[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 14 (Thursday, February 1, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H1185-H1196]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 2924, THE SOCIAL SECURITY GUARANTEE 
                                  ACT

  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call 
up House Resolution 355 and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 355

       Resolved, That upon the adoption of this resolution it 
     shall be in order to consider in the House the bill (H.R. 
     2924) to guarantee the timely payment of social security 
     benefits in March 1996. The bill shall be debatable for one 
     hour equally divided and controlled by the chairman and 
     ranking minority member of the Committee on Ways and Means. 
     The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the 
     bill to final passage without intervening motion except one 
     motion to recommit. The motion to recommit may include 
     instructions only if offered by the Minority Leader or his 
     designee.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Florida [Mr. Goss] is 
recognized for 1 hour.
  (Mr. GOSS asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks and to include extraneous material for the Record.)
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I yield the 
customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Frost], pending 
which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration 
of this resolution, all time given is for the purpose of debate only.
  Mr. Speaker, this is a straightforward, fair rule that allows for 
consideration of H.R. 2924, a bill to ensure that Social Security 
payments will not be needlessly delayed by the administration. Let me 
repeat that, Mr. Speaker. This is a bill to ensure that Social Security 
payments will not be needlessly delayed by the administration. In other 
words, the checks are going to go out, they are going to go out on 
time, they are going to be paid in full.
  Mr. Speaker, because this legislation involves a matter of simple 
fairness, and due to the predicted impending winter storm, we are 
bringing it up under the expedited authority granted earlier by this 
House. The rule provides for 1 hour of general debate, and preserves 
the right of the minority to offer a motion to recommit, with or 
without instructions.
  Mr. Speaker, we should not really have to be working on this matter 
at all. Despite the fact that this Congress will pass a responsible 
debt limit increase prior to the March 1 deadline, and despite the fact 
that the President has already vetoed two debt limit increases, the 
administration has suddenly called into question its ability to pay 
for the March Social Security benefits. President Clinton made 
suggestive remarks along these lines at State of the Union. Well Mr. 
Speaker, passage of H.R. 2924 will make absolutely clear that the 
Secretary of the Treasury has the authority to process and send these 
Social Security benefit checks--which are printed in late February. I 
find it appalling that the sanctity of the Social Security System 
should be brought into question in such a cynical manner. Yet we have 
listened to the President and some in this body employ similar scare 
tactics for: School lunches, Meals on Wheels, Medicare, and so on. Each 
time they resort to these threats, I think their credibility drops, and 
certainly the President's ability to work in good faith with the 
majority of this Congress diminishes.

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  I would like to address the concerns raised by those who claim that 
Congress is somehow acting less than responsibly by going into a 
district work period before passing a full debt limit increase. I 
disagree--the truth is that this Congress has passed two debt limit 
measures, both vetoed by President Clinton. So, it is clear that in 
order to produce a bill that will pass Congress and be signed by the 
President, it must be negotiated. And these negotiations have not 
concluded. It makes little sense to keep Members in town waiting for 
the Clinton administration to get its act together, while Members could 
be spending time usefully working in their districts. That is where I 
am planning to spend the bulk of the upcoming work period--and the 
truth is that even when we are back in our districts we are still on 
call, ready to return at a moment's notice to deal with the people's 
business. So I would urge my colleagues to ignore the Clinton scare 
story du jour and support this rule and this bill which ensures Social 
Security checks are sent out on time payable in full.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, before I proceed any further, I yield 30 
seconds to the gentlewoman from Oregon [Ms. Furse].
  (Ms. FURSE asked and was given permission to speak out of order.)


                 Congratulations to Senator-Elect Wyden

  Ms. FURSE. Mr. Speaker, this is obviously a very important bill, and 
I would love to talk about it, but what I really want to talk about is 
the dean of my delegation, the Oregon delegation, and congratulate him 
for having become the newest Senator from the State of Oregon [Mr. 
Wyden].
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I listened with great interest to my friend and 
colleague, the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Goss], trying to blame the 
administration for what is going on here today. This, of course, is a 
classic case of the person who kills his parents and throws himself on 
the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.
  What the majority has done is stubbornly refused to schedule a clean 
debt ceiling vote prior to February 26. It is their refusal to schedule 
a vote before February 26 which jeopardizes, potentially jeopardizes 
Social Security checks being sent out. They are the ones that have 
caused this crisis, and now they are coming to the Congress and saying, 
we have to pass this bill because we want these Social Security checks 
to go out. If they had scheduled a debt ceiling vote in a timely 
manner, this would not be necessary.
  Mr. Speaker, why can we not just do the Nation's business? Why do we 
have to continue to play these games? Why can we not just vote on a 
clean debt ceiling?
  I, for one, would like the House to have that opportunity this 
afternoon. At this hour, it appears the only option open to us is to 
amend this rule. In order to do that, we must defeat the previous 
question. It is my intention, therefore, to oppose ordering the 
previous question.
  Mr. Speaker, there seems to be no other way to bring a clean debt 
ceiling increase to a vote. I urge each and every Member of this body 
to oppose the previous question so that we can vote up or down on a 
debt ceiling increase.
  Mr. Speaker, the intentions of this legislation are honorable, but 
rather than perpetuating this Government by piecemeal funding, the far 
better course of action would be just to take up a clean debt ceiling 
tonight and pass it. If we do not defeat the previous question, we are 
passing up a golden opportunity to do the responsible thing. We should 
not continue to play chicken with the full faith and credit of the 
United States of America.
  Mr. Speaker, we are supposed to be here to do the Nation's business, 
and the most pressing piece of business before us is to pass a debt 
ceiling to ensure that our Nation does not, for the first time in its 
200-plus-year history, default on its obligations.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I would suggest that the full faith and credit of the United States 
of America would be better served if we got our budget into balance.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from 
New Jersey [Mr. Saxton].
  (Mr. SAXTON asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks and include extraneous material.)
  Mr. SAXTON. Mr. Speaker, I would like to shed some light on this 
issue in terms of the recent history of what we have been through, vis-
a-vis the administration and claims made by the administration. As 
everybody knows, this rule is here, and the subsequent legislation, 
because the administration has stated that come February 26, they will 
be unable, because of the way the law is written, to cut the checks for 
Social Security beneficiaries.
  Obviously, everybody on our side of the aisle and, I assume, 
everybody on the other side of the aisle wants people to get their 
Social Security checks come the last day of this month or the first day 
of next.
  Now, the recent history of what this administration has done is that 
this action by the administration, as claimed by the administration, is 
simply not unparalleled. On November 12 and 13 and 14 of this year, 
Secretary Rubin told us and the American people that we had to pass a 
debt ceiling because default on our inability to pay our bills would be 
unthinkable, and we agreed.
  What Secretary Rubin did not tell the American people was that there 
was already a plan in place to permit the United States Government to 
pay its bills by borrowing from trust funds. In other words, the 
Secretary went out of his way to create a situation in which the 
American people thought that the United States Government was going to 
default, knowing full well the entire time that they had been working 
since June 24 at least to put in place a mechanism and a plan whereby 
the trust funds would be tapped to avoid default and still claiming to 
tell us, the Congress of the United States and the American people, 
that we were going to face a horrible default.

