[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 10 (Thursday, January 25, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H842-H853]
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WAIVING REQUIREMENT OF CLAUSE 4(b) OF RULE XI WITH RESPECT TO SAME DAY 
  CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN RESOLUTIONS REPORTED BY COMMITTEE ON RULES

  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I 
call up House Resolution 342 and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 342

       Resolved, That the requirement of clause 4(b) of rule XI 
     for a two-thirds vote to consider a report from the Committee 
     on Rules on the same day it is presented to the House is 
     waived with respect to any resolution reported from that 
     committee before March 16, 1996, and providing for 
     consideration or disposition of any of the following 
     measures:
       (1) A bill making general appropriations for the fiscal 
     year ending September 30, 1996, any amendment thereto, any 
     conference report thereon, or any amendment reported in 
     disagreement from a conference thereon.
       (2) A bill or joint resolution that includes provisions 
     making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 
     1996, any amendment thereto, any conference report thereon, 
     or any amendment reported in disagreement from a conference 
     thereon.
       (3) A bill or joint resolution that includes provisions 
     increasing or waiving (for a temporary period or otherwise) 
     the public debt limit under section 3101(b) of title 31, 
     United States Code, any amendment thereto, any conference 
     report thereon, or any amendment reported in disagreement 
     from a conference thereon.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Taylor of North Carolina). The gentleman 
from Colorado [Mr. McInnis] is recognized for 1 hour.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I yield the 
customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Moakley], 
pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During the 
consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the purpose 
of debate only.
  Mr. Speaker, House Resolution 342 is a simple resolution. The 
proposed rule merely waives the requirement of clause 4(b) of rule XI 
for a two-thirds vote to consider a report from the Committee on Rules 
on the same day it is presented to the House for resolutions reported 
from the committee before March 16, 1996, under certain circumstances.
  This narrow waiver will only apply to special rules providing for the 
consideration or disposition of measures, amendments, conference 
reports, or items in disagreement from a conference that: make general 
appropriations for fiscal year 1996; include provisions making 
continuing appropriations, that includes provisions increasing or 
waiving the public debt limit.
  Mr. Speaker, House Resolution 342 is straightforward, and it was 
reported by the Committee on Rules with unanimous voice vote. The 
committee recognizes the need for expedited procedures to bring these 
legislative measures forward as soon as possible. I urge my colleagues 
to support House Resolution 342.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  (Mr. MOAKLEY asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks and include extraneous material.)
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, today's rule marks not the first but the 
second time my Republican colleagues have waived the two-thirds 
requirement for 

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same day consideration of bills this session and this session just 
started.
  Mr. Speaker, it's looking an awful lot like my Republican colleagues 
are having trouble running the Congress.
  Today we are one-third of the way into the fiscal year and the 
Government is barely running--when it is it's doing so by the skin of 
its teeth, thanks only to a series of hastily passed continuing 
resolutions.
  For those who may have forgotten why the Government keeps shutting 
down for those who may not realize why all these continuing resolutions 
are necessary in the first place.
  It's because the Republican Congress has failed to fulfill its most 
basic responsibility.
  The responsibility to pass 13 appropriations bills by October 1.
  Those appropriations bills are probably the most important job 
Congress has and despite an unprecedented amount of wasted time and 
paper last year this Republican Congress has accomplished less than any 
Congress since World War II.
  Mr. Speaker, October 1 was 116 days ago--what's the hold up?
  I certainly hope this rule will prove to be the magic bullet. I 
certainly hope this rule the second time around will give my Republican 
colleagues what they need to get this Congress working and this 
Government running, for good.
  Mr. Speaker, I recognize the need to act quickly on these long 
overdue bills.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I think what is an important issue to remember here is 
that this decision on this budget is the most important economic 
decision of this generation. Not only is it the most important decision 
of this generation; it is the most important economic decision this 
generation is going to make for the next generation.
  So, I find it a little interesting that my colleague and my friend 
over on the other side of the aisle sits there and talks about the time 
it has taken to change the last 24 years of deficit spending; 24 years, 
by the way, which were under Democratic control.
  It is time that people in American have a balanced budget. It is time 
the people in America can expect this Congress to step forward, and if 
it takes some time to reverse 24 years of mismanagement of this budget, 
the American people can expect us to step forward with some solid 
decisions.
  Mr. Speaker, I am a little surprised by my colleague on the other 
side who stands up and says that perhaps it is a badge of courage, or a 
badge of accomplishment, if we pass a lot of legislation. I do not 
think we need more laws in this country. I think we have a lot of laws 
in this country. The IRS has 72,000 regulations. We need more laws to 
tell the American people that we are doing a good job in Washington, 
DC?

  I think what the American people are saying is, why not take a look 
at what we have got on the books? Is it working?
  This is the first time since the days of the Great Society that a 
Congress has had enought guts to stand up and say, hey, what happened 
to individual responsibility? Should this program be questioned? Is it 
accountable? Those kinds of questions ought to take priority over 
passing a bunch of laws.
  If we are going to measure the accomplishments of the U.S. Congress 
by a score board on how many laws we pass, geez, talk about 
inefficiency, that is not what we are going to do over on this side of 
the aisle. If we are going to pass a law, it is going to mean 
something, and we have passed legislation here that meant something.
  But, Mr. Speaker, you know what is good? We have stopped legislation 
that is bad legislation.
  Why not talk about what we have stopped in these Chambers that was 
bad legislation? I think that, first of all, it is kind of a diversion 
from the rule. This rule came out of the Committee on Rules on a 
unanimous decision. There wasn't this kind of discussion in the 
Committee on Rules last night. But I guess it did offer an opportunity 
on the House floor to try and take one more shot at discrediting what 
the Republicans are trying to do.
  But I think the biggest credit for the Republicans is taking a look 
at 24 years of deficit spending, a Government right now that spends $30 
million an hour and adds that to its debt every hour of the day. Some 
$30 million more going out than coming in, that is what we ought to 
take at look at.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman 
from New York [Mr. Solomon].
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, well, I just want to commend my good friend 
from Colorado for his statements.
  Mr. Speaker, I heard the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Moakley], 
my good friend, question the leadership of the Republican Party and in 
being able to run this place. Let me just remind him and everyone else, 
``It's the spending, stupid.'' This is what got us into this mess.
  Mr. Speaker, all we have to do is look at what is happening to 
America today. This country is going down the tubes because of the 
irresponsible spending habits of this U.S. Congress. And let us not go 
blame it on Presidents in our past; let us blame it on this Congress, 
particularly this House of Representatives which controls the 
pursestrings. They are responsible. They are the ones that have driven 
this deficit to a point where we are now drowning in a sea of red ink 
that threatens the very future of our country, especially for our 
children and our grandchildren.
  Mr. Speaker, $5 trillion in debt? When we look at the pie that makes 
up the Federal budget, that huge pie of $1.5 trillion, and when we 
consider that $250 billion of that hunk of the pie goes to pay just the 
debt service, that means the interest that is due on the debt that is 
accumulated over these years, $250 billion. Do the American people 
realize how much money that is? It is almost as much money as we spend 
on the national defense budget of this country.
  We hear the other side of the aisle railing about how much money we 
spend on national defense. Imagine, we spend as much on the interest 
payments each year as we spend on national defense.
  We are kind of fortunate right now because interest rates are low and 
inflation rates are low. But what happens when we continue on this kind 
of spending spree? Interest rates rise and inflation rises like it did 
back in the 1970's when inflation was running rampant at about 13 
percent and interest rates, the prime interest rates that small 
businessmen had to borrow money at from banks, was running at 22 
percent. A small businessman had to pay about 2 percent over that; I 
know because I was one, 24 percent interest.
  What would happen if interest rates go back up and inflation goes 
back up? That hunk of the pie would be about $400 billion. That means 
an additional $150 billion in interest payments. And where do we think 
that comes from? It comes out of those funds that might be available to 
help those people that are truly needy.

  Mr. Speaker, I was shocked back at the beginning of last year when 
the President gave us a budget and projected spending for the next 5 
years. He projected an increase in the deficit of over a trillion 
dollars, over $1 trillion. Mr. Speaker, can you imagine that? We can 
talk about all of the programs that we have, but the only way we are 
ever going to get these deficits under control is by curtailing 
spending, either the growth of it or actually cutting programs.
  I was very proud at the beginning of last year to introduce a budget, 
along with 16 of my colleagues, that actually balanced the budget in 5 
years, not 7 years. And it did so by making the cuts in the early 
years, in years 1 and 2, not in years 4, 5, 6, or 7. That is how we are 
going to balance this budget. That is what we are going to stick to.
  Make no exception about it, no matter what happens, we are not going 
to veer off this course. There are those of us in this Congress that 
are going to stick to this. We are going to force this Congress to vote 
on every single one of these issues to finally put this House back in 
order financially, and we can count on that.
  So, Mr. Speaker, I just want to say to the gentleman, he may not like 
the way this Congress is being run, but it is going to be run that way; 
as long as the Republican majority is in control in this House, there 
is going to be no more deficit spending.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, they will not be calling that economic index Standard 
and 

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Poors; if we keep going like we are going, it will be just poor.
  Mr. Speaker, I submit the following material for the Record:

