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common-sense piece of legislation, and I support it fully. Additionally, I firmly believe that 

our nation must protect human life at all 

stages, and unborn children are no exception. 

During my time in Congress, I have stood 

against abortion and supported numerous 

pieces of pro-life legislation. I am also a member of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, and 

I will continue to fight to protect the lives of the 

unborn in any way I can. 

Mr. HOLT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in 

strong opposition to H.R. 3803, which would 

make abortions performed at 20 weeks gestation or later unlawful in the District of Columbia. 

Our first priorities in the House of Representatives must be helping to foster job creation and supporting middle class families. 

Instead, the Republicans once again have 

chosen to take up divisive social issues and 

continue their war on women with a radical assault on women’s health care. This time, we 

are discussing a bill that would be a dangerous intrusion into the lives of women as 

well as the governance of the District of Columbia. 

Once again, the Majority is asking Congress 

to play doctor. This bill is an attempt to ban 

safe, legal, and often medically-necessary 

abortion services for women in the District of 

Columbia without the consent of the city’s residents or representatives. It seems to me to be 

even unconstitutional. 

Even when the Republicans could have received input from District of Columbia representatives, they refused. Delegate ELEANOR

HOLMES NORTON was denied the opportunity 

to testify during a congressional hearing on 

this bill that would affect the health and safety 

of the women in the District of Columbia. 

Besides being misguided and offensive, 

H.R. 3803 is dangerous. This bill has only a 

narrow exception for the life of the woman. 

This bill has no exception at all for cases of 

rape or incest. 

It is clear that this legislation is part of a 

broader strategy to ban abortion everywhere 

not just in the District of Columbia. 

I oppose this anti-choice, anti-woman, and 

anti-District of Columbia bill and urge my colleagues to vote no on this dangerous piece of 

legislation. 

Ms. HIRONO. Mr. Speaker, I strongly oppose H.R. 3803, yet another assault on women’s personal decision making. 

In Hawaii, people tell me we should be talking about jobs and working together to get the 

economy moving. Instead, the House Republican Majority continues its assault on women. 

Debating divisive social issues isn’t going to 

help our economy or create one single job. 

A woman’s right to choose is a fundamental 

freedom—there is no place for politicians in individuals’ private medical decisions. 

H.R. 3803 restricts access to abortions in 

the District of Columbia after 20 weeks, regardless of who pays for the procedure. The 

bill wouldn’t even allow for abortion in the 

case of rape or incest, makes no exception for 

a woman’s health, and would require a woman 

to carry a nonviable fetus to term. 

A woman shouldn’t need to ask a politician 

for permission to make private medical decisions. H.R. 3803 would let politicians tell 

women what to do. 

I urge my colleagues to oppose this bill and 

get to work on the real issues people in Hawaii are most concerned about right now, creating jobs and moving our economy forward. 

Mr. MACK. Mr. Speaker, today the House of 

Representatives is taking action to protect the 

most vulnerable children in our nation’s capital. H.R. 3803, the ‘‘District of Columbia PainCapable Unborn Child Protection Act,’’ would 

limit the District’s extreme policy of allowing 

abortion for any reason, at any time, up until 

the moment of birth. Based on substantial research showing that a child has the capacity 

to feel pain starting at 20 weeks of development, we cannot in good conscience allow the 

District’s policy of permitting late-term abortions to stand. Although Congress has repeatedly prohibited the use of taxpayer money for 

abortions in the capital, the District currently 

has one of the most far-reaching abortion policies in the nation, permitting abortion on demand throughout all nine months of pregnancy. 

H.R. 3803 would ban abortions of pain-capable unborn children except to save the life 

of the mother. Under the Constitution, Congress and the President have ultimate responsibility for the governance of the capital, as Article I, Section 8, states that ‘‘Congress shall 

. . . exercise exclusive legislation in all cases 

whatsoever, over such District.’’ As a member 

of Congress who believes in the sanctity of 

human life, I am a strong supporter and cosponsor of this important legislation. I deeply 

regret that I must miss the vote on final passage, and would have proudly voted yes. 

Mr. MARCHANT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today 

in support of H.R. 3803, the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, 

authored by my colleague, Congressman 

TRENT FRANKS. I am an original cosponsor of 

this bill that would prohibit abortions in Washington, DC, after 20 weeks of pregnancy, except when the mother’s life is at risk. I am 

proud that a majority of the U.S. House of 

Representatives has joined me and cosponsored this bill. 

