LOCAL ACCESS TO COURTS ACT

On 2026-08-31, Representative Sam Graves (R-MO-6) delivered a floor speech titled "LOCAL ACCESS TO COURTS ACT" in the House.

LOCAL ACCESS TO COURTS ACT

Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 137 (Monday, August 31, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 137 (Monday, August 31, 2026)] [House] [Pages H5347-H5348] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] LOCAL ACCESS TO COURTS ACT The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill (S. 32) to clarify where court may be held for certain district courts in Texas and California, on which the yeas and nays were ordered. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Schmidt) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 378, nays 10, not voting 42, as follows: [Roll No. 285] YEAS--378 Adams Aderholt Aguilar Alford Allen Amo Amodei (NV) Ansari Arrington Auchincloss Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Balint Barrett Baumgartner Bean (FL) Beatty Begich Bell Bentz Bera Bergman Beyer Bice Biggs (AZ) Biggs (SC) Bilirakis Bishop Boebert Bonamici Bost Boyle (PA) Brecheen Bresnahan Brown Brownley Budzinski Burchett Burlison Bynum Calvert Cammack Carbajal Carey Carson Carter (GA) Carter (LA) Carter (TX) Casar Case Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu Ciscomani Cisneros Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) [[Page H5348]] Cleaver Cline Clyburn Cole Collins Comer Conaway Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crane Crank Crawford Crenshaw Crockett Crow Cuellar Davids (KS) Davis (IL) Davis (NC) De La Cruz Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier Dexter Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Downing Edwards Elfreth Ellzey Emmer Escobar Espaillat Estes Evans (CO) Evans (PA) Ezell Fallon Fedorchak Feenstra Fields Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fletcher Flood Fong Foster Foushee Foxx Frankel, Lois Franklin, Scott Friedman Frost Fry Fulcher Fuller Gallagher Garbarino Garcia (IL) Gill (TX) Gillen Gimenez Golden (ME) Goldman (TX) Gomez Gonzalez, V. Gooden Goodlander Gosar Gottheimer Gray Green, Al (TX) Griffith Grijalva Grothman Guest Guthrie Hageman Hamadeh (AZ) Harder (CA) Haridopolos Harrigan Harris (NC) Harshbarger Hayes Hern (OK) Hill (AR) Himes Hinson Horsford Houchin Houlahan Hoyer Hoyle (OR) Hudson Huffman Huizenga Hurd (CO) Issa Ivey Jack Jackson (IL) Jackson (TX) Jacobs Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (TX) Jordan Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Kamlager-Dove Kean Keating Kelly (IL) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kennedy (NY) Kennedy (UT) Khanna Kiggans (VA) Kiley (CA) Kim Knott Krishnamoorthi Kustoff LaHood LaLota Landsman Langworthy Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latimer Latta Lawler Lee (FL) Lee (NV) Lee (PA) Leger Fernandez Letlow Levin Liccardo Lieu Lofgren Loudermilk Lucas Luna Luttrell Mackenzie Magaziner Malliotakis Maloy Mann Mannion Mast Matsui McBath McBride McClain Delaney McClellan McClintock McCollum McCormick McDonald Rivet McDowell McGarvey McGovern McGuire McIver Meeks Mejia Menefee Menendez Meng Messmer Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Min Moolenaar Moore (AL) Moore (NC) Moore (UT) Moore (WI) Moore (WV) Moran Morelle Morrison Moskowitz Mrvan Mullin Murphy Nadler Neguse Nehls Newhouse Norcross Nunn (IA) Ocasio-Cortez Ogles Olszewski Omar Onder Pallone Palmer Panetta Pappas Patronis Perez Perry Peters Pettersen Pfluger Pingree Pocan Pou Quigley Randall Raskin Reschenthaler Riley (NY) Rivas Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Ross Rouzer Ruiz Rulli Rutherford Ryan Salazar Salinas Sanchez Scalise Scanlon Schmidt Schneider Scholten Schrier Schweikert Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Sessions Sewell Sherman Simon Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smucker Sorensen Soto Stansbury Stanton Stefanik Steil Steube Strickland Strong Stutzman Subramanyam Suozzi Sykes Takano Taylor Tenney Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Timmons Titus Tlaib Tokuda Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Trahan Tran Turner (OH) Underwood Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Van Epps Van Orden Vargas Vasquez Veasey Vindman Wagner Walberg Walkinshaw Wasserman Schultz Waters Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Westerman Whitesides Wied Williams (GA) Williams (TX) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke NAYS--10 Cloud Clyde Davidson Fine Harris (MD) Higgins (LA) Massie Norman Roy Self NOT VOTING--42 Barr Barragan Buchanan Cohen DesJarlais Donalds Dunn (FL) Figures Garamendi Garcia (CA) Garcia (TX) Goldman (NY) Graves Hunt James Johnson (SD) Kaptur Lynch Mace McCaul McClain Meuser Mfume Miller (IL) Mills Moulton Neal Obernolte Owens Pelosi Pressley Ramirez Schakowsky Shreve Smith (WA) Spartz Stauber Stevens Tiffany Velazquez Watson Coleman Wilson (FL) {time} 1910 So (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and the bill was passed. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. personal explanation Mr. GRAVES. Mr. Speaker, on this day, I missed a series of votes. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 284 and YEA on Roll Call No. 285. personal explanation Ms. GARCIA of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I was unable to vote during the series today. Had I been able to vote, I would have voted: YEA on Roll Call No. 284, passage of S. 307--Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act and YEA on Roll Call No. 285, passage of S. 32--LACA. ____________________

Referenced legislation: S32, S32, S307