and we need the senate to abolish the filibuster to do the same. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: madam speaker, i now yield two ms. kelly: for years i have heard that tired argument that gun violence prevention legislation won't work, just look at chicago. they say where they have the strictest gun laws. the reason for gun violence is gun trafficking, 60% of guns used in chicago come from out of state and not the only city where this happens. according to the a.t.f. from 2016 to 20, one-third of the more than 1.3 crime guns

recovered and traced by law enforcement were brought in across state lines. these guns are purchased in states with lax laws and the people in our state who we know should not have a gun. in illinois we are doing everything toll protect our residents, our neighbors are failing us. i introduced the prevent gun trafficking act and while i'm glad this solution is included. this is simple commonsense solutions making straw purchasing a federal crime. most importantly, it will save lives. stopping gun trafficking and straw purchasing is one step. this is a smart broad approach. passing this bill is the next step forward in saving children and we cannot wait. i urge my colleagues to support

this bill. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: i yield two minutes to the distinguished chairman of the appropriations committee, the gentlelady from connecticut, ms. delauro. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. ms. delauro: i rise in support of the protecting our kids act. come prepares i have package to address gun violence in the united states. i'm pleased that it includes my legislation, ethan's law to ensure that firearms are safely stored and secured. i introduced this in the house over three years ago in memory of ethan song, a 15 years old accidentally shot himself with an unsecured gun in 2018. it was improperly stored in a

tupperware box. before i had the honor of introducing agent and's law and passed the general assembly and signed into law 2019. we take a critical step to make ethan's law the national standard and will set a federal standard and incentivize states to implement safe gun storage laws. this is a child safety bill, first and foremost because losing one child to accidental gun violence is too many. what happened to ethan is tragic, and it's time for congress to act. in the words of ethan song's parents whose relentless advocacy said, not a single person on earth can change the

path, but we can change the future. let's change the future bypassing. when kristen song's found that ethan's law was included and said she wanted to tell was ethan, her beautiful boy she had fearlessly fought for. upon hearing the fuss, she immediately drove to the cemetery and ran across it yelling, and i quote, ethan, we did it. your life-saving legislation will be heard and it will get a vote. i'm voteing in favor of this legislation and i urge my colleagues to do the same. mr. jordan: i yield four minutes to the gentleman from

california, mr. mcclintock. to being to being one thing we can do is the one thing that the democrats refuse to consider. we think nothing of it when we see an armed dpawrd at a bank. they are there to stop someone who is trying to steal our money and use the same force and resolve to stop someone from killing our children, the left goes be serk. i don't understand a screwed-up value system. president biden press secretary said hardening our schools is not something he supports. the most hardened fortress in the country is telling us we cannot protect our children and schools like we protect our money in our barchghts. hardening the schools works. listen to the sick mind that

produced the massacre in buffalo, he wrote attacking in a area. schools, courts are series that are outlawed may be good areas of attack, areas where permits are low may also fit in this category and restricted gun control laws. that's the buffalo shooter. criminals understand that, even if the democrats in this house do not. in committee, i offered an amendment that required schools to have one armed guard on every campus and allow school officials to carry a concealed weapon and have it on campus to protect their campus. this is something that could be implemented immediately.

it doesn't depend on criminals obeying the law and doesn't depend on reducing the 400 million firearms and doesn't make self-defense harder for decent people and makes self-defense easier and future attacks on our schools to succeed and more dangerous contemplating such an act. we know how to reduce gun violence. harden our schools and protect our chirp with the same seriousness. prosecute gun criminals and send them to prison. execute murderers and confine the mentally ill. stop letting terrorists in. and woke district attorneys refuse to prosecute or drop gun

charges to reduce their sentences. the democrats have released dangerous criminals and illegal legal jailens and flooded our streets and turned a blind eye. and then they wonder why we are playinged with violent criminals. maybe it's time to get serious about removing criminals from our streets and fortify our schools. that's something we could do today that would have an immediate fact. protecting our kids act, it does no such thing. tale by an idiot signifying nothing. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from missouri -- maryland, mr. brown.

mr. brown: we hear a common refrain a young man typically under the age of 21 purchases a semi-automatic rifle and murders and saw it in uvalde and buffalo and indianapolis in 2021 and parkland in 2019. six of the nine were by a young man who shouldn't have been allowed to purchase this. you must be 21 in this country to buy a handgun. i served in the military and trained with these weapons and i know what they can do. these weapons of war have no place in our neighborhoods let alone in the hands of an 18-year-old boy. raise the age to purchase these weapons to 21. we have bipartisan support for

this. law-abaaouding sit science and responsible gun owners, teachers and veterans because it is common sense. shooting after shooting we ask yourselves, what more could we have done and we debate what could have saved the lives of those children. i'm done with that. raising the age to buy these weapons will not solve our epidemic overnight but make it harder for someone to get their hands on these deadly weapons and save one life or one community, it will be worth it. i urge my colleagues to support this legislation and raise the age to buy these deadly weapons. enough is enough. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: i yield minute and a half to mr. walberg. mr. walberg: the violence

thanking took place in uvalde and other places was horrific and we mourn the loss of innocent life. the thought of losing my fourth grade grandson in this way shakes me to the core. there are steps we can take to prevent tragedies from occurring without endangering and infringing upon the rights of law-abiding citizens. we must focus on root causes of violent crimes and many cultural issues plaguing our society. as a nation, we face a several mental illness crisis, fatherless homes and violence that permeates our culture and to the devaluation of 63 million babies' lives taken in the last on 50 years. it must be.

mr. allred: -hands-on-deck in our schools, churches to address the foundational issues that keep our communities and kids safe. let's not just do something. harden our schools. tackle them with real solutions. oppose this legislation and do the right thing to save innocent lives. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from rhode island, mr. langevin. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. langevin: i rise today to plead with my colleagues to support h.r. 7910 protect our kids act. we gathered days after an 18 mmp owed19 children. and racist conspiracy and turned

the grocery star. 19 families in uvalde and 10 families in buffalo are shattered. and on average more than 110 americans suffer the same fate death by gun every single day. no one has to tell me that i don't know what i'm talking about when it comes to the damage that guns can do. i was a 16-year-old police cadet when a gun was fired severing my spinal cord and changing my life together. we can't stop it but we have the power to act to pass gun safety laws and prevent the heart-breaking experienced by far too many families. we must pass red flag laws to keep guns out of the wrong hands

and raise the minimum age to buy an assault weapon until 21. these are backed by majority of americans. some of my colleagues have the audacity to suggest our schools into armed schools, what is next, armed churches, armed movie theaters. nor other developed country would ever tolerate this level of gun violence. those children in uvalde deserved to grow up. the victims in buffalo deserved to return home face and americans who die every year deserve to live. the american people are asking us to deliver change. i won't let them down. mr. jordan: i yield three

minutes to the gentleman from utah. mr. owens. mr. owens: the tragedy in uvalde was horrific. we can do more now. as folks today are a laser beam. my friends on the other side of the aisle want us to vote on these bills developed in the middle of the night. the legislation we're considering today is to strip americans of their constitutional rights in. a town hall meeting last summer, president biden himself said he would like to ban of sales of hand guns and rifles, full stop. no wonder law-abiding americans see this legislation as federal overreach. history has taught us great lessons. once is liberty once lost is lost forever. i grew up in the deep south where black americans were unable to defend themselves at one time. after the civil war, democrat black laws and jim crow laws

prohibited people of color from owning firearms. most people have heard the phrase 40 acres and a mule. an order issued in 1865 that allowed 40,000 former slaves to live on hundreds of thousands of acres. after the assassination of abraham lincoln, the democrat president, andrew johnson, confiscated this land, displacing thousands of black americans and families. this is an example of why the right to bear arms is necessary to safeguard and protect our life, liberty and property. the democrats' proposals are unhelpful and protecting our kids goes against all common sense. they ignore real solutions that will keep our children safe and help prevent future acts of senseless violence. most importantly, they are not proposing anything that protects our children now. we don't need to spend another two years fighting over solutions. we have solutions available immediately. the securing our student act. my legislation would enpower

local school districts to receive unspent funds from the american rescue plan and implement security measures in their schools now. of the -- $122 billion appropriated to the american k-12 schools in last year's 1dz.9 trillion -- $1.9 trillion american rescue plan, roughly 93% remains unspent. i invite my colleagues to join me in demanding that these hundreds of billions of dollars be immediately used to help local schools implement the safety measures that best fit their communities. we can harden our schools and protect our children at school now. we can never bring back those precious children we have lost, but we can and we must work together to prevent future tragedies. this is a solution that will harnehls the full weight of american -- harness the full weight of american innovation and technology and keep our schools safe now. to ensure that no child, educator or family has to say good-bye to a loved one because of any kind of violence. thank you and i yield back.

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: madam speaker, i now yield one minute to the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. levin: thank you, chairman nadler, for pulling this vital package together. i speak as a father of four who is heart broken and still processing uvalde, buffalo and the unending string of mass shootings. a long-time gun reform advocate and a member of the gun violence prevention task force who demands real, commonsense gun reform to save lives now. this is why i support the protecting our kids act, in this moment of profound grief and collective loss. when it comes to the epidemic of gun deaths, there's no panacea. we must pass meaningful reforms, evaluate our work and then keep on passing more legislation. though i'm extremely supportive of this long overdue package, i'm concerned about criminal penalties for safe storage

violations. overcriminalization too often harms black and brown communities. as a warrior for racial justice, i urge all of us to investigate how disparate communities would be impacted before this bill heads to the president's desk. i urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support this bill and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: thank you, madam speaker. i yield four minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. roy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for four minutes. mr. roy: i thank the gentleman from ohio. why do we have guns? why do we have the second amendment? is it to hunt? sure. self-defense? that's even more important. but the fact is, you read the founders, federalist 46, james madison, contrast us with the tyrannical governments of europe who were afraid to trust the people with arms. joseph story and his commentary on the constitution, the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has been considered as the

pa laidum of the liberties of a republic. since it offers a strong moral check against the arbitrary power of rulers, and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. we have a second amendment because we understand in this country that there are some things, inalienable rights, that you cannot justly take away from a free and equal human being. tie ran thes disarm the people -- tie ran thes disarm the -- tire ants -- tyr aants disarm the people they are going to control. soviets instituted gun control and millions of killed. 20 million disdenlts were rounded up and exterminated. mao disarmed the chinese people. 20 million disdenlts were exterminated. in cambodia, the khmer rouge killed 1 1/2 million to three

million cambodians. turkiye disarmed armenians and 1 1/2 million armenians were killed in the armenian genocide. the south disarmed slaves and actively fought against their arming. and then in the 20th century, armed black army veterans, for example in louisiana, were able to defend against the k.k.k. even fact checking organizations said, quote, we find it reasonable to conclude that gun confiscations facilitated by laws requiring the licensing of firearms played a crucial role in the carrying out of 20th century genocides. this is not fiction. n.s.f. our lifetime -- this is in our life time. this is in our grand parents' lifetime. this is in our recent history. this is why the second amendment matters. it's not trivial. it's not something you just brush aside. this is a foundation of liberty. it's who we are. but in order to sell a lie to the american people that the government will protect them from all manners of evil, while

defunding the police, leaving our borders wide open, i'm glad my colleagues can suddenly find uvalde on a map. while allowing dangerous cartels operating hundreds of miles into texas, allowing fentanyl to pour into our communities and kill tens of thousands of children, the very children my colleagues say they wish to protect. in order to do this democrats in this body are willing to take away citizens' god-given right, yes, god-given right, that was mocked earlier, to protect himself or herself or her family or his family from harm. the very harm they foster by appeasing lawlessness. and importantly from the very tyranny being applied to them to deny that right. that is what is at stake. this bill, and it gets brushed aside, raise the age limit -- raised the age limit. there were constitutional questions to that. the second title in straw

purchases, democrat d.a.'s don't even want to prosecute, would prohibit a law-abiding citizen to give a gun to a friend as a gift, or make it unlawful for me to have a .22 or .20 gauge propped up against my door right now in texas to kill coyotes and snakes, that would be unlawful. it undermines our foundational liberties that is crucial for a free state. with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: madam speaker, i now yield one minute to the distinguished gentlelady from north carolina, ms. manning. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. manning: madam speaker, so far this year, our country has experienced more than 250 mass shootings and it's only june. gun violence is now the number one cause of death of children in this country. we cannot let this continue. the protecting our kids act is an important step toward cushing gun violence -- curbing gun violence, by limiting high

capacity magazines, raising the minimum wage to buy assault weapons to 21, and encouraging safe storage practices. if these measures had been in place, the 18-year-old gunman in uvalde, texas, would not have been able to buy the two assault weapons he used to murder 19 children and two teachers. the dayton, ohio, shooter would not have been able to buy the high capacity magazine that allowed him to shoot 26 people in 30 seconds. we can't solve this complex problem at once. but neither can we desist from taking commonsense measures to help make this country safer for our children. let's honor our oath. let's do our job to keep the american people safe. vote yes on this bill. it's the least we can do for our constituents. thank you. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: thank you, madam speaker. we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: madam speaker, i now yield one minute to the

distinguished gentlelady from california, ms. speier. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. speier speier madam speaker, thank you -- ms. speier: madam speaker, thank you. i believe i'm the only member of this house that is a victim of gun violence. my body is riddled with bullets. i have a divot in my leg that's the size of a football. i have skin graphs on all parts of my body. i live with that every single day. a victim of gun violence is trauma tietzed over and over -- traumatized over and over again. i implore my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, if we had a 737 that crashed every month for 12 months in this country, we would do something about it. and that's what's happening to children in this country. 1,500 kids die of gun violence

every single year. we have to do something about it. all we're saying is, don't let them purchase an assault weapon until they're 21. we already say you can't purchase a handgun until you're 21. dr. guerrero this morning talked about decapitated heads. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. ms. speier: i urge you. i'm leaving this institution. please do something. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: madam speaker, i now yield one minute to the distinguished gentlele lady from illinois, ms. schakowsky -- gentlelady from illinois, ms. schakowsky. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. schakowsky: thank you, mr. chairman. i want to share a conversation that i had with anna kate, who is a constituent of mine in my district. and she called my office absolutely distraught. this was the day of the -- late in the day of the shooting.

