[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 3 (Friday, January 5, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H311-H322]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
PROVIDING FOR DISPOSITION OF SENATE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 1358, CONVEYANCE
OF NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE LABORATORY AT GLOUCESTER, MA
Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I
call up House Resolution 338 and ask for its immediate consideration.
The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:
HOUSE RESOLUTION 338
Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution the House
shall be considered to have taken from the Speaker's table
the bill (H.R. 1358) to require the Secretary of Commerce to
convey to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the National
Marine Fisheries Service laboratory located on Emerson Avenue
in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with the Senate amendment
thereto, and to have concurred in the Senate amendment with
an amendment consisting of the text printed in the report of
the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution.
The text of the Senate amendment and the House amendment to the
Senate amendment is as follows:
Senate amendment:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:
SECTION 1. CONVEYANCES.
(a) National Marine Fisheries Service Laboratory at
Gloucester, Massachusetts.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of Commerce shall convey to
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, all right, title, and
interest of the United States in and to the property
comprising the National Marine Fisheries Service laboratory
located on Emerson Avenue in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
(2) Terms.--A conveyance of property under paragraph (1)
shall be made--
(A) without payment of consideration; and
(B) subject to the terms and conditions specified under
paragraphs (3) and (4).
(3) Conditions for transfer.--
(A) In general.--As a condition of any conveyance of
property under this subsection, the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts shall assume full responsibility for
maintenance of the property for as long as the Commonwealth
retains the right and title to that property.
(B) Continued use of property by nmfs.--The Secretary may
enter into a memorandum of understanding with the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts under which the National Marine
Fisheries Service is authorized to occupy existing laboratory
space on the property conveyed under this subsection, if--
(i) the term of the memorandum of understanding is for a
period of not longer than 5 years beginning on the date of
enactment of this Act; and
(ii) the square footage of the space to be occupied by the
National Marine Fisheries Service does not conflict with the
needs of, and is agreeable to, the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts.
(4) Reversionary interest.--All right, title, and interest
in and to all property conveyed under this subsection shall
revert to the United States on the date on which the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts uses any of the property for
any purpose other than the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Division of Marine Fisheries resource management program.
(5) Restriction.--Amounts provided by the South Essex
Sewage District may not be used by the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts to transfer existing activities to, or conduct
activities at, property conveyed under this section.
(b) Pier in Charleston, South Carolina.--Section 22(a) of
the Marine Mammal Protection Act Amendments of 1994 (Public
Law 103-238; 108 Stat. 561) is amended--
(1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``Not''; and
(2) by adding at the end thereof the following:
``(2) Not later than December 31, 1996, the Secretary of
the Navy may convey, without payment or other consideration,
to the Secretary of Commerce, all right, title, and interest
to the property comprising that portion of the Naval Base,
Charleston, South Carolina, bounded by Hobson Avenue, the
Cooper River, the landward extension of the property line
located 70 feet northwest of and parallel to the centerline
of Pier Q, and the northwest property line of the parking
area associated with Pier R. The property shall include Pier
Q, all towers and outbuildings on that property, and walkways
and parking areas associated with those buildings and Pier
Q.''.
SEC. 2. FISHERIES RESEARCH FACILITIES.
(a) Fort Johnson.--The Secretary of Commerce, through the
Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, is
authorized to construct on land to be leased from the State
of South Carolina, a facility at Fort Johnson, South
Carolina, provided that the annual cost of leasing the
required lands does not exceed one dollar.
(b) Auke Cape.--The Secretary of Commerce, through the
Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, is
authorized to construct a facility on Auke Cape near Juneau,
Alaska, to provide consolidated office and laboratory space
for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration personnel
in Juneau, provided that the property for such facility is
transferred to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration from the United States Coast Guard or the City
of Juneau.
(c) Completion Date for Funded Work.--The Secretary of
Commerce shall complete the architectural and engineering
work for the facilities described in subsections (a) and (b)
by not later than May 1, 1996, using funds that have been
previously appropriated for that work.
(d) Availability of Appropriations.--The authorizations
contained in subsections (a) and (b) are subject to the
availability of appropriations provided for the purpose
stated in this section.
SEC. 3. PRIBILOF ISLANDS.
(a) In General.--The Secretary of Commerce shall, subject
to the availability of appropriations provided for the
purposes of this section, clean up landfills, wastes, dumps,
debris, storage tanks, property, hazardous or unsafe
conditions, and contaminants, including petroleum products
and their derivatives, left by the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration on lands which it and its
predecessor agencies abandoned, quitclaimed, or otherwise
transferred or are obligated to transfer, to local entities
or residents on the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, pursuant to the
Fur Seal Act of 1966 (16 U.S.C. 1151 et seq.), as amended, or
other applicable law.
(b) Obligations of Secretary.--In carrying out cleanup
activities under subsection (a), the Secretary of Commerce
shall--
(1) to the maximum extent practicable, execute agreements
with the State of Alaska, and affected local governments,
entities,
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and residents eligible to receive conveyance of lands under the Fur
Seal Act of 1966 (16 U.S.C. 1161 et seq.) or other applicable
law;
(2) manage such activities with the minimum possible
overhead, delay, and duplication of State and local planning
and design work;
(3) receive approval from the State of Alaska for
agreements described in paragraph (1) where such activities
are required by State law;
(4) receive approval from affected local entities or
residents before conducting such activities on their
property; and
(5) not seek or require financial contributions by or from
local entities or landowners.
(c) Resolution of Federal Responsibilities.--(1) Within 9
months after the date of enactment of this section, and after
consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, the State of
Alaska, and local entities and residents of the Pribilof
Islands, the Secretary of Commerce shall submit to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the
Senate, and the Committee on Resources of the House of
Representatives, a report proposing necessary actions by the
Secretary of Commerce and Congress to resolve all claims with
respect to, and permit the final implementation, fulfillment
and completion of--
(A) title II of the Fur Seal Act Amendments of 1983 (16
U.S.C. 1161 et seq.);
(B) the land conveyance entitlements of local entities and
residents of the Pribilof Islands under the Alaska Native
Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.);
(C) the provisions of this section; and
(D) any other matters which the Secretary deems
appropriate.
(2) The report required under paragraph (1) shall include
the estimated costs of all actions, and shall contain the
statements of the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of the
Interior, any statement submitted by the State of Alaska, and
any statements of claims or recommendations submitted by
local entities and residents of the Pribilof Islands.
(d) Use of Local Entities.--Notwithstanding any other law
to the contrary, the Secretary of Commerce shall, to the
maximum extent practicable, carry out activities under
subsection (a) and fulfill other obligations under Federal
and State law relating to the Pribilof Islands, through
grants or other agreements with local entities and residents
of the Pribilof Islands, unless specialized skills are needed
for an activity, and the Secretary specifies in writing that
such skills are not available through local entities and
residents of the Pribilof Islands.
(e) Definition.--For the purposes of this section, the term
``clean up'' means the planning and execution of remediation
actions for lands described in subsection (a) and the
redevelopment of landfills to meet statutory requirements.
(f) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized
to be appropriated not to exceed $10,000,000 in each of
fiscal years 1996, 1997, and 1998 for the purposes of
carrying out this section.
The text of the amendment considered as adopted is as follows:
At the end of the Senate amendment, add the following:
TITLE I
The following sums are hereby appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and out of
applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts, and funds,
for the several departments, agencies, corporations, and
other organizational units of Government for the fiscal year
1996, and for other purposes, namely:
Sec. 101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary under the
authority and conditions provided in the applicable
appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1995 for continuing
the following projects or activities including the costs of
direct loans and loan guarantees (not otherwise specifically
provided for in this Act) which were conducted in the fiscal
year 1995:
All allowances paid under section 5(b) of the Peace Corps
Act, 22 U.S.C. section 2504, notwithstanding section 10 of
Public Law 91-672, at a rate for operations, notwithstanding
any other provision of this Act, provided for in the
conference report and joint explanatory statement of the
Committee of Conference (House Report 104-295) on the Foreign
Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs
Appropriations Act, 1996, (H.R. 1868), as passed by the House
of Representatives on October 31, 1995;
All activities, including administrative expenses,
necessary to process single-family mortgage loans and
refinancing for low-income and moderate-income families
funded under the Federal Housing Administration's ``FHA-
mutual mortgage insurance program account'' and ``FHA-general
and special risk program account'' in the Department of
Housing and Urban Development at a rate for operations,
notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, provided for
in the conference report and joint explanatory statement of
the Committee of Conference (House Report 104-384) on the
Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996, (H.R. 2099),
as passed by the House of Representatives on December 7,
1995;
All projects and activities directly related to the
security of United States diplomatic posts and facilities
abroad, notwithstanding section 15 of the State Department
Basic Authorities Act of 1956 at a rate for operations,
notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, provided for
in the conference report and joint explanatory statement of
the Committee of Conference (House Report 104-378) on the
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary,
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996, (H.R. 2076),
as passed by the House of Representatives on December 6,
1995;
Activities funded under the account heading ``Emergency
food and shelter program'' in the Federal Emergency
Management Agency: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other
provision of this Act, the amount made available by this Act
shall not exceed $46,000,000: Provided further, That not to
exceed three and one-half percentum of the amount made
available shall be for administrative costs;
All retirement pay and medical benefits for Public Health
Service Commissioned Officers as authorized by law, and for
payments under the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection
Plan and Survivor Benefit Plan and for medical care of
dependents and retired personnel under the Dependent's
Medical Care Act (10 U.S.C. ch. 55) and for payments pursuant
to section 229(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
429(b)); at a rate for operations, notwithstanding any other
provision of this Act, provided for in the Departments of
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (H.R. 2127), as passed the
House of Representatives on August 4, 1995;
All projects and activities of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration, Interagency
Crime and Drug Enforcement, Federal Prison System, U.S.
