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EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT FOR DEFENSE AND FOR THE
RECONSTRUCTION OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN, 2004

The Committee resumed its sitting.
Mr. OBEY. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word, and I yield
to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Corrine Brown).
Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I have with me a bullet-
proof vest. My colleagues can see that it is extremely heavy. It weighs
about 16 pounds. I was horrified to learn that tens of thousands of our
troops were sent out to battle without the proper armor and, to this
day, they still lack necessary items, life-saving items like this
bullet-proof vest.
Mr. Chairman, 44,000 troops do not have this bullet-proof vest that
costs $1,500. The family members are writing the checks and sending
these vests to their family members. So the taxpayers are paying twice.
They are paying their dollars. We are not getting assistance from any
foreign sources. The family members are writing checks, sending these
vests to their family members to make sure that they have the necessary
items to protect their lives. This is unacceptable.
This is an important issue. I want every American citizen to know
that the President did not request one penny for these vests. He did
not request one penny for these vests. Mr. Chairman, 44,000 soldiers in
Iraq without body armor, and the President did not ask for a cent to
protect these soldiers. I guess our brave men and women will have to
wait until Halliburton, Halliburton, Halliburton starts making body
armor before they can get the protection they need and deserve.
Congress approved $310 million in April to buy 300,000 bullet-proof
vests for our troops; but, sadly, only 75 million of these dollars have
gone to the officers, Army officers that are responsible for purchasing
these vests.
Where is the accountability that this administration promised this
Nation?
The Republicans keep telling us that this bill is all about the
soldiers, and everyone in this Congress supports our soldiers. But how
can a bill for our soldiers not include money for basic protection like
body armor, boots, armored vehicles, Humvee tires, signal jammers, and
chemical suits? We cannot even provide those brave men and women with
simple, necessary items like drinking water, showers, tennis shoes, and
even toothpaste. And women, they do not have personal items that they
need. This is unacceptable.
Just 6 months ago, we appropriated $79 billion for the war effort;
and yet relatives have to resort to sending body armor to protect their
family members.
The American people who are writing the checks for Iraq do not want a
grants program. Like anyone who lends money in the real world, they
want their money back.
I would encourage every citizen, if it were me, to call their Senator
or their Congressperson and let them know that they do not support a
blank check slush fund for this administration.
Vote ``no'' on the bill and ``no'' for another blank check for the
President and his campaign contributors. Mr. President, this account is
overdrawn.
I was horrified to learn that tens of thousands of our troops were
sent out to battle without proper armor. And to this day, they still
lack many necessary items. I spoke with several soldiers who suffered
injuries to their legs, and many who totally lost their legs when
bullets crashed through their vehicles because the cars were not
fortified with armored plates. I met with soldiers who suffered chest
injuries because they did not have bulletproof vests.
This is a very important issue, and I want the American public to
clearly understand this point. Even though we have 44,000 soldiers in
Iraq today without proper bulletproof vests, the President asked for
absolutely nothing to protect these troops. Let me repeat that. We have
44,000 soldiers in Iraq without body armor, and the President didn't
ask for a single cent to protect these soldiers. I guess these brave
men and women will have to wait until Hailburton starts making body
armor before they can get the protection they need and deserve.
Congress approved $310 million in April to buy 300,000 bulletproof
vests for our troops. But sadly, only $75 million of that money has
gone to the Army office that is responsible for purchasing these vests.
Where is the accountability that this Administration promised this
Nation.
The Republicans keep telling us this bill is all about the soldiers,
and everyone in this Congress supports our soldiers. But how can a bill
for our soldiers not include money for basic protections like Body
Armor, Boots, Camouflage, Rucksacks, Armored Vehicles, Tank Tracks,
Humvee Tires, Signal Jammers, and Chemical Suits. We can't even provide
these brave men and women with simple necessities like drinking water,
showers, tennis shoes, and even toothpaste.
Just 6 months ago, we appropriated $79 billion dollars for the war
effort, and yet relatives have resorted to buying body armor in the
U.S. and shipping it to troops in Iraq. What happened to this money Mr.
President. These families and this Congress want and deserve to know.
The American people who are writing the check for Iraq do not want a
grant program. Like anyone who lends money in the real world, they want
their money back. I would encourage every citizen to call their
Senators and Congressperson to let them know that you do not support
another Blank Check slush fund for this administration.
Vote no on this bill, and no on another blank check for the President
and his campaign contributors. Mr. President, this account is already
overdrawn.
I was shocked to find out that the Services did not fully meet
immunization and other predeployment requirements. Based on GAO review
of deployments from four installations, between 14 and 46 percent of
servicemembers were missing at least one of their required
immunizations prior to deployment. As many as 36 percent of the
servicemembers were missing two or more of

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their required immunizations, such as influenza and hepatitis. We
cannot send our servicemembers to war without first making certain that
they are protected from in theater disease threats.
Mr. OBEY. Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time, I was amazed to hear a
Member of the other body on radio yesterday say despite all of the
discussion about this problem, that he had not yet heard about the
shortage of body armor. I think that when the American public
understands what has not been provided, they are going to be very, very
angry.

Announcement by the Chairman

The CHAIRMAN. The Chair would remind all Members to direct their
comments to the Chair and not to the President of the United States.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Weiner

Mr. WEINER. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
The Clerk read as follows:

Amendment offered by Mr. Weiner:
Page 51, after line 11, insert the following:

prohibition against direct funding for certain countries

Sec. 3007. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available pursuant to this Act shall be obligated or expended
to finance directly any assistance or reparations to Cuba,
Libya, North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, or Syria: Provided,
That for purposes of this section, the prohibition on
obligations or expenditures shall include direct loans,
credits, insurance and guarantees of the Export-Import Bank
or its agents.

