USPS FAIRNESS ACT; Congressional Record Vol. 166, No. 24
(House of Representatives - February 05, 2020)

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                           USPS FAIRNESS ACT

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the 
unfinished business is the vote on the motion to suspend the rules and 
pass the bill (H.R. 2382) to amend title 5, United States Code, to 
repeal the requirement that the United States Postal Service prepay 
future retirement benefits, and for other purposes, on which the yeas 
and nays were ordered.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the 
gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney) that the House 
suspend the rules and pass the bill.
  This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 309, 
nays 106, not voting 14, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 37]

                               YEAS--309

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Axne
     Bacon
     Balderson
     Barragan
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bera
     Bergman
     Beyer
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (UT)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bost
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brindisi
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (MD)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Calvert
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Carter (GA)
     Cartwright
     Case
     Casten (IL)
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cheney
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Cisneros
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Connolly
     Cook
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Cox (CA)
     Craig
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Cunningham
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny K.
     Davis, Rodney
     Dean
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Delgado
     Demings
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Dunn
     Emmer
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Estes
     Evans
     Finkenauer
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Fortenberry
     Frankel
     Fudge
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Gianforte
     Gibbs
     Golden
     Gomez
     Gonzalez (OH)
     Gonzalez (TX)
     Gottheimer
     Graves (MO)
     Green, Al (TX)
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Haaland
     Hagedorn
     Harder (CA)
     Hartzler
     Hastings
     Hayes
     Heck
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horn, Kendra S.
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Hurd (TX)
     Jackson Lee
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (TX)
     Joyce (OH)
     Kaptur
     Katko
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kennedy
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim
     Kind
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster (NH)
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamb
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lawson (FL)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Levin (CA)
     Levin (MI)
     Lewis
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan
     Luria
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Marchant
     Marshall
     Mast
     Matsui
     McAdams
     McBath
     McCaul
     McCollum
     McEachin
     McGovern
     McKinley
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Miller
     Moolenaar
     Moore
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mucarsel-Powell
     Mullin
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Norcross
     Nunes
     O'Halleran
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Olson
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Richmond
     Riggleman
     Roby
     Rodgers (WA)
     Roe, David P.
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose (NY)
     Rouda
     Rouzer
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff

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     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Shalala
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Shimkus
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Speier
     Stanton
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Stevens
     Stivers
     Suozzi
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thompson (PA)
     Tipton
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres Small (NM)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Turner
     Underwood
     Upton
     Van Drew
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wagner
     Walden
     Waltz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watkins
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wexton
     Wild
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)
     Yarmuth
     Young
     Zeldin

                               NAYS--106

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Arrington
     Babin
     Baird
     Banks
     Barr
     Biggs
     Bishop (NC)
     Brady
     Brooks (AL)
     Buck
     Budd
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Cline
     Cloud
     Comer
     Conaway
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson (OH)
     DesJarlais
     Duncan
     Ferguson
     Flores
     Foxx (NC)
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Gooden
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (LA)
     Green (TN)
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Harris
     Hern, Kevin
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill (AR)
     Holding
     Hollingsworth
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     Keller
     Kelly (MS)
     Kustoff (TN)
     Lamborn
     Latta
     Lesko
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Massie
     McCarthy
     McClintock
     McHenry
     Meadows
     Mitchell
     Mooney (WV)
     Murphy (NC)
     Norman
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Posey
     Ratcliffe
     Rice (SC)
     Rooney (FL)
     Rose, John W.
     Roy
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Sensenbrenner
     Smith (MO)
     Spano
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Taylor
     Thornberry
     Timmons
     Walberg
     Walker
     Walorski
     Weber (TX)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Wright

                             NOT VOTING--14

     Cleaver
     Davids (KS)
     Escobar
     Foster
     Gabbard
     Gohmert
     Kirkpatrick
     Loebsack
     Meuser
     Rice (NY)
     Smucker
     Vela
     Webster (FL)
     Yoho

                              {time}  1748

  So (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and 
the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.


                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mrs. KIRKPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, I was absent today due to a medical 
emergency. Had I been present, I would have voted: ``yea'' on rollcall 
No. 35, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 36, and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 37.

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