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Congressional Record, House, November 19, 2021 — Build Back Better Act, H.R. 5376

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Congressional Record, House, Friday, November 19, 2021, pages H6659 through H6661. The House met at 8 a.m. with Ms. Clark of Massachusetts as Speaker pro tempore, and further consideration of the Build Back Better Act resumed. Mr. Brady says the Congressional Budget Office finds the bill adds hundreds of billions of dollars to the national debt and that the bill imposes over $400 billion in taxes on American small businesses. Mr. Neal says Build Back Better is fully paid for and reduces the deficit, and Ms. Pelosi speaks in support of the bill.

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                                                                                                                                                                 117 th CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION
                                               United States
                                                of America                                 PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE


                                            Vol. 167                                                   WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2021                                                                  No. 202


                                                                                      House of Representatives
                                              The House met at 8 a.m. and was                                           Grant us hope, a hope found only in                  has read, adds hundreds of billions to
                                            called to order by the Speaker pro tem-                                   Your grace. In Your merciful name we                   the deficit, was written in secret, and
                                            pore (Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts).                                        pray.                                                  rushed to the floor to hide it from the
                                                                                  f                                     Amen.                                                American people.
                                                                                                                                        f                                      We have now the official costs, and
                                              DESIGNATION OF THE SPEAKER
                                                        PRO TEMPORE                                                               THE JOURNAL                                the results are in. The claim by the
                                                                                                                                                                             President this costs zero and will re-
                                              The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be-                                          The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu-                      duce the national deficit is just simply
                                            fore the House the following commu-                                       ant to section 11(a) of House Resolu-                  untrue. According to the Congressional
                                            nication from the Speaker:                                                tion 188, the Journal of the last day’s                Budget Office, even counting the budg-
                                                                   WASHINGTON, DC,                                    proceedings is approved.                               et gimmicks, this bill adds hundreds of
                                                                       November 19, 2021.                                               f                                    billions of dollars to the national debt
                                              I hereby appoint the Honorable KATHERINE                                                                                       and a more true accounting by the
                                            M. CLARK to act as Speaker pro tempore on                                      PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
                                            this day.
                                                                                                                                                                             Committee for a Responsible Federal
                                                                                                                        The SPEAKER pro tempore. Will the                    Budget estimates this could drive na-
                                                                      NANCY PELOSI,                                   gentleman from Texas (Mr. BRADY)
                                                  Speaker of the House of Representatives.                                                                                   tional deficits by $3 trillion over the
                                                                                                                      come forward and lead the House in the                 next 10 years.
                                                                                  f                                   Pledge of Allegiance.
                                                                                                                        Mr. BRADY led the Pledge of Alle-                       The claim that this will not raise
                                                           PRAYER                                                                                                            taxes on the middle class is simply
                                                                                                                      giance as follows:
                                              The Chaplain, the Reverend Margaret                                       I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the               false. One out of three Americans in
                                            Grun Kibben, offered the following                                        United States of America, and to the Repub-            the middle class will see a tax hike
                                            prayer:                                                                   lic for which it stands, one nation under God,         starting next year. The claim that this
                                              Holy God, in the dawn of this new                                       indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.         will make the wealthy pay their fair
                                            day, shed Your light on our pro-                                                            f                                    share is false as well. In this bill, com-
                                            ceedings. Clear our minds and give us                                                                                            ing out of COVID, two out of three mil-
                                            clean hearts to engage mercifully with                                          BUILD BACK BETTER ACT                            lionaires in America will get a massive
                                            each other. Refresh and renew our spir-                                      The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu-                     tax cut. And the claim that this will
                                            its that we may pursue the day’s goals                                    ant to clause 1(c) of rule XIX, further                reduce inflation is not true as well.
                                            and the Nation’s business with pure                                       consideration of the bill (H.R. 5376) to               Even according to the White House’s
                                            motives. While some rejoice in the har-                                   provide for reconciliation pursuant to                 own favored analyst, the spending in
                                            vest of hard work, others remain con-                                     title II of S. Con. Res. 14, as amended,               this bill will drive up inflation for fam-
                                            cerned about the labor that remains                                       will now resume.                                       ilies, higher and longer, for at least a
                                            ahead.                                                                       The Clerk read the title of the bill.               decade.
                                              Be among this fractured body and                                           The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen-
                                                                                                                                                                               The Build Back Better’s crippling tax
                                            bring healing to our differences and                                      tleman from Massachusetts (Mr. NEAL)
                                                                                                                                                                             hikes will kill American jobs, drive
                                            harmony to our enmity. Our passions                                       has 13⁄4 minutes remaining, and the
                                                                                                                                                                             many of them overseas. They hamper
                                            are heightened, our opinions strong,                                      gentleman from Texas (Mr. BRADY) has
                                                                                                                                                                             small businesses as they struggle to re-
                                            our feelings deep. Call us to unity and                                   21⁄2 minutes remaining.
                                                                                                                                                                             cover, worsen the labor shortage, and
                                            peace, Your peace, a peace that is be-                                       The Chair recognizes the gentleman
                                            yond our understanding. Call us to care                                                                                          drive inflation even higher. The bill
                                                                                                                      from Massachusetts.
                                            without prejudice. Call us to faith                                          Mr. NEAL. Madam Speaker, is the                     imposes over $400 billion in taxes on
                                            without seeing. In faith, we lay before                                   gentleman prepared to close? I reserve                 American small businesses. It couldn’t
                                            You our limitations, our frustrations,                                    the balance of my time.                                come at a worse time.
                                            our discriminations.                                                         Mr. BRADY. Madam Speaker, I am                        There are $800 billion in tax increases
                                              Set our sights on the work of restora-                                  prepared to close.                                     on American businesses who compete
                                            tion, transformation, and edification                                        Madam Speaker, I yield myself the                   both here and around the world. This
                                            that this would one day be a body rec-                                    balance of my time.                                    constitutes an economic surrender to
                                            onciled to itself, stronger for our dif-                                     Madam Speaker, we meet today to                     China, Russia, Japan, and Europe, driv-
                                            ferences and more noble for our mutual                                    consider the largest spending bill in                  ing American jobs investment in manu-
                                            concern.                                                                  American history, a bill that no one                   facturing overseas.

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                                              The new corporate tax is really a                        Madam Speaker, in that spirit, I pro-                 And it is better for climate. If you
                                            ‘‘Made in America’’ tax. It hits Amer-                  ceed by saying: Under this dome, for                   want your family to benefit from clean
                                            ican manufacturing, energy, and tech-                   centuries, Members of Congress have                    air, clean water, for the development of
                                            nology businesses the hardest, along                    stood exactly where we stand now, to                   good-paying green jobs for the future
                                            with American consumers. The inter-                     pass legislation of extraordinary con-                 and from improved national security,
                                            national tax increases make it better                   sequence in our Nation’s history and                   we are meeting the President’s vision
                                            to be a foreign company than an Amer-                   for our Nation’s future.                               to cut pollution in half by 2030 and 100
                                            ican one. It is any wonder our foreign                     In the original House Chamber, now                  percent by 2050, creating good-paying
                                            competitors are happy to embrace a                      Statuary Hall where Lincoln served, is                 union jobs and lowering families’ en-
                                            global minimum tax. They are getting                    Clio, the muse of history. Clio reminds                ergy costs; advancing environmental
                                            American jobs and a big bite of our tax                 men and women in these hallowed                        justice with the Justice40 initiative of
                                            base. There is a troubling new tax on                   Halls that we are part of history; that                President Biden; and honoring our
                                            retirement and a troubling new tax,                     our words and actions will face the                    commitment to passing on a better
                                            the toddler tax, on American childcare.                 judgment of history; and that we are                   planet to our children. Our responsi-
                                            This is a terrible bill. I urge a ‘‘no’’                part of the long and honorable heritage                bility is always to our children and to
                                            vote.                                                   of our democracy.                                      the future.
                                              Madam Speaker, I yield back the bal-                     With the passage of the Build Back                    Last week, our congressional delega-
                                            ance of my time.                                        Better Act, we—this Democratic Con-                    tion went to COP26 in Glasgow and af-
                                              Mr. NEAL. Madam Speaker, I yield                      gress—are taking our place in the                      firmed the commitment of this Con-
                                            myself 45 seconds.                                      ‘‘long and honorable heritage of our de-               gress to meet and beat our climate
                                              Madam Speaker, this debate has gone                   mocracy,’’ with legislation that will be               goals. With this legislation, we can
                                            on now for 3 months in the Committee                    a pillar of health and financial security              achieve this for the children and for
                                            on Ways and Means. Sixty amendments                     in America that will be historic in                    Mother Nature.
                                            from the opposition were offered. This                  forging landmark progress for our Na-                    The Build Back Better agenda cre-
                                            was fully vetted over 4 days of public                  tion. We talk about history as we look                 ates jobs, secures tax cuts for the mid-
                                            scrutiny, and all maintained in day-                    and prepare for the future.                            dle class, lowers costs for families,
                                            light. I made sure of that, on purpose.                    Much has been said since our distin-
                                              And this, as I indicated last night, as                                                                      while making the wealthiest pay their
                                                                                                    guished Democratic leadership spoke                    fair share. Good-paying jobs; cut taxes
                                            I quoted a son of Massachusetts, Mr.
                                                                                                    last evening. Much has been said on                    for the middle class; lower costs, espe-
                                            WEBSTER, I said rhetorically he asked,
                                                                                                    this floor. But the facts are these: Fol-              cially in regard to healthcare and
                                            ‘‘Did we do something worthwhile in
                                                                                                    lowing the vision of President Biden,                  childcare; making the wealthy and cor-
                                            our time?’’ Today, we are going to an-
                                                                                                    guided by the expertise and energy of                  porations pay their fair share.
                                            swer that question. I am sorry that last
                                            evening when I quoted Webster it trig-                  our chairs, Members, and staff, we have                  Build Back Better is fully paid for. It
                                            gered an outburst from the Republican                   the Build Back Better bill that is his-                reduces the deficit and grows the econ-
                                            leader because we quoted an individual                  toric, transformative, and larger than                 omy. Unlike—and perhaps I need to re-
                                            who was devoted to the Constitution of                  anything we have ever done before. We                  mind you—unlike the Republican tax
                                            the United States and the premise that                  are building back better.                              scam, which was passed in the dark of
                                            everybody in America gets a chance.                        If you are a parent, a senior, a child,             night, with the speed of light, with no
                                              Now, it is an honor for me to yield to                a worker—if you are an American—this                   hearings whatsoever, and it increased
                                            the Speaker of the House, secure in her                 bill is for you. And it is better.                     the deficit by more than $2 trillion,
                                            caucus, secure in her beliefs, and se-                     It is better in terms of healthcare. It             more than this whole bill does for the
                                            cure knowing what we are doing today                    is better if you are a senior: Your cost               American people; tax cuts for the
                                            in but a few minutes.                                   at the pharmacy will be cut to a frac-                 wealthiest, giving 83 percent of the
                                              Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to                    tion, with annual costs capped under                   benefits to the top 1 percent and did
                                            the gentlewoman from California (Ms.                    Medicare Part D, and you will benefit                  nothing to help the American people in
                                            PELOSI).                                                from the Medicare hearing benefit.                     terms of jobs, clean air, clean water,
                                              Ms. PELOSI. Madam Speaker, I                             It is better if you have diabetes:                  affordable healthcare, and the rest.
                                            thank the gentleman for yielding and                    When you go to the pharmacy, instead
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                                            for his extraordinary leadership.                       of paying hundreds for insulin, you will
                                              He and other chairs have brought us                   pay no more than $35 per month.                          Madam Speaker, 83 percent to the
                                            to a moment in history on the floor of                     And it is better for all Americans: We              top 1 percent, in the dark of night, at
                                            the House today when we can do some-                    are halting Big Pharma’s outrageous                    speed of light. Don’t make me laugh
                                            thing of significance for the people. I                 tax hikes; and in addition to that, we                 about criticizing this bill.
                                            thank the chairman.                                     are dramatically lowering healthcare                     Build Back Better will not increase
                                              Madam Speaker, with confidence in                     costs under the Affordable Care Act.                   inflation, according to the experts, in-
                                            the vision of President Biden, and asso-                   We are also expanding coverage to                   cluding an array of Nobel Peace Prize-
                                            ciating myself with the inspiring and                   millions under the Affordable Care Act,                winning economists and Moody’s.
                                            informative comments of the distin-                     as I mentioned.                                          This victory is possible because of
                                            guished chairman, Mr. NEAL, with our                       It is better in terms of family care. If            the tenacious, tireless, and values-
                                            distinguished Democratic leader, Mr.                    you are a parent, it is better. Most                   based leadership of our chairs, mem-
                                            HOYER, the Democratic whip last                         families will benefit from reduced                     bers, and staff of the committees.
                                            evening, and with respect for those who                 childcare costs, cut fully in half for                   I just want to acknowledge the staff
                                            work in this Capitol, and as a courtesy                 most families, and free universal pre-K                of this institution, the House of Rep-
                                            to my colleagues, I will be brief.                      for every 3- and 4-year-old in America.                resentatives, for their just being there
                                              In his remarks, our Democratic lead-                     It is better if you are a middle-in-                for us over and over again regardless of
                                            er, Mr. HOYER, talked about the pride                   come family. You will benefit from an                  when and where. Thank you so much.
                                            we take in telling our children and our                 expanded Biden child tax cut and paid                    Build Back Better is a better agenda
                                            grandchildren that we were here                         family and medical leave.                              for workers, for families, for children,
                                            present to pass the Build Back Better                      It is better if you are a caregiver.                and for our planet. If you believe, as I
                                            legislation and what it means for fu-                   You will have the respect you deserve                  do, that this planet is God’s creation,
                                            ture generations. Whip CLYBURN talked                   with the benefit of an historic invest-                and we have a moral obligation to be
                                            about the three legs of the Biden plat-                 ment of high-quality home healthcare.                  good stewards of it, this bill is for you.




