[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 83 (Wednesday, May 17, 2023)] [House] [Pages H2405-H2407] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] PROTECT OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT WITH IMMIGRATION CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT ACT OF 2023 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 398 and rule XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of the bill, H.R. 2494. Will the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Smith) kindly take the chair. {time} 1814 In the Committee of the Whole Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2494) to make the assault of a law enforcement officer a deportable offense, and for other purposes, with Mr. Smith of Nebraska (Acting Chair) in the chair. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The Acting CHAIR. When the Committee of the Whole rose earlier today, a request for a recorded vote on amendment No. 2, printed in part A of House Report 118-59 offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Correa) had been postponed. Announcement by the Acting Chair The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of Rule XVIII, proceedings will now resume on those amendments printed in part A of House Report 118-59 on which further proceedings were postponed, in the following order: Amendment No. 1 by Mrs. Boebert of Colorado. Amendment No. 2 by Mr. Correa of California. The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote in this series. Amendment No. 1 Offered by Mrs. Boebert The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on amendment No. 1, printed in part A of House Report 118-59 offered by the gentlewoman from Colorado (Mrs. Boebert), on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote. The Clerk will redesignate the amendment. The Clerk redesignated the amendment. Recorded Vote The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded. A recorded vote was ordered. The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 303, noes 126, not voting 11, as follows: [Roll No. 223] AYES--303 Aderholt Aguilar Alford Allen Allred Amodei Armstrong Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Bean (FL) Bentz Bera Bergman Bice Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (NC) Boebert Bost Brecheen Brownley Buchanan Buck Bucshon Burchett Burgess Burlison Calvert Cammack Caraveo Carbajal Carey Carl Carson Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Cartwright Case Chavez-DeRemer Ciscomani Cline Cloud Clyde Cole Collins Comer Costa Courtney Craig Crane Crawford Crenshaw Crow Cuellar Curtis D'Esposito Davids (KS) Davidson Davis (NC) De La Cruz Deluzio DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Dingell Donalds Duarte Duncan Dunn (FL) Edwards Ellzey Emmer Eshoo Estes Ezell Fallon Feenstra Ferguson Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fletcher Flood Foster [[Page H2406]] Foxx Franklin, C. Scott Fry Fulcher Gaetz Gallagher Gallego Garbarino Garcia, Mike Gimenez Golden (ME) Gonzales, Tony Gonzalez, Vicente Gonzalez-Colon Good (VA) Gooden (TX) Gosar Gottheimer Granger Graves (MO) Green (TN) Greene (GA) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hageman Harder (CA) Harris Harshbarger Hern Higgins (LA) Higgins (NY) Hill Himes Hinson Horsford Houchin Houlahan Hoyle (OR) Hudson Huizenga Hunt Issa Jackson (NC) Jackson (TX) James Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Kaptur Kean (NJ) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Khanna Kiggans (VA) Kildee Kiley Kilmer Kim (CA) Krishnamoorthi Kuster Kustoff LaHood LaLota LaMalfa Lamborn Landsman Langworthy Latta LaTurner Lawler Lee (FL) Lee (NV) Lesko Letlow Levin Lieu Loudermilk Luetkemeyer Luna Luttrell Lynch Mace Magaziner Mann Manning Massie Mast Matsui McCaul McClain McClintock McCollum McCormick McHenry Meuser Miller (IL) Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Mills Molinaro Moolenaar Mooney Moore (AL) Moore (UT) Moran Morelle Moskowitz Moulton Mrvan Mullin Murphy Nehls Newhouse Nickel Norcross Norman Norton Nunn (IA) Obernolte Ogles Owens Palmer Panetta Pappas Pence Perez Perry Peters Pettersen Pfluger Phillips Posey Radewagen Reschenthaler Rodgers (WA) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Rosendale Rouzer Roy Ruiz Rutherford Ryan Salazar Salinas Santos Scalise Schneider Scholten Schrier Schweikert