     after ``individual''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 522, the gentleman 
from Illinois (Mr. Kirk) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.

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  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Illinois.
  Mr. KIRK. Madam Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I want to thank Chairman Berman and Ranking Member Ros-Lehtinen for 
their bipartisan work on this, for a good underlying bill, in my view, 
as well.
  This amendment will assist in our fight against terrorism across the 
globe, especially in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
  Currently, the terrorist rewards program run by the State Department 
assists in our hunt for terrorists by promising a cash reward or other 
type of assistance for information leading to the arrest of some of the 
world's most deadly terrorists. The Rewards for Justice Program, 
established by the 1984 Act to Combat International Terrorism, has now 
paid over $77 million to more than 50 people who have provided credible 
information to put terrorists behind bars and prevent acts of 
terrorism.
  As a staff member, I helped write the amendments that President 
Clinton asked for when we wanted to offer rewards for persons indicted 
for war crimes, for example, in the former Yugoslavia. We also passed 
legislation under Chairman Hyde that loosened up this program so that 
we could provide more than cash assistance, more meaningful assistance 
to farmers and other people who may not be able to read in very rural 
parts of Central Asia.
  The program has been the key to success in apprehending people, 
including Mir Amal Kansi, a terrorist who murdered two CIA employees 
and injured three others in his 1993 rampage outside of CIA 
headquarters in Virginia. The program was also important in nailing 
Ramzi Yousef, convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; Uday 
and Qusay Hussein, the two murderous Hussein brothers; Khadaffy 
Janjalani and Abu Solaiman, two high-ranking members of Abu Sayyaf in 
the Philippines; Libyan Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, convicted on 
January 31, 2001, for the murder of 270 people on Pan Am Flight 103 
over Lockerbie; Hamsiraji Marusi Sali, the leader of the ASG; Muhsin 
Khadr al-Khafaji, a member of Saddam Hussein's top Ba'ath Party 
leadership; Iraqi Khamis Sirhan al-Muhammad, a former official military 
commander; and Muhammad Zimam Abd al-Razzaq al-Sadun, number 41 on the 
Iraqi ``top 55'' wanted list.
  Under current law, though, the United States may not pay an award to 
an officer or employee of another government. I have traveled to 
Pakistan in each of the last 4 years where I have met a number of 
government officials, and at the strong suggestion of the fairly poorly 
paid, especially IB, intelligence bureaus, I believe the Secretary of 
State should be allowed to pay such a reward especially if it has to do 
with nailing the greatest terrorists. If there is anyone anywhere 
working for anyone who has information related to the whereabouts of 
Osama bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahiri, we should be doing everything 
possible to elicit that information.
  As Secretary Clinton, Secretary Gates, General Petraeus, and 
Ambassador Holbrooke execute the President's new strategy for 
Afghanistan and Pakistan, we should do everything we can to develop a 
complete picture of where the al Qaeda and Taliban leadership is 
hiding. This amendment provides our key State Department and 
intelligence officials with every possible tool that they could have to 
make sure they can offer a reward even if that person, for example, 
works for the Pakistani IB bureau.
  In the last Congress, the House overwhelmingly passed this amendment 
419-1, but it did not pass the Senate, which is why I offer it today.
  Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. BERMAN. Madam Chair, I ask unanimous consent to claim the time in 
opposition to this amendment, although I am not opposed.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from California is 
recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. BERMAN. Madam Chair, as the gentleman said, and I agree with 
every word that he said in support of his amendment--I'm not sure I 
could have pronounced every word as he did, but this is simply a 
discretionary authorization to the Secretary of State, usually in 
extraordinary circumstances, to do something which makes perfect sense, 
to take advantage of the possibility that a foreign national might 
under circumstances, and particularly with a reward in mind, provide 
information of tremendous value in capturing target terrorists that we 
are pursuing. Whether it's the ones the gentleman spoke about or 
others, why not give this authority?
  I urge that the amendment be adopted and we change the law to remove 
this restriction, which, to me, doesn't make much sense.
  Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

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  Mr. KIRK. I appreciate the chairman's work. I also appreciate David 
Fite's work on this because we were together when we first saw how this 
restriction could impede the hunt for the two top al Qaeda terrorists--
Ayman al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden.
  For a poorly paid official--and there are many who are patriotic, 
good servants in Afghanistan and in Pakistan especially--we ought to be 
able to offer this reward. This will significantly incentivize the hunt 
for some of the people who have killed most of the Americans. I urge 
adoption of the amendment.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Madam Chair, I rise to express my opposition to 
amendment number 19 offered by Representative Kirk to H.R. 2410, the 
Foreign Relations Authorization Act.
  Representative Kirk's amendment would allow the United States 
Secretary of State, at her discretion, to make payments from the 
Rewards for Justice program to officers or employees of foreign 
governments who provide information leading to the capture of 
exceptional and high-profile terrorists.
  Upon first glance, this amendment may seem reasonable. Of course the 
United States wishes to encourage persons in foreign countries to 
assist our efforts to resist global terrorism. However, I question the 
necessity and wisdom of using U.S. taxpayer funds to pay employees of 
foreign governments for official duties they are presumably already 
being paid by their own governments to perform. Long-term success in 
the global fight against terrorism requires that America's partners 
make this mission an integral part of their work, not an extra-credit 
activity.
  In addition, the effect of this amendment could be contrary to 
America's commitment to due process and human rights. In previous 
instances when soldiers or officials have been offered monetary 
incentives to capture ``terrorists'', innocent civilians have been 
labeled as terrorists and accusations grossly conflated so the 
informant can claim a financial prize or even a political score. The 
language of this amendment is too vague to protect against potential 
human rights abuses.
  For the two reasons I have stated, Madam Chair, I voted against the 
amendment offered by Mr. Kirk.
  Mr. KIRK. I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Kirk).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. KIRK. Madam Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois 
will be postponed.


                 Amendment No. 20 Offered by Mr. Lynch

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 20 
printed in part C of House Report 111-143.
  Mr. LYNCH. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk that has been 
made in order by the rule. I ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 20 offered by Mr. Lynch:
       Page 73, after line 21, insert the following (and amend the 
     table of contents accordingly):

     SEC. 239. REPORT ON SPECIAL IMMIGRANT PROGRAMS FOR CERTAIN 
                   NATIONALS OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act,

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     the Secretary of State shall submit to the Congress a report 
     on the programs authorized under the following provisions:
       (1) Section 1059 of division A of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006 (Public Law 109-163; 8 
     U.S.C. 1101 note).
       (2) Section 1244 of division A of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Public Law 110-181; 
     122 Stat. 396 et seq.).
       (b) Contents.--The report under subsection (a) shall 
     address at least the following:
       (1) Whether the eligibility requirements with respect to 
     the programs are sufficiently clear, and if not, whether 
     legislation is necessary to clarify those requirements.
       (2) Whether the programs are being run effectively and 
     expeditiously.
       (3) Whether processing delays exist with respect to the 
     programs that place applicants' lives at risk, and if so--
       (A) what the cause or causes of the delays are; and
       (B) whether legislation is necessary to eliminate the 
     delays.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 522, the gentleman 
from Massachusetts (Mr. Lynch) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Massachusetts.
  Mr. LYNCH. I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Before I begin, Madam Chair, I would like to thank Foreign Affairs 
Committee Chairman Berman for considering my amendment. I congratulate 
the committee for drafting a bill that, I think, will truly strengthen 
our Foreign Affairs profile overseas as well as strengthen our 
capabilities.
  I rise in support of my amendment, which will direct the State 
Department to assess and to report to Congress on the Special Immigrant 
Visa Program for certain Iraqi and Afghan nationals employed by or on 
behalf of the United States in both Afghanistan and in Iraq.
  As a member of the House Oversight Committee and as a member of its 
National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, I've been to Iraq 
and to Afghanistan on numerous occasions. I've had the pleasure of 
meeting with some of the brave Iraqi and Afghan workers who actually 
serve right beside our own men and women in uniform as interpreters, as 
assistants in military operations and also in the civil operations that 
are going on in both of those countries. It is extremely dangerous 
work, and they do deserve incredible recognition for taking a very 
difficult position in aiding our troops in their mission. They are 
deserving of our admiration.
  There is a sad truth, however, that, in choosing to support U.S. 
forces in Iraq and in Afghanistan to rebuild their countries, they are 
also putting their lives on the line and those of their families. The 
insurgents in Iraq and in Afghanistan have targeted these hardworking 
patriots and their families in the hopes of terrorizing the local 
people and in discouraging cooperation.
  It is because of this very real danger that Congress created the 
sections 1059 and 1244 Special Immigrant Visa Programs. They allow for 
certain Iraqis and Afghans who actually serve as translators--these are 
the folks who are actually protecting our young men and women in 
uniform as translators or as interpreters or who are otherwise employed 
by the U.S. or its contractors--to come to the United States to escape 
the targeting by these terrorists and insurgents.
  I am aware that the State Department prepared a study of these 
programs in July 2008, but I believe it is necessary, actually, to 
follow up on this previous study in light of the troubling reports that 
I received earlier this year. I was informed by our State Department 
folks in Iraq and in Afghanistan and I was informed by General Ray 
Odierno, the commander of the United States forces in Iraq, that they 
are still dealing with unclear eligibility requirements, that they're 
having difficulty processing these Iraqis with visas and that they're 
facing long processing times, which has worked to the detriment of 
these individuals and has also hampered our effort to recruit others to 
take their places.
  With wait times up to a year, these applicants are in constant danger 
while their applications are sorted out. I think we owe it to these 
brave men and women, who are doing the right thing, to ensure that any 
delays are only as long as is absolutely necessary.
  Through this study, we will be able to determine the root causes of 
these difficulties. Then, based on the findings, Congress can act to 
ensure that these programs are run efficiently and effectively while 
protecting the applicants' lives, our national security and our men and 
women in uniform.
  I urge my colleagues to support both this amendment and the 
underlying bill.
  I reserve the balance of our time.
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Madam Chair, I claim time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Florida is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for his 
helpful and constructive amendment.
  I rise in support of this amendment.
  I had the opportunity to travel to these areas with the gentleman a 
few years back. Congress has recognized the debt owed to the Iraqis and 
Afghans who work at great personal risk in support of our troops. It 
has responded by creating two Special Immigrant Visa, SIV, programs. 
One is an SIV program for Iraqi and Afghani translators and 
interpreters. The second is an SIV program for Iraqi employers and 
contractors and their families, along with providing refugee 
resettlement benefits.
  However, as a 2008 report by the State Department Inspector General 
stated: the current process resulted in applicants' receiving SIVs who, 
one, did not meet the program's criteria of working primarily as 
interpreters or as translators or, two, in the OIG team's opinion, 
appeared to be outside the legislative intent of the program. As a 
result, the number of SIVs that could have been allocated to other 
qualified applicants were not.
  This amendment seeks to address a number of those issues by requiring 
our State Department, among other actions, to develop clear guidance on 
eligibility for adjudicators, to maintain a high level of vigilance due 
to the high risk of fraud and abuse, and many other items.
  I again thank the gentleman from Massachusetts. I urge my colleagues 
to support this vital and important amendment.
  With that, I yield back the balance of my time, Madam Chair.
  Mr. LYNCH. Madam Chair, at this point, I would like to yield the 
balance of my time to the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, 
the gentleman from California (Mr. Berman).
  Mr. BERMAN. Madam Chair, I rise to join the ranking member in 
supporting very strongly the amendment from the gentleman from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Lynch).
  We have, I think, a general obligation to deal with the issue of the 
refugees as a consequence of these conflicts both in Iraq and in 
Afghanistan, but we have a particularly strong duty to deal with the 
status of people who are displaced or who are objects of persecution, 
retribution or retaliation because those individuals helped either our 
military or our diplomats or our AID people in terms of the conflict in 
either one of those countries.
  This is an issue that I, personally, was very involved with in the 
last couple of years. The gentleman's amendment, I think, helps to spur 
us to deal with some of the problems in the program now and to do more 
in this regard. It is certainly an amendment that, if it is passed, I 
would want to see in the final legislation. I urge its adoption.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Lynch).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                 Amendment No. 21 Offered by Mr. Berman

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 21 
printed in part C of House Report 111-143.
  Mr. BERMAN. As the designee of Mr. Hill, I have an amendment made in 
order by the rule, and I ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:


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       Amendment No. 21 offered by Mr. Berman:
       At the end of title X, insert the following:

     SEC. 10__. REPORT ON REDUCING SMUGGLING AND TRAFFICKING IN 
                   PERSONS.

