[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 6]
[House]
[Pages 7698-7701]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              {time}  0915
           AMERICAN RESEARCH AND COMPETITIVENESS ACT OF 2014

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Yoder). Pursuant to clause 1(c) of rule 
XIX, further consideration of H.R. 4438 will now resume.

[[Page 7699]]

  The Clerk read the title of the bill.


                           Motion to Recommit

  Mrs. KIRKPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the 
desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentlewoman opposed to the bill?
  Mrs. KIRKPATRICK. I am opposed to it in its current form.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mrs. Kirkpatrick moves to recommit the bill H.R. 4438 to 
     the Committee on Ways and Means with instructions to report 
     the same back to the House forthwith with the following 
     amendment:
       Add at the end the following:
       (e) Strengthening America's Middle Class.--Section 
     41(b)(2)(A)(i) of such Code is amended by striking ``such 
     employee,'' and inserting ``such employee, but only if the 
     taxpayer pays women employees equal pay for equal work and, 
     in hiring employees, the taxpayer gives priority to 
     unemployed American workers, particularly veterans, and does 
     not outsource American jobs to foreign workers,''.
       (f) Ensuring That Tax Cuts for Corporations Are Offset.--
     Nothing in this Act shall result in an increase in the 
     deficit.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from 
Arizona is recognized for 5 minutes in support of her motion.
  Mrs. KIRKPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, this is the final amendment to the 
bill, which will not kill the bill nor send it back to committee. If 
adopted, this bill will immediately proceed to final passage, as 
amended.
  Mr. Speaker, this bill is fiscally irresponsible. It is an unpaid-for 
bill that costs $156 billion. When combined with the other six 
permanent tax extenders passed by Republicans on the Ways and Means 
Committee, the combined cost of all six bills is $310 billion. Not $1 
of these bills is paid for, not $1 to offset the cost.
  They do not close one special interest, corporate tax loophole to 
offset the cost of these bills.
  The bill threatens so many critical programs that we care about. It 
threatens tax extender provisions that are not included, the new 
markets tax credit, the work opportunity tax credit for veterans, and 
renewable energy incentives.
  The bill also threatens enhancements made to refundable tax credits 
for working families that expire in 2017, the child tax credit, the 
earned income tax credit, the American opportunity tax credit for 
education.
  Republicans may have turned off, at the eleventh hour, the automatic 
spending cuts that would have resulted from passing this legislation 
after we called them out for it. What isn't done with one hand by them 
will be done with the other.
  Republicans will add to the deficit. Let me make that clear. 
Republicans will add to the deficit and then automatically use that to 
push for harmful cuts elsewhere.
  The Ryan budget lays out where the Republicans will make the cuts. 
They will make cuts to education, Head Start programs, and K-12 
education. They will make cuts to medical research, such as the 
important work done by the National Institutes of Health.
  On the other hand, medical research is one type of research that they 
seek to incentivize with this bill. On the other hand, they are cutting 
programs at the National Institutes of Health.
  Do you get my drift here?
  They will make cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and other health programs 
to the tune of $2.9 trillion. They will make cuts to transportation, 
$52 billion.
  This bill throws the Republican budget so out of balance--the first 
opportunity they have to go against their budget, they take it--they 
had to waive their own rules to make this bill work.
  Chairman Camp made this provision permanent in his tax reform bill 
and paid for the provisions. He paid for it. The President made this 
provision permanent, and he has offsets to cover the cost in his 
budget.
  We should have time to look and find common pay-fors and pass this 
bill in a fiscally responsible manner.
  Again, I support the R&D tax credit, as do the vast majority of the 
members of our Caucus, but we do not support this bill.
  I ask for a ``yes'' vote on my motion.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CAMP. Mr. Speaker, I am opposed to the motion.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Michigan is recognized 
for 5 minutes.
  Mr. CAMP. Mr. Speaker, this economy isn't growing. Last quarter's GDP 
showed 0.1 percent economic growth. It is essentially flat.
  Do we have any pro-growth ideas or policies coming from the other 
side? None. They seem to be happy with the way things are. But, 
frankly, Americans aren't. Americans think the country is going in the 
wrong direction. Americans think things aren't going to get better 
because--you know what?--they haven't been. Median incomes have been 
declining. So what we need to do is adopt something that is pro-growth.
  This is a policy that has wide bipartisan support. Republicans and 
Democrats have long supported the research and development tax credit. 
Do you know why? Because it allows companies to innovate, to create and 
refine medical products that help extend and make people's lives 
better. It helps small companies like one in my home State of Michigan 
that actually makes footwear for our soldiers and men and women in 
harm's way, and they continue to refine that product as they meet 
difficult conditions overseas.
  We need to innovate and grow. Democrats 71 times voted to extend this 
provision, unpaid for. The President, when he was in the Senate, voted 
twice to extend the R&D credit without paying for it. The President, 
twice, as President of the United States signed legislation that twice 
extended this credit without paying for it.
  Look, let's stop the charade. Let's be honest. This credit will be 
extended. Let's give businesses the certainty they need, employers, so 
they can grow and invest and create jobs, so that everyone can get 
higher wages, so we can reverse this terrible trend of incomes 
declining.
  Let's raise wages for everyone. Let's adopt a permanent R&D tax 
credit.
  Vote against this motion and vote for the bill.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the previous question is 
ordered on the motion to recommit.
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.
  Mrs. KIRKPATRICK. Mr. 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, the Chair 
will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on 
the question of passage of the bill.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 191, 
nays 209, not voting 31, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 210]

