[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 81 (Tuesday, May 16, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D612-D613]
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                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Bills Introduced: Thirteen public bills, H.R. 1641-1653; and one 
resolution, H. Res. 150 were introduced.
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Reports Filed: Reports were filed as follows:
  H. Res. 147, providing for the consideration of S. 4, to grant the 
power to the President to reduce budget authority (H. Rept. 104-121);
  H. Res. 148, providing for the consideration of S. 219, to improve 
the economy and efficiency of Federal Government Operations by 
establishing a moratorium on regulatory rulemaking action (H. Rept. 
104-122);
  H.R. 1175, to amend Public Law 89-454 to provide for the 
reauthorization of appropriations, amended (H. Rept. 104-123);
  Conference report on H.R. 1158, making emergency supplemental 
appropriations for additional disaster assistance and making 
rescissions for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995 (H. Rept. 
104-124); and
  H. Res. 149, providing for the consideration of H. Con. Res. 67 
setting forth the Congressional budget for the United States Government 
for the fiscal years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002 (H. 
Rept. 104-125).
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Speaker Pro Tempore: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he 
designates Representative Radanovich as Speaker pro tempore for today.
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Recess: House recessed at 9:42 a.m. and reconvened at 10 a.m.
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Medicare Trust Funds Report: By a yea-and-nay vote of 247 yeas to 170 
nays, Roll No. 330 (two-thirds of those present not voting in the 
affirmative), the House failed to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 1590, 
to require the Trustees of the medicare trust funds to report 
recommendations on resolving projected financial imbalance in medicare 
trust funds.
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Committees To Sit: By a yea-and-nay vote of 235 yeas to 181 nays, Roll 
No. 331, agreed to the Armey motion that all standing committees and 
their subcommittees be permitted to sit today and the balance of the 
week during the proceedings of the House under the 5-minute rule.
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Clean Water Act Amendments: By a yea-and-nay vote of 240 yeas to 185 
nays, Roll No. 337, the House passed H.R. 961, to amend the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act.
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  Rejected the Bonior motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure with instructions to report the bill 
back to the House adding provisions including standards for the 
discharge of industrial pollution into water; additional water 
pollution and control protections for public water supplies which are 
used for drinking; and a report by the Congressional Budget Office on 
the implications of this bill with regards to the Unfunded Mandates 
Reform Act (rejected by a recorded vote of 169 ayes to 256 noes, Roll 
No. 336).
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  Agreed to the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute.
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Agreed To:
  The Gilchrest amendment that strikes language prohibiting property 
from being categorized solely as a wetland based solely on the fact 
that migratory birds use or might use it;
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  The Minge amendment that requires any mitigation of agricultural 
lands to be developed in consultation with the Secretary of 
Agriculture;
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  The Riggs Amendment that adds certain municipal waste water reuse 
operations to the list of activities which are exempt from permit 
requirements under the comprehensive wetlands program;
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  The Taylor of Mississippi amendment that requires the Army Corps of 
Engineers implementing regulations to include standards and procedures 
that, to the maximum extent practicable, require the creation of 
artificial wetlands and other beneficial uses of material from 
navigational dredging;
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  The Franks of New Jersey amendment that clarifies that the ocean 
dumping provisions apply only to the ocean dumping of dredged material, 
and not to the dumping of sewage sludge or other materials; and
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  The Petri amendment that adds additional provisions regarding coastal 
nonpoint pollution control. Earlier, a similar amendment was offered 
but subsequently withdrawn.
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Rejected:
  The Boehlert amendment that sought to define ``wetland'' more broadly 
as any area that is inundated or saturated by surface water or ground 
water at a frequency and duration sufficient to a prevalence of 
vegetation adapted to such conditions; require EPA to initiate a 
national wetland restoration strategy in cooperation with other Federal 
agencies, State, and local governments, and the private sector; direct 
EPA to establish a Wetlands Coordinating Committee made up of Federal, 
State, and local government officials and associations to integrate 
conservation efforts among different levels of government and help 
develop national wetland strategy and policy implementation and advise 
EPA and the Army Secretary in adopting a regulatory program; direct EPA 
or the Corps of Engineers, as appropriate, to provide technical 
assistance and training to State and local governments in the 
development and implementation of wetlands protection; authorize $15 
million annually for fiscal year 1996 to 2000 for EPA to establish 
direct grants to States and tribes for implementation and development 
of wetlands strategies, assistance to regional and local governments to 
pursue the same objectives, provide financing of State permits in 
support of Federal wetlands projects with no State receiving more than 
$300 of each type of grant nor more than $500,000 overall and with 
recipients sharing at least 25 percent of the costs of projects 
undertaken (rejected by a recorded vote of 185 ayes to 242 noes, Roll 
No. 332);
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  The Gilchrest amendment that sought to strike language that 
establishes a new definition of what constitutes a wetland as well as 
its detailed wetlands classification system (rejected by a recorded 
vote of 180 ayes to 247 noes, Roll No. 333);
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  The Pallone en bloc amendment that sought to strike provisions which 
reassign certain regulatory authority over ocean dumping and 
navigational dredging permits from EPA to the Army Corps of Engineers;
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  The Frelinghuysen amendment that sought to allow States that are 
administering their own federally approved wetlands permit programs as 
of the date of enactment to continue administering their own programs 
rather than the new program established in the bill (rejected by a 
recorded vote of 181 ayes to 243 noes, Roll No. 334); and
Pages H4996-98
  The Wyden amendment that sought to provide that the Federal 
Government would not have to pay compensation for losses in property 
value caused by wetlands regulation in cases where failure to enforce 
such regulations is likely to reduce the fair market value of one or 
more private homes by $10,000 or more (rejected by a recorded vote of 
158 ayes to 270 noes, Roll No. 335).
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  The Clerk was authorized to make corrections in section numbers, 
punctuation, and cross-references and to make other technical and 
conforming changes.
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United States Naval Academy: The Speaker appointed Representatives 
Skeen, Gilchrest, Hoyer, and Mfume as members of the Board of Visitors 
to the United States Naval Academy on the part of the House.
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United States Military Academy: The Speaker appointed Representatives 
Kelly, Taylor of North Caroline, Hefner, and Laughlin as members of the 
Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy on the part of 
the House.
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American Indian and Alaska Native Culture: The Speaker appointed 
Representatives Young of Alaska and Kildee to the Board of Trustees of 
the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts 
Development on the part of the House.
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Truman Scholarship Foundation: The Speaker appointed Representatives 
Emerson and Skelton as members of the Board of Trustees of the Harry S 
Truman Scholarship Foundation on the part of the House.
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Amendments Ordered Printed. Amendments ordered printed pursuant to the 
rule appear on pages H5072-84.
Quorum Calls--Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes and five recorded votes 
developed during the proceedings of the House today and appear on pages 
H4974, H4977, H4986-87, H4992-93, H4997-98, H4999-H5000, H5012-13, and 
H5013. There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: Met at 9 a.m. and adjourned at 9 p.m.