[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 20 (Wednesday, February 1, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H1016-H1019]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


 ANAKTUVUK PASS LAND EXCHANGE AND WILDERNESS REDESIGNATION ACT OF 1995

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Upton). Pursuant to House Resolution 52 
and rule XXIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the 
Whole House on the State of the Union for the consideration of the 
bill, H.R. 400.

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                     in the committee of the whole

  Accordingly the House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 
400) to provide for the exchange of lands within Gates of the Arctic 
National Park and Preserve, and for other purposes, with Mr. Hastert in 
the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered as having 
been read the first time.
  Under the rule, the gentleman from Alaska [Mr. Young] will be 
recognized for 30 minutes, and the gentleman from New Mexico [Mr. 
Richardson] will be recognized for 30 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Alaska [Mr. Young].
  Mr. YOUNG. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of H.R. 400, a bill to provide 
for a land exchange within Gates of the Arctic Park and Preserve. This 
noncontroversial legislation was reported January 18 by the Resources 
Committee by a vote of 40 to 0.
  H.R. 400 was introduced January 4 and passed the committee, as I 
said, at 
[[Page H1017]] our first full committee markup January 18. This bill is 
identical to H.R. 4746, which passed the House during the 103d 
Congress--it represents a true compromise. And I thank the former 
chairman, Mr. Miller, and Mr. Vento for their cooperation on this 
legislation.
  The land exchange creates a deficit of 17,168 acres of wilderness in 
Gates of the Arctic Park. Therefore, the committee recommends the 
creation of 17,168 acres of wilderness outside the park, thus a no-net-
loss-no-net-gain of wilderness.
  This is a good bill. It settles a longstanding dispute between the 
local residents of Anaktuvuk Pass and the Park Service over the use of 
all-terrain vehicles [ATV's] for access to subsistence resources. Local 
residents use ATV's on parklands during the summer months. The Park 
Service contends that the ATV's harm the landscape. Both sides have 
reached agreement on the lands which may be used for ATV access and 
H.R. 400 ratifies that agreement.
  I urge passage of this legislation.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  (Mr. RICHARDSON asked and was given permission to revise and extend 
his remarks.)
  Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Chairman, H.R. 400 is identical to legislation 
considered by the Committee on Resources and passed by the House on a 
voice vote in the last Congress. It is noncontroversial legislation and 
deserves support. It is based on a proposal submitted by the 
administration in June 1994, and it was subsequently modified to 
reflect an agreement worked out between the gentleman from Alaska [Mr. 
Young], the gentleman from California [Mr. Miller], and the gentleman 
from Minnesota [Mr. Vento].
  While that agreement is different from the administration's proposal 
for wilderness designation of BLM-managed lands in the Nigu River area, 
it is similar in that it would assure that the bill will not result in 
a net reduction of wilderness in the National Park System and would 
leave the remainder of this area in its current wilderness study 
status.
  In addition, the boundaries provided in the bill by that agreement 
would emphasize protection of riparian areas along the Nigu River.
  H.R. 400 would ratify an agreement among the National Park Service on 
behalf of the United States to Alaska native corporations and the 
municipal government of Anaktuvuk Pass, AK. Under the agreement, the 
United States would transfer to the native corporations certain Federal 
lands that are now managed as part of the gates of the Arctic National 
Park.
  In exchange the native corporations and the municipal government 
would transfer to the United States certain lands and interests located 
within and adjacent to the national park.
  The park lands involved in the exchange are also designated as 
wilderness. So legislation is required if they are to be transferred. 
Ratification of the agreement and removal of the national park lands 
from wilderness designation is accompanied by the designation as 
wilderness of other lands, including both lands from the gates of the 
Arctic National Park and BLM public lands in the Nigu River area that 
would be added to the adjacent Noatak National preserve.

