[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 9929-9933]
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    PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 2219, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
                        APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2012

  Mr. NUGENT. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I 
call up House Resolution 320 and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 320

       Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this 
     resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule 
     XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee of the 
     Whole House on the state of the Union for consideration of 
     the bill (H.R. 2219) making appropriations for the Department 
     of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012, and 
     for other purposes. The first reading of the bill shall be 
     dispensed with. All points of order against consideration of 
     the bill are waived. General debate shall be confined to the 
     bill and shall not exceed one hour equally divided and 
     controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the 
     Committee on Appropriations. After general debate the bill 
     shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. 
     Points of order against provisions in the bill for failure to 
     comply with clause 2 of rule XXI are waived. During 
     consideration of the bill for amendment, the chair of the 
     Committee of the Whole may accord priority in recognition on 
     the basis of whether the Member offering an amendment has 
     caused it to be printed in the portion of the Congressional 
     Record designated for that purpose in clause 8 of rule XVIII. 
     Amendments so printed shall be considered as read. When the 
     committee rises and reports the bill back to the House with a 
     recommendation that the bill do pass, the previous question 
     shall be considered as ordered on the bill and amendments 
     thereto to final passage without intervening motion except 
     one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
       Sec. 2. (a)(1) During the 112th Congress, it shall not be 
     in order to consider an amendment to a general appropriation 
     bill proposing both a decrease in an appropriation designated 
     pursuant to section 301 of House Concurrent Resolution 34 and 
     an increase in an appropriation not so designated, or vice 
     versa.
       (2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to an amendment between 
     the Houses.
       (b) With respect to H.R. 2219, subsection (a) shall apply 
     only in the Committee of the Whole.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Florida is recognized for 
1 hour.
  Mr. NUGENT. For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 
minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Hastings), pending which I 
yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this 
resolution, all time yielded is for the purpose of debate only.


                             General Leave

  Mr. NUGENT. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Florida?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. NUGENT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H. Res. 320 and 
the underlying legislation, H.R. 2219, which appropriates funds for the 
Department of Defense for fiscal year 2012.
  The rule is a truly open rule, one which provides for ample debate on 
the bill and gives Members of both the minority and the majority the 
opportunity to participate in debates. Any Member can submit an 
amendment to H.R. 2219 as long as it's germane, in keeping with the 
rules of the House.
  As a member of the Rules Committee, I'm proud of the transparency, 
the openness, and the free-flowing debate that we've seen thus far in 
the 112th Congress, especially in the appropriations process. One way 
we can show our commitment to the change we promised the American 
people is by supporting open rules like this one. The underlying bill 
keeps our promise to bring an end to wasteful pet projects. In keeping 
with the House earmark ban, H.R. 2219 doesn't contain a single earmark.
  Now, as a father of three sons all currently serving in the United 
States Army, this bill is of special importance to me. It's important 
to the Blue Star moms and dads whose kids have answered the call of 
duty and are serving their country in uniform. But this legislation 
isn't just important to the moms and dads and husbands and wives of the 
loved ones serving overseas. This legislation is important to all 
Americans. This appropriations bill ensures that the men and women in 
our Armed Forces are equipped with the tools and the resources they 
need to get the job done. It's a bill that ensures we can continue to 
go to bed at night and be safe and sound in our homes, knowing our 
troops are protecting our Nation and our way of life.
  Mr. Speaker, I had the honor and privilege of visiting Iraq and 
Afghanistan and Pakistan during the last constituent work week. While 
there, I got to meet many military leaders, our allies, but, most 
importantly, our troops on the ground. I saw with my own eyes the 
equipment they're working with and the environment that they're working 
in. I saw what they had and heard about what they needed to get their 
jobs done. And this legislation is vital to giving our men and women in 
uniform the resources they need to perform their mission and, more 
importantly, to get them home safely.
  Mr. Speaker, while I support our troops no matter where the President 
sends them, I also believe we need to focus on the wars we're already 
fighting. To that end, I'm sorry there aren't restrictions on using 
these funds in Libya. I thank Chairman Young and Ranking Member Dicks 
for not appropriating for further hostilities in that country. We can't 
stretch our resources so thin that we ultimately end up tying the hands 
of our troops.

