[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 15073-15080]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     PAY OUR GUARD AND RESERVE ACT

  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 370, 
I call up the bill (H.R. 3230) making continuing appropriations during 
a Government shutdown to provide pay and allowances to members of the 
reserve components of the Armed Forces who perform inactive-duty 
training during such period, and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 370, the bill 
is considered read.
  The text of the bill is as follows:

                               H.R. 3230

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Pay Our Guard and Reserve 
     Act''.

     SEC. 2. CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR PAY AND ALLOWANCES FOR 
                   CERTAIN RESERVE COMPONENT MEMBERS OF THE ARMED 
                   FORCES.

       (a) In General.--There are hereby appropriated for fiscal 
     year 2014, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
     appropriated, for any period during which interim or full-
     year appropriations for fiscal year 2014 are not in effect 
     such sums as are necessary to provide pay and allowances to 
     members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces (as 
     named in section 10101 of title 10, United States Code) who 
     perform inactive-duty training (as defined in section 
     101(d)(7) of such title) during such period.
       (b) Termination.--Appropriations and funds made available 
     and authority granted pursuant to this section shall be 
     available until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) 
     the enactment into law of an appropriation (including a 
     continuing appropriation) for any purpose for which amounts 
     are made available in this section; (2) the enactment into 
     law of the applicable regular or continuing appropriations 
     resolution or other Act without any appropriation for such 
     purpose; or (3) January 1, 2015.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The bill shall be debatable for 30 minutes, 
equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member 
of the Committee on Appropriations.
  The gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young) and the gentleman from Indiana 
(Mr. Visclosky) each will control 15 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Florida.


                             General Leave

  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all 
Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their 
remarks and include extraneous material on H.R. 3230, and that I may 
include tabular material on the same.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Florida?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 3 minutes.
  Mr. Speaker, the Pay Our Guard and Reserve Act would fix a simple 
drafting error that existed in H.R. 3210, the Pay Our Military Act.
  This bill was intended to appropriate funding so that all of our 
servicemembers, Active Duty, Guard, and Reserve, will receive their 
paychecks on time and without interruption during the government 
shutdown.
  As most of you know, our Guard and Reserve members perform two kinds 
of training throughout the year: annual training, which occurs for 2 
weeks a year; and Inactive Duty for Training, which is commonly 
referred to as weekend drill.
  While H.R. 3210 appropriated funding for pay and allowances for 
servicemembers who perform active service during the shutdown, it 
mistakenly omitted pay and allowances for performing inactive duty 
training or weekend drill.

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  This was a simple technical drafting error in the legislation.
  I have heard from many concerned Members requesting that we address 
this issue as quickly as possible to prevent any lapse in pay for our 
Guard and Reserve members during this shutdown. This bill would correct 
that and ensure that all of our servicemembers receive their paychecks 
on time, including for time served on weekend drill.
  The Pay Our Military Act passed the House unanimously, and I believe 
this bill should have broad bipartisan support as well.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume, and I certainly want to thank the chairman of the Defense 
Appropriations Subcommittee, as well as the chairman of the full 
committee, for all of their good work on the Appropriations Committee.
  It is not out of disrespect that I rise in strong opposition to this 
legislation. We are piecemealing destroying the government of the 
United States, including the defense and the ability to defend 
ourselves of this Nation.
  While we would suggest today that we are solving the problems at the 
Department of Defense, I would ask the question: What about maintenance 
of the existing equipment needed for readiness? Not in here. What about 
procurement for new equipment that is being eaten up in Afghanistan? 
Not in here. What about research and development to keep technological 
superiority of our forces so we are never in a fair fight? Not in here. 
What about maintaining facilities where these personnel live, where 
they work, where they serve our Nation? Not in here. What about the 
commissaries? Not in here.
  I recognize that yesterday in Europe the Army Chief of Staff said 
that this shutdown is impacting significantly day-to-day operations and 
forcing the military to cut training.
  There was an additional announcement today by a particular company, 
Sikorsky, that said they have ``slowed production of the Blackhawk 
helicopter now that Federal contracting inspectors have left their 
posts on furlough because of the shutdown.'' The same Federal employees 
at Pratt & Whitney in East Hartford are also furloughed, delaying the 
delivery of engines and spare parts.
  I reference the good chairman of the Subcommittee on Defense 
Appropriations, Mr. Rogers, who is chairman of Appropriations. About 2 
weeks ago, I noted on this floor that in article 1, section 9, 
paragraph 7, it says:

       No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in 
     consequence of appropriations made by law.

  It doesn't say anything about partial, temporary continuing 
resolutions.
  It is time that the Congress of the United States begins 
appropriating. I am here as an appropriator to talk about fiscal 
policy, but our process has been usurped by those who have a particular 
social agenda. It is called the Affordable Care Act.
  I just want to reference two incidents that I have been involved in 
in the last 10 days, that I am appalled that we have shut the 
government down over this fight.
  The first is a meeting I had with a constituent of mine in 
Merrillville, Indiana. The gentleman has worked hard all of his life as 
an independent contractor. Their family had insurance through his wife, 
who worked for a small medical practice that was purchased. She was 
relieved of her position not because she was a bad employee, but 
because of consolidation. Thereafter, of course, you know how this 
story turns out. She contracts cancer. My constituent is in my office 
in the last 2 weeks because they are foreclosing on his house because 
they are broke, and we are arguing about this.
  But what infuriates me and profoundly disappoints me is I am getting 
on an elevator across this aisle at about 1 in the morning this Tuesday 
and one of my colleagues gets on that elevator and my colleague was 
gleeful, gleeful and happy and cheery, because my colleague had called 
their State exchange at 12:30 a.m. in the morning and for some reason 
no one answered the phone and the system didn't work. Why do you think 
people are calling that number? They need health insurance. Gleeful 
that government didn't work, and that is before we shut it down.
  What have we come to here? We have the best country in the world. It 
is time we start running it again.
  I am opposed to this piecemeal approach.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman 
from Kentucky (Mr. Rogers), the chairman of the Appropriations 
Committee.