Mr. WEINER (during the reading). Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous
consent that the amendment be considered as read and printed in the
Record.
The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from
New York?
There was no objection.
The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of October 16, 2003,
the gentleman from New York (Mr. Weiner) and a Member opposed each will
control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from New York (Mr. Weiner).
Mr. WEINER. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
I am offering an amendment that I doubt will provide much controversy
for this House. It is something that mirrors language that was inserted
in the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill this year. It essentially
says that no funds allocated in this bill should go to the countries
Libya, North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. The only change from
section 507 of past bills that we have done is that we add Saudi Arabia
to that list. It should be no mystery to anyone in this House why we
would be taking this action.
First of all, let me make it very clear that there is no direct
funding allocated to Saudi Arabia, just many, many pots of money that
could conceivably fund that kingdom. I could go through the list; it is
quite substantial. We have a Saudi Arabian Government that supports
terrorism, supports it overseas, funds homicide bombers in Israel. We
have a Saudi Government that exports the type of hatred that leads to
terror with Wahabbism throughout the world. We have a Saudi Arabian
Government that was directly connected to September 11. Simply put,
there is no reason there should be a single dime of U.S. taxpayer
dollars going to that kingdom.
Putting it on a purely economic level, one that I think will appeal
to just about everyone in this House, why would we offer even a hint of
a suggestion that we would provide funding to the richest nation on
Earth at the time when we are struggling to pay our bills as well?
The legislation is excruciatingly simple. It simply says no funds, no
authority can go to these rogue nations and adds Saudi Arabia to that
list, where they rightfully deserve to be.
Mr. Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from New York
(Mr. Crowley).
Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the Weiner
amendment.
This week this Congress sent a strong message to Syria bypassing the
Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act. We must
ensure the United States does not provide funding to the nations that
finance terrorism around this world. I am specifically speaking today
about Saudi Arabia.
The Saudis claim to be our allies; but at the same time, they offer
assistance in our war on terrorism, they are funding the terrorists who
desire to attack us. Saudi blood money does not only threaten the
United States, but also our good friend and ally, the State of Israel.
Saudi Arabia provides money for Palestinian organizations that kill
innocent Israelis on what feels like almost a daily basis. In fact, if
I were told tomorrow that the Saudis were helping support the
terrorists that killed three Americans recently in the Gaza Strip, I
would not be surprised.
Mr. Chairman, we cannot decide that one country funding terrorism is
any different from another. I urge all of my colleagues to pass this
amendment and send Saudi Arabia the message that this Congress will not
stand for their support of hate and terrorism anymore. We must hold the
Saudi family accountable for their actions.
Mr. WEINER. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition. I do oppose
this amendment, and I will have some comments at the end.
Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the distinguished gentleman from
California (Mr. Cunningham).
Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to my friend's
amendment, and I will be precise in why.
I sit on several committees that deal with foreign nations. I would
tell my friend, he knows I am a very strong supporter of Israel. I flew
there, flew Mirage there. But I would tell my friend also that Saudi
Arabia, since May, has done a total turnaround. There are 15,000
members in the royal family. Some of those are helping some of our
enemies, possibly so; but there are no direct links that have been
caught yet. And I believe that there are more people in Saudi Arabia
who want to be the friend of the United States than those who oppose
us. I believe that.
I think the wrong message to send them is to slap them right smack
upside the face when we are trying to get them to help us. So I know
the gentleman's amendment is well-intentioned, and I understand why,
and I supported the Syrian one; but I think this is wrong.
Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from
California (Mr. Lewis).
Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate my colleague
yielding me this time. I would simply rise to say that this is a very
delicate foreign affairs matter. An amendment like this was presented
when the Foreign Operations bill was before us and was defeated on the
House floor. We have had this debate before; and, frankly, this
supplemental is hardly a time and place for us to readjust very
sensitive, very important foreign affairs questions.
So I would urge that the House in this case just reserve itself, vote
``no'' on the amendment, and have the gentleman know that we intend to
discuss this matter in a very serious way in the months and years
ahead. I appreciate the gentleman's effort.
Mr. WEINER. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Let me just address some of the brief comments that have been made so
far. First of all, if I had a dime or a dinar for every time I have
heard that the Saudis were thinking about changing, I would be a very
wealthy man.
The fact of the matter is, the Saudis talk a very good game. Whenever
there is a flash point of terrorism that comes back to them, they say,
oh, we have changed. They have become professionals at dividing up the
royal family and having a handful go talk about peace while a handful
talk about terror. Let me just say they are not just talking and this
is not just a thing of the past. As recently as 6 months ago, it was
revealed that the Saudi royal family was paying bounties to terrorists,
bounties to terrorists.
I would also point out to my distinguished friend from California who
said that the timing is not right, well, to be honest with my
colleagues, that is exactly the same argument that was made on this
floor during the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill. The timing is
now.
I would point out that we cast the vote on that amendment which was
narrowly defeated early in the morning of the day that the report came
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who was behind the terrorist attack on September 11. And while the 28
pages were not released, and I have not seen them, let me say this: the
Saudi Arabians had a role in the attack on our country on September 11.
Every arrow points that way. Frankly, now that we have that
information, we should act upon it.
Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. WEINER. Mr. Chairman, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from
New York (Mr. Israel).
Mr. ISRAEL. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding me this
time. I rise to urge support for this amendment.
Mr. Chairman, today we are going to vote to provide $87 billion to
Iraq to fight terrorism and protect against weapons of mass
destruction; but if we ask the Government of Saudi Arabia, Mr.
Chairman, what weapons of mass destruction are, they will tell us that
this is a weapon of mass destruction, that this breeds terrorism, a
Barbie doll. The Saudi Government recently said that the Barbie doll is
a Jewish-influenced toy.

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Mr. Chairman, dolls do not kill innocent civilians. Plastic toys are
not terrorists.
We should pass this amendment and stop subsidizing terror and
violence, intolerance and anti-Semitism.
Mr. WEINER. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Chairman, let me just conclude by saying this: This is an
opportunity for all of us in this Chamber to express in the strongest
possible terms, and, frankly, it is not that strong, it may wind up
costing a net zero dollars to the Saudis, but in strong terms we can
show how fundamentally upset we are at the way that Saudi Arabia has
acted with two faces. One is the side that they show us in the TV
commercials and the meetings and the negotiations and in the well-
orchestrated press conferences. On the other side are the facts.
We all too often in this part of the world judge people based on what
they say rather than what they do. And the Saudis should see what we do
in this House. No more aid to the Saudi Arabians.
Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Chairman, I quite agree with the gentleman from New York that we
should be upset with many of the actions of the Saudi Arabian
government, but I do not think this is the right approach.
As the gentleman pointed out, this was tried in the foreign
assistance bill earlier this year, the foreign operations bill earlier
this year, and it was defeated. But there is a major change, a major
difference between that time and this time. That was the foreign
assistance bill for the entire world; this deals with Iraq
reconstruction and our military.
And this refers to assistance, not just foreign assistance which that
bill dealt with, but assistance. So it also would deal with anything in
the Defense Department. And if anything in this bill could in any way
be characterized as cooperation or coordination between the Defense
Department and Saudi Arabia over a radar, over aircraft, anything that
would be cooperation, that would be funded out of this, that would be
prohibited.
Mr. Chairman, I think the impact of this amendment is broader than,
perhaps, what the gentleman from New York (Mr. Weiner) intended it to
be, but that is the affect of it. It does mean that no assistance of
any sort, including defense assistance, can be used.
Now, the reason that we have that provision in the regular Foreign
Operations bill is to set up a list of terrorist states that are not
eligible for any kind of foreign assistance. Again, this bill is not
about that. This bill is strictly about Iraq and Afghanistan. It is a
clever way, I commend the gentleman from New York (Mr. Weiner) for his
amendment as a clever way of getting a backdoor way into the list of
terrorist states, but I think it is a wrong approach.
The administration has written a letter which says that they strongly
oppose the efforts to add the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the list of
state sponsors of terrorism and urges the House to reject this
amendment that is offered by the gentleman from New York (Mr. Weiner).
``It would severely,'' they go on to say, ``undermine our
counterterrorism cooperation with Saudi Arabia at precisely the moment
when it is moving to a new level of effectiveness.''
Mr. Chairman, similarly, the Defense Department has sent a memorandum
saying that they are strongly opposed to this because it would prohibit
any kind of cooperation under the terms of this bill with the Saudi
Arabian Defense Department.
I would urge this body to reject this amendment. I think it is not
the right time, nor the right place, to be doing this. I hope that we
will vote no.
Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Chairman, I thank Mr. Weiner for his leadership and
persistence on this critical issue, and rise in strong support of his
amendment.
I do not say this lightly--Saudi Arabia is an ally of the United
States; they have come to our aid in Gulf military actions several
times. The U.S. has worked hard to get Saudi cooperation to apprehend
terrorist suspects, share intelligence, and professionalize their
counterterrorism efforts, and I support those efforts.
However, there can be no doubt now that Saudi Arabia has two faces.
On the one hand, Saudi Arabia stood--they said--in shock and solidarity
with the U.S. when our citizens were murdered by an Al Qaeda gang
comprised primarily of Saudi citizens. They have allowed the U.S.
military to again use Saudi air fields as staging grounds for the
emission in Iraq.
But on the other, the Council of Foreign Relations reports that
Saudis and Saudi charities are a major source--the ``most important''
source, according to CFR--for Al Qaeda, and states plainly that Saudi
officials have turned a ``blind eye'' to this reality. Senior U.S.
officials criticize Saudi Arabia for being uncooperative in terrorism
investigations, Saudi citizens shower the families of Al Qaeda
terrorists with money, and the ruling family in Saudi Arabia seems to
have come no closer to acknowledging its own complicity in terrorist
financing.
Further evidence of Saudi Arabia's support for terrorism came from
Congress itself. Our investigative report on the September 11th attacks
contained a great deal of information on Saudi Arabia in both its
classified and unclassified sections. 28 pages remain classified, but
according to the New York Times, the section states that ``senior
officials of Saudi Arabia have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars
to charitable groups and other organizations that may have helped
finance the September 11 2001 attacks.''
In the past, and this Congress, have been hesitant to call the Saudis
on their actions in support of terrorism. But I have come to the
conclusion that the U.S. government must stop shielding the Saudis from
the criticism and the penalties their actions warrant.
Saudi Arabia and its citizens have proven to be major supporters of
terrorism against the United States and its citizens around the world.
That is clear. Fighting terrorism must be our first priority, and our
actions must match our priorities.
I urge all my colleagues to support this amendment, and I yield back
the balance of my time.
Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the
gentleman from New York (Mr. Weiner).
The question was taken; and the Chairman announced that the noes
appeared to have it.
Mr. WEINER. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York (Mr. Weiner)
will be postponed.

