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Mr. MAST. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to the order of the House of April 15, 2026, I call up the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 40) directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.
The Clerk read the title of the concurrent resolution.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the order of the House of April 15, 2026, the concurrent resolution is considered as read.
The text of the concurrent resolution is as follows:
H. Con. Res. 40
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate
concurring), That, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers
Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1544(c)), Congress directs the
President to remove United States Armed Forces from
hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran, other than
those elements of the Armed Forces that may be necessary to
defend the United States or an ally or partner of the United
States from imminent attack provided that the President
complies fully with the requirements of section 5(b) the War
Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1544(b)) with respect to any
such use of the Armed Forces, unless explicitly authorized by
a declaration of war or a specific congressional
authorization for use of military force against Iran.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The concurrent resolution shall be debatable for 1 hour, equally divided and controlled by the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Mast) and gentleman from New York (Mr. Meeks), or their respective designees.
The gentleman from Florida (Mr. Mast) and the gentleman from New York (Mr. Meeks) each will control 30 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Florida.
General Leave
Mr. MAST. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include any extraneous material on the resolution under consideration.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Florida?
There was no objection.
Mr. MAST. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of my War Powers Resolution, and I do so today because the Constitution of the United States actually demands it, and so does the conscience of the House of Representatives.
view—has dragged the American people into a war of choice—fact— launched without congressional authorization.
The President did not discuss or work with any of our allies. There was no coherent strategy. This was an open-ended and undefined military engagement, and that is exactly what the War Powers Resolution was designed to restrain.
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whether you agree with the war or not. It is the authority that lies within Congress.
between Iran and the United States were actively going on. Diplomacy was going on. Iran's foreign minister had stated just days before that a historic agreement was within reach. There was a path forward that did not require a single American servicemember to be put in harm's way. Instead of pursuing diplomacy, the President started this war, costing the American people billions of dollars, losing 13 American lives, and so many other men, women, and children who were not a party and who were civilians.
failed, but because it was never truly given a chance. As a result of the administration's decisions, the new Iranian regime is more hard- line. The Strait of Hormuz, which was previously open, is now closed. The cost of gas for the American people has skyrocketed, and this fragile cease-fire is one threatening civilization tweet away from failing.
What has this war accomplished?
but let's look at the contradictory objectives of this administration which were used to justify the war.
threat was ever demonstrated. Then it was about nuclear weapons, but the administration itself had declared the nuclear program obliterated. Then it was about ballistic missiles. So you see, Mr. Speaker, the goalposts keep moving because there was never a clear objective in the beginning.
Meanwhile, as I have stated, the costs keep going up. American servicemembers have been killed, and thousands of civilians, including hundreds of children, have been killed since the beginning of this war. These are not just statistics. These are human beings, and we have a moral duty to acknowledge that reality.
Then there is the impact on gas pumps and grocery stores. This war has disrupted global travel and trade, halted flights in and out of the Middle East, and led to major shipping reroutes. Leading energy analysts warn it could be a long time before prices go down even after the war ends and that we are looking at elevated energy costs well into the end of 2026.
neither side has indicated what comes next beyond continued blockage of the Strait of Hormuz. We are standing at the edge of a cliff, and Congress must act before the President pushes us off. Every day we delay, we inch closer to a conflict with no exit ramp.
This resolution does not leave America defenseless. It preserves the President's authority to defend the United States and our allies from imminent attack. Actually, it says, plainly and constitutionally, that one person does not have the power to take this Nation to war alone.
Middle East. The Constitution ultimately, again, no matter whether you agree with the war or do not agree with the war, Mr. Speaker, the Constitution grants the Congress, not the President, the power to declare war.
Don't take my word for it, Mr. Speaker. Even Donald Trump acknowledged this saying: As a war, you are supposed to get approval from Congress.
This is not a skirmish. This is not a military operation. This is a war.
rubberstamps. We are the Article I branch of government, and we serve as a check and balance on Presidential overreach.
This duty is not optional. Today, this body has a choice. We can assert our constitutional authority and demand a return to the only path that leads to lasting security, diplomacy, negotiation, verification, and deterrence. Or we can surrender that authority and let this war grind on without accountability, without strategy, and without an end in sight.
It is oversight, especially on this committee. We should be having witnesses before us so that we can understand and talk and move and ultimately have a vote on this floor to determine whether or not we are going to authorize a war.
I, for example, believe in diplomacy. I also believe in the Constitution, and I choose to defend the principle that war is a last resort and not a first option. Others may disagree with me, but we should still have a vote here on the House floor.
The American people are watching. The camera of history is recording.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, whether or not they agree with the war or not, let's do our duty and our responsibility. If they want to vote to declare a war, then vote that way. If they believe, as I do, we should have diplomacy and we should not be at war now, then vote that way. We are all Members of the House of Representatives. Let's protect this institution. Let's vote “yes” on this resolution.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. MAST. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for the speech that he just gave. It is probably the most hypocritical speech that anybody could give, but I am glad he gave it because the truth is I am well prepared to answer for this.
Let's talk about engagements against Iran and what is going on. This is not the first time that this happened. Joe Biden was engaged against Iran.
Why?
It is because of an imminent threat.
when President Trump was engaged. When Joe Biden engaged, it is because the Houthis, a direct arm of Iran, were attacking the United States of America's ships and merchant marine vessels and doing what they have been doing for decades: picking a fight.
Mr. Biden launched Operation Prosperity Guardian against Iranian- backed Houthis. That went on not for 30 days, not for 60 days, not for 90 days, and not for 6 months. It went on for almost 1 year until January of 2025, from November 2023 until January 2025.