Ample scientific evidence shows that at 20 

weeks, fetuses can feel pain. Think about that 

for a moment. They feel it. 

This is especially upsetting because most 

late-term abortions involve procedures that are 

particularly heinous. Yet the Washington, DC, 

government allows abortions at any time for 

any reason, up until the moment of birth. This 

is unconscionable. The vast majority of Americans do not support a policy of ‘‘abortion on 

demand’’ after the point at which fetuses can 

feel pain. I urge my colleagues to join me in 

supporting H.R. 3803, the District of Columbia 

Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The 

question is on the motion offered by 

the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. 

FRANKS) that the House suspend the 

rules and pass the bill, H.R. 3803, as 

amended. 

The question was taken. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the 

opinion of the Chair, two-thirds being 

in the affirmative, the ayes have it. 

Mr. FRANKS of Arizona. 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, further proceedings on this question will be postponed. 

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ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER 

PRO TEMPORE 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, proceedings 

will resume on motions to suspend the 

rules previously postponed. 

Votes will be taken in the following 

order: 

S. 679, by the yeas and nays; 

H.R. 828, by the yeas and nays; 

H.R. 3803, by the yeas and nays. 

The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote. Remaining 

electronic votes will be conducted as 5- 

minute votes. 

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ACT OF 2011 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The unfinished business is the vote on the motion to suspend the rules and pass the 

bill (S. 679) to reduce the number of executive positions subject to Senate 

confirmation, on which the yeas and 

nays were ordered. 

The Clerk read the title of the bill. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The 

question is on the motion offered by 

the gentleman from Utah (Mr. 

CHAFFETZ) that the House suspend the 

rules and pass the bill. 

The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were—yeas 261, nays 

116, not voting 54, as follows: 

[Roll No. 537] 

YEAS—261 

Ackerman 

Altmire 

Amodei 

Andrews 

Baca 

Bachus 

Barber 

Barrow 

Bass (CA) 

Bass (NH) 

Becerra 

Berman 

Biggert 

Bilbray 

Bishop (NY) 

Blumenauer 

Bonamici 

Bonner 

Bono Mack 

Boren 

Boswell 

Brady (PA) 

Brady (TX) 

Braley (IA) 

Brown (FL) 

Butterfield 

Calvert 

Camp 

Cantor 

Capito 

Capps 

Capuano 

Carney 

Carson (IN) 

Carter 

Castor (FL) 

Chaffetz 

Chandler 

Chu 

Cicilline 

Clarke (MI) 

Clarke (NY) 

Clay 

Cleaver 

Clyburn 

Cohen 

Connolly (VA) 

Conyers 

Cooper 

Costa 

Costello 

Courtney 

Cravaack 

Critz 

Crowley 

Cuellar 

Cummings 

Davis (CA) 

Davis (IL) 

Davis (KY) 

DeFazio 

DeLauro 

Dent 

Deutch 

Diaz-Balart 

Dingell 

Dold 

Donnelly (IN) 

Doyle 

Dreier 

Edwards 

Ellison 

Ellmers 

Engel 

Eshoo 

Farr 

Fattah 

Fincher 

Flake 

Frank (MA) 

Franks (AZ) 

Frelinghuysen 

Fudge 

Gallegly 

Garamendi 

Gonzalez 

Goodlatte 

Granger 

Graves (MO) 

Green, Al 

Green, Gene 

Griffith (VA) 

Grijalva 

Grimm 

Guinta 

Guthrie 

Gutierrez 

Hahn 

Hanabusa 

Harper 

Hastings (FL) 

Hastings (WA) 

Heck 

Hensarling 

Herger 

Himes 

Hinchey 

Hinojosa 

Hochul 

Holden 

Holt 

Honda 

Hoyer 

Hultgren 

Hunter 

Hurt 

Israel 

Issa 

Johnson, E. B. 

Johnson, Sam 

Keating 

Kildee 

Kind 

King (NY) 

Kingston 

Kinzinger (IL) 

Kissell 

Langevin 

Larsen (WA) 

Larson (CT) 

Latham 

LaTourette 

Lee (CA) 

Levin 

Lewis (CA) 

Lipinski 

LoBiondo 

Loebsack 

Lofgren, Zoe 

Long 

Lowey 

Luja ́n 

Lungren, Daniel 

E. 

