[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 6]
[House]
[Pages 8516-8554]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 
                                  2016

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Fleischmann). Pursuant to House 
Resolution 287 and rule XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the 
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for the further 
consideration of the bill, H.R. 2578.
  Will the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Loudermilk) kindly take the 
chair.

                              {time}  1342


                     In the Committee of the Whole

  Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of 
the bill (H.R. 2578) making appropriations for the Departments of 
Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes, with Mr. Loudermilk 
(Acting Chair) in the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The Acting CHAIR. When the Committee of the Whole rose earlier today, 
the amendment offered by the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Austin Scott) 
had been disposed of, and the bill had been read through page 98, line 
20.


                    announcement by the acting chair

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings 
will now resume on those amendments on which further proceedings were 
postponed, in the following order:
  Amendment by Mr. Pittenger of North Carolina.
  Amendment by Mr. Nadler of New York.
  Amendment by Mr. Farr of California.
  Amendment No. 1 by Mrs. Blackburn of Tennessee.
  Amendment by Mr. Foster of Illinois.
  Amendment No. 9 by Ms. Bonamici of Oregon.
  Amendment by Mr. Ellison of Minnesota.
  Amendment by Mr. Grayson of Florida.
  Amendment by Mr. Rohrabacher of California.
  Amendment by Mr. Grayson of Florida.
  Amendment by Mr. McClintock of California.
  Amendment by Mr. Perry of Pennsylvania.
  Amendment by Mr. Garrett of New Jersey.
  The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the time for any electronic vote 
in this series.


                   Amendment Offered by Mr. Pittenger

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from North 
Carolina (Mr. Pittenger) on which further proceedings were postponed 
and on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.

[[Page 8517]]

  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 163, 
noes 263, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 275]

                               AYES--163

     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Curbelo (FL)
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Fincher
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Graham
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Grothman
     Hardy
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hensarling
     Hice, Jody B.
     Hill
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Luetkemeyer
     Marchant
     Marino
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McHenry
     Meadows
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Roskam
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shuster
     Sinema
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (TX)
     Stewart
     Stutzman
     Thornberry
     Tipton
     Walberg
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                               NOES--263

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Ashford
     Barton
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (MI)
     Blum
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Calvert
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello (PA)
     Courtney
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Denham
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donovan
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers (NC)
     Emmer (MN)
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farenthold
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Frelinghuysen
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Harper
     Hastings
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jolly
     Jones
     Joyce
     Katko
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kuster
     Lance
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Long
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lummis
     Lynch
     MacArthur
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Massie
     Matsui
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     McSally
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moolenaar
     Moore
     Moulton
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (PA)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Noem
     Nolan
     Norcross
     Nugent
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Rigell
     Rogers (KY)
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stefanik
     Stivers
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiberi
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Trott
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wagner
     Walden
     Walker
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Webster (FL)
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Adams
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Jackson Lee
     Kaptur
     Roe (TN)
     Smith (MO)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1347

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


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Nadler

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York 
(Mr. Nadler) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 170, 
noes 256, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 276]

                               AYES--170

     Amash
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Gibson
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Grijalva
     Hahn
     Hastings
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Rice (NY)
     Rice (SC)
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanford
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NOES--256

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Allen
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Capps
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Cook
     Costa
     Costello (PA)
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Ellmers (NC)
     Emmer (MN)
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming

[[Page 8518]]


     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Graham
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice, Jody B.
     Hill
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Katko
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     MacArthur
     Maloney, Sean
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rigell
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Sires
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stefanik
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Trott
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Vela
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Adams
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Gutierrez
     Jackson Lee
     Kaptur
     Roe (TN)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1351

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Mrs. CAPPS. Mr. Chair, on rollcall Vote No. 276 I am recorded as 
voting ``no;'' however, I intended to vote ``yes.''
  Mr. GUTIERREZ. Mr. Chair, I was inadvertently absent in the House 
chamber for a vote on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. Had I been present, I 
would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall vote 276 in support of the Nadler 
Amendment to remove language in the underlying bill to prohibit the use 
of funds to transfer or release detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.


                     Amendment Offered by Mr. Farr

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California 
(Mr. Farr) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the 
noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 153, 
noes 273, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 277]

                               AYES--153

     Aguilar
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Green, Al
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     O'Rourke
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Rangel
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sinema
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Waters, Maxine
     Welch
     Yarmuth

                               NOES--273

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bera
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Cardenas
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Cook
     Costello (PA)
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers (NC)
     Emmer (MN)
     Engel
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Frankel (FL)
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Graham
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice, Jody B.
     Hill
     Holding
     Hoyer
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Katko
     Keating
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Kuster
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Lynch
     MacArthur
     Maloney, Sean
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Norcross
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Pallone
     Palmer
     Pascrell
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price, Tom
     Quigley
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Ruppersberger
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sessions
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stefanik
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Trott
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Wasserman Schultz
     Watson Coleman
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Adams
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Grayson
     Jackson Lee
     Kaptur
     Roe (TN)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1355

  Mr. CICILLINE changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''

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


               Amendment No. 1 Offered by Mrs. Blackburn

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from 
Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn) on which further proceedings were postponed 
and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 168, 
noes 257, not voting 7, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 278]

                               AYES--168

     Allen
     Amash
     Babin
     Barton
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Carter (GA)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cooper
     Cramer
     Crawford
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hensarling
     Hice, Jody B.
     Hill
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Marchant
     Massie
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McMorris Rodgers
     McSally
     Meadows
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Napolitano
     Neugebauer
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shuster
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (TX)
     Stewart
     Stutzman
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Upton
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zinke

                               NOES--257

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Barletta
     Barr
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (PA)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Calvert
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Comstock
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Costa
     Costello (PA)
     Courtney
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donovan
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers (NC)
     Emmer (MN)
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fitzpatrick
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Frelinghuysen
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Gibson
     Graham
     Granger
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Hastings
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jolly
     Joyce
     Kaptur
     Katko
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     MacArthur
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Marino
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McKinley
     McNerney
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Neal
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nolan
     Norcross
     Nugent
     Nunes
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Posey
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stefanik
     Stivers
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Trott
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Webster (FL)
     Welch
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Womack
     Yarmuth
     Young (AK)
     Zeldin

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Adams
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Carson (IN)
     Hinojosa
     Jackson Lee
     Roe (TN)
     Wilson (FL)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1358

  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Mr. HINOJOSA. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 278, had I been present, I 
would have voted ``no.''


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Foster

  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Woodall). The unfinished business is the demand 
for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from 
Illinois (Mr. Foster) on which further proceedings were postponed and 
on which the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 195, 
noes 232, not voting 5, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 279]

                               AYES--195

     Aguilar
     Amash
     Barletta
     Bass
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Bost
     Brat
     Brownley (CA)
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Carter (GA)
     Cartwright
     Castro (TX)
     Chabot
     Chu, Judy
     Clawson (FL)
     Clay
     Coffman
     Collins (GA)
     Connolly
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello (PA)
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Rodney
     DeGette
     Delaney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Duffy
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Emmer (MN)
     Engel
     Fitzpatrick
     Forbes
     Foster
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Graham
     Graves (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Gutierrez
     Harris
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice, Jody B.
     Higgins
     Himes
     Holding
     Hoyer
     Hudson
     Huffman
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jeffries
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Katko
     Kelly (IL)
     Kildee
     Kind
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kline
     LaMalfa
     Lance
     Larsen (WA)
     Latta
     Lawrence
     Levin
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Loudermilk
     Lowenthal
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Massie
     McCarthy
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McHenry
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     McSally
     Meeks
     Meng
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moore
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (PA)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Nolan
     Norcross
     Nugent
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Paulsen
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pittenger
     Pocan
     Poe (TX)

[[Page 8520]]


     Polis
     Price, Tom
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Ratcliffe
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (NY)
     Rohrabacher
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Sinema
     Sires
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Stivers
     Takano
     Tiberi
     Torres
     Upton
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Wilson (FL)
     Woodall
     Yoho

                               NOES--232

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Barr
     Barton
     Beatty
     Bishop (GA)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boustany
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (FL)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Butterfield
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Capps
     Capuano
     Carney
     Carter (TX)
     Castor (FL)
     Chaffetz
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Conyers
     Cook
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Donovan
     Duncan (SC)
     Ellmers (NC)
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farenthold
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fincher
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Fortenberry
     Frankel (FL)
     Frelinghuysen
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gibson
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Harper
     Hartzler
     Hastings
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Hill
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Huelskamp
     Hurd (TX)
     Israel
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Keating
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy
     Kilmer
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Knight
     Kuster
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Langevin
     Larson (CT)
     Lee
     Lewis
     Lofgren
     Long
     Love
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lummis
     Lynch
     MacArthur
     Marchant
     Marino
     Matsui
     McCaul
     McGovern
     McKinley
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Moulton
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Neal
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Pearce
     Pingree
     Pitts
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (NC)
     Reed
     Reichert
     Rice (SC)
     Richmond
     Rigell
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Royce
     Rush
     Russell
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Sewell (AL)
     Simpson
     Slaughter
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (TX)
     Speier
     Stefanik
     Stewart
     Stutzman
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tipton
     Titus
     Tonko
     Trott
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Hollen
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Watson Coleman
     Weber (TX)
     Welch
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yarmuth
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Adams
     Babin
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Jackson Lee
     Roe (TN)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1403

  Messrs. NORCROSS, SIRES, and CUMMINGS changed their vote from ``no'' 
to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                Amendment No. 9 Offered by Ms. Bonamici

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Oregon 
(Ms. Bonamici) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 282, 
noes 146, not voting 4, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 280]

                               AYES--282

     Aguilar
     Amash
     Ashford
     Barr
     Bass
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Brat
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chaffetz
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clawson (FL)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coffman
     Cohen
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello (PA)
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DeSaulnier
     DesJarlais
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donovan
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers (NC)
     Emmer (MN)
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fincher
     Fleischmann
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garrett
     Gibson
     Goodlatte
     Graham
     Graves (GA)
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Grothman
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Hastings
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice, Jody B.
     Higgins
     Himes
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huelskamp
     Huffman
     Hunter
     Hurt (VA)
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jolly
     Jones
     Joyce
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kline
     Knight
     Kuster
     Labrador
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lummis
     Lynch
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Massie
     Matsui
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Messer
     Mooney (WV)
     Moore
     Moulton
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Newhouse
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Poliquin
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Price, Tom
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Reed
     Ribble
     Rice (NY)
     Rice (SC)
     Richmond
     Rigell
     Rogers (AL)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stefanik
     Stewart
     Stutzman
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tipton
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden
     Walorski
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wenstrup
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Wilson (FL)
     Woodall
     Yarmuth
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                               NOES--146

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barton
     Beatty
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Black
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Cole
     Cook
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Denham
     Diaz-Balart
     Duffy
     Farenthold
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gibbs
     Gohmert
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hensarling
     Hill
     Hinojosa
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hurd (TX)
     Issa
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan
     Katko
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     Long
     Lucas
     MacArthur
     Marchant
     Marino
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mullin
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Ratcliffe
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Roby
     Rogers (KY)
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Ruiz
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise

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     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stivers
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Trott
     Turner
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walker
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yoder

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Adams
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Jackson Lee
     Roe (TN)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1407

  Mr. REED changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Ellison

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Minnesota 
(Mr. Ellison) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 184, 
noes 244, not voting 4, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 281]

                               AYES--184

     Aguilar
     Ashford
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fitzpatrick
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hastings
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NOES--244

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Cook
     Costello (PA)
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers (NC)
     Emmer (MN)
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice, Jody B.
     Hill
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Katko
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     MacArthur
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stefanik
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Trott
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Adams
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Jackson Lee
     Roe (TN)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1413

  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  Mr. SCOTT of Virginia changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Grayson

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Florida 
(Mr. Grayson) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 27, 
noes 399, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 5, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 282]

                                AYES--27

     Aderholt
     Brooks (AL)
     Burgess
     Carson (IN)
     Duncan (TN)
     Fincher
     Gabbard
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Grayson
     Issa
     Jones
     Katko
     LaMalfa
     Lofgren
     McKinley
     Mooney (WV)
     Nolan
     Perry
     Posey
     Rohrabacher
     Russell
     Sensenbrenner
     Takai
     Titus
     Visclosky
     Yoho

                               NOES--399

     Abraham
     Aguilar
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney

[[Page 8522]]


     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clawson (FL)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coffman
     Cohen
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Cook
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello (PA)
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     Davis, Rodney
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DeSaulnier
     DesJarlais
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donovan
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers (NC)
     Emmer (MN)
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farenthold
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx
     Frankel (FL)
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Fudge
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Graham
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice, Jody B.
     Higgins
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Holding
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huffman
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kline
     Knight
     Kuster
     Labrador
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lummis
     Lynch
     MacArthur
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Meng
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Moore
     Moulton
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (PA)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Norcross
     Nugent
     Nunes
     O'Rourke
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Pallone
     Palmer
     Pascrell
     Paulsen
     Payne
     Pearce
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Pocan
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Polis
     Pompeo
     Price (NC)
     Price, Tom
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (NY)
     Rice (SC)
     Richmond
     Rigell
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanford
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stefanik
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Tonko
     Torres
     Trott
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Welch
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yarmuth
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1

       
     DeFazio
       

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Adams
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Conyers
     Jackson Lee
     Roe (TN)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1416

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


                  Amendment Offered by Mr. Rohrabacher

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California 
(Mr. Rohrabacher) on which further proceedings were postponed and on 
which the ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 242, 
noes 186, not voting 4, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 283]

                               AYES--242

     Aguilar
     Amash
     Ashford
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blum
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Brooks (AL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buck
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chaffetz
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Clyburn
     Coffman
     Cohen
     Collins (NY)
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello (PA)
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSantis
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donovan
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers (NC)
     Emmer (MN)
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garrett
     Gibson
     Graham
     Graves (GA)
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Grothman
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Hastings
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Hunter
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Joyce
     Kaptur
     Kelly (IL)
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Labrador
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lummis
     Lynch
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Massie
     Matsui
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Mooney (WV)
     Moore
     Moulton
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Newhouse
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Poliquin
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Reed
     Ribble
     Rice (NY)
     Rice (SC)
     Richmond
     Rigell
     Rogers (AL)
     Rohrabacher
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanford
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stefanik
     Stewart
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tipton
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden
     Walz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Westmoreland
     Wilson (FL)
     Woodall
     Yarmuth
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                               NOES--186

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Bass
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (FL)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Clawson (FL)
     Cleaver
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Cook
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duffy
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gibbs
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffith
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hardy
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice, Jody B.
     Hill
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)

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     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jordan
     Katko
     Keating
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy
     King (IA)
     Kline
     Knight
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     Levin
     Lipinski
     Long
     Lucas
     MacArthur
     Marchant
     Marino
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mullin
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Roby
     Rogers (KY)
     Rokita
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Scalise
     Scott, Austin
     Sessions
     Sewell (AL)
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Trott
     Turner
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Wasserman Schultz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yoder
     Young (IA)

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Adams
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Jackson Lee
     Roe (TN)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1420

  Messrs. RANGEL and TAKAI changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Grayson

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Florida 
(Mr. Grayson) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 245, 
noes 182, not voting 5, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 284]

                               AYES--245

     Aguilar
     Amash
     Ashford
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Blum
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Brat
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clawson (FL)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coffman
     Cohen
     Cole
     Collins (NY)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costello (PA)
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Dent
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Emmer (MN)
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farenthold
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Franks (AZ)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Gosar
     Graham
     Graves (GA)
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Guinta
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Harris
     Hastings
     Heck (WA)
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Hurd (TX)
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kaptur
     Katko
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Loudermilk
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lummis
     Lynch
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Massie
     Matsui
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McKinley
     McNerney
     Meadows
     Meeks
     Meng
     Messer
     Mooney (WV)
     Moore
     Moulton
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Olson
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Poe (TX)
     Polis
     Posey
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Reed
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Rogers (AL)
     Rohrabacher
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Salmon
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanford
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sinema
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Speier
     Stefanik
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tipton
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Weber (TX)
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                               NOES--182

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Collins (GA)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Cook
     Costa
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Ellmers (NC)
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Goodlatte
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guthrie
     Hardy
     Harper
     Hartzler
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Hice, Jody B.
     Hill
     Hinojosa
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Joyce
     Kelly (PA)
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Lance
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Love
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     MacArthur
     Marchant
     Marino
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McHenry
     McMorris Rodgers
     McSally
     Meehan
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mullin
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Rogers (KY)
     Rokita
     Roskam
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Ruiz
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schiff
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sires
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Trott
     Turner
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Adams
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Hurt (VA)
     Jackson Lee
     Roe (TN)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1424

  Messrs. COLE and ASHFORD changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                  Amendment Offered by Mr. McClintock

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California 
(Mr. McClintock) on which further proceedings were postponed and on 
which the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 206, 
noes 222, not voting 4, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 285]

                               AYES--206

     Aguilar
     Amash
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blum
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Brooks (AL)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)

[[Page 8524]]


     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clay
     Clyburn
     Coffman
     Cohen
     Collins (NY)
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Costa
     Costello (PA)
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSantis
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Duncan (SC)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers (NC)
     Emmer (MN)
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garrett
     Graves (GA)
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hastings
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Hunter
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Joyce
     Kaptur
     Kelly (IL)
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Labrador
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Loudermilk
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lummis
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Massie
     Matsui
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Newhouse
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Ribble
     Rice (NY)
     Rice (SC)
     Richmond
     Rigell
     Rogers (AL)
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanford
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tipton
     Titus
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Upton
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Westmoreland
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--222

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (IN)
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clarke (NY)
     Clawson (FL)
     Cleaver
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cooper
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Dold
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Duncan (TN)
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Graham
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice, Jody B.
     Hill
     Hinojosa
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jordan
     Katko
     Keating
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     Levin
     Lipinski
     Long
     Love
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lynch
     MacArthur
     Marchant
     Marino
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Peterson
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Roby
     Rogers (KY)
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Scalise
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Sewell (AL)
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Slaughter
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stefanik
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tonko
     Trott
     Turner
     Valadao
     Veasey
     Vela
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Wasserman Schultz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Young (IA)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Adams
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Jackson Lee
     Roe (TN)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1429

  Mr. LOEBSACK changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                     Amendment Offered by Mr. Perry

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry) on which further proceedings were postponed 
and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 297, 
noes 130, not voting 5, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 286]

                               AYES--297

     Aguilar
     Allen
     Amash
     Ashford
     Barletta
     Barr
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blum
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Brat
     Brooks (AL)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buck
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Calvert
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chaffetz
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clawson (FL)
     Clay
     Clyburn
     Coffman
     Cohen
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello (PA)
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Denham
     DeSantis
     DeSaulnier
     DesJarlais
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donovan
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers (NC)
     Emmer (MN)
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farenthold
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fitzpatrick
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garrett
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Gowdy
     Graham
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Harper
     Hastings
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Joyce
     Kaptur
     Kelly (IL)
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kline
     Kuster
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lance
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lummis
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Marchant
     Massie
     Matsui
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Miller (FL)
     Mooney (WV)
     Moore
     Moulton
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (PA)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Newhouse
     Nolan
     Norcross
     Nugent
     O'Rourke
     Olson
     Pallone
     Palmer
     Pascrell
     Paulsen
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Price, Tom
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Reed
     Reichert
     Ribble
     Rice (NY)
     Rice (SC)
     Richmond
     Rigell
     Rogers (AL)
     Rohrabacher
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanford
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stefanik
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tipton
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Upton

[[Page 8525]]


     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wagner
     Walden
     Walker
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Westmoreland
     Wilson (FL)
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                               NOES--130

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barton
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Byrne
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Cleaver
     Cole
     Comstock
     Cook
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Dent
     Diaz-Balart
     Fincher
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gibbs
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (MO)
     Griffith
     Guthrie
     Hardy
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hensarling
     Hice, Jody B.
     Hill
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Jolly
     Jordan
     Katko
     Keating
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy
     King (IA)
     Knight
     Lamborn
     Latta
     Lucas
     Lynch
     MacArthur
     Marino
     McCarthy
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mullin
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nunes
     Palazzo
     Pearce
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Ratcliffe
     Renacci
     Roby
     Rogers (KY)
     Rokita
     Roskam
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Rush
     Russell
     Salmon
     Scalise
     Sessions
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Trott
     Turner
     Valadao
     Walberg
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Adams
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Jackson Lee
     Roe (TN)
     Yarmuth


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1433

  Mr. JENKINS of West Virginia changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Garrett

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New Jersey 
(Mr. Garrett) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 232, 
noes 196, not voting 4, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 287]

                               AYES--232

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Bost
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Cook
     Costello (PA)
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers (NC)
     Emmer (MN)
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hardy
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice, Jody B.
     Hill
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Trott
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                               NOES--196

     Aguilar
     Ashford
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boustany
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Frelinghuysen
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Gibson
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Hastings
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jolly
     Kaptur
     Katko
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     MacArthur
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stefanik
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Adams
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Jackson Lee
     Roe (TN)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1438

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


                          personal explanation

  Mr. ROE of Tennessee. Mr. Chair, I was unable to vote today because 
of the death of a close friend. Had I been present, I would have voted: 
rollcall No. 274--``aye,'' rollcall No. 275--``aye,'' rollcall No. 
276--``nay,'' rollcall No. 277--``nay,'' rollcall No. 278--``nay,'' 
rollcall No. 279--``nay,'' rollcall No. 280--``nay,'' rollcall No. 
281--``nay,'' rollcall No. 282--``nay,'' rollcall No. 283--``nay,'' 
rollcall No. 284--``aye,'' rollcall No. 285--``nay,'' rollcall No. 
286--``nay,'' rollcall No. 287--``aye.''