                              {time}  1800

  Of course they wanted a clean debt ceiling. Now we hear just a few 
days ago that if we do not pass a clean debt ceiling, we will not be 
able to send out the Social Security checks. We are not going to let 
that happen. If there is a problem with the law, this bill straightens 
it out. We know that it is not a dollars problem. We know there is 
enough money there to do it. So the Secretary now claims that under the 
statutes as they presently exist, he does not have the flexibility to 
send out the Social Security checks for older Americans, Social 
Security beneficiaries, and therefore, we are now in another state of 
alarm where we have to pass a clean debt ceiling.
  This bill fixes the problem for the Secretary that he claims he has. 
I doubt if there is really a problem there any more than there was a 
real problem the last time around. But in this event, in this case, the 
rule permits the consideration of a bill to make sure that there is no 
reason why the Social Security checks cannot be mailed out.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Massachusetts [Mr. Kennedy].
  Mr. KENNEDY of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I would like to address 
the remarks of the former speaker with regard to the issue of raiding 
the Social Security Trust Fund. Secretary Rubin has done everything 
humanly possible to try to avoid the default on the debt of this 
country that the Republican Congress has insisted upon.
  It was Secretary Rubin who wrote a letter to this Congress saying 
that he would not under any circumstances allow the Social Security 
Trust Fund to be raided for the purposes of continuing to pay our 
bills, No. 1.
  No. 2, there were elements of the Republican Party, on your side of 
the aisle, that started a movement to impeach Secretary Rubin for the 
very actions of him trying to avoid default.
  So here you come onto the House floor and condemn Secretary Rubin for 
his efforts to try to keep the country afloat. You suggest that he is 
the one who is trying to raid the Social Security trust fund. You do 
not have the willingness to enter into a debate or a colloquy with me 
to discuss the truth of what has actually occurred.
  The truth of what has occurred is very simply that a group of 
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zealots in the Republican Party have tried very hard to get an agenda 
called the contract on American passed. They have failed because the 
American people did not believe in the kinds of changes that the 
Republican contract called for.
  But rather than agreeing to the procedures of this House of 
Representatives that allow us to formulate compromise, you have gone 
back and insisted upon guerrilla tactics to force your own views on how 
this country's budget ought to be balanced. It is not enough to balance 
the budget, it is not enough to do it in 7 years. It is not enough to 
do it with CBO numbers, it is not enough to do it with a tax cut, it 
has to be with the biggest tax cut that takes the money out of the 
pockets of working families and hands it to the richest people in the 
country.
  Only if that balanced budget, raiding the Medicare fund, raiding the 
Medicaid fund, is passed, will you allow the debts of this country to 
be paid. You ought to be ashamed.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the distinguished 
gentleman from Texas, Mr. Sam Johnson.
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, this bill became necessary 
really because the President, Mr. Panetta, and Secretary Rubin have 
used our seniors as political pawns in the public debate. Instead of 
working on solving the problems remaining, the President has resorted 
to scare tactics, pure and simple, demagoguery to try to frighten our 
seniors on a variety of issues.
  But we as Americans cannot stand by while this administration 
blatantly misstates the facts to make seniors believe that their Social 
Security checks are in jeopardy. I find this outrageous. Leon Panetta 
himself back in 1993, believe it or not, said it is important to tie 
the debt limit to other disciplines people would like to put in place.
  Maybe he forgot about saying that, but I bet Leon did not forget 
about voting ``no'' against debt limit increases two times back there 
because it did not have anything tied to it. These comments are 
ridiculous. I urge my colleagues to pass this bill, not only to 
reassure our seniors but to prevent the President from playing the 
scare game once again. The purpose of this bill is to ensure that 
seniors continue, as they have for the past 55 years, to receive their 
checks without fail. This will be another Republican promise that will 
not be broken, which is more than the President can say.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Massachusetts [Mr. Moakley].
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, this bill is a very very bad sign. It means 
it's time to hold onto your hats, the Republicans are going to try it 
again.
  But this time, instead of closing down the Government for political 
reasons, they are going to try something else. They are going to force 
the country to default on its loans, for political reasons.
  And how do we know this, Mr. Speaker? Because this bill we are 
considering today will not avert the disastrous consequences of massive 
Federal default. It doesn't even come close. It simply says, ``Stop us 
before we hurt 43 million American seniors.''
  With this bill my Republican colleagues are admitting, ``We're gong 
to make the Government default, but we want you to raid the Social 
Security trust fund when we do.''
  Mr. Speaker, this is outrageous. It's irresponsible, and it's no way 
to run the Congress.
  The American people are sick and tired of these political games. They 
didn't like their Government held hostage for the sake of politics, and 
they are going to like it even less when they find out what 
congressional Republicans are about to do to their mortgages.
  And it won't stop there.
  For the sake of politics my Republican colleagues will stop benefits 
for 3.2 million veterans.
  For the sake of politics they will not pay our troops in Bosnia.
  For the sake of politics they will delay pensions for 4.1 million 
civilian and military retirees.
  For the sake of politics they will leave bond holders holding 
worthless paper.
  And for the sake of politics they will hurt any and every American 
who tries to borrow money for a car, a house, or a college education.
  In fact, if you have a loan now, look out. Your interest rate may be 
about to go through the roof.
  I ask my colleagues, on behalf of a lot of very frustrated American 
citizens, stop these games. Congressional Republicans can't possibly 
want to be remembered as the people who made the United States of 
America default on its loans for the first time in history.
  Such dangerous games would have far-reaching, devastating 
consequences for the entire country for years to come, and it's 
definitely not something to write home about.
  Mr. Speaker, the American people don't want their mortgage rates to 
go up. They want to get college loans, and they expect and deserve 
their military benefits.
  I urge my colleagues to defeat the previous question so that we can 
offer a clean debt limit extension and stop these games.
  The creditworthiness of the United States, and all of its 
consequences, is no place to pursue budget politics.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  It is important to note and the record should show that the 
distinguished gentleman from Massachusetts, who just spoke, voted for 
and attached to the 1993 debt limit bill the largest tax increase in 
history. There was nothing clean about that debt limit bill, I am sure 
he would agreed.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the distinguished 
gentleman from Glens Falls, NY [Mr. Solomon].
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Sanibel, FL for 
yielding me this time and I join him in urging the adoption of this 
rule.
  Mr. Speaker, I sit here and I listen to this debate, and I just 
wonder if many of these people could really earn a living outside the 
beltway of this Congress, this Washington, unless of course they are 
lawyers, in which they pass all these doggone laws and people have to 
go and hire them then to defend them. I just quite do not understand 
it.
  This bill, and I would just say to the previous speaker and others, 
if you do not want to vote for this bill, vote it down. This bill says 
that we are going to enact a public debt limit extension before March 
1. If you do not want to do that, vote it down. This bill guarantees 
that Social Security checks are going to go out on time. If you do not 
want them to go out on time, vote it down.
  Mr. Speaker, this bill is being brought forward to deal with an 
emergency situation raised by the President and the Secretary of the 
Treasury, and that is the threat of not sending out Social Security 
checks until the debt limit has been increased. That is what this is 
all about.
  Mr. Speaker, while the crisis may have been fabricated to scare 
seniors, we have to take the administration at their word, that they 
will carry out their threat whatever their motivations might be. We 
will take them at their word.
  Mr. Speaker, the bill this rule makes in order first restates the 
commitment made by the leaders of both Houses that we will enact a debt 
limit prior to March 1. That is what this bill says. The bill goes on 
to assure our country's senior citizens that in the interim they will 
receive their Social Security checks on a timely basis in March. That 
is what this bill does.
  The bill then gives the Secretary of the Treasury the legal authority 
needed to issue obligations prior to March 1, and we checked with 
Secretary Rubin, to ask him if he needed this authority, and he said 
yes, in an amount equal to the monthly Social Security benefits payable 
in March of this year, estimated at $30 billion. To further amplify on 
the legal status of this authority, this bill, which the Secretary of 
the Treasury Mr. Rubin says he needs, makes clear that this transaction 
will not count against the legal debt limit now in existence.
  Are you listening to that?
  Mr. Speaker, I think this is an important interim step to take in 
assuring our Nation's seniors of the seriousness of our intention and 
commitment to not let their benefits lapse. But more importantly, it 
also signals to the rest of the country our clear intention not to let 
this Nation default on its obligations. We will increase the public 
debt limit.