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  This bill would settle a longstanding access issue in Alaska. That 
access question concerns ATV use of the area, a matter of considerable 
concern because of the impacts on park resources and values.
  Mr. Speaker, the bill and the accompanying agreement, though, do not 
spell out the specific conditions and limitations of such ATV use. 
Instead, we are going to be relying on the parties to specify them in 
the conveyance documents, hopefully in a manner that solves conflicts 
between ATV use and park resources and values.
  Likewise, there is some concern that no formal appraisals have or 
will be done on the lands and interests being conveyed. We are relying 
on the Interior Department's determination that the exchanges are in 
the public interest.
  Mr. Chairman, while the bill reflects the congressional agreement 
that was previously worked out, I believe it should be noted that the 
administration favors the agreement as it was worked out originally 
between the Park Service, the Alaska Native corporations, and the local 
municipal government.
  Again, Mr. Chairman, let me state that we support the bill, and 
commend the gentleman for his leadership on this issue.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman 
from California [Mr. Miller].
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of this 
legislation, but I want to raise a couple of points with respect to the 
proposed land exchange. The EIS in this land exchange admits that no 
appraisals were prepared. Instead, a statement of value was prepared to 
assess the relative values of the interests proposed in the exchange. 
Since no appraisals were done, we have to rely on the assurances of the 
involved party that this is a good exchange, and we have no specific 
criteria on which to judge it.
  Mr. Chairman, I raise this point of order not about this legislation, 
because this legislation has gone through the committee and was the 
subject of a lot of deliberations last year, and in fact then should 
have been passed last year. I raise this point of view on this matter 
to say that I think that having now passed the balanced budget 
amendment, that we must be more conscientious, both in the committee 
and on the floor of the House, in dealing with exchanges and with 
transfers and gifts of public property.
  What we used to consider as a regular order around here may no longer 
be able to be the regular order, since we must now make sure that the 
taxpayers and the Government get all the moneys that they can in terms 
of the transfers of these properties with respect to asking for their 
market value, so those references can be used to help balance the 
budget. I will be raising this issue in the committee on other 
legislation that is scheduled to come before this House, and will raise 
it in the House in the event that we are not successful in the 
committee.
  Mr. Chairman, I think that this exchange, and although this is the 
remnant of a previous exchange, this exchange points out some of the 
serious potential problems that can arise from exchanges in general. 
Those problems are especially acute to Alaska, since both ANESCA and 
ANILCA allow an equal exchange upon the finding of the Secretary that 
the exchanges are in the public interest.
  Again, Mr. Chairman, this is the way we believe the Government 
business should have been done in the past, but it raises concerns 
about whether or not we can continue to do that in the future, given 
the constraints we are going to have around here in trying to meet our 
obligations under the balanced budget amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, in the grandfather of this exchange, the previous 
exchange which we are cleaning up after in this legislation, they found 
it was in fact not in the Government interest, according to GAO, and 
GAO recommended that the Congress direct the Secretary to develop and 
issue written procedures on land exchanges. At a minimum, procedures 
should require preparations of EIS's and EA's when appropriate, full 
public review, and a process for determining whether an exchange is in 
fact in the public interest, and not just a simple statement by the 
Secretary of the Interior that it is in fact in the public interest. 
Establishment of disclosure and fair market value on lands and 
interests should be exchanged. Land exchanges are not a panacea for 
solving all the problems. Very often they are very complex agreements 
that require careful review and analysis.
  The Committee on Resources has dealt with many land exchanges over 
the years which have involved considerable work by the committee, and 
also have had to be rewritten, those exchanges, or modified to assure 
they were in fact in the public interest.
  Instead of dealing with land exchanges on an ad hoc basis, we should 
have written and qualitative criteria to assess the public value of 
such exchanges.
  I raise the point again not with respect to this legislation, but in 
terms 
[[Page H1018]] of the future considerations of these matters before the 
committee.
  Mr. Chairman, I have raised these in the past from time to time, but 
I think we have to be much more diligent in that effort now, given the 
fiscal constraints we are going to have in the budgetary considerations 
of exchanges and transfers and gifts of public assets and resources, 
whether it is to private parties or to other units of government within 
the United States.
  Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding to me.
  Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. RICHARDSON. I yield to the gentleman from Alaska.
  Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Chairman, I can understand the statements of 
the gentleman from California, but I would hope that they should have 
been directed at legislation down the road, because we have to remember 
that Anaktuvuk Pass is a small, small village that was put inside of a 
park, with certain understandings that they could do certain things, 
and then told by the Park Service they could not do those things.
  This is a village that is high in the mountains above the Arctic 
Circle, with living conditions there which a lot of people do not 
recognize. What we tried to do in this exchange was work out between 
these people and the parks themselves to have a true exchange. If we 
went through the process of EIS statements and appraisal value, this 
would never have happened. This is the way that we have worked 
individually with a unique situation.
  As I mentioned, Mr. Chairman, this bill passed the last time. There 
is no money in this bill. In fact, if we really want an appraisal, I 
think Anaktuvuk Pass got shortchanged. I hope the gentleman refers to 
this later on down the road.
  Mr. Chairman, this is a good piece of legislation.
  It should be passed and it should become law today. Mr. Chairman, I 
thank the gentleman for yielding to me.
  Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Chairman, let me conclude by saying I support 
this bill. It is a good piece of legislation.
  The CHAIRMAN. All time for general debate has expired. Pursuant to 
the rule, the bill shall be considered under the 5-minute rule by 
section, and each section shall be considered as read.
  The Clerk will designate section 1.
  The text of section 1 is as follows:

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Anaktuvuk Pass Land Exchange 
     and Wilderness Redesignation Act of 1995''.

  The CHAIRMAN. Are there any amendments to section 1?
  If not, the Clerk will designate section 2.
  The text of section 2 is as follows:

     SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

       The Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (94 
     Stat. 2371), enacted on December 2, 1980, established Gates 
     of the Arctic National Park and Preserve and Gates of the 
     Arctic Wilderness. The village of Anaktuvuk Pass, located in 
     the highlands of the central Brooks Range, is virtually 
     surrounded by these national park and wilderness lands and is 
     the only Native village located within the boundary of a 
     National Park System unit in Alaska.
       (2) Unlike most other Alaskan Native communities, the 
     village of Anaktuvuk Pass is not located on a major river, 
     lake, or coastline that can be used as a means of access. The 
     residents of Anaktuvuk Pass have relied increasingly on snow 
     machines in winter and all-terrain vehicles in summer as 
     their primary means of access to pursue caribou and other 
     subsistence resources.
       (3) In a 1983 land exchange agreement, linear easements 
     were reserved by the Inupiat Eskimo people for use of all-
     terrain vehicles across certain national park lands, mostly 
     along stream and river banks. These linear easements proved 
     unsatisfactory, because they provided inadequate access to 
     subsistence resources while causing excessive environmental 
     impact from concentrated use.
       (4) The National Park Service and the Nunamiut Corporation 
     initiated discussions in 1985 to address concerns over the 
     use of all-terrain vehicles on park and wilderness land. 
     These discussions resulted in an agreement, originally 
     executed in 1992 and thereafter amended in 1993 and 1994, 
     among the National Park Service, Nunamiut Corporation, the 
     City of Anaktuvuk Pass, and Arctic Slope Regional 
     Corporation. Full effectuation of this agreement, as amended, 
     by its terms requires ratification by the Congress.

  The CHAIRMAN. Are there any amendments to section 2?
  If not, the Clerk will designate Section 3. The text of Section 3 is 
as follows:

     SEC. 3. RATIFICATION OF AGREEMENT.

       (a) Ratification.--
       (1) In general.--The terms, conditions, procedures, 
     covenants, reservations and other provisions set forth in the 
     document entitled ``Donation, Exchange of Lands and Interests 
     in Lands and Wilderness Redesignation Agreement Among Arctic 
     Slope Regional Corporation, Nunamiut Corporation, City of 
     Anaktuvuk Pass and the United States of America'' 
     (hereinafter referred to in this Act as ``the Agreement''), 
     executed by the parties on December 17, 1992, as amended, are 
     hereby incorporated in this Act, are ratified and confirmed, 
     and set forth the obligations and commitments of the United 
     States, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, Nunamiut 
     Corporation and the City of Anaktuvuk Pass, as a matter of 
     Federal law.
       (2) Land acquisition.--Lands acquired by the United States 
     pursuant to the Agreement shall be administered by the 
     Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the 
     ``Secretary'') as part of Gates of the Arctic National Park 
     and Preserve, subject to the laws and regulations applicable 
     thereto.
       (b) Maps.--The maps set forth as Exhibits C1, C2, and D 
     through I to the Agreement depict the lands subject to the 
     conveyances, retention of surface access rights, access 
     easements and all-terrain vehicle easements. These lands are 
     depicted in greater detail on a map entitled ``Land Exchange 
     Actions, Proposed Anaktuvuk Pass Land Exchange and Wilderness 
     Redesignation, Gates of the Arctic National Park and 
     Preserve'', Map No. 185/80,039, dated April 1994, and on file 
     at the Alaska Regional Office of the National Park Service 
     and the offices of Gates of the Arctic National Park and 
     Preserve in Fairbanks, Alaska. Written legal descriptions of 
     these lands shall be prepared and made available in the above 
     offices. In case of any discrepancies, Map No. 185/80,039 
     shall be controlling.

  Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that the 
remainder of the bill be printed in the Record, and open to amendment 
at any point.
  Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Alaska?
  There was no objection.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the remainder of the bill.
  The text of the remainder of the bill is as follows:

     SEC. 4. NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM WILDERNESS.

       (a) Gates of the Arctic Wilderness.--
       (1) Redesignation.--Section 701(2) of the Alaska National 
     Interest Lands Conservation Act (94 Stat. 2371, 2417) 
     establishing the Gates of the Arctic Wilderness is hereby 
     amended with the addition of approximately 56,825 acres as 
     wilderness and the rescission of approximately 73,993 acres 
     as wilderness, thus revising the Gates of the Arctic 
     Wilderness to approximately 7,034,832 acres.
       (2) Map.--The lands redesignated by paragraph (1) are 
     depicted on a map entitled ``Wilderness Actions, Proposed 
     Anaktuvuk Pass Land Exchange and Wilderness Redesignation, 
     Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve'', Map No. 
     185/80,040, dated April 1994, and on file at the Alaska 
     Regional Office of the National Park Service and the office 
     of Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in 
     Fairbanks, Alaska.
       (b) Noatak National Preserve.--Section 201(8)(a) of the 
     Alaska National Interest Land Conservation Act (94 Stat. 
     2380) is amended by--
       (1) striking ``approximately six million four hundred and 
     sixty thousand acres'' and inserting in lieu thereof 
     ``approximately 6,477,168 acres''; and
       (2) inserting ``and the map entitled `Noatak National 
     Preserve and Noatak Wilderness Addition' dated September 
     1994'' after ``July 1980''.
       (c) Noatak Wilderness.--Section 701(7) of the Alaska 
     National Interest Lands Conservation Act (94 Stat. 2417) is 
     amended by striking ``approximately five million eight 
     hundred thousand acres'' and inserting in lieu thereof 
     ``approximately 5,817,168 acres''.
     SEC. 5. CONFORMANCE WITH OTHER LAW.

       (a) Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.--All of the lands, 
     or interests therein, conveyed to and received by Arctic 
     Slope Regional Corporation or Nunamiut Corporation pursuant 
     to the Agreement shall be deemed conveyed and received 
     pursuant to exchanges under section 22(f) of the Alaska 
     Native Claims Settlement Act, as amended (43 U.S.C. 1601, 
     1621(f)). All of the lands or interests in lands conveyed 
     pursuant to the Agreement shall be conveyed subject to valid 
     existing rights.
       (b) Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.--
     Except to the extent specifically set forth in this Act or 
     the Agreement, nothing in this Act or in the Agreement shall 
     be construed to enlarge or diminish the rights, privileges, 
     or obligations of any person, including specifically the 
     preference for subsistence uses and access to subsistence 
     resources provided under the Alaska National Interest Lands 
     Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.).

  The CHAIRMAN. Are there any amendments to the bill?
  [[Page H1019]] If not, under the rule, the Committee rises.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
Upton) having assumed the chair, Mr. Hastert, chairman of the Committee 
of the Whole House on the State of the Union, reported that that 
Committee, having had under consideration the bill (H.R. 400) to 
provide for the exchange of lands within Gates of the Arctic National 
Park and Preserve, and for other purposes, pursuant to House Resolution 
52, he reported the bill back to the House.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the rule, the previous question is 
ordered.
  The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was 
read the third time.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the passage of the bill.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
they ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, I object to the vote on the 
ground that a quorum is not present and make the point of order that a 
quorum is not present.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Evidently a quorum is not present.
  The Sergeant at Arms will notify absent Members.
  This vote will be a 15-minute vote.
  the vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 427, 
nays 0, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 84]

