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PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.J. RES. 31,
FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY,
2019, AND PROVIDING FOR PROCEEDINGS DURING THE PERIOD FROM FEBRUARY 15,
2019, THROUGH FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Mr. PERLMUTTER. Madam Speaker, by direction of the Committee on
Rules, I call up House Resolution 131 and ask for its immediate
consideration.
The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

H. Res. 131

Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be
in order to consider the conference report to accompany the
joint resolution (H.J. Res. 31) making further continuing
appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for
fiscal year 2019, and for other purposes. All points of order
against the conference report and against its consideration
are waived. The conference report shall be considered as
read. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on
the conference report to its adoption without intervening
motion except: (1) one hour of debate; and (2) one motion to
recommit if applicable.
Sec. 2. On any legislative day during the period from
February 15, 2019, through February 22, 2019--
(a) the Journal of the proceedings of the previous day
shall be considered as approved; and
(b) the Chair may at any time declare the House adjourned
to meet at a date and time, within the limits of clause 4,
section 5, article I of the Constitution, to be announced by
the Chair in declaring the adjournment.
Sec. 3. The Speaker may appoint Members to perform the
duties of the Chair for the duration of the period addressed
by section 2 of this resolution as though under clause 8(a)
of rule I.

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The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Colorado is recognized
for 1 hour.
Mr. PERLMUTTER. Madam Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I
yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr.
Cole), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During
consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the purpose
of debate only.

General Leave

Mr. PERLMUTTER. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all
Members be given 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentleman from Colorado?
There was no objection.
Mr. PERLMUTTER. Madam Speaker, the Rules Committee met and reported a
rule, House Resolution 131, providing for the consideration of the
conference report to accompany H.J. Res. 31, the Consolidated
Appropriations Act of 2019.
The rule provides for consideration of the legislation under a
conference report rule and provides for 1 hour of debate. The rule also
provides for standard recess procedures through Friday, February 22.
Madam Speaker, this legislation has been a long time coming. In
December, the Senate passed a clean continuing resolution for the seven
appropriation bills which hadn't been completed. The President said at
the time he would sign that bill, but then the President changed course
and demanded $5.7 billion for his campaign promise of a border wall.
As we now know, this led to the longest government shutdown in United
States history: 35 days. This put our country in jeopardy by
withholding paychecks for 800,000 Federal employees who are patriots
and provide critical services to our country and to all Americans.
Put simply, this was not an issue worth shutting down the Federal
Government. That is why I am pleased we are here today to avoid another
shutdown and begin to get the agencies affected by the shutdown back on
track.
This bill provides appropriations for the seven remaining
appropriations bills through the end of the fiscal year, including
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration; Commerce,
Justice, Science; Financial Services and General Government; Homeland
Security; Interior and Environment; State and Foreign Operations; and
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development.
Over the past 6 weeks, we heard testimony from the chairs and ranking
members of the Appropriations Committee numerous times as we tried to
reopen the government last month.
A constant theme from those hearings, from both Democrats and
Republicans, was respect for the appropriators and their ability to
negotiate a deal. Today's result is confirmation of that trust we
placed in our appropriators.
I want to congratulate all the committee Members and staff for their
work over the last few weeks.
The conference report in front of us today is by no means perfect,
but it represents a compromise between Democrats and Republicans and
between the House and the Senate.
There are many programs well funded by this bill. For instance, the
Census Bureau will see an increase of more than $1 billion as they
prepare for the 2020 Census, to ensure an accurate count.
NASA, which invests heavily in Colorado and across all of the
country, will see a $763 million increase over last year to fully fund
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exploration, from the international space station, to the Moon, and on
to Mars by 2033.
This legislation provides $17 billion in funding for new
infrastructure investments in roads, bridges, transit, and housing, and
the bill blocks attempts by the White House to hamstring the EPA and
other agencies from protecting our environment.
Importantly, the bill overrides the President's decision to freeze
Federal employee pay this year. Instead, it provides a 1.9 percent pay
raise for all Federal employees.
This conference agreement also makes smart investments in border
security by investing $755 million in infrastructure and technology at
ports of entry, additional funds to hire customs agents, $563 million
for immigration judges to reduce the backlog, and humanitarian aid for
Central American countries and along our border to those who need the
help.
The bill also provides $1.375 billion for border fencing, with
restrictions protecting sensitive areas and local involvement, and
takes steps to reduce the immigration detention bed levels, for which I
am confident the House will provide rigorous oversight.
Madam Speaker, there are a few things missing from this agreement to
help us repair the damage from the longest partial government shutdown
in United States history.
First, the bill does not provide Federal contractors backpay from the
shutdown. Federal contractors often work side by side with other
Federal employees and perform jobs important to the country and all
Americans. These contractors did nothing wrong and deserve to be made
whole, just like the 800,000 Federal employees who missed paychecks.
Congress needs to work together and make this right.
Additionally, during this shutdown, my State of Colorado, along with
California, Louisiana, Vermont, and Washington, took steps to ensure
fairness for excepted Federal employees to make them eligible for
unemployment insurance because they were forced to continue working
without knowing when they would be paid.
Unemployment benefits are a lifeline for situations just like this
where there is nowhere else to go, but, unfortunately, the United
States Department of Labor choose to make it more difficult for States
to provide these benefits. The Department has said it will not
reimburse States for these legitimate costs and has threatened
additional penalties, putting earned benefits for other unemployed
workers at risk.

