[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 146 (Tuesday, September 19, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1113-D1115]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Bills Introduced: 16 public bills, H.R. 2351-2366, were introduced.

  Page H9245
Reports Filed: Reports were filed as follows:
  H.R. 2288, to amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to 
extend for 2 years the deadline by which States are required to have in 
effect an automated data processing and information retrieval system 
for use in the administration of State plans for child and spousal 
support (H. Rept. 104-250);
  H. Res. 223, waiving points of order against the conference report on 
H.R. 1817, making appropriations for military construction for the 
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996 (H. 
Rept. 104-251);
  H. Res. 224, providing for the consideration of H.R. 2274, to 
designate the National Highway System (H. Rept. 104-252); and
  H. Res. 225, providing for the consideration of H.R. 927, Cuban 
Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1995 (H. Res. 253).
                                                  Pages H9220, H9244-45
Speaker Pro Tempore: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he 
designates Representative Deal of Georgia to act as Speaker pro tempore 
for today.
  Page H9137
Recess: House recessed at 9:43 a.m. and reconvened at 10 a.m.

  Page H9142
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: By a yea-and-nay vote of 392 yeas 
to 10 nays, Roll No. 665, the House voted to suspend the rules and 
agree to the Senate amendment to H.R. 402, to amend the Alaska Native 
Claims Settlement Act--clearing the measure for the President.

  Pages H9150-51
Suspensions: House voted to suspend the rules and pass the following 
measures debated on Monday, September 18:
  Shenandoah Valley National Battlefields: H.R. 1091, amended, to 
improve the National Park System in the Commonwealth of Virginia 
(passed by a yea-and-nay vote of 377 yeas to 31 nays, Roll No. 666); 
and
Page H9151
  Administration of certain Presidio properties: H.R. 1296, amended, to 
provide for the administration of certain Presidio properties at 
minimal cost to the Federal taxpayers (passed by a yea-and-nay vote of 
317 yeas to 101 nays, Roll No. 668).
Pages H9152-53
Suspensions Failed: House failed to suspend the rules and pass the 
following measures debated on Monday, September 18:
  National Park System reform: H.R. 260, amended, to provide for the 
development of a plan and a management review of the National Park 
System and to reform the process by which areas are considered for 

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addition to the National Park System (failed by a yea-and-nay vote of 
180 yeas to 231 nays, Roll No. 667); and
Page H9152
  Texas low-level radioactive waste disposal: H.R. 558, to grant the 
consent of the Congress to the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste 
Disposal Compact (failed to pass by a yea-and-nay vote of 176 yeas to 
243 nays, Roll No. 669).
Page H9153
Workforce Development and Literacy Reform: By a recorded vote of 345 
ayes to 79 noes, Roll No. 671, the House passed H.R. 1617, to 
consolidate and reform workplace development and literacy programs.

  Pages H9153-H9220
Agreed To:
  The Goodling amendments en bloc that change the Connie Lee 
privatization provisions; extend Sallie Mae phase-out by 2 years; add 
State entities to the list of people that are part of the collaborative 
process to ensure that State Boards of Education can participate in the 
collaborative process; add language to the youth block grant title to 
ensure that Federal funds are used to supplement, not supplant, State 
and local funds; and permit States to change the financial distribution 
of funds within the State for vocational rehabilitation services;

Pages H9165-69
  The Goodling technical amendment;
Page H9169
  The Mink amendment as amended by the Goodling amendment that requires 
States to include in their workforce development and literacy plan a 
description of how the State will serve single parents, displaced 
homemakers, and single pregnant women and programs that promote the 
elimination of sex bias, and provides that nothing should be construed 
to mandate an amount to be set aside for those purposes;

Pages H9187-91
  The Sawyer amendment that provides that whoever under State law is 
authorized to control the funds for a particular program is authorized 
to develop procedures to resolve disputes over the content of the local 
plan;
Pages H9191-92
  The Traficant amendment that expresses the sense of Congress that 
equipment and products purchased with authorized bonds should be 
American-made;
Page H9193
  The Gene Green of Texas amendment that strikes the vocational 
rehabilitation provisions (title V) (agreed to by a recorded vote of 
231 ayes to 192 noes); and
Pages H9205-14
  The committee amendment in the nature of a substitute made in order 
by the rule (agreed to by a division vote of 66 ayes to 43 noes).

Page H9219
Rejected:
  The Kildee amendment that sought to strike language permitting 
Governors to transfer funds between the youth and adult block grants; 
                                                         Pages H9178-81
  The Kildee amendment that sought to prohibit CAREERS grants to any 
State that does not maintain State vocational education at the previous 
year's level; and
Page H9187
  The Woolsey amendment that sought to increase authorizations for 
youth job training grants to $3 billion, adult job training grants to 
$3.225 billion; and adult education and family literacy grants to $597 
million.
Pages H9192-93
  The following amendments were offered but subsequently withdrawn:
  The Williams amendment that sought to provide that in the development 
of the State plan, the State agency responsible under the State 
constitution for education policy would assume the lead role in 
developing that portion of the plan;
Pages H9181-82
  The Owens amendment that sought to impose financial penalties for 
misexpenditures of funds; and
Pages H9182-83
  The Klink amendment that sought to express the sense of Congress that 
the Federal Government should transfer all of the functions of the 
workforce preparation and development programs to the States and local 
communities and that Federal tax rates should be reduced by the amount 
saved by relinquishing such Federal responsibilities.
Pages H9218-19
  The Clerk was authorized to make technical corrections and conforming 
changes in the engrossment of the bill.
Page H9220
  H. Res. 222, the rule under which the bill was considered, was agreed 
to earlier by a yea-and-nay vote of 388 yeas to 2 nays, Roll No. 664. 
                                                         Pages H9145-50
Bill Re-referred: The bill H.R. 2202, the Immigration in the National 
Interest Act of 1995, was re-referred to the Committee on the 
Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Banking 
and Financial Services, Economic and Educational Opportunities, 
Government Reform and Oversight, National Security, and Ways and Means.
                                                             Page H9220
Late Report: Committee on the Judiciary received permission to have 
until midnight tonight to file a report on H.R. 2277, to abolish the 
Legal Services Corporation and provide the States with money to fund 
qualified legal services.
  Page H9220
Amendments Ordered Printed: Amendments ordered printed pursuant to the 
rule appear on pages H9246-47.
Quorum Calls--Votes: Six yea-and-nay votes and two recorded votes 
developed during the proceedings of the House today and appear on pages 
H9149-50, H9150-51, H9151, H9152, H9152-53, H9153, H9213-14, and H9219-
20. There were no quorum calls.

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Adjournment: Met at 9 a.m. and adjourned at 9:19 p.m.