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  Mr. Speaker, why, as our Democratic colleagues have asked, do we not 
just raise the debt limit today? That is a good question. And I am here 
to answer it.
  The answer is that a majority of this House, including me, do not 
want to continue to raise the debt limit over and over and over again 
without taking decisive action to begin to reverse the curse of 
continuing deficit spending for as far as the eye can see. That is 
sickening, what you are doing to my children and my grandchildren. 
Instead of a glide path to a balanced budget, we are currently embarked 
on a collision course with financial disaster.
  At the very least, we need a substantial downpayment on a balanced 
budget that is agreeable to the Congress and the President. It is what 
Ronald Reagan used to do. He used to sit down with this Congress and 
negotiate. That agreement will not be easy to come by, but I am 
convinced we can have something that is acceptable prior to March 1 if 
we sit down and work together.
  In the meantime, we do need this interim measure to ensure that 
Social Security benefit checks will go out and to assure our citizens 
and the world that this Government will not default on this Nation's 
obligations. I cannot imagine that any Member of this House opposes or 
disagrees with those two very lofty yet critical essential purposes of 
this legislation. It is very clear in this bill. I therefore strongly 
urge adoption of the previous question and the rule and then the 
overwhelming passage of this bill.
  I want all of you standing up here with all of this rhetoric to come 
over here and tell me you are going to vote against this bill. You are 
not going to do it. You are going to vote for the bill because the bill 
is right and the American people want it.

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  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Florida [Mr. Gibbons].
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, this rule should ultimately pass, this 
resolution should ultimately pass. But it is not because it is a good 
rule, and it is not because it is a good resolution. It is because the 
Republicans will not let us do anything else.
  Since early this morning, I have been working with the Committee on 
Rules and with other people here in the House trying to get permission 
for the Democrats just to simply say we would like to have a vote on a 
permanent extension against default to the end of this fiscal year, and 
they will not let us have that vote. It is simply just a simple vote, 
like that. Now, we would not win that vote, but you know, we would at 
least have the opportunity to vote, but they have cut off our right to 
vote on that simple question.
  This resolution they present is the silliest thing I have ever seen. 
Ultimately, all it does is raise the debt ceiling by $29 billion until 
March 15, and then it snaps it back to where it is now. That is all it 
does. It has got a lot of other verbiage in it. It is the darndest 
dance I have ever seen. It runs all around the bush like I am doing 
right now, but it comes back to the same place, right back to the same 
place, they raise the debt ceiling. They cannot do that, because 
politically it is embarrassing for them to do that, and so we have got 
to dance this crazy dance. We have got to dance this crazy dance for 
their purposes.
  Mr. Speaker, I am willing to limit the debate here tonight. I am 
willing to cut out all of this garbage. Let us protect the credit of 
the United States. Let us not force our good country into default. I 
think we can all agree to that.
  If the Republicans will only let us have it until March 15, it may 
give them a little time for them to think their way out of this mess 
that they have gotten themselves into and they have gotten our country 
into, but you know, this is the silliest operation that I think I have 
ever seen in my 34 years around here.
  It should ultimately pass, but the rule is lousy. I would hope that 
by some luck, and it would be luck, that we could amend the rule, but 
you know, that is not going to happen.
  I would hope that they would allow just a simple vote on this floor 
that we could get over in 5 minutes to vote on whether or not we want 
this crazy dance or whether we want a permanent.
  I am trying to limit, cut out all of this long talk and get on and 
get to a vote. There is a snowstorm approaching. I would feel terrible 
if my long-winded talk led to the death of some Member of this House or 
some member of this fine staff.
  We ought to get our business done and get it over with and get out of 
here.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Florida [Mr. Weldon].
  Mr. WELDON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, the record should show that the 
gentleman from Florida who just spoke voted for and attached to the 
1993 debt limit bill the largest tax increase in history. I do not 
believe that was a clean debt ceiling increase.
  This is a good rule on a good bill. It is going to make sure Social 
Security's recipients get their Social Security checks.
  I have a lot of elderly seniors in my district who rely on those 
checks. This is a good bill. Everybody in the body should support this.
  We are getting bogged down talking about how the minority wants a 
clean debt ceiling increase. Prior to coming to the Congress as a 
physician, I had the opportunity to treat AIDS patients, some of whom 
had acquired their AIDS through drug abuse. I had the opportunity to 
deal with drug addicts. I have to say there are some Members of this 
body who are addicted to spending taxpayers' dollars, addicted to 
spending money that is not theirs, and it is just wrong.
  We put on the President's desk two increases in the debt ceiling, and 
they had attached to them provisions that would get us to a balanced 
budget, and he vetoed them twice on two occasions, he said, ``No,'' and 
now we hear all of this clamor about a clean debt ceiling from a party 
that has Members like Senator Chris Dodd in 1987, who is now the 
general chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who said it does 
not take any imagination, when he was attempting to pass a 
controversial financial industry legislation, questioned by the Reagan 
administration, he said, ``I can attach an amendment to the debt 
ceiling bill which he has to sign, and the vote will be overwhelming.'' 
In 1984, Senator Ted Kennedy tried to force his nuclear freeze 
legislation onto the debt limit, justifying his amendment as the most 
important issue of the day.