I am a cosponsor of legislation produced by Representative Katie Hill
from California which would clarify current law and ensure our States
are reimbursed as intended by Congress. For reasons I don't quite
understand, my friends on the other side of the aisle would not accept
this provision. I plan to continue working with Representative Katie
Hill and Chairman Richie Neal from the Ways and Means Committee to help
States like Colorado.
Additionally, I worked to introduce two pieces of legislation during
the shutdown to help Federal employees deal with the effects of the
shutdown. First was H.R. 545, the Financial Relief for Feds Act, which
was introduced by Representative Pete Olson from Texas and
Representative Don Beyer from Virginia and me, and this was to ensure
Federal employees who made withdrawals during a shutdown from their
Thrift Savings Plan or other retirement accounts weren't penalized for
their early withdrawals.
TSP saw a 35 percent increase in hardship withdrawals during the
shutdown as Federal employees did anything they could to help pay their
bills. I hope our legislation is considered by the House quickly to
make these Federal employees whole again.
I also introduced H.R. 781, The Student Loan Relief for Feds Act,
with Representative Will Hurd from Texas to allow Federal employees to
defer their student loans without penalty during a government shutdown.
A typical student loan payment is between $200 and $300 a month, and
that is money you don't have if you are not getting a paycheck.
These are examples of legislation we need to pass to fix problems
created during the shutdown.
There is one more bill I will be introducing today--I just put it in
the hopper--to prevent these shutdowns from ever happening again.
If Congress and the White House have a political disagreement, our
Federal employees and the American people shouldn't be the pawns who
suffer the consequences of the disagreement. My bill, the No More
Shutdowns Act, provides automatic continuing appropriations for any
fiscal year when appropriations haven't been enacted.
This means whenever there would be a lapse in the appropriations,
funding would continue at previously enacted levels, along with an
increase to the account for inflation until Congress passes an
appropriation bill. This is common sense and would allow our Federal
agencies to continue their work without the start and stop of shutdowns
and short-term CRs.
I hope my colleagues on both sides of the aisle will join me in
making sure shutdowns do not happen again.
Overall, Madam Speaker, this is a good compromise to fully fund these
agencies so we can finish last year's work and allow Congress to move
on to other important issues that we were sent here to do, like
reducing healthcare costs and repairing infrastructure across the
country.
I urge all my colleagues to support the rule and the underlying
conference agreement, and I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I thank my good friend from Colorado (Mr.
Perlmutter) for yielding, and I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
Madam Speaker, we are here today to pass an appropriations package
that should complete our work and fully fund the government for fiscal
year 2019.
As Members of this body know, this has been a long road, perhaps much
longer than we expected at the beginning.
As we saw at the start of this Congress, the difficulties this body
can sometimes face in coming to an agreement can translate into
difficulty and hardship for the American people. I think I can speak
for all of us here in this body when I say that government shutdowns
are bad for the American people, bad for government, and bad policy,
and we should all strive to never let them happen again.
Now, of course, we have a little bit different view of how that
shutdown came about. It is worth noting for the record that the House
actually did vote to fund the government and produced a bill in
December that the President said he would sign and a majority of the
United States Senate actually favored.
But the Senate gets to set its own rules. They could reach a number
of 60, but the Democratic minority chose not to do that. So, given
that, that is what shut down the government, and we have all been
dealing with the consequences of it ever since.
But today we are poised to finish our work, and though the road may
have been difficult, I think Members should look back on this process
and commend themselves for what they have accomplished.
Last September, we finalized and passed into law 5 of the 12 funding
bills, an accomplishment we had not matched in over 20 years. Those
five, which included the two largest bills--Defense and Labor, Health
and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies--covered
approximately 75 percent of all Federal discretionary spending.

Prior to the end of the FY 2018 year, the House also passed four
additional spending bills, which we then moved to conference with the
Senate.
Indeed, of the seven outstanding spending bills, six of them were
negotiated with the Senate and have been ready to be moved for final
passage for quite some time. The sticking point has been the final bill
on that for Homeland Security, which vexed Members for some time. But
though we did not reach a deal on Homeland Security quickly, we did
eventually reach a deal.
Today, I am pleased to be standing with my colleagues to bring up
seven bipartisan, bicameral, fully negotiated and conferenced spending
bills that are ready to be passed and sent to the President's desk for
signature.
As we finish the work for fiscal year 2019 and move into our efforts
for fiscal year 2020, I want to commend my fellow members of the
Appropriations Committee for their hard work.

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Thanks to the leadership of people like Ranking Member Kay Granger,
Chairwoman Nita Lowey, and Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen, and thanks to
the hard work of dozens of Members, we are at last ready to send these
bills to the President.
I congratulate my friends and colleagues on both sides of the aisle
and, indeed, offer those same congratulations to the entire House.
I look forward to working together on fiscal year 2020 in the weeks
and months ahead. Perhaps, working together, we can get all the bills
passed, conferenced with the Senate, and sent to the President by the
end of the fiscal year.
That will certainly be my goal and the goal of every appropriator on
both sides of this Chamber and on both sides of the rotunda in the
Capitol Building.
Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

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Mr. PERLMUTTER. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
Madam Speaker, I want to thank my friend, Mr. Cole. We had a lot of
hearings in the Rules Committee where we heard a lot of appropriations
bills and, quite frankly, we knew that if we had some time and the
appropriators were able to act, that they would come to an agreement,
an agreement that didn't give everybody all that they wanted, but gave
them something that they wanted.
I think our trust was appropriate at that time.
Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from California
(Mrs. Torres).
Mrs. TORRES of California. Madam Speaker, since the 116th Congress
took office this January, I have voted five times to open up the
Federal Government. And today I rise in support of the conference
report. I want to congratulate the conferees, and specifically,
Chairman Lowey, Ranking Member Granger, and the other conferees for
their hard work, for coming together, and spending so much time to
ensure that we have a bill moving forward that opens up our government.
This is a bipartisan statement about who we are as a country. This
was a fight to reclaim the country that welcomed me as a little girl
from Guatemala, to make sure that this country welcomes other children
who come here fleeing violence and poverty.
This bill will prevent another stupid, costly government shutdown,
and it is time that we give our Federal workers some certainty, move
past this crisis, and get down to the business of governing.
Madam Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to support this measure.
Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Madam Speaker, if we defeat the previous question, I will offer an
amendment to the rule to provide for consideration of H.R. 1239, the
Protecting Women Act of 2019.
This bill provides a straight extension of the Violence Against Women
Act, or VAWA, as is it commonly known, through the end of the fiscal
year.
Beginning in 1994, VAWA has provided grants to State, local, and
Tribal law enforcement officials to investigate and prosecute violent
crimes against women, including domestic violence, sexual assault,
dating violence, and stalking.
Unfortunately, VAWA is scheduled to expire, literally, tomorrow, and
my friends on the other side, frankly, are just standing by and
watching it happen, even though they control this Chamber.
Republicans fought to include an extension of VAWA in the underlying
conference report as we had done in previous continuing resolutions,
but we were rebuffed by our other friends on the other side of the
aisle, and they have not made any move to schedule a separate vote on
this floor to avoid a lapse in this critical program, so Republicans
will.
Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to insert the text of my
amendment in the Record, along with extraneous material, immediately
prior to vote on the previous question.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentleman from Oklahoma?
There was no objection.
Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I urge a ``no'' vote on the previous
question.
Madam Speaker, I yield such time as she may consume to the
gentlewoman from Arizona (Mrs. Lesko), my good friend and fellow member
of the Rules Committee, to discuss her bill and this previous question.
Mrs. LESKO. Madam Speaker, I thank Representative Cole for yielding
me the time.
Madam Speaker, if the previous question is defeated, we will amend
the rule to bring an extension of the Violence Against Women Act, which
I have titled the Protecting Women Act of 2019.
Without action, the Violence Against Women Act will expire tomorrow
at midnight. Madam Speaker, I am a survivor of domestic violence, and
as a survivor of domestic violence, I am calling on all of my
colleagues to reauthorize this critical bill that helps women and
children who have experienced the trauma and pain of abuse and who need
our support.
While we may not agree on every provision of the current Violence
Against Women Act, I think we can all agree on the overall importance
of this law and the programs and services it provides.
Since the Violence Against Women Act was first signed into law in
1994, it has played a vital role in supporting American women who have
experienced domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence,
stalking, and trafficking, and improving our response to these crimes
while we work to prevent them altogether.
Progress has been made, but there is more work to do. In fact,
according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about one
in three women and one in six men experience some form of contact
sexual violence during their lifetime.
I am confident that every Member of this body believes those
statistics are unacceptable. I know that we agree that we must end
domestic violence and care for victims left in its wake. We need to
enhance awareness, work for prevention, and ensure those harmed
physically and mentally have access to the resources and support they
need.
A clean extension of the Violence Against Women Act through the end
of the fiscal year ensures that the law and the programs it supports
remain in place.
It ensures there isn't a lapse in services for those in need while we
discuss ways that we can strengthen and improve it together.
As a co-chairwoman of the bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Women's
Issues, I want a bill that every woman in this Chamber can support. I
know that my co-chair of the Caucus, Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence, has
also told me she wants a Violence Against Women Act that every woman in
this Chamber can support.
That is why, if the previous question is defeated, Republicans will
seek a vote on a clean extension of the last Violence Against Women Act
reauthorization. This will give us time, Republicans and Democrats, to
work toward a bipartisan solution that helps women and girls, protects
religious liberties, and protects women and children.