       The Secretary of State, in consultation with the heads of 
     other relevant Federal departments and agencies, shall 
     conduct a cost-benefit analysis and submit to Congress a 
     report on how best to use United States funds to reduce 
     smuggling and trafficking in persons.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 522, the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Berman) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California.
  Mr. BERMAN. Madam Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I am operating as a designee for our colleague Baron Hill. I strongly 
support the amendment that is before the body now. It requires the 
State Department, in cooperation with other departments and agencies, 
to report on how best to use government funds to reduce alien smuggling 
and trafficking in persons.
  The State Department estimates that 800,000 people are trafficked in 
deplorable conditions and in inhumane conditions to cross borders 
around the world while millions more are trafficked within their own 
countries. Of these, approximately 80 percent are women and girls. Half 
are minors. Human smuggling continues to be a significant law 
enforcement challenge in the international community, and it remains a 
particular problem for us on our southern border with Mexico.
  The United States became a party to the United Nations' smuggling 
protocol in 2005. It continues to work with other governments, 
committing substantial resources to end human smuggling and to protect 
victims from the perilous journeys involved in this profitable 
enterprise. Some 112 countries are now party to this smuggling 
protocol.
  Madam Chair, in order to more effectively tackle the growing and 
worrisome problems of human smuggling and trafficking, I support the 
gentleman's amendment.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Madam Chair, I claim time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Florida is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Madam Chair, although the amendment urges the 
executive branch to undertake assessments that, I hope, are already 
going into the administration's policymaking, I do not oppose this 
amendment.
  All of us are, of course, opposed to alien smuggling, trafficking 
persons and terrorists entering the United States. We believe that U.S. 
efforts to fight those grave problems should be cost effective. Thus, I 
support the amendment's call for a report on this subject.
  I yield back the balance of our time.
  Mr. BERMAN. Madam Chair, I have no further requests for time.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Berman).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                 Amendment No. 22 Offered by Mr. Peters

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 22 
printed in part C of House Report 111-143.
  Mr. PETERS. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 22 offered by Mr. Peters:
       At the end of Title X, insert the following:

     SEC. 10__. REPORT ON WESTERN HEMISPHERE TRAVEL INITIATIVE.

       Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to Congress a 
     report on the effects of the Western Hemisphere Travel 
     Initiative (WHTI) on the flow of people, goods, and services 
     across the international borders of the United States, 
     Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, and the Caribbean region, with 
     particular emphasis on whether WHTI has been effective in 
     meeting its goal of strengthening United States border 
     security and enhancing accountability of individuals entering 
     the United States, and an assessment of the economic impact 
     associated with WHTI and its effects on small businesses.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 522, the gentleman 
from Michigan (Mr. Peters) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Michigan.
  Mr. PETERS. I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Madam Chair, today, we are considering important legislation that 
will support efforts to strengthen, to modernize and to rebuild the 
capacity of the Department of State to fulfill its core diplomatic 
mission. This legislation will also increase the arms control and the 
nonproliferation capabilities of the State Department; it will reform 
the system of export controls for military technology; and it will 
improve the oversight of U.S. security assistance abroad.
  As we expand our diplomatic capabilities, we must remember that trade 
is the driving force of both our economy and of our international 
diplomacy. In December of 2004, Congress passed the Western Hemisphere 
Travel Initiative. As of June 1, 2009, this initiative now requires 
that travelers have passports for all land and sea crossings, including 
travel to and from Canada and Mexico.
  We need to know exactly how these new passport requirements are 
affecting our economy. Obviously, prudent security measures must be 
undertaken to keep Americans safe, but we also need to assess whether 
these measures are working and how they affect border State businesses. 
My amendment will require such an assessment. Congress can then 
determine whether corrective action is needed to change the 
requirements or to provide relief to border State businesses or both.
  The Peters amendment would require the Secretary of State to submit 
to Congress within 18 months of the passage of this act a report on the 
Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative: on the flow of people, goods and 
services across the international borders of the United States, Canada, 
Mexico, Bermuda, and the Caribbean region.

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  The amendment stipulates the report should pay specific attention to 
the effects on small businesses and and the measure's effectiveness in 
strengthening border security. Increasing the security of our borders 
must be a top priority from Congress. We must also ensure that 
implementation of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative is carried 
out in a manner that increases our national security but does not 
unnecessarily hinder trade and strain our small businesses.
  With our Nation's fight through a recession, it is particularly 
important that we assess the effect measures approved by this body have 
on our economy.
  I greatly appreciate the support from my friend and colleague from 
New Mexico, Congressman Teague, for his office's assistant on this 
important amendment and help on issues of importance to both our 
northern and southern border regions, and I urge my colleagues to 
support my amendment.
  Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Madam Chair, I ask unanimous consent to claim time 
in opposition, even though I do not oppose the substance of the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentlewoman from Florida is 
recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Madam Chair, I support this amendment because the 
Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative was fully implemented in June of 
this year with the goal of strengthening U.S. border security while at 
the same time enhancing accountability of those entering our country.
  By calling on the Secretary of State to provide a report to Congress 
describing the impact this implementation has had on the flow of 
people, goods, and services across the international borders shared by 
the relevant countries, Congressman Peters' amendment will help us 
understand better how effective this initiative has been in making our 
country safer and what impact these two measures will have on the 
business sectors of our countries.

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  The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative was a significant step 
toward making America more secure. Congressman Peters' amendment is 
important as it would provide greater accountability and oversight of 
the objectives and consequences of this important initiative and will 
ultimately help us protect the interests and the safety of the American 
people.
  And with that, I yield back.
  Mr. PETERS. Madam Chair, my amendment is a commonsense measure that 
ensures that the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative's effects on 
small businesses are known and reported to Congress in a timely manner. 
The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative must be implemented in a way 
that strengthens our national security, maintains robust trade and 
tourism with our neighbors, and protects our Nation's small businesses.
  I would like to thank Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Berman and 
Rules Committee Chairwoman Slaughter.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Peters).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                 Amendment No. 23 Offered by Mr. Berman

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 23 
printed in part C of House Report 111-143.
  Mr. BERMAN. Madam Chair, as the designee of Mr. Teague, I have an 
amendment made in order by the rule, and I ask for its immediate 
consideration.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 23 offered by Mr. Berman:
       At the end of subtitle A of title XI, insert the following:

     SEC. 11__. GLOBAL CLEAN ENERGY EXCHANGE PROGRAM.

       (a) Program Establishment.--The Secretary of State is 
     authorized to establish a program to strengthen research, 
     educational exchange, and international cooperation with the 
     aim of promoting the development and deployment of clean and 
     efficient energy technologies in order to reduce global 
     greenhouse gas emissions, address issues of energy poverty in 
     developing countries, and extend the reach of United States 
     technologies and ingenuity that would be beneficial to 
     developing countries. The program authorized under this 
     subsection shall be carried out pursuant to the authorities 
     of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 
     (22 U.S.C. 2451 et seq.) and may be referred to as the 
     ``Global Clean Energy Exchange Program''.
       (b) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Clean and efficient energy technology.--The term 
     ``clean and efficient energy technology'' means an energy 
     supply or end-use technology--
       (A) such as--
       (i) solar technology;
       (ii) wind technology;
       (iii) geothermal technology;
       (iv) hydroelectric technology
       (v) alternative fuels; and
       (vi) carbon capture technology; and
       (B) that, over its life cycle and compared to a similar 
     technology already in commercial use--
       (i) is reliable, affordable, economically viable, socially 
     acceptable, and compatible with the needs and norms of the 
     country involved;
       (ii) results in--

       (I) reduced emissions of greenhouse gases; or
       (II) increased geological sequestration; and

       (iii) may--

       (I) substantially lower emissions of air pollutants; or
       (II) generate substantially smaller or less hazardous 
     quantities of solid or liquid waste.

       (2) Geological sequestration.--The term ``geological 
     sequestration'' means the capture and long-term storage in a 
     geological formation of a greenhouse gas from an energy 
     producing facility, which prevents the release of greenhouse 
     gases into the atmosphere.
       (3) Greenhouse gas.--The term ``greenhouse gas'' means--
       (A) carbon dioxide;
       (B) methane;
       (C) nitrous oxide;
       (D) hydrofluorocarbons;
       (E) perfluorocarbons;
       (F) sulfur hexafluoride; or
       (G) nitrogen trifluoride.
       (c) Elements.--The program authorized under subsection (a) 
     shall contain the following elements:
       (1) The financing of studies, research, instruction, and 
     other educational activities dedicated to developing clean 
     and efficient energy technologies--
       (A) by or to United States citizens and nationals in 
     foreign universities, governments, organizations, companies, 
     or other institutions, and
       (B) by or to citizens and nationals of foreign countries in 
     United States universities, governments, organizations, 
     companies, or other institutions.
       (2) The financing of visits and exchanges between the 
     United States and other countries of students, trainees, 
     teachers, instructors, professors, researchers, 
     entrepreneurs, and other persons who study, teach, and 
     conduct research in subjects such as the physical sciences, 
     environmental science, public policy, economics, urban 
     planning, and other subjects and focus on developing and 
     commercially deploying clean and efficient energy 
     technologies.
       (d) Access.--The Secretary of State shall ensure that the 
     program authorized under subsection (a) is available to--
       (1) historically Black colleges and universities that are 
     part B institutions (as such term is defined in section 
     322(2) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
     1061(2))), Hispanic-serving institutions (as such term is 
     defined in section 502(5) of such Act (20 U.S.C. 1101a(5))), 
     Tribal Colleges or Universities (as such term is defined in 
     section 316 of such Act (20 U.S.C. 1059c)), and other 
     minority institutions (as such term is defined in section 
     365(3) of such Act (20 U.S.C. 1067k(3))), and to the 
     students, faculty, and researchers at such colleges, 
     universities, and institutions; and
       (2) small business concerns owned and controlled by 
     socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, small 
     business concerns owned and controlled by women, and small 
     business concerns owned and controlled by veterans (as such 
     terms are defined in section 8(d)(3) of the Small Business 
     Act (15 U.S.C. 637(d)(3))).

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 522, the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Berman) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California.
  Mr. BERMAN. Madam Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentlelady from 
Nevada (Ms. Titus).
  Ms. TITUS. Madam Chairman, I rise in support of the Teague-Titus-
Giffords amendment to establish a global clean energy exchange program. 
This new program will strengthen research, educational exchange, and 
international cooperation with the aim of promoting the development and 
deployment of clean and efficient energy technologies.
  The development of next-generation solar, wind, geothermal, carbon 
capture and storage, and other clean energy technologies that will 
reduce our dependence on foreign oil's going to take cooperative 
efforts from every corner of the world.
  Our amendment provides much-needed support for exchange programs 
dedicated to providing developing clean-energy and energy-efficient 
technologies. These exchange programs between the United States and 
other countries will be available to teachers, students, and 
entrepreneurs.
  In addition to promoting the development and deployment of clean-
energy technology, this exchange program will help address issues of 
energy poverty in developing countries and extend the reach of American 
clean-energy technologies and innovation that would be beneficial to 
developing countries.
  I urge passage.
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Madam Chair, I ask unanimous consent to claim time 
in opposition even though I do not oppose the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized 
for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Madam Chair, while I am concerned by the 
proliferation of exchange-related authorization earmarks in the 
underlying bill, which circumscribes the discretion of States' 
educational and cultural affairs bureaus in deciding how to allot our 
finite education and exchange resources, I do not oppose this 
amendment.
  I support efforts to use our educational and exchange resources to 
help support the development of clean and efficient energy sources, and 
I appreciate the fact that this amendment does not include a specific 
authorization amount. Therefore, I support the amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. BERMAN. Madam Chair, I yield the balance of the time to the 
sponsor of the amendment, under my designee status, the gentleman from 
New Mexico (Mr. Teague).

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  Mr. TEAGUE. Madam Chairwoman, I am an oilman. I always have been, and 
I always will be. One thing that I learned as an oilman is that no 
matter where you go around the world, when you visit oil- and gas-
producing areas, you mostly find American companies, American 
technologies, American equipment, and, of course, Americans. America is 
the pride of the oil patch.
  Over the years, that position has served us well. It creates wealth 
and jobs in our country and has been the basis for America's leadership 
in the global economy. But the world is changing. Where before other 
nations could not compete with our economic might, now they can. And 
before, where the hydrocarbons were the only solution to the world's 
energy needs, it no longer is. America will continue to lead the world 
in the production of oil and natural gas, but we must also lead the 
world in the production of renewable energy.
  America will be stronger if we lead the development of new ways to 
capture wind energy. America will be wealthier if we create and produce 
the technology the world uses to produce energy from the sun. Most 
Americans will have good-paying jobs if it is American ingenuity behind 
the production of new biofuels around the world.
  The Teague-Titus-Giffords amendment creates the Global Clean Energy 
Exchange Program to strengthen research, educational exchange, and 
international cooperation with the aim of promoting the development and 
deployment of clean and efficient American energy technologies around 
the world.
  Our amendment will mean that professors, researchers, entrepreneurs, 
and small business owners can travel to other nations to show people 
there the renewable energy products, technology, and expertise that 
America has developed. And when those nations decide to make 
investments in renewable energy, I imagine they will turn to the 
technologies, products, and expertise that we introduced to them in the 
first place.
  This amendment is about enhancing America's leadership in the 
renewable energy field; it's about creating markets for American goods; 
it's about creating profits for American companies; it's about creating 
jobs for American workers.
  I thank Chairman Berman for his support, and I thank Chairwoman 
Slaughter for allowing this amendment to be debated on the floor. I 
urge my colleagues to support the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Berman).
  The amendment was agreed to.


     Amendment No. 24 Offered by Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 24 
printed in part C of House Report 111-143.
  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 24 offered by Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of 
     Texas:
       At the end of subtitle B of title II, add the following:

     SEC. 227. EXCHANGES BETWEEN AFGHANISTAN AND THE UNITED STATES 
                   FOR WOMEN LEGISLATORS.

       (a) Purpose.--It is the purpose of this section to provide 
     financial assistance to--
       (1) establish an exchange program for Afghan women 
     legislators of the National Assembly of Afghanistan;
       (2) expand Afghan women participation in international 
     exchange programs of the Department of State; and
       (3) promote the advancement of women in the field of 
     politics, with the aim of encouraging more women to 
     participate in civil society, reducing violence against 
     women, and increasing educational opportunities for women and 
     children,
       (b) Program.--The Secretary of State shall establish an 
     exchange program in cooperation with the women members of 
     parliament in Afghanistan to enable Afghan women legislators 
     to encourage more women to participate in, and continue to be 
     active in, politics and the democratic process in 
     Afghanistan.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 522, the gentlewoman 
from Texas (Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson) and a Member opposed each will 
control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Texas.
  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. Madam Chairwoman, let me first 
thank the Chair and ranking member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
for their hard work on this entire document and for the privilege of 
offering this amendment.
  I rise to claim the time in support of my amendment that would 
provide assistance for Afghan women legislators. The amendment would 
create a program in the State Department to support exchanges between 
Afghanistan and the United States for women legislators, expand Afghan 
women's participation in international exchange programs of the 
Department of State, and promote the advancement of women in the field 
of politics with the aim of encouraging more women to participate in 
the civil society. This program would give female lawmakers of the 
National Assembly of Afghanistan new opportunities to improve their 
political and administrative skills and to identify and mentor other 
future qualified women interested in leadership in the public service.
  A new generation of leaders is helping to pave the way to consolidate 
and secure a stable democracy in Afghanistan. Afghan women legislators 
are helping to forge this path and already have contributed 
significantly to the country's democratic solutions. However, as a 
group, these women legislators face a unique challenge in navigating 
their path in the political system because of their agenda.
  Additionally, many obstacles stand in the way of the advancement of 
the status of females, including violence against women and restriction 
on women's personal freedom of movement. Given the current challenges 
with the status of women and rising insecurity, the Afghan women 
legislators can greatly benefit from increased professional and 
leadership development. The U.S. and the international community must 
ensure that Afghan women can safely and effectively exercise their 
rights as citizens.
  This amendment would also open additional possibilities to take part 
in an international visitors program and training through the State 
Department, which already maintains a similar program to encourage 
women in leadership in other countries. This would be paid out through 
the customary means for professional exchanges by the State's Bureau of 
Educational and Cultural Affairs.
  Taking part in such programs would not only train current 
legislators, but encourage more women to participate in Afghan civil 
society. Exchange programs such as these can help raise the awareness 
of democratic values. These goals are consistent with the national 
security objectives for Afghanistan and represent an effective use of 
our public diplomacy resources.
  I urge all of my colleagues to support the benefits of international, 
cultural, and education exchange and to vote ``yes'' on this amendment.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Madam Chair, I ask unanimous consent to claim time 
in opposition, even though I do not oppose the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentlewoman from Florida is 
recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Madam Chair, I want to rise in support of the 
amendment offered by the gentlelady from Texas.
  The women of Afghanistan have taken great strides since the fall of 
the Taliban to fully take part in all aspects of their society. Women 
have realized significant gains in the last several years. However, 
much remains to be done.
  Laws and regulations passed to safeguard the rights of women must be 
enforced and respected at the provincial and local levels in order to 
ensure that women make progress throughout all aspects of Afghan 
society. It is critical that women legislators of Afghanistan receive 
the necessary training and support that they need to prevent a return

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to the intimidation, to the discrimination, to the violence that they 
faced under the Taliban.

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  I urge my colleagues to support this amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. I have no further requests for 
time, and I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson).
  The amendment was agreed to.


     Amendment No. 25 Offered by Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 25 
printed in part C of House Report 111-143.
  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 25 offered by Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of 
     Texas:
       At the end of subtitle B of title XI, add the following:

     SEC. 11__. INTERNATIONAL PREVENTION AND ELIMINATION OF CHILD 
                   SOLDIERS.

       It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) the use of child soldiers is unacceptable;
       (2) the use of child soldiers is a violation of human 
     rights and the prevention and elimination of child soldiers 
     should be a foreign policy goal of the United States;
       (3) the use of child soldiers promotes killing and maiming, 
     sexual violence, abductions, destabilization, and 
     displacement;
       (4) investing in the health, education, well being, and 
     safety of children, and providing economic opportunity and 
     vocational training for at-risk youth, is critical to 
     achieving the goals of the United Nations Convention of the 
     Rights of Children; and
       (5) countries should raise to 18 years of age the minimum 
     age for the voluntary recruitment of persons into their 
     national armed forces.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 522, the gentlewoman 
from Texas (Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson) and a Member opposed each will 
control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Texas.
  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. Madam Chairwoman, let me begin by 
thanking Chairman Berman and Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen for all of 
their hard work and dedication to improving people's lives around the 
world.
  My amendment affirms that the use of child soldiers is unacceptable. 
It is a violation of human rights, and the prevention and elimination 
of child soldiers should be a foreign policy goal of the United States. 
Around the world, children are being recruited by armed forces and 
exploited as soldiers. Amnesty International estimates 250,000 children 
under the age of 18 are thought to be currently fighting in conflicts 
around the world, and hundreds of thousands are members of armed forces 
who could be sent into conflict at any time. The use of children as 
soldiers has been universally condemned as horrible and unacceptable; 
yet over the last 10 years, hundreds of thousands of children have 
fought and died in conflicts around the world. Child soldiers are 
usually forced to live under cruel conditions with inadequate food and 
little to no access to health care. They're almost always treated 
cruelly, subjected to beatings and shameful treatment. Girl soldiers 
are particularly at risk of rape, sexual harassment and abuse while in 
combat. They're often forced into marriage arrangements and are at high 
risk for unwanted pregnancies.
  As a psychiatric nurse, I have seen firsthand the effects of war. The 
mental, social, and emotional abuses endured as a child soldier will 
last the rest of their lives, and they'll never know how to solve a 
problem without fighting. I am eager to work with the State Department 
to ensure that children around the world are off the frontlines of 
conflicts and in schools and on playgrounds. Children must have a 
chance to be children in order to be healthy, happy and productive 
adults. We must take a stand. Please join me in expressing to the 
global community that the use of child soldiers is unacceptable. I ask 
my colleagues to vote ``yes.''
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. I ask unanimous consent to claim time in 
opposition, even though I do not oppose the substance of the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentlewoman from Florida is 
recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Madam Chair, the Congress put the force of law 
behind its condemnation of the use of child soldiers through the Child 
Soldiers Prevention Act, authored by my good friend from Nebraska (Mr. 
Fortenberry). This was incorporated into the William Wilberforce 
Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act and became public 
law in December 2008. We further opined on this matter in the Child 
Soldiers Accountability Act of 2008, which became law in October of 
last year. However, a sense of Congress reaffirming that the use of 
child soldiers is unacceptable must be supported. I applaud my good 
friend from Texas for bringing this important issue to our attention 
again. It is right and just to do so. I encourage our colleagues to 
support this amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. Madam Chair, I have no further 
requests for time.
  Mr. BERMAN. Will the gentlelady yield?
  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. I yield to the gentleman from 
California.
  Mr. BERMAN. I just want to express my strong support for this. The 
issue of child soldiers is a very important one. I appreciate your 
raising it, as well as some of the other contributions of other Members 
on this issue. I strongly support the resolution.
  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. Thank you very much.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson).
  The amendment was agreed to.


