mr. fortenberry: i thank the gentleman and i thank you both, mr. chairman, as well as the ranking member, for this respectful dialogue. these are tough judgment calls, i understand that. in my judgment the risks do not outweigh the potential rewards here. until we have a strong, significant multinational strategy to contain this contagion, i believe an ad hoc policy, which it appears to me we now have, by sending weapons into this area potentially could make the situation worse. as congressman gibson pointed out, it is the responsibility of congress to potentially revisit this issue if we need to reassess the situation and it becomes much clearer and necessitates u.s. action. but now, to me, and micon shens, it's important to say -- my conscience, it's important to say, last year we had a very strong bipartisan vote that demanded that u.s. troops would not, that the united states would not enter into military conflict in iraq -- in syria, excuse me, in syria. the american people spoke loudly and clearly and i think this is simply an extension of th

mr. fortenberry of nebraska. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. these in support of a recorded vote will rise and be counted. northward. this is a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote the yeas re -- the chair: on this vote, the yace are 167 and the nays are 244. the amendment is not adopted. the unfinished business is request for a recorded vote on amendment offered by mr. grayson on which further proceedings were postponed and the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. grayson of florida. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. snim, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. -minute vote.- [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation wi

mr. berman our former colleague and fortenberry and chris smith and also signed into law by george bush further codified about ruling that we are not going to put little children into shackles. it's true the government isn't using expedited removal to deport these children without an immigration hearing. why is that? because the law prohibited. they are following the law saysw says they must do and this was the law signed in when george bush was president and the republican congress. the regional commander terry and traces requires a regional solution and i am hopeful that some of the steps announced last week to encourage the demand that governments of guatemala, el salvador and honduras to take action to prevent the violence against these children will have an effect. i am also going to be looking closely at how we detained families as the chairman is correct we also have to families with young children and as we know we are opening up additional facilities for the families to be housed. i'm sure the chair man will recall from the refugee act of 1980 as well as the illegal immigration reform