I hope all my colleagues will recognize the importance of acting now
to prevent a lapse in authorization and defeat the previous question so
that we can work to protect the vulnerable from these heinous crimes.
Mr. PERLMUTTER. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
Madam Speaker, I appreciate Mrs. Lesko's and Mr. Cole's comments. In
the bill, there is $400-plus million for VAWA. It isn't as if it has
been forgotten. But I hear this, and over the last few years, the
Republicans have done nothing but try to defund VAWA.
So I am expecting a bill that was signed by Bill Clinton and was
authored by the former chairwoman of the Rules Committee, Louise
Slaughter, will be something that Democrats will certainly push
forward. After listening to Mr. Cole and Mrs. Lesko, I am sure all of
the Republicans will be on board with extending VAWA.
Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms.
Jackson Lee).
Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, this is a Republican bill that we are
trying to fix to keep the government open and not holding our Federal
employees hostage.
I support this bill with qualifications that I know that in the 2020
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Democrats will put forward a humane bill that addresses many of these
issues. We gave $1.37 billion for barriers, not the wall.
We are protecting the environment in my own State: the Bentsen-Rio
Grande Valley State Park, the National Butterfly Center, the Santa Ana
National Wildlife Refuge, places where I have gone and people are
pleading: Don't put fences there.
We brought down the number of ICE detention beds from 49,000-50,000
to 40,000, and, of course, we have provided, as I have indicated, and
fought for facilities that deal with those children and women that are
coming across: $415 million for enhanced medical support;
transportation; food; clothing for migrants in detention, particularly
children; and $30.5 million for family case management.
As my good friend said, we brought up the alternative detention from
82,000 to 100,000. As my good friend said, there is $400 million for
VAWA. We are funding these programs because we understand how important
they are.
Finally, of course, in the justice area, we have given money for
Byrne grants; Community Oriented Policing Services, sexual assault kits
and DNA, Second Chance Act programs, and we funded NASA.
But more importantly, Madam Speaker, I think we have made a very
important point that should be made, and that is, as we work toward
fiscal year 2020 appropriations, it is critical that we ensure that
robust accountability of DHS, including limiting the agency's transfer
authority and dramatically reducing the number of people who are held
in detention, utilizing proven alternatives to detention, including
community-based alternatives and parole for the vast majority of people
who are held in detention who pose no public safety threat or risk.
ICE--we have to realize, there must be due process and justice. It is
unfortunate that this administration's treatment of immigrants is
unconscionable and inhumane. We can do better and we will do better.
But the final point of all of this today is, we stand on the floor to
not hold our Federal employees hostage and to open the government. I
will be going forward with the qualifications of working on a better
bill.
Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.J. Res. 31, which makes
the consolidated appropriations needed to fund the departments,
agencies, and programs of the federal government through September 30,
2019, and hopefully brings to a merciful end the uncertainty and
hardship cruelly inflicted upon federal employees, contractors, and the
American people by the President's decision to shut down the
government.
I thank Chairman Lowey, Ranking Member Granger, and their fellow
House conferees for their work in reaching this bipartisan agreement.
Left to our own devices, House Democrats clearly could and would have
made many different and better funding decisions but this agreement is
the best deal attainable in the circumstances, and importantly, it
responsibly funds the government for the remainder, while securing our
border.
Madam Speaker, coming from a border state, I am very pleased that
this legislation does not provide the President the billions of dollars
he demanded for a wasteful, ineffective, and immoral concrete wall.
In fact, it rejects the President's demand for $5.7 billion for his
wall and provides instead $1.375 billion for physical barriers with
language specifying that new fencing is limited to currently deployed
designs--ruling out the President's border wall proposal.
My constituents and other Texans will be gratified to learn that this
legislation specifically prohibits construction on sensitive
environmental areas such as the Bentsen-Rio State Park, the National
Butterfly Center, the Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge, La Lomita Historical
Park, and the Lower Rio Grande Wildlife Refuge between Brownsville, TX,
and the Gulf of Mexico.
I also strongly approve that the legislation provides a path to a
reduction in ICE detention beds from 49,057 today to 40,520 at the end
of the fiscal year, bringing the number of detention beds back to the
level of average daily population funded in the FY18 omnibus bill.
This reduction in ICE detention beds, combined with Democratic
control of the Appropriations Committee and new biannual inspections of
detention facilities, will provide a check on the Trump
Administration's out-of-control deportation policy that targets law-
abiding families instead of focusing on deporting violent criminals;
The agreement before also provides funding a more humane immigration
system with $415 million for enhanced medical support, transportation,
food and clothing for migrants in detention, particularly children and
families; $30.5 million for family case management; an expansion in
Alternatives to Detention participants from 82,000 to 100,000; and a
prohibition on ICE using information collected by HHS from sponsors of
migrant children for removal and deportation purposes.
I also strongly support the new investments in national security
provided in the legislation, including a new Coast Guard Polar Security
Cutter, the first icebreaker in over 40 years; and an $884 million
increase for the Transportation Security Administration.
In addition to the bipartisan compromise on Homeland Security, the
legislation before us includes six other appropriations bills that
reject the President's deep budget cuts and instead make bold
investments in to fund the programs Americans depend on and need to
move our nation forward.
For example, the agreement funds a 1.9 percent pay raise to federal
workers that overrides the President's decision to deny these
hardworking and dedicated public servants a pay raise.
The agreement provides $3.8 billion for the 2020 Census, an increase
of $1 billion, to ensure a fair and accurate count.
The agreement provides more than $3 billion for state and local law
enforcement to keep communities safe, including by addressing the
opioid crisis, closing sexual assault kit backlogs and hiring more
police officers.
Madam Speaker, all Members should celebrate the fact that the
agreement provides more than $17 billion in funding for new
infrastructure investments to improve our roads, bridges, highways,
railways and mass transit.
Another reason why I strongly support the legislation before us is
because it restores and increases investments in job-creating
initiatives for economic and business development, including for
minority and women-owned businesses, that the Trump Administration
tried to eliminate or reduce drastically.
Madam Speaker, the bipartisan agreement before us rejects the Trump
Administration's attacks on the environment by blocking the
Administration's deep cuts to initiatives to protect clean water, clean
air and public lands and it invests more than $9 billion in the EPA and
Land and Water Conservation Fund.
The agreement reinforces and strengthens America's global leadership
by rejecting the Trump Administration's radical cuts and securing $9.1
billion in security assistance for allies, including $3.03 billion for
Israel, $5.7 billion for PEPFAR and $1.7 billion for the Food for Peace
program.
Madam Speaker, I would like to draw particular attention to
provisions in the consolidated appropriations conference report that
are of special interest to my congressional district.
Customs and Border Protection: $1.375 billion, $4.325 billion less
than the $5.7 billion the Trump administration requested, for
approximately 55 miles of physical barrier along the southern border in
the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
$564 million for the installation of non-intrusive imaging equipment
in the in-bound lanes of southwest border land ports of entry--
significantly increasing the percentage of cars and commercial cargo
scanned for narcotics and other contraband.
$415 million for humanitarian relief specifically for medical care,
transportation, food and cloth; for humanitarian improvements to the
McAllen Central Processing Center; and for a new El Paso CBP processing
facility.
$100 million for new border security technology.
$77 million for opioid equipment and staffing for use at
international mail and express consignment facilities.
$59 million for 600 new CBP Officers and encourages CBP to use fee
funding to hire up to 600 additional CBP officers for a total of 1,200
new officers.
Does not fund the Administration's request for joint detention
facilities.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)--Provides an
appropriated level for detention beds that establishes Congress's
intent to reduce the daily population in ICE detention to approximately
40,520 by the end of the fiscal year, down from a current count of
approximately 49,060.
Expands the Alternatives to Detention program from 82,000 to 100,000.
Provides $30.5 million for ATD family case management, which improves
compliance with immigration court obligations by helping families'
access community-based support for basic housing, healthcare, legal,
and educational needs.
Provides $40 million for additional ICE staffing dedicated to overall
ATD case management, particularly for asylum seekers.
Funds additional detention facility inspectors in the Office of
Professional Oversight to bring the number of inspections up from once
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Provides funding to bring the number of detention facilities in
compliance with PREA requirements from 86 percent to 97 percent.
Provides $7.4 million for additional attorneys and for courtroom
expansion to assist in the backlog of immigration cases currently in
the system.
$1.9 billion for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), which
focuses on a wide variety of investigations with a cross-border nexus,
including those related to human trafficking, financial crimes and
cyber investigations.
$7.5 million for new HSI Victim Assistant Specialists and $44 million
for new staffing to enhance opioid/fentanyl-related investigations and
analyses.
No funding for additional enforcement and removal field personnel.
Coast Guard--12 billion total funding ($10.3 billion in discretionary
funding) and provides for an additional 250 military personnel.
Transportation Security Agency (TSA)--$4.9 billion in net
discretionary funding, an increase of $884 million above the request
and $5 million above the FY 2018 enacted level.
Includes additional funding for computed tomography imaging systems
and $40 million for airport explosive detection system reimbursement.
Fully funds the TSA Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response teams,
staffing at exit lanes, as required by law, and the Law Enforcement
Officer reimbursement program.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)--$16.6 billion in net
discretionary funding, an increase of $5.5 billion above the request
and $4.2 billion above the FY 2018 enacted level.
$12 billion for disaster relief to help States, communities and
citizens respond to and recover from disasters, as well as cost
effective mitigation to reduce the risk from future disasters.
$3.1 billion for grants to help States, communities, citizens, and
nonprofit organizations, with every grant being at or above the FY 2018
level, including $277 million for training, exercises, and education
for our Nation's first responders and emergency managers.
An additional $111 million above the request for the Cybersecurity
and Infrastructure Security Agency to address high priority
cybersecurity and infrastructure protection vulnerabilities.
$10 million in direct funding for Citizenship and Integration grants,
instead of relying on fee revenue to support the program.
$820 million to support cutting edge science and technology programs.
The bill includes the following provisions related to phisical
barriers: continues language allowing only fencing designs in use as of
2017 and prohibits construction on sensitive environmental areas such
as the Bentsen-Rio State Park, the National Butterfly Center, the Santa
Ana Wildlife Refuge, La Lomita Historical Park, and the Lower Rio
Grande Wildlife Refuge between Brownsville, TX and the Gulf of Mexico.
The bill improves transparency by requiring ICE to make public
information about the numbers and types of people in its custody, such
as families; border apprehension detainees; interior enforcement
detainees; and those who are in custody who have a positive credible
fear claim.
Prohibits DHS from preventing a Member of Congress from entering any
facility that is used to detain or otherwise house children and directs
DHS to make no changes to the current operations and facility
conditions in anticipation of a congressional oversight visit.
Prevents DHS from destroying any record related to potential sexual
assault or abuse of any individual in DHS's custody.
Prohibits ICE from using information provided by the Office of
Refugee Resettlement about sponsors or potential sponsors of
unaccompanied children to arrest, detain, or remove those individuals,
unless that information reveals the individual has a dangerous criminal
background.
Prevents DHS from placing pregnant women in restraints who are in the
custody of DHS, except in extraordinary circumstances. Provides
oversight of ICE treatment of detainees, including protections for
pregnant refugees, prohibiting destruction of detainee sexual assault
records, and public reporting related to detainees in ICE custody.
$6.075 billion in discretionary funding for Special Supplemental
Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), which is $100
million below the FY 2018 enacted level and $325 million above the
President's budget request.
$73.477 billion for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP),
which will fully fund the program in 2019.
$23.141 billion for Child Nutrition Programs, which will fully fund
the program in 2019.
International Programs: $1.716 billion for Food for Peace and
$210.255 million for the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education
and Child Nutrition Program.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is funded at $3.08 billion in
discretionary funding for the FDA, an increase of $269 million.
Census Bureau--$3.82 billion, an increase of more than $1 billion
above FY 2018 and $20.9 million above the President's budget request,
to enable the Bureau to effectively prepare for a thorough, accurate,
and cost-effective 2020 Decennial Census.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) is funded at $3.37 billion,
equal to the President's budget request.
Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program: $140 million,
equal to the FY2018 enacted level. The President had proposed
completely eliminating this program.
NOAA Climate Research: $159 million, an increase of $1 million above
the FY2018 enacted level and $60.4 million above the President's budget
request.
National Weather Service: $1 billion for operating expenses, an
increase of $6.6 million above the FY 2018 enacted level and $85.5
million above the President's budget request.
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)--$30.9 billion overall for
Department of Justice, which is more than $638 million above the FY
2018 enacted level and $2.1 billion above the President's budget
request.
Federal Bureau of Investigation--$9.6 billion, an increase of $177
million above the FY 2018 enacted level and $653 million above the
President's budget request.
United States Attorneys--$2.2 billion, an increase of $75 million
above the FY 2018 enacted level and $107 million above the President's
budget request.
United States Marshals Service--$2.93 billion, an increase of $25
million above the FY 2018 enacted level and $104 million above the
President's budget request.
Drug Enforcement Administration--$2.3 billion, an increase of $77
million above the FY 2018 enacted level and $80 million above the
President's budget request.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)--$1.3
billion, an increase of $23 million above the FY 2018 enacted level and
the same as the President's budget request.
Grants to State and Local Law Enforcement--$3.02 billion:
1. $423.5 million for Byrne JAG;
2. $303.5 million for the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)
Program;
3. $178 million to address sexual assault kit and other DNA evidence
backlogs;
4. $87.5 million for Second Chance Act programs;
5. $347 million for grant programs to address the opioid crisis;
6. $100 million for the STOP School Violence Act;
7. $497.5 million for Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) programs; and
8. $75 million for grants to improve the NICS firearms background
check system.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)--$21.5 billion,
an increase of $763.9 million above the FY 2018 enacted level and $1.6
billion above the President's budget request.
$1.93 billion for Earth science, an increase of $10 million above the
FY 2018 enacted level and $146.8 million above the President's budget
request, to enable better scientific information about the Earth and
its changing climate.
$725 million for aeronautics research, an increase of $40 million
above FY 2018 and $91.1 million above the President's budget request,
to continue efforts to make passenger air travel safer, more fuel
efficient, less noisy, and more environmentally sustainable.
$110 million for NASA's STEM education efforts, an increase of $10
million above FY 2018, to enable NASA to inspire young people to pursue
future careers in science. This amount includes funding increases for
the Space Grant program, Minority University Research and Education
Project, and Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
(EPSCOR). The President had proposed eliminating funding for all of
these.
$8.1 billion for the National Science Foundation (NSF), an increase
of $307.6 million above the FY 2018 enacted level and $603 million
above the President's budget request.
Legal Services Corporation is funded at $415 million, $5 million
above the FY 2018 enacted level; the President had proposed completely
eliminating this program, which helps provide legal assistance to
underserved communities.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission--$379.5 million.
International Trade Commission (ITC)--$95 million to enable ITC to
investigate unfair trade practices that harm American companies.
Crime Victims Fund is funded at $3.35 billion for victims and for
victim services, including a Tribal set-aside of nearly $168 million
for programs to assist Native American victims of crime.
Federal Defender Services--$1.15 billion, an increase of $71.7
million.
District of Columbia (DC)--$726 million for special payments to DC,
an increase of $4.2 million above the FY 2018 enacted level and $67.2
million above the President's budget request; the bill rejects the
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to eliminate the Tuition Assistance Grant (TAG) Program.
Office of Government Ethics (OGE) is funded at $17 million, a modest
increase over both the President's budget request and the FY 2018
enacted level.
Small Business Administration (SBA) is funded at $715 million, which
is $14.5 million above the FY 2018 enacted level and $36.4 million
above the President's budget request.
The cap on SBA's 7a loan program increases to $30 billion, which is
$1 billion more than the current level and this amount includes $247.7
million for Entrepreneurial Development Programs (EDP), which is $55
million more than the President's budget request.
National Park Service is funded at $3.22 billion, an increase of $20
million above the FY 2018 enacted level and $521 million above the
President's budget request.
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education is funded at
$3.08 billion, an increase of $17 million above the FY 2018 enacted
level and $667 million above the President's budget request.
Land and Water Conservation Fund is appropriated $435 million, which
is $10 million above the FY 2018 enacted level and $435 million above
the President's budget request.
Clean Water State Revolving Fund receives $1.7 billion, which is
equal to the 2018 enacted level and $300 million above the President's
budget request.
Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund is funded at $1.2 billion,
which is equal to the 2018 enacted level and $300 million above the
President's budget request.
Indian Health Service is funded at $5.8 billion, an increase of $266
million above the FY 2018 enacted level and $380 million above the
President's budget request.
Smithsonian Institution is funded at $1.04 billion, equal to the FY
2018 enacted level and $86 million above the President's budget
request.
$155 million for the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities
(NEA/NEH), the President's budget proposal to eliminate the Agencies.
$5.1 billion for State Department Operations, which is $114 million
above the FY 2018 enacted level and $662 million above the President's
budget request, and $6.1 billion for Embassy and Diplomatic
Security, which is the same as the FY 2018 enacted level and $716
million above the President's budget request.

