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“HONORING OUR PROMISE TO ADDRESS COMPREHENSIVE TOXICS ACT OF 2021.....” published by Congressional Record in the House of Representatives section on March 2

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John B. Larson was mentioned in HONORING OUR PROMISE TO ADDRESS COMPREHENSIVE TOXICS ACT OF 2021..... on pages H1255-H1257 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th Congress published on March 2 in the Congressional Record.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

HONORING OUR PROMISE TO ADDRESS COMPREHENSIVE TOXICS ACT OF 2021

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Quigley). Pursuant to clause 1(c) of rule XIX, further consideration of the bill (H.R. 3967) to improve health care and benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances, and for other purposes, will now resume.

The Clerk read the title of the bill.

Amendments En Bloc Offered by Mr. Takano of California

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the question on the adoption of amendments en bloc, printed in part B of House Report 117-253, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the yeas and nays were ordered.

The Clerk will redesignate the amendments en bloc.

The Clerk redesignated the amendments en bloc.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendments en bloc offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Takano).

The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 331, nays 96, not voting 5, as follows:

YEAS--331

Adams Aderholt Aguilar Allred Amodei Auchincloss Axne Bacon Balderson Banks Barr Barragan Bass Beatty Bera Bergman Beyer Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bourdeaux Bowman Boyle, Brendan F. Brady Brown (MD) Brown (OH) Brownley Buchanan Bucshon Bush Bustos Carbajal Cardenas Carey Carl Carson Carter (LA) Cartwright Case Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chabot Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Cicilline Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Cole Connolly Cooper Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crawford Crist Crow Cuellar Curtis Davids (KS) Davis, Danny K. Davis, Rodney Dean DeFazio DeGette DeLauro DelBene Delgado Demings DeSaulnier DesJarlais Deutch Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Doyle, Michael F. Dunn Emmer Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Evans Fallon Feenstra Fischbach Fitzpatrick Fletcher Fortenberry Foster Frankel, Lois Fulcher Gallego Garamendi Garcia (CA) Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Gibbs Gimenez Gohmert Golden Gomez Gonzalez (OH) Gonzalez, Vicente Gottheimer Granger Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green (TN) Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Guthrie Harder (CA) Hartzler Hayes Herrera Beutler Higgins (NY) Hill Himes Hinson Hollingsworth Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Hudson Huffman Huizenga Jackson Lee Jacobs (CA) Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Johnson (TX) Jones Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Kahele Kaptur Katko Keating Keller Kelly (IL) Kelly (PA) Khanna Kildee Kilmer Kim (CA) Kim (NJ) Kind Kinzinger Kirkpatrick Krishnamoorthi Kuster LaHood LaMalfa Lamb Lamborn Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latta Lawrence Lawson (FL) Lee (CA) Lee (NV) Leger Fernandez Letlow Levin (CA) Levin (MI) Lieu Lofgren Lowenthal Luetkemeyer Luria Lynch Mace Malinowski Malliotakis Maloney, Carolyn B. Maloney, Sean Manning Matsui McBath McCarthy McCaul McClain McCollum McEachin McGovern McHenry McKinley McNerney Meeks Meijer Meng Meuser Mfume Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Moolenaar Mooney Moore (UT) Moore (WI) Morelle Moulton Mrvan Murphy (FL) Murphy (NC) Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Nehls Newhouse Newman Norcross O'Halleran Obernolte Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pallone Panetta Pappas Pascrell Payne Perlmutter Peters Phillips Pingree Pocan Porter Posey Pressley Quigley Raskin Reed Reschenthaler Rice (NY) Rice (SC) Rodgers (WA) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Ross Rouzer Roybal-Allard Ruiz Ruppersberger Rush Rutherford Ryan Salazar Sanchez Sarbanes Scalise Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Schrader Schrier Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Scott, David Sewell Sherman Sherrill Simpson Sires Slotkin Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Smucker Soto Spanberger Speier Stansbury Stanton Stauber Steel Stefanik Steil Stevens Stewart Strickland Suozzi Swalwell Takano Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Titus Tlaib Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Trahan Trone Turner Underwood Upton Valadao Van Drew Vargas Veasey Vela Velazquez Wagner Walberg Waltz Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Welch Wexton Wild Williams (GA) Wilson (FL) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Yarmuth Young