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Massie

  Mr. MASSIE. I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.

[[Page 8526]]

  The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used in contravention of section 7606 (``Legitimacy of 
     Industrial Hemp Research'') of the Agricultural Act of 2014 
     (Public Law 113-79) by the Department of Justice or the Drug 
     Enforcement Administration.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman 
from Kentucky and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Kentucky.

                              {time}  1445

  Mr. MASSIE. Mr. Chairman, I rise today with four of my colleagues to 
offer a bipartisan amendment that simply requires the DEA to comply 
with Federal law.
  The passage of our amendment to the 2014 farm bill legalized the 
cultivation of industrial hemp for research purposes and has allowed 
for the establishment of industrial hemp pilot programs in States 
across the country. In fact, in my home State of Kentucky alone, nearly 
1,800 acres of hemp are projected to be grown this summer in these 
pilot programs.
  However, despite the clear language of our farm bill amendment that 
specifically states that State agriculture agencies and universities 
will be growing the industrial hemp for research, the DEA has 
continuously ignored the plain text of the Federal statute.
  The DEA continues to waste valuable time and taxpayer dollars by 
holding up non-psychoactive hemp seeds destined for legitimate hemp 
pilot programs.
  Last year, officials from the State of Kentucky were forced to file a 
lawsuit in Federal court to compel the DEA to release industrial hemp 
seeds for university pilot programs. This year, participants in hemp 
pilot programs in Kentucky and other States did not receive their seeds 
until just a few weeks before the start of the growing season.
  The language is clear: State authorities, not the DEA, shall register 
the sites where hemp will be grown. The DEA's deliberate refusal to 
allow this simple fact has resulted in a broken process where the DEA 
obfuscates and delays.
  Mr. Chairman, States cannot launch industrial hemp pilot programs if 
the DEA continues to violate Federal law by seizing and delaying 
shipments of hemp seeds before they reach their destination.
  I urge a ``yes'' vote note on our amendment to require the DEA to 
follow Federal law, and I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Kentucky 
(Mr. Barr).
  Mr. BARR. In 2013, the Kentucky General Assembly passed Senate Bill 
50, which exempted industrial hemp from the State's Controlled 
Substances Act but also mandated that Kentucky follow all Federal rules 
and regulations with respect to industrial hemp.
  So, last year, I was proud to support an amendment to the 2014 farm 
bill, sponsored by my fellow Kentuckian, Congressman Thomas Massie, 
which authorized State departments of agriculture in States where 
industrial hemp is legal to administer industrial hemp pilot programs 
for the purposes of research and development.
  The Kentucky Department of Agriculture Industrial Hemp Pilot Research 
Program, in collaboration with my constituent, the University of 
Kentucky College of Agriculture, has since facilitated through 
permitted farmers the cultivation of nearly 2,000 acres of hemp this 
year alone in Kentucky.
  Hemp is an important crop that holds tremendous commercial promise in 
Kentucky. In fact, former Speaker of the House Henry Clay was a large 
producer of industrial hemp. It can be used for food, horse bedding, 
animal feed, textiles, oils, lotions, cosmetics, rope, pharmaceuticals, 
et cetera.
  Just last week, I met with a very sophisticated partnership of 
entrepreneurs, tobacco farmers, botanists, and even former law 
enforcement officials who have put up their own capital to invest in 
permanent industrial hemp projects, which they believe can spark a very 
profitable business.
  This is about jobs.
  Mr. MASSIE. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I claim time in opposition, even though I 
am not actually in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman 
from Pennsylvania?
  Mr. HARRIS. I object. I rise to claim time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Maryland is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Chairman, the job of the DEA is not simple. The job 
of the DEA is to stop drug use and drug abuse in the United States.
  Sometimes the job isn't easy. When it comes to hemp, the job is not 
easy because, Mr. Chairman, hemp and marijuana are both cannabis, and 
you can't tell the seeds from one another. And it may be difficult for 
the DEA to determine because they are supposed to determine that the 
seeds used for hemp are below a certain level of THC--less than 0.3--
and you can't tell by looking. You have to test and make certain that 
these seeds are in fact going to be used and qualify for the purposes 
of these pilot hemp programs.
  The fact of the matter is there really is no evidence that the DEA 
does not comply with Federal law. They are fully complying with Federal 
law. The author of the amendment himself admitted that the seeds were 
there in time for planting. The fact of the matter is that this is not 
an easy job.
  Under section 7606 of the 2014 farm bill, industrial hemp in pilot 
projects was authorized. Clearly, DEA licenses are not needed if they 
are granted through the State departments of agriculture or academic 
institutions. And the programs are proceeding.
  The fact of the matter is that this amendment obfuscates the 
distinction between marijuana and hemp. It partially ties the hands of 
DEA to do what they need to do, which is to function as controllers of 
drugs in this country.
  I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Fleming).
  Mr. FLEMING. I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I certainly 
agree with Dr. Harris. I rise also in opposition to this amendment.
  Cultivation of cannabis for industrial purposes is governed by the 
Controlled Substances Act, and that includes hemp. It is permitted 
pursuant to the registration requirements found in title 21, United 
States Code.
  In addition, the Agricultural Act of 2014 permits ``institutions of 
higher learning and State Departments of Agriculture to grow or 
cultivate industrial hemp.''
  But let's make one thing clear. The DOJ says they have no intention 
at all of interfering with what has been provided for in this 
Department of Agriculture permit. But they still have control, they 
still have oversight responsibility, and as a result of that, they 
should do that.
  Now, if there is any delay along the way, certainly we should help 
with that. We should facilitate administratively. But the potential for 
abuse here is very significant. The DEA and law enforcement must retain 
control and oversight of hemp, which is a cannabis, just like 
marijuana.
  Mr. HARRIS. I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. MASSIE. Mr. Chairman, may I inquire as to how much time is 
remaining?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Kentucky has 2 minutes 
remaining.
  Mr. MASSIE. I yield 45 seconds to the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. 
Barr).
  Mr. BARR. To my good friend from Maryland, Dr. Harris, just a quick 
response. We are talking about State-licensed programs where the law 
enforcement officials in Kentucky can identify permitted land where 
this hemp is grown. If it is on an unpermitted place, whether it is 
otherwise legal industrial hemp or marijuana, it would be illegal if it 
is not on a permitted piece of property. So there is no conflict with 
law enforcement.
  But the fact of the matter is that last year the DEA delayed the 
seeds and delayed the planting of this legitimate, lawful, federally 
authorized industrial hemp project.
  This is about jobs. This is not about marijuana. In fact, as my 
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just demonstrated in the last series of votes, I voted against every 
single amendment that would have decriminalized or facilitated 
marijuana. This is not about marijuana. This is about low-THC 
industrial hemp, and it is about jobs.
  Mr. MASSIE. I yield 1 minute to my colleague from Oregon (Mr. 
Blumenauer).
  Mr. BLUMENAUER. I appreciate the gentleman's courtesy and I 
appreciate his leadership, focused like a laser on something that is 
not like marijuana.
  For generations, Americans have used hemp. It has just been recently 
that it has been compromised. So we have to import hemp from overseas 
to make perfectly legal hemp products that you can buy in any American 
city.
  This is an important step forward to be able to allow Kentucky and 
Oregon farmers to do something that they have done for generations. It 
is about economic development. It is about being rational. And it is 
about being able to focus on things that are important.
  I deeply appreciate the gentleman's focus and patience keeping us on 
message here to be able to make sure that we are not having Federal 
interference for something that is State supervised and where States 
around the country want to allow this for their farmers and their 
ranchers.
  I think it is an important step forward, and I appreciate his 
leadership in permitting me to speak on it.
  Mr. MASSIE. I certainly thank the gentleman from Oregon, and I would 
just say that these hemp pilot programs have been tremendous in 
Kentucky. And they have answered all the questions, like the questions 
law enforcement had. They came and visited the fields. They said: ``You 
are right; there is no big deal here. This is okay.''
  And so that is the important thing about these hemp programs, and we 
need to keep them going, and we need to take it to the level. We can't 
afford delays. You can't afford a delay when the weather is not always 
cooperating with you. A week, 2 weeks could ruin you.
  So I urge my colleagues to vote for this amendment. It is just common 
sense. All we are asking is to follow the law. How hard is that?
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. HARRIS. May I inquire of the Chair how much time is remaining?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Maryland has 2\1/2\ minutes 
remaining.
  Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Chairman, let's review what we have. What we have is 
a situation where last year it wasn't the DEA that held up the seeds; 
it was getting an import license. And then subsequent to that, 
obviously the DEA had to test those seeds.
  The U.S. Congress has set out a very clear plan for how we are going 
to increase the use of industrial hemp in this country, and it 
involves, first, pilot programs in States where it is legal, like 
Kentucky, like Oregon, but subject to the oversight under the 
Controlled Substances Act of the DEA.
  The DEA has to be certain, since all seeds are now imported. 
Eventually, under this plan, they won't be. Obviously, at some point we 
will progress to a point where our industrial hemp seeds are grown here 
in the United States, but they are not now.
  Importing seeds and testing them is not a quick process, but it is a 
process that has to be done. The fact of the matter is hemp and 
marijuana are both cannabis. They are related. You can't tell the seeds 
apart. You have to test these seeds.
  Our drug problem is serious. I am glad I don't have to do the job the 
DEA does dealing with controlling drugs that destroy lives in this 
country. Sure, is it a process that sometimes might take time? Yes. But 
that time is well worth taking.
  Down the road, we are going to get to the proper industrial hemp 
production. It has got to be done under controlled processes. The DEA 
has these in place. The Department of Agriculture has these protocols 
in place. State departments of agriculture do.
  This amendment is just unnecessary. And worse than that, it obscures 
the fact that it could tie DEA's hands from doing what it needs to do, 
which is controlling dangerous substances.
  I urge the body to reject the amendment, and I yield back the balance 
of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Massie).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. MASSIE. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Kentucky 
will be postponed.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Massie

  Mr. MASSIE. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to treat ammunition as armor piercing for purposes of 
     chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, except for 
     ammunition designed and intended for use in a handgun (in 
     accordance with 18 U.S.C. section 921(a)(17)).

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman 
from Kentucky and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Kentucky.
  Mr. MASSIE. Mr. Chairman, back in March, the ATF backed off on a 
controversial proposal to restrict the use of so-called ``green tip'' 
ammunition, some of the most popular ammunition in the country. In 
fact, it is used in the popular rifle, the AR-15.
  The BATFE received over 80,000 comments, primarily from citizens who 
opposed the Bureau's attempt to restrict their Second Amendment rights. 
And so the ATF rescinded its proposal.
  In my opinion, the proposed restriction was based on a flawed 
application of chapter 44 of title 18 of the United States Code. If you 
go back and look at the debate that occurred in Congress, you will see 
that the legislation that was written was clearly meant to cover 
handgun ammunition. It was never meant to cover rifle ammunition.
  In fact, there was a debate at the time whether they should limit so-
called ``armor-piercing'' ammunition by its functionality--in other 
words, its efficacy--or whether they should limit it by its design. And 
they chose to limit it by its design. Because if you limit it by its 
functionality, what you will find out is darn near all rifle 
ammunition, unfortunately, will penetrate the common vest. In fact, the 
most lethal are deer rifles. And so a deer rifle is more lethal in 
terms of penetrating a vest than would be, say, a so-called assault 
rifle that shoots a much smaller caliber.
  In any case, what happened is one pistol was made and came on the 
market--or a few pistols were made, handguns were made--that could be 
chambered with this round, but the round was designed and intended for 
use in a rifle, not in a handgun.

                              {time}  1500

  The clear text of the statute, in my opinion, excludes rifle rounds, 
but what has happened is recently, the ATF--now, this is only one 
example that I have recently--they proposed to ban the green tip 
ammunition, otherwise known as M855 or SS109. This is 223, also known 
as 556 ammunition. Well, there was a lot of public backlash, and so 
they backed off of that.
  What a lot of people don't know is they already did ban some 
ammunition with this flawed interpretation. They banned the 7N6, which 
is a 5.45 by 39 round, and so it was a mistake that happened, and we 
need to correct this mistake.
  We need to prevent future mistakes. The best way to do this is to 
withhold funding for flawed interpretations.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. FATTAH. I was in support of the gentleman's first amendment; but, 
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this instance, we are at a different point of view.
  I note that the majority has a lot of enthusiasm for gun amendments 
on this appropriations bill, and it is making it almost impossible for 
us to deal with the challenges for the subcommittee around spending 
when we keep getting mired down in this, these gun policy riders.
  I would just say that it is obviously the majority's view that this 
somehow is an appropriate vehicle to express your love for guns of all 
types, ammunition of all types.
  I think that my view would be we should make it permissible for any 
gun that you could bring into the Capitol, you should be able to bring 
into schools or colleges, or any ammunition you could bring into the 
Capitol, you could use in any weapon. That might be a way to proceed.
  The majority doesn't have any enthusiasm for the Second Amendment 
when it comes to people coming into the United States Capitol because 
we know that guns can be dangerous. We know that people can be harmed.
  We know, in fact, that there were Members, when an attack happened 
right here on this floor--that is why we have, on the back of these 
chairs, certain protections--who were shot from this balcony.
  We know the dangers of guns and ammunition, and it is unfortunate 
that we would use an appropriations vehicle to move these policy 
matters, which are controversial.
  You want to attach them to a must-pass appropriations bill, one that 
is about our economy and about innovation, and an appropriations bill 
that is dealing with a whole set of issues. You make it challenging for 
Members who have a different point of view on some of these 
controversial policy issues, like guns and the access to them.
  Some might interpret the Second Amendment that says, if you want a 
bazooka or MX missile or whatever you want to have at your home, that 
somehow you have a right to have it.
  There are others of us who think that reasonable regulation might be 
a better course of action, like the kind of reasonable regulation we 
have at the Capitol, which is that you can't bring a gun into this 
facility, unless you have some lawful reason to do so, and we regulate 
that very strictly.
  I am in opposition to this amendment. I have nothing against my 
colleague, whom I enjoy working with on a whole range of issues. I 
agree with him on hemp, and I disagree with him on guns.
  I hope that we can move this bill forward, as we have been trying to 
do since the chairman's mark in the subcommittee, and not get it mired 
down in unnecessary, controversial items that are not attached to how 
much money we are going to spend for these various accounts to move 
these agencies of our government forward.
  Mr. CULBERSON. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. FATTAH. I yield to the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. CULBERSON. Madam Chair, I thank my good friend from Pennsylvania. 
I do, as he knows, support this amendment because it has become 
necessary to put restrictions like this on the bill because the ATF, 
under President Obama, did attempt to prohibit 223 ammunition, which is 
used in one of the most popular and widely available sporting rifles in 
the United States.
  The new Director of the ATF, Tom Brandon, I want to thank him and 
professional law enforcement officers at the ATF. They came in to see 
me when I was the brand-new chairman of the subcommittee earlier this 
year.
  We had a very good visit. We looked at the statute, and Director 
Brandon and his chief counsel understood that the guidelines that they 
had created went beyond the statute. They recognized that they were 
going to have a very difficult budget year if they persisted in this 
effort to interfere with American's lawful, constitutional Second 
Amendment rights.
  I was very grateful that Director Brandon chose to drop their 
attempted prohibition on 223 ammunition after our meeting and in 
response to the 80,000 letters and all the requests from Members of 
Congress. The ATF did the right thing here by dropping their attempt to 
ban ammunition.
  Mr. Massie's amendment is necessary because I think it is important 
to make it clear that we don't want the Obama administration coming 
back and attempting to ban ammunition again.
  I remember, as a student of American history, that General Gage, in 
Boston, didn't go after the weapons first. They went after the powder 
and the ammunition, I believe, Mr. Massie, in Lexington and Concord.
  Mr. FATTAH. Reclaiming my time with just a question, Mr. Chairman, 
maybe you could inform me, but I believe that the restrictions on 
armor-piercing bullets predate the administration that you just named. 
Is that accurate?
  Mr. CULBERSON. Yes, but the ATF was attempting to use--the statute 
says you cannot use armor-piercing ammunition that includes depleted 
uranium, beryllium, and it has some very specific things.
  As Mr. Massie said, the Congress was focused on the content of the 
bullet, rather than what type of weapon it could be used in. In the 
ATF's guideline, actually, the ATF created a legal framework for 
analysis, which is fairly standard for this administration.
  The Acting CHAIR (Mrs. Black). The time of the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania has expired.
  Mr. MASSIE. Madam Chair, how much time do I have remaining?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Kentucky has 2\1/2\ minutes 
remaining.
  Mr. MASSIE. I gladly yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Culberson), the chairman.
  Mr. CULBERSON. Let me say that it is important to have Mr. Massie's 
language in this bill because the ATF, in this instance, just as in the 
EPA's attempt to regulate every square inch of the United States by 
saying navigable waters include any piece of ground on which the water 
drains off into a navigable stream, the EPA, the ATF, the Obama 
administration routinely uses what they call a legal framework for 
analysis to expand their executive authority far beyond what Congress 
intended.
  In this instance, I was successful with the help of my colleagues. As 
the new chairman of the subcommittee, I was successful in persuading 
Director Brandon and the ATF to drop their attempt to ban 223 
ammunition, and I will be monitoring them closely. I will be exercising 
very aggressive oversight over the ATF to ensure that they don't try it 
again.
  I welcome Mr. Massie's amendment to help drive home the point that 
the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution is written in 
plain English, and it guarantees, absolutely, the right of Americans to 
keep and bear arms.
  I welcome your amendment, Mr. Massie, and encourage Members to 
support it.
  Mr. MASSIE. I appreciate that. I appreciate the effort that the 
chairman put in to making sure that our 556, 223 ammunition did not get 
banned. I appreciate my colleague from Pennsylvania's comments as well.
  Let me say something. I am sympathetic to the ATF's job. We write 
some bad legislation here, okay. It is clear it has got gray areas. 
What I am trying to do is to clear up a gray area for them so that, 
when they go to work in the morning, they don't have to wonder should 
this apply to this or should this apply to this or not.
  Even with the chairman's great efforts, the reason why this is 
necessary is because the same rationale that they were going to use to 
ban 556, they actually used a year or two ago to ban 5.45, which is a 
very similar round in composition and size and capacity. That is why 
this amendment is necessary.
  My colleague from Pennsylvania is right. I do love guns; I have an 
enthusiasm, but the reason I am doing this is my respect for the 
Constitution. I understand you have respect for the Constitution as 
well; I do. We just interpret it a little bit differently.
  This is not a bazooka amendment. This is just an ammunition 
amendment, and I am just trying to make

