[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 89 (Thursday, May 25, 2023)] [House] [Pages H2605-H2606] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] HALT ALL LETHAL TRAFFICKING OF FENTANYL ACT The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 429 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. 467. Will the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Mast) kindly resume the chair. {time} 0945 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. 467) to amend the Controlled Substances Act with respect to the scheduling of fentanyl-related substances, and for other purposes, with Mr. Mast (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. 3, printed in House Report 118-76 offered by the gentlewoman from Colorado (Ms. Pettersen), had been postponed. Amendment No. 3 Offered by Ms. Pettersen The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on amendment No. 3, printed in House Report 118-76 offered by the gentlewoman from Colorado (Ms. Pettersen), 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 vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 190, noes 233, not voting 18, as follows: [Roll No. 236] AYES--190 Adams Aguilar Allred Balint Barragan Beatty Bera Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Boyle (PA) Brown Brownley Budzinski Carbajal Cardenas Carson Carter (LA) Cartwright Casar Case Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly Correa Costa Courtney Crockett Crow 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 Goldman (NY) Gomez Gonzalez, Vicente Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Harder (CA) Hayes Higgins (NY) Himes Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Hoyle (OR) Huffman Ivey Jackson (IL) Jackson (NC) Jacobs Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Kamlager-Dove Kaptur Keating Kelly (IL) Khanna Kildee Kilmer Kim (NJ) Krishnamoorthi Kuster Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee (CA) Lee (NV) 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 Neal Neguse Nickel Norcross Norton Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pallone Pappas Pascrell Payne Pelosi Peltola Peters Pettersen Phillips Pingree Plaskett Pocan Porter Ramirez Raskin Ross Ruiz Ruppersberger Sablan Salinas Sanchez Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Scholten Scott (VA) Scott, David Sewell Sherman Sherrill Slotkin 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 Vasquez Veasey Velazquez Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Wexton Wild Williams (GA) Wilson (FL) NOES--233 Aderholt Alford Allen Amodei Armstrong Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Barr Bean (FL) Bentz Bergman Bice Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (NC) Boebert Bost Bowman Brecheen Buchanan Buck Bucshon Burchett Burgess Burlison Bush Calvert Cammack Caraveo Carey Carl Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Chavez-DeRemer Cline Cloud Clyde Cole Collins Comer Craig Crane Crawford Crenshaw Cuellar Curtis D'Esposito Davids (KS) 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 Golden (ME) Gonzales, Tony Gonzalez-Colon Good (VA) Gooden (TX) Gosar Gottheimer Granger Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green (TN) Greene (GA) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hageman Harris Harshbarger Hern Higgins (LA) Hill Hinson Houchin Hudson Huizenga Hunt Issa Jackson (TX) James Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Kean (NJ) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kiley Kim (CA) Kustoff LaHood LaLota LaMalfa Lamborn Landsman Langworthy Latta LaTurner Lawler Lee (FL) Lee (PA) Lesko Letlow Loudermilk Lucas Luetkemeyer Luttrell Mace Malliotakis Mann Massie Mast McCarthy McCaul McClain McClintock McCormick McHenry Meuser Miller (IL) Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Mills Molinaro Moolenaar Moore (AL) Moore (UT) Moran Murphy Nehls Newhouse Norman Nunn (IA) Obernolte Owens Palmer Panetta Pence Perez Perry Pfluger Posey Pressley Reschenthaler Rodgers (WA) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Rosendale Rouzer Roy Rutherford Ryan Salazar Santos Scalise Schrier Schweikert Scott, Austin Self Sessions Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smucker Sorensen Spartz [[Page H2606]] Stanton Stauber Steel Stefanik Steil Steube Stewart Strong Tenney Thompson (PA) Tiffany Timmons 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--18 Auchincloss Beyer Cicilline Ciscomani Jackson Lee Kiggans (VA) Luna Mooney Moylan Napolitano Ogles Quigley Radewagen Sarbanes Smith (NJ) Spanberger Turner Vargas {time} 1014 Ms. LETLOW, Messrs. LUTTRELL, BAIRD, STEIL, DUNN of Florida, HUNT, BOWMAN, Ms. LEE of Pennsylvania, and Mr. CLINE changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.'' Ms. STEVENS, Messrs. CARSON, HORSFORD, GOLDMAN of New York, and LIEU changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.'' So the amendment was rejected. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Bost). There being no further amendments under the rule, the Committee rises. Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. Mast) having assumed the chair, Mr. Bost, 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. 