September 20, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H6195 

Lowey 

Luja ́n 

Maloney 

Markey 

Matsui 

McCarthy (NY) 

McCollum 

McDermott 

McGovern 

Meeks 

Miller (NC) 

Miller, George 

Moore 

Moran 

Murphy (CT) 

Nadler 

Napolitano 

Neal 

Olver 

Pallone 

Pascrell 

Pastor (AZ) 

Pelosi 

Perlmutter 

Peters 

Pingree (ME) 

Polis 

Price (NC) 

Quigley 

Rahall 

Rangel 

Reyes 

Richardson 

Rothman (NJ) 

Roybal-Allard 

Ruppersberger 

Rush 

Ryan (OH) 

Sa ́nchez, Linda 

T. 

Sanchez, Loretta 

Sarbanes 

Schakowsky 

Schiff 

Schrader 

Schwartz 

Scott (VA) 

Scott, David 

Serrano 

Sewell 

Sherman 

Sires 

Slaughter 

Smith (WA) 

Stark 

Sutton 

Thompson (CA) 

Thompson (MS) 

Tierney 

Tonko 

Tsongas 

Van Hollen 

Vela ́ zquez 

Visclosky 

Walz (MN) 

Wasserman 

Schultz 

Waters 

Watt 

Waxman 

Welch 

Wilson (FL) 

Woolsey 

Yarmuth 

NOT VOTING—15 

Akin 

Davis (IL) 

Filner 

Gallegly 

Granger 

Jackson (IL) 

Jenkins 

Mack 

Platts 

Richmond 

Ross (AR) 

Schmidt 

Speier 

Sullivan 

Towns 

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Messrs. COURTNEY and CRITZ 

changed their vote from ‘‘yea’’ to 

‘‘nay.’’ 

Mr. LYNCH changed his vote from 

‘‘nay’’ to ‘‘yea.’’ 

So the joint resolution was passed. 

The result of the vote was announced 

as above recorded. 

A motion to reconsider was laid on 

the table. 

Stated for: 

Mr. MACK. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 589 

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been 

present, I would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ 

Mr. PLATTS. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 

589 I was inadvertently delayed in an official 

meeting and arrived on the House floor after 

the vote had been closed. Had I been present, 

I would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ 

Stated against: 

Mr. FILNER. Mr. Speaker, I was away from 

the Capitol due to prior commitments to my 

constituents. Had I been present, I would have 

voted ‘‘nay.’’ 

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STEM JOBS ACT OF 2012 

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

bill (H.R. 6429) to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to promote 

innovation, investment, and research 

in the United States, to eliminate the 

diversity immigrant program, 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 Texas (Mr. SMITH) 

that the House suspend the rules and 

pass the bill. 

This will be a 5-minute vote. 

The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were—yeas 257, nays 

158, not voting 14, as follows: 

[Roll No. 590] 

YEAS—257 

Adams 

Aderholt 

Alexander 

Altmire 

Amash 

Amodei 

Austria 

Bachmann 

Bachus 

Barber 

Barletta 

Barrow 

Bartlett 

Barton (TX) 

Bass (NH) 

Benishek 

Berg 

Berman 

Biggert 

Bilbray 

Bilirakis 

Bishop (UT) 

Black 

Blackburn 

Bonner 

Bono Mack 

Boren 

Boswell 

Boustany 

Brady (TX) 

Brooks 

Broun (GA) 

Buchanan 

Bucshon 

Buerkle 

Burgess 

Burton (IN) 

Calvert 

Camp 

Campbell 

Canseco 

Cantor 

Capito 

Carney 

Carter 

Cassidy 

Chabot 

Chaffetz 

Chandler 

Coble 

Coffman (CO) 

Cohen 

Cole 

Conaway 

Cooper 

Cravaack 

Crawford 

Crenshaw 

Cuellar 

Culberson 

DeFazio 

Dent 

DesJarlais 

Diaz-Balart 

Donnelly (IN) 

Dreier 

Duffy 

Duncan (SC) 

Duncan (TN) 

Ellmers 

Emerson 

Farenthold 

Fincher 

Fitzpatrick 

Flake 

Fleischmann 

Fleming 

Flores 

Forbes 

Fortenberry 

Foxx 

Franks (AZ) 

Frelinghuysen 

Garamendi 

Gardner 

Garrett 

Gerlach 

Gibbs 

Gibson 

Gingrey (GA) 

Gohmert 

Goodlatte 

Gosar 

Gowdy 

Graves (GA) 

Graves (MO) 

Griffin (AR) 

Griffith (VA) 

Grimm 

Guinta 

Guthrie 

Hall 

Hanna 

Harper 

Harris 

Hartzler 

Hayworth 

Heck 

Hensarling 

Herger 

Herrera Beutler 

Himes 

Hochul 

Huelskamp 

Huizenga (MI) 

Hunter 

Hurt 

Issa 

Johnson (IL) 

Johnson (OH) 

Johnson, Sam 

Jordan 

Kelly 

Kind 

King (IA) 

King (NY) 

Kingston 

Kinzinger (IL) 

Kissell 

Kline 

Labrador 

Lamborn 

Lance 

Landry 

Lankford 

Latham 

LaTourette 

Latta 

Lewis (CA) 

Lipinski 

LoBiondo 

Long 

Lucas 

Luetkemeyer 

Lummis 

Lungren, Daniel 

E. 

Mack 

Manzullo 

Marchant 

Marino 

Matheson 

McCarthy (CA) 

McCaul 

McClintock 

McHenry 

McIntyre 

McKeon 

McKinley 

McMorris 

Rodgers 

McNerney 

Meehan 

Mica 

Michaud 

Miller (FL) 

Miller (MI) 

Miller, Gary 

Moran 

Mulvaney 

Murphy (CT) 

Murphy (PA) 

Myrick 

Neugebauer 

Noem 

Nugent 

Nunes 

Nunnelee 

Olson 

Palazzo 

Paul 

Paulsen 

Pearce 

Pence 

Peterson 

Petri 

Pitts 

Platts 

Poe (TX) 

Pompeo 

Posey 

Price (GA) 

Quayle 

Rahall 

Reed 

Rehberg 

Reichert 

Renacci 

Ribble 

Rigell 

Rivera 

Roby 

Roe (TN) 

Rogers (AL) 

Rogers (MI) 

Rohrabacher 

Rokita 

Rooney 

Ros-Lehtinen 

Roskam 

Ross (FL) 

Royce 

Runyan 

Ruppersberger 

Ryan (WI) 

Scalise 

Schilling 

Schmidt 

Schock 

Schweikert 

Scott (SC) 

Scott, Austin 

Sensenbrenner 

Sessions 

Shimkus 

Shuler 

Smith (NE) 

Smith (NJ) 

Smith (TX) 

Southerland 

Stearns 

Stivers 

Stutzman 

Sullivan 

Terry 

Thompson (PA) 

Thornberry 

Tiberi 

Tipton 

Tonko 

Turner (NY) 

Turner (OH) 

Upton 

Walberg 

Walden 

Walsh (IL) 

Webster 

West 

Westmoreland 

Whitfield 

Wilson (SC) 

Wittman 

Wolf 

Womack 

Woodall 

Yoder 

Young (AK) 

Young (FL) 

Young (IN) 

NAYS—158 

Ackerman 

Andrews 

Baca 

Baldwin 

Bass (CA) 

Becerra 

Berkley 

Bishop (GA) 

Bishop (NY) 

Blumenauer 

Bonamici 

Brady (PA) 

Braley (IA) 

Brown (FL) 

Butterfield 

Capps 

Capuano 

Carnahan 

Carson (IN) 

Castor (FL) 

Chu 

Cicilline 

Clarke (MI) 

Clarke (NY) 

Clay 

Cleaver 

Clyburn 

Connolly (VA) 

Conyers 

Costa 

Costello 

Courtney 

Critz 

Crowley 

Cummings 

Davis (CA) 

DeGette 

DeLauro 

Denham 

Deutch 

Dicks 

Dingell 

Doggett 

Dold 

Doyle 

Edwards 

Ellison 

Engel 

Eshoo 

Farr 

Fattah 

Frank (MA) 

Fudge 

Gonzalez 

Green, Al 

Green, Gene 

Grijalva 

Gutierrez 

Hahn 

Hanabusa 

Hastings (FL) 

Hastings (WA) 

Heinrich 

Higgins 

Hinchey 

Hinojosa 

Hirono 

Holden 

Holt 

Honda 

Hoyer 

Israel 

Jackson Lee 

(TX) 

Johnson (GA) 

Johnson, E. B. 

