[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 65 (Monday, May 23, 1994)]
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                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Bills Introduced: Five public bills, H.R. 4471-4475; and three 
resolutions, H. Con. Res. 251 and H. Res, 432 and 434 were introduced.

                                                             Page H3887

Reports Filed: Reports were filed as follows:
  H.R. 3679, to authorize appropriations to expand implementation of 
the Junior Duck Stamp Conservation Program conducted by the United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service, amended (H. Rept. 103-521);
  H.R. 3982, entitled ``The Ocean Radioactive Dumping Ban Act of 
1994,'' amended (H. Rept. 103-522);
  H. Res. 433, waiving certain points of order against H.R. 4453, 
making appropriations for military construction for the Department of 
Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995 (H. Rept. 103-
523);
  H.R. 4426, making appropriations for foreign operations, export 
financing, and related program for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
1995 (H. Rept. 103-524).

                                                             Page H3887

Speaker Pro Tempore: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he 
designates Representative Filner to act as Speaker pro tempore for 
today.

                                                             Page H3793

Recess: House recessed at 10:45 a.m. and reconvened at noon.

                                                             Page H3795

Presidential Messages: Read the following messages from the President:
  Haiti embargo: Message wherein he transmits notice to the Congress of 
a new Executive order to implement certain provisions of the United 
Nations Security Council Resolution 917 regarding the measures being 
take to tighten the embargo against Haiti--referred to the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs and ordered printed (H. Doc. No. 103-258); and

                                                         Pages H3796-97

  Chemical and biological weapons: Message wherein he reports on the 
dangers of the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons--
referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered printed (H. 
Doc. No. 103-259).

                                                         Pages H3797-98

Suspensions: House voted to suspend the rules and pass the following 
measures:
  Veterans construction projects: H.R. 4425, to authorize major medical 
facility construction projects for the Department of Veterans Affairs 
for fiscal year 1995, and to revise and improve veterans' health 
programs;

                                                      Pages H3798-H3802

  Silver Haired Congress: H. Con. Res. 176, to recognize and encourage 
the convening of a National Silver Haired Congress;

                                                             Page H3804

  Stamp conservation program: H.R. 3679, amended, to authorize 
appropriations to expand implementation of the Junior Duck Stamp 
Conservation Program conducted by the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service. Agreed to amend the title;

                                               Pages H3804-07, H3847-48

  Ocean dumping ban: H.R. 3982, amended, entitled ``The Ocean 
Radioactive Dumping Ban Act of 1994.'' Agreed to amend the title.

                                               Pages H3807-09, H3848-49

  Greater Washington Soap Box Derby: H. Con. Res. 238, authorizing the 
use of the Capitol grounds for the Greater Washington Soap Box Derby;

                                                         Pages H3835-36

  Sam B. Hall Federal Building and Courthouse: H.R. 3840, to designate 
the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 100 East 
Houston Street in Marshall, Texas, as the ``Sam B. Hall, Jr., Federal 
Building and United States Courthouse'';

                                                         Pages H3836-38

  Brien McMahon Federal Building: H.R. 3724, to designate the United 
States courthouse located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, as the ``Brien 
McMahon Federal Building'';

                                                         Pages H3838-39

  Medgar Wiley Evers Post Office: H.R. 3863, to designate the Post 
Office building located at 401 E. South Street in Jackson, Mississippi, 
as the ``Medgar Wiley Evers Post Office'';

                                                         Pages H3839-40

  Roy M. Wheat Post Office: H.R. 3939, amended, to designate the United 
States Post Office located at 220 South 40th Avenue in Hattiesburg, 
Mississippi, as the ``Roy M. Wheat Post Office.'' Agreed to amend the 
title;

                                                         Pages H3840-41

  John Longo Jr. Post Office: H.R. 3984, amended, to designate the 
United States post office located at 212 Coleman Avenue in Waveland, 
Mississippi, as the ``John Longo, Jr., Post Office.'' Agreed to amend 
the title;

                                                         Pages H3841-42

  Candace White United States Post Office: H.R. 4177, amended, to 
designate the Post Office building located at 1601 Highway 35 in 
Middletown, New Jersey, as the ``Candace White United States Post 
Office.'' Agreed to amend the title;

                                                             Page H3842

  Alvaro de Lugo United States Post Office: H.R. 4190, to designate the 
United States Post Office located at 41-12 Norre Gade in Saint Thomas, 
Virgin Islands, as the ``Alvaro de Lugo United States Post Office.'' 
Agreed to amend the title; and

                                                         Pages H3842-43

  Aubrey C. Ottley United States Post Office: H.R. 4191, to designate 
the United States Post Office located at 9630 Estate Thomas in Saint 
Thomas, Virgin Islands, as the ``Aubrey C. Ottley United States Post 
Office.'' Agreed to amend the title.

