[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 138 (Thursday, September 7, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1049-D1050]
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                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Bills Introduced: 14 public bills, H.R. 2274-2287; and 2 resolutions, 
H. Res. 215-216 were introduced.
  Pages H8683-84
Reports Filed: Reports were filed as follows:
  H. Res. 215, providing for the consideration of H.R. 1594, to place 
restrictions on the promotion by the Department of Labor and other 
Federal agencies and instrumentalities of economically targeted 
investments in connection with employee benefit plans (H. Rept. 104-
240); and
  H. Res. 216, providing for the consideration of H.R. 1655, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1996 for intelligence and 
intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the 
Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency 
Retirement and Disability System (H. Rept. 104-241).
Pages H8664, H8683
Committees To Sit: The following committees and their subcommittees 
received permission to sit today during proceedings of the House under 
the 5-minute rule: Committees on Banking and Financial Services, 
Commerce, International Relations, the Judiciary, National Security, 
Resources, Science, Small Business, Transportation and Infrastructure, 
and Veterans' Affairs.
  Pages H8604-05
Line Item Veto: House insisted on its amendments to S. 4, to grant the 
power to the President to reduce budget authority; and agreed to a 
conference. Appointed as conferees: Representatives Clinger, Solomon, 
Bunning of Kentucky, Goss, Blute, Collins of Illinois, Sabo, and 
Beilenson.
  Pages H8605-08
  Agreed to the Wise motion to instruct House conferees to insist upon 
the inclusion of provisions within the scope of conference making the 
bill applicable to current and subsequent fiscal year appropriation 
measures.
Pages H8605-08
Defense Appropriations: By a yea-and-nay vote of 294 yeas to 125 nays, 
Roll No. 646, the House passed H.R. 2126, making appropriations for the 
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996.
  Pages H8609-64
  Agreed to the Obey motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on 
Appropriations with instructions to report it back forthwith containing 
an amendment to provide that funds cannot be obligated for payment on 
new contracts on which allowable costs charged to the Government 
include payments for individual compensation at a rate in excess of 
$200,000 per year, rather than $250,000 as provided in the bill. 
Subsequently, the bill was reported back to the House with the 
amendment, and the amendment was agreed to.
Pages H8662-63
  On a demand for a separate vote, rejected the Schroeder amendment 
that sought to provide for a limitation on the use of Federal funds by 
contractors for political advocacy (rejected by a recorded vote of 182 
ayes to 238 noes, Roll No. 645). This amendment had been agreed to 
earlier in the Committee of the Whole by voice vote.
Pages H8641-42, H8646-48, H8661-62
Agreed To:
  The Dornan amendment that prohibits use of funds from being used to 
perform abortions in military medical facilities, except when the life 
of the mother is in danger (agreed to by a recorded vote of 226 ayes to 
191 noes, Roll No. 642);
Pages H8624-30
  The Burton of Indiana amendment that requires that funds made 
available for Army procurement of munitions must be expended in full 
compliance with the Competition in Contracting Act;
Page H8639
  The Young of Florida technical amendment;
Page H8640
  The Murtha amendment that prohibits use of funds to implement any 
change to the computation of military retired pay as required by law in 
fiscal year 1995 for military personnel who entered the Service before 
September 1980;
Page H8640
  The Sanders amendment that prohibits use of funds to be obligated or 
expended to pay a contractor for costs paid to an employee if such 
costs are for a bonus or in excess of the normal salary paid by the 
contractor to the employee or if such bonus is part of restructuring 
costs associated with a business combination;
Pages H8640-41
  The Callahan amendment that requires that certain vessel propellers 
and ship propulsion shafting be manufactured in the United States;
Pages H8642-43
  The Callahan amendment that prohibits any funds appropriated for 
Former Soviet Union Threat Reduction to be used to build housing for 
members of the military forces of the Soviet Union or for current or 
former members of the military forces of the Russian Federation; and
Page H8643
  The Neumann amendment, as amended by the Murtha amendment, that 
prohibits use of funds for participation of U.S. Armed Forces units in 
any operation in the territory of the former Yugoslavia above the level 
of forces so deployed as of the date of enactment, except for emergency 
air rescue operations, the airborne delivery of humanitarian supplies, 
or the planning execution of OPLAN 40104 to extract UNPROFOR personnel.
