[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 108 (Thursday, June 29, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H6607-H6644]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL DISASTER 
    ASSISTANCE FOR ANTI-TERRORISM INITIATIVES FOR ASSISTANCE IN THE 
     RECOVERY FROM THE TRAGEDY THAT OCCURRED AT OKLAHOMA CITY, AND 
                          RESCISSIONS ACT 1995

  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to the House Resolution 176 
just adopted, I call up the bill (H.R. 1944) making emergency 
supplemental appropriations for additional disaster assistance, for 
anti-terrorism initiatives, for assistance in the recovery from the 
tragedy that occurred at Oklahoma City, and making rescissions for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, and for other purposes, and ask 
for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The text of H.R. 1944 is as follows:
                               H.R. 1944

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 
     following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
     Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to provide emergency 
     supplemental appropriations for additional disaster 
     assistance, for anti-terrorism initiatives, for assistance in 
     the recovery from the tragedy that occurred at Oklahoma City, 
     and making rescissions for the fiscal year ending September 
     30, 1995, and for other purposes, namely:

                 TITLE I--SUPPLEMENTALS AND RESCISSIONS

                               CHAPTER I

      DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG 
                  ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                     Agricultural Research Service


                          (transfer of funds)

       Funds made available under this heading in Public Law 103-
     330 and subsequently transferred to ``Nutrition Initiatives'' 
     are transferred to the Agricultural Research Service.

                   Food Safety and Inspection Service

       For an additional amount for salaries and expenses of the 
     Food Safety and Inspection Service, $9,082,000.

          Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service


                         salaries and expenses

       For an additional amount for salaries and expenses of the 
     Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, 
     $5,000,000.

                   Commodity Credit Corporation Fund


                           food for progress

       Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds of the 
     Commodity Credit Corporation in excess of $50,000,000 for 
     fiscal year 1995 (exclusive of the cost of commodities in the 
     fiscal year) may be used to carry out the Food for Progress 
     Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1736o) with respect to commodities made 
     available under section 416(b) of the Agricultural Act of 
     1949: Provided, That of this amount not more than $20,000,000 
     may be used without regard to section 110(g) of the Food for 
     Progress Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1736(g)). The additional costs 
     resulting from this provision shall be financed from funds 
     credited to the Corporation pursuant to section 426 of Public 
     Law 103-465.

                  Rural Electrification Administration


       rural electrification and telephone loans program account

       The second paragraph under this heading in Public Law 103-
     330 (108 Stat. 2441) is amended by inserting before the 
     period at the end, the following: ``: Provided, That 
     notwithstanding section 305(d)(2) of the Rural 
     Electrification Act of 1936, borrower interest rates may 
     exceed 7 per centum per year''.
                       Food and Nutrition Service


                  commodity supplemental food program

       The paragraph under this heading in Public Law 103-330 (108 
     Stat. 2441) is amended by inserting before the period at the 
     end, the following: ``: Provided further, That twenty per 
     centum of any Commodity Supplemental Food Program funds 
     carried over from fiscal year 1994 shall be available for 
     administrative costs of the program''.

                           General Provision

       Section 715 of Public Law 103-330 is amended by deleting 
     ``$85,500,000'' and by inserting ``$110,000,000''. The 
     additional costs resulting from this provision shall be 
     financed from funds credited to the Commodity Credit 
     Corporation pursuant to section 426 of Public Law 103-465.

                        Office of the Secretary


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-330, $31,000 are rescinded: Provided, That none of 
     the funds made available to the Department of Agriculture may 
     be used to carry out activities under 7 U.S.C. 2257 without 
     prior notification to the Committees on Appropriations.

        Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-330, $1,500,000 are rescinded.

                     Agricultural Research Service


                        Buildings and facilities

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-330 and other Acts, $1,400,000 are rescinded: 
     Provided, That after completion of the construction of the 
     National Swine Research Center Laboratory, all rights and 
     title of the United States in that Center Laboratory shall be 
     conveyed to Iowa State University.

                   Cooperative State Research Service


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-330, $1,051,000 are 

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     rescinded, including $524,000 for contracts and grants for agricultural 
     research under the Act of August 4, 1965, as amended (7 
     U.S.C. 450i(c)); and $527,000 for necessary expenses of 
     Cooperative State Research Service activities: Provided, That 
     the amount of ``$9,917,000'' available under this heading in 
     Public Law 103-330 (108 Stat. 2441) for a program of capacity 
     building grants to colleges eligible to receive funds under 
     the Act of August 30, 1890, is amended to read 
     ``$9,207,000''.


                        buildings and facilities

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-330 and other Acts, $2,184,000 are rescinded.

               Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service


                        buildings and facilities

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-330, $2,000,000 are rescinded.

    Rural Development Administration and Farmers Home Administration


              rural housing insurance fund program account

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-330, $15,500,000 for the cost of section 515 rental 
     housing loans are rescinded.


             local technical assistance and planning grants

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-330, $1,750,000 are rescinded.
             Alcohol Fuels Credit Guarantee Program Account


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 102-341, $9,000,000 are rescinded.

                  Rural Electrification Administration


       rural electrification and telephone loans program account

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-330, $1,500,000 for the cost of 5 per centum rural 
     telephone loans are rescinded.

                       Food and Nutrition Service


  special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children 
                                 (wic)

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-111, $20,000,000 are rescinded.

                      Foreign Agricultural Service


                     public law 480 program account

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-330, $40,000,000 for commodities supplied in 
     connection with dispositions abroad, pursuant to title II of 
     the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 
     1954, as amended, are rescinded.

                               CHAPTER II

DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED 
                                AGENCIES

                            RELATED AGENCIES

                 National Bankruptcy Review Commission


                          (transfer of funds)

       For the National Bankruptcy Review Commission as authorized 
     by Public Law 103-394, $1,000,000 shall be made available 
     until expended, to be derived by transfer from unobligated 
     balances of the Working Capital Fund in the Department of 
     Justice.

                    United States Information Agency


                 international broadcasting operations

       For an additional amount for ``International Broadcasting 
     Operations'', $7,290,000, for transfer to the Board for 
     International Broadcasting to remain available until 
     expended.

                         DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

                       Office of Justice Programs


                              drug courts

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in title 
     VIII of Public Law 103-317, $17,100,000 are rescinded.


                      ounce of prevention council

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in title 
     VIII of Public Law 103-317, $1,000,000 are rescinded.

                         General Administration


                          working capital fund

                              (rescission)

       Of the unobligated balances in the Working Capital Fund, 
     $5,500,000 are rescinded.

                            Legal Activities


                         assets forfeiture fund

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-317, $5,000,000 are rescinded.

                 Immigration and Naturalization Service


                         salaries and expenses

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-317, $1,000,000 are rescinded.

                         Federal Prison System


                         salaries and expenses

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-317, $28,037,000 are rescinded.
                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

             National Institute of Standards and Technology


             scientific and technical research and services

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-317, $17,000,000 are rescinded.


                     industrial technology services

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-317, $16,300,000 are rescinded.


                  construction of research facilities

                              (rescission)

       Of the unobligated balances available under this heading, 
     $30,000,000 are rescinded.

            National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


                  operations, research and facilities

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-317, $31,200,000 are rescinded, of which $7,000,000 
     shall be derived from amounts made available for the Global 
     Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) 
     program.


                              construction

                              (rescission)

       Of the unobligated balances available under this heading, 
     $15,000,000 are rescinded.


                    goes satellite contingency fund

                              (rescission)

       Of the unobligated balances available under this heading, 
     $2,500,000 are rescinded.

                       Technology Administration

       Under Secretary for Technology/Office of Technology Policy


                         salaries and expenses

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-317, $1,750,000 are rescinded.

                 National Technical Information Service


                          ntis revolving fund

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-317, and from offsetting collections available in the 
     revolving fund, $1,000,000 are rescinded.

       National Telecommunications and Information Administration


                   information infrastructure grants

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-317, $4,000,000 are rescinded.

                  Economic Development Administration


                economic development assistance programs

                             (rescissions)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Laws 103-75 and 102-368, $5,250,000 are rescinded.
       In addition, of the funds made available under this heading 
     in Public Law 103-317, $25,000,000 are rescinded.

                             THE JUDICIARY

               United States Court of International Trade


                         salaries and expenses

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-317, $1,000,000 are rescinded.
    Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and Other Judicial Services


                           defender services

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-317, $9,500,000 are rescinded.


                    fees of jurors and commissioners

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-317, $5,000,000 are rescinded.

                            RELATED AGENCIES

                     Small Business Administration


                     business loans program account

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-317, $6,000,000 are rescinded: Provided, That funds 
     appropriated for grants to the National Center for Genome 
     Resources in Public Law 103-121 and Public Law 103-317 shall 
     be available to provide consulting assistance, information, 
     and related services, and shall be available for other 
     purposes, notwithstanding the limitations in said public 
     laws.

                       Legal Services Corporation


               payment to the legal services corporation

       Public Law 104-6 is amended by adding after the word 
     ``rescinded'' in the paragraph under the heading ``Legal 
     Services Corporation, Payment to the Legal Services 
     Corporation, (Rescission)'' the following: ``, of 

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     which $4,802,000 are from funds made available for basic field 
     programs; $523,000 are from funds made available for 
     Native American programs; $1,071,000 are from funds made 
     available for migrant programs; $709,000 are from funds 
     made available for law school clinics; $31,000 are from 
     funds made available for supplemental field programs; 
     $159,000 are from funds made available for regional 
     training centers; $2,691,000 are from funds made available 
     for national support; $2,212,000 are from funds made 
     available for State support; $785,000 are from funds made 
     available for client initiatives; $160,000 are from funds 
     made available for the Clearinghouse; $73,000 are from 
     funds made available for computer assisted legal research 
     regional centers; and $1,784,000 are from funds made 
     available for Corporation management and administration''.

                          DEPARTMENT OF STATE

                   Administration of Foreign Affairs


                    diplomatic and consular programs

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-317, $2,250,000 are rescinded.


            acquisition and maintenance of buildings abroad

                              (rescission)

       Of the unobligated balances available under this heading, 
     $30,000,000 are rescinded.

              International Organizations and Conferences


        contributions for international peacekeeping activities

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-317, $14,617,000 are rescinded.

                            RELATED AGENCIES

                  Arms Control and Disarmament Agency


                arms control and disarmament activities

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-317, $4,000,000 are rescinded, of which $2,500,000 
     are from funds made available for activities related to the 
     implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention.

                  Board for International Broadcasting


                          israel relay station

                              (rescission)

       Of the unobligated balances available under this heading, 
     $2,000,000 are rescinded.
                    United States Information Agency


               educational and cultural exchange programs

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-317, $5,000,000 are rescinded.


                           radio construction

                              (rescission)

       Of the unobligated balances available under this heading, 
     $16,000,000 are rescinded.

                            radio free asia


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-317, $5,000,000 are rescinded.

                              CHAPTER III

                      ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT

                      DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--CIVIL

                         DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

                       Corps of Engineers--Civil


                         general investigations

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-316 and prior years' Energy and Water Development 
     Appropriations Acts, $10,000,000 are rescinded.


                         construction, general

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-316 and prior years' Energy and Water Development 
     Appropriations Acts, $60,000,000 are rescinded.

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                         Bureau of Reclamation


                       operation and maintenance

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-316, $10,000,000 are rescinded.

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

           Energy Supply, Research and Development Activities


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-316 and prior years' Energy and Water Development 
     Appropriations Acts, $74,000,000 are rescinded.

                    Atomic Energy Defense Activities

              Materials Support and Other Defense Programs


                              (rescission)

       Of the amounts made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-316 and prior years' Energy and Water Development 
     Appropriations Acts, $15,000,000 are rescinded.

                      Departmental Administration


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-316, $20,000,000 are rescinded.

                    Power Marketing Administrations

 Construction, Rehabilitation, Operation and Maintenance, Western Area 
                          Power Administration


                              (rescission)

       Of the amounts made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-316 and prior years' Energy and Water Development 
     Appropriations Acts, $30,000,000 are rescinded.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                    APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-316, $10,000,000 are rescinded.

                       TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY

                    Tennessee Valley Authority Fund


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-316, $5,000,000 are rescinded.
                               CHAPTER IV

       FOREIGN OPERATIONS, EXPORT FINANCING, AND RELATED PROGRAMS

                     Bilateral Economic Assistance


                  funds appropriated to the president

                           debt restructuring

                         debt relief for Jordan

       For the cost, as defined in section 502 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended, of modifying 
     direct loans to Jordan issued by the Export-Import Bank or by 
     the Agency for International Development or by the Department 
     of Defense, or for the cost of modifying: (1) concessional 
     loans authorized under title I of the Agricultural Trade 
     Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended, and (2) 
     credits owed by Jordan to the Commodity Credit Corporation, 
     as a result of the Corporation's status as a guarantor of 
     credits in connection with export sales to Jordan; as 
     authorized under subsection (a) under the heading, ``Debt 
     Relief for Jordan'', in title VI of Public Law 103-306, 
     $275,000,000.

                    MULTILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE

                  FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT

                International Organizations and Programs


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-306, $15,000,000 are rescinded.

                     BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE

                  FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT

                  Agency for International Development

                      Development Assistance Fund


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-306 and prior years' Foreign Operations, Export 
     Financing and Related Programs Appropriations Acts, 
     $41,300,000 are rescinded.

                   Population, Development Assistance


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-306 and prior years' Foreign Operations, Export 
     Financing and Related Programs Appropriations Acts, 
     $19,000,000 are rescinded.

                      Development Fund for Africa


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-306 and prior years' Foreign Operations, Export 
     Financing and Related Programs Appropriations Acts, 
     $21,000,000 are rescinded.

  Debt Restructuring Under the Enterprise for The Americas Initiative


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-391, $2,400,000 are rescinded.

                         Economic Support Fund


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-87 and prior years' Foreign Operations, Export 
     Financing and Related Programs Appropriations Acts (excluding 
     funds earmarked or otherwise made available to the Camp David 
     countries), $25,000,000 are rescinded.

     Operating Expenses of the Agency for International Development


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-306 and prior years' Foreign Operations, Export 
     Financing and Related Programs Appropriations Acts, 
     $2,000,000 are rescinded.

  Assistance for the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-306 and prior years' Foreign Operations,
      Export Financing and Related Programs Appropriations Acts 
     for programs or projects to or through the Government of 
     Russia, $25,000,000 are rescinded.

                          MILITARY ASSISTANCE

                  FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT

                        Peacekeeping Operations


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-306, $3,000,000 are rescinded.
     
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                           EXPORT ASSISTANCE

                  FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT

                      Trade and Development Agency


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-87 and Public Law 103-306 and prior years' Foreign 
     Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs 
     Appropriations Acts, $4,000,000 are rescinded.

                               CHAPTER V

            DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                       Bureau of Land Management


                   management of lands and resources

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332, $70,000 are rescinded, to be derived from amounts 
     available for developing and finalizing the Roswell Resource 
     Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement and the 
     Carlsbad Resource Management Plan Amendment/Environmental 
     Impact Statement: Provided, That none of the funds made 
     available in such Act or any other appropriations Act may be 
     used for finalizing or implementing either such plan.


                        construction and access

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332, Public Law 103-138, and Public Law 102-381, $900,000 
     are rescinded.

                       payments in lieu of taxes


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332, $2,500,000 are rescinded.


                            land acquisition

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     102-381, Public Law 101-121, and Public Law 100-446, 
     $1,497,000 are rescinded.

                United States Fish and Wildlife Service


                              construction

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading or the heading 
     Construction and Anadromous Fish in Public Law 103-332, 
     Public Law 103-211, Public Law 103-138, Public Law 103-75, 
     Public Law 102-381, Public Law 102-154, Public Law 102-368, 
     Public Law 101-512, Public Law 101-121, Public Law 100-446, 
     and Public Law 100-202, $12,415,000 are rescinded.


                            land acquisition

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332 and any unobligated balances from funds appropriated 
     under this heading in prior years, $1,076,000 are rescinded.

                       National Biological Survey


                   research, inventories, and surveys

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332 and Public Law 103-138, $14,549,000 are rescinded.

                         National Park Service


                              construction

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332 and any unobligated balances from funds appropriated 
     under this heading in prior years, $20,890,000 are rescinded.
                     urban park and recreation fund

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332, $7,480,000 are rescinded.


                 land acquisition and state assistance

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332 and any unobligated balances from funds appropriated 
     under this heading in prior years, $13,634,000 are rescinded.

                      Minerals Management Service


                royalty and offshore minerals management

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332, $514,000 are rescinded.

                        Bureau of Indian Affairs


                      Operation of Indian Programs

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332, $4,850,000 are rescinded: Provided, That the first 
     proviso under this heading in Public Law 103-332 is amended 
     by striking ``$330,111,000'' and inserting in lieu thereof 
     ``$329,361,000''.


                              construction

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332 and any unobligated balances from funds appropriated 
     under this heading in prior years, $9,571,000 are rescinded.


                   indian direct loan program account

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332, $1,700,000 are rescinded.

                 Territorial and International Affairs


                     administration of Territories

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332, $1,938,000 are rescinded.


                 trust territory of the pacific islands

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 99-
     591, $32,139,000 are rescinded.


                      Compact of Free Association

                              (Rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332, $1,000,000 are rescinded.

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                             Forest Service


                            Forest Research

                              (Rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332, $6,000,000 are rescinded.


                       State and private Forestry

                              (Rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332, and Public Law 103-138, $7,800,000 are rescinded.


                         International Forestry

                              (Rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332, $2,000,000 are rescinded.


                         National Forest System

                              (Rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332, $1,650,000 are rescinded.


                              Construction

                              (Rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332, Public Law 103-138, and Public Law 102-381, 
     $6,072,000 are rescinded: Provided, That the first proviso 
     under this heading in Public Law 103-332 is amended by 
     striking ``1994'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``1995''.

                            land acquisition


                              (Rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332, Public Law 103-138, and Public Law 102-381, 
     $1,429,000 are rescinded: Provided, That the Chief of the 
     Forest Service shall not initiate any new purchases of 
     private land in Washington County, Ohio and Lawrence County, 
     Ohio during fiscal year 1995.

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


                 Fossil Energy Research and Development

                              (Rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332, $18,100,000 are rescinded.


                          Energy Conservation

                             (Rescissions)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332, $35,928,000 are rescinded and of the funds available 
     under this heading in Public Law 103-138, $13,700,000 are 
     rescinded.
                        DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

              Office of Elementary and Secondary Education


                            Indian Education

                              (Rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332, $2,000,000 are rescinded.

                         OTHER RELATED AGENCIES

                        Smithsonian Institution


        Construction and Improvements, National Zoological Park

                              (Rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     102-381 and Public Law 103-138, $1,000,000 are rescinded.


                              Construction

                              (Rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     102-154, Public Law 102-381, Public Law 103-138, and Public 
     Law 103-332, $11,512,000 are rescinded.

                        National Gallery of Art


            Repair, Restoration and Renovation of Buildings

                              (Rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332, $407,000 are rescinded.

             John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts


                              Construction

                              (Rescission)

       Of the available balances under this heading $3,000,000 are 
     rescinded.

            Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars


                         Salaries and Expenses

                              (Rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332, $1,000,000 are rescinded.

           National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

                    National Endowment for the Arts


                       Grants and Administration

                              (Rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332, $5,000,000 are rescinded.
     
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                 National Endowment for the Humanities


                       grants and administration

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds available under this heading in Public Law 
     103-332, $5,000,000 are rescinded.

                           General Provisions

       Sec. 501. No funds made available in any appropriations Act 
     may be used by the Department of the Interior, including but 
     not limited to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service 
     and the National Biological Service, to search for the 
     Alabama sturgeon in the Alabama River, the Cahaba River, the 
     Tombigbee River or the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in 
     Alabama or Mississippi.
       Sec. 502. (a) No funds available to the Forest Service may 
     be used to implement Habitat Conservation Areas in the 
     Tongass National Forest for species which have not been 
     declared threatened or endangered pursuant to the Endangered 
     Species Act, except that with respect to goshawks the Forest 
     Service may impose interim Goshawk Habitat Conservation Areas 
     not to exceed 300 acres per active nest consistent with the 
     guidelines utilized for national forests in the continental 
     United States.
       (b) The Secretary shall notify Congress within 30 days of 
     any timber sales which may be delayed or canceled due to the 
     Goshawk Habitat Conservation Areas described in subsection 
     (a).
       Sec. 503. (a) As provided in subsection (b), an 
     environmental impact statement prepared pursuant to the 
     National Environmental Policy Act or a subsistence evaluation 
     prepared pursuant to the Alaska National Interest
      Lands Conservation Act for a timber sale or offering to one 
     party shall be deemed sufficient if the Forest Service 
     sells the timber to an alternate buyer.
       (b) The provision of this section shall apply to the timber 
     specified in the Final Supplement to 1981-86 and 1986-90 
     Operating Period EIS (``1989 SEIS''), November 1989; in the 
     North and East Kuiu Final Environmental Impact Statement, 
     January 1993; in the Southeast Chichagof Project Area Final 
     Environmental Impact Statement, September 1992; and in the 
     Kelp Bay Environmental Impact Statement, February 1992, and 
     supplemental evaluations related thereto.
       Sec. 504. (a) Schedule for NEPA Compliance.--Each National 
     Forest System unit shall establish and adhere to a schedule 
     for the completion of National Environmental Policy Act of 
     1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) analysis and decisions on all 
     allotments within the National Forest System unit for which 
     NEPA analysis is needed. The schedule shall provide that not 
     more than 20 percent of the allotments shall undergo NEPA 
     analysis and decisions through fiscal year 1996.
       (b) Reissuance Pending NEPA Compliance.--Notwithstanding 
     any other law, term grazing permits which expire or are 
     waived before the NEPA analysis and decision pursuant to the 
     schedule developed by individual Forest Service System units, 
     shall be issued on the same terms and conditions and for the 
     full term of the expired or waived permit. Upon completion of 
     the scheduled NEPA analysis and decision for the allotment, 
     the terms and conditions of existing grazing permits may be 
     modified or re-issued, if necessary to conform to such NEPA 
     analysis.
       (c) Expired Permits.--This section shall only apply if a 
     new term grazing permit has not been issued to replace an 
     expired or waived term grazing permit solely because the 
     analysis required by NEPA and other applicable laws has not 
     been completed and also shall include permits that expired or 
     were waived in 1994 and 1995 before the date of enactment of 
     this Act.