Jones 

Kaptur 

Keating 

Kildee 

Kucinich 

Langevin 

Larsen (WA) 

Larson (CT) 

Lee (CA) 

Levin 

Lewis (GA) 

Loebsack 

Lofgren, Zoe 

Lowey 

Luja ́n 

Lynch 

Maloney 

Markey 

Matsui 

McCarthy (NY) 

McCollum 

McDermott 

McGovern 

Meeks 

Miller (NC) 

Miller, George 

Moore 

Nadler 

Napolitano 

Neal 

Olver 

Owens 

Pallone 

Pascrell 

Pastor (AZ) 

Pelosi 

Perlmutter 

Peters 

Pingree (ME) 

Polis 

Price (NC) 

Quigley 

Rangel 

Reyes 

Richardson 

Richmond 

Rogers (KY) 

Rothman (NJ) 

Roybal-Allard 

Rush 

Ryan (OH) 

Sa ́nchez, Linda 

T. 

Sanchez, Loretta 

Sarbanes 

Schakowsky 

Schiff 

Schrader 

Schwartz 

Scott (VA) 

Scott, David 

Serrano 

Sewell 

Sherman 

Sires 

Slaughter 

Smith (WA) 

Stark 

Sutton 

Thompson (CA) 

Thompson (MS) 

Tierney 

Tsongas 

Van Hollen 

Vela ́ zquez 

Visclosky 

Walz (MN) 

Wasserman 

Schultz 

Watt 

Waxman 

Welch 

Wilson (FL) 

Woolsey 

Yarmuth 

NOT VOTING—14 

Akin 

Davis (IL) 

Filner 

Gallegly 

Granger 

Hultgren 

Jackson (IL) 

Jenkins 

Ross (AR) 

Shuster 

Simpson 

Speier 

Towns 

Waters 

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So (two-thirds not being in the affirmative) the motion was rejected. 

The result of the vote was announced 

as above recorded. 

Stated against: 

Mr. FILNER. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall 590, I 

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

present, I would have voted ‘‘nay.’’ 

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MANHATTAN PROJECT NATIONAL 

HISTORICAL PARK ACT 

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

bill (H.R. 5987) to establish the Manhattan Project National Historical Park in 

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Los Alamos, 

New Mexico, and Hanford, Washington, 

and for other purposes, 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 Washington (Mr. 

HASTINGS) 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 237, nays 

180, not voting 12, as follows: 


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[Roll No. 591] 

YEAS—237 

Aderholt 

Amodei 

Andrews 

Baca 

Bachmann 

Bachus 

Baldwin 

Barber 

Barrow 

Barton (TX) 

Bass (NH) 

Becerra 

Berg 

Berkley 

Berman 

Biggert 

Bilirakis 

Bishop (GA) 

Bishop (UT) 

Black 

Blackburn 

Bonamici 

Bonner 

Bono Mack 

Boren 

Boswell 

Brady (PA) 

Braley (IA) 

Buchanan 

Buerkle 

Burton (IN) 

Butterfield 

Calvert 

Campbell 

Canseco 

Cantor 

Capito 

Capps 

Capuano 

Carnahan 

Carney 

Carson (IN) 

Carter 

Castor (FL) 

Chandler 

Cicilline 

Clarke (MI) 

Coble 

Cole 

Conaway 

Connolly (VA) 

Cooper 

Costa 

Costello 

Courtney 

Cravaack 

Crawford 

Crenshaw 

Critz 

Crowley 

Cuellar 

Culberson 

DeLauro 

Denham 

DesJarlais 

Deutch 

Diaz-Balart 

Dicks 

Dingell 

Doggett 

Dold 

Donnelly (IN) 

Dreier 

Duncan (TN) 

Ellmers 

Engel 

Eshoo 

Farr 

Fattah 

Fincher 

Fitzpatrick 

Fleischmann 

Fleming 

Flores 

Forbes 

Fortenberry 

Frank (MA) 

Frelinghuysen 

Fudge 

Gardner 

Garrett 

Gingrey (GA) 

Gonzalez 

Gosar 

Graves (MO) 

Green, Gene 

Grijalva 

Grimm 

Guinta 

Guthrie 

Hahn 

Hall 

Harper 

Harris 

Hastings (WA) 

Hayworth 

Heck 

Heinrich 

Higgins 

Himes 

Hinojosa 

Hochul 

Holden 

Holt 

Hoyer 

Israel 

Issa 

Johnson (IL) 

Johnson, Sam 

Kaptur 

Keating 

Kildee 

Kind 

King (IA) 

Kinzinger (IL) 

Kissell 

Kline 

Lamborn 

Lance 

Langevin 

Larsen (WA) 

Larson (CT) 

Latham 

LaTourette 

Levin 

Lewis (CA) 

Lipinski 

Loebsack 

Lowey 

Lucas 

Luetkemeyer 

Luja ́n 

Lungren, Daniel 

E. 

Lynch 

Maloney 

Marino 

Markey 

Matheson 

McCarthy (NY) 

McCaul 

McClintock 

McHenry 

McIntyre 

McKeon 

McKinley 

McMorris 

Rodgers 

McNerney 

Mica 

Michaud 

Miller (MI) 

Miller (NC) 

Miller, Gary 

Miller, George 

Moran 

Murphy (CT) 

Myrick 

Nadler 

Noem 

Nunes 

Nunnelee 

Owens 

Pallone 

Pascrell 

Pastor (AZ) 

Paulsen 

Pearce 

Pelosi 

Perlmutter 

Peters 

Peterson 

Pitts 

Platts 

Posey 

Price (NC) 

Quigley 

Rahall 

Rehberg 

Reichert 

Reyes 

Rigell 

Rivera 

Roby 

Roe (TN) 

Rogers (AL) 

Rogers (KY) 

Ros-Lehtinen 

Roskam 

Rothman (NJ) 

Roybal-Allard 

Runyan 

Ruppersberger 

Sa ́nchez, Linda 

T. 

Sarbanes 

Schiff 

Schilling 

Schock 

Schrader 

Schwartz 

Serrano 

Sessions 

Shimkus 

Shuler 

Simpson 

Sires 

Slaughter 

Smith (NE) 

Smith (TX) 

Smith (WA) 

Stearns 

Sutton 

Terry 

Thornberry 

Tierney 

Tipton 

Turner (OH) 

Van Hollen 

Walden 

Walz (MN) 

Wasserman 

Schultz 

Waxman 

Welch 

Wilson (FL) 

Wilson (SC) 

Wolf 

Womack 

Woodall 

Young (FL) 

NAYS—180 

Ackerman 

Adams 

Alexander 

Altmire 

Amash 

Austria 

Barletta 

Bartlett 

Bass (CA) 

Benishek 

Bilbray 

Bishop (NY) 

Blumenauer 

Boustany 

Brady (TX) 

Brooks 

Broun (GA) 

Brown (FL) 

Bucshon 

Burgess 

Camp 

Cassidy 

Chabot 

Chaffetz 

Chu 

Clarke (NY) 

Clay 

Cleaver 

Clyburn 

Coffman (CO) 

Cohen 

Conyers 

Cummings 

Davis (CA) 

Davis (IL) 

DeFazio 

DeGette 

Dent 

Doyle 

Duffy 

Duncan (SC) 

Edwards 

Ellison 

Emerson 

Farenthold 

Flake 

Foxx 

Franks (AZ) 

Garamendi 

Gerlach 

Gibbs 

Gibson 

Gohmert 

Goodlatte 

Gowdy 

Graves (GA) 

Green, Al 

Griffin (AR) 

Griffith (VA) 

Gutierrez 

Hanabusa 

Hanna 

Hartzler 

Hastings (FL) 

Hensarling 

Herger 

Herrera Beutler 

Hinchey 

Hirono 

Honda 

Huelskamp 

Huizenga (MI) 

Hultgren 

Hunter 

Hurt 

Jackson Lee 

(TX) 

Johnson (OH) 

Johnson, E. B. 

Jordan 

Kelly 

King (NY) 

Kingston 

Kucinich 

Labrador 

Landry 

Lankford 

Latta 

Lee (CA) 

Lewis (GA) 

LoBiondo 

Lofgren, Zoe 

Long 

Lummis 

Mack 

Manzullo 

Marchant 

Matsui 

McCarthy (CA) 

McCollum 

McDermott 

McGovern 

Meehan 

Meeks 

Miller (FL) 

Moore 

Mulvaney 

Murphy (PA) 

Napolitano 

Neal 

Neugebauer 

Nugent 

Olson 

Olver 

Palazzo 

Paul 

Pence 

Petri 

Pingree (ME) 

Poe (TX) 

Polis 

Pompeo 

Price (GA) 

Quayle 

Rangel 

Reed 

Renacci 

Ribble 

Richardson 

Richmond 

Rogers (MI) 

Rohrabacher 

Rokita 

Rooney 

Ross (FL) 