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  Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for yielding me this 
time.
  Mr. Speaker, the very distinguished chairman of this subcommittee has 
rendered invaluable service to this Nation and this body and certainly 
this committee, and I thank him for his wonderful service over a long 
period of time.
  I rise today in support of the brave men and women of our military 
who stand at the ready to defend this homeland.
  This legislation will provide the men and women of the National Guard 
and Reserve with due compensation for their service--on time and in 
full--throughout the government shutdown. Our intention with the Pay 
Our Military Act was to support all of our men and women in uniform. 
This legislation merely fixes a technical drafting error to amend that.
  Once again, I believe this is an important action to get us on the 
path toward ending this crisis. This bill underscores the need to 
sufficiently and appropriately fund the entire Federal Government--to 
preserve our national security and get the Nation back on a stable 
economic footing. The House and the Senate must work together to flip 
the switch on this shutdown not only for our troops, but for everyone 
who calls this Nation their home.
  It is our responsibility as Members of Congress to take care of our 
troops. Just as each of my colleagues in this body voted for the Pay 
Our Military Act, I hope they will do the same today to correct that 
act.
  Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Indiana, my friend, mentioned in his 
remarks about the other aspects of the Federal Government that need to 
be back in operation. I could not agree with him more on that. However, 
the route out of this mess--if you call it--is for the Senate to 
appoint conferees.
  The House authorized and appointed conferees 2 days ago. We are 
waiting on the Senate to do the same. If they appoint conferees, we can 
work out the differences between the two bodies, as is the time-honored 
tradition of this place, and solve the shutdown problem.
  So I ask the Members of the other body to go ahead and appoint 
conferees. Let's start talking. We can solve this problem. So far they 
refuse to even talk.
  Mr. VISCLOSKY. I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Minnesota 
(Ms. McCollum), a member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, my Republican colleagues are once again 
bringing a bill to the floor in response to the terrible news coverage 
on their shutdown.
  Now, I am very confident that every single Member of the House of 
Representatives supports our Guard and Reserve men and women. We all 
want them to receive the pay that they have earned. We could do just 
that really quickly by passing a clean CR to fund the entire Federal 
Government and put an end to this GOP shutdown. But Republican 
leadership isn't serious about stopping the shutdown.
  We all know that this bill is not a solution. It is just a 
distraction. For example, this bill claims to support military pay 
during the shutdown. However, while this bill does provide them a 
paycheck, it fails to provide them the materials essential for doing 
their job.
  Let me give you an example of a few of the things that it doesn't 
fund: it doesn't fund the maintenance of existing equipment, and we 
need that for readiness; the procurement of new equipment if something 
needs to be replaced in order to continue a training drill or to be 
fully prepared; research and development to keep the technology 
superiority of the U.S. forces; and then, as the ranking member pointed 
out, keeping the facilities and maintenance moving forward.
  This bill fails to ensure that our servicemen and -women will have 
the equipment and other support materials that they need. It certainly 
won't ensure that our other Federal law enforcement at the FBI or the 
DEA are paid even as they continue to work to keep America safe.
  Mr. Speaker, this Republican government shutdown needs to end. The 
entire government needs to be funded. The American people don't want 
the Tea Party picking winners and losers, deciding what government 
services are necessary.
  Let's do what is right for the American people and pass a clean 
continuing resolution to fund the entire Federal Government.
  Mr. Speaker, I enter into the Record the Minnesota Air and Army 
National Guard Government Shutdown Impact in its entirety.

MN Air and Army National Guard Government Shutdown Impact (Version 2--2 
                             October 2013)


                            Addressed from:

       Less than 15 days (short term) and
       Greater than 15 days (long term).


                 Federal Full-Time Staff (FTS) Impact:

       Emergency Furlough--Number of Federal Personnel Impacted
       Army Technicians: 701 (655 Furloughed--93.4%)
       Air Force Technicians: 445 (381 Furloughed--85.6%)
       Total Force Impacted: 1146 (1036 Furloughed--90.4%)
       Short Term impact:
       Benefits processing delayed (in processing, retirements, 
     return to duty) AGR and TECH
       1,036 Technicians not at work and not receiving pay
       General personnel actions delayed, AGR and TECH
       Scheduled travel/training TDY will be cancelled
       No new hires or job announcements
       Leave accrual stops for technicians after 80 hours (48 
     already used during furlough)
       Over 30 Active Duty Operational Support/Active Duty for 
     Special Work (ADOS/ADSW) will not report to work
       Long term impact:
       FTS will incur a debt for benefits
       FTS personnel not attending required training courses for 
     positions
       Delayed hiring actions will compound the turmoil of 
     personnel turnover
       Labor relations with union and union members stressed
       Personnel readiness will drop due personnel actions not 
     taking place
       Morale of technician force is greatly diminished with 
     another furlough
       Animosity of technician force towards the AGR force
       AGRs do not receive Mid-month and subsequent pay until 
     furlough complete.
       Bottom line for Full-Time Staff (FTS) is that very limited 
     personnel actions will be able to be supported and will be 
     greatly delayed during a furlough.
       FTS Top Three Concerns:
       Benefits Processing
       Pay
       Loss of trained FTS forces due to cancelled training


     Personnel Readiness/Soldier-Airman and Family Services Impact:

       Short Term Impact:
       Family Programs initiatives and support efforts will be 
     significantly impacted due to unavailability of all 
     personnel.
       Reduce current ability to provide deployment related 
     services to soldiers and family members by 62%
       Reduction in our ability to provide ID cards to soldiers 
     and family members in select locations.
       No retiree counseling services
       Slowed processing for GI bill requests and issue resolution
       Longer processing times for routine medical readiness 
     activities due to employees' taking on the responsibilities 
     of furloughed personnel.
       Long Term Impact:
       Technicians will incur a debt for benefits
       FTS personnel training to be qualified in their positions
       Delayed hiring actions further compound turmoil of 
     personnel turnover
       Morale of Technician force is greatly diminished with 2nd 
     furlough in one year
       Active Guard and Reserve (AGR) soldiers may not receive 
     mid-month and subsequent pay.
       Units that deploy within the next two months (Oct-Nov) or 
     who are currently deployed will experience significant impact 
     on deployment and family readiness support. Yellow ribbon 
     events may need to be cancelled due to contracting for venue, 
     food or lack of child care.
       Remaining Defense Travel System (DTS--travel 
     reimbursements) Vouchers for Soldiers and Military Families 
     for FY13 will be delayed for payment.
       Funeral Honors Team will cease operations.
       Reduced capacity in processing enlisted promotion actions
       Outside agencies may have to process Federal Tuition 
     Assistance requests.
       Potential loss of ability to deliver timely medical 
     readiness events across the state, reducing medical readiness 
     of the force.
       Potential reduction in personnel readiness ratings for all 
     reportable units due to eroded medical readiness ratings.


                           Logistics Impact:

       Maintenance--All Maintenance activities in the MNNG will 
     cease during shutdown. All Maintenance facilities will be 
     closed.

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       Short Term impact:
       Maintenance Readiness of the MNNG will decline due to 
     inability to repair dead-lined equipment while Dual Status 
     Technicians are furloughed.
       Upgrades to MNNG M1A1s will be deferred until funding 
     resumes.
       BFT/JCR Fielding--Fielding team is issuing all remaining 
     equipment to the USPFO effective 30 Sep 13. USPFO and J4 will 
     then complete the install and fielding.
       Long term impact:
       Blue Force Tracker upgrades will be delayed, systems will 
     go off line after 90 days of non use. Blue Force Tracking is 
     a United States military term used to denote a GPS-enabled 
     system that provides military commanders and forces with 
     location information about friendly (and despite its name, 
     also about hostile) military forces. If they are not synced 
     with the satellite once every 90 days they lose their 
     identity and it costs us more manpower to re-sync them.
       Supply:
       Short Term impact:
       $54,334 of Class 1 (food) has been ordered supporting 23 
     units in an IDT status for the weekend of 4-6 OCT. These 
     orders will need to be canceled.
       $8,717 for seven commercial bus requests for the weekend of 
     4-6 OCT canceled.
       Long term impact:
       An additional $16,198 in Class 1 (food) orders will be 
     canceled from the local vender if shutdown continues till 30 
     Oct.
       Training:
       Short Term impact:
       New Equipment Training (NET) for 1/34 Armored Brigade 
     Combat Team will be suspended based on Inactive Duty Training 
     and Annual Training restrictions, suspending NET for Bradley 
     Fighting Vehicle Crews
       Training needs to be deferred to colder weather months, 
     less desirable.


                      Training/Operations Impact:

       Short Term Impact:
       Cancellation of upcoming drill weekend will cancel weapons 
     qualification for many units scheduled to do this at Camp 
     Ripley. These units will be challenged to re-schedule as 
     ranges are usually booked first quarter of the fiscal year. 
     Will be an opportunity for units to re-schedule yet in Oct 
     short term. Units that have Periodic Health Assessments (PHA) 
     and Dental events will have to re-schedule. Will negatively 
     impact personnel readiness.
       School cancellations. We will daily be cancelling travel to 
     schools that start this FY. It will be case by case that we 
     find school seats later in the FY that troop will be able to 
     attend. This will be a readiness issue if it goes long term.
       Long Term Impact:
       Personnel readiness will begin to suffer more as we cancel 
     schools and medical readiness events. Begin building a larger 
     pool of Soldiers/Airmen that will need new schools dates and 
     units will begin to see a larger backlog of troops that need 
     periodic physicals and dental. The challenge with schools is 
     that some lower density schools and longer schools will have 
     fewer opportunities to re-schedule this FY. This becomes a 
     readiness issue.


                  Camp Ripley Training Center Impact:

       Short Term Impact:
       No Active Duty Operational Support (ADOS) or Technicians
       Long Term Impact:
       After 21 days loss of State Employees paid under the Master 
     Cooperative Agreement.
       Operations--Section is reduced by 50% (2 Technicians, 1 
     State Military) resulting in reduced support to customers and 
     no new leases agreements.
       Range Control: Reduction 55% (6 ADOS), resulting in reduced 
     customer support for range safety briefings, general customer 
     support, and response for Range Safety Checks delayed
       Automated Target Systems: State Military, potentially 50% 
     reduction immediately. Automated Target Personnel would not 
     be available resulting in limited automated ranges or target 
     maintenance for military customers and very limited support 
     to state agencies with signed leases.
       Air Operations: Reduction of 100% (3 Technicians and 2 
     ADOS), resulting in the airfield, UH-60 Simulator being 
     closed and no fueling operations.
       Arden Hills Army Training Site: Reduction of 50% of the 
     full time staff, resulting in reduced support to customers 
     and availability.
       Logistics (other than billeting which is self supporting)--
     Reduction of 100% (17 Technicians), resulting in:
       Supply & Services being open 2 days a week.
       Housing: Limited AGR Employees will need to Inventory & 
     Inspect the Troop Issue Buildings when they need to be 
     turned-in.
       Fuel Support: Retail Fuel Points will run out of fuel.
       Ammo Supply Point: No ammo for military customers.
       Department of Public Safety--No initial impact. After 21 
     days the section would reduce from 12 guards to 9 guards 
     resulting in reduced services and ability to man only one 
     gate.
       Joint Visitors Bureau/Public Affairs Office--Reduction of 
     80% (4 Technicians and 1 ADOS), resulting in no ID Cards, no 
     Command or Department of the Army photos, reduced protocol 
     visits and public affairs/community support operations.
       Signal Support--100% reduction (1 Technician), resulting in 
     no on site support for computers, radios, frequency 
     management, and other support.
       Budget--100% reduction (2 Technicians), resulting in only 
     emergency budget issues being addressed by non-budget 
     personnel.
       Safety--Reduction of 100% (1 Technician), resulting in all 
     safety issues reverting back to the state level for oversight 
     by the State Safety Manager.
       Environmental--limited initial impact with the loss of 1 
     Technician. After 21 days the section would reduce 100% (9 
     State and 2 Contract), resulting in all Hunt Programs for 
     Deployed Soldiers being cancelled at both Camp Ripley (Dec 2-
     4) and AHATS (Oct 25-27) and (Dec 6-8). No Native American 
     Consultation meeting. (Annual Requirement NHPA) REPI (ACUB) 
     Report to NGB will not get completed. Annual update to the 
     Integrated Natural Resources Management Plan (INRMP) will not 
     get completed (Annual Requirement--Sikes Act). No 
     Environmental Review (National Environmental Protection Act 
     Requirement) for Sustainment Restoration and Modernization 
     (SRM) and Military Construction (MILCON) projects will not 
     take place due to no staff available. All Conservation and 
     Integrated Training Area Management (ITAM) Projects will be 
     impacted.


                           Air Bases Impact:

       Short Term Impact:
       No local flying training operations during any shutdown 
     period--impact on perishable flying skills
       No Mission Ready Airlift or Joint Airborne Air 
     Transportability Training (JA/ATT)
       No Aircraft Maintenance or fuel support presence capable of 
     preparing aircraft for response to state or national 
     emergency
       No Air Operations Supervision, planners, or instructors to 
     support response to real world contingencies or training 
     events
       Reduced to an AGR force only, there is no support for any 
     function beyond maintenance & protection of the facility
       Long Term Impact:
       Depending on duration of shutdown, aircrew members may go 
     non-current, non-mission ready along with instructor force 
     leaving unit with no local means to regenerate an operations 
     force (unless AMC/ANG issue training waivers)
       Medical Readiness requirements, if not completed, render 
     members non-deployable
       Impact on SORTS for any units unable to complete upgrade or 
     continuation training
       Impact on construction projects, such as the contract for 
     the water line replacement, if we do not have staff to 
     supervise the operations
       Pilot currencies become affected if the shutdown continues 
     for longer period. Proficiency begins to fade (depending on 
     experience) after a couple weeks. Additionally, the ``Ready 
     Aircrew Program (RAP)'' currencies are tracked on a monthly 
     basis. As pilot currencies expire, they will no longer be 
     qualified to sit alert. For that reason, we have submitted a 
     listing of approx. 128 essential employees that we will 
     require in order to maintain currency for 20 of our 29 
     pilots. This group will be needed if the shutdown continues 
     for an extended.


              State/Department of Military Affairs Impact:

       Number of State Personnel Impacted
       State Military Employees (Short Term 2 Oct 2013): 5
       State Civilian Employees (Long Term 22 Oct 2013): 131
       Total Force Impacted: 136
       Over the short term, the direct cost to the State of 
     Minnesota in lost assistance for payroll through the Master 
     Cooperative Agreement is just under $300,000.00 per week. 
     This means that the cost to simply cover the amount of 
     federal funding unavailable to the state for the 21 days 
     required per the bargaining agreements to provide notice to 
     our employees of a layoff will approach $1,000,000.00.
       During the notification period, costs will be incurred by 
     the agency to manage the seniority moves that will be 
     generated by the layoff. Once the 21 day notification period 
     ends, costs to the agency will stabilize, but the services 
     provided by the laid off employees will not be available to 
     the agency or the people of Minnesota. Efficiency will be 
     negatively impacted as the seniority moves are made, and 
     employees must be trained for their new responsibilities. If 
     the Federal Government shutdown is resolved, then we will 
     need to unwind whatever management activities we initiate to 
     comply with the bargaining agreements, causing further 
     disruption to routines, negative impacts on productivity, and 
     morale.
       If the shutdown continues over the longer term, the 
     Adjutant General must then decide if any of the services 
     provided by the employees normally supported by the master 
     cooperative agreement are essential to state agency 
     operations. If they are, then the agency will need to 
     determine how to fund the activities within our existing 
     state budget, and since we do not carry an aggressive 
     reserve, other agency activities will need to be cut to fund 
     the services deemed necessary.
       Additionally, the agency will be responsible to pay the 
     unemployment benefit costs for all laid off state employees 
     for the duration of layoff.


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  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I am happy now to yield 2 minutes 
to the very distinguished gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. 
Frelinghuysen), an important member of the Defense Appropriations 
Subcommittee.
  Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. I thank the chairman for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, in the family of public servants, our military, and 
especially their families, deserve special attention, especially during 
this government shutdown.
  We have spoken with pride many times about our Active Duty soldiers, 
sailors, marines, Coast Guard, airmen and airwomen, many deployed in 
Afghanistan and other challenging areas around the globe.
  I need not remind my colleagues that the men and women of the 
National Guard are just as vital to the performance of our military. 
They train, deploy, and they fight alongside their Active Duty 
brethren. Many of these men and women have completed multiple overseas 
deployments in some of these same dangerous areas. They guard us here 
at home and meet the challenges of manmade and natural disasters--civil 
emergencies like Hurricane Sandy last year in New Jersey or the 
flooding in Colorado. Last year, the National Guard alone responded to 
more than 100 natural disaster missions.
  Mr. Speaker, this bill corrects a drafting error in the Pay Our 
Military Act, signed into law last Monday. It is intended to 
appropriate funds so that all of our servicemembers--Active Duty, Guard 
and Reserve--get paid. It deserves our bipartisan support.
  Mr. VISCLOSKY. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman 
from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. I thank the ranking member for the time.
  Madam Speaker, I thank the chairman of this committee and the ranking 
member of the full committee and I thank the chairman of the Defense 
Appropriations Committee. There may be no other Member that has as much 
respect as I have in working with the chairman of the Defense 
Subcommittee, and I thank him for his service.
  All of us want to be helpful to the men and women that we care about 
who rise up and serve us, whatever call, as civilian soldiers. So today 
I want to offer a solution. Rather than this bill, I would like for our 
leadership, the Speaker, to bring to the floor a clean bill to open the 
government.
  I want my National Guard in Texas--1,900 of them--to be able to be 
paid. But I also want their families to have the Affordable Care Act, 
and I also want to make sure that they have infrastructure, maintenance 
of existing equipment, and procurement of new equipment, research and 
development, facilities maintenance, commissaries in the United States.
  I hear that there are 20 or 30 or 40 Republicans ready to vote on a 
bill that will open the government. Let's open the government to serve 
our National Guard.

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  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Speaker, I am very pleased to yield 1 
minute to the gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Womack), another member of 
the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.
  Mr. WOMACK. I thank the gentleman for the time.
  Madam Speaker, I rise in support of the resolution.
  It is important for people to remember that the issue that we are 
speaking about goes right to the heart of readiness. Never before in 
the history of this Nation have we been so reliant on our Guard and 
Reserve as now.
  I am an example, Madam Speaker, of that reliance. It was my National 
Guard battalion that became the first to answer our Nation's call after 
9/11 when my Gunslingers from Arkansas took the mission of the 
Multinational Force and Observers into Sinai, Egypt--and let me just 
add--on very short notice. We were able to go because we were trained 
and we were ready.
  This sequester has already taken its toll on our military, so to deny 
these Guardsmen and Reservists their pay when they're making these 
sacrifices makes absolutely no sense to me. In fact, it's incredibly 
stupid for our country to be so shortsighted to try to make our 
political statements by denying the men and women of the Guard and 
Reserve the pay for their sacrifices.
  I urge support of the resolution.
  Mr. VISCLOSKY. I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Speaker, at this time, I yield 1 minute 
to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Coffman).
  Mr. COFFMAN. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 3230, the Pay 
Our Guard and Reserve Act.
  On September 30, Congress passed and the President signed H.R. 3210, 
which, I believe, is the Pay Our Military Act, which I introduced. 
Every Member of the House voted for that bill. Yet there are those here 
today who seem to have sort of temporary amnesia about that and are 
saying we are not going to vote for anything piecemeal, that we will 
only vote when there is a clean CR for everything, for everybody, for 
all aspects of the Federal Government--the discretionary budget.
  Yet you already voted piecemeal. You voted for Active Duty personnel. 
You voted for Federal civil service. You voted for the contractors 
essential for them. You already did that. The message that you're 
sending is that the soldiers, the marines, the airmen, the Reserves, 
and the Guardsmen, who have sacrificed their lives for this country, 
are of lesser status than the Active Duty. You are wrong. That is 
simply wrong.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Ros-Lehtinen). The Chair would like to 
remind the Members to address their remarks to the Chair.
  Mr. VISCLOSKY. I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Madam Speaker, I would simply make the point in response to the 
gentleman's remarks that I don't want to vote on a clean CR. I'm not 
here to do that. I am here to vote on 12 appropriations bills that make 
discrete decisions, that make discerning judgments about how best and 
most efficiently and most effectively to run the Government of the 
United States. The gentleman is mistaken if he thinks I want to vote on 
a clean CR. I want to do appropriations bills just as I know Chairman 
Rogers wants to do and as Ranking Member Lowey wants to do.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Speaker, I agree that the regular order 
is to pass individual appropriations bills and to go to conference with 
the Senate if they will conference. I agree with my friend from Indiana 
on that issue.
  At this time, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. 
Bilirakis), my colleague and my friend.
  Mr. BILIRAKIS. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
  Madam Speaker, I rise today to show my support for the continued 
funding for our veterans and military personnel in the Reserve 
components. As vice chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, 
I always find myself in awe of the sacrifices our men and women in 
uniform have made in service to our great country.
  I remain committed to ending this government shutdown and to fighting 
to protect the American people. I have joined my House colleagues to 
vote multiple times to keep the government open and to make sure that 
Members of Congress face the same consequences under ObamaCare that 
hardworking Americans across the country face.
  It is my desire, my sincere hope, that the Senate and the President 
will come together as soon as possible to join the House in a civil and 
open dialogue. We need to enact a fair solution to this situation that 
serves all Americans, particularly our Nation's heroes who have so 
bravely served us.
  Mr. VISCLOSKY. I continue to reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Speaker, at this point, I yield 1 minute 
to the gentlelady from Michigan (Mrs. Miller).
  Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong 
support of this legislation, the Pay Our Guard and Reserve Act.

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  The first and foremost responsibility of the Federal Government is to 
provide for the common defense. That is actually in the Preamble of our 
Constitution. Since our Nation's birth, some 237 years ago, the 
National Guard has been at the foundation of our common defense.
  Since 9/11, Madam Speaker, we have seen the largest call-up to active 
service of our National Guard and Reserve since World War II. They 
actually make up about 30 percent of everybody who is in theater. The 
men and women of the Guard and Reserve have always answered freedom's 
call with bravery and with honor. The enemies and their bullets make no 
distinction between the regular Armed Forces and the Guard and Reserve, 
so it is beyond me to understand why this Congress would do so.
  We have a duty to make certain that those brave men and women have 
the training that they need to serve in the defense of our freedoms and 
to make certain that they are paid for their service. Vote ``yes'' for 
the National Guard and Reserve. Vote ``yes'' on this legislation.
  Mr. VISCLOSKY. I continue to reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the 
gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Bridenstine).
  Mr. BRIDENSTINE. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 3230 for 
our National Guard and Reserve. I would be astonished if any Member of 
Congress votes against this bill.
  In the midst of a shutdown, due to the President and Harry Reid's 
unwillingness to negotiate, Congress came together, and we acted to 
fund our Active Duty troops. Following this vote, the radical left 
voted against funding our veterans; they voted against funding our 
national parks; and they even voted against funding cancer patients. 
Now we are trying to pay the Reserve and Guard components, who have 
fought valiantly for this country all over the world. The citizen 
warriors of my State of Oklahoma and across this country should not 
suffer because the radical left, which includes our President, is 
unwilling to negotiate.
  Voting against our Guard and Reserve servicemembers is every bit as 
indefensible as voting against our Active Duty servicemembers and our 
vets. I urge my colleagues to act responsibly and to fund our Reserve 
and Guard.
  Mr. VISCLOSKY. I yield 3 minutes to the ranking member of the 
Appropriations Committee (Mrs. Lowey).
  Mrs. LOWEY. Madam Speaker, I rise with great respect for Chairman 
Young. However, I rise in strong opposition to this reckless Republican 
shutdown.
  Of course we support the National Guard and Reserves. The House 
already passed a full-year funding bill for the Guard and Reserves in 
July under the auspices of Chairman Young and our extraordinary ranking 
member, Mr. Visclosky; but this bill is inadequate, and it's the wrong 
action at this time.
  Our troops need training and equipment--two key components absent 
from this bill. This measure does nothing to help the CIA, the FBI, the 
DEA, the Secret Service, or the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 
This is critical to our Nation's defense.
  We could end the shutdown today if the majority would only allow a 
vote on the Senate-passed bill, which includes the funding levels that 
the Republicans support and that would be signed by the President. Then 
we could get to work, as our ranking member said, on a complete bill, 
an omnibus bill, through the regular order of the Appropriations 
Committee.
  The House majority, apparently, can't take the heat from the fire 
that they've lit, so now they've put forward this reckless political 
attempt to shift blame for their shutdown. Ending the shutdown of our 
government couldn't be more simple: stop playing games and pass the 
reasonable bill that the Senate and the White House have already agreed 
to. Madam Speaker, it's time for the Republicans to stop opposing 
reasonable solutions and to end their shutdown. Allow a vote on the 
Senate bill.
  I have served in this Congress for many years with the distinguished 
ranking member, Mr. Visclosky, and the chairman, Mr. Bill Young. I am 
embarrassed to go home to my constituents in my district and talk to 
them about the dysfunction due to the Republican shutdown of this 
government. There are people who don't have child care. There are 
people who don't have health care. There are people who are suffering, 
who are having trouble paying the rent. Let us open this government and 
get our work done.
  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. VISCLOSKY. Madam Speaker, understanding that Chairman Young will 
close and that he has no further speakers, I would simply make the 
observation that I would hope all of us think through the issues that 
are pending here today and tomorrow and remember that our ultimate 
charge is to be of service to all of the public.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Madam Speaker, this is not a political bill. This is a correction 
bill. It has been held pretty much to a legislative process rather than 
a political process.
  I want to say how much I have enjoyed the many years of serving on 
the same subcommittees with Mrs. Lowey, and then she advanced to the 
high rank as the ranking member on the Appropriations Committee.
  To my friend, Mr. Visclosky, we have worked together for so long on 
the Defense Appropriations Committee to bring to this House and to this 
Congress legislation that had no sign of politics.
  H.R. 3230, I believe, will be supported by everybody in the House. It 
doesn't solve the overall problem, but it does solve one problem for 
the Guard and Reserve. I am satisfied that there will be other 
legislation, maybe not following this particular bill, but following in 
the course of events that will come later. Today, we are dealing with 
H.R. 3230, and I hope that everybody in the Chamber and in the House 
will support H.R. 3230 and at least take care of one of the problems.
  With that very important thought, I yield back the balance of my 
time.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, I rise to speak on H.R. 3230, the Pay 
Our Guard and Reserve Act. The members of the National Guard who reside 
in the city of Houston are more than numbers; they are friends of mine 
who share a passion for love of country and community service that is 
unrivaled.
  It is very painful to me to see our men and women in the armed 
services treated with such disrespect by the majority of the House of 
Representatives. I know how they treat members of Congress when we 
visit their installations or facilities. They greet us with salutes, 
deference and respect.
  I have learned to return their greetings in kind not out of habit but 
out of true appreciation for who they are and what they do to make the 
lives of countless Americans better.
  Guard and reservists, unlike regular army or military service 
personnel, are part of the support for first responders for communities 
in times when a hurricane comes ashore, wildfires strike, tornadoes 
touch down and ice storms occur.
  When Congress moves to fund only components of the government but not 
the entire government they do harm to our nation's security in small 
and large ways. One of the large ways they harm our nation's security 
is to undermine the cohesiveness of all of the components of our 
military force.
  The majority bringing a bill to the floor today to include the Guard 
and Reserve on their list of favored Federal government programs, 
projects or agencies is an afterthought.
  If the House majority thought that the Guard and Reserves were 
important to the security of our nation, which I believe that they are, 
funding would have been in the bill passed that continued pay to 
soldiers.
  What is most troubling is that if the majority of the House would 
actually negotiate with Democrats in the House before introducing these 
measures, they would know that this approach will mean that we will 
spend the next hundred or two hundred days coming back to fund an 
office, agency or Federal component that the majority did not know was 
essential.
  The regular order for consideration of funding bills allows 
committees with jurisdiction and more important in-depth knowledge 
about agencies to make funding decisions.
  No one member knows everything that there is to know about what each 
agency does and

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how what that agency does impacts or touches on how well another part 
of the Federal government functions.
  The Federal government is not a group of dismembered parts but a 
cohesive unit that works as one for the benefit of the American people.
  Attempting to bribe our Guard and Reservists into turning a blind eye 
to the best interest of our nation speaks to the character of the 
majority's leadership on the matter of the budget.
  Attempting to turn one American against another is a shameful act and 
one that will not be tolerated or soon forgotten by the American 
public.
  The House majority see members of the Guard and Reservists as 
selfish.
  They are far from selfish, they are selfless. Over 662,000 National 
Guard and Reserve Troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan as of 2011.
  Included in these numbers are 15,877 Army Guard, 11,939 Army 
Reservists, 2,068 Navy Reservists, 3,499 Marine Corps Reservists and 
over 6,000 Air National Guard, Air Force Reservists and Coast Guard 
Reservists from the State of Texas.
  If the majority cared about the welfare of the Guard and Reservists 
they would have ended the Sequester, which has cost them pay cuts just 
like all Federal personnel.
  This is not a game--where points can be won or lost--these are lives 
being impacted by decisions made by the majority of this body who are 
not putting first the America the Guard and Reservists risk their lives 
to protect and serve.
  The Guard and Reserves will not leave anyone behind--if they did they 
know that the ability to defend and protect this nation would be left 
behind.
  We must learn from these brave men and women to work together for the 
good of a nation and not for political gain.
  We know what needs to be done--put everyone back to work in the 
Federal government; then we can work on the issues that separate us.
  Time is important for Federal workers who have been working with 
reduced pay for months. We should and can do better than play politics 
with the lives of our Guard and Reservists.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time for debate has expired.
  Pursuant to House Resolution 370, the previous question is ordered.
  The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was 
read the third time.


                           Motion to Recommit

  Mr. ENYART. Madam Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentleman opposed to the bill?
  Mr. ENYART. I am, in its current form.
  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Speaker, I reserve a point of order on 
the gentleman's motion.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. A point of order is reserved.
  The Clerk will report the motion to recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. Enyart moves to recommit the bill H.R. 3230 to the 
     Committee on Appropriations with instructions to report the 
     same back to the House forthwith with the following 
     amendment:
       Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the 
     following:

     That upon passage of this bill by the House of 
     Representatives, the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 59) making 
     continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2014, and for other 
     purposes, as amended by the Senate on September 27, 2013, 
     shall be considered to have been taken from the Speaker's 
     table and the House shall be considered to have (1) receded 
     from its amendment; and (2) concurred in the Senate 
     amendment.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from 
Illinois is recognized for 5 minutes in support of his motion.

                              {time}  1315

  Mr. ENYART. Madam Speaker, the underlying bill pays Reservists and 
Guardsmen for weekend drills during this government shutdown, but it 
does nothing to pay the full-time support force. The vast majority of 
full-time Guardsmen and Reservists wear a uniform but are considered 
civil service technicians; thus, they're currently furloughed.
  I spent nearly 37 years serving this great Nation's military; 32 
years of those years were in the National Guard and the Reserve. As a 
young enlisted airman and later as a junior officer in the Army Guard, 
I certainly appreciated that paycheck for a weekend of duty. I, like 
many of the young troops serving today, needed that paycheck, kind of 
like the civilian employees at Scott Air Force Base need their 
paychecks or the Forest Service workers in the Shawnee National Forest 
need their paychecks or the clerks at the Social Security office in 
Carbondale, Illinois, need their paychecks.
  The absolute utter cynicism of the underlying bill appalls me. As the 
only former general serving in Congress, I'm sponsoring this amendment 
to correct the underlying bill which only makes pawns of dedicated 
American Reservists and Guardsmen. The only thing that bill does is 
give the politicians who sponsored it and who vote for it a claim, 
while wrapping themselves in the flag, to say they're supporting the 
troops. It's as phony as putting a flag pin on your lapel and claiming 
that makes you a patriot.
  The underlying bill is as phony as the bill I voted against Tuesday. 
That bill was falsely named ``Honoring Our Promise to America's 
Veterans Act.'' My father was a disabled veteran. He's buried in a 
national cemetery. My brother is a combat disabled veteran. I'm a 
veteran. Between the three of us, we have accumulated a total of 65 
years of military service to this Nation. I tell you, as a veteran, 
that bill is a disservice to veterans. It cut $6.1 billion from the VA 
budget, which was already passed by the House. It eliminated funding 
for VA construction. It eliminated funding for national cemeteries, 
that cemetery my father is buried in. It eliminated funding for medical 
and prosthetic research. That bill was a lie to America's veterans and 
America's voters.
  I am sick of phony bills designed solely to create political ads. I 
and my constituents are sick of the messaging that makes bad policy out 
to be good politics. It is time to drive the moneychangers from the 
temple and to bring an end to this sanctimonious foolishness. Just as a 
soldier refuses to leave his or her battle buddies behind, I refuse to 
leave all of the people who proudly serve this great Nation behind.
  Stop this charade. Have the moral courage to tell the truth to the 
American people. The amendment I offer today presents the continuing 
resolution, which has the Republican budget numbers in it. It would pay 
not just the part-time National Guard, not just the part-time 
Reservists, but the full-timers, too. It puts 70 percent of the CIA 
back to work. It puts the VA back to work. It puts our government back 
to work.
  Let's not call this a continuing resolution. Let's call it what it 
is: Put Our Government Back to Work. I ask you to have the integrity to 
vote ``yes'' or ``no.'' If you're a patriot behind that American flag 
pin, have the guts to show it.
  I yield back the balance of my time.