NAYS--96

Allen Armstrong Arrington Babin Baird Bentz Bice (OK) Biggs Bishop (NC) Boebert Brooks Buck Budd Burchett Burgess Calvert Cammack Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Cawthorn Cheney Cline Cloud Clyde Comer Crenshaw Davidson Donalds Duncan Ellzey Estes Ferguson Fitzgerald Fleischmann Foxx Franklin, C. Scott Gaetz Gallagher Garbarino Gonzales, Tony Good (VA) Gooden (TX) Gosar Greene (GA) Griffith Grothman Guest Harris Harshbarger Hern Herrell Hice (GA) Higgins (LA) Issa Jackson Jacobs (NY) Jordan Kelly (MS) Kustoff LaTurner Lesko Long Loudermilk Lucas Mann Massie Mast McClintock Miller (IL) Moore (AL) Mullin Norman Owens Palazzo Palmer Pence Perry Pfluger Rose Rosendale Roy Schweikert Sessions Smith (MO) Steube Tenney Tiffany Timmons Van Duyne Walorski Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Williams (TX) Zeldin

NOT VOTING--5

Bost Butterfield Price (NC) Spartz Taylor

{time} 1623

Messrs. PALAZZO, TIMMONS, CAWTHORN, GARBARINO, JACOBS of New York, ELLZEY, and OWENS changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''

So the en bloc amendments were agreed to.

The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.

Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress

Aguilar (Correa) Amodei (Balderson) Babin (Norman) Barragan (Correa) Bass (Kelly (IL)) Blumenauer (Beyer) Brown (MD) (Connolly) Cardenas (Gomez) Cherfilus-McCormick (Beatty) Cuellar (Correa) DelBene (Kuster) Deutch (Rice (NY)) Doggett (Beyer) Doyle, Michael F. (Connolly) Evans (Mfume) Fallon (Jackson) Gohmert (Boebert) Gonzalez, Vicente (Correa) Gosar (Greene (GA)) Granger (Van Duyne) Green (TN) (Timmons) Grijalva (Garcia (IL)) Johnson (SD) (Armstrong) Johnson (TX) (Jeffries) Kahele (Correa) Kelly (PA) (Keller) Kind (Connolly) Lawson (FL) (Soto) Lofgren (Jeffries) Manning (Beyer) Payne (Pallone) Pocan (Garcia (IL)) Raskin (Cicilline) Roybal-Allard (Takano) Rush (Jeffries) Sewell (Kelly (IL)) Sires (Pallone) Strickland (Jeffries) Suozzi (Beyer) Tiffany (Fitzgerald) Trone (Connolly) Underwood (Jeffries) Van Drew

(Reschenthaler) Veasey (Beyer) Wilson (FL) (Cicilline)

Amendment No. 5 Offered by Mrs. Miller-Meeks

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the question on amendment No. 5, printed in part B of House Report 117-253, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the yeas and nays were ordered.

The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.

The Clerk redesignated the amendment.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Iowa (Mrs. Miller-Meeks).

