October 22, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 167 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session
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CORPORATE TRANSPARENCY ACT OF 2019; Congressional Record Vol. 165, No. 167
(House of Representatives - October 22, 2019)
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[Pages H8365-H8370] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] CORPORATE TRANSPARENCY ACT OF 2019 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 646 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. 2513. Will the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Quigley) kindly take the chair. {time} 1743 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. 2513) to ensure that persons who form corporations or limited liability companies in the United States disclose the beneficial owners of those corporations or limited liability companies, in order to prevent wrongdoers from exploiting United States corporations and limited liability companies for criminal gain, to assist law enforcement in detecting, [[Page H8366]] preventing, and punishing terrorism, money laundering, and other misconduct involving United States corporations and limited liability companies, and for other purposes, with Mr. Quigley (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, a request for a recorded vote on amendment No. 5, printed in part B of House Report 116-247, offered by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Davidson) had been postponed. Announcement by the Acting Chair The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings will now resume on those amendments printed in part B of House Report 116-247 on which further proceedings were postponed, in the following order: Amendment No. 1 by Mr. Burgess of Texas. Amendment No. 4 by Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York. Amendment No. 5 by Mr. Davidson of Ohio. The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote after the first vote in this series. Amendment No. 1 Offered by Mr. Burgess The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Burgess) 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 vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 395, noes 23, not voting 19, as follows: [Roll No. 573] AYES--395 Abraham Adams Aderholt Aguilar Allen Allred Amodei Armstrong Arrington Axne Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Barr Barragan Bass Beatty Bera Bergman Beyer Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (UT) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bost Boyle, Brendan F. Brady Brindisi Brooks (IN) Brown (MD) Brownley (CA) Buchanan Bucshon Budd Burgess Bustos Butterfield Byrne Calvert Carbajal Cardenas Carson (IN) Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Cartwright Case Casten (IL) Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chabot Cheney Chu, Judy Cicilline Cisneros Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Cole Comer Conaway Connolly Cook Cooper Correa Costa Courtney Cox (CA) Craig Crawford Crenshaw Crist Crow Cuellar Cunningham Curtis Davids (KS) Davis (CA) Davis, Danny K. Davis, Rodney Dean DeFazio DeGette DeLauro DelBene Delgado Demings DeSaulnier DesJarlais Deutch Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Doyle, Michael F. Dunn Emmer Engel Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Estes Evans Ferguson Finkenauer Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fletcher Flores Fortenberry Foxx (NC) Frankel Fudge Fulcher Gallagher Gallego Garamendi Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Gianforte Gibbs Golden Gomez Gonzalez (OH) Gonzalez-Colon (PR) Gottheimer Granger Graves (GA) Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green (TN) Green, Al (TX) Griffith Grijalva Grothman Guest Guthrie Haaland Hagedorn Harder (CA) Harris Hartzler Hastings Hayes Heck Hern, Kevin Herrera Beutler Hice (GA) Higgins (NY) Hill (AR) Hill (CA) Himes Holding Hollingsworth Horn, Kendra S. Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Hudson Huffman Huizenga Hurd (TX) Jackson Lee Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Johnson (TX) Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Kaptur Katko Keating Keller Kelly (IL) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kennedy Khanna Kildee Kilmer Kim Kind King (IA) King (NY) Kinzinger Kirkpatrick Krishnamoorthi Kuster (NH) Kustoff (TN) LaHood LaMalfa Lamb Lamborn Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latta Lawrence Lawson (FL) Lee (CA) Lee (NV) Lesko Levin (CA) Levin (MI) Lewis Lieu, Ted Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren Long Loudermilk Lowenthal Lowey Lucas Luetkemeyer Lujan Luria Lynch Malinowski Maloney, Carolyn B. Maloney, Sean Marchant Marshall Matsui McAdams McBath McCarthy McCaul McClintock McCollum McGovern McHenry McKinley McNerney Meadows Meeks Meng Meuser Miller Mitchell Moolenaar Morelle Mucarsel-Powell Mullin Murphy (FL) Murphy (NC) Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Newhouse Norcross Norton Nunes O'Halleran Ocasio-Cortez Olson Palazzo Pallone Palmer Panetta Pappas Pascrell Payne Pence Perlmutter Perry Peterson Phillips Pingree Plaskett Pocan Porter Posey Pressley Price (NC) Quigley Raskin Ratcliffe Reed Reschenthaler Rice (NY) Richmond Roby Rodgers (WA) Roe, David P. Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rooney (FL) Rose (NY) Rose, John W. Rouda Rouzer Roybal-Allard Ruiz Ruppersberger Rush Rutherford Ryan Sablan San Nicolas Sanchez Sarbanes Scalise Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Schrader Schrier Schweikert Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Scott, David Sensenbrenner Serrano Sewell (AL) Shalala Sherman Sherrill Shimkus Simpson Sires Slotkin Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Smucker Soto Spanberger Spano Speier Stanton Stauber Stefanik Steil Stevens Stewart Stivers Suozzi Swalwell (CA) Taylor Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tipton Titus Tlaib Tonko Torres (CA) Torres Small (NM) Trahan Trone Turner Underwood Upton Van Drew Vargas Veasey Vela Velazquez Visclosky Wagner Walberg Walden Walker Waltz Wasserman Schultz Waters Watkins Watson Coleman Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Welch Wenstrup Westerman Wexton Wild Williams Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Woodall Wright Yarmuth Yoho Young Zeldin NOES--23 Amash Banks Biggs Brooks (AL) Buck Burchett Cline Cloud Davidson (OH) Duncan Gaetz Gohmert Gooden Gosar Higgins (LA) Massie Mast Mooney (WV) Norman Rice (SC) Riggleman Roy Steube NOT VOTING--19 Bishop (NC) Collins (GA) Foster Gabbard Gonzalez (TX) Hunter Jordan McEachin Moore Moulton Omar Peters Radewagen Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Takano Timmons Walorski Wilson (FL) {time} 1810 Messrs. RICE of South Carolina and GAETZ changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.'' Ms. ESHOO, Mr. MURPHY of North Carolina, Mses. FUDGE, WATERS, Messrs. GARAMENDI, CRENSHAW, Ms. McCOLLUM, Messrs. CUNNINGHAM, BUTTERFIELD, Ms. SCANLON, Mr. SWALWELL of California, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. NEAL, and Ms. BASS 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: Mr. SMITH of Nebraska. Mr. Chair, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 573. Amendment No. 4 Offered by Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Espaillat). The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney) 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 235, noes 188, not voting 14, as follows: [Roll No. 574] AYES--235 Adams Aguilar Allred Axne Barragan Bass Beatty Bera Beyer Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Boyle, Brendan F. Brown (MD) Brownley (CA) Bustos Butterfield Carbajal Cardenas Carson (IN) Cartwright Case Casten (IL) Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu, Judy Cicilline Cisneros Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly Cooper Correa Costa Courtney Cox (CA) Craig Crist Crow Cuellar Cunningham Davids (KS) Davis (CA) Davis, Danny K. Dean [[Page H8367]] DeFazio DeGette DeLauro DelBene Delgado Demings DeSaulnier Deutch Dingell Doggett Doyle, Michael F. Engel Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Evans Finkenauer Fitzpatrick Fletcher Foster Frankel Fudge Gallego Garamendi Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Golden Gomez Gonzalez (TX) Gottheimer Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Haaland Harder (CA) Hastings Hayes Heck Higgins (NY) Hill (CA) Himes Horn, Kendra S. Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Huffman Jackson Lee Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (TX) Kaptur Katko Keating Kelly (IL) Kennedy Khanna Kildee Kilmer Kim Kind King (NY) Kirkpatrick Krishnamoorthi Kuster (NH) Lamb Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lawrence Lawson (FL) Lee (CA) Lee (NV) Levin (CA) Levin (MI) Lewis Lieu, Ted Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren Lowenthal Lowey Lujan Luria Lynch Malinowski Maloney, Carolyn B. Maloney, Sean Matsui McAdams McBath McCollum McGovern McNerney Meeks Meng Mitchell Moore Morelle Moulton Mucarsel-Powell Murphy (FL) Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Norcross Norton O'Halleran Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pallone Panetta Pappas Pascrell Perlmutter Peterson Phillips Pingree Plaskett Pocan Porter Pressley Price (NC) Quigley Raskin Rice (NY) Richmond Rooney (FL) Rose (NY) Rouda Roybal-Allard Ruiz Ruppersberger Rush Ryan Sablan San Nicolas Sanchez Sarbanes Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Schrader Schrier Scott (VA) Scott, David Serrano Sewell (AL) Shalala Sherman Sherrill Sires Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Soto Spanberger Speier Stanton Stevens Suozzi Swalwell (CA) Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Titus Tlaib Tonko Torres (CA) Torres Small (NM) Trahan Trone Underwood Vargas Veasey Vela Velazquez Visclosky Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Welch Wexton Wild Wilson (FL) Yarmuth NOES--188 Abraham Aderholt Allen Amash Amodei Armstrong Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Barr Bergman Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Bost Brady Brindisi Brooks (AL) Brooks (IN) Buchanan Buck Bucshon Budd Burchett Burgess Byrne Calvert Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Chabot Cheney Cline Cloud Cole Comer Conaway Cook Crawford Crenshaw Curtis Davidson (OH) DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Duncan Dunn Emmer Estes Ferguson Fleischmann Flores Fortenberry Foxx (NC) Fulcher Gaetz Gallagher Gianforte Gibbs Gohmert Gonzalez (OH) Gonzalez-Colon (PR) Gooden Gosar Granger Graves (GA) Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green (TN) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hagedorn Harris Hartzler Hern, Kevin Herrera Beutler Hice (GA) Higgins (LA) Hill (AR) Holding Hollingsworth Hudson Huizenga Hurd (TX) Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Keller Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) King (IA) Kinzinger Kustoff (TN) LaHood LaMalfa Lamborn Latta Lesko Long Loudermilk Lucas Luetkemeyer Marchant Marshall Massie Mast McCarthy McCaul McClintock McHenry McKinley Meadows Meuser Miller Moolenaar Mooney (WV) Mullin Murphy (NC) Newhouse Norman Nunes Olson Palazzo Palmer Pence Perry Posey Ratcliffe Reed Reschenthaler Rice (SC) Riggleman Roby Rodgers (WA) Roe, David P. Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose, John W. Rouzer Roy Rutherford Scalise Schweikert Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Shimkus Simpson Slotkin Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Spano Stauber Stefanik Steil Steube Stewart Stivers Taylor Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tipton Turner Upton Van Drew Wagner Walberg Walden Walker Walorski Waltz Watkins Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Williams Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Woodall Wright Yoho Young NOT VOTING--14 Bishop (NC) Collins (GA) Davis, Rodney Gabbard Hunter Jordan McEachin Payne Peters Radewagen Smucker Takano Timmons Zeldin Announcement by the Acting Chair The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining. {time} 1815 So the amendment was agreed to. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. Amendment No. 5 Offered by Mr. Davidson of Ohio The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Davidson) 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 166, noes 258, not voting 13, as follows: [Roll No. 575] AYES--166 Abraham Aderholt Allen Amash Amodei Armstrong Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Banks Bergman Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Brady Brooks (AL) Brooks (IN) Buchanan Buck Bucshon Budd Burchett Burgess Byrne Calvert Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Chabot Cheney Cline Cloud Comer Conaway Cook Crawford Cuellar Curtis Davidson (OH) DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Duncan Dunn Estes Ferguson Fleischmann Flores Fortenberry Foxx (NC) Fulcher Gaetz Gianforte Gibbs Gohmert Gonzalez (OH) Gonzalez-Colon (PR) Gooden Gosar Granger Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green (TN) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hagedorn Harris Hartzler Hern, Kevin Herrera Beutler Higgins (LA) Holding Hudson Huizenga Hunter Hurd (TX) Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Keller Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) King (IA) LaMalfa Lamborn Latta Lesko Long Loudermilk Marchant Marshall Massie Mast McCarthy McClintock McHenry McKinley Meadows Meuser Miller Mitchell Moolenaar Mooney (WV) Mullin Murphy (NC) Newhouse Norman Nunes Olson Palazzo Palmer Pence Perry Posey Ratcliffe Reed Reschenthaler Rice (SC) Riggleman Roby Rodgers (WA) Roe, David P. Rogers (KY) Rooney (FL) Rose, John W. Rouzer Roy Scalise Schweikert Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Shimkus Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smucker Spano Stauber Steube Stewart Taylor Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tipton Turner Upton Walberg Walden Walker Walorski Watkins Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Williams Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Woodall Wright Yoho Young NOES--258 Adams Aguilar Allred Axne Balderson Barr Barragan Bass Beatty Bera Beyer Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bost Boyle, Brendan F. Brindisi Brown (MD) Brownley (CA) Bustos Butterfield Carbajal Cardenas Cartwright Case Casten (IL) Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu, Judy Cicilline Cisneros Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Cole Connolly Cooper Correa Costa Courtney Cox (CA) Craig Crenshaw Crist Crow Cunningham Davids (KS) Davis (CA) Davis, Danny K. Davis, Rodney Dean DeFazio DeGette DeLauro DelBene Delgado Demings DeSaulnier Deutch Dingell Doggett Doyle, Michael F. Emmer Engel Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Evans Finkenauer Fitzpatrick Fletcher Foster Frankel Fudge Gallagher Gallego Garamendi Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Golden Gomez Gonzalez (TX) Gottheimer Graves (GA) Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Haaland Harder (CA) Hastings Hayes Heck Higgins (NY) Hill (AR) Hill (CA) Himes Hollingsworth Horn, Kendra S. Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Huffman Jackson Lee Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (TX) Kaptur Katko Keating Kelly (IL) Kennedy Khanna Kildee Kilmer Kim Kind King (NY) Kinzinger Kirkpatrick Krishnamoorthi Kuster (NH) Kustoff (TN) LaHood Lamb Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lawrence Lawson (FL) Lee (CA) Lee (NV) Levin (CA) Levin (MI) Lewis Lieu, Ted Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren Lowenthal Lowey Lucas Luetkemeyer Lujan Luria Lynch Malinowski Maloney, Carolyn B. Maloney, Sean Matsui McAdams McBath McCaul McCollum McGovern McNerney Meeks Meng Moore Morelle Moulton Mucarsel-Powell Murphy (FL) Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Norcross Norton O'Halleran Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pallone Panetta Pappas Pascrell Payne [[Page H8368]] Perlmutter Peterson Phillips Pingree Pocan Porter Pressley Price (NC) Quigley Raskin Rice (NY) Richmond Rogers (AL) Rose (NY) Rouda Roybal-Allard Ruiz Ruppersberger Rush Rutherford Ryan Sablan San Nicolas Sanchez Sarbanes Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Schrader Schrier Scott (VA) Scott, David Serrano Sewell (AL) Shalala Sherman Sherrill Sires Slotkin Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Soto Spanberger Speier Stanton Stefanik Steil Stevens Stivers Suozzi Swalwell (CA) Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Titus Tlaib Tonko Torres (CA) Torres Small (NM) Trahan Trone Underwood Van Drew Vargas Veasey Vela Velazquez Visclosky Wagner Waltz Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Welch Wexton Wild Wilson (FL) Yarmuth NOT VOTING--13 Bishop (NC) Carson (IN) Collins (GA) Gabbard Hice (GA) Jordan McEachin Peters Plaskett Radewagen Takano Timmons Zeldin Announcement by the Acting Chair The Acting CHAIR (Ms. Blunt Rochester) (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining. {time} 1824 Messrs. VEASEY and LYNCH changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.'' Mr. GONZALEZ of Ohio changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.'' So the amendment was rejected. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. The Acting CHAIR. There being no further amendments under the rule, the Committee rises. Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. Espaillat) having assumed the chair, Ms. Blunt Rochester, 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. 2513) to ensure that persons who form corporations or limited liability companies in the United States disclose the beneficial owners of those corporations or limited liability companies, in order to prevent wrongdoers from exploiting United States corporations and limited liability companies for criminal gain, to assist law enforcement in detecting, preventing, and punishing terrorism, money laundering, and other misconduct involving United States corporations and limited liability companies, and for other purposes, and, pursuant to House Resolution 646, she reported the bill, as amended by that resolution, back to the House with sundry further amendments adopted in the Committee of the Whole. 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 Mr. DAVIDSON of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentleman opposed to the bill? Mr. DAVIDSON of Ohio. I am in its current form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Davidson of Ohio moves to recommit the bill H.R. 2513 to the Committee on Financial Services with instructions to report the same back to the House forthwith with the following amendment: Page 14, line 24, insert before the semicolon the following: ``, but only if such request is accompanied by a court-issued subpoena''. Page 15, line 6, insert before the semicolon the following: ``, but only if such request is accompanied by a court-issued subpoena''. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from Ohio is recognized for 5 minutes in support of his motion. Mr. DAVIDSON of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, this motion to recommit is about defending freedom. Civil liberties have historically united this great body. Do any of my colleagues, regardless of party affiliation, really want law enforcement to access the data of small business owners and farmers without cause and without a warrant or subpoena? Surely, this bill's sponsor would like to see these provisions restored to the current version of the bill so that due process and privacy rights of everyday Americans are protected. Let's reiterate what this bill, H.R. 2513, does. This bill subjects small business owners, the smallest, 20 or fewer employees, to criminal penalties up to $10,000 in fines or 3 years in prison. This bill creates yet another Federal Government database containing personally identifiable information of private U.S. citizens. This one collects the addresses and driver's license numbers of owners of legal and legitimate business operations. A little-known Federal agency, FinCen, and law enforcement will have unbridled access to the database, which has fewer protections than any other existing Federal surveillance programs. This motion to recommit is a commonsense proposal to require a subpoena so that Federal law enforcement officials do not query the sensitive information of American citizens without cause. The majority should not be opposed to this motion. Treasury already requires similar reporting of beneficial ownership information by banks through the Customer Due Diligence rule, and under the CDD rule, law enforcement must obtain a subpoena. In fact, the version of the Corporate Transparency Act introduced in the 115th Congress, sponsored by the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney), only allowed disclosure to federal law enforcement agencies if it had a subpoena, but this language has now been dropped from the bill. I question why this iteration of the bill would remove the subpoena requirement and why Democratic leadership would reject this amendment when I offered it at the Rules Committee. On October 8, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court published its previously classified opinion detailing systemic abuses of the FISA program. Federal law enforcement officials at the FBI have improperly queried Section 702 FISA databases to spy on innocent Americans. This abhorrent behavior violates the privacy rights of American citizens. Collectively, we must ensure that this database is safeguarded from any bad actor, including unauthorized access by Federal employees. In light of these existing FISA abuses, it is imperative that Congress take steps to restore privacy protections for all Americans. Starting with more robust safeguards in this bill is a great first step. After all, this bill will require the smallest businesses to file beneficial ownership information with FinCen, creating an estimated 30 to 40 million new filings each year. That is a really big database full of valuable information. This motion to recommit ensures due process and gives farmers and small business owners confidence that their constitutionally protected right to privacy is not violated. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. Mr. MALINOWSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the amendment. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New Jersey is recognized for 5 minutes. Mr. MALINOWSKI. Mr. Speaker, this is a rare moment in this House. We have a bipartisan bill, a bill that we have worked together, Republicans and Democrats in the House. We have worked together in the Senate. There is a companion piece of legislation; it has been praised by the Trump administration. We have a chance to do something tremendously good here, and the bill says something very simple: No one should be able to establish in the United States a shell company with completely secret ownership, secret even from law enforcement. We are saying that we are not Panama. We are not the Cayman Islands. We are not some little island nation tax shelter that puts out a welcome mat for drug dealers and arms dealers and dictators hiding money from their people. We are the United States of America. We are a nation of laws that does not tolerate corruption at home and that fights corruption around the world. Mr. Speaker, when I was running the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights [[Page H8369]] and Labor at the State Department, I would often speak to dissidents fighting for freedom in countries like Russia. And I would say to them, What can we do to help you? And they would say, You know what, we don't ask you to fight all of our battles for us, but just don't be complicit in what our dictatorship does to us. And I would say, What do you mean ``complicit?'' And they would say, You know what, because of the money that people like Putin and their oligarchs steal from us all goes into banks and real estate in America and in Europe, and they do it through shell companies. And they were right. Under our current laws, anyone can set up an anonymously owned company to hide the proceeds of corruption or crime. Fentanyl dealers do it, terrorists do it, human traffickers do it, foreign dictators do it. The wildly corrupt son of Equatorial Guinea's former president, for example, set up a shell company in the United States to launder millions of dollars in bribes from international logging companies. Corrupt officials in Nigeria use shell companies to steal aid we sent them to fight Boko Haram. Next time you are in New York City, check out 650 5th Avenue. You can go shopping in the Nike store, on the ground floor; get some shoes. You probably wouldn't realize that the building was owned for 20 years by the Government of Iran, once again using a shell company. And let's be clear: Shell companies not only allow foreign bad actors to hide dirty money in the United States, they allow them to use that dirty money to corrupt our system. Yeah, I know it is illegal for foreigners to contribute to our campaigns, but if you launder your money through a front company with anonymous ownership, there is very little we can do to stop you. Now, I am thrilled to hear my Republican colleagues say they are concerned about privacy and civil liberties. But this bill already has extraordinarily strong privacy protections. Law enforcement can only ask for access for this data if there is already an ongoing law enforcement investigation. The whole process is overseen by civil liberties and privacy officers at FinCen, and the information is so simple. My name: Tom Malinowski. My address: 86 Washington Street, Rocky Hill, New Jersey, 08553. My date of birth: 9/23/65. My driver's license number is too long to read, but you know what, the government already has it. What the government does not have is the names of the owners of companies that are set up here by foreign kleptocrats, drug lords, and criminals. Law enforcement should have access to that information. So let me just close by reminding this House who is for this bill: The National Association of Attorneys General. The National District Attorneys Association. The Fraternal Order of Police. The Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI. The U.S. Marshals Service Association. The Small Business Majority. The Main Street Alliance. The American Sustainable Business Council. The bankers' association of every single State that we represent in this body. Virtually every major human rights and anticorruption group in the United States and around the world. Please, join them. Join me. Join the bipartisan champions of this blow we are about to strike against corruption. Reject this MTR; support the bill. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the previous question is ordered on the motion to recommit. There was no objection. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit. The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the noes appeared to have it. Recorded Vote Mr. DAVIDSON of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was 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 passage of H.R. 2513, if ordered, and the motion to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 2426. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 197, noes 224, not voting 10, as follows: [Roll No. 576] AYES--197 Abraham Aderholt Allen Amash Amodei Armstrong Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Barr Bergman Biggs Bishop (UT) Bost Brady Brindisi Brooks (AL) Brooks (IN) Buchanan Buck Bucshon Budd Burchett Burgess Byrne Calvert Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Chabot Cheney Cline Cloud Cole Comer Conaway Cook Crawford Crenshaw Cunningham Curtis Davidson (OH) Davis, Rodney DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Duncan Dunn Emmer Estes Ferguson Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Flores Fortenberry Foxx (NC) Fulcher Gaetz Gallagher Gianforte Gibbs Gohmert Gonzalez (OH) Gooden Gosar Granger Graves (GA) Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green (TN) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hagedorn Harris Hartzler Hern, Kevin Herrera Beutler Hice (GA) Higgins (LA) Hill (AR) Holding Hollingsworth Horn, Kendra S. Hudson Huizenga Hunter Hurd (TX) Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Katko Keller Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) King (IA) King (NY) Kinzinger Kustoff (TN) LaHood LaMalfa Lamborn Latta Lesko Long Loudermilk Lucas Luetkemeyer Marchant Marshall Massie Mast McCarthy McCaul McClintock McHenry McKinley Meadows Meuser Miller Mitchell Moolenaar Mooney (WV) Mullin Murphy (NC) Newhouse Norman Nunes Olson Palazzo Palmer Pence Perry Posey Ratcliffe Reed Reschenthaler Rice (SC) Riggleman Roby Rodgers (WA) Roe, David P. Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rooney (FL) Rose, John W. Rouzer Roy Rutherford Scalise Schweikert Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Shimkus Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smucker Spano Stauber Stefanik Steil Steube Stewart Stivers Taylor Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tipton Turner Upton Van Drew Wagner Walberg Walden Walker Walorski Waltz Watkins Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Williams Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Woodall Wright Yoho Young NOES--224 Adams Aguilar Allred Axne Barragan Bass Beatty Bera Beyer Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Boyle, Brendan F. Brown (MD) Brownley (CA) Bustos Butterfield Carbajal Cardenas Carson (IN) Cartwright Case Casten (IL) Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu, Judy Cicilline Cisneros Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly Cooper Correa Costa Courtney Cox (CA) Craig Crist Crow Cuellar Davids (KS) Davis (CA) Davis, Danny K. Dean DeFazio DeGette DeLauro DelBene Delgado Demings DeSaulnier Deutch Dingell Doggett Doyle, Michael F. Engel Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Evans Finkenauer Fletcher Foster Frankel Fudge Gallego Garamendi Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Golden Gomez Gonzalez (TX) Gottheimer Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Haaland Harder (CA) Hastings Hayes Heck Higgins (NY) Hill (CA) Himes Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Huffman Jackson Lee Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (TX) Kaptur Keating Kelly (IL) Kennedy Khanna Kildee Kilmer Kim Kind Kirkpatrick Krishnamoorthi Kuster (NH) Lamb Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lawrence Lawson (FL) Lee (CA) Lee (NV) Levin (CA) Levin (MI) Lewis Lieu, Ted Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren Lowenthal Lowey Lujan Luria Lynch Malinowski Maloney, Carolyn B. Maloney, Sean Matsui McAdams McBath McCollum McGovern McNerney Meeks Meng Moore Morelle Moulton Mucarsel-Powell Murphy (FL) Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Norcross O'Halleran Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pallone Panetta Pappas Pascrell Payne Perlmutter Peterson Phillips Pingree Pocan Porter Pressley Price (NC) Quigley Raskin Rice (NY) Richmond Rose (NY) Rouda Roybal-Allard Ruiz Ruppersberger Rush Ryan Sanchez Sarbanes Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Schrader Schrier Scott (VA) Scott, David Serrano Sewell (AL) Shalala Sherman Sherrill [[Page H8370]] Sires Slotkin Smith (WA) Soto Spanberger Speier Stanton Stevens Suozzi Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Titus Tlaib Tonko Torres (CA) Torres Small (NM) Trahan Trone Underwood Vargas Veasey Vela Velazquez Visclosky Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Welch Wexton Wild Wilson (FL) Yarmuth NOT VOTING--10 Bilirakis Bishop (NC) Collins (GA) Gabbard McEachin Peters Swalwell (CA) Takano Timmons Zeldin {time} 1844 