Votes. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the vote on ordering the previous question on House Resolution 708, on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the resolution. The clerk house calendar number 54. House resolution 708. Resolution providing for consideration of the Senate Amendment to the bill, h. R. 3055 making appropriations for the departments of commerce and justice, science and related agencies for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2020, and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is on ordering the previous question. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 228, the nays are 192. The previous question is ordered. The question is on adoption of the resolution. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. The gentleman from oklahoma. Mr. Cole on that, madam speaker, i would ask for the yeas and nays. The speaker pro tempore the yeas and nays are requested. All those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. A sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This will be a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 230, the nays nays are 194. The resolution is adopted. Without objection, the motion to reskr laid on the table reconsider is laid on the table. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the vote on the Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from texas, mr. Green, to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 508 4rks on which the yeas and nays are ordered to 5084, on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk a bill to amend the securities and exchange active 1934, to require the submission by issuers of data relating to diversity and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This will be a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 281. The nays are 135. 2 3 having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed, and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. Members, take your conversations off the floor. The speaker pro tempore order, please. Can we take the conversations floor, please. For what purpose does the entlelady from new york seek recognition . Mrs. Lowey mr. Speaker, the house is not in order. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from new york is right. Is not in order. Please, take your conversations off the floor. We please take can we conversations off the floor, please. The hat purpose does gentlelady from new york seek recognition . Mrs. Lowey mr. Speaker, House Resolution 3055, with up h. R. The Senate Amendment thereto, motion at the desk. The peaker pro tempore gentlelady will suspend, please. He clerk will report the title of the bill, designate the report thedment, and motion, please. The clerk h. R. 3055, an act making appropriations for the commerce and justice, science, and related agencies for the fiscal year 2020, and ember 30, for other purposes. Senate amendment. Moves wey of new york that the house concur in the Senate Amendment to h. R. 3055 inserting the nt ext of rules Committee Print 11638 in lieu of the matter to proposed by the senate. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to House Resolution 708, the motion shall be equally for one hour ivided and controlled by the chair, the ranking minority member of the committee on appropriations. He gentlewoman from new york, mrs. Lowey, and the gentlewoman ms. Granger, each will control 30 minutes. The chair recognizes the york. Woman from new mrs. Lowey mr. Speaker, i ask that all consent members may have five legislative days to revise and and include remarks extraneous material on the house to the Senate Amendment to h. R. 3055. Mr. Speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. While the house is he speaker pro tempore the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from new york. Mrs. Lowey while the house did 12 work and passed appropriation bills through committee and 10 appropriation off the floor, delays in he senate mean the appropriations process is behind. Ith just days until current stopgap funding expires, we must to a continuing resolution keep government open and fund negotiate ies as we subcommittee allocations and finalize individual appropriation bills. His legislation avoids controversial policies and thatad contains provisions reflect shared priorities, including bipartisan language to fully fund a fair and accurate decannial census, a 3. 1 pay raise for our military, and to rescind 1. 6 billion in highway funding. Provisions, to these the c. R. Includes a package of extenders that will keep Health Critical to American Families up and running. Extending these programs and government funding through c. R. Will , this allow additional time to enact responsible longterm funding for priorities country safer and stronger and give working families a better chance at a better life. Pass eaker, even as we today American Families and businesses and communities need the certainty funding. Ear to complete the appropriations settle we must first llocations with the senate republicans. Only by coming together in good responsible, enact fullyear spending bills that invests for theresponsible, people and give americ he American People a better life. I ask colleagues support this and i reserve the balance of my time. Thank you. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady reserves. The gentlelady from texas is recognized. S. Granger mr. Speaker, its with a heavy heart that i rise in opposition of the continuing resolution. Dont wantpriator, i to support anything short of fullyear Appropriations Bills, to cially when it comes funding for our national defense. Even so, in september i urged my colleagues to join me in voting to a funding for our national defense. Temporary c. R. To avoi Government Shutdown and give the senate time to complete their work. At that time, the budget deal had just been signed into law senate had not yet started consideration of full appropriations measures for f. Y. 2020. I voting for the last c. R. , argued at the time we would provide enough time for appropriators in the house and to complete work on bills. Ar appropriations unfortunately, not only that has there still hasnt been an agreement reached on spending levels for those bills. Could ness in the world survive on temporary funding on a monthtomonth basis. He uncertainty created by the habit Congress Finds itself in repeated c. R. s and a continual of a shutdown is crippling, especially for our military. Continuing resolutions limits the militarys ability to operate, train, care for our and their bers families and continue the Critical Research and evelopment that is needed to meet and defeat all threats. Ongress must not fail to meet its most fundamental constitutional responsibility to provide appropriations. I call on my colleagues in both chambers of oth congress to immediately come aside, put politics and Work Together to reach an fullyear or a appropriations measure that the president can sign. Reserve my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady reserves. The gentlelady from new york is recognized. Mrs. Lowey i ask unanimous consent that the gentlewoman allowed to control time. Mainder of the the speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. The gentlewoman from ohio is recognized. Ms. Kaptur mr. Speaker, i yield to the gentleman from maryland, our majority leader, hoyer. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from maryland is recognized for one minute. R. Hoyer thank you, mr. Speaker. I thank the gentlelady for yielding. And t to thank mrs. Lowey ms. Granger for their leadership on this committee. Want them to know that i commitment to r doing the appropriations process he way we are supposed to do it. Is a day thats a recognition of failure, a our work as those committeed the budget report 1974, as those of us who served on the appropriations since 1983, 23 years active on the appropriations on it but ut still waiver. This is an admission of failure. Its a recognition of failure. Recognition that the senate did not do its job. The a recognition that white house would not cooperate 302b ting to allocations. I talked to senator mcconnell in this year. Leader mcconnell and i agreed the we wanted to get appropriations work done in a to be that was intended done. Considering discreetly, ndividually appropriation bills, considering them on the floor. Ow, frankly, we did not do that. We did not do it for time sake o we could do things in a timely fashion, and we three omnibus them,ss, minibus, we call and we sent them to the senate 26 of this year, which gave the senate and i the much sort of give senate more time. Hey had all the time they needed. And because the white house and acting chief the of staff, mr. Mulvaney, who has been one of the most negative in terms e dealt with of fiscal responsibility and doing the work of the house on person who would say amen would be john boehner. Not too far ld be behind. To mr. Mulvaney wanted to go sequester. That was his original play. That didnt fly some months gafshity, he ster gamut, he went to the c. R. The pentagon was rightfully concerned about that proposal. Hat would damage our national security. And so he continued to delay. Dont know weather the president was involved in it or not, frankly. So we did not get 302a, and for those watching, that means how much discretionary money you are going to spend in total. By the way, our citizens, mr. Speaker, ought to know, its overwhelm about a third, maybe a little less, that is discretionary. The other Social Security, medicare, medicaid things of that nature. So we needed to come to a agreement on how much we were going to spend. Because after all, we understand the president has to sign the bills. But it was not the committees that made that agreement. It was not the Budget Committee involved in that agreement. It was Speaker Pelosi and secretary mnuchin meeting together. The senate wasnt really involved. And we got to a number, and that was good. July. Which meant that the senate had other two months to pass its bills. To come to an agreement. Didnt have to take our 302b, and they werent, they would have taken it within the constraints of the mnuchinpelosi agreement. More properly the pelosimnuchin agreement. They still did not enact a single appropriation bill. Now the floor is not filled, the galleries are not filled, mr. Speaker. This is sort of inside baseball. But very, frankly, there are only 12 bills that need to pass. All the other bills can be put off. It will have adverse effects, but it will not shut down the peoples government. If we dont sign if we dont pass these 12 bills, it shuts down the peoples government. For the first time in the history of the congress, this congress if we dont sign took government