[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
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 PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE SENATE AMENDMENT TO H.J. RES. 59, 
     CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS RESOLUTION, 2014, AND PROVIDING FOR 
            CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 3210, PAY OUR MILITARY ACT

  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I 
call up House Resolution 366 and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

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                              H. Res. 366

       Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be 
     in order to take from the Speaker's table the joint 
     resolution (H.J. Res. 59) making continuing appropriations 
     for fiscal year 2014, and for other purposes, with the Senate 
     amendment thereto, and to consider in the House, without 
     intervention of any point of order, a motion offered by the 
     chair of the Committee on Appropriations or his designee that 
     the House concur in the Senate amendment with each of the two 
     amendments printed in the report of the Committee on Rules 
     accompanying this resolution. The Senate amendment and the 
     motion shall be considered as read. The motion shall be 
     debatable for one hour equally divided and controlled by the 
     chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
     Appropriations. The previous question shall be considered as 
     ordered on the motion to its adoption without intervening 
     motion or demand for division of the question except that the 
     question of adoption of the motion shall be divided between 
     the two House amendments.
       Sec. 2.  Upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in 
     order to consider in the House the bill (H.R. 3210) making 
     continuing appropriations for military pay in the event of a 
     Government shutdown. All points of order against 
     consideration of the bill are waived. The bill shall be 
     considered as read. All points of order against provisions in 
     the bill are waived. The previous question shall be 
     considered as ordered on the bill and on any amendment 
     thereto to final passage without intervening motion except: 
     (1) 40 minutes of debate equally divided and controlled by 
     the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
     Appropriations; and (2) one motion to recommit.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 1 
hour.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I yield 
the customary 30 minutes to the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. 
Slaughter), the ranking member of the committee and my friend, pending 
which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration 
of this resolution, all time yielded is for the purpose of debate only.


                             General Leave

  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their 
remarks.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Texas?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. SESSIONS. House Resolution 366 provides for consideration of the 
Senate amendment to H.J. Res. 59, the Continuing Appropriations Act for 
Fiscal Year 2014, and a closed rule for consideration of H.R. 3210, the 
Pay Our Military Act of 2013.
  Mr. Speaker, at midnight on Monday, just 2 days from now, the Federal 
Government will shut down if Congress does not act to provide the 
necessary appropriations. The legislation before us today will ensure 
that a shutdown does not happen; and, if adopted, the House amendments 
would make important steps to ensure that ObamaCare, the Affordable 
Care Act that President Obama and every Democrat voted for, does not 
have the opportunity to hurt American jobs and drag down our economy.
  The first of these three amendments would repeal the medical device 
tax included in ObamaCare. This medical device tax is also known as 
what might be the tax that will harm not only the creation of 
investment but also the products of medical devices, including 
pacemakers and other medical products that keep America's health care a 
leading edge. The medical device industry provides our Nation with 
innovative health care services as well as much-needed jobs for many, 
many hardworking Americans. ObamaCare's onerous medical device tax--
what we also call the pacemaker tax--is already causing job loss in 
this industry and negatively impacting innovation of new and other 
lifesaving devices.
  I would like to insert into the Record a letter from a gentleman from 
Dallas, Texas, Mr. Walt Humann, CEO of OstoeMed, who came to my office 
over a year ago in June of 2012. He spoke with me about how innovative 
medical devices clearly help not only Americans, but doctors perform 
very difficult and leading-edge surgeries. And I will tell you that Mr. 
Humann spoke very clearly about how this onerous tax would literally 
tax the production, not the sale, but the production of medical devices 
to an industry that needs more and more innovation. That clearly 
explains the damaging effects that this has on American businesses. His 
letter, Mr. Speaker, clearly outlines how it harms not only his 
company, but the industry as a whole.
  The second amendment would delay all aspects of ObamaCare for 1 year. 
This proposal is an important step to prevent the costly job-killing 
regulations contained in President Obama's health care plan from 
becoming an unfortunate reality. The President has already delayed 
several pieces of the law; and just as he begins to see how ill-
conceived and unworkable his plan is, it's time for us to stop it dead 
in its tracks. So much for the hundreds of waivers that he has issued; 
so much for him delaying for his friends in business; so much for him 
delaying the pieces that he wants to, knowing that the harm will be on 
individuals all across America. It makes sense to delay the entire law 
for a year in an effort to protect American families from paying higher 
health care premiums and having fewer options.
  This is important, and the Republican Party is on the floor of the 
House of Representatives today on behalf of taxpayers and what we 
believe is about 60 percent of Americans who are opposed to this bill 
starting to work October 1. So that's why we are here.
  Finally, this rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3210, the Pay 
Our Military Act. This important piece of legislation is designed to 
ensure that our Nation's men and women in the military continue to 
receive their paychecks in the event that the Senate does not adopt a 
responsible CR and forces our government into a shutdown.
  Our Nation's military puts their lives on the line, and they have 
throughout the history of our country. They remain engaged in combat 
operations as we go to sleep tonight. They are protecting this great 
Nation, and the services that the men and women of the military provide 
to the United States of America should be aided and helped, and we 
should make sure that we do not stop the pay to the men and women of 
the United States military. In the event of a government shutdown, this 
body should take the necessary measures to ensure that our servicemen 
and -women continue to be compensated for their services.
  So, Mr. Speaker, we have finished a Rules Committee meeting upstairs. 
We spoke about this, the impacts, at the committee hearing that allowed 
Mrs. Lowey, on behalf of the minority, and Mr. Hal Rogers, our 
Appropriations Committee chairman, to talk about the important part of 
what we're trying to do today.
  So I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on the rule and ``yes'' on 
the underlying legislation.
  I reserve the balance of my time.

                                                     OsteoMed,

                                                     June 5, 2012.
     Hon. Pete Sessions,
     House of Representatives,
     Washington, DC.
       Dear Representative Sessions: Thank you for taking time to 
     visit with me last week regarding OsteoMed and my concerns 
     about the significant ``headwinds'' we face, especially 
     related to the 2.3% medical device tax that is scheduled for 
     implementation in 2013. On behalf of OsteoMed's 400 
     employees, I thank you for your support of H.R. 436, which 
     would repeal this onerous provision that otherwise will 
     negatively impact innovation and job creation at a time when 
     we can least afford it.
       As president & CEO of OsteoMed, a dynamic, 20 year old 
     surgical device manufacturing company based in your district, 
     I confront the challenges that America's innovators face 
     every day. In addition to challenges with the FDA and 
     reimbursement, this 2.3% excise tax--which is on gross sales, 
     whether or not a business has any profits--will directly 
     impact our ability to create new jobs, invest in research and 
     development and effectively compete in the global market.
       OsteoMed formed a new subsidiary company a couple of years 
     ago to develop an innovative spine product that greatly 
     simplifies spine fusion surgery and improves patient 
     outcomes. OsteoMed launched this product last year which 
     quickly grew to almost $5MM in sales in 2011 and currently 
     employs a number of highly skilled, high paid individuals. 
     Due to the significant upfront investment and on-going 
     development costs, this new company is not projected to make 
     a profit in the near future but is nevertheless

