Rob Andrews: “I don't think there is any merit to taking a 9-day vacation when there is 750,000 layoffs looming.”

I think you are doing some of the most important work in our country and you are all doing it very well.

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 261, noes 157, not voting 12, as follows: [Roll No. 587] AYES--261…

Provocation is not the goal of these questions; a sober analysis is.

On rollcall No. 1, I was unavoidably detained and had I been present, I would have been recorded as ``present.'' ____________________