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Rec. H2220", "Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 86 (Wednesday, May 21, 2025)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 86 (Wednesday, May 21, 2025)]\n[House]\n[Pages H2220-H2234]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n {time} 2350\n PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 1, ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT\n\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I\ncall up House Resolution 436 and ask for its immediate consideration.\n The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:\n\n H. Res. 436\n\n Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be\n in order to consider in the House the bill (H.R. 1) to\n provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con.\n Res. 14. All points of order against consideration of the\n bill are waived. An amendment in the nature of a substitute\n consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 119-3,\n modified by the amendment printed in the report of the\n Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution, shall be\n considered as adopted. The bill, as amended, shall be\n considered as read. All points of order against provisions in\n the bill, as amended, are waived. The previous question shall\n be considered as ordered on the bill, as amended, and on any\n further amendment thereto, to final passage without\n intervening motion except: (1) two hours of debate equally\n divided among and controlled by the chair and ranking\n minority member of the Committee on the Budget or their\n respective designees and the chair and ranking minority\n member of the Committee on Ways and Means or their respective\n designees; and (2) one motion to recommit. Clause 5(b) of\n rule XXI shall not apply to the bill or amendments thereto.\n\n Point of Order\n\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to clause 9 of rule XXI, I make a\npoint of order against consideration of the rule, House Resolution 436.\n Clause 9(c) of rule XXI of the Rules of the House specifically state\nthat the Rules Committee may not waive the earmark disclosure rule\nprescribed by paragraphs (a) or (b) of clause 9 of rule XXI.\n House Resolution 436 states: ``All points of order against\nconsideration of the bill are waived.''\n Therefore, I make a point of order pursuant to clause 9(c) of rule\nXXI that this rule may not be considered.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Massachusetts makes a\npoint of order that the resolution violates clause 9(c) of rule XXI.\n Under clause 9(c) of rule XXI, the gentleman from Massachusetts and a\nMember opposed each will control 10 minutes of debate on the question\nof consideration.\n Following that debate, the Chair will put the question of\nconsideration as follows, Will the House now consider the resolution?\n The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Massachusetts.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.\n Mr. Speaker, House Democrats are making a series of procedural\nmotions today to stop the consideration of this lousy, awful,\ndisastrous bill.\n Mr. Speaker, we will not stand by and watch Trump and his billionaire\nfriends destroy this country without putting up one hell of a fight,\nand because this resolution waives the earmark rule, it is not in order\nfor it to be considered on the floor.\n As I just said, Democrats are not going to sit here and let\nRepublicans jam this bill down the throats of the American people. We\nare going to fight back, and we are going to fight like hell because,\nMr. Speaker, this point of order is not just about the fact that this\nbill has earmarks. Look at who the earmarks are for. Look at who\nRepublicans help and who they hurt. Follow the money.\n From day one, Trump has demanded that this entire process be about\none thing: giveaways to the rich and to the powerful. This bill is a\nscam; a tax scam designed to steal from the American people and give to\nTrump's millionaire and billionaire friends.\n These are the same millionaires and billionaires who write big, fat\nchecks to Members of Congress, and guess what? They expect a return on\ntheir investment, and this bill, this Republican tax scam, is exhibit\nA.\n This is all about corruption, greed, and theft--theft from the\nAmerican people, theft of their hard-earned tax dollars to give to Elon\nand his rich friends. It is 1,000 pages of giveaways to billionaires.\n There are so many, I don't even know where to begin. Let's start with\nthe big, fat earmarks Republicans have in here for polluters. There is\nlots of pork for polluters in this bill.\n We have corrupt pay-to-play schemes that let polluters buy immunity\nfrom lawsuits, cut corners on environmental reviews, and skip the legal\npermitting process. Did ExxonMobil come up with that one, or was it BP?\nThere is a nice little giveaway to them tucked into this bill. That is\non page 247 and page 600.\n Mr. Speaker, what about the earmarks in here that will allow certain\ncompanies to exploit and pollute pristine public lands, including for a\ncoal mine owner with criminal convictions for environmental and safety\nviolations? Did he just text Republicans the language of that earmark,\nor did my colleagues on the other side of the aisle draft it\nthemselves? That is on page 559 for those following along at home.\n This bill even has a hit man handout. An earmark here gets rid of an\nexcise tax on gun silencers. Who does that? That is on page 1,024.\n This has been in place for nearly 100 years, and it is a vital public\nsafety measure. Over 400 silencers were found on or traced to violent\ncrime scenes in 2023 alone.\n At least on that earmark, we know who asked for it. It was the NRA.\nWe know why Republicans complied. It is because they want to keep\ngetting big, fat checks from the gun lobbyists.\n I could go on and on, but this bill is loaded to the gills with\ngiveaways to lobbyists, earmarks for special interests, and loopholes\nfor the rich so they can get away with dodging their taxes.\n Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I claim time in favor of consideration of\nthe resolution.\n The question before the House is: Should the House now consider House\nResolution 436? The resolution before us waives all points of order\nagainst consideration of the bill.\n The Committee on the Budget filed its report on May 21, 2025, which\nincluded the following statement from each instructed committee's\nreports: The committee print does not contain any congressional\nearmark, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits, as defined\nin clause 9 of House rule XXI.\n Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I can't believe the Republican argument is\njust: Trust us.\n Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr.\nFrost).\n Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, this is a moment I am never going to forget\nbecause, tonight, hundreds of Republican Members of Congress are\nwanting to line up to vote for the biggest transfer of wealth from the\nworking poor and the working class to billionaires and megacorporations\nthat we have seen in this country's history.\n This is a deep moment of betrayal, a complete absence of loyalty to\nthe people that we represent, and an abandonment of the values of hard\nwork and a dignified life.\n Mr. Speaker, I am 28 years old. My generation already expects that we\nwill never be able to afford a home, to get out of debt, to retire, or\nto live comfortably. No, it is not because we have lived beyond our\nmeans, but it is because we have been denied the means to live.\n\n Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are making it worse by\ngutting Medicaid and food assistance to give tax cuts to billionaires\nand special interests.\n Mr. Speaker, out of all of the things that you could give tax breaks\nfor, this bill will cut taxes on silencers for guns. For those who\ndon't know, gun silencers can be attached to a gun to muffle the sound\nof a gunshot.\n\n[[Page H2221]]\n\n In mass shootings, these silencers make it harder to identify and\nrespond to the source of the gunshots. Earlier, I put forth an\namendment to strip this tax cut for the gun lobby, and House\nRepublicans wouldn't even let it come up for a vote.\n Mr. Speaker, the Republicans then made the bill worse in their\nmanager's amendment by making silencers completely unregulated. In 2023\nalone, the ATF recovered over 400 silencers from violent crime scenes.\nFor this reason, silencers have been highly regulated for nearly 100\nyears.\n In May of 2019, the Virginia Beach shooter attached a silencer to his\n.45-caliber handgun that he used to kill 12 people on three floors of a\ncity building. Survivors of the attack said that they weren't even\naware that a mass shooting was going on due to the silencer.\n My question is: Why did this get added to the bill just a couple of\nhours ago? Which congressional Republican just couldn't stand to vote\nfor the horrible bill until it promised even more death to people?\n Mr. Speaker, I will yield to hear a name.\n\n Point of Order\n\n Mr. GRIFFITH. Mr. Speaker, point of order.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state his point of order.\n Mr. GRIFFITH. Mr. Speaker, this is supposed to be a challenge because\nthe rule says that we waived earmarks, but the gentleman is not talking\nabout earmarks. He is talking about process that he doesn't like. He is\ntalking about parts of the bill that he doesn't like, but he has not\nmentioned any specific earmark.\n Even the gentleman who spoke before him, the gentleman from\nMassachusetts, only talked in general terms about things that were\ngeneral policy, not earmarks.\n Mr. McGOVERN. We are talking about an earmark for the gun lobby, my\nfriend.\n Mr. GRIFFITH. I submit, Mr. Speaker, that the gentleman is not in\norder, giving remarks that are not pertinent.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Virginia has not stated a\npoint of order.\n Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I reclaim my time.\n Mr. Speaker, I will yield just to hear the name of the Republican\nthat couldn't vote for this bill.\n\n {time} 0000\n\n Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I am just curious which Republican couldn't\nvote for the bill until we completely deregulated silencers.\n My generation isn't just defined by a bleak financial future. We are\nalso defined as the mass shooting generation. We have done more active-\nshooter drills than fire drills. We have grown up watching classes of\nour students die a brutal death, helpless inside classrooms, on our\nblocks, and in our churches again and again and again.\n Mr. Speaker, I say to America, we have to be very clear and truthful\nabout this budget. Laws for gun manufacturers to make more money off\nthe deaths of children and our people? Yes. Food for children to eat?\nNo. Healthcare for seniors, disabled Americans, and millions more? No.\nResources to help working families fight to make ends meet? No.\n This is why they have been told to not host any townhalls back in\ntheir districts. That is why this debate is happening in the middle of\nthe night. It is nothing short of theft.\n Congressional Republicans are really helping me understand why half\nof this country doesn't vote. It is because they will look people in\nthe eyes and make promises only to come here in the middle of the night\nto advance a bill that will take away the benefits that they have\nearned. Republicans would have us believe that the person most likely\nto steal from you is a Black person in a hoodie or an immigrant with\ntattoos.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 1 minute to the\ngentleman from Florida.\n Mr. FROST. This is to distract from the fact that, at least here\ntonight, the people stealing from Americans are not folks with tattoos\nand hoodies. It is people wearing suits, ties, and congressional pins,\nsitting in this Capitol right now, not in some random alley wrapped in\ndarkness, but in the United States Congress wrapped in the flag.\n It is disgusting, and we will never forget this.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from\nVirginia (Mr. Griffith).\n Mr. GRIFFITH. Mr. Speaker, as I said in the point of order--which I\ndidn't have the rule in hand, but it is 17(1)(b). As I said then, if\nthey want to complain that they didn't like the process, if they don't\nlike the bill, if there is a piece of the bill they don't like, save\nthat for the debate on the bill itself. Instead, they have raised a\nparliamentary procedure to claim that the rule is not proper, assuming\nor claiming that there are earmarks. I would submit, Mr. Speaker, that\nthey have not mentioned an earmark yet.\n I have been listening. I have been wondering where it was because I\nhave read the bill and the manager's amendment. With the manager's\namendment, I see no earmarks in the bill. They haven't brought it up,\nand I submit it is because they can't. The proper ruling would be to\nrule that there aren't any earmarks.\n I understand we might have to take a vote, but let's try to get our\nprocesses right, Mr. Speaker. I would submit to everybody that we ought\nto get the process right.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.\n Mr. Speaker, this is everything that people hate about Washington.\nThis bill is a tax scam that steals from the American people, and it is\nfilled with earmarks.\n It has earmarks to the gun lobby, earmarks to polluters to be able to\nexploit land, and earmarks to every big donor that gives to the\nNational Republican Congressional Committee.\n This is really about corruption. This bill that we are trying to\nbring to the floor steals from regular people, takes away people's food\nbenefits, throws people off healthcare, and gives a big, fat tax break\nto millionaires and billionaires. That is what their priorities are all\nabout.\n Mr. Speaker, I urge Democrats and Republicans who care about the\nintegrity of this institution to vote ``no'' on considering the rule\nand to block this terrible tax scam from coming to the floor today. We\ncan do a hell of a lot better. This is a disgrace.\n Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``no'' vote, and I yield back the balance of my\ntime.