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Download official House Record PDFReturn to issue contextEXTENSION OF AUTHORITIES OF TITLE VII OF THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE
SURVEILLANCE ACT OF 1978
Mr. JORDAN. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (S. 4465) to amend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend the authorities of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and for other purposes.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The text of the bill is as follows:
S. 4465
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITIES OF TITLE VII OF THE
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT OF 1978.
(a) Extension of Repeal Date of Title VII.—Section 403(b)
of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-261) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (1) (50 U.S.C. 1881 note), by striking
“April 30, 2026” and inserting “June 12, 2026”; and
(2) in paragraph (2) (18 U.S.C. 2511 note), in the matter
preceding subparagraph (A), by striking “April 30, 2026”
and inserting “June 12, 2026”.
(b) Effective Date.—The amendments made by this section
shall take effect on the earlier of the date of the enactment
of this Act or April 29, 2026.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Jordan) and the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Raskin) each will control 20 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Ohio.
Mr. MASSIE. Mr. Speaker, I claim the time in actual opposition to the motion.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentleman from Maryland opposed to the motion?
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I do not oppose the motion.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Ohio.
General Leave
Mr. JORDAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous material on S. 4465.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Ohio?
There was no objection.
Mr. JORDAN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 10 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Raskin) and ask unanimous consent that he be permitted to control that time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Ohio?
There was no objection.
Mr. JORDAN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
program, but here we are. The 702 program is incredibly important for protecting our national security and advancing our interests abroad.
the program while we work out our differences on a longer reauthorization.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
The Senate just unanimously passed this 43-day extension. Yesterday I was struck by a point my colleagues from the House Intelligence Committee made here on the House floor that the FISA 702 authorities were too important to turn off. We agree. But I also know that we cannot turn off our constitutional values and principles.
our rights. We can have both. When we talk about protecting civil liberties, we are not speaking of theoretical threats. We are talking of real violations perpetrated by the FBI, not just in 2022, but over the past year and still going on today.
about the FBI's violations of FISA is still classified by an administration that seems intent on keeping the public in the dark as we debate this fundamental problem.
U.S. person queries they ran last year, how many times they spied on American citizens. We should not have to take this vote without being able to explain these serious deficiencies. We have a right to know how many times the communications of American citizens were accessed.
Patel's FBI can circumvent our constitutional values to spy on American citizens is one day too many. I won't oppose this short extension but only because it is my fervent hope and determination that it will give us the time to work together across the aisle to implement meaningful reform.
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this body from coming together across party lines to work in good faith to strike a bipartisan deal on section 702 that is the support of a robust, bipartisan majority which believes that the program is important for foreign intelligence but must be made consistent with the essential constitutional values of our privacy rights under the Constitution.
Republicans alike, want real reforms to protect Americans' privacy and civil liberties, not the paltry restatements of current law that have been offered to us so far.
want a Federal judge, not an FBI agent or an FBI lawyer, to stand between them and their private communications. That is the constitutional design. You go to a judge. You don't leave it to the executive branch itself to check its own behavior.
The Speaker must allow the House to work its will. The Speaker must allow the House to serve the American people, to bring to the floor legislation that lives up to the spirit of the Fourth Amendment and ensures Americans are protected from their government as the Founders intended.
here, but we would love the Speaker of the House to get serious and allow us to have meaningful, bipartisan negotiation and compromise.
there, including a number of former Federal prosecutors, who say: We can work this thing out. Let us do the people's business, and let's work it out.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. MASSIE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
infringement of the Constitution. How long has the Senate had to act on this? Is this an emergency? Is this something we haven't known about? No.
committee, Mr. Jordan, on this issue for so many years of trying to get warrants before Americans are spied upon. In fact, my colleague on the other side of the aisle Zoe Lofgren and I, over a decade ago, were successful in passing an amendment to FISA, during the appropriations process, that would have prohibited funds to be used in the FISA program without a warrant.
What happened to that amendment? It died in the Senate. They have had over a decade to work on this.
