[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 161 (Thursday, September 17, 2020)]
[House]
[Pages H4528-H4530]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     PREGNANT WORKERS FAIRNESS ACT

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the 
unfinished business is the vote on the motion to recommit on the bill 
(H.R. 2694) to eliminate discrimination and promote women's health and 
economic security by ensuring reasonable workplace accommodations for 
workers whose ability to perform the functions of a job are limited by 
pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition, offered by the 
gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Foxx), on which the yeas and nays 
were ordered.
  The Clerk will redesignate the motion.
  The Clerk redesignated the motion.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 177, 
nays 226, not voting 27, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 194]

                               YEAS--177

     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bergman
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Bost
     Brady
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budd
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chabot
     Cheney
     Cleaver
     Cline
     Cloud
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Comer
     Conaway
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davis, Rodney
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ferguson
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flores
     Fortenberry
     Foxx (NC)
     Fulcher
     Gallagher
     Garcia (CA)
     Gianforte
     Gibbs
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez (OH)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Griffith
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hagedorn
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hern, Kevin
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill (AR)
     Holding
     Hollingsworth
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hurd (TX)
     Jacobs
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Katko
     Keller
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger
     Kustoff (TN)
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Latta
     Lesko
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Marshall
     Massie
     Mast
     McAdams
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McKinley
     Meuser
     Miller
     Mitchell
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Mullin
     Murphy (NC)
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunes
     Olson
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Posey
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (SC)
     Rodgers (WA)
     Roe, David P.
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rooney (FL)
     Rose, John W.
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Shimkus
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Steube
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Taylor
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Van Drew
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Watkins
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoho
     Young
     Zeldin

                               NAYS--226

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Axne
     Barragan
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brindisi
     Brown (MD)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Case
     Casten (IL)
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Cisneros
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Cox (CA)
     Craig
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Cunningham
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny K.
     Dean
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Delgado
     Demings
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Engel
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Finkenauer
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Frankel
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Golden
     Gomez
     Gonzalez (TX)
     Gooden
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Haaland
     Harder (CA)
     Hastings
     Hayes
     Heck
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horn, Kendra S.
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Jackson Lee
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (TX)
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster (NH)
     Lamb
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lawson (FL)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Levin (CA)
     Levin (MI)
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski

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     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan
     Luria
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCollum
     McEachin
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mucarsel-Powell
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Norcross
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Rice (NY)
     Richmond
     Rose (NY)
     Rouda
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Shalala
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Speier
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Suozzi
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres Small (NM)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wexton
     Wild
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--27

     Abraham
     Arrington
     Bishop (UT)
     Byrne
     Cook
     Davidson (OH)
     DeFazio
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Evans
     Gaetz
     Graves (GA)
     Grothman
     Kaptur
     Marchant
     McHenry
     O'Halleran
     Palazzo
     Riggleman
     Roby
     Sensenbrenner
     Spano
     Steil
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Walker
     Wright

                              {time}  1337

  Messrs. NADLER, VEASEY, RYAN, and MICHAEL F. DOYLE of Pennsylvania 
changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Mr. ARMSTRONG changed his vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the motion to recommit was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated for:
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been 
present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 194.
  Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained by a media hit 
across the Capitol complex. I would have been a strong ``yes'' on 
rollcall No. 194.
  Mr. GOODEN. Mr. Speaker, on the Motion to Recommit from today's vote 
series, I incorrectly voted ``no'' when my intention was to vote 
``yes.''


   MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 965, 116TH CONGRESS

     Barragan (Beyer)
     Blumenauer (Beyer)
     Butterfield (Kildee)
     Chu, Judy (Takano)
     Clay (Davids (KS))
     Cohen (Beyer)
     Davis, Danny K. (Underwood)
     DeSaulnier (Matsui)
     Frankel (Clark (MA))
     Grijalva (Raskin)
     Hastings (Wasserman Schultz)
     Jayapal (Raskin)
     Khanna (Gomez)
     Kirkpatrick (Gallego)
     Langevin (Lynch)
     Lawrence (Kildee)
     Lawson (FL) (Demings)
     Lieu, Ted (Beyer)
     Lipinski (Cooper)
     Lofgren (Jeffries)
     Lowenthal (Beyer)
     Lowey (Tonko)
     Meng (Clark (MA))
     Moore (Beyer)
     Napolitano (Correa)
     Payne (Wasserman Schultz)
     Pingree (Clark (MA))
     Pocan (Raskin)
     Porter (Wexton)
     Rooney (FL) (Beyer)
     Roybal-Allard (Aguilar)
     Rush (Underwood)
     Serrano (Jeffries)
     Sewell (AL) (DelBene)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Trahan (McGovern)
     Waters (Brownley (CA))
     Watson Coleman (Pallone)
     Welch (McGovern)
     Wilson (FL) (Hayes)
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Heck). The question is on the passage of 
the bill.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. SMUCKER. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3 of House Resolution 
965, the yeas and nays are ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 329, 
nays 73, not voting 28, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 195]

                               YEAS--329

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Amodei
     Axne
     Bacon
     Balderson
     Barr
     Barragan
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bost
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brindisi
     Brooks (IN)
     Brown (MD)
     Brownley (CA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Calvert
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Carter (TX)
     Cartwright
     Case
     Casten (IL)
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chabot
     Chu, Judy
     Cicilline
     Cisneros
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Cline
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Cole
     Comer
     Connolly
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Cox (CA)
     Craig
     Crenshaw
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Cunningham
     Curtis
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny K.
     Davis, Rodney
     Dean
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Delgado
     Demings
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Emmer
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Ferguson
     Finkenauer
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fletcher
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Frankel
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallagher
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (CA)
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Gianforte
     Golden
     Gomez
     Gonzalez (OH)
     Gonzalez (TX)
     Gottheimer
     Graves (LA)
     Green (TN)
     Green, Al (TX)
     Griffith
     Grijalva
     Guthrie
     Haaland
     Hagedorn
     Harder (CA)
     Hartzler
     Hastings
     Hayes
     Heck
     Herrera Beutler
     Higgins (NY)
     Hill (AR)
     Himes
     Holding
     Hollingsworth
     Horn, Kendra S.
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hudson
     Huffman
     Huizenga
     Hurd (TX)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (TX)
     Joyce (OH)
     Katko
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim
     Kind
     King (NY)
     Kinzinger
     Kirkpatrick
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster (NH)
     Kustoff (TN)
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamb
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Latta
     Lawrence
     Lawson (FL)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lesko
     Levin (CA)
     Levin (MI)
     Lieu, Ted
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Lujan
     Luria
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Marshall
     Mast
     Matsui
     McAdams
     McBath
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McCollum
     McEachin
     McGovern
     McKinley
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Mfume
     Miller
     Mitchell
     Moolenaar
     Mooney (WV)
     Moore
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mucarsel-Powell
     Mullin
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newhouse
     Norcross
     Nunes
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Peterson
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Posey
     Pressley
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Reed
     Rice (NY)
     Rice (SC)
     Richmond
     Rodgers (WA)
     Roe, David P.
     Rogers (KY)
     Rooney (FL)
     Rose (NY)
     Rose, John W.
     Rouda
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Rutherford
     Ryan
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scalise
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
     Schweikert
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Shalala
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Shimkus
     Simpson
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Speier
     Stanton
     Stauber
     Stefanik
     Stevens
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Suozzi
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres Small (NM)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Turner
     Underwood
     Upton
     Van Drew
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wagner
     Walden
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watkins
     Watson Coleman
     Webster (FL)
     Welch
     Wenstrup
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams
     Wilson (FL)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yarmuth
     Young
     Zeldin

                                NAYS--73

     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amash
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Baird
     Banks
     Bergman
     Biggs
     Bishop (NC)
     Bishop (UT)
     Brady
     Brooks (AL)
     Buck
     Budd
     Carter (GA)
     Cheney
     Cloud
     Conaway
     Crawford
     DesJarlais
     Estes
     Flores
     Foxx (NC)
     Fulcher
     Gibbs
     Gohmert
     Gooden
     Gosar
     Graves (MO)
     Guest
     Harris
     Hern, Kevin
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (PA)
     Keller
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     Lamborn
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Luetkemeyer
     Massie
     McClintock
     Meuser
     Murphy (NC)
     Norman
     Olson
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Reschenthaler
     Rogers (AL)
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Scott, Austin
     Smith (NE)
     Smucker
     Steube
     Taylor
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tipton
     Walberg
     Weber (TX)
     Westerman
     Yoho

                             NOT VOTING--28

     Abraham
     Byrne
     Collins (GA)
     Cook
     Davidson (OH)
     DeFazio
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Engel
     Evans
     Gaetz
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Grothman
     Kaptur
     Marchant
     McHenry
     O'Halleran
     Palazzo
     Riggleman
     Roby
     Sensenbrenner
     Spano
     Steil
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Walker
     Wright

                              {time}  1424

  Mrs. HARTZLER and Mr. CLINE changed their vote from ``nay'' to 
``yea.''
  So the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.


                          Personal Explanation

  Mr. EVANS. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained due to personal 
reasons. Had I been present on September 17, 2020, I would have voted: 
``yea'' on H. Res. 908--Condemning all forms of anti-Asian sentiment as 
related to

[[Page H4530]]

COVID-19 (Rep. Meng--Judiciary); ``nay'' on motion to recommit on H.R. 
2694--Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (Rep. Nadler--Education and Labor); 
and ``yea'' on H.R. 2694--Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (Rep. Nadler--
Education and Labor).


   MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 965, 116TH CONGRESS

     Barragan (Beyer)
     Blumenauer (Beyer)
     Butterfield (Kildee)
     Chu, Judy (Takano)
     Clay (Davids (KS))
     Cohen (Beyer)
     Davis, Danny K. (Underwood)
     DeSaulnier (Matsui)
     Frankel (Clark (MA))
     Grijalva (Raskin)
     Hastings (Wasserman Schultz)
     Jayapal (Raskin)
     Khanna (Gomez)
     Kirkpatrick (Gallego)
     Langevin (Lynch)
     Lawrence (Kildee)
     Lawson (FL) (Demings)
     Lieu, Ted (Beyer)
     Lipinski (Cooper)
     Lofgren (Jeffries)
     Lowenthal (Beyer)
     Lowey (Tonko)
     Meng (Clark (MA))
     Moore (Beyer)
     Napolitano (Correa)
     Payne (Wasserman Schultz)
     Pingree (Clark (MA))
     Pocan (Raskin)
     Porter (Wexton)
     Rooney (FL) (Beyer)
     Roybal-Allard (Aguilar)
     Rush (Underwood)
     Serrano (Jeffries)
     Sewell (AL) (DelBene)
     Sires (Pallone)
     Trahan (McGovern)
     Waters (Brownley (CA))
     Watson Coleman (Pallone)
     Welch (McGovern)
     Wilson (FL) (Hayes)

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