              Amendment No. 26 Offered by Mr. Poe of Texas

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 26 
printed in part C of House Report 111-143.
  Mr. POE of Texas. I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:
  Amendment No. 26 offered by Mr. Poe of Texas:
       At the end of title X, insert the following:

     SEC. 10__. REPORT ON UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 
                   UNITED NATIONS.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act and annually thereafter for the 
     next two years, the President shall submit to Congress a 
     report, with respect to the preceding fiscal year, listing 
     each United States agency, department, or entity that 
     provides assessed or voluntary contributions to the United 
     Nations and United Nations affiliated agencies and related 
     bodies through grants, contracts, subgrants, or subcontracts 
     that is not fully compliant with the requirements to post 
     such funding information for the fiscal year covered by such 
     report on the website ``USAspending.gov'' as required by the 
     Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (Public 
     Law 109-282).
       (b) Availability to Public.--The Office of Management and 
     Budget shall post a public version of each report submitted 
     under subsection (a) on a text-based searchable and publicly 
     available Internet website.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 522, the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Poe) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Chair, this amendment would make it a 
requirement for the President to report annually the total United 
States cash and in-kind contributions to the United Nations system each 
fiscal year by every United States agency or department. This amendment 
only applies for the next 2 fiscal years.
  Last year, American taxpayers contributed $5 billion to the United 
Nations, making the United States the largest member donor to that 
institution. Seeing the amount of American

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investment and the influence the United Nations has on world opinion 
and world events, it's important that Americans know how their money is 
being spent and that it is not subsidizing activities which hurt 
American security, values or our national interests.
  The amendment I am sponsoring today would make it a requirement for 
the President to submit to Congress a report of U.S. cash and in-kind 
contributions to the United Nations and U.N.-affiliated agencies each 
fiscal year. The funding would be reported on usaspending.gov, as 
required by the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act; 
and this amendment would expire after 2 years. Without the report, 
Americans would be in the dark concerning the ways in which their money 
is being spent in funding the United Nations.
  I urge the adoption of this amendment.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. BERMAN. Madam Chair, I ask unanimous consent to claim the time in 
opposition to the amendment, though I'm not opposed to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from California is 
recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. BERMAN. The gentleman's amendment is pretty direct. It requires 
the President to report total cash and in-kind contributions by the 
United States to the entire United Nations system for the period 
covered by H.R. 2410, fiscal years 2010 and 2011. The amendment makes 
sense. It encourages full transparency in detailing the logistical and 
other support that the U.S. provides to critical peacekeeping 
operations and other U.N. activities in the support of U.S. interests. 
The Members of Congress have a right to know, the people of America 
have a right to know, and I support the amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. POE of Texas. I thank the chairman for his response in support of 
this amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Poe).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                 Amendment No. 27 Offered by Mr. Castle

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 27 
printed in part C of House Report 111-143.
  Mr. CASTLE. Madam Chairwoman, I rise for the purpose of offering 
amendment No. 27.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 27 offered by Mr. Castle:
       At the end of subtitle A of title XI, add the following 
     (and amend the table of contents accordingly):

     SEC. 11__. ALIEN REPATRIATION.

       Section 243(d) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
     U.S.C. 1253(d)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(d) Ensuring Return of Removed Aliens.--
       ``(1) Discontinuing granting visas to nationals of 
     countries denying or delaying accepting alien.--On being 
     notified by the Secretary of Homeland Security that the 
     government of a foreign country denies or unreasonably delays 
     accepting an alien who is a citizen, subject, national, or 
     resident of that country after the Secretary of Homeland 
     Security asks whether the government will accept the alien 
     under this section, the Secretary of State shall order 
     consular officers in that foreign country to discontinue 
     granting immigrant visas or nonimmigrant visas, or both, to 
     citizens, subjects, nationals, and residents of that country 
     until the Secretary of Homeland Security notifies the 
     Secretary of State that the country has accepted the alien.
       ``(2) Denying admission to foreign government officials of 
     countries denying alien return.--If the Secretary of Homeland 
     Security determines that the government of a foreign country 
     denies or unreasonably delays accepting an alien who is a 
     citizen, subject, national, or resident of that country after 
     the alien has been ordered removed, the Secretary of Homeland 
     Security, in consultation with the Secretary of State, may 
     deny admission to any citizen, subject, national, or resident 
     of that country who is seeking or has received a nonimmigrant 
     visa pursuant to subparagraphs (A) and (G) of section 
     101(a)(15).
       ``(3) Quarterly reports.--Not later than 90 days after the 
     date of the enactment of the Foreign Relations Authorization 
     Act, Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011, and every 3 months 
     thereafter, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit 
     to the Congress a report that--
       ``(A) lists all the countries which refuse or unreasonably 
     delay repatriation; and
       ``(B) includes the total number of aliens who were refused 
     repatriation, disaggregated by--
       ``(i) country;
       ``(ii) detention status; and
       ``(iii) criminal status.''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 522, the gentleman 
from Delaware (Mr. Castle) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Delaware.
  Mr. CASTLE. Madam Chairwoman, I yield myself as much time as I may 
consume.
  I offer this important amendment before us today for a variety of 
reasons. When a citizen or a national of a foreign country is convicted 
of a crime or found to be in the United States illegally, Immigration 
and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, officials often issue a final order of 
removal. While most countries in the world repatriate their citizens 
and nationals in a timely manner, there are a handful of countries that 
often refuse or unreasonably delay this process. U.S. courts have ruled 
that our government cannot legally hold criminal aliens in custody for 
longer than 6 months following their sentence of imprisonment if their 
home country refuses or delays in taking them back. As a result, ICE 
reports that more than 17,000 convicted criminals, many of whom have 
served time for crime such as murder, kidnapping and rape, have been 
released onto our streets after their home country refuses or delays 
repatriation. This creates a serious burden on our local law 
enforcement and wastes millions of dollars in Federal and State 
resources.
  Under current law, our government has the option of denying visas to 
countries that refuse repatriation. However, this tool has rarely been 
utilized. The amendment I am offering today with Congressman Dent would 
provide our government with two new tools for compelling countries to 
act.
  First, the amendment empowers the Secretary of Homeland Security to 
deny admission to a country's diplomatic visa holders if the Secretary 
determines the country is unreasonably refusing or delaying 
repatriation.
  Second, the amendment requires quarterly reports to Congress from the 
Secretary of Homeland Security publicly listing the countries that 
refuse or unreasonably delay repatriation. These reports are to include 
specific information on the status and number of criminal aliens 
released in the U.S.
  Madam Chairwoman, it's my hope that this reporting requirement, which 
calls for naming and shaming uncooperative countries, will assist the 
administration in putting new pressure on those that refuse or delay 
the repatriation of convicted criminals. This is just a first step 
toward solving a serious problem; and in the end, our amendment leaves 
final discretion to the administration to allow for diplomatic 
flexibility. I urge my colleagues to support this important amendment.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. BERMAN. Madam Chair, I ask unanimous consent to claim the time in 
opposition, although I am not going to speak in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from California is 
recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. BERMAN. I yield myself as much time as I may consume.
  The gentleman has touched on a real problem. Just as he describes it, 
the notion of criminal aliens released because of the limitations on 
the time they can be held, not taken in their home country, creates a 
very undesirable situation in our own country. The gentleman's addition 
to the existing law makes a lot of sense because it's to retaliate 
against the officials of that government who seek diplomatic visas to 
come to the United States.
  The existing provision of law is very understandable, although I have 
a little concern that sometimes we're visiting on the spouse of a U.S. 
citizen or worker with particular skills the sins of the government on 
that individual

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or on that individual's American citizen family. But the gentleman has 
been very flexible in working with us on this amendment, and he is 
certainly trying to go after a real problem. I wish I had a better 
alternative than this, but military force isn't my answer. So I'm going 
to support the gentleman's amendment.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CASTLE. Madam Chairman, I would just like to thank the Chair and 
the committee for being helpful in forming this amendment. We had to 
make some changes, which I think were positive. I think that is very 
helpful.
  At this time I will yield to the gentleman from the Commonwealth of 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Dent) such time as he may consume.
  Mr. DENT. I thank the gentleman from Delaware.
  Madam Chair, I rise in support of the Castle-Dent amendment to the 
Foreign Relations Authorization Act. As of May 2009, just last month, 
over 147,000 citizens, residents and nationals of foreign countries 
remain in the United States because the governments of their home 
nations are delaying or even refusing repatriation, according to U.S. 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It's simply unacceptable. The 
disconcerting detail regarding the situation is that over 17,000 of 
these individuals are criminal aliens who have been released into our 
communities and neighborhoods because U.S. courts have ruled that our 
system cannot legally hold them in custody for longer than 180 days, or 
6 months, following their sentence of imprisonment if their home 
country refuses or unreasonably delays repatriation.

                              {time}  1715

  Detainment will only be extended if an individual has been proven to 
be especially dangerous by a court and a psychiatrist.
  This extension has only been exercised a handful of times since being 
instituted in 2004. Releasing dangerous criminals back on to our 
streets is just not fair to our citizenry and the families and 
individuals who have legally immigrated to America.
  That said, the Castle-Dent amendment requires quarterly reports, 
reports every 90 days, to Congress from the Secretary of Homeland 
Security publicly listing the countries that refuse or unreasonably 
delay repatriation, including information on the total number of 
criminal aliens in the United States.
  Furthermore, the Secretary of Homeland Security will have the power 
to facilitate the repatriation process by denying the entrance to the 
U.S. of those holding diplomatic visas of the offending country. The 
administration can exercise discretion regarding diplomatic flexibility 
with an affected nation if necessary.
  Under current statute, the Immigration and Nationality Act provides 
that the U.S. State Department has the authority to discontinue the 
granting of immigrant or nonimmigrant visas to nationals from foreign 
countries that unreasonably delay or deny accepting an alien who is a 
citizen, subject, national or resident of that country. Although State 
has threatened to deny visas in this capacity, it has never enforced 
this authority.
  Additionally, the Congressional Budget Office has indicated this 
amendment has no significant impact on PAYGO. On the other hand, drawn-
out repatriation negotiations divert scarce Federal and State 
resources.
  As an example, in one case, the U.S. Government paid $197,000 to fly 
an alien convicted of assault with a knife back to his home country of 
Somalia, only to be denied and sent back to the U.S. where he was 
released and fled to Canada. I don't understand the logic here. We 
cannot spend taxpayer dollars to remove a dangerous individual from 
American soil only to discover the nation is refusing the reentry of 
their citizen.
  Congressional action on comprehensive immigration hangs in the 
future.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman's time has expired.
  Mr. BERMAN. Madam Chair, I yield 1 additional minute to the 
gentleman.
  Mr. DENT. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Just very briefly, I wanted to say about this whole matter, the 
offending countries tend to be about eight countries, China, India, 
Vietnam, Laos, Eritrea, and I am probably neglecting one or two. But 
there are a handful of countries that are responsible for these 147,000 
individuals who have valid removal orders against them. They should be 
removed.
  I thank the gentleman, Mr. Castle, and I thank the gentleman from 
California for working with us to provide an amendment that I think 
sends a very strong message that it is unacceptable that we have to 
expend our limited resources to hold people who should have been 
returned.
  So, again, I thank you for your courtesy and again urge adoption of 
the Castle-Dent amendment.
  Mr. BERMAN. I have no further speakers. I support the amendment, and 
I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Delaware (Mr. Castle).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                Amendment No. 17 Offered by Mr. Matheson

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 17 
printed in part C of House Report 111-143.
  Mr. MATHESON. I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 17 offered by Mr. Matheson:
       At the end of subtitle C of title II, add the following:

     SEC. 239. STUDY REGARDING USE OF PASSPORTS FOR OVERSEAS 
                   VOTING AND CENSUS.

