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Mr. McGovern: Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 453 and ask for its immediate consideration.

The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

H. Res. 453

Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2446) to reauthorize the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002, and for other purposes. The first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI. General debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed one hour equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. After general debate the bill shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. The bill shall be considered as read. Notwithstanding clause 11 of rule XVIII, no amendment to the bill shall be in order except those printed in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution. Each such amendment may be offered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. All points of order against such amendments are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI. At the conclusion of consideration of the bill for amendment the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the House with such amendments as may have been adopted. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill and amendments thereto to final passage without intervening motion except one motion to recommit with or without instructions.

Sec. 2. During consideration in the House of H.R. 2446 pursuant to this resolution, notwithstanding the operation of the previous question, the Chair may postpone further consideration of the bill to such time as may be designated by the Speaker.

The Speaker pro tempore: The gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern) is recognized for 1 hour.

Mr. McGovern: Mr. Speaker, for purposes of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Lincoln Diaz-Balart). All time yielded during consideration of this rule is for debate only.

I yield myself such time as I may consume.

General Leave

Mr. McGovern: Mr. Speaker, I also ask unanimous consent that all Members be given 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks on House Resolution 453.

The Speaker pro tempore: Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Massachusetts?

There was no objection.

Mr. McGovern: Mr. Speaker, House Resolution 453 provides for consideration of H.R. 2446, the Afghanistan Freedom and Security Support Act of 2007 under a structured rule that makes in order all of the amendments that were submitted to the Rules Committee, except for those withdrawn by their sponsors.

I want to acknowledge and express my respect for the work of Chairman Lantos and Ranking Member Ros-Lehtinen for bringing such a fine example of bipartisan cooperation and collaboration before the House for consideration.

Following the ouster of the Taliban regime in late 2001, the United States, the United Nations and the international community embarked on what they hoped would be a comprehensive assistance program to help the new Afghan president, of President Hamid Karzai, establish a new democracy, rebuild the Afghan economy and provide for the general well- being of the Afghan people.

Regrettably, after a most promising start, progress has slowed in most parts of the country. Remnants of the Taliban continue to resist the new government and are reorganizing and strengthening their networks from neighboring countries. Instability has increased, including the introduction of suicide bombings against U.S. soldiers, NATO troops, Afghan officials, and civilians and international and Afghan humanitarian aid workers.

Narcotics production threatens to overwhelm the country. According to UN studies, a large percentage of Afghans, including farmers, laborers, traffickers, war lords, insurgents, and officials participate in and benefit from illegal poppy trade.

Congress first addressed the issue aiding Afghanistan by passing the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002, which established a reconstruction program, mandated a relief coordinator, provided support to the NATO-led international security forces, and gave new security assistance authority to our President.

In addition to food aid, refugee relief and other forms of emergency disaster assistance, the United States implemented a wide-ranging assistance program for Afghanistan, including aid for schools, hospitals and farms, and support to reestablish the participation of women and girls in society, education and the workplace.

The legislation the House will take up today, H.R. 2446, reauthorizes programs created by the original Afghanistan Freedom Support Act, creates a new focus on counternarcotics efforts, and provides for stronger and more enhanced oversight of U.S. strategic goals and performance in Afghanistan.

Overall, H.R. 2446 provides modest increases in authorized levels for humanitarian, development, democracy building and security assistance. I cannot stress enough how important it is that Afghanistan succeed in establishing and consolidating a representative government and rebuilding the country's economy and civil society.

When we overthrew the Taliban regime, we made promises to the Afghan people with the full backing of the international community. We cannot renege on those promises. We cannot fail the people of Afghanistan who came together in support of a common vision for the future.

I am very, very concerned that many of the difficulties confronting Afghanistan today, especially in the areas of security, are due in large part to taking our eye off the ball in Afghanistan and exhausting our economic and military resources in Iraq. We had the chance to make Afghanistan secure. We failed to do so because we chose not to invest the necessary resources in Afghanistan, but, rather, to transfer our attention and our resources to Iraq. We are now playing catch up in Afghanistan as the situation there is deteriorating.