                               CHAPTER VI

  DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND 
                            RELATED AGENCIES

                          DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

                 Employment and Training Administration


                    training and employment services

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333, $1,349,115,000 are rescinded, including 
     $10,000,000 for necessary expenses of construction, 
     rehabilitation, and acquisition of new Job Corps centers, 
     $2,500,000 for the School-to-Work Opportunities Act, 
     $4,293,000 for section 401 of the Job Training Partnership 
     Act, $5,743,000 for section 402 of such Act, $3,861,000 for 
     service delivery areas under section 101(a)(4)(A)(iii) of 
     such Act, $58,000,000 for carrying out title II, part A of 
     such Act, $272,010,000 for carrying out title II, part C of 
     such Act, $2,223,000 for the National Commission for 
     Employment Policy and $500,000 for the National Occupational 
     Information Coordinating Committee: Provided, That service 
     delivery areas may transfer up to 50 percent of the amounts 
     allocated for program years 1994 and 1995 between the title 
     II-B and title II-C programs authorized by the Job Training 
     Partnership Act, if such transfers are approved by the 
     Governor.


            community service employment for older americans

                             (rescissions)

       Of the funds made available in the first paragraph under 
     this heading in Public Law 103-333, $11,263,000 are 
     rescinded.
       Of the funds made available in the second paragraph under 
     this heading in Public Law 103-333, $3,177,000 are rescinded.
     state unemployment insurance and employment service operations

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333, $20,000,000 are rescinded, and amounts which may 
     be expended from the Employment Security Administration 
     account in the Unemployment Trust Fund are reduced from 
     $3,269,097,000 to $3,201,397,000.

                       Bureau of Labor Statistics


                         salaries and expenses

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333, $700,000 are rescinded.

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

              Health Resources and Services Administration


                     health resources and services

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333, $41,350,000 are rescinded.

               Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


                disease control, research, and training

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333, $2,300,000 are rescinded.

                     National Institutes of Health

                 national center for research resources


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333 for extramural facilities construction grants, 
     $10,000,000 are rescinded.


                        buildings and facilities

                              (rescission)

       Of the available balances under this heading, $60,000,000 
     are rescinded.

                     Assistant Secretary for Health


              office of the assistant secretary for health

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333, $1,400,000 are rescinded.

               Agency for Health Care Policy and Research


                    health care policy and research

                              (rescission)

       Of the Federal funds made available under this heading in 
     Public Law 103-333, $3,132,000 are rescinded.

                  Health Care Financing Administration


                           program management

                              (rescission)

       Funds made available under this heading in Public Law 103-
     333 are reduced from $2,207,135,000 to $2,187,435,000, and 
     funds transferred to this account as authorized by section 
     201(g) of the Social Security Act are reduced to the same 
     amount.

                Administration for Children and Families


                   job opportunities and basic skills

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333, there is rescinded an amount equal to the total 
     of the funds within each State's limitation for fiscal year 
     1995 that are not necessary to pay such State's allowable 
     claims for such fiscal year.
       Section 403(k)(3)(E) of the Social Security Act (as amended 
     by Public Law 100-485) is amended by adding before the 
     ``and'': ``reduced by an amount equal to the total of those 
     funds that are within each State's limitation for fiscal year 
     1995 that are not necessary to pay such State's allowable 
     claims for such fiscal year (except that such amount for such 
     year shall be deemed to be $1,300,000,000 for the purpose of 
     determining the amount of the payment under subsection (l) to 
     which each State is entitled),''.

                   low income home energy assistance


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available in the third paragraph under 
     this heading in Public Law 103-333, $319,204,000 are 
     rescinded: Provided, That of the funds made available in the 
     fourth paragraph under this heading in Public Law 103-333, 
     $300,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 1996.


              state legalization impact-assistance grants

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available in the second paragraph under 
     this heading in Public Law 103-333, $2,000,000 are rescinded.


                     community services block grant

                             (rescissions)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333, $13,387,000 are rescinded.
       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333 and reserved by the Secretary pursuant to section 
     674(a)(1) of the Community Services Block Grant Act, 
     $1,900,000 are rescinded.


                CHILDREN AND FAMILIES SERVICES PROGRAMS

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333 to be derived 

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     from the Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund, $15,900,000 are rescinded 
     for carrying out the Community Schools Youth Services and 
     Supervision Grant Program Act of 1994: Provided, That the 
     funds available for obligation under this heading after this 
     rescission may only be used for academic or tutorial 
     programs.
                        Administration on Aging

                        aging services programs


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333, $899,000 are rescinded.

                        Office of the Secretary

                            policy research


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333, $4,018,000 are rescinded.

                        DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

                            education reform


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333, $34,030,000 are rescinded, including $10,000,000 
     from funds made available for State and local education 
     systemic improvement, and $21,530,000 from funds made 
     available for Federal activities under the Goals 2000: 
     Educate America Act; and $2,500,000 from funds made available 
     under the School-to-Work Opportunities Act for National 
     programs.

                    education for the disadvantaged


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333, $4,606,000 are rescinded from part E, section 
     1501 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

                      school improvement programs


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333, $182,940,000 are rescinded as follows: From the 
     Elementary and Secondary Education Act, title II-B, 
     $69,000,000, title IV, $15,981,000, title V-C, $16,000,000, 
     title IX-B, $3,000,000, title X-D, $1,500,000, title X-G, 
     $1,185,000, section 10602, $1,399,000, title XII, 
     $35,000,000, and title XIII-A, $14,900,000; from the Higher 
     Education Act, section 596, $13,875,000; and from funds 
     derived from the Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund, 
     $11,100,000.

                   bilingual and immigrant education


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333, $38,500,000 are rescinded from funding for title 
     VII-A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

                     vocational and adult education


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333, $90,607,000 are rescinded as follows: From the 
     Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education 
     Act, title III-A, and III-B, $43,888,000, and from title IV-
     A, IV-B and IV-C, $23,434,000; from the Adult Education Act, 
     part B-7, $7,787,000 and part C, section 371, $6,000,000; and 
     from the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, 
     $9,498,000.

                      student financial assistance


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333, $85,000,000 are rescinded from funding for the 
     Higher Education Act, title IV, including $65,000,000 from 
     part A-1 and $20,000,000 from part H-1: Provided, That of the 
     funds remaining under this heading from Public Law 103-333, 
     $6,178,680,000 shall be for part A-1.

                            higher education


                              (RESCISSION)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333, $43,472,000 are rescinded as follows: From 
     amounts available for Public Law 99-498, $500,000; the Higher 
     Education Act, title IV-A, chapter 5, $496,000, title V-C, 
     subparts 1 and 3, $16,175,000, title IX-B, $10,100,000, title 
     IX-C, $942,000, title IX-E, $3,520,000, title IX-G, 
     $1,698,000, title X-D, $2,920,000, and title XI-A, 
     $3,000,000; Public Law 102-325, $1,000,000; and the 
     Excellence in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering Education 
     Act of 1990, $3,121,000: Provided, That in carrying out title 
     IX-B, the remaining appropriations shall not be available for 
     awards for doctoral study: Provided further, That the funds 
     remaining for Public Law 99-498 shall be available only for 
     native Alaskans.

                           howard university


                              (RESCISSION)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333, $1,800,000 are rescinded.

         college housing and academic facilities loans program


                              (RESCISSION)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333 for the costs of direct loans, as authorized 
     under part C of title VII of the Higher Education Act, as 
     amended, $168,000 are rescinded, and the authority to 
     subsidize gross loan obligations is repealed. In addition, 
     $264,000 appropriated for administrative expenses are 
     rescinded.

            education research, statistics, and improvement


                              (RESCISSION)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333, $30,925,000 are rescinded as follows: From the 
     Elementary and Secondary Education Act, title III-A, 
     $17,500,000, title III-B, $5,000,000, title III-D, 
     $1,125,000, title X-B, $4,600,000 and title XIII-B, 
     $2,700,000: Provided, That of the amount made available under 
     this heading in Public Law 103-333, for title III-B, 
     $8,000,000 shall be reserved for additional projects that 
     competed in the most recent competition for statewide fiber-
     optics projects.

                            RELATED AGENCIES

                  Corporation for Public Broadcasting


                              (RESCISSION)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-112, $37,000,000 are rescinded. Of the funds made 
     available under this heading in Public Law 103-333, 
     $55,000,000 are rescinded.

                       Railroad Retirement Board


                     DUAL BENEFITS PAYMENTS ACCOUNT

                              (RESCISSION)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-333, $7,000,000 are rescinded.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

                  Federal Direct Student Loan Program

       Sec. 601. Section 458(a) of the Higher Education Act of 
     1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087h(a)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``$345,000,000'' and inserting 
     ``$284,000,000''; and
       (2) by striking ``$2,500,000,000'' and inserting 
     ``$2,439,000,000''.
       Sec. 602. None of the funds made available in any 
     appropriations Act for fiscal year 1995 may be used by the 
     Occupational Safety and Health Administration to promulgate 
     or issue any proposed or final standard or guideline 
     regarding ergonomic protection. Nothing in this section shall 
     be construed to limit the Occupational Safety and Health 
     Administration from conducting any peer-reviewed risk 
     assessment activity regarding ergonomics, including 
     conducting peer reviews of the scientific basis for 
     establishing any standard or guideline, direct or contracted 
     research, or other activity necessary to fully establish the 
     scientific basis for promulgating any standard or guideline 
     on ergonomic protection.

                              CHAPTER VII

                           LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

      Payments to Widows and Heirs of Deceased Members of Congress

       For payment to the family trust of Dean A. Gallo, late a 
     Representative from the State of New Jersey, $133,600.

                              JOINT ITEMS


                        joint economic committee

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-283, $460,000 are rescinded.


                      joint committee on printing

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-283, $238,137 are rescinded.

                    OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT

                         Salaries and Expenses


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-283, $650,000 are rescinded.

                      CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE

                         Salaries and Expenses


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-283, $187,000 are rescinded.

                        ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL

                     Capitol Buildings and Grounds


                        senate office buildings

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-283, $850,000 are rescinded.


                          capitol power plant

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-283, $1,650,000 are rescinded.

                        Administrative Provision

       Sec. 701. Section 319 of the Legislative Branch 
     Appropriations Act, 1990 (40 U.S.C. 162-1) is amended--
       (1) by striking out ``Office'' each place it appears and 
     inserting in lieu thereof ``office'';
       (2) in the second sentence of subsection (a)(2), by 
     striking out ``Commission'' and inserting in lieu thereof 
     ``commission''; and
       (3) in subparagraph (D) of paragraph (2) of subsection (a), 
     by striking out ``Administration'' and all that follows 
     through the end of the subparagraph, and inserting in lieu 
     thereof ``Oversight of the House of Representatives, the 
     Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate, the 
     Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, 
     and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.''.

                       GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

                   Congressional Printing and Binding


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-283, $5,000,000 are rescinded.

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                 Office of Superintendent of Documents


                         salaries and expenses

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-283, $600,000 are rescinded.

                             BOTANIC GARDEN

                         Salaries and Expenses


                   (rescission and transfer of funds)

       Of the funds made available until expended by transfer 
     under this heading in Public Law 103-283, $4,000,000 are 
     rescinded.
       Of the funds made available until expended by transfer 
     under this heading in Public Law 103-283, $3,000,000 shall be 
     transferred to the appropriation ``Architect of the Capitol, 
     Capitol Buildings and Grounds, Capitol Complex Security 
     Enhancements'', and shall remain available until expended.

                          LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

                         Salaries and Expenses


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-283, $150,000 are rescinded.

             Books for the Blind and Physically Handicapped


                         salaries and expenses

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-283, $100,000 are rescinded.

                       GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

                         Salaries and Expenses


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-283, $2,617,000 are rescinded.

                        Administrative Provision

       Sec. 702. The General Accounting Office may for such 
     employees as it deems appropriate authorize a payment to 
     employees who voluntarily separate before October 1, 1995, 
     whether by retirement or resignation, which payment shall be 
     paid in accordance with the provisions of section 5597(d) of 
     title 5, United States Code.

                              CHAPTER VIII

           DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND RELATED AGENCIES

                      Department of Transportation

                        Office of the Secretary

                          Working Capital Fund


                              (rescission)

       The obligation authority under this heading in Public Law 
     103-331 is hereby reduced by $6,000,000.

                        Payments to Air Carriers


                    (airport and airway trust fund)

                 (rescission of contract authorization)

       Of the funds made available under this account, $5,300,000 
     are rescinded: Provided, That the Secretary shall not enter 
     into any contracts for ``Small Community Air Service'' beyond 
     September 30, 1995, which require compensation fixed and 
     determined under subchapter II of chapter 417 of title 49, 
     United States Code (49 U.S.C. 41731-42) payable by the 
     Department of Transportation.

                              COAST GUARD

                           Operating Expenses


                              (rescission)

       Of the amounts provided under this heading in Public Law 
     103-331, $4,300,000 are rescinded.

              Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements


                              (rescission)

       Of the available balances under this heading, $35,314,000 
     are rescinded.

                Environmental Compliance and Restoration


                              (rescission)

       Of the available balances under this heading, $2,500,000 
     are rescinded.
                    FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION

                               Operations


                              (rescission)

       Of the available balances under this heading, $1,000,000 
     are rescinded.

                        Facilities and Equipment


                    (airport and airway trust fund)

                              (rescission)

       Of the available balances under this heading, $24,850,000 
     are rescinded.

                 Research, Engineering, and Development


                    (airport and airway trust fund)

                              (rescission)

       Of the available balances under this heading, $7,500,000 
     are rescinded.

                       Grants-in-Aid for Airports


                    (airport and airway trust fund)

                 (rescission of contract authorization)

       Of the available contract authority balances under this 
     account, $2,094,000,000 are rescinded.

                     FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION

                Limitation on General Operating Expenses


                 (rescission of contract authorization)

       The obligation limitation under this heading in Public Law 
     103-331 is hereby reduced by $54,550,000.

                          Federal-Aid Highways


                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

                (rescissions of contract authorization)

       The obligation limitation under this heading in Public Law 
     103-331 is hereby reduced by $132,190,000, of which 
     $27,640,000 shall be deducted from amounts made available for 
     the Applied Research and Technology Program authorized under 
     section 307(e) of title 23, United States Code, and 
     $50,000,000 shall be deducted from the amounts available for 
     the Congestion Pricing Pilot Program authorized under section 
     1002(b) of Public Law 102-240, and $54,550,000 shall be 
     deducted from the limitation on General Operating Expenses: 
     Provided, That the amounts deducted from the aforementioned 
     programs are rescinded.

                          Federal-Aid Highways


                        emergency relief program

                          (highway trust fund)

                              (rescission)

       Of the amounts provided under this heading in Public Law 
     103-211, $100,000,000 are rescinded.

                    FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION

                      Office of the Administrator


                          (transfer of funds)

       Section 341 of Public Law 103-331 is amended by deleting 
     ``and received from the Delaware and Hudson Railroad,'' after 
     ``amended,''.

                 Northeast Corridor Improvement Program


                              (rescission)

       Of the available balances under this heading, $9,707,000 
     are rescinded.

       National Magnetic Levitation Prototype Development Program


                          (highway trust fund)

                 (rescission of contract authorization)

       Of the available balances of contract authority under this 
     heading, $250,000,000 are rescinded.

                     FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION

                     Transit Planning and Research


                              (rescission)

       Of the available balances under this heading, $7,000,000 
     are rescinded.
                          Discretionary Grants


                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

                (rescissions of contract authorization)

       Notwithstanding section 313 of Public Law 103-331, the 
     obligation limitations under this heading in the following 
     Department of Transportation and Related Agencies 
     Appropriations Acts are reduced by the following amounts:
       Public Law 102-143, $31,681,500, to be distributed as 
     follows:
       (a) $1,281,500 is rescinded from amounts made available for 
     replacement, rehabilitation, and purchase of buses and 
     related equipment and the construction of bus-related 
     facilities: Provided, That the foregoing reduction shall be 
     distributed according to the reductions identified in Senate 
     Report 104-17, for which the obligation limitation in Public 
     Law 102-143 was applied; and
       (b) $30,400,000 is rescinded from amounts made available 
     for new fixed guideway systems, to be distributed as follows:
       $1,000,000, Cleveland Dual Hub Corridor Project;
       $465,000, Kansas City-South LRT Project;
       $950,000, San Diego Mid-Coast Extension Project;
       $17,100,000, Hawthorne-Warwick Commuter Rail Project;
       $375,000, New York Staten Island Midtown Ferry Project;
       $4,000,000, San Jose-Gilroy Commuter Rail Project;
       $1,620,000, Seattle-Tacoma Commuter Rail Project; and
       $4,890,000, Detroit LRT Project.
       Public Law 101-516, $2,230,000, to be distributed as 
     follows:
       (a) $2,230,000 is rescinded from amounts made available for 
     new fixed guideway systems, for the Cleveland Dual Hub 
     Corridor Project.

                       Mass Transit Capital Fund


                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                          (highway trust fund)

       For an additional amount for liquidation of obligations 
     incurred in carrying out section 5338(b) of title 49, United 
     States Code, $350,000,000, to be derived from the Highway 
     Trust Fund and to remain available until expended.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS


                        (including rescissions)

       Sec. 801. Of the funds provided in Public Law 103-331 for 
     the Department of Transportation working capital fund (WCF), 
     $6,000,000 are rescinded, which limits fiscal year 1995 WCF 
     obligational authority for elements of the Department of 
     Transportation funded in Public Law 103-331 to no more than 
     $87,000,000.
       Sec. 802. Of the total budgetary resources available to the 
     Department of Transportation (excluding the Maritime 
     Administration) during fiscal year 1995 for civilian and 
     military compensation and benefits and other administrative 
     expenses, $15,000,000 are permanently canceled.
       Sec. 803. Section 326 of Public Law 103-122 is hereby 
     amended to delete the words ``or previous Acts'' each time 
     they appear in that section.
     
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                               CHAPTER IX

            TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                    General Services Administration

                         Federal Buildings Fund


                          (transfer of funds)

       Of the funds made available for the Federal Buildings Fund 
     in Public Law 103-329, $5,000,000 shall be made available by 
     the General Services Administration to implement an agreement 
     between the Food and Drug Administration and another entity 
     for space, equipment and facilities related to seafood 
     research.

                     Office of Personnel Management

  Government Payment for Annuitants, Employee Life Insurance Benefits

       For an additional amount for ``Government payment for 
     annuitants, employee life insurance'', $9,000,000 to remain 
     available until expended.

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                          Departmental Offices


                         salaries and expenses

       In the paragraph under this heading in Public Law 103-329, 
     delete ``of which not less than $6,443,000 and 85 full-time 
     equivalent positions shall be available for enforcement 
     activities;''.


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-329, $100,000 are rescinded.

                Federal Law Enforcement Training Center


                         salaries and expenses

       For an additional amount for ``Salaries and expenses'', 
     $11,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 1996.
       In the paragraph under this heading in Public Law 103-329, 
     delete ``first-aid and emergency'' and insert ``short-term'' 
     before ``medical services''.

     Acquisition, Construction, Improvements, and Related Expenses


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available for construction at the Davis-
     Monthan Training Center under Public Law 103-123, $5,000,000 
     are rescinded. Of the funds made available for construction 
     at the Davis-Monthan Training Center under Public Law 103-
     329, $6,000,000 are rescinded: Provided, That $1,000,000 of 
     the remaining funds made available under Public Law 103-123 
     shall be used to initiate design and construction of a Burn 
     Building at the Training Center in Glynco, Georgia.

                      Financial Management Service


                         salaries and expenses

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-329, $160,000 are rescinded.

                       Bureau of the Public Debt

                     Administering the Public Debt


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-123, $1,500,000 are rescinded.

                           United States Mint


                         salaries and expenses

       In the paragraph under this heading in Public Law 103-329, 
     insert ``not to exceed'' after ``of which''.

                        Internal Revenue Service

                          Information Systems


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-329, $1,490,000 are rescinded.

           Administrative Provision--Internal Revenue Service

       In the paragraph under this heading in Public Law 103-329, 
     in section 3, after ``$119,000,000'', insert ``annually''.

    EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE 
                               PRESIDENT

                         The White House Office


                         salaries and expenses

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-329, $171,000 are rescinded.