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     subject to the device tax which will further delay this 
     subsidiary's success. As a result, OsteoMed has now delayed 
     additional new product developments and personnel in order to 
     make ``ends meet'' and achieve the returns initially 
     envisioned when this company was created.
       OsteoMed's core business manufactures surgical implant 
     systems for use in craniofacial, neurosurgical and small bone 
     orthopedic (upper and lower extremities) surgeries. These 
     systems require extensive, specialized instruments that are 
     typically not sold, but are used to implant the devices that 
     drive OsteoMed's revenue stream. The device tax will not only 
     tax gross product revenues, but my understanding is it will 
     also tax the instruments OsteoMed must invest in and place 
     into hospitals at no charge thereby further reducing my 
     company's profit opportunities and forcing expense reductions 
     in other areas in order to achieve our profit goals.
       OsteoMed's products are sold through a variety of sales 
     channels and will require a new level of administrative 
     burden in order to track the ``gross'' revenues defined by 
     this tax. This requirement, along with the recent challenges 
     imposed by the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, force 
     additional levels of administration and non value added 
     expenses that make OsteoMed less competitive and viable.
       The market in which OsteoMed competes is in turmoil and has 
     become increasingly competitive with many new offshore 
     competitors. As economics and recent government restrictions 
     have largely removed surgeons from the surgical device 
     purchase decision process, hospitals are now forcing 
     increasingly price concessions. Despite increased raw 
     material and labor costs, OsteoMed has been unable to raise 
     product prices over the past several years and is now equally 
     unlikely to simply pass along the device tax to our 
     customers.
       Like any other responsible business, OsteoMed must 
     carefully manage expenses in order to make profit and 
     continue to grow and succeed. In order to cover the shortfall 
     the new device tax will create, OsteoMed has already started 
     to implement cut backs in its operations including the delay/
     cancellation of new product development projects and the 
     hiring of additional personnel, including biomedical 
     engineering positions. It should be noted that OsteoMed is 
     also aggressively re-directing its business focus to 
     international markets that provide a less cumbersome and 
     lengthy regulatory pathway with revenue streams that are not 
     subject to the medical device tax . . . immediately 
     ``saving'' 2.3% in the process. In the past month, OsteoMed 
     initiated the search for sales managers in China and the 
     Middle East to supplement recent managers hired in Korea and 
     Italy. Unfortunately, OsteoMed has already started to 
     effectively trade U.S. jobs for overseas positions as a 
     direct result of the medical device tax and other 
     governmental involvement.
       The medical device industry not only provides numerous 
     highly skilled and attractive jobs across the U.S., but it 
     also pays its workers on average 40% more than the typical 
     job. We are a vibrant sector of the economy and one of the 
     few remaining industries that produces a healthy export of 
     products. Tragically, this industry has now become the focus 
     of misguided and short-term government intervention and the 
     growth and continued prosperity of this proud American 
     industry now faces great hurdles.
       Again, I thank you for your service to our country and 
     specifically for your support of H.R. 436 to repeal this tax 
     and to help America's innovators continue to improve patient 
     care and drive job creation. I look forward to your ability 
     to visit OsteoMed when you are back in Dallas so you can see 
     firsthand our great employees and the innovative products 
     they produce to help people around the world. Please do not 
     hesitate to contact me to discuss this issue or any other 
     issues impacting the medical device industry.
           Sincerely,
                                                 Walter J. Humann,
                                        President & CEO, OsteoMed.

  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague and gentleman for 
yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I 
may consume.
  What we have before us today is not a solution; it's another attempt 
to undermine the Affordable Care Act. As written, this dangerous 
proposal has no chance of becoming law. It is not only a political 
nonstarter but a bad Federal policy. According to the nonpartisan 
Congressional Budget Office, a repeal of the medical device tax alone 
would add $30 billion to the Federal deficit.
  However, finding a solution to the crisis before us may not be the 
majority's top priority. Based upon news reports from earlier in the 
day, it seems that far from responsible governing, the majority is 
concerned with simply keeping their political house of cards from 
falling down.
  According to POLITICO, Majority Leader Eric Cantor said:

       We've had enough disunity in our party. The headlines are 
     Republicans fighting Republicans. This will unite us.

  By now, the majority's inability to find consensus within its own 
ranks is well known. It started almost as soon as they assumed power, 
as extremists within their own party refused to provide relief aid to 
victims of Hurricane Sandy for more than 3 months. Divisions within the 
majority also led to the first ever expiration of the Violence Against 
Women Act in over 20 years; most recently, a failure on the House floor 
to pass a bipartisan farm bill, which had never happened before. The 
bill had been 5 years in the making, and they couldn't get it done.
  Unable to find consensus on even the most noncontroversial bills, the 
majority has held more than 41 votes on the one issue that unites them. 
If we are to believe the majority leader, the one issue that unites 
them is to try to kill the health care bill for Americans.
  Now, polls have shown that the American people want action on 
everything from strengthening gun laws to passing immigration reform. 
Yet, instead of addressing any of these issues, the majority has tried 
any way they can to repeal, defund, undermine, delay, whatever, the 
historic health care law. And remember that Presidents--most of them 
since the time of Teddy Roosevelt--have tried to achieve health care.
  Frustration has reached a boiling point within the majority's ranks. 
Republican Senator John McCain has declared parts of his own party 
``whacko birds'' and said:

       Many in this group didn't come to power to get things done. 
     They came to power to keep things from getting done.

  Well said, Senator.
  By now, the majority is well aware that a 1-year delay in the 
Affordable Care Act threatens access to secure and affordable health 
care for millions of Americans and that my Democrat colleagues and I 
refuse to take away health care for American families just because the 
majority is unable and unwilling to find common ground.
  And oh, by the way, we've done nothing about the business of the 
House. We're doing this resolution, in the first place, because the 
appropriations bills were not dealt with.
  In fact, the whole process has changed here. What used to be the 
committee process and then go to Rules and then go to the floor has 
changed; you just go directly to Rules. I would sure like to see the 
old days come back.
  The fact of the matter is this bill will be dead on arrival once it's 
sent to the Senate. Senator Reid has made that abundantly clear all day 
long. For the majority to continue to bring it forward shows that 
today's proposal is nothing more than an attempt to seek political 
cover as Republicans shut the government down.
  Today, Senator Harry Reid said:

       The American people will not be extorted by Tea Party 
     anarchists. To be absolutely clear, the Senate will reject 
     both the 1-year delay of the Affordable Care Act and the 
     repeal of the medical device tax. After weeks of futile 
     political games from Republicans, we are still at square one.

  As if this weren't enough, the process that has led us here has 
trampled upon the majority's promises of an open and transparent House. 
Unlike the process that led to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, 
today's legislation was written behind closed doors, leaving out almost 
half of the Members of the House of Representatives, the Democrat 
Party. There was absolutely no input at all from members of the 
minority, and that is definitely unlike the health care act, which went 
through the full committee process.
  This afternoon, the majority met in the basement of the Capitol. 
After a secretive, closed-door meeting, they emerged with this partisan 
legislation in hand and told us to take it or leave it.
  Mr. Speaker, every single one of us was elected by our fellow 
citizens and told to do our part in building a more prosperous country. 
With the closed, secretive, and partisan process that the majority has 
repeatedly pursued, they are shutting out half the Chamber and half of 
our country from participating in a democratic process.
  In closing, the majority has every right to pursue their legislative 
priorities, no matter how misguided we may

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feel they are, but they do not have the right to take the Nation 
hostage nor threaten the full faith and credit of the United States in 
order to get their way.
  Let me be clear: a vote for this rule and a vote for this bill are 
affirmative votes for a government shutdown, because everyone here 
knows there will be no adequate time for any more ping-ponging. I 
strongly urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the rule and the 
underlying legislation.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I am intrigued by the notion today that Republicans were meeting 
secretively. In fact, we have had several meetings over the past few 
days, and probably two or three today, and the nature of that is to 
make sure that our Members, some 233 Republican Members across this 
country, that Republican leadership like myself is hearing from them, 
that we are moving together and talking about the terrible and 
disastrous effects of ObamaCare and how we're going to work together.