I applaud the chairman and members of the Foreign Affairs Committee for this timely reauthorization.

Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Florida: Mr. Speaker, I'd like to thank the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern) for the time; and I yield myself such time as I may consume.

As we all know, Mr. Speaker, after the defeat of the Soviet Army in Afghanistan, the brutal Taliban took over the country. The Taliban ruled that country through terror, through systematic assassination, torture, intimidation. They denied Afghans all personal freedoms and made women fifth-class citizens. They also provided safe harbor to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. It is from that safe harbor that al Qaeda was able to plan and train for the horrendous attack of September 11, 2001, against the United States of America.

Following the fall of the Taliban, due in large part to the heroic assistance of the United States Armed Forces and coalition forces from many, many countries throughout the world, the international community worked together under the auspices of the Bonn Compact to make possible what was really a wonderful, historic accomplishment, a democratically elected government in Afghanistan.

In 2004, Afghanistan adopted a new constitution and held successful presidential elections. Parliamentary elections followed in 2005. Factions that once fought on the battlefield now, after decades of violence, debate and resolve their differences in parliament with ballots instead of bullets.

However, Mr. Speaker, there are remnants of the former Taliban regime, along with al Qaeda, that are intent on overthrowing the democratically elected government of Afghanistan. The Taliban is using suicide bombings against U.S. and NATO troops, against Afghan officials, against civilians, both international and Afghan humanitarian workers, assistance workers.

Opium poppy cultivation and drug trafficking have become significant negative factors in Afghanistan's fragile political and economic order. Afghanistan currently accounts, unfortunately, for a majority of the world's illicit opium production.

As the democratically elected government faces grave challenges, we must not turn our backs on that young democracy. We must continue our support as that country moves from a brutal dictatorship to a consolidated democracy.

In 2002, this Congress passed the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act. That law provided both economic and military aid to the young Afghan democracy.

This legislation will reauthorize the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act through the year 2010. The programs reauthorized in this bill focus on countering narcotics production and boost security efforts to protect United States and NATO forces as well as Afghan officials and international assistance workers. This legislation calls for the President to set out a detailed strategy for Afghanistan and provide reports on progress there.

The Afghanistan Freedom and Security Support Act of 2007, this legislation that we bring to the floor today, builds on congressional initiatives enacted in 2002 and 2004; and I again congratulate the leaders, who in those Congresses back in 2002 and 2004, worked so hard to ensure that these initiatives that are being reauthorized today were passed. And these initiatives now are, as I say, reauthorized in this legislation, H.R. 2466, that will be before the House today.

Among those initiatives passed in 2002, 2004 are the creation of multiple programs, but this legislation calls for the creation of a coordinator role for the development of a coherent, consistent counter- narcotics strategy, and to strengthen the fight against the drug trade's links to totalitarian Islamic terrorism.

We also insured in this legislation that initiatives passed in 2002 and 2004 continued, such as prohibition on assistance to Afghan officials who are found to be supporting criminal activities such as narcotics trafficking.

This bill, good legislation, Mr. Speaker. This bill reaffirms the commitment of the United States to support Afghanistan in its transition to a stable, representative democracy.

This bill, good legislation, Mr. Speaker, that we bring to the floor today, authorizes the appropriation of $1.7 billion annually for humanitarian and economic assistance and $320 million annually for military assistance during fiscal 2008 to 2010.

This is important legislation. It's important legislation for the fight against the international drug trade and totalitarian Islamists, dangerous remnants of the defeated Taliban, the Taliban who were overthrown, thank God.

Remnants of the Taliban are festering, and they use deadly tactics against United States and NATO forces, as well as Afghans and humanitarian workers. Those people have no scruples, and we only have to remember, Mr. Speaker what they did to the Afghan people when they were in power. So they use horrendous tactics, brutal tactics without limits against our troops and other international forces that are in Afghanistan pursuant to the request of the democratically elected government to secure the peace.

