[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 17308-17309]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 PATENT OVERHAUL TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, 5-minute voting will 
continue.
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The unfinished business is the vote on the 
motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 6621) to correct 
and improve certain provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act 
and title 35, United States Code, as amended, on which the yeas and 
nays were ordered.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Smith) that the House suspend the rules and 
pass the bill, as amended.
  This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 308, 
nays 89, not voting 34, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 631]

                               YEAS--308

     Adams
     Aderholt
     Alexander
     Altmire
     Amodei
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Baldwin
     Barber
     Barletta
     Barrow
     Barton (TX)
     Bass (CA)
     Bass (NH)
     Becerra
     Berg
     Berkley
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Bonamici
     Bonner
     Boswell
     Boustany
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Buerkle
     Butterfield
     Calvert
     Camp

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     Campbell
     Canseco
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carnahan
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Castor (FL)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Chandler
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (MI)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Cohen
     Conaway
     Connolly (VA)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Curson (MI)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis (IL)
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Dent
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donnelly (IN)
     Dreier
     Duffy
     Ellison
     Ellmers
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farenthold
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Fudge
     Gallegly
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gingrey (GA)
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Heck
     Heinrich
     Hensarling
     Herger
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Hirono
     Hochul
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hurt
     Israel
     Issa
     Jackson Lee (TX)
     Jenkins
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Keating
     Kildee
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Lance
     Lankford
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Long
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Maloney
     Marchant
     Marino
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCaul
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (MI)
     Miller (NC)
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (CT)
     Murphy (PA)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Olson
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Paulsen
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Pingree (ME)
     Pitts
     Pompeo
     Price (GA)
     Price (NC)
     Quayle
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Rehberg
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Richardson
     Richmond
     Rigell
     Rivera
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rokita
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross (FL)
     Rothman (NJ)
     Roybal-Allard
     Runyan
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott (SC)
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Sewell
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Sutton
     Terry
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Tonko
     Towns
     Tsongas
     Turner (OH)
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walz (MN)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Welch
     Whitfield
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woolsey
     Yoder
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                                NAYS--89

     Amash
     Andrews
     Benishek
     Biggert
     Black
     Blackburn
     Brooks
     Broun (GA)
     Burgess
     Burton (IN)
     Coffman (CO)
     Cole
     Critz
     Cummings
     Denham
     DesJarlais
     Doyle
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Emerson
     Fincher
     Flake
     Fleischmann
     Garamendi
     Gardner
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Graves (GA)
     Green, Gene
     Hanabusa
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Holden
     Huelskamp
     Hunter
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kaptur
     Kelly
     Kingston
     Kucinich
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Langevin
     Lummis
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Manzullo
     Massie
     McClintock
     Miller (FL)
     Moore
     Myrick
     Palazzo
     Pastor (AZ)
     Paul
     Pearce
     Peterson
     Petri
     Platts
     Poe (TX)
     Polis
     Posey
     Ribble
     Roe (TN)
     Rohrabacher
     Rooney
     Royce
     Scalise
     Schilling
     Schmidt
     Schock
     Schwartz
     Sensenbrenner
     Sherman
     Smith (NE)
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Thompson (PA)
     Tipton
     Turner (NY)
     Walsh (IL)
     Webster
     West
     Westmoreland
     Wolf
     Woodall
     Young (AK)

                             NOT VOTING--34

     Ackerman
     Akin
     Austria
     Baca
     Bartlett
     Berman
     Blumenauer
     Bono Mack
     Boren
     Costello
     Cravaack
     Dingell
     Gonzalez
     Granger
     Green, Al
     Grijalva
     Johnson (IL)
     Kissell
     Landry
     Lujan
     Lynch
     Mack
     Markey
     Moran
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Pence
     Reyes
     Ross (AR)
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Shuler
     Stark
     Sullivan
     Yarmuth

                              {time}  1909

  Messrs. COLE and FLEISCHMANN changed their vote from ``yea'' to 
``nay.''
  So (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and 
the bill, as amended, was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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