                         parliamentary inquiry

  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I have a parliamentary inquiry.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Walker). The gentleman will state his 
parliamentary inquiry.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman in the chair is an authority on 
the rules of the House and I believe under the rules of the House, we 
may not mention individual Members of the other body by name. Is that 
correct?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is correct. Members are not 
supposed to refer to Members of the other body by name nor actions of 
the other body as a part of their remarks.
  Mr. FROST. I urge the speaker in the well discontinue those actions.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Florida is recognized to 
proceed in order.
  Mr. WELDON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, If I could conclude, let me just 
say in 1982, in 1983, again in 1985 and 1986, the minority party has 
attached legislation to a debt ceiling increase. To hand this President 
a debt ceiling increase that does not have provisions in it to get us 
to a balanced budget would be to turn our backs on the people who voted 
us in as the majority party in November 1994, saying they want the 
budget balanced.
  Support this rule. It is a good rule.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I insert extraneous material at this point in 
the Record, as follows:

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                FLOOR PROCEDURE IN THE 104TH CONGRESS; COMPILED BY THE RULES COMMITTEE DEMOCRATS                
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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.                       
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.                       

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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.                          
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.                                  

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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.              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 (Dorman),                  
                                  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.               
H.R. 2924......................  Social Security     H. Res. 355          Closed................            N/A.
                                  Guarantee Act.                                                                
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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 60% restrictive; 40%   
  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. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New 
York [Mr. Rangel].
  (Mr. RANGEL asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I was just talking to my dear friend, the 
gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon], who sits over there, but I asked 
him to yield when he was reading the paper there, because I wanted to 
make it abundantly clear that as he extends this debt limit, as he 
gives us the ability for the United States to pay off its obligations, 
that he is only doing it for the old people on Social Security, he 
says, he says.
  So it means that these people have a lot of compassion, but they give 
it to us a little bit at a time. Who knows, maybe the disabled veterans 
will get some political attention over there, and we will get another 
15 days. How about the widows of those who died defending our country? 
How about the crippled, the veterans in the hospital? Oh, I know, you 
want to make Clinton change the rules. You do not want to do it at 
election time. You cannot do it with overriding a veto, and so what we 
are going to do is select who will receive their benefits.
  Do you think the United States Congress should be doing this? And of 
all of the committees that is doing this to the American people, it is 
the Committee on Rules. What substance jurisdiction do you have to 
select one group of Americans, people who serve their country, which 
groups you decide will receive their checks on time? And we get 15 
days. Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman for 15 days we get. Thank you. 
Maybe when we come back, the rest of the veterans and all the Americans 
who deserve their checks, you might give them 10 or 15 days, and 
ultimately the rest of the world would say, Can you trust the United 
States of America? Just as far as you can check with the chairman of 
the committee that determines when they pay their debts.
  All I can say is this, if you think we screwed this place up for 40 
years, you have broken the record, because you have brought to this 
Congress Members who are more anxious to change the policies that we 
have had in the last 40 years than to legislate. We are not doing this 
by legislating. We are doing it by fear, and it is wrong.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlemen from New 
York [Mr. Solomon], the distinguished chairman, who is making sure that 
everybody gets their paycheck.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker and my colleagues, do you know that every 
single day that passes by, the national debt goes up another $600 
million? Think about that, $600 million a day. Every day it goes up 
$600 million, that means there are $600 million less to help all of 
those people that truly need it.
  You people on that side of the aisle, more than anyone else, ought to 
be standing up here trying to put an end to this deficit spending that 
is actually ruining this country and turning it into a sea of red ink.
  The Record should show the gentleman from New York voted for an 
attachment to the 1993 debt limit bill, the largest tax increase in 
history. There was nothing clean about that debt limit bill.
  What is different now? Nothing.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Michigan [Mr. Levin], another member of the Committee on Ways and 
Means.
  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. Speaker, I say to the gentleman from New York [Mr. 
Solomon], the answer is in 1993 the debt ceiling extension was part of 
an overall package. We were not trying to blackmail the White House. 
You are; you are.
  Look, this is nothing but a 2-week extension. That is all this is. 
Yes, from March 1 to March 15, 2 weeks.
  And why the reference to Social Security? It is because if there were 
no extension, Social Security payments would, indeed, be jeopardized, 
contrary to the earlier communications from your side. But, look, the 
other obligations are also going to be paid, not only Social Security.
  So really you are voting for a 2-week straight debt ceiling 
extension. You put in Social Security, because some of your extremists 
do not want to vote for a debt extension of any kind, and then it says 
in here Congress intends to pass an increase in the public debt limit 
before March 1, 1996.
  Why do you not pass it tonight? I will tell you why, you have got an 
addiction of some kind playing with fire. You have been burned twice in 
terms of the CR: You played with fire, twice burned, you want to burn 
yourself again.
  But I think the main reason is you do not know what else to do, so 
you are doing the same thing all over again. That is the problem. You 
do not have a game plan, so you punt.
  The trouble is this is not a game. This is the lives of Americans 
that you are playing with lightly.
  Stop the blackmail. Pass a clean debt ceiling period, and do it 
tonight.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from 
Michigan [Mr. Smith], a member of the Committee on the Budget.

