So if the president can support that and certify that, then this falls away. So, we do not say that this deal is not allowed. We simply say that u. S. Institutions, financial institutions, cannot be used for this. And we cannot and will not use the Exportimport Bank at u. S. Tax , a u. S. Taxpayer funded entity, to do this. At the end of the day in april of this year, secretary jack lue told us that. That there would be no access. In eith and either he misled the United States citizens and this body at that time, or they changed their mind. They havent told us which. But neither one is acceptable. With that i yield back. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the previous question is ordered on the bill as amended and on the amendment offered by the gentleman from michigan, mr. Huizenga. The question is on the amendment by the gentleman from michigan, mr. Huizenga. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. The amendment is agreed to. The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. Third reading. The clerk a bill to prohibit the secretary of the treasury from authorizing certain transactions by a u. S. Financial institution in connection with the export or reexport of a commercial passenger aircraft to the Islamic Republic of iran. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i have to mr. Swalwell mr. Speaker, i have a motion to recommit at the desk. The speaker pro tempore is the gentleman opposed to the bill . Mr. Swalwell i am opposed in its current form. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman qualifies. The clerk will report the motion. The clerk mr. Swalwell of california moves to recommit the bill, h. R. 5711, to the committee on financial services, with instructions to report the same back to the house for thewith with the following amendment. Page 2, after line 2, insert the following new section. Section 103, protecting u. S. Elections. The secretary of the treasury may not authorize a transaction described under section 101 by a u. S. Financial institution if such institution is engaged in business with a foreign entity that has been found by the secretary in consultation with the director of National Intelligence to have engaged in or authorized cyberattacks targeting any election held in the United States. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from california is recognized for five minutes in support of his motion. Mr. Swalwell thank you. This is the final amendment to the bill which will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted the bill will immediately proceed to final passage as amended. Mr. Speaker, this final amendment says plainly, no u. S. Business may do business with a country who has used cyberattacks to undermine a u. S. Election. So if my colleagues are genuine in believing that iran is a hopeless adversary, surely they will join me in believing that russia in its efforts to undermine our recent november selection should also be treated as such. This motion is really about the future of two u. S. Adversaries. Iran and russia. Iran, surely a bad actor over the last few decades, has finally in the last couple years come to the international table, struck an agreement with the United States, and many of our allies, to make sure that we take it from being a country that is three months away from having a Nuclear Weapon to one year away. They continue to sponsor terrorism across the world, but today, better than ever before, we have eyes, ears, checks and balances on them that weve never had. And by the way we can address all of their bad behavior with them being much farther away from having a Nuclear Weapon than they were before the iran nuclear agreement. Russia, however, continues to wreak chaos in the middle east. Supporting syria and its brutal dictator, assad. Russia brought down a commercial airliner over ukraine and has further encourage incurred into ukraine, taking over crimea. Russia continues to attack and escalate hostilities with the u. S. Personnel at our embassy in moscow. Now, the standard bearer for the republican party, president elect trump, has chosen to embrace russia and take the United States on a new tact. So, the question today is, if you believe iran is hopeless, then do you believe that we should also make sure no u. S. Business does business with a country thats trying to undermine our elections . I want to go through some of that evidence. On october 7 of this year, the director of National Intelligence, clapper, said that the Intelligence Community is confident, confident that the russian government directed cyberattacks aimed at disrupting our november elections. Why would russia do this . Russia clearly had a favored candidate in this race and president in president elect trump. Russia has been successful. This amendment says that you cannot do business with any country that is trying to influence our elections. This amendment says that if you think iran is a bad actor, then you have to treat iran the same way you treat russia. This amendment says that if you think the u. S. Should allow businesses to do business with a country trying to undermine our elections, to undermine the will of our constituents, then you should vote against this amendment. If you are with russia, you should be against this motion. However, if you believe that we are closer to preventing iran from having a Nuclear Weapon than we were a year ago, and if you believe that its better for a u. S. Manufacturer to airliners to cial iran and create u. S. Jobs and have eyes and ears on whats going on over there, then you should be for this motion. But if you want our elections to be free and fair from outside influence, vote for this motion. If you want to stand with russia, you should vote against this motion. So i ask my colleagues on the other side, are you going to embrace the new u. S. Foreign policy that your standard bearer has proposed . That we are going to undermine and unravel the agreement that we have struck with iran and march millions of young men and women back into the middle east, an area where we have not had major combat operations, finally, for the first time in 15 years. Or do you think that we should treat iran the same way that were treating russia . So, i submit that to my colleagues and i invite them to maybe engage on that question. Because thats what this motion is about. Do you stand with russia or do you stand with preventing u. S. Businesses from doing business with a country that our Intelligence Community has said has tried to undermine our elections . With that i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. For what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition . Mr. Huizenga mr. Speaker, i rise in to claim time in opposition. The chair the gentleman is recognized the speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. Mr. Huizenga well, america, you just heard a ridiculous strawman choice laid out in front of you. This is not about anything other than selling and financing Aircraft Sales to iran. Thats what this bill is about. This is what this bill should be about. I will point out to my colleague that there are some pretty major kinetic activities there, i believe, theyre, i believe, called at this point. But at the end of the day, mr. Speaker, i want to encourage my colleagues to vote no on this motion to recommit. I look forward to working with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to address concerns that we may have with other foreign governments in the future. And i would request that they vote for the underlying bill, h. R. 5711. With that i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. Weck, the previous question is ordered on without objection, the previous question is ordered on the motion to recommit. The question is on the motion. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The noes have it. The motion is not agreed to. Mr. Swalwell i ask for a vote on the yeas and nays. The speaker pro tempore the yeas and nays are requested. Those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. A sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. Pursuant to the order of the house of today, further proceedings on this question will be postponed. The chair lays before the house a communication. The clerk the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir. This letter is to inform you that i have sent a letter to california governor jerry brown informing him that i am resigning my position as the United States representative for the 44th Congressional District of california effective sunday, december 4, 2016. In november i was elected by the people of Los Angeles County to serve as county supervisor for district four. It has been a privilege to serve the residents of california in the house of representatives for the last 5 1 2 years. I have worked to build a Better Future for our state and country. I also want to thank you, mr. Speaker, and my colleagues in the house. I have enjoyed work with you and my colleagues during my time in congress. I look forward to continuing our Work Together in order to build a better country. Signed, sincerely, janice juan, member of congress. Janice hahn, member of ongress. The speaker pro tempore the chair will entertain requests for oneminute speeches. For what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek recognition . Without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. Ms. Kaptur thank you. Mr. Speaker, we in the industrial midwest, in great lakes heartland, know firsthand why the president ial election was so hardfought and close in ohio, pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. Our region has endured a grim reality, with a decadeslong economic struggle to produce good jobs, with good wages and benefits. But what we have experienced is a continuous outsourcing of millions of jobs to pennywage sweat shops in mexico, china, bangladesh and beyond. To the people of americas heartland, it feels like jobs are being moved just about everywhere but into the midwest and great lakes. Daily we witness train loads of imports floweding into our nation, as closed and protected markets abroad block Mutual Exchange of exports. America hasnt had balanced trade accounts for three decades and workers in those nations struggle to survive on measly wages without spare cash and cannot buy much of what they produce anyway. Meanwhile, pink slip u. S. Workers have endured a painful toll, annual wages now 7,000, yes, less per year on average in northern ohio. While the cost of education expenses, health care and of everyday life rise and further squeeze pocketbooks. Please dont tell us robots took the jobs. This daily reality was a major back drop to this recent election and deserves closer attention in the coming days. Americas trade policy must result in trade balances, new jobs here and preferably trade surpluses for our country, not job loss. And that policy must be fashioned on the fundamental values of free and fair trade among free people. I yield back my remaining time. The speaker pro tempore are there any further requests for oneminute speeches . Under the speakers announced policy of january 6, 2015, the gentleman from florida, mr. Grayson, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. Mr. Grayson mr. Chairman, we have gone through a terrible and traumatic experience in the last year called a u. S. President ial election. I dont know how many countless people were utterly mortified by this, whether or not their chosen candidate won. Now, as it happened, the candidate whom i voted for lost. But i would be foolish if i ignored the fact that people all across america had a miserable, terrible experience with this president ial election , whether or not their candidate won or lost. And you ask yourself, how could that be . Why dont we cherish the opportunity to choose our National Leader . How is it that weve been sucked into this negative