[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 138 (Thursday, September 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H8662-H8663]
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                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, I missed rollcall 645. I was unavoidably 
detained, and had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.''
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaHood). 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. Yes, I am, Mr. Speaker.

[[Page H 8663]]

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. Obey moves that the bill H.R. 2126 be recommitted to 
     the Committee on Appropriations with instruction to report 
     the bill back to the House forthwith, with the following 
     amendment:
       On page 77, line 8, strike ``$250,000'' and insert 
     ``$200,000''.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Obey] is 
recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, section 8077 of this bill reads as follows:

       None of the funds provided in this Act may 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 $250,000 per year.

  This recommittal motion simply reduces that $250,000 salary level to 
$200,000. In essence what it says is that if any defense contractor 
wants to pay any individual a salary in excess of that paid to the 
President of the United States, they cannot do it with taxpayer funds 
through contracting, they have to do it out of their own corporate 
profits.
  When you take a look at the total compensation provided to the CEO's 
of some of these corporations, you see one being paid $7,287,000, one 
being paid $5,827,000, another $3,596,000, another $3,538,000, and so 
on and so forth.
  I would simply ask one question. Who do these people think they are, 
that they think that they are entitled to be compensated at a rate 
higher than the level of the President of the United States?
  It seems to me that if we are asked to buy downsizing of the military 
budget, if we are asked to buy downsizing of corporations in general, 
we ought to also be taking a look at downsizing these outrageously high 
salaries paid to these corporate executives.
  All this does is say that you cannot compensate any of these 
corporations for any salary in excess of the salary paid to the 
President of the United States.
  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. OBEY. I yield to the gentleman from Florida.
  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I would like to say to the 
gentleman that we are very aware of this issue and it makes a minor 
change. We are proposed to accept the gentleman's motion to recommit.
  Mr. OBEY. I thank the gentleman.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the previous question is 
ordered on the motion to recommit.
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
  The motion to recommit was agreed to.

                              {time}  1830

  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to the instruction of the 
House, I report the bill H.R. 2126 back to the House with an amendment.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaHood). The Clerk will report the 
amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Amendment: by Mr. Young of Florida on page 77, line 8, 
     strike ``$250,000'' and insert ``$200,000''.

  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.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
  Pursuant to clause 7, rule XV, the yeas and nays are ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device and there were--yeas 294, 
nays 125, not voting 15, as follows:
                             [Roll No.646]

                               YEAS--294

     Abercrombie
     Allard
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baesler
     Baker (CA)
     Baker (LA)
     Ballenger
     Barcia
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Bentsen
     Bereuter
     Bevill
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bliley
     Blute
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Boucher
     Brewster
     Browder
     Brownback
     Bryant (TN)
     Bunn
     Bunning
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Canady
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Chapman
     Christensen
     Chrysler
     Clement
     Clinger
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Coburn
     Coleman
     Collins (GA)
     Combest
     Condit
     Cox
     Cramer
     Crane
     Cremeans
     Cubin
     Cunningham
     Davis
     de la Garza
     Deal
     DeLauro
     DeLay
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Dicks
     Dixon
     Dooley
     Doolittle
     Dornan
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Edwards
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     English
     Ensign
     Eshoo
     Everett
     Ewing
     Farr
     Fawell
     Fazio
     Fields (TX)
     Flanagan
     Foley
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fowler
     Fox
     Franks (CT)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frisa
     Frost
     Funderburk
     Gallegly
     Gejdenson
     Gekas
     Gephardt
     Geren
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Goss
     Graham
     Green
     Greenwood
     Gunderson
     Gutknecht
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hamilton
     Hancock
     Hansen
     Harman
     Hastert
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Hefner
     Heineman
     Herger
     Hilleary
     Hobson
     Hoke
     Holden
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hoyer
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Inglis
     Istook
     Jacobs
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kennedy (MA)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kennelly
     Kildee
     Kim
     King
     Kingston
     Klink
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     LaHood
     Largent
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Laughlin
     Lazio
     Leach
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Lightfoot
     Linder
     Lipinski
     Livingston
     LoBiondo
     Longley
     Lucas
     Manton
     Manzullo
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McDade
     McHale
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntosh
     McKeon
     McNulty
     Meek
     Metcalf
     Meyers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Mineta
     Mink
     Molinari
     Mollohan
     Montgomery
     Moorhead
     Moran
     Murtha
     Myers
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Neumann
     Ney
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Ortiz
     Oxley
     Packard
     Parker
     Paxon
     Payne (VA)
     Peterson (FL)
     Pickett
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Portman
     Pryce
     Quillen
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Regula
     Richardson
     Roberts
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Rose
     Royce
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaefer
     Schiff
     Scott
     Seastrand
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shuster
     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)
     Tejeda
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thornberry
     Thornton
     Thurman
     Tiahrt
     Torkildsen
     Torres
     Traficant
     Visclosky
     Vucanovich
     Walker
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Ward
     Waters
     Watts (OK)
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     White
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson
     Wolf
     Wynn
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Zeliff

                               NAYS--125

     Ackerman
     Andrews
     Baldacci
     Barrett (WI)
     Beilenson
     Berman
     Bonior
     Borski
     Brown (CA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Bryant (TX)
     Camp
     Cardin
     Chenoweth
     Clay
     Clayton
     Collins (IL)
     Collins (MI)
     Conyers
     Cooley
     Costello
     Coyne
     Crapo
     Danner
     DeFazio
     Dellums
     Deutsch
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Durbin
     Ehlers
     Engel
     Evans
     Fattah
     Fields (LA)
     Filner
     Flake
     Foglietta
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (NJ)
     Furse
     Ganske
     Gordon
     Gutierrez
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Hoekstra
     Jackson-Lee
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnston
     Kanjorski
     Kleczka
     Klug
     LaFalce
     Lantos
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lincoln
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Luther
     Markey
     Martinez
     Martini
     Mascara
     McCarthy
     McDermott
     Meehan
     Menendez
     Mfume
     Miller (CA)
     Minge
     Nadler
     Neal
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Orton
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pastor
     Payne (NJ)
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Petri
     Poshard
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Reed
     Riggs
     Rivers
     Roemer
     Roth
     Roukema
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sabo
     Sanders
     Sawyer
     Schroeder
     Schumer
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Shays
     Skaggs
     Slaughter
     Stark
     Stokes
     Studds
     Stupak
     Torricelli
     Upton
     Velazquez
     Vento
     Volkmer
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Williams
     Wise
     Woolsey
     Wyden
     Yates
     Zimmer

                             NOT VOTING--15

     Becerra
     Bishop
     Dingell
     Dunn
     Goodling
     Jefferson
     Maloney
     McKinney
     Moakley
     Morella
     Reynolds
     Sisisky
     Towns
     Tucker
     Waldholtz

                              {time}  1847

  Clerk announced the following pair on this vote:

       Mrs. Waldholtz for, with Mrs. Maloney against.

  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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