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  Mr. SMITH of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I just sort of handed out this 
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to both sides as a reminder to us that we have not given clean debt 
ceiling increases. So it seems like tonight, with this clean increase 
in borrowing authority for the Federal Government to make sure that we 
get by the rest of this month and into toward mid-March, that we should 
pass it and say,``Look, it is a good first step, let us move on.''
  Mr. Speaker, to the gentleman from Michigan, I would still like to 
point out that the last couple debt limit bills that we had represented 
a huge tax increase of $137 billion over the 5-year period in 1990 when 
there was pressure on President Bush. Again, there was a large $252 
billion tax increase in 1993. Some of these put pressure on an 
administration. So the debt ceiling is not very wholesome, not being 
used as leverage.
  As we researched the records, Treasury does not have the right to 
withhold Social Security payments. The trouble is they have not managed 
cash flow, so they are out of money right now. They have no legal 
authority to withhold payments for Social Security or any other trust 
fund when there are surpluses coming into those trust funds.
  This action tonight is to give money back to Treasury because they 
have not had the kind of cash flow management that allows them to pay 
Social Security benefits and the other retirement benefits.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas 
[Mr. Bentsen].
  Mr. BENTSEN. Mr. Speaker, just so I can set the Record straight so my 
colleagues over here do not make a mistake, I was not here in 1993. In 
fact, I was in the private sector, in fact outside the Beltway, where I 
was earning a living in an industry very similar to what we are talking 
about. In fact, my friend from New York, I have been in the private 
sector for a while, while you have been in the Congress, in the public 
sector, since I have been in high school. Quite some time.
  If I wanted to, I could come down here, we could come down here as 
Democrats and we could say fine, go ahead and crash the capital markets 
of the United States. You will make Herbert Hoover look like an 
economic genius if you do this. But that is wrong. It is wrong for this 
country. This is a scary situation.
  My other colleague from Texas said it is scary. Yes, it is very 
scary, because if we allow the Nation's debt to default, we will pay 
forever. If we do it for a day, it will be like Chernobyl; it will last 
for years and years.
  Moody's said over the years that you could invest in treasuries 
because they would not default. This is from 1994. They said last week 
that they think they are going to default now, and they are looking to 
downgrade the debt. That is going to affect at least $300 billion of 
State and local debt and school debt. Mr. Druckmiller, your expect, 
came out last week and said this was a failed strategy and you should 
not do it.
  Now, let us understand this bill. You are going to give the Treasury 
$30 billion, but the Treasury needs another $55 billion to meet the 
payments. Now, I tried to find in the Washington Times so I could 
explain to you when Treasury bonds come due. They come due on the 1st 
and 15th of the month. The Washington Times does not carry the Treasury 
thing, maybe that is why there is a misunderstanding here. But the fact 
of the matter is that this is totally irresponsible.
  My colleague talks about the private sector. If you were on the board 
of a corporation that had a debt payment coming due in 29 days and you 
decided that you were going to take the board to Hawaii instead of 
staying here and working on it, the stockholders would throw you out, 
and they would be right for doing it.
  If you were a homeowner and you did not have the money to pay your 
mortgage and decided you would take a vacation instead, the bank would 
come and take your house and they would have the right to do that.
  That is what we are doing. We are not going to deal with the problem; 
we are going to go on a vacation. I find that hard to believe, 
regardless of whether I am a Democrat or a Republican. What has gotten 
into us here? It is incredible. It is simply incredible.
  You tell us by March 1 you will get this done. My friends, you did 
not make the date for the appropriations bills; you did not even bring 
half of them to the floor by the end of the fiscal year. How are we to 
believe you will do this by March 1? You know what you are going to do? 
You are going to default on the debt that our children, my children, 
your children, your grandchildren are going to have to pay for, for 
money you already spent in previous years. That is simply 
unconscionable.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio 
[Mr. Boehner], the distinguished chairman of the conference.
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, the Congress of the United States and the 
Government of the United States is not going to default on its debt, 
not now nor in the future. But if we are at some point going to 
increase the debt limit, which we are going to do the last week of 
February, we are going to make a downpayment for the future of our 
children and theirs.
  For 30 years politicians in this town have done the same thing, pile 
up the debt, pile up the debt, and imprison our children and theirs. So 
every child born in America today owes $19,000 as their share of the 
national debt. A child born this year will pay $187,000 over the course 
of their lifetime in taxes just to pay the interest on the national 
debt that their parents and their grandparents have left for them. That 
is unconscionable.
  What is the President of the United States asking? Raise the debt 
limit. Let us have more debt. The fact is, it is time to get serious 
about balancing the budget of the United States and saving the future 
for our kids and theirs. Oh, but no, we do not want to do that. The 
President says we can agree on the numbers, but we will save the 
policies until later: The same kind of Washington gimmicks, the same 
kind of smoke and mirrors that have been used in this town to say one 
thing and do something else, year after year after year.
  What we are saying on our side of the aisle is it is time to get 
serious. It is time for no more gimmicks, no more tricks. It is time to 
do the right thing to save the future for our kids and theirs, and we 
are going to do it.
  Now, in the meantime we want a downpayment on extending the debt 
limit of this country. We ought to make some generous effort in a 
bipartisan way to move us toward saving the future, and we ought to do 
it over the next couple of weeks so that when we get back here on the 
26th, we can have a bill that can be agreed to.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from North 
Carolina [Mr. Hefner].
  Mr. HEFNER. Mr. Speaker, if I could enter into a colloquy with the 
previous speaker, could I ask a question of the gentleman from Ohio? 
The gentleman from Ohio just made a statement that the U.S. Government 
was not going to default now, not ever. Let me ask you this question: 
Suppose that you put the conditions on the extension of the debt and 
the President of the United States does not blink and refuses to sign 
the budget or whatever downpayment you call it. Are you going to let 
the United States default on its obligations?
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. HEFNER. I yield to the gentleman from Ohio.
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, I am sure the President of the United 
States would like to make a downpayment toward balancing the budget 
just as much as you would and we would.
  Mr. HEFNER. Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time, the gentleman just made 
a statement that we will not default on our obligations now, not ever. 
He had no qualifications; he was just taking for granted that 
everything is going to fall in place and they would yield to blackmail 
demands. What he is saying is unless they do, you will let the U.S. 
Government default. Enough is enough.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman 
from Connecticut [Ms. DeLauro].
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, it is time to get serious and it is time to 
stop the blackmail. It is the extremists in the House Republican 
conference that are playing political chicken with the credit rating of 
the United States. That is what it is about, is our credit rating. This 
Government has always paid its bills. For 220 years, through a Civil 
War and a Great Depression.
  Paying our bills is not just important to the bond market and to the 
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nation defaults, the consequences will be most sharply felt by ordinary 
Americans. It is not only Wall Street, it is Main Street who pays the 
price. If this bill passes, Social Security checks will not bounce, and 
that is a good thing. But what about the countless other consequences 
of default? What about students whose college loan rates are set by the 
Government borrowing rate? What about people who bought their homes 
with adjustable rate mortgages, and what about those who hold credit 
cards?
  At a time when too many Americans are swamped with bills, they are 
afraid that they cannot afford to pay their bills. These are people who 
have not seen a raise in their salaries in months and years. A 
Government default would make paying their bills all the more 
expensive. This tactic hits working families in their pocketbooks.
  Mr. Speaker, we can easily avoid this crisis. Let us pass a bill that 
prevents default by lifting the debt ceiling and that protects the 
credit rating and the honor of this great Nation of ours.
  Mr. FROST. Does the gentleman not have any speakers at this point?
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, may I inform the Chair and the distinguished 
gentleman from Texas that I have one other speaker who is on his way, 
and possibly we will have some stimulation in the debate here from 
somebody who is here. We are looking at winding down, but I am in the 
range of three or four Members.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas 
[Mr. Doggett].
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, our Republican colleagues have, of course, 
already voted four times in this very Congress to adjust the debt limit 
to the full amount necessary. But now that it really counts, now that 
we are up against the line, they break their promise to the American 
people.
  They whine and moan about a budget deficit, but as soon as the 
President proposes a balanced budget calculated by their numbers, the 
Speaker declares defeat. A broken promise. You see, that is the 
watchword of this Gingrich Republican leadership: Promises made, 
promises broken. The Republicans promised to give us a country that is 
governed responsibly, and then they come forward and waste $1.5 billion 
with two Government shutdowns that were totally unnecessary, which even 
Speaker Gingrich has now confessed was an error.
  They promised to guarantee the fiscal integrity of this country, and 
now they act in a way that constitutes the biggest broken promise in 
American economic history. They promise to breach the promise of the 
full faith and credit of this country.
  Republican promises made and Republican promises broken, the whole 
story of the 104th Congress. They have broken so many promises in this 
Congress to the American people, they now want to go out and break 
somebody else's promise, and that is the promise that generations of 
Americans have stood by to protect the fiscal integrity of this 
country.
  Can any responsible American, regardless of party, regardless of 
philosophy, conceivably be out there saying, Oh, go to Washington. Do 
not pay the bond holders. Do not pay those who rely on U.S. savings 
bonds. Just bring everything to a halt and default until you get your 
way?
  Mr. Speaker, that is precisely what has been advocated here tonight. 
Nobody but a crackpot would advance that point of view. But indeed, 
while that might have been true a few years ago, and though we just 
heard promises, let us listen to what the Speaker of the House of the 
United States said: ``I don't care what the price is. I don't care if 
we have no bonds for 30 days.''
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished 
gentleman from Florida [Mr. Mica].
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding me this 
time.
  Mr. Speaker, tonight our action is really about choices. The 
administration and the other side of the aisle has made their choices. 
They would choose in fact to cut off payments for Social Security and 
maybe veterans at this point if in fact they run out of additional 
money to steal. In fact, the irony of this is they have been stealing 
and robbing Federal retirement trust funds to keep the indebtedness 
extended for this country.