                FLOOR PROCEDURE IN THE 104TH CONGRESS; COMPILED BY THE RULES COMMITTEE DEMOCRATS                
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                                                                          Process used for floor   Amendments in
            Bill No.                    Title           Resolution No.         consideration           order    
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H.R. 1*........................  Compliance........  H. Res. 6            Closed................           None.
H. Res. 6......................  Opening Day Rules   H. Res. 5            Closed; contained a              None.
                                  Package.                                 closed rule on H.R. 1                
                                                                           within the closed                    
                                                                           rule.                                
H.R. 5*........................  Unfunded Mandates.  H. Res. 38           Restrictive; Motion               N/A.
                                                                           adopted over                         
                                                                           Democratic objection                 
                                                                           in the Committee of                  
                                                                           the Whole to limit                   
                                                                           debate on section 4;                 
                                                                           Pre-printing gets                    
                                                                           preference.                          
H.J. Res. 2*...................  Balanced Budget...  H. Res. 44           Restrictive; only              2R; 4D.
                                                                           certain substitutes.                 
H. Res. 43.....................  Committee Hearings  H. Res. 43 (OJ)      Restrictive;                      N/A.
                                  Scheduling.                              considered in House                  
                                                                           no amendments.                       
H.R. 2*........................  Line Item Veto....  H. Res. 55           Open; Pre-printing                N/A.
                                                                           gets preference.                     
H.R. 665*......................  Victim Restitution  H. Res. 61           Open; Pre-printing                N/A.
                                  Act of 1995.                             gets preference.                     
H.R. 666*......................  Exclusionary Rule   H. Res. 60           Open; Pre-printing                N/A.
                                  Reform Act of                            gets preference.                     
                                  1995.                                                                         
H.R. 667*......................  Violent Criminal    H. Res. 63           Restrictive; 10 hr.               N/A.
                                  Incarceration Act                        Time Cap on                          
                                  of 1995.                                 amendments.                          
H.R. 668*......................  The Criminal Alien  H. Res. 69           Open; Pre-printing                N/A.
                                  Deportation                              gets preference;                     
                                  Improvement Act.                         Contains self-                       
                                                                           executing provision.                 
H.R. 728*......................  Local Government    H. Res. 79           Restrictive; 10 hr.               N/A.
                                  Law Enforcement                          Time Cap on                          
                                  Block Grants.                            amendments; Pre-                     
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           preference.                          
H.R. 7*........................  National Security   H. Res. 83           Restrictive; 10 hr.               N/A.
                                  Revitalization                           Time Cap on                          
                                  Act.                                     amendments; Pre-                     
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           preference.                          
H.R. 729*......................  Death Penalty/      N/A                  Restrictive; brought              N/A.
                                  Habeas.                                  up under UC with a 6                 
                                                                           hr. time cap on                      
                                                                           amendments.                          
S. 2...........................  Senate Compliance.  N/A                  Closed; Put on                   None.
                                                                           Suspension Calendar                  
                                                                           over Democratic                      
                                                                           objection.                           
H.R. 831.......................  To Permanently      H. Res. 88           Restrictive; makes in              1D.
                                  Extend the Health                        order only the                       
                                  Insurance                                Gibbons amendment;                   
                                  Deduction for the                        Waives all points of                 
                                  Self-Employed.                           order; Contains self-                
                                                                           executing provision.                 
H.R. 830*......................  The Paperwork       H. Res. 91           Open..................            N/A.
                                  Reduction Act.                                                                
H.R. 889.......................  Emergency           H. Res. 92           Restrictive; makes in              1D.
                                  Supplemental/                            order only the Obey                  
                                  Rescinding                               substitute.                          
                                  Certain Budget                                                                
                                  Authority.                                                                    
H.R. 450*......................  Regulatory          H. Res. 93           Restrictive; 10 hr.               N/A.
                                  Moratorium.                              Time Cap on                          
                                                                           amendments; Pre-                     
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           preference.                          
H.R. 1022*.....................  Risk Assessment...  H. Res. 96           Restrictive; 10 hr.               N/A.
                                                                           Time Cap on                          
                                                                           amendments.                          
H.R. 926*......................  Regulatory          H. Res. 100          Open..................            N/A.
                                  Flexibility.                                                                  
H.R. 925*......................  Private Property    H. Res. 101          Restrictive; 12 hr.                1D.
                                  Protection Act.                          time cap on                          
                                                                           amendments; Requires                 
                                                                           Members to pre-print                 
                                                                           their amendments in                  
                                                                           the Record prior to                  
                                                                           the bill's                           
                                                                           consideration for                    
                                                                           amendment, waives                    
                                                                           germaneness and                      
                                                                           budget act points of                 
                                                                           order as well as                     
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           concerning                           
                                                                           appropriating on a                   
                                                                           legislative bill                     
                                                                           against the committee                
                                                                           substitute used as                   
                                                                           base text.                           
H.R. 1058*.....................  Securities          H. Res. 105          Restrictive; 8 hr.                 1D.
                                  Litigation Reform                        time cap on                          
                                  Act.                                     amendments; Pre-                     
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           preference; Makes in                 
                                                                           order the Wyden                      
                                                                           amendment and waives                 
                                                                           germaneness against                  
                                                                           it.                                  
H.R. 988*......................  The Attorney        H. Res. 104          Restrictive; 7 hr.                N/A.
                                  Accountability                           time cap on                          
                                  Act of 1995.                             amendments; Pre-                     
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           preference.                          
H.R. 956*......................  Product Liability   H. Res. 109          Restrictive; makes in          8D; 7R.
                                  and Legal Reform                         order only 15 germane                
                                  Act.                                     amendments and denies                
                                                                           64 germane amendments                
                                                                           from being considered.               
H.R. 1158......................  Making Emergency    H. Res. 115          Restrictive; Combines             N/A.
                                  Supplemental                             emergency H.R. 1158 &                
                                  Appropriations                           nonemergency 1159 and                
                                  and Rescissions.                         strikes the abortion                 
                                                                           provision; makes in                  
                                                                           order only pre-                      
                                                                           printed amendments                   
                                                                           that include offsets                 
                                                                           within the same                      
                                                                           chapter (deeper cuts                 
                                                                           in programs already                  
                                                                           cut); waives points                  
                                                                           of order against                     
                                                                           three amendments;                    
                                                                           waives cl 2 of rule                  
                                                                           XXI against the bill,                
                                                                           cl 2, XXI and cl 7 of                
                                                                           rule XVI against the                 
                                                                           substitute; waives cl                
                                                                           2(e) od rule XXI                     
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendments in the                    
                                                                           Record; 10 hr time                   
                                                                           cap on amendments. 30                
                                                                           minutes debate on                    
                                                                           each amendment.                      
H.J. Res. 73*..................  Term Limits.......  H. Res. 116          Restrictive; Makes in           1D; 3R
                                                                           order only 4                         
                                                                           amendments considered                
                                                                           under a ``Queen of                   
                                                                           the Hill'' procedure                 
                                                                           and denies 21 germane                
                                                                           amendments from being                
                                                                           considered.                          
H.R. 4*........................  Welfare Reform....  H. Res. 119          Restrictive; Makes in         5D; 26R.
                                                                           order only 31                        
                                                                           perfecting amendments                
                                                                           and two substitutes;                 
                                                                           Denies 130 germane                   
                                                                           amendments from being                
                                                                           considered; The                      
                                                                           substitutes are to be                
                                                                           considered under a                   
                                                                           ``Queen of the Hill''                
                                                                           procedure; All points                
                                                                           of order are waived                  
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendments.                          
H.R. 1271*.....................  Family Privacy Act  H. Res. 125          Open..................            N/A.
H.R. 660*......................  Housing for Older   H. Res. 126          Open..................            N/A.
                                  Persons Act.                                                                  
H.R. 1215*.....................  The Contract With   H. Res. 129          Restrictive; Self                  1D.
                                  America Tax                              Executes language                    
                                  Relief Act of                            that makes tax cuts                  
                                  1995.                                    contingent on the                    
                                                                           adoption of a                        
                                                                           balanced budget plan                 
                                                                           and strikes section                  
                                                                           3006. Makes in order                 
                                                                           only one substitute.                 
                                                                           Waives all points of                 
                                                                           order against the                    
                                                                           bill, substitute made                
                                                                           in order as original                 
                                                                           text and Gephardt                    
                                                                           substitute.                          
H.R. 483.......................  Medicare Select     H. Res. 130          Restrictive; waives cl             1D.
                                  Extension.                               2(1)(6) of rule XI                   
                                                                           against the bill;                    
                                                                           makes H.R. 1391 in                   
                                                                           order as original                    
                                                                           text; makes in order                 
                                                                           only the Dingell                     
                                                                           substitute; allows                   
                                                                           Commerce Committee to                
                                                                           file a report on the                 
                                                                           bill at any time.                    
H.R. 655.......................  Hydrogen Future     H. Res. 136          Open..................            N/A.
                                  Act.                                                                          
H.R. 1361......................  Coast Guard         H. Res. 139          Open; waives sections             N/A.
                                  Authorization.                           302(f) and 308(a) of                 
                                                                           the Congressional                    
                                                                           Budget Act against                   
                                                                           the bill's                           
                                                                           consideration and the                
                                                                           committee substitute;                
                                                                           waives cl 5(a) of                    
                                                                           rule XXI against the                 
                                                                           committee substitute.                
H.R. 961.......................  Clean Water Act...  H. Res. 140          Open; pre-printing                N/A.
                                                                           gets preference;                     
                                                                           waives sections                      
                                                                           302(f) and 602(b) of                 
                                                                           the Budget Act                       
                                                                           against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration; waives                
                                                                           cl 7 of rule XVI, cl                 
                                                                           5(a) of rule XXI and                 
                                                                           section 302(f) of the                
                                                                           Budget Act against                   
                                                                           the committee                        
                                                                           substitute. Makes in                 
                                                                           order Shuster                        
                                                                           substitute as first                  
                                                                           order of business.                   
H.R. 535.......................  Corning National    H. Res. 144          Open..................            N/A.
                                  Fish Hatchery                                                                 
                                  Conveyance Act.                                                               
H.R. 584.......................  Conveyance of the   H. Res. 145          Open..................            N/A.
                                  Fairport National                                                             
                                  Fish Hatchery to                                                              
                                  the State of Iowa.                                                            
H.R. 614.......................  Conveyance of the   H. Res. 146          Open..................            N/A.
                                  New London                                                                    
                                  National Fish                                                                 
                                  Hatchery                                                                      
                                  Production                                                                    
                                  Facility.                                                                     
H. Con. Res. 67................  Budget Resolution.  H. Res. 149          Restrictive; Makes in          3D; 1R.
                                                                           order 4 substitutes                  
                                                                           under regular order;                 
                                                                           Gephardt, Neumann/                   
                                                                           Solomon, Payne/Owens,                
                                                                           President's Budget if                
                                                                           printed in Record on                 
                                                                           5/17/95; waives all                  
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against substitutes                  
                                                                           and concurrent                       
                                                                           resolution; suspends                 
                                                                           application of Rule                  
                                                                           XLIX with respect to                 
                                                                           the resolution; self-                
                                                                           executes Agriculture                 
                                                                           language.                            
H.R. 1561......................  American Overseas   H. Res. 155          Restrictive; Requires             N/A.
                                  Interests Act of                         amendments to be                     
                                  1995.                                    printed in the Record                
                                                                           prior to their                       
                                                                           consideration; 10 hr.                
                                                                           time cap; waives cl                  
                                                                           2(1)(6) of rule XI                   
                                                                           against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration; Also                  
                                                                           waives sections                      
                                                                           302(f), 303(a),                      
                                                                           308(a) and 402(a)                    
                                                                           against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration and the                
                                                                           committee amendment                  
                                                                           in order as original                 
                                                                           text; waives cl 5(a)                 
                                                                           of rule XXI against                  
                                                                           the amendment;                       
                                                                           amendment                            
                                                                           consideration is                     
                                                                           closed at 2:30 p.m.                  
                                                                           on May 25, 1995. Self-               
                                                                           executes provision                   
                                                                           which removes section                
                                                                           2210 from the bill.                  
                                                                           This was done at the                 
                                                                           request of the Budget                
                                                                           Committee.                           
H.R. 1530......................  National Defense    H. Res. 164          Restrictive; Makes in      36R; 18D; 2
                                  Authorization Act                        order only the            Bipartisan.
                                  FY 1996.                                 amendments printed in                
                                                                           the report; waives                   
                                                                           all points of order                  
                                                                           against the bill,                    
                                                                           substitute and                       
                                                                           amendments printed in                
                                                                           the report. Gives the                
                                                                           Chairman en bloc                     
                                                                           authority. Self-                     
                                                                           executes a provision                 
                                                                           which strikes section                
                                                                           807 of the bill;                     
                                                                           provides for an                      
                                                                           additional 30 min. of                
                                                                           debate on Nunn-Lugar                 
                                                                           section; Allows Mr.                  
                                                                           Clinger to offer a                   
                                                                           modification of his                  
                                                                           amendment with the                   
                                                                           concurrence of Ms.                   
                                                                           Collins.                             
H.R. 1817......................  Military            H. Res. 167          Open; waives cl. 2 and            N/A.
                                  Construction                             cl. 6 of rule XXI                    
                                  Appropriations;                          against the bill; 1                  
                                  FY 1996.                                 hr. general debate;                  
                                                                           Uses House passed                    
                                                                           budget numbers as                    
                                                                           threshold for                        
                                                                           spending amounts                     
                                                                           pending passage of                   
                                                                           Budget.                              
H.R. 1854......................  Legislative Branch  H. Res. 169          Restrictive; Makes in        5R; 4D; 2
                                  Appropriations.                          order only 11             Bipartisan.
                                                                           amendments; waives                   
                                                                           sections 302(f) and                  
                                                                           308(a) of the Budget                 
                                                                           Act against the bill                 
                                                                           and cl. 2 and cl. 6                  
                                                                           of rule XXI against                  
                                                                           the bill. All points                 
                                                                           of order are waived                  
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendments.                          
H.R. 1868......................  Foreign Operations  H. Res. 170          Open; waives cl. 2,               N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          cl. 5(b), and cl. 6                  
                                                                           of rule XXI against                  
                                                                           the bill; makes in                   
                                                                           order the Gilman                     
                                                                           amendments as first                  
                                                                           order of business;                   
                                                                           waives all points of                 
                                                                           order against the                    
                                                                           amendments; if                       
                                                                           adopted they will be                 
                                                                           considered as                        
                                                                           original text; waives                
                                                                           cl. 2 of rule XXI                    
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendments printed in                
                                                                           the report. Pre-                     
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority (Hall)                      
                                                                           (Menendez) (Goss)                    
                                                                           (Smith, NJ).                         
H.R. 1905......................  Energy & Water      H. Res. 171          Open; waives cl. 2 and            N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          cl. 6 of rule XXI                    
                                                                           against the bill;                    
                                                                           makes in order the                   
                                                                           Shuster amendment as                 
                                                                           the first order of                   
                                                                           business; waives all                 
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendment; if adopted                
                                                                           it will be considered                
                                                                           as original text. Pre-               
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority.                            
H.J. Res. 79...................  Constitutional      H. Res. 173          Closed; provides one              N/A.
                                  Amendment to                             hour of general                      
                                  Permit Congress                          debate and one motion                
                                  and States to                            to recommit with or                  
                                  Prohibit the                             without instructions;                
                                  Physical                                 if there are                         
                                  Desecration of                           instructions, the MO                 
                                  the American Flag.                       is debatable for 1 hr.               
H.R. 1944......................  Recissions Bill...  H. Res. 175          Restrictive; Provides             N/A.
                                                                           for consideration of                 
                                                                           the bill in the                      
                                                                           House; Permits the                   
                                                                           Chairman of the                      
                                                                           Appropriations                       
                                                                           Committee to offer                   
                                                                           one amendment which                  
                                                                           is unamendable;                      
                                                                           waives all points of                 
                                                                           order against the                    
                                                                           amendment.                           
H.R. 1868 (2nd rule)...........  Foreign Operations  H. Res. 177          Restrictive; Provides             N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          for further                          
                                                                           consideration of the                 
                                                                           bill; makes in order                 
                                                                           only the four                        
                                                                           amendments printed in                
                                                                           the rules report (20                 
                                                                           min. each). Waives                   
                                                                           all points of order                  
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendments; Prohibits                
                                                                           intervening motions                  
                                                                           in the Committee of                  
                                                                           the Whole; Provides                  
                                                                           for an automatic rise                
                                                                           and report following                 
                                                                           the disposition of                   
                                                                           the amendments.                      
H.R. 1977 *Rule Defeated*......  Interior            H. Res. 185          Open; waives sections             N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          302(f) and 308(a) of                 
                                                                           the Budget Act and cl                
                                                                           2 and cl 6 of rule                   
                                                                           XXI; provides that                   
                                                                           the bill be read by                  
                                                                           title; waives all                    
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the Tauzin                   
                                                                           amendment; self-                     
                                                                           executes Budget                      
                                                                           Committee amendment;                 
                                                                           waives cl 2(e) of                    
                                                                           rule XXI against                     
                                                                           amendments to the                    
                                                                           bill; Pre-printing                   
                                                                           gets priority.                       