and she said that parents have really reached their breaking point right now. and that she is afraid. and she is afraid for her 7-year-old son. she said, i want to tell my child, you will be safe in school. what a simple sentence that most parents, any parent, would want to say, you will be safe in school. but i can't, she said. children continue to die and this is on all of us. all of our consciences. there is no issue more important than this. we can do something starting today. something real. we can pass. we can finally pass this legislation. let's do it. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: thank you, madam speaker. we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: i now yield one minute to the distinguished

gentlelady from california, ms. ush oo. the speaker pro tempore: -- eshoo. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. eshoo: i thank the chairman. madam speaker, where's the soul of america? in this chamber? -- of america in this chamber? i've listened to every speaker since the debate began. i think that shakespeare would say, thou doth protest too much. we have simple, profound facts. our children are being blown away. last week, the first funeral, that casket could not be opened. i think every single member here is a parent. walk behind that casket. think of yourselves and your own children.

they deserve solutions to this. this has to be more from you than damning the democratic party. come on. we're members of congress. and many of us say -- can i have 10 more seconds, please? many of us say a prayer, it's the lord's prayer, and at the end we say, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. amen. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: thank you, madam speaker. i yield two minutes to the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. tiffany. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. tiffany: not one word from our colleagues when it comes to the crime waves in cities like chicago, los angeles, milwaukee, minneapolis, new york, san francisco and philadelphia. to do so would be to criticize their own soft on crime policies. it's been going on for a decade

now. they hope americans ignore the inconvenient truth. criminals don't get background checks. and they don't fear laws because rogue prosecutors financed by progressive dark money groups don't enforce our laws. these criminal strong holds in washington, d.c., have one thing in common. they are run by democrats who refuse to enforce our laws. this administration responsible for a 40-year inflation high, erasing our border and shrinking the economy will say anything to distract from their own failures. jimmy carter says thank you for making the 1970's look good. week after week we hear we hear about criminals. the people furthering these policies are the same people who are fervently arguing to disarm americans and defund the police and same people weaponizing the f.b.i. and want to repeal the second amendment. i wish they would tell the

american people the truth. whether it is arrive will bans, federal red flag laws, they will not change the outcomes for the people in those cities. as some members of this body have said, this is just the beginning. we will not stop. they will continue to erode our rights because they believe in a nanny-state government, not a government of the people. what americans need is the enforcement of our laws holding criminals accountable and protecting our constitutional rights. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: i request unanimous consent to insert into the record a may 27, 2022 piece from cnn. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. nadler: i yield one minute to the distinguished gentlelady

from the district of columbia, ms. norton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. norton: i rise in support of the package of bills we are considering today. gun violence is at unseen epidemic levels. we need to combat the source of the epidemic, easy access to guns. i would like to address the impact and the lack of statehood for the residents of district of columbia to pass their prevention laws. if republicans they could eliminate d.c.'s prevention laws inlewding its ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and universal back ground checks. at least seven members of congress have introduced such

bills. i have defeated each effort and i vow to do so again but the remedy for optional interference in local d.c. matters is d.c. statehood. i yield back. mr. jordan: we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: i yield one minute to the distinguished the gentleman from texas. mr. crow: -- mr. castro: and we are either going to do something about it or we're not. i want you to imagine for a second that a shooter with an ar-15 goes into your child's school tomorrow or next fall or your grandchild's school and leaves the hole of the size of a basketball in their chest or their head decap tated off their

body, ask yourself of what you would ask of the people who represent you, would their thoughts and prayers be good enough if it happened to your child and primary election be ok with you. the people in uvalde asked me how it is that someone who is 18 can't buy beer or cigarettes but go into a gun store and buy two a rmp-15's and kill 20 people. the teachers who died, the cops who died and children who died cannot vote to change the vote. only we can do that. vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: members are directed to direct their remarks to the chair. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: i yield one minute to the gentlelady from florida.

ms. wasserman schultz: i rise to confront the nation's leading child killer gun violence. passing and protecting our gun's act raises the age to buy semi-automatic rifle and cuts down on bump stocks. house democrats will do something meaningful to address this while house republicans do knowing. a few senate republicans may do the minimum but when an 11-year-old said she smeared her own friend's blood, i'll take baby steps frvment uvalde and parkland and las vegas. and while this legislation will not end gun violence, the death suicides and health costs are too high and we cannot forsake to learn, work or worship

without fear. and let's confront this nation's leading killer of children, gun violence. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: i yield 2 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from virginia. >> i rise in opposition to the so-called protect our kids act. what we saw in tech as was tragic and horrific and take action to prevent future tragedies. but this bill is not the solution for several reasons. the bill restricts the second amendment rights with limited exceptions, it would prohibit 18-21-year-old to buy shotguns. this is applicable because they don't have fully formed brains and we entrust them to serve in the military and vote in our electrics. what is even more interesting

while democrats these young adults don't have fully formed prance, they are more than willing to allow to try and reduce the age of which a person can vote at 16. the bill makes it more difficult for domestic violence to keep a firearm. it would criminalize the amendment to seek help. the safe storage requirements make it harder for people to access a firearm by mandating a one size approach and the bill limits on magazine capacity will ban mr firearms which will accommodate between 15-30 rounds of ammunition. the bill will restrict the constitutional rights while ignoring. let's talk about school resource officers and fortifying our school buildings and let's talk about mental health.

we have to look for commonsense solutions to protect. i oppose this bill and urge my colleagues to vote no. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: i yield one minute to the gentlelady from california, ms. chu. the speaker pro tempore: the dpol is recognized. ms. chu: we cannot legality america be like this. children shouldn't be texting their family good-bye and parents shouldn't have to wonder if this is a death sentence and grandmother shouldn't fear about being murdered as she goes into a grocery store. the u.s. is the only country in the world with more civilian firearms than people and it is costing us, our loved ones

lives. thoughts and prayers are not enough. they never were. we have to take action thvment is what we were sent to congress to do, to act. the bill before us h.r. 7910, protecting our kids act, will save lives. we can no longer act like we are powerless to stop mass murders in our community when it is clear that there is so much we can do. pass this bill. enough is enough. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: i yield two minutes to the gentlelady from georgia, mrs. greene. >> in 1990 our schools. mrs. greene: when i was 16 years old, my high school went on lockdown because one of the students at my school brought three guns to school on the school bus, brought the guns

into our school and proceeded to take control of our high school and he was the only person in the school that had guns. that's why that happened. there was no one to protect us that had a gun that day. the only person with guns was the very mentally upset teenager who brought guns to kill other students. i know that fearment. as a matter of fact, i'm the only member of congress that that is has happened to and i'm a mom. i have dropped my kids at school and wondering, will they face a terrible fate like the poor children in uvalde and should never happen to our children and i can't help to point out that while we are debating how to protect our kids in school and what we are debating about our second amendment gun rights, i want to point out that we are

all so privileged to be in this building being protected by armed guns with guns who are protecting our lives. and i find it shocking to me that this body of congress won't do the same thing for children all over america in schools because we know one thing works. a gun is a tool and weapon that can be used to defend yourself or others and we are lucky to have that privilege. but our school children aren't. if we want to be serious about protecting well repeal the gun-free-school zones act and put in legislation that protects children all over schools with good guys with guns the same way we are being protected. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: i yield 1 1/2 minutes to the member of the judiciary committee, the gentleman from florida,

mr. deutch. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. mr.deutch: i'm disappointed in the way that our colleagues are avoiding the facts. these commonsense measures had we passed them could have saved over 400 people since columbine. i'm disappointed of jurisprudence, justice scalia the rights by the second amendment are not unlimited. the changes in this law will not undermiep the second amendment. but i have two documents that inform everything i do here. one is the constitution of the united states and the other is this list that i wrote on february 14, 2018 of every one of the 17 members of my community slaughtered by a killer with an ar-15. we heard about foundational

rights, foundational liberties as if the second amendment is the only -- it's the sum total of the constitution. madam speaker, the first amendment matters as well. and for these 17, they have no right to practice religion and pray for themselves or all of those were killed every time we offer thoughts and prayers and everyone killed by gun vial especially they cannot peaceably assemble as the first amendment gives that right to all americans. and most of all, they cannot petition the government for redress of their grievancees, not these 17. not the 19 from uvalde. no one killed in this gun violence. today we can help redress the grievancees of all those lost top gun violence bypassing this

important legislation. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: i yield sheriff rutherford. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. rutherford: i rise in opposition to h.r. 7910 because this bill does nothing to stop human violence, which is the real problem at hand here. straw purchasees are illegal and can't buy a gun from someone else to get around the background check. bump stocks are regulated like automatic weapons and infringing on the second amendment rights is not the answer. the bill before us will make criminals out of legal gun owners. this bill would put the federal government in charge of law-abiding citizens and how they store their firearms inside

their own homes. this bill puts firearms' storage over and aabove self-defense. let's work together to address human violence problems by bolstering our mental healthal health system and identifying individuals before they become active shooters and mass murderers and improving school safety through school safety. it can be done. with that, i yield the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: madam speaker, i now yield one minute to the distinguished gentleman from california, mr. garr meppedy -- garamendi. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. garamendi: thank you, madam speaker. i've heard over and over again we ought to hard owrn schools, we ought -- harden our schools, we ought to have every teacher have a gun. one question needs to be asked as that argument goes forward. why? why do we need to do that?

we need to do that because an 18-year-old was able to buy two ar-15's, go to the school and shoot up all of the students and teachers. 19. that's presumably why we have to harden our schools. maybe it's time for us to come to the reality. that it's time for us to pass commonsense gun safety legislation. this particular piece of legislation does just that. it doesn't take away the second amendment rights, but what it does is to provide every american with the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. and not to have to worry about whether their school has been hardened sufficiently to prevent an 18-year-old with two military-style weapons to enter that school. it's time for us to act. pass this legislation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio.

mr. jordan: madam speaker, we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: madam speaker, i now yield one minute to the gentlelady from new york, ms. maloney. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. mrs. maloney: madam speaker, i rise in support of the protecting our kids act. today the victims' families and community members from the mass shootings in buffalo and uvalde appeared before the oversight committee, demanding action. these communities have faced unspeakable tragedy. it is our duty as lawmakers to listen to them and work to build a world where they will never have to see these horrific events repeated. this legislation will save countless lives, from the violence these families have had to endure. we must support every title in this bill, especially title 2, cracking down on interstate gun trafficking. i have spent over a decade fighting for gun trafficking and

straw purchases to be made a federal offense. the illegal interstate movement of firearms into new york, known as the iron pipeline, has caused countless firearms to enter our state unlawfully. preventing gun traffic across state lines should be a -- gun trafficking across state lights should be a bipartisan goal. as a mother and -- lines should be a bipartisan goal. as a mother i'm w horrified by these attacks. i urge my colleagues to support this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: thank you. i yield three minutes to the gentlelady from florida. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for three minutes. mrs. cammack: thank you, madam speaker. i came here today to speak on behalf of women and the parents of my district. i came to speak on behalf of all americans who want their kids to be safe and secure in their schools and for people to be safe in their communities. i came here today to say that we all want these things because our hearts collectively break when any life is lost. we mourn for those lives lost

needlessly. we need to do better and we can do better. which is why every single member of this chamber must without hesitation denounce, decline and decide and oppose against hr7910, the politics over -- h.r. 7910, the politics over our kids act. this is common sense. taking legal firearms out of the hands of law-abiding citizens does nothing but empower criminals. it's already illegal to commit murder. has that stopped murder? has that stopped violence? no. madam speaker, you said in your opening remarks that, quote, protecting our kids, what could be more important than that? you said, quote, we are here for the children. you went on to say, that, quote, everything is we do is for the children and that today's effort to strip our constitutional rights is, quote, a crusade for children. you must have forgotten the nearly 60 million children that have been murdered through some of the most horrific means during an abortion. all on your watch.

you invoke j.f.k. and say our children are our best resource and our best hope for the future. is that so? why do you deny them their future by killing them in the womb? sound as bit hypocritical if you ask me. you also made the statement that the leading cause of death for children is firearms. then why does the data refute that? nbc news reported that motor vehicle deaths of kids from age 1 to 17 continues to be the number one cause of death. spare me, madam speaker, that you are here fighting for the children because your three decades in congress reflect a record of anything but a fight for children. certainly not the kids being trafficked at the border. not the kids being abused. not the kids fighting for their life in the womb or the kids whose future is being stolen by abusive big government policies. if this were about protecting kids, then why does this bill do nothing to secure or harden our schools? why was there no bipartisan effort as part of this package? why do these bills do nothing to address the mental health crisis we are facing driving the violence? it is not the guns, it is the

people. people who are intent on committing acts of evil and violence will do so by any means necessary. that is a fact. but while you have conveniently forgotten so much, i certainly do not want to forget how many victims of domestic violence will be left without options to protect themselves if this garbage bill becomes law. because it's the same party screaming to defund our police is the same party screaming about how you, a law-abiding citizen, should not be able to defend yourself. finally, i would be remiss if i didn't mention that you have clearly all forgotten your oath. an oath that we took here on this chamber floor to uphold and defend the united states constitution, the second amendment is a part of that. madam speaker, to all my colleagues, the constitution is not a la carte. you can either accept it all or none of it but you cannot cherry pick it and if you cannot uphold your oath, you should resign. with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. all members are reminded once against to address their remarks to the chair. the gentleman from new york.

mr. nadler: i now yield one minute to the gentlelady from new jersey, ms. sherrill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. sherrill: thank you, madam speaker, for the opportunity to speak today. like so many parents across the nation, when i sent my four kids off to school this past week, i worried that they wouldn't be coming home. like so many children across the country. so i got a bit hopeful when i hear my colleagues are speaking for women across the country and i expected to hear then that they were going to talk about passing universal background checks because we know that 88% of the country wants to see universal background checks passed. i must have missed that in their conversation. and then when i heard how devastated my colleagues are for the little children that have been dying like i am, i thought, great, maybe we'll hear something about passing a law that restricts people 21 and under from purchasing guns, like mitch mcconnell has said he's willing to consider. i must have missed that too. because i have to tell you, we know these gun safety legislation pieces work.

because in new jersey we passed most of them and we've made major progress. in fact, while the rest of the country has seen gun rate deaths increase by 33%, in new jersey they fell by 10%. so, again, i'm hoping as we speak for mothers and women and children and families across new jersey we start to hear about how we're going to pass this great legislation. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: thank you, madam speaker. i yield four minutes to the gentleman from north carolina, mr. bishop. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for four minutes. mr. bishop: thank you, madam speaker. it's repeated over and over again that the second amendment is unlimited. excuse me, is not unlimited. it has limits. and no one contends otherwise. but what are the limits? wouldn't it be nice hear that in the debate? the limits as set forth in heller and mcdonald is that you cannot ban weapons that are, quote, in common use at the time.

