H5598 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE August 1, 2012 

King (NY) 

Kingston 

Kinzinger (IL) 

Kissell 

Kline 

Labrador 

Lamborn 

Lance 

Landry 

Langevin 

Lankford 

Larsen (WA) 

Larson (CT) 

Latham 

LaTourette 

Latta 

Lee (CA) 

Levin 

Lewis (CA) 

Lewis (GA) 

Lipinski 

LoBiondo 

Loebsack 

Lofgren, Zoe 

Long 

Lowey 

Lucas 

Luetkemeyer 

Luja ́n 

Lummis 

Lungren, Daniel 

E. 

Lynch 

Mack 

Maloney 

Manzullo 

Marchant 

Marino 

Markey 

Matheson 

Matsui 

McCarthy (CA) 

McCarthy (NY) 

McCaul 

McClintock 

McCollum 

McDermott 

McGovern 

McHenry 

McIntyre 

McKeon 

McKinley 

McMorris 

Rodgers 

McNerney 

Meehan 

Meeks 

Mica 

Michaud 

Miller (FL) 

Miller (MI) 

Miller (NC) 

Miller, Gary 

Miller, George 

Moore 

Moran 

Mulvaney 

Murphy (CT) 

Murphy (PA) 

Myrick 

Nadler 

Napolitano 

Neal 

Neugebauer 

Noem 

Nugent 

Nunes 

Nunnelee 

Olson 

Olver 

Owens 

Palazzo 

Pallone 

Pascrell 

Pastor (AZ) 

Paulsen 

Pearce 

Pelosi 

Pence 

Perlmutter 

Peters 

Peterson 

Petri 

Pingree (ME) 

Pitts 

Platts 

Poe (TX) 

Polis 

Pompeo 

Posey 

Price (GA) 

Price (NC) 

Quayle 

Quigley 

Rahall 

Rangel 

Reed 

Rehberg 

Reichert 

Renacci 

Reyes 

Ribble 

Richardson 

Richmond 

Rigell 

Rivera 

Roby 

Roe (TN) 

Rogers (AL) 

Rogers (KY) 

Rogers (MI) 

Rohrabacher 

Rokita 

Rooney 

Ros-Lehtinen 

Roskam 

Ross (AR) 

Ross (FL) 

Rothman (NJ) 

Roybal-Allard 

Royce 

Runyan 

Ruppersberger 

Rush 

Ryan (OH) 

Ryan (WI) 

Sa ́nchez, Linda 

T. 

Sanchez, Loretta 

Sarbanes 

Scalise 

Schakowsky 

Schiff 

Schilling 

Schmidt 

Schock 

Schrader 

Schwartz 

Schweikert 

Scott (SC) 

Scott (VA) 

Scott, Austin 

Scott, David 

Sensenbrenner 

Serrano 

Sessions 

Sewell 

Sherman 

Shimkus 

Shuler 

Shuster 

Simpson 

Sires 

Slaughter 

Smith (NE) 

Smith (NJ) 

Smith (TX) 

Smith (WA) 

Southerland 

Speier 

Stark 

Stearns 

Stivers 

Stutzman 

Sullivan 

Sutton 

Terry 

Thompson (CA) 

Thompson (MS) 

Thompson (PA) 

Thornberry 

Tiberi 

Tierney 

Tipton 

Tonko 

Towns 

Tsongas 

Turner (NY) 

Turner (OH) 

Upton 

Van Hollen 

Vela ́ zquez 

Visclosky 

Walberg 

Walden 

Walsh (IL) 

Walz (MN) 

Wasserman 

Schultz 

Waters 

Watt 

Waxman 

Webster 

Welch 

West 

Westmoreland 

Whitfield 

Wilson (FL) 

Wilson (SC) 

Wittman 

Wolf 

Womack 

Woodall 

Woolsey 

Yarmuth 

Yoder 

Young (AK) 

Young (FL) 

Young (IN) 

NAYS—6 

Amash 

Duncan (TN) 

Johnson (IL) 

Jones 

Kucinich 

Paul 

NOT VOTING—3 

Akin Cardoza Jackson (IL) 

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

resolution was agreed to. 

The result of the vote was announced 

as above recorded. 

A motion to reconsider was laid on 

the table. 

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THRIFT SAVINGS FUND 

CLARIFICATION ACT 

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

bill (H.R. 4365) to amend title 5, United 

States Code, to make clear that accounts in the Thrift Savings Fund are 

subject to certain Federal tax levies, 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 will be a 5-minute vote. 