                             Point of Order

  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Speaker, I make a point of order against 
the motion to recommit.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Florida will state his 
point of order.
  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. This motion is not germane and as such is a 
violation of rule XVI, clause 7, which states:

       No motion or proposition on a subject different from that 
     under consideration shall be admitted under color of 
     amendment.

  This motion deals with the proposition unrelated to the matter 
addressed by the joint resolution and brings in a matter under the 
jurisdiction of the Committee on Rules, which fails the committee of 
jurisdiction test and, therefore, is a violation of rule XVI, clause 7.
  I ask for a ruling from the Chair.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Does the gentleman from Illinois wish to be 
heard on the point of order?
  Mr. ENYART. Yes, Madam Speaker, I would like to be heard on the point 
of order.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Illinois is recognized on 
the point of order.
  Mr. ENYART. Madam Speaker, my motion to recommit would open up the

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entire Federal Government so that the part-time National Guard not only 
receives their pay, but also the full-time National Guard. They would 
receive all of their benefits. They would receive funds for the 
equipment to do their jobs. There would no longer be furloughs. Can the 
Chair explain why it is not germane to keep all of the needs of the 
National Guard open for public service instead of only their pay?
  If we're paying our National Guard, but they can't do their jobs, 
what sense does that make? Are we asking our brave soldiers simply to 
sit at their desks? What kind of strange House is this that would force 
that situation on our brave men and women, the brave men and women that 
have been so remarkably addressed by the gentleman across the aisle?
  Madam Speaker, if you rule this motion out of order, does that mean 
we will not have a chance to keep the entire Federal Government open 
today? Can the Chair please explain why we can't keep our part-time 
National Guard and the entire Federal Government open today?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair is prepared to rule.
  The gentleman from Florida makes a point of order that the amendment 
proposed in the motion to recommit offered by the gentleman from 
Illinois is not germane.
  The bill extends funding relating to the Reserve components of the 
Armed Forces for all of fiscal year 2014 and a portion of fiscal year 
2015. The instructions in the motion propose an order of business of 
the House relating to funding for all other agencies and Departments 
subject to the annual appropriations process for the remainder of the 
fiscal year.
  On October 2, 2013, a similar motion to recommit was offered to a 
joint resolution that, like H.R. 3230, provided for the appropriation 
of certain funds. The Chair ruled that motion nongermane on committee 
jurisdiction grounds.
  Here, similarly, the bill falls within the jurisdiction of the 
Committee on Appropriations. The instructions contained in the motion 
to recommit fall within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Rules.
  The motion is not germane. The point of order is sustained.
  Mr. ENYART. Madam Speaker, I appeal the ruling of the Chair.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is, Shall the ruling of the 
Chair stand as the decision of the House?
  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Speaker, I move to lay the appeal on the 
table.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to table.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. ENYART. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 15-
minute vote on the motion to table will be followed by a 5-minute vote 
on the passage of the bill, if arising without further proceedings in 
recommittal.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 228, 
nays 194, not voting 9, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 515]

                               YEAS--228

     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
     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
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     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)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     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--194

     Andrews
     Barber
     Barrow (GA)
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera (CA)
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deutch
     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
     Holt
     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
     Meeks
     Meng
     Michaud
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     O'Rourke
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     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
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Bass
     Cardenas
     Dingell
     Foxx
     Herrera Beutler
     Jones
     McCarthy (NY)
     Negrete McLeod
     Rush

                              {time}  1348

  Ms. PINGREE of Maine, Messrs. BUTTERFIELD, HONDA, Ms. WILSON of 
Florida and Messrs. RUIZ and CARNEY changed their vote from ``yea'' to 
``nay.''
  Messrs. NUGENT, GRIFFIN of Arkansas and Mrs. NOEM changed their vote 
from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the motion to table was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Ms. FOXX. Madam Speaker, on rollcall No. 515, I was unexpectedly 
detained and missed

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the rollcall vote No. 515 on the motion to table the appeal of the 
ruling of the chair. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea''.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. MORAN. Madam 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 265, 
nays 160, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 516]

                               YEAS--265

     Aderholt
     Amash
     Amodei
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barber
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barrow (GA)
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bera (CA)
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NY)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Braley (IA)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carney
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Castro (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Coble
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Daines
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     DelBene
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia
     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
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Keating
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Lankford
     Latham
     Latta
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney, Sean
     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 (FL)
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nolan
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters (CA)
     Peters (MI)
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Polis
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Radel
     Rahall
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Royce
     Ruiz
     Runyan
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schneider
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     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--160

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

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Bass
     Herrera Beutler
     Jones
     McCarthy (NY)
     Negrete McLeod
     Rush

                              {time}  1357

  So the bill 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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