       The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Attorney 
     General and the Director of the Census Bureau, shall conduct 
     a feasibility study and submit to Congress a report assessing 
     methods of facilitating voting in United States elections by 
     United States citizens living overseas using passports or 
     other methods, and for using passports or other methods to 
     count United States citizens living overseas in the United 
     States Census.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 522, the gentleman 
from Utah (Mr. Matheson) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Utah.
  Mr. MATHESON. Madam Chairman, I first want to thank the Foreign 
Affairs, Rules, Judiciary and House Administration Committees for 
working with me on this amendment. My amendment seeks to ensure that 
Americans living overseas, all of whom are currently required to pay 
taxes to the U.S. Government, are counted in U.S. censuses and get to 
vote in U.S. elections.
  This amendment instructs the Secretary of State, in consultation with 
the Director of the Census Bureau and the U.S. Attorney General, to 
develop a study using the passports of overseas Americans to determine 
how they can fully participate in future censuses and elections.
  In the 2000 census, the State of Utah narrowly missed getting a 
fourth congressional seat in the U.S. House of Representatives because 
LDS missionaries living overseas at the time were not counted. My 
amendment seeks to help correct this unfair practice by examining 
effective ways that all Americans living overseas will be counted in 
future censuses and get to vote in future U.S. elections.
  This amendment is straightforward in establishing a study to examine 
this issue. I encourage my colleagues to support it.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Utah (Mr. Matheson).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings 
will now resume on those amendments printed in part C of House Report 
111-143 on which further proceedings were postponed, in the following 
order:
  Amendment No. 1 by Mr. Berman of California;
  Amendment No. 2 by Ms. Ros-Lehtinen of Florida;

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  Amendment No. 6 by Mr. McCaul of Texas;
  Amendment No. 7 by Mr. Larsen of Washington;
  Amendment No. 10 by Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida;
  Amendment No. 15 by Mr. Royce of California;
  Amendment No. 19 by Mr. Kirk of Illinois.
  The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the time for any electronic vote 
after the first vote in this series.


                 Amendment No. 1 Offered by Mr. Berman

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


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 257, 
noes 171, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 320]

                               AYES--257

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Adler (NJ)
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Arcuri
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boccieri
     Bordallo
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Bright
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castle
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Childers
     Christensen
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (TN)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dent
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Driehaus
     Edwards (MD)
     Edwards (TX)
     Ellison
     Ellsworth
     Emerson
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Faleomavaega
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Foster
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Giffords
     Gonzalez
     Gordon (TN)
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hall (NY)
     Halvorson
     Hare
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Herseth Sandlin
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hirono
     Hodes
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kagen
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kilroy
     Kind
     Kirk
     Kirkpatrick (AZ)
     Kissell
     Klein (FL)
     Kosmas
     Kratovil
     Kucinich
     Lance
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lipinski
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney
     Markey (CO)
     Markey (MA)
     Marshall
     Massa
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHugh
     McIntyre
     McMahon
     McNerney
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Minnick
     Mitchell
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy (NY)
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murtha
     Nadler (NY)
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Norton
     Nye
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Perriello
     Peters
     Pierluisi
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis (CO)
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Rodriguez
     Ross
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sablan
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schauer
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sestak
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Shuler
     Sires
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Space
     Speier
     Spratt
     Stupak
     Sutton
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor
     Teague
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Wexler
     Wilson (OH)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth

                               NOES--171

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehner
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boozman
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Broun (GA)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Cao
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chaffetz
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Dahlkemper
     Davis (KY)
     Deal (GA)
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Ehlers
     Fallin
     Fleming
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves
     Guthrie
     Hall (TX)
     Harper
     Hastings (WA)
     Heller
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hoekstra
     Hunter
     Inglis
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan (OH)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kline (MN)
     Lamborn
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lee (NY)
     Lewis (CA)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy, Tim
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Nunes
     Olson
     Paul
     Paulsen
     Pence
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Souder
     Stearns
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Upton
     Walden
     Wamp
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Flake
     Hill
     Hinojosa
     Kennedy
     Lewis (GA)
     Loebsack
     Moran (VA)
     Ruppersberger
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Stark
     Sullivan


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There are 2 minutes remaining in 
this vote.

                              {time}  1745

  Messrs. POSEY, BROWN of South Carolina, HALL of Texas, JOHNSON of 
Illinois and TERRY changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  Messrs. ELLISON and DAVIS of Illinois changed their vote from ``no'' 
to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Mr. HINOJOSA. Madam Chair, on rollcall No. 310, had I been present, I 
would have voted ``aye.''


              Amendment No. 2 Offered by Ms. Ros-Lehtinen

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Florida 
(Ms. Ros-Lehtinen) on which further proceedings were postponed and on 
which the ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 205, 
noes 224, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 321]

                               AYES--205

     Aderholt
     Adler (NJ)
     Akin
     Alexander
     Arcuri
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barrett (SC)
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bean
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boccieri
     Boehner
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boozman
     Bordallo
     Boren
     Boucher
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bright
     Broun (GA)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Cao
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Castle
     Chaffetz
     Childers
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cohen
     Cole
     Conaway
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Dahlkemper
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (KY)
     Davis (TN)
     Deal (GA)
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Donnelly (IN)
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Ehlers
     Ellsworth
     Emerson
     Engel
     Fallin
     Fleming
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Giffords
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gordon (TN)

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     Granger
     Graves
     Guthrie
     Hall (NY)
     Hall (TX)
     Harper
     Hastings (WA)
     Heller
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herseth Sandlin
     Hoekstra
     Hunter
     Inglis
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan (OH)
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kirkpatrick (AZ)
     Kline (MN)
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lee (NY)
     Lewis (CA)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marshall
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McHugh
     McKeon
     McMahon
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mitchell
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy, Tim
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Nunes
     Olson
     Paulsen
     Pence
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Souder
     Space
     Stearns
     Taylor
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Upton
     Walden
     Wamp
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NOES--224

     Ackerman
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boswell
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Christensen
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Driehaus
     Edwards (MD)
     Edwards (TX)
     Ellison
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Faleomavaega
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Foster
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Gonzalez
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Halvorson
     Hare
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hodes
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kagen
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kildee
     Kilroy
     Kind
     Kissell
     Klein (FL)
     Kosmas
     Kratovil
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lipinski
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney
     Markey (CO)
     Markey (MA)
     Massa
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Minnick
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy (NY)
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murtha
     Nadler (NY)
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Norton
     Nye
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paul
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Perriello
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pierluisi
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis (CO)
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Rodriguez
     Ross
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sablan
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schauer
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sestak
     Shea-Porter
     Shuler
     Sires
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Speier
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stupak
     Sutton
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Teague
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Wexler
     Wilson (OH)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Abercrombie
     Flake
     Hill
     Kennedy
     Lewis (GA)
     Loebsack
     Ruppersberger
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Smith (TX)
     Sullivan

                              {time}  1750

  Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Ms. MARKEY of Colorado and Mr. GRIFFITH 
changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                 Amendment No. 6 Offered by Mr. McCaul

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
McCaul) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the 
ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 429, 
noes 0, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 322]

                               AYES--429

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Adler (NJ)
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Arcuri
     Austria
     Baca
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrett (SC)
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blumenauer
     Blunt
     Boccieri
     Boehner
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boozman
     Bordallo
     Boren
     Boucher
     Boustany
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Braley (IA)
     Bright
     Broun (GA)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown, Corrine
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Butterfield
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Cao
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Castle
     Castor (FL)
     Chaffetz
     Chandler
     Childers
     Christensen
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cohen
     Cole
     Conaway
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Dahlkemper
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     Davis (TN)
     Deal (GA)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Driehaus
     Duncan
     Edwards (MD)
     Edwards (TX)
     Ehlers
     Ellison
     Ellsworth
     Emerson
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Faleomavaega
     Fallin
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Flake
     Fleming
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Fudge
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Giffords
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Gordon (TN)
     Granger
     Graves
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Guthrie
     Hall (NY)
     Hall (TX)
     Halvorson
     Hare
     Harman
     Harper
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Heinrich
     Heller
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herseth Sandlin
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hodes
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Hunter
     Inglis
     Inslee
     Israel
     Issa
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jenkins
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan (OH)
     Kagen
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kilroy
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kirkpatrick (AZ)
     Kissell
     Klein (FL)
     Kline (MN)
     Kosmas
     Kratovil
     Kucinich
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NY)
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Mack
     Maffei
     Maloney
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Markey (CO)
     Markey (MA)
     Marshall
     Massa
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McCotter
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McHugh
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McMahon
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Minnick
     Mitchell
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy (NY)
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murphy, Tim
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nadler (NY)
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Neugebauer
     Nunes
     Nye
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olson
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paul
     Paulsen
     Payne
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Perriello
     Peters
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pierluisi
     Pingree (ME)
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Polis (CO)
     Pomeroy
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Price (NC)
     Putnam
     Quigley
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Rodriguez
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Sablan
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Schakowsky
     Schauer
     Schiff

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     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Sestak
     Shadegg
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Souder
     Space
     Speier
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stearns
     Stupak
     Sutton
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor
     Teague
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden
     Walz
     Wamp
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Westmoreland
     Wexler
     Whitfield
     Wilson (OH)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Boswell
     Gutierrez
     Hill
     Kennedy
     Lewis (GA)
     Loebsack
     Norton
     Ruppersberger
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sullivan

                              {time}  1754

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Ms. NORTON. Madam Chair, on rollcall No. 322, had I been present, I 
would have voted ``aye.''


