September 4, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H10043 Hayes McHugh Sa´ nchez, Linda Lipinski Royce Souder bill, H.R. 3020, as amended, on which Heller McIntyre T. Lucas Rush Tancredo the yeas and nays were ordered. Herseth Sandlin McKeon Sarbanes Mollohan Sanchez, Loretta Taylor Higgins McMorris Saxton Payne Schiff Terry The Clerk read the title of the bill. Hill Rodgers Schakowsky Peterson (PA) Schwartz Watson The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Hinchey McNerney Scott (GA) Pickering Shimkus Weller question is on the motion offered by Hinojosa McNulty Poe Simpson Wilson (NM) Scott (VA) the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Hirono Meek (FL) Sensenbrenner Pryce (OH) Smith (WA) Young (AK) Hobson Meeks (NY) Serrano VELA´ ZQUEZ) that the House suspend the Hodes Melancon Sestak b 1913 rules and pass the bill, H.R. 3020, as Holden Mica Shays Holt Michaud Messrs. KINGSTON, GARRETT of amended. Shea-Porter Honda Miller (MI) New Jersey, HERGER, Mrs. This will be a 5-minute vote. Sherman Hoyer Miller (NC) Shuler BLACKBURN, Mr. HOEKSTRA and The vote was taken by electronic de- Inslee Miller, George Shuster vice, and there were—yeas 385, nays 5, Issa Mitchell Mrs. SCHMIDT changed their vote Jackson (IL) Moore (KS) Sires from ‘‘yea’’ to ‘‘nay.’’ not voting 42, as follows: Jackson-Lee Moore (WI) Skelton Messrs. MURTHA, SULLIVAN, CON- [Roll No. 848] Slaughter (TX) Moran (KS) YERS, Ms. GRANGER and Mr. HOB- Jefferson Moran (VA) Smith (NJ) YEAS—385 Johnson (GA) Murphy (CT) Smith (TX) SON changed their vote from ‘‘nay’’ to Abercrombie Cooper Heller Jones (OH) Murphy, Patrick Snyder ‘‘yea.’’ Ackerman Costello Hensarling Jordan Murphy, Tim Solis So (two-thirds being in the affirma- Aderholt Courtney Herger Kagen Murtha Space Akin Cramer Herseth Sandlin Kanjorski Myrick Spratt tive) the rules were suspended and the Alexander Crenshaw Higgins Kaptur Nadler Stark bill, as amended, was passed. Allen Crowley Hill Keller Napolitano Stupak The result of the vote was announced Altmire Cubin Hinchey Kennedy Neal (MA) Sullivan as above recorded. Andrews Cuellar Hinojosa Kildee Nunes Sutton Arcuri Cummings Hirono Kilpatrick Oberstar Tanner A motion to reconsider was laid on Baca Davis (AL) Hobson Kind Obey Tauscher the table. Bachmann Davis (CA) Hodes King (NY) Olver Thompson (CA) Bachus Davis (IL) Hoekstra Kirk Ortiz Thompson (MS) f Baird Davis (KY) Holden Klein (FL) Pallone Tiahrt Baker Davis, David Holt Knollenberg Pascrell Tiberi THE RETURN OF SENATOR TIM Baldwin Davis, Lincoln Honda Kuhl (NY) Pastor Tierney JOHNSON Barrett (SC) Davis, Tom Hoyer LaHood Pearce Towns (Ms. HERSETH SANDLIN asked and Bartlett (MD) Deal (GA) Inglis (SC) Lampson Perlmutter Turner Barton (TX) DeFazio Inslee Langevin Peterson (MN) Udall (CO) was given permission to address the Bean DeGette Issa Lantos Petri Udall (NM) House for 1 minute.) Becerra Delahunt Jackson (IL) Larsen (WA) Pitts Upton Ms. HERSETH SANDLIN. Mr. Speak- Berkley DeLauro Jackson-Lee Larson (CT) Platts Berman Dent (TX) Van Hollen er, I rise this evening to share with you Latham Pomeroy Vela´ zquez Berry Diaz-Balart, L. Jefferson LaTourette Porter Visclosky and to share with all of our colleagues Biggert Diaz-Balart, M. Johnson (GA) Lee Price (NC) Walberg some truly wonderful news about a Bilbray Dicks Jones (NC) Levin Putnam Walden (OR) Bilirakis Dingell Jones (OH) Lewis (GA) Radanovich good friend and his health, a friend who Bishop (GA) Doggett Walsh (NY) Jordan Lewis (KY) Rahall is a former Member of this body, and Bishop (NY) Donnelly Kagen Walz (MN) LoBiondo Ramstad Bishop (UT) Doolittle Kanjorski Wamp the senior Senator from the State of Loebsack Rangel Blackburn Doyle Kaptur Wasserman South Dakota. This announcement is Lofgren, Zoe Regula Blumenauer Drake Keller Schultz Lowey Rehberg news of our friend, TIM JOHNSON. Blunt Dreier Kennedy Waters Lungren, Daniel