What happened during that period of time?
I have the counter down here. It is zero.
It wasn't like what happened with President Trump. President Trump is defending against an imminent threat.
What was this imminent threat?
It wasn't just vessels being shot. It was, very specifically, not long before that, three Americans killed at a place called Tower 22: Sergeant Rivers, 46 years old, serving in the U.S. Army Reserves; Sergeant Sanders, 24 years old, serving in the U.S. Army Reserves, and Sergeant Moffett, 23 years old, serving in the U.S. Army Reserves. These are real imminent threats. Our bases in Iraq, Syria, and other places were being attacked.
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operation, Democrats introduced legislation to direct the removal of U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran, a war powers introduced before anything ever happened.
pieces of legislation that took place bipartisanly. One of them I brought up many times. It was Republicans and Democrats voting overwhelmingly to tell the President, tell the executive branch, literally: Use any and all means necessary to destroy Iranian nuclear anything. That is what we told the President. That is what we told the executive branch. My colleague voted on it. I voted on it.
It was not war powers, not to say remove all U.S. forces from hostilities, not like Democrats have brought up before this began and then again bringing it up, stopping before a B-2 bomber struck, not again when they introduced it this time, you know, 6/26, 6/27, not on 1/29, not on 2/18. The list goes on and on again and again and again. Today, again, we are doing another war powers.
What changed? What changed from not one war powers from anybody to half a dozen? I guess we are going to do another one next week. Politics. Everything that my colleague just talked about, his hypocritical remarks about we need to do these things, it is all politics.
security at all. They refuse to acknowledge the imminent threat that Iran has been: them killing our servicemembers, them attacking us in place after place. They don't acknowledge it.
attacked, it was okay, no war powers needed. It went on for about a year. When President Trump responds: War powers, war powers, war powers, war powers, every week that they can do it. They tried doing it last week, as well. That is the hypocrisy.
My colleague brought up some of our servicemembers who were killed. I take that very seriously. I have seen that beautiful flag behind the Speaker draped across caskets far too many times. I take it seriously every time. I personally believe that any time that a servicemember is killed, they should be lying in state, lying in honor here beneath the dome of the U.S. Capitol. I think they earn it more than anybody, anybody killed in action in defense of this country. That is my own personal belief on that.
I want to ask my colleague: Do you know the folks? Do you know the folks who were killed that you mentioned? Do you know their names? You brought up a number. Is that just politics? I know I am supposed to address the Chair, but I am happy to yield a little time to my colleague.
Do you know the members of the military that were killed?
He is sitting there silent, just using it for politics.
My brothers and sisters in arms are not politics. They are out defending the United States of America against the most imminent threat that we have faced for decades, a threat that has killed hundreds of our servicemembers in the war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan, that, as I already mentioned, killed three of our servicemembers at Tower 22, absolutely was shooting at us and our merchant marine fleet, like what they had nothing to say about when President Biden was conducting attacks against them for over a year, but I am going to tell you who they are, since to my Democratic colleagues, they are just a number for politics.
Army Sergeant Declan Coady, 20 years old, from Des Moines, Iowa; Army Captain Cody Khork, 35 years old; Army Major Jeffrey O'Brien, 45 years old; Army Master Sergeant Noah Tietjens, 45 years old; Army Staff Sergeant Benjamin Pennington; Air Force Major John Klinner; Chief Warrant Officer Robert Marzan, Army; Air Force Master Sergeant Tyler Simmons; Air Force Tech Sergeant Ashley Pruitt; Master Sergeant Nicole Amor; Major Savino; Captain Koval, U.S. Air Force; Captain Angst, KC- 135 pilot.
They are not just numbers. They are not part of an operation that has no
plan. They are not part of an operation responding to no imminent threat. They are taking it to an enemy that has attacked us month after month, year after year, that bipartisanly we have agreed on: Use any and all means to destroy them, to destroy their nuclear capabilities. We voted on it. The only difference is that my Democratic colleagues want to reference a number of servicemembers killed because they just see it as politics. They don't have the slightest clue of who they are, where they are from, what their ages were, or their respect for the Gold Star families that now exist. They are only interested in the difference in politics, which is what these charts demonstrate.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. I remind the gentleman to direct his remarks to the Chair.
Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, you know, the gentleman is from Florida, so he knows oranges. I am from New York, the Big Apple. I know apples. The gentleman's argument, clearly, he doesn't know apples from oranges.
Let me just say this: I never challenged the gentleman's patriotism to this country. He better never challenge my patriotism to this country. To think that he has a privilege to do that? No. There is no one that has more patriotism. I have family members who lost their lives for this country. I am here because of my patriotism to this country.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Massachusetts (Ms. Clark), the esteemed Democratic whip.
Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, 6 weeks ago, Democrats brought a War Powers Resolution to this House floor. We called on Republicans to join us and bring this conflict to an end. They refused.
Well, 6 weeks later, what are Americans seeing? We are seeing gas prices out of control, grocery prices going up, and a fertilizer shortage that is threatening to drive prices even higher. Americans are seeing hundreds of casualties in a war that no one has given them the respect to explain.
However, one thing is clear: Americans are being asked to foot the bill with the lives of their sons and daughters. With the $2 billion a day that we are spending on this conflict, that could be going to help Americans afford to go see a doctor, help feed our seniors and hungry veterans, help drive down prices and help Americans who are working hard and not making it be able to afford the rising cost of gas and housing and groceries that are being driven ever higher by this conflict.