Amendment Offered by Ms. Velazquez

Ms. VELAZQUEZ. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
The Clerk read as follows:

Amendment offered by Ms. Velazquez:
At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the
following:
Sec. XX. None of the funds made available in this Act may
be used to fund any contract in contravention of section
8(d)(6) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(d)(6)).

The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of Thursday, October
16, 2003, the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Velazquez) and a Member
opposed each will control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Velazquez).
Ms. VELAZQUEZ. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
(Ms. VELAZQUEZ asked and was given permission to revise and extend
her remarks.)

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Ms. VELAZQUEZ. Mr. Chairman, today we are voting on an $87 billion
spending bill that is solely funded by American taxpayers and with
nothing in this legislation to ensure that U.S. small businesses have
an opportunity to compete for the rebuild contracts. This funding will
once again be funneled to large corporations.
The amendment I am offering today on behalf of myself and the
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Davis) will give small businesses a
chance. It will require that all large companies submit a
subcontracting plan prior to being awarded an Iraq reconstruction
contract.
We have already spent $79 billion on war efforts in Iraq. And with
this $87 billion funding request, President Bush is once again
abandoning the Federal Government's longstanding commitment to ensure
small businesses can compete in the Federal marketplace.
The administration has awarded billions of dollars in mega contracts
to a handful of well-connected U.S. corporations. These contracts were
not open to fair competition. They were doled out in secret backroom
negotiations. Bechtel alone received a $680 million construction
contract. Halliburton received a $1 billion logistical support
contract, and recently received a noncompetitive contract to rebuild
Iraq's oil infrastructure worth up to $7 billion. These companies have
very close ties to the White House. And these secret closed-door deals
further damage our international credibility and endanger our
rebuilding efforts.
If we are going to spend this money we need to ensure that some of
these funds are also available to small businesses. And that is exactly
what my amendment will do.
Mr. Chairman, there are 23 million small businesses in the United
States. They represent 99 percent of all employers, create three out of
four new jobs, employ more than half of all private sector workers, and
make up half of our gross domestic product.
The financial commitments the administration makes in Iraq directly
impact the viability of our economy here at home. This $87 billion
spending measure will put this Nation even deeper in debt.
We have heard a lot today about the costs of this bill. And I feel
that we do have a responsibility. But if we are going to spend the
money, we should make every effort possible to ensure it assists our
struggling economy here at home. We can do that by ensuring small
businesses get a fair chance to participate in these contracts.
My amendment will require large businesses to make every effort
possible to subcontract with small companies in this reconstruction
effort while ensuring that taxpayers are getting their money's worth.
Under current law, large contractors in the United States are
required to submit subcontracting plans prior to receiving contract
awards. And that is what I am proposing for corporations seeking
contracts in Iraq.
This is a simple amendment. It does not prevent the government from
entering into contracts with large corporations or limit the size of
these awards. It ensures that large corporations are subject to the
same self-contracting requirements for Iraq contracts as they are for
contracts here at home.
If we are going to spend this money, we need to recognize that
funding it only to large corporations will not only hurt small
businesses and likely squander taxpayer dollars. It will also hinder
our ability to get our economy back on track.
This amendment is a vote for a fair and open Federal marketplace. It
is a vote to protect taxpayer dollars from waste and abuse, and it is a
vote to give America's small businesses a chance to compete and
succeed.
I urge passage of this amendment.
Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Chairman, I intend to accept this amendment. We just saw it for
the first time this morning, and it is problematic. It raises some
concerns in that it requires everybody that is a contractor in Iraq to
comply with all sections of the Small Business Act. That would mean
that a subcontractor in Iraq has to have a small business plan. I think
there are some real problems with this, but we have not had a chance to
really examine it that closely.
And, Mr. Chairman, in the interest of expediting the business of the
House, my intention would be to accept this and review it in conference
and review it with the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Velazquez) in
conference. So I am prepared to accept the amendment.
Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
Ms. VELAZQUEZ. Mr. Chairman, I want to thank the gentleman from
Arizona (Mr. Kolbe) for accepting this amendment. And I will work with
him and look forward to working with him in addressing some of the
concerns.
Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the
gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Velazquez).
The amendment was agreed to.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Deutsch

Mr. DEUTSCH. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
The Clerk read as follows:

Amendment offered by Mr. Deutsch:
At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the
following:
Sec. 3007. None of the funds made available under the
heading ``iraq relief and reconstruction fund'' may be
provided until September 30, 2004.

