RAISING A QUESTION OF THE PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE; Congressional Record Vol. 166, No. 25
(House of Representatives - February 06, 2020)

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           RAISING A QUESTION OF THE PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE

  Ms. GRANGER. Madam Speaker, I rise to offer a question of the 
privileges of the House previously noticed.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. DeGette). The Clerk will report the 
resolution.
  The Clerk read as follows:

                              H. Res. 832

       Whereas, on December 20, 2019, Speaker Pelosi extended an 
     invitation for President Trump to address a joint session of 
     Congress on February 4, 2020;
       Whereas, on February 4, 2020, President Trump delivered his 
     State of the Union address, in which he honored the sacrifice 
     of the following American heroes and their families:
       General Charles McGee, one of the last surviving Tuskegee 
     Airmen, who served in World War II, the Korean War, and the 
     Vietnam War;
       Kayla Mueller, a humanitarian aid worker who was caring for 
     suffering civilians in Syria when she was kidnapped, tortured 
     and enslaved by ISIS for over 500 days before being murdered 
     by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi;
       Army Staff Sergeant Christopher Hake, who was killed while 
     serving his second tour of duty in Iraq by a roadside bomb 
     supplied by Iranian terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani;
       Sergeant First Class Townsend Williams, who is currently 
     serving his fourth deployment in the Middle East and his wife 
     Amy, who works full time for the Army and devotes hundreds of 
     hours helping military families;
       Whereas immediately following the address, while still 
     presiding over the joint session, Speaker Pelosi ripped up an 
     official copy of the President's remarks, which contained the 
     names and stories of these patriots who sacrificed so much 
     for our country; and
       Whereas the conduct of Speaker Pelosi was a breach of 
     decorum and degraded the proceedings of the joint session, to 
     the discredit of the House: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the House of Representatives disapproves of 
     the behavior of Speaker Pelosi during the joint session of 
     Congress held on February 4, 2020.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The resolution qualifies.


 =========================== NOTE =========================== 

  
  February 6, 2020, page H868, the following appeared: Ms. 
GRANGER. Madam Speaker, I rise to offer a question of the 
privileges of the House previously noticed. The SPEAKER pro 
tempore (Ms. DEGETTE). The Clerk will report the resolution. The 
Clerk read as follows: H. RES. 832 Resolved, That the House of 
Representatives disapproves of the behavior of Speaker Pelosi 
during the joint session of Congress held on February 4, 2020. The 
SPEAKER pro tempore. The resolution qualifies.
  
  The online version has been corrected to read: Ms. GRANGER. 
Madam Speaker, I rise to offer a question of the privileges of the 
House previously noticed. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. DEGETTE). 
The Clerk will report the resolution. The Clerk read as follows: 
H. RES. 832 Whereas, on December 20, 2019, Speaker Pelosi extended 
an invitation for President Trump to address a joint session of 
Congress on February 4, 2020; Whereas, on February 4, 2020, 
President Trump delivered his State of the Union address, in which 
he honored the sacrifice of the following American heroes and 
their families: General Charles McGee, one of the last surviving 
Tuskegee Airmen, who served in World War II, the Korean War, and 
the Vietnam War; Kayla Mueller, a humanitarian aid worker who was 
caring for suffering civilians in Syria when she was kidnapped, 
tortured and enslaved by ISIS for over 500 days before being 
murdered by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi; Army Staff Sergeant 
Christopher Hake, who was killed while serving his second tour of 
duty in Iraq by a roadside bomb supplied by Iranian terrorist 
leader Qasem Soleimani; Sergeant First Class Townsend Williams, 
who is currently serving his fourth deployment in the Middle East 
and his wife Amy, who works full time for the Army and devotes 
hundreds of hours helping military families; Whereas immediately 
following the address, while still presiding over the joint 
session, Speaker Pelosi ripped up an official copy of the 
President's remarks, which contained the names and stories of 
these patriots who sacrificed so much for our country; and Whereas 
the conduct of Speaker Pelosi was a breach of decorum and degraded 
the proceedings of the joint session, to the discredit of the 
House: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of 
Representatives disapproves of the behavior of Speaker Pelosi 
during the joint session of Congress held on February 4, 2020. The 
SPEAKER pro tempore. The resolution qualifies.


 ========================= END NOTE ========================= 


                            Motion to Table

  Mr. HOYER. Madam Speaker, I have a motion at the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. Hoyer moves that the resolution be laid on the table.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to lay the 
resolution on the table.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.
  Mr. HOYER. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 15-
minute vote on the motion to table will be followed by 5-minute votes 
on:
  Ordering the previous question on House Resolution 833; and
  Adoption of House Resolution 833, if ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 224, 
nays 193, not voting 12, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 38]

                               YEAS--224

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Amash
     Axne
     Barragan
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brindisi
     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
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Cox (CA)
     Craig
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     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
     Fletcher
     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)
     Himes
     Horn, Kendra S.
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Jackson Lee
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (TX)
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim
     Kind
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster (NH)
     Lamb
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lawson (FL)
     Lee (NV)
     Levin (CA)
     Levin (MI)
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Luria
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McAdams
     McBath
     McCollum
     McEachin
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Moore
     Moulton
     Mucarsel-Powell
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Norcross
     O'Halleran
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     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
     Shalala
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Speier
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Suozzi
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     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

                               NAYS--193

     Abraham
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bergman
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Bishop (UT)
     Bost
     Brady
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budd
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Cheney
     Cline
     Cloud
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Comer
     Conaway
     Cook
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson (OH)
     Davis, Rodney
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ferguson
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flores
     Fortenberry
     Foxx (NC)
     Fulcher
     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
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     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

[[Page H869]]


     Rodgers (WA)
     Roe, David P.
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     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
     Timmons
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Van Drew
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walker
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Watkins
     Weber (TX)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Wright
     Yoho
     Young
     Zeldin

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Cleaver
     Foster
     Gabbard
     Gaetz
     Kirkpatrick
     Lee (CA)
     Lewis
     Morelle
     Roby
     Rooney (FL)
     Sewell (AL)
     Webster (FL)

                              {time}  1410

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

                          ____________________