[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 162 (Thursday, October 19, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1227-D1228]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Bills Introduced: 8 public bills, H.R. 2507-2514; and 2 private bills, 
H.R. 2515, 2516; and 1 resolution, H. Res. 240, were introduced.

  Page H10484
Reports Filed: Reports were filed as follows:
  H. Res. 239, providing for the consideration of H.R. 2492, making 
appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1996 (H. Rept. 104-283); and
  H.R. 994, to require the periodic review and automatic termination of 
Federal regulations, amended (H. Rept. 104-284, Part 1).

Pages H10464, H10484
Speaker Pro Tempore: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he 
designates Representative LaHood to act as Speaker pro tempore for 
today.
  Page H10309
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 Agriculture, Commerce, Government 
Reform and Oversight, International Relations, the Judiciary, 
Resources, Science, Small Business, and Transportation and 
Infrastructure.
  Page H10314
Medicare Preservation Act: By a yea-and-nay vote of 231 yeas to 201 
nays, Roll No. 731, the House passed H.R. 2425, to amend title XVIII of 
the Social Security Act to preserve and reform the medicare program.

  Pages H10328-H10464
  Rejected the Gephardt motion to recommit the bill to the Committees 
on Ways and Means and Commerce with instructions to report it back 
forthwith containing an amendment that strikes language relating to the 
extension of Part B premiums (rejected by a recorded vote of 183 ayes 
to 249 noes, Roll No. 730).
Pages H10462-64
  Agreed to the amendment in the nature of a substitute made in order 
by the rule (text of H.R. 2485), as modified by the rule.
Page H10461
  Rejected the Gibbons amendment in the nature of a substitute that 
sought to reduce medicare by $90 billion over seven years, reduce Part 
A spending by an amount sufficient to extend the solvency of the Part A 
hospital trust fund to 2006, and reduce cost sharing by medicare 
beneficiaries by freezing the Part B premium for one year and providing 
that the monthly premium in succeeding years would be below the level 
under current law (rejected by a recorded vote of 149 ayes to 283 noes, 
Roll No. 729).
Pages H10388-H10461

[[Page D 1228]]

  H. Res. 238, the rule under which the bill was considered, was agreed 
to earlier by a recorded vote of 227 ayes to 192 noes, Roll No. 727. 
Agreed to order the previous question on the rule by a yea-and-nay vote 
of 231 yeas to 194 nays, Roll No. 726.
Pages H10314-28
Late Report: Conferees received permission to have until midnight 
Friday, October 20, to file a conference report on H.R. 2002, making 
appropriations for the Department of Transportation and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996.
  Page H10465
Presidential Message--Budget Deferrals: Read a message from the 
President wherein reports three deferrals of budgetary resources, 
totaling $122.8 million and affecting the International Security 
Assistance program, and the Departments of Health and Human Services 
and State--referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered 
printed (H. Doc. 104-125).
  Page H10465
Quorum Calls--Votes: One Quorum call (Roll No. 728), two yea-and-nay 
votes, and three recorded votes developed during the proceedings of the 
House today and appear on pages H10327, H10327-28, H10459-60, H10461, 
H10463-64, and H10464.
Adjournment: Met at 9 a.m. and adjourned at 8:56 p.m.