Attorneys, U.S. Marshals Service, Federal Prisoner Detention,
Fees and Expenses of Witnesses, Immigration and
Naturalization Service, and the Executive Office for
Immigration Review, necessary for the investigation and
prosecution of criminal and civil offenses; national
security; the apprehension, detention and removal of illegal
and criminal aliens; the incarceration, detention, and
movement of federal prisoners and detainees; and the
protection of the Federal judiciary at a rate for operations,
notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, provided for
in the conference report and joint explanatory statement of
the Committee of Conference (House Report 104-378) on the
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary,
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996, (H.R. 2076),
as passed by the House of Representatives on December 6,
1995;
All projects and activities of the Judiciary to the extent
and in the manner and at a rate for operations,
notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, provided for
in the conference report and joint explanatory statement of
the Committee of Conference (House Report 104-378) on the
Department of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary,
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996, (H.R. 2076),
as passed by the House of Representatives on December 6,
1995;
All projects and activities necessary to provide for the
expenses of State surveys and certifications under the
account heading ``Program Management'' under the Health Care
Financing Administration in the Department of Health and
Human Services;
Trade adjustment assistance benefits and North American
Free Trade Act benefits funded under the account heading
``Federal Unemployment Benefits and Allowances'' under the
Employment and Training Administration in the Department of
Labor;
Payments to the Federal Hospital Insurance and the Federal
Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds under the account
heading ``Payments to Health Care Trust Funds'' under the
Health Care Financing Administration in the Department of
Health and Human Services;
All projects and activities necessary to provide for the
expenses of Medicare contractors under title XVIII of the
Social Security Act under the account heading ``Program
Management'' under the Health Care Financing Administration
in the Department of Health and Human Services;
All projects and activities funded under the account
heading ``Grants to States for Medicaid'' under the Health
Care Financing Administration in the Department of Health and
Human Services;
All projects and activities of the National Institutes of
Health in the Department of Health and Human Services at a
rate for operations, notwithstanding any other provision of
this Act, provided for in the Departments of Labor, Health,
and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 1996, (H.R. 2127), as passed the House of
Representatives on August 4, 1995;
All projects and activities necessary to carry out the
Section 7(a) General Business Loan Guaranty program and the
Section 504 Certified Development Company program, as
authorized by law, under the Small Business Administration at
a rate for operations, notwithstanding any other provision of
this Act, provided for in the conference report and joint
explanatory statement of the Committee of Conference (House
Report 104-378) on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and
State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations
Act, 1996, (H.R. 2076), as passed by the House of
Representatives on December 6, 1995;
All projects and activities funded under the account
heading ``Surety Bond Guarantees Revolving Fund'' under the
Small Business Administration at a rate for operations,
notwithstanding any other provision of this
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Act, provided for in the conference report and joint explanatory
statement of the Committee of Conference (House Report 104-
378) on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996,
(H.R. 2076), as passed by the House of Representatives on
December 6, 1995;
All projects and activities necessary to accommodate
visitors and to provide for visitors services on the public
lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management at a rate for
operations, notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,
provided for in the conference report and joint explanatory
statement of the Committee of Conference (House Report 104-
402) on the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 1996, (H.R. 1977), as passed by the House
of Representatives on December 13, 1995;
All projects and activities funded under the account
heading ``Disease Control, Research, and Training'' under the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Department
of Health and Human Services at a rate for operations,
notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, not to
exceed an annual rate for new obligational authority of
$2,114,693,000;
All Self-Determination and Self-Governance projects and
activities of tribes or tribal organizations (as that term is
defined in Public Law 93-638) that are authorized by Public
Law 93-638 under the account heading ``Operation of Indian
Programs'' under the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the
Department of the Interior or under the account heading
``Indian Health Services'' under the Indian Health Service in
the Department of Health and Human Services at a rate for
operations, notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,
provided for in the conference report and joint explanatory
statement of the Committee of Conference (House Report 104-
402) on the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 1996, (H.R. 1977), as passed by the House
of Representatives on December 13, 1995;
All projects and activities necessary to provide for the
expenses of the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School and
the Model Secondary School for the Deaf under the account
heading ``Gallaudet University'' in the Department of
Education;
Payments for benefits and interest on advances, together
with expenses of operation and administration, under the
account heading ``Black Lung Disability Trust Fund'' under
the Employment Standards Administration in the Department of
Labor; and
Payments for benefits, together with expenses of operation
and administration, under the account heading ``Special
Benefits for Disabled Coal Miners'' in the Social Security
Administration; Provided, That whenever the amount which
would be made available or the authority which would be
granted under an Act which included funding for fiscal year
1996 for the projects and activities listed in this section
is greater than that which would be available or granted
under current operations, the pertinent project or activity
shall be continued at a rate for operations not exceeding the
current rate.
(b) Whenever the amount which would be made available or
the authority which would be granted under the Act which
included funding for fiscal year 1996 for the projects and
activities listed in this section as passed by the House as
of the date of enactment of this Act, is different from that
which would be available or granted under such Act as passed
by the Senate as of the date of enactment of this Act, the
pertinent project or activity shall be continued at a rate
for operations not exceeding the current rate or the rate
permitted by the action of the House or the Senate, whichever
is lower, under the authority and conditions provided in the
applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1995.
(c) Whenever an Act which included funding for fiscal year
1996 for the projects and activities listed in this section
has been passed by only the House or only the Senate as of
the date of enactment of this Act, the pertinent project or
activity shall be continued under the appropriation, fund, or
authority granted by the one House at a rate for operations
not exceeding the current rate or the rate permitted by the
action of the one House, whichever is lower, and under the
authority and conditions provided in the applicable
appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1995.
Sec. 102. Appropriations made by section 101 shall be
available to the extent and in the manner which would be
provided by the pertinent appropriations Act.
Sec. 103. No appropriation or funds made available or
authority granted pursuant to section 101 shall be used to
initiate or resume any project or activity for which
appropriations, funds, or other authority were not available
during the fiscal year 1995.
Sec. 104. No provision which is included in the
appropriations Act enumerated in section 101 but which was
not included in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal
year 1995 and which by its terms is applicable to more than
one appropriation, fund, or authority shall be applicable to
any appropriation, fund, or authority provided in this Act.
Sec. 105. Appropriations made and authority granted
pursuant to this title of this Act shall cover all
obligations or expenditures incurred for any program,
project, or activity during the period for which funds or
authority for such project or activity are available under
this Act.
Sec. 106. Unless otherwise provided for in this title of
this Act or in the applicable appropriations Act,
appropriations and funds made available and authority granted
pursuant to this title of this Act shall be available until
(a) enactment into law of an appropriation for any project or
activity provided for in this title of this Act, or (b) the
enactment into law of the applicable appropriations Act by
both Houses without any provision for such project or
activity, or (c) September 30, 1996, whichever first occurs.
Sec. 107. Expenditures made pursuant to this title of this
Act shall be charged to the applicable appropriation, fund,
or authorization whenever a bill in which such applicable
appropriation, fund, or authorization is contained is enacted
into law.
Sec. 108. No provision in the appropriations Act for the
fiscal year 1996 referred to in section 101 of this Act that
makes the availability of any appropriation provided therein
dependent upon the enactment of additional authorizing or
other legislation shall be effective before the date set
forth in section 106(c) of this Act.
Sec. 109. Appropriations and funds made available by or
authority granted pursuant to this title of this Act may be
used without regard to the time limitations for submission
and approval of apportionments set forth in section 1513 of
title 31, United States Code, but nothing herein shall be
construed to waive any other provision of law governing the
apportionment of funds.
Sec. 110. For the purposes of this title of this Act, the
time covered by this title of this Act shall be considered to
have begun on December 16, 1995.
TITLE II
SECTION 201. YAVAPAI-PRESCOTT INDIAN TRIBE WATER RIGHTS
SETTLEMENT ACT OF 1994.
(a) Extension.--Section 112(b) of the Yavapai-Prescott
Indian Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 1994 (108 Stat.
4532) is amended by striking ``December 31, 1995'' and
inserting ``June 30, 1996''.
(b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a)
shall take effect as of December 31, 1995, and with the
consent of Prescott, Arizona, the contract referred to in
such section 112(b) is revived.
SEC. 202. SAN CARLOS APACHE TRIBE WATER RIGHTS SETTLEMENT ACT
OF 1992.
(a) Extension.--Section 3711(b)(1) of the San Carlos Apache
Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 1992 (title XXXVII of
Public Law 102-575) is amended by striking ``December 31,
1995'' and inserting ``December 31, 1996''.
(b) Effective Date.--
(1) In general.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall
take effect as of December 31, 1995.
(2) Lapsed provisions of law and contracts.--The provisions
of subsections (c) and (d) of section 3704, subsections (a)
and (b) of section 3705, section 3706, subsections (a)(2),
(c), (d), and (f) of section 3707, subsections (b) and (c) of
section 3708, and subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (g),
(h), (j), and (l) of section 3710 of such Act, together with
each contract entered into pursuant to any such section or
subsection (with the consent of the Non-Federal parties
thereto), shall be effective on and after the date of
enactment of this Act, subject to the December 31, 1966,
deadline specified in such section 3711(b)(1), as amended by
subsection (a) of this section.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California [Mr. Dreier]
is recognized for 1 hour.
Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I yield the
customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Dallas, TX [Mr. Frost],
pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During
consideration of this resolution, all times yielded is for the purpose
of debate only.
(Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his
remarks and include extraneous material.)
Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, this rule makes in order the adoption by the
House of an amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 1358, a bill
relating to the transfer to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of a
National Marine Fisheries Service laboratory in Gloucester, MA.
Mr. Speaker, if there is one thing clear from the events of the past
weeks it is that this battle to balance the Federal budget is not, I
repeat is not, Washington business as usual. Never before have portions
of the Federal Government been shut down for weeks at a time. This is
uncharted territory.
Why are we at this point? For the first time since the creation of
the Federal welfare state in the late 1960's and early 1970's there is
a majority in the House of Representatives that wants a smaller, not a
bigger Federal Government. For the first time in a generation there is
a majority in Congress that is just not willing to accept budget
deficits that mortgage the future of our children.
This is new. This change has not worked its way down to the other end
of Pennsylvania Avenue. The President ran for office promising a
balanced budget. To this day, he has failed to deliver. The President
ran for office
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promising a tax cut for middle-income Americans. Instead, he raised
taxes and vetoed the balanced budget passed by Congress that cut taxes
on middle-income families with children.
Mr. Speaker, I must admit that we are surprised by the commitment of
the President to avoid balancing the budget. We probably should not
have been surprised. He is clearly the leader of the Party of
Government. The liberal Democrats built the government that today eats
up nearly 40 percent of the economic production of our Nation. Even
more, they extended the reach of Federal Government regulators into
every corner of our society and our economy.
They created the regulatory net that is now revealed, during this
moment of confrontation, to block Ford Motor Co. from releasing a new
pick-up truck model without the approval of a government agency. It
means that Disney and Capital Cities ABC cannot conduct a merger in the
private sector without the Government's OK.
Mr. Speaker, the Federal Government is not just too expensive. The
Federal Government is not just mortgaging the future of our children
with massive deficits. The Federal Government is too big and too
intrusive.
The Party of Government is no longer in control of Congress. Now, the
Party of the People is in control. Therefore, faced with an
unprecedented budget battle, we are not just going to roll over and
fund every corner of the Federal behemoth. Instead, we are going to go
agency by agency, function by function, to try to get the most
important aspects of the Federal Government working. We do not oppose
government, but we have a problem with government that is just too big
and too expensive.
This rule will move some of the Government programs that enjoy broad
bipartisan support out of the House and to the Senate. Yes, it is an
expedited process. However, we have never been in this kind of
situation before. We have never had a Congress that just said ``no'' to
the deficit drug. We have also never had a President so committed to
not balancing the budget. In this situation, we are going to move
forward with essential items quickly.
Mr. Speaker, the Party of Government may be mad at this process
because they do not want to admit that some functions of the Federal
Government are essential, while some are the product of liberal over-
reaching. However, most Americans know that this is exactly the case.
I urge my colleagues to support this rule.
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Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, earlier today when the House considered H.R. 1634, I
commented that the proposal presented to the House by the Republican
leadership resembled nothing more than an elaborate Goldberg
contraption. The Republicans found all sorts of bells and whistles and
levers and gears and created some sort of machinery that was intended
to send some Federal workers back to work.
Yet, here we are again, Mr. Speaker. This new Rube Goldberg
contraption adds enough news gears and levers to this morning's
contraption so that all the bells and whistles will sound a little
louder and when they ring and chime, it will appear to the American
people that the Republican majority is indeed acting responsibly and
really opening the Government. The Republican gizmo passed by the House
earlier today funded those programs which, while they remained
unfunded, have caused the Republican majority no end of public
criticism. This new gimmick just adds to the list--a reelection wish
list no doubt for many. The new gimmick does not, however, solve the
problem.
Mr. Speaker, it is obvious that it does not sit well with the public
that in order to ensure protection of a tax cut aimed primarily at the
wealthiest of all Americans, that the Republican majority in Congress
might be willing to let the Meals on Wheels program run out of money
and let perhaps thousands of elderly Americans go hungry.
It is obvious that it does not sit well with the American public to
see the real crown jewels of this country--our national parks and not
the tax cuts of the contract--remain closed to visitors all in the name
of a plan to balance the budget which would salvage environmental
protection in this country. It does not sit well with American
businessmen and American tourists who need or want to travel abroad
that they are unable to obtain passports in order for the Republican
majority to hold the foreign aid program of this country hostage.
So, in the face of the drubbing they have been taking from the public
what have my Republican friends done? They first drew up a continuing
appropriation which they termed a ``targeted appropriation''. But, now
it seems that the target was not large enough to satisfy even their own
Members. And so, Mr. Speaker, now we must consider yet another targeted
appropriation.
Yet, Mr. Speaker the House has had plenty of opportunities in the
past 4 days to clean continuing resolution which would not only allow
all Federal workers to go back to their desks, but allow them to do
their jobs. Mr. Speaker, adding a new gear here, or another funnel
there, is no way to run our Government. What we need to do is pass a
real clean CR, not the sham resolution we passed just a short while
ago. Consequently, I will oppose ordering the previous question so that
the House may have the opportunity to pass appropriations for those
Government agencies, departments, and programs which were not
considered vital enough to be included in this new Republican gimmick.
Mr. Speaker, we are not here to play games, yet this is all the
Republicans seem to want to do. We are here to do the Nation's
business, not play a giant game of Monopoly. If we are really serious
about the Nation's business, why is it necessary for us to consider
``targeted appropriations'' ad infinitum? Frankly, Mr. Speaker, the old
business as usual is starting to look pretty good to the American
people. At least when we had business as usual around here, the
American people were taken seriously, not treated like game pieces to
be brought and sold in order to fulfill an ideological agenda.
Mr. Speaker, it would be so sensible to just pass a clean continuing
resolution. I do not believe there is a Member of this body who does
not understand that the balanced budget argument is not about when, but
about how. And, while the Speaker raises money around this great
country of ours in the next 3 weeks, instead of staying here in
Washington to negotiate the how of a balanced budget, let's let the
Government do its job for the taxpayers of this country. This new
resolution doesn't finish our job, Mr. Speaker.
But, the real outrage here, Mr. Speaker, is that there is no
opportunity afforded the minority to amend this resolution--either by
amendment or by a motion to recommit. Given the gravity of this
situation, Mr. Speaker, it is unconscionable that the minority has been
denied a voice on the floor of the House. It is an outrage that we are
being treated in this manner. Never, and I mean never, Mr. Speaker, did
I as a member of the majority ever purposely seek to deny the minority
any role at all in the legislative process. Yet, that is what is
happening here tonight. That we have been denied three times today the
opportunity to offer alternatives to the Republican proposals is a
disgrace to this institution and to the democratic ideals on which it
is founded.
Mr. Speaker, let us stop playing games. Let us stop building
Republican gimmicks and start fixing the problem. I urge Members to
oppose the previous question so that we can do our job and go home
tonight.
Mr. Speaker, I gave a short speech in which I recited the various
places the Speaker was going in the next 2 weeks rather than staying
here to negotiate with the President, and I have had a number of
questions about that since I made those remarks, and I would like to
provide some additional details, if I may, why the Speaker will not be
here negotiating with the President and why we need a continuing
resolution.
On January 9, the Speaker will go to Colorado Springs, CO, for a 7
p.m. reception and dinner in the Colorado Hall, the Broadmoor Hotel,
$150 to get in; January 9, Bloomington, MN, at 4 p.m., there will be a
reception at the Radisson South Hotel in Bloomington. Sponsors are
charged $50,000; if you pay
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$10,000, you get to go to the reception and have the opportunity to
speak with the Speaker; if you pay $1,000, get general admission; if
you pay $500, you get to sit in another room and watch the whole thing
on television, and if you pay $100, you get to go to a rally
afterwards.
Mr. SOLOMON. Regular order. What has this to do with the bill?
Mr. FROST. It has everything to do with the need for a continuing
resolution. The Speaker is not going to be here to negotiate.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Emerson). The gentleman will suspend.
The House will be in order. The gentleman from Texas [Mr. Frost] is
recognized.
Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, January 10, the Speaker will go to Boise, ID,
to the convention center at $1,000 a couple, and they get a picture,
$100 general admission. Also, January 10, the Speaker will go to
Seattle, WA, 7 p.m. reception, 8 p.m. dinner, Weston Hotel, $1,000
includes dinner and reception, $250, just dinner.
January 11, the Speaker will go to Napa, CA, 11 a.m., luncheon at the
Silverado Country Club, $200 per person; January 11, Bakersfield, CA, 8
p.m. dinner, Civic Auditorium, sponsor, $1,000, host, $500, table seat
at dinner, $25, seat with buffet dinner, $15; January 12, Walnut Creek,
CA, 7:30 a.m., breakfast at the Civic Arts Center, $250; January 15,
Dallas, TX, the city I represent, Prestonwood Country Club reception, 5
to 6:30, dinner for $10,000 for a sponsor; January 16, Dearborn, MI,
$10,000 a person, private fireside reception and a picture with the
Speaker, $1,000 per person just for the reception; January 17,
Evansville, IN, Convention Center Gold Room, 7:30 a.m., breakfast $125,
$1,000 for a picture with the Speaker; January 17, Fort Wayne, IN, $100
event; January 19, Memphis, TN, luncheon, $1,000 for a picture with the
Speaker, $500 to attend.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr.
Obey], the distinguished ranking member of the Committee on
Appropriations.
Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I have served in this House a good many years.
I am proud of that fact.
But I am absolutely appalled and chagrined at the incredible abuse of
the legislative process which is occurring here tonight. This is, I
think, perhaps the most destructive action I have ever seen any Members
of this institution take.
We are supposed to cast informed votes. There is no Member of this
House, including the main sponsor of this proposal, who can tell you
what it is you are going to be voting on tonight.