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H.R. 1977......................  Interior            H.Res. 187           Open; waives sections             N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          302(f), 306 and                      
                                                                           308(a) of the Budget                 
                                                                           Act; waives clauses 2                
                                                                           and 6 of rule XXI                    
                                                                           against provisions in                
                                                                           the bill; waives all                 
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the Tauzin                   
                                                                           amendment; provides                  
                                                                           that the bill be read                
                                                                           by title; self-                      
                                                                           executes Budget                      
                                                                           Committee amendment                  
                                                                           and makes NEA funding                
                                                                           subject to House                     
                                                                           passed authorization;                
                                                                           waives cl 2(e) of                    
                                                                           rule XXI against the                 
                                                                           amendments to the                    
                                                                           bill; Pre-printing                   
                                                                           gets priority.                       
H.R. 1976......................  Agriculture         H. Res. 188          Open; waives clauses 2            N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          and 6 of rule XXI                    
                                                                           against provisions in                
                                                                           the bill; provides                   
                                                                           that the bill be read                
                                                                           by title; Makes Skeen                
                                                                           amendment first order                
                                                                           of business, if                      
                                                                           adopted the amendment                
                                                                           will be considered as                
                                                                           base text (10 min.);                 
                                                                           Pre-printing gets                    
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 1977 (3rd rule)...........  Interior            H. Res. 189          Restrictive; provides             N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          for the further                      
                                                                           consideration of the                 
                                                                           bill; allows only                    
                                                                           amendments pre-                      
                                                                           printed before July                  
                                                                           14th to be                           
                                                                           considered; limits                   
                                                                           motions to rise.                     
H.R. 2020......................  Treasury Postal     H. Res. 190          Open; waives cl. 2 and            N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          cl. 6 of rule XXI                    
                                                                           against provisions in                
                                                                           the bill; provides                   
                                                                           the bill be read by                  
                                                                           title; Pre-printing                  
                                                                           gets priority.                       
H.J. Res. 96...................  Disapproving MFN    H. Res. 193          Restrictive; provides             N/A.
                                  for China.                               for consideration in                 
                                                                           the House of H.R.                    
                                                                           2058 (90 min.) And                   
                                                                           H.J. Res. 96 (1 hr).                 
                                                                           Waives certain                       
                                                                           provisions of the                    
                                                                           Trade Act.                           
H.R. 2002......................  Transportation      H. Res. 194          Open; waives cl. 3 0f             N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          rule XIII and section                
                                                                           401 (a) of the CBA                   
                                                                           against consideration                
                                                                           of the bill; waives                  
                                                                           cl. 6 and cl. 2 of                   
                                                                           rule XXI against                     
                                                                           provisions in the                    
                                                                           bill; Makes in order                 
                                                                           the Clinger/Solomon                  
                                                                           amendment waives all                 
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the amendment                
                                                                           (Line Item Veto);                    
                                                                           provides the bill be                 
                                                                           read by title; Pre-                  
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority. *RULE                      
                                                                           AMENDED*.                            
H.R. 70........................  Exports of Alaskan  H. Res. 197          Open; Makes in order              N/A.
                                  North Slope Oil.                         the Resources                        
                                                                           Committee amendment                  
                                                                           in the nature of a                   
                                                                           substitute as                        
                                                                           original text; Pre-                  
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority; Provides a                 
                                                                           Senate hook-up with                  
                                                                           S. 395.                              
H.R. 2076......................  Commerce, Justice   H. Res. 198          Open; waives cl. 2 and            N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          cl. 6 of rule XXI                    
                                                                           against provisions in                
                                                                           the bill; Pre-                       
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority; provides                   
                                                                           the bill be read by                  
                                                                           title..                              
H.R. 2099......................  VA/HUD              H. Res. 201          Open; waives cl. 2 and            N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          cl. 6 of rule XXI                    
                                                                           against provisions in                
                                                                           the bill; Provides                   
                                                                           that the amendment in                
                                                                           part 1 of the report                 
                                                                           is the first                         
                                                                           business, if adopted                 
                                                                           it will be considered                
                                                                           as base text (30                     
                                                                           min.); waives all                    
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the Klug and                 
                                                                           Davis amendments; Pre-               
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority; Provides                   
                                                                           that the bill be read                
                                                                           by title.                            
S. 21..........................  Termination of      H. Res. 204          Restrictive; 3 hours               ID.
                                  U.S. Arms Embargo                        of general debate;                   
                                  on Bosnia.                               Makes in order an                    
                                                                           amendment to be                      
                                                                           offered by the                       
                                                                           Minority Leader or a                 
                                                                           designee (1 hr); If                  
                                                                           motion to recommit                   
                                                                           has instructions it                  
                                                                           can only be offered                  
                                                                           by the Minority                      
                                                                           Leader or a designee.                
H.R. 2126......................  Defense             H. Res. 205          Open; waives cl.                  N/A.
                                  Appropriations.                          2(l)(6) of rule XI                   
                                                                           and section 306 of                   
                                                                           the Congressional                    
                                                                           Budget Act against                   
                                                                           consideration of the                 
                                                                           bill; waives cl. 2                   
                                                                           and cl. 6 of rule XXI                
                                                                           against provisions in                
                                                                           the bill; self-                      
                                                                           executes a strike of                 
                                                                           sections 8021 and                    
                                                                           8024 of the bill as                  
                                                                           requested by the                     
                                                                           Budget Committee; Pre-               
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority; Provides                   
                                                                           the bill be read by                  
                                                                           title.                               
H.R. 1555......................  Communications Act  H. Res. 207          Restrictive; waives        2R/3D/3 Bi-
                                  of 1995.                                 sec. 302(f) of the          partisan.
                                                                           Budget Act against                   
                                                                           consideration of the                 
                                                                           bill; Makes in order                 
                                                                           the Commerce                         
                                                                           Committee amendment                  
                                                                           as original text and                 
                                                                           waives sec. 302(f) of                
                                                                           the Budget Act and                   
                                                                           cl. 5(a) of rule XXI                 
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendment; Makes in                  
                                                                           order the Bliely                     
                                                                           amendment (30 min.)                  
                                                                           as the first order of                
                                                                           business, if adopted                 
                                                                           it will be original                  
                                                                           text; makes in order                 
                                                                           only the amendments                  
                                                                           printed in the report                
                                                                           and waives all points                
                                                                           of order against the                 
                                                                           amendments; provides                 
                                                                           a Senate hook-up with                
                                                                           S. 652.                              
H.R. 2127......................  Labor/HHS           H. Res. 208          Open; Provides that                N/A
                                  Appropriations                           the first order of                   
                                  Act.                                     business will be the                 
                                                                           managers amendments                  
                                                                           (10 min.), if adopted                
                                                                           they will be                         
                                                                           considered as base                   
                                                                           text; waives cl. 2                   
                                                                           and cl. 6 of rule XXI                
                                                                           against provisions in                
                                                                           the bill; waives all                 
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against certain                      
                                                                           amendments printed in                
                                                                           the report; Pre-                     
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority; Provides                   
                                                                           the bill be read by                  
                                                                           title.                               
H.R. 1594......................  Economically        H. Res. 215          Open; 2 hr of gen.                 N/A
                                  Targeted                                 debate. makes in                     
                                  Investments.                             order the committee                  
                                                                           substitute as                        
                                                                           original text.                       
H.R. 1655......................  Intelligence        H. Res. 216          Restrictive; waives                N/A
                                  Authorization.                           sections 302(f),                     
                                                                           308(a) and 401(b) of                 
                                                                           the Budget Act. Makes                
                                                                           in order the                         
                                                                           committee substitute                 
                                                                           as modified by Govt.                 
                                                                           Reform amend                         
                                                                           (striking sec. 505)                  
                                                                           and an amendment                     
                                                                           striking title VII.                  
                                                                           Cl 7 of rule XVI and                 
                                                                           cl 5(a) of rule XXI                  
                                                                           are waived against                   
                                                                           the substitute.                      
                                                                           Sections 302(f) and                  
                                                                           401(b) of the CBA are                
                                                                           also waived against                  
                                                                           the substitute.                      
                                                                           Amendments must also                 
                                                                           be pre-printed in the                
                                                                           Congressional record.                
H.R. 1162......................  Deficit Reduction   H. Res. 218          Open; waives cl 7 of               N/A
                                  Lock Box.                                rule XVI against the                 
                                                                           committee substitute                 
                                                                           made in order as                     
                                                                           original text; Pre-                  
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 1670......................  Federal             H. Res. 219          Open; waives sections              N/A
                                  Acquisition                              302(f) and 308(a) of                 
                                  Reform Act of                            the Budget Act                       
                                  1995.                                    against consideration                
                                                                           of the bill; bill                    
                                                                           will be read by                      
                                                                           title; waives cl 5(a)                
                                                                           of rule XXI and                      
                                                                           section 302(f) of the                
                                                                           Budget Act against                   
                                                                           the committee                        
                                                                           substitute. Pre-                     
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 1617......................  To Consolidate and  H. Res. 222          Open; waives section               N/A
                                  Reform Workforce                         302(f) and 401(b) of                 
                                  Development and                          the Budget Act                       
                                  Literacy Programs                        against the                          
                                  Act (CAREERS).                           substitute made in                   
                                                                           order as original                    
                                                                           text (H.R. 2332), cl.                
                                                                           5(a) of rule XXI is                  
                                                                           also waived against                  
                                                                           the substitute.                      
                                                                           provides for                         
                                                                           consideration of the                 
                                                                           managers amendment                   
                                                                           (10 min.) If adopted,                
                                                                           it is considered as                  
                                                                           base text.                           
H.R. 2274......................  National Highway    H. Res. 224          Open; waives section               N/A
                                  System                                   302(f) of the Budget                 
                                  Designation Act                          Act against                          
                                  of 1995.                                 consideration of the                 
                                                                           bill; Makes H.R. 2349                
                                                                           in order as original                 
                                                                           text; waives section                 
                                                                           302(f) of the Budget                 
                                                                           Act against the                      
                                                                           substitute; provides                 
                                                                           for the consideration                
                                                                           of a managers                        
                                                                           amendment (10 min.)                  
                                                                           If adopted, it is                    
                                                                           considered as base                   
                                                                           text; Pre-printing                   
                                                                           gets priority.                       
H.R. 927.......................  Cuban Liberty and   H. Res. 225          Restrictive; waives cl           2R/2D
                                  Democratic                               2(L)(2)(B) of rule XI                
                                  Solidarity Act of                        against consideration                
                                  1995.                                    of the bill; makes in                
                                                                           order H.R. 2347 as                   
                                                                           base text; waives cl                 
                                                                           7 of rule XVI against                
                                                                           the substitute; Makes                
                                                                           Hamilton amendment                   
                                                                           the first amendment                  
                                                                           to be considered (1                  
                                                                           hr). Makes in order                  
                                                                           only amendments                      
                                                                           printed in the report.               
H.R. 743.......................  The Teamwork for    H. Res. 226          Open; waives cl                    N/A
                                  Employees and                            2(l)(2)(b) of rule XI                
                                  managers Act of                          against consideration                
                                  1995.                                    of the bill; makes in                
                                                                           order the committee                  
                                                                           amendment as original                
                                                                           text; Pre-printing                   
                                                                           get priority.                        
H.R. 1170......................  3-Judge Court for   H. Res. 227          Open; makes in order a             N/A
                                  Certain                                  committee amendment                  
                                  Injunctions.                             as original text; Pre-               
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 1601......................  International       H. Res. 228          Open; makes in order a             N/A
                                  Space Station                            committee amendment                  
                                  Authorization Act                        as original text; pre-               
                                  of 1995.                                 printing gets                        
                                                                           priority.                            
H.J. Res. 108..................  Making Continuing   H. Res. 230          Closed; Provides for    ..............
                                  Appropriations                           the immediate                        
                                  for FY 1996.                             consideration of the                 
                                                                           CR; one motion to                    
                                                                           recommit which may                   
                                                                           have instructions                    
                                                                           only if offered by                   
                                                                           the Minority Leader                  
                                                                           or a designee.                       
H.R. 2405......................  Omnibus Civilian    H. Res. 234          Open; self-executes a              N/A
                                  Science                                  provision striking                   
                                  Authorization Act                        section 304(b)(3) of                 
                                  of 1995.                                 the bill (Commerce                   
                                                                           Committee request);                  
                                                                           Pre-printing gets                    
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 2259......................  To Disapprove       H. Res. 237          Restrictive; waives cl              1D
                                  Certain                                  2(l)(2)(B) of rule XI                
                                  Sentencing                               against the bill's                   
                                  Guideline                                consideration; makes                 
                                  Amendments.                              in order the text of                 
                                                                           the Senate bill S.                   
                                                                           1254 as original                     
                                                                           text; Makes in order                 
                                                                           only a Conyers                       
                                                                           substitute; provides                 
                                                                           a senate hook-up                     
                                                                           after adoption.                      
H.R. 2425......................  Medicare            H. Res. 238          Restrictive; waives                 1D
                                  Preservation Act.                        all points of order                  
                                                                           against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration; makes                 
                                                                           in order the text of                 
                                                                           H.R. 2485 as original                
                                                                           text; waives all                     
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against H.R. 2485;                   
                                                                           makes in order only                  
                                                                           an amendment offered                 
                                                                           by the Minority                      
                                                                           Leader or a designee;                
                                                                           waives all points of                 
                                                                           order against the                    
                                                                           amendment; waives cl                 
                                                                           5 of rule                 
                                                                           XXI (\3/5\                           
                                                                           requirement on votes                 
                                                                           raising taxes).                      
H.R. 2492......................  Legislative Branch  H. Res. 239          Restrictive; provides              N/A
                                  Appropriations                           for consideration of                 
                                  Bill.                                    the bill in the House.               
H.R. 2491......................  7 Year Balanced     H. Res. 245          Restrictive; makes in               1D
H. Con. Res. 109...............   Budget                                   order H.R. 2517 as                   
                                  Reconciliation                           original text; waives                
                                  Social Security                          all pints of order                   
                                  Earnings Test                            against the bill;                    
                                  Reform.                                  Makes in order only                  
                                                                           H.R. 2530 as an                      
                                                                           amendment only if                    
                                                                           offered by the                       
                                                                           Minority Leader or a                 
                                                                           designee; waives all                 
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendment; waives cl                 
                                                                           5 of rule                 
                                                                           XXI (\3/5\                           
                                                                           requirement on votes                 
                                                                           raising taxes).                      
H.R. 1833......................  Partial Birth       H. Res. 251          Closed................             N/A
                                  Abortion Ban Act                                                              
                                  of 1995.                                                                      
H.R. 2546......................  D.C.                H. Res. 252          Restrictive; waives                N/A
                                  Appropriations FY                        all points of order                  
                                  1996.                                    against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration; Makes                 
                                                                           in order the Walsh                   
                                                                           amendment as the                     
                                                                           first order of                       
                                                                           business (10 min.);                  
                                                                           if adopted it is                     
                                                                           considered as base                   
                                                                           text; waives cl 2 and                
                                                                           6 of rule XXI against                
                                                                           the bill; makes in                   
                                                                           order the Bonilla,                   
                                                                           Gunderson and                        
                                                                           Hostettler amendments                
                                                                           (30 min.); waives all                
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendments; debate on                
                                                                           any further                          
                                                                           amendments is limited                
                                                                           to 30 min. each.                     
H.J. Res. 115..................  Further Continuing  H. Res. 257          Closed; Provides for               N/A
                                  Appropriations                           the immediate                        
                                  for FY 1996.                             consideration of the                 
                                                                           CR; one motion to                    
                                                                           recommit which may                   
                                                                           have instructions                    
                                                                           only if offered by                   
                                                                           the Minority Leader                  
                                                                           or a designee.                       
H.R. 2586......................  Temporary Increase  H. Res. 258          Restrictive; Provides               5R
                                  in the Statutory                         for the immediate                    
                                  Debt Limit.                              consideration of the                 
                                                                           CR; one motion to                    
                                                                           recommit which may                   
                                                                           have instructions                    
                                                                           only if offered by                   
                                                                           the Minority Leader                  
                                                                           or a designee; self-                 
                                                                           executes 4 amendments                
                                                                           in the rule; Solomon,                
                                                                           Medicare Coverage of                 
                                                                           Certain Anti-Cancer                  
                                                                           Drug Treatments,                     
                                                                           Habeas Corpus Reform,                
                                                                           Chrysler (MI); makes                 
                                                                           in order the Walker                  
                                                                           amend (40 min.) on                   
                                                                           regulatory reform.                   
H.R. 2539......................  ICC Termination...  H. Res. 259          Open; waives section    ..............
                                                                           302(f) and section                   
                                                                           308(a).                              
H.J. Res. 115..................  Further Continuing  H. Res. 261          Closed; provides for               N/A
                                  Appropriations                           the immediate                        
                                  for FY 1996.                             consideration of a                   
                                                                           motion by the                        
                                                                           Majority Leader or                   
                                                                           his designees to                     
                                                                           dispose of the Senate                
                                                                           amendments (1hr).                    
H.R. 2586......................  Temporary Increase  H. Res. 262          Closed; provides for               N/A
                                  in the Statutory                         the immediate                        
                                  Limit on the                             consideration of a                   
                                  Public Debt.                             motion by the                        
                                                                           Majority Leader or                   
                                                                           his designees to                     
                                                                           dispose of the Senate                
                                                                           amendments (1hr).                    
H. Res. 250....................  House Gift Rule     H. Res. 268          Closed; provides for                2R
                                  Reform.                                  consideration of the                 
                                                                           bill in the House; 30                
                                                                           min. of debate; makes                
                                                                           in order the Burton                  
                                                                           amendment and the                    
                                                                           Gingrich en bloc                     
                                                                           amendment (30 min.                   
                                                                           each); waives all                    
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendments; Gingrich                 
                                                                           is only in order if                  
                                                                           Burton fails or is                   
                                                                           not offered.                         
H.R. 2564......................  Lobbying            H. Res. 269          Open; waives cl.                   N/A
                                  Disclosure Act of                        2(l)(6) of rule XI                   
                                  1995.                                    against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration; waives                
                                                                           all points of order                  
                                                                           against the Istook                   
                                                                           and McIntosh                         
                                                                           amendments.                          