                              {time}  1845

  So tonight is really about choices. We have seen on TV they are going 
to stop the printing presses. They do not want us to pay seniors.
  Mr. Speaker, that is not what the Republicans want to do tonight. We 
want to see, in fact, that our seniors receive their check. We want to 
tell seniors that, in fact, we have made a different choice, that we 
think that we should choose in this budget whether people should 
continue to be paid for not working; whether we should pay illegal 
immigrants who come in and get better health and medical and housing 
benefits than our seniors and our veterans.
  Those are some of the choices before us, and that is part of the 
choice in our budget, in our proposal. And we are going to face that 
measure and those choices.
  So, tonight the choice is we stop the show, we stop printing the 
funny money or continue in a responsible fashion. We set a deadline, 
and that is what we have been doing and what we have been trying to do 
to get this Nation's finances in order. So our choice is to pay seniors 
tonight, to pass this rule, and to act responsibly, and we will meet 
our debt obligations; but we will not continue to drive this country 
further and further into debt, in an irresponsible fashion.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Minnesota [Mr. Vento].
  Mr. VENTO. Mr. Speaker, this H.R. 2924 is about the most convoluted 
piece of legislation that I have seen in terms of what is going on. 
They say, the Republicans that they bring this bill to us, that they 
intend to extend the debt limit. Well, why do they not just do it? No, 
they bring this 2-week bill. In other words, the bad news is the fact 
that they feel the necessity for a 2 week measure.
  If we take them at their word, the face value of what this bill says, 
we are going to avert the possibility that the Social Security checks 
are going to bounce March 1. We want them to go out, and we all want to 
be on the side of those receiving Social Security. But the bad news is 
that the veterans' checks are going to bounce, that they are not going 
to cash those, that the soldiers and sailors that get checks, even 
those in Bosnia, will not be able to cash them. The contractors who 
have done work in good faith will not be able to cash checks.
  The fact is that this result would result in the ultimate Government 
shutdown. Already this year for 4 weeks out of 16, the irresponsibility 
in terms of the way that this majority Republican Party has run this 
Congress has resulted in partial shutdown of the Government. The fact 
is, yes, things were attached to the debt ceiling limit. But under 
Reagan and under Bush, and under Clinton, the Democrats got an 
agreement with them. We could find common ground and compromise to 
achieve this, so we averted the default of bonds, the credit rating of 
the country wasn't harmed.
  We have been through Reagan and Bush and Clinton. We did it through 
World War I, then World War II, the Depression, the recessions, but all 
of a sudden now my Republican colleagues cannot do that. They cannot 
come to a agreement, and that is what the bad news is in terms of this 
bill.
  Mr. Speaker, yes, we ought to protect Social Security, but we ought 
to protect the faith and credit of this Nation. We ought to really 
prevent the type of economic shock wave and damage that this proposal 
pretends to do through intention but not action. The fact that the 
Republicans want to pass just this measure of platitudes, shows that 
they do not understand what they are doing, I think this action 
unfortunately underlines the experience and the credibility of what has 
been said over here for 2 months. What has been said by the Speaker and 
their leader, over the past year that is in fact if default comes, it 
comes. Let us just accept it says Speaker Gingrich. That is 
unacceptable says this Member. The only snow job is not the one 
outside; there is one going on in here tonight from the majority 
Republicans.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, the record should show that the gentleman who 
just spoke so eloquently voted to attach to the 1993 debt limit bill 
the largest tax increase in history. There was nothing clean about that 
debt limit bill.

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  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from 
Florida [Mr. Foley].
  Mr. FOLEY. Mr. Speaker, all the screaming needs to subside. This 
Government has been running deficit for a long time. Our credit card is 
about to be canceled. Our checkbook is dry.
  In America's communities, if we had produced the types of budgets 
this Congress has over the last 40 years, we would have had our home 
foreclosed, our credit card canceled, our checkbook confiscated, and we 
would be sent to jail.
  Everybody is yelling about the full faith and credit of this 
Government, and many Members that have been on this floor screaming 
have been the ones who have run up, through the use of their Member 
card, this card that they give us when we are sworn into office, the 
credit card of the United States, they have been running deficits each 
and every budget year. And now there is screaming going on about the 
full faith and credit of the United States of America.
  People have to accept responsibility for being the ones that charged 
the balance. If we give our child a credit card with a $500 balance and 
they run out and use it in one day and we scream at them for not paying 
the bill, we have helped get them the credit. We have taught them to 
spend maybe recklessly.
  I agree that the faith and credit of this Government is essential. 
This bill will allow the temporary borrowing of additional monies to 
cover Social Security. My grandmother depended on her Social Security 
before she died. She worked as a maid in a Travel Lodge motel. She was 
not a wealthy women. She had $10,000 in the bank. That is all the money 
she had in her life. Social Security was important to her, as it is to 
every other American.
  Mr. Speaker, we are allowing the debt limit to increase to provide 
for that, but we are not perpetrating the sham on the American public 
with $200 billion in excess spending year in and year out and call that 
democracy, call that compassion, call that good government. We need to 
stop the yelling, start working on the problems that face America.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New 
York [Mr. Schumer].
  (Mr. SCHUMER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, well, my colleagues know we have heard a 
lot of talking here. We just heard about giving a child a credit card. 
And what they are advocating on that side is once the child spends on 
the credit card, maybe the child should not have, the parents are 
saying we will not pay. That is un-American. That is being a deadbeat. 
That has nothing to do with resolving the child's behavior in the 
future. That has to do with the past obligation that was incurred by 
the family that people on this side are saying we will not pay.
  Mr. Speaker, the average homeowner does not have the opportunity to 
renege on his or her mortgage. The average credit card purchaser does 
not have the opportunity to renege on his or her credit card. These 
people are struggling. They cannot do it, and at the height of 
irresponsibility, some of the leaders of this Nation are saying, well 
our country can do it. What lesson is that to the child we are talking 
about? I would say that to the gentleman from Florida.
  Mr. Speaker, is it happenstance that we are playing this ridiculous 
game of chicken? Is it just unbelievable that we could say we would 
renege on our debt? Let us listen to what Speaker Gingrich said: ``The 
President will veto a number of things and then we will put them all on 
the debt ceiling. And then he will decide how big a crisis he wants.''
  That is good government? That is responsibility? That is bullying at 
best, and lunacy, irresponsible lunacy at worst. Here is another quote 
from the Speaker: ``I do not care what the price is, I do not care if 
we have no executive offices, and no bonds for 30 days. Not at this 
time.''
  He just said that in September. Mr. Speaker, there is a lot of blame 
going on. Some extremist, immature freshmen are saying let us let the 
country default on its debt. But it came from the Speaker. He should be 
ashamed of himself.
  Mr. SMITH of Michigan. Regular order.
  Mr. SCHUMER. He knows that the credit rating of the America is at 
stake. It is a shame.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, the Record should show that the gentleman from 
New York who just spoke voted for an attached 1993 debt limit bill, the 
largest tax increase in history. There was certainly nothing clean 
about that debt limit bill either, and I suspect that the gentleman 
from New York would not agree with my conclusion that it is not 
responsible parenting to stop children from runaway spending.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New 
Jersey [Mr. Pallone].
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, there was a lot of talk on the Republican 
side of the aisle tonight about scare tactics, but I have to tell my 
colleagues I am really scared tonight. Until this evening, I did not 
really believe that the Republicans would actually default on the debt. 
Now I believe that they will.
  Mr. Speaker, I listened to what the gentleman from Ohio said, that in 
order to avoid default there would have to be a downpayment on the 
balanced budget. I listened to the gentleman from New York who said 
that, in order to prevent default, there would have to be certain 
commitments made by our side of the aisle by March 1.
  Now I see a resolution coming before us that says that we will extend 
the debt ceiling with regard to Social Security. What is happening here 
is the same kind of hostage atmosphere that we saw with the Government 
shutdown. The Republicans are saying that we are going to go home. We 
are going to come back at the end of the month when there are a few 
days before March 1. And if we on the other side do not do certain 
things and make certain commitments, if we do not vote for certain 
things that they want, then they are going to default.
  So I do not believe it when they say that they are not going to 
default. The bottom line is if they are willing to say tonight that 
they will only extend the debt ceiling for Social Security, I have no 
guarantee that they will extend the debt ceiling on anything else. I 
think that is the height of irresponsibility.
  We are talking about defaulting on a debt that is going to downgrade 
the credit rating of these United States in a way that has never 
happened before. The bottom line is that if that happens, there is no 
precedent for it. There is no way of ever recovering from it, whether 
it is mortgage interest rates, whether it is interest rates on car 
payments, whether it is the securities in our general credit rating. 
Other countries that hold our Government bonds may decide they want to 
sell them.
  We have no idea what kind of uncharted waters we will be walking into 
if we ever default on the debt. This resolution tonight ways that 
Congress intends to pass an increase in the public debt limit before 
March 1, 1996. But if my colleagues listen to the other side, there is 
no reason to believe that.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the 
gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon], the distinguished chairman of 
the Committee on Rules.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I am going to speak from this side because 
I am going to quote one of the most distinguished members in the 
Clinton administration when I finish.
  But it is no coincidence, and I have been keeping track, that almost 
every single speaker that has spoken from the Democrat side of the 
aisle is listed by the National Taxpayers Union as the biggest 
spenders. They classify us. Biggest spenders in the Congress. Almost 
every one of them. That is important to note.
  Let me read to my colleagues the Washington Post, March 25, 1993, 
that is about 2 years ago. Now listen carefully to this, because this 
is the statement that was made by the present chief of staff of 
President Clinton. Listen to this because it will really turn this 
thing around.
  He said: The Clinton administration has waited as long as possible to 
seek an increase in the debt ceiling so that lawmakers, that is you and 
me, ladies and gentlemen, so that lawmakers can vote for budget 
resolutions designed to rein in deficits before being asked to increase 
Federal borrowing. Now, this 

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is Mr. Leon Panetta. He said it is important to tie, listen to this, it 
is important to tie it, the debt limit, he says, to other discipline 
people would like to put in place.

  That is what Leon Panetta said. That is exactly what we are doing 
here. Secretary Rubin has said he does not need this authority until 
March 1. We want to wait as long as we can to get as much of the 
savings as we can to put the fiscal house in order of the people of 
this country. That is what we are doing. Come over here and vote for 
this good bill.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge a no vote on the previous question. If the 
previous question is defeated, I shall offer an amendment to the rule 
which would make in order an amendment in the nature of a substitute to 
provide for a clean debt ceiling.
  This amendment consists of the text of H.R. 2409 and provides for a 
clean debt ceiling increase for a full year. This number is the same 
figure that was in the Republican budget resolution and reconciliation 
bill. Our country's economy is far too important to be used as a 
political pawn. We cannot risk the catastrophe that will occur should 
we default on our Nation's debts.

                              {time}  1900

  Let us stop the game playing and pass a clean debt ceiling. I urge 
Members on both sides of the aisle to take the moral high ground and to 
vote down the previous question, so the substitute amendment can be 
considered by the full House.
  Mr. Speaker, I include for the Record a copy of the amendment:
  The amendment referred to is as follows:

       At the end of the resolution add the following new section:
       ``Section--. Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     resolution, it shall be in order without intervention of any 
     point of order to consider an amendment in the nature of a 
     substitute consisting of the text of H.R. 2409, if offered by 
     the Minority Leader or his designee. The amendment shall be 
     considered as read and shall be debatable for 60 minutes 
     equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an 
     opponent. The previous question shall be considered as 
     ordered on the amendment.''.