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                                            form: the Rescue Plan, the BIF, the In-                    And it is better for America’s work-                  Even if you don’t share that view—
                                            frastructure and Jobs bill, and now the                 ing families, with an average of 2 mil-                and I think most of us do. If you don’t
                                            Build Back Better, the infrastructure                   lion jobs created each year over 10                    share that view, we all agree that we
                                            for our future. And Chairman NEAL                       years, together with the BIF.                          have a moral responsibility to our chil-
                                            quoted DANIEL WEBSTER and spoke of                         Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs; a four-letter               dren and to their future to pass on the
                                            our responsibilities to the people.                     word.                                                  planet in a responsible way.



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                                               We are proud to be passing this legis-                  And no one making less than $400,000 a              ury Department estimates will raise $400 bil-
                                            lation under the leadership of Presi-                   year will pay one red cent in higher taxes.            lion in revenue.
                                            dent Joe Biden. He was an advocate                         We know that what America makes and                    I came to Congress to solve problems and
                                            and a leader in terms of the bipartisan                 grows makes and grows America. The Build               better the lives of the American people. The
                                            infrastructure bill, but he did not con-                Back Better Act will invest in and support             Build Back Better Act is an economic launch-
                                            fine his vision for America to that bill                those who do the making and growing. Every             ing pad for the middle class and working fami-
                                            alone.                                                  child, worker, family, senior will benefit.            lies. Let history record that House Democrats
                                               Today, we have the opportunity to                       The Build Back Better Act will guide Amer-          came together to pass legislation to drastically
                                            build back better for the American peo-                 ica to a better future, and restore the Middle         improve the lives of the American people and
                                            ple and for the children. Madam Speak-                  Class that has long labored to build up this           that sadly, not one Republican chose to join
                                            er, I urge an ‘‘aye’’ vote on the legisla-              Nation—the greatest Democratic Republic in             us.
                                            tion and a ‘‘no’’ vote on the motion to                 the world.                                                Mr. NADLER. Madam Speaker, I rise today
                                            recommit.                                                  Today is a good day for America. Now, let’s         in support of the Build Back Better Act, a
                                               Mr. NEAL. Madam Speaker, I yield                     get this bill to President Biden’s desk.               once-in-a-generation investment to lower the
                                            back the balance of my time.                               Ms. ESHOO. Madam Speaker, I rise in full            everyday costs that burden working families
                                               Ms. KAPTUR. Madam Speaker, the Build                 support of the Build Back Better Act.                  and adequately address the climate crisis.
                                            Back Better Act is one of the most consequen-              This is a historic day for the American peo-        This bold, progressive bill at the core of Presi-
                                            tial pieces of legislation that has ever made its       ple and for the future of our country because          dent Biden’s Build Back Better agenda will
                                            way through the halls of Congress.                      this legislation is the most transformative in-        have a positive impact on every single Amer-
                                               Over the last several decades, the rich have         vestment in our people in more than half a             ican family.
                                            gotten richer, only for the Middle Class to pay         century.                                                  The legislation delivers the largest invest-
                                            the price as America’s working families and                As Chairwoman of the Health Sub-                    ment in childcare and early education in his-
                                            our physical and social infrastructure have suf-        committee, I’m proud that the bill allows Medi-        tory. Build Back Better is estimated to provide
                                            fered the death of a thousand cuts.                     care to negotiate the prices it pays for pre-          access to childcare for nearly one million
                                               The Build Back Better Act sets our Nation            scription drugs, just as the VA has for many           young children in New York. I am proud that
                                            on a new course—lowering the cost of health             years. Our bill also caps out-of-pocket drug           the bill also provides universal, high-quality,
                                            care, family care, and senior care, improving           costs for seniors at $2,000 annually, caps the         free preschool for every 3- and 4-year-old in
                                            infrastructure, combating climate change, and           monthly price of insulin for patients with diabe-      America. Today, only 25 percent of young chil-
                                            creating good-paying jobs in every sector and           tes at $35, expands the Affordable Care Act to         dren in New York have access to publicly
                                            community in our nation.                                lower insurance premiums by an average of              funded preschool, and the costs for those that
                                               Seniors will benefit from new federal negoti-        $600 per person per year, and brings health            can’t enter publicly funded programs are often
                                            ating powers to lower the price of prescription         insurance coverage to four million uninsured           crippling. I am thrilled that nearly 300,000
                                            drugs, a $2,000 cap on their out-of-pocket              Americans.                                             young children in New York will now be able
                                            drug expenses on Medicare Part D, and the                  We’re voting to tackle the climate crisis with      to attend preschool. The bill also will provide
                                            inclusion of hearing care in Medicare for the           the largest clean energy investment in our             over two million students in New York with re-
                                            first time.                                             country’s history. Climate change poses an             sources to purchase school meals.
                                               Americans with diabetes will no longer pay           existential threat to our country and our planet,         The Build Back Better Act will also improve
                                            more than $35 per month for insulin.                    and this bill recognizes the scale of these
                                               The vast majority of families will pay no                                                                   the lives of working families by expanding
                                                                                                    problems by putting the U.S. on a path to cut          rental assistance and affordable housing, es-
                                            more than 7 percent of their income for
                                                                                                    greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 and           tablishing paid family and medical leave, ex-
                                            childcare. There will be new universal pre-
                                                                                                    meet our climate goals under the Paris Agree-          tending the Child Tax Credit, extending the
                                            school for all 3- and 4-year-olds, and the Child
                                                                                                    ment.                                                  American Rescue Plan’s Earned Income Tax
                                            Tax Credit will cut taxes for hardworking fami-
                                                                                                       This legislation dramatically lowers the cost       Credit, and finally addressing the unfair SALT
                                            lies.
                                               Our farmers will benefit from new invest-            of childcare and makes pre-K universal for all         Deduction caps.
                                            ments in regenerative agriculture, soil con-            three and four year olds in our country. Under            I am also pleased that this historic legisla-
                                            servation, and urban agriculture.                       the bill, the vast majority of American families       tion will lower prescription drug costs for mil-
                                               The Civilian Climate Corps will help pre-            will pay no more than seven percent of their           lions of Americans by finally negotiating lower
                                            serve and protect our environment while com-            income on childcare. We also improve elder             drug prices for seniors, stopping outrageous
                                            bating climate change.                                  care by investing $150 billion to provide qual-        price hikes in prescription drugs, setting a new
                                               We will develop new emission-reduction               ity home-based care for seniors and people             $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket prescription costs
                                            technologies for our critical infrastructure like       with disabilities.                                     for seniors, and capping the cost of life-saving
                                            ports, and build the electric and hydrogen ve-             Every American family with an income of             insulin at $35 per month. The bill will further
                                            hicles of the future for consumers and the              less than $150,000 will continue to receive            lower health care costs for Americans by
                                            public sector—including hundreds of thou-               monthly payments from the expanded Child               passing the largest expansion of the Afford-
                                            sands of vehicles of the United States Postal           Tax Credit for another year. This tax credit           able Care Act in a decade to make coverage
                                            Service, and the heavy trucks and service               has already lifted three million children out of       more affordable, expanding Medicaid cov-
                                            equipment of city and county fleets—all while           poverty.                                               erage and eligibility, and expanding access to
                                            ensuring our workers receive the training they             Very importantly, the bill restores deduct-         affordable home care for older adults and
                                            need for these new technologies. The Build              ibility of state and local taxes (SALT). Prior to      those with disabilities.
                                            Back Better Act will ensure our workers are             the harmful $10,000 cap that was put into                 Finally, I am incredibly proud that the Build
                                            not left behind in the transition to the new            place in the 2017 Trump tax cut law, my con-           Back Better Act contains the single largest in-
                                            economy.                                                stituents claimed an average SALT deduction            vestment to combat the climate crisis in
                                               We will modernize our electric grid, and up-         of $63,083. This bill raises the cap to $80,000        human history. This historic bill includes a
                                            grade our homes and neighborhoods through               until 2030, without adding a cent to the deficit.      $500 billion investment in clean energy and
                                            new weatherization initiatives.                            All of these policies are fully paid for without    climate to cut greenhouse pollution by well
                                               Under-resourced neighborhoods will finally           raising taxes on anyone earning less than              over one gigaton in 2030, reduce home en-
                                            have the resources for new, quality, affordable         $400,000 per year. Revenue is raised through           ergy costs, create hundreds of thousands of
                                            housing. Small business owners will see new             a new 15 percent minimum tax on businesses             high-quality jobs, and advance environmental
                                            opportunities for growth as our communities             that report more than $1 billion in profits to         justice for those communities on the frontline
                                            recover from years of underinvestment.                  shareholders. This ends the shameful practice          of the climate crisis. The bill will also provide
                                               And our veterans will receive higher quality         of large, profitable businesses paying zero in         a vital boost to New York’s climate resilience
                                            care at new VA facilities across the Nation.            income taxes. It also raises taxes on the              and preparedness efforts to safeguard the city




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                                               The American people will do all this by fi-          wealthiest 0.02 percent of Americans with a            from future Superstorm Sandy level storms.
                                            nally requiring the wealthiest, the biggest cor-        five percent surtax on incomes of more than $             Best of all, the historic investments included
                                            porations, and the tax cheats to pay their fair         10 million and a further three percent on in-          in the Build Back Better Act are not only fully
                                            share. Multimillionaires and those who store            comes over $25 million. Finally, the bill pro-         paid for, the Treasury Department estimates
                                            their wealth offshore will pay the taxes they           vides robust funding for IRS tax enforcement           that the bill will reduce the deficit by over $100
                                            owe to support America’s resurgence.                    to crack down on tax cheats which the Treas-           billion over a decade.