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H.R. 2606......................  Prohibition on      H. Res. 273          Restrictive; waives                N/A
                                  Funds for Bosnia                         all points of order                  
                                  Deployment.                              against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration;                       
                                                                           provides one motion                  
                                                                           to amend if offered                  
                                                                           by the Minority                      
                                                                           Leader or designee (1                
                                                                           hr non-amendable);                   
                                                                           motion to recommit                   
                                                                           which may have                       
                                                                           instructions only if                 
                                                                           offered by Minority                  
                                                                           Leader or his                        
                                                                           designee; if Minority                
                                                                           Leader motion is not                 
                                                                           offered debate time                  
                                                                           will be extended by 1                
                                                                           hr.                                  
H.R. 1788......................  Amtrak Reform and   H. Res. 289          Open; waives all                   N/A
                                  Privatization Act                        points of order                      
                                  of 1995.                                 against the bill's                   
                                                                           consideration; makes                 
                                                                           in order the                         
                                                                           Transportation                       
                                                                           substitute modified                  
                                                                           by the amend in the                  
                                                                           report; Bill read by                 
                                                                           title; waives all                    
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           substitute; makes in                 
                                                                           order a managers                     
                                                                           amend as the first                   
                                                                           order of business, if                
                                                                           adopted it is                        
                                                                           considered base text                 
                                                                           (10 min.); waives all                
                                                                           points of order                      
                                                                           against the                          
                                                                           amendment; Pre-                      
                                                                           printing gets                        
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 1350......................  Maritime Security   H. Res. 287          Open; makes in order               N/A
                                  Act of 1995.                             the committee                        
                                                                           substitute as                        
                                                                           original text; makes                 
                                                                           in order a managers                  
                                                                           amendment which if                   
                                                                           adopted is considered                
                                                                           as original text (20                 
                                                                           min.) unamendable;                   
                                                                           pre-printing gets                    
                                                                           priority.                            
H.R. 2621......................  To Protect Federal  H. Res. 293          Closed; provides for               N/A
                                  Trust Funds.                             the adoption of the                  
                                                                           Ways & Means                         
                                                                           amendment printed in                 
                                                                           the report. 1 hr. of                 
                                                                           general debate.                      
H.R. 1745......................  Utah Public Lands   H. Res. 303          Open; waives cl                    N/A
                                  Management Act of                        2(l)(6) of rule XI                   
                                  1995.                                    and sections 302(f)                  
                                                                           and 311(a) of the                    
                                                                           Budget Act against                   
                                                                           the bill's                           
                                                                           consideration. Makes                 
                                                                           in order the                         
                                                                           Resources substitute                 
                                                                           as base text and                     
                                                                           waives cl 7 of rule                  
                                                                           XVI and sections                     
                                                                           302(f) and 308(a) of                 
                                                                           the Budget Act; makes                
                                                                           in order a managers'                 
                                                                           amend as the first                   
                                                                           order of business, if                
                                                                           adopted it is                        
                                                                           considered base text                 
                                                                           (10 min).                            
H. Res. 304....................  Providing for       N/A                  Closed; makes in order          1D; 2R
                                  Debate and                               three resolutions;                   
                                  Consideration of                         H.R. 2770 (Dornan),                  
                                  Three Measures                           H. Res. 302 (Buyer),                 
                                  Relating to U.S.                         and H. Res. 306                      
                                  Troop Deployments                        (Gephardt); 1 hour of                
                                  in Bosnia.                               debate on each.                      
H. Res. 309....................  Revised Budget      H. Res. 309          Closed; provides 2                 N/A
                                  Resolution.                              hours of general                     
                                                                           debate in the House.                 
H.R. 558.......................  Texas Low-Level     H. Res. 313          Open; pre-printing                 N/A
                                  Radioactive Waste                        gets priority.                       
                                  Disposal Compact                                                              
                                  Consent Act.                                                                  
H.R. 2677......................  The National Parks  H. Res. 323          Closed; consideration              N/A
                                  and National                             in the House; self-                  
                                  Wildlife Refuge                          executes Young                       
                                  Systems Freedom                          amendment.                           
                                  Act of 1995.                                                                  
                                                                                                                
