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the abolition of slavery, and the advancement of women’s suffrage. In addition to a gripping personal saga detailing his flight from slavery to freedom, Frederick Douglass inspired a nation through both his compelling antislavery writings and his rhetoric. 

Published in 1845, his eloquent autobiography ‘‘Narrative of the Life of 

Frederick Douglass, an American 

Slave’’ undercut pro-slavery arguments. He challenged enslavement, and 

he inspired individuals seeking their 

freedom. 

After the Civil War, he served in a 

number of government positions and 

became the first African American to 

receive a vote for nomination as President of the United States at the 1888 

Republican National Convention—yes, 

I would repeat, the Republican National Convention. He was a proud Republican. 

Mr. Speaker, September 22 marks the 

150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln signing the preliminary 

proclamation that paved the way for 

the Emancipation Proclamation to be 

signed on January 1, 1863. How fitting 

that a statue honoring Frederick Douglass, a man who brought freedom to so 

many, will be on display in Emancipation Hall. 

In considering the remarkable 

achievements of Frederick Douglass 

and his contributions to our rich history, his presence within the U.S. Capitol will honor this institution and 

serve as an endearing testimony to the 

struggle for freedom and equality. 

I would like to thank again my colleague, the Congresswoman from the 

District of Columbia (Ms. NORTON). I 

know she, unfortunately, couldn’t be 

here today because I know she has a requirement to teach a class; otherwise, 

she would be here. But I wanted to 

thank her for her tireless work to bring 

this statue to the Capitol, as well as 

our counterparts in the Senate, the 

Senate Rules Committee. As many 

know, Senator SCHUMER introduced the 

companion legislation in the Senate. I 

thank my ranking member for his support in this effort. 

I urge my colleagues to support this 

measure, and I look forward to welcoming the statue of Frederick Douglass to Emancipation Hall very soon. 

With that, I reserve the balance of 

my time. 

Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania. Mr. 

Speaker, I yield myself such time as I 

may consume. 

Mr. Speaker, I also urge support for 

H.R. 6336, to direct the Joint Committee on the Library to accept the 

statue of Frederick Douglass and provide for its permanent display in 

Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center. 

Often considered the father of the 

civil rights movement, Frederick 

Douglass’ place in history was earned 

with deep-seated courage and an 

unshakable belief in the equality of all 

human beings. A former slave, Douglass went on to become one of the most 

prominent figures of the movement to 

free the slaves. His statue should serve 

as a reminder to millions of visitors to 

this great place of both how far we’ve 

come and how far we still have to go. 

Mr. Speaker, I’d also like to thank 

my chairman, Mr. LUNGREN, for his patience—this was a long time coming— 

and his negotiations and for his respect, and also for his unyielding cooperation. 

With that, I yield back the balance of 

my time. 

Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such 

time as I may consume. 

One of the great things about Frederick Douglass is that he inspired a nation not only by the example of his 

lifetime in releasing the bonds of slavery and becoming a free man, but he 

was self-educated. He was a great orator, a great writer, a great inspiration 

to this country. 

There’s not too many people that you 

can talk about that actually can take 

credit, tremendous credit, for the passage of three amendments to the U.S. 

Constitution—13th, 14th, and 15th. 

There’s not many people who were on 

the right side of history in such a tremendous way, someone who not only 

worked to encourage African Americans to fight in the Civil War on the 

side of freedom, but also later on to 

work to ensure that the message of 

freedom that was the promise of both 

our Declaration of Independence and 

our Constitution was embodied specifically in the Constitution by these 

amendments. 

He was a powerful man who was very 

proud of his history and proud of his 

place in history in terms of leading a 

political movement and showing that 

African Americans were not just freed 

slaves that somehow got their freedom 

at the suffrage of the other members of 

society, but that they fought for it, 

they struggled for it, and they had both 

physical courage and intellectual 

power that inspired the Nation to recognize the fact that we had fallen so 

far short of the promise of our Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. 

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I’m afraid that too many young people today don’t know the story of Frederick Douglass. In a small way, this 

may help to rekindle the interest in 

Frederick Douglass so that when the 

young people come here to this Capitol, 

as they often do, and they look at the 

statues and they ask who is that and 

what did he do or what did she do, people can now look proudly to the statue 

of Frederick Douglass and explain what 

it is he did and why his powerful legacy 

is still an inspiration to all of us today. 

So I would hope that our Members 

would unanimously support this legislation and that we would soon see 

Frederick Douglass return to the 

United States Capitol in this way. 

With that, I yield back the balance of 

my time. 

Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong 

support of H.R. 6336, and to express my deep 

gratitude to Chairman DAN LUNGREN for introducing the bill, for consulting with me on it, 

and for bringing it to the House floor. I would 

also like to thank Senator DICK DURBIN for including a provision in the Senate Appropriations Committee-passed fiscal year 2013 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill to place the Frederick Douglass statue in the U.S. Capitol and Senator 

CHARLES SCHUMER for introducing the Senate 

companion to H.R. 6336. 