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sure this very popular caliber and other popular calibers are still 
able to be bought.
  I appreciate the efforts that everybody puts in to making sure these 
laws are enforced. I just want to clear up this law. I urge my 
colleagues to vote for this amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. FATTAH. I am going to yield to the gentleman from New York on 
this point. I just want to say something.
  The point I made was that this restriction on armor-piercing bullets 
did not emanate with this administration, even though some might want 
to suggest somehow that this is President Obama's effort.
  This dates back to a different period of time, when we had a 
Republican President, and it was put into place to protect law 
enforcement because the children who have been unfortunate victims of 
gunshots in their schools or in movie theaters and other circumstances 
where we have had these mass shootings, they haven't been wearing 
bulletproof vests.
  Bulletproof vests are used by our law enforcement officials. There 
was a concern to make sure that they could be protected while they were 
out protecting us, right? I just want to be clear, as we go forward, 
what we are doing here and so that everybody who takes an action on 
this and, however they may vote, understands that they are voting to 
provide a circumstance in which there won't be any restriction on the 
piercing power of the projectile, right?
  When it is pointed at a human being, it can be deadly, so I just want 
us to be clear.
  I yield to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Engel), and I will keep 
track that he doesn't go over 2 minutes.
  Mr. ENGEL. I thank the gentleman for yielding to me. I must rise and 
oppose this amendment.
  Earlier this year, ATF recognized the threat posed by armor-piercing 
handguns and tried to limit the sale of the green tip 556 round, which 
is the military-made armor-piercing round that fits into pistols. This 
would have made sense.
  When ATF tried to make that change, the industry decried executive 
overreach and hidden administrative agendas and shouted down this 
commonsense proposal. I supported the ATF's proposal then, and I still 
believe that this and other commonsense regulations on armor-piercing 
handguns are sorely needed.
  I introduced the APB Act to enact the ATF's proposed change into law 
because we have a responsibility to protect our police and our 
communities from these unreasonably dangerous weapons.
  A hunter does not need a Sig Sauer P556 or an Extar EXP or any of the 
other pistols that can fire these armor-piercing rounds. These 
concealed weapons serve only one purpose: to kill human beings wearing 
body armor.
  ATF needs the authority to monitor and regulate firearms and 
ammunition. When technology advances, like it did with the green tip, 
ATF needs to be able to act to protect our neighborhoods and our law 
enforcement. This amendment, I believe, would needlessly strip ATF's 
authority to regulate dangerous armor-piercing bullets and put cops, 
kids, and our communities at risk.
  I urge my colleagues to oppose the amendment, and I thank the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania.
  Mr. FATTAH. Text is most helpful when put in context. It is true that 
the Constitution says that it is a citizen's right to keep and bear 
arms, but it says that as part of a well-regulated militia.
  When we want to focus in on the Second Amendment, it may be helpful 
for us to have a contextual framework in which the right is connected 
to responsible and regulated activity on behalf of our community.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CULBERSON. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word for a very 
important clarification.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CULBERSON. My colleague, Mr. Engel, I think may not have the 
exact amendment in front of him because all Mr. Massie is attempting to 
do is enforce existing law and make it clear that the ATF has to 
enforce existing law, as written, and that armor-piercing ammunition 
cannot be used in handguns.

                              {time}  1515

  That is what the law says. The law says an armor-piercing round is 
one that uses depleted uranium or other materials and is used in a 
handgun. And that is all this amendment says.
  So we, by accepting this amendment, are enforcing existing law, which 
is to prevent the use of armor-piercing ammunition in a handgun. So it 
is important that, I think, everyone understand that that is all this 
amendment is intended to do. And I will, as subcommittee chairman, make 
certain that the ATF does not interfere with Americans' Second 
Amendment rights under the Constitution and that the ATF is enforcing 
the law, as written by Congress, which is precisely what the gentleman 
from Kentucky (Mr. Massie) is doing, and I urge Members to support his 
amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Massie).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. MASSIE. Madam Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Kentucky be 
postponed.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Massie

  Mr. MASSIE. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk regarding 
the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. 543.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used by the National Institute of Standards and Technology 
     to consult with the National Security Agency or the Central 
     Intelligence Agency to alter cryptographic or computer 
     standards, except to improve information security (in 
     accordance with section 20(c)(1)(A) of the National Institute 
     of Standards and Technology Act (15 U.S.C. 278g-3(c)(1)(A))).

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman 
from Kentucky and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Kentucky.
  Mr. MASSIE. Madam Chair, In December of 2013, news broke--and this 
was in a Reuters article--that, as a key part of a ``campaign to embed 
encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer 
products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 
million contract with'' a private company--in fact, ``one of the most 
influential firms in the computer security industry.''
  It was further disclosed that ``an algorithm called Dual Elliptic 
Curve . . . was on the road to approval by the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology as one of four acceptable methods for 
generating random numbers.''
  The company adopted this algorithm, knowing that it would be used as 
a standard, and it was, as expected, approved by the National Institute 
of Standards and Technology. But ``within a year, major questions were 
raised about Dual Elliptic Curve. Cryptography authority Bruce Schneier 
wrote that the weakness in the formula `can only be described as a back 
door.'''
  This is just one example of the NSA exploiting its relationship with 
NIST to weaken encryption standards.
  Look, NIST, we would like for them to set the highest standards for 
our country, particularly when it comes to encryption. Weakened 
encryption standards allow the NSA to snoop on Americans without a 
warrant.
  So these back doors in encryption products are bad for privacy. It 
makes it just way too easy to violate our Fourth Amendment.

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  But back doors in encryption software are also bad for security. 
Think about this: Don't you want the best security available that the 
minds in this country can create, produce, to safeguard your health 
records, maybe to safeguard your gun records, maybe to safeguard your 
bank accounts and your credit cards.
  We are more safe when we have better security and better encryption. 
So it makes no sense for the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology to work with the NSA to weaken our encryption software.
  Finally, putting back doors in products is bad for business. It is 
bad for privacy. It is bad for security. And it is bad for business.
  Why is it bad for business? Why would somebody buy a product made in 
America if it is known that the standards in America are weaker than 
the standards elsewhere? You know, if there are back doors in products, 
it is not just the government that can use them: hackers will find 
them. In fact, once the weakness was exposed in this Dual Elliptic 
Curve, it made it very easy for people to hack into that, and the 
company had to say, Quit using this software. We found a weakness in 
it.
  So I would urge people to vote for this amendment. What it does is it 
prevents the spending of money at the National Institute of Standards 
and Technology to work with the NSA to weaken our encryption.
  The amendment does nothing to keep them from making better 
encryption, but they cannot weaken it. They cannot compromise it. They 
can't spend your tax dollars making American products and our 
government standards worse.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CULBERSON. Madam Chairman, I claim the time in opposition, 
although I support the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Texas is 
recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. CULBERSON. Madam Chair, we accept the amendment, agree with the 
reasoning that the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Massie) has laid forth. 
I believe the amendment is acceptable to the minority as well. So the 
amendment is agreed to unanimously.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. MASSIE. What is the balance of my time remaining, Madam Chair?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Kentucky has 1\1/2\ minutes 
remaining.
  Mr. MASSIE. Madam Chair, I will just summarize why this is an 
important amendment.
  We trust the National Institute of Standards and Technology to 
perform their constitutionally mandated responsibilities. That is one 
of the great things about NIST: its authorization is in the 
Constitution, to set the standards of weights and measures. So I 
appreciate the job they do. But we put a lot of trust into them when 
they set these standards. And a lot of people make business decisions. 
It is kind of like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval, if I may use 
that analogy.
  So, when we stamp something as a government-approved standard, we 
want to know it is the best in the world, that the United States has 
the best encryption in their products, the best encryption. We want the 
products that our government buys to be safe. So it would be wrong for 
NIST to spend money working to put back doors in our products. That is 
why I urge our colleagues to vote for this amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CULBERSON. Madam Chairman, I yield such time as he may consume to 
the gentleman from Houston, Texas (Mr. Poe), my good friend and 
colleague.
  Mr. POE of Texas. I thank the chairman for yielding time to me.
  Madam Chair, I would like to try to interpret what has been said in a 
simpler way.
  Assume that the builders in the United States get together and they 
are given a new requirement: that when they build a new house, the 
Federal Government wants the option to have a master key to a back 
door--not only a back door but a secret back door so that at some time 
down the road, maybe the Federal Government would like to enter that 
secret back door for some purpose. And that is what this amendment is 
preventing.
  Just like we wouldn't let the Federal Government have a key to our 
back door or require builders to put a master key in all of the new 
homes that they build in the country and give the key to the 
government, we would never allow that. That would certainly be in 
violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.
  All this amendment does is it prevents technology--when technology is 
growing at a rapid rate--to prevent the Federal Government from 
requiring companies that make cell phones, for example, that there be 
an ability of the Federal Government to go in the cell phone and look 
around, even without the knowledge of the person who owns the cell 
phone. This is very similar to the bill that passed unanimously last 
night. So I urge the adoption to this amendment as well.
  I thank the chairman for allowing me to speak on the gentleman from 
Kentucky's amendment, since he ran out of time.
  Mr. CULBERSON. I am glad to do so.
  Madam Chair, again, the amendment is agreed to unanimously. I 
strongly support the gentleman from Kentucky's amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Massie).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. MASSIE. Madam Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Kentucky 
will be postponed.


                     Amendment Offered by Mr. Gosar

  Mr. GOSAR. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to carry out the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 
     Firearms, and Explosives Special Advisory entitled ``Test, 
     Examination and Classification of 7N6 5.45x39 Ammunition'', 
     dated April 7, 2014. The limitation described in this section 
     shall not apply in the case of the administration of a tax or 
     tariff.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman 
from Arizona and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Arizona.
  Mr. GOSAR. Madam Chair, I rise today to stand with my colleague from 
Kentucky (Mr. Massie) and with sportsmen and law-abiding gun owners 
throughout the country.
  Over the course of the last year, we have seen numerous misguided 
attempts by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to 
misclassify ammunition as ``armor-piercing'' and infringe on the Second 
Amendment rights of our citizens.
  At a forum I held at the end of March in Prescott, Arizona, a large 
number of my constituents expressed their outrage about ATF 
reclassifying the imported 7N6, commonly known as the 5.45 x 39 
ammunition, as ``armor-piercing,'' thus preventing this ammo from being 
imported.
  7N6 ammo is very affordable and has been used for target practice by 
sportsmen for years. The administration--especially the ATF, as we have 
seen with Operation Fast and Furious and recent attempts to ban the 
green tip ammo--has a penchant for interpreting the law as it sees fit 
or as it is most convenient for them.
  Fortunately, we have at least temporarily beaten back the attempt to 
ban the .223 green tip ammo after 230 different Members of this body, 
Chairman Culberson, and myself encouraged ATF to drop this misguided 
attempt. But the 7N6 ammunition ban is yet another example of Federal 
overreach on the part of the administration.
  After years of having a sportsmen exemption, 7N6 was reclassified 
after ATF found an extremely rare and obscure Polish-made pistol that 
could supposedly use and shoot the 7N6 cartridge.

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  I strongly applaud the committee for including four other commonsense 
provisions in this bill that protect the Second Amendment.
  I ask that this body stand with sportsmen throughout this country. I 
ask that my colleagues support this additional, commonsense provision 
to protect the Second Amendment and allow the 7N6 ammo to be used for 
target practice.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I guess redundancy has some utility here 
because we have been around the rosie a number of times on this same 
issue, both late last night and now early this afternoon, one amendment 
after another amendment after another amendment, trying to make sure 
that our fascination with armor-piercing bullets doesn't escape this 
debate.

                              {time}  1530

  So here we have another one, and maybe there is something different 
about this one than the one before, but I am not able to discern what 
it is. I am opposed to it.
  I think that people have a right to weapons under our Constitution. I 
think common sense suggests people should have a right to weapons, long 
guns, rifles, for both sports activities and for their own protection. 
I also think that it is a responsible thing for those who are governing 
our country to put in place reasonable regulations and restrictions 
just like the regulations and restrictions that we have here on the 
Capitol campus.
  Not only do we spend hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers' 
money for our own police force to protect us, we also say that you 
can't bring a firearm into the buildings that we work in each and every 
day.
  Now, we do this even though we come to the floor and profess our 
undying love for the unfettered notion of the Second Amendment as 
interpreted by some that you can have a gun anywhere, in a bar, in a 
park, in a school, in a daycare center, and at church. Take your gun 
and ride off into the wind with it. But we won't allow it here.
  I am just waiting for a Member of the majority, since we have 
multiple amendments, to come to the floor and to say that people should 
be able to exercise their Second Amendment here when they visit the 
people's House, when they visit their elected Representatives, that 
somehow we want to welcome them and their guns with their armor-
piercing bullets, and then I would know that you truly love the Second 
Amendment and that you see it as an unfettered right anywhere, anytime, 
and under any circumstances.
  Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. GOSAR. Madam Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas 
(Mr. Culberson), the chairman of the committee.
  Mr. CULBERSON. Madam Chair, I strongly support the gentleman's 
amendment, and it is necessary because the ATF, once again, here 
attempted to ban ammunition that could be used in a handgun that is 
otherwise commonly available for rifles. In the statute, the Congress 
intended to prohibit the use of armor-piercing ammunition for handguns. 
So the gentleman's amendment is necessary, and I strongly support the 
amendment as, again, additional protection for Americans' 
constitutional Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms.
  I would point out to my good friend from Pennsylvania that at the 
Texas Capitol, concealed-carry permit holders are actually given a 
separate line so they can get into the capitol even more rapidly 
because law enforcement officers in Texas recognize that a concealed-
carry permit holder is their best backup because they have had a 
background check and they are trained in the use of the weapon.
  I coauthored the legislation in Texas in the 1990s to allow Texans to 
get a concealed-carry permit, and we have prevented a lot of crimes and 
saved a lot of lives. I don't think there has even been a fistfight 
among concealed-carry permit holders in Texas in all these years. They 
are given expedited access to the Texas Capitol because law enforcement 
recognizes an honest, law-abiding American with a concealed-carry 
permit is their best friend.
  I support the gentleman's amendment, and I urge its passage.
  Mr. GOSAR. Madam Chair, I yield such time as he may consume to the 
gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Massie), my friend.
  Mr. MASSIE. Madam Chair, I thank the gentleman from Arizona's 
leadership on this issue, and my profound gratitude and immense respect 
to Chairman Culberson for making sure that this interpretation that was 
applied to 5.45 ammunition was not applied to 5.56. He has the 
gratitude of millions of gun owners in this country--law-abiding gun 
owners, I should say.
  This travesty of justice still applies to this other caliber, using 
the same reasoning. I won't impugn the motives of the ATF. I won't do 
that. I think they are just trying to enforce the law. There is a gray 
area here, and I think this bill clears up that gray area for the 
benefit of millions of gun owners--law-abiding gun owners--in this 
country, and I thank Representative Gosar for leading on this.
  Mr. GOSAR. Madam Chair, what I would like to do is highlight that 
only an obscure pistol could use this 7N6 ammunition. So I was going 
out of the way for a very popular round that is used for target 
practice all over this country. So I would ask for support for my 
amendment.
  I thank the gentleman for helping me, and I yield back the balance of 
my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Gosar).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                     Amendment Offered by Mr. Issa

  Mr. ISSA. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill, before the short title, insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to operate or disseminate a cell-site simulator or 
     IMSI catcher in the United States except pursuant to a court 
     order that identifies an individual, account, address, or 
     personal device

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman 
from California and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California.
  Mr. ISSA. Madam Chair, I rise today to offer this amendment, and it 
becomes necessary because selective spying by using these devices 
commonly called StingRays or cell site simulators or IMSI catchers has 
become a reality.
  These sophisticated, affordable mobile devices in fact spoof or 
convince your phone that they are a valid cell tower and allow for the 
gathering of communications content, including texts and emails.
  What is disturbing is that Federal dollars may be being used to 
capture tens of thousands of Americans' information without a warrant. 
The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the Associated Press, and 
more have, in fact, uncovered cases of nationwide use by the FBI and 
other agencies working to cover up StingRay use in instances in which 
they have, among other things, dropped criminal cases to avoid having 
to disclose their use of them. Additionally, they have entered into 
nondisclosure agreements at times in order to not do so.
  Just a month ago, this House--and the Senate, a few days ago--passed, 
overwhelmingly, a new authorization of the PATRIOT Act. We did so with 
a careful balance between what our government can do to us and what 
protections we have, and particularly the Fourth Amendment.
  This is a narrowly crafted amendment. It in no way stops the use of 
these devices when a Federal court has ordered and allowed the use, 
either a FISA court or a common warrant issued by a judge.
  Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

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  Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I claim the time in opposition, but I am not 
in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Pennsylvania 
is recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I concur with the gentleman's amendment, and 
I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. ISSA. At this time, Madam Chair, I yield 1 minute to the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Farenthold).
  Mr. FARENTHOLD. Madam Chair, I rise in support of our amendment today 
that I am working on with Mr. Issa.
  Madam Chair, the Associated Press reported yesterday that they 
confirmed reports that the FBI is flying surveillance cameras in 
aircraft over the U.S. with these devices. They are operated sometimes 
through shell companies that use video and StingRay technology to 
capture data on Americans in bulk both visually and from our cell 
phones.
  This flies in the face of every concept of liberty and privacy that 
we cherish in this country. Our Founding Fathers would be sickened if 
they found out how far we have slipped. As much as I have been 
encouraged by the fact that both Houses of Congress have passed the USA 
FREEDOM Act to end bulk surveillance under section 215 of the PATRIOT 
Act, reports like this show me we still have a long way to go.
  This secretive FBI program to hack into our cellphones seems far from 
appropriate and constitutional, and it must be curtailed. This 
amendment would ensure that any usage of this program would only happen 
through a court order targeting a specific individual and never as a 
dragnet for bulk surveillance.
  I am happy to hear that there is very little opposition to this, and 
I look forward to working to continue to regain our liberty from mass 
and unconstitutional surveillance.
  Mr. ISSA. Madam Chair, I have no further speakers. I urge passage, 
and I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Issa).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Flores

  Mr. FLORES. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to further implementation of the coastal and marine 
     spatial planning and ecosystem-based management components of 
     the National Ocean Policy developed under Executive Order 
     13547.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman 
from Texas and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.