                                   PROCEDURE IN THE 104TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION                                   
                                                                                                                
H.R. 1643......................  To authorize the    H. Res. 334          Closed; provides to                N/A
                                  extension of                             take the bill from                   
                                  nondiscriminatory                        the Speaker's table                  
                                  treatment (MFN)                          with the Senate                      
                                  to the products                          amendment, and                       
                                  of Bulgaria.                             consider in the House                
                                                                           the motion printed in                
                                                                           the Rules Committee                  
                                                                           report; 1 hr. of                     
                                                                           general debate;                      
                                                                           previous question is                 
                                                                           considered as ordered.               
H.J. Res. 134..................  Making continuing   H. Res. 336          Closed; provides to                N/A
H. Con. Res. 131...............   appropriations/                          take from the                        
                                  establishing                             Speaker's table H.J.                 
                                  procedures making                        Res. 134 with the                    
                                  the transmission                         Senate amendment and                 
                                  of the continuing                        concur with the                      
                                  resolution H.J.                          Senate amendment with                
                                  Res. 134.                                an amendment (H. Con.                
                                                                           Res. 131) which is                   
                                                                           self-executed in the                 
                                                                           rule. The rule                       
                                                                           provides further that                
                                                                           the bill shall not be                
                                                                           sent back to the                     
                                                                           Senate until the                     
                                                                           Senate agrees to the                 
                                                                           provisions of H. Con.                
                                                                           Res. 131.                            
H.R. 1358......................  Conveyance of       H. Res. 338          Closed; provides to                N/A
                                  National Marine                          take the bill from                   
                                  Fisheries Service                        the Speaker's table                  
                                  Laboratory at                            with the Senate                      
                                  Gloucester,                              amendment, and                       
                                  Massachusetts.                           consider in the House                
                                                                           the motion printed in                
                                                                           the Rules Committee                  
                                                                           report; 1 hr. of                     
                                                                           general debate;                      
                                                                           previous question is                 
                                                                           considered as ordered.               
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* Contract Bills, 67% restrictive; 33% open. ** All legislation 1st Session, 56% restrictive; 44% open. ***     
  Legislation 2d Session. 100% restrictive; 0% open. **** All legislation 104th Congress 59% restrictive; 41%   
  open. ***** Restrictive rules are those which limit the number of amendments which can be offered, and include
  so-called modified open and modified closed rules as well as completely closed rules and rules providing for  
  consideration in the House as opposed to the Committee of the Whole. This definition of restrictive rule is   
  taken from the Republican chart of resolutions reported from the Rules Committee in the 103d Congress. ****** 
  Not included in this chart are three bills which should have been placed on the Suspension Calendar. H.R. 101,
  H.R. 400, H.R. 440.                                                                                           


  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I do not disagree with many of the things 
that my colleagues on the other side have said but there is still no 
excuse why all of the appropriation bills have not been finished on 
time.
  We can do this without regard to the budget. We have done it when we 
were in the majority. And there is no reason that they could not have 
done it; and that is the reason we are here today in this capacity.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 6 minutes to my friend and colleague, the 
gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Frank].
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I was surprised to hear the 
gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon] say that there will be no more 
deficit spending with the Republicans in control. I had understood the 
Republican budget to accept the reality of the fact that there will be 
deficit spending for the next 6 years.
  The 7-year budget means that the deficit ends in the seventh year, 
but for the first 6 years of the Republican budget there is a deficit. 
So, to say that there will be no more deficit spending is to assume 
that we will go into a coma for 6 years and then come out in the 
seventh.
  Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from New York did have a tougher budget. 
It is true. It was a very tough budget. That is why I believe a 
majority of the Republicans voted against it.
  But the key here is procedural and not substantive. I gather this is 
the first time the House has been asked, not at the end of the session 
when we are trying to clean things up, but at the very outset of a 
session to change the rules substantially to diminish the chance to 
discuss publicly major legislation.
  Mr. Speaker, this is doing away with the two-thirds vote. For a group 
that came in boasting about how open and democratic they were going to 
be, this is an extraordinary diminution of our ability as a legislative 
body to discuss things.

                              {time}  1045

  And the reason for it is simple. I want to be very clear. I am not 
impugning the motives of my colleagues in this regard. I would not do 
it even if the rules allowed me, in this one case at least. I do not 
think they came intending to diminish openness and fairness. I do not 
think it was part of their explicit program to do so. But they have a 
problem. The problem is their own incompetence. They have been unable 
to do the business of the public sufficiently well to stick to 
openness. And authoritarianism is the result of incompetence.
  We will not have a chance fully to debate these issues because they 
are so disorganized, so unable to cope with their own internal 
divisions, apparently surprised, one of the things I have heard is 
Members on the other side have said, it is not our fault, there is 
something called the U.S. Senate, they have said. In the U.S. Senate 
they have something called the filibuster, and that has interfered with 
us.
  Some of us, a year or two ago, were urging that in our rules of 
reform we deal with Senate filibuster. We said we did not like it. 
Universally the Republicans said, no, you cannot do that. That is a bad 
idea. So they were the great defenders of the Senate filibuster when we 
last talked about rules reform. When some of us talked about trying to 
curtail the filibuster through the mechanism of rules reform, the joint 
rules, Republicans said that was a terrible idea. Now they are 
apparently shocked to find on it that this filibuster causes some 
problems.

  But the Republicans control the Senate and the Republicans control 
the House. And under Republican control, we have compiled the worst 
record in simply doing our job that I can remember. The appropriations 
bills were not passed. They were passed in November and December. They 
were all supposed to be passed by October 1.
  So how do they deal with this problem? They come in today with a 
resolution that substantially diminishes the ability of the American 
public to look at these things and hear them debated because they 
abolish the rule that says you cannot do them all in the same day.
  Part of the problem may be this and we have seen this from the 
Republican side. The Republican leadership comes up with a proposal and 
the Republican membership immediately attacks it. It may be that what 
we are being given here is an effort not to throttle the Democrats, not 
to keep the press out, but it may be that the Republican leadership has 
finally figured out that they cannot give their own membership time to 
read these things. Maybe they figure that Republican freshmen, being 
new to this place, will not be able to figure it out in a day. It will 
take them 2 days and they will have had it passed already. Because what 
they are saying is they should be able to bring up major legislation 
involving their failure to do appropriations bills and pass it the same 
day, not have that 1-day waiting period when it goes in the press, when 
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television, when the public has a chance to react. That is what we are 
talking about.
  What we are talking about now is the ability of, apparently, the 
Republican leadership to bring up legislation dealing with the 
appropriations and get it passed the same day, lest it be talked about.
  I have to say, since we are the minority, unanimously we do not have 
the votes to stop them from doing what they are doing. What they are 
afraid of are their own Members. What they are afraid of is the kind 
of, oh, we cannot do this.
  The problem is that there is a gap; there is a gap between the views 
of many of the Republican Members and reality. And their fear is that 
the Republican leadership, now that they have learned that shutting 
down the Government is disruptive and unpopular and in fact fiscally 
quite irresponsible, since it adds to Government costs, the Republican 
leadership does not want again to have a Government shutdown. But they 
have a problem, because they have difficulty in getting the votes on 
their own side and with their own colleagues to pass legislation that 
keeps the Government working.
  One way they have decided that they can minimize that difficulty is 
to reduce the possibility for public input, to reduce the chance for 
discussion, to speed this up. And that is why we have an extraordinary 
motion today from the advocates of procedural fairness and openness, 
substantially to diminish the time which the U.S. House of 
Representatives will have to discuss the expenditure of billions of 
dollars.
  I regret very much that they have not been competent enough and 
sufficiently organized within themselves to deal with the difficult 
task of governing. But I do not think that democracy ought to be the 
victim of that incompetence.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  When I stand here and listen to the gentleman from Massachusetts, I 
would kindly remind my colleague that there has been more discussion 
and more debate about a balanced budget in these Chambers in 1 day than 
they have had in the last 24 years on the Democratic side of the aisle. 
We are serious about this situation.
  We have determined there are more people riding the wagon than there 
are pulling the wagon. It is about time we get some people helping 
contribute to this. The gentleman talks about management as if the last 
24 or 26 years of deficit is good management. He talks about competency 
as if this Congress is held out by the American people as being 
economically competent.
  Go out and ask the American citizens, would they let the U.S. 
Congress run their checkbook? Go out across this country and say to 
somebody, If you got a gift of $100 million and you wanted to donate 
$10 million to the needy people of this country, would you send that 
check to Washington, DC, for distribution? Of course, they would not do 
that.
  The other point that should be brought up here is part of the delay 
in this process is there are Members on their side of the aisle who are 
devoting their resources and their energy not into helping us find a 
solution for this budget deficit but in making sure we are not the ones 
that find the solution.
  We want them to join the team. The time has come for economic 
reality. The President of this country stood up here and said the era 
of big Government, which was supported by that side of the aisle for 
the years that it had control, it is over. Power needs to shift back to 
the States; power needs to go back to the individuals. We have moved 
the President, but I am not sure we have moved many on your side of the 
aisle.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 8 minutes to the gentleman from 
Maryland [Mr. Hoyer].
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding time to 
me.
  Mr. Speaker, first of all, what are we considering? We are 
considering, as both gentlemen from Massachusetts have already pointed 
out, a rule which allows for 1 day of consideration of matters, which 
means that neither Members nor the public will have an opportunity to 
review that which is being proposed.
  I do not know whether the gentleman representing the majority on the 
Committee on Rules knows, but perhaps he can inform me at the end of 
this debate whether or not this kind of rule has ever been proposed 
prior to June 30 of any legislative year in the history of the 
Congress.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. HOYER. I yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman from the other side does 
not know, I will tell him, no, it has never been proposed before June 
30.
  Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman for his comment.
  Why do I ask that question? I ask that question because, when the 
Republicans were in the minority, they used to rail regularly about the 
arbitrariness of the Committee on Rules controlled by the Democratic 
Party. That pushed them to the position that they could not reflect or 
debate on issues confronting the Congress.
  So what do we see? We see for some reason an incredible motivation to 
get out of town. This is January. We are beginning the session, the 
second session of the 104th Congress, the historic 104th Congress, as 
our Speaker, a historian himself, tells us regularly.
  So how do we begin this Congress? With one of the most arbitrary 
rules that we have. Is there precedent for such rules? Yes, there is. 
Did we utilize them? Yes, we did. When did we utilize them? At the end 
of sessions, either because we were going on summer break in August or 
we were going out of session in October or November or December so that 
we could accelerate the process at the end of sessions. But now we have 
a rule that says, at the very beginning, in the first instance, before 
we really do any substantive business, we are going to have a rule that 
says we will not take the time.
  Apparently, we are going to go on 30 days break, as I understand it. 
We are not in control, and I am not sure about that, but that is what I 
understand. What is the reason for this rule? I cannot figure it out.
  Let me say in addition, my friend said something about management. 
That is an interesting concept over the last 40 years as to how long 
the Republicans have been in management. Under the Constitution of the 
United States, article II of the Constitution of the United States, 
article II of the Constitution gives executive authority, that is 
management authority, to the President of the United States. The 
Presidency of the United States in the last 17 or 15 years has been in 
the hands of Republicans 12 out of those 15 years. In fact, we hear the 
Republicans railing about how the President will not cooperate. That is 
why they cannot do their agenda.
  To some degree, they are correct. But my, my, my, I never hear the 
Republicans say why Ronald Reagan or George Bush did not stop the 
irresponsibility of which they accuse the Democratic Congress. I never 
hear them say that for 6 of those 12 years there was a Republican 
leadership in U.S. Senate.

