House Proceeding 11-07-09 on Nov 7th, 2009 :: 6:05:45 to 6:25:45
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Speech By: Mike Pence
Bill: H.R. 3962: Affordable Health Care for America Act

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Mike Pence: seconds. mr. spiths: i rise in support of this amendment but it will not change my opposition to the bill. i wish to thank mr. pitts and mr. stupak for their principles. ending a human life is morally wrong but it's also morally wrong to take taxpayer money

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Mike Pence: and use it to provide a procedure they find morally reprehensible.

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Mike Pence: i urge my colleagues to prevent federal dollars from funding abortions, take a stand for life, support the pitts-stupak amendment and vote no on pelosi's health care bill. gentlelady from colorado. ms. degette: i yield one minute to the distinguished gentlelady from new york, mrs. lowey. the speaker pro tempore: the

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Speech By: Nita M. Lowey

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Nita M. Lowey: gentlelady is recognized for one minute. mrs. lowey: this is a disappointing distraction from the bill before us. under current law, no taxpayer funds can be used to cover abortion. i believe abortion should be legal and safei've worked for years with colleagues on both sides of this issue to also make this procedure rare. if we want to reduce abortions, we should pvide women's

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Nita M. Lowey: health coverage for reproductive car contraceptives oto prevent unintended pregnancy and prenatal care to ensure healthy pregnancies. this threaten the right of women -- this threatens the right of women to seek a

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Joseph R. Pitts: procedure. the bill will uphold current law that no federal funds will support abortion. i urge my colleagues to vote against this unnecessary amendment. the speaker p gentleman from michigan. >> may inquire how much time we have left? >> the gentleman from michigan

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Speech By: Joseph R. Pitts

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Joseph R. Pitts: has 2 1/4. the gentlelady from colorado has 2 1/2. the gentlelady from pennsylvania has 3 1/2. the gentleman from michigan. mr. stupak: i continue to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlelady from colorado. ms. degette: i reserve.

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Kathy Castor: the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania. this time i yield 30 seconds to the gentlela from cathy mcmorris rodgers. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. mrs. mcmorris rodgers: many have stood before uh us on both sides of the aisle to make sure

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Speech By: Kathy Castor

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Kathy Castor: federal money doesn't fund abortions. today i stand to ensure that this policy is included in the health care bill being rammed through this congress. if we're talking about health care reform for women and children, then protection for children should start at the moment their life begins. 2/3 of women recently bolled -- polled, representing all party, races, marital statuses, object

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Kathy Castor: to government funding of abortion. i urge my colleagues to support this amendment. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan. mr. ak: i yield one minute to mr. ellsworth of indiana who has been a champion on this issue and worked h this amendment to where we are here today. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute.

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mr. ellsworth: i rise today to urge the passage of this vital amendment. since this debate started, my goal has been to ensure federal taxpayer dollars are not used to pay for abortions and to provide americans with pro-life options on this exchange. i've been proud to work with mr. stupak and all my colleagues and the catholic bishops to make this goal a reality.

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getting to this point has not been easy. today we're on the brink of passing health care reform that honors and respects life as every stage, including the unborn. if this amendment passes today, i will support this bill. it's time to fix what's broken in our health care system and begin to fulfill the promises we've made to amerans that we that's why i urge members on both sides of the aisle to vote

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Barbara Lee: for this amendment. thank you, and i yield back. the gentleman yields back. the gentlelady from colorado. ms. degette: i'm delighted to yield now one minute to the gentlelady from california, ms. lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. lee: thank you, mr. speaker. this

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Speech By: Barbara Lee

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Barbara Lee: federal government directly into the medical decisions a woman makes with her doctor. as a person of faith raised in the catholic church, i have the deepest respect for mr. stupak and mr. pitts. i know personally the moral dilemmas women face in making decisions, personal decisions, about abortion. but i'll tell you one thing, i