  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, again, I urge that we defeat the previous 
question. This is a very serious matter. It is the other side of the 
aisle that will not bring a debt ceiling vote to the floor this week. 
They bring only this little piece of it. It is an important piece, and 
we will want Social Security checks to go out, but they will not bring 
a debt ceiling increase.
  Mr. Speaker, they want to take this right to the brink. They want to 
walk us up to 2 or 3 days before the deadline, and hope that the perils 
of Pauline will somehow rescue the lady from the track, as the train 
heads to hear. If the people on the other side have miscalculated, and 
if the train in fact runs over that maiden on February 29, this country 
is in enormous, enormous trouble.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I many times watched the Perils of Pauline, and I never 
actually saw the train run over the victim.
  Mr. Speaker, I would like to close with a couple of points. First of 
all, this has been a very intriguing debate about the rule. I do not 
think I have heard the rule mentioned, more than in passing at the 
beginning, but we have had a pretty good debate on some other things.
  I frankly have gotten to see my colleague, the gentleman from 
Florida, my good friend, the distinguished ranking member of the 
Committee on Ways and Means, show us that in addition to his 
extraordinary oratory, he has exemplary footwork as well in the well of 
the House, and I commend him on that. That was certainly a fresh moment 
in my experience in the U.S. Congress.
  Mr. Speaker, some on the other side have mentioned that we are going 
on vacation. If Members are going on vacation over there, I wish them 
well. I do not believe anybody over here is planning to go on vacation. 
We have a considerable amount of work to do. We are doing some 
negotiating. We will be in our district in a work period. I know some 
of us will actually be here working on committee work as well, as is 
our custom. If those Members have time to go on vacation on the other 
side of the aisle and can work it into their schedules, they are 
fortunate, indeed.
  Mr. Speaker, the next question I wanted to raise very briefly is this 
sort of switching of the debate from what is really adding on, piling 
onto a $5 trillion national debt an unlimited amount of money for the 
future without any kind of control. That is really what Members are 
proposing to do. What you are doing, however, is switching the subject 
and saying ``My gosh, if we do not do that, we are affecting the full 
faith and credit of our country.'' I think that is very bizarre.
  The people who keep score about full faith and credit are more 
interested in us getting control of our spending now. That is the 
signal they are looking for. I would suggest, Mr. Speaker, that if we 
do not do the responsible thing, we will in fact do more damage to the 
full faith and credit, which, or course, nobody wants to cause any 
problem for in any way.
  The next thing that has happened, Mr. Speaker, my friend, the 
gentleman from New York, said we are going to have a big vote on this. 
We are indeed going to have a big vote on this. We are going to get 
probably a unanimous vote on this piece of legislation. Who would vote 
against sending out the Social Security checks? Who would vote against 
making sure those checks were not going to bounce? It seems to me that 
is a pretty good proposition to vote for. We have a good rule, we have 
a good proposition to vote for. I am having a little trouble 
understanding what, therefore, the problem really is.
  Mr. Speaker, we have heard a lot of talk about gloom and doom and the 
sky falling. I would suggest, Mr. Speaker, that those who are talking 
about all this red hot partisan rhetoric, self-fulfilling rhetoric I 
hope it is not, about the world ending and the full faith and credit 
coming apart and so forth, need to go back and look at their voting 
records. I did not read them all because of time, but most everybody, 
as the chairman has said, who got the low rating from the NTU for being 
big spenders are also the people who, by and large, have voted for the 
largest tax increase in history, and that was attached to a debt limit 
bill, so let us get real.
  The other point I would make is I would suggest that Alan Greenspan's 
pulse rate is probably more important to the interest rates than the 
debate we are having here today in terms of the well-being of our 
economy, so I urge that we pass this rule and get on with it. We will 
then pass this legislation and remove anxiety.
  Mr. Speaker, I move the previous question on the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on ordering the previous 
question.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I object to the vote on the ground that a 
quorum is not present and make the point of order that a quorum is not 
present.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Evidently a quorum is not present.
  The Sergeant at Arms will notify absent Members.
  Pursuant to the provisions of clause 5 of rule XV, the Chair 
announces that he will reduce to a minimum of 5 minutes the period of 
time which a vote by electronic device, if ordered, will be taken on 
the question of the adoption of the resolution.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 229, 
nays 178, not voting 26, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 28]

                               YEAS--229

     Allard
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baker (CA)
     Ballenger
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Bereuter
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bliley
     Blute
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Boucher
     Brownback
     Bryant (TN)
     Bunn
     Bunning
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canady
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Chenoweth
     Christensen
     Chrysler
     Clinger
     Coble
     Coburn
     Collins (GA)
     Combest
     Condit
     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
     
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     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)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kim
     King
     Kingston
     Klug
     Knollenberg
     LaHood
     Largent
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Laughlin
     Lazio
     Leach
     Lewis (KY)
     Lightfoot
     Linder
     Livingston
     LoBiondo
     Longley
     Lucas
     Manzullo
     Martini
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McDade
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntosh
     McKeon
     Metcalf
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Molinari
     Moorhead
     Morella
     Myers
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Neumann
     Ney
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Oxley
     Parker
     Paxon
     Petri
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Pryce
     Quillen
     Quinn
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Riggs
     Roberts
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roth
     Roukema
     Royce
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaefer
     Schiff
     Sensenbrenner
     Shadegg
     Shays
     Shuster
     Skeen
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Solomon
     Souder
     Spence
     Stearns
     Stockman
     Stump
     Talent
     Tate
     Tauzin
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Torkildsen
     Upton
     Vucanovich
     Waldholtz
     Walker
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watts (OK)
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     White
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Zeliff
     Zimmer

                               NAYS--178

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Andrews
     Baesler
     Baldacci
     Barcia
     Barrett (WI)
     Beilenson
     Bentsen
     Berman
     Bevill
     Bishop
     Bonior
     Borski
     Brewster
     Browder
     Brown (CA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Cardin
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Coleman
     Collins (MI)
     Conyers
     Costello
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Danner
     de la Garza
     DeFazio
     DeLauro
     Dellums
     Deutsch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Doggett
     Dooley
     Doyle
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fazio
     Fields (LA)
     Flake
     Foglietta
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Frost
     Furse
     Gejdenson
     Gephardt
     Geren
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Gutierrez
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hamilton
     Hastings (FL)
     Hefner
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Holden
     Hoyer
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jacobs
     Jefferson
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnston
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy (MA)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kennelly
     Kildee
     Kleczka
     Klink
     LaFalce
     Lantos
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lincoln
     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Luther
     Maloney
     Markey
     Mascara
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McDermott
     McHale
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek
     Menendez
     Miller (CA)
     Minge
     Mink
     Moakley
     Mollohan
     Montgomery
     Moran
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Neal
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Orton
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pastor
     Payne (NJ)
     Payne (VA)
     Pelosi
     Peterson (FL)
     Peterson (MN)
     Pickett
     Pomeroy
     Poshard
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Richardson
     Rivers
     Roemer
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sabo
     Sawyer
     Schroeder
     Schumer
     Scott
     Serrano
     Sisisky
     Skaggs
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stenholm
     Stokes
     Studds
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Tejeda
     Thompson
     Thornton
     Thurman
     Torres
     Torricelli
     Towns
     Traficant
     Velazquez
     Vento
     Visclosky
     Volkmer
     Ward
     Waters
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Williams
     Wise
     Woolsey
     Wyden
     Yates

                             NOT VOTING--26

     Baker (LA)
     Becerra
     Bryant (TX)
     Callahan
     Chapman
     Clay
     Collins (IL)
     Filner
     Gibbons
     Green
     Harman
     Kolbe
     Lewis (CA)
     Manton
     Martinez
     Meyers
     Mfume
     Ortiz
     Packard
     Radanovich
     Rose
     Sanders
     Seastrand
     Shaw
     Wilson
     Wynn

                              {time}  1922

  So the previous question was ordered.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                          personal explanation

  Mrs. COLLINS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, during rollcall vote No. 28 on 
House Resolution 355 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I 
would have voted ``nay''.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Walker). The question is on the 
resolution.
  The resolution was agreed to.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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