The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of Thursday, October
16, 2003, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Deutsch) and a Member opposed
each will control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Deutsch).
Mr. DEUTSCH. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Chairman, yesterday eight of the Republican Members in the United
States Senate voted not to have the $20 billion grant that is in our
bill as a grant. And I have had the opportunity to listen to part of
that debate. That debate was similar to some of the things that I
mentioned on this floor in the substance of our debate but was not able
to convince enough of our colleagues.
This amendment is an attempt to do that and give people a second
chance. The question is why should we give a grant to construction in
Iraq? And I think we need to focus on this very specifically, why we
should not, and why eight Republican colleagues in the Senate, after
intense lobbying by the President, refused to do that. I think there is
a very simple reason for it, and I think we need to focus on that
reason.
Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world. Trillions, not
billions anymore, nor hundreds of billions, but trillions of dollars.
It is not a relatively large country. Less than 30 million people. They
have a natural resource to build themselves. But even more
significantly than their natural resources, during the years of Saddam
Hussein, even today with American troops in Iraq, and, clearly, once we
leave, by all indications Iraq would be part of OPEC.
Now, what has OPEC done to America and the citizens of America, our
constituents? OPEC has put, effectively, the largest tax on the
citizens of both the United States and the rest of the world, but of
the United States, the largest tax in the history of the world. That is
who Iraq is. They are those people that have taxed American citizens
again in the hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars, by OPEC
monopoly power.
And if we think about that for a second, as illogical as it sounds
that we as Americans and the American taxpayers and the citizens of
this country who, all of us know, are struggling every week, every
month to make their ends meet, whether it is a senior citizen that
literally cannot afford prescription drugs, or the parent who
unfortunately cannot send their kid to college, or the person who has
lost their house because of a foreclosure that they cannot meet their
payments or someone who has canceled their vacations, OPEC has
directly, adversely affected every person in the United States and
continues to do that.
And by our actions, we are strengthening OPEC if we pass this
legislation as part of a proposal that does not include not only a loan
part of the proposal, but a loan part of the proposal that would, in
fact, increase the production capacity of Iraq to 6 billion barrels of
oil a day.

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That is probably the best thing that this Congress can do for Iraq is
to help them increase the capacity of their oil fields to 6 million
barrels a day, to give them the ability, as opposed to what this
legislation does, which is literally the country with the second
largest oil reserves in the world, we have importation of oil at these
exorbitant prices through sole-source contracting that is going on now.
We have the opportunity. We have a moment in time on this House floor
right now to pass an amendment that would lead to the effort of
requiring the World Bank as part of a loan effort to increase the
production capacity of oil fields in Iraq, which they have the ability
to do, to 6 million barrels a day. If we do that, if we do that, OPEC
will end. OPEC will end. We have the opportunity.
We talk about tax cuts in this Congress, and we debate them, and we
talk about what good they can do and what problems they create. Well,
let me state there is one tax cut that everyone in this Chamber should
agree with and that is the tax cut to stop the hundreds of billions of
dollars, trillions of dollars of taxes that OPEC is taxing our
constituents, and we have the opportunity to stop that today with this
amendment.
Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition to the
amendment.
Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Chairman, if we were to take the Deutsch amendment, we could just
finish today and come back a year from now or 10 months from now and we
could have this debate again because that is exactly what the gentleman
from Florida (Mr. Deutsch) would have us do. The gentleman would say
that none of the funds in here for the reconstruction are available
until September 30 of next year, which is more than 11 months away.
Now, we have already had confirmation from Ambassador Bremer in the
hearings that the funds that are existing now for reconstruction in
Iraq will expire in January, roughly January, December to January, that
is, all the contracts that are under way now will run out of money in
January. That means there will be nothing for clean water. There will
be nothing for the sewers, sewage systems. There will be nothing for
the food programs. None of this will be there.
The gentleman is suggesting that we should have this gap from roughly
just January to next September of 9 months where no reconstruction is
done.
Now, if you really want to make sure that people start throwing rocks
and shooting bullets at our troops, I guess that is the surest way to
make sure that happens is by cutting off all the reconstruction for the
next year. I cannot imagine what the thought or the idea behind it is,
but I cannot imagine anything that would be worse for us.
Mr. OBEY. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
Mr. KOLBE. I yield to the gentleman from Wisconsin.
Mr. OBEY. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman.
As the gentleman knows, I have taken the position that we should not
be providing all grants. I have taken the position we should not be
providing all loans. We ought to have an intelligent and balanced mix.
I certainly would like to see changes in the reconstruction program;
but clearly to eliminate all funding for reconstruction, especially
recognizing the fact that we did attack Iraq and did cause certain
damage, I think is clearly unacceptable.
Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Wisconsin for his
comments.
Mr. DEUTSCH. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
Mr. KOLBE. I yield to the gentleman from Florida.
Mr. DEUTSCH. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the gentleman's courtesy.
Mr. Chairman, as the gentleman knows, my comments were directly
related to the issue of oil production capacity in Iraq and, in fact,
Iraq's participation in OPEC. And this was the only way that I could
get at that issue in terms of the mandatory process.
I would be happy to withdraw this amendment; and I would hope that in
the conference process that we are about to enter that there is an
acknowledgment that OPEC membership and limitation on production
capacity is problematic for the United States of America, and we need
to focus on that.
Mr. KOLBE. Reclaiming my time, if that indeed is what the gentleman
is after, which is certainly not apparent at all in reading this
amendment here, we have already dealt with that in an amendment that
was accepted. The DeFazio amendment prohibits any of U.S. funds being
used to support OPEC membership by Iraq.
Mr. DEUTSCH. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
Mr. KOLBE. I yield to the gentleman from Florida.
Mr. DEUTSCH. Mr. Chairman, the DeFazio amendment only deals with our
money, not their money. There is every indication that Iraq will remain
part of OPEC, will remain part of a monopoly that taxes Americans to
the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.
Mr. KOLBE. Reclaiming my time, I understand what the gentleman is
after. As I said, there is not a clue in reading this amendment that
that is his intent, other than what the gentleman has just told us
here, because that is not, of course, what the impact of this amendment
will be. We ought to pay attention to the impact, not just the words.
The impact is to stop all reconstruction. Let me repeat that. All
reconstruction would cease from now until next September. That is the
only thing it says. It does not say anything unless they do not
participate in OPEC. It does not say anything about that, so it would
not have any effect actually on Iraqi membership or participation or
expenditure of funds in OPEC.
Mr. Chairman, nothing could be worse for us than to do that. Whether
or not Iraq decides to participate in OPEC with their own dollars is
going to be something the Governing Council is going to have to do. And
that will be done out of their oil revenues that they generate and goes
into an account which is controlled by the Iraqi Governing Council. So
that is not something that we are going to make that decision.
I do agree that our dollars certainly should not go to support Iraq's
participation in that oil cartel. But again, Mr. Chairman, to close,
let me say this amendment has nothing to do with that. It does not have
anything to do with Iraqi participation in OPEC. The effect of this
amendment is to stop all reconstruction, to cease all reconstruction,
all money spent on reconstruction in Iraq. Everything that would be
spent on humanitarian needs, everything spent to rebuild the water
systems, the sewage systems, the education, to start the constitution,
to develop those groups that will be writing the constitution, all of
that would cease from now, when the current amounts of money run out,
until September 30 of next year. It would be catastrophic to our forces
and national security policy. It would be absolutely disastrous for our
national security.
Mr. Chairman, I urge the rejection of this amendment.
The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Deutsch).
The amendment was rejected.

Sequential Votes Postponed in Committee of the Whole

The CHAIRMAN. 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 the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Kind); amendment by
the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Stupak); amendment by the gentleman
from Texas (Mr. Reyes); amendment by the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms.
Jackson-Lee); amendment by the gentleman from California (Mr. Sherman);
amendment by the gentleman from New York (Mr. Wiener).
The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote.
Remaining electronic votes will be conducted as 5-minute votes.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Kind

The CHAIRMAN. The pending business is the demand for a recorded vote
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Kind) on
which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes
prevailed by voice vote.
The Clerk will designate the amendment.
The Clerk designated the amendment.