Royce 

Rush 

Ryan (OH) 

Sanchez, Loretta 

Scalise 

Schakowsky 

Schmidt 

Schweikert 

Scott (SC) 

Scott (VA) 

Scott, Austin 

Scott, David 

Sensenbrenner 

Sewell 

Sherman 

Shuster 

Smith (NJ) 

Southerland 

Stark 

Stivers 

Stutzman 

Sullivan 

Thompson (CA) 

Thompson (MS) 

Thompson (PA) 

Tiberi 

Tonko 

Tsongas 

Turner (NY) 

Upton 

Vela ́ zquez 

Visclosky 

Walberg 

Walsh (IL) 

Waters 

Watt 

Webster 

West 

Westmoreland 

Whitfield 

Wittman 

Woolsey 

Yarmuth 

Yoder 

Young (AK) 

Young (IN) 

NOT VOTING—12 

Akin 

Filner 

Gallegly 

Granger 

Jackson (IL) 

Jenkins 

Johnson (GA) 

Jones 

Ross (AR) 

Ryan (WI) 

Speier 

Towns 

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Messrs. OLSON, SCOTT of South 

Carolina, Ms. SEWELL and Mr. 

DUFFY changed their vote from ‘‘yea’’ 

to ‘‘nay.’’ 

So (two-thirds not being in the affirmative) the motion was rejected. 

The result of the vote was announced 

as above recorded. 

Stated against: 

Mr. FILNER. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall 591, 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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STOP THE WAR ON COAL ACT OF 

2012 

GENERAL LEAVE

Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Mr. 

Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that 

all Members may have 5 legislative 

days in which to revise and extend 

their remarks and include extraneous 

material on the bill, H.R. 3409. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. 

WESTMORELAND). Is there objection to 

the request of the gentleman from 

Washington? 

There was no objection. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 788 and rule 

XVIII, the Chair declares the House in 

the Committee of the Whole House on 

the state of the Union for the consideration of the bill, H.R. 3409. 

The Chair appoints the gentleman 

from Ohio (Mr. LATOURETTE) to preside 

over the Committee of the Whole. 

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IN THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE

Accordingly, the House resolved 

itself into the Committee of the Whole 

House on the state of the Union for the 

consideration of the bill (H.R. 3409) to 

limit the authority of the Secretary of 

the Interior to issue regulations before 

December 31, 2013, under the Surface 

Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 

1977, with Mr. LATOURETTE in the 

chair. 

The Clerk read the title of the bill. 

The CHAIR. Pursuant to the rule, the 

bill is considered read the first time. 

General debate shall be confined to 

the bill and amendments specified in 

House Resolution 788 and shall not exceed 1 hour equally divided among and 

controlled by the chair and ranking 

minority member of the Committee on 

Natural Resources, the chair and ranking minority of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and the chair and 

ranking minority member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. 

The gentleman from Washington (Mr. 

HASTINGS), the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. MARKEY), the gentleman 

from Michigan (Mr. UPTON), the gentleman from California (Mr. WAXMAN), 

the gentleman from Florida (Mr. MICA), 

and the gentleman from West Virginia 

(Mr. RAHALL) each will control 10 minutes. 

The Chair recognizes the gentleman 

from Washington (Mr. HASTINGS). 

Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. I 

yield myself as much time as I may 

consume. 

Mr. Chairman, in his 2008 campaign, 

President Obama plainly declared the 

policies he supports would bankrupt 

American coal production. Since taking office, the Obama administration 

has waged a multi-front war on coal, 

on coal jobs, on the small businesses in 

the mining supply chain, and on the 

low cost energy that millions of Americans rely on. 

Mr. Chairman, amazingly the Obama 

administration has repeatedly tried to 

deny that they’ve launched a war on 

coal, yet the facts are stubborn things. 

Just this week, Alpha Natural Resources announced the closure of 8 coal 

mines that will cost over 1,200 goodpaying jobs. Aggressive regulations 

were specifically cited by the company 

for the closure of these mines. 

New regulations opposed by the 

Obama EPA threaten to shut down the 

Navajo Generating Station, a coal-fired 

power plant in Arizona. This would 

cost hundreds of jobs and eliminate 

millions of dollars in revenue for Navajo tribal economic development, education, and basic services. 

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These lost jobs aren’t random events. 

They are the direct result of the policies and actions of the Obama administration. These are the outcomes of 

their regulatory war on coal. 


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