vortex of hate of hatred and villfication called choosing a president of the United States . It seems utterly impondrable. I was watching saturday night live just a couple of days before the election. And the not hillary actor and the not donald actor could agree on only one thing. This is what they said. This whole election has been mean. Dont you guys feel gross all the time about this . And they were speaking to us. Not to each other. But they were speaking to us. The American People. And theyre right. It is gross. But the question for us is very simple. Does it really have to be that way . Or could we somehow transform this into what its supposed to be, an exhilarating jubilee revolving around choosing a leader who will make america a better place . But you have to understand, were in a deep, deep hole here. Both major president ial candidates entered this campaign with deeply negative favorability ratings, so negative they were in double digits. In the last six months its within been a common place that both candidates were the most unpopular candidates in the history of president ial polling. About as popular as getting a root canal on your birthday. Now its been 13 long years since the gal up poll indicated that most people in this country thought that the country was headed in the right direction. 13 years. Some republican leadership, some democratic leadership, it all ends up the same way. Most people think the country is headed in the wrong direction. Its been 13 year, not coincidently, since the majority of americans thought that congress was doing a good job and approved of it. In fact, we reached a nadir during the government shutdown, only 16 of the country thought we were heading in the right direction, only 9 of the country thought that congress was doing a good job. I pointed out at the time, standing exactly where im standing right now, that according to recent polling congress was literally less pop already than dog poo. In one election after another, the voters feel completely ignored. Literal little effort is made to explain to them how their lives may be improved by any candidates running for office. Its all an add hominem, personality driven crap store. People feel theyre left with a choice of choosing between two evils. Take it from me, the choice between two evils is evil. The one sort of commonsense observation when youre left with two major candidates, beth of whom are overwhelmingly unpopular, is that part of the problem we face is that almost 80 of the people who were in america, eligible to vote, had no part in choosing the candidate. So maybe it should come as no surprise that we end up in a situation like this. I did an interesting poll just three days before the election, a national poll, let me show you what i found regarding how these candidate the nominees of their parties, stacked up against other alternative opponents. Let me show you. Lets play fantasy politics for a few minutes. If the matchup had been president obama versus donald trump, president obama would have won by 2 of the vote. The matchup had been bill clinton versus donald trump, bill clinton would have won with 4 of the vote. If the matchup had been joe biden, the Vice President , versus donald trump, biden would have won by 8 of the vote. And if the matchup had been Bernie Sanders versus donald trump, as reported in the Huffington Post recently, Bernie Sanders would have won bhi 12 of the vote. Won by 12 of the vote. Note one thing. Every single alternative candidate performed better than the actual candidate who was the nominee of my party in these matchups. Also note that you cant possibly contribute attribute that only to the negativity of the campaign because frankly, there have been a few hard knocks over the years against barack obama and against bill clinton and against joe biden and against Bernie Sanders. Lets play some more fantasy pl ticks. Fantasy politics. Lets look at alternative opponents against Hillary Clinton. Bear in mind that according to the current result, although Hillary Clinton lost the president ial election, she nevertheless won the popular vote by around 1 of the vote as i speak to you tonight. Lets take a look at what would have happened if shed been pitted against alternative republican candidates. Hillary clinton would have lost to ted cruz in the popular vote by 4 . Hillary clinton would have lost to george w. Bush by 8 . She would have lost to marco rubio by 10 , mitt romney by 12 , and she would have lost to the speaker of this house, paul ryan, by 14 . Again, note one thing that draws all these matchups together. The fact that the candidate who actually was the nominee of his party would have done worse against any alternative opponent. And the candidate who would have been the nominee of her party would have done worse against any alternative opponent that was tested here. Lets continue. Ust for those who are curious. If neither of the candidates had been nominated by their parties we would have had some interesting matchups. Ill give you three examples here. I told you already that sanders would have defeated senator sanders would have defeated donald trump by 12 points he would have defeated ted cruz by 10 points hsm ewould have defeated marco rubio by four points. Interesting matchups, all. But heres the thing. The fact is that the great majority of americans had no choice at all in selecting the candidates who we ended up voting for. We might consider it somehow a good thing that 58 million americans actually voted in the president ial primaries, until we consider that 191 million americans did not. Our grievances as a country and our divisions are massive, deep, intractable, and widely shared. And that makes me wonder whether we can declare our independence from a system that constantly and perpetually generates unappealing and frankly sometimes appalling alternatives. We cant go on like this. You know what im talking about. As Leonard Cohen said, we all feel like o