Security Assistance--$9.15 billion, including $3.3 billion for
Israel, fully meeting U.S. commitments under the new Memorandum of
Understanding.
Education and Cultural Exchanges--$701 million, which is $55 million
above the FY 2018 enacted level and $542 million above the President's
budget request.
Contributions to International Organizations--$1.36 billion for
assessed contributions to international organizations, which is $107
million less than the FY 2018 enacted level and $265 million above the
President's budget request.
Contributions to International Peacekeeping--$1.55 billion, which is
$169 million above the FY 2018 enacted level and $355 million above the
President's budget request.
President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)--$5.7 billion,
which is $50 million above the FY 2018 enacted level and $945 million
above the President's budget request, including $1.35 billion for the
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)--$1.37 billion in
total funding for the operating expenses of USAID, which is $25 million
above the FY 2018 enacted level and $258 million above the President's
budget request.
Global Health Programs--$3.1 billion, including $575 million for
family planning programs, $302 million to fight tuberculosis, $145
million for nutrition programs, $755 million to combat malaria, and
$290 million for GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance.
Development Assistance--$3 billion for Development Assistance.
Economic Support Fund (ESF)--$3.7 billion in total funding for
Economic Support Funds, which is $251 million less than the FY 2018
enacted level.
Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Assistance--$7.8 billion, which
is $173 million above the FY 2018 enacted level and $1.46 billion above
the President's budget request.
International Disaster Assistance (IDA)--$4.4 billion, which is $100
million above the FY 2018 enacted level and $828 million above the
President's budget request.
Refugee Assistance--$3.4 billion, which is $73 million above the FY
2018 enacted level and $632 million above the President's budget
request.
Multilateral Assistance--$1.86 billion to meet U.S. commitments to
multilateral organizations and international financial institutions,
which is equal to the FY 2018 enacted level and $440 million above the
President's budget request.
Peace Corps--$410 million, $500,000 above the FY 2018 enacted level
and $14 million above the President's budget request.
Millennium Challenge Corporation--$905 million, which is equal to the
FY 2018 enacted level and $105 million above the President's budget
request.
Department of Transportation (DOT) $86.5 billion overall for DOT,
including $9 billion for new transportation infrastructure. National
Infrastructure Investments (TIGER or BUILD) is funded at $900 million,
a decrease of $600 million below the FY 2018 enacted level and $900
million above the President's budget request. The funding will be
allocated 5o percent to urban areas and 5o percent to rural areas.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)--$17.5 billion, which is $549
million below the FY 2018 enacted level and $1.3 billion above the
President's budget request.
Airport Improvement Program grants receive an additional $500 million
to accelerate infrastructure investments at airports.
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)--$49.3 billion, an increase of
$1.8 billion above the FY 2018 enacted level and $3.5 billion above the
President's budget request.
Highway Infrastructure Programs are funded at $3.3 billion for
highway and bridge rehabilitation and construction as well as safety
improvements at railroad grade crossings.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)--$966 million,
an increase of $19 million above the FY2018 enacted level and $52
million above the President's budget request.
Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)--$2.9 billion, which is $218
million below the FY 2018 enacted level and $1.9 billion above the
President's budget request.
Amtrak is funded at $1.9 billion, equal to FY 2018 enacted level, and
$670 million is provided for rail infrastructure improvements.
The Magnetic Levitation Program is funded at $10 million.
Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is funded at $13.4 billion, 2.3
billion above the President's budget request. Within this amount,
Capital Investment Grants are funded at $2.6 billion, sufficient to
fund all signed Full Funding Grant Agreements and continue work on
projects in the development pipeline.
Transit Infrastructure Grants are funded at $700 million to improve
and modernize transit infrastructure.
Maritime Administration (MARAD)--$1.1 billion, which is $419 million
above the President's budget request; within this amount, the Maritime
Security Program is funded at $300 million, funding is provided for the
construction of a new schoolship, and $293 million is provided for port
infrastructure development.
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)--$275
million, which is $21 million above the President's budget request.
$8 billion for new housing and public infrastructure.
Public and Indian Housing (PIH)--$31 billion, an increase of $6.4
billion above the President's budget request.
Tenant-Based Rental Assistance is funded at $20.3 billion, adequate
to renew all existing vouchers.
Public Housing Capital Fund is funded at $2.8 billion and the Choice
Neighborhoods Initiative is funded at $150 million-both programs will
revitalize our nation's public housing stock.
A mobility voucher demonstration program is funded at $25 million.
Community Planning and Development (CPD)--$7.7 billion, an increase
of $29 million above the FY 2018 enacted level and $5 billion above the
President's budget request.
Homeless Assistance Grants are funded at $2.6 billion.
Community Development Block Grants are funded at $3.4 billion.
The HOME program is funded at $1.3 billion.
Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS is funded at $393
million.
Housing Programs are funded $12.7 billion, an increase of $726
million above the President's budget request.
$61 million is for the renovation and construction of housing units
for the elderly and $30 million is for new housing units for persons
with disabilities.
Project-Based Rental Assistance is fully-funded at $11.7 billion.
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity is funded at $65.3 million, equal
to the FY 2018 enacted level and $3 million above the President's
budget request.
Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes is slated to receive
$279 million, an increase of $49 million above the FY 2018 enacted
level and $134 million above the President's budget request.
Madam Speaker, the collateral damage caused by the Trump Shutdown was
substantial, long lasting, and unnecessary because it could have been
avoided had the President not reneged on his promise to sign the
continuing resolution passed by the Senate unanimously on December 19,
2018.
Instead, the President callously shut down the government for 35
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800,000 civil servants and forcing nearly half that many to work
without pay, which cost the national economy more than $11 billion in
lost productivity and economic output.
Because the President broke his promise, frontline federal employees,
including law enforcement and public safety personnel, worked without
pay from December 22 through January 25, 2019.
The way these federal workers, many of whom risk their lives in the
service of this country, were treated was shameful.
The shutdown forced some employees to look for new jobs or take on
extra work, and the pressure was immense for employees and families
with no other source of income.
Among those not receiving a pay check for their work were 3,200
Secret Service agents who risk their lives every single day to protect
the President and his family.
In addition to the federal employees working without pay, hardworking
federal employees at agencies like the Department of Justice, the
Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Agriculture, and
NASA had been furloughed without pay, plunging them and their families
into uncertainty.
Madam Speaker, shutting down the Government of the United States, or
any portion thereof, is not an acceptable tactic or strategy for
resolving differences regarding policy, funding levels, or governing
philosophy.
It should never happen again.
Given the damage mercilessly inflicted on the American people and the
economy by the Trump Shutdown, Congress has a fiduciary duty to the
American people to ensure the continued, uninterrupted operations of
the Government of the United States and its services.
And that begins with an overwhelming majority vote in support of H.J.
Res. 31.
Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Madam Speaker, I want to thank my friend, frankly, for his response
on the VAWA issue. And I don't pretend to speak for all Republicans. I
will point out to my friend, actually the last time we did a
reauthorization, I voted against the Republican bill to bring the
Senate Democratic bill to the floor because I thought it was a better
bill. It was a stronger bill.
It had Tribal provisions and it had areas we had not addressed
previously. I thought those were good changes. It is pretty unusual for
me to break with my own team and bring down the Republican bill and
pass the Democratic bill, but I was proud to do it because it was a
better bill.
I don't think simply having money in place is the same as having the
authorizations in place. This is an opportunity, in my view, to just
have continuity while we do exactly what my friend suggests. Let's find
a way, and come together. I think we will. That has traditionally been
a bipartisan bill. I hope we do it. But I don't see a reason why we
should have a lapse in authority.
This is something we tried to put, actually, in conference in the
base bill, and it would not have prevented my friends from going on and
offering a new authorization. It was just simply, let's keep this
going.
So to me, the previous question that we will offer should the rule be
defeated, will have that opportunity, and I hope my friends avail
themselves of that.
In addition to that, I want to thank my friends genuinely for the
cooperation in this process on the appropriations bills themselves. As
I said, six of these bills were essentially agreed to in December in a
bipartisan way between both the House and the Senate.
So we will hear the argument or could hear the argument tonight. All
of this is new, and there is a 1,000-plus page bill, and what have you.
The reality is, there are probably about 75 pages, I am told from the
conferees, of new text here. Most of this is actually something that
this House has voted on and passed in December.
Not reopening old issues and settling them where we could and then
moving forward is something my friends ought to be proud of. I think it
was absolutely the right thing to do. It let us get on to the important
business of fiscal year 2020 more quickly and more expeditiously.
And my friends are in the majority, and if they want to make changes
there, additions or subtractions, they will be in a position to do
that. But I think closing the book here is a good one.
I hope all of us, honestly, as Republicans and Democrats--I have been
around here long enough to be in the minority, in the majority, and in
the minority again. It tends to move back and forth.
But as my friends have pointed out, these are important funding bills
that provide for the continuity of government. And in these
negotiations nobody ever gets everything they want. It is not possible,
even when one side or the other controls both Chambers and the White
House. I have been here when that has happened on our side and on my
friend's side. You still never get everything you want in
appropriations.
But I think there is going to be a premium placed on cooperation and
negotiations going forward. There is no question. We have a Democratic
House, we have a Republican Senate, and we have a Republican President.
Everything that we are going to accomplish in the next 18 months for
the American people will have to be a compromise where we work
together. I actually think this is a good first step in starting that
process. I think my friends are to be commended in doing that.
We won't get every vote for this underlying legislation on our side.
I doubt my friends will get every vote on their side, but we will have
a pretty substantial bipartisan majority in favor of moving forward,
fully funding the government and, hopefully, that sets the example for
what we do in fiscal year 2020.

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Again, I look forward to working with my friends going forward. I
look forward to beginning that process here tonight by working together
to pass a bill the Senate has already passed in an overwhelmingly
bipartisan fashion and that the President has said he will sign, and I
assume that he certainly will.
As difficult as this road has been, Madam Speaker, I think this is
actually a hopeful moment for this Chamber and maybe the beginning of
good habits of negotiation, compromise, and cooperation, because we are
certainly going to need those habits going forward.
Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. PERLMUTTER. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time to
close.
Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
Madam Speaker, I thank my friend, and, again, I thank him quite
sincerely for his work. We have had the opportunity to work together
now in the Rules Committee for a little while. We hadn't had that
opportunity previously. He is always a thoughtful and an interesting
voice in that body and certainly here on the floor.
While we will disagree over the rule and might well disagree over the
previous question, on the underlying legislation, I suspect my friend
and I will be voting on the same side tonight.
That is something I hope that the American people take note of. We
will have lots of Democrats and lots of Republicans voting on the same
side. Yes, we have our differences about how we got here or what we
would have liked. But at the end of the day, we have come together and
given the American people what they deserve, and that is a fully
funded, operational government, and we have resolved our differences in
conference.
I, too, want to join my friends in congratulating the chair of the
conference committee, Chair Lowey; congratulating our ranking member,
Kay Granger; and congratulating their counterparts, Senator Shelby and
Senator Leahy for the work they did in working through these knotty
issues and bringing us together.
Yes, I wish it happened more quickly, but they are not the only
players. I think all four of them worked in good faith and served our
Chambers well in their deliberations.
Madam Speaker, in closing, I urge support for the underlying measure.
While the process of finalizing full-year funding for fiscal year 2019
may have taken longer than we expected, today's measure will complete
the process. I expect the House will pass these seven bills today, and
I expect that the President will sign them in the very near future.
I applaud and commend my colleagues for their hard work and hope that
we will carry this spirit of bipartisanship with us as we move forward
into the fiscal year 2020 appropriations process.