                             Point of Order

  Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I rise to assert a point of order on this 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman will state his point of order.
  Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I make a point of order against the 
amendment because it proposes to change existing law and constitutes 
legislation in an appropriation bill and, therefore, violates clause 2 
of rule XXI.
  The Acting CHAIR. Does any other Member wish to be heard on the point 
of order?
  Mr. FLORES. Madam Chair, this amendment does not change existing law. 
It just removes the funding for an unconstitutional, unstatutory action 
by the President.

                              {time}  1545

  Madam Chair, it seems like I have caused some excitement with the 
Parliamentarian this afternoon, so why don't I do this.
  I ask unanimous consent to withdraw the amendment and go to the 
second Flores amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman 
from Texas?
  There was no objection.
  The Acting CHAIR. The amendment is withdrawn.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Flores

  Mr. FLORES. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. ___. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to implement Executive Order 13547 (75 Fed. Reg. 
     43023, relating to the stewardship of oceans, coasts, and the 
     Great Lakes), including the National Ocean Policy developed 
     under such Executive Order.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman 
from Texas and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. FLORES. Madam Chair, I rise today to offer a simple amendment to 
address an ongoing overreach by the executive branch of our government.
  My amendment bans the use of Federal funds for the implementation of 
Executive Order 13547. That executive order, which was signed in 2010, 
requires that 60-plus bureaucracies, as shown on this chart, 
essentially zone the oceans and the sources thereof.
  This amendment addresses a critical executive branch encroachment 
into the powers of Congress as set forth in our Constitution. The 
activities being conducted by Executive Order 13547 have not been 
authorized by Congress, nor have appropriations been made by Congress 
to fund those activities.
  Madam Chair, since 2010, this body has voted six times in support of 
this amendment in a bipartisan manner. This language was also included 
in the base text of the fiscal year 2016 Energy and Water Development 
Appropriations bill. Today, I am offering my amendment again because 
concerns have been raised that the effects of the National Ocean Policy 
extend well beyond restricting ocean activities and encroach into 
inland activities.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I visited Chicago a few years back for the 
coastal zone conference to talk about how important it was that this 
administration has finally put forward, and we support, an ocean 
policy. There have been since 2012 over 15 different amendments seeking 
to undermine responsible ecosystem-based management of our oceans.
  As appropriators, we have not been willing to accept these efforts to 
undermine this. We understand we have a responsibility as stewards. In 
fact, as a Nation we have more responsibility for the world's oceans 
than any other Nation in terms of territorially in the world.
  We have some challenging circumstances. It is good that we now have a 
policy going forward. I would ask that the House oppose this amendment.
  I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. 
Cicilline), the former mayor and a great Congressman.
  Mr. CICILLINE. Madam Chair, I rise in strong opposition to the Flores 
amendment, which would prohibit the implementation of the National 
Ocean Policy, which permits better coordination among Federal agencies 
responsible for coastal planning.
  This amendment, in particular, would undermine NOAA's participation 
in planning, it would hurt States and communities, businesses, and 
would impede States like Rhode Island from managing their own resources 
in a way that best fits their needs and priorities.
  This administration has made it clear that the National Ocean Policy 
does not create new regulations, supersede current regulations, or 
modify any agency's established mission, jurisdiction, or authority. 
Rather, it helps coordinate the implementation of existing regulations 
by Federal agencies to establish a more efficient and effective 
decisionmaking process.
  In the Northeast, our regional ocean council has allowed our State to 
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voice in decisionmaking and has coordinated with Federal partners to 
ensure all stakeholders have a voice in the process.
  It is astounding to me that since 2012, 15 riders undermining ocean 
planning have been introduced to House bills, including riders on two 
previous CJS appropriations bills.
  Allowing Federal agencies to coordinate implementation of over 100 
ocean laws and giving States and local governments a voice in the ocean 
planning process is smart public policy.
  I urge my colleagues to reject this misguided amendment and to 
understand and accept our responsibility to be good stewards of our 
oceans. That is what the administration's policy does. This is allowing 
agencies to coordinate that work in a thoughtful, strategic, and smart 
way.
  Mr. FLORES. Madam Chair, I again reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, who has the right to close?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania has the right to 
close.
  Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FLORES. Madam Chair, first of all, I think it is important to set 
the record straight. The issue here is not whether or not we want to 
take care of our oceans. All of us want to take care of our oceans. All 
of us believe in managing the ocean economy, the ocean ecology. We also 
believe in trying to make sure that we have a government that adheres 
to this Constitution. Under article I of that Constitution, all 
legislative powers are reserved to this body, to this Congress, not to 
the President. That is the issue at stake here. The President has 
overstepped his constitutional statutory bounds.
  Now, in the year 2000, Congress did pass something during the 106th 
Congress to create an ocean commission to review and make 
recommendations. Since then, the 108th, 109th, 110th, and 111th 
Congresses each looked at those recommendations and decided to take no 
legislative action.
  That is what caused the President to move forward with his executive 
order to try to go around Congress. There are no appropriations. We 
have asked the Department for this function specifically. We have asked 
the Department of Interior specifically to provide their statutory 
support for the President's actions. They have provided none. So the 
President has gone around Congress by signing these executive orders.
  There are 67 groups that include fishing, agricultural, farming, 
energy, and other industries that are concerned about the impact of 
this Federal overreach--and again, I would say an unconstitutional 
Federal overreach.
  Again, this is a simple amendment that just stands up for the 
constitutional rights of this Congress to create the statutes under 
which this activity can be conducted and to transparently appropriate 
the funds for this activity should it so choose.
  We are not against ocean planning, as I said at the outset of this. 
What we are for, though, is for the Constitution and to stand up for 
our congressional rights to enact the statutes related to this activity 
and for the appropriators to be able to transparently appropriate the 
money.
  Again, this amendment has been adopted with bipartisan support six 
times over the last 4\1/2\ years and is already included in the base 
text of the fiscal year 2016 Energy and Water Appropriations bill.
  I want to thank Chairman Culberson for considering this amendment, 
and I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, can I inquire how much time is remaining.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania has 2\1/2\ minutes 
remaining.
  Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Farr).
  Mr. FARR. Madam Chair, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  What selective memory you have. You say that the President is abusing 
his authority. Do you know who first asked for this? President Bush. He 
is the one that created the Commission and asked for those 
recommendations.
  And guess what? Five Republicans authored that bill--Republicans 
Greenwood, Bilbray, Gilchrest, Horn, and Franks. That was in 2000 and 
2004 they introduced it. The bill went to committee, and the committee 
never heard the bill. So don't say that Congress never had a chance to 
enact this thing. Congress refused, just like Congress refuses to 
respond to the President's ask that we ought to decide whether we ought 
to go to war in the Middle East.
  You are very selective. You say, Don't let the President make these 
executive orders, and then when he does you want to sue him because it 
is about immigration or issues like that. You criticize this President 
because Congress fails to take action, even after Presidents--
Republican and Democratic Presidents--have asked Congress to take 
action, and we refused. And now you get up and say, Well, because we 
refused, you took executive action, therefore, we ought to not allow it 
to be implemented.
  The Acting CHAIR. Members will address their remarks to the Chair.
  Mr. FARR. Thank you, Madam Chair. I am referring the remarks to the 
Madam Chair.
  Look, deleting this ability for the National Ocean Policy--by the 
way, we haven't appropriated money. No money is being spent on it. But 
we are smart about getting 70 or 80 Federal agencies together to have 
one stop to figure out how we can get all these permits. That is why 
the fishermen support it.
  I live in a coastal community. The author of this does not. We make 
our living off the ocean. And, by God, we want all the regulatory 
agencies to be in sync. And one of the policies here is, let's have a 
healthy ocean. What is wrong with that?
  Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, if the oceans die, it is impossible for us 
to live.
  The Pew Foundation in Philadelphia has put hundreds of millions of 
dollars behind efforts around ocean science. My friend, Gerry Lenfest, 
has put a lot of his own fortune behind this effort. When I first got 
to the Congress, I was chair of the Friends of the Caribbean Caucus. We 
should do better by our oceans.
  I ask that we oppose this, and I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Flores).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. FATTAH. Madam Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas will 
be postponed.


           Amendment Offered by Mr. Duncan of South Carolina

  Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the 
desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:

       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to prosecute or hold liable any person or corporation 
     for a violation of section 2(a) of the Migratory Bird Treaty 
     Act (16 U.S.C. 703(a)).

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman 
from South Carolina and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from South Carolina.
  Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina. Madam Chair, the question we should ask 
ourselves is, should green energy companies be held liable for 
incidental deaths of birds of prey or migratory birds as a result of 
them flying into wind turbines or onto solar arrays.
  As you may know, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 and the Bald 
and Golden Eagle Protection Act, while well-intentioned, are 
significantly outdated.
  Under current law, the accidental death of a protected bird is 
punishable as a misdemeanor; a second offense can be charged as a 
felony. This includes accidental deaths caused by wind turbines and 
solar panels.

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  The MBTA covers over 1,000 different species of birds. The Migratory 
Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act were 
written to target the intentional killing of migratory birds and birds 
of prey. I don't think anybody believes that accidental deaths as a 
result of solar panels or wind energy production warrants felony 
prosecution.
  Every year, cars, trucks, skyscrapers, windmills, oil platforms, 
airplanes, and houses with big windows cause the deaths of hundreds of 
thousands of these protected birds, doing things that are otherwise 
well within the law but that make drivers, pilots, property owners, and 
green energy companies potential felons under a strict interpretation 
of an outdated law.
  As you can imagine, the enforcement of this law is pretty spotty, 
with bureaucrats selectively enforcing these regulations, creating 
uncertainty in the green energy marketplace.
  President Obama's Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced plans 
to study the possibility of creating a permitting regime under the 
MBTA, which would allow for incidental and accidental take without 
criminal penalty, and they have suspended prosecutions until this is 
worked out. I agree with this approach. That is consistent with a bill 
I introduced--my CLEAN Energy Producers Act, H.R. 493.
  My amendment today to the Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations 
bill will suspend further prosecutions for incidental avian deaths 
under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act until this incidental take 
permitting regime is implemented.
  I believe this is the right step as we move toward permanent reforms 
of the MBTA and the BGEPA as a part of the national all-of-the-above 
energy independence strategy.
  I would urge a ``yes'' vote on this important issue, and I reserve 
the balance of my time.

                              {time}  1600

  Mr. FARR. Madam Chair, I rise in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. FARR. Madam Chair, what is broken that needs fixing? These are 
laws that have been in place for 100 years. In fact, they are laws that 
have been implemented because the United States has signed treaties 
with other countries that share our migratory fowl, countries like 
Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Russia. These are treaties that require that 
we be responsible for the wildlife that flies over our air space and 
lands in our soil.
  Migratory birds are integrated into a healthy, natural system. In 
many ways, they affect the predators, the prey, the seed dispensers, 
and the pollinators. They are really actively appreciated by millions 
of people. We have a society in America called the National Audubon 
Society. We make an awful lot of money in my district off watchable 
wildlife.
  Why would we want to stop the laws that protect that wildlife? I 
think this is all about responsible management; but to have an 
amendment that says that none of the funds may be available to 
prosecute or hold liable any persons who have violated the law, you are 
dismantling law enforcement's ability to enforce the law where people 
have violated it--violated it.
  I think the public of this country does appreciate their watchable 
wildlife, whether they are hunting it or whether they are viewing it, 
and a lot of people make money off of it. I don't think this amendment 
is at all constructive. You are upsetting 100 years of law and 
international responsibility that we have as a country in this 
hemisphere.
  I oppose the amendment and ask people to vote against it.
  Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina. Madam Chair, I am in full support of 
the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. I am an avid water fowler; I am an avid 
hunter, and I see how the Migratory Bird Treaty Act has benefited the 
species from the heyday of the market hunting and what we saw in the 
early 1900s.
  I believe that the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden 
Eagle Protection Act were designed to talk about the intentional 
killing or overharvesting of migratory birds and potential killing of 
birds of prey.
  Even the Obama administration recognizes that there is something 
wrong with how we prosecute these cases of incidental and accidental 
deaths. This simply takes what they are already doing and says let's 
just have a pause until we can work this out in permanent law. That is 
all my amendment does.
  Madam Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FARR. Well, with all due respect, that is not what your law says. 
It says:

       None of the funds made available by this act may be used to 
     prosecute or hold liable any person or corporation for a 
     violation of the provision of law found in section 703(a) of 
     title 16 of the United States Code.

  There is no language in here about working anything out. There is no 
language about being responsible managers of the land or flyways.
  Yes, we have a lot of new equipment up in our energy business, our 
wind energy and our solar energy. Those things, obviously way before 
you build them, you are supposed to take into account whether they are 
being built right in a flyway.
  We have condors in our area that we have obviously spent a lot of 
money trying to revive. People actually spend money to come to very 
expensive hotels so that they can come see a condor. These are things 
that you want to protect.
  To say that none of the funds can be made available to hold liable 
people that are violating the law seems to me just a reckless act to 
upset 100 years of wildlife management.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina. Mr. Chairman, if somebody has 
intentionally violated law, absolutely, they ought to be prosecuted. 
This amendment is in order because we are dealing with justice and how 
this is prosecuted. We are saying that the Justice Department can't 
expend any money to prosecute these incidental accidental deaths.
  We need an interpretation of law. There is no doubt in my mind that 
we ought to revisit the MBTA and Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, 
and we will. I am on the Natural Resources Committee. I promise you, 
this issue will come up; but I think it is appropriate to say we are 
going to hold off on expending any money by prosecuting these 
accidental incidental deaths.
  I would urge my colleagues to vote for this. I think it is the right 
place and the right time.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. FARR. Mr. Chair, in closing, to say that the law says that those 
who are in violation of law--I mean, how many golden eagles do you have 
to kill and tell the law enforcement you can't do anything about it? 
This isn't about accidental death. This is people violating the law 
with an intent. You have to have an intent to do wrong.
  I think this is a reckless amendment. I hope we defeat it.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Duncan of Tennessee). The question is on the 
amendment offered by the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Duncan).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Lamborn

  Mr. LAMBORN. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:

       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to collect information about individuals attending 
     gun shows, by means of an automatic license plate reader, or 
     to retain any information so collected.

  Mr. FARR. I reserve a point of order on this issue.
  The Acting CHAIR. A point of order is reserved.
  Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman from Colorado and a 
Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.

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  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Colorado.
  Mr. LAMBORN. Mr. Chairman, earlier this year, an email uncovered by 
the ACLU revealed that the Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, and 
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, 
collaborated on a plan to use automatic license plate readers to 
monitor and collect information about law-abiding citizens attending 
gun shows.
  Under this program, mere attendance at a gun show would have been 
enough to have one's attendance recorded in a massive DEA database. As 
if that weren't bad enough, the primary purpose of this database is 
asset forfeiture, a controversial practice of seizing motorists' 
possessions if police suspect they are criminal proceeds.
  In response to inquiries about the uncovered document, the DEA has 
said that the proposal was rejected by superiors and never implemented. 
Keep in mind that this was taking place in Phoenix in 2009 at about the 
time of Fast and Furious, and there were, I believe, rogue projects 
going on in that part of the country at the time.
  We have litigated that as a House against the Department of Justice, 
and they have not supplied the documents that they were supposed to 
have supplied to Congress.
  We also held former Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of 
Congress for not providing those documents. This was at a time when, 
perhaps, rogue projects were actually going on in Phoenix. I believe 
that they were, and I believe that this is one of those.
  However, the DEA never supplied any documents saying that they 
rejected this project. They blamed it on an underling, and they said it 
was never implemented. While this assurance is welcome, the fact that 
such a proposal was even considered raises very serious privacy 
concerns.
  My amendment would prohibit any funds from being used to collect or 
retain information about individuals attending gun shows by means of an 
automatic license plate reader. This amendment is supported by the NRA, 
the National Rifle Association; the Gun Owners of America; and the 
ACLU.
  Automatic license plate readers should not be used to target law-
abiding citizens who are engaged in their constitutionally protected 
rights. Without strong regulations and greater transparency, this new 
technology would only increase the threat of illegitimate government 
surveillance.
  I encourage my colleagues to support this amendment in order to rein 
in the illegal surveillance of Americans and to send a clear message to 
agencies like the DEA and the ATF that automatic license plate readers 
must not be used to collect information during constitutionally 
protected activities.
  This includes Second Amendment activities, like attending gun shows.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.


                             Point of Order

  Mr. FARR. Mr. Chairman, I make a point of order against the amendment 
because it proposes to change existing law and constitutes legislation 
in an appropriation bill and, therefore, violates clause 2 of rule XXI.
  That rule states in pertinent part: ``An amendment to a general 
appropriation bill shall not be in order if changing existing law''
  One of the provisions is that it ``requires a new determination.''
  I ask for a ruling from the Chair.
  The Acting CHAIR. Does any other Member wish to be heard on the point 
of order?
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Colorado.
  Mr. LAMBORN. Mr. Chairman, let me respond to that by saying that The 
Wall Street Journal published an article on January 27 of this year 
which quotes what the ACLU uncovered through a Freedom of Information 
Act request to the Department of Justice.
  In pertinent part, this revelation that was obtained by the ACLU 
reads:

       The DEA Phoenix Division Office is working closely with the 
     Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on 
     attacking the guns going to ``blank''--that is redacted--and 
     the gun shows to include programs-operations with license 
     plate readers at the gun shows.

  At least some agent or agents within the DEA's Phoenix region 
believed that they had the authority to go to gun shows and use 
automatic license plate recognition technology to, basically, throw out 
a dragnet and take in the identities of everyone who was attending a 
constitutionally protected activity.
  That is what this amendment attacks. At least some elements within 
the DEA thought that they had this authority. They thought they had 
this power.
  I don't think this is creating any new legislation, because it is 
going after a power they believed they already had and believed that 
they had the ability to exercise.
  So the withdrawal of funding to something they thought they had the 
power to do is not creating a new oversight or provision. I forget the 
word the gentleman used. It is not legislating in the sense of giving 
them a power they didn't already have. They thought they had this 
power. This amendment would withdraw the funding for that.
  I would urge the Chair to reject the point of order raised by the 
opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. Does any other Member wish to be heard on the point 
of order? If not, the Chair is prepared to rule.
  The Chair finds that this amendment includes language requiring a new 
determination by the relevant Federal officials of whether an 
individual is attending a gun show. The gentleman from Colorado has not 
proven that this determination is required by existing law.
  The amendment, therefore, constitutes legislation in violation of 
clause 2 of rule XXI.
  The point of order is sustained, and the amendment is not in order.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Sanford

  Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill, before the short title, insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  Each amount made available by this Act (other 
     than an amount required to be made available by a provision 
     of law) is hereby reduced by 2.48 percent.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman 
from South Carolina and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from South Carolina.
  Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, this is a very simple and straightforward 
amendment, as has been laid out, which is to, in essence, make an 
across-the-board cut of this particular appropriation by 2.48 percent.
  I think it is important to do so simply for this reason. I was in a 
Budget hearing this morning, and the new Director of the Congressional 
Budget Office came by.
  In his testimony, what he talked about was the way in which the 
American civilization and the Federal budget was nearing a tipping 
point beyond which there would be substantial consequence to that which 
we can budget here at the Federal level; to the value of the dollar; to 
future interest rates; and, ultimately, to the American way of life.

