[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 3 (Friday, January 5, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Pages S84-S92]
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                  MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE ON H.R. 1643

  I ask unanimous consent that the Chair lay before the Senate a 
message from the House on H.R. 1643, extending certain programs for the 
remainder of the fiscal year, and deems all Federal employees essential 
and pays those employees; that the Senate immediately concur in the 
House amendments, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, all 
without any intervening action or debate.
  The message from the House is as follows:
       Resolved, That the House agree to the amendment of the 
     Senate to the bill (H.R. 1643) entitled ``An Act to authorize 
     the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (most-favored-
     nation treatment) to the products of Bulgaria'', with the 
     following amendments:
       In lieu of the matter inserted by said amendment, insert:

     That 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 nutrition services for the elderly under the account 
     heading ``Aging services programs'' under the Administration 
     on Aging in the Department of Health and Human Services;
       All grants to States for child welfare services, authorized 
     by title IV, part B, subpart 1, of the Social Security Act, 
     under the account heading ``Children and families services 
     programs'' under the Administration for Children and Families 
     in the Department of Health and Human Services;
       All Federal Parent Locator Service activities, as 
     authorized by section 453 of the Social Security Act, under 
     the account heading ``Children and families services 
     programs'' under the Administration for Children and Families 
     in the Department of Health and Human Services;
       All State unemployment insurance administration activities 
     under the account heading ``State unemployment insurance and 
     employment service operations'' under the Employment and 
     Training Administration in the Department of Labor;
       All general welfare assistance payments and foster care 
     payments, as authorized by law, funded under the account 
     heading ``Operation of Indian programs'' under the Bureau of 
     Indian Affairs in the Department of the Interior;
       All projects and activities funded under the account 
     heading ``Family support payments to States'' under the 
     Administration For Children and Families in the Department of 
     Health and Human Services;
       All projects and activities funded under the account 
     heading ``Payments to States for foster care and adoption 
     assistance'' under the Administration For Children and 
     Families in the Department of Health and Human Services;
       All administrative activities necessary to carry out the 
     projects and activities in the preceeding two paragraphs;
       All projects and activities funded under the account 
     headings ``Dual benefits payments account'', ``Limitation on 
     administration'' and ``Limitation on railroad unemployment 
     insurance administration fund'' under the Railroad Retirement 
     Board;
       All projects and activities necessary to accommodate 
     visitors and to provide for visitor services in the National 
     Park System, the National Wildlife Refuges, the National 
     Forests, the facilities operated by the Smithsonian 
     Institution, the National Gallery of Art, the John F. Kennedy 
     Center for the Performing Arts, and the United States 
     Holocaust Memorial; and
       All projects and activities necessary to process visas and 
     passports and to provide for American citizen services, 
     notwithstanding section 15 of the State Department Basic 
     Authorities Act of 1956: 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, except for the projects 
     and activities under the headings ``Family support payments 
     to States'' and ``Payments to States for foster care and 
     adoption assistance'', for which date shall be March 15, 
     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.
       Sec. 111. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
     except section 106, funds appropriated under section 101 for 
     the payment of vested dual benefits under the Railroad 
     Retirement Act shall be made available so as to fully fund 
     the payments made on January 1, 1996, and the payments to be 
     made within the period covered by this Act including those 
     payments to be made on the first day of each month within the 
     period covered by this Act. In addition to the funds 
     appropriated under section 101 of this Act, $12,800,000 is 
     appropriated to restore full funding for payments made for 
     the period prior to January 1, 1996.
       Sec. 112. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
     except section 106, the authorities provided under subsection 
     (a) of section 140 of the Foreign Relations Authorization 
     Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (Public Law 103-236) shall 
     remain in effect during the period of this Act, 
     notwithstanding paragraph (3) of said subsection.

                                TITLE II

                            VETERANS AFFAIRS

       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. 201. Ensured Payment During Fiscal Year 1996 of 
     Veterans' Benefits in Event of Lack of Appropriations.--(a) 
     Payments Required.--In any case during fiscal year 1996 in 
     which appropriations are not otherwise available for 
     programs, projects, and activities of the Department of 
     Veterans Affairs, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall 
     nevertheless ensure that--
       (1) payments of existing veterans benefits are made in 
     accordance with regular procedures 

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     and schedules and in accordance with eligibility requirements for such 
     benefits; and
       (2) payments to contractors of the Veterans Health 
     Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs are made 
     when due in the case of services provided that directly 
     relate to patient health and safety.
       (b) Funding.--There is hereby appropriated such sums as may 
     be necessary for the payments pursuant to subsection (a), 
     including such amounts as may be necessary for the costs of 
     administration of such payments.
       (c) Charging of Accounts When Appropriations Made.--In any 
     case in which the Secretary uses the authority of subsection 
     (a) to make payments, applicable accounts shall be charged 
     for amounts so paid, and for the costs of administration of 
     such payments, when regular appropriations become available 
     for those purposes.
       (d) Existing Benefits Specified.--For purposes of this 
     section, existing veterans benefits are benefits under laws 
     administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs that have 
     been adjudicated and authorized for payment as of--
       (1) December 15, 1995; or
       (2) if appropriations for such benefits are available 
     (other than pursuant to subsection (b)) after December 15, 
     1995, the last day on which appropriations for payment of 
     such benefits are available (other than pursuant to 
     subsection (b)).
       Sec. 202. Section 201 shall cease to be effective on 
     September 30, 1996.
       Sec. 203. 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 January 4, 1996.