What does FISA stand for? Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Americans or to search through databases for their information. It was intended for foreign intelligence. But now it is used on Americans without a warrant.
journalists, Members of Congress and their staff, and random romantic interests of FBI agents. We are told: Oh, don't worry. It is not being abused anymore. Maybe that is because they changed the definition of a query. So when they use the program anymore and abuse it, it is not a query by their definition so they don't have to tell you when they have violated the law. They are interpreting it differently.
is used by the FBI, so secret that you have got to go three floors underground to read about it. We can't tell the American public exactly how they are being spied on, but it is a particularly nefarious way. I think it is also unconstitutional. I know it is also unconstitutional.
Mr. JORDAN. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
on behalf of constitutional values, privacy, and the civil rights and civil liberties of the people.
who seems to be immersed in some combination of inertia, bureaucracy, and chaos, and the Senate, which doesn't seem to be living up to its traditional role in trying to reconcile our foreign policy and national security agenda with the constitutional values of the people?
We are saying, let's give it a few weeks now. I hope that Chairman Jordan will echo my endorsement of us really getting together to have bipartisan negotiations and compromise on this. This is not a partisan problem. We have people on all sides of this on both sides of the aisle. The vast majority of the Democrats want to make sure that we have a program that protects the privacy rights and the civil liberties of the people.
Gabbard as a successful substitute for the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. I am sure you don't trust whoever you would liken to Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard on our side.
That is fine. That is partisan politics. That is why we want this to rest on
Let's take a few weeks to have serious, meaningful discussion. As a gesture of good faith, we say we will work with the Speaker if the Speaker will work with us.
House floor. How about we all get together the way that Congress is supposed to and have meaningful discussion and dialogue? Let's do the same thing with people in the Senate.
the American people can believe in. We simply cannot leave it up to Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard and Donald Trump to enforce our civil rights and civil liberties for us. That is not going to work. They are partisan actors. They have proven themselves to be partisan actors, and they don't make any bones about that. They are unashamed of it. That is fine. Then we need to put principles in place that are going to protect the American people.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. MASSIE. Mr. Speaker, my friend and colleague on the Judiciary Committee and also on the Rules Committee, Chip Roy, has labored tirelessly to defend the constitutional rights of his constituents in Texas and all Americans.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy).
Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, it is nice to have the gentleman from Maryland on the pro-warrant side of this conversation this go-round.
previous President with respect to the amount of focus on the American people using FISA and the abuses therein.
this regardless of who is in the White House and regardless of who controls Congress. We need to do that in defense of the Constitution.
spoke and sent a bill to the Senate that has reforms that our Intelligence Committee chair worked on and a number of people worked on. We had reforms on there to stop the central bank digital currency. We sent it to the Senate, and they didn't even give it a vote. They didn't even put it on the floor for consent. They just said: Stuff it. We are going to send you a 45-day extension.
several weeks ago said: Let's do a 60-day extension and let's sit down and work, like the gentleman from Maryland said. That is what we ought to do.
We should go to committee. We should have a full-throated debate in committee. We should amend it. We should have a debate about warrants. We should have a debate about protecting the American people from the abuse of power by government.
My colleague from Texas, my friend over here, Mr. Cloud, he came into a meeting and he said the intel community never walks in, ever, saying: We have all of this power to collect information. Oh, we are going to give it back.
That never happens. The only way that happens is if we act, if this body acts, the people's Representatives.
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Mr. Speaker, the question I would ask is: How much warrantless surveillance, how much spying on American citizens should we allow? How much? How much is acceptable? Because right now we know for sure there is warrantless collection of information on the American people.
We have other issues we have got to deal with: the kill switch, surveillance in automobiles, central bank digital currency, tracking what we spend, how we spend it, and what we can buy.
against the power of government being used against us. Under no circumstances should we allow technology to breach the wall that the Fourth Amendment created that the government is not supposed to go through to get into your personal business, to get into your homes, to look at your information, and to breach the privacy that you are guaranteed to not have the Fourth Amendment break.
I rise in opposition to this. We should move forward and actually try to get actual debate on this. But I do not accept what the Senate is doing to step over what the House did earlier. The Senate should take up that bill and pass it.