The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were—yeas 414, nays 6, 

answered ‘‘present’’ 1, not voting 9, as 

follows: 

[Roll No. 547] 

YEAS—414 

Adams 

Aderholt 

Alexander 

Altmire 

Amash 

Amodei 

Andrews 

Austria 

Baca 

Bachmann 

Bachus 

Baldwin 

Barber 

Barletta 

Barrow 

Bartlett 

Barton (TX) 

Bass (NH) 

Becerra 

Benishek 

Berg 

Berkley 

Berman 

Biggert 

Bilbray 

Bilirakis 

Bishop (GA) 

Bishop (NY) 

Bishop (UT) 

Black 

Blackburn 

Blumenauer 

Bonamici 

Bonner 

Bono Mack 

Boren 

Boswell 

Boustany 

Brady (PA) 

Brady (TX) 

Braley (IA) 

Brooks 

Broun (GA) 

Brown (FL) 

Buchanan 

Bucshon 

Buerkle 

Burgess 

Burton (IN) 

Butterfield 

Calvert 

Camp 

Campbell 

Canseco 

Cantor 

Capito 

Capps 

Capuano 

Carnahan 

Carney 

Carson (IN) 

Carter 

Cassidy 

Castor (FL) 

Chabot 

Chaffetz 

Chandler 

Chu 

Cicilline 

Clarke (MI) 

Clarke (NY) 

Clay 

Cleaver 

Clyburn 

Coble 

Coffman (CO) 

Cohen 

Cole 

Conaway 

Connolly (VA) 

Conyers 

Cooper 

Costa 

Costello 

Courtney 

Cravaack 

Crawford 

Crenshaw 

Critz 

Crowley 

Cuellar 

Culberson 

Cummings 

Davis (CA) 

Davis (IL) 

DeFazio 

DeGette 

DeLauro 

Denham 

Dent 

DesJarlais 

Deutch 

Diaz-Balart 

Dingell 

Doggett 

Dold 

Donnelly (IN) 

Doyle 

Dreier 

Duffy 

Duncan (SC) 

Duncan (TN) 

Edwards 

Ellison 

Ellmers 

Emerson 

Engel 

Eshoo 

Farenthold 

Farr 

Fattah 

Filner 

Fincher 

Fitzpatrick 

Flake 

Fleischmann 

Fleming 

Flores 

Forbes 

Fortenberry 

Foxx 

Frank (MA) 

Franks (AZ) 

Frelinghuysen 

Fudge 

Gallegly 

Garamendi 

Gardner 

Garrett 

Gerlach 

Gibbs 

Gibson 

Gingrey (GA) 

Gohmert 

Gonzalez 

Goodlatte 

Gosar 

Gowdy 

Granger 

Graves (GA) 

Graves (MO) 

Green, Al 

Green, Gene 

Griffin (AR) 

Griffith (VA) 

Grijalva 

Grimm 

Guinta 

Guthrie 

Gutierrez 

Hahn 

Hall 

Hanabusa 

Hanna 

Harper 

Harris 

Hartzler 

Hastings (WA) 

Hayworth 

Heck 

Heinrich 

Hensarling 

Herger 

Herrera Beutler 

Higgins 

Himes 

Hinchey 

Hinojosa 

Hirono 

Hochul 

Holden 

Holt 

Honda 

Hoyer 

Huelskamp 

Huizenga (MI) 

Hultgren 

Hunter 

Hurt 

Israel 

Issa 

Jackson Lee 

(TX) 

Jenkins 

Johnson (GA) 

Johnson (OH) 

Johnson, E. B. 

Johnson, Sam 

Jordan 

Keating 

Kelly 

Kildee 

Kind 

King (IA) 

King (NY) 

Kingston 

Kinzinger (IL) 

Kissell 

Kline 

Kucinich 

Labrador 

Lance 

Landry 

Langevin 

Lankford 

Larsen (WA) 

Larson (CT) 

Latham 

LaTourette 

Latta 

Lee (CA) 

Levin 

Lewis (CA) 

Lewis (GA) 

Lipinski 

LoBiondo 

Loebsack 

Lofgren, Zoe 

Long 

Lowey 

Lucas 

Luetkemeyer 

Luja ́n 

Lummis 

Lungren, Daniel 

E. 

Lynch 

Mack 

Maloney 

Manzullo 

Marchant 

Marino 

Markey 

Matheson 

Matsui 

McCarthy (CA) 

McCarthy (NY) 

McCaul 

McClintock 

McCollum 

McDermott 

McGovern 

McHenry 

McIntyre 

McKeon 

McKinley 

McMorris 

Rodgers 

McNerney 

Meehan 

Mica 

Michaud 

Miller (FL) 

Miller (MI) 

Miller (NC) 

Miller, Gary 

Miller, George 

Moore 

Moran 

Mulvaney 

Murphy (CT) 

Murphy (PA) 

Myrick 

Nadler 

Napolitano 

Neal 

Neugebauer 

Noem 

Nugent 

Nunes 

Nunnelee 

Olson 

Olver 

Owens 

Palazzo 

Pallone 

Pascrell 

Pastor (AZ) 