                               TITLE III

       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. 301. Such amounts as may be necessary under the 
     authority and conditions provided in applicable 
     appropriations Acts for the fiscal year 1995 for paying 
     salaries of Federal employees excepted from the provisions of 
     the Antideficiency Act (31 U.S.C. 1341 et seq.) who are 
     continuing projects and activities conducted in fiscal year 
     1995 who work during periods when there is otherwise no 
     funding authority for their salaries.
       Sec. 302. Appropriations made by section 301 shall be 
     available to the extent and in the manner which would be 
     provided by the pertinent appropriations Act.
       Sec. 303. No appropriation or funds made available or 
     authority granted pursuant to section 301 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. 304. No provision which is included in the 
     appropriations Act enumerated in section 301 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. 305. 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. 306. 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) January 26, 1996, whichever first occurs.
       Sec. 307. 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. 308. No provision in the appropriations Act for the 
     fiscal year 1996 referred to in section 301 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 306(c) of this Act.
       Sec. 309. 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. 310. All Federal Employees Deemed To Be Excepted 
     Employees.--(a) In General.--Section 1342 of title 31, United 
     States Code, is amended for the period December 15, 1995 
     through January 26, 1996--
       (1) by inserting after the first sentence ``All officers 
     and employees of the United States Government or the District 
     of Columbia government shall be deemed to be performing 
     services relating to emergencies involving the safety of 
     human life or the protection of property.''; and
       (2) by striking out the last sentence.
       Sec. 311. Excepted Employees Under Normal Leave Policy.--
     Federal employees considered excepted from furlough during 
     any period in which there is a lapse in appropriations with 
     respect to the agency activity in which the employee is 
     engaged shall not be considered to be furloughed when on 
     leave and shall be subject to the same leave regulations as 
     if no lapse in appropriations had occurred.
       Sec. 312. Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation.--
     Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, beginning on 
     January 2, 1996, any Federal employee who is excepted from 
     furlough and is not being paid due to a lapse in 
     appropriations shall be deemed to be totally separated from 
     Federal service and eligible for unemployment compensation 
     benefits under subchapter I of chapter 85 of title 5 of the 
     United States Code with no waiting period for such 
     eligibility to accrue.
       Sec. 313. For the purposes of this title, Federal employees 
     returning to work under the provisions of section 310 shall 
     be deemed to have returned to work at the first regularly 
     scheduled opportunity after December 15, 1995.
       Sec. 314. Appropriations made pursuant to section 301 are 
     made notwithstanding section 15 of the State Department Basic 
     Authorities Act of 1956, section 701 of the United States 
     Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, section 313 
     of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 
     and 1995 (Public Law 103-236), section 53 of the Arms Control 
     and Disarmament Act, and section 10 of Public Law 91-672.

                                TITLE IV

       The following sums are hereby appropriated, out of the 
     general fund and enterprise funds of the District of Columbia 
     for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 1996, and 
     for other purposes, namely:
       Sec. 401. (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 
     projects or activities including the costs of direct loans 
     and loan guarantees (not otherwise specifically provided for 
     in this title of this Act) which were conducted in the fiscal 
     year 1995 and for which appropriations, funds, or other 
     authority would be available in the following appropriations 
     Act:
       The District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1996:

     Provided, That whenever the amount which would be made 
     available or the authority which would be granted in this Act 
     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 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: 
     Provided, That where an item is not included in either 
     version or where an item is included in only one version of 
     the Act as passed by both Houses as of the date of enactment 
     of this Act, the pertinent project or activity shall not be 
     continued except as provided for in section 411 or 412 under 
     the appropriation, fund, or authority granted by the 
     applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1995 and 
     under the authority and conditions provided in the applicable 
     appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1995.
       Sec. 402. Appropriations made by section 401 shall be 
     available to the extent and in the manner which would be 
     provided by the pertinent appropriations Act.
       Sec. 403. No appropriation or funds made available or 
     authority granted pursuant to section 401 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. 404. No provision which is included in the 
     appropriations Act enumerated in section 401 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 title 
     of this Act.
       Sec. 405. 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 title of this Act.
       Sec. 406. 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. 407. Notwithstanding any other provision of this title 
     of this Act, except section 406, none of the funds 
     appropriated under this title of this Act shall be expended 
     for any abortion except where the life of the mother would be 
     endangered if the fetus were carried to term or where the 
     pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest.
       Sec. 408. 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.
     
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       Sec. 409. No provision in the appropriations Act for the 
     fiscal year 1996 referred to in section 401 of this title 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 406(c) of this Act.
       Sec. 410. 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. 411. Notwithstanding any other provision of this title 
     of this Act, except section 406, whenever the Act listed in 
     section 401 as passed by both the House and Senate as of the 
     date of enactment of this Act does not include funding for an 
     ongoing project or activity for which there is a budget 
     request, or whenever the rate for operations for an ongoing 
     project or activity provided by section 401 for which there 
     is a budget request would result in the project or activity 
     being significantly reduced, the pertinent project or 
     activity may be continued under the authority and conditions 
     provided in the applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal 
     year 1995 by increasing the rate for operations provided by 
     section 401 to a rate for operations not to exceed one that 
     provides the minimal level that would enable existing 
     activities to continue. No new contracts or grants shall be 
     awarded in excess of an amount that bears the same ratio to 
     the rate for operations provided by this section as the 
     number of days covered by this Act bears to 366. For the 
     purposes of this title of this Act the minimal level means a 
     rate for operations that is reduced from the current rate by 
     25 percent.
       Sec. 412. Notwithstanding any other provision of this title 
     of this Act, except section 406, whenever the rate for 
     operations for any continuing project or activity provided by 
     section 401 or section 411 for which there is a budget 
     request would result in a furlough of Government employees, 
     that rate for operations may be increased to the minimum 
     level that would enable the furlough to be avoided. No new 
     contracts or grants shall be awarded in excess of an amount 
     that bears the same ratio to the rate for operations provided 
     by this section as the number of days covered by this Act 
     bears to 366.
       Sec. 413. Notwithstanding any other provision of this title 
     of this Act, except sections 406, 411, and 412, for those 
     programs that had high initial rates of operation or complete 
     distribution of funding at the beginning of the fiscal year 
     in fiscal year 1995 because of distributions of funding to 
     States, foreign countries, grantees, or others, similar 
     distributions of funds for fiscal year 1996 shall not be made 
     and no grants shall be awarded for such programs funded by 
     this title of this Act that would impinge on final funding 
     prerogatives.
       Sec. 414. This title of this Act shall be implemented so 
     that only the most limited funding action of that permitted 
     in this title of this Act shall be taken in order to provide 
     for continuation of projects and activities.
       Sec. 415. The provisions of section 132 of the District of 
     Columbia Appropriations Act, 1988, Public Law 100-202, shall 
     not apply for this title of this Act.
       Sec. 416. Notwithstanding any other provision of this title 
     of this Act, except section 406, none of the funds 
     appropriated under this title of this Act shall be used to 
     implement or enforce any system or registration of unmarried, 
     cohabiting couples whether they are homosexual, lesbian, 
     heterosexual, including but not limited to registration for 
     the purpose of extending employment, health, or governmental 
     benefits to such couples on the same basis that such benefits 
     are extended to legally married couples; nor shall any funds 
     made available pursuant to any provision of this title of 
     this Act otherwise be used to implement or enforce D.C. Act 
     9-188, signed by the Mayor of the District of Columbia on 
     April 15, 1992.