                                                         Pages H3843-44

Indian Act Technical Corrections: House voted to suspend the rules and 
concur in the Senate amendments to the House amendment to S. 1654, to 
make certain technical corrections--clearing the measure for the 
President.

                                                         Pages H3802-04

Toy Safety: House voted to suspend the rules and agree to the 
Conference Report on H.R. 965, to provide for toy safety--clearing the 
measure for Senate action.

                                                         Pages H3809-10

Public Health Service Act Authorization: House voted to suspend the 
rules and pass H.R. 3869, to amend the Public Health Service Act revise 
and extend programs relating to the health of individuals who are 
members of minority groups. Subsequently, S. 1569, a similar Senate-
passed measure was passed in lieu, after being amended to contain the 
language of H.R. 3869 as passed the House. Agreed to amend the title of 
the Senate bill. H.R. 3869 was laid on the table. House then insisted 
on its amendments to S. 1569 and requested a conference. Appointed as 
conferees: Representatives Dingell, Waxman, Richardson, Towns, 
Washington, Moorhead, Bliley, Bilirakis.

                                                         Pages H3810-35

Late Report: The Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries received 
permission to have until midnight on June 3, 1994 to file a report on 
H.R. 4003, The Maritime Administration Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 1995.

                                                             Page H3809

Recess: House recessed at 3:08 p.m. and reconvened at 4:17 p.m.

                                                             Page H3849

Naval Vessels Transfer: House vote to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 
4429, amended, to authorize the transfer of naval vessels to certain 
foreign countries.

                                                         Pages H3849-51

Late Report: Committee on appropriations received permission to have 
until midnight tonight to file a certain privileged report.

                                                             Page H3860

Defense Authorization: House continued consideration of H.R. 4301, to 
authorize appropriations for military activities of the Department of 
Defense, and to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 
1995; but came to no resolution thereon. Consideration of amendments 
will resume on Tuesday, May 24.

                                               Pages H3851-65, H3869-81

Agreed To:
  The Solomon amendment that would not permit the Defense Department to 
make grants to, or contract with educational institutions that deny 
access to military recruiters (agreed to by a recorded vote of 271 ayes 
to 126 noes, Roll No. 191); and