Before this war, we were in a position of strength. Iran was weakened. The Strait of Hormuz was in no danger of being closed. However, now, Donald Trump and his enablers have marched us into a position of far more weakness.
this conflict, but who is paying the price? Who is paying the price for this? It is the American people. Don't take my word for it. President Donald Trump told us because of this war: It is not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare. Imagine that. That is an American working family last doctrine.
Mr. Speaker, today, Republicans have a choice. Are you going to continue to enable him and his madness, or are you going to prioritize Americans, the working families of this country, and vote “yes” for this resolution?
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Mr. MAST. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, I would remind the House that the gentlewoman who just spoke was the one who said, to directly quote her, Americans are “leverage.” I guess that is how they look at our servicemembers, as well, unfortunately. I don't guess. I assess. I assess, as I spoke about already and reaffirm my remarks, they use our servicemembers as leverage, as politics, and it is disgusting.
Mr. SELF. Mr. Speaker, I will address a couple of things that my esteemed colleague across the aisle talked about. Gas prices, do you want to go back to the gas prices under Joe Biden? I think not.
remind you of how often our colleagues across the aisle refuse to talk about the 13 servicemembers who died in the most disastrous, the most despicable operation in U.S. military history at Abbey Gate. They refuse to talk about and refuse to recognize the 13 dead then.
that President Obama attacked Libya for 7 months, with no authorization from Congress—7 months, with no authorization from Congress.
I have a question for my colleagues across the aisle: Why do you hate U.S. success so much? How can you do that? How can you hate the success that we have had strategically in the last couple of months?
We now control the Venezuelan oil, much of which went to China. We now have cut off the Strait of Hormuz, where much of the oil that went through the Strait of Hormuz went to China. We have done it with no boots on the ground.
There are three priorities of the regime in Iran. One is regime survival. Two is their nuclear program. Three used to be—although it is no longer, because they don't have any proxies left to speak of.
We have taken out their proxies. We have destroyed much of their nuclear program. If we can get the 60 percent uranium, get it under our control, it would be very beneficial, but they no longer have the machines or the people to enrich it to 90 percent, which is weapon- grade uranium.
You asked what we have accomplished in this war. We have neutered Iran, which has been at war with us for 47 years. What have we accomplished? We have accomplished quite a bit.
I ask my colleagues, again, how can you hate U.S. success so much? I have been deployed on three continents with the United States Army, and I will tell you the support of the American people is what sustained you when you are deployed overseas.
Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, it is our job to determine when our troops should go, and that is what this is about. We all support our troops, but it is our determination in Congress when we should send them, not a king.
I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Castro), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs' Western Hemisphere Subcommittee.
Mr. CASTRO of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the President promised the American people no more foreign wars. Then, he dragged the Nation into war with Iran. He has threatened genocide against Iran by calling for the death of a civilization.
manufactured. In fact, Iran does not possess any nuclear weapons. They don't have a single ballistic missile capable of reaching the mainland United States of America.
This was all a lie. That lie has cost 13 American servicemembers their lives, and hundreds more have been wounded.
What was this war for? The President keeps changing his answer. How much will it cost? He refuses to say. When will it end? No answer.
most consequential decision a government can make, whether to go to war.
I will tell people that I did not vote for this war. I will tell them that I don't support the war. I will tell them
that I voted to stop the war. I will tell them that I do not want another generation of American men and women from San Antonio or anywhere else in this country in uniform fighting 20-year, trillion- dollar wars in the Middle East. When you go home, what will you tell your people?
this body functions, that it works, that we will not stand aside while a President wages an unauthorized war.
Mr. MAST. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, I will remind my colleague who just spoke that Iran, as of yet, does not have a missile that can reach the United States of America that we know about, but they have reached out and affirmatively killed Americans. I just gave a list. Prior to this conflict ever beginning, Sergeant Moffett, Sergeant Sanders, and Sergeant Rivers were killed, killed in action.
Mr. FINE. Mr. Speaker, for 47 years, there has been a war involving Iran. It has been a war against the United States. It started 47 years ago with: “Death to America.” When they chanted it, they meant it. It started in 1979, when they took our hostages. In 1983, when Iran killed 241 Americans, including 220 marines, Iran recognized they were at war with us. In 1996, at Khobar Towers, Iran, in their war for death to America, killed 19 more Americans. From 2003 to 2011, Iran, thinking they were at war with America, killed over 600 of our soldiers who were in Iraq. On October 7, 2023, Iran, realizing death to America, war with America, killed 46 Americans who were living in Israel.
Iran has not just been at war with us. They have been at war with their own people. We can hear tears for the schoolchildren who died, but we do not hear the tears for the 35,000 Iranians that we know of who they killed in January. We don't hear the cries for the Iranian people because of their war with their own people that has kept the internet off in their country for months now.
We will hear that we should just have more diplomacy. The 47 years of diplomacy are not enough. Make no mistake, Iran uses diplomacy as a weapon to create cover for their nuclear program.
extraordinary steps. For 47 years, as Iran has declared war with us, they have tried to build a nuclear weapon. They have enough material to build a couple.
to the United States today, that is their single-minded purpose. Their goal was to create a military infrastructure that created a shield so that they could develop those nuclear weapons and develop that missile.
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that they have that nuclear weapon and they have that missile when one lands right here in the United States of America. Thank God President Trump and the rest of us do not.
This resolution is a terrible idea. We should stand with our President. We should stand with our troops. We must end the 47-year war that Iran has had with the United States.
Mr. Speaker, I am grateful that President Trump is doing that right now. Vote “no” on this.
Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Himes), the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee.
Mr. HIMES. Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman and ranking member for this important debate.
Mr. Speaker, I have been listening carefully to my Republican colleagues, and they will get no argument from me on the notion that we have been at war with Iran for decades. They will get no argument at all.
As Mr. Mast keeps saying, this is a bad and evil regime. Yes, we have been at war, but at no point in those decades have we been so obviously losing that war in any strategic sense.
The Iranian Navy is at the bottom of the ocean. We have broken a bunch of their missile launchers, and I guess the nuclear material is a little more buried than it was when we obliterated it 9 months ago, but let's look at the balance here.
quite happy to set aside now for a month and a half and let's talk about the regime change which occurred. We changed the regime to a younger, much more vicious regime that is now in power in Iran. We also demonstrated that Iran can sustain the most brutal military attack that we have to offer and that regime can still survive.
weapon more powerful than any of ours, which is they control the energy markets on the globe right now.
$1.25 more per gallon of gasoline than they did before this ill-advised war.
By the way, we have broken the alliance with Israel. Joe Kent, the former National Counterterrorism Director, is running around saying that we are in this war because of Israel. Now, I wasn't in the Oval Office, but that is not a good thing for that alliance. We have spent billions of dollars for what? Most importantly, there are 13 dead Americans, precious lives given for something where the mission is unclear.
We should support our troops, but our troops deserve a strategy. They deserve a sense of mission. They deserve to know that the people's House debated their life or their death.
in the process of losing it. Now is the time for Congress to finally reassert its constitutional authority and give a sense of mission and give a sense of meaning to those young men and women who were deployed.
Mr. Speaker, vote for H. Con. Res. 40 so we can finally do our duty.
Mr. MAST. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, my colleague should probably stick around for this.
that they had before. As he pointed out, we sunk their Navy. We have destroyed their Air Force, their drone manufacturing facilities, their caches of weapons, their mobile launching platforms, and their fixed launching platforms.
We are, as we speak, in the midst of a cease-fire. In the midst of a cease-fire, my colleagues—the words I want to use would probably be taken down, but let's just say, in an ill-advised way—want to say, remove all U.S. Forces in the midst of this cease-fire that we are in. That is crazy.
They talk about wanting diplomacy, but they don't. This goes back to what I opened up with. It is all pure politics for my colleagues.
You have Joe Biden. He is launching attacks against these Iranian forces for almost a year, not one War Power Resolution. President Trump, half a dozen of them, and we will do another one next week.
where no American has been killed yet. Mind you, I have no love for Russia whatsoever, but when it comes to Iran who has been killing Americans, nothing. Crickets. It is pure politics.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Wilson).
Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the leadership of Chairman Brian Mast and agree with his assessments.
the regime in Tehran, eliminating Khamenei, the architect of decades of terror, mass murder, repression, and aggression against the United States, Iranian patriots, and our Gulf allies.
history. It is going to be so beneficial for stability, peace, and prosperity for our Gulf allies of Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman, and Yemen, which we cherish their friendship. Additionally, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq will be fully
liberated of Iranian interference. President Trump is correct again of giving Syria a chance.
years. President Donald Trump has sent a clear message that those who threaten the United States and our partners will be ultimately held accountable.
Middle East to defeat terrorism overseas and to protect American families at home. Recent events have exposed the dangers by Tehran. As Special Envoy Steve Witkoff learned of the Iranian capability to build nine bombs, President Trump courageously acted to prevent “death to America, death to Israel,” with their ballistic missile range into central Europe and India. President Trump has unified our allies from Turkiye to the Arab Gulf States to Saudi Arabia.
their aspirations for freedom and dignity have been crushed with the murders of 35,000 patriots this year. The United States stands with the Iranian people, not with the tyrants who murder them.
commitment to allies, and recognize President Trump's leadership in confronting one of the most dangerous regimes in the modern era. America remains vigilant, resolute, and committed to defending freedom wherever it is threatened, weakening war criminal Putin as Ukrainians are courageously achieving victory.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to oppose this resolution.
Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Jacobs), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Africa Subcommittee.
Ms. JACOBS. Mr. Speaker, this isn't just politics for me.
deployment notices. That means they need to be ready to drop everything to deploy to the Middle East, get their affairs in order, pack, and say good-bye to their families for a few months or maybe a year.
country's biggest military community, to make sure that we have explored all the contingency plans, exhausted all diplomatic and nonmilitary options, and figured out the objectives, the strategy, and the exit plan before we have asked them to.
We have done none of that. While I will push for oversight and transparency about how we got here, our focus now should be on how we end this war.
Instead, President Trump is escalating. The San Diego-based carrier, the USS Lincoln, is already in the region. San Diego's USS Boxer and the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit will be arriving soon, and we are expecting another San Diego-based carrier, the USS Roosevelt, to deploy any day now.
charged with the difficult task of enforcing Donald Trump's cockamamie blockade of Iran's ports and partial blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which will put a lot of strain on an already fragile cease-fire.
forever war in the Middle East, and the longer we stay, the harder and more expensive it will be to get out.
Yes, we should support our troops. That means doing our jobs and asking these questions before they are asked to sacrifice their lives. That is why Congress needs to do our job or else we will keep paying the cost in terms of lives lost and taxpayer dollars.
Class Nicole Amor, Sergeant Declan Coady, Major Jeffrey O'Brien, Chief Warrant Officer Robert Marzan, Sergeant Benjamin Pennington, and all of the other servicemembers who have been killed in this war deserve for us to do our job.
Mr. Speaker, my constituents' lives are in our hands and their fate is now up to us. Vote “yes.”