What has happened is that, in my view, I have never seen more
irresponsible, more reckless, more anarchic conduct than I have seen
displayed on this proposal.
Eight hours ago you rammed through this House a proposal which
partially opened the Government so that taxpayers could get at least
some of the services for which they have already paid. Then the phones
started ringing. Member ``X,'' Member ``Y'' and Member ``Z'' said,
``Man, I am getting heat. You didn't cover this program. You didn't
cover that program. You didn't cover that program.'' So you started
putting together a laundry list of proposals to fix what it is you did
just 8 hours ago.
Now, that laundry list has grown into a phone book, and you are
taking a whole list of programs and you are providing for some funding
levels for them, I guess mostly at the conference level, but there is
not a single Member here who has any table showing what program level
or what programs will be funded at what levels. We cannot compare them
to conference, to the House-passed bill, the Senate-passed bill. We
cannot compare them to last year or to the Administration request.
We have no idea what programs are being left out, and yet you are
going to vote for this turkey so you can go home. That is, in my view,
an incredibly destructive act for which I think we all ought to be
ashamed.
I wonder how many Members of this House know, for instance, that the
abortion limitations which we had in the bills this year are being
removed under this proposal? I wonder; yes, they are; oh, yes, they
are. If you do not believe me, check. . .Well, you had better check
again.
Then let me suggest, I wonder how many of you know that there will be
no funding whatsoever for Israel under this proposal come January.
There will be no funds allowed. I wonder how many of you understand
what is happening to foster care activities for children, for food and
other contractor-provided services at the Indian Health Service, for
300 Head Start grants around the country, for contract payments for
NASA operations, for EPA Superfund cleanup activities, for FEMA
disaster relief payments, Community Development block grant funds.
Veterans benefits for claims filed after December 15, 1995 will not be
processed under this proposal. You are going to discriminate between
veterans who were on the rolls before December 15 and those who were
not.
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So I think this is an absolute joke. So what we are going to do is to
ask, since we were not even allowed the courtesy of proposing an
alternative, what I am simply going to ask Members of the House to do
is to oppose the previous question so that we can at least pay for
programs which are not covered by this package, at least provide
funding levels at 90 percent of last year's level, so that when you go
home, you do not have to explain why you left programs A, B, Y, J, and
Q off the list, and why you funded the others.
I do not even vouch for the wisdom of doing that, because I cannot
vouch for the wisdom of continuing the funding levels for the programs
designated in this bill at the levels at which they are designated. But
because we have had no opportunity to look at that, we have no choice
but to accept that sight unseen. But I would urge you, if you have any
respect at all for this House, to insist on defeating the previous
question on the rule so we can provide some degree of rationality to
this process tonight.
Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, it is a sad commentary that our colleagues who represent
the party of government cannot realize that some programs of the
Federal Government are essential and many are nonessential, and we are
moving ahead with the essential ones.
Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the shy and
retiring gentleman from Metairie, LA [Mr. Livingston], the chairman of
the Committee on Appropriations.
(Mr. LIVINGSTON asked and was given permission to revise and extend
his remarks.)
Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from California for
yielding time to me.
Mr. Speaker, I was going to lead off with a travelogue of the
President of the United States, but I think no one might have cared.
Then, second, I was going to give a travelogue of the Secretary of
Energy and realized we did not have time. So I thought that it was
important to discuss this bill and not anybody else's travelogues.
Mr. Speaker, it is important also to understand that throughout this
very long first year of this change in direction of government for the
first time in 60 years, we have passed seven appropriations bills,
which encompass about two-thirds of the funding of all government
activities. The remaining one-third of the funding of government
activities are covered by the remaining 6 appropriations bills. Three
of them were vetoed by the President and three of them, admittedly,
have not made their way through the processes. It is unfortunate, but
they are working their way through.
Along the way, while we were all discussing the appropriations bills,
we forgot one thing: The House and the Senate and the President of the
United States came to an agreement that we should stop doing business
as usual as we have for 60 years, increasing spending, regulation,
taxing, big government, and centralization of government in Washington.
We agreed that we should reverse the tide, and put this country
strongly on a footing toward a balanced budget between now and the year
2002, as scored by the Congressional Budget Office.
Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States agreed to that by
virtue of the joint resolution we passed on November 20. But
unfortunately, while we put our balanced budget plan on the table and
passed it through the House and Senate, one that did really get the
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country on even footing, the President has never presented his. He has
promised it, but he has never done it.
That is what brings us here today, Mr. Speaker. Yes, the remaining
one-third of government has not been adequately funded. Yes, this is a
piecemeal process that causes us to pick and choose certain items and
rush them through without dealing with the rest of the process. It is
unfortunate.
But we have begun. We have begun to tell the President of the United
States that business as usual, that promising the people everything and
delivering absolutely nothing, is over, absolutely over. And, yes, it
was unfortunate many Federal employees were held out of work and those
that worked did not get paid, but we resolved that today. We put
Federal employees back to work. We paid them for their lost pay, and we
are going to pay them prospectively through January 26.
Mr. Speaker, we also passed targeted appropriations for several
activities, including Meals on Wheels and child welfare, veterans
benefits, and others. Then we followed up that bill with another bill
that was reported out of the Committee on Rules. The gentleman from New
York [Mr. Solomon], the distinguished chairman of the Committee on
Rules, and the gentleman from California [Mr. Dreier], and all of the
other members of the Committee on Rules, reported to this floor just a
few hours ago which has passed a bill that says to the President of the
United States, Mr. President, if you fulfill your promise to give us
that balanced budget that you have been promising for so long but never
delivered, we will put Government back to work in its entirety, in its
entirety, through January 26, and by that time we will get all the rest
of it done.
But he has not yet done it. There is a trigger. That bill is very,
very important, because it almost makes, at least for the next few
weeks, what we are about to do here superfluous.
But, we are saying in this bill we will here take a number activities
in other bills not yet enacted, a number of other functions of
government that have not yet been funded, that are vital and critical
to the United States of America, and add them with the earlier targeted
list passed earlier this morning, so that they will be funded
throughout the rest of this fiscal year.
Mr. Speaker, I have to ask the House's indulgence, because I want to
make sure that everyone knows. The activities in this bill include
funding for the black lung program; the Medicare contract employees
program; Medicare claims processing; surveys of certification for
nursing homes; Medicaid payments to States; funding for Gallaudet,
elementary and secondary schools; National Institutes of Health;
Centers for Disease Control; retirement pay for Public Health Service
commissioned officers, and trade adjustment benefits.
Now, all of those items fall within the Labor-HHS bill. There has
been criticism because that bill has not gotten all the way through
Congress. But, Mr. Speaker, let me remind you, at the risk of being
held out of order, that the other body, led by the Democrats in the
other body, the minority party, has filibustered that bill. This House
passed that bill in early August of this last year. That bill got
filibustered and is filibustered to this very day by the Democrats in
the Senate. It is being held hostage. All of the great programs funded
under that bill are being held hostage. So it is incumbent upon us to
come forward and say there are important programs in that bill that are
not funded, and we will fund them.
At what level, the gentleman says? He says he does not know at what
level. I will tell the gentleman. On NIH it is funded at the House-
passed bill level. This is the same for the retirement pay for Public
Health Service officers. On all the rest, it is the lower of the amount
in the House-passed bill or the last year's bill whichever is lower.
This bill also provides funding, because they are important programs,
for the Bureau of Indian Affairs tribal organization contracts, Bureau
of Land Management visitor services on public lands, the Peace Corps,
the State Department diplomatic security efforts abroad, parts of the
Small Business Administration financing, the Federal Housing
Administration loan processing, the FEMA emergency food and shelter
programs, the Department of Justice Federal employee crime programs,
all of the these crime programs, including those done by the FBI, the
DEA, the Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Attorneys and Marshalls Service and
Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement programs, as well as most of the
Department of Justice itself, including the support of prisoners, fees
and expenses of witnesses, Immigration and Naturalization Service, and
Executive Office for Immigration Review. It also provides funding for
the Judiciary, the courts. So we know what these targeted functions
are.
Is this an exclusive list? Is this all there is going to be? Of
course not. But what this says is there will be a new day, Mr.
President. It is telling the President of the United States that no
longer will we continue to accept the status quo. We will no longer
continue to fund the bureaucracy as he protects it.
We will start picking and choosing those programs which are important
to the American people, and we will fund them. But anything else that
is left on the table, if it is important, we will get to it. If it is
not important, it might never be funded at all.
Now, Mr. Speaker, I have to tell you this is certainly a
revolutionary thought and a revolutionary approach to government that
has never existed in the last 60 years, but it is an important change
for the American people.
It is important for the American people to understand, Mr. Speaker,
that we are not tolerating what the President so vehemently wants to
protect, which is the status quo, big government bureaucracy, high
taxes, and the ability to manipulate people all over America and ask
them to pay for that manipulation.
We are changing the course of America with this bill, Mr. Speaker,
and I urge the adoption of this resolution.
Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from
Mississippi [Mr. Taylor].
Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I would like to point out to
my friend and colleague from my neighboring district that as scored in
real numbers by the CBO, the budget introduced by the gentleman from
Ohio [Mr. Kasich] increases the annual operating deficit of this
country to $270 billion. If we are really serious about reducing the
annual operating deficit, bring the coalition budget, which would save
this Nation $33 billion over your budget in the first 2 years, and $53
billion over your budget in the first 3 years, to the floor for a vote.
Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from
Wisconsin [Mr. Obey].
Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I just want to correct one statement made by
my good friend from Louisiana. The Labor-HHS bill in the Senate has not
been subject to a filibuster. In fact, it has never been brought up on
the floor. It has never been debated on the floor. There were numerous
unanimous-consent requests made to bring that bill up, which were
objected to by Members of both parties.