  My colleagues, the fact of the matter is, we do have a serious 
problem. It is a budget deficit on a regular basis that this country 
nor its children can afford. That is why this Member of the Congress 
has voted three times to pass a constitutional amendment to require a 
balanced budget. That is why this Member of Congress right here voted 
for a budget which cut deficits faster and further than the Republican 
alternative and is, frankly, in my opinion, the budget that we ought to 
pass. I think the President would sign. And it would reduce deficits 
further and faster than the Republican alternative.
  My colleagues, this martial law rule is proposed because we need to 
come to grips with this year's fiscal policies, which we have not yet 
adopted. The fiscal policies in my opinion of the Republican leadership 
during the past year are worthy of careful consideration by the 
American public and then deserving of the American public's contempt.
  The Republican shutdown of Government and the Gingrich premeditated 
tactics of forcing America to default prospectively on its debts, both, 
my colleagues, are arguably historically the most irresponsible fiscal 
policies proposed by any leadership of the House of Representatives in 
its history.
  We ought to have a rule on this floor which says that we will pass a 
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debt limit extension. Secretary Donald Reagan wrote me a letter and 
said that is what we ought to do, not on this one but when the 
Republicans had the Presidency. Secretary of the Treasury Jim Baker 
asked me to do the same. Secretary Brady asked me to do the same.
  All three of those Secretaries of the Treasury said it would be the 
height of irresponsibility not to accommodate past policies and pay 
America's bills. Moody's has just yesterday made an observation that 
they may change the cost of borrowing in America by changing our 
rating. If they do that, every homeowner, every person who goes into 
the Hecht Co. in this area or Woodward and Lothrop or K-Mart and uses a 
credit card will pay more.

                              {time}  1100

  Every foreign government will up its price of money to the U.S. 
taxpayer. The fact of the matter is I do not know of a responsible 
financial person that I have talked to in my district or in this 
country that thinks that putting the American Government into default 
is anything other than insanity. Yet, it was a proposed policy by 
Speaker Gingrich earlier this year. That is why I called it a 
premeditated policy of placing America at risk of defaulting on its 
debts.
  Mr. Speaker, this rule is not inherently evil. It is a rule that will 
accommodate action. I understand that. I do not allege that it is, in 
and of itself, a rule that is particularly pernicious. But its timing 
is historic because we never found the need to do this before, in my 
opinion, in the history of the House of Representatives, because we 
were always prepared in January, February, March, April, and May to 
consider matters in a timely fashion. It was only at the end that we 
needed to accelerate.
  Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States said we ought to come 
together. We ought to jettison confrontation and adopt cooperation and 
put this country on a sound fiscal footing, make a commitment that we 
are not going to shut down government, not just for Federal employees, 
but for Americans who rely on government on a daily basis, that they 
will not be at risk, and that we ought to commit ourselves to quickly 
passing a clean debt limit extension, so we can tell all the world 
America, America can be relied on.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, the gentleman that just spoke is an eloquent speaker, 
and not exactly on point, but he is an eloquent speaker. I guess the 
gentleman brings up that we finished talking about the word management. 
Now let us talk about the word participation. The gentleman acts as if 
there was no opportunity to participate last night. The Committee on 
Rules had an open meeting.
  By the way, the meetings under the Republican management of this 
Congress have been open, sunshine. They are open to the press. By the 
way, we do not have proxy voting anymore. Under the old management 
team, the Democratic management team, you could go home to your 
district and you could have a proxy vote cast on your behalf. You did 
not even have to be at a committee hearing.
  What did we do? We said, ``Wait a minute, we are going to change the 
management around here. We expect you to be at your meetings. If you 
are going to cast a vote, you are expected to be there and cast a vote 
in person.'' The gentleman does not bring up the point that last night 
his colleagues on the Democratic side of the aisle did not carry this 
kind of debate in the Committee on Rules. In fact, they voted for this 
rule. In fact, they voted for it unanimously. We did not even do a 
rollcall vote on it. We did a voice vote on it. I think it is important 
to remember those kinds of things.
  I think it is important to take a look. I think the gentleman is 
credible when he starts talking about his personal efforts at balancing 
the budget. I think he is terrific in that area. But my big question 
is, Why did his party not follow him? The party had 26 years since the 
last time this country balanced their budget, and I do not know how 
many years the gentleman has served over there. I know it is many, and 
I know he has served with distinction. But my question that I would 
like at some point to be answered is, Why did the gentleman not 
convince his own party during the period of time that he served to 
balance the budget? That is all we are trying to do.
  Mr. Speaker, the gentleman brings up the point about the interest 
rates. Do Members want to lower interest rates for the working Joe and 
working Jane in this country? Then balance this budget. Quit spending 
more money than you bring in.
  There is not a family in America that gets to operate under these 
fiscal rules. There is not a special district, there is not a city, 
there is not a county, there is not a State in this country that gets 
to operate under such crazy fiscal rules. Constantly, for a period of 
24 years, you spend more than you bring in.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman 
from New York [Mr. Solomon], chairman of the Committee on Rules.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I just am really taken aback by my good 
friend, the gentleman from Maryland [Mr. Hoyer], when he says this rule 
is not inherently evil. I thought this gentleman wanted this rule in 
the worst way. I know that the Federal employees that I represent want 
this rule in the worst way. A number of them on my way to work this 
morning approached me and said ``We hope you can deal with this problem 
today. Please do not furlough us again next week.''
  That is exactly what this is meant to do. I understand that Speaker 
Gingrich received a call from Air Force One, from the President, last 
night where they talked about putting together this continuing 
resolution that was going to continue the Government, keep it working, 
and that is exactly what we are trying to do here today.
  Mr. Speaker, someone, I guess the gentleman from Maryland [Mr. Hoyer] 
mentioned that this procedure had never been done before.
  Mr. HOYER. Prior to June 30.
  Mr. SOLOMON. We have a whole list of when it was done in the 103d 
Congress. Let me just point out, here is a list of all of the vetoes 
and the veto overrides of all of the Presidents since George 
Washington.
  I have to point out to the gentleman, because I was here during the 
Reagan years, and all during those Reagan years when you had a very 
philosophical President with an opposing party in this body of 
Democrats opposing him, never once did Ronald Reagan fail to sit down 
and negotiate these appropriation bills that keep the Government 
functioning. There were several occasions when, for 1 day, we 
overlapped; in other words, we did not quite make it, but there was no 
prolonged argument.
  Ronald Reagan knew that he had to govern. He recognized that this 
House of Representatives had control of the pursestrings. 
Unfortunately, he never accomplished what he wanted to accomplish, 
because he could not do it with these Democrats in control of this 
House.
  Let me point out, right now most of the appropriation bills have been 
enacted into law. There are four major ones that have not. There is one 
that deals with the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of 
Housing, the National Space Center, the Environmental Protection 
Agency, and 47 other smaller agencies. We negotiated that with the 
Senate. There was no holdup over in the other body. We sent that to the 
President. The President vetoed it, because the cuts were too deep in 
the Environmental Protection Agency, he said, and a couple of other 
things.

  We told him that there is an increase in medical care delivery 
systems for veterans of about $400 million, and we will not negotiate 
that, because that has to stay. But if you want to shift that spending 
in the rest of that bill, you do what you want to do. We will reenact 
the bill and send it to you. That whole portion of the Federal 
Government will be working, without any question.
  The Interior Department appropriations, which funds all the national 
parks, the Department of Energy, Endowment for the Arts, Endowment for 
the Humanities, so forth, he said that the cuts were too deep in that. 
We told him, ``Change it any way you want to. We do not care where the 
funding lies, but as long as you stay on the glide path to the balanced 
budget.'' He never gave us any of his recommendations. 

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  Finally, the Commerce, Justice, State Department, that funds the 
Department of Commerce, Department of State, Department of Justice, he 
said the cuts were too deep there. Basically, he said, ``We cut 
Commerce, technology, we cut international operations, we cut 
peacekeeping activities and the Legal Services Corporation too much.'' 
So we told him, ``Change it any way you want to, as long as you stay in 
the glide path, and all of those employees will go back to work 
permanently through September 30, the end of this fiscal year.''
  I would say to the gentleman, we have been doing everything we could 
to cooperate, but when you stand here and say this rule is not 
inherently evil but it is a bad rule, I am willing to put it up to a 
vote, and let us let whoever wants to vote for it vote for it. But this 
is a rule that is going to keep this Government functioning for the 
next 6 weeks so we can try to work out these differences.
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. SOLOMON. I yield briefly to the gentleman from Maryland, who 
knows that I fight for his rights for his employees.
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I want to say to the public, notwithstanding 
the philosophical differences, the gentleman who chairs the Committee 
on Rules, the gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon], and I are good 
friends, and we work closely together on a number of issues. I respect 
him, and believe he respects me.
  The gentleman raises a number of interesting points. First of all, I 
do not believe I said this was a bad rule. I said the timing of this 
rule was historic, and the reason being because we apparently are going 
to go home, Mr. Speaker. Let me further say that, very frankly, the 
reason you need this rule is not because there could not be a unanimous 
consent resolution on our side which says we will keep Government 
working past the 26th at the levels currently in force, by unanimous 
consent. You would not need a rule for that.
  Mr. McINNIS. Reclaiming my time, Mr. Speaker.