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                                               This historic legislation will ensure that our          And money in the bill will help the Marianas           For these reasons, I urge passage of H.R.
                                            workers and families are no longer held back            reduce its reliance on fossil fuels by opening         5376 and look forward to swift action on this
                                            by high costs or lack of access. For too long,          offshore wind lease sales and cover the full           package by the Senate so that it can be
                                            we have failed to invest properly in everyday           cost of new tax credits for electric vehicles          signed by President Biden and begin to im-
                                            people. Instead, we have allowed big corpora-           and residential solar and wind systems.                prove the lives of my constituents in the Sec-
                                            tions and the wealthy to access all the re-                I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 5376           ond District of Mississippi and beyond.
                                            sources this Nation has to offer without paying         to help all communities in our country build              [From The Jewish Federations of North
                                            their fair share. This stops here. By passing           back better.                                                        America, Oct. 28, 2021]
                                            President Biden’s agenda into law, we have                 Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Madam                    JEWISH FEDERATIONS EXPRESS GRATITUDE
                                            set our Nation on a course to meet its climate          Speaker, I thank Chairman YARMUTH for his                    FOR ADDITIONAL SECURITY FUNDING
                                            goals, create millions of good-paying jobs, re-         steadfast commitment to shepherding this                 Jewish Federations Express their gratitude
                                            lieve working families struggling to afford the         landmark legislation to the floor.                     to House Homeland Security Chair Bennie
                                            growing costs of raising children, and grow our            I am honored to join with my colleagues,            Thompson (D–MS) and Senate Homeland Se-
                                            economy. I urge my colleagues to vote yea on            just days after President Biden signed a sorely        curity & Governmental Affairs Committee
                                            this transformative legislation.                        needed and long-awaited infrastructure pack-           Chair Gary Peters (D–MI) for helping to se-
                                               Mr. SABLAN. Madam Speaker, H.R. 5376,                age that will rebuild the Nation’s deteriorating       cure an additional $100 million for the Non-
                                                                                                    roads and bridges to consider the ‘‘Build Back         profit Security Grant Program (NSGP) in
                                            the Build Back Better Act, provides critical in-                                                               the Homeland Security portion of the rec-
                                            vestments to lower the everyday costs that              Better Act.’’                                          onciliation package.
                                            face working families in the Marianas and                  Madam Speaker, the magnitude of what we               ‘‘Communities can only flourish when
                                            across America—from health care to edu-                 are doing here is really compelling.                   their security needs are met. The inclusion
                                            cation to job training to child care and more.             Twenty-eight years ago, I came to Congress          of an additional $100 million for the Non-
                                               The Act appropriates $1 billion for critical in-     to advocate for the interests of my friends and        profit Security Grant Program will save
                                            frastructure in the Marianas and other insular          neighbors who, after decades of struggle, de-          lives, help keep Jewish and other commu-
                                            areas which could create new jobs and im-               serve a more fair and equitable economy that           nities safe, and allow them to flourish’’ said
                                            prove the quality of life for all in our islands.       fuels prosperity and job growth in our commu-          Eric Fingerhut, President and CEO of the
                                               The bill helps more Marianas families ac-            nities well into the future.                           Jewish Federations of North America.
                                                                                                                                                             ‘‘Just yesterday, we commemorated three
                                            cess the health care they need by increasing               That is just what H.R. 5376 will do.
                                                                                                                                                           years since the Tree of Life massacre in
                                            base funding for Medicaid to $70 million and               I could not be prouder to be a part of this
                                                                                                                                                           Pittsburgh, the worst violent anitsemitic at-
                                            making permanent the current 83 percent fed-            Democratic majority as we come together,               tack in the nation’s history. Additional
                                            eral/17 percent local shares for Medicaid, a            with a sense of urgency, to deliver for the peo-       funding to the Nonprofit Security Grant Pro-
                                            ratio better than any State in the Nation.              ple while tackling climate change and other            gram will not only help secure synagogues,
                                               Dental, vision, and hearing services are also        challenges that put our communities at risk.           but houses of worship and nonprofits of
                                            added as mandatory Medicaid benefits.                      I am particularly appreciative that the bill in-    every stripe across the nation that face
                                               The over 2,000 seniors and others in the             vests $1.5 billion in the Department of Home-          threats at a time of increased violent extre-
                                            Marianas who are insured through Medicare               land Security to provide crucial resources to          mism,’’ he added.
                                                                                                                                                             The NSGP provides grants to nonprofits to
                                            would be eligible for hearing aids, a new pro-          three challenges confronting the Nation: cyber-
                                                                                                                                                           help fund security measures such as inspec-
                                            gram benefit. And for those who also partici-           security; domestic terrorism and other threats         tion and screening systems, physical bar-
                                            pate in the Medicare Part D drug program out            to houses of worship and non-profits; and re-          riers, and development of emergency pre-
                                            of pocket costs are capped at $2,000.                   ducing the Department of Homeland Security’s           paredness plans.
                                               As Chairman of the Subcommittee on Early             carbon footprint.                                        This year, as hate crimes spiked and
                                            Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Edu-                   The homeland security title of this bill pro-       houses of worship were increasingly tar-
                                            cation, I strongly support the transformative in-       vides $100 million in new funding for the Non-         geted, the NSGP was able to fund fewer than
                                            vestments the Act makes in education from               profit Security Grant Program, which helps             half of all applicants.
                                                                                                                                                             Fingerhut advocated for increasing NSGP
                                            birth, universal pre-kindergarten and all the           DHS take necessary action to help secure
                                                                                                                                                           funds at a Senate HSGAC hearing on violent
                                            way to placement in a rewarding career.                 churches, synagogues, mosques, and other               extremism this Summer.
                                               Our youngest learners in the Marianas will           nonprofits from domestic terrorism and other             Homeland Security Appropriations bills in
                                            have access to high-quality, child care up to           threats.                                               both chambers propose leaving NSGP fund-
                                            age 5 and universal free pre-kindergarten.                 It has been just 3 years since the deadliest        ing flat at $180 million, as overall proposed
                                               And 10,800 Marianas students, who receive            attack on the Jewish community in U.S. his-            funding levels remain unchanged.
                                            free lunches in school, will qualify for a sup-         tory, when 11 lives were lost in a mass shoot-           Federations’ advocacy for further govern-
                                            plemental summer feeding program of $65 per             ing at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pitts-            ment investment in community safety meas-
                                            month.                                                                                                         ures is part of the public-private partnership
                                                                                                    burgh, Pennsylvania.
                                               The Build Back Better Act includes my Col-                                                                  envisioned in the historic LiveSecure cam-
                                                                                                       The funding the House provides today can            paign, which is raising $54 million in philan-
                                            lege Access Act which provides bachelor’s de-           help prevent such a tragedy from happening             thropic dollars to spread the security um-
                                            gree students from the Marianas up to                   again.                                                 brella to every Jewish community across the
                                            $15,000 per year to make up the difference                 Madam Speaker, I include in the RECORD a            country and help fortify Jewish communal
                                            between in-state and out-of-state tuition at            statement in support of this additional funding        institutions.
                                            public colleges.                                        from the Jewish Federations of America.                  Jewish Federations also thank Senate Ma-
                                               Moreover, the Act increases the maximum                 It also invests in the Cybersecurity and In-        jority Leader Charles Schumer (D–NY) for
                                            annual Pell grant for low-income students to            frastructure Security Agency to help State and         his leadership on this program, and the pe-
                                            $7,045. The White House estimates there are             local governments develop secure and resil-            rennial champions Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand
                                                                                                                                                           (D–NY), Rob Portman (R–OH), and Reps. Bill
                                            1,032 students in the Marianas who rely on              ient critical infrastructure networks by, among        Pascrell (D–NJ) and John Katko (R–NY) for
                                            Pell to cover tuition, books, housing, and other        other things, accelerating State and local gov-        supporting NSGP funding. We look forward
                                            expenses.                                               ernments’ transition to the (dot) gov domain           to continuing to work with them to increase
                                               The legislation helps job seekers in the Mar-        and increasing capacity to hire network de-            annual funding for the program through the
                                            ianas get placed with career and training op-           fenders.                                               appropriations process.
                                            portunities with the inclusion of provisions from          Finally, the homeland security title provides         Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Madam Speaker,
                                            my Employment Services and Jobs Parity Act              $900 million in strategic investments to help          President Biden’s massive new multitrillion
                                            and Job Corps Nationwide Act making funding             the department reduce its carbon footprint and         dollar tax and spend bill, the so-called Build
                                            from these federal programs available for the           mitigate the ongoing effects of climate change         back Better Act will cost at least $4 trillion ac-
                                            first time.                                             that have a direct impact on our national secu-        cording to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
                                               The Build Back Better Act extends the Child          rity.                                                    According to the Chamber, the Build Back
                                            Tax Credit that has already provided $28.7                 Once again, I thank Chairman YARMUTH for            Better Act will significantly increase inflation




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                                            million this year to Marianas families. Parents         his leadership along with Speaker PELOSI,              and lead to up to 3 million people losing their
                                            would also benefit from funding that ensures            Leader HOYER, and my fellow committee                  employer sponsored health insurance plans.
                                            they pay no more 7 percent of their income for          chairs for their months of hard work to                  Astonishingly, as we debate this legislation
                                            high quality child care and a new paid family           produce this once-in-a-generation legislation          on the floor of the House today, there is still
                                            leave policy, providing four weeks of paid              which includes so many important investments           no detailed cost analysis by the nonpartisan
                                            leave in the case of birth or illness.                  in our homeland security.                              Congressional Budget Office.