Lynch 

Maloney 

Markey 

Matheson 

Matsui 

McCarthy (CA) 

McCarthy (NY) 

McCollum 

McDermott 

McGovern 

McHenry 

McIntyre 

McKeon 

McMorris 

Rodgers 

McNerney 

Meehan 

Meeks 

Michaud 

Miller (MI) 

Miller (NC) 


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Miller, George 

Moran 

Murphy (CT) 

Myrick 

Nadler 

Napolitano 

Neal 

Nunes 

Olver 

Owens 

Pallone 

Pascrell 

Pelosi 

Perlmutter 

Peters 

Petri 

Pingree (ME) 

Platts 

Polis 

Price (GA) 

Price (NC) 

Quigley 

Rahall 

Rangel 

Reed 

Reichert 

Reyes 

Richardson 

Rivera 

Roby 

Rogers (AL) 

Rogers (MI) 

Rokita 

Ros-Lehtinen 

Roskam 

Ross (AR) 

Rothman (NJ) 

Roybal-Allard 

Runyan 

Ruppersberger 

Ryan (OH) 

Ryan (WI) 

Sa ́nchez, Linda 

T. 

Sanchez, Loretta 

Sarbanes 

Schakowsky 

Schiff 

Schock 

Schrader 

Schwartz 

Scott (SC) 

Scott (VA) 

Scott, David 

Sensenbrenner 

Serrano 

Sessions 

Sewell 

Sherman 

Shimkus 

Shuler 

Shuster 

Simpson 

Sires 

Slaughter 

Smith (NE) 

Smith (NJ) 

Smith (TX) 

Smith (WA) 

Speier 

Stark 

Stivers 

Sullivan 

Thompson (CA) 

Thompson (MS) 

Thompson (PA) 

Thornberry 

Tiberi 

Tierney 

Tipton 

Tonko 

Tsongas 

Turner (NY) 

Upton 

Van Hollen 

Vela ́ zquez 

Visclosky 

Walden 

Walz (MN) 

Wasserman 

Schultz 

Waters 

Watt 

Waxman 

Welch 

Whitfield 

Wilson (FL) 

Woolsey 

Yarmuth 

Young (AK) 

NAYS—116 

Adams 

Aderholt 

Amash 

Austria 

Bachmann 

Barletta 

Bartlett 

Barton (TX) 

Berg 

Bilirakis 

Bishop (UT) 

Black 

Blackburn 

Boustany 

Brooks 

Buchanan 

Bucshon 

Buerkle 

Burgess 

Burton (IN) 

Canseco 

Chabot 

Coble 

Coffman (CO) 

Cole 

Conaway 

Crawford 

Culberson 

Denham 

Duncan (SC) 

Duncan (TN) 

Emerson 

Farenthold 

Fitzpatrick 

Fleischmann 

Flores 

Forbes 

Fortenberry 

Foxx 

Gardner 

Garrett 

Gerlach 

Gibbs 

Gibson 

Gohmert 

Gosar 

Graves (GA) 

Griffin (AR) 

Hall 

Harris 

Hartzler 

Herrera Beutler 

Huelskamp 

Jenkins 

Johnson (OH) 

Jones 

Kelly 

King (IA) 

Kline 

Lamborn 

Lance 

Landry 

Lankford 

Latta 

Lucas 

Luetkemeyer 

Lummis 

Manzullo 

Marchant 

Marino 

McClintock 

McKinley 

Mica 

Miller (FL) 

Miller, Gary 

Mulvaney 

Murphy (PA) 

Neugebauer 

Nugent 

Nunnelee 

Olson 

Palazzo 

Paulsen 

Pearce 

Peterson 

Pitts 

Poe (TX) 

Pompeo 

Posey 

Quayle 

Rehberg 

Ribble 

Rigell 

Roe (TN) 

Rooney 

Ross (FL) 

Royce 

Scalise 

Schilling 

Schmidt 

Schweikert 

Southerland 

Stearns 

Stutzman 

Terry 

Turner (OH) 

Walsh (IL) 

Webster 

West 

Wilson (SC) 

Wittman 

Wolf 

Womack 

Woodall 

Yoder 

Young (FL) 

NOT VOTING—54 

Akin 

Alexander 

Baldwin 

Benishek 

Berkley 

Bishop (GA) 

Broun (GA) 

Campbell 

Cardoza 

Carnahan 

Cassidy 

Crenshaw 

DeGette 

DesJarlais 

Dicks 

Doggett 

Duffy 

Filner 

Fleming 

Gingrey (GA) 

