<<

H2634 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 15, 2013 The SPEAKER pro tempore. The bill (H.R. 767) to amend the Energy Maloney, Peterson Simpson question is on the motion offered by Policy Act of 2005 to modify the Pilot Carolyn Petri Sinema Maloney, Sean Pingree (ME) Sires the gentleman from Utah (Mr. BISHOP) Project offices of the Federal Permit Marchant Pittenger Slaughter that the House suspend the rules and Streamlining Pilot Project, as amend- Marino Pitts Smith (NE) pass the bill, H.R. 573. ed, on which the yeas and nays were or- Massie Pocan Smith (NJ) Matheson Poe (TX) The question was taken; and (two- dered. Smith (TX) Matsui Polis Smith (WA) thirds being in the affirmative) the The Clerk read the title of the bill. McCarthy (CA) Pompeo Southerland rules were suspended and the bill was The SPEAKER pro tempore. The McCarthy (NY) Posey Speier McCaul Price (GA) Stewart passed. question is on the motion offered by McClintock Price (NC) Stivers A motion to reconsider was laid on the gentleman from Utah (Mr. BISHOP) McCollum Radel Stockman McDermott Rahall the table. that the House suspend the rules and Stutzman pass the bill, as amended. McGovern Rangel f McHenry Reed Swalwell (CA) The vote was taken by electronic de- McIntyre Reichert Takano RECESS vice, and there were—yeas 415, nays 1, McKeon Renacci Terry Thompson (CA) The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- not voting 16, as follows: McKinley Ribble McMorris Rice (SC) Thompson (MS) ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair [Roll No. 147] Rodgers Rigell Thompson (PA) declares the House in recess subject to YEAS—415 McNerney Roby Thornberry the call of the Chair. Meadows Roe (TN) Tiberi Aderholt Daines Hastings (FL) Meehan Rogers (AL) Tierney Accordingly (at 1 o’clock and 29 min- Alexander Davis (CA) Hastings (WA) Meeks Rogers (KY) Tipton utes p.m.), the House stood in recess. Amodei Davis, Danny Heck (NV) Meng Rogers (MI) Titus Andrews Davis, Rodney Heck (WA) Messer Rohrabacher Tonko f Bachmann DeGette Hensarling Mica Rokita Tsongas Bachus Delaney Herrera Beutler b 1704 Michaud Rooney Turner Barber DeLauro Higgins Miller (FL) Ros-Lehtinen Upton Barletta DelBene AFTER RECESS Himes Miller (MI) Roskam Valadao Barr Denham Hinojosa Miller, Gary Ross Van Hollen Barrow (GA) Dent The recess having expired, the House Holding Miller, George Rothfus Vargas Barton DeSantis Holt Moore Roybal-Allard Veasey was called to order by the Speaker pro Beatty DesJarlais Honda Moran Royce Vela tempore (Mr. TERRY) at 5 o’clock and 4 Becerra Deutch Horsford Mullin Ruiz Vela´ zquez Benishek Diaz-Balart minutes p.m. Hoyer Mulvaney Runyan Visclosky Bentivolio Dingell Hudson Murphy (FL) Ruppersberger f Bera (CA) Doggett Wagner Huelskamp Murphy (PA) Rush Walberg Bilirakis Doyle Huffman Nadler Ryan (OH) COMMUNICATION FROM THE Bishop (GA) Duckworth Walden Huizenga (MI) Napolitano Ryan (WI) Walorski CLERK OF THE HOUSE Bishop (NY) Duffy Hultgren Neal Salmon Walz Bishop (UT) Duncan (SC) Hunter Negrete McLeod Sa´ nchez, Linda Waters The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- Black Duncan (TN) Hurt Neugebauer T. Watt fore the House the following commu- Blackburn Edwards Noem Sanchez, Loretta Weber (TX) Blumenauer Ellison Issa Nolan Sarbanes nication from the Clerk of the House of Webster (FL) Bonamici Ellmers Jackson Lee Nugent Scalise Representatives: Welch Bonner Engel Jeffries Nunes Schakowsky Wenstrup OFFICE OF THE CLERK, Boustany Enyart Jenkins Nunnelee Schiff Westmoreland HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Brady (PA) Eshoo Johnson (OH) O’Rourke Schneider Whitfield Washington, DC, May 15, 2013. Brady (TX) Esty Johnson, E. B. Olson Schock Williams Braley (IA) Farenthold Johnson, Sam Owens Schrader Hon. JOHN A. BOEHNER, Wilson (FL) Bridenstine Farr Jones Palazzo Schwartz The Speaker, House of Representatives, Wash- Brooks (AL) Fattah Pallone Schweikert Wilson (SC) ington, DC. Brooks (IN) Fincher Joyce Pascrell Scott (VA) Wittman Broun (GA) Fitzpatrick DEAR MR. SPEAKER: Pursuant to the per- Kaptur Pastor (AZ) Scott, Austin Wolf Brown (FL) Fleischmann mission granted in Clause 2(h) of Rule II of Keating Paulsen Sensenbrenner Womack Brownley (CA) Fleming the Rules of the U.S. House of Representa- Kelly (IL) Payne Serrano Woodall Buchanan Flores tives, the Clerk received the following mes- Kelly (PA) Pearce Sessions Yarmuth Bucshon Forbes Kennedy Pelosi Sewell (AL) Yoder sage from the Secretary of the Senate on Bustos Fortenberry Kildee Perlmutter Shea-Porter Yoho May 15, 2013 at 4:23 p.m.: Butterfield Foster Kilmer Perry Sherman Young (AK) That the Senate passed S. 601. Calvert Foxx Kind Peters (CA) Shimkus Young (FL) With best wishes, I am Camp Frankel (FL) King (IA) Peters (MI) Shuster Young (IN) Sincerely, Cantor Franks (AZ) Capito Frelinghuysen King (NY) KAREN L. HAAS, Kingston NAYS—1 Clerk. Capps Fudge Capuano Gabbard Kinzinger (IL) Amash ´ Kirkpatrick f Cardenas Gallego NOT VOTING—16 Carson (IN) Garamendi Kline ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER Cartwright Garcia Kuster Bass Clyburn Richmond Labrador PRO