The real reason it has taken so long to move that bill is because
that bill was so extreme in nature when it left the House that Members
of both parties in the other body were so embarrassed by it they did
not want to touch it with a 10-foot pole.
Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to my friend, the
gentleman from Wilmette, IL [Mr. Porter], the chairman of the
Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education.
(Mr. PORTER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his
remarks.)
Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, one of the highest priorities for funding
for our Federal Government is biomedical research carried out by the
National Institutes of Health. The basic research conducted with NIH
grants at academic and research institutions all across this country
are the envy of the entire world. We are the world's leader in basic
research.
The basic research supports the biotechnology and pharmaceutical
industries of our country, which also lead the world. They mean
economic growth, high-technology, well-paying jobs, and a favorable
balance of trade. The basic research can only be done by government,
because there is no immediate profit motive involved. The result of
this research is longer and better lives for the American people and
for all the people of this world.
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Mr. Speaker, the funding for NIH for the entire fiscal year is
included in this resolution, and the funding that passed by the House
of Representatives at the end of July. The House passed level
represents a 5.7-percent increase over the last fiscal year. This level
is in this resolution.
In addition, there is funding for the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. That means funding for childhood vaccinations, for
infectious disease prevention, and for breast and cervical cancer
screening, at a level, I might say, Mr. Speaker, higher than last
year's level.
Regarding NIH, we have left all matters other than the overall
funding level for NIH to be resolved through negotiations with the
Senate. The Speaker has been very, very strongly supportive of the
increase for NIH at almost 6 percent and for the funding for CDC.
I would commend this bill to the Members of the House, I would
commend it to the Senate and hope they pass it as well, and that the
President adds his signature. It funds many important priorities for
our country.
Mr. Speaker, I submit the following chart for the Record.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[In thousands of dollars]
2d targeted
appropriation bill
Preventive Health Services Block Grant..........................145,418
Prevention Centers................................................8,099
Childhood immunization........................................470,497
AIDS..........................................................589,962
Tuberculosis..................................................119,582
Sexually Transmitted Diseases.................................108,242
Chronic and Environmental Disease Prevention..................147,439
Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening..........................125,000
Infectious Disease...............................................65,057
Lead Poisoning Prevention........................................36,409
Injury Control...................................................43,679
NIOSH...........................................................133,859
Epidemic Services................................................73,325
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National Center for Health Statistics:
Program Operations.............................................40,063
1% evaluation funds (NA).......................................40,063
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Subtotal: Health Statistics................................80,126
Buildings and Facilities..........................................4,353
Program Management................................................3,067
Undistributed administrative reduction.........................(31,000)
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Subtotal: Centers for Disease Control...................2,083,051
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Crime Bill Activities:
Rape Prevention and Education..................................28,542
Domestic Violence Community Demonstrations......................3,000
Crime Victim Study................................................100
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Subtotal: Crime Bill activities............................31,642
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Total: Disease Control..................................2,114,693
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Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas
[Mr. Coleman].
Mr. COLEMAN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding time to
me, and my question really would go to the chairman of the Subcommittee
on Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary of the Committee on
Appropriations. My concern is that we have heard a number of reports
about our prison system, indeed the Federal correctional facility in my
congressional district.
Inquiry was made concerning the ability of providing food to
prisoners, which, of course, is of great concern to many of the men and
women who work for us in the Federal prison system, and particularly
because it may, indeed, be one of those contracted-out types of
situations.
I am not sure of that specifically in my district, but I would
inquire, if I could, of the chairman from Kentucky if he has any
insight with respect to the prison system.
Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
Mr. COLEMAN. I yield to the gentleman from Kentucky.
Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, I would tell the gentleman that the
legislation provides for the payment of all activities related to the
Federal prisons. So if it is a contracted-out supplier of food, that
will be paid. If it is done by employees of the Bureau of Prisons, that
would be paid. So it taken care of in this legislation.
Mr. COLEMAN. In this particular CR?
Mr. ROGERS. Yes.
Mr. COLEMAN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman very much for his
time.
Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from
Kentucky [Mr. Rogers], my friend and Chairman of the Subcommittee on
Commerce, State, Justice and Judiciary.
Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding time to
me.
Mr. Speaker, as the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. Livingston] has
pointed out, this resolution says, in effect, there are certain things
that we need to fund irrespective of whatever else happens in the fight
with the White House on a balanced budget.
We are saying in this resolution the fight against crime and the
fight against illegal immigration are above and beyond the political
debate that is going on in balancing the budget. So consequently, in
this bill there is complete funding for the fight against crime at the
conference level of the appropriations bill that has passed the House
and Senate conference and gone to the White House and been vetoed.
Those activities that are funded in this bill at the full level for
the rest of the year include:
Funding for all activities of the Federal judiciary. We simply cannot
let the courts lapse. We have to pay them.
Funding for the law enforcement agencies at Justice, for the
following purposes: investigation and prosecution of criminal and civil
offenses; national security; apprehension, detention, and removal of
illegal and criminal aliens; the incarceration, detention, and movement
of Federal prisoners and detainees; and the protection of the Federal
judiciary. The law enforcement agencies funded at the conference level
include the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal prisons
and prisoner detention, U.S. attorneys, U.S. marshals, and prisoner
detention, U.S. attorneys, U.S. marshals, and the Immigration and
Naturalization Service, including the Border Patrol.
Finally, funding to provide security of our embassies and our
diplomatic missions overseas and of the facilities there, to protect
our people overseas.
I think we can all agree on both sides of the aisle we need to fund
these activities irrespective of any other fights that we have. I would
hope that we would have unanimity in support of this portion of the
bill, which, by the way, is a significant portion of the entire bill.
Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from
North Carolina [Mr. Hefner].
(Mr. HEFNER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his
remarks.)
Mr. HEFNER. Mr. Speaker, somebody said that everything had been said
but everybody has not said it yet. I just could not let this pass
without a couple of comments, especially to my distinguished leader of
the Committee on Appropriations, talking about how terrible it was that
that old terrible Senate would get over there and filibuster a bill.
One of the Presidential candidates that is out there running is
bragging about how last year he spent a whole year killing the
President's heath care plan, and a lot of that so-called health care
plan is in the Republican budget.
When we are being told in the negotiations, and I just watched on
television when the chairman of the Republican Committee on the Budget
said he would like to work with Democrats and come up with maybe 100
Democrats and 100 or so Republicans and put together a budget, and then
the majority leader on the House floor says we do not have to negotiate
with the Senate, we do not have to negotiate with the White House, we
do not even have to negotiate with the Democrats. We can handle this
thing because we are running this place.
And my colleagues on the other side talk about a President that is
not cooperating with trying to put together a budget?
The gentleman from California, he said we are trying to do the things
for the people of this country, and the thing that we are so concerned
about is the average people of this country, the people that have to
depend on some government services for their existence, the senior
citizens. Gentlemen, your record is not real good when the majority
leader in the Senate, Senator
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Dole, was bragging that 35 years ago he was fighting tooth and nail to
kill Medicare. The Speaker of the House, Mr. Gingrich, says I hope that
Medicare withers and dies on the vine. The new majority's record is not
good.
The very first budget that Ronald Reagan sent to this House, that
David Stockman brought to this House, called for eliminating the $125
minimum Social Security payment to the oldest, sickest senior citizens
in this country, and that is a fact.
So the Republicans' record is not good on doing programs for our
senior citizens, for Social Security. They never have supported the
education for the loans for our students. Their record is not good. So
when we talk about things that we are negotiating for budgets, the
President is concerned about the overall welfare of the American
citizen. I would not blame him for caving in.
We are standing for the average working American. We stand for the
senior citizens, the Social Security recipients, the students, and the
people that have to have some assistance from their Federal Government.
Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume to
say that it is a sad commentary that my friends in the party of
government view the average American as being dependent on government.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Scottsdale, AZ
[Mr. Hayworth].
Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from California for
yielding time to me.
I listened again with great interest to my good friend from North
Carolina, whom I enjoyed many times on television with his beautiful
singing voice. But tonight, here in the well of the House, he is
singing a bit off key, especially when he quoted the Speaker of the
House and some statement about withering on the vine. Once again, the
complete record shows that the Speaker was talking about the Health
Care Financing Administration, not the Medicare Program. I will be
happy to supply the gentleman with the complete quote.
But moving on to the broader context, since our friends on the other
side talk so much about reinventing government, we will borrow that
phrase and say we are going to reinvent government right here and right
now, not with a Rube-Goldbergesque contraption but with simple
commonsense funding of necessary programs.
Mr. Speaker, I want to go on record thanking the chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations for recognizing the needs of native
Americans and taking care of projects that both parties concur are
important. So, once again, amidst some of the ying and yang that takes
place here on the floor, I hope that we can have give and take and calm
minds and calm voices may prevail and we can enact these programs.
Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New
York [Mr. Nadler].
Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, I am glad that this is before us. I wish we
had a full continuing resolution so that the President and the Speaker
and the majority leader and minority leader could have their
negotiations and come up with a balanced budget in 7 years with CBO,
which everybody has agreed to, while the Government continued doing its
functions. But, no, we are only doing this through this continuing
resolution for certain activities which are more important than others.
Well, the Republican Party, Mr. Speaker, is showing us what it
considers unimportant. The environment. We are not touching the EPA.
Their employees are funded through January 26. So we are saying,
despite all the hypocrisy, they do not care about the environment,
about clean water, clean air.