[[Page H9639]]

Recorded Vote

The CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, the remainder of
the series will be conducted as 5-minute votes.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 156,
noes 267, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 10, as follows:

[Roll No. 553]

AYES--156

Abercrombie
Allen
Andrews
Baca
Baird
Baldwin
Ballance
Berkley
Berry
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady (PA)
Brown (OH)
Brown, Corrine
Cardin
Cardoza
Carson (IN)
Clyburn
Conyers
Costello
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (TN)
DeFazio
Delahunt
DeLauro
Deutsch
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle
Duncan
Emanuel
Eshoo
Evans
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Ford
Frank (MA)
Gonzalez
Goode
Gordon
Green (TX)
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Hill
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hoeffel
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hooley (OR)
Hostettler
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Johnson, E. B.
Jones (NC)
Kaptur
Kennedy (RI)
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kind
Kleczka
Lampson
Langevin
Lantos
Larson (CT)
Lee
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lofgren
Lynch
Majette
Maloney
Manzullo
Markey
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
Meehan
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Menendez
Michaud
Millender-McDonald
Miller, George
Mollohan
Moran (VA)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Otter
Owens
Pallone
Pastor
Paul
Payne
Pelosi
Petri
Rahall
Rangel
Reyes
Rodriguez
Ross
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanders
Schakowsky
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sherman
Slaughter
Solis
Spratt
Stark
Stenholm
Strickland
Stupak
Tanner
Taylor (MS)
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Towns
Turner (TX)
Udall (NM)
Velazquez
Visclosky
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Wexler
Woolsey
Wu
Wynn

NOES--267

Ackerman
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Bachus
Baker
Ballenger
Barrett (SC)
Bartlett (MD)
Barton (TX)
Bass
Beauprez
Bell
Bereuter
Berman
Biggert
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bonner
Bono
Boozman
Bradley (NH)
Brady (TX)
Brown (SC)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Burgess
Burns
Burr
Burton (IN)
Buyer
Calvert
Camp
Cannon
Cantor
Capito
Capuano
Carson (OK)
Carter
Case
Castle
Chabot
Chocola
Coble
Cole
Collins
Cooper
Cox
Cramer
Crane
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cubin
Cunningham
Davis (CA)
Davis (FL)
Davis, Jo Ann
Davis, Tom
Deal (GA)
DeGette
DeLay
DeMint
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Dicks
Dooley (CA)
Doolittle
Dreier
Dunn
Edwards
Ehlers
Emerson
Engel
English
Etheridge
Everett
Feeney
Ferguson
Flake
Fletcher
Foley
Forbes
Fossella
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Frost
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gingrey
Goodlatte
Goss
Granger
Graves
Green (WI)
Greenwood
Gutknecht
Hall
Harris
Hart
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
Hayworth
Hefley
Hensarling
Herger
Hobson
Hoekstra
Houghton
Hoyer
Hulshof
Hunter
Hyde
Inslee
Isakson
Israel
Issa
Istook
Janklow
Jenkins
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, Sam
Kanjorski
Keller
Kelly
Kennedy (MN)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kirk
Kline
Knollenberg
Kolbe
LaHood
Larsen (WA)
Latham
LaTourette
Leach
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Lowey
Lucas (KY)
Lucas (OK)
Matheson
McCotter
McCrery
McHugh
McInnis
McNulty
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller (NC)
Miller, Gary
Moore
Moran (KS)
Murphy
Murtha
Musgrave
Myrick
Nethercutt
Neugebauer
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nunes
Nussle
Osborne
Ose
Oxley
Pascrell
Pearce
Pence
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Pickering
Pitts
Platts
Pombo
Pomeroy
Porter
Portman
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Ramstad
Regula
Rehberg
Renzi
Reynolds
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Royce
Ruppersberger
Ryan (WI)
Ryun (KS)
Sabo
Sanchez, Loretta
Sandlin
Saxton
Schiff
Schrock
Scott (GA)
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Sherwood
Shimkus
Shuster
Simmons
Simpson
Skelton
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Stearns
Sullivan
Sweeney
Tancredo
Tauscher
Tauzin
Taylor (NC)
Terry
Thomas
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Toomey
Turner (OH)
Udall (CO)
Upton
Van Hollen
Vitter
Walden (OR)
Walsh
Wamp
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Whitfield
Wicker
Wilson (NM)
Wilson (SC)
Wolf
Young (AK)
Young (FL)

ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1

Kucinich

NOT VOTING--10

Becerra
Capps
Clay
Culberson
Gephardt
Jones (OH)
Marshall
McKeon
Putnam
Souder

Announcement by the Chairman

The CHAIRMAN (during the vote). Members are advised there are 2
minutes remaining in this vote.

{time} 1145

Mrs. MYRICK and Messrs. GINGREY, HAYWORTH and RUPPERSBERGER changed
their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
Mr. OLVER 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. Stupak

The CHAIRMAN. The pending business is the demand for a recorded vote
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Stupak) on
which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes
prevailed by voice vote.
The Clerk will designate the amendment.
The Clerk designated the amendment.

Recorded Vote

The CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The CHAIRMAN. This will be a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 213,
noes 213, not voting 8, as follows:

[Roll No. 554]

AYES--213

Abercrombie
Ackerman
Alexander
Allen
Andrews
Baca
Baird
Baldwin
Ballance
Becerra
Bell
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blackburn
Blumenauer
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady (PA)
Brown (OH)
Brown, Corrine
Capuano
Cardin
Cardoza
Carson (IN)
Carson (OK)
Case
Clyburn
Conyers
Cooper
Costello
Cramer
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (CA)
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (TN)
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Deutsch
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Dooley (CA)
Doyle
Edwards
Emanuel
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Fletcher
Ford
Frank (MA)
Frost
Gonzalez
Goode
Gordon
Green (TX)
Green (WI)
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hall
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Hill
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hoeffel
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hooley (OR)
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Jenkins
John
Johnson, E. B.
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kelly
Kennedy (RI)
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kind
Kleczka
Kucinich
Lampson
Langevin
Lantos
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Leach
Lee
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Lofgren
Lowey
Lucas (KY)
Lynch
Majette
Maloney
Markey
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McNulty
Meehan
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Menendez
Michaud
Millender-McDonald
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Mollohan
Moore
Moran (VA)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Otter
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Paul
Payne
Pelosi
Peterson (MN)
Petri
Pomeroy
Price (NC)
Rahall
Ramstad
Rangel
Reyes
Rodriguez
Ross
Rothman
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sabo
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sanders
Sandlin
Schakowsky
Schiff
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sherman
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Solis
Spratt
Stark
Stenholm
Strickland
Stupak
Tancredo
Tanner
Tauscher
Taylor (MS)
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Towns
Turner (TX)
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Upton
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Wexler
Whitfield
Woolsey
Wu
Wynn

[[Page H9640]]