                                TITLE V

                CLARIFICATION OF CERTAIN REIMBURSEMENTS

       Sec. 501. Clarification of Reimbursement to States for 
     Federally Funded Employees.--(a) If a State used State funds 
     to continue carrying out a Federal program or furloughed 
     State employees whose compensation is advanced or reimbursed 
     in whole or in part by the Federal Government--
       (1) such furloughed employees shall be compensated at their 
     standard rate of compensation for such period;
       (2) the State shall be reimbursed for expenses that would 
     have been paid by the Federal Government during such period 
     had appropriations been available, including the cost of 
     compensating such furloughed employees, together with 
     interest thereon due under section 6503(d) of title 31, 
     United States Code; and
       (3) the State may use funds available to the State under 
     such Federal program to reimburse such State, together with 
     interest thereon due under section 6503(d) of title 31, 
     United States Code.
       (b) For purposes of this subsection, the term ``State'' 
     shall have the meaning as such term is defined under the 
     applicable Federal program under subsection (a).
       (c) The authority under this section applies with respect 
     to any period in fiscal year 1996 (not limited to periods 
     beginning or ending after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act) during which there occurs a lapse in appropriations with 
     respect to any department or agency of the Federal Government 
     which, but for such lapse in appropriations, would have paid, 
     or made reimbursement relating to, any of the expenses 
     referred to in subsection (a) with respect to the program 
     involved. Payments and reimbursements under this authority 
     shall be made only to the extent and in amounts provided in 
     advance in appropriations Acts.

                    House Concurrent Resolution 131

  Mr. DOLE. I ask unanimous consent that the Senate now turn to House 
Concurrent Resolution 131, directing the House to enroll and send to 
the President House Joint Resolution 134, after he has submitted a 
certified balanced budget using CBO numbers; that the concurrent 
resolution be immediately agreed to and the motion to reconsider be 
laid upon the table, all without any intervening action or debate.


                       House Joint Resolution 134

  And I further ask unanimous consent that once the Senate receives the 
message from the House on House Joint Resolution 134, the House-
initiated continuing resolution, conditioned on the President 
submitting a balanced budget, the Senate be deemed to have concurred in 
the House amendment and the motion to reconsider be laid upon the 
table, all without any intervening action or debate.


                               H.R. 1358

  And finally, I ask unanimous consent that if the Senate receives the 
message from the House on H.R. 1358, containing additional programs not 
identified in H.R. 1643, the Senate be deemed to have concurred in the 
House amendment, and the motion to reconsider be laid on the table, all 
without any intervening action or debate, on the condition that the 
House amendment is identical to the text I now send to the desk. And I 
ask unanimous consent that it be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the text was ordered to be printed in the 
Record, as follows:

                                Title I

       At the end of the amendment add the following:
       That 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 

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     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 
     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 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 Department 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 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 hearing ``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 
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     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

     SEC. 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 XXXVIII 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 PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the request by the 
majority leader?


                    Senate Concurrent Resolution 38

  Mr. DASCHLE. Reserving the right to object, I have a fourth 
resolution I ask to be considered as part of this series, en bloc. I 
will simply read the resolution.

       The President and the Congress shall enact legislation in 
     the 2nd session of the 104th Congress to achieve a balanced 
     budget not later than fiscal year 2002 as estimated by the 
     Congressional Budget Office, and the President and the 
     Congress agree that the balanced budget must protect future 
     generations, ensure Medicare solvency, reform welfare, and 
     provide adequate funding for Medicaid, education, 
     agriculture, national defense, veterans, and the environment. 
     Further, the balanced budget shall adopt tax policies to help 
     working families and stimulate future economic growth.
       The balanced budget agreement shall be estimated by the 
     Congressional Budget Office based on its most recent current 
     economic and technical assumptions, following a thorough 
     consultation and review with the Office of Management and 
     Budget, and other government and private experts.

