The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 223, the nays are 194. The amendments en bloc are adopted. Without objection, a motion to reconsider is laid on the table. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the question amendments en bloc number on amendments en bloc number 3 printed in house report 116459 offered by the gentlewoman from new york. The clerk will redesignate the amendments en bloc. The clerk en bloc number 3, consisting of amendments 74, 76, 15, 25, 36, 68, 101, 89, 90, 95, 96, 112, 120 and 124 printed in house report 116459 offered by mrs. Lowey of new york. The speaker pro tempore the question is on the amendments en bloc offered by the gentlewoman from new york. Members will record their votes by electronic device. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial pu
Legacy energy source. Senator udall of new mexico and i have an amendment that will close a loophole in federal Energy Policy. I want my colleagues to know, and i think they do, of my long support for renewable and alternative sources of energy and so i agree with the aims of the murkowskimachin murkowskiy bill. The amendment that senator udall and i have introduced is the same as the bipartisan bill we introduced last week. The title of that bill is the fair return for public lands act. Mr. Grassley this bill was introduced 100 years to the date of the mineral leasing act of 1920. This amendment would increase the royalty rates on federal lands from 12. 5 to 18. 75 . Everybody here knows that a royalty is what the oil company will pay to a mineral owner. In this case the mineral owner is the american taxpayer, and that royalty is paid for the right to extract oil and natural gas from the lands of the United States. The legislation modernizes the public lands leasing system and it does
[inaudible conversations] first of all professor thank you for moderating this and for being here. And also for the invitation to be here. And then to read it aloud i actually wrote that sentence. Look. And a handful of big ideas i mean we americans. And they dont happen in treating democracy for a long time. And then the amount of money and the jeremy it on gerrymandering that they choose their voters not the other way around, the influence of lobbyists for money and interest and frankly how hard we make it. All these things conspire from getting those outcomes. We have to go right at that and call it out with that legislation that makes the democracy function if we are to have a fighting chance on health care or immigration or criminal justice reform. And the strategy we will propos propose. So the first time today. Eyes did 24 hours now i promise 24 seconds. [laughter] i apologize but as soon as i am done we will go to a focus group. I think what you did was push pull. [laughter] an
Nice to see you. Mr. Patrick thank you for doing this. Oh, my gosh, so grateful [indiscernible] here in New Hampshire, this event [indiscernible] to moderate todays debate, and governor patrick to the stage. [applause] thanks a lot. Professor, thank you for moderating this. Thank you all for being here. Thank you to open democracy for the invitation to be here. I could make it as plain as possible by taking that card and reading it aloud. I actually wrote that sentence. Look, we have a handful of big ideas, and when i say we, i mean we americans, on which there is a broad consensus. But they dont happen, and they dont happen because we have been treating our democracy for a long time as if it would tolerate limitless abuse without breaking. So the things like the amount of money, much of it dark, the gerrymandering of districts so that, as the phrase goes, representatives choose the voters and not the other way around, the influence of lobbyists, especially lobbyists for money interest
[inaudible conversations] first of all professor thank you for moderating this and for being here. And also for the invitation to be here. And then to read it aloud i actually wrote that sentence. Look. And a handful of big ideas i mean we americans. And they dont happen in treating democracy for a long time. And then the amount of money and the jeremy it on gerrymandering that they choose their voters not the other way around, the influence of lobbyists for money and interest and frankly how hard we make it. All these things conspire from getting those outcomes. We have to go right at that and call it out with that legislation that makes the democracy function if we are to have a fighting chance on health care or immigration or criminal justice reform. And the strategy we will propos propose. So the first time today. Eyes did 24 hours now i promise 24 seconds. [laughter] i apologize but as soon as i am done we will go to a focus group. I think what you did was push pull. [laughter] an