                             point of order

  Mr. HOYER. Point of order, Mr. Speaker. I believe the gentleman 
yielded to the gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon] who yielded to me.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Reclaiming my time, I would just continue to yield to 
the gentleman from Maryland for 30 seconds, but I have to consider the 
manager of the bill.
  The Speaker pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Colorado [Mr. McInnis] who has reclaimed the time, and therefore would 
be the one to yield the time. The gentleman from New York [Mr. 
Solomon], if yielded to, may yield to the gentleman from Maryland for a 
question.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Colorado [Mr. McInnis].
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from 
New York [Mr. Solomon].
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. SOLOMON. I yield to the gentleman from Maryland.
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman pointed out under Ronald Reagan 
and George Bush what happened was, because we could not override the 
President's veto any more than you can override President Clinton's 
veto, and what happened from our perspective, I tell my friend, the 
gentleman from New York, is that the Democratic Congress accommodated 
President Reagan and President Bush on issues on which there was strong 
feeling on this side, on which the President said he will not sign a 
bill if it has, for instance, pregnancy termination rights, which was 
one of the issues on which there was deep difference.
  We accommodated the President. Why? Because we could not override the 
veto, and there was no intent to shut down the Government. I understand 
what the gentleman is saying. I understand the purpose of this rule, 
and I understand that it if goes forward, perhaps we could have 
movement.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Vote for the rule. It is a good rule.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Massachusetts [Mr. Frank].
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, first I want to thank the 
gentleman from New York for pointing out that Ronald Reagan signed 
every appropriation bill, so the next time you hear people say this 
terrible deficit happened purely because of the Democrats, quote the 
gentleman from New York. Remind people that the gentleman from New York 
said that Ronald Reagan and George Bush signed every appropriations 
bill. No penny was spent during the Reagan and Bush administrations 
that they did not sign. As my friend, the gentleman from Maryland, 
points out, in some cases they wanted more spending. So every dollar in 
the deficit that we have was with the joint participation of Reagan, 
Bush, and the Congress. I appreciate the acknowledgment.
  Second, he said we needed this rule to keep the Government open. In 
the first place, a two-thirds vote would allow us to pass the CR today. 
If you were not trying to be excessively controversial, you would not 
need this rule. It is a two-thirds vote. So it is not that we need this 
rule to pass it today, we need it to do it without a two-thirds vote.
  Even more important is this point: Why are we at the point where we 
need to bring up a complicated policy-oriented continuing resolution 
and pass it the same day? It is because the other side has been too 
incompetent.

  They have been too incompetent to do it better than this. No; it is 
not good management to bring it up and vote on it the same day. They 
have created the crisis by shutting down the Government, by their own 
internal ideological turmoil, and now they come to us and say ``We are 
going to solve the crisis.'' They lurch from one self-created crisis to 
another, and then, like the arsonist who sets the fire, take credit for 
putting it out. It is a shambles of how to run the place.
  Mr. Speaker, I will say, I admire one thing about the gentleman from 
Colorado, Mr. McInnis. At no point has he defended this rule. He has 
talked about balancing the budget, he has talked about everything else, 
but in the last couple of conversations he has not defended the rule, 
because what we have is one more self-created crisis that the 
Republicans have tried to solve.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Texas, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson.
  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I have listened to 
the debate. I am seldom up on a rule. But all of us can see through 
this rule. We can say whatever we want to say about the rhetoric. All 
of us understand each other. All of us, 100 percent of us, want to 
balance the budget. There is no question about that. The question is 
balancing the budget in two diverse ways.
  For the most part, the people on the Democratic side of the aisle do 
not want to balance the budget by cutting education, cutting all of 
Medicaid, cutting all of Medicare, and making sure that people do not 
have access to clean and safe water. We want considerations.
  All of us know that when we start altering the rules of the House, 
coming up with different rules to get by, it is to muffle those voices. 
All of us know that the reason why the Government has been shut down is 
because the attempt has been to pass these drastic, draconian cuts in 
the continuing resolution. Let us not play games with each other. It is 
time for us to give the American people a sensible solution, and we 
cannot do it by forgetting that they exist.

                              {time}  1115

  They exist and they need to be given attention. We just cannot 
steamroll it through and think that we are taking care of the business 
of the American people. The bulk of the people in this Nation, 80 
percent of them, care about the education of their children for the 
future.
  We have all said we need better educated, better trained work forces. 
How are we going to get them with all of the opportunities to cut, and 
we know that that is what we are doing in a rule that simply passes all 
of the philosophical types of draconian cuts in a continuing 
resolution, knowing full well that we are going to blame the 
Republicans, because that is where we sincerely feel it is going to be. 
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Democrats in saying they do not want to balance the budget.
  All of us want to balance the budget and all of us know that. It is 
the way in which we want to balance it. I would say it is time for us 
to stop playing games with the public and with ourselves.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I would be interested to know how the gentlewoman from Texas voted on 
the balanced budget amendment, after she stands down here and talks 
about how everybody supports a balanced budget.
  Furthermore, I should point out to the gentlewoman from Texas, with 
all due respect, she had 26 years to balance the budget her way, 26 
years to do something. The gentlewoman had the President of her party 
last year; she had at least 2 years while I was here to balance this 
budget.
  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman 
yield?
  Mr. McINNIS. I yield to the gentlewoman from Texas.
  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, we might have had 26 
years, but the budget was unbalanced during the Reagan-Bush years on 
the backs of the same people we are victimizing now.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, if I may reclaim my time, I notice I did 
not get an answer to my question which was, how did the gentlewoman 
vote on the balanced budget amendment?
  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, during that 12 years 
when we went toward a downward spiral, the whole philosophy was 
trickle-down. We are trying to reinvent that. It does not work. It did 
not work then; it will not work now.
  We cannot victimize and enslave all of the people of this Nation just 
to say we are balancing the budget to give this tax break to the 
wealthy. It will not work.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time, I assume that answer 
means the gentlewoman voted ``no'' on the balanced budget.
  Let me move on to the rule. The gentleman from Maryland [Mr. Hoyer] 
stated that we have never before June 30 ever had the same day two-
thirds requirement waived, and my good friend, the gentleman from the 
Committee on Rules stated another statement similar to that. But I felt 
in order to be more credible up here I would use your statistics on has 
this occurred before.
  Waivers of the two-thirds vote requirement for same-day rules in the 
103d Congress before June 30: House Resolution 61, Family Medical Leave 
Act, February 3, 1993. House Resolution 111, emergency unemployment, 
March 3, 1993. House Resolution 142, budget resolution, March 30, 1993. 
House Resolution 150, supplemental appropriations, April 1, 1993. House 
Resolution 153, supplemental appropriations April 21, 1993. I go on. 
House Resolution 322. House Resolution 356. Emergency supplemental 
appropriations. House Resolution 395.
  The point that I am making here is that it is somewhat incredible for 
Members I guess opposed to this rule, and I am not even sure they are 
opposed to the rule, to show up at the microphone and say we are 
setting history or a new precedent. This whole book, which is your 
statistics, is full of the precedent.
  Mr. Speaker, we need to have a management tool. I believe last night, 
if I heard the gentleman correctly and I will yield to him so he has an 
opportunity to correct me if I am wrong, but last night in the 
Committee on Rules the gentleman said, we understand the need for 
management. This went out of the Committee on Rules unanimously. There 
were not these kind of eloquent speeches last night in the Committee on 
Rules.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, first of all, the bills that my friend 
speaks of were single-purpose bills. This is a general bill that would 
allow anything to happen. Those were specific reasons to waive the two-
thirds rule, but anything could be waived under this.
  Yes, last night, we did not want to present an obstacle by raising 
any ruckus in the Committee on Rules, but that does not mean that we 
voted in favor of it; we just did not raise any opposition.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time, I should point out, Mr. 
Speaker, that first of all to the gentleman from Massachusetts, the 
waiver is very specific. He said it is not specific at all. It is very 
specific.
  Second of all, I guess the gentleman is going to sing in a different 
tune now. I do not remember that when he said prior to June 30 he 
specified it or restricted it to certain conditions or a single 
subject. The fact is we had this rule for a purpose. The rule was not 
just created last night in the Committee on Rules, it is there as a 
management tool.
  One of our responsibilities in the Committee on Rules is to manage 
these bills primarily today so that we can keep the Government 
operating, which is a concern of everybody in this Chamber.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I do not want to prolong the management tool. I mean, we can chop 
down a cherry tree with an ax or we can knock it over with a bulldozer. 
I think this is not a general-purpose, two-thirds waiver. Anything, any 
budget, any bill could be taken up in the same day.
  As I say, the matters that the gentleman from Colorado referred to 
were specific instances in the two-thirds vote that was waived for that 
specific instance.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman 
from Colorado [Mrs. Schroeder].
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for yielding 
me this time.
  Mr. Speaker, I find this interesting because maybe somewhere on this 
floor there is this bill that we are talking about, but I cannot find 
it. My understanding is we now have this martial law rule for a bill 
that is not here. So after we pass this, then I guess we are going to 
go into recess while they are still writing it.
  Someone told me that there have now been over 30 different versions 
of this bill, and we have not seen it yet. Maybe that is 
misinformation. But what we are doing is giving permission for them to 
write anything they want, bring it here and then it is take it or leave 
it, or shut the Government down again.
  Mr. Speaker, I do not really care what George Washington did, nor do 
my constituents today. They do not want a history lesson. They want to 
know what we are going to do today, and they are a little tired of the 
fact that we have wasted almost $2 billion of their money on this stop 
and start of the Federal Government, and we are about to do it the 
third time.
  The gentleman from Colorado, I guess it was the gentleman from New 
York, said Federal employees want this in the worst way. That is right. 
They are in the worst way. It gets shut down tomorrow if we do not do 
this. So we are being told as Members of the House, accept this bill 
that we have not shown you yet, give us this rule to bring it up any 
way we want, and then take it or leave it one more time. I do not think 
that is the democratic process.
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, will the gentlewoman yield?
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. I yield to the gentleman from California.
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, the reason that this rule is 
being put forth today is because obviously, I say to my colleague, the 
reason you put the martial law issue, at some point you want to decide 
you want to end the debate, you want to stifle debate and you do not 
want to allow alternatives, you do not want to allow amendments. We 
were here and we are here today because apparently at one time there 
was just a high principle of 7 years, CBO-scored and a balanced budget. 
Apparently that all evaporated sometime Tuesday night.
  What we now find out is that 7 years is no longer important; CBO is 
no longer important; a balanced budget is no longer important. The 
authentic revolutionary who stood there the first day of the session in 
the chair of the Speaker has now become an incrementalist. Because the 
Speaker has now become an incrementalist, they now want to stifle the 
debate. They were willing to throw people out of their jobs, at risk in 
the Social Security system, at risk in the AFDC payment system. They 
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going to save this country with the 7-year CBO balanced budget. Today 
they want to take it off the floor, they want to deny the President 
$700 billion in savings that he has already agreed to. They do not want 
to give us the alternative for $700 billion in savings.
  What they want to do is patch up the system in the same old way of 
business as usual. That is why they need martial law, because if they 
do not have martial law, they have to accept amendments, they have to 
accept debate, and they have to accept the discussion. But they brought 
in their freshmen, they said there was nothing more important to the 
country.
  Well, they have just decided that apparently something else is more 
important, and that is apparently the tax cut or patching up this 
system and getting out of town for a month and not coming back. They 
would rather get out of town than have a debate about whether or not we 
should still go for the hundreds of billions of dollars in savings that 
this administration has already agreed to. That is why they need 
martial law. And they should be denied martial law.
  As was pointed out, they have martial law for a bill that we have not 
even written yet. That is not the democratic process, that is not an 
open process, and that does not allow for comment. I thank the 
gentleman for yielding to me.
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time, I think the 
gentleman from California hit it right on the head. That is exactly 
what is happening here. We are asked to be able to bring this thing to 
the floor because if we do not take it, by gosh, the Government shuts 
down tomorrow, and guess what? We are going to be out of town, because 
they are planning to go off again for another 3 weeks or whatever it 
is. I think that is absolutely ridiculous.
  What is really happening is, if we vote for this rule, what we are 
voting for is the right for them to write anything they want in some 
dark room somewhere. I happen to believe government is not a fungus, it 
can thrive in sunshine, and then they can bring it out here and say you 
either have to agree to what we wrote in the dark room with none of you 
around, or we go down on the Government for the third time.
  Let us be real clear. That is what it is about. It is not about how 
many vetoes George Washington had or anything else. This is about the 
fact that they are all over the lot over on that side.
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, will the gentlewoman yield?
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. I yield to the gentleman from California.
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, this is about the fact that 
they have had the most massive meltdown in failure on their side after 
putting people at risk in this country that now what they want is a 
minimalist bill and get out of town. This is about just getting out of 
town so that nobody will discover that they have dramatically changed 
apparently the priorities of this Nation. They have gone from a 
balanced budget to business as usual.
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time, I thank the 
gentleman for his statement, because I think that is absolutely right. 
People are already out of this Chamber. I wish I knew, I wish I had the 
bloodhounds to go find out where they are meeting and where we are now 
having the rewrite of this bill or whatever it is. But if this rule 
passes, then we are going to be faced with having a bill out here with 
whatever they put in it. It is going to be one more manufactured 
crisis. And do not forget, we are now in the fourth or fifth month of 
this fiscal year without having our work done. That is unbelievable. I 
think the American people are sick and tired of it.
  I think that to constantly manufacture these crises is costing us a 
tremendous amount of money. As I say, now they are saying almost $2 
billion for these prior shutdowns, and then putting it here where we 
either take it or leave it or one more time we go through this. We look 
terrible in this country. I have never seen this done before.
  Now, I must say, on the other hand, I am one of the people who is 
retiring and I am sitting here in the front row thinking, why am I 
giving this job up? This is great. You get great pay, you show up 3 
days a month. This is fabulous. You do not have to make decisions on 
anything. They do martial law, they go meet somewhere, they bring it 
out here, you duck, you do not have any responsibility, but that is not 
what the democratic process is about. It is not about giving people 
permission to meet in dark rooms and do what they want.
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, will the gentlewoman yield?
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. I yield to the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. DOGGETT. I would ask the gentlewoman, is the thrust of this rule 
to give even more power to a Speaker who already has extraordinary 
power?
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time, the gentleman from 
Texas asks a very good question. I do not know where this meeting is 
going on, and I do not know why we do not have the bill in front of us 
that this rule affects.
  Mr. DOGGETT. If the gentlewoman would yield further, this rule is for 
a bill that we do not have.
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I would say in response to the 
gentleman, we do not have it on our side. And I ask if anybody had it 
over there. I do not see it on the table; nobody seems to be coming up 
with it.
  My understanding is that we are going to vote for this rule that will 
allow whatever bill they are now writing. Whether it is in the 
Speaker's office or someplace else to come up and be immediate law and, 
once we vote on this rule, we will all go into recess for a while, do 
special orders until they finally get it written. But I do not think 
there are any Democrats in the room, I can tell you that. I do not know 
who is in that room, I do not even know where the room is, but I know 
we should be debating here in public those issues.
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, if the gentlewoman would continue to yield, 
I heard the Speaker of the House, who will have extraordinary power, 
announce last night on national television that his effort to dismantle 
Medicare this year has failed and that he is giving up on it.
  What I do not understand is why he is walking away from a balanced 
budget as well. He talks about some minimal down payment at a time we 
ought to be bringing the whole budget deficit down without bringing 
Medicare down with it. Is that not involved centrally, and the reason 
they want to walk out of town rather than debate what this is all 
really about?
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time, I guess so. I am 
very troubled by that. I am also very troubled by the fact that Moody's 
came out and said they are close to making the bonds of this great 
Nation almost the junk bond. Mr. Speaker, if we are going to play fast 
and loose with the credit rating of this great Nation, which has never 
been done before, and what they are doing is, they are meeting 
somewhere we do not know. And we are supposed to give them authority to 
do anything. We get out of town, and then who knows if the credit 
rating sinks or falls? I do not know. I am very confused about that.
  I do not know why the Speaker would say that on public television and 
not be willing to come here and defend it.

