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REDUCE EXACERBATED INFLATION NEGATIVELY IMPACTING THE NATION ACT
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Perry). Pursuant to House Resolution 166 and rule XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration of the bill, H.R. 347.
Will the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Babin) kindly take the chair.
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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. 347) to require the Executive Office of the President to provide an inflation estimate with respect to Executive orders with a significant effect on the annual gross budget, and for other purposes, with Mr. Babin (Acting Chair) in the chair.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The Acting CHAIR. When the Committee of the Whole rose on Tuesday, February 28, 2023, amendment No. 10 printed in House Report 118-4 offered by the gentleman from New York (Mr. Langworthy) had been disposed of.
amendment no. 11 offered by ms. omar
The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 11 printed in House Report 118-4.
Ms. OMAR. Mr. Speaker, I have an amendment at the desk.
The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Page 2, line 14, after the period, insert the following:
``In estimating the inflationary effects of any major Executive order under this subsection, the President, Director, and Chair shall consider the factors described in subsection (d).''.
Page 3, after line 2, insert the following:
(d) Factors.--The factors described in this subsection are the following:
(1) Benefits.--With respect to benefits provided by the applicable major Executive order, the total annual economic value of--
(A) personal consumption expenditures, net of investments, and defensive spending;
(B) the purchase of consumer durables and other household durables used for home improvement, including appliances, vehicles, and solar panels;
(C) publicly provided goods and services;
(D) higher education;
(E) job skills that are essential to an economy that--
(i) is self-sufficient; and
(ii) addresses ecological scarcities and directs resources to sustainable development without degrading the environment;
(F) time spent toward leisure activities;
(G) unpaid labor, including--
(i) parenting;
(ii) volunteering; and
(iii) time spent on household duties;
(H) infrastructure, including--
(i) transportation systems;
(ii) communication networks; and
(iii) sewage, water, and electric systems; and
(I) ecosystem services with respect to protected natural areas, including--
(i) flood control;
(ii) water purification;
(iii) pollination of crops;
(iv) control of pests and invasive specifies;
(v) outdoor recreation;
(vi) hunting and fishing;
(vii) harvesting of plants for medicinal and edible purposes;
(viii) carbon sequestration; and
(ix) maintenance of biological and genetic diversity.
(2) Costs.--With respect to costs of the applicable major Executive order, the total annual economic costs of--
(A) income inequality based on household expenditures;
(B) underemployment and unemployment;
(C) homelessness;
(D) domestic abuse;
(E) violent, property, white-collar, and organized crime;
(F) water, air, and noise pollution at the household and national level;
(G) the loss of farmland and productive soils, including soil quality degradation;
(H) the loss of natural wetlands, primary forest area, and other at-risk ecosystems;
(I) high amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions;
(J) the depletion of the ozone layer;
(K) the depletion of nonrenewable sources of energy;
(L) lost leisure time due to traffic congestion; and
(M) accidents involving motor vehicles.
The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 166, the gentlewoman from Minnesota (Ms. Omar) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Minnesota.
Ms. OMAR. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Chair, I rise today to call on Congress to take up economic measurement tools that will uplift all Americans.
My amendment would add factors from the genuine progress indicator to register budgetary reporting. GPI would supplement the information we get from traditional measures like GDP, which mainly emphasizes growth for its own sake.
GPI would provide a more accurate and inclusive assessment of economic well-being. It evaluates the positive and negative factors of economic activity ranging from the benefits of infrastructure and workforce development to the process costs of income inequality and pollution on our collective well-being.
It would give us the chance to finally account for important but overlooked aspects of society such as wealth distribution, economic sustainability, and the overall quality of life for everyday Americans.
We must recognize that collective prosperity is only attainable if we identify the gaps and barriers preventing our most vulnerable communities from thriving.
My amendment simply seeks to give lawmakers more comprehensive data so that we can make more informed policy decisions.
Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to vote for this amendment in order to focus our policy lens on the lives of working and poor families in America.
Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
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Mr. COMER. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Kentucky is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. COMER. Mr. Chairman, my colleague's amendment, unlike some others offered, would not eliminate requirements for inflation-impacted assessments. What it would do is overburden the assessments with a host of issues that do not have much to do with inflation.
What are those issues? The list is quite extensive, but let me highlight a few. There are the annual economic values of publicly provided goods and services, higher education, and time spent on leisure activities and outdoor recreation. There are the annual economic costs of lost leisure time due to traffic congestion, accidents involving motor vehicles, and the depletion of the ozone layer.
In other words, inflation would no longer be the bill's focus. Under this amendment, it would just be one factor among many other things, but that is how we got to where we are. Inflation is running rampant precisely because the administration is ignoring the inflationary impact of its policies, and it is ignoring the deep harm that inflation is inflicting on the American people. That is why inflation should be the focus of this bill.
Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this amendment, and I reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. OMAR. Mr. Chairman, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Raskin).
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Chairman, I thank the distinguished gentlewoman from Minnesota for yielding.
Just to recap where we are from yesterday, the whole Congress eagerly awaited to hear what the big anti-inflation initiative would be coming from the GOP side of the aisle. In the past, Richard Nixon had offered wage and price controls. Herbert Hoover, of course, had dismantled all social spending. What was going to be the big plan coming from the Republican side? The big plan is to ask for the President of the United States, when he issues executive orders, to add inflation estimates.
Of course, there is no study showing that executive orders have had any impact on inflation or deflation in the country, so it seems now we are on a real wild goose chase where people are pasting all different kinds of things on it.
The gentlewoman from Minnesota actually comes forward with a very interesting idea, which would be a wonderful thing to talk about if we had a real hearing in the Oversight Committee about the subject. What she is saying is that a number of States, including my State, Maryland, have adopted the genuine progress indicator as a real index of social and economic well-being in their communities.
What this does is it doesn't count negative things like the costs of car accidents and asbestos poisoning as part of GDP. Right now, there are so many negative things that are included as part of GDP. The genuine progress indicator has, I believe, 26 different factors that measure actual progress in social and economic well-being.
If we are going to go down this road without a hearing, without any real analysis, and this is going to be the majority's approach to dealing with inflation, then, by all means, let's include the genuine progress indicator.
Mr. COMER. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
Ms. OMAR. Mr. Chairman, as my colleague on the other side of the aisle admittedly said, this is just another factor that gives us more tools, more ability to fully comprehend what is happening with our economy.
Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to support this amendment and vote
``yes.''
The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Minnesota (Ms. Omar).
The amendment was rejected.
Amendment No. 12 Offered by Mr. Perry
The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 12 printed in House Report 118-4.
Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Page 3, line 11, strike ``$1,000,000,000'' and insert
``$1,000,000''.
The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 166, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Pennsylvania.
Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chairman, the underlying bill requires the President to have prepared for the American people and consider the inflation impacts of all major executive orders. This provides transparency to the American people of the economic impacts of such executive orders.
At the Rules Committee last night, the minority raised concerns that these requirements would apply to a limited number of circumstances. This amendment actually appeases these concerns by lowering the threshold at which an executive order is considered major for the requirements of the bill from $1 billion to $1 million.
This reduced threshold will ensure the President is required to assess the inflationary impacts of significantly more executive orders than the underlying bill would require, which actually increases the amount of transparency provided by this bill.
I am sure the minority would agree with increased transparency. They asked for it just last night. They asked for it just in the last debate over the last amendment.
Mr. Chairman, I am sure we have all heard from our constituents about the impact of inflation. This amendment allows us to expand our efforts to address their concerns.
While some of my friends on the other side of the aisle might say, well, we need a different index, or we need an additional index, here is what the American people don't need: They don't need some report of progress or you name whatever you want to name it.
What the American people know is this: When they go to the store, everything they are buying costs more. It is unaffordable. When they go to the gas station to try to fill up their tank, it costs them more. When they go to the lumberyard, when they go to the bank, when they try to buy a new home, everything costs more.
They don't need some index to tell them that the cost of living is going up and something is causing it, and one of the things is this. Regardless of which party is in power in the executive branch, executive orders would maybe actually reduce the cost of inflation. We need to know that, too. We just want to know what the answer is regardless of which way. This amendment would provide for that.
Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Maryland is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Chairman, now we move from the ludicrous to the absurd to the sublime.
Yesterday, they wanted a report from the President upon issuance of an executive order for executive orders having an inflationary impact or having an economic impact of $1 billion. Today, they have gone to one one-thousandth of that. They want a report for every $1 million.
The gentleman points out that I observed yesterday that it would apply to only a handful of executive orders, which is absolutely right. I wasn't arguing or wasn't concerned, as he said, that it applies to too few cases. I was just reflecting about how silly the whole exercise was.
They didn't even seem to understand how few executive orders it would apply to, just like they forgot to put into the legislation a requirement that it actually be published, something that was remedied yesterday in the Boebert amendment.
In any event, Mr. Chairman, now they want an inflationary estimate statement when there is an executive order that has $1 million economic impact, which, by my quick calculation here, is three one-hundred-
thousandths of 1 percent of the $26 trillion U.S. economy. It is a fraction of the budget of the Oversight Committee itself. We may as well be saying we should register what the inflationary impact is of the majority and minority budgets in the Oversight Committee.