                                                         Pages H3861-65

  The Dellums en block amendment, as modified, that requires the 
Defense Department to report to Congress regarding the effects of the 
U.S. Armed Forces in peacekeeping operations in Bosnia-Hercegovina and 
the military readiness of the ground forces to carry out this mission; 
permits the Department of Labor to continue offering job training 
programs to defense-related workers through Title III of the Job 
Training Partnership Act; requires the Defense Department to report to 
Congress within 180 days on U.S. intervention in Somalia; extends 
through fiscal year 1997 a current Office of Federal Procurement Policy 
pilot program which permits prime defense contractors to consolidate 
the paperwork required for submission to their subcontractors; 
prohibits the use of funds for any development or testing of anti-
ballistic missile systems or components except for such development and 
testing consistent with the interpretation of the July 13, 1993, letter 
from the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency to the Chairman of the 
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; provides that the Secretary of 
Defense carry out a biennial survey to measure the state of racial and 
ethnic issues and discrimination against active-duty military personnel 
and report to Congress on the results of the first survey not later 
than February 15, 1995; provides for the establishment of an 
International Center for Applied Research; limits the use of funds made 
available to the Department of Energy to study or relocate tritium-
related activities and operations from the Mound Plant, Ohio, to a 
facility other than a weapons production facility having demonstrated 
tritium production and handling experience as recommended by Department 
consultants; increases the time period during which adjustments of 
shipbuilding claims may be made; allows the transfer of administrative 
jurisdiction over housing units of a closed Air Force radar site 
located near Holbrook, Arizona, to the Secretary of Interior for use as 
employee housing for the Petrified Forest National Park; provides for a 
report from the Secretary of Defense to the Committees on Armed 
Services of the Senate and House of Representatives no later than March 
31, 1995, on the calculation and application of the tuition rate 
required to be determined under the Defense Dependent's Education Act; 
strikes language regarding the evaluation of schools of the Defense 
Dependent's education system with fewer than 150 students; preserves 
the rights of employees of any school established by the Department of 
Defense domestic dependent elementary and secondary schools to 
negotiate or bargain collectively with the Secretary with respect to 
wages, hours, and other conditions of employment; makes a priority the 
transfer to States of nonlethal excess supplies of the Department of 
Defense; requires the Secretary of the Air Force to conduct an 
evaluation of the costs of restarting the production of the C-5B 
aircraft; reduces by $4.5 million the amount of money to be derived 
from the amount provided for development of an electronic fuel control 
to upgrade the hydromechanical unit for the T53-series helicopter 
engine; limits the Secretary of the Navy's ability to obligate funds 
for vessels designated as TAGS vessels without certifying to the 
appropriate congressional committees that new or remanufactured 
multibeam sonars to be used on those vessels have been obtained through 
competitive acquisition procedures; provides or the conveyance by the 
Secretary of Army of certain property to the City of Edison, New Jersey 
to be used for recreational purposes; provides for the expansion of 
personnel adjustment, education, and training programs to include the 
Coast Guard and strikes language which excludes the Coast Guard; names 
a program established under the National Defense Authorization Act for 
1992, and 1993, as the Marilyn Lloyd Scholarship and Fellowship 
Program; limits the uses of funds authorized for Former Soviet Union 
Threat Reduction programs; expresses the sense of Congress concerning 
safe, secure dismantlement of the Soviet nuclear arsenal; prohibits the 
use of funds authorized for Cooperative Threat Reduction programs to be 
obligated for a military-to-military contract programs until the 
Secretaries of Defense and State submit to Congress a joint report on 
the coordination of such military-to-military programs; prevents the 
funding of Cooperative Threat Reduction programs until the President 
certifies to Congress that Russia has terminated its offensive 
biological weapons program; requests posthumous commissioning in the 
Army of two African-Americans discharged from West Point due to racial 
prejudice during the post-Civil War period; requires a report to 
Congress from the Secretary of Energy on the economic development and 
conversion activities resulting from reconfiguration of Department of 
Energy Nuclear Weapons Complex; and requires the Secretary of Defense 
to conduct a demonstration project on purchase of fire, security, 
police, public works, and utility services from local government 
agencies.

                                                         Pages H3873-80

  Rejected the Dellums amendment that sought to strike language 
provisions requiring 18 year olds to register with the Selective 
Service beginning on October 1, 1994 (rejected by a recorded vote of 
125 ayes to 273 noes, Roll No. 192).

                                                         Pages H3865-69

  H. Res. 431, the rule providing for the further consideration of the 
bill, was agreed to earlier by a voice vote.

                                                         Pages H3851-60

Omnibus Crime Control: The Speaker announced the following Members as 
additional conferees in the conference on H.R. 3355, to control and 
prevent crime, for consideration of sections 1533, 1536, and 3231 of 
the Senate amendment and modifications committed to conference: 
Representatives Mineta, Rahall, Nadler, Shuster, and Petri.

                                                             Page H3880

Community Development Financial Institutions: The Speaker made the 
following modifications in the appointment of conferees on the part of 
the House to the conference on H.R. 3474, to reduce administrative 
requirements for insured depository institutions to the extent 
consistent with safe and sound banking practices, and to facilitate the 
establishment of community development financial institutions: From the 
Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, Representative Lazio 
is appointed in lieu of Mr. Ridge for consideration of title VI of the 
Senate amendment.

                                                             Page H3880

Presidential Message--Atomic Energy Agreement: Read a message from the 
President wherein he transmits the text of an amendment to the 
Agreement Between the Government of the United States and the 
Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 
for Cooperation on the Uses of Atomic Energy for Mutual Defense 
Purposes, and his written approval, authorization, and determination 
concerning the agreement--referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
and ordered printed (H. Doc. 103-260).

                                                             Page H3880

Senate Messages: Message received from the Senate today appears on page 
H3795.
Quorum Calls--Votes: Two recorded votes developed during the 
proceedings of the House today and appear on pages H3865 and H3869. 
There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: Met at 10:30 a.m. and adjourned at 8:46 p.m.