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Mr. MAST. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, I think it is a miscalculation to tell the military to end a war, a conflict, a battle, or anything else. We work to end threats. We work to eliminate imminent threats against the United States of America.
thoroughly calculated, the approach at which this goes of destroying surface to air, then bringing in different aircraft, sinking a Navy, destroying drone manufacturing, every single target calculated in very, very specific orders.
Either you believe that about our military, or you don't. I can tell you that I know for a fact that is exactly the way that our military has conducted this operation: in a pinpointed, methodical, pedantic drumbeat of a way to address targets in a very specific order over and over again, only paused because of the ongoing negotiations and cease- fire that my colleagues want to say to remove all forces in the midst of.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Jayapal), an esteemed member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Ms. JAYAPAL. Mr. Speaker, President Trump has illegally and unconstitutionally taken us into an expensive and dangerous war with Iran. The war has cost taxpayers $50 billion already, and the Pentagon will request $200 billion more on top of a record $1.5 trillion budget request.
We have already lost 13 U.S. troops, including Major Ariana Savino from my home State of Washington. We have killed thousands of Iranian and Lebanese civilians and displaced millions more. Gas prices at home are up to $7 in my home State, and families are hurting. Another 10,000 U.S. troops are being sent in to join 50,000 already stationed in the Middle East, with absolutely no strategy, no plan, and no exit.
an entire civilization, rages at the Pope for calling for peace, and pretends that he is Jesus. We cannot allow this to continue. Let's rein in this President and restore the sole authority of Congress and Congress alone to go to war. Vote “yes.”
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Hurd of Colorado). Members are reminded to refrain from engaging in personalities toward the President.
Mr. MAST. Mr. Speaker, I am very proud that we have a President who knows where he is and can find his way on or off of a stage. I know my colleagues had to literally remove their President that they did not ask for any war powers authorities for when he was conducting his attacks against Iran for about 1 year. They didn't ask for that even though it was somebody who they literally removed from the ballot because of senility.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Ocasio-Cortez).
Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ. Mr. Speaker, in February, the Trump administration, in conjunction with the Israeli Government, launched an illegal and disastrous war in Iran. They provided no rationale to the American people. They sought no legal authority from Congress, and they have since descended our world and our global economy into chaos.
That was just the beginning. Now, President Trump has threatened to use the United States military to carry out acts of genocide against the Iranian people, who are innocent civilians. Up until today, he has done this on his own as a rogue actor. Yet, today, we vote on whether or not he will do this in the name of the American people.
Mr. Speaker, I urge our colleagues to vote “yes” and that we end and stop all that is imperiled before us.
Mr. MAST. Mr. Speaker, I will educate my colleague that the United States of America goes to the greatest lengths to use the most pinpointed weapons, at great expense, precision
tragic, but it is never anything more than an accident because of the efforts that we go to, to be pinpointed in any strike that we carry out. That is a fact.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Minnesota (Ms. Omar).
Ms. OMAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today not just as a Member of Congress but as someone who knows the human cost of war, what it takes, what it destroys, and what it never gives back.
Iran and in Lebanon, American servicemembers lost, and millions forced from their homes with nowhere to go. This is what war looks like, and it is only the beginning. Yet, this war of choice happened without Congress, without accountability, and without a plan for peace.
The Constitution is clear: The power to declare war belongs to Congress. It is paramount that we act when a President abuses their power. I have seen what happens when the world looks away as violence spirals. We cannot be silent. We cannot be complacent.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote “yes.”
Mr. MAST. Mr. Speaker, I hoped that my colleague who was just speaking would stay for more debate, but I would be curious. The gentlewoman intends to vote to tell the President that all U.S. Forces must be removed from hostilities. Do they feel as though that is a sound strategy to reach the conclusion that they want in the midst of a cease-fire? It sounds like they haven't calculated that.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from New Mexico (Ms. Stansbury).
Ms. STANSBURY. Mr. Speaker, as a cosponsor of this War Powers Resolution, this debate is making me sick: the lies and colleagues who are so weak that they won't enforce the Constitution to rein in a President who is clearly out of control.
As we sit here, thousands of civilians are dead; 13 servicemembers have been killed; hundreds have been injured with brain injuries, whose lives will never be the same; millions of people have been displaced; and our American bases have been bombed.
For what? Having been led into an illegal war by a madman who is attacking the Pope, threatening war crimes, implicated in the Epstein files, and who can't explain why we were there or what happens the day after, that is why it is time to end this war, to stand with our troops, and to stand with the American people.
Mr. Speaker, we must pass this resolution and end this war now.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from engaging in personalities toward the President.
Mr. MAST. Mr. Speaker, I know the gentlewoman is still here. Does she really not know why we are there? She really doesn't know about the American servicemembers who were killed even before this who I mentioned? She doesn't know about the American bases that were struck? Really? You are a Member of Congress who does not know this?
That is crazy. I will leave it at that. I will leave it at that for this moment, but we can get you classified briefings on this. We would be having one today were it not for this debate.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to direct their comments to the Chair.
Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Magaziner).
Mr. MAGAZINER. Mr. Speaker, the American people are tired of morally bankrupt politicians who are always saying that there is not enough money for healthcare, there is not enough money for education, and there is not enough money for housing but who are willing to spend more than $1 billion a day on an unnecessary war of choice. It is a war that has taken the lives of 13 American servicemembers and that has taken the lives of over 100 elementary school children, who were bombed in their school. Horrific. It is a war that has raised gas prices, home heating oil prices, and fertilizer prices on the American people.