Paulsen 

Pearce 

Pelosi 

Pence 

Perlmutter 

Peters 

Peterson 

Petri 

Pingree (ME) 

Pitts 

Platts 

Poe (TX) 

Polis 

Pompeo 

Posey 

Price (GA) 

Price (NC) 

Quayle 

Quigley 

Rahall 

Rangel 

Reed 

Rehberg 

Reichert 

Renacci 

Reyes 

Ribble 

Richardson 

Richmond 

Rigell 

Rivera 

Roby 

Roe (TN) 

Rogers (AL) 

Rogers (KY) 

Rogers (MI) 

Rohrabacher 

Rokita 

Rooney 

Ros-Lehtinen 

Roskam 

Ross (AR) 

Ross (FL) 

Rothman (NJ) 

Roybal-Allard 

Royce 

Runyan 

Ruppersberger 

Rush 

Ryan (OH) 

Ryan (WI) 

Sa ́nchez, Linda 

T. 

Sanchez, Loretta 

Sarbanes 

Scalise 

Schakowsky 

Schiff 

Schilling 

Schmidt 

Schock 

Schrader 

Schwartz 

Schweikert 

Scott (SC) 

Scott (VA) 

Scott, Austin 

Scott, David 

Sensenbrenner 

Serrano 

Sessions 

Sewell 

Sherman 

Shimkus 

Shuler 

Shuster 

Simpson 

Sires 

Slaughter 

Smith (NE) 

Smith (NJ) 

Smith (TX) 

Smith (WA) 

Speier 

Stark 

Stearns 

Stivers 

Stutzman 

Sullivan 

Sutton 

Terry 

Thompson (CA) 

Thompson (MS) 

Thompson (PA) 

Thornberry 

Tiberi 

Tierney 

Tipton 

Tonko 

Towns 

Tsongas 

Turner (NY) 

Turner (OH) 

Upton 

Van Hollen 

Vela ́ zquez 

Visclosky 

Walberg 

Walden 

Walsh (IL) 

Walz (MN) 

Waters 

Watt 

Waxman 

Webster 

Welch 

West 

Westmoreland 

Whitfield 

Wilson (FL) 

Wilson (SC) 

Wittman 

Wolf 

Womack 

Woodall 

Woolsey 

Yarmuth 

Yoder 

Young (FL) 

Young (IN) 

NAYS—6 

Ackerman 

Bass (CA) 

Jones 

Meeks 

Paul 

Young (AK) 

ANSWERED ‘‘PRESENT’’—1 

Johnson (IL) 

NOT VOTING—9 

Akin 

Cardoza 

Dicks 

Hastings (FL) 

Jackson (IL) 

Kaptur 

Lamborn 

Southerland 

Wasserman 

Schultz 

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

bill, as amended, was passed. 

The result of the vote was announced 

as above recorded. 

A motion to reconsider was laid on 

the table. 

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ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER 

PRO TEMPORE 

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. 

HULTGREN). Pursuant to clause 8 of 

rule XX, proceedings will now resume 


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on motions to suspend the rules previously postponed. 

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GOVERNMENT CHARGE CARD 

ABUSE PREVENTION ACT OF 2012 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The unfinished business is the question on 

suspending the rules and passing the 

bill (S. 300) to prevent abuse of Government charge cards, as amended. 

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. 

The question was taken; and (twothirds being in the affirmative) the 

rules were suspended and the bill, as 

amended, was passed. 

A motion to reconsider was laid on 

the table. 

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ACCEPTANCE OF RELINQUISHMENT OF RAILROAD RIGHT OF 

WAY NEAR PIKE NATIONAL FOREST, COLORADO 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The unfinished business is the question on 

suspending the rules and passing the 

bill (H.R. 4073) to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to accept the 

quitclaim, disclaimer, and relinquishment of a railroad right of way within 

and adjacent to Pike National Forest 

in El Paso County, Colorado, originally 

granted to the Mt. Manitou Park and 

Incline Railway Company pursuant to 

the Act of March 3, 1875, as amended. 

The Clerk read the title of the bill. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The 

question is on the motion offered by 

the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. 

LAMBORN) that the House suspend the 

rules and pass the bill, as amended. 

The question was taken; and (twothirds being in the affirmative) the 

rules were suspended and the bill, as 

amended, was passed. 

A motion to reconsider was laid on 

the table. 

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EXPRESSING SENSE OF CONGRESS 

ON GOVERNANCE OF THE INTERNET 

Mr. WALDEN. Mr. Speaker, I move 

to suspend the rules and agree to the 

concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 127) 

expressing the sense of Congress regarding actions to preserve and advance the multistakeholder governance 

model under which the Internet has 

thrived. 

The Clerk read the title of the concurrent resolution. 

The text of the concurrent resolution 

is as follows: 

H. CON. RES. 127 

Whereas given the importance of the Internet to the global economy, it is essential 

that the Internet remain stable, secure, and 

free from government control; 

Whereas the world deserves the access to 

knowledge, services, commerce, and communication, the accompanying benefits to economic development, education, and health 

care, and the informed discussion that is the 

bedrock of democratic self-government that 

the Internet provides; 

Whereas the structure of Internet governance has profound implications for competition and trade, democratization, free expression, and access to information; 

Whereas countries have obligations to protect human rights, which are advanced by 

online activity as well as offline activity; 

Whereas the ability to innovate, develop 

technical capacity, grasp economic opportunities, and promote freedom of expression 

online is best realized in cooperation with all 

stakeholders; 

Whereas proposals have been put forward 

for consideration at the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications that would fundamentally alter the 

governance and operation of the Internet; 

Whereas the proposals, in international 

bodies such as the United Nations General 

Assembly, the United Nations Commission 

on Science and Technology for Development, 

and the International Telecommunication 

Union, would justify under international law 

increased government control over the Internet and would reject the current multistakeholder model that has enabled the Internet 

to flourish and under which the private sector, civil society, academia, and individual 

users play an important role in charting its 

direction; 

Whereas the proposals would diminish the 

freedom of expression on the Internet in 

favor of government control over content, 

contrary to international law; 

Whereas the position of the United States 

Government has been and is to advocate for 

the flow of information free from government control; and 

Whereas this and past Administrations 

have made a strong commitment to the 

multistakeholder model of Internet governance and the promotion of the global benefits of the Internet: Now, therefore, be it 

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the 

Senate concurring), That it is the sense of 

Congress that the Assistant Secretary of 

Commerce for Communications and Information, in consultation with the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and United States Coordinator for International Communications 

and Information Policy, should continue 

working to implement the position of the 

United States on Internet governance that 

clearly articulates the consistent and unequivocal policy of the United States to promote a global Internet free from government 

control and preserve and advance the successful multistakeholder model that governs 

the Internet today. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. WALDEN) and the gentlewoman from California (Ms. ESHOO) 

each will control 20 minutes. 

The Chair recognizes the gentleman 

from Oregon. 

GENERAL LEAVE

Mr. WALDEN. Mr. Speaker, I ask 

unanimous consent that all Members 

may have 5 legislative days in which to 

revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous materials into the 

RECORD on H. Con. Res. 127. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there 

objection to the request of the gentleman from Oregon? 

There was no objection. 

Mr. WALDEN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 

myself such time as I may consume. 

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support 

of H. Con. Res. 127, a resolution that 

opposes international regulation of the 

Internet. 

The resolution was introduced by 

Mrs. BONO MACK in May and passed the 

House Committee on Energy and Commerce with bipartisan support from 

more than 60 Members, including Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman UPTON, Ranking Member WAXMAN, 

and my colleague on the Communications and Technology Subcommittee, 

Ranking Member ESHOO. I, too, am 

pleased to be an original cosponsor of 

this important resolution. 

Nations from across the globe will 

meet in December for the World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai. There, the 193 member countries of the United Nations 

will consider whether to apply to the 

Internet a regulatory regime that the 

International Telecommunications 

Union created for old-fashioned telephone service, as well as whether to 

swallow the Internet’s nongovernmental organization’s structure whole 

and make it part of the United Nations. Neither of these are acceptable 

outcomes. 

Now, among those that are supportive of such regulation is Russian 

President Vladimir Putin, who spoke 

positively about the idea of ‘‘establishing international control over the 

Internet.’’ Some countries have even 

proposed regulations that would allow 

them to read citizens’ email in the 

name of security. H. Con. Res. 127 rejects these proposals by taking the radical position that if the most revolutionary advance in technology, commerce, and social discourse of the last 

century isn’t broken, well, we 

shouldn’t be trying to fix it. 

The Internet is the greatest vehicle 

for global progress and improvement 

since the printing press; and despite 

the current economic climate, the 

Internet continues to grow at an astonishing pace. Cisco estimates that by 

2016 roughly 45 percent of the world’s 

population will be Internet users, there 

will be more than 18.9 billion network 

connections, and the average speed of 

mobile broadband will be four times 

faster than it is today. 

The ability of the Internet to grow at 

this staggering pace is due largely to 

the flexibility of the multi-stakeholder 

approach that governs the Internet 

today. Nongovernmental institutions 

now manage the Internet’s core functions, with input from private and public sector participants. This structure 

prevents governmental or nongovernmental actors from controlling the design of the network or the content that 

it carries. 

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Without one entity in control, the 

Internet has become a driver of jobs 

and information, business expansion, 

investment and, indeed, innovation. 

Now, moving away from that multistakeholder model, Mr. Speaker, would 

harm these abilities and would prevent 

the Internet from spreading prosperity 

and freedom. 


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