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  I think what is interesting is that, indeed, Admiral Mike Mullen, a 
military man, observed the same, because when he was asked what is the 
biggest threat to the American way of life and to American security, 
his answer was the American debt.
  You can look at a long list of different authors who have talked 
about this theme in different ways. You know, Reinhart and Rogoff 
talked about it in their book entitled, ``This Time is Different,'' 
wherein, again, you look at economies that get to around 90 percent 
debt to GDP and, frankly, the wheels start to come off. Bad things 
begin to happen both to the economy and to the government's ability to 
perpetuate funding for programs that are important.
  We have gone through a long list of well-discussed programs within 
this particular appropriation bill that are

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important, but for our government's ability to sustain those programs, 
we need to look beyond 10 or 15 years out. We need to look at the long 
run, and ultimately that is what this bill is about.
  I think it is interesting from a nonpartisan standpoint that Erskine 
Bowles and Alan Simpson said, if you look at our financial picture, it 
is the most predictable financial collapse or calamity in the history 
of man. I could go through a lot of other reasons numerically as to why 
I think it is important, but the short answer is we are nearing that 
tipping point that was talked about in the Budget hearing this morning.
  I see my colleague standing, so I will reserve the balance of my time 
and come back to a few other points in a moment.
  Mr. FARR. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to across-the-board 
cuts.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. FARR. Mr. Chairman, I respect the gentleman's presentation, but I 
think we ought to put it in full context. We do have an across-the-
board cut. It is a huge cut. It is called sequestration. Although 
Admiral Mullen did admonish the Congress for the fact that we were 
running a deficit and it was a threat to our national security, he also 
opposed sequestration, across-the-board cuts.
  I think the problem is--and this bill certainly is an across-the-
board cut from what we used to spend, with the exception of the 
protection of one program, but I oppose this. We are on the Committee 
on Appropriations. We try to go through these things with a fine-tooth 
comb to figure out how to adjust the spending of the United States of 
America. The worst thing you can do is just do an across-the-board cut 
because that harms good programs, and you aren't necessarily cutting 
enough to really make a big dent in the national debt.
  Frankly, the spending of America has come down quite dramatically, 
and the economy has improved, and our national debt is, in the recent 
years, at an all-time low. I think, frankly, we in Congress talk about 
this debt but don't put it into context.
  I like to put it in the context that I talk to my constituents about 
that what we have at the national level, just like you have at the 
local level and your own personal life, you have sort of two debts. You 
have a short-term debt, which is that credit card, you spent too much 
that one month, so you are going to pay it slowly off in the next 
couple months. That is the annual deficit.
  The long-term debt is that big mortgage that we have on our houses. 
We don't panic because of a mortgage. We made an agreement over a 
period of time--15, 30 years--that we are going to pay off this 
mortgage, and we know what those payments will be.
  Wall Street doesn't worry about a deficit when we have a plan to pay 
it off. Wall Street worries about when we take a meat-ax approach to 
not running the government efficiently, not having enough people to 
process people when they need permits and they need access to licenses 
and things like that.
  So I wish Congress would get off this sort of let's just use a meat-
ax approach to solving these problems because we won't spend the time 
to get into the weeds. And although I respect the gentleman and his 
approach, I just don't think this is the proper way to do it, and I 
would oppose the across-the-board cut.
  Mr. CULBERSON. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. FARR. I yield to the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Chairman, I wish to join in opposition to this 
amendment. I share my colleague's concern about government spending, 
but two-thirds of the problem is in Social Security and Medicare and 
Medicaid, and in ObamaCare, the national debt, the interest on the 
debt. That is what is drowning us.
  We, in the appropriations process, handle about a third of Federal 
spending, and we have cut spending here in this bill. We have limited 
resources; and as chairman of the subcommittee, we have prioritized 
that money to go, first and foremost, to law enforcement.
  The gentleman's amendment would cut $683 million out of Federal law 
enforcement, which is something I just simply cannot support. The 
gentleman's amendment would cut $212 million out of the FBI and just 
eviscerate their ability to deal with cyber espionage and to deal with 
terrorism. The gentleman's amendment would cut $450 million from NASA, 
essentially crippling our efforts to get Americans back into space on 
an American-made rocket, something we simply have to do as quickly as 
possible.
  We have in our bill prioritized the limited, very precious, and 
scarce, hard-earned tax dollars that our constituents have entrusted us 
with and made sure that Federal law enforcement is taken care of, 
scientific research is protected, NASA is protected. But first and 
foremost, we protected public safety with the way we have prioritized 
our spending.
  I have to urge Members to oppose this amendment because we have 
already followed the Dave Ramsey approach in spending money where it is 
most needed. We have got to focus on the two-thirds of the problem that 
is drowning us: the mandatory, automatic spending programs--Medicare, 
Social Security, Medicaid--that are drowning this economy. That is 
where the deficit and the debt is coming from. While we continue to do 
our part in Appropriations on the one-third that we have got control 
over, we are continuing to cut and prioritize, let's focus on the two-
thirds that is actually hurting the American economy. I would urge 
Members to oppose this amendment and defeat it.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman from California has 
expired.
  Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. FATTAH. It is good to see my good friend on the floor. I, 
unfortunately, can't support his amendment, but I appreciate his work 
here in the Congress.
  In the past, unlike those rhetorically who offer notions of support 
for Simpson-Bowles, I actually supported it and voted for it. I am the 
only Member of the House that has offered a bill to get rid of the 
income tax and pay our debts.
  I wanted to set up a consumption tax, which 150 other countries in 
the world use. We have got a consumption-based economy. It might be a 
good notion to find our revenues where the action is.
  I don't take a backseat to anyone when it comes to fiscal 
responsibility, but unless we have a global budget deal, it is going to 
be impossible for us to manage the accounts of what you agree are very 
important Federal agencies that have very important responsibilities.
  We are running the most important, the most powerful country in the 
world. We can't do it on the cheap and be number one. China builds 100 
science-only universities in 5 years. It would take us 20 years to 
build one. We don't have the same kind of decisionmaking process, 
obviously, and it takes us a while to formulate our decision package; 
but even when we get there, we have this debate about whether or not we 
are going to stand up and be the leading country in the world, whether 
in space exploration or in any of the areas of scientific enterprise in 
which we have always had the absolute lead. Now we have only a relative 
lead.
  There are those who are working in ways that are adverse to insisting 
on America being number one. Those are people who want to tell the 
American public that we can continue to have the best military in the 
world and not pay for it or the best education system and not pay for 
it. Or you look at our national laboratories, and I have visited Oak 
Ridge, I have visited Los Alamos and Sandia and Fermi and Argonne. You 
look at these laboratories. These were major investments. Now, some 
might call it spending, but it helped America win wars, but also win 
the economic fight against our competitors by making these investments.
  I just think that it is not a matter of what we can cut. It is where 
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country want to end up. Do we want to be something less than number one 
in the world? Is that the legacy we want to leave our children and 
grandchildren? Or are we going to make the decisions that others before 
us have made, which is that we have to make tough decisions, and we are 
going to have to carry our own pail of water up the hill, and we are 
going to have to pay for all that we get. It was Abraham Lincoln who 
said you may not get all that you pay for, but you will pay for all 
that you get.
  So this notion that somehow America can be number one on the cheap, I 
am not buying it. The world's not going to buy it. We are competing 
with countries that have a billion-plus population. They are making 
investments, and they want to eat our lunch, economically. There may be 
challenges in other ways for our country down the road, and we have to 
be prepared as leaders to make some tough decisions and to tell the 
American public that, in order to retain our position, we might have to 
actually stand up to the bar and pay our fair share.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, I admire the earnestness of my colleagues 
who, in good faith, are pressing forward in terms of trying to protect 
a whole host of programs that I think we all recognize are of great 
importance to the American people.
  Churchill once observed that the beauty of the American political 
system was that it always did the right thing--after it had exhausted 
every other possible remedy. My fear in this is, if we wait late in the 
game, and this is exactly what the Budget Director was talking about 
this morning, if we wait, the consequences to waiting, in numerical 
terms, become horrific. We are dealing with a math trap that compounds 
with time. Einstein, in fact, was once asked what is the most powerful 
force in the universe, and his reply was compound interest. The numbers 
become, I think, absolutely compelling.
  So I would agree with my colleagues that across-the-board cuts are 
absolutely not the best way to go. When I was involved in State 
politics, I worked earnestly against across-the-board cuts. It is only 
out of desperation that I offer a proposal that entails across-the-
board cuts because, again, if we wait, what the Budget Director this 
morning says was that there will be real consequences.
  I would make four additional points:
  One, if we are serious about addressing the entitlement problem, then 
we shouldn't be borrowing from entitlement spending to fund mandatory 
spending, and that is exactly what this particular appropriation bill 
does to the tune of about $10 billion. So I think that if we are really 
going to get earnest about entitlement spending, this would be a place 
to start, which is part of the reason as to why we focused on this 
particular appropriation bill.
  Two, my colleague from California mentioned national debt is at an 
all-time low. That is incorrect. In fact, we are at an all-time high if 
you look at the numbers. Roughly, it took us 200 years to get to $5 
trillion in debt. Over the Bush administration, we went from 5 to 10. 
It doubled. And now, during the Obama administration, it is going to 
double again from roughly 10 to 20. It is at an all-time high.
  I think the key to a mortgage is your ability to pay it off. It is 
not, again, is there a mortgage or isn't there. It is can you pay it 
off. If you look at the numbers--and increasingly rating agencies 
around the world have suggested that when you get up around that 90 
percent number, there is less and less probability that you will be 
able to perpetuate that spending, which goes to the heart of can we 
perpetuate our ability to fund these worthwhile programs, which is what 
this amendment is about.
  Lastly, I would say Admiral Mullen, when he spoke against the 
sequester, he did so, in large measure, because what he recognized was 
the way in which sequester disproportionately impacted the military.
  For a host of reasons, again, I would ask support for this amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Sanford).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from South 
Carolina will be postponed.


              Amendment No. 3 Offered by Mr. King of Iowa

  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. ___.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used with respect to the case State of Texas, et al. v. 
     United States of America, et al. (No. B-14-254 in the United 
     States District Court for the Southern District of Texas and 
     No. 15-40238 in the United States Court of Appeals for the 
     Fifth Circuit).

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman 
from Iowa and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Iowa.

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  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, this amendment is an amendment, in 
short form, that says that none of the funds made available by this act 
may be used with respect to the case State of Texas, et al. v. United 
States of America.
  I point out to the body, Mr. Chairman, that that is the case that was 
filed by then-Attorney General of Texas Greg Abbott, now Governor of 
Texas, to protect the interest of Texans. It has been signed on to now 
by 25 States, I believe. And this is in reference to the President's 
November 20 DAPA policy, his executive amnesty policy.
  We have watched as this Congress has three times voted to reject the 
President's initiative, and the debate has been centered on 
constitutional grounds. The position of this Congress has three times 
been that the President of the United States is the leader of the 
executive branch of this government, and the legislative powers are all 
vested here in the United States Congress, in a House and in a Senate. 
That is article 1 of the Constitution.
  That is what the President taught through his 10 years as an adjunct 
professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago, and that 
is what he also uttered at least 22 times as President of the United 
States--that he didn't have the authority to establish in advance an 
executive amnesty that would waive the application of the law for some 
5 million people.
  Not only does this Congress agree with the President's 22 statements 
that he has since changed his position on--by the way, the President 
has a 33-page Office of Legal Counsel opinion that is written, I think, 
very loosely--and I read every word of that--but the President's 
convictions, I believe, were reflected prior to this political 
decision.
  And so my amendment prohibits any of the funds from being used to 
further defend this unconstitutional executive amnesty position.
  Mr. Chairman, I would point out that not only has Congress voted 
three times but also the President's 22 statements, as I said, and then 
it is backed up by Federal Judge Hanen, who ruled on the side of the 
Constitution and the rule of law and the separation of powers. And on 
the administration's appeal, a three-judge panel in the Fifth Circuit 
also ruled and indicated that the State of Texas and the other 
coplaintiffs were likely to prevail, and granted standing to the State 
of Texas.
  And now we have an administration that appears to be willing to 
continue this debate further and go with an appeal to the Circuit Court 
again. They actually have the opportunity to go directly to the Supreme 
Court.
  So, Mr. Chairman, I go through this long list of things that have 
happened because a lot of money has been spent

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and wasted in an attempt to, let's say--the gracious way to say it 
would be to stretch the Constitution beyond any bounds that it had been 
stretched before.
  This amendment simply directs that none of the funds made available 
shall be used to continue that endeavor.
  Mr. FATTAH. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. KING of Iowa. I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania.
  Mr. FATTAH. So when the gentleman references the Congress acting 
three times, when you say ``the Congress,'' do you mean both Houses of 
the Congress? Or, are you referring to one House?
  Mr. KING of Iowa. I would have to go back and look at the record in 
the Senate to give you an accurate count. I can tell you that it is an 
accurate count for the House. It may not be a full three times in the 
Senate.
  Mr. FATTAH. I thank the gentleman, and if he would continue to yield, 
we can continue for one second. Because I know that you appreciate the 
construction of our government and the way the Constitution framed it. 
It is not the law of the land that one House acts on something. We need 
the House to act, the Senate to act, and then we need a Presidential 
signature or an override by a Presidential veto.
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Reclaiming my time, and thanking the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania for his insight, Mr. Chairman, I would state that the 
Constitution is very clear. It was very clear to the President of the 
United States for 10 years while he taught it, and it was very clear 
when he made his statements 22 times.
  So this is the Congress reasserting itself. Our Founding Fathers 
expected we would do that.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FATTAH. I rise in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. FATTAH. I thank the gentleman for yielding me the time in that 
colloquy. I look forward to being able to do the same in return, but I 
do appreciate the opportunity to communicate with my colleague, because 
I don't want anyone to misinterpret the facts here.
  Every single President has acted in this area. And these actions by 
this President are no different than the actions by previous Presidents 
in this trade space around providing amnesty.
  And what the gentleman strenuously and sincerely objects to is that 
this has benefited a large number of people whom the President has a 
different view of, in terms of their circumstances, because they were 
brought here as young children. And the President says, well, they are 
here, they went to school here, and this is the only country they know, 
and they have abided by our laws, and he is granting them this ability 
to stay. And the gentleman objects.
  But I don't want anyone to think that the Congress has taken some 
different view, because the Congress is two Houses--the House and the 
Senate--and even if both Houses were to act, the way our laws are 
structured, you need a Presidential signature.
  So, in fact, one House may have a difference of opinion. When Ronald 
Reagan was President, the Democrats had a difference of opinion. It 
didn't change the law so that we voted in some particular way.
  I don't want anyone to misinterpret the comments of my colleague as 
he has articulated his sincere objections to these issues.
  And then to get to the point of his amendment, what he is saying is 
that it is wonderful that the judiciary is responding, they are 
interpreting the law the way he thinks it should be interpreted, but 
here what he wants to do is to deny the executive branch appropriate 
resources to pursue its policy objectives by saying that none of the 
funds here can be used by DOJ in furtherance of their position.
  So I think it is fair for the House to have a view. The House is even 
suing the President about his point of view on some things. But it is 
unfair for us to deny the executive branch an opportunity to put forth 
its arguments in court on any of these matters so that we can get a 
proper ruling from the third branch of our government.
  And even though there have been rulings in the gentleman's favor, he 
and I both know that we are not at the final rendezvous here, and that 
the wheels of justice grind slowly, but there will be a final decision 
probably by the highest court in the land. But we should not deny the 
DOJ an opportunity to go into court and argue the administration's 
position. I think that would be unfair.
  Therefore, I oppose this amendment, and I reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. CULBERSON. I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Chairman, I wish to speak in support of the 
amendment. I strongly support Mr. King's amendment because what the 
President has done is clearly illegal.
  The President does not have the ability to change the law by himself. 
As my good friend from Philadelphia points out, one House of Congress 
cannot change the law all by itself. And similarly, the Chief Executive 
cannot change the law enacted by Congress and signed by the President 
all by himself.
  The law is very clear that people who are in the country illegally, 
who have violated the immigration laws of the United States, need to be 
deported. And the President by this illegal executive action has 
attempted to override the Federal law enacted by Congress and signed by 
previous Presidents.
  The District Court agreed that President Obama's action is illegal 
and that an injunction lies against it. The District Court suspended 
the President's executive order because it was illegal. The Federal 
Court of Appeals in New Orleans suspended the President's executive 
order because it was illegal. We expect the full Fifth Circuit Court of 
Appeals to suspend the President's executive order because it is 
illegal. We expect the Supreme Court to suspend the President's order 
because it is illegal, because the Constitution clearly says that as 
chief executive you have an obligation to faithfully execute the laws 
of the United States.
  You cannot make a law all by yourself with the stroke of a pen. And 
that is exactly what President Obama has done. In addition, it has 
placed an incredibly unaffordable financial burden on the people of 
Texas, the people of Tennessee, and the people of all the States of the 
Union that would have to deal with these folks that are here illegally.
  All that we ask is that the law be enforced. All that we ask is that 
the law be respected, because, as our Founding Fathers understood, the 
law is the foundation of all of our liberty. Without law enforcement, 
there can be no liberty. Because there is just simply anarchy. If you 
look at northern Mexico today, it is in a complete state of anarchy. 
Mexico is essentially a failed state because they have no law 
enforcement.
  In the United States of America we cannot expect to preserve this 
great Republic handed down to us by our Founders without enforcing the 
law. The fundamental question that this lawsuit, Texas v. United 
States, is pursuing--and winning--is respect for the rule of law as the 
foundation for all our liberties.
  So I strongly support Mr. King's amendment as an important tool in 
the ongoing effort to overturn the President's illegal executive 
amnesty. We expect the Supreme Court will stand behind the State of 
Texas and agree that the President's order must be suspended because it 
is illegal, because without law enforcement, without respect for the 
law, there can be no liberty. That is the issue here.
  I strongly support the gentleman's amendment, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I would just reiterate that the 
President of the United States has signed a document. It is a November 
20 document that says that he is going to impose executive amnesty. 
This House disagrees. Many in the Senate also disagree.
  They have been chasing down an expensive rabbit trail to advance an 
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United States of America, in contravention of our laws.
  This Congress is reserved the right by the Constitution to write 
immigration law, and our Founding Fathers imagined we would jealously 
guard that power. That is what this amendment is about.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I think that we are at a point where it is 
difficult to reconcile what we are trying to do here--that is, in an 
appropriations bill--with these policy riders.
  Now, I have heard my chairman claim that the President of the United 
States has done things that are illegal three or four times. I think 
that that kind of language is not useful in the debate, nor is it 
factual, because I think that the President has been acting well in 
concert with the precedents of former Presidents who have provided 
clemency and amnesty.
  And I have heard Members like Mr. King criticize those other 
Presidents who have provided amnesty, like Ronald Reagan and others, 
and I have never heard anyone claim that President Reagan acted 
illegally in those matters. So I find it unusual that we would be in 
this type of circumstance.
  I heard the chairman run through a litany in which he also has the 
Supreme Court finally make some decision, which they have obviously not 
done yet.
  So I would like to try to get back on the tracks of moving an 
appropriations bill. And the point that we have to understand here is 
that, if we are a coequal branch of the government--that is, the 
President is coequal to us, but we are one-half of the Congress--then 
the idea that what the House says goes is nonsensical.
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. FATTAH. I yield to the gentleman.
  Mr. KING of Iowa. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  I would just make the point that this Congress passed an amnesty act 
in 1986, and Ronald Reagan signed that. It was an act of Congress that 
brought amnesty in 1986. I think it was a mistake, but I believe it was 
constitutional.
  Mr. FATTAH. Reclaiming my time, I appreciate the gentleman's point.
  Like I was saying, it is nonsensical to assume that whatever the 
unfettered action of the House is, that it, number one, represents the 
action of the Congress, because it doesn't. We have two Houses. We have 
a Senate and a House. And then we are coequal to the President, but the 
President has certain rights provided to him under the Constitution.
  If you find no exception in the actions of other Presidents, it is 
unusual that we would have such enthusiastic language in condemnation 
of this President's very similar actions.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Iowa will be 
postponed.