NOES--213

Aderholt
Akin
Bachus
Baker
Ballenger
Barrett (SC)
Bartlett (MD)
Barton (TX)
Bass
Beauprez
Bereuter
Biggert
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bonner
Bono
Boozman
Bradley (NH)
Brady (TX)
Brown (SC)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Burgess
Burns
Burr
Burton (IN)
Buyer
Calvert
Camp
Cannon
Cantor
Capito
Carter
Castle
Chabot
Chocola
Coble
Cole
Collins
Cox
Crane
Crenshaw
Cubin
Culberson
Cunningham
Davis, Jo Ann
Davis, Tom
Deal (GA)
DeLay
DeMint
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Doolittle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Ehlers
Emerson
English
Everett
Feeney
Ferguson
Flake
Foley
Forbes
Fossella
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gingrey
Goodlatte
Goss
Granger
Graves
Greenwood
Gutknecht
Harris
Hart
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
Hayworth
Hefley
Hensarling
Herger
Hobson
Hoekstra
Hostettler
Houghton
Hulshof
Hunter
Hyde
Isakson
Issa
Istook
Janklow
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, Sam
Jones (NC)
Keller
Kennedy (MN)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kirk
Kline
Knollenberg
Kolbe
LaHood
Latham
LaTourette
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
LoBiondo
Lucas (OK)
Manzullo
McCotter
McCrery
McHugh
McInnis
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Moran (KS)
Murphy
Murtha
Musgrave
Myrick
Nethercutt
Neugebauer
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nunes
Nussle
Osborne
Ose
Oxley
Pearce
Pence
Peterson (PA)
Pickering
Pitts
Platts
Pombo
Porter
Portman
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Regula
Rehberg
Renzi
Reynolds
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Ryun (KS)
Saxton
Schrock
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Sherwood
Shimkus
Shuster
Simmons
Simpson
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Snyder
Stearns
Sullivan
Sweeney
Tauzin
Taylor (NC)
Terry
Thomas
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Toomey
Turner (OH)
Vitter
Walden (OR)
Walsh
Wamp
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Wicker
Wilson (NM)
Wilson (SC)
Wolf
Young (AK)
Young (FL)

NOT VOTING--8

Capps
Clay
Gephardt
Jones (OH)
Marshall
McKeon
Putnam
Souder

Announcement by the Chairman

The CHAIRMAN (during the vote). There are 2 minutes remaining in this
vote.

{time} 1157

Messrs. HOYER, DICKS and LIPINSKI changed their vote from ``no'' to
``aye.''
Messrs. TOOMEY, PORTER and RENZI changed their vote from ``aye'' to
``no.''
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Reyes

The CHAIRMAN. The pending business is the demand for a recorded vote
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Reyes) on
which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes
prevailed by voice vote.
The Clerk will designate the amendment.
The Clerk designated the amendment.

Recorded Vote

[Roll No. 555]

AYES--206

Abercrombie
Ackerman
Alexander
Allen
Andrews
Baca
Baird
Baldwin
Ballance
Barton (TX)
Becerra
Bell
Bereuter
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Boswell
Boyd
Brady (PA)
Brown (OH)
Brown, Corrine
Capuano
Cardin
Cardoza
Carson (IN)
Carson (OK)
Case
Clyburn
Conyers
Cooper
Costello
Cramer
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (CA)
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (TN)
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Deutsch
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Dooley (CA)
Doyle
Edwards
Emanuel
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Ford
Frank (MA)
Frost
Gibbons
Gonzalez
Gordon
Green (TX)
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hall
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hoeffel
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hooley (OR)
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
John
Johnson, E. B.
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kennedy (RI)
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kind
Kleczka
Kucinich
Lampson
Langevin
Lantos
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Leach
Lee
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Lofgren
Lowey
Lucas (KY)
Majette
Maloney
Markey
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McNulty
Meehan
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Menendez
Michaud
Millender-McDonald
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Mollohan
Moran (VA)
Murtha
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Paul
Payne
Pelosi
Peterson (MN)
Platts
Pomeroy
Price (NC)
Rahall
Rangel
Reyes
Rodriguez
Ross
Rothman
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sabo
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sanders
Sandlin
Schakowsky
Schiff
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Shays
Sherman
Simmons
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Solis
Spratt
Stark
Stenholm
Strickland
Stupak
Tanner
Tauscher
Taylor (MS)
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Towns
Turner (TX)
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Weldon (PA)
Wexler
Woolsey
Wu
Wynn

NOES--221

Aderholt
Akin
Bachus
Baker
Ballenger
Barrett (SC)
Bartlett (MD)
Bass
Beauprez
Biggert
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bonner
Bono
Boozman
Boucher
Bradley (NH)
Brady (TX)
Brown (SC)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Burgess
Burns
Burr
Burton (IN)
Buyer
Calvert
Camp
Cannon
Cantor
Capito
Carter
Castle
Chabot
Chocola
Coble
Cole
Collins
Cox
Crane
Crenshaw
Cubin
Culberson
Cunningham
Davis, Jo Ann
Davis, Tom
Deal (GA)
DeLay
DeMint
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Doolittle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Ehlers
Emerson
English
Everett
Feeney
Ferguson
Flake
Fletcher
Foley
Forbes
Fossella
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gingrey
Goode
Goodlatte
Goss
Granger
Graves
Green (WI)
Greenwood
Gutknecht
Harris
Hart
Hastert
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
Hayworth
Hefley
Hensarling
Herger
Hill
Hobson
Hoekstra
Hostettler
Houghton
Hulshof
Hunter
Hyde
Isakson
Issa
Istook
Janklow
Jenkins
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, Sam
Jones (NC)
Keller
Kelly
Kennedy (MN)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kirk
Kline
Knollenberg
Kolbe
LaHood
Latham
LaTourette
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
LoBiondo
Lucas (OK)
Lynch
Manzullo
McCotter
McCrery
McHugh
McInnis
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Moore
Moran (KS)
Murphy
Musgrave
Myrick
Nethercutt
Neugebauer
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nunes
Nussle
Osborne
Ose
Otter
Oxley
Pearce
Pence
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pitts
Pombo
Porter
Portman
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Ramstad
Regula
Rehberg
Renzi
Reynolds
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Ryun (KS)
Saxton
Schrock
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Sherwood
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Stearns
Sullivan
Sweeney
Tancredo
Tauzin
Taylor (NC)
Terry
Thomas
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Toomey
Turner (OH)
Upton
Vitter
Walden (OR)
Walsh
Wamp
Weldon (FL)
Weller
Whitfield
Wicker
Wilson (NM)
Wilson (SC)
Wolf
Young (AK)
Young (FL)

NOT VOTING--8

Capps
Clay
Gephardt
Jones (OH)
Marshall
McKeon
Putnam
Souder

Announcement by the Chairman

The CHAIRMAN (during the vote). Members are advised that 2 minutes
remain in this vote.

{time} 1205

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

Amendment Offered by Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas

The CHAIRMAN. The pending business is the demand for a recorded vote

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on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson-
Lee) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes
prevailed by voice vote.
The Clerk will designate the amendment.
The Clerk designated the amendment.

