September 10, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H5749 

Miller, Gary 

Moore 

Moran 

Mulvaney 

Murphy (CT) 

Murphy (PA) 

Neal 

Neugebauer 

Noem 

Nugent 

Nunes 

Nunnelee 

Olson 

Olver 

Owens 

Palazzo 

Pallone 

Pascrell 

Paulsen 

Pearce 

Pelosi 

Pence 

Perlmutter 

Peters 

Peterson 

Petri 

Pingree (ME) 

Pitts 

Platts 

Poe (TX) 

Polis 

Pompeo 

Posey 

Price (GA) 

Price (NC) 

Quigley 

Rahall 

Reed 

Rehberg 

Reichert 

Renacci 

Reyes 

Richardson 

Rigell 

Roby 

Roe (TN) 

Rogers (AL) 

Rogers (KY) 

Rogers (MI) 

Rohrabacher 

Rokita 

Ros-Lehtinen 

Roskam 

Ross (AR) 

Rothman (NJ) 

Roybal-Allard 

Royce 

Runyan 

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 

Stutzman 

Sullivan 

Sutton 

Thompson (CA) 

Thompson (MS) 

Thompson (PA) 

Thornberry 

Tipton 

Tonko 

Tsongas 

Turner (NY) 

Turner (OH) 

Upton 

Van Hollen 

Vela ́ zquez 

Visclosky 

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) 

NAYS—11 

Adams 

Amash 

Benishek 

Gohmert 

Miller (MI) 

Quayle 

Ribble 

Rooney 

Ross (FL) 

Tiberi 

Walberg 

NOT VOTING—54 

Ackerman 

Alexander 

Andrews 

Bachmann 

Baldwin 

Bass (CA) 

Berman 

Broun (GA) 

Burton (IN) 

Canseco 

Cicilline 

Cleaver 

Coble 

Donnelly (IN) 

Filner 

Flake 

Flores 

Gallegly 

Gibbs 

Gutierrez 

Harper 

Heinrich 

Herger 

Hirono 

Holden 

Jackson (IL) 

Johnson (IL) 

King (NY) 

Kinzinger (IL) 

Lee (CA) 

Lewis (CA) 

Lewis (GA) 

Lowey 

Manzullo 

Miller, George 

Myrick 

Nadler 

Napolitano 

Pastor (AZ) 

Paul 

Rangel 

Richmond 

Rivera 

Ruppersberger 

Rush 

Ryan (WI) 

Schock 

Shuler 

Speier 

Terry 

Tierney 

Towns 

Walden 

Wilson (FL) 

ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE

The SPEAKER pro tempore (during 

the vote). There is 1 minute remaining. 

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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 559, 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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AMERICA NEEDS REAL SOLUTIONS 

FOR JOBS 

(Mr. WILSON of South Carolina 

asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) 

Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. 

Speaker, on Friday, the Bureau of 

Labor Statistics released the latest 

jobs report. For 43 months, our Nation’s unemployment rate has remained above 8 percent. Last month, 

only 96,000 more people found jobs and, 

sadly, 368,000 people were discouraged 

and defeated and gave up searching for 

jobs. To make matters worse, for persons with jobs, the average hourly 

wages decreased and labor force participation is the lowest in 31 years. 

The President’s policies have failed 

to create jobs, failed to encourage economic growth, and failed to reassure 

hardworking Americans that we can 

restore hope for American families. 

The American people deserve better. 

They deserve leadership in Washington 

that will fight to create jobs. It is past 

time for the liberal-controlled Senate 

to act on the dozens of bipartisan bills 

the House has passed and approved promoting jobs for American families. 

In conclusion, God bless our troops, 

and we will never forget September the 

11th in the global war on terrorism. 

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MEXICO/CANADA/UNITED STATES 

ENERGY ALLIANCE 

(Mr. POE of Texas asked and was 

given permission to address the House 

for 1 minute and to revise and extend 

his remarks.) 

Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Texans are growing more concerned about 

the rising cost of gasoline. One lady recently wrote me: 

My husband drives a truck. As gas prices 

rise, so does the cost of diesel. This affects 

the cost of every single thing we buy. That 

includes food. 

Gasoline prices are the one thing 

that people should not need to worry 

about. We have the resources, but 

Washington keeps them under lock and 

key. And we still import half our oil 

from unstable dictators like Chavez 

and the OPEC monopoly. 

Americans can no longer afford to be 

beholden to the turmoil in the Middle 

East. So what about this idea? 

United States, Mexico, and Canada 

are rich with God-given natural resources. So working together in a new 

strategic energy partnership, our three 

nations could become the world’s new 

energy superpower alliance to compete 

with OPEC. Let’s create an energy supply built to last with our North American allies and finally make OPEC and 

Middle Eastern dictators irrelevant. 

And that’s just the way it is. 

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DON’T CUT THE SUPPLEMENTAL 

NUTRITION PROGRAM 

(Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas asked 

and was given permission to address 

the House for 1 minute.) 

Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Mr. 

Speaker, just recently it was announced that 50 million Americans experience food insecurity—and experienced it in the last year. What that 

means is that families in the United 

States suffer without food. A predominant number of those are single parents and children. 

What are we as a country if we allow 

children to go hungry in this particular 

great land? 

I just came back from Africa, and 

saw children who are hungry. But yet 

we were there to encourage better 

technology to promote agricultural development. But today, this Congress, 

this House, Republican Congress, is 

cutting $16 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Program. We can do 

better. 

I want to work with this Congress to 

ensure that 50 million Americans are 

not hungry in this great land. Let us 

revisit the cutting of the Supplemental 

Nutrition Program because our children are begging, they’re asking us: Do 

we care? 

We do care. We cannot cut $15 billion, 

$16 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Program with 50 million Americans experiencing food insecurity— 

working Americans, Americans with 

children. The time to stop is now and 

support those families. 

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REMEMBERING THE 9/11 ATTACKS 

(Mr. FITZPATRICK asked and was 

given permission to address the House 

for 1 minute and to revise and extend 

his remarks.) 

Mr. FITZPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow our Nation will mark the 11th 

anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 

September 11, 2001. At community 

gatherings across the country, neighbors will come together to honor the 

memory of those lost in New York, 

Pennsylvania, and our Nation’s capital, 

including a ceremony in Bucks County 

at the 9/11 Garden of Reflection, the official Pennsylvania memorial to the 

victims of the September 11 attacks. 

As I stand before you this evening, 

I’m reminded of the President’s address 

to the Nation the evening of the attacks. In his remarks to the Nation, 

the President said that: 

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These 

acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the 

steel of American resolve. 

Eleven years later, our resolve has 

never been stronger, and we continue 

to honor the memory of those tragically lost that day. 

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UNFINISHED BUSINESS 

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. 

WOODALL). Under the Speaker’s announced policy of January 5, 2011, the 

gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. 

COURTNEY) is recognized for 60 minutes 

as the designee of the minority leader. 

Mr. COURTNEY. Thank you, Mr. 

Speaker. 

Here we are today on September 10, 5 

weeks since Speaker BOEHNER pushed 


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