The District of Columbia government commissioned the Douglass statue, with the intention of giving it to the American people as a 

gift to be displayed in the Capitol. Douglass, 

an iconic leader for equal rights for African 

Americans and women and an internationally 

celebrated human rights advocate, spent 

much of his life as a D.C. resident and served 

as a local public official. His home in Southeast D.C., which is now the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, sits only a few 

miles from the Capitol. Since the statue was 

completed in 2007, I have been pursuing legislation to have Congress accept the District’s 

gift. When Congress built the Capitol Visitor 

Center, it named the main room ‘‘Emancipation Hall’’ in honor of the slaves who helped 

to build the Capitol. Nevertheless, the Capitol 

still has a long way to go in telling the nation’s 

story, including the role of African Americans 

in U.S. history. Currently, there are 180 statues and busts in the Capitol, and the Douglass statue would only be the third portraying 

an African American. 

The time has come for the Congress to accept the District of Columbia’s gift. I urge the 

House to pass the bill. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The 

question is on the motion offered by 

the gentleman from California (Mr. 

DANIEL E. LUNGREN) that the House 

suspend the rules and pass the bill, 

H.R. 6331, as amended. 

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

rules were suspended and the bill, as 

amended, was passed. 

The title was amended so as to read: 

‘‘A bill to direct the Joint Committee 

on the Library to accept a statue depicting Frederick Douglass from the 

District of Columbia and to provide for 

the permanent display of the statue in 

Emancipation Hall of the United 

States Capitol.’’ 

A motion to reconsider was laid on 

the table. 

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The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair 

declares the House in recess until 6:30 

p.m. today. 

Accordingly (at 5 o’clock and 21 minutes p.m.), the House stood in recess. 

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AFTER RECESS 

The recess having expired, the House 

was called to order by the Speaker pro 

tempore (Mr. NUNES) at 6 o’clock and 30 

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REPORT ON RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF 

H.R. 5544, MINNESOTA EDUCATION INVESTMENT AND EMPLOYMENT ACT, AND PROVIDING 

FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 

5949, FISA AMENDMENTS ACT REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2012 

Mr. NUGENT, from the Committee 

on Rules, submitted a privileged report 

(Rept. No. 112–660) on the resolution (H. 

Res. 773) providing for consideration of 

the bill (H.R. 5544) to authorize and expedite a land exchange involving National Forest System land in the Laurentian District of the Superior National Forest and certain other National Forest System land in the State 

of Minnesota that has limited recreational and conservation resources 

and lands owned by the State of Minnesota in trust for the public school 

system that are largely scattered in 

checkerboard fashion within the 

Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and have important recreational, 

scenic, and conservation resources, and 

for other purposes, and providing for 

consideration of the bill (H.R. 5949) to 

extend the FISA Amendments Act of 

2008 for five years, which was referred 

to the House Calendar and ordered to 

be printed. 

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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: 

H.R. 6122, by the yeas and nays; 

H.R. 2139, by the yeas and nays; 

H.R. 6186, 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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REVISING AUTHORITY OF LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS TO ACCEPT 

GIFTS AND BEQUESTS 

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

bill (H.R. 6122) to revise the authority 

of the Librarian of Congress to accept 

gifts and bequests on behalf of the Library, and for other purposes, 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 California (Mr. 

DANIEL E. LUNGREN) that the House 

suspend the rules and pass the bill. 

The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were—yeas 377, nays 0, 

not voting 52, as follows: 

[Roll No. 557] 

YEAS—377 

Adams 

Aderholt 

Akin 

Altmire 

Amash 

Amodei 

Andrews 

Austria 

Baca 

Bachus 

Barber 

Barletta 

Barrow 

Bartlett 

Barton (TX) 

Bass (NH) 

Becerra 

Benishek 

Berg 

Berkley 

Biggert 

Bilbray 

Bilirakis 

Bishop (GA) 

Bishop (NY) 

Bishop (UT) 

Black 

Blackburn 

Blumenauer 

Bonamici 

Bonner 

Bono Mack 

Boren 

Boustany 

Brady (PA) 

Brady (TX) 

Braley (IA) 

Brooks 

Brown (FL) 

Buchanan 

Bucshon 

Buerkle 

Burgess 

Butterfield 

Calvert 

Camp 

Campbell 

Canseco 

Cantor 

Capito 

Capps 

Capuano 

Carnahan 

Carney 

Carson (IN) 

Carter 

Cassidy 

Castor (FL) 

Chabot 

Chaffetz 

Chandler 

Chu 

Clarke (MI) 

Clarke (NY) 

Clay 

Cleaver 

Clyburn 

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 

Dicks 

Dingell 

Doggett 

Dold 

Doyle 

Dreier 

Duffy 

Duncan (SC) 

Duncan (TN) 

Edwards 

Ellison 

Ellmers 

Emerson 

Engel 

Eshoo 

Farenthold 

Farr 

Fattah 

Fincher 

Fitzpatrick 

Fleischmann 

Fleming 

Forbes 

Fortenberry 

Foxx 

Frank (MA) 

Franks (AZ) 

Frelinghuysen 

Fudge 

Garamendi 

Gardner 

Garrett 

Gerlach 

Gibson 

Gingrey (GA) 

Gonzalez 

Goodlatte 

Gosar 

Gowdy 

Granger 

Graves (GA) 

Graves (MO) 

Green, Al 

Green, Gene 

Griffin (AR) 

Griffith (VA) 

Grijalva 

Grimm 

Guinta 

Guthrie 

Hahn 

Hall 

Hanabusa 

Hanna 

Harris 

Hartzler 

Hastings (FL) 

Hastings (WA) 

Hayworth 

Heck 

Hensarling 

Herrera Beutler 

Higgins 

Himes 

Hinchey 

Hinojosa 

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 

Jones 

Jordan 

Kaptur 

Keating 

Kelly 

Kildee 

Kind 

King (IA) 

Kingston 

Kissell 

Kline 

Kucinich 

Labrador 

Lamborn 

Lance 

Landry 

Langevin 

Lankford 

Larsen (WA) 

Larson (CT) 

Latham 

LaTourette 

Latta 

Levin 

Lewis (GA) 

Lipinski 

LoBiondo 

Loebsack 

Lofgren, Zoe 

Long 

Lucas 

Luetkemeyer 

Luja ́n 

Lummis 

Lungren, Daniel 

E. 

Lynch 

Mack 

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 

Moore 

Moran 

Mulvaney 

Murphy (CT) 

Murphy (PA) 

Myrick 

Neal 

Neugebauer 

Noem 

Nugent 

Nunes 

Nunnelee 

Olson 

Olver 

Owens 

Palazzo 

Pallone 

Pascrell 

Paulsen 

Pearce 

Pelosi 

Pence 

Perlmutter 

Peters 

Peterson 

Petri 

Pingree (ME) 

Pitts 

Poe (TX) 

Polis 

Pompeo 

Posey 

Price (GA) 

Price (NC) 

Quayle 

Quigley 

Rahall 

Reed 

Rehberg 

Reichert 

Renacci 

Reyes 

Ribble 

Richardson 

Rigell 

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 

Ryan (OH) 

Sa ́nchez, Linda 

T. 

Sanchez, Loretta 

Sarbanes 

Scalise 

Schakowsky 

Schiff 

Schilling 

Schmidt 

Schrader 

Schwartz 

Schweikert 

Scott (SC) 

Scott (VA) 

Scott, Austin 

Scott, David 

Sensenbrenner 

Serrano 

Sessions 

Sewell 

Sherman 

Shimkus 

Shuster 

Simpson 

Sires 

Slaughter 

Smith (NE) 

Smith (NJ) 

Smith (TX) 

Smith (WA) 

Southerland 

Stark 

Stearns 

Stivers 

Sullivan 

Sutton 

Terry 

Thompson (CA) 

Thompson (MS) 

Thompson (PA) 

Thornberry 

Tiberi 

Tipton 

Tonko 

Tsongas 

Turner (NY) 

Upton 

Van Hollen 

Vela ́ zquez 

Visclosky 

Walberg 

Walsh (IL) 

Walz (MN) 

Wasserman 

Schultz 

Waters 

Watt 

Waxman 

Webster 

Welch 

West 

Westmoreland 

Whitfield 

Wilson (SC) 

Wittman 

Wolf 

Womack 

Woodall 

Woolsey 

Yarmuth 

Yoder 

Young (AK) 

Young (FL) 

Young (IN) 

NOT VOTING—52 

Ackerman 

Alexander 

Bachmann 

Baldwin 

Bass (CA) 

Berman 

Boswell 

Broun (GA) 

Burton (IN) 

Cicilline 

Coble 

Donnelly (IN) 

Filner 

Flake 

Flores 

Gallegly 

Gibbs 

Gohmert 

Gutierrez 

Harper 

Heinrich 

Herger 

Hirono 

Jackson (IL) 

Johnson (IL) 

King (NY) 

Kinzinger (IL) 

Lee (CA) 

Lewis (CA) 

Lowey 

Maloney 

Manzullo 

Miller, George 

Nadler 

Napolitano 

Pastor (AZ) 

Paul 

Platts 

Rangel 

Richmond 

Rivera 

Rush 

Ryan (WI) 

Schock 

Shuler 

Speier 

Stutzman 

Tierney 

Towns 

Turner (OH) 

Walden 

Wilson (FL) 

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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 557, I 

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

present, I would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ 

Mr. TURNER of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 557 I was unavoidably detained and 

did not vote. If I had been present, I would 

have voted ’’yea.’’ 

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LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL 

CENTURY OF SERVICE COMMEMORATIVE COIN ACT 

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. POE

of Texas). The unfinished business is 

the vote on the motion to suspend the 

rules and pass the bill (H.R. 2139) to require the Secretary of the Treasury to 

mint coins in commemoration of the 

centennial of the establishment of 

Lions Clubs International, 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 Illinois (Mr. DOLD) 

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 376, nays 2, 


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