The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 203, nays 223, not voting 6, as follows:

YEAS--203

Aderholt Allen Amodei Armstrong Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Barr Bentz Bergman Bice (OK) Bilirakis Bishop (NC) Brooks Buchanan Buck Bucshon Budd Burchett Burgess Calvert Cammack Carey Carl Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Cawthorn

Chabot Cheney Cline Cloud Clyde Cole Comer Crawford Crenshaw Curtis Davidson Davis, Rodney DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Donalds Duncan Dunn Ellzey Emmer Estes Fallon Feenstra Ferguson Fischbach Fitzgerald Fleischmann Fortenberry Foxx Franklin, C. Scott Fulcher Gallagher Garbarino Garcia (CA) Gibbs Gimenez Gohmert Gonzales, Tony Gonzalez (OH) Good (VA) Gooden (TX) Gosar Granger Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green (TN) Greene (GA) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Harris Harshbarger Hartzler Hern Herrell Herrera Beutler Hice (GA) Higgins (LA) Hill Hinson Hollingsworth Hudson Huizenga Issa Jackson Jacobs (NY) Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Katko Keller Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kim (CA) Kinzinger Kustoff LaHood LaMalfa Lamborn Latta LaTurner Lesko Letlow Long Loudermilk Lucas Luetkemeyer Mace Malliotakis Mann Massie Mast McCarthy McCaul McClain McClintock McHenry McKinley Meijer Meuser Miller (IL) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Moolenaar Mooney Moore (AL) Moore (UT) Mullin Murphy (NC) Nehls Newhouse Norman Obernolte Owens Palazzo Palmer Pence Perry Pfluger Posey Reed Reschenthaler Rice (SC) Rodgers (WA) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Rosendale Rouzer Roy Rutherford Salazar Scalise Schweikert Scott, Austin Sessions Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smucker Stauber Steel Stefanik Steil Steube Stewart Tenney Thompson (PA) Tiffany Timmons Turner Upton Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Wagner Walberg Walorski Waltz Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Williams (TX) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Young Zeldin

NAYS--223

Adams Aguilar Allred Auchincloss Axne Barragan Bass Beatty Bera Beyer Biggs Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Boebert Bonamici Bourdeaux Bowman Boyle, Brendan F. Brown (MD) Brown (OH) Brownley Bush Bustos Carbajal Cardenas Carson Carter (LA) Cartwright Case Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Cicilline Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly Cooper Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crist Crow Cuellar Davids (KS) Davis, Danny K. Dean DeFazio DeGette DeLauro DelBene Delgado Demings DeSaulnier Deutch Dingell Doggett Doyle, Michael F. Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Evans Fitzpatrick Fletcher Foster Frankel, Lois Gaetz Gallego Garamendi Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Golden Gomez Gonzalez, Vicente Gottheimer Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Harder (CA) Hayes Higgins (NY) Himes Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Huffman Jackson Lee Jacobs (CA) Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (TX) Jones Kahele Kaptur Keating Kelly (IL) Khanna Kildee Kilmer Kim (NJ) Kind Kirkpatrick Krishnamoorthi Kuster Lamb Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lawrence Lawson (FL) Lee (CA) Lee (NV) Leger Fernandez Levin (CA) Levin (MI) Lieu Lofgren Lowenthal Luria Lynch Malinowski Maloney, Carolyn B. Maloney, Sean Manning Matsui McBath McCollum McEachin McGovern McNerney Meeks Meng Mfume Moore (WI) Morelle Moulton Mrvan Murphy (FL) Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Newman Norcross O'Halleran Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pallone Panetta Pappas Pascrell Payne Perlmutter Peters Phillips Pingree Pocan Porter Pressley Quigley Raskin Rice (NY) Ross Roybal-Allard Ruiz Ruppersberger Rush Ryan Sanchez Sarbanes Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Schrader Schrier Scott (VA) Scott, David Sewell Sherman Sherrill Sires Slotkin Smith (WA) Soto Spanberger Speier Stansbury Stanton Stevens Strickland Suozzi Swalwell Takano Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Titus Tlaib Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Trahan Trone Underwood Vargas Veasey Vela Velazquez Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Welch Wexton Wild Williams (GA) Wilson (FL) Yarmuth

NOT VOTING--6

Bost Brady Butterfield Price (NC) Spartz Taylor

{time} 1643

Mr. VELA, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, and Mr. LARSON of Connecticut changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''

Messrs. COMER and CARTER of Texas changed their vote from ``nay'' to

``yea.''