you cannot require that firearms in the home be, quote, rendered and kept inoperable. the ninth and fourth circuits have said that, like other constitutional rights, all of them, the second amendment protections apply to 18 to 20-year-olds. the dissenting judge in that opinion in the fourth circuit acknowledged that there is, quote, persuasive evidence of that. this bill bans for 18 to 20-year-olds, adults, guns that are in common use. it bans for everyone ammo magazines that are in pervasive use. it requires weapons be disabled in the home and this one doesn't violate the constitution, i admit, but it even criminalizes a neighbor who buys a gun for self-protection for a victim of domestic violence. and the democrats say more is coming. they use the terminology weapon of war, they intend to ban this

class of weapons entirely. so you've made it clear, in the house judiciary committee, they made it clear, i will not, i'm sorry, ma'am, you've got a lot of time. you made it clear that you will proceed regardless of what the second amendment says. mr. jones made it clearer than anyone, if the filibuster obstructs us, we will abolish it. if the supreme court objects, we will expand it. do something is the mantra. it's probably worth remembering that that's short for the commonly heard phrase, do something, even if it's wrong. the last thing we need is something that's wrong. what is needed is an answer. you are not pursuing an answer because, frankly, you are not grappling with the problem. could we begin with candor? are these disasters enough to prompt candor?

can we have some truth? you've been doing gun control since 1968, has it worked to your satisfaction? the lady from pennsylvania said earlier, the country is sick. but she's misdiagnosed the problem. they say it's the guns. but, madam speaker, guns have been prevalent in the united states of america since before our founding. we did not suffer the mass shootings, we did not suffer the chaos in the cities like she described. why do we have this now? chesterton, a british gentleman, came close as he said, the disintegration of rational society, started in the drift from the heart and the family. the solution must be a drift back. everybody knows it's true. if there's a sickness in the country, it is the product of 60 years of disintegration of

american culture by the liberal project. assaults on the family. hostility to god. cheapening life. pervasive expansion of the welfare state. ridicule for individual and parental responsibility. ending punishment for crime. delegitimateizeing, defunding and abolishing police. behold your handiwork. stripping americans of constitutional rights won't cure what alex:s us -- what ails us. not the second amendment, not the first amendment, not the fourth amendment, not the fifth amendment. join to us solve the problem you've caused. we can find answers together. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the chair will once again admonish members to direct their remarks to the chair. the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: madam speaker, i now yield one minute to the gentleman from new york, mr. espaillat. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. espaillat: thank you, madam speaker. i rise to in strong support of

protecting our kids act. this overdue legislation will tighten gun regulations. unfortunately in the world's wealthiest country, we have the 32nd highest rate of death from gun violence across the planet. this is a horrific statistic that is impacting all of our districts. blue districts and red districts. in my district, gun violence has taken far too many lives. including the young life and brutal murder of crystal nieves, working the midnight shift in an east harlem burger king. the brutal murder of two police officers in harlem's 32nd precinct. and an 11-month-old gunshot victim in the bronx. yes, madam speaker, only 11 months old. madam speaker, i'm here to tell my colleagues on the other side of the aisle that this epidemic is serious. in fact, it is a public health crisis. for this reason, congresswoman escobar and i urge our colleagues to join us in a

resolution declaring gun violence a national public health crisis. this is just the beginning, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. espaillat: we'll continue to pass more gun regulations. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentleman from -- the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: madam speaker, we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: madam speaker, can i inquire how much time each side has left? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york has 13 1/4 minutes. the gentleman from ohio has 10 minutes. mr. nadler: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, i now yield one minute to the distinguished gentlelady from massachusetts, ms. clark. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. clark: today in our country 321 people will be shot. 111 of them will die from those gunshots. 22 of the people who are shot every day in this country are kids. just like the 19 fourth graders sitting in their classroom while they were massacred in uvalde.

so i ask my colleagues, how many more? how many more innocent people need to die? how many more elders murdered at a grocery store or in their houses of worship? how many more children slaughtered in their classrooms will be enough to do something? to save lives? we're considering the most basic measures to keep people safe from gun violence. to keep families from to keep families from having to i.d. them by d.n.a. after their bodies were destroyed by a weapons of war. raising the age to 21 to buy assault weapons, cutting down on gun trafficking, these are obvious solutions. vote yes to protect families. vote yes to save our children. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: madam speaker, i now yield one minute to the distinguished gentleman from

oregon, mr. blumenauer. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. blumenauer: it's been heartwrenching hearing the stories on the floor today. america's not unique with gun violence. what is unique is that america has accepted the slaughter. unlike britain, canada, australia, new zealand, norway after horrific events, they acted decisively to reduce gun violence and it worked. we stood by while the carnage continues to our shame. america should not be the only rich country that cannot protect our children. after events in oregon, i met with victims of gun violence, and they developed a package that looks a lot like what we're voting on today. it's no longer acceptable for gun violence enablers to hide behind thoughts and prayers. if other countries can protect their families, so can we. pass this package. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio.

mr. jordan: madam speaker, we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: madam speaker, i now yield one minute to the distinguished gentleman from nevada, mr. horsford. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. horsford: madam speaker, later this month, 30 years to the day, my father was shot and killed by senseless gun violence. and so i rise today with a heavy heart for those who have been murdered by gun violence and the survivors who now must live with the trauma every single day. a heavy heart for the 58 victims and survivors from my hometown of las vegas that experienced the worst mass shooting in u.s. history. a heavy heart for the parents and families of uvalde whose children were murdered while at school. a heavy heart for the black americans that were murdered at a grocery store in buffalo. a heavy heart for the doctors and nurses that were killed at a hospital in tulsa. i have a heavy heart, but i also

have courage to protect our children, and i will continue to work to break the cycle of violence. the question is, do my colleagues have the courage to protect our kids? vote yes on this legislation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: thank you, madam speaker. i yield 3 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from florida, mr. steube. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 3 1/2 minutes. mr. steube: thank you, madam speaker. guns are not the cause of evil just like the vehicle used by the domestic terrorists in walk shaw -- wakisha, wisconsin -- wakesha, wisconsin, the vehicle was not the evil, the person was driving it. when was the left's cry to ban the vehicle that killed those in wisconsin? that's not on the left's agenda. banning guns is. and democrats use these heinous

crimes to disarm america. and many democrats in this chamber have called for outright bans on certain firearms. there is a moral decay in our country that's been created by the left. they have torn down traditional institutions, took god out of our classrooms, and systematically destroyed the notion of traditional families and values. just look at these numbers in a recent article from the christian post. 75% of most cited school shooters in america are fatherless. 65% of america's rapists grew up without fathers. 63% of teenagers who commit suicide don't have a father in their life. 72% of adolescent murderers are fatherless. the same was true for the murderer at robb elementary and i could go on. why isn't the majority talking about that? why not having role models in our children's lives? that doesn't accomplish a political objective for them. this bill nor any bill before us this week will stop mass

shootings and won't decrease gun violence and the facts and evidence from the jurisdictions with similar policies in place makes it clear. just look at any holiday weekend in chicago and see how many people have been shot with many of these policies in place. this bill is a step further to restrict the ability of law-abiding citizens to defend t them. this bill seeks to take the second amendment rights away from 18 to 20-year-olds by taking the ability to purchase a firearm. comparing census data on the 18 to 20-year-old population with d.o.j. data on violent crime committed by this age group and this includes violent crimes not involving guns, only .3% of 18 to 20-year-olds commit violent crimes in a year. when you look at murder including murder without guns, only .013% of 18 to 20-year-olds commit murder in a day. so today democrats will take away the lawful right for 99.7%

of adult americans between the age of 18 to 20 for the acts of a few wicked people. now, think about that. so the daughter off to college living by herself can't by a shotgun to keep in her home to protect herself against a rapist. all because .3% of that age group has committed a violent crime. the magazine limits in this bill are even more egregious because it effects all americans and all firearms, not just rifles, and will effectively serve as a ban on most commonly used handguns. as i demonstrated in the judiciary committee last week, numerous firearms that millions of americans use every single day to protect themselves and their families could be rendered useless by a 15-round magazine limit and those 15-round magazine limits who have absolutely no effect on solving mass shootings. no, i will not yield. i urge my colleagues to stand for freedom, to stand for the constitution, and to stand for the right of law-abiding citizens to defend themselves.

and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to insert into the record a june 4, 2022, new york times article entitled, the mass shootings with restrictive gun laws might have made a difference. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. nadler: i yield to the distinguished gentlelady from california, ms. lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. lee: i rise in support of protecting our kids act. thank you to chairman nadler for bringing these bills to the floor. gun violence is responsible for more than 32,000 deaths each year. this is a heartbreaking moment for so many of us. this is a public health crisis in our country. it's an epidemic. the victims of buffalo and uvalde, tulsa, and other mass shootings, they -- they deserve more than our thoughts and our prayers. last week, i met with young gun

violence survivors in my district. they spoke powerfully about the cycle of violence and easy access to guns, especially ghost guns. and they talked about the trauma endured by themselves, their families, and their communities. and this is nothing new. this has been going on for so many years. and they're asking us to take action to save lives. this bill responds to their call by raising the age for purchase of certain firearms. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. ms. lee: may i have another 30 seconds, mr. chairman? mr. nadler: i'll great the gentlelady an extra 15 seconds. ms. lee: all i want to say is, all of our children who have died due to gun violence, they had a right to live and they had a right to life. and so i urge all of my colleagues to vote yes and to take action so that we can save countless lives.

let's protect our kids. thank you, again, chairman nadler. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: madam speaker, we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: madam speaker, i now yield one minute to the distinguished gentleman from texas, mr. allred. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. allred: thank you, madam speaker. after the mass shooting in el paso in 2019, i received a letter from the then 6-year-old cal from rowleyette -- rowlett, texas, he said when kids get shot that means there are less friends. he was6. -- he was 6. he had to write that to his congressman. today, just three years later, he was the same age as some of the kids murdered in uvalde. i refuse there's nothing we can do. i refuse to say there's nothing

we can do to protect kids like cal or my sons and their schools. we have to. have to act by passing commonsense measures like raising the age to 21 to buy an assault-style weapon, banning high-capacity magazines and increasing safe storage. that will save lives. this legislation, the protecting our kids act, will save lives. i urge my colleagues to vote yes to help us save lives and for the senate to finally act and to join us in trying to end this crisis. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: we reserve, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: madam speaker, i now yield one minute to the distinguished gentlelady from new york, ms. velazquez. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. velazquez: madam speaker, we are here today because for the victims of uvalde is too late. for the victims of parkland, it's too late. for the victims of sandy hook, it is too late. for the victims of columbine,

it's too late. constituents from my district are still reeling from recent gun violence incidents. we all saw the images of people running desperately away from the shooter of the subway station in sunset park. i am tired of watching again and again my constituents suffer from horrific acts of gun violence. this legislation is a necessary step to prevent gun violence from happening in our schools, places of worship, grocery stores, malls, public transportation. moreover, it imposes stronger regulations on those that can buy these weapons of war. congress cannot be too late anymore. enough is enough. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: madam speaker, we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: madam speaker, i now

yield one minute to the distinguished gentlelady from washington, ms. delbene. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. delbene: thank you, madam speaker. i rise today in support of the protecting our kids act. i'm a parent of two great kids, and when they were young, my husband and i would drop them off at school and we were confident that they were in a safe space. but for so many parents, that's no longer the case. i recently hosted a roundtable with some of the over 1,000 constituents who have written or called into my office following the tragedies in uvalde, buffalo, and the over 240 mass shootings in 2022. it's heartbreaking to hear how parents have to explain to their kids what to do if there's an active shooter. as if it's inevitable. we know what we can do to help prevent future tragedies like uvalde. we can pass commonsense gun safety policies like this legislation. enough is enough. we have to end the senseless

deaths of our children and our neighbors. vote yes. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: thank you, madam speaker. i yield three minutes to the gentleman from kentucky, mr. massie. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. massie: i thank the gentleman from ohio. you know, the democrats today say they don't want to take your guns away. well, then why does the legislation do just that? what they should say today is we don't want to take all of the guns away from all of the people just yet because we know we can't get away with that. the reality is the anti-second amendment lobby has vastly outspent all of the pro-second amendment groups put together in the last several elections. who is in the pocket of who? so the red flag laws, these take all of the guns from some of the people and the bill that will pass tonight, if the democrats are fortunate enough to do so, will take some of the guns from all of the people.

now, why are gun owners concerned? why are the gun owners who don't own so-called high-capacity magazines, for instance, concerned? why are the owners who don't own, for instance, ar-15 style rifles concerned about this legislation? because they know the legislation won't work, and the response to this unserious, unconstitutional legislation that will allow the school shootings to continue will be more gun control from the democrats. let me give you an example. they have a high-capacity magazine ban in here that bans any magazine that can accept over 15 rounds. well, guess what, at virginia tech, the shooter carried 17 magazines, none of which held more than 15 rounds. most of which held 10 rounds. the shooter at columbine carried 13 magazines. each of which held 10 rounds. this legislation would have done absolutely nothing. it's not about how many rounds does the magazine hold, it's

about the evil intent of the shooter and is there somebody there with the capacity to stop that shooter before they can get going? why is this legislation dead on arrival in the senate? why is it dead on arrival in the supreme court? one of my colleagues has already acknowledged they know this is unconstitutional and they'll pack the court if they have to. they said it in judiciary. to keep this legislation alive after it should long sense die. but why is it dead? because americans don't support it. you've quoted don't support it. they quoted statistics. the statistics are fake. if they were true it would breeze through the senate. i urge my colleagues to respect the will of the american people, to respect the constitution, to respect the safety of american citizens and most importantly the safety of children. let's do something to protect them instead of fake virtue signals that will do nothing but

curtail the second amendment rights of americans. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: i yield one minute to the distinguished gentleman from illinois, mr. davis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. davis: i rise in strong support of h.r. 7910, protecting our kids act. i'm so tired of hearing about chicago and other big cities. local governments do what they can, do what they will but this is not a local issue. this is a national issue. it is a national problem. and it requires a national solution. and so i urge all of my colleagues, no matter where you're from, make sure that you vote to protect our kids. and the only way to do that is get rid of these assault weapons and seriously reduce the number of guns in our society.