Superfund. It is not included here. It is not as important as trade
adjustment benefits, for example. OSHA. Fifty thousand working people
in this country die or are severely injured in industrial accidents
every year. In 13 States OSHA programs are done by contract. Nothing
here for them, for those 13 States, because we do not care, obviously.
It is not that important. It is one of those things that is not
important that the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. Livingston] refers to,
about whether working people have a safe working environment.
On page 3 of the rule we have the authority to process single-family
mortgage loans. Single family is written in because somebody thought,
obviously, single-family homes are important but multifamily homes that
we have in our cities, garden apartments, apartment buildings, that is
not important because people living in cities, who might vote
Democratic, maybe, on average, live in multifamily homes.
So let us be hypocritical, we will fund our single-family homes and
not their apartment buildings and garden apartments. That is not
important. That is political.
Mr. Speaker, what shows the total hypocrisy of this is that the other
CR we passed a little while ago that says if the President proposes a
budget satisfactory to the majority party, we will have a CR for 2
weeks.
Mr. DRIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute and 30 seconds to the
gentlewoman from Overland Park, KS [Mrs. Meyers], chair of the Small
Business Committee.
Mrs. MEYERS of Kansas. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for
yielding time to me.
Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this resolution, and ask unanimous
consent to revise and extend my remarks.
Mr. Speaker, I support this resolution and I urge my colleagues who
are concerned about the impact of the partial government shutdown on
small business to support it. This resolution contains important
language which will allow the Small Business Administration's two major
loan guarantee programs to resume. The 7(a) and 504 loan programs are
vital to meeting the long-term capital needs of small business in this
country.
Since the President vetoed the Commerce, Justice, State
appropriations bill, loan applications have been ``sitting in the
pipeline,'' many approved, but not funded. The SBA doesn't directly
fund these loans, but they can't even provide the guarantee so that
private banks can make the loans. These loans translate into start-ups,
small business expansion, and job creation.
Mr. Speaker, the 7(a) and 504 loan guarantee programs are two of the
few things the government provides that are helpful to small business.
I am very pleased that small business long-term capital needs will be
restored under this resolution, and I urge its adoption.
Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, could I inquire of the time remaining on each
side?
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Emerson). The gentleman from Texas [Mr.
Frost] has 9\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from California
[Mr. Dreier] has 9\1/2\ minutes remaining.
Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from North
Carolina [Mr. Watt].
Mr. WATT of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I was elected to this body
in 1992, and I was told that I would be serving with some of the most
committed and brilliant people in America working for the interest of
our country. I have been on the losing end of a lot of votes since I
have been in this body, but this is the very first day I have ever been
in this body where I have been absolutely embarrassed.
This is no way to run a government. The Republicans gave us one-tenth
of a loaf this morning. My mama always said take one-tenth rather than
nothing. That is fine. They gave us two-tenths today. They gave us
Meals on Wheels this morning, now they are giving us the wheels to
serve those meals tonight.
Next week they will be back with a whole new list of items. This is
no way to run a government and the American people will ask the
Republicans to answer to them for it.
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Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, I would say to my friend that the way to run the
government is to balance the Federal budget.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Huntington
Beach, California [Mr. Rohrabacher], my dear friend and our surfer.
Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, I do not think there is any doubt about
it. We all agree that this is no way to run a government. The way to
run a government is to set forth a plan, say this is our plan for
government, and then negotiate with someone who disagrees and find an
area of compromise.
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That is what the Founding Fathers had in mind. The reason it is not
working right now is that the President of the United States has not
done his job.
We have done our job over here; he has not done his job over there.
That is why this is not any way to run a government. That is why
everything is messed up, seems to be going in circles, and things are
not working now. He has not done his job.
Our Founding Fathers thought the President of the United States would
do his job because he would be responsible. Instead, we have a
President that continues to promise everything to everybody because he
must love everybody, because he is promising everything to everybody.
Mr. Speaker, I am trying to suggest today that I think the American
people can see through that. They know if the President is unwilling to
prioritize in the budget, that when he tells them that he is on
their side when he is opposed to something in the Republican budget, he
may not be telling the truth because he is unwilling to put his ideas
forth as juxtaposed against other spending ideas.
Mr. Speaker, we are this close, we are this close, at any moment, to
making the system work. All it means is that the President of the
United States has to reach out and say, ``I have decided to do my part
of the job,'' and then things would be working. All of the criticism
that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have not aimed at us,
although they try to make it seem like it is aimed at us. It is aimed
at the President of the United States, who has not done his job.
Mr. Speaker, I believe that the American people, when they sit there
hearing him criticize our budget, are too smart to be taken in thinking
that he cares about them. If he cared about the American people, he
would present us his budget and the American people understand that.
Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New
Jersey [Mr. Pallone].
Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I wanted to follow up on what the gentleman
from New York [Mr. Nadler] said before. I listened to what the
gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. Livingston], the chairman, said about how
we are picking and choosing items here tonight. Then I listened to what
the gentleman from California said about how we are not going to deal
with regulatory issues; that perhaps they are not essential; we are
only dealing with the essential issues here tonight.
Mr. Speaker, it is abundantly clear that the list does not include
any Federal Agency that deals with quality of life issues, whether it
is the environment, whether it is safety, whether it is consumer
protection. All those things are completely eliminated and they are not
going to be funded, and the people are going to be sitting in their
offices in the EPA and not doing a thing.
Mr. Speaker, I know that it was said before that we are only going to
deal with the issues that both sides can agree on, so I suppose that
means that the Republican party, or at least the Republican leadership,
does not care about the EPA; does not care about consumer protection;
does not care about OSHA; does not care for a very simple reason, I
believe, which is that basically the corporate interests here are going
to have a field day.
Mr. Speaker, the polluters are going to be out there polluting and
the people in the corporations that do not want to take care of worker
safety, they are not going to have to worry about it. Those out there
who do not care about the consumers are not going to have to worry
about it. It is special interests. Nothing is being done to go after
the corporations and the special interests and the polluters. They will
remain unregulated. They will be able to ply their trade and we are not
going to include any money to go ahead and deal with those enforcement
and those investigation issues that affect the quality of life of many
Americans.
Mr. Speaker, I am glad that the Republican leadership has finally
revealed itself and what it is all about in the quality of life issues.
Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume to
respond to my friend.
Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is we sent to the President the
appropriations bill that deals with every single one of those items,
and what did the President do? He vetoed it.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from California [Mr.
Bono] who has become most prominent as the mayor of Palm Springs.
(Mr. BONO asked and was given permission to revise and extend his
remarks.)
Mr. BONO. Mr. Speaker, one thing that is terribly interesting to me
since I have come here is debates. I am fascinated by them. When I
watch them, I want to pull everybody back over and say, ``Wait, the
issue was over here. Now it gets all over there, and the basic point is
gone. The basic point is what we are talking about. And the reason I am
a Republican, my father is a Democrat, my mom was a Democrat, I was
raised a Democrat, the reason I am a Republican is because I like the
idea that your word is important. I like that.
This is how our party operates. So, I know that if I shake hands with
the gentleman from California [Mr. Dreier] I have got a deal on
whatever we shook hands on. I know if I shake hands with the gentleman
from Louisiana [Mr. Livingston] we have cut a deal. However, I do not
think that exists totally in this entire body.
What we did was we went to the President, this is why we are
fighting. We went to the President and the President said, all right, I
have got a deal for you. I will consent to a budget in 7 years, scored
by CBO. He got a deal. And by a certain date. Then the date came up and
he said, just kidding. Just kidding. And then they say, we want a clean
CBO. I hate to be a bad guy when somebody just kicked me in the head,
and then say ``you rat.'' And I feel like I have been kicked in the
head. Just kidding. I mean, would you tell your kids, ``Kids, Santa
said I am going to get it for you,'' and then there is nothing under
the tree? And then Christmas comes and there is nothing there and you
say, ``Kids, just kidding. Santa Claus was kidding around when he told
you that.''
It does not happen. There is a word, and that is why I belong to this
party. The whole issue here is because we got duped, and so we do not
want to get duped again. So we have our guard up.
Now they are saying we did not fund this, we did not fund that, we
did not do this, we did not do that. No, we cannot. There is no trust
now to operate that way any longer.
Mr. Speaker, if the President will stop kidding, I think we would get
along very well. I hope some day he stops.
Mr. WATT of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
Mr. BONO. I yield to the gentleman from North Carolina.
Mr. WATT of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I just want the gentleman to
know that there are a lot of people on this side who agree that you
have been kicked in the head.
Mr. BONO. Thank you. Thank you. I suppose I am supposed to be
insulted, but by the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. Watt] I am not.
Let me further say one more thing. The Speaker never, I wish I could
count the times you said the Speaker said let Medicare wither on the
vine. He never said let Medicare wither on the vine. That is not true.
Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from
Arkansas [Mrs. Lincoln].
(Mrs. LINCOLN asked and was given permission to revise and extend her
remarks.)
Mrs. LINCOLN. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from California was not here
in the last session, and quite frankly I agree with my colleague, the
gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Markey]. But in Arkansas we say, if
it looks like a duck and it walks like a duck, it must be a duck.
The fact is this is business as usual. We are passing something in
the dead of the night with everything but the kitchen sink in it, which
helps on target shots, special people's interest. That is not the
changes that the American people are wanting to see.
With all due respect to the gentleman from Kentucky, the chairman of
the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary, this is
about balancing the budget, but there is a right way and a wrong way to
do everything. The fact is in this package you have got, you are
spending $10 million more to locate Border Patrol
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training facilities that are going to slow up from 6 months to a year
those Border patrol agents that could be out there protecting our
border States. It is business as usual, and it is a sad day for the
American people.
Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from
Albuquerque, NM [Mr. Schiff], the chairman of the Subcommittee on Basic
Research.
Mr. SCHIFF. Mr. Speaker, two of our Democratic colleagues in a row
said they do not like the priority with which the appropriations is
being presented here this evening. I want to say that the President of
the United States has it in his power as a result of our previous vote
to open up the entire Government by doing just one thing, offering his
version of a balanced budget. That is all he has to do.
Mr. Speaker, I have to respectfully correct one of my Democratic
colleagues who said we were requesting that the President present a
budget acceptable to us. That is not true. We are requesting that the
President abide by the agreement he made with Congress, which is to
present a budget which is balanced within 7 years using the economic
projections of the Congressional Budget Office.
After that, the President can establish the spending priorities any
way he chooses. After that the President can set any tax policy that he
chooses; less taxes, no taxes, no change in the Tax Code. If the
President would just do what he agreed to do in November, all of the
agencies discussed on the other side will be opened.
Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from
Missouri [Mr. Volkmer].
Mr. VOLKMER. Mr. Speaker, as one who has prided himself for all my 19
years here of having what I consider a 100-percent pro-life record, I
am dismayed and amazed that the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr.
Livingston] would bring to this floor a bill that will permit and
require States, under present court decisions, to fund Medicaid
abortions. That is what this bill does for all of 1996, for rape,
incest, and life of the mother. This is a pro-abortion bill.
Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
Mr. VOLKMER. I yield to the gentleman from Louisiana.
Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, it is simply not true. It funds Medicaid
under the same terms and conditions that existed last year, and we did
not do it that way last year.
Mr. VOLKMER. Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time, the gentleman did. That
is the point. He does not know what he did.
Mr. Speaker, the courts have decided, under the 1995 law, the States
are required to fund the Medicaid abortions for those provisions. That
is the status of it right now. In the 1996 law that we passed in this
House, we said that the States do not have to do that. This is going
backwards. This is saying that the States will still, my State, which
is a pro-life State, will still have to do abortions for these
provisions. Anybody that votes for this cannot be pro-life.
Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
Mr. VOLKMER. I yield to the gentleman from Texas.
Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman may know, he is my friend, we
happen to differ on this issue. I am pro-choice. However, I agree with
the gentleman. This is a pro-choice bill. The gentleman has correctly
analyzed the legislation. It is pro-choice.
Mr. VOLKMER. Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time, I thank the gentleman.
permission to insert extraneous material in the record
Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the gentleman
from Illinois [Mr. Porter] be allowed to insert tabular and extraneous
material in the Record following the point at which he spoke.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Emerson). Is there objection to the
request of the gentleman from California?
Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, I would like to
ask for a better understanding of what the gentleman is asking to have
inserted.
We have been asking for tables of funding levels all night long and
have not gotten anything. Are we now going to pretend, by inserting
something in the Record, that Members knew what they were doing when
they, in fact, did not?
Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, would the gentleman yield?
Mr. OBEY. Surely.
Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, what this is, is material that I am told was
provided to the minority side about 20 minutes ago that the chairman of
the subcommittee wishes to have printed in the Congressional Record
following his statement.
Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, further continuing to reserve my right to
object, this applies only for the Centers for Disease Control; is that
correct?
Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman is correct.
Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, further continuing to reserve my right to
object, so we are still not going to note what the tabular material
would be for any of the other programs funded in this bill?
Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman would continue to yield, no
other material is going to be inserted in the Record other than this
material that the gentleman from Illinois, my friend, has handed me.
Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my reservation of objection, with
the expression that I think that the kind of material which has been
provided halfway in the debate for one agency is the kind of material
that should have been on the floor for every agency being funded in
this bill before we vote blind here tonight.
Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend for not objecting.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentleman from California?
There was no objection.
Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I would inquire of the time remaining of each
side.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas [Mr. Frost] has
3\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from California [Mr.
Dreier] has 3\3/4\ minutes remaining.
Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas
[Mr. Bentsen].
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Mr. BENTSEN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding this
time to me.
I guess this legislation is some form of hostage taking, and what we
are doing is we are going to release some hostages like the NIH, and
that is good because places like UT Health Sciences Centers at the
Texas Medical Center were getting ready to lay researchers off. On the
other hand, we are going to continue to hold hostages like NASA.
Let me tell you about the Johnson Space Center. At the Johnson Space
Center we are going to bring back 1,500 Federal employees who have been
furloughed. We are going to start laying off 12,000 contract employees,
private employees, privatization, those people in the private sector
who are working on the space shuttle and who are working on the space
station, and we are going to raise the cost of the space shuttle and
the cost of the space station.
Now, someone here said this is common-sense Government. I do not know
what is common sense about bringing on the Federal employees who are
not running the program and paying them to do nothing and then laying
off 12,000 employees in the greater Houston area and raising the cost
of the space station and raising the cost of the space shuttle. There
is nothing common sense about that. It is just plain stupid.
Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from North
Dakota [Mr. Pomeroy].
Mr. POMEROY. Mr. Speaker, the continuing resolution before us is a
classic example of attempting to be too cute by half.
You know, as a general guiding principle, doing the right thing is
the right thing to do, and Senator Dole, in calling for reopening
Government, clearly struck the right note. That was the right thing to
do.
Trying to do it piecemeal is a half-baked way of accomplishing with
some grace, apparently, the same result that Senator Dole called for,
but to have one continuing resolution listing several items of
Government pass this House, only a few hours later back passing more
functions of Government,
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to apparently alleviate the embarrassment from having those items shut
down has left this House, I think, facing a complete debacle in this
procedure.
The American people deserve more than too cute by half. They deserve
to have the Government reopened while we continue the talks leading to
a balanced budget.
Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to my friend, the gentleman
from Metairie, LA [Mr. Livingston], the chairman of the Committee on
Appropriations.
Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, as a pro-life Member, I have to say that
I have to address the concerns expressed by the gentleman from Missouri
a few minutes ago.
The fact is that this bill does extend the terms and conditions for
Medicare-Medicaid funding from last year. But the Labor, Health bill
has yet to work its way through the Congress. It has passed the House
with the terms and conditions that meet the objections and needs of the
pro-life community. It will come out of the Senate, and we will still
have to deal with it. When we deal with it, we will address the
concerns of the pro-life community.
The provisions we agree to will supercede the provisions in this
bill. For the meantime, if we do not pass this bill, Medicare payments
by the end of this month will not be made; Medicaid payments by the end
of this month will not be made.
It is important we pass this bill under the terms and conditions of
last year. Otherwise those people will not get these benefits.
Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to defeat the previous question. If
the previous question is defeated, I will offer an amendment. My
amendment adds to the provisions of the bill to provide funding through
the fiscal year for programs and activities not otherwise funded. All
activities would be funded at the lower of House-passed, Senate-passed
or last year's level, though nothing would be funded at less than 90
percent of last year's level. Mr. Speaker, this is exactly the same
rate as in the first continuing resolution this Congress passed.
Mr. Speaker, this is the last opportunity to avoid the folly. Mr.
Speaker, only by defeating the previous question can we let Federal
workers actually work-under the Republican plan, we pay these people to
show up but insist they do not work. That is a waste of taxpayer
dollars.
Mr. Speaker, I am inserting in the Record at this point the amendment
I will offer if the previous question is defeated:
Amendment to the Resolution
Strike the period in the last line and add the following:
``, as modified by the amendment printed in section 2 of this
resolution.''
At the end of the resolution, add the following new
section:
``Sec. 2. At the end of the bill, add the following:
``TITLE III
Such amounts as may be necessary to continue through
September 30, 1996 any other program, project, or activity
carried out in fiscal year 1995 not provided for in Title I
of this Act or any other appropriations Act for fiscal year
1996, at a rate for operations and under the terms and
conditions provided for in Public Law 104-31.''
Mr. Speaker, I yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from
Wisconsin [Mr. Obey].
Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I simply want to make certain that the
comments of the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. Livingston] did not
confuse the facts.
What this language does on abortion is to remove all of the
limitations above last year's law, which the majority party insisted in
putting into the Labor, HEW bill when that bill was before us. I am not
going to argue about whether that is wise or not.
But I would observe that if you vote for this tonight, you are voting
to remove the limitations which you insisted on placing in that
legislation just a few months ago.
Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
Mr. Speaker, we have, I believe, 3\3/4\ minutes remaining, and I do
not plan to use that time because we want to get these essential
Government programs open as quickly as possible.
With that, I urge an ``aye'' vote on this.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the
previous question on the resolution.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Emerson). The question is on ordering
the previous question.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I object to the vote on the ground that a
quorum is not present and make the point of order that a quorum is not
present.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Evidently a quorum is not present.