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, this is just a dilatory tactic by my\ncolleagues across the aisle. We must continue so the House can begin\nconsideration of this historic legislation and deliver on President\nTrump's agenda.\n Mr. Speaker, I urge Members to vote ``yes'' on the question, and I\nyield back the balance of my time.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time for debate has expired.\n The question is, Will the House now consider the resolution?\n The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that\nthe ayes appeared to have it.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.\n The yeas and nays were ordered.\n The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 217,\nnays 211, not voting 4, as follows:\n\n [Roll No. 139]\n\n YEAS--217\n\n Aderholt\n Alford\n Allen\n Amodei (NV)\n Arrington\n Babin\n Bacon\n Baird\n Balderson\n Barr\n Barrett\n Baumgartner\n Bean (FL)\n Begich\n Bentz\n Bergman\n Bice\n Biggs (AZ)\n Biggs (SC)\n Bilirakis\n Boebert\n Bost\n Brecheen\n Bresnahan\n Buchanan\n Burchett\n Burlison\n Calvert\n Cammack\n Carey\n Carter (GA)\n Carter (TX)\n Ciscomani\n Cline\n Cloud\n Clyde\n Cole\n Collins\n Comer\n Crane\n Crank\n Crawford\n Crenshaw\n Davidson\n De La Cruz\n DesJarlais\n Diaz-Balart\n Donalds\n Downing\n Dunn (FL)\n Edwards\n Ellzey\n Emmer\n Estes\n Evans (CO)\n Ezell\n Fallon\n Fedorchak\n Feenstra\n Fine\n Finstad\n Fischbach\n Fitzgerald\n Fitzpatrick\n Fleischmann\n Fong\n Foxx\n Franklin, Scott\n Fry\n Fulcher\n Garbarino\n Gill (TX)\n Gimenez\n Goldman (TX)\n Gooden\n Gosar\n Graves\n Green (TN)\n Greene (GA)\n Griffith\n Grothman\n Guest\n Guthrie\n Hageman\n Hamadeh (AZ)\n Haridopolos\n Harrigan\n Harris (MD)\n Harris (NC)\n Harshbarger\n Hern (OK)\n Higgins (LA)\n Hill (AR)\n Hinson\n Houchin\n Hudson\n Huizenga\n Hunt\n Hurd (CO)\n Issa\n Jack\n Jackson (TX)\n James\n Johnson (LA)\n Johnson (SD)\n Jordan\n Joyce (OH)\n Joyce (PA)\n Kean\n Kelly (MS)\n Kelly (PA)\n\n[[Page H2222]]\n\n Kennedy (UT)\n Kiggans (VA)\n Kiley (CA)\n Kim\n Knott\n Kustoff\n LaHood\n LaLota\n LaMalfa\n Langworthy\n Latta\n Lawler\n Lee (FL)\n Letlow\n Loudermilk\n Lucas\n Luna\n Luttrell\n Mace\n Mackenzie\n Malliotakis\n Maloy\n Mann\n Massie\n Mast\n McCaul\n McClain\n McClintock\n McCormick\n McDowell\n McGuire\n Messmer\n Meuser\n Miller (IL)\n Miller (OH)\n Miller (WV)\n Miller-Meeks\n Moolenaar\n Moore (AL)\n Moore (NC)\n Moore (UT)\n Moore (WV)\n Moran\n Murphy\n Nehls\n Newhouse\n Norman\n Nunn (IA)\n Obernolte\n Ogles\n Onder\n Owens\n Palmer\n Patronis\n Perry\n Pfluger\n Reschenthaler\n Rogers (AL)\n Rogers (KY)\n Rose\n Rouzer\n Roy\n Rulli\n Rutherford\n Salazar\n Scalise\n Schmidt\n Schweikert\n Scott, Austin\n Self\n Sessions\n Shreve\n Simpson\n Smith (MO)\n Smith (NE)\n Smith (NJ)\n Smucker\n Spartz\n Stauber\n Stefanik\n Steil\n Steube\n Strong\n Stutzman\n Taylor\n Tenney\n Thompson (PA)\n Tiffany\n Timmons\n Turner (OH)\n Valadao\n Van Drew\n Van Duyne\n Van Orden\n Wagner\n Walberg\n Weber (TX)\n Webster (FL)\n Westerman\n Wied\n Williams (TX)\n Wilson (SC)\n Wittman\n Womack\n Yakym\n Zinke\n\n NAYS--211\n\n Adams\n Aguilar\n Amo\n Ansari\n Auchincloss\n Balint\n Barragan\n Beatty\n Bell\n Bera\n Beyer\n Bishop\n Bonamici\n Boyle (PA)\n Brown\n Brownley\n Budzinski\n Bynum\n Carbajal\n Carson\n Carter (LA)\n Casar\n Case\n Casten\n Castor (FL)\n Castro (TX)\n Cherfilus-McCormick\n Chu\n Cisneros\n Clark (MA)\n Clarke (NY)\n Cleaver\n Clyburn\n Cohen\n Conaway\n Correa\n Costa\n Courtney\n Craig\n Crockett\n Crow\n Cuellar\n Davids (KS)\n Davis (IL)\n Davis (NC)\n Dean (PA)\n DeGette\n DeLauro\n DelBene\n Deluzio\n DeSaulnier\n Dexter\n Dingell\n Doggett\n Elfreth\n Escobar\n Espaillat\n Evans (PA)\n Fields\n Figures\n Fletcher\n Foster\n Foushee\n Frankel, Lois\n Friedman\n Frost\n Garamendi\n Garcia (CA)\n Garcia (IL)\n Garcia (TX)\n Gillen\n Golden (ME)\n Goldman (NY)\n Gomez\n Gonzalez, V.\n Goodlander\n Gottheimer\n Gray\n Green, Al (TX)\n Harder (CA)\n Hayes\n Himes\n Horsford\n Houlahan\n Hoyer\n Hoyle (OR)\n Huffman\n Ivey\n Jackson (IL)\n Jacobs\n Jayapal\n Jeffries\n Johnson (GA)\n Johnson (TX)\n Kamlager-Dove\n Kaptur\n Keating\n Kelly (IL)\n Kennedy (NY)\n Khanna\n Krishnamoorthi\n Landsman\n Larsen (WA)\n Larson (CT)\n Latimer\n Lee (NV)\n Lee (PA)\n Leger Fernandez\n Levin\n Liccardo\n Lieu\n Lofgren\n Lynch\n Magaziner\n Mannion\n Matsui\n McBath\n McBride\n McClain Delaney\n McClellan\n McCollum\n McDonald Rivet\n McGarvey\n McGovern\n McIver\n Meeks\n Menendez\n Meng\n Mfume\n Min\n Moore (WI)\n Morelle\n Morrison\n Moskowitz\n Moulton\n Mrvan\n Mullin\n Nadler\n Neal\n Neguse\n Ocasio-Cortez\n Olszewski\n Omar\n Pallone\n Panetta\n Pappas\n Pelosi\n Perez\n Peters\n Pettersen\n Pingree\n Pocan\n Pou\n Pressley\n Quigley\n Ramirez\n Randall\n Raskin\n Riley (NY)\n Rivas\n Ross\n Ruiz\n Ryan\n Salinas\n Sanchez\n Scanlon\n Schakowsky\n Schneider\n Scholten\n Schrier\n Scott (VA)\n Scott, David\n Sewell\n Sherman\n Sherrill\n Simon\n Smith (WA)\n Sorensen\n Soto\n Stansbury\n Stanton\n Stevens\n Strickland\n Subramanyam\n Suozzi\n Swalwell\n Sykes\n Takano\n Thanedar\n Thompson (CA)\n Thompson (MS)\n Titus\n Tlaib\n Tokuda\n Tonko\n Torres (CA)\n Torres (NY)\n Trahan\n Tran\n Underwood\n Vargas\n Vasquez\n Veasey\n Velazquez\n Vindman\n Wasserman Schultz\n Waters\n Watson Coleman\n Whitesides\n Williams (GA)\n Wilson (FL)\n\n NOT VOTING--4\n\n Flood\n Gonzales, Tony\n Mills\n Norcross\n\n {time} 0029\n\n Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore\n\n The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). There are 2 minutes\nremaining.\n Mses. PINGREE and PEREZ changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''\n Messrs. BARR and McCAUL changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''\n So the question of consideration was decided in the affirmative.\n The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.\n A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.\n\n Point of Order\n\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to section 426 of the\nCongressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, I make a\npoint of order against consideration of the rule, House Resolution 436.\n Section 426 of the Budget Act specifically states that the Rules\nCommittee may not waive the point of order prescribed by section 425 of\nthat same act.\n House Resolution 436 states that all points of order against\nconsideration of the bill are waived. Therefore, I make a point of\norder pursuant to section 426 that this rule may not be considered.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Massachusetts makes a\npoint of order that the resolution violates section 426(a) of the\nCongressional Budget Act of 1974.\n The gentleman has met the threshold burden under the rule and the\ngentleman from Massachusetts and a Member opposed each will control 10\nminutes of debate on the question of consideration. Following debate,\nthe Chair will put the question of consideration as the statutory means\nof disposing of the point of order.\n The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Massachusetts.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, let me say this once again. Democrats will\nnot stand by and watch Trump and his billionaire friends destroy this\ncountry without putting up one hell of a fight.\n Because this rule waives the point of order against unfunded\nmandates, it is not in order to consider it on the floor. The bill\nRepublicans are attempting to jam through the House this week cuts food\nassistance for moms and dads, kids and people with disabilities,\nveterans, and seniors.\n It goes after the most important people in our lives, our families,\nall to fund a massive tax break for the richest people in this country.\n What the hell is wrong with these people, Mr. Speaker?\n It is more than just a massive betrayal of the American people. This\nbill is also a massive, new, unfunded mandate on States.\n Mr. Speaker, don't just take my word for it. The nonpartisan experts\nat the Congressional Budget Office said that title I of the bill, the\nAgriculture Committee's portion of this awful bill, would impose\nintergovernmental mandates by requiring States, for the first time\never, to provide State funding for food assistance benefits, increasing\nthe share of food assistance administrative costs paid by States and\nrequiring State agencies to perform additional administrative duties.\nThis massive, new, unfunded mandate would cost States a whopping $19\nbillion each year.\n Mr. Speaker, where the hell are States going to come up with this\nkind of money? They can't. So what will happen is that people will get\nkicked off of food assistance. They will get less benefits, and they\nwill go hungry.\n This will increase hunger. State after State and Governor after\nGovernor has written to Congress begging us not to pass this awful\nbill. They have made it very clear that if this bill goes through, then\nStates will be forced to cut benefits, kick eligible people off of food\nassistance entirely, or raise taxes to pay for this massive, new,\nbureaucracy that Republicans are creating in every State.\n The chairman of the Agriculture Committee's home State of\nPennsylvania would have to come up with over $1 billion to cover the\nState's share of benefit costs.\n There is no State in the country that is able to take on this kind of\nmassive, unfunded mandate. We are talking about basic needs for people,\na food assistance benefit of $2 per meal so that people don't go\nhungry. By the way, that money not only lifts people out of poverty, it\nimproves health and uplifts local economies too.\n Hunger costs this country, and food assistance programs save us\nmoney. Workers who are hungry are less productive at work. Kids who go\nto school hungry don't learn. Seniors who take their medication on an\nempty stomach end up in emergency rooms.\n We live in the richest country on Earth. For God's sake, not a single\nkid in this country should go to bed hungry, not a single damn one,\nespecially not when Republicans are giving millionaires and\nbillionaires a big, fat tax break.\n Mr. Speaker, I think Republicans know exactly what they are doing\nhere. They know that this bill will kick millions and millions of\npeople off of their modest food assistance. They know that their cuts\nwill hurt kids, moms and dads, working families, seniors, veterans, and\npeople with disabilities. This is an unbelievably cruel and rotten\nthing to do.\n Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I claim the time in opposition to this\npoint of\n\n[[Page H2223]]\n\norder and in favor of consideration of the resolution.\n\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Indiana is recognized\nfor 10 minutes.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, the question before the House is: Should\nthe House now consider House Resolution 436?\n The gentleman on the other side of the aisle is certainly correct.\nThe bill before us today does impose a number of intergovernmental\nmandates. However, let's look at what is considered in those. The bill\nrequires States to have skin in the game on SNAP. The bill requires\nStates to be more responsible about how Medicaid is funded. The bill\nprovides needed tax relief for seniors.\n These are good things that reduce the size and scope of Federal\nGovernment that is encroaching on the everyday lives of Americans, and\nit protects the American people from a Democratic Party that\nprioritizes illegal immigrants over vulnerable American families.\n In order to allow the House to continue its scheduled business for\nthe day, I urge Members to vote ``yes'' on the question of\nconsideration of the resolution, and I reserve the balance of my time.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, enough with the BS about States having\nskin in the game. This is about throwing families off of food\nassistance, and it is an awful thing to do.\n Mr. Speaker, I yield 2\\1/2\\ minutes to the gentlewoman from\nConnecticut (Mrs. Hayes), who is the ranking member of the Nutrition\nSubcommittee.\n Mrs. HAYES. Mr. Speaker, I rise today against this House Republican\nreconciliation bill that would put 42 million Americans at risk of\nlosing their SNAP benefits.\n I would argue that my State of Connecticut that sends more money to\nthe Federal Government than Indiana already has skin in the game.\n As ranking member of the Nutrition and Foreign Agricultural\nSubcommittee, it is notable that we have had no hearings on the State\ncost-sharing provisions or on the Thrifty Food Plan or on the impact of\naccess to SNAP.\n House Republicans are pushing untested policy proposals that have\nreal-life consequences on the people in my community.\n\n {time} 0040\n\n During the Agriculture Committee reconciliation markup, I offered a\ncommonsense amendment stating that this legislation can only take\neffect once the USDA and all State agencies issue reports evaluating\nand certifying that any changes made to SNAP will not result in a\nreduction of benefits to individuals or decrease participation. No\nRepublican on the Agriculture Committee voted for that amendment.\n Hunger is a policy choice, and today, we are considering legislation\nthat makes the choice to take food away from people. The reconciliation\nbill we are considering here today is the largest ever cut to SNAP.\n Approximately $313 billion is being taken away from the most\nvulnerable in this country--hungry children, hungry families, hungry\nveterans, and hungry seniors. I guarantee they are not just in\nConnecticut.\n Republicans are pushing a legislative package that guts SNAP, the\nmost effective and efficient antipoverty program in our Nation. The\ncost-sharing provisions in this legislation are going to shift the\nfinancial burden to States, forcing States to cut benefits,\neligibility, or both to reduce costs.\n They are pushing work requirements with no workforce development,\npushing reporting requirements with no administrative reports, and\npushing for cuts to children who are on this program without\nconsidering that they will also lose free and reduced lunches at\nschool.\n They don't want to feed kids at home. They don't want to feed kids at\nschool. It is just cruel.