                     Federal Drug Control Programs


                        special forfeiture fund

              (including rescission and transfer of funds)

       For activities authorized by Public Law 100-690, an 
     additional amount of $13,200,000, to remain available until 
     expended for transfer to the United States Customs Service, 
     ``Salaries and expenses'' for carrying out border enforcement 
     activities: Provided, That of the funds made available under 
     this heading in Public Law 103-329, $13,200,000 are 
     rescinded.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                    General Services Administration

                         Federal Buildings Fund


               limitations on the availability of revenue

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Laws 101-136, 101-509, 102-27, 102-141, 102-393, 103-123, 
     103-329, $631,412,000 are rescinded from the following 
     projects in the following amounts:
       Arizona:
       Bullhead City, a grant to the Federal Aviation 
     Administration for a runway protection zone, $2,200,000.
       Lukeville, commercial lot expansion, $1,219,000.
       Nogales, U.S. Border Patrol Sector, headquarters, 
     $2,000,000.
       Phoenix, U.S. Courthouse, $12,137,000.
       San Luis, primary lane expansion and administrative office 
     space, $3,496,000.
       Sierra Vista, U.S. Magistrates office, $1,000,000.
       California:
       Menlo Park, United States Geological Survey, Office 
     laboratory building, $790,000.
       San Francisco, Federal Office Building, $9,701,000.
       District of Columbia:
       Central and West heating plants, $5,000,000.
       Corps of Engineers, headquarters, $37,618,000.
       General Services Administration, Southeast Federal Center, 
     headquarters, $25,000,000.
       U.S. Secret Service, headquarters, $9,316,000.
       Florida:
       Tampa, U.S. Courthouse, $5,994,000.
       Georgia:
       Albany, U.S. Courthouse, $87,000.
       Atlanta, Centers for Disease Control, site acquisition and 
     improvement, $25,890,000.
       Atlanta, Centers for Disease Control, $14,110,000.
       Hawaii:
       University of Hawaii-Hilo, Consolidation, $12,000,000.
       Illinois:
       Chicago, Social Security Administration District Office, 
     $2,130,000.
       Chicago, Federal Center, $29,753,000.
       Chicago, John C. Kluczynski, Jr., Federal building, 
     $13,414,000.
       Maryland:
       Avondale, De LaSalle building, $16,671,000.
       Montgomery County, FDA consolidation, $228,000,000.
       Woodlawn, SSA East High-Low building, $17,292,000.
       Massachusetts:
       Boston, Federal building-U.S. Courthouse, $4,076,000.
       Nevada:
       Reno, Federal building-U.S. Courthouse, $1,465,000.
       New Hampshire:
       Concord, Federal building-U.S. Courthouse, $3,519,000.
       New Jersey:
       Newark, parking facility, $8,500,000.
       New Mexico:
       Santa Teresa, Border Station, $4,004,000.
       North Dakota:
       Fargo, Federal building-U.S. Courthouse, $1,371,000.
       Ohio:
       Steubenville, U.S. Courthouse, $2,820,000.
       Oregon:
       Portland, U.S. Courthouse, $5,000,000.
       Pennsylvania:
       Philadelphia, Veterans Administration, $1,276,000.
       Texas:
       Ysleta, site acquisition and construction, $1,727,000.
       United States Virgin Islands:
       Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Courthouse Annex, 
     $2,184,000.
       Washington:
       Seattle, U.S. Courthouse, $10,949,000.
       Walla Walla, Corps of Engineers building, $2,800,000.
       West Virginia:
       Wheeling, Federal building and U.S. Courthouse, 
     $28,303,000.
       Nationwide:
       Chlorofluorocarbons program, $33,300,000.
       Energy program, $45,300,000.

                      Federal Election Commission


                         salaries and expenses

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-329, $1,396,000 are rescinded.

                     Office of Personnel Management


                         salaries and expenses

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-329, $3,140,000 are rescinded.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 901. Section 5545a of title 5, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(2)--
       (A) in the matter before subparagraph (A) by striking ``is 
     required to'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``who is required 
     to''; and
       (B) by inserting ``and'' immediately after subparagraph 
     (E)(v); and
       (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(j) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, 
     any Office of Inspector General which employs fewer than 5 
     criminal investigators may elect not to cover such criminal 
     investigators under this section.''.
       Sec. 902. (a) Section 5545a of title 5, United States Code, 
     is amended by inserting at the appropriate place the 
     following new subsection:
       ``(i) The provisions of subsections (a)-(h) providing for 
     availability pay shall apply to a pilot employed by the 
     United States Customs Service who is a law enforcement 
     officer as defined under section 5541(3). For the purpose of 
     this section, section 5542(d) of this title, and section 
     13(a)(16) and (b)(30) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 
     (29 U.S.C. 213(a)(16) and (b)(30)), such pilot shall be 
     deemed to be a criminal investigator as defined in this 
     section. The Office of Personnel Management may prescribe 
     regulations to carry out this subsection.''.

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       (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) of this section 
     shall take effect on the first day of the first applicable 
     pay period which begins on or after the 30th day following 
     the date of enactment of this Act.
       Sec. 903. Section 528 of Public Law 103-329 is amended by 
     adding at the end a new proviso: ``Provided further, That the 
     amount set forth therefor in the budget estimates may be 
     exceeded by no more than 5 percent in the event of emergency 
     requirements.''.

                               CHAPTER X

DEPARTMENTS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND 
                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                          Independent Agencies

                  Federal Emergency Management Agency


                            disaster relief

       For an additional amount for ``Disaster Relief'' for 
     necessary expenses in carrying out the functions of the 
     Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 
     Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), $3,275,000,000, to remain 
     available until expended: Provided, That such amount is 
     designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
     to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.


               disaster relief emergency contingency fund

       For necessary expenses in carrying out the functions of the 
     Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 
     Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), $3,275,000,000, to become 
     available on October 1, 1995, and remain available until 
     expended: Provided, That such amount shall be available only 
     to the extent that an official budget request for a specific 
     dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount 
     of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended, is transmitted by the President to Congress: 
     Provided further, That such amount is designated by Congress 
     as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended.


                     national flood insurance fund

                          (transfer of funds)

       Of the funds available from the National Flood Insurance 
     Fund for activities under the National Flood Insurance Reform 
     Act of 1994, an additional amount not to exceed $331,000 
     shall be transferred as needed to the ``Salaries and 
     expenses'' appropriation for flood mitigation and flood 
     insurance operations, and an additional amount not to exceed 
     $5,000,000 shall be transferred as needed to the ``Emergency 
     management planning and assistance'' appropriation for flood 
     mitigation expenses pursuant to the National Flood Insurance 
     Reform Act of 1994.
                     DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

                     Veterans Health Administration


                              medical care

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327, $50,000,000 are rescinded: Provided, That 
     section 509 of the general provisions carried in title V of 
     Public Law 103-327 regarding personnel compensation and 
     benefits expenditures shall not apply to the funds provided 
     under this heading in such Act.

                      Departmental Administration


                      construction, major projects

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327 and prior years, $31,000,000 are rescinded.

              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                            Housing Programs


           national homeownership trust demonstration program

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327, $50,000,000 are rescinded.


               annual contributions for assisted housing

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327 and any unobligated balances from funds 
     appropriated under this heading in prior years, 
     $5,131,400,000 are rescinded: Provided, That of the total 
     rescinded under this heading, $700,600,000 shall be from 
     amounts earmarked for development or acquisition costs of 
     public housing (including $80,000,000 of funds for public 
     housing for Indian families), except that such rescission 
     shall not apply to funds for priority replacement housing for 
     units demolished or disposed of (including units to be 
     disposed of pursuant to a homeownership program under section 
     5(h) or title III of the United States Housing Act of 1937, 
     as amended (hereinafter referred to as ``the Act'')) from the 
     existing public housing inventory, as determined by the 
     Secretary, or to funds related to litigation settlements or 
     court orders, and the Secretary shall not be required to 
     make any remaining funds available pursuant to section 
     213(d)(1)(A) of the Housing and Community Development Act 
     of 1974 and notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     the Secretary may recapture unobligated funds for 
     development or acquisition costs of public housing 
     (including public housing for Indians) irrespective of the 
     length of time funds have been reserved or of any time 
     extension previously granted by the Secretary; 
     $1,956,000,000 shall be from amounts earmarked for new 
     incremental rental subsidy contracts under the section 8 
     existing housing certificate program (42 U.S.C. 1437f) and 
     the housing voucher program under section 8(o) of the Act 
     (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)), excluding $300,000,000 previously 
     made available for the Economic Development Initiative 
     (EDI), and the remaining authority for such purposes shall 
     be only for units necessary to provide housing assistance 
     for residents to be relocated from existing federally 
     subsidized or assisted housing, for replacement housing 
     for units demolished or disposed of (including units to be 
     disposed of pursuant to a homeownership program under 
     section 5(h) or title III of the United States Housing Act 
     of 1937) from the public housing inventory, for funds 
     related to litigation settlements or court orders, for 
     amendments to contracts to permit continued assistance to 
     participating families, or to enable public housing 
     authorities to implement ``mixed population'' plans for 
     developments housing primarily elderly residents; 
     $815,000,000 shall be from amounts earmarked for the 
     modernization of existing public housing projects pursuant 
     to section 14 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, 
     and the Secretary shall take actions necessary to assure 
     that such rescission is distributed among public housing 
     authorities, as if such rescission occurred prior to the 
     commencement
      of the fiscal year; $22,000,000 shall be from amounts 
     earmarked for special purpose grants; $148,300,000 shall 
     be from amounts earmarked for loan management set-asides; 
     $15,000,000 shall be from amounts earmarked for the family 
     unification program; $15,000,000 shall be from amounts 
     earmarked for the housing opportunities for persons with 
     AIDS program; $34,200,000 shall be from amounts earmarked 
     for lease adjustments; $39,000,000 shall be from amounts 
     previously made available under this head in Public Law 
     103-327, and previous Acts, which are recaptured (in 
     addition to other sums which are, or may be recaptured); 
     $70,000,000 shall be from amounts earmarked for section 8 
     counseling; $50,000,000 shall be from amounts earmarked 
     for service coordinators; $66,000,000 shall be from 
     amounts earmarked for family investment centers; 
     $85,300,000 shall be from amounts earmarked for the lead-
     based paint hazard reduction program; and $1,115,000,000 
     shall be from funds available for all new incremental 
     units (including funds previously reserved or obligated 
     and recaptured for the development or acquisition costs of 
     public housing (including public housing for Indian 
     families), incremental rental subsidy contracts under the 
     section 8 existing housing certificate program (42 U.S.C. 
     1437f), and the housing voucher program under section 8(o) 
     of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o))) and non-incremental, 
     unobligated balances: Provided further, That in allocating 
     this $1,115,000,000 rescission, the Secretary may reduce 
     the appropriations needs of the Department by (1) waiving 
     any provision of section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 
     and section 811 of the National Affordable Housing Act 
     (including the provisions governing the terms and 
     conditions of project rental assistance) that the 
     Secretary determines is not necessary to achieve the 
     objectives of these programs, or that otherwise impedes 
     the ability to develop, operate or administer projects 
     assisted under these programs, and may make provision for 
     alternative conditions or terms where appropriate and (2) 
     managing and disposing of HUD-owned and HUD-held 
     multifamily properties without regard to any other 
     provision of law: Provided further, That the Secretary 
     shall submit to the appropriate committees of the Congress 
     a detailed operating plan of proposed funding levels for 
     activities under this account within 30 days of enactment 
     of this Act, and such funding levels shall not be subject 
     to pre-existing earmarks or set-asides, notwithstanding 
     any other provision of law.


                               (deferral)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327 and any unobligated balances from funds 
     appropriated under this heading in prior years, $405,900,000 
     of amounts earmarked for the preservation of low-income 
     housing programs (excluding $17,000,000 previously earmarked, 
     plus an additional $5,000,000, for preservation technical 
     assistance grant funds pursuant to section 253 of the Housing 
     and Community Development Act of 1987, as amended) shall not 
     become available for obligation until September 30, 1995: 
     Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     pending the availability of such funds, the Department of 
     Housing and Urban Development may suspend further processing 
     of applications.


   assistance for the renewal of expiring section 8 subsidy contracts

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327, and in prior years, $1,177,000,000 are 
     rescinded: Provided, That renewals of expiring section 8 
     contracts with funds provided under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327, and in prior years, may be for a term of two 
     years. In renewing an annual contributions contract with a 
     public housing agency administering the tenant-based existing 
     housing certificate program (42 U.S.C. 1437f) or the housing 
     voucher program under section 8(o) (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) of 
     the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, the 
     Secretary shall take into account the amount in the project 
     reserve under the contract being renewed in determining the 
     amount of budget authority to obligate under the renewed 
     contract (the 

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     total amount available in all such project reserves is estimated to be 
     $427,000,000) and the Secretary may determine not to apply 
     section 8(o)(6)(B) of the Act to renewals of housing vouchers 
     during the remainder of fiscal year 1995.


                          congregate services

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327 and any unobligated balances from funds 
     appropriated under this heading in prior years, $37,000,000 
     are rescinded.


                           youthbuild program

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327, $10,000,000 are rescinded.


                     housing counseling assistance

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327, $38,000,000 are rescinded.


                         flexible subsidy fund

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327 and any unobligated balances from funds 
     appropriated under this heading in prior years, and
      excess rental changes, collections and other amounts in the 
     fund, $8,000,000 are rescinded.


                  nehemiah housing opportunities fund

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds transferred to this revolving fund in prior 
     years, $10,500,000 are rescinded.

                          Homeless Assistance


                       homeless assistance grants

                               (deferral)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327, $297,000,000 shall not become available for 
     obligation until September 30, 1995.

                       Administrative Provisions

       Sec. 1001. (a) Section 14 of the United States Housing Act 
     of 1937 is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(q)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a 
     public housing agency may use modernization assistance 
     provided under section 14 for any eligible activity related 
     to public housing which is currently authorized by this Act 
     or applicable appropriations Acts for a public housing 
     agency, including the demolition of existing units, for 
     replacement housing, modernization activities related to the 
     public housing portion of housing developments held in 
     partnership, or cooperation with non-public housing entities, 
     and for temporary relocation assistance, provided that the 
     assistance provided to the public housing agency under 
     section 14 is principally used for the physical improvement 
     or replacement of public housing and for associated 
     management improvements, except as otherwise approved by the 
     Secretary, and provided the public housing agency consults 
     with the appropriate local government officials (or Indian 
     tribal officials) and with tenants of the public housing 
     developments. The public housing agency shall establish 
     procedures for consultation with local government officials 
     and tenants, and shall follow applicable regulatory 
     procedures as determined by the Secretary.
       ``(2) The authorization provided under this subsection 
     shall not extend to the use of public housing modernization 
     assistance for public housing operating assistance.''.
       (b) Subsection (a) shall be effective for assistance 
     appropriated on or before the effective date of this Act.
       Sec. 1002. (a) Section 18 of the United States Housing Act 
     of 1937 is amended by--
       (1) inserting ``and'' at the end of subsection (b)(1);
       (2) striking all that follows after ``Act'' in subsection 
     (b)(2) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: ``, and 
     the public housing agency provides for the payment of the 
     relocation expenses of each tenant to be displaced, ensures 
     that the rent paid by the tenant following relocation will 
     not exceed the amount permitted under this Act and shall not 
     commence demolition or disposition of any unit until the 
     tenant of the unit is relocated.'';
       (3) striking subsection (b)(3);
       (4) striking ``(1)'' in subsection (c);
       (5) striking subsection (c)(2);
       (6) inserting before the period at the end of subsection 
     (d) the following: ``: Provided, That nothing in this section 
     shall prevent a public housing agency from consolidating 
     occupancy within or among buildings of a public housing 
     project, or among projects, or with other housing for the 
     purpose of improving the living conditions of or providing 
     more efficient services to its tenants'';
       (7) striking ``under section (b)(3)(A)'' in each place it 
     occurs in subsection (e);
       (8) redesignating existing subsection (f) as subsection 
     (g); and
       (9) inserting a new subsection (f) as follows:
       ``(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     replacement housing units for public housing units demolished 
     may be built on the original public housing site or in the 
     same neighborhood if the number of such replacement units is 
     significantly fewer than the number of units demolished.''.
       (b) Section 304(g) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
     is hereby repealed.
       (c) Section 5(h) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
     is amended by striking the last sentence.
       (d) Subsections (a), (b), and (c) shall be effective for 
     plans for the demolition, disposition or conversion to 
     homeownership of public housing approved by the Secretary on 
     or before September 30, 1995: Provided, That no application 
     for replacement housing submitted by a public housing agency 
     to implement a final order of a court issued, or a settlement 
     approved by a court, before enactment of this Act, shall be 
     affected by such amendments.
       Sec. 1003. Section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 
     1937 is amended by adding the following new subsection:
       ``(z) Termination of Section 8 Contracts and Reuse of 
     Recaptured Budget Authority.--
       ``(1) General authority.--The Secretary may reuse any 
     budget authority, in whole or part, that is recaptured on 
     account of termination of a housing assistance payments 
     contract (other than a contract for tenant-based assistance) 
     only for one or more of the following:
       ``(A) Tenant-based assistance.--Pursuant to a contract with 
     a public housing agency, to provide tenant-based assistance 
     under this section to families occupying units formerly 
     assisted under the terminated contract.
       ``(B) Project-based assistance.--Pursuant to a contract 
     with an owner, to attach assistance to one or more structures 
     under this section, for relocation of families occupying 
     units formerly assisted under the terminated contract.
       ``(2) Families occupying units formerly assisted under 
     terminated contract.--Pursuant to paragraph (1), the 
     Secretary shall first make available tenant- or project-based 
     assistance to families occupying units formerly assisted 
     under the terminated contract. The Secretary shall provide 
     project-based assistance in instances only where the use of 
     tenant-based assistance is determined to be infeasible by the 
     Secretary.
       ``(3) Effective date.--This subsection shall be effective 
     for actions initiated by the Secretary on or before September 
     30, 1995.''.
 eligibility of state and local public housing units for comprehensive 
                                 grants

       Sec. 1003A. The first sentence of section 14(k)(2)(D)(i) of 
     the United States Housing Act of 1937 is amended by striking 
     ``shall'' and inserting the following: ``shall, except as 
     otherwise agreed by the Secretary and the agency,''.

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

           Community Development Financial Institutions Fund

                            program account

       For grants, loans, and technical assistance to qualifying 
     community development financial institutions, and 
     administrative expenses of the Fund, $50,000,000, to remain 
     available until September 30, 1996: Provided, That of the 
     funds made available under this heading not to exceed 
     $4,000,000 may be used for the cost of direct loans, and not 
     to exceed $400,000 may be used for administrative expenses to 
     carry out the direct loan program: Provided further, That the 
     cost of direct loans, including the cost of modifying such 
     loans, shall be defined as in section 502 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That such 
     funds are available to subsidize gross obligations for the 
     principal amount of direct loans not to exceed $31,600,000: 
     Provided further, That none of these funds shall be used to 
     supplement existing resources provided to the Department for 
     activities such as external affairs, general counsel, 
     administration, finance, or office of inspector general: 
     Provided further, That none of these funds shall be available 
     for expenses of an Administrator as defined in section 104 of 
     the Community Development Banking and Financial Institutions 
     Act of 1994 (CDBFI Act): Provided further, That the number of 
     staff funded under this heading shall not exceed 10 full-time 
     equivalents: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law, for purposes of administering the Community 
     Development Financial Institutions Fund, the Secretary of the 
     Treasury shall have all powers and rights of the 
     Administrator of the CDBFI Act and the Fund shall be within 
     the Department of the Treasury.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

             Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board


                         salaries and expenses

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327, $500,000 are rescinded.

              Community Development Financial Institutions


           community development financial institutions fund

                            program account

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327, $124,000,000 are rescinded and any unobligated 
     funds as of June 30, 1995 are also rescinded.

             Corporation for National and Community Service


       national and community service programs operating expenses

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327, $105,000,000 are rescinded.
     
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                    Environmental Protection Agency


                        research and development

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327, $14,635,000 are rescinded.


                   abatement, control, and compliance

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327, $9,806,805 are rescinded: Provided, That 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Environmental 
     Protection Agency shall not be required to site a computer to 
     support the regional acid deposition monitoring program in 
     the Bay City, Michigan, vicinity.

                        buildings and facilities


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 102-389 and Public Law 102-139 for the Center for Ecology 
     Research and Training, $83,000,000 are rescinded.


                     hazardous substance superfund

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327, $100,000,000 are rescinded.


               water infrastructure/state revolving funds

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327 and Public Law 103-124, $1,077,200,000 are 
     rescinded: Provided, That $1,074,000,000 of this amount is to 
     be derived from amounts appropriated for State revolving 
     funds and $3,200,000 is to be derived from amounts 
     appropriated for making grants for the construction of 
     wastewater treatment facilities specified in House Report 
     103-715.

                       Administrative Provisions

       Sec. 1004. None of the funds made available in any 
     appropriations Act for fiscal year 1995 may be used by the 
     Environmental Protection Agency to require any State to 
     comply with the requirement of section 182 of the Clean Air 
     Act by adopting or implementing a test-only or IM240 enhanced 
     vehicle inspection and maintenance program, except that EPA 
     may approve such a program if a State chooses to submit one 
     to meet that requirement.
       Sec. 1005. None of the funds made available in any 
     appropriations Act for fiscal year 1995 may be used by the 
     Environmental Protection Agency to impose or enforce any 
     requirement that a State implement trip reduction measures to 
     reduce vehicular emissions. Section 304 of the Clean Air Act 
     (42 U.S.C. 7604) shall not apply with respect to any such 
     requirement during the period beginning on the date of the 
     enactment of this Act and ending September 30, 1995.
       Sec. 1006. None of the funds made available in any 
     appropriations Act for fiscal year 1995 may be used by the 
     Environmental Protection Agency for listing or to list any 
     additional facilities on the National Priorities List 
     established by section 105 of the Comprehensive Environmental 
     Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), as 
     amended (42 U.S.C. 9605), unless the Administrator receives a 
     written request to propose for listing or to list a facility 
     from the Governor of the State in which the facility is 
     located, or unless legislation to reauthorize CERCLA is 
     enacted.
       Sec. 1007. None of the funds made available in any 
     appropriations Act for fiscal year 1995 shall be spent by the 
     Environmental Protection Agency to disapprove a State 
     implementation plan (SIP) revision solely on the basis of the 
     Agency's regulatory 50 percent discount for alternative test-
     and-repair inspection and maintenance programs. 
     Notwithstanding any other provision of EPA's regulatory 
     requirements, the EPA shall assign up to 100 percent credit 
     when such State has provided data for the proposed inspection 
     and maintenance system that demonstrates evidence that such 
     credits are appropriate. The Environmental Protection Agency 
     shall complete and present a technical assessment of the 
     State's demonstration within 45 days after submittal by the 
     State.

             National Aeronautics and Space Administration


                  science, aeronautics and technology

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327 and any unobligated balances from funds 
     appropriated under ``Research and Development'' in prior 
     years, $95,000,000 are rescinded.

                       construction of facilities


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 102-389, for the Consortium for International Earth 
     Science Information Network, $27,000,000 are rescinded; and 
     of any unobligated balances from funds appropriated under 
     this heading in prior years, $7,000,000 are rescinded.