Recorded Vote

[Roll No. 556]

AYES--156

Abercrombie
Ackerman
Allen
Baca
Baldwin
Ballance
Becerra
Bell
Berkley
Berry
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Boswell
Brady (PA)
Brown (OH)
Brown, Corrine
Capuano
Cardin
Carson (IN)
Clyburn
Conyers
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Deutsch
Doggett
Emanuel
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Ford
Frank (MA)
Frost
Gonzalez
Gordon
Green (TX)
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hoeffel
Holt
Honda
Hooley (OR)
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Kennedy (RI)
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kleczka
Kucinich
Lampson
Langevin
Lantos
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lee
Lewis (GA)
Lofgren
Lowey
Lucas (KY)
Majette
Maloney
Markey
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McNulty
Meehan
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Menendez
Michaud
Millender-McDonald
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Moore
Moran (VA)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Paul
Payne
Pelosi
Price (NC)
Rahall
Rangel
Reyes
Rodriguez
Ross
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sabo
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanders
Schakowsky
Schiff
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sherman
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Solis
Spratt
Stark
Strickland
Stupak
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Towns
Turner (TX)
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Velazquez
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Wexler
Woolsey
Wu
Wynn

NOES--271

Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Andrews
Bachus
Baird
Baker
Ballenger
Barrett (SC)
Bartlett (MD)
Barton (TX)
Bass
Beauprez
Bereuter
Berman
Biggert
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bonner
Bono
Boozman
Boucher
Boyd
Bradley (NH)
Brady (TX)
Brown (SC)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Burgess
Burns
Burr
Burton (IN)
Buyer
Calvert
Camp
Cannon
Cantor
Capito
Cardoza
Carson (OK)
Carter
Case
Castle
Chabot
Chocola
Coble
Cole
Collins
Cooper
Costello
Cox
Cramer
Crane
Crenshaw
Cubin
Culberson
Cunningham
Davis (CA)
Davis (TN)
Davis, Jo Ann
Davis, Tom
Deal (GA)
DeLay
DeMint
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Dicks
Dingell
Dooley (CA)
Doolittle
Doyle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Edwards
Ehlers
Emerson
English
Everett
Feeney
Ferguson
Flake
Fletcher
Foley
Forbes
Fossella
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gingrey
Goode
Goodlatte
Goss
Granger
Graves
Green (WI)
Greenwood
Gutknecht
Hall
Harris
Hart
Hastert
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
Hayworth
Hefley
Hensarling
Herger
Hill
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holden
Hostettler
Houghton
Hulshof
Hunter
Hyde
Isakson
Issa
Istook
Janklow
Jenkins
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, Sam
Jones (NC)
Kanjorski
Keller
Kelly
Kennedy (MN)
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kirk
Kline
Knollenberg
Kolbe
LaHood
Latham
LaTourette
Leach
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Lucas (OK)
Lynch
Manzullo
Matheson
McCotter
McCrery
McHugh
McInnis
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Mollohan
Moran (KS)
Murphy
Murtha
Musgrave
Myrick
Nethercutt
Neugebauer
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nunes
Nussle
Osborne
Ose
Otter
Oxley
Pearce
Pence
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pitts
Platts
Pombo
Pomeroy
Porter
Portman
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Ramstad
Regula
Rehberg
Renzi
Reynolds
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Royce
Ruppersberger
Ryan (WI)
Ryun (KS)
Sanchez, Loretta
Sandlin
Saxton
Schrock
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Sherwood
Shimkus
Shuster
Simmons
Simpson
Skelton
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Snyder
Stearns
Stenholm
Sullivan
Sweeney
Tancredo
Tanner
Tauscher
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Taylor (NC)
Terry
Thomas
Thompson (CA)
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Toomey
Turner (OH)
Upton
Van Hollen
Visclosky
Vitter
Walden (OR)
Walsh
Wamp
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Whitfield
Wicker
Wilson (NM)
Wilson (SC)
Wolf
Young (AK)
Young (FL)

NOT VOTING--8

Capps
Clay
Gephardt
Jones (OH)
Marshall
McKeon
Putnam
Souder

Announcement by the Chairman

The CHAIRMAN (during the vote). Members are advised that 2 minutes
remain in this vote.

{time} 1212

Mr. SIMMONS 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. Sherman

The CHAIRMAN. The pending business is the demand for a recorded vote
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Sherman)
on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes
prevailed by voice vote.
The Clerk will designate the amendment.
The Clerk designated the amendment.

Recorded Vote

[Roll No. 557]

AYES--248

Abercrombie
Ackerman
Alexander
Allen
Andrews
Baca
Baird
Baldwin
Ballance
Bartlett (MD)
Beauprez
Becerra
Bell
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady (PA)
Brown (OH)
Brown, Corrine
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Buyer
Capito
Capuano
Cardin
Cardoza
Carson (IN)
Carson (OK)
Case
Chabot
Clyburn
Conyers
Cooper
Costello
Cramer
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (CA)
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (TN)
Davis, Jo Ann
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Deutsch
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Dooley (CA)
Doyle
Duncan
Edwards
Emanuel
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Farr
Fattah
Ferguson
Filner
Fletcher
Foley
Forbes
Ford
Fossella
Frank (MA)
Frost
Gallegly
Gonzalez
Gordon
Green (TX)
Green (WI)
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hall
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Hayworth
Hill
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hoeffel
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hooley (OR)
Hostettler
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
John
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones (NC)
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kennedy (RI)
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kind
Kirk
Kleczka
Kucinich
Lampson
Langevin
Lantos
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Leach
Lee
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Lofgren
Lowey
Lucas (KY)
Lynch
Majette
Maloney
Markey
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McCotter
McDermott
McGovern
McHugh
McIntyre
McNulty
Meehan
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Menendez
Michaud
Millender-McDonald
Miller (NC)
Miller, Gary
Miller, George
Mollohan
Moore
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Murtha
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Neugebauer
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Otter
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Paul
Payne
Pelosi
Peterson (MN)
Petri
Pickering
Platts
Pomeroy
Price (NC)
Quinn
Rahall
Ramstad
Rangel
Renzi
Reyes
Rodriguez
Rohrabacher
Ross
Rothman
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Sabo
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sanders
Sandlin
Schakowsky
Schiff
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Shaw
Shays
Sherman
Shuster
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (NJ)
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Solis
Spratt
Stark
Stearns
Stenholm
Strickland

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Stupak
Tancredo
Tanner
Tauscher
Taylor (MS)
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Toomey
Towns
Turner (TX)
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Upton
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walden (OR)
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Wexler
Woolsey
Wu
Wynn

NOES--179

Aderholt
Akin
Bachus
Baker
Ballenger
Barrett (SC)
Barton (TX)
Bass
Bereuter
Biggert
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bonner
Bono
Boozman
Bradley (NH)
Brady (TX)
Brown (SC)
Burgess
Burns
Burr
Burton (IN)
Calvert
Camp
Cannon
Cantor
Carter
Castle
Chocola
Coble
Cole
Collins
Cox
Crane
Crenshaw
Cubin
Culberson
Cunningham
Davis, Tom
Deal (GA)
DeLay
DeMint
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Doolittle
Dreier
Dunn
Ehlers
Emerson
English
Everett
Feeney
Flake
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gingrey
Goode
Goodlatte
Goss
Granger
Graves
Greenwood
Gutknecht
Harris
Hart
Hastert
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
Hefley
Hensarling
Herger
Hobson
Hoekstra
Houghton
Hulshof
Hunter
Hyde
Isakson
Issa
Istook
Janklow
Jenkins
Johnson (CT)
Johnson, Sam
Keller
Kelly
Kennedy (MN)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kline
Knollenberg
Kolbe
LaHood
Latham
LaTourette
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lucas (OK)
Manzullo
McCrery
McInnis
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Murphy
Musgrave
Myrick
Nethercutt
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nunes
Nussle
Osborne
Ose
Oxley
Pearce
Pence
Peterson (PA)
Pitts
Pombo
Porter
Portman
Pryce (OH)
Radanovich
Regula
Rehberg
Reynolds
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Ros-Lehtinen
Royce
Ryun (KS)
Saxton
Schrock
Sessions
Shadegg
Sherwood
Shimkus
Simmons
Simpson
Smith (MI)
Smith (TX)
Sullivan
Sweeney
Tauzin
Taylor (NC)
Terry
Thomas
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Turner (OH)
Vitter
Walsh
Wamp
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Whitfield
Wicker
Wilson (NM)
Wilson (SC)
Wolf
Young (AK)
Young (FL)

NOT VOTING--8

Capps
Clay
Gephardt
Jones (OH)
Marshall
McKeon
Putnam
Souder

Announcement by the Chairman

The CHAIRMAN (during the vote). Members are advised there are 2
minutes remaining in this vote.

