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President's Message to Congress (H. Doc. No. 109-133) Military Commissions Act of 2006 H6273 (September 6, 2006)

handle is hein.leghis/mca0021 and id is 1 raw text is: September 6, 2006 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE Crowley Cubin Cuellar Culberson Cummings Davis (AL) Davis (CA) Davis (IL) Davis (TN) Davis, Jo Ann Davis, Tom Deal (GA) DeFazio DeGette Delahunt DeLauro Dent Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Dicks Dingell Doggett Doolittle Dreier Duncan Edwards Ehlers Emanuel Emerson English (PA) Eshoo Etheridge Everett Farr Fattah Ferguson Filner Fitzpatrick (PA) Flake Foley Forbes Ford Fortenberry Fossella Foxx Frank (MA) Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Garett (NJ) Gerlach Gibbons Gilimor Gingrey Gohmert Gonzalez Goode Goodlatte Gordon Granger Graves Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Gutknecht Hall Harman Hart Hastings (FL) Hastings (WA) Hayes Hayworth Hefley Hensarling Herger Herseth Higgins Hinchey Hinojosa Hobson Hoekstra Holden Holt Honda Hooley Hostettler Hoyer Hulshof Hunter Hyde Inglis (SC) Inslee Israel Issa Jackson (IL) Jackson-Lee (TX) Jefferson Jenkins Jindal Johnson (CT) Johnson (IL) Johnson. E. B. Jones (NC) Jones (OH) Kanjorski Kaptur Keller Kelly Kennedy (MN) Kennedy (RI) Kildee Kilpatriek (MI) Kind King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kirk Kline Knollenberg Kolbe Kucinich Kuhl (NY) LaHood Langevin Lantos Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latham LaTourette Leach Lee Levin Lewis (CA) Lewis (GA) Lewis (KY) Linder Lipinski LoBiondo Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Lucas Lungren, Daniel E. Lynch Maloney Manzullo Marchant Markey Marshall Matheson Matsui McCarthy McCaul (TX) MeCollum (MN) McCotter McCrery McDermott McGovern MeHenry McHugh McIntyre McKeon McMorris Rodgers MeNulty Meehan Meek (FL) Meeks (NY) Melancon Mica Michaud Millender- McDonald Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller (NC) Miller, George Mollohan Moore (KS) Moore (WI) Moran (KS) Moran (VA) Murphy Musgrave Myrick Napolitano Neal (MA) Neugebauer Ney Northup Norwood Oberstar Obey Olver Ortiz Osborne Otter Owens Oxley Pascrell Pastor Paul Payne Pearce Pelosi Pence Peterson (MN) Petri Pickering Pitts Platts Poe Pombo Pomeroy Porter Price (GA) Price (NC) Pryce (OH) Putnam Radanovich Rahall Ramstad Rangel Reg'ula Rehberg Reichert Renzi Reyes Reynolds Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Ros-Lehtinen Ross Rothman Roybal-Allard Royce Ruppersberg er Ryan (OH) Ryan (WI) Ryun (KS) Sabo Salazar Sanders Saxton Schakowsky Schiff Schmidt Schwartz (PA) Schwarz (MI) Scott (GA) Scott (VA) Sensenbrenner Serrano Sessions Shadegg Shaw Shays Sherman Sherwood Shimkus Shuster Simmons Simpson Skelton Slaughter Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Smith (WA) Snyder Sodrel Solis Souder Spratt Stark Stearns Strickland Stupak Sullivan Sweeney Tancredo Tanner Tauscher Taylor (MS) Taylor (NC) Terry Thomas Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thornberry Tiahrt Tiberi Tierney Towns Turner Udall (CO) El 1924 So (two-thirds of those voting having responded in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and the resolution, as amended, was agreed to. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. PERSONAL EXPLANATION Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, on Wednesday, September 6, 2006 I was absent from the House to attend the visitation for a United States Marine from my district. Had I been present I would have voted: Rollcall No. 427-yea; rollcall No. 428- yea; rollcall No. 429-yea. PERSONAL EXPLANATION Mr. GUTIERREZ. Mr. Speaker, I was un- avoidably absent from this chamber today. Had I been present, I would have voted yea on rollcall votes No.'s 427, 428, and 429. MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT OF 2006-MESSAGE FROM THE PRESI- DENT OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 109-133) The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- fore the House the following message from the President of the United