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DEPARTMENT OF STATE, FOREIGN OPERATIONS, AND RELATED PROGRAMS APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2021; Congressional Record Vol. 166, No. 131
(House of Representatives - July 24, 2020)
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[Pages H3844-H3848] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, FOREIGN OPERATIONS, AND RELATED PROGRAMS APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2021 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 1(c) of rule XIX, further consideration of the bill (H.R. 7608) making appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, and for other purposes, will now resume. The Clerk read the title of the bill. Amendment No. 62 Offered by Mr. Allen The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the question on amendment No. 62, printed in House Report No. 116-459, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the yeas and nays were ordered. The Clerk will redesignate the amendment. The Clerk redesignated the amendment. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Allen). The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 117, nays 292, not voting 21, as follows: [Roll No. 162] YEAS--117 Allen Amash Amodei Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Banks Barr Bergman Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (NC) Bishop (UT) Bost Brady Brooks (AL) Buck Budd Carter (GA) Chabot Cheney Cline Cloud Collins (GA) Comer Conaway Crawford Crenshaw Curtis Davidson (OH) DesJarlais Duncan Emmer Estes Ferguson Flores Fulcher Gaetz Garcia (CA) Gohmert Gooden Gosar Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Grothman Guest Guthrie Hagedorn Hartzler Hern, Kevin Hice (GA) Higgins (LA) Hill (AR) Hudson Johnson (LA) Jordan Joyce (PA) Keller Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) King (IA) Kustoff (TN) LaHood Lamborn Latta Lesko Long Marshall Massie McCarthy McCaul McClintock McHenry Meuser Miller Mooney (WV) Murphy (NC) Norman Nunes Olson Palmer Perry Posey Rice (SC) Rodgers (WA) Rogers (AL) Rose, John W. Rouzer Roy Scalise Schweikert Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Shimkus Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smucker Spano Steube Stewart Taylor Thornberry Tiffany Tipton Wagner Walberg Walker Waltz Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Williams Wilson (SC) Wittman Woodall NAYS--292 Adams Aderholt Aguilar Allred Armstrong Axne Balderson Barragan Bass Beatty Bera Beyer Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Boyle, Brendan F. Brindisi Brooks (IN) Brown (MD) Brownley (CA) Buchanan Bucshon Burchett Burgess Bustos Butterfield Calvert Carbajal Cardenas Carson (IN) Carter (TX) Cartwright Case Casten (IL) Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu, Judy Cicilline Cisneros Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Cole Connolly Cook Cooper Correa Costa Courtney Cox (CA) Craig Crist Crow Cuellar Cunningham Davids (KS) Davis (CA) Davis, Danny K. Davis, Rodney Dean DeFazio DeGette DeLauro DelBene Delgado Demings DeSaulnier Deutch Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Doyle, Michael F. Engel Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Evans Finkenauer Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fletcher Fortenberry Foster Frankel Fudge Gabbard Gallagher Gallego Garamendi Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Gianforte Golden Gomez Gonzalez (OH) Gonzalez (TX) Gottheimer Granger Green, Al (TX) Griffith Grijalva Haaland Harder (CA) Hastings Hayes Heck Herrera Beutler Higgins (NY) Himes Hollingsworth Horn, Kendra S. Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Huffman Huizenga Hurd (TX) Jackson Lee Jacobs Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Johnson (TX) Joyce (OH) Kaptur Katko Keating Kelly (IL) Kennedy Khanna Kildee Kilmer Kim Kind King (NY) Kinzinger Kirkpatrick Krishnamoorthi Kuster (NH) LaMalfa Lamb Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lawrence Lawson (FL) Lee (CA) Lee (NV) Levin (CA) Levin (MI) Lieu, Ted Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren Lowenthal Lowey Lucas [[Page H3845]] Luetkemeyer Lujan Luria Lynch Malinowski Maloney, Carolyn B. Maloney, Sean Mast Matsui McAdams McBath McCollum McEachin McGovern McKinley McNerney Meeks Meng Mfume Mitchell Moolenaar Moore Morelle Moulton Mucarsel-Powell Murphy (FL) Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Newhouse Norcross O'Halleran Ocasio-Cortez Omar Palazzo Pallone Panetta Pappas Pascrell Payne Pence Perlmutter Peters Peterson Phillips Pingree Pocan Porter Pressley Price (NC) Quigley Raskin Reed Reschenthaler Rice (NY) Roe, David P. Rogers (KY) 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 Simpson Sires Slotkin Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Soto Spanberger Speier Stanton Stauber Stefanik Steil Stevens Stivers Suozzi Swalwell (CA) Takano Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Titus Tlaib Tonko Torres (CA) Torres Small (NM) Trahan Trone Turner Underwood Upton Van Drew Vargas Veasey Vela Velazquez Visclosky Walden Walorski Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Welch Wexton Wild Wilson (FL) Womack Wright Yarmuth Zeldin NOT VOTING--21 Abraham Byrne Dunn Foxx (NC) Gibbs Graves (GA) Green (TN) Harris Holding Loudermilk Marchant Mullin Richmond Riggleman Roby Rooney (FL) Rutherford Timmons Watkins Yoho Young {time} 1019 Messrs. JACOBS, McEACHIN, STIVERS, and Ms. ESHOO changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.'' Mr. BISHOP of Utah, Mrs. HARTZLER, Messrs. WITTMAN, CONAWAY, and JOHN W. ROSE of Tennessee changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.'' So the amendment was rejected. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 965, 116TH CONGRESS Barragan (Gallego) Clay (Grijalva) DeSaulnier (Matsui) Deutch (Rice (NY)) Doyle, Michael F. (Boyle, Brendan F.) Frankel (Clark (MA)) Garamendi (Boyle, Brendan F.) Gomez (Gallego) Hastings (Wasserman Schultz) Himes (Hayes) Horsford (Kildee) Johnson (TX) (Jeffries) Khanna (Sherman) Kirkpatrick (Gallego) Kuster (NH) (Brownley (CA)) Lawson (FL) (Evans) Lieu, Ted (Beyer) Lipinski (Cooper) Lofgren (Boyle, Brendan F.) Lowenthal (Beyer) Moore (Beyer) Nadler (Jeffries) Napolitano (Correa) Pascrell (Sires) Payne (Wasserman Schultz) Pingree (Cicilline) Porter (Wexton) Price (NC) (Butterfield) Rose (NY) (Meng) Ruppersberger (Raskin) Rush (Underwood) Serrano (Jeffries) Sewell (AL) (DelBene) Watson Coleman (Pallone) Welch (McGovern) Wilson (FL) (Hayes) Amendment No. 67 Offered by Mr. Tonko The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the question on amendment No. 67, printed in House Report No. 116-459, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the yeas and nays were ordered. The Clerk will redesignate the amendment. The Clerk redesignated the amendment. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York (Mr. Tonko). The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 233, nays 176, not voting 21, as follows: [Roll No. 163] YEAS--233 Adams Aguilar Allred 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 Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly Cooper Correa Costa Courtney 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 Fitzpatrick Fletcher Foster Frankel Fudge Gabbard 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) 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) Lieu, Ted Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren Lowenthal Lowey Lujan Luria Lynch Malinowski Maloney, Carolyn B. Maloney, Sean Matsui McAdams McBath McCaul McCollum McEachin McGovern McNerney Meeks Meng Mfume Moore Morelle Moulton Mucarsel-Powell Murphy (FL) Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Norcross O'Halleran Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pallone Panetta Pappas Pascrell Payne Perlmutter Peters 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 Sires Slotkin Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Soto Spanberger Speier Stanton Stefanik Stevens Suozzi Swalwell (CA) Takano Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Titus Tlaib Tonko Torres Small (NM) Trahan Trone Underwood Vargas Veasey Vela Velazquez Visclosky Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Welch Wexton Wild Wilson (FL) Yarmuth NAYS--176 Aderholt Allen Amash 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 Calvert Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Chabot Cheney Cline Cloud Cole Collins (GA) Comer Conaway Cook Cox (CA) Crawford Curtis Davidson (OH) Davis, Rodney DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Duncan Emmer Estes Ferguson Fleischmann Flores Fortenberry Fulcher Gaetz Gallagher Garcia (CA) Gianforte Gohmert Gonzalez (OH) Gooden Gosar Granger Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hagedorn Hartzler Hern, Kevin Herrera Beutler Hice (GA) Higgins (LA) Hill (AR) Hollingsworth Hudson Huizenga Hurd (TX) Jacobs Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Keller Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) King (IA) Kinzinger Kustoff (TN) LaHood LaMalfa Lamborn Latta Lesko Long Lucas Luetkemeyer Marshall Massie Mast McCarthy McClintock McHenry McKinley Meuser Miller Mitchell Moolenaar Mooney (WV) Murphy (NC) Newhouse Norman Nunes Olson Palazzo Palmer Pence Perry Peterson Posey Reed Reschenthaler Rice (SC) 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) Smucker Spano Stauber Steil Steube Stewart Stivers Taylor Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiffany Tipton Torres (CA) Turner Upton Van Drew Wagner Walberg Walden Walker Walorski Waltz Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Williams Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Woodall Wright Zeldin NOT VOTING--21 Abraham Byrne Crenshaw Dunn Foxx (NC) Gibbs Graves (GA) Green (TN) Harris Holding Kaptur Loudermilk Marchant Mullin Riggleman Roby Rooney (FL) Timmons Watkins Yoho Young {time} 1058 Messrs. HUDSON and FULCHER changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.'' Mr. CISNEROS changed his vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.'' So the amendment was agreed to. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 965, 116TH CONGRESS Barragan (Gallego) Clay (Grijalva) DeSaulnier (Matsui) Deutch (Rice (NY)) [[Page H3846]] Doyle, Michael F. (Boyle, Brendan F.) Frankel (Clark (MA)) Garamendi (Boyle, Brendan F.) Gomez (Gallego) Hastings (Wasserman Schultz) Himes (Hayes) Horsford (Kildee) Johnson (TX) (Jeffries) Khanna (Sherman) Kirkpatrick (Gallego) Kuster (NH) (Brownley (CA)) Lawson (FL) (Evans) Lieu, Ted (Beyer) Lipinski (Cooper) Lofgren (Boyle, Brendan F.) Lowenthal (Beyer) Moore (Beyer) Nadler (Jeffries) Napolitano (Correa) Pascrell (Sires) Payne (Wasserman Schultz) Pingree (Cicilline) Porter (Wexton) Price (NC) (Butterfield) Richmond (Butterfield) Rose (NY) (Meng) Ruppersberger (Raskin) Rush (Underwood) Serrano (Jeffries) Sewell (AL) (DelBene) Watson Coleman (Pallone) Welch (McGovern) Wilson (FL) (Hayes) Amendment No. 102 Offered by Mr. Smith of Missouri The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Morelle). Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the question on amendment No. 102, printed in House Report No. 116-459, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the yeas and nays were ordered. The Clerk will redesignate the amendment. The Clerk redesignated the amendment. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Smith). The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 155, nays 256, not voting 19, as follows: [Roll No. 164] YEAS--155 Aderholt Allen Amash Amodei Armstrong Arrington Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Barr Bergman Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (NC) Bishop (UT) Bost Brady Brooks (AL) Brooks (IN) Buck Bucshon Budd Burchett Burgess Calvert Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Chabot Cheney Cline Cloud Cole Collins (GA) Comer Conaway Cook Crawford Crenshaw Curtis Davidson (OH) DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Duncan Emmer Estes Ferguson Fleischmann Flores Fulcher Gaetz Gallagher Garcia (CA) Gianforte Gohmert Gooden Gosar Granger Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Grothman Guest Guthrie Hagedorn Hartzler Hern, Kevin Hice (GA) Higgins (LA) Hill (AR) Hollingsworth Hudson Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (PA) Keller Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) King (IA) Kustoff (TN) LaHood LaMalfa Lamborn Latta Lesko Long Lucas Luetkemeyer Marshall Massie Mast McCarthy