\n Every provision in this program is cruel, and they know it. That is\nwhy none of them spoke on it in the Agriculture Committee. That is why\nthey were silent in the Budget Committee. That is why they have nothing\nto say. That is why they have no response. That is why they don't hold\ntownhalls. That is why they don't answer questions.\n All they do is tweet, repeat, and hide in the back until they vote\n``yes.''\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, by the way, it is not just people in\nConnecticut who are threatened by this budget. I would say to the\ngentlewoman from Indiana that there are 54,000 people in her district\nwho are going to be threatened, losing their SNAP benefits because of\nwhat Republicans are voting for today on the Republican budget. I don't\nknow how you deal with that.\n Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms.\nBrown), the vice ranking member of the Agriculture Committee.\n Ms. BROWN. Mr. Speaker, I thank Ranking Member McGovern for yielding\nme time.\n Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this rule and the\nunderlying bill.\n Let's be clear, Republicans are paying for massive tax cuts for\nmillionaires and billionaires by cutting $300 billion from SNAP.\n Instead of owning those cuts, Republicans are punting their problems\nto the States, forcing Governors and legislators to do the dirty work\nof denying food assistance. That is not fiscal responsibility. That is\npolitical cowardice.\n This is an unfunded Federal mandate, plain and simple. States would\nhave to cover at least 5 percent of SNAP benefits and up to 25 percent.\n What they call skin in the game is unworkable. The hits to States'\nbudgets would be massive, up to $4.5 billion over 10 years in\nLouisiana, $4 billion in Alabama, $15 billion in Florida, and $7.5\nbillion in my home State of Ohio.\n Mr. Speaker, what does that mean? Well, I am glad you asked. It means\nfewer dollars for schools, opioid response, and basic services. Any way\nyou cut it, families lose.\n If States can't pick up the bill, they will have to cut benefits or\nkick folks off the program, a program that currently provides $6 a day,\non average.\n This plan will take away food from kids, working families, veterans,\nseniors, and the disabled. It will hit red States, blue States, and\nevery State and every district.\n Even Republicans know how damaging this is. That is why they have\ndelayed implementation until when? After the next election.\n Hiding the consequences doesn't make them less real. Their own State\nlegislators, Democrats and Republicans, oppose this plan. The National\nConference of State Legislatures calls it fiscally unsustainable and\nwarns it will harm the very people SNAP is meant to help.\n This is a shameful attempt to dodge accountability while handing out\ntax breaks on the backs of hungry families.\n Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no.'' Protect SNAP. Don't\nmake struggling Americans pay for tax breaks for the wealthy.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how many more speakers the\ngentlewoman has.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to close.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to how much time I have\nremaining.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Massachusetts has 1\nminute remaining.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.\n Mr. Speaker, let me just say to my Republican friends that hunger is\na political position. We have the money. We have the infrastructure. We\nknow what to do to end it. We have everything but the political will.\n You bring to the floor a bill that robs from poor people and takes\nmoney away from the most incredible food assistance program in the\nworld. You take that and use it not to end hunger but to pay for tax\ncuts for millionaires and billionaires. That is shameful. That is\nshameful.\n You put a big unfunded mandate on States. Stand with us on the right\nside of history. Stand with people who need help. For once in your\nlife, do something to help people who really need help and not just\nreward those at the top who are well-off and well-connected.\n\n Stand with us in stopping this rule and vote ``no'' on this.\n\n[[Page H2224]]\n\n Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to direct their remarks\nto the Chair.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how much time I have\nremaining.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Indiana has 9 minutes\nremaining.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.\n Mr. Speaker, the Democrats claim that this is providing tax cuts for\nthe wealthy. Let's just talk about that.\n This bill includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and provides\ntax relief for seniors on Social Security. This will protect the\nlargest tax cut for middle-class and working families in American\nhistory. Americans will see a double-digit percent decrease in their\ntaxes.\n If we want to talk about districts, Mr. Speaker, let's talk about the\nSecond District of Massachusetts. It is home to 524,530 taxpayers.\n The average taxpayer in Massachusetts' Second District would see a 20\npercent tax hike if the Trump tax cuts expire, which is what my\nDemocratic colleagues across the aisle are fighting for. They are\nfighting for taxes to go up.\n A family of four, making $95,495 in the Massachusetts Second\nDistrict, the median income, would see a $2,141 tax increase if the\nTrump tax cuts expire. That is about 10 weeks' worth of groceries for a\ntypical family of four in that region.\n Now, let's talk for a moment, too, Mr. Speaker, about SNAP benefits.\nOnly Democrats would protect error rates in SNAP benefits, saying that\nintegrity in the program is a cut, but this is ensuring that benefits\nare available to the people who are eligible for them and need them\nmost. Anything else is fraud.\n Republicans are ensuring that SNAP prioritizes benefits for American\ncitizens and protects the program's long-term stability by closing\nloopholes and requiring cost sharing for States that have error rates\nthat are unfeasible.\n We are focusing on protecting tax cuts for the American people across\nthe board. That is what we are trying to do here, Mr. Speaker. Anything\nelse that we hear from the Democrats is a stall tactic.\n We must continue so the House can begin our consideration of this\nhistoric legislation to deliver on President Trump's agenda.\n Mr. Speaker, I urge our Members to vote ``yes'' on the question, and\nI yield back the balance of my time.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time for debate has expired.\n The question is, Will the House now consider the resolution?\n The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that\nthe ayes appeared to have it.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.\n The yeas and nays were ordered.\n The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 216,\nnays 211, not voting 5, as follows:\n\n [Roll No. 140]\n\n YEAS--216\n\n Aderholt\n Alford\n Allen\n Amodei (NV)\n Arrington\n Babin\n Bacon\n Baird\n Balderson\n Barr\n Barrett\n Baumgartner\n Bean (FL)\n Begich\n Bentz\n Bergman\n Bice\n Biggs (AZ)\n Biggs (SC)\n Bilirakis\n Boebert\n Bost\n Brecheen\n Bresnahan\n Burchett\n Burlison\n Calvert\n Cammack\n Carey\n Carter (GA)\n Carter (TX)\n Ciscomani\n Cline\n Cloud\n Clyde\n Cole\n Collins\n Comer\n Crane\n Crank\n Crawford\n Crenshaw\n Davidson\n De La Cruz\n DesJarlais\n Diaz-Balart\n Donalds\n Downing\n Edwards\n Ellzey\n Emmer\n Estes\n Evans (CO)\n Ezell\n Fallon\n Fedorchak\n Feenstra\n Fine\n Finstad\n Fischbach\n Fitzgerald\n Fitzpatrick\n Fleischmann\n Flood\n Fong\n Foxx\n Franklin, Scott\n Fry\n Fulcher\n Garbarino\n Gill (TX)\n Gimenez\n Goldman (TX)\n Gooden\n Gosar\n Graves\n Green (TN)\n Greene (GA)\n Griffith\n Grothman\n Guest\n Guthrie\n Hageman\n Hamadeh (AZ)\n Haridopolos\n Harrigan\n Harris (MD)\n Harris (NC)\n Harshbarger\n Hern (OK)\n Higgins (LA)\n Hill (AR)\n Hinson\n Houchin\n Hudson\n Huizenga\n Hunt\n Hurd (CO)\n Issa\n Jack\n Jackson (TX)\n James\n Johnson (LA)\n Johnson (SD)\n Jordan\n Joyce (OH)\n Joyce (PA)\n Kean\n Kelly (MS)\n Kelly (PA)\n Kennedy (UT)\n Kiggans (VA)\n Kiley (CA)\n Kim\n Knott\n Kustoff\n LaHood\n LaLota\n LaMalfa\n Langworthy\n Latta\n Lawler\n Letlow\n Loudermilk\n Lucas\n Luna\n Luttrell\n Mace\n Mackenzie\n Malliotakis\n Maloy\n Mann\n Massie\n Mast\n McCaul\n McClain\n McClintock\n McCormick\n McDowell\n McGuire\n Messmer\n Meuser\n Miller (IL)\n Miller (OH)\n Miller (WV)\n Miller-Meeks\n Mills\n Moolenaar\n Moore (AL)\n Moore (NC)\n Moore (UT)\n Moore (WV)\n Moran\n Murphy\n Nehls\n Newhouse\n Norman\n Nunn (IA)\n Obernolte\n Ogles\n Onder\n Owens\n Palmer\n Patronis\n Perry\n Pfluger\n Reschenthaler\n Rogers (AL)\n Rogers (KY)\n Rose\n Rouzer\n Roy\n Rulli\n Rutherford\n Salazar\n Scalise\n Schmidt\n Schweikert\n Scott, Austin\n Self\n Sessions\n Shreve\n Simpson\n Smith (MO)\n Smith (NE)\n Smith (NJ)\n Smucker\n Spartz\n Stauber\n Stefanik\n Steil\n Steube\n Strong\n Stutzman\n Taylor\n Tenney\n Thompson (PA)\n Tiffany\n Timmons\n Turner (OH)\n Valadao\n Van Drew\n Van Duyne\n Van Orden\n Wagner\n Walberg\n Weber (TX)\n Webster (FL)\n Westerman\n Wied\n Williams (TX)\n Wilson (SC)\n Wittman\n Womack\n Yakym\n Zinke\n\n NAYS--211\n\n Adams\n Aguilar\n Amo\n Ansari\n Auchincloss\n Balint\n Barragan\n Beatty\n Bell\n Bera\n Beyer\n Bishop\n Bonamici\n Boyle (PA)\n Brown\n Brownley\n Budzinski\n Bynum\n Carbajal\n Carson\n Carter (LA)\n Casar\n Case\n Casten\n Castor (FL)\n Castro (TX)\n Cherfilus-McCormick\n Chu\n Cisneros\n Clark (MA)\n Clarke (NY)\n Cleaver\n Clyburn\n Cohen\n Conaway\n Correa\n Costa\n Courtney\n Craig\n Crockett\n Crow\n Cuellar\n Davids (KS)\n Davis (IL)\n Davis (NC)\n Dean (PA)\n DeGette\n DeLauro\n DelBene\n Deluzio\n DeSaulnier\n Dexter\n Dingell\n Doggett\n Elfreth\n Escobar\n Espaillat\n Evans (PA)\n Fields\n Figures\n Fletcher\n Foster\n Foushee\n Frankel, Lois\n Friedman\n Frost\n Garamendi\n Garcia (CA)\n Garcia (IL)\n Garcia (TX)\n Gillen\n Golden (ME)\n Goldman (NY)\n Gomez\n Gonzalez, V.\n Goodlander\n Gottheimer\n Gray\n Green, Al (TX)\n Harder (CA)\n Hayes\n Himes\n Horsford\n Houlahan\n Hoyer\n Hoyle (OR)\n Huffman\n Ivey\n Jackson (IL)\n Jacobs\n Jayapal\n Jeffries\n Johnson (GA)\n Johnson (TX)\n Kamlager-Dove\n Kaptur\n Keating\n Kelly (IL)\n Kennedy (NY)\n Khanna\n Krishnamoorthi\n Landsman\n Larsen (WA)\n Larson (CT)\n Latimer\n Lee (NV)\n Lee (PA)\n Leger Fernandez\n Levin\n Liccardo\n Lieu\n Lofgren\n Lynch\n Magaziner\n Mannion\n Matsui\n McBath\n McBride\n McClain Delaney\n McClellan\n McCollum\n McDonald Rivet\n McGarvey\n McGovern\n McIver\n Meeks\n Menendez\n Meng\n Mfume\n Min\n Moore (WI)\n Morelle\n Morrison\n Moskowitz\n Moulton\n Mrvan\n Mullin\n Nadler\n Neal\n Neguse\n Ocasio-Cortez\n Olszewski\n Omar\n Pallone\n Panetta\n Pappas\n Pelosi\n Perez\n Peters\n Pettersen\n Pingree\n Pocan\n Pou\n Pressley\n Quigley\n Ramirez\n Randall\n Raskin\n Riley (NY)\n Rivas\n Ross\n Ruiz\n Ryan\n Salinas\n Sanchez\n Scanlon\n Schakowsky\n Schneider\n Scholten\n Schrier\n Scott (VA)\n Scott, David\n Sewell\n Sherman\n Sherrill\n Simon\n Smith (WA)\n Sorensen\n Soto\n Stansbury\n Stanton\n Stevens\n Strickland\n Subramanyam\n Suozzi\n Swalwell\n Sykes\n Takano\n Thanedar\n Thompson (CA)\n Thompson (MS)\n Titus\n Tlaib\n Tokuda\n Tonko\n Torres (CA)\n Torres (NY)\n Trahan\n Tran\n Underwood\n Vargas\n Vasquez\n Veasey\n Velazquez\n Vindman\n Wasserman Schultz\n Waters\n Watson Coleman\n Whitesides\n Williams (GA)\n Wilson (FL)\n\n NOT VOTING--5\n\n Buchanan\n Dunn (FL)\n Gonzales, Tony\n Lee (FL)\n Norcross\n\n Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore\n\n The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). There are 2 minutes\nremaining.\n\n {time} 0103\n\n So the question of consideration was decided in the affirmative.\n The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.\n A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I yield\nthe customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr.\nMcGovern), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume.\nDuring consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the\npurpose of debate only.\n\n General Leave\n\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members\nmay have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the\ngentlewoman from Indiana?\n There was no objection.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.\n\n[[Page H2225]]\n\n Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this rule and in support of the\nunderlying legislation.\n This morning, the Rules Committee met and produced a rule, House\nResolution 436, providing for the House's consideration of H.R. 1, the\nOne Big Beautiful Bill Act.\n This provides for a closed rule on the bill. The rule provides 1 hour\nof debate for the chair and ranking member of the Committee on the\nBudget or their respective designees, as well as an additional 1 hour\nequally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking member of the\nCommittee on Ways and Means or their respective designees.\nAdditionally, the rule provides 1 motion to recommit.\n Today, after months of hard work and hours of testimony in hearings,\nHouse Republicans are advancing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to\ndeliver on President Trump's America First agenda.\n Mr. Speaker, we have heard plenty of fear-mongering and flatout\ndishonesty from the Democrats and their liberal media allies about what\nthis bill actually does.\n Earlier this morning, Democrats challenged us to debate this bill in\nthe light of day. Mr. Speaker, it may be the middle of the night. Yet,\nwe are here, wide awake and ready to defend it because the truth\ndoesn't sleep, and neither do we when it comes to fighting for the\nAmerican people.\n Mr. Speaker, let's talk about how this bill delivers for the American\npeople.\n It makes the very successful 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent,\nprotecting the average taxpayer from a 22 percent tax increase. It\nunleashes American energy production and allows us to drill, baby,\ndrill.\n It provides the largest border security investment in history and\nempowers ICE to deport the millions of illegal immigrants that were\nallowed in under President Joe Biden.\n It also completes 700 miles of border wall and stops the flow of\nfentanyl into our communities.\n It shuts down the blatant abuse that has allowed 1.4 million illegal\nimmigrants to access taxpayer-funded Medicaid, draining resources meant\nfor our most vulnerable citizens.\n It establishes modest work requirements for able-bodied adults with\nno dependents who receive Medicaid.\n It drives down costs for seniors by increasing the transparency of\npharmacy benefit managers and expanding access to the medications\nseniors need by providing more choices.\n It ends the reckless Biden student loan giveaways that favored\nliberal elites over working-class Americans at taxpayers' expense.\n It provides nearly $150 billion in resources to our military to\nimprove areas from servicemember quality of life to strengthening our\nshipbuilding capacity.\n It also makes targeted reinvestments and improvements to foreign\npolicy and other rural priorities that support our farmers and\nranchers.\n It includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, car loan interest\ndeductibility for autos made in America, and provides tax relief for\nseniors.\n The list of wins goes on and on and on in this one big, beautiful\nbill.\n Our friends across the aisle will try to deflect from these real and\ntangible benefits. They want to deceive and scare the American people,\nand I am sorry for that. Don't believe them.\n My Democratic colleagues seem to forget that 77 million Americans\nrejected their America-last policies last November. My colleagues on\nthe other side of the aisle are now trying to convince the American\npeople that a bill that secures the border; invests in our military;\nextends tax relief to millions of hardworking Americans; and protects\nMedicaid, Medicare, and Social Security for the people who need it most\nis somehow not in the best interests of the country.\n Yet, the American people know better. The American people know\nTrump's tax cuts worked and need to be extended. The American people\nknow that it is in the best interests of our national security to\nsecure the border. They know the world needs American energy\nleadership. They know that the men and women who serve in the Armed\nForces need additional resources to counter the growing threats and\ndefend American interests across the globe.\n\n {time} 0110\n\n We are putting Americans first by deporting illegal immigrants and\nprotecting taxpayer-funded benefits for those who truly need them.\nEverything you will hear from the Democrats tonight is wrong. Again,\ndon't believe them.\n How many times do you have to get duped by their dishonesty before\nyou stop listening? The sky is not falling.\n Mr. Speaker, today, we are delivering on President Trump's agenda. I\nlook forward to the consideration of this one big, beautiful bill, and\nI urge the passage of this rule.\n Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.\n Mr. Speaker, over 100 Democrats just spent hours and hours debating\nhundreds of amendments in the Rules Committee for over 19 hours, and\nthe reason why is simple: We are fighting back because this bill is a\nmoral disgrace.\n It rips healthcare from millions of Americans. It guts Medicaid and\nMedicare, lifelines for seniors, children, working families, and people\nwith disabilities. It takes food out of the mouths of hungry kids and\nveterans. For what? To shovel tax breaks into the overflowing pockets\nof billionaires and giant corporations.\n Let's call this what it is: theft. It is stealing from those with the\nleast to give to those with the most.\n It is not just bad policy. It is a betrayal. It is a betrayal of the\nAmerican people. Republicans know that this bill is toxic, and that is\nwhy they started their rules hearing at 1 o'clock, by the way,\nyesterday morning. They are terrified that the American people might\nactually see what is in this GOP tax scam and be outraged by what they\nare doing.\n Republicans don't want to talk about it. They want us to just shut up\nand pass this bill. They want it rubberstamped. Trump said to them:\nClose your eyes and vote for it. Guess what? No, no, no. We are not\ngoing to do that. We will not stay silent. We will not close our eyes\nand do what Trump says.\n Our eyes are open, Mr. Speaker, and our voices are loud. We are here\nto fight, and this bill is about whose side you are on.\n Democrats choose to stand with our communities, our neighbors, our\nfamilies, and our people, and not the ultrarich Republican mega-donors\nand billionaires that write big, fat campaign contributions to buy\nvotes.\n This is a rotten, ugly, bad bill that will hurt the people I\nrepresent. It will hurt millions of people in this country, but the sad\nreality is, Mr. Speaker, Republicans just don't care.\n Democrats are united, and with strength in our mission, with unity in\nour purpose, we are here to vote ``hell, no'' on this monstrosity of a\nbill.\n Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentlewoman from\nNorth Carolina (Ms. Foxx), chairwoman of the Rules Committee.\n Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Indiana for\nyielding and for her great work on this rule.\n Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the rule and the underlying\nlegislation.\n After a marathon session in the Rules Committee, the One Big\nBeautiful Bill Act now stands right here on the floor of the people's\nHouse.\n For months, the House's committees, chairmen, Members, and staff have\nworked to craft this legislation. Let me tell you something, Mr.\nSpeaker, it is truly big and beautiful.\n It is a clear, full-throated response to the millions of hardworking\nmen and women across the entire Nation who believe that America is due\nfor a serious course correction. These men and women categorically\nrejected the dysfunction and disarray of the last 4 years under the\nBiden-Harris administration.\n While our colleagues across the aisle have resorted to casting\naspersions, conjuring up misleading claims, and fear-mongering about\nthis legislation, Republicans are the ones who put pen to paper and\nhave created one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in our\nNation's history.\n The American people and this government, by extension, cannot afford\ninaction. Americans need this legislation to ensure our economic\nsurvival\n\n[[Page H2226]]\n\nand the sustainability of this Republican government. More than 77\nmillion Americans entrusted us with this explicit responsibility: to\ngovern in such a decisive, forward-thinking manner that will lead\nAmerica straight into the golden age.\n The express purpose of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is this: to\nensure that our Federal spending, taxation, and other revenue-\ngenerating concepts align with the current needs of the American people\nand bring us into that new American era.\n How do we achieve this grand realignment? It is through this great\nreconciliation project. We are executing the instructions given to the\ncommittees, pursuant to the budget resolution--one that passed both\nChambers and is binding on this body and the Senate.\n We are not interested in rhetorical jousting or succumbing to the\nstatus quo. We are interested in delivering real, tangible results to\nthe American people.\n These results are achieving the full potential of our energy\ndominance, realizing a secured border, and establishing fiscal\ncertainty for our great American future.\n Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to be part of delivering real,\ntangible results by voting ``yes'' on the rule and ``yes'' on the\nunderlying legislation.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, let me just say to the distinguished\nchairwoman of the Rules Committee: Do you know what gives people fiscal\ncertainty? It is food in their refrigerators.\n Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Colorado (Ms.\nDeGette).\n Ms. DeGETTE. Mr. Speaker, among the many other deficiencies of the\nbill, it is a direct assault on women's reproductive freedom.\n\n Number one, it defunds Planned Parenthood, which means if this bill\npasses, 1 million Americans will have no pap smears. They will have no\nbreast cancer screenings. They will have no well-women visits. That is\nthe first thing it does.\n Then, the manager's amendment, introduced in the dead of night, says\nthat one in seven Americans who are on the insurance exchanges will no\nlonger be able to get abortion coverage on those exchanges with their\nown money.\n I can see why the Republicans wanted to do this in the dead of night\nbecause after the Dobbs decision, America woke up. We realized that\nthis is an important service. When the women and families of America\nwake up and find out the direct assault on reproductive freedom in this\nbill, they are going to be mad, and they are not going to forget when\nthey go to the ballot box in 2026.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from\nNew York (Mr. Langworthy).\n Mr. LANGWORTHY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Indiana for\nyielding the time.\n Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the rule and the big,\nbeautiful bill because this is not just a budget bill. This is the\nbeginning of a great American comeback. That is what the people\ndemanded when they went to the polls last November.\n They voted to take our country back from chaos, from open borders,\nfrom crushing inflation, and from a government that rewards fraud while\npunishing hard work.\n This bill answers that call. It puts working families first with\nexpanded tax relief for families and the hardworking men and women who\nare paying the bills in this country. This bill tells them: We see you,\nand we have your backs.\n At the same time, we go after the rot that has taken hold here in\nWashington for far too long. Just last year, Medicaid alone paid out\n$36 billion in improper payments. That is fraud. That is theft. That is\na disgrace. That is money that is not taking care of our most\nvulnerable, which we have to protect at all costs.\n This bill stops it cold with tough enforcement, eligibility checks,\nand a full crackdown on waste, fraud, and abuse.\n\n {time} 0120\n\n We also bring back work requirements for able-bodied adults without\ndependents. It is just common sense. It has worked before--in fact, in\nthe 1990s, under a Democratic President, Bill Clinton. He worked with\nCongress and passed historic welfare reform that helped millions of\npeople move from dependence to dignity. We have now restored that\nprinciple in this bill because a nation that rewards hard work is a\nnation that thrives.\n We stop throwing taxpayer dollars at failed green schemes and\nelectric vehicle mandates that working families simply can't afford and\ndon't want. Instead, we double down on American energy--oil, gas, and\nnuclear--to lower costs and to make this country safer and stronger\nthan ever.\n Let's be clear: This bill is more than just policy. It is a turning\npoint. It is the beginning of the great American comeback that\nPresident Trump is leading and that this House Republican majority was\nelected to deliver.\n The American people are tired of excuses. They want results. They\nwant accountability. They want a government that works for them, not\nfor bureaucrats, not for special interests, and not for people gaming\nthe system.\n The One Big Beautiful Bill Act delivers. It protects taxpayers. It\nrestores work. It ends waste. It gets America back on track.\n Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on this rule, vote\n``yes'' on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, vote to launch the great\nAmerican comeback, and vote to stand with the people who sent us here.\n Let's pass this One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Let the great American\ncomeback begin.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, some people may be wondering why we are\ndebating this bill at 1:20 in the morning, which is prime time in Guam.\nIt is because they are ashamed of what they are bringing to this House\nfloor, and they should be ashamed.\n Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr.\nTran).\n Mr. TRAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this reckless attempt\nby Republicans to force through a reconciliation bill that makes life\nharder for the working families in California's 45th District.\n My constituents deserve better than this budget. The American people\ndeserve better than this budget. Republicans are taking money out of\nAmericans' pockets and giving it to billionaires and big companies.\n Over 250,000 people in my district rely on Medicaid, and over 100,000\nof them are children and seniors. Nearly 40,000 children, seniors,\nveterans, and families in my district will have less food on their\ntables because of Republicans' cuts to SNAP.\n Our constituents sent us here to fight for them. They are looking to\nus for answers, and all Republicans can offer are higher costs for less\ncare. That is not okay with me. Our constituents deserve better.\n Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no.''\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from\nMissouri (Mr. Alford), my friend.\n Mr. ALFORD. Mr. Speaker, we now have a chance to deliver real,\nlasting change for the American people.\n The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is not just a promise that we as House\nRepublicans and President Trump made. This is a generational\nopportunity to reset the direction of our great Nation.\n Let me be clear: My colleagues on the other side of the aisle don't\nlike this bill because it puts hardworking Americans first, not the\nbureaucrats, not special interests, and not those who break our laws.\n Our friends on the left like to shout: ``The sky is falling. The sky\nis falling.'' Enough with the Chicken Little mentality in this body.\n This bill stops the largest tax increase in U.S. history. This bill\nwill increase take-home pay by more than $13,000 and grow wages by more\nthan $11,000. It protects Medicaid for our citizens by removing more\nthan a million illegal aliens from taxpayer-funded benefits. Yes, Mr.\nSpeaker, this draws the clear line: No taxpayer dollars for sex change\nsurgeries for anyone.\n Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``yes'' vote on this big, beautiful bill.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.\n Mr. Speaker, my friends are so proud of this bill that they are doing\nit at 1:25 a.m.\n The bottom line is the reason why we don't like the bill is that we\ndon't think billionaires deserve any more tax\n\n[[Page H2227]]\n\ncuts, and we don't want to support a bill that screws regular people.\n Mr. Speaker, I am going to urge that we defeat the previous question.\nIf we do, I will offer an amendment to the rule to make in order\namendment No. 233 offered by Leader Jeffries, which strikes all\nprovisions that would cause millions of Americans to lose healthcare\nand food assistance.\n We spent over 20 hours in the Rules Committee today trying to stop\nthis ugly, cruel Republican bill. Over 100 Democrats came to testify.\nWe did everything we could to get them to change this bill so that it\nwould not strip healthcare and food assistance from the most vulnerable\npeople in our Nation.\n Now, we will give Republicans one last chance not to strip vital\nprograms like Medicaid and SNAP away from millions of Americans.\n Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to insert the text of my\namendment into the Record, along with any extraneous material,\nimmediately prior to the vote on the previous question.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the\ngentleman from Massachusetts?\n There was no objection.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from\nIllinois (Ms. Underwood) to discuss our proposal.\n Ms. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak out on behalf of\nmillions of Americans who are about to have their healthcare torn away\nfrom them.\n Republicans have been working through the night to hand Donald Trump\na massive tax cut to all those billionaires who were in the front row\nof his inauguration.\n\n It seems that nothing is off-limits. Everything is on the table to\nget that done, including meals for hungry families, working families'\nhealthcare, and the incredible gains that we have made to get more\nfamilies affordable coverage.\n Today, Republicans blocked my amendment to lower healthcare costs,\nrefusing to accept a proposal that Donald Trump's own pollster said is\nthe most popular way to make care more affordable.\n The Medicaid and nutrition cuts that they are pushing will be\ndevastating. Hospitals and nursing homes will close, and they will not\ncome back. Kids will go hungry. Millions will lose their healthcare,\nand more people will die.\n We will not stop fighting for the American people to have access to\nhigh-quality, affordable healthcare.\n Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to defeat the previous question.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from\nUtah (Ms. Maloy), my very good friend.\n Ms. MALOY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to support the One Big Beautiful\nBill Act, legislation that prioritizes fiscal responsibility while\nboosting America's economy.\n The Energy and Commerce Committee provisions provide $912 billion in\ndeficit reduction. The Ways and Means Committee provisions make real\ntax relief. This bill reins in Federal spending levels by rooting out\nwaste, fraud, and abuse, and strengthens our economy by ensuring that\nworking American families can thrive without overly burdensome taxes or\ncostly regulations.\n We are moving the economy and government in the right direction.\n The Natural Resources Committee title reduces the deficit by at least\n$18.5 billion while restoring commonsense management to our Federal\nlands and environmental programs. It will generate revenue through oil\nand gas leases, coal leases on Federal lands, leases for geothermal\nenergy production, timber sales, and other activities that stimulate\nlocal economies while generating Federal revenue.\n It cuts waste and strengthens resource development, all while\nachieving significant fiscal savings.\n This bill is good for Utah, and it is good for America. The bill\nhelps all Americans by helping us keep our border secure by providing\nlaw enforcement with the tools they need.\n Mr. Speaker, I support the bill.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\\1/2\\ minutes to the gentleman\nfrom Kentucky (Mr. Massie), a man who is not afraid to speak his mind\nabout fiscal responsibility.\n Mr. MASSIE. Mr. Speaker, I would love to stand here and tell the\nAmerican people that we can cut your taxes and increase spending, and\neverything is going to be just fine. I can't do that because I am here\nto deliver a dose of reality.\n This bill dramatically increases deficits in the near term but\npromises our government will be fiscally responsible 5 years from now.\nWhere have we heard that before? How do you bind a future Congress to\nthese promises?\n This bill is a debt bomb ticking.\n Congress can do funny math, fantasy math if it wants, but bond\ninvestors don't. This week, they sent us a message. Moody's downgraded\nour credit rating, and the bond investors who buy and finance our debt\ndemanded higher interest rates on the 10-year note, 20-year note, and\nthe 30-year note. What does this mean? Very soon, the government will\nbe paying $16,000 of interest, interest alone, per U.S. family.\n What are we telling them? Instead of taking care of that problem, we\nare going to give them a $1,600 tax break.\n Under the taxing and spending levels in this bill, we are going to\nrack up, the authors say, $20 trillion of new debt over the next 10\nyears. I am telling you, it is closer to $30 trillion of new debt in\nthe next 10 years.\n Mr. Speaker, we are not rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic\ntonight. We are putting coal in the boiler and setting a course for the\niceberg. If something is beautiful, you don't do it after midnight.\n Mr. Speaker, I oppose this bill.\n\n {time} 0130\n\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute the gentleman from Iowa\n(Mr. Nunn).\n Mr. NUNN of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, tonight we have the opportunity to\ndeliver on a promise made to the American people on border security,\nenergy independence, and tax cuts for working-class families.\n Now, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, many of them\nmillionaires themselves, may bemoan what it may do. I promise them\nthis. For folks back home in Iowa, this is a working-class tax cut.\n I spoke to an Iowa mom, Sarah Curry, who used her child tax credit to\nhelp buy a new water heater for her family when it went out last\nwinter. Sarah was also able to get speech therapy lessons for her son.\n I talked to Jolene Riessen, an Iowa farmer, whose sons were able to\ncontinue her family's legacy of a family farm because she didn't have a\ndeath tax cut that would have allowed a foreign country to buy their\nfamily's centuries-old farm.\n In fact, the average household will see an increase of $5,000 in real\nincome that goes straight back into our economy. That, my friends, is\nhow we not only grow the economy but pay down the national deficit.\nThis mechanism is something the CBO apparently doesn't understand with\nover $1 trillion in growth.\n Mr. Speaker, I support this bill. The American people demand this\nbill.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, you have got to love these Republicans.\nThe two things they don't want to talk about are tax cuts for\nbillionaires, which are in this budget reconciliation, and the debt.\nThis bill adds trillions to the debt.\n Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Nevada (Ms.\nTitus).\n Ms. TITUS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the leader for yielding time.\n Mr. Speaker, the Republicans may think that they can hide what they\nare doing to the American people by voting on this one big, bad,\nbeautiful, BS bill in the middle of the night. They need to think\nagain.\n I represent Las Vegas. That is a 24-hour town. My constituents are\nup. They are not asleep. They are working, and they are watching.\n They can see my Republican colleagues cutting benefits for families\nwhile cutting taxes for billionaires. They can see them taking away\nfood from children and healthcare from women. They can see my friends\non the other side of the aisle stripping funds from renewable energy,\nMedicaid, and public education.\n They are not asleep. They are not blind. Their eyes are wide open.\nRepublicans can say whatever they want to, but my constituents are\nwatching what they are doing.\n\n[[Page H2228]]\n\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to direct their remarks\nto the Chair.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from\nPennsylvania (Mr. Meuser).\n Mr. MEUSER. Mr. Speaker, we are here this late because our time has\nbeen wasted for the last 3 or 4 hours on the nonsense coming from the\nleft.\n We were elected to improve our country, to work with President Trump\nto improve our national security, and strengthen our economy. We were\nelected to bring fiscal sanity to an out-of-control budget, deliver on\naccountability, and lead the world toward peace. We were elected,\nfrankly, to bring common sense so people start trusting our government\nagain.\n This big, beautiful bill is about caring about America. It is\ndesigned to strengthen our national security, fortify our now-secure\nborder, which was turned into a disaster by the Democrats, responsibly\ngrow our domestic energy supply, and create more opportunity for\nAmericans.\n It also gives small businesses the type of tax environment and\ncertainty they need and deserve, not one where they are slammed by\nmajor tax increases which would occur by voting ``no'' on this bill.\n Voting ``no'' on this bill will assure massive tax hikes and will\ncontinue the waste, abuse, and fraud that is just running rampant\nthrough our Federal Government.\n Mr. Speaker, this bill is just the beginning. It sets the stage for\nmaking America as great as it should be.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, boy, that was weird.\n Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr.\nMagaziner).\n Mr. MAGAZINER. Mr. Speaker, I rise against the cruelty of a bill that\nwould take food from the hungry and medicine from the sick and give\nbillions in tax cuts to billionaires who don't need it.\n I rise against a Republican Party that is too afraid to do townhalls\nand face their own voters, too afraid to debate us in committees to\nsupport this terrible bill.\n I rise for the working people who are struggling under the weight of\nDonald Trump's tariffs, the largest tax increase on the middle class in\na generation. They can't afford higher copays or higher premiums.\n I rise for the seniors who will have nowhere to go when their nursing\nhomes are shut down by the Medicaid cuts in this bill. I rise for the\nchildren who will have to pay the tab for the trillions in debt that\nthey are adding.\n My Republican colleagues told their voters that they would change\nWashington. Washington has changed them. Do better. Vote ``no.''\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to direct their remarks\nto the Chair.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from\nOhio (Mr. Taylor).\n Mr. TAYLOR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the big,\nbeautiful bill which will cut rampant waste, fraud, and abuse in\ncritical government programs so they are protected for vulnerable\nAmericans who need them most for generations to come.\n With this bill, President Trump and Republicans in Congress are\ndefending Medicaid, protecting SNAP, and eliminating fraud so\ntaxpayers' dollars are spent on Americans in need, not stolen by\nillegal immigrants or other fraudsters.\n This critical legislation will also make Trump tax cuts, which\nbenefit all American taxpayers, permanent. It will cut taxes for\nhardworking families, while Democrats try to drive them up.\n The bill will also allocate $60 billion toward farm bill programs to\nsupport our Nation's farmers, ranchers, and producers who so\ndesperately need support.\n Remember this. Republicans are the ones protecting these critical\ngovernment programs. When Democrats refuse to support this bill, they\nare choosing to hike up taxes on American families, allow fraud to run\nrampant in benefit programs, and cut off aid to our farmers who put\nfood on our tables.\n Mr. Speaker, passing this bill that puts America first is vital to\nour Nation's future in both the long and short term.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from\nNew Jersey (Ms. Pou).\n Ms. POU. Mr. Speaker, the massive cuts to Medicaid within this bill\nwill unleash catastrophic impacts across America and my district.\nHospitals and nursing homes could close, and healthcare prices will\nrise as a result of these cuts.\n More than 1.7 million New Jerseyans, including over one-third of all\nchildren in our State, get their healthcare through Medicaid. Our State\nwill lose one-quarter of the Federal funding it receives for Medicaid.\nThat is $3.6 billion.\n That is what this bill will do if it becomes law. These cuts will\nespecially hurt families in our poorest communities. That is why I\noffered an amendment to require continuous Medicaid coverage through\npregnancy and a year postpartum.\n If my colleagues support women and working families, there is no\nreason to oppose this provision. However, my amendment was blocked,\nalong with five other commonsense amendments.\n I urge my colleagues to please vote ``no'' on this cruel rule.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from\nMontana (Mr. Downing).\n Mr. DOWNING. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Indiana (Mrs.\nHouchin) for yielding time.\n Mr. Speaker, right now the Montanans that I represent are staring\ndown the barrel of a 26 percent tax increase. If Congress does not act\nsoon, the average Treasure State family of four will lose more than\n$1,400 a year.\n President Trump won a decisive victory on creating jobs, lowering\ncosts, and making his signature tax law permanent. This resolution\nadvances his full agenda that the American people overwhelmingly\nelected us to enact.\n This is a game changer for individual filers, as well as farmers,\nranchers, and small business owners that make up the backbone of the\nTreasure State's economy.\n Our reconciliation bill delivers permanent death tax relief,\nbenefiting over 2 million family-owned farms, ranches, and small\nbusinesses that would otherwise see their exemption cut in half.