Obviously, this is an exercise in futility, in silliness. They are finger painting on their own legislation, which itself is not based on any legislative process, based on any hearing, and it obviously does nothing to reduce inflation.
That, however, is what this administration has been working on. Of course, they don't talk about unemployment anymore, which they used to talk about, because President Biden's administration created 12 million new jobs, whereas the last President destroyed millions of jobs. The economy has come roaring back under the Biden administration, just like the Biden administration is actually bringing inflation down.
Example: Check out the Inflation Reduction Act. Everybody who is on insulin in America under the Medicare program is now paying only $35 a month. Now, we know that they opposed that. We know they wanted to repeal that provision. I think they still do want to repeal that provision, but that was a very concrete action, to lower prescription drug prices for diabetics within the Medicare program. They have been lowered across the board within the Medicare program.
That is the kind of specific programmatic action that the Biden administration has undertaken, not a silly reporting bill, which some days is applying to a billion dollars, some days it is applying to a million dollars. There is no rhyme or reason to what they are doing.
Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chair, I will just say this. I am not from Maryland, and I don't live around the beltway here, where everything is just fine. I live up in Pennsylvania, where $1 billion or $1 million is a lot of money to hardworking people who get up in the dark of night and head out to work. A million dollars is a lot of money, and they would like to know where we are spending it here.
Mr. Chair, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Comer), the chairman of the committee.
Mr. COMER. Mr. Chair, I rise in support of the Perry amendment.
My colleague's amendment extends the bill's coverage to executive orders with annual impacts of $1 million or more. This makes sure inflation assessments will be prepared for most executive orders.
This is not an undue burden on the President. Even at President Biden's relatively blistering pace, he has issued only 107 executive orders over more than 2 years.
I submit that, with today's sky-high inflation continuing and with no clear end in sight, it is important that the inflationary impacts of most of President Biden's executive orders should be assessed. If my colleague's amendment is adopted, they will be.
Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on this amendment.
Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chair, may I inquire as to the time remaining.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania has 2 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Maryland has 2 minutes remaining.
Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Chairman, I don't know that there is much left to say on the substance of this amendment.
I did hear my colleague from Pennsylvania make some sort of disparaging remark about Maryland and about how he didn't live in Maryland, where, apparently, we don't understand the value of money.
Well, the land where we actually are standing today used to be part of Maryland. It was ceded by Maryland to Congress for the purpose of creating the District of Columbia.
When our Capitol came under attack by violent insurrectionists and those who were chanting ``hang Mike Pence'' and who were determined to overthrow the 2020 Presidential election, there were hundreds of police officers who came from Maryland to join the Metropolitan Police Department and the Capitol Police officers in defense of the Capitol of the United States.
I take umbrage at any insinuation that the people of Maryland need to take a back seat to anybody in terms of the defense of the principles of this country. I would thank Mr. Perry for a correction about that.
Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chair, let me just say this. There were no disparaging remarks about Maryland, only the fact that people in Pennsylvania understand the value of $1 million or $1 billion, and they want to know how it is being spent in Washington, D.C. It is their government. The citizens of the United States, it is their government, and it is their tax money.
This amendment seeks to provide that transparency so that they know the effect of executive orders coming out of the White House, how it affects their wallet. They should know that. We should all be for that.
If you want to discuss the Inflation Reduction Act, you can call any bill here anything you want to. You can call it kids are beautiful and the Sun is going to shine today. But here is what I know: In central Pennsylvania, where I live, the good citizens that I represent are paying $5, $6, $7 for a dozen eggs. They are paying $6, $7 for a pound of hamburger. They can't afford to drive to work. They can't afford to pay their energy bills. They are having a hard time paying their mortgage.
That is inflation, sir. That is inflation, to the good gentleman from Maryland. Part of that is caused by the White House's edicts that impose things on the American people. They want to know and have the right to know what that is so they can inform their votes.
Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Chairman, yes, the prices of housing are too high, and the prices of groceries are too high. That is why the administration is working concretely to lower prices and why inflation is coming down now across the board.
What do we get from the majority today? They want a reporting bill about the inflationary impact in executive orders, nothing even about what Congress is doing and how Congress is behaving and contributing to inflation. They want to somehow add a technical reporting requirement for executive orders and think that is accomplishing something.
The administration is lowering the cost of student debt despite the fact that they are doing everything they can to stop it. The administration is acting to lower housing prices across the country. We have moved to lower prescription drug prices and healthcare across the country. They have been fighting us every step along the way. Instead, they come back with this reporting bill, which, again, will do nothing to help the fight against inflation.
Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
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The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry).
The amendment was agreed to.
Amendment No. 13 Offered by Mr. Perry
The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 13 printed in House Report 118-4.
Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Page 2, line 11, after ``index'', insert the following:
``(including a detailed description of such impact)''.
The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 166, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Pennsylvania.
Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chair, as we all should know by now, this bill requires the President to consider for any major executive order the impact of the executive order on inflation. I mean, the President is the President of the United States and the well-being of every citizen should be of the President's concern, and I believe it is.
When the American people have been suffering this inflation for years, it makes sense to require the President, no matter which party, to at least consider the impact of his actions on the American people, because they don't have any choice in the matter till the next election.
This amendment requires for executive orders that are found to have an impact on the Consumer Price Index--we have got to have some measure, right? Most people recognize the Consumer Price Index--a detailed description of that impact so that we can all be on the same page and we can all reference the same data point.
Folks, this is common sense, and it is reasonable. The way this bill is currently written, I support the bill. The statement prepared by the President must simply include whether it has an impact on inflation and maybe the impact is to lower inflation. That would be awesome.
I think we are going to have to wait a couple years until we get a President that actually does that. So be it, we will accept that, even this legislation under a new President that lowers the cost of inflation by executive order.
The current bill doesn't talk about the extent of the impact, which is what this amendment seeks to remedy. This amendment requires that statement to provide actual information on the extent of the impact regarding the Consumer Price Index.
With that, Mr. Chairman, I urge adoption of this amendment, and I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Maryland is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Chair, I am afraid I remain unilluminated as to what that amendment will do. Apparently, the purpose is to require a more detailed or technical description of the projected impact, or when an assessment required by the bill finds that there will be some inflationary effect.
Again, this sounds like it is simply adding more bureaucracy, more paperwork with no return on investment for the taxpayer dollars that it would obviously take to conduct such an analysis. I mean, here we have gone for more than two centuries with apparently no economist arguing that what we really need to stop inflation is more reporting in the process of issuance of executive orders by Presidents of the United States.
Suddenly, somebody had a great epiphany over there, without even a legislative hearing, that what was really needed was just for the President of the United States to append an inflationary statement to executive orders at the rate of a billion dollars, perhaps to be amended to a million dollars.
Who knows if it is 50 million or 100 million, but it doesn't make any difference because there is no data behind any of it. There is no analysis. You may as well spin a wheel and pick a number at which a report is going to be compelled by the majority here for the so-called REIN IN Act, which stands for the Reduce Exacerbated Inflation Negatively Impacting the Nation Act.
You could go by other titles, including the running on empty index, no new ideas, none act, since basically they are scraping the bottom to try to figure out something to say about inflation, because the administration is actually bringing inflation down.
Now, we notice they don't talk about unemployment, which used to be their mantra: jobs, jobs, jobs. But when Joe Biden came back and created 12 million new jobs after the last administration destroyed millions of jobs with their lethal recklessness in the mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic and Joe Biden turned it around in this administration, they stopped talking about it.
However, they did notice that there was global inflation going on because of the disruption of the global supply chain and because of Vladimir Putin's filthy, imperialist invasion of Ukraine, which some of their Members actually are cheerleaders for, then there was a real problem with inflation.
The administration has steadily been bringing it down, which is why it doesn't have quite the political salience it used to, but the world was waiting with bated breath to determine what their actual plan would be and, alas, their whole plan is a reporting requirement. Nothing to do with Congress and Congress being able to do anything, but a reporting requirement for the President when he issues executive orders.
I think the public is gravely disappointed by this complete collapse of any real commitment to the one issue they thought they had organized their conference around.
Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chair, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Comer), chairman of the House Oversight Committee.
Mr. COMER. Mr. Chair, I rise in support of the Perry amendment.
The one thing that has become clearly obvious to me, Mr. Chairman, is the fact that my friends on the other side of the aisle, they have no idea how much inflation this administration's policies have created for the American people.
That is the perfect reason why we need to support this bill, as amended; if for no other reason, so we can help our friends on the other side of the aisle have some type of measurement so they can see how damaging their policies and their out-of-control spending has been on everyday, average Americans when they go to the grocery store, when they fill up their gas tank, when they try to pay their rents now.
My colleague's amendment is a wise one. This bill requires inflation impact assessments to be prepared for the President's executive orders, but as we all know, the executive branch routinely does as little as possible to comply with assessment and reporting requirements Congress imposes on it.
This amendment makes sure the executive branch will include in its inflation impact assessments detailed descriptions of the effects the President's executive orders have on inflation, not just back-of-the-
envelope sketches.
In other words, it makes sure the executive branch will comply with the spirit of the bill, not just its letter.
Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on the Perry amendment.
Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chair, may I inquire as to how much time is remaining.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.
Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chairman, the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Raskin), my friend, talks about increased bureaucracy, the increased bureaucracy of informing the American people.
