[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 48 (Thursday, April 28, 1994)]
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                              {time}  1710
 
            VETERANS HEALTH PROGRAMS IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1994

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Durbin). The unfinished business is the 
question de novo of suspending the rules and passing the bill, H.R. 
4013, as amended.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the 
gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. Montgomery] that the House suspend the 
rules and pass the bill, H.R. 4013, as amended.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.


                             recorded vote

  Mr. PENNY. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. All subsequent roll call votes will be 5-
minute votes.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 282, 
noes 118, not voting 32, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 148]

                               AYES--282

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Andrews (ME)
     Applegate
     Archer
     Bacchus (FL)
     Bachus (AL)
     Baesler
     Baker (CA)
     Baker (LA)
     Barcia
     Bartlett
     Bateman
     Becerra
     Bentley
     Bereuter
     Bevill
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop
     Blackwell
     Bliley
     Blute
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonior
     Borski
     Boucher
     Brewster
     Brooks
     Browder
     Brown (CA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Burton
     Buyer
     Byrne
     Callahan
     Camp
     Canady
     Carr
     Chapman
     Clement
     Clinger
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Coleman
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (IL)
     Collins (MI)
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Coppersmith
     Costello
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cunningham
     Danner
     Darden
     de la Garza
     Deal
     Deutsch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Doolittle
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Edwards (CA)
     Edwards (TX)
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     Engel
     Evans
     Everett
     Ewing
     Farr
     Fields (LA)
     Fields (TX)
     Filner
     Fish
     Flake
     Foglietta
     Ford (MI)
     Fowler
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (CT)
     Gallegly
     Gejdenson
     Gekas
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Gingrich
     Gonzalez
     Goodling
     Gordon
     Goss
     Gunderson
     Gutierrez
     Hall (TX)
     Hamburg
     Hamilton
     Hansen
     Harman
     Hastert
     Hastings
     Hayes
     Hefley
     Hefner
     Herger
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Hoagland
     Hobson
     Hochbrueckner
     Hoekstra
     Hoke
     Holden
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hutto
     Inglis
     Jacobs
     Jefferson
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Kaptur
     Kasich
     Kennedy
     Kennelly
     Kildee
     Kim
     King
     Kingston
     Klein
     Knollenberg
     Kreidler
     Lancaster
     Lantos
     Lazio
     Leach
     Lehman
     Levin
     Levy
     Lewis (FL)
     Lightfoot
     Linder
     Livingston
     Long
     Lowey
     Machtley
     Maloney
     Manton
     Manzullo
     Margolies-Mezvinsky
     Markey
     Martinez
     McCandless
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McCurdy
     McDade
     McHale
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McKeon
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek
     Menendez
     Mfume
     Mica
     Mink
     Moakley
     Molinari
     Mollohan
     Montgomery
     Moorhead
     Moran
     Morella
     Myers
     Nadler
     Neal (MA)
     Neal (NC)
     Oberstar
     Ortiz
     Owens
     Oxley
     Pallone
     Parker
     Pastor
     Paxon
     Payne (NJ)
     Payne (VA)
     Peterson (FL)
     Peterson (MN)
     Pickle
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Portman
     Poshard
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Quillen
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Ravenel
     Regula
     Richardson
     Ridge
     Rogers
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Rose
     Roukema
     Rowland
     Roybal-Allard
     Sanders
     Sangmeister
     Santorum
     Sarpalius
     Saxton
     Schaefer
     Schenk
     Schiff
     Schumer
     Scott
     Serrano
     Shaw
     Sisisky
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (OR)
     Smith (TX)
     Snowe
     Solomon
     Spence
     Spratt
     Stearns
     Strickland
     Stump
     Stupak
     Sundquist
     Talent
     Tanner
     Tauzin
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Tejeda
     Thomas (CA)
     Thomas (WY)
     Thompson
     Thurman
     Torkildsen
     Torres
     Torricelli
     Towns
     Traficant
     Tucker
     Upton
     Velazquez
     Volkmer
     Walsh
     Waters
     Weldon
     Whitten
     Williams
     Wilson
     Wise
     Woolsey
     Wynn
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                               NOES--118

     Allard
     Andrews (NJ)
     Andrews (TX)
     Armey
     Ballenger
     Barca
     Barrett (WI)
     Barton
     Beilenson
     Berman
     Bunning
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Castle
     Clayton
     Combest
     Cox
     Crane
     DeLay
     Dellums
     Dickey
     Dixon
     Dooley
     Dornan
     Dreier
     Durbin
     Eshoo
     Fawell
     Fazio
     Fingerhut
     Ford (TN)
     Franks (NJ)
     Furse
     Gallo
     Gephardt
     Geren
     Glickman
     Grams
     Hancock
     Horn
     Houghton
     Hoyer
     Hughes
     Hyde
     Inslee
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnston
     Kanjorski
     Kleczka
     Klink
     Klug
     Kolbe
     Kopetski
     LaFalce
     Lambert
     LaRocco
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Mann
     Matsui
     Mazzoli
     McCloskey
     McDermott
     McMillan
     Michel
     Miller (CA)
     Miller (FL)
     Mineta
     Minge
     Nussle
     Obey
     Olver
     Orton
     Packard
     Pelosi
     Penny
     Petri
     Porter
     Ramstad
     Reed
     Reynolds
     Roberts
     Roemer
     Rohrabacher
     Rostenkowski
     Roth
     Royce
     Sabo
     Sawyer
     Schroeder
     Sensenbrenner
     Sharp
     Shays
     Shepherd
     Shuster
     Skaggs
     Smith (IA)
     Stark
     Stenholm
     Stokes
     Studds
     Swett
     Swift
     Synar
     Unsoeld
     Valentine
     Vento
     Visclosky
     Walker
     Washington
     Watt
     Waxman
     Wolf
     Wyden
     Yates
     Zeliff
     Zimmer

                             NOT VOTING--32

     Barlow
     Barrett (NE)
     Bryant
     Calvert
     Clay
     Condit
     DeFazio
     DeLauro
     Derrick
     English
     Frost
     Goodlatte
     Grandy
     Green
     Greenwood
     Hall (OH)
     Huffington
     Inhofe
     Istook
     Kyl
     Laughlin
     Lloyd
     Meyers
     Murphy
     Murtha
     Pickett
     Quinn
     Rush
     Slattery
     Thornton
     Vucanovich
     Wheat

                              {time} 1729

  Messrs. ROBERTS, McCLOSKEY and PORTER changed their vote from ``aye'' 
to ``no.''
  Mr. ARCHER changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So (two-thirds having voted thereof) the rules were suspended and the 
bill, as amended, as passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The title of the bill was amended so as to read: ``A bill to amend 
title 38, United States Code, to provide the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs with necessary flexibility in staffing the Veterans Health 
Administration.''.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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