and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: i now yield one minute to the distinguished gentlelady from michigan, mrs. dingell. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. mrs. dingell: thank you, madam speaker. as a child, i lived with a man, my father, who should not have had access to a gun. when his temper flared we would hide in the closet. my brothers and sisters. praying we would see the morning my baby sister never recovered from those fears and ultimately died by suicide. haunted by the memories. too many children are living with those fears today. in classrooms and in their homes. we cannot afford to look away once again and do nothing. 28 years ago, when the assault weapons ban was debated, my

husband, then an n.r.a. board member, and who, by the way, slept with a gun under his pillow until the day he died, made one of the toughest votes of his career. he supported the bill, though he didn't agree with everything in it. we all have a job to do for our country. ypt to take the guns away from any responsible gun owner but the clock is ticking. who will be the next mass shooting? who is the next target? what do we want our american story to be? we need to act now. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: madam speaker, i now yield one minute to the distinguished gentlelady from nevada, ms. titus. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. titus: thank you very much. i had intended to stand up here

and speak about my provision preventing bump stocks be added to guns but after sitting here and listening for several hours, my colleagues across the aisle, they've been misrepresenting the second amendment, they've been pretending to care about children, and they've been blubbering about their need for a big -- for big guns to protect themselves. i just got to say one thing. america is listening and it will remember who allowed this plague to continue to kill our loved ones and spread disaster around our country. they're listening and they'll remember who it was. thank you very much. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr.ed that leer: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: who seeks time? mr. nadler: we're prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is

prepared to close. is the gentleman from ohio prepared to close. mr. jordan: i yield a minute and a half to the the gentleman from florida, mr. gaetz. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. gaetz: we have heard the plan from democrats. this is not a modest trimming around the edge of gun laws. it's a full-throated assault on the second amendment, a desire to deprive people of the weapons they choose at the age they achieve majority. we've heard countless executives of where the good guy with the gun has been the difference between more or less blood shed. this is particularly and agrieved time to bring this legislation forward because we heard the speaker of the house recently say members of the republican party were members of a cult. so you now have house democrats demeaning, defaming, calling extremists, tens of millions of americans while they try to disarm you and then subsequently defund the police. so no good guys are coming when

the woke mob ends up at your door. that's their plan for america and gun control, unrestrained gun control is a key part of it. just like they said, they'll pack the court, they'll blow up the filibuster, they'll abuse every more of this place for the opportunity to take down the second amendment. that's what's at issue. that's what we're fighting for. republicans in the united states senate should not sign up for this charade. they should stand with our fellow americans for the constitution and with american gun owners. i yield back to the gentleman from ohio. the speaker pro tempore: is the gentleman from ohio prepared to close. mr. jordan: we are. the speaker pro tempore: is the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: i recognize ms. jackson lee for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. jackson lee: i can't sit idly by to hear the abuse of the second amendment that judge

scalia would not recognize and that is that there are no restrictions. i believe judge scalia would look at these dead babies and realize the constitution and the second amendment that is protected untouched would ask you the question, is there no sense of responsibility to be able to provide restrictions to save lives? how dare you suggest that we cannot provide the kind of laws in protecting our kids act that provides the incentives and guidelines to save lives. ask the mothers and fathers of these babies, the second amendment is not absolute, it does allow restrictions, just as president reagan said, he sees no reason for an ak-47 at that time to be used for sport or to be used for anything else. support our babies. and vote for this act.

where's your responsibility and courage? i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: is the gentleman from ohio prepared to close? is the gentleman from new york prepared to close? the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. jordan: representative massie was right on target when he said red flag laws take all guns from some people and do so without due process. this bill takes some guns from all people but democrats say don't worry, we're not out to get the second amendment. really? here's what representative sis lee mi said in committee last week. spare me a the b.s. about constitutional rights. here's what representative jones said last week in committee. if the filibuster obstructs it we'll abolish it. if the supreme court objects, we will expand it. we will not rest until we take weapons out of communities. we will do whatever it takes. they are out to get the second amendment. the right of the american

people, the right of we the people, to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. that's what bothers them. they don't trust we the people. they're smarter than us. they're better than us. they don't trust law-abiding american citizens. they do not trust them. and that's what -- that is what is so wrong with the direction we are going with this legislation, the legislation they're going to bring to the floor tomorrow. we have seen they don't trust americans to exercise their first amendment liberties, now they're going after the second amendment liberty theansd red flag law they're going after tomorrow goes after the fifth amendment due process rights we enjoy as american citizens. that's why we should oppose this legislation and the legislation tomorrow and i hope as my friend from florida said, i hope the united states senate doesn't go down this red flag trail that they're now on and further take away liberties from law-abiding american people. with that, we yield back, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york.

mr. nadler: madam speaker, too many cities in this country have become a shorthand for mass shooght. newtown. san bernardino. parkland. santa fe. el paso. buffalo. uvalde. the list goes on. how many more communities must be visited by tragedy before we take action? how many more parents need to bury their own children because an 18-year-old with an ar-15 stormed a school? how many more grow up without a parent because a high-capacity magazine allows a shooghter to spray a grocery store with gun violence. the republicans tell us that we want to defund the police. we don't want to defund the police. president biden said the other day we want to fund the police. they want to defund the police. they want to disarm the police. what chance does a policeman with a regular service revolver have against someone with an ar-15 assault rifle? none at all. they want to make sure that our police have no chance at all to

resist the dishonest people who use weapons of war because weapons of war overwhelm whatever any policeman may have. that's the problem here. the problem here is that they want to defund or i shouldn't say defund, they want to disarm our police compared to the crooks and the murderers who have the weapons of war which can outweigh the service revolvers that any police officer will have. so we want to to the protect the police officers. we want them to not be outgunned by the -- by the murderers. that's where we are. that's what this bill does. that's perhaps why they're afraid of this bill. but we must pass this bill to save our police officers, to save our communities, to save our children. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution

1153, the previous question is ordered. pursuant section to 3-a of house resolution 1153 the chair will put the question on retaining each title of the bill as amend the chair will put the question on retaining title 1 of the bill and the question will be shall title 1 be retained. pursuant to clause 9 of rule 20, this 15-minute vote on retaining title 1 of h.r. 7910 will be followed by five-minute votes on retaining title 2, retaining title 3, retaining title 4, retaining title 5, retaining title 6, retaining title 7, the motion to recommit if offered, passage of the bill if ordered, and motions to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 7352, h.r. 7334, h.r. 5879, h.r. 7622, h.r. 7664, h.r. 7670, h.r. 7694, h.r. 7776,

and h.r. 7667. pursuant to section 3-b of house resolution 1153, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a 15-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 speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? mr. jeffries: as the member designated by chairwoman johnson and representative rush, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on retaining title 1. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? >> madam speaker, as the member

designated by mr. mceachin of virginia, mr. suozzi, ms. moore, mr. evans, mr. sherman, ms. barragan, mr. lowenthal, mre that these eight members will vote yes on retaining title 1. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise -- no.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. cawthorn of north carolina and mrs. boebert of colorado, i inform the house that these members will vote no on the measure. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? mr. garcia: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. krishnamoorthi of illinois, i inform the house that he will vote yes on retaining title 1. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman

from texas seek recognition? >> thank you, madam speaker. as the member designated by mr. van taylor, i'd like to inform the house that mr. van taylor will be voting no on title 1. thank you.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does -- for what purpose does the gentlelady from north carolina rise? >> as the member designated by mr. price, i inform the house that mr. price will vote yea on retaining title 1.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from ohio rise? mrs. beatty: as the member designated by ms. shontel brown of ohio, i inform the house that she will vote aye on retaining title 1. as the member designated by ms. terri sewell of alabama, i inform the house that she will vote yea on the retaining title 1.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. takano: madam speaker, as the member designated by representatives juan vargas and marilyn strickland, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on retaining title 1. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? mr. pallone: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. albio sires, mr. donald payne, mrs. ann kirkpatrick, and mr. peter welch, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on retaining title 1.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. correa: madam speaker, as the member designated by the following californians, ruiz, cardenas, swalwell, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on retaining title 1.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado rise? mr. neguse: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. moulton, ms. wilson, and ms. leger fernandez, i inform the house that these three members will vote aye on retaining title 1.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? >> as the member designated by mr. bucshon of indiana, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. bucshon will vote nay on title 1 of h.r. 7910. thank you.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. brooks of alabama, mr. loudermilk of georgia, and mr. guest of mississippi, i inform the house that mr. brooks, mr. loudermilk and mr. guest will all vote nay on title 1. thank you.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by chairman defazio,

i inform the house that chairman defazio will vote yes on retaining title 1. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? >> as the member designated by mr. thompson of pennsylvania, i inform the house that mr. thompson will vote no on title 1.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. johnson of south dakota, i inform the house that mr. johnson will vote no on title 1. thank you.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from delaware rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. bass of california, mr. lamb of pennsylvania and mr. torres of new york, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7910.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from texas rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by chairwoman waters, representative gomez and representative sanchez of california, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on retaining title 1. thank you, madam speaker.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from florida rise? ms. wasserman schultz: as the member designated by mr. crist and ms. frankel of florida, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on retaining title 1. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mrs. walorski and ms. spartz both of indiana, i inform the house that mrs. walorski and ms. spartz will vote no on title 1.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. mace of south carolina, i inform the house that ms. mace will vote no on title 1.

the speaker pro tempore: the nays are 228, the nays are 199. the title is retained. the chair will now put the question on retaining title 2 of the bill. should title 2 be retained.

pursuant to section 3-b of house resolution 53-b. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a five-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 speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from delaware rise? >> as the member designated by mr. thompson of pennsylvania, i inform the house that mr. thompson will vote no. >> as the member designated by mr. lamb of pennsylvania, mr. torres of new york and ms. bass of california, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on retaining title 2. >> as the member designated by mr. butchon of indiana, i inform the house that mr. bach own will vote no. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from texas rise? ms. garcia: as the member designated by representative waters, dpoam eases and and

sanchez of california, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on retaining title 2. >> as the member designated by mrs. boebert of and mr. cawthorn, these members will vote no. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? >> as the member designated by chairwoman eddie bernice johnsonp a representative rush, these members will vote yes on retaining title 2. >> as the member designated by mr. brooks of alabama, mr. guest of mississippi and mr. loudermilk of georgia, i inform the house that these members will all vote nay on title 2. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? mr. beyer: as the member designated by mr. suozzi,

mr. ryan, dr. lowenthal, ms. barragan, mr. sherman, mr. evans, ms. moore and mr. mcyechin, these members will vote yes on retaining title 2. >> as the member designated by mr. van taylor, i inform the house that mr. van taylor will vote no. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado rise? >> as the member designated by mr. moulton, ms. leger fernandez and ms. wilson, these members will vote yes on retaining title 2. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady north carolina rise? >> as the member designated by mr. price, i inform the house that mr. price will vote yes on retaining title 2. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise?

>> as the member designated by mr. krishnamoorthi in a mootery of illinois, he will vote yes on retaining title 2. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from ohio rise? >> as the member designated by representative brown and representative sewell, these members will vote yes on retaining title 2. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> as the member designated by the following californians, ruiz, cardenas and swalwell, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on retaining title 2. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? mr. pallone: as the member designated by mrs. kirkpatrick, mr. welch and mr. pape and mr. sires, these members will vote on retaining title 2.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona rise? mr. stanton: as the member designated by mr. defazio, mr. defazio will vote yes on retaining title 2. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady florida rise? ms. wasserman schultz: as the member designated by mr. christian mrs. frankel of florida, those members will vote yes on retaining title 2. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana rise?

>> as the member designated by mrs. walorski and mrs. spartz, i inform the house that they will vote no on title 2. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> as the member designated by representatives vargas and strickland, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on retaining title 2. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois ria? >> as the member designated by mr. johnson of south dakota, i inform the house that mr. johnson will vote no on

title 2. thank you.

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 224, the nays are 195. the title is --

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 226, the nays are 197. the title is retained. the chair will now put the question on retaining title 3 of the bill. the question is shall title 3 be retained. pursuant to section 3-b of house resolution 1153, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. and this will be a five-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 speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from delaware rise? ms. blunt rochester: madam speaker, as the member designated by members torres, bass and lamb, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on retaining title 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> thank you, mel. as the member designated by mr. van taylor, i inform the house that mr. van taylor will be voting nay on title 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from texas rise? ms. garcia: madam speaker, as the member designated by representatives waters, sanchez, gomez, i inform the house that these members will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? or i'm sorry, pennsylvania. >> as the member designated by mr. thompson of pennsylvania, i inform the house that mr. thompson will vote no on title 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? mr. beyer: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. mceachin, mr. ryan, dr. lowenthal, ms. barragan, mr, ms. moore and mr. suozzi, i inform the house that these eight members will vote yes on

retaining title 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? >> as the member designated by mr. bucshon of indiana, i inform the house that mr. bucshon will vote no on title 3 of 7910. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? mr. jeffries: as the member designated by chairwoman eddie bebernice johnson, and representative bobby rush, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on retaining title 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. brooks of alabama, mr. guest of mississippi and mr. loudermilk of georgia, i inform the house that mr. brooks, mr. guest and mr. loudermilk will all vote nay on title 3. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado rise? mr. neguse: madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. wilson, ms. leger fernandez and mr. moulton, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on retaining title 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mrs. boebert of colorado, i inform the house that mrs. boebert will vote no on the measure.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from north carolina rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. price, i inform the house that mr. price will vote yea on retaining title 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. correa: madam speaker, as the member designated by the following californians, ruiz, cardenas and swalwell, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on retaining title 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. krishnamoorthi of illinois, i inform the house that he will vote yes on retaining title 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona rise? the gentleman from arizona. >> as the member designated by chairman defazio, i inform the house that chairman defazio will vote yes on retaining title 3.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. takano: madam speaker, as the member designated by representatives strickland and vargas, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on retaining title 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? mr. pallone: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. sires, mr. payne, mrs. kirkpatrick and mr. welch, i inform the house that these

members will vote yes on retaining title 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. johnson of south dakota, i inform the house that mr. johnson will vote no on title 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from florida rise? ms. wasserman schultz: madam

speaker, as the member designated by mr. crist and ms. frankel of florida, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on retaining title 3. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from ohio rise? mrs. beatty: as the member designated by ms. brown and ms. sewell, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on retaining title 3.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana rise? >> as the member designated by ms. mrs. walorski and mrs. spari inform the house that these members will both vote nay on title 3.