                            mission support

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327, $32,000,000 are rescinded.


             space flight, control and data communications

                              (rescission)

       Of the available balances under this heading in previous 
     fiscal years, $43,000,000 are rescinded.

                       Administrative Provisions


                     (including transfer of funds)

       Sec. 1008. The Administrator shall acquire, for no more 
     than $35,000,000, a certain parcel of land, together with 
     existing facilities, located on the site of the property 
     referred to as the Clear Lake Development Facility, Clear 
     Lake, Texas. The land and facilities in question comprise 
     approximately 13 acres and include a Light Manufacturing 
     Facility, an Avionics Development Facility, and an Assembly 
     and Test Building which shall be modified for use as a 
     Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in support of human space flight 
     activities.
       Sec. 1009. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or 
     regulation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
     (NASA) shall convey, without reimbursement, to the State of 
     Mississippi, all rights, title and interest of the United 
     States in the property known as the Yellow Creek Facility and 
     consisting of approximately 1,200 acres near the city of 
     Iuka, Mississippi, including all improvements thereon and 
     also including any personal property owned by NASA that is 
     currently located on-site and which the State of Mississippi 
     requires to facilitate the transfer: Provided, That 
     appropriated funds shall be used to effect this conveyance: 
     Provided further, That $10,000,000 in appropriated funds 
     otherwise available to NASA shall be transferred to the State 
     of Mississippi to be used in the transition of the facility: 
     Provided further, That each Federal agency with prior contact 
     to the site shall remain responsible for any and all 
     environmental remediation made necessary as a result of its 
     activities on the site: Provided further, That in 
     consideration of this conveyance, NASA may require such other 
     terms and conditions as the Administrator deems appropriate 
     to protect the interests of the United States: Provided 
     further, That the conveyance of the site and the transfer of 
     the funds to the State of Mississippi shall occur not later 
     then thirty days from the date of enactment of this Act.
                      National Science Foundation


                    academic research infrastructure

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327, $131,867,000 are rescinded.

                              CORPORATIONS

                 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation


                    fdic affordable housing program

                              (rescission)

       Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 103-327, $11,281,034 are rescinded.

                      TITLE II--GENERAL PROVISIONS


                 emergency salvage timber sale program

       Sec. 2001. (a) Definitions.--For purposes of this section:
       (1) The term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means 
     the Committee on Resources, the Committee on Agriculture, and 
     the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural 
     Resources, the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and 
     Forestry, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.
       (2) The term ``emergency period'' means the period 
     beginning on the date of the enactment of this section and 
     ending on September 30, 1997.
       (3) The term ``salvage timber sale'' means a timber sale 
     for which an important reason for entry includes the removal 
     of disease- or insect-infested trees, dead, damaged, or down 
     trees, or trees affected by fire or imminently susceptible to 
     fire or insect attack. Such term also includes the removal of 
     associated trees or trees lacking the characteristics of a 
     healthy and viable ecosystem for the purpose of ecosystem 
     improvement or rehabilitation, except that any such sale must 
     include an identifiable salvage component of trees described 
     in the first sentence.
       (4) The term ``Secretary concerned'' means--
       (A) the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to lands 
     within the National Forest System; and
       (B) the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to Federal 
     lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land 
     Management.
       (b) Completion of Salvage Timber Sales.--
       (1) Salvage timber sales.--Using the expedited procedures 
     provided in subsection (c), the Secretary concerned shall 
     prepare, advertise, offer, and award contracts during the 
     emergency period for salvage timber sales from Federal lands 
     described in subsection (a)(4). During the emergency period, 
     the Secretary concerned is to achieve, to the maximum extent 
     feasible, a salvage timber sale volume level above the 
     programmed level to reduce the backlogged volume of salvage 
     timber. The preparation, advertisement, offering, and 
     awarding of such contracts shall be performed utilizing 
     subsection (c) and notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, including a law under the authority of which any 
     judicial order may be outstanding on or after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.
       (2) Use of salvage sale funds.--To conduct salvage timber 
     sales under this subsection, the Secretary concerned may use 
     salvage sale funds otherwise available to the Secretary 
     concerned.
       (3) Sales in preparation.--Any salvage timber sale in 
     preparation on the date of the enactment of this Act shall be 
     subject to the provisions of this section.

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       (c) Expedited Procedures for Emergency Salvage Timber 
     Sales.--
       (1) Sale documentation.--
       (A) Preparation.--For each salvage timber sale conducted 
     under subsection (b), the Secretary concerned shall prepare a 
     document that combines an environmental assessment
      under section 102(2) of the National Environmental Policy 
     Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(E)) (including regulations 
     implementing such section) and a biological evaluation 
     under section 7(a)(2) of the Endangered Species Act of 
     1973 (16 U.S.C. 1536(a)(2)) and other applicable Federal 
     law and implementing regulations. A document embodying 
     decisions relating to salvage timber sales proposed under 
     authority of this section shall, at the sole discretion of 
     the Secretary concerned and to the extent the Secretary 
     concerned considers appropriate and feasible, consider the 
     environmental effects of the salvage timber sale and the 
     effect, if any, on threatened or endangered species, and 
     to the extent the Secretary concerned, at his sole 
     discretion, considers appropriate and feasible, be 
     consistent with any standards and guidelines from the 
     management plans applicable to the National Forest or 
     Bureau of Land Management District on which the salvage 
     timber sale occurs.
       (B) Use of existing materials.--In lieu of preparing a new 
     document under this paragraph, the Secretary concerned may 
     use a document prepared pursuant to the National 
     Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) 
     before the date of the enactment of this Act, a biological 
     evaluation written before such date, or information collected 
     for such a document or evaluation if the document, 
     evaluation, or information applies to the Federal lands 
     covered by the proposed sale.
       (C) Scope and content.--The scope and content of the 
     documentation and information prepared, considered, and 
     relied on under this paragraph is at the sole discretion of 
     the Secretary concerned.
       (2) Reporting requirements.--Not later than August 30, 
     1995, the Secretary concerned shall submit a report to the 
     appropriate committees of Congress on the implementation of 
     this section. The report shall be updated and resubmitted to 
     the appropriate committees of Congress every six months 
     thereafter until the completion of all salvage timber sales 
     conducted under subsection (b). Each report shall contain the 
     following:
       (A) The volume of salvage timber sales sold and harvested, 
     as of the date of the report, for each National Forest and 
     each district of the Bureau of Land Management.
       (B) The available salvage volume contained in each National 
     Forest and each district of the Bureau of Land Management.
       (C) A plan and schedule for an enhanced salvage timber sale 
     program for fiscal years 1995, 1996, and 1997 using the 
     authority provided by this section for salvage timber sales.
       (D) A description of any needed resources and personnel, 
     including personnel reassignments, required to conduct an 
     enhanced salvage timber sale program through fiscal year 
     1997.
       (E) A statement of the intentions of the Secretary 
     concerned with respect to the salvage timber sale volume 
     levels specified in the joint explanatory statement of 
     managers accompanying the conference report on H.R. 1158, 
     House Report 104-124.
       (3) Advancement of sales authorized.--The Secretary 
     concerned may begin salvage timber sales under subsection (b) 
     intended for a subsequent fiscal year before the start of 
     such fiscal year if the Secretary concerned determines that 
     performance of
      such salvage timber sales will not interfere with salvage 
     timber sales intended for a preceding fiscal year.
       (4) Decisions.--The Secretary concerned shall design and 
     select the specific salvage timber sales to be offered under 
     subsection (b) on the basis of the analysis contained in the 
     document or documents prepared pursuant to paragraph (1) to 
     achieve, to the maximum extent feasible, a salvage timber 
     sale volume level above the program level.
       (5) Sale preparation.--
       (A) Use of available authorities.--The Secretary concerned 
     shall make use of all available authority, including the 
     employment of private contractors and the use of expedited 
     fire contracting procedures, to prepare and advertise salvage 
     timber sales under subsection (b).
       (B) Exemptions.--The preparation, solicitation, and award 
     of salvage timber sales under subsection (b) shall be exempt 
     from--
       (i) the requirements of the Competition in Contracting Act 
     (41 U.S.C. 253 et seq.) and the implementing regulations in 
     the Federal Acquisition Regulation issued pursuant to section 
     25(c) of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 
     U.S.C. 421(c)) and any departmental acquisition regulations; 
     and
       (ii) the notice and publication requirements in section 18 
     of such Act (41 U.S.C. 416) and 8(e) of the Small Business 
     Act (15 U.S.C. 637(e)) and the implementing regulations in 
     the Federal Acquisition Regulations and any departmental 
     acquisition regulations.
       (C) Incentive payment recipients; report.--The provisions 
     of section 3(d)(1) of the Federal Workforce Restructuring Act 
     of 1994 (Public Law 103-226; 5 U.S.C. 5597 note) shall not 
     apply to any former employee of the Secretary concerned who 
     received a voluntary separation incentive payment authorized 
     by such Act and accepts employment pursuant to this 
     paragraph. The Director of the Office of Personnel Management 
     and the Secretary concerned shall provide a summary report to 
     the appropriate committees of Congress, the Committee on 
     Government Reform and Oversight of the House of 
     Representatives, and the Committee on Governmental Affairs of 
     the Senate regarding the number of incentive payment 
     recipients who were rehired, their terms of reemployment, 
     their job classifications, and an explanation, in the 
     judgment of the agencies involved of how such reemployment 
     without repayment of the incentive payments received is 
     consistent with the original waiver provisions of such Act. 
     This report shall not be conducted in a manner that would 
     delay the rehiring of any former employees under this 
     paragraph, or affect the normal confidentiality of Federal 
     employees.
       (6) Cost considerations.--Salvage timber sales undertaken 
     pursuant to this section shall not be precluded because the 
     costs of such activities are likely to exceed the revenues 
     derived from such activities.
       (7) Effect of salvage sales.--The Secretary concerned shall 
     not substitute salvage timber sales conducted under 
     subsection (b) for planned non-salvage timber sales.
       (8) Reforestation of salvage timber sale parcels.--The 
     Secretary concerned shall plan and implement reforestation of 
     each parcel of land harvested under a salvage timber sale 
     conducted under subsection (b) as expeditiously as possible 
     after completion of the harvest on the parcel, but in no case 
     later than any applicable restocking period required by law 
     or regulation.
       (9) Effect on judicial decisions.--The Secretary concerned 
     may conduct salvage timber sales under subsection (b) 
     notwithstanding any decision, restraining order, or 
     injunction issued by a United States court before the date of 
     the enactment of this section.
       (d) Direction To Complete Timber Sales on Lands Covered by 
     Option 9.--Notwithstanding any other law (including a law 
     under the authority of which any judicial order may be 
     outstanding on or after the date of enactment of this Act), 
     the Secretary concerned shall expeditiously prepare, offer, 
     and award timber sale contracts on Federal lands described in 
     the ``Record of Decision for Amendments to Forest Service and 
     Bureau of Land Management Planning Documents Within the Range 
     of the Northern Spotted Owl'', signed by the Secretary of the 
     Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture on April 13, 1994. 
     The Secretary concerned may conduct timber sales under this 
     subsection notwithstanding any decision, restraining order, 
     or injunction issued by a United States court before the date 
     of the enactment of this section. The issuance of any 
     regulation pursuant to section 4(d) of the Endangered Species 
     Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533(d)) to ease or reduce 
     restrictions on non-Federal lands within the range of the 
     northern spotted owl shall be deemed to satisfy the 
     requirements of section 102(2C) of the National Environmental 
     Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2C)), given the analysis 
     included in the Final Supplemental Impact Statement on the 
     Management of the Habitat for Late Successional and Old 
     Growth Forest Related Species Within the Range of the 
     Northern Spotted Owl, prepared by the Secretary of 
     Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior in 1994, which 
     is, or may be, incorporated by reference in the 
     administrative record of any such regulation. The issuance of 
     any such regulation pursuant to section 4(d) of the 
     Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533(d)) shall not 
     require the preparation of an environmental impact statement 
     under section 102(2C) of the National Environmental Policy 
     Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2C)).
       (e) Administrative Review.--Salvage timber sales conducted 
     under subsection (b), timber sales conducted under subsection 
     (d), and any decision of the Secretary concerned in 
     connection with such sales, shall not be subject to 
     administrative review.
       (f) Judicial Review.--
       (1) Place and time of filing.--A salvage timber sale to be 
     conducted under subsection (b), and a timber sale to be 
     conducted under subsection (d), shall be subject to judicial 
     review only in the United States district court for the 
     district in which the affected Federal lands are located. Any 
     challenge to such sale must be filed in such district court 
     within 15 days after the date of initial advertisement of the 
     challenged sale. The Secretary concerned may not agree to, 
     and a court may not grant, a waiver of the requirements of 
     this paragraph.
       (2) Effect of filing on agency action.--For 45 days after 
     the date of the filing of a challenge to a salvage timber 
     sale to be conducted under subsection (b) or a timber sale to 
     be conducted under subsection (d), the Secretary concerned 
     shall take no action to award the challenged sale.
       (3) Prohibition on restraining orders, preliminary 
     injunctions, and relief pending review.--No restraining 
     order, preliminary injunction, or injunction pending appeal 
     shall be issued by any court of the United States with 
     respect to any decision to prepare, advertise, offer, award, 
     or operate a salvage timber sale pursuant to subsection (b) 
     or any decision to prepare, advertise, offer, award, or 
     operate a timber sale pursuant to subsection (d). Section 705 
     of title 5, United States Code, shall not apply to any 
     challenge to such a sale.
       (4) Standard of review.--The courts shall have authority to 
     enjoin permanently, order 

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     modification of, or void an individual salvage timber sale if it is 
     determined by a review of the record that the decision to 
     prepare, advertise, offer, award, or operate such sale was 
     arbitrary and capricious or otherwise not in accordance with 
     applicable law (other than those laws specified in subsection 
     (i)).
       (5) Time for decision.--Civil actions filed under this 
     subsection shall be assigned for hearing at the earliest 
     possible date. The court shall render its final decision 
     relative to any challenge within 45 days from the date such 
     challenge is brought, unless the court determines that a 
     longer period of time is required to satisfy the requirement 
     of the United States Constitution. In order to reach a 
     decision within 45 days, the district court may assign all or 
     part of any such case or cases to one or more Special 
     Masters, for prompt review and recommendations to the court.
       (6) Procedures.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, the court may set rules governing the procedures of any 
     proceeding brought under this subsection which set page 
     limits on briefs and time limits on filing briefs and motions 
     and other actions which are shorter than the limits specified 
     in the Federal rules of civil or appellate procedure.
       (7) Appeal.--Any appeal from the final decision of a 
     district court in an action brought pursuant to this 
     subsection shall be filed not later than 30 days after the 
     date of decision.
       (g) Exclusion of Certain Federal Lands.--
       (1) Exclusion.--The Secretary concerned may not select, 
     authorize, or undertake any salvage timber sale under 
     subsection (b) with respect to lands described in paragraph 
     (2).
       (2) Description of excluded lands.--The lands referred to 
     in paragraph (1) are as follows:
       (A) Any area on Federal lands included in the National 
     Wilderness Preservation System.
       (B) Any roadless area on Federal lands designated by 
     Congress for wilderness study in Colorado or Montana.
       (C) Any roadless area on Federal lands recommended by the 
     Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management for wilderness 
     designation in its most recent land management plan in effect 
     as of the date of the enactment of this Act.
       (D) Any area on Federal lands on which timber harvesting 
     for any purpose is prohibited by statute.
       (h) Rulemaking.--The Secretary concerned is not required to 
     issue formal rules under section 553 of title 5, United 
     States Code, to implement this section or carry out the 
     authorities provided by this section.
       (i) Effect on Other Laws.--The documents and procedures 
     required by this section for the preparation, advertisement, 
     offering, awarding, and operation of any salvage timber sale 
     subject to subsection (b) and any timber sale under 
     subsection (d) shall be deemed to satisfy the requirements of 
     the following applicable Federal laws (and regulations 
     implementing such laws):
       (1) The Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning 
     Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.);
       (2) The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 
     U.S.C. 1701 et seq.);
       (3) The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 
     U.S.C. 4321 et seq.);
       (4) The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et 
     seq.);
       (5) The National Forest Management Act of 1976 (16 U.S.C. 
     472a et seq.);
       (6) The Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960 (16 U.S.C. 
     528 et seq.);
       (7) Any compact, executive agreement, convention, treaty, 
     and international agreement, and implementing legislation 
     related thereto; and
       (8) All other applicable Federal environmental and natural 
     resource laws.
       (j) Expiration Date.--The authority provided by subsections 
     (b) and (d) shall expire on September 30, 1997. The terms and 
     conditions of this section shall continue in effect with 
     respect to salvage timber sale contracts offered under 
     subsection (b) and timber sale contracts offered under 
     subsection (d) until the completion of performance of the 
     contracts.
       (k) Award and Release of Previously Offered and Unawarded 
     Timber Sale Contracts.--
       (1) Award and release required.--Notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law, within 45 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary concerned shall act to 
     award, release, and permit to be completed in fiscal years 
     1995 and 1996, with no change in originally advertised terms, 
     volumes, and bid prices, all timber sale contracts offered or 
     awarded before that date in any unit of the National Forest 
     System or district of the Bureau of Land Management subject 
     to section 318 of Public Law 101-121 (103 Stat. 745). The 
     return of the bid bond of the high bidder shall not alter the 
     responsibility of the Secretary concerned to comply with this 
     paragraph.
       (2) Threatened or endangered bird species.--No sale unit 
     shall be released or completed under this subsection if any 
     threatened or endangered bird species is known to be nesting 
     within the acreage that is the subject of the sale unit.
       (3) Alternative offer in case of delay.--If for any reason 
     a sale cannot be released and completed under the terms of 
     this subsection within 45 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary concerned shall provide 
     the purchaser an equal volume of timber, of like kind and 
     value, which shall be subject to the terms of the original 
     contract and shall not count against current allowable sale 
     quantities.
       (l) Effect on Plans, Policies, and Activities.--Compliance 
     with this section shall not require or permit any 
     administrative action, including revisions, amendment, 
     consultation, supplementation, or other action, in or for any 
     land management plan, standard, guideline, policy, regional 
     guide, or multiforest plan because of implementation or 
     impacts, site-specific or cumulative, of activities 
     authorized or required by this section, except that any such 
     administrative action with respect to salvage timber sales is 
     permitted to the extent necessary, at the sole discretion of 
     the Secretary concerned, to meet the salvage timber sale goal 
     specified in subsection (b)(1) of this section or to reflect 
     the effects of the salvage program. The Secretary concerned 
     shall not rely on salvage timber sales as the basis for 
     administrative action limiting other multiple use activities 
     nor be required to offer a particular salvage timber sale. No 
     project decision shall be required to be halted or delayed by 
     such documents or guidance, implementation, or impacts.
       Sec. 2002. No part of any appropriation contained in this 
     Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 
     fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.


         downward adjustments in discretionary spending limits

       Sec. 2003. Upon the enactment of this Act, the Director of 
     the Office of Management and Budget shall make downward 
     adjustments in the discretionary spending limits (new budget 
     authority and outlays) specified in section 601(a)(2) of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for each of the fiscal years 
     1995 through 1998 by the aggregate amount of estimated 
     reductions in new budget authority and outlays for 
     discretionary programs resulting from the provisions of this 
     Act (other than emergency appropriations) for such fiscal 
     year, as calculated by the Director.


  prohibition on use of savings to offset deficit increases resulting 
              from direct spending or receipts legislation

       Sec. 2004. Reductions in outlays, and reductions in the 
     discretionary spending limits specified in section 601(a)(2) 
     of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, resulting from the 
     enactment of this Act shall not be taken into account for 
     purposes of section 252 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
     Deficit Control Act of 1985.
       Sec. 2005. July 27 of each year until the year 2003 is 
     designated as ``National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day'', 
     and the President is authorized and requested to issue a 
     proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to 
     observe such day with appropriate ceremonies and activities, 
     and to urge the departments and agencies of the United States 
     and interested organizations, groups, and individuals to fly 
     the American flag at half staff on July 27 of each year until 
     the year 2003 in honor of the Americans who died as a result 
     of their service in Korea.
 denial of use of funds for individuals not lawfully within the united 
                                 states

       Sec. 2006. (a) In General.--None of the funds made 
     available in this Act may be used to provide any direct 
     benefit or assistance to any individual in the United States 
     when it is made known to the Federal entity or official to 
     which the funds are made available that--
       (1) the individual is not lawfully within the United 
     States; and
       (2) the benefit or assistance to be provided is other than 
     search and rescue; emergency medical care; emergency mass 
     care; emergency shelter; clearance of roads and construction 
     of temporary bridges necessary to the performance of 
     emergency tasks and essential community services; warning of 
     further risk or hazards; dissemination of public information 
     and assistance regarding health and safety measures; 
     provision of food, water, medicine, and other essential 
     needs, including movement of supplies or persons; or 
     reduction of immediate threats to life, property, and public 
     health and safety.
       (b) Actions To Determine Lawful Status.--Each Federal 
     entity or official receiving funds under this Act shall take 
     reasonable actions to determine whether any individual who is 
     seeking any benefit or assistance subject to the limitation 
     established in subsection (a) is lawfully within the United 
     States.
       (c) Nondiscrimination.--In the case of any filing, inquiry, 
     or adjudication of an application for any benefit or 
     assistance subject to the limitation established in 
     subsection (a), no Federal entity or official (or their 
     agent) may discriminate against any individual on the basis 
     of race, color, religion, sex, age, or disability.

               federal administrative and travel expenses

                             (rescissions)

       Sec. 2007. (a) Of the funds available to the agencies of 
     the Federal Government, other than the Department of 
     Defense--Military, $325,000,000 are hereby rescinded: 
     Provided, That rescissions pursuant to this paragraph shall 
     be taken only from administrative and travel accounts: 
     Provided further, That rescissions shall be taken on a pro 
     rata basis from funds available to every Federal agency, 
     department, and office in the Executive 

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     Branch, including the Office of the President.
       (b) Of the funds available to the Department of Defense--
     Military, $50,000,000 are hereby rescinded: Provided, That 
     rescissions pursuant to this paragraph shall be taken only 
     from administrative and travel accounts: Provided further, 
     That rescissions shall be taken on a pro rata basis from 
     funds available to every agency, department, and office.
       (c) Within 30 days of enactment of this Act, the Director 
     of the Office of Management and Budget shall submit to the 
     Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate a 
     listing of the amounts by account of the reductions made 
     pursuant to the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of this 
     section.