  Mr. DOLE addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader is recognized.
  Mr. DOLE. Let me indicate we hotlined this on this side. As far as I 
know nobody has indicated any objection. I wanted to be sure we did 
that because after the action we took last week I know the Senator from 
Texas, Senator Gramm, said he would have objected had he been here. I 
understand the Senator from Oklahoma, Senator Inhofe, and the Senator 
from Georgia, Senator Coverdell, made the same indication. I am not 
certain about the Senator from Mississippi, Senator Lott.
  But everybody has been notified. If they want to make any objection 
now, wherever you are, now is the time to be heard.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the unanimous-consent 
request by the majority leader?
  Mr. FORD. Mr. President, reserving the right to object, I need some 
explanation because of the resolution. Am I correct in my understanding 
that the so-called clean CR that has the proviso that says that when 
the President sends or submits a balanced budget in 7 years with CBO 
figures and is certified by the Speaker, then the clean CR would be 
released, that that legislation stays here and does not go to the White 
House until such time as the President submits that budget?
  Mr. DOLE. The Senator is correct.
  Mr. FORD. So therefore that piece of your unanimous-consent agreement 
will not go to the President, but it will stay here?
  Mr. DOLE. Yes.
  Mr. FORD. I thank the leader. I will not object.
   Mr. BOND. Mr. President, I rise in strong support of this 
latest version of a continuing resolution, and I commend the Majority 
Leader for his diligence in trying to bring an end to the budget 
impasse.
  It's long past time to send government workers back to work, and 
ensure they receive full pay on time. We can wait no longer for the 
President to make good on his promise to submit a 7-year balanced 
budget. It's clear he never intended to honor this commitment. But we 
simply cannot hold our Nation's elderly, who depend on Meals on Wheels; 
our veterans, who depend on their monthly benefit check; those who need 
passports to travel; children, who depend on federal assistance; or 
federal workers, to name a few, hostage to the President's refusal to 
carry through on his commitment.
  As chairman of the VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies Appropriations 
Subcommittee, my patience with this administration has completely 
expired. The White House has shown no willingness to negotiate in good 
faith to resolve their concerns with the VA-HUD bill. While I have 
expressed my willingness time and again to negotiate a compromise, the 
White House does not seem to understand the art of compromise.
  Last month, OMB prepared a list totaling $1.9 billion which at the 
time represented the administration's list of what they wanted in 
additional spending for the VA-HUD bill. Earlier this week, I saw a new 
list which OMB had prepared, which had grown to almost $2.5 billion. 
Mr. President, this doesn't represent a good faith attempt to resolve 
the current budget crisis! The size of the list is going in the wrong 
direction!!
  Let me highlight just a few items on the administration's so-called 
``wish list'' for the VA-HUD Subcommittee which would make the bill 
``acceptable'' to the President.
  The list contains several pork barrel projects, including $62 million 
for the first phases of two brand new VA hospitals--at a time when the 
veteran population is declining, VA's existing 173 hospitals are 
underutilized, and GAO says these facilities are not needed.
  The list includes $50 million for a new $280 million EPA laboratory, 
a project we just cannot afford at this time.
  The list includes $1 million for the obsolete Office of Consumer 
Affairs, when we have 2 other consumer agencies which can take over 
OCA's activities at far less expense. While the President has said he's 
for streamlining and eliminating duplication, when the time comes to 
actually do it, he refuses.
  For EPA's environmental technology initiative, the White House says 
we must put in another $62 million--despite the fact that this program 
has been a complete waste of taxpayer dollars and there is nothing to 
show for the millions we've already spent over the past 2 years.
  For Boston Harbor, the White House says we need another $75 million, 
in addition to the $25 million included in the VA-HUD bill and on top 
of the $530 million already appropriated over the past several years 
for this pork barrel project. I say to the President, enough is enough! 
It's time to get real and begin good faith negotiations.
  While my frustration with this administration is mounting even as I 
speak, I do not believe it's right to allow the American people, who 
depend on services provided by their Federal government, to be the 
victims of the President's intransigence.
  Therefore, I support passage of this continuing resolution, returning 
workers to their jobs, and providing full year spending authority for 
such critical activities as veterans benefits, Meals on Wheels, child 
welfare programs, passport and visa services, and locally financed 
operations of the District of Columbia.
  As chairman of the VA-HUD subcommittee, I'm particularly pleased that 
this continuing resolution will enable the Department of Veterans 
Affairs to provide payments to needy and disabled veterans in a timely 
manner. It will enable VA to pay its hospital workers--who have been 
working without pay for the past 3 weeks--and pay those who supply 
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other critical supplies to its hospitals. This is extremely important 
and I strongly support the inclusion of this provision in the 
continuing resolution.
  Let me make clear that while I support this measure, it is in no way 
a solution to the budget stalemate. There are many, many activities 
which will not be carried out even if this legislation is enacted. For 
example, while VA can begin processing new claims again, VA will not be 
able to make payments to new beneficiaries. EPA Superfund cleanup 
contractors will not get paid. FEMA's emergency food and shelter 
program will not receive funds--meaning that hundreds of people who 
find themselves in need of temporary housing assistance will not get 
help. And States will not receive grants to run their environmental 
protection programs or for the construction of wastewater treatment 
plants.
  Mr. President, this measure also will not address a major problem 
with contractor provided services, particularly those provided by small 
businesses which typically have limited financial resources with which 
to weather-out delays in payments. This is a very large problem because 
over the last decade the Federal Government has emphasized contracting 
out of activities which could be more efficiently carried out by the 
private sector. Many activities which formerly were conducted by 
Federal employees have been converted over to the private sector. The 
employees of these contractors have been furloughed just like the 
Federal Government counterparts, but under the terms of this bill, they 
won't be returning to work. And, even when they do return to work, it 
won't be with the assurances of reimbursement that Federal employees 
are being given for their lost pay.
  As Chairman of the Small Business Committee, I am particularly 
concerned over the adverse impact this budget impasse is having on cash 
poor small business contractors. These businesses cannot draw readily 
upon pre-existing lines of credit or cash reserves that large 
corporations usually have available. So even where the Federal 
Government has determined that a function carried out by a contractor 
is critical or related to health and safety, the Government's inability 
to make timely payments jeopardizes the very existence of these small 
businesses.
  While the VA-HUD bill Congress passed in December would have funded 
every one of these activities, the President decided the bill was not 
good enough and he vetoed it. He vetoed it because we could not breech 
the budget constraints and appropriate another $2 billion. If he had 
signed it, he could have sought supplemental funds in negotiations with 
the Congress and all of the hardships his veto caused could have been 
avoided.
  But we are left with no choice but to enact this stop-gap measure. I 
urge the President and his advisors and all those involved in 
negotiations on the budget, to work in good faith to come to an 
agreement as soon as possible.
  In conclusion, I again commend the Majority Leader for his hard work 
on this matter, and I urge its expeditious adoption.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the unanimous-consent 
request by the majority leader as amended by the minority leader?
  Hearing none, without objection, it is so ordered.
  So the motion to concur in the amendment of the House to H.R. 1643 
was agreed to.
  So the concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 131) was agreed to.
  So the concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 38) was agreed to, as 
follows:

                            S. Con. Res. 38

       Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives 
     concurring), That the President and the Congress shall enact 
     legislation in the 2nd session of the 104th Congress to 
     achieve a balanced budget not later than fiscal year 2002 as 
     estimated by the Congressional Budget Office, and the 
     President and the Congress agree that the balanced budget 
     must protect future generations, ensure Medicare solvency, 
     reform welfare, and provide adequate funding for Medicaid, 
     education, agriculture, national defense, veterans, and the 
     environment. Further, the balanced budget shall adopt tax 
     policies to help working families and stimulate future 
     economic growth.
       The balanced budget agreement shall be estimated by the 
     Congressional Budget Office based on its most recent current 
     economic and technical assumptions, following a thorough 
     consultation and review with the Office of Management and 
     Budget, and other government and private experts.

  Mr. DOLE. That takes care of the Senator's request?
  Mr. DASCHLE. Yes.
  Mr. DOLE. I think the Senator from Alaska wants to comment, too. I 
think the Senator from Oregon, Senator Hatfield, the chairman of the 
Appropriations Committee, has some concern about this process. In fact, 
I think the Senator from Alaska talked to the Senator from Oregon. But 
let us proceed. We need to work on some of these things.
  Has anybody determined, once they look through the list--NIH will be 
approved for an entire year, in fact, a number for an entire year, some 
March 15. That takes those provisions out of other bills that may be 
pending or may have been vetoed. I think it does present some 
difficulty for the appropriators, particularly those who might be 
conferees when they try to salvage the rest of those proposals and get 
them passed. I will be happy to yield to the Senator from Alaska for 
further comments. I know he talked to Senator Hatfield.
  Mr. STEVENS addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska.
  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I thank the Chair.
  It is my understanding that this bill is now for the full year for 
all of the subjects mentioned.
  Mr. DOLE. In the second, yes.
  Mr. STEVENS. The difficulty is--I have not spoken directly with the 
Senator from Oregon, but he has sent to me his concerns as chairman of 
the Appropriations Committee that what this does is it pulls out of 
some bills, as the leader said, provisions that may disturb really the 
synergy of the whole bills when we come back and try to get them 
finally adopted and sent to the President.
  So he does really express great reservation to the procedure that is 
being used. So he wants me to indicate that the Appropriations 
Committee on this side will not pursue this procedure again.
  Mr. DOLE. I do not disagree, obviously, with the Senator from Alaska 
or the Senator from Oregon. I think in the event we should reach an 
agreement with the President on a balanced budget we can take care of 
all the appropriations bills that are still around here, but otherwise 
it is going to present a real problem. But I would just say the House 
insisted that they be for 1 year or they not be included at all. So you 
had to make a judgment because some of these are very sensitive 
programs, very important programs.

  So we yielded to the wishes of the House appropriators in this case. 
But I understand the Senator's concern.
  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, just one comment further. It is my 
understanding that the figure is the House figure on those disputed 
items which are in conference with the Senate. That is the Senator from 
Oregon's real objection to this procedure.
  Mr. DOLE. Some are the House figures and some are the conference 
figures. But the Labor-HHS, since that has not been completed that is 
the House figure in Labor-HHS.
  Mr. STEVENS. Right.
  Mr. DOLE. Let me thank all my colleagues. The House is still debating 
what we have completed. But we are going to--in case there should be 
any amendment, the Democratic leader and I agreed we would be here 
tomorrow so we could concur on any additional amendment, if we agree on 
it, concur in that amendment, because we want to be certain on Monday 
the money is available for whatever may be in that text that I sent up.
  I do not think there will be any amendments adopted on the House 
side, but if so that will be taken care of tomorrow. And we will 
condition coming in tomorrow on whether or not there are any amendments 
added. If there are no amendments added, we will not be in session 
tomorrow, we will not be in session Sunday, we will come in about 2 or 
3 o'clock on Monday, probably about 3 o'clock Monday.
  I want to thank all my colleagues for their cooperation. In my view, 
we have a resolution now of a very thorny problem and one that unfairly 
punished a lot of good people, Federal employees in particular who were 
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work--but they could not go to work. And this will see that they are 
paid.
  In addition, we have provided money for a number of programs, as 
pointed out in the two sort of targeted appropriations bills that we 
passed this evening. Of course, the President now, if he decides to lay 
down a balanced budget, scored by CBO, over a 7-year period, then 
everything is going to be open until January 26.
  I think by that time we will either have reached the budget agreement 
or not. That gives us 3 weeks in which to do that. And I hope that if 
we cannot come to some agreement that we are not going to go through 
this process again with a Government shutdown or partial shutdown. I 
know that the Speaker is working on some language that in the event 
this should happen again that I think every Federal worker would be 
deemed essential so they would still be coming to work, and some other 
provisions they are working on on the House side so there would not be 
a repeat of the 21- or 22-day shutdown, following the earlier 7-day 
Government shutdown or partial shutdown.

  So I want to thank the Democratic leader. And I want to thank my 
colleague from Virginia who has been on the floor all week long, and 
others who have an interest in this matter, as we all do. I think now 
that we have completed action we can tell everyone to go back to work.
  Mr. DASCHLE addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Democratic leader.
  Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, I share the satisfaction expressed by the 
majority leader about the opportunity now to send Federal workers back 
to work with pay, apparently now giving them also the authority and 
funding to do at least some of the things that they are being paid for. 
But I share the reservations expressed by the Senator from Alaska and 
the Senator from Oregon. This is not the way to run a Government.
  The majority leader had it right on January 2. On January 2 this body 
passed a clean continuing resolution that did all that we should do. 
Now we are picking and choosing. Now we are picking winners and losers. 
Now we are still leaving unfunded a lot of very important programs 
including Head Start, JOBS, cops on the beat, virtually all the 
programs at the Commerce Department, NASA operations, the social 
services block grants, Violence Against Women grants, entire divisions 
of the Department of Justice--including the criminal, civil rights, and 
environmental divisions, among others--all Environmental Protection 
Agency contractor operations, low-income housing vouchers, and 
vocational rehabilitation. Many more agencies and activities, very 
important functions of Government, are still left without any funding, 
still left without any standing as we enter this new session of 
Congress in this new calendar year. American taxpayers have paid for 
these services, yet they will not be receiving them.
  So no one should be misled. We have not solved everything here. We 
have solved only part of the problem. As I have said all day, we have 
come to the agreement that something is better than nothing. And 
nothing is what we would have had if nothing passed tonight. And so I 
am somewhat encouraged that we made some progress in all of this, 
although I wish we had done again tonight what we did on January 2--
pass a clean continuing resolution to reopen the entire government and 
restore some normalcy to our governmental processes.
  As for the 7-year budget issue, the reason we added the fourth 
measure to this en bloc unanimous consent request agreement is that the 
commitment to a 7-year balanced budget, Mr. President, was only half of 
the agreement Democrats and Republicans both made last November.
  The other half of the agreement was that we were going to protect 
priorities. We all agreed we would negotiate toward a balanced budget 
if we could agree to one within a 7-year period of time, scored by CBO 
once finalized--after there was consultation with the Office of 
Management and Budget. But what we also agreed to was that we would 
protect those priorities that Democrats and some Republicans have 
indicated are very important if we are going to achieve a balanced 
budget: all the priorities I read earlier.
  Those priorities include Medicare and making sure that people have 
every confidence that in the Medicare Program they are going to be 
protected. They include Medicaid and education and the environment. 
They include agriculture and veterans affairs--priorities that we feel 
every bit as strongly about as we feel the need to balance the budget 
in 7 years. We are unwilling to use those pools of resources to pay for 
tax cuts for those who do not need them.
  So we felt the need to recommit ourselves and our colleagues to those 
priorities that we all agreed to last November.
  Mr. President, I know others want to speak. Let me just close by 
reading a letter that I got from Amanda Munroe a couple of days ago. 
Amanda Munroe is a sixth grader from Sturgis, SD. She wrote a letter 
that is as poignant and as straight to the point as anything I have 
read. It is probably appropriate tonight that it be read and shared 
with my colleagues:

       I am 12 years old and in the 6th grade at Sturgis Williams 
     Middle School. My mom and dad both work at Fort Meade 
     Veterans Medical Center. Many kids at Sturgis Williams Middle 
     School have parents that work at Fort Meade.
       In school I learned that the Government is of the people, 
     for the people, and by the people. I thought the Government 
     was supposed to make choices that help the Nation. The 
     furlough does not only hurt Federal workers, it hurts the 
     children also. I thought the children were the future.
       I think that the Democrats and the Republicans should each 
     give a little and pass the budget. It would make the future 
     of Federal workers and their children much brighter.
       Thanks for being the grinch that stole our Christmas.

  There are a lot of children and others out there who did not have a 
very rosy Christmas as a result of an extraordinary experience they 
have had to endure. Let us hope it is now over. Let us hope at long 
last Federal workers can go back to work, pay their bills, run the 
Government and do the things that we have asked them to do. We will all 
be better for it. I yield the floor.
  Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I first want to express my great respect 
and appreciation for the majority leader of the U.S. Senate. In the 
200-plus years that this institution has been serving the public of 
this great Nation, I doubt if there has been a chapter with parallel 
and complexity and such seriousness as the one we witnessed here of 
recent days.
  The leadership exhibited by Senator Dole throughout has earned him an 
indelible place in the history of this institution and in that category 
so named as a profile in courage for what he has done.
  I join with Senator Dole in his expression of appreciation to the 
minority leader and his leadership, together with the minority whip and 
his leadership. I have had the privilege here of being on the floor 
throughout the week with the distinguished Senator from Kentucky, and 
while we may have had differences of views, we have tried our very best 
to maintain a bipartisan approach to the solution, and I think that was 
achieved.
  I also want to pay special recognition to Members of Congress from 
the greater Metropolitan Washington area: Congressman Davis, 
Congressman Gilchrest, Congressman Wolf, Congresswoman Morella. We have 
been meeting regularly, together with Congressman Bateman, who 
represents another section of the State of Virginia, to try and provide 
the leadership of the Senate and the House with our best judgment as to 
how this matter may be resolved.
  I also wish to thank the Presiding Officer, the senior Senator from 
Alaska, a known expert on the complexity of appropriation measures. We 
counseled together throughout the evening on various aspects of the 
legislative messages coming from the House, and, indeed, I think 
through his wisdom, one or two problems were corrected at the last 
minute. I wish to commend him for the service he has rendered the 
Senate in that capacity this evening. Time is short and there was a 
need to move forward on this.
  I know there are other Senators anxious to speak. I shall yield the 
floor. Again, my expression of appreciation to all the colleagues who 
worked together as a team, together with a very competent staff of this 
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work these individuals who were caught in the crossfire, in a very 
unfair manner, caught in a crossfire--not only those who are Government 
employees, but indeed the ripple effect throughout our State and other 
parts of the United States which involved either directly or indirectly 
many members of the private sector.

  I hope we have learned by this experience, Mr. President, we have 
learned a lesson such as it will not be repeated again in the future. I 
yield the floor.
  Mr. HEFLIN. Mr. President, I join in the remarks of Senator Warner 
relative to the majority leader and minority leader and the minority 
whip, Senator Ford, and the person who has been serving somewhat of a 
similar capacity, Senator Warner, on the floor, as well as other 
leaders, including the chairman of the Budget Committee in the Senate.
  I think the Senate, basically, has endeavored to act very reasonably 
in approaching this issue pertaining to the shutdown of the Government, 
getting the Federal employees back on the job. I think Senator Dole's 
speech on ``enough is enough'' was a remarkable speech and a remarkably 
courageous statement.
  I think in the Senate we have shown that we can get together, be 
reasonable, work out these matters. We have differences as to what a 
balanced budget over 7 years should be comprised of, and a lot of 
differences. Nevertheless, there is a spirit here of cooperation in 
endeavoring to try to work together, to try to solve the problems that 
confront the Nation at this particular time.
  I was really concerned about the bills that were coming over from the 
House relative to it, because in effect they were authorizing the 
employees to go back to work but in effect restricting what they could 
do by the use of funds. I sort of referred it to one of my friends as, 
you are sending them back to work, but you are putting them in a thumb-
twiddling situation where they just have to sit around and twiddle 
their thumbs and they cannot do anything because of the restrictions. 
That still applies to a large number of the agencies and departments 
that are not covered. I am delighted that there is this second targeted 
appropriations continuing resolution and it takes care of a number of 
very important agencies and departments in Government.
  During the day when we first started out, this was omitted, and I 
began to talk to a great number of people pertaining to a number that I 
felt were essential, that they ought to be continued, such as the 
National Institutes of Health. I talked to the Director of the National 
Institutes of Health during the day. Of course, there were real 
problems there that they would have on continuation of research, vital 
research, and the grants. He told me they had something like over a 3-
month period, around 4,000 applications that they had to process.

  There is also a very unusual program where people with rare diseases 
come within the ambit of the National Institutes of Health and are able 
to be treated, and they are given special treatment and special drugs. 
It has saved the lives of numerous individuals, and this would have had 
to be shut down.
  The Center for Communicable Diseases and the Centers for Disease 
Control were in a situation where Senator Nunn made a very telling 
speech and very informative speech about yesterday. To me, it was 
essential that we continue to operate at full force and with full 
effectiveness the Centers for Disease Control. Monitoring flu, you 
never know exactly what is going to happen. There are diseases that 
occur and epidemics that could take place. This is extremely important.
  To me, another very essential aspect was the conduct of the courts of 
the land. Our judiciary needed to be protected. I did some 
investigations and under the proposals that would have occurred until 
this last second targeted appropriations bill has now been approved by 
this body and will be brought up before the House later--and, of 
course, if they pass it, it will be deemed to have been adopted by the 
Senate under our resolution. There are an average of 4,500 individuals 
charged with Federal felonies each month. If the criminal trials are 
not held, public safety will be jeopardized, because under the Speedy 
Trial Act, criminal trials must be held within 70 days from the date 
the defendant is indicted or arrested, or charges are dismissed and the 
defendants will be released back into the community.
  As evidenced by the bombing at Oklahoma City, and in recent instances 
in Chicago involving the murder of a court security officer, an 
attempted mail bombing, the safety of judges and judicial employees is 
also at great risk.
  The lack of Federal funds to pay the contractors who operate the 
screening equipment and assist the U.S. marshals in providing security 
in Federal courthouses would result in undetected guns, explosives, and 
other weapons getting into courtrooms. Judges, especially those in 
high-risk areas, will not jeopardize the safety of court personnel, 
jurors, witnesses, and the public by holding trial in the absence of 
proper security. This could result in the possible dismissal of cases 
and release of defendants back into the community.
  And then jury trials: No funds would have been available to pay 
jurors in civil and criminal trials. As a result, courts will be faced 
with the choice of either delaying important trials or compelling 
citizens to serve under the threat of imprisonment or fine without any 
promise of timely pay. Trials would be canceled or delayed because 60 
percent of the court reporting and half of all of the court 
interpreting is performed by outside contractors. Court-appointed 
private attorneys, who represent almost half of all criminal 
defendants, would not be paid, jeopardizing the holding of criminal 
trials for their clients. This would lead to possible dismissal of 
cases and release of defendants back into the community.
  Public safety throughout the country would be seriously impaired due 
to a lack of Federal funds to pay for drug testing, drug and mental 
health treatment, halfway house placement, home confinement monitoring, 
community supervision by judicial employees of 114,000 convicted 
criminals, the majority of whom have served sentences of incarceration, 
and those charged with Federal crimes and so on. I could go on. Even in 
the bankruptcy court there are matters that would have to be looked at, 
and this would cause problems relative to this.
  I am delighted to see that the Department of Justice crime programs--
the FBI, DEA, prisons, U.S. marshals, U.S. attorneys, U.S. Marshal 
Service, organized crime, and drug enforcement--are taken care of in 
regards to that. But there are other areas in the Department of Justice 
that are not taken care of.
  So, I think we still have to look at this, in this situation of where 
people go back to work, but then, in effect, they are so restricted 
they cannot carry out their duties, raises the question of how rational 
and how wise such a measure is. Nevertheless, it is better than what we 
have had.
  Again, I thank the leadership of the Senate for their work relative 
to this and in the reasonable approach they have used. Hopefully, some 
of that reasonable approach has rubbed off on the House of 
Representatives.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Washington is recognized.
  Mr. GORTON. Mr. President, I believe late on a Friday evening, with 
very few of the public listening or watching, the Congress of the 
United States is about to accomplish an extraordinary feat. We have 
passed, or are about to pass automatically, a series of resolutions 
which will solve the immediate crisis before us, a crisis in the day-
to-day administration of many of the agencies of our Federal 
Government. It is that crisis, of course, which has occupied the minds 
and hearts and the time of many Members of Congress, of almost all of 
our Federal employees, and of much of the administration over the 
course of the last several weeks. And it is an accomplishment in 
itself, given the controversial nature of the issues before us.
  From the perspective, from the point of view of the long-range 
interests of the people of the United States, however, that 
accomplishment pales by comparison with the near commitment we now have 
to a proposed balanced budget from the President of the United States, 
a goal we have sought unanimously on this side of the aisle, a goal 
sought by many on the other side of the aisle, for an extended period 
of time, for at least all of calendar year 1995. It is a goal which 
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President of the United States submitted to Congress, by the revisions 
last summer, or by any of the further revisions which have taken place 
during the course of this debate during the fall and winter of 1995 and 
in 1996.
  Now, however, the full restoration of the administration of various 
departments of the United States depends upon the submission by the 
President of the United States of just such a balanced budget. These 
proposals do not require any particular content in that balanced 
budget, but they do require, and I believe will obtain, a set of 
proposals from the President which can be compared at that point by 
Members of Congress, by the news media, and by the people of the United 
States, with the various proposals the Republicans have made, including 
the Balanced Budget Act of 1995 recently vetoed by the President of the 
United States.
  Just why it has taken this extended period of time, why the President 
has so resisted meeting us on common ground, a common ground from which 
we all hope a valuable compromise can be reached, is difficult to 
understand. Clearly Members of the Democratic Party can meet the 
challenge of proposing a balanced budget using honest figures which 
presumably meets each of the priorities on which they place so much 
weight with respect to health care, the environment, education, and the 
like. Conservative Democrats in the House produced such a budget many 
weeks ago. The leadership of the Democratic Party here in the Senate 
made such a proposal before the Christmas recess.

  Now, much of the debate has revolved around the insistence of 
Republicans on a balanced budget using figures provided by the 
Congressional Budget Office. The overwhelming attention of the White 
House and of many of its supporters has been toward a list, included in 
the last balanced budget requirement, respecting adequate funding for 
Medicare, Medicaid, education, the national defense, and a number of 
other activities of the Federal Government.
  But there is a very real distinction between those two parts of that 
November resolution. The determination of whether or not a proposed 
budget, whatever its specific content, is in fact balanced under the 
projections of the Congressional Budget Office is a pure question of 
fact. Either it is or it is not.
  The Congressional Budget Office, basing its judgment on certain 
assumptions, makes a series of mathematical calculations and tells us 
whether, in its view, in the year 2002, the budget will be balanced. 
The answer is yes or no. There is, given the nature of the requirement, 
no valid difference of opinion as to whether or not a particular budget 
is balanced. The Balanced Budget Act of 1995 included such a balance. 
Later proposals by the Senator from New Mexico, the chairman of the 
Budget Committee, are balanced in that fashion.
  The so-called bipartisan proposal set forth by Senators Chafee and 
Breaux and a number of others reaches such a balance. The Democratic 
leadership proposal reaches that balance, as does conservative 
Democrats' budget in the House of Representatives. Whether or not a 
particular budget adequately funds Medicare, Medicaid, education, the 
national defense, or does the right thing with respect to taxes, with 
respect to working Americans, however, is a question of opinion. It is 
the view of this Senator and the view of the Senator from New Mexico 
that each of those goals was and is appropriately met by the Balanced 
Budget Act of 1995.
  Members on the other side of the aisle and the President do not 
agree. Presumably, they feel that each of those goals is met by the 
Democratic leadership budget proposal. They feel, evidently, that it 
deals appropriately with the tax burden on middle-class working 
Americans, even though that proposal increases taxes overall in order 
to reach balance. I disagree with that proposition as they disagree 
with my views on various spending programs. But these are matters of 
opinion; these are matters which obviously are subject to compromise.
  What we have gained at this point is the implicit agreement that the 
President of the United States, now for the first time, will join the 
conservative colleagues in his party in the House, his leadership in 
the Senate, and make his proposal, presumably with specific policy 
judgments with respect to each of these spending items--to the national 
defense, to our tax structure --that will meet the objective 
requirements of the Congressional Budget Office.
  Only when we have these figures is there any real chance that we will 
succeed in reaching a middle ground that will objectively lead to a 
balanced budget by the year 2002 and subjectively, presumably in the 
minds of those Members of Congress who vote for it in both parties and 
the President who signs it, meet these other policy objectives as well.
  So, Mr. President, I am not here to apologize and say that this is 
the best job we could do. I find it at least slightly amusing that we 
are accepting lock, stock, and barrel what the House of Representatives 
has proposed with respect to the specific language in these various 
resolutions. But, on the other hand, I think it is safe to say that we 
probably would not have reached this conclusion this quickly had it not 
been for the actions earlier this week and late last week by the 
distinguished majority leader in saying that we had to get out of the 
dilemma in which we found ourselves.
  It does seem to me, however, that given the nature of the immediate 
crisis we face, as well as our overall goals of balancing the budget, 
that we have not done a slap-dash job, we have not done a second, or 
third-best job. We have done the job right. We will have solved the 
immediate crisis, and we will have made a gigantic step toward that 
magnificent goal of balancing our budget; of ending the practice of 
spending money today on things that we want and sending the bills to 
our children and grandchildren; of giving them higher incomes, as now 
is almost a common opinion of economists throughout the United States, 
by lowering the burden of debt which they will be required to carry; by 
making their futures brighter and making their futures brighter our own 
as well.

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