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  Finally, Mr. Speaker, I would like to take a minute to discuss the 
rule's commitment to budgetary transparency. The budget resolution 
adopted earlier this year included specifically delineated funds for 
operations related to the global war on terror. This fund is capped at 
$126 billion. The intent of the budget language was to preserve these 
funds specifically for the war on terror and to ensure that the money 
wasn't diverted for unrelated programs.
  Previous majorities have used similar constructs for the exact same 
purpose. Additionally, in previous Congresses, the Budget Committee 
chairman was prepared to advise the Chair that in terms of spending 
levels, it is impermissible to use funding for the global war on terror 
to offset increases in spending elsewhere in this bill. The same is 
true this Congress. Section 2 of the rule codifies the budget 
resolution's intent and the past practices of this House. The rule 
prohibits funding for the global war on terror from being used to pay 
for operations of any other kind. This provides transparency and 
accountability as to exactly how much money is being spent on the 
global war on terror, rather than counting the funds as an off-budget 
emergency spending program.
  With that, I encourage my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on the rule and 
to vote ``yes'' on the underlying legislation.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, H.R. 2219, the Defense Department Appropriations Act for 
fiscal year 2012, represents $530 billion in regular discretionary 
spending, $8.9 billion below the President's request, but $17 billion 
above the fiscal year 2011 enacted level.
  Before going further into my remarks, I would like to thank my friend 
and fellow Floridian for yielding time to me, and I extend a personal 
thanks to him and his family, and particularly his three sons that are 
serving in the Army. I don't have three sons, but I had three uncles 
who served in the Army in another era, in the Second World War. And as 
I was proud of them, I am also proud of Mr. Nugent's sons and the many 
families and servicemen and -women in our military.
  From pay raises for military operations, this legislation offers a 
basically reasonable and comprehensive approach to our Nation's defense 
activities.

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  Yet I'm deeply concerned by really the staggering amounts of money 
this country continues to devote to the military. At a time of fiscal 
austerity when the majority is slashing tens of billions of dollars 
from essential social programs, it's, in my view, absurd that we 
continue to exempt the Department of Defense from the same scrutiny 
that we apply to our domestic programs. For all of the rhetoric that I 
have heard through the years from my colleagues on the other side of 
the aisle about runaway spending, the fact of the matter is that 
Republicans actually increased spending in this bill. While they insist 
that more families must go hungry, fewer students need to go to 
college, fewer firefighters and teachers need to work in our cities, 
and fewer jobs need to be created, the Republican majority believes 
that $649 billion still isn't quite enough.
  The United States accounts for 43 percent of all military spending on 
Earth. We already outspend Russia and China, the next biggest spenders, 
by a factor of six. We tell teachers they can't get classroom supplies, 
but we don't tell admirals that they can't have more submarines. We 
tell mayors that they can't have more cops, but we don't tell generals 
that they can't have more ballistic missiles. And we tell Americans 
that they can't get their roads fixed or their levies strengthened, but 
here we are funding a next generation of nuclear weapons, not to 
mention that we already have enough nuclear weapons to kill everybody 
on Earth 25 times over.
  Mr. Speaker, we need to recognize that our priorities are askew and 
our spending on defense is unsustainable. Let me give you an example:
  The Republican majority recently cut one-third, or proposed cutting 