Scott, Austin Self Sessions Sherrill Simpson Slotkin Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smucker Sorensen Soto Spanberger Spartz Stauber Steel Stefanik Steil Steube Stewart Strickland Strong Swalwell Tenney Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (PA) Tiffany Timmons Titus Tonko Torres (CA) Turner Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Van Orden Vasquez Veasey Wagner Walberg Waltz Wasserman Schultz Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Wild Williams (NY) Williams (TX) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke NOES--126 Adams Auchincloss Balint Barragan Beatty Beyer Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bowman Boyle (PA) Brown Budzinski Bush Cardenas Carter (LA) Casar Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Cicilline Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Clyburn Cohen Connolly Correa Crockett Davis (IL) Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene DeSaulnier Doggett Escobar Espaillat Evans Foushee Frankel, Lois Frost Garamendi Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Garcia, Robert Goldman (NY) Gomez Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Hayes Huffman Ivey Jackson (IL) Jackson Lee Jacobs Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Kamlager-Dove Keating Kelly (IL) Kim (NJ) Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee (PA) Leger Fernandez Lofgren McBath McClellan McGarvey McGovern Meeks Menendez Meng Mfume Moore (WI) Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pallone Pascrell Payne Pelosi Pingree Plaskett Pocan Porter Pressley Quigley Ramirez Raskin Ross Sanchez Sarbanes Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Scott (VA) Scott, David Sewell Sherman Smith (WA) Stansbury Stanton Stevens Sykes Takano Thompson (MS) Tlaib Tokuda Torres (NY) Trahan Trone Underwood Vargas Velazquez Waters Watson Coleman Wexton Williams (GA) Wilson (FL) NOT VOTING--11 Barr Cleaver Graves (LA) Hoyer Lee (CA) Lucas Malliotakis Moylan Peltola Ruppersberger Sablan {time} 1815 Ms. PORTER changed her vote from ``aye'' to ``no.'' Ms. PETTERSEN changed her vote from ``no'' to ``aye.'' So the amendment was agreed to. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. Amendment No. 2 Offered by Mr. Correa The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on amendment No. 2, printed in part A of House Report 118-59 offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Correa), on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. The Clerk will redesignate the amendment. The Clerk redesignated the amendment. Recorded Vote The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded. A recorded vote was ordered. The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 209, noes 225, not voting 7, as follows: [Roll No. 224] AYES--209 Adams Aguilar Allred Auchincloss Balint Barragan Beatty Bera Beyer Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bowman Boyle (PA) Brown Brownley Budzinski Caraveo Carbajal Cardenas Carson Carter (LA) Cartwright Casar Case Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Cicilline Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crockett Crow Cuellar Davids (KS) Davis (IL) Davis (NC) Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier Dingell Doggett Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Evans Fletcher Foster Foushee Frankel, Lois Frost Gallego Garamendi Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Garcia, Robert Golden (ME) Goldman (NY) Gomez Gonzalez, Vicente Gottheimer Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Harder (CA) Hayes Higgins (NY) Himes Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Hoyle (OR) Ivey Jackson (IL) Jackson (NC) Jackson Lee Jacobs Jayapal Jeffries Kamlager-Dove Kaptur Keating Kelly (IL) Khanna Kildee Kilmer Kim (NJ) Krishnamoorthi Kuster Landsman Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee (CA) Lee (NV) Lee (PA) Leger Fernandez Levin Lieu Lofgren Lynch Magaziner Manning Matsui McBath McClellan McCollum McGarvey McGovern Meeks Menendez Meng Mfume Moore (WI) Morelle Moskowitz Moulton Mrvan Mullin Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Nickel Norcross Norton Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pallone Panetta Pappas Pascrell Payne Pelosi Perez Peters Pettersen Phillips Pingree Plaskett Pocan Porter Pressley Quigley Ramirez Raskin Ross Ruiz Ruppersberger Ryan Salinas Sanchez Santos Sarbanes Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Scholten Schrier Scott (VA) Scott, David Sewell Sherman Sherrill Slotkin Smith (WA) Sorensen Soto Spanberger Stanton Stevens Strickland Swalwell Sykes Takano Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Titus Tokuda Tonko Torres (CA) Trahan Trone Underwood Vargas Vasquez Veasey Velazquez Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Wexton Wild Williams (GA) Wilson (FL) NOES--225 Aderholt Alford Allen Amodei Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Barr Bean (FL) Bentz Bergman Bice Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (NC) Boebert Bost Brecheen Buchanan Buck Bucshon Burchett Burgess Burlison Bush Calvert Cammack Carey Carl Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Chavez-DeRemer Ciscomani Cline Cloud Clyde Cole Collins Comer Crane Crawford Crenshaw Curtis D'Esposito Davidson De La Cruz DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Donalds Duarte Duncan Dunn (FL) Edwards Ellzey Emmer Estes Ezell Fallon Feenstra Ferguson Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Flood Foxx Franklin, C. Scott Fry Fulcher Gaetz Gallagher Garbarino Garcia, Mike Gimenez Gonzales, Tony Gonzalez-Colon Good (VA) Gooden (TX) Gosar Granger Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green (TN) Greene (GA) Grothman Guest Guthrie Hageman Harris Harshbarger Hern Higgins (LA) Hill Hinson Houchin Huffman Huizenga Hunt Issa Jackson (TX) James Johnson (GA) Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Kean (NJ) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kiggans (VA) Kiley Kim (CA) Kustoff LaHood LaLota LaMalfa Lamborn Langworthy Latta LaTurner Lawler Lee (FL) Lesko Letlow Loudermilk Luetkemeyer Luna Luttrell Mace Mann Massie Mast McCarthy McCaul McClain McClintock McCormick McHenry Meuser Miller (IL) Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Mills Molinaro Moolenaar Mooney Moore (AL) Moore (UT) Moran Moylan Murphy Nehls Newhouse Norman Nunn (IA) Obernolte Ogles Owens Palmer Pence Perry Pfluger Posey Radewagen Reschenthaler Rodgers (WA) [[Page H2407]] Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Rosendale Rouzer Roy Rutherford Salazar Scalise Schweikert Scott, Austin Self Sessions Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smucker Spartz Stansbury Stauber Steel Stefanik Steil Steube Stewart Strong Tenney Thompson (PA) Tiffany Timmons Tlaib Torres (NY) Turner Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Van Orden Wagner Walberg Waltz Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Williams (NY) Williams (TX) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke NOT VOTING--7 Armstrong Griffith Hudson Lucas Malliotakis Peltola Sablan {time} 1821 Mr. MOLINARO changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.'' Mr. PAYNE changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.'' So the amendment was rejected. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. The Acting CHAIR. There being no further amendment, under the rule, the Committee rises. Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. Flood) having assumed the chair, Mr. Smith of Nebraska, Acting Chair of the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, reported that that Committee, having had under consideration the bill (H.R. 2494) to make the assault of a law enforcement officer a deportable offense, and for other purposes, and, pursuant to House Resolution 398, he reported the bill back to the House with an amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the rule, the previous question is ordered. Is a separate vote demanded on the amendment to the amendment reported from the Committee of the Whole? If not, the question is on the amendment in the nature of a substitute, as amended. The amendment was agreed to. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill. The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was read the third time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on passage of the bill. The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the ayes appeared to have it. Recorded Vote Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 255, noes 175, not voting 5, as follows: [Roll No. 225] AYES--255 Aderholt Alford Allen Amodei Armstrong Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Barr Bean (FL) Bentz Bergman Bice Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (NC) Boebert Bost Boyle (PA) Brecheen Buchanan Buck Bucshon Budzinski Burchett Burgess Burlison Calvert Cammack Caraveo Carey Carl Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Cartwright Case Chavez-DeRemer Ciscomani Cline Cloud Clyde Cole Collins Comer Craig Crane Crawford Crenshaw Cuellar Curtis D'Esposito Davidson Davis (NC) De La Cruz Deluzio DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Donalds Duarte Duncan Dunn (FL) Edwards Ellzey Emmer Estes Ezell Fallon Feenstra Ferguson Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Flood Foxx Franklin, C. Scott Fry Fulcher Gaetz Gallagher Garbarino Garcia, Mike Gimenez Golden (ME) Gonzales, Tony Good (VA) Gooden (TX) Gosar Gottheimer Granger Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green (TN) Greene (GA) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hageman Harder (CA) Harris Harshbarger Hern Higgins (LA) Hill Himes Hinson Houchin Houlahan Hudson Huizenga Hunt Issa Jackson (NC) Jackson (TX) James Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Kaptur Kean (NJ) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kiggans (VA) Kildee Kiley Kim (CA) Kustoff LaHood LaLota LaMalfa Lamborn Landsman Langworthy Latta LaTurner Lawler Lee (FL) Lee (NV) Lesko Letlow Luetkemeyer Luna Luttrell Mace Magaziner Mann Manning Massie Mast McCarthy McCaul McClain McClintock McCormick McHenry Meuser Miller (IL) Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Mills Molinaro Moolenaar Mooney Moore (AL) Moore (UT) Moran Morelle Moskowitz Mrvan Murphy Nehls Newhouse Nickel Norman Nunn (IA) Obernolte Ogles Owens Palmer Pappas Pence Perez Perry Pfluger Phillips Posey Reschenthaler Rodgers (WA) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Rosendale Rouzer Roy Rutherford Ryan Salazar Salinas Santos Scalise Schweikert Scott, Austin Self Sessions Simpson Slotkin Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smucker Sorensen Spanberger Spartz Stanton Stauber Steel Stefanik Steil Steube Stewart Strong Tenney Thompson (PA) Tiffany Timmons Turner Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Van Orden Vasquez Wagner Walberg Waltz Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Wild Williams (NY) Williams (TX) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke NOES--175 Adams Aguilar Allred Auchincloss Balint Barragan Beatty Bera Beyer Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bowman Brown Brownley Bush Carbajal Cardenas Carson Carter (LA) Casar Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Cicilline Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly Correa Costa Courtney Crockett Crow Davids (KS) Davis (IL) Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene DeSaulnier Dingell Doggett Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Evans Fletcher Foster Foushee Frankel, Lois Frost Gallego Garamendi Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Garcia, Robert Goldman (NY) Gomez Gonzalez, Vicente Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Hayes Higgins (NY) Horsford Hoyer Hoyle (OR) Huffman Ivey Jackson (IL) Jackson Lee Jacobs Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Kamlager-Dove Keating Kelly (IL) Khanna Kilmer Kim (NJ) Krishnamoorthi Kuster Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee (CA) Lee (PA) Leger Fernandez Levin Lieu Lofgren Lynch Matsui McBath McClellan McCollum McGarvey McGovern Meeks Menendez Meng Mfume Moore (WI) Moulton Mullin Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Norcross Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pallone Panetta Pascrell Payne Pelosi Peters Pettersen Pingree Pocan Porter Pressley Quigley Ramirez Raskin Ross Ruiz Ruppersberger Sanchez Sarbanes Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Scholten Schrier Scott (VA) Scott, David Sewell Sherman Sherrill Smith (WA) Soto Stansbury Stevens Strickland Swalwell Sykes Takano Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Titus Tlaib Tokuda Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Trahan Trone Underwood Vargas Veasey Velazquez Wasserman Schultz Watson Coleman Wexton Williams (GA) Wilson (FL) NOT VOTING--5 Loudermilk Lucas Malliotakis Peltola Waters {time} 1829 So the bill was passed. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. ____________________