Now, that may not matter in Mar-a-Lago, where everything looks good. Yet, to the average working American, they don't know why they are being asked to pay for this unnecessary war, and neither do any of us.
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every briefing, classified briefings and otherwise—any evidence that Iran was plotting an imminent threat against the United States, an imminent attack, any evidence that they were close to getting a nuclear weapon—none.
This is an unnecessary war, a costly war. We have an opportunity to end it today, and I urge my colleagues to do that.
Mr. MAST. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Beyer).
Mr. BEYER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding.
Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of this resolution.
against Iran was the massacre of scores of school children, little girls committed by our military, in our name.
responsibilities as Commander in Chief, Hegseth did beat poetry about replacing politically correct legality with unhinged lethality.
own social media tirades where millions of people were reduced to targets in an early morning threat to obliterate an entire civilization—a contemptible failure of moral leadership.
had done our job and restrained the President's lust for power. We have a chance to act before more lives are lost and more damage is done.
Congress who have alternated between total silence and cheering on this madness. It is long past time for us to grow a brain, grow a spine, and stand up for the true interests of the American people.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from engaging in personalities toward the President.
Mr. MAST. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, I would let my colleague that was just speaking know that almost all Democrats and Republicans literally gave the President the direction, voted, to include the top Democrat that is walking up right now, to use all means necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. That is literally what they voted for, gave the direction: use any and all means necessary.
I have said it many times. I am saying it again. It is exactly what they voted for. The difference today is politics. The difference today is it is not Joe Biden, who can't find his way off a stage. It is President Trump. That is why there were zero war powers resolutions under Joe Biden and half a dozen or more at this point for President Trump—pure politics.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Jeffries), the minority leader and the next Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Mr. JEFFRIES. Mr. Speaker, I thank my good friend, the distinguished gentleman from the great State of New York (Mr. Meeks), the once and future chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, for yielding and for his leadership, for his courage, his character, his conviction, and his patriotism. How dare anyone on this floor question the patriotism of Greg Meeks or any Member on our side of the aisle.
the merits of a particular situation. They can't defend the fact that Donald Trump, as candidate, promised not to start any wars, but to stop them—his words, not ours. You can't defend the fact that billions of dollars are being spent every day to drop bombs in the Middle East, but Republicans are unwilling to spend a dime to make life
more affordable for the American people. You can't defend the things that have taken place under this administration, the fact that the American people know life hasn't gotten better for them, life has gotten worse. Life has gotten more expensive, less affordable. When you can't defend your policies, you question the patriotism of Democratic Members of Congress.
There are patriots on both side of this conflict and this issue. As a matter of fact, we know there are combat veterans on the Republican side and combat veterans on the Democratic side who may share different views about the nature of this conflict. Jason Crow is a combat veteran. He opposes this reckless war of choice. Are you going to question his patriotism? Pat Ryan is a combat veteran who opposes this reckless war of choice. Do you question his patriotism? Mike Thompson, who served in Vietnam, a combat veteran, opposes this reckless war of choice. Do you question his patriotism, as well?
attacking the patriotism of people on the Democratic side of the aisle, when as far as I am concerned, the most patriotic thing we can do is stand up to ensure that our men and women in uniform aren't being recklessly sent into a costly war of choice, more than 12 of whom have already lost their lives and hundreds of whom have been seriously injured.
of choice and stop the ad hominem attacks, which aren't a sign of strength. It is just a sign of Republican weakness in terms of your ability to persuade the American people as to why Republicans are on the right side of this unpopular war.
into without any plan, any objective, any exit strategy, any public support, and any approval of the United States Congress. Those are five different objective reasons to have a problem about what is going on in the Middle East right now. In fact, we are just trying to help Donald Trump bring to life his own words that, as President, he wasn't going to start wars in the Middle East. He was going to stop them—Donald Trump's own words. Do you question his patriotism?
billions of dollars a day at the same time when Republicans are ripping healthcare away from the American people. This reckless war of choice is costing the American people billions of dollars a day at the same time when costs are going up because of the Trump tariffs, thousands of dollars a year in additional expense that everyday Americans are paying. This reckless war of choice is costing the American people billions of dollars a day when at the same time Republicans aren't willing to spend a dime to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. This reckless war of choice is costing the American taxpayer billions of dollars a day at the same period of time when grocery bills in this country are out of control. Far too many people are working hard. They are playing by the rules, but they are struggling to live paycheck to paycheck, can't thrive, and can barely survive.
for this War Powers Resolution so we can put an end to this costly and reckless war of choice.
right now. In fact, there are many who are now arguing in the public domain that as a result of what Donald Trump and Republicans have done over in the Middle East, Iran, in some instances, is stronger now than they were before. They have effective control of the Strait of Hormuz. They didn't have that before, but now they do.
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soaring to more than $4 a gallon, the largest, in fact, monthly increase in gas prices from March to April that the country has seen in more than six decades. That is just another reason to have a problem with Donald Trump's reckless war of choice.
I ask my Republican colleagues to debate us on the merits. Enough with the ad hominem attacks. It is a sign of weakness, not strength. Take your position. We take our position.
American people, standing on the side of the Constitution, and standing on the side of the principle that if we are going to spend billions and billions of taxpayer dollars, it should actually be spent to make life more affordable for the American people, not plunge us into a reckless and costly war of choice that is actually making life more expensive for the American people in provable and tangible ways.
Vote “yes” on the Meeks resolution so we can stop this reckless and costly war of choice and actually get back to doing the business of the American people, making their lives better, not worse.
Mr. MAST. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume to respond to the minority leader.
deserving of ad hominem attacks. When they come down here and try to say something about servicemembers killed but didn't take the time to learn a thing about them, learn their names, where they are from, but just want a number, you are deserving of an ad hominem attack.
though he has had various Gang of Eight meetings and things like that; more classified briefings than even I have had—and tries to pretend that he doesn't know the intelligence, what General Caine is doing, the methodical approach to what is going on here, the very slim number of Iranian ordnance that are making it past our defenses, the commitments of our allies, or the threats of them obtaining a nuclear weapon or what they would do with it, like the way Russia threatens the rest of world, he is deserving of an ad hominem attack, and so is everybody else.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, let me just say, I support 100 percent our troops, but I strongly disagree with anyone who would say to trust, just simply trust, the President of the United States. That is not patriotism. That is not why we are here. That is why we have separate but equal branches of government. Otherwise, it is just: Trust the king.
Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank him for his courageous leadership in bringing this legislation to the floor.
We are the House of Representatives. Article I of the Constitution gives the power to declare war to the Congress of the United States. Why? Because we are the Representatives of the people of the United States, and it is important for the people of the United States to understand the reason why, the purpose, the strategy of it all, and also to approve of the use of force.
Of course, the President did not do that. For some reason, there are those in this body who are willing to abdicate the power of the House of Representatives and the Congress of the United States to declare war.
American people have not had the explanation, by way of the Congress having that explanation. The gravest cost is human. Thirteen brave American servicemembers have lost their lives, and hundreds more have been injured. More than a thousand civilians in the region have perished.
We all agree, of course, the cost is in the billions. The President said we can't do childcare because we have to spend money on war. We don't have to spend money on war.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the gentlewoman from California.
Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, we all agree that they cannot have a nuclear weapon. President Obama did that diplomatically. The current President threw that out and decided to go to war without a plan, without a strategy, without an exit plan, and, really, without even explaining his purpose to the American people.
with the power to declare war, and insist on voting on this motion put forth by the distinguished, soon-to-be-chairman-again of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Mr. Meeks.
Mr. MAST. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
A quote from Abraham Lincoln: “Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object.”
Donald Trump thinks he is a king. As I said, I support the troops, but I don't trust the President of the United States just by his saying that he knows what he is doing. Let's see what he has actually done.
U.S. should even be there, and notes we have a lot of oil, seemingly not understanding that the price of oil is based on global prices.
The man says something one day and then something else. We had some signs up earlier of what this man has said. We had young people in here, and some of the words he used on Easter Sunday. He is supposed to be the leader of the free world, and then he puts out a picture of himself and tells you who he thinks he is. He thinks he is Jesus. He thinks he can do whatever he wants to do because he is Donald Trump. He thinks that his word is what governs.
Congress, to make sure that this Congress is a separate but equal branch of government, and that this Congress, if you are a patriot, would stand up in oversight of a President.
people of the United States do not want to continue this war with this individual who says he is a king.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Knott). The time of the gentleman has expired.
Mr. MAST. Mr. Speaker, I thank the President for all the work he has done working to end an imminent threat against the United States of America.
My Democrat colleagues used to agree that it was an imminent threat. They did. They wisely agreed that it was an imminent threat. They voted, as I have said many times, literally to say—my colleague over there, the one who was just speaking—“use all means necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.” They voted on it.
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Iran is against us. They just don't believe it when the name is President Trump.
When it is Joe Biden, no War Powers Resolutions. When it is President Trump, do them every week, do them every day. No longer do they believe that they are an imminent threat. No longer do they believe use any and all means necessary.
I think my Democratic colleagues really want America to lose. I think they want America to lose. That is why in the midst of this cease-fire that is going on, they are literally offering a resolution to say: Remove any and all U.S. forces from hostilities in or within Iran. I believe that is out of a desire to lose.
It is really sad. They are over there laughing as we speak. As I levy an accusation that they want America to lose, they are over here chuckling and laughing. That is sad. I can see them mouth: He said that I am sad.
I am sad. I am sad that my colleagues talk about the numbers of servicemembers killed, but they don't know a thing about them. That is sad.
He is waving his hand.
That is sad.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman has the only time remaining.
Mr. MAST. Mr. Speaker, they have no time remaining to close?
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Florida is correct.
Mr. MAST. Mr. Speaker, may I ask how much time is remaining.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Florida has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.
Mr. MAST. Mr. Speaker, I will just close it with this: It is sad. It is sad that they are over there laughing about this.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time for debate has expired.
The question is on adoption of the concurrent resolution.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the noes appeared to have it.
Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 15- minute vote on adoption of the concurrent resolution will be followed by 5-minute votes on:
The motion to recommit on H.R. 6409;
Passage of H.R. 6409, if ordered;
The motion to recommit on H.R. 6398;
Passage of H.R. 6398, if ordered; and
Adoption of House Resolution 965.
nays 214, answered “present” 1, not voting 3, as follows:
Roll No. 114
YEAS—213
Adams
Aguilar
Amo
Ansari
Auchincloss
Balint
Barragan
Beatty
Bell
Bera
Beyer
Bishop
Bonamici
Boyle (PA)
Brown
Brownley
Budzinski
Bynum
Carbajal
Carson
Carter (LA)
Casar
Case
Casten
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Cherfilus-McCormick
Chu
Cisneros
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Conaway
Correa
Costa
Courtney
Craig
Crockett
Crow
Cuellar
Davids (KS)
Davis (IL)
Davis (NC)
Dean (PA)
DeGette
DeLauro
DelBene
Deluzio
DeSaulnier
Dexter
Dingell
Doggett
Elfreth
Escobar
Espaillat
Evans (PA)
Fields
Figures
Fletcher
Foster
Foushee
Frankel, Lois
Friedman
Frost
Garamendi
Garcia (CA)
Garcia (IL)
Garcia (TX)
Gillen
Goldman (NY)
Gomez
Gonzalez, V.