one-third of the budget--almost $500 million--from the Food for Peace 
program. Over the course of almost 50 years, this program has delivered 
lifesaving food supplies to over 3 billion people. As John F. Kennedy 
correctly noted when he was running for President, ``food is peace.'' 
Yet these cuts mean that millions of people in vulnerable and 
underdeveloped regions of the world will not receive food aid from the 
United States.
  The Arab Spring uprisings that arose in Tunisia were largely because 
of the concerns for food, and that is true elsewhere in the Middle East 
and North Africa. And this particular year should be a reminder that 
conflict erupts when people go without their most basic needs, 
including food.
  At the same time when people see that the food they receive is coming 
from the United States--and I've had the good fortune of visiting 
around the world, having served over a period of time, 8 years over a 
period of 10 years on the Intelligence Committee here in Congress and 
having served previous to that on the Foreign Affairs Committee and now 
serving on the Committee for Security and Cooperation in Europe, I have 
had an opportunity to see firsthand in Germany countless amounts of 
food stamped with ``USA'' on them, and I've seen them in camps, and I 
suffer with the people now in southern Sudan. My colleague, Donald 
Payne, and a former colleague, Harry Johnston from West Palm Beach, 
were together at a refugee camp in Nemili and previous to that in 
Mombasa, Kenya. I've seen our food aid around the world reduce the kind 
of anti-American extremism that often festers in these regions and 
manifests itself into conflicts that we wind up having to go and fight 
about.
  So the reality, Mr. Speaker, is that food aid is actually critical to 
our national security. And the spending that we do to preempt or 
prevent conflicts means the less money that we have to spend later 
fighting them.
  We're doing a disservice to our servicemen and -women by cutting 
programs that reduce the risk of war while adding billions to programs 
that create ever-more powerful methods to wage war. At the same time, 
we need to recognize that the increasing amounts we spend on the 
military means the less money we have here at home to address our 
pressing domestic concerns.
  All of us heard the President of the United States last night speak 
to this issue, that while it may appear and might readily be perceived 
as nation building that we are doing in some countries, it is time for 
us, as the President said, to begin domestic building.
  When I went to Iraq a few years ago, they showed us the remains of a 
water treatment plant. We spent 14 million U.S. dollars building that 
plant, and just as soon as it was finished, somebody came and blew it 
up. Mr. Speaker, I see us building water treatment plants in Basra and 
in Baghdad, in Kandahar and Kabul. But I don't see us building much-
needed water treatment plants in the cities of the Glades that I 
represent--Belle Glade, Pahokee, and Clewiston--as well as others, 
Deerfield Beach, and Miramar, my hometown, I've had requests for water 
treatment matters, as well as Riviera Beach. Every year cities and 
counties in the congressional district that I'm privileged to serve 
come begging and asking for money to support infrastructure projects 
that no one is likely to blow up, and yet we don't fund them.
  I don't say that we shouldn't help the Iraqi or the Afghan people 
develop their country, but I do say that we ought to be mindful that in 
our own country we have bridges collapsing, dams breaking, levies 
failing, roads crumbling, and water utilities leaking away. We simply 
cannot justify to the American people our willingness to spend tens of 
billions of dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan while neglecting those same 
efforts here at home.
  Finally, Mr. Speaker, this measure contains several billion dollars 
in aid to Pakistan. As I have said before, you can't readily say the 
word ``Afghanistan'' without also saying the word ``Pakistan.'' To the 
extent that we are