                              {time}  1645


                 Amendment Offered by Mr. King of Iowa

  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. _.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to negotiate or finalize a trade agreement that 
     includes provisions relating to visas issued under section 
     101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
     1101(a)(15)). The limitation described in this section shall 
     not apply in the case of the administration of a tax or 
     tariff.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman 
from Iowa and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Iowa.
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, this amendment addresses the 
circumstances around the trade promotion authority and later on, 
perhaps, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but it also addresses any of 
our trade negotiations that might take place that would be funded under 
this bill.
  The rationale is that there has been much concern about the 
negotiations with regard to trade promotion authority in particular, 
enabling the discussion about immigration visas as being part of the 
trade negotiations.
  It is a longstanding pattern and practice of this Congress to assert 
our constitutional authority over immigration visas. When our U.S. 
Trade Representative or other negotiators bring in negotiations that 
have to do with visas, it complicates our trade negotiations and puts 
us in a place where, when we see a trade agreement come before us, 
perhaps it is under a trade promotion authority that would be 
negotiated and this House votes on it, then it may well have within it 
visa agreements that have been negotiated with the multiple countries 
and taking out of the hands of Congress the ability to directly 
establish, although there is an indirect inference, but directly 
establish our immigration policy.
  A lot of the opposition to the trade negotiations that have been 
taking place in the Trans-Pacific Partnership have been about concerns 
of news reports that have come from places likes Australia that have 
pointed out that there are negotiations going on that have to do with 
visas.
  There was a circumstance several years ago, under a previous 
administration, where they had negotiated immigration provisions in a 
trade agreement, and even though it was a nonamendable trade agreement, 
we went before the Judiciary Committee and had a full hearing. I 
offered two amendments that passed, and ultimately, there were changes 
made in that agreement. There is a long history on this with me.
  It has been an important issue to maintain the separation of 
immigration policy and the Congress from the executive branch 
negotiations in trade. That is what this amendment does. It says no 
immigrant visas will be negotiated in trade agreements. That means all 
of them.
  Again, the Constitution enumerates this power to the Congress, not 
the executive branch. I urge its adoption.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to this 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. FATTAH. I think that the hopes of having some bipartisan support 
for this bill is waning. I think it is very unfortunate that we are now 
at a point where we are trying to intrude in an entirely different area 
of the President's prerogatives. He can negotiate all he wants.
  Now, I may not support what he negotiates, but to say you can't even 
discuss something in a negotiation, I think, is unfortunate.
  I am in opposition, and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, may I inquire as to how much time I 
have remaining?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Iowa has 2\1/2\ minutes 
remaining.
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I would reiterate this point, that 
this Congress and a lot of the American people lack confidence in the 
negotiations of our President. A lot of this angst has flowed forth 
from the Iranian negotiations and their march towards a nuclear 
capability that has undermined his credibility and made it 
significantly more difficult for a Congress that is in favor of trade, 
especially on my side of the aisle.
  I am a natural-born free trader. I have always believed that I can 
compete with anybody in the world, and I think America and American 
companies can compete with anyone in the world. I think that we need to 
have a level playing field.
  What is happening is that lack of confidence in the President's 
negotiations and the willingness to, I believe, give away some of the 
positions that would better enhance our national security with regard 
to Iran, in particular, has made it far more difficult

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for those like me, who are pro-free trade, pro-smart trade, and because 
of that and the discussions about immigration visas being part of the 
negotiations and the indications from other countries that that is 
taking place, the secrecy around these negotiations is another 
component of it.
  When we have to go into a secure room and give up our iPhone and 
leave our notes there in order to be able to see what the 
administration will present us as far as these negotiations are 
concerned, it is hard to have confidence that we are getting all of the 
straight story.
  This is a way to put some containment around the negotiations. If the 
administration says there are no visas being negotiated, there should 
be no reason to oppose this amendment. That is really the bottom line.
  If the administration opposes my amendment, that is a strong 
indication that they are not giving us the full story, but we are 
getting more of the full story from places like Australia.
  I urge the adoption of my amendment, and I reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I continue to reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, may I inquire as to the time 
remaining, please?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Iowa has 45 seconds remaining.
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the balance of my time 
here and reiterate that this amendment addresses a lack of trust that 
these trade negotiations are focused on the things that trades are 
supposed to be discussed about.
  I have a strong suspicion that they have included immigration visas 
in their trade agreements. This amendment is drafted consistent with 
the position of this Congress that immigration should not be part of 
trade negotiations.
  If the administration says that it is not part of trade negotiations, 
they should say, Fine, I am happy to support the King amendment; and 
they will be happy to prove it in that fashion.
  Meanwhile, a lot of us are not going to a secure room to see if there 
is anything in there, and we won't know what is presented to the this 
Congress until it is too late to resist.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge adoption of my amendment, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, let me assure the House I have no intention 
of taking 4\1/2\ minutes to make the comments that I intend to make.
  I was at SelectUSA, which is a gathering of people that the 
administration has brought together from around the world who were 
businesspeople and about investments in America. I was there with a 
number of Members of the U.S. Senate, Senator Nelson and others.
  I got a chance at the lunch to sit next to a gentleman who has 
businesses in the United States--manufacturing businesses--and in South 
Africa and his home country in Asia and a number of other places.
  He was saying that, when he travels to America, even though he has 
got 3,000 employees here, it is almost impossible for him to get the 
kind of visas and to get back and forth post-9/11 that can make it an 
efficient business trip for him. It requires such advance planning and 
so on.
  I could imagine, in a negotiation, that there could be some 
consideration when there is a person who has got a multinational 
business and is employing Americans in Iowa or some other State about 
their entry and exit from our country. In fact, he indicated that, in 
these other countries, he has such arrangements, just not in our own. I 
think that America has got to think about where it is on these issues.
  This is not the appropriate bill for this. This is a bill to 
determine the appropriation levels that we are going to fund in certain 
accounts. We are well off the tracks, and I hope that we vote this 
amendment down. I am opposed to it.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Iowa will be 
postponed.


                 Amendment Offered by Mr. King of Iowa

  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. ___. None of the funds made available by this Act 
     under the heading ``Department of Justice--Office of Justice 
     Programs--State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance'' may be 
     used in contravention of section 642(a) of the Illegal 
     Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 
     (8 U.S.C. 1373(a)).

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman 
from Iowa and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Iowa.
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, my amendment eliminates the funding 
that might be used in contravention of section 642(a) that is 
designated in the amendment.
  642(a) is the section in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant 
Responsibility Act of 1996, as I know it, that prohibits the political 
subdivisions in America from establishing sanctuary policies we often 
refer to as sanctuary cities. These are the political subdivisions that 
establish a policy that prohibit their law enforcement officers and 
their other agents from cooperating with Federal immigration officials.
  It seems illogical to me to think that any local government would 
want to prohibit their law enforcement officers from assisting in, 
cooperating with, and transferring information to the Federal law 
enforcement officers who are enforcing immigration law.
  That section, it reads, in part, but with the thought being contained 
here: ``Notwithstanding,'' the language says, ``the political 
subdivisions may not prohibit, or in any way restrict any government 
entity or official from sending to or receiving from the INS''--at the 
time, that is ICE today--``information regarding the citizenship or 
immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.''
  Mr. Chairman, I grew up in a law enforcement family. I looked at the 
men around me as a little boy, and I just thought that all adult men 
put on a uniform of some kind or another. I was steeped in respect for 
the supreme law of the land--the Constitution--and the rule of law.
  When there was an issue that came forward, whether it was a bank 
robbery or some tragedy that took place, all levels of law enforcement 
cooperated with all other levels of law enforcement. No one that was a 
member of the city police said: I am not going to be serving papers 
here because that is the county's job.
  No county deputy decided that he wouldn't pull somebody over for 
speeding because that was the city speed limit on a city street. No 
highway patrol officer decided that he wouldn't enforce local law.
  No one that came in from the Division of Criminal Investigation or 
the FBI decided that it was their bailiwick, that it was exclusively 
their law to enforce and that no one should help them with that.
  Law enforcement, to be effective, has to be a cooperation from all 
levels; and, of course, the public has to respect the rule of law; and 
they have to respect those who are there to protect and serve and to 
also enforce that law.
  For me, I cannot understand how or why a city would establish these 
policies, but they are doing so. In the process of that, they are 
undermining the rule of law and eroding the respect for the rule of law 
and leaving their citizens vulnerable, when we could be helping them 
with Federal officers who need to get this information.
  This is an amendment that has been offered in multiple years. It has 
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that I saw last year with the identical language passed the House by a 
vote of 214-94.
  We have been consistent in defending the rule of law. This amendment 
says that no funds shall go to these political subdivisions from this 
bill, if they establish sanctuary city policies, to put it in short 
summation.
  I urge its adoption, and I reserve the balance of my time.

                              {time}  1700

  Mr. COSTA. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. COSTA. Mr. Chairman, the description of the amendment, as we 
understand it, prohibits the use of these funds that contravene section 
642 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act 
of 1996.
  The facts are that the States and localities around the country that 
have adopted laws and policies to limit immigration enforcement by law 
enforcement are focused on protecting public safety. We have this in 
California. We have it in many border States. There is a level of 
cooperation that does take place between local law enforcement agencies 
as well as our Federal enforcement officers.
  Surely, we don't believe it is good public policy to force an 
unwanted role upon police through the threat of sanctions, which is 
what this amendment does, or withholding police funding. Frankly, if 
you believe in Federalism and if you believe in that relationship 
between local, State, and Federal Government, this is really top-down 
and I think runs contrary to the notion that law enforcement agencies 
at all levels collaborate and cooperate.
  Holding this sort of a sword of Damocles, so to speak, over the head 
of local law enforcement agencies simply, I think, is not good public 
policy.
  In an op-ed piece that was published in Roll Call last year, the 
police chief of Dayton, Ohio, explained why his department instructs 
its officers not to check the immigration status of witnesses and 
victims or to question their status in minor traffic stops.
  He says:

       These policies allow us to focus our limited resources on 
     our primary mission, which is crime solving and community 
     safety.

  We know that local law enforcement agencies are clearly stretched 
very thin across the country. They also said victims of crimes should 
never be afraid to reach out for help due to the fear of immigration 
consequences because, notwithstanding the fact of their status, crimes 
are perpetrated upon these people as well.
  Since Dayton adopted these policies and innovative ways of addressing 
crime problems, their crime rates have significantly declined; and, in 
the past 3 years, serious crime has declined nearly 22 percent, while 
serious property crime has gone down 15 percent. It is simply, we 
believe, perverse to punish communities that want to prioritize because 
they know best what their challenges are within their communities to 
protect the public against crime and to enact community-based policing 
activities. To deny them this funding through this threat of the SCAAP 
funds simply is, we believe, inappropriate.
  Finally, I think that this amendment focuses on a problem that 
doesn't exist.
  With those statements, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word to speak 
in support of the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Chairman, the objection of the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Costa) to this amendment is that he does not believe 
current Federal law is good public policy. As a Member of Congress, he 
has the privilege of filing amendments and filing legislation to change 
current Federal legislation, but we cannot, as lawmakers, encourage law 
breaking.
  All the amendment of the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King) says is that 
if a local or State government expects to receive Federal money, they 
should comply with Federal law. It is really that simple.
  Mr. King's amendment simply says that, if you expect to receive 
funding from the Department of Justice, if you expect to receive 
funding under the SCAAP program--the State Criminal Alien Assistance 
Program--to compensate local jurisdictions for housing illegal aliens 
who have broken State law and are housed in a State or local jail at 
local taxpayer expense, if you want to be compensated for that and if 
you want to apply for grant funding from the Department of Justice, all 
Mr. King's amendment says is follow Federal law. If you want Federal 
money, follow Federal law.
  The Federal law is very clear. The law Mr. King is referencing here 
is very simple. It simply says that a State or local government may not 
prohibit or in any way restrict a government entity or official from 
sending or receiving any information regarding the citizenship or 
immigration status of any individual to the Immigration Services. That 
is all this law says.
  It is a very important piece of law because, as the gentleman from 
Iowa (Mr. King) quite correctly points out, we expect all our local and 
State and Federal law enforcement officials to work together 
seamlessly.
  Because we are a Nation of laws, we understand that all our liberty 
depends on the enforcement of the law, with equal protection and due 
process for everyone. All our liberties depend on local, State, and 
Federal law enforcement officers using their good hearts, their good 
sense, and their ability, as law enforcement officers, to recognize 
when and where they need to cooperate and communicate with the State 
law enforcement officials, with Federal law enforcement officials to 
protect the life and liberty of the people of the United States. That 
is what is really at stake here.
  That is the objection that we have had to the President's unlawful 
actions. That is the concern and the objection we have in the State of 
Texas to the uncontrolled flow of people and drugs and guns and illegal 
material across the border. Our concern is not with the lawful free 
flow of people back and forth over the Rio Grande River. Our concern is 
with the illegal, criminal conduct.
  We recognize in Texas the importance of free trade with Mexico and 
with Canada, but you cannot have free trade and a strong economy 
without safe streets, and you cannot have safe streets until the law is 
enforced. We in Texas, first and foremost, recognize that, in order to 
have that good relationship with Mexico, the law has got to be 
enforced.
  We need workers from Mexico to come here lawfully. We need our laws 
to be respected so that we can ensure the economy stays strong, so that 
our liberty is protected. Our liberty can only be safe when the law is 
enforced.
  All Mr. King's amendment says is, if you expect to receive Federal 
money, follow Federal law. It is not complicated. That is very, very 
simple. Under the law that has been on the books since 1996, a State or 
local unit of government cannot restrict in any way the ability of a 
government official to either send information to Immigration Services 
or receive information from Federal immigration regarding the 
citizenship or unlawful status of any individual.
  If my colleague from California (Mr. Costa) objects to that law, it 
is his privilege, as a Member of Congress, to file an amendment or file 
legislation to amend it or change it. In the meantime, our 
responsibility as lawmakers and my responsibility as chairman of the 
Commerce, Justice, Science Subcommittee is to ensure that the law is 
enforced.
  If agencies of the Federal Government or State or local governments 
expect to receive Federal money, if they expect to have the privilege 
of spending our constituents' hard-earned tax dollars, they should 
expect to follow the law.
  If you want Federal money, follow Federal law. It is that simple. 
That is all Mr. King's amendment does, and I urge Members to support 
it.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I want to reiterate the positions 
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were taken by the gentleman from Texas. We have political subdivisions, 
primarily, as sanctuary cities that are violating Federal law, and all 
we are saying is follow the law.
  The point hasn't been made here that the Department of Justice could 
enforce this law, but they choose not to, and that empowers the 
political subdivisions, particularly the cities that continue to 
advance these sanctuary policies.
  Can you imagine being a police officer and being told that, if you 
pick up people who are unlawfully present in America, that you can't 
tell the INS--even if you are having coffee with them--that you have 
got a jail full of people who are unlawfully present in America that 
are required by law to be placed into removal proceedings? That is just 
illogical.
  I would point out that, if you disagree with this section of the 
code, you are here in this Congress, bring a bill to try to change it.
  In the meanwhile, I am for full funding of the SCAAP funding. I think 
that, when we have people in the country and we are not enforcing 
immigration law, we should make sure that local jails are funded when 
they are picking up people that are unlawfully present in America.
  I support the Byrne JAG grants. I want to give that to them, but we 
cannot do that under provisions if the local subdivisions are violating 
law.
  Then with regard to the statement that this is a problem that doesn't 
exist--no, it is a problem that exists all over this country. It is 
growing. It is replete in city after city. We need to restore respect 
for the rule of law. That is what this amendment does. I urge its 
adoption.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Iowa will be 
postponed.


                  Amendment Offered by Mr. Luetkemeyer

  Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to carry out the program known as ``Operation Choke 
     Point''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman 
from Missouri and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Missouri.
  Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Mr. Chairman, question: How does the Federal 
Government get rid of an industry it doesn't like?
  Answer: Simple, it cuts off that industry from the financial services 
sector.
  Sounds impossible, doesn't it? However, that is exactly what the 
Department of Justice is doing in conjunction with the FDIC right now. 
Their name for this action is called Operation Choke Point. It is 
designed to force legally operating entities out of business by choking 
them off from the financial services they need to operate their 
businesses.
  What started with nondepository lenders has spread to other 
industries, including pawn shops, tobacco retailers, and the firearms 
and ammunition industries, to name just a few, as well as the 
businesses that provide services and products to these industries.
  This amendment would ensure that Operation Choke Point is ended and 
that the DOJ returns to their proper job, targeting companies based on 
fraudulent actions, not entire industries based on political motive. An 
identical amendment was offered by a bipartisan group of lawmakers 
during fiscal year 2015 debate, and it was passed by voice vote.
  This isn't a partisan issue. This is an issue of DOJ abusing its 
authorities. I urge support for this amendment.
  I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Williams).
  Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Chair, soon, we will vote to end funding for a 
government program that is, at best, unethical and, at worst, illegal. 
The program known as Operation Choke Point forces banks to discriminate 
against legitimate, legal businesses.
  Today, we know that banks are closing their customers' accounts under 
a directive by the U.S. Department of Justice. There is no appeals 
process.
  That is right; the enforcer of the law of the land is backing this 
potentially unlawful program. Hard-working American businessowners are 
having their livelihoods ripped out from under them by a law 
established by this administration, not by Congress.
  Operation Choke Point is another example of how the Obama 
administration has gone around Congress to create laws, rather than do 
their job to enforce the laws we already have on the books.
  As a businessowner myself, Operation Choke Point worries me greatly. 
Operation Choke Point is un-American. It is deceiving and simply wrong. 
It is time this Congress uses its power of the purse to rein in 
government overreach and restore government accountability.
  I urge my colleagues to support this amendment to defund Operation 
Choke Point.
  In God we trust.
  Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5 
minutes.