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Barbara Lee: remember the days of back alley abortions and this amendment takes us one step back to those days. this goes beyond the hyde amendment th denies federal funds for abortion and attempts to dictate to women how to spend their own money. it's simply ou it is outrageous. it further places the religious

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Barbara Lee: views of some into our public policy. we're a democracy, not a theocracy. think separation of church and state requires us as legislators to never cross this line. never cross this line. it allows personal religious

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Paul Ryan: views to be personal. we should not, as members of separation and low-incom especially will be hurt by this sprope the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. pitts: at this time, i yield 30 seconds to the ranking

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Speech By: Paul Ryan

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Paul Ryan: member of the budget committee, the gentleman from wisconsin, paul ryan. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. ryan: this is perhaps the worst bill i have seen come to the floor in my 11 years of serving what would make this bill worse is if we break with the long

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Jerrold Nadler: standing law of preventing abortions from being funded with taxpayer dollars. for those of us who support the protection of and the sanctity of life, the only vote, the right vote, the vote to keep a clean conscience is a yes vote for the stupak amendment. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempe: the eman yields back. the gentlelady from colorado.

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Speech By: Jerrold Nadler

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Jerrold Nadler: ms. degette: i'm pleased to yield one minute to the distinguis new york, mr. nadler. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. nadler: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in opposition to the stupak amendment. despite significant efforts made by the underlying bill to level the playing field for women and end discrimination against them in the health

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Jerrold Nadler: insurance market this amendment adds a new discriminatory measure against women. thunder proposal if a woman is of low or moderate income and receives tax credits to help her afford the premiums for a health insurance plan she purchases on the exchange she cannot choose a plan that covers abortion services. if she chooses the public option, she cannot receive

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Jerrold Nadler: abortion cooverpblg at all, even if she payers in abortion entirely by herself. the provision inserted in the underlying bill extends the hyde amendment in current law by ensuring that no federal dollars can be used to fund abortions. this should be sufficient.

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Michelle Marie Bachmann: this is a bill to extend insuran mr. speaker, i reiterate my oppositi to this discriminatory amendment and ask my the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from michigan. mr. stupak: i will continue to reserve. ms. degette: i continue to reserve.

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Speech By: Michelle Marie Bachmann

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Michelle Marie Bachmann: the spea gentlelady reserves this egentleman from pennsylvania. mr. pitts: i yield 30 seconds to the gentlelady from minnesota, michelle bachmann. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for 30 seconds. mrs. bachmann: mr. speaker, it all begins with life and protecting the most vulnerable among us, the unborn. life is the watershed issue of our generation.

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Michelle Marie Bachmann: how can one claim to call the destruction of innocent human life health care? orwellian statements aside, it is theo life. if we do notng else tonight, let's choose life, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time.

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Michelle Marie Bachmann: the gentlelady from colorado. ms. degette: i'd inquire of the speaker of the time remaing. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady has 2 1/2 mutes. the gentleman from minnesota has a minute and a quarter, and mr. pitts has two minutes.

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Mike Quigley: yield 30 seconds to the distinguished gentleman from illinois, mr. quigley. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. quigley: the health care bill we are considering today makes a strong statement to everyone in this country deserves access to health care. for over eight months this body has strived to overcome the health care inequality in our

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Speech By: Mike Quigley

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Mike Quigley: country. but this amendment disrupts that sense of equaty. this amendment says only women who can afford insurance deserve access to reproductive health care. this amendment says that women who need a little help paying for health care have to

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surrender their right to privacy. this amendment will serve only to hurt low-income women and restrict their ability to access reproductive health care, even money. it is wrong and we shoul oppose it. the speaker pro tempore: the time has e the gentleman from pesylvania. mr. pitts: mr. time i yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from nebraska, jeff

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fortenberry. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. fortenberry: mr. speaker, the vast majority of americans do not want their government funding abortion. i want to thank mr. stupak and mr. pitts for this amendment to provide federal funding for abortion. in the guise of health care reform, women deserve better. last week we heard a lot about