States; which was read and, together with the accompanying papers, without objection, referred to the Committee on Armed Services, Committee on the Judiciary, and Committee on Inter- national Relations and ordered to be printed: To the Congress of the United States: I transmit for the consideration of the Congress draft legislation entitled the Military Commissions Act of 2006. This draft legislation responds to the Supreme Court of the United States decision in Hamdan v. Rums- feld, 126 S. Ct. 2749 (2006), by estab- lishing for the first time in our Na- tion's history a comprehensive statu- tory structure for military commis- sions that would allow for the fair and effective prosecution of captured mem- bers of al Qaeda and other unlawful enemy combatants. The Act also ad- dresses the Supreme Court's holding Udall (NM) Upton Van Hollen Velazquez Visclosky Walden (OR) Walsh Wamp Wasserman Schultz Beauprez Bilirakis Boucher Costello Davis (FL) Davis (KY) Doyle Drake Engel Evans Feeney H6273 Waters Watson Watt Waxman Weiner Weldon (FL) Weldon (PA) Weller Westmoreland Wexler NOT VOTING- Gallegly Gilchrest Green (WI) Gutierrez Haris Istook Johnson, Sam Mack McKinney Miller, Gary Murtha Whitfield Wicker Wilson (NM) Wilson (SC) Wolf Woolsey Wu Young (FL) -32 Nadler Nunes Nussle Pallone Peterson (PA) Rush Sanchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Wynn Young (AK) that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions applies to the conflict with al Qaeda by providing definitions rooted in United States law for the standards of conduct prescribed by Common Article 3. The military commission procedures contained in this draft legislation re- flect the result of an extended delibera- tion both within the executive branch and between representatives of my Ad- ministration and Members of Congress. The draft legislation would establish a Code of Military Commissions that tracks the courts-martial procedures of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, but that departs from those procedures where they would be impracticable or inappropriate for the trial of unlawful enemy combatants captured in the midst of an ongoing armed conflict, under circumstances far different from those typically encountered by mili- tary prosecutors. Five years after the mass murders of 9/11, it is time for the United States to begin to prosecute captured al Qaeda members for the serious crimes that many of them have committed against United States citizens and our allies abroad. As we provide terrorists the justice and due process that they de- nied their victims, we demonstrate that our Nation remains committed to the rule of law. I ask that the Congress carefully con- sider this legislation and respectfully urge its speedy passage for enactment into law. GEORGE W. BusH. THE WHITE HOUSE. September 6, 2006. BANKS AND ILLEGALS (Mr. POE asked and was given per- mission to address the House for 1 minute.) Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, the battle for the border continues. Our recent ter- rorism hearings on the crimes inflicted on America by illegals brought forth almost universal testimony that illegals in this country contribute a vast over-percentage of violent crime and street crime, from theft to rape to murder. Only one witness, a banker, said illegals do not affect crime rates in his border town of Laredo, Texas, this de- spite the overwhelming contradictory testimony of his own sheriff and nu- merous lawmen. When the banker was questioned about his motives, that his bank makes money off deposits by illegals, and they are shipping their money south, he told the Wall Street Journal he felt at- tacked. Well, it is American communities that are under attack, Mr. Speaker. The banks and the wire services that profit off illegals can and should charge a fee for each transaction. That money would be used to compensate crime victims and pay for health care and education costs of illegals. Ameri- cans are paying these costs of illegals. Now it is time illegals pay. Mr. Speaker, that's just the way it is.

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