[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 90 (Wednesday, July 13, 1994)]
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                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Bills Introduced: Twenty-one public bills, H.R. 4734-4754, were 
introduced.
  Pages H5654-55
Reports Filed: Reports were filed as follows:
  H.R. 3499, to amend the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and 
Personnel Practices Act, amended (H. Rept. 103-598, Part I); and
  H.R. 2721, to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 
Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to improve the 
effectiveness of administrative review of employment discriminations 
claims made by Federal employees, amended (H. Rept. 103-599, Part I).
Page H5654
Journal: By a yea-and-nay vote of 241 yeas to 149 nays, Roll No. 318, 
the House approved the Journal of Tuesday, July 12.
  Pages H5553-54
California Desert: House continued consideration of H.R. 518, to 
designate certain lands in the California desert as wilderness, and to 
establish the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the 
Mojave National Monument; but came to no resolution thereon. 
Consideration of amendments will resume on Thursday, July 14.
  Pages H5558-89
Agreed To:
  The Cunningham amendment, as amended by the Miller of California 
amendment, that provides that, with the exception of lands owned by the 
California State Lands Commission and the Catellus Development 
Corporation, owners of all lands acquired are entitled to the full use 
and enjoyment of those lands without the imposition of any limitation 
on their lawful use; without the deferring of the submission, review, 
approval or implementation of any lands use permit; and without the 
imposition of any rules and regulations applicable to Federal lands;
Pages H5558-60
  The Vento amendment that reduces the wilderness designation of the 
Death Valley National Park by 17,000 acres;
Page H5560
  The Richardson amendment, as amended by the Miller of California 
amendment, that provides for a 2-year study to be conducted by the 
Secretary of the Interior in consultation with the Timbisha Shoshone 
Tribe to identify lands suitable for a reservation for the Tribe to be 
located within the Tribe's aboriginal homeland area; and provides that 
the Secretary may exclude, at his discretion, lands located within, or 
contiguous to, the exterior boundaries of lands held in trust for a 
federally recognized Indian tribe located in the State of California;
Pages H5562-63
  The Allard amendment that guarantees the continued operation of 
federally owned dams on the Colorado River; and specifies that no 
reserve water rights are established in the designated wilderness area 
of the Colorado River;
Pages H5563-65
  The Miller of California perfecting amendment that permits private 
landowners within designated areas to be eligible to receive credits 
and to participate in land exchanges the same as those available to the 
Catellus Development Corporation (agreed to by a recorded vote of 419 
ayes, Roll No. 319);
Pages H5565-71
  The Vento amendment, as modified, and as amended by the Farr 
perfecting amendment, that renews military lands withdrawals for the 
China Lake Naval Weapons and the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery 
Range for 15 years; permits the continued use of lands for military 
purposes; and adds language to ensure the continuation of low-level 
military overflights in the designated areas;
Pages H5572-84
  The Duncan amendment, as modified, as amended by the Miller of 
California amendment, that limits the authorization to $36 million for 
construction and operation over and above that provided for fiscal year 
1994; and $300 million for acquisition costs; and
Pages H5584-88
  The Traficant amendment that would require that all Government 
purchases comply with the Buy American Act.
Pages H5588-89
  Rejected the Hansen substitute amendment to the agreed to Vento 
amendment, as modified, that sought to renew for twenty-five years the 
military land withdrawals for China Lake and Chocolate Mountain weapons 
ranges; to allow the Navy to continue to use the El Centro facility 
through 1996; and to allow continued low-level overflights of military 
aircraft in the wilderness and park areas.
Pages H5579-84
District of Columbia Appropriations: By a recorded vote of 213 ayes to 
210 noes, Roll No. 322, the House passed H.R. 4649, making 
appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia, and 
other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of 
said District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995.
  Pages H5589-12
Agreed To:
  The Dixon amendment that strikes language providing for the funding 
of the Washington Aqueduct Capital Improvement Program;
Page H5599
  The Dixon amendment that requires that District to reduce its total 
fiscal year 1995 spending by $150 million instead of cutting Federal 
payments to the District;
Pages H5599-H5602
  The Traficant amendment that expresses the sense of the Congress that 
all equipment and products purchased with appropriated funds be 
American-made; and
Page H5605
  The Barton of Texas amendment that prohibits the use of funds to be 
used to implement or enforce any system of registration of unmarried, 
cohabiting couples whether they are homosexual, lesbian, or 
heterosexual, including but not limited to registration for the purpose 
of extending employment, health, or governmental benefits to such 
couples on the same basis that such benefits are extended to legally 
married couples (agreed to by a recorded vote of 251 ayes to 176 noes, 
Roll No. 321).
Pages H5605-11
Rejected:
  The Dixon motion that the Committee of the Whole rise and report the 
bill back to the House (rejected by a recorded vote of 192 ayes to 236 
noes, Roll No. 320); and
Pages H5602-05
  The Dixon amendment to the Barton of Texas amendment that sought to 
provide that no Federal funds be used for the purpose of implementing 
any system of registration of unmarried, cohabiting couples whether 
homosexual, lesbian, or heterosexual for the purpose of extending 
employment, health, or governmental benefits to such couples on the 
same basis that such benefits are extended to legally married couples.
Pages H5606-10
  The Richardson amendment was offered, but subsequently withdrawn, 
that sought to provide that the Mayor of the District of Columbia 
expend $200,000 of the $81 million appropriated for Governmental 
Direction and Support on the D.C. Schools project for intensive 
intervention and youth development initiatives for high risk Hispanic 
teenagers.
Page H5602
Omnibus Crime Control: House agreed to the following motions to 
instruct House conferees in the conference on the House amendments to 
the Senate amendment to H.R. 3355, to amend the Omnibus Crime Control 
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to allow grants to increase police 
presence, to expand and improve cooperative efforts between law 
enforcement agencies and members of the community to address crime and 
other disorder problems, and otherwise to enhance public safety:
  The Dunn motion to instruct House conferees not to make any agreement 
that does not include subtitle F of title VIII of the Senate amendment 
relating to sexually violent predators (agreed to by a yea-and-nay vote 
of 407 yeas to 13 nays, Roll No. 323); and
Pages H5612-18
  The Rohrabacher motion to instruct House conferees to agree to 
section 5102 of the Senate amendment that prohibits payment from 
various Federal programs to people not lawfully present within the 
United States (agreed to by a yea-and-nay vote of 289 yeas to 121 nays, 
Roll No. 324).
Pages H5618-27
Presidential Message--Export to China: Read a message from the 
President wherein he advises of the waiver of export restrictions to 
the People's Republic of China with respect to export of U.S.-origin 
satellites insofar as those restrictions apply to the Echostar 
project--referred to the Committee of Foreign Affairs and ordered 
printed (H. Doc. 103-279).
  Page H5627
Referral: One Senate-passed measure was referred to the appropriate 
House committee.
  Page H5654
Quorum Calls--Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes and four recorded votes 
developed during the proceedings of the House today and appear on pages 
H5553-54, H5571, H5604-05, H5610-11, H5611-12, H5617-18, and H5626-27. 
There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: Met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 10:48 p.m.