the chair: on that the vote this eyeas are 178, the nays are 254. the amendment is not agreed. to the unfinished business is the vote on amendment number 15 printed in parking lot c, house report 111-145, on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the chloric will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 15 printed in house report 111-145 offered by mr. royce of california. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in favor of a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having risen a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device.

once again, members are advised this is a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the chair: on this vote, the yeas are 183, the nays are 245. the amendment is not agreed to. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 19 printed in

part c of house report 111-143 by the gentleman from illinois, mr. kirk, on which further pr seedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 19 pribted in part c of house report 111-143 offered by mr. kirk of illinois. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having risen a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the chair: on this vote, the yeas are 248, the nays are 23, the amendment is adopted. the question son the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute as amended. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the amendment is adopted. accordingly, under the rule, the committee rises. the speaker pro tempore: madam chair.

the speaker pro tempore: the chair of the committee of the whole house on the state of the union reports that the committee has had under consideration the bill h.r. 2410 and pursuant to house resolution 522, reports the bill back to the house with an amendment adopted in the committee of the whole. under the rule, the previous question is ordered. is a separate vote ordered to any amendment in the amendment report of the committee of the whole? if not, the question is on adoption of the committee 5e789 in the nature of a substitute as amended. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed. to the question is on engrossment and third reading of the bill. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the eavers have it, third reading. the clerk: a bill to authorize appropriations for the department of state and peace corps for fiscal years 2010 and

2011 to modernize the foreign service, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana rise? mr. burton: i have a motion to recommit at the desk and the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the house will be in order. the house will be in order. members will take their seats. and remove their conversations with the floor. the house will be in order. is the gentleman opposed to the bill? mr. burton: i am in its present form. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman qualifies. the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: mr. burton of indiana -- mr. burton: i ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered as read.

the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. >> i object. the speaker pro tempore: the objection is heard, the clerk will commit to -- continue to read. the clerk: mr. burton moves to recommit the bill to the committee with the following amendment, strike all after the enacting clause and substitute, iran refined petroleum sanctions, congress finds the fol logue, one, the illicit nuclear activities of the government of iran, combined with its development of -- mr. burton: the house is not in order. the clerk should be heard. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will suspend. the house will be in order. the chair would advise emmembers to take their seats and clear their aisle -- clear the aisle on both sides of the aisle. the clerk will continue to suspend.

the house will be in order. the clerk will read. the clerk: support for international terrorism represent a serious threat to the security of the united states and u.s. allies in europe, the middle east, and around the world. two, the -- >> mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. berman: i withdraw my objection and ask unanimous consent to waive the reading. the speaker pro tempore: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. the gentleman from indiana is recognized for five minutes. mr. burton: -- mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair asks members to take their seats and cease conversations. the gentleman from indiana deserves to be heard. the gentleman from indiana. mr. burton: mr. speaker, the iranian regime is one of the most prolific state spon so far

as terrorism in the whole world. iran has defied the united states, the u.n. security council, the iaea and continues its quest for nuclear technology. . it would pose a grave danger to the united states. focusing on iran should be a top priority of the united states congress and every minute we wait to address this issue, the world becomes a more dangerous place. the state department has not had an authorization bill since fiscal year 2003 and has continued to operate and while the authorization is important, stopping iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is far more important. the republican motion to recommit would replace the authorization bill with the iran refined petroleum sanctions bill that mr. berman introduced earlier this year, along with

congresswoman ros-lehtinen. this bill would impose badly needed sanctions on iran. we feel that this bill is the right way to proceed and should be acted on immediately. the legislation currently has 155 co-sponsors, with wide bipartisan support. this legislation would mandate the state department to open immediate investigations into alleged violations of the iran sanctions act. this legislation would implement sanctions on companies who do business with iran. this legislation implements sanctions on those who supply refined fuels to iran. and this legislation expands sanctions on iranian exported petroleum -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. the house will be in order. the gentleman from indiana deserves to be heard. the house will be in order. the gentleman from indiana. mr. burton: mr. speaker, this

legislation expands sanctions on iranian exported petroleum and petroleum byproducts as well as those who help facilitate its export. iran can only threaten us and the world because of the foreign investment in its energy sector. depriving the regime of petroleum and foreign investment will severely undermine iran's economy and increase pressure on them to abandon their dangerous course. we need to impose serious sanctions on iran and need to do it without delay. we have been delaying long enough. the bill has been introduced for some time. i talked to the chairman of the committee about it and there's no reason not to move on it today. the chair: the gentleman yield back? mr. burton: i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from indiana yields back. the gentleman from california. mr. berman: mr. speaker, thank you.

what we see -- the speaker pro tempore: is the gentleman opposed to the motion? mr. berman: jim strongly opposed to the motion. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. berman: what we see in the offering of this motion to recommit is a political party or the leadership of a political party that, number one, is not serious about pursuing an effective strategy to stop iran from developing a nuclear weapons capability. and two, is using the pretext of iran to strike every single provision of the bill that we have been -- we have presented and debated on. the very first provision of this bill is to strike all that follows after the enacting clause. then my friend from indiana takes a bill that i'm the sponsor of, along with congresswoman ros-lehtinen and a number of people on both sides that now has something like 155 co-sponsors to focus on the

issue of refined oil products going to iran and eviscerates that bill by taking every single trade sanction, all the financial institutions sanctions and totally wipes out the state department authorization bill. and they know we intend to pursue the policy of seeing if iran diplomatically in a short time frame can be diswaded from the course they are now on. and if they cannot, at the same time, we are pursuing efforts to get key countries to come together at the security council with a level as the secretary of state said, crippling sanctions change its behavior -- will the gentleman let me finish my talk? and then pursue these

international sanctions and working with the russians and the chinese and the arab states and all the countries that know that iran with a nuclear weapons ' capability is an intolerable situation that cannot be tolerated and instead jumps ahead to the third part of the strategy, a strategy for which we are going to have hearings on in the month of july, see how both the multilateral sanctions and the diplomatic process worked and then if we were not moving ahead, would take a serious and tough bill that said that companies that provided refined oil products to iran couldn't import. impose tougher financial sanctions than we now have, stripped from this motion to recommit. meanwhile, all the things in the state department authorization bill, all the issues that my

friends praised even in the course of the debate of this bill which they don't like, every single provision is stripped. this is not a serious effort. and what really bothers me about this amendment is that iran -- we should have a bipartisan approach. we tried a policy. i supported that policy of the previous administration. isolate, sanction unilaterally because we can't get effective while we sat around rallying against them. we want this policy to work. a nuclear weapons' capability. i don't know if the diplomatic strategy will work. you guys don't know. i don't know if we can get the international committee to do the kinds of things it can do to stop iran and force the regime to change its behavior in this area on the issue of terrorism and all the other issues we have with iran.

but let's try a policy that's different than the one that was a total failure for the past five years. we said we won't engage until they suspend. they kept enriching. we said we'll sanction all we can. we caused annoyances. those sanctions didn't work. now we are trying to get the world serious about it. give it a few months to try and work. i urge that this eviscerated version of the bill i'm sponsoring in this motion to recommit be defeated and you don't wipe out the whole state department authorization bill. i'm not going to yield to you. and vote no emphatically on this thing. this is a very important bipartisan issue. mr. burton: the chairman won't yield for one question?

the speaker pro tempore: all time has expired. the question is on the motion to recommit. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair the noes have it. mr. burton: on that, i request a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: a recorded vote is requested. those in favor say aye. will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a 15-minute vote. pursuant to clause of rule 20, the chair will reduce to five minutes the time of any electronic vote on the question of passage. [captioning madeing made possibe national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]