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high-ranking officials from Justice and 

Homeland Security—stated that there 

is no cross-border violence. 

This is completely unacceptable. If 

the Federal Government cannot even 

define what endangers border citizens, 

we cannot ensure their safety. H.R. 6368 

is simple. It is straightforward. It is a 

bill that will address this very problem. 

It directs the Department of Justice 

and the Department of Homeland Security to submit a report to Congress on 

their ability to define, to track, to investigate, and to quantify cross-border, 

or spillover, violence. 

The Departments of Justice and 

Homeland Security will furthermore 

report what information and statistics 

are available and that are at their disposal in order to understand the 

amount of violence spilling into the 

United States. The ability to correctly 

monitor the level of spillover violence 

occurring across our Nation’s borders 

will allow us to assess the success of 

our border security policies and to ensure that we have the correct policies 

in place in order to stop violence, stop 

drugs and contraband from spilling 

into the United States. 

Lastly, the Departments will recommend to Congress what additional 

resources are necessary in order to 

track, quantify, and report on crossborder violence so that Congress can do 

its part and ensure that our Federal 

law enforcement agencies have the 

tools and the data that they need to do 

their jobs. Congress must be a willing 

and able partner in the fight against 

the ruthless Mexican cartels and the 

violence that they bring into our 

American communities. 

Madam Speaker, the American people deserve to know the capability of 

their government to address cross-border violence. This bill does not seek to 

prove that one party is right or that 

one party is wrong. It simply seeks to 

find out the ability of the Departments 

of Justice and Homeland Security to 

define, to track, and to understand the 

amount of violence spilling into the 

United States from Mexico. In order to 

achieve a secure border, we must be 

able to correctly gauge the amount of 

violence that is spilling into the United 

States, and I believe that this bill is an 

important first step in that direction. 

Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Madam 

Speaker, I yield myself such time as I 

may consume. 

H.R. 6368 requires the Department of 

Justice and the Department of Homeland Security, no later than 180 days 

after the enactment of this law, to 

jointly provide a report to Congress on 

those Departments’ abilities to track, 

investigate, and quantify cross-border 

violence along our country’s southwest 

border and to provide recommendations to Congress on how to accurately 

track, investigate, and quantify crossborder violence. 

This seems like a good idea, and I 

note that the bill provides that we will 

receive budget recommendations along 

with the report, as some have suggested, so that we can reduce the size 

of government with unspecified cuts, 

but then we are often surprised to see 

what those cuts are. Tracking, investigating, and responding appropriately 

to cross-border violence will require 

personnel and equipment, which obviously will require increases, not cuts, 

in the budget. 

I want to thank the gentleman from 

Texas (Mr. CANSECO) for his work on 

the bill. I look forward to the report, 

and I recommend the bill’s passage. 

I yield back the balance of my time. 

Mr. SMITH of Texas. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY, 

Washington, DC, September 12, 2012. 

Hon. LAMAR SMITH, 

Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary, Washington, DC. 

Dear CHAIRMAN SMITH: I am writing in regards to the jurisdictional interest of the 

Committee on Homeland Security over provisions in H.R. 6368, which requires the Department of Justice, in consultation with 

the Department of Homeland Security, to 

provide a report to Congress on the ability to 

track, investigate, and quantify cross-border 

violence along the Southwest Border and 

provide recommendations to Congress. 

I understand the importance of advancing 

this legislation to the House floor in an expeditious manner. Therefore, the Committee 

on Homeland Security will discharge H.R. 

6368 from further consideration. This action 

is conditional on our mutual understanding 

and agreement that doing so will in no way 

diminish or alter the jurisdiction of the 

Committee on Homeland Security over the 

subject matter included in this or similar 

legislation. I request that you urge the 

Speaker to appoint members of this Committee to any conference committee for consideration of any provisions that fall within 

the jurisdiction of the Committee on Homeland Security in the House-Senate conference on this or similar legislation. 

I also request that this response and your 

letter be included in the Committee on the 

Judiciary report to H.R. 6368 and in the Congressional Record during consideration of 

this measure on the House floor. Thank you 

for your consideration of this matter. 

Sincerely, 

PETER T. KING, 

Chairman. 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, 

Washington, DC, September 13, 2012. 

Hon. PETER KING, 

Chairman, Committee on Homeland Security, 

Washington, DC. 

DEAR CHAIRMAN KING, Thank you for your 

letter dated September 12, 2012, regarding 

H.R. 6368, the ‘‘Border Security Information 

Improvement Act of 2012,’’ which was referred to the Judiciary Committee on September 10. 

I am most appreciative of your decision to 

forego consideration of H.R. 6368 so that it 

may move expeditiously to the House floor. 

I acknowledge that although you are waiving 

formal consideration of the bill, the Committee on Homeland Security is in no way 

waiving its jurisdiction over the subject 

matter contained in the bill. In addition, if a 

conference is necessary on this legislation, I 

will support any request that your committee be represented therein. 

Finally, I shall be pleased to include your 

letter and this letter in the Congressional 

Record during floor consideration of H.R. 

6368. 

Sincerely, 

LAMAR SMITH, 

Chairman. 

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. 

SCHMIDT). The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from 

Texas (Mr. SMITH) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 

6368, 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 require the Department of 

Justice and the Department of Homeland Security to provide a joint report 

to Congress on the Departments’ ability to track, investigate and quantify 

cross-border violence along the Southwest Border and provide recommendations to Congress on how to accurately 

track, investigate, and quantify crossborder violence.’’. 

A motion to reconsider was laid on 

the table. 

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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. 5044, by the yeas and nays; 

H.R. 5912, by the yeas and nays. 

The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote. The remaining electronic vote will be conducted as a 5-minute vote. 

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ANDREW P. CARPENTER TAX ACT 

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

bill (H.R. 5044) to amend the Internal 

Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from 

gross income any discharge of indebtedness income on education loans of 

deceased veterans, 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 Texas (Mr. SAM

JOHNSON) that the House suspend the 

rules and pass the bill, as amended. 

The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were—yeas 400, nays 0, 

not voting 29, as follows: 

[Roll No. 585] 

YEAS—400 

Ackerman 

Adams 

Aderholt 

Alexander 

Altmire 

Amash 

Amodei 

Andrews 

Austria 

Baca 

Bachmann 

Bachus 

Baldwin 

Barber 

Barletta 

Barrow 

Bartlett 

Barton (TX) 

Bass (CA) 

Bass (NH) 

Becerra 

Benishek 

Berg 

Berkley 

Berman 

Biggert 

Bilbray 

Bilirakis 

Bishop (GA) 

Bishop (NY) 

Bishop (UT) 

Black 

Blackburn 

Blumenauer 

Bonamici 

Bonner 


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Bono Mack 

Boren 

Boswell 

Boustany 

Brady (PA) 

Braley (IA) 

Brooks 

Broun (GA) 

Brown (FL) 

Buchanan 

Bucshon 

Buerkle 

Burgess 

Burton (IN) 

Butterfield 

Calvert 

Camp 

Canseco 

Cantor 

Capito 

Capps 

Capuano 

Carnahan 

Carney 

Carson (IN) 

Carter 

Cassidy 

Castor (FL) 

Chabot 

Chaffetz 

Chandler 

Chu 

Cicilline 

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 

Denham 

Dent 

DesJarlais 

Deutch 

Diaz-Balart 

Dicks 

Dingell 

Doggett 

Dold 

Donnelly (IN) 

Doyle 

Dreier 

Duffy 

Duncan (SC) 

Duncan (TN) 

Edwards 

Ellison 

Ellmers 

Emerson 

Engel 

Eshoo 

Farenthold 

Farr 

Fattah 

Fincher 

Fitzpatrick 

Flake 

Fleischmann 

Fleming 

Flores 

Fortenberry 

Foxx 

Frank (MA) 

Franks (AZ) 

Frelinghuysen 

Fudge 

Garamendi 

Gardner 

Garrett 

Gerlach 

Gibbs 

Gibson 

Gingrey (GA) 

Gohmert 

Gonzalez 

Goodlatte 

Gosar 

Gowdy 

Graves (GA) 

Graves (MO) 

Griffin (AR) 

Griffith (VA) 

Grijalva 

Grimm 

Guinta 

Guthrie 

Gutierrez 

Hahn 

Hall 

Hanabusa 

Hanna 

Harper 

Harris 

Hartzler 

Hastings (FL) 

Hastings (WA) 

Hayworth 

Heck 

Heinrich 

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. 

Jones 

Jordan 

Kaptur 

Keating 

Kelly 

Kildee 

Kind 

King (IA) 

King (NY) 

Kingston 

Kinzinger (IL) 

Kissell 

Kline 

Kucinich 

Lamborn 

Lance 

Landry 

Langevin 

Lankford 

Larsen (WA) 

Larson (CT) 

Latham 

LaTourette 

Latta 

Levin 

Lewis (CA) 

Lewis (GA) 

Lipinski 

LoBiondo 

Loebsack 

Lofgren, Zoe 

Long 

Lowey 

Lucas 

Luetkemeyer 

Luja ́n 

Lummis 

Lungren, Daniel 

E. 

Mack 

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) 

Paul 

Paulsen 

Pearce 

Pelosi 

Pence 

Perlmutter 

Peters 

Peterson 

Petri 

Pingree (ME) 

Pitts 

Poe (TX) 

Polis 

Pompeo 

Posey 

Price (GA) 

Price (NC) 

Quayle 

Quigley 

Rahall 

Rangel 

Reed 

Rehberg 

Reichert 

Renacci 

Reyes 

Ribble 

Richardson 

Richmond 

Rigell 

Roby 

Roe (TN) 

Rogers (AL) 

Rogers (KY) 

Rogers (MI) 

Rohrabacher 

Rokita 

Rooney 

Ros-Lehtinen 

Roskam 

Ross (FL) 

Rothman (NJ) 

Royce 

Runyan 

Ruppersberger 

Rush 

Ryan (OH) 

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 

Shuster 

Simpson 

Sires 

Slaughter 

Smith (NE) 

Smith (NJ) 

Smith (TX) 

Smith (WA) 

Southerland 

Stark 

Stearns 

Stivers 

Stutzman 

Sullivan 

Sutton 

Terry 

Thompson (MS) 

Thompson (PA) 

Thornberry 

Tiberi 

Tierney 

Tipton 

Tonko 

Towns 

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) 

NOT VOTING—29 

Akin 

Brady (TX) 

Campbell 

Clarke (MI) 

DeLauro 

Filner 

Forbes 

Gallegly 

Granger 

Green, Al 

Green, Gene 

Herger 

Hirono 

Jackson (IL) 

Johnson (IL) 

Johnson, Sam 

Labrador 

Lee (CA) 

Lynch 

Maloney 

Platts 

Rivera 

Ross (AR) 

Roybal-Allard 

Ryan (WI) 

Shuler 

Speier 

Thompson (CA) 

Tsongas 

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Mrs. ELLMERS changed her vote 

from ‘‘nay’’ to ‘‘yea.’’ 

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. 

Stated for: 

Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Madam 

Speaker, on rollcall No. 585, had I been 

present, I would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ 

Mr. FILNER. Madam Speaker, on rollcall 

585, 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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PROHIBITING USE OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 

FUNDS FOR PARTY CONVENTIONS 

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

bill (H.R. 5912) to amend the Internal 

Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit the 

use of public funds for political party 

conventions, and to provide for the return of previously distributed funds for 

deficit reduction, 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 California (Mr. 

DANIEL E. LUNGREN) 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 310, nays 95, 

not voting 24, as follows: 

[Roll No. 586] 

YEAS—310 

Adams 

Aderholt 

Alexander 

Altmire 

Amash 

Amodei 

Austria 

Bachmann 

Bachus 

Baldwin 

Barber 

Barletta 

Barrow 

Bartlett 

Barton (TX) 

Bass (NH) 

Benishek 

Berg 

Berkley 

Berman 

Biggert 

Bilbray 

Bilirakis 

Bishop (GA) 

Bishop (NY) 

Bishop (UT) 

Black 

Blackburn 

Blumenauer 

Bonamici 

Bonner 

Bono Mack 

Boren 

Boswell 

Boustany 

Braley (IA) 

Brooks 

Broun (GA) 

Buchanan 

Bucshon 

Buerkle 

Burgess 

Burton (IN) 

Butterfield 

Calvert 

Camp 

Canseco 

Cantor 

Capito 

Capuano 

Carnahan 

Carney 

Carson (IN) 

Carter 

Cassidy 

Castor (FL) 

Chabot 

Chaffetz 

Chandler 

Chu 

Cicilline 

Coble 

Coffman (CO) 

Cole 

Conaway 

Costa 

Costello 

Cravaack 

Crawford 

Crenshaw 

Critz 

Cuellar 

Culberson 

Cummings 

Davis (CA) 

DeFazio 

Denham 

Dent 

DesJarlais 

Diaz-Balart 

Dicks 

Doggett 

Dold 

Donnelly (IN) 

Dreier 

Duffy 

Duncan (SC) 

Duncan (TN) 

Ellmers 

Emerson 

Farenthold 

Fincher 

Fitzpatrick 

Flake 

Fleischmann 

Fleming 

Flores 

Fortenberry 

Foxx 

Franks (AZ) 

Frelinghuysen 

Garamendi 

Gardner 

Garrett 

Gerlach 

Gibbs 

Gibson 

Gingrey (GA) 

Gohmert 

Goodlatte 

Gosar 

Gowdy 

Graves (GA) 

Graves (MO) 

Green, Gene 

Griffin (AR) 

Griffith (VA) 

Grimm 

Guinta 

Guthrie 

Hahn 

Hall 

Hanabusa 

Hanna 

Harper 

Harris 

Hartzler 

Hastings (WA) 

Hayworth 

Heck 

Heinrich 

Hensarling 

Herger 

Herrera Beutler 

Higgins 

Himes 

Hochul 

Holden 

Huelskamp 

Huizenga (MI) 

Hultgren 

Hunter 

Hurt 

Israel 

Issa 

Jenkins 

Johnson (OH) 

Jones 

Jordan 

Keating 

Kelly 

Kind 

King (IA) 

King (NY) 

Kingston 

Kinzinger (IL) 

Kissell 

Kline 

Kucinich 

Lamborn 

Lance 

Landry 

Langevin 

Lankford 

Latham 

LaTourette 

Latta 

Lipinski 

LoBiondo 

Loebsack 

Lofgren, Zoe 

Long 

Lowey 

Lucas 

Luetkemeyer 

Lummis 

Lungren, Daniel 

E. 

Mack 

Maloney 

Manzullo 

Marchant 

Marino 

Matheson 

McCarthy (CA) 

McCarthy (NY) 

McCaul 

McClintock 

McHenry 

McIntyre 

McKeon 

McKinley 

McMorris 

Rodgers 

McNerney 

Meehan 

Mica 

Michaud 

Miller (FL) 

Miller (MI) 

Miller, Gary 

Miller, George 

Moran 

Mulvaney 

Murphy (CT) 

Murphy (PA) 

Myrick 

Neugebauer 

Noem 

Nugent 

Nunes 

Nunnelee 

Olson 

Owens 

Palazzo 

Pastor (AZ) 

Paul 

Paulsen 

Pearce 

Pence 

Perlmutter 

Peterson 

Petri 

Pitts 

Poe (TX) 

Pompeo 

Posey 

Price (GA) 

Quayle 

Quigley 

Rahall 

Reed 

Rehberg 

Reichert 

Renacci 

Ribble 

Richardson 

Rigell 

Roby 

Roe (TN) 

Rogers (AL) 

Rogers (KY) 

Rogers (MI) 

Rohrabacher 

Rokita 

Rooney 

Ros-Lehtinen 

Roskam 

Ross (FL) 

Rothman (NJ) 

Royce 

Runyan 

Ruppersberger 

Ryan (OH) 

Sa ́nchez, Linda 

T. 

Sanchez, Loretta 

Scalise 

Schiff 

Schilling 

Schmidt 

Schock 

Schrader 

Schweikert 

Scott (SC) 

Scott, Austin 

Sensenbrenner 

Sessions 

Sewell 

Sherman 

Shimkus 

Shuster 

Simpson 

Slaughter 

Smith (NE) 

Smith (NJ) 

Smith (TX) 

Southerland 

Stearns 

Stivers 

Stutzman 

Sullivan 

Sutton 

Terry 

Thompson (PA) 

Thornberry 

Tierney 

Tipton 

Tonko 

Turner (NY) 

Turner (OH) 

Upton 

Walberg 

Walden 

Walsh (IL) 

Walz (MN) 

Waxman 

Webster 

Welch 

West 

Westmoreland 

Whitfield 

Wilson (FL) 

Wilson (SC) 

Wittman 

Wolf 

Womack 

Woodall 

Woolsey 

Yoder 

Young (AK) 

Young (FL) 

Young (IN) 


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