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 226, the nays are 194. the title is retained. the chair will now put to question on retaining title 4 of the bill. the question is, shall title 4 be retained. pursuant to section 3-b of house resolution 1153, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. again, this will be a five-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 >> as the member designated by congressman ruiz and cardenas and swalwell, these members will vote yes on title 4. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tech assize? >> as the member designated by mr. van taylor, i would like to i inform the house the house he

will be voting no. >> as the member designated by members lamb, bass and torres, i inform the house these members will vote yes on retaining title 4. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from texas rise? ms. garcia: as the member designated by chairwoman waters, representative sanchez, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on retaining title 4. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? >> as the member designated by mr. thompson of pennsylvania, i inform the house that mr. thompson will vote no. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from ohio rise? >> as the member designated by representatives sewell and brown, these members will vote yes yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? >> as the member designated by mr. brooks of alabama, mr. guest of mississippi, mr. loudermilk of georgia, i inform the house that these members will vote nay

on title 4. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? the gentleman from california. mr. takano: as the member designated by representatives vargas and strickland, these members will vote yes on retaining title 4. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? >> as the member designated by mrs. boebert of colorado, i inform the house that mrs. boebert will vote no. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? mr. pallone: as the member designated by mr. sires, mr. payne mrs. kirkpatrick and mr. welch, they will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? >> mr. butchon will vote yes. >> for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? >> as the member designated by chairwoman johnson and representative rush, these

members will vote yes on retaining title 4. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? >> as the member designated by mr. johnson of south dakota, i inform the house that mr. johnson will vote no. >> as the member designated by mr. price, i inform the house that mr. price will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona rise? mr. stanton: as the member designated by chair man defazio, he will vote yes on retaining title 4. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? mr. beyer: as the member designated by mr. suozzi, dr. lowenthal, ms. barragan, mr, they will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: two minutes remaining. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? >> as the member designated by mr. krishnamoorthi in a moorgty

of i will any will vote yes on retaining title 4. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady florida rise? are. ms. wasserman schultz: as the member designated by mr. christian ms. frankel, they will vote yes on retaining title 4.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana rise? >> as the member designated by mrs. walorski and mrs. spartz, i inform the house that they will vote no on title 4. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado rise? >> as the member designated by ms. wilson and plz leger fernandez, they will vote yes on title 4.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? >> as the member designated by

mrs. mace of south carolina, i inform the house that mrs. mace will vote no on title 4. the speaker pro tempore: the vote is 225 and the chair will put the question on retaining title 5 of the bill. shall title 5 be retained pursuant to section 3-b of 1153. members will record their votes by electronic device. and this is a five-minute vote.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. takano: as the member designated by representatives vargas and strichland, these members will vote yes on retaining title 5. >> as the member designated by mrs. mace of south carolina, mrs. mace will vote no. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? mr. pallone: designated mr. payne and kirkpatrick and mr. welch, these members will vote yes on retaining title 5. i inform the house that mr. thompson will vote no. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from texas rise.

ms. garcia: as the member designated by chairwoman waters, representatives sanchez of california, these members will vote yes on retaining title 5. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? >> as the member designated by mr. johnson of south dakota, mr. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from delaware rise? >> smems lamb, bass and torres, these members will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? >> as the member designated by mrs. boebert of colorado, she will vote no. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado rise? >> as the member designated by members of swalwell cardenas and reu eases, they will vote yes. >> as the member designated by mr. brooks of alabama, mr. guest of mississippi and mr. loudermilk of dpea, these members will all vote nay on

title 5. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from north carolina rise? >> smekd mr. price, i inform the house that mr. price will vote yes. >> as the member designated by mr. van taylor, i inform the house that mr. van taylor will be voting nay. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona rise? mr. stanton: as the member designated by mr. defazio will vote yes on retaining title 5. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? >> as the member designated by mr. butchon will vote no.

the speaker pro tempore: # two minutes remaining. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? mr. beyer: sms negd mr. suozzi, mr. mceachin, mr. ryan, ms. moore, mr. sherman, ms. barragan, mr. lowenthal. i think that's all. and mr. suozzi, i inform the house these eight members will vote yes on retaining title 5. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado rise? >> as the member designated by

ms. wilson, ms. leger fernandez and ms. wilson, they will vote yes on retaining title 5. >> as the member designated by chairwoman johnson, she will vote yes on retaining title 5. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona rise? >> i inform the house that ms. warlorski and mrs. spartz will vote no on title 5. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from florida rise? ms. wasserman schultz: as the member designated by mr. crist mrs. frank ell, they will vote yes on retaining title 5.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from ohio rise? mrs. beatty: as the member designated by member brown and sewell, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on retaining title 5.

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 233, the nays are 194. the title is retained. the chair will now put the question on retaining title 6 of the bill. the question is, shall title 6 be retained. pursuant to section 3-b of house resolution 1153, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a five-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 speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from ohio rise? mrs. beatty: as the member designated by member brown and sewell, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on retaining title 6. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona rise? >> as the member designated by chairman defazio, i inform the house that chairman defazio will vote yoan retaining title 6 --

vote yes on retaining title 6. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? mr. gaetz: as the member designated by mrs. boebert of colorado, i inform the house that mrs. boebert will vote no on the measure. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? mr. jeffries: as the member designated by chairwoman eddie bernice johnson and representative rush, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on retaining title 6. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? >> as the member designated by mr. bucshon of indiana, i inform the house that mr. bucshon will vote nay on title 6 of h.r. 7910. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from delaware rise? ms. blunt rochester: madam speaker, as the member designated by members lamb, bass and torres, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on retaining title 6. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from p. pencevalevania rise -- pennsylvania rise? >> as the member designated by mr. thompson of pennsylvania, i inform the house that mr. thompson will vote no. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise?

>> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. brooks of alabama, mr. guest of mississippi and mr. loudermilk of georgia, i inform the house that mr. brooks, mr. guest and mr. loudermilk will all vote nay on title 6. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from texas rise? ms. garcia: madam speaker, as the member designated by representative waters, gomez and sanchez all of california, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on retaining title 6. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. mace of south carolina, i inform the house that ms. mace will vote no on title 6. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. takano: madam speaker, as the member designated by representatives vargas and strickland, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on retaining title 6. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? >> as the member designated by mr. johnson of south dakota, i inform the house that mr. johnson will vote no on title 6. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from north carolina rise? >> madam speaker, as the member

designated by representative price, i inform the house that representative price will vote yea on retaining title 6. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from florida rise? ms. wasserman schultz: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. crist and ms. frankel of florida, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on retaining title 6. the speaker pro tempore: for

what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> thank you, madam speaker. as the member designated by mr. van taylor, i inform the house that mr. van taylor will be voting nay on title 6. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. correa: madam speaker, as the member designated by ruiz, cardenas and swalwell, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on title 6. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado rise? mr. neguse: as the member designated by ms. leger fernandez, ms. wilson and mr. moulton, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on retaining title 6.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana rise? >> as the member designated by mrs. walorski and mrs. spartz, both of indiana, i inform the house that these members will both vote no on title 6. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? mr. pallone: madam speaker, as the member designated by mrs. kirkpatrick, mr. payne, mr. sires and mr. welch, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on retaining title 6.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? mr. beyer: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. sherman, mr. evans, ms. moore, mr. suozzi, mr. ryan, mr. lowenthal, ms. barragan and mr. mceachin, i inform the house that these eight members will vote yes on retaining title 6.

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 220, the nays are 207. the title is retained. the chair will now put the question on retaining title 7 of the bill. the question is, shall title 7 be retained? pursuant to section 3-b of husband resolution 1158 -- house resolution 1153, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a five-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 speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from texas rise? ms. garcia: madam speaker, as the member designated by representative waters, gomez and sanchez of california, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on retaining title 7.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from north carolina rise? >> as the member designated by mr. price, i inform the house that mr. price will vote yea on retaining title 7. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> thank you, madam speaker. as the member designated by mr. van taylor, i inform the house that mr. van taylor will be voting yea on title 7. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from florida rise? ms. wasserman schultz: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. crist and ms. frankel of florida, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on retaining title 7. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? >> as the member designated by mr. bucshon of indiana, i inform the house that mr. bucshon will vote yes on title 7. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? >> as the member designated by ms. mace of south carolina, i inform the house that ms. mace will vote yes on title 7.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. takano: as the member designated by representatives vargas and strickland, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on retaining title 7. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. brooks of alabama, mr. guest of mississippi, mr. loudermilk of georgia, i inform the house that mr. brooks, mr. guest and mr. loudermilk all will vote yea on title 7. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? mr. pallone: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. sires, mr. payne, mrs. kirkpatrick and mr. welch, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on retaining title 7. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. thompson of pennsylvania, i inform the house that mr. thompson will vote no on title 7. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? mr. jeffries: as the member

designated by ms. johnson and representative rush, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on retaining title 7. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? mr. gaetz: madam speaker, as the member designated by mrs. boebert of colorado, i inform the house that mrs. boebert will vote aye on the measure. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. correa: madam speaker, as the member designated by congress members ruiz, cardenas and swalwell, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on retaining title 7. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona rise? >> as the member designated by chairman defazio, i inform the house that mr. defazio will vote yes on retaining title 7. the speaker pro tempore: two minutes remaining.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mrs. walorski of indiana, i inform the house that mrs. walorski will vote no on title 7. as the member designated by mrs. spartz of indiana, i inform the house that mrs. spartz will vote yes on title 7. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from delaware rise? ms. blunt rochester: madam speaker, as the member designated by members bass, torres and lamb, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on retaining title 7. the speaker pro tempore: one minute remaining. for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado rise? mr. neguse: as the member designated by mr. moulton, ms. leger fernandez and ms. wilson, i inform the house that

these three members will vote yea on retaining title 7. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? mr. beyer: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. mceachin, mr. sherman, dr. lowenthal, ms. barragan, mss and mr. mceachin, i inform the house that these eight members will vote yes on retaining title 7. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia. mr. beyer: as the member designated by mr. ryan of ohio, i inform the house that he will vote yes on retaining title 7.

>> as the member designated by mr. johnson of south dakota, i inform the house that mr. johnson will vote yes on title 7.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from ohio rise? mrs.beatty: as the member designated by representatives brown and sewell, they will vote yes on retaining title 7.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? >> as the member designated by mr. krishnamoorthi in a mootery, he will vote yes on retaining title 7.

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 380 and nays are 47. the title is retained. question now occurs on environs grossment and third reading of the bill. those in favor, say aye. opposed, no. the clerk: a bill to amend title 18 united statescode to provide for increased age limit on the purchase of certain firearms to

prevent gun trafficking and modernize the tracing and encourage the safe storage of firearms and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the house will come to order. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise? >> i have a motion to recommit at the desk. the clerk: mr. hudson of north carolina moves to recommit the bill h.r. 7910 to the committee on the judiciary. pursuant to clause 2-bmp of rule 19 the previous question is on ordered. the question is on the motion. those in favor, say aye. those opposed, no. the gentleman from north carolina. mr. hudson: i request the yeas and nays. pursuant to 3-s of house resolution 8, members will

record their votes by electronic device , and this will be a five-minute vote. for what purpose does gentlelady from delaware rise snr ms. blunt rochester: as the member designated by bass, lamb and torres, these members will vote no on the motion to recommit. >> as the member designated by mrs. mace, i inform the house that mrs. mace will vote yes on the motion to recommit. >> as the member designated by mrs. wilson ms. leger fernandez will vote no. >> as the member designated by mr. butchon, yows that mr. butchon will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? >> as the member designated by mr. krishnamoorthi in a mootery, he will vote no. the speaker pro tempore: for

what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? >> as the member designated by mr. thompson, i inform the house that mr. thompson will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from north carolina? >> smows that mr. price will vote nay. >> for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? >> as the member designated by mrs. boebert, i inform the house that mrs. boebert will vote no. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? >> as the member designated by mr. ryan, mr. sherman, mr. suozzi, dr. lowenthal, mr. evans, ms. moore, ms. barra d.m. anand: mr. mceachin, they will vote no on the motion to recommit. >> as the member designated by mrs. spartz and miswhat laster ky. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from ohio rise. >> as the member designated by brown and sewell, these members

will vote nay on the motion to rekit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? mr. fleischmann: as the member designated by mr. prokes and mrt the these members will all vote yes. >> for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona rise? mr. stanton: as the member designated by mr. defazio, i inform the house that mr. defazio will vote no. >> as the member designated by mr. johnson of south dakota, i inform the house that mr. johnson will vote yes on the motion to recommit.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> as the member designated by by ruiz, cardenas and swalwell, they will vote no on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman

from texas rise? >> as the member designated by by mr. van taylor, mr. van taylor will be reporting iowa on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: one minute remaining. >> as the member designated by chairwoman eddie bernice johnson and representative rush, they will vote no on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from texas rise? dpash gash as the member designated by representative waters, gomez and sanchez, i inform the house that the members will vote no on the motion to recommit. >> for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? mr. pallone: as the member designated by mr. sires, mrs. kirkpatrick, mr. welch and

mr. payne, these members will vote no on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. takano: as the member designated by representative strickland and vargas, these members will vote no on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: trop gentlelady from florida rise? ms. wasserman schultz: as the member designated by mr. crist mrs. frank ell of florida, these members will vote nay on the motion to recommit.

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the nays are 298 and the nays are 228. the question occurs on passage of the bill. all in favor say aye. opposed, say no. the ayes have it. the gentleman from ohio. >> i ask for the yeas and nays pursuant to section 3-s of house resolution 8, yeas and nays are

ordered members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a five-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.] >> for what purpose does gentlelady from delaware rise? plant blunt as the member designated by members torres, bass and lamb, i inform the house they will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? >> as the member designated by mrs. mace of south carolina, mrs. mace will vote no. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? mr. pallone: as the member designated by mr. sires, mr. payne, mrs. kirkpatrick and mr. welch, i inform the house that these members will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? >> as the member designated by mr. butchon of indiana, he will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> as the member designated by congress members ruiz, cardenas

and swalwell, they will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? >> as the member designated by mr. johnson of south daght, mr. johnson will vote no. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from texas rise? >> as the member designated by mrs. sanchez of california they will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? >> as the member designated by mr. thompson of pennsylvania, i inform the house that mr. thompson will vote no on h.r. 7910. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> as the member designated by marilyn strickland and juan vargas, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7110. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? >> as the member designated by mrs. boebert of colorado, i inform the house that mrs. boebert will vote no on the measure. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? >> madam speaker, as the member

designated by mr. suozzi, mr. ryan, mr. sherman, mr. lowenthal, ms. barragan, msd mr. evans, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7910. the speaker: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. brooks of alabama, mr. guest of mississippi, mr. loudermilk of georgia, i inform the house that mr. brooks, mr. guest, and mr. loudermilk will all vote nay on h.r. 7910. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from north carolina rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. price, i inform the house that mr. price will vote yea on h.r. 7910. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mrs. walorski and ms. spartz of indiana, i inform the house that mrs. walorski and ms. spartz will vote no on h.r. 7910. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? >> madam speaker, as the member

designated by mr. krishnamoorthi of illinois, i inform the house that he will vote yes on h.r. 7910. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does does the gentleman from arizona rise? >> as the member designated by chairman defazio, i inform the house that chairman defazio will vote yes on h.r. 7910. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> thank you, madam speaker. as the member designated by mr. van taylor, i inform the house that mr. van taylor will be voting nay on h.r. 7910. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. wilson, mr. moulton and ms. leger fernandez, i inform the house that these three members will vote yea on h.r. 7910. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? >> as the member designated by chairwoman eddie bernice johnson and representative bobby rush, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on h.r. 7910. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady

from florida rise? ms. wasserman schultz: as the member designated by ms. frankel and mr. crist of florida, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on h.r. 7910.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman -- the speaker: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek recognition? >> as the member designated by members teri sewell and shontel brown, i inform the house that

these members will vote yes on h.r. 7910.

the speaker: on this vote, the yeas are 223, the nays are 204, the bill is passed. without objection, a motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20,

the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the gentlewoman from new york, ms. velazquez to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 7352 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title. the clerk: union calendar number 2, h.r. 7352, a bill to amend the small business act to extend the statute of limitations for fraud by borrowers under they are paycheck protection program and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a five-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 speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman seek recognition? >> as the member designated by bass, lamb and torres, i inform the house that they will vote yes on h.r. 735. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? >> as the member designated by mr. bucshon of indiana, i inform the house that mr. bucshon will

vote yea on h.r. 7352. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ruiz, cardenas and swayl swell -- swalwell, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7352. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. thompson of pennsylvania, i inform the house that mr. thompson will vote yes on h.r. 7352. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by chairwoman waters, representative gomez and sanchez, all of california, i inform the house that these mens will vote yes on h.r. 7352. thank you, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the member from florida seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mrs. boebert of colorado, i inform the house that mrs. boebert will vote yea on h.r. 7352. the speaker pro tempore: the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? mr. jeffries: as the member designated by chairwoman eddie bernice johnson and

representative rush, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on h.r. 7352. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. brooks of alabama, mr. guest of mississippi, and mr. loudermilk of georgia, i inform the house that mr. brooks, mr. guest and mr. loudermilk will all vote yea on h.r. 7352. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recog recognition? for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by representatives juan vargas and marilyn strickland, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7352. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. mace of south carolina, i inform the house that ms. mace will vote yes on h.r. 7352.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. krishnamoorthi of illinois, i inform the house that he will vote yes on h.r. 7352. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mrs. walorski and ms. spartz, both of indiana, i inform the house that they will vote yes on h.r. 7352. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. neal, ms. moore, mr. evans, mr. mceachin, ms. barragan, dr. lowenthal, mr. sherman, mr. ryan, and mr. suozzi, i inform the house that these nine members will vote yes on h.r. 7352.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. johnson of south dakota, i inform the house that mr. johnson will vote yes on h.r. 7352. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. price, i inform the house that mr. price will vote yea on h.r. 7352. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition? >> as the member designated by chairman defazio, i inform the house that chairman defazio will vote yes on h.r. 7352. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> thank you, madam speaker. as the member designated by mr. van taylor, i inform the house that mr. van taylor will be voting yea on h.r. 7352. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida seek recognition? ms. wasserman schultz: as the member designated by mr. crist and ms. frankel of florida, i inform the house that these

members will vote yea on h.r. 7352. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. pallone: as the member designated by mr. sires, mr. payne, mrs. kirkpatrick and mr. welch, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7352. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. leger fernandez, ms. wilson and mr. moulton, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on h.r. 7352.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek recognition? >> as the member designated by member chantal brown and tear -- shontel brown and terri sewell, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on h.r.

the speaker pro tempore: any member wishing to containing their vote. on this vote, the yeas are 421 and zero nays. the rules are suspended and the bill is passed and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is vote on the motion ins velazquez to pass h.r. 7334. the clerk: h.r. 7334, a bill to stepped the statute of limitations for fraud by borrowers under certain code 19 loan programs and small business administration and for other

purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. >> as the member designated by mrs. mace, i inform the house that mrs. mace will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from delaware seek recognition? ms. blunt rochester: as the member designated by bass, lamb and torres, they will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. thompson of pennsylvania, i inform the house that mr. thompson will vote yes on 7334. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? mr. beyer: many ms. moore, mr. mceachin, ms. barragan a and mr. suozzi and neal. they will vote yes.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. bothon, i inform the house that he will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. pallone: mr. sires, mr. pape, mrs. kirkpatrick and mr. welch, they will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? mr. fleischmann: as the member designated by mr. brooks of alabama and mr. guest, mr. loudermilk of jay, these members will all vote yeah on h.r. 7334. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition? mr. stanton: as the member designated by chairman defazio, i inform the house that mr. defazio will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana seek recognition?

>> as the member designated by mrs. what laster ky and mrs. spartz, they will both yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. price, i inform the house that mr. price will vote yes on h.r. 7334. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. johnson of south dakota, i inform the house that mr. johnson will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition? ms. garcia: as the member designated by chairwoman waters, i inform the house that chairwoman will vote no on h.r. 7334. as the member designated by members jimmy gomez and ms. sanchez of california, they will vote yes on h.r. 7334. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from flair seek recognition?

>> as the member designated by mrs. boebert, i inform the house that mrs. boebert will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. krishnamoorthi in a mootery, he will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. van taylor, i inform the house that mr. van taylor will be voting yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by representatives ruiz, swalwell, they will be voting yes on h.r. 7334. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. takano: as the member designated by representatives vargas and strickland, these members will vote yes on h.r.

7334. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek recognition? mrs.beatty: as the member designated by member brown and sewell, these members will vote yes on h.r. 7334. the speaker pro tempore: one minute remaining. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from colorado seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. moulton, ms. wilson and ms. leger fernandez, they will vote yes on h.r. 7334. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida seek recognition? ms. wasserman schultz: as the member designated by mr. crist mrs. frankel of florida, they will vote yes on h.r. 7334. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? mr. jeffries: as the member designated by representative johnson and johnson these members will vote yes on h.r.

7334. the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 416, the nays are 3, zero recorded as present.

the rules is suspended and bill is passed and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, unfinished business is on the vote of the motion of the the gentlewoman from new york and pass h.r. 5879. the clerk: union calendar number 244, h.r. 5879 to amend the small business act of the price evaluation preference for qualified hub disons small business concerns for certain contracts and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. ms. blunt rochester: as the member designated by members torres, bass and lamb, these members will vote yes.

>> as the member designated by mrs. mace, i inform the house that mrs. mace will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? mr. beyer: mr. mceachin, mr. evans, chairman neal, mr. suozzi, drr lowenthal and these members will vote yes on h.r. 5879. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. butchon of indiana, nows that he will vote yes on h.r. 5879. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? mr. jeffries: as the member designated by chairwoman johnson and representative rush, they will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan. >> as the member designated by mr. thompson of pennsylvania, mr. thompson will vote yes.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek recognition? mrs.beatty: as the member designated by representatives brown and sewell, they will vote yes on h.r. 5879. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. brooks of alabama, i inform the house that mr. brooks will vote no on h.r. 5879. as the member designated by by mr. guest of mississippi and mri inform the house that mr. guest and mr. loudermilk will vote yes on h.r. 5879. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition? mr. stanton: as the member designated by chairman defazio, i inform the house that mr. defazio will vote yes on h.r. 5879.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mrs. boebert will vote no on the measure. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition? ms. garcia: smaigd chairwoman waters and these members will vote yes on h.r. 5879. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek reek snigs mr. pallone: as the member designated by mr. sires, mr. payne and mrs. kirkpatrick and mr. welch, these members will vote yes on h.r. 5879. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek

recognition? >> as the member designated by representatives ruiz, cardenas and swalwell, these members will vote yes on h.r. 5879. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. johnson of south dakota, i inform the house that mr. swronson will vote yes on h.r. 5879. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. krishnamoorthi in a mootery, he will vote yes on h.r. 5879. >> as the member designated by mrs. walorski and mrs. spartz will vote yes on h.r. 5879. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. price, i inform the house that mr. price will vote yes on h.r. 5879. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida seek

recognition? ms. wasserman schultz: as the member designated by mr. crist mrs. frankel, these members will vote yes on h.r. 5879. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by by representatives vargas and strickland, these members will vote yes on h.r. 5879. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. moulton, mrs. leger fernandez, they will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. van taylor, i inform the house that mr. van taylor will vote yes on h.r. 5879. thank you.

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 359. the nays are 61. 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the gentlewoman from new york, ms. velazquez, to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 7622 on which the yeas and nays are

ordered. the clerk will report the tievment. the clerk: union calendar number 247, h.r. 7622, a bill to amend the small business act to include requirements relating to apprenticeship program assistance for small business development centers and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-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 speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. mace of south carolina, i inform the house that ms. mace will vote yes on h.r. 7622. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from delaware seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by members lamb, torres and bass, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7622. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. thompson of pennsylvania, i inform the house that mr. thompson will vote yes on h.r. 7622. the speaker pro tempore: for

what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by swalwell, ruiz and cardenas, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7622. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. bucshon of indiana, i inform the house that mr. bucshon will vote yes on h.r. 7622. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. moore, mr. evans, mr. mceachin, ms. barragan, dr. lowenthal, mr, mr. suozzi and chairman neal, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7622. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. brooks of alabama, i inform the house that mr. brooks will vote nay on h.r. 7622. madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. guest of

mississippi, mr. loudermilk of georgia, i inform the house that mr. guest and mr. loudermilk will vote yea on h.r. 7622. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. pallone: as the member designated by mr. peter welch, ms. ann kirkpatrick, mr. albio sires and mr. donald payne, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7622. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mrs. walorski and ms. spartz both of indiana, i inform the house that mrs. walorski and ms. spartz vote yes on h.r. 7622. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition? >> as the member designated by chairwoman waters, representative sanchez and gomez all of california, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7622. thank you, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. crist and ms. frankel of florida, i inform the house that these members

will vote yea on h.r. 7622. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. johnson of south dakota, i inform the house that mr. johnson will vote yes on 7622. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. krishnamoorthi, i inform the house that he will vote yes on h.r. 7622. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mrs. boebert of colorado, i inform the house that mrs. boebert will vote no on h.r. 7622. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek recognition? >> as the member designated by member shontel brown and teri sewell, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on h.r. 7622. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. price, i inform the house that mr. price

will vote yea on h.r. 7622. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by representative -- representatives strickland and vargas, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7622. the speaker pro tempore: one minute remaining. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? mr. jeffries: as the member designated by chairwoman johnson and representative rush, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on h.r. 7622. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition? >> as the member designated by chairman defazio, i inform the house that the chairman will vote yes on h.r. 7622.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. moulton, ms. wilson and ms. leger fernandez, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on h.r. 7622.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. van taylor, i inform the house that mr. van taylor will be voting aye on h.r. 7622. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 368. the nays are 52.

2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the gentlewoman from new york, ms. velazquez, to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 7664 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title. the clerk: union calendar number 248, h.r. 7664, a bill to amend the small business act to include requirements relating to graduates of career and technical education programs or programs of study for small business development centers and women's business centers and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from delaware seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by members torres, lamb and bass, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7664. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition?

>> as the member designated by ms. mace of south carolina, i inform the house that ms. mace will vote yes on h.r. 7664. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by chairman neal, mr, mr. sherman, ms. moore, ms. barragan, mr. evans, mr. mceachin, and dr. lowenthal, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7664. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. bucshon of indiana, i inform the house that mr. bucshon will vote yes on h.r. 7664. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ruiz, cardenas and swalwell, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7664. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. thompson of pennsylvania, i inform the house that mr. thompson will vote yes on h.r. 7664.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. krirve krish of illinois, i inform the house that he will vote yes on h.r. 7664. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mrs. walorski and mrs. spartz both of indiana, i inform the house that mrs. walorski and ms. spartz both vote yes on h.r. 7664. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek recognition? >> as the member designated by member shontel brown and teri sewell, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on h.r. 7664. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. brooks of alabama, mr. guest of mississippi, mr. loudermilk of georgia, i inform the house that that mr. brooks, mr. guest and mr. loudermilk all will vote yea on h.r. 7664. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek

recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. ann kirkpatrick, mr. sires, mr. payne, mr. welch, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7664. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> thank you, madam speaker. as the member designated by mr. van taylor, i inform the house that mr. taylor will be voting aye on h.r. 7664. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by chairwoman waters, i inform the house that chairwoman waters will vote no on h.r. 7664. as the member designated by representative sanchez and gomez of california, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7664. thank you, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mrs. boebert of colorado, i inform the house that mrs. boebert will vote no on the measure. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek

recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by representatives juan vargas and marilyn strickland, i inform the house that these members swill vote yes on h.r. 7664. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> mr. jeffries: as the member designated by chairwoman eddie bernice johnson and representative rush, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on h.r. 7664. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. price, i inform the house that mr. price will vote yea on h.r. 7664. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. johnson of south dakota, i inform the house that mr. johnson will vote yes on 7664. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida seek recognition? ms. wasserman schultz: as the member designated by mr. crist and ms. frankel of florida, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r.

7664. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by chairman defazio, i inform the house that chairman defazio will vote yes on h.r. 7664. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. moulton, ms. leger fernandez, and ms. wilson i inform the house that these three members will vote aye on h.r. 7664.