\n Our bill provides permanent relief for the small businesses around\nthe country that employ nearly half of Americans, while honoring\nPresident Trump's promise of no tax on overtime and no tax on tips.\n Put plainly, a vote against this rule, or our one big, beautiful\nbill, is a vote to raise taxes on every single American. With that, I\nurge my colleagues to support this rule.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I would say to the gentleman the reason\nwhy the tax cuts for middle-class families might expire is because that\nis the way they wrote them in the 2017 Republican tax scam bill.\n Republicans made the corporate tax cuts permanent. Republicans made\nthose tax cuts for working people expire. It is their fault.\n Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr.\nCasten).\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to direct their remarks\nto the Chair.\n\n {time} 0140\n\n Mr. CASTEN. Mr. Speaker, if you run a company that is losing market\nshare, then you have three choices: You can go bankrupt, you can\ninnovate, or you can come whining to Washington saying that competition\nscares me.\n In this bill, the Republican Party is delivering that protection from\ncompetition to the fossil fuel sector.\n Some numbers: In the last 15 years, coal use is down 50 percent; oil\nuse is flat; gas is losing market share.\n That is because people are transitioning to renewables. If you don't\nhave to burn fossil fuel, Mr. Speaker, then you don't have to buy\nfossil fuel. People like cheap energy.\n That is awesome. In the IRA, we passed rules to make sure that\neverybody could access those technologies, not just ones with\ndisposable income. It is great for consumers. We prioritize those\ninvestments in red and blue States.\n The result of all that is that the oil and gas sector doesn't like\ncompetition for the same reason the Republican Party doesn't like DEI,\nMr. Speaker, because mediocre folks are scared about meritocracies.\n\n[[Page H2229]]\n\n They are now slashing those programs that were building out\ntransmission, that were leading the Renaissance technology, and that\nwere building out nuclear and solar not because they are clean, but\nbecause they are cheap. We are getting higher energy prices, a less\nreliable grid, and more extreme weather, all so that the fossil fuel\nindustry doesn't have to face competition.\n That is not capitalism. It is state-directed socialism. You own your\nlife choices, Mr. Speaker.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from\nFlorida (Mr. Haridopolos).\n Mr. HARIDOPOLOS. Mr. Speaker, I had a great conversation with their\ninterns the other day.\n They said: I have been studying the tax bill. The current tax rate on\nthe wealthiest Americans is 37 percent. The new tax rate, so to speak,\nwill be 37 percent.\n They asked me: Why do they keep on talking about cutting taxes for\nthe rich? It is who is getting the cut. It is simple. It is the person\nwho has earned Social Security. It is the person who earned those tips.\nIt is the person who has earned that overtime pay.\n The people who make America work have been suffering for last 4 years\nfrom failed government policies.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New\nHampshire (Mr. Pappas).\n Mr. PAPPAS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member for yielding.\n Mr. Speaker, I rise tonight because healthcare is on the line and so\nis the well-being and the dignity of the people I serve in New\nHampshire.\n The phones in my office won't stop ringing because people I represent\nare beyond angry about the proposal to slash Medicaid.\n Last week, I sat down with a constituent of Laconia, Donka Facciolo,\nwho lives with a disability. Thanks to Medicaid, she receives skilled\nnursing, transportation, and employment support. Because of that help\nshe can live on her own.\n Another constituent whom I met, Kevin Brett, told me the same.\nWithout Medicaid, he is not sure where he would go.\n Parents of individuals with disabilities have told me that they could\nlose in-home care for their kids, and in doing so, they would be forced\nto quit their jobs.\n What kind of choice is that for these parents?\n Slashing Medicaid is cruel. It would take away Granite Staters'\nability to receive care and their chance to work, and it would rob them\nof their independence.\n We know it is all being ripped away in order to give big tax breaks\nto billionaires and the biggest corporations.\n I am a ``no'' on this reckless scheme, and I urge my colleagues to\nvote ``no'' as well.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from\nWest Virginia (Mr. Moore).\n Mr. MOORE of West Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I rise in favor of the One\nBig Beautiful Bill Act that delivers on President Trump's promise to\nmake America great again.\n The bill makes America energy dominant again by repealing the\nDemocrats' disastrous green new scam, expediting permitting, and\nunleashing all of the below energy--that is the ground--coal, oil, and\nnatural gas.\n The legislation makes America safe again by building the wall, giving\nneeded resources to enforce our immigration laws, and rebuild our\nmilitary.\n We also make America prosperous again by providing the largest tax\ncut in history, including no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and\nslashing taxes on Social Security. Tip workers will see a $1,700\nincrease in take-home pay in this bill.\n That is a win for the American people.\n Finally, this bill puts American families first by increasing and\nmaking permanent the child tax credit and enhancing the adoption tax\ncredit and defunding, thank God, big abortion.\n President Trump made a promise to the American people, and this bill\nfulfills it.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from\nOhio (Mrs. Sykes).\n Mrs. SYKES. Mr. Speaker, every time I hear the name and the title of\nH.R. 1, I am stunned with how childish and immature it is to name a\nbill the way that the majority has.\n However, truly, it is the cruelty that is the worst part of this\nbill. When I was first elected, I told the people of Ohio's 13th\nCongressional District that it may be my name on the ballot, but we are\nall going to Congress together. I made that promise because as a\nRepresentative, it is my responsibility to make sure that my\nconstituents' needs are being addressed here in Washington.\n The people in Ohio's 13th Congressional District need lower costs.\nThey need access to care, and they do not need this horrible, horrible\nbill.\n\n I have said many times before that access to maternal health, to\ninfant mortality reduction, to making sure that people have access to\nsubstance and mental health services is what is so important. Mr.\nSpeaker, there was no Republican mandate to kick our grandmothers out\nof nursing homes.\n However, the most important part about this is that when 30,000 jobs\nare on the line in Ohio's 13th Congressional District, Mr. Speaker,\nwhat are you going to say to my constituents?\n Will you call them lazy or worthless, unworthy of food, shelter, and\nhuman dignity? I already know the answer to that.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 15 seconds to the\ngentlewoman from Ohio.\n Mrs. SYKES. Mr. Speaker, I have heard you talk about them, that they\nare not important. They are totally unworthy of this horrible,\nhorrific, mean, cruel, and nasty bill.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from\nNorth Carolina (Mr. McDowell.)\n Mr. McDOWELL. Mr. Speaker, it comes as no surprise that my colleagues\non the other side of the aisle are afraid of the truth when speaking\nabout the bill before us today.\n We now have extensive reporting that the last administration kept the\nAmerican people in the dark about the health of President Biden. They\nrefused to call the flood of illegals coming across our border a\ncrisis.\n My colleagues on the other side of the aisle tried putting lipstick\non their inflationary economy rather than changing course.\n It should come as no shock, Mr. Speaker, that these same folks are\nmisleading Americans about the bill before us today. The One Big\nBeautiful Bill Act will be a major course correction delivering massive\ntax relief, certainty for small businesses, a historic investment in\nborder security, and we are unleashing American energy.\n Mr. Speaker, it seems to me that too many in this body live their own\ntruth, not the truth. The truth is: This puts America first.\n Mr. Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to support this rule.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from\nAlabama (Mr. Figures).\n Mr. FIGURES. Mr. Speaker, we are talking border security, and the\nsame administration just let in El Chapo's family. El Chapo's family. I\nrise today as somebody representing one of the poorest districts in\nthis country. The individual median income is around $30,000. Mr.\nSpeaker, one in four people in my district receive SNAP benefits, and\none in four people in my district receive Medicaid benefits.\n These people cannot afford to lose healthcare access. They cannot\nafford to lose access to SNAP benefits.\n The truth of the matter is, the truth is people will lose those\nbenefits, all in an effort to make long money even longer.\n My question is: Is their money being longer worth people in my\ndistrict's lives being shorter?\n It is not. It never will be. It never can be. We have to stand up for\nthese people. I came to Congress to be a voice for people who need\nthings like Medicaid and SNAP benefits.\n Every day I am here, I will push back against efforts to cut back on\nthese benefits.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from\nUtah (Mr. Kennedy).\n Mr. KENNEDY of Utah. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for the\nyielding of that time.\n Mr. Speaker, as a family physician, I have seen both the benefits and\nissues associated with Medicaid.\n Currently there are 7.6 million people on Medicaid who should not be\nthere.\n\n[[Page H2230]]\n\nMr. Speaker, there are 1.4 million illegal immigrants, 1.2 million who\nare ineligible for Medicaid, and 4.8 million able-bodied adults who\nchoose not to work.\n It is time we crack down on fraud, waste, and abuse on such a vital\nprogram for those who need it.\n As we assess the state of Medicaid, we find that roughly $1 in every\n$4 are spent improperly with more than 80 percent of these payments\nstemming from eligibility errors.\n Medicaid is critically important for countless Americans, and this\nbill will ensure that those who truly need it can continue to access\nthe care they depend on.\n Medicaid was designed to support the disabled, pregnant women,\nchildren, and those who are in need. It has ballooned with able-bodied\nadults who are currently not required to be working.\n Mr. Speaker, Republicans are trying to fix Medicaid and preserve it\nfor those who need it.\n\n {time} 0150\n\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from\nDelaware (Ms. McBride).\n Ms. McBRIDE. Mr. Speaker, I offered a simple but essential amendment\nto this slash-and-burn Republican budget.\n This budget creates red tape that would result in vulnerable seniors\nlosing their healthcare. My amendment would have prevented that red\ntape unless the Congressional Budget Office certifies that this bill\nwill not result in any senior losing coverage.\n Why did Republicans block my amendment? Because they know their\nbudget cuts care. That is why they are doing all of this in the dead of\nnight. That is why they are rushing this through. They want to\neviscerate healthcare so long as they get tax breaks for their\nbillionaire best friends.\n It may be very late at night, but it is not too late for my\nRepublican colleagues to do the right thing. It is not too late to\nprotect Medicaid. It is not too late to protect SNAP. It is not too\nlate to protect their constituents, but I won't hold my breath.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from\nFlorida (Mrs. Luna).\n Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I thank everyone for being here today.\n Mr. Speaker, I can say that I am very excited to vote for this bill\nfor a few reasons. Starting in November, I was campaigning with our\nvery popular President, who won not just the national popular vote but\nalso the electoral college and who campaigned on ending taxes on tips,\ntaxes on overtime pay, everything that would help the American people\nwho have felt far too long left by Washington, D.C.\n We are finally able to deliver. What are we delivering on? It doesn't\njust stop there. It is ending taxes on car loan interest, which so many\npeople struggle with. It is going to bring additional tax relief for\nseniors. It makes sure that we restore border security.\n By the way, I remind the American people that it was our colleagues\nwho were responsible for giving many of these program benefits to\npeople who never paid into the program, to people who were here\nillegally, hurting our very own people.\n We talk about defending seniors. We talk about defending the most\nneedy. Yet, these programs were literally at risk of insolvency had we\nnot done this.\n Mr. Speaker, what I can say is that I am very proudly supporting this\nbill that also includes an increase in the child tax credit and an\nincrease in individual tax deductions.\n Mr. Speaker, I ask everyone to join us in this. Please support the\nvery big, beautiful bill.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\\1/2\\ minutes to the gentleman\nfrom California (Mr. Aguilar), chairman of the Democratic Caucus.\n Mr. AGUILAR. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts\nfor yielding. I am grateful for his leadership and the leadership of\nthe Rules Committee Democrats, who are fighting back against these\nmassive tax giveaways to billionaires and corporations raking in record\nprofits.\n Mr. Speaker, the American people are getting squeezed by reckless\ntariffs that are raising prices on every family, and it is only going\nto get worse. With prices still too high, I don't understand how my\nRepublican colleagues can justify taking food off the table from women,\nchildren, and families.\n While so many working families are struggling, I don't understand how\nthey can justify a tax bill that only makes life easier for\nbillionaires like Elon Musk.