[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 11161-11180]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 
                                  2012

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 337 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. 2354.

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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. 2354) making appropriations for energy and water 
development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2012, and for other purposes, with Mrs. Biggert (Acting Chair) in 
the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The Acting CHAIR. When the Committee of the Whole rose on Wednesday, 
July 13, 2011, the bill had been read through page 62, line 2.
  Mr. OLVER. Madam Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Massachusetts is recognized for 
5 minutes.
  Mr. OLVER. Madam Chairman, title V of the Energy and Water bill that 
is before us today robs Peter to pay Paul.
  Title V takes funds which were appropriated 2\1/2\ years ago for 
transportation purposes and moves part of those funds to the Corps of 
Engineers in today's Energy and Water appropriations bill. Title V 
specifically rescinds all awarded but unobligated high-speed rail 
dollars from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act and moves those dollars 
to respond to the unprecedented flooding this spring in many States for 
work to be done as it is designed and executed by the Corps of 
Engineers.
  Effectively this is a backhanded increase in allocation to the Energy 
and Water Subcommittee for this bill at the expense of transportation 
purposes.
  I don't contend or even suggest that the Energy and Water bill is 
well-funded. In fact, the allocations for the Energy and Water 
Subcommittee and for the Transportation and HUD Subcommittee, of which 
I am the ranking member, are both totally inadequate. But I do object 
to killing projects in transportation that will create construction 
jobs in the severely depressed construction industry and provide a 
valuable transportation alternative in heavily congested corridors 
among our largest metropolitan areas all over the country. And I do 
absolutely support making the repairs to flood control systems as 
quickly as they can be designed and built. That's an obligation.
  In my 20 years, 10\1/2\ years under Democratic Presidents, 9\1/2\ 
years under Republican Presidents and under the control in the Congress 
of either party--because it switched back and forth in those 20 years--
we have dealt with natural disasters on a bipartisan basis, on an 
emergency basis, every single year. Most famously, that includes, in 
September '05, the Katrina disaster which resulted in $15 billion for 
recovery of New Orleans and the gulf coast on an emergency and on a 
totally bipartisan basis. But this section takes from projects planned, 
applied for and awarded but not yet obligated and kills those projects.
  Roughly $6 billion of the $8 billion appropriated for intercity 
passenger rail and high-speed rail projects in the Recovery Act are 
already obligated, and half of those are already in construction. The 
Recovery Act itself allowed until the 30th of September of 2012, the 
end of the '12 fiscal year, to obligate those dollars. Of the roughly 
$2 billion unobligated, 80 percent of those dollars arises from the 
single decision just 3 months ago of the Governor of Florida to refuse 
the $1.6 billion previously applied for and awarded for a project to 
build true high-speed rail on a dedicated corridor between Orlando and 
Tampa.
  Now, Orlando lies roughly equidistant from Jacksonville, Tampa and 
Miami. Those four, Jacksonville,

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Tampa, Miami and Orlando, are four of America's 40 largest metropolitan 
areas. All have over 1\1/2\ million people, all are growing by between 
15 and 30 percent, and they are among our fastest growing metropolitan 
areas. They represent a prime example of the opportunity that high-
speed rail offers in carefully selected high-population corridors 
around the country to reduce congestion and expedite travel.
  When that money was refused by Florida, the Federal Rail 
Administration re-awarded the $1.6 billion to projects in other States, 
including, as examples, in the Northeast Corridor, which carries half 
of all intercity rail passengers in America every day, nearly $800 
million for work in that Northeast Corridor, and that work would bring 
the speed up to 160 miles per hour in parts of New Jersey, and the work 
would be done in New York and New Jersey. So that is $800 million.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. OLVER. I ask unanimous consent to be given 1 additional minute.
  The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman 
from Massachusetts?
  Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. I object.
  The Acting CHAIR. Objection is heard.
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from New York is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. I yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts.
  Mr. OLVER. Secondly, in the high-speed corridors that are based on 
Chicago as their hub, to go to Detroit, to go to St. Louis, to go to 
Indianapolis, to go to Milwaukee, for equipment that will allow those 
high-speed corridors to function better.
  Thirdly, in projects on the west coast as well. All of those projects 
are jeopardized by this provision in this bill.
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Chair, I am opposed to the misguided cuts to 
high-speed rail funding in this bill that will eliminate thousands of 
jobs, halt a large number of rail projects across the country--and we 
are way behind every other nation almost, industrialized nations, 
anyway--and hurt local and State economies. This is the latest in the 
majority's agenda that can best be described as penny-wise and pound-
foolish.
  In their Pledge to America, the majority made a promise to the 
American people. ``We will fight efforts to use a national crisis for 
political gain,'' they declared. Sadly, that's what they're doing 
today. Using the tragedy of natural disasters in America's heartland as 
a political tool to try to eliminate a job creation program, one of the 
very few we have, is just wrong. Thousands of jobs and millions of 
dollars in economic investment are at stake, and yet this fight brought 
to us today is little more than an unnecessary ideological battle.
  The high-speed and intercity passenger rail program is critical to 
our country's competitiveness. It puts Americans back to work, 
revitalizes our construction and manufacturing sectors, boosts the 
domestic economy, and helps end U.S. dependence on foreign oil. It is 
both unwise and ineffective to cut important funding from one project 
in order to pay for disaster relief. We are a Nation that should be 
able to both build for the future--in fact we must--and provide for our 
fellow citizens in need today.
  High-speed rail creates jobs. Every $1 billion of high-speed rail and 
intercity passenger rail construction funding supports 24,000 jobs. 
High-speed rail creates short-term jobs in construction, long-term jobs 
in ongoing maintenance and operation, and indirect jobs by providing 
regions with access to a larger labor pool and driving economic 
development.
  In my home State of New York, the United States Conference of Mayors 
estimates at least 21,000 new jobs and $1.1 billion in new wages with 
the construction of high-speed rail along the Empire Corridor from 
Buffalo to Albany.
  High-speed rail also creates the economic corridors of the future. A 
high-speed rail line in western New York as currently planned would 
reduce travel time significantly and expand the western New York labor 
market to 955,562 workers. This would make us the 26th largest metro 
area in the Nation, and that means new businesses will be drawn to the 
area as we connect our cities to Montreal, Toronto, New York City and 
the rest of the eastern seaboard; and for the first time in many areas, 
we may even be able to go west.
  In New York, high-speed rail will be our next Erie Canal. Nationally, 
it is rightfully being compared to our national highway system. Both 
spurred local development and brought millions of jobs to our State and 
the Nation. At this point in time, we must not let this opportunity 
slip away.
  What's more, rescinding funds for high-speed rail now, after $5.68 
billion have already been obligated by the Federal Railroad 
Administration, will negate the unprecedented work already being done 
by the FRA and its partners.
  FRA, the States, Amtrak, and infrastructure-owning railroads have 
made significant progress in reaching service outcome agreements to 
ensure that intended project benefits are realized, while protecting 
the public's investment and the railroads' operating interests.
  The attempt to rescind this money is nothing but an opportunistic 
attempt to gain politically from a human tragedy. The flooding that has 
occurred in our Nation's heartland is being used as an excuse to 
eliminate an investment in our transportation network of the future.

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  This is morally reprehensible and economically irresponsible.
  If we are to be a competitive global economy in the years to come, we 
must dedicate ourselves to building the infrastructure that we will 
need to compete. To rescind these funds now after so much progress has 
been made and at a time when investments in our own infrastructure and 
our country are so sorely needed is quite simply an act of foolishness.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. NADLER. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from New York is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. NADLER. Madam Chair, I rise in opposition to the rescinding of 
unobligated high-speed rail funds in the bill that we are considering 
today.
  During the full committee markup of the 2012 Energy and Water 
appropriations bill, Chairman Frelinghuysen offered an amendment 
providing $1.028 billion in emergency funding to the Army Corps of 
Engineers to repair damage caused by recent storms and floods and to 
prepare for future disaster events. It makes sense to spend money on 
that; we have always given money for emergencies. But the funding is 
offset in the chairman's amendment by a recision of all the remaining 
unobligated high-speed rail funding that was originally approved in the 
American Recovery Act.
  The language of the amendment would rescind all unobligated high-
speed rail funding as opposed to just $1.028 billion to be spent for 
the emergency. This provision jeopardizes several important projects 
that are already underway, already in the planning stages, that support 
good jobs and will make long-overdue improvements to our rail system.
  Last May, the Department of Transportation awarded some of these 
high-speed rail funds for major improvements on the Northeast Corridor, 
such as $449 million for catenary improvements, which would allow 
trains to reach 160 miles per hour on certain segments, and $294 
million for the Harold Interlocking in Queens, which would reduce 
delays for Amtrak and on the Long Island Railroad.
  I've heard a lot of people complain about the trip times and 
reliability on the Northeast Corridor and complain that even the Acela 
is not true high-speed rail, and they're right. But these are the kinds 
of projects that have to be done to prepare to make significant 
improvements in the corridor and to prepare the way for true high-speed 
rail later.
  Make no mistake: These are projects that are happening now. This is 
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money just sitting there waiting for a visionary high-speed rail system 
to come about. This is money going to real infrastructure investments 
now that support real jobs now and support real economic development 
when we need it most.
  I share the chairman's desire to provide funding to the Army Corps to 
repair storm damage, but this is not the way to go about it. This is a 
perfect example of why we have--or used to have--different rules for 
emergency spending. If something unexpected happens, massive storms and 
floods, we should be able to respond without jeopardizing other 
funding. We always said that emergency funding didn't have to be paid 
for by offsetting other reductions in worthy programs.
  I am very concerned about the underinvestment in transportation and 
infrastructure that seems to have taken hold on the other side of the 
aisle. We have always had bipartisan agreement that investing in roads, 
rails, bridges, highways, tunnels and transit is an essential 
government function. And historically, it's what made the economy grow. 
From Henry Clay's American system and the internal improvements and 
Abraham Lincoln's transcontinental railroad, from the Eerie Canal of 
DeWitt Clinton, in more recent times the interstate highway system of 
Dwight Eisenhower, the economy of the United States was built on these 
infrastructure developments.
  As the Nation is embroiled in negotiations over the debt limit now 
and how to address the long-term deficit, this is yet another example 
of the misguided thinking that cutting government spending is somehow 
the answer to these long-term economic challenges. It is unfathomable 
that we would pass anything that would eliminate good jobs, and not 
just the direct transportation and construction jobs but all of the 
jobs dependent on the connectivity and efficiency of our transportation 
system.
  We need to make the investments necessary to put America on a path 
toward long-term economic growth. We should be providing a lot more 
money for high-speed rail, which is one of the connection systems of 
the future. This bill that we will be considering today takes an extra 
step backward by revoking funds already allocated--not necessarily 
obligated, but allocated and announced--for ongoing projects that are 
moving ahead. I urge my colleagues to fix this provision.
  Emergency funding is obviously warranted for the floods, but it 
should not be done by eliminating already allocated funds for high-
speed rail in an area where we very much need those improvements on the 
current transportation system.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. TONKO. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from New York is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. TONKO. Madam Chair, we must fund the Army Corps of Engineers to 
repair damage caused by recent storms and floods and to prepare for 
future disaster events, there is no question about it. But doing so by 
cutting long-term investments in high-speed rail makes absolutely no 
sense, and I rise in strong opposition to this offset. This reckless 
recision will eliminate thousands of jobs, halt a large number of rail 
projects across the country, and hurt local and State economies.
  The program is critical to our country's competitiveness by putting 
Americans back to work, revitalizing our construction and manufacturing 
sectors, boosting the domestic economy, and ending the United States' 
dependence on foreign oil. And it flies in the face of President 
Obama's stated goal of connecting 80 percent of America by high-speed 
rail in the next 25 years.
  Should this recision pass in this House, the Capital Region of New 
York State alone stands to lose three critical projects, thousands of 
jobs, and millions in investments. Specifically, the bill, as written, 
would eliminate over $150 million intended for the Empire Corridor 
Capacity Improvements project, the Empire Corridor South: Albany to 
Schenectady Second Track project, and the Empire Corridor South: Grade 
Crossing Improvements project. This would lead to the loss of some 
4,223 jobs.
  Plain and simple, Madam Chair, we cannot afford these cuts at this 
time.
  Just a few weeks ago, the local chambers of commerce from the capital 
region of upstate New York flew down to Washington, DC, to meet with 
Members of Congress to discuss their areas of interest and attention. 
It turns out that one of their top priorities was high-speed rail. Why 
is that? It's plain as day. High-speed rail investments create jobs. 
Jobs are the building block of our recovering economy, and a strong 
economy leads to a reduced Federal deficit.
  Madam Chair, why is it that Europe, Japan, China and other countries 
can invest in 200-plus-mile-per-hour trains, but when the United States 
wants to simply lay additional track, upgrade some crossings, and 
guarantee timely, affordable, relatively average speed trains, we are 
left out in the cold?
  Let's not let shortsighted politics trump our long-term economic 
viability. These are commonsense investments that have already been 
committed to, have already increased reliability in our rail system, 
and have already created jobs. Let's not pull the rug out from the feet 
of our job creators, not now. We simply cannot afford it. We cannot 
afford to deny the hope for jobs. We cannot afford to deny the American 
pioneer spirit.
  I would like to thank my colleague, Representative Slaughter from New 
York, for her tireless advocacy on this issue and for having the vision 
and determination to make high-speed rail in upstate New York and 
across this State and country a reality.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last 
word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. Madam Chair, I rise today in opposition 
to the recision of funds from the high-speed rail program that was 
unwisely included in the fiscal year 2012 Energy and Water bill 
reported from the Appropriations Committee.
  My home State of North Carolina has been working for many years to 
advance the Southeast High-Speed Rail Corridor from Charlotte to 
Raleigh and Richmond, and ultimately linking the southeastern States 
with Washington, D.C. and providing a connection to rail service in the 
Northeast.
  Over the last 15 years, North Carolina has invested approximately 
$300 million in State intercity rail service capacity, including the 
construction of new train stations and track improvements. These 
strategic investments have already helped reduce travel time between 
Raleigh and Charlotte by 1 hour. But over the last two decades, the 
Federal investment in the Southeast or other high-speed rail corridors 
has been very, very modest. The burden fell almost completely on the 
States. In light of the enormous capital investments needed, while our 
progress has been steady, it has also been very slow.
  Madam Chair, this has been an area where President Obama has 
demonstrated strong leadership, making major Federal investment in 
high-speed rail one of his top priorities.
  Competition for the billions of dollars allocated under the Recovery 
Act was intense, and ultimately funds were distributed to 31 States, 
with half a billion dollars awarded to North Carolina. These funds will 
help our State achieve a goal set long ago--2-hour train service from 
Raleigh to Charlotte--and I'm happy to report that work is already well 
underway. And we know what comes next: Raleigh to Richmond.