                               TITLE III

                 EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS

                       ANTI-TERRORISM INITIATIVES

                         OKLAHOMA CITY RECOVERY

                               CHAPTER I

DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED 
                                AGENCIES

                         DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

                         General Administration

                         counterterrorism fund

       There is hereby established the Counterterrorism Fund which 
     shall remain available without fiscal year limitation. For 
     necessary expenses, as determined by the Attorney General, 
     $34,220,000, to remain available until expended, is 
     appropriated to the Counterterrorism Fund to reimburse any 
     Department of Justice organization for the costs incurred in 
     reestablishing the operational capability of an office or 
     facility which has been damaged or destroyed as the result of 
     the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 
     Oklahoma City or any domestic or international terrorism 
     event: Provided, That funds from this appropriation also may 
     be used to reimburse the appropriation account of any 
     Department of Justice agency engaged in, or providing support 
     to, countering, investigating or prosecuting domestic or 
     international terrorism, including payment of rewards in 
     connection with these activities, and to conduct a terrorism 
     threat assessment of Federal agencies and their facilities: 
     Provided further, That any amount obligated from 
     appropriations under this heading may be used under the 
     authorities available to the organization reimbursed from 
     this appropriation: Provided further, That amounts in excess 
     of the $10,555,000 made available for extraordinary expenses 
     incurred in the Oklahoma City bombing for fiscal year 1995, 
     shall be available only after the Attorney General notifies 
     the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate in accordance with section 605 
     of Public Law 103-317: Provided further, That the entire 
     amount is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget 
     and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: 
     Provided further, That the amount not previously designated 
     by the President as an emergency requirement shall be 
     available only to the extent an official budget request, for 
     a specific dollar amount that includes designation of the 
     entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement, as 
     defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
     Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted to Congress.

                            Legal Activities


             salaries and expenses, united states attorneys

       For an additional amount for expenses resulting from the 
     bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma 
     City and other anti-terrorism efforts, $2,000,000, to remain 
     available until expended: Provided, That the entire amount is 
     designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
     to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided 
     further, That the amount not previously designated by the 
     President as an emergency requirement shall be available only 
     to the extent an official budget request, for a specific 
     dollar amount that includes designation of the entire amount 
     of the request as an emergency requirement, as defined in the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended, is transmitted to Congress.
                    Federal Bureau of Investigation


                         salaries and expenses

       For an additional amount for expenses resulting from the 
     bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma 
     City and other anti-terrorism efforts, including the 
     establishment of a Domestic Counterterrorism Center, 
     $77,140,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That the entire amount is designated by Congress as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of 
     the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985, as amended: Provided further, That the amount not 
     previously designated by the President as an emergency 
     requirement shall be available only to the extent an official 
     budget request, for a specific dollar amount that includes 
     designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
     emergency requirement, as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted to Congress.

                           General Provisions

       Sec. 3001. Any funds made available to the Attorney General 
     heretofore or hereafter in any Act shall not be subject to 
     the spending limitations contained in sections 3059 and 3072 
     of title 18, United States Code: Provided, That any reward of 
     $100,000 or more, up to a maximum of $2,000,000, may not be 
     made without the personal approval of the President or the 
     Attorney General, and such approval may not be delegated.
       Sec. 3002. Funds made available under this Act for this 
     title for the Department of Justice are subject to the 
     standard notification procedures contained in section 605 of 
     Public Law 103-317.

                             THE JUDICIARY

    Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and Other Judicial Services

                             court security

       For an additional amount for ``Court Security'' to enhance 
     security of judges and support personnel, $16,640,000, to 
     remain available until expended, to be expended directly or 
     transferred to the United States Marshals Service: Provided, 
     That the entire amount is designated by Congress as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of 
     the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985, as amended: Provided further, That the amount not 
     previously designated by the President as an emergency 
     requirement shall be available only to the extent an official 
     budget request, for a specific dollar amount that includes 
     designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
     emergency requirement, as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted to Congress.

                               CHAPTER II

            TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms


                         salaries and expenses

       For an additional amount for emergency expenses of the 
     bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma 
     City, and anti-terrorism efforts, including the President's 
     anti-terrorism initiative, $34,823,000, to remain available 
     until expended: Provided, That the entire amount is 
     designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
     to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                Federal Law Enforcement Training Center


                         salaries and expenses

       For an additional amount for the Federal response to the 
     bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma 
     City, $1,100,000, to remain available until expended: 
     Provided, That the entire amount is designated by Congress as 
     an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) 
     of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985, as amended.

                      United States Secret Service


                         salaries and expenses

       For an additional amount for emergency expenses of the 
     bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma 
     City, and other anti-terrorism efforts, including the 
     President's anti-terrorism initiative, $6,675,000, to remain 
     available until expended: Provided, That the entire amount is 
     designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
     to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                      United States Custom Service


                         salaries and expenses

       For an additional amount for emergency expenses resulting 
     from the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 
     Oklahoma City, $1,000,000, to remain available until 
     expended: Provided, That the entire amount is designated by 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended.
                           Independent Agency

                    General Services Administration


                        real property activities

                         federal buildings fund

                 limitations on availability of revenue

       The aggregate limitation on Federal Buildings Fund 
     obligations established under this heading in Public Law 103-
     329 (as otherwise reduced pursuant to this Act) is hereby 
     increased by $66,800,000, of which $40,400,000 shall remain 
     available until expended for necessary expenses of real 
     property management and related activities (including 
     planning, design, construction, demolition, restoration, 
     repairs, alterations, acquisition, installment acquisition 
     payments, rental of space, building operations, maintenance, 
     protection, moving of governmental agencies, and other 
     activities) in response to the April 19, 1995, terrorist 
     bombing attack at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 
     Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
       In carrying out such activities, the Administrator of 
     General Services may (among other actions) exchange, sell, 
     lease, donate, or otherwise dispose of the site of the Alfred 
     P. Murrah Federal Building (or a portion thereof) to the 
     State of Oklahoma, to the city of Oklahoma City, or to any 
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     public trust that has the city of Oklahoma City as its beneficiary and 
     is designated by the city to receive such property. Any such 
     disposal shall not be subject to--
       (1) the Public Buildings Act of 1959 (40 U.S.C. 601 et 
     seq.);
       (2) the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 
     1949 (40 U.S.C. 471 et seq.); or
       (3) any other Federal law establishing requirements or 
     procedures for the disposal of Federal property:

     Provided, That these funds shall not be available for 
     expenses in connection with the construction, repair, 
     alteration, or acquisition project for which a prospectus, if 
     required by the Public Buildings Act of 1959, as amended, has 
     not been approved, except that necessary funds may be 
     expended for required expenses in connection with the 
     development of a proposed prospectus: Provided further, That 
     for additional amounts, to remain available until expended 
     and to be deposited into the Federal Buildings Fund, for 
     emergency expenses resulting from the bombing of the Alfred 
     P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City: for 
     ``Construction'', Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Alfred P. Murrah 
     Federal Building, demolition, $2,300,000; for ``Minor Repairs 
     and Alterations'', $3,300,000; for ``Rental of Space'', 
     $8,300,000, to be used to lease, furnish, and equip 
     replacement space; and for ``Buildings Operations'', 
     $12,500,000: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
     designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
     to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                              CHAPTER III

DEPARTMENTS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND 
                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT


                     management and administration

                         salaries and expenses

       For an additional amount for emergency expenses resulting 
     from the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 
     Oklahoma City, $3,200,000, to remain available through 
     September 30, 1996: Provided, That the entire amount is 
     designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget 
     and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                   Community Planning and Development

                      community development grants

       For an additional amount for ``Community Development 
     Grants'', as authorized by title I of the Housing and 
     Community Development Act of 1974, $39,000,000, to remain 
     available until expended to assist property and victims 
     damaged and economic revitalization due to the bombing of the 
     Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 
     19, 1995, primarily in the area bounded on the south by 
     Robert S. Kerr Avenue, on the north by North 13th Street, on 
     the east by Oklahoma Avenue, and on the west by Shartel 
     Avenue, and for reimbursement to the City of Oklahoma City, 
     or any public trust thereof, for the expenditure of other 
     Federal funds used to achieve these same purposes: Provided, 
     That in administering these funds, and any Economic 
     Development Grants and loan guarantees under section 108 of 
     such Act used for economic revitalization activities in 
     Oklahoma City, the Secretary may waive, or specify 
     alternative requirements for, any provision of any statute or 
     regulation that the Secretary administers in connection with 
     the obligation by the Secretary or the use by the recipient 
     of these funds or guarantees, except for requirements related 
     to fair housing and nondiscrimination, the environment, and 
     labor standards, upon a finding that such waiver is required 
     to facilitate the use of such funds or guarantees, and would 
     not be inconsistent with the overall purpose of the statute 
     or regulation: Provided further, That such funds shall not 
     adversely affect the amount of any formula assistance 
     received by Oklahoma City or any other entity, or any 
     categorical application for other Federal assistance: 
     Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, such funds may be used for the repair and reconstruction 
     of religious institution facilities damaged by the explosion 
     in the same manner as private nonprofit facilities providing 
     public services: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
     designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
     to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                  Federal Emergency Management Agency


                         salaries and expenses

       For an additional amount for ``Salaries and Expenses'', 
     $3,523,000, to increase Federal, State and local preparedness 
     for mitigating and responding to the consequences of 
     terrorism: Provided, That the entire amount is designated by 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended.


              emergency management planning and assistance

       For an additional amount for ``Emergency Management 
     Planning and Assistance'', $3,477,000, to increase Federal, 
     State and local preparedness for mitigating and responding to 
     the consequences of terrorism: Provided, That the entire 
     amount is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget 
     and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
       This Act may be cited as the ``Emergency Supplemental 
     Appropriations for Additional Disaster Assistance, for Anti-
     terrorism Initiatives, for Assistance in the Recovery from 
     the Tragedy that Occurred at Oklahoma City, and Rescissions 
     Act, 1995''.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 176, the 
gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. Livingston] will be recognized for 30 
minutes and the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Obey] will be recognized 
for 30 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. Livingston].
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  (Mr. LIVINGSTON asked and was given permission to revise and extend 
his remarks.)
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to bring to the House the 
emergency supplemental and rescissions bill, H.R. 1944.
  As all Members know, the President vetoed H.R. 1158. This bill is a 
replacement version of H.R. 1158, and makes some changes to H.R. 1158 
that will cause this new bill to be signed once congressional action is 
complete. This bill gives the President the opportunity again to take a 
first small step toward balancing the budget.
  Since the veto, negotiations have been occurring to determine what 
changes might be made to gain the President's approval and yet be 
acceptable to the Congress. Finding common ground in these negotiations 
has proven extraordinarily difficult. But I am pleased to tell you that 
with the changes I will propose in an amendment following my statement, 
the President will sign this bill.
  After 3 weeks, we reached a stage in the negotiations where I felt we 
had to move if we were to have any chance of enacting an emergency 
supplemental and rescissions bill. We have gone a long way to meeting 
the President's concerns to the extent we have been able to identify 
them.
  Mr. Speaker, this bill includes important supplemental appropriations 
for disaster assistance, $6.55 billion, mostly for the Los Angeles 
earthquake, but also for some more recent flood and fire disasters; 
$144.4 million for the Oklahoma City recovery; $145.1 million for 
antiterrorism initiatives and enhanced security; and $275 million as 
requested by the President for debt relief for Jordan.
  These appropriations are more than fully offset so that the bill nets 
out to over $9.126 billion in savings because of rescissions of over 
$16.3 billion. That is, we cut $16.3 billion, we spend about $7.2 
billion, and we have over $9.1 billion in savings.
  Mr. Speaker, this bill includes decreased rescissions, or lowered 
cuts, from H.R. 1158 for Adult Job Training, School-to-Work, Goals 
2000, Safe and Drug-Free Schools, Drug Courts, the FACES program or the 
Community School program of HHS, the TRIO program, the Child Care block 
Grant program, Housing for People with AIDS, National and Community 
Service, Safe Drinking Water, and Community Development Financial 
Institutions. It also provides a new appropriation for additional urban 
redevelopment in Oklahoma City needed as a result of the terrorist 
attack.
  Mr. Speaker, all of these additions, or lowered rescissions, have 
been requested by the administration and are being placed in the bill 
as a result of the administration's requests.
  Mr. Speaker, the bill includes increased rescissions from H.R. 1158 
levels for GSA's energy program, for GSA's Chlorofluorocarbon program, 
for the Assisted Housing (section 202) program, for NASA Challenger 
funds, and for NASA research and development. It also includes new 
rescissions for the Congregate Services, for travel and administration 
expenses from all Federal agencies, and makes some minor changes to the 
salvage timber language. The cuts in Federal travel and administration 
expenses and the reduction in the FEMA disaster supplemental 
appropriation were proposed by the President, who supports the other 
changes as well.
  Overall, the changes to this bill compared to H.R. 1158 are $772 
million in increases and $794 million in decreases. That is, $772 
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spending, and $794 million in decreased spending. This nets out to a 
further reduction of $22 million in
 savings over and above the $9.1 billion that was saved in the earlier 
bill.

  In implementing the provisions of this bill, we expect the 
administration to use the guidance included in the Joint Explanatory 
Statement of the Committee of Conference on the Conference Report on 
H.R. 1158, House Report 104-124.
  Mr. Speaker, we need to pass the bill quickly. The enactment of this 
bill is crucial, and I repeat, crucial to the orderly development of 
the fiscal year 1996 appropriations bills. Without the savings included 
in this bill, next year's bills will have to be cut over $3 billion 
more in order to meet the allocations in the budget resolution that we 
have just adopted.
  The $3 billion would have to come in large measure from the programs 
that the President was trying to protect when he vetoed H.R. 1158. When 
you are trying to balance the budget, as the President is now on board 
saying he wishes to do, you have to make difficult choices. You cannot 
have it both ways. If you protect programs this year, then you have to 
increase the level of cuts that you have to make in those same programs 
or in other programs the next year.
  This bill compared to H.R. 1158 represents a balance of differing 
viewpoints. It restores funding for some programs this year that the 
President cares about, yet it provides enough savings so that we will 
not have to drastically cut similar programs next year. If we reduce 
the savings in this bill further by restoring more funding or if the 
bill is vetoed, then we have to increase the cuts that we have to make 
in these same programs next year. It is just that simple.
  Mr. Speaker, if you are for deficit reduction, there is no reason not 
to support this bill. It is the last train leaving the station for 
fiscal year 1995. Important emergency supplemental appropriations are 
in this bill. Important rescissions are in this bill. It saves over 
$9.1 billion. It is not my idea of a perfect bill because it is a 
compromise bill, but it is a good bill, and we need its enactment as 
the first step in balancing the budget.
  This is the very first real step that we can take in achieving a 
balanced budget. There will not be another change in fiscal year 1995. 
This is it, so let's adopt this bill and take the first step on the 
long road of getting our fiscal house in order.
  At this point in the Record I would like to insert a table showing 
the details of this bill including the affect of the amendment I will 
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  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 13 minutes.
  Mr. Speaker, I understand full well why the President feels he has to 
sign this bill. As President, he feels a deep obligation to try to 
assure that funds are available for the California and other disasters. 
He is deeply concerned about obtaining Jordan debt relief. We all 
understand why. There are a number of other high-priority items which 
the President feels that he needs.
  But we have a different role. As I look at this bill, I see it quite 
differently than does my good friend the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. 
Livingston]. I see a bill which has total rescissions of over $16 
billion, total additional spending of some $7.2 billion, a net change 
of $9.2 billion in budget authority. But that results in only about $5 
billion in actual outlay savings. In the first year those outlay 
savings are used to reduce the deficit, but over the life of this bill, 
the 7-year life of this bill, the rest of these savings are used to pay 
for the tax cut which our friends on this side of the aisle are 
pushing.
  As we have discussed many times, the lion's share of that tax cut is 
going to people who make more than $100,000 a year. To put it in 
perspective, the first year savings which result, which are used for 
deficit reduction, are about $5 billion, but over the life of the bill, 
the amount of money available to be used to help finance that tax 
package is between $130 and $140 billion.
  That is why, when this bill was before the House the first time, the 
Democratic Members of this House tried to assure that those savings 
would be used to reduce the deficit, not to provide somebody who makes 
$200,000 a year a tax cut. We tried to pass the Brewster amendment, and 
we did pass the Brewster amendment. I believe only 9 Members of this 
House voted against it. I may have to correct that number, but I think 
that is the number.
  But then, as I said earlier in debate, the distinguished chairman of 
the Committee on the Budget told the press that, well, passage of that 
Brewster amendment was all just a game in order to get the votes to 
pass this rescission bill. The problem is that what this winds up being 
is a great transfer of resources from middle-income families, from low-
income seniors, to people who I think in the name of the national 
interest because of their high income could very well afford to forgo a 
tax cut if they are in the $200,000 bracket.
  Mr. Speaker, I do not see any reason why to finance that kind of a 
tax cut we ought to cut housing for people who desperately need it by 
$5 billion, HUD-assisted housing; why we ought to cut HUD housing 
renewals by $1.2 billion; why we ought to cut 1996 summer jobs by $872 
million; why we ought to cut other youth training programs by $272 
million; why we ought to cut low-income heating assistance by $319 
million.
  That low-income heating assistance program may not be important to 
somebody in a warm weather state or in a moderate weather state, but in 
my district it gets to be 42 below zero in February, and I am not 
talking chill factor.
  Eighty percent of the people who use that program make less than 
$10,000 a year. I started that program with Senator Muskie years ago 
because I just got awfully tired of seeing, in my own communities, 
seniors who had to make a choice between paying for prescription drugs 
and buying their own food and keeping their house warm.
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  As I said before on this floor, I will never forget meeting a woman 
who I met in a city called Stevens Point in my district, who lived in a 
house which was built for her as a wedding gift by her husband many 
years ago. She was in her 80's, very poor.
  That house meant more to her than anything else in her life and the 
only thing kept her in that house was that low income heating 
assistance program. She had closed up every other room in the house 
except the living room, the kitchen and the bathroom and she slept on 
an old beat up couch in the living room and was desperately grateful 
that she was getting a little bit of help so she could stay in the home 
that she loved.
  Now, I know that some people think that sentiment is passe and that 
emotions should not count, but I hope that Members of Congress are not 
just numbers machines. I hope we remember that behind each and every 
number we deal with are human beings: working families, very often, 
people who count on us to make the right decisions on behalf of their 
welfare.
  Mr. Speaker, I take a back seat to no one in my desire for a balanced 
budget and I have indicated many times that I would support most of the 
cuts in this bill, certainly not all of them, but I would support most 
of these cuts even though some of them, no question, will hurt, if they 
were going to actually reduce the deficit.
  But this is the leading wedge that is pushing the way open to provide 
for that rich man's tax cut which is going through this place and I 
just think it is wrong.
  And while the President has to except the bill because he has other 
responsibilities, I am simply casting a protest vote against what I 
consider to be the misguided priorities and the insufficient attention 
to deficit reduction as opposed to tax cuts for high-income folks.
  Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Kasich], our distinguished 
friend and the chairman of the Committee on the Budget said today that 
when they passed the budget resolution, they were delivering on their 
promise on the Republican side of the aisle. But I would simply note 
that you cannot deliver on a promise by making another promise and as 
we all know, all a budget resolution is, is a promise. It has no force 
of law until we do something else.
  But this, my friends, is real. When we pass this legislation, this 
appropriations and rescission legislation, it is real.
  And the problem is that when it became real on the Republican side of 
the aisle, they refused to accept our language for more than 1 day when 
we tried to attach, when we did attach that amendment that tried to 
assure that all of the cuts be used for deficit reduction rather than 
for the kind of tax package working its way through this House.
  So Mr. Speaker, since the huge majority of the dollars in this bill 
will really go for that purpose, and not for deficit reduction, I feel 
required to lodge a protest vote, because I really do think we can do 
better. I really do think we can be more fair and I really do think we 
can be more disciplined on the tax side.
  Mr. Speaker, I tell my colleagues frankly, I have talked to a number 
of constituents in my district who do very well under this tax cut who 
tell me, ``Dave, forget it. Until we do better on balancing the budget, 
in my income level, I do not need a tax cut.''
  I really think we underestimate the sense of patriotism and the sense 
of reality and the willingness of the American people to sacrifice. I 
think we underestimate the willingness of the people in this society to 
sacrifice, if they truly believe it is shared sacrifice, balanced 
sacrifice, and really is for the purpose of significant, long-term 
deficit reduction.
  This package is a smoke screen for tax reduction and, again, I say I 
understand why the President feels he must sign it, because he has 
other responsibilities. But I think we have responsibilities in our own 
roles to try to insist that these packages be as fair as possible, even 
while we go about the business on both sides of the aisle of trying to 
find responsible ways to reduce the deficit.
  Mr. SANDERS. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. OBEY. I yield to the gentleman from Vermont.
  Mr. SANDERS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the gentleman from 
Wisconsin [Mr. Obey], my friend, a question. I agree with everything 
that he said. The cuts here are devastating. LIHEAP means a great deal 
to people in the State of Vermont. Education cuts, Public Broadcasting 
cuts, and so forth and so on.
  Mr. Speaker, does the gentleman from Wisconsin note that given the 
fact that this government and Congress provide $100 billion a year in 
corporate welfare, that is tax breaks and subsidies for the largest 
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the wealthiest people, does the gentleman happen to note any cuts in 
corporate welfare as part of this rescission package?
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I certainly have not been able to find any. I 
would like to think that I have missed one or two.
  Mr. SANDERS. Nor can I. Now that the Cold War has finally ended and 
many of us think that we do not need billions for star wars or B-2 
bombers, has the gentleman from Wisconsin noted any cuts in military 
spending for B-2 bombers or star wars? Maybe the gentleman could 
educate us on that.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I would tell the gentleman from Vermont [Mr. 
Sanders] no. I am dismayed that when I tried to offer an amendment in 
the Committee on Rules that would have enabled me to reduce the funding 
for the F-22, that I was denied the right to offer that amendment.
  I would point out, we are very willing, I guess, to cut $574 million 
out of education programs. I am not willing to do that when I look at 
some of the things that are not being cut that should be. But I find it 
dismaying that that kind of cut is easily acceptable.
  But yet we face a situation with the B-22, for instance, where the 
plane is supposed to replace the F-15. The F-15 is the finest fighter 
in the world. We have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them. The 
Pentagon tells us that the useful military shelf life of that plane 
will extend out at least to the year 2014, and yet we are asked to 
replace that with the F-22 at a cost of $70 billion, $160 million a 
plane. So I do find our priorities a bit warped.