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compromise. mr. speaker, a child or an elderly person clinging to the waining days of life should not be subject to a compromise. i hope if this house has debate it is this, we should first do no harm. it is not ours to decide who lives or dies. the speaker pro tempore: the

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Louise McIntosh Slaughter: gentlel ms. now delighted to yield to the distinguished chair of the rules committee and the co-chair of the congressional pro-choice caucus, ms. slaughter, 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for 30 seconds. ms. slaughter: i thank the gentlelady for yielding. over 30 years we lived in this house and peaceful coexistence, the hyde amendment said no

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Speech By: Louise McIntosh Slaughter

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Louise McIntosh Slaughter: federal money can be spent and the strongest conscious clause in the world, which is now being strengthened, by the way, in this bill. we on our side simply have the law. i am very concerned about this bill because in my own case and many of my colleagues it means being canceled out with th amendment.

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Louise McIntosh Slaughter: the things that we have fought for we are driving now i am

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Diana DeGette: afraid young women, poor women who cannot afford to buy their own insurance policy out of their own pocket back -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleladys time has expired. ms. slaughter: i regret to see that day. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr.

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Speech By: Diana DeGette

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Diana DeGette: prepared to close on our side. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from colorado. ms. degette: mr. speaker, i'd yield for a unanimous consent request to the gentlelady from new york -- the gentlelady from wisconsin, ms. baldwin. ms. baldwin: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks in opposition to this amendment. the speaker pro tempore: without objection.

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Diana DeGette: ms. degette: unanimous consent request to the dis gentlelady from new york, mrs. maloney. mrs. maloney: mr. speaker, i requt unanimous consent to

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Janice D. Schakowsky: revise and extend my remarks in opposition -- strong opposition to this amendment. the speaker pro t ms. degette: mr. speaker, i now yield for unanimous consent request the distinguished the gentlelady from maryland. ms. edwards: mr. speaker, i rise in opposition and unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered.

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Speech By: Janice D. Schakowsky

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Janice D. Schakowsky: ms. degette: mr. speaker, i now yield one minute to the distinguished the gentlelady schakowsky. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. schakowsky: our health reform bill does not allow one federal dollar for abortion.

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Janice D. Schakowsky: this goes way beyond current law, says a woman cannot purchase coverage that has abortion services using her own dollars. even middle-class women using exclusively their own money will be prohibited from purchasing a plan, including abortion coverage in every single public or private insurance plan in the new health care exchange.

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Janice D. Schakowsky: her only option is to buy a separate insurance policy that covers an abortion, a ridiculous and unworkable approach since no woman plans an unplanned pregnancy. this amendment is a radical departure from current law and will result in millions of women lo already have. our bill is about lowering health care costs for millions

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Janice D. Schakowsky: of women and their families, not further marginalizing women

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Ed Pastor: by forcing them to pay more for their care. this amendment does a disservice and insult for this country and i urge a no vote on this amendment. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. the chair will remind members that the gentlelady from

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Speech By: Ed Pastor

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Ed Pastor: colorado has the right to close. e gentleman from michigan has

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Speech By: Bart Stupak

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Bart Stupak: a minute and a quarter, the gentleman from pennsylvania has

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Dan Burton: 1 1/2. the gent has 30 seconds. mr. stupak: mr. speaker, i yield to mr. lipinski 15 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized fo seconds.

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Speech By: Dan Burton

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Speech By: Danny K. Davis

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Danny K. Davis: mr. lipinski: mr. speaker, i thank my colleague and especially mr. stupak for the

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Christopher H. Smith: perseverance as we work together on this amendment. every year for over three decades we approved the hyde amendment. i ask my colleagues tonight to do the same thing and approve the hyde amendment in this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the balance of his time. does the gentlelady reserve her time? the gentleman from pennsy mr. pitts: mr. speaker, i yield

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Speech By: Christopher H. Smith

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Christopher H. Smith: to the gentleman from texas for unanimous consent request. mr. gohmert: mr. speaker, i'd ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks in support of the wonderful work in the stupak and pitts amendment addressing things like the speaker pro tempore:

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Christopher H. Smith: without objection, so oered. mr. pitts: mr. speaker, i yield the balance of the time to the gentleman from new jersey, the chair of the pro-life caucus, in support of this bipartisan amendment, chris smith. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will be recognized for a minute and a half. mr. smith: members, this week a planned parenthood director resigned after watching an ultrasound of an actual

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Christopher H. Smith: abortion in progress. self-described as extremely pro-choice but now pro-life, abby johnson said she watche an unborn child crumble before her very eyes as it was vacuumed and dismembered by a suction device 20 to 30 times more powerful than a household vacuum cleaner.

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Christopher H. Smith: m could see the baby try to -- told abc news, i could see the baby trying to move away. she said, what am i doing? it risks significant harm to children. recently, the times of london said, women who have had abortions have twice the level

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Christopher H. Smith: of psychological problems and three times the level of depression as women who have given birth or have ever been pregnant. numerous studies show the risk skyrocketed. one abortion goes up by 35%. two abortions a staggering 93%.

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Christopher H. Smith: the leading cause of mental and motor retardation is prematurity. we will have more of it because of abortions. if we truly don't want to see abortions and re don't fund it. the good - funds for abortion reduces abortion by 25%. millions of people are alive

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Bart Stupak: today because ofhe hyde amendment, because funding was not there eeffectuate their demise. vote for the stupak-pitts amendment. it will save lives. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has exp the gentleman from michigan.

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Speech By: Bart Stupak

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Marcy Kaptur: the mr. stupak: mr. speaker, in closing on our side, i'd ask ms. kaptur of ohio, recognized her for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. of the stupak amendment which maintains existing federal law, the hyde amendment on the

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Speech By: Marcy Kaptur

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Marcy Kaptur: for 34 years, citizens of conscience have weighed in on this important moral and legal issue. let me repeat. this amendment reaffirms long-standing existing -- reaffirms long standing existing law and nothing more.

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Marcy Kaptur: it -- this is what it says. no federal funds authorized under this act may be used to pay for any abortion or cover any part of the cost of any health plan that includes coverage of abortion except indicates if the life of the mother, rape or incest. the amendment does no more, no less. it is similar to language that

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Marcy Kaptur: applies in federal law on medicaid, medicare, veterans' affairs, the chip program and the federal health employees program which is a model for how this language should be applied. it's bee proven the inclusion of this amendment -- the spker pro tempore: the gentlelady's t

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Diana DeGette: ms. kaptur: also on the bill -- i urge my colleagues to support the amendment and the bill. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentlelady from colorado ms. degette: mr. speaker, for unanimous consent re yield to the gentlelady from california. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california. mrs. davis: thank you, mr. speaker.

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Speech By: Diana DeGette

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Diana DeGette: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks and rise in opposition to ms. degette: for unanimous consent, i recognize the gentlelady from texas. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from texas. ms. jason lee: i rise in strong opposition to this amendment and ask unanimous consent that i may revise and ex the speaker pro tempore: without objection.

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Diana DeGette: ms. degette: mr. speaker, the gentleman from pennsylvania said exactly what the intention is here. the intention is not simply to extend the hyde amendment. the base bill does that. the base bl says no federal funds will be used in this bill for abortion. it's the intention of our opponent to effectively stop a legal medical procedure from

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Diana DeGette: all plans th are in the exchange. even plans that are pa with private dollars. this is the first time it would expand the hyde exceptions to

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Ed Pastor: the private sector market. and, mr. speaker, it would not only affect the poor, it would affect the middle class. vote no on this hill-conceived amendment. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. amendment of the gentleman from michigan, mr. stupak. those in favor say aye. the noes have it.

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Speech By: Ed Pastor

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Ed Pastor: the amendment is not agreed to. mr. stupak: mr. chairman, on that i would ask for a recorded vote. the gentleman ask for the yeas and nays? mr. stupak: yes. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas are requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered.