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                      NO ROGUE RULINGS ACT OF 2025

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 1(c) of rule XIX, further 
consideration of the bill (H.R. 1526) to amend title 28, United States 
Code, to limit the authority of district courts to provide injunctive 
relief, and for other purposes, will now resume.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.


                           Motion to Recommit

  Ms. ROSS. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:
       Ms. Ross of North Carolina moves to recommit the bill H.R. 
     1526 to the Committee on the Judiciary.

  The material previously referred to by Ms. Ross is as follows:
       Ms. Ross moves to recommit the bill H.R. 1526 to the 
     Committee on the Judiciary with instructions to report the 
     same back to the House forthwith, with the following 
     amendment:
       Page 3, strike line 3 and all that follows and insert the 
     following:

     SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

       Congress finds the following:
       (1) The Chief Justice has warned of a ``significant 
     uptick'' in violence and threats against Federal judges, 
     noting that, according to the United States Marshals Service, 
     ``the volume of hostile threats and communications directed 
     at judges has more than tripled over the past decade'' and 
     that `` ``[i]n the past five years alone, the Marshals report 
     that they have investigated more than 1,000 serious threats 
     against federal judges''.
       (2) The President of the American Bar Association President 
     has likewise sounded the alarm, reporting that ``[s]erious 
     threats against [federal] judges have doubled since 2019, 
     with 457 serious threats targeting federal judges across the 
     country in 2023'' alone.
       (3) Federal judges have been forced to speak out in their 
     own defense, pleading with public officials to realize that 
     ``there are lives at stake'', that they ``feel like people 
     are playing Russian roulette with our lives'', and that 
     ``[t]hreats against judges are threats against constitutional 
     government'' and that ``[e]veryone should be taking this 
     seriously''.
       (4) Threats against Federal judges have grown so severe 
     that some have been issued bulletproof vests, assigned full-
     time security details, and forced to install home security 
     systems to protect themselves and their families.
       (5) These threats have included doxing of judges and their 
     families' personal information, anonymous deliveries to their 
     homes intended to intimidate, bomb threats targeting the 
     families of Supreme Court justices, online calls for judges 
     to be ``hanged'' or ``beheaded'', as well as the 2020 murder 
     of the 20-year-old son of a Federal judge by an armed 
     assailant who targeted her family.
       (6) Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. has explicitly 
     warned that ``violence, intimidation, and defiance directed 
     at judges because of their work undermine our Republic, and 
     are wholly unacceptable'', and further cautioned that 
     ``public officials... have engaged in recent attempts to 
     intimidate judges--for example, suggesting political bias in 
     the judge's adverse rulings without a credible basis for such 
     allegations'', and that ``intemperance in their statements 
     when it comes to judges may prompt dangerous reactions by 
     others''.
       (7) The American Bar Association has condemned these 
     attacks, warning that such rhetoric ``threatens the very 
     fabric of our democracy--judicial independence and the rule 
     of law'', and further noting that high-ranking government 
     officials have ``made repeated calls for the impeachment of 
     judges who issue opinions with which the government does not 
     agree'', turning partisan grievance into dangerous attempts 
     to undermine the courts.
       (8) This escalating climate of intimidation has been fueled 
     by public officials and political figures who irresponsibly 
     target judges for partisan purposes.
       (9) Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly attacked 
     the legitimacy of federal judges, publicly calling for their 
     impeachment simply because he disagreed with their rulings, 
     referring to one as a ``Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge'', 
     and a ``troublemaker and agitator'', and calling others 
     ``Crooked Judges'' and prompting an online wave of threats 
     and harassment against judges and their families.
       (10) Tech billionaire and political ally of President 
     Trump, Elon Musk, has engaged in a sustained public campaign 
     to delegitimize the federal judiciary, describing judges as 
     ``corrupt'', ``radical'', and ``evil'', accusing them of 
     ``TYRANNY of the JUDICIARY'', and declaring that ``the only 
     way to restore rule of the people in America is to impeach 
     judges''.
       (11) Members of Congress have escalated hostile rhetoric 
     toward Federal judges, introducing multiple resolutions to 
     impeach judges based solely on their rulings and publicly 
     accusing them of being ``radical activists'', ``corrupt 
     political operatives'', and ``partisan activists weaponizing 
     our judicial system'', rhetoric that the Chief Justice has

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     warned may prompt dangerous reactions by others.
       (12) Threats stemming from an increasingly hostile and 
     politicized climate have caused the federal judiciary to 
     create a new Judicial Security and Independence Task Force to 
     help the judicial branch ``identify'' and ``respond to 
     current risks, and anticipate new ones'' and ``through its 
     efforts, it is hoped that the security of individual judges 
     will be enhanced and that judicial independence will be 
     assured''.
       (13) Our nation's founders enshrined an independent 
     judiciary in Article III of the Constitution to ensure that 
     judges would be free to rule impartially, without fear of 
     political retribution or personal harm.
       (14) No public servant--whether in the White House, the 
     halls of Congress, or on the bench--should face violence, 
     threats, or intimidation because of their service to the 
     American people.

     SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

       It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) all forms of violence, threats, intimidation, or 
     harassment directed at judges, court personnel, and their 
     families, including public rhetoric that undermines the 
     legitimacy or independence of the judiciary should be 
     condemned;
       (2) an independent judiciary, free from political 
     interference and personal threats, is essential to the rule 
     of law and the constitutional separation of powers;
       (3) all public officials should refrain from engaging in 
     rhetoric or actions that could endanger the safety of judges 
     or erode public confidence in the judiciary; and
       (4) efforts to improve judicial security, including the 
     provision of adequate resources, protections, and privacy 
     safeguards necessary to ensure that judges, their staff, and 
     their families can safely carry out their constitutional 
     duties should be supported.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX, the 
previous question is ordered on the motion to recommit.
  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. ROSS. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 15-
minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by 5-minute 
votes on:
  Passage of the bill, if ordered;
  Concurring in the Senate amendment to H. Con. Res. 14, if ordered; 
and
  The motion to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 1228, if ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 212, 
nays 217, not voting 4, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 97]

                               YEAS--212

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Amo
     Ansari
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bell
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop
     Bonamici
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bynum
     Carbajal
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Cisneros
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dexter
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Elfreth
     Escobar
     Espaillat
     Evans (PA)
     Fields
     Figures
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Friedman
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (CA)
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Gillen
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, V.
     Goodlander
     Gottheimer
     Gray
     Green, Al (TX)
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (TX)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy (NY)
     Khanna
     Krishnamoorthi
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latimer
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Liccardo
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Mannion
     Matsui
     McBath
     McBride
     McClain Delaney
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McDonald Rivet
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     McIver
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Min
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Morrison
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Neal
     Neguse
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Olszewski
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Pou
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Randall
     Raskin
     Riley (NY)
     Rivas
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ryan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simon
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Subramanyam
     Suozzi
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Tran
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Vindman
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Whitesides
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                               NAYS--217

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei (NV)
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Barr
     Barrett
     Baumgartner
     Bean (FL)
     Begich
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs (SC)
     Bilirakis
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Bresnahan
     Buchanan
     Burchett
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crank
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Downing
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Evans (CO)
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Fedorchak
     Feenstra
     Fine
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Fong
     Foxx
     Franklin, Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Garbarino
     Gill (TX)
     Gimenez
     Goldman (TX)
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gooden
     Gosar
     Graves
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Hamadeh (AZ)
     Haridopolos
     Harrigan
     Harris (MD)
     Harris (NC)
     Harshbarger
     Hern (OK)
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill (AR)
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Hurd (CO)
     Issa
     Jack
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy (UT)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley (CA)
     Kim
     Knott
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Langworthy
     Latta
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Mackenzie
     Malliotakis
     Maloy
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McDowell
     McGuire
     Messmer
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (NC)
     Moore (UT)
     Moore (WV)
     Moran
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Onder
     Owens
     Palmer
     Patronis
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Reschenthaler
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rulli
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Scalise
     Schmidt
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Shreve
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steil
     Steube
     Strong
     Stutzman
     Taylor
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner (OH)
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Westerman
     Wied
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Biggs (AZ)
     Norcross
     Rogers (AL)
     Stefanik

                              {time}  1841

  Mr. BEGICH, Mrs. LUNA, Messrs. ELLZEY, FITZPATRICK, ALLEN, GRAVES, 
McGUIRE, SHREVE, OWENS, SMITH of Missouri, RUTHERFORD, OBERNOLTE, and 
McCORMICK changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Messrs. MOSKOWITZ, CONNOLLY, MEEKS, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Mr. COSTA, 
Ms. LEE of Nevada, Messrs. JACKSON of Illinois, PANETTA, KEATING, 
MRVAN, and Ms. SCHAKOWSKY changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  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.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered. This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 219, 
nays 213, not voting 1, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 98]

                               YEAS--219

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei (NV)
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Barr
     Barrett
     Baumgartner
     Bean (FL)
     Begich
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs (AZ)
     Biggs (SC)
     Bilirakis
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Bresnahan
     Buchanan
     Burchett
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crank
     Crawford

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     Crenshaw
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Downing
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Evans (CO)
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Fedorchak
     Feenstra
     Fine
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Fong
     Foxx
     Franklin, Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Garbarino
     Gill (TX)
     Gimenez
     Goldman (TX)
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gooden
     Gosar
     Graves
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Hamadeh (AZ)
     Haridopolos
     Harrigan
     Harris (MD)
     Harris (NC)
     Harshbarger
     Hern (OK)
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill (AR)
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Hurd (CO)
     Issa
     Jack
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy (UT)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley (CA)
     Kim
     Knott
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Langworthy
     Latta
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Mackenzie
     Malliotakis
     Maloy
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McDowell
     McGuire
     Messmer
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Moolenaar
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (NC)
     Moore (UT)
     Moore (WV)
     Moran
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Onder
     Owens
     Palmer
     Patronis
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Reschenthaler
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rulli
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Scalise
     Schmidt
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Shreve
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Strong
     Stutzman
     Taylor
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Westerman
     Wied
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NAYS--213

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Amo
     Ansari
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bell
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop
     Bonamici
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bynum
     Carbajal
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Cisneros
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Conaway
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dexter
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Elfreth
     Escobar
     Espaillat
     Evans (PA)
     Fields
     Figures
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Friedman
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (CA)
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Gillen
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, V.
     Goodlander
     Gottheimer
     Gray
     Green, Al (TX)
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (TX)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy (NY)
     Khanna
     Krishnamoorthi
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latimer
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Liccardo
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Mannion
     Matsui
     McBath
     McBride
     McClain Delaney
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McDonald Rivet
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     McIver
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Min
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Morrison
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Neal
     Neguse
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Olszewski
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pelosi
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Pou
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Randall
     Raskin
     Riley (NY)
     Rivas
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ryan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Simon
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Subramanyam
     Suozzi
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Tran
     Turner (OH)
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Vindman
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Whitesides
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Norcross
       


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

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

                              {time}  2003

  Mr. NEWHOUSE changed his vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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