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  These planned rail investments will relieve congestion, reduce our 
dependence on foreign oil, make our neighborhoods more livable and 
environmentally sustainable, make our communities more attractive 
places to live and do business in the long term, and create well-paying 
construction and manufacturing jobs in the near term--20,000 jobs in 
North Carolina alone, as a matter of fact.
  Rescission of these funds is penny-wise and pound-foolish. It 
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create jobs and pay dividends for years and years in the future. If we 
want to stay competitive in the international economy, we cannot 
continue to lay behind countries like China in developing a 21st 
century infrastructure. Rather than cutting funds for high-speed rail, 
we should be investing further in a high-speed rail network that will 
enhance our Nation's overall transportation system, moving us forward 
the way the highway system drove us forward in the mid 20th century.
  Madam Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mrs. MALONEY. I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from New York is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mrs. MALONEY. Madam Chair, I rise in strong opposition to an offset 
included in this bill that would rescind all unobligated high-speed 
rail funding. I support the gentleman from New Jersey's efforts to 
address the flood, but it should not be taken from such an important 
investment in the economic strength of our country. It is also an 
investment in moving us to energy independence.
  I would like to address my comments particularly to the Northeast 
Corridor, that is the corridor between New York and Washington and New 
York and Boston. This corridor is the most heavily traveled not only in 
the United States but probably in the world. And the MTA says that the 
corridor between New York and Boston, on day one, if we had high-speed 
rail, hundreds of thousands of people would travel it, and it would 
absolutely be a positive revenue source. It would literally make money 
because of the ridership that is in that area and also in the area 
between New York and Washington.
  In the money that was allocated, the MTA is focusing on high-speed 
rail between New York and Boston. And they are supporting the $294 
million for the Harold Interlocking Amtrak Bypass Routes, which would 
create, according to analysis, well over 9,000 jobs immediately, as it 
is shovel-ready and ready to go. This is an investment towards high-
speed rail, but it's needed right now to move three lines: the Long 
Island Railroad, Amtrak, and the New Jersey Transit. In this one area, 
the Interlocking has over 783 trains moving through this each day from 
the three different transit systems. So this obviously needs to be 
upgraded to take care of delays and to be able to move people and 
commerce faster. Because of the way the Harold Interlocking is 
currently constructed, conflicts among the three rail lines are 
frequent and result in delays, disruptions at Penn Station, and over 
the entire northeast corridor.
  So this critical funding will be used to construct a bypass that 
would allow these trains to move conflict-free and quickly. It is fully 
designed, has undergone extensive environmental review, including a 
final environmental impact statement. This project is shovel-ready and 
will be completed--if not interrupted by this action on the floor--by 
2017, and will, very importantly, move us towards high-speed rail 
between two of the major commerce centers in our country, between 
Boston and New York. It would literally make money. To rescind this 
money would be penny-wise, pound-foolish, and would move us backwards. 
We should be investing in the economic corridors of our country, which 
is our rail, our high-speed rail.
  I strongly, strongly support the high-speed rail and urge my 
colleagues for the economic strength of our future to vote against this 
amendment, this section that would rescind the money for the very 
needed high-speed rail that would move us into the 21st century to be 
able to compete and win in the 21st century, move our people, move our 
commerce, create jobs not only in the railroad but in the commerce that 
is between the two centers. We cannot afford to fall behind in our 
transportation system. It's one of the things that made this country 
great. It is an important investment. It is an investment that would 
literally make money in the Northeast Corridor, and it would be 
absolutely tremendously foolish to rescind this investment towards the 
economic future of our country.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mrs. EMERSON. I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Missouri is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mrs. EMERSON. Madam Chairwoman, first let me say that I deeply 
respect the words that all of my colleagues have talked about with 
regard to high-speed rail. And I understand very much the concerns that 
the funding for emergency flood restoration and rebuilding would come 
at a cost to future years of high-speed rail development, keeping in 
mind that this money has not been specifically obligated.
  But first, let me talk about the flooding that's started in North 
Dakota, going all the way down to Louisiana, down the entire Missouri 
River system and the entire Mississippi River system. We're talking 
about more than one-third of the entire watershed of the United States 
of America. We're talking about farmers. We're talking about the people 
who work for the farmers. We're talking about the hardware stores and 
the implement dealers and all of the communities that have been 
devastated by flooding. And these folks have no recourse.
  We're talking about billions of dollars in lost economic activity, 
and we're talking about the safety and the protection of people, their 
families, their children, and the folks who worship with them at 
church. If we don't have the emergency ability to make it possible for 
these people to regain their lives and their livelihoods, then we're 
talking about billions of dollars of lost economic activity for this 
country. And for people who say, Well, you know, it's farmland, and 
it's not important. We're talking about farmland. Well, guess what, 
people, we have the most abundant, safest food supply in the world. We 
pay less money than any person in any country of the world for our food 
policy. We pay 9 cents on the dollar. And if we don't restore the 
livelihoods of these people, if we don't restore our levees and our 
bridges and our roads and the economic activity of these communities, 
then we're going to be paying a whole lot more for food, and people are 
going to be screaming about that. But at the end of the day, isn't the 
government's role to protect the lives of people?
  I just want to say that it wasn't an easy decision for the 
subcommittee to make, to be able to protect people's lives. But when 
we're talking about money that is unobligated, that has been returned 
to the Treasury, and it's that pot of money that can help people be 
safe, safe from water, safe from flooding so that they could be 
rebuilding their homes and producing a lot of economic activity--and, 
yes, a lot of jobs, because there is not a lot of difference between 
farming and hiring of people and producing and the ripple effect on the 
economies, and a factory. It's the same thing. It's just a little 
different.
  So I have great respect, as I said earlier, for the arguments that my 
colleagues are making. But at the end of the day, I think that it's 
critical that people's lives and people's livelihoods be protected. We 
must rebuild and we must restore these levees before the next big flood 
comes again so we can protect our wonderful food source in the United 
States.
  Madam Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.

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  Ms. RICHARDSON. Madam Chairwoman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from California is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. RICHARDSON. I rise in strong opposition to the fiscal year 2012 
Energy and Water Appropriations bill, which includes an amendment that 
would rescind the remaining unobligated high-speed rail funding that 
was originally approved in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
  In listening to my colleague who just spoke, I don't think anyone 
here on this floor disagrees that we support the farmers, we support 
the people who have been impacted by flooding. But the question is 
whether these particular funds are the appropriate funds

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that should be dedicated to address that particular issue.
  I would venture to say that while I believe it's important that the 
Army Corps of Engineers has access to funding necessary to prepare for 
future disasters, I would say that because I am the ranking member of 
Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications. But when you 
consider our long overdue efforts to be able to develop a high-speed 
rail network that would create jobs and bring rail infrastructure into 
the 21st century for the United States, that also is a priority as 
well.
  I am proud to be vice chair of the bicameral High-Speed Rail and 
Intercity Passenger Rail Caucus, and I am glad that we are working to 
increase the visibility on this issue. I have long fought for bringing 
transportation systems into the 21st century. After all, that's 
important to Americans' lives as well. Because if we're not able to 
traverse from one side of the country to the other, if we're not able 
to do it in an efficient manner, eventually we will also find ourselves 
without more jobs and without being able to have appropriate living 
conditions.
  Consider that high-speed rail pays for itself, significantly reducing 
$700 billion a year of oil purchased that could be dealt with regarding 
our trade deficit. High-speed rail pays for and saves lives. We are 
talking about lives. What about the 43,000 Americans who die each year 
in car accidents? What happens when we talk about that high-speed rail 
pays for its efficiency and mobility by being able to move people and 
goods without delay and waste? And also when you consider that high-
speed rail pays by improving air quality, which also helps and saves 
lives.
  Thirteen countries around the world are investing hundreds of 
billions of dollars into their systems. And for years the United States 
has failed to keep up. Finally, we have an administration that is 
actually focused on this issue and has made a commitment to this 
funding. However, when you consider that in the United States we only 
have one high-speed rail corridor, that's the Acela Express, operated 
between Boston and Washington, D.C., and even in our one corridor the 
trains only reach 150 miles per hour, far below what we would really 
call a true world class high-speed rail.
  So when we consider being in the High-Speed Rail Caucus and what our 
efforts are today, thankfully we are looking at a situation where we do 
have funding that's been allocated. So when we say it's unallocated 
funds, let's talk about that. Actually, what's happened is the 
administration has done an excellent job in considering areas that have 
said they are not ready to do high-speed rail at this time. So rather 
than our wasting money as we did in the past, years in the past, of 
building bridges to nowhere, what we've said is, if a particular area 
is not ready, let's put the money back where it can now be reallocated.
  So it's not that the funds are totally unobligated. We are now in the 
process of putting them in the areas that are ready to build high-speed 
rail now. We must be forward thinking and proactive to position our 
country to compete in the global economy. That's about American lives 
as well. Nowhere is it more important than in the area of high-speed 
rail to take that broad step.
  It will cost about $40 billion to bring high-speed rail to areas like 
mine in California. But with it comes really a revolution in travel in 
a way that we have not touched before.
  Madam Chairwoman, I cannot support this bill in its current form in 
light of the amendment that's been brought forward, and I urge my 
colleagues to vote against these draconian cuts. We had an opportunity 
to do more funding for Army Corps, and on this very floor many of my 
colleagues chose not to do so.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. ALEXANDER. Madam Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Louisiana is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. ALEXANDER. Madam Chairman, the question is, just how important is 
the Mississippi River? The Mississippi River system connects 
approximately 30 States in our Nation's heartland with the 
international markets. Sixty percent of all U.S. grain exports are 
shipped from the Mississippi River. Twenty-five percent of all large 
commercial bulk ships that arrive in the U.S. come to the mouth of the 
Mississippi River. U.S. Customs and Border Protection estimates that 
the river system facilitates between $85 billion and $104 billion 
annually in foreign trade through the Mississippi River system. And 
one-third of the Nation's oil comes up the river to refineries in 
Louisiana.
  This year's historic flooding carried an estimated 60 million cubic 
yards of sediment down the Mississippi River. This sediment doesn't 
just float on out into the gulf; it settles. It settles all along the 
river, from Missouri to Lake Providence, Louisiana, on down to New 
Orleans, where currently 5 extra feet of sediment has built up over the 
normal levels. Five feet. And for every foot that's taken away from the 
draft of a ship, it costs that ship $1 million. Madam Chairman, one 
doesn't have to be a mathematician to tell that that's pretty expensive 
to our economy.
  The flood has not only highlighted a need for dredging, it has also 
damaged levees and floodways all along the Mississippi. The Corps of 
Engineers estimates that on the river alone it will have to spend an 
additional $1 billion to $2 billion to repair levees and floodways 
damaged by the recent floodwaters. This is work that must be done to 
allow these levees to again protect Americans from future floods.
  Madam Chairman, I know that there aren't many out there speaking 
against the Mississippi River and the need for maintenance. They are 
just arguing that the money does not need to be offset since we could 
call it emergency funding. And yes, we could go that route. But as we 
are in the middle of negotiations and debate about raising the debt 
ceiling, the last thing we should be thinking of is adding more to the 
pile of debt. We cannot continue to do this, Madam Chairman, especially 
when we have seen the national debt increase at an average of $3.9 
billion per day, especially when the Treasury Department now projects 
that the U.S. debt will exceed the GDP by the end of this year.
  The Congressional Research Service study reports that if supplemental 
operations had been fully offset over the last three decades, the 
Federal debt could have been reduced by at least $1.3 trillion. That 
translates to a reduction of public interest payments of $57 billion 
per year. Ignoring the need to offset spending is a mistake, Madam 
Chairman, a mistake that our children cannot afford for us to make.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. DeLAURO. I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Connecticut is recognized for 
5 minutes.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Chairman, included amongst a multitude of 
misguided policies in this bill the Republican majority has on the 
floor today is the rescinding of high-speed rail funds that would 
otherwise create good middle class jobs, strengthen our economy, allow 
us to build a 21st century infrastructure that we need to compete with 
the other economic power centers around the world.
  Over 6 months in the majority and my Republican colleagues have 
proved very capable of ending Medicare, rolling back health care 
reforms, namely for women, and choosing to reduce the deficit on the 
backs of working middle class families and the most vulnerable.
  One thing they have chosen to do is to zero out job creation. And, in 
fact, by cutting funding for high-speed rail projects in this bill, the 
majority is threatening as many as 60,000 jobs. This is the majority's 
answer to last week's extremely disappointing jobs report that showed 
that we are mired in unacceptably high 9.2 percent unemployment after 
adding only 18,000 jobs in June, with a construction sector that has 
16.3 percent of its workers unemployed.

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  This is the majority's answer to the 14 million unemployed in this 
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real people, real families looking to wait their way through this 
crisis.
  In Connecticut, the majority's decision to rescind a $30 million 
investment--and I might tell my colleagues on the other side of the 
aisle--this $30 million has been obligated. It is an investment in the 
New Haven-Hartford-Springfield line and would seriously limit the 
ability to expand one of the best intercity passenger rail networks in 
the country. The line represents a critical component of a larger 
regional plan for passenger rail to integrate the New England rail 
system, connect it to New York, the middle-Atlantic States and to 
Canada.
  The improvements that would be made with the investments my 
colleagues on the other side are seeking to eliminate are essential to 
meeting the needs of the entire region and achieving the benefits of 
the Federal and State investments that have already been made there.
  High-speed rail is desperately needed in Connecticut. This is the 
most heavily trafficked commuter region in the country. New England's 
traffic has increased two to three times faster than its population 
since 1990, and 80 percent of the Connecticut commuters drive to work 
alone.
  When it's completed, the line is expected to reduce the number of 
vehicles on the road by approximately 4,000 cars a day, saving a 
billion gallons of fossil fuel a year and reducing carbon emissions 
over that time by 10,000 tons.
  Just as important, the line has been a high priority for Connecticut, 
for its Representatives on both sides of the aisle for many years. It 
means opportunities for economic development and expansion throughout 
our State.
  But expanding the economy, creating jobs is simply not a priority for 
the majority. They appear perfectly content to allow us to fall behind 
our global competitors like China, with its plan to invest a trillion 
dollars in high-speed rail, highways and other infrastructure in 5 
years.
  And the short-sightedness is further exemplified by what has been put 
forward this week in a $230 billion 6-year surface transportation bill 
that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce calls unacceptable as the cuts will 
destroy, rather than support, existing jobs, which would be devastating 
to construction and related industries, leading to a less competitive 
economy and a drag on the GDP due to underperforming infrastructure.
  Now, I want to say to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, I 
have a great appreciation for disaster assistance, a great appreciation 
for the commercial value of the Mississippi River. I am there. I have 
been there for disaster assistance.
  Now, if you don't want to do an emergency declaration, then let me 
tell you where you can get some of the money from in order to do this: 
$40 billion to the oil industry every year in a tax subsidy. Nobody 
here believes that they are suffering as the farmers in our country are 
suffering. They don't need money for the levees. They don't need any 
money at all; but, no, the other side doesn't want to take any money 
from that $41 billion to do something about those who are suffering in 
these States due to natural disaster.
  Or what about the $8 billion we provide to multinational corporations 
to take their jobs overseas? Let's take that money and use it for the 
people of this great Nation who are in difficult straits, difficult 
times and their jobs, yes, and their levees need to be dredged. Let's 
get that money to the Army Corps of Engineers.
  Finally, we support Brazilian cotton farmers. We give them $147 
million every single year. I suggest we take that money from the 
Brazilian cotton farmers and spend it on the folks in our country who 
are in desperate need.
  Don't take it from high-speed rail. Don't commit us to planned 
obsolescence.
  Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Missouri is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Madam Chair, I would like to congratulate the 
Appropriations Committee and the chairman for their fine work on making 
some difficult choices.
  Obviously, our budget times are tight. We have to prioritize our 
spending, and we have some emergencies here in this country which are 
abnormal, extremely abnormal from the standpoint that our weather 
patterns have changed dramatically this past year and as a result we 
have a lot of our citizens that are really suffering right now.
  In my district, I have the Mississippi River along the one side, I 
have the Missouri River running through the area as well, so both of 
those have been dramatically impacted by the massive rain storms that 
have run through the area as well as some of the tornados that have 
gone through the area as well.
  So I want to put a face on some of this for just a moment. You know, 
we have today a number of farmers who no longer can drive to their 
homes. They have to take a boat to their homes. They have 5 feet of 
water. Some of them are looking at the roofs instead of their homes, 
and their crops are gone. And when they are gone, whenever a flood 
occurs, it doesn't just occur and wipe out that year's crops. Quite 
often times it takes 2 or 3 or 4 years. And sometimes the ground is 
damaged to the point where it can never be reclaimed.
  The gentlewoman from the southeast portion of our State, some of her 
area that was devastated by some of the levees that were blown up, 
those crop lands may never return to fertile ground because of what 
happened. Again, well, people say, well, it's just farm land. No, it's 
not. This is the business of farming. This is their business location.
  And if you look at their farms, it's not just land that's laying out 
there. They have irrigation systems, they have thousands and thousands 
and thousands of dollars in irrigation systems and the berms and the 
ground that's been cultivated and excavated in a way that it can 
utilize all the waters that they irrigate with or whatever.
  So they have a huge investment in this property. It's not just land. 
It's a huge investment in their business. We are interested in 
continuing to help those folks rebuild those levees, rebuild their 
lives, rebuild their businesses because this is what they are about.
  One of the things that has happened in my area right now is with, 
basically, a tsunami coming down the Missouri River basin. In Montana 
they had an unusual amount of snow that fell this year, a late snow 
melt. And then on top of that they had a whole year's worth of rain in 
a 2-week period, and we have literally a tsunami coming down the 
Missouri River basin.
  Fortunately, we had a flood control set of dams in there that have 
minimized it; but even at that, this is a 100- to 500-year flood that 
is devastating everything in its path. And so those folks, in fact, 
right now from Kansas City on north, there isn't a single private levee 
that isn't either breached or topped.
  Let me repeat that: There isn't a single private levee north of 
Kansas City that is not breached or topped. That's how severe and how 
devastating this situation is this year.
  When we start talking about the uses of the river, it's important to 
note that barge traffic on rivers--the gentleman from Louisiana a 
moment ago talked about the usage of how much corn and grain goes up 
and down the Mississippi. The normal barge can carry 900 trailer loads 
of grain, 900 trailer loads of grain.
  Think of all the vehicles we are taking off the roads. Think of the 
environmental impact of none of those vehicles being on the road. It's 
very significant.
  Yet, in our area, the Missouri River is being underutilized because 
of some of the new mandates that are being put on it by different 
bureaucrats here in D.C. with regards to trying to worry about a fish 
or a bird that lives along the shore and/or for recreational purposes.
  So we have some interesting debates going on right now. Those we will 
decide at a later date, but the problem we are facing today is the 
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that it has had to life and property and the safety of those. We 
believe that these funds are necessary for people to recover from this 
devastation that has occurred.
  And just as a side light here, we also would like to thank the 
Appropriations Committee for not only finding a way to do this, 
prioritizing Federal funds without adding to our debt, but there is an 
interesting fact here as well. I want to note, it was from a report 
back in January of 2009 with regard to the Congressional Research 
Service that said had supplemental appropriations been fully offset--
which this is since 1981--Federal debt held by the public could have 
been reduced by at least 23 percent, or $1.3 trillion. This could have 
reduced interest payments to the public by $57 billion a year.
  I think while it's difficult, I know that our friends across the 
aisle and some of the folks here discussing the prioritization this 
morning are not happy with this. I think these are difficult times. We 
all have to realize that reprioritizing things sometimes is not easy.
  But in this situation I believe that it's justified, and we certainly 
support what fine work the Appropriations Committee has done.
  I yield back the balance of my time.

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  Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Madam Chairwoman, I move to strike the last 
word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Madam Chair, it is just a matter of time 
before we will rue the day that we did not build out the infrastructure 
across the length and breadth of our country. Our President has 
proposed that we have an infrastructure bank such that we can take care 
of the needs on this side as well as the needs on this side. We will 
rue the day that we did not build out our transportation 
infrastructure.
  One example, in 2005, in Houston, Texas, Rita hit the gulf coast. We 
had thousands of people being evacuated from a major urban area, and as 
they were moving away, the highways became clogged. They were stopped 
on the highways. People spent nights on the highways. Trains are a part 
of the emergency evacuation system in this country, and we need more 
rail so that we can evacuate people in times of emergencies.
  9/11/01, who can forget? The skies were clear. There was a full 
ground stop. More than 4,000 planes were grounded. No one could fly. 
Trains became a part of the emergency evacuation system so that people 
who could not fly could still make their destinations.
  It is time for us to wise up and realize that the President is right. 
It is time for us to, in the parlance and vernacular of those in the 
streets of life, to 'fess up and tell the truth. We should not put 
Peter ahead of Paul. We should not rob one to pay the other. It is time 
for us to take a holistic approach and show some vision.
  Let's move to create jobs across the length and breadth of the 
country with this infrastructure program. Let's give architects who 
have offices and business and laborers and engineers jobs. Let's give 
them jobs to do.
  And the good news is you cannot export these jobs overseas. You don't 
have to worry about them being outsourced, because they will all be 
done right here in the United States of America.
  Let's rebuild this country.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. SCALISE. Madam Chairwoman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Louisiana is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. SCALISE. Madam Chair, I first want to congratulate and thank the 
chairman of the Energy and Water subcommittee for setting as a priority 
making sure that our waterways, especially the Mississippi River, are 
restored after the devastating floods that we experienced throughout 
our country. It wasn't just in a few States; it was throughout many 
parts of the Midwest, South, and other parts of our country that 
experienced tornado damage and experienced unprecedented flooding going 
back to 1927.
  But now if you look at where we are and you look at what is being 
done here, this is not money that is adding to the deficit. We are at a 
point right now as we face this debt ceiling--and there is a divide in 
Congress; there is a divide in Washington. And the question is: Are we 
going to start living within our means and truly setting priorities in 
this country or just continue going down this spending binge acting as 
if nobody is going to pay the tab?
  And, of course, I think what the chairman, the full chairman of 
Appropriations and so many other members of this new majority have said 
is that game is over. The game of spending money we don't have is over, 
and we've got to make the tough choices of setting priorities in this 
country.
  So if you look at some of the money that was moved over from high-
speed rail--and there were billions of dollars set aside in the 
stimulus bill that was such a failed disaster, over $787 billion of 
money that we don't have with the promise that unemployment wouldn't go 
over 8 percent. It's very clear that that failed. But what we're saying 
is let's take some of that money and move it over into something that's 
much more important right now, and that is getting our economy back on 
track, getting people back on track and getting their families back 
together.
  Look at what happened on the Mississippi River. Just a few weeks ago, 
I flew over the Morganza Spillway and looked at the Atchafalaya Basin 
where some of that flooding happened where you literally had people who 
were in harm's way and their areas were flooded to keep other people 
from flooding. And it was one of those terrible choices no one wants to 
have to make, but those families were put in that situation and their 
communities were flooded so other communities wouldn't.
  The extra silt that came down the Mississippi River now threatens to 
impede the ability for us to move commerce through 30-plus States of 
this country so that we can get those exports, so that we can create 
more jobs and be able to be competitive with foreign countries. If 
you're a farmer in Iowa, if you're trying to move commerce in Missouri 
down the Mississippi River, if you don't have the ability now because 
we're not able to dredge the river, all of a sudden now Brazil is going 
to get that contract for that product because you can't be competitive 
anymore.
  Not only are we talking about tens of thousands of jobs, but we're 
talking about priorities. If you look at the high-speed rail projects, 
many States have turned the money down. Why? Because they realize it's 
a money loser. They lose money on the deal because it just doesn't pay 
for itself. Of course, States have balanced budgets. Most of those 
States have to balance their budget every year, so they can't just take 
what looks like free money to go and engage in a process that's 
ultimately going to cost them money every year that they don't have. 
But because they have to balance their budget, many of them have turned 
that money away.
  And so you look here in Washington, there is no balanced budget 
requirement, and it shows you, frankly, one of the reasons why we need 
a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution so that we are forced 
to live within our means, too, so we can't just keep spending money as 
if there is no consequence, because there is consequence. Our children 
and our grandchildren are counting on us to make those responsible 
decisions and to set the priorities. We cannot just tell everybody that 
comes in the door, You've got an idea, here's some money; you've got an 
idea, here's some money. Nobody has the money. We'll just go print it, 
raise the debt ceiling and just keep giving it as if it's not going to 
have an effect. At some point, it has a real effect; it has a real 
impact. And so we've got to make the tough choices and set the 
priorities.
  So there was devastating flooding throughout our country. You had so 
many States that saw tornado damage and flooding damage, and they're 
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there is this high-speed rail money. And so much of the money in the 
stimulus bill went to waste and was squandered. We have nothing to show 
for it. The promise of no more than 8 percent unemployment didn't work. 
It was a failure, and everybody recognizes it. And so we're saying 
we're going to make those tough choices.
  None of these choices are easy, but we didn't come up here to make 
easy choices. We came up here because we've got to set the priorities 
of this country, and that means balancing our budget and not just 
saying everything can get all the funding it wants. If something is a 
priority, then that means we've got to find the money somewhere else. 
And so that's what's being done here. And that's why I commend the 
chairman for making that tough decision. And, yes, we're going to have 
to have a fight over this. We're going to have to have a discussion 
over this, as we should. This is the people's House.
  That's what this discussion is about. It's about setting our 
priorities and shifting from the old way of doing business of just 
spending more money we don't have on every idea that sounded good. We 
can't keep doing that. So that's why I support what the chairman is 
doing.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. BROWN of Florida. Madam Chairwoman, I move to strike the last 
word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Ms. BROWN of Florida. First of all, I want to be clear that I support 
the funding to protect the citizens of the Midwest from flooding. And, 
in fact, Louisiana has gotten more money than probably anybody else.
  I come from Florida. We have disasters, natural disasters, all of the 
time. But the reason there is no funding for flood protection is 
because the Republican leadership cut the funding and the Republican 
Members supported it.
  Let me be clear. I support the funding for the disaster. As the 
ranking member of the Transportation Subcommittee on Rail, I find that 
these funding cuts which would block all of the remaining unobligated 
high-speed rail funding approved by the economic stimulus entirely 
unacceptable.
  And I am sick and tired of Members coming to the floor saying that 
the stimulus money was a disaster. It is not a disaster that we put 
people to work in Florida and throughout this country. And, in fact, if 
it wasn't for the stimulus dollars, teachers would have lost their 
jobs. In one area, we kept firefighters and police officers employed. 
And that is a job while this economy is turned around.
  And let's not forget how we got in this mess. Institutional memory is 
in order. When you have your head in the lion's mouth, you pull it out, 
you ease it out. What happened? How did we get here? When Bill Clinton 
left, we were operating with a surplus. But we had 8 years of Bush and 
two wars. And do you think this mess started 18 months ago? No, it did 
not.

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  We have been practicing what I call reverse Robin Hood for 8 years. 
Nobody remembers that, when you kept giving tax breaks to the rich and 
billionaires. What happened here in December? Almost $800 billion that 
you gave to the not just millionaires, billionaires. And yet you come 
up saying in June and April, we can't send the pension checks.
  Yes, we're spending money up here, but it's the priorities you have. 
You don't have the priorities of taking care of the elderly people. You 
want to cut Medicaid and Medicare and Social Security while you give 
billionaires--billionaires--tax breaks, and millionaires. And now you 
want to cut money for high-speed rail. But we know for every billion 
dollars that we spend for high- speed rail, it generates 44,000 
permanent jobs. But yes, we have some Governors that are shortsighted, 
like my Governor Rick Scott of Florida that sent back almost $3 
billion. We have 11 percent unemployment. What was he thinking about? I 
guess he was thinking he didn't want to see those people going to work 
and making Barack Obama look good, even though we have the most 
congestion in that area, and that our competition is there. If you look 
at Spain, if you look at France, you look at Germany, 200 miles, 1 hour 
and 15 minutes. That is the future of our country. But we have some 
shortsighted people here, people who only want to see, you know, well, 
we need to balance the budget. Well, where were you when they were 
giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires? And you do it over 
and over again. That's the sad thing.
  If you put it on the board, put it on the board today, you would have 
the same vote. You would have the exact same vote. And every 
opportunity you have to vote, you vote to give millionaires and 
billionaires tax breaks. So, you know, we started the rail system, and 
we are now the caboose, and we don't even use cabooses any more.
  I am hoping that the American people will wake up. It is shameful 
that over and over again in the people's House, in the people's House, 
we attack the people who do not have lobbyists on Capitol Hill. And so 
I yield back the balance of my time, but I do know that elections have 
consequences. The American people are watching you. I have voted five 
times to raise the debt ceiling. Why did I do it under Bush? Because I 
knew it was in the best interest of this country and not the politics 
of the time.


