mr. engle votes aye. mr. green. mr. green votes aye. mrs. caps. mrs. caps votes aye. mr. doyle votes aye. shekowkk sirks ri votes aye. mr. insly votes aye. ms. baldwin. mr. ross. mr. ross votes no. mr. mathisson votes no. mr. butterfield. mr. butterfield votes aye. mr. barrow votes no. ms. matsui votes aye. mrs. christianson votes aye. ms. castor votes aye. chairman upton. votes no. >> other members wishing? mr. barton. >> mr. barton votes no. mrs. blackburn votes no. mr. gartner? mr. marky. >> no. mr. marky votes aye. >> mr. paloan. >> votes aye. >> other members wishing to cast a vote? seeing none, the clerk will report the tally. mr. waxman? >> mr. waxman votes aye. mr. chairman, there were 19 ayes and 34 nays. >> 19 ayes, 3434 n nays. >> correct. >> not agreed to. >> i would like the record to indicate the brocaw vote had i been here i would have voted no. i had a constituent, but had i been here, i would have voted no, please. >> fine. >> the vote tallied stays the same, but we will note that for the record. the dingle amendment is not agreed to. the next is the esch

mr. engle votes aye. >> mr. green votes no. mr. duget votes no. mr. caps votes aye. mr. doyle. mr. doyle votes no. mr. shekowsky votes aye. mr. congal ez votes no. mr. insly votes no. ms. baldwin. mr. ross. mr. ross

mr. engle, you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm one of the people ms. eschew described. i tend to be sympathetic to the pipeline because i do believe that we have tough choices to make. they're not easy, they're not black and white, and they are all shades of gray, and i think basically we can benefit from the pipeline, but i want it done right. i don't want a kangaroo court, i don't want something that's preordained. i want it done right. now, the majority -- i've been in the house for a while now, and the majority can do whatever it wants, it's majority rule. i've always felt even when we were in the majority that it kind of makes sense to try to broaden the intent to get more people involved with legislation. you can pass whatever you want on a narrow, essentially, party line vote, but to me it doesn't make any sense to try to ram this through. yes, it's true that maybe some of the amendments are looked at in an attempt to slow things down. each person here has his or her own priorities. that's certainly not true with me. i

. >> at this time, i recognize mr. engle of new york for five minutes. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. i want to reiterate and mention some of the topics that have been mentioned. i want to emphasize that. but before i do that, i want to thank you for the job you've done -- the excellent job you've done. you're on the hot seat. it's a tough job. but the work that you do is so important. and one of the frustrations that i have had, frankly, with this majority in congress is that the attacks on the epa and the attacks on clean air and water and all of these things are very, very frustrating to me. i believe that the role that you play is such an important role and that we ought to be facilitating the thing that is you do, rather than impeding them. so i want to thank you personally for the job you've done. and i am glad that your agency is there and i am glad that you're doing the work that the american people want us to do. people want clean air and clean water and all of these other things. and i just wanted to state that. >>> i wanted to add my voice to ms. castor who spoke