VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN BY ILLEGAL ALIENS ACT

On 2024-09-18, Representative Adam Smith (D-WA-9) delivered a floor speech titled "VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN BY ILLEGAL ALIENS ACT" in the House. The speech addressed immigration and also covered housing. It referenced legislation: HR7909.

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN BY ILLEGAL ALIENS ACT

Congressional Record, Volume 170 Issue 145 (Wednesday, September 18, 2024) [Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 145 (Wednesday, September 18, 2024)] [House] [Pages H5372-H5373] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN BY ILLEGAL ALIENS ACT The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the vote on passage of the bill (H.R. 7909) to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens who have been convicted of or who have committed sex offenses or domestic violence are inadmissible and deportable, 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 passage of the bill. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 266, nays 158, not voting 7, as follows: [Roll No. 429] YEAS--266 Aderholt Alford Allen Allred Amodei Armstrong Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Barr Bean (FL) Bentz Bergman Bice Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (NC) Boebert Bost Boyle (PA) Brecheen Buchanan Bucshon Budzinski Burchett Burgess Burlison Calvert Cammack Caraveo Carey Carl Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Cartwright Chavez-DeRemer Ciscomani Cline Cloud Clyde Cole Collins Comer Courtney Craig Crane Crawford Crenshaw Cuellar Curtis Davids (KS) Davidson Davis (NC) De La Cruz Deluzio DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Donalds Duarte Duncan Edwards Ellzey Emmer Estes Ezell Fallon Feenstra Ferguson Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick [[Page H5373]] Fleischmann Flood Fong Foxx Franklin, Scott Fry Fulcher Gaetz Gallego Garbarino Garcia, Mike Gimenez Golden (ME) Gonzales, Tony Gonzalez, V. 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There are 2 minutes remaining. {time} 1830 So the bill was passed. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. Stated against: Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Speaker, during Roll Call Vote number 429 on H.R. 7909, I mistakenly recorded my vote as YEA when I should have voted NAY. ____________________

Referenced legislation: HR7909, HR7909