\n In the dark of night, they want to pass this GOP tax scam.\n We saw today that the President has said that a vote against this\nlegislation represents an ultimate betrayal. The real betrayal, Mr.\nSpeaker, is to the working people of this country, who will pay the\nprice so that billionaires can pay less in taxes.\n Mr. Speaker, our friends on the other side of the aisle said that\nthey wouldn't cut Medicaid, and that is exactly what this bill does.\nThey said that they would end taxes on tips, but they forgot to mention\nthat the tradeoff is that Americans will lose their healthcare.\n The American people didn't sign up for these broken promises. They\nasked their elected officials to work together to lower costs.\n My colleagues in the House Democratic Caucus are waiting for these\nso-called reasonable Republicans to join us. Let's focus on bringing\ndown the cost of housing, rent, gas, and groceries, and let's stop\nrewarding billionaires at the expense of the middle class.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from\nNorth Dakota (Mrs. Fedorchak).\n Mrs. FEDORCHAK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the\nOne Big Beautiful Bill Act on behalf of these people and thousands of\nothers like them. They are not millionaires or billionaires. They are\nfamily farmers.\n Brent and Stephanie Baldwin farm wheat, sugar beets, edible beans,\nand soybeans in St. Thomas, North Dakota. They have three kids. They\nare fourth-generation farmers.\n Unless Congress acts, the tax relief they depend on, the 199A\ndeduction, will expire at the end of this year. Our bill will\npermanently expand this and increase this deduction for passthrough\nbusinesses like the Baldwins'.\n In 2020 alone, 67,000 taxpayers in my State, including many farmers,\nclaimed the 199A deduction, putting $682 million in their pockets. That\nis real money for working-class Americans.\n Our bill also eliminates the death tax for family-owned businesses.\nWe can't have the big, bloated Federal Government stealing their hard\nwork and wasting it on fraud and abuse.\n For our family farmers and producers, the backbone of rural America,\nthis is urgent. Let's make these tax cuts permanent and pass this bill.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\\1/2\\ minutes to the gentlewoman\nfrom New York (Ms. Ocasio-Cortez).\n Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ. Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member for\nyielding his time.\n Mr. Speaker, 13.7 million Americans are the number of people in this\ncountry whose healthcare is going to be stripped in this bill. Now,\nRepublicans are going to try to say every single distraction in the\nbook from that essential number.\n I want people at home to understand that Medicaid and the Federal\nmatching funds for Medicaid can make up 30 to 40 percent of some of the\nState budgets that we have going on back home.\n Republicans have put this bill together, rushed it together in a\nmatter of hours on the back of a napkin, shaking it, walking it out of\nthe White House, and brought it right here to this floor.\n They are defunding Planned Parenthood. They are ending tons of\nMedicaid coverage for 13.7 million Americans, including Affordable Care\nAct coverage, as well. If Americans want to get an abortion and have a\nsilver plan on a healthcare plan that they paid for, they will also be\naffected by this legislation, as well.\n Mr. Speaker, it is also allowing suppressors on guns to be\nderegulated to some of the largest amounts that we have seen since the\n1930s. This is just a Christmas tree bill.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the\ngentlewoman from New York.\n Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ. Mr. Speaker, I want people to understand, for my\nRepublican colleagues who are sure what\n\n[[Page H2231]]\n\nis in and not in this bill, in this process that has been this rushed,\nwhen they wake up in the morning, they will realize that they voted to\ndefund Planned Parenthood and take away healthcare from 13.7 million\nAmericans.\n When this country wakes up in the morning, there will be consequences\nto pay for this.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from\nWisconsin (Mr. Van Orden).\n Mr. VAN ORDEN. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take a moment to ground\nthis House in reality and make sure that everyone understands that\nwords have consequences and that the violent political rhetoric that\nhas been delivered over the last 48 to 72 hours by my Democratic\ncolleagues has affected Americans across this country and the globe.\n Mr. Speaker, it has been reported that two Israeli diplomats were\nshot leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.,\nby someone who yelled: ``Free, free Palestine.''\n I would like to spend the rest of my time that has been yielded by\nMrs. Houchin to respectfully ask my colleagues to have a moment of\nsilence for these two people who were murdered by someone for political\npurposes.\n\n {time} 0200\n\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from\nCalifornia (Ms. Pelosi), the Speaker Emerita.\n Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding and for\nhis exceptional leadership. I recognize all the Members of the Rules\nCommittee for their stamina and Mr. McGovern for his values.\n Mr. Speaker, the Reverend Martin Luther King said: ``Of all the forms\nof inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most\ninhuman because it often results in physical death.'' He went on to\ntalk about access to healthcare as a right.\n This bill's inequality and inhumanity is exactly what Republicans\nhave in store for the American people.\n I was in the Rules Committee for 5 hours. I know some of you were\nthere longer, and it was stiff competition as to what was the worst\nprovision they came up with.\n Let's just talk about work requirements for a moment. Republicans\nsaid with great pride: Oh, if they have a 7-year-old child, they have\nto go to work. A 7-year-old child is a little child.\n I will just recall for you a conversation I had with some moms. One\nof them said: If I have a work requirement to have Medicaid, this is\nwhat it means to me. If my child is sick, I can't go to work because I\ncan't afford childcare. If I miss work, I will miss pay, and I can't\nafford to miss the pay. If I miss going to work, I can be fired. What I\nhave to do is put my child on a schoolbus even though my child is sick,\nand I have to go to work to have Medicaid.\n Then, of course, as has been mentioned about the silencers, that is\njust beyond comprehension in terms of safety for our children.\n Mr. Speaker, because of Republicans' tax bill scam, millions of\nAmerican families, seniors, and veterans--\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the\ngentlewoman from California.\n Ms. PELOSI.--vulnerable children, people with disabilities, and all\nthe rest will lose their healthcare. Rural hospitals will be closed.\nMillions of jobs will be destroyed across America, and all of this to\ngive another massive tax cut to the richest people in America. It is a\nRepublican Robin Hood in reverse, one of the largest transfers of\nwealth from working families to the rich in our country.\n Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``no'' vote on the rule and on the bill.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from\nNorth Carolina (Mr. Edwards).\n Mr. EDWARDS. Mr. Speaker, once again, Democrats are distorting the\ntruth to smear a bill that protects working-class Americans.\n They scream: Tax cuts for billionaires. Yet, not a single personal\nincome tax rate from the Trump tax cuts is being changed, tax cuts that\npulled over 6 million people out of poverty and brought our country's\npoverty rate to a record low.\n What they don't want Americans to know is that without this bill,\nfamilies face a 22 percent tax hike. House Republicans are making sure\nthat does not happen. Republicans are cutting taxes, boosting take-home\npay, and securing millions of American manufacturing jobs.\n Republicans are delivering on conservative promises: no taxes on\ntips, overtime, or car loan interest. We are strengthening the child\ntax credit, making the paid leave credit permanent, and repealing the\nDemocrats' IRS overreach targeting gig workers with their $600 rule.\n This bill stands for working families, economic freedom, and common\nsense.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the\ngentleman from North Carolina.\n Mr. EDWARDS. The left can't spin it all they want, but the facts\ndon't lie.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\\1/2\\ minutes to the gentlewoman\nfrom Florida (Ms. Wasserman Schultz).\n Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise to oppose this one big,\nugly bill.\n Instead of cutting costs, it imposes the biggest healthcare cut ever,\nforcing 14 million people to lose coverage.\n This bill makes the deepest cuts to nutrition assistance in U.S.\nhistory, ripping food from the mouths of kids, seniors, veterans, and\npeople with disabilities.\n It guts clean energy, hurts farmers, expands abortion bans, and\nexplodes the debt so badly it will trigger $500 billion in cuts to\nMedicare.\n Its thousand-plus pages all boil down to this: $1.1 trillion is\nswiped from SNAP and Medicaid and stuffed right into the pockets of the\nrichest 1 percent.\n It no longer, thankfully, gives tax breaks to tanning beds, although\nRepublicans tried that in the dead of night, yet strips Affordable Care\nAct coverage from millions of families and raises deductibles and\ncopays for millions more.\n This is worse than the haves versus the have-nots. It is just one big\ngiveaway to the have yachts.\n Just like Trump did to all his businesses, this bill will drive our\nconstituents and our country into bankruptcy.\n Any Republican with a spine, which they clearly lack, and a\nconscience, which they also lack, should join me in voting ``hell no.''\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to direct their remarks\nto the Chair.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from\nFlorida (Mr. Fine).\n Mr. FINE. Mr. Speaker, I am a new person in this Chamber, and one of\nthe things I have observed over the last 6 weeks is the fundamental\nquestion of: Who is it that we should be most worried about? See, Rome\nis burning, and it doesn't seem as though people realize that.\n It is not thoughtful, it is not generous, it is not compassionate to\nborrow money from our children and our grandchildren to give it to\npeople who should not be in our country anyway. It is not compassionate\nto borrow money from them to give it to people for healthcare if they\ncould work and they could provide it for themselves.\n\n What is compassionate is to tell someone who is a waitress, working\nhard to support her family, that she doesn't have to pay taxes on her\ntips. It is compassionate to someone like my father who is blind to\nknow that he might not have to pay taxes on his Social Security.\n There is compassion in this bill. There is compassion for the\nAmerican people, and I hope that everyone will support it.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from\nColorado (Mr. Crank).\n Mr. CRANK. Mr. Speaker, there was a lot of talk tonight about what\nhappens if we vote for this bill.\n What are my colleagues voting for if they vote against this bill?\nDemocrats who aren't going to vote for this bill will be voting for a\n$4.5 trillion tax increase. They will be voting for waste, fraud, and\nabuse in Medicaid. They will be voting for illegal immigrants stealing\nfrom Medicaid. They will be voting for continuing green energy scams.\n\n[[Page H2232]]\n\nThey will be voting for allowing environmental extremists to continue\nto drive up the costs of energy for average American families.\n What are they voting against? They are voting against $150 billion\nincrease for our military, and they are voting against a base housing\nallowance increase for our soldiers. That is in this bill. They are\nvoting against tax relief for seniors and working Americans.\n Let's end the nonsense. Let's do what is right for America. Let's\npass this rule and pass this bill.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how much time I have\nremaining.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Massachusetts has 5\\1/2\\\nminutes remaining.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.\n Mr. Speaker, one of the previous Republican speakers got up and said:\nRome is burning. I hate to tell him, but Republicans are in charge, and\nTrump is your Caesar.\n CBO just did an analysis of this budget, and they did an analysis as\nto how it impacts the bottom 10 percent and the top 10 percent income\nearners of this country. Guess what? The bottom 10 percent gets\nscrewed, and the top 10 percent gets a big raise in terms of revenue,\nin terms of tax breaks.\n Let me end where I began, Mr. Speaker. This is about whose side you\nare on. Whose side are you on, Mr. Speaker? From where I stand, it\nlooks like you and the entire Republican Party betrayed the American\npeople to side with the billionaires.\n People are so tired of getting screwed over by a system that doesn't\nwork for them. They are fed up, and they want change. They want us to\nmake things better for regular, hardworking people, not just the rich\nand the powerful.\n\n {time} 0210\n\n What Republicans' big, ugly bill does is the exact opposite. Our\ncolleagues and Trump are perpetuating the exact broken system that\npeople hate and despise: more tax breaks for billionaires while regular\npeople get screwed; more giveaways for the rich and powerful while moms\nand dads struggle to get by; and more loopholes into the tax code for\nWall Street while working families fall further and further behind.\n That is the Republican agenda. That is what my colleagues on the\nother side of the aisle think is big and beautiful--greed, corruption,\nand tax breaks for billionaires. My State of Massachusetts funds States\nlike Indiana, where the gentlewoman is from. We get back less than we\ngive. How dare she or anybody else vote to steal our tax money and give\nit to billionaires.\n Mr. Speaker, no, we will not go quietly. No, we will not give up. We\nwill fight this cruel, corrupt, immoral bill every step of the way\nbecause the people we represent are counting on us, and we will never\nstop fighting for them.\n Mr. Speaker, I urge every Member of this House to vote ``hell no,''\n``never,'' ``absolutely not,'' on this terrible disgrace of a bill.\n Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.\n Mr. Speaker, Rome is burning, but not because of the leadership of\nRepublicans and Donald Trump. After 4 years of failed leadership under\nPresident Biden, our country faces many challenges.\n Yet, Republicans, along with President Trump, are ready to address\nthem head on and get our country back on track. The one big, beautiful\nbill is here, and the American people are ready to see us deliver on\nour promises.\n This is historic legislation that is a bill for working Americans.\nHere are three words I want my colleagues to remember: ``ineligible,''\n``illegal,'' and ``able.'' Those are the people who we don't believe\nshould be taking Medicaid from pregnant women, children, the disabled,\nand the elderly.\n We have heard a lot about 13.7 million people are going to lose their\nhealthcare. That number was debunked by The New York Times. That is a\nnewspaper that doesn't write a lot of things that are friendly to our\nside. It is not that way.\n This is a bill that is going to support pregnant women, children, the\ndisabled, and the elderly. It supports our veterans, our farmers, and\nour small business owners. It secures tax certainty, permitting reform,\nand our border.\n Mr. Speaker, put quite simply, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is\nAmerica First, and I am proud to support it. With this vote, we can\nunlock the golden age of America. I look forward to moving the One Big\nBeautiful Bill Act out of the House and delivering for the American\npeople who voted for the golden age to return.\n I ask my colleagues to join me in voting ``yes'' on the previous\nquestion, and ``yes'' on the rule.\n The material previously referred to by Mr. McGovern is as follows:\n\n An Amendment to H. Res. 436 Offered by Mr. McGovern of Massachusetts\n\n Strike everything following the resolved clause and insert\n the following:\n That upon adoption of this resolution, it shall be in order\n to consider in the House the bill (H.R. 1) to provide for\n reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14. The\n bill shall be considered as read. All points of order against\n provisions in the bill are waived. The previous question\n shall be considered as ordered on the bill and on any\n amendment thereto, to final passage without intervening\n motion except: (1) two hours of debate equally divided among\n and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of\n the Committee on the Budget or their respective designees and\n the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on\n Ways and Means or their respective designees; (2) the\n amendment specified in section 2 of this resolution, if\n offered by Representative Jeffries of New York or a designee,\n which shall be in order without intervention of any point of\n order, shall be considered as read, shall be separately\n debatable for 10 minutes equally divided and controlled by\n the proponent and an opponent, and shall not be subject to a\n demand for division of the question; and (3) one motion to\n recommit.\n Sec. 2. The amendment referred to in section 1 is as\n follows:\n Amend section 8 of the bill to read as follows:\n In subtitle A of title I, strike sections 10001 through\n 10012.\n Strike subtitle D of title IV.\n Strike sections 112101 through 112103.\n Strike sections 112201 through 112203.\n\n Mrs. HOUCHIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I\nmove the previous question on the resolution.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on ordering the previous\nquestion.\n The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that\nthe ayes appeared to have it.\n Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.\n The yeas and nays were ordered.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 15-\nminute vote on ordering the previous question will be followed by 5-\nminute votes on adoption of the resolution, if ordered, and passage of\nS.J. Res. 31.\n The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 213,\nnays 211, not voting 8, as follows:\n\n [Roll No. 141]\n\n YEAS--213\n\n Aderholt\n Alford\n Allen\n Amodei (NV)\n Babin\n Bacon\n Baird\n Balderson\n Barr\n Barrett\n Baumgartner\n Bean (FL)\n Begich\n Bentz\n Bergman\n Bice\n Biggs (AZ)\n Biggs (SC)\n Bilirakis\n Boebert\n Bost\n Brecheen\n Bresnahan\n Buchanan\n Burchett\n Burlison\n Calvert\n Cammack\n Carey\n Carter (GA)\n Carter (TX)\n Ciscomani\n Cline\n Cloud\n Clyde\n Cole\n Collins\n Comer\n Crane\n Crank\n Crawford\n Crenshaw\n Davidson\n De La Cruz\n DesJarlais\n Diaz-Balart\n Donalds\n Downing\n Edwards\n Ellzey\n Emmer\n Estes\n Evans (CO)\n Ezell\n Fallon\n Fedorchak\n Feenstra\n Fine\n Finstad\n Fischbach\n Fitzgerald\n Fitzpatrick\n Fleischmann\n Flood\n Fong\n Foxx\n Franklin, Scott\n Fry\n Fulcher\n Garbarino\n Gill (TX)\n Gimenez\n Goldman (TX)\n Gonzales, Tony\n Gooden\n Gosar\n Graves\n Green (TN)\n Greene (GA)\n Griffith\n Grothman\n Guest\n Guthrie\n Hageman\n Hamadeh (AZ)\n Haridopolos\n Harrigan\n Harris (MD)\n Harris (NC)\n Harshbarger\n Hern (OK)\n Higgins (LA)\n Hill (AR)\n Hinson\n Houchin\n Hudson\n Huizenga\n Hurd (CO)\n Issa\n Jack\n Jackson (TX)\n James\n Johnson (LA)\n Johnson (SD)\n Joyce (OH)\n Joyce (PA)\n Kean\n Kelly (MS)\n Kelly (PA)\n Kennedy (UT)\n Kiggans (VA)\n Kiley (CA)\n Kim\n Knott\n Kustoff\n LaHood\n LaLota\n LaMalfa\n Langworthy\n Latta\n Lawler\n Lee (FL)\n Letlow\n Loudermilk\n Lucas\n Luna\n Luttrell\n Mace\n Mackenzie\n Malliotakis\n Maloy\n Mann\n Massie\n McCaul\n McClain\n McClintock\n McCormick\n McDowell\n McGuire\n Messmer\n Meuser\n Miller (IL)\n Miller (OH)\n Miller (WV)\n Miller-Meeks\n Mills\n Moolenaar\n Moore (AL)\n Moore (NC)\n Moore (UT)\n\n[[Page H2233]]\n\n Moore (WV)\n Moran\n Murphy\n Nehls\n Newhouse\n Norman\n Nunn (IA)\n Obernolte\n Ogles\n Onder\n Owens\n Palmer\n Patronis\n Perry\n Pfluger\n Reschenthaler\n Rogers (AL)\n Rogers (KY)\n Rose\n Rouzer\n Roy\n Rulli\n Scalise\n Schmidt\n Schweikert\n Scott, Austin\n Self\n Sessions\n Shreve\n Simpson\n Smith (MO)\n Smith (NE)\n Smith (NJ)\n Smucker\n Spartz\n Stauber\n Stefanik\n Steil\n Steube\n Strong\n Stutzman\n Taylor\n Tenney\n Thompson (PA)\n Tiffany\n Timmons\n Turner (OH)\n Valadao\n Van Drew\n Van Duyne\n Van Orden\n Wagner\n Walberg\n Weber (TX)\n Webster (FL)\n Westerman\n Wied\n Williams (TX)\n Wilson (SC)\n Wittman\n Womack\n Yakym\n Zinke\n\n NAYS--211\n\n Adams\n Aguilar\n Amo\n Ansari\n Auchincloss\n Balint\n Barragan\n Beatty\n Bell\n Bera\n Beyer\n Bishop\n Bonamici\n Boyle (PA)\n Brown\n Brownley\n Budzinski\n Bynum\n Carbajal\n Carson\n Carter (LA)\n Casar\n Case\n Casten\n Castor (FL)\n Castro (TX)\n Cherfilus-McCormick\n Chu\n Cisneros\n Clark (MA)\n Clarke (NY)\n Cleaver\n Clyburn\n Cohen\n Conaway\n Correa\n Costa\n Courtney\n Craig\n Crockett\n Crow\n Cuellar\n Davids (KS)\n Davis (IL)\n Davis (NC)\n Dean (PA)\n DeGette\n DeLauro\n DelBene\n Deluzio\n DeSaulnier\n Dexter\n Dingell\n Doggett\n Elfreth\n Escobar\n Espaillat\n Evans (PA)\n Fields\n Figures\n Fletcher\n Foster\n Foushee\n Frankel, Lois\n Friedman\n Frost\n Garamendi\n Garcia (CA)\n Garcia (IL)\n Garcia (TX)\n Gillen\n Golden (ME)\n Goldman (NY)\n Gomez\n Gonzalez, V.\n Goodlander\n Gottheimer\n Gray\n Green, Al (TX)\n Harder (CA)\n Hayes\n Himes\n Horsford\n Houlahan\n Hoyer\n Hoyle (OR)\n Huffman\n Ivey\n Jackson (IL)\n Jacobs\n Jayapal\n Jeffries\n Johnson (GA)\n Johnson (TX)\n Kamlager-Dove\n Kaptur\n Keating\n Kelly (IL)\n Kennedy (NY)\n Khanna\n Krishnamoorthi\n Landsman\n Larsen (WA)\n Larson (CT)\n Latimer\n Lee (NV)\n Lee (PA)\n Leger Fernandez\n Levin\n Liccardo\n Lieu\n Lofgren\n Lynch\n Magaziner\n Mannion\n Matsui\n McBath\n McBride\n McClain Delaney\n McClellan\n McCollum\n McDonald Rivet\n McGarvey\n McGovern\n McIver\n Meeks\n Menendez\n Meng\n Mfume\n Min\n Moore (WI)\n Morelle\n Morrison\n Moskowitz\n Moulton\n Mrvan\n Mullin\n Nadler\n Neal\n Neguse\n Norcross\n Ocasio-Cortez\n Olszewski\n Omar\n Pallone\n Panetta\n Pappas\n Pelosi\n Perez\n Peters\n Pettersen\n Pingree\n Pocan\n Pou\n Pressley\n Quigley\n Ramirez\n Randall\n Raskin\n Riley (NY)\n Rivas\n Ross\n Ruiz\n Ryan\n Salinas\n Sanchez\n Scanlon\n Schakowsky\n Schneider\n Scholten\n Schrier\n Scott (VA)\n Scott, David\n Sewell\n Sherman\n Sherrill\n Simon\n Smith (WA)\n Sorensen\n Soto\n Stansbury\n Stanton\n Stevens\n Strickland\n Subramanyam\n Suozzi\n Swalwell\n Sykes\n Takano\n Thanedar\n Thompson (CA)\n Thompson (MS)\n Titus\n Tlaib\n Tokuda\n Tonko\n Torres (CA)\n Torres (NY)\n Trahan\n Tran\n Underwood\n Vargas\n Vasquez\n Veasey\n Velazquez\n Vindman\n Wasserman Schultz\n Watson Coleman\n Whitesides\n Williams (GA)\n Wilson (FL)\n\n NOT VOTING--8\n\n Arrington\n Dunn (FL)\n Hunt\n Jordan\n Mast\n Rutherford\n Salazar\n Waters\n\n {time} 0230\n\n So the previous question was ordered.\n The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Murphy). The question is on the\nresolution.\n The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that\nthe ayes appeared to have it.\n\n Recorded Vote\n\n Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.\n A recorded vote was ordered.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote.\n The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 217,\nnoes 212, not voting 3, as follows:\n\n [Roll No. 142]\n\n AYES--217\n\n Aderholt\n Alford\n Allen\n Amodei (NV)\n Arrington\n Babin\n Bacon\n Baird\n Balderson\n Barr\n Barrett\n Baumgartner\n Bean (FL)\n Begich\n Bentz\n Bergman\n Bice\n Biggs (AZ)\n Biggs (SC)\n Bilirakis\n Boebert\n Bost\n Brecheen\n Bresnahan\n Buchanan\n Burchett\n Burlison\n Calvert\n Cammack\n Carey\n Carter (GA)\n Carter (TX)\n Ciscomani\n Cline\n Cloud\n Clyde\n Cole\n Collins\n Comer\n Crane\n Crank\n Crawford\n Crenshaw\n Davidson\n De La Cruz\n DesJarlais\n Diaz-Balart\n Donalds\n Downing\n Edwards\n Ellzey\n Emmer\n Estes\n Evans (CO)\n Ezell\n Fallon\n Fedorchak\n Feenstra\n Fine\n Finstad\n Fischbach\n Fitzgerald\n Fitzpatrick\n Fleischmann\n Flood\n Fong\n Foxx\n Franklin, Scott\n Fry\n Fulcher\n Garbarino\n Gill (TX)\n Gimenez\n Goldman (TX)\n Gonzales, Tony\n Gooden\n Gosar\n Graves\n Green (TN)\n Greene (GA)\n Griffith\n Grothman\n Guest\n Guthrie\n Hageman\n Hamadeh (AZ)\n Haridopolos\n Harrigan\n Harris (MD)\n Harris (NC)\n Harshbarger\n Hern (OK)\n Higgins (LA)\n Hill (AR)\n Hinson\n Houchin\n Hudson\n Huizenga\n Hunt\n Hurd (CO)\n Issa\n Jack\n Jackson (TX)\n James\n Johnson (LA)\n Johnson (SD)\n Jordan\n Joyce (OH)\n Joyce (PA)\n Kean\n Kelly (MS)\n Kelly (PA)\n Kennedy (UT)\n Kiggans (VA)\n Kiley (CA)\n Kim\n Knott\n Kustoff\n LaHood\n LaLota\n LaMalfa\n Langworthy\n Latta\n Lawler\n Lee (FL)\n Letlow\n Loudermilk\n Lucas\n Luna\n Luttrell\n Mace\n Mackenzie\n Malliotakis\n Maloy\n Mann\n Mast\n McCaul\n McClain\n McClintock\n McCormick\n McDowell\n McGuire\n Messmer\n Meuser\n Miller (IL)\n Miller (OH)\n Miller (WV)\n Miller-Meeks\n Mills\n Moolenaar\n Moore (AL)\n Moore (NC)\n Moore (UT)\n Moore (WV)\n Moran\n Murphy\n Nehls\n Newhouse\n Norman\n Nunn (IA)\n Obernolte\n Ogles\n Onder\n Owens\n Palmer\n Patronis\n Perry\n Pfluger\n Reschenthaler\n Rogers (AL)\n Rogers (KY)\n Rose\n Rouzer\n Roy\n Rulli\n Rutherford\n Salazar\n Scalise\n Schmidt\n Scott, Austin\n Self\n Sessions\n Shreve\n Simpson\n Smith (MO)\n Smith (NE)\n Smith (NJ)\n Smucker\n Spartz\n Stauber\n Stefanik\n Steil\n Steube\n Strong\n Stutzman\n Taylor\n Tenney\n Thompson (PA)\n Tiffany\n Timmons\n Turner (OH)\n Valadao\n Van Drew\n Van Duyne\n Van Orden\n Wagner\n Walberg\n Weber (TX)\n Webster (FL)\n Westerman\n Wied\n Williams (TX)\n Wilson (SC)\n Wittman\n Womack\n Yakym\n Zinke\n\n NOES--212\n\n Adams\n Aguilar\n Amo\n Ansari\n Auchincloss\n Balint\n Barragan\n Beatty\n Bell\n Bera\n Beyer\n Bishop\n Bonamici\n Boyle (PA)\n Brown\n Brownley\n Budzinski\n Bynum\n Carbajal\n Carson\n Carter (LA)\n Casar\n Case\n Casten\n Castor (FL)\n Castro (TX)\n Cherfilus-McCormick\n Chu\n Cisneros\n Clark (MA)\n Clarke (NY)\n Cleaver\n Clyburn\n Cohen\n Conaway\n Correa\n Costa\n Courtney\n Craig\n Crockett\n Crow\n Cuellar\n Davids (KS)\n Davis (IL)\n Davis (NC)\n Dean (PA)\n DeGette\n DeLauro\n DelBene\n Deluzio\n DeSaulnier\n Dexter\n Dingell\n Doggett\n Elfreth\n Escobar\n Espaillat\n Evans (PA)\n Fields\n Figures\n Fletcher\n Foster\n Foushee\n Frankel, Lois\n Friedman\n Frost\n Garamendi\n Garcia (CA)\n Garcia (IL)\n Garcia (TX)\n Gillen\n Golden (ME)\n Goldman (NY)\n Gomez\n Gonzalez, V.\n Goodlander\n Gottheimer\n Gray\n Green, Al (TX)\n Harder (CA)\n Hayes\n Himes\n Horsford\n Houlahan\n Hoyer\n Hoyle (OR)\n Huffman\n Ivey\n Jackson (IL)\n Jacobs\n Jayapal\n Jeffries\n Johnson (GA)\n Johnson (TX)\n Kamlager-Dove\n Kaptur\n Keating\n Kelly (IL)\n Kennedy (NY)\n Khanna\n Krishnamoorthi\n Landsman\n Larsen (WA)\n Larson (CT)\n Latimer\n Lee (NV)\n Lee (PA)\n Leger Fernandez\n Levin\n Liccardo\n Lieu\n Lofgren\n Lynch\n Magaziner\n Mannion\n Massie\n Matsui\n McBath\n McBride\n McClain Delaney\n McClellan\n McCollum\n McDonald Rivet\n McGarvey\n McGovern\n McIver\n Meeks\n Menendez\n Meng\n Mfume\n Min\n Moore (WI)\n Morelle\n Morrison\n Moskowitz\n Moulton\n Mrvan\n Mullin\n Nadler\n Neal\n Neguse\n Norcross\n Ocasio-Cortez\n Olszewski\n Omar\n Pallone\n Panetta\n Pappas\n Pelosi\n Perez\n Peters\n Pettersen\n Pingree\n Pocan\n Pou\n Pressley\n Quigley\n Ramirez\n Randall\n Raskin\n Riley (NY)\n Rivas\n Ross\n Ruiz\n Ryan\n Salinas\n Sanchez\n Scanlon\n Schakowsky\n Schneider\n Scholten\n Schrier\n Scott (VA)\n Scott, David\n Sewell\n Sherman\n Sherrill\n Simon\n Smith (WA)\n Sorensen\n Soto\n Stansbury\n Stanton\n Stevens\n Strickland\n Subramanyam\n Swalwell\n Sykes\n Takano\n Thanedar\n Thompson (CA)\n Thompson (MS)\n Titus\n Tlaib\n Tokuda\n Tonko\n Torres (CA)\n Torres (NY)\n Trahan\n Tran\n Underwood\n Vargas\n Vasquez\n Veasey\n Velazquez\n Vindman\n Wasserman Schultz\n Waters\n Watson Coleman\n Whitesides\n Williams (GA)\n Wilson (FL)\n\n NOT VOTING--3\n\n Dunn (FL)\n Schweikert\n Suozzi\n\n Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore\n\n The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). 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