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                                                  Among the bill’s most egregious provisions,        essential health benefits package described in            The Marist poll found that a supermajority of
                                            it:                                                      section 1302(a).’’ Obamacare specifically ex-          65 percent of Independents oppose taxpayer
                                               Effectively bans Catholic and other faith-            cluded abortion as a required essential health         funding of abortion.
                                            based schools from participating in the ex-              benefit under section 1303, and this BBB pro-             Unborn babies need the President of the
                                            panded child care program;                               vision would effectively override the 2010             United States and Members of Congress to be
                                               Dramatically raises taxes on businesses and           law.’’                                                 their friend and advocate, not powerful adver-
                                            individuals;                                                The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops             saries.
                                               Grants more power to the IRS to target tax-           wrote to every Member of Congress on                      Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois. Madam
                                            payers by removing taxpayer protection re-               Wednesday and said: ‘‘it is completely unac-           Speaker, I ran for Congress to help people in
                                            quirements and hiring 87,000 additional                  ceptable that the current House version of the         Chicago, in Illinois and across the country
                                            agents;                                                  Build Back Better Act expands taxpayer fund-           achieve the American dream. The Build Back
                                               Permits taxpayer money to go to entities in-          ing of abortion . . . No proposal to support in-       Better Act represents a transformative invest-
                                            volved China’s genocide against the Uyghur               dividuals needing affordable health care cov-          ment in children, families, workers, busi-
                                            Muslims;                                                 erage should compel Americans to pay for the           nesses, and the planet that will improve health
                                               Institutes price controls on prescription             destruction of human life through their tax dol-       and well-being, advance economic and envi-
                                            drugs and subjects companies that refuse to              lars . . . In addition, the latest text maintains      ronmental justice, meaningfully address cli-
                                            comply to a massive excise tax, which would              the proposed health care affordability fund for        mate change, and grow our economy while
                                            cripple innovation and could cause the re-               states without Hyde protections, and provides          asking the wealthiest and most secure to pay
                                            moval of life-saving drugs from the U.S. mar-            funding for several public health grants without       their fair share. The pandemic has harmed
                                            ket.                                                     Hyde protections. This fundamental problem of          tens of millions of Americans—disproportion-
                                               And, shockingly, the legislation forces tax-          expanded taxpayer funding of abortion in the           ately hurting African Americans and other
                                            payers to pay for abortion on demand in sev-             Build Back Better Act must be remedied be-             communities of color, women, seniors, and
                                            eral new and expanded programs.                          fore the bill moves forward.’’                         children. This bill meets immediate needs for
                                               Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize              The Susan B. Anthony List opposes the bill          food, shelter, medical care, and child care as
                                            or facilitate the killing of an unborn child.            and said yesterday: ‘‘It is critical to remember       well as long-term needs for quality education,
                                               The so-called Build Back Better Act:                  that whenever abortion is not explicitly ex-           good-paying jobs, safe roads and water, and
                                               Gives states $30 billion over three years to          cluded from funding, it is included . . . A care-      a healthy environment. I am deeply proud that
                                                                                                     ful reading of this bill shows billions of dollars     many priorities that I have championed are in-
                                            create reinsurance programs for health insur-
                                                                                                     being appropriated outside of Hyde protec-             cluded in this historic bill.
                                            ance issuers. There are no protections what-
                                                                                                     tions, leaving them available for direct and in-          It provides 4 weeks of paid family and med-
                                            soever to prevent subsidization of plans cov-
                                                                                                     direct abortion funding, upsetting the status          ical leave for workers so that they do not face
                                            ering elective abortion,
                                                                                                     quo and funneling money to the abortion in-            the inhumane choice of caring for loved ones
                                               Extends to January 1, 2027 the increases to
                                                                                                     dustry . . . The ACA coverage provision man-           or financial ruin. Lower-income workers and
                                            premium tax credits available for consumers              dates abortion coverage for its Medicaid-gap
                                            through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Pre-                                                                     workers of color are much less likely to have
                                                                                                     population in the twelve states that opted out         any paid leave, yet are more likely to need it
                                            mium tax credits allow taxpayer funding to               of Medicaid expansion for plan years 2024
                                            subsidize ACA plans that provide elective                                                                       due to greater health challenges and less sav-
                                                                                                     and 2025. It is notable that none of these             ings to weather caregiving without pay. As
                                            abortion;                                                states currently fund abortion coverage. This
                                               Provides $10 billion worth of public health                                                                  Chair of the Subcommittee with jurisdiction
                                                                                                     language would coerce them states to cover             over paid leave, I have worked closely with
                                            funding grants that aren’t Hyde Amendment                abortion against the will of their constituents.’’
                                            protected,                                                                                                      Ways and Means Chairman NEAL and advo-
                                                                                                        The Hyde Amendment, Madam Speaker,                  cates to shape this equity-generating, uni-
                                               Makes permanent the Health Coverage Tax               has saved more than 2.4 million lives—about
                                            Credit without Hyde protection to prevent tax-                                                                  versal benefit.
                                                                                                     60,000 per year since it was first enacted.               The bill enhances the Earned Income Tax
                                            payer funds in this program from paying for                 Hyde protections need to be added to this           Credit to improve the economic well-being of
                                            health plans that include elective abortion;             bill.                                                  millions of childless workers and noncustodial
                                               Mandates abortion coverage in the Afford-                It is time, I believe, for more of us to face
                                                                                                                                                            parents—with new help for younger workers,
                                            able Care Act (ACA);                                     the harsh reality of what abortion does to chil-
                                                                                                                                                            foster and homeless youth, and seniors. I’ve
                                               And more.                                             dren and look beyond the sound bites and slo-
                                               The National Right to Life Committee                  gans.                                                  fought for these improvements for over a dec-
                                                                                                        No-one in the media ever bothers to expose          ade via my Responsible Fatherhood Act.
                                            strongly opposes this legislation and pointed
                                                                                                     the violent methods of abortion that include           These changes will help 17 million adults na-
                                            out that: ‘‘The 2010 Obamacare law as would
                                                                                                     dismemberment of a child’s fragile body, in-           tionwide and over 600,000 in Illinois.
                                            the Build Back Better (BBB) created multiple                                                                       It provides $2 billion to train workers with
                                            new streams of federal funding that are ‘‘self-          cluding decapitation, and that drugs like RU–
                                                                                                     486 starve the baby to death.                          barriers to employment—including people with
                                            appropriated’’ flowing outside regular appro-                                                                   records—for careers in the allied health pro-
                                            priations.                                                  Or that unborn babies killed by abortion at
                                                                                                     20 weeks or later experience excruciating suf-         fessions. This provision will help Chicago
                                               ‘‘That said, the Obamacare law contains a                                                                    State which has a stellar Health Profession
                                            provision that specifically permitted states to          fering and physical pain. And until rendered
                                                                                                     unconscious or dead by these hideous proce-            Opportunity Grant program and expand pro-
                                            ban elective abortion coverage in their ex-                                                                     grams like those offered by the Safer Founda-
                                            changes, and 25 states passed legislation                dures, the baby feels the pain every cut ac-
                                                                                                     cording to medical experts in life-enhancing           tion to help people with records become suc-
                                            doing so. The BBB, starting in 2024, would ex-                                                                  cessful healthcare professionals.
                                            plicitly override the laws of 11 of these                prenatal surgery.
                                                                                                        Abortion is not health care unless one con-            It helps vulnerable students by making Pell
                                            states—states that did not expand their Med-                                                                    non-taxable and removing the lifetime ban on
                                                                                                     strues the precious life of an unborn child to
                                            icaid programs. One additional non-expansion                                                                    the American Opportunity Tax Credit for past
                                                                                                     be analogous to a tumor to be excised or a
                                            state (Wyoming) will also now be required to                                                                    felony drug convictions.
                                                                                                     disease to be vanquished pregnancy is not a
                                            cover abortion.                                                                                                    It incents substantial private investment in
                                                                                                     disease.
                                               ‘‘Further, the provisions mandate that                   Mr. Biden once wrote constituents, explain-         solar energy that will reduce electricity costs
                                            Obamacare silver exchange plans cover abor-              ing that his support for laws against funding          for tens of millions of low-income individuals
                                            tion and transportation for abortions (without           for abortion, by saying ‘‘it would protect both        while making the air they breathe safer.
                                            cost sharing) for the Medicaid coverage gap              the woman and her unborn child.’’                         It contains strong labor provisions so that
                                            population. The BBB provides unlimited appro-               Mr. Biden went on to say ‘‘that those of us         our investments in green energy benefit work-
                                            priations to finance this abortion expansion.            who are opposed to abortion should not be              ers as well as businesses.
                                            The BBB would mandate coverage in the                    compelled to pay for them.’’ I agree. Most                It includes $1 billion for to help justice-in-
                                            abovementioned 12 states of ‘‘services de-               Americans agree.                                       volved individuals obtain employment and




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                                            scribed in subsection (a)(4)(C) of section 1905             Over the years, the polls have consistently         training services via the Reentry Employment
                                            of such [the Social Security] Act [family plan-          shown that Americans do not support taxpayer           Opportunities Program. It makes sure that
                                            ning services] for which Federal payments                funded abortion.                                       people leaving prison have Medicaid coverage
                                            would have been so available [‘‘under title XIX             The January 2021 Marist poll found that by          to improve health and successful reentry.
                                            of the Social Security Act] which are not other-         a margin of 58 percent to 38 percent oppose               It includes $2.5 billion for public health ap-
                                            wise provided under such plan as part of the             taxpayer funded abortion.                              proaches to reduce community violence and