The Sergeant at Arms will notify absent Members.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 204,
nays 167, not voting 62, as follows:
[Roll No. 11]
YEAS--204
Allard
Archer
Armey
Bachus
Baker (CA)
Ballenger
Barr
Barrett (NE)
Bartlett
Barton
Bass
Bateman
Bereuter
Bliley
Blute
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bono
Boucher
Bryant (TN)
Bunn
Bunning
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canady
Castle
Chabot
Chambliss
Chenoweth
Christensen
Coble
Coburn
Collins (GA)
Combest
Cooley
Cox
Crane
Crapo
Cremeans
Cubin
Cunningham
Davis
Deal
DeLay
Doolittle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Ehlers
Ehrlich
Emerson
English
Ensign
Everett
Flanagan
Foley
Fox
Franks (CT)
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Frisa
Funderburk
Gallegly
Gekas
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gilman
Goodlatte
Goodling
Goss
Graham
Greenwood
Gunderson
Gutknecht
Hancock
Hansen
Hastert
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Heineman
Herger
Hilleary
Hobson
Hoekstra
Hoke
Horn
Hostettler
Houghton
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Johnson (CT)
Johnson, Sam
Kasich
Kelly
Kim
King
Kingston
Klug
Knollenberg
Kolbe
LaHood
Largent
Latham
LaTourette
Laughlin
Lazio
Leach
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Livingston
LoBiondo
Longley
Lucas
Manzullo
Martini
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McHugh
McInnis
McIntosh
McKeon
Metcalf
Meyers
Mica
Miller (FL)
Molinari
Moorhead
Myrick
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Norwood
Nussle
Oxley
Parker
Paxon
Petri
Pombo
Porter
Portman
Pryce
Quinn
Ramstad
Regula
Riggs
Roberts
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Roth
Roukema
Royce
Salmon
Sanford
Saxton
Scarborough
Schaefer
Schiff
Seastrand
Sensenbrenner
Shadegg
Shays
Shuster
Skeen
Smith (MI)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Solomon
Souder
Spence
Stearns
Stump
Talent
Tate
Tauzin
Thomas
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Torkildsen
Upton
Vucanovich
Waldholtz
Walker
Walsh
Wamp
Watts (OK)
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
White
Whitfield
Wolf
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Zeliff
Zimmer
NAYS--167
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Andrews
Baesler
Baldacci
Barcia
Barrett (WI)
Becerra
Beilenson
Bentsen
Bevill
Bishop
Bonior
Borski
Brewster
Browder
Brown (CA)
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Cardin
Clay
Clayton
Clement
Clyburn
Coleman
Collins (IL)
Collins (MI)
Condit
Conyers
Costello
Coyne
Cramer
Danner
de la Garza
DeFazio
DeLauro
Dellums
Deutsch
Dingell
Dixon
Dooley
Dornan
Doyle
Edwards
Engel
Eshoo
Evans
Farr
Fattah
Fields (LA)
Foglietta
Forbes
Ford
Frank (MA)
Frost
Furse
Gejdenson
Gephardt
Geren
Gibbons
Gonzalez
Gordon
Gutierrez
Hall (OH)
Hall (TX)
Hamilton
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Hefner
Hilliard
Hinchey
Holden
Hoyer
Istook
Jackson (IL)
Jefferson
Johnson (SD)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kildee
Kleczka
Klink
Lantos
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lincoln
Lowey
Luther
Maloney
Markey
Martinez
Mascara
McCarthy
McDermott
McHale
McKinney
McNulty
Meek
Menendez
Mfume
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Mollohan
Moran
Murtha
Nadler
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Orton
Owens
Pallone
Pastor
Payne (NJ)
Payne (VA)
Pelosi
Peterson (FL)
Peterson (MN)
Pomeroy
Poshard
Rahall
Rangel
Reed
Richardson
Rivers
Roemer
Roybal-Allard
Sabo
Sanders
Sawyer
Schroeder
Schumer
Scott
Serrano
Sisisky
Skaggs
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (NJ)
Spratt
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Stenholm
Stokes
Stupak
Tanner
Taylor (MS)
Tejeda
Thompson
Thurman
Torres
Torricelli
Towns
Traficant
Vento
Visclosky
Volkmer
Ward
Watt (NC)
Wise
Woolsey
Wynn
NOT VOTING--62
Baker (LA)
Berman
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Brownback
Bryant (TX)
Burr
Burton
Chapman
Chrysler
Clinger
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Dicks
Doggett
Durbin
Ewing
Fawell
Fazio
Fields (TX)
Filner
Flake
Fowler
Ganske
Green
Hayes
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jacobs
Johnston
LaFalce
Lightfoot
Lipinski
Lofgren
Manton
Matsui
Meehan
Miller (CA)
Montgomery
Morella
Myers
Neal
Packard
Pickett
Quillen
Radanovich
Ros-Lehtinen
Rose
Rush
Shaw
Stark
Stockman
Studds
Taylor (NC)
Thornton
Velazquez
Waters
Waxman
Wicker
Williams
Wilson
Wyden
Yates
{time} 2123
So the previous question was ordered.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
personal explanation
Mrs. FOWLER. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 11, I was absent. Had I
been present, I would have voted ``yea.''
personal explanation
Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, during rollcall vote No. 11 on
House Resolution 338 I was not present because of district business and
district meetings. Had I been present I would voted ``nay.''
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Emerson). The question is on the
resolution.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
recorded vote
Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 344,
noes 24, not voting 65, as follows:
[Roll No. 12]
AYES--344
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Allard
Andrews
Archer
Armey
Bachus
Baesler
Baker (CA)
Baldacci
Ballenger
Barcia
Barrett (NE)
Barrett (WI)
Bartlett
Bass
Bateman
Becerra
Bentsen
Bereuter
Bevill
Bishop
Bliley
Blute
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bonior
Bono
Borski
Boucher
Brewster
Browder
Brown (CA)
Brown (FL)
Brown (OH)
Bryant (TN)
Bunn
Bunning
Buyer
Callahan
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canady
Cardin
Castle
Chambliss
Christensen
Clay
Clayton
Clement
Clyburn
Coble
Coburn
Coleman
Collins (GA)
Collins (IL)
Collins (MI)
Combest
Condit
Conyers
Cooley
Costello
Cox
Coyne
Cramer
Crane
Crapo
Cremeans
Cubin
Cunningham
Danner
Davis
Deal
DeFazio
DeLauro
DeLay
Dellums
Deutsch
Dingell
Dixon
Dooley
Doolittle
Doyle
Dreier
Duncan
Dunn
Edwards
Ehlers
Ehrlich
Emerson
Engel
English
Ensign
Eshoo
Evans
Everett
Farr
Fattah
Fields (LA)
Flanagan
Foglietta
Foley
Forbes
Ford
Fox
Frank (MA)
Franks (CT)
Franks (NJ)
Frelinghuysen
Frisa
Frost
Furse
Gallegly
Gejdenson
Gekas
Gephardt
Geren
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gilman
Gonzalez
Goodlatte
Goodling
Gordon
Goss
Greenwood
Gunderson
Gutierrez
Gutknecht
Hall (OH)
Hall (TX)
Hamilton
Hancock
Hansen
Harman
Hastert
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Hefley
Hefner
Heineman
Herger
Hilliard
Hinchey
Hobson
Hoke
Holden
Horn
Houghton
Hoyer
Hunter
Hutchinson
Hyde
Inglis
Jackson (IL)
Jefferson
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (SD)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kasich
Kelly
Kennedy (MA)
Kennedy (RI)
Kennelly
Kildee
Kim
King
Kingston
Kleczka
Klink
Klug
Knollenberg
Kolbe
LaHood
Lantos
Latham
LaTourette
Laughlin
Lazio
Leach
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (KY)
Lincoln
Linder
Livingston
LoBiondo
Longley
Lowey
Lucas
Luther
Maloney
Manzullo
Markey
Martinez
Martini
Mascara
McCarthy
McCollum
McCrery
McDade
McDermott
McHale
McHugh
McInnis
McKeon
McKinney
McNulty
Meek
Menendez
Metcalf
Meyers
Mfume
Mica
Miller (FL)
Minge
Mink
Moakley
Molinari
Mollohan
Moorhead
Moran
Murtha
Myrick
Nadler
Nethercutt
Neumann
Ney
Norwood
Nussle
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Oxley
Pallone
Parker
Pastor
Paxon
Payne (NJ)
Payne (VA)
Pelosi
Peterson (FL)
Peterson (MN)
Petri
Pombo
Pomeroy
Porter
Portman
Poshard
Pryce
Quinn
Radanovich
Rahall
Ramstad
Rangel
Reed
Regula
Richardson
Riggs
Rivers
Roberts
Roemer
Rogers
Rohrabacher
Roth
Roukema
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Sabo
Salmon
Sanders
Sawyer
Saxton
Schaefer
Schiff
Schroeder
Schumer
Scott
Seastrand
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Shays
Sisisky
Skaggs
Skeen
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (MI)
Smith (TX)
Solomon
Spence
Spratt
Stearns
Stenholm
Stokes
Stump
Stupak
Talent
Tanner
Tate
Tauzin
Taylor (MS)
Tejeda
Thomas
Thompson
Thornberry
Thurman
Torkildsen
Torricelli
Towns
Traficant
Upton
Vento
Visclosky
Vucanovich
Waldholtz
Walker
Walsh
Wamp
Ward
Watt (NC)
Watts (OK)
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
White
Whitfield
Wise
Wolf
Woolsey
Wynn
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Zeliff
Zimmer
NOES--24
Barr
Barton
Chabot
Chenoweth
de la Garza
Dornan
Funderburk
Graham
Hilleary
Hoekstra
Hostettler
Istook
Jones
Largent
McIntosh
Orton
Sanford
Scarborough
Shadegg
Smith (NJ)
Smith (WA)
Souder
Tiahrt
Volkmer
NOT VOTING--65
Baker (LA)
Beilenson
Berman
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Brownback
Bryant (TX)
Burr
Burton
Chapman
Chrysler
Clinger
Diaz-Balart
Dickey
Dicks
Doggett
Durbin
Ewing
Fawell
Fazio
Fields (TX)
Filner
Flake
Fowler
Ganske
Green
Hayes
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jacobs
Johnston
LaFalce
Lewis (CA)
Lightfoot
Lipinski
Lofgren
Manton
Matsui
Meehan
Miller (CA)
Montgomery
Morella
Myers
Neal
Packard
Pickett
Quillen
Ros-Lehtinen
Rose
Rush
Shaw
Shuster
Stark
Stockman
Studds
Taylor (NC)
Thornton
Torres
Velazquez
Waters
Waxman
Wicker
Williams
Wilson
Wyden
Yates
{time} 2140
So the resolution 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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