                              {time}  1715

  Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, now I think that there may be some 
mutuality of interest if what the gentleman says is true about what is 
at stake here. However, this is not a process in which we can discern 
all of that at this moment. This is an appropriations bill. I think 
that this is probably an area where the Congress should hold some 
hearings and look into it, take some testimony and figure out exactly 
what is going on before we would shut down what might be a very 
important program.
  It may be, as the gentleman describes, that is something where DOJ is 
just moving in ways that make little or no sense. But I think that to 
come at the final point in the bill and seek to restrict DOJ in this 
way, I would be reluctant to support it, and therefore, I stand in 
opposition to it.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman 
from South Carolina (Mr. Mulvaney).
  Mr. MULVANEY. I thank my friend, Mr. Luetkemeyer, and I thank the 
chairman. What we are up here talking about is a program where the 
government is trying to put legal businesses out of business--that is 
what Operation Choke Point is--legal businesses that some people don't 
like especially within the administration, pawnshops, payday lenders, 
ammunition manufacturers, gun shops, but legal businesses.
  With all due respect to my friend from Pennsylvania, we have had 
hearings on this. In fact, the Department of Justice has claimed they 
have stopped this program. They have agreed with us that they shouldn't 
be doing this. Now, we don't believe they are actually doing that. We 
have indications from what is happening back in our districts that even 
though the Department of Justice says they have stopped Operation Choke 
Point, that it is still going on.
  So here is my question, Mr. Chairman: Who supports this program? The 
Department of Justice says it is wrong. The Department of Justice says 
it is not even doing it. So who would get up here on this floor and 
say: ``I think Operation Choke Point is a great idea. I think we should 
go ahead and continue to use means within the Department of Justice to 
drive legal businesses out of business''? I'm not really sure how you 
defend that position.
  This is real for me in my district, Mr. Chairman. I have a woman-
owned business in my home county who cannot get money to expand her 
pawnshop. I

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have businesses elsewhere in South Carolina that have a little tiny 
piece of their large financial services business in payday lending. 
They have been cut off from their financial relationships of 25 years. 
They can't get banking services. That is why the DOJ said they were 
going to stop. We just don't happen to believe them.
  Mr. Chairman, we should support this amendment because it is the 
appropriate thing to do, to my good friend from Pennsylvania, because 
that is how we work. We defund programs that we don't like. And if the 
DOJ says they are not doing it anyway, what is the harm in voting for 
the amendment?
  So I would ask again, who could possibly be against the amendment? 
Who could possibly be for Operation Choke Point?
  I hope we have overwhelming and broad support for Mr. Luetkemeyer's 
amendment later on this evening.
  Mr. FATTAH. I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from 
Missouri (Mr. Luetkemeyer) for the purpose of a colloquy.
  Since the Republicans are in the majority, you have held hearings on 
this. Is there legislation that is coming forward to end these 
practices?
  I yield to the gentleman.
  Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Yes. There have been hearings in the Financial 
Services Committee. There also have been hearings in the Oversight and 
Government Reform Committee. In fact, the Oversight and Government 
Reform Committee has an extensive report on both the DOJ and FDIC 
activities that include emails and internal memos from those agencies 
indicating these activities. They can't be denied. They admit this in 
discussions with the FDIC. In a follow-up hearing to the report, they 
admit doing this. They have put in place a number of provisions of a 
bill that I am offering.
  Mr. FATTAH. Let me restate my question.
  Is there legislation coming forward that would end the practice?
  Mr. LUETKEMEYER. That is what I was getting to.
  As a result of these reports, we have come up with a bill. I have a 
bill filed. It will be coming up later on this month for a hearing in 
committee.
  The FDIC has put in place many of the same provisions of the bill 
already as protocols for their operations on how they handle situations 
like this. I think we are making progress.
  The problem is that DOJ has flipped the model of using FIRREA, which 
is a bank law that banks use to protect themselves against fraud, to 
now use that law against them. As a result, we need to stop that. That 
is part of the bill as well.
  Mr. FATTAH. Reclaiming my time, I appreciate your answering my 
question.
  So what I hear is that you held some hearings, that you have 
legislation, that you are making progress, and that the administration 
has already curtailed some of these practices that you are concerned 
about. However, you would still like to proceed with this prohibition 
of funds which might be entirely appropriate.
  I don't have enough information, standing here today, to agree with 
you that that is the right thing to do, so I stand in opposition to the 
amendment even though I may not be, in spirit, in opposition to what it 
is that you are attempting to do. I just don't have enough information 
to join you in this effort as robustly as you are engaged in it.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LUETKEMEYER. How much time do I have remaining, Mr. Chairman?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Missouri has 30 seconds 
remaining.
  Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Mr. Chairman, I just want to reiterate that I think 
my two other spokespeople here, with regards to this, have expressed 
concern.
  There are businesses across this country that are being choked off 
from financial services, and as a result, they are doing legal business 
but yet not being able to do that business because of the actions of 
the FDIC and the DOJ, which the OGR report indicates that they are 
doing. They admit this wrongdoing in different committee hearings as 
well as meetings on campus here. What we are trying to do is protect 
legal businesses to be able to continue to do a legal business
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Luetkemeyer).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Denham

  Mr. DENHAM. Mr. Chairman, I rise to offer an amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
     Administration to implement in the California Central Valley 
     Recovery Domain any existing recovery plan for salmon and 
     steelhead populations listed under the Endangered Species Act 
     of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) as threatened species or 
     endangered species if that recovery plan does not address 
     predation by non-native species.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman 
from California and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California.
  Mr. DENHAM. Mr. Chairman, this amendment will help protect native 
salmon and steelhead species in California. My amendment would increase 
the effectiveness of recovery plans for species of salmon and steelhead 
listed under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 by ensuring an 
appropriate focus on predation control efforts.
  Predation has long been recognized as a source of significant 
mortality for endangered and threatened species. In fact, according to 
NOAA, nonnative species are cited as a cause of endangerment for 48 
percent of the species listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. 
This is especially true for marine species, and along the Pacific coast 
salmon and steelhead juveniles.
  Recently, the National Marine Fisheries Service found protection of 
salmon and steelhead required ``significantly reducing the nonnative 
predatory fishes,'' and that reducing the number of nonnative predatory 
fishes was necessary to ``prevent extinction or to prevent the species 
from declining irreversibly.''
  In my own State, as far back as 1995, the State Water Resources 
Control Board recommended in its water quality control plan for the Bay 
Delta that the State and Federal fish agencies pursue programs to 
determine the impacts of predation by nonnative fish on salmon and 
steelhead. Unfortunately, despite such recognition, nothing has been 
done, and there are currently no programs in California to remove these 
nonnative predator fish.
  Today in California, species such as the nonnative striped bass, 
introduced into California from New Jersey, consume up to 95 percent of 
the salmon and steelhead juveniles along the Sacramento and San Joaquin 
River System. These bass are not suppressed but, rather, managed by 
local State officials for abundance and sport fishing.
  Mr. Chairman, predator control efforts can and do work. Currently, 
control of predator fish is being successfully used in a number of 
locations in North America. In the Great Lakes, control efforts of sea 
lamprey have reduced predation on lake trout, whitefish, salmon, 
rainbow trout, and others. In the Wood River System of Alaska, control 
of the arctic char reduced predation on sockeye salmon. In the Columbia 
and Snake Rivers, control of pike minnow reduced predation on salmon. 
In Cultus Lake, British Columbia, sockeye salmon increased after an 
eradication program focusing on pike minnow.
  Recovering threatened and endangered salmon and steelhead populations 
has been a critical priority for Congress for years. This amendment 
simply ensures that controlling nonnative predators is a top priority 
for NOAA and all other stakeholders interested in maintaining healthy 
and sustainable salmon and steelhead populations.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.

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  Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment even though my opposition is not as apparent as it might 
otherwise be.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Costa), my great colleague here.
  Mr. COSTA. Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank the gentlemen from 
California and from Pennsylvania for allowing me this time, and the 
gentleman from California for offering this important amendment.
  Let me give a little perspective here. Clearly, everyone is aware of 
the disastrous drought that is having catastrophic impacts in 
California, not only in the San Joaquin Valley but throughout the 
State. There are a number of factors that have caused the challenges 
that we face with a lack of water in California. Obviously, it hasn't 
rained very much or snowed very much in the mountains for 4 years.
  In addition to that, we have a broken water system in the sense that, 
designed in the fifties and the sixties, both the Federal and State 
water projects, for a State of 20 million people, today we have 38 
million people, and we have a lot of demands not only for the use of 
agriculture, but for people in our cities and for the environment.
  Mr. Chairman, this amendment relates to our requirements under the 
law to protect the environment, those endangered species, salmonoid and 
steelhead that are native to California.
  What happened is some 100 years ago, before we had a better 
understanding and before California was a much bigger State, there was 
the introduction of striped bass from the East Coast, bound from the 
Gulf of Saint Lawrence Seaway all the way down to Alabama. These are 
native fish on the East Coast, but they were not native to California. 
They were introduced in a small number but became very successful in 
propagation, so much so that in the early 1900s, after 10 years of 
introduction, over 1 million pounds a year was being harvested of these 
nonnative striped bass fish in the San Francisco Bay-San Joaquin-
Sacramento-Delta River systems.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I yield the gentleman an additional 2 
minutes.
  Mr. COSTA. As I was saying, Mr. Chairman, the fact is that the State 
has changed a great deal to present day. The current water system is 
unable to meet the demands under the current restrictions that are 
required under the Endangered Species Act to maintain and to try to 
increase the population of salmonoid and steelhead.
  We have determined, as my colleague and friend from California 
stated, that these fish, these predator fish, are responsible for a 
large amount of the takings of both the native California salmon and 
steelhead, and yet we have no program to balance this.
  What this amendment would do is it simply requires that for a 
recovery plan to be effective, it must incorporate and address all 
factors involved in species recovery, those of particularly high 
concern.
  Some of the studies have indicated on the Sacramento River over 95 
percent of the juvenile salmon and steelhead are eaten by these 
predator striped bass, these nonnative fish and other invasive species. 
This amendment ensures that the recovery plan for endangered salmon and 
steelhead takes these factors into account, including the predation by 
the nonnative species such as striped bass.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to support the amendment of the 
gentleman from California.

                              {time}  1730

  Mr. DENHAM. Mr. Chairman, how much time do I have remaining?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 2 minutes 
remaining.
  Mr. DENHAM. Mr. Chairman, I would just like to point out one thing. 
Turlock Irrigation District, which is in my district, was forced to do 
a federally ordered study which actually showed, on the lower Tuolumne, 
42,000 snook were killed by nonnative fish. This nearly eliminated the 
entire population. This is a federally ordered study.
  With that, I yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Valadao).
  Mr. VALADAO. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from California for 
offering this very important amendment.
  When you look at what is going on in Central Valley, my hometown, and 
you hear stories--and I see for myself because I was there this past 
week--cities, houses, running out of water, wells going dry. There was 
a news article a couple of days ago about a city in my district named 
Lemoore where wells are going dry that supply homes there the south 
side of town. That is a frustrating situation.
  We fought for the last couple of years to bring legislation to the 
floor. We delivered it to the Senate a few times to help resolve this.
  What makes this more frustrating than anything is we have got a 
situation here where we could actually make a difference. There are 
studies here that prove that 95 percent of the fish that we are trying 
to protect are being eaten by species that we are doing nothing about. 
The tools are there.
  This is a simple amendment that actually helps deliver and force 
these agencies which should be looking out for the best interests of 
the people of the United States, it forces them to actually use every 
single tool in their toolbox to actually address the situation instead 
of wasting water.
  When I saw the story not too long ago about water being diverted or 
released in these pulse flows to trick some of our species to try to 
protect instead of actually doing something to make a difference, it is 
a waste of water that could have made a real difference for the people 
in my district, people who are unemployed. We are starting to see 
unemployment numbers again upwards of 50 percent in some of these 
communities, houses where they are actually delivering water by truck 
so they can bathe. This is a real dire situation.
  This amendment is a step in the right direction that actually allows 
these government agencies which, again, are supposed to take the 
interests of the American people at heart first to use all the tools in 
their toolbox.
  This is a good idea, this is a good amendment, and this really truly 
makes a difference.
  Again, thank you for this amendment, and I urge support.
  Mr. DENHAM. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Denham).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California 
will be postponed.


 Vacating Demand for Recorded Vote on Amendment Offered by Mr. King of 
                                  Iowa

  Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chair, an amendment was passed, King No. 077, and 
passed by a voice vote. I requested a recorded vote. I ask unanimous 
consent that my request for a recorded vote on the amendment that it be 
withdrawn and allow the voice vote on which it passed to be the fact.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the request for a recorded vote 
is withdrawn. Accordingly, the ayes have it and the amendment is agreed 
to.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5 
minutes.

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  Mr. FATTAH. We have arrived at our final moment in this bill where my 
colleague from New York, who is an extraordinary Member, has a very 
important amendment to offer.
  I yield back the balance of my time.


                   Amendment Offered by Mr. Jeffries

  Mr. JEFFRIES. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used for the monitoring or review of electronic 
     communications between an inmate and attorney or attorney's 
     agents who are traditionally covered by attorney client 
     privilege except as provided in 28 CFR 501.3(d).

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 287, the gentleman 
from New York and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from New York.
  Mr. JEFFRIES. Mr. Chairman, I thank the distinguished gentleman, the 
ranking member from Pennsylvania, for his leadership.
  This amendment would prohibit the use of funds in connection with the 
monitoring or review of electronic communications between an inmate 
detainee and his or her attorney or attorney's agents who are 
traditionally covered by the attorney-client privilege, except in 
circumstances where reasonable suspicion exists that a particular 
inmate's communications with attorneys or their agents may be designed 
to further or facilitate acts of terrorism.
  This amendment is designed to protect the legally sacrosanct 
attorney-client privilege. It would protect the Sixth Amendment right 
to counsel of individuals who are using electronic communications to 
share privileged information with their designated court advocate.
  The attorney-client privilege is one of the oldest recognized 
privileges in American jurisprudence. It is intended to encourage the 
full and frank communication between attorneys and their clients and 
thereby promote the broader public interests in the observance of the 
law and the administration of justice. It, of course, is anchored in 
the Sixth Amendment.
  Currently, in-person attorney visitations in facilities that are run 
by the Bureau of Prisons can take place in attorney-client rooms which 
provide the privacy to share information necessary for a lawyer to 
adequately defend his or her client in court.
  However, this is not the case for correspondence collected through 
electronic means. Waiver notices in Federal prisons vary from facility 
to facility, with some having clearly posted notices which state that 
by using the Trust Fund Limited Inmate Computer System, otherwise known 
as TRULINCS, inmates are waiving their privilege rights. Other 
facilities, however, provide no indication on the level of privacy that 
a detained individual can expect when using electronic prison 
resources.
  The TRULINCS system also does not provide an option for a detained 
individual who hasn't been convicted to contact his or her attorney 
without subjecting electronic communications to external review.
  The reading and collecting of privileged information in instances 
where clients are having electronic exchanges with their attorneys is a 
clear invasion of the traditional attorney-client privilege.
  In this great country, there is a presumption of innocence, as one of 
our Founding Fathers, John Adams, has eloquently set forth. It is a 
foundational principle of our democracy.
  It seems unreasonable to require in the 21st century that protection 
of the attorney-client privilege at a detention center only occurs 
through in-person visitation. These correctional facilities are often 
located in distant locations that cannot be easily accessed. We live in 
an era of modern technology and communication. The technology is 
available in these facilities, and our laws should reflect and adapt to 
the modern age.
  This amendment would prohibit the prison system from compromising the 
attorney-client privilege, as anchored in the Sixth Amendment 
constitutional right to assistance of counsel.
  For that reason, I urge my colleagues to support it, and I reserve 
the balance of my time.
  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition, although 
I am not in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Texas is 
recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Chairman, the gentleman from New York is prepared 
to withdraw the amendment. We will work together to resolve this 
problem, so I do claim the time in opposition.
  I think the gentleman from New York has raised a very valid concern. 
Certainly we do not want to see any exception to the attorney-client 
privilege. It can't be limited to just those circumstances where an 
attorney is actually present with the individual interviewing him at 
the facility. I think the gentleman has identified a legitimate problem 
that we need to address.
  As I discussed with Mr. Jeffries earlier, we got the language very 
late, and I want to be certain that we are not creating any 
unanticipated problems. Mr. Jeffries wants to be sure to exclude the 
very reasonable exception in current law that if a court order, on a 
finding of a judge, sees that there is potential or reasonable cause 
for concern that there may be furtherance of a terrorist plot in the 
course of those communications between an attorney and a client, the 
Department of Justice would have the right under that court order to 
listen to that conversation.
  We want to make sure that we protect that exception but make sure we 
take care of the one he has identified, so if I could, with my 
colleague from Philadelphia Mr. Jeffries' help, we appreciate, as we 
just discussed earlier, if he would withdraw this amendment. I will 
work with my colleague Ranking Member Fattah from Philadelphia to help 
address the concern you have got when we move to conference. I think it 
is a valid concern and one that we will work closely with you, sir, to 
resolve.
  Mr. FATTAH. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. CULBERSON. I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania.
  Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Chairman, I would be happy to concur with the chair's 
every utterance on this amendment that we will work together and help 
facilitate what I think is a very righteous effort on behalf of 
Congressman Jeffries to protect the rights of all Americans to have 
privileged conversations and interactions with their attorneys so that 
their rights can be fully protected.
  I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time to hear 
from my colleague from New York for the purpose of completing the 
discussion.
  Mr. JEFFRIES. Mr. Chairman, I thank the distinguished gentleman from 
Texas and the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania for their 
willingness to work together on this very important issue in terms of 
the preservation of the attorney-client privilege in the detainee 
context and look forward to working with the two of them and Members of 
this august body to resolve this issue.
  Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to withdraw the amendment at 
this time.
  The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman 
from New York?
  There was no objection.
  The Acting CHAIR. The amendment is withdrawn.


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings 
will now resume on those amendments on which further proceedings were 
postponed, in the following order:
  Amendment by Mr. Massie of Kentucky.
  Amendment by Mr. Massie of Kentucky.
  Amendment by Mr. Massie of Kentucky.