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 399, the nays are 18. 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and, without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the gentlewoman from new york, ms. velazquez, to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 7670, on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title. the clerk: union calendar number 249. h.r. 7670, a bill to amend the small business act, to require a report on small business concerns owned and controlled by women and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-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 speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from delaware seek recognition? ms. blunt rochester: madam speaker, as the member designated by members lamb, torres and bass, i inform the

house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7670. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? mr. gaetz: madam speaker, as the member designated by mrs. boebert of colorado, i inform the house that mrs. boebert will vote no on the measure. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. correa: madam speaker, as the member designated by swalwell, cardenas and ruiz, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7670. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. bucshon of indiana, i inform the house that mr. bucshon will vote yes on h.r. 7670. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. takano: madam speaker, as the member designated by representatives vargas and strickland, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7670. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. thompson of pennsylvania, i inform the house that mr. thompson will vote yes on h.r. 7670.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. price, i inform the house that mr. price will vote yea on h.r. 7670. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? fliesh fliesh madam speaker, -- mr. fleischmann: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. brooks, mr. guest and mr. loudermilk, i inform the house that mr. brooks, mr. guest and mr. loudermilk will vote yea on h.r. 7670. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? mr. beyer: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. evans, mr. mceachin, mr. suozzi, ms. moore, mr. ryan, ms. barragan, dr. lowenthal, mri inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7670. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? mr. garcia: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. krishnamoorthi of illinois, i inform the house that he will

vote yes on h.r. 7670. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. pallone: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. welch, mrs. kirkpatrick, mri inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7670. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition? ms. garcia: madam speaker, as the member designated by chairwoman waters, representative gomez and sanchez, all of california, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7670. thank you, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida seek recognition? ms. wasserman schultz: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. crist and ms. frankel of florida, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on h.r. 7670. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> thank you, madam speaker. as the member designated by

mr. van taylor, i inform the house that mr. van taylor will be voting aye on h.r. 7670. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition? >> as the member designated by chairman defazio, i inform the house that chairman defazio will vote yes on h.r. 7670. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mrs. walorski and mrs. spartz of indiana, i inform the house that they will both vote yes on h.r. 7670. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado seek recognition? mr. neguse: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. moulton, ms. wilson and ms. leger fernandez, i inform the house that these three members will vote yes on h.r. 7670. the speaker pro tempore: for

what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. mace of south carolina, i inform the house that ms. mace will vote yes on h.r. 7670. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek recognition? mrs. beatty: as the member designated by member brown and sewell, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on 7670. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. johnson of south dakota, i inform the house that mr. johnson will vote yes on h.r. 7670.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? mr. jeffries: as the member designated by chairwoman eddie bernice johnson and representative rush, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on h.r. 7670.

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 402, the nays are 19. 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and, without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the gentlewoman from new york, ms. v velazquez, to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 7694, on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title. the clerk: union calendar number 250. h.r. 7694. a bill to amend the small business act, to modify the requirements relating to the evaluation of the subcontracting plans of certain offers and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-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 speaker pro tempore: for

what purpose does the gentlewoman from delaware seek recognition? ms. blunt rochester: madam speaker, as the member designated by members torres, lamb and bass, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7694. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? mr. donalds: as the member designated by ms. mace of south carolina, i inform the house that ms. mace will vote yes on h.r. 7694. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. correa: madam speaker, as the member designated by cardenas, ruiz and swalwell, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7694. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. bucshon of indiana, i inform the house that mr. bucshon will vote yes on h.r. 7694. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? mr. jeffries: as the member designated by chairwoman eddie bernice johnson and representative rush, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on h.r. 7694. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition?

mr. fleischmann: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. brooks of alabama, mr. guest of mississippi and mr. loudermilk of georgia, i inform the house that mr. brooks, mr. guest and mr. loudermilk will all vote yea on h.r. 7694. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. pallone: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. sires, mr. payne, mr. welch and mrs. kirkpatrick, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7694. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> thank you, madam speaker. as the member designated by mr. van taylor, i inform the house that mr. van taylor will be voting aye on h.r. 7694. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition? ms. garcia: madam speaker, as the member designated by chairwoman waters, representative sanchez and representative gomez all of california, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7694. thank you, madam speaker.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. thompson of pennsylvania, i inform the house that mr. thompson will vote yes on h.r. 7694. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado seek recognition? mr. neguse: as the member designated by ms. leger fernandez, mr. moulton and ms. wilson, i inform the house that these three members will vote yea on h.r. 7694. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the member from indiana seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mrs. walorski and mrs. spartz, both of indiana, i inform the house that they will both vote yes on h.r. 7694. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. takano: as the member designated by representatives vargas and strickland, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7694. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? mr. gaetz: as the member designated by mrs. boebert of colorado, i inform the house that mrs. boebert will vote yes on h.r. 7694.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. price, i inform the house that mr. price will vote yea on h.r. 7694. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida seek recognition? ms. wasserman schultz: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. crist and ms. frankel of florida, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on h.r. 7694. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? mr. garcia: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. krishnamoorthi of illinois, i inform the house that he will vote yes on h.r. 7694. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek recognition? mrs. beatty: as the member designated by member shontel brown, terri sewell, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on h.r. 7694.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition? >> as the member designated by chairman defazio, i inform the house that the chairman will vote yes on h.r. 7694. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. johnson of south dakota, i inform the house that mr. johnson will vote yes on 7694. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? mr. beyer: madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. moore, mr. evans, mr. mceachin, ms. barragan, dr. lowenthal, mr, mr. suozzi and chairman neal, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7694.

the speaker pro tempore: on this

vote, the yeas are 411, the nays are 11. 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed, and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from oregon, mr. defazio, to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 7776 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. -- as amended on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title. the clerk: h.r. 7776, a bill to provide improvements to the rivers andujar boars of the united states and provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill as amended. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-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 speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. mace of south carolina, i inform the house that ms. mace will vote yes on h.r. 7776.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the jerusalem from delaware seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by members torres, bass and lamb, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7776. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. bucshon of indiana, i inform the house that mr. bucshon will vote yes on h.r. 7776. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ruiz, cardenas and swalwell, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7776. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. van taylor, i inform the house that mr. van taylor will be voting aye on h.r. 7776. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. moore, mr. evans, mr. mceachin, ms. barragan, dr. lowenthal, mr, mr. suozzi and chairman neal, i

inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7776. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. thompson of pennsylvania, i inform the house that mr. thompson will vote yes on h.r. 7776. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. pallone: as the member designated by mr. sires, mr. payne, ms. ann kirkpatrick and mr. peter welch, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7776. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition. >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. brooks of alabama, mr. guest of mississippi, and mr. loudermilk of georgia, i inform the house that mr. brooks, mr. guest, and mr. loudermilk all will vote yea on h.r. 7776. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by chairwoman waters, representative sanchez and

gomez, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7776. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. johnson of south dakota, i inform the house that mr. johnson will vote yes on h.r. 7776. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. krishnamoorthi of illinois, i inform the house that he will vote yes on h.r. 7776. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mrs. walorski and ms. spartz, both of indiana, i inform the house that mrs. walorski and ms. spartz will vote yes on h.r. 7776. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. price, i inform the house that mr. price will vote yea on h.r. 7776. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mrs. boebert of colorado, i inform the house that mrs. boebert will vote no

on h.r. 7776. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by chairman defazio, i inform the house that the chairman will vote yes on h.r. 7776. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by representatives juan vargas and marilyn strickland, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7776. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> as the member designated by chairwoman eddie bernice johnson and representative bobby rush, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on h.r.

7776. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida seek recognition? ms. wasserman schultz: as the member designated by mr. crist and ms. frankel, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on h.r. 7776. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. leger fernandez, mr. moulton and ms. wilson, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on h.r. 7776. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> thank you, madam speaker. as the member designated by mr. van taylor, i inform the house that mr. van taylor will

be voting nay on h.r. 7776. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek recognition? >> as the member designated by members shontel brown and teri sewell, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on h.r. 7776. the speaker pro tempore: have all members voted? does any member wish to change their vote?

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 384, the nays are 37. 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinish -- unfinish bids is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from new jersey, mr. pallone, on h.r. 7667 as amended. the clerk will report the title.

the clerk: h.r. 7667, a bill to amend the federal food, drug and cosmetic act to revise and extend the user fee programs for prescription drugs, medical devices, generic drugs and biosimilar biological products and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill as amended? members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-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 speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. suozzi, mr. ryan, mr. lowenthal, ms. barragan, mre that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7767. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. mace of south carolina, i inform the house that ms. mace will vote yes on h.r. 7667. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition?

mr. jeffries: as the member designated by chairwoman eddie bernice johnson and representative rush, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on h.r. 7667. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. thompson of pennsylvania, i inform the house that mr. thompson will vote yes on h.r. 7667. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ruiz, cardenas and swalwell, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7667. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. van taylor, i inform the house that mr. van taylor will be voting no on h.r. 7667. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. donald payne, mr. sires, and mrs. kirkpatrick

and mr. peter welch, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7667. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mrs. boebert of colorado, i inform the house that mrs. boebert will vote no on the measure. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from delaware seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by members torres, bass and lamb, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7667. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. brooks of alabama, i inform the house that mr. brooks will vote nay on h.r. 7667. madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. guest of mississippi and mr. loudermilk of georgia, i inform the house that mr. guest and mr. loudermilk will vote yea on h.r. 7667. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek

recognition? >> as the member designated by designated by shontel brown and teri sewell, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on h.r. 7667. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? >> as the member designated by mrs. walorski and ms. spartz, i inform the house that they will vote yes on h.r. 7667. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by chairwoman waters, representative gomez, representative sanchez, all of california, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7667. thank you, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. bucshon of indiana, i inform the house that mr. bucshon will vote yes on h.r. 7667. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado seek recognition? >> madam speaker, i rise grateful for your service and as the member designated by ms. leger fernandez, mr. moulton, and ms. wilson, i inform the house that these members will vote aye on h.r.

7667. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. johnson of south dakota, i inform the house that mr. johnson will vote yes on 7667. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by representatives strickland and vargas, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 7667. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. price, i inform the house that mr. price will vote yea on h.r. 7667. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida seek recognition? ms. wasserman schultz: as the member designated by by the gentlewoman from florida, ms. frankel and mr. crist also from florida, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on h.r. 7667. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman

from arizona seek recognition? >> as the member designated by chairman defazio, i inform the house that chairman defazio will vote yes on h.r. 7667.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition?

>> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. krishnamoorthi of illinois, i inform the house that he will vote yes on h.r. 7667. the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 392, the nays are 28. 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and, without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. pursuant to house resolution 1153, house resolutions 1151 and 1152 are considered as adopted. for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina

seek recognition? >> madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that i may here after be considered to be the first sponsor of h.r. 921, a resolution originally introduced by representative hagedorn of minnesota, for the purpose of adding co-sponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule 12. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. madam, i write to respectfully tender my resignation as a member of the committee on homeland security. it has been an honor to serve in this capacity. signed, sincerely, ralph norman.

the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house another communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. madam, i write to respectfully tend meyer resignation as a member of the -- tender my resignation as a member of the house financial services committee. it has been an honor to serve in this capacity. signed, sincerely, david kus kustoff. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, by the direction of the house republican conference, i send to the desk privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 1159. resolved, that the following named members be and are hereby elected to the following standing committees of the house of representatives. committee on ways and means, mr. committee on financial services, mr. norman. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the resolution is agreed to and the motion to

reconsider is laid on the table. the chair will now entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? i'm so sorry. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. mccarthy: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. mccarthy: mr. speaker, earlier today a man was arrested for plotting to kill justice kavanaugh. over a month ago the senate unanimously passed a bill to provide more security for supreme court justices and their families. but house democrats have let that bill gather dust.

this is the same party whose heated rhetoric has encouraged political pressure on conservative justices. former white house press secretary jen psaki said, i know there's an outrage right now, i guess, about protests that had been peaceful to date. and we certainly do continue to encourage that outside judges' homes and that's the president's position. and majority leader schumer said, i want to tell you, justice kavanaugh and justice gorsuch, you have unleashed a whirl wind and you will pay the price. you won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions. mr. speaker, with words like that and threats like these, congress cannot afford to wait. we have a duty to protect the court, the justices and their

families from political violence and intimidation. and we can meet that duty tonight before the house adjourns by sending this bill to the president's desk. with that, mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to take from the speaker's table s. 4160, the supreme court police parity act, and ask for its immediate consideration in the house. the speaker pro tempore: under the guidelines consistently issued by successive speakers, as recorded in section 956 of the house rules and manual, the chair is constrained not to entertain the request unless it has been cleared by the bipartisan floor and committee leaderships. mr. mccarthy: mr. speaker, it's cleared on the republican side. the speaker pro tempore: is the gentleman asking a parliamentarian question? mr. mccarthy: no, i'm just stating there's no objection on the republican side. so that would only be the democrats holding the bill up. the speaker pro tempore: the

gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? mr. carter: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. carter: mr. speaker, i rise today to honor the 100th birthday of wh wilbert dumas. he was born in 1922 to james and he wase. in 1943 he married the love of his life, polly snow in georgia. following his marriage, he was drafted into the army in 1944, during world war ii, and served in the pacific. wilbur was in tokyo bay when the instrument of surrender was signed by the jap kneels. after the war, he and polly

moved to went worth where they raised a daughter and two sons. they bought a house on commonwealth avenue in 1951, where wilber still resides to this day. he retired from keizer agriculture chemical plant in 1984. unlike many, wilbur lived to see his 100th birthday this past may and it was an honor and a privilege to celebrate his birthday at our home church, at my home church. happy 100th birthday, mr. dumas. what an amazing achievement. thank you, mr. speaker. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from michigan seek recognition? >> i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, today an armed

man with the intent to kill justice kavanaugh was arrested near the justice's home. mrs. mcclain: the senate unanimously passed a bipartisan bill that would provide security to the justices and their families. yet house democrats have refused to act on it. unlike the bills we voted on today, we actually have a bipartisan, commonsense solution to protect one of our nation's most sacred institutions. therefore i ask unanimous consent to take from the speaker's table s. 4160 and ask for its immediate consideration in the house. the speaker pro tempore: as the chair previously advised, that request cannot be entertained absent appropriate clearance. mrs. mcclain: thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina seek recognition? ms. foxx: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for

one minute, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. we've certainly heard our fair share of hot air from democrats as they attack the constitution and the rights of americans. a member from rhode island recently said that the constitutional rights of the american people are b.s. president biden claimed that the second amendment was not absolute. this is a new and dangerous standard that's being set, that the constitution is merely a door mat that a member of congress wipes his or her feet on. it will surely pain my democrat colleagues to hear this, but i'll say it anyway. the constitution is absolute. if they have a problem respecting our founding document, then why did they take an oath to protect and defend it in the first place?