So the amendment was rejected.

The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.

Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress

Aguilar (Correa) Amodei (Balderson) Babin (Norman) Barragan (Correa) Bass (Kelly (IL)) Blumenauer (Beyer) Brown (MD) (Connolly) Cardenas (Gomez) Cherfilus-McCormick (Beatty) Cuellar (Correa) DelBene (Kuster) Deutch (Rice (NY)) Doggett (Beyer) Doyle, Michael F. (Connolly) Evans (Mfume) Fallon (Jackson) Gohmert (Boebert) Gonzalez, Vicente (Correa) Gosar (Greene (GA)) Granger (Van Duyne) Green (TN) (Timmons) Grijalva (Garcia (IL)) Johnson (SD) (Armstrong) Johnson (TX) (Jeffries) Kahele (Correa) Kelly (PA) (Keller) Kind (Connolly) Lawson (FL) (Soto) Lofgren (Jeffries) Manning (Beyer) Payne (Pallone) Pocan (Garcia (IL)) Raskin (Cicilline) Roybal-Allard (Takano) Rush (Jeffries) Sewell (Kelly (IL)) Sires (Pallone) Strickland (Jeffries) Suozzi (Beyer) Tiffany (Fitzgerald) Trone (Connolly) Underwood (Jeffries) Van Drew

(Reschenthaler) Veasey (Beyer) Wilson (FL) (Cicilline)

Amendment No. 6 offered by Ms. Brownley

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the question on amendment No. 6, printed in part B of House Report 117-253, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the yeas and nays were ordered.

The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.

The Clerk redesignated the amendment.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Brownley).

The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 425, nays 0, not voting 7, as follows:

YEAS--425

Adams Aderholt Aguilar Allen Allred Amodei Armstrong Arrington Auchincloss Axne Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Barr Barragan Bass Beatty Bentz Bera Bergman Beyer Bice (OK) Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (NC) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Boebert Bonamici Bourdeaux Bowman Boyle, Brendan F. Brady Brooks Brown (MD) Brown (OH) Brownley Buchanan Buck Bucshon Budd Burchett Burgess Bush Bustos Calvert Cammack Carbajal Cardenas Carey Carl Carson Carter (GA) Carter (LA) Carter (TX) Cartwright Case Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Cawthorn Chabot Cheney Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Cicilline Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cleaver Cline Cloud Clyburn Clyde Cohen Cole Comer Connolly Cooper Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crawford Crenshaw Crist Crow Cuellar Davids (KS) Davis, Danny K. Davis, Rodney Dean DeFazio DeGette DeLauro DelBene Delgado Demings DeSaulnier DesJarlais Deutch Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Donalds Doyle, Michael F. Duncan Dunn Ellzey Emmer Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Estes Evans Fallon Feenstra Ferguson Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fletcher Fortenberry Foster Foxx Frankel, Lois Franklin, C. Scott Fulcher Gaetz Gallagher Gallego Garamendi Garbarino Garcia (CA) Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Gibbs Gimenez Gohmert Golden Gomez Gonzales, Tony Gonzalez (OH) Gonzalez, Vicente Good (VA) Gooden (TX) Gosar Gottheimer Granger Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green (TN) Green, Al (TX) Greene (GA) Griffith Grijalva Grothman Guest Guthrie Harder (CA) Harris Harshbarger Hartzler Hayes Hern Herrell Herrera Beutler Hice (GA) Higgins (LA) Higgins (NY) Hill Himes Hinson Hollingsworth Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Hudson Huffman Huizenga Issa Jackson Jackson Lee Jacobs (CA) Jacobs (NY) Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Johnson (TX) Jones Jordan Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Kahele Kaptur Katko Keating Keller Kelly (IL) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Khanna Kildee Kilmer Kim (CA) Kim (NJ) Kind Kinzinger Kirkpatrick Krishnamoorthi Kuster Kustoff LaHood LaMalfa Lamb Lamborn Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latta LaTurner Lawrence Lawson (FL) Lee (CA) Lee (NV) Leger Fernandez Lesko Letlow Levin (CA) Levin (MI) Lieu Lofgren Long Loudermilk Lowenthal Lucas Luetkemeyer Luria Lynch Mace Malinowski Malliotakis Maloney, Carolyn B. Maloney, Sean Mann Manning Massie Mast Matsui