TEMPORE Cassidy Gardner Burgess Culberson Scott, David Castor (FL) Garrett LaMalfa Campbell DeFazio Wasserman The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Castro (TX) Gerlach Lamborn Carney Johnson (GA) Schultz ant to clause 8 of rule XX, proceedings Chabot Gibbs Lance Carter Markey Waxman Chu Gibson Langevin Chaffetz Quigley will resume on motions to suspend the Cicilline Gingrey (GA) Lankford rules previously postponed. Clarke Gohmert Larsen (WA) Votes will be taken in the following Clay Goodlatte Larson (CT) b 1729 Latham order: Cleaver Gosar Coble Gowdy Latta So (two-thirds being in the affirma- H.R. 767, by the yeas and nays; Coffman Granger Lee (CA) tive) the rules were suspended and the H.R. 701, by the yeas and nays; Cohen Graves (GA) Levin bill, as amended, was passed. H.R. 384, by the yeas and nays. Cole Graves (MO) Lewis Collins (GA) Grayson Lipinski The result of the vote was announced The first electronic vote will be con- Collins (NY) Green, Al LoBiondo as above recorded. ducted as a 15-minute vote. Remaining Conaway Green, Gene Loebsack A motion to reconsider was laid on Connolly Griffin (AR) Lofgren electronic votes will be conducted as 5- the table. minute votes. Conyers Griffith (VA) Long Cook Grijalva Lowenthal f Cooper Grimm Lowey f Costa Guthrie Lucas PILOT PROJECT OFFICES OF FED- Cotton Gutierrez Luetkemeyer ERAL PERMIT STREAMLINING Courtney Hahn Lujan Grisham COMMUNICATION FROM THE Cramer Hall (NM) PILOT PROJECT Crawford Hanabusa Luja´ n, Ben Ray CLERK OF THE HOUSE The SPEAKER pro tempore. The un- Crenshaw Hanna (NM) The SPEAKER laid before the House Crowley Harper Lummis finished business is the vote on the mo- Cuellar Harris Lynch the following communication from the tion to suspend the rules and pass the Cummings Hartzler Maffei Clerk of the House of Representatives:

VerDate Mar 15 2010 05:07 May 16, 2013 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K15MY7.054 H15MYPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE May 15, 2013 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H2635 OFFICE OF THE CLERK, (Mr. WILSON) is recognized for 1 the events of 2009, Democrat that he HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, minute. may be. I see a whole host of Repub- Washington, DC, May 15, 2013. There was no objection. licans, long friends; and it is, indeed, Hon. JOHN BOEHNER, Mr. WILSON of . Mr. an honor to be back with each one of Speaker, House of Representatives, Speaker, South Carolina is very fortu- you. Washington, DC. nate. Due to the quality of life in DEAR MR. SPEAKER: I have the honor to I look forward to working with you transmit herewith a copy of the Certificate South Carolina, tens of thousands are on a whole host of issues. Obviously, of Election received from the Honorable moving to the Palmetto State from the the greatest among them for me will be Mark Hammond, Secretary of State of South Midwest and Northeast, and from efforts to get our financial house back Carolina, indicating that, at the Special around the world. in order here in Washington, D.C. But Election held on May 7, 2013, the Honorable South Carolina has gained a new seat above all else, here on this day, I am was duly elected Representa- in Congress to include the communities simply humbled to be here. tive in Congress for the First Congressional of Myrtle Beach and Florence, now Each one of our lives involves dif- District, State of South Carolina. held by TOM RICE. This new Seventh ferent journeys, but on that journey I With best wishes, I am District rotated all districts, creating a Sincerely, think that we can, in essence, be taken unique district of the First. The First KAREN L. HAAS, to places wherein we develop levels of District of South Carolina is virtually Clerk. appreciation perhaps that we never had 10 miles wide along the Atlantic Coast Enclosure. before. from McClellanville in Charleston And so I stand here before each one THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA County to Defauskie Island in Beaufort of you more appreciative than I ever By Her Excellency County. It’s a special district to TOM could have been for the honor of work- The Governor and Commander-In-Chief In and myself in that we were both born and Over the State Aforesaid in Charleston, America’s most historic ing with each one of you here in the United States Congress, the Congress CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION FOR TWO-YEAR TERM city. The district is a composite of America. of the Nation most blessed of all na- To the Clerk of the United States House of tions here on this Earth. I stand before Representatives In the district’s first election, was elected as only the second you most appreciative of the people of This is to Certify Pursuant to South Caro- the First Congressional District of lina Code § 7–17–330 that on this Seventh Day African American from South Carolina of May, 2013 Mark Sanford, First Congres- elected to Congress in 100 years. We are South Carolina that JOE just alluded sional District, was duly chosen by the quali- grateful Governor Nikki Haley ap- to, a