Pages H8643-45

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Rejected:
  The Kasich amendment that sought to reduce the Air Force aircraft 
procurement appropriation by $493 million (rejected by a recorded vote 
of 210 ayes to 213 noes, Roll No. 639);
Pages H8609-21
  The Obey amendment that sought to reduce the Air Force research, 
development, test and evaluation appropriation by $1 billion (rejected 
by a recorded vote of 126 ayes to 293 noes, Roll No. 640);
Pages H8621-24
  The DeLauro substitute amendment to the Dornan amendment that sought 
to prohibit any funds from being used to perform abortions in military 
medical facilities, except when the life of the mother was in danger, 
or in the case of a medical treatment or other facility of the Defense 
Department located outside the United States, any cost incurred by the 
United States in connection with such a procedure was reimbursed from 
private funds (rejected by a recorded vote of 194 ayes to 224 noes, 
Roll No. 641);
Pages H8624-30
  The Sanders amendment that sought to reduce funding for the National 
Foreign Intelligence Program (other than the CIA Retirement and 
Disability System Fund) by limiting funding to ninety percent of last 
year's level (rejected by a recorded vote of 93 ayes to 325 noes, Roll 
No. 643); and
Pages H8648-54, H8658
  The Schroeder amendment that sought to reduce all discretionary 
appropriated funds by three percent across-the-board (rejected by a 
recorded vote of 124 ayes to 296 noes, Roll No. 644).
Pages H8654-59
  The following amendments were offered but subsequently withdrawn:
  The Schumer amendment that sought to increase funding for Army 
missile procurement by $50 million;
Pages H8630-31
  The Woolsey amendment that sought to prohibit funds from being used 
to modify Ohio-class submarines by replacing Trident I (C-4) nuclear 
missiles with upgraded Trident II (D-5) missiles;
Pages H8639-40
  The Skelton amendment that sought to prohibit use of funds for 
military training for the military forces of the government of Bosnia 
and Herzegovina; and
Page H8645
  The Farr amendment that sought to prohibit use of funds in excess of 
$6.7 million for the relocation of the activity of the Army Operational 
Test and Experimentation Command that is located at Fort Hunter 
Liggett, California;
Pages H8645-46
  The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, 
cross references, and to make other necessary conforming changes as 
might be necessary in the engrossment of the bill.
Page H8664
Meeting Hour: Agreed that the House will meet at 9 a.m. on Friday, 
September 8.
  Page H8664
Energy and Water Appropriations: House disagreed to the Senate 
amendments to H.R. 1905, making appropriations for energy and water 
development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996. Appointed as 
conferees: Representatives Myers of Indiana, Rogers, Knollenberg, 
Riggs, Frelinghuysen, Bunn of Oregon, Livingston, Bevill, Fazio of 
California, Chapman, and Obey.
  Pages H8664-65
  Agreed to the Bevill motion to instruct House conferees in resolving 
differences between the House and Senate with regard to projects and 
programs of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to select projects and 
programs within the scope of the conference without regard to the 
proposal of the Administration to reduce the role of the Corps of 
Engineers in flood control, shore protection, and navigation projects.
Page H8664
Military Construction Appropriations: House disagreed to the Senate 
amendments to H.R. 1817, making appropriations for military 
construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the 
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996. 
Appointed as conferees: Representatives Vucanovich, Callahan, McDade, 
Myers of Indiana, Porter, Istook, Wicker, Livingston, Hefner, 
Foglietta, Visclosky, Torres, and Obey.
  Page H8665
  Agreed to the Obey motion to instruct House conferees to not provide 
funding for non-quality of life projects above the President's request, 
which are in excess of the cumulative amounts added for such projects 
in the House-passed bill.
Page H8665
Merchant Marine Academy: The Speaker appointed Representatives King and 
Manton as members of the Board of Visitors to the United States 
Merchant Marine Academy on the part of the House.
  Page H8665
Quorum Calls--Votes: One yea-and-nay vote and seven recorded votes 
developed during the proceedings of the House today and appear on pages 
H8620-21, H8623-24, H8629-30, H8630, H8658, H8659, H8662, and H8663. 
There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: Met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 9:28 p.m.