perhaps they need to do some soul searching. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. lamalfa: thank you, mr. speaker. it's not just american oil and natural gas energies that are under attack. another one of the nation's top sources of energy, nuclear generation, has faced repeated operational obstacles and is facing threats of extinction. nuclear power is one of the best choices for renewable energy we have. it's consistent and runs 24/7. it isn't intermittent or dependent on the weather like wind or solar. it takes up a small physical footprint such as california's sole remaining reactors. they take up 900 acres of land and provide 10% of california's

energy portfolio and 23% of the carbon-free energy everyone is so obsessed with. interestingly, nuclear generation has received garnered widespread support recently. last month the biden administration launched a $6 billion federal effort to keep nuclear power plants open that are at the risk of closing. even our california governor newsom seems to have reversed his opinion on nuclear energy and expressed some level of support to keep the canyon open. nuclear energy has had an unfair bad rap from past incidents, mostly like chernobyl. this isn't the 1980's soviet union. it's the united states. we have the innovation and technological advances to make nuclear energy a cornerstone of our future in energy independence. we need to hang onto it. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas seek

recognition? without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. jackson lee: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i come tonight to pay tribute to the wheel avenue baptist church in houston, texas. celebrating its 60th anniversary. its diamond anniversary. and to thank the senior pastor, marcus cosby, dr. marcus cosby, and, of course, the pastor emeritus, world renowned reverend dr. william a. lawson. the leadership of pastor cosby is founded in his own spiritual grounding and as well his commitment and dedication and respect for pastor lawson and his family. it is an interesting church, now called the cathedral. and it is a place where people can come for refuge. it is a place of intellect and

genius because of the many members of great talent. but, oh, they are the good samaritans. they are reminds as a church body that it is their goal and responsibility to feed the hungry and those without clothes, those who need housing, and as well to open its doors to civic participation. this is a place that was founded by pastor lawson and his wife, audrey lawson, the late audrey lawson, in their living room, 60 years ago. as pastor lawson was in fact being the pastor for t.s.u.'s students. but i congratulate the church because they're a church of action, service, love of god. bless them for their 60th anniversary. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 4, 2021, the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. grothman, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of

the minority leader. mr. grothman: thank you. i don't intend to go 60 minutes. so that will make everybody feel a little better. in any event. there are a variety of topics that i think have not been discussed enough lately that i think should be addressed on the floor. we have been gone for two weeks, prior to reconvening this week, and in that time i took one more trip to the southern border. i took the trip to the border because other than arguably the threat of an absolute catastrophe over the ukraine, it is easily the biggest cause for concern in this country at that time. i went down to mcalan, texas, with 11 other congressmen, rather than having a trip of 12 which i understand is the biggest group that's been at the border since covid-19, we should have had 80 or 90 people there

to see what is going on. prior to talking about things that i saw on the trip, i would like to talk about the size of the problem. because the numbers tell the story. in the most recent april, we let 183,000 people in the country. frequently the press, for whatever reason, and some politicians talk about the number of people who have contact with the border patrol. 183,000 is the number 183,000 is the number who came in the country. a year ago in april that was number was 66,000 two. years ago it was 6,000. so we've gone from 6,000 let in the country in april of 2020, april of 2021, 66,000, and most recently, 183,000. these numbers are staggering. the press should be reporting

every monthly number with banner headlines. perhaps because the story seems old, they get tired of reporting it but it is a more significant story every month. of those 183,000, about 60,000 are what we refer to as gotaways. that is not people who checked in at border patrol and got a cursory review. they are people who did not touch the border patrol at way don't know whether they were necking -- sneaking in with drugs. we don't know if they have diseases. we don't know if they have criminal background problems. we don't know. so from 6,000 to 66,000 to 183,000. who knows what it's going to be by this time next year. obviously it is changing america dramatically. we do have ways to come in this country legally. we like to make sure that the future of america is people who have proved themselves

law-abide, hardworking. here we have no idea who we're getting. i want to point out that one of the reasons more people are sneaking across the border is that as we have approximately 120,000 people who check in with the border patrol, the border patrol has to spend more of their time doing paperwork and not doing what they want to do, which is guard the border. that's why we're having a much more significant number of people come here without any contact whatsoever. the biden administration says they inherited a mess. they inherited 6,000 a month and now we're at 183,000 a month. as far as other observations along the rio grande, the heartlessness of the mexican drug cartels continues to be shown. when they want to get drugs here because they know the border patrol sundays staffed, what

they do is they send a group of people across the river and they know the border patrol will be obligated to deal with that group of people and then they send another group of people, say a mile or two miles further on down or further up river where they know they can get across with their drugs. they also know the cartels are so brutal and heartless that they will slow throe a young child overboard in the rio grande because they know our ethical border patrol will save that child rather than deal with the people who are sneaking across, perhaps sneaking across with drugs. for the first time since i've been at the border and i've been down there several time in part due to my subcommittee assignment and the fact that i'm a ranking member, the people who showed me the rio grande pointed out in the bend of a river, here's where we have a lot of chinese coming across. again, i think people are under

the impression these are largely mexican, central american folks, i was surprised to hear from my guide that they pointed out this is the bend where we see a lot of chinese coming across. which is, by the way, typical of what i've seen in other regions. this is people from all around the world. they also pointed out that one of the reasons so many people are coming here, they come here because the drug cartels are making money off them and advertising on social media all around the world. be it central america, be it brazil, be it peru, be it india or pakistan or lang bay -- bangladesh, the drug cartels are making money on these folks. the further you come, the more they make per american. maybe they're getting six or seven thousand dollars for

mexican, maybe nine thousand or 10 thousand for central american, maybe 20,000 for asia. one more time, i repeat things up here i find almost hard to believe but one more time i was told by the border patrol that right now the mexican drug cartels make more money smuggling people across the border than drugs. and that's really saying something. so in addition to the other problems, we are strengthening the financial hold the drug cartels have on mexico and to a lesser degree on the united states. it is not rocket science how to stop this. you stop it by going back to the migrant protection protocol in which people coming here were held in mexico pending a hearing. when i talk about the

nongetaways, about 120,000 a month, these folks are let in the united states and told to show up for a hearing at some time. they rarely show up. when people are paying $10,000 or $15,000 to get this far they would not come here in the first place if they were on the mexican side of the border. people are not going to pay $15,000 to sit in mexico and hope a hearing goes their way. so we should go back to the commonsense provisions we had just a year and a half ago and we quickly get back down to the 6,000 or 10,000 or 15,000 a month rather than the massive amount that's coming across the border. another benefit of not having so many people cross the border is we would decrease the number, the horrifically high number of drug overdoses we have in america.

these numbers have been repeated but i think the press is dropping the ball because they think since it's an old story it's not an important story. when i was elected to this job about seven years ago, about 7,000 americans a year were dying of drug overdoses. now it's over 100,000 americans. over twice as many -- twice as many americans die every year from drug overdoses in this country as died in 12 years in vietnam. the apathy of the biden administration on these numbers and quite frankly the apathy from the people in this chamber is stunning. 110,000 people are dying. not only does that by itself mean we have to do a lot more at the border, we should greatly increase the penalties for people who smuggle fentanyl or sell fentanyl in this country.

think about that. 110,000 people. think about their parents, think about their children, think about their siblings. as for the rest of their life they're going to carry that death with them. and what do we get from this administration? nothing. the border is not a priority. we don't care how much fentanyl comes here. so again my request to this body and the request from the biden administration, show a little bit of sympathy for the families or the people who use these drugs die and care a little bit about the future of america. in some years over00,000 people are sworn as new citizens. nobody complains. they've been in the country five or six years. they've proven they're not going to go on welfare. they've proven they're not going to commit crimes. i have attended their ceremonies, they make one feel very good about being an american. i don't know why we wouldn't

want to have everybody come here under those circumstances. rather than this massive increase of people coming across the border. the next topic which should be discussed, and every congressman who didn't spend the last two weeks in their house heard about it is the dramatic amount of inflation that's out here. one thing that bothers me and it bothers me about my own party is i don't think we spend enough time talking where the inflation came from. it came from excessive government spending and the need of the federal reserve to, in essence, print money to deal with that spending. i want to point out that this was not a surprise. i personally, i could say who am i? personally pointed out at the time the original stimulus package that president biden

signed almost immediately upon getting -- coming into office, the $1.9 trillion stimulus package, predictably caused this dramatic increase in cost of food, cost of oil certainly, cost of housing. i want to remind people that larry somers, key economist, committee economic adviser to barack obama, said at the time that this was the least responsible economic policy in 40 years. that's what barack obama's economic adviser said. but instead we got from the other side of the aisle, they ignored mr. somers' concerns, they ignored the concerns of the republicans, and upon president biden taking office, whoosh, a new $1.9 trillion stimulus package. soon thereafter, they added to that an over$1 trillion infrastructure bill. which was bipartisan because

they got a few irresponsible republican senators to vote for it. but again, outside of the regular budget process, these massive bills, and predictably what happened is what larry somers and quite frankly me and many republicans said was going to happen, dramatic increase in inflation. huge increases in the money supply. increases in the money supply even greater than we saw in the 1970's under the carter inflation. it is such a dangerous path we're taking. and i think in the future as president biden continues to ask for more spending and i think the level of spending asked for in the regular budget is excessive in its own right, over 12% increase in nondefense spending there, it would be good if not just the republicans, because we're in the minority, but the democrats as well, would stand up to president biden and say no. we cannot have more inflation.

inflation used to be known, what it is, is a regressive tax on the public. the average person spends more on gas, the average middle class person, spend more on gas than the wily well off person. they spend more on housing. they spend more on food. this is a policy that harms the middle class and harms the poor, quite frankly, for a more than the billionaires which have such influence politically and get so involved in the last election. i know there were times where republicans stood up to president trump when he wanted to issue new checks. on some of his covid bills. and voted no. it would be refreshing in the future if we had some democrats stand up and say, i voted for you, president biden, but this spending was just irresponsible and out of control and i cannot stand with you. i would love it in the

appropriation bills if we pass in the current fiscal year had no increase at all. that's not a dramatic thing. they should be cut dramatically. but it would be good if both republicans and democrats got together and said, we're going to go back to sequester sort of increases. things we saw under barack obama even, and try hold the increases into under 1% or perhaps nothing because it's going to take quite a while to recover for the excessive covid spending, as well as the huge stimulus package that president biden led off with. this is not something that is a surprise. it's not something caused by ukraine. it's something that every middle schooler should know. you cannot just print money. and not have a huge impact on inflation. the next thing we're going to look at here tonight is quite

frankly the reason i ran for the job. and what i thought was the major problem in america. and still believe other than the border which maybe is nudged by it or the threat of some catastrophic war in europe, and that is the role that the federal government has played in the breakdown of the american family. the number of children born without a father in the home was under 5% before world war ii. and kind of in the golden age of america that's what was the norm. it's hard to believe anybody would not want the nuclear family to be the standard that american children grow up in.

however, we do know that karl marx and there's this romance with socialism that permeates part of the democrat party, permeates a lot of our academic institutions, karl marx felt that we had to destroy the american family. as i've said many times before, black lives black lives matter on their website said they wanted to get rid of the western-prescribed nuclear family and it is an insult and mothers and fathers are common everywhere. but it is parent that the plaque lives matter wanted to get rid of the nuclear family and karl mmp ar exmp said he wanted to get rid of it and very few

children not having mom and dads and 0% of the children born in america born without mom and dad at home. it didn't happen. it happened because this institution because i think is the worst president, lyndon johnson began a war on poverty. he began to put the government in a position which they would take care of the children. so in other words, they substituted the government for the father in the home and quickly we refed the moipt which ramped from the middle 60's to the 90's and now is on the upward climb again and 40% of the children go home, one parent. some parents are able to swing it and do a good job but it is

difficult to raise kids in that circumstance and the statistics show it. how has this body responded? it has increased the incentives to not form a nuclear family. right now, all of the government transfer payments, medical care, food stamps and earned income tax payment and tanf payments are conditioned about families being in poverty. a lot of people that are considered in and air companied apartment and ierch-phones and you are considered in poverty if you are not earning a great deal of money and the bag things you

are getting can exceed that of what a working parent save frequently a father in the home can provide. provided you don't get married to a guy who has much of an income, we are going to give you a nice apartment than people who are not on the system yet and give you free food and when i talk to the clerks and they said the food is more expensive than what they can afford. and free health care and additional checks of some basis, tanf chicks, you could -- checks, you could wiped up where you are better off fine shale not getting married. this was, i think the biggest

policy mistakes in perhaps hundreds of years. the decision in the 1960's, to in essence have the government replace the husband and so many of the problems including the crime problems that we addressed or tried to address in the gun bills that were passed actually wouldn't be near the problem we are had we not destroy the american family that karl marx wanted. and it is the bag of things one gets, efforts have been made throughout the last year and a half to push more money in the system for people who are for sing the parents, could be man, could be woman, single parents

who are not married. the efforts to earn the increase and efforts to put more low-income housing and i talked to some of the more liberal people who administer the low-income housing. they said it's a good program but they are getting nicer housing and you talk to the clerk at the grocery store and getting nicer grossries and people getting low-income housing are sometimes getting better accommodations than people who are off on their own, couples starting out. in any event, i think if there is one thing that i would like to have the republican party do if we get the both houses and

the presidency again is to make a concerted effort to change these welfare programs so never again will the united states be in the business of encouraging families without both parents particularly encouraging families without a father at home. the results of lippedon johnson's policies have been written about for 50 years and daniel moynihan or robert recollecter. this breakdown in the family has ruined america or causing the moral decline. the u.s. government and people in this body wanted to take money and give it to people living a certain lifestyle and take it it.

so i throngly encourage including republican leadership if we take control of this house two years from now with the presidency to make the number one priority is flipping around these welfare programs which have done so much to lead to the moral decline that we have in america today. i realize it stands up to the media and former democrat mayor of milwaukee. and i don't know if he uses that word and take up to and timely getting the strength of the american family back where it was in the 1960's and 1950's where our schools were doing a better job and the crime wasn't

where it is. and things like the murder rate because of improved murder care and which is just apply pros throws but one of the effects of lyndon johnson's war on the family. so, i leave that goal for both the republicans and democrats and stop and think what they can do to get the american family back where it was 60 years ago. those are some of what i consider the may swror issues in america, issues that should be talked about today and quite frankly of more significance than some of the things than the media talks about. i hope when we take our break near the end of june that we do something to address the border

that president briden and address the huge number of drug overdosees and the people who died because of this problem. i hope we begin to address the breakdown of the family that just didn't happen. it happened by design of the government. and do something about the excessive spending as a result of this excessive spending and must make it so difficult forked as we can have. and thank you for giving me this time and i yield the remainder of my time.

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