McCaul McClintock McHenry McKinley Meuser Miller Mooney (WV) Murphy (NC) Newhouse Norman Nunes Olson Palazzo Palmer Pence Perry Posey Reschenthaler Rice (SC) 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) Smucker Spano Steube Stewart Taylor Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiffany Tipton Trahan Turner Wagner Walberg Walden Walker Walorski Waltz Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Williams Wilson (SC) Womack Woodall Wright Young NAYS--256 Adams Aguilar Allred Axne Barragan Bass Beatty Bera Beyer Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Boyle, Brendan F. Brindisi Brown (MD) Brownley (CA) Buchanan 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. Davis, Rodney Dean DeFazio DeGette DeLauro DelBene Delgado Demings DeSaulnier Deutch Dingell Doggett Doyle, Michael F. Engel Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Evans Finkenauer Fitzpatrick Fletcher Fortenberry Foster Frankel Fudge Gabbard Gallego Garamendi Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Golden Gomez Gonzalez (OH) Gonzalez (TX) Gottheimer Green, Al (TX) Griffith Grijalva Haaland Harder (CA) Hastings Hayes Heck Herrera Beutler Higgins (NY) Himes Horn, Kendra S. Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Huffman Huizenga Hurd (TX) Jackson Lee Jacobs Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (TX) Joyce (OH) Kaptur Katko Keating Kelly (IL) Kennedy Khanna Kildee Kilmer Kim Kind King (NY) Kinzinger Kirkpatrick Krishnamoorthi Kuster (NH) Lamb Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lawrence Lawson (FL) Lee (CA) 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 Mfume Mitchell Moolenaar Moore Morelle 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 Reed 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 Sires Slotkin Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Soto Spanberger Speier Stanton Stauber Stefanik Steil Stevens Stivers Suozzi Swalwell (CA) Takano Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Titus Tlaib Tonko Torres (CA) Torres Small (NM) Trone Underwood Upton Van Drew Vargas Veasey Vela Velazquez Visclosky Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Welch Wexton Wild Wilson (FL) Wittman Yarmuth Zeldin NOT VOTING--19 Abraham Babin Byrne Dunn Foxx (NC) Gibbs Graves (GA) Green (TN) Harris Holding Loudermilk Marchant Mullin Riggleman Roby Rooney (FL) Timmons Watkins Yoho {time} 1150 Messrs. BILIRAKIS and BARR changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.'' So the amendment was rejected. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. PERSONAL EXPLANATION Mrs. TRAHAN. Mr. Speaker, during rollcall vote No. 164 on H.R. 7608, I mistakenly recorded my vote as ``yes'' when I intended to vote ``no.'' MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 965, 116TH CONGRESS Barragan (Gallego) Clay (Grijalva) DeSaulnier (Matsui) Deutch (Rice (NY)) Doyle, Michael F. (Boyle, Brendan F.) Frankel (Clark (MA)) Garamendi (Boyle, Brendan F.) Gomez (Gallego) Hastings (Wasserman Schultz) Himes (Hayes) Horsford (Kildee) Johnson (TX) (Jeffries) Khanna (Sherman) Kirkpatrick (Gallego) Kuster (NH) (Brownley (CA)) Lawson (FL) (Evans) Lieu, Ted (Beyer) Lipinski (Cooper) Lofgren (Boyle, Brendan F.) Lowenthal (Beyer) Moore (Beyer) Nadler (Jeffries) Napolitano (Correa) Pascrell (Sires) Payne (Wasserman Schultz) Pingree (Cicilline) Porter (Wexton) Price (NC) (Butterfield) Richmond (Butterfield) Rose (NY) (Meng) Ruppersberger (Raskin) Rush (Underwood) Serrano (Jeffries) Sewell (AL) (DelBene) Watson Coleman (Pallone) Welch (McGovern) Wilson (FL) (Hayes) The SPEAKER pro tempore. The previous question is ordered on the bill, as amended. The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill, as amended. The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was read the third time. Motion to Recommit Ms. GRANGER. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentlewoman opposed to the bill? Ms. GRANGER. Mr. Speaker, I am in its current form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Ms. Granger moves to recommit the bill H.R. 7608 to the Committee on Appropriations with instructions to report the same back to the House forthwith with the following amendment: Page 33, line 10, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $102,500,000)''. Page 35, line 22, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $102,500,000)''. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from Texas is recognized for 5 minutes in support of her motion. Ms. GRANGER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I offer this motion today to restore funding levels for a bipartisan priority to counter China. The amendment adds $102 million to restore funding for the Countering Chinese Influence Fund to the current fiscal year level of $300 million. [[Page H3847]] We can all agree that the Chinese Communist Party is actively working against U.S. interests all over the globe--from space technology to deceptive trading practices, to their outsized influence in pharmaceuticals and medical equipment. The threat from China is real and immediate, and now is not the time to retreat in our efforts to stop their destructive actions. The Countering Chinese Influence Fund was established last year to address the growing reality that Beijing has a foothold in areas of critical importance, including in our own backyard. China is now the largest investor in Latin America, practicing the same type of corrupt and predatory financing it uses elsewhere around the world. The commander of the U.S. Southern Command testified this year that some of China's investments in the region could enable the Chinese military to threaten sea lanes vital to global commerce and the movement of U.S. Forces. He also expressed concern about Chinese telecommunications investments and how they could be detrimental to our security. We must directly address Chinese actions in order to protect our national security and maintain U.S. leadership throughout the world. This fund is one way to do that. I hope Members on both sides of the aisle will agree that it is more productive to fund programs with bipartisan support than to fund partisan efforts that have no chance of becoming law. Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``yes'' vote on this motion, and I yield back the balance of my time. Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the motion to recommit. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from New York is recognized for 5 minutes. Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I share my colleague's concern about China's malign activities. That is why, last year, I negotiated $300 million on a bipartisan basis to counter Chinese influence. And that is why I wrote this bill to give the State Department the flexibility to spend more than $300 million, if that is necessary. A President who has America's best interests at heart would use this flexibility to invest in a whole-of-government response to the China threat. Unfortunately, President Trump refuses to spend the money that we have appropriated and have given to him. On Twitter, President Trump, I am told, lavishes praise on President Xi. In private, according to his National Security Advisor, President Trump begged Xi for help in winning reelection. The Trump administration has turned a blind eye to Xi's human rights abuses and endorsed a trade deal that allows China, frankly, to continue to cheat. Worse still, this motion to recommit is really an attack on America's environmental leadership. That is what this motion to recommit is all about. As the Republican whip has announced, this MTR slashes funding for the Green Climate Fund, which is essential to combat climate change. This amendment ratifies the Trump administration's head-in-the-sand approach to climate change, which weakens our standing in the world and leaves our Nation vulnerable to this existential threat. At its heart, the motion to recommit asks us to weaken American leadership in climate while trusting President Trump to prioritize the United States' national security against our enemies. The last four years makes clear that this just is not correct. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to oppose the motion to recommit, and 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. Ms. GRANGER. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3 of House Resolution 965, the yeas and nays are ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 183, nays 228, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 18, as follows: [Roll No. 165] YEAS--183 Aderholt Allen Amodei Armstrong Arrington Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Barr Bergman Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (NC) Bishop (UT) Bost Brady Brooks (AL) Brooks (IN) Buchanan Buck Bucshon Budd Burchett Burgess 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 Emmer Estes Ferguson Finkenauer Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Flores Fortenberry Fulcher Gaetz Gallagher Garcia (CA) Gianforte Gohmert Golden Gonzalez (OH) Gooden Gosar Granger Graves (GA) Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hagedorn Hartzler Hern, Kevin Herrera Beutler Hice (GA) Higgins (LA) Hill (AR) Holding Hollingsworth Hudson Huizenga Hurd (TX) Jacobs 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 Lamb Lamborn Latta Lesko Long Lucas Luetkemeyer Marshall Mast McCarthy McCaul McClintock McHenry McKinley Meuser Miller Mitchell Moolenaar Mooney (WV) Murphy (NC) Newhouse Norman Nunes Olson Palazzo Palmer Pence Perry Posey Reed Reschenthaler Rice (SC) 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 Tiffany Tipton Turner Upton Van Drew Wagner Walberg Walden Walker Walorski Waltz Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Williams Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Woodall Wright Young Zeldin NAYS--228 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 Cleaver 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 Fletcher Foster Frankel Gabbard Gallego Garamendi Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) 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 Kirkpatrick Krishnamoorthi Kuster (NH) Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lawrence Lawson (FL) Lee (CA) 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 Mfume Moore Morelle 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 Sewell (AL) 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 [[Page H3848]] ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1 Massie NOT VOTING--18 Abraham Babin Byrne Dunn Foxx (NC) Fudge Gibbs Green (TN) Harris Loudermilk Marchant Mullin Riggleman Roby Rooney (FL) Timmons Watkins Yoho {time} 1248 Mr. POCAN changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.'' Mr. DAVIDSON of Ohio changed his vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.'' So the motion to recommit was rejected. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 965, 116TH CONGRESS Barragan (Gallego) Clay (Grijalva) DeSaulnier (Matsui) Deutch (Rice (NY)) Doyle, Michael F. (Boyle, Brendan F.) Frankel (Clark (MA)) Garamendi (Boyle, Brendan F.) Gomez (Gallego) Hastings (Wasserman Schultz) Himes (Hayes) Horsford (Kildee) Johnson (TX) (Jeffries) Khanna (Sherman) Kirkpatrick (Gallego) Kuster (NH) (Brownley (CA)) Lawson (FL) (Evans) Lieu, Ted (Beyer) Lipinski (Cooper) Lofgren (Boyle, Brendan F.) Lowenthal (Beyer) Moore (Beyer) Nadler (Jeffries) Napolitano (Correa) Pascrell (Sires) Payne (Wasserman Schultz) Pingree (Cicilline) Porter (Wexton) Price (NC) (Butterfield) Richmond (Butterfield) Rose (NY) (Meng) Rush (Underwood) Serrano (Jeffries) Sewell (AL) (DelBene) Watson Coleman (Pallone) Welch (McGovern) Wilson (FL) (Hayes) The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Heck). The question is on the passage of the bill. Pursuant to clause 10 of rule XX, the yeas and nays are ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 224, nays 189, not voting 17, as follows: [Roll No. 166] YEAS--224 Adams Aguilar Allred 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 Cleaver 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 Foster Frankel Fudge Gabbard 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 Kirkpatrick Krishnamoorthi Kuster (NH) Lamb Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lawrence Lawson (FL) Lee (CA) Lee (NV) Levin (CA) Levin (MI) Lieu, Ted Loebsack Lofgren Lowenthal Lowey Lujan Luria Lynch Malinowski Maloney, Carolyn B. Maloney, Sean Matsui McBath McCollum McEachin McGovern McNerney Meeks Meng Mfume Moore Morelle