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involved in Afghanistan, we also are involved in Pakistan. But we send 
billions of dollars to Pakistan only to see large sums of that money 
being used against American interests, funding the very same extremist 
groups that we are trying to eliminate.
  A recent article in the New Yorker magazine noted that the Pakistani 
military submits expense claims every month to the United States 
Embassy in Islamabad. No receipts are provided and none are even 
requested. We're sending money out the door into one of the most 
conflict-ridden regions of the world without so much as an 
understanding of where that money is going, what exactly it is being 
used for, who in Pakistan is giving it to whom, and why someone is 
receiving it. We know that the Pakistani military and intelligence 
community support some of the extremist groups that are engaged against 
United States interests and which have committed acts of terrorism 
against civilians.
  So again, Mr. Speaker, I come around to the point that we spend 
absolutely too much money on military and defense matters that we do 
not give half the same attention to debating as we do about cutting 
nutrition support, as is proposed for women, infants and children or 
financial aid to college students.

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  When Belle Glade, Florida, in the congressional district that I 
serve, comes looking for less than $1 million to fix their 
infrastructure and provide jobs for their local residents, the 
Republican majority has a whole long list of reasons of why we can't 
afford it. And yet, before us today, I see $5 billion for two 
submarines, $2 billion for one destroyer, and $6 billion for 32 fighter 
jets.
  I maintain, Mr. Speaker, that our level of defense spending is on an 
unsustainable course. And at a time when we are demanding that the 
American people do more with much, much less, we also have to make 
choices and set priorities when it comes to our Nation's military 
spending.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. NUGENT. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentleman from Florida 
(Mr. Hastings). I agree with a lot of what he said.
  We talk about Pakistan, and I just came from there. We talk about the 
threat that the Taliban that are hiding in Pakistan pose to our troops 
in Afghanistan, and we talk about that every day. We talk about the 
inaction of the Pakistani military and the ISI in particularly rooting 
out those that are killing more U.S. troops in Afghanistan than 
anything else.
  I would like to see more direct involvement as relates to Pakistan 
and their military on accountability issues that Mr. Hastings brought 
up, about the ability for us to make sure that if they're going to be 
allies in this fight against terrorism and particularly against the 
Taliban, that they truly are.
  But in regards to this bill, the underlying legislation, this is $9 
billion less than what the President of the United States requested for 
military DOD allocations this year, for 2012, $9 billion less than the 
President's request. And some of it is to restock our National Guard 
and Reserve units that have been decimated over the years in regards to 
fighting wars in two different countries. It's about giving our troops 
a pay raise. It's about taking care of their medical needs and research 
in regards to providing medical care for those that are in the 
military. And guess what? That also then bleeds out into the civilian 
world in regards to those applications that are developed in the 
military.
  It is about our core mission. The Constitution is clear about our 
core mission in regards to national defense. It talks specifically 
about this Nation and what this responsibility is of this Congress in 
regards to national defense.
  I said earlier what does trouble me is that, in this, our chairman 
did a great job of not putting funding in to fund any more incursions 
into Libya, but it doesn't restrict it right now. And there's going to 
be discussion on Libya coming up later today.
  But I've got to give credit to the chairman of the committee, of the 
subcommittee, in regards to appropriations that they really have 
crafted a piece of legislation that has bipartisan support in that 
committee. There's bipartisan support across the board in regards to 
where we need to go in regards to keeping this Nation safe against 
threats, known and unknown, in the future.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I am very, very pleased to 
yield 4 minutes to my very good friend, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. 
Lewis), an icon in this Nation and a passionate person on the subject 
at hand.
  Mr. LEWIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today because the American 
people have grown weary of war. War destroys the dreams, the hopes, the 
aspirations, and the longings of a people.
  A wise man once said, ``Every gun that is made, every warship 
launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft 
from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not 
clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending 
the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, hopes of its 
children.''
  These are not the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. These are not 
the words of Gandhi. These are the words of a five-star General, 
President Dwight Eisenhower.
  We have spent billions of dollars. Thousands of our sons and 
daughters have been left dead on the battlefield and scarred by the 
brutality of war. I'm glad that the President is bringing 10,000 
soldiers home from Afghanistan, but we must do more to end this war and 
start investing in our future.
  We cannot continue to fund this war while we tell our seniors there 
is no money for Medicare. We cannot fund war and tell our children and 
young mothers that we won't pay for food stamps. We cannot pay for war 
while our bridges and our roads are crumbling.
  We cannot afford to make bombs and guns. We must use our resources to 
solve the problems of humankind, to build and not to tear down, to 
reconcile and not to divide, to love and not to hate, to heal and not 
to kill.
  If we want to create a beloved community, create a beloved world, a 
world that is at peace with itself, if that is our goal, our way must 
be love, peace, and nonviolence, skilled diplomacy not military might.
  We must lay down the tools and instruments of war and violence. Stop 
paying for war. Believe in the power of peace and end this war.
  Mr. NUGENT. I have no further requests for time, and I reserve the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Thank you, Mr. Nugent. Again, I appreciate 
your complimentary remarks regarding mine, and I compliment you with 
regard to yours. I don't think we have a single bit of daylight between 
us when it comes to the support of the men and women that are in the 
military.
  I do quarrel with, across the 14th Street bridge, the amount of money 
that we spend at the Pentagon. I have personally seen generals serving 
generals. And somewhere along the line, that just does not add up to 
frugality.
  Mr. Speaker, the legislation before us provides a comprehensive 
accounting of our Nation's military activities and includes much 
deserved pay raises for our troops, critical funding for health 
programs, and disease research.
  Let's make it very clear. The only thing that we could afford was a 
less than 2 percent raise for our troops. And I personally, and I 
believe Chairman Young of the subcommittee and the distinguished 
Floridian who has served on this committee for a protracted period of 
time and has no peer when it comes to support of the military--he did 
have one peer that I know extremely well, and he does as well, and 
that's Ike Skelton, who was not reelected.

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  We miss Ike and the extraordinary service that he put forward on 
behalf of

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this country, first as a soldier and then as a Congressperson.
  We can come up with the necessary expenditures to keep our military 
well-equipped, well-trained, and superior to any other force, but at 
the same time we need to devote greater attention to the use of these 
precious resources. I wish that the Republican majority would have 
devoted as much concern for the non-defense portion of our budget as 
they do to the vast level of spending contained in this measure. We 
need to appreciate that spending money on conflict prevention, as my 
friend Mr. Lewis pointed out, is far, far cheaper in the long run than 
spending money on conflict engagement.
  We cut social services programs here at home and around the world at 
our own peril. For when people lack food, lack resources, lack dignity, 
lack a future and lack hope, their nations will much more easily 
succumb to the kind of extremism, violence, and instability that we are 
spending billions fighting.
  I have no quarrel with providing the necessary funding to support our 
servicemen and -women or to carry out their missions. Our Nation needs 
a lean and powerful and effective military. And we owe a debt of 
gratitude--as has been expressed and likely will be continuously 
throughout this appropriations process--to the members of the military 
and their families for the sacrifices they make and the devotion to 
duty they demonstrate. When they are sent on difficult missions 
overseas, it's our duty to see that they have our full and complete 
support.
  But we also have great needs in this country, and we cannot continue 
to slash funding for essential programs here at home in favor of ever-
increasing funding for wars abroad. We cannot continue spending money 
overseas that will go to waste when water treatment plants get blown 
up. We can't continue funding dubious efforts in regions where our 
money trickles down to the very extremists it is supposed to be 
defeating. And we cannot keep increasing our military budget year after 
year while devastating essential programs are left by the wayside here 
at home.
  I do have one concern about this rule, and that is the new section 
that was added to this rule at the last minute that set forth 
restrictions on the amendment process.
  At this time, Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. NUGENT. Mr. Speaker, I support the rule and the underlying 
legislation, and I encourage my colleagues to support it as well.
  I know that since I've come to the House, I've gotten up here and 
talked time and time again about our government's core mission. There 
is no doubt there is nothing more central to the purpose of government 
than to provide for our Nation's defenses. It's in the Preamble of the 
Constitution: Provide for the common defense. It's in the oath we took 
when we were sworn into office to defend the Constitution of the United 
States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
  H.R. 2219 fulfills our constitutional duty to provide for our 
Nation's defense. Additionally, H. Res. 320 ensures that we will review 
this legislation completely in an open and transparent manner that all 
American people deserve to see.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the 
previous question on the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on ordering the previous 
question.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. NUGENT. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 247, 
nays 168, not voting 16, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 479]

                               YEAS--247

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Amash
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (NH)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boren
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carney
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kelly
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kissell
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Lankford
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marino
     Matheson
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meehan
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paul
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pence
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                               NAYS--168

     Andrews
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boswell
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Gonzalez
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hochul
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Nadler
     Neal
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Speier
     Stark
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Watt
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Wu
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--16

     Ackerman
     Bass (CA)
     Becerra
     Garamendi
     Giffords
     Gingrey (GA)
     Hirono
     Holden
     Hurt
     Larson (CT)
     McDermott
     Napolitano
     Rangel
     Stivers
     Waters
     Woolsey

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                              {time}  1334

  Messrs. WATT and GENE GREEN of Texas changed their vote from ``yea'' 
to ``nay.''
  Messrs. GOHMERT, ROYCE and KINGSTON changed their vote from ``nay'' 
to ``yea.''
  So the previous question was ordered.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Ms. HIRONO. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 479, had I been present, I 
would have voted ``no.''
  Ms. WOOLSEY. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained and was unable 
to record my vote for rollcall No. 479. Had I been present I would have 
voted: rollcall No. 479: ``No''--On Ordering the Previous Question.
  Mr. BECERRA. Mr. Speaker, earlier today I was unavoidably detained 
and missed rollcall vote 479. If present, I would have voted ``no'' on 
rollcall vote 479.
  Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Mr. Speaker, on Thursday, June 23, 2011, I was 
absent during rollcall vote No. 479 in order to attend my grandson's 
graduation. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no'' on the Motion 
on Ordering the Previous Question on H. Res. 320--the Rule for H.R. 
2219--Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2012.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. NUGENT. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 251, 
noes 173, not voting 7, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 480]

                               AYES--251

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Amash
     Austria
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (NH)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boren
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Chandler
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Inslee
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kelly
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kissell
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Lankford
     Larsen (WA)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marino
     Matheson
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meehan
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paul
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pence
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Visclosky
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--173

     Ackerman
     Andrews
     Baca
     Bachmann
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bass (CA)
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boswell
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gonzalez
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hochul
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Nadler
     Neal
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Speier
     Stark
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Giffords
     Gingrey (GA)
     Holden
     Hurt
     Napolitano
     Rangel
     Stivers


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

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

                              {time}  1351

  Mr. BERMAN changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  Mr. McINTYRE changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the resolution was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  Stated for:
  Mrs. BACHMANN. Mr. Speaker, when rollcall vote 480 was called, I 
registered my vote as ``aye'' and then proceeded to an Intelligence 
briefing. When I returned to the floor, it was my intention to vote 
``no'' on the next amendment and I registered my vote as such. 
Unfortunately, due to a staffing error, it was still the same rollcall 
vote 480, and my ``aye'' was mistakenly changed to ``no.'' To be clear, 
I do support the rule providing for consideration of the FY2012 
Department of Defense Appropriations Bill.
  Stated against:
  Ms. NAPOLITANO. Mr. Speaker, on Thursday, June 23, 2011, I was absent 
during rollcall vote No. 480 in order to attend my grandson's 
graduation. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no'' on H. Res. 
320--Rule providing for consideration of H.R. 2219--Department of 
Defense Appropriations Act, 2012.

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