                              {time}  2000

  Some of the common things that have been talked about in those 
meetings, as if we need to remind ourselves--but I will again--in that 
ObamaCare bill, $716 billion was cut and taken away from senior health 
care to go directly to ObamaCare. But we've also seen the real effects 
of ObamaCare, as we know that since ObamaCare has been passed, there 
have been 7 part-time jobs created for every one new full-time job.
  Mr. Speaker, we're here on the floor of the House of Representatives 
because our country is in trouble. This is a continually difficult time 
for Americans back home not just to find work, but to keep work.
  We find that large companies, these large corporations that are 
talked about from time to time on this floor, especially by our 
friends, are moving people off the health care that they're on because 
it makes sense to do it, but also because of the expense.
  We saw just in the last few weeks large companies like UPS and 
Walgreens move their employees and make very, very difficult decisions. 
Just like Delta Air Lines had to make a decision. They announced that 
ObamaCare alone would cost Delta Air Lines over $100 million next year 
alone.
  These are destructive and devastating consequences of ObamaCare. The 
Republican Party is on the floor because this law is going to start 
very quickly: October 1 and January 1. People begin signing up October 
1.
  Of course, what we've seen is the President very clearly over the 
last few years has given waivers to the people that he chose to give 
waivers to. He turned around and let business off the hook. But he 
keeps the law on individuals. He keeps this onerous law on 
individuals--and it's causing chaos and panic.
  It's causing chaos for people like my family and others who have 
children that they have to take care of that are sometimes disabled. 
And we are seeing problems because now we're not sure in this mix who 
will be the doctor. Will that be a doctor we've gone to in the past? 
Will that be a doctor that one time we may see and another time we may 
not see?
  There is uncertainty. And this uncertainty has been driven to what I 
believe has become reality. And the reality is, if you look, there is a 
CBS and New York Times poll showing that a majority of Americans 
disapprove of ObamaCare. And when a majority of Americans say this to 
CBS News and The New York Times, I think even our colleagues, the 
Democrats, should listen.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 4 minutes to the 
gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern), my distinguished colleague 
on the Rules Committee.
  Mr. McGOVERN. I thank the gentlelady for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, there is supposed to be an orderly, thoughtful process 
around here. Just in case any of my colleagues were asleep in high 
school civics the day they taught how a bill becomes law, let me go 
over it slowly.
  The House holds hearings and markups in subcommittees and committees, 
brings a bill to the floor, debates it, votes on amendments, and then 
votes on final passage. The Senate does the same thing. Then, the House 
and the Senate meet in a conference committee, agree to a final 
package, vote on that, and send it to the President for him to either 
sign or veto.
  Does any of this sound even vaguely familiar to my Republican 
colleagues? Because they did a ``Schoolhouse Rock'' cartoon about it 
and everything.
  Instead, here we are, just a matter of days--hours, really--from a 
Republican-caused government shutdown. Here we are with yet another 
completely unnecessary, deeply harmful, politically motivated crisis.
  My Republican friends have made it clear that they will not vote for 
a continuing resolution unless that bill strips funding to implement 
the Affordable Health Care Act, or ObamaCare. But here's the problem, 
Mr. Speaker. Mitt Romney tried to make that same argument in the 2012 
election. And he lost badly--by 5 million votes. Republicans tried to 
argue against ObamaCare in the Senate elections. And they lost. They 
tried to make those same arguments in the House elections, and they 
lost by about 1 million votes. Thanks to some ingenious redistricting, 
though, they were able to keep their majority.
  And now they're trying to use that narrow majority to undo the 
results of the 2012 election. But guess what, Mr. Speaker? It isn't 
going to happen. They don't have the votes. The numbers do not add up. 
The Affordable Care Act is the law of the land. It's been in effect for 
2 years, and it's going to stay that way. If Republicans don't like it, 
they can make their case to the American people in 2014.
  But instead of facing that reality like thoughtful, serious grownups, 
the Republican majority continues to throw temper tantrum after temper 
tantrum, threatening to shut the government down, default on the 
Nation's bills, and throw the economy into a tailspin. It's absurd. 
Unfortunately, it's hurting real people. A Republican shutdown of 
government would actually cost us more money, Mr. Speaker.
  The Senate has already acted. They passed a clean continuing 
resolution that keeps the government funded through November 15. Now I 
don't particularly like that bill because it keeps in place the 
Republicans' beloved sequester, which is not only unreasonable but it 
is doing real harm to our economy. But apparently that's not good 
enough for the extremists in the Republican Conference. They would 
rather drive this economy off a cliff than make a reasonable 
compromise.
  Instead, they have unveiled a bill that includes two major changes to 
the Affordable Care Act, including a 1-year delay in the implementation 
of that law. Senator Reid has made it clear that the Senate will not 
consider any of these changes, and it's clear the Republicans simply 
want to shut this government down.
  So that's where we are, Mr. Speaker.
  In closing, I would just urge my Republican friends, Please don't do 
this. I have to believe that there are enough grownups on the other 
side of the aisle who are willing to stand up and say, Enough is 
enough. In the meantime, we should reject this rule, reject the 
underlying bill, and get back to work.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Hastings), my distinguished colleague on 
the Rules Committee.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Thank you very much, Ms. Slaughter, for 
yielding the time.
  Mr. Speaker, in the face of the President saying that he will veto 
any measure that seeks to defund ObamaCare and in the face of the 
Senate Majority Leader saying that he will accept nothing in the Senate 
other than a clean continuing resolution, I can't believe that my 
colleagues on the other side really believe that they are going to 
prevail and cause the President, with

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his signature legislation, to change his mind or that of the Senate 
Majority Leader.
  The Senate doesn't come back in until Monday at 2 o'clock, and that 
means the clock will run out. You say on the other side that you don't 
want to shut the government down, and yet exactly what you are doing 
here this evening will do exactly that. It will shut the government 
down.
  Now there's a certain amount of absurdity that carries throughout our 
history. I would commend to my colleagues on the other side that they 
read Jon Meacham's book, ``Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power.'' At a 
point in the course of that book, Jefferson becomes the President. And 
when he becomes the President, in his inaugural address he commented 
about the majority needing to protect the minority. He said, If you do 
not do that--this is in his inaugural address--you become an oppressor.
  That's exactly what's happening. You have one wing of your party, a 
rump group, that are strong and united. They're entitled to that 
particular undertaking, but all they're doing, when all is said and 
done, is hurting America. They're not helping anyone but themselves.
  The simple fact of the matter is that in your majority you let a mob 
of 40 people--probably as many as 60--determine what democracy is going 
to look like for insurance for the rest of America. I call that 
mobocracy, not democracy.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Colorado (Mr. Polis), a most distinguished colleague on the Rules 
Committee.
  Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, what on Earth are we doing here? This is the 
wealthiest, most free, greatest Nation on the face of the Earth, and 
we're seriously debating a Republican proposal to close down our 
Federal Government? Why are we doing this to ourselves?
  I understand that a majority of the people in this body, the House of 
Representatives, controlled by Republicans, don't like the Affordable 
Care Act. I understand that. It's been very clear. They've voted on 
repealing it 43 times. That's very, very clear.
  However, we have a system of government established in our 
Constitution. We have a separation of powers. The Supreme Court has 
ruled on the Affordable Care Act. We have a Senate that does not want 
to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and we have a President that doesn't 
want to repeal the Affordable Care Act. That's clear. It was not 
repealed. This House can pass it as many times as we want. It still 
isn't repealed.
  So when this House doesn't get its way, it wants to shut down the 
entire Federal Government just because they couldn't get the President, 
who was elected by the people of this country, or the Senate that was 
elected by the people in the 50 States of this country, to go along 
with what this body wants? That's arrogant. That's harmful to the 
American people. That threatens to destroy wealth and value creation 
and jobs in our country.
  Whether it's pharmaceutical companies who rely on the FDA moving 
drugs through the approval process, whether it's our troops overseas, 
whether it's our patent offices, the private sector and the job 
creation engine of this country relies on the rules that we set in the 
marketplace. That's what the capitalist system is founded upon.
  The Republican Party, by shutting down the government just because 
everybody won't go along with what they want, is threatening to destroy 
wealth and value creation in this country, destroy jobs, and 
threatening our place as a global leader.
  I strongly encourage my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this Republican 
proposal to shut down the government and let's move forward and pass 
the continuing resolution here in the House, by Monday, send it to 
President Obama, and let's keep this country moving forward.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, for every opportunity that Republicans have to talk 
about how bad this bill is, there is an equal opportunity for our 
colleagues to talk about how great it is. But the facts of the case are 
the American people don't see it yet. The reason why we don't see it is 
because this President and this administration have given out over 
1,200 waivers to people, saying, It's okay for you to not have to come 
under this law; what you do is okay. But it's not okay for the American 
people, individuals of this Nation, the men and women who get up and go 
to work every day.
  And let's note, too, that we have a section of this bill that's about 
paying the military in case we do shut down. I would think that our 
colleagues on the other side of this building would want to make sure 
that we pay members of our military. They're important to this country. 
This body is going to do it.
  Mr. Speaker, at this time I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from 
Georgia (Mr. Woodall), a distinguished young gentleman of the Rules 
Committee.
  Mr. WOODALL. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for yielding me the time and 
thank you for your leadership on the Rules Committee because when I 
signed up for Rules Committee, I knew I was going to get a lesson in 
rhetoric up there. I look at some of my colleagues from the Rules 
Committee on the other side. We have some long days and some long 
nights up there. But 9 times out of 10, it's about things that matter. 
It's about substance. And that's what it's about today.
  To talk about a Republican bill to shut down the government is 
obviously nonsense, Mr. Speaker. I know there's not a point of order 
here against nonsense on the House floor. If there was, I would have 
brought it up. Because that's nonsense.
  This is a bill to keep the government open. It uses the exact same 
funding level that the Senate just sent back to us. I've got a lot of 
colleagues on my side of the aisle who would like for that funding 
level to be lower. I promise you, if we could get the group together 
who wanted to lower that funding level, we could do that here, too. But 
we didn't. This is a bill that brings exactly the same funding level 
that the Senate sent over to us.
  What else does this bill do? This bill empowers the government to 
continue to pay our men and women in uniform if, by some outside 
chance, our colleagues in the Senate abdicate responsibility and can't 
pass a bill. I think we all agree on that. I don't think there's a man 
or woman in this Chamber that thinks military families ought to have to 
worry because we can't come together on a bill.

                              {time}  2015

  We are going to come together. But that worry is in their hearts and 
their minds today. We have an opportunity to take it away, and we 
should.
  In terms of bringing people together, Mr. Speaker, you know, 
something else that's in this bill is the repeal of the medical device 
tax. We talk about jobs bills here on the floor of the House regularly. 
If you have a medical device manufacturer in your district, let them 
talk to you about the impact this tax is having on their business. It 
is killing jobs. It is destroying American leadership in this area.
  This is not a divisive issue. We agree on this issue here. Our 
friends in the Senate, Mr. Speaker, voted 79-20 in favor of this very 
same issue.
  I understand folks are worn out, Mr. Speaker. It's been a long 
weekend. It's been a long couple of weeks. But the American people 
deserve to know the truth of what's going on here on the floor tonight.
  The truth is the passage of this rule and this underlying legislation 
keeps the doors of the government open; repeals the job-killing medical 
device tax that both the House and Senate have said they wanted to 
repeal; protects changes of the Affordable Care Act that American 
families have come to depend on, like keeping children on their 
policies; but eliminates all of the uncertainty of all of the broken 
portions of the Affordable Care Act, all of the broken portions of 
ObamaCare, all of the portions that have already seen 1,200 waivers--
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yesterday. It doesn't ask to repeal it, Mr. Speaker. It asks to delay 
it for 1 year so all the uncertainty that's happened can be explored.
  Every Member in this Chamber has someone in his district who has lost 
their insurance policy, Mr. Speaker. Everyone in this Chamber has a 
person in their district who heard from the President of the United 
States: If you like your insurance policy, you can keep it. And every 
single one of you know, Mr. Speaker, that someone in your district has 
had that promise broken for them.
  Let's keep what's working. Let's stop what's broken. Let's come 
together. Let's get this passed. We owe it to the American people.
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the 
gentlelady from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur).
  Ms. KAPTUR. I thank Ranking Member Slaughter for yielding me the 
time.
  It is clear that the Republican majority is here tonight to begin the 
process of shutting down the Government of the United States. How 
irresponsible; how counterproductive; and what a politically 
manufactured crisis.
  The uncertainty this behavior engenders across our Nation, the fits 
and starts, on-again-off-again approach the majority is employing is 
not in the interest of economic growth and job creation, nor America's 
standing globally.
  Speaker Boehner said he would not bring a bill to the floor that 
hasn't been posted online for at least 72 hours. Well, it's obvious he 
and the House Republicans won't keep their promise. In fact, this is 
the 34th time that legislation has been brought to the floor with less 
than 72 hours to read it. So we find ourselves on the brink of a 
government-wide shutdown, driven by a minority of the majority of just 
one House of Congress.
  Simply put: the Republicans want to shut down the Federal Government 
because they're mad about the results of the 2012 elections. 
Republicans are mad that the Supreme Court held that the Affordable 
Care Act was constitutional. Threatening a government shutdown because 
you don't get your way is not how we should be going about conducting 
the people's business.
  According to a CBS News poll, 80 percent of Americans say threatening 
a government shutdown during budget debate is not an acceptable way to 
negotiate.
  Our entire country will be affected by what is happening here. 
Moody's Analytics estimates that a shutdown of 3 to 4 weeks would cut 
economic growth in half.
  Why do this when our economy is recovering? Housing loans won't be 
made, small business loans; our national parks will be closed; 
lifesaving research won't be conducted. Why do this? Why put the 
country through all this?
  Previous government shutdowns and manufactured crises have had severe 
consequences. During the first 1995 shutdown, 800,000 workers were 
furloughed. And during the debt ceiling fight in 2011, the Dow Jones 
industrial average tumbled 1,700 points, or nearly 14 percent.
  Let's stop the antics and govern, not shut down the Government of the 
United States.
  I ask my colleagues to vote against this measure and support economic 
growth not manufactured crises.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, you know, one of the most commonsense 
classes that we've ever had of new Members of Congress has arrived in 
Washington. They're in their first year, and they're seeing some 
amazing things that are happening.
  I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. 
Pittenger), one of these new freshman gentlemen.
  Mr. PITTENGER. Let's talk about responsibility tonight, Mr. Speaker.
  You know, we've gotten notices from our constituents for the last 
many weeks that their premiums now, they're getting their notices, 
they're going up. I had one doctor who wrote me with his family that's 
gone up 200 percent--$11,000 deductible; yet he has to pay $1,100 a 
month. Another friend called me, his premium is 250 percent more.
  So let's talk about responsibility. Let's talk about what made 
America great in terms of health care.
  People come from all over the world to our shores for great health 
care. Do you know why, Mr. Speaker? Innovation. America has the 
greatest health care in the world; yet innovation now is going to be 
curtailed. The great research hospitals of this country now are having 
to cut back because they don't see that opportunity.
  We have changed the whole direction through centralized planning, 
through a great bureaucracy running health care that's going to cut 
into innovation. It's not going to make us the country we were.
  You know, there was a time when we used to have to pay about $9,000 
for laser surgery, and today it's about $1,500. That's because of 
innovation; it's because of competition. We're going to lose 
competition in the market today, Mr. Speaker. That doesn't make sense.
  I would like to say a bit about this investment tax, 3.8 percent. I 
wonder how many people in the country right now are just waking up to 
the fact that when they go sell their home, they're going to pay 
another 3.8 percent tax. All that was written in that 2,000-page 
document has finally come to light, and that's why people are so 
concerned.
  We have got to change this, Mr. Speaker. That's why I want to 
advocate that we defer this for a whole year. Let the truth come out, 
and then let's make a wise decision for the American people.
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the 
gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, many of us promised our constituents 
that we would come back here to Washington and fight for them. I 
imagine that there are some families in America right now holding an 8-
year-old or a 10-year-old, maybe a teenager, with a preexisting 
disease. Maybe like the little girl that I heard about when we were 
debating the Affordable Care Act that had leukemia, and time after time 
after time she was rejected by insurance companies until she died.
  And so I asked the question earlier tonight: What is the morally 
right thing to do? And I want to announce what is going to happen 
tonight.
  Let us be very clear. Let us not be full of smoke and mirrors. 
Tonight, the Republican majority will vote to shut the government down. 
I'll say it again: they will vote to shut the government down. They 
will look that family in the eye, and they will say that they are 
delaying the Affordable Care Act--long approved. But they are actually 
destroying it and eliminating it. A delay is eliminating it.
  They will stop the American people on October 1 from getting premiums 
between $100 and $130. They will stop seniors from being able to have 
help with their prescription part D, their prescription drugs, choosing 
dog food over their prescription. They will stop preventative care. 
They will stop research for cancer and leukemia and heart disease and 
stroke. They will stop the preventative care nonpayments. And they will 
also stop those young families from being able to have insurance.
  Remember what I said: What is the morally right thing to do? Is it 
morally right to be able to provide for the American people health care 
that they've never had? Is it the morally right thing to shut down the 
government so that seniors trying to get Medicare benefits will not 
have anybody to process them, or Social Security, or the disabled, or 
downpayment for homes for young families?
  I came here to stand for the American people. Tonight you will 
witness the shutdown of the government. That is what the vote will be, 
a shutdown of this government.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, you know, I would have to beg to differ 
with the gentlewoman. That's not what this bill is about. Evidently, 
the gentlewoman has not had time to read the bill. We are not debating 
shutting down the House. We are debating what is called a continuing 
resolution, Mr. Speaker. So I would encourage her to please go, and we 
will help her at the Rules Committee and make sure she understands what 
the bill is about.

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  Mr. Speaker, at this time, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
North Carolina (Mr. Meadows), a distinguished young man.
  Mr. MEADOWS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to hopefully address some of 
the things that were just mentioned.
  We talk about a moral obligation. Truly, it is troubling to me to 
hear so much talk in terms of a moral obligation when my State, the 
State of North Carolina, is about to see the largest increase in 
insurance premiums because of the Affordable Care Act in the country. 
When we talk about 27-year-olds that can purchase insurance today, Mr. 
Speaker, for $35 a month, and it goes to over $180 a month, what is 
morally right about that, I ask you, Mr. Speaker?
  You know, we've talked a whole lot in this Chamber about the fact 
that there was a vote taken, that a President was elected. Indeed, we 
did elect a President a mere 9 months ago. But I want to remind you, 
Mr. Speaker, that I was also elected some 9 months ago. And we did not 
elect a dictator; we elected a President. We did not have a vote that 
did not elect Representatives. It is time that the Representatives 
start representing the people that they were elected to uphold and 
protect.
  You know, we've heard a lot in this Chamber this evening about the 
government--the government this, the government that. When do we start 
focusing on the people? Because it is the people who are losing jobs. 
It's the people who can't keep their insurance. It's the people whose 
insurance premiums are going up. It's the people who are losing their 
jobs and being cut back on hours to get part-time.
  It is time that we stop acting like loyal subjects and start acting 
like the Representatives that we were voted into office to uphold and 
represent the people of this great country.
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler).
  Mr. NADLER. I thank the gentlelady for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, we are debating a continuing resolution, a budget. A 
budget deals with amounts that we appropriate. This budget represents 
great compromise--$250 billion less than the President first proposed.
  But we are told we cannot pass this continuing resolution, we cannot 
keep the government open unless we repeal or delay the Affordable Care 
Act, an act which was fought over in the last Presidential election, 
which was passed by both Houses of Congress, signed by the President. 
The President campaigned for reelection saying he would implement it; 
the Republicans said don't. The President and the Democratic Senate 
were reelected.
  We think the Affordable Care Act will help more Americans get 
affordable health insurance. Republicans don't agree. So they should 
campaign on it in the next election. If they can get the votes, elect 
enough Senators, et cetera, repeal it. But that's not what they're 
doing. They are blackmailing the country. They are saying they will 
shut down the government, or worse--they will destroy the full faith 
and credit of the United States in a few weeks if we don't repeal or 
delay ObamaCare.
  This is antidemocratic. It's like a 1930s gangster film--that's a 
nice government you got there, that's a nice economy you got there; 
pity if it should happen to blow up if you don't pay us off by giving 
us what we want.
  What if the Democratic majority in the Senate said: we won't approve 
a continuing resolution; we will shut down the government unless both 
Houses pass a strong gun control bill, or an immigration bill with a 
fast track to citizenship? The Republicans would be greatly outraged, 
would be rightly outraged at that blackmail. But that's what they are 
doing here today. The minority is blackmailing the majority of the 
country.
  This is subversive to democratic government. Government by blackmail 
cannot be allowed to destroy the American form of government, which is 
what this attempt represents. If we give into this, then the minority 
can rule against the majority. If you want to repeal the Affordable 
Care Act, elect a President, elect a majority in both Houses, and go do 
it. But we must not give into this threat to democratic government and 
transform it into a different type of government. That's why we must 
pass the continuing resolution without these subversive amendments.