And, furthermore, Mr. Speaker, poppy cultivation and opium production continue to directly support insurgents, militias and terrorist groups. In the face of these very difficult challenges, we cannot allow that fledgling democracy, that budding democracy striving to be a stable society, to fail.

With regard to process, our friends on the other side of the aisle, again, the majority had another opportunity yesterday in the Rules Committee to open the process and comfort with an open rule. They voted down an amendment by our ranking member of the Committee on Rules to bring this legislation forth under an open rule. Yes, they made in order all of the amendments that were presented before the committee, and that's commendable. But why not come forth with an open rule? I think that was disappointing.

Let's not fail to see, however, Mr. Speaker, that this is, this underlying legislation that's being brought forward is extremely important. It's a very important piece of legislation.

And by the way, with regard, again, to process, precisely since it's such an important project that as a Nation we're working on and there's great national consensus on the need to do everything we can to consolidate, to help consolidate the representative democracy and the peace in Afghanistan, precisely I think there would have been no harm in allowing, as this debate proceeds, to allow any Member who's hearing the debate who has an idea for an amendment to bring it forth. That's why an open rule is appropriate.

I'd like to thank, Mr. Speaker, the chairman, the distinguished chairman of the International Relations Committee, Mr. Lantos, for his hard work on this important facet of our foreign policy and the legislation that's being brought forth today, as also the distinguished ranking member, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, who's also worked very hard on this legislation, and other members of the International Relations Committee. I want to thank them for their hard work on this important issue, which constitutes, as I said, a project where the American people, in consensus fashion, are moving forward and doing everything possible so that our friends and allies in Afghanistan can survive and defeat the brutal Taliban and al Qaeda.

This legislation brought forward today is an important bill. It is of the utmost importance to our national security and obviously to the region where Afghanistan is and, of course, to the people, to the noble people of Afghanistan, as they continue their efforts to consolidate their representative democracy and achieve peace and prosperity in their great country.

Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. McGovern: Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Let me just say that, again, the underlying legislation is incredibly important. We do have an obligation, a moral obligation, to the people of Afghanistan. And, quite frankly, from a national security perspective, that is where our attention should be and where our attention should have been. It is regrettable, it is regrettable that the President of the United States and his administration and many in this Chamber have chosen to take their eye off what our responsibility is in Afghanistan over these last several years, and instead, we find ourselves bogged down in a quagmire in Iraq.

Those who are responsible for September 11, those who are responsible for the murder of so many of our citizens, they were in Afghanistan. That is where al Qaeda was. And instead of holding al Qaeda accountable in Afghanistan, instead of making sure that our resources go to promoting democracy and stability in Afghanistan, instead of focusing on this ever-growing drug problem in Afghanistan, we have spent over half a trillion dollars in Iraq. And that is regrettable. And, quite frankly, when history looks back on how these last few years were conducted, they are going to take note of the fact that we missed important opportunities to better protect our country by taking our eye off of what our responsibility was in Afghanistan.

And let me just say about the rule, I will apologize to my colleague from Florida for a rule that we bring to the floor today that makes every single amendment that was offered in the Rules Committee and not withdrawn by its author in order. Every Republican amendment, every Democratic amendment. And I know that that is different from the way things used to be when the Republicans were in charge of the Rules Committee. They had a tendency to just shut us all out routinely. But things are different now, and under the Democratic administration here in the Congress, we are trying to make sure that all points of view have an opportunity to be heard on the floor.

So I am happy that we have this rule, and, again, I apologize to the gentleman that it is not like what they used to do.

With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from Vermont, a member of the Rules Committee (Mr. Welch).

Mr. Welch of Vermont: Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for yielding.

Mr. Speaker, in April, I had the opportunity to join five of my colleagues on a delegation trip to Afghanistan. And our six-member delegation, three Democrats and three Republicans, spent 2 days in Iraq, 2 days in Afghanistan. And we had an opportunity to speak with American, Iraqi, Afghani soldiers; military leaders; security forces; government leaders; and civil servants. And at every turn in our trip, we encountered these extraordinary men and women from our country that are doing incredible work in very dangerous and trying circumstances. And I had the opportunity to meet troops from my State as my colleagues met troops from their States, and all of us were incredibly proud at the selflessness of these troops who are performing the missions that we have assigned to them.