McBath McCarthy McCaul McClain McClintock McCollum McEachin McGovern McHenry McKinley McNerney Meeks Meijer Meng Meuser Mfume Miller (IL) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Moolenaar Mooney Moore (AL) Moore (UT) Moore (WI) Morelle Moulton Mrvan Mullin Murphy (FL) Murphy (NC) Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Nehls Newhouse Newman Norcross Norman O'Halleran Obernolte Ocasio-Cortez Omar Owens Palazzo Pallone Palmer Panetta Pappas Pascrell Payne Pence Perlmutter Perry Peters Pfluger Phillips Pingree Pocan Porter Posey Pressley Quigley Raskin Reed Reschenthaler Rice (NY) Rice (SC) Rodgers (WA) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Rosendale Ross Rouzer Roy Roybal-Allard Ruiz Ruppersberger Rush Rutherford Ryan Salazar Sanchez Sarbanes Scalise Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Schrader Schrier Schweikert Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Scott, David Sessions Sewell Sherman Sherrill Simpson Sires Slotkin Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Smucker Soto Spanberger Spartz Speier Stansbury Stanton Stauber Steel Stefanik Steil Steube Stevens Stewart Strickland Suozzi Swalwell Takano Tenney Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Tiffany Timmons Titus Tlaib Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Trahan Trone Turner Underwood Upton Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Vargas Veasey Vela Velazquez Wagner Walberg Walorski Waltz Wasserman Schultz Watson Coleman Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Welch Wenstrup Westerman Wexton Wild Williams (GA) Williams (TX) Wilson (FL) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Yarmuth Young Zeldin

NOT VOTING--7

Bost Butterfield Curtis Davidson Price (NC) Taylor Waters

{time} 1700

So the amendment was agreed to.

The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.

personal explanation

Mr. BOST. Mr. Speaker, I was unavailable to vote in the House. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 51, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 52, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 53, and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 54.

Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress

Aguilar (Correa) Amodei (Balderson) Babin (Norman) Barragan (Correa) Bass (Kelly (IL)) Blumenauer (Beyer) Brown (MD) (Connolly) Cardenas (Gomez) Cherfilus-McCormick (Beatty) Cuellar (Correa) DelBene (Kuster) Deutch (Rice (NY)) Doggett (Beyer) Doyle, Michael F. (Connolly) Evans (Mfume) Fallon (Jackson) Gohmert (Boebert) Gonzalez, Vicente (Correa) Gosar (Greene (GA)) Granger (Van Duyne) Green (TN) (Timmons) Grijalva (Garcia (IL)) Johnson (SD) (Armstrong) Johnson (TX) (Jeffries) Kahele (Correa) Kelly (PA) (Keller) Kind (Connolly) Lawson (FL) (Soto) Lofgren (Jeffries) Manning (Beyer) Payne (Pallone) Pocan (Garcia (IL)) Raskin (Cicilline) Roybal-Allard (Takano) Rush (Jeffries) Sewell (Kelly (IL)) Sires (Pallone) Strickland (Jeffries) Suozzi (Beyer) Tiffany (Fitzgerald) Trone (Connolly) Underwood (Jeffries) Van Drew

(Reschenthaler) Veasey (Beyer) Wilson (FL) (Cicilline)

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 38

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