                              {time}  2030

  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, at this time, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Congressman Fitzpatrick.
  Mr. FITZPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for his leadership 
on this continuing resolution, which, if adopted, will guarantee that 
the government continues to operate.
  I rise this evening in support of the rule and the repeal of the 
medical device tax, which is one of 20 unnecessary taxes used to fund 
the President's misguided health care law.
  Southeastern Pennsylvania, and in particular the Eighth Congressional 
District, is home to exceptional medical device manufacturers and 
innovative health care companies that are truly making a difference. 
This unique and essential form of manufacturing is an area in which 
America excels.
  Simply put, the medical device tax is a punitive gross receipts tax. 
It hurts American businesses by eroding their competitive advantage to 
innovate in the United States. It hurts high-skilled workers whose 
companies are putting the future of their industry at risk. It 
discourages innovators from choosing health care as a pursuit. It 
drives up the cost of health care for Americans.
  Dave Holcombe of Souderton, Pennsylvania, wrote to me:

       Nationwide, our industry directly employees over 400,000 
     people and supports nearly 2 million related jobs. The 
     recently implemented tax on medical devices will likely 
     result in the loss of as many as 43,000 of these high-paying, 
     high-skilled American jobs, reducing American competitiveness 
     and innovation and preventing patients from receiving the 
     lifesaving medical devices and care that they need.

  Tom Molz, the president and CEO of the Stout Medical Group in my 
district wrote:

       This tax will force medical device companies to go to other 
     countries, resulting in the loss of jobs and the loss of all 
     other taxes generated by those jobs. The medical device 
     industry is one of the few industries with a strong 
     manufacturing base. It would be very disappointing to lose 
     this base and the jobs associated with this industry.

  And, finally, Jeffrey Lawler of Kintnersville, Bucks County, 
Pennsylvania, explained:

       Medical technology is one of the only American 
     manufacturing sectors that is a net exporter, exporting $5.4 
     billion more than it imports. It also accounts for 40 percent 
     of the global technology market. But the U.S.'s lead has 
     shrunk dramatically in the last decade, and this tax serves 
     as a detrimental blow, helping to further shorten the gap.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional minute to the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania.
  Mr. FITZPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, these are real jobs, these are real 
concerns, and this tax has real consequences.
  The repeal of the tax is a strong way to support American businesses, 
protect American workers, and ensure Americans have affordable access 
to world-class health care. This is an issue that has wide bipartisan 
support, as we heard earlier. Seventy-nine United States Senators have 
already expressed support for repeal of this tax. This should be sent 
to the United States Senate.
  I urge support of the rule and passage of the bill.
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
New Jersey (Mr. Pallone).
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, the Republicans aren't kidding anyone 
tonight. They have the ability this evening to take up the continuing 
resolution that was passed in the Senate. If they passed it here 
tonight, it would go to the President, we would have a budget, the 
President would sign it, and the government would not shut down.
  The government is going to shut down because they refuse to do that. 
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government down because they want to debate again the Affordable Care 
Act.
  Now, this is the 45th time. I've come to the floor almost every time 
on these votes to try to repeal the Affordable Care Act. It is a farce.
  What is the debate? We had an election last November. The President 
campaigned on the Affordable Care Act. His Republican opponent said he 
would repeal it. The President won.
  Now I hear my colleague from Texas come here and say: oh, I've got a 
poll that says that people don't like the Affordable Care Act. Well, I 
can come up with any poll you want. I can bring you a poll down here 
that shows people like it or don't. Then he says: well, I've got all my 
constituents, they don't like it, and they're suffering this way, that. 
I can bring all my constituents that are waiting for October 1 so they 
can sign up because they don't have health insurance.
  Why are we debating this tonight? We should not be debating the 
Affordable Care Act for the 45th time. It is the obligation of those 
who are in the majority to govern, not to shut the government down. 
That is what they want to do--shut the government down.
  Then he goes on to say: oh, that's okay, we are going to pay the 
military. Well, I'm glad that we are going to pay the military, but 
what about all the other functions that are involved with the armed 
services? What about the support services? What about everything else 
that goes on with the military? That's all going to shut down. So don't 
give me this argument about how we are going to pay the military.
  The bottom line is he knows, and they all know on the Republican side 
of the aisle, that by taking this vote tonight they are forcing or they 
are getting closer and closer to a shutdown that they are responsible 
for because they refuse to accept the reality that the Affordable Care 
Act is law.
  I am not going to debate the Affordable Care Act anymore tonight. I 
know it's a good law; I know my constituents want it. But that's not 
the issue. The issue is that you are going to risk the full faith and 
credit of this government. That's what the issue is.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the 
gentlelady from Florida (Ms. Castor).
  Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Mr. Speaker, when the American Government 
shuts down early next week, it will be plain that the Republicans in 
Congress are responsible. Unfortunately, it will be our neighbors back 
home and small businesses back home that will have to deal with the 
consequences.
  When the Tea Party Republicans pushed the country towards default 
previously, they caused real economic damage. America's credit rating 
was downgraded, and their previous government shutdown cost American 
taxpayers over $2 billion. Now they're back for more, and they appear 
quite willing to cause significant economic damage again.
  There is more to this story. Over the past few months, while our 
neighbors back home have been working hard at their jobs, getting their 
kids back into school, the story here in Congress has been one of 
dysfunction rooted in the House Republicans' inability and refusal to 
negotiate an overall budget for the United States with the U.S. Senate. 
They passed a make-believe budget proposal that was so unrealistic they 
could not bring themselves to come to a budget conference with the 
Senate.
  So, without a budget, House Republicans left the country in limbo, 
and they embraced the severe and mindless sequester cuts as their 
spending strategy.
  In contrast, Democrats have offered a balanced plan authored by 
Congressman Chris Van Hollen from Maryland, but now we are here in the 
eleventh hour. The Tea Party Republicans are holding the American 
economy hostage, and they have charted a course for job losses and real 
pain. The Republicans are very poor fiscal stewards for American 
families and businesses. They are reckless and irresponsible.
  I urge all my colleagues to vote ``no'' on their government shutdown 
plan.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Deutch).
  Mr. DEUTCH. I thank the gentlelady.
  Mr. Speaker, I have been sitting here listening to the chairman talk 
about the disastrous effects of ObamaCare--destruction, devastation, 
chaos.
  I want to read some Facebook messages that I received from members of 
the south Florida community this week.
  One man wrote:

       Years ago, I finally scraped together enough money to buy 
     health insurance for my family and purchased it. Months 
     later, my wife had irregular bleeding, and we went to see her 
     doctor. He did a pap test, and it came back normal. The 
     bleeding stopped and life went on.
       Not long after, she began to bleed. Another pap test was 
     done. Later the problem was finally diagnosed as cervical 
     cancer.
       After that, I was contacted by my insurance company and 
     told it was a preexisting condition. They dropped us, 
     returned my premiums, and paid nothing.
       I was pauperized trying to pay and keep up with the surgeon 
     for follow-up on my wife.
       It took years and a willingness to walk away from that debt 
     to recover. The very talented surgeon that saved my wife's 
     life got mostly stiffed, and the taxpayers picked up the 
     hospital tab.
       We need ObamaCare.

  Or how about this message from a woman in Broward County:

       I was never able to be insured except through a group plan 
     at work. When I stopped working due to my health, it was 
     impossible to obtain a policy. I had tried different 
     companies, but was rejected each time due to my congenital 
     heart defect.
       I went uninsured for about 3 years. Once the Affordable 
     Care Act's preexisting condition plan started, I finally got 
     coverage through the preexisting insurance pool.
       Unfortunately, I just learned that I need my fifth open-
     heart surgery again and know ObamaCare will cover me, whereas 
     no other private insurer will. I am willing to explain the 
     struggles of individuals like myself who were born with 
     pediatric problems, but have grown into aging adults who are 
     not poor enough for Medicaid or old enough for Medicare and 
     are always denied private individual insurance.
       To deny care for those of us who were born with a medical 
     issue that we did not choose to have, it is reckless to 
     exempt us from being insured.