Reichert Last week, Senator JOHNSON was wel- Boehner Duncan Kildee Watt E. Renzi comed home by his constituents for the Bonner Edwards Kilpatrick Lynch Reyes Waxman Bono Ehlers Kind Mahoney (FL) Reynolds Weiner first time since suffering a debilitating Boozman Ellison King (IA) Maloney (NY) Rodriguez Welch (VT) brain hemorrhage last December. It Boren Ellsworth King (NY) Markey Rogers (AL) Weldon (FL) was a joyous day, full of smiles, laugh- Boswell Emanuel Kingston Wexler Marshall Rogers (KY) ter and tears. And after 9 months of Boucher Emerson Kirk Matheson Rogers (MI) Whitfield Boustany Engel Klein (FL) Matsui Ros-Lehtinen Wicker hard work, determination, and Boyd (FL) English (PA) Kline (MN) McCarthy (CA) Roskam Wilson (OH) strength of mind and spirit, all quali- Boyda (KS) Eshoo Knollenberg McCarthy (NY) Ross Wilson (SC) ties that have marked his tenure in Brady (PA) Etheridge Kuhl (NY) McCaul (TX) Rothman Wolf Brady (TX) Everett LaHood McCollum (MN) Roybal-Allard Woolsey public service, tomorrow TIM JOHNSON Braley (IA) Fallin Lamborn McCotter Ruppersberger Wu will return to the Senate Chamber. Brown (SC) Farr Lampson McCrery Ryan (OH) Wynn Brown, Corrine Fattah Langevin McDermott Ryan (WI) Yarmuth b 1915 Brown-Waite, Feeney Lantos McGovern Salazar Young (FL) Ginny Ferguson Larsen (WA) In Senator JOHNSON’s recovery, the Buchanan Filner Larson (CT) NAYS—59 prayers of South Dakota families, the Burgess Forbes Latham Bachmann Deal (GA) Manzullo prayers of all of us, and indeed the Burton (IN) Fortenberry LaTourette Barrett (SC) Doolittle Marchant prayers of countless people across the Butterfield Fossella Lee Buyer Foxx Levin Bartlett (MD) Duncan McHenry country have been answered. And TIM, Calvert Frank (MA) Lewis (GA) Barton (TX) Feeney Miller (FL) Biggert Flake his loving wife Barbara, and their beau- Camp (MI) Franks (AZ) Lewis (KY) Miller, Gary Campbell (CA) Frelinghuysen Linder Bilbray Foxx Musgrave tiful family will continue to move for- Blackburn Franks (AZ) Cannon Garrett (NJ) LoBiondo Neugebauer ward as resilient and remarkable as Cantor Gerlach Loebsack Boehner Garrett (NJ) Paul Broun (GA) Gingrey ever. Capito Giffords Lofgren, Zoe Pence Burton (IN) Hensarling Capps Gilchrest Lowey Price (GA) f Campbell (CA) Herger Capuano Gillibrand Lungren, Daniel Rohrabacher Cannon Hoekstra Cardoza Gillmor E. Sali ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER Carnahan Gingrey Lynch Cantor Inglis (SC) PRO TEMPORE Carter Jones (NC) Schmidt Carney Gohmert Mack Coble King (IA) Sessions The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without Carson Gonzalez Mahoney (FL) Shadegg Carter Goode Maloney (NY) Conaway Kingston objection, 5-minute voting will con- Cubin Kline (MN) Smith (NE) Castle Goodlatte Manzullo Culberson Lamborn Stearns tinue. Castor Gordon Marchant Davis (KY) Linder Thornberry There was no objection. Chabot Granger Markey Davis, David Mack Westmoreland Chandler Green, Al Marshall f Clarke Green, Gene Matheson NOT VOTING—42 Clay Hall (NY) Matsui MICROLOAN AMENDMENTS AND Cleaver Hall (TX) McCarthy (CA) Barrow Gutierrez Jindal MODERNIZATION ACT Clyburn Hare McCarthy (NY) Costa Hastert Johnson (IL) Cohen Harman McCaul (TX) Davis, Jo Ann Hooley Johnson, E. B. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The un- Cole (OK) Hastings (FL) McCollum (MN) Gallegly Hulshof Johnson, Sam finished business is the vote on the mo- Conaway Hastings (WA) McCotter Graves Hunter Kucinich Conyers Hayes McCrery Grijalva Israel Lewis (CA) tion to suspend the rules and pass the

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:03 Apr 04, 2008 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD08\H04SE7.REC H04SE7 mmaher on PROD1PC76 with CONG-REC-ONLINE H10044 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE September 4, 2007 McDermott Price (GA) Snyder HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, tor for Lieutenant Governor Cruz McGovern Price (NC) Solis Washington, DC, August 31, 2007. McHenry Putnam Bustamante, LAURA was elected to the Space Hon. NANCY PELOSI, McHugh Radanovich California State Assembly last Novem- Spratt Speaker, House of Representatives, McIntyre Rahall Stark ber. And less than a year later, she won Washington, DC. McKeon Ramstad Stearns a special election to succeed our dear McMorris Rangel DEAR MADAM SPEAKER: I have the honor to Stupak departed colleague, Juanita Millender- Rodgers Regula Sullivan transmit herewith a scanned copy of a Cer- McNerney Rehberg Sutton tificate of Election received from the Honor- McDonald, and joins us here. It is a dis- McNulty Reichert Tanner able Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of tinction that she is one of the few peo- Meek (FL) Renzi Tauscher California, indicating that, at the Special Meeks (NY) Reyes ple in the history of this country to Thompson (CA) Election held on August 21, 2007, the Honor- Melancon Reynolds serve both in a local, State and Federal Thompson (MS) Mica Rodriguez able Laura Richardson was duly elected Rep- post within 1 year. She worked for Jua- Thornberry resentative in Congress for the Thirty-Sev- Michaud Rogers (AL) nita as a field deputy, and she will con- Miller (FL) Rogers (KY) Tiahrt enth Congressional District, State of Cali- Miller (MI) Rogers (MI) Tiberi fornia. tinue her important work to ensure Miller (NC) Rohrabacher Tierney With best wishes, I am that all Americans can participate in a Towns Miller, Gary Ros-Lehtinen Sincerely, fair and free electoral process. Miller, George Roskam Turner LORRAINE C. MILLER, LAURA’s career has many highlights. Mitchell Ross Udall (CO) Moore (KS) Rothman Udall (NM) Clerk of the House. While on the city council, she was re- Moore (WI) Roybal-Allard Upton Enclosure. sponsible for bringing Long Beach’s Moran (KS) Ruppersberger Van Hollen CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION inner city its first job training center ´ Moran (VA) Ryan (OH) Velazquez I, Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of the for working families; she championed Murphy (CT) Ryan (WI) Visclosky State of California, hereby certify: That ac- Murphy, Patrick Salazar Walberg economic development and improved cording to the official canvass of votes cast Murphy, Tim Sali Walden (OR) upon transportation services. And dear in the Special General Election held on the Murtha Sa´ nchez, Linda Walsh (NY) to my heart, she helped open the first Musgrave T. Walz (MN) 21st day of August, 2007 in the 37th Congres- Myrick Sarbanes Wamp sional District, Laura Richardson was elect- new bank in the city’s central area Nadler Saxton Wasserman ed to the office of United States Representa- since the 1992 riots. Napolitano Schakowsky Schultz tive, District 37 for the term prescribed by In the assembly, she became the first Neal (MA) Schmidt Waters law. Neugebauer Scott (GA) African American woman to serve as Watt the Assistant Speaker pro tempore. In Nunes Scott (VA) Waxman f Oberstar Sensenbrenner Weiner the House, she will keep California’s Obey Serrano SWEARING IN OF THE HONORABLE Welch (VT) Democratic delegation a majority fe- Olver Sessions LAURA RICHARDSON, OF CALI- Weldon (FL) male; of our 34 members, 18 are women. Ortiz Sestak FORNIA, AS A MEMBER OF THE Pallone Shadegg Westmoreland She is a member of the International Wexler HOUSE Pascrell Shays Association of Machinists and Aero- Pastor Shea-Porter Whitfield The SPEAKER. Will Representative- Pearce Sherman Wicker space Workers, and she joins us as an ICHARDSON Pence Shuler Wilson (OH) elect R and the Members of effective voice for working families in Perlmutter Shuster Wilson (SC) the California delegation present them- Congress. I look forward to working Peterson (MN) Sires Wolf selves in the well. with her to improve health care for ev- Petri Skelton Woolsey Ms. RICHARDSON appeared at the bar Pitts Slaughter Wu eryone and address the disparities in Platts Smith (NE) Wynn of the House and took the oath of of- our health care system, issues I know Pomeroy Smith (NJ) Yarmuth fice, as follows: are important to her and should be to Porter Smith (TX) Young (FL) Do you solemnly swear or affirm that all of us. NAYS—5 you will support and defend the Con- At this time, I yield to my distin- Broun (GA) Culberson Paul stitution of the United States against guished colleague and senior Member Coble Flake all enemies, foreign and domestic; that from the Republican delegation of Cali- you will bear true faith and allegiance NOT VOTING—42 fornia. to the same; that you take this obliga- Barrow Johnson, E. B. Sanchez, Loretta Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I Costa Johnson, Sam Schiff tion freely, without any mental res- thank my friend for yielding. Davis, Jo Ann Kucinich Schwartz ervation or purpose of evasion; and I would like to join with our col- Gallegly Lewis (CA) Shimkus that you will well and faithfully dis- league in extending congratulations on Graves Lipinski Simpson charge the duties of the office on which Grijalva Lucas Smith (WA) behalf of all Republican Members to Gutierrez Mollohan Souder you are about to enter, so help you our new colleague, Ms. RICHARDSON. Hastert Payne Tancredo God. We were all saddened by the un- Hooley Peterson (PA) Taylor The SPEAKER. Congratulations. You timely passing of our friend and former Hulshof Pickering Terry are now a Member of the 110th Con- Hunter Poe Watson colleague, Juanita Millender-McDon- Israel Pryce (OH) Weller gress. ald, but knowing that her former field Jindal Royce Wilson (NM) f deputy is going to be representing her Johnson (IL) Rush Young (AK) b 1930 I know would make Juanita extraor- ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE dinarily proud. And to go from the city The SPEAKER pro tempore (during WELCOMING THE HONORABLE council to the State legislature to the the vote). Members are advised that LAURA RICHARDSON TO THE United States Congress within a 1-year there are 2 minutes remaining in this HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES period of time is a very, very impres- vote. (Mr. STARK asked and was given sive accomplishment. permission to address the House for 1 And I will say that I know the Cali- b 1927 minute.) fornia delegation will continue to work So (two-thirds being in the affirma- Mr. STARK. Madam Speaker, as the together in a bipartisan way. And we tive) the rules were suspended and the dean of the California delegation, it’s look forward to welcoming Ms. RICH- bill, as amended, was passed. my privilege, my honor and distinct ARDSON as part of that effort. The result of the vote was announced pleasure to introduce the newest mem- Mr. STARK. Madam Speaker, at this as above recorded. ber of our California delegation, LAURA time I would like to yield the balance A motion to reconsider was laid on RICHARDSON, elected to California’s of my time to the Honorable LAURA the table. 37th Congressional District in a special RICHARDSON, Representative of Califor- f election held just recently. LAURA nia’s 37th Congressional District. RICHARDSON is a passionate critic of Ms. RICHARDSON. Speaker PELOSI, COMMUNICATION FROM THE the war in Iraq, a supporter of uni- Leaders HOYER, CLYBURN, EMANUEL, CLERK OF THE HOUSE versal health care, and a welcome addi- BECERRA, Caucus Chairs LOFGREN, KIL- The SPEAKER laid before the House tion to our delegation. PATRICK, BACA and HONDA, the Cali- the following communication from the After three terms on the Long Beach fornia delegation, thank you all for Clerk of the House of Representatives: City Council and several years as direc- meeting with me, kind of putting me

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