[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 147 (Wednesday, September 20, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H9256-H9257]
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MOTION FOR PERMISSION FOR ALL COMMITTEES AND SUBCOMMITTEES TO SIT TODAY 
         AND THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK DURING THE 5-MINUTE RULE

  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, I offer a privileged motion.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Pursuant to clause 2(I) of rule XI, Mr. Armey moves that 
     all committees and subcommittees of the House be permitted to 
     sit today and for the remainder of the week while the House 
     is meeting in the Committee of the Whole House under the 5-
     minute rule.
                         Parliamentary Inquiry

  Mr. WISE. Mr. Speaker, parliamentary inquiry.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas [Mr. Armey] is 
recognized for 1 hour.
  Mr. WISE. Mr. Speaker, parliamentary inquiry.
  Mr. ARMEY. I am sorry. It has been necessary----
  Mr. WISE. Parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Speaker.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from West Virginia will state 
his parliamentary inquiry.
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, I do not yield for that purpose.
  Mr. WISE. For a parliamentary inquiry?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman does not yield.
  Mr. WISE. Mr. Speaker, parliamentary inquiry. The Chair makes that 
decision. Parliamentary inquiry.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Let us have order.
  Mr. WISE. The gentleman does not yield for a parliamentary inquiry.
  Mr. GIBBONS. In other words, we have been gagged, we have been 
stonewalled, and now we are being gagged. Is that it? Is that it, I ask 
the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Armey], stonewalling us? You have been 
stonewalling us for 10 months.
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, I believe I control the time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair is ready to rule. The 
parliamentary inquiry was sought before the time was given to the 
majority leader.
  Mr. WISE. I thank the Chair. Parliamentary inquiry, is the Chair or 
is the gentleman going to, or does this side receive the customary 30 
minutes in debate on this matter?
  Mr. LINDER. That is not a parliamentary inquiry. Furthermore, the 
gentleman from Texas did not yield for that.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. That is up to the majority leader.
  Does the majority leader yield?
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, I do appreciate the inquiry made by the 
gentleman from West Virginia, and for whatever time I speak on my 
privileged motion, I will see to it that the gentleman from West 
Virginia is given twice as much time as I take.
  Mr. Speaker, am I recognized to speak on my motion?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas [Mr. Armey] is 
recognized for 1 hour.

                              {time}  1115

  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, let me again reiterate the fact that whatever time I 
spend speaking on this motion I will grant to the gentleman from West 
Virginia twice as much time as I take. This is an important motion. I 
am sorry it has become necessary to do so. We do want to, at least when 
we are operating within the Chamber, do so in an orderly fashion while 
we allow the remainder of work of Congress to go forward.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time with the reservation 
that the timekeeper report to me such time as I used to this point, and 
I will yield that amount of time to the gentleman from West Virginia 
[Mr. Wise] for purposes of debate only.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Dickey). The gentleman from Texas [Mr. 
Armey] consumed 30 seconds.
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, for purposes of debate only, I yield 1 minute 
to the gentleman from West Virginia [Mr. Wise].
  Mr. WISE. Mr. Speaker, what is at issue here and what the gentleman 
from Florida [Mr. Gibbons] has raised is the fact that we are just 
going to approve a number of committees sitting. Now they are sitting 
on some important matters, some not as important. None of them is as 
important as health care that affects 70 million Americans. Thirty-
seven million Americans affected by Medicare, that receives one hearing 
on Thursday, Medicaid, which is being marked up, as I understand, today 
by the Committee on Commerce; the bill dropped on the floor yesterday 
affects roughly 31 to 32 million Americans.
  Mr. Speaker, clearly it is outrageous that we can have 6 days of 
hearings on the National Highway System that we will take up in a 
minute, we can only have 1 day of hearings on Medicare, and none on 
Medicaid, and both make the National Highway System, as important as I 
think it is, pale by significance in dollars and in impact.
  So, I would just urge Members to reflect on this and urge that we go 
ahead with the Dingell resolution, which will provide 4 weeks of 
hearings. I think, if we are going to change the health programs that 
affect the largest number of Americans, have been in place for 30 
years, we should get more than 1 day of hearings.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman from West Virginia 
[Mr. Wise] has expired.
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I 
move the previous question.

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  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the previous question is 
ordered on the motion.
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the 
gentleman from Texas [Mr. Armey].
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.


                             recorded vote

  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, on that, I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 243, 
nays 175, not voting 16, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 673]

                               YEAS--243

     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
     Dooley
     Doolittle
     Dornan
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     English
     Ensign
     Everett
     Ewing
     Fawell
     Flanagan
     Foley
     Forbes
     Fowler
     Fox
     Franks (CT)
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frisa
     Funderburk
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Gordon
     Goss
     Graham
     Greenwood
     Gunderson
     Gutknecht
     Hall (TX)
     Hamilton
     Hancock
     Hansen
     Hastert
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     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
     Linder
     Livingston
     LoBiondo
     Longley
     Lucas
     Manzullo
     Martini
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McDade
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntosh
     McKeon
     Metcalf
     Meyers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Molinari
     Montgomery
     Moorhead
     Morella
     Myers
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Neumann
     Ney
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Oxley
     Packard
     Parker
     Paxon
     Petri
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Pryce
     Quillen
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Riggs
     Roberts
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Rose
     Roth
     Roukema
     Royce
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaefer
     Schiff
     Seastrand
     Sensenbrenner
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Shuster
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Solomon
     Souder
     Spence
     Stearns
     Stockman
     Stump
     Talent
     Tate
     Tauzin
     Taylor (NC)
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Torkildsen
     Torricelli
     Traficant
     Upton
     Vucanovich
     Waldholtz
     Walker
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watts (OK)
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     White
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Zeliff
     Zimmer

                               NAYS--175

     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
     Clay
     Clyburn
     Coleman
     Collins (IL)
     Collins (MI)
     Condit
     Conyers
     Costello
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Danner
     de la Garza
     DeFazio
     DeLauro
     Dellums
     Deutsch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fazio
     Fields (LA)
     Filner
     Foglietta
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Frost
     Furse
     Gejdenson
     Gephardt
     Geren
     Gibbons
     Gonzalez
     Green
     Gutierrez
     Hall (OH)
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Hayes
     Hefner
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Holden
     Hoyer
     Jackson-Lee
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnston
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     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
     Menendez
     Miller (CA)
     Mineta
     Minge
     Mink
     Mollohan
     Moran
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Neal
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Orton
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pastor
     Payne (VA)
     Pelosi
     Peterson (FL)
     Peterson (MN)
     Pickett
     Pomeroy
     Poshard
     Rangel
     Reed
     Richardson
     Rivers
     Roemer
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sabo
     Sanders
     Sawyer
     Schroeder
     Schumer
     Scott
     Serrano
     Skaggs
     Slaughter
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stenholm
     Stokes
     Studds
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Taylor (MS)
     Tejeda
     Thornton
     Thurman
     Torres
     Towns
     Velazquez
     Vento
     Visclosky
     Volkmer
     Ward
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Williams
     Wilson
     Wise
     Woolsey
     Wyden
     Wynn
     Yates

                             NOT VOTING--16

     Chapman
     Clayton
     Clement
     Fields (TX)
     Flake
     Jefferson
     Kennedy (MA)
     Meek
     Mfume
     Moakley
     Payne (NJ)
     Reynolds
     Sisisky
     Thompson
     Tucker
     Waters

                              {time}  1137

  Messrs. KENNEDY of Rhode Island, SPRATT, and CONYERS changed their 
vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  So the motion was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  

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