partially shut down. Im going to vote for this c. R. , but i do not delude myself that this is a successful pursuance of the appropriations process. It is not. It is a failure. It is not our failure. We did our work on time. And the whip, republican mipwhip, mr. Speaker, keeps telling me it was a partisan exercise. It may well have been partisan exercise. But 10 bills went to the United States senate. Unattended. Untouched. Unconsidered. So we are here. The alternative is shutting down government on the midnight of the 21st. Thats not an acceptable alternative. I want to tell my friends, and i want to say to those in this chamber, i have Great Respect for Ranking Member granger, with whom i have worked for longer perhaps than any of us want to say, but a long time. I have respect for her commitment to the appropriations process, her commitment to regular order, her commitment to doing our work in the fashion that the American People can have confidence. I have confidence in mrs. Lowey, the chair of the committee. And i know that they are working together and have the same objective. That does not mean they agree on every dollar as to how it ought to be allocated, but it does mean they think it ought to be considered in the way that it should be. This is not the way it should be. This is the way it is. Im going to vote for it. I urge my members to vote for it. But i will tell you if im upset today, if we dont get ur work done, and i mean done, and you talk about a c. R. On be ber 20th, i will not happy. I dont know what that means, but im going to have additional discussions with senator mcconnell as i have had with the chairman of the Appropriations Committee in the senate and the Ranking Member, mr. Leahy. I have talked to both mr. Shelby and mr. Leahy. They want to get this work done. There is no reason in gods green earth we cannot do the Appropriations Bills in a way that they ought to be done, except we lack the will to compromise. We lack the will to Work Together. We lack the will to do the American Peoples business on ime, rationally, and without creating a sense that this institution cannot and does not work. I hope we use these days that are left between today and december 20 in a productive, effective, effective way so that the appropriations process can be concluded on december or before. December 20 or before. This probably is going to have no constructive effect this day, but i hope in the days to come that we will are all have such a sense of urgency that we owe it to the country, to our people, and to this institution to show the American People we can make it work. Lets do it. I yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yield. The gentlewoman from ohio reserves. Ms. Kaptur mr. Speaker, i reserve. The speaker pro tempore very good. The gentlewoman from texas is recognized. Ms. Granger i yield three minutes to the gentleman from arkansas, mr. Womack. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from arkansas is recognized. Mr. Womack thank you, mr. Speaker. And i appreciate the Ranking Member from texas, ms. Granger, for yielding and for her leadership. I, too, am concerned about the direction we are heading with this continuing resolution, but i have another reason, mr. Speaker. This c. R. Includes a provision that has a significant budgetary impact. I am frustrated that the amendment i filed with the rules Committee Last night was not made in order to address it. My amendment would have offset 76 billion in mandatory spending increases from repealing rescission of funds in the 2015 fixing americas surface transportation act. Or fast act. Or transportation bill. This provision, mr. Speaker, would have a Significant Impact on mandatory spending. Which everybody in this chamber knows is driving the nations deficits and debt. Let me be clear the amendment would have allowed for the highway funding to take place but simply calling it for it to be paid for. I dont think thats asking too much. To ask for increases in spending given the fact that we will have a trillion dollar deficit this year on top of a 23 trillion debt to just simply pay for the excesses. The house should have had an opportunity to consider whether to offset the funding in a fiscally responsible manner, in my opinion. I find it troubling we were not given an opportunity. Thats one thing. The manner in which this c. R. Was assembled doesnt provide a great deal of hope that we will enact a full year defense spending bill which the military so desperately needs right now. I share the concerns of the distinguished majority leader. Mr. Speaker, aim not optimistic we will conclude all of these other funding bills before the expiration of the next c. R. The difference is going to be that its going to be the 20th of december, its going to be right before christmas, and we will do whatever we can to get out of town to go celebrate the olidays. The majority leader says, if that happens he will be mad. My recommendation to him is prepare to be mad. I know how this place works. R. Speaker, is it not apparent to the discerning people of america and specifically to the people in this chamber, that this is a flawed and broken . Rocess and we need to fix it can i have another minute . Ms. Granger i yield two minutes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. Mr. Womack we need to fix it. With the t year distinguished chairman of the Appropriations Commit