                  Amendment offered by Mr. livingston

  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 176 I offer 
an amendment.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Walker). The Clerk will designate the 
amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment offered by Mr. Livingston: On page 3, line 18, 
     strike ``1736(g)'' and insert in lieu thereof: ``1736o(g)'', 
     and
       On page 8, line 7, strike ``title II'', and insert in lieu 
     thereof: ``title III'', and
       On page 9, strike all on line 9 down to and including 
     ``scinded.'' on page 9, line 12, and insert in lieu thereof:
       ``Under this heading in Public Law 103-317, after the word 
     ``grants'', insert the following: ``and administrative 
     expenses''. After the word ``expended'', insert the 
     following: ``: Provided. That the Council is authorized to 
     accept, hold, administer, and use gifts, both real and 
     personal, for the purpose of aiding or facilitating the work 
     of the Council''.'', and
       On page 11, line 6 strike ``$31,200,000'' and insert in 
     lieu thereof: $24,200,000'', and
       On page 11, line 6, strike all beginning with ``, of 
     which'' down through and including ``program'' on page 11, 
     line 9, and on page 39, line 22 strike all after Provided,'' 
     down to and including ``grams'' on page 39, line 25, and 
     insert in lieu thereof: ``That the funds remaining available 
     for obligation after this rescission for carrying out this 
     Act may only be used for entrepreneurship, academic, or 
     tutorial programs or for work force preparation'', and
       On page 86, line 14, strike ``shall'' and insert in lieu 
     thereof: ``is authorized to'', and
       On page 86, strike all beginning on line 24 down through 
     and including ``Act'' on page 87, line 22, and
       On page 91, line 3, strike ``4332(2)(E))'' and insert in 
     lieu thereof; ``4332(2))'', and
       On page 98, line 4, strike ``102(2C)'' and insert in 
     thereof: ``102(2)(C)'', and
       On page 98, line 6, strike ``4332(2C))'' and insert in lieu 
     thereof: ``4332(2)(C)'', and
       On page 98, line 17, strike ``102(2C)'' and insert in lieu 
     thereof: ``102(2)(C)'', and
       On page 98, line 18, strike ``4332(2C)'' and insert in lieu 
     thereof: ``4332(2)(C))'', and
       On page 103, line 11 strike all beginning with 
     ``September'' down to and including ``1997'' on page 103, 
     line 12, and insert in lieu thereof: ``December 31, 1996''.

  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume to explain the amendment.
  (Mr. LIVINGSTON asked and was given permission to revise and extend 
his remarks.)
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, the amendment I have offered makes 
technical changes to the Food for Progress rescission, the Public Law 
480 program account rescission, and the Children and Family Services 
program rescission because they were incorrectly drafted.
  It eliminates two rescissions for the Ounce of Prevention and the 
GLOBE Programs. It changes the requirement that NASA acquire land in 
Texas to only authorizing this acquisition.
  It also eliminates the language authorizing the transfer of the 
Yellow Creek NASA facility which was included in H.R. 1158. Finally, it 
makes several citation corrections to the salvage timber provision and 
changes the termination of the timber salvage sale provision from 
September 30, 1997, to December 1996.
  These changes are necessary for the bill to reflect the original 
introduced intent, to eliminate an authorization problem, and to gain 
the President's signature. So I urge the adoption of my amendment.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Vermont [Mr. Sanders] to complete his statement.
  Mr. SANDERS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Wisconsin for 
yielding me this time.
  Let us talk economics for a moment and what is really going on in 
America. Let us recognize that in America today the wealthiest 1 
percent of the population owns more wealth than the bottom 90 percent.
  The gap between the rich and the poor is growing wider. The middle-
class is shrinking. Workers are earning lower wages. That is the 
economic reality in America. But what does that have to do with the 
rescission package that we are looking at tonight?
  Mr. Speaker, it seems to me that if we are going to be honest, we 
would say let us move forward in a way that is fair that does not hurt 
those people who are seeing a decline in their standard of living, 
those people who are experiencing increased poverty.
  Interestingly enough, however, when we look at this rescission 
package, do we notice any cuts, any cuts in the $100 billion a year 
that the largest corporations in America and that the wealthiest people 
in America are receiving through corporate welfare? Amazingly, no, we 
do not.
  We see cuts in affordable housing. We see cuts in environmental 
protection; cuts in the summer job program for low-income kids; cuts in 
LIHEAP. The gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Obey] talked about LIHEAP. In 
the State of Vermont, it gets mighty cold in the wintertime. We have 
elderly people trying to survive on $8,000 or $9,000 a year Social 
Security, but they are cutting that program some $300 million.
  Mr. Speaker, I do not know how low-income elderly people will survive 
with those types of cuts. But when it comes to corporate welfare, my 
goodness, we just cannot find a nickel.
  What about military spending?
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Oklahoma [Mr. Istook], a distinguished member of the Committee on 
Appropriations.
  (Mr. ISTOOK asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. ISTOOK. Mr. Speaker, I rise to thank the gentleman from Louisiana 
[Mr. Livingston], the other members of the committee, the Speaker, the 
gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. Lucas], the other members of the Oklahoma 
delegation, our mayor of Oklahoma City, Ron Norick, the Governor, Frank 
Keating, and all others who have worked together to try to fashion some 
relief for our city, which was so unfortunately damaged by the bombing 
on April 19.
  Mr. Speaker, this bill is extremely important to Oklahoma City. It 
has $39 million of relief to assist people, businesses, property, in 
the damaged area and in the downtown area of Oklahoma City, including 
an unusual provision, unique for this special purpose, to assist 
downtown churches, one of which was immediately across the street from 
the blast, so that they too, to the same extent as any other nonprofit 
group, might receive the assistance to rebuild at least what we can 
rebuild since the lives that were shattered cannot be put back 
together.
  The churches, for example, rendered emergency assistance and even 
provided the facilities for the morgue that was necessary when 168 
people died in that catastrophic explosion.
  Mr. Speaker, this bill is also important because it has funds to 
rebuild or repurchase a new Federal building; for the demolition of the 
building which has occurred; the ability to turn the site over to the 
city of Oklahoma City for a permanent memorial, which is to be 
constructed; to provide emergency funding for housing of Federal 
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antiterrorist activities, including $2 million as necessary for the 
prosecution of the despicable individuals that committed that atrocious 
act of terrorism.

                              {time}  2045

  Mr. Speaker, this is important, and I ask every Member to join me in 
expressing appreciation and in asking support of this bill.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 2 minutes to say one thing.
  Apparently, I misspoke a second ago when I said or when I talked 
about how I understand if the President felt a need to sign this bill. 
I had been informed erroneously, it turns out, that the Administration 
had agreed to sign this bill, and hearing that, I had also erroneously 
assumed that certainly our Republican friends would never be rash 
enough to bring this bill to the floor while negotiations were still 
going on with the President, because I thought that things would be 
handled more gracefully than that. But apparently they have not been, 
and I am informed that there is still a negotiating process going on.
  So I would respectfully suggest to the gentleman, if that is the 
case, that if they are interested, if you are sincerely interested in 
getting an agreement with the White House, and I know the White House 
is interested in getting an agreement with you, I would suggest that 
the responsible thing would be to suspend the rest of this debate 
until, in fact, we do have something to present to the House which does 
represent the genuine agreement.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. OBEY. I yield to the gentleman from Louisiana.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. I would only respond to the gentleman by saying it 
was my understanding at the outset of this debate that we had an 
agreement with the White House, and if the gentleman has better 
information than I do, then I would have to express my shock and dismay 
in the event that no agreement exists. I can tell the gentleman that 
there have been some ongoing negotiations with respect to language in 
collateral documents that deal with the timber sales.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 3 minutes.
  I tell the gentleman, to the best of my knowledge, that those 
negotiations on collateral documents which have no reflection on this, 
no direct reflection on this bill, and really do not, in my mind, 
indicate that the President has not agreed to go forward.
  As I say, if the gentleman has additional information or new 
information that says that the Administration is not prepared to go 
forward, then I think he should bring that to the attention of the 
House, and I would say that I would be very, very displeased.
  Mr. OBEY. If the gentleman would be kind enough to yield, I would 
simply say that I was just informed by a key White House person in the 
meeting, or my staff was, that they are still trying to work out 
language, and it just seems to me particularly graceless for us to be 
proceeding if, in fact, both parties are working in good faith. I 
really do believe that it does no one any good, the Congress or the 
White House, for us to be proceeding if there is, in fact, uncertainty 
about this, and I think Members are entitled to know what the facts are 
before they cast a vote.
  So I would respectfully urge, and I see the majority leader on the 
floor, I would respectfully urge that he suspend further consideration 
of this bill until we can honestly tell Members what, in fact, is going 
on.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Reclaiming my time, I would say to the gentleman that 
whatever negotiations are going on, to the best of my knowledge, affect 
or are involving a letter of clarification of intent on the timber 
issue and have nothing whatsoever to do with the substance of this 
bill, and, frankly, I do not anticipate that the lack of finality with 
respect to that letter of clarification should have any impact on the 
results of these deliberations on the floor.
  Now, I am also of the understanding that the rule that we are working 
under, provides for no extension, no termination, no recess, and that 
we are obligated to go forward and complete the debate, and for that 
reason I, in fact, will pose that as a parliamentary inquiry.
                         Parliamentary Inquiry

  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I have a parliamentary inquiry.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state his parliamentary 
inquiry.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, am I right, am I correct in my 
interpretation of the rule, are we compelled to go forward until the 
conclusion of this debate?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The understanding of the Chair is that he 
could withdraw the bill by unanimous consent but that that would be the 
only way that the House could proceed differently than the manner in 
which we are proceeding at the present time, since the previous 
question is ordered by the rule.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, unless someone gives me notification 
that the White House is not prepared to go forward, under the 
circumstances, I would not be inclined to offer such a request by 
unanimous consent. Therefore, I would suggest the gentleman to go ahead 
and debate on his own time.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 15 seconds, simply to say that 
I think it is a distinct disservice to Members to ask them to 
participate in this debate before they know whether an agreement has 
been reached. I do not think it serves the country well either.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from 
Montana [Mr. Williams].
  Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, I think it is necessary for me to inform 
my colleagues, because of events that may happen in the near future, 
about the specifics of the timber situation, as it has become known, 
which is parochial to the States of Montana and Idaho.
  Montana and Idaho are the only two States in the Nation that have not 
resolved the RARE-II dilemma, roadless area review and evaluation 
dilemma. Neither Montana nor Idaho have passed the necessary 
legislation to either designate the RARE-II wildlands in those two 
States nor, critically important, have we passed necessary legislation 
to release those lands.
  What the House of Representatives has done in the past, in fact, less 
than a year ago, is to pass through this body a bill which was not 
accepted on the other side which would have protected against usual 
timber harvest 1,100,000 acres of Montana.
  Under the bill before us, despite that vote a year ago, that land 
could be open to timbering. Now, here is my point: If that happens, in 
fact, if any of the two RARE-II lands are opened to timbering in Idaho 
or Montana, the people of those States will instantly go to court, and, 
by the way, if any of those 1,100,000 acres that this House has voted 
to put in wilderness or protect otherwise are threatened with timbering 
by the Forest Service, I will go to court to stop it.
  So I want to put the House of Representatives on notice that if 
timbering in these lands which the Congress, the House of 
Representatives, is on record as protecting goes forward, there will be 
lawsuits against it.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished 
gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. Lucas].
  Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Speaker, over 2 months have passed since the bombing 
of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in downtown Oklahoma City. As you can 
well imagine, representing this area during this time has been quite a 
challenge. There is truly no clear formula on how a Member of Congress 
should deal with such a disaster.
  Since the bombing, I have expressed my belief that while private 
relief has poured in from throughout the nation, the Federal Government 
has a distinct responsibility to Oklahoma City above and beyond 
building a new federal building, or bolstering law enforcement in 
Oklahoma City and throughout the country. With the rubble removed and 
the rebuilding and healing of a damaged city in full swing, the 
magnitude of the loss is coming into perspective.
  The President's veto of the earlier version of the emergency 
supplemental and rescissions bill gave us in Congress the ability to 
listen and react to Governor Keating and Mayor Norick's pleas for 
Federal assistance in response to the economic losses pertaining to the 
bombing. The Federal response to the bombing contained in H.R. 1944 is 
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economic needs this tragic event has created.
  I would like to commend the Speaker, Chairman Livingston, Chairman 
Lewis, and Mr. Istook for their efforts as we have worked to develop 
the right course for this aid to take. I look forward to working with 
them and state and local leaders in Oklahoma as we continue to 
facilitate the healing and rebuilding process.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 30 seconds to simply say it is 
a miracle. We are now told that within the last minute there actually 
has been an agreement reached on this letter.
  I still find it phenomenal that this House is being asked to vote on 
this agreement without even having seen it. The timber issue is 
important to a lot of people in this House, including me, and just for 
the heck of it, I would like to know what the agreement is and see it 
in black and white before we debate it. It might be kind of quaint, but 
it might also be kind of useful.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Colorado [Mrs. 
Schroeder].
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Wisconsin for 
yielding me this time.
  I certainly am very sympathetic to the gentleman from Oklahoma who 
was in the well just before me. I think all of us realize that the 
President has, and we have, a serious responsibility dealing with some 
disasters.
  But let us talk about this bill, which I think this rescission bill 
in a way is a disaster, because while it cuts over $16 billion, the 
disasters, whether you agree with them or not, are only $7-plus 
billion, and so that means there is $9 billion left.
  What happens to that money? It does not go to the deficit. It goes 
for tax cuts for the rich.
  Now, I even questioned some of the disasters that are out there in 
parts of the country where people do not buy insurance, where they are 
back here all the time with their little tin cup; meanwhile they are 
returning State dollars and State taxes to their own people, and 
meanwhile what are we cutting in here to make them whole? While they 
are getting tax rebates at the State and local level, my people in 
Colorado
 are being asked by this rescission bill to zero out summer jobs, to 
cut AmeriCorps in half, which is one of the great hopes for young 
people who are not lucky enough to be born into a family that can get 
them through college, it cuts significantly the Goals 2000 programs 
dealing with education, it zeros out the math and science training, it 
zeros out the public broadcasting, and for those of us who are parents 
and find Big Bird the only decent thing we want our kids to watch on 
TV, these are very serious cuts.

  Part of this money, and I do not begrudge the part that is going to 
Oklahoma, but I begrudge the part that is going to tax cuts for the 
rich, and I begrudge the part that is going to other parts where they 
are rescinding their State taxes at the same time they come at us with 
their golden cup.

                              {time}  2100

  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the gentleman from North Carolina 
[Mr. Taylor] to take the well, and I would ask him, the author of the 
portion of the amendment relating to timber, to clarify the intent of 
the changes negotiated with the administration. The timber provision, 
of course, was originally conceived, I think, by the gentleman, as well 
as the gentleman from Alaska [Mr. Young], our distinguished chairman of 
the Committee on Natural Resources. But the gentleman from North 
Carolina is the only forester who is a Member of the House, and he was 
directly involved in the negotiations.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from North Carolina 
[Mr. Taylor] so that he might describe the content of his negotiations.
  (Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina asked and was given permission to 
revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I say to the gentleman, 
``I appreciate your including me and the other members of the 
authorizing committees and their representatives in this discussion 
with the administration. It has been a long, arduous task, but I think 
we made progress.''
  We have been losing the forestry infrastructure in this country, 
along with it tens of thousands of jobs and our forest health in the 
long run. If we lose that forest infrastructure, then the decisions 
that are made in the future are moot because we will not be able to 
carry out those silviculture practices that our best universities, that 
a hundred years of forestry and a hundred years of experimentation with 
private, State, and Federal experiment sites have given us. We need 
harvest to carry out and save that infrastructure. We need it in an 
environmental way, and we have tried to craft a bill that will protect 
the environment, that will give us forest health at the same time it 
saves that infrastructure and provides jobs.
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Will the gentleman yield on that point? Will the 
gentleman yield on that point?
  Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina. We have tried to work out because there 
has been little movement--although for nearly 3 years we have had 
promises, there has been little movement in getting that harvest. We 
have worked out with the administration a program that will define and 
move us forward both in forest health and in job creation. It will give 
a specific track that we can follow in a managed way using the best 
silviculture methods we have, taking into consideration the 
environment, and taking into consideration our economic needs. If we 
follow the outline that has been agreed to by the President, then we 
can make substantial progress.
  Mr. Speaker, the Congress will be monitoring this action periodically 
to see that we are making progress. We can provide the tools to the 
Forest Service, we can provide any other tools that are necessary for 
the----
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Walker). The time of the gentleman from 
North Carolina [Mr. Taylor] has expired.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from North 
Carolina [Mr. Taylor] an additional minute.
  Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina. We can be successful in all our areas 
in providing jobs and protecting forest health and protecting the 
environment, and I think this agreement that we reach tonight will give 
us that end product, and that is why I am willing to support that, Mr. 
Speaker.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. 
Taylor] is recognized, he controls the time----
  Mr. DeFAZIO. I am asking him to yield.
  Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina. I will not yield at this time.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Regular order, Mr. Speaker.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman has declined to yield, and the 
gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. Taylor] does control the time.
  Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina. We can be successful in all our areas, 
in providing jobs, and protecting forest health, and protecting the 
environment, and I think this agreement that we reach tonight will give 
us that end product, and that is why I am willing to support that.
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Representing the most public timber-dependent district 
in the Nation and far exceeding the needs of the gentleman's district, 
could the gentleman provide something in writing to decide before we 
vote, or are we going to be required to vote on the good-faith 
assurances of the Republican Party, having dealt with a Democratic 
President, and telling us that there is nothing available in 
writing?What is available in writing to the Members of this House, 435 
members, now?
  Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina. I say to the gentleman, ``Mr. Dicks has 
been involved from your side of the aisle, been involved in these 
negotiations. What we have tried to do is what I just said. We all 
recognize the need. We have tried to come up with a realistic plan, not 
unlike what was passed in the original----
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Is it in writing?
  Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina. By 277 members of this House.
  Mr. Speaker, the modifications agreed to by the administration and 
the committees embody clarifications of several parts of the package.
  First, subsection (l) concerning the effect of the provision on other 
laws was revised by creation of a limited exception to language that 
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administrative actions a consequence of implementing this section. The 
new exception allows modifications under limited circumstances when 
needed to meet salvage levels agreed to by the conferees or to reflect 
the particular effect of the salvage sale program.
  However, the salvage timer sales cannot form the basis for an 
administrative action that limits other multiple use activities. 
Project decisions, such as salvage sales, cannot be stopped or delayed 
by modifications either. The term `'delayed'' was substituted to ensure 
that salvage sales and other project decisions go forward. A 
clarification was added to make sure that a particular salvage timber 
sale cannot be required to be offered.
  Second, subsection (b)(1) was clarified in its linkage to subsection 
(c), which is part of the salvage sale portion of the section. The 
authority and process for emergency salvage timber sales is contained 
in these and other subsections and the clarification embodies the 
concept that the two subsections are to work in concert, but that once 
a sale is prepared and
 advertised the sale is deemed sufficient to meet all applicable laws 
and then go forward. A 45-day stay can delay the sale while the U.S. 
District Court considers an appeal. Otherwise the sale will proceed. 
This expedited procedure will ensure that dead and dying timber on 
federal land can be harvested before it rots.