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR. Members are reminded to address their remarks to 
the Chair.
  Mr. WOMACK. I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Arkansas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. WOMACK. Madam Chairwoman, I think we are going to have to extend 
the space shuttle for an extra day to retrieve the thought process, it 
got so far out there in orbit. Let me just be very clear, to kind of 
bring this back to the subject matter at hand.
  We're talking about taking funds that have been designated for a 
project in the future, near term or long term, but in the future, to 
satisfy an emerging issue that is in the present. Future versus 
present.
  In my district of Arkansas, the cresting of the Illinois River has 
ripped apart roads, washed out bridges. Floods have taken the lives of 
constituents of mine, young people who will grow up without a mother or 
father. We have people living in tents. We have an urgent issue that is 
facing us today. The flooding has done damage across our entire State, 
leaving hundreds of Arkansans without homes, and crop losses estimated 
at over $500 million. It has even been asserted by the other side that 
it is ``just farmland.'' Just farmland.
  Well, let me say to the people who make that argument, don't make 
that argument with your mouth full.
  It has also caused about $100 million in damage to dams, parks, 
roads, and waterways under the control of the Army Corps of Engineers, 
and if left unrepaired, will only result in additional devastation in 
the next season.
  But it isn't just about what happened in Arkansas; the entire 
Mississippi River and its tributary system has been imperiled by these 
tragedies. They are the lifeblood of our Nation's commerce, and 
bordering farmlands are rich with fertile soil able to provide food for 
so many of the American people. Allowing these lands to be so 
vulnerable to future flooding will only imperil our Nation's food 
supply.
  Offset or not to offset; it is an emerging issue. And on offsets, as 
you have already heard from my colleague from Louisiana, my colleague 
from Missouri, that supplemental appropriations, if fully offset over 
the last three decades, would have reduced by at least $1.3 trillion 
the debt and reduced the public interest payments on this debt of $57 
billion a year. Now, my friends, $57 billion in interest payments would 
build a lot of high-speed rail.
  I congratulate the chairman for his work on this Energy and Water 
bill. I support it. It is prudent. It is wise. It is necessary. And I 
commend it to the leadership and to this entire House to pass it and 
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of our country and give relief to the people who need it so 
desperately.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. HONDA. I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. HONDA. Madam Chair, I have a written prepared statement I will 
include for the Record. It talks about California and the need for 
investments, and I don't think anybody is going to argue with the need 
for this country to invest in its country or its infrastructure. We 
have had that argument.
  I'm trying to figure out a way how to make my comments without making 
anybody wrong. The chairman is faced with a difficult task of trying to 
balance a budget. He faces that challenge with limited funds. It is a 
terrible job. But I think we ought to look at the process and be 
thoughtful and explain to the people out there who are watching us, the 
young people here who are watching us, that we can be smart. We can be 
compassionate, and we can do that without allowing ourselves to be 
fighting among ourselves and trying to make decisions between jobs, the 
economy, infrastructure, and taking care of those who need to get back 
on their feet. I have no arguments with that.
  My mother used to say when unexpected guests came to our house during 
dinnertime, you don't turn them away, you just add more water to the 
soup, and then you enjoy each other's company.
  Congress is a living organism responsible for its past, its present, 
and its future.
  In the past, according to the GAO, we spent about $150 billion just 
on Katrina. In Afghanistan, we spend $325 million a day. And in Iraq, 
we spend about $100 million a day. That's almost a $1 billion a day. We 
are talking almost a billion dollars in light rail. We can be both 
right and smart and compassionate if we do the right thing.
  In our budgeting process, we should have a fund for unforeseen 
circumstances. We should learn from Katrina. We are looking at about $4 
billion in terms of the Army Corps of Engineers. I think our 
leaderships need to get together and just say ``we can do this'' 
without fighting among each other, without making each other wrong, 
because that's wrong. In the eyes of the public, they want us to do the 
job that needs to get done and have our leadership do that.
  So my plea is that we can be fiscally responsible and we can be 
compassionate, and we do that with good planning and good budgeting 
processes, including having contingency funds that should have been 
there. And so we have an opportunity right now to show the public that 
we can do all of these things and still come out winners for those who 
need the help, and those who need jobs, and still take care of the 
Nation's infrastructure needs. That's what America is all about. It's a 
can-do spirit without having to fight within our own families.
  Madam Chair, I rise in opposition of the underlying bill that 
rescinds over one billion dollars in high-speed rail investment to pay 
for emergency disaster relief due to storms and flooding in the 
Midwest--emergency disaster relief that should be funded through 
emergency appropriations.
  The Majority appears proud to say they are offsetting the funds 
needed to help our citizens in the Midwest recover from the storms and 
floods that have devastated their communities.
  But what the Majority is doing is really not something to be proud 
of.
  The Majority is offsetting jobs and offsetting investments into our 
Nation's infrastructure.
  Put bluntly, Madam Chair, with this bill the Majority is offsetting 
our Nation's future.
  This bill would specifically rescind $68 million intended for the 
Next Generation Passenger Rail Equipment Purchase in my State of 
California. During these difficult economic times, rescinding these 
funds would result in the loss of as many as 1,892 jobs.
  Earlier this year, the President released his annual budget request 
for Fiscal Year 2012, which calls for a $53 billion, 6-year investment 
in high-speed rail. I applaud the President's vision for a sustainable 
future.
  Every other industrialized country in the world, except the U.S., has 
shifted its intermediate range travel, or 50 to 600 miles, to high 
speed trains. Are they all wrong and only the U.S. right?
  Madam Chair, polls show over 70 percent of Californians support the 
800-mile, double-track, grade-separated, fast, clean, quiet, and safe 
high speed trains that will link San Jose with Sacramento, Los Angeles, 
and San Diego. California must lead the Nation into the future.
  Let's not forget, Californians voted for $9.95 billion for this 
project in 2008, a major reason over $3.7 billion in Federal funding 
has been granted for our State's starter project. Those funds, with the 
President's proposal and private investments in discussion, could kick-
start the Silicon Valley extension, the first major job destination for 
California's system.
  The investment proposed by the President directly impacts my 
constituents in Silicon Valley. Those funds could bring the California 
High-Speed Rail Authority's starter construction project, already-
funded between Bakersfield and Fresno, through the Pacheco Pass to 
Silicon Valley.
  Benefits to Silicon Valley are profound; mobility, employment, 
cleaner air, and international competitiveness.
  Mobility: California's high speed rail project connects to many 
feeder modes at the Diridon Station, across from the HP Pavilion and 
the proposed A's baseball park in the heart of the Silicon Valley. When 
finished by 2020, the Diridon Station will be one of the Nation's 
largest multimodal hubs, with over 600 trains per day including high 
speed rail, BART, CalTrain, the Capital Trains, Altamont Express, 
Amtrak, light rail, bus lines, an automated shuttle to the Mineta 
International Airport, and more.
  Employment: Return-on-investment is the first rule for Silicon 
Valley. Research proves investments in high speed rail return more than 
twice the cost, in tax revenue, over the life of the projects. And, 
with 30% construction unemployment, investment in high-speed rail means 
jobs, right now, in our State. Engineers estimate the project will 
create over 160,000 construction jobs, for as much as 30 years. An 
additional 450,000 jobs will be stimulated by the economic vitality 
created around the 26 down-town stations. Those jobs are in California, 
for Californians, and cannot be off- shored.
  Clean Air: Research indicates over 90% of the future riders currently 
use single passenger cars or short-hop airlines, both major polluters. 
The electric trains are committed to use non-polluting renewable 
energy. The U.S. comprises 4% of the world's population but creates 
almost 25% of the world's greenhouse gasses. High speed rail is a 
powerful tool the rest of the world is already using to fight climate 
change.
  Competitiveness: The emerging economic engines in Europe and Asia are 
rapidly overtaking the U.S. and California. They move people to work 
and products to the market more efficiently. China invested over $80 
billion in high speed rail last year alone, over $1 trillion in the 
last decade, completing over 7,500 kilometers of their planned 13,000 
kilometer system in just 9 years. The EU's dozen lines are similarly 
successful, and Japan is also expanding its system dramatically. Many 
of those systems are now operated profitably by private companies.
  How is it possible for every other industrialized country, and many 
emerging economies, to afford state-of-the-art high speed rail systems 
and claim that the world's richest country cannot?
  Madam Chair, Americans support investments in our county's 
transportation infrastructure. A recent Rockefeller Foundation survey 
found 91% of the national sample agreeing that, ``our generation has a 
responsibility to the future to invest in America's infrastructure--
just as our parents and grandparents did.''
  The foresight of our forefathers, who ensured that our highways, 
waterways, and railways promoted our economy, must not be lost now. We 
too must be good ancestors. High-speed rail is the future. The time to 
invest in that future is now.
  Mr. CARNAHAN. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word.
  During this time of economic uncertainty it is important to invest in 
the future. High speed rail will play a vital role in modernizing our 
transportation infrastructure, and we must prioritize its further 
development. If we are to remain economically competitive with the rest 
of the world, we must invest robustly in our infrastructure and create 
a true, world class transportation system. High speed rail will 
revolutionize the transportation industry, and its development will add 
valuable jobs to our economy.
  I am firmly against this bill, which would rescind unobligated funds 
from high speed rail projects. While I fully support our disaster 
recovery efforts, there is no reason to do this at the expense of our 
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merely a ploy by Republicans to cut off funding for a priority area for 
President Obama.
  As a country we cannot afford to ignore this opportunity to create 
millions of jobs and develop a comprehensive high speed rail system. 
These cuts would drastically affect the State of Missouri, putting 
plans for a St. Louis-Kansas high speed rail corridor in jeopardy. We 
would also lose almost 8,000 jobs and nearly $300 million in funding 
for high speed rail projects, including $3 million in the 3rd District 
which I represent.
  There is no question that we must curtail excessive government 
spending, a process that will require some belt tightening. But it 
makes no sense to cut funding for programs, such as high speed rail 
construction, that will foster sustained, long-term economic growth for 
America.
  I urge all of my colleagues to consider the numerous benefits the 
high speed rail program will bring to all Americans and to vote against 
cutting the program's funding. We cannot allow our current fiscal 
challenges to prevent us from investing in the future while 
simultaneously helping to kick start our economy.
  Mr. CICILLINE. Madam Chair, I submit these remarks in opposition to 
provisions in Title V of the Energy and Water Appropriations measure 
(H.R. 2354) that would rescind unobligated High Speed Rail funds.
  Indeed the recent storms and flooding that have ravaged the 
Mississippi and Missouri River Basins warrant the immediate attention 
and relief provided by Emergency Supplemental Funding in Title V. And 
as a representative from Rhode Island, a state that itself suffered and 
continues to recover from record level flooding in 2010, I 
wholeheartedly recognize the importance of this funding, which will 
enable the Corps of Engineers to repair the damage done by these 
natural disasters.
  However, as Ranking Members Dicks and Visclosky noted in their views 
on the underlying bill, H.R. 2354, I too am disappointed by the 
decision to offset this important disaster relief funding by rescinding 
unobligated High Speed Rail funds. Time and again Congress has rightly 
responded to natural disasters with the emergency funding that 
facilitates recovery in our communities and reconstruction of critical 
infrastructure. As a Congress, we must respond to natural disasters 
with the resources it takes, and we must responsibly reduce the 
deficit. Yet, we must also make the necessary investments that will 
create jobs now and guarantee the future strength of our economy.
  The fact that our Nation's investment in High Speed Rail remains a 
target for the budget chopping block is not just disappointing--it is a 
threat to our economy. We have to commit to paying down our debt. But, 
we must also commit to putting people back to work, supporting our 
infrastructure, and ensuring our Nation's ability to compete in the 
global economy. Some estimates say that each month we spend 
approximately $8 billion in Afghanistan--just think about that. In just 
2 months worth of spending in Afghanistan, we exceed our Nation's 
entire investment in High Speed Rail. Each year, taxpayers dole out $4 
billion in subsidies to big oil companies who continue to enjoy record 
profits, and yet here we are, stripping communities of critically 
important infrastructure dollars.
  High Speed Rail is not some far-fetched fantasy, or a transportation 
solution that should be considered more of a luxury than a national 
priority. High Speed Rail is a reality. And while we hesitate to get on 
board, our competitor nations are charging further and further ahead of 
us. We've seen it in the headlines time and again. China now has the 
world's fastest conventional high-speed trains and longest network of 
tracks. Next year, just 4 years after beginning its High Speed Rail 
service, China will have more track than all of the world's high speed 
lines combined.
  High Speed Rail creates construction jobs in the maintenance and 
operations jobs in the long term, and indirect jobs by growing access 
to greater labor pools and driving new economic development. High Speed 
Rail reduces congestion on our highways and skyways. These are key 
investments to ensure that America has a fast, safe, and efficient 
transportation network. And at a time when press reports as recently as 
this morning indicate states like Rhode Island are experiencing a rise 
in gas prices again, High Speed Rail provides a logical alternative to 
our oil addiction.
  For the First Congressional District in Rhode Island, the provisions 
of Title V will strip away $3 million in High Speed Rail funds. For the 
state as a whole, it is estimated this Title will rescind more than $28 
million in rail funding. This rescission occurs less than 2\1/2\ months 
after the initial announcement of the allocation to the Ocean State. 
Not only is Rhode Island battling high rates of unemployment--some of 
the highest in New England--and a sluggish economic recovery, we now 
have to battle against the uncertainty and unpredictability created by 
unwarranted rescissions such as the one before us now in Title V. All 
told, it is estimated that this rescission will result in the loss of 
hundreds jobs in my state alone.
  As a former Mayor, I know how detrimental this loss in High Speed 
Rail is for my district, the state of Rhode Island, the Northeast 
Corridor, and the Nation as a whole. For the city of Providence and the 
state of Rhode Island, High Speed Rail is a critically important 
component in efforts to attract the private investment that will help 
sustain and grow our economy; rebuild the infrastructure that will 
allow for efficient and timely transport of goods, people, and ideas; 
and place people in well-paying middle class jobs. Cities and states 
all across this country are relying on this investment to help improve 
their economies, relieve transportation congestion, reduce our 
dependence on foreign oil, and compete in the global economy. 
Unfortunately, the offset contemplated in Title V will derail these 
efforts.
  I strongly urge my colleagues to vote against this offset because we 
must not fall further behind as our competitors speed ahead in the 
global economy.
  Mr. COHEN. Madam Chair, I am pleased to join with my colleagues on 
the House floor to oppose the Majority's efforts to cut funding for 
high-speed rail. As the Congressman from Memphis, a city that was 
damaged by historic floods this spring and a city in much need of 
disaster relief, I applaud the Majority for proposing more than one 
billion dollars in relief. However, I am disappointed that the Majority 
has decided to use high-speed rail funding to offset the cost.
  I am disturbed by the Majority's decision to reach across 
jurisdictions and raid funding from the transportation sector, a sector 
in desperate need of investment. If an offset must be used then it 
should be from funds within the Energy and Water account. I also find 
it alarming that the Majority is cutting funds for high-speed rail, a 
program that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to fund relief for 
disasters that were exacerbated by climate change. By cutting this 
funding, we are increasing our greenhouse gas emissions and only 
ensuring that we will need exponentially more disaster relief in the 
future.
  The United States needs high-speed rail--it is vital to the mobility 
of our people and to our economic competitiveness. Creating a nation-
wide high-speed rail system would be a major economic catalyst that 
would create thousands of jobs, save billions in congestion reduction, 
curb our reliance on fossil fuels, reduce harmful pollution, and 
literally, save lives. Recognizing its enormous benefits, nations 
across the world are investing billions in high-speed rail and are 
creating systems that surpass existing U.S. rail service in speed, 
convenience, reliability, level of service, and comfort.
  My Democratic colleagues and I understand the importance of high-
speed rail and are fighting for vital funding. President Obama also 
understands the importance of investing in passenger rail and has set 
the ambitious goal of providing 80 percent of Americans with convenient 
access to a passenger rail system within 25 years. To reach this goal, 
the President has proposed $53 billion over six years to fund the 
development of high-speed rail and other passenger rail programs as 
part of an integrated national strategy. I support the President's 
goal, an important goal that will never come to fruition if the 
Majority continues to cut high-speed rail funding.
  Building a nationwide high-speed rail system is the 21st century 
equivalent of constructing the national interstate highway system, a 
project that has transformed the Nation. To create a nationwide rail 
system, the government is going to need to dramatically increase its 
rail sector spending. The discrepancy in historical Federal investment 
between highways, aviation, and intercity passenger rail is staggering. 
Between 1958 and 2008, we invested nearly $1.3 trillion in our Nation's 
highways and over $473 billion in aviation. Federal investment in 
passenger rail pales in comparison: we invested only $53 billion in 
passenger rail from 1971 to 2008.
  The American people recognize the absence of high-speed rail in the 
American transportation sector and are clamoring for it. Not a day goes 
by that I am not asked by a constituent about the prospects of bringing 
high-speed rail to Memphis. And Memphis is now closer than ever to 
joining the high-speed rail network, since a study I fought to 
authorize that is examining the feasibility of connecting Memphis to 
the South Central Corridor is nearing completion. But this important 
rail line will only be built if the Majority recognizes the obvious 
value of high-speed rail and transitions from eliminating all funding 
for high-speed rail development to fighting for additional funding.
  Having suffered through historic floods in Memphis this spring, I 
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any other member of this body how critical one billion dollars in 
disaster relief is. But I implore the Majority not to offset disaster 
relief with high-speed rail funding. We should not be forced to choose 
between leveraging our Nation's prosperity and paying for essential 
disaster relief.
  Mr. PASCRELL. Madam Chair, I rise in opposition to Title V of the 
Energy and Water Appropriations bill.
  Two months ago, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood visited New York 
to announce that $450 million rejected by the State of Florida would be 
used for Amtrak high-speed railway improvements in the State of New 
Jersey. To paraphrase a long time champion of Amtrak, who currently 
serves as our nation's Vice President, this was definitely a big deal.
  This needed funding is going to increase the speed and efficiency of 
Amtrak's Northeast Corridor (NEC) in New Jersey. Specifically, funding 
has been designated to improve the railroad's infrastructure between 
New Brunswick and Trenton, allowing for train speeds to be increased 
from 130 miles per hour, to 160 miles per hour, through improvements to 
NEC power system, signals, track, and catenaries. As anyone who has 
ridden on an Acela train during a hot day, or sat on a stagnant train 
during all too frequent power issues, knows that infrastructure 
improvements are very necessary for this busy stretch of railroad.
  Residents throughout the northeast, including thousands of New Jersey 
commuters riding New Jersey Transit, will be able to have a more 
efficient ride with most with a stronger, faster, and more consistent 
Northeast Corridor.
  New Jersey contractors, along with construction and rail laborers, 
are looking forward to getting to work on this needed project. I know 
that the people of New Jersey thought that this announcement was a done 
deal.
  That is why I joined their surprise when I learned the Appropriations 
Committee had decided to divert New Jersey's needed resources and 
redirect this funding for disaster relief for Mississippi and Missouri 
River flood events.
  I strongly support providing emergency disaster relief. I have great 
respect for my neighbor to the west, the Chairman of the Energy and 
Water Subcommittee. His intentions to help Americans who have been 
flooded out of homes and businesses are certainly laudable. We are both 
extremely sympathetic to flood relief as our adjoining districts have 
significant flooding problems that require federal assistance to 
resolve.
  But it is short sighted to take away funding for high-speed rail for 
this purpose. As China zooms past us at 250 miles per hour, our nation 
putters along with a transportation system that cannot keep up with 
growing population and demand. Coming off of another month with anemic 
job growth, we simply cannot afford to pull funding that would create 
good paying planning and construction jobs thatNew Jersey sorely needs.
  I urge the Committee to find a new offset for this emergency funding. 
And at the same time, I urge the Department of Transportation to 
obligate their rail funds quickly, so that we can get past this charade 
and get this important high speed rail funding out to bid.
  Mr. HONDA. I yield back the balance of my time.