Moulton Mucarsel-Powell Murphy (FL) Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Norcross O'Halleran Pallone Panetta Pappas Pascrell Payne Perlmutter Peters 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 Schrier Scott (VA) Scott, David Serrano Sewell (AL) Shalala Sherman Sherrill Sires Slotkin Smith (WA) Soto Spanberger Speier Stanton Stevens Suozzi Swalwell (CA) Takano Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Titus 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--189 Aderholt Allen Amash Amodei Armstrong Arrington Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Barr Bergman Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (NC) Bishop (UT) Bost Brady Brooks (AL) Brooks (IN) Buchanan Buck Bucshon Budd Burchett Burgess 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 Emmer Estes Ferguson Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Flores Fortenberry Fulcher Gaetz Gallagher Garcia (CA) Gianforte Gohmert Gonzalez (OH) Gooden Gosar Granger Graves (GA) Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hagedorn Hartzler Hern, Kevin Herrera Beutler Hice (GA) Higgins (LA) Hill (AR) Holding Hollingsworth Hudson Huizenga Hurd (TX) Jacobs 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 Lipinski Long Lucas Luetkemeyer Marshall Massie Mast McAdams McCarthy McCaul McClintock McHenry McKinley Meuser Miller Mitchell Moolenaar Mooney (WV) Murphy (NC) Newhouse Norman Nunes Ocasio-Cortez Olson Omar Palazzo Palmer Pence Perry Peterson Posey Reed Reschenthaler Rice (SC) Rodgers (WA) Roe, David P. Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose, John W. Rouzer Roy Rutherford Scalise Schrader Schweikert Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Shimkus Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smucker Spano Stauber Stefanik Steil Steube Stewart Stivers Taylor Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiffany Tipton Tlaib Turner Upton Van Drew Wagner Walberg Walden Walker Walorski Waltz Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Williams Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Woodall Wright Young Zeldin NOT VOTING--17 Abraham Babin Byrne Dunn Foxx (NC) Gibbs Green (TN) Harris Loudermilk Marchant Mullin Riggleman Roby Rooney (FL) Timmons Watkins Yoho {time} 1320 So the bill was passed. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. Stated against: Mr. ABRAHAM. Mr. Speaker, on Friday, July 24, I was unavoidably detained on rollcall vote No. 166. Had I been present to vote, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall vote No. 166. Personal Explanation Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Speaker, I regret to inform you that I am unable to vote today due to my attendance of my mother's funeral. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 162, ``nay'' on rollcall No. 163, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 165, and ``nay'' on rollcall No. 166. Personal Explanation Mrs. ROBY. Mr. Speaker, I was unable to vote on Friday, July 24 due to a family medical emergency. Had I been present I would have voted as follows: ``nay'' on rollcall No. 162, ``nay'' on rollcall No. 163, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 164, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 165, and ``nay'' on rollcall No. 166. MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 965, 116TH CONGRESS Barragan (Gallego) Clay (Grijalva) DeSaulnier (Matsui) Deutch (Rice (NY)) Doyle, Michael F. (Boyle, Brendan F.) Frankel (Clark (MA)) Garamendi (Boyle, Brendan F.) Gomez (Gallego) Hastings (Wasserman Schultz) Himes (Hayes) Horsford (Kildee) Johnson (TX) (Jeffries) Khanna (Sherman) Kirkpatrick (Gallego) Kuster (NH) (Brownley (CA)) Lawson (FL) (Evans) Lieu, Ted (Beyer) Lipinski (Cooper) Lofgren (Boyle, Brendan F.) Lowenthal (Beyer) Moore (Beyer) Nadler (Jeffries) Napolitano (Correa) Pascrell (Sires) Payne (Wasserman Schultz) Pingree (Cicilline) Porter (Wexton) Price (NC) (Butterfield) Richmond (Butterfield) Rose (NY) (Meng) Rush (Underwood) Serrano (Jeffries) Sewell (AL) (DelBene) Watson Coleman (Pallone) Welch (McGovern) Wilson (FL) (Hayes) ____________________
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