  Mr. Speaker, what is reckless and destructive and devastating and 
chaotic is the Republican majority's decision to drive this government 
to close. There has been enough delay. Too many Americans have been 
waiting far too long for access to affordable health care.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I will remind my friends that we hear stories after stories about 
companies dropping their employees from their employee-sponsored health 
care plans because of the costs and the way the health care bill is 
written.
  I think it is very interesting how--I have great sympathy for 
individuals who are having problems. They are in the district that I 
represent from Dallas also--the vast majority of people who are going 
to be just like them, huge amounts of people, are now being impacted by 
ObamaCare.
  It goes back to an argument that we made years and years ago moving 
forward: don't impact the people that have health care and insurance; 
help the people that don't have that. This is a case that is happening 
all across this country.
  The problem is the President played a Robin Hood plan. He went after 
everybody that has got insurance, he went after everybody that had a 
job, he went after employers. Rather than us taking care of those that 
did not--and let's say there were going to be 23 million people that 
were going to be covered, and I believe that that was the number years 
ago--23 million people times about $5,000 a contribution so that they 
could get an insurance plan would be far less destructive on our 
economy than going after 230 million people and destroying their health 
care plans.
  This comes back to a simple ideology, Mr. Speaker. They want a 
government-run health care system. That is what they are after--a 
government-run health care system, just like they want in other areas 
of the free economy. That's why they've done so many

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outward things with not only student loans to the banking industry, 
health care industry, the energy industry; they have an attack and an 
assault on employers and the American people.
  I have great respect for these individuals that we're talking about. 
I share their concern and I guarantee you I and my office will help 
these people and have been helping these people, and we care about 
them.
  But that's not what we fixed. We did a Robin Hood plan to take from 
everybody else and put everybody in trouble then, including the 
economy, including jobs, and we are now a part-time American economy.
  By the way they wrote the bill, it is not only expensive but it kills 
jobs. It is just as effective as what their EPA war on coal is. It is 
an attack and assault on the free enterprise system and free people.
  To say that the Republican Party doesn't care about these individuals 
is simply not true. We would offer a plan, a different way to look at 
it, and take the 230 million Americans that had something and worry 
about the others. That is what we have been trying to do all 17 years 
I've been in Congress.
  The biggest divide in this country is on taxes, and it's on health 
care. Republicans want normal, regular people to be able to have health 
care. That is what we believe in. That's the difference and the real 
story behind tonight.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the 
gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Scott).
  Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I hope all of America is 
listening tonight because we are seeing one of the darkest moments in 
the history of this Congress for what we are about.

                              {time}  2045

  The Republican Party is held hostage by a Senator 8 months here to 
undermine the democratic process. Here we are, and they will shut down 
the government of the United States because we will not enforce the 
law.
  Affordable Care is the law.
  Everything the distinguished gentleman from Texas just said he said 
during debate. We're not debating. It's the law. It's the law of the 
land. It has been upheld by the Supreme Court. It has been debated in 
the elections. President Obama ran on it. Romney said, if he got 
elected, he'd throw it away. The President said, if he got elected, he 
would make it work.
  And the people spoke.
  Make no mistake about it, my friends, the Republicans. The American 
people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the 
government of the people.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, it is not I. It will not be I. I am here 
to help, and the legislation that's on the floor is about a continuing 
resolution.
  At this time, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Houston, Texas, 
Congressman Culberson.
  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Speaker, the Democrat side of the aisle can say it 
until they're blue in the face that the sky is green. That doesn't make 
it green. It is not true.
  This legislation is designed to keep the government open by fully 
funding it at levels that the Senate has already agreed to.
  I think it's also good to get a few other things straight around here 
and point out that Social Security checks, even in the unlikeliest 
event the government were to close down, will continue to flow because 
employees of all mandatory programs administered by the government are 
considered to be essential. Social Security checks are obviously 
essential. Those employees are essential. Social Security will continue 
to flow.
  My colleague from Texas said that children would be thrown off of 
their parents' insurance policies. That law took effect last year. It's 
not affected by what's before the House today. My colleague also said 
children or people with preexisting conditions could be denied 
coverage. That is also incorrect, because that law took effect last 
year.
  The bill before the House today fully funds the government. We are 
even separately funding the military, and we are going to give a stark 
choice to the President of the United States and the Senate: Do you 
want to shut down the government or do you want to force on the 
American people a 2,500-page bill that was forced through here so fast 
that Speaker Pelosi said that we have to pass the bill to find out 
what's in it?
  One of my colleagues from North Carolina just pointed out that many 
Americans are waking up today to discover there is a 3.8 percent tax on 
the sales of their homes. How many other surprises do we have in this 
2,500-page bill?
  All Republicans are asking tonight is to give the Nation a year to 
study a 2,500-page bill that even Speaker Pelosi didn't have a clue as 
to what was in it. We as a Nation deserve to read and understand one of 
the most important pieces of legislation passed in the history of 
Congress--which will socialize the greatest health care system ever 
created. We are in the House tonight, fulfilling our responsibility as 
adults to fund the government, to fund the military--and by the way, 
the Senate has had the Defense Department appropriations bill for over 
90 days and the Military Construction and VA for 90 days each.
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
New York (Mr. Engel).
  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, by refusing to advance a resolution that can 
pass the Senate, the Republican majority has made the reckless and 
irresponsible choice to shut down the Federal Government.
  The Affordable Care Act is the law of the land. It was passed by a 
majority in this House and the Senate. It was signed into law by the 
President, and it has been upheld by the Supreme Court. To try to 
repeal the Affordable Care Act at a time when we are talking about 
funding the government is like mixing apples with oranges. I've heard 
so many horror stories about the Affordable Care Act, all of which are 
irresponsible. Let me say some facts about it.
  In my State of New York, people who enroll in the highest tiered 
plans our health insurance exchange will offer can expect to see a 53 
percent reduction compared to this year's individual rates. The average 
approved rates for the individual silver plan in New York are 10 
percent lower than previously forecasted by the CBO. These reductions 
don't even take into account the subsidies that will be available for 
many New Yorkers who are purchasing coverage on the exchange, which 
will lead to even lower costs.
  It is time for Republicans to accept reality and to allow this law to 
start helping the American people. The government should not be shut 
down. This is a very, very dangerous course. Would you rather see small 
business owners struggle as the SBA will be unable to review loan 
applications or loan guarantees? Republicans should not shut the 
government down.
  Mr. SESSIONS. I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the 
gentlewoman from Maryland (Ms. Edwards).
  Ms. EDWARDS. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this rule and to 
the underlying amendments.
  I want to be very clear. I don't even have a voice, but I want to let 
America know that House Republicans are shutting down the government. 
They are doing it intentionally. They are doing it on purpose.
  Mr. Speaker, 1.4 million Active Duty personnel won't get their 
paychecks. About half of the Federal civilian employees won't get paid. 
Those who do show up at work won't be paid. House Republicans are 
shutting down the government. Even as we mourn the tragedy at the Navy 
Yard here in Washington, Active Duty military would be guaranteed to 
receive their pay, but their civilian counterparts, who risk their 
lives in service to the mission, would not. House Republicans are 
shutting down the government. We are losing waves of Federal employees 
in furloughs. We are undermining their benefits and freezing their 
salaries.
  I urge my colleagues to reject this.
  Tonight, I want it to be known that the Senate won't take it up. The 
President won't sign it. House Republicans are shutting down the 
government.