people who have taught me a fied electors of the state of South Carolina pointed Congressman TIM SCOTT to whole lot about love and humility, as representative in Congress from said state serve in the U.S. Senate. This created a about wisdom, and about grace. I stand to represent said state in the House of Rep- replacement primary with 16 partici- before you, I guess, with a whole new resentatives of the United States for the pants, the largest number ever in a appreciation, indeed, for a God of sec- term of two years, beginning on the fifteenth ond chances, and how in the events of day of May 2013. congressional primary. Witness: Her Excellency our Governor We are here today to recognize the our lives, up or down they may be, how Nikki Haley, and our seal hereto affixed at survivor of the primary, run-off, and every one of us can be refined as Columbia, South Carolina this fourteenth general election—Congressman MARK human beings in that process. I stand day of May, in the year of our Lord, 2013. SANFORD. before you as a human being most ap- NIKKI R. HALEY, I yield to Congressman DAVID PRICE preciative in whole new ways for the Governor. of North Carolina. significance of family and friends. MARK HAMMOND, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. I In that regard, I see Belen up there; Secretary of State. thank the gentleman for yielding. I see my sons Marshall and Landon; I [State Seal Affixed] Mr. Speaker, I rise in place of the see my sister Sarah and her husband, f dean of the South Carolina delegation, Bill; I see my mom, Peg; I see a long SWEARING IN OF THE HONORABLE Congressman JIM CLYBURN, who is list of different friends. MARK SANFORD, OF SOUTH away this week on family medical leave, and asked me to read this state- CAROLINA, AS A MEMBER OF b 1740 THE HOUSE ment: Swearing-in Day is always about new be- I would thank them for their pres- The SPEAKER. Will Representative- ginnings. In that spirit, I want to extend the ence here to share this day. I would elect Sanford and the members of the hand of collegiality to Mark Sanford as he thank a long list of friends, whether South Carolina delegation present begins a new chapter of service to the people that’s Buff Chace, whom I’ve known for themselves in the well. of South Carolina and this great country in the whole of my life, or somebody like All Members will rise and the Rep- the U.S. House of Representatives. Though Joe Taylor, who was my Secretary of resentative-elect will please raise his our past differences have been widely chron- icled and we bring different sets of experi- Commerce while I was Governor. right hand. In essence, each one of them is an Mr. SANFORD appeared at the bar of ences to the public square, I will always work to find common ground as we fulfill our emissary, a representative, to thou- the House and took the oath of office, duties and responsibilities to the people who sands who were so kind to hold me up as follows: sent us here. through the last couple of years and to Do you solemnly swear that you will sup- Mr. Speaker, MARK SANFORD’s col- be instrumental in this election that port and defend the Constitution of the leagues in the Carolinas delegations brought me to this very place. Above United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that you will bear true faith join Mr. CLYBURN in wishing MARK well all else, though, I am simply humbled and allegiance to the same; that you take and welcoming him back to the House. to be here, and I look forward to work- this obligation freely, without any mental Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. I ing with each one of you. reservation or purpose of evasion; and that yield to Congressman MARK SANFORD Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. you will well and faithfully discharge the du- of the First District of South Carolina. Speaker, I yield back the balance of ties of the office on which you are about to Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Speaker, ladies my time. enter, so help you God. and gentlemen of the House of Rep- The SPEAKER. Congratulations, you resentatives of the United States Con- f are now a Member of the 113th Con- gress, I look forward to working with gress. each one of you. Republican and Demo- ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER f crat, different perspectives we may hold, but at the end of the day we are The SPEAKER. Under clause 5(d) of WELCOMING THE HONORABLE here to represent the people of South rule XX, the Chair announces to the MARK SANFORD TO THE HOUSE Carolina, and I look forward to going House that, in light of the administra- OF REPRESENTATIVES about that business with you. tion of the oath to the gentleman from The SPEAKER. Without objection, I see friends, like ELIOT ENGEL, who South Carolina, the whole number of the gentleman from South Carolina were so kind to call me in the wake of the House is 434.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 05:20 May 16, 2013 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A15MY7.015 H15MYPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE