January 7, 2009 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H49 

RECESS 

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

declares the House in recess subject to 

the call of the Chair. 

Accordingly (at 11 a.m.), the House 

stood in recess subject to the call of 

the Chair. 

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AFTER RECESS 

The recess having expired, the House 

was called to order by the Speaker pro 

tempore (Mr. H

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OLDEN) at noon. 

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. 35, by the yeas and nays; 

H.R. 36, by the yeas and nays. 

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

electronic vote will be conducted as a 

5-minute vote. 

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PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT 

AMENDMENTS OF 2009 

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

bill, H.R. 35, 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 New York (Mr. 

TOWNS) that the House suspend the 

rules and pass the bill, H.R. 35. 

The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were—yeas 359, nays 58, 

not voting 12, as follows: 

[Roll No. 5] 

YEAS—359 

Abercrombie 

Ackerman 

Adler (NJ) 

Alexander 

Altmire 

Andrews 

Arcuri 

Austria 

Baca 

Bachus 

Baird 

Baldwin 

Barrow 

Bartlett 

Bean 

Becerra 

Berkley 

Berman 

Berry 

Biggert 

Bilbray 

Bilirakis 

Bishop (GA) 

Bishop (NY) 

Bishop (UT) 

Blunt 

Boccieri 

Bono Mack 

Boozman 

Boren 

Boswell 

Boyd 

Brady (PA) 

Brady (TX) 

Braley (IA) 

Bright 

Brown (SC) 

Brown, Corrine 

Brown-Waite, 

Ginny 

Buchanan 

Burgess 

Burton (IN) 

Butterfield 

Buyer 

Calvert 

Camp 

Cantor 

Cao 

Capito 

Capps 

Capuano 

Cardoza 

Carnahan 

Carney 

Carson (IN) 

Castle 

Castor (FL) 

Chandler 

Childers 

Clarke 

Clay 

Cleaver 

Clyburn 

Coble 

Coffman (CO) 

Cohen 

Cole 

Connolly (VA) 

Conyers 

Cooper 

Costa 

Costello 

Courtney 

Crenshaw 

Crowley 

Cuellar 

Culberson 

Cummings 

Dahlkemper 

Davis (AL) 

Davis (CA) 

Davis (IL) 

Davis (TN) 

DeFazio 

DeGette 

Delahunt 

DeLauro 

Dent 

Diaz-Balart, L. 

Diaz-Balart, M. 

Dicks 

Dingell 

Doggett 

Donnelly (IN) 

Doyle 

Dreier 

Driehaus 

Duncan 

Edwards (MD) 

Edwards (TX) 

Ehlers 

Ellison 

Ellsworth 

Emerson 

Engel 

Eshoo 

Etheridge 

Farr 

Fattah 

Filner 

Fortenberry 

Foster 

Frank (MA) 

Frelinghuysen 

Fudge 

Gerlach 

Giffords 

Gillibrand 

Gohmert 

Gonzalez 

Goodlatte 

Gordon (TN) 

Grayson 

Green, Al 

Green, Gene 

Griffith 

Grijalva 

Guthrie 

Hall (NY) 

Halvorson 

Hare 

Harman 

Harper 

Hastings (FL) 

Heinrich 

Heller 

Herger 

Higgins 

Hill 

Himes 

Hinchey 

Hinojosa 

Hirono 

Hodes 

Hoekstra 

Holden 

Holt 

Honda 

Hoyer 

Inslee 

Israel 

Issa 

Jackson (IL) 

Jackson-Lee 

(TX) 

Jenkins 

Johnson (GA) 

Johnson (IL) 

Johnson, E. B. 

Jones 

Kagen 

Kanjorski 

Kaptur 

Kennedy 

Kildee 

Kilpatrick (MI) 

Kilroy 

Kirk 

Kirkpatrick (AZ) 

Kissell 

Klein (FL) 

Kosmas 

Kratovil 

Kucinich 

Lance 

Langevin 

Larsen (WA) 

Larson (CT) 

Latham 

LaTourette 

Latta 

Lee (CA) 

Lee (NY) 

Levin 

Lewis (CA) 

Lewis (GA) 

Lipinski 

LoBiondo 

Loebsack 

Lofgren, Zoe 

Lowey 

Lucas 

Luetkemeyer 

Luja ́n 

Lummis 

Lynch 

Maffei 

Maloney 

Marchant 

Markey (CO) 

Markey (MA) 

Marshall 

Massa 

Matheson 

Matsui 

McCarthy (CA) 

McCarthy (NY) 

McCaul 

McClintock 

McCollum 

McCotter 

McDermott 

McGovern 

McHugh 

McIntyre 

McMahon 

McMorris 

Rodgers 

McNerney 

Meek (FL) 

Meeks (NY) 

Melancon 

Mica 

Michaud 

Miller (FL) 

Miller (MI) 

Miller (NC) 

Miller, George 

Minnick 

Mitchell 

Mollohan 

Moore (KS) 

Moore (WI) 