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                                            advance trauma interventions, which I have              committee’s title would make the federal gov-          existed at all. Then, they claimed Republicans
                                            championed via the RISE from Trauma Act.                ernment a leader on combatting climate                 were exacerbating concerns over what they
                                               It helps restore fairness to the tax code by         change by electrifying the federal govern-             deemed ‘‘transitory inflation’’ for political gain.
                                            rolling back the Republicans’ punitive limit on         ment’s vehicle fleet, and building the fleet of        Next, they said inflation was both not transi-
                                            the State and Local Tax deduction to hurt citi-         the future.                                            tory and, in fact, a good thing for the econ-
                                            zens in blue states like Illinois.                         Our title includes nearly $3 billion for GSA        omy. Now, they accuse Republicans of oppos-
                                               The pandemic hit Black renters with children         to purchase tens of thousands of electric vehi-        ing their plan to tackle the inflation they
                                            especially hard, with 29 percent reporting that         cles and build the infrastructure necessary to         claimed was a good thing.
                                            their household is not caught up on rent. Fur-          support them.                                             If inflation is indeed a good thing, then
                                            ther, in 2020, Black and Latino families with              It also includes nearly $6 billion for the Post-    America is in luck—the Democrats’ Build Back
                                            children were more than twice as likely to suf-         al Service to purchase electric vehicles for its       Better agenda promises much more of it. It’s
                                            fer food insecurity as white households. The            new fleet, and to build the infrastructure nec-        as if the Democrats are attempting to
                                            Build Back Better Act addresses racial and              essary to charge these vehicles.                       hyperinflate their way out of inflation.
                                            economic inequities for communities of color               EVs are a sensible and cost-effective invest-          This unaffordable bill won’t solve the prob-
                                            and rural and underserved communities. It               ment that will reduce emissions and keep the           lems the Democrats have created. It won’t
                                            dramatically reduces child poverty via a sub-           federal government competitive.                        lower energy prices, or tame inflation, or re-
                                            stantial Child Tax Credit, raising a projected             The title also includes $4 billion for GSA to       solve the supply chain crisis, or help Ameri-
                                            4.1 million children above the poverty line and         expand the use of emerging green tech-                 cans get back to work. To the contrary, it’s an
                                            cutting child poverty by more than 40 percent.          nologies and ensure that federal buildings are         ideological bill designed to implant socialism
                                            In October alone, the advanced CTC gave                 modernized with greener construction mate-             irreversibly in the federal government.
                                            caregivers in my Congressional District over            rials and modern environmental systems.                   The whole bill is a slap in the face to the
                                            $30 million to provide food, shelter, and other            I’m especially pleased that we’ve included          American people. Thankfully, however, this
                                            necessities for 121,000 children. This bill             dedicated funding for OMB to support imple-            debate is just political theater, since we all
                                            makes the largest investment in affordable              mentation of the Act and track labor, equity,          know the bill, whenever it is finally passed by
                                            housing and community development in half a             and environmental standards and perform-               House Democrats, will die a quick death in the
                                            century—over $145 billion—and it feeds the              ance.                                                  Senate.
                                            hungry with $10 billion for nutrition.                     Our title also includes funding to ensure              Ms. BONAMICI. Madam Speaker, I rise
                                               It makes Americans healthier by decreasing           proper oversight of these programs.                    today in support of a meaningful and con-
                                            the cost of health insurance and medication,               It is critical that the House pass the Build        sequential piece of legislation, the Build Back
                                            expanding medical services, investing $1 bil-           Back Better Act as quickly as possible so that         Better Act.
                                            lion in community health centers, and pro-              we can get this to the President’s desk without           This bill will strengthen our economy, create
                                            viding tremendous funding to reduce health in-          delay.                                                 good-paying jobs, and make extraordinary in-
                                            equities.                                                  I urge all my colleagues to support this bill.      vestments that will improve child care, edu-
                                               It makes the largest investment in child care           Mr. NUNES. Madam Speaker, the Demo-                 cation, health care, child nutrition, and hous-
                                            in our Nation’s history, saving most families           crats have summoned us to the House floor              ing. Importantly, the legislation will take critical
                                            more than half of their spending on child care.         today to debate their unaffordable socialist           steps to address the climate crisis.
                                            Further, it makes historic investments to care          spending bill. It is rather novel for Congress to         This legislation is a significant victory for
                                            for seniors and individuals with disabilities so        debate a bill that does not yet have final legis-      children, families, caregivers, and early child-
                                            that they can receive care in their homes and           lative text, but. after suffering alarming elec-       hood educators. According to data from Or-
                                            communities, recognizing the need to care for           toral defeats earlier this month, the Democrats        egon State University, every county in my
                                            our aging population.                                   appear desperate to save President Biden’s             home state of Oregon was a child care desert
                                               It makes the largest expansion of free edu-          domestic agenda, regardless of the con-                for infant and toddler care before the
                                            cation since our country established public             sequences. So, here we are.                            coronavirus pandemic, meaning that there is
                                            high schools a century ago. It provides uni-               While the bill’s actual provisions remain un-       only one spot for every three children who
                                            versal and free preschool for all 3- and 4-year-        clear, what is clear is the Biden administra-          need care. The $390 billion investment for
                                            olds, promoting racial equity in education. In          tion’s zeal to permanently transform the Amer-         early childhood care and universal preschool
                                            addition, it expands access to affordable high-         ican economy. In an October press con-                 in the Build Back Better Act is fundamental to
                                            er education by increasing the Pell grants by           ference, White House Press Secretary Jen               the long-term success and health of our kids
                                            $550 for more than 5 million students, creating         Psaki went to great lengths to explain that the        and economy. These investments will help mil-
                                            grants to close the college completion gap,             Democrats’ reconciliation spending bill is seen        lions of parents, overwhelmingly women, re-
                                            and investing in Historically Black Colleges            by the President as a vehicle to remake the            turn to work. Additionally, we will finally recog-
                                            and Universities and Minority Serving Institu-          economy.                                               nize the critical role of early childhood edu-
                                            tions, including Predominantly Black Institu-              Biden seeks to ‘‘do something historic that         cators by making sure they are paid a living
                                            tions like Malcolm X, Olive-Harvey, and Chi-            will fundamentally change the economy,’’ she           wage.
                                            cago State.                                             declared. He’s seeking to make ‘‘fundamental              We have also provided substantial invest-
                                               This legislation invests billions in small busi-     changes,’’ she added. She later noted that the         ments in our students by making higher edu-
                                            nesses, including $1.6 billion for minority             President seeks to ‘‘make fundamental change           cation more affordable, including by increasing
                                            owned businesses and $105 million for edu-              in our economy,’’ ‘‘change fundamentally how           the value of the Pell Grant and expanding fed-
                                            cation and financial assistance for the for-            we invest in our workforce,’’ ‘‘fundamentally          eral financial aid to eligible students with De-
                                            merly-incarcerated to form businesses to cre-           change the economy,’’ and ‘‘fundamentally              ferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA),
                                            ate jobs in their communities. Further, it en-          change people’s lives.’’                               temporary protected status (TPS), and de-
                                            sures the largest effort to combat climate                 We should take Psaki at her word—Presi-             ferred enforced departure (DED) status. To
                                            change in American history.                             dent Biden believes he has found basic flaws           help students succeed in school and transition
                                               I am honored to vote for this once-in-a-gen-         in our economic system, and the solution is to         into a rewarding career, the Build Back Better
                                            eration legislation. I came to Congress to              inject trillions of dollars into government pro-       Act provides funding for retention and comple-
                                            make this type of momentous change. I urge              grams.                                                 tion grants. The bill also supports our teaching
                                            my colleagues to pass it.                                  Earlier this year, the President made a             workforce by investing in grant programs to
                                               Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York.                 down payment on this fundamental trans-                help train new teachers and address the
                                            Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of the          formation when he signed into law the Demo-            teacher shortage. Additionally, the legislation
                                            Build Back Better Act.                                  crats’ $1.9 trillion so-called stimulus plan. The      also supports communities of color through
                                               The Oversight Committee, which I chair, au-          economic impact has been staggering: gas               targeted investments in Historically Black Col-
                                            thored several key sections of this bill, which         prices are reaching record highs, our supply           leges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and




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                                            together will allocate nearly $14 billion.              chain is in crisis, small businesses are beset         Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions and
                                               My committee’s sections are more than just           by a government-made labor shortage, and               other Minority Serving Institutions.
                                            numbers on a page—they represent a sub-                 skyrocketing inflation is making everyday life            As Chair of the Education and Labor Com-
                                            stantial and genuine investment in our future.          unaffordable for working Americans.                    mittee’s Civil Rights and Human Services Sub-
                                               We have no future if we don’t get serious               The response from Democrats has been in-            committee, I know students will be better
                                            about combatting climate change, and my                 structive. First, Democrats denied that inflation      equipped to succeed when they are no longer