Gowdy 

Hanna 

Hayworth 

Heinrich 

Higgins 

Hirono 

Huizenga (MI) 

Jackson (IL) 

Jackson Lee 

(TX) 

Johnson (GA) 

Johnson (IL) 

Jordan 

Kaptur 

Kucinich 

Labrador 

Lewis (GA) 

Mack 

McCaul 

Moore 

Noem 

Pastor (AZ) 

Paul 

Pence 

Renacci 

Richmond 

Rogers (KY) 

Rohrabacher 

Rush 

Scott, Austin 

Sutton 

Towns 

Walberg 

Westmoreland 

Young (IN) 

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Mrs. EMERSON, Messrs. LANCE, 

HALL, Ms. HERRERA BEUTLER, 

Messrs. ROYCE, NUGENT, GERLACH, 

SOUTHERLAND, OLSON, and CULBERSON changed their vote from 

‘‘yea’’ to ‘‘nay.’’ 

Messrs. GUTHRIE, FINCHER, 

BRADY of Texas, SMITH of New Jersey, Mrs. MILLER of Michigan, Messrs. 

FRELINGHUYSEN, WHITFIELD, Ms. 

SPEIER, Messrs. LoBIONDO, HURT, 

GOODLATTE, Mrs. ROBY, Messrs. 

GRIFFITH of Virginia, HULTGREN, 

BACHUS, KINZINGER of Illinois, 

FRANKS of Arizona, SENSENBRENNER, BASS of New Hampshire, 

HUNTER, REED, GRIMM, Mrs. 

ELLMERS, Messrs. WALDEN, HASTINGS of Washington, KINGSTON, 

GUINTA, ROKITA, GRAVES of Missouri, DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California, SCOTT of South Carolina, 

LONG, STIVERS, HERGER, WELCH, 

and MEEHAN changed their vote from 

‘‘nay’’ to ‘‘yea.’’ 

So (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and the 

bill was passed. 

The result of the vote was announced 

as above recorded. 

A motion to reconsider was laid on 

the table. 

Stated for: 

Mr. FILNER. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall 537, I 

was away from the Capitol due to prior commitments to my constituents. Had I been 

present, I would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ 

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The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. 

SCHOCK). The unfinished business is the 

vote on the motion to suspend the 

rules and pass the bill (H.R. 828) to 

amend title 5, United States Code, to 

provide that persons having seriously 

delinquent tax debts shall be ineligible 

for Federal employment, as amended, 

on which the yeas and nays were ordered. 

The Clerk read the title of the bill. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The 

question is on the motion offered by 

the gentleman from Utah (Mr. 

CHAFFETZ) that the House suspend the 

rules and pass the bill, as amended. 

This is a 5-minute vote. 

The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were—yeas 263, nays 

114, not voting 54, as follows: 

[Roll No. 538] 

YEAS—263 

Adams 

Aderholt 

Amash 

Amodei 

Austria 

Bachmann 

Bachus 

Barletta 

Barrow 

Bartlett 

Barton (TX) 

Bass (NH) 

Berg 

Berman 

Biggert 

Bilbray 

Bilirakis 

Bishop (UT) 

Black 

Blackburn 

Blumenauer 

Bonner 

Bono Mack 

Boren 

Boustany 

Brady (TX) 

Brooks 

Buchanan 

Bucshon 

Buerkle 

Burgess 

Burton (IN) 

Calvert 

Camp 

Canseco 

Cantor 

Capito 

Capps 

Carney 

Carter 

Chabot 

Chaffetz 

Chandler 

Coble 

Coffman (CO) 

Cole 

Conaway 

Cooper 

Costa 

Costello 

Cravaack 

Crawford 

Critz 

Cuellar 

Culberson 

Davis (CA) 

Davis (KY) 

DeFazio 

Denham 

Dent 

Diaz-Balart 

Dingell 

Dold 

Donnelly (IN) 

Dreier 

Duncan (SC) 

Duncan (TN) 

Ellmers 

Emerson 

Eshoo 

Farenthold 

Farr 

Fincher 

Fitzpatrick 

Flake 

Fleischmann 

Flores 

Forbes 

Fortenberry 

Foxx 

Franks (AZ) 