{time} 1225

Mr. OSE changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
Messrs. RUPPERSBERGER, JONES of North Carolina, FERGUSON, FORBES,
JOHNSON of Illinois, PICKERING, NEUGEBAUER, SHUSTER, FOSSELLA, and Mrs.
CAPITO changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.

Parliamentary Inquiry

Mr. OBEY. Parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Chairman.
The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman may inquire.
Mr. OBEY. Mr. Chairman, in light of all the vote switching that just
occurred on the last amendment, has everybody who needed to gotten to
the well on that vote yet?
The CHAIRMAN. The gentlemen has failed to state a parliamentary
inquiry.

Amendment Offered by Mr. Weiner

The CHAIRMAN. The pending business is the demand for a recorded vote
on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York (Mr. Weiner) on
which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes
prevailed by voice vote.
The Clerk will designate the amendment.
The Clerk designated the amendment.

Recorded Vote

[Roll No. 558]

AYES--193

Andrews
Baca
Baird
Ballance
Barrett (SC)
Becerra
Bell
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Boswell
Boucher
Brady (PA)
Brown (OH)
Brown, Corrine
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Burton (IN)
Cantor
Capuano
Cardin
Cardoza
Carson (OK)
Case
Chabot
Clyburn
Coble
Conyers
Cooper
Costello
Cramer
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
Davis (TN)
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Deutsch
Dicks
Doggett
Doyle
Edwards
Emanuel
Emerson
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Farr
Fattah
Ferguson
Filner
Foley
Ford
Frank (MA)
Franks (AZ)
Frost
Garrett (NJ)
Gonzalez
Goode
Gordon
Graves
Green (TX)
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hall
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Hayworth
Hill
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hoeffel
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hooley (OR)
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, E. B.
Kennedy (RI)
Kildee
Kind
Kingston
Kucinich
Lampson
Langevin
Lantos
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Lofgren
Lowey
Lucas (KY)
Lynch
Majette
Maloney
Markey
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McCotter
McIntyre
McNulty
Meehan
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Menendez
Millender-McDonald
Miller (FL)
Miller, George
Moore
Moran (KS)
Murtha
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Oberstar
Olver
Ortiz
Ose
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Paul
Payne
Pelosi
Pomeroy
Porter
Price (NC)
Ramstad
Rangel
Renzi
Reyes
Rodriguez
Rohrabacher
Ross
Rothman
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Ruppersberger
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sanders
Sandlin
Schakowsky
Schiff
Scott (VA)
Shays
Sherman
Simmons
Solis
Stearns
Stenholm
Strickland
Stupak
Tauscher
Taylor (MS)
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Toomey
Towns
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Van Hollen
Wamp
Waters
Watson
Waxman
Weiner
Weldon (FL)
Wexler
Woolsey
Wu
Wynn

NOES--233

Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Allen
Bachus
Baker
Baldwin
Ballenger
Bartlett (MD)
Barton (TX)
Bass
Beauprez
Bereuter
Biggert
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bonner
Bono
Boozman
Boyd
Bradley (NH)
Brady (TX)
Brown (SC)
Burgess
Burns
Burr
Buyer
Calvert
Camp
Cannon
Capito
Carson (IN)
Carter
Castle
Chocola
Cole
Collins
Cox
Crane
Crenshaw
Cubin
Culberson
Cunningham
Davis (FL)
Davis, Jo Ann
Davis, Tom
Deal (GA)
DeLay
DeMint
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Dingell
Dooley (CA)
Doolittle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Ehlers
English
Everett
Feeney
Flake
Fletcher
Forbes
Fossella
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Gerlach
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gingrey
Goodlatte
Goss
Granger
Green (WI)
Greenwood
Gutknecht
Harris
Hart
Hastert
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
Hefley
Hensarling
Herger
Hobson
Hoekstra
Hostettler
Houghton
Hulshof
Hunter
Hyde
Isakson
Issa
Istook
Janklow
Jenkins
John
Johnson (CT)
Johnson, Sam
Jones (NC)
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Keller
Kelly
Kennedy (MN)
Kilpatrick
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kirk
Kleczka
Kline
Knollenberg
Kolbe
LaHood
Latham
LaTourette
Leach
Lee
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
LoBiondo
Lucas (OK)
Manzullo
McCrery
McDermott
McGovern
McHugh
McInnis
Mica
Michaud
Miller (MI)
Miller (NC)
Miller, Gary
Mollohan
Moran (VA)
Murphy
Musgrave
Myrick
Nethercutt
Neugebauer
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nunes
Nussle
Obey
Osborne
Otter
Oxley
Pearce
Pence
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pitts
Platts
Pombo
Portman
Pryce (OH)
Quinn
Radanovich
Rahall
Regula
Rehberg
Reynolds
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Ros-Lehtinen
Rush
Ryan (WI)
Ryun (KS)
Sabo
Saxton
Schrock
Scott (GA)
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Sherwood
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (MI)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Stark
Sullivan
Sweeney
Tancredo
Tanner
Tauzin
Taylor (NC)
Terry
Thomas
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Turner (OH)
Turner (TX)
Upton
Velazquez
Visclosky
Vitter
Walden (OR)
Walsh
Watt
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Whitfield
Wicker
Wilson (NM)
Wilson (SC)
Wolf
Young (AK)
Young (FL)

NOT VOTING--9

Capps
Clay
Gephardt
Jones (OH)
Marshall
McKeon
Putnam
Souder
Spratt

[[Page H9643]]

Announcement by the Chairman

The CHAIRMAN (during the vote). Members are advised 2 minutes remain
in this vote.

{time} 1233

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

Parliamentary Inquiry

Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I have a parliamentary
inquiry.
The CHAIRMAN. The gentlewoman will state it.
Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Chairman, with the knowledge that there
are over some 120 amendments, my understanding is that there will be an
announcement that the committee now rise and a proposed rule.
My inquiry is, is this the end of the Committee of the Whole, and
does this mean that the amendments of Democrats who wanted to impact on
the $87 billion, over 100 amendments will now be denied and issues
dealing with our troops in Iraq, will not be able to be responded to by
these amendments?
The CHAIRMAN. The Chair is about to entertain a simple motion to
rise. The Chair is not able to respond to the gentlewoman's inquiry
with respect to future events that may take place in the House.
Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Chairman, I move that the Committee do now rise.
The motion was agreed to.
Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr.
Simpson) having assumed the chair, Mr. LaTourette, Chairman 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. 3289)
making emergency supplemental appropriations for defense and for the
reconstruction for Iraq and Afghanistan for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2004, and for other purposes, had come to no resolution
thereon.

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