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                                            worrying about their next meal. The Build               U.S. is one of only six nations in the world               The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu-
                                            Back Better Act provides nine million more              without a national paid leave program. The              ant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX, the pre-
                                            students free school meals through improving            Build Back Better act brings the United States          vious question is ordered on the motion
                                            the Community Eligibility Provision, which is a         in line with every other OECD country by pro-           to recommit.
                                            significant step toward ending childhood hun-           viding workers with four weeks of paid family              The question is on the motion to re-
                                            ger.                                                    leave for childbirth, major illness recovery, and       commit.
                                               The Build Back Better Act provides for               family caretaking responsibilities.                        The question was taken; and the
                                            greater access to high-quality, affordable                 Oregonians have long experienced pro-                Speaker pro tempore announced that
                                            health care and lowers costs for many Ameri-            nounced challenges from the lack of afford-             the noes appeared to have it.
                                            cans, especially our nation’s seniors. The bill         able housing. The Build Back Better Act in-                Mr. BRADY. Madam Speaker, on
                                            extends the enhanced Affordable Care Act                cludes $150 billion to build and upgrade af-            that I demand the yeas and nays.
                                            premium tax credits that were included in the           fordable housing stock and enhance rental as-              The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu-
                                            American Rescue Plan, and lowers the cost of            sistance for low-income Americans. It also in-          ant to section 3(s) of House Resolution
                                            prescription drugs by finally allowing Medicare         cludes critical updates to and expands the              8, the yeas and nays are ordered.
                                            to negotiate prices for some drugs. The bill ex-        Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, which will
                                            pands Medicare to cover the cost of hearing                                                                        The vote was taken by electronic de-
                                                                                                    further incentivize affordable housing develop-         vice, and there were—yeas 208, nays
                                            aids and makes home health care for elderly             ment. This funding will improve housing afford-
                                            parents or loved ones with disabilities more af-                                                                220, not voting 6, as follows:
                                                                                                    ability, support people experiencing homeless-                            [Roll No. 384]
                                            fordable and accessible. It also includes sig-          ness, and shrink the homeownership gap for
                                            nificant resources for Older Americans Act              people of color.
                                                                                                                                                                               YEAS—208
                                            meal programs and other senior services that               Data reported by the United States Census            Aderholt          Gohmert           Miller (WV)
                                            I have long championed, particularly those                                                                      Allen             Gonzales, Tony    Miller-Meeks
                                                                                                    Bureau found that the Child Tax Credit expan-           Amodei            Gonzalez (OH)     Moolenaar
                                            supporting LGBTQ+ seniors and other under-              sion that was included in the American Res-             Armstrong         Good (VA)         Mooney
                                            served communities.                                     cue Plan has already slashed taxes for mil-             Arrington         Gooden (TX)       Moore (AL)
                                               The bill will allow work authorization and                                                                   Babin             Gosar             Moore (UT)
                                                                                                    lions of families and contributed significantly to
                                            provide important protections from deportation                                                                  Bacon             Granger           Mullin
                                                                                                    reducing child hunger and housing insecurity.           Baird             Graves (LA)       Murphy (NC)
                                            for many immigrants who have been building
                                                                                                    The Build Back Better Act builds upon this              Balderson         Graves (MO)       Nehls
                                            lives in this country and contributing to our                                                                   Banks             Green (TN)        Newhouse
                                                                                                    success by extending the enhanced Child Tax
                                            communities for more than a decade. The leg-                                                                    Barr              Greene (GA)       Norman
                                                                                                    Credit for another year.                                Bentz             Griffith
                                            islation will not provide the crucial path to citi-                                                                                                 Nunes
                                                                                                       And finally, The Build Back Better Act is            Bergman           Grothman          Obernolte
                                            zenship that I have been advocating for, but
                                                                                                    fully paid for by making sure the wealthiest            Bice (OK)         Guest             Owens
                                            this is significant progress that we can con-                                                                   Biggs             Guthrie           Palazzo
                                                                                                    Americans and large corporations pay their
                                            tinue to build on.                                                                                              Bilirakis         Hagedorn          Palmer
                                               Importantly, we are facing a code red cli-           fair share in taxes.                                    Bishop (NC)       Harris            Pence
                                            mate emergency and the Build Back Better                   The Build Back Better Act’s historic invest-         Boebert           Harshbarger       Pfluger
                                                                                                    ments will improve the lives of families and in-        Bost              Hartzler          Posey
                                            Act is the most significant climate bill to come                                                                Brady             Hern              Reed
                                            before the U.S. House of Representatives. It            dividuals, create thousands of good-paying              Brooks            Herrell           Reschenthaler
                                            provides long-term extensions for renewable             jobs, and help our country rebuild after the            Buchanan          Herrera Beutler   Rice (SC)
                                            energy tax credits, and for the first time, en-         devastating COVID–19 pandemic. And with                 Bucshon           Hice (GA)         Rodgers (WA)
                                                                                                                                                            Budd              Higgins (LA)
                                            ergy storage projects will qualify for invest-          the provisions to address the climate crisis, it        Burchett          Hill
                                                                                                                                                                                                Rose
                                                                                                    will help bring about a better, healthier, and                                              Rosendale
                                            ment tax credits. This bill also invests $29 bil-                                                               Burgess           Hinson            Rouzer
                                            lion in nonprofit, state, and local institutions        more secure future for Oregonians and Ameri-            Calvert           Hollingsworth     Roy
                                                                                                    cans. For these reasons, I look forward to vot-         Cammack           Hudson            Rutherford
                                            that support rapid deployment of low- and                                                                       Carey             Huizenga
                                            zero-emission technologies, with a particular           ing in favor of this bill.                              Carter (GA)       Issa
                                                                                                                                                                                                Salazar
                                                                                                       The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time                                                        Scalise
                                            focus on low-income communities that histori-                                                                   Carter (TX)       Jackson
                                                                                                                                                                                                Schweikert
                                            cally have not received these types of invest-          for debate has expired.                                 Cawthorn          Jacobs (NY)
                                                                                                                                                                                                Scott, Austin
                                                                                                       Pursuant to House Resolution 744,                    Chabot            Johnson (LA)
                                            ments. This legislation combats methane                                                                                                             Sessions
                                                                                                                                                            Cheney            Johnson (OH)
                                            emissions, which account for one-fifth of glob-         the previous question is ordered on the                 Cline             Johnson (SD)
                                                                                                                                                                                                Simpson
                                                                                                    bill, as amended.                                                                           Smith (MO)
                                            al greenhouse gas emissions, by creating a                                                                      Cloud             Jordan
                                                                                                                                                                                                Smith (NE)
                                            methane emissions reduction program to                     The question is on the engrossment                   Clyde             Joyce (OH)
                                                                                                                                                                                                Smith (NJ)
                                                                                                                                                            Cole              Joyce (PA)
                                            incentivize oil and gas companies to reduce             and third reading of the bill.                          Comer             Katko
                                                                                                                                                                                                Smucker
                                            their methane leaks.                                       The bill was ordered to be engrossed                 Crawford          Keller
                                                                                                                                                                                                Spartz
                                                                                                    and read a third time, and was read the                 Crenshaw          Kelly (MS)        Stauber
                                               The health of our ocean reflects the health                                                                                                      Steel
                                                                                                    third time.                                             Curtis            Kelly (PA)
                                            of our planet. The Build Back Better Act                                                                        Davidson          Kim (CA)          Stefanik
                                            makes a significant investment by providing $6                           MOTION TO RECOMMIT                     Davis, Rodney     Kinzinger         Steil
                                                                                                                                                                                                Steube
                                            billion for habitat restoration projects to con-          Mr. BRADY. Madam Speaker, I have                      DesJarlais        Kustoff
                                                                                                                                                                                                Stewart
                                            serve, restore, and protect coastal and marine          a motion to recommit at the desk.                       Diaz-Balart       LaHood
                                                                                                                                                            Donalds           LaMalfa           Taylor
                                            habitats, increasing these ecosystems’ resil-             The SPEAKER pro tempore. The                          Duncan            Lamborn           Tenney
                                            ience to climate change. It also provides $500          Clerk will report the motion to recom-                  Dunn              Latta             Thompson (PA)
                                                                                                                                                            Ellzey            LaTurner          Tiffany
                                            million for National Oceanic and Atmospheric            mit.                                                                                        Timmons
                                                                                                                                                            Emmer             Lesko
                                            Administration climate research to improve our            The Clerk read as follows:                            Estes             Letlow            Turner
                                            understanding of the interdependence of our               Mr. Brady moves to recommit the bill H.R.             Fallon            Long              Upton
                                            nation’s coasts, ocean, weather, and climate.           5376 to the Committee on the Budget.                    Feenstra          Loudermilk        Valadao
                                                                                                                                                            Ferguson          Lucas             Van Drew
                                            Although there is still tremendous work need-             The material previously referred to                                                       Van Duyne
                                                                                                                                                            Fischbach         Luetkemeyer
                                            ed to prevent national and global climate dis-          by Mr. BRADY is as follows:                             Fitzgerald        Mace              Wagner
                                            aster, the Build Back Better Act makes trans-             Strike section 138401 and insert the fol-             Fitzpatrick       Malliotakis       Walberg
                                            formational and unprecedented investments in                                                                    Fleischmann       Mann              Walorski
                                                                                                    lowing:                                                                                     Waltz
                                            combating climate change.                                                                                       Fortenberry       Massie
                                                                                                    SEC. 138401. PROHIBITION ON NEW REQUIRE-                Foxx              Mast              Weber (TX)
                                               The Build Back Better Act will also improve                      MENTS TO REPORT BANK ACCOUNT                Franklin, C.      McCarthy          Webster (FL)
                                            conditions for working Americans. It provides                       DEPOSITS AND WITHDRAWALS.                     Scott           McCaul            Wenstrup
                                            nearly $20 billion in funding for education and           The Secretary of the Treasury (including              Fulcher           McClain           Westerman
                                                                                                    any delegate of the Secretary) may not re-              Gaetz             McClintock        Williams (TX)
                                            career training opportunities for under-                                                                                                            Wilson (SC)
                                                                                                    quire any financial institution to report the           Gallagher         McHenry
                                            employed and dislocated workers and fosters                                                                     Garbarino         McKinley          Wittman




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                                                                                                    inflows or out-flows (or any similar amount,
                                            greater collaboration between industry, labor,          whether on a transaction or aggregate basis)            Garcia (CA)       Meijer            Womack
                                            nonprofits, and educational institutions to                                                                     Gibbs             Meuser            Young
                                                                                                    of any account maintained by such institu-              Gimenez           Miller (IL)       Zeldin
                                            equip workers with skills training and post-            tion, except to the extent that such report-
                                            training employment opportunities.                      ing is required under any program, or other                                NAYS—220
                                               This bill will also support families when they       provision of law, as in effect on October 1,            Adams             Allred            Axne
                                            need to take leave from work. Currently, the            2021.                                                   Aguilar           Auchincloss       Barragán