But the circumstances in each country and each war are very different. Iraq is in a full-blown civil war. The British, our last remaining significant ally in Iraq, will soon withdraw, and American forces are now viewed as occupiers. The situation is much different in Afghanistan. And I came away, as did my colleagues, with the clear impression that there is will on the part of Afghani leaders to step up and to take control of their future.

In Afghanistan, we have 37 allied nations joining with us to help the Afghanis drive out the Taliban and to restore order and to create a future for that country.

In fact, the differences between these two situations in Iraq and Afghanistan was best summed up by three soldiers I spoke to who had completed full tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I asked, What is the difference in your experience? And the soldiers said, In Iraq it seems as though everyone is interested in fighting each other and us. In Afghanistan everyone is interested in fighting for their future.

What this legislation recognizes is that we have partners, 37 other nations, working with us in Afghanistan, and we have a partner, the government and people of Afghanistan, in our effort to restore order and to create a future for that country.

H.R. 2446, the Afghanistan Freedom and Security Support Act, reinforces the United States' long-term commitment to support Afghanistan in its efforts to confront its challenges and to complete its transformation into a secure and prosperous future.

This bill enhances the narcotics operations. More importantly, it provides incentives to encourage greater participation from our NATO allies in the International Security and Assistance Force. If we have learned anything, it is that we have got to work together and not alone.

Mr. Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Florida: Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

I appreciate the gentleman from Massachusetts' kind words. What I had been referring to before with regard to the process is that I don't believe that any harm would have been done if the majority would have kept its promise of open rules. It is the majority that promised during the campaign that they were going to bring a significant amount, as many as possible, of bills to the floor under open rules. And this is a noncontroversial bill, and, yes, they made the amendments in order by the Members who went to the Rules Committee, and that is appreciated.

So what harm would it have caused if this legislation would have been brought forth under an open rule, as was proposed, in amendment form, by the ranking member of Rules? That is what my point was. No harm would have been done.

And, simply, I would like to remind the majority of the promises that the majority made during the campaign of bringing forth legislation under open rules. So I don't believe that any harm would have accrued if they would have kept their promise. That's all.

But with regard to the apology, I certainly appreciate the gentleman from Massachusetts' kind words, Mr. Speaker.

And, again, with regard to this underlying legislation, which is of extreme importance, there is a national consensus in the United States that we not only have an obligation, but we must do everything in our power so that the democratically elected government in Afghanistan survives, and that is what this legislation is about. We will have other continuing debates on nearby countries and what our obligations are or what is, rather, in our national interest with regard to the stability in neighboring countries of Afghanistan as well and in trying to prevent neighboring countries from becoming basically safe harbors for international terrorism.

Those are legitimate debates.

Today, the legislation being brought forth, Mr. Speaker, is one where there is a national consensus in the United States, thank God, fortunately, and that is that with regard to that country that was for so long oppressed by the brutal Taliban and that had given sanctuary to the terrorists that carried out the mass murders of September 11, 2001, against the United States of America, that we certainly have an obligation to do everything we can to make certain that the people of Afghanistan have as much ability, that they have the wherewithal to proceed along a path towards a consolidated, representative democracy in peace and with prosperity.

That is why we agree that this legislation is very important; and it reauthorizes critical programs, programs of critical importance with regard to our assistance to Afghanistan that were authorized initially and appropriated by the Congress of the United States in 2002 and 2004.

Mr. Speaker, having said that, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. McGovern: Mr. Speaker, again, I regret that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are not pleased with the rule that makes all of the amendments that were offered in order, but I think that that is the way we should do business around here. It is in sharp contrast to the way they used to do business when the Republicans were in the majority, where there was a tendency to shut everything down, to close everything up, to not allow Members of the minority to be able to have amendments. But we're different, and I'm glad we are different.