  Third, the managers and Administration agreed to two important 
changes in subsection (i). We made it explicit that any salvage sale 
subject to subsection (b) and any timber sale subject to subsection (d) 
should be deemed to satisfy the requirements of any compact, executive 
agreement, convention, treaty, and international agreement, and 
implementing legislation related thereto. This change was made in 
response to allegations that passage and implementation of Section 2001 
would result in violations of the North American Free Trade Agreement. 
No such violations would occur.
  Fourth, subsection (i) and paragraph (i)(8) were modified slightly to 
clarify that salvage timber sales subject to subsection (b) and any 
timber sale subject to subsection (d) shall be deemed to satisfy the 
requirements of all applicable federal environmental and natural 
resource laws. This clarification is to ensure that purchasers of 
timber under this section must still comply with applicable contract 
law.
  I stress that this provision was developed in concert with the 
authorizing Committee and included only after close consultation with 
the authorizing committees. The legislative committees have ensured us 
that long-term timber salvage legislation is forthcoming.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Reclaiming my time, Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to 
the gentleman from Alaska [Mr. Young], the distinguished chairman of 
the Committee on Resources, to discuss his understanding of these 
negotiations.
  Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Speaker, may I suggest, as the chairman of 
the authorizing committee, the Committee on Resources can agree with 
the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. Taylor]. The man has done 
yeoman's work on this situation of salvageable timber.
  One of the things that concerns me the most, Mr. Speaker: We worked 
long and hard to force and forge several modifications and address the 
concerns of the administration. We have worked with the administration. 
It is language that is coming from the administration and not 
legislative language in this bill. What we are trying to do, why 
anybody would oppose it, is salvage dead trees, not RARE II, 16 billion 
board feet of timber is rotting today, standing because it was burned 
last year. And yet I have people say, ``Oh, we can't harvest it because 
it might destroy the ecosystem.''
  What we have destroyed are the jobs of the American people. The mills 
have been shut down, those that provide the paper for this gobbled gook 
that we work on here every night, for that which we use here ourselves 
personally, have been shut down, and the American people have been put 
out of work, and I have people on that side that say, ``We can't 
harvest a dead tree.''
  We have negotiated long and hard with the chairman and the 
administration, trying to reach a solution by putting the people of 
America back to work, and we have done that, and we will continue to do 
it with this legislation. But beyond that is a matter of principle. Is, 
in fact, man part of this system?
  This man is a forester and understands that the renewable growth of 
trees--trees are a renewable resource. And to have someone to say we 
cannot cut down 16 billion board feet of trees, which we have not asked 
to do so; we asked to cut down 3 billion board feet. That is all, and 
yet we are looked upon by the media and by those in this body, saying 
we must not harvest RARE II.
  Nonsense. We are talking about a tree that has been burnt because the 
forests were not managed to begin with. We are talking about American 
lives and American working forests. It is time we got on. This is good 
legislation. I urge the passage of the legislation.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Oregon 
[Mr. DeFazio].
  Mr. DeFAZIO. We need a thoughtful forest health program. We have a 
forest health crisis in the Western United States caused by 
mismanagement, and that would include some salvage, but we are being 
asked to accept a pig in a poke. We are being told that the Democrat 
administration has entered into a secret agreement not available in 
writing with the Republican majority which we are going to be asked to 
vote on within 15 minutes here in the House of Representatives. I am 
being asked to accept on good faith that this is something that will 
both protect the environment and do what we need for forest health and 
salvage in the Western United States, but it is not available in 
writing.
  This is an outrage, this is an extraordinary outrage. I do not know 
how many times I heard from the minority on that side last year, ``You 
can't make us vote on something we haven't read.'' We have not read 
this. This is not available to us. It is not available to us either 
through the Democratic administration, nor the Republican majority. 
That is absurd. No one in America thinks we should vote on something we 
have not read.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 1 minute.
  Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman has not read the timber provisions in 
H.R.----
  Mr. DeFAZIO. I have read that, if the gentleman will yield?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time is controlled by the gentleman from 
Louisiana.
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. As a matter of fact, I will not yield.
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Well, of course not. They will not let us read it, and 
they will not yield.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman owes the House the respect of 
the rules.
  Mr. DeFAZIO. He owes the courtesy of reading it before I vote on it.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will suspend.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Get the Sergeant at Arms to get him out of here.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman does owe the House the respect 
for the rules, and the gentleman from Louisiana is recognized.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 2 minutes.
  Mr. Speaker, we have head a lot of ranting and raving from the 
gentleman without a sense of humor about the fact that he has not had a 
chance to read this. No the fact of the matter is H.R. 1158 was filed 3 
months ago. The President of the United States vetoed that bill. It 
contained a lot of timber language. He has had 3 months to read that 
language----
  Mr. DeFAZIO. And I have read it.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. I did not know that I yielded to the gentleman.
  Mr. DeFAZIO. The gentleman will not yield. He is shutting me down.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Oregon should obey the 
rules of the House. The rules of the House require him to be yielded to 
while he is proceeding on the time of the gentleman from Louisiana. If 
the gentleman wants time, he seeks time from a Member who will yield it 
to him. Otherwise, he has no right to interrupt people who are 
proceeding under the proper order. The gentleman has the obligation to 
himself to proceed under the proper order.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Louisiana.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. And I was simply going to say, Mr. Speaker, that the 
gentleman has had 3 months to read the timber language in H.R. 1158, he 
has had a couple of days to read the timber language in H.R. 1944, and 
he has got the opportunity to speak with the gentleman from Washington 
[Mr. Dicks] as well as the gentleman from Alaska [Mr. Young]----
  Ms. FURSE. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  
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  Mr. LIVINGSTON. And the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. Taylor] 
and the other folks who were working with the administration. He has 
got the opportunity to speak with the President of the United States. 
He has got the opportunity to speak with Leon Panetta. He has got the 
opportunity to speak with all of these people in his own 
administration, and he is pleading surprise. He is pleading that he 
does not have an opportunity to know what the agreement is.
  The agreement centers over about five words in addition to the words 
that are in this document, H.R. 1944----
  Ms. FURSE. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. And I am absolutely astounded that he should beat his 
breast and express to the Chamber that he has not had an opportunity to 
see what is going on. If he has not had an opportunity to see what is 
going on, I would suggest to him that he is not doing his homework. He 
did not pick up the telephone and call the President of the United 
States to ask him what is going on.
  Ms. FURSE. Will the gentleman yield to me?
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask, ``Why don't we all get 10 minutes' 
sleep, and then I will yield to somebody.''
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts 
[Mr. Kennedy].
  Mr. KENNEDY from Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the fact 
that there is an enormous amount of controversy over the number of 
board feet, and when those board feet are going to be cut, and who they 
are going to be sold to, and when they are going to be turned into 
homes and other kinds of products. I am more concerned with the $17 
billion that is going to be cut out of this Nation's economy by this 
bill and the complicity that our administration is showing with the 
Republicans to gut most specifically the housing programs of this 
country. We are talking about wood, but that wood ultimately gets 
turned into homes, and, as a result of the actions being taken in this 
bill, we are going to see thousands and thousands of Americans thrown 
into homelessness.
  I say to my colleagues, make no mistake about it. When you cut a 
quarter of the Nation's housing budget in 1 year without even a 
weekend's thought as to how these programs are going to be affected, 
homelessness is going to be created. People don't like seeing homeless 
people on the street. It makes them feel awkward. It makes them feel 
badly. You look around and remember where this country was.
  Mr. Speaker, in 1980 we spent $30 billion building affordable 
housing, built over--300,000 units of affordable housing got built in 
that year. This year we built about 10,000 units of affordable housing, 
and we wonder why we created homelessness. The fact of the matter is 
that, if we are truly concerned about where we are headed in this 
country, then we ought not to be going after programs that provide for 
fuel assistance in the wintertime, that go after housing assistance 
throughout the year, or safe drinking water, or women, infants, and 
children, or the national service program, or education grants. What we 
ought to be doing is going after where the money is in America. We 
ought not to be providing these huge tax cuts. We ought to be looking 
at whether or not we need to be spending $2 million more on star wars, 
whether or not we want to be underwriting the nuclear power industry of 
America through new breeder reactors, whether we ought to be going 
after the oil and gas industry. That is where the money is in this 
country.
  If we want to make cuts, go where the money is. Do not go where the 
poor people are. That is what this budget does. The Clinton 
administration, the Clinton Republicans, ought to be ashamed.
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                announcement by the speaker pro tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Walker). Those who are in the gallery 
are informed they are the guests of the House, and shall not 
participate by demonstrating their pleasure for one speaker or another.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished 
gentleman from Washington [Mr. Dicks].
  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, I just want to basically explain to my colleagues that I 
think the changes that were made in the timber legislation were those 
sought by the administration. The gentleman from Louisiana's Mr. 
Chairman will change the date until December 31, 1996, which is a date 
that the administration requested.
  Bascially the program will be a 1995-1996 program on timber salvage, 
and the administration has signed a letter, Secretary Glickman, saying 
they will do the very best they can to try. The base program is 3 
billion board feet. They will do the best they can over the 2-year 
period to do an additional 1.5 billion board feet, but that requires 
them to have the resources necessary, the personnel, in order to lay 
out those sales. And this is laid out in a letter to Mr. Gingrich.
  Mr. Speaker, I think this is a fair compromise. The gentleman from 
Louisiana [Mr. Livingston], the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. 
Taylor], the gentleman from Alaska [Mr. Young], and others were 
involved with the staff of the administration. We tried to do the best 
we could. There were some on the other side of the aisle that wanted a 
much higher number. The administration told them basically this is the 
best they could do under the circumstances.
  Ms. FURSE. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. DICKS. I yield to the gentlewoman from Oregon.
  Ms. FURSE. Mr. Speaker, what the gentleman from Washington [Mr. 
Dicks] must understand is we have plans in place in Oregon and 
Washington to restore salmon habitat, and we have not seen the 
agreement. We have an obligation to the fishermen and fisherwomen in 
our communities who have worked hard and given up an enormous amount.
  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time, we have got the money in 
the interior appropriations bill to continue the jobs in the woods 
program, and the assistance for helping fish. I agree. We wanted to 
make sure this program is environmentally sensitive, the administration 
has said. This is not a Forest Service run by anyone other than Jack 
Ward Thomas from the gentlewoman's great State of Oregon. They are 
going to do the sales properly and in a way that will not hurt the 
fish.
  Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. DICKS. I yield to the gentleman from Montana.
  Mr. WILLIAMS. As the gentleman knows, the original rescissions bill 
allowed the harvest under this section of both dead, dying, diseased 
timber and green timber. Is the green timber still in this?
  Mr. DICKS. As the gentleman well knows, any time you do a salvage 
sale, there is going to be some green sales at the periphery of the 
sale. But they will do that and try to minimize the taking.
  Mr. WILLIAMS. If the gentleman would yield further, under the 
gentleman's understanding then there would only be green timber 
harvested in an ancillary way, with the main purpose to be to get 
salvage.
  Mr. DICKS. That is correct. The gentleman is correct.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
Oregon [Ms. Furse].
  Ms. FURSE. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Throughout the Pacific Northwest, we are trying to restore the great 
salmon runs on which our people depend, the tribal people, and the 
fishermen who are fishing commercially and for the sports fishery. We 
are not here to say that whatever Mr. Clinton and the administration 
says is right in this sale is necessarily what we believe is right for 
our constituents. We need to see the paper. We need to know that in 
fact our watersheds are protected.
  Yes, we are very willing to work together, but we need to see the 
paper, because we are representing fishermen and fisher women, both 
tribal and nontribal, who depend on clean watersheds, depend on clear 
running water. It is impossible for us to know whether this is going to 
be good for our watershed plans or bad for them, because we do not know 
the language.
  We are the most trusting people in the world, but we have a duty and 
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obligation to our fishermen and the people who have sacrificed time and 
again to try and bring these great salmon runs back. The people of the 
Northwest have spent millions of dollars on this. We need to see the 
paper before we can vote on this most important agreement. That is our 
duty.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
North Carolina [Mr. Taylor].
  Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, we have worked hard to get 
a commitment and a track laid down that would bring about a realistic 
harvest, a harvest that would impact forest health, that would get 
timber available to save the infrastructure and create jobs. And there 
are some 88,000 jobs that can be created out of the original package. 
It will be slightly less than this, but it will be a substantial job 
creation.
  The commitment we received from the Secretary was to bring us 
approximately $4.5 billion in the period between now and December 31, 
1996. That commitment was made to the gentleman from Washington [Mr. 
Dicks] and myself, and we will monitor in the coming months to see that 
that commitment is followed. We have given the administration the 
tools. They have given us the assurance, and they have given the people 
across this country, the assurance that they want to see the harvest 
coming with the tools and with their word we will move ahead.

                                              The White House,

                                        Washington, June 29, 1995.
     Hon. Newt Gingrich
     Speaker of the House of Representatives, Washington, DC.
       Dear Mr. Speaker: I am pleased to be able to address myself 
     to the question of the Emergency Salvage Timber Sale Program 
     in H.R. 1944. I want to make it clear that my Administration 
     will carry out this program with its full resources and a 
     strong commitment to achieving the goals of the program.
       I do appreciate the changes that the Congress has made to 
     provide the Administration with the flexibility and authority 
     to carry this program out in a manner that conforms to our 
     existing environmental laws and standards. These changes are 
     also important to preserve our ability to implement the 
     current forest plans and their standards and to protect other 
     natural resources.
       The agencies responsible for this program will, under my 
     direction, carry the program out to achieve the timber sales 
     volume goals in the legislation to the fullest possible 
     extent. The financial resources to do that are already 
     available through the timber salvage sale fund.
       I would hope that by working together we could achieve a 
     full array of forest health, timber salvage and environmental 
     objectives appropriate for such a program.
           Sincerely,
                                                     Bill Clinton.

  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield one additional minute to the 
distinguished gentleman from Oregon [Mr. DeFazio].
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, I think it behooves us as legislators, 
knowing there are many subtleties and words, to have before us the 
actual language, the laws that are being waived, the laws that are 
being superseded, the new standards that will be imposed, and the 
objectives before we vote. The gentleman derided me, the gentleman from 
Louisiana, for I have read the bill, and I voted against the original 
rescissions bill. I have read the language that was available an hour 
ago. I have talked to the chief of the Forest Service as recently as an 
hour ago. But there is language now that has come since that time that 
is not available in print.
  Mr. SKAGGS. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. DeFAZIO. I yield to the gentleman from Colorado.
  Mr. SKAGGS. Mr. Speaker, one of the other things that still confuses 
me on this is I understand this provision still explicitly authorizes 
below cost sales so that in this bill in which we are trying to save 
money we well lose money on these sales. Is that the gentleman's 
understanding as well?
       Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time, that is one 
     of the many waivers in this bill. It authorizes below cost 
     sales, waives about 10 major environmental and procedural 
     laws and waives all court and administrative and judicial 
     appeals.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, pointing out that the amendment is on 
record and the gentleman can read the amendment as well as the bill, I 
would yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Alaska [Mr. Young].
  Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Speaker, the time is late, but it always 
amazes me where we can have people talk about they have not had an 
opportunity. The only real change in this whole legislative process is 
a change of the date at the bequest of the administration. That is all 
it is. The rest of it has been voted overwhelmingly by this committee.
  But the thing that bothers me most, I hear people say we have not had 
an opportunity. We have not been able to read it. That is nonsense. 
They have had all these months to read it. One date changed, from 1997 
to 1996, and that is it, which I did not like. Because I think we have 
to harvest those trees that are rotting today on their stumps because 
they burned, again because the forests were not managed.
  To have someone say they are going to affect the fisheries, have you 
ever seen where the area has been burned and the soil has been eroded 
because the structure has been diluted because of fire? That is going 
to affect the fisheries? Nonsense, and you know that.
  This is an attempt to destroy by opposition to this bill the 
infrastructure of the logging industry, which is important to this 
community. This bill needs to be passed because we are salvaging 
something in fact that is a waste today.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the distinguished 
gentlewoman from Oregon [Ms. Furse].
  Ms. FURSE. Mr. Speaker, I have been told by tribal leaders that where 
there has been logging and secondary logging, you find that salmon 
restoration is diminished by sometimes up to 80 percent. We need to 
know, are there buffer strips? We need to know, is there clear 
protection for salmon spawning ground?
  Mr. Young, there is no one in this room who knows more about salmon. 
There is no one who cares more than the gentleman does about salmon. I 
care, too. I have salmon fishermen who are concerned that the great 
plans they have put in place and the sacrifices they have made may be, 
may be, diminished by this legislation.
  All they ask of me is that I know what is in the bill. And this bill 
has changed hourly. I represent fishermen who fish as the gentleman 
from Alaska [Mr. Young] does on the great salmon of the Northwest. We 
must do everything we can to preserve their habitat.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the right to close.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. 
Livingston] has 2 minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Wisconsin 
[Mr. Obey] has 2\1/4\ minutes remaining.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Mr. Speaker, we have now been going 2 days without sleep. We have not 
been able to review the timber issue on paper or to talk to people who 
have actually done the negotiating, except for the gentleman from 
Washington [Mr. Dicks], evidently. We are relying on the word of people 
who are in the room. We are debating the work product even as the work 
product is being put together.
  I think that is a ludicrous way to do business, absolutely ludicrous. 
We should be debating this issue after we know what the full agreement 
is, not before.
  As I said earlier, I understand the pressures on the President to 
sign this legislation and get on to other things. His veto has made 
this bill almost $800 million less pernicious. For that, I am happy. 
But this bill has always been basically a hit on kids and a hit on old 
folks for two purposes: One, to pay for disaster relief for California, 
and, second, to provide tax breaks, the lion's share of which are going 
to the wealthiest people in this country.
  This bill is paraded as a deficit reduction package. In fact, because 
of the denial of the Brewster language, this bill is in fact providing 
only $5 billion in deficit reduction in the first year numbers, and 
then the out year numbers are devoted and fully available for use to 
finance that tax package that I am talking about. I do not believe it 
is fair, I do not believe it is right.
  So Members are certainly entitled to vote any way they wish. They all 
have their own views and their own consciences, but I would suggest 
that if this Congress cannot do better, it is a pretty sad day.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is recognized for 2 minutes to 
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  (Mr. LIVINGSTON asked and was given permission to revise and extend 
his remarks.)
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, here we are at the end of June. I look 
back on this past six months, and I think it has been a monumental 6 
months, a revolutionary 6 months. The American people said at the polls 
9 months ago they wanted change, and they are getting it. The Congress, 
both in the House and Senate, is delivering on the promises that were 
made in the last elections, and we are cutting the budget for the first 
time. For the first time we are saying no longer will we continue to 
spend more money on new programs, new ideas, new agencies, new 
departments. We are going to start downsizing Government.
  There are many people in this Chamber who say they are for a balanced 
budget, they are for trimming. Folks, here is your first opportunity. 
It does not matter what you did on H.R. 1158. You could have voted for 
or against it. The President vetoed it and that is history. But this is 
H.R. 1944, and it provides a net of nearly $9.2 billion in net savings 
for the American taxpayer in fiscal year 1955.

