Providing for a conditional adjournment of the House of Representatives and a conditional recess or adjournment of the Senate.

Mr. Speaker, I want to state that on February 15, I missed several rollcall votes due to the Citizens Medal ceremony honoring the following constituents, Rachel Davino, Anne Marie Murphy, Lauren Rousseau, Victoria Soto, Mary Sherlach, and Dawn Hochsprung. These six extraordinarily talented and courageous teachers and administrators dedicated their lives to education and to the children of Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. When unimaginable tragedy struck, they gave their lives protecting those same children. As a community, Newtown will always feel their loss. As a country, we will always look to their courage. Had I been present I would have voted:

I. Nay--H. Con. Res. 15--Adjournment Resolution: I would have voted ``nay'' as the House should stay in session and work to find a reasonable alternative to the irrational, across-the-board spending cuts in the pending sequester.

2. Aye--Final Passage of H.R. 273: I would have voted ``aye'' to prevent a pay increase for Members of Congress in 2013 and am an original cosponsor of a bill to prevent a pay increase for Members of Congress for the entire 113th Congress. In these tough economic times and until the budget is balanced, it's not fair for Members of Congress to receive any form of pay increase when others are asked to cut their budgets.

3. Aye--Final Passage of H. Res. 65: Condemning the Government of North Korea for its flagrant and repeated violations of multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions, for its repeated provocations that threaten international peace and stability, and for its February 12, 2013 test of a nuclear device.

Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Concurrent Resolution 15, 113th Congress, I move that the House do now adjourn.

The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 1 p.m.), the House adjourned until Monday, February 25, 2013, at 2 p.m.

Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained and so I missed rollcall vote No. 43 ``Providing for the conditional adjournment of the House and Senate'' (H. Con. Res. 15). Had I been present, I would have voted ``no''.

Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 43, I was meeting with constituents from District 23 and arrived in the Chamber just as the vote was closed. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay.''

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that it be in order to consider H. Con. Res. 15, which was received earlier today.