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  Amendment by Mr. Flores of Texas.
  Amendment by Mr. Sanford of South Carolina.
  Amendment No. 3 by Mr. King of Iowa.
  Amendment by Mr. King of Iowa.
  Amendment by Mr. Denham of California.
  The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the time for any electronic vote 
after the first vote in this series.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Massie

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Kentucky 
(Mr. Massie) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the noes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 289, 
noes 132, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 288]

                               AYES--289

     Aguilar
     Amash
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Barr
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blum
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brady (PA)
     Brat
     Brooks (AL)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chaffetz
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clawson (FL)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coffman
     Cohen
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello (PA)
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DeSaulnier
     DesJarlais
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donovan
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers (NC)
     Emmer (MN)
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fleischmann
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garrett
     Gibson
     Goodlatte
     Gowdy
     Graham
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Grothman
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Harper
     Hastings
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice, Jody B.
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huelskamp
     Huffman
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt (VA)
     Israel
     Issa
     Jeffries
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jolly
     Jones
     Joyce
     Kaptur
     Katko
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kline
     Knight
     Kuster
     Labrador
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lummis
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Marchant
     Massie
     Matsui
     McClintock
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     McSally
     Meeks
     Meng
     Messer
     Mooney (WV)
     Moore
     Moulton
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (PA)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Newhouse
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Paulsen
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Poe (TX)
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Price, Tom
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Reed
     Ribble
     Rice (NY)
     Rice (SC)
     Richmond
     Rigell
     Rogers (AL)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanford
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stefanik
     Stutzman
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tipton
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Upton
     Valadao
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wenstrup
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (FL)
     Woodall
     Yarmuth
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                               NOES--132

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barton
     Bishop (MI)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Cole
     Conaway
     Cook
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Denham
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gibbs
     Gohmert
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Guinta
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hensarling
     Hill
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hurd (TX)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     Loebsack
     Long
     Lucas
     Lynch
     MacArthur
     Marino
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McCollum
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mullin
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Pearce
     Pelosi
     Peters
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Ratcliffe
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Roby
     Rogers (KY)
     Rooney (FL)
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Ruiz
     Rush
     Russell
     Salmon
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Scalise
     Scott, Austin
     Sessions
     Sewell (AL)
     Shuster
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Trott
     Turner
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Westerman
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yoder

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Adams
     Bilirakis
     Cartwright
     Fattah
     Jackson Lee
     Johnson (GA)
     Nugent
     Roe (TN)
     Sinema
     Stewart
     Stivers

                              {time}  1812

  Messrs. FORBES, CALVERT, LYNCH, SESSIONS, KELLY of Pennsylvania, and 
Mrs. ROBY changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  Ms. FUDGE, Messrs. DEUTCH, HASTINGS, ISRAEL, DANNY DAVIS of Illinois, 
GUTIERREZ, CLYBURN, ELLISON, HUFFMAN, Mses. LORETTA SANCHEZ of 
California, MAXINE WATERS of California, and WASSERMAN SCHULTZ changed 
their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Ms. SIMMS. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 288 I was unavoidably detained. 
Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.''
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Chair, During rollcall vote No. 288 on H.R. 2578, I 
mistakenly recorded my vote as ``nay'' when I should have voted 
``aye.''
  (By unanimous consent, Mr. McCarthy was allowed to speak out of 
order.)


                          Legislative Program

  Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Chair, I rise for the purpose of making an 
announcement.
  Members are advised that no more votes are expected in the House 
tonight.
  The House will begin debate on the fiscal year 2016 Transportation, 
Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill immediately following 
this vote series. Debate will continue late tonight, so any Member 
wishing to offer an amendment should be prepared to do so at the 
appropriate point in the bill.
  Our next votes are expected at approximately 11 a.m. tomorrow.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Massie

  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Westmoreland). Without objection, 2-minute 
voting will continue.
  There was no objection.
  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Kentucky 
(Mr. Massie) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 250, 
noes 171, not voting 11, as follows:

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                             [Roll No. 289]

                               AYES--250

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cooper
     Costello (PA)
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers (NC)
     Emmer (MN)
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice, Jody B.
     Hill
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Katko
     Kelly (PA)
     Kind
     King (IA)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     MacArthur
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Peterson
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Polis
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stefanik
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Trott
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Walz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                               NOES--171

     Aguilar
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Butterfield
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clay
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Donovan
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hastings
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     King (NY)
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Adams
     Bilirakis
     Capps
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Conyers
     Jackson Lee
     Nugent
     Pelosi
     Roe (TN)
     Stewart


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1818

  Mr. PITTENGER changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Mrs. CAPPS. Mr. Chair, on rollcall No. 289, had I been present, I 
would have voted ``no.''


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Massie

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Kentucky 
(Mr. Massie) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 383, 
noes 43, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 290]

                               AYES--383

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Bost
     Boustany
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Castro (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clawson (FL)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coffman
     Cohen
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cook
     Costa
     Costello (PA)
     Courtney
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DeSaulnier
     DesJarlais
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers (NC)
     Emmer (MN)
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx
     Frankel (FL)
     Franks (AZ)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Graham
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice, Jody B.
     Higgins
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Holding
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huffman
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Israel
     Issa
     Jeffries
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kaptur
     Katko
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     King (IA)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kline
     Knight
     Kuster
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     Levin
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lummis
     Lynch
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Meng
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Moore
     Mullin
     Mulvaney

[[Page 8548]]


     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (PA)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nolan
     Norcross
     Nunes
     O'Rourke
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Pallone
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perlmutter
     Perry
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Pocan
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Polis
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price, Tom
     Rangel
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Russell
     Ryan (OH)
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanford
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Slaughter
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stefanik
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Trott
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Walz
     Watson Coleman
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Welch
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yarmuth
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                                NOES--43

     Brady (PA)
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cooper
     Delaney
     Donovan
     Engel
     Farr
     Fattah
     Frelinghuysen
     Garamendi
     Harper
     Keating
     Kennedy
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Langevin
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Lewis
     MacArthur
     Meeks
     Moulton
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sires
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Adams
     Jackson Lee
     Nugent
     Pelosi
     Roe (TN)
     Stewart


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1825

  Ms. BROWN of Florida, Messrs. CLYBURN, SWALWELL of California, 
BUTTERFIELD, LOEBSACK, CARDENAS, RUSH, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Messrs. 
GUTIERREZ, and HINOJOSA changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  Mr. LANGEVIN changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR. The Chair announces to all Members that 2-minute 
voting will be strictly enforced.


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Flores

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Flores) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the 
ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 236, 
noes 190, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 291]

                               AYES--236

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Cook
     Costello (PA)
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers (NC)
     Emmer (MN)
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guthrie
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice, Jody B.
     Hill
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Katko
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     MacArthur
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Trott
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Vela
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zinke

                               NOES--190

     Aguilar
     Ashford
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donovan
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fitzpatrick
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Guinta
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hastings
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stefanik
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth
     Zeldin

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Adams
     Jackson Lee
     Nugent
     Pelosi
     Roe (TN)
     Stewart


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1828

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

[[Page 8549]]




                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Sanford

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from South 
Carolina (Mr. Sanford) on which further proceedings were postponed and 
on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 134, 
noes 290, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 292]

                               AYES--134

     Allen
     Amash
     Babin
     Barton
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Carter (GA)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Collins (GA)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cramer
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Farenthold
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Garrett
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guthrie
     Harris
     Hensarling
     Hice, Jody B.
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     King (IA)
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Latta
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lummis
     Marchant
     Massie
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     Meadows
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Olson
     Palmer
     Perry
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Stutzman
     Tiberi
     Upton
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walker
     Walorski
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Woodall
     Yoho
     Young (IN)
     Zinke

                               NOES--290

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Aguilar
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Barletta
     Barr
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Benishek
     Beyer
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Bost
     Boustany
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brady (PA)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bucshon
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Calvert
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Costello (PA)
     Courtney
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Cummings
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     Davis, Rodney
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donovan
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Ellmers (NC)
     Emmer (MN)
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Frelinghuysen
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Graham
     Granger
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Guinta
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Harper
     Hartzler
     Hastings
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins
     Hill
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jolly
     Joyce
     Kaptur
     Katko
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kline
     Knight
     Kuster
     Lance
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     MacArthur
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Marino
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McNerney
     McSally
     Meehan
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Mullin
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nolan
     Norcross
     Nunes
     O'Rourke
     Palazzo
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Paulsen
     Payne
     Pearce
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Posey
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Rigell
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stefanik
     Stivers
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tipton
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Trott
     Tsongas
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walden
     Walters, Mimi
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Westmoreland
     Wilson (FL)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yarmuth
     Yoder
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Zeldin

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Adams
     Bera
     Jackson Lee
     Johnson (GA)
     Nugent
     Pelosi
     Roe (TN)
     Stewart


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1831

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


              Amendment No. 3 Offered by Mr. King of Iowa

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. 
King) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes 
prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 222, 
noes 204, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 293]

                               AYES--222

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Cook
     Costello (PA)
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis, Rodney
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers (NC)
     Emmer (MN)
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hardy
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice, Jody B.
     Hill
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions

[[Page 8550]]


     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Trott
     Turner
     Upton
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                               NOES--204

     Aguilar
     Ashford
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Coffman
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Denham
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donovan
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Gibson
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Hastings
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jolly
     Kaptur
     Katko
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     MacArthur
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     McSally
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     Nunes
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Stefanik
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Valadao
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Adams
     Jackson Lee
     Nugent
     Pelosi
     Roe (TN)
     Stewart


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1835

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


                 Amendment Offered by Mr. King of Iowa

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. 
King) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes 
prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 227, 
noes 198, not voting 7, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 294]

                               AYES--227

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Cook
     Costello (PA)
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Davis, Rodney
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers (NC)
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice, Jody B.
     Hill
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Katko
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stefanik
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Trott
     Turner
     Upton
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                               NOES--198

     Aguilar
     Ashford
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Denham
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Dold
     Donovan
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Emmer (MN)
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hardy
     Hastings
     Heck (NV)
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     MacArthur
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     McSally
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Reichert
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Valadao
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Adams
     Jackson Lee
     Nugent
     Pelosi
     Roe (TN)
     Stewart
     Vela

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                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1838

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


                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Denham

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California 
(Mr. Denham) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which 
the ayes prevailed by voice vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 245, 
noes 181, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 295]

                               AYES--245

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Comstock
     Conaway
     Cook
     Costa
     Costello (PA)
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers (NC)
     Emmer (MN)
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hardy
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice, Jody B.
     Hill
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Katko
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     MacArthur
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Peterson
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stefanik
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Takano
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Trott
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                               NOES--181

     Aguilar
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fitzpatrick
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanna
     Hastings
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Adams
     Jackson Lee
     Nugent
     Pelosi
     Roe (TN)
     Stewart


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

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

                              {time}  1841

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will read.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       This Act may be cited as the ``Commerce, Justice, Science, 
     and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016''.

  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Chairman, I move that the Committee do now rise 
and report the bill back to the House with sundry amendments, with the 
recommendation that the amendments be agreed to and that the bill, as 
amended, do pass.
  The motion was agreed to.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
Reed) having assumed the chair, Mr. Westmoreland, Acting Chair of the 
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, reported that 
that Committee, having had under consideration the bill (H.R. 2578) 
making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2016, and for other purposes, directed him to report the bill back to 
the House with sundry amendments adopted in the Committee of the Whole, 
with the recommendation that the amendments be agreed to and that the 
bill, as amended, do pass.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the rule, the previous question is 
ordered.
  Is a separate vote demanded on any amendment reported from the 
Committee of the Whole? If not, the Chair will put them en gros.
  The amendments were agreed to.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. 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

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

       Ms. Brownley of California moves to recommit the bill H.R. 
     2578 to the Committee on Appropriations with instructions to 
     report the same back to the House forthwith with the 
     following amendment:
       Page 23, line 14, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $6,000,000)''.

[[Page 8552]]

       In the ``Violence Against Women Prevention and Prosecution 
     Programs'' account, on page 38, line 9, after the dollar 
     amount, insert ``(increased by $3,000,000)''.
       In the ``Violence Against Women Prevention and Prosecution 
     Programs'' account, on page 39, line 22, after the dollar 
     amount relating to sexual assault victims assistance, insert 
     ``(increased by $3,000,000)''.
       In the ``Juvenile Justice Programs'' account, on page 47, 
     line 10, after the dollar amount relating to missing and 
     exploited children programs, insert ``(increased by 
     $3,000,000)''.

  Ms. BROWNLEY of California (during the reading). Mr. Speaker, I ask 
unanimous consent to dispense with the reading.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentlewoman from California?
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Ms. BROWNLEY of California. Mr. Speaker, this is the final amendment 
to H.R. 2578, which will not kill the bill or send it back to 
committee. If adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final 
passage, as amended.
  My amendment would provide an additional $3 million for Violence 
Against Women prevention and prosecution programs, increasing resources 
for sexual assault victims' assistance. My amendment would also provide 
an additional $3 million for Juvenile Justice programs, directed to the 
Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force program.
  Mr. Speaker, there is more than ample room within the budget cap for 
this bill to do more to help sexual assault victims and prevent the 
exploitation of children. I hope we can all agree that these critical 
programs are worthy of added resources.
  The Sexual Assault Services Program was authorized through the 
Violence Against Women Act and was the first Federal program dedicated 
to the provision of direct services to victims of sexual violence.
  Across the country, the Sexual Assault Services Program supports 
critical, lifesaving, safety net services. Support services are offered 
to both adult and minor survivors of sexual assault and to family 
members who are helping them cope with the mental health issues and 
physical trauma of sexual assault.
  The program also funds intervention and advocacy services, providing 
survivors with the help that they need to navigate through the medical 
and criminal justice systems.
  For many survivors of sexual assault, this program is a critical and 
necessary source of support at the most vulnerable time in their lives. 
We must support these lifesaving programs and stand up for survivors of 
sexual assault.
  Additionally, we must do more to protect vulnerable children from 
predators who despicably exploit children on the Internet. That is why 
my amendment will provide a much-needed increase for the Internet 
Crimes Against Children Task Force program, which funds State and local 
law enforcement who investigate online child exploitation.
  The program also provides forensic, prevention, and investigative 
assistance to law enforcement, educators, prosecutors, and families. 
The program also ensures law enforcement officers are trained to deal 
with online child pornography and child enticement so that these cases 
will be fully investigated and prosecuted.
  In 2014 alone, 7,800 individuals were arrested, and the task forces 
around the country conducted over 60,000 forensic investigations. 
Clearly there is an urgent and compelling moral need to address these 
heinous crimes.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on the motion to 
recommit, to vote ``yes'' to protect women and girls from sexual 
assault and violence, to vote ``yes'' to protect children from online 
predators.
  Mr. Speaker, at this time, I yield to the gentlewoman from Florida 
(Ms. Wasserman Schultz), my friend who is a champion in protecting 
children.
  Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the 
gentlewoman's motion to recommit because there are children out there 
who need to be saved. They are waiting to be saved.
  This motion provides additional funding for the Internet Crimes 
Against Children program, a national network of 61 coordinated law 
enforcement task forces investigating and prosecuting those who 
sexually exploit our most vulnerable constituents, our children.
  With the proliferation of the Internet and wireless technology, 
online child pornography has become an epidemic. And let's not forget 
that these are not just heinous images. They are crime scene photos. 
The ICAC needs resources to go after these criminals now.
  According to estimates, half of these arrests lead us to the door of 
a hands-on offender, and that is a child waiting to be rescued. Yet in 
one recent year, the ICAC only had the resources to investigate a mere 
2 percent of all leads.
  Previous increases in Federal funding have directly resulted in 
thousands more arrests, contributing to many more thousands of children 
who are outright rescued or who will be spared contact with an abuser.
  Let's take this opportunity to help the ICAC rescue more children. 
Please, think about these precious babies being victimized. Let's 
rescue as many of them as possible. If you are a parent, God forbid it 
was your own child.
  I urge Members' support for the motion to recommit, and I thank the 
gentlewoman for her commitment to making sure that we can rescue 
America's victimized children.
  Ms. BROWNLEY of California. I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the motion to 
recommit.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Speaker, before I begin--and I will be very 
brief--I want to make sure to thank the majority staff who have worked 
so hard on this bill. I want to thank our chief clerk, John Martens; 
Leslie Albright; Jeff Ashford; Taylor Kelly; Colin Samples; and Aschley 
Schiller for their tireless work drafting this bill, along with Bob 
Bonner and Matt Smith on the minority's staff and Corey Inglee and 
Megan Olmstead in my personal office. And a personal thank you to my 
good friend, the Congressman from Philadelphia, who has done such a 
great job. We have worked together arm in arm on this bill.
  Starting at about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, we have worked 
through over 80 amendments. All the gentlewoman from California (Ms. 
Brownley) would have had to do was to show up here. During the course 
of that debate, any Member could have offered an amendment, and that is 
one of the great things about this process.
  I want to thank our majority leader and our Speaker, Mr. Boehner, for 
opening up the legislative process. Unlike in the past, any Member of 
this Congress could stand up and represent their 700,000 constituents. 
You could take a Big Chief notepad and a pencil and just write out an 
amendment and walk right down there and give it to the Clerk.
  All the gentlewoman from California had to do was just write the 
amendment up and present it to the Clerk. Why, we would have even 
accepted it. But instead, she offers it up here today as a procedural 
trick to confuse and confound.
  We produced a great bill. The ranking member and I have worked 
together arm in arm to produce a good bill that protects this Nation's 
investment in space exploration and scientific research but, above all, 
invests in the good people of the law enforcement community.
  Mr. HOYER. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. CULBERSON. I yield to the minority leader.
  Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman. I am the whip. I wanted to make 
that perfectly clear.
  The fact of the matter is, did the gentleman just say if this 
amendment had been offered previously that you would have accepted it?
  Mr. CULBERSON. Absolutely, because it would have been done properly.

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  Mr. HOYER. But you are now urging----
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will suspend.
  Mr. HOYER. Parliamentary inquiry.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas has the time.
  Mr. CULBERSON. The gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer) is exactly 
right. We would have accepted this amendment earlier in the process 
because it is an open process. Anyone has a chance to come down here 
and offer an amendment in an open and free House of Representatives. 
That is why this amendment should be defeated.
  We have got a good bill. I urge Members to vote ``no'' against this 
motion to recommit.
  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.
  Ms. BROWNLEY of California. 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, this 5-
minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by a 5-minute 
vote on the passage of the bill.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 184, 
nays 240, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 296]

                               YEAS--184

     Aguilar
     Ashford
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Graham
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hastings
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NAYS--240

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Costello (PA)
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers (NC)
     Emmer (MN)
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice, Jody B.
     Hill
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Katko
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     MacArthur
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stefanik
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Trott
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Adams
     Comstock
     Jackson Lee
     Nugent
     Pelosi
     Roe (TN)
     Rush
     Stewart

                              {time}  1859

  So the motion to recommit was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
  Under clause 10 of rule XX, the yeas and nays are ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 242, 
nays 183, not voting 7, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 297]

                               YEAS--242

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Ashford
     Babin
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (MI)
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Blum
     Bost
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Brat
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Clawson (FL)
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Costa
     Costello (PA)
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Curbelo (FL)
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Dold
     Donovan
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Ellmers (NC)
     Emmer (MN)
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Graham
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Gene
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guinta
     Guthrie
     Hanna
     Hardy
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice, Jody B.
     Hill
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurd (TX)
     Hurt (VA)
     Issa
     Jenkins (KS)
     Jenkins (WV)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jolly
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Katko
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Knight
     Kuster
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Love
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     MacArthur
     Maloney, Sean
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     McSally
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Newhouse
     Noem
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Peterson

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     Pittenger
     Poe (TX)
     Poliquin
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price, Tom
     Ratcliffe
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney (FL)
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Rouzer
     Royce
     Russell
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Stefanik
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Trott
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Vela
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Walters, Mimi
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IA)
     Young (IN)
     Zeldin
     Zinke

                               NAYS--183

     Aguilar
     Amash
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Buck
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Duckworth
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fleming
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Franks (AZ)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hastings
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     Norcross
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Pingree
     Pitts
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanford
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takai
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Torres
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters, Maxine
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Adams
     Comstock
     Jackson Lee
     Keating
     Nugent
     Roe (TN)
     Stewart


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

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

                              {time}  1905

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


                          personal explanation

  Mrs. COMSTOCK. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained and missed the 
last two votes in this evening's series. Had I been present I would 
have voted as follows: 1) Democrat Motion to Recommit--``no,'' 2) 
Passage of H.R. 2578--FY16 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations 
Act--``yes.''

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