EMERGENCY CONSERVATION PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2025

On 2026-06-23, Representative Melanie A. Stansbury (D-NM-1) delivered a floor speech titled "EMERGENCY CONSERVATION PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2025" in the House.

EMERGENCY CONSERVATION PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2025

Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 105 (Tuesday, June 23, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 105 (Tuesday, June 23, 2026)] [House] [Pages H4192-H4193] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] EMERGENCY CONSERVATION PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2025 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. 629) to amend the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to remove barriers to agricultural producers in accessing funds to carry out emergency measures under the emergency conservation program, and for other purposes, 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 Oklahoma (Mr. Lucas) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 368, nays 19, not voting 44, as follows: [Roll No. 223] YEAS--368 Adams Aderholt Aguilar Alford Allen Amo Amodei (NV) Ansari Auchincloss Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Balint Barr Barragan Barrett Bean (FL) Beatty Begich Bell Bentz Bera Bergman Beyer Bice Biggs (AZ) Bilirakis Bishop Bonamici Bost Bresnahan Brown Brownley Budzinski Bynum Calvert Cammack Carey Carson Carter (GA) Carter (LA) Casar Case Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu Ciscomani Cisneros Clark (MA) Cleaver Cline Clyburn Cohen Cole Collins Comer Conaway Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crane Crank Crawford Crockett Crow Cuellar Davids (KS) Davis (IL) Davis (NC) De La Cruz Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier DesJarlais Dexter Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Donalds Downing Edwards Elfreth Ellzey Emmer Escobar Estes Evans (CO) Evans (PA) Ezell Fallon Fedorchak Feenstra Fields Figures Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fletcher Flood Fong Foster Foushee Foxx Frankel, Lois Franklin, Scott Friedman Frost Fry Fulcher Fuller Gallagher Garamendi Garbarino Garcia (CA) Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Gill (TX) Gillen Gimenez Goldman (TX) Gomez Gonzalez, V. Gooden Goodlander Gosar Gottheimer Graves Green, Al (TX) Griffith Grijalva Grothman Guest Guthrie Hageman Hamadeh (AZ) Harder (CA) Haridopolos Harrigan Hern (OK) Hill (AR) Himes Hinson Horsford Houchin Houlahan Hoyer Hoyle (OR) Hudson Huffman Huizenga Hunt Hurd (CO) Issa Ivey Jack Jackson (TX) Jacobs Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (LA) Johnson (SD) Johnson (TX) Jordan Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Kamlager-Dove Kaptur 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 Luttrell Lynch Mackenzie Magaziner Malliotakis Maloy Mann Mannion Mast Matsui McBath McBride McClain McClellan McClintock McCollum McCormick McDonald Rivet McDowell McGarvey McGovern McGuire Mejia Menefee Menendez Messmer Meuser Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Mills Min Moolenaar Moore (AL) Moore (NC) Moore (UT) Moore (WI) Moore (WV) Moran Morrison Moskowitz Mrvan Mullin Murphy Neal Neguse Nehls Newhouse Norcross Obernolte Ocasio-Cortez Olszewski Omar Onder Owens Pallone Palmer Panetta Pappas Patronis Pelosi Perez Peters Pettersen Pfluger Pingree Pocan Pou Pressley Quigley Ramirez Randall Raskin Reschenthaler Riley (NY) Rivas Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Ross Rouzer Ruiz Rulli Rutherford Salinas Sanchez Scalise Scanlon Schmidt Schneider Scholten Schrier Schweikert Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Sessions Sewell Sherman Shreve Simon Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Sorensen Soto Stanton Stauber Stefanik Steil Steube Stevens Strickland Strong Subramanyam Suozzi Sykes Takano Taylor Tenney Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Timmons Titus Tlaib Tokuda Tonko Torres (CA) Trahan Tran Turner (OH) Underwood Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Van Epps Van Orden Vargas Vasquez Veasey Vindman Wagner Walberg Walkinshaw Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Westerman Whitesides Wied Williams (GA) Williams (TX) Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke NAYS--19 Arrington Biggs (SC) Boebert Burchett Burlison Cloud Clyde Fine Harris (MD) Harris (NC) Harshbarger Higgins (LA) Luna Massie Miller (IL) Norman Perry Roy Self NOT VOTING--44 Baumgartner Boyle (PA) Brecheen Buchanan Carbajal Carter (TX) Clarke (NY) Crenshaw Davidson Dunn (FL) Espaillat Golden (ME) Goldman (NY) Gray Hayes Jackson (IL) James Kean Mace McCaul McClain Delaney McIver Meeks Meng Mfume Morelle Moulton Nadler Nunn (IA) Ogles Rose Ryan Salazar Schakowsky Smucker Spartz Stansbury Stutzman Thompson (PA) Tiffany Torres (NY) Velazquez Wilson (FL) Wilson (SC) {time} 1858 Ms. KAPTUR and Mr. CRANE changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.'' 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. Stated for: Ms. STANSBURY. Mr. Speaker, had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 223. [[Page H4193]] ____________________

Referenced legislation: S629, S629