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Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. PERLMUTTER. Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
Madam Speaker, I thank my colleagues for joining me here today to
speak on the rule and the conference report. Providing funding for the
Federal Government is one of our most basic responsibilities here in
the Congress. Unfortunately, the Congress in the last session failed to
get it done and pass an appropriations package or even a short-term
continuing resolution, and that resulted in a 35-day shutdown, the
longest in U.S. history, something I hope we all can avoid from this
point forward.
Starting on day one of the new Congress, House Democrats began by
working to reopen the government, so we could negotiate the remaining
issues on border security and finish last year's work once and for all.
Today, we are accomplishing that goal.
I want to close with a thank you to the Appropriations Committee,
which worked very hard to get this done. I thank the Rules Committee,
where we heard every one of these appropriations bills.
I especially thank the 800,000 Federal employees affected by the
shutdown, as well as the other 1.2 million Federal employees across the
country. They are patriots. The employees are patriots for the work
they do each and every day on behalf of our country and our citizens.
I met with dozens of Federal employees during the shutdown. I heard
about the uncertainty of how to pay bills and the mental anguish from
being sidelined from work because they were not excepted or essential.
Despite all that, I still heard that they were proud of their work of
10, 20, even 25 years in public service and how they just wanted to get
back to their jobs.
Madam Speaker, I say to Mr. Cole that I am hopeful, too, that we can
come together on these important responsibilities. There are going to
be basic disagreements, and hopefully, we can work together to iron out
most of those. But shutting down the government is something we have to
avoid from this point forward. So I hope the lessons we in Congress
learned from the shutdown are not forgotten, and we continue working
together to prevent this from happening again.
Madam Speaker, I encourage a ``yes'' vote on the rule and on the
previous question.
The material previously referred to by Mr. Cole is as follows:

At the end of the resolution, add the following:
Sec. 4. Immediately upon adoption of this resolution, the
House shall proceed to the consideration in the House of the
bill (H.R. 1239) to reauthorize Department of Justice
programs that combat violence against women, and for other
purposes. All points of order against consideration of the
bill are waived. The bill shall be considered as read. All
points of order against provisions in the bill are waived.
The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the
bill and on any amendment thereto to final passage without
intervening motion except: (1) one hour of debate equally
divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority
member of the Committee on the Judiciary; and (2) one motion
to recommit.
Sec. 5. Clause 1(c) of rule XIX shall not apply to the
consideration of H.R. 1239.

Mr. PERLMUTTER. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time,
and I move the previous question on the resolution.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on ordering the previous
question.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 15-
minute vote on ordering the previous question will be followed by a 5-
minute vote on adoption of the resolution, if ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 229,
nays 195, not voting 7, as follows:

[Roll No. 85]

YEAS--229

Adams
Aguilar
Axne
Barragan
Bass
Beatty
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer
Blunt Rochester
Bonamici
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brindisi
Brown (MD)
Brownley (CA)
Bustos
Butterfield
Carbajal
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Case
Casten (IL)
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Cisneros
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Cooper
Correa
Costa
Courtney
Cox (CA)
Craig
Crist
Crow
Cuellar
Cummings
Cunningham
Davids (KS)
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny K.
Dean
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
DelBene
Delgado
Demings
DeSaulnier
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle, Michael F.
Escobar
Eshoo
Espaillat
Evans
Finkenauer
Fletcher
Foster
Frankel
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Garcia (IL)
Garcia (TX)
Golden
Gomez
Gonzalez (TX)
Gottheimer
Green (TX)
Grijalva
Haaland
Harder (CA)
Hastings
Hayes
Heck
Higgins (NY)
Hill (CA)
Himes
Horn, Kendra S.
Horsford
Houlahan
Hoyer
Huffman
Jackson Lee
Jayapal
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (TX)
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Khanna
Kildee
Kilmer
Kim
Kind
Kirkpatrick
Krishnamoorthi
Kuster (NH)
Lamb
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lawson (FL)
Lee (CA)
Lee (NV)
Levin (CA)
Levin (MI)
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan
Luria
Lynch
Malinowski
Maloney, Carolyn B.
Maloney, Sean
Matsui
McAdams
McBath
McCollum
McEachin
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Morelle
Moulton
Mucarsel-Powell
Murphy
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Neguse
Norcross
O'Halleran
Ocasio-Cortez
Omar
Pallone
Panetta
Pappas
Pascrell
Payne
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Phillips
Pingree
Pocan
Porter
Pressley
Price (NC)
Raskin
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Rose (NY)
Rouda
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan
Sanchez
Sarbanes
Scanlon
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schneider
Schrader
Schrier
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Shalala
Sherman
Sherrill
Sires
Slotkin
Smith (WA)
Soto
Spanberger
Speier
Stanton
Stevens
Suozzi
Swalwell (CA)
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tlaib
Tonko
Torres (CA)
Torres Small (NM)
Trahan
Trone
Underwood
Van Drew
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wexton
Wild
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth

NAYS--195

Abraham
Allen
Amash
Amodei
Armstrong
Arrington
Babin
Bacon
Baird
Balderson
Banks
Barr
Bergman
Biggs
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Bost
Brady
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Budd
Burchett
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Cheney
Cline
Cloud
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comer
Conaway
Cook
Crawford
Crenshaw
Curtis
Davidson (OH)
Davis, Rodney
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Duffy
Duncan
Dunn
Emmer
Estes
Ferguson
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Flores
Fortenberry
Foxx (NC)
Fulcher
Gaetz
Gallagher
Gianforte
Gibbs
Gohmert
Gonzalez (OH)
Gooden
Gosar
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Green (TN)
Griffith
Grothman
Guest
Guthrie
Hagedorn
Harris
Hartzler
Hern, Kevin
Herrera Beutler
Hice (GA)
Higgins (LA)
Hill (AR)
Holding
Hollingsworth
Hudson
Huizenga
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Johnson (LA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson (SD)
Jordan
Joyce (OH)
Joyce (PA)
Katko
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kustoff (TN)
LaHood
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Latta
Lesko
Long
Loudermilk
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Marchant
Marshall
Massie
Mast
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
Meadows
Meuser
Miller
Mitchell
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Newhouse
Norman
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Pence
Perry
Posey
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reschenthaler
Rice (SC)
Riggleman
Roby
Rodgers (WA)
Roe, David P.
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rooney (FL)
Rose, John W.
Rouzer
Roy
Rutherford
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Shimkus
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smucker
Spano
Stauber
Stefanik
Steil
Steube
Stewart
Stivers
Taylor
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Timmons
Tipton
Turner
Upton
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Waltz
Watkins
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Wright
Yoho
Young
Zeldin

NOT VOTING--7

Aderholt
Allred
Cardenas
Deutch
Engel
Kinzinger
Quigley

{time} 1926

Messrs. RUTHERFORD, GRIFFITH, Mrs. RODGERS of Washington, and Mr.

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SHIMKUS changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
Mses. BASS, SPEIER and JACKSON LEE changed their vote from ``nay'' to
``yea.''
So the previous question was ordered.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 230,
nays 196, not voting 5, as follows:

[Roll No. 86]

YEAS--230

Adams
Aguilar
Axne
Barragan
Bass
Beatty
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer
Blunt Rochester
Bonamici
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brindisi
Brown (MD)
Brownley (CA)
Bustos
Butterfield
Carbajal
Cardenas
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Case
Casten (IL)
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Cisneros
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Cooper
Correa
Costa
Courtney
Cox (CA)
Craig
Crist
Crow
Cuellar
Cummings
Cunningham
Davids (KS)
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny K.
Dean
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
DelBene
Delgado
Demings
DeSaulnier
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle, Michael F.
Engel
Escobar
Eshoo
Espaillat
Evans
Finkenauer
Fletcher
Foster
Frankel
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Garcia (IL)
Garcia (TX)
Golden
Gomez
Gonzalez (TX)
Gottheimer
Green (TX)
Grijalva
Haaland
Harder (CA)
Hastings
Hayes
Heck
Higgins (NY)
Hill (CA)
Himes
Horn, Kendra S.
Horsford
Houlahan
Hoyer
Huffman
Jackson Lee
Jayapal
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (TX)
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Khanna
Kildee
Kilmer
Kim
Kind
Kirkpatrick
Krishnamoorthi
Kuster (NH)
Lamb
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lawson (FL)
Lee (CA)
Lee (NV)
Levin (CA)
Levin (MI)
Lewis
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan
Luria
Lynch
Malinowski
Maloney, Carolyn B.
Maloney, Sean
Matsui
McAdams
McBath
McCollum
McEachin
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Morelle
Moulton
Mucarsel-Powell
Murphy
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Neguse
Norcross
O'Halleran
Ocasio-Cortez
Omar
Pallone
Panetta
Pappas
Pascrell
Payne
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Phillips
Pingree
Pocan
Porter
Pressley
Price (NC)
Raskin
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Rose (NY)
Rouda
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan
Sanchez
Sarbanes
Scanlon
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schneider
Schrader
Schrier
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Shalala
Sherman
Sherrill
Sires
Slotkin
Smith (WA)
Soto
Spanberger
Speier
Stanton
Stevens
Suozzi
Swalwell (CA)
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tlaib
Tonko
Torres (CA)
Torres Small (NM)
Trahan
Trone
Underwood
Van Drew
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wexton
Wild
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth

NAYS--196

Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amash
Amodei
Armstrong
Arrington
Babin
Bacon
Baird
Balderson
Banks
Barr
Bergman
Biggs
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Bost
Brady
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Budd
Burchett
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Cheney
Cline
Cloud
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comer
Conaway
Cook
Crawford
Crenshaw
Curtis
Davidson (OH)
Davis, Rodney
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Duffy
Duncan
Dunn
Emmer
Estes
Ferguson
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Flores
Fortenberry
Foxx (NC)
Fulcher
Gaetz
Gallagher
Gianforte
Gibbs
Gohmert
Gonzalez (OH)
Gooden
Gosar
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Green (TN)
Griffith
Grothman
Guest
Guthrie
Hagedorn
Harris
Hartzler
Hern, Kevin
Herrera Beutler
Hice (GA)
Higgins (LA)
Hill (AR)
Holding
Hollingsworth
Hudson
Huizenga
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Johnson (LA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson (SD)
Jordan
Joyce (OH)
Joyce (PA)
Katko
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kustoff (TN)
LaHood
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Latta
Lesko
Long
Loudermilk
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Marchant
Marshall
Massie
Mast
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
Meadows
Meuser
Miller
Mitchell
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Newhouse
Norman
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Pence
Perry
Posey
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reschenthaler
Rice (SC)
Riggleman
Roby
Rodgers (WA)
Roe, David P.
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rooney (FL)
Rose, John W.
Rouzer
Roy
Rutherford
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Shimkus
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smucker
Spano
Stauber
Stefanik
Steil
Steube
Stewart
Stivers
Taylor
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Timmons
Tipton
Turner
Upton
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Waltz
Watkins
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Wright
Yoho
Young
Zeldin

NOT VOTING--5

Allred
Deutch
Kinzinger
Lieu, Ted
Quigley

Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). There are 2 minutes
remaining.

{time} 1935

So the resolution was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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