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  It is the very first significant step towards a balanced budget. In 
addition, it pays for the Oklahoma disaster. It pays for the California 
disaster. It pays for disasters in 39 other States, for flood and fire 
and earthquake. It pays for the Jordanian debt relief that the 
President of the United States asked for, and it puts people back to 
work in the northwest where their timber has burned.
  This your opportunity to make the first step, the first meaningful 
step toward budget reduction. And if you vote against it, you have no 
excuse in going back to your constituents and saying, I am for budget 
reduction, but I voted against the one, the first bill that mattered.
  My colleagues, this is your opportunity. Vote for this bill. Send it 
to the Senate. Send it to the President, and have him sign it.
  Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.R. 1944, the 
``new'' fiscal year 1995 rescission bill. This is the third rescission 
measure we have taken up this year. What does it take for my Republican 
colleagues to realize that the rescission bill is just wrong and 
repeating the same wrong action again, and again, does not make it 
right. Politics should not be allowed to outweigh the needs of the 
American people.
  We should be applauding the President's veto and his attempt to save 
this Republican Congress from itself, and to respond to the needs of 
the American people. Instead, my Republican colleagues have now 
introduced for consideration another rescission bill.
  It is just not right--to launch an assault on children, the elderly, 
and working families. The cuts contained in the Republican' ``new'' 
rescission bill continue to devastate the lives of our most vulnerable 
citizens.
  Funding for housing assistance is cut over $6 billion. This cut will 
deny the elderly, children, and low-income families the housing 
assistance they need.
  Funding for low-income home energy assistance is cut $319 million. 
This cut will force our elderly to choose between heat and food.
  Funding for safe and drug free schools is cut $16 million. This cut 
will deny children a safe, drug free, and crime free learning 
environment.
  Funding for summer jobs is cut $872 million. This cut will deny 
teenagers who need to work, a summer job.
  Funding for veterans medical care is cut $50 million. This cut denies 
the men and women who have served our country the medical care they 
need.
  Funding for adult and youth employment training is cut $330 million. 
This cut denies working families the employment training opportunities 
they so desperately need to provide for their families.
  Families must not be forced to choose between paying tuition and the 
mortgage, or child care and food, or health care and heat. We must not 
ignore the drain this rescission measure would create on hard working 
families. And, we must not allow our seniors and the poor to be used as 
pawns in a tax give-away scheme for the rich. This assault on the 
nation's most vulnerable populations is unconscionable and inhumane.
  As Members of Congress, we must take a strong stance in defense of 
our nation's seniors, children, elderly, and veterans. I urge my 
colleagues to join me in voting against this bad rescission bill.
  Mrs. COLLINS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I realize we've all had a long 
week of business here in this Chamber and we're all a little tired, but 
if my eyes don't deceive me I see very little changed in H.R. 1944 from 
the bill the President rightly vetoed earlier this month. The 
legislation we have before us today still slashes $16.4 billion in 
vital assistance to children, working families, and senior citizens in 
order to fatten the pockets of corporations and wealthy individuals, 
still steals hope and opportunity away from middle America through 
draconian cuts to education and job training initiatives, still blocks 
rescissions savings from being used for deficit reduction, still guts 
programs which give a much needed injection of resources to local 
communities. In short, H.R. 1944 still makes no common sense!
  In fact, 91 percent of the cuts in this ``new'' rescissions bill are 
the same as those in the ``old'' rescissions bill. Talk about deja vu!
  The Speaker and his henchmen like to spout on and on about how they 
care so much about helping people to help themselves. Well, you sure 
wouldn't know it by looking at H.R. 1944. All this legislation does is 
help thousands of people on their way out on to the streets.
  I have heard a vocal outcry from my constituents about reductions in 
the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program [LIHEAP], which helps two 
million struggling senior citizens meet the high costs of their winter 
heating bills without having to make a choice between those bills and 
their daily meals and medicine. Yet the GOP uncaringly hacks LIHEAP by 
25 percent with this bill. As a result, tens of thousands of Chicago 
households that were served in fiscal year 1995 will be threatened, not 
to mention those who have been on waiting lists.
  In my city of Chicago the temperature on an average winter day hovers 
around 10 degrees, with the wind chill in the negative double digits. 
In January, 60-year-old Earline Hooker froze to death because she 
wasn't able to get LIHEAP assistance. Tell her family that the LIHEAP 
program doesn't make a difference.
  But this majority party doesn't just focus their attack on seniors 
with H.R. 1944. They also mount an assault on 600,000 of our most 
underprivileged children with the eradication of the summer jobs 
program in 1996--a proven program that provides basic skills, income, 
and work experience. Across the Chicago Metropolitan Area next summer, 
thousands of kids who had looked forward to being entrusted with 
responsibility and leadership will now be faced with hanging on the 
streetcorner with nothing to do but get into trouble. So much for 
promoting positive alternatives for our youth!
  The GOP then turns its efforts toward the absolute destruction of the 
quality of life for public housing residents in this nation and the 
abandonment of the neighborhoods in which they live and work. Although 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development has already begun a 
serious effort to restructure and make Federal housing and development 
programs more efficient and responsive to local needs, the Republicans 
don't want to hear it. They just want to slash, cut, and burn without 
regard to the necessity or productivity of the program or who gets 
hurt.
  HUD has estimated that the $5 billion in housing cuts in this bill 
will result in the elimination of thousands of low-income housing units 
in my City of Chicago. Assistance will be lost for public housing 
modernization and operating subsidies, seriously disrupting already 
weakened maintenance and security for residents. At a time when the 
Chicago Housing Authority [CHA] and its tenants are in dire need of 
increased attention and resources to help improve the problems that 
beset CHA, the Republicans just laugh in the face of my constituents.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote no on H.R. 1944. This 
Congress still has responsibilities to the American people to invest in 
our children, our families, and our communities--despite what the 
Republican majority would have us believe.
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, although this version of the rescissions 
bill was just introduced last night, it shouldn't take anyone too long 
to figure out that, as written, it still would seriously harm America's 
national forests. For this reason alone, I cannot support this poorly 
written piece of legislation.
  Rather than work toward a balanced and environmentally sustainable 
means to salvage timber, the Republicans have tacked on odious 
environmental language which will encroach on the health of the 
environment.
  Why are the Republicans clouding the rescissions bill with a costly 
environmental disaster such as this timber salvage plan?
  To some, the words ``timber salvage'' may be rhetorically pleasing--
evoking images of saving rotting trees from their imminent demise--yet 
this timber salvage plan is a thinly disguised excuse for unregulated 
timber harvest in our treasured national forests.
  H.R. 1944's timber salvage plan would mandate more than 6 billion 
board feet be cut from our national forests over the next 2 years. 
Worse still, a majority of this astounding sum will come from our 
northwest national forests most pristine roadless areas and old-growth 
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  While proponents of this bill claim that loggers only will cut down 
trees that are diseased, the actual rescissions language states that 
loggers may go in and cut whatever they see fit as long as there are 
any trees in the forest that are damaged. Definition of timber salvage 
in subsection (a)(3).
  I am appalled that in order to let the timber industry into the 
Nation's forests, the Republicans will literally suspend all 
environmental, health, and safety laws. As written, this bill will even 
overturn any judicial order, fought for by some of our own 
constituents, aimed at preventing such poorly planned taxpayer-
subsidized logging as this bill will mandate.
  Clearly, emergency appropriations legislation is not an effective way 
to manage forests, nor is it good public policy.
  Mr. Speaker, allowing passage of this so called timber salvage plan 
will threaten the health of our national forests. Unfortunately, the 
Republicans have got the votes to do whatever they please and they want 
to pass this bill. I am dismayed that they repeatedly use their new-
found power to continue an irresponsible assault on our Nation's 
environment.
  Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker. The President vetoed this rescissions 
bill the first time for many reasons: it cut funding for the National 
Service Plan and heating oil assistance for the elderly, zeroed out 
funding for the Housing for People With AIDS Program and sliced deep 
into education funds.
  But Rescissions II still contains a devastating provision from the 
original bill vetoed by the President: it allows for the raiding of our 
Treasury and the pillaging of the environment just to hand a bonus 
check to the timber industry.
  This timber salvage provision is a lobbyist's dream and a taxpayer 
nightmare. It would allow the chainsaw destruction of our national 
forests and permit logging without laws in vast stretches of the 
American West
  Even with all of the rhetoric we have heard about cutting our 
deficit, no funds from this fire sale of the American West will be 
returned to the Treasury. The losses to the U.S. Treasury will require 
subsequent supplemental appropriations and new funding to cover the 
costs.
  The bill ignores our current fiscal problems and encourages timber to 
be cut at any cost, even allowing salvage sales to continue if the 
costs of the sales exceed the revenues they generate.
  This means that even if salvage sales don't make money, they will 
continue, because Congress will have said that protecting the timber 
industry is more important than protecting the environment or 
safeguarding the U.S. Treasury.
  As I stated earlier, this provision Waives all Federal laws. Passage 
of this bill again literally suspends criminal law, conflict of 
interest limitations, Federal contacting requirements and anti-fraud 
provisions, not to mention the rule against obligating Federal funds 
without authority to do so.
  This rescissions bill replaces the rule of law with lawlessness. It 
says to the American people that Congress cares more about creating a 
few temporary jobs now than it does about deficit reduction and 
environmental protection for the future.
  During the debate on this bill, we have heard a lot of rhetoric that 
this salvage authority is desperately necessary to save our forests and 
ensure forest health.
  What we have not heard is that the Forest Service is already 
conducting an aggressive salvage program.
  In fact, since 1978, the chief's annual reports show that 15 percent 
of the cut was salvage--a figure representing more than 22 billion 
board feet!
  The Forest Service currently has all the legal authority it needs to 
carry out an aggressive salvage program within existing law and clearly 
intends to do just that.
  But perhaps my biggest concern with this ill-gotten gains legislation 
is that the level of logging required by this provision would require 
massive new road-building in roadless areas and massive clear-cutting.
  Both of these practices seriously degrade the environment, including 
eroding the soil; harming the watersheds downstream; destroying salmon 
and trout spawning and rearing habitat; threatening watersheds and 
drinking water supplies and reducing the ability of forest soils to 
nourish health forests.
  Mr. Chairman, in all the rhetoric on this issue, we've heard 
repeatedly about how the Clinton administration's land use policies 
have constituted some kind of war on the west.
  I would submit that this timber salvage provision is the real war on 
the west.
  If we pass this rescissions bill again, we will deliver a one-two 
punch to our country: we'll be pillaging the Treasury and destroying 
our environment and the precious natural resources we all cherish.
  To those in this body who would say that this rescissions bill is 
necessary and appropriate, I would remind you of a simple truth from 
the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy: ``in our every deliberation, 
we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven 
generations.
  Mr. Chairman, I did not come to Washington to preside over the 
destruction of our natural heritage. My constituents sent me here to 
ensure that every American will have natural resources to enjoy that 
will still be here in seven generations.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Walker). Pursuant to House Resolution 
176, the previous question is ordered on the amendment and on the bill.
  The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from 
Louisiana [Mr. Livingston].
  The amendment was agreed to.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. 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.


                 motion to recommit offered by mr. obey

  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I offer a motion to recommit.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentleman opposed to the bill?
  Mr. OBEY. I am, Mr. Speaker.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. Obey moves to recommit the bill (H.R. 1944) to the 
     Committee on Appropriations with instructions that the 
     Committee report the bill back forthwith with the following 
     amendment:
       On page 66, line 14, strike ``$3,275,000,000'' and insert 
     ``$3,250,000,000'';
       On page 66, line 23, strike ``$3,275,000,000'' and insert 
     ``$3,250,000,000''; and
       On page 68, strike line 4 through ``That'' on line 7 and 
     capitalize the ``s'' in ``section'' on line 7.

  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, this recommittal motion is very 
straightforward. I would urge its support. It simply restores $50 
million which has been cut from veterans' medical care.
  The account it has been cut from has traditionally run small 
surpluses, but it has almost always been used to take care of the 
backlog of needs for medical equipment at the VA which total over $800 
million.
  We have, for instance, an MRI scanner at Salt Lake; x ray machine at 
Shreveport, which is needed; nuclear imaging system at Bay of Pines; a 
variety of other backlogged items which I will show anybody who has the 
slightest bit of interest.
  We offset the funding for this by simply taking three quarters of 1 
percent out of what are in effect unobligated balances from the 
disaster account in the bill. It will do no damage to anyone, but it 
will provide our veterans some very badly needed additional medical 
care. I would urge the adoption of the recommittal motion.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield to the distinguished gentleman from Texas [Mr. 
Edwards].
  Mr. EDWARDS. Mr. Speaker, this motion is very simple and 
straightforward. By voting yes, you and I tonight can restore $50 
million in cuts to veterans' health care programs. It is that simple. 
And if you vote no, you are simply saying that you want to cut badly 
needed veterans hospital equipment by $50 million.
  Now, if you believe that veterans presently receive better health 
care than they deserve, then go ahead, vote no on this motion. But if 
you believe that veterans' health care has already been cut enough over 
the last several years, as I do, and if you believe it is unfair for 
veterans to make further cuts in their health care services, then you 
should vote yes on this motion.
  Yesterday, Mr. Speaker, this House passed a constitutional amendment 
to prevent the burning or desecration of the American flag. I voted for 
that amendment. Many of our Democratic and Republican colleagues said 
we should vote for this flag amendment because we owed it to our 
veterans who were willing to fight and die for their country. I agree.
  But Members, it is not good enough to wrap yourself in the flag 
yesterday for veterans and then
 turn your back on veterans tonight. It is time right now, right now to 
match our votes with our rhetoric. It is time right now to say to our 
Nation's veterans, you have already sacrificed enough for America.

  In honoring our Nation's veterans over 130 years ago, President 
Lincoln said at Gettysburg that the world would little note or long 
remember what he said there, but the world would never forget what they 
did there.

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  Perhaps those eloquent ideas are appropriate this evening in this 
Congress. Our Nation's veterans should little note what Members of 
Congress say about supporting veterans, but they should long remember 
what Members of Congress do about supporting veterans.
  I would suggest that cutting veterans' health care in this bill to 
help pay for a tax break for Donald Trump is simply not fair. We can do 
better. Our veterans deserve better from this Congress.
  Veterans do not need our lip service. What they deserve is quality 
health service.
  Less than 5 minutes, that is what it would take to make this 
amendment to this bill on this floor tonight.
  Last night we spent hours debating esoteric issues on foreign aid and 
Burma and other nations. Having stayed up all night last night on those 
issues on foreign aid, do not America's veterans deserve five minutes 
of your and my time tonight to make a renewed commitment to see they 
receive the quality VA health care they deserve?
  I think yes. I want to urge Republicans and Democrats in this House 
to say ``yes'' to veterans, say ``yes'' to their health care and say 
``yes'' to this motion to recommit.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for his very fine 
statement.
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, the hour is late, very late.
  I just want to express my thanks to the Members on both sides for 
sticking with us not only over these last couple of days but for these 
last several months in what has been a difficult period. But we have a 
real opportunity to give the American taxpayer some savings and do some 
good, I just say to the gentleman who offered this motion to recommit 
that his motion reminds me of the old criminal defense tactic of 
throwing up a smoke screen, talking about something that really does 
not have anything to do with the issue at hand.
  He wants you to forget the facts are that we are giving nearly $9.2 
billion in savings to the American people in fiscal year 1955. And it 
does not matter that the funds which he apparently attempts to keep for 
the VA really are a loser. This money is not going to be used by the 
VA. It was money for equipment and salaries, costs that were not needed 
this year. You can talk about the veterans, but really, that is a 
nonissue.
  We have already reduced FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
by $150 million. The gentleman's motion to recommit would take money 
away from FEMA.
  The fact is that the recommittal motion would cut disaster funds to 
provide for things that are not needed, and I would urge the rejection 
of the motion to recommit.
  I would point out to all the Members on both sides of the aisle, 
folks, the administration supports this bill. Here is the statement of 
administration policy.
  The Executive Office of the President says:

       The statement of administration policy provides the 
     administration's views on H.R. 1944. The administration 
     supports H.R. 1944 as amended by the Livingston amendment, 
     which is made in order under the rule.
       H.R. 1944 provides an important balance between deficit 
     reduction and providing funds to meet emergency needs. This 
     legislation provides essential funding for FEMA disaster 
     relief,

  Which the gentleman wishes to cut in this motion to recommit,

       For the federal response to the bombing in Oklahoma City, 
     for the increased anti-terrorism efforts, and for providing 
     debt relief to Jordan in order to contribute to further 
     progress toward a Middle East peace settlement. H.R. 1944 
     reduces federal spending by $9 billion.

  My colleagues, there you have it. That is not Bob Livingston talking. 
This is not the majority party talking. That is from the 
administration. They are saying, vote for the bill. We pay for the 
supplemental funding for the Oklahoma bombing. We pay for flood and 
fire and earthquake and disaster assistance. We enable the timber 
people to go back to work, and we pay for Jordanian debt relief, as 
requested by the administration, to secure a balanced peace in the 
Middle East. We do all of that, plus you get $9.2 billion in additional 
savings for the American taxpayer in 1995.
  My colleagues, it is a good bill. The administration likes this bill. 
The Senate is going to pass this bill. All we need is your votes, 218 
plus. Give me your votes, and we will go home, and we can all sleep 
well tonight.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the previous question is 
ordered on the motion to recommit.
  There was no objection.
  The question is on the motion to recommit.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.
  Mr. OBEY. 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.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 192, 
nays 232, not voting 10, as follows:
                             [Roll No. 463]

                               YEAS--192

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Andrews
     Baesler
     Baldacci
     Barcia
     Barrett (WI)
     Becerra
     Beilenson
     Bentsen
     Berman
     Bevill
     Bishop
     Bonior
     Borski
     Boucher
     Brewster
     Browder
     Brown (CA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Bryant (TX)
     Cardin
     Chapman
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Coleman
     Collins (IL)
     Collins (MI)
     Condit
     Conyers
     Costello
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Danner
     de la Garza
     DeFazio
     DeLauro
     Dellums
     Deutsch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Doggett
     Dooley
     Doyle
     Edwards
     Eshoo
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fazio
     Fields (LA)
     Filner
     Flake
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Frost
     Furse
     Gejdenson
     Gephardt
     Geren
     Gibbons
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green
     Gutierrez
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hamilton
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Hayes
     Hefner
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Holden
     Hoyer
     Jackson-Lee
     Jacobs
     Jefferson
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnston
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy (MA)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kennelly
     Kildee
     Kleczka
     Klink
     LaFalce
     Lantos
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lincoln
     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Luther
     Maloney
     Manton
     Markey
     Martinez
     Mascara
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McDermott
     McHale
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek
     Menendez
     Mfume
     Miller (CA)
     Mineta
     Minge
     Mink
     Mollohan
     Montgomery
     Moran
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Neal
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Orton
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pastor
     Payne (NJ)
     Payne (VA)
     Pelosi
     Peterson (FL)
     Peterson (MN)
     Pickett
     Pomeroy
     Poshard
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Richardson
     Rivers
     Roemer
     Rose
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sabo
     Sanders
     Sawyer
     Schroeder
     Schumer
     Scott
     Serrano
     Sisisky
     Skaggs
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stenholm
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Taylor (MS)
     Tejeda
     Thompson
     Thornton
     Thurman
     Torres
     Torricelli
     Towns
     Traficant
     Tucker
     Velazquez
     Vento
     Visclosky
     Volkmer
     Ward
     Waters
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Williams
     Wilson
     Wise
     Woolsey
     Wyden
     Wynn

                               NAYS--232

     Allard
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baker (CA)
     Baker (LA)
     Ballenger
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Bereuter
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bliley
     Blute
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Brownback
     Bryant (TN)
     Bunn
     Bunning
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Canady
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Chenoweth
     Christensen
     Chrysler
     Clinger
     Coble
     Coburn
     Collins (GA)
     Combest
     Cooley
     Cox
     Crane
     Crapo
     Cremeans
     Cubin
     Cunningham
     Davis
     Deal
     DeLay
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Doolittle
     Dornan
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     Ensign
     Everett
     Ewing
     Fawell
     Fields (TX)
     Flanagan
     Foley
     Forbes
     Fowler
     Fox
     Franks (CT)
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frisa
     Funderburk
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Goss
     Graham
     Greenwood
     Gunderson
     Gutknecht
     Hancock
     Hansen
     Hastert
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Heineman
     Herger
     Hilleary
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hoke
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Inglis
     Istook
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kim
     King
     Kingston
     Klug
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     LaHood
     Largent
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Laughlin
     Lazio
     Leach
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Lightfoot
     Linder
     Livingston

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     LoBiondo
     Longley
     Lucas
     Manzullo
     Martini
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McDade
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntosh
     McKeon
     Metcalf
     Meyers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Molinari
     Moorhead
     Morella
     Myers
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Neumann
     Ney
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Oxley
     Packard
     Parker
     Paxon
     Petri
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Pryce
     Quillen
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Riggs
     Roberts
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roth
     Roukema
     Royce
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaefer
     Schiff
     Seastrand
     Sensenbrenner
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Shuster
     Skeen
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Solomon
     Souder
     Spence
     Stearns
     Stockman
     Stump
     Talent
     Tate
     Tauzin
     Taylor (NC)
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Torkildsen
     Upton
     Vucanovich
     Waldholtz
     Walker
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watts (OK)
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     White
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Zeliff
     Zimmer

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Clay
     Durbin
     Engel
     English
     Foglietta
     Moakley
     Reynolds
     Stokes
     Studds
     Yates

                              {time}  2200

  Mr. HORN, Mr. EHLERS, and Mrs. CUBIN changed their vote from ``aye'' 
to ``no.''
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE changed her vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the motion to recommit was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Walker). The question is on passage of 
the bill.
  Pursuant to clause 7 of rule XV, the yeas and nays are ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 276, 
nays 151, not voting 7, as follows:
                             [Roll No. 464]

                               YEAS--276

     Allard
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baesler
     Baker (CA)
     Baker (LA)
     Baldacci
     Ballenger
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Beilenson
     Bereuter
     Berman
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bliley
     Blute
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Brewster
     Brownback
     Bryant (TN)
     Bunn
     Bunning
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Canady
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Chapman
     Chenoweth
     Christensen
     Chrysler
     Clement
     Clinger
     Coble
     Coburn
     Collins (GA)
     Combest
     Condit
     Cooley
     Cox
     Crane
     Crapo
     Cremeans
     Cubin
     Cunningham
     Danner
     Davis
     de la Garza
     Deal
     DeLay
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Dicks
     Dooley
     Doolittle
     Dornan
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     English
     Ensign
     Everett
     Ewing
     Fawell
     Fazio
     Fields (TX)
     Flanagan
     Foley
     Forbes
     Fowler
     Fox
     Franks (CT)
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frisa
     Funderburk
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Geren
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Gordon
     Goss
     Graham
     Greenwood
     Gunderson
     Gutknecht
     Hall (TX)
     Hamilton
     Hancock
     Hansen
     Harman
     Hastert
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Hefner
     Heineman
     Herger
     Hilleary
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hoke
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Inglis
     Istook
     Jacobs
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kim
     King
     Kingston
     Klug
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     LaHood
     Largent
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Laughlin
     Lazio
     Leach
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Lightfoot
     Lincoln
     Linder
     Livingston
     LoBiondo
     Longley
     Lucas
     Luther
     Manzullo
     Martini
     Mascara
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McDade
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntosh
     McKeon
     Meehan
     Metcalf
     Meyers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Minge
     Molinari
     Montgomery
     Moorhead
     Morella
     Murtha
     Myers
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Neumann
     Ney
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Orton
     Oxley
     Packard
     Parker
     Paxon
     Payne (VA)
     Petri
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Pryce
     Quillen
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Riggs
     Roberts
     Roemer
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Rose
     Roth
     Roukema
     Royce
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaefer
     Schiff
     Seastrand
     Sensenbrenner
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Shuster
     Sisisky
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Solomon
     Souder
     Spence
     Spratt
     Stearns
     Stenholm
     Stockman
     Stump
     Talent
     Tanner
     Tate
     Tauzin
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Torkildsen
     Torres
     Upton
     Visclosky
     Vucanovich
     Waldholtz
     Walker
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watts (OK)
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     White
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Zeliff
     Zimmer

                               NAYS--151

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Andrews
     Barcia
     Barrett (WI)
     Becerra
     Bentsen
     Bevill
     Bishop
     Bonior
     Borski
     Boucher
     Browder
     Brown (CA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Bryant (TX)
     Cardin
     Clayton
     Clyburn
     Coleman
     Collins (IL)
     Collins (MI)
     Conyers
     Costello
     Coyne
     Cramer
     DeFazio
     DeLauro
     Dellums
     Deutsch
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Doggett
     Eshoo
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fields (LA)
     Filner
     Flake
     Foglietta
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Frost
     Furse
     Gejdenson
     Gephardt
     Gibbons
     Gonzalez
     Green
     Gutierrez
     Hall (OH)
     Hastings (FL)
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Holden
     Hoyer
     Jackson-Lee
     Jefferson
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnston
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy (MA)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kennelly
     Kildee
     Kleczka
     Klink
     LaFalce
     Lantos
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Maloney
     Manton
     Markey
     Martinez
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McDermott
     McHale
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meek
     Menendez
     Mfume
     Miller (CA)
     Mineta
     Mink
     Mollohan
     Moran
     Nadler
     Neal
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pastor
     Payne (NJ)
     Pelosi
     Peterson (FL)
     Peterson (MN)
     Pickett
     Pomeroy
     Poshard
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Richardson
     Rivers
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sabo
     Sanders
     Sawyer
     Schroeder
     Schumer
     Scott
     Serrano
     Skaggs
     Slaughter
     Stark
     Stokes
     Stupak
     Tejeda
     Thompson
     Thornton
     Thurman
     Torricelli
     Towns
     Traficant
     Tucker
     Velazquez
     Vento
     Volkmer
     Ward
     Waters
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Williams
     Wise
     Woolsey
     Wyden
     Wynn

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Clay
     Durbin
     Engel
     Moakley
     Reynolds
     Studds
     Yates

                              {time}  2218

  Mr. POMEROY changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Messrs. HALL of Texas, MASCARA, and DOYLE changed their 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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