          Amendment No. 7 Offered by Mr. Larsen of Washington

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Washington 
(Mr. Larsen) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 432, 
noes 0, not voting 7, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 323]

                               AYES--432

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Adler (NJ)
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Arcuri
     Austria
     Baca
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrett (SC)
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blumenauer
     Blunt
     Boccieri
     Boehner
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boozman
     Bordallo
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boustany
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Braley (IA)
     Bright
     Broun (GA)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown, Corrine
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Butterfield
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Cao
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Castle
     Castor (FL)
     Chaffetz
     Chandler
     Childers
     Christensen
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cohen
     Cole
     Conaway
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Dahlkemper
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     Davis (TN)
     Deal (GA)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Driehaus
     Duncan
     Edwards (MD)
     Edwards (TX)
     Ehlers
     Ellison
     Ellsworth
     Emerson
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Faleomavaega
     Fallin
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Flake
     Fleming
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Fudge
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Giffords
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Gordon (TN)
     Granger
     Graves
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hall (NY)
     Hall (TX)
     Halvorson
     Hare
     Harman
     Harper
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Heinrich
     Heller
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herseth Sandlin
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hodes
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Hunter
     Inglis
     Inslee
     Israel
     Issa
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jenkins
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan (OH)
     Kagen
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kilroy
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kirkpatrick (AZ)
     Kissell
     Klein (FL)
     Kline (MN)
     Kosmas
     Kratovil
     Kucinich
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NY)
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Mack
     Maffei
     Maloney
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Markey (CO)
     Markey (MA)
     Marshall
     Massa
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McCotter
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McHugh
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McMahon
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Minnick
     Mitchell
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy (NY)
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murphy, Tim
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nadler (NY)
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Neugebauer
     Norton
     Nunes
     Nye
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olson
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paul
     Paulsen
     Payne
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Perriello
     Peters
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pierluisi
     Pingree (ME)
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Polis (CO)
     Pomeroy
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Price (NC)
     Putnam
     Quigley
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Rodriguez
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Sablan
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Schakowsky
     Schauer
     Schiff
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Sestak
     Shadegg
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Souder
     Space
     Speier
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stearns
     Stupak
     Sutton
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor
     Teague
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden
     Walz
     Wamp
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Westmoreland
     Wexler
     Whitfield
     Wilson (OH)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Hill
     Kennedy
     Lewis (GA)
     Loebsack
     Ruppersberger
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sullivan

                              {time}  1758

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


      Amendment No. 10 Offered by Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Florida 
(Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite) on which further proceedings were postponed and 
on which the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 178, 
noes 254, not voting 7, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 324]

                               AYES--178

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Boehner
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boozman
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bright
     Broun (GA)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Cao
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chaffetz
     Coble
     Cole
     Conaway
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (KY)
     Deal (GA)
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     Fallin
     Flake
     Fleming
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert

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     Goodlatte
     Gordon (TN)
     Granger
     Graves
     Guthrie
     Hall (TX)
     Harper
     Hastings (WA)
     Heller
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hoekstra
     Hunter
     Inglis
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan (OH)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kline (MN)
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latham
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Maloney
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Markey (CO)
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Minnick
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy (NY)
     Murphy, Tim
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Nunes
     Olson
     Paul
     Paulsen
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schmidt
     Schrader
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Souder
     Stearns
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Upton
     Walden
     Wamp
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NOES--254

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Adler (NJ)
     Andrews
     Arcuri
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt
     Boccieri
     Bordallo
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castle
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Childers
     Christensen
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coffman (CO)
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Dahlkemper
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (TN)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dent
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Driehaus
     Edwards (MD)
     Edwards (TX)
     Ellison
     Ellsworth
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Faleomavaega
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Foster
     Fudge
     Giffords
     Gonzalez
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hall (NY)
     Halvorson
     Hare
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Herseth Sandlin
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hodes
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Kagen
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kilroy
     Kind
     Kirk
     Kirkpatrick (AZ)
     Kissell
     Klein (FL)
     Kosmas
     Kratovil
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     LaTourette
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NY)
     Levin
     Lipinski
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Markey (MA)
     Marshall
     Massa
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHugh
     McIntyre
     McMahon
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Mitchell
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murtha
     Nadler (NY)
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Norton
     Nye
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Perriello
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pierluisi
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis (CO)
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Rodriguez
     Ross
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sablan
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schauer
     Schiff
     Schock
     Schwartz
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sestak
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Shuler
     Sires
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Space
     Speier
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stupak
     Sutton
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor
     Teague
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Wexler
     Wilson (OH)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Hill
     Kennedy
     Lewis (GA)
     Loebsack
     Ruppersberger
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sullivan

                              {time}  1803

  Mr. WELCH changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  Ms. MARKEY of Colorado, Mrs. MALONEY, and Mr. DAVIS of Alabama 
changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                 Amendment No. 15 Offered by Mr. Royce

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


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 183, 
noes 245, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 325]

                               AYES--183

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barrett (SC)
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehner
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boozman
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bright
     Broun (GA)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Cao
     Capito
     Carney
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chaffetz
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (KY)
     Deal (GA)
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     Fallin
     Fleming
     Forbes
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves
     Guthrie
     Hall (NY)
     Hall (TX)
     Harper
     Hastings (WA)
     Heinrich
     Heller
     Hensarling
     Hoekstra
     Hunter
     Inglis
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan (OH)
     Kanjorski
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kline (MN)
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lee (NY)
     Lewis (CA)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marshall
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McHugh
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McMahon
     McMorris Rodgers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy, Tim
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Nunes
     Nye
     Olson
     Paulsen
     Pence
     Perriello
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Souder
     Stearns
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Upton
     Walden
     Wamp
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NOES--245

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Adler (NJ)
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Arcuri
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berry
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boccieri
     Bordallo
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carson (IN)
     Castle
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Childers
     Christensen
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Dahlkemper
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (TN)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Driehaus
     Edwards (MD)
     Edwards (TX)
     Ellison
     Ellsworth
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Faleomavaega
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Flake
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Giffords
     Gonzalez
     Gordon (TN)
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Halvorson
     Hare
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Herseth Sandlin
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hodes
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Kagen
     Kaptur
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kilroy
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick (AZ)
     Kissell
     Klein (FL)
     Kosmas
     Kratovil
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lipinski
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Maffei
     Maloney
     Markey (CO)
     Markey (MA)
     Massa

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     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Minnick
     Mitchell
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy (NY)
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murtha
     Nadler (NY)
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Norton
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paul
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pierluisi
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis (CO)
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Rodriguez
     Rohrabacher
     Ross
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sablan
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schauer
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sestak
     Shea-Porter
     Shuler
     Sires
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Space
     Speier
     Spratt
     Stupak
     Sutton
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor
     Teague
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Wexler
     Wilson (OH)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Berman
     Biggert
     Herger
     Hill
     Kennedy
     Lewis (GA)
     Loebsack
     Ruppersberger
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Stark
     Sullivan

                              {time}  1806

  Mrs. MALONEY changed her vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                  Amendment No. 19 Offered by Mr. Kirk

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois 
(Mr. Kirk) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the 
ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 428, 
noes 3, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 326]

                               AYES--428

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Adler (NJ)
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Arcuri
     Austria
     Baca
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrett (SC)
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blumenauer
     Blunt
     Boccieri
     Boehner
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boozman
     Bordallo
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boustany
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Braley (IA)
     Bright
     Broun (GA)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown, Corrine
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Butterfield
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Cao
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Castle
     Castor (FL)
     Chaffetz
     Chandler
     Childers
     Christensen
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cohen
     Cole
     Conaway
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Dahlkemper
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     Davis (TN)
     Deal (GA)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Driehaus
     Duncan
     Edwards (MD)
     Edwards (TX)
     Ehlers
     Ellison
     Ellsworth
     Emerson
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Faleomavaega
     Fallin
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Flake
     Fleming
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Fudge
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Giffords
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Gordon (TN)
     Granger
     Graves
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hall (NY)
     Hall (TX)
     Halvorson
     Hare
     Harman
     Harper
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Heinrich
     Heller
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herseth Sandlin
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hodes
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Hunter
     Inglis
     Inslee
     Israel
     Issa
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jenkins
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan (OH)
     Kagen
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kilroy
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kirkpatrick (AZ)
     Kissell
     Klein (FL)
     Kline (MN)
     Kosmas
     Kratovil
     Kucinich
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NY)
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Mack
     Maffei
     Maloney
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Markey (CO)
     Markey (MA)
     Marshall
     Massa
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McHugh
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McMahon
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Minnick
     Mitchell
     Mollohan
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy (NY)
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murphy, Tim
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nadler (NY)
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Neugebauer
     Norton
     Nunes
     Nye
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olson
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paulsen
     Payne
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Perriello
     Peters
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pierluisi
     Pingree (ME)
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Polis (CO)
     Pomeroy
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Price (NC)
     Putnam
     Quigley
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Rodriguez
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Sablan
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Schakowsky
     Schauer
     Schiff
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Sestak
     Shadegg
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Souder
     Space
     Speier
     Spratt
     Stearns
     Stupak
     Sutton
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor
     Teague
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden
     Walz
     Wamp
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Westmoreland
     Wexler
     Whitfield
     Wilson (OH)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                                NOES--3

     McCollum
     Paul
     Stark

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Hill
     Holt
     Kennedy
     Lewis (GA)
     Loebsack
     Ruppersberger
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sullivan

                              {time}  1811

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the committee amendment in the 
nature of a substitute, as amended.
  The committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, as amended, 
was agreed to.
  The Acting CHAIR. Under the rule, the Committee rises.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
Jackson of Illinois) having assumed the chair, Ms. DeGette, Acting 
Chair of the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
reported that that Committee, having had under consideration the bill 
(H.R. 2410) to authorize appropriations for the Department of State and 
the Peace Corps for fiscal years 2010 and 2011, to modernize the 
Foreign Service, and for other purposes, pursuant to House Resolution 
522, she reported the bill back to the House with an amendment adopted 
by the Committee of the Whole.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the rule, the previous question is 
ordered.
  Is a separate vote demanded on any amendment to the amendment 
reported from the Committee of the Whole? If not, the question is on 
the amendment.
  The amendment was agreed to.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the engrossment and third 
reading of the bill.

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  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was 
read the third time.


                           Motion to Recommit

  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at 
the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentleman opposed to the bill?
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. I am, in its present form.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. Burton of Indiana moves to recommit the bill H.R. 2410 
     to the Committee on Foreign Affairs with instructions to 
     report the same back to the House forthwith with the 
     following amendment:
       Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the 
     following:

     SECTION 1. IRAN REFINED PETROLEUM SANCTIONS.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
       (1) The illicit nuclear activities of the Government of 
     Iran--combined with its development of unconventional weapons 
     and ballistic missiles, and support for international 
     terrorism--represent a serious threat to the security of the 
     United States and U.S. allies in Europe, the Middle East, and 
     around the world.
       (2) The United States and other responsible nations have a 
     vital interest in working together to prevent the Government 
     of Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability.
       (3) The International Atomic Energy Agency has repeatedly 
     called attention to Iran's unlawful nuclear activities, and, 
     as a result, the United Nations Security Council has adopted 
     a range of sanctions designed to encourage the Government of 
     Iran to cease those activities and comply with its 
     obligations under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of 
     Nuclear Weapons (commonly known as the ``Nuclear Non-
     Proliferation Treaty'').
       (4) As a presidential candidate, then-Senator Obama stated 
     that additional sanctions, especially those targeting Iran's 
     dependence on imported refined petroleum, may help to 
     persuade the Government of Iran to abandon its illicit 
     nuclear activities.
       (5) On October 7, 2008, then-Senator Obama stated, ``Iran 
     right now imports gasoline, even though it's an oil producer, 
     because its oil infrastructure has broken down. If we can 
     prevent them from importing the gasoline that they need and 
     the refined petroleum products, that starts changing their 
     cost-benefit analysis. That starts putting the squeeze on 
     them.''.
       (6) On June 4, 2008, then-Senator Obama stated, ``We should 
     work with Europe, Japan, and the Gulf states to find every 
     avenue outside the U.N. to isolate the Iranian regime--from 
     cutting off loan guarantees and expanding financial 
     sanctions, to banning the export of refined petroleum to 
     Iran.''.
       (7) Major European allies, including the United Kingdom, 
     France, and Germany, have advocated that sanctions be 
     significantly toughened should international diplomatic 
     efforts fail to achieve verifiable suspension of Iran's 
     uranium enrichment program and an end to its nuclear weapons 
     program and other illicit nuclear activities.
       (8) The serious and urgent nature of the threat from Iran 
     demands that the United States work together with U.S. allies 
     to do everything possible--diplomatically, politically, and 
     economically--to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear 
     weapons capability.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress 
     that--
       (1) international diplomatic efforts to address Iran's 
     illicit nuclear efforts, unconventional and ballistic missile 
     development programs, and support for international terrorism 
     are more likely to be effective if the President is empowered 
     with the explicit authority to impose additional sanctions on 
     the Government of Iran;
       (2) the concerns of the United States regarding Iran are 
     strictly the result of the actions of the Government of Iran; 
     and
       (3) the people of the United States--
       (A) have feelings of friendship for the people of Iran;
       (B) regret that developments in recent decades have created 
     impediments to that friendship; and
       (C) hold the people of Iran, their culture, and their 
     ancient and rich history in the highest esteem.
       (c) Statement of Policy.--It should be the policy of the 
     United States to--
       (1) support international diplomatic efforts to end Iran's 
     uranium enrichment program and its nuclear weapons program;
       (2) encourage foreign governments to direct state-owned 
     entities to cease all investment in, and support of, Iran's 
     energy sector and all exports of refined petroleum products 
     to Iran;
       (3) encourage foreign governments to require private 
     entities based in their territories to cease all investment 
     in, and support of, Iran's energy sector and all exports of 
     refined petroleum products to Iran;
       (4) impose sanctions on the Central Bank of Iran and any 
     other Iranian bank or Iranian financial institution engaged 
     in proliferation activities or support of terrorist groups; 
     and
       (5) work with the allies of the United States to take 
     appropriate measures to protect the international system from 
     deceptive and illicit practices by Iranian banks and Iranian 
     financial institutions involved in proliferation activities 
     or support of terrorist groups.
       (d) Amendments to the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996.--
       (1) Expansion of sanctions.--Section 5(a) of the Iran 
     Sanctions Act of 1996 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended to 
     read as follows:
       ``(a) Sanctions With Respect to the Development of 
     Petroleum Resources of Iran and Exportation of Refined 
     Petroleum to Iran.--
       ``(1) Development of petroleum resources of iran.--
       ``(A) Investment.--Except as provided in subsection (f), 
     the President shall impose 2 or more of the sanctions 
     described in paragraphs (2), (5), and (6) (excluding 
     restrictions on imports referred to in such paragraph (6)) of 
     section 6(a) if the President determines that a person has, 
     with actual knowledge, on or after the date of the enactment 
     of this Act, made an investment of $20,000,000 or more (or 
     any combination of investments of at least $5,000,000 each, 
     which in the aggregate equals or exceeds $20,000,000 in any 
     12-month period), that directly and significantly contributed 
     to the enhancement of Iran's ability to develop petroleum 
     resources of Iran.
       ``(B) Production of refined petroleum resources.--Except as 
     provided in subsection (f), the President shall impose the 
     sanctions described in section 6(b) (in addition to any 
     sanctions imposed under subparagraph (A)) if the President 
     determines that a person has, with actual knowledge, on or 
     after the date of the enactment of the Iran Refined Petroleum 
     Sanctions Act of 2009, sold, leased, or provided to Iran any 
     goods, services, technology, information, or support that 
     would allow Iran to maintain or expand its domestic 
     production of refined petroleum resources, including any 
     assistance in refinery construction, modernization, or 
     repair.
       ``(2) Exportation of refined petroleum resources to iran.--
     Except as provided in subsection (f), the President shall 
     impose the sanctions described in section 6(b) if the 
     President determines that a person has, with actual 
     knowledge, on or after the date of the enactment of the Iran 
     Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act of 2009, provided Iran with 
     refined petroleum resources or engaged in any activity that 
     could contribute to the enhancement of Iran's ability to 
     import refined petroleum resources, including--
       ``(A) providing ships or shipping services to deliver 
     refined petroleum resources to Iran;
       ``(B) underwriting or otherwise providing insurance or 
     reinsurance for such activity; or
       ``(C) financing or brokering such activity.''.
       (2) Description of sanctions.--Section 6 of such Act is 
     amended--
       (A) by striking ``The sanctions to be imposed on a 
     sanctioned person under section 5 are as follows:'' and 
     inserting the following:
       ``(a) In General.--The sanctions to be imposed on a 
     sanctioned person under subsections (a)(1)(A) and (b) of 
     section 5 are as follows:''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(b) Additional Sanctions.--With respect to the sanctions 
     to be imposed on a sanctioned person under paragraphs (1)(B) 
     and (2) of section 5(a), the President shall, under such 
     regulations as the President may prescribe, prohibit any 
     acquisition, holding, withholding, use, transfer, withdrawal, 
     transportation, or exportation of, dealing in, or exercising 
     any right, power, or privilege with respect to, or 
     transactions involving, any property in which the sanctioned 
     person has any interest by any person, or with respect to any 
     property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United 
     States.''.
       (3) Presidential waiver.--Section 9(c)(2) of such Act is 
     amended by amending subparagraph (C) to read as follows:
       ``(C) an estimate of the significance of the provision of 
     the items described in paragraph (1) or (2) of section 5(a) 
     or section 5(b) to Iran's ability to develop its petroleum 
     resources, to maintain or expand its domestic production of 
     refined petroleum resources, to import refined petroleum 
     resources, or to develop its weapons of mass destruction or 
     other military capabilities (as the case may be); and''.
       (4) Strengthening of waiver authority and sanctions 
     implementation.--
       (A) Investigations.--Section 4(f) of the Iran Sanctions Act 
     of 1996 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended--
       (i) in paragraph (1)--

       (I) by striking ``should initiate'' and inserting ``shall 
     immediately initiate'';
       (II) by inserting ``or 5(b)'' after ``section 5(a)''; and
       (III) by striking ``as described in such section'' and 
     inserting ``as described in section 5(a)(1) or other activity 
     described in section 5(a)(2) or 5(b) (as the case may be)'';

       (ii) in paragraph (2), by striking ``, pursuant to section 
     5(a), if a person has engaged in investment activity in Iran 
     as described in such section'' and inserting ``, pursuant to

[[Page 14673]]

     section 5(a) or (b) (as the case may be), if a person has 
     engaged in investment activity in Iran as described in 
     section 5(a)(1) or other activity described in section 
     5(a)(2) or 5(b) (as the case may be)''; and
       (iii) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(3) Definition of credible information.--For the purposes 
     of this subsection, the term `credible information' means 
     public or classified information or reporting supported by 
     other substantiating evidence.''.
       (B) Exception for proliferation security initiative.--
     Section 5(f) of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 (50 U.S.C. 
     1701 note) is amended--
       (i) in paragraph (6), by striking ``or'' at the end;
       (ii) in paragraph (7), by striking the period at the end 
     and inserting ``; or''; and
       (iii) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(8) if the President determines in writing that the 
     person to which the sanctions would otherwise be applied is--
       ``(A) a citizen or resident of a country that is a 
     participant in the Proliferation Security Initiative; or
       ``(B) a foreign person that is organized under the laws of 
     a country described in subparagraph (A) and is a subsidiary 
     of a United States person.''.
       (C) General waiver authority.--Section 9(c)(1) of the Iran 
     Sanctions Act of 1996 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended by 
     striking ``important to the national interest of the United 
     States'' and inserting ``vital to the national security 
     interest of the United States''.
       (D) Rule of construction.--The amendments made by this 
     paragraph shall not be construed to affect any exercise of 
     the authority of section 4(f) or section 9(c) of the Iran 
     Sanctions Act of 1996 as in effect on the day before the date 
     of the enactment of this Act.
       (5) Reports on united states efforts to curtail certain 
     business transactions relating to iran.--Section 10 of such 
     Act is amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(d) Reports on Certain Business Transactions Relating to 
     Iran.--
       ``(1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act of 
     2009, and every 6 months thereafter, the President shall 
     submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees 
     regarding any person who has--
       ``(A) provided Iran with refined petroleum resources;
       ``(B) sold, leased, or provided to Iran any goods, 
     services, or technology that would allow Iran to maintain or 
     expand its domestic production of refined petroleum 
     resources; or
       ``(C) engaged in any activity that could contribute to the 
     enhancement of Iran's ability to import refined petroleum 
     resources.
       ``(2) Description.--For each activity set forth in 
     subparagraphs (A) through (C) of paragraph (1), the President 
     shall provide a complete and detailed description of such 
     activity, including--
       ``(A) the date or dates of such activity;
       ``(B) the name of any persons who participated or invested 
     in or facilitated such activity;
       ``(C) the United States domiciliary of the persons referred 
     to in subparagraph (B);
       ``(D) any Federal Government contracts to which the persons 
     referred to in subparagraph (B) are parties; and
       ``(E) the steps taken by the United States to respond to 
     such activity.
       ``(3) Form of reports; publication.--The reports required 
     under this subsection shall be--
       ``(A) submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a 
     classified annex; and
       ``(B) published in the Federal Register.''.
       (6) Clarification and expansion of definitions.--Section 14 
     of such Act is amended--
       (A) in paragraph (13)(B)--
       (i) by inserting ``insurer, underwriter, guarantor, any 
     other business organization, including any foreign 
     subsidiary, parent, or affiliate of such a business 
     organization,'' after ``trust,''; and
       (ii) by inserting ``, such as an export credit agency'' 
     before the semicolon at the end; and
       (B) by amending paragraph (14) to read as follows:
       ``(14) Petroleum resources.--
       ``(A) In general.--The term `petroleum resources' includes 
     petroleum, petroleum by-products, oil or liquefied natural 
     gas, oil or liquefied natural gas tankers, and products used 
     to construct or maintain pipelines used to transport oil or 
     compressed or liquefied natural gas.
       ``(B) Petroleum by-products.--The term `petroleum by-
     products' means gasoline, kerosene, distillates, propane or 
     butane gas, diesel fuel, residual fuel oil, and other goods 
     classified in headings 2709 and 2710 of the Harmonized Tariff 
     Schedule of the United States.''.
       (7) Conforming amendments.--
       (A) Multilateral regime.--Section 4 of such Act is 
     amended--
       (i) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ``(in addition to 
     that provided in subsection (d))''; and
       (ii) by striking subsection (d) and redesignating 
     subsections (e) and (f) as subsections (d) and (e), 
     respectively.
       (B) Impositions of sanctions.--Section 5(b) of such Act is 
     amended by striking ``section 6'' and inserting ``section 
     6(a)''.

     SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
     necessary for purposes of carrying out this Act.

  Mr. BURTON of Indiana (during the reading). Mr. Speaker, I ask 
unanimous consent that the motion be considered as read.
  Mr. BERMAN. I object.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Objection is heard.
  The Clerk will continue to read.
  The Clerk continued to read.
  Mr. BERMAN (during the reading). Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my 
objection. I ask unanimous consent to waive the reading.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from California?
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Indiana is recognized for 
5 minutes.
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, the Iranian regime is one of the 
most prolific state sponsors of terror in the world. Iran has defied 
the United States, the U.N. Security Council and the IAEA, and it 
continues its quest for nuclear technology. A nuclear Iran would pose a 
grave danger to American citizens at home as well as to our service men 
and women and to our United States citizens abroad.
  Focusing on Iran should be a top priority of the United States 
Congress. Every minute we wait to address this issue the world becomes 
a more dangerous place. The State Department has not had an 
authorization bill since fiscal year 2003, and it has continued to 
operate. While the authorization is important, stopping Iran from 
attaining a nuclear weapon is far more important.
  The Republican motion to recommit would replace the authorization 
bill with the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions bill that Mr. Berman 
introduced earlier this year along with Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. This bill 
would impose badly needed sanctions on Iran. We feel that this bill is 
the right way to proceed and should be acted on immediately. The 
legislation currently has 155 cosponsors with wide bipartisan support.
  This legislation would mandate the State Department to open immediate 
investigations into alleged violations of the Iran Sanctions Act. This 
legislation would implement sanctions on companies that do business in 
Iran. This legislation implements sanctions on those who supply refined 
fuels to Iran. This legislation expands sanctions on Iranian exported 
petroleum and petroleum byproducts as well as on those who helped 
facilitate their export.
  Iran can only finance its threatening activities against us and the 
world because of the foreign investment in its energy sector. Depriving 
the regime of refined petroleum and of foreign investment will severely 
undermine Iran's economy, and it will increase pressure on the mullahs 
to abandon their dangerous course.
  We need to impose serious sanctions on Iran, and we need to do it now 
without delay. We've been delaying long enough. The bill has been 
introduced for some time. I've talked to the chairman of the committee 
about it, and there is no reason not to move on it today.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. BERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to strongly oppose the motion to 
recommit.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California is recognized 
for 5 minutes.
  Mr. BERMAN. Mr. Speaker, what we see in the offering of this motion 
to recommit is a political party or the leadership of a political party 
that, number one, is not serious about pursuing an effective strategy 
to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapons capability and, two, 
that is using the pretext of Iran to strike every single provision of 
the bill that we have presented and that has been debated on.
  The very first provision in this bill is to strike all that follows 
after the enacting clause. Then my friend from Indiana takes a bill 
that I am the sponsor of, along with Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

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and a number of people on both sides--it now has something like 155 
cosponsors--to focus on the issue of refined oil products going to 
Iran. He eviscerates that bill by taking out every single trade 
sanction and all of the financial institution sanctions, so it totally 
wipes out the State Department authorization bill. They know that we 
intend to pursue the policy of seeing if Iran diplomatically, in a 
short timeframe, can be dissuaded from the course they are now on. If 
they cannot be, at the same time, we are pursuing efforts to get key 
countries to come together at the Security Council with a level of, as 
the Secretary of State said, crippling sanctions on Iran to get that 
regime to change its behavior.
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. BERMAN. Will the gentleman let me finish my thought?
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. I will.
  Mr. BERMAN. Then we will pursue these international sanctions in 
working with the Russians, the Chinese, the Arab States, and with all 
of the countries that know that Iran with a nuclear weapons capability 
is an intolerable situation that cannot be tolerated.
  Instead, he jumps ahead to the third part of the strategy, a strategy 
on which we were going to have hearings in the month of July and see 
how both the multilateral sanctions and the engagement process--the 
diplomatic process--worked. Then, if we were not moving ahead, he would 
take a serious and tough bill that had import sanctions, which said 
that companies that provided refined oil products to Iran couldn't 
import, stripped from this bill; and that imposed even tougher 
financial sanctions that we now have stripped from this motion to 
recommit.
  Meanwhile, all of the things in the State Department authorization 
bill--all of the issues that my friends praised even in the course of 
the debate on this bill, which they don't like, every single 
provision--is stripped.
  This is not a serious effort. What really bothers me about this 
amendment is, with Iran, we should have a bipartisan approach. We tried 
a policy. I supported that policy of the previous administration: 
isolate and sanction unilaterally because we could never get effective 
multilateral sanctions. It didn't work. Iran kept enriching every day 
while we sat around, railing against them.
  We are trying something new because we want this policy to work. We 
want to stop Iran from having a nuclear weapons capability. I don't 
know if the diplomatic strategy will work. You guys don't know if it 
will work.
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. BERMAN. I don't know if we can get the international community to 
do the kinds of things that can stop Iran and enforce the regime to 
change its behavior in this area or on the issue of terrorism or on all 
of the other issues that we have with Iran; but let's try a policy 
that's different than the one that has been a total failure for the 
past 5 years.
  We said we won't engage until they suspend. They kept enriching. We 
said we'll sanction all we can. We caused some annoyances. Most of 
those sanctions didn't work because no other country was serious about 
it. Now we're trying a different approach to get the world serious 
about it. Give it a few months to try and work.
  I urge that this eviscerated version of the bill that I am sponsoring 
in this motion to recommit be defeated and that you don't wipe out the 
whole State Department authorization bill and the committee's work.
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. BERMAN. I am not going to yield to you and am going to vote 
``no'' emphatically on this thing. This is an irresponsible motion.
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Well, if my chairman would yield for just one 
question.
  Mr. BERMAN. This politicizes a very important bipartisan issue.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California has the time.
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. The gentleman won't yield for one question?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the previous question is 
ordered on the motion to recommit.
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was 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 passage.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 174, 
noes 250, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 327]

                               AYES--174

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barrett (SC)
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehner
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boozman
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bright
     Broun (GA)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Cao
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chaffetz
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Deal (GA)
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Dreier
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     Fallin
     Fleming
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves
     Griffith
     Guthrie
     Hall (TX)
     Harper
     Hastings (WA)
     Heller
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hoekstra
     Hunter
     Inglis
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan (OH)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kirk
     Kline (MN)
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latham
     Latta
     Lee (NY)
     Lewis (CA)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marshall
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mitchell
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy, Tim
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Nunes
     Olson
     Paulsen
     Pence
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Souder
     Stearns
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Upton
     Walden
     Wamp
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NOES--250

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Adler (NJ)
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Arcuri
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boccieri
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castle
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Childers
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Dahlkemper
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (TN)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Driehaus
     Duncan
     Edwards (MD)
     Edwards (TX)
     Ellison
     Ellsworth
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Flake
     Foster
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Giffords
     Gonzalez
     Gordon (TN)
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hall (NY)
     Halvorson
     Hare
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Herseth Sandlin
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hodes
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kilroy
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick (AZ)
     Kissell
     Klein (FL)
     Kosmas
     Kratovil
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     LaTourette
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lipinski
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney
     Markey (CO)
     Markey (MA)
     Massa
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHugh
     McIntyre
     McMahon
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Melancon
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Minnick
     Mollohan

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     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy (NY)
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murtha
     Nadler (NY)
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Nye
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paul
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Perriello
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis (CO)
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Rodriguez
     Ross
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schauer
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sestak
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Shuler
     Sires
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Space
     Speier
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stupak
     Sutton
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Taylor
     Teague
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Wexler
     Wilson (OH)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Hill
     Kagen
     Kennedy
     Lewis (GA)
     Loebsack
     McNerney
     Ruppersberger
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sullivan


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). There are 2 minutes 
remaining.

                              {time}  1840

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


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. POE of Texas. 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 235, 
noes 187, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 328]

                               AYES--235

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Adler (NJ)
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Arcuri
     Baca
     Baird
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bean
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boccieri
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown, Corrine
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castle
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (AL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Dent
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Driehaus
     Edwards (MD)
     Edwards (TX)
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Foster
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Giffords
     Gonzalez
     Gordon (TN)
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hall (NY)
     Halvorson
     Hare
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Herseth Sandlin
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hodes
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick (MI)
     Kilroy
     Kind
     Kirk
     Kirkpatrick (AZ)
     Kissell
     Klein (FL)
     Kosmas
     Kratovil
     Lance
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     LaTourette
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lipinski
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney
     Markey (CO)
     Markey (MA)
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHugh
     McMahon
     McNerney
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Minnick
     Mitchell
     Moore (KS)
     Moore (WI)
     Moran (VA)
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy (NY)
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murtha
     Nadler (NY)
     Napolitano
     Neal (MA)
     Nye
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Perriello
     Peters
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis (CO)
     Pomeroy
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Reichert
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Rodriguez
     Ross
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Salazar
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schauer
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (GA)
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sestak
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Shuler
     Sires
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Space
     Speier
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stupak
     Sutton
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Teague
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Welch
     Wexler
     Wilson (OH)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth

                               NOES--187

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Barrett (SC)
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boehner
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boozman
     Boren
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bright
     Broun (GA)
     Brown (SC)
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Cao
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chaffetz
     Childers
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Costello
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Dahlkemper
     Davis (KY)
     Davis (TN)
     Deal (GA)
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Donnelly (IN)
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Ehlers
     Ellsworth
     Emerson
     Fallin
     Flake
     Fleming
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garrett (NJ)
     Gerlach
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Granger
     Graves
     Griffith
     Guthrie
     Hall (TX)
     Harper
     Hastings (WA)
     Heller
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Hoekstra
     Hunter
     Inglis
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan (OH)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kline (MN)
     Kucinich
     Lamborn
     Latham
     Latta
     Lee (NY)
     Lewis (CA)
     Linder
     LoBiondo
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marshall
     Massa
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     Melancon
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mollohan
     Moran (KS)
     Murphy, Tim
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Nunes
     Olson
     Paul
     Paulsen
     Pence
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Putnam
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Rehberg
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Souder
     Stearns
     Taylor
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Upton
     Walden
     Wamp
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Bachus
     Delahunt
     Ellison
     Hill
     Kagen
     Kennedy
     Lewis (GA)
     Loebsack
     Ruppersberger
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sullivan


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

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

                              {time}  1849

  Mr. ABERCROMBIE changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  Stated against:
  Mr. BACHUS. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 328, had I been present, I 
would have voted ``no.''

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