Moran (KS) 

Moran (VA) 

Murphy (CT) 

Murphy, Patrick 

Murphy, Tim 

Murtha 

Napolitano 

Neal (MA) 

Nunes 

Nye 

Oberstar 

Obey 

Olver 

Ortiz 

Pallone 

Pascrell 

Pastor (AZ) 

Paul 

Paulsen 

Payne 

Perlmutter 

Perriello 

Peters 

Peterson 

Petri 

Pingree (ME) 

Platts 

Polis (CO) 

Pomeroy 

Posey 

Price (NC) 

Putnam 

Radanovich 

Rahall 

Reichert 

Reyes 

Richardson 

Rodriguez 

Roe (TN) 

Rogers (KY) 

Rohrabacher 

Ros-Lehtinen 

Roskam 

Ross 

Rothman (NJ) 

Roybal-Allard 

Royce 

Ruppersberger 

Rush 

Ryan (OH) 

Ryan (WI) 

Salazar 

Sa ́nchez, Linda 

T. 

Sanchez, Loretta 

Sarbanes 

Scalise 

Schakowsky 

Schauer 

Schiff 

Schmidt 

Schock 

Schrader 

Schwartz 

Scott (GA) 

Scott (VA) 

Sensenbrenner 

Serrano 

Sestak 

Shea-Porter 

Sherman 

Shimkus 

Shuler 

Simpson 

Sires 

Skelton 

Slaughter 

Smith (NE) 

Smith (NJ) 

Smith (WA) 

Souder 

Space 

Speier 

Spratt 

Stark 

Stearns 

Stupak 

Sullivan 

Sutton 

Tanner 

Tauscher 

Taylor 

Teague 

Terry 

Thompson (CA) 

Thompson (MS) 

Thompson (PA) 

Tiahrt 

Tiberi 

Tierney 

Titus 

Tonko 

Towns 

Tsongas 

Turner 

Upton 

Van Hollen 

Vela ́ zquez 

Visclosky 

Walden 

Walz 

Wamp 

Wasserman 

Schultz 

Watson 

Watt 

Waxman 

Weiner 

Welch 

Wexler 

Whitfield 

Wilson (OH) 

Wilson (SC) 

Wittman 

Wolf 

Woolsey 

Wu 

Yarmuth 

Young (AK) 

Young (FL) 

NAYS—58 

Aderholt 

Akin 

Bachmann 

Barrett (SC) 

Barton (TX) 

Blackburn 

Boehner 

Boustany 

Broun (GA) 

Campbell 

Carter 

Cassidy 

Chaffetz 

Conaway 

Davis (KY) 

Deal (GA) 

Fallin 

Flake 

Fleming 

Forbes 

Foxx 

Franks (AZ) 

Garrett (NJ) 

Gingrey (GA) 

Granger 

Hall (TX) 

Hensarling 

Hunter 

Inglis 

Johnson, Sam 

Jordan (OH) 

King (IA) 

King (NY) 

Kingston 

Kline (MN) 

Lamborn 

Linder 

Lungren, Daniel 

E. 

Mack 

Manzullo 

McHenry 

McKeon 

Myrick 

Neugebauer 

Olson 

Pence 

Pitts 

Poe (TX) 

Price (GA) 

Rehberg 

Rogers (AL) 

Rooney 

Sessions 

Shadegg 

Shuster 

Smith (TX) 

Thornberry 

Westmoreland 

NOT VOTING—12 

Blumenauer 

Bonner 

Boucher 

Gallegly 

Graves 

Herseth Sandlin 

Kind 

Nadler (NY) 

Rangel 

Snyder 

Solis (CA) 

Waters 

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Messrs. BOEHNER, CASSIDY, 

REHBERG, and SMITH of Texas 

changed their vote from ‘‘yea’’ to 

‘‘nay.’’ 

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. 

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SWEARING IN OF MEMBERS 

The SPEAKER. Will the Representatives-elect please take their place in 

the well of the House and take the oath 

of office at this time. 

The Representatives-elect appeared 

at the bar of the House and took the 

oath of office as follows: 

Do you solemnly swear or affirm that 

you will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against 

all enemies, foreign and domestic; that 

you will bear true faith and allegiance 

to the same; that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and 

that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which 

you are about to enter, so help you 

God. 

Congratulations. You are now Members of the 111th Congress. 

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MOMENT OF SILENCE IN REMEMBRANCE OF MEMBERS OF 

ARMED FORCES AND THEIR 

FAMILIES 

The SPEAKER. The Chair would ask 

all present to rise for the purpose of a 

moment of silence. 

The Chair asks that the House now 

observe a moment of silence in remembrance of our brave men and women in 

uniform, who have given their lives in 

the service of our Nation in Iraq and in 

Afghanistan, and of their families and 

of all who serve in our Armed Forces 

and their families. 

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ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER 

The SPEAKER. Under clause 5(d) of 

rule XX, the Chair announces to the 

House that the whole number of the 

House is now 433. 


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