                               YEAS--191

     Barber
     Barrow (GA)
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera (CA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     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
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Holt
     Honda
     Horsford
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin

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     Lewis
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Michaud
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Negrete McLeod
     Nolan
     O'Rourke
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     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
     Scott (VA)
     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
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NAYS--209

     Aderholt
     Amash
     Amodei
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Daines
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harris
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Lankford
     Latham
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     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
     Olson
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Petri
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Southerland
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stockman
     Stutzman
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walorski
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westmoreland
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--31

     Bachmann
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Carson (IN)
     Clay
     Coble
     Crawford
     DeGette
     Diaz-Balart
     Duffy
     Frelinghuysen
     Granger
     Harper
     Hartzler
     Hastings (FL)
     Hurt
     Kingston
     Marchant
     McAllister
     Nunnelee
     Palazzo
     Payne
     Reed
     Runyan
     Rush
     Schwartz
     Scott, David
     Smith (TX)
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Young (AK)

                              {time}  0949

  Messrs. COLLINS of Georgia, MULLIN, McCAUL, KING of Iowa, WEBSTER, 
MULVANEY, and ROGERS of Alabama changed their vote from ``yea'' to 
``nay.''
  Messrs. DOYLE, LARSEN of Washington, ELLISON, and HOYER changed their 
vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the motion to recommit was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Mr. CARSON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, on May 9, 2014, I missed rollcall 
vote 210. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.''
  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. LEVIN. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 274, 
nays 131, not voting 26, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 211]

                               YEAS--274

     Aderholt
     Amash
     Amodei
     Bachus
     Barber
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barrow (GA)
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bera (CA)
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blumenauer
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Braley (IA)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Broun (GA)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clark (MA)
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Cook
     Cotton
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Daines
     Davis, Rodney
     Delaney
     DelBene
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Enyart
     Esty
     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
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harris
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Holding
     Holt
     Honda
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Keating
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy
     Kilmer
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Kuster
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Langevin
     Lankford
     Larson (CT)
     Latham
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lummis
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Marino
     Massie
     Matheson
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Moran
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (PA)
     Neal
     Negrete McLeod
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nolan
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Pascrell
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Peters (CA)
     Peters (MI)
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pingree (ME)
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Rahall
     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
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schneider
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shea-Porter
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Southerland
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stockman
     Stutzman
     Swalwell (CA)
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Tipton
     Titus
     Tonko
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walorski
     Walz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westmoreland
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (IN)

                               NAYS--131

     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bishop (NY)
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Campbell
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Fattah
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanabusa
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Horsford
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Kelly (IL)
     Kildee
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Larsen (WA)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Matsui
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Meng
     Miller, George
     Moore

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     Nadler
     Napolitano
     O'Rourke
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--26

     Bachmann
     Bishop (GA)
     Clay
     Coble
     Crawford
     DeGette
     Duffy
     Granger
     Harper
     Hartzler
     Hastings (FL)
     Hurt
     Kingston
     Marchant
     McAllister
     Nunnelee
     Palazzo
     Reed
     Runyan
     Rush
     Schwartz
     Scott, David
     Smith (TX)
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Young (AK)

                              {time}  0958

  So the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  Stated for:
  Ms. GRANGER. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 211, due to a previously 
scheduled, and very important, constituent event in my district, I will 
not be present for this vote. Had I been present, I would have voted 
``yea.''


                          personal explanation

  Mrs. HARTZLER. Mr. Speaker, on Friday, May 9, 2014, I was unable to 
vote. Had I been present, I would have voted as follows: on rollcall 
No. 210, ``nay,'' on rollcall No. 211, ``yea.''

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