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                                            Bass                Green, Al (TX)     Pallone                  MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE                         Demings          Lawson (FL)       Ross
                                            Beatty              Grijalva           Panetta                      RESOLUTION 8, 117TH CONGRESS                           DeSaulnier       Lee (CA)          Roybal-Allard
                                            Bera                Harder (CA)        Pappas                                                                              Deutch           Lee (NV)          Ruiz
                                            Beyer               Hayes              Pascrell            Amodei               Green (TN)            McBath               Dingell          Leger Fernandez   Ruppersberger
                                            Bishop (GA)         Higgins (NY)       Payne                 (Balderson)          (DesJarlais)          (Williams          Doggett          Levin (CA)        Rush
                                            Blumenauer          Himes              Pelosi              Baird (Walorski)     Hagedorn                (GA))              Doyle, Michael   Levin (MI)        Ryan
                                            Blunt Rochester     Horsford           Perlmutter          Barragán              (Moolenaar)         McEachin               F.             Lieu              Sánchez
                                            Bonamici            Houlahan           Peters                (Allred)           Harshbarger             (Wexton)           Escobar          Lofgren           Sarbanes
                                            Bourdeaux           Hoyer              Phillips            Blumenauer             (Fleischmann)       Meeks (Jeffries)     Eshoo            Lowenthal         Scanlon
                                            Bowman              Huffman            Pingree               (Beyer)            Hartzler              Moulton (Kahele)     Espaillat        Luria             Schakowsky
                                            Boyle, Brendan      Jackson Lee        Pocan               Boyle, Brendan         (Walberg)           Napolitano           Evans            Lynch             Schiff
                                              F.                Jacobs (CA)        Porter                F. (Jeffries)      Herrera Beutler         (Correa)           Fletcher         Malinowski        Schneider
                                            Brown (MD)          Jayapal            Pressley            Brooks (Moore          (Moore (UT))        Nunes (Garcia        Foster           Maloney,          Schrader
                                            Brown (OH)          Jeffries           Price (NC)            (AL))              Hudson                  (CA))              Frankel, Lois      Carolyn B.      Schrier
                                            Brownley            Johnson (GA)       Quigley             Brown (MD)             (Balderson)         Payne (Pallone)      Gallego          Maloney, Sean     Scott (VA)
                                            Bush                Johnson (TX)       Raskin                (Blunt             Huffman               Porter (Wexton)      Garamendi        Manning           Scott, David
                                            Bustos              Jones              Rice (NY)             Rochester)           (McNerney)          Reed (Walorski)      Garcı́a (IL)     Matsui            Sewell
                                            Butterfield         Kahele             Ross                Buchanan             Issa (Garcia          Reschenthaler        Garcia (TX)      McBath            Sherman
                                            Carbajal            Kaptur             Roybal-Allard         (Waltz)              (CA))                 (Keller)           Gomez            McCollum          Sherrill
                                            Cárdenas           Keating            Ruiz                Burgess (Lucas)      Jackson (Nehls)       Rice (NY)            Gonzalez,        McEachin          Sires
                                            Carson              Kelly (IL)         Ruppersberger       Bustos               Johnson (OH)            (Murphy (FL))        Vicente        McGovern          Slotkin
                                            Carter (LA)         Khanna             Rush                  (Brownley)           (Fulcher)           Rodgers (WA)         Gottheimer       McNerney          Smith (WA)
                                            Cartwright          Kildee             Ryan                Calvert (Garcia      Johnson (TX)            (Moore (UT))       Green, Al (TX)   Meeks             Soto
                                            Case                Kilmer             Sánchez              (CA))                (Jeffries)          Roybal-Allard        Grijalva         Meng              Spanberger
                                            Casten              Kim (NJ)           Sarbanes            Cárdenas            Joyce (OH)              (McCollum)         Harder (CA)      Mfume             Speier
                                            Castor (FL)         Kind               Scanlon               (Gomez)              (Valadao)           Rush (Quigley)       Hayes            Moore (WI)        Stansbury
                                            Castro (TX)         Kirkpatrick        Schakowsky          Carey                Joyce (PA)            Salazar (Waltz)      Higgins (NY)     Morelle           Stanton
                                            Chu                 Krishnamoorthi     Schiff                (Balderson)          (Keller)            Sewell (Cicilline)   Himes            Moulton           Stevens
                                            Cicilline           Kuster             Schneider           Cleaver              Katko (Meijer)        Sires (Pallone)      Horsford         Mrvan             Strickland
                                            Clark (MA)          Lamb               Schrader              (Butterfield)      Kelly (PA)            Stauber              Houlahan         Murphy (FL)       Suozzi
                                            Cleaver             Langevin           Schrier             Comer                  (Keller)              (Bergman)          Hoyer            Nadler            Swalwell
                                            Clyburn             Larsen (WA)        Scott (VA)            (LaTurner)         Kind (Connolly)       Steube               Huffman          Napolitano        Takano
                                            Cohen               Larson (CT)        Scott, David        Crenshaw             Kinzinger               (Timmons)          Jackson Lee      Neal              Thompson (CA)
                                            Connolly            Lawrence           Sewell                (Mullin)             (Valadao)           Stevens (Lee         Jacobs (CA)      Neguse            Thompson (MS)
                                            Cooper              Lawson (FL)        Sherman             Curtis (Moore        Kirkpatrick             (NV))              Jayapal          Newman            Titus
                                            Correa              Lee (CA)           Sherrill              (UT))                (Stanton)           Stewart (Moore       Jeffries         Norcross          Tlaib
                                            Costa               Lee (NV)           Sires               DeFazio              Krishnamoorthi          (UT))              Johnson (GA)     O’Halleran        Tonko
                                            Courtney            Leger Fernandez    Slotkin               (Carbajal)           (Levin (CA))        Strickland           Johnson (TX)     Ocasio-Cortez     Torres (CA)
                                            Craig               Levin (CA)         Smith (WA)          DeSaulnier           LaHood (Miller          (Jeffries)         Jones            Omar              Torres (NY)
                                            Crist               Levin (MI)         Soto                  (Thompson            (WV))               Swalwell             Kahele           Pallone           Trahan
                                            Crow                Lieu               Spanberger            (CA))              Lamborn                 (Gomez)            Kaptur           Panetta           Trone
                                            Cuellar             Lofgren            Speier              Duncan                 (McHenry)           Thompson (MS)        Keating          Pappas            Underwood
                                            Davids (KS)         Lowenthal          Stansbury             (Timmons)          Larsen (WA)             (Butterfield)      Kelly (IL)       Pascrell          Vargas
                                            Davis, Danny K.     Luria              Stanton             Dunn (Waltz)           (Connolly)          Thompson (PA)        Khanna           Payne             Veasey
                                            Dean                Lynch              Stevens             Emmer                Lawson (FL)             (Meuser)           Kildee           Pelosi            Vela
                                            DeFazio             Malinowski         Strickland            (McHenry)            (Mfume)             Tiffany              Kilmer           Perlmutter        Velázquez
                                            DeGette             Maloney,           Suozzi              Evans (Mfume)        Lesko (Miller           (Arrington)        Kim (NJ)         Peters            Wasserman
                                            DeLauro               Carolyn B.       Swalwell            Fallon (Nehls)         (WV))               Trahan               Kind             Phillips            Schultz
                                            DelBene             Maloney, Sean      Takano              Ferguson             Letlow                  (Langevin)         Kirkpatrick      Pingree           Waters
                                            Delgado             Manning            Thompson (CA)         (Kustoff)            (Cammack)           Trone (Beyer)        Krishnamoorthi   Pocan             Watson Coleman
                                            Demings             Matsui             Thompson (MS)       Fletcher (Allred)    Lieu (Raskin)         Underwood            Kuster           Porter            Welch
                                            DeSaulnier          McBath             Titus               Garbarino            Long                    (Casten)           Lamb             Pressley          Wexton
                                            Deutch              McCollum           Tlaib                 (Jacobs (NY))        (Fleischmann)       Veasey (Beatty)      Langevin         Price (NC)        Wild
                                            Dingell             McEachin           Tonko               Gibbs (Bucshon)      Loudermilk            Welch                Larsen (WA)      Quigley           Williams (GA)
                                            Doggett             McGovern           Torres (CA)         Gimenez (Waltz)        (Cammack)             (McGovern)         Larson (CT)      Raskin            Wilson (FL)
                                            Doyle, Michael      McNerney           Torres (NY)         Gohmert (Weber)      Lowenthal             Wilson (FL)          Lawrence         Rice (NY)         Yarmuth
                                              F.                Meeks              Trahan              Gonzales, Tony         (Beyer)               (Hayes)
                                            Escobar             Meng               Trone                 (Ellzey)           Lynch                 Young (Spartz)
                                                                                                       Gonzalez (OH)          (Langevin)          Zeldin
                                                                                                                                                                                         NAYS—213
                                            Eshoo               Mfume              Underwood
                                            Espaillat           Moore (WI)         Vargas                (Armstrong)        Mast (Waltz)            (Timmons)          Aderholt         Crawford          Green (TN)
                                            Evans               Morelle            Veasey                                                                              Allen            Crenshaw          Greene (GA)
                                            Fletcher            Moulton            Vela
                                                                                                          The SPEAKER pro tempore. The                                 Amodei           Curtis            Griffith
                                            Foster              Mrvan              Velázquez          question is on the passage of the bill.                         Armstrong        Davidson          Grothman
                                                                                                                                                                       Arrington        Davis, Rodney     Guest
                                            Frankel, Lois       Murphy (FL)        Wasserman              The question was taken; and the                              Babin            DesJarlais        Guthrie
                                            Gallego             Nadler               Schultz
                                            Garamendi           Napolitano         Waters
                                                                                                       Speaker pro tempore announced that                              Bacon            Diaz-Balart       Hagedorn
                                            Garcı́a (IL)        Neal               Watson Coleman      the ayes appeared to have it.                                   Baird            Donalds           Harris
                                            Garcia (TX)         Neguse             Welch                  Mr. BRADY. Madam Speaker, on                                 Balderson        Duncan            Harshbarger
                                            Golden              Newman             Wexton                                                                              Banks            Dunn              Hartzler
                                                                                                       that I demand the yeas and nays.                                Barr             Ellzey            Hern
                                            Gomez               Norcross           Wild
                                            Gonzalez,           O’Halleran         Williams (GA)          The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu-                              Bentz            Emmer             Herrell
                                              Vicente           Ocasio-Cortez      Wilson (FL)         ant to section 3(s) of House Resolution                         Bergman          Estes             Herrera Beutler
                                            Gottheimer          Omar               Yarmuth                                                                             Bice (OK)        Fallon            Hice (GA)
                                                                                                       8, the yeas and nays are ordered.                               Biggs            Feenstra          Higgins (LA)
                                                              NOT VOTING—6                                The vote was taken by electronic de-                         Bilirakis        Ferguson          Hill
                                                                                                       vice, and there were—yeas 220, nays                             Bishop (NC)      Fischbach         Hinson
                                            Buck                Clarke (NY)        Rogers (AL)                                                                         Boebert          Fitzgerald        Hollingsworth
                                            Carl                Perry              Rogers (KY)         213, not voting 1, as follows:                                  Bost             Fitzpatrick       Hudson
                                                                                                                             [Roll No. 385]                            Brady            Fleischmann       Huizenga
                                                                                                                                                                       Brooks           Fortenberry       Issa
                                                                    b 0908                                                    YEAS—220                                 Buchanan         Foxx              Jackson
                                                                                                       Adams                Brown (OH)            Clyburn              Buck             Franklin, C.      Jacobs (NY)
                                               Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Ms.                        Aguilar              Brownley              Cohen                Bucshon            Scott           Johnson (LA)
                                            PINGREE, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALO-                             Allred               Bush                  Connolly             Budd             Fulcher           Johnson (OH)
                                            NEY of New York, Messrs. STANTON,                          Auchincloss          Bustos                Cooper               Burchett         Gaetz             Johnson (SD)
                                            CARSON, MOULTON, and MFUME                                 Axne                 Butterfield           Correa               Burgess          Gallagher         Jordan
                                                                                                       Barragán            Carbajal              Costa                Calvert          Garbarino         Joyce (OH)
                                            changed their vote from ‘‘yea’’ to                         Bass                 Cárdenas             Courtney             Cammack          Garcia (CA)       Joyce (PA)
                                            ‘‘nay.’’                                                   Beatty               Carson                Craig                Carey            Gibbs             Katko
                                                                                                       Bera                 Carter (LA)           Crist                Carl             Gimenez           Keller
                                               Messrs. GRAVES of Louisiana, HOL-                       Beyer                Cartwright            Crow                 Carter (GA)      Gohmert           Kelly (MS)
                                            LINGSWORTH, DAVIDSON, GOSAR,                               Bishop (GA)          Case                  Cuellar              Carter (TX)      Golden            Kelly (PA)
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                                                                                                       Blumenauer           Casten                Davids (KS)          Cawthorn         Gonzales, Tony    Kim (CA)
                                            vote from ‘‘nay’’ to ‘‘yea.’’                              Blunt Rochester      Castor (FL)           Davis, Danny K.      Chabot           Gonzalez (OH)     Kinzinger
                                                                                                       Bonamici             Castro (TX)           Dean                 Cheney           Good (VA)         Kustoff
                                               So the motion to recommit was re-                       Bourdeaux            Chu                   DeFazio              Cline            Gooden (TX)       LaHood
                                            jected.                                                    Bowman               Cicilline             DeGette              Cloud            Gosar             LaMalfa
                                                                                                       Boyle, Brendan       Clark (MA)            DeLauro              Clyde            Granger           Lamborn
                                               The result of the vote was announced                      F.                 Clarke (NY)           DelBene              Cole             Graves (LA)       Latta
                                            as above recorded.                                         Brown (MD)           Cleaver               Delgado              Comer            Graves (MO)       LaTurner