Frelinghuysen 

Gallegly 

Garamendi 

Gardner 

Garrett 

Gerlach 

Gibbs 

Gibson 

Gohmert 

Gonzalez 

Goodlatte 

Gosar 

Granger 

Graves (GA) 

Graves (MO) 

Green, Al 

Green, Gene 

Griffin (AR) 

Griffith (VA) 

Guinta 

Guthrie 

Hall 

Harper 

Harris 

Hartzler 

Hastings (WA) 

Hayworth 

Heck 

Hensarling 

Herger 

Herrera Beutler 

Himes 

Hochul 

Huelskamp 

Hultgren 

Hunter 

Hurt 

Issa 

Jenkins 

Johnson (OH) 

Johnson, Sam 

Jones 

Kelly 

Kind 

King (IA) 

Kingston 

Kinzinger (IL) 

Kissell 

Kline 

Lamborn 

Lance 

Landry 

Lankford 

Latham 

Latta 

Lewis (CA) 

Lipinski 

Loebsack 

Lofgren, Zoe 

Long 

Lucas 

Luetkemeyer 

Lummis 

Lungren, Daniel 

E. 

Maloney 

Manzullo 

Marchant 

Marino 

Matheson 

Matsui 

McCarthy (CA) 

McClintock 

McCollum 

McHenry 

McIntyre 

McKeon 

McKinley 

McMorris 

Rodgers 

McNerney 

Meehan 

Mica 

Miller (FL) 

Miller (MI) 

Miller (NC) 

Miller, Gary 

Miller, George 

Mulvaney 

Murphy (CT) 

Murphy (PA) 

Myrick 

Neugebauer 

Nugent 

Nunes 

Nunnelee 

Olson 

Owens 

Palazzo 

Paulsen 

Pearce 

Peters 

Peterson 

Petri 

Pitts 

Platts 

Poe (TX) 

Polis 

Pompeo 

Posey 

Price (GA) 

Quayle 

Quigley 

Rahall 

Reed 

Rehberg 

Reichert 

Ribble 

Rigell 

Rivera 

Roby 

Roe (TN) 

Rogers (AL) 

Rogers (MI) 

Rokita 

Rooney 

Ros-Lehtinen 

Roskam 

Ross (AR) 

Ross (FL) 

Rothman (NJ) 

Royce 

Runyan 

Ryan (OH) 

Ryan (WI) 

Sanchez, Loretta 

Scalise 

Schiff 

Schilling 

Schmidt 

Schock 

Schwartz 

Schweikert 

Scott (SC) 

Sensenbrenner 

Sessions 

Shimkus 

Shuler 

Shuster 

Simpson 

Smith (NE) 

Smith (TX) 

Southerland 

Speier 

Stark 

Stearns 

Stutzman 

Sullivan 

Terry 

Thompson (CA) 

Thompson (PA) 

Thornberry 

Tiberi 

Tierney 

Tipton 

Tsongas 

Turner (NY) 

Turner (OH) 

Upton 

Visclosky 

Walden 

Walsh (IL) 

Webster 

West 

Whitfield 

Wilson (FL) 

Wilson (SC) 

Wittman 

Wolf 

Womack 

Woodall 

Yarmuth 

Yoder 

Young (FL) 

NAYS—114 

Ackerman 

Altmire 

Andrews 

Baca 

Barber 

Bass (CA) 

Becerra 

Bishop (NY) 

Bonamici 

Boswell 

Brady (PA) 

Braley (IA) 

Brown (FL) 

Butterfield 

Capuano 

Carson (IN) 

Castor (FL) 

Chu 

Cicilline 

Clarke (MI) 

Clarke (NY) 

Clay 

Cleaver 

Clyburn 

Cohen 

Connolly (VA) 

Conyers 

Courtney 

Crowley 

Cummings 

Davis (IL) 

DeLauro 

Deutch 

Doyle 

Edwards 

Ellison 

Engel 

Fattah 

Frank (MA) 

Fudge 

Grijalva 

Grimm 

Gutierrez 

Hahn 

Hanabusa 

Hastings (FL) 

Hinchey 

Hinojosa 

Holden 

Holt 

Honda 

Hoyer 

Israel 

Johnson, E. B. 

Keating 

Kildee 

King (NY) 

Langevin 

Larsen (WA) 

Larson (CT) 

LaTourette 

Lee (CA) 

Levin 

LoBiondo 

Lowey 

Luja ́n 

Lynch 

Markey 

McCarthy (NY) 

McDermott 

McGovern 

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