EMERGING INNOVATIVE BORDER TECHNOLOGIES ACT

On 2025-03-10, Representative Daniel S. Goldman (D-NY-10) delivered a floor speech titled "EMERGING INNOVATIVE BORDER TECHNOLOGIES ACT" in the House. The speech addressed immigration and also covered trade policy, housing. It referenced legislation: HR993.

EMERGING INNOVATIVE BORDER TECHNOLOGIES ACT

Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 44 (Monday, March 10, 2025) [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 44 (Monday, March 10, 2025)] [House] [Pages H1059-H1060] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] EMERGING INNOVATIVE BORDER TECHNOLOGIES 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 (H.R. 993) to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a plan to identify, integrate, and deploy new, innovative, disruptive, or other emerging or advanced technologies to enhance, or address capability gaps in, border security operations, 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 Tennessee (Mr. Green) 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 406, nays 9, not voting 17, as follows: [Roll No. 65] YEAS--406 Adams Aderholt Aguilar Alford Allen Amo Amodei (NV) Ansari Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Balint Barr Barragan Barrett Baumgartner Bean (FL) Beatty Begich Bell Bentz Bera Bergman Beyer Bice Biggs (AZ) Biggs (SC) Bilirakis Bishop Bonamici Bost Boyle (PA) Brecheen Bresnahan Brown Brownley Buchanan Budzinski Burchett Burlison Bynum Calvert Cammack Carbajal Carey Carson Carter (GA) Carter (LA) Carter (TX) Case Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Ciscomani Cisneros Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cleaver Cline Cloud Clyburn Clyde Cohen Cole Collins Comer Conaway Connolly Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crane Crank Crawford Crenshaw Crockett Crow Cuellar Davids (KS) Davidson Davis (IL) Davis (NC) De La Cruz Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Donalds Downing Dunn (FL) Edwards Elfreth Ellzey Emmer Escobar Espaillat Estes Evans (CO) Evans (PA) Ezell Fallon Fedorchak Feenstra Fields Figures Finstad Fischbach Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fletcher Flood Fong Foster Foushee Foxx Frankel, Lois Franklin, Scott Friedman Frost Fry Fulcher Garamendi Garbarino Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Gill (TX) Gillen Gimenez Golden (ME) Goldman (TX) Gomez Gonzales, Tony Gonzalez, V. Gooden Goodlander Gosar Graves Gray Green (TN) Green, Al (TX) Greene (GA) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hageman Hamadeh (AZ) Harder (CA) Haridopolos Harrigan Harris (MD) Harris (NC) Harshbarger Hayes Hern (OK) Higgins (LA) Hill (AR) Himes Hinson Horsford Houchin Houlahan Hoyer Hoyle (OR) Hudson Huffman Huizenga Hurd (CO) Issa Ivey Jack Jackson (IL) Jackson (TX) Jacobs James Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (LA) Johnson (SD) Johnson (TX) Jordan Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Kamlager-Dove Kaptur Kean Keating Kelly (IL) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kennedy (NY) Kennedy (UT) Khanna Kiggans (VA) Kiley (CA) Kim Knott Krishnamoorthi Kustoff LaHood LaLota LaMalfa Landsman Langworthy Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latimer Latta Lawler Lee (FL) Lee (NV) Leger Fernandez Levin Liccardo Lieu Lofgren Loudermilk Lucas Luna Luttrell Lynch Mace Mackenzie Malliotakis Maloy Mann Mannion Massie Mast Matsui McBath McBride McCaul McClain McClain Delaney McClellan McClintock McCollum McCormick McDonald Rivet McDowell McGarvey McGovern McGuire McIver Meeks Menendez Messmer Meuser Mfume Miller (IL) Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Mills Min Moolenaar Moore (AL) Moore (NC) Moore (UT) Moore (WI) Moore (WV) Moran Morelle Morrison Moskowitz Moulton Mrvan Murphy Nadler Neal Neguse Nehls Newhouse Norcross Nunn (IA) Obernolte Ogles Olszewski Onder Owens Pallone Palmer Panetta Pappas Pelosi 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 Schakowsky Schmidt Schneider Scholten Schrier Schweikert Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Scott, David Self Sessions Sewell Sherman Shreve Simon Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Smucker Sorensen Soto Spartz Stansbury Stanton Stauber Stefanik Steil Steube Stevens Strickland Strong Stutzman Subramanyam Suozzi Swalwell Sykes Takano Taylor Tenney Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Tiffany Titus Tokuda Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Trahan Tran Turner (OH) Underwood Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Vargas Vasquez Veasey Velazquez Vindman Wagner Walberg Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Westerman Whitesides Wied Williams (GA) Williams (TX) Wilson (FL) Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke NAYS--9 Casar Dexter Lee (PA) Norman Ocasio-Cortez Omar Ramirez Roy Tlaib NOT VOTING--17 Auchincloss Boebert Fitzgerald Garcia (CA) Goldman (NY) Gottheimer Grijalva Hunt Letlow Magaziner Meng Mullin Pressley Sherrill Timmons Van Orden Wilson (SC) {time} 1906 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. [[Page H1060]] PERSONAL EXPLANATION Mr. GOTTHEIMER. Mr. Speaker, I missed the following votes, but had I been present, I would have voted: YEA on Roll Call No. 63; YEA on Roll Call No. 64; and YEA on Roll Call No. 65. PERSONAL EXPLANATION Mr. GOLDMAN of New York. Mr. Speaker, I missed votes because of an important family matter. Had I been present, I would have voted: YEA on Roll Call No. 63; YEA on Roll Call No. 64; and YEA on Roll Call No. 65. ____________________

Referenced legislation: HR993, HR993