My goodness. My goodness. I have never heard that from my friends on the other side of the aisle, ``increased bureaucracy.'' I mean, all they do around here is infuse more government into our lives with every single thing they do.
The gentleman talks about the medical situation and price-fixing. He doesn't call it price-fixing, but that is what it is. It is price-
fixing. More bureaucracy taking more drugs off the market, more lifesaving research off the market, but they are good with that.
They talk about 12 million new jobs, but don't talk about the fact that in one of the reporting periods a million jobs were created but then it was only months later we find out that only 10,000 were created.
Oh, and that first report? Right before the election. Interesting how that happened.
He doesn't want to talk about that or the workforce participation rate. He talks about lowering inflation. You can talk about that all you want to but people that pay for things don't experience it. So you can say it is true, but the reality is that it is not true. All these years he has been saying it is unnecessary to do this.
My goodness. My good friend from Maryland is a member of the legislature. You would think he would want to preserve the power of the legislature instead of handing it to the executive branch, which is what this place has done for years upon years.
Now we have a chance, and my friend wants to hand yet more power to the executive branch instead of preserving the power of the branch that he serves in.
Mr. Chairman, I urge adoption of the amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Chairman, one can only regard with amazement the gentleman's insinuation that I want to hand power to the executive branch when we have been acting here in Congress to pass the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and to pass the Inflation Reduction Act in the last Congress.
All of the measures they oppose, we moved in order to make real economic progress in the country. Congress was doing that.
They have a big opportunity today to come forward with what their anti-inflation agenda is. Their whole anti-inflation agenda is: we are going to beg the President of the United States to append some inflation numbers to an executive order, to a handful of executive orders over the course of the year.
The gentleman also, I think, slipped in his opposition to our legislation, which reduces to $35 a month what diabetics have to pay for their insulin shots. He calls this price-fixing.
My friend from Pennsylvania is invited to contradict me if I misunderstood him. I think he was describing all of the lowering of prescription drug prices we have done.
We are saving millions of Americans across the country thousands of dollars in their Medicare prescription drug prices, and the gentleman just called that price-fixing. I assume he is opposed to it.
Mr. Chair, I am happy to yield, if he would like to correct me, but otherwise I am going to go back with the conclusion that you are opposed to all of the lowering of the prescription drug prices that the Congress actually engaged in in the 117th Congress.
Finally, the gentleman would like to somehow put in our court the burden of bureaucracy.
Well, let's talk about the major bureaucracy that is being put in place in America today to violate the rights and the freedom of women to make their own medical decisions as they try to criminalize that.
I don't know exactly where the gentleman is--perhaps he can clarify it--most of them support a national ban on abortion, taking what was a constitutional right for more than a half century and turning it into a felony criminal offense or a misdemeanor criminal offense.
You want to talk about bureaucracy? You want to talk about police state? That is on you.
Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry).
The amendment was agreed to.
Amendment No. 14 Offered by Mr. Roy
The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 14 printed in House Report 118-4.
Mr. ROY. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Page 3, beginning on line 11, strike ``, but'' and all that follows through ``Tribe'' on line 24.
The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 166, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas.
Mr. ROY. Mr. Chairman, I rise today to offer an amendment to this underlying piece of legislation to ensure that it applies to everything. I don't believe that we should be in the business of exempting certain executive orders. I think they should apply across the board.
My amendment would strike the exceptions to the bill's inflation estimates for executive orders that provide emergency assistance or relief or related to national security.
I don't believe that we should be pulling out of the calculation those executive orders that touch on national security simply because, frankly, often my colleagues on both sides of the aisle want to be able to use ``emergency'' for all manner of sins, and they want to be able to use the Defense Department to hide behind all manner of sins and expenditures.
The underlying bill is actually an important piece of legislation, despite what my colleague from Maryland is saying.
Why? Because the executive orders being offered by this administration, and frankly by many administrations, do have an actual and significant inflationary impact.
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We are allowing the executive branch to run amuck. We are allowing the executive branch to essentially legislate and make massive policies that have an enormous impact on everyday, hardworking American people.
That is why this legislation is important. Unlike our colleagues on the other side of the aisle who like to use the power of government to be able to actually put gasoline on the fire of inflation by spending more money, by engaging government into the business of the American people, we want to be able to look at information about what government is doing to cause the problem in the first place.
For example, the President's executive order on vaccine mandates. You don't believe that had a massive inflationary impact to go around this country, forcing people to stick a needle in their arm or lose their job, causing all sorts of constraints in labor supply, making it difficult for people to carry out their jobs?
You don't believe that the executive orders on minimum wage, the executive orders on the Keystone pipeline, and other limitations on Federal oil and gas leases, the executive orders with respect to WOTUS and NEPA and all sorts of environmental rules and regulations that restrict the ability of the American people to create wealth, create jobs, create opportunities; you don't believe those create inflationary impact?
Of course they do. Our job in Congress is to check the executive branch. Our job in Congress is to stand up for the American people and get the government out of their lives.
This amendment is designed to make sure that we are going to apply it equally to all manners of the executive orders produced by the President, regardless of party. We believe that it is critically important.
Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
The Acting CHAIR: The gentleman from Maryland is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. RASKIN. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Jeffries), the distinguished minority leader.
Mr. JEFFRIES. Mr. Chair, I thank the distinguished gentleman from the great State of Maryland for his tremendous leadership.
I rise today in opposition to the amendment, as well as to the underlying bill, the so-called REIN ACT, which is not really designed to do anything meaningful in terms of addressing the economic concerns of the American people.
That is consistent with the fact that over the last 2 months of this extreme MAGA Republican majority, they have been focused on doing anything but dealing with the real kitchen-table pocketbook concerns of the American people.
Over the last year or so, all we heard was that this extreme MAGA Republican majority was going to try to address the economic concerns of everyday Americans.
So we have been waiting and waiting and waiting for the big, grand Republican plan--waiting for it, notwithstanding the fact that President Biden's administration has done a tremendous job pulling us out of a once-in-a-century pandemic, and in partnership with Democrats through the American Rescue Plan, saved the economy from a deep recession, put shots in arms, money in pockets, kids back in school, invested in the infrastructure of this country, which will create millions of good-paying jobs; passed the CHIPS and Science Act to bring domestic manufacturing jobs back home to the United States of America; passed the Inflation Reduction Act to strike a dramatic blow against the climate crisis, set our planet on a sustainable trajectory forward; strengthened the Affordable Care Act, lower healthcare costs, drive down the high price of lifesaving prescription drugs for millions of Americans, including many on insulin, which will now be reduced to $35 a month.
That is the economic record of this administration: 12 million good-
paying jobs created over the last 2 years, record unemployment.
Yes, we still have challenges that we need to address as we try to emerge from this inflationary environment that has afflicted the entire world.
Oh, by the way, the United States' economy has emerged from COVID in a better position than any other developed country because of the Biden economic plan and the partnership with House Democrats and Senate Democrats.
But we have been waiting and waiting and waiting for the grand Republican plan, and here it is, the so-called REIN IN Act. Three pages. Three pages.
What does it call for? Reports. Reports. It is the grand Republican economic plan. Why? Because you have been focused on the wrong things.
Now, House Democrats, we are going to continue to invest in the American people, invest in education and job training, invest in transportation and infrastructure, invest in research and development, invest in technology and innovation, invest in the creation and preservation of affordable housing, invest in the health, the safety, the economic well-being of the American people.
That is our plan. We are going to continue to put people over politics. We get three pages calling for reports, the so-called REIN IN Act.
Here is what we should be reining in. We should be reining in the extreme MAGA Republican effort to cut Social Security.
We should rein in the extreme MAGA Republican effort to cut Medicare; rein in the extreme MAGA Republican effort to criminalize reproductive freedom and impose a nationwide ban; rein in the extreme MAGA Republican effort to crash the United States' economy and default on our debt for the first time in American history.
We should be reining in your effort to hand over sensitive security footage from the January 6 violent insurrection to an avowed conspiracy theorist. That is what we should be reining in.
A three-page plan calling for reports is not a serious effort to address the challenges facing the American people, but we will continue to be serious about putting people over politics, fighting for lower costs, fighting for better-paying jobs, fighting for safer communities, fighting for reproductive freedom, and defending our democracy at all costs.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman for his extraordinarily insightful and significant remarks.
The only exception I would take is when he referred to extreme MAGA. We actually had a colloquy about this yesterday with the good gentlewoman from Colorado.
I had gently suggested that perhaps our colleagues on the other side of the aisle could stop referring to ``Democrat Congresswomen'' with
``Democrat plans'' and ``Democrat bills.''
``Democrat'' is a noun. The adjective is ``Democratic.'' So it would be the ``Democratic Congresswoman,'' the ``Democratic bill,'' and so on.
I said it grates on our ears the same ways it would grate on your ears if every time we invoke the name of your party, we said the
``banana Republican Congresswoman'' or the ``banana Republican Member'' or the ``banana Republican Conference.'' That, we would consider a breach of civility and decorum, so would we prefer to go back to something else.
Yet, the gentlewoman from Colorado said, if I understood her correctly, that she would continue with her deliberate mispronunciation of the name of our party in its adjectival form.
By the way, she took the opportunity to raise the whole question of MAGA, which I had not mentioned. She said, and when you call me MAGA, don't call me MAGA--call me ultra-MAGA.
So when the minority leader referred to the extreme MAGA element, which appears to be driving the train over there, he should have called it the ultra-MAGA element out of deference to the gentlewoman from Colorado.
I certainly will be able to honor her wishes in the future as she chooses to be described as ultra-MAGA.
Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. ROY. Mr. Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Kentucky
(Mr. Comer), my friend.
Mr. COMER. Mr. Chair, I rise in support of the Roy amendment. My colleague's amendment removes exceptions in the bill to the requirement that inflation impact assessments be prepared for all major executive orders.
With historic inflation created by this administration's inflationary policies, as well as the previous House majority's excessive, unnecessary spending spree, historic inflation is harming households across the Nation.
Our focus should be on doing everything we can to protect our constituents against further inflation. Extending the bill's requirement to all major executive orders is one way we can do that, and that will not unduly burden the President.
After all, the bill's requirements do not prevent any executive order from being issued. They just make sure the President is aware of the inflationary impact that his orders may threaten because I don't think my friends on the other side of the aisle realize how much these orders have impacted inflation.
So I hope that this helps stop the Bidenflation at its source by helping President Biden to see that the inflationary consequences of his actions at the time he is considering them. I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes''.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Chair, may I inquire as to how much time is remaining?
The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Bucshon). The gentleman from Maryland has 2\1/
2\ minutes remaining.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Chair, so I believe our colleagues are coming clean. They opposed the American Rescue Act, which was absolutely essential legislation to get the country out of the Trump economic wreckage during the last administration.
We had 14.8 percent unemployment; the highest unemployment rate since the Department of Labor started keeping statistics.
Today it is down to 4 percent with the creation of 12 million new jobs under the Biden administration. So they shift the subject from unemployment, which they used to talk about, to inflation.
Well, they raised the debt limit themselves three times under Donald Trump who contributed 25 percent of the entire debt of the Nation between George Washington and Joe Biden.
Mr. Chair, 25 percent all came from the Trump administration, but they are looking for something to try to pin on Biden.
So rather than acknowledging that Putin's war in Russia and the disruption of the global supply chains caused by the coronavirus pandemic created a global inflation, and America is doing much better bringing it down than anybody else, they decide just to try to demonize and vilify Joe Biden.
Why? Because the cabinet is empty. The cupboard is bare. There are no ideas over there, as the distinguished minority leader said.
They are not offering any ideas--some reporting requirements, and they are doodling on that; should it be a billion or a million or hundred million.
Who knows? There has been no hearing on it, so they are making it up as they go along on the floor of the House. We can do much better as we did in the 117th Congress to get America moving again.
I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. ROY. Mr. Chair, may I inquire as to how much time is remaining?
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.
Mr. ROY. Mr. Chair, the question seems to be about we have nothing allegedly in the cupboard, nothing to offer. I think there is plenty to offer.
How about stop spending money we don't have? How about stop dumping trillions of dollars into the economy, jamming up inflation?
How about ending all of the subsidies and all of the Federal expenditures that are undermining the American people's ability to create wealth and create jobs?
The gentleman talks about the amount of debt that was increased under President Trump. How about the 43 to 45 percent of our entire debt that was increased under Nancy Pelosi as Speaker?
Because those are the actual facts, and this is the body that has the power of the purse. This is the body that starts all the spending. We know where the spending starts.
The fact of the matter is my colleagues on the other side of the aisle like to talk about creating 12 million jobs.
First of all, this body doesn't create jobs. The government doesn't create jobs. The American people create jobs.
The fact is our labor participation rate is still far behind pre-
COVID levels. We are basically playing catch-up to the utter destruction that was levied against the American people by government, against the American people, shutting down this economy, locking our kids in the corners, setting our kids back generations in terms of their academic performance, and criticizing three-page bills.
I will tell you what. It is a far cry better than the 4,100-page,
$1.7 trillion omnibus bill jammed through by the Democrats in December, destroying this economy.
Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Chairman, it is always a pleasure to hear my friend from Texas, Mr. Roy, who mentions something which sounded like a substantive suggestion about ending corporate subsidies, or perhaps I intuited or interpreted that.
If he wants to work on legislation with me on ending corporate welfare and corporate subsidies in America, I would love to do that.
That would be a serious step in the right direction, and I would love to work with him on that.
I take it by his suggestion that we rein in spending, something that I referred to when we talked about the Republicans raising the debt limit three times under Donald Trump, they had no problem with doing it back then and creating all of this debt, and we know that the former President was spending like a drunken sailor.
I take it that by not mentioning the legislation anymore, he is basically conceding that this bill will do nothing to bring down the inflation rate. It certainly will not. I don't know if they have been able to mobilize a single economist in the country who would argue that passing this legislation will bring the inflation rate down.
Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
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The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy).
The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes appeared to have it.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas will be postponed.
Amendment No. 15 Offered by Mr. Yakym
The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Lawler). It is now in order to consider amendment No. 15 printed in House Report 118-4.
Mr. YAKYM. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Page 2, line 3, strike ``For'' and insert the following:
(1) In general.--For
Page 2, after line 14, insert the following:
(2) CPI impact disaggregated.--If an Executive order is determined to have a quantifiable inflationary impact on the consumer price index under subsection (a), the statement required by such subsection shall include the amount of such impact on the consumer price index in total and disaggregated by the Food, Energy, and All Items Less Food and Energy categories of the consumer price index (as such categories are determined by the Secretary of Labor in consultation with the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics).
The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 166, the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Yakym) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Indiana.
Mr. YAKYM. Mr. Chair, my amendment is a simple one. It would require that the President's inflation analysis include not just a top-line estimate but also a breakdown to the CPI's three major subgroups: food, energy, and all items less food and energy.
Americans are navigating inflation rates not seen in generations, and their dollar isn't going far enough because wages aren't keeping up. It is no wonder that a recent Gallup poll found that 50 percent of Americans say they are worse off financially than just a year ago, and that is a level not seen since the Great Recession.
Let me be clear: We have this generational inflation thanks to 2 years of runaway spending. I will grant that the pandemic caused massive disruptions to our economy, supply chains, and our way of life. It was going to be a bumpy ride coming out of that.
However, policies like the American Rescue Plan that were rammed through Congress without a single Republican vote threw gasoline on the fire and supercharged inflation. With one hand, the government was giving away money, and with the other hand, they were taking it right back, and then some, due to inflation.
Yet, Americans have essentially been told not to believe their lying eyes. They were assured that inflation would merely be ``transitory,'' even as it spiraled higher. They were told it was all Vladimir Putin's fault, even though energy inflation averaged just over 21 percent in 2021, the year before Russia invaded Ukraine.
Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act--again, without a single Republican vote. The only problem with the Inflation Reduction Act is that it doesn't actually reduce inflation.
Everyday Americans' experience with inflation has made one thing abundantly clear: Not all inflation is created equal. Energy and food inflation are particularly harmful. There is no more kitchen-table issue than food inflation. There is no more readily available reminder of the toll of inflation than the price at the pump.
Energy and food inflation impact every single American and hit those living paycheck to paycheck especially hard. Seniors and others on fixed incomes have watched helplessly as costs have risen beyond their ability to keep up.
My amendment will ensure that the President keeps food and energy costs front and center before signing an executive order by breaking out the inflation analysis down to CPI's three main subgroups: food, energy, and all items less food and energy.
An overall inflation figure is not enough. Last month's inflation reading showed a 6.4 percent year-over-year rise in top-line inflation, but let's drill down one level deeper. Food inflation was 10.1 percent, and energy inflation was 8.7. This has been the story for the last 2 years. Energy inflation has outpaced overall inflation for 24 of the last 24 months, and food inflation has outpaced overall inflation for 13.
The top-line number simply doesn't tell the entire story. Drilling down one level deeper in the inflation analysis will increase transparency for the American people. It will focus attention not just on inflation but on the type of inflation.
If the President wants to sign an executive order that, for example, bans new energy production, the American people deserve to know how that order will impact energy inflation.
Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to support my amendment, and I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Maryland is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman for introducing his amendment, which would add yet another reporting dimension to this already wasteful, bureaucratic paperwork exercise when what the American people need, deserve, and are getting from the Biden administration is real, tangible action to bring down prices in America.
What are we doing? Well, here is one of the things we are doing for older people who disproportionately depend on prescription drugs and people battling illness right now: We have dramatically lowered the cost of prescription drugs in the Medicare program for millions and millions of Americans.
We just heard someone on the other side of the aisle, the gentleman from Pennsylvania, call this price fixing. Well, here is an example of the price fixing that President Biden and the Democratic majority are engaged in. We fixed the price for people who were paying thousands of dollars for insulin shots. We fixed it by putting it down to $35 a month, and they oppose it.
Talk about inflation? What about inflation for diabetics? They don't count? We are not interested in inflation for diabetics, just for large corporations, the people who got more than $1 trillion in a tax cut from the last President? That is who we care about?
We don't care about millions of people who have diabetes in the country, who are spending thousands of dollars a year to pay for their insulin shots? Well, we cut that inflation down to $35 a month, and we get a lecture from them about how that doesn't count.
The Biden administration is trying to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from people who have to pay under a staggering student loan debt today, and they are fighting us on that. They don't care about that kind of inflation. They don't care about the pocketbooks of people who are staggering under student loan debt, 43 million people. We are talking about billions of dollars. Forty-three million people will be assisted by the student loan debt executive order and initiatives taken by the Biden administration, but that doesn't count for them.
We started this series of amendments by talking about the fact that they have this self-imposed political speech impediment. They can't correctly pronounce the name of our party in its adjectival form, but I thought of a solution to this because I was reading a great book by H.W. Brands about Franklin D. Roosevelt called ``Traitor to His Class.'' In the book, he has a bunch of Roosevelt's speeches. Do you know what President Roosevelt called our party? Not the Democratic Party, much less the Democrat Party. If you can't pronounce it, do what Roosevelt did. He called us the democracy. He said the ``economic royalists,'' the corporate plutocrats, say if you invest in the wealthiest people in society, some of the wealth will trickle down on everybody else, but the democracy says you invest in the great working middle class of America, and we will all rise and prosper together. That is the doctrine of the democracy.
If you can't pronounce the name of our party, just call us the democracy. That is what we are today because we defend the right to vote, and we defend free and fair elections, and we stand by the results of elections.
We defend not only the country and our democratic allies all over the world, as in Ukraine, but we defend this body; we defend this Chamber; we defend the Capitol of the United States; and we defend the interests of the working majority of Americans.
The American people are not asking for more reports and more bureaucracy. They are asking for action, and that is what the Biden administration and Democrats in Congress are giving them.
Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. YAKYM. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Comer).
Mr. COMER. Mr. Chair, I rise in support of the amendment.
Perhaps no part of Bidenflation has been more painful than its impacts on food and energy prices. One can hardly imagine kitchen-table issues greater than those.
Bidenflation is causing food prices to skyrocket, as well as the prices for energy to cook it and the prices of the gasoline needed to get to the market. The list goes painfully on.
My colleague's amendment makes sure that when the President is considering major executive orders, he will be informed in a crystal-
clear way of the inflationary impacts his orders may have on food and energy prices. It is my hope that will bring some relief to our constituents at their kitchen tables.
Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on this amendment.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Chair, the Biden administration brought Trump's unemployment rate, which was skyrocketing, down. We went from 14.8 percent to less than 4 percent, creating 12 million new jobs.
Now, President Biden is bringing down the soaring inflation rate he inherited because of the massive disruption in global supply chains caused by the lethal recklessness of the Trump administration in mismanaging the pandemic response.
We are saying, let's finish the job. Just as we brought unemployment down, we are bringing inflation down. We are making the American economy work for the American people through strategic investments like the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a $1.2 trillion investment in the roads, the highways, the bridges, the ports, the airports, and broadband across the country, in rural areas.
President Biden is fighting for investment in the American people, and that is what the Democrats are fighting for, not a bunch of reports. We don't need this legislation.
Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. YAKYM. Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to support this amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.
The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Yakym).
The amendment was agreed to.
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings will now resume on those amendments on which further proceedings were postponed, in the following order:
Amendment No. 1 by Mr. Bost of Illinois.
Amendment No. 3 by Mrs. Boebert of Colorado.
Amendment No. 6 by Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas.
Amendment No. 7 by Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas.
Amendment No. 9 by Mrs. Lee of Nevada.
Amendment No. 14 by Mr. Roy of Texas.
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. Bost
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois
(Mr. Bost) 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 324, noes 83, not voting 32, as follows:
AYES--324
Aderholt Alford Allen Allred Amodei Armstrong Arrington Auchincloss Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Balint Banks Barr Bean (FL) Bentz Bergman Beyer Bice Biggs Bishop (GA) Bishop (NC) Boebert Bost Brecheen Buchanan Bucshon Budzinski Burchett Burgess Burlison Calvert Caraveo Carbajal Carey Carl Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Case Castor (FL) Chavez-DeRemer Ciscomani Cline Cloud Clyde Cole Collins Comer Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crane Crawford Crenshaw Crow Cuellar Curtis D'Esposito Davids (KS) Davidson Davis (NC) De La Cruz DeGette DeLauro DelBene DeSaulnier DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Dingell Donalds Duarte Duncan Dunn (FL) Edwards Ellzey Emmer Escobar Eshoo Estes Ezell Fallon Feenstra Ferguson Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fletcher Flood Foster Foxx Frankel, Lois Franklin, C. Scott Fry Fulcher Gaetz Gallagher Gallego Garbarino Garcia (TX) Garcia, Mike Gimenez Golden (ME) Gonzales, Tony Gonzalez, Vicente Gonzalez-Colon Good (VA) Gooden (TX) Gosar Gottheimer Granger Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green (TN) Green, Al (TX) Greene (GA) Griffith Guest Guthrie Hageman Harder (CA) Harris Harshbarger Hern Higgins (LA) Hill Himes Hinson Horsford Houchin Hoyer Hoyle (OR) Hudson Huizenga Hunt Issa Jackson (NC) James Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (PA) Kaptur Kean (NJ) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Khanna Kiggans (VA) Kildee Kiley Kilmer Kim (CA) Kim (NJ) Krishnamoorthi Kuster LaHood LaLota LaMalfa Lamborn Landsman Langworthy Latta LaTurner Lawler Lee (CA) Lee (FL) Lee (NV) Leger Fernandez Lesko Letlow Levin Loudermilk Lucas Luetkemeyer Luna Luttrell Lynch Mace Magaziner Malliotakis Mann Manning Massie Mast Matsui McBath McCaul McClain McClintock McCollum McCormick Meuser Mfume Miller (IL) Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Mills Molinaro Moolenaar Mooney Moore (AL) Moore (UT) Moran Morelle Moskowitz Moulton Moylan Mullin Murphy Neguse Newhouse Nickel Norcross Norman Nunn (IA) Obernolte Ogles Omar Owens Palmer Panetta Pappas Pascrell Payne Peltola Pence Perez Perry Peters Pettersen Pfluger Phillips Pingree Plaskett Porter Posey Quigley Radewagen Reschenthaler Rodgers (WA) Rogers (KY) Rose Rosendale Ross Rouzer Roy Ruiz Ruppersberger Rutherford Ryan Salazar Salinas Santos Schiff Schneider Scholten Schrier Schweikert Scott, Austin Scott, David Self Sessions Sewell Sherman Sherrill Slotkin Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Smucker Sorensen Soto Spartz Stansbury Stanton Stauber Steel Stefanik Steil Stevens Stewart Strickland Strong Takano Tenney Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Tiffany Timmons Titus Tokuda Tonko Torres (CA) Turner Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Van Orden Vasquez Veasey Wagner Walberg Waltz Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Wexton Williams (NY) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke
NOES--83
Adams Aguilar Barragan Beatty Bera Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bowman Boyle (PA) Brown Brownley Bush Cardenas Carson Carter (LA) Cartwright Casar Casten Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Cicilline Clark (MA) Clyburn Cohen Connolly Crockett Dean (PA) Deluzio Doggett Espaillat Evans Foushee Frost Garamendi Garcia, Robert Goldman (NY) Gomez Grijalva Hayes Higgins (NY) Ivey Jackson (IL) Jackson Lee Jacobs Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Kamlager-Dove Keating Kelly (IL) Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee (PA) Lieu McGarvey McGovern Meeks Menendez Meng Moore (WI) Nadler Napolitano Neal Norton Ocasio-Cortez Pallone Pelosi Pocan Pressley Ramirez Raskin Sanchez Scanlon Scott (VA) Sykes Tlaib Torres (NY) Trahan Underwood Velazquez Williams (GA) Wilson (FL)
NOT VOTING--32
Bilirakis Buck Cammack Castro (TX) Clarke (NY) Cleaver Davis (IL) Garcia (IL) Grothman Houlahan Huffman Jackson (TX) Joyce (OH) Kustoff Lofgren McHenry Mrvan Nehls Rogers (AL) Sablan Sarbanes Scalise Schakowsky Simpson Spanberger Steube Swalwell Trone Vargas Westerman Wild Williams (TX)
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There are 2 minutes remaining.
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Mses. BLUNT ROCHESTER, OCASIO-CORTEZ, Messrs. LARSON of Connecticut, CARTER of Louisiana, and DOGGETT changed their vote from ``aye'' to
``no.''
Messrs. KIM of New Jersey, KILDEE, Ms. DAVIDS of Kansas, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Ms. BALINT, Mrs. FLETCHER, Mr. SOTO, Ms. KUSTER, Messrs. THANEDAR, NORCROSS, SORENSEN, VEASEY, TONKO, and HARDER of California 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. GROTHMAN. Mr. Chair, I was delayed in a meeting. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye'' on rollcall No. 125.
Mr. JACKSON of Texas. Mr. Chair, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye'' on rollcall No. 125.
Amendment No. 3 Offered by Mrs. Boebert
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Colorado
(Mrs. Boebert) 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 386, noes 31, not voting 22, as follows:
AYES--386
Adams Aderholt Aguilar Alford Allen Allred Amodei Armstrong Auchincloss Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Balint Banks Barr Barragan Bean (FL) Bentz Bera Bergman Beyer Bice Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (NC) Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bost Brecheen Brown Brownley Buchanan Bucshon Budzinski Burchett Burgess Burlison Bush Calvert Cammack Caraveo Carbajal Cardenas Carey Carl Carson Carter (GA) Carter (LA) Carter (TX) Cartwright Case Casten Castor (FL) Chavez-DeRemer Chu Cicilline Ciscomani Clark (MA) Cline Cloud Clyde Cole Collins Comer Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crane Crawford Crenshaw Crow Cuellar Curtis D'Esposito Davids (KS) Davidson Davis (NC) De La Cruz Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Donalds Duarte Duncan Dunn (FL) Edwards Ellzey Emmer Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Estes Evans Ezell Fallon Feenstra Ferguson Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fletcher Flood Foster Foushee Foxx Frankel, Lois Franklin, C. Scott Fry Fulcher Gaetz Gallagher Gallego Garamendi Garbarino Garcia, Mike Gimenez Golden (ME) Goldman (NY) Gomez Gonzales, Tony Gonzalez, Vicente Gonzalez-Colon Good (VA) Gooden (TX) Gosar Gottheimer Granger Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green (TN) Green, Al (TX) Greene (GA) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hageman Harder (CA) Harris Harshbarger Hayes Hern Higgins (LA) Higgins (NY) Hill Himes Hinson Horsford Houchin Houlahan Hoyer Hoyle (OR) Hudson Huizenga Hunt Issa Ivey Jackson (IL) Jackson (NC) Jackson (TX) Jackson Lee Jacobs James Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (PA) Kaptur Kean (NJ) Kelly (IL) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Khanna Kiggans (VA) Kildee Kiley Kilmer
Kim (CA) Kim (NJ) Krishnamoorthi Kuster LaHood LaLota LaMalfa Lamborn Landsman Langworthy Larson (CT) Latta LaTurner Lawler Lee (CA) Lee (FL) Lee (NV) Leger Fernandez Lesko Letlow Levin Lieu Loudermilk Lucas Luetkemeyer Luna Luttrell Lynch Mace Magaziner Malliotakis Mann Manning Massie Mast Matsui McBath McCaul McClain McClintock McCollum McCormick McGarvey McGovern Meeks Menendez Meng Meuser Mfume Miller (IL) Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Mills Molinaro Moolenaar Mooney Moore (AL) Moore (UT) Moore (WI) Moran Morelle Moskowitz Moulton Moylan Mullin Murphy Nadler Napolitano Neguse Nehls Newhouse Nickel Norcross Norman Norton Nunn (IA) Obernolte Ogles Owens Pallone Palmer Panetta Pappas Pascrell Payne Pelosi Peltola Pence Perez Perry Peters Pettersen Pfluger Phillips Pingree Plaskett Pocan Porter Posey Quigley Radewagen Raskin Reschenthaler Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Rosendale Ross Rouzer Roy Ruiz Ruppersberger Rutherford Ryan Salazar Salinas Sanchez Santos Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Scholten Schrier Schweikert Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Scott, David Self Sessions Sewell Sherman Sherrill Slotkin Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Smucker Sorensen Soto Spanberger Spartz Stansbury Stanton Stauber Steel Stefanik Steil Stevens Stewart Strickland Strong Sykes Takano Tenney Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Tiffany Timmons Titus Tokuda Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Trahan Turner Underwood Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Van Orden Vargas Vasquez Veasey Velazquez Wagner Walberg Waltz Wasserman Schultz Watson Coleman Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Wexton Williams (NY) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke
NOES--31
Beatty Blumenauer Bowman Boyle (PA) Casar Cherfilus-McCormick Clarke (NY) Clyburn Cohen Connolly Crockett Frost Garcia (TX) Garcia, Robert Grijalva Huffman Kamlager-Dove Keating Larsen (WA) Lee (PA) Mrvan Neal Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pressley Ramirez Scanlon Tlaib Waters Williams (GA) Wilson (FL)
NOT VOTING--22
Arrington Boebert Buck Castro (TX) Cleaver Davis (IL) Garcia (IL) Joyce (OH) Kustoff Lofgren McHenry Miller-Meeks Rodgers (WA) Sablan Sarbanes Scalise Simpson Steube Swalwell Trone Wild Williams (TX)
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Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.
Ms. WILSON of Florida and Mr. ROBERT GARCIA of California changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
Ms. SANCHEZ changed her vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Stated for:
Ms. BOEBERT. Mr. Chair, my voting card did not register my vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye'' on rollcall No. 126.
Amendment No. 6 Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Texas
(Ms. Jackson Lee) 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 181, noes 236, not voting 22, as follows:
AYES--181
Adams Aguilar Allred Auchincloss Balint Barragan Beatty Bera Beyer Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bowman Boyle (PA) Brown Brownley Bush Carbajal Cardenas Carson Carter (LA) Cartwright Casar Castor (FL) Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Cicilline Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Clyburn Cohen Connolly Correa Costa Courtney Crow Cuellar Davis (NC) Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier Dingell Doggett Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Evans Fletcher Foushee Frankel, Lois Frost Gallego Garamendi Garcia (TX) Garcia, Robert Goldman (NY) Gomez Gonzalez, Vicente Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Harder (CA) Hayes Higgins (NY) Himes Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Huffman Ivey Jackson (NC) Jackson Lee Jacobs Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Kamlager-Dove Kaptur Keating Kelly (IL) Khanna Kildee Kilmer Kim (NJ) Krishnamoorthi Landsman Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee (CA) Lee (NV) Lee (PA) Leger Fernandez Lieu Lynch Magaziner Manning Matsui McBath McCollum McGarvey McGovern Meeks Menendez Meng Mfume Moore (WI) Morelle Moskowitz Mrvan Mullin Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Nickel Norcross Norton Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pallone Panetta Pascrell Payne Pelosi Peltola Peters Pettersen Phillips Pingree Plaskett Pocan Porter Pressley Quigley Ramirez Raskin Ross Ruiz Ruppersberger Salinas Sanchez Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Scholten Schrier Scott (VA) Scott, David Sherman Sherrill Slotkin Smith (WA) Soto Spanberger Stansbury Stevens Strickland Sykes Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Titus Tlaib Tokuda Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Trahan Underwood Vargas Veasey Velazquez Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Wexton Williams (GA) Wilson (FL)
NOES--236
Aderholt Alford Allen Amodei Armstrong Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Barr Bean (FL) Bentz Bergman Bice Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (NC) Bost Brecheen Buchanan Bucshon Budzinski Burchett Burgess Burlison Calvert Cammack Caraveo Carey Carl Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Case Casten Chavez-DeRemer Ciscomani Cline Cloud Clyde Cole Collins Comer Craig Crane Crawford Crenshaw Crockett Curtis D'Esposito Davids (KS) Davidson De La Cruz DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Donalds Duarte Duncan Dunn (FL) Edwards Ellzey Emmer Estes Ezell Fallon Feenstra Ferguson Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Flood Foster Foxx Franklin, C. Scott Fry Fulcher Gaetz Gallagher Garbarino Garcia, Mike Gimenez Golden (ME) Gonzales, Tony Gonzalez-Colon Good (VA) Gooden (TX) Gosar Gottheimer Granger Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green (TN) Greene (GA) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hageman Harris Harshbarger Hern Higgins (LA) Hill Hinson Houchin Hudson Huizenga Hunt Issa Jackson (IL) Jackson (TX) James Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (PA) Kean (NJ) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kiggans (VA) Kiley Kuster LaHood LaLota LaMalfa Lamborn Langworthy Latta LaTurner Lawler Lee (FL) Lesko Letlow Levin Loudermilk Lucas Luetkemeyer Luna Luttrell Mace Malliotakis Mann Massie Mast McCaul McClain McClintock McCormick Meuser Miller (IL) Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Mills Molinaro Moolenaar Mooney Moore (AL) Moore (UT) Moran Moulton Moylan Murphy Nehls Newhouse Norman Nunn (IA) Obernolte Ogles Owens Palmer Pappas Pence Perez Perry Pfluger Posey Radewagen Reschenthaler Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Rosendale Rouzer Roy Rutherford Ryan Salazar Santos Schneider Schweikert Scott, Austin Self Sessions Sewell Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smucker Sorensen Spartz Stanton Stauber Steel Stefanik Steil Stewart Strong Tenney Thompson (PA) Tiffany Timmons Turner Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Van Orden Vasquez Wagner Walberg Waltz Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Williams (NY) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke
NOT VOTING--22
Boebert Buck Castro (TX) Cleaver Davis (IL) Garcia (IL) Hoyle (OR) Joyce (OH) Kim (CA) Kustoff Lofgren McHenry Rodgers (WA) Sablan Sarbanes Scalise Steube Swalwell Takano Trone Wild Williams (TX)
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Announcement by the Acting CHAIR
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Amendment No. 7 Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Texas
(Ms. Jackson Lee) 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 187, noes 232, not voting 20, as follows:
AYES--187
Adams Aguilar Allred Auchincloss Balint Barragan Beatty Bera Beyer Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bowman Boyle (PA) Brown Brownley Bush Carbajal Cardenas Carson Carter (LA) Cartwright Casar Castor (FL) Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Cicilline Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Clyburn Cohen Connolly Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crockett Crow Cuellar Davids (KS) Davis (NC) Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier Dingell Doggett Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Evans Fletcher Foster Foushee Frankel, Lois Frost Gallego Garamendi Garcia (TX) Garcia, Robert Goldman (NY) Gomez Gonzalez, Vicente Green, Al (TX) Harder (CA) Hayes Higgins (NY) Himes Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Hoyle (OR) Huffman Ivey Jackson (IL) Jackson (NC) Jackson Lee Jacobs Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Kamlager-Dove Kaptur Keating Kelly (IL) Khanna Kildee Kilmer Kim (NJ) Krishnamoorthi Kuster Landsman Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee (CA) Lee (NV) Lee (PA) Leger Fernandez Levin Lieu Lynch Magaziner Manning Matsui McBath McCollum McGarvey McGovern Meeks Menendez Meng Mfume Moore (WI) Morelle Moskowitz Mrvan Mullin Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Nickel Norcross Norton Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pallone Panetta Pascrell Payne Pelosi Peters Pettersen Phillips Pingree Plaskett Pocan Porter Pressley Quigley Ramirez Raskin Ross Ruiz Ruppersberger Salinas Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Scholten Schrier Scott (VA) Scott, David Sewell Sherman Slotkin Smith (WA) Sorensen Soto Stansbury Stevens Strickland Sykes Takano Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Titus Tlaib Tokuda Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Trahan Underwood Vargas Veasey Velazquez Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Wexton Williams (GA) Wilson (FL)
NOES--232
Aderholt Alford Allen Amodei Armstrong Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Barr Bean (FL) Bentz Bergman Bice Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (NC) Boebert Bost Brecheen Buchanan Bucshon Budzinski Burchett Burgess Burlison Calvert Cammack Caraveo Carey Carl Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Case Casten Chavez-DeRemer Ciscomani Cline Cloud Clyde Cole Collins Comer Crane Crawford Crenshaw Curtis D'Esposito Davidson De La Cruz DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Donalds Duarte Duncan Dunn (FL) Edwards Ellzey Emmer Estes Ezell Fallon Feenstra Ferguson Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Flood Foxx Franklin, C. Scott Fry Fulcher Gaetz Gallagher Garbarino Garcia, Mike Gimenez Golden (ME) Gonzales, Tony Gonzalez-Colon Good (VA) Gooden (TX) Gosar Gottheimer Granger Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green (TN) Greene (GA) Griffith Grijalva Grothman Guest Guthrie Hageman Harris Harshbarger Hern Higgins (LA) Hill Hinson Houchin Hudson Huizenga Hunt Issa Jackson (TX) James Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (PA) Kean (NJ) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kiggans (VA) Kiley Kim (CA) LaHood LaLota LaMalfa Lamborn Langworthy Latta LaTurner Lawler Lee (FL) Lesko Letlow Loudermilk Lucas Luetkemeyer Luna Luttrell Mace Malliotakis Mann Massie Mast McCaul McClain McClintock McCormick Meuser Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Mills Molinaro Moolenaar Mooney Moore (AL) Moore (UT) Moran Moulton Moylan Murphy Nehls Newhouse Norman Nunn (IA) Obernolte Ogles Owens Palmer Pappas Pence Perry Pfluger Posey Radewagen Reschenthaler Rodgers (WA) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Rosendale Rouzer Roy Rutherford Ryan Salazar Santos Scalise Schneider Schweikert Scott, Austin Self Sessions Sherrill Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smucker Spanberger Spartz Stanton Stauber Steel Stefanik Steil Stewart Strong Tenney Thompson (PA) Tiffany Timmons Turner Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Van Orden Vasquez Wagner Walberg Waltz Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Williams (NY) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke
NOT VOTING--20
Buck Castro (TX) Cleaver Davis (IL) Garcia (IL) Joyce (OH) Kustoff Lofgren McHenry Miller (IL) Peltola Perez Sablan Sanchez Sarbanes Steube Swalwell Trone Wild Williams (TX)
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Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Stated against:
Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Chair, had I been present, I would have voted ``no'' on rollcall no. 128.
Mr. PEREZ. Mr. Chair, had I been present, I would have voted ``no'' on rollcall No. 128.
Amendment No. 9 Offered by Mrs. Lee of Nevada
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Nevada
(Mrs. Lee) 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 364, noes 56, not voting 19, as follows:
AYES--364
Adams Aderholt Aguilar Alford Allen Allred Amodei Armstrong Arrington Auchincloss Bacon Baird Balderson Balint Banks Barr Barragan Bean (FL) Beatty Bentz Bera Bergman Beyer Bice Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bost Bowman Boyle (PA) Brown Brownley Buchanan Budzinski Burgess Bush Calvert Cammack Caraveo Carbajal Cardenas Carey Carl Carson Carter (GA) Carter (LA) Carter (TX) Cartwright Casar Case Casten Castor (FL) Chavez-DeRemer Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Cicilline Ciscomani Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cloud Clyburn Cohen Cole Comer Connolly Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crawford Crenshaw Crockett Crow Cuellar Curtis D'Esposito Davids (KS) Davis (NC) De La Cruz Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Duarte Dunn (FL) Edwards Ellzey Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Estes Evans Ezell Feenstra Ferguson Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fletcher Flood Foster Foushee Foxx Frankel, Lois Frost Gallagher Gallego Garamendi Garbarino Garcia (TX) Garcia, Mike Garcia, Robert Golden (ME) Goldman (NY) Gomez Gonzales, Tony Gonzalez, Vicente Gonzalez-Colon Gooden (TX) Gottheimer Granger Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Grothman Guest Guthrie Harder (CA) Harshbarger Hayes Higgins (NY) Hill Himes Hinson Horsford Houchin Houlahan Hoyer
Hoyle (OR) Hudson Huffman Huizenga Hunt Issa Ivey Jackson (IL) Jackson (NC) Jackson Lee Jacobs James Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (PA) Kamlager-Dove Kaptur Kean (NJ) Keating Kelly (IL) Kelly (PA) Khanna Kiggans (VA) Kildee Kiley Kilmer Kim (NJ) Krishnamoorthi Kuster LaHood LaLota LaMalfa Lamborn Landsman Langworthy Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latta LaTurner Lawler Lee (CA) Lee (FL) Lee (NV) Lee (PA) Leger Fernandez Lesko Letlow Levin Lieu Lucas Luetkemeyer Lynch Mace Magaziner Malliotakis Mann Manning Mast Matsui McBath McCaul McClain McClintock McCollum McGarvey McGovern Meeks Menendez Meng Meuser Mfume Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Molinaro Moolenaar Mooney Moore (UT) Moore (WI) Morelle Moskowitz Moulton Moylan Mrvan Mullin Murphy Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Newhouse Nickel Norcross Norman Norton Nunn (IA) Obernolte Ocasio-Cortez Omar Owens Pallone Palmer Panetta Pappas Pascrell Payne Pelosi Peltola Perez Peters Pettersen Pfluger Phillips Pingree Plaskett Pocan Porter Pressley Quigley Radewagen Ramirez Raskin Reschenthaler Rodgers (WA) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Ross Rouzer Ruiz Ruppersberger Rutherford Ryan Salazar Salinas Santos Scalise Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Scholten Schrier Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Scott, David Self Sewell Sherman Sherrill Simpson Slotkin Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Smucker Sorensen Soto Spanberger Spartz Stansbury Stanton Stauber Steel Stefanik Steil Stevens Stewart Strickland Strong Sykes Takano Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Timmons Titus Tlaib Tokuda Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Trahan Turner Underwood Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Van Orden Vargas Vasquez Veasey Velazquez Wagner Walberg Waltz Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Wexton Williams (GA) Williams (NY) Wilson (FL) Wilson (SC) Womack Yakym Zinke
NOES--56
Babin Biggs Bishop (NC) Boebert Brecheen Bucshon Burchett Burlison Cline Clyde Collins Crane Davidson DesJarlais Donalds Duncan Emmer Fallon Franklin, C. Scott Fry Fulcher Gaetz Gimenez Good (VA) Gosar Green (TN) Greene (GA) Griffith Hageman Harris Hern Higgins (LA) Jackson (TX) Johnson (LA) Kelly (MS) Loudermilk Luna Luttrell Massie McCormick Miller (IL) Mills Moore (AL) Moran Nehls Ogles Pence Perry Posey Rosendale Roy Schweikert Tenney Thompson (PA) Tiffany Wittman
NOT VOTING--19
Buck Castro (TX) Cleaver Davis (IL) Garcia (IL) Joyce (OH) Kim (CA) Kustoff Lofgren McHenry Sablan Sanchez Sarbanes Sessions Steube Swalwell Trone Wild Williams (TX)
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Ms. MALLIOTAKIS changed her vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
So the amendment was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Amendment No. 14 Offered by Mr. Roy
The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy) 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 199, noes 226, not voting 14, as follows:
AYES--199
Aderholt Alford Allen Amodei Armstrong Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Barr Bean (FL) Bentz Bergman Bice Biggs Bishop (NC) Boebert Bost Brecheen Buchanan Bucshon Burchett Burgess Burlison Calvert Cammack Carey Carl Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Ciscomani Cline Cloud Clyde Cole Collins Comer Crane Crawford Crenshaw Curtis Davidson De La Cruz DesJarlais Donalds Duarte Duncan Dunn (FL) Edwards Ellzey Emmer Estes Ezell Fallon Feenstra Ferguson Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fleischmann Flood Foxx Franklin, C. Scott Fry Fulcher Gaetz Gallagher Garcia, Mike Good (VA) Gooden (TX) Gosar Granger Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green (TN) Greene (GA) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hageman Harris Harshbarger Hern Higgins (LA) Hill Hinson Houchin Hudson Huizenga Hunt Issa Jackson (TX) James Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (PA) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kiggans (VA) Kiley Kim (CA) LaHood LaMalfa Lamborn Langworthy Latta LaTurner Lee (FL) Lesko Letlow Loudermilk Lucas Luetkemeyer Luna Luttrell Mace Mann Massie Mast McCaul McClain McClintock McCormick McHenry Meuser Miller (IL) Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Mills Moolenaar Mooney Moore (AL) Moore (UT) Moran Moylan Murphy Nehls Newhouse Norman Nunn (IA) Obernolte Ogles Owens Palmer Pence Perry Pfluger Posey Radewagen Reschenthaler Rodgers (WA) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Rosendale Rouzer Roy Santos Scalise Schweikert Scott, Austin Self Sessions Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smucker Spartz Stauber Stefanik Steil Stewart Strong Tenney Thompson (PA) Tiffany Timmons Turner Valadao Van Duyne Van Orden Wagner Walberg Waltz Weber (TX) Wenstrup Westerman Williams (NY) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke
NOES--226
Adams Aguilar Allred Auchincloss Balint Barragan Beatty Bera Beyer Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bowman Boyle (PA) Brown Brownley Budzinski Bush Caraveo Carbajal Cardenas Carson Carter (LA) Cartwright Casar Case Casten Castor (FL) Chavez-DeRemer Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Cicilline Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Clyburn Cohen Connolly Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crockett Crow Cuellar D'Esposito Davids (KS) Davis (NC) Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Evans Fitzpatrick Fletcher Foster Foushee Frankel, Lois Frost Gallego Garamendi Garbarino Garcia (TX) Garcia, Robert Gimenez Golden (ME) Goldman (NY) Gomez Gonzales, Tony Gonzalez, Vicente Gonzalez-Colon Gottheimer Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Harder (CA) Hayes Higgins (NY) Himes Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Hoyle (OR) Huffman Ivey Jackson (IL) Jackson (NC) Jackson Lee Jacobs Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Kamlager-Dove Kaptur Kean (NJ) Keating Kelly (IL) Khanna Kildee Kilmer Kim (NJ) Krishnamoorthi Kuster LaLota Landsman Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lawler Lee (CA) Lee (NV) Lee (PA) Leger Fernandez Levin Lieu Lynch Magaziner Malliotakis Manning Matsui McBath McCollum McGarvey McGovern Meeks Menendez Meng Mfume Molinaro Moore (WI) Morelle Moskowitz Moulton Mrvan Mullin Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Nickel Norcross Norton Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pallone Panetta Pappas Pascrell Payne Pelosi Peltola Perez Peters Pettersen Phillips Pingree Plaskett Pocan Porter Pressley Quigley Ramirez Raskin Ross Ruiz Ruppersberger Rutherford Ryan Salazar Salinas Sanchez Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Scholten Schrier Scott (VA) Scott, David Sewell Sherman Sherrill Slotkin Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Sorensen Soto Spanberger Stansbury Stanton Steel Stevens Strickland Sykes Takano Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Titus Tlaib Tokuda Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Trahan Trone Underwood Van Drew Vargas Vasquez Veasey Velazquez Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Webster (FL) Wexton Williams (GA) Wilson (FL)
NOT VOTING--14
Buck Castro (TX) Cleaver Davis (IL) Garcia (IL) Joyce (OH) Kustoff Lofgren Sablan Sarbanes Steube Swalwell Wild Williams (TX)
Announcement by the Acting Chair
The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.
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Ms. CROCKETT changed her vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
So the amendment was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
Stated for:
Mr. McCORMICK. Mr. Chair, I missed rollcall 130 due to distraction. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye'' on rollcall No. 130.
The Acting CHAIR. The Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union has had under consideration H.R. 347, and pursuant to House Resolution 166, I report the bill back to the House with sundry amendments adopted in the Committee of the Whole.
Under the rule, the Committee rises.
Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Ms. Malliotakis) having assumed the chair, Mr. Lawler, 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. 347) to require the Executive Office of the President to provide an inflation estimate with respect to Executive orders with a significant effect on the annual gross budget, and for other purposes, and, pursuant to House Resolution 166, he reported the bill back to the House with sundry 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 question is on the amendments.
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.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on passage of the bill.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the ayes appeared to have it.
Recorded Vote
Mr. RASKIN. Madam Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 272, noes 148, not voting 14, as follows:
AYES--272
Aderholt Alford Allen Amodei Armstrong Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Barr Bean (FL) Bentz Bera Bergman Bice Bilirakis Bishop (NC) Boebert Bost Brecheen Brownley Buchanan Bucshon Budzinski Burchett Burgess Burlison Calvert Cammack Caraveo Carey Carl Carson Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Case Chavez-DeRemer Cicilline Ciscomani Cline Cloud Clyde Cole Collins Comer Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crane Crawford Crenshaw Cuellar Curtis D'Esposito Davids (KS) Davidson Davis (NC) De La Cruz DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Donalds Duarte Duncan Dunn (FL) Edwards Ellzey Emmer Estes Ezell Fallon Feenstra Ferguson Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Flood Foster Foxx Franklin, C. Scott Fry Fulcher Gaetz Gallagher Garbarino Garcia, Mike Gimenez Golden (ME) Gonzales, Tony Gonzalez, Vicente Gooden (TX) Gosar Gottheimer Granger Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green (TN) Green, Al (TX) Greene (GA) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hageman Harder (CA) Harris Harshbarger Hern Higgins (LA) Hill Himes Hinson Houchin Houlahan Hoyle (OR) Hudson Huizenga Hunt Issa Jackson (NC) Jackson (TX) James Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (PA) Kaptur Kean (NJ) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kiggans (VA) Kiley Kilmer Kim (CA) Kim (NJ) Krishnamoorthi Kuster LaHood LaLota LaMalfa Lamborn Landsman Langworthy Latta LaTurner Lawler Lee (FL) Lee (NV) Leger Fernandez Lesko Letlow Levin Loudermilk Lucas Luetkemeyer Luna Luttrell Mace Magaziner Malliotakis Mann Manning Massie Mast McCarthy McCaul McClain McClintock McCormick McHenry Meuser Miller (IL) Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Mills Molinaro Moolenaar Mooney Moore (AL) Moore (UT) Moran Morelle Moskowitz Murphy Nehls Newhouse Nickel Norman Nunn (IA) Obernolte Ogles Owens Palmer Pappas Peltola Pence Perez Perry Pettersen Pfluger Phillips Posey Quigley Reschenthaler Rodgers (WA) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Rouzer Ruiz Rutherford Ryan Salazar Salinas Santos Scalise Scholten Schrier Schweikert Scott, Austin Self Sessions Sherrill Simpson Slotkin Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smucker Sorensen Soto Spanberger Spartz Stanton Stauber Steel Stefanik Steil Stewart Strong Tenney Thompson (PA) Tiffany Timmons Titus Tonko Trone Turner Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Van Orden Vasquez Wagner Walberg Waltz Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Williams (NY) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke
NOES--148
Adams Aguilar Allred Auchincloss Balint Barragan Beatty Beyer Biggs Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bowman Boyle (PA) Brown Bush Carbajal Cardenas Carter (LA) Cartwright Casar Casten Castor (FL) Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Clyburn Cohen Connolly Crockett Crow Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier Dingell Doggett Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Evans Fletcher Foushee Frankel, Lois Frost Gallego Garamendi Garcia (TX) Garcia, Robert Goldman (NY) Gomez Good (VA) Grijalva Hayes Higgins (NY) Horsford Hoyer Huffman Ivey Jackson (IL) Jackson Lee Jacobs Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Kamlager-Dove Keating Kelly (IL) Khanna Kildee Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee (CA) Lee (PA) Lieu Lynch Matsui McBath McCollum McGarvey McGovern Meeks Menendez Meng Mfume Moore (WI) Moulton Mrvan Mullin Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Norcross Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pallone Panetta Pascrell Payne Pelosi Peters Pingree Pocan Porter Pressley Ramirez Raskin Rosendale Ross Roy Ruppersberger Sanchez Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Scott (VA) Scott, David Sewell Sherman Smith (WA) Stansbury Stevens Strickland Sykes Takano Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tlaib Tokuda Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Trahan Underwood Vargas Veasey Velazquez Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Williams (GA) Wilson (FL)
NOT VOTING--14
Buck Castro (TX) Cleaver Davis (IL) Garcia (IL) Joyce (OH) Kustoff Lofgren Sarbanes Steube Swalwell Wexton Wild Williams (TX)
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Mr. SOTO changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
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 for:
Mr. JOYCE of Ohio. Madam Speaker, I regrettably missed rollcall No. 131. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye'' on rollcall No. 131.
Stated against:
Ms. WEXTON. Madam Speaker, had I been present, I would have voted
``no'' on rollcall No. 131.
PERSONAL EXPLANATION
Mr. SARBANES. Madam Speaker, due to testing positive for COVID-19 and following recommended isolation protocols, I was unable to vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye'' on rollcall No. 125, ``aye'' on rollcall No. 126, ``aye'' on rollcall No. 127, ``aye'' on rollcall No. 128, ``aye'' on rollcall No. 129, ``no'' on rollcall No. 130 and
``no'' on rollcall No. 131.
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