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  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my 
time.
  To advise the gentlewoman, I am through with my speakers, and I will 
then, as she finishes, offer a close.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas has 2\1/2\ minutes 
remaining. The gentlewoman from New York has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. I understand that the gentleman is prepared to close.
  With that, Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the 
gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Welch).
  Mr. WELCH. Mr. Speaker, what you are proposing in this legislation--
basically shutting down the government and stiffing our creditors--is 
really stupid, and here is why.
  We have got to move on. We have had a debate about health care. Some 
of us are strongly in favor of this legislation, and some of us are 
strongly opposed to it. That's a legitimate policy debate, but the 
folks for it won in Congress; they won in the Supreme Court; and they 
won in the last Presidential election. At a certain point--I've been on 
the losing side, by the way--it's time to say, Sober up. Move on. Get 
on with the program. Focus on what are the implementation challenges, 
and work on them together.
  But the notion that we would actually suggest that it's possible for 
us to consider stiffing our creditors in shutting down the government 
and inflicting pain on innocent people--that's bizarre. It has no place 
in this debate. Sometimes we win debates and sometimes we lose, but 
either side, we've got to move on.
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, in closing, I want to urge my colleagues 
to vote ``no'' on this rule and ``no'' on this bill because--no 
question about it--a ``yes'' vote on either one of them is a vote for 
the shutdown in the House. The Senate will not take this up--we are 
absolutely certain of it--and we are on the road to a shutdown. The 
Republican Party insists on doing that. Do not help them. Vote ``no.''
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. SESSIONS. I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Mr. Speaker, I would like to just go through the things that we've 
talked about that are the attributes of why we are here tonight.
  The cost to taxpayers: $716 billion was cut from senior care, 
Medicare, to fund ObamaCare. That harms our seniors.
  Just one example of the cost to employers: Delta Air Lines announced 
that ObamaCare will cost its company $100 million in increased health 
care costs over the next year.
  Americans are losing their current health care coverage. We read 
about it, and we know that UPS, Walgreens, and many other employers are 
losing their health care coverage that they have today.
  Fewer hours and fewer full-time jobs. Since ObamaCare was passed, 
there have been seven part-time jobs for every one full-time job that 
was added.
  Mr. Speaker, this is not a way to move our country forward. The 
Republican Party is prepared. We believe and can substantiate that a 
``yes'' vote is for making sure that we keep this government open--
something that the American people want and need. That's why the 
Republican Party--233 strong--is here tonight. I urge my colleagues to 
vote ``yes'' on the rule and ``yes'' on the underlying legislation.
  I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the previous question 
on the resolution.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to the rule 
and the underlying resolution.
  I oppose this rule because it conditions the funding needed to avoid 
a government shutdown on a one-year delay in the implementation of the 
Affordable Care Act and a repeal of the excise tax on certain medical 
device that helps defray the cost of the affordable, quality healthcare 
made available for the first time to millions of Americans by the 
Affordable Care Act (ACA).
  I oppose this rule because the two amendments it makes in order to 
the ``clean'' continuing resolution passed yesterday by the Senate 
will, if approved, result in a shutdown of the government.
  Both President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Reid have it crystal 
clear that they will not accept any continuing resolution containing 
any provision to delay, defund, or weaken the Affordable Care Act.
  The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was passed by both houses of 
Congress and signed into law by the President three years ago. It has 
been upheld by the Supreme Court. It is here to stay.
  Mr. Speaker, you would think our friends across the aisle would have 
gotten this message by now because they have tried to repeal or 
undermine the Affordable Care Act more than 40 times without success.
  As former President Clinton would say: ``Here's another Obamacare 
score for you: `Obamacare--42, House Republicans--zero'.''
  Since it is clear that anti-Obamacare amendments made in order by 
this rule are not going to become law, the only purpose to be served by 
this latest kamikaze mission by our friends across the aisle is to shut 
down the government and harm the economic recovery and disrupt the 
lives of millions of Americans who provide and depend upon the services 
provide by the federal government.
  Mr. Speaker, it is well and good that House majority has finally 
realized the importance of ensuring that our troops are paid so they 
can provide for their families.
  However, this piecemeal approach of singling out worthy beneficiaries 
on an ad hoc basis is inadequate as it denies many other critical 
services that Americans depend so heavily on.
  That is why it is grossly irresponsible for House Republicans to be 
wasting time on a resolution like the one before us that will lead to a 
government shutdown.
  Mr. Speaker, we need to pass the clean CR approved by the Senate so 
we can keep our promises to our veterans, as well as the doctors, 
nurses, and hospital workers who take care of our wounded and healthy 
warriors.
  We need to pass the clean CR approved by the Senate so we can fund 
our engineers and technicians who maintain all of our critical military 
equipment to keep our troops safe and take care of national security 
infrastructure.
  We need to pass the clean CR approved by the Senate so we can fund 
our IT security folks who protect us from cyber-attacks, and our 
astronauts who risk their lives to push the technical boundaries of 
knowledge for all mankind.
  These exceptional Americans, and the people who depend on them and 
benefit from their work, do not deserve to be locked out of their 
workplaces on Tuesday.
  These exceptional Americans deserve a Congress that does its job and 
keeps America open for business.
  Mr. Speaker, make no mistake about it, given the lateness of the hour 
and the irresponsibility of the House majority in wasting time trying 
to defund or impede the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, any 
vote other than one to concur in the clean continuing resolution passed 
yesterday by the Senate is a vote to shut down the government.
  For these reasons and more, I oppose this rule and the underlying 
amendments it makes in order and urge my colleagues to join me in 
urging the passage of H.J. Res. 59 as amended by the Senate so that 
Americans can rest assured that their government will be open for 
business and to serve them on Tuesday morning.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on ordering the previous 
question.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule 
XX, this 15-minute vote on ordering the previous question will be 
followed by 5-minute votes on adoption of the resolution, if ordered, 
and the motion to suspend on H.R. 2251.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 229, 
nays 192, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 494]

                               YEAS--229

     Aderholt
     Amash
     Amodei
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Coble
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Daines
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent

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     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Lankford
     Latham
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Petri
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Radel
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stockman
     Stutzman
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walorski
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                               NAYS--192

     Andrews
     Barber
     Barrow (GA)
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera (CA)
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Enyart
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Horsford
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     Meng
     Michaud
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Negrete McLeod
     Nolan
     O'Rourke
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters (CA)
     Peters (MI)
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Davis (CA)
     Holt
     McCarthy (NY)
     Meeks
     Pelosi
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Rush
     Visclosky
     Waxman

                              {time}  2118

  Messrs. BRADY of Pennsylvania, PETERS of California, and CARSON of 
Indiana changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Mr. GRAVES of Missouri changed his vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the previous question was ordered.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois). The question 
is on the resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 231, 
nays 191, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 495]

                               YEAS--231

     Aderholt
     Amash
     Amodei
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Coble
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Daines
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Lankford
     Latham
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     Matheson
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Petri
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Radel
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stockman
     Stutzman
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walorski
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                               NAYS--191

     Andrews
     Barber
     Barrow (GA)
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera (CA)
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Enyart
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Horsford
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren

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     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meng
     Michaud
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Negrete McLeod
     Nolan
     O'Rourke
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters (CA)
     Peters (MI)
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Davis (CA)
     Holt
     McCarthy (NY)
     Meeks
     Pelosi
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Rush
     Visclosky


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

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

                              {time}  2125

  So the resolution was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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