[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 149 (Friday, September 22, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S14127-S14128]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1996

  The Senate continued with the consideration of the bill.


                     Amendment No. 2768, AS AMENDED

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from West Virginia has 2 minutes.
  Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, my amendment, as amended, specifies that any 
student suspended from classes at a DC public school must serve the 
suspension by performing community service for the period of suspension 
under regulations promulgated by the mayor.
  It would require the Commission on Consensus Reform in the DC Public 
Schools to develop and implement a uniform dress code for the public 
schools.
  It would become effective at the beginning of the 1996-1997 school 
year.
  It would add the Chief of the National Guard Bureau as an ex officio 
member to the Commission on Consensus Reform in the DC Public Schools 
to facilitate the establishment of programs to assist at-risk youth.
  It would require a report to Congress within 60 days at the end of 
the 1997-1998 school year on the improvements and discipline resulting 
from dress code policy and community service requirements.
  It would limit the provisions to a 2-year pilot program which would 
expire at the end of the 1997-1998 school year.
  Mr. President, this might help to point the way to other school 
districts throughout the country and enable them, on the basis of the 
results, to initiate such programs within their own districts.
  I hope that the Members of the Senate will support the amendment.
  Mr. JEFFORDS addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont.
  Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. President, I rise to speak in support of the 
amendment. It is an effort to try to end some of the problems we have 
with young people who get in trouble in school and need some guidance 
and support. It helps, I think, to maintain discipline. I think it is 
worth a demonstration project, as the amendment provides, to see if in 
the city we can demonstrate alternatives to kids just being put out of 
school for disciplinary reasons and then just walking the streets and 
getting into trouble.
  So I think it is a good amendment.
  Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I thank the distinguished Senator.
  Mr. JEFFORDS. I see no other speakers, so I yield back the remainder 
of my time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question occurs on agreeing to amendment 
No. 2678, as amended. The yeas and nays have been ordered. The clerk 
will call the roll.
  Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                           Order of Procedure

  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, I know Members are anxious to leave, and I 
know there will not be a vote on final passage. This will be the last 
vote of the day. There will be voice votes but no more rollcall votes.
  On Monday, there will be no rollcall votes, but we do expect to take 
up VA-HUD. The managers will be here at 3 p.m. Senator Bumpers will be 
here, I think, about 4 o'clock to offer an amendment on the space 
station, to add money to the space program. But probably not.
  [Laughter.]
  We will be in space here at 4 o'clock.
  What we would like to do is accommodate everybody. We know it is a 
holiday for some. There will not be any votes until, let us say, after 
the policy luncheon on Tuesday, but we want to get some work done. 
Still, we will be down to three appropriations bills. If we can do 
those next week, we are out of here for 8 days. That ought to be an 
incentive for less talk, fewer amendments. If we can do it on each 
side, we can finish by late Thursday or Friday.
  So I just hope, in accommodating everybody who wants to be 
accommodated, that they will accommodate us. So there are no further 
votes today, no votes on Monday, and any votes that are ordered will 
occur on Tuesday after the policy luncheons.


                 Vote on Amendment No. 2768, As Amended

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question occurs on agreeing to amendment 
No. 2768, as amended. The yeas and nays have been ordered. The clerk 
will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. LOTT. I announce that the Senator from Texas [Mr. Gramm] is 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Arkansas [Mr. Pryor] is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 88, nays 10, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 462 Leg.]

                                YEAS--88

     Abraham
     Akaka
     Ashcroft
     Baucus
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bond
     Boxer
     Bradley
     Brown
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Coats
     Cochran
     Cohen
     Conrad
     Coverdell
     Craig
     D'Amato
     Daschle
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Dole
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Exon
     Faircloth
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Frist
     Gorton
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Hatfield
     Helms
     Hollings
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnston
     Kassebaum
     Kempthorne
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kyl
     Lautenberg
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McCain
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Nunn
     Packwood
     Pell
     Pressler
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Roth
     Santorum 

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     Sarbanes
     Shelby
     Simon
     Simpson
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Warner
     Wellstone

                                NAYS--10

     Bingaman
     Breaux
     Feingold
     Glenn
     Graham
     Heflin
     Kohl
     Leahy
     Murray
     Robb

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Gramm
     Pryor
       
  So the amendment (No. 2768), as amended, was agreed to.
  Mr. JEFFORDS. I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. BYRD. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I rise in support of S. 1244, the fiscal 
year 1966 District of Columbia appropriations bill, as reported by the 
Senate Appropriations Committee.
  The pending bill provides Federal payments to the District of 
Columbia totaling $712 million. The Senate bill provides $660 million 
for the Federal payment and $52 million as the Federal contribution to 
certain retirement funds.
  The Senate bill is funded at the President's requested level.
  It is at the subcommittee's 602(B) allocation for both BA and 
outlays.
  I hope the Congress will work with the District of Columbia as it 
addresses its serious financial situation.
  I urge my colleagues to support the bill.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that a table displaying the 
Budget Committee scoring of the bill be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

        D.C. SUBCOMMITTEE--SPENDING TOTALS--SENATE-REPORTED BILL        
               [Fiscal Year 1996, in millions of dollars]               
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                       Budget           
                      Category                       authority   Outlays
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Non-Defense discretionary:                                              
  Outlays from prior-year BA and other actions                          
   completed.......................................  .........  ........
  S. 1244, as reported to the Senate...............        712       712
  Scorekeeping adjustment..........................  .........  ........
                                                    --------------------
      Adjusted bill total..........................        712       712
                                                    ====================
Senate subcommittee 602(b) allocation: Non-Defense                      
 discretionary.....................................        712       712
Adjusted bill total compared to Senate subcommittee                     
 602(b) allocation: Non-Defense discretionary......          0         0
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Note.--Details may not add to totals due to rounding. Totals adjusted   
  for consistency with current scorekeeping conventions.                


  Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I noted with interest a provision of the 
D.C. appropriations bill which earmarks money for police details in 
Georgetown, Adams Morgan, Capitol Hill, and East of the River. 
Georgetown is to receive the highest amount--$250,000.
  Every day the Washington Post and the Washington Times remind us that 
the District of Columbia is wracked by crime. The citizens of this 
city, in every quarter, deserve the best possible police protection.
  I hope my colleagues would agree, police resources should be 
allocated to the areas of highest and most serious crime. Those 
decisions, I would submit, are best made by police authorities, not 
Congress.
  I know that Georgetown has a serious crime problem, but I'm not sure 
that the areas targeted for earmarks are the areas with the highest 
need. I'm troubled that Congress seems to be taking it upon themselves 
to make that determination and micromanage the allocation of law 
enforcement resources. I hope that the conferees will examine this 
issue and assess whether such earmarks are necessary or fair to all the 
residents of the District of Columbia and visitors to our Capital City.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there are no further amendments to the 
bill, the question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read 
the third time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill having been read the third time, the 
question is, Shall it pass?
  So the bill (S. 1244), as amended, passed, as follows:
  [The text of the bill will appear in a future edition of the Record.]
  Mr. JEFFORDS. I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. KOHL. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the 
Senate completes action on S. 1244 that it be held at the desk, and 
that when the Senate receives the House bill making appropriations for 
the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 1996, that all after the 
enacting clause be stricken and the text of S. 1244 as passed by the 
Senate be inserted in lieu thereof; I further ask consent that the 
House bill as thus amended be immediately passed without any further 
debate, amendment, motion, or action of any kind, and the motion to 
reconsider the vote by which the bill is passed be laid upon the table; 
I further ask consent that the Senate insist on its amendment and 
request a conference with the House of Representatives thereon, and 
that the Chair be authorized to appoint the managers on that on the 
part of the Senate; finally, I ask unanimous consent that S. 1244 be 
indefinitely postponed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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