                              {time}  1130

  Mr. DOGGETT. They may well take us, in the month of February, right 
to brink of fiscal disaster, to default on this Government's full faith 
and credit. And when they get there to the cliff, if they mishandle 
this whole issue of Government default the way they have mishandled the 
governance in this House for the last year where they have accomplished 
so little after expending so much time here on the floor of this House, 
then we may actually fall into default.
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. The gentleman is right. This is just one crisis after 
another, all artificially manufactured.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Taylor of North Carolina). The time of 
the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Moakley] has expired.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  For the gentleman from Texas, the gentleman from Texas who just 
spoke, I want to assist the gentleman a little. We are not talking 
about a rule on a bill. The gentleman's procedure, if he was following 
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point that out to the gentleman from Texas.
  The gentlewoman from Colorado, of course, stands up and talks about 
the gentlewoman is leaving the U.S. Congress and that we get great pay 
back here. I would also remind the gentlewoman we have great retirement 
funds back here.
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. McINNIS. No, the gentlewoman has had her time. All of you have 
had your time. In fact, your time has expired.
  To the gentleman from California, if the Republicans did nothing else 
this year, just to hear the gentlewoman from Colorado and the gentleman 
from California and the gentleman from Massachusetts talk about a 
balanced budget is a victory for this country.
  We have had lots of debate. We have had more debate in 1 day, and I 
bet some days we have had more debate in 1 hour than the Democratic 
Congress has had in 26 years. You have had an opportunity to do this. 
We are trying to reverse that.
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. McINNIS. The gentlewoman has had her opportunity with time. The 
gentlewoman took several minutes up there. The gentlewoman's time has 
expired. I ask that she allow me to continue with my time which I 
intend to do.
  There was some statement made about martial law. The gentleman from 
California talked about martial law. I wonder if the gentleman from 
California made those same kinds of allegations to the Democrats, the 
distinguished Democrats who serve on the Rules Committee. I wonder what 
their feeling would be if the gentleman from California went up to 
these four Democratic Members who last night voted unanimously by voice 
vote for this rule, went up and said, ``You just put in the Marshall 
plan,'' or, ``You put in martial law.'' Of course, he is not going to 
say that to them. What are they doing? It is rhetoric.
  Mr. Speaker, this rule has been used on a regular basis, and I gave 
citations, statistics to the Democrats. It is a management tool; it is 
a rule on a rule. Now the gentlewoman brought up the issue, what about 
the bill?

  The bill is not here because right now negotiations are going on with 
the administration, in good faith, to determine what the administration 
can live with and what they cannot live with. Once we determine some 
kind of an agreement, we will get it over here because we do not want 
this Government to shut down.
  It is a waste of our resources to go ahead today and slap a bill 
together without consulting with the Democratic administration, sending 
it over there and finding out the President is not going to approve it. 
Come on. We need to work as a team, and that is what we are 
encouraging. The Committee on Rules last night worked as a team. That 
is why this came out as a unanimous vote. I think that all of us should 
work unanimously to try to get our business done today so that we can 
keep the Government open tomorrow.
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Could the gentleman from Colorado at least tell us 
where they are meeting?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Colorado [Mr. McInnis] 
will not yield.
  Mr. McINNIS. Addressing the gentlewoman from Colorado once again, the 
gentlewoman has had her time. The gentlewoman knows we are each 
allotted an equal amount of time. You have consumed all of your time; 
we now wish to continue with the allotted time we have.
  Mr. Speaker, let me repeat another important part of the rule. We got 
somewhat diverted on the balanced budget issues. We went the whole 
spectrum, from there to whether this rule has been utilized. We covered 
the spectrum of the balanced budget, we talked about retirement pay, we 
talked about pay increases.
  Let me refocus this issue back on the rule. It is a rule on rules, 
and it says, in our rule, this narrow waiver will only apply to special 
rules providing for the consideration or disposition of measures, 
amendments, conference reports or items in disagreement from a 
conference that makes general appropriations for fiscal year 1996, 
include provisions for making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 
1996, or any bill or joint resolution that includes provisions 
increasing or waiving the public debt limit.
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. McINNIS. I will not yield to the gentlewoman from Colorado.

  What I think is important is that the Rules Committee is ably 
represented from the Democratic side, at least during the period of 
time that I have been able to serve on that committee. I can assure my 
colleagues that at any time when I was present, I have attended almost 
all of the meetings, at any time that I was present when members of the 
Democratic side felt that a rule was somewhat unfair, was somewhat 
nondemocratic, even had the slightest inkling of cutting the Democratic 
side short, they opposed it and they debated and they were well within 
their rights to do it, and I would say they did it, I think, very 
profoundly.
  Last night we did not have that. Last night, not one Democratic 
member of that Committee on Rules stood up and made any of the kind of 
statement that we heard from the gentleman from California or from 
Maryland or Massachusetts or the gentlewoman from Colorado.
  They understood last night, we need this as a management tool. They 
understood we need to put the Government back to work. They understood 
that it took teamwork. They understood that it was going to take 
cooperation. That is why this rule passed with a unanimous vote and not 
only did it pass with a unanimous vote, it passed with a voice vote.
  What has happened today, what we have witnessed today, is some people 
who--by the way, many of the people who spoke today did not take the 
time last night to come to the Committee on Rules, to attend that 
Committee on Rules and see what was said. Instead today they have tried 
to divert from a procedure and try and get into peripheral arguments 
dealing with everything from the Marshall plan to the history of pay of 
the Congress, to how many days the U.S. Congress works.
  This debate today is on a rule. This is a procedural debate. I would 
encourage all of my colleagues to vote for this rule and to follow the 
lead of the Committee on Rules.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time has expired.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, I move the previous question on the 
resolution.
  The previous question was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. MOAKLEY. 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 229, 
nays 191, not voting 13, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 17]

                               YEAS--229

     Allard
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baker (CA)
     Baker (LA)
     Ballenger
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Bereuter
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bliley
     Blute
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Brownback
     Bryant (TN)
     Bunn
     Bunning
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canady
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Christensen
     Chrysler
     Clinger
     Coble
     Coburn
     Collins (GA)
     Combest
     Cooley
     Cox
     Crane
     Crapo
     Cremeans
     Cubin
     Cunningham
     Davis
     Deal
     DeLay
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Doolittle
     Dornan
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     English
     Ensign
     Everett
     Ewing
     Fawell
     Fields (TX)
     Flanagan
     Foley
     Forbes
     Fowler
     Fox
     Franks (CT)
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frisa
     Funderburk
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Goss
     Graham
     Greenwood
     Gunderson
     Gutknecht
     Hancock
     Hansen
     Hastert
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Heineman
     Herger
     Hilleary
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hoke
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Inglis
     Istook
     Johnson (CT)
     
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     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kim
     King
     Kingston
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     LaHood
     Largent
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Laughlin
     Lazio
     Leach
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Lightfoot
     Linder
     Livingston
     LoBiondo
     Longley
     Lucas
     Manzullo
     Martini
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntosh
     McKeon
     Metcalf
     Meyers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Molinari
     Moorhead
     Morella
     Myers
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Neumann
     Ney
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Oxley
     Packard
     Parker
     Paxon
     Petri
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Pryce
     Quillen
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Riggs
     Roberts
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roth
     Roukema
     Royce
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaefer
     Schiff
     Seastrand
     Sensenbrenner
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Shuster
     Skeen
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Solomon
     Souder
     Spence
     Stearns
     Stockman
     Stump
     Talent
     Tate
     Tauzin
     Taylor (NC)
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Torkildsen
     Upton
     Vucanovich
     Walker
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watts (OK)
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     White
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wolf
     Young (FL)
     Zeliff
     Zimmer

                               NAYS--191

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Andrews
     Baesler
     Baldacci
     Barcia
     Barrett (WI)
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     Jacobs
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     Johnson, E. B.
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                             NOT VOTING--13

     Archer
     Chapman
     Chenoweth
     Jefferson
     Klug
     Lewis (GA)
     McDade
     Serrano
     Waldholtz
     Waters
     Waxman
     Wyden
     Young (AK)

                              {time}  1158

  Mr. KENNEDY of Massachusetts changed his vote from ``yea'' to 
``nay.''
  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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