On the underlying legislation, there should be unanimity in this House about the importance of passing this legislation. It is important that we keep our commitment to the people of Afghanistan. It is important that we keep our commitment to the people of the United States, who after September 11 we said, in the Congress and in the White House, that we are going to do everything we can do bring to justice, to hold to account those who are responsible for September 11.

Unfortunately, today, we are not anywhere near where we should be in Afghanistan; and the reason for that is because we have diverted our resources, we have diverted our soldiers and our political capital to a never-ending war in Iraq. We have put our soldiers in the middle of a civil war in Iraq. We have spent over half a trillion dollars in Iraq; and, as a result, those resources have not been sent to Afghanistan; and I think that is regrettable.

But we need to pass this bill today. I hope it passes with a unanimous vote. I urge my colleagues to support the rule.

Mr. Speaker, I urge a "yes" vote on the previous question and on the rule.

Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the previous question on the resolution.

The previous question was ordered.

The Speaker pro tempore: The question is on the resolution.

The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the ayes appeared to have it.

Mr. Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Florida: Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.

The yeas and nays were ordered.

The Speaker pro tempore: Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, this 15- minute vote on adopting House Resolution 453 will be followed by 5- minute votes on the motion to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 1716, the motion to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 632, and the motion to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 964.

The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 220, nays 195, not voting 17, as follows:

Roll No. 431 - On Agreeing to the Resolution H. Res. 453
YEAS--220
Abercrombie	Ackerman	Allen	Altmire	Andrews
Arcuri	Baird	Baldwin	Barrow	Bean
Berkley	Berman	Berry	Bishop (GA)	Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer	Boren	Boswell	Boucher	Boyd (FL)
Boyda (KS)	Brady (PA)	Braley (IA)	Brown, Corrine	Butterfield
Capps	Capuano	Cardoza	Carnahan	Carney
Carson	Castor	Chandler	Clarke	Clay
Cleaver	Clyburn	Cohen	Cooper	Costa
Costello	Courtney	Cramer	Crowley	Cuellar
Cummings	Davis (AL)	Davis (CA)	Davis (IL)	Davis, Lincoln
DeFazio	DeGette	Delahunt	DeLauro	Dicks
Dingell	Doggett	Donnelly	Doyle	Edwards
Ellison	Ellsworth	Emanuel	Engel	Eshoo
Etheridge	Farr	Fattah	Filner	Frank (MA)
Giffords	Gillibrand	Gonzalez	Gordon	Green, Al
Green, Gene	Grijalva	Gutierrez	Hall (NY)	Hare
Harman	Herseth Sandlin	Higgins	Hill	Hinchey
Hinojosa	Hirono	Hodes	Holt	Honda
Hooley	Hoyer	Inslee	Israel	Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)	Johnson (GA)	Johnson, E. B.	Jones (OH)	Kagen
Kanjorski	Kaptur	Kennedy	Kildee	Kilpatrick
Kind	Klein (FL)	Kucinich	Lampson	Langevin
Lantos	Larsen (WA)	Larson (CT)	Lee	Levin
Lewis (GA)	Lipinski	Loebsack	Lofgren, Zoe	Lowey
Lynch	Mahoney (FL)	Maloney (NY)	Markey	Marshall
Matheson	Matsui	McCarthy (NY)	McCollum (MN)	McDermott
McGovern	McIntyre	McNerney	McNulty	Meehan
Meeks (NY)	Melancon	Michaud	Miller (NC)	Miller, George
Mitchell	Mollohan	Moore (KS)	Moore (WI)	Moran (VA)
Murphy (CT)	Murphy, Patrick	Murtha	Napolitano	Neal (MA)
Oberstar	Obey	Olver	Ortiz	Pascrell
Pastor	Payne	Perlmutter	Peterson (MN)	Pomeroy
Price (NC)	Rahall	Rangel	Reyes	Rodriguez
Ross	Rothman	Roybal-Allard	Ruppersberger	Rush
Ryan (OH)	Salazar	Sanchez, Linda T.	Sanchez, Loretta	Sarbanes
Schakowsky	Schiff	Schwartz	Scott (GA)	Scott (VA)
Serrano	Sestak	Shea-Porter	Sherman	Shuler
Sires	Skelton	Slaughter	Smith (WA)	Snyder
Solis	Space	Spratt	Stark	Stupak
Sutton	Tanner	Tauscher	Taylor	Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)	Tierney	Towns	Udall (CO)	Udall (NM)
Van Hollen	Velazquez	Visclosky	Walz (MN)	Wasserman Schultz
Waters	Watson	Watt	Weiner	Wexler
Wilson (OH)	Woolsey	Wu	Wynn	Yarmuth
NAYS--195
Aderholt	Akin	Alexander	Bachmann	Bachus
Baker	Barrett (SC)	Bartlett (MD)	Barton (TX)	Biggert
Bilbray	Bilirakis	Bishop (UT)	Blackburn	Blunt
Boehner	Bonner	Bono	Boozman	Boustany
Brady (TX)	Brown (SC)	Brown-Waite, Ginny	Buchanan	Burgess
Burton (IN)	Buyer	Calvert	Camp (MI)	Campbell (CA)
Cannon	Capito	Carter	Castle	Chabot
Coble	Cole (OK)	Conaway	Crenshaw	Cubin
Culberson	Davis (KY)	Davis, David	Davis, Tom	Deal (GA)
Dent	Diaz-Balart, L.	Diaz-Balart, M.	Doolittle	Drake
Dreier	Duncan	Ehlers	Emerson	English (PA)
Everett	Fallin	Feeney	Ferguson	Flake
Forbes	Fortenberry	Fossella	Foxx	Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen	Gallegly	Garrett (NJ)	Gerlach	Gilchrest
Gillmor	Gingrey	Gohmert	Goode	Goodlatte
Granger	Graves	Hall (TX)	Hastert	Hastings (WA)
Hayes	Heller	Hensarling	Herger	Hobson
Hoekstra	Hulshof	Inglis (SC)	Issa	Jindal
Johnson (IL)	Johnson, Sam	Jones (NC)	Jordan	Keller
King (IA)	King (NY)	Kingston	Kirk	Kline (MN)
Knollenberg	Kuhl (NY)	LaHood	Lamborn	Latham
LaTourette	Lewis (CA)	Lewis (KY)	Linder	LoBiondo
Lucas	Lungren, Daniel E.	Mack	Manzullo	Marchant
McCarthy (CA)	McCaul (TX)	McCotter	McCrery	McHenry
McHugh	McKeon	McMorris Rodgers	Mica	Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)	Miller, Gary	Moran (KS)	Murphy, Tim	Musgrave
Myrick	Neugebauer	Nunes	Paul	Pearce
Pence	Peterson (PA)	Petri	Pitts	Platts
Poe	Porter	Price (GA)	Pryce (OH)	Putnam
Radanovich	Ramstad	Regula	Rehberg	Reichert
Renzi	Reynolds	Rogers (AL)	Rogers (KY)	Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher	Ros-Lehtinen	Roskam	Royce	Ryan (WI)
Sali	Saxton	Schmidt	Sensenbrenner	Sessions
Shadegg	Shays	Shimkus	Simpson	Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)	Smith (TX)	Souder	Stearns	Sullivan
Terry	Thornberry	Tiahrt	Tiberi	Turner
Upton	Walberg	Walden (OR)	Walsh (NY)	Wamp
Weldon (FL)	Weller	Westmoreland	Whitfield	Wicker
Wilson (NM)	Wilson (SC)	Wolf	Young (AK)	Young (FL)
NOT VOTING--17
Baca	Becerra	Cantor	Conyers	Davis, Jo Ann
Hastings (FL)	Holden	Hunter	Jefferson	Meek (FL)
Nadler	Pallone	Pickering	Shuster	Tancredo
Waxman	Welch (VT)

Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

The Speaker pro tempore (during the vote) Members are advised 2 minutes remain in this vote.

Messrs. Hastert, Linder, Terry, Goodlatte, Dent, Kirk, Saxton, Gingrey and Royce changed their vote from "yea" to "nay."

So the resolution was agreed to.

The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.

A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.