Goodlander
Gottheimer
Gray
Green, Al (TX)
Grijalva
Harder (CA)
Hayes
Himes
Horsford
Houlahan
Hoyer
Hoyle (OR)
Huffman
Ivey
Jackson (IL)
Jacobs
Jayapal
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (TX)
Kamlager-Dove
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy (NY)
Khanna
Krishnamoorthi
Landsman
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latimer
Lee (NV)
Lee (PA)
Leger Fernandez
Levin
Liccardo
Lieu
Lofgren
Lynch
Magaziner
Mannion
Massie
Matsui
McBath
McBride
McClain Delaney
McClellan
McCollum
McDonald Rivet
McGarvey
McGovern
McIver
Meeks
Menefee
Menendez
Meng
Mfume
Min
Moore (WI)
Morelle
Morrison
Moskowitz
Moulton
Mrvan
Mullin
Nadler
Neal
Neguse
Norcross
Ocasio-Cortez
Olszewski
Omar
Pallone
Panetta
Pappas
Pelosi
Perez
Peters
Pettersen
Pingree
Pocan
Pou
Pressley
Quigley
Ramirez
Randall
Raskin
Riley (NY)
Rivas
Ross
Ruiz
Ryan
Salinas
Sanchez
Scanlon
Schakowsky
Schneider
Scholten
Schrier
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Sewell
Sherman
Simon
Smith (WA)
Sorensen
Soto
Stansbury
Stanton
Stevens
Strickland
Subramanyam
Suozzi
Sykes
Takano
Thanedar
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tlaib
Tokuda
Tonko
Torres (CA)
Torres (NY)
Trahan
Tran
Underwood
Vargas
Vasquez
Veasey
Velazquez
Vindman
Walkinshaw
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson Coleman
Whitesides
Williams (GA)
Wilson (FL)
NAYS—214
Aderholt
Alford
Allen
Amodei (NV)
Arrington
Babin
Bacon
Baird
Balderson
Barr
Barrett
Baumgartner
Bean (FL)
Begich
Bentz
Bergman
Bice
Biggs (AZ)
Biggs (SC)
Bilirakis
Bost
Brecheen
Bresnahan
Buchanan
Burchett
Burlison
Calvert
Cammack
Carey
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Ciscomani
Cline
Cloud
Clyde
Cole
Collins
Comer
Crane
Crank
Crawford
Crenshaw
De La Cruz
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Donalds
Downing
Dunn (FL)
Edwards
Ellzey
Emmer
Estes
Evans (CO)
Ezell
Fallon
Fedorchak
Feenstra
Fine
Finstad
Fischbach
Fitzgerald
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Flood
Fong
Foxx
Franklin, Scott
Fry
Fulcher
Fuller
Garbarino
Gill (TX)
Gimenez
Golden (ME)
Goldman (TX)
Gooden
Gosar
Graves
Griffith
Grothman
Guest
Guthrie
Hageman
Hamadeh (AZ)
Haridopolos
Harrigan
Harris (MD)
Harris (NC)
Harshbarger
Hern (OK)
Higgins (LA)
Hill (AR)
Hinson
Houchin
Hudson
Huizenga
Hunt
Hurd (CO)
Issa
Jack
Jackson (TX)
James
Johnson (LA)
Johnson (SD)
Jordan
Joyce (OH)
Joyce (PA)
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
Kennedy (UT)
Kiggans (VA)
Kiley (CA)
Kim
Knott
Kustoff
LaHood
LaLota
Langworthy
Latta
Lawler
Lee (FL)
Letlow
Loudermilk
Lucas
Luna
Luttrell
Mackenzie
Malliotakis
Maloy
Mann
Mast
McCaul
McClain
McClintock
McCormick
McDowell
McGuire
Messmer
Meuser
Miller (IL)
Miller (OH)
Miller (WV)
Miller-Meeks
Mills
Moolenaar
Moore (AL)
Moore (NC)
Moore (UT)
Moore (WV)
Moran
Murphy
Nehls
Newhouse
Norman
Nunn (IA)
Obernolte
Ogles
Onder
Owens
Palmer
Patronis
Perry
Pfluger
Reschenthaler
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rose
Rouzer
Roy
Rulli
Rutherford
Salazar
Scalise
Schmidt
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Self
Sessions
Shreve
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smucker
Spartz
Stauber
Stefanik
Steil
Steube
Strong
Stutzman
Taylor
Tenney
Thompson (PA)
Tiffany
Timmons
Turner (OH)
Valadao
Van Drew
Van Duyne
Van Epps
Van Orden
Wagner
Walberg
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Westerman
Wied
Williams (TX)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Yakym
Zinke
ANSWERED “PRESENT”—1
Davidson
NOT VOTING—3
Boebert
Kean
Mace
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Ms. MALOY, Messrs. CARTER of Georgia, JOHNSON of South Dakota, ALFORD, THOMPSON of Pennsylvania, CRAWFORD, ELLZEY, NEWHOUSE, and TURNER of Ohio changed their vote from “yea” to “nay.”
Messrs. SUOZZI, JOHNSON of Georgia, HOYER, NEAL, Ms. SCANLON, and Mr. LYNCH changed their vote from “nay” to “yea.”
So the concurrent resolution was not agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.