                               YEAS--427

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Allard
     Andrews
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baesler
     Baker (CA)
     Baker (LA)
     Baldacci
     Ballenger
     Barcia
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Barrett (WI)
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Beilenson
     Bentsen
     Bereuter
     Berman
     Bevill
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop
     Bliley
     Blute
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonior
     Bono
     Borski
     Boucher
     Brewster
     Browder
     Brown (CA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Brownback
     Bryant (TN)
     Bryant (TX)
     Bunn
     Bunning
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Canady
     Cardin
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Chapman
     Chenoweth
     Christensen
     Chrysler
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clinger
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Coleman
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (IL)
     Collins (MI)
     Combest
     Condit
     Conyers
     Cooley
     Costello
     Cox
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Crane
     Crapo
     Cremeans
     Cubin
     Cunningham
     Danner
     Davis
     de la Garza
     Deal
     DeFazio
     DeLauro
     DeLay
     Dellums
     Deutsch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Doggett
     Dooley
     Doolittle
     Dornan
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     Engel
     English
     Ensign
     Eshoo
     Evans
     Everett
     Ewing
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fawell
     Fazio
     Fields (LA)
     Fields (TX)
     Filner
     Flake
     Flanagan
     Foglietta
     Foley
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fowler
     Fox
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (CT)
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frisa
     Frost
     Funderburk
     Furse
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gejdenson
     Gekas
     Gephardt
     Geren
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Gordon
     Goss
     Graham
     Green
     Greenwood
     Gunderson
     Gutierrez
     Gutknecht
     Hall (TX)
     Hamilton
     Hancock
     Hansen
     Harman
     Hastert
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Hefner
     Heineman
     Herger
     Hilleary
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hoke
     Holden
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hoyer
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Inglis
     Istook
     Jackson-Lee
     Jacobs
     Jefferson
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson, E.B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Johnston
     Jones
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MA)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kennelly
     Kildee
     Kim
     King
     Kingston
     Kleczka
     Klink
     Klug
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     LaFalce
     LaHood
     Lantos
     Largent
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Laughlin
     Lazio
     Leach
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Lightfoot
     Lincoln
     Linder
     Lipinski
     Livingston
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren
     Longley
     Lowey
     Lucas
     Luther
     Maloney
     Manton
     Manzullo
     Markey
     Martinez
     Martini
     Mascara
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McDade
     McDermott
     McHale
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntosh
     McKeon
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek
     Menendez
     Metcalf
     Meyers
     Mfume
     Mica
     Miller (CA)
     Miller (FL)
     Mineta
     Minge
     Mink
     Moakley
     Molinari
     Mollohan
     Montgomery
     Moorhead
     Moran
     Morella
     Myers
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Neal
     Nethercutt
     Neumann
     Ney
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Orton
     Owens
     Oxley
     Packard
     Pallone
     Parker
     Pastor
     Paxon
     Payne (NJ)
     Payne (VA)
     Pelosi
     Peterson (FL)
     Peterson (MN)
     Petri
     Pickett
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Portman
     Poshard
     Pryce
     Quillen
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Reed
     Regula
     Reynolds
     Richardson
     Riggs
     Rivers
     Roberts
     Roemer
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Rose
     Roth
     Roukema
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Rush
     Sabo
     Salmon
     Sanders
     Sanford
     Sawyer
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaefer
     Schiff
     Schroeder
     Schumer
     Scott
     Seastrand
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Shuster
     Sisisky
     Skaggs
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Solomon
     Souder
     Spence
     Spratt
     Stearns
     Stenholm
     Stockman
     Stokes
     Studds
     Stump
     Stupak
     Talent
     Tanner
     Tate
     Tauzin
     Taylor (MS)
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     Tejeda
     Thomas
     Thompson
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     Thurman
     Tiahrt
     Torkildsen
     Torres
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     Traficant
     Tucker
     Upton
     Velazquez
     Vento
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     Volkmer
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     Waldholtz
     Walker
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Ward
     Waters
     Watt (NC)
     Watts (OK)
     Waxman
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     White
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Williams
     Wilson
     Wise
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wyden
     Wynn
     Yates
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Zeliff
     Zimmer

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1

       
     Coburn
       

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Bartlett
     Becerra
     Clay
     Hall (OH)
     Murtha
     Stark

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  Mr. ENGLISH of Pennsylvania changed his vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  

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