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                                            Lesko                Nunes               Steel              Rush (Quigley)        Strickland            Trone (Beyer)     Maloney,         Perlmutter        Soto
                                            Letlow               Obernolte           Stefanik           Salazar (Waltz)         (Jeffries)          Underwood           Carolyn B.     Peters            Spanberger
                                            Long                 Owens               Steil              Sewell (Cicilline)    Swalwell                (Casten)        Maloney, Sean    Phillips          Speier
                                            Loudermilk           Palazzo             Steube             Sires (Pallone)         (Gomez)             Veasey (Beatty)   Manning          Pingree           Stansbury
                                            Lucas                Palmer              Stewart            Stauber               Thompson (MS)         Welch             Matsui           Pocan             Stanton
                                            Luetkemeyer          Pence               Taylor               (Bergman)             (Butterfield)         (McGovern)      McBath           Porter            Stevens
                                            Mace                 Pfluger             Tenney             Steube                Thompson (PA)         Wilson (FL)       McCollum         Pressley          Strickland
                                            Malliotakis          Posey               Thompson (PA)        (Timmons)             (Meuser)              (Hayes)         McEachin         Price (NC)        Suozzi
                                            Mann                 Reed                                   Stevens (Lee          Tiffany                                 McGovern         Quigley           Swalwell
                                                                                     Tiffany                                                        Young (Spartz)
                                            Massie               Reschenthaler                            (NV))                 (Arrington)                           McNerney         Raskin            Takano
                                                                                     Timmons                                                        Zeldin
                                            Mast                 Rice (SC)                              Stewart (Moore        Trahan                                  Meeks            Rice (NY)         Thompson (CA)
                                            McCarthy                                 Turner               (UT))                                       (Timmons)
                                                                 Rodgers (WA)                                                   (Langevin)                            Meng             Ross              Thompson (MS)
                                            McCaul               Rogers (AL)         Upton                                                                            Mfume            Roybal-Allard     Titus
                                            McClain              Rogers (KY)         Valadao                                  f                                       Moore (WI)       Ruiz              Tlaib
                                            McClintock           Rose                Van Drew                                                                         Morelle          Ruppersberger     Tonko
                                            McHenry              Rosendale           Van Duyne          MOTION TO RECONSIDER VOTE ON                                  Moulton          Rush              Torres (CA)
                                            McKinley             Rouzer              Wagner               PASSAGE OF H.R. 5376, BUILD                                 Mrvan            Ryan              Torres (NY)
                                            Meijer               Roy                 Walberg                                                                          Murphy (FL)      Sánchez          Trahan
                                                                                     Walorski
                                                                                                          BACK BETTER ACT
                                            Meuser               Rutherford                                                                                           Nadler           Sarbanes          Trone
                                            Miller (IL)          Salazar             Waltz                Mr. NEAL. Madam Speaker, I have a                           Napolitano       Scanlon           Underwood
                                            Miller (WV)          Scalise             Weber (TX)         motion at the desk.                                           Neal             Schakowsky        Vargas
                                            Miller-Meeks         Schweikert          Webster (FL)                                                                     Neguse           Schiff            Veasey
                                            Moolenaar            Scott, Austin       Wenstrup
                                                                                                          The SPEAKER pro tempore. The                                Newman           Schneider         Velázquez
                                            Mooney               Sessions            Westerman          Clerk will report the motion.                                 Norcross         Schrader          Wasserman
                                            Moore (AL)           Simpson             Williams (TX)        The Clerk read as follows:                                  O’Halleran       Schrier             Schultz
                                            Moore (UT)           Smith (MO)          Wilson (SC)                                                                      Ocasio-Cortez    Scott (VA)        Waters
                                            Mullin               Smith (NE)                               Mr. Neal moves to reconsider the vote on                    Omar             Scott, David      Watson Coleman
                                                                                     Wittman            passage of H.R. 5376.
                                            Murphy (NC)          Smith (NJ)                                                                                           Pallone          Sewell            Welch
                                                                                     Womack
                                            Nehls                Smucker                                                     MOTION TO TABLE                          Panetta          Sherman           Wexton
                                                                                     Young
                                            Newhouse             Spartz                                                                                               Pappas           Sherrill          Wild
                                            Norman               Stauber             Zeldin               Mr. MCGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I                              Pascrell         Sires             Williams (GA)
                                                                                                        have a motion at the desk.                                    Payne            Slotkin           Wilson (FL)
                                                               NOT VOTING—1                                                                                           Pelosi           Smith (WA)        Yarmuth
                                                                                                          The SPEAKER pro tempore. The
                                                                 Perry                                  Clerk will report the motion.                                                   NAYS—105
                                                             b 0944                                       The Clerk read as follows:                                  Aderholt         Gimenez           Murphy (NC)
                                                                                                          Mr. McGovern moves to lay the motion to                     Allen            Gonzalez (OH)     Newhouse
                                              So the bill was passed.
                                                                                                        reconsider on the table.                                      Armstrong        Graves (LA)       Obernolte
                                              The result of the vote was announced                                                                                    Arrington        Graves (MO)       Palazzo
                                            as above recorded.                                             The SPEAKER pro tempore. The                               Bacon            Grothman          Palmer
                                              The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms.                              question is on the motion to table.                           Baird            Guthrie           Reed
                                                                                                           The question was taken; and the                            Banks            Hagedorn          Reschenthaler
                                            CLARK of Massachusetts). Without ob-                                                                                      Barr             Harshbarger
                                            jection, a motion to reconsider is laid                     Speaker pro tempore announced that                            Bentz            Hartzler
                                                                                                                                                                                                         Rice (SC)
                                                                                                        the ayes appeared to have it.                                                                    Rogers (AL)
                                            on the table.                                                                                                             Bice (OK)        Herrell
                                                                                                                                                                                                         Rogers (KY)
                                              Mr. CLYDE. Madam Speaker, I ob-                              Mr. CLYDE. Madam Speaker, on that                          Bilirakis        Herrera Beutler
                                                                                                                                                                                                         Rouzer
                                                                                                        I demand the yeas and nays.                                   Buchanan         Hinson
                                            ject.                                                                                                                     Buck             Hollingsworth     Rutherford
                                              The SPEAKER pro tempore. Objec-                              The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu-                            Budd             Jacobs (NY)       Salazar
                                            tion is heard.                                              ant to section 3(s) of House Resolution                       Burgess          Johnson (OH)      Scott, Austin
                                                                                                        8, the yeas and nays are ordered.                             Cammack          Johnson (SD)      Steel
                                               MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE                                                                                     Carl             Jordan            Steil
                                                   RESOLUTION 8, 117TH CONGRESS
                                                                                                           The vote was taken by electronic de-                       Carter (GA)      Joyce (PA)        Steube
                                                                                                        vice, and there were—yeas 217, nays                           Cawthorn         Katko             Taylor
                                            Amodei               Fallon (Nehls)      Krishnamoorthi
                                              (Balderson)        Ferguson              (Levin (CA))     105, not voting 112, as follows:                              Chabot           Keller            Tenney
                                            Baird (Walorski)       (Kustoff)         LaHood (Miller                                                                   Cheney           Kelly (PA)        Thompson (PA)
                                                                                                                               [Roll No. 386]
                                            Barragán            Fletcher (Allred)     (WV))                                                                          Cole             Kim (CA)          Tiffany
                                              (Allred)           Garbarino           Lamborn
                                                                                                                                YEAS—217                              Comer            Kustoff           Timmons
                                            Blumenauer             (Jacobs (NY))       (McHenry)        Adams                 Cooper                Hayes             Duncan           Latta             Turner
                                              (Beyer)            Gibbs (Bucshon)     Larsen (WA)        Aguilar               Correa                Higgins (NY)      Dunn             LaTurner          Upton
                                            Boyle, Brendan       Gimenez (Waltz)       (Connolly)       Allred                Costa                 Himes             Feenstra         Letlow            Van Duyne
                                              F. (Jeffries)      Gohmert (Weber)     Lawson (FL)        Auchincloss           Courtney              Horsford          Ferguson         Long              Walorski
                                            Brooks (Moore        Gonzales, Tony        (Mfume)          Axne                  Craig                 Houlahan          Fischbach        Loudermilk
                                                                                                                                                                                                         Waltz
                                              (AL))                (Ellzey)          Lesko (Miller      Barragán             Crist                 Hoyer             Fitzpatrick      Mace
                                                                                                                                                                                                         Webster (FL)
                                            Brown (MD)           Gonzalez (OH)         (WV))            Bass                  Crow                  Huffman           Fleischmann      Malliotakis
                                                                                                                                                                      Fortenberry      Mann              Westerman
                                              (Blunt               (Armstrong)       Letlow             Beatty                Cuellar               Jackson Lee                                          Wilson (SC)
                                              Rochester)         Green (TN)            (Cammack)        Bera                  Davids (KS)           Jacobs (CA)       Foxx             Mast
                                                                                                                                                                      Franklin, C.     McClintock        Wittman
                                            Buchanan               (DesJarlais)      Lieu (Raskin)      Beyer                 Davis, Danny K.       Jayapal                                              Womack
                                              (Waltz)            Hagedorn            Long               Bishop (GA)           Dean                  Jeffries            Scott          McKinley
                                                                                                                                                                      Gallagher        Meijer            Young
                                            Burgess (Lucas)        (Moolenaar)         (Fleischmann)    Blumenauer            DeFazio               Johnson (GA)
                                                                                                                                                                      Garbarino        Moolenaar         Zeldin
                                            Bustos               Harshbarger         Loudermilk         Blunt Rochester       DeGette               Johnson (TX)
                                              (Brownley)           (Fleischmann)       (Cammack)        Bonamici              DeLauro               Kahele
                                            Calvert (Garcia      Hartzler            Lowenthal          Bourdeaux             DelBene               Kaptur
                                                                                                                                                                                      NOT VOTING—112
                                              (CA))                (Walberg)           (Beyer)          Bowman                Delgado               Kelly (IL)        Amodei           Donalds           Huizenga
                                            Cárdenas            Herrera Beutler     Lynch              Boyle, Brendan        Demings               Khanna            Babin            Ellzey            Issa
                                              (Gomez)              (Moore (UT))        (Langevin)         F.                  DeSaulnier            Kildee            Balderson        Emmer             Jackson
                                            Carey                Hudson              Mast (Waltz)       Brown (MD)            Deutch                Kilmer            Bergman          Estes             Johnson (LA)
                                              (Balderson)          (Balderson)       McBath             Brown (OH)            Dingell               Kim (NJ)          Biggs            Fallon            Jones
                                            Carl (Rogers         Huffman               (Williams        Brownley              Doyle, Michael        Kind              Bishop (NC)      Fitzgerald        Joyce (OH)
                                              (AL))                (McNerney)          (GA))            Bush                    F.                  Kirkpatrick       Boebert          Fulcher           Keating
                                            Cleaver              Issa (Garcia        McEachin           Bustos                Escobar               Krishnamoorthi    Bost             Gaetz             Kelly (MS)
                                              (Butterfield)        (CA))               (Wexton)         Butterfield           Eshoo                 Kuster            Brady            Garcia (CA)       Kinzinger
                                            Comer                Jackson (Nehls)     Meeks (Jeffries)   Carbajal              Espaillat             Lamb              Brooks           Gibbs             LaHood
                                              (LaTurner)         Johnson (OH)        Moulton (Kahele)   Cárdenas             Evans                 Langevin          Bucshon          Gohmert           LaMalfa
                                            Crenshaw               (Fulcher)         Napolitano         Carson                Fletcher              Larsen (WA)       Burchett         Gonzales, Tony    Lamborn
                                              (Mullin)           Johnson (TX)          (Correa)         Carter (LA)           Foster                Larson (CT)       Calvert          Good (VA)         Lesko
                                            Curtis (Moore          (Jeffries)        Nunes (Garcia      Cartwright            Frankel, Lois         Lawrence          Carey            Gooden (TX)       Lucas
                                              (UT))              Joyce (OH)            (CA))            Case                  Gallego               Lawson (FL)       Carter (TX)      Gosar             Luetkemeyer
                                            DeFazio                (Valadao)         Payne (Pallone)    Casten                Garamendi             Lee (CA)          Cline            Granger           Massie
                                              (Carbajal)         Joyce (PA)          Porter (Wexton)    Castor (FL)           Garcı́a (IL)          Lee (NV)          Cloud            Green (TN)        McCarthy
                                            DeSaulnier             (Keller)          Reed (Walorski)    Castro (TX)           Garcia (TX)           Leger Fernandez   Clyde            Greene (GA)       McCaul




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                                              (Thompson          Katko (Meijer)      Reschenthaler      Chu                   Golden                Levin (CA)        Crawford         Griffith          McClain
                                              (CA))              Kelly (PA)            (Keller)         Cicilline             Gomez                 Levin (MI)        Crenshaw         Guest             McHenry
                                            Duncan                 (Keller)          Rice (NY)          Clark (MA)            Gonzalez,             Lieu              Curtis           Harris            Meuser
                                              (Timmons)          Kind (Connolly)       (Murphy (FL))    Clarke (NY)             Vicente             Lofgren           Davidson         Hern              Miller (IL)
                                            Dunn (Waltz)         Kinzinger           Rodgers (WA)       Cleaver               Gottheimer            Lowenthal         Davis, Rodney    Hice (GA)         Miller (WV)
                                            Emmer                  (Valadao)           (Moore (UT))     Clyburn               Green, Al (TX)        Luria             DesJarlais       Higgins (LA)      Miller-Meeks
                                              (McHenry)          Kirkpatrick         Roybal-Allard      Cohen                 Grijalva              Lynch             Diaz-Balart      Hill              Mooney
                                            Evans (Mfume)          (Stanton)           (McCollum)       Connolly              Harder (CA)           Malinowski        Doggett          Hudson            Moore (AL)




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