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  Mr. NUNNELEE. Madam Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Mississippi is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. NUNNELEE. I want to thank the subcommittee chairman and the 
committee chairman for bringing this bill forward in the way that 
they've done it.
  I particularly want to thank them for the fact that this bill 
provides $1 billion in emergency funding for the Army Corps of 
Engineers to repair the damage caused by recent storms and floods and 
to prepare for future disaster events. This funding is offset by a 
rescission of the remaining emergency high-speed rail funding that was 
originally allocated in the stimulus bill.
  Our friends on the other side have told us they're not opposed to the 
emergency funding because of the storms and floods--they just don't 
like the offset. In fact, I've heard it said, We've always done it this 
way. When an emergency comes up, when a disaster occurs, we've always 
just funded it without a spending offset.
  Madam Chairman, on April 26, 2011, the people of Smithville, 
Mississippi, had hopes; they had dreams and they had plans. Some of 
those plans were budgetary and financial, but on April 27, at 
approximately 3 p.m., those plans changed. They changed drastically. 
When an historically devastating storm swept through the Southeast, 
Smithville, Mississippi, was struck by an EF5 tornado, and was 
literally wiped off the face of the Earth.
  Let me make it quite clear. The people of Smithville are very 
grateful for the outpouring of food, of supplies, of materials that 
have come from around the Nation. They're grateful for the outpouring 
of help that has come from the various agencies of the Federal and 
State governments, but those same people have also redirected plans and 
priorities in their own lives. They didn't proceed forward with the 
plans that they had the day before.
  Madam Chairman, if the men and women in Smithville, Mississippi--many 
of whom are living in trailers, many of whom have seen their lives 
disrupted and houses destroyed--are making the difficult choices in 
their own lives, they have every reason to expect their government to 
do the exact same thing.
  That's the basis for budgeting: deciding how to allocate available 
resources for both planned and unplanned events. They continue to say, 
But we've never done it that way.
  Madam Chairman, over the past three decades, if we'd had leadership 
in this body like that of the leader of this subcommittee and the 
chairman of the committee and if we had done it in the way that they're 
doing it today, our national debt would be at least $1.3 trillion 
lower, and we would not even be in this debate about considering to 
raise it.
  I want to thank the chairmen for their leadership, and I urge the 
passage of this bill.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. COSTA. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. COSTA. I rise in opposition to the underlying bill and to a 
provision of this bill that, I think, is highway robbery, plain and 
simple.
  Once again, my friends on the other side of the aisle are ignoring an 
opportunity to invest in their infrastructure, to create more jobs and 
to build a modern, 21st century system of transportation that utilizes 
our highways, our air transportation system and, yes, our rail in the 
state of high-speed rail systems that are part of America's future.
  I support providing, like I think the majority of my colleagues do, 
the funding for the Mississippi Delta--we should and we must--as we 
have with every area that has experienced a disaster over the history 
of our Nation, but there are other ways to provide that funding.
  In May of this year, Secretary Ray LaHood--a colleague of ours, a 
Republican--announced that $368 million of our tax dollars would go to 
California to invest in the San Joaquin Valley in order to construct 
the Nation's first true state-of-the-art high-speed rail system. It's a 
system in California that the people support. In 2008, Californians 
went to the polls, and voted overwhelmingly for a $9 billion bond 
measure to construct high-speed rail that will create hundreds of 
thousands of jobs throughout the State and that will create economic 
opportunities not only in the San Joaquin Valley but throughout 
California.
  But this provision steals that money and the promise of new jobs 
right from the hands of the people it is intended to benefit.
  The Great Recession hit my region of the country probably harder than 
almost any other place in America, with double-digit unemployment 
levels that exceed 20 percent. Too many people can't find jobs to keep 
roofs over their heads or can afford decent, healthy diets; but at a 
time when everyone in Washington says we should be focused on job 
creation, this provision is the only one I can see that's about job 
destruction.
  High-speed rail will create over 600,000 construction jobs over the 
life of the project over the next 10 to 20 years in California, but 
this provision says ``no.''
  High-speed rail will create 450,000 permanent jobs over the next 25 
years, but this provision just says ``no.''

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  High-speed rail will spur economic development by connecting our San 
Joaquin Valley with the Bay Area and southern California to create a 
system that will provide high-speed rail for 80 percent of California's 
population, but this provision just says ``no.''
  High-speed rail will improve our air quality and will reduce traffic 
that clogs our freeways. Of course, this provision just says ``no.''
  High-speed rail has proven to be a smart investment over the five 
decades that it has been developed in Europe and Asia, but this 
provision says ``no'' to America and ``no'' to California.
  High-speed rail will ensure that California is competitive well into 
the 21st century, but this would attempt to block that area to move 
into the next phase of a 21st century system of transportation.
  The people of California want high-speed rail--they voted for it and 
the jobs that it will create--but this provision, of course, just says 
``no.''
  Now, we've talked about our current financial situation. These are 
difficult times for America. There is no doubt about that. We must 
focus on our deficit, and we must come together in a bipartisan 
fashion. Yet I submit to any of you to tell me that we have a more 
difficult time today than we had in the 1860s, when our Nation was 
being torn apart by the Civil War--when inflation was running rampant, 
when deficit spending made our situation today look tame by comparison, 
when we had the first issue of paper money, and when a lot of people 
doubted the credibility of that paper currency.
  Yet we had a great Republican President, the Emancipator, during that 
time in our Nation's history when our country was being torn apart--who 
had boldness and a vision and who had decided we were going to build a 
railroad across the country and invest in our Nation even though we 
were in that Civil War. That's what he did.
  So this provision attempts to take on an effort, notwithstanding the 
difficult financial challenges that we have, to in essence say what 
President Lincoln said in the 1860s: We can do better. We can build a 
transcontinental railroad.
  President Obama believes we can get ourselves out of this financial 
situation by working together and, at the same time, by investing in 
our Nation's infrastructure, just as President Eisenhower did in the 
1950s when he decided to embark upon the effort to build interstate 
freeway transportation that we all benefit from today.
  This provision was slipped into law. So, ladies and gentlemen, I ask 
that we defeat this provision and that we keep our faith to the voters 
of California.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CRAWFORD. I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Arkansas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CRAWFORD. I would like to congratulate and recognize the 
tremendous work of the Appropriations Committee in responding to the 
flooding disasters during a time of tight budget restrictions. There 
were tough choices that had to be made, but I believe the committee 
effectively prioritized the needs of the American people.
  Madam Chair, my district in Arkansas was severely impacted by the 
recent floods that wrought devastation in the Mid-South and the Lower 
Mississippi Valley. Preliminary estimates of crop damage surpassed a 
half a billion dollars, and communities were evacuated because the 
levees struggled to retain the floodwaters.

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  The St. Francis levee district suffered the most damage because the 
water levels were so high the water enclosed entire areas and almost 
completely flooded Cross and Woodroof Counties in my district. In St. 
Francis County alone, hundreds of homes were underwater and tens of 
thousands of acres of farmland were flooded as well.
  In another part of my district, heavy flooding devastated all areas 
of Des Arc in Prairie County. The community of Spring Lake, which is 
home to 32 families, was completely flooded with several feet of water. 
So far, only three of those families have moved back into their homes. 
The community of Smith Road, which is home to 18 families, was 
completely flooded as well. So far, not one of those families has been 
able to move back to their homes. On top of the damage to these 
communities, more than 50,000 acres of farmland were flooded. The 
entire corn crop was wiped out and most of the rice crop as well.
  Mr. Chair, the flood disasters across the Mid-South have taken a huge 
toll on our way of life and have touched nearly everyone in my 
district. We must ensure we retain the vital funding to the Corps of 
Engineers so that we can repair and reinforce our levees so that 
citizens in the lower Mississippi Valley and the Mid-South can live in 
safety and our economy can recover.
  With that, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. RYAN of Ohio. I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Dold). The gentleman is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. RYAN of Ohio. Thank you.
  This has been an interesting debate. I've been able to sit down here 
and listen to a lot of folks on both sides talk about really 
investments that we need to make in the United States. I'm glad that 
there are some investments that our friends on the other side actually 
think are important to the country, because it seems in many ways the 
national narrative is that there isn't anything the government can make 
investments in that is important for our country.
  To hear some Members talk about natural disasters and to hear some 
Members talk about the barges going up and down and farmland, there's a 
huge subsidy program where billions of Federal dollars are spent to 
support farmers. There are obviously dams that need to be built, and 
that is Federal money. When it applies to certain Members' districts 
where they are actually affected and families affected, it's their 
responsibility to come to Washington, D.C., and advocate for those 
investments.
  I think what you're seeing here on our side is that we have Members 
on this side of the aisle who believe that investments need to be made 
in our communities, too, and that over 30 years, if you take cities 
like Youngstown or Cleveland or Detroit, you will see cities that need 
investment. We may not have had a natural disaster, but over the last 
30 years we have had an economic disaster where we have had a lack of 
private investment. I am rising here to say that high-speed rail can be 
a force multiplier in our economic improvement in our community and 
across the country.
  The gentleman from California just cited the number of jobs, the 
billions of dollars that could be invested. In Youngstown, Ohio, we 
would be linked up to a Pittsburgh to Cleveland corridor that would 
then go over to Toledo and Detroit and that would make its way over to 
Chicago. This is essentially connecting the United States of America.
  You would be taking an economic region like ours with two major 
powerhouses in education and in health care that would be connected by 
high-speed rail. In Ohio, we gave away the high-speed rail money, too. 
Our Governor gave it away. And there were hundreds of millions of 
dollars in private investment that was going to follow the public 
investment that needs to be made. But if we're going to connect, if 
we're going to try to resuscitate some of these older areas in our 
country, high-speed rail is a way to do it.
  These are investments that can be made. We can connect the Cleveland 
Clinic with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. We can connect 
Case Western Reserve with Carnegie Mellon, and they can partner in 
research, get on the train, and help lead some economic development and 
commercialization of products. You could take a region of our country 
and connect it through high-speed rail.
  The problem is--and I will end with this--all of these investments 
need to be made. This is the dirty little secret in Washington, D.C. 
We're only spending 2 percent of our GDP on our infrastructure, while 
China and India are spending 10 percent of their GDP reinvesting back 
into their country. We will lose the future if we do not make

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these investments. These are critical to the competitiveness of the 
United States. The dams that need to be built and the high-speed rail 
and the roads and the combined sewer and the airports and the ports and 
the highways and the bridges, we need to invest in all of these things.
  Our country is crumbling. We can't have Members say, We only need to 
make this one investment for this one dam because it's in my district 
and because I know families who have been hurt. We've got to elevate 
ourselves and look at what needs to be done in the entirety of the 
whole country and how we are going to compete against China, how we are 
going to compete against India, how we are going to be globally 
competitive.
  All of these investments need to be made, including the economic 
development and the private investment that can be drawn in through 
high-speed rail.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. I thank the chairman, and I really do want 
to thank our appropriators. This is a tough, tough business. I 
certainly want to thank the ranking member whom I've had the privilege 
of working with and thank the chairman as well, because this is a tough 
dilemma that we are facing.
  I think I come with a unique perspective. I live in hurricane and 
flood country. Houston is the site and was the recipient of hundreds of 
thousands of Katrina survivors coming in from New Orleans. We have 
faced our own ups and downs, most recently with Hurricane Ike, and I 
walked the beach with both former President Clinton and former 
President Bush when we went down to Galveston and looked at the amazing 
devastation.
  So many of us were concerned about the tragedy in Joplin, Missouri, 
and other places, and then the constant flooding. I have talked to 
Members of Congress where there is flooding going on in their district 
as we speak. But here is the dilemma that we have and the reason that I 
rise to raise the question of the recapturing of already designated 
funds and to realize that these are not funds that were just sitting in 
a pile unused. These funds are not only already designated--I would 
like to say appropriated--high-speed rail dollars but, as well, these 
funds will generate thousands of jobs.
  As I read the amounts of moneys that were designated, $450 million 
were going to be utilized for necessary repairs in New Jersey. That 
means that my friends on the floor of the House have made a sacrifice, 
and I appreciate that, but high-speed rail is a valuable and necessary 
investment in America's future.
  I truly believe that there could have been a compromise, where 
resources could have been used for the flooding problems in the area 
that my colleagues have spoken about, the needy areas, and still leave 
an amount that would have been shared for high-speed rail. Let's create 
jobs together. That is the restoration of those flood areas, and I 
would almost ask the question without knowing as a member of the 
authorizing committee for Homeland Security, what other opportunities 
might have been in place to be able to utilize those dollars for the 
disaster that has occurred.
  But I will tell you, it is no doubt as you go across Europe and see 
the value of high-speed rail, new technology, that America is far 
behind with its high-speed rail investment, the new technology, the new 
science, the new kinds of cars that are being produced that will create 
jobs, in essence putting the cars together, manufacturing the cars but 
then the assembling of the cars now being placed in cities around 
America. Those are real jobs, long-term jobs.
  The decision that the administration made was a thoughtful decision. 
Let me thank Secretary LaHood for understanding the value of high-speed 
rail, and I would suggest that the proposal that we have for Texas does 
impact rural Texas. It is a proposal for high-speed rail from Houston 
to Dallas, going through our rural communities, creating the 
opportunities for jobs but creating the opportunities for investment in 
the purchase of land and the growth of business. All of that has an 
impact in creating jobs.

                              {time}  1410

  That's what we are all here for. We are here to be the rainy day 
umbrella for Americans who are in trouble, and as well we're here to 
create jobs, which Americans are so desperately in need of.
  So I am disappointed that we didn't find the happy balance, and I 
believe that we could; that we couldn't measure the amount of resources 
that might have been able to be utilized for our friends that have just 
experienced a disaster and not completely gut monies that are already 
designated, appropriated. It's almost as if we came in and said there's 
a pile of cash, and I'm not going to bother to identify what it's 
supposed to be used for.
  I would hope that there would be a method of reconsideration. These 
are fair gentlemen on the floor of the House. I've worked with all of 
my colleagues here. And I would just raise the question of why would 
we, in essence, zero out high-speed rail, not only for our urban 
centers but for our midwestern areas that are desperately in need of 
jobs, and for the southern areas that now are looking to the future for 
high-speed rail to create jobs and to create the quality, excellent, 
superior mobility system that Americans deserve--not the country of 
America, but the people of America deserve.
  I would argue vigorously for a reconsideration of the funding and the 
restructuring of the funding to ensure that we have high-speed rail, 
create jobs, and deal with our friends who are in need.
  Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of funding for high speed rail, 
and the importance of ensuring that money designated for high speed 
rail by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is utilized to build 
high speed railways.
  I must express my concerns about the offset in the amendment offered 
by the gentleman from New Jersey. There is no doubt that recent 
flooding in the Midwest has devastated communities and greatly impacted 
the region's economy.
  The Army Corps of Engineers must have the resources to address the 
damage wrought by the flooding of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, 
but I urge my colleagues to consider the source of this funding.
  The funding allocated for high speed rail in the American Recovery 
and Reinvestment Act will do more than update our Nation's 
transportation system; high speed rail creates jobs, increases tourism 
and is environmentally sustainable.
  The Department of Transportation recently awarded $15 million for a 
high speed rail project in Texas. The funding was awarded for 
engineering and environmental work to develop a high-speed rail 
corridor linking Dallas and Houston, where I represent the 18th 
Congressional District.
  The demand for high speed rail in the state of Texas is significant. 
The second most populous state in the Nation, Texas' population is 
forecasted to grow by an additional 9.4 million people by 2035, a 38.9 
percent increase over projected 2010 levels.
  Additionally, the population growth is not going to be spread evenly 
across the state. According to the Texas State Data Center, 92 percent 
of the 2010-2035 population growth will occur in the existing 
metropolitan counties. High speed rail is an investment in the future 
of the state.
  Receiving this funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment 
Act was a tremendous opportunity for Houston, and the entire state of 
Texas. The award will allow our state to make critical investments in 
infrastructure that will increase mobility and allow for better 
commercial and private growth of our cities.
  A long time supporter of high speed rail, I supported the Safe 
Highways and Infrastructure Preservation Act, and secured $150 million 
dollars for the metro solutions light rail project because high-speed 
rail projects and other transportation investments represent the 
potential to create hundreds of jobs, enhanced mobility, and future 
economic development for Texas, and the entire Nation.
  I commend the Chairman for recognizing the need for emergency funding 
in flood stricken areas. However, there are plenty of places from which 
my colleagues can offset funding. I cannot support an amendment that 
offsets

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funding from critical infrastructure projects that create jobs. I urge 
my colleagues in the Majority to explain why they would rather take 
funding from projects that create middle class jobs than raise taxes 
for billionaires.
  We must repair the damage done by flooding, but we must also invest 
in the future of America. Other nations around the world have shown us 
that the future is high speed rail. It is our responsibility to make 
critical investments in infrastructure projects, like high speed rail.
  I urge my colleagues to think about the consequences of continuing to 
provide tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans at the expense of middle 
class jobs and improvements to our Nation's infrastructure. Offsetting 
funding for high speed rail for emergency disaster relief is not a 
responsible course of action.
  My Republican colleagues constantly talk about creating jobs, yet 
time and time again, they turn away from opportunities to do so. The 
time for rhetoric has passed; what the country needs, what our 
constituents need is action. Offsetting funding for high speed rail, 
slashing funds that will create jobs is the wrong action, and I urge my 
colleagues to reconsider.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CLARKE of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. CLARKE of Michigan. Mr. Chairman, I am urging this House to spend 
the high-speed rail money on what it's designated for, high-speed rail 
projects.
  Much of this money, or a good portion of it, was turned down by 
Governors of other States. So I'm here as a representative of 
Michigan's 13th District, and I want to go on the record right now of 
claiming that money because Michigan and metro Detroit, the district 
that I represent, we need jobs, jobs that will be created by the high-
speed rail project, jobs that will be created when that high-speed rail 
that links Detroit to Chicago is tied into a regional transit system 
around metro Detroit. That's going to attract businesses all around 
that system. Companies and employers are more likely to stay in 
Detroit, move to Detroit when they realize they can have close access 
to Chicago and other midwestern areas. But jobs not only as an indirect 
result of this transit system and high-speed rail system, but by 
manufacturing the rails and the passenger cars that are going to be 
used. By creating jobs, that is the most effective way to create a 
long-term, resilient, enduring economy. And that's the best way to pay 
down our debt.
  I understand the point that we should allocate a funding source to 
provide funding for the flood victims. Well, I would like to propose 
one.
  Over the last 10 years, this Congress has authorized the spending of 
over $50 billion--that's with a ``b''--in economic aid to Afghanistan. 
Each fiscal year, including this current one, we're spending at least 
$4 billion on economic aid in Afghanistan. I'm proposing let's just 
take a share of the money we're sending overseas to help serve and 
protect people in another country, let's redirect American tax dollars 
back to serve Americans.
  And my fundamental point is this: We need to be more conservative 
with our tax dollars. Yes, there are needs all around the world, but 
our people need help right here. This budget choice that we're faced 
with right now underscores that. This is a choice that we should not 
have to make. We shouldn't have to choose between serving flood victims 
and providing for long-term jobs that we need in Michigan and metro 
Detroit through high-speed rail.
  You know, there is another fairness issue. Folks where I live, the 
auto capital of the world, they can't afford an automobile because of 
the high cost of automobile insurance. They need high-speed rail and 
the synergy it will create with mass transit.
  So again, I urge you, let's use this money for its intended purpose--
to ultimately create jobs. That's the best way that we can pay down the 
Federal debt, and also it's the principle of it. In these tough 
economic times, let's redirect American tax dollars to serve Americans. 
High-speed rail in America will create jobs and make a difference for 
our people, a positive difference.
  I yield back the balance of my time.


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings 
will now resume on those amendments on which further proceedings were 
postponed, in the following order:
  An amendment by Mr. Matheson of Utah.
  An amendment by Mr. Reed of New York.
  Amendment No. 65 by Mr. Holt of New Jersey.
  Amendment No. 68 by Mr. Royce of California.
  Amendment No. 43 by Mr. Broun of Georgia.
  An amendment by Mr. Schiff of California.
  Amendment No. 48 by Mr. Broun of Georgia.
  An amendment by Mr. Shimkus of Illinois.
  Amendment No. 47 by Mr. Broun of Georgia.
  The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the time for any electronic vote 
after the first vote in this series.


                   Amendment Offered by Mr. Matheson

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Utah (Mr. 
Matheson) 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 168, 
noes 257, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 574]

                               AYES--168

     Ackerman
     Altmire
     Amash
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bass (CA)
     Becerra
     Berman
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boswell
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chaffetz
     Chandler
     Chu
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costello
     Courtney
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Gibson
     Gonzalez
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hanna
     Hastings (FL)
     Heinrich
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hochul
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     Kissell
     Kucinich
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Paul
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Ross (AR)
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shuler
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Speier
     Stark
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth

                               NOES--257

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Andrews
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (NH)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Berkley
     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
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Cicilline
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Davis (KY)
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores

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     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garamendi
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanabusa
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Holden
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kaptur
     Kelly
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Langevin
     Lankford
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marino
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Moore
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pence
     Petri
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Reyes
     Ribble
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (FL)
     Rothman (NJ)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Visclosky
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Costa
     Ellison
     Giffords
     Hinchey
     Pelosi
     Rush

                              {time}  1442

  Ms. MOORE, Messrs. AKIN, ROTHMAN, and STUTZMAN changed their vote 
from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  Messrs. CRITZ, GUTIERREZ, AMASH, BISHOP of Georgia, and DOYLE changed 
their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                     Amendment Offered by Mr. Reed

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York 
(Mr. Reed) 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 261, 
noes 162, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 575]

                               AYES--261

     Ackerman
     Adams
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (CA)
     Bass (NH)
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blumenauer
     Bono Mack
     Boswell
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Butterfield
     Camp
     Canseco
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Chandler
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Costa
     Courtney
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Deutch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Doyle
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Engel
     Farenthold
     Farr
     Filner
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fortenberry
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Gardner
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grijalva
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hanna
     Hartzler
     Hastings (FL)
     Hayworth
     Heinrich
     Higgins
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hochul
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Hultgren
     Hurt
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     Kissell
     Kucinich
     Lance
     Landry
     Langevin
     Lankford
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     LaTourette
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (CT)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Paul
     Paulsen
     Payne
     Pearce
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Pitts
     Platts
     Polis
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Reichert
     Reyes
     Ribble
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Roe (TN)
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Ross (FL)
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (WI)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (SC)
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Stark
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Sutton
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Tipton
     Tonko
     Towns
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Walden
     Wasserman Schultz
     Watt
     Waxman
     Webster
     Welch
     West
     Wilson (FL)
     Woodall
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth
     Young (AK)

                               NOES--162

     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Amash
     Andrews
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Bartlett
     Berg
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Boren
     Boustany
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Castor (FL)
     Chu
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Cooper
     Costello
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (KY)
     Diaz-Balart
     Donnelly (IN)
     Dreier
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Eshoo
     Fattah
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Flores
     Forbes
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garamendi
     Garrett
     Gingrey (GA)
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Hall
     Hanabusa
     Harper
     Harris
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Himes
     Holden
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hunter
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Kelly
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Latham
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Mack
     Marino
     McCaul
     McCotter
     McKeon
     McNerney
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, Gary
     Murphy (PA)
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Pastor (AZ)
     Pence
     Poe (TX)
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Rehberg
     Renacci
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rothman (NJ)
     Runyan
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Southerland
     Speier
     Thornberry
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Visclosky
     Walberg
     Walsh (IL)
     Walz (MN)
     Waters
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Yoder
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Ellison
     Fleming
     Giffords
     Hinchey
     King (IA)
     Maloney
     Moran
     Pelosi

                              {time}  1447

  Mr. WESTMORELAND changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  Messrs. HONDA, WEBSTER, and CONYERS 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. FLEMING. Mr. Chairman, on rollcall No. 575 I was unavoidably 
detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.''


                  Amendment No. 65 Offered by Mr. Holt

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New Jersey 
(Mr. Holt)

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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 164, 
noes 261, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 576]

                               AYES--164

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

                               NOES--261

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Amash
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (NH)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Berkley
     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
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Chandler
     Cicilline
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Costa
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Critz
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Eshoo
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Garamendi
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanabusa
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Heinrich
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Holden
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan
     Kelly
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kissell
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Langevin
     Lankford
     Larsen (WA)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marino
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Pastor (AZ)
     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)
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Slaughter
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Walz (MN)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Ellison
     Giffords
     Hinchey
     Hirono
     King (IA)
     Meeks
  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in 
this vote.

                              {time}  1451

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Ms. HIRONO. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 576, had I been present, I 
would have voted ``aye.''


                 Amendment No. 68 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 will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 136, 
noes 291, not voting 4, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 577]

                               AYES--136

     Adams
     Akin
     Amash
     Bachmann
     Barton (TX)
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bono Mack
     Boustany
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Conaway
     Costa
     Cravaack
     Denham
     Duncan (TN)
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Flake
     Fleming
     Flores
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guthrie
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kline
     Labrador
     Landry
     Lewis (CA)
     Long
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marino
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKeon
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Owens
     Paul
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pence
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Ribble
     Roe (TN)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schmidt
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Smith (NJ)
     Stearns
     Stutzman
     Thornberry
     Tipton
     Walberg
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Wilson (SC)
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--291

     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Austria
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baldwin
     Barletta
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Bass (CA)
     Bass (NH)
     Becerra
     Berg
     Berkley
     Berman
     Biggert
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonner
     Boren
     Boswell
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Braley (IA)
     Brooks
     Brown (FL)
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Butterfield
     Camp
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver

[[Page 11177]]


     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costello
     Courtney
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Edwards
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Frank (MA)
     Frelinghuysen
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gonzalez
     Granger
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Guinta
     Gutierrez
     Hall
     Hanabusa
     Hanna
     Harper
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Heinrich
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hochul
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Hultgren
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly
     Kildee
     Kind
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kissell
     Kucinich
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Langevin
     Lankford
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McCotter
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Noem
     Olson
     Olver
     Palazzo
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Platts
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schilling
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (SC)
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Southerland
     Speier
     Stark
     Stivers
     Sullivan
     Sutton
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Welch
     Whitfield
     Wilson (FL)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Bilbray
     Ellison
     Giffords
     Hinchey


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in 
this vote.

                              {time}  1454

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


            Amendment No. 43 Offered by Mr. Broun of Georgia

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Georgia 
(Mr. Broun) 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 99, 
noes 328, not voting 4, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 578]

                                AYES--99

     Akin
     Amash
     Bachmann
     Benishek
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bono Mack
     Brady (TX)
     Broun (GA)
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Conaway
     Cravaack
     Duncan (TN)
     Flake
     Fleming
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Garrett
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gowdy
     Graves (GA)
     Green, Gene
     Griffith (VA)
     Guthrie
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     King (IA)
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Landry
     Long
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marino
     McClintock
     McHenry
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Nugent
     Paul
     Pitts
     Pompeo
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Ribble
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schmidt
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stutzman
     Tipton
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Wilson (SC)
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--328

     Ackerman
     Adams
     Aderholt
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Austria
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baldwin
     Barletta
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (CA)
     Bass (NH)
     Becerra
     Berg
     Berkley
     Berman
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonner
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boustany
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brooks
     Brown (FL)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Butterfield
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Edwards
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farenthold
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Frank (MA)
     Frelinghuysen
     Fudge
     Gallegly
     Garamendi
     Gardner
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gonzalez
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al
     Griffin (AR)
     Grijalva
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Gutierrez
     Hall
     Hanabusa
     Hanna
     Harper
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Heinrich
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hochul
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Hultgren
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly
     Kildee
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kissell
     Kucinich
     Lance
     Langevin
     Lankford
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     Latta
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCaul
     McCollum
     McCotter
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Noem
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Olver
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paulsen
     Payne
     Pearce
     Pelosi
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Polis
     Posey
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schilling
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stark
     Stivers
     Sullivan
     Sutton
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Welch
     Whitfield
     Wilson (FL)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Ellison
     Giffords
     Hinchey
     LaTourette

[[Page 11178]]



                              {time}  1458

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


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Schiff

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California 
(Mr. Schiff) 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 214, 
noes 213, not voting 4, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 579]

                               AYES--214

     Ackerman
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Bass (CA)
     Bass (NH)
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bilbray
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Boren
     Boswell
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DesJarlais
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gerlach
     Gibson
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Green, Al
     Griffith (VA)
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Harris
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck
     Heinrich
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hochul
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kissell
     Kucinich
     Lance
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     LaTourette
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Manzullo
     Marino
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCaul
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Platts
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reichert
     Reyes
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Ross (AR)
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shuler
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stark
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Welch
     West
     Wilson (FL)
     Woodall
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth

                               NOES--213

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

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Ellison
     Giffords
     Green, Gene
     Hinchey


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in 
this vote.

                              {time}  1501

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 579, had I been 
present, I would have voted ``aye.''


            Amendment No. 48 Offered by Mr. Broun of Georgia

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Georgia 
(Mr. Broun) 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 114, 
noes 309, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 580]

                               AYES--114

     Adams
     Akin
     Amash
     Bachmann
     Barton (TX)
     Benishek
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bono Mack
     Brady (TX)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Buerkle
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Coffman (CO)
     Conaway
     Cravaack
     Culberson
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (KY)
     DesJarlais
     Duffy
     Duncan (TN)
     Fincher
     Flake
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Garrett
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Graves (GA)
     Griffith (VA)
     Hall
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hayworth
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kingston
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Latta
     Long
     Mack
     Marino
     Matheson
     McClintock
     McHenry
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Nugent
     Paul
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Petri
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Rigell
     Roe (TN)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Schmidt
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Smith (NE)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stutzman
     Thornberry
     Tipton
     Walberg
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Woodall
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--309

     Aderholt
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Austria
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baldwin
     Barletta
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Bass (CA)
     Bass (NH)
     Becerra
     Berg
     Berkley
     Berman
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)

[[Page 11179]]


     Blumenauer
     Bonner
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boustany
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Butterfield
     Calvert
     Camp
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Cohen
     Cole
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Denham
     Dent
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duncan (SC)
     Edwards
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farenthold
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fortenberry
     Frank (MA)
     Frelinghuysen
     Fudge
     Gallegly
     Garamendi
     Gardner
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gonzalez
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffin (AR)
     Grijalva
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Hanna
     Harper
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck
     Heinrich
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hochul
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Issa
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly
     Kildee
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kissell
     Kucinich
     Lance
     Landry
     Langevin
     Lankford
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Manzullo
     Markey
     Matsui
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCaul
     McCollum
     McCotter
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Noem
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Olver
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Platts
     Polis
     Posey
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Reyes
     Ribble
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rivera
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schilling
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Stark
     Stivers
     Sullivan
     Sutton
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Ackerman
     Andrews
     Ellison
     Giffords
     Hinchey
     LaTourette
     Marchant
     Speier


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in 
this vote.

                              {time}  1504

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


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Shimkus

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois 
(Mr. Shimkus) 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 297, 
noes 130, not voting 4, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 581]

                               AYES--297

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Akin
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Amash
     Andrews
     Austria
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barrow
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (NH)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Bono Mack
     Boren
     Boswell
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Braley (IA)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Capito
     Cardoza
     Carney
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chandler
     Clay
     Coble
     Coffman (CO)
     Cohen
     Cole
     Conaway
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Cravaack
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Critz
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Emerson
     Farenthold
     Fattah
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heinrich
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hochul
     Holden
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Inslee
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan
     Keating
     Kelly
     Kildee
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Lankford
     Larsen (WA)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Marchant
     Marino
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy (PA)
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Pitts
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Price (NC)
     Quayle
     Quigley
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Richardson
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (AR)
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Slaughter
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Sutton
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Tonko
     Turner
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Visclosky
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     Welch
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yarmuth
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--130

     Ackerman
     Baca
     Baldwin
     Bass (CA)
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blumenauer
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carnahan
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chaffetz
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Doggett
     Edwards
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Filner
     Frank (MA)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gonzalez
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Kissell
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Long
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McKeon
     Meeks
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Olver
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paul
     Payne
     Pearce
     Pelosi
     Peters
     Polis
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reyes
     Richmond
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Serrano
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sires
     Smith (WA)
     Speier

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     Stark
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Velazquez
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Wilson (FL)
     Woolsey
     Wu

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Crowley
     Ellison
     Giffords
     Hinchey


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining in 
this vote.

                              {time}  1508

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


            Amendment No. 47 Offered by Mr. Broun of Georgia

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Georgia 
(Mr. Broun) 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 187, 
noes 239, not voting 5, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 582]

                               AYES--187

     Adams
     Akin
     Amash
     Bachmann
     Bartlett
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (NH)
     Benishek
     Berg
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Bono Mack
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Conaway
     Cravaack
     Culberson
     Davis (KY)
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duffy
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Flake
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Gallegly
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Gene
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harris
     Hayworth
     Heinrich
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (IL)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Landry
     Lankford
     Latta
     Lewis (CA)
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Mack
     Manzullo
     Matheson
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCotter
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McMorris Rodgers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Myrick
     Neugebauer
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Paul
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pence
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Petri
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Polis
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Quayle
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (FL)
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sullivan
     Terry
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Upton
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--239

     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Andrews
     Austria
     Baca
     Bachus
     Baldwin
     Barletta
     Barrow
     Bass (CA)
     Becerra
     Berkley
     Berman
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blackburn
     Blumenauer
     Bonner
     Boren
     Boswell
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardoza
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Cohen
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello
     Courtney
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Critz
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     Denham
     Deutch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duncan (SC)
     Edwards
     Emerson
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Frank (MA)
     Frelinghuysen
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Gerlach
     Gibson
     Gonzalez
     Gowdy
     Green, Al
     Griffin (AR)
     Grijalva
     Guthrie
     Hanabusa
     Harper
     Hartzler
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hochul
     Holden
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Inslee
     Israel
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly
     Kildee
     Kind
     King (IA)
     Kissell
     Kucinich
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Lynch
     Maloney
     Marino
     Markey
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McKinley
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Michaud
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (CT)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Noem
     Nunnelee
     Olver
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Platts
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reyes
     Ribble
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Ross (AR)
     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
     Shimkus
     Shuler
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stark
     Sutton
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Womack
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Yarmuth
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Ellison
     Giffords
     Gutierrez
     Hinchey
     Marchant


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1512

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Chairman, I move that the Committee do now 
rise.
  The motion was agreed to.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
Webster) having assumed the chair, Mr. Dold, 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. 2354) 
making appropriations for energy and water development and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012, and for other 
purposes, had come to no resolution thereon.

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