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. DAVIDSON of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 249, nays 173, not voting 9, as follows: [Roll No. 577] YEAS--249 Adams Aderholt Aguilar Allred Axne Barragan Bass Beatty Bera Beyer Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Boyle, Brendan F. Brown (MD) Brownley (CA) Bustos Butterfield Carbajal Cardenas Carson (IN) Cartwright Case Casten (IL) Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Cheney Chu, Judy Cicilline Cisneros Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly Cooper Correa Costa Courtney Cox (CA) Craig Crist Crow Cunningham Davids (KS) Davis (CA) Davis, Danny K. Dean DeFazio DeGette DeLauro DelBene Delgado Demings DeSaulnier Deutch Dingell Doggett Doyle, Michael F. Engel Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Evans Finkenauer Fitzpatrick Fletcher Foster Frankel Fudge Gallagher Gallego Garamendi Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Golden Gomez Gottheimer Granger Graves (GA) Graves (LA) Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Haaland Harder (CA) Hastings Hayes Heck Higgins (NY) Hill (CA) Himes Horn, Kendra S. Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Huffman Huizenga Jackson Lee Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (TX) Kaptur Katko Keating Kelly (IL) Kennedy Khanna Kildee Kilmer Kim Kind King (NY) Kirkpatrick Krishnamoorthi Kuster (NH) Kustoff (TN) Lamb Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lawrence Lawson (FL) Lee (CA) Lee (NV) Levin (CA) Levin (MI) Lewis Lieu, Ted Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren Loudermilk Lowenthal Lowey Luetkemeyer Lujan Luria Lynch Malinowski Maloney, Carolyn B. Maloney, Sean Matsui McAdams McBath McCaul McCollum McGovern McNerney Meeks Meng Moore Morelle Moulton Mucarsel-Powell Murphy (FL) Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Norcross O'Halleran Ocasio-Cortez Olson Omar Pallone Panetta Pappas Pascrell Payne Perlmutter Phillips Pingree Pocan Porter Pressley Price (NC) Quigley Raskin Rice (NY) Richmond Rogers (AL) Rooney (FL) Rose (NY) Rouda Roybal-Allard Ruiz Ruppersberger Rush Rutherford Ryan Sanchez Sarbanes Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Schrader Schrier Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Scott, David Serrano Sewell (AL) Shalala Sherman Sherrill Sires Slotkin Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Soto Spanberger Speier Stanton Stefanik Stevens Suozzi Swalwell (CA) Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Titus Tlaib Tonko Torres (CA) Torres Small (NM) Trahan Trone Underwood Upton Vargas Veasey Vela Velazquez Visclosky Wagner Waltz Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Welch Wexton Wild Williams Wilson (FL) Yarmuth NAYS--173 Abraham Allen Amash Amodei Armstrong Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Barr Bergman Biggs Bishop (UT) Bost Brady Brindisi Brooks (AL) Brooks (IN) Buchanan Buck Bucshon Budd Burchett Burgess Byrne Calvert Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Chabot Cline Cloud Cole Comer Conaway Cook Crawford Crenshaw Cuellar Curtis Davidson (OH) Davis, Rodney DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Duncan Dunn Emmer Estes Ferguson Fleischmann Flores Fortenberry Foxx (NC) Fulcher Gaetz Gianforte Gibbs Gohmert Gonzalez (OH) Gonzalez (TX) Gooden Gosar Graves (MO) Green (TN) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hagedorn Harris Hartzler Hern, Kevin Herrera Beutler Hice (GA) Higgins (LA) Hill (AR) Holding Hollingsworth Hudson Hunter Hurd (TX) Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Keller Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) King (IA) Kinzinger LaHood LaMalfa Lamborn Latta Lesko Long Lucas Marchant Marshall Massie Mast McCarthy McClintock McHenry McKinley Meadows Meuser Miller Mitchell Moolenaar Mooney (WV) Mullin Murphy (NC) Newhouse Norman Nunes Palazzo Palmer Pence Perry Peterson Posey Ratcliffe Reed Reschenthaler Rice (SC) Riggleman Roby Rodgers (WA) Roe, David P. Rogers (KY) Rose, John W. Rouzer Roy Scalise Schweikert Sensenbrenner Shimkus Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smucker Spano Stauber Steil Steube Stewart Stivers Taylor Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tipton Turner Van Drew Walberg Walden Walker Walorski Watkins Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Woodall Wright Yoho Young NOT VOTING--9 Bilirakis Bishop (NC) Collins (GA) Gabbard McEachin Peters Takano Timmons Zeldin {time} 1850 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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