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H2466 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 10, 2006 Kolbe Nussle Sessions Udall (NM) Waters Woolsey Brown (OH) Holt Payne Kuhl (NY) Osborne Shadegg Van Hollen Watson Wu Brown, Corrine Honda Pelosi LaHood Otter Shaw Vela´ zquez Watt Wynn Capito Hooley Pomeroy Latham Oxley Shays Visclosky Waxman Capps Hoyer Price (NC) LaTourette Paul Sherwood Wasserman Weiner Capuano Inslee Pryce (OH) Lewis (CA) Pearce Shimkus Schultz Wexler Cardin Israel Ramstad Lewis (KY) Pence Shuster Carnahan Jackson (IL) Rangel Linder Peterson (MN) Simmons NOT VOTING—4 Carson Jackson-Lee Reyes LoBiondo Peterson (PA) Simpson Cardoza Kennedy (RI) Case (TX) Rothman Lucas Petri Smith (NJ) Evans Smith (WA) Castle Jefferson Roybal-Allard Lungren, Daniel Pickering Smith (TX) Chandler Johnson (CT) Ruppersberger E. Pitts Sodrel b 1816 Clay Johnson, E. B. Rush Mack Platts Souder Cleaver Jones (OH) Sabo Manzullo Poe Stearns Mr. CLEAVER changed his vote from Clyburn Kaptur Sa´ nchez, Linda Marchant Pombo Sullivan ‘‘aye’’ to ‘‘no.’’ Conyers Kelly T. Marshall Porter Sweeney So the conference report was agreed Cooper Kilpatrick (MI) Sanchez, Loretta Matheson Price (GA) Tancredo Costa Kind Sanders McCaul (TX) Pryce (OH) Taylor (NC) to. Cramer Kirk Schakowsky McCotter Putnam Terry The result of the vote was announced Crowley Kolbe Schiff McCrery Radanovich Thomas as above recorded. Cummings Kucinich Schwartz (PA) McHenry Ramstad Thornberry Davis (AL) Lantos Scott (GA) McHugh Regula Tiahrt A motion to reconsider was laid on Davis (CA) Larsen (WA) Scott (VA) McIntyre Rehberg Tiberi the table. Davis (FL) Larson (CT) Serrano McKeon Reichert Turner Davis (IL) Leach Shaw McMorris Renzi Upton f DeFazio Lee Shays Melancon Reynolds Walden (OR) DeGette Levin Sherman Mica Rogers (AL) Walsh NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZA- Delahunt Lewis (GA) Simmons Miller (FL) Rogers (KY) Wamp TION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2007 DeLauro Lofgren, Zoe Slaughter Miller (MI) Rogers (MI) Weldon (FL) Dent Lowey Snyder Miller, Gary Rohrabacher Weldon (PA) The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Dicks Maloney Solis Moran (KS) Ros-Lehtinen Weller ant to House Resolution 806 and rule Dingell Markey Spratt Murphy Royce Westmoreland XVIII, the Chair declares the House in Doggett Matheson Stark Musgrave Ryan (WI) Whitfield Edwards Matsui Strickland Myrick Ryun (KS) Wicker the Committee of the Whole House on Emanuel McCarthy Tanner Neugebauer Salazar Wilson (NM) the State of the Union for the further Engel McCollum (MN) Tauscher Ney Saxton Wilson (SC) consideration of the bill, H.R. 5122. Eshoo McDermott Thomas Northup Schmidt Wolf Etheridge McGovern Thompson (CA) Norwood Schwarz (MI) Young (AK) b 1817 Farr McKinney Thompson (MS) Nunes Sensenbrenner Young (FL) Fattah Meehan Tierney IN THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE Filner Meek (FL) Towns NOES—185 Foley Meeks (NY) Udall (CO) Accordingly, the House resolved Ford Millender- Udall (NM) Abercrombie Gonzalez Miller, George itself into the Committee of the Whole Frank (MA) McDonald Van Hollen Ackerman Green, Al Mollohan House on the State of the Union for the Frelinghuysen Miller (NC) Vela´ zquez Allen Green, Gene Moore (KS) further consideration of the bill (H.R. Gilchrest Miller, George Visclosky Andrews Grijalva Moore (WI) Gonzalez Moore (KS) Walden (OR) Baca Gutierrez Moran (VA) 5122) to authorize appropriations for Gordon Moore (WI) Wasserman Baird Harman Murtha fiscal year 2007 for military activities Green, Al Moran (VA) Schultz Baldwin Hastings (FL) Nadler of the Department of Defense, to pre- Green, Gene Nadler Waters Becerra Herseth Napolitano Grijalva Napolitano Watson Berkley Higgins Neal (MA) scribe military personnel strengths for Gutierrez Neal (MA) Watt Berman Hinchey Oberstar fiscal year 2007, and for other purposes, Harman Obey Waxman Berry Hinojosa Obey with Mr. DUNCAN (Acting Chairman) in Hastings (FL) Olver Weiner Bishop (GA) Holden Olver the chair. Herseth Owens Wexler Bishop (NY) Holt Ortiz Higgins Pallone Woolsey Blumenauer Honda Owens The Clerk read the title of the bill. Hinchey Pascrell Wu Boehlert Hooley Pallone The Acting CHAIRMAN. When the Hinojosa Pastor Wynn Boswell Hoyer Pascrell Boucher Inslee Pastor Committee of the Whole rose earlier NOES—237 Boyd Israel today, amendment No. 5 printed in Payne Aderholt Crenshaw Graves Brady (PA) Jackson (IL) Pelosi House Report 109–459 by the gentleman Akin Cubin Green (WI) Brown (OH) Jackson-Lee Pomeroy from Tennessee (Mr. TANNER) had been Alexander Cuellar Gutknecht Brown, Corrine (TX) Price (NC) Bachus Culberson Hall Butterfield Jefferson disposed of. Rahall Baker Davis (KY) Harris Capps Johnson, E. B. Rangel AMENDMENT NO. 3 OFFERED BY MR. ANDREWS Barrett (SC) Davis (TN) Hart Capuano Jones (OH) Reyes Bartlett (MD) Davis, Jo Ann Hastings (WA) Cardin Kanjorski The Acting CHAIRMAN. The pending Ross Barton (TX) Davis, Tom Hayes Carnahan Kaptur business is the demand for a recorded Rothman Beauprez Deal (GA) Hayworth Carson Kildee Roybal-Allard vote on the amendment offered by the Berry DeLay Hefley Chandler Kilpatrick (MI) Ruppersberger gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. AN- Bilirakis Diaz-Balart, L. Hensarling Clay Kind Rush Bishop (UT) Diaz-Balart, M. Herger Cleaver Kucinich DREWS) on which further proceedings Ryan (OH) Blackburn Doolittle Hobson Clyburn Langevin Sabo were postponed and on which the noes Blunt Doyle Hoekstra Conyers Lantos ´ Sanchez, Linda prevailed by voice vote. Boehner Drake Holden Cooper Larsen (WA) T. Bonilla Dreier Hostettler Costa Larson (CT) The Clerk will redesignate the Sanchez, Loretta Bonner Duncan Hulshof Costello Leach amendment. Sanders Boozman Ehlers Hunter Crowley Lee Schakowsky The Clerk redesignated the amend- Boren Emerson Hyde Cummings Levin Schiff ment. Boustany English (PA) Inglis (SC) Davis (AL) Lewis (GA) Schwartz (PA) Brady (TX) Everett Issa Davis (CA) Lipinski RECORDED VOTE Scott (GA) Brown (SC) Feeney Istook Davis (FL) Lofgren, Zoe Scott (VA) The Acting CHAIRMAN. A recorded Brown-Waite, Ferguson Jenkins Davis (IL) Lowey Serrano Ginny Fitzpatrick (PA) Jindal DeFazio Lynch vote has been demanded. Sherman Burgess Flake Johnson (IL) DeGette Maloney A recorded vote was ordered. Skelton Burton (IN) Forbes Johnson, Sam Delahunt Markey Slaughter The vote was taken by electronic de- Butterfield Fortenberry Jones (NC) DeLauro Matsui Snyder vice, and there were—ayes 191, noes 237, Buyer Fossella Kanjorski Dicks McCarthy Solis Calvert Foxx Keller Dingell McCollum (MN) not voting 4, as follows: Spratt Camp (MI) Franks (AZ) Kennedy (MN) Doggett McDermott Stark [Roll No. 136] Campbell (CA) Gallegly Kildee Doyle McGovern Strickland Cannon Garrett (NJ) King (IA) Edwards McKinney AYES—191 Stupak Cantor Gerlach King (NY) Emanuel McNulty Abercrombie Bass Blumenauer Tanner Carter Gibbons Kingston Engel Meehan Ackerman Bean Boehlert Tauscher Chabot Gillmor Kline Eshoo Meek (FL) Allen Becerra Bono Taylor (MS) Chocola Gingrey Knollenberg Etheridge Meeks (NY) Andrews Berkley Boswell Thompson (CA) Coble Gohmert Kuhl (NY) Farr Michaud Baca Berman Boucher Thompson (MS) Cole (OK) Goode LaHood Fattah Millender- Baird Biggert Boyd Tierney Conaway Goodlatte Langevin Filner McDonald Baldwin Bishop (GA) Bradley (NH) Towns Costello Granger Latham Frank (MA) Miller (NC) Udall (CO) Barrow Bishop (NY) Brady (PA) VerDate Aug 31 2005 05:32 May 11, 2006 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00126 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A10MY7.057 H10MYPT1 hmoore on PROD1PC68 with HMHOUSE May 10, 2006 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H2467 LaTourette Nussle Schwarz (MI) wise have no means available to seek ur- to permit space available travel on Lewis (CA) Oberstar Sensenbrenner gently needed medical care such as that pro- military aircraft in order to safely re- Lewis (KY) Ortiz Sessions vided by a humanitarian organization in Linder Osborne turn 110 Iraqi children to Baghdad from Shadegg Amman, Jordan. Lipinski Otter Sherwood Amman where they had undergone ur- (c) FUNDING SUPPORT.—Within the amount LoBiondo Oxley Shimkus gently needed oral and facial surgeries. Lucas Paul provided in section 301 for Operation and Shuster This intervention was deemed nec- Lungren, Daniel Pearce Simpson Maintenance, Defense-wide— E. Pence Skelton (1) $1,000,000 shall be available only for De- essary and appropriate because armed Lynch Peterson (MN) Smith (NJ) partment of Defense support of the Peace insurgents had stopped and boarded the Mack Peterson (PA) Smith (TX) Through Health Care Initiative; and children’s buses when they were trav- Manzullo Petri Sodrel Marchant Pickering (2) the amount provided for Budget Activ- eling to Amman, raising serious ques- Souder ity 4 is reduced by $1,000,000. Marshall Pitts Stearns tions about the safety of undertaking McCaul (TX) Platts Stupak MODIFICATION TO AMENDMENT NO. 6 OFFERED the return trip by ground. McCotter Poe Sullivan BY MR. FRANKS OF ARIZONA McCrery Pombo Mr. Chairman, such activities are Sweeney McHenry Porter Mr. FRANKS of Arizona. Mr. Chair- vital to our efforts in Iraq. Not only Tancredo McHugh Price (GA) Taylor (MS) man, I have a modification to my are many young children receiving McIntyre Putnam Taylor (NC) amendment at the desk, and I ask critical, life-changing reconstructive McKeon Radanovich McMorris Rahall Terry unanimous consent that my amend- surgeries, Iraqi physicians are also McNulty Regula Thornberry ment be considered in accordance with being trained so that even more chil- Tiahrt Melancon Rehberg this modification. dren can be helped. This helps the Iraqi Mica Reichert Tiberi Michaud Renzi Turner The Acting CHAIRMAN. The Clerk people understand that our war is with Miller (FL) Reynolds Upton will