Mr. JORDAN. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
the FBI and the private communications of the American people. This has got to be the essential constitutional value that is vindicated here. We need to interpose the authority and the independence of a judge between the FBI and the communications of the people.
Patel report his abuses to Tulsi Gabbard. If you think that is a good substitute for the Fourth Amendment, well, then you can go with what the gentleman was talking about, which was this 3-year extension. We are not willing go with the 3-year extension. 191 of us voted against it, including a dozen Republicans.
negotiate this thing, if the Speaker will actually sit down with us. We want the Speaker to sit down with us, and we want the Senate to take its constitutional responsibilities seriously here.
rights of the people should not be pitted against the national security interests of the country.
chaos and the pandemonium that we have seen over the last several days and simply sit down and have a meaningful conversation and write the legislation.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. MASSIE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Members of Congress, including Members who are in this debate right now, I am at a loss to understand why both Democrats and Republicans are arguing for a clean reauthorization of this program that has clearly been used to overstep the boundaries of the other branch of government.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Davidson), who serves on the Finance Committee and has warned us about the Orwellian dangers and powers of the central bank digital currency.
Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Speaker, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a fine tool for foreign intelligence. Unfortunately, it has been abused and corrupted.
I am encouraged to hear Mr. Raskin reclaim his opposition to warrantless surveillance, and I am encouraged that there is a bipartisan effort to reform it. In fact, I think the will of this body is that we defend the Constitution and we defend this Nation. We can do both. We are presented this false dilemma that somehow if you just abandon your freedom, you can be more secure. That is a false tradeoff.
reclaim it today. We want both. We want a warrant to protect the civil liberties of American citizens, and we want the foreign intelligence to be focused on foreign intelligence.
others to do what they are supposed to do to target foreigners, but clearly, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has abused their access to this data. They have targeted Americans under all sorts of authorities and not just under 702.
We have come together in a bipartisan way. Frankly, the bill that we sent to the Senate just this week was bipartisan. Not only did it deal with 702, but it dealt with the money. People need to pay attention. The future of the money is going to determine the future.
Central bank digital currency is communist money for the digital age. Unfortunately, some of my Democrat colleagues, who are united in opposition to warrantless surveillance of all forms, somehow don't see the central bank digital currency for what it is. It is the most dystopian surveillance tool ever developed. It corrupts money into
a tool for coercion, surveillance, and control.
We rejected that, and the Senate didn't even give us a debate. John Thune asked to be the leader of the Senate, but he is not leading. He didn't even bring this to the floor for a debate. He keeps throwing up excuse after excuse. Well, I will tell you: Anyone can find an excuse. Leaders find a way. It is time for John Thune to do that or step aside and let somebody lead the Senate who will give us at least a debate but deliver the results the American people have demanded in this election.
Mr. Speaker, I encourage all of our colleagues to come together and defend our Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Mr. JORDAN. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. MASSIE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Self), my good friend and colleague and staunch defender of the Constitution.
Mr. SELF. Mr. Speaker, everyone here wants 702 reauthorized. The case has been made that it is a national security issue, that our troops on the ground need it. They need the intelligence that it provides. We want the CIA and the NSA to run as fast and as far as they can to identify the bad guys.
The FBI has abused 702, and that is why we are here today.
dealing with two surveillance bills here today. 702 is getting all of the attention, but the central bank digital currency is another surveillance tool that we sent to the Senate. We passed it in a bipartisan method.
listening. The electronic surveillance is 702, foreign agents on foreign soil. It says nothing about U.S. citizens, U.S. persons on U.S. soil.
Federal Government. Do you want the Federal Government telling you that you cannot buy a Ford 350 or anything else that the government thinks that you may not want to buy, that they will not want you to buy.
We have two bills that we are discussing today. All of the attention is on 702, but do not take your attention off CBDC. It is actually maybe more dangerous than 702.
Mr. Speaker, let's get 702 reauthorized with constitutional protections, and let's also address the central bank digital currency. We need both electronic privacy and financial privacy.
Mr. JORDAN. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
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Mr. MASSIE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, what are we opposed to?
We are opposed to violating the Constitution. That is what is happening with FISA. It is happening with other provisions of law and court rulings.
Mr. Speaker, the third-party doctrine allows the government to go after your phone records without a warrant with a simple subpoena, go after your health records, and go after your bank records. That needs to be reformed.
Orwellian technology that would be the judge, the jury, and the executioner, shut your car off midstream and mid-drive if some AI in your dashboard determines that you shouldn't be driving at that moment, Mr. Speaker, or maybe the government determines that.
Amendment rights and other rights are being violated. Chief among them is the FISA 702 program. We should not do a clean reauthorization of this program.
Mr. Speaker, what would happen if you vote “no” today?
Maybe there are some people wondering: How will I vote?
Maybe they don't need my vote. Maybe it is going to pass. This has to pass with two-thirds vote.
What would happen if it did fail today?
The Senate would go back to work. They are trying to punt. They want to go home, leave town, and leave us with the work of this.
We have done our work. We have done it for years. We have sent them versions of this, and yet, they insist on another clean reauthorization.
Mr. Speaker, I object to that.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy).
Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, the reason I asked for the gentleman to yield to me is precisely the response we just heard.
Do you know what really the problem is, Mr. Speaker?
People want to get home to fundraisers. People want to get home to dinners. People want to go back to their districts and go on trips. They have codels.
Meanwhile, the American people are wondering: What on Earth is happening in this town?
Mr. Speaker, the American people are wondering: What on Earth is happening when they look at this body and see what we failed to do.
bankruptcy: $40-trillion debt, government spying on the people, failure to stop government spying on the people, kill switches in cars, and failure to stop sugar drinks going to children on the SNAP program voted by both sides of the aisle.
We go home, and the American people say: What are you doing?
Well, here we sit, and the response here is: Please let us get on our flights so we can go home and be away for 10 days while the country suffers because this body doesn't do its job.
Mr. MASSIE. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
Mr. Speaker, we can reconcile the essential constitutional values of the country with the national security of the country. This 45-day continuation is a mandate. It is a mandate to the Speaker to allow the House to finally come together to develop compromise legislation that guarantees that judges—not Kash Patel, not Tulsi Gabbard, and not Donald Trump—will be the ones to ensure our privacy and our civil liberties.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. JORDAN. Mr. Speaker, I urge a “yes” vote, and I yield back the balance of my time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Jordan) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, S. 4465.
The question was taken.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the opinion of the Chair, two-thirds being in the affirmative, the ayes have it.
Mr. MASSIE. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
Roll No. 155
YEAS—261
Aderholt
Aguilar
Alford
Allen
Amo
Amodei (NV)
Arrington
Auchincloss
Babin
Bacon
Baird
Balderson
Barr
Barrett
Bean (FL)
Beatty
Bentz
Bergman
Beyer
Bice
Bilirakis
Bishop
Bost
Boyle (PA)
Bresnahan
Brown
Brownley
Budzinski
Bynum
Calvert
Carbajal
Carey
Carter (GA)
Carter (LA)
Carter (TX)
Case
Casten
Castor (FL)
Ciscomani
Cisneros
Clark (MA)
Cline
Clyburn
Cole
Comer
Courtney
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Crawford
Crenshaw
Crow
Cuellar
Davids (KS)
Davis (NC)
De La Cruz
Dean (PA)
DeLauro
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Diaz-Balart
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Edwards
Ellzey
Emmer
Estes
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Ezell
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Fedorchak
Feenstra
Figures
Fine
Finstad
Fischbach
Fitzgerald
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fletcher
Flood
Foster
Foxx
Franklin, Scott
Fuller
Garbarino
Garcia (TX)
Gill (TX)
Gillen
Golden (ME)
Goldman (TX)
Gonzalez, V.
Gooden
Goodlander
Gottheimer
Graves
Griffith
Grothman
Guest
Guthrie
Hamadeh (AZ)
Harder (CA)
Haridopolos
Harrigan
Harris (NC)
Hern (OK)
Hill (AR)
Himes
Hinson
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Hoyer
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Hurd (CO)
Issa
Jack
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Jacobs
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Kim
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Langworthy
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Latimer
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Lawler
Lee (FL)
Lee (NV)
Leger Fernandez
Liccardo
Lucas
Mackenzie
Magaziner
Malliotakis
Maloy
Mann
Mast
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McClain
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Miller (WV)
Miller-Meeks
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Moore (NC)
Moore (UT)
Moore (WV)
Moran
Morelle
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Mrvan
Murphy
Nadler
Neal
Neguse
Newhouse
Norcross
Nunn (IA)
Obernolte
Owens
Palmer
Panetta
Pappas
Patronis
Pelosi
Perez
Peters
Pfluger
Pou
Raskin
Reschenthaler
Riley (NY)
Rivas
Rogers (KY)
Ross
Rouzer
Rulli
Rutherford
Salazar
Scalise
Schmidt
Schneider
Scholten
Schrier
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sessions
Sewell
Shreve
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smucker
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Soto
Spartz
Stanton
Stauber
Steil
Strong
Suozzi
Sykes
Taylor
Tenney
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Timmons
Trahan
Tran
Turner (OH)
Valadao
Van Drew
Van Duyne
Van Epps
Van Orden
Vasquez
Veasey
Wagner
Walberg
Walkinshaw
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Westerman
Whitesides
Wied
Williams (TX)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Yakym
Zinke
NAYS—111
Adams
Ansari
Balint
Begich
Bell
Biggs (SC)
Boebert
Bonamici
Brecheen
Burchett
Cammack
Carson
Casar
Chu
Clarke (NY)
Cloud
Cohen
Collins
Correa
Craig
Crane
Crockett
Davidson
Deluzio
DeSaulnier
Dexter
Dingell
Downing
Elfreth
Evans (PA)
Foushee
Friedman
Frost
Fry
Fulcher
Gomez
Gosar
Gray
Green, Al (TX)
Grijalva
Hageman
Harshbarger
Hayes
Higgins (LA)
Horsford
Hoyle (OR)
Huffman
Ivey
Jackson (IL)
Jayapal
Kennedy (UT)
Khanna
Lee (PA)
Levin
Lieu
Luttrell
Mannion
Massie
Matsui
McBride
McClain Delaney
McClellan
McGarvey
McGovern
McIver
Mejia
Menefee
Menendez
Meng
Mfume
Miller (IL)
Min
Moore (WI)
Mullin
Ocasio-Cortez
Ogles
Omar
Pallone
Perry
Pettersen
Pingree
Pocan
Pressley
Randall
Roy
Ruiz
Ryan
Salinas
Sanchez
Scanlon
Scott (VA)
Self
Simon
Stansbury
Stevens
Subramanyam
Takano
Thanedar
Thompson (CA)
Tiffany
Titus
Tokuda
Tonko
Torres (CA)
Torres (NY)
Underwood
Vargas
Velazquez
Vindman
Watson Coleman
Williams (GA)
NOT VOTING—58
Barragan
Baumgartner
Bera
Biggs (AZ)
Buchanan
Burlison
Castro (TX)
Cleaver
Clyde
Conaway
Costa
Davis (IL)
DeGette
Doggett
Donalds
Escobar
Espaillat
Fields
Fong
Frankel, Lois
Garamendi
Garcia (CA)
Garcia (IL)
Gimenez
Goldman (NY)
Harris (MD)
Kamlager-Dove
Kean
Kelly (IL)
LaLota
Larsen (WA)
Letlow
Lofgren
Loudermilk
Luna
Lynch
Mace
Miller (OH)
Mills
Moskowitz
Moulton
Nehls
Norman
Olszewski
Onder
Quigley
Ramirez
Rogers (AL)
Rose
Schakowsky
Sherman
Smith (WA)
Stefanik
Steube
Strickland
Stutzman
Tlaib
Wilson (FL)
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Ms. TOKUDA, Mrs. DINGELL, Mr. POCAN, Mses. HAGEMAN and McCLELLAN changed their vote from “yea” to “nay.”
Mr. FIGURES changed his vote from “nay” to “yea.”
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.