467) to amend the Controlled Substances Act with respect to the scheduling of fentanyl-related substances, and for other purposes, and, pursuant to House Resolution 429, he reported the bill, as amended by that resolution, back to the House with sundry further amendments 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 any further amendment reported from the Committee of the Whole? If not, the Chair will put them en gros. The amendments were 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. Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 289, nays 133, not voting 13, as follows: [Roll No. 237] YEAS--289 Aderholt Alford Allen Amodei Armstrong Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Barr Bean (FL) Bentz Bera Bergman Bice Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (NC) Boebert Bost Boyle (PA) Brecheen Buchanan Buck Bucshon Burchett Burgess Burlison Calvert Cammack Caraveo Carbajal Carey Carl Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Cartwright Case Chavez-DeRemer Cline Cloud Clyde Cole Collins Comer Costa Courtney Craig Crane Crawford Crenshaw Cuellar Curtis D'Esposito Davids (KS) Davidson Davis (NC) De La Cruz DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Donalds Duarte Duncan Dunn (FL) Edwards Ellzey Emmer Estes Ezell Fallon Feenstra Ferguson Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Flood Foster Foxx Franklin, C. Scott Fry Fulcher Gaetz Gallagher Gallego Garamendi Garbarino Garcia, Mike Gimenez Golden (ME) Gonzales, Tony Gonzalez, Vicente 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) 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) Keating Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kildee Kiley Kilmer Kim (CA) Kustoff LaHood LaLota LaMalfa Lamborn Landsman Langworthy Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latta LaTurner Lawler Lee (FL) Lee (NV) Lesko Letlow Levin Loudermilk Lucas Luetkemeyer Luttrell Lynch Mace Magaziner Malliotakis Mann Manning Mast McCarthy McCaul McClain McClintock McCormick McHenry Meuser Miller (IL) Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Mills Molinaro Moolenaar Moore (AL) Moore (UT) Moran Morelle Moskowitz Mrvan Murphy Nehls Newhouse Nickel Norcross Norman Nunn (IA) Obernolte Owens Palmer Panetta Pappas Peltola Pence Perez Perry Peters Pfluger Phillips Posey Reschenthaler Rodgers (WA) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Rosendale Ross Rouzer Roy Ruppersberger Rutherford Ryan Salazar Salinas Santos Scalise Schneider Scholten Schrier Schweikert Scott, Austin Scott, David Self Sessions Sherrill Simpson Slotkin Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smucker Sorensen Soto Spanberger Spartz Stanton Stauber Steel Stefanik Steil Steube Stewart Strickland Strong Sykes Tenney Thompson (CA) Thompson (PA) Tiffany Timmons Titus Torres (CA) Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Van Orden Vasquez Wagner Walberg Waltz Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Wexton Wild Williams (NY) Williams (TX) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke NAYS--133 Adams Aguilar Allred Balint Barragan Beatty Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bowman Brown Brownley Budzinski Bush Cardenas Carson Carter (LA) Casar Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly Correa Crockett Crow Davis (IL) Dean (PA) DeGette DeSaulnier Dingell Doggett Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Evans Fletcher Foushee Frankel, Lois Frost Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Garcia, Robert Goldman (NY) Gomez Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Hayes Hoyer Huffman Ivey Jackson (IL) Jacobs Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Kamlager-Dove Kelly (IL) Khanna Kim (NJ) Krishnamoorthi Kuster Lee (CA) Lee (PA) Leger Fernandez Lieu Lofgren Massie Matsui McBath McClellan McCollum McGarvey McGovern Meeks Menendez Meng Mfume Moore (WI) Moulton Mullin Nadler Neal Neguse Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pallone Pascrell Payne Pelosi Pettersen Pingree Pocan Porter Pressley Ramirez Raskin Ruiz Sanchez Sarbanes Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Scott (VA) Sewell Sherman Smith (WA) Stansbury Stevens Swalwell Takano Thanedar Thompson (MS) Tlaib Tokuda Tonko Torres (NY) Trahan Trone Underwood Veasey Velazquez Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Williams (GA) Wilson (FL) NOT VOTING--13 Auchincloss Beyer Cicilline Ciscomani Jackson Lee Kiggans (VA) Luna Mooney Napolitano Ogles Quigley Turner Vargas Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). There are 2 minutes remaining. {time} 1028 Messrs. DAVIS of Illinois and KRISHNAMOORTHI changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.'' So the bill was passed. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. Stated against: Mrs. KIGGANS of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained due to a personal family matter, and I regret missing the vote on the HALT Fentanyl Act today. I would have proudly voted in favor of this legislation, and I remain committed to fighting the fentanyl epidemic. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 237. Personal Explanation Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Mr. Speaker, I was absent for votes due to testing positve for COVID-19. